skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a directory of feature flags IN THE REPO that look like this:

$ cat default/setting/html/avatar_link_to_person_when_approved
0

I then have a directory of local config (NOT in the repo) that look like this:

$ cat config/setting/html/avatar_link_to_person_when_approved
1

Then my feature flag code looks like this:

if (GetConfig('setting/html/avatar_link_to_person_when_approved')) {
# do some stuff
}

Later on, when the feature is stable, and if it makes sense to make it a default feature, I can change the default without affecting existing installations.

The "feature flag tool" I use is a procedure called GetConfig() which is ~250 lines of code with comments and logic for overlays.

Please let me know if you have any questions about this method.
They're also such a blight on landscapes. I don't want to think about where my power comes from, any more than people want to think about where their meat comes from.
I’d be careful drawing too many parallels between running Unity vs running a game publisher.

Unity is a developer platform/tooling company. They don’t care about hits or franchises - they need service, stability, community, and technology innovation.

Game publishers are creative industry plays, like movie studios. Completely different business.

Of course Epic confuses things by being in both camps but I don’t think Unity is confused that they are competing with Epic in the sense of needing to outmatch Fortnite.
"Unity would not be where it is today without the impact of his contributions."

something something damning with faint praise...
Everything you're talking about has nothing to do with federal taxation.
Gotta have my owner shower and shitter. There's a certain level of basic hygiene I refuse to go below.
There is movement on the price/cost front. I found one tool that provides this data in a more searchable way (turquoise.health) and used it with limited success. I believe the upstream data is public as well, but cant remember the name of the repository OTOH.
No specific reason. It could have been built in any language. It was just the language we were using and enjoyed at that time.
> We can decide that if we’re covering an arrest, we will follow the case through to its conclusion.

There's an important counterargument ignored here.

The reason arrests are public in the US Bill of Rights is because the British used secret arrests to suppress rebellion. Publicity of arrest, plus the use of a jury, is an important safeguard against tyranny.

In the pre-telecom days this was an almost unalloyed good; embarrassing for the arrested, yes, but it was easy for locals to see if something unusual was going on. Local newspapers were quite local. A true miscreant could slink off to start a new life (either reformed or not, who knows). With the Internet and search engines these days, the calculus is different -- but it's not obvious that a complete change of heart like this is a good thing. For example, discovering a pattern of petty harassment by the police will become significantly more difficult.

And as for mugshots: probably they are no longer necessary; in an earlier society with only moderate literacy they were an advancement.
I ran into CPU cache issues in a slightly different application 15+ years ago. I was working on indexing gigabytes of text on a mobile CPU (before smart phones caused massive investment in such CPUs). Word normalization logic (e.g., sky/skies/sky's -> sky) was very slow, so I used a word cache which sped it up immensely.

The initial version of the word cache cleared the entire cache when it hit a certain number of entries, just as a placeholder. When I got around to adding some LRU eviction logic, it became faster on our desktop simulator, but far slower on the embedded device (slower than with no word cache at all). The difference came down to the CPU cache size / strategy differences between the desktop and mobile CPUs.

We ended up shipping the "dumb" word cache logic because it was so much faster in practice. The word cache eviction function was only two lines of code plus a large comment that acknowledged that "yes, this looks dumb" and imploring that the speed of any future improvements be compared to the dumb version on the target device. Testing real data on the hardware used in practice is incredibly important.
Unbundling the Office
Land Lines – Draw a line, find it on Earth
I think back to Ellen Pao at reddit. Ellen was brought on as CEO, and was the face of a number of very unpopular decisions. All those decisions had one purpose -- jettison the things that made the site rough around the edges, and find ways to monetize, so they could make investors happy and work on going public.

