skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure I still don't know them all! I just learn them as I need to. Like "how to revert a commit Jetbrains" or "Jetbrains query postgres" or "copilot for Jetbrains", etc.

Really 95% of the time I'm just using the code editor, intellisense, and search everywhere (shift shift shift). I'm glad the other features are there but it's totally fine to slowly discover them.

I think by default it also launches with a tip of the day feature, which you can manually browse through to see many of the tricks.
It's important to understand the history here. Failing the audit isn't necessarily due to some sort of fraud or abuse (although there likely are isolated instances). The problem is that for decades Congress never allocated funds to put proper financial controls in place so naturally the accounting systems are a disconnected jumbled mess. When they started annual audits everyone knew they would fail so that was no surprise. The point is to make gradual improvements every year until they can eventually pass.
So we need to invent an alternative visible and expensive status symbol. Back to gold watches?
Streaming 20mb/s is more than sufficient for video. I don't transfer 60gb blurays daily so it doesn't matter to me.
By middle class here are you referring to middle range wage earners?
That's very elitist. Not everyone lives in large cities with whole mass transit systems or works the usual 9-5. Even in large urban areas it's tricky to get around past a certain time. I remember working unexpected shifts and later staring at closed metro stations, having to walk in the rain to get home. No thanks.
Also, some people like cars. Deal with it, i'm not ditching for an e-bike or whatever. An electric motorcycle actually sounds nice though, if not for the battery weight.
Right, but in denser areas it's kind of crazy that more people aren't within 1-2 miles of a grocery store.
Its a transphobic conspiracy theory to say, as moravak1984 explicitly did upthread, that they did it for money not because its an actual real issue where they perceive an injustice, whereas the issues where they've already won, and thus are shifting some attention from, are not, or less so, specifically because they have succeeded in shifting the situation on the ground.
I think, at some point, people should have the right to be stupid on their computers. What needs to change is holding them liable if their negligence affects others.
Just use the slightly lower resolution.

Btw, in 2020 Google was caught red handed shipping broken code to firefox to make it look like broken/slow. Everytime that happens, just open support tickets with your IT dept. That is the only wining move. Otherwise you are just a fool being pushed around :(
Finally, a real world use case for crypto.
I didn't write that comment :P

My point was less related to the cause-and-effect, and more focused on the undeniable need for user control. Apple is the reason why the Digital Market Act exists - go read it, you'll very quickly realize that the language targets them. It also (rightfully) implicates Microsoft and Google, but it very explicitly paints Apple's relationship with the iPhone as a "Gatekeeper" situation. The reasoning should be obvious; OEMs don't deserve that level of control. Apple could implement all of their meaningful features competitively, as-is, without being the sole trusted distributor of iPhone apps.

Plus, even if you love Apple and hate Europe, features like this let you meaningfully resist European mandates. If Europe demands that SMS apps have a backdoor (fancy that), Apple users would have options that aren't provided by Apple. In a world where FAANG is bought and owned by the US government and gets regularly subpoenaed for data, that might be an affordance you value.
this is my assumption - Siri/Alexa/GoogleAssistant - will all have LLMs behind them and be able to hold a conversation thread / remember context.
this is definitely not intentional and is probably some combination of me doing a bad job of setting up webrtc, people having spotty internet, and people messing with the site.
If you were in the US, most likely the Sellers agent then kept the full 6% fee unless you negotiated it down on that first transaction.
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I agree with taneq actually, just after the match I attended an impromptu lecture by a professor who also had some go knowledge, at the time I really felt like I was witnessing something new and important. In retrospect I still think of that as the kickoff of the current AI wave.
You can sorta measure some of this with traces. For example, sampled traces that contain the sampling rate in their metadata let you re-weight counts, thus allowing you to accurately measure "number of requests to x". Similarly, a good sampling of network latency can absolutely be measured by trace data. Metrics will always have their place, though, for reasons you mention - measuring cpu utilization, # of objects in something etc. Logs vs. traces is more nuanced I think. A trace is nothing more than a collection of structured logs. I would wager that nearly all use cases for structured logging could be wholesale replaced by tracing. Security logging and big object logging is an exception, although that's also dependent on your vendor or backend.
Oulu Finland would challenge your perception about good weather riding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU
Another potential winner may emerge soon:

"OpenAI and Jony Ive in talks to raise $1bn from SoftBank for AI device venture"

https://www.ft.com/content/4c64ffc1-f57b-4e22-a4a5-f9f90a741...
My at-destination-ferrying costs rarely if ever exceed €10/day, usually less, since unlimited metro/bus passes are widely available.
>A very tiny number of people in the US live a 5 min walk from a grocery store.

