skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> converting gendered restrooms to all-gender restrooms (with or without permission)

I believe, for a long list of reasons, that families with stably married mother/father are the best way to preserve humanity and that they are most stable without wandering eyes. Avoiding having wandering eyes, or wandering loyalties, in turn, is helped when we make it easier for people to manage and direct sexual attraction to keep it within marriage, rather than otherwise. This includes avoiding porn or behaviors that are like porn to others. I want to keep my thoughts clean and faithful to my wife. I hope others can make that easier and less work, rather than often putting things in my sight that make it be more work.
> 3.5 billion light-years from Earth

> mass falls between 10 and 100 million suns

The size of the sun already causes my brain to shut down. Everything about this is beyond contemplation.
Posting from another comment in a different thread, everything that is new from OpenAI developer day:

- Context length extended to 128k (~300 pages).
- Better memory retrieveal across a longer span of time
- 4 new APIs: DALLE-3, GPT-4-vision, TTS (speech synthesis), and Whisper V3 (speech recognition).
- GPT-4 Turbo, a more intelligent iteration, confirmed as superior to GPT-4.
- GPT-4 Turbo pricing significantly reduced, about 3 times less expensive than GPT-4. Input and output tokens are respectively 3× and 2× less expensive than GPT-4. It’s available now to all developers in preview.
- Improved JSON handling (via JSON mode) and function invocation for more sophisticated control.
- Doubled rate limits with the option to request increases in account settings.
- Built-in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and knowledge current as of April 2023.
- Whisper V3 to be open-sourced and added to the API suite.
- Copyright Shield initiative to cover legal fees for copyright-related issues.
- Ability to create your own, custom "GPTs".
- Assistants API and new tools (Retrieval, Code Interpreter)
- 3.5 Turbo 16k now cheaper than old 4k. 0.003c per 1k in / 0.004c per 1k out.
Speaking from Graphistry experience and now louie_ai, both of which are real tech:

* Initial Graphistry funding was from showing compelling 10X technology demos started in my PhD through my extended network, which got us angel & seed and first early adopter customers, which let us hire a tiny team to build the real tech (which pivoted at our first 'big' customer) and start on our product discovery journey . Before then, ran out of my savings, and during a funding dry spell, same. All new R&D for last few years has been customer funded.

* Louie.AI: We have been reinvesting revenue here and signing on paying design partners to co-build with . (If you are on Splunk, OpenSearch, Databricks, AWS Neptune, or a graph DB, and want to use genAI for investigation & analyses, lmk!.) Skipping VC $ has felt much better as we are much more aligned with our design partners.

If I was going to do it from scratch again, I would either do a PhD and spin out when ready, or do a consultancy and build out from that. Using VC dollars and hoping you march into product market fit is horrible, a lot has to work out just right, yet you are trying to cook with a flamethrower and short fuse.
Best practice is until it isn’t. This is why we should prioritize innovation over process.
> We won't win by allowing the enemy to make us more like them.

I agree on that when it comes to a ton of the "anti terror" measures introduced after 9/11 because these are plain bullshit that don't do any objective good, other than annoy passengers.

But regarding high tech capability? Not at all. We have to do everything we can to impede China's progress there, at all costs - because the cost of a Chinese victory would be outright catastrophic.
> Stallman’s point (which I largely think is a cop out, fwiw) is that the goal should be that the software remains free, and that making small compromises to further that goal is ok.

Mm, that doesn't really summarize (or engage with) Stallman's thinking on the matter.

Stallman's position is that if it is perfectly ethical for someone to license their research under e.g. BSD, MIT/X11, or a license that is similarly permissive, and it is (of course) ethical to license it under GPL, then it is not more unethical to go with something which sits in between the two (copyleft for some, permissive for others).

To put it another way: if Alice picks a GPL-compatible, free software license like Apache 2.0, and then Goog makes something proprietary out of it, then Goog is being unethical, not Alice. If Goog does the same thing and gives Alice money, then nothing changes except the bad actor has less money and the good actor who created the software and made it libre has more money.
A clean git history on a pull request also makes it easier for the reviewer to understand your code. Small, concise commits will tell the reviewers about your train of thought or what issues did you run into, making it easier to pick up the context. I start with every code review by looking at the commit history.

I prefer not to have squash commits in our team for this reason. It makes master look good, but usually nobody ever looks at the master commit history first, they look at the merged pull requests. However, everybody must look at the commits you made in a pull request. If you have squash commits, you are encouraged to have messy commit history in your pull requests, leading to meaningless commit messages and even large commits (causing other problems...).

