skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently GPT-4 is getting pretty good at knowing when it's wrong: https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-26-fine-tuning-time#%C2%A7g...

(They asked GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 "are you sure" to see if it would change its answer, both when the original answer was right, and when it was wrong)
Quantum physics reveals the unity of the universe – Heinrich Päs
Blanking on a source right now, but I recall reading about a study on the 'oldness' of languages and found that the unique sort of phonetics in !Kung and other Khoe or San languages appeared to reduce over time, and simpler hard consonants would emerge in their place - implying that they are indeed some of the oldest languages still around.

Interstingly, there are a number of words from these languages that are still widely used in South African slang: Dagga for Marijuana, Eina for "Ouch!", Gogga for Bug or Insect, and Kerrie for Stick, usually used as the neologism Knobkerrie. Very possibly some of the oldest slang in the world!
Is the LLM looking at the properties of the data frame under the hood in addition to reading the prompt? That’s kind of cool.

Edit: the content aware edits are very cool. I could not be arsed to adjust individual data points. Eg rotate just the Australia label
Build Your Own Serverless
Since when are highways more important than the first amendment?
You can use an open-source tool like this one: https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io
It so happens I'm running NixOS... so thanks a lot for the reference! :D
I remember building a Liveview dashboard that eventually had A LOT of things in a table being updated in real time, that the browser tab actually used like 15% of CPU. I implemented batching of websocket updates and added sleep() in interim genserver loop in like 1h... Problem solved, I could just change the sleep value depending on how fast I wanted the updates to happen
Good to read this article again from time to time.

Redarding the Tao Te Ching, my favorite translation is this one: https://terebess.hu/english/tao/gia.html
I've played vanilla a couple of times, and recently started my first modded game, using Krastorio 2. That seemed to be the most recommended mod, and it's been great.

Pretty much every question of "wouldn't it be cool if..." or "wouldn't it make more sense if..." that I ever asked myself playing vanilla, Krastorio 2 answers with "yes". Yes, it would make more sense if the car didn't run on coal but required more advanced fuel. Yes, it would make more sense if there were more ways to generate power. Yes, it would make more sense if complex early game machinery required a bit more than some metal plates. And yes, it would be cool if your crashed spaceship had some useable components.

The one downside is that fighting creepers is too easy. The anti-material rifle has too much range, letting me snipe them from a position of invulnerability.

Also, there's way too much chemistry possible. I'm completely lost in it.
I'm also not a fan of LE, for some (but not all) of the reasons stated here. I particularly hate the short cert lifetimes (that they intend to make even shorter).
Shining a laser into an aircraft cockpit immediately makes it a non-peaceful protest.
I've got some flurosis on my front teeth, they've been sensitive to cold since I got my adult teeth. So for cold drinks it's far nicer to not be in pain by using a straw than it is to try to contort my lips over to protect them.
> Whenever you go to buy your daily bread, or get a haircut, you do not need to stick to the same vendor, or sign a contract with them, or otherwise care about ongoing relationship. You can, if you want, but you do not have to, and that's despite the vendor very much wanting you to. The relationship exists, but it's managed for you, centrally, by your local regulator - making purchases O(1) with respect to number of vendors. Whether you shop at one place or a thousand, the overhead is the same.

This seems to miss out on the difference between commodity and non-commodity goods and services.

LWN, or the channels I watch on YT, or the people I support on Patreon, are not commodity services. They are not interchangeable in any real sense.
I've never heard the ears version but Jibbs did one about a chain in the early aughts. Song is still stuck in my head.
100% agree on everything you said. However it's easy to judge Python's mistakes through the lens of where we are right now - nobody even considered tracing JITs for dynamic languages before V8 showed up, and without this perspective, subclassing int could look like the more ergonomic choice.

Python could have had ADTs as a core language feature 20+ years ago (rather than sloppily grafting them on in a recent release), just like it could have had unicode strings as the default text type since before 2.x (1.6 was 2000; unicode was early 1990s). But it also had a much smaller community back then, and who knows how making these choices back then would've impacted its development? Maybe it'd end up being as relatively obscure as say Tcl.

Also I think you could still achieve reasonable optimisations even if you do go that route; Go has type aliases (including on primitive types) that you can define custom methods on:

type Weekday int
const (
Monday = Weekday(1)
...
)
func (w Weekday) Name() string {
switch w {
case Weekday(1):
return "Monday"
...
default:
panic("?")
}
}

If your compiler could prove nothing crazier than that is happening with your int subclass, I don't see why similarly written Python code should have a lower performance ceiling; but yes, that's more work for the compiler.
Getting iron from the ground and transforming into something useful is definitely not something you can do alone.

