skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but because if analog clocks here in Austria we have no problem to convert back and forth. Are there no analog clocks in Norway?
The dichotomy is relevant if you are of the opinion that some of the foundational design choices of Carbon makes it less viable as a C++ successor based on the similarity of those choices to other projects that were struggling due to this. The talk is arguing for the validity of the construct with various examples, not just Dart.

The construct can be useful without being the end-all answer to what should be done and I would definitely advice you to watch the full talk if you haven't yet. And the consider how each point may apply or not apply to Carbon. Don't just dismiss it on the notion that Carbon is different from Dart.

Actually, I'd encourage you to reach out to Herb Sutter and ideally meet up in person to discuss the matter. Your goals are aligned in many ways and while you have different approaches a lot of good can come out of sharing ideas.
Formalising modern research mathematics in real time
I don't see how that contradicts my point. With your provider, we're talking about a 100% price increase, for what can't be more than a few points of accuracy in return (and a huuuuge slowdown, because LLMs are slow). At scale, it's all about going through a lot of pages, and fast: accuracy is a bonus, and being 90% accurate is better than being 99% accurate if the throughput is divided by 10 or more.
I use the right hand monitor for slack and documentation. Sometimes a terminal, very occasionally code that I’m reading (not writing).

I also used to think is want a portrait monitor for code but it turns out that the Jack of horizontal resolution actually bothers me for code. Maybe with a higher resolution monitor it would be better, but for now, I prefer to use a large but landscape monitor for code.
I do recall some discussion about combination of really bad code generation combined with some ridiculously bad design decisions (I think it might have been total lack of cache?)
Increase the fuel efficiency requirements. In America, SUVs are classified as a light truck. That's the problem. If SUVs had to meet the same fuel efficiency standards as a passenger vehicle, they would not exist.
Saving you the scroll: weaker than GPT-4 and Claude 2
It is not commonly used in finance.
And a computer isn't a human luckily, so this argument doesn't work here.
How old is this article? The "new types of persistent memory like Intel’s Optane Technology" is dead, as of July 2022.
Well they've stopped making the fiesta now, so there isn't a car version to actually buy.
Better yet create a 3000W wireless charger, and you can just stick the pot directly on it.
Yep, agreed.

But the sexier thing will inevitably suck up the attention of people who see themselves as the brilliant movers and shakers of the world.
Psychedelics researcher approached his death with calm and curiosity
This reminds me of Ellul's Propaganda, which does mention Bernays.

> "Mass production requires mass consumption, but there cannot be mass consumption without widespread identical views as to what the necessities of life are."
On a technical level it's really not that much harder than all of the RLHF companies have to do in the West.
How do you deal with the small boot space? Have you taken off the boot's floor and the polystyrene foam underneath it?
Thank you! That helps a lot.
Thanks, I updated my comment with a link to Wikipedia.
I'm not aware you've made an argument and I'm not demanding anything of you (beyond an implicit request to discuss in good faith). I'm not sure what I'm not being consistent about. I suspect you're assuming quite a bit about what my views are.

I addressed the specific point you made in your first sentence already in the thread. It having value is irrelevant to whether or not it can or should be taxed, but it being taxed is sufficient to give it value.
> Funny to read the plaintive note at the end. No prize for second place

I get what you’re saying but Brother is a very large company with a variety of successes, and hitting on 100 years of existing. It is OK to do things, sell them for a while, then to no longer do things. There’s still merit there!

