skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One part of our pipeline reads some block of text and asks GPT to classify it as relating to one of the 50 US states, or the Federal government.

Using a multi-billion tokens like GPT-4 for such a trivial classification task[1] is an insane overkill. And in an era where ChatGPT exists, and can in fact give you what you need to build a simpler classifier for the task, it shows how narrow minded most people are when AI is involved.

[1] to clarify, it's either trivial or impossible to do reliably depending on how fucked-up your input is
Thank. You.
> Historians of the future will probably split Athenian history into classical, Roman, and touristic eras.

Well, yes, but that's because Athens was abandoned in the post-classical period and had to be refounded. This was a huge blow to the archaeology of the future, but it had good nationalist symbolism.
I'll mirror what someone else said, have they actually sequenced them? Clearly a lot of changes happened at a very early state, mutations, so why should we expect their genetic makeup to be identical?
I had this happen. I was on a team that was overloaded by work generated by another team, that had the tools and capabilities to automate the work, but chose not to, because they didn’t have to deal with it. Spending time on their work meant other important tasks went undone, or were half assed.

I pulled some data and did some math, and found that we could dedicate 3 people full-time just to working on their junk. My goal with this was to light a fire under them, get that stuff automated, and free up those hours so those people could do more interesting and worthwhile work.

It did light a fire, the stuff did get automated, and the week after victory was declared, 3 people were laid off. I was very upset and yelled at my boss a lot. It sent a very clear message to everyone on the team that automation is the enemy and when they see something they can/should be improved, they’d be smart to keep their mouth shut. That’s exactly what happened. Improvement efforts ground to a halt, as no one would talk about issues or use new tools that were developed.
You can already play thousands of game made with godot in your browser: https://itch.io/games/made-with-godot/platform-web
> I've heard it said...

That sounds like the sort of sounds-cool concept that's often founded in popularized / kinda-sensationalized / as-understood-by-a-philosopher "science".

If one makes a bunch of carefully chosen, arbitrary assumptions about an infinite universe, then there could be quite a few copies of you out there. But I can make a few carefully chosen assumptions about this universe, and conclude that 999 invisible copies of you are hiding in my living room right now. And listening to my noisy keyboard as I type these words, and...

More realistically - there are a huge number of ways for the universe to be infinite...yet contain zero copies of you. But such dull facts don't get nearly as many clicks, so you hear less about them.
It shouldn’t, unless your phone is placed against a magnet. The earth’s spinning magnetic core is the size of the moon. Those nearby buildings will not interfere with that.
I'm not sure that you are correct. I've tried to read https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10072 in the last day and if my reading is right (I am very stretched by this stuff so I am very happy to be corrected) then no amount of error correction will rescue Shor's - only zero error phase gates. I suspect that a similar story is true for native QML, as quantum memory scales it's just going to get exponentially harder to maintain it.
Wasabi Scrum
And training doctors is very expensive. This is subsidised by the state through capped tuition fees. Plus to train a doctor you need enough doctors for junior doctors to train the junior doctors presumably.
A lot. Me included. A lot of people eat caloric food to compensate for stress. It’s a very documented behavior and it’s just a different poison from cigarettes or alcohol to get some lacking dopamine.

Then it activates the same reward mechanisms in your brain and then you are stuck.

Yes it’s short time relief, but that’s no different than any other drug and this one is legal and cheap.
> I want to […] earn more money

Why? Money is a means to an end. What would that buy you, given that you said you achieved your goals and got everything you need.

Do you think you will look back on your life and wish you had made more money? I do not.
That is painfully accurate. My usual response to it is https://despair.com/products/break-the-rules

It usually gives me angry looks at first, but thanks after several years when there's enough turnover.
The thread is about how closely to follow a car. If the car is stopped, the answer is "as closely as you like, it's not moving".
> Yes, they aren't hurting anyone, and yes they're following their passion

Good, you're able to explain why it shouldn't bother you. The next question is why does it bother you? Any explanations from your side?
I really like that idea and I don't want to suggest that it can't ever work, but the sudden purchase frenzy that did not happen is far from the only failure mode. Leave it running a decade or two and things might look very different. Slow, invisible expenses creep and in the end you have a culture where those who spend a little slower than others are shamed into buying stuff just to make the others not look wasteful. There are many subtle mechanism at play that all facilitate expenses creep and there needs to be something pushing in the opposite direction. I'd rate it an unsolved problem.