The backlash was staggering, and much of what they tried was rolled back. Ellen Pao took the blame for it, but it wasn't actually her fault. The founders just scapegoated her in order to make changes they needed for investors -- and depending on how cynical you are, they picked an asian woman so that they could channel internet racism and sexism as part of the distraction. Years later, they did the same thing, making multiple unpopular monetization changes, but this time the CEO taking the backlash is Steve Huffman himself, not a scapegoat put in front of him.

CEOs don't make decisions on their own, not really. This pricing change was the direction the company wanted to go in, and they got put on their heels, but only temporarily. They're still going to try to find ways to aggressively monetize.
Looked interesting, though there are some inconsistencies with the core count for the "Octa" version. The intro blurb up the top says it's 12 core, while the spec listing further down says it's 10 core.

It's not clear if the ram is ECC either. With 6x SATA + 4x NVMe + 32GB RAM they're targetting more professional users, which should mean ECC ram is available.

---

Looking a bit more in depth, it doesn't look like any of their cpu choices support ECC:

∙ https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/226261/...

∙ https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/231803/...

So, that's a fail. Hard pass unfortunately. :(
Anyone else wondering if this was all planned? Maybe Riccitiello was planning to retire and the board asked him to play bad cop and announce the new fee structure. After he is gone they will announce something slightly more agreeable that will look good in comparison. Maybe I'm just too cynical...
The theory is that they just don't want to eat as much (the drug suppresses appetite), not that they are trying to save money.
> The primary instance is a single c5a.large in EC2. I also run my own instance on a single t2.micro.

Wow, I would have assumed it would have required more than that.
“with consequences”

Depends how many millions he’s accepting to walk away.
Powerquery oh god never again!
If you gave radios to people who didn't know about radio waves, wouldn't they conclude that there's nowhere for the sound to come from?
Ah, I certainly missed that part! That makes more sense.
The most famous Interim CEO was Steve Jobs.
How has it linked with your Amazon account then? Just because you bought the printer from Amazon? (As they do with their own devices, e.g. Fire TV Sticks, of course.)
Finding a good PI is the real advice.
Hold on a sec, think about what you're saying. The ability of a larger system to imitate a smaller system in some situations means they're they're mostly the same? Since when?

If I told you that an LLM was basically a Markov chain because there are situations where the Markov chain and LLM produce similar output and where you could reasonably argue that it's possible the LLM is working the same way that the Markov chain is working -- you would (correctly) say I was oversimplifying what's going on in GPT. It would be a terrible comparison to make. Similarly, if you say that human reasoning is the result of an LLM, and what you're actually saying is that in a subset of situations humans produce output that could theoretically be working the same way as an LLM, I'm gonna say you're oversimplifying how human brains work.

Very clearly, there is more going on in a human brain than language, evidenced by the fact that our brains are larger than our language centers and we can literally measure which parts of the human brain experience the most activity when we're tackling different tasks.

> Sure there's other stuff going on, but a lot of it is language and a lot of that subset seems to be quite closely approximated by these larger LLMs, warts and all

If you define your tests and scenarios to specifically encompass only the situations in which similar outputs are produced, then sure. But that's not a very strong argument for you to make. It's like saying chickens are basically the same as fish since both of them lay eggs. The phrase "sure there's other stuff" is doing a lot of work there, because "there's other stuff" is what we're all saying when we say that LLMs aren't just primitive humans -- LLMs are different from humans in the sense that when we reason, there's other stuff going on and the entire process is not reducible to only language generation.

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Of course, absent from this conversation is the fact that the way our language center develops is different from how LLMs are trained and even in the parallels you're drawing, LLMs demonstrate different strengths and weaknesses from humans -- humans demonstrate reasoning capabilities faster than proficiency with language/text, LLMs demonstrate proficiency with text faster than they demonstrate reasoning capabilities. Even in situations where both LLMs and humans predict text, it's likely that we're using different strategies to do so given our differing capabilities.

