skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found this 14 years old spreadsheet which people crowdsourced for new startup ideas 14 years back. If you look at them, you can find ideas like Figma, Hex, Google colab way back in 2010. Super interesting right?

So, I want to recreate this spreadsheet in 2024. Here is the link to old spreadsheet- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1pg7-ql_6IE8qx0Jp...
> It must run on batteries

Are you allowed batteries in your cell if you're in your cell for
battery? (sorry for the potential to polarise the discussion)
Can you elaborate how is that information is helpful in any regard? I.e. resource scheduling, area optimization, timing?
Libertarian socialism rejects representative democracy, they favour horizontal institutions with instantly recallable delegates instead of representives.
It’s interesting how LLM spam has helped me become much better at identifying bullshit. Literally every sentence of the GP is semantically empty garbage. Note that the GP is also the submitter of the story itself.

> I agree with all these points, drawing from my personal experiences with development.

Which points and what personal experiences? Zero information.

> Gemini 1.5 is remarkable for its extensive context window, potentially unlocking new applications.

Which new applications? How does it connect to the personal experiences?

> However, it has drawbacks such as being slow and costly.

By comparison to what alternative that also meets the need?

> Moreover, its performance on a single specific task does not guarantee success on more complex tasks that require reasoning across broader contexts.

Like which tasks? This is always true, even for humans.

> For example, Gemini 1.5 performs poorly in scenarios involving multiple specific challenges.

Hahahaha. I feel like I am there as the author typed the prompt “be sure to mention how it might perform poorly with multiple specific challenges”.

> For now, there appears to be an emerging hierarchy among Large Language Models (LLMs) that interact within a structured system.

What hierarchy? How do any of the previous points suggest a hierarchy? Emerging from which set of works?

> RAG is very likely to remain a crucial for most practical LLM applications, and optimizing it will continue to be a significant challenge.

Uh huh.

Also, so many empty connecting words. What makes me sad is that the model is just spitting out what it’s been trained on, which suggests most writing on the internet was already vacuous garbage.
this was kind of my experience as well, esp. when dealing with stuff I don't know super well.

for example not super up on node.js but know enough to get done what I need to get done. got GPT to throw out some ideas re: linked lists with an approach I'd never seen before.

so then the question was... is it smarter than me, and knows the answer better than I do? or is it dumber? I spent more time figuring that out -- it was dumber -- than if I'd just slapped in the node and mongo code myself. though I'll say it was a good learning experience, but not something really sustainable for full-time coding.
I asked ChatGPT to summarize 14501 books in 5 bullet points. Here's the result
Press Release: Future Software Should Be Memory Safe
If you get sent to prison prison, super solitary, one of the things that can happen is that control of the toilet in your cell gets delegated to "the bubble" to prevent you from flushing the toilet continuously (which they probably won't care about) or intentionally flooding the cell (which they will).
Probably would have been better to raise prices and then have "Happy Hour" type discounts during slow periods. The net result would be the same but the perception of getting price gouged for going during traditional meal times would not be there.
I’m asking it if can read an URL I sent. It haven’t but it insists: I did even if the explanation is an hallucination. I paste the content of the URL and claims it’s the same as the hallucination.

Disappointed.
This is most similar to me as well.

One of the key components of Buddhism is that it is experiential. While Buddhism is definitely a religion, it greatly differs from Judeo Christian / Islamic theologies. I would try to pause before applying the same sort of biases or lenses you may have towards other religions. Buddhism is meant to be experienced in the right now, the moment to moment life as you are living it.

I highly recommend digging into it, whatever doesn't resonate - move on, and what does go deeper. There is no wrong way to do it.

As we lift our veils and truly see what life entails, we really get into the nitty gritty of our own lived experience and things begin to greatly change. We discover the broader context that we live in.

Contributing towards this beautiful broader context has given me an immense amount of purpose. I can think of no greater gift I've received than having this click into place.

Aside from that, I highly recommend doing a retreat of some sort. Wether it be a meditation retreat, yoga retreat, or wilderness retreat. Even just a few days can be absolutely life changing. I have seen it with my own eyes.

And finally depending where you are, what your social circle is like, what your mental and physical health conditions are, what traumas you've experienced in your life and simply your access, a guided Mushroom or Ketamine journey may be of great value.

The question you are asking is a deeply important one, may we all spend the rest of our life exploring and finding answers that lead to more questions.

Stay curious my friend, good luck!
"Is ORM still an anti-pattern?" (2023)

> In truth the best way to do the data layer is to use stored procs with a generated binding at the application layer. This is absolutely safe from injection, and is wicked fast as well.

