skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since most people get psychology exactly wrong:

First, Life Strategies by Dr. Phil (the ONLY book by Dr. Phil that I recommend)

Particularly, Law #3: People Do What Works

quote:

"By “works for you,” I mean you get some kind of payoff for performing the seemingly undesirable acts. And as you will see, this formula holds true even if at some other, perhaps more conscious or apparent level, you recognize that the behavior in question isn’t working for you; you may even see that it creates pain. Yet based on results, you are getting some sort of payoff, or you wouldn’t do what you do or accept what you accept. A simple example is overeating. At a conscious, rational level, you know it is counterproductive, but at some other level, it is rewarding you enough to maintain the overeating. So, based on results, since people only do what works, overeating must work for you in some way."

Second: "If Life is a Game, These are the Rules" by Cherie Carter-Scott.

particularly, Rule 7:

quote:

"OTHERS ARE ONLY MIRRORS OF YOU

You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself."

Projection is a big deal. "Every Accusation is a Confession" is everywhere.

Third, works by Anne Wilson Schaef: "The Addictive Organization" and "When Society Becomes an Addict"

These describe addictive behaviors and patterns in organizations and in society, and one can see them in cults (unfortunately, we deal with such behavior these days a lot) and even in "the mob".

The point is that outside of addiction itself, the appeal of "Don't Make Me Think" and the cult's legitimization of truly vile behavior such as hate, prejudice, theft and violence is the reward or payoff that lures people, even if membership is self-defeating.

As I read about some of the traits: Crisis orientation, denial, projection, lying, perfection (demanding it from others), ethical deterioration and so on, bells started ringing ... this is what I saw going on at some jobs, and in society.

Similar thread here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36262466
I'm 63. Cats seem a lot more friendly and open to human interaction now than when I was a kid. I wonder what they were like 200 years ago. Especially barn cats, with half wild lifestyles.

Some cats now have floppy ears -- I first saw that in the late 90s. Floppy ears is a sign of domestication in dogs and foxes.
…the 15.2 million California Hispanics, who total 40% of California's population. 2004 studies estimated that between 300,000 and 500,000 have ancestry descended from the Spanish and Mexican eras of California

Parent comment is mostly correct, californios are an insignificant part of California in comparison to eg Tejanos.
That Al Gore setup is really awesome, specially for 2007.
Ruby in a nutshell.
He should have hired staff that is competent with the tech stack used at his company.

Unforced rewrites are usually always a bad idea.
that chart of the "inefficiency of client protocols" tripped my bullshit alarm

the paper is here: https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2023/papers/15-networ...

it's a super-contrived example that's not using any of the functionality of the database and is just using it as "cat"

basically just doing cat over localhost, well, what a surprise, if you add a layer of serialisation of course it's slower that just doing memcpy()

if you're using your database to store files... maybe don't do that
>but like nuclear they can supply the majority of electricity for one.

OK ... If you want to claim that the future is wind + natural gas/coal - go ahead, but that's not what the public is being told. The public is told that wind/solar can replace fossil fuels, and they can't.

Here's the reality:

If you have nuclear, you don't need wind/solar - at all. In fact, you will not be able to use wind/solar, because nuclear can't be easily spun up and down to deal with the wind/solar intermittency. In your France example, wind/solar is pointless.

If you have hydro, and you have enough of it, you don't need wind/solar. If you don't have enough hydro, you need natural gas though you can optionally throw in wind/solar. Once you hit your geographic hydro capacity, the only way to increase is to build out your natural gas/coal infrastructure (regardless if you throw in wind/solar in there)

If you don't have nuclear, and you don't have hydroelectric, then wind/solar will not be able to replace fossil fuels. You will be forced to build out coal or natural gas infrastructure (or burn wooden pallets), as your Danish example shows.

Here are other examples:
- Germany, which closed its nuclear plants, and now is using wind but also more coal/gas than ever before: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-elec-by-source?coun...

- Portugal, which is blessed by geography that gives it access to hydro, but because they don't have enough, and they built out their wind infrastructure, need significant natural gas capability: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-elec-by-source?coun...

- Costa Rica is another poster child for renewable usage .. but really, it's a poster child for hydroelectric power. They don't need wind/solar at all. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-elec-by-source?coun...
Adding a specific clause would be self defeating. A poorly worded, overly broad clause which can be twisted to mean whatever they might want later is much better.

In this case "decide" can mean "did the local government ask nicely" or anything else.
How did he detect this, what tool is he using to view daemons?
ATP is not a social tax. Its a pension fund. Also from that page:

The Danish social security system is financed primarily through ordinary tax revenue and only very limited social security contributions for employees and employers.
I have a 50 foot fiber HDMI cable to get 4k/120hz signal from the PC in my home office to the TV in the living room. Works great!
Add a nice integrated iPhone quality webcam, and I think it would be endgame display. If there is one company that could do this, it would be Apple.