But you are onto something, scrapping things from the outskirts of society might be something you would be able to do, albeit unless we are talking about total societal collapse this would still put you on the production chain, on the far end of it, as a scrapper
Building a world-class cybersecurity program at Netlify
Poor is the carpenter!
Or that customer wanting to cancel spend hours talking to the bot so they finally give up and hopefully forget.

Having a simple form to cancel/refund/change/lost item/sent to wrong address/etc. is easier way to do and handle. But companies do not want that so … chatbot to rescue.
1A protects peaceful protests, once you shine the laser into an aircraft cockpit it's no longer peaceful. You can temporarily blind everyone in the cockpit with a single $15 laser.
yep, we're failing to price those hidden externalities big time.
This is great stuff. I don’t have anything useful to add, just wanted to say thank you, TIL. You don’t have links to any write ups about the latency testing by Igor’s Lab & Battlenonsense do you? I’d be interested to learn more about what typical click-to-photon latencies are today for given refresh rates, and how the latency changes wrt refresh rate. The latencies must be absolutely horrendous if we’re talking about differences of 20-30ms? That would tend to justify super high frame rates (assuming they actually reduce latency!), but it’s funny to me that rendering frames faster and faster is seen as the solution, rather than attacking the issue of a render+display pipeline with insane and growing latency.
With all the attention it's gotten, and some really great explanations of how it's metabolized, I suspect we could safely say aspartame is safer than sugar.
It works, but you really, really have to know what you are doing.

That's why SEO specialists exist because there are a variety of techniques.

Just a few things I've learned along the way:

- Google favors mobile web performance. If you want to rank higher, your site needs to render fast on mobile. The reasoning is that Google's search objective is to serve good content (whether they are succeeding at this is a different debate) so they want pages that will load fast for the end user, contain the relevant content, and provide the best experience for the broadest audience of visitors.

- To make mobile web performance fast, you need to send tight, compact HTML with CSS inlined where possible. This is why SSG/SSR are all the rage these days because Google favors it for search results. SPAs are indexed in a different pipeline. See: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...

- In some cases, you'll need to use advanced techniques like using service workers to offload some of the page loading to a background thread to speed up rendering. See libraries like PartyTown: https://partytown.builder.io/

- Google can surface structured markup data (JSON-LD, RDF-A, Microdata formats) which will make your results visually stand out. Incorporating it into your HTML output is a must in some domains like e-commerce since pricing and product data is surfaced via this markup. See: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structu...

- Google's search crawler factors structural HTML into account. Therefore, make use of meta tags, <title/>, <h1/>, and other semantic HTML5 tags to mark up your document. See this link for reference: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/title-l...

- Google uses sitemaps to find your content. You can improve your results by properly tagging images, videos, and so on. Make sure you do it well. See: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...

- Google's heuristics change all the time. See: https://status.search.google.com/products/rGHU1u87FJnkP6W2Gw...

My lesson learned is that this is a very, very hard game to do well. But if done well, your content will eventually make its way up. Because Google re-indexing could take days or weeks, the outcome can take time to actually see.

If your site isn't showing up in search, it's because you're competing against thousands of professionals that are 100% focused on this specific domain of expertise and follow Google's updates to their search heuristics with each release and adjust.
> You've been downvoted, though not by me, because you introduced a petty insult about an unrelated topic.

What's unrelated? Many vegans claim that veganism is the natural human diet. That humans originally were vegan but became meat eaters. I've come across crazy vegans here who spout that nonsense.

> You then doubled down with an even pettier edit. It's not rocket science mate.

My guess is only silly vegans would take truth as a petty insult.

Also, I really don't care about the downvotes. I know why I was downvoted by silly vegans. My edit was a lure more than anything. So I can get a big laugh at their expense.
Not someone else's API, your own. You make an app. It needs an API that you create (perhaps to sync up scores or something). You don't want to run a machine full time just to accept one score update a day.
This is really interesting, though I unfortunately don't read Polish.

For each ring deeper, do you dig out under the bottom ring until it slides down and another can be added to the top of the stack? That sounds terrifying having a whole stack of concrete shifting around above you.
Has Apple earned this much benefit of the doubt?
"More interesting aliens and strategies for dealing with them. After awhile, the aliens start to feel like a repetitive grind. They always behave predictably and the solution to them is pretty much always the same."

Try the Rampant mod, if you want a challenge. There are a bunch of other mods that add different/tougher enemies too.

