skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't click unless you want youtube to know you clicked on a reason dot com video.

Can be notoriously difficult to get out of your history. I ended up reseting my youtube history after clicking on a j*** p**** video. It would never stop recommending them forever after.
I don’t see any changes to the core mission of OpenAI between its founding and now. Maybe some people misinterpret what a nonprofit vs for-profit company status means and confuse the former with other types of organizations like academia or charity. For example, no early founder or investor in a nonprofit can expect to make money simply out of their investment, and I haven’t seen evidence to the contrary for OpenAI. Any profits that a nonprofit makes, even those through ownership of the for-profit entity, must go back to the initial cause, and may include paying employees. Salaries in AI are high these days so if you want to stay on top you have to keep them higher than competition. In any case, I think this thread was not as productive as I hoped.
OpenAI's success has put a target on its back
Sounds like the EU needs to give Apple the Microsoft treatment and threaten to split it apart. Have the App store business be completely separate from everything else
If I understood the situation correctly, he times his day train to book a night train with a sleeping berth. Still, I agree. I would find this very uncomfortable after some time.

Hopefully he also has friends he can stay with in various cities.
Apple has nothing on their side aside from a few tweets criticizing them, that just won't cut it as an exemption to the DMA. It's not like Epic released malware or anything.

Remember that the whole goal of the DMA is that actors like Apple and Google can't decide to block competiton on a whim, the exact thing they are doing right now.
In iOS 17.4 Apple allows you to apply to create an alternative store. Apple can still deny your request and kill your alternative store, and this is exactly what happened.

Epic opened a developer account under their european subsidiary company, which applied for this, and Apple just banned that account, so Epic can't create a store. Perhaps if someone else (Google, Microsoft, Meta) made a store, Epic might be able to upload apps to that store, but because in the Apple world everything traces back to the developer accounts, I'm pretty sure that would be blocked by Apple as well.

As much as it might seem like Tim Sweeney was exaggerating about Apple's DMA "compliance" changes being hot garbage, a horror show, and malicious compliance -- he really wasn't. Apple are in full on villain mode here.

The part that doesn't make sense, is why Apple are choosing to be such dicks about everything, when the EU is already breathing down their necks. They're inviting more and harsher regulation upon themselves and making the rest of the world hate them in the process.
The summaries/action items you get with Circleback are better in terms of accuracy and detail than with Zoom AI. Running the two in parallel for a meeting and comparing the outcomes is a great way to test this and how most customers end up switching.
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Which they are preventing Epic from creating because it requires an Apple developer account.
Maybe they should make cars.
I found articles about this experiment, but it doesn't appear that an actual study was performed or formal paper published about it. Although that person was (perhaps still is) a professor in nutrition, this Twinkie story remains an anecdote. Anecdotes are worth something, but what that means is we're missing a bunch of variables, especially what he was eating prior to the experiment and whether eating nothing but Twinkies and other snack foods also lead to muscle loss. It's also totally unclear, from what I'm reading, how much exercise he was performing and what is TDEE was prior to and after the weight loss. A month is not a lot of time to understand the long term sustainability of a diet like that.

If a person finds that a Twinkie diet works to help them cut fat in a short period of time, there's really not much to object to. Asserting that it's OK to just eat food that is classically categorized as "junk" as long as you don't eat too many calories is fallacious and ignores the poisonous nature of the things we eat.

> But you're right, a calorie definitely is a calorie - even in a diet.

It's not that calories aren't what they are, or that they don't have some use. The core objection is that they aren't an appropriate measure for human health. At best, they are a very imperfect proxy for mass measurement. If you want to lose weight, don't eat more anhydrous mass than you eliminate. When you measure calories to the exclusion of nutrient composition, not only is one ignoring a mode of optimization (that could lead to longer term successful outcomes), but they are relying on very inaccurate tools. Calorie counts on packaging are allowed to be as inaccurate as 20%, and the tools people use to count their "calories" really aren't accurate enough for that purpose (researchers still use respiratory gas analysis for that reason).

Obviously, someone can maintain or lose weight by counting "calories." That does not mean what they are doing is optimal or sustainable in the long term, or that anyone is a fool for taking the exact opposite approach. The many people out there who do not count calories, eat as much as they want of a specific diet, incidentally eat more in "calories", and still lose weight throw a wrench into the whole "it's just calories in, calories out" hypothesis.
There are people who connect insulin pumps to their CGM. There will be situations where people can't quickly switch to manual BG management after setting up an automated solution.
I used to have this problem as well, so I talked it over at my endo office. They suggested that I order some specially shaped stickers to keep them on, but instead I just bought some Kinesiology Tape (hansaplast, but also exists store-brand). 10cm of that works perfectly, even for heavy contact sports combined with sweating (and many showers).
They are free to return their phone and buy one that meets their needs.
as with marvin, you can just swap the base url and use any of the oss proxy libs that clone the openai api (but since they don't do function calling [except for mistral i think], its not as good afaik)
Sounds like Apple should exit the European market then. No one is forcing them to do business there, and it only accounts for 10% of their revenue.
The success is in convincing the investors to give money.