Although I have an LG Ergo 4k 32inch at home and I think the 16:9 ratio is just not enough for having 2 windows side by side. You'd only get 1500pixels per window on retina 6K.

I would've liked it to be a bit wider.
Or maybe I'd go for a smaller 27 inch, and put my laptop screen as a secondary screen next to it.
I trained my cat to use the literal toilet, no treats involved.
I asked ChatGPT how many parameters the human brain has, and it said 86B neurons * 1000 connections, so 86T parameters.

It does seem like bigger models give better responses when given benchmarks. It might plateau or overfit the data at some point, but I'm not sure we've reached it yet.
What's wrong with a wordpress blog? It doesn't seem any less personal just because they're not running a server. That's just technical trivia. They can be at least as personal since they don't have to also be a technologist.

Wordpress doesn't require you to log in. It's just a web page.

Blogs are blogs. There are more of them than ever, far more than you can ever read.

A possibility to consider: they're no longer all made up of people who are capable of running a web server, and therefore not all directly connecting to your own personal technological interests. I suppose there's nothing wrong with missing the days when everybody was a lot like you, but I consider the Internet a lot more interesting for having everybody on it.
https://archive.is/ieKQC
I was hoping this would be a Steam Deck-based game jam.
Would high speed optical work for connections that require regular unplugging?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOSLINK and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADAT_Lightpipe are limited to about a megabyte/second, if I’m doing my math right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MADI#Sampling_frequency gets higher, at around 12 megabytes/second. That still is at least a factor of 100 away from this cable.

I think that’s because it isn’t easy to make a plug that works reliably for a gigabytes per second fiber cable.
Re: SF 10-33 Soma channel
Many groups are fighting against cities encrypting their police radio channels based on government transparency and freedom of information grounds.
I'm like, more importantly, it hurts the SF 10-33 channel.
Paywall free version

https://archive.ph/qwkvc
Interesting, what makes you think this?
Paywall free link

https://archive.ph/qwkvc
I lived with a Siamese cat once. I didn't teach her to fetch. She taught me to throw again. She used to love those little foam balls, but only the yellow ones. Other colors were just not as fun too play with.
> if you wanna be precise, they said that the least funny people are the ones complaining;

Exactly, which is at odds with reality; see the list of complainers who are extremely funny people.
Creating an order isn't a stateless process.
What am I trying to convince you of?
Fetches (and parses) a ~93kB JSON file every 3 seconds along with the threejs stuff. No wonder it refuses to load on my mid-range android phone.
Have the same issue here, with Ryzen 4700U + 16 GB RAM. Are you saying that it is not enough for generic browsing at the end of 2023?
>whatever we have, you have

Must have lost the rest in a big fire or something. Drowned in a canoeing accident.
Be me.

Be doing website mock-ups with Photoshop before coding them (which was the style at the time), different mock-ups, send different JPEGs, even some PSD to toggle stuff.

Client says "Anon, site is broken, clicking links don't work !".

back and forth on the phone

Turns out client is clicking on links in the PSD.

Did I mention client was running their own 2 person design agency at the time ?
People generally travel at daylight hours, so it’s actually about a third of that. And, worse, people generally travel at peak hours. Again, reality.
> Buy a treadmill

Have one. Plus chin up bar, and there's always bodyweight.

> and jog on it for 20 minutes when you wake up.

That's a routine.

> Whenever you remember to do it.

That's more akin to how my brain functions. But "when I remember" (/ have energy/motivation) is a huuge variable I struggle with.

I understand you mean well but this is a thing I've struggled with for years. It tends to be boom or bust. I can go months with going to the gym regularly and it helps, then things get chaotic and it all falls apart, and it's exceptionally hard to restart, probably because of exactly such an executive deficit such exercise would help with.
PHP already has an opt-in type system that's runtime safe (ie it's not just compiled away like in TS).

The major piece of the puzzle missing is generics support, but other type handling is already there.
I normally just set display: flex on an element and then use Chrome’s dev tools. You can click on an icon next to the declaration and it brings up a UI with all the flex alignment properties.
Oliver Sacks argues in his book Seeing Voices (about sign language, and why it is important that we let the deaf speak it (which, yes, was controversial among the hearing up until a few decades ago)), that this is because our brain evolved to the point that it needs to acquire language from the human tribe we are born into to fully function. It is basically "incomplete" without it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Voices
One if the best current uses cases for LLMs is to point out possible errors in human produced work.

I would love to see every small town judge forced to submit a complete recording of the trial, a draft opinion, and what the AI thought of it before submitting their final ruling. All of this should be on the public record.

The problem is that, at least in Texas, the justices of the peace (JPs) would refuse to record or erase recordings if evidence that hurts their buddy.
12 minute old account off to a great start!

