skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Holy cow. The font on that page is a real nostalgia trigger!! I can almost smell the classroom where I first used Model 1 TRS-80s, and hear the dot-matrix printer in the corner cranking out banners.
I've liked Porkbun and NameSilo, their support staff are really helpful. Porkbun has the better UI.
Thank you, first time I've been called a Chad - I'll take it ;)
Except it isn't really an argument, so much as a question. In your example, the good created by eliminating polio are blatantly obvious to anyone who knows what polio is. For your analogy to hold, then the answer to the question posed must be equally blatantly obvious. This doesn't seem at all obvious to me, so fails as a rebuttal.
> Has a 1-3 team moat ever really existed with new technologies?

Yes. Exactly this happen in late 1970s with microprocessors and based on them home computers.

Just because, big gamers like IBM, don't consider home users as something more than niche.

Something similar happen with apps for mobiles and with websites - exists few mega-apps and mega-sites, but these are mostly distributed markets, with millions tiny entities (yes, whole Appstore consist of millions apps, created by 1-3 teams, this is near impossible to do by one huge entity).

But must admit, I don't know what could be like "home computer" or apps for mobiles or websites for current state of AI.
Three dimensional volume for one. Ceramic and soil also will hold the heat you get from sunlight and radiate the heat back out into the environment.

Thermal mass is the key and potted plants provide that with the large volume of soil combined with the ceramicpot that if placed into sunlight will absorb the energy and radiate it back out and keep the room warmer.
one potential use case I've had in my and never gotten around to making is using them detailed tag and sort a huge library of images, OCR is useless here.
the idea would be to have a more semantic type of search based on the content of the image or its art style.

so far with my test gpt4-v seems to perform better, though very heavy on the censorship guardrails.

this 1.6 perfoms better than the previous version and seems to hallucinate a bit less.
The Indiglo button let there be light
> True, most interviewing processes are very imperfect by necessity and some qualified people will be mistakenly filtered out.

This is ultimately something I see as dishonest given the context of job applications. Employers generally expect a certain kind of perfection from job candidates, which they can’t manage to show of themselves. I understand that this isn’t an easy thing to solve -- nor even something that’s ever been solved -- but that should at least make it more understandable when an otherwise qualified candidate uses disallowed tools in their interview.

Perhaps the candidate’s real best option is to find a different company to work for but they may not be so privileged as to have a choice if their on-paper qualifications are lacking. Assuming their practicable qualifications are adequate, they may have good reason to bullshit through a bad interview. Additionally, finding a different company is pretty likely to be “same shit, different day”.

> But also, there are usually several-to-many applicants for a position that are all qualified, and by necessity most of them won't get the position.

Assuming they’ve qualified via an interview and there are particularly close candidates, pick the one who applied first. They’re admittedly qualified and further interviewing is just a means of discriminating in error-prone and possibly unlawful or immoral ways.

> Additionally, technical qualifications is only a part of what an employer is looking for. There are other things that are at least equally important -- how well the applicant would fit into the team, how trustworthy they are, etc. It's about a lot more than just technical skillset.

Fair enough. I would caution interviewers against judging too harshly or quickly. One can imagine many reasons an interviewee might choose or seem to lie during an interview while they are otherwise an honest person, ranging from stress to disillusionment to [cultural differences](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39209794).

At the end of the day, filtering for liars and cheaters actually filters for bad liars and cheaters in addition to people who are a bit nervous or tired or stressed or cynical or just having a slightly off day; dishonest people who genuinely see nothing wrong with dishonesty get through just fine.
> (I also just select randomly sometimes. Not even quite sure why.)

I'm fidgety in general. If it isn't highlighting it's figure 8s with the mouse cursor.
An example was asked for and given where there is an ideological based denial of service. Because a registrar doesn't host or display any information that is objectionable it's simply registers some glue records.

They are not giving anyone a platform. Your same attitude means that I'm not required to sell cakes to people I don't like, but I bet you were on the other side of that debate.

