skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I just simply believe that you're wrong.
>a variety of inner checks to make sure that the execution doesn't end up in an infinite loop or whatever.

I am pretty sure that is one of the biggest unsolvable problems in computer science. Halting problem.
>I think the most likely way to achieve “AI alignment” is the peasants with crossbows. Everyone having a powerful AI at their fingertips provides a balancing factor that is only overcome if those tools are in the hands of very few.

I think neither elite actors like Sam Altman nor the peasants will manage to get their AI to do what they want it to do once the AI becomes knowledgeable enough and good enough at planning to make plans resistant to determined human opposition.

I.e., I think inequality is a distraction from the main problem with frontier AI research, namely, we are not going to figure out how to aim one such that it stays aimed after its cognitive capabilities have become dangerous.
Looking at it from the otherside, what incentive is there for them to pay teams developers to build Unreal Engine, and then let you use the technology for free and get nothing when your product takes off?

By all means, if you don't like the terms don't use the engine, but it's hard to take it seriously when you make it sound as if you're doing them a favor using their engine for free.
Hey all, I'm currently a solo iOS developer who just released my first app, Timbre, onto the App Store.

Timbre originally came about because I wanted to build a sleep sounds / sleep tracker app. I had used Headspace, Calm, Pillow, etc. and figured that instead of paying $70 / year I could just build my own app and pay $100 a year (not a great plan in retrospect). As I started building Timbre, I realized that one of the biggest issues I had with these other apps is that I could never really see which sounds genuinely helped me sleep. With that in mind, I pivoted on my original idea and decided to really hone in on connecting sleep quality and sounds.

Using a custom ML model, Apple's CoreML framework and HealthKit's sleep stage data, I made it so that Timbre could predict a personal sleep quality score. When you record a sleep session while listening to a sound, the app can then rank the available sounds based on which statistically help you sleep best.

Of course, the app also has a smart alarm, offline support, sleep analysis and more, but I'd love to get some feedback & suggestions. Also feel free to ask me any questions and I'd be happy to answer them!
> Do you really think this recipient isn’t deserving?

Yes. What is the concrete achievement being celebrated here? Especially regarding to doing "the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses"? [1]

> I think you’ll find that the peace prize has been political for a very long time.

> The giving of it to Kissinger is going to be hard to beat.

I broadly agree with both of your points here. Perhaps in an ideal word, nobody would have cared about the prize. But at least we can try to shame them for making ridiculous choices.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize
I really like restclient - also really makes sense for persisting tests in this manner to source control. Not that anybody else on your team will know how to use it...
> increases accuracy and reliability of an LLM while also making the whole system harder to understand

Harder than what? If the alternative is a black box fine tuned model, RAG is obviously superior. There’s no easy way to audit why an LLM spits out nonsense, and the only way we know how to make it less nonsensical is to feed reasonable inputs.

So RAG replaces a poorly understood problem (zero-shot generation from decoder-only models) with a well-understood one and a poorly understood one (search retrieval followed by zero shot generation from documents).

I think it’s a little disingenuous for all of these out of the box repos to tout their GitHub stars and claim to be “leading” in RAG. The first step is retrieval. People have been working on retrieval for decades and vector-based retrieval since before attention was all we needed.

That said, I’m glad that the prospect of text generation has forced people to become familiar with information retrieval. It’s a relatively new subject compared to the rest of CS and I really only learned about in industry.
Here's Epic's Enshittification Journey as a platform. Let it be known that it didn't have to be this way. Epic (Mega)Games was a mild-mannered game development company that sold a popular engine used in many AAA games.

Act I; Users lured, moats built: Epic pivoted towards Games-as-a-Service. They took investment [0] and guidance from Tencent to the tune of 40% of the company. Fortnite and the F2P Unreal Tournament reboot were developed and released in this timeframe. These free titles would bring in the gamers into the Epic ecosystem.