Remember, this guy votes.
Why We're Unhappiest in Our Late 40s
analogous compare dissimilar things with a common attribute

it is a cognitive deficiency if you cannot perceive the common attribute, or you ask for clarification from the person that made the analogy
Indeed. But by using one you are tacitly signalling to the industry you are not a serious player. Typically 10-15% is what you'd pay now an aggregator that caters to recognised artists and labels.

But better than nothing as a place to start.
Do you think one has a meaningful impact?

I think the implication is that on an individual level neither matters, and that suggesting, on social media, people stop traveling to prevent climate change is both ridiculous and harmful to anyone working to actually improve carbon emissions.
The Nazis nearly invented the atomic bomb.
I get what this post is saying, and I feel it too, deep in my bones. But technical work, especially in software, is being commoditized. If you view commoditization as a process, the end point of it is "free" (as in beer).

I've been in tech long enough to remember when you had to carve literally every line of code out of the firmament of the heavens to get anything done. Today the bulk of technical work is plumbing together literally millions of lines of "free" (as in freedom and beer) code to get some behavior that checks all the requirements boxes.

Going from the post some more, modern developers are more akin to line cooks that put ingredients together. There's value to that skill, but it's a reduced value as its easier to learn to plug together APIs than to craft a cache aware data structure and reduce the big-O of some algorithm while fitting it into limited RAM.

In most restaurants line cooks are almost a commodity (even the sous and executive chefs are to a point), customers don't know if the cook from yesterday quit in a rage and a new guy got picked up this morning who had also quit in a rage from the place next door. Follow the recipe and you get the same product to the customer.

News for the tech folks here, line cooks (even experienced ones) make shockingly less than the average fell off a bus tech-bro with a couple bootcamps and a github repo.

The average developer is today thousands of times more productive than the developers from 30 years ago because they don't have to build the ingredients anymore -- the industry is well bootstrapped by now. But if some future Co-Pilot LLM can turn one developer into 4, and effectively "auto-plumb" with minimal human direction then...
In software, the vast majority of work has asymptotically been automated. So we forget that it was ever work.

Consider the humble file copy. Or “automated scribe” if you will.

Copying is automated to the point where the enormous amount of copying our systems do has becomes invisible to us - and also lost as a point of economic differentiation.

And it’s meta useful! All our copying programs are themselves easily copied - with the same algorithms!

The point is that software writing, like mathematics, will always spend its time futzing around the edge of the known and unknown, because every area that gets fully known/characterized will get automated in a way that both solves that problem for everyone and scorches the economic earth of that activity.

Software work will always include an element of quest (research) into the unknown, in search of riches (economic value), in some aspect, whether that new area is glorious or tragically mundane.

Whatever area of software work a manager without software expertise can do themselves automagically, is like a fruit tree tamed so that it is easy to pluck fruit from, because it no longer has fruit.

The manager would no longer be doing anything differentiated or valuable if their problem statement wasn’t upgraded back into difficult to automate territory requiring pesky creativity and expertise.
Engineering is about applying repeatable processes to achieve a specified result. Suitable analysis is performed before starting on the final work product to ensure the results are achievable. No process, no specification, and no analysis means no engineering.
>This 101 year old lived through a world war with rationing, would have been born into the great depression, saw the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, the Cold War and Cuban Missile Crisis, the Kennedy Assassination, the Nixon years, the oil crises and recessions, Gulf wars, 9/11...

Sure, not stealing his thunder, but that's how selection bias works. Not everyone got to live to 101 despite maybe even living healthier lives. I know people in their 40's who already died of cancer. Life can always throw you a curb ball.

>Gen X and Millennials are not the only generations who have faced adversity.

Fair point.
Yes, an A100 costs $4.13/hour

https://huggingface.co/pricing#spaces
There's small luxury producers all over Europe, they just aren't as successful internationally as LVMH.

And even then it's easier to launch a new luxury bag than a mobile OS...
I’m sorry your relatives were affected by Hamas terrorism. I hope they all made/make it out unscathed.

I also saw plenty of people (on Reddit, etc.) celebrating the bombing of Gaza, including incidents where innocent civilians were killed, or were certainly going to get killed. (Because “they all support Hamas anyway.”) Nothing about a group of people in Gaza celebrating terror makes them monsters or even especially unique. Unfortunately, once an enemy is sufficiently dehumanized, we are all susceptible to this sort of behavior.
society does, it is impossible to prosecute and win that’s all
Reporting back. As one may have guessed, it is light on technical details (no code for example) and serves as possibly an into to zero-to-hero. Some interesting insights into the near-future possibilities but nothing that can really be applied practically.
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K LeGuin. Never has gotten the game it deserves.
Which OS are you running and which browser? We've optimized for many common browsers/OS combos but have clearly missed yours (nothing to do with your specs).
Was in healthcare IT as well: https://www.fs.com/products/41028.html?attribute=35025&id=61... for a couple of dollars you can get 2 paths of crush protected bend insensitive high speed fiber that barely degrades signal quality when you knot it up. To get around the limitations of the LC connector and wall jacks being regularly obliterated by equipment/tables being moved around use recessed jacks, that way they just pass by instead of break the connector (applies to rj45 as well). We had great success with this approach for a couple thousand locations.

