skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I predict a lot of meetings where people will be trying to figure out what the next big "thing" will be, since this whole AI/LLM deal was way overhyped...
This style of consulting is usually a performative act because the people who should be making decisions don't have or don't feel like they have the authority to make decisions.

Paying $X million for an outside consultancy to come up with the decision, gives the decision authority. Of course, the consultancy is usually guided to the 'right' decision, either implicitly or explicitly. Although sometimes you see failures of guidance, where against incentives the consultancy delivers a good recommendation and then it's usually ignored.

Anyway, this is a grift, but who's going to turn down $1M to tell someone what they already know?

IMHO, the more grifty consultancy is systems building, where you set up a $10M contract over ten years to build a system that doesn't work and doesn't actually replace the old system. But maybe that's just performative too: nobody wants to say to just keep the old system, so spending time and money on something everyone knows won't work and won't be ready before you leave makes it look like you're doing the right thing?

There's also non-grift consulting. You might pay a real expert a reasonable sum for an engineering consult, etc.
I think you mean Alexandria.
Yes, exactly.

I get irrationally angry when people say things like "believe the science". No! They entire point of the scientific method is I don't have to believe anything. I can replicate and verify the results for myself.
Right. You have experience doing what everyone else does, aka, replaceable.
Work from home and hiring someone overseas are different things. A company may allow WFH but still prefer people with legal right to work, no language or cultural barriers, no timezone hassles, no tax and accounting complications.

The US programmer job market went through this in the ‘80s with offshoring, it didn’t make much of a dent in programmer salaries in the US.
In Postgres a "role" really is equivalent to a user. A user in Postgres is just a role with the ability to log in.
You smile and say, "I appreciate your input. I value it and consider it a good starting point. I am not certain it alone provides the level of support necessary for me to consider a different path, but I would consider both additional data and reducing the amount of evidence I require with a good reason."
No. Consensus is not how science works at all.
youngsters love NFT, she read it in the NYT
Author’s life is too long. Surely, 20 years is far sufficient to incentivize creating media, although I would err on the side of 10 years.

The copyright term is automatically too long if my anyone who would benefit from it entering the public domain is dead.
FWIW I use fish with NixOS with no issue. The new "nix shell" command uses the default shell, and you can use "nix develop -c fish" to get a dev shell
I support this idea as well. I remember toying with Bit Web Server (LAMP stack) on my Galaxy S3 about 10 years ago, and I also remember running Tor on my smartphone (and it could run as a proxy pass server for an .onion site). I fantasized with the idea that if I was a crime lord, that's how I'd have my website. Police raid? Nope, I'm on the go as long as I have my shiny EDGE connection!

I never finished the proof of concept setup to do it, but I know I could have done it.
I don’t think we should look at these people as the paragon of parenting. It’s easy to imagine that every decision they made is some blessed path, but that’s just a halo effect.

It’s easy to engage in some magical thinking about Jobs or Gates as if they know something distantly ominous about screens that told them to ban their kids from them, that they kept secret from the public in order to sell the screens. I don’t think so.

I think it’s pretty obvious that “too much screen time is bad” for kids, but it’s not that simple either.

As a parent, I struggle to find the right balance for my kids, but I also don’t think it’s some weird sinister plot to ruin humanity, and I’m just a sheep for letting my kids veg out on YouTube and Minecraft on the weekends.
Enrolment at WVU hasn’t changed, even though WV population has been declining since 1950
Using a channel for something is using a mutex for it. Nobody should suggest a mutex as a solution for implementing iterators.
Yeah, I'd love to see these tools discussed in an upcoming Latent Space episode.
Using “the” in this case almost seems (probably unintentionally) misleading or confusing. It is a definite article, it implies that there’s a particular bull that we’re talking about. Since there isn’t a bull already introduced in the conversation, I think most people would begin searching their memory for a bull that both parties are familiar with. It is discombobulating.
I've never used it for Mongo, but Prisma is a pretty great type-safe ORM that supports Mongo: https://www.prisma.io/docs/getting-started.
I'm not sure if you meant "you cannot become rich without owning copyrights, patents, oil fields, or real estate" literally or not, but it's not really true in any case. There are plenty of people (doctors, dentists, lawyers, software engineers, small business owners) who become wealthy without owning any of those things. Not as wealthy as those who do, perhaps, but wealthy nonetheless. I'm one of them--a lucky IPO that occurred a few years after I started working at my current employer turned me from an indebted paycheck-to-paycheck engineer into someone who could retire tomorrow and still live a decent middle-class lifestyle on my investments. I didn't own real estate until I after I got rich.
Some VC will come up with a "drainage as a service" or "uber for drainage" model that lets them extract more value from ditches.
1) People want X

2) Tell people a big lie about how to acquire X.

