skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, it's always kinda played off like he turned coat. But if you know the history it makes total sense.

He started off with GNOME, got interested in .net and Mono (originally as a means to integrate them into GNOME/GTK) and shifted focused on those. He built a company around that (with others), which then got bought by Microsoft due to their obvious interest in .net (and probably internal talks about the future direction of .net Core). Since then until 2022, his work was mostly on .net and its open ecosystem.

So it's neither contradictory nor counter to his roots, but is humorous when you say "the guy who created GNOME works for Microsoft". Despite the fact that he probably did some major work on bridging the two worlds together and leading to modern MS actively incubating and contributing to Open Source projects.
The top 25% of Harvard grads are impressive. The bottom 25% are not.

My experience has been that even the lower half of Waterloo grads, in CS, are solid to good. I'd probably take the 20th percentile Waterloo grad over the 20th percentile Harvard grad absent other information.
I searched a bit to see if I could find myself the answer, and what I found instead is that there is another project called "code monkey", which seems to an educational tool to help people learn to code. That would explain the name change a lot better than "the author changed the name because he wanted to be taken seriously".

Besides, the original criticism of Scuttlebutt was "it will never catch on because it has a silly name", not "it will make money". By making it about "making money" you are moving the goalposts a bit, aren't you?
Scorpions with the Berlin Phil is also fabulous.
I think you highlighted the ACTUAL problem....you are worried that Google will destroy your account for harmless tests.....that is plain wrong and should be illegal if somehow it isn't....
> I wonder how much paying after the problem is solved would help vs. paying in advance as it is often done for agencies / institutions.

If only more government programs operated this way. Yet instead of (for example) a solution to poverty, we get The Poverty Industrial Complex.
Looking at undergrad college students, I don’t think critical thinking is being developed. Entitlement and easily taking offense yes, but not being able to critically consider and evaluate competing ideas.
It's just too bad Gtk devs have been progressively removing keyboard input features from Gtk3 and 4. The idea of Gtk as a generic interface is long dead. These days Gtk really just is whatever GNOME is. Which means things like being able to paste filenames into a file->open dialog (gtkfilechooserwidget.c) have been intentionally broken and left to rot since 2014.

If you want to make an application that uses keyboard input, don't chose Gtk anymore.
How is acerbic different from ironic?
Talking about and analyzing the problem might lead to mitigating or even substantially fixing it, which would remove its usefulness as a rhetorical attack on attempts to solve social problems.
You don't need college if your goal in life is to be a corporate drone. It's a huge waste of money. If your goal is to be a critical thinker with a diverse education and social experiences, college is one of the lowest barrier to entry (not necessarily best) ways to achieve that.
Instead of ‘hallucinations’, try ‘samplings from the model that happen not to be sufficiently reminiscent of reality’. Of course, it’s a little bit less catchy. But that’s the problem with catchiness — it sticks regardless of its truth.

The fact that ‘correct’ outputs are treated as if they’re the product of an in-any-way-different process to the ‘hallucinated’ ones is the problem.
Related:

What is going on in Argentina?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39452866

Poverty in Argentina hits 20-year high at 57.4%, study says

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39448542
I’d note that stellar output was significantly lower during the Carboniferous and there’s a lot of range between the Earth’s current climate and Venus that are still really bad.

I don’t entirely disagree with the religious thing, but what always struck me as the most bizarre belief was denial of the basic science of climate change; did people really believe that humanity could dump unlimited amounts of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere with no consequence?
A well known VC told me that 1/20 is absolutely exceptional. And so they always bet on Harvard grads, in hopes they are backing one of those 1/20.
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander tipped over on the moon
Systemantics by John Gall has some insightful and surprising gems that feel related to The Shirky Principle, I guess because they're both related to complex wetware systems.