That's exactly the problem. There needs to be more housing built near grocery stores, and more grocery stores built where the housing is, instead of 5 miles away.
You're not wrong IMO. Sticking out a burst of short sentences as wisdom based on... 30. Isn't sticking.
Katago (and Leela) and “blue dot” is changing human vs human games too. Interestingly enough, I will say this about Katago: you can consistently beat it with +6 handicap. I don’t think you can say that about pro players.
Search engines and their consequences have been a disaster for the human internet.
I don't. I want decision-making delegated to professionals with lifelong expertise in that topic, not the troop of howler monkeys that is Congress. Did you hear that now they're kidney-punching each other and then going "NUH-UH! I didn't touch him!" like four-year-olds [0]? That's who you want to be making life-or-death decisions on e.g. how far apart to space landing aircraft? Get real.

[0]: https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/11/14/congress/mc...
Exactly. Even if you exclude all the non- Smartphone usage of 5G or 3GPP Rel 18, it is still 50-100x more complex than Pre-3G era.

99.999% of HN have little to no appreciation of Hardware. And very little understanding of the complexity in WiFi or 5G. We are streaming our face in high quality video in near real time over a wireless cell tower that is simultaneously being used by 10s of thousands of people. And yet all we got on HN was 4g and 5G are shit.
Has Anyone on the Internet Listened to Garth Brooks' New Album?
From my limited understanding, a smaller, more specialized model could produce more accurate responses, but the main thesis of the article would still be true. Such LLMs would still be statistic prediction models, with no concept of reality.

We already know that specialist systems, such as those tried in the 80's are not very good in modeling reality, either. The thing is, using LLMs as knowledge bases or as a sort of modern oracles seems to me like using a powerful tool for something they are horrible at.

They are good enough (but not perfect) text summarizers, text translators and text transformers, but are far from the so expected "AGI" some seem to be expecting them to be.
This is such an interesting comment to me because it gets so much right on how to motivate ditching cars. If you were funding a campaign to eliminate cars to reduce carbon emissions I think you would meet with widespread resistance. If you promote an idea of a higher quality life that is possible w/o cars and explore that - in the end I think you'd end up removing many more cars than the first approach.
Don't worry, one day soon you'll become the senior and pass along the torment with your favorite code styles :) And thus the cycle continues...
I might have called it emacsperiment instead but the documentation is very clear about what it is/isn't so shrug.
Yeah but with that in mind it’s a good thing that new outlets roll with this “failed audit” as it puts pressure to constantly be trying to do better and this slowly helps to rule out corruption or incompetence
> trying to solve innovative business problems with incremental improvement.

This describes pretty much every AI startup I know, both good and bad.

I suspect the places where AI will really succeed will be places that entirely change existing workflows and user experiences. This requires a fair bit of research and experimentation, but most startups don't have the appetite for that, and VCs are putting on the pressure to do AI stuff fast.

A lot of AI potential is being squandered now due to a simple lack of patience and planning in the rush to market.
That's about all I need as well. Then they take those basic functions which they are very good at and started trying to push other usages. "By the way, did you know dogs are blah blah blah."

Fortunately, they seemed to have backed off on that a bit. It was a good reminder for me though - they control all the dials and can take something I bought and enjoyed using and enshittify it at the drop of a hat.
This is what I dislike about OSI. It feels like their mission is specifically to provide free labor to megacorps. The FSF has (IMO) goals that have a more tangible benefit to society, and while megacorps can and do use free software without contributing anything, that feels like more of a side effect than the primary goal of the movement.

If you know that someone is going to take your code and make money off of it anyways (which is almost guaranteed whether you pick an FSF or OSI license), then you might as well make it so that society can benefit from this too. GPL/AGPL do this, MIT/BSD/etc do not.

And as an aside, I feel like it should be easier to profit from open source if you pick a license like AGPL. Companies that want to use it can pay you (the sole rights holder) for a commercial friendly license, while everyone else can use the free license. This is the same model for Qt/KDE.

You don't even need to sell support, and could probably even throw up a self service checkout page for commercial licenses. Thats minimal effort for maximizing profit lol.
>They ended up selling ads to Realtors rather than opening up a new way for owners to sell their homes directly.

Doesn't it always go that way with goals like that?

How many times have we seen "automated recruiting" platforms pop up, only for them to pivot a year later into selling access and ads directly to recruiters.

The market for "middle-men" seems to always be thriving when there's little to do and much to gain.
> €19 for a hanger is ridiculously expensive

€19 for a hanger is the wrong way to look at this. There's no useful application where you'd buy a single hanger. This appears to simply be a way to provide people that want to toss €19 of support to someone they like doing something cool a little something in return.