The world turns not on the massive scale of B2C products, but on the myriad of weird bespoke products that are sold to a handful of businesses, whose existence a small fraction of the population even realize, and who sputter out of existence afterwards. Yet those projects still represent something valuable to people for a window of time important enough to matter.
Hiding behind theories of consumer behavior is not an excuse for immoral actions. Open source was never meant to be the place where open theft and piracy should thrive. And, the Robinhood sentiment isn't really applicable here because you're stealing from creators. YouTube may be owned by a multi billion dollar corporation, but it does support and bootstrapped a vibrant creator community. The more time we spend stealing content that should be supported by ads or a paid subscription the less effective we make that economy. If we want to do good here, pay some of your favorite creators with a tip, or merch, or specifically sub to their channel. Or, even better, come up with ways creators get paid more. Subverting ads is a downward spiral for things to work better for consumers and creators.
This makes sense. I had been thinking of it as something fundamentally different than plugins. But just "plugins done right" is a lot more compelling to me.
F150s and the like are getting increasingly popular.

When I see one actually carrying something in the back I'll let you know.
> neuronal cells are famous for being powered anaerobically

Neurons are among the most energy-demanding cells in the body, they die the first without oxygen. Then come muscles (including heart) and liver. This means that all those cells are mostly aerobic, and only slightly anaerobic.

It is true that all human body cells have an anaerobic metabolic pathway as well, but it is inefficient and cannot satisfy the energy demands for a human body to stay alive for too long without the oxygen supply.
i'm not sure i follow. you're saying that no company (except the small ones) will be able to open source a LLM. but then you cite software created outside of the traditional company structure as an example of what we'll never have in the LLM space. doesn't your example negate the premise?
I tend to use two split windows in my code editor and I’ve found this generally more pleasant than a separate window on another monitor (although part of that is that many editors don’t have great multi window support)
This is assuming you’re using a really big LLM behind a paid service. There are plenty of smaller open source models. Not sure at what point it’s not “large” but when fine tuned they are capable of matching the largest LLM in performance on narrow tasks.

Some of these open source models can even be run on your local machine. It’d be very inexpensive to run thousands of pages through it.

https://llm-leaderboard.streamlit.app/
I mean, there are tons of immoral projects on GitHub. Check out the ones that bypass ads on YouTube
Relying on no bugs in the entire software stack makes the attack surface quite large.

If a laptop is stolen the thief can wait sufficiently long for some vulnerability to be discovered somewhere in the stack. With LUKS only the LUKS encryption has to be good and full disk encryption protects the data.
It took extra long because for various reasons it was the officially blessed architecture (specifically, HP-UX on Itanium) for running Oracle databases, leading to HP suing Oracle when the latter bought Sun and essentially declared HP-UX is to soon be EOL'd
The Renault 5 was enough in the 80s for a family of 4. The XC90 is one of the biggest car I’ve ever seen. Why are small cars no longer acceptable?
When plugged into the grid, it makes sense to spend a few cents of energy a day to filter out unwanted solicitations, harassment that you may not want to see, scam emails or texts, etc.

If I didn't have to worry about my grandparents getting scammed because they were having 99.99% of it effectively filtered or warned about at one layer or another before it actually became a problem...can you imagine how much you could lower that type of fraud/abuse?
Contrary to widespread beliefs, startups are frequently full of politics.
The fall guy ? But he was the conspiracy's mastermind and main beneficiary :s
There are, but we just skip the AM/PM part most of time, because it's obvious from context which one you mean. And if it's not you'll just say "... in the morning/afternoon/evening"
It is. I'm just having fun with Wolfram Alpha :)
It comes with a dark theme. https://www.pling.com/p/1404056/
> if we ban HGVs - cities starve, in weeks if not days

Which is why nobody wants this. Though we ought to be chasing efficiency there as well because as you wrote lorries are a significant contributing factor.
My personal pet peeve is American SaaS companies not comprehending that half the world starts their week on Monday. All those systems for requesting PTO, sick leave etc. are so confusing if you’re not extra careful.
> If that weight difference results in a noticeable tax difference, then lorries will be virtually priced off the road due to the tax.

That’s a red herring. Lorries don’t have to be taxed the same way as cars, and actually most of the time are not.
My general question is: how are you paying yourself money from a business woth zero revenue? The type of business is irrelevant.