3) Chortle, possibly profit.
Isn't this the problem with all teaching positions?

You have to really like academia to go into a role like that.

Especially when you can make so much more om money in the private sector.
Were the pipes that were installed leased to the city? An artist could choose to release a song as public domain after being paid to make it and people would use it without paying them.
For anyone finding CLOS interesting, "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol" is the next logical step. A good way to dig deep into how CLOS is built.

It should be a mandatory read for anyone looking to design a programming language with object concepts.
Nobody has to accept it. You can do it yourself today. That’s the point of my comment.
OK well, now all government benefits (and roads, and defense, and NIST, …) are “subsidies”, and it’s not clear why taking advantage of one—by Harvard or anyone else—is somehow counter to the reason the government is spending the money in the first place or otherwise worthy of scorn.
Ignoring the "Cloudflare is centralizing the internet" problem, I wonder if Cloudflare Tunnel / cloudflared could run as an unprivileged Android app?: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections...

This might allow a smartphone to host a publicly-accessible website with caching and DDoS protection for free. You'd still have to buy a domain, but https://gen.xyz/number is $1/year.

Though the keepalive traffic would eat your battery, unless cloudflared were integrated with Firebase Cloud Messaging somehow... seems easier to just put content on Neocities.
"The high risk of bias in the trials, variation in outcome measurement, and relatively low adherence with the interventions during the studies hampers drawing firm conclusions."

There have been other studies that have found effectiveness, and basically all agree on no downside.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i...

As far as children, there are a lot more negative effects that can happen that aren't fatal. There is a lot we don't know still
> very confusing

or very clarifying when you realize that the same institutions will do the same things no matter what name you put on them.
> truth cremation mechanism

love that typo
I haven’t been to get to it on FF desktop for a while.
> prefers to test applications on a Linux machine running an X server

Apple won't allow you to do that. Any binary submitted to their app store must be built using Xcode running on MacOS on genuine Mac hardware. It's a tax they collect from their developer community; if you don't want to pay, you won't get to play in their walled garden.
Like this: https://GitHub.com/featurebasedb/DoctorGPT
This a fight between barbarians and civilization. Each one pick their own side. History will tell us which one was right.
Some sort of do. Mine pays for my wifi and cell bill.
This is an area where it should be easier to build tools for that. I have tools for diffing k/v and structured formats but they are local on my machine. Being able to publish those to Gitlab, github and bitbucket would be great.

Edit: Worst is diffing yaml files, you really need a stable way to parse those.
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I'm wondering if you are a hateful CCP supporter or a troll pretending to be a hateful CCP supporter.
> You're wrong about that. Back up with green hydrogen is quite plausible.

I have not seen any real plan to achieve this. Right now, it's basically a giant asterisk with a footnote saying: "Magic happens here".

One plan I've seen where authors went totally wild and actually tried to compute what's needed, required converting 80% of housing to district heating with molten salt storage, all kinds of energy storage, and 2x price electricity increase.

I've seen estimates that simply building out hydrogen backup will cost on the order of $300B in power line and pipeline upgrades (because hydrogen can't just be piped through natural gas pipes). And it will still require expanding the renewable fleet.

I'm not at all optimistic about that.

FWIW, I think power-to-natural-gas has the biggest chance, because it can re-use the natural gas infrastructure. But it's still going to be too expensive.
How have you developed a sense for organizational friction? What observations of culture can I use to make an educated guess about how easy it is to do my work?

I agree with your point that a large org does not guarantee what the author claims. The author claims that the organizational friction can be measured by productivity, but you recognize culture as the better diagnostic criterion. The big O metaphor does not extend well to the argument, as you point out.

I'm looking for hard hitting interview questions so I don't waste my time on "soul sucking" positions.
“Not a major deal”?
Why do you think Mitt Romney blocked Telizhenko from testifying in Congress?
https://overcast.fm/+s9-WNHf_g
Get them an Amiga? Or maybe load up a laptop with EndlessOS?
100s of thousands more died in the US because of how little we listened to experts. That's just fatalities, not other negative consequences . Our vaccination rates are abhorrent.

Even if you just look economically, the US set itself back massively with supply chain and labor issues we will be dealing with for decades because of it.
I really question the utility engaging in debate with people who have absolutely no knowledge of virology, Chinese (or other) bioweapon research, lab safety protocols, or even China. forget politics for a moment, its just a waste of time if you are just defending something you heard on the internet because you think its likely true.
Is there any way we can get rid of these rent-seeking parasites destroying everything in their path out of their greed?
That's exactly what I was thinking...
> When X does not have market-share lead, they are pro-customer.. If X has the leading market-share and doesn't feel threatened, they are anti-customer

Ye, we've known for over 110 years that giant Monopoly-capitalism doesn't work.

