skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger."

-- Dijkstra in 1988
conda recipes are becoming full of gunk with time, since there is now a bot that auto-updates your recipes.

You can view the PR and it waits for you to review and merge the changes to the YAML, but my god those diffs are becoming harder to grok.
Economists like Paul Krugman are using a SURVEY of people asking them what they spent (for a NON FIXED basket of goods).

Let's say that you used to eat 10 units of grains ($1 each) and 5 units of beef ($5 each), for total spending of $35.

Let's now say that prices doubled (grains $2, beef $10).

You can't afford $70, so you adjust your consumption patterns and replace 2 units of beef with 2 units of grain (cutting your beef consumption in half).

We have now replicated the graph that Krugman so proudly showed off.

"Food at home" prices are "only" up ~25%.

Paraphrased and copy-pasted from here: https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1761782081351196814
What's TRULY remarkable is how much BS you can spew if you don't back it with any evidence, dude. Fortunately, I have plenty.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90924426/remote-work-challenges-...

https://adhdcollective.com/adhd-remote-work-solutions/ 100% of these cons apply to me (although I think it was definitely worse when I had a less-important job, paradoxically)

In short:

1) Lack of Structure: Remote work often lacks the external structure and routine provided by a traditional office setting. This absence of structure can be challenging for individuals with ADHD, who rely on routines to effectively manage their time and stay on track.

2) Potential for Distractions: While working from home can reduce certain distractions found in a traditional office environment, it can introduce new distractions such as household chores, family members, or personal interests. These distractions can make it difficult for individuals with ADHD to maintain focus and productivity.

3) Isolation: Remote work can lead to social isolation, which may negatively impact individuals with ADHD who thrive on interactions and external stimulation. The lack of face-to-face interactions and collaboration can affect work satisfaction and overall well-being.
> Now I'm repeatedly paying $10/50GB "overage fees" on my 1.2 TB/mo allowed data transfer. And my speed has not increased at all, still 80/5. Only now I pay $106/mo (w/modem rental).

If you aren't using your own modem it is usually worth adding unlimited data if you are repeatedly going over your cap.

It's normally $30/month, but if you rent their modem it is only $10/month more to add unlimited [1].

[1] https://www.xfinity.com/learn/internet-service/xfi-complete
+1 on data labeling platform: https://web.archive.org/web/20230403164757/https://feather.o...

It's been around and used since 2022. It's an site for SME to write code data:
https://www.semafor.com/article/01/27/2023/openai-has-hired-...
>> All of this was put in motion with a population much smaller than todays.

Your logic is circular. Because we can go all the way back to first few humans ever to exist and say they put it into motion, therefore a small group of couple of hundred of people is enough. Or go into other direction and dream what new wonders the next 40 years would bring with the rising population.

>> The ongoing work being planned doesn't require the population to grow, there is demand enough from a growing proportion wanting a greater standard of living and a world making a massive transition in base energy.

It doesn't have to grow, but we are not talking about growing we are talking about shrinking.
> Your python script is ephemeral and run on demand. You don't want to load the model each execution because it's slow, so you need a daemon. Ollama can serve that role without you having to write anything other than the script.

This is exactly my use case for it; I invoke a Python binary which uses the Ollama API and get a model response within seconds because it’s already resident in memory.
And I've some pretty bad ADHD myself and the fact that a slew of articles I found in my research here apply to me and not to you doesn't mean you speak for all ADHD'ers

https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=39506091

My point was that there are some people who are uniquely and arguably discriminatorily challenged by remote work which goes unacknowledged by most.
In tech there is a bias towards the newcomer's perspective due to being less encumbered by convention. I feel the perspective of the generalist or the polymath is even more valuable as their alternative perspectives and innovations are grounded in experience, not intuition.
I will explain my point of view, please comment on if you think my view is fair, or if I'm wrong.

My issue with powershell is that it isn't really a shell language, or rather, not a tty language. I do think it's way better than bash, but I do not want to use it like bash, I want to use it like AWK, but for my system. I want it to use it only in scripts, or with an exec in a command line at worst. I think bash have better built-in for ttys, and is faster/more reactive (that might be my windows config but I don't think so).

I want to navigate with bash, and script with powershell (which I do to be completely honest, but I'd like to do that in a windows terminal and not wsl).
It's interesting hearing such diametrically opposed experiences. I've been using Linux as my main desktop for over 20 years.

I find Windows to be an unholy confusing mess these days. Want to set the microphone sound level; go to sound settings - nope, not there. Probably in some other legacy control panel I guess.

By contrast, most things I need to configure in Linux are in a single place. File copying is much faster than Windows. Updates don't prevent me from working and require multiple reboots. It crashes less often.

