skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you elaborate? I am currently beating my head against this.

If I give GPT4 a list of existing items with a defined structure, and it is just having to convert schema or something like that to JSON, it can do that all day long. But if it has to do any sort of reasoning and basically create its own list, it only gives me a very limited subset.

I have similar issues with other LLMs.

Very interested in how you are approaching this.
1. If your claim was that the net neutrality doomsayers from 2017 were correct, then your original comment of "[...] nobody has pulled the trigger yet, it’s fine" does a terrible way of conveying that. Any reasonable person reading that comment would interpret that as you conceding that the the doomsayers' predictions have failed to pass, but nonetheless refuse to admit the predictions were incorrect because it was only a matter of time before the predictions would become true.

2. "Net neutrality" is a term that doesn't have a precise meaning, and I'd rather not get into a fight about what it really means. That said, in the context of this discussion about the net neutrality fight in 2017, and whether the doomsayers' prediction came to pass, I think it's fair to compare to the pre-2017 net neutrality regime. In that context it's not clear whether "degrading video quality for mobile users" would be illegal. For instance "network management" was explicitly allowed, and only "pay for priority" would be banned[1]. Moreover there was a court case a few years before where FCC fought to prevent bittorrent being throttled, and lost the case on appeal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality_in_the_United_S...
cf https://network.sbb.ch/en/
> if you break of the dead branch, nothing happens to the tree, just like when you remove unused code, nothing happens to the program.

Indeed, and this has been known since the 80s as dead code elimination. So why are we using a new, less descriptive, more confusing term again?
> If ISPs are playing the long game, they're being incredibly patient about it.

They actually are, and this is how politics and lobbying work. In 2017 it made no sense for US ISPs to run ragged over net neutrality when the 2020 election was looming and far from predictable. Even less once Biden gets elected.

Plus there was the credible threat of state-level laws, which are even worse from the ISPs standpoint since each might go farther than the FCC rules in certain ways.

The California law passed and was a really big deal.

If you're looking for a controlled experiment of what the world looks like without net neutrality rules, just look to countries where there was never any such movement or credible threat of them.

Across Africa, for example, 1GB of mobile data can cost 10x more if you're accessing the normal Internet, vs. a mainstream service like WhatsApp or Youtube.

ISPs use net neutrality violations for price discrimination to extract more from white collar workers who need access to the Internet beyond WhatsApp-- which is fine until you think about the effects on any new WhatsApp competitor.
These websites still exist and are enjoyed by many! GameFAQs for example, hosts a large number of saves. Most recently I downloaded a complete save file for Micro Machines V3 for the PS2, so we didn't have to grind to unlock all cars for multiplayer :)
My experience with 5G is that it's strictly better than LTE. At this point, if I see the 5G symbol, I'm conditioned to expect there to be 10-100x more bandwidth available than with LTE and latencies to be at levels at par with wired connections.
This is my life these days :(
I don’t think it needs to supply a prescription, at least in the initial research. I think it’s valid enough to determine if the bias exists before we try and figure out solutions for it.
>Are cargo ships full of essential goods

Yes, for any reasonable definition of "essential".

https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/countries/43/export-basket

https://comtradeplus.un.org/Publication/ITSY
I'm afraid to tell you what I pay for starlink for speeds much lower than that. Still very grateful as without starlink is have 20 M down and still pay $75 per month for it
Nailed it. He should’ve counted the centroids if the squares if he needs to do… counting in matter of something-squared, while he counts the sides which are not yet squared in his design. So the placement is off or rather he mixed metrics.
You could just skip to the content and not do this virtue signaling
> And what happens when the wind blows?

And wind blowing has what to do with compiler optimizations again?

> Shaking and raking are hardly different in kind.

The only way they're similar is that they're both kinda dumb names for this optimization that has had a standard name for 40 years.
with sufficient motivation, we were even able to get to the moon! getting to the sun is still elusive though (current plans are to go at night)
This is one thing that could probably be solved by AI.

For these high-stakes situations, we could benefit from an algorithm that turns everybody into a nondescript face attached to an autogenerated, toneless voice.

You don't technically need AI for that, text chat is enough, but text chat is far slower than voice conversations, and people seem to prefer video in many contexts.
The correct general term is “dead-code elimination” [0]. Reachability analysis is commonly used do determine what code can be removed, but other methods are possible, and the analysis by itself doesn’t remove any code, that’s a subsequent step.

“Tree-shaking” as commonly used implies that the granularity of the removal is functions, whereas dead-code elimination can generally be at arbitrarily fine levels, for example eliminating branches of conditional expressions, and can be based on all kinds of static program analyses.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead-code_elimination
>Proper resistance exercise will fix your posture.

Not always Mr. Swollen.

Just going to the gym and doing random exercises might sometimes make your posture and pain worse.