But apparently neither Congress nor denizens of this forum accept that simple truth, and are happy to approve corporate mergers that reduce competition.
We are screwed on healthcare and most of the proposed "solutions" will only make things worse.

We need smart legislation to eliminate global free ridership on medication as well as less insurance, not more (combined with universal catastrophic high deductible insurance a la Singapore's medishield). We also need occupational licensing reform and to decouple healthcare from employment (ie. the politically impossible cadillac tax that Obama tried to push through).

Shielding people more from the true cost of healthcare is the politically popular option but does not improve health outcomes and drives utilization (and thus resource allocation) higher.
I grew up in rural east england. We have a range of low lying "prairies" along with glacial flattened low hills.

One of the dogmas since the 30s has been drainage. Flooding is bad, drainage is good.

The problem is that drainage was expensive to create and update. so they chose to put it in places where it really needed.

With modern equipment you can dig ditches, put in drains and make sure that water runs off the land Uber quick.

Combine that with shitty soils, that are left bare and barren, it means that the dwell time for rain water has dropped dramatically. This means that less soaks in and more drought happens. Not only that but there are less habitats for insects.

But conversely flooding gets worse down stream, because there is no storage, so everything is a flash flood.

The solution of course is better drainage....

Beavers are an answer. But it needs support from farmers, urban planners, land owners and law makers.
I think they probably mean a non-modal visual/screen editor (like NotePad on Windows or TextEdit on Mac). I used pico on Unix before learning vi, for example, which is probably a common progression.
IIRC there was pushback from vim devs to implement async, so neovim did it. Shortly after async also made it to vim
I'm dating someone who has visions of fame through his music. These "soundcloud rapper millionaires" and Billie Eilesh have so much more marketing spent on them than you might believe. It is hard to make it anywhere in that business without a lot of promotion, and that requires a lot of money. Initially often in the form of small payments that add up. A few hundred dollars here to be added to a playlist, a few hundred there for gig promotion...over time that turns into tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. For one artist. To even get a tiny start that may not lead anywhere.
I always read "learn" in this context as "be familiar enough with the basic language properties that I can pick the rest up on the job, get things done, and not be too dangerous, or annoying in code review"

and when I read it that way I agree. Some of the best devs I have hired had no prior experience in the stack.

I'm not hiring for Python or C#, I am hiring a software engineer and the skills I value are all transferable.
Same could be said about “the react guy”, which I definitely have been in the past. Of course react has buy-in 10x what flutter ever had but still.
> a universal translator makes it irrelevant if you learn a common language

We are nowhere close to a proper universal translator. Simply transcribing words from one language to another is lossy.
Thanks. I do have the appropriate skills but I live in California and I’m busy with my own world changing projects that need videos produced about them! I just want to read blog posts about what’s happening.
Although, that’d be cool.
WTF is 'induction' cooking? [video]
Probem is, at least in terms of the climate debate, climate alarmism and mainstream media says that there's scientific consensus, but at least when I read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 5th report in 2015, they didn't even predict how much doubling atmospheric CO2 would warm the planet (as they had in their previous reports)---and that with no clear explanation. However, following their footnote to the scientific detail report, they noted a lack of consensus between the computer-based models ("catastrophe immenent!") and the latest observation based models.

When I combine that with prominent climatologists like Judith Curry changing her position when presented with observation-based evidence that countered her climate predictions[1], it leaves me deeply skeptical of any and all alarmists.

I haven't taken time yet to read the IPCC's latest report, but I've heard that it has the same lack of consensus between the computer models (full of alarmist assumptions in how they were programmed) and observation-based studies.

I firmly believed we must follow observational data above computer simulations... Its just better science.

[1] https://reason.com/2023/08/09/this-scientist-used-to-spread-...
You're still missing the point.

It's not China manufacturing iPhone, its Apple and its partners.

So your first sentence should not have China as a subject.

>Without further context, we cannot say whether a lower number of robots in the US is an indication of inferiority or superiority to China.

Its not a national defence thing. It's not the US vs China. It's Apple. Apple US, Apple China, same thing, still Apple.

Apple makes a factory, that factory has certain economics based on its inputs (labor, materials) and outputs (iphones). Nowhere does China come into play.

We live in a globalized world, it is run by large rich companies, not governments.
Gotcha that is helpful thank you!
I don't understand, did the record labels DMCA strike the recordings? The article says something about a cease and desist that was ignored, but my understanding is that the IA follows DMCA claims so there must be something more missing about this story.

