skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While you are right, sometimes I can't help but feel like Moore's Law (etc) has done us a disservice by making it so we compare every kind of technological progress to the progress in computer hardware (or I guess electronics more broadly) and expect that kind of progress in other domains. Are there any other fields that have experienced the same sort of staggering, exponential improvement? Off the top of my head, think of say, food/agriculture, biology, aerospace engineering, construction engineering, etc. All have seen steady, impressive improvements, but nothing comparable to the steady (over many decades), yet exponential improvement of Moore's Law - nothing comparable to going from room-sized computers to having 1000x the compute power in a smartphone chip.

(EDIT: This isn't to say that those fields are worse, or the scientists there less skilled, or something. They're just different domains. "Increase transistor density" may simply just be an easier problem to solve - despite being an incredibly difficult problem - than the issues in those fields.)

I'm going off on a tangent a bit, but all I'm trying to say is, I feel like "if electronics manufacturing can improve at X rate, then surely Y field can also improve at that rate" is a bit of a fallacy.
Study for 30-60 minutes with high focus and intent, when you get home or before you go to work. You should dedicate the time to studying, but not so much that you burn out and it becomes a chore or burden.

Make it a marathon rather than a race.
We do though,

We've had them since the first time a group of farming monkeys decided to post day/night guards on the granary.

Those posts have been filled around the clock ever since.

To my knowledge the first ones to formalize this were Locke, Hobbes and Rousseau but, in all cases, very little has changed since.

To me, that's as straight an answer as you're ever going to get
The death penalty only makes sense for white collar crime, and it makes a lot of sense in this setting. Theres very little you can do to disincentivize people from engaging in crimes of irrationality or desperation, but I think if you threaten someone who is well off already with death for stealing, or failing to report accurately to the EPA/FDA etc. The number of cases will rapidly go to zero.
Adult people, cheetahs will eat kids
It can be cheaper to kill them. One appeal allowed, to be finished within one year of the sentencing. Then, simply use a bullet rather than expensive medical death.
I don’t think death sentence is actually a bit much here.

Im generally against death sentences for heat of the moment situations. Think: murder.

But in a situation where you’ve had legal teams working with you, where you’ve been planning this out, and where you know what the damage to this is etc., you’re basically a massive threat to society.

The active planning, intent, and maliciousness is something that should be made an example out of.

Death sentences for crimes where the person doing the crime likely didn’t even get a chance to think about the consequences is useless. Death sentences and removal of all assets from corporate executives that have caused a significant amount of damage would have a deterrence effect.
Grind leetcode, study interview questions, practice system design, watch youtubes
No kidding. Where I live, we had many different kinds of small birds and bunnies in our yard. A couple of years ago, 2 Neighbors got a cat and they let them out. After 6 months, no birds and no rabbits. Now all I see are crows and an occasional Blue Jay. All the small song birds are gone.

IMO, there should be a $2000 USD tax per year on owning cats. If you do not register the cat, you get a hefty fine. Also dog catchers should be allowed to pick up cats roaming outside.
What's the technical distinction between "not guilty" and "innocent?"
> Cats have been domestic pets in the UK since at least the times of Roman civilisation, and have been allowed to roam free for much of that time.

The human population in UK has increased more than 10x since then, if cat population increased accordingly there are way more cats killing things today than back then.

The more humans around the more careful we have to be about our impact on the environment, so we have to be 10 times as careful today as we used to be historically.
> Curious as to why some sort of model specifically trained for prompt engineering couldn't be placed before a LLM in a pipeline, or used in a transfer learning scenario.

They can.

It's just important enough for performance to be worth doing this manually.

> I'm also curious as to why existing LLMs can't be fine tuned to handle this, if prompt engineering is really a major concern.

It depends what you want them to do. They're general purpose things and there isn't a one size fits all solution here.
+1 for Fastmail, have been using them for many years and recommend them. Using aliases helps deal with (input) business emails, each assigned to specific Inbox.
Just link, don't repaste old comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37449477

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
They used to only be outside, and were sometimes fed when they lived on a farm. Nowadays pretty much all roaming ones still get fed at home.
By the way, Googling SALET says that it’s piece of historical armour. (a light round helmet extending over the back of the neck)
ATI on its own did not have a solid future, they could have easily ended up like their other local Canadian counterparts Nortel or Blackberry.
> 3M knew its chemicals were harmful decades ago, but didn't tell the public

It does not matter. Du Pont was doing it decades ago but they showed that they can go forward with a slap on the wrist.
There’s a table of prosecutions with links like this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20091125173132/http://www.nydail...

