skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tweet was just a reference in their comment:

> i have yet to see any ai system properly implement individual level-adjusting tutoring. i suspect because the LLM needs a proper theory of mind (https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1697121327143150004) before you can put this to practice.

But to be perfectly transparent, I'd never respond so harshly to someone for just that tweet, or even that comment.

Instead it's the fact they're currently a synecdoche for the crypto-ization of AI. This person doesn't usually dismiss AI, instead they heavily amplify the least helpful interpretations of it.

_

This is one of the largest voices behind the new "the rise of the AI engineer" movement in which this author specifically claimed researchers were now obsolete to AI due to the tooling they built: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36538423

Like, I get wanting to make money by capturing value as much as the next person... but basing an entire brand on declaring that the people who are enabling your value proposition are irrelevant just to create a name for yourself is pointlessly distasteful.

The only thing he gained by saying researchers don't matter and understanding Attention doesn't matter is exactly I described above: a wild opinion that attracted the unsure, pissed off the knowledgeable, and served as a wedge that he could then carve out increasingly large slices of the pie for himself with.

Fast forward 2 months and now the process has done its thing, the "AI engineer" conference is being sponsored by the research driven orgs because they don't want to be on the wrong side of the steamroller.
I don't think I have a broad enough perspective of the industry to assess that. In my corner of the world (scientific computing) it's probably three quarters simple use of accelerators and one quarter actual architecture based on the GPU itself.
Old School Runescape. I know it sounds impossible to play a game while working. However, a huge part of this game is click and wait between 10 seconds to 10 minutes. I get a ding in my headset when I need to click again. It requires just enough attention that I need to be active at my computer but after that click I have nothing better to do than work.
The important bit here is capacity factor as someone is losing money when a nuclear reactor is sitting around not generating 100% power.

Globally the majority of nuclear reactors have a capacity factor of around 90-92% which means the vast majority of the time they’re getting paid something for generating electricity. France varied quite a bit but was generally below 80%.

Now that doesn’t sound that bad as their cost per kWh only went up by ~15%, but they where also exporting nuclear energy at a loss at night and the weekend to countries that didn’t use much nuclear. If every country tried to go 50+% nuclear then everyone would have a surplus on nights and weekends driving those capacity factors down even further and thus cost per kWh even higher.

France massively subsidized consumer’s electricity prices using taxpayer money, so it wasn’t that obvious to the consumer how expensive it was. However, it’s hard to justify such expenses when there are cheaper alternatives.
That's not typically where the software industry sets the one-time purchase though. 18-30 months is more typical. In your example that would be $5/mo for software costing between perhaps $100-150.

If it's set correctly, and the software is actually valuable enough to be worth something, there's a more balanced tradeoff between the risk of overpaying and underpaying and the benefit of the subscription acting like an inexpensive trial that will likely convert to a one-time purchase if the buyer is budget-minded.

(That said, it's certainly true that you can approach the same pricing strategies fairly or greedily; I've overheard both.)
Why do you want a string format for data that can be structured?

"duration": {
"days": 15,
"hours": 5,
"seconds": 20
}

Now it's not the job of your JSON parser to understand the semantics of your data. It's your input validator's - which is how it should be, imo.

Note you will have to have some fallible conversion step from whatever JSON chooses to represent that data as anyway.
in my experience, its sometimes 100% of the time, even after repeated attempts to correct it with more specific prompts. Even on simple problems involving divisions or multiples of numbers from 1 to 10 with one additional operation.
I think part (but not all) of the blame in this case should fall to `length` and `.iter().count()` doing something rather different for a list and an Option/Maybe type. Does taking the length/iter of the latter really make sense? Or should one have to do `option.is_some() as usize` instead, if that's really what you want?

If the same method always did the same for all types that implement it, this problem wouldn't occur. (That being said, I understand that that might be too much to ask for / can't always be avoided.)
What's a good alternative, for users and developers?

