skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that most of the affect is this. Cooking habits changed.
> If I understand correctly, you’re saying Monte’s intention (randomly picking an empty box vs purposely picking an empty box) is effecting the odds that the box in hand has keys?

Sort of. If you’re saying the next box is chosen at random then there are 2 of 6 possible end games in which the key is chosen; 2 of 6 in which you pick an empty box and can switch for the keys; and 2 of 6 that both of the remaining are empty.

Since the prompt says that you did in fact open an empty box, that removes the 2 where you open the keys. So it’s 50/50.

When you know for a fact that the keys will never be chosen, the probability of picking an empty box when you chose an empty box goes from 50% to 100%. Meaning it now occupies twice the probability space. That’s now it’s 2/3 chance of winning.

You truly learn nothing if Monte randomly opens one of the doors and it is not the keys.

> Also, do you have any evidence that this isn’t the original?

The quote in the article?
It's common when talking about peppers since there are so many varieties of the same species. I guess cultivar, variety, and breed are mostly synonymous except that cultivar (to me) implies that human intervention was involved in the selecting. Variety can be used to mean the same thing but naturally without human intervention. And breed seems to be a more colloquial term that encompasses both of these.

I'm not entirely sure this is always accurate, but that is the distinction afaik.
Because the recommendations aren't for you - they are what generates the most amount of ad revenue for them, which roughly correlates to the amount of money advertisers are willing to spend to reach people like you. That is in no way a guarantee that the recommendations will be good for you, because the incentives are not aligned.
Related: Perceptual and physiological responses to Jackson Pollock’s fractals

Comparing human responses to visual stimuli of fractal dimension similar to Jackson Pollock's works. Notably, the fractal dimension is remarkably similar to that of forest landscapes.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2011.0006...
I think a lot of recommendation system take only the positive signals into account but don't take the negative signals that seriously.

So If I like and disliked 10 movies just don't show me movies from users who also liked these. First, filter or downgrade all users who liked what I disliked and then create my recommendations.
I keep a box with the manuals on my very previous bookshelf space. Turbo C
Right, I'm starting to get the picture. I've never worked with an ORM as my SQL is pretty solid. I have to put my hands up here and say I don't know, sorry.
If only there was some program that could Combine You with investors and other business savyy people ;)
Joke aside - wether it is investors or customers you are looking for, you gotta get out there. The quality of your product is all in vain if it does not reach your target audience.
Wasn't this already a thing waiting to happen with usb-pd? What's there to prevent a pwned phone from requesting too much voltage from a charger?
Aren’t they already required to spend 4% of the endowment for the non profit mission ?
If that were true, a DC transformer could not work. It is the flowing current.
+1 for the details, and it gets even worse when we have to bring these kinds of billing complexity into our product designs! Especially when we need to take care of budgeting... which has all of its own complexity as well.
> Less spicy is actually good. I prefer more flavorful chiles, with less spice.

Then buy a poblano instead of a jalapeño and leave the jalapeños alone?

The problem isn't just that they have less heat. Anything which becomes "industrial" loses all of the characteristics that "industrial" doesn't select for.

This includes spice, flavor, juiciness, nutrition, scent, etc.
Ah. Not sure how you read that I said that there were no wood houses in Japan, but thanks for the correction :)
I'd be happy to reassign blame away from the theater if it's not their doing, but either way I'm not going there anymore.
Sam Altman said something about Instagram which is interesting. He said at midnight, the quality of the recommendations is higher because few people are on the platform.

Does it mean at peak hours IG switches to a simpler algorithm?

Otherwise, why would the quality of a RS drop during those hours?
You cannot simply state where the revenue comes from. Apple sells hardware and services. The services promote the hardware. The hardware promotes the services. It is an eco system into which many people and companies, including companies that create software for that system, are bought.

Of course Apple tries to squeeze out of this system as possible at different fronts.

That's where government laws come in, to make the playing field more even.
The chinese gov is already pushing for regulations, for making sure AI doesn't "disrupt" society, etc...
It depends. Variance can be a huge issue when cooking peppers into a dish. It's not just as simple as waiting to the end and testing heat levels. For most mass grown varieties they've gotten things to be pretty steady. Even though I agree it's disappointing for other reasons at least I don't have to worry that adding a 2nd habanero to a stew will make it inedible.
What the hell did I just read lol. Had to doublecheck and see if I was on reddit.