And yes, I know you don't have an S Corp. I was wondering how you would pay yourself from such a corporation, considering you have zero revenue.
Laffer curve says that increasing tax rate doesn't necessarily increase total tax revenue. If the tax is too high, business becomes unprofitable and goes bust. A closed shop is bringing in 0 taxes. Even the Mafia understood that you can't squeeze the shops too hard or they'll just stop paying.
Spellchecks are fine usually but I have not yet found one I like when it comes to auto-correcting, as I cannot seem to get the rhythm when I'm trying to type and seeing my words and writing change without my interaction is very distracting. I also don't really like the way of "teaching" new words to most auto-corrects (macOS gets it right I think, just right-click the word the OS doesn't recognise and select "Learn"), but I remember it being far more annoying on other OSes.

Similarly my frustration with Office is that depending on how you access it (web version, office 365, within Teams, etc), it's been my experience that the configuration/preferences are not carried over so it's just very annoying to know that despite Office365 being so connected, depending on how I use Office365 my preferences aren't carried over.

I would vastly prefer if spellchecks and auto-corrects were more restrained in what they tried to fix. A lot of the grammar changes are inane typically or treating stylistic choices as grammar mistakes. Probably Office just isn't for me but I think it changes the writing enough in many cases that the meaning is lost.
It's easy to pay for YouTube premium and remove ads. So why not do that?
Also relevant: who’s paying, lobbying and actively working to make sure those problems don’t get solved because they’re quite happy with the economic status quo?
Plenty of creators upload their things both to YouTube and Nebula, and I choose Nebula for the ones that do. The app isn't perfect, but it gets the job done.
How can we trust that you won't register them first and then extort us?
The Hexagon DSPs in Qualcomm's Snapdragon SoC line are VLIWs. Also, NVidia used some cores from the Transmeta lineage in some of its mobile SoCs for application cores. There was a program that ran on them that automatically rewrote ARM instructions to their own ISA that not only was VLIW but was a skewed pipeline VLIW! That's what the Mill guys call phasing, see here: https://millcomputing.com/wiki/Phasing
There doesn't even need to be a nefarious conspiracy involved, just the rational intersection of common interests and capitalist incentives are enough.
To summarize the many good responses I've gotten (thanks!), which have helped my mental model a ton:

On the supportive side: Embedding arbitrary code (mostly, but not entirely in browsers) with secure sandboxing.

On the skeptical side: Just a way to make the browser less of a user agent and less accessible by running opaque code blobs.
I miss the real x.ai where you could have some primitive bundle of if statements schedule meetings for you.
That’s actually a good point. My main monitor sits on top of a stand so it’s raised above my desk, set up that the center is roughly eye height. The portrait monitor is on the desk and its top is about the same height as the main monitor. The laptop is also on the desk so is much lower, but I use it mainly for calendar, jira board and things like that.
> If you live in the country you probably need a 4x4 or a pickup truck, depending also on the type of work that you do.

There already are exemptions and tax credits for professional equipment, right? It’s nothing that has not been solved already.
Now we have n+1 problems
Definitely wish my rav4 prime had a 1.8 kwh NiMH battery in addition to the main pack for regen. Best of both worlds.
Take the time to build an alternative to something that exists today but is not incentivized to rent seek. Like a social network, an open source EHR system, or just find an open source project and improve its UX so it can compete with commercial solutions, apps and mobile games for kids that aren’t based on micro transactions or ad ridden, etc. that is not to say don’t seek a profit, but build business models that are win-win for both parties. That’s what I’d do if didn’t need the money.
Is there no type of work a human can do in a short time which has value?

Say in 20 seconds.

If there is such a task, then it can't be automated. Because then it would not have value. So we could base a captcha on performing that task.

If there is no such task - what is the minimum amount of time in which a person can create value?