The subsequent execution might or might be another success.
I just finished the last episode of The Talk Show podcast, where John Gruber says that Apple doesn’t hold a grudge and is only doing things because they make business sense. He said that because Apple approved Epic’s account and that they would be allowed their own App Store. I already that it was a bad take, but this shows it.
I find it frustrating when people think something can't be a trust just because one can imagine hoops a consumer could jump through to find an alternative. Switching from iPhone to Android is onerous, and most users are locked into multi-year payments contracts for the device they have.

A healthy competitive environment should have 10+ options. The fact that two massive corporations have the entire space locked up is not sufficiently competitive nor healthy for consumers.
Privacy aside, there's no way this can be done securely.

According to https://worldcoin.org/be-a-worldcoin-operator they'll gladly ship the iris scanning unit to untrusted 3rd party operators, in a similar vein to a bank shipping out PoS card terminals.

I'd love to have a play with one, it wouldn't surprise me if you could get it to mint fresh accounts out of thin air (e.g. by mitming the bus between the iris scanner and the rest of the unit, and making it report fresh unique scans)
Multimodal GenAI Apps with OctoAI and Docker
This looks interesting. I want to try this out coming weekend.
here's an awesome post on the landscape
https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/prompt/
That’s very much a Pyrrhic victory if Eoic doesn’t have access to the US market. The court ruling in the US said that Apple has the right to terminate their account.

From the linked article

> This judgment stated that “Apple has the contractual right to terminate its DPLA with any or all of Epic Games’ wholly owned subsidiaries, affiliates, and/or other entities under Epic Games’ control at any time and at Apple’s sole discretion.”
One of the core components of exercise in losing fat isn't even increasing caloric burn.

Exercise is the best anti-depressive "drug", it's better than any anti-depressant SSRI drug.

And there's about a dozen other bonuses to getting fit. Getting people out of the house, crapping better, sleeping better, mental acuity, life extension, better quality of life for your lifespan, reduction in cancer, reduction in injury from day to day mishaps, etc.
Not "free speech" as part of the US Bill of Rights, free speech as in "the EU ethics would never have such language in the DMA to forbid it or allow such a violation to stand."
> Several people on the team confronted the CEO, but he denied that there was an acquisition brewing.

If there actually was an acquisition brewing at that time, and it's true that the CEO denied to employees that there was, that's one way to spoil any existing culture of honesty and goodwill.
Completely right about knowing v doing but even the knowing gets skewed. The real problem that too much sucrose and fructose (whether added to not) is insulin overproduction.

I get annoyed when some people talk about an apple is better than a cookie because an apple has "natural" sugar as if sugar cane is synthetic. I will return to this example.

Humans only metabolize carbohydrates, protein, fat, and alcohol. In general all carbs breakdown to glucose. Complex carbs take longer to do this, so the metabolizing of it actually burns more calories, but there's also other biochemical and endocrine factors that vary by age, health, activity level, etc.

It's still true that complex carbs, usually having more micro nutrients and being slower to metabolize are better for us. Nonetheless, they all become glucose at some point (except nonsoluble fiber).

To return to the apple cookie example, though. If the cookie is made with oats, butter, and nuts, it may actually be much slower than the apple in provoking an insulin response. And if one eats the equivalent calories, the cookie provides oil and protein.

The author seems to think the gylcemic index is something inherent in a food rather than a measure of a metabolic process.

Toast with butter and brown sugar and cinnamon produces is better than just toast.

Even people who "know" don't seem to know it's not the sugar. It's the insulin.
But it does seem to be true in this case.
They think they're above the law by poking the EU, but eventually that slow bear will respond and probably not in a nice way...
They really want to push for the next $1.8 billion fine
Appwrite
a) It is fair and non-discriminatory. Epic was found by the courts to have violated the terms of the agreement that they signed and Apple had the right to terminate it. They have done this with other developers as well.

b) Epic is not their main competitor in anything.
The Institute For Propaganda Analysis (1937-1942) is an interesting and unmentioned case - their agenda was to examine all propaganda efforts (including advertising) and expose its internal mechanisms, which they classified into about seven categories IIRC. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Propaganda_Analy...