Why did you pay 5k for the domain? I have no idea what you two were creating other than “the idea is a bust.” Why did you not implement contingencies? If someone wants out because they no longer believe in the product, they should not be entitled to anything. If you paid for the domain, then you are the sole owner unless ofc you stated it otherwise.
When you rent you know EXACTLY when your rent ends. Games-as-a-Service don’t provide such data upfront. In fact, they don’t mention that you won’t be able to play game at some point in the future AT ALL. GaaS are being sold like all the other games or goods that you can own. People spend money thinking they are buying something they “OWN” but a few years later that “something” is gone.
Actually, I'd say at this point, it is for the donors more than the Ukrainians to decide, since Ukraine wasn't doing too well on its own (see below).

I found an interesting study quoting 400 years of US Military Studies, that claims: "The average advance rate across the Russian front ... is 7.8 km per day – still putting Russia well ahead of pre-1990 historical averages" (this was at the start of the war). 7.8 km per day was well above historic averages of advance against peer forces, suggesting Ukraine's army was not a peer army as the Western media proclaimed, and would likely not have lasted more than a couple of months without western support.
https://www.leidensecurityandglobalaffairs.nl/articles/keepi...

NATO weapons slowed the Russian advance down by making Ukraine more of a "peer", at least until the weapons dried up. Now that they have, Russia seems to be steadily and rapidly taking territory back while the West is distracted with Israel and the Houthis.

Ukraine will last as long as the West is willing to give it (expensive) weapons in the middle of an election season. And Russia will gleefully watch us burn taxpayer money while they ensure there is no one left to give those weapons to.
This a lot. They aren’t optimizing for the user most likely.
Of course its very different than normal entities being in debt, since the government is ostensibly an arm of the people, who's income comes from taxing the populace.

But it _is_ still debt right? It is still money owed. It is still money that was spent by the government by taking loans and promising to pay back those loans, again on behalf of the people.

Once in a while, might be worth questioning who they borrowed the money from, what they spent it on, and who they chose to spend it with. Rather than just blindly repeat the pithy line, "but its not the same as regulars people's debt".

The fact the gov can go 34 trillion in debt and a normal Joes Garage can't is actually pretty obvious to people already.
Weird that the rise of the not-spicy pepper coincided with a societal surge in desire for heat.
>it will probably end with proprietary closed source implementations in hardware and software that relentlessly send all of my interactions via internet to the vendor anyway.

Ain't the point of this to have the compute capabilities at the edge, so data doesn't have to leave the device?

Also, how that transfer would even work? magically bits would be sent without anyone seeing them?
PDFs aren’t a widespread malware vector in practice. Hence there is little pressure, and it’s much easier to enforce a profile like PDF/A than to migrate to a different document format.
MFC completely turned me off of Windows programming until WPF was released. By then it was too late and I was kneck deep in Swing.
It just occurred to me that other humans act as external memory storage... like when you suddenly remember something... that's how I feel reading this story for the Nth time over the last decade.
Is that you, Peter Thiel?
If you know Django, this looks like a more general version of how Django does foreign-key fields.
I think it could be great if they execute it well. Which they probably won't.

It would be nice if you could use an app and see the projected pricing at different times.

I think it's good if some people can be encouraged to go to lunch a little earlier or later and the staff doesn't get slammed by a huge lunch rush.
(author here, wow this popped up)

I still think this is true, after so many years :) Shell, awk, and make all started out as limited DSLs, and then they grew bad languages on top.

Also, shell, awk, and make are still weirdly popular, and even increasing in popularity, in 2024 vs. 2016. I honestly think this is due to a "design deficit" -- in some ways we are designing worse systems software in the 2010's and 2020's, compared to 1980 or 1990.

Shouldn't something better already exist?

This is probably due to incentives -- there is a negative incentive for interoperability. (The Internet itself of course being the ultimate in interoperability; we're missing that in software - https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/02/diagrams.html )

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So combining them makes sense, but in retrospect, it isn't trivial! I made comments on this last year:

Review of Awk and Make after 6 years - https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2023/06/ysh-sketches.html#revi... (some crisp opinions)

Other thoughts:

There are contributors interested in the Awk paradigm, so it may still happen. Though I sorta narrowed the slogan to: "Shell, Python, JSON, YAML" in the last post - https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2024/02/release-0.20.0.html#sl...

Ideally we would have "everything that is known to work in Unix" but a little better, with problems fixed, and more integrated with structured data.

And awk is part of that set. But there's no promise -- it depends on what people want to work toward.

I believe the main limit is contributors, not the codebase or design itself. I mentioned contributions recently:

Ideas for Contribution and Feedback - https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2024/01/release-0.19.0.html#id...

Also, good news as of this weekend -- Oils is completely translated to fast native code via C++. The next release will show ZERO test failures in C++ vs. Python, out of thousands.

So you can download a tiny tarball with pure C++ and get working shell, with rich data structures, and an upgrade path from legacy, in about 30 seconds. Screencasts here: https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2023/12/screencasts.html#appen...
That doesn't make sense because GPT4 finished training in August 2022 - before ChatGPT 3.5 release in November 30.

