skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, you want to be able to respond to a query like "when did I have that new cool hamburger?" Something like that? I'd think you usually could since you do have other memories aside from what the flashcards gave you (I hope). Like this:

- you know that you had a fight with your partner sometime in June

- you know (thanks to flashcards) that you had that new cool hamburger some days after you had a fight with your partner

- therefore, you had that new cool hamburger in June

Presto! And if you have some other fact to tie a June memory to an exact date, and you can probably "walk" to the exact date for the hamburger too.
Is that a conclusion grown by thinking of promotions as a win/lose against your peers? That’s never been my experience. I was less capable and valuable than my peers in my first role but was promoted quickly and repeatedly by learning quickly from them.
"Billions of people are denied the chance to do just that," Yeah that's a huge problem, never saying its not, we need as much stem as we can get. Billions of people are trapped in a state that doesn't really want to do anything hard. Japan was a big steel producer, but they saw that wouldn't last and went to making electronics. China is kinda split, because of perverse incentives in state supported steel/cement. Otherwise they would focus on electronics because economics are better. If all the MFG going to vietnam, mexico etc doesn't spur the state to do long term planning to build off of it, it will be a really wasted opportunity.
Some engineers can cite RFCs and ISO standards on the spot sometimes, probably same for doctors
I present you a friend [1] building interfaces for new game controllers to old computers. Here interfacing a Nintendo Balance Board to play Decathlon in the Commodore 64 [2].

[1] https://retro.moe/2024/02/04/bluepad32-v4-0/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj5fZlt_834
> If I heard this while I was interviewing a candidate, I would write a note to myself: "Be prepared for more of this."

I mean... ok? So don't try to make their FOSS product your own product?

> If I heard this while I was interviewing a candidate, I would wonder whether they lacked awareness of the need to follow established processes.

Ew. I would wonder why the staff wasn't able to tell him there is a process.

> So there's at least one occasion when the person had a break from reality

"years ago" in an unstable situation.

> Not exactly legal or ethical. Obviously, they're facing dire circumstances, which might mitigate their culpability, but would you want to hire someone who uses social engineering to deceive people?

I'm pretty sure "social engineer" here means something along the lines of "yeah I'm visiting my cousin"

> Again, they're facing dire circumstances, which might mitigate their culpability, but they're also being quite open about being willing to steal, which is not exactly a desirable trait for most employers.

Unless they're working for a grocery store or restaurant I don't think their employer will be worried about them stealing food.
National anthems usually are, if you try to sing them correctly. But you don't have to. If you have a culture where everyone participates, the crowd version of the anthem evolves into something that works and sounds similar enough.
I think some studies have refuted this and found that most often if you house people they become productive. But those are very small studies and I am skeptical they could scale that well or persevere long-term, it will just bother too many others who are not benefiting from it, and people will find ways to manipulate the system and steal from it. But UBI is inevitable, we will have to figure it out or watch our civilization fail.
> is the kind of thing that doesn't earn the respect of the people he's trying to convince

For me, he's not trying to convince anyone, just complaining, venting about what he saw happening.
e.g. every pharmaceutical company.
> This problem goes away with the retrieval augmented generation (RAG) model, which first performs a web search for relevant sources before producing a summary of its findings. However, even in the GPT-4 RAG model, we find that up to 30% of statements made are not supported by any sources provided, with nearly half of responses containing at least one unsupported statement.

Could you do something like this. Chunk/separate the individual claims made by the LLM, and the associated sources from RAG. Then feed them into a second LLM one by one, asking "is this claim $X_i reflective of the source $Y_i?". Whatever this second LLM says, feedback the response to the original LLM and ask it to revise what it's saying if the answer is "No". Iterate until the second LLM says "Yes" to every separate claim. Not perfect but might help.
> Bing Maps deploys MapLibre GL JS in production, a feat which was only possible thanks to performance improvements that were contributed to MapLibre by Bing Maps Engineers.

Does anyone ever use Bing maps for anything?

Sometimes when I see a complaint about Apple/Google Maps I like to check Bing Maps for the same thing. I invariably find it's even worse, but nobody noticed because they didn't look.

They do occasionally have the best quality satellite maps though; nobody likes updating those because they're very expensive and generally the least useful mode.
VP’s at Goldman being 25 year olds with 3 years experience is hilarious.
Heh I went the opposite direction from zenith to ASRock tnt

Are you on the latest bios? I have had good results flashing the "E" bios in the TNT folder based on the FTP site mentioned here

https://www.reddit.com/r/ASRock/s/GztBuD9INh
I've been on two test teams and three dev teams... I think devs can do it, and I say as much when I'm in dev mode.

