skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ditched all apps for habits, focus, goal oriented. I realized my brain could do that for free and without technology, with some work.
The obvious explanation is the site is wrong.
Does Loop support a variable schedule? Like "every 3 to 5 days"
Adding onto this, from their perspective, what're their priors on (1) some crypto website is awful to navigate vs. (2) somebody is playing an incredible ruse on me? The first would obviously seem drastically more likely.
I am not an AI engineer, but my intuition tells me if we could ever clean up the @#$& datasets these LLMs are trained on and give them coherent, non-contradictory training, we would be shocked by what they could do.

I suspect 90% of the criticism of AIs is because people are underestimating them.
Back in 2018 I took a graduate level distributed systems course from a professor who spent most of his lecture time rambling on about how we’d be better off reading HN than our textbook. There were no exams, only four projects which involved implementing various classic distributed algorithms (gossip, chord, etc.) in Elixir.

For what it’s worth, Elixir is now my preferred language for personal projects, although I still haven’t had a chance to use it professionally.
Yes, it offers a lot more than I initially thought. I think for the presentation they wanted to emphasize how simple it was to build and use, so I missed the implications of what they were showing. But the ability to upload a document base to one of these "GPTs" that it can then rely on for its responses means they must have some RAG system implemented on the backend, probably a pretty good one as I expect them to be very good at embeddings and search (they have a huge number of Google alums). It can also have integrated Code Interpreter, Data Analysis, and Image handling/generation if you tick the boxes, plus what looks like a very significant list of functions it can call in order to act as an agent (e.g. changing your calender entries or sending messages at your request after double checking, something that's probably going to give simonw a heart attack).

It looks like at base, with a short text description of what you want it to do and uploading of relevant documents, it may be able to replace like 95% of the GPT wrappers that have sprung up in the last 7-10 months. That's pretty impressive, because while all of those were doomed because they had no ability to defend themselves from competition, some of them were pretty useful.
> We can't trust non-licensed human operators to not take the volume to 11, and TX when they shouldn't. Id rather have hardware blobs that enforce FCC law than locked down devices.

I've observed that people with the bare-minimum knowledge to access the admin interface love going in and just cranking up every single number (that they don't understand) to "11". Bigger is always better, right?

This is why you see people doing umm, "questionable" things like configuring 40 MHz 2.4 and cranking the power to the max even in dense urban environments. Needless to say that configuration alone results in a complete mess for everyone in range of these configurations.

Unfortunately the vast majority of people don't understand any of these parameters (which is fair) and I, for one, am glad there is some nannying going on. I can only imagine how much worse it would get if more parameters were exposed. You'd very quickly see manufacturers essentially get into an even worse "loudness war", or readily available firmwares with nightmare configurations that make it easier for people who don't know what they're doing to make a complete mess of things for their neighbors (and themselves).

We all share this spectrum and people, when given the ability, will often do things that adversely impact all of us.

This is why Ham Radio has bare-minimum licensing requirements and some enforcement. That spectrum is shared as well and combined with higher ERP it would turn into a complete mess very quickly.

Unfortunately because of the tragedy of the commons those of us who do know what we are doing are hamstrung as a result.
Exactly! Interactive widgets were the number one reason why I picked iOS 17 only.
Ray Dalio and the manipulative professional hellscape over which he presided
My experience, admittedly is not one where I am a full time developer just a hobbyist and sort of dev adjacent for work, is that getting _any_ tooling setup in VSCode is a path with no end of problems. So, at least when someone says that type of thing here I go "ah, so the norm." I think saying things like that is more an indictment against VSCode.

Don't get me wrong, I think getting vim/neovim setup to do the same types of things is possibly worse, but I haven't really had much of a better experience in VSCode either.
Yep, ferro it's iron, any Romance speaker will know that (in Spanish it's 'hierro'), and the adjective of something related or made from iron it's 'férrico'.
Wow, that is sooner than I expected. I was thinking along the lines of 12 month and thought, nah, that's too quick. Thank you!
The main view looks similar. I love this approach!
Wish it was different but realistically I feel like you are right (outside of Elixir specific communities).

I love working with Elixir and have done so successfully for the past 4 years at various companies, however I have been trying to find a new client for a while now and I'm getting close to the point of looking for other types of work because things are looking bleak. From what I can tell there are also way more people looking for Elixir work than available jobs, unfortunately.

