skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we use GPT-4-turbo across the board, 3.5 doesn't handle multi-step reasoning nearly well enough to be useful here.

We'll have to figure out how to extract codebase conventions efficiently and inject them into the coding prompts. Using up all 128k tokens has given us worse results (common theme), but hopefully with newer 1m context window models this concern away
Exiting, now i would really like to see a Letsplay of no mans sky played by the ai. Would also be neat if it could reveal at the same time what goals and stategies it is trying to follow.
I've heard you have to have some sort of registered person do or sign of your tax returns or something ridiculous like this. Something about an entire industry of tax return specialists or something that exist purely for taxes to be done correctly. Of course the US is massive so it might be some random state maybe or something.

Honestly I see America like a collection of large countries as groups of states almost. They are so different in so many ways.
Nvidia research and development expenses worldwide from fiscal year 2017 to 2024
that wasn't the question, but thanks
Crack as in roll down a bit :D I edited my comment after realizing the potential confusion.
Only if you're creating a foundation model. The equivalent would be competing with a well-funded Amazon, back in 1999. You can compete in building LLM-powered products with much, much less money - less than a regular web app in 99
Nobody? There are countries other than the USA. I've never heard of signing away rights in respect of blood as a condition of getting a licence. Is this a real thing in the USA?
I’ll be honest. I really liked the BlueSky idea and was an early adopter. But I deleted the app last week when you announced your Trust & Safety team, or at least hired a new leader for it.

In my mind (and many other people), “Trust and Safety” is a synonym for censorship.

We live in a time where censorship is becoming a huge risk to freedom. A free society needs to be able to debate, and anyone or anything that decides that it has the wisdom to set limits about what people can discuss, is a threat to freedom.

I had hope that BlueSky was choosing a different path but now I guess not.
> Nothing is being censored. If ByteDance refuses to sell, TikTok will be removed from App Stores

What if Google says no?
The functional style is nice and all, but once you’ve reaped the low hanging fruits some problems are very hard or cumbersome to tackle in a stateless fashion.

I think this is bad advice, the lead to multiple dead ends. Especially in the fields I know, video games and embedded software, state and mutation are everywhere.

Embrace the state, parallelise your code instead of making it concurrent. Easier, almost always faster and more robust.
I think the state of the art is still bottlenecked on visual perception performance, even if there is sufficient data, and irregardless of any further questions about conceptual awareness.

If we could model visual streams accurately, fast, and at low compute cost, I think self-driving cars and autonomous mobile robots would be much more widely available.
Americans have more than one value at a time. Americans also claim to value fairness, and they conduct trade with all kinds of people. If some of those people fail to conduct trade fairly, Americans do not need to oblige those failures.
Various attempts at feeding their output back in to check itself have shown marked improvements in accuracy.
Right, I guess it doesn't show the total speed until the end, which is probably too late. Although 15MB/s is not very fast these days either.

Elsewhere I recommended the Thunderbolt4 cable—it screamed at ~10GBs and didn't need any optimization like tar/compression.
Honestly, I think this discussion won't go anywhere because you've taken this personally due to the time you've spent on getting your MBA.

MBA also can't really be compared to Nursing, or really most other degrees. Nursing is a real thing, that can have completely quantified measurement on success.

MBA is...not. In some capacity MBAs are a self-fulfilling role, where the existence of the degree and the artificial rarity associated with the "big schools" around it, create a necessity for more MBAs in the future.

The impact of MBAs can't really be quantified either. First, we don't know what firms are working with what employers sometimes until decades later due to the various NDAs and secrecy around them. Sometimes going as far as the firms taking on obvious conflict of interests, but being able to keep them hidden (e.g. taking on the FDA, and addictive drug manufacturers at the same time.) Second, due to how these firms operate, and the impact of short term vs long term thinking - the negative results of MBAified management strategies do not come across for years. And when the negative results do happen, the blame is either pointed at ${politicians}, ${immigrants}, or ${economy}. When was the last time a firm took responsibility for destroying a company? Even if you think MBAs don't actually destroy companies all the time, by just nature of it being an intervention it's bound to happen at least __once__ right? When has a firm taken responsibility for this happening?

And this is again, one of the differences MBAs have with nursing. Nurses do absolutely from time to time make the situation worse for patients. But responsibility is given and understood.
I don't use Pro version and never had a need for.

Notes is clumsy – I never can find what I want there. With folders, pinned notes, named notes, synced/unsynced etc, it's just a mess.