Closing statement (1942): "The publication of dispassionate analyses of all kinds of propaganda, 'good' and 'bad', is easily misunderstood during a war emergency, and more important, the analyses could be misused for undesirable purposes by persons opposing the government’s effort."
"software is a force multiplier" well maybe that's the point. I am a superstitious b*tch but maybe the Universe doesn't want our force to be multiplied any more!!!!
According to the article, they have the official court ruling…
A bunch of rich people who are all full of shit pissing on each other. Nothing to see here, keep scrolling.
This is a good book, probably still relevant but not up to date. See Advanced C and C++ Compiling [0] for a more modern treatment, including using tools like objdump, nm, and readelf to explore compilation artifacts.

[0] https://a.co/d/gckw03M
A shame that is what constitutes "success" in the business world today.
> I wouldn't personally bother with an AMS until down the line when you're sure you need it.

If the parent comment plans to print a lot of large parts, AMS will be useful. You can load multiple spools of the same filament, and a Bambu printer will switch spools when it runs out and continue printing without any intervention needed...
This is egregious and deeply disturbing behavior from Apple. At this point it feels wrong to own an iPhone. I'm at a loss for words describing what Tim and their leadership team has done to this company that I used to admire so much.
> The trigger was that Epic criticized Apple

Epic has been criticising Apple almost every single day.
Ask HN: How do you use userscripts?
I'd like to see use cases for userscripts, anything interesting or helpful.
I see them as better at customising the web experience compared to browser extensions.
The sentiment I was responding to was that Swift is only good for making Apple UIs, which is patently false.

Again, newer languages having less of an ecosystem than older languages is not news or somehow unique to Apple (or Microsoft by that matter). The existence of more mature languages than whichever one you're considering is not news - if it was, then nobody would start any project in anything other than like three languages. And as I mentioned there is a gigantic ecosystem that Swift and several others have access to by design, which for some reason people refuse to acknowledge whenever they shut down newer languages with "but no ecosystem".

> Microsoft is discovering how hard it is to take .NET outside Windows

Ten years ago you would have had a point. However it's 2024 and .NET is solid, stable, and widely deployed on Linux et al - and that's without taking projects like Unity into account. That's far from only working well in a vacuum.
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What does it look like when developing?
So what is this actually putting into the prompt to guide generation? I dislike libraries that come with a lot of pointless abstraction.

I'm about to write something that generates typescript code from pydantic models. If this just works out of box, it would make me very happy.

I'll take a look through the repo tomorrow, sorry if my response is a little lazy, I just got off work.
If an org can't organise its workflow (name things) and adopt external organisation (magic bullet frameworks), the org will always have poor organisation in the long term.
Right, but isn't that part of the general trend of bandwidth becoming far cheaper in the last decade along with dynamic HTML becoming a smaller fraction of total transit?

A 95%+ reduction in bandwidth usage for dynamic server-side-rendered HTML is much less important in 2023 than 2013.
This is nonsense, plain and simple.

I'm like the author of this article. Just built my very first printer - a Voron Trident. I ordered my kit (Magic Phoenix, which I'd highly recommend) with a full set of printed parts. Between that, the high quality Voron documentation, and the incredibly helpful Voron Discord, I now have an amazing machine putting out high quality prints beyond my expectations. It has been a fantastic learning experience and I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
https://cpj.org/2024/03/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-... is a good independent source to get started

(see also https://cpj.org/2024/03/attacks-arrests-threats-censorship-t...)
I found the "finger guns" team and their plan fascinating, and I've definitely seen enthusiasm sweep the field many times.

I work on an infrastructure / foundational engineering team, and it reminds of something I'm increasingly believing to be true:

It's much harder to get headcount/funding for a two-year plan to build/fix an internal tool than to get headcount/funding for a six-month plan to use an external product that ends up taking 3-4 years.

In this situation, I'd say it's much harder to get headcount/funding for a five-year plan to perform a well-engineered migration than it is to get approval for a two-year whizz-bang plan to create an amazing replacement that will actually take 3-6 years and/or actually leave 80% of the legacy code migration unfinished basically forever, leading to pure xkcd 927.
Is the F# POC open source? Link?
I'd agree that it would be a good thing. That's probably why it passed a statewide vote in 2008. What has actually come out as a result would have a very difficult time passing again today. The state's mismanagement of this has torched the trust.
Let's go with both and even more on top? The exec positions attract the personality type.
They didn't go with Kyun, they went with Pivex, and they gave 2 other providers the same A+ rating.

It seems pretty evenhanded and not like an ad to me.
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MacGyver: Are Large Language Models Creative Problem Solvers?
I’m 40. The average IC SWE age in my department, if not company (not FAANG, but same tier) is around 30-32. There’s a handful of older ICs in their mid and upper 40s in the department, but us fourtysomethings are in the stark minority.

I started my career with a total compensation of around 60k. It took me many years from start to break the 100k mark. Even many, many, more years to break into a FAANG level company (and the associated massive TC increase).