[Who must keep stored procedures in sync with migrations,]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36497613#36503998
It seems to be a common online misconception to read "endowment" as "slush fund."
I think the developer did a great job for at least trying. I'm no hardware design expert, but the amount of work done shows. Plus it's reproducible research. If you're so sure about the quality and utility of the work done, you can get the artifacts, reproduce the toolchain, and write a nice rebuttal about it, and maybe even suggest improvements to the work done. Who knows.

I think, failure is a way better outcome than not trying in the first place.
For the 404s (assuming the status code isn't a 4xx), use a URL that you strongly suspect won't exist, then you can do a comparison (levenshtein distance, bag of words, etc.) to see if it's very similar to one of about, ideas, etc. pages.
It's called "armor" in civilization 1...
Yeah the “if it causes harm” thing is certainly debatable in this situation.

i was commenting more generally. I’m tired of the “its beta give them a pass” attitude I see used in many situations even if the harm is far more clear.

I’ve seen Autopilot/FSD/Cruise defended that way. “Oh if it runs over someone it’s beta so it’s ok” makes no sense to me, but that’s basically the attitude I’ve seen but not stated that cleanly.

I don’t really believe in the idea of a public beta period. You’re just making a rough incomplete release. I understand saying “we put it out early, sorry there are a few bugs and it looks rough”. But there has to be a line somewhere. And to me harm is on the other side of that line.
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One thing to keep in mind with BI software is that the users are often very different than, well, those individuals that prefer to use mutt as an email client.

Many, or most, users for a BI tool will be operations, product managers, and business management who simply will not find the interface to be intuitive, responsive, or well designed. At least that's my experience.
I wasn't able to elaborate on what I mean with "better" when I asked the question but the idea can indeed be summarized with "will an LLM increase quantity and quality of parameters if you give it more processing power and time". Now I know that language models don't do that at all and that the weights of the user request stored in the "frozen" training data is what assembles the return after generating possible output strings, which are selected by pre-prompts like asking for chain of thought and reasoning paths and so on, which in the end, are nothing more than more weights pulling in more specific context. (I'm just thinking out loud here)
One of the problems with TFA's allusions to hippies for me is that it feels as if it is arguing that the hippies were the first of their kind.

In reality, groups with the general back-to-the-land drop-out mentality are a persistent feature of western culture, occuring every 40-80 years for several hundred years. They rarely change the entire face of the culture they emerge in, but they typically shift it a bit, at least for a while.

And as Peter Coyote once observed, while the hippies lost just about every political battle they purported to care about (war, racism, sexism, industrial agriculture, cars, pollution etc.), they won most of the cultural battles.
I use OSX/Linux nearly 100% of the time, with the rare exception being a few years old Windows gaming laptop that I'll occasionally boot to play a game.

Every time I do, I'm blown away with the constant garbage like ads and "news" in the search bar, the bizarre mash-up of UI elements from various generations of WIndows in various menus and the like.

The strongest point for Windows for me is that things like displays and GPU drivers "just work"

Every Mac I've had has had issues with displays/compatibility in some fashion, yet old hardware running windows typically functions fine without any fighting.

Outside of the very minimal gaming I do, there's little value for any of my use cases with Windows.
I think that's only with Linux's package management mess?

Most commercial embedded/windows stuff I have seen usually vendored their dependencies in a thirdparty/ folder AND fixed the toolchains they use. So the setup is always reproducible.
How do you deal with data visibility and permissions? I mean, most tables have data that should only be seen by a specific user or group ID, and that layer is usually handled by the application. It would be awesome to expose the power of Superset for users, but I imagine creating the security layer would be a pain.
Putin is desperate, a all out of all the creepy crawlies in his payment before the election was expected. And they are pushing all the usual stories, American exceptional diabolism included. Me, I made up my mind. Ask yourself, what has the ability to change and integrate change. The authoritans they can not really handle change and look how sterile Russias and China's cultures are. Meanwhile, look at what the world brings to hackernews. The absence of the real contributions of 1.6 billion people here is a great evil to outshine all other evils.
My only advice is (to quote Arnold Schwarzenegger) is to be useful. To yourself, your wife, family, pets, friends, job (people), hobby groups, community.