IMO the only advantage of squashing is that it makes it easy to roll forward when you accidentally deploy something that causes problems.
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these arent the heavy HN apple blinders these threads usually get!

but yea its pretty bad. i cant go 1 day without a blatant ui bug lightly using apple products at work
like the other comment in reply to my parent, the 90s were relatively benign compared to the 60s/70s and the shit that 2001 ushered in

Were the 90s perfect? No, of course not. We had a very long economic boom, technology advancing in a very optimistic way (vs. today where technology is actively making things worse)

Now, what fed a lot of that caused a lot of our problems today--the 24 hour news cycle spun up, there were troubling economic trends like the fact that wages basically never went up after Reagan so I'm not saying that time has nothing to answer for
The Japanese culture is still very different from the Western one. It's more similar to South Korea probably, perhaps even China in some ways.
Shortly after buying a car, I always go a large, empty parking lot late and night, get up to about 30 mph and stop as hard as I can. I want to understand what it feels like before I get into a panic situation. I only buy a car every 10 years on average, so it's interesting to see the progress in braking. My current car (a 2014 model) stopped so quickly and so violently that it frightened me. Everything not tied down in the car was flying around. I thought I must have hit something, but I didn't. I did a few more such stops to try to get used to it. It still makes my heart race, but at least I know to expect it.
I would certainly like to see this mythical tool that can support both:

* Separating out different conceptual changes that are/were reviewed together and

* Transparently cleanup a messy history that starts with a few base commits (corresponding to the conceptual changes) followed by a bunch of fixup commits for issues found by CI and review.

That is the main problem solved by rebasing. I have yet to see even a coherent proposal for what the alternative would look like.
Basics of finance is this

Starting off, you can guarantee a minimum of 2% return on your money in the absolute safest investments. All of your money should go to those, something like a money market account or a high yield savings account, just to prepare for investment. Basically don't keep most of your money in a checking account that gives you next to no interest.

Secondly, the biggest drain on any investment is going to be taxes. You should learn about how you are taxed, how roth and traditional iras work in terms of taxation, how capital gains tax works, as well as all taxation related to real estate (it still remains a pretty advantageous investment in terms of taxes but most people don't understand the concept of APR). Generally, you should be able to be comfortable computing the taxes manually on any sort of transaction, whether its your salary or investment - if you can do that, you are well read on it.

Outside of these constant things, economy fluctuates quite a bit, and future is impossible to predict, so there is no "right" investment. For example, this happened to a friend of mine - got job during the end of the pandemic in 2022, started getting salary, invested all of it into safe index funds. 2023 happens, all index funds take a dive, he gets laid off, and has to pull out funds at a loss to cover expenses between jobs. He would have made out better had he kept everything in a savings account.

So there isn't a right investment choice to make just out of the market, everything depends on your situation, your risk tolerance, your backup plan availability, e.t.c. For example, if you are ok with living super cheaply and you have no big financial responsibilities, you can take on a lot more risk which can pay of bigger. Meanwhile, someone with kids who need money for college cannot. So figure what those are for you, and then its pretty easy to run what if models for any sort of scenario, whether its buying a house, to playing the stock market.

Also, equally important, you get one life to live. You are young, you have energy. When you are old, you will have more responsibilities, less energy, and your genetics could cause you to start having more health issues. Do all the stuff that you want to do in life now, even if it costs money that you feel like you should be saving, and you will be 100% glad that you did it. It is much easier to settle down into a "boring" life later in life where you hold down a job and accumulate savings over time then it is to experience regret of never doing the things when you had the opportunity.
The solution is to stop shopping Amazon/Alibaba. They make trash because people buy the trash. Quit buying the trash.
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Best practice is what I do; everyone else is legacy.
I agree with most of this article. However, one of the big downsides to being purposely single in the last 10 years is that the pursuit of sexual fulfillment has become increasingly more obnoxious, as it has shifted more and more to these users-as-a-commodity "dating" apps such as tinder, hinge, bumble, etc. These apps are mostly a hellscape for the majority of users.
See also:
- https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/the-bait-and-switch-behind...
- https://predictive-optimization.cs.princeton.edu/
But see https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026736492...

> human oversight policies provide a false sense of security in
> adopting algorithms and enable vendors and agencies to shirk
> accountability for algorithmic harms.

> propose a shift from human oversight to institutional oversight as
> the central mechanism for regulating government algorithms.
> First, agencies must justify that it is appropriate to incorporate
> an algorithm into decision-making and that any proposed forms of
> human oversight are supported by empirical evidence. Second, these
> justifications must receive democratic review and approval before
> the agency can adopt the algorithm.

Also https://predictive-optimization.cs.princeton.edu/
I can't access the GPTs stuff. I haven't actually got the last update either with the combined models or anything.
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sama said they improved it
i enjoyed this laugh, thank you
> They forgot to fill the paper work,

Sorry, without a "/s", can't tell if joking.

