skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Non essential doesn’t play into it. If you’re in a regulated industry and there’s conditions - be it airwave spectrum, minimal service criteria or something else, you have to operate within those conditions.
Even the plain notes of The Star-Spangled Banner are ostentatious, occupying over an octave and a half. The song lends itself to soloists rather than collective singing.

I would go further and ask for changing the national anthem to a song that anyone can sing. God Save the King is a good example of what a country should go for.
Cutting a large chunk of iron/nickel alloy is really hard. It would require bringing serious power tools, a large source of energy to power them (not solar), and a crew of people who could operate and fix all of these in the harsh environment of the desert.

Not impossible, but likely won't be cost-effective for several tons of plain "iron ore" or "scrap metal". But if that thing contained gold and platinum, maybe! :)
Honestly I struggle to think of a more complicated program than a modern browser that expects to fully support the existing web.
In my experience, public pay toilets in southern Peru are worse than any public toilet I have ever seen in the USA.
Inflation encourages investment because if you just sit on your money it gets eaten away by inflation. Once you’re Oprah-rich inflation is the rate at which you’re losing net worth. This is my non-economist understanding.
Thanks for the advice! I'm not sure how feasible it would be for me to make it out to BC with next to no money + the cost of living out there is somewhat insane but I'll keep that in mind. I hope you're doing well :)
I've been using hledger for two years now, and I don't use any exported data from my banks. Here's my workflow:

Everytime I make a transaction, I put a note on my phone. The note is a simplified version of hledger file format. Example:

24feb
12.5 cash food eating out at xx
6.5 bank1 phonebill
25feb
...

and so on. As you can see, each block is started with the date, and each line corresponds to a journal entry. In each entry, the first item is the dollar amount, the 2nd item is the credited account, the 3rd item is the debited account, and the rest will be taken as the entry description.

Every week end, I will parse this note with a Python script that I wrote, and put the output in the actual journal file. The shorthand account names in the note will be converted into actual account name (e.g. 'bank1' to 'assets:bank:bank1'), based on a dictionary file.

I'd then proceed to manually check that all ending balances in hledger match with the actual amount in the real world. (It's pretty satisfying to see the numbers match.)

After I've finished processing the note from my phone, that note will be archvied and I will start with a new note.
BTW did Google signed you an NDA to protect that?
usually when i read these type of articles, i don't have a lot of sympathy for the folks who didn't know how lucky or entitled they were and probably still don't quite.

not the case here. i really appreciate her attitude. i raise a glass to health and success.

i think it's true that skills and being a good engineer may not necessarily keep you safe from a layoff, but a tough smart person with the right attitude will often be a great engineer too. and that kind will always be appreciated and will survive.
This is one of those things that seems amazingly dumb to me in business and in government.

If I run a department in a company that is responsible for say, customer service, there are a million ways I could improve customer service by doing things like increasing efficiency in "back of house" areas and the reallocating those funds to customer facing areas.

Problem is... I can't do that, because if I drive efficiency in the BOH area I don't get to keep the surplus resources I just created, it gets gobbled back up by the organisation at the next budget cycle... So there's literally a NEGATIVE incentive for me to optimise.

Now, I understand why the organisation feels the need to capture that surplus, there might be other areas of the business that leadership thinks needs those resources more. But what they're failing to understand is they're actually hurting both the team making the efficiency AND the team who needs the extra resources because now everything is just going to remain exactly the way it was.

This seems like a ridiculously easy problem to solve though... Just allow teams that drive efficiency dividends to retain say half of the benefit they generate.

The company still gets a chunk of resources back to redistribute the way they see fit, AND the team generating the efficiency are able to implement the rebalancing of resources WITHIN the team that incentives them to make the changes in the first place.

I would bet serious money that the NET divided returned to the central pool would actually be HIGHER even though they only get half of each block of surplus, because you would be providing SO MUCH more incentive to individual teams to find and implement these efficiency gains now.
No, we don't need mayors making PRs to Docker, but we might need people that knowing how memory, programming, algorithms work, do not fall into thinking that AI can become sentient anytime soon, or what are the ways you're been tracked online, what is client fingerprinting, what is an IP address. It will make you a better policeman or mayor, I'm sorry. And that's not about "basic Internet skills", it's about mental models. Leonardo didn't just know Maths or how to paint, or engineering, but he made sewers, paintings, war machines. We're still dealing with his inexpertise with making colors for painting, his Last Supper needs constant renovation. Yet, it's one of the most visited things in Milan and you need to book months in advance to see it.
I agree. They posted similar spam from another account that seams to be baned, and now they created a new account. It looks like all commets are killed now.