Perhaps some generous budget limit, with a clear message that it's not intended to be fully consumed, and a clear rule that a certain percentage of whatever will be left at the end of the year is donated to some universally accepted good cause? Children and cute animals, please not religion. "You can get the book, no problem, but keep in mind that being the book means $5 less ponies!" (just don't make it manatees, you'd risk me working on a chromebook)
please explain?

OP recommended McElice, not DUAL_EC_DRDBG. Is there something I should know about the former?
Hi, Mr Cloudman here.

Your comment rather misses the point. The alarm is primarily about rising temperatures and the effects of that. I note you didn’t engage with this at all but rather changed the topic to something else — which is a typical diversion tactic!

As such there’s nothing really to reply to, unless you’re saying you accept there’s no link between Co2 levels and temperatures.
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He spent a month in a hospital as a small child. Of course this impacted his autism. We know that social interaction, play therapy, etc can be effective at reducing the severity and impact of autism and this is the direct opposite. How do you think a small child is going to learn about social interaction if they're stuck in a hospital without as much interaction and with much of the interaction being to the point? They're likely bored and witnessing the dry, clinical interactions of many of the staff. Neither of which are helpful.

Even staying a few days as a toddler is highly impactful on normal kids. They often don't understand why people are hurting them (IV, blood draws, ecg stickers, etc). They hate being stuck in the bed or their room for days with just toys and screens to play with - no running of course. In my experience it seems that fears and nightmares are common. The way the kid interacts can change for a short time after getting home (not as interested in the same type of play as before, happier with screen time, not as trusting of others, etc). Staying in a hospital is rough for someone who is fully developed and knows what's going, it's way more impactful for those who aren't.
IT is a cost center so management geduces their budget as much as they think they dare. When IT struggles to afford a good backu, system they can't afford to figure how to support whatever tool will help you.
Wasn't said whether he was caught at it
> It’s very one sided in favor of GPT4

My experience has been the opposite. I subscribe to multiple services as well and copy/paste the same question to all. For my software dev related questions, Claude Opus is so far ahead that I am thinking that it no longer is necessary to use GPT4.

For code samples I request, GPT4 produced code fails to even compile many times. That almost never happens for Claude.
You can work a whole life for generation wealth only to have your kid spend it all in one month as soon as you die. Or to waste away not doing anything while receiving monthly from a trust fund.

Everyone decides what their life to be about, but I'd reflect on leaving too much of your life's meaning to "kick in" only when you're dead. If your whole purpose is to "set your family up forever", a lot of that is out of your control. Whereas if your purpose is to hang out have fun and support each other's goals, usually you can do that right away
The parent probably meant that UTF-8 is backward compatible with ASCII.
Found anything interesting yet?
Until the oceans heat up and the fisheries collapse.
Just found the funnest way to celebrate anyone online
Watched this a couple of days ago and was just telling someone about it earlier today...

The technical content is really engaging (the "joy"/"frustration" of digging in some ancient technology for no easily justifiable reason--though in this case...) and there's been a heap of work put into merging the technical deep dive with a cinematic narrative that helps communicate some of the experience of what it feels like when you're three days in trying to find a piece of a puzzle someone probably hasn't cared about in 20+ years. :)
The scenario under discussion is when the car in front doesn’t stop but changes lanes, revealing a stopped car in your lane right where a moving car had been. It’s like the car in front of you was suddenly stopped by magic.

The solution is typically to swerve with the other car, but sometimes that’s not possible.
You probably get this question a lot and have dealt with similar cases for YC, so please direct me to previous comments if available already:

I'm an Indian, still on H1B after a decade of employment and probably will always be. I want to found a startup but getting a visa that will allow me to do that seems unapproachably hard. Does YC materially change this in my favor?
I’m not an expert on Buddhism but this anecdote/story has never been particularly insightful to me. One criticism I have is that it treats Enlightenment/knowledge etc. as a single transferable piece of knowledge, and seems to not notice the impact of process and undergoing the ritual. “The journey is the destination” and so forth.