Drafts is just a super-reliable and fast editor that is better than any other textbox/editor. So I mostly use it for copy pasting. Even use it for HN comments that are longer than 10 lines.
And different content, which is what matters.
I don't know the dots you're trying to connect here, but there's little monetary support from Congress for Israel nowadays. Although, in my opinion, that's more to do with partisan politics than anything.
Incremental Insertion into Prolly Trees
Or, uhm, how to play it at all. Maybe I'm just really bad at this game, but I always end up dying to lack of oxygen within the first hour.
The New York Times was used by a nation state to convince a meaningful portion of American voters that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The resulting war cost the US taxpayers trillions of dollars and thousands of lives, not to mention the cost to Iraqi civilians.

Seems like that's a far more meaningful impact than whatever is happening on TikTok.
What about non-devs? Not long ago I helped a non-technical friend make a website, a static one using Vuepress and Markdown files. One of the first things I did was pick a Markdown editor for her. I settled on Macdown but it's not fully visual. A fully visual one would have been much nicer for her.

But for some content I had to use escape hatches and use raw HTML. I wonder whether this app supports raw HTML.
How is it UB? The behaviour seems reasonably defined to me in my Rust, my Java, my C#. The people delivering popular implementations of the C++ standard library seemed to feel that not having UB here was a significant Quality of Implementation issue too. The ISO document on the other hand insists it's UB.
> We can make similar arguments

Hey remember when Apple, Google & Amazon all colluded to ban Parler off the face of the planet within days, a purely political move, based on some shaky allegations of moderation?

Meanwhile TikTok is labelled as a "must have" app in the AppStore....
If it's just bandwidth reduction you're after, Atari pixels?

Even for real world use — I found I could get a lot out of an even smaller resolution for an unrelated (non-AI) real-world task.
> I was structuring my source better; I was applying recurring visual patterns

This doesn't actually seem optimal. You lost a source of information so you are changing your coding style to compensate. The other changes mentioned seem positive in isolation, but this one just seems to be compensating.
The Future of Identification: Mobile IDs vs. Traditional IDs
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How GitHub can stop 90% of its spam in real time
I think openai/anthropic/etc are banking on foundation models being the equivalent of the "datacenters" or AWS-equivalents of AI - there'll be PaaSes (eg replicate), and most businesses will just pay the "rent"
Should you use Ruby on Rails in 2024?
> you could drive into the Hudson

Why thank you, but I’ll just keep taking the Hoboken–33rd subway
Twitter's Load Bearing Mac-Mini
Thanks, I guess it would be the following extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/adsum-notabs/

For the custom chrome, I'm using in userChrome.css:

#TabsToolbar { visibility: collapse !important; }
Why would you want to live in a country that bans apps like dictatorships do? I'd rather live in a free country.
I will prefer to stick with syntax highlighting, thank you. It's to most people's taste, but not everyone's, probably worth trying it both ways to see which category you actually belong to.

I do wish an editor (heh) had added Gary Bernhardt's ideas[†] about multiple sorts of syntax highlighting for different purposes. Specifically, highlighting only variables as to the scope they belong to, another nice one could be highlighting pure and effectful function calls differently. Or highlighting the names of modules/packages/whateverthelanguageuses in distinct colors at the top of the file, then using the same color for every name which came from that package, underlining imports which aren't being used.

I would cycle through such a collection rather frequently, I suspect.

[†]: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world
Also in Scotland - I'm quite happy with the current arrangement - it means mornings aren't too bad in winter (going to and returning from work in the dark would be miserable) and it means we get glorious light evenings in summer.
Privacy is not an engaging issue. It isn't controversial to most people.

The problem is that our first-past-the-post voting system naturally prioritizes engagement over everything else. That's why our elections are always about controversy, and never about progress.
I drove a newer Subaru for a couple days and it had a "feature" like this with a camera pointed at the driver that would beep if it thought you weren't paying enough attention. Just like the pest control truck it was innacurate to the point of being totally useless and very annoying. The stupidest part was that it couldn't be disabled. I was a happy Subaru owner for many years but the driver camera and a few other modern owner-hostile features totally turned me off to the company.
Behind the firewall.
Yeah a static site should cost 20-30$/year at most even with quite a bit of data. Probably some cloud mess indeed. Yeah yeah ‘but the site is always up on my cloud’ aha… aha…
Pi 5 overclocking: Silicon Lottery
I don't remember, but the macOS apps distributed without the Appstore also require all the Apple dev dance of signing, notarization and paid developer account and all...
Gangs also offer to "defend" local businesses from other gangs.
Exactly. I went into a Vons last night after going to Aldi and was just laughing at how expensive it’s gotten there. It’s not even inflation, it’s straight price gouging.
Sure, I've bought more than my share of movies, games, books, TV series, but at this point I've kind of drawn a line in the sand of "I will only buy physical media" or "I will only buy it if I can get a DRM-free copy" (e.g. GOG.com). I don't like the idea of my media disappearing the second it becomes inconvenient for the entertainment company.