Just flag the comments, enough flags kills the comments. If there are too many spam comments, or they are too anoying, or something, you can send an email to the mods hn@ycombinator.com (include a link to coment or user, to make dang's work easier)
I will do so shortly! thanks for giving someone in a position like mine a small chance, even if I'm not quite what you're looking for it's nice knowing there's someone who would be kind enough to do that. I'd also be more than happy to jump through any skill assessments to see if I'd be a good fit/get on a VTC to verify I'm real haha
I would not trust AMD CPUs either. All modern desktop CPUs on most motherboards, especially those at the high end, will clock themselves to ridiculous voltages/power levels just to squeeze out another 5% performance. Intel is particularly egregious this generation, but the motherboard makers who further boost them by default are also to blame.

Thats how you get electromigration.

I would suggest AMD's X3D-only CPUs instead (which stick to very reasonable clocks/voltages), but I guess there's a risk of the stacked die failing as well.
Wow,I just don't know what to say to a piece like this.

First, to frame carbon dioxide as "a pollutant but also a fertilizer" is, it's fucking incredulous. You are made of carbon dioxide and water. You can classify it as a pollutant when it has negative impacts, but that is what is secondary on this planet. Are they being disingenuous, or do they expect that their readership is naive to this fact?

Then, to frame the obvious consequence of increased carbon dioxide being a greener world as potentially bad, and those negatives are things like ecosystem destruction, lack of biodiversity, that the plants decompose eventually (not a consideration when you're talking about greening in aggregate), runoff... I thought the big giant problem we need to be solving is carbon dioxide in the atmosphere? Will they address the negative impact of ocean greening, a far more consequential increase in biomass with regard to climate that they mention but don't address? Is there one?

All I see is a good thing dressed up as a bad thing because can't have good things happen to the planet as a result of human beings, ever.
I think a lot of what go has going for it is in static compilation. Things just work. The C# community leans a lot further from open source (paid libraries vs. free).
What if gregkh was the one driving the bus?
I have heard anecdotally that Europe still gets lots of heroin (someone in a similar thread recently said opium poppies come to the EU through Turkish black market trade). No clue how true this is.

It stands to reason that people cultivating opium poppies didn't throw up their hands in despair and decide to do something else with their lives when Chinese fentanyl (which is made in a lab without any opium) started taking over in the US. The opium is going to go somewhere.

In any case, an article using overdose death as the primary metric for success/failure of drug policy should not be ignoring the dramatic difference in fatalities between fentanyl and other opiates.
Why would this work from a token generation point of view?
Or, you’re preserving the HN community by finding some absurd hyper reductionist way to turn an interesting subject into a problem. We could go on…

There are numerous and quite normal unproblematic examples of how self-preservation is unwanted and destructive. I for one am interested in learning how and why these incentives evolve and how to structurally combat them so that we never have to talk about harmful examples of the Shirky principle ever again. Concretely apropos and not one whiff of meta.
Source? LLMs have no “hidden tokens” they dedicate.

Or you mean — if the tokenizer was trained differently…
Well, let's say they do melt, vegetation takes over and removes more CO2, eventually everything will cool down. Nature balances. The earth will take care of itself. What happens to us during that process is the big worry.
To be fair, there's something about the Scandinavian diet that makes any kind of toilet you encounter literally the most disgusting experience possible.
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It's probably just a result of the training data. I bet its not explicitly "trained" to reply with 400 loc for a complete file, but its trained to return a few dozen lines of a single method.
At what level of ridiculousness do you stop debating? It could turn out that they were blackmailed into making that choice, or maybe it was the best-looking color palette on their old Nokia.

At some point you have to be able to recognize that the emperor has no clothes, no matter what extenuating circumstances may have arised.
usually these kinds of initiatives also involve planting local plants, and specifically not manicured lawns for this purpose. Lawn grass isn't even native to North America, and a lot of the examples are North American.

This is usually meant to retain enough water to prevent building lots of grey infrastructure. The Thames Tideway tunnel to lower the amount of sewage outflow in London is 4.3B pounds. In that context, building a lot of mini-retention ponds for tens of thousands of pounds is a lot cheaper. and this isn't the only strategy; a lot of modern parks, for example, are built with facilities like courts for sports below the ground level of the park, so that during flood times they turn into bathtub holding ponds as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Tideway_Tunnel
For what it's worth, the current title of this submission is "JavaScript has multiple (ambiguous) operator precedence chains", which is made up by the submitter. I question the use of a word "ambiguous" here, because it really sounds like that JS somehow had two precedence chains and had to resolve them. Absolutely not. But it's correct that the programmer intent would be indeed ambiguous, hence that error message.
> because the SNES graphics chips were designed for video games first and foremost.