Meanwhile I see the interns at this company getting starting offers that exceed my comp at my previous company (senior SWE at an investment bank).

If I was making that much money at 24…yeah, I think I could be retired by now at 40. Assuming I’d maintain a position at this or a similar level company of course.

Then again, 24 year old me might have taken my starting bonus and sauntered into a Porsche dealership and asked for a 911…
Just 1 ice pole puts us in an "Ice House", no longer "Ice Age".
I would recommend anyone to experiment with this. I did, and found out I was more glucose sensitive than I expected. This led me to get more broad labs done, with which I was able to find additional treatable issues that are likely the cause. If I hadn't done this, I would have found out via symptoms years later, after irreversible damage had already been done.

You are your only medical advocate, no one else is going to do it for you. The standard of care is shit, don't rely on it.
Alert on Symptoms, Not Causes
Last I heard, Microsoft is doing great and still in one piece.
dude, you are sharing way too much about us publicly. the status of restli -> grpc and talking about DMA? seriously?

you realize stylometry exists, right? even the phrase 'fan fair' is a strong signal.
Pydantic can serialize both instances and classes/types to json and json schema. That seems quite helpful for this use case. How are you handling serialization to/from the llm? Role-your-own or are there additional libraries for doing this with dataclasses?
If there is no agreed time then you don't know when the signals were sent and cannot make any sense out of the signal. They all have to send either in unison or according to a predetermined schedule. The synced clocks set that schedule.
Nifty stuff - though I wonder who these features are for? Since swift is primarily for iOS where you can basically run everything but network requests on the main thread, what’s the point of having these advanced, complex compiler checks for thread safety?

Would love to see more Swift adoption outside Apple ecosystem because it’s truly the best language I’ve worked with; but the busted state of tooling and environment (Xcode, janky at best VSCode support) will need to be improved before it can ever escape iOS/macOS only orbit.
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yeah this seems to be pretty much the same interface as `fn` from marvin, except w/o pydantic (see https://github.com/PrefectHQ/marvin?tab=readme-ov-file#-buil...)
Some further thoughts:

* There is a crucial assumption in the 5 proofs that I think is worth thinking about. Given that something exists (I, the world, causes, parts, etc), it follows that there must be a First Cause/God. Also given ex nihilo nihil fit, it follows that the First Cause has to be eternal. The debate then is about the rest of the qualities, which I'm distinguishing as impersonal vs personal. However, note that this reasoning relies on the apriori fact that the world exists, from which we (and the proofs) intuit the presence of a First Cause. This still does not answer the big question: why is there anything at all? [0] There could have been no world and even no First Cause. We can imagine that there would exist only logical possibilities but no ontological "existence". There would be just be Nothing. Yes, the First Cause is eternal. But why? How did the First Cause arise in the first place? I think it's a valid question but it's unclear what the answer could be. One possibility is that logical existence is all there is. [1] But in any case, the eternalism of the First Cause, as in the proofs, is contingent on cogito, ergo sum and is not a necessity beyond that. I find it an interesting realization.

* I am curious what you exactly mean by "the whole determines the parts, not vice-versa". One reading of it clashes wildly with all of our scientific investigations. From being a civilization which attribute everything to Gods and angels--making the sun go around the sky and natural calamities and good luck and bad luck---we've managed to figure out that we don't need such an attribution. Simple rules can generate a lot of complexity. Thus emergence and not God is what makes the world go. But the above statement seems to bring those ancients ideas back somehow. What am I missing?

Also, I think even granting PPC and that the whole determines the parts still does not prove will. God can still be bound by some underlying rules. I don't know if logic alone can lead us to God's free will, until we have some empirical proof such as God actually willing unicorns into existence instead of lions. Even for humans, just saying I have will ("I can will myself to fly but don't want to") doesn't really count until I show it.

* I'd like to hear your thoughts on my earlier question. If Christianity were to be shown as "false" as the other religions, and thus no human religion can demonstrate divine providence, how much will your belief in a personal God remain? Just from the proofs, do you think you will still strongly take a loving caring God who actively created and sustains this universe to be true?

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts when you have the time.

[0] https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2018/08/13/epis...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothes...
You are in many respects a customer of the browser vendors.

They can choose at any point to harm your business e.g. Apple restricting first party cookies.
Tim Sweeney could lead by example and remove Unreal royalty fees and make his app store free for all. There's no freedom fighter here. Just another greedy troll.
Not yet, it's a bit rough. The LLM I am using requires a bit of extra fine-tuning to be really smooth, I need to rent a bigger GPU. Besides, I am working on some novel integration between transformers and SAT/SMT that will take me some time to finish.
Apple themselves said that the trigger was Epic criticizing them.