The manager just has to recognize that 80% of the time this will mean a 20% increase in dev time while the tests are written, and 20% of the time it'll mean a 400% increase while things are refactored to remain testable.

It sucks. The rest of the business doesn't get it. But the alternative is that you end up painted into the same corner: in need of that drastic refactor, except the people who it's blocking (QA) don't feel empowered to do it, meanwhile the devs just keep shipping features because they're not the ones that are blocked.

Better to take that occasional slowdown than to have nobody owning it at all.
I’m wondering why these keys don’t require movement to activate. That seems to nearly entirely solve the problem.

A key sitting stationary in your house shouldn’t have any reason to transmit until it’s moved. You can still keep the key in your pocket since you’d have to walk to your car, thus activating the radio.
Hmm well I believe reddit made up a huge portion of the training data for GPT2 but yes, tbh I have no support for the claim that that's the case with current versions. Anyway, I guess if we consider a forum as following the general scaffold of human conversation, it's a good analogy. But yes there's a tonne of other content at play. If we consider, "where does chatgpt inherit its conversational approach from?" .. that may be a good approach. Almost nowhere in human prose, from either journals or novels, is there an exchange where a tip is seen as inviting a more verbose or detailed conversational response. It's kinda nonsensical to assume it would work.
Wonder how much longer this post stays up.
> (If you really want to get depressed, look at European cities like Amsterdam or Berlin which have homelessness rates approaching double most US cities' and even higher expenditures.)

Could you please provide some links to those figures? The last figures about homelessness in Berlin I know were below 2000 individuals [1], which does not strike me as shockingly high. But things might have changed.

[1]: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1097522/umfra...
Software Devs are even worse
Unless they want to provide free file storage to the world... surely they must delete spam.
Your example doent make sense.
Those who spend spam for profit will do it anyway - they dont care if tools that detect spam exist or not. In fact those tools limit the ability of script kiddies to enter. It is a cat and mouse game.

A homeless person can steal some electic wires and pipes and fixing it will cost a lot of money. So you say that we shouldnt fix it?
It looks like a minor bug that was reported as a high severity security issue, with the reporter not being able to explain why other than "this kind of error CAN be bad".

Not sure if I'd be snarky for the first few clueless reports, but I'd probably be getting there after several of them have happened.
That's what I thought was weird. It starts and concludes with "For example, the Shirky principle means that a government agency [...]", but all the actual examples in-between are of private companies causing problems, not government agencies.
I think you gave the big part of the reason why,its fentanyl. I've heard that the quality of care decreased, but fentanyl would explain an increment in fatalities if the total consumption do not increase.
By your standards, you don't have a world model either. Maybe you agree with that though.

And logic as in formal logic. Human Intelligence clearly doesn't run on that.
When there are no deposits, things stream more easily, like blood. They're more alike than you think.
this is why everything is fine.

all that energy wasted learning and playing faangesque promotion monopoly.

that energy could have been spent passionately learning and building cool stuff.

stuff that doesn’t just look good on the packaging, but is actually good.
Show HN: Namique, straight-to-point brand name generator
Yes I ran my comment through and asked it to take the rough edges off. I have no desire to worsen someone else's experience and my attempt at a comment was too cold. I simply want to warn people to have their guard up whilst helping.
Right, I'd be coming at you with the reasoning for Israeli citizens having the same rights of self-determination as Palestinians. We almost certainly agree about the right to self-determination outside the '67 borders of Israel, in Gaza and the West Bank. But inside those borders, Israel's claims, whether you want to frame them as "nationhood" or something else, are as strong as any in the region, and stronger than those of America.

I don't think any of the reasoning is as simple as "the Levant is the historic homeland of the Jewish people"; I think it's a complicated and deeper mess than that.

If you're not saying that Israelis have a lesser claim to self-determination within the '67 borders than Palestinians do, we're just on the same page. :)
No you didn’t solve the problem. You just traded one problem for another one.
A businessman in an executive position can make something out of nothing.

Something having to do with integrity.

A non-businessman in an executive position knows they can't do that but often gets a better short-term bottom line by using established resources to make nothing out of something.

These are not better returns, they are better results which can be the closest some people are ever going to get.

Naturally it takes longer to make something out of nothing than it does to make nothing out of something.

To each their own limitation, but when the amount of established value that can be quickly extracted far exceeds the amount of potential new value that can quickly be added, the integrity of the executives has always been what decides which direction the business is moving in when it comes to real value.
Super cool. MUDs were cool because they were open, free. I'm kind of repelled by the modern derivative, the Corporate Games like World of Warcraft.

Would a modern MUD be web based? What is the modern web version of a MUD?