Anyway, a lot is probably just what you're used to. I'm sure I excuse many Linux failings because it doesn't bother me and I know how to work around it.
That chart does abysmally little to support your claim, for a few reasons.

1) How many of those people in the green live on less than $5 a day? $1.90 per day is an absurd and arbitrary limit which feels cherry picked to make a Pinker-esque pleasing chart.

2) It hardly goes back in time. I'd like to know how happy hunter-gatherers were 20k years ago. Maybe I could go ask the North Sentinelese but I think building a time machine might be easier than getting a straight answer from them.
So what is a non-sciency person to take from the article's author? Hopefully, it's not "science cannot be trusted."

I've spent a lot of time on HN reading and learning -- mostly from those who comment. This has informed how I think about science. Not sure how other members of the public handle understanding the science of Covid, etc.

I think I know enough to understand that emergencies and disasters require things of us that everyday life doesn't. That doesn't get me to understanding science, but I now have some trusted resources I check with.
I fail to see how changing the output medium from sentences to movie frames is a difference that I need to account for - the principle is the same either way.

I feel you are missing an important part of my point here. I am not taking a position on whether LLMs can be said to understand anything at all; I am saying that I seriously doubt that LLMs understand that the language they receive refers to an external world.
Don't be shy, share the snippets
The AP source is the original; recommend updating submission to this since it properly links to some critical cites that the original submission omits for some reason, e.g.

> And in a March 2023 research paper, the economist Isabella Weber at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, referred to it as “seller’s inflation.”

...which links to this absolute must read paper[1].

[1] https://scholarworks.umass.edu/econ_workingpaper/343/
KeePassXC[1] password manager supports TOTP and I use it for that purpose in addition to storing passwords. It never made sense to me to use an app like Authy.

I suspect most people make the assumption that an Authenticator app is something special that needs to talk to the service that issued the QR code/secret string.

It's nothing more than a SHA1 hash of a secret string and an adjusted current time.

[1] <https://keepassxc.org>
Ehh debatable. Just two different philosophies. I do think objects > text.
"menaces including the largest war and the stupidest peace known to history"

Any context why 1918 peace would be considered 'stupid'?
Meta makes so much money and has so much influence, no one is really going to do much bout it.
You consider Perl's map and grep to be awkward?
>There is no such difference, we evaluate that based on their output. We see these massive model make silly errors that nobody who understands it would make, thus we say the model doesn't understand. We do that for humans as well.

Two things. We also see the model make things that are correct. In fact the mistakes are a minority in comparison to what it got correct. That is in itself an indicator of understanding to a degree.

The other thing is, if a human tried to reproduce that output according to the same prompt, the human would likely not generate something photorealistic and the thing a human comes up with will be flawed, ugly disproportionate wrong and an artistic travesty. Does this mean a human doesn't understand reality? No.

Because the human generates worse output visually than an LLM we cannot say the human doesn't understand reality.

Additionally the majority of the generated media is correct. Therefore it can be said that the LLM understands the majority of the task it was instructed to achieve.

Sora understands the shape of the dog. That is in itself remarkable. I'm sure with enough data sora can understand the world completely and to a far greater degree than us.

I would say it's uncharitable to say sora doesn't understand physics when it gets physics wrong, and that for the things it gets right it's only heuristics.
My point is, if the discounted cash flow from (new panels - loan repayment)is smaller than the discounted cash flow of keeping the old panels, over a sufficiently large future period, then it’s better to keep the old panels.
Yes, it did. Portion sizes are larger. Video games didn't exist in the form they do now. TV only happened at specific times, you couldn't binge episode after episode, or watch twitch/youtube for hours, or mess around on the internet. Manual labor work is less common. These are all changes that happened after the 70s.
This is the type of work ML should excel at.
The idea of $19 check coming to me in a class action lawsuit settlement eight years from now doesn't do much to make me trust that my data won't be leaked through either carelessness, intention, or obfuscation. (The latter being my term for the way our data is already "anonymously" traded among ad tech companies daily behind the scenes.)
> Why the focus on tying your agency to making money?

Because other fun hobbies of mine include food and shelter. ;)

Yeah, no, entrepreneurship isn’t necessarily my end goal in life, but I will say it’s been a passion of mine from a young age (even before I knew what “work” really was like). But sure, if I could find some other way to live my life, without a need (or at least a significantly lessened need) to make money to continue to pursue those kinds of passions, I’d take it. I just don’t know what you’re getting at, I guess.

