skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I host a local server for a bunch of services, including Ubooquity. I do most of my reading on my Kobo, through Koreader, and as I use OPDS to fetch the books for it, I also have them locally and do not require internet access.

Not having internet connectivity is never a problem for me, the entire region where I live is completely covered by 4G.
If I didn't know the context, I'd think this is a troll comment.

I bought a book about Elixir and genuinely tried to learn it, but noped out quickly as in I find programs written in it to be unworkable mess quickly.

It's like Perl on crack.
A true hero and also an inspiration. Thanks!
https://www.cursor.so/
Are you aware of the fact that PDF can be anything between clean text-based LaTeX content and scanned graphical images, to just name two of the extremes of each possibility and not taking into consideration the immense variety possible in between?

Unless you restrict your ambitions to a clearly defined type of PDF this mission is supposedly impossible. Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF to get an idea what kind of input data you are actually dealing with.

PDF is a wonderful display output container at the end of the publishing chain, but nothing you'd ever desire as input for further textual manipulation.
> There's no false advertising anywhere on vlang.io or in the docs.

Currently or ever?
I think that's a point a lot of people are missing. If AI can already talk about certain topics better than most humans, imagine in the future. There may be a time when talking to humans may become really underwhelming compared to all-knowing AIs.
There is an easily measurable economic loss. Marine biologists study management of fisheries since decades (This depends on the type of fisheries in any case).
Not everything is life or death, plastics have been linked to hormonal/fertility issues. Micro plastics do cause problems but it’s systemic at this point.

The issue with pollution is it frequently becomes very hard to notice that everything is slightly worse. People used to think smoking was heathy as crazy as it sounds, but when most people experienced smoking related issues such issues where normal.
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Sometimes the company is a parody of itself. I got shouted at by People Operations for saying "Merry Christmas"...
Python is actually bad for the environment.
Surely you mean "Plan9y enough". https://drewdevault.com/2022/11/12/In-praise-of-Plan-9.html shows how he prefers Plan 9 over Unix.

I think he doesn't like the way Unix containers are done, preferring other ways to get them. From that URL:

> Recall that everything really is just a file on Plan 9, unlike Unix. Access to the hardware is provided through normal files, and per-process namespaces do not require special permissions to modify mountpoints. Making a container is thus trivial: just unmount all of the hardware you don’t want the sandboxed program to have access to. Done. You don’t even have to be root.

Where does he express a dislike for the concept of containers? After all, he's working on a new microkernel OS, with a permissions model that seem designed to make containers easy to implement.
Funding is the easiest part. Workers agree to bootstrap the business themselves by loaning their own money to the coop at a pre-agreed rate. Salaries are reduced until that loan is paid back. Increase the loan rate if not enough people are willing to pitch in money.
> ... with 1/50th the effort of any other language.

To junior developers reading this, such statements are never true.
An excellent explanation can be found in a video[0] which also relies on the "Marine Ecoregions of the World" by Spalding referenced in the OP article.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE2ukQOWBIw
Immediately reminds me of the Private Eye "Me and My Spoon" column which celebrates the wisdom and insight of celebrities through the medium of this particular type of cutlery.
But there's no numbers on the scale! Like what even is 1 unit of difficulty on this chart? Is it 1 person year of effort? It seems to say that the difference in difficulty ratio between the 10th NFT market place and an undifferentiated CPG brand is the same as the difficulty ratio of the Cure for Aging vs a Mars colony.

If you're just hand waving and saying "Hard things over there, easy over there". Fine, but in this article we've now established we're not doing that, we're specifically working on a log scale where the Colony on Mars is equally difficult as the Apollo programme...?

Oh and obviously, since it's a log scale you can't have 0 - which means that somehow, so what does "Doing Nothing" appearing as having a non-zero value on the chart mean?
The Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust [1] website seems to have quite a few of the older and closed airfields.

[1] https://www.abct.org.uk/airfields/airfield-finder/
Last week I helped someone organizing and analyzing their data in Excel. As I'm using Excel only once every couple of years, I had to rewatch the wonderful "You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky" to be productive again. Now seeing this announcement page, I was immediately reminded of the mini-rant towards the end of the video [0]:

> On average, once every three months, there's a startup that makes a thing that they say is going to be amazing, and it's just PivotTables. They're like, "It works with Excel, and it does this amazing consolidation, and slicing and dicing of all your data, and it's amazing, and we're going to make a startup. I'm going to sell this for four hundred ninety-five dollars." And that happens at least once every three months. The trouble is, the VCs usually know about PivotTables.

