skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not tone policing, it’s noise policing. Really, you got a thread with two unrelated people arguing exactly the opposite from one another.
This post finally got me to dig back up the ultimate word trivia website, valiantly hosted on Tripod and still maintained: https://jeff560.tripod.com/words1.html
As others have commented, it's a shame there isn't a proof of work that doesn't also hurt the planet.

It makes me wonder if there would ever be a way to actually do the opposite - your "proof of work" is somehow linked to extracting CO2 from the atmosphere?
> Pushing advertisements to people who don't want to see them? /s

That’s… where they work at now
> Because prototype vehicles are not supposed to be profit centers.

Hydrogen systems still being classified as prototypes after decades of research should tell you something. Nobody is making hydrogen boats because they’re simply inferior in just about every conceivable way. Cars got heavily subsidized, billions in R&D over decades, and are a failure. Hydrogen boats aren’t even vaguely worth trying to bring to market.

Economics uncovers bullshit, you can’t hand wave away the cost of infrastructure, someone needs to pay to create and maintain it. Solar can hit 2c/kWh for a few hours per day in a few areas of the globe, but now you’re both idling infrastructure and stuck with long distance transportation of Hydrogen and or electricity which has their own associated costs. Just do X sounds great, but doing X always has associated costs.

For comparison, including transportation and all other overhead bunker fuel gives you ~15c/kWh after you burn it, though this varies a lot. It’s horrifyingly polluting, but dirt cheap.

Scale alone isn’t going to fix green hydrogen it requires a fundamental breakthrough.
You cherry-picked and missed this bit:

>...I am so down in a hole...

which as another commenter said, sounds like depression.

Besides, medical diagnosis advances with time and better understanding, and some "regular human traits" turn out to be symptoms of problems we didn't previously understand. Yes, not everything is a disorder, but an argument that amounts to "in my day we just got on with it" isn't very helpful either.
I'm amused by the oil pressure gauge on my car having an icon on it instead of "oil". The icon is an outline of an ancient babylon oil lamp. As if anyone unfamiliar with 5000 year old archaeology would know what it was!

I've also seen telephone icons that are an outline of a telephone that hasn't been seen since the 1950s. An outline of a modern phone isn't very distinctive.
Haha fair enough but I think we digress. I did get the warning when I clicked.

The point is I see no evidence why HTTP is better for viewability than HTTPS. I showed there are cases where it’s not. You showed there are cases where it’s irrelevant. But the point remains… when is it worse and is it enough to sacrifice the security benefits?
The checksum was amazing! When my siblings and I made a mistake, we would go through the entire code and check each entry. Took too long and we gave up!
>So now you have the drawbacks of both as well

Everything has drawbacks. It's always a tradeoff in software. You want a really simple interface? Now you can't do complex things. And so on.

Instead of complaining loudly, why not be the change you want to see? Proof of CPU makes you hot? How about proof of RAM? How about about something else, which you thought of yourself, which is a great idea, which you shared with their team, which they would eagerly accept as a superior solution to proof of work?
If you read that line as "someone is offended", you might be over-estimating when people are offended.
The proof of work only engages when there is a Denial of Service attack. So if you're going to be mad at anyone for useless consumption, be mad at the attacker.
The parent comment is sarcastic
My experience contributing to HashiCorp open-source projects
Why, MegaMaid™ [1] of course!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7aeWQCF1jM
Repost: Fast SDXL image generation service
And Captain Planet
I smell a swap. Roman Storm for Evan Gershkovich and Snowden?
I think the presence of this PoW system might mean that this form of abuse is discouraged enough that in practice it means that PoW will not be required. Who is going to compete with a huge amount of compute to DoS others? They'd need the same compute as all legitimate access put together to get to just 50% effectiveness.

