skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a self-employed furniture maker. I'm that guy who somewhat infamously no longer builds software[0]. About a year ago I moved my operations from a makerspace to my own shop. That's come with its ups and downs.

On the one hand, I know which idiot last used a tool: me.

On the other, I would no longer see other humans besides my wife most weeks. To keep sane I also work one day a week at a bike shop fixing bikes. It's something I'd done on a volunteer basis many years back.

The unexpected nice thing about this is that it gives me projects that are an hour or two in size in addition to the many-week sized projects that I do as part of my business. It's sort of like getting to fix a small bug in the midst of adding a big feature; it lets me pop out of the big project for a bit and see something else through from start to finish and see some tangible progress before diving back into a long-running project that moves forward in fits and starts.

Beyond getting to tackle some bite-sized projects, I'd say the thing that sustains me is getting to work with clients. It's tons of fun when people come to me with a vision that we can iterate on and bring into reality. And then the flip side is also rewarding: getting to scratch an itch and turn a design I've been turning over in my mind into reality.

Edited to add: If you've got an idea for a furniture or woodworking project, my contact info and website are in my profile.

https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149...
Good question. I have been compiling an analysis of the hardware market with the idea of analyzing a cloud market for LLMs. Feel free to comment: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nehciIpaKj3-sEta5Jx2q9in...

I am mainly interested in the training side because it is the more difficult one.
It really isn’t that different. You have to make different work life balance choices when you have kids, increasingly very hard decisions given rising costs (housing, childcare, food, activities, etc…). You also can’t really relax on long weekends anymore unless you are content with large amounts of screen time, it’s not like yesterday when my boomer parents just threw me out of the house and told me to come back around lunch/dinner.

The article is locked down, so I have no idea what it says after the second paragraph. I can imagine though.
Quite incredible work, with the original breakthrough model being trained on a 1070: https://twitter.com/LukeFarritor/status/1754532281690243339
TV shows follow a predictable formula, because of the media. Movies too, if they want to be successful.

A common saying for Movie and TV adaptations for books is 'we needed to change it to adapt it to the big screen'. Which is true.

It would be really silly to directly transcribe a reading of LOTR to a movie - despite the week long running time.

The media is the message, and the message is the media - if we want it to work/be effective.

The marketing and type of drinks for alcohol are not the same as for sodas - for a reason.

So saying some fundamental properties of the media won't impact the type of message or impact of the message seems a bit unlikely.
Do you feel like having fees spelled out in the billing could hurt customers' eyes or painfully confuse them, or do you think that a customer would be able to handle all of this extra information by ignoring it?
And bigger. For any particular fuel range of interest, an ICE drivetrain is smaller than a battery one.

But yes, I agree that weight as a proxy for size is ridiculous.
Undergraduate GPA predicts lifetime earnings[1], incoming test scores and GPA are highly predictive of both advanced degrees (which increase earnings), and increased earnings within degrees [2], [3].

I suggest these effects are because being a good student aka "eating books" is correlated with conscientiousness. They show up to lectures, prepare, and test well.

And conscientiousness is very highly correlated with lifetime achievement, AND fufillment [4]. So measuring conscientiousness, and signalling high conscientiousness is a really good idea.

IQ is great, but conscientiousness is how you get things done [5]

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9004755/

1.b (edited) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/05/20/heres... might be better. I thought this was "common knowledge"!

2. https://mpreiner.medium.com/what-is-the-impact-of-your-high-...

3. https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/research-summaries/education...

4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3498890/

5. https://docs.iza.org/dp8235.pdf
I've been wearing AVP extensively these past few days, experimenting with using it for all kinds of things. As of now, I don't find it more efficient or seamless at doing much of anything.

1. There is no window management whatsoever. It would be great if I could stick apps to each other, or tile them in a frame, but I can't do that. I also can't stack windows—if I put one window behind another, the only way to access it is to move the front window out of the way, or to close it. Kind of ridiculous, because I'm pretty sure that problem was already solved in the early 80s, if not ealier.

2. The field of view is really narrow. I have a 32:9 curved monitor, and I can easily look at the "side" apps by tilting my head just a few degrees, with my eyes doing the rest of the work. AVP demands tilting your head much more in either direction to see the window content, making it much harder to momentarily glance at.

3. I've had awful luck with the MacBook screen projection. Others may not have this issue. After a couple minutes of using it, it begins to heavily stutter to the point of being unusable. The keyboard handoff randomly disconnects. And AVP doesn't yet support bluetooth mice, only trackpads (either the MacBook's built-in trackpad, or a Magic Trackpad).