So was the Amigas chipset - it was originally designed as a games console and pivoted to a home computer when the games console market tanked in the early 80s.
No evil is preferable, but a little evil is acceptable. A lot of evil, however, is not (unless compared to pure evil, I suppose).
I think it's more about clarification vs. clickbait titles.
Is there any evidence he was a "great engineer?" All he managed to do was collect a lot of radioactive material.
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the shorter it is, the less likely it will be invalidated by some future change. This is the main rule of thumb for ARCHITECTURE — only specify things that are unlikely to frequently change. Don’t try to keep it synchronized with code.

Interfaces are less likely [and harder!] to change. (On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules, Parnas).

I agree it is the difficulty in grokking a codebase. "Pattern" naming sort of helps, but I end up having to read a far bit.

On github, I always keep thinking the commit messages for each file are descriptions. Would that be more useful?
Posting on HN may be a vice but what that guy did was akin to a scam (crime). Also posting on HN is not doing good due to inaction where what that guy did was doing bad due to direct action.
"On the count of three, I want everybody to take care of their own damn kids!"

It would be nice. I'd love to make my own kombucha, but I have no idea where I'd get a SCOBY. Someone else might not have the space - too much stuff, in this consumer-driven economy, or not enough dwelling, starved of missing-middle as we are - or time (working those 2 jobs to afford rent, or private school, or insurance of one form or another). These are fixable issues, of course. I would really like to fix them. We have to convince people to buy less stuff, let people live near them without paying exorbitant housing costs, reverse the giving-up-on public institutions, abolish private insurance for universal risks, etc., etc.

I would like that. The problem is that so many people will fight tooth and nail for the devil they know. They've even convinced themselves that this is the best of all possible worlds (that propaganda).
Opposite of unhealthy in this case is not "healthy", but rather lack of levels that could accumulate to dangerous levels with normal eating habits.
There was also National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) [0]:

> The NCLC is a rare example of an organization which succeeded in its mission and was no longer needed.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Child_Labor_Committ...
Now that ChatGPT has memory this starts to have consequences...

https://x.com/_mira___mira_/status/1757695161671565315

...though, as you can Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind -style line-item erase memories, this is easily "fixed".

https://openai.com/blog/memory-and-new-controls-for-chatgpt
Actually think though the things you're saying when you say them. People generally don't put thead elements in tables that are used for positioning. Even ignoring that, there is no definition of "break" besides the most contrived and tautological for which allowing people to see table headings would break anything. Bolstering low-effort concern-trolling as if it's high-value commentary (i.e. well-received middlebrow dismissals) is known to be a problem on HN, and you're not making it better.
Longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in research institute
Breaking News, BuzzFeed man can take a joke amd fires back.

I appreciate defining a clear hypothesis and the exploring an LLM using statistics. I feel like the analysis could benefit from prompts that contain neutral consequenses as well. You have given it clear positive rewards, clear negative ones and no reward. Neutral consequences may be a better baseline than no reward.
I am remotely aware of all the three things you listed (and have experimented a bit with them) and I haven't heard of them.
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That doesn't make sense either. Training doesn't incentivize average. The models need to be predict all perspectives accurately. a middle of the road persona doesn't do that.
And they still do that.
It does bug me when I see less than precise language, though I’m sure somewhere in this comment I’ll be less than precise and someone will point it out.

If you look up the definition, the spirit of the word is definitely not to convey companies or businesses.

In fact, sometimes the word is used to denote an especially popular or longstanding restaurant with a strong, devout customer base, “this hot dog joint had become a New York institution”. Stuff like that is usually said in jest and/or as hyperbole.

It’s possible for some companies to actually become institutions I think, but I can’t think of one off the top of my head. I don’t think size or date of founding matter, as I certainly wouldn’t call companies like Apple, Google, Walmart, or US Steel institutions.

Funny enough, though, sometimes you can use it to describe something, such as institutional knowledge.

Anyway, the article didn’t give off a pretentious vibe that some do with pseudo rigorous language etc, so it didn’t cause me any indigestion, lol.
I think there is something about coding within these constraints that is just incredibly appealing.
It's not a prompt thing, they've aligned it to be lazy. The short-form article style and ~1000 word average length are almost certainly from RLHF and internal question answering fine tuning datasets. The extreme laziness (stuff like, "as a large language model, I have not been built with the capabilities for debugging", or "I don't know how to convert that json document to yaml") is pretty rare, and seems to be a statistical abnormality due to inherent variation in the model's inference more than anything else.
If anyone is interested - my startup which did exactly this was acquired 8 months ago. As many mentioned - the sauce is in the RAG implementation and the curation of the base documents. As far as I can tell, the software is now covering ~11m lives or so and going strong - the company already got the acquisition price back and some more. I was even asked to come support an initiative to move from RAG to long context + multi-agents.