You could say they got data to train RLHF after the training, but that seems unlikely.

Bing was launched in February 7 with GPT4 - that's just 2 months after ChatGPT launch.
Not mentioned: do amateur paintings by others with the same techniques as Pollock produce features with a similar fractal dimension? My question is intended as a proxy for investigating how much of Pollock's quality is integral to the method regardless of artist skill.
That is biggest problem to explain to people that companies don’t do what’s best for their customers.

It is counter intuitive but yes companies do what is best for them. Often it also happens to be aligned but also quite often not.

Like loyal customers more often are ripped off because of vendor lock where new customers get huge discounts.
Of course, thank you for the understanding response!

I don't think that eating meat is immoral, animals eat each other every day, and I think that most people are okay with this.

But I can recognize that the conditions in factory farms are not okay, the misery that the animals experience is not ethical, and I think if you show any carnivore a video of the inside of a factory farm they will agree. Working to improve the lives of farm animals will encounter very little resistance from even the most vocal carnivore.

I also don't deny that meat production releases methane, and that is not good for the planet. Most carnivores will not have a problem with trying to use technology and new techniques to lower the carbon footprint of farming. For example feeding cows seaweed instead of traditional feed is supposed to cause a net reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

But as soon as you start actively trying to take away my ability to eat meat or my ability to feed my family with meat, then that is where I take offense. i.e. you can show me the facts and let me come to my own conclusion. You can raise awareness, you can put in place regulations for humane treatment of animals, you can implement new technologies to reduce emissions. But if you try to forcibly change my diet, or even _imply_ that someone should forcibly change my diet, that is where I take offense.
Didn't Gemini 1.0 Ultra turn out to be worse than GPT 4 Turbo in practice? Synthetic benchmarks aren't a perfect representation of anything.
Yes, there are modern cultivars that have far lower levels, or in some cases none, of the irritating compounds. These cultivars only grown in certain conditions so in markets that have seasonal growing you’ll notice some times of the year you get tears and some you don’t.
Yes, it was very challenging. It is in the thousands. In the trailer that is in the neighborhood of 4-5k soldiers. We are still deciding how many will go in the final game. But the number would only go up from the trailer(The trailer is essentially a playable build).

I'm pretty sure that is more than bannerlord, which I think is around 1000, but maybe they have less on consoles.
It's like someone took C, Python, and Perl, extracted the worst parts of all three and jammed them into one hellish language. There's not one thing about rust syntax that I enjoy. It's probably the worst out of any language I've tried, including Perl.

I would rather read someone else's Perl script than Rust.

It's very much one of these new-age languages that feel the need to reinvent every wheel and invent entirely new syntactical idioms just so they can be different.

And yeah, the "just use rust, pleb" attitude is also super offputting. I'm not interested in dealing with people like that when I'm learning a language. I have plenty of much, much less terrible options.
Sure they are. It only natively outputs one token; the recursive process is how you get the rest out of them.
Smiling, for one? :-)
Based on https://www.treasurydirect.gov/auctions/announcements-data-r... the "safest" seems to be an assumption you should use TIPS, and you get about 2.2%

Can you do better than that? Almost certainly! But at least TIPS has some inflation protection built-in.
I didnt, and I knew the answer ahead of time. I think thats an insane way of thinking about things, barbaric and cruel, but I would rather parent spells it out and I leave it at that. Its the internet, people can and should say what they really think, im just helping parent get there.
Our money?

It's not your money.

It's not my money.

It's their money.

Do something productive, and you may get rewarded too, rather than engaging in the politics of resentment and envy.
I think the counter argument is, sometimes it is absolutely necessary for a single individual to decide what to do with the money. Elected officials will only spend money on things that get them re-elected and stay away from spending that is unpopular. Which means, things that actually improve lives but people are split on it because the issue is politicized, will never get the funding. E.g. Free public transportation
What xenoestrogen rich foods are you speaking of specifically? Soy has xenoestrogens but there isn't really much evidence to indicate dietary soy has a measurable negative outcome on health.
PostScript is deprecated in PDF 2.0 and is not the source of the issues listed in TFA.
Plexa Launched – One construction software package to replace all your old tools
Hey Guys,

I'm Sean, co-founder of Plexa and today it's exciting to share something that has been brewing in the pipeline for quite some time. We've been burning the midnight oil, fueled by passion and a vision for the future of construction management software.

Why?

Let me take a step back and introduce our company. My co-Founder had been knee-deep in construction boots on the ground, hard hat on, navigating the challenges, and celebrating the victories. The frustration of juggling a gazillion software tools for every project is painful. Ayman (my co-Founder) approached me to join him to build a new kind of construction software company.