Produce things/knowledge using your skills (present and future skills) that others need/want but can't produce for themselves.
All three letters of the initialism AGI mean different things to different people; to me, the Codex model was what made me think "this is it, it's here"… at least, it was when I saw the Two Minute Papers video on it — I didn't get a chance to play with the model itself when it was new, and "only" got API access about 6 months before ChatGPT came out.

https://openai.com/blog/openai-codex
I've got half a mind to read that book again, because there are some things about it that I just can't put my finger on...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_callosotomy
If you need to read the last sentence of OP with “. . . at the time of the framing,” added to the end, then I’m fine with that.
No. Moral relativism isn't real and, whether you want to accept it or not, Hitler is in fact worse than Elon Musk's tweets. There is only one right answer to that question.
Electric cars are gaining momentum
Congrats on the sobriety! Will be 5 years for me this May. I also found myself in a similar place as you in the months that followed quitting drinking: feeling a bit “now what?” and seeking some sort of guidance or structure for my life beyond the empty platitudes I saw in most self help content.

And then at just the right time I came across these three blog posts which really helped create a personal roadmap of sorts. Sharing in the hope that they get you closer to what you’re seeking!

1. 7 Strange Questions That Help You Find Your Life Purpose
https://markmanson.net/life-purpose

2. How to Grow Up and Be More Mature
https://markmanson.net/how-to-grow-up

3. Personal Values: How to Know Who You Really Are
https://markmanson.net/personal-values
It's down now?
You're being melodramatic; suggesting people cycle in a city is dangerous. Drinking is a perfectly normal social practice in which countless responsible adults partake. As far as purpose goes, I see no reason to think we have purpose any more than a plant, an amoeba, or a monkey - you are free to simply enjoy life, and free to make it enjoyable for others.
Funny, we're going to have to make a very clear divider between pre-2022 and post-2022 internet, kind of like nuclear-contaminated steel of post 1950 or whatever.

Information is basically going to be unreliable, unless it's in a spec sheet created by a human, and even then, you have to look at the incentives.
Given the timing, not even sure if I believe it.

Here is a memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sCioKnpHdY
it's interesting to me that the author didn't spend much time on home-manager or flakes. home-manager is apparently too complicated for OPs workflow which I could kinda see for simple things. But reproducibility is one of the strongest selling points of nix.

So.. that being said, you can setup home-manager to install and configure things from git. Using flakes makes it more reproducible.

These means that you can just git clone and 'home-manager switch' and setup everything from scratch.

I do this on both mac and linux machines (ubuntu 20) and quite often use the same nix expressions.

I'd highly recommend that workflow, since it's git, you can do anything you want. Go back a month via git on a branch and make that machine exist again.

It really makes managing software fearless
Trying to design a perfect system is a pipe dream. There will always be interactions between components that weren't expected. The best we can do is fix the problems as they come and occasionally break some api's to build better systems with hindsight, but backward compatibility is such an essential requirement to customers.
Equivalent: Shouldn't use the term "python" when it's CPython only.
Since I see you're using GPT already, it might be nice to include a summary of any about page for a domain with the non-about results. That way I can see a little something about the person to give me more context.
>Baker: "Hey, you owe us $6,000 for the pies."

>Tesla staffer: "Nah, we don't even need the rushed order anymore. We will not be paying you anything."

>Baker: "The fuck?!?!"

>Tesla staffer: "Instead of paying you we'll offer you a tour of the Tesla factory."

>Baker: "The fuck?!?!"

>Tesla CEO: "No, we will pay you."

----

There have been many times in my professional career (mostly as a blue collar electrician) where I have been accused of "going over somebody" (i.e. not following rank, by reporting only to my immediate supervisor, inept). My strategy towards the end of my career was to basically say "I am telling you this, Boss; if you do nothing about it by [YYYY/MM/DD], I will FWD this identical grievance/concern directly to your supervisor" so that everybody knows my expectations to be heard.

Glad Tesla will "make this right."
I have a simple rule I tell people to use when they don't think something is racism.

For example, let's say I say: I love all white people. If you reverse the color and say: I love all black people. And you aren't offended, it's not racism.

If I were to say: I hate all white people. Some people would say that isn't racist, especially if you are a person of color. But if you take the color and reverse it, they'll say it is racism.

That means it's racist. Period.
Made me think of the Asimov story "The Last Question"[0]

[0] https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html
Floppy Films: Oscar-nominated films of 2009 (2009)
A bus is a reasonable alternative to a 2.5-hour train ride, but would be too long to really compete with a 4-hour train ride. If the law were extended to 4 hours, then trains would have a monopoly on these journeys and consumers would suffer.
Right on. A total misconception on my part. And your answer was a nice primer before diving in to the rest of the comments. Thanks!
Good catch on the anchor text there. Trying to decide whether to add VT and PTY (and maybe RTTY) to the disambiguation page or just comment here
I have noticed that there are a group of people actively pushing for these outcomes, to them this wasn't a mistake but a big victory. When they inevitably get criticised its very convenient to pretend like this was ordained by the general public, but in reality the general public are very much against this, they just don't have the priviledge of being close to the development.