Could I pursue something with more agency outside of work? Yes. But work is such a humongous drain on energy and time that it leaves little of either for doing anything outside of it.
“Estimating how many Americans know about Nate Silver is challenging without specific surveys or data. However, considering his prominence in political analysis, especially around election times, it's reasonable to speculate that a significant portion of those interested in politics or frequent news consumers might be familiar with him.“
Fuck right off
The only thing is that most users don't know at all, or don't care. If the system doesn't eventually force them to update, they just won't. That's alright in the first order if you just don't care that they will get hacked, but we know what happened in the XP times - the machines join a botnet and attack everyone else.

If you're work PC forces you to reboot "right now", that's a corporate policy or some shitty "endpoint protection" tool. Windows 10 / 11 always ask you when you want to apply the update.
I went through similar story arc. Writing on good paper with a good pen is just fun and very practical. Had to relearn cursive as an adult but I’m not looking back. Now I have my own system for notes and tracking things. I don’t miss the txt files.
> It isn't designed to know things. It doesn't know what exactly it knows, where it could check before answering. It generates an output, which isn't even the same thing every time.

If an entity can predict the correct answer to a question (with a sufficiently low margin of error), then it knows the answer.

However, if the prediction contains too much uncertainty, then the entity should not act like they know the answer.

The above is valid for humans and LLMs.

So we "just" need to model and train LLMs to take uncertainty into account when generating outputs. Easy, right? :)
Which is not twitter(X) and supports OPs complaint. Paywalls/login walls are everywhere, even if they're gating botspam garbage.
I thought that was the assumption
currently testing PS VR2 access games on PC
Use GPT-4 to write your Git commits
Not just the First. Second and Fourth too.
Lisp is not "dying". Lisp is constantly evolving and keeps influencing other languages, like Elixir, Julia and others. Even modern Javascript borrowed tons of features from Clojure - a language that many big and small companies succesfully use in production. There are constantly new experimental things happening in Lisp. People building their Hammerspoon, AwesomeWM and Neovim configs with Fennel. Researches keep publishing papers, experimenting in Racket. Even writing books about type theory, which may sound strange since most Lisps are dynamically typed.

You seem to be completely oblivious to the world of modern Lisp, we stopped capitalizing each letter around 1980s. No actual programmer who wrote at least a few Lisp functions would write it today as "LISP".

> It doesn't make sense to have an editor exclusively have it's own language

It may not make sense to you because you don't seem to see the benefits of Lisp. Some extensions for VSCode are written in Clojurescript. Even with obvious overhead, some people see the benefits of choosing that path. While it is possible to go the other route - writing Javascript or Python that emits Lisp, I don't know why anyone would do that. Nobody stopping anyone from writing a Javascript transpiler/compiler that emits Elisp code to configure Emacs. But why would you do that, if Elisp (admittedly not even being the greatest Lisp) is still much more powerful?

> Compare JavaScript vs Emacs Lisp on Google Trends.

What's your point? Javascript is a general-purpose language, it's used in browsers, cloud computing, embedded devices, Game Dev, IoT, Desktop Apps, etc. Elisp is not. Its sole purpose is to be used as a configuration language for one, specific piece of software, that (at least officially) only runs on desktop, and that's it. Yet despite all that, there's quite a lot of it. And people keep writing more. There are few new packages get announced every month or so on r/emacs. That's what I'm saying.
You can see the Krugman take for yourself:

https://archive.is/Vqw6x

There is no honest take that can conclude that he wasn't endorsing the creation of a bubble:

The basic point is that the recession of 2001 wasn't a typical postwar slump, brought on when an inflation-fighting Fed raises interest rates and easily ended by a snapback in housing and consumer spending when the Fed brings rates back down again. This was a prewar-style recession, a morning after brought on by irrational exuberance. To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble.

What Krugman endorsed is exactly what the Federal Reserve ended up doing:

The Federal Reserved lowered interest rates and created a housing bubble.

And what followed is a vast network of unionized academics and journalists engaging in historical revisionism to deny what actually happened, and falsely accuse the private sector of creating the systemic conditions that led to the bubble so as to further vilify the private sector that at every turn they look to exploit through government coercion.

>It depends... I don't see an issue with say teacher's unions, but police unions can be highly problematic and often work to protect police officers who deliberately broke the law from consequences.

That's the standard take of the coalition of unions. Justice is what they want to see undermined, since their grift depends on the normalization of injustice and the demoralization of private citizens, so they point out the harms of police unions so that police can be vilified more, but then they overlook the harm caused by all other types of unions.
Wide knowledge and learning takes time.
We're talking about a form of corrupt behavior.

Instead of giving you a ticket because you were exhibiting dangerous behavior per-se, instead it would be seen as an extra source of revenue for the county.

Towards the end of the month the police would issue more citations for ever more trivial transgressions, in order to meet the quota.

