skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what I've been saying to people, LLMs aren't much smarter than a Markov Chain - a lot of twitter bots and earlier chat agents were driven by them.

What I do see though is the infrastructure around LLMs making a difference.
The Soviet Union lacked a domestic economy that could keep up with the needs of its population, and there by fell apart internally.

I'd argue the US can do the same, but our domestic economy - at least on paper - is more functional the Soviet Unions ever was and can provide for its citizenry and is an important market for nations all over the world.

That's a major difference than with the Soviet Union, and a key one.
Can someone explain to me what the dynamic is in San Franciso? I honestly don't get this situation where practically every rich VC/Software/Tech person in silicon valley bithces and moans about San Francisco. But it's like... rich tech guys have been hanging around silicon valley for decades now, they're billionaires. They could literally fund candidates for every single government position down to highly politically motivated garbage collectors. How come it seems like they have no political power at all?

Surely they should just... put some people into power who'll do what they want? Like I'm not even saying "Why haven't they solved the problem", I'm saying "Why haven't the rich tech guys not just spent money to put people they like in power?" And I'm not just saying Garry personally, I'm saying it seems an almost universal view that rich silicon valley people want different people in charge, so... go... do it?

Or do they actually have a load of political power and just don't want to fess up to the fact it's their own dumb politics causing the problems in the first place?
The problem is that having too much power massively increases bills for end users (that is the more abstract point of the article), as we need to pay wind farm operators to shut them down.

If we have guaranteed a £50/MWh CfD to a wind or solar producer, and we have too much power on the grid , then you need to pay them ~£50/MWh to shut off (otherwise they'd just keep producing).

If we had for example 20GW surplus capacity on the grid at any one time paying £50/MWh for curtailment costs £1m/hr which then billpayers have to pay. This is highly simplified but hopefully gets the point I'm trying to make across.
So uh, who's gonna be first to get it running on a Pi Pico?
Whatever happened to "don't roll your own crypto"? Isn't this work best left to OpenSSL for example.
It’s interesting to compare these launch apps to the giant missing catalog of VR experiences on Quest. I see Synth Riders there though.

Is there a 3D maps app? I always considered Google Earth to be a killer app that was abandoned.
Just for context, the OP (FiloSottile) was in charge of cryptography and security on the Go team until recently.
https://orm.drizzle.team/
Basically this ?
Measuring the stasis: Punctuated equilibrium theory and partisan polarization
To make it good, critics need to point out where it’s going bad.
What is so different about the AVP that sets it apart from the variety of headsets that have been on the market for years, besides the fact it's made by Apple?
I had a similar issue when ASUS's bloatware background service decided to bind something to both Alt+S and Alt+A globally. I have to keep it disabled or else I won't be able to type ą, Ą, ś and Ś without using Caps Lock to work around the issue.
can we not do this comment in every. single. layoff. thread ?
Yes this is the best kept 'secret' in the UK power market right now. It's basically half price. I was expecting prices to spike over the winter a bit and reduce the savings but they haven't.

Paying approx 15p/kWh for electricity and 4p/kWh for gas, which is about half of the price cap rates.
There's some evidence out there that he did get back into piracy. There's no other way for him to make the kind of money he needs to pay off his debts, anyway.
HDFS Architecture Guide [pdf]
I think the "Your" got dropped from this. Should read:

You Security Program Is Shit
When I ordered an official PDF copy of my college diploma, the order form had an option to enable "tracking" in the PDF file. Sure enough, when the recipient opened the PDF file (and when I tried it myself on a different machine), I got a notification from the company that generated the PDF...
> Which is the entire point of the book: free will vs being forced to do something

And the film. He's conditioned one way, but reverts to himself.
Problems with CAP, and Yahoo's little known NoSQL system (2010)
I'll also accept:

Superman + Hulk

...as well =D (instead of `Incredible Hulk`).

Thanks for "the hope" on ghost rider combining with Superman.
It is true that some people use AI as a tool to jumpstart, enhance, or refine their own works.

It is also true that the vast, overwhelming, majority of people simply take the terrible, horrible, no-good, vomit that spews out the end of the AI pipeline and pollute the world with it.
IMO it kinda sucks unless you're very rich and don't mind everything being overpriced and super-crowded. Traffic is horrible, there's not a good sense of community, all the fun and outdoor places are packed and parking is impossible. People are too focused on their own ambitions to really make time for others. It's all about the $$$ now =/ I spent my childhood and early adulthood there and saw it change and get much more capitalistic and lose its charms over the years. It's quite the hellhole these days, IMO. I'd avoid the entire region altogether...

