skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's so nice that storage, RAM, and Internet providers still use bits for the last 3 PDP owners out there who aren't on octets yet
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It seems dishonest to say it has the same dimensions as a bluray when even that article somewhat says it will be sold as a cartridge, but Sony did make and sell that product.
Damn. This is an interesting perspective.

I certainly agree about the apathy part. I can’t sustain mediocre or poor performance for long without having it spill into other areas of my life.

As for the impossibility of compartmentalizing software work… I hope you’re wrong. But my experience doesn’t exactly contradict you. Whenever I’ve felt good at my job it’s also been quite all-consuming.
fabulous placebo, got it!
Absolutely. So many times we fall into a rut of using our familiar tools that we don't realize that sometimes there are new innovations that can make our lives easier. Or, at the very least, automations we can put into place to make our lives easier!

At our most recent hackathon, for example, we automated about 80% of project setup. Whereas it used to take 4-6 hours to set up a new project, we got it down to about 30 minutes, and we have a clear line of sight to a 5 minute set up process. It's quite nice!

Going into the hackathon, however, people were like "Ugh, this is too much work to set up a project! Why should we bother?!" rather than thinking "Hey, this is an opportunity to make setting up a project much easier."

So yes, agree completely. Thanks for your insights!
Thanks to Tailwind for, kinda like, standardizing this color variations and hue/saturation thing.
Same here, slack is not our main communications channel but it was used for some external consultants. And sure enough people who had quit were never kicked out so they just continued planning lunches together.
Quality is a hard sell in big tech
The Art of Communicating at the Right Altitude
None of these functions would apply to an immutable slice, so how is it related?
At my previous job, we had an entire system aptly named Pandora whose entire role was keeping track of which ssh keys were permitted to be found on servers. It had a bot that would crawl through every server, and if it found a key not in it's database, it nuked it. Every new person or automation key had to first be registered fomarlly, with an end date. A bit of a hassle but definitely necessary for the space the company was in.
I'm somewhat irrationally irked by the use of the word "emulated". It does not "emulate" a USB device, it becomes one! This mechanism is exactly what all your gadgets with Linux on-board use to be USB devices.
All the accounts are filled with the maximum number of ‘djehebdxineEbsuan’ profiles. And my son is asking why there’s a limit ;)
>These days more big companies are implementing anti-workcation policies limiting your freedom to travel, allegedly due to tax/immigration liabilities.

It's at least in some part a very valid concern. There are a number of regulations that are based on you having >=X number of employees in a given location. The WARN Act and FMLA being two very notable examples. Employers are obligated to withhold taxes from your pay checks. If you're working in another state for an extended period of time (usually ~30 days or more), they both need to know that and now have to work out new tax withholding for you. Indeed, a vast number of labor laws apply specifically to the employee in the state they are working, regardless of the home office of the company. As an easy example, California reasonably would not be happy if a company chose to pay all their CA based employees minimum wages from Kansas just because that's where the company office is. So just the very fact that you're working in a different state can dramatically change how you are required to be compensated.

Obviously any or all of these things can be worked around and through, but it's pretty clear that it will require work and for any large enough employer, it will require policies and hard rules on what is and isn't allowed.
> You should see Google's turnover numbers from 4 years ago, much less now.

High turnover was industry-wide a few years back because pay went through the roof and job hopping was the best way to capture that.

I suspect it’s lower now, following mass layoffs and substantially fewer openings.
> but it stays lighthearted enough to make you feel good about it.

There were plenty of parts that were dark enough to make it difficult to watch. There were lighthearted parts, but that's not a description I would've applied to the show as a whole.
I was actually thinking of trying React Native, but for some reason local people prefer Flutter for some reason, any noticable differences between the two? Or should I just go with RN & Expo?
Glucose is still rather bad, but I'm on a fructose limiting diet anyways.
> (writing) an energy per bit of information of 17 μJ [0]

It's interesting to think about data as μJ per bit. The article seems to hint that this is too high for practical use, but I'm honestly clueless how this would compare to other storage mediums. It also makes me wonder what amount of energy premium are we paying for remote data and what amount of energy premium we are paying for wireless transmission.

