skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not very interested in redesigning English spelling. However, it seems feasible to automate most of the encoding. I'd think most words could be rewritten with a lookup table, except for a short list of heteronyms. For printed material, I'm not convinced teaching kids how to read "Obsolete English" would be harder than teaching them to read cursive.

Updating grammar would be a giant pain in the neck. Saying "we're gonna write 'cat' as 'kat' now sounds a lot simpler. It would also greatly reduce the number of times I'd have to say things like "I'm about to use a word I've read a thousand times but never heard anyone pronounce, so forgive me if I'm butchering it." My kid was hugely into cats as a little kid, and it was cute when they wanted to tell us cool things about lee-oh-pards. It's less cute when I'm in a meeting talking about a whitepaper I've read about something I've never heard spoken.
> It's surprising because it wasn't the intent of LLMs. LLMs are just predictive models that guess the most likely next word. Having the results make sense was never a priority.

If you read through what Hinton or any of his famous students have said, it genuinely was and is surprising. Everything from AlexNet to the jump between GPT-2 to GPT-3 was surprising. We can't actually explain that jump in a formal way, just reasonable guesses. If something is unexplainable, it's unpredictable. Prediction without understanding is a vague guess and the results will come as a surprise.
Shooting down an airplane at 20km altitude requires an expensive rocket and reveals position of the launcher. No, can't use cheap MANPADs for this.

My gut feeling tells me this airplane is potentially cheaper than a rocket, so if it is shot down, it is a win already. If it detects launcher position while rocket is on the way it is even bigger win. Potentially it reveals larger radar position too, that's another win.

It is difficult, expensive and risky to jamm objects at that altitude. In the current Ukraine-Russia war russians would probably not bother jamming it.

So, what these guys are developing certainly is a military technology. No way around this. High endurance, high altitude cheap aircraft will sell like hot cakes.
Does anyone have a video or post that explains the optimization part for the original paper? I understand most of it but that part and can’t seem to wrap my head around it.
It works at giving people chronic kidney disease and killing them. Probably it shouldn't be used or legal to use it.
EDIT: I misread "distribute" as "provide access to".
HN engagement is not (for now?) directly related to any significant "real-world" metric, meaning that (for now?) people are not using it as an indicator in a CV or anything like that. Having a lot of points here also does not lead (at least as far as I know) to any significant "real-world" social engagement between its users. As soon as such a score exists, human beings will start to optimize it in some ridiculous and disgusting ways.

I also suspect that moderation is heavy, but I have absolutely no idea about how it works, who does it, etc. I've never seen moderators engaging with the community here, which means that probably moderating itself does not add to your social score.
Especially when a politician shows up for several minutes to an hour to be interrogated by relatively-anonymous citizen journalists. I don't think humanity has seen anything like it, except maybe when print media was the only way to get news, where pubs and town criers would spread information and you might get a chance to "mob" a politician or leader in the streets to get a few answers out of them that the newspapers wouldn't print.
First off sorry for all of the employees that will be affected by the cuts. On one hand, it seems that if there is a contraction in the employment market, there would be less need for LinkedIn job boards and the staff around it. On the other hand, Microsoft is doling $69B for Activision Blizzard and I assume that money needs to be made up from some where. I can't imagine what is going to be like Activision Blizzard employees after the merger.
I’ve read phonetic English and it’s really hard at first but you eventually get the hang of it. Are you proposing that people just write out whatever they say in IPA and force the interpretation on the reader like we do with spoken language?

I wonder how this would affect communities that speak AAVE for example.
Yes, and with those scenarios if your root certificate has been maliciously modified https isn't going to save you either
We haven’t put this together, but that’s a great idea!
Holy heck this is going to fundamentally change media production
There are companies like Miovision (https://miovision.com) trying this.

The problem is you have to do this city by city and they are so many local regulations not to mention how cheap they are with budgets.
Roundup is a glyphosate-based herbicide used to control weeds and other pests. Because it is supposed to break down in the environment within a few days to weeks, its use is relatively under-regulated by most public health agencies. But when glyphosate encounters certain trace metal ions that make water hard—like magnesium and calcium—glyphosate-metal ion complexes can form. Those complexes can persist up to seven years in water and 22 years in soil.

Similarly: International aid groups dug wells in Pakistan to alleviate sickness from contaminated surface waters, such as rain water collection. It was successful and dramatically reduced incidence of illness and death from that cause.

It also led to widespread arsenic poisoning from many of the wells.

Actually improving things is tough and even if you succeed, people will focus primarily on any unintended and undesirable consequences. People almost never mention that the wells in Pakistan achieved the intended goal and I full well expect to be met with open hostility and accusations of some sort (apologist, downplaying).

There may well be good reasons to not be more even handed in presenting such info. Or there may not be.