> Complex Systems Tend To Oppose Their Own Proper Function. My favorite axiom. Your city has a problem with trash building up on the streets so it sets up a waste management company. The company starts out by collecting trash daily, but then they shift to a Tuesday-only schedule. Next, you get a notice saying that the company will no longer service your building unless you buy their standardized garbage cans (to ensure that the robotic arms on their trucks can pick them up). Eventually, the waste management union goes on strike and the trash starts piling up on the street again anyways.

> People In Systems Do Not Do What The System Says They Are Doing. The stated purpose of a king is to rule a country, but in reality they spend a lot of time fighting off usurpers.

This one feels related to the Shirky Principle:

> A System Continues To Do Its Thing, Regardless Of Need. The Selective Service System continues to require all 18-year-old male US citizens to register for the draft, even though the US hasn’t had a draft in 51 years.

https://www.biodigitaljazz.net/blog/systemantics.html (one of my many blogs)
As soon as I read this, I thought of TurboTax and its mission to preserve the crappy system of filing US taxes so that its software can continue to profit.
This isn't a given. People have been prompting chatbots with the (false) promise of monetary reward to get better results
I think the critique is about the high volume of products and incompatible replacement products. Naming is a downstream effect.
the properties absolutely need to be written down to accommodate the cost of demolition. The businesses who overpaid and the banks that will repossess the buildings are obviously taking a hit and won’t fund this.
Also if you set cookies in your app with the scope of your main domain with the hope that they are visible to all of the subdomains you provide for your customers, these cookies are also accessible by 3rd party services that use your subdomains.

So if you run acme.com and give our subdomain to your clients you could end up with client1.acme.com and client2.acme.com. You decide to store cookies on acme.com. The. You decide that you will use SupportCorp’s helpdesk software and host it on support.acme.com. If a logged in user goes to support.acme.com they will send their cookies to SupportCorp’s servers. This might include session ids and other highly sensitive info.
I don't understand why saying institutions and focusing on government, the current example I have in mind for this is Google relationship with search and Ads in the AI era.
I’ll face issue for this, because I’m sure the same people I’m about to complain about post here.

I went to a google campus for an automotive liaison trip when working at a BIG3… some smart people for sure, but a lot of kids that could barely tie their pointy elf shoes let alone had any common sense about things outside of programming.

Like… You are working on an automotive program and you have no idea which parts under the painted part are suspension? You don’t know what the transmission actually does? Guys, I just need this car backed out and the other one brought in, this isn’t concerning, you and you, swap these. Yes, there is a reason that cars have so many parts.

… it was really eye opening. Good programmers, but holy hell I wouldn’t want to be stuck on an island with any of them.
Google Made it?....Nah...I'll wait. They can't even do search anymore....unless I'm looking for ads...haha
I guess we can officially shut down the internet.
Oh awesome! Thanks for the tip!
Most lawyers don't do trial work. They put together boilerplate contracts, read through discovery documents and highlight and summarize, pretty rote stuff. Trial lawyers probably don't have to worry for now, but a lawyer specializing in, say, filing bankruptcies (already almost completely automated without LLMs), or filing disability claims, or drafting contracts, leases, etc. -- the vast majority of the output of the legal profession -- may get run over by LLMs.

Nolo Press kind of got there decades ago, with books about legal procedures and tear-out fill-in-the-blanks forms sold in bookstores. No LLM needed, it made the law accessible to a lot of people. Plenty of areas of routine law get handled by automation or outsourcing to non-lawyers already. Think about a residential lease, basically a word processing template with the blanks filled in by software.

Look at tax preparation to see where at least some large piece of legal work will probably go. A vanishingly small number of people need a tax attorney. Most people can use software, or go to an H&R Block office or pay an accountant to prepare their taxes, with "pro" versions of the same software. Similar software already exists for things like bankruptcy, divorce, contracts, residential and commercial leases, on and on. The legal profession is already heavily reliant on computer software. Whether LLMs will make that software better or not, I don't know.
Yeah, but I think ads is bigger than search given that they reach people in other products (e.g. YouTube and things like Chromecast). I was going to say I didn't have any data to back this up but I just took a look at their annual earnings report [1] and they bundle these things as "Google advertising".