I don't have any love for PDF, but I'm actually not sure what's more cross-platform. Any browser will render PDF, so everyone already has a viewer on their computer. A browser will also print any document to PDF, and many other editors can export to PDF (though perhaps not import for editing)

It can't be replaced by an Office format, like docx, because even today apps like Pages can't render MS Office docs correctly half the time.

Doesn't seem like HTML would fly, either, given all the kinds of things that get embedded into PDF.
go volunteer for habitat for humanity or similar, perhaps.
The Aurora delays were clearly caused by Intel.
Yes, it is common. I would even call it cliche. Being common doesn't make it interesting or valuable.
Cars. Started as a kid helping dad with the race car.
Depends on what you mean by decentralized. If there is a giant de-facto operator of spam filtering that’s on by default, it may be akin to centralized in practice.

That said, I am very bullish. I don’t think every node needs to be equal, so to say. Instead, you need good incentives.

For instance, if the spam list starts mission creeping and flagging political speech, for instance, it’s important that someone else can start up a competing spam list. Open source (transparency), and the ability to choose lists (consumer agency) is what keeps power in check.

Also, I really like the idea of keeping lists separate by type (eg crypto spam, 4chan type brigading, and perhaps even more niche things like shallow and edgy takes). It’s the one-size-fits-all that’s so infuriating with legacy social media. It leads to a washed out common denominator speech.

Lastly, I think the challenge is quite technical. As mentioned, creating a Nostr node costs nothing, but distributing spam lists cost bandwidth and space. So compressing and encoding these rules is critical for these lists to have a chance against Sybil attacks..

(Sorry, this comment got more fragmented than I intended)
Not only they own it but their entire gaming position with Steam is thanks to Half-Life 2 forcing everyone to download it (and pretty much everyone hated Steam at the time).
Honestly there is conflicting information about which is more prevalent (toxo or crypto). From what I've found the sources that site toxoplasmosis as most common are older, and the ones reporting cryptococcal meningitis as more common are more recent. I suppose the incidence may have shifted since the 90s. I don't really know.
Anecdotally I see more crypto (private practice ID in southeast US).
The main issue that is not addressed is that students need points to pass their subjects and get a high school diploma. LLMs are a magical shortcut to these points for many students, and therefore very tempting to use, for a number of normal reasons (time-shortage, laziness, fatigue, not comprehending, insecurity, parental pressure, status, etc.). This is the current, urgent problem with ChatGPT in schools that is not being addressed well.

Anyone who has spent some time with ChatGPT knows that the 'show your work' (plan, outline, draft, etc.) argument is moot, because AI can retroactively produce all of these earlier drafts and plans.
> If you start with some unrelated positive thing, it will be recognized as a manipulation technique because context tells us there’s no other reason to raise the point.

That's true, but nobody (that I saw) suggested saying things that don't fit the context.

> Not all adults need or want other adults to ‘build them up’.

Everyone wants respect and for people to be "on their side," and that's what we're talking about here. If someone doesn't care about your opinion, they won't mind you treating them respectfully, but if someone does care, then they'll mind when you don't. So why not just treat everyone respectfully?
Why did the site hijack the back button? I tried to return to HN but it just kept reloading into the ghostfol.io site...
They are allowed to delete files that violate their content policies. Nothing in the terms of service, however, gives them the right to edit files without the user's permission.
I kinda understand this because in the first 10 to 15 years of the commercial internet people were eager and hyped to get connected and share everything what they do and think. Later on this backfired with security and privacy issues like numerous hacks, leaks and privacy fiascos and now they seek more private space to get connected. Nowadays only influencers, content creators and "public personas" want get as much exposure as they can plus private businesses and public institutions.

Ordinary people "hide" behind pseudonyms or rarely post with their real names unless I will say it again, they are aspiring content creators/influencers or whatever they want to become in their professional life.
Another day.

