skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking from my experience in stem even then they don’t train you at all for graduate school even if you aced undergrad. GPA no longer matters at that level and as such what few required classes you have are easy A seminar style classes where they make someone in the dept opine on whatever they are working on for a few weeks a semester.

The skills you actually need are manuscript writing. Being able to read a dozen scientific articles a day and gleam what they are saying accurately. Being able to convert that into presentations for other people. Using existing knowledge to develop a research proposal that’s actually topical or relevant to the field today.

People don’t get that experience, at most a training wheels on sort of manuscript project in undergrad where you cite 5 things and only your TA is reading it, not peer review. As such for most people, the first few years of PhD are basically spent spinning your wheels in the mud until you gather enough of these untaught soft skills to actually produce work.

So if you consider the whole undergrad plus these first few years lost in the wilderness in gradschool, its like 7 of your best years gone down the drain because the training system for decades has been “figure it out.” Even as bad as today is, its still a little bit better than a few decades ago when people were spending even longer faffing about in PhD programs on average.
My work encountered this same sort of thing after an outage. Our Redis instance or client got confused. If a=b and c=d in our cache, a request for a returned d randomly.

We quickly realized that cache is fast but not infallible. Use proper security on all your resources. Don’t rely on UUIDs to obfuscate your data as security.
I've a notes.txt file that follows me around in most jobs I do. It's more a journal than a planner. Sometimes I put TODO in, sometimes what to do when a change needs to be implemented so I don't forget. That works quite well as I can return to that later, or see what I was doing some months ago. It's in vim, which works well too for me as I'm already familiar with how to edit.

One of the popular getting things done methods was to keep your stuff in one place, at least this article keeps inline with that idea.

If it works, keep doing it.
You're assuming that the aliens are alien.
Bit of a bummer for those of use whose daily work attaining world peace, ending hunger or one of those other big problems. That includes me. You?
Oddly enough, I feel like streaming music service algorithms only reluctantly serve up new music. To me it feels like a constant reversion to the mean, not a portal to endless possibilities. It’s closer to listening to the radio than digging crates in a record store.
This is last year's April fools joke?
Even Kagi is like that, since "lighting" is a product class.

If I search "Indoor lighting science" on DDG almost all the product stuff is gone. I even get an NIH paper on lighting and health.
I feel that way about sites that are only email/password. I don't trust them to have good security so I'd much rather use a third party provider. Good to have choice though.
A negative result is still useful, more research with negative outcomes should be published.
The problem is that without the progression, it leads very quickly to either brute force or giving up. The lifelines don't feel like earned progression (even if they function that way in terms of solving), they feel like a minor defeat.
I essentially do not use int short, long, long long at all. Frankly I think those were a terrible mistake and people should avoid using them.
I've arrived at something similar after going through a lot of different solutions: Evernote, Quiver notes, Apple Notes, Logseq, Tana: now I just keep everything in one big Journal.md file in Obsidian. I added a datestamp shortcut that inserts the date as a title in "2024 February 19 (Mon)" format, and get to writing. I use subheadings sometimes if I'm writing a lot on a particular day and it gets messy, but most days it's just a hodge podge of everything, and that's fine.

It works. A big issue with computer notetaking software, I've realized, is that I was spending too much time trying to figure out where to put things: what note should this be connected to, which folder should this be in, etc. Dumping everything into a single document, under today's date, gets rid of that. The other issue this solved was that I never looked back at what I'd written previously: opening a bunch of files was too tedious to ever do unless I was explicitly looking for something. With this, I can just scroll down and see what I was doing last week, immediately.
Can't speak to Asia, but the big difference between US and EU is that US has a lot more variance in quality of life. Its quite a bit easier to monetize skills, but its also quite a bit easier to become poor because of lack of social safety nets.

In EU there is very little variance, so most people don't see the value in extra effort that they have to put in to get ahead. Middle class is undoubtably much better off in EU - you have a lot more social safety nets and assistance, and furthermore, because most of the people around you are generally in the same boat financially, the lack of materialism is actually quite good for peoples mental health and finances.

The only caveat is, EU can have this sort of setup in large part due to economic influence of US. A lot of wealth from US is exported to EU, which goes on to fund the social safety nets. You wouldn't think that 2007 housing crisis in US would go on to affect job markets in EU, but it very much did. Also, US pretty much subsidizes military capability development costs for all of EU.
Nice, even free.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Borg
A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft
GPT-4 knowledge cutoff is september 2021.
GPT-4-Turbo knowledge cutoff was April 2023.