If this is the case and in practice PoW is never required, then your rant is moot, and instead it is interesting that this effect occurs.
Covid-19: examining the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions [pdf]
for those following, LHC reached 13 TeV which is 15 orders of magnitude smaller than 10^19 GeV
I hope they find someone that leads like Matthew Prince and not another corporate businessman looking to smooth sail and collect a check.

DigitalOcean needs more innovation than anything. I think this is where their current CEO made the biggest mistake. He spent billions in buyback using debt when instead he should have put that money into innovation and growth.

Lately the pace of innovation at DigitalOcean is almost nothing.

All of their latest features have been bought. Nimbella for functions. Cloudways for website hosing, and Paperspace for GPUs.

They need someone that understands why DigitalOcean is liked by developers. They need to go back to focusing on great documentation and building features and tooling to make it even easier for developers to build and scale on their platform.
I've been saying this for years, and gained no traction. Finally, a fellow traveler! Have plenty of upvotes!
Huh? They were running tornado cash which existed for the sole purpose of laundering money. This isn't at all reaching, if your bank down the street started shredding records for deposits in order to transact with drug dealers, they would also be arrested.
It does: "Nevertheless, implicit mutation of heap objects is rife at runtime,
thanks to the implementation of lazy evaluation (which, we admit, is somewhat ironic)." says <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...>
In terms of tooling, Haskell has one thing that AFAIK no other language can compete with: Hoogle. Hoogle is amazing. You tell it, in Haskell, what you want, and it tells you, in Haskell, what you can do. It's extraordinary. Someone attempted something similar with Rust, and I even tried to make a Noogle (Nim), but it just doesn't work the same in languages where there's a clear divide between "passing arguments to a function" and "calling a function." I find myself looking at tangles of Rust code with all its Result<Option<Box<SomeEnum<Nonsense>>>, Box<dyn Error>> and I yearn for a Roogle that provides the same level of utility as Hoogle.

Other than that, Haskell's tooling has no redeeming qualities. Nothing (pun intended). A lot of that can be blamed on the community's instinct to make something "innovative" instead of improving what already exists. I feel the author's pain.
That’s news to me. Are you saying the Higgs boson can create a force that accelerates particles in a direction? How does that work?
This is nifty. Also I'm oddly comforted by the fact that this system doesn't "read thoughts".

If you're like most people, you "talk to yourself" internally all the time, so this doesn't seem that far from reading your thoughts.
I remember reading arguments that executive should try to maximize the value of their shareholders' portfolios rather than just the firm itself. Which leads to interesting incentives that don't exactly align with the benefits you would want to get out of a market economy, such as firm A not entering firm B's market to avoid driving down retail prices, even if it would be beneficial for firm A on its own. So, the argument would be that if a lot of a firm's shareholders also own commercial real estate, it would be in the firm's shareholders interest for RTO, even if it wouldn't be in the individual firm's best interest.
If you sell carbon credits, the money you make doing so is proof that you did it (well, it's proof that you did something of value, which could also count).
Possibly you were using "algebraic data types" as a general stand in for fancy type system stuff, but algebraic data types are actually one of the least fancy haskell features. They're much more straightforward than the name might lead you to believe. I think there's a broad consensus that new statically typed languages ought to have them, eg they've been adopted by rust and swift. I find languages that don't support them very irritating to use.
Catfishing with ChatGPT leads to 300k+ profits in call options
It's been a political talking point for years...

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/06/05/us/border-migrants-cell-p...
Data Isn’t Property. It Doesn’t Have to Be
Termux has an entire package repository, community, and package maintainers. I'm a maintainer.

It's basically a distribution of Linux userspace so natively tools are available, along with compilers and the like.