Another Typescript library that does what languages like Java, Python, and Go have for decades!
"Aggressive and critical" I couldn't find the right words initially but a better word might be accusatory. To me, it sounds like they should have but didn't. A lot of other posters don't get that flavor from it and see it as just a genuine curiosity which makes sense.
I mean, this is true. But traits are also very useful. Feels a bit like saying "driving is dangerous; avoid driving where possible".

Also "allow-list" is so gross. Maybe pick something less divisive for future examples.
It's interesting to me that many of the non-AWS products they list under "it's like" have equally incomprehensible names.

API Gateway

Should have been called: API Proxy

It's like: 3Scale

SNS

Should have been called: Amazon Messenger

It's like: UrbanAirship, Twilio

Kinesis

Should have been called: Amazon High-Throughput

It's like: Kafka

(It always gets me that someone actually named a large software product "Kafka".)
The exchange prefix once mapped to a single physical central office location.
It wasn't until the 1980s that there was much lookup involved in local calls. In telephony, converting phone numbers to routes is called "translation". Before cheap memory, translation was really hard. In "A History of Engineering & Science in the Bell System: Electronics Technology", there are descriptions of various special purpose devices developed to store data. Hand-wired ROMs the size of racks. Optical metal card readers for long distance route storage. By the 1980s, little 3B minicomputers running a real-time variant of UNIX.

It was a long time before numbers were just 10 digits with arbitrary mapping.
AI image generators threaten child safety investigations
maybe ~ ?

2030-07-01T18:00:00~BTC

2030-07-01T18:00:00~CEST

2030-07-01T18:00:00~Local

2030-07-01T18:00:00~Europe/Warsaw

to signify it is not a constant point in time but timezone-at-the-time dependent.
When I was a kid in the 80's (and probably early 90's) I remember visiting my grandparents and other family in Frederick, Oklahoma, and everyone there had 5-digit phone numbers. I still remember my Aunt's #, because we would stay with my grandmother for weeks at a time in the summer and would often call over to my cousin's house.
> "Rises like a phoenix" is a bit hyperbolic.

If it weren't hyperbolic and a tad over the top, it wouldn't be The Register.
This has not been my experience at any of the places I've worked. All of my managers have been supportive, open with information, and collaborative, including in promotions and in negotiations with other teams for resources.

I would never knowingly take a job at a company where the culture requires this attitude towards management. I'd also try hard to avoid corporate cultures where praise can somehow hurt someone.
I think it's sarcasm or a joke, because there are two replies I've seen phrased like "I think [praise] but [suggestion]".

Here's another. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37342414
2030-07-01T18:00:00~Scotland/Glasgow ?
All theories are incomplete and wrong, that is a core principle of science. When and how simulations might be useful in testing that theory are context dependent.
In other words.. it depends.
I do have answers, but they aren't comfortable or fashionable. I only have anecdotal experience, but all people I've met who complain they can't afford things are well into the category I describe. Those impacted by the problem who are not guilty of falling into the category certainly do exist. Solutions their problems are tougher and have longer time lines.
Cooking and climbing.

Cooking is something that grew on me, I was a horrible cook when I moved out of my parents house. I just started with simple recipes, learned basic techniques, and expanded from there.

I joined the local climbing association way back in college and loved it. Before climbing, other sports didn't really interest me much. I guess it scratches my puzzle solving itch. I loved being outdoors and travelling to places, but these days I mostly just go bouldering at the local gym.
Labor shortage of people who can't do math?
You are confusing Doom with Quake.

Doom run okish on 486SX.
Your opinion is, of course, valid, but you do recognize that it's shared by only a small minority, right?
One of the things that always tickled me in MediaMOO was the way that you could hook up a computer in your room, then climb in it, navigate through DNS like tunnels, and climb out of someone else's computer.

And there were rooms that functioned like mass transit -- a monorail I think?
Can you provide more details on this? I've always had a fascination with these kinds of subjects (eg, conversational terrorism like "distorted active listening" that politicians use) and the examples online seem to only hint at how a narcissist weaponizes this.
> No. Students want to socialize with peers or play sports/video games. Not learn.