At least for normal desk work, AVP does not improve speed or efficiency in any way—it does the opposite. Hell, when I'm projecting my MacBook screen, I have to resist the temptation to just use desktop apps for everything, because they're so much faster and easier to use than the floating visionOS/iPadOS apps.

It's the iPad all over again. If you're a seasoned PC power user, using AVP will only hurt your efficiency in the same way that it would to try offloading some of your work to an iPad.

With that said, it does make certain things more enjoyable. Apple clearly didn't make this device as a solution to existing problems. The point is that it's a new relationship that we get to have with technology, which will possibly change the way we want to use technology.

But for real, Apple hasn't launched a first-gen product this limited in use since the original iPhone. It has a long way to go before it actually starts making digital life more efficient, except for some highly specialized use cases.
Yes and I recommend that people interested in GPT-4 use this service as it’s isolated from OpenAI and it is the absolute best model right now.

That said, there are 3 quite worrying future possibilities, both stemming from the level of investment and commitment by Microsoft in OpenAI - a huge percentage of Azure’s value is bet on an exclusive partnership with them. That gives OpenAI a lot of leverage. And customer data is a very tempting cookie jar to build a long term moat for these companies

Possibility 1: someone overtakes OpenAI models and you’re stuck on Azure who won’t offer that model

Possibility 2: OpenAI decides to break with Microsoft and you’re stuck with a useless application. AWS Bedrock is far less likely to leave an AI application obsolete.

Possibility 3: OpenAI put pressure on Microsoft to loosen the data protections around the service, or go around them entirely. This is a particular concern as the systems in the service become more complex and agentic and more difficult for Microsoft to audit. Model weights are highly opaque and Microsoft cannot trace the exact possible behaviour of these systems. What if GPT-6 changes its own weights during inference for example? How can Microsoft ever understand if that’s a true critical piece of functionality or a proxy method to access customer data etc.
Couple other modern examples are AMD and Nvidia leaders.
If this was a paper submitted by one of my students, they would fail. Why would these faculty members sign their names to this drivel? If you read carefully, you see how useless SAT and ACT scores really are.

Here are just a few insane things.

> Figure 1 shows a linear relationship between SAT scores and cumulative first-year GPA for
Dartmouth students. SAT scores are grouped into 16 equal-sized bins, and we plot mean
first-year GPA (y-axis) against mean SAT score (x-axis) in the bin.4 Within any smaller range of
scores, first-year GPA and the SAT maintain the same linear relationship.

Total nonsense. Figure 1 does not mean that SAT/ACT scores are predictive of academic achievement! Without seeing the variance you cannot make this statement. At all. The fact that there is a linear relationship means nothing statistically.

> SAT by itself explains about 22% of the variation in first-year GPA

So we're explaining less than 1/5th of the variance. This makes SAT scores basically worthless, this account for almost none of the real world performance of people, never mind how redundant they are with GPAs.

The correct title for this would be: SAT and ACT are not highly predictive of academic achievement at Dartmouth.

There's a massive disconnect between the title and the data. The data shows there is likely some statistical effect on performance by SAT. The title would have you think that if you know a student's SAT scores, you would be good at predicting their outcomes at Dartmouth. The data shows this is wrong: if you only used SAT scores, you would almost always be wrong in predicting how well a student would do.

A lot of papers play this game, they imply that statistically significant means meaningful. Nothing could be further from the truth. Something can be statistically significant but inconsequential.

Never mind that they define as success at Dartmouth as your first year GPA.
> when I'm live coding or demonstrating something to my students, I have to do it on the big screen which is behind me, and my neck doesn't like that at all ; thanks to tmux I can easily have duplicated terminals on both screens :)

Ah, clever :-)

In the theme of duplicated terminals, once, I used screen so we could share a terminal session remotely on the same server with a colleague to work together.
This is an odd one, too. There is a lot of defense these companies will get for how complicated it is to price in all of the costs of business that are local taxes. Never mind that they already do this with the likes of labor and infrastructure cost variation.

I'm somewhat sympathetic to billboard advertising, as that is something that can't really do this. But the vast majority of advertising can, in fact, show this level of detail quite easily.
If the universities were sincere about that, they would figure out how to increase enrollment.

Why is every parameter of admissions open to change despite tradition, except that one?
> The meaningful difference between handwritten notes and typed notes is not the device itself[..]

That's one hypothesis. Another would be the device [or lack of] is indeed the meaningful difference:

"Handwriting likely facilitates learning and memorization because of the numerous one-of-a-kind physical cues it provides: the shapes of your letters, the tactile feel of the paper and pen, the location of your words on the page, and details like folded corners, ink color, and other marks on the page. Your brain absorbs all of these pieces of information, which can later serve as triggers so that you more precisely pull the information from your memory.