That said, the focus of Factorio was never combat, it's building. If you want better combat there are many other games that focus on that.
You can turn bugs on or off when starting your world ;) depends on if you want to - oh, BUGS bugs, not bugs bugs.
Not sure why you got downvoted.. thanks for the link
That's the point. Instead of effortlessly being able to copy tech that's handed to them, they're going to have to spend time, money and talent to just catch up. While that's happening it isn't as though ASML and others will be standing still, and they won't have to make a national espionage project out of their attempts.

Sanctions are about adding cost and friction, not some magical ideal of totally boxing countries off.
China Imports $5B Worth of Chipmaking Tools in June – July 2023
You're not even a little bit tickled that NetBSD runs and supports the VAX, a computer released in the 70s? Get excited about your project, man.

I'm sure you're a fantastic developer, but you're an absolutely terrible evangelist.
Only we don't have warehouses full of extra stock and carefully managed supply chains. We have just-in-time supply models and spreadsheet warriors who have efficiencied surge capacity to death.
In this case there’s a fairly clear A/B test where if we dropped in an AI instead of hired counselors, the number of negative outcomes went up.
> It still makes sense to have a well because it is a waste to water the lawn with drinking water.

Watering the lawn is just a waste of water, period. Ground water is commonly used as the primary source of drinking water, so even if the water is being extracted from a well, it is pretty much drinking water.
Government definitely is above the Corporations in the China. Perhaps the reverse in the US
Most of my friends in my circle have either been diagnosed with ADHD, are pursuing diagnosis, or/and are trying to convince me to pursue a diagnosis, despite me personally not feeling like I have anything. I can't help but feel like something worse is going on here. I know my sample size is small but is the prevalence really this high? From my perspective it seems like ADHD is becoming a "new normal", and I'm starting to question whether the "normal" person who does everything exactly on time with no hesitation, who is truly perfectly organized, even exists. Curious to hear others' thoughts on this.
Only bid if you have already sold the thing to someone not in the auction. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winner%27s_curse

If you have alternatives to participating in this auction, perhaps you should abstain. Also related to BATNA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negotiat...
I'd be interested to learn more about the moral framework that arrives at such a conclusion.

Broadly speaking, the hacker ethos has relied on a "share and enjoy" metric, a direct reference to a bit from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. People sometimes forget that the bit goes on to offer specific suggestions for those who are receiving something for free and have complaints regarding the flavor directed at the provider.
Think of buying a new laptop and not having to install anything. All your programs, files, and and settings are in the cloud. The programs open files from your cloud storage, without you having to download them first. So no user files and docs have to be stored on the machine.

Now, if the machine is only used to run such a desktop, then such an internet OS might run best on a chrome-book style device, with minimal storage for system data only, and locked down to run only the internet desktop. You could even store your entire config settings in the cloud, so when you log into the machine, it is automatically configured. So all you need to to acquire the hardware, and you are to use it immediately. No more mucking around with settings and installations and drivers and whatnot.

This setup is not good for every user in every situation, but in some scenarios it would be very useful.
Vanilla trains are absolutely pitiful for megabases, and annoying even for midsized bases. I simply consider LTN part of the base game.
Thoughts on Superintelligence Security
My dad drilled water wells in the US after spending many years working on oil wells overseas. His clients would often hire witchers (water witches, water witchers, well witches - I think the distance from Appalachia to Montana clouded the specific vocabulary). You'd have this very old man dodder around the property with a pair of sticks, and when the sticks magically chose to pull together and cross, that's where you'd dig the well.

I do not recall whether the magical approach was any more successful than the traditional approach.
As if TikTok and FB can’t already figure out who the morons are.
In bond trading a BWIC (bids wanted in competition) or 'bid list' is a list of bonds for sale that a seller would send to a number of banks with a set time for all bids to be in. As a bidder you would be notified of whether or not you won the bonds, and the what the second best price was (the cover). This would allow you to know where you were with respect to the other bidders.

Except back in the old days (pre-crisis) there was no way to keep people honest, and people would routinely lie about the cover and always tell everyone the cover was just a tick below the winning bid, so if someone made an egregiously bad bid, hopefully they'd never realize...

Now all transaction get printed on the TRACE feed, which is probably better for the market.
A problem: this is a function of culture, which tends to be invisible during object level discussions, especially when people disagree. It's like The Water for fish.

Another problem: subjective matters often appear objective during disagreements, and people tend not to be interested in this important distinction at these points in time (whereas in abstract threads like this those skills remain intact).