This is frightfully incorrect. Students definitely love to learn. They do not like to be stuffed in a chair and lectured at and forced to do rote activities. But who does?
> I wish there was something similar today.

AI Dungeon is pretty close. Too freeform for my liking though.

> trying to get people to download and use a MUD client is too steep of a barrier for casual gamers.

This one'll let you connect over telnet, ssh or a provided in-browser client.
Yeah but that doesn't really mean anything, the compiler still supports C99 if one wants to write in it.
change or adding same entry with the name of city changed ?

Coz change like that could fuck some shit up...
Microsoft is killing Visual Studio for Mac next year
You say "humans can easily adapt", but some of these families have been in the fishery trade for generations and would rather give up their religion than being forced to live on land like a normie. This is absolutely not something they will willingly do.

If you've ever tried telling an Evangelical that taking this whole Jesus thing so seriously is maybe not the best idea for humanity then you know what I mean.
Usenet faded because the UX was terrible. It was common in the early 90s because it predates the world wide web, and most people back then were highly technical and could deal with the warts.

Everything moved to the web, and Usenet clients were hit or miss. Neither Windows nor Mac came packaged with a client for it, so it certainly wasn't easily discoverable for people who joined the internet later. They probably never even knew it existed.

ISPs became client-less after broadband became widespread. ISPs didn't want to write or provide software, they just wanted to provide data over basic cable/DSL. Even AOL instant messenger eventually faded, as it never really adapted itself to a non desktop centric web.
For forums over ActivityPub, there's Lemmy.
Ukraine war: Australian-made cardboard drones used to attack Russian airfield
The justice department has absurd ways of determining how much damages were caused by unauthorized access. Kevin Mitnick talks about it in his book "Ghost in the Wires", but he was accused of causing $1.5mil in damages to DEC or Sun or something because he copied code, printed it out on paper, and kept it for himself (he didn't distribute it to anyone else). Fortunately, he was ultimately only ordered to pay a few thousand in restitution.
Be careful with supplementation of transition metal trace elements. Absorption of one is usually competitive to others such that it cause toxicity in one and deficiency in another. A multivitamin is a safer source but having blood levels checked regularly would allow for calibrated intake.

For example, as a poor absorber of Vitamin D3 I require 12k IU / day (with all of its cofactors) to stay within the established blood range. It would be inadvisable and reckless for anyone to consume this amount of a fat soluble vitamin without monitoring blood levels. I'm also prone to iron deficiency anemia of unknown etiology (cause), but that's another problem suggesting either poor absorption (most likely), cancer, or unexplained bleeding.
Hot springs in volcanically active areas?
That applies not only to icon design, but also to UX design and some other types of design too...
Finding Language Models in Influence Operations
What, if anything, can be counted as the result of colonialism? Or can absolutely nothing be? Would you assert that the execution of colonialism was equivalent to the identity function? A complete noop?
> And most of that fighting goes away when parents assume the responsibility of teaching their own children.

No, because you've forgotten one of the important stakeholders here, which is society at large, which has a interest in ensuring a general level of shared education. Which once again results in fighting, as parents who are teaching their own children run up against government requirements that they may not agree with.
A bigger problem for me personally is the high cost of reducing developer productivity and increasing operational risk just for the sake of cyberponies trying to defend their job.