Of course this product goes a little further, making suggestions what columns to analyze and chart with an LLM. But it's quite funny to me that this Microsoft Research product is reinventing the PivotTable (+PivotChart) part with Python and Pandas.

[0]: https://youtu.be/0nbkaYsR94c?si=kkfFHZ_fyGmG3Lnj&t=2988
No Aotearoa coverage :(
> Cygwin is much faster than WSL

Is it? I'm pretty sure WSL is much faster if your workflow allows putting files on Linux filesystem, but I also recall that perf in shared Windows folders felt about the same (bad, but not even worse) when I switched from msys git to WSL. But haven't used Windows in years, so memory could be bad.
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I think the question is whether they significantly changed the architecture at the same time. For example, reading the description of the Python migration sounds like they applied a lot of experience which would have benefited any language, and micro-optimizations like what you described would have been a rounding error on those larger changes:

https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/fighting-spam-with-...
Couldn't they have just moved their python to Cython / Pyrex? Or changed their arch and kept the tech stack the same?

I wonder how much time and team hours were spent learning the new framework and it's caveats vs if they'd just spent a little time optimizing their existing stack.

All too often common with non-perf folks making sweeping changes without rigorously measuring along the way. I guess it makes for good headlines.
Expecting to pay as low as $80K for an on-site senior engineer at Anduril (author is a Co-founder) is not helping the cause to drive the brightest to pursuit good quests.
Super cool.

Here the viz-related prompts (generation, editing, etc), for those interested: https://github.com/microsoft/lida/tree/main/lida/components/...

I built a tool that lets you use GPT to analyze data and build interactive graphs on the browser (https://deepsheet.dylancastillo.co/). I may try to adapt it to use LIDA or a similar approach.
> AI companies will continue to generate waste and CO2 emissions at a huge scale as they aggressively scrape all internet content they can find, externalizing costs onto the world’s digital infrastructure, and feed their hoard into GPU farms to generate their models. They might keep humans in the loop to help with tagging content, seeking out the cheapest markets with the weakest labor laws to build human sweatshops to feed the AI data monster.

Again, I've said this same thing months and yet the AI bros continue to deflect with more nonsense to justify burning the planet with their snake-oil garbage.

Drews points still stand and the Deep Learning industry has no methods of efficient methods of training, fine-tuning and inference and continues to burn down the planet no matter the amount of greenwashing they continue to project.
200 servers running Python.

I bet it was an architecture problem more than a language problem.

I’d be expecting to leave most of that in place and fix the hotspots that are dragging performance down. Maybe some compiled code in certain places.

Almost certainly a detailed analysis would have yielded 20 things that could be tuned.

Posts like this are almost something to be ashamed of “we rewrote an entire subsystem because we wanted to use a language we like”. That’s really failing in your responsibility to the company.
No one is saying in loco work is going away, only that remote is here to stay. The two will obviously coexist, they already did, just that the latter got stronger.

And if you’re hiring, would you rather choose from the whole world or just the tiny subset willing and able to relocate and/or commute? Why not include the people that prefer working alone and/or enjoy having more family time all while saving a ton of money in office expanses in the process?
Except in the case of the i3 which has, by far, the highest reliability and lowest maintenance costs of any BMW ever produced. No wonder they discontinued them!
then I'm sure you also believe the logical consequence that all graphical user interfaces are unethical as well due to frivolously wasted compute.

out of interest, how did you make this post? with moral standards as high as yours, you certainly wouldn't run something as wasteful as a full browser, right? especially when hackernews' html is this easy to parse manually. i'd gues you used curl? and as for your hardware? what did you personally find the most ethical choice there? and about those unethical ISPs? and how did you verify that HN's backend is efficient enough to be considered ethical?
Imagine how much it could save if written in C++.
I'm Sorry. For me with a 'german' App Store it doen't appear. :(
I like Elixir as much as any other guy but I am not going to chose it for my team because it was "easy for programmers to understand"

If you wanted something that was easy you'd go got Golang or Java, not a language without types.