Act II; Users exploited, business customers courted: Fortnite adds subscriptions in 2017 (Battle Pass Season 2 [1]) and makes money hand-over-fist. At the same time, the Tencent deal allowed them to relicense their engine away from the high upfront cost to "Free" until a certain point [2]. They also charged a far less cut than Steam, used hundreds of millions of dollars of their own investment to bring other developers to the ecosystem, as well as publishing a number of games that used the engine. This lured developers to the platform with their own dreams of Fortnite revenues. More investment poured in.

Relating this back to the original article here, in 2019 Epic gave a grant of $1.2 million to Blender [3] to develop their tools to integrate Unreal Engine, including those for visual artists and film.

Act III; Everybody is shafted: See my original comment.

[0]: https://www.investopedia.com/news/how-tencent-changed-fortni...

[1]: https://fortnite.fandom.com/wiki/Season_2

[2]: https://fortune.com/2015/03/03/epic-games-unreal-tech-free/

[3]: https://www.blender.org/press/epic-games-supports-blender-fo...
Wegovy is incorrectly listed in the article as a diabetes medication, it is only approved for weight loss. It is also 30% more expensive.

https://www.wegovy.com/
Hehe, I've never heard that but during COVID I had a MASSIVE beard, like some crazy sea captain or something! I figured if I was hiding away at home and would rarely been seen by other people, it was a perfect time to go try and grow out a long beard! Since the end of restrictions, the beard is a more normal cropped length, but still probably what most people would consider "full", so possibly this is partially an explanation as I've never experienced wearing a mask without a beard.
Rails is great for new projects, the opinionated structure and the Convention over Configuration is what makes it scale well!
> Universal Childcare at the margin means some people who would rather take care of their own children are pushed to take a job

What is the evidence for this in the countries with universal childcare [1]?

I believe the missing ingredient is the additional production of women who were forced out of their careers by having kids. Those women are more productive working. That additional production may singularly offset the system's marginal cost.

[1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/07/01/which-co...
Agreed. Original title was not clickbait or misleading in any way.
Paw (now RapidAPI) is a very good alternative, though I can't say they wont be under the same capitalist pressures as Postman. I paid $50, one time.

https://paw.cloud/

Edit: To be clear it's an app (downloadable client), despite the url.
I can't remember where I found this but it's what I've been using to downscale and convert the occasional 10bit downloads (using the nvenc GPU acceleration.)

ffmpeg -hide_banner -y -probesize 100M -i "$file" -map 0:v:0 -c:v h264_nvenc -x264-params b_pyramid=2:ref=4:vbv-maxrate=30000:vbv-bufsize=15000 -refs 4
-crf 17 -preset:v fast -profile:v high -b_strategy 2 -rc-lookahead 900 -level 4.1 -pix_fmt yuv420p -color_range 1 -colorspace 1 -color_primaries bt709 -color_trc bt709 -subq 10 -vf zscale=tin=smpte2084:min=bt2020nc:pin=bt2020:rin=tv:t=smpte2084:m=bt2020nc:p=bt2020:r=tv,zscale=t=linear,format=gbrpf32le,zscale=p=bt709,tonemap=tonemap=hable:desat=0,zscale=t=bt709:m=bt709:r=tv,format=yuv420p,zscale=s=1280x720 -c:a copy output.mkv
> It does feel more like the 'Western moral prize' rather than a Peace Prize.

Iran, China, Afghanistan et al are welcome to start their own prize.

I see that China’s Confucius price seems to be disbanded after getting offside with their government.

Recipients include Putin.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius_Peace_Prize
>In-house development doesn't suffer from this issue, and you'll have full control over the code.

Proprietary engines suffer from plenty which you haven't stated
- can be a mess to read or understand; many hacks done to accomplish a certain feature because it helped ship X feature

- tons of tribal knowledge. If you've worked with a proprietary engine before, you already know documentation will be lackluster and to little fault of the engineers - there's so much to know about the engine that developers don't have the time to chart out what everything does in the engine while pushing out fixes and features.Often, you need to poke the principal programmer who's been with the studio since its inception to understand how a certain long-existing feature works. That's a major point of weakness for the studio!