I don't think immersive 3D like the aforementioned WoW is really a MUD but I am not sure pure text is to my liking. I think Rogue-likes might have hit the sweet spot — allowing you to explore somewhat graphically but there was still a degree of imagination required. The cost to create a Rogue-like world too would not be prohibitive (and I mean cost in terms of time and effort — like the time and effort that would be required to create a 3D immersive universe like WoW, etc.).

And, sure, I know Dwarf Fortress is a thing but the other aspect of MUDs that was cool was that so many existed with their own unique feel and character.

I guess I am looking for a web ring of Rogue-likes.

Even cooler if, while on different servers, they had a mechanism for linking or tunneling to other sites. I'm imagining two sysops cooperating and adding tunnels between their two worlds so that a player could wander into a completely new world — unknowingly moving from one site to another. You get enough sysops to join up and you kind of no longer need a web ring.
That would ironically be a good answer to the interview question
Still seems confusing to me. MUDs were run on much weaker hardware than that even.
They have, extensively, but it's not a story the Jedi would tell you.
My favorite part of the (extensive) Haskell API is `Hledger.Cli.Script` [0]. It re-exports all the most commonly used functions and data types, meaning you're just one import away from everything you need to get started.

[0]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hledger-1.32.3/docs/Hled...
Collecting specialities is important, but never think of yourself as a "front end engineer" or a "mobile developer", you're a software engineer that has happened to specialize in two previous fields.

My last three jobs I've done big data, SRE, network servers/socket programming, distributed systems, and more.

Some companies will hire you for your speciality, and others will hire you because you're good at learning a speciality, and they might have a new one they want to point you at.
PicoCSS provides a minimal responsive layout with `.grid`: https://picocss.com/docs/grid

For for complex grids, PicoCSS suggests complementing with:

1. Flexbox grid layouts (for a quick way to prototype or build a complex layout)

- Bootstrap grid, Flexbox Grid

2. OR CSS Grid Generators (for a light and custom grid)

- CSS Grid Generator, Layoutit!, Griddy

3. OR just use CSS Grid

---

There are links to all the above in the link below:

https://picocss.com/docs/grid
I'm talking about senior level promotions, where the compensation is exceeding 400-500k a year. Not fresh grad roles
It is a fact, that is why I state it as one. You are basically trying to write a correctness proof before you actually have a good idea of what it is you are trying to build. I've done this plenty of times myself, and it is a good way to waste time and tell yourself you are productive. Yes, I am also looking at all the "let's rewrite stuff in Rust" projects.

Especially problematic is that the type system doesn't necessarily reflect the correctness you care about, but just some properties the language cares especially about. You are spending your time trying to shoehorn your solution into somebody else's idea of correctness, who doesn't really know anything about your program at hand.

That's why I like TypeScript, its type system is expressive enough for many simple correctness checks I actually care about, while at the same time not getting (too much, and with the above caveats) in the way of how I think about what I build.

It is especially clear to me that static type systems are dinosaurs of the past. The future is on-the-fly checking of arbitrary logical properties of your program, which can always contain what static type systems used to be for as a subset.
The same as companies and politicians, why put only institutions into the spotlight?
Depends what the alternative use of that capital is. What “value” led Elon to buy Twitter and flush it down the toilet? When people have enough money, they stop valuing money much when they make decisions.

Having more and more money in the coffers of a tiny group of billionaires is actually deeply anticapitalistic because it prevents market forces from working.
I would advise to presume that the author knows exactly what he wants to say, particularly that it was a deliberate decision to choose socially awkward form for a message "we are tired of being told we're socialy awkward idiots".

Even if the author is not that sharp, it is much more exciting and revealing with the assumption that he is exactly that sharp.
I've seen countless advertisements, mainly on Facebook, promoting AI-powered VSTs. As anyone here used these? Are they any good?
Ask HN: The Theory-Practice Gap
I was under the belief that theory comes before practice in engineering. This belief seems to be false when it comes to Machine Learning and AI. A lot of models work but we have very little understanding of why they work and when they fail. Are there any notable engineering works where practice was far ahead of the theory?
Vouched. Unsure why it was marked dead unless it's a too often posed quandary.

At the end of day I think it's worth reminding investors, regardless if going as IPO or even in the situation of being bought out as a company, that at the core are users and those who contribute their time for free, and if they (at the core) find the page has turned to undo their efforts or hinder their continued efforts - investors hoping the change will bring new users isn't always a good bet, not to mention the sour taste of those who leave will inevitably reverberate in the real world
Yeah, XGO seems like a very similar vibe lol. I did like the simplicity of the message on the site and idea. It's not a full solution, but there's something to be said for trying to be in the middle of total anarchy and strict processes.