[0] From their Nature article
In University the ultimate goal of almost every Comp Sci student was to work at a FAANG (or whatever it's called). Nothing else mattered. Students walked around with Google and Amazon t-shirts and Stickers. So much of University your identity was tied to working for big tech. Cult like when I look back.
Nonetheless, this is extremely exciting, unlike RWKV and Retention Network
But the company can't force the state to pursue criminal action whereas it can sue in a civil court any time it wants.
I think the important detail is it's OK for it to form part of your identity, but it's also ok for it to not be.

If you spend a large part of your waking hours working on something enjoyable, absolutely embrace that. Conversely, if your work is drudgerous but you enjoy the simple things in life - like food and shelter - and it provides that then maybe some separation of identity is a good option too.
AI Bubble!
Hex – Magical tools for working with data together
Ahahah seriously? What incredible mismanagement, I met someone who worked at reddit on the product 2 years ago at a superbowl party and they made fun of me for wanting to use the old.reddit.com site over the new one. It was wild, I really expected a wry smile like "yeah i know it sucks but we gotta do it cause the execs want it". It was crazy to me how much they didn't understand their userbase or product.
Maybe Netflix should pay them to be able to stay in business since Netflix like to pirate sub-titles (https://torrentfreak.com/netflix-caught-using-pirated-subtit...)
Because it’s easy and people love easy.

The other night I was coding with ChatGPT, and it was hallucinating methods etc, and I was so happy that it had actually written the code , even though I knew it was wrong and potentially even dangerous, it looked good. I actually told myself I'd never be someone to do this.

Now it wasn't ultra critical stuff I was working on, but it would've caused a mess if it didn't work out.

I ran it against a production system because I was lazy and tired and wanted to just get the job done. In the end I ended up spending way more time fixing its ultra wrong yet convincing looking code I didn’t get to bed till 1am.

This will become more commonplace.
why would they remove revenue sources before going IPO? that seems pretty counterintuitive.
These marvels need to be preserved. Just posting the archive link here in case the blog is not maintained in future.

https://archive.is/VAGzF
when I read the paper I thought the idea was changing \Delta permits getting the model to learn different things over different time scales. As you quoted “the main source of improvement".

I don’t have an llm backround, just controls, so I might wrong.
That's one way to go. Yolo on a prank.
No it absolutely won't because they won't have people there making the site relevant and good, in the exact same way X is a site that had value and now it's below the threshold where it's worth my time.
It kicks an immediate feeling of joy in me whenever anything related to _why is mentioned.

For those who never encountered his work, I'd recommend very much checking out "Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby". It doesn't matter if ruby is nothing you want to learn, it's just a fun, artistic, odd read. So is Nobody Knows Shoes, of course.
> What normies are fairly noticing in these corps is moderating not by the overton window of the normal consumer, but by the overton window of the managerial class who run the business

Now the question is, why is the managerial class so weird and creepy? The Gemini images didn’t come out of left field—that’s what Hollywood movies look like these days too. Random non-white people in contexts where it makes no sense, or racially balanced friend/family groups that don’t map onto how people actually associate in real life.

My family looks like one of those Gemini images—my brother and I are south Asian, my wife is British American, her brother is Samoan/black/Asian, his girlfriend is Filipino, and my sister in law is Taiwanese. But it’s a fluke—you don’t see that much mixing organically pretty much anywhere. The overwhelming majority of people are in same-race marriages and have homogenous circles of friends. The world still looks like Friends or Seinfeld, not whatever Hollywood is showing recently. So it’s very creepy to me that there are a bunch of people in Hollywood deliberately making casting choices with these unrealistic representations—or, as in the case of Gemini, inserting hidden text into prompts to achieve that effect—as if somehow my family is better than one that’s all white or all Filipino. The contrived nature of it makes race seem like a big deal, instead of something irrelevant, and it’s creepy and weird.
Can we just stop measuring data in bits? Stop making me constantly multiply or divide by 8 in my head for no reason

It's a 200tb disk
You could leverage the exact same accusation against the other side - we know fundamentally how the math works on these things, yet somehow throw enough parameters at them and eventually there's some undefined emergent behavior that results in something more.

What that something more is is even less defined with even fewer theories as to what it is than there are around the woo and mysticism of human intelligence. And as LarsDu88 points out in a separate thread, there are alternative explanations for what we're seeing here besides "We've created some sort of weird internal 3D engine that the diffusion models use for generating stuff," which also meshes closely with the fact that generations routinely have multiple perspectives and other errors that wouldn't exist if they modeled the world some people are suggesting.

