skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as I feel like a child, I think the hallmark of being an “adult” is moderation.

Give a kid unlimited access to a box of cookies - they’ll never eat dinner. Last night I snacked on a cookie before dinner.

Sometimes I’ll stay out “past my bedtime”. Get into shenanigans. Go out with friends. Play hooky at work.

I can behave like a kid while still taking responsibility. Maintaining a job. Paying bills. Building savings. Making ~relatively~ healthy choices and understanding I could do better.

Anyways, I don’t want to be a “real” adult. Living life by the book sounds miserable. Cheating is fun and rewarding. But so is getting important “adult” stuff done. Why not both?
What about these amazing resources from Daniel Murfet at University of Melbourne:

http://therisingsea.org/post/mast30026/

They have videos as well as everything else. I'd love to study them with someone/some group of people one day.

But, you don't need videos if there are carefully-written course notes PDFs.

Try Oxford: https://courses.maths.ox.ac.uk/course/index.php

E.g. two random Analysis-related courses (second more advanced than first)

https://courses.maths.ox.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=65

https://courses.maths.ox.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=4988

And there are tons of others, but with videos is a bit harder.

Berkeley exam papers with solutions: https://tbp.berkeley.edu/courses/math/113/
Web components are standardized by the web consortium. They are the way web browsers have agreed components should work. They have value inherently and don’t necessarily mean you can’t use react, in fact they can be used together very well especially for things like framework agnostic design systems. Basically, web components have more holding power inherently because they are browser native. React and SSR is just a great way to augment that.

While I write react daily and love it, I think it’s important to realize no methodology today will have any real importance or meaning 100 years from now. It’s all a means to an end and frameworks and web components are just different means.

In 2123, people will glance at a paragraph about react and move on to the next topic in programming history.
Lol, right?
That's one (pessimistic) way to look at it. Another way to look at it is it's a thought experiment on how to solve the disconnect between a property owner's asset value for the purpose of sale vs. its value for the purpose of taxes. If you're against the very concept of taxes, then obviously nothing is going to make you happy, and the discussion is pointless.

Today, we have this illogical situation where you can sell your property for $X but when the taxman comes, it's all "oh, but my property is only worth $Y!" It doesn't make sense.
I feel very innocent now, as it did not even cross my mind ;)
I love seeing Google getting caught with its pants down. This right here is a real-wold AI saftey issue that matters. Their moral alignment scenarios are fundamentally bullshit if this is all it takes to pop confidential data.
It's not nonsense at all. The degree to which GPT-4 messes up is dramatically lower than 3.5.
>to pile further misery on them

Usually the goal is to keep them away from real victims, to prevent further misery of more people.
> Linux Bluetooth is incredibly painful to handle in a headless way. Binding to DBus requires cross-compiler magic and not even Cross was getting me out of it.

That was my experience as well. I was doing something different so ultimately I just decided I'd put both the devices on the same WiFi network and then scan for "pi.local".

Do wish I knew how all those other crates work though where it crashes at runtime if you don't have a library instead of refusing to build.
"Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+L" opens linkedIn if you're using Windows.
Ubuntu for ARM64 laptops (and RISC kit)
Many/most economists and historians find it beneficial to understand things not by rigid or otherwise static categories and concepts, but through relations. Feudalism, insofar as it can be defined (and this is hard[1]), is probably best captured as a certain kind of relation between serfs and landlords (or whatever). Focusing on the relations between things is fruitful for analysis and research as well as being resistant to changes or transpositions in the terms in question.

It would be much harder to say that there is this one selfsame phenomena called "work" and we have done it throughout all of history. Or that we are definitely not "working" as we generate another's capital by getting brainwashed and depressed by social media. Or that the peasants living off their lord "went to work" everyday.

1. https://www.thoughtco.com/the-f-word-feudalism-1788836
I actually completely agree with everything you wrote. I'm also very familiar with the ongoing battle between education and training.

What I'm talking about is expanding options to meet additional education needs. Since universities are a shared resource, any solution must be carefully designed to preserve the ability to continue providing existing services. That's difficult to achieve, so I understand the obstructionist response.

All I'm saying is that if you position yourself as an obstructionist, don't be surprised when you're treated like one.
The legal weed? Not judging, just observing this at friends that are now consuming daily.

The chronic lack of sleep? Doom scrolling at 2am is so common in the post-pandemic world.

The continuous notifications and distractions coming from our devices having an effect on our mental sharpness? I barely use Facebook but its icon on my iPhone always has a number on red on it.

And I could go on.
> And before anyone chimes in with arguments about examples of righteous crusades against genuine problems in the world sparked by a single person… the obvious counterpoint is that these people [stop being “one single person” when they convince someone else in a one to one conversation]

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> good arguments persuade people and gather people around them… [one lone voice arguing against the consensus is a crank who should be ignored without guilt].

