skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does seem hacky, but then again the whole concept of conversational LLMs is. You're just asking it to add an extra word to a given conversation and after a bit, it spits out an end token that tells your application to hand control back to the user.

I think latent space and text space aren't as far apart as you think. LLMs are pretty stupid, but very good at speech. They are good at writing code because that's very similar, but fall apart in things that need some actual abstract thinking, like math.

Those text space hacks do tend to work and stuff like "think step by step" has become common because of that.

LoRAs are closer to what you mean and they're great at packing a lot of understanding into very little data. But adjusting weights for a single conversation just isn't feasible yet, so we're exploring text space for that purpose. Maybe someome will transfer the methods we discover in text space to embedding space to make them more efficient, but that's for the future.
Walking to 447 is 3.5 miles, if I did not have a vehicle then it would be the easiest option for egress.
Time to preserve those floppy disks
Burning Mud
Climate activists let down this Toorak driver’s tyre. He sees their point
Yeah, I'm not a subscriber to the "YOLO/MVP" school of software development, which basically makes me persona non grata in many tech crowds.

When I write software, I use what I call "Constant Beta." Basically, my software is at a release level of Quality, from the very start. It may be incomplete (thus, unshippable), but what's there, is ready for its closeup (Mr. DeMille).

Basically, before moving to the next feature, I make sure the one I'm working on, is complete. It may require coming back, after other parts of the program are done, but I always make sure that the API is clear, the documentation is done, and things like error handling and localization are in place, as early as possible.

Surprisingly, I work very, very quickly, despite taking so much care. There's a number of reasons, which would require a series of blog posts, but the results speak for themselves.
We're getting complaints that your account is only posting to link to your own things - that's not allowed on HN and readers here consider it spamming. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

"Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity."

If you want to participate in the intended spirit that's great, and occasionally linking to your own work in contexts where it's relevant is ok, but it shouldn't be your primary use of HN. This is a community for human conversation on topics of intellectual interest, and promotion is not that.
I worked at a Dunkin Donuts when I was 16 and this is what we did (and does work for drive through). However instead of a ceramic cup we used a normal plastic cup to mix the drink, then poured it into the customers cup. If it was just black coffee then we could pour straight into someones mug. A ceramic cup would be better (because we threw away the plastic cup after pouring). I’m struggling to recall if any drink except the chai tea could be entirely mixed inside the metal cups which are used on the steam wand. I’m not sure if the SOPs have changed in the past 7 years.
Creating a task manager / TODO list made all the difference for me, for the simple fact that marking things as DONE provides a little dopamine. Over time you positively-reinforce yourself to do more things to get more magic checkboxes.

I try to keep everything in there. Of course I have my daily routine, project goals, scheduled events, people birthdays, etc.. But I also have things like vehicle maintenance, system maintenance, chores for home, and stuff like that.
> theres absolutely no reason to "conserve food and water."

Seems like the reason is so folks can get through the next couple of days without involving the National Guard, which is costly. No one's dying; it's just muddy and unpleasant.
At the most basic level, distraction is the opposite of focus. If you want to do deep work, you must eliminate all distraction and just focus on that one thing you are working on. So no HN while working for instance and even something as seemingly innoncent as grabbing a snack randomly can mess with it big time and start a distraction loop. Other than that you can practice focus deliberately, like for example zen meditation of counting exhales 1 to 10 - you will notice how easily distracted you get, but it's normal - you just get yourself back to focus on the most boring thing. And make sure you get good sleep, it's easy to become chronically sleep depleted and live in denial that no more sleep is needed, but it actually is needed badly - and it's very difficult to focus, if I get worse sleep I especially pay attention I do not have anything distracting around and usually choose to work on one big thing as multiple smaller tasks can prove to be too distracting to handle well.
90% of people way overpack for Burning Man to the point where I stopped bringing food the last few years I attended. No one will go hungry, not even the dumbest of sparkle ponies. I wager there's enough food on the playa right now to last at least another two weeks, maybe a month with even a modicum of rationing. The camps I frequent would end up splitting up the left over alcohol the morning of exodus.

The drugs on the other hand? Those might run out well before the food and leave everyone coming down with nothing to do but stare at the mud.
Do you mean caustic as in the dictionaty definition of caustic? That is, the mud on the playa turns corrosive when mixed with water?
> The biggest problems are loss of autonomy, privacy, and redundancy. Whole life dependent on G and A corps? Accounts that can be banned on a whim with no recourse? No thank you. ((extends middle finger))

This all applies to credit card companies. Try running a porn site and accepting payments with credit cards
Folks, the article is breathless and ridiculous.

As someone who is not there, but who has been there four times and run build lead for my camp...