If there's something more going on here, we're going to need some real explanations instead of things that can be explained multiple other ways before I'm going to take it seriously, at least.
It was sensing her keto acidosis caused by low blood sugar. It has a distinct fruity smell which any dog can be trained to recognize.
Reminds me if college, when we successfully learned everything you can, and cannot, deep fry.
I also might argue that the degree to which it is your identity will change through your life. Certainly in my 20s I had less of an idea of who I was so my value to society was rooted in how much I was paid or my perceived importance. I’ve seen as I age that my work has become less a part of my identity, but definitely greater than zero. I’ll check back in a decade and give an update :)
Yes, I refer to the reflog on GitHub’s git file servers which tracks the historical state of refs there.
I see this mentioned all the time, but it doesn't really seem accurate to any situation where people have tried to convince me that it is.
Like what does "money laundering" look like on the ground, how would I know if someone around me was trying to do that?

Restaurants in high rent areas offering suspiciously cheap food with relatively few customers.

They are all over NZ. People are so naiive about what they are.
They did. They invented and patented the digital camera back in the 70s, refused to improve on it for fear of eating their own market base, and then went bankrupt.

* https://spectrum.ieee.org/first-digital-camera-history
If immutable and mutable slices are differently typed [2], it is natural to define two functions (say, `slices.Compact` vs. `slices.Compacted`) to handle each type, like Python `list.sort` vs. `sorted`. It should be natural to expect `slices.Compacted` to never alter its input, and any attempt to use a mutable version will be very explicit except for slicing [1].

[1] Especially given that the capacity is preserved by default, which contributes to the current confusion. See my older comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39112735

[2] Originally "...are different" but edited for clarity.
Does this still work on current versions of Ruby? The GitHub repo looks like it has a commit as recently as 3 months ago but the project hasn't made a release to Rubygems since 2017.
Friend of mine went to Egypt, was floored by the pyramids (and more), so now I’m thinking along the lines of:

It won’t matter, so get drunk with your friends and stack some rocks.
It only takes one successful attempt, and it's worth it
Shoot! I'm sorry about that, and thank you for letting me know. I just fixed the issue -- I would love for you to try your post again!
You think it’s a killswitch?
OP shared a link to just the Imagenet paper.

Agree he had a decent overall track record at Stanford, but that’s not how tenure works — it might have got his foot in the door as an assistant professor somewhere. He chose a much more lucrative path.
That NPR quiz has a confusing interface.

You can play the clips by pressing the play buttons next to them, which works as expected. If you stop a clip it resets so next time you click its play button it again starts from the beginning.

You can also click within the progress bar of a playing clip and it will jump to that spot, which is handy for repeating a section somewhere in the middle.

You can also click in the progress area of a clip when no clip is playing and it will start playing at the appropriate offset, but not necessarily the clip whose progress bar you clicked. It actually plays the last clip whose play button you pressed. It does not start the progress bar for that clip (or the clip you clicked in) so you won't see that it is not playing the clip you expected. You'll only notice it if the last play button you clicked was for a different song.

This completely messed up the quiz for me. I'd press the play button on each clip of a set and listen all the way through. Say I thought I heard some percussion 3/4 of the way through that seemed off on one of them. I'd then play just that part by clicking in the progress area of the three clip about 3/4 of the way in, thinking that is letting me hear that section of each clip. Instead it is just giving me that section of the third clip each time.
Assange Final Appeal
Apple has lost my data in iCloud Photo Library as well as in Contacts Sync. I don't trust that for anything important.
Why is it surprising? CPU-only M2 probably has under 1 teraops while RTX 4090 has 77. M2's GPU was not used, but even it only provides around 4 teraops, so would have been ~20x slower than 4090.
This is interesting. As a non-physicist, one sentence in particular was startling to me. "From here we will start scaling the source down using this technique until we reach the quantum world on both sides."