Self-refuting "logic" like this is what we need much less of if you ask me.
The Pure Theory of Law
Nvidia Supercharges Hopper, the Leading AI Computing Platform
TLDR:

H200-powered systems are expected to begin shipping in the second quarter of 2024.

"The introduction of H200 will lead to further performance leaps, including nearly doubling inference speed on Llama 2, a 70 billion-parameter LLM, compared to the H100. Additional performance leadership and improvements with H200 are expected with future software updates."
I'll take this bet
its bootstrap right? does it help speaking to it in those terms/components?
This is empirically incorrect.
I was truly expecting a reenactment of Gary vs David Synth Wars! Bummer.
web components are the quantum realm of CSS. What you know as normal might not work when you're trying to write style customization. My org has multiple teams working with different stacks, so at one point someone decided to write our component library using web components. Everyone hated it and we're now moving away from it.
Why is providing rental houses bad? Should people who don't want to or cannot afford to purchase a house not have access to single family houses?
Could we shorten the catchy name further? Call them “HTML components”.
Imagine if every time a large company launched a new SaaS product, some rando on Twitter exfiltrated the source code and tweeted it out the same week. And every single company fell to the exact same vulnerability, over and over again, despite all details of the attack being publicly known.

That's what's happening now, with every new LLM product having its prompt leaked. Nobody has figured out how to avoid this yet. Yes, it's worse.
No its Black Beauty, the cartoon horse, that was buying houses of course.
What a plot twist that the appropriate mental model for LLMs is one with a near-fatal flaw that's neatly solved by SourceGraph's product.

Edit: Not trying to be dismissive, this is actually giving you a bad mental model because it understates the capabilities of LLMs for the sake of selling their product. The way they use the LLM in their examples is completely uninteresting and adds no actual information beyond what was just fed to it. Repeating back the question would give the same usefulness! Surely they can come up with a better sales pitch for why you need "Cody" than that you can't tell what parameter names in a function call mean.
That's mostly because otherwise they wouldn't be reliable enough to use.
Mindless money that's being poured into carbon capture projects, would help grow and maintain forests for at least 10yrs. A recent example like Heirloom that just started its facility and would only capture 1000 tons per year. It took them 4yrs and $50M+ to build one facility. Even if they somehow were to build 1000 facilities annually, they would only capture 10M tons of carbon. Also think about the carbon they would release by building those facilities. We need to remove 2 billion tons of carbon per year at current levels of pollution. Carbon capture projects are just another type of climate grifting like carbon offsets etc.
Taxis (which is all uber/lyft is) are are useful for cases where you mostly do not need to own a vehicle, but once in a rare while need to go someplace that your other alternatives don't work for.
one of the largest Federal criminal prosecutions of nonprofits in US history was after the 1980s Savings and Loan scandal.. where some "bankers" colluded to drain national mortgage insurance assets (a social program setup to enable first time home purchases, and other stabilizing programs, across the US). Anecdotal evidence suggests substantial amounts of collusion occurred during a particular Playboy-sponsored golf series !
Do you have unlimited money glitch?
Some startups need a second chance (Money Stuff)
> LLMs are booksmart Harvard graduates who can Google anything

I wouldn't say this. Internet savvy Harvard graduates have common sense. They can look at something and mostly infer "wait, that's not right," and error correct, or admit low confidence in the answer.

I like to think of LLMs as hardcore improv actors. They have a script (the context). Their burning desire is to continue that script. And they will just roll with the best continuation they can, whatever that continuation is. OpenAI's augmentations hand them a very dynamic script, but at the end of the day they could just be madly improvising for all you know.
Tailwind actually. Not really since the backend covers for that. As long as you can provide it instructions in plain english, it does a decent job of building that design. And if you don't like it, you can always edit it in various ways - by asking the AI, by using a UI editor, or by changing the HTML code itself.
> In a sense, a person is given too much freedom on Sundays and this lack of control can produce anxiety.

I feel this in a very specific way. It's not that I don't have anything to do, it's that there are so many options. There are so many things I want to do on my days off that I get overwhelmed and spend the day thinking which one of my projects to tackle.

In the end I usually just pass the time and not do anything constructive.
I think this and the slightly less gracious way that OP explained it is the most significant driver of RTO from the employee side.

It is also why I am shamelessly pro-WFH. The banality of this mindset as the possibly main major contributing cause from labor for RTO and all the many, many issues that office work causes is too much for me to handle.

Get some non-work friends and hobbies. Understand career mobility and productivity, if that’s what you really want to prioritize, is equally there via WFH. Leave the rest of us out of it.
Being a software dev has destroyed my sanity.

This is a bit off-topic I guess, but I am growing so frustrated with dark patterns on the web and in life in general that I really want to build a cabin somewhere in a small rural area and throw my electronics in the trash. Just pay for basic services like electric. And only talk to people who I already know.