Obviously this had nothing to do with law or order.

In many places this is now discontinued or outright illegal.
One way is through self-play. You can pit two value functions against each other to determine which is better, thereby learning the value function.
Previously posted, but original title is concerned with new ps2 vr titles - burying the lede that PC support is coming to ps2 vr.
yeah, doesn't take a conspiracy, the idea of any transparency of ownership in some assets is extremely recent, its not a complete idea as it doesn't cover much, and its even more recent that ways of circumventing those disclosures were less numerous. the basis for all “net worth” listicles come from extrapolating mandated disclosures, and are rarely the complete picture for anyone

and trusts can own anything with no record of the trust’s existence, and no disclosure of who manages or is a beneficiary of the trust

and even when that exists from one point in time, a trustee or beneficiary can be hotswapped in the blink of an eye

they may have no tax footprint to cause reporting, and their mere existence isn’t enough for a subpoena to go through to service providers like banks, accountants, lawyers

so yeah the government knows nothing, the service providers don't know the full picture, lawyers and trust companies may only have an incomplete picture and even the beneficiaries likely have no idea, all the while their net worth is miscalculated by every pocket watcher in existence

additionally, people in most developed nations don’t have to go international for this or an equivalent concept. the “stigma” towards international/offshore ownership can also be viewed as the high tax nation being protectionist of its domestic less accountable industry

and finally, liquidity liquidity liquidity. what America has scaled up is a market environment where the most kinds of things can be turned into cash and other assets faster than anywhere and anytime in the history of markets. and this concept isnt done yet. many of these secret high net worth holders cant sell their properties to cash if they wanted to, but can in the future.
The only thing I beg of you is please don’t ship this in client-side libraries. Most of you will know better, but some of the things I see in third-party libraries really blow my mind. The last one was Pudgy the Panda as console ASCII art for some donation embed (their mascot). Sure, it’s cute, but that’s also multiple kilobytes of JS you’re forcing on your clients for whimsy in an already crowded environment. Apologies if I sound old and cranky.
Yeh, but part of the promise of Bluesky is 'your moderation regimes is picked by you and it's not linked to your host'. Except it is so now your moderation regime is determined by two entities, not one.
The author of the post is saying that understanding something can't be defined because we can't even know how the human brain works. It is a black box.

The author is saying at best you can only set benchmark comparisons. We just assume all humans have the capability of understanding without even really defining the meaning of understanding. And if a machine can mimic human behavior to it must also understand.

That is literally how far we can go from a logical standpoint. It's the furthest we can go in terms of classifying things as either capable of understanding or not capable or close.

What you're not seeing is the LLM is not only mimicking human output to a high degree. It can even produce output that is superior to what humans can produce.
We see clearly the flaws around us, but it’s non-obvious that {person} 400 years ago was flawed and lazy as well. Or sick with illness for 15 years, and we vaccinate those today.
Feel free to look through here: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21083819/facebook-dan...

Keyword is "armed militia". You can look a few of them up on Google to see what they get up to.

People yell at Meta when they don't moderate content and when they do moderate content, so I don't envy them.
Leadership is essentially setting a vision: it's setting a direction people want to follow. Management is about ensuring people are doing the right things.

A talented engineer can be an amazing leader, even if they have no management responsibilities.

A good manager can form a high functioning team and develop their staff, without setting the vision.

So I disagree they are the same things, even if the combination could be particularly powerful.
Wow. Thanks for posting these. Reminds me of 8080MPH / Area 5150.

I don't know enough about amiga chipset limitations to know which bits I should be impressed more by, but a doing this on a 68k @ 7mhz with 1MB RAM is impressive enough.
> You assume that population will stabilize

Correct. This is seen in all manner of real world dynamic systems with constraint pressures. "Stabilize" in this context includes "bounces up and down between a few too many and a few too little".

Now you're getting it.

> There are no known mechanisms for fertility to rebound.

Now you're being silly and all doom and gloom.

> Yet you assume with certainty that the trend will reverse.

Predict with high probability based on looking at lots of dynamic systems, yep.

> Great to be you.

This is hardly an esoteric or unusual viewpoint, perhaps you might look at cheering up and doing away with the OMG we have to breed w/out limit or die!!

Seems a tad black or white for the much richer more complex world we live in.
Again, you assume their goal is the continuation of the republic as it exists and to make that more likely. This is probably not the case, first of all these agencies are compartmentalized, different projects can and often do have competing goals, and second, their ultimate goal is the continuation of state power, as is the goal of every state, and if that goal conflicts with what Americans view as being in their interest, then any expected loyalty to their countrymen cannot be relied upon.
How would we objectively measure whether humanity existing is a net benefit or not?