Also I am not so sure the cost is that low. Well for phishing attacks maybe, but what is the return here?? Many skilled people had been caught doing 'cybercrime'. I just think if you compare this to e.g. tax-fraud then I would expect the risk/reward to be much higher than doing phishing attacks.
$100/yr was a typo. $100/month. Drive used cars. Pay cash for them. Save up, and upgrade. You don't NEED a new car.
idk, anybody under the age of 22 is basically a child to me
people wouldnt do that? just go on the internet and tell lies?
Loved the elevator on LambdaMOO. Push the button to go down to 'hell' floor or whatever. Watching my friend work on programming around that kind of stuff taught me the basics of state machines and so on that took me from "played with BASIC & Pascal & Modula-2 as a kid" to "Sure, I'll write your CGI scripts and JavaBeans or whatever" and got me working in the industry eventually...
I just don't know about this. I also find it answers great when I'm not familiar with a topic. However, when I am familiar with a topic I find all sorts of inconsistencies or wrong facts. I'm concerned the same inconsistencies are there in the topics I'm not familiar with, I just don't know enough about the subject to spot them.
I played Doom on my 486DX 33MHz.
I hadn't realised that there was a problem with Windows. MacOS has a different problem with a colon in a file name. For two of the three most popular operating systems to have this problem does show a distinct lack of thought.
It's an annoying word in itself, and yes, it's simply business as usual in startup land. Invest aggressively at a loss to accelerate growth, then later monetize, if you get that far.

Can't we do better? Have a stable business, organically growing and profitable from the start?

No. Tech is winner takes all. You need to be first and grow the fastest or somebody else will.
I mainly use GNU, but sometimes I develop with a VM running Windows. I mainly live inside Emacs. A nice way to access my Windows system is through TRAMP, which (T)ransparently extends the filesystem at an application level over various protocols. I have found that using Emacs as a Samba client to access Windows works quite well for me.

Unfortunately recent versions of Samba makes it hard (impossible?) to spawn remote processes; else I would be able to use eshell inside Emacs, which is pretty awesome over SSH.
GCP has a mix of "that makes sense" (scheduler, run, compute, spanner) to "I can see where they were going" (memorystore, speech) with a smidge of: "that doesn't make any sense/just a fun design that isn't meaningful" (anthos).

Lots of icons are dots or squares that are connected, which of course isn't helpful because that's what nodes in a network actually are in all circumstances.

GCP is (un)fortunately saved by it's relatively low product offering (by AWS's standards at least).
Yeah, so you just set it down cap up, not screwed in. Takes up less space than keeping the plunger separate, and is just as good on the plunger.
How many successful high quality open source projects outside of corporations organize with scrum? I would think almost zero.
> DRY at any architectural level corresponds naturally to repetition of text in source files.

The "repeat" in "don't repeat yourself" refers to semantics (data and sources of truth) and not syntax (text in source files).

This is a common misunderstanding, which is one of the things that tends to separate junior and senior engineers.
I'm fairly certain it also does some traffic correlation by IP or similar. Probably on the logic that if someone else in your household (sharing the same gateway) likes a video you might too. Of course this also ends up associating things I open in a private window or with NewPipe with my account.
Is this even hypocritical? Presumably the private court is only used for a game here and there, and does not act as a consistent noise nuisance to neighbors. If the complaint is noise, then it seems fairly apples and oranges.
I agree although at the time these classes seemed so unnecessarily hard.

I was fortunate to take -
- CS60A with Stuart Russell
- CS60B with John Ousterhout (now Stanford)
- CS60C with Paul Hilfinger
- CS150 with Randy Katz

I believe (after watching videos online) that CS10 The Beauty and Joy of Computing is also a wonderful intro course to take before the CS61 series.

My daughter took CS61B with Paul Hilfinger and he was so gracious to take a picture with the 3 of us together. I have it here on my office desk!!!
This has been my experience as well- 99% of Indians outside India don’t know and don’t care. If anyone has any doubts the system is still very much alive in India, just visit the ghats of Varanasi where even in death (i.e. cremation) the castes are kept separate.
Yes, in the about us page they say it is "powered by" Lumafield.
I'm sure it just comes down to what's available in what distribution centers, how big the order backlog is, Prime status, etc. The algorithm that makes those decisions would be fascinating to study.
Watching immersive videos of someone consuming candy suppresses candy cravings
Modern genetic data suggests pre-humans were a group of only 1,280 individuals
Still, when you're making a point about the amendment it's helpful to show the entire amendment to the reader is fully aware that no other important context is being left out relative to the position being stated.