Look I am not even making a claim about whether GPT can reason. Defining intelligence through a purely human lens would be unimaginative and needlessly narrow. Whether GPT actually reasons or just appears to is a different conversation. I haven't touched that conversation, all that I'm saying is, it's very obvious that whatever GPT is doing, it is different from how human brains work.
Couldn't original USB have used TRRS? That's better than reversible - an infinite number of orientations are allowed.
Isn't putting TrueNas in a VM a big no-no?
In case he doesn't check this thread, and because my stove mostly matches his description, I'll mention that I'm happy with our Progress Hybrid by Woodstock Soapstone: https://www.woodstove.com/the-progress-hybrid-wood-stove
Use the ImportExportTools extension in Thunderbird: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/impor...
Our Mission: Safer Zones
Did you consider pre-processing each chunk separately to generate useful information - summary, title, topics - that would enrich embeddings and aid retrieval? Embeddings only capture surface form. "Third letter of second word" won't match embedding for letter "t". Info has surface and depth. We get depth through chain-of-thought, but that requires first digesting raw text with an LLM.

Even LLMs are dumb during training but smart during inference. So to make more useful training examples, we need to first "study" them with a model, making the implicit explicit, before training. This allows training to benefit from inference-stage smarts.

Hopefully we avoid cases where "A is B" fails to recall "B is A" (the reversal curse). The reversal should be predicted during "study" and get added to the training set, reducing fragmentation. Fragmented data in the dataset remains fragmented in the trained model. I believe many of the problems of RAG are related to data fragmentation and superficial presentation.

A RAG system should have an ingestion LLM step for retrieval augmentation and probably hierarchical summarisation up to a decent level. It will be adding insight into the system by processing the raw documents into a more useful form.
The flaw is whatever x-wise you pick, you have the torch in the "wrong" hand either going up or coming down. Also, hand rails weren't a thing in most medieval staircases; you were expected to just not fall, and when you did there was no one to sue.
I quit my high paying tech job at Meta after having panic attacks
Well, they are lobbying the government at $5000 a month.

https://lda.senate.gov/filings/public/filing/056178b4-e8b5-4...
Found this from https://assets.ctfassets.net/we0wnls2rnwy/2xu8qs3xCoWjFLe70t... which I found on https://www.jsx.com/faqs what 100% better way to do it! "Using large databases
of threats, including firearms, metallic IEDs, and other
threats as well as databases of typical benign objects,
including keys, cellphones, belts, shoes, coins, tablets,
and laptops, the classifier is trained to distinguish
between the two classes via machine learning techniques"
I hope that mandatory tags for submissions, filters based upon these and profile blocking will be eventually implemented.
I'm not making the argument for infinite capabilities. The main point is that the idea that you can determine this stop from looking at current iterations is a fallacy. It's no more evidence than random chance.

The second point is to understand that any task, any task at all even if it's not necessarily the most efficient or performant way can be expressed as a prediction task and sit along for the ride.

If your model of the world is good enough, there's nothing occurring in the world you can't predict. Prediction itself is not the weak point here.
That’s it - thank you!
My comment was that I was not convinced of the argument the article made, not that I was convinced the opposite was true.
If you drag a message out from Apple Mail, say to the desktop, it will save that message as a .eml file. And if you inspect it, it's simply the raw message itself — as it would be in, say, a Maildir folder. You can literally 'cat' the file. Unless there are multiple versions of '.eml' that have different formats...
> I follow a lot of game developers online. Every single one that uses Unity today is planning to switch engines for their future games.

Will all of them switch to Unreal, or are there other viable options?
> He explained that "Nobel despised people who cared more about profits than society's well-being", saying that "There is nothing to indicate that he would have wanted such a prize", and that the association with the Nobel prizes is "a PR coup by economists to improve their reputation".

To be fair I would definitely consider Goldin’s work the kind of work that improves society and hence that Nobel would want awarded.
The Supreme Court ultimately rules what “bear arms” means, so not just the politicians.