Rain is not unheard of. It's probably pretty muddy and less fun than it normally would be.

Nobody is starving or dying of dehydration, and there is no danger of that. Most camps (and many people) have a huge surplus of supplies. Last time I was there, I drove out with a few dozen cans of sparkling water that I just didn't get to hand out.

There are PLENTY of supplies.

The worst thing that could happen is that somebody has a medical emergency and are unable to be evacuated until Monday/Tuesday. That's a real concern, but there are plenty of platforms that can land a helicopter if that's necessary.

This isn't the catastrophe calling for FEMA involvement that the article makes it sound like. :rolleyes:
> fractions are taught not until FOURTH GRADE. That is almost 3 years too late.

Former math educator: This is not the problem at all. Finland has great Math Education and they wait till 5th grade. If you ever try teaching a large number of 1st graders (or 3rd graders) fractions it becomes clear most of them are not developmentally ready and they'd be better served firming up foundations that would let them more quickly learn fractions when they're ready.

More pertinent problems are that much of our k-6 teaching staff are themselves math illiterate, our culture of disliking mathematics is enforced by a teaching style that makes math incredibly stressful for kids and disengage from the subject, we don't allow any tracking of where students actually are which causes slow students to fall behind more and fast students to be bored out of their mind, and that we make no use of "developmental priming" to speed up later learning later (e.g. you can learn many of the concepts of calculus long before your brain is capable of the necessary algebraic operations, if you know them, you can learn calculus faster)
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You both make good points, on second thought it’s all about how you spin it :)
This makes a lot of sense, thank you. The expectation to always be available on teams, to reply to email quickly is very strong at my workplace. My apple watch means that even if I'm making a cup of tea, or using the restroom I still see when people are trying to contact me, or when one of the systems sends an alert so I'm never truly offline.
Just say whatever point it is you are trying to make instead of making people guess
Thank you I'll (try to) give this a watch!
“San Francisco to remain empty for two to three more days”
Very muddy sex.
I’m not sure about paper cups but I know the numbers for plastic bags vs textile bags is something like you have to use the textile bag /several years/ for the emissions to even out. Let alone making any positive impact.
thankfully, I tend to stick with fairly easy to identify fungus, or even ones that have false versions that are not very toxic (false chanterelle are edible, but can give you a stomach ache, but still easy to tell the difference if you've been foraging before). I tend to stay away from morels, just out of fear of a false morel.

cauliflower, lion, an oyster, on the other hand, are very easy to recognize and the bolete family has some nice slimy cousins that are nice when dried and ground.

I think my favorite poisonous mushroom is what becomes the lobster mushroom due to an infection - great when infected, dangerous when not. thankfully it's easy to tell the difference.

I had one that surprised me, turned out to be quite delicious, but my book is put away, and I can't remember the name off the top of my head. now that it's coming to foraging season around here (pacific nw, usa), might be time to get it back out.
I did mean to use the word segue, and no, it was not a pun about trademarks. I will fix it.
Customer provided stainless steel is the ideal, IMO. Glass also, if someone can make a glass container that's not hot to the touch and doesn't shatter on the go, and that isn't enormous.

And as for the increased energy required to create and clean these stainless steel and glass containers, the goal should be that this soon becomes a "who cares" problem as we fully transition to renewable energy and storage. Admittedly, "soon" very much seems to be a material possibility, but a political impossibility. And of course there is always opportunity cost when deciding how to divvy out grid capacity, so I am smoothing over some of the complexities of the issue here, but I don't think unreasonably so.
e-mail and my work phone. I'm a married man, so my wife does most of the social arrangements anyway.
Recently I got a JMP.chat number so I could send and receive text messages, and have been very happy with it.
When I leave my job and have to give up the work number, I'll probably break down and buy either a Pinephone or Librem (maybe there'll be other options by then).
> The first iPhone had a 320x480 screen and could only use web sites that had a mobile version.

That's just totally wrong. In fact, IIRC the original iPhone announcement showed a visit to the NY Times website to show how you could scroll around and zoom "full screen" websites.

If anything, the ability to navigate "desktop" sites on the iPhone was much better than other phones because those other versions of "full web browser" were clunky incarnations that made it difficult to zoom in and scroll around. It was pinch and double tap to zoom, and finger-on-screen to scroll that made browsing sites on the "normal" web much better than anything else at the time.
You could be right, I'm soon to turn 40 so maybe my brain is just slowing down and I can't ask as much of it as I used to. Hopefully a better diet and more exercise can counteract that to some degree.
Yup, I’ve seen many people like this in engineering. They “put all their skill points” into Charisma. Then they go on to build long, prosperous careers by bullshitting and charming senior management, until they themselves are promoted to senior management. It is a reliable, proven career progression for the incompetent.
>And no coffee shop these days wants to use your cup because they're worried about whether it's clean and they don't want to touch any of their coffee making tools to your cup accidentally and contaminate them.