- Engine limitations! Ask the bethesda devs on their experience building multiplayer for Fallout 76[0]. Imagine building multiplayer in an engine that has never needed to support it. That's a huge refactor and a ton of time spent doing that when it's already handled by Unreal Engine. Developers will need to maintain that engine in the future so the pain doesn't stop after the game gets shipped!

Your post sounds like someone who hasn't worked in game development before. I advise listening to GDC talks, noclip documentaries, and more if you want to get a better understanding of what game development actually looks like. It's a lot more complicated than "your change in price policy makes me mad" (by the way, most AAA studios already have contracts/price agreements with these engines given the amount of revenue they generate for Unity/Unreal).

[0]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi8PTAJ2Hjs
Why is that? For me, it was because I'd get severe symptoms after eating fatty foods.
It would have been a pretty nice feature though, if it could've been used to uniformly make SDR content brighter, to make the laptops more useful in sunlight and with sunglasses. Too bad that's not a feature (I'm guessing because it wear out the screen or something).
After reading about the possibility that vikings navigated via birefringence of calcite on cloudy days, I've wanted to build a cloud-dial somehow: "I only count the cloudy hours".
Anyone is welcome to be fat and happy, but don't put down those who want to un-fat to be happy. Don't come back with that fatness is a social construct stuff either; your fat and happy idea is just as much a social construct.
> Pandas is way more powerful

Only if you 1) don't know SQL and 2) working with tiny datasets that are around 5% of your total RAM.
I'm fairly big (and maybe compounded with a beard), so the ear straps always felt tight, and in fact I've had several masks break on the strap join as well as just being uncomfortable. I also dislike the way airflow is restricted (more noticeable if I ever walked fast for a period of time) and just that generally my mouth and nose would feel hot after about 30 minutes and when I took them off, they'd feel damp which always made me think it'd be an ideal place for bacteria to grow if I was wearing it all day.

Probably though, my total mask wearing for most of COVID was about an hour a week when doing shopping, so it was relatively easy just to put up with it. And whilst I did continue wearing a mask for shopping for about 4 months after restrictions were lifted, it was just because I prioritised minimising my exposure over comfort - I actually hated the experience and only put the mask on when getting within about 25m of other people and took them off as soon as possible when I was safely away from people again.

The not over ear, but around the head instead masks that someone else mentioned sound like a good idea, but I've never seen them in the UK, so I never even knew such a thing existed.

I've tried about 3 different designs of masks of the "normal" type, but apart from some having worse joins on the straps, they all seemed about the same in discomfort. I also had some of the thick KN95 masks, and actually found them better than normal masks - although it was harder to breath in them and was a bit hotter, because there was more space between the face and the mask, it didn't feel as squashed.
Unfortunately not really, because the infrastructure that allows us to glean insights from actual healthcare practices is abysmal/nonexistent, at least in the US.

It became clear during COVID that a lot of people seem to presume there's some way for researchers to just "look at what's happening," and there isn't.
At this point, Centaur pretty much no longer exists, with engineers transferred to Intel. CNS never ended up becoming a product.
But you raised VC funding right?

Insomnia was an alternative to Postman, raised VC funds, eventually needed to justify that, and suddenly accounts mattered more. They're currently on the same trajectory.

Insomnia is open source but just like OP experienced, a single update can do damage and it takes time for the community to react.

Is this the same company that raised? If so, are you exempt from that? Have you figured out some monetization scheme for what is essentially a glorified curl UI that doesn't incentivize account sign ups?
Groupon’s Legendary $12B Pivot
I'm not sure I'd call that a "moderate size" wordlist - I would rather pick 7 diceware words for ~70ish bits.