The constitution is vague, so it’s upto interpretation. And Supreme Court judges aren’t elected.
I think yours is a fair opinion as well, to be clear - I actually debated editing him out for a couple of minutes after I first posted, because I do know that his background was truly heavy on the gamedev side of things early in his career.

I have my reasons for thinking things changed later on, but they are subjective / personal opinion based on personal experience, so I respect anyone who would disagree and exclude him from a list like this.
the actual (and also initial) claim here is that the myth is true, the author is simply pointing out that there is insufficient evidence to support the myth, and thus we fall back on the null hypothesis, aka the default: that there does not yet exist sufficient evidence to conclude the myth is anything other than false.

> But that doesn't mean we assume the opposite of the claim must be true until they do. It means we assume ignorance.

Regardless of the wording, the gist is the same: we /don't/ assume ignorance, we treat the claim, like Russell's teapot [0], or any other unsupported claim, as false until such evidence arises, since there are an infinite number of unfalsifiable premises, and we neither want to, nor do, in practice, treat them all as maybe true, maybe not, forever.

tl;dr: As Russell's teapot [0] demonstrates, yes, there is a default, and that is that a thing is false unless sufficient evidence exists to believe otherwise. No, we don't treat all unfalsified (and unfalsifiable) hypotheses as unknown and assume ignorance.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
From the small number of US cities I've been to, it seems to be 100 numbers per block and roughly divided up between whatever's there. Sometimes evenly spaced, sometimes starting from 1 at one end at 99 at the other and a free for all in the middle.
He was also employee #2 and #0 at the same time, so Quantum CEO?
I think is a combination of physical activity waking the recruits up and keeping them alert, as well as physical exhaustion helping them fall asleep. I suppose anyone who is chronically unable to stick to that schedule would get weeded out quickly.
The issue also was that the lowest pricing tier was horrible for a lot of the companies that were Unity’s forte. It was massively out of touch.
I'm very excited to see this release! I've been working on personal projects with 1.x of PayloadCMS, and coming from the Wordpress / PHP / Laravel world it's been a breath of fresh air developing in TS, but I did miss some of the Laravel-esque aspects like db migration.

Adding support for Postgres (and I assume other DB engines in future) is a monumental task and I commend you all for doing such a good job – granted I haven't used it yet but I do look forward to!

And I am loving the support for Lexical, SlateJS did not jive well with me, so the ability to have options is great.
There are good and bad variants of the 15-minute cities proposals. The good variants leave driving alone, but make walking and transit better than driving is today, resulting in people freely choosing not to drive. The bad variants intentionally make driving worse or even ban it altogether.
The Insider's Guide to Building a Multi-Arch Infrastructure
I see the term headless used a lot. What does it mean?
For Reddit the alternative is non-existent so people had no choice but to stay and Reddit knew this very well. It's also something that's tied into the human reward system and fosters a sort of addiction which makes any attempt to leave even harder.

Unity has none of those things. It's a stone cold tool designed to make money for game developers and there are clear alternatives in Unreal and Godot. Now sure there are people who've based their entire career around knowing Unity, but those skills are reasonably transferrable.
0) dang once tried to actually ban politics on HN and people rioted[0]. Unfortunately the nature of politics means few will interpret anything neutrally or even favorably - any ban on politics will be interpreted as a nefarious attack on the Red Ream by the HN establishment which clearly aligns with the Blue Team.

1) So politics aren't banned, only politics without some "new and interesting" (read: non-political and preferably tech oriented) phenomenon are banned. See this comment from dang[1].

2) Almost nobody really cares about the above, and big political stories will inevitably brute force their way past initial attempts to flag them, and will take up as much space as they can, for as long as they can, regardless of how relevant anyone finds them.

Whether you see this as a degradation of or improvement upon HN culture is up to you. There's nothing much anyone can do about it.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902490
> The LLM I was using gave me code that worked, but did not do what I wanted. I pointed this out, so I then got code that syntactically did what I wanted, but could never work. This went back and forth twice, before I gave up.