[1] Page 2, https://abc.xyz/assets/95/eb/9cef90184e09bac553796896c633/20...
That’s not a strategy - it’s just selection bias.
Private sector isn’t positioned to accomplish this. You’re correct.
1. He used a tool that displayed a warning label saying that it's not trustworthy.

2. He didn't check the results against official, established database.

3. He got caught, lied about it, and then did it all again.

4. The legal bar for good reason, has a bigger ethical standard than the average business. These are officers of the Court.

This is equivalent to a doctor prescribing a patient to take medication from a 3P seller FURODNZ on Amazon.com
I don't know if a specific term is even needed but I like "platform decay."
This repo is now 404ing—did something happen?
Do you have any idea why this post died while the other one (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39477848) was quite successful? I'm curious. Also, what's the login/signup for on your site? It doesn't really explain it.
> Mice were exposed to physical restraint stress as previously described (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-1935-3). Briefly, female mice were restrained in individual, homemade 50 mL Falcon tubes with air holes for 2 hours per day. Mice could move backward and forward slightly in the restraining tube.

I wonder why they only used female mice. In the original methods study about the effect of stress on hair loss both male and female mice are used.
They've improved things a lot since then. I just tried all three of those and I got jokes every time. Albeit the jokes about capitalism are really poor, barely jokes at all. The jokes about communism and Stalin are better.

e.g. "Why did Stalin only write in lowercase? Because he was afraid of capitalism!"

"Why don't communists like tea? Because proper tea is theft."
Take a look at https://www.last.fm/de/music/Demons+&+Wizards/Touched+by+the... and https://www.last.fm/de/music/Savage+Circus/Dreamland+Manor
On mobile right now but I think these are second bands from blind guardians lead singer and guitarist. Maybe take a look at the Wikipedia page. I don’t know wo exactly right now. It’s a while ago i listend to them. But it was great at the time.
Looks like you're right -- $551 out of $842 billion, 65%, is spent on compensation.

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59475
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59511
> but very little overseas

Except in Japan (1).

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwPlMB_dAo8
I am in roughly 80 percent agreement.

The phrase played out for me:

We are flying home and ideally we end up on the ground, having arrived at the intended expression, undeniable.

But, we could come in too fast, skip orbit and burn up.

Or, we could sling around, launching ourselves off into space on some tangent.

Or, we orbit. Never quite bringing it home.

And we could miss the planet entirely!

Not sure it is as broken as your take on it would suggest.

I am going to leave it and flag it for entertainment only. Same place I keep a large set of turd analogies.

Those are often fun and one can express a crazy amount of ideas using turds.
It was a peculiar thing to say. "We don't need to give a name to anything well known! Names are for obscure concepts only, everything else can be indicated by grunting," you seemed to say.

But really your beef was with attaching a person's name to it, like an attribution?
Now you're ready for the next observation. Which is to really understand the mentality of people from those institutions.

Imagine if you took these two premises as true:

1) Harvard is the most selective and high level educational institution in the world, it's full of the absolute smartest people alive. That's how I ended up here.

2) Now that I am actually here, it appears that there's a bunch of people at Harvard that honestly aren't all that bright.

You then have to pick from one of two obvious conclusions:

A) Maybe Harvard actually isn't full of the smartest people in the world.

B) Wow, since we know the dumbest person at Harvard is smarter than the smartest person at a state school, people who went to state school must be total fucking idiots.