Very useful, and will probably keep me on Android forever.
Adding to the other comments about it being 2005, I suspect they did not have the modern devops procedures in place to easily write and distribute a patch like you would today. Old games are hacked together, and I think WoW invented a lot of the MMORPG netcode strategies that are used today.
Unfortunately it's the natural progression of the web, given the unethical ways people are training their models. This is going to happen in more ways than just images.
Contra four-wheeled suitcases, sort of. Are fancy fragile solutions overrated?
I mean, if climate alarmists get to use it, it only seems fair...
Why would automated web crawlers not throw the best de-Glazing techniques at their dataset before model training?
We are doing this with https://Faraday.dev - would love to chat more - my email is on my profile!
The forms don't work for me. One form requires "Your mobile number", and the other form say "Go to Instagram and confirm it's you before requesting a review", which I can't do.
Maybe, maybe not. If there are a bunch of strangers out there trading around the pictures and discussing, in graphic terms, what they'd like to do to you, maybe more likely. Especially when most of them seem to have no particular interest in thinking about what you might or might not be into.

... and especially if some of them are actively stalking you in real life, or if you tend to get stalked in real life in general. Which roughly 100 percent of major actresses do, and a nontrivial percentage of just random women. Creepy stalkers or worse are going to be heavily overrepresented among the people who produce or consume this material... and women who have actually been stalked are going to be overrepresented among the subjects.

Oh, and by the way, if you were raised female, you're also pretty likely to have had experiences where (1) a bunch of people treated you as valuable only for your sexual potential, and acted disappointed or even angry if you did anything that reduced their ability to fantasize about how they wanted to use that potential; and (2) another bunch of people told you you were a worthless slut if you did anything sexual they didn't like. That can affect a person.

I'm actually not ready to ban things, but I am not going to delude myself that there's no downside to that.
You're getting at-least 10x more information in person. I don't know if I'd go 100x but it's probably closer to 100x then just 10x.
Ask HN: Prompt manager for developers / services?
I'm working on a system that utilizes OpenAI / ChatGPT and hard-code a lot of prompt or chunks of prompts that would be combined together in variables.

Is there a product out there that allows me or a product person to:

- Store a list of prompts in a key/value like fashion
- Has an API where I can request a list of keys and get the prompts corresponding to them
- Has version history
- Can assign a version of a prompt to a particular environment (eg dev, prod)
- Lets others edit prompts
- (Optional) Can test prompts against an LLM
- (Optional) The API / SDK can listen for updates to prompts like how Launch Darkly can push flag changes in real-time.

I've searched for "prompt manager", "ai prompt manager", "prompt management tool", and variants. The tools that do come up seem to be geared for non-developers or has no API for me to just fetch plain text prompts for use in our own LLM in our own infrastructure.

The core of it is probably a hosted versioned K/V system with ACL, and an API to access that K/V wrapped around a GUI for management.
Yes, but/because many subjects are off-topic here. It's easy to avoid lots of kinds of internet drama if you blanket prohibit the topics.

I'm glad this place exists how it is, but it can also be a bit stuffy.
Not only that, modern phonetic alphabets evolved from pictographic text! Today we're devolving back to pictograms.

Apparently, the fear is that some pre-contact tribe in the Amazon rainforest would not understand the labels on a car's controls.
Half a day is an eternity when it is makework.

Trudging through old SO answers, bad docs, GitHub issues, overly enthusiastic blog posts by someone making a todo app, and, the coup de gras: hitting paywalls on the one tutorial that might help you.

Factor in much higher rates for more senior devs and it amounts to a lot of waste.
> (on the Macintosh) The technology was groundbreaking at the time, yet she found icons that enhanced the usability of the (then) groundbreaking tech.

Wrong. The Xerox Star broke the ground for icons. Dave Smith was the person who came up with the concept.
Thanks for the clarification, as I see what you're arguing now. It increases but nothing says that it increases as effectively or efficiently as possible.

Is that part of what these new theories are arguing though, where they are claiming that the universe does behave that way? Or is it this game where under certain conditions, molecules begin to self-assemble and thus decrease the local entropy but then must do so in a way to account for that and increase the local entropy (implying efficient heat dissipation), hence life?
LLM Tools for the Distracted Developer
Panic doesn't reliably abort the program.