Both models were not able to have any pydantic v2 training data.
That’s a lot more expensive.
I plan exclusively on paper despite using Obsidian quite extensively for taking notes. I also do weekly and daily planning.

Initially I tried to plan on Obsidian as well but it didn't work for me. Writing on paper is slow and not only it calms me down but also directly incentivizes me to state my tasks and goals concisely. Similarly, the limited space on a planning page helps me to be realistic in terms of things I set to accomplish.
If it's a consolation, I feel the same as you.

I clicked because what I have is a gigantic TODO .txt file that grows and grows and grows. I typically only look at the bottom (newest) part, typically at what fits on screen. The rest is full of things I should have done at some point and never actually did.
Comparing the intelligence of machine learning models that are designed to emulate human cognition and logical, to a well understood stage of human cognition and logic, is completely logical, and completely aligned with the purpose of the ML model's existence.
there's a much better way providing simplicity with full data ownership and real tasks out of the box in daily documents https://acreom.com
Can you quantify the difference between cognitive reasoning and statistical optimization?
not at all, i understand there are going to be different takes on what the right balance of functionality & configuration are and htmx has been hamstrung to an extent by being IE compatible, which, coupled w/ my commitment to backwards compatibility, means some obvious things are off the table (e.g. using fetch())

i don't begrudge other people having differing opinions on this stuff and agree w/the spirit of your original comment: HTML should have a native mechanism for doing what htmx does. hopefully htmx (and other takes on the idea) contribute to that future.
AWS has competition. I can run on 1000 other hosting providers and the users of the site won't be able to tell the difference.

I can rank on every search engine except Google and it would still kill my business. They own 90% of all the traffic.

Your analogy isn't valid.
What's the site and what keywords are you targeting?
Just in case: Nice game!

I played the new set today, and I think the balance between the 01 and 02 is very good and make the puzzles very interesting.
At the same time computer science programs would probably do a better service teaching you these things in an actual real language instead of their stupid in house dialect of Java. Most of the gotchas and productivity blocks in programming aren’t from theoretical shortcomings but unfamiliarity with some stupid piece of syntax.
ATT under anti trust scrutiny creates UNIX.

ATT throws unix out the car window, at speed, to any one and every one who will take it because they did NOT want any more heat.

A lot of stuff escaped Bell Labs because of anti trust.

The old att rotary phone is part of the impression of how durable goods can be (that thing was a tank).

The final breakup of att leads to baby bells, and we have seen how that experiment went...

Could we have co-op or regional public utility for internet/cable/phone today? Yes we could, but I dont think we would have gotten to this place with out AT&T's rise and fall.

It and IBM are the examples of squandered dominance of technology.
How is a single text file overkill vs. using a whole application to structure your notes and format with markdown?
In this case "prill" is the obscure word, sorry. I understand some people will be annoyed that the obscure words they happen to know don't work, but I think it's better for the 95% of players who would be disappointed to find that "prill" or "brall" was part of the solution, effectively giving them no chance.

Each puzzle has only one solution, so if you find one that doesn't work with 1 or more extremely uncommon words, it's safe to assume that's not the solution.
A Years-Long Misunderstanding about Firefox Security in Wikipedia
I recall many trips to the beach as a kid where I sat and read a book while other swam.
I still believe the original title is warranted.

The fact that Google has to manually step in to intervene or else the big domains get all the top rankings tells you that they are very heavily biased towards big media domains.
If there's a reason to assume otherwise, I've yet to become aware of it. Or are you getting at something more earthly in scope?
Thank you for this. I think it's important that technical folks in particular not anthropomorphize LLMs, and help less technical people understand how they work and that they lack consciousness, emotions, and understanding.
Have you experimented with running diffusion models on Groq hardware?
Not the OP, but I would suspect the Mac Studio will retain its value better than an application specific product.
Browsers can reformat clean HTML easily in theory, but I mean the defaults aren't nice, and most users aren't changing them. You have to use CSS to make a site look good by default.

I guess the best solution to that isn't browser-side .md rendering, though.
This is very interesting and completely new to me (I'm European). Suddenly so much of the situation in the American health business makes sense.
> because Safari delivers a degraded experience with them.

Can you recommend any sources that go deeper into particulars of degraded experience?
That's why you should use https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls or something similar. There are many alternatives.
The article is also old with outdated information
While you’re here, I have a quick, off-topic question. We‘ve seen incredible results with GPT3-176B (Davinci) and GPT4 (MoE). Making attempts at open models that reuse their architectural strategies could have a high impact on everyone. Those models took 2500-25000 GPU’s to train, though. It would be great to have a low-cost option for pre training Davinci-class models.