Was some form of paperwork requirement the norm for officially ending a war back in 146BC?

Also, how do we know that no treaty was made then? A lot of documents can get lost, or just disintegrate, in 2,000 years.
Agreed. Scrum, in most cases, robs engineers of the agency they need to deliver maximum value. My teams did better work without it under the condition that the talent was motivated, technically proficient, and had the right incentives.
> git-rebase is stupid because somebody doesn't know how to use it?

No, it's stupid because it's really common for people to fuck it up, and because the purported benefits (clean history) are not something which matters.
it's missing a lot of bangers
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Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xxa1ZU22GjLjNp8203HWKHn2...

Email: in CV

Intro:

My north star has always been to empower knowledge workers with tools that are a delight to use and help them be more productive at their job. Machine learning has been a driving force, and I have utilized it in various forms to build compelling products.

I am an industry recognized expert in machine learning and google cloud platform. I regularly speak at various meetups and conferences on topics related to ML, automation systems and cloud platforms. I have been advising other startups in recent years on various tech and product topics as well. Over the years, I have built a muscle for quick prototyping and iterating on various ideas.
Then you should probably look up squash “merges,” because I believe that’s your `git rebase --tip`. I use quotation marks because it’s not an actual merge. It just takes all the changes from the feature branch and stages them in the index, ready for you to commit as one single non-merge commit.
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For others like me that are getting errors accessing the page.
Nose-detectable at 1 ppm. Dangerous at (IIRC) 10 or 20 ppm.
Oh, right, not 1k LUTs. But toward the $120 range, such as the Digilent Arty S7 listed in the post, with 23k LUTs, it's likely possible to implement SHA256 cracking or mining and beat a CPU or GPU in performance/watt. Probably not performance/dollar though.
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better than microUSB that's fair, but far worse than lightning. Engagement is terrible, it collects debris and it's inconsistent (often too tight or too lose).
Did anyone even look at the graph at the beginning of the article? Quits today are at the same level as just before covid and higher than at any point between 2001 and 2018? WTF are they even talking about?
Best practice is not using that font. That g is killing me.
These barf inducing "think pieces" have no place here. The subject may be interesting but these mass media opinion pieces entirely lack rigor and methodology and so are the opposite of the content I would expect to find on "Hacker News."

Examining marriage in a vacuum entirely absent from the circumstances of the society and economy they occur has zero value other than lame lifestyle propaganda.

Blech.
I’m not clear who the market is? Why someone buy one?
I've got many graphic tshirts with text on fabric. I don't see why it's impossible on braided cables.

Even a quick laser etch could be done after the braid. It doesn't need to be super high resolution.
you are right, i have many "primitive" usb-c devices that only work with a charge-only cable.
Data has always been the moat no ?
I feel like history has shown that those who own the platform end up winning and in this case OpenAI's platform of models seems much harder to recreate. My guess is this would lead to Zapier using OpenAI as a platform and eventually OpenAI would re-create Zapier's integrations before the other way around.
In Scandinavia you have summers with vast amounts of uncaptured sunlight. I wonder if ammonia is the way to capture and use it.
Thank you. That looks like it would test anything other than the 3.0 square plugs--but those you can identify by eyeball.
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it's your first scenario. the infrastructure is fine, but there's a middlebox in the way, doing whatever it can to fuck with your connection. the middlebox will drop packets. this middlebox will invent RST packets and spam them at you to make you think the connections been dropped. using the antisocial congestion control manages to get you more than 2Kbps with the middlebox still doing its thing.
And where do you think Society could better allocate these resources to? Society is largely in the same position as Berkshire Hathaway, lacking positive ROI opportunities to invest in.
I don't think it's fair to say that crucial roads should be underutilized, especially for crucial main streets! I agree with you that saint Denis is very very heavily used by cyclists in the warmer months, and I agree that the "paint a line" types of bike lanes are a cop out. But I think that Montreal should've explored convertible, semi permanent infrastructure. Not simple painted lines, but not inflexible set in concrete paths either.

We could've even set a new "standard" for cities that face the same challenges! That way, there's no trade off. We could use it in the winter for bus/priority lanes, and have the very useful and safe bike lanes in the summer. Sure, I don't know of anywhere else that implemented something similar, but that's the point :)
A relative of mine teaches (free and paid) online courses for Godot:

https://www.google.com/search?hl=eo&gbv=1&q=heartbeast+%2Bsi...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrHQNOyU1q6BFEfkNq2CYMA
No. Reflog exists locally.

Getting away from dependence on the ephemeral is why git exists.
I may be using the wrong words.

They picked 2 mediators, we got to pick a mediator from the 2 they originally picked.