And that is the fundamental danger of using ideology to justify denying someone a place in society. It has been used throughout history to deny a minority a place in a society that the majority didn't want. That is not the kind of world we should strive to have where the majority can deny the minority based on an ideology and lock them out of society.
...what do you think a vial of mRNA actually does?

I'll give you a hint: if you touched it to your finger, it would be completely destroyed.
On the contrary, I'm simply tossing up whether or not you're likely to care about the difference between 10G and 10Gbps if you don't understand what either one even mean. Are we mad at Comcast for misleading people that don't even know where (or from where) they were led? Or are we mad at Comcast for not using the technical term since we're all tech minded here?

Where this XKCD comic is about experts overestimating the knowledge of average people, I'm attempting to estimate how much the average person should even care, in this case.
That's important, I think... not just historically, but to assist in concept formation. Although, replace 'ruler' with 'straightedge', to emphasize that there is no measuring.
Ok.. I appreciate how the FBI assisted in cleaning our routers/ip's.

But is this story possibly alluding to the fact that the FBI did NOT disclose the potential 0 days used in these attacks in accordance with responsibile disclosures, and instead is likely retaining these zero days for their own use?
"unhinged and unlikeable" are charismatic traits nowadays. Those are exactly the personality aspects people believe are necessary and find attractive in truly innovative leaders, like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk. They read as hard-nosed sincerity and truth, no bullshit. The unreasonable man to which the world must yield.

Hell, we recently elected a President almost entirely because he was the biggest asshole in the room.
+1. I've read in various forums they will only install it if the construction cost is less than a few thousand dollars. This means they will say it's "available" on the order page, but then decline to install it.
man who made a career making bombastic claims makes another bombastic claim... more news at 11.
When I was in college and would go home for Christmas, my mom would buy me a new Far Side calendar for the coming year, and on my last day home my dad and I would invariably stay up late reading through it together. Great memories now that he's gone.
Sounds like they had some kind of Prolog inferencing/runtime stored in ROM, and running on a normal early x86 CPU. Games packaged for the machine could call that runtime code, but Prolog wasn't exposed to the user. So there is the marketing aspect (that generation of "AI" hype, and government initiatives), plus whatever unusual functionality that enabled being exposed through games (e.g., simple natural language parsing).

A few years after this, a project I was loosely involved with embedding a Prolog interpreter into a much larger system that was mostly implemented in C, just to implement a reports query language feature for a complex data model. Years later, for a very similar purpose for a rich data model, we instead exposed SQL to the power user/integrator.

(Today, you'd probably do the custom reports by making a GUI forms-based or wizard-based way of doing custom queries, or overkill it with a drag&drop visual programming language. To do NLP-ish stuff this year, you'd be shot if you didn't first try to do it with an LLM.)
My point is not about the individual, it's about the average Jane and Joes putting them in charge and asking them to commit atrocities. I used to have faith in humanity but I lost it in those years.
No. My entire post was ironic.
> Either way you need to have a kind of central authority, or at least trusted third parties.

Not everyone needs to run a node, and not everyone could, but it is totally feasible for an individual to run their own if they decide they can't trust anyone else for whatever reason. Especially if you were running a node specifically for the purpose of name resolution you could discard the vast, vast majority of data on the Ethereum blockchain (for example).

> what if someone gets a name and we as a society (i.e., justice, whatever) decides that they should not be in control of it? [...] and that's a problem.

No, that is a feature of a decentralized system. Individual node operators would be able to decide whether or not to serve particular records, but censorship resistance is one of the core features of blockchains in the first place.

> What if a private key is lost, the associated names are gone forever?

The association wouldn't be gone, it would just be unchangeable until it eventually expires. This is a known tradeoff if you are choosing ENS over traditional domain name registration.

> What if your private key is leaked by mistake and someone hostile take control of your name?

As opposed to today where someone hostile, like for instance the Afghani government (The Taliban), can seize your domain for any reason or no reason at all?