Another problem: relative categorization, ie: "HN moderation is great [compared to other sites]" that I suspect is not realized as such, and again: during disagreement, this perspective tends to be "not appreciated", "JAQing off", <your culturally infused meme of choice>.
It is beautiful and unique, but I have a hard time making the connections between a database and the ancient elements.
If you can convince such a model to suggest such a course of action, please blog about it.
This cannot possibly be the case when there was a clear A/B test scenario here. AI was dropped in, nothing else changed about the website, suddenly cases of relapse and worsening conditions went up.
This is sensationalist nonsense, as evidenced by "just 100 warheads" without giving any yield or burst height. And if you read the Wikipedia article I've given you, the evidence points to the effects of any exchange in the 100MT range (which is far more than one would expect from e.g. India vs. China or UK vs. France) will be noticable, but far from catastrophic. At worst, it will cancel out global warming for a year or two.
It's a remarkable tech achievement, but what's the applicability?
Dropbox seems to have behaved pretty reasonably here. They're a company, they used to offer an unlimited plan. They no longer offer an unlimited plan. They're not doing that shifty "It's unlimited (except our terms of service define unlimited as X)". They're just no longer offering unlimited plans. They're not misleading anyone, and for anyone who does need the storage they can buy extra storage. I don't see why people think that Dropbox owe people this particular product class, in reality what is happening today is that the 99% of customers who were using the plan as intended were subsidising the 1% of customers who were storing the most and in a lot of cases were doing so in breach of the terms of use anyway.

I don't think the alternative (some bloke at Dropbox, manually going through every heavy user and deciding whether or not to ban that use case) is better.
Of course you example is hyperbole and I certainly understand what you are saying. But the attitude that many programmers take when learning a new language that something is "harder" when it's just different than what they are used to bothers me (to be clear, I'm not directing that at you).

But comparing:

i = 0
for x in [1, 2, 3, 4]:
i += x

vs

i = Enum.reduce([1, 2, 3, 4], fn x, i -> i + x end)

There is nothing inherently "harder" about the functional version, it's just different (and of course comes with its own benefits).
The alternative is a pre-technology existence.

EDIT: if you're downvoting this, do you expect that we can create and maintain a technological life without building blocks like metals and energy minerals? Did that M1 CPU just appear out of thin air and started powering itself?

And if we do need minerals to create a good life for the 7 billion people we have, do these simply materialize?

We have to dig for it. Holes are ugly and messy. But the alternative is living in one.
I disagree. Just because you were aided by the grid doesn't mean you are aided by the grid. You can shed all those things in a short amount of time, if you have the skill, and then you are truly living off the grid.
You can get 50s era homes in relatively hot parts of chicago for 250k
You will have to reconsider your stance on interoperability with existing email infrastructure. This is a network effect that you are not equipped to ignore.

Google defederated their XMPP infrastructure. Do you think they wouldn't do the same with GMail, if they could afford to?
Ok, if I point at a random spot in the ground in an area that generally has water, and I said, "dig here and you will find water", and you put 1/5 a mile of pipe down into the earth and water comes up, am I some type of miracle? Would those people work in the desert? I think it's a lotto ticket that always wins.
That's a pretty low bar, both of those are massive health crises, that we may not fully understand the extent of yet. Moreover, it took us a really really long time to realize how dangerous they were- so they are a good example that extremely dangerous things can still take a long time to isolate... especially when the exposure is fairly widespread and we can't isolate/control to study it.
I liked this new media outlet and they put out some interesting pieces, but headlines like this are a pretty good data point to the contrary.
It's generally understood now that using the earth for transmitting electrical current is a bad idea... It causes more corrosion in building foundations even hundreds of kilometers away, and soil microbes that navigate with electric fields die.

Therefore, most new DC transmission systems have a balanced pair of cables, and only use earth return for emergencies
New York, California Lose Firms Managing an Estimated $2T in Assets
I think youre projecting. I think they do it because it's fun. A hobby. Just add a challenge to daily life for literally the fun of it.
No, and if I'm not already sterile from the HRT, I will be after surgery in about a year.
Lilac: Analyze, structure, and clean unstructured data
We'll probably build back after that too, civilisations coming and going is hardly new.
> our nomad cluster would go down without any way to recover,

for my curiosity, was in Nomad or Consul that fell over? My experience with etcd leads me to suspect it was actually a consul fire, but since I (thankfully) have never run Nomad I don't know first hand about its dragons
Understanding and Building Neural Networks: A Step-by-Step Guide from Scratch
Peak revenue moment for the SC industry - restrictions current and future - creating artificial urgency for China to buy what it can now. Market will fall once restrictions come in, then collapse when China reproduces and scales domestic competitors
sure. but where is this thing? vast amount of teaching material contains "koan", "zen", "dao". fetishisation at the fullest. it's like anything that comes from the east is like an animal in the zoo. where's golang for stoic or haskell for cynic or java for hedonist?