Strikes me that the people who advocate for these outcomes follow the old mantra of "Privatising the winnings and socialising the losses", any win for this ideology isn't considered a general public win, but a win in spite of the general public, whereas any loss is always due to the general public. Both can't be true.
> nix run nixpkgs#cowsay

> This is a game-changer, you don’t have to pollute your system to run a one-off command, or you can try a package out before committing to installing it.

Is there a way to run the command isolated from the rest of the system? Because while this is nice it will still leave behind whatever configuration files / caches the program created on start up.
We don't. I'm just pointing out that that those are two different things for two very different discussions.

In fact there is little to no point in discussing the casus belli part.
Wireless Optical Communication Technology in Eastern Caribbean
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Yes, casting from phones works over radio frequencies. I do it every day. I haven't owned a "set top box" since I got rid of cable. Tons of TVs and projectors support casting.
If you use postgres, psycopg provides `cursor.mogrify(query, params)` which returns the actual query that will be executed . For example:

cursor.mogrify(*queryset.query.sql_with_params())

Alternatively, you can set the log level of the `django.db.backends` logger to DEBUG to see all executed queries
RadioSide is great, thanks!
> People grow and share. Maybe there is something in that which software developers could learn from.

The main problem with most SW developers is that they never learn. That's why we have CADT, Windows 10 and 11, Android, Systemd, Wayland, UEFI etc.
That's really cool! The older sheet has some of the billion dollar companies of present.
I don't take Adderall. I'm in the UK and I think it's fairly uncommon here. The first choice meds on the NHS is usually methylphenidate. I also briefly tried lisdexamfetamine but it didn't suit me as well.
The following visualization helps to understand the answer:

https://imgur.com/a/hkme8jG

For the 3 different scenarios, switching is the correct choice in 2 instances. Not switching is the correct choice in 1 instance. 2/3 chance that switching will help you to win.
It happened in my neck of the woods (Maryland) a few years ago: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/27/plane-cra...
I've heard that the problem is that airplanes are roughly commodotized, as in they can't compete on features, only price.

And to compete on price, supply chains become more specialized and more fragile and efficient, or software is added to reduce pilot training fees.
> For the 404s (assuming the status code isn't a 4xx)

Most are a 4xx code, I checked myself, some may be 301/302 redirect to 4xx not being handled properly by their crawler
Would be hilarious to see Harvard & MIT relocate (in part or in full) to a friendlier tax jurisdiction – New Hampshire? SBF's Bahamas? – to avoid or lessen this tax.
counterintuitively, it doesn't actually matter whether monty knew there was a goat before he opened the door; what matters is that you observed the goat, so you know you're not in one of the possible worlds where he opened the car door

edit: this is wrong, dekhn was right, see below
Unfortunately straightforward code leads to spaghetti mess in my domain: big reporting queries. API solves an issue of binding a value in exact place of raw SQL query.
Yeah, this is a descriptive slide, not a prescriptive one.

They're celebrating that they've made pay equitable enough that the variance in pay across protected classes is within 1% which I think is a commendable goal...

It seems like the spin is that this is somehow part of a plan to oppress white men, or something like that. Silly.
You have to have limits or in the limit you just end up with "whose nuclear bomb goes off closer to the starting whistle" or some equivalent.

Now, even if you are interested in watching that and the precise mechanics of how to shave those last few nanoseconds off the explosion interest you, it's still a problem for "engagement" that the ruleset converges to one solution.

Battlebots has had several similar issues over the years and a common discussion on its fan sites is whether or not the most recent rule set (whatever it may be at the time) is also converging on a single solution as the only viable option.

Real car racing has an even bigger problem with this, in that the racing leagues simultaneously want to project an image of technological innovation and how all the teams are brilliant geniuses advancing the field of motor sports, while at the same time having to deal with how boring it is when one team ends up winning a hugely disproportionate amount of the time if you really did just leave it down to technical acumen and the vagueries of who started with an engine design this year that happened to have more optimization room than the other engines. They dress it up in a lot of rules and throw a lot of smokescreen up but to a pretty significant degree they basically just find some reason to throw weight penalties on to whoever is winning too much.
Hacxx at Mastodon
Just another problem with terraforming Mars. Instead, we should set Jupiter on fire and live on Europa.
Mistral ChatGPT Competitor
How do you get ChatGPT to read the book?
> You can't spend compute to get more detail [...]

Upscaling, technically, is a thing without limits, no?
Don't forget about your phone. /s
I tried to watch this the other day and I found it so infuriating. The interviewer loves to hear himself talk. Niklaus Wirth hardly gets a word in. Whenever he starts to say something interesting, the interviewer cuts him off. Very disappointing.