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I think we just have a fundamental disagreement about what types of features and use cases a name resolution system should have. That's completely fine, you're entitled to your own believes. You can use the system that most closely resembles your beliefs, and I'll use the one that most closely resembles mine. Fortunately for us different name resolution system can peacefully coexist due to the nature of name mappings. At least for now, none that I know of collide in namespace.
The way those cable modem systems work is essentially laying a data channel (usually several) on top of the existing coaxial cable network, similar to DSL laying data on top of the existing telephone network. However this means the cards which transmit and receive are still very much analog beasts, pumping out some incredible signal levels to as far as possible. Similar to DSL, the download centric focus is built into the design. Also, your small modem can't scream nearly as loud as the downstream signal can so some signal loss is more likely, limiting the upload channels. Finally a cable modem network is usually quite shared, with something like 8 transmission lines feeding entire neighborhoods or cities. Depending on node congestion you may not even get your advertised speeds. At least with DSL your line is basically dedicated to you lol
> Landlords seek high rents because they are capitalists and charge as much as the market can bear.

I am a landlord. This is completely false. I rent out rooms in my house to help me cover the cost of living in my house.

Lets take the property in SF you mentioned:

property taxes: $1,600/mo

mortgage: $10,253/mo [0]

repairs: $1,269/mo (1% of home value / 12)

total costs: $11,682 / mo

zEstimate for rent: $5,495/mo

net revenue: -$6,187/mo

As a landlord, I want to get my rental income as close to the costs, so I can stop bleeding money on this property. I can't change my property taxes, mortgage, or repair costs, but I can push rent as high as can I can.

Once my costs are covered, my next biggest fear is vacancy and bad tenants. One bad tenant will easily cost me $100k. My only option for bad tenants is to self-insure, and that self-insurance money must come from somewhere...

[0] - https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1273-Arguello-Blvd-San-Fr...
For a moment I wasn't sure if I wanted to click on the link.
Sounds like USA centric POV?

It was not until several years ago that software developers in Europe finally reached the mythical 100K per year compensation range, that's been common in USA for more than a decade before that.

And that's in rather expensive Western Europe (e.g. €1500+ per month for one kid/toddler daycare), and not "cheaper" Southern/Eastern Europe.
Hackaday soon: Synchronizing a treadmill to a pdf the size of Germany.

Obligatory?: The pdf is not the territory.
The only way anything like that could get through Congress is if one party had a filibuster proof majority in both houses. As I said, never.
CR has a different opinion, in their recent rating Mini is #3 and BMW itself is #9 in the predicted reliability out of 30 brands (I don't give a link because it requires subscription).
although he still disables right-clicking on his site. So he's still putting some effort into the sisyphean "uphill slog"
A group of cows huddled around another cow eating a hamburger.

“I’d say we taste like chicken.”
Yeah, I read the article on Ars before it showed up here (it's a day old). It seemed more like it was to obscure CC server and payload location.

I was talking about outlinks anyway.
I think it’s the first time AI has made me chuckle. I ended up with “Riddle”, so I combined that with “Tornado” and it gave me “Twister” which I thought was a great Christmas Cracker pun, and then when I combined Riddle with “Bottle” it gave me “Genie”.
> It is interesting that OOP had its heydey when everyone was building native GUI programs.

Erlang is probably the only OOP language in existence. I'm not sure it was ever the tool of choice for GUIs.
My ad-hoc radar for GPT generated text is:

1. Is the writer a 5th grade student?
No --> GOTO 2
2. Is the text structured like an MLA 5-paragraph essay with prosaic and insipid content?
Yes --> GOTO 3
3. Does the final paragraph contain some variant of the phrase "in conclusion"?
Yes --> High probability of being LLM generated
Sure. Maybe it was enough to achieve the underlying goal. It just failed at the stated objective spectacularly.