Guess which worldview your average Harvard student tends to gravitate towards?
> I like the conversation about web performance, but you should make sure you practice what you preach

I'd say the author is practicing what he preaches, the JS is just 4,6 kB.
There is some optimizations [1][2][3] that can be done to the images but I wouldn't fully disqualify the article because of that.
The websocket connection is kinda odd though, I tried reading the code but didn't fully catch the purpose, it just says something about pointers.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqmgQB5Gyfo
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqmgQB5Gyfo
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ7Rg1821Q0
So because you don't like this naming scheme no name should be allowed at all?
A war implies there is something at stake. There’s not. Log off. Go outside. Volunteer in your community. Hug your kids. Make love to your partner. And remember these two immutable facts:

(1) The terminally online will always be outraged about something.

(2) You have a finite amount of time on earth and then you’re dead.
For me "economics" are:

- if I have it locally, I'll play with it

- if not, I won't (especially with my data)

- if I have something ready for a long run I may or may not want to send it somewhere (it's not going to be on 3090s for sure if I send it)

- if I have requirement to have something public I'd probably go for per usage with ie [0].

[0] https://www.runpod.io/serverless-gpu
Ah. So that's (part of) why enterprise software is so universally bad. The users are further from the purchasers than they are in, say, developer tools.
"It's full of jewels", as someone almost said.

E.g. The Sultan’s Riddle in SQL https://explainextended.com/2016/12/31/happy-new-year-8/
> On the other hand, node_modules weighs in at 601M.

Use pnpm and see the difference
>If you have a world model, then this shouldn't happen - there is a logical rule to follow, not simply a pixel level correlation.

Oh I guess humans don't have world models then. It's so weird seeing this rhetoric said again and again. No a world model doesn't mean a perfect one. A world model doesn't mean a logical one either. Humans clearly don't work by logic.
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LLMs are hallucinating machines. They never not hallucinate.
Coincidentally, sometimes they hallucinate something true.
> It takes maturity and humility to step back

It also takes energy, focus, and intellectual capacity. All of which are being removed from the current effort at hand. There is a real cost to continually reevaluating the situation. Sometimes you just have to put your head down and plow ahead.

This is why having competition is so powerful. Someone will likely be working hard at the right problem using the right strategy.

There is no perfect strategy that will always result in using the fewest resources to generate the best solution. We have to accept inefficiencies and wasted efforts.
No, god no. Fuck no. I will get off the couch and take up arms if we even get close to thinking about this.

After googles recent "alignment" debacle never.
With the current more-or-less dependency on CUDA and thus Nvidia hardware it's about making sure you actually have the hardware available consistently.

I've had VERY hit-miss results with Vast.ai and I'm convinced people are cheating their evaluation stuff because when the rubber meets the road it's very clear performance isn't what it's claimed to be. Then you still need to be able to actually get them...
What's the advantage of re-implementing the GPU programming model (shaders) instead of just writing regular C++ code? I would think that would just introduce overhead for no reason.
Tennessee, Texas, Minnesota, and California have castles. They pop up all over the U.S. if you look hard enough. Some of them are fassades, and some of them are 100% legit imported organic homegrown European.
Indeed. They already burned me with 20 points and counting down. I don't care.

The truth bothers...
Why are they not using fail2ban?
It's from from acerbus "bitter to taste, sharp, sour, tart." So it's something said in a mildly mean, cynical, or indeed bitter way, which could include irony but doesn't have to.

Also cynicism is about dogs (and Diogenes), and sarcasm is to do with tearing flesh. There's something called the etymological fallacy that says I shouldn't explain words via their roots, but I like to anyway, I think it adds meaning.
You can take whatever stance you like. The point being made is simply that menubars work the same in both cases excepting two factors: mandatory existence and location.
Postmaster Dejoy began dismantling critical sorting machines, reducing and limiting overtime, &c only 6 months into lockdown, well before there was a COVID vaccine. Knowing full well the problems it would cause. For example, many remote rural addresses are only serviced by USPS, and people rely on it for timely prescriptions. IMO it was massive public outcry that prevented a great deal more destruction.