If there is no task for any length of time in which a human can create value - well, then we are all jobless :)
As long as we're inventing new taxes, we should tax friction-based braking systems and components, to the point that regenerative braking becomes the norm on all new cars. We're wasting so much energy using friction to stop, rather than electromagnetic fields to induce stopping and regenerating batteries.
honestly this kind of obfuscation had been "almost ineffective" long before chatgpt, that is if the "attacker" bothered to handle it (which they often did not)
Google and other companies that use Wikipedia pay a lot more than "people".
M/o/Vfuscator: A single instruction C compiler
That's just plain lie.

There is A LOT o f creators supported by pure money donations from individual creators, or mostly by those. A lot of them support themselves by selling merch. Which is nothing new, as nowadays a lot of small/medium size bands live of selling merch.

When a major Polish radio, legendary 3rd national radio channel, went to shit after several decades (fired important staff and dummed down offer) people literally crowdfunded a full successor, with same famous presenters and so on. When that one started to push weird agenda to much and diverged from original goals... There was another one crowdfunded, pulled a lot of other major famous personell, and runs as a huge project successfully from Patreon donations.

These examples are not even unique.
Sometimes as an engineer we think of things only in terms of engineering. A tool isn't limited to a chisel, or a linter. Other types of tools include algorithms, economic theories, coping mechanisms, and strategies. When I think of a tool..ok, after I am done thinking of some PHBs I've had and some current political candidates, after that..I think of a thing that facilitates performing some activity for yourself or for others by making it some combination of easier, faster, cheaper, better performing. The 'for others' part is critical, because that is big part of leadership, in my mind.

With that in mind, was Dr. Martin Luther King a tool builder?

His area of focus that he's most known for is civil rights.

He created, and taught, strategies for non-violent protest, strategies for bringing disparate communities together so they had a louder collective voice. He crafted speeches that inspired people of all walks of life at the time, and continue to inspire 60 years later (His 'I have a dream' speech was in 1963), and I think will inspire people at least another 60 years. He treated all people equal. In his later years he spoke out against the Vietnam War. and called for a bill of rights for all Americans. The very pattern of his life is a tool, a model for young men in how to behave, how to protest, how to live.

While many, many people worked toward this goal - a great portion of the credit goes to Dr. Martin Luther King for the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in 1965.

I would count myself as have lived a great life as a leader if at the end I have achieved a tenth of the tool building Dr. Martin Luther King did.
One precursor question would be whether an LLM can extract the data you want from raw html even when copy-pasted manually. In my limited experience we’re not quite there yet, but I’d be curious to hear of others have different experience - or better yet, actual measurements against a baseline scraper.
I think the title is another sensible variation of tech leads as workflow-unblockers, corner-uncutters and process-robustifiers. For all of these functions, however, you still need good judgment.

I do wonder what exactly this particular choice, a micro framework, unblocks? I’m reading some broad concerns about the provenance of React but it’s not clear that’s grounded in a need of the team.

There are some challenging dynamics on the horizon for this team…I’d be keen to hear how this goes, six or twelve months on.
> There is a reason why conjunction (AND) is also called logical multiplication, and disjunction (OR) logical addition.

Really? The connection between AND and multiplication is obvious, but disjunction doesn't behave like addition. (For one thing, just like AND, it destroys information, which multiplication does do and addition doesn't.) Addition would usually be XOR.

In fact, AND and XOR are what you get when you apply multiplication and addition to the integers (mod 2).
They had a bunch of really interesting ideas but trying to innovate in more ways at once brings exponentially more risk. And there weren't only trying to reconceptialize how computers worked, they also were doing a weird innovative corporate structure too.

Once the patents expire I hope someone makes a RISC-V design that just tries to get their, e.g., virtual and backless memory working with Linux. That seems like it would be worthwhile in and of itself.
That’s really fun. I’m not sure if form and function meet, though. It’s almost like desktop dazzle camo.
It is upsetting to hear the phrase “turn of the century” used to describe the year 2000. I know it’s correct, but it still feels very wrong.
The Apple Store Blueprint: Genius Training or Psychological Manipulation Script?
>Family members and genealogists have been infuriated by the Find-A-Grave situation, but Ancestry's management team has basically shrugged and said "tough luck."