In my 15+ years of software development in various languages Elixir has been the most enjoyable developer experience for me. So I guess I'll just have to think of a side project where I can apply it and do less fun stuff to earn bread.
IMHO there was a good solution - launching python 3.0 only when you had a working solution to make a library that is usable in both python2 and python3 code, as was possible later on, and what IMHO was a key factor in making the migration actually work.
The Conversation (the news outlet) also shows that scientists are interested in informing the public of their work. Communication is something of a different area of expertise to actually doing science though.
For some reason they can't or won't do IPv6 in Finland... Then again here they have plenty of IPv4 addresses, so maybe they just don't care...
Wouldn’t one expect non-normative sexual desires to go with non-normative mental conditions? But that doesn’t have much to do with the bouncers.
Agreed. Anyone can create a company which raises a ton of money and feeds 90% of it back to itself as revenue.
React Server Components, without a framework?
Only 5 entries this time, so I favour poisoned data, personally.

edit: it always shows random stuff every time this one comes up!
The RFK jr. entry looks like nut hunting.
Do you also get pressured into selling the company to a competitor?
Animal welfare is a thing in Buddhism though. India has animal welfare in their constitution. Buddhism is also the only religion that notes animal rights.

I think you can compare it with Christians, there are plenty of sinners.
The first precept of Buddhism is not to kill humans or animals. Not everybody is going to be crazy strict about it, but that core value of not taking life is there.

Personally, I eat meat too, and I'm also not a huge fan of needlessly killing dogs, and I'm not even Buddhist! I feel like there's a middle ground where I can care about animals, respect life, and also have a cheeseburger. I'm certain some people will find that to be hypocritical, but it's really not a huge gotcha to me.
Only one of them ran an operating system that exposed it to applications.
Hm! I will talk to her about that. Also, I can touch her (most of the time), only other people can't. So she's just out of spec "sometimes".
I recently switched to a provider that uses CGNAT too. Nothing on the list shown was downloaded by me.
IMHO, the crucial point is whether they are populations that were wild all along (never domesticated) or whether they wholly originate from domestic dogs. But that's hard to say since domesticated dogs might have taken over the first group. Similar to how modern humans are hypothesized to have supplanted Neanderthals and other pockets of ancient human populations.
If we believe that animals were created by someone for men, it would follow that men were also created for animals since some animals do eat human flesh.
I suddenly feel privileged for having gotten my eye-bee-m t-shirt as free swag at an event. I did buy my 'Think' coffee mug, and the grand prize to me, a 'Think' baseball cap, to wear when necessary.

I spent eight years at IBM and I too appreciated all the references to their storied history.
Fun fact: I discovered the original thread had a comment from the folks at hashrocket that they made an app for themselves. They are not only still running the app, it’s still being actively added to (I think by just 1 person though?). Pretty neat.
In all that time no one has learned anything about PHP. I’m not complaining, one of my favorite things about PHP is that it’s unpopular so it’s not used for resume driven development which usually pollutes a language’s eco system.
Uphill in both directions.
1) Jasper isn’t exactly what I’d call “thin.” It has e.g. an entire project management suite inside it now. They moved very fast into a vertical SaaS platform, probably because they knew that a thin wrapper was neither a particularly good product nor a defensible one.

2) There are tons of actually thin wrappers that raised a ton of money — contrary to popular belief this does not mean they are good businesses (Jasper, AFAICT, doesn’t seem to fall into the categories of either “thin wrapper” or bad business)

3) Obviously anything being called out as not making any sense allegedly “made sense” to some people at some point otherwise it wouldn’t be worth talking about.
Largely, it seems top modern researchers are able to free themselves from many of the perverse incentives of the academic game. You might be surprised how many who have not reached such a level also value simplicity, but simply must play the game. It's very common to see a clear and simple (in the good sense) paper grow increasingly complex in response to reviewers demands, going through a sequence of one or more rejections before finally getting accepted.
The POWER systems are pretty neat. IBM is one of the last standing commercial Unix vendors w/AIX.
Custom GPTs are fine but they’re sort of useless. Since anyone wanting to use a custom GPT has to have a ChatGPT Plus account, they themselves can spin up an even more targeted, even better prompt than anything you could come up with and use that instead.

Unless your custom gpt provides some special bells and whistles through functions or APIs, your custom gpt ideas are going to r copied by someone who can spin up those special bells and whistles and API calls and cut you out from the middle.
There seems to be currency with debunking tulipmania but reading this [1] it seems people play more with the semantics, i.e., what kind of market behavior do you admit into the "manic class" as opposed to the "rational calculation class".

Expecting others to enter a bubble and trading accordingly can be a perfectly rational calculation following observations of behaviors in a given market context.

[1] https://theconversation.com/tulip-mania-the-classic-story-of...
Should have gone full worm logo.
> Then you didn't have an easy problem to begin with, you had a hard one ("summing too many numbers fast enough") [1].

That’s exactly what the initial comment said:

> The "solve X as quickly as possible" is now the problem. Not just solve X. I And that sounds like a hard (therefore interesting) problem!

