skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guarantee that the engineer who built airdrop knew that as soon as he committed his code.
They're fine at selling stuff, they're absolutely horrendous at being a place to search for a product if you don't know exactly what you're looking for. The solution is just to look for third-party specialist review sites who know what they're talking about.
It moots your whole point. Indexes beat almost all hedging strategies in the long run beating all but a tiny sliver of active investors. The super wealthy that try lots of tricks almost always do worse than an index of the market.
Because when an employee uses an LLM for their job they take responsibility / validate as they risk getting fired.

However, when an organization uses an LLM they generally setup a system without anyone validating the output. That’s an attempt to delegate responsibility to an incompetent system and thus inherently flawed.
That's a testable assertion isn't it? Do you observe any product with that extreme level of silliness, which weren't intentional?

People generally review their product catalogues.
I grew up with the small toggle mercury switches from the 70s. I was able to adapt to the kind of z-wave smart switch that has a similar shape, fitting the same face plate in a bank of three switches where I only swapped out one for a smart switch.

It's kind of like a joy stick, so in a neutral center position and you flick it momentarily up or down from center to ask for on or off. You have to learn not to lift and hold for too long, because that is how to get it into a very primitive reconfiguration mode. As I recall, you can reconfigure the LED and maybe its behavior on power restoration.

I configured mine so the LED is on when the light circuit is on, to show me the status of an exterior light on the other side of an opaque door. But, I think the default is the inverse so it acts a bit like a night light to locate the switch in the dark. Of course, it's a hideous blue as is the modern fashion.

I linked it to an existing alarm system to set some rules like turning on and off around dusk and dawn periods and turning on in response to camera-based motion/people.
Is this how most AI services implements RAG?
One day I want to expand on the idea that our digital avatars, our images and representations of ourselves, become an extension of our own self-concept, in the same way our keyboard becomes an extension of our hands and our body. Our social media profiles, our timelines, photos, and digital content, become part of our selves, and we begin to identify with these time capsules we've created of ourselves, to the point where we _are_ the person in the photo, we _are_ that person on Facebook.

It's a fundamentally backwards-facing view of the self that relies on historical or past depictions of an individual in order to define their current self-concept. It implies an immutability, a static, unchanging quality to the person, since after all - there "you" are, or at least all your photos and your memorabilia, your self-depictions and simulacra, committed to and preserved in the permanent record of the cloud. It's also one that emphasizes the importance of external markers and signals of identity - only those that can be extraverted - to the detriment of the inner life of the psyche, the private life of the mind which is not so readily available for examination or expression.

This way of looking of ourselves through a digital black mirror continues to uphold the illusion of permanence; our self is like a river, and we never step in the same one twice - unless we freeze the river (in time) and post it to Instagram.

Not to mention all the vanity and superficiality of Photoshop, filters, r/instagramreality, etc etc... points which have all been discussed ad nauseam.

Moreover there is the slow death of the literary personality - of one who, in times where media and bandwidth were not of sufficient capacity to generate and retain all these audiovisual representations of our selves, was primarily known through their words and their writing. This is a fundamentally different way of trying to understand one's character that requires much more participation on the audience's behalf to fill in the gaps - the gaps that can't be immediately filled in with high definition video. It becomes harder for one to be identified through their words, and more and more preferable to identify someone by what they look or sound like; another step in the long, slow march away from literacy and to other forms of information exchange.

In this regard I'm reminded of David Foster Wallace uncut television interview [0], which I found incredibly fascinating - here was one of the most articulate men in society, celebrated for his literary works, appearing awkwardly and shyly on camera, sometimes meandering off on tangents in the discussion, sometimes "pontificating" on the interviewer's questions - how does DFW's audiovisual representation compare to his literary output?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGLzWdT7vGc
As an aside: I had an interesting experience with my sensors the other day. I got a new package of Kirkland furnace filters and pm2.5 spiked to 100+. Was sneezing etc. Spent time diagnosing it, swapped out the sensor, eventually brought the outdoor one in to compare, and sure enough an old 3m one filtered it out within a six hours. Another new one spiked it. I ended up returning them with a comment but suspect customer service didn't care they might have a bad or mouldy batch.
Very promising. Going to integrate with this system now. Founders seem very strong.
Your first example might be a little harsh, but there is a real risk if you let these things go uncontrolled e.g. the potential for fraud is enormous.
Fidelity isn't a bank, but they sure act a lot like a bank with the CMA account. Arguably enough like a bank that it will work as a bank for most people.