It would great if a company or others with AI hardware were willing to do production runs of chips sold at cost specifically to make open, permissive-licensed models. As in, since you’d lose profit, the cluster owner and users would be legally required to only make permissive models. Maybe at least one in each category (eg text, visual).

Do you think your company or any other hardware supplier would do that? Or someone sell 2500 GPU’s at cost for open models?

(Note to anyone involved in CHIPS Act: please fund a cluster or accelerator specifically for this.)
Totally disagree as a regular user of 2g internet on a phone. If you are downloading a 1mb bundle to show me your home page, I'm going to give up within 30s or go elsewhere. I'm more than happy to put up with laggy feedback.

That being said, usually people writing downloads using fetch will implement a promise-based timeout on top of the network timeout, which causes all kinds of issues on 2g internet. One of my favorite side-effects are implementations that "retry after 2s" that don't actually cancel the in-flight request, causing my entire bandwidth to be hogged up with dozens of these requests "retrying" when the initial request eventually returned successfully. Javascript developers are unintentionally evil to non-5g internet.
For sure, but snake also doesn't need a game engine. I don't think the exercise was code golf.
Yes, we don't have any publicly accessible ones at the moment though.
I feel like this title is misleading compared to the original article. (cc @dang) Fly.io without cold starts (which is a one-line configuration change) is 2x faster than Cloudflare Workers.
Why the "||:not(*)" in the iframe onload handler of htmz and not just "null"?
or people don't tell the whole truth in polls?
LLMs aren't designed to emulate human cognition, they are a statistical model designed to predict the next word in a sentence. It happens that they seem to exhibit some similarities to human cognition as a side effect, but that does not mean they are on some developmental path to a "full human" like a child. Again it is silly to try and compare the two.
This should be on a billboard or carved into the side of the Santa Cruz mountains in Silicon Valley!
I'm much less addicted to TikTok than I'm addicted to HN, Reddit, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram. I will use TikTok every few days, usually before sleep because I don't feel like something is happening and I'm missing out.

On the other hand, I constantly feel the urge to check what's going on in the rest.

Other people may have a different experience but its up to them to write about it. I can't speak for them and I'm not obligated to repeat the mainstream narrative. TikTok is working amazingly well for me.
Would be great to have the option to download this in full before the C&D hits.
The Nordic countries do a lot of research & product development and they are social democracies which is a moderate form of socialism.
Simple txt file is the best indeed. For easily creating a new file (from a template) everyday in VSCode, can recommend the vscode-journal extension.
Given that the entire scheme is a scam where the manufacturer pockets the difference I think we could get rid of it for everyone
Not necessarily. Even though these job posting seek out experience with specific libraries over general theoretical knowledge, they often still require a four year degree for reasons known only to HR.
Curious, I have starting using Obsidian recently and one of the things that I love about it is that it's lightning fast on my systems, including startup time. Much snappier than other note-taking programs I've used, and than 95% of the programs altogether (only the likes of Notepad are faster).

Maybe it's because I don't have many notes yet and it becomes a behemoth if the vault gets too big?
Single core performance is the primary thing that determines responsiveness for many programs.
From Rubber Soul to Revolver
For those that are interested in 'age' see previous hn thread [0]

That thread suggests (I'm not an expert) there seems to be a problem (with 'age') of overwriting files if you have the public key.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32980141
ime it's a journey of knowing yourself. If you adopt this person's workflow it won't work for you, but if you try something similar, start small and gradually add more organization, you might end up with something that works
This extension has been developed on top of pgrx and depends on the platforms that pgrx supports. From the pgrx readme:

> Windows is not supported. It could be, but will require a bit of work with cargo-pgrx and figuring out how to compile pgrx's "cshim" static library.
> Beyond that: it's literal word of mouth.

This is the key.

If you have enough enthusiastic, loyal, (rich and/or generous) devotees, then you can make a living from their donations (e.g. Liberapay) or subscriptions (e.g. Patreon). If you're doing something worthwhile or even just fun, you've probably got some.

But if you don't — and this going to sound harsh about a labour of love — then evidently other people aren't (yet!) willing to pay you to focus solely on it. Maybe there's enough to cover some or all of the costs, or even make a surplus (but not a living), and you can carry on as a hobby/part-time/side-project.