My solution to this is to not get worked up over digital lies about the dead. I know what happened to those I care about, and that's enough. And even if I didn't know, it's in the past so it's as inaccessible to me as Cygnus A*.
Crazy that he happens upon the SSID string which turned out to be randomly generated.

Very interesting about the auto charging. I can imagine the probe request is to connect to the charger to allow it to be completely automated.
My main monitor is 31.5” and my portrait monitor is 27”. My main is raised maybe 10” above my desk and set up so its center is approx. my eye height, while the portrait monitor is on the desk (so it’s bottom is lower, but it’s too is about the same as the other monitor)

My main monitor is 1440p, I think the other is only 1080p and the lack of horizontal resolution is one reason I don’t use it for code, but I find it works well for slack and documentation. I occasionally use it for code too (eg unified diffs) but mainly I use the main monitor for code. Maybe one day I will replace it with a higher resolution one and then I might use it for code more.
Microsoft already does that, and its Antimalware agent is the bane of my existence. It will see idle machines spin up their fans to full and drain batteries within a short few hours. No thank you!
Climate scientists are working with indigenous tribes
Related to that is all the angst about how Sim City basically just lets you make car-centric hellscapes, not at all unlike San Jose, the city in which it was birthed.

And City Skylines inherited a lot of that legacy, that designs centered around mass transit and cycling (such as one would find in Europe or Japan) really only become fully practical with a bunch of mods installed.
Nope,

Go above and beyond, but still close tickets = work 60 hrs/week

Do a tech detox = you better not have family to visit, because every vacation has to be about recovery from work.

Do side projects = what are kids ?

All of these these posts are written with a massive dose of cognitive dissonance.

Make US top 1 percentile wages, but live with the emotional security of a daily wage earner. Amazing !
Why banks are suddenly closing down customer accounts
One kind of bad localization that happens every now and then is that the time is given in 12-hour clock but the am/pm particles are translated (to some reasonable thing). While a proper localization in those cases would just display 24-hour time without any am/pm equivalents.
You want an obsessive non-perfectionist.

I want user-focused pragmatists who aim high while understanding they don't have the resources available for perfection.

I was a dev for 25 years before moving into management. That's pretty much my approach, although I think I fell a bit short in many ways. Now my job is to try to lead other devs to do better than me. I'm trying to be the manager I wish I'd had. I don't think that's unreasonable.
Almost as wrong to me as the friendly jab I got from a teenager last week about “being born in the 1900s.”
Interesting choice of pronouns to refer to the operator of Anna's Archive
If machine is not attached to a terminal it is useful if it boots on its own.
Indeed, a large handful of regexes would probably get you from, say, 98% (the unobfuscated majority) to 99.99% or better. That 0.01% is probably not worth the effort. And even then, it's probably few enough that you could fix them by hand (and add to the regex list as you go).
Umm... can't you just code something super small and efficient to do the same thing?
Xc90 length is 4953mm and width is 1923mm

VW sharan length is 4854mm and width is 1904mm

Therefore the difference in sizes is probably less than your palm. These cars are equally reasonable, it’s just a matter of personal preferences I think.
Reductio ad absurdum by Christopher Domas [video]
This article, with its run on sentences, and overuse of comas, was likely not, written in Word, as it would have, complained.
I guess it wouldn't be, since it's for the exact same purpose. The west is just censoring different things than the east.
This was a very enlightening thread. My takeaway is: It actually is a similar approach to the jvm, but cold starts faster, whether because of differing design and implementation choices explicitly made to achieve this, or just because it ended up working out that way.

But in either case, "a bytecode for a JIT-compiling runtime that cold starts very quickly", does indeed sound very useful for edge computing. Thanks!
I doubt anyone would invest in ChatGPT API for scrapping emails, that would be very expensive.