What if you took the output of the LLM, and stuck it back into the LLM, and asked it if it could identify the contradiction? Just like humans, sometimes LLMs need to “step back a bit” to see contradictions which they can’t “in the heat of the moment”.

Also, what if you used a second LLM fine-tuned for contradiction detection to filter the output of the first?

Sometimes I daydream about a chatbot based on multiple LLMs fine-tuned on different tasks - a core “answer generation” LLM, a “contradiction detection” LLM, a “conversational pragmatics evaluation” LLM, a “style/register” LLM, a “cultural bias detection” LLM, etc, and then a final LLM which synthesises an overall answer based on their contributions. I wonder how its performance would compare to just a single LLM. I suppose it might be overly slow/expensive however. And, if it does have some performance advantage, I wonder if further scaling of current architectures would eliminate it?
A few points.

Theodore Andrea Cook wasn't a historian. Xe was a writer for the Daily Telegraph, amongst other things, who wrote about sports such as fencing and rowing; and who was also an art critic.

Theodore Andrea Cook wasn't writing in the Victorian Era. _Spirals in Nature and Art_ was a 20th century work, in the Edwardian Era. _The Curves of Life_ was from the subsequent Georgian Era.

Theodore Andrea Cook is the earliest person found espousing this hypothesis. This is, as far as anyone has determined, Theodore Andrea Cook's own original hypothesis, based upon zero evidence. That is certainly what the text of _Spirals_ implies.
The biggest share of Unity is 2D mobile games, something Unreal is not particularly suited for and I very much doubted that segment of the market will switch to Unreal.
That is some incredible revisionist history.
I may have wrong assumptions, but I find it funny they didn't use Golang. Is it not capable of doing the same thing ?
Anyway, happy to see rust being adopted for that usage.
To put it simply: really good writing, Fate in general being a super-franchise in the audience of anime viewers and a lot of whales willing to spend money for jpegs of their favorite anime girls.
It's a reference to the year warp drive will be invented by Zefram Cochrane in the Star Trek universe.
Guess which Gift card is toping the charts this week?
Greg's wiki is the bash bible.
I get an error on https://drs-web.amazon.com/settings – has it been taken down? I also have a Brother printer, which I bought from Amazon.
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The paper is about winter (august/september) Antarctic sea ice extent, not minima, and you still provide no reasoning.
I am done with this.
> So I commute 3 hours a day, to a job I work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week for, while my son and daughter are sharing a room...

bay area market is crowded with young folks with faang salaries who are willing to share rent with several others. Would you consider moving to some other place with possible salary reduction?
They're still trying to roll out the new pricing scheme, they only backpedaled on it being retroactive. They still haven't:

1. Actually scrapped the install fee

2. Scrapped their ads product that this bullshit was all supposed to push

3. Made a binding commitment to not try this shit again in the future

4. Fired the board that hired JR
I think you overlooked the context. Someone said they had a philosophical objection to taxes--they did not limit it to income taxes.

The USA of course had taxes long before the 16th Amendment.
I think he DID explain why: he didn’t and doesn’t know how
Those numbers are a couple of years old. They're also rounded off. IIRC, the export figure was actually around 18%. They're out there on the Web somewhere. *

It's very likely that the internal economy is even larger now, because there was a new emphasis on enlarging it to reduce the economy's vulnerability to external factors when the US started to work on reducing imports from China some years back.

* EDIT: Latest figure from 2022 is 20.68%. https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/china/exports/#:~:text=Expo....

Exports to US (2021) are 3% of China's GDP. https://www.aei.org/foreign-and-defense-policy/us-and-china-....

Many Americans think that China would go under if the US stopped importing from China. In fact, exports to the US are less than 15% of China's exports world-wide. (3/20.68 x 100 = 14.51)

The China of 2023 is the US of 1942. When the US gets belligerent with China, I just shake my head. It's a bit like a 5-year-old kid threatening a quarter-back.