Other brokerages do the same sorts of things, Fidelity isn't alone in this. Schwab went a different way and decided to just buy a bank. Instead of like the BOA/Chase versions, where they bought a brokerage.
You're right in that an interactive CLI's interface is not trivial to nail. We're spending a lot of dev time on that actually.
And of course there always also has to be a non-interactive version for automations.
Swing had its issues, along with a lot of advantages over modern approaches to UI.
How does this compare to the estimates amount of birds that are killed by house cats every year?

I had an argument with a vegetarian cat owner about this the other week….
Anthropology, sociology and human cognitive capabilities in software teams in organisations.

The tech part is "easy enough" when you take away most of the leaky abstractions.

The hard part is the former.
Probably they mean we cannot prove. A real time trap...
I wonder how many short trademarks are left now that Amazon has incentivized generating new ones as quickly as feasible.
Unix Administration Horror Stories
I still like Meetup for local hiking groups planning hikes and game nights and stuff. Basically “friendly things with strangers” type stuff.

I’m not aware of anything else out that works like that.
big thanks for the reply

the grid is made up of <p> fields, I thought you just could replace the sqiggly line (background) with an emoji/text using the right font etc instead of svg/emoji
Retail is so low-margin that it will never be very good.

Amazon, Walmart, Ebay, are all very imperfect businesses. Even Costco is rough to deal with for the suppliers - there’s just no way to do this at scale while being all nice and fuzzy

Amazon is especially bad though
I'd really like a more 'curated' or vetted everything store. I don't need to see 40 of the same exact item rebranded into various English horrors.

Walmart seems most primed to do this, barring third party sales. Or Sears, if they ever had a miraculous turnaround to their old days.
I find this to be pretty odd reasoning, it definitely seems far from "definitive" for me unless you make a lot of assumptions about how the mind works.
As someone who uses Amazon regularly, we live in different worlds. My experience is pleasant and straightforward; I get what I want and it arrives quickly.
> While AirDrop’s device-to-device communications channel is typically protected from third-party snooping by its own layer of security, that wouldn’t shield someone who may have been tricked into connecting with a stranger, perhaps by tapping on a deceptively named device in a list of contacts or by thoughtlessly accepting an unsolicited connection request. This step is required for the sender to be identified, according to security experts.

Apple already acted on this, didn’t they? AirDrop now defaults to off and you can only switch it on for ten minutes at a time – you can’t forget to switch it off again. When Apple implemented this change, I remember that they were criticised because people said they were doing what China wanted by cracking down on P2P communication. Now it’s the opposite situation but the same criticism.
I do this on my
HomePod mini all the time. Take last apple out of fridge? “Siri, add apples to my grocery list.”

Boom, done. Synced with my wife too. This is using the Apple Reminders though, as it seems to have less friction than third party apps…
I've made changes to a pretty contentious page (amongst others, but that one in particular is quite conspiratorial) and it's all still there.
Similar to how self driving is possible in restricted specialized environment. e.g. containers loading, unloading and Amazon warehouses.
I haven't worked at JPM, but I have at a few of its competitors.

As a technology professional, I think what you describe is par for course at all the banks, and more broadly speaking, pretty much all "non tech" companies in general where tech is considered an unrespected cost center.

Tech compensation is bimodal. You have the top FAANG tier and maybe some companies one tier down where software engineers can make as much or more than medical doctors.

Then you have a sharp drop off a cliff consisting of everyone else - where a senior or staff SWE equivalent with decades of experience can expect to retire in their 60s making about as much as a upper junior FAANG engineer.

I was shocked last year when I heard my intern with zero years of experience got his offer...for about double my compensation at my last bank SWE job.
This entire narrative about Boeing in the media to me just screams of insider trading. The stock went up 68% in a month, then held flat for two weeks, only breaking down the day the screw story breaks. People definitely knew this was coming in December and were selling off what they could without triggering a panic sell off. Perhaps even that November pump and favorable headlines about order sheets at the time was also orchestrated. Interesting to speculate.
His calculations are off by much more than a factor of 2. Maybe two orders of magnitude.
Yes. Fortunately the authors of the kind of blogs I read share a similar mindset on advertising and so it's not really a problem.
One thing I wish I had realized: clicking "save grid" sets the current configuration as the seed state, such that clicking reset will only take you back to the grid as it was the moment you tried to save, and the original configuration is lost. This is true even if you don't actually save.

A really nice QOL feature would be click-dragging to draw lines/curves.

Anyway I'm finding this quote fun. Many CGOL doodad apps that I see don't actually allow configuration of a seed state, but have one preconfigured or randomly generated; I found them incredibly boring (to be fair, they were probably made for reasons other than actually playing the GOL). It wasn't until recently when I did more in-depth reading about what CGOL actually is that I realized that the entire point and the fun of it is inventing/discovering initial configurations that lead to certain outcomes. And here comes an app that lets me save them and find inspiration from others. Nice work!
You need to just admit error, not pivot.