Are you saying that’s fake?
Note that openai add more custom things to the prompt than you do, so you can't just drop your things into an assistant and have them work.
Set an alarm for 30 or 60 minutes. Don’t allow yourself to look at your phone or do anything else during this time. Make this time special.
No doubt they are. Google CAPTCHA isn't really about whether or not the user is a human but about which human they are. Enabling Firefox's fingerprinting resistance turns Google's CAPTCHA into the Allied Mastercomputer.
I don't think the world would be a very ecologically diverse place if all continents were as domesticated as Europe. When we argue that Africa, Asia and South America should protect large predators, I think it rings hollow if we have no remorse and no restoration projects.

Whatever equilibrium we've reached in Europe might need to change with more wild predators eating birds and cats.
It doesn't take millions to boost a specific product's sales. As few as a thousand fake reviews can get the job done. And bombers will find ways to corrupt the verified reviewers, since their reviews will go up in value. And the cost for Amazon to verify the reviewers is really important to take into consideration. If verified reviewers end up being untrustworthy, they've put in that effort (time and money) for nothing!

This is really just a special case of the wider issue of fraud. And I'm fairly convinced of the argument that the optimal amount is nonzero [1]. A further wrinkle to this problem is that fraud tends to only get more sophisticated over time, so the costs of fighting it always go up. At some point we may reach a scenario where fraud is so rampant that entire business models become non-viable.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32701913
I think at least one small town in New Zealand has banned domestic cats specifically because of the impact on flightless birds.
Inbreeding fails to gaurentee genetic isolation/differentiation.
Offspring may still have more in common with someone on
the other side of the planet.
What kind of person? Regular millionaire/billionaire who know that they easily can get away with such decision using their wealth and/or power.

Musk is totally ok to use materials mined by enslaved children of Madagascar. Or abuse his employees. Or fire people who try to organize a union. Or do plenty of other shady or illegal stuff.

That kind of person.
The "has had a 1:1 conversation with" gets very broad. E.g. I've had a 1:1 conversation with a Norwegian MP who sat in parliament in periods that means he almost certainly had 1:1 conversations with current NATO general secretary Jens Stoltenberg, son of former Norwegian foreign minister Thorvald Stoltenberg, and who certainly had conversations with Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Norwegian PM and WHO general secretary for years.

Those paths connects me to almost every world leader from the 1980's onwards.

What you'll quickly find is that some people have 1:1 conversations with a lot of people, and relatively "unimportant" politicians in particular do so both with "regular people" and all the other parliamentary members including the "important" ones, and there are many nexuses like that where once you find a connection to one it's a massive shortcut for a surprising proportion of the world.
You’re a statistician, aren’t you?
That time he banned all links to all Mastodon instances was a particularly egregious example of that.

He backed down after some very prominent people made it clear that this was a laughably poor move.
God, this is so dehumanizing. When I think about the places such a thing can possibly happen, I think of North America and third world countries.
Most product management functions should be merged into product design - it's impossible to design a good product without thinking about what features that product should have and how users will use it.

I wouldn't eliminate the role entirely but I think most companies have 10x the number of product managers they need to in part because it's a way for non-technical people to get into tech and tech salaries. Now that the market is tightening it's unsurprisingly we're eliminating those roles.
How exactly do you expect to enforce the ban on feral cats? Having giant cat killing operations? Because spay and neuter isn’t going to cut it. Even if it didn’t just result in selecting for not getting caught, there would still be 10-15 years of depredation while you wait for the die out.
Torrent Site Switched Domains 39 Times This Year to Evade ISP Blocks
Apply to your local university or community college and do your homework at the desk, people do this all the time. It's one of the best things I've ever done to improve my position in life. You can study something like CS, math, IT, or even finance (NOT some generic "business" program) while working nights and you won't regret it.
If I had to guess, it's a lack of adequate market research.
Even for indoor cats? Responsible indoor-only cat owners cause none of these problems
"Dead or Canadian" yes?
At some point, the dogwhistles become so loud that the only ones claiming not to hear them are either intentionally plugging their ears or simply concealing their delight.
It’s very easy to look through and figure out which products have mostly bullshit reviews and it’s definitely not the vast majority of them.
They would be if the punishment was severe enough. Heck, businesses might even become afraid to collect personal information if there was a risk of serious bodily harm and financial penalties for letting it loose.
One approach is to answer the question “Where do I want to be in five years? (and can realistically reach those goals without relying on luck)”, and then work backwards from there.

In general, fewer goals are better, or you’ll spread yourself too thin and achieve none.

If you can’t answer the above question, then the answer could be “I want to be able to answer this question in five years”, which would mean trying out a lot of different activities and endeavors in order to get a better grasp on what fits you and what you want to achieve.

> I have this desire to improve myself.