Sadly, it feels like Blu-rays are becoming a rare thing, particularly in the US. I wanted to buy legit copies of Infinity Train and Close Enough before they were taken off HBO Max, but as far as I'm aware there's no legitimate way to purchase Close Enough. At least Infinity Train can be bought off Amazon streaming still I guess.

It feels like these companies want it both ways. They want total control of the media landscape, while simultaneously taking away the media that we actually like, presumably for tax writeoffs.
I think the better deployment of this would be 1 human and 4 AI buddies so you could have a more tactical experience and games could have larger more realistic battles.

I think strategy might be more important in the future than switchy aiming
Freedom of expression. Our government is banning a major platform that Americans use to access information.

Are we doing this because they banned Facebook? Again, I don't think so.
British Library releases ransomware incident report
Good connection to BoldContacts.org :-) Screen readers handle these well. If someone wants to create a font with big bold separators, that would be awesome.
Both points resonate with me, but I'd push back againt the idea that colored syntax highlighting is neccessary for either. I'm thinking of the Pygments 'bw' theme[1], which denotes strings in italics, and nano-emacs[2], which also manages to do.. a lot with a little (at least aesthetically, ie. idk about code volume or corner cases).

1: https://pygments.org/styles/

2: https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs
Syntax highlighting is nice, but it’s gone way overboard with 31 different categories. I’m not as minimalist as the OP, but I leave on just enough to tell if my strings are delimited, notice if variables are misspelled, and make sure I don’t miss a comment. I don’t need the editor to tell me that “if” is a keyword by lighting it up! If I have a philosophy, it’s to put the language in the background and the significance in the foreground.
* of mobile apps with subscriptions
I don't think we should abolish time zones, but he isn't making good points.

His points are based on conventions that exist because we use local time zones and he uses a lot of English centric bias in his argument.

His first point of am/pm is already a bad start considering a 24h clock is simply advantageous and used throughout most of the world.

Finding out if he can call his uncle would be as easy as looking up daylight times instead of time offsets/local times. And even then the cultural conventions of your country might not map to his and it was still inappropriate to call.

The problem with business hours and overlapping days is entirely made up, because he wants to stick to previous conventions that worked well with local time. If a night club opens Saturday from 19:00 to 05:00 it's perfectly clear that means it's open till Sunday 05:00. It would work similarly for business hours. The regular business hours also differ vastly in different cultures and jobs! The day name is of course UTC based and wraps at 00:00UTC.

I play an international online game that wraps days at 00:00UTC and we communicate in UTC. If I say Wednesday 14:00 UTC it's perfectly clear what that means and you get used to that very quickly. If we would change the system the next generation would grow up with that system and it would be natural. And I find it much easier to remember that my Korean friends are available from 23:00 UTC till 16:00 UTC than to remember what time it is there right now compared to here, because that requires mental math or a lookup.
> People can not be reduced to lookup tables even in theory.

Yes they can, this is a direct corollary of the Bekenstein Bound.
Everybody's experience is different.

I've had one or two upgrade problems in the last 10 years, but otherwise the Nvidia drivers have worked great for me. My biggest complaint is they dropped support for the GPU in my Macbook, and I had to install the nouveau drivers (which I can never spell correctly).
Many GM models used to have a bridge/jumper between the network daughter board and the rest of the car. Pretty easy and didn't affect anything else (sometimes the fuse for OnStar also covered your Bluetooth or voice commands).
I live in the American West. Frequently these places open in very small towns, think sub-1000 people and 25 miles from anything else.

Such towns only have the population to support one grocery store, usually a locally-owned store that's been there for a very long time. Then a dollar store moves in, takes advantage of the size of the parent company to take a loss for a few months/year until the local store is driven out of business, and then is able to sit on a monopoly for food for that town.

Such stores destroy communities. The only people benefiting in the above scenario are the dollar store's shareholders.
Dang they use Transformer-XL from 2019 haha - didn't realize people still used that / XLNet-like architectures
I did this at work - all cloud servers are at UTC at all time!
(The fact that we have offices in multiple timezones helped to motivate it).
This worked out pretty great IMHO, although I sometimes still have to convert the local timestamps for interaction of systems like Slack.
> When people argued the bans were against constitutional freedoms, the counter-arguments were always some flavor of "it's more important to prevent the moral degeneration of the country"

When the facts change our opinions should, too. I used to be a free-trade absolutist. It’s become clear that doesn’t work.

I remain a strong free-speech advocate. Which is why I was against Trump’s proposed TikTok ban. This, however, is different. There is an out in divestment—to an American or non-American. And even if ByteDance refuses to sell, TikTok.com won’t be blocked. Moreover, the entire process is subject to judicial oversight. If ByteDance’s Constitutional rights are being abrogated, they have a forum in which to find relief.