When we start with a presumption of guilt and looking for someone to blame for presumed intentional malice, it frequently interferes with moving towards solutions. Even if you can find someone to blame and successfully indict, it typically doesn't fix the problem.

Few people focus on fixing the problem and trying to discuss solutions is often met with vastly more hostility than finger pointing.
Apparently LI had a reputation of being a rest-and-vest company, even chiller than Microsoft proper. Is there any truth to that?
> Twitter is where journalists find out what the different view points even are.

That's actually disturbing, since Twitter users are a unique demographic all by themselves. Twitter has never adequately represented the wider spectrum of viewpoints (and, from everything I hear, is worse at it now than ever before).
How exactly are creators paid for their creations from this "ethically designed" front end?
really enjoyed this too
You can have a LinkedIn profile but not use the feed-- I don't see how that's necessarily frustrating. Make a profile, provide the link on job applications. Occasionally edit your profile so it's up to date. Then, don't use it. Simple enough.
> Data doesn't need to be shared by _all _ connections,

data doesn't need to be shared in your specific case, not in general.

> The underlying problem is old and well researched: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C10k_problem

wiki page doesn't mean it is well researched, where can I see results of overhead measurements on modern hardware?
following that, the most prevalent use for GM crops is herbicide tolerance, where glyphosate is the most common herbicide targeted [1].

If you posted on Hacker News eight years ago that you thought it was a good idea for GM foods to be labeled, you'd be roundly mocked with all the data showing genetic modification is safe (as I'm sure is about to happen here anyway).

That was never what the debate was about and it was a straw man. The debate was over things like this. Why GM was being pushed so hard, by whom, and what that genetic modification implies about the food its associated with. Consumers should have the right to opt out, or at least be aware, of when they are participating in these agricultural markets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_crops#Gly...
Typescript's type system is known to be turing complete and people have implemented things such as sorting/tree-walking just using types (i.e. during compile time) [1].

I'd imagine something like this should be possible as well, but I'm not sure it would be worth it, considering the effort it would take to implement.

[1]: https://twitter.com/anuraghazru/status/1511776290487279616
Except astroturfing is coordinated. It's not a conspiracy. The shills you mention are just people who are well-informed on nuanced topic. A topic that that seemingly affects everyone (because food), and therefore everyone chimes in.

Except most people don't know jack about modern food systems and its history. All they know is: big pharma bad, big ag bad, big food bad.
Grammar-based sampling is a great idea and a perfect fit for something like MemGPT! In our experiments using MemGPT with non-gpt-4 models, the biggest issue impacting performance ended up being incorrect use of function parameters and function hallucination. For example, even large models finetuned on function call data (eg https://huggingface.co/jondurbin/airoboros-l2-70b-2.1#agentf...) would generally output correct parsable JSON, but the arguments or function name would be wrong. For example the LLM might output a call to `personal_diary.add` (never specified in the preprompt) instead of the correct `working_context.append` call (explicitly specified in the preprompt) when trying to write data.
I think the timezone issue is being mitigated - I’ve found Indian devs (only picking them out because of direct experience) were generally already working odd hours to at least give US overlap, but I think asynch tools will continue to get better and make it less of an issue. Probably doesn’t work in a five person startup where you need a lot of direct/constant communication, but especially in mature companies, I think the timing issues are very solvable (where they haven’t already been addressed).

Agree on the quality - there were some devs we worked with who needed more hand-holding, but a majority were very capable.
What parts confuse you? There are a few steps in optimization. There are lots of papers on differentiable rendering, but the pruining of gaussians and the actual treatment of gaussians, I don't think there's a blog post.
You're a lot less likely to get roundup in your system from killing weeds outside than eating vegetables and fruits that have been bathed in it.
I’d recommend learning Elixir if your goal is to do a distributed systems project. For around $250 you can get a bundle with two excellent Elixir courses from PragmaticStudio.com.
> A coworker of mine writes posts about his stance on abortion.

Pro or against?

[That was a joke. Please don't answer.]
You're making an undue assumption here that exposure to it in your garden won't also give you kidney disease.
Came here to say this. :)
PgBouncer maintainer here, so obviously biased. But I think currently PgBouncer should still be the default connection pooler that you choose. There's a few newer options: Odyssey, pgcat, and supavisor. But all focus on a solving 1 or 2 specific problems that PgBouncer did not solve well, while not solving many of the other problems that PgBouncer does solve. So if you have the exact same requirements as the authors of those tools, then switching might be good. But otherwise you should probably continue using PgBouncer.

Supavisor specifically is too immature for general usage IMHO. It's missing some really core functionality like query cancellations: https://github.com/supabase/supavisor/issues/174
Also it's now the only connection pooler without prepared statement support.