Not true everywhere. Where I live now in EU, at my fav hipster coffeeshop they definitely let you bring your own to-go reusable glassware (basically jars with screw-on caps) where they pour your finished coffee drink, and I think in some hipster Berlin coffee shops as well where they push for the environmentalist friendly mentality.

I've noticed in some cases America(the US) tends to be way more hypochondriac than necessary, for some reason. Probably because how easy you can get sued.
That's fine. Myself I have little use for them, I prefer functional testing. (Also, before unit tests we leaned on parameter checking in the live code — a kind of always-on unit test I guess).

Management though use the "percent coverage by unit tests" as some sort of safe/buggy software metric.

Management at one team I worked on was pushing for minimal 95% coverage with unit tests. I thought it was odd that they were so singularly focused on this issue. The impression I had was a that they felt that if you have full code coverage with unit tests, and the test pass — you can lay off the QA team because you are assured that you are shipping perfect software.
Nobel Foundation reverses decision to invite Russian ambassador to awards
Do any of the replies call it out? I'm not logged in so I can't even see if it got replies.
This is true, I am not an expert in this field, and have no legal training. I don't claim to be an expert. This is just me, giving me opinion in a blog post.
Musk's X to collect biometric information and employment data
I just want to clarify — I do oppose this war and this government. The only point I'm making here is that some of the sanctions disproportionately affect regular people who have no say in the matter (the government doesn't take any feedback and trying to protest anyway gets you jailed) and are bypassed easily given enough will and resources. Some other sanctions, especially the personal ones against the government elites, do have the intended effect of forcing those people to fully immerse themselves into the country they themselves have built over the decades.

The problem I see is that there's no process going on to evaluate whether each particular sanction has its intended effect, and repeal those that clearly don't.
When I've been asked to coach someone on "technical leadership" I always ask them to be on the lookout for "facilitator" employees, those whose help makes another employee more productive or effective. I am convinced there are "service oriented" personalities where people get more job satisfaction out of helping someone else do a great job than getting all of the credit for doing something amazing. As the author points out they often "score poorly" and yet losing them will create net decrease in team productivity. I always try to give folks the tools to help distinguish between people who aren't productive because they aren't, and people whose productivity is exhibited in the success of others.

It is never good to measure the "one" metric and manage to that, it results in people who game the metric "winning" and fosters the promotion of such behavior. I pointed this out to Google leadership and to quote Lazlo, "This is the system we have, it isn't perfect but we're going with it, either work within it or don't, it is up to you." :-). That meeting told me everything I needed to know about whether senior leadership was trying to have a better engineering environment or not.

To many new managers come into the job (especially if they were engineers individual contributors before) with the idea that if they keep the "best" members, and move out the "bad" members both team morale will be great and so will the teams output. But they miss that their understanding of "best" is not based on managing people, its based on getting their original job done. As a result they favor people who mirror their skills and habits and disfavor those who have different skills and habits. Getting them to see this and having their eyes go wide with realization is always interesting.
Sounds like your gram gram was overly careful.

Foraging for mushrooms does not require huge amounts expertise. It requires a little bit of common sense.

If you regularly went foraging, it would have been possible for you to learn a few easily identifiable and unmistakable mushrooms. At least in the Nordics (and I assume it would be the same near by), it is quite easy to teach another person a few mushrooms to forage for when you can show the mushrooms growing in the wild and explain the few identifying traits.
I don’t doubt it. But the question was: how much space do we have? And how much of that is space that we want?

I’m not disagreeing. I simply don’t know
Yeah, I remember Microsoft Works.
is there something not hard to believe about that?
this post is really strange because it actually describes a good environment

- code isn’t changing in code review except for really good reasons

- people who need help are reaching out

- projects that need help get additional help brought in

what else are you looking for? this example is about as pair programming as it gets at most places. they’re called silos when people don’t like them and layers of abstraction otherwise but they’re the same thing: no team will have 100% shared info on all parts and knowledge transfers on exits are a decent step to bridge this

if you want to teach the team more, teach them more. usually the best way to do this is in code review. it’s direct comments on code. write a good review you want more people to see? post it in the chat. set up additional time to share ideas with the team. all of these things you can do as an IC while producing code

sorry but this post comes off as “i’m smarter than everyone.” i’m guessing the reason management hasn’t gotten your message is the message isn’t clear. what exactly do you want to do? and what do you need their help for?
It’ll definitely screw up your skin (not fatally), and can cause corrosion to vehicles and the like. It’s mostly alkaline though. So think (weak) lye, not acidic.