The problem with really large lists, is you get some very rare and really long words.
Denmark gets rich, everyone else gets poor because they don't consume. Well played
Yeah, no person has ever read anything like every textbook ever written, but that's pretty much table stakes for training sets. Clearly there's something missing aside from more virtual reading. (I suspect it has something to do with the half a billion years of pre-training baked into the human neural architecture and the few extra orders of magnitude in scale but who knows)
Rather be a coward than a blood thirsty war hawk like McCain was.
When I switched over they made it clear they were getting rid of offline mode. So I said whiffs but at that point there was a turd halfway up my nose
I will poison my own well and state that I don't think my opinion is a good one but I've come to admit the reasoning behind suckless-type software.

Might not even be adjacent to the topic of this thread but I remember the one time I accidentally found out about UNIX pipes in a bioinformatics course. I didn't know you could use computers in a way that would help you get things done gracefully and without GUIs. I didn't know I could just type in `curl wttr.in` and get the weather results instantly. I didn't even know about vim. I didn't know that an OS could occupy less than 1GB RAM on idle and still let you fully operate and do all the work that you need to do.

You can't just keep abstracting things to work with ways of computing that are just more painful to work with. At one point the end-user has to adapt and simplify for his/her own sake. I wish I did sooner.
It’s inevitable(?) that the trend to vertical integration will continue, slowly pushing more and more non-vertical companies into irrelevance.
Disappointing that there isn't a standalone program like Postman. I don't want to install an extension in my browser to handle CORS.
"original title" means the original title of the article, not the title the submitter originally made up.
I had a laptop which had a faulty memory module, it was working quite well after I put it in the fridge for some reason. Also linux at the time would have kernel panics while freebsd would have some application crashes, but would keep running.
When it comes to prescription drug liability claims, it doesn't really matter whether the use was off-label. The key factor is whether harmful side effects were properly disclosed on the product label. Where manufacturers really get hit with huge verdicts is when they knew (or should have known) about a side effect but failed to put it on the label.
Postman did it first, unless I'm missing something.
with pandas2.0 and using arrow backend instead of numpy - pandas became "cloud datalake native" - you can essentially read from arrow files in S3 very efficiently and at any large scale - and store/process arbitrarily large amounts of files in a cheap serverless infra. Arrow format is also supported by other languages.

with s3+sqs+lambda+pandas - and you can build cheap serverless data processing pipelines and iterate extremely quickly
Minus the last couple sentences, I would describe things the same way you did in terms of visualizing, and have experienced all those things.

Along the same lines as the young woman you're experiencing, I used to get out of body experiences/sleep paralysis/waking dreams (pick a label) nightly when I was in my 20s, and I would see shadows and outlines of what would seem like energies. That was mostly non-visual and interpretive, which feels more like my minds-eye than a dream.

Not to go off topic, but ever try communicating with the shy woman?
Postman is also open source lol. Unless its donation driven without funding its all going to be the same.
Performance at Rest (2014)
Cutler retired?!
I mean, why would you expect them not to charge you money for something they clearly spend tons of money in developing? They are a business.

The bait and switch is real, but after N of them we have to start asking ourselves whose fault is it if we fall for the N+1th one.
For everyone else it indicates that Epic is willing to change the terms on you when it suits them.
I've used Weylus [0]. It works over LAN, lets you control the mouse from your tablet. Sometimes it's laggy, but you can configure the resolution so it's not using too much bandwidth. I'm not sure if it's stable at all. Haven't used it on a regular basis.

[0] https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus
And the question for most that remains once AMD catches up: will the duopoly result in lower prices to a reasonable level for hobbyists or bootstrapped startups, or will AMD just gouge like NVidia?
But is there a VS Code extension for curl?!!? Does it work with ChatGPT?
Surely there's no way that the food industry will figure out a way to pack more flavor and more psychological satisfaction into less nutritious, less satiating forms, right?
The PC is not why DEC failed really.