The 12 hanger package is $75, which makes the per-hanger cost of $6.25 still a bit high, but well within an order of magnitude of other high-end products in the category.
Are you sure you aren't an expert? For me, i sell myself as "generally speaking a full stack developer based in dotnet and whatever for datastore and frontend, but also I've done 4 other middle tiers" I'm never the most knowledgeable in anything, except whatever the team is transitioning to. My specialty is codebase transition and requirements gathering. I'm the person you call to migrate from dotnet to $thing or from $thing to dotnet. I'm the person you hire because you need an engineer to talk to highly technical people in a different domain and try to translate their very complex asks into something you can deliver.

I'm job searching right now and while it's not where near as res hot as before, I'm having no problem gettinf interviews. I just have some requirements that make me a bad fit for a lot of companies like I must be remote.

I'd say look at what you've done and figure out what your specialty is and sell that. There's more to specialties than tech stack.
What do you mean by "deceptively simple".?
But then for 5 years they refused to implement any new feature in a time of massive web innovation.

Chrome is not repeating that mistake, most new web APIs come from them.
As a cyclist, motorcyclist and driver, I have to say that the use of high powered ebike (surron, cake etc) on the road is pretty high where I live (Bournemouth), and I'm not keen on it. They are taken where normal bikes would go but tear up the ground like an MX bike would do, leaving damage that will take a year to grow back.

They have replaced the MX bike as the illegal transport of choice for obvious reasons. They are great, but shouldn't be on the road (unless properly registered), and the problem is that a lot of people lump them in with pedal-assist ebike (which I also ride) which is really negative PR for what is good sustainable transport.

Having influential mtb riders like Sam Pilgrim hooning around on one in some videos doesn't help..
100%. I live in a hamlet of a larger town in the US, and was curious what the population of my hamlet is.

There’s a Wikipedia page for the hamlet, but it’s empty. No population data, etc.

I’d much rather see no data than a LLM’s best guess. I’m guessing a LLM using the data would also perform better without approximated or “probably right” information.
It's not just tech journalism.
Yeah I think Home significantly deteriorates with time.

- refuses to understand English at times (maybe it's picking some weird localisation)

- will not hear. Period. Literally have to shut the power couple times.
> If some people need to use cars for mobility or business reasons, that is fine with me.

Definitely. For stuff like that, emergency services, delivery, trash collection, etc. larger vehicles on streets are totally fine and I think most would agree.

I don't even necessarily think we should ban all cars, but we should definitely stop incentivizing them by heavily subsidizing car infrastructure with city budgets funded by taxpayers. I think if we stop the incentives that were heavily lobbied for by car companies we'll find the _true_ most efficient ways to build cities which will most likely be heavily geared toward walkability and bike-ability, public transport, etc.
Based on the article that's not accurate. The article states:

"The RIAA’s claim totals $1,247,719.76 and is based on falsely claimed music of hundreds of artists."

The rest of the ~$3.3M in claims were made by other artists/labels.
Regulations adds costs because of added operations and red tape and the costs could only come from consumers in the long term. This would mean a proportion of poor can't afford them and become offline.

So regulation should be used only when required. Now if this is the case where the regulation is required is upto debate but the fact is that FCC isn't correcting any of the things ISP are doing currently but only few things that ISP could do in the future which would hurt consumers. And so this only feels like a political decision as "net neutrality" is a good sounding term and government which forces big companies to provide it is good.
How would this computer fare against the top 10 best players collaborating(or even top 90-100)? I would bet it would lose big time.

It would destroy them in the same way. The marginal value of each additional human brain quickly approaches zero (or perhaps even negative as the team tries to communicate/collaborate).

The top 10 chess grandmasters in the world working together could not beat the best (or even "mediocre") chess engine. Not even close. They're practically playing different games.
Duncan got significantly upgraded from time to time. Sometimes as a mentat. Or as a sex machine.
You could have a robust permissions models that disallows it by default, but Google would never want that.
Yes but in this case we are describing old-school Twitter, in which people made their tweets via SMS. That's why it was easier for them to make these deals.
Welon
5% in Asia so.....
Canada is typically 7% commission on the first 100k and 3.5% on the balance.

As average prices have increased commission has also gone up.

Realtor fees are high for their low level of digital literacy and competency.

Realtors will be disrupted by tech folks who take a simple licensing exam and make software work for the customers.

Running anything more than a basic level of search is usually impossible for Realtors.

It’s this old realtor exchange which has more than had its clock tick past expiry.

A software dev buddy had some decent parameters (distance to school, work, family, etc) and it seemed to boil Realtors brains to find a way to map this.

It was more about making a sale.

It was almost to the point where my friend almost was going to become a realtor to get access to the data to run his own searches. He calculated getting a license was cheaper than the commission.