And, in any case, arbitrary code doesn't have the right to abort the program in the first place! Only func main is allowed to terminate the process. Errors in any other context should always be reported to the caller via normal control flow, i.e. return.
I'd be surprised if GPT-4 couldn't already do that with the caveat that piping in so much code might cost you billionaire money at scale.
True. The results from codex are actually from code-cushman-001 (Chen et al. 2021), which is an older model that Copilot was based on.
Fine-tuning OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo can make it as capable as GPT-4 (if not more)
It's not a superpower. In my experience, it makes it greatly more difficult to survive as an adult.
Is it really that common? I certainly don't.
Somewhat different from I've seen, then.

And a poor choice if true, IMO.
Employment Tribunal [pdf]
English is the official language of India.
Ecological Forecasting and Dynamics: A graduate course [pdf]
yes, the one which indicates your claim that, and I'm quoting you here, "people trust gossip more", is nonsense. Happy now? I am.

or did you not read the parts that say 61/71% of Americans trust national/local media, respectively? Seems higher than "gossip".

here's that link again for you: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/10/27/u-s-adult...
¶78 is nothing short of fascinating.
But this isn't the same. Going by your example, its like arresting the designer of the shredder machine
Ecological Forecasting and Dynamics Course
I'm all for more housing, but at least theoretically I'm on the fence about this.

The example (17 => 1) is "not optimal", but the ability to buy two adjacent strata properties and merge them solves the "2br condo vs suburban house" problem. As in, the notion of "observed preference": that given that choice, people choose the latter, and so -- here's the fallacy -- people "want" the suburban house (and therefore that's what we should be optimizing for).

Experimentation around the 'missing middle' (condo/townhouse with SFH square-footage/room diversity) seems very much a work in progress.
In 70 years
I like this reasoning. To take it further, is anyone truly needy enough to shop at a dollar tree? I’m not sure how we would get good data, but I suspect everybody has what they need at all times based off of the fact that I’ve never known anyone that is starving.
I think you have it backwards? In most jurisdictions I think biometrics can be forced but divulging knowledge cannot.
Maybe this https://prql-lang.org/ ?
My phone CPU normally draws well under a watt, but a server normally draws well over 100 watts.
> What has been learnt about NPI (non-pharmaceutical intervention) effectiveness?

> Masks and face coverings

> The weight of evidence from all studies suggests that wearing masks, particularly higher quality masks (respirators), supported by mask mandates, generally reduced the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Studies
consistently, though not universally, reported that mask wearing and mask mandates were an effective approach to reduce infection. There is also evidence, mainly from studies in healthcare settings, that higher-quality ‘respirator’ masks (such as N95 masks) were more effective than surgical-type masks. The evidence suggested that masks with greater barrier function were more effective than those with lower barrier function; and mask wearing in the context of a mandate to wear masks was more effective than mask wearing in the context of voluntary behaviour.

> Social distancing and ‘lockdowns’

> Most effective of all the NPIs were the social distancing measures. Stay-at-home orders, physical distancing, and restrictions on gathering size were repeatedly found to be associated with significant reduction in SARS-CoV-2 transmission, with more stringent measures having greater effects. Early in the pandemic certain sub-populations, such as the elderly, were found to be particularly vulnerable to severe disease and death resulting from SARS-CoV-2 infection. Social distancing measures aimed specifically at protecting the elderly, such as restrictions on
visitors and ‘cohorting’ staff with residents in care homes (separating residents into groups, each cared for by a specific group of staff), were frequently associated with reduced transmission and reduced outbreaks within care homes.

> Regarding school closures and other school-based measures, the evidence suggests that they were associated with reduced COVID-19 incidence within schools and the community. However, the effectiveness of these measures was varied (compared to community-wide measures such as stay-at-home orders), time-dependent, and often contingent on the adherence to the measures implemented and the targeted age group of school children.