Of course, the real problem 95% of the time is really around the device not the technology the device uses. There is a misalignment of incentives on who can work on the device, whether standard parts are used, and whether the approved parts are the $2 type solution that will cost $800 in on site contractor fees to replace again or the $4 solution which actually stands a chance to being used. Once the device is bought nobody is going to be incented or allowed to do anything but fix it to status quo. It's one reason I had to get out of healthcare IT - it was more often the system getting in the way of what patients and nurses needed to do than the actual technology itself so solving things from a technology perspective felt like running on a treadmill and going nowhere.
Some forget that the primary mission of systems such as the government is to continue existing. Auxiliary functions come afterwards.

I think AI could be turned into a very effective persuasion weapon. I think the government that does it first will gain more power as a result.
This page doesn't answer that question because it doesn't include how many servers are being used to handle it.
Heart disease is the #1 cause of death. Let's regulate that away first.

Cameras in every household to catch people who are about to eat unhealthily. Administer a small electric shock through their mandatory headgear until they comply.

This is how we achieve utopia, where everyone is safe and no one dies of preventable causes.
They're losing money if nobody buys from them, because they have overhead to stay open.
> But Weinberg testified that getting users to switch from Google was complicated, requiring as many as 30 to 50 steps to change defaults on all their devices, whereas the process could be shortened to just one click on each device.“The search defaults are the primary barrier,’' he said. “It’s too many steps.’'

This is hard to take seriously.

30–50 steps across all of your devices, maybe if you have 10 devices.

And a desired "one click" is similarly silly. Just opening an app takes a click. It's pretty reasonable to take another couple clicks to get to the setting, and a final click to set it.

I mean, Chrome has larger market share than Edge or Safari, and it's not default, and I'd say it takes more work to download and install a browser than change a search default.

So it's pretty clear that when users perceive something as better, they switch. None of my non-tech friends have ever even heard of DDG, so that's going to be the start of the problem right there. Not Google's payments.
The corollary of this is optimistic though. If increasingly large models don't make a big difference, this is hinting at the fact that data quality is a lot more important than the raw quantity of data. This is good news for open source models, because it would be possible to run or train viable models on less expensive hardware, and having billions of dollars in GPUs isn't as much of a moat as they are suggesting.
I was gonna put this as a top level comment, but this is a better place for it:

Say I'm someone who is skeptical of the conventional wisdom that these kinds of prompts actually matter. How would you convince me that I shouldn't be skeptical?

You say that I should be "testing and measuring" as I go. How? What is the metric to measure? How do I measure it in a way that avoids being tainted by my own biases?

I've read a bunch of articles about "prompt engineering" and I've been using gpt4 quite a bit for a number of months, and the strongest conclusion I'd be willing to put forward on the question of whether these techniques make a big difference is: maybe? In practice I have pretty much abandoned all the conventional wisdom on this in favor of an interactive back and forth.
You might mean that with "time", but I think recursiveness with a delay is the critical part (and to some extend, is achieved with spatiality).
In general I think what is so often missed on HN, which is so ironic given this is in big part a board for founders or those who aspire to be (I thought), is the challenge and effort and success of building companies and teams that execute on larger than life projects. It is incredibly hard to recruit the best talent in the world, and assemble them and make it work. The leader must be incredibly competent and believable to do that.
Fun and insightful comment.

Not sure at all. Also some ambiguities in definitions. Above I mean “consciousness” of the type many would be willing to assume operates in a cat, dog, or mouse—attentional and occasionally, also intentional.
I agree that this is downstream of pure attention. Attention needs to be steered and modulated. The combination of the two levels working together recursively is what I had in mind.

“Free will” gets us into more than that. I’ve been reading Daniel Dennett on levels of “intention” this week. This higher domain of an intentional stance (nice Wiki article) might get labeled “self-consciousness”.

Most humans seem to accept this as a cognitive and mainly linguistic domain—the internal discussions we have with ourselves, although I think we also accept that there is are major non-linguistic drivers. Language is an amazingly powerful tool for recursive attentional and semantic control.
California does it in the summer due to heat, so kind of, and also the opposite.
the way I deter people I care about from working in fast food is by showing them other options and paths to thriving in those other options

the similarity to sex work being the low socioeconomic status, and lack of influence, prevalence of labor trafficking, and generally not bragging about the role