https://www.vox.com/2020/8/18/21374014/post-office-usps-loui...
Also for clarification my comment about liking the kids idea is about kids interaction not about them taking care of the elderly. Studies have shown and in my personal experience show a huge positive impact to the elderly as well as the young. The Uber comparison does not follow. Having an app match drivers and riders was an unregulated space. The senior care area is very much regulated you can't simply ignore state certification before you open doors.
Zuckerberg-ing (sometimes) refers (jokingly) to the practice of co-founding a business with someone and then screwing the other founder out of their share of the business. I’m not familiar with any other name for that but it’s a useful one as far as colloquial definitions go.
No,OP is arguing that conditioned on being able to get into a good school, it makes sense to just drop out as that captures enough of the signaling value.
I bet there are a lot of people with an old digital camera or two lying around with some photos on which they hope to look at one day. And if the same is true for solid state hard drives, we will probably find the same behavior with old laptops in about 5-10 year.
Yeah, a lot of them also have a really strong network of ivy league grads, and really only associate in those circles. What happens is they develop all sorts of ideas about "outsiders". You see this in NYC a lot. The network is where alot of the success comes from. I'm also not doubting that many Harvard students are exceptional students
Why did you leave out Vue?
> The fact that ‘correct’ outputs are treated as if they’re the product of an in-any-way different process to the ‘hallucinated’ ones is the problem.

Also this particular context just makes it easier to notice, compared a 5000 word generated coherent-word-salad that equally wrong, but across the 5000 words.
There seems to be a false dichotomy here, where you either 1. go to school or 2. start a business fresh out of high school. At this age, a person’s frontal cortex has not even finished developing, and yet we culturally treat the moment as a final decision point that determines the outcome of the rest of one’s life. Thiel seems to sell this as option 2.; the final defense against “woke” is to abandon the institutions entirely and forge your own determined path like a little 18 year-old John Galt. But depending on how one uses the resources, it may actually provide a third option: to fuck around and experiment for a little while with low risk of life-ruining failure, while you figure out what it is you actually want to do with your life. This is a privilege afforded to many in non-US countries where gap years are the norm, or where family wealth and connections can accommodate it.
[Dupe] be more helpful OP;

Bit of a late Obit,
Lots of discussion & anecdotes when he passed at the start of the year:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858012
Counter example: WHO and smallpox
I started to migrate from Mapbox GL JS but I'm still waiting for 3D globe support to fully switch.

I also need to compare bundle sizes and load times. Last time I checked Mapbox v2 was faster.
Bullshit is not deception. There is no intent to convince. Bullshit is even less than that.
Bullshit is just blowing hot hair to create a buffer between reality and it's consequences.
Is that cross-reference published anywhere?
I have to leave the example of police and police unions - which have very powerful lobbyists who try their darnedest to keep as many things illegal as possible.
Which still rounds to 9B and is 21.4% larger.
jQuery being so lightweight compared to the rest felt a bit symbolical, Idk how to express it.
As someone this happened to, I was actually impressed they looked me up and reached out. Knowing they cared that much meant that I cared too and I was able to prioritise the request with the product team. When we completed the request, we celebrated, and even implemented uservoice on some sites to improve the feedback loop.
I think colleges have purposefully positioned themselves as they are today as a business strategy, specifically ivy leagues or top tiers.

They know nearly all information is online now and taught even more effectively in many cases. And once inferior colleges and professors can also harness this and compete on near even footing on the knowledge front. That was not the case just 15 years ago.

So they now lean into an area that they think the internet and those who harness it cannot compete. They lace every discipline with philosophy and sell it as an ivy league education. But really they're just bamboozling people with an inferior education and destructive cognitive habits.
There's no performance reason really, the motivation behind it was flexibility for trying out new ideas and to decouple logic from the rasterizer
That’s what the legacy rulings are about. But there will always be stupid rich failsons and faildaughters that magically find an acceptance letter and a new facility with their last name on it.