Lots of reasons to love Elixir but this doesn't sound like one
https://www.forgottenairfields.com/country-united-kingdom-13...
> The story comes across as very strange, to say the least. But a point that should not be missed, and why I made this post, is the reasons behind what is being attempted by telling such stories and painting such a narrative.

> It's indicative of what the V language has been facing, and the hidden assault on it's public image (as part of an ongoing language war) that many casuals don't realize is going on.

You have made numerous comments in this thread dismissing any criticism of V as coordinated effort from jealous competitors. Again, what _proof_ do you have of this "language war"? How is a single comment indicative of a "hidden assault"?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37300467
Yep. Massdriver [0] is built on elixir and golang.

All user facing APIs and cloud provisioning state is written in elixir and runs on pretty much just fumes. Cloud systems interaction is written in golang because cloud stuff.

Email is in profile if you’d like to chat. Always happy to talk elixir and golang

0: https://massdriver.cloud
I know of two serious Wikipedia scandals but I don't know which media to contact
I know of two serious Wikipedia scandals which if published by major outlets, will most likely cause its meteoric downfall not unlike Theranos.

The first one is a harassment scandal. A NYC-based celebrity who had worked with other big-names, is the subject of relentless harassment by a stalker. Apparently the stalker had well-off connections to government officials according to the victim due to the fact that he was able to get off each time. He was also wealthy enough to bribe high-ranking editors to delete the biographical article about her on Wikipedia through the gaming of the systems and the spurious usage of notability rules, which we know is so notoriously stringent these days. At one point she was forced into hiding after the LEOs tipped her off that her stalker had bought a weapon. She has robust documentation and paper trails to prove what had happened.

The second one is a harassment cum pedophilia scandal. A member of the Wikipedia admin corps had been harassing a federal employee under the impression that he/she is an editor who was banned from Wikipedia. A journalist got interested in investigating it and found that the harasser is a pedophile/groomer who had traveled all the way to Asia to target kids and teens. The journalist had finished the investigation and compiled it into a feature story article format, but was prevented from publication because she had received a frivolous legal threats from the WMF preventing the publication, as if they want to clutch the pearls as long as they can.

Many journalists, and even law enforcement organizations such as the NCMEC, had been contacted about these, but to no avail. Is there any way or hope that these scandals will get the fair light under the limelight, just like how New York Times first aired the Weinstein rape scandals and how the Wall Street Journal first exposed what's really going on inside Theranos?
That's actually what I meant, poor wording on my part. I just meant they are usually present together rather than one or the other.
What are "all systems"? Most mainstream Debian or Fedora based systems install Perl by default (but not necessarily in specialized settings such as embedded/boot/rescue systems). Alpine linux does not include it in standard images. FreeBSD (and probably Net/OpenBSD) don't install Perl by default. The current macOS still includes it, but Apple has notified that it will be removed at some point. Windows does not include Perl or awk by default.

Sed and Awk are part of POSIX, and maybe more importantly also part of Busybox. They're almost always available when Perl is available, while the reverse is not true.
BYD being a major battery maker, as well as rare earth refiner, means it has vertical control of the most expensive components of that go into NEV's. Extremely tough customer to beat, will see a lot of Chinese automakers go out of business or end up pivoting to other types of vehicle manufacture. Tesla safe though, US market not available to BYD
You collect images. I know, revolutionary.
"top players" ... "top players"

Who can write "top player" with a straight face unless we are talking NHL or whatever?

He uses the term "player" 16 times. Top players on "good quests" shapes history?

Like ... the intellectual level of the author is around zero.
> Flame bait

I'll take it.

> ChatGPT is the new techno-atheist's substitute for God

Not really, no ~~true~~ AInotKillingeveryoneIst says that ChatGPT (or GPT-like) is ASI. Please stop beating this particular strawman.
> HN's content guidelines place no restriction on comments to be on-topic, let alone decide what on-topic is.

Do you really think there needs to be a guideline saying "comments should be on-topic"? Wouldn't you assume that based on both the guidelines and how we generally conduct ourselves in the comments? The guidelines don't say anything specifically about racism but surely you would agree that racist comments have no place here, right?