There's so many other nicer places to live in the USA, both up and down the coasts and in inland "islands", typically bluer metropolises with young people and jobs and diversity surrounded by vast tracts of ag and rural areas with a lot of poverty. Tech is pretty spread out these days too, so if you find a job somewhere else, it's worth checking that area out before settling on the Valley.
I'd be interested in giving this a try, however it seems to be completely resistant to the tiling window manager I use on macOS, Amethyst. It's fairly odd; I have not encountered another app that does this.
It’s hard to believe that a manager can be effective if they literally cannot do the job of those they manage.
I can imagine such folk turning to fads as an appeal to pseudo-expertise.
If an executive makes 10-100x what their subordinates do AND has comprehensive control over the company, why SHOULDN'T they be the one bearing legal responsibility for the company's misdeeds? Whose responsibility is it?

"Oh it was just a couple bad employees doing things that aligned with our strategic executives, how could that have happened" and then the company keeps doing the same stuff after a few shmucks go to prison? Is that good?
A truly unfathomable quantity of toes on a single SD card!
Except that the reality is that we can and do, and we do it all the time. Here’s an example of an institution that as a matter of both habit and statute does so consistently: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_for_Healt.... Note that I’m not suggesting NICE is always right, but they do at least try to make decisions that bring optimal benefits to the largest possible group within the overall population to which they have a duty of care.

Making decisions at scale is always hard, and sometimes outright terrible, because some people always lose out. Nobody likes this or thinks it’s anything other than horrible but, going back to social media, if I can save 5 kids from serious harm by banning social media for them versus 1 or 2 if I don’t, that’s a grim decision but also one I’d make.

Of course, it’s not that simple, and I don’t really know where the net benefit lies, but that’s what we have to figure out.
I actually do know, what is my "hill". What is yours?

I grew up and live in multiracial city, where there is no paranoia about seeing racism everywhere. This is you, Americans (and Westerners in general) are traumatized by notion of being racist (because deeply inside you really are). All your posturing about being offended by seeing illusory racism in someones words is guilt overcompensation.

Having said, you really seem to be too narrow minded, to understand that within any race there are faces that look smarter, irrespectively of particular features; the puzzling factor rising from the combination of the features matter. I have no problems finding the face of say Habib Koite higher IQ than face of say Yoav Gallant or some random truck driver in Gifu prefecture.

I actually stressed out that observation (made by poor, accused by your being racist, fiction writers) that intelligence has complex correlation with facial features is persistent across races and time periods. What you are doing now is typical identitarian pretend-antiracist-but-really-crypto-racist notion, that blacks, asians etc. cannot have good share of stupids in their groups, or they are inferior and deprived of ability to see that difference in faces.

Good luck with that, buddy.
This look like a point-by-point rebuttal of a private mailing list discussion? Wouldn't it make more sense to link to https://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/DTATRM.pdf ?
The amount of newly created accounts under this post praising this product reeks of botting...

edit: some of those comments have now disappeared. Make of that what you want.
It's a personal opinion about art. They tend to be all over the place.
Here's a good post on how effective these can be:

https://colab.research.google.com/github/norvig/pytudes/blob...
This will be really neat when we have Spide-Spun-Space-Sensors whereby a planet it cluster-bombed with sensor-balls with a special spider-silk-style web which can grab DNA, but onboard sequence it... and report back to the orbiting drone before self destruction.
Reminds me of cramming an installed QuakeII on a 64MB USB stick, and quickly booting it up on a few library computers when we had an hour off in high school. They blocked installers, but not 'portable' executables or network access.
For all of Kubrick's talent he was always more interested in the villains than their victims and this manifests in a lens that gives sympathy to the villains while portraying the victims as mere two-dimensional canvases. The Shining is another perfect example for this and from what we know about his treatment of the actors/actresses this sentiment seems to have also influenced his direction on set: he felt the lead actress would need to feel abused and exhausted and terrified to play the part but the actor just got to be a natural menace.

Morally, I'd say it's fair to call many of his great works failures: even Full Metal Jacket failed at being an anti-war movie even though it is still referenced as such. But artistically they're interesting and, if you ignore the supposed intentions and the moral implications of his failure, indeed very good.
Disposing of People Appears to Be Priced Cheaper Than Parting with Cash
Totally agree!

When I work in this way I'll rebase all the nits up top where possible. I like to try to get the history to tell a sort of 'story of development'. Though this can be time consuming so I wouldn't fret about it if it becomes burdensome. When it works, this has a nice impact of dividing the PR into:

1. Here is what we were trying to do.

2. Here is all the stuff we also cleaned up which is somewhat unrelated but in the hot path of these other changes.
> Your ability to use ChatGPT effectivelly is highly dependent on your technical competence.

In that case, let everyone use ChatGPT and similar tools.

Those that know, will likely not use it much. Those that do now know, or are not too confident on themselves, will use it more.
Too bad the background color is deprecated, I'd like it better with a good ol solarized theme.
Tech must adjust to no more ZIRP.