Sticking the IA with more legal fees as another poster suggested seems plausible.
Yes, we should care about the environment. No, we should not be using less energy, but more. The way we use energy is the reason why it hurts the environment, not the amount of energy. I think this mindset is hurting our ability to innovate.
I think this is a good mental model to employ, but also has the potential to poison positivity.

Hard work and perseverance can (and IME often does) lead to success. There's this attractive narrative that any outlier success is entirely built from seedy/unethical/immoral/corrupt acts. This narrative helps to justify and excuse mediocrity. Instead, we should be asking the hard questions which may encourage harder/smarter work and perseverance.
Notably absent from this piece is any attempt at an analysis of cost vs benefit.

Furthermore, this piece does not address the misuse of the rules to keep legal businesses out of the financial system.

The question almost never is "does this work?", but rather "is this worth the cost of doing it?"

And nothing about the other use of AML rules: combating tax evasion.
I think the publish date plus 20 years not to exceed the life of the author is plenty.
I think (but could be convinced otherwise) that the term is less important than the restrictions. More liberal definitions of fair use, for example, or clarity on when something is a copy or a derivative (like with people getting sued for vaguely similar songs) would be better. The work is always the authors, I'm less concerned about them retaining some kind of claim on it, especially if they're still actively using it, as long as there's sensible limitations on what rights they can block for others.
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You can if you are just executing a static python script never changes.

But if you want to call some python functions with your TS input then you would need to serialize the TS input, pass it as an arg to the script, there deserialize it and then call the python function with the input. And if you wanted to call multiple python functions then your first arg to the python script would need to be the name of the function, only then the serialized data. Plus you would need to implement a switch case on the python side to execute the right function.
Honestly this paper and many similar are more a scientific proof of what people in the open-source community have already published.
Especially after tree-of-thoughts it should be clear to everybody that LLMs profit from the same guidelines and structures that allow humans to think better.

The future will likely be simulated companies and the business logic will be how you compose this agent interaction.

I haven't run it yet but I feel this specific paper is just good prompt engineering (with a little bit real engineering in it).

Also it reads like a pitch honestly. Would bet they are looking for funding rn.
It's possible to self host.

It's impossible to self host with the guarantee most emails sent from that host won't be outright rejected or flagged as spams by centralised mail services.
I would be satisfied with 20 years for commercial use of recordings, zero years – or simply no actual enforcement of copyright – for personal filesharing. Filesharers deeply passionate about music are likely to collect a larger library of recordings than they could ever afford to purchase, especially if they come from a relatively poor country. (No, streaming services like Spotify don’t do it. As far as I’m concerned, if it’s not a FLAC securely preserved on my hard drive and backups, it doesn’t really exist.)
Indeed. Some things that education and hindsight has made obvious, can be impossible to see when they are all around, and even for years afterwards.
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The only way to start on this path is to support ranked choice voting.
There are millions of Americans doing business in China, 2 Michael's in jail isn't something that can be considered an arbitrary law as much as Canada keeping a Chinese citizen in jail.
That’s because the contract he signed with his employers did not include an agreement where he continued to get paid for when water flowed through the ditches.

Some artists will have a contract for a lump sum, others will have agreements for every time their record is played.
Any particular reason you chose wxWidgets over QT ?
Yep, this very much resonates with my experiences.

At the end of the day, startups are run by people, who generally prefer to work with their friends, avoid conflict, etc. There's no great mystery. The mystery is when things work well.
HN keeps telling me it’s sunk cost and it’s not real estate so stop saying that. Then this article also mentions it’s real estate. Guess what HN? It’s partly real estate costs and having few people fill those spaces.
You can do this PhD any number of times, and each time adds another "Administration" at the end.
The more interesting bit is a link to an Interactive Fiction (IF) text adventure at the bottom:

https://synystrongames.itch.io/slartboz
This looked really cool, but I completely forgot it existed. The open source IoT world doesn't seem to use it at all
They were flaunting copyright laws with books even more egregiously and lost that suit. I think the IA is a deeply important project and wish they'd stop picking these fights.
It mistake misses the point of the investment. The pay-off is experience in new patterns, new tooling, new approaches. The dividend is in the job where you use the tool but the capital gain is in experience.

When I hire for my team, I never mention the stack. I don't care. I am hiring software engineers, and what I value is mindset and ability.

I'll throw you in at the deep end. Learn the language, libs, tooling, infra on the job and the team will support you. Because you're awesome. That's why I hired you.

edit: Sound _less_ unintionally arrogant.