I did a talk on this exact topic at PGConf NYC recently. My slides are here: https://github.com/JelteF/slides/raw/main/2023-10-05-future-...
Often times you're reaching for herbicides to get rid of plants that are otherwise hard to get rid of. Those same plants are ones that thrive in poor soils and conditions. Adding salt will just make the soil even worse for plants you _want_ to grow.

I've tried almost every home remedy available combatting Japanese Knotweed for years, and targeted glyphosate and careful mechanical removal are the only methods that even make a dent.
> > worldwide, nearly instantaneous communication

> This isn't nearly as good of a point as you think it is.

Why not? If we evolved to relate to a small tribe and now are exposed to huge numbers of people then I'd say there's proof humans can and are adapting.
I think I’ll trust the owners of the business who had access to CCTV rather than your guesswork.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/pita-kosher-restaurant-burglary-n...
I think it's supposed to? I'm generally running on k8s with base images that don't include tini, so I've settled for exec-style CMD instead
The "nosedive" was specifically because people like you cannot stick to a topic and instead make everything about COVID conspiracies, as I already stated.

That said, I'll give a look to your links, though I seriously suspect that they don't validate everything you're saying.
Oh right and then it suggests me the exact same job ad and slightly grays it out. What. The. Hell.
Per the article, the consequences would restrict almost all 3D printing in the state.

Would they require background checks on people who previously bought 3D printers? What if you go to another state with a prepaid card... Will they search your cars traveling interstate? Comb through your transactions and contacts?
this, my startup's backend is elixir. really simplified making thing distributed from the get go. phoenix is just an amazing framework for building webapps anyway.
Tooth decay can cause a whole litany of issues so it really is a weighing of pros and cons versus the long term effects of fluoride consumption.
Fort is strange, it requires a virtual forth machine to run(I have heard of hardware that runs forth directly but it is exotic), this should automatically exclude it from the low level camp. however this machine ends up almost trivial to write and is very simple. so once you start writing forth it feels low level, like there is very little between you and the cpu. As a consequence, just like assembly, forth people tend to reinvent the world.

Note that I am not far in the forth rabbit hole at all, any interest I may show is incidental, a side effect of my interest in postscript, which is very much a high level language.
This is a bit off topic, but I feel like I need to appeal to the author—please do not spam my browser history just for scrolling down the page. This effectively "breaks" the back button in the browser.
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html

> It requires the operator of a network server to provide the source code of the modified version running there to the users of that server.
I can see the issue, but SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW isn't a permission you'd normally give to an app. You can probably trick some users into giving that permission, but it's not easy and Google Play will probably kick your app out of the Play Store if you try to use it in the first place.

Abuse from system apps is a potential threat but you can't really do much about those. System apps can bypass all manners of restrictions, I'm not sure if clipboard access is something to be particularly worried about when system apps can already read your entire SD card and bypass app firewalls/VPNs.
> Are scientists comepltelty oblivious to this for what is obvious to so many others?

Science requires evidence. Plenty of folks don't gain weight as they age and others can't gain weight if they try. Anecdotal evidence is not sufficient for scientific endeavors. So we must create hypothesis and rigorously test them. Science is really the process of proving yourself wrong and then looking at what the data dictates. "Look at your facebook feed" isn't conclusive nor compelling as evidence to anything other than our crippling need to post everything on social media.
Yes, I have close family that relies upon this method to clear weeds from between brick pavers. "Divided" describes my position well: the vinegar kills some of it, but the walk never gets fully clear. Contrast that with round-up, which would cause the weeds to whither and fall out and leave it clear for a few months.

It definitely smells better than round-up, and you don't have to think twice about it affecting pets...
Not for OP but for others (since it's above the budget), take a David Beazley course. $1500 and write your own implementation of Raft. Learning more about distributed systems is really one of the best investments you could make as a backend engineer. It's the tech that powers distributed systems like Kubernetes (via Etcd), Consul, Vault, Elasticsearch, Redpanda, Cockroach, Yugabyte, etc.

And you'll have to figure out race conditions, deadlocks, and other fun challenges.

https://dabeaz.com/courses.html
> Unless there is price fixing going on, why would I raise my prices with the other groceries stores?

You would raise your prices because you see your competitors are raising theirs, and you like money. You can also have more confidence there won't be much blowback if you're not the only one raising prices.

> Everyone would see the higher prices and instead shop at my store with normal pricing.

That kind of logic has demonstrably not kept inflation under control (IIRC, much of the "inflation" over the last few years was businesses raising prices to increase profits, and using "inflation" as an excuse).

It's probably possible to spread out price increases slowly enough that it doesn't tend to hit many people's "switch to competitor" threshold.
> yeah, I need one runtime on top of another runtime, with unknown quality, support, longevity and number of gotchas.

