skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, especially since 'go build', 'go install', 'go test', 'go generate', 'go vet', 'go fmt', etc will do what you expect when you run them without parameters. I think the difference may be that 'go run' expect one package to run, while the others can take multiple. If you have a library (no top-level main package) that comes with two tools foo and bar, I don't think 'go run' could know which package to run. Example tree:

go.mod
go.sum
library.go // package library
cmd/foo/foo.go // package main
cmd/bar/bar.go // package main
Yep, this was last March, and it got laughs at the time.
Cosmic Death Fungus.
It could (conceivably) be that "in San Francisco" is meant literally, and that in San Francisco it's true, even if not the case for other instances of "Main Street" elsewhere, however; a cursory web search leads me to think "urban legend" is by far the more likely. It's always been my understanding that "Main Street" either is currently, or was at some time nearer the town / city's beginning the main street that went through "downtown".
The point is you can do massive compression. It’s more like a sequence of sparse images than video.
I felt the same way about rust until I started working on https://google.github.io/comprehensive-rust/ and in a couple days have wrote several working rust programs.(trivial ones)

It took me from a couple years of "I should learn rust" to "I've written some rust and ran rust programs" in a few hours.
Depends on local geography, but in the mountains - unless there is a storm - it’s typically 10am’ish to late afternoon.

Since most windows are caused by convection in some form.
Japanese man in his 70s: "Yippee Yay! It only took 34 years to get back what I invested in the index, because indexes always go up. And now everything costs double".
Awesome, thanks for the tip, I’ll try that.
Related, I find bash and other shells the only language where I can stream data through processes.

Like, R can pipe, and pandas can .pipe() but they both complete the function on the entire data before it pushes a copy of the output to the next step.

Why isn’t this flow of data a primitive outside of shell?
The color “fuchsia” is named after a guy named Fuchs.
Relatively recently I found the SICP lecture series on YouTube from the early 80’s. I’d read most of the book already but it was so much better with Sussman and Abelson teaching it.

The audience for the series I’m thinking of is adult professionals- programmers I believe. And I’d heard they were from DEC or HP or some such. So in addition to the material itself, you have the blessed quirkiness of its two authors, alongside a whole lot of late 70s/early 80s attire and rudimentary graphics. Quite a feast… lol.
>That's not true in the case of the phi-2 model though

Isn't it ? Genuinely, what did phi-2 do exactly that is economically more expensive than compute ?

From what I read, phi-2's training data was gotten from:

1. Synthetic Data Generation from more performant models.
phi-2 is essentially not possible without spending the compute on that better model in the first place. And inference is much cheaper than training.

2. Selecting for Text data of a certain kind e.g Textbooks

Meanwhile, it's still taking 14 days to train this tiny model on 96 A100 GPUs
Sedona, Arizona.

Named for Sedona Schenbly, of Goren, Missouri. She and her husband had moved to Arizona for their health. He wanted to open a Post Office, but the Post Office authorities didn't favor his suggestion of naming it "Schenblyville Station." Thankfully, he chose to name it after his wife.
This is basically my view. These tech companies have produced some pretty amazing stuff. Solved problems and built things at scale that were unthinkable a decade ago.

They can solve this problem. They choose not to because a) they're already shielded from legal liability for certain things that happen/are said on their platforms and b) it doesn't make them any money.
Maybe trickle down economics works if you ask nicely? :-)

https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Japan-PM-Kishida-asks-compan...
Hey, thanks for your feedback. You're right; this is basically what the Semantic Web was trying to do. In earlier attempts to explain the idea I had mentioned Web 3.0 (that is to say, the 'original' Web 3.0), but wasn't sure enough people remembered it to be pertinent (I could certainly be wrong on this point).

I think the Semantic Web had a lot of promise, but it simply got too academic, with layers and layers of committees dedicated to ontologizing the entire world in a way that became progressively more detached from the needs of users and developers. As far as I could tell from my research, this was a stark reversal of the earliest ideas behind Web 3.0, which were more about establishing the 'meaning' of a piece of data in a decentralized way. Had the Semantic Web stayed the course on decentralization I think we may have seen a dramatically different outcome.

If you feel that this post didn't pay enough homage to the work that came before, that's a fair critique and I apologize. The concept of a Schema Network is definitely inspired by a lot of ideas that were in vogue in the Web 3.0 days.
I look at Go like Python + multicore world. (and nice to have speed from compilation vs JIT). And in my career that's almost exactly what we've used it for: rewriting higher load services from Python (2.7 at the time) to Go.
>In a functioning regulatory environment [...] you wouldn't have industries where any one company has more than 15% of the market.

Is that realistic? Intuition is telling me that's very idealistic but I'm prepared to be surprised
Pure Mathematics as Applied Physics – Tadashi Tokieda [video]
They will encourage animal cruelty if the alternative is veganism.
I mean you just proved your own point - compile with -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks.