If the sense of anarchy is completely lost then it's worth at least thinking about whether or not it's a thing worth correcting /shrug.
Just be careful when approaching actual current MUD gamers with that idea. They're largely cynical towards AI. I don't really blame them, a lot of people coming at /r/mud with new ideas are either lazy, misinformed, or crypto bros.
Academics i.e. (in my experience) be skilled at rote memorization and where there is a pretense of critical thinking, discovering your teachers' opinions and pandering to them.
Don't do this.

It's better than starving to death, freezing to death, or being destitute the rest of your life, but subjectively, and objectively based on the comments, you'll find a way through, those aren't even close to likely outcomes.

I don't know how to say this in a convincing way, but, you only have one chance to either affirm your values or discard them. Sort of a "better to fight standing than die on your knees", except, that perpetuates the strawman that abuse and exploitation is somehow more desirable than working through a rough patch for a year to get out of an intolerable situation.

Sometimes a paycheck can break you day-to-day harder than not having a paycheck.
I believe this is true. And I wonder wonder what the limiting principle is.

Is this a bias we all have all the time?

Or is this a bias that folks fall into under certain conditions?
>The point that is entirely missed here is that we, as a community, are screwing up by not steering the field toward better hardware compatibility,

No, there is a limit to the mount of handwringing, begging, and crying the community can do that would have forced AMD to take GPGPU computing seriously. CUDA didn't spring out of no where, it's 16 years old and in that time many people have begged AMD to properly support OpenCL or RocM. It's not the communities fault that AMD didn't take this field seriously until it was too late. Seriously, the consumer GPUs don't even get official RocM support, but somehow it's nvidia's fault that AMD didn't care to support RocM.

I'm sure AMD will wake up now that CUDA is a trillion dollar market, but it's unfair to blame users supporting CUDA. nvidia invested in open source for more than a decade now, and there were people who foresaw the current situation and tried to develop more open backends for frameworks like torch. Unfortunately developers don't work for free and nvidia spent the money and AMD did not. It's not users fault that they didn't work, for free, to get tensorflow working on AMD.

Geohot[1] nearly gave up on AMD entirely when their own drivers don't work. This isn't new, AMD is culpable for the current situation, the community didn't end up here due to indifference.

[1] https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/2198
Mail-in-a-Box – Take back control of your email
Such a snide and professional remark, nice job
Jeremy makes compelling arguments. Here are some more mundane corollaries:

It is only a matter of time before you and your company are affected by the pending regulations. In the future, almost all software products will be using AI models, in the same way that most software products use the Internet today, whereas they did not in the 1990s.

Imagine you had to license Oracle software because MySQL or PostgresSQL could not offer certain capabilities, or are less capable because of regulation.

Now also imagine that your products have to agree with the political world view of either Sundar Pichai or Elon Musk. And if you need capabilities only present in one of the commercial alternatives, you don't even that that choice.
This doesn't seem to say the LLM is wrong, it's just bad at giving a source to its statements.
Well, they'll try. The relay plays a similar role to a search engine, though without the ranking. Why do different search engines have different content?

As others have said, spam and illegal content are the most likely reasons.

We might also compare to email delivery; maybe ideally every message would be delivered, but in the real world, they aren't, and open relays are a hazard.
Inflation adjusted the US GDP grew from $5.30 trillion in 1970 to $22.67 trillion in 2023.

Which is about a 4x increase in real terms.

https://www.multpl.com/us-gdp-inflation-adjusted/table/by-ye...
Actually, they say, first page

"Increasing CO2 has driven global greening: over the last 40 years, half of the world’s vegetated area has undergone greening, of which 70% is attributed to elevated CO2 (Zhu et al. 2016)"
Source Code:

https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox
Ngo may be a play on NGO.
Yes, but it’s usually with the product manager and designer, maybe pull in an engineer if there are questions.

Pointing stories and thinking about what goes into the next sprint doesn’t sound like refinement to me. That sounds like a sprint planning.
This reflects a viewpoint usually rectified by moral quandaries explored in elementary school, certainly middle school, fiction.

Much less, this gem, argumentation that you'd expect a 12 year old in debate class to be able to skewer if they wanted a B.

>> I'm going to go and try to find/steal some food now

> Again, they're facing dire circumstances, which might mitigate their culpability, but they're also being quite open about being willing to steal, which is not exactly a desirable trait for most employers.
They often give clinical recommendations and prescriptions, usually after a quick skim of the medical history and a rushed five minute conversation with the patient. It would be nice to know how many of these typical in-office recommendations wind up being actually backed by the current state of the research, whether a citation is given in the visit or not.
Have you read the Desmond book? A simple yes or no will suffice.