> Test, trace and isolate

> Test, trace and isolate approaches were used as a key intervention in many countries, especially those pursuing zero-COVID policies. Studies from several countries that implemented high levels of contact tracing with isolation of infected individuals and their contacts found reductions in COVID-19 deaths. Strong evidence was also found for the effectiveness of contact tracing apps. For example, a trial of the UK’s app (alongside communications and manual tracing interventions) on the Isle of Wight was associated with a substantial reduction
in transmission.
In that case, I would prefer Pascal’s (and Basic’s) “end”, however.
Simon Peyton-Jones, the very inventor of the language is now working on Tim Sweeney's Metaverse-themed prolog bullshit. There's no energy left in Haskell.

Haskell has fallen between the cracks as neither a super efficient compiled language or a practical interpreted one. It's just a pain in the ass.
I partially "solved" this by bookmarking the page showing my most recent comments and their replies so I can skim it before going to the front-page. I understand the reasoning behind the functionality but there is a lot of knowledge in replies so I wouldn't want to be without it.
I think its quite the tribute that another strong, not always compatible personality such as Wolfram put such obvious effort and care into this remembrance. Thanks.
Agreed with this evaluation of where we lost the plot in this thread.

Documentation is both "javadoc" and "architecture diagrams and business reasons for what to build and why at a high level". And it's also useful to have a level in between, in the repo, that is more higher level than class-and-method-level "javadoc", but more technical than business-level documentation.

What I was trying to say is that if you want developers to read the business level documentation, you need to link to it from the in-repo documentation that the developers are already reading in order to do their jobs.

No IC is going to navigate to the business-level documentation and just start reading. What would be the trigger to do this during the course of their day? No, they're going to follow a link from somewhere. You have to put links in the right places!
Engineering Serendipity: Does Sharing Lead to Knowledge Production? [pdf]
> platforms will have to stop harmful content from spreading

This doesn't sound like protecting the users and more like protecting the governments. What Harmful means routinely aligns with the powerful políticas and corporations and not people. I'm usually worried about how "protection of people/children" is used to restrict choice.

It also seems rather interesting that the gov wants to stop companies from doing what they increasingly aggressively do (targeting people with tech) but companies are much more tech savvy than gov and policy makers.

Example: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/sign-petition-and-tell...

Lobbying being what it is, it's interesting to see how this battle of regulations actually affects things and for whom.

GDPR has been a mixed bag but an interesting one nonetheless and this will definitely be another.

https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-...

Fundamentally there's always a problem when regulators don't really understand how work is done and that you can't just put artificial barriers everywhere to ensure a perfect world. Pragmatism is key and enforceability is key.

I guess I have a lot to read now.
> On technical level two sensors are clearly better than one even if you just pick one in case of disagreement

Can you explain this? If you always pick the same one in case of disagreement, what is the purpose of the other sensor? You're not getting any additional information when they agree.
Okay, a bit like Ruby, THEN.

IF I had to BEGIN a comment, I would say that FOR a WHILE I thought it was the END.

# ;)
Fun fact, 2022 population in NYC is just 6% higher than it was in 1950. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_York_City. (though probably is more like 10% this year)
There used to be https://github.com/Noitidart/Chrome-Store-Foxified, but it has been unmaintained for years
Sounds like gradual typing, maybe? That stuff was hot, years ago. Jeremy Siek is one the original inventors — his stuff is really approachable.
A recent Reason magazine article described Hawaii’s emergency suspension of zoning regulations as “YIMBY martial law” which is exactly what the entire country needs to crawl out from under its economy-choking housing crisis. A developer who proposes housing that meets basic health and safety criteria on a site within city limits that is already surrounded on three sides by other developed parcels should walk out of the permit office with over-the-counter approvals. They should not face five years of process and appeals. The only way to counteract the trends of this article is to build!
Thanks for posting this. I’ve heard of this study but have never read it.

Having read it, what a dumpster fire of un-controlled healthy-user bias.