But despite all that, the guidelines do ask us to avoid generic tangents and to not post shallow dismissals. I'd say the comment at the top of this thread qualifies on both counts.

Now we're many messages deep here arguing about what belongs and that itself is a violation of the most important guideline: this is boring to read.
> So why do we care from where LLMs learn?

Because humans dont put the "Shutterstock" watermark logo on the images they produce.
You mean a windows monoculture?

Unix stuff has only recently been "in the norm" for dev related workflows, it used to be entirely Windows only.

Same with office workflows, games (both playing and developing), graphics, etc.

Unix is the rebel here. It is bringing the diversity.

(Currently my workplace is probably 80% Mac, 19% Linux, 1% Windows, but I can see their point that it would be a lot easier to administrate if they were a monoculture of Mac).
Interesting article. I don't think there's one size fits all in regard to syntax highlighting and code completion tools. A lot of what's optimal might just come down to how individual brains work.
I think what people were tuning into more so than “how good are the models” was “how quickly are the models getting better?”

The jumps from ~nothing general purpose/consumer-facing to GPT3, 3.5, Copilot, GPT4 all seemed enormous and pretty much back-to-back. Extending that curve points to some pretty extreme destinations (positive or negative), but now the sentiment seems to be that curve was a bit of a mirage.

I intuitively share the view that that curve was a mirage (and a byproduct of years of R&D backlog + OpenAI’s release cadence) but that isn’t coming from any rigorous analysis.
While I sympathize with your point, I found this passage funny:

> code, that needs deep analysis to understand what it's trying to do

Because if there's on thing AI can already do really well, it's explaining what some code is doing.
Might be in here:

https://www.ukairfieldguide.net/airfields/Christchurch-flyin...
I am incredibly in favour of unions in all industries, but this one I have serious doubts it will ever happen. I'm gonna be un-PC and reach for a metaphor involving slavery - not because I am comparing tech workers, of which I am one, to slaves, but because I think it's the best real-world example of how oppression is distributed by hubristic figureheads of feudalistic systems.

If you ever saw Spike Lee's "Malcolm X" biopic (or know about Malcolm X through other channels), there is a scene where he talks about the existence, during US Slavery, of "field" and "house" slaves, who tended to live in those same places they worked. Here is a real X speech that is very similar to what is in the movie, though the movie script distills it better for modern ears: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf7rsCAfQCo

Now if you take three groups at Amazon - warehouse workers, tech workers, and C-level executives, they all kinda slot into those roles very well, don't they? Again, not that we're slaves. But then, Jim Crow wasn't slavery either, right? Oppression comes in many flavours, some of them stronger, some of them weaker, but it has the same features, always, including the divide and conquer strategy. The axe's handle being recognizably wooden.

This is all very old stuff. Ancestral. Atavistic.

The problem runs deeper still. Even among the lowest working class, they have been fed on tidbits of heady turkish delight which says that if they do everything right, they can be one of the oppressor class. Like the midway lackey whose job is to walk around carrying a giant teddy bear that nobody will ever actually win, they are even given high-profile examples, lottery winners, pop stars from common backgrounds, tech "mafia" who live as monied dilletantes on megayachts, tipping their hats to Saudi princes and Russian gangsters.

In the end, the workers of tech are just well-kept poodles who will heel to their masters and be loyal to the point of abject moral failure, just like the house slave. Look how much better we are treated than him.

Fagedaboudit. If you want a just world, be a Socialist. Read Marx for real. And join the rest of the historically frustrated who will die watching humanity flagellate itself. If there's hope, it's in the proles.
Now this jogs a memory for me. There was an abandoned airfield in tyrone called Cluntoe Airfield, much of it bumpy and grown over. It didn't deter some of us from trying our our newly-acquired driving skills, even attempting a race which didn't last long due to potholes.

The BBC has an article on it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/yourplaceandmine/tyron...

It has quite the history too, with it originally being built by the RAF in 1940 before being handed over to the USAAF.
Unlike the feathered variety, nobody would miss those.
Oh man, you're in for a dark day.
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The "discovery" of America (quotes mine) mentioned as a "good quest" in the introductory paragraph... I mean, we don't need to agree on this one, but at least choose a less controversial example for your introduction. The authors and their reviewers seem to lack a modicum of reflection.