By comparison, when you enter information into a phone or tablet, your words have no fixed position and then disappear when you close the app, leaving substantially less tactile and spatial information for your mind to absorb."[0]

[0] https://www.fastcompany.com/90618464/ditch-the-digital-notes...
If you don't have any current expensive active costs the marketplace is fine. It's not great if you have a spouse or kids who suffers from a chronic condition that is hard to get covered for, but it's mostly fine for most health catastrophes.
Indeed.

Standardized exams are the most fair and transparent.

Materials and tutors are available easily for free or cheaply on the internet nowadays.
> I do resent things that require smartphone though.

I got trapped by this over the weekend. I had a date to a hot new restaurant in town. When we arrived, I discovered that not only do they not provide actual menus, requiring you to go to a website instead, they also don't let you order and pay except through that website (Toast).

I was livid. But I was on a date and so felt forced to smile and pretend everything was cool, and subject myself to what turned out to be a privacy policy and ToS that I would never have agreed to under any circumstances.

But lesson learned: now I need to call ahead to establishments to ask if they force their customers to use that sort of nonsense, so I won't get trapped again.
Not an issue if they have a means of propulsion capable of delivering 1g the whole way

Which is necessary to go any meaningful distance in space anyway
You can't enroll infinite people.
I love LATERALs, but this still fits within set theory and a bulk application rather than an iterative for-loop. It may even be implemented as a for-loop within the engine, but SQL being declarative abstracts that away from the query interface.

It's sets all the way down. A set of f(x) is still a set.
Or the feeling of a very well calibrated/smoothed fountain pen on a nice quality paper, the way the nip slides on the paper effortlessly, yet following obediently slight nudges in pressure and tilts of the fingers to create the shapes that you want.
SAT/ACT for high achieving students means months of prep/studying and practice test taking. It ends up being a ~somewhat~ similar experience to a college class. Not really similar to humanities classes that depend on discussion section and papers, but if you squint enough it kind of looks like some STEM classes.
The article regularly refers to Automakers (e.g. in the headline), but the actual suit is from NADA and its Texas equivalent, who represent auto dealers.
The irony is that when you can afford kids in your mid to late 30s, it becomes much harder medically to have them (assuming your partner is similar in age). Lots of people just wait until they are ready, and then find out the window has passed, it’s really frightening.
Technology has fueled a sports betting boom and a spike in problem gambling
Yawn. This is all just shakedown from pandemic-era overhiring, when zero interest rates made it economical to hire whole engineering _organizations_ just to keep them from going elsewhere. Meta alone has hired 30,000 since the beginning of 2021; what were those folks ever even going to work on?

The tide is going out, and a whole lot of engineering orgs (and, frankly, mid-tier engineers) are going to find out who's treading water and who's swimming naked.
Ashby (YC W19) is hiring a product engineering manager in Americas (remote)
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If anyone is interested, I had gpt explain this SQL to me - and it was really helpful, as I couldnt parse that with my level of SQL...

https://chat.openai.com/share/931b1778-6393-4e86-94b4-b3b5a5...
It works like charm! I love sidekiq. It powers Microsoft’s one of the biggest database management services controlplane. It can easily handle hundreds of thousands of operations with a proper deployment.
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Fees that may not be in general waived or avoided should not be broken out from the price. Examples: Ticketmaster "convenience" fees, Las Vegas hotel "resort" fees. AT&T / Comcast / etc "recovery" and other fees. It's disingenuous to tag contributions to the price "fees" so they can be hastily added at or near the end of a transaction, rather than just giving the true cost to a consumer up front.

What next? McDonald's $2.00 value menu plus $5.99 Oxygen and Water Fee at checkout?
> we really should spend more time on other woman flight pioneers

Like Beate Uhse (actually: Beate Uhse-Rotermund), who is much more well-known for the sex shop empire that she built than for her acrobatic flight skills:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beate_Uhse-Rotermund
Well, it is the other way around in my bubble. If there is any Windows it is running in a VM. But I guess we are not regular consumers. :-)

However, I think common Linux Desktop usage (Browser, Media, Mail, …) was never easier than today. Just don't buy crappy hardware. No need for special vendors, get a refurbished Thinkpad T480 or something comparable for your Mom, try a current Fedora or Ubuntu, and there will be less issues than running Windows on this . All hardware, including mobile and LTE stuff, will work out of the box.
On Mac, Transmission. On Windows, QBittorrent.