Realtors are like lawyers, too many don’t know everything but act like they do.

The ones who specialize and actually are experts are worth it.

Most sales are not that specialized
I don't think it's 'awful' for a person to live in debt. The richest Americans have loads of debt. A significant part of the American Dream is to own a house which is essentially debt. Perhaps the argument is more about whether the US government is drowning in debt more akin to CC debt (bad debt) or mortgage debt (good debt) but in the abstract, leverage is a perfectly fine thing for a government to use in order to fund its development.
The thing that continues to happen is that people living in rural towns think that cities changing their mobility priorities to decenter cars is a personal affront.

People asking to properly account for the negative externalities of car ownership can be construed as a war on cars through taxation, or as a removal of a subsidy. The only difference is framing.
Another way can be to try to lower the bar to write performant code. For example, the work in languages like Rust, Nim, Hare and Roc might also unlock capabilities to write low-level performant code with the same productivity as high-level languages.

I def. agree though tat a carbon tax to force companies to be more frugal would help too.

I've heard too many times to not think about optimization and just throw more hardware at problems, I think that's a mentality we really need to start questioning.
Extremist nonsense. Why not restrict access to electronics, heating and cooling and lighting in the developing world? Meanwhile, here on earth, there are and will be micro EVs, trucks and busses and material advancements for batteries and recycling. Just take a look at the chinese market, there are many affordable options for the everyman. Also, if you don't think self driving cars will solve any problems you haven't driven anything with level 2/3 cruise control. Transport modernization in the developing world will be analogous to mobile phone proliferation in the developing world (in place of having a POTS), it doesn't have to mirror Norway
"For me"

> Be kind first, be right later.

Being kind is good, we should not forget to stand up for what you believe.

> People care more about stories than facts.

It doesn't feel virtuous, in the end, what's true matters more than stories.

> Think of yourself as the person you want to be, not the person you are.

It's good to know who you really are, not just who you want to be.

> Surround yourself with people who are passionate about their work.

Being passionate doesn't always mean it's good. Even a passionate slave is still a slave.
This hits so hard. Remembering to spit out the right incantation these days is exceedingly difficult.
Your comment made me realize that we probably have much more publicly available code than math, and we have only started writing code en masse in the last few decades. This, in turn, dovetails nicely with your point that math communicates the essence.
>How would this computer fare against the top 10 best players collaborating(or even top 90-100)?

Against the AlphaGo of 2015? They might win, but probably not (I think you're overestimating how much collaboration would help). Against today's AlphaGo/KataGo/FineArt/etc there's literally zero chance, even with a two stone handicap. Same goes for 100 GMs playing collaborative chess against Stockfish.

(that said, I agree calling this the singularity is overkill)
Not only that, our built environment is uninviting to walk in because it's built for cars. When have you ever walked by a parking lot and said "Oh my god, that parking lot was amazing, I want to spend time around it"? Yet we require by law parking lots to be built everywhere in America. We have legally compelled property owners to build something ugly.

Thanksgiving is coming up. Black Friday is the busiest shopping day of the year. Drive around, notice how on the busiest shopping day of the year, most commercial parking lots still aren't full.
Small correction: it’s awful for a poor person to live in debt. If you are quite wealthy there are lots of ways to borrow money and it’s all good!
I don't think people generally write code to use this or another guarantee of the implementation. They write code, they run it, it seems to work (on my machine) and that's it. Later, the implementation changes in a subtle way (or someone tries to run the code in an incompatible version) and the code stops working. Nothing to do with "relying on GIL". The same may apply to relying on dict key order, timing of things, or anything else. That's why we have race conditions, Docker images, freezing dependencies, "only works in IE", etc.

Writing to spec is very rare in my experience. You usually learn the spec once someone tells you your code doesn't work on XYZ.
I don't know much about go, but AI is so much better at chess than humans there is no number of humans you could throw at the problem to beat the engine.
I went to a talk by Rob van Zeijst about the match of Lee Sedol and Alphago and he was saying that after move 37, the push along the fourth line would have been better for Lee Sedol. And also, move 78 should not have worked, or at least not that well. This was also noticed by the real time commentary at the time, IIRC.
> Distributed tracing is also only beneficial if you have the associated logs - so that you can understand what each piece of the system was doing for a single unit of work.

Ehhh, that's only if you view tracing as "the thing that tells me that service A talks to service B". Spans in a trace are just structured logs. They are your application logging vehicle, especially if you don't have a legacy of good in-app instrumentation via logs.

But even then the worlds are blurring a bit. OTel logs burn in a span and trace ID, and depending on the backend that correlated log may well just be treated as if it's a part of the trace.