And by 1992 they actually had a profitable PC buissness unit.

Plenty of manufactures make mostly server stuff. That really the issue, they failed on continung to be dominate in bigger servers. And much of their revenue depended on support contracts.

If you sell less systems and those systems are less depenpended on you Unix/NT then there is just gone be less revenue.
Here is Szabo last post about Bitgold before he renamed it to Bitcoin; http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2008/04/bit-gold-markets.ht...

It describes the architecture of Bitcoin exactly. It is conclusive evidence that Szabo invented Bitcoin.
My wife also works for a defense contractor. Our nightly conversations kind of get tiring because virtually all she ever does is complain about it. They moved at some point away from including detailed requirements and specific feature sets in contracts to instead purchasing, I believe at this point in 12-week at a time intervals, some number of "story points," where story point is defined to be some number of labor hours at an average rate, rather than an actual story point. So what happens is the government and contractor work together to establish some backlog of possible features they might want, and I think quarterly, developers have to hold some ceremonies giving very rough estimates of how many story points each of these might be worth, even though at this point they are not discretized into user stories. Moreover, everyone has to do this, so even if you have some team whose main purpose is onboarding new users and providing maintenance and support of a development environment, they have to estimate workload in terms of stories and story points and burn these down as they respond to ad hoc support tickets.

Moreover, since they're "agile," they no longer have any kind of dedicated testing teams, so developers are responsible for creating and maintaining all of the test suites. But they're evaluated on velocity, not reliability, and velocity is defined as story points delivered, which is measured by tickets closed, but since labor hours are purchased in fixed buckets, the definition of done becomes "we ran out of hours," so in practice, developers just don't write real tests, everything always passes, and nothing actually works.

More moreover, even though the government has pushed all of its contractors to adapt some kind of "DevOps" branding that implies you have broken down the traditional barriers between development and ops, in practice, development and ops are entirely separate contracts run by separate companies and purchased by separate directorates of your sponsoring agency, so in reality, as a development contractor, your work is purchased and approved by an acquisition office that doesn't actually own the operational environment and you're not even legally allowed to directly communicate with whoever actually does own and run that environment. All communication has to go through the acquisition office. So you end up delivering exactly what was asked for, but it doesn't get accepted because the organization that gets to accept or reject changes to production isn't the same organization that was involved with all of your planning and development activities.

I understand why she still works there. She's spent her entire career working on special access and compartmentalized projects, and I worked at this same place on similar geoint projects even before she did. In spite of what Hacker News would have you believe about the quality of military technology, you really do get to see amazing shit, including satellite capabilities I worked on a decade ago that the likes of Starlink and Google are still not close to matching, but I couldn't do it any more and left years ago.
> just because the code hasn’t been ported,

Seems stupid to use millions of dollars of supercomputer time just because you can't be bothered to get a few phd students to spend a few months rewriting in CUDA...
So if someone builds something of value but doesn't charge for it until 2 years later, you'd say that they aren't providing value with this change?

I mean, I get what you mean, but seems needlessly pedantic to just "forget" the thing that is being charged for and because there was no other changes made with the new price being added, the change itself isn't adding any value.

Regardless, I get what you mean, no value for you that they start charging. True.
So what about smoking?

It's good that we discourage smoking, even aside from the secondhand smoke component.
Have a number of threads greater than the number of cores results in either synchronization costs or longer latency.
Anyone with Aphantasia or are curious about it might like this fairly recent article that eventually gets into a theory of the mechanics of different cases of Aphantasia and what might be happening behind the scenes.

Aphantasia: In search of a theory
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/mila.12432

I find it incredibly surreal to read current research on how my own mind might be working and finding parts of it quite relatable and insightful.
It's generally considered a heuristic or rule of thumb. It is not meant to contain any hidden truth and if you've moved past the need of this level of basic heuristic it wouldn't be useful anymore.