But for the thing to continue existing, someone (maybe you!) has to care about it enough to pay for it, and Google certainly doesn't. Google doesn't know anything about the unique service you provide; it only knows about the words on your website, and it can get those same words ten-a-penny from other websites.

If Google's killing your site now, that means Google's been keeping it on life support since… whatever your previous strategy was. They're selfish money-getters, they never promised you page views or ad revenue, and you're not useful to them any more.
For Firefox the classic example is Pocket.
I don't understand anything you're saying. Orin is not scalable at all and (IMO) overpriced given its slow CPU and GPU and it's limited to 64GB of soldered RAM while Macs can go up to 192GB. AFAIK Orin is limited to a special build of Ubuntu and has no community.
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I’ll note that you completely ignored the main topic and have jumped to another question. What guarantees do I have, if I engage with you on this new (and admittedly somewhat interesting) topic, that you won’t just again jump to something else mid-debate? You do not seem to be arguing in good faith.
You mean these highly anthropomorphised programs? It’s important that technical people don’t anthropomorphise them?

I agree but the creators of all the main LLMs have already crossed the line by a long way. E.g. It’s deeply troubling that it’s acceptable that LLMs deliver inline apologies.
I think you’re missing my point. I have since come and gone from a decade-long career in semiconductors, and it’s always been 300mm for logic. 200mm is early 2010s at the latest
The worn out music may no longer be produced, and may be unlikely every to be produced.

Even if it is produced again, that is a later edition and some people like to own the first edition.
>How is that “creepy”?

I don't know. I just felt it was like that, so said it. Can't really explain it. Gut feel.

>Now, what happens to those increased wages when the demand for workers is gone?

>That’s right. They collapse.

Yeah. It happens. All the time. Deal with it.

Cycles, dude, cycles.

Business cycles. Ups and downs.

Power cycles (between various power groups). Ditto.

You know, like our old pals, Xerxes, Darius, Cambyses, Alexander, Attila, Caesar, Ashoka, Chandragupta Maurya, Genghis Khan, Akbar, Timur, Napoleon, Hitler, Cortes, and many more (in no particular order).

Horse-drawn carts. Cars. ICE cars. EVs. Age of sail. Steam ships. Abacus. PCs. Mobiles.

You get the drift. It's called progress. Not so sure. But it is what it is.
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> is it blocking anything? It was one of a shopping list of requirements that it be capable of complying with court orders.

Presumably the court orders would be to block things, right?

> I expect they don't want to repeat the Quad9 situation, where it just blocked requests from all of Germany.

Best way to resolve this is to not have laws requiring DNS servers to censor things, and make those laws as inconvenient to enforce as possible to encourage that outcome.

> And as others in the thread mention, things that court orders may block aren't just torrents - eg malware.

But as soon as they start blocking torrents then people stop using it and it can no longer block malware.

> Also, given that it's mainly aimed (so far) at government departments and telcos, it's not clear that that would reduce adoption at all.

Users can choose not to use their telco's DNS if it starts blocking things they don't want it to, which in turn limits use of the service by end users. It may even limit use of the service by telcos if they get customer complaints or notice that customers are switching from their DNS, which they don't want if they're redirecting NXDOMAIN to ad spam or using/selling DNS query data etc.
An Asteroid Wiped Out Dinosaurs. Did It Help Birds Flourish?
I’ve seen a professor get cornered by a student and his parter who did not even take the class, sounding like a lawyer about three points or so on an exam they totally bombed, and it got very confrontational and uncomfortable. This sort of behavior is getting more common as the people who act like this often realize most people just bend and give them what they are asking.
It took me longer than I'd like to admit.

The lapping cat operator is truly inspired. Being a sucker for for pattern matching, I'm more likely to write

foo, = seq

or

foo, *_ = seq

than

assert len(seq) == 1
foo = seq[0]

or

foo = seq[0]

Though I vaguely call past colleagues disagreeing, or at least insisting on parens around the "foo," in the first one.
I agree, moreover the rules for Show HN ask not to use it on waiting list: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

And waiting list usually don't get traction, so it's a bad idea to post it here anyway.
I use FF primarily, but sometimes Chrome for debugging, on macOS.

I literally cannot tell them apart.
A common trope in sci fi is that aliens are actually people from the future traveling back in time
I see the causation in the other direction:

a simple tool is more likely to help you get organized and stay disciplined, due to the low activation energy to get started and keep using it.

Otherwise, there is a great temptation to futz around with your organization tools instead of making plans and getting things done.
actually it reads very much like an asynchronous mount