Fat will be cut. Notice that Twitter is just fine technically with an 80% staff cut.
Quirky Inventions from Yesteryear: Forgotten Gadgets from the Early 20th Century
How come Norway, literally "the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas outside of the Middle East" [1], responsible for over exploitation of fisheries, is also a pioneer in enforcing rules like these. I'm not complaining, I just find it unexpected, perhaps I'm missing something.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway
Not "not given a functioning moral code". Not raised by capable parents, not educated, not offered a place in a society which abandoned them. And then society used them: authoritarians can't exist without an enemy to simultaneously fear and insult; if necessary, they will make their own enemy.

Those who make progress impossible make revolt inevitable.
Sea Otters Are Protecting the California Coast Against Climate Change
Xecuter for some reason decided to also sell access to game dumps instead of just modchips/flash carts. IIRC it was never proven that Bowser was specifically involved in that part, but the group did it for sure.
Greybeard's tomb: the lost treasure of language design
> both Polish-programmer and Polish-typist keyboard layouts

Brilliant! Growing up in Slovenia there was only the typist locale, qwertz of course. Coding was full of altgr + <key> combos and it gets real annoying real fast.

Most of us nerds switched to the US layout fairly early and simply ignored diactritics. š becomes s, č becomes c, ž becomes z. Especially when texting came around and mobile phones didn’t even have those letters. Most people from Slovenia can fluently read words without diacritics and recognize based on context. Even if you weren’t a nerd, in the 90’s and 00’s it was a gamble if the software or website you’re using will render those characters so people learned not to use them.

iOS still doesn’t have a Slovenian layout. Not sure about Android.

I hear in the commodore days people used to write ss, cc, zz but that didn’t catch on in my generation.
When the Mac Was a Munition
Austria was never really a sought after destination for skilled immigrants since WW2 - just compare the quality of Turks or Yugoslavs that arrived in Switzerland vs. those that wanted to live in Austria.

This is even quantifiable to some extent when comparing the total economic output of the migrants in CH vs AT. Like night and day.

We're a tiny country governed by laws and systems created for and by a huge monarchy.
Wow, I completely forgot about this! You just teleported me back in time for a minute there.

For anyone else interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootable_business_card
Just use Emacs with Vim bindings (evil-mode) then ;)
I want to like this tool, but it lacks a manual or a tutorial that describes typical usage. I don't mean how to use the command line. That is well-documented. But I want to know how I should manage and distribute my keys and what I need to look out for. The entire social layer on top of the technology is unclear to me.

Some stories featuring Alice and Bob would be great.
Hi @QuadmasterXLII, you linked my blog in yours! Thanks, I feel honored! I found your blog halfway going through my own rabbit whole. I think had I seen it before embarking into the project I would have just use yours. That being said it is been a fun ride. It's interesting that we both got triggered by "Craig's SAT solver".
Thanks again,

Nicolás
It matters alot in places where customers get a vote, like net revenue.
There seems to be a convincing debunking thread on Twitter, but I definitely don't have the chops to evaluate either claim:

https://twitter.com/Ethan_smith_20/status/175306260429219874...
I'm not certain what "the background color is deprecated" means but I really don't like the sound of that.
Have noticed under several launch HN posts - often other batch mates I think. Not sure how to feel about it tbh.
Wow...that list can be pretty harsh. They included Yoko Ono last year and her description was "Mrs Lennon".
> acting as if that show was equivalent to absence of protectionism is like celebrating self-imposed ignorance

How is it like celebrating that?
We need a right from LLMs. The same way public society shuns and forces religion out of public sphere -- thus the right to freedom from religion is born -- there must exist a right from LLMs.

That must not mean a general prohibition of practice, not necessarilly. The Catholic church exists to this day. Yet there must be clear separation.
Table driven tests are a lot better than a bunch of imperative tests but they rapidly become unwieldy to debug, maintain, and evolve. Their readability often isn’t great.

If you’re using go, check out https://github.com/cockroachdb/datadriven. It takes a little bit of effort to craft a testing dsl, but it is so worth it.

Also, snapshot style testing where the test writes out its expectations and you just inspect it and save it (part of datadriven) is wonderful.

I’ve been using insta in rust lately and it’s some of what I want but not quite datadriven.
Well the manual setting for the background color doesn't seem to work anymore except for Apple products:

https://neovide.dev/configuration.html#background-color-depr...
The point of railgun animations is not to distract you, but let you focus faster since it shows the path between the start and the end, which is especially helpful when cursor travels large distances.

So it adds no delay, has a very focused practical purpose, in what way is this "nonsense" UX preventing your from getting stuff done?
I just tested again after a while.

Input latency is very notably worse than in the terminal, at least on Linux + sway. (alacritty or kitty)
I would expect so simply because browsers are fairly hardened pieces of software. Adobe Acrobat is decently hardened but it seems to be far behind browsers.