Buying a car? Full of dark patterns. Gap insurance, bs fees, bs options.
Buying internet? Full of dark patterns. Bundles cheaper than just net. WiFi for extra charge.
Web is just all dark patterns turned to 100.

If you don't know your stuff there are people everywhere just looking to take you for a ride, and sell you garbage you don't want or need.

Bleh.
As a South African, it is ridiculous to me that I cannot even legally buy or rent some films that were produced in South Africa, and is about South Africa.

I cannot recall the details now, but this has happened at least 3 times over the last couple of months.

This is driving people towards piracy again.
This is also a common way to sidestep ESG metrics, instead of investing in companies that do business in oil, coal and etc, invest in investing companies that exclusively invest in those companies instead. Nothing to see here, just investing in financial institutions.
Mortgage securities literally finance the provision of mortgages. Without them, mortgage rates for normal borrowers would be much more expensive and credit requirements would be much more stringent. So house prices would very likely go down (significally) but houses might not be (on net) more affordable for normal people in this scenario because the finance would be much much more costly. You could argue those changes would be healthy overall, but it's not as cut and dried as you might hope.

It's a very complex ecosystem. It's very tempting to fall for superficial hot takes, quick fixes etc but actually making significant structural changes would be very challenging without unintentional adverse consequences.
It's true that no large scale Thorium reactor has been built yet. It's also true that its mathematically, chemically, and physically impossible for Thorium to pose the same radiation threat that Uranium poses under load.
Its not unique to US. Denmark has 30 year fixed rate mortgages through different approaches.

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/08/31/to-fix-broken-m...
A lot of people. Google maps was not offline and Waze was not.
My favorite part is when dalio setup the “trustworthiness score” that worked a bit like PageRank but then some lowly employees ended up with higher “trustworthiness” than dalio himself. So he made them change the scoring such that it’s always capped at your manager. Principles my ass
Thanks for posting the Blackstone link, very helpful.

While I think it's easy to demonize the investment companies (and there is plenty of evidence that in certain markets that non-resident investors drove up the price of housing considerably), basically everything I've read has said that, at it's root, the problem is just a huge undersupply of housing.

My question is: what is the real root cause of that? I know people talk about NIMBYism and regulatory capture, and that is most definitely a factor, but NIMBYs wanting to restrict additional housing has existed for many decades - why is the problem so acute now? Plus, the housing shortage is present in lots and lots of different countries with widely varying housing policies and demographics. Is it all just a consequence of the Great Recession hangover of under-building new homes?

My personal theory is that it's not so much a total broad-based underinvestment in housing, but it's that the economy has further concentrated wealth into fewer and fewer metropolises while many rural areas have hollowed out. E.g. you see depressed rural "ghost towns" in places like Japan and the US, and then you have famous examples of Italy selling old houses in villages for a euro. Thus, in many of these depressed locales, land is near free because nobody wants to live there, but prices in urban/suburban locales have gone through the roof because more people are congregating there.

That's just my pet theory though, I haven't really tried to back it up with hard data. I'm curious if anyone else has more evidence of what's driving the global house price insanity.
> Many people have shared with me their contempt for Sundays, and there seems to be no shortage of psychiatric literature referring to a “Sunday neurosis” or a feeling of gloom related to the day.

Oh, can relate. Work’s the next day, of course it’s a downer. You spent yesterday catching up on necessary stuff you’d deferred in favor of work for five days straight, so didn’t really have an actual break, and now your momentary breather has another damn work day following it, so you feel like starting anything you actually want to do is pointless. You dread night because you’ll be waking too early to the alarm clock. Yeah, it sucks, there’s a reason some cultures have the attitude that anything short of a week isn’t a real break from work.
Rented a house for Invitation Homes, which is owned by black rock. Showed up all the windows were open didn’t think much of it; signed the contract.

Closed the windows, hour later call them up, complaining about the chemical smell. Took three months to get resolved. I was in an out of the hospital for months. Years for family to recover.
AIUI, your current best bet for good OpenCL implementation on less-than-cutting-edge AMD hardware is the Mesa Project's RustiCL work.
This article comes across more than a little condescending to me. It vaguely alludes to some of the big criticisms of LLMs (e.g. hallucinations) but then focuses on the specific of "the LLM will give a useless answer if it doesn't have access to the necessary information". I mean... duh. Is anyone complaining about that, especially programmers?
Yeah. I don’t believe I’m dumber now than when I was younger. I believe I’m more aware of the cognitive fog I’ve always had in my head, how unintelligent I’ve always been.
viral conspiracies rely on there being a secret that can never be proved or disproved, people susceptible to them would never be swayed by what was written here

so I don’t really understand what compelled BlackRock to even release this now

but telling people you mostly dont buy individual homes just to leave them unoccupied, but provide capital to people who do, doesnt really help? for the people that don’t believe BlackRock, nothing changed, for the people that suddenly now believe BlackRock, well good news: if that bothers you then you have to be bothered by every lender in the entire real estate sector.
New homes are new homes. Whether they are for rent or for sale is largely immaterial. It's interesting that this is viewed in a negative light too.
I considered submitting original title but verbose. Instead derived submission title from article subtitle.