Chopping wood and carrying water may be the answer, but you might not realize the significance of that answer without deeply probing the question.
Can I see a preview without logging in?
I'm interested, but... could I convince you to change the font and the colours into something that makes the site readable? Very thin font, light on dark, very little contrast is about the worst case for readability.
I mean where did any of it really get Julian Assange and how did his actions change America?

Maybe is there were 100 of him it would actually have changed something but as it stands right now, the dude sacrificed a lot for seemingly very little.
That one of the two American political parties believes they can lower the deficit by cutting taxes (primarily for the wealthy but that's immaterial to the basic math here) has always created some sense of unreality for me; I really no longer understand what the goal is for many of these people and I often think that they don't really know either. It's almost pure nihilism except when it comes to lust for power.
Just wanted to share that Cuba is the country with most "doctors per 10k people" with a ratio of 84.2 doctors. In comparison, USA has 26.1 and Australia 41. I just find it very interesting that Cuba has 300% more doctors than USA.

[1] Sorting by Latest available data (2020–2023 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
To elaborate, yes, Jetbrains allows for this, but the employer might not. At my company, personal licensed software are up for individual approval.
My rule of thumb is: if it belongs to Microsoft avoid it.
In this case, people who rely on health services to live probably do.
I had an example at work recently where this happened - so I agree with you. You objected, which was right.

I rang the customer and explained the misunderstanding. I discussed the problem with the sales folks and it was agreed that this shouldn't have been said.

I feel ok about it, there was an exaggeration, I corrected it, we moved on.

That's where the difference is. If the developers and the narrator were unaware that these were lies then they should have been aware. If they were aware then they should have objected. I see no evidence that they objected.
You can definitely bond multiple Ethernet links together ("IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation").
> It’s tough to find good ways to get in front of the people who aren’t looking! It feels like that way lies a lot of broad/expensive advertising.

What unrelated (to your solution) place are your potential customers looking for solutions to other problems they have, for whatever reason? Or at least a segment of them? Then figure out how to be of interest based on that motivation, in a way that lets you also naturally introduce your product - directly, or maybe better, seemingly incidentally.

Just throwing out a possible approach.
Seconded. My perception is that here in Britain, medical doctors are highly respected, and pretty well paid. This is different from the US, where medical doctors are highly respected and extremely well paid.

Prestige is, of course, not a function of income alone. Plenty of software developers get paid at least as much as respected professors or top military brass. That doesn't mean they have equivalent prestige.
"autistic and not-autistic" is not a spectrum, it can be described as a scalar value. A spectrum appears when you have many values (maybe continuum) with different values. Frequency spectrum is a good example: it shows you a lot of frequencies that intermixed in a signal.
If Bohr were alive today I think he would find more parallels between tech we create and the universe.
I like to ponder that maybe our known universe truly is a single electron behaving similar to scan lines on a TV at Planck scale in a higher dimension. Planck is the hz rate in this parable.
Windows on the desktop is dystopian. It works seamlessly when it's not installing candy crush pretending it's a security update, or when it decides to search the web for that word document you wrote yesterday, or when it decides your browser is bad because it's not edge.

So yeah, it works flawlessly, but only for Microsoft.
I'm pretty much out of the habit of using cruise control even with newer adaptive cruise control because it really encourages maintaining a constant speed even on roads that are really too busy to allow it.
What's the point of asking for a source when you would find it on Google in one minute? Odd way of learning. Not like I brought up some debated viewpoint.
"There's a reason Russia is the biggest country on Earth: its aggression. Those "republics" didn't just fall into Russian hands of their own accord, they were conquered"

That's comical that an American writes that. Is it ignorance or extreme hypocrisy?

You should learn how the US appeared on the continent that belong to Native Americans. How the US grew through wars with its neighbors who too stole a part of the continent from the Native Americans. Learn about reservations, about the trail of tears and about many other crimes of European invaders and their successors against the only people who own the right to be called Americans. Watch 'Killers of the Flower Moon' if you prefer movies.

"usually in the most brutal ways imaginable"

And learn the Russian history too. Rarely Russian Empire did anything that can be compared to the crimes of European colonizers.

"Our politicians simply do not learn from history."