5B is for 1965 alone, the peak year. As I said.

25B is the total over all years.
https://www.ipxo.com/
Same thing. A lot of stuff we don’t understand is like magic. Think old days, show someone an AR head set and they’d think is magic. Look closely at DNA, it’s marvel of technology but miniaturized but occurs naturally. None the less looks and acts like advanced tech
> haven't gone through the kind of reign of terror that Scott's interlocutors claim they should have

I'll comment on this separately because it goes deeper into the central claim of the arrticle. If you're going to make this claim, you need to ask whether the UK and US have actually avoided such things, or merely made sure they happened in other countries instead.

The US under Woodrow Wilson enabled the Soviet Union to exist by failing to support the Kerensky government, even though the US had troops in the area, and by discouraging the other allied powers from helping on the grounds that everybody was already too exhausted after four years of war. (Not to mention that Communism wasn't of Russian origin; it was exported to Russia by American and British intellectuals, such as Jack Reed. And one of their reasons for doing so was that Communism was supposed to be more "democratic".)

The US, UK, and France created the conditions for the Nazis to take power in Germany by imposing such harsh terms in the Treaty of Versailles (terms which were nothing like what the Armistice had implicitly promised).

The UK under Chamberlain, along with France, enabled Hitler's Germany to conquer Eastern Europe by pursuing a policy of appeasement.

The US under FDR allowed Stalin to take over all of Eastern Europe at the end of WW II (which, btw, made WW II a failure in Europe since the stated objective was to free Eastern Europe from tyranny, and Stalin by any measure was a worse tyrant than Hitler) because FDR wanted to suck up to Stalin and be his friend. (For example, read the historical book Stalin's War.) And even before that, FDR and his administration (and the press, such as the New York Times) systematically lied to the American people about the true nature of Stalin's regime, which was well known to the US government (and to reporters who were there) in the 1930s. If the American people had known what was actually happening in Stalin's Russia, they would never have agreed to having the USSR as an ally in WW II or allowing the USSR to take over Eastern Europe.

The US allowed Mao and his Communists to take over China by withdrawing support for Chiang Kai-Shek. If the US had supported Chiang, the entire country of China would have a government that's basically the government Taiwan has now (since Taiwan is where Chiang and his supporters went when Mao drove them out of China). Imagine how much better the geopolitical situation would be if that were the case.

Sure, if you want to make hairsplitting distinctions, none of these counted as "state-sponsored violence" against the people of the US or UK. But Scott's central claim in the article is that it is repressive monarchy, not "democracy", that causes reigns of terror. Before making such a claim and exonerating "democracies", one should at least examine the possibility that the "democracies" actually enabled the reigns of terror. And when you examine that claim historically, you find that, yep, "democracies" were doing exactly that.
Here's a crazy idea - one should double-check their own listings when using ChatGPT to generate them.
"Oh, and check it out: I'm a bloody genius now! Estás usando este software de traducción in forma incorrecta. Por favor, consultar el manual. I don't even know what I just said, but I can find out!"
Reminds me of:

> A very common practice in videogames is to make your game visually immersive—that is to say, to visually portray the game’s elements in such a way that makes the player, to some extent, feel like they’re “really there.” The most obvious way this is employed is via a firstperson point-of-view camera, as seen in titles like Counter-Strike or Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. In these titles—especially in the highly fantasy-simulation-dependent Skyrim—part of the idea is to “immerse” the player in the world.

> The problem is, this isn’t where “immersion” really comes from. Ever notice how people get incredibly immersed in a great novel? What could be further away from the literal, realistic portrayal of reality that Skyrim brings than a set of glyphs in black and white printed on dead trees? And yet novels routinely engage people to the point where they are completely and utterly immersed.

> The myth is that immersion comes from visual/auditory messages, but the problem is the human mind wanders quickly. We’re curious and inquisitive and while a picture-perfect image might in fact immerse us for a moment, if there isn’t an engaging system there for us to keep us immersed, we’ll quickly snap out of it and remember that we’re just tinkering with some computer program.

> The thing that engages people in interactive systems is actually quality interaction—for games, this means interesting, difficult and meaningful decisions as frequently as possible.