It's a library. It solved our problems at the time, years ago. It's still used in production and piping billions of audio minutes per month through it. You don't have to use it, I merely referred to it as an example. A similar library is proposed to be included in C++23: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2023/p23...
If this isn't /s, yes you can easily do that. With tests and doc.
Wondering when this technique will be used for meal calorie counters
Ok, comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37907055, which has that article. I kept the OP's title though.
Seconded - this book is fantastic. I wish I'd read it much earlier in my career.
Sure, but a lot of companies post job listings on LinkedIn as well. I could (and mostly do) ignore the homepage, but I still see it occasionally.
So far, there is monumental evidence that it's non-toxic to humans at normal doses. This study doesn't prove it's toxic.

It only introduces the aspect that it might be associated to kidney disease.

Everything is toxic to humans at the right dose, even water.
Point me to a resistant monopoly or cartel and I will show you a government granted/supported one. Free markets are naturally resistant through free competition (startups!) and, you know, laws.
Patreon and the like are the hest ways.
Likely the places still supporting it will re-enable it.
> and that will cause power over everyone to coalesce in the hands of a few people

"Alwsys has been Moon guy gets shot in the back" meme ...

seriously this has been documented over and over most prominently and especially in Jacques Ellul's "La Technique" https://archive.org/details/JacquesEllulTheTechnologicalSoci...
All of these "rockstar" employees shouldn't have a problem finding new jobs. Right? Right?
“Fun to watch” and “historically accurate” are different things.

We’re not that far away from doing things like have AI remove “icky cigarettes” and “poisonous alcohol” to make it lots of fun for zoomers to watch.
Like, I see myself as a techno-optimist. But this whole manifesto sure does remind me of a Dr. Bronner's label.
I have been coding for almost 30 years now, and when I'm going to compete in Advent of Code I'm going to explicitly try and use AI tools because that's the new skills I need to train now.
Go for books. Also, checkout teachyourselfcs.com
I lost a great deal of respect for many news organizations when they started doing that.
I could see the ability to re-visit such postings being useful on occasion.

No idea what LinkedIn's reasons are, but I think grayed-out is good enough. If nothing else, it's light-years beyond Google's approach.
Musk recently made a change where the best posters on twitter are earning money now in a ad rev share. They're almost definitely not going anywhere until another social network makes the same offer.
That's true. From that perspective it is safe. But from the perspective of for example Elm and Rust, I would say go ends up in the other half of the spectrum - but still close to the middle.
This is the mirage.

Seeing roundup on shelves at home depot casts a spell. Because it is, it must.

There is no reason for pesticides for residential use. The virginal lawn is an aesthetic and just that. Fads and aspirations can change. Some aspirations are vile, some are virtuous. So let's ban it there. Then, some years after, when that hypnotic waft from the orgiastic excess of Roundup bottles at the garden center has evaporated, let's see how many people will still be carrying water for its industrial use.
I like Bluesky better generally speaking as a platform but I think Twitter basically is unstoppable now that they're paying creators.
> Hopefully a relatively easy fix on the OS side: ensure that these toasts have a higher z-index than app overlay windows.

The point of the system overlay permission is to draw on top of everything else. Maybe Android should introduce some kind of overlay overlay overlay to overlay clipboard messages, but I think that would probably overcomplicate the API.

Perhaps it's better to instead send a notification when an application rendering a system overlay accesses the clipboard as well. That way, users closing out of the app can see that the application has accessed the clipboard.

Of course sufficiently privileged applications can dismiss notifications, but that requires even more difficult to attain permissions.
Hussein Nasser's courses are incredible (and criminally cheap if you use the discount codes on his site).

I've done the Fundamentals of Networking and Introduction to Database Engineering and recommend them. You can look up his content on YouTube to see if you like his instruction style, he's prolific there as well.

https://www.husseinnasser.com/p/courses.html
I appreciate how many people have defended this statement as 'clear and straightforward' by providing a way clearer and very straightforward summary of it with 1/3 the word count...
Yesterday at least. Same for me initially but now not so much. Time will tell. Current process is to disable the blockers then refresh until the video is served without an add, usually after two or three times, then re-enable.
Humans very obviously have instincts, not least because it's humans who invented the concept. You might better argue that it's only humans who differentiate their behaviours so they consider some that are not instinctual.
Thank god I'm in academia and can afford to not be in any social platform, especially that one. I hate social media in general but LinkedIn is just especially disgusting for me. In any other social media that is not linked directly to some kind of real-world reward I can at least understand that people are venting, or being assholes just for fun, or saying stupid things just because it's free and easy. But the roleplay that happens in LinkedIn is worse for me because it's like the Uncanny Valley: it pretends to be real. And what's even worse, it tells you between the lines: you also have to play your role in this sick theatre or risk being ignored. In other words, it's like living in a Nordic country. Yikes.