This raises the questions of “improve in what way, specifically?” and “to what purpose exactly?”. Wanting to be ambitious shouldn’t be an end in itself.
Almost every PM I've worked with had an engineering degree and/or previously worked as an engineer. This "Josh" sounds like a strawman or you've had bad luck with PMs in the past.

It also sounds like you have a PM on your team, but they actually have the title of SWE or Eng. Mgr. They probably spend > 50% of their time on the above listed responsibilities rather than engineering. Hopefully they don't get docked in their performance reviews for essentially performing the duties of a PM rather than those of an engineer.
I've never seen a large js codebase without typescript and I'm not even sure how you could realistically manage one without.
It's more that you need a robust versatile piece of metal. An ontario rat 7 will cut ropes, wire, wood, but also be a poor man rebar alternative, dig small holes in the ground, decapitate a snake, move things in acid or fire, slice bread, create an anchor, pierce pipes, slash tires, etc. For the form factor, it packs a lot.

But as I say I rarely use it. It's like insurance. Maybe it's more like a totem at this point.

Also my experience with showing off a weapon is escalation. And I'd rather stay very far away from physical conflict. Not for moral reasons, simply because it leads to outcomes I don't like.
This is true, and whether you believe in Mormon doctrine or not, they provide a valuable service to those who are doing family research. My father in law, whose last name was Smith, was researching an ancestor about three generation back, and went to the local LDS ancestry library and asked for help researching his ancestor "John Smith." The way he tells it, it took a little time before anyone took his request seriously...

(Yes, the LDS archives did help him some, but the real treasure trove was in the files of a previously unknown cousin living back east.)
It certainly reads like it.
https://archive.ph/nItnV

I wonder what the Académie Française has to say about that...
> I'm also somewhat skeptical on the idea that the death penalty _should_ cost more than life in prison (assuming that sentence carries at least 20 years for the remainder of that person's life.) It would seem to me that there is a fairly obvious problem there that needs to get worked out if it's actually true (has anyone looked closely at the studies that assert this claim? Obviously there's additional time in court, but it would seem preposterous that this would necessarily lead to an increase such that paying for someone's housing and supervision for 20+ years is cheaper than additional court time.) Obviously there are other factors like how the government allows itself to get overcharged by the company that manufactures the lethal injection for some strange reason (is it actually all that strange to anyone?) And then what is the actual reason for all the time prisoners spend on death row, this would seem to just be the state shooting itself in the foot on statistics for the costs for capital punishment?

I'm not an expert on this, but my understanding it's all the extra judicial processes that end up costing a lot. The cost of the poison used to kill the person (or bullet, or however it's done) it's probably just a rounding error in comparison.

(I'm against the death penalty, but if you're gonna have it, why invent these macabre Rube Goldberg contraptions for killing people? Just put the person up against a wall and shoot him, FFS.)
I’d much rather see a tax on pitbulls before cats
People....expected servers to run for free?

Like, smart people?
Isn't the most likely reason that no FOSS tools support it that it's not an open standard?
This is what happens when you don’t institutionalize these people in psychiatric hospitals. They need to come back, just with more process and transparency this time.
I don't think that's generally true.

A recent example: the WGA just ended a strike against the movie and television studios and from what I've read about it, the resolution was not determined by the loudest minority. A deal was worked out, the membership voted, and 99% voted to accept the agreement. That seems like a success.
Windows is still the best OS for grandmas and people that just want to waste their time on facebook.
But you are not telling the truth. Yes, some coal power plants have been reacted, but they are on standby in case we run out of gas or some other major energy shortages. Which hasn't happened. We managed to replace the Russian gas and there was no extremely hard winter. And those plants are slowly getting mothballed again.
I had the same reaction, however if you read the linked Google Doc from the article, "Lily" (the author under a pseudonym) even mentions how racist "her" account is.

That does strike me as the author being aware of her own choices and 'getting ahead' of the story.
check out the ycombinator YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpKu2wvquWg&list=PLQ-uHSnFig...
> It's odd to me that there's such a contrast between attitudes towards cats roaming in Europe (which I would say is completely the norm

That is because even in the UK, small cats have been there for thousands of years. I just heard about a Scottish wild cat being introduced.

Small Cats in Australia and the Americas have only been there for about 400 years. Wildlife was unable to adapt quick enough. so a lot of extinctions happened, which I am sure cats helped out. New Zealand is a good case showing damage cats (and rats) did.
Could you elaborate on that? I'd love to see an example of this. Are you saying that even relatively simple code (using eg. std::vector) could easily cause UB if -fno-exceptions is enabled?
There is a saying in my country: if you steal a phone - you go to jail. If you steal a factory or powerplant - you go to the parliament.
There is barely any "wilderness" in the UK. The landscape has been transformed, species have been introduced, other killed off, especially predators.