There were two separate points:
1) Finding a simple solution to a problem can be hard
2) Solving an ‘easy’ problem quickly enough can be hard
This might have been true in the age of modems and two hours of internet access per day, but not any more.

Most people have exactly one device directly connected to the internet (their router), and that router has hours of downtime per year at most. Most of that downtime (if there is any) is due to electricity outages, and so correlated with downtime of other consumers. When there are no outages, very few consumers can be left without an IP address. I'd expect the savings in IP space to be <1%, although I have no hard data here and might be missing something.

This doesn't apply to cellular carriers, there are plenty of subscribers who maintain their plans but disconnect often. This includes people living abroad (who normally use another country's SIM), or even people who turn off their work phones on weekends.
to the people doing this: your codes will most likely be instantly stolen by bots and not real people
No, it's actually very unreliable. I haven't used BT in ages and yet it shows I've been downloading in the last 2 weeks.
I have to say that my experience could not have been more different.

So far, everything I’ve done within the Elixir ecosystem has “just worked” (with the exception of some stuff with supervisors, the config and intuition for which are currently eluding me).

For example, I managed to code a full image processing pipeline (classification, labelling, and description) using Elixir, Nx, Bumbkebee, etc on the train on the way into work the other day. Which is about a 35 min trip.

If we’re talking about tooling, the last time I tried to just print “Hello, world!” in either Python or JavaScript, it took me down a hell dungeon of configuration and dependency nightmares. To be fair to both, tho, that was some time ago so I can only hope that situation has cleared up more recently.
Shiit, i am using this from my phone and it seems like the previous user of my ip downloaded a lot of child pornografi. I dont know whats worst, the child porn or that someone would use something so easily trackable to access it
Hm, I hadn't heard of NimbleOptions before and always used Ecto's embedded_schema for these types of things (as also mentioned in the article).

Looking at NimbleOptions based on this example I think I would prefer to stick to Ecto because I don't like the idea of putting the schema in a giant keyword list - but maybe soon I'll have a better play around with it myself, read the docs and see if there are better ways to use it.
Knowing how easily even the smallest things torture me, I deliberately avoid contact with them. A cloud passing in front of the sun is enough to make me suffer. How then should I not suffer in the darkness of the endlessly overcast sky of my own life? With Balls running down that sandy beach and humping any hope for my irreverent and everlasting search for peace? My everlasting search for isolation?
How does lead even get into applesauce?
Had no problem with neovim but I think it uses the same LSP under the hood
1. Get started with running LLMs, including Llama2 7b chat and a various of others, on your daily used macOS, or virtually any platform
2. Build a lightweight AI agent in several minutes
3. Use WasmEdge on AI beyond LLMs
I’m gonna have to remember this quick and easy iptracker
Check out task-oriented manifolds that emerge from training.

https://www.cell.com/neuron/pdf/S0896-6273(19)31044-X.pdf
My father — now in his 80s — claimed he had to walk "uphill, both ways, to school" in front of my grandfather; my grandfather quipped: "there was a whole hill between the house and the school: I kept telling you boys to go around it!"
Hams want analog to solve something, but it’s a dead protocol walking. Satellite cellular will make all of this obsolete within 5 years. At that point any adventure use case becomes an app.
How does the apple sauce get into the pouch?
Stallman has been browbeaten. For, uhh, being an awkward nerd. Can't have those having influence in our technological world.
Sounds like to work in a boring monoculture, then. Thank pg you have Hacker News to keep you up to date with the rest of the programming world.
I watched the old RPG series using GameMaker and it’s one of the reasons I picked CS at university. Man it was so fun and rewarding.
Did they "google images" this new name ? It's name for children potty on some languages
People like to complain, lol. It’s a travesty the grandparent is the top comment. Such entitlement.

The author also has a patreon for any interested

https://www.patreon.com/workshopnation
Interesting, then what was their primary reason for debanking him?
That applies to spur gears mostly, double helical gears (for instance; and Citroen logo) are rather "complex"
In the past this was solved by releasing a new major version of the app. Want the new version? Buy it again. Otherwise you could still keep the old version until it broke.

Taking away consumer choice is never a good thing and that is exactly what subscriptions are designed to do. Not to mention that subscription pricing is always ridiculously high.
The Preformation theory reminds me of Seventy-Two Letters by Ted Chiang. Which I recommend (the story and Ted Chiang in general).
It's a relief to see it go bankrupt. WeWork could exist against all odds thanks to funny money, not to visionary execution, or real value... compared to other shared-office solutions. Besides, if you've ever visited some of these shared spaces, you'd know that they are in decline, and by all sanity - should be in decline post-COVID when people went home and felt comfortable doing so.