PH is around 10
And it just promoted some very 1488 ads too. Hope the simps are happy.
Yes — the lake beds in the west are generally covered in alkali dust. Add water and you get a caustic basic mud slurry.
The US just announced that it is buying off-the-shelf anti-drone systems for Ukraine that operate chain guns in single-shot mode. Drones are slow so they can use VT rounds instead of the CIWS spray-and-track method.

https://eos-aus.com/defence/counter-drone-systems/slinger/
You can get a few bars of T-Mobile from the right spot, at least last time I was there.
Yea, the biggest downfall of ECC in computers was Intel intentionally disabling ECC in dies uses for the consumer processors and leaving it only for Xeons. As a way of forcefully keeping the market segregated.

AMD otoh has brought ECC to the table in Ryzens without the same shenanigans
The feedback form was open for some amount of time and closed as scheduled, there are only so many things to be said about the draft after all. All of the things mentioned in the blog post have been said hundreds of times over by this point

Where are you getting that they might accept the draft from? That seems like a particularly uncharitable reading of the follow up post

https://foundation.rust-lang.org/news/rust-trademark-policy-...
Under the “principles of burning man” (which are largely not known or ignored by a sizable portion of of attendees in 2023), you should be prepared for this sort of event with enough extra food and water to wait it out. And I think a large fraction of the attendees are. If this was the camp I used to run with, the collective response to this would be to view it as an annoyance, but not life threatening - everyone was on top of their shit and had enough food, water, and shelter to last out something like this. And in fact, people would give you shit if you came around asking for help saying that you didn’t expect rain like this. You’re very explicitly told when buying a ticket that shit like this can happen and you should be prepared to deal with it yourself.

Whether this turns into something requiring external help or evacuation depends on what portion of the attendees really are on top of their shit in 2023.
> It is linked dynamically rather than statically, meaning it depends on the Visual C++ 2015-2019 x86 Runtime being installed on the system. Especially on older Windows 7/8/8.1 systems that perhaps primarily use older software, it’s possible this runtime has not been installed by the user (or by applications they use). As a consequence, the uninstall payload will crash since it cannot successfully resolve its dependencies.

Should've used UCRT... oh wait.
I mirrored all the code from PyPI to GitHub and analysed it
This is a side project I've been working on for the last few months. I built an automated system to continuously mirror all the code on PyPI to a series of Github repositories. Mirroring PyPI code to Github enables:

1. Scanning of all new Python packages for accidentally published credentials

2. A browsable/searchable index of published code with a nice UI

3. Large-scale analysis of all published code to see how the language is evolving

Using this project anyone is able to download the contents of PyPI to their personal machine and analyse every piece of code ever published in a matter of hours.

I hope it enables people to do things with the worlds largest and oldest corpus of Python code that wasn't possible before, and while this is likely totally useless to most people I think that is kind of cool and unique.
Why should a nation state concern itself with helping some rich people at a festival who have been inconvenienced by a little rain and mud? They have 12 miles to the nearest town and 100 miles to the nearest big city. The festival literally has its own airport but it has been flooded. I suggest they call for helicopters. Many of them probably have their own.
Even though Amazon owns Goodreads? Seems more like it would be controlled opposition than useful.
U.S. is very litigious. In high school I dreamed of being an entrepreneur. I still have that dream it's just wow the reality of the cost of doing business is brutal and disenchanting.
The sad thing about it is that log loss is optimal when gambling (mental shortcut - see Kelly Criterion). This partly explains why such a large proportion of people lose much more than they win. Not only the bets are suboptimal, the ruin is achieved earlier than necessary.

Note that this applies also outside of a casino, gambling (making wagers with imperfect information) is inherent to life.
1. Burning Man is in Nevada

2. Technically it's not even in Nevada, it's in the Pyramid Lake Paiute Indian Reservation

3. Kind of the entire point of Burning Man is that you are raising a city out of nothing and breaking it down again within the span of a couple weeks against all odds and in one of the least hospitable places on the planet. This is by design. As a participant you are given ample information and time to plan for such eventualities, they are not necessarily predictable but you definitely can and should be prepared for the worst out there. To be blunt, this is what they signed up for. It's a prepper-lite ("radical self-reliance" is one of the founding principles) kind of event. I say this as someone who really enjoyed my time there in past years -- everyone is welcome to attend if they feel up for it, but they are also expected to know what they're getting into and to carry their own weight if things get bad. Not that they will be left to die, as "civic responsibility" is another of the principles embodied by the population of Black Rock City for its duration.

Protip for interested readers: anyone calling Burning Man a "festival" outs themselves as having absolutely no idea what they're talking about and are perpetuating the kinds of narratives that contribute to the flippant and commercialized miasma that has settled around the event over the past years.