Quote from Keith Burgun's "Clockwork Game Design"
If you have money and it ends up funding dickheads, congrats you are also a dickhead. The more money you have the less forgivable it is, simply because more money buys you better insight.
I'll leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQpxAvjD_30
> More specifically, I thought Snapchat would be different

I briefly tried Snapchat in the early days, and got my jollies from it. I stopped using it when the novelty wore off, and the constant updates and changes to the UI/UX made me disband. Every new update ruined my posting habits and I had to relearn the whole UI/UX over and over. It smelled of 'trying too hard' by the developers.
The warnings started appropriately early in 2011, there should’ve been regulations in place by 2015.

VR is still in 2006.

Maybe let the first ad run in VR before you ascribe all the same problems to it.
I also turn away from content where the author advertises within the text of the article itself. If they're trying to manipulate me into buying crap, no telling what else they're dishonest about.
So? That's where stuff gets made. These companies exist because they can acquire cheap goods from factories that also make everything else sold on Amazon and Walmart as "legitimate" brands.

They literally just do not know how to speak English, so an LLM is a game changer for them.
This is actually really important for things like browser extensions.
It's important to also get the certified mail receipt physically postmarked by the USPS (it is possible to send certified mail without that). Also, it's a common best practice to include an additional copy of the election along with a self-addressed stamped envelope, and ask the IRS to date-stamp the copy and send it back to you.
It's barely even usable for buying Kindle books anymore.

Half the time I get tricked into buying a book my Kindle doesn't support and I have to spend half an hour yelling at support to get my money back.

Because they let you do the "buy and deliver to my kindle" thing even when your kindle is not supported. Then only when you grab your kindle to sync you learn the bad news.
Yeah. I am quietly anti-Amazon so I mostly do not use the site. Occasionally, I'll browse for something I need and its really a shitshow:

- searching for a brand, rarely returns items by the brand

- search results are extremely poor and quickly get worse as you browse

- they hold packages for shipping by non-prime members

I haven't used Amazon regularly in several years so maybe it is more apparent for me. I also don't trust the "higher" end products to not be counterfit. It's a classic case of overoptimization, they may make more money but the experience is SO BAD. I have bought elsewhere because it was honestly kind of a chore to find what I wanted on the site.
>"Soilent Green is people!"

[SPOILER: A major plot device of this movie is characters discovering the oceans were trashed generations ago, and that the "fish" chips are in fact recycled humans].
The discussion in the comments indicates that the test included a run outside of it's operational range for pulsed firing, with the intent to see how it would react.
Why impossible?

When you submit URL:
NH offers few general categories in a mandatory field.
OP chooses most suitable.
Homepage provides filters: ALL / CAT1 / CAT2 / CAT3.

Nothing drastically changes, but helps with content consumptions significantly.
For example, I might be interested only in hardware stories, so I'll click on the HARDWARE cat/tag whatever.
To err is human. To fuck up a million times per second, you need a computer.

Granted, here at the beginning of 2024, an LLM can not quite attain that fuck up velocity. But take heart! Many of the smartest people on Earth are working on solving that exact problem even as you read this.
Do they actually say anywhere what they allege Cloudflare has done wrong? (Yes yes, “securities violation”; what specifically?)
I don't use Amazon at all anymore. In fact I uninstalled the app yesterday!
Yes, It's not "gullibility", it's believing things in terms of the mechanism of standard argumentation.

The basic thing is that arguments involve mustering a series of plausible explanation for all the visible pieces of evidence, casting doubt on alternatives, etc. Before Galileo, philosophy had a huge series of very plausible explanations for natural phenomena, many if not all of which turned out to be wrong. But Galilean science didn't discover more by getting more effective arguments but by looking at the world, judging models by their simplicity and ability to make quantitative predictions and so-on.

Mathematics is pretty much the only place where air-tight arguments involving "for all" claims actually work. Science shows that reality corresponds to mathematical models but corresponds only approximately and so given a model-based claim can't be extended with an unlimited number of deductive steps.
Most of us ship suboptimal code and intend to improve it later, knowing that later often turns into never.
All they have to do is get rid of the 3rd party storefront and hire people to stock and procure vetted goods instead of having it be a free-for-all.
Well, there is IBKR, if you can get away with a brokerage. They don't offer all banking services, and they definitely are not a bank, but in some cases they can act enough like one that it will work out for you.
They're risky if you do know what you're looking for, because of all the counterfeits and return scams and such. They're basically only OK if you're buying trash-tier goods on purpose, because there's no reason to counterfeit or scam with those and you already know they're going to be bad.
User when posting.
+1 for fzf, never leave home without it
I still have a Google Home in the kitchen, but what I really want it to display is data from my weather station, transit info, the time, etc. I can't control that damn thing at all. I've got a TidByt coming today, which I have high hopes for!
Let's not pretend that Spirit AeroSystems isn't just basically a sub devision of Boeing.