Its a relief for all those owners of small shared spaces, who created the market, and were worried to see the market taken from them. It's a relief for everyone who thinks this can only work on a franchise basis. And for everyone else who felt this was going too fast in this dystopian future laid out in Neil Stephenson's Diamond Age where you have enclaves, etc.

Now I'm looking forward to seeing someone try the illustrated primer business...
I would love to dedicate significant portion of 2024 contributing back to the old web (creating open source web 1.0 apps) and linux desktop apps (most probably on KDE).
> In its recall notice, Schnucks reported its supplier, Purcell International, notified it that "elevated levels of lead found in the cinnamon raw material used by Austrofood SAS, the manufacturer of the applesauce cinnamon pouches."
> I run every now and then

Consistency is the biggest factor for improving running. Run at a pace and distance you can handle every day, then do that consistently. Every day, ideally. It doesn't matter if that's 10 minutes for 1km, just as long as you're being consistent.
Yeah, but that's probably far less profitable than even their AI business
I really wonder how WFH will physically reshape cities. Will we see less dense downtowns, with more people working in the less populated parts of a city? I'm not even talking about suburbs. In my city, downtown has a handful of skyscrapers where the major employers are (banks, government, state-regulated monopolies), but with fewer people going there these days, the faster growing parts of the city are places which used to be almost uninhabited (former industrial areas being turned into brick-laden brewery districts with cheaply constructed "luxury" apartments).

Will we see fewer skyscrapers, as fewer people clamber for downtown apartments to live close to their jobs? Downtowns are generally desirable in themselves, but that's often because of the retail and restaurants that popped up to serve the people working there. If nobody works there anymore, does it generate a vicious cycle in which retail and restaurants can no longer sustain themselves, being forced to close, and thus downtowns lose their inherent desirability?

Do the cheaper and sparser places get pushed further and further out, until we end up with more sprawled-out megacities replete with suburbs and shorter buildings like Los Angeles?
The task of managing your habits can also become another thing to put energy into. When it's frictionless it helps get stuff done, but when it's complicated you end up organising and moving information around instead of becoming more effective.
Whereas conservatives act as though you're stupid and naive if you don't agree with them
Red Hat Developer (Author of ProtonGE) Talks at the Ubuntu Summit about Proton
Lead can get into food if someone in the supply chain is trying to cheaply weigh down a product to make it feel heavier as if it has more food than it does. See lead in wine controversies.
They are in chapter 11, which is aimed at reorganizing a company. They hope to still be a business going forward.

For customers, it should still be relatively the same service. I expect some amenities to change, but you should still be able to rent a desk (for at least the near term).
My early benchmarking seems to show that it's somewhat better for coding.

https://aider.chat/docs/benchmarks-1106.html
That's an unrelated tangent better served by asking on elixirforum.com instead of polluting a thread with a drive by complaint.
Spice contamination is a scary notion. How do you check every spice in every food you buy?
Completely agree, ultrasonic cavitation presents real and significant risks.
This inspired simonw's (among other things, the creator of the `llm` CLI tool) TIL, so I'd wager we'll be seeing him in this thread soon. Until then, here the link: https://til.simonwillison.net/
I'm the maker, and you're totally right. It would be great if some habits could be tracked automatically. I'll be building a native mobile app soon, and will do my best to remove the friction of logging habits!
Not GP, but The Netherlands do not move their holidays when they're on a weekend.
So let's complain about people that are complaining, that's much better. Surely noone can complain about that.
If people download the complete file eventually, it should average out

Yes. As supply of the rarer chunks increases, the problems go away.

Notice the implicit fact up there. The uneven distribution of chunks causes problems.

then the earlier chunks being more available is optimal.

For most use cases, no, the first chunks of the file are not more valuable. Having the first 99 chunks of a Linux .ISO is not valuable at all if you don't have the 100th chunk. The chunks are equally valuable and the chunks are useless unless you have them all.

There are some (or were?) torrent clients that let you start watching incomplete downloads while they're still downloading. This is a dubious use case. I do not notice many people using these nonstandard clients.

Also even for some kind of livestreaming scenario, what are even the "first" chunks? The start of the stream? The stream at the current time? It's probably a moot point anyway because it seems like Bittorrent livestreaming hasn't exactly taken the world by storm but maybe there are uses of it with which I'm not familiar: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=bittorr...
By bringing them home (my dad) and giving them to their kids for use as book marks, scrap notes, etc etc. I still sometime come across one hidden in an old book or (physical) file somewhere.

At school (1979) I used them in computer classes at school, where they were sent down the road to an insurance company that actually had a computer, and we got our compilation errors back the next week. My programs weren't long enough for serious card-deck disasters. But I completely agree with the TFA point that the very slow iteration makes you check things very carefully
Highly ephemeral. I'm sure you could see any combination of protons and neutrons if you can measure arbitrarily short enough lifetimes.