That frustration birthed the idea for Plexa. We wanted to create something that speaks the language of construction pros – an app that replaces all the point tools.

The Vision:

Picture this – one app to rule them all. No more jumping between expensive old platforms owned by the big guys, spreadsheets, paperwork, and endless emails. Our app is designed to streamline everything from project planning to punch lists. We've got your back from the initial blueprint to the final walkthrough.

What Sets Us Apart?

Replace Multiple software solutions: Replace your Document Control, Tendering, Quality, Safety Management, BIM Viewer, Tendering, and Budgeting/Finance & more in one platform, reducing cost and friction.

Cutting-Edge Technology: We've invested in the latest tech to ensure a seamless experience. Say goodbye to outdated interfaces and hello to a sleek, intuitive platform.

Powerful Analytics: Get insights at your fingertips. Make informed decisions with robust analytics that help you track progress and identify areas for improvement.

We would like to hear from you, if you would like to use this at your company please reach our via our website?

Sean
Co-Founder, Plexa
Was that also used for the Windows 95/98 graphical installers? The widgets always had that Windows 3 look to them.
We use metabase heavily at work. However where it seems like all these tools fall down is organization around the hundreds of dashboards and questions. I wish it had like a built wiki or something to build out more navigation. Anyone know of any good ways to do that?
Curious what kind of provisos come attached in arrangement like this. Surely it's not just the cynical that now expect a bit of bloat to appear, salaries to increase, wastage, etc. In 3 years time, $59k/y becomes $79k/y, obviously "due to inflation".
I loved the old sprouts, they had a nice sharp tang. The modern variety are just bland. Even when honey glazed and seared in a pan / grill plate.
The free market does not solve all problems.

Sometimes it simply doesn't make economic sense to provide a service that people need.

Witness broadband availability and other things, and you'll see that the free market won't provide a service if it can't make money.
As an aside its absolutely mad that the sole NYT takeaway from the whole debacle is putting people of color in Nazi uniforms.
Oh, the Osman Empire had a completely different societal structures which changed greatly over time, including the roles of janissaries. But the function of the janissaries was similar: not part of the nobility, completely uprooted from their family and social circle, they owed all they had to the Sultan, so they helped him safeguard his power from entrenched power sources — at least that's how it worked during some periods.

My original comment was more about feudal Europe in territories of modern France, UK, Germany and to some extent Italy and Spain. Even in medieval Moscovy and Poland things were not quite similar.
Often they just use "people who watched X also watch Y", which actually selects for the most popular stuff instead of the most similar.
Could the White House do a bit more, like requiring ALL government contractors/projects to exclusively use memory-safe programming languages? I know they are already big on Ada, but I don't know if that is still a thing for new developments.
I think a lot of the problems which companies experience are all related to them not being able to find good software engineers.

The amount of money I've seen startups forking out annually for various billing and platform subscriptions would have been enough for me to build them a better system from scratch in under 6 months. The amount of money that companies waste on rents is ridiculous and it's sad because that money could have gone to skilled engineers instead of hotshot entrepreneurs.

For my own SaaS startup, I built the billing system from scratch, it measures every millisecond of CPU time and every operation used by each account and adds them to the current active bill. At the end of the month (or whenever), I manually trigger a process to close off active bills and the system will automatically display that one as due in the UI and will open up a new one and new usage will be recorded against that new active one.

The trick is to use a function which automatically figures out what bill to use based on a specific flag so you don't need to worry about the implementation details of which bill to record usage against. This function should handle all possible situations; including the few milliseconds of delay which can exist between the old bill being closed and the new bill being opened.

That's where idempotence can be useful as mentioned in the article; that way if the system fails to record usage against a new bill because (for example) that bill was already just created concurrently by a different process then it will retry again later and record the new usage stats against that existing bill.

The trick I use is to have deterministic IDs for bills that are based on the nearest whole unit of time in UTC (rounded up or down); the amount of rounding I use allows me to control the allowable delay between concurrent processes and determines the amount of pending usage data which is kept in-memory within each process before it is flushed to its bill in the database. If the chosen unit of time is a 'whole minute' then it means that it's not possible to generate two bills within 30 seconds of each other by concurrent processes. This is greater than my database update timeout so it effectively guarantees that two processes cannot accidentally create two bills for the same period. If a specific process took longer than 30 seconds to update their usage info, that process would reconnect and either realize that an active bill has now already been created by a different process or, if not, it would try to create it again with a new ID corresponding to the new 'whole minute'.

I have full flexibility to change my billing to any time interval I want. It doesn't even have to be the same for all users.

Anyway, as you can see, it's very simple.