How does this work? Do the laws of physics scale from the "big/classical" world into the quantum world as you just make things smaller? I guess I thought there must be boundaries where there were abrupt changes.
that's an indictment of the exact platform used not the general concept though. "all" that has to happen is for the arm(s) to be able to pick up things on the floor in front of the robot. it doesn't seem insurmountable, the demo connecting all those models together to be able to say "move the Takis to the nightstand" and have it be able to execute on that is amazing. it's just a "small" matter of robotics to make it so the arm is articulated enough to reach the floor.
> a 452-megawatt (MW) solar farm in West Texas [...] will generate enough electricity to power over 190,000 homes annually

452 MW nameplate * optimistic 0.3 capacity factor = 135.6 MW

8760 hours annually * 135.6 MW = 1187856 MWh

1187856 MWh / 14.112 MWh per Texas home = 84173 homes powered

190000 / 84173 = 2.257 lying factor
As sewerage treatment, this would require way too much power.

Look for it in expensive water purifiers for the lifestyle market. Gadget sellers won't have a powerful enough electron beam to do much, because that's both expensive and requires safety systems. But that won't stop them.
> The phrase "death panels" though is unfortunate.

The phrase "death panels" is intentionally sarcastic mockery of the kind of people who unironically repeat Republican lies, by way of pointing out how even if the lie was true, it would be less harmful than the current state of affairs. I would have thought that was pretty obvious, but I guess not.
This will be worse will llms
There are nice little headings in the video. But sometimes there are larger (multi-line, with paddings) headings, or simply broken ones (e.g., custom fonts with icons that don't load), and such headings are more annoying than useful to have sticky. Especially with pages that also show their headers and footers at all times, leaving little space for the content. Which makes it one of those features that should be used with care (while it is occasionally useful, and so is raising awareness about it).
Good dog
My story is similar to yours -- forced to use fountain pens (in grade 4-5, IIRC). Perpetually ink-stained fingers, and absolutely hated these irrational rules back then. Decades later, I came back to fountain pens and now love the feel of writing with them. My handwriting also improved tremendously -- when you deeply enjoy writing, you put effort into it, and you see results :)
Parent comment was likely hinting more at the bytes to bits switcheroo. Yes, technically the figure is correct but it's about as honest as a conversation about finance and switching from US dollars to Zimbabwean dollars.
* What type of person uses this? I guess the intersection of people interested in composing and people able to typeset? I would have thought it wasn't that popular, but it has the polish of a popular tool. What am I missing?

--I think people who play/practice musical instruments regularly, esp. in an ensemble, esp. in classical music (where the written notes are referred to a lot); to make arrangements, transcriptions, instrument parts, etc. out of the originals to perform for fun. I'dn't be surprised if programmer folks are overrepresented in this group. (I am one of them).

* How similar is sheet music to source code? Does any software interpret it to output audio?

--I'd like to say quite similar, but upon further thought, maybe not. e.g. In sheet music, there's no ready equivalent to functions taking arguments and returning values.
Maybe the similarity is with compiled/machine code (which I am not familiar with).

* How expressive is sheet music? How constrained do you feel trying to convey your idea onto this format? Does it support abstraction, or making your own abstractions?

--It is quite expressive. Most musical material that people come up with in their minds will likely be adequately represented in sheet music. I haven't seen "user-defined" sheet music notation, which I think is what you may mean by abstractions. I suppose it could be done (and supported by LilyPond).
> Does it point to an extension of arithmetic?

Well, the fixed point of f(x)=x+1 can be interpreted as infinity. So kind of yes?

> What does it mean for a function to terminate?

Lambda calculus is a formal system that describes computation. So it literally means termination like when a computer program finishes running / halts. You have text which describes your program and you apply a few rewriting rules until you can’t. If at some point you can’t apply any more rewriting rules, you’ve reached a final state, your program has terminated.

I suppose, when you apply Y combinator eg to f(x)=x+1 then you are just going to get x+1+1+… and so on as you keep applying rewriting rules.
What is missing? You link to an addon named "Provider Google Calendar". I'm not sure what it does but Google Calendar works perfectly well in TB (by virtue of following the standard, for once). You also used to need the Lightning addon for agendas and tasks but that has been built in for a while now.
No, don't. The kewl design crowd will insist that the tables and rows be borderless and that the scroll bars disappear. You won't be able to see if the top rows of the table are showing.
Haha it's all good! No need to apologize.

I think what you said makes sense! Making connections with existing knowledge definitely strengthens the knowledge beyond simply holding it into your working memory and rote memorizing it.

The former feels like it leads to understanding, where as the latter leads to ...memorizing.

However, I feel like the difference between the two(understanding/memorizing) is actually closer than most of us imagine!