In suburban areas there are also many birdfeeders in gardens. Does that mean additional birds without natural predators?

I am sure that cats can have a negative impact in countries where they have been introduced more recently and where there is still true wilderness but to raise the alarm in a country like the UK seems baseless.
I hate being such a fault finder but his sentiment about people and resources is just wrong. The WW2 generation became so peace loving after the war not before. Prior to then, war-lust was a popular sentiment, some viewed war as an adventure or a rite of passage even, especially before the first war.

We humans in general don't want peace, we find it boring I guess. He talks about people being treated equally and living on peace and how the greedy few are causing war and conflict, that sounds nice in a movie but in reality regular everyday people are hateful. In the west, we're living in a time of excess and luxury and have weaned off all that tribal hatred to the most part now, but what scares and frustrates me is that most people don't realize the rest of the world isn't so nice. They look at people burning american flags for example and think that's the minority lol, they think if we were nicer to them they wouldn't hate us so much. How naive!

What he said about the good earth being abundant is false too, technically correct but abundance exists for some and not others. Like in america just about every resource is abundant but in sub-saharan africa not so much. Not that the Nazis were using lack of resources in their propaganda.

The fear of our own destruction and misery is the only practically effective means to achieve peace. That's why nukes have been so effective so far, else we would have had more world wars.

So long as we crave violence in our every day lives there will be war lust and so long as that is true militaries must exist and continue to pursue various means of killing people.

The problem is in the human soul and how it is raised and our attachments to culture, tradition and history.

Action movies aren't popular with men because we're so peaceful. We crave the violence, we just want the situation to be framed so that we are the good guys and our violence is justified.
I'm not sure whether that's genius or horrifying. On the one hand, that could form the micropayments network the web always needed. On the other hand, it would enable quite a bit of abuse on its own.
I would never use this because I cannot 100% control my thoughts (i.e. intrusive thoughts, songs stuck in head, secrets)
Unless you scale fines with income/wealth, fines are just a way of letting the rich do what they please. On the off chance they're caught - and don't get let off the hook because of how 'respectable' they are - it's so little money to them, it's not a discouragement at all.

A fine for dangerous driving that is crushing to a day laborer is unnoticeable to someone wealthy. And whereas that laborer, to challenge a ticket, would need to take time off from work costing them further - the wealthy person may have a standing relationship with a law firm, and that law firm might send a clerk or paralegal to challenge the ticket in court...and do so gratis.
Don't worry. A few generations later you great grand son will save your soul for you.
They made nice demos, DJI makes drones that actually do all those things.
> any average executive team can follow the spreadsheet. But what makes a team truly exceptional is the ability and wisdom to identify and act on the subjective and immeasurable qualities of the business.

This precisely. The spreadsheet explains your limitations, not your potential. No spreadsheet can truly predict demand. The best example is in marketing - you can give a marketing department $50 million to light on fire, or the right person in the right place at the right time can do the right thing and set word-of-mouth ablaze without spending a dime. Having a $50 million marketing budget doesn't allow you to control the outcome, it merely limits you to spending no more than $50 million in coming up with your own approach. It's not the same thing.
Because there are also advantages. iOS gets away with forbidding JIT execution in third party programs, so they get away with exposing no APIs that allow memory segments to be executable unless they are signed, which is a great thing from a security point of view.

Also as there is only one browser engine, the system only contains the bugs that are in one browser engine. Most operating systems have bugs in the browser engine that comes with the OS, and bugs in the engine users actually use which is more bugs.
do less: talking, worrying.

do more: building, exercising.
Related:

https://github.com/azure-rtos/threadx/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreadX

>"The Raspberry Pi line of single-board computers runs ThreadX as a binary blob on the graphics processing unit (GPU). This controls initial booting, which in turn is used to boot secondary operating systems such as Linux, and continues to operate in a more privileged role even after the boot process.[12]"
There's at least some hope of nature balancing this out, eventually:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt-pB1R64mI
Some bird populations are invasive. European starlings aren't from North America but there is estimated over 100 million. Feral pigeons too. So I only see it as a problem for threatened or endangered species of bird. Also as a tangent, some birds eat cats! Owls, hawks, birds of prey will absolutely snipe cats!
From the link:

> most errors represent systemic problems, including poorly coordinated care, fragmented insurance networks, the absence or underuse of safety nets, and other protocols, in addition to unwarranted variation in physician practice patterns that lack accountability.

Also that's 10% of total deaths rather than 10% of diagnoses / treatment plans. What I'm saying is, these numbers are not comparable.