Then I just search on various torrent sites. Thepiratebay.org and rutracker.org (use google). But movies and TV shows are easy to find. There are many sites which specialise in it.
And 40C is _over_ 100F.

Your useless pedantry about beaches is becoming boring now.
Might be you, or it might not be. Legitimate links look more and more like phishing links.
They should just shutter Google News. The product quality is abysmal. I get shown articles about astrology because I have shown an interest in astronomy. I often see recommended articles about the "Bay Area" which turns out to be the Chesapeake (or any number of other) Bay Area. It's clear whoever is working on recommendation quality has been asleep at the switch (or fired, or working to make money for crappy clickbait news sites like iflscience).

I'd like to see Sundar gone too but I don't know who they could find to replace him.
I tend to think there is an unspoken fear that if it became more accessible it loses its prestige
In terms of total compensation, I probably pay myself about what I would make at one of the big tech companies. (Side note: before changing to consulting, I did spend several years working as an engineer in a "real" job at a large medical device company.) The real appeal to me is twofold: first, I have strong control over my time; and second, I get to see and work on a very wide range of interesting projects and challenges. You can certainly get all of this in a traditional job as well, but my personal opinion is that it's easier to find it as a consultant.
And this:

>> Third, under test-optional policies, some less-advantaged students withhold test scores even in
cases where providing the test score would be a significant positive signal to Admissions.
Importantly, Dartmouth Admissions uses SAT scores within context; a score of 1400 for an
applicant from a high school in a lower-income community with lower school-wide test scores is
a more significant achievement than a score of 1400 for an applicant from a high school in a
higher-income community with higher school-wide test scores. Admissions uses numerous
detailed measures of outcomes at the high school and neighborhood levels to account for these
known disadvantages. As one example, Admissions computes a measure of how each applicant
performs on standardized tests relative to the aggregate score of all test-takers in their high
school, using data available from the College Board.
Then they should be publicly run and free to take and send to universities.
They don't ask for SAT because they don't want to get sued.
Get better at understanding and articulating the opposing viewpoint.
Peak capitalism. It's not a bug, it's a feature.
I am looking forward to the stressors this places upon identity in the online world so we can develop something better than showing a picture of an ID card. Some sort of public/private key repository kept by licensing authorities would be a more preferable solution to me at an initial glance.
Bottom 80% of US Households Persistently Dissaves-Spending More Than Income
The underground site where "neural networks" churn out fake IDs
Police Using AI to Sift Through Millions of Hours of Unreviewed Body-Cam Footage
Not quite! The immediate history here plays a huge role in where we're at today. In the 2014 the US backed a [coup, revolution, insurrection - whatever you want to call it] in Ukraine that saw their democratically elected pro-Russian President overthrown. Numerous Ukrainian territories that also leaned pro-Russia refused to recognize the new government and declared their independence, the Donbas region and Crimea among them.

For the 8 years from 2014 to 2022 Ukraine was intermittently attacking and shelling these breakaway territories (excepting Crimea, which had become part of Russia) which were (and are) largely populated with ethnic Russians, and Russia was "secretly" protecting them. This led to a series of treaties, The Minsk Accords [1], to try to arrange peace between Russia and Ukraine, and give the breakaway territories some sort of special status while remaining under Ukraine.

These treaties were always violated. And while this was happening Ukraine was increasingly fortifying and arming itself, as well as seeking to join NATO - which NATO was, sincerely or not, indulging. This all really set the stage for where we are today. It also sets the stage for where we're going tomorrow, because the inability to maintain any sort of a peace over these regions is going to make obtaining a 'minimally unfavorable' settlement for Ukraine, over this war, much more difficult.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_agreements
Maybe the problem is the shortness of sight rather than the lack of an end?

Rest assured, if the powers that be decide that "Russia is good now" they will convince you of the same within 6 months.
More precisely, it's not the standardized testing that's hurting, it's the underlying material conditions.
After I sold my last company, I felt like my identity was overly tied to one product. So, I decided to build a company separate from the products, so that over time the products can change but I have a through line company brand.

When I started this comapny, I didn't have a product - but I had the holding company (Contraption Company). My first product was Postcard, but now I spend most of my time building Booklet. As the shift in products has happened, my professional email address has been the same, the terms of service have been shared between services, and I have a unified blog + announcements email list. This also means I can launch lightweight experiments such as "FRCTNL", and even if it's not commercially successful - I benefit from compounding returns in the brand and mailing list.
No, but surely you can enroll more people.

I can't imagine theres a dearth of physical space or qualified educators near any university. The fact that they are not growing to accommodate the demand has always boggled my mind...