And whatever criticism is you have of that is surpassed by the fact in all cases for regular software (i.e run on a server or laptop or desktop) that would be normal to write in either Rust or C, if it was written in C, and a null pointer is dereferences, it would absolutely crash (i.e Rust is not really being used to develop embedded system software code in non experimental workflows where zero address is a valid memory address).

And whatever criticism you have of that is surpassed by the fact that if you can write Rust code with all the borrowing semantics, you can also write a quick macro for any dereference of a mempool region that checks if the pointer is null and use that everywhere in your code.

So TLDR, not hard to write memory safe code. Rust is just a way to do it, but not the only way. Its great for enterprise projects, much in the same way that Java came up because of its strictness, GC and multi platform capability. And just like Java today, eventually nobody is going to take it seriously, people who want to get shit done will be writing something that looks like python except even higher level, with ai assistants that replace text, and then LLMs will translate that code into the most efficient machine code.
Finding products that aren't on Amazon or other top sites is a problem for consumers. Google Shopping is pretty bad. Connecting buyers direct to merchants is a win and something they all want.

Every single entity that sells online is trying to boost their revenue share for direct to consumer as a mandate. Because they get more margin and they get to know their customer for ongoing marketing. The pandemic exposed many product manufacturers and brands that had such a high % in brick and mortar partners. They frantically tossed inventory onto Amazon. The only problems with that are

1) amazon tax on sales and

2) they don't get to know their customers.

Indeed aggregated job postings until it had traffic and then it became the place to post jobs.

Google was nothing against other providers until it did better search. And then they got traffic and built a solid ad product that providing bidding on effective cpc not highest bid like competitors were doing. They rewarded better peforming ads and rewarded themselves ($$$) at the same time and the rest is history.

Your thesis is not accurate. This can work. Typically though, these things require a lot of capital until they make real money. Tech costs and then marketing which is really education can be expensive.

Most users originate ecomm searches from Amazon (60%) [1]. Next highest is Google

If the search works really well though, word of mouth can be everything.

I'd probably focus on the audience that has income and would prefer to buy direct from merchants and not search and buy from Amazon which can be painful (too much crap, fakes, bad reviews, doesn't always have high end products, not always cheaper, etc). Maybe even focus on higher priced items first ($250 or $500 and up). They'll likely have better content associated with them, there's typically more margin, and there are a lot of high end products not sold on Amazon, only direct.

Hacker news has a good launch audience for this. Also probably Etsy buyers and merchants.

Not that you would be interested in this - but ecomm search for influencer sponsored products would probably do very well as a niche product. About 11% of searches originate on TikTok. Younger people are into who is hawking what for some reason lol. You could even rank most popular sponsored posts for the celebs too as a leaderboard for the biggest shills haha.

[1] https://www.insiderintelligence.com/content/online-shoppers-...
> but there could be other, much more subtle manipulations.

I always thought that the biggest danger of foreign-controlled social media wasn't data mining... but rather +/- 5% virality of posts with a certain view.

LLMs without back-end transparency seem even worse.
My college rock band had a silly tradition of burning a nitrocellulose pick as a sacrifice to the rock gods before a show. Ping Pong balls sound like even more fun!
So far he has sold some 4 billion worth shares in past few weeks.
Memory Transference in Transplant Recipients
I'm trying to think of a civil and constructive way to say "bullshit".

I guess an obvious objection is "why?". Then something about Russell's teapot. There could be consciousness hidden in every atom, in some physics-defying way that we can't yet comprehend: there could also be garden furniture hidden up my nose, or a teapot hidden far out in the solar system, which is the most likely of the three since it's at least physically possible. Why think any of these things?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
Again though, it works fine when asking for any race that isn’t white
Probably but I don’t know any ML… lol. I’ll def check it out though so thx!
would it be more or less depressing if it came out that in addition to trying to get you to buy stuff, it was being used to, either make you dumber to make you easier to control, or get you to study harder and be a better worker?
Hardening your heart just leaves you with a heavy heart.

Better to have compassion for even those we disagree with.
People definitely cared before and it was a huge talking point
Thx, I’ll check it out.
Also, the original incident happened in November 22, which is before the release of ChatGPT, so I'm not sure the chatbot was even an LLM. It might just've been programmed wrong.
Mind linking the ERB recommendation? Can’t see the replies without an account.
It was fantastic 2017-2020. At one point I had 8 or 9 around the house and loved it. But one by one, every single feature or voice command I would use would either stop working or become unpredictable. Integrations with other hardware or companies would cease without warning. Latency became more pronounced.