(I think this is an accepted hn convention?)
The company I work for took the opportunity to switch things up at the office during the pandemic. One was switching to what can only be described as 1/2-ply toilet paper with perforated designs. They bragged about how much it saved while mandating back to the office. They also swamped out the food at the cafe, good luck getting anything fresh.

No thanks, I'll take my 2 ply, my own toilet, and actual nutritious lunches.
But how good is to say "Image generated by Bing AI" (or whatever)? Many of this generated images are a one-off (so, you don't get a URL you can copy). It's like saying "Image found in Google.com".
It’s definitely not a reliability issue, with the platform - ESP32 in general is very popular so it’s surely an issue with my usage. I’m fairly certain it’s just a cheap manufacturer issue I ran into. I bought essentially a no-name ESP32 at first and that’s the one that refused to last. Proper manufacturer solved that issue for me and now ESP32 works just fine.

The raspberry pi actually never worked, largely because I tried to shoehorn way too much complexity in and manage too many things. It’s just a BT scan and a HTTP call.

I don’t think it’s a power issue as it’s getting 5V1A from a power outlet directly to USB-C into the device. Though that’s definitely something I need to look into, as the Xiao ESP32-S3 I have also had intermittent issues, and IIRC the XTensa cores are more power-hungry than its RISC-V based sibling, the ESP32-C3.
I wonder if ChatGPT will perform worse when you address it like you did here, with sentence fragments akin to a google search, instead of asking it things in a conversation.

I asked “how did the bhangmeter sensor get its name?” and got a complete and accurate response.

https://chat.openai.com/share/66788bbc-5c2e-4e0d-9a5d-370b2c...
Oh, sorry, my bad!
Gotcha, interesting. 1.1 MB isn't too bad, especially with Cloudflare providing a local PoP. And if this is for Hocus, I'm guessing your frontend isn't used much on mobile devices with iffy connections.

That writeup on different SQLite VFS's for in-browser use is helpful, thanks for linking that.
The horrible sound of high frequency CRT screaming meant that I couldn’t go into many electronics areas or stores until the nineties.
Check https://www.avalara.com/. You give them a list of products and/or services, the location of the buyer, and they tell you the taxable amounts for each item. It's all via API so can be built into your cart and checkout easily.
More technically, I suppose.

Is the error rate due to quantum tunneling at so many nanometers still a fundamental limit to transistor density and thus also (G)DDR and HBM performance per unit area, volume, and charge?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38056088 ; a new QC and maybe in-RAM computing architecture like HBM-PM: maybe glass on quantum dots in synthetic DNA, and then still wave function storage and transmission; scale the quantum interconnect

Is melamine too slow for >= HBM RAM?
I think that this is both an incorrect and amoral way of thinking about externalities. Externality costs Must be real incurred costs, not just hypothetical opportunity costs. Otherwise they are useless for economic analysis and lead to repugnant conclusions

IF you drop trash on your neighbor's lawn, that is an externality. If you refuse to mow their lawn, that is not an externality, no matter how much they have to pay someone else.

Efficiency is not an inherent good, and Pigouvian taxes on inefficiency are a huge moral hazard. Is it inefficient for a doctor to play with their children instead of work? Who are the decision makers?
When you give someone the power to decide what to do, they also have to be empowered to know the deadlines and costs of not doing each. They have to be trusted to make the right decisions - which often includes deciding not to do something - if you are not willing to back their decision when things are not done then you shouldn't have given them the authority in the first place.
To reinforce (1), even interest in a topic from a leader, if clear operational structure isn't present, will result in additional work. Be careful what you care about!
The Cloud Is Just My Basement's Computers
People are carbon. Could we remove them?
That's simply not up to me or you. Neither of us are lawyers or legally trained (I'm assuming, of course). We'd sound like bumbling baboons in a court of law without proper representation. You wouldn't want a lawyer to tell you how to code either because of something they dreamt up not hindered by even the slightest bit of knowledge. Same difference.

Even just translating what you said into something that makes sense legally (or is at all coherent from that point of view), has enough urgency that politicians might act on it, and actually stands a chance of getting enough backing to turn into law, is a process that takes a lot of skill, determination, and time.
Two different points. He's saying not to be one of those but as a leader, you will have to lead those. Some people are just not great at interpreting context and your job will be to spoon feed it.
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