The irony.
That may rather have been my point. Technology will never solve everything… especially because possibly the sole actually reliable capability of human intellect is to take a problem for which there is a known, obvious, and workable solution and figure out a way to employ technology to make it demonstrably worse but also get someone else to pay for it.
But what was the better alternative for Greece?
Can you lobby your gov't rep to install automated camera? It seems reasonable. If you are brushed aside, email/write/call a local newspaper or TV station. They would probably like to report it.
>but it is a familiar environment for them

Being familiar with something way bette than needing to learn from scratch. That's the end of the sales pitch.
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They’ll try to shut them down when they start taking too much valuable attention

See Yuzu yoo
"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”
Mark 10:25, ESV
This is what happens when the people doing the actual good work are looked at purely as a cost. The administration that is brought about to contain that cost will end up costing way more than any possible cost savings they could theoretically get. Putting the force of government behind that administration just makes it that much worse.

I see the same thing in tech. Engineers used to be empowered and productively making things that empowered everyone, and now they're disempowered, broken to the saddle of whatever the tech oligarchs are fancying today.
According to our corporate portal, I have $100k of signing authority. Meanwhile, I can’t get approval for spend about $2k on flight and hotel to go to a conference that would be valuable for me. I’m going to end up paying out of pocket. I have co-workers who are afraid to order a new mouse when their current one is broken.
Apparently Google is playing games in the Play Store, but if you can get it installed then it runs fine:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/696-issues-with-netflix-app

I just verified that I could download it just fine using Aurora Store, and I don't have Google anything installed.
Obsidian is a contender.
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There was a kind of behind the scenes ecosystem building in terms of AT&T's giving Apple an unusual (for the time) level of direct and complete customer/device control.

The iPhone wouldn't have been the iPhone without the work to create that wider context.

The better user experience that enabled Apple to give customers counted for a lot. The easy to use, free of telecom interference, App Store is a prime example that the unusual Apple/AT&T relationship allowed, even if it was not v1.0.
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The Pixels wipe on both lock and unlock.

Yes, it can still update just fine. It installs its own certificate at install time and all updates are signed with it.
The good old “at least we are not hitler” benchmark and confusing end stage capitalism with democracy… what a flex
RSS is cool Some RSS feed readers are not (yet)
I am not. I am responding to:

"I don't have a horse in this race, but I saw today that there was a healthy thread <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011762> about "just pull fiber" when folks were discussing pulling cat6e and a lot of that talk was about the relative cost versus massive bandwidth gains."

For home use, ethernet has increasingly moved into a hassle / performance point where I'm better off with either wifi or, if I wanted faster speed, fiber. I just wish fiber was cheaper.
Do you have any suggestions on how to find conferences in Europe? It sometimes appears that the US has more of these.
Your friend is operating outside of some of your implicitedly accepted social norms. And now you have FOMO because he has more agency.

You are exploring the space of the implications [of having more agency]. Sounds like an interesting thing to ponder.

I don't have much else to add but I'm remembering another "weird" place; I saw a documentary about a circus school in Montreal that feeds into Cirque du Soliel, lot of fun/odd personalities in there.
You do not have to agree with a religion to see that they had wisdom thousands of years before we got here. Without that wisdom, their way if life would have died out millennia ago.
I'm not talking about most performant. Neither HTMX nor React has a performance issue.

The issue is overhead and complexity for the developer, and maybe, server costs.

React comes out ahead in server costs, since doing work on the client is very cheap (provided there isn't a performance issue that turns users off, which there isn't).

And in terms of dev time, it depends, but you can't say "look, with HTMX you can avoid code" because you still do need to write code, but now it's in the server.
Having positive cashflow is so 1986.
It's not the pressure or hard work that breaks us, it's the frustration from not being able to control anything. It's the knowledge of knowing that if you had some amount of say in what was going on, things could improve for everyone. And knowing that people who are not impacted by this in the least have all of the power. So you can either quit what you love, or keep doing what you love in a psychologically unsafe, unhealthy, and toxic system.
This is the reason bureaucracy exists, the more people at a company the higher probably one of those idiots or assholes slipped through the cracks, at large companies you just have to assume they got in
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Show suggested messages that mention specific gpt’s. After each message show suggested follow-ups
I pretty much always keep my lights on Auto. But I've had them turned off when I've had the car in for service and, probably because previous vehicles haven't had DRLs, I haven't noticed on a couple of occasions.
Was this ever true for HTML?