At the end of the day we were at an impasse... and I was told it was 18+ months to get in front of a judge for a trial, and it would cost me another $100k. So the mediator said she could help with a arbitrators decision, but I had to agree to it before she would pitch it to the other side -- to be clear, I had to agree to it before I knew the terms of it. And I figured she'd just factor in where we were at that point in the negotiations and split it down the middle. But that's not how it played out. It was painful.
I also hate updates. They practically never solve problems I have but they do break working setups, lose settings, expose me to tutorial/walkthrough/new feature nags, force me to re-install other software that is now broken, break things like python envs (in the case of a brew update) and golang installs (when MacOS devs fuck with clang), threaten me with reboot loops (Sonoma), rearrange things (why does MacOS keep changing their settings app?), cause existing software to stop working because of API updates that developers can't keep up with (Android is particularly bad about this) or just generally force me to close all my shit to restart for the update to take effect.

From a developer perspective, even worse (though not exactly the same) is having to modify working code due to developers making arbitrary backwards incompatible changes that I have no choice but to incorporate because node/react/security etc. updates.

Generally speaking, my enthusiasm for software development has fallen off a cliff in no small part because of the bit rot imposed on me from incessant updates.
Just the fact that they decided to stay with what is essentially a highly technical acronym i.e. GPT, as their major product line says a lot.
The new TTS is much cheaper than eleven labs and better too.

I don't know how the model works so maybe what i'm asking isn't even feasible but i wish they gave the option of voice cloning or something similar or at least had a lot more voices for other languages. The default voices tend to make other language output have an accent.

Uh if turbo's the much faster model a few have had access to in the past week, then pressing x on the "more intelligent than legacy 4" statement.
Replace “best” with “useful”. It’s closer to the truth, and it’s more productive to debate how and when something can be useful rather than treat it like some kind of ranking or competition.
Many startups have started over the past few years, trying to build infrastructure (shovels) for companies to integrate LLMs, or specific chat copilots trying to cater to a specific usecase. Most are dead in the water once OpenAI subsumes their feature set.
Yes, examples of the attack you dismissed. And you cited it as evidence on this thread about that attack. It's just very funny, is all.
while i agree with your sentiment, i think Apple would probably argue that they're actually charging for access to their distribution network.
Even that can still be annoying to check unless it's sold by amazon, I've seen several manufacturors point to amazon listings sold by "company name", but I've also seen some cases where some 3rd party seller listed their company name as "company name USA" that weren't where people were getting counterfeit.

I've pretty much stopped buying health products from amazon, as even buying "sold by amazon" they'll mix in 3rd party sellers products and you're at the mercy of luck on getting the real deal.
[pirate voice] all right, all right, you talkd me into it (parrot squawk)
IME, the snow is really the killer for bikes. And there is a lot more snow in Montreal than in anywhere in Europe! The snow is also usually salted, so there's a permanent "slush" like cover on the roads...
Seems like the problems are more:

1. Phones and social media
2. Anomie
Nitrogen compounds, plus a bit of leftover ammonia. All in need of cleaning up.
I previously blogged about how Apple treat web developers with negligence when it comes to Safari [1]. This makes it looks like Apple treat other developers with negligence as well, which is unsurprising, frankly.

[1] https://www.construct.net/en/blogs/ashleys-blog-2/safari-rel...
Everything that isn't "best practice" is an "anti-pattern" these days it seems. Even saying best practice is now an anti pattern. I say we move forward to the next iteration - apathetic approval - i.e. "That gets my AA"
What I really want is a 'Grand Translator' tool that allows any CI pipeline definition to be translated into any other CI pipeline definition.

I want to take any .gitlab-ci.yml and magically translate it to a github workflow, and vice-versa. I know it isn't impossible, but it's a heck lot of work to get it right with all the hidden features behind declarative pipelines.
https://chat.openai.com/gpts/editor "You do not currently have access to this feature"
> Follow-up fixes reveal important nuance and implicit assumptions that shouldn’t be erased

That’s definitely not always true. In my experience that’s a small minority of cases, and when it happens, I keep the important nuance commits and don’t squash them. Nobody is forcing you to squash, it’s an option for the (many) fix up commits that were pure accidental oversight and have no nuance that needs to be preserved.

I’ve seen lots of people claim they lost work, because they freaked out or gave up without slowing down to think carefully. The reason is because they didn’t learn how git actually works, and never learned the undo buttons. I’m well aware that git’s CLI is intimidating and unintuitive, but one thing it does not do is corrupt your repo for you. That’s effectively a blaming excuse for not having learned how it works.
Yeah none of them ever did, and that was always very obvious. If you can make it by wrapping a few API calls, you have no moat and anyone can steal your idea/customers.
Fine. I do not share your views and I will not cater to them.