And of course being Google there’s no such thing as a changelog, so everyone is left guessing what they’ve changed and whether there’s a passable workaround.

r/googlehome is a sight to behold when viewed as a testament to how to slowly ruin a product.
I learned this earlier today! My favorite desert too.
It doesn't really seem to be much of a problem. Data quality is important, but there is plenty of incorrect information in the training data whether or not it's AI generated. And training on synthetic data works fine.

I see a lot of uninformed people claiming this is going to doom AI though.
Ah yes. I know it but haven’t been there in a long, long while. Thx.
OpenSilver 2.1: F# Meets XAML for Advanced Web App Development
Thx. I’ll check them out.
Why would BO have done fine? In 24 years, they haven’t gotten one gram to orbit. Something appears very wrong over there.
All the Ruby tools are so bad. It's all crap.
I started a new job where I have to use Ruby. The company has about 300 engineers, and it seems that no one has a good setup.
Some people use VSCode, but no one has a set of extensions that really works well. Debugging by attaching to a running process doesn't work.
Some people use RubyMine, but it's also somewhat broken - for example, it formats the code in a way that RuboCop doesn't like. The debugger works every other week.

A lot of people set debugger breakpoints by inserting "debugger" or "binding.pry" manually. That also sucks because you can't easily disable a breakpoint after you've reached it. And of course it's an idiotic way of inserting breakpoints, because you can't just detach the debugger - you have to delete every breakpoint if you want the the server to just run.

The language itself is also badly designed. A single-line block uses { }, but when it's multiple lines, it has to be changed to "do" and "end" - why? Do/end is dumb for the other constructs - VSCode can easily jump to a matching paren/bracket/brace, but not to the matching do/end. Who thought |x| was a good idea? Look at C# to see how this should be done. That's just scratching the surface, there are so many shitty features in this language.

Then on top of this, you have Sorbet - grafting type checking onto the code, but outside the language. It's about 100 times uglier than just having typing built into the language. Today I learned that you can't provide a Sorbet sig for a module_function - Rubocop doesn't understand it. Rubocop runs as part of "git commit", so you can't do anything that Rubocop doesn't like.

All of this is so shitty and amateur and primitive and backwards. Right now is not a good time for finding a new job as a software engineer, otherwise I'd be out of here looking for a job where I can use a real language with real tools that work and improve productivity rather than killing productivity like the Ruby circus.

Rails has some nice features, but for every bit of productivity gain that it gives you, there's about 10x as much negative impact on productivity.
how much time do you spend looking at AI art though? a casual jaunt through midjourney will certainly get you some weird things, but there are some gems in there (but also a lot of weird).
Supermarket prices are up 25% since 2020: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/food-prices-grocery-inflation-b.... People’s wages are not 25% higher.
One that surprised me recently: Coriolis force. I think I'd always assumed it was some latin-derived term to do with curling or curving, but no: named for Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis.
Now I’m curious about MongoDb
*The Raven
Love me some gedeckter apfelkuchen.
What would be the point in that?
Tell me again who could vote for this document?
Also integrations have semantics and support specific use cases. They're not just boxes and lines on an arch diagram!
Context for non-New Yorkers: Outerbridge is the southernmost bridge in NYC and New York State, and Staten Island might as well be on Mars for the rest of the city. So the name "Outerbridge" is all the more fitting (and surprising).
Can't Signal export the local messages? Wire on iOS has local export.
Good time to buy a bunch of spaceships
Idk how far we go into regressions, afaik we don't really have an issue with it... We have a "everybody owns the product" mentality, and so pretty much everyone on the team should know how to use it and where issues might arise or have arisen.

So each code change needs to be kinda demonstrated that it works, whether it's through new tests, or screenshots, video, etc.

Usually if there's a specific bug that's been fixed, there is a test to catch if that bug occurs again. Most of the time it's been good enough.
the llama2-uncensored model isn't quite state of the art, but ollama makes it easy to run if you have the hardware/am willing to pay to access a cloud GPU.

I colloquially used the word "hack" when trying to write some code with ChatGPT, and got admonished for trying to do bad things, so uncensoring has gotten interesting to me.
I’ve never interacted with this person in particular, but your description makes me feel seen. It so perfectly describes interactions I’ve had - where a clearly well meaning and in some ways capable developer makes tons of change requests, which are sort of neutral or maybe slightly positive even, but take up so much effort to incorporate relative to their value that it’s just not worth it, and in my estimation would be better off disappearing.

Often times, when I do work with them to get their changes merged, I’m tempted to make similar changes myself, rather than workshop pull requests for days and weeks. Not because I think the changes are even worthwhile to incorporate, but because it’s less painful than the back and forth to get their changes up to snuff - but “stealing their idea” is socially awkward for its own reasons.

There’s also sometimes a bias towards merging unless you find a problem, so it can feel really antagonistic. Strangers on the internet become your task masters to an extent.