Turkey’s tale is cautionary. We should be mindful when we find we were previously wrong. But I think this is different. Free trade (in its absolute sense) isn’t a core American value. Free speech is. The First Amendment protects ByteDance’s speech. It does not guarantee its distribution.
The cars are not capable of measuring how dangerous the driving is.
I think you totally missed the argument: it's not about copying anything China does, it's about reciprocating restrictions that they place on your country. If China places a tariff on US imported goods, then the US places a tariff on Chinese goods.

This is and has been the case even for non-adversary countries, and is bread-and-butter foreign policy
Don't you already fight AIs when playing in single-player mode?
The worst thing about this is that all of their conclusions about what data constitutes "bad driving" or "risky driving" is dead wrong.

The signs they consider to be "bad driving" are high-g braking and turning.

Yet these are EXACTLY the same signs created by highly-skilled driver or racer operating at the limit, as they would to avoid an accident (thus costing the insurer $0), where the same situation would catch 90% of the low-g drivers into a wreck that totals the vehicle and causes injuries. A core element of high-performance driving for accident avoidance and racing is to understand the limits of tyre traction, and how to operate the car up to those limits — but not over them — i.e., just under the limit of sliding (sliding friction is always less than static or rolling friction), and to choose lines that maximize available traction.

Distinguishing the signs to tell a high-skilled driver from a bad driver requires more than just "is that number high?". You must look at the circumstances, the frequency, the conditions, the rate of increase and decrease of pressure, the slip angle, the grip state of all 4 tires, and more. But of course, no one bothers to do this.

It is the same kind of institutional stupidity that causes a world-class weightlifter with 4% body fat to be classed as "obese" because s/he scores high on the stupidly simplistic BMI scale(a ratio of weight to height).

Except with BMI insurance companies are not allowed to re-rate people and doctors can instantly adjust treatment when they see the person is obviously not obese but highly trained.

With auto insurance, they can secretly re-rate us on bogus numbers that actually down-rate the highly skilled.

Seems more attractive with every passing year to rebuild older nice cars than get into the new rolling spyware contraptions.
> He says he believes in diversity but contradicts himself a few sentences previous. I find this typical with a lot of people who claim to believe in diversity: they don’t actually believe in true diversity, they believe in people agreeing with their pre-existing beliefs. And if someone doesn’t agree, there’s no hope for them at least according to the author. That’s not someone who believes in diversity.

Yeah, I got weirded out by the person saying the creator covenant is something good.

Diversity of thought is what should be striven for (to a certain extent) rather than the much more common case of striving for diversity of superficial attributes.

Over the rest of the article though, the writer is actually talking about the former case.
That delay will be eliminated very soon. IMO low latency natural voice conversations are going to be bigger than ChatGPT. It's going to blow people's minds when they can converse with these AIs casually just like with their real life friends. It won't be anything like Siri or Alexa anymore.

Here's a demo from a startup in this space. Still very early. https://deck.sindarin.tech/
Due to rock climbing, I spend a lot of time in poor rural areas (most recently, rural Tennessee).

Dollar General has a few things going for them in these areas:

1. They seem to have very low staffing costs. Most stores seem to have at most 2 workers on staff at a given time (obviously this is higher in busier areas).

2. They seem to have no compunction about putting stores in pretty remote locations (example: [1]). This is probably enabled by having low staffing costs--a store doesn't have to make huge revenue if its costs are low.

3. They seem to have a very standard formula for new stores, which allows them to build them quickly. I've seen a flat lot with trees starting to grow in it, go to an open Dollar General in approximately 9 days. I can't imagine what sort of feats of organizational engineering allows that, but it has to be an advantage because it allows them to pivot into an area quickly. And I would imagine the non-descript buildings are fairly easy to sell, allowing them to pivot out of areas quickly as well.

4. Their competition in remote areas is usually gas stations. While DG isn't cheap compared to Walmart or Aldi, they're often about 2/3 the price of gas stations for a lot of items.

[1] https://maps.app.goo.gl/3gwxaiNRtgqKiKJ28
TikTok has been the only popular social media network in the US not censoring Israeli crimes on Palestinians.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/21/meta-face...

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/2/28/twitter-under-f...

https://www.vox.com/culture/23997305/tiktok-palestine-israel...

There is a reason this is one of the things that's passing with bipartisan support. Both parties are excusing, and are on the side of Israel and they know that public opinion turning against Israel will cause them future problems.

Reality is, the sudden push for a TikTok ban after it was stalled for more than a year is Palestine.
John Oliver may be relevant to your interests: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wqn3gR1WTcA&t=21m40s

>> "I am sorry to disappoint you; we are not going to do that."

>> "Why would we? When we have already done it."