But he recently threatened to not pay attention to AI at Tesla, presumably moving any innovations/energy there out to another company.
a) empathy has no reason to only work in reality - or whole genres of fiction wouldn't exist

b) it's hard to judge what's possible or not without experimental data (on otherworldly civilizations), nor we're even explained the mechanisms of "us teaching others". But it's a schematic way of showing Great Filters in a simplified, gamified manner - and that's still a possible, valid and argued for answer to a Fermi Question
Isn't the "miracle" just a persistent unexpectedly higher level of inflation, over a long period of time, doing a soft-default and screwing over long bongholders?

That seems like the most painless way out.
We are interviewing for a principal at my work, and the directions from management are to find someone really good.

Instead of tearing into their experience, my coworker is asking what you would use the X class for.

Drives me fucking nuts. Who memorized all the parts of a random, mostly unused .NET class.

I asked the coworker afterwards if he ever used said class, dude said no.

How is that a fair question if it isn’t even used here?
Prescient central planning.
This is not true at all, at least in the ARIN service region.

* Aside from a very minimal amount of space allocated for v6 transition technologies[1] and from the waitlist[2], organizations do have to pay market rates for IP addresses.

* Organizations do need to pay a yearly fee to keep them, which scales with the amount of address space held.[3]

* You are not too insignificant to be allowed to own your own IPs - anyone can establish at least 2 peering relationships, ask ARIN for an ASN, and acquire some IPs.

[1]: https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/nrpm/#6-5-3-1-subseq...

[2]: https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/nrpm/#4-1-8-arin-wai...

[3]: https://www.arin.net/resources/fees/fee_schedule/
Are you sure you haven't already saturated your tiny market?
The sad thing about the pandemic is the number of people who still don't know what a virus is, and that it's not "DNA".
You might like https://www.fortressofdoors.com/ai-markets-for-lemons-and-th...
> I haven't seen a lot of places where inheritance was the best idea. Interfaces yes, inheritance no.

I like to use interfaces to expose the public side of things, but I find inheritance can be really powerful in terms of code-reuse for implementing those interfaces.

Of course if you got a language that makes encapsulation very smooth then inheritance might not be needed, but otherwise I find it can really cut down on code re-use and boilerplate to have a base class for certain interfaces.

Of course, since the interface is the public bit, if the base class is not a good fit for a certain implementation there's no requirement to use the common base class. So you use it when it makes sense.
It seems germane at this point to paraphrase Steven Wright.

“I have a map of the United States. It’s actual size. “
> To be fair, if you look at statistics around gen z you can see that there definitely are negative consequences of internet access

I haven't seen any such data. It's hard to separate generation effects and look purely at the effects of internet access in any sort of valid way.

You're probably thinking of studies around social media use. It isn't clear to me that internet filtering will combat any of what makes social media use such a mental health risk for teens.
coral + coral = reef + apple pie = apple reef

now I can't stop thinking about apple pie with seafood
Internet of today quite differ from the Internet of the past.
Do we have to buy all the cool discs one by one? Looks like a neat product, such a shame the motor is noisy because a little motion, just barely perceptible, would go a long way.

I would think people would throw good money for the same but better. I know I would.
I've been thinking about this a lot the last two years as someone who also grew up with social community online. It was life-changing for me too, but sometimes I catch myself wishing I could have had these experiences offline instead.

I read this a few months ago and I still think about it all the time. Curious about your thoughts. https://maya.land/monologues/2023/08/12/social-media-chalk-m...
I love how you have several random descovires like Flying spaghetti monster and Abominable noodleman. Then just Iceland.
Just. Iceland.
What makes you certain there is no reasoning involved here? Is it lack of "intent"? Does the user's prompt not provide sufficient intent to the LLM?

Based on the demo linked in the article, you can specifically prompt "What is unusual about this image? Walk me through your reasoning step by step" and get a thorough understanding of the reasoning behind the LLM's response.