The common reactions I see to not wanting these kind of contributions are “You’re looking a gift horse in the mouth!” Or “It would go more smoothly if you spent more time unwillingly being a Manager for strangers on the internet” or “You’re gate keeping.” To an extent I suppose all these things are true. But, that doesn’t mean it’s the wrong decision. It can be frustrating to experience and difficult to explain if you haven’t been in the position.

Anyway, it’s nice to hear someone else articulate my experience. It makes me feel less crazy. So I wanted to partially return the favor and say also that you may not be crazy.
Apple reverses course and says meditation app must pay 30% fee on teacher's tips
Some samples I found quickly scanning the ChatGPT subreddit for anyone curious:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1awm8kv/chatgpt_sp...

^ quick non sequiturs

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1aw1o9x/i_had_a_re...

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....

^ incredibly trippy text that devolves into strangely formatted comma separated text that almost resembles some code / amateur cryptography with multiple languages/alphabets

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1avydjd/anyone_els...

^ multiple responses in the same conversation that start off fairly normal but end up unhinged each time

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1avyr09/first_time...

^ business/tech jargon nonsense soup

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1awtvq6/descent_in...

^ purple prose nonsense

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1aws3j1/what_in_th...

^ techy/business/purple prose-y nonsense

It's unfortunate that Open AI seems to be deleting these from user's histories, they are really fascinating as almost a "peek under the hood" into what crappy outputs and failure modes can look like. Some of the fake words / invented language really passes as stuff that you'd believe were real English words if you googled them, but when you do they have no definition or search results, which is trippy.

The one that has the cryptographic looking / symbolic looking messaging is really spooky, I could see someone suffering from delusions/mental illness believing there was some deeper meaning to the text and really going to bad places. Honestly makes me think we might have real problems in the future with people reading into gibberish as if its mystical/prophetic. People already use Tarot or Astrology similarly and its not nearly as neat.
I don't run in Channel circles but LV and Prada are much cheaper in Japan rn. Another handbag hack is to purchase in Hawaii because the retailers charge less there than mainland to address the Japanese tourist market.
Bro that happened in covid
I could see that. Which I guess would put assembly into the homoiconic bucket. I think it fits the concept but sure isn’t the same as what people think of with Lisp, etc… lol.
You shouldn't have to consider if the car's locks work, because working locks should be a baseline in cars produced in a first world country. It's that simple and easy. You aren't nearly as smart as you think you are and having basic standards of how corporations should operate isn't coddling.
It hasn't lost half its value. A "weak yen" simply means the yen depreciated relative to another currency.
There’s tools for parallel execution in Javascript like Worker or node:worker_threads but they have two big drawbacks that make them somewhere between annoying and useless:

1. No shared objects between threads. You can share non-resizable contiguous byte arrays (SharedArrayBuffer) but 98% of existing code makes normal objects and arrays, and if you want to send those to another thread, you pay a serialization memcopy round trip (no cast a buffer in this language). This severely limits threading to “shared nothing” style workloads. Can you pass a node HTTP request to another thread? No :(

2. Each thread worker needs to boot up from scratch from its own entry point file. This forces some pretty weird code layout and imposes a big boilerplate overhead as well as runtime overhead. And remember - no sharing! So if your threads need a common resource like a Postgres connection pool, they’re going to create their own copy.
A vintage network attack called smurf
There's so much self congratulatory smugness in this article.

"I'm a bar raiser at Amazon. Google that if you don't know what it means".

16 leadership principles? Quick, anyone at Amazon, without looking anywhere, name each of them. You can't? Huh, strange, because "Amazon uses these principles more than anyone else". Especially if you're a bar raiser, because you "deeply understand these principles".

"The thing we’re looking for is that you consider and care about the customer. We’ve regularly made decisions at Amazon which lowered profit/sales because it was the right thing to do for customers."

So much of this stuff is blatantly shown to be untrue.

Even right now I can select "get it tomorrow" as a filter, and see what appears to be a filtered list as a result... and then find that NONE of them will actually be delivered tomorrow.

Apparently at other companies, employees don't "focus on the customer as their customer", instead "their customer is their boss ... and they're focused on doing what they're told".

I could go on but this person certainly has an outsized opinion of Amazon and their principles that may be idealistic, and may have been aspirational once upon a time but nowadays we can see how far they've diverged.

Not to mention because "more than any company I’ve worked with or heard about, we use those principles daily"... like "strive to be earth's best employer" - just ask some of our warehouse workers or delivery drivers, "earn trust" - sure, you can trust this WANGXIJGYA power adapter or this GHURBLSEYHI toaster oven, and no-one ever got counterfeit goods from Amazon from us comingling products!)

And hey, you, mom, you can learn something from Amazon too! "I know I’ve certainly referenced a leadership principle or two while talking about parenting techniques."

And how unique these principles are too! "We don't expect that you use leadership principles at your current job"