I know it works very well. There are lots of literature from the medical community where they don't consult any actual AI engineers. There are also lots of literature on the tech community where no clinicians are to be seen. Take both of them with a massive grain of salt.
I’ve been in Europe a lot recently, and the running joke has been how much worse the toilets in Europe are than in the US. Even worse, the pay toilets seem to be of consistently worse quality than the free toilets in Europe!
You can do the same thing with regular web search.
Yes but the challenge is that the article is rhetorically lax because it doesn't provide a domain specific case example of the Shirky principle playing out in government yet submits the hypothesis that the principle supports backwards government behavior. It’s a fair point and it’s why people are presenting (the somewhat obvious but missing) government examples.
Lots of standard blog publishing software generates RSS feeds. For example, every Substack site I've ever seen has an RSS feed at "/feed". They don't tell you about it, but it's there if you want it. And the RSS aggregator I use, Newsblur, can automatically find most RSS feeds if you just give it the site's home page URL.
Sorry, how can you output MIDI from LLM models?
I'm not using a static-site generator yet. I probably should however.
I think every private company like Google/ Meta/ Cloudflare should stop provide their service to Korea. Always support the right thing. They shouldn't be charging extremely high charge for bandwidth.
To your point, Google acquired Blogger in 2003, Feedburner in 2007, created Google Reader and had a dedicated blog search that could let you follow search terms as RSS feeds when you posts were made that matched your terms.
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RSS is the victim of thousands of paper cuts. Examples:

- Craiglist: disabling RSS dealt it a blow. I was a big user of RSS for Craiglist searches. Having one simple, inbox-like dashboard where items of interest drip, and where you can delete ones you're not interested in was great.

- Mastodon: doing RSS in an idiotic way. You subscribe to an RSS feed (e.g. for a hash tag) using your home instance ... but the links in the items take you to remote instances, where you have to jump through an annoying hoop to engage with them on your home instance.

- StackOverflow: ignoring a long-running bug whereby if you have an RSS reader in your browser pulling StackOverflow RSS feeds (that in and of themselves work great), you get logged out of StackOverflow. When you click on the items to navigate to them, you find you're logged out.
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Twitch ads sucks. Microphone is muted and we have to rely on small screen above comment section. Anti pattern like this is reason why I don't watch twitch anymore.
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I feel like at some point we just have to accept that the only system of credit that is actually fair is the one that is explicitly run in the interests of society by said society (i.e. in practice, its government). It's not that private banks shouldn't exist; but there should be a bank that anyone can go to and get a loan on conditions that actually reflect their credit risk, and take into account their life situation etc.

Yes, it does mean that there will be a certain amount of defaults that we will all be paying for. I'd rather pay for that than for another yacht of some rich finance bro.
I wonder, if in retrospect, Google kept Google Reader if only to avoid the constant nagging they seem to receive about "killing RSS". Been on the internet for decades now, I don't think I ever missed or cared about this so-called assassination. Yet, every chance they get, there is some group of hardcore RSS enthusiasts who can't keep talking about it. Very strange to me.
This is so silly, the one study you linked to says that GPT 4 may have been trained on the answers to the test they gave it. So smart.

And since GPT 4 can't examine a patient's body the claim it's better at diagnosis that a human doctor seems like such a wacky thing to search the internet for "studies" to prove in the first place.
ChatGPT4 correctly diagnosed my neurological condition, an infection that many doctors had missed. While I was in the hospital I asked ChatGPT the same questions as the doctors and it was nearly identical to what they were telling me every time.

It also acted as a therapist and talked me down from several depressions while in the hospital, far better than any human therapist I’ve ever had. The fact that it’s an AI made me actually feel better than if the therapy was delivered by a real therapist, for some strange reason.
> utility classes won’t let you deviate because they’re limited

Tailwind's just in time feature does negate this a bit. I'm a huge fan of Tailwind but I've largely avoided JIT for fear of losing the structure finite classes give me.

Edit: the down votes are interesting as this is literally what Tailwind JIT allows. Their post on it even says "We’ll likely add some form of “strict mode” in the future for power-hungry team leads who don’t trust their colleagues to use this feature responsibly."
I think I’ve answered that question a couple of time already. No, no, and yes (as long as you call it the West Bank and belonging to a Palestinian state free of Israeli occupation).

The settlements in the West Bank are illegal under international law. This ICJ case is about determining the consequences of Israel for allowing these settlements. The demands of the General Assembly (cited above) was for Israel to stop expanding these settlements. In general the very existence of Judea and Samaria Area as an Israeli subdivision is precisely the kind of colonial enterprise which the UN has been working to dismantle since its founding in 1945.