So, yes, words do have meaning, and the word "reasoning" appears apt.
I don't think the blockchain walk has to be done locally. Much like someone looking up DNS records don't need to participate in the DB management to get their records, there can be intermediaries which provide the response and still rely on the blockchain as a source of truth?

The value of the blockchain (in the context of name resolution) would (should) be limited to enabling trustless-ness of the response. I can cryptographically authenticate the origin of the response. If you don't trust that source, zk proofs would enable the user to validate the response is part of the latest version of the blockchain's state without looking at all of the history.

I think the cost of carrying the whole history is a red herring.
Haha this reminded me of the two guys in hell and the one whispers to the other “I hate this place”.
Ah i see

I'm (perhaps naively) imagining an exhaustive list of resources in every macaroon, but i guess the permissive evaluation of caveats would help here since it should mean only the most restricted users would have many caveats. Also I suppose if the caveat evaluation code can deal with wildcards then it can be reduced further. ok OK!

I'll have to play around and see how these look in practice. We do have a good use-case for this with both delegation and attenuation... sadly our identity provider is married to JWTs and moving off it would take a lot of work.

Anyways. Great Post! Certainly got me thinking, and now i'm tempted to just blend this with our existing system of JWTs :smirk:
Congress-people have few incentives to restrain or reduce the national debt. There is plenty of talk, but little action. The event horizon may be distant, but the pull is inexorable. What could possibly solve this? Could we give representatives and senators bonuses for spending less and taxing more?
Streaming requests with fetch (2020) [video]
Autonomous vehicle company Motional is about to lose a key backer
Headline is different
Why not just let the candidate use ChatGPT or autopilot or whatever if it’s permitted at your workplace? It’s not hard to detect if they actually understand what it’s doing. In fact competence at LLM assisted coding is hire signal as far as I’m concerned.
Not sure about auction payments.

A guinea is a pound and a shilling - a sort of fat or posh pound I suppose. Horse race prizes here are still priced in guineas eg here's a random link, noting guineas:

https://www.racingpost.com/news/festivals/guineas-festival/c...

I can imagine that in the past, a popinjay or boastfool (made that one up) caused the guinea to be created because they wanted to outflance someone else. I don't think £1 1s is a useful lump of money, ever. I think it is simply there for bragging rights and further nonsense.

There is also the sovereign - "sov" - also a nickname for a pound but it isn't one. Gold sovs are worth a shit load these days.

I also missed out tanners and a lot more 8)
It also screams buffer overflow.
> “The city was close to bankruptcy in 1993, but it still wanted to promote development, so it had to go with cheapest option available, which was cycling infrastructure,” Kabell says.

THIS. The cost of a lane-mile of pavement for bicyclists is vastly lower than the cost of a line-mile of pavement for cars & trucks. Mostly, that's because the 99th percentile weight of bikes is maybe 350 lbs. Vs. the 99th percentile weight of cars & trucks is more like 70,000 lbs. And pavement damage from traffic is proportional to the 4th power of the weight.
Oh, rubbish

https://youtu.be/NGAOLoYbZ6k?si=VQT5iNFhL7wZjPaL
How dare you have a personal life.

I'm the same, my git repo is a graveyard of projects all set to hidden.
That's some pretty terse code. I'm surprised author was able to enhance the game after 40 years.
Yes agreed that it is a problem with interviewers, but in practice all the responsibility falls on the interviewee.

I've never once seen an interviewer getting better in any company I've worked for. What happens is they just move onto the next interviewee.
I found that after a month of working fine, my packet loss jumped up to 50%. Support recommended upgrading my plan.

It seems like they must massively oversubscribe their network then just drop packets based on your tier, with a honeymoon period for new customers so they don't immediately cancel.
Not sure about that solution, but we could elect representation that does the right thing(s), and not just the thing(s) that get them reelected.
The readme explains how Mutative achieves better performance over Immer: https://github.com/unadlib/mutative#readme
His mistake was not instructing it to be terse. AI output doesn't have to be more annoying and less dense than human output.