It is worth noting that Chromium and later Firefox both added PDF viewers that live inside the browser sandbox. They are essentially web-apps that render the PDF. When I worked at Google they strongly recommended using Chrome for opening PDF files because they felt much more comfortable about its security and sandboxing than other PDF readers.

On another perspective is that you are likely browsing the internet anyways. In fact you likely got the PDF by visiting a website. So you have already exposed a huge attack surface (your browser) to a possible hostile adversary. It is better to expose them to the same attack surface again (plus whatever security the PDF reader itself provides) than to give them a fresh new attack surface.
what a surprise, no answer on your sources. I assume boasting you are reading Twitter and watching TikTok is not going to make your points be respected better by "objective observers".
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/203375
YouTube was one of the sites where the recommendation engine, trained to increase engagement, was pushing people into conspiracy theories and politically divisive content… and some other darker stuff.

They have done some work to try and mitigate some of that, but it seems like it will be a cat and mouse game between the AI and society, and a lot of damage was already done.
How to Build Your Own 16-Bit System-on-Spreadsheet
Hell no. I worked in an ISP in late 90s. NTFS was absolutely rock reliable, then (much worse)ext2, then (slightly worse) UFS, and then FAT.
Stephen King is not a filmmaker. There used to be a running joke that you can judge the quality of a Stephen King adoptation by whether he liked it: if he liked it, it was likely trash; if he didn't, it was likely good.

The problem is that films are not books (shocking, I know) and what works in one medium of storytelling doesn't necessarily work in the other. As in actual translation, there has to be some liberty in how something is adapted from one form into another or else it will be very accurate but not very good.
> In an office it's easy for a new hire to ask a question or get someone's attention. When remote, how does the company communicate culturally? Is there an expectation for response times? If not, what internal tools and resources are there that allow a new hire to self-solve common issues?

I'm a solution architect and I've been working last 3 year remotely for my current employer and I never meet anybody from my team in person. You may joke, that they are AI-generated avatars :)

We have a team chat in slack where all questions / important updates are posted and this works fine. If one faces some issues with local environment setup or access, usually somebody reacts in 15 minutes or so.
You may argue that your new colleague do nothing this 15 minutes, but from the other side (a) he have to continue trying / google and as a result he learns (b) experienced engineers are not disturbed in the middle of current task.
Also, we have a daily 1hr-long zoom call to discuss on-going questions.

I never faced cases when I contact somebody through direct messages during his normal working hours and I have to wait for response till tomorrow. Usually my colleagues respond to me in 5, maybe 10 minutes. Also, usually I can schedule a zoom call for the same day if I need this.

Regarding an expectations for response time and the company communication culture, the idea is to try do all your best to help other and do not slow down others intentionally, because "we work remotely". Not sure that it's possible to set some SLAs to distinguish responsible remote employees from those who abuse remote work opportunity, but you definitely will "feel" this difference if you communicate with remote colleagues intensively.

>Also, figure out parts of onboarding are best done synchronously or asynchronously

Do all the onboarding synchronously and talk to a new hire as much as it's required. This shows a good attitude.
Still, the synchronous onboarding can be remote.
>This is what I've been saying to people, LLMs aren't much smarter than a Markov Chain

They're based on the same principles, but extend quite beyond that, and are way smarter than Markov Chains.

So, it's not just the infrastructure that's makes the difference (if they were only as effective as Markov Chains, then having the same or even more infrastructure wouldn't make any difference).
For the informed reader. But it also implies that perhaps Neanderthals were not human, which is completely false.
My goodness. Thank you for letting me know. I'll look into it right away.
Yeah but pointless performative self sacrifice is kind of our thing.
M2 Max 64GB MBP 16"
Yeah, I've been hearing it since the Clinton administration.
Replying to myself:

Apparently strange attractors can only occur in dampened systems: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/125931/does-a-si...

So my analogy between the Lorenz attractor and phase-space chaos (like that of a double pendulum) is false.

However, I think my point is still true:

http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/9838/1/recurrence.pdf

says

"In [the case of the space of probability distributions over
phase space], the reason that classical dynamics fails to abide by the linear recurrence theorem is that the distribution space is infinite-dimensional, even if phase space has finite volume: distributions can have structure on arbitrarily short scales.
But execs should be the ones going to jail. That they're not is the entire problem!
Super interesting detail and kind wild and questionable that an authors work would be substantially changed by an editor.
It was an abandoned project for a long time, that's why the memory is old[0]. I remember because I was looking for something very light to boot up an old chunky armada laptop, and I ended up on Puppy Linux, even though I wanted to use DSL because of the cool name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damn_Small_Linux#Versions_and_...
Become a landlord, live the dream.
I loved FreeBSD 4. Stable and the first I really deployed wisely. Still have good memories of building world!