That's where profesional medical help comes in, as in x-rays, doctors, physiotherapists and massage, correction surgery and implants, etc.
Have they? You’d think after 30+ years of commercial ISPs they’d have actually done something by now if they were “trying”.
If an attorney showed up smelling like ass I'd have some bias against them.
Plot twist: systemd zealots were all sockpuppets
Much as I agreed with net neutrality, I could see that it was being driven mainly by big tech lobbying for their profit margins. This is also why the attention and outrage was way out of proportion to the actual impact.
I can think of a couple reasons of why perfect axial symmetry is mechanically advantageous.

I must also mention that we aren't perfectly symmetric anymore. The most obvious difference is the heart, but the brain is no longer functionally symmetric anymore, either.
perfect is the enemy if the good
I’d love to hear from more people who just don’t use micro services at all and vertically scale Elixir/Phoenix
For most hardware devices that's correct. But software as an FDA Class I medical device can be done cheaper than that. Under US regulations, pure software with no hardware component can be considered a "medical device" depending on functionality.
The ideal model IMO would be P2P micropayments (hopefully a web standard implemented as a browser API), where the payment processor middleman is cut out, so small transactions become viable. Patreon allowing you to bundle and only be charged once for your handful of monthly subscriptions was a good half-measure and a great way to reduce the middleman's cut, but since its elimination, we're back to square one. It doesn't seem realistic to entrust an omnipresent payment provider with this, since they'll always collect a fixed amount of overhead per transaction, which will intrinsicially disincentivize smaller individual payments. But maybe I'm being overly paranoid in some aspects and naïve in others.
> Any inbound scan or malicious traffic would get dropped going outbound

There are lots of types of maliciousness that would not be affected by this.
An organizational solution to this problem is (Amazon’s) “single-threaded owner” model: all the disciplines report to (perhaps with a dotted line in a matrix org) one directly-responsible manager. The manager sees the big picture and can break down roadblocks, though they still may be building their own empire and reluctant to pivot or shut down their big project.

https://www.rubick.com/implementing-amazons-single-threaded-...
Seems more and more that to lead a completely ethical existence means sacrificing luxury, happiness, and time. Or surrender to willful ignorance.
The author's writing style matches how she prepares her talks. That post is very straightforward. I agree with everything she wrote. I think that it also applies to other kinds of communication.

I particularly like the bit about examples. I think that stories and metaphors are much more powerful than plain statements. It really drives the point home, especially when it's somewhat abstract. My all-time favourite is Steve Job's "bicycle of the mind".[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmuP8gsgWb8
Any claims made during the presentation, including claims of professional experience, can be completely made up. Besides, if someone was allowed to present at a conference, then that means that they have already been reviewed and approved by the conference organizers, which means that speakers do not need to convince you, that they know what they are talking about.
Android's Find My Device network highlights Google's neglect of UWB so far
Is Gen-Z adopting Ruby? I'm worried it has become the next Perl without us realizing it.
I 100% blame people not staying on schedule on the organisers.

I'm autistic, I'd happily cut off your microphone on time, not matter if you're the pope or a Nobel laureate. This is why I'm not allowed to chair sessions.
Agreed, and that wasn't the problem.
> I could list a million things that are worse than this research, not just worse as in less useful, but worse as in actively harmful to society.

The thing that comes to mind is the “manufactured ewaste” that people buy on AliExpress and Wish.com and Temu. The products on there are enticingly cheap, but are often so crappy that they rarely even get a single use, and end up in a landfill.

Plastic waste is bad, but I am even more concerned with potential problems with lithium batteries piling up in landfills, not even considering the potential ethical issues with mining the resources for the battery.

It’s one thing to me if the device you are actually using was made with dubious labor, it’s another if it’s a device that will immediately become waste.
CLIP does not have explicit OCR support, but it does somewhat coincidentally have a slight understanding of text. This is explained by training captions containing (some of) the text that is in the image.
1fps is the kind of frame rate you should be getting with 20000 collisions, not 256. Your algorithm is the bottleneck, here, not the programming language.

You say "pixel-perfect". If you have enough spare memory, one simple algorithm would be: render an offscreen canvas of the whole arena, draw each sprite as a stencil in a different colour, and test against that. Linear time, and no need to segment anything. (You might need to use the high bits of the canvas, though: I don't know how anti-fingerprinting measures work, but I expect they replace the low bits of a canvas' data with noise.)
I absolutely hate this kind of "oh I'm not going to waste your time, honestly, I'm really going to try to make this worth your while, wow look at me, I'm amazing!" talk.

This is why I now love attending talks remotely. If you annoy me, I can mute you and focus on something else and unmute the stream when the next speaker comes up.
the argument that attractive caucaisan women and men vs attractive african american women and men are treated equally at American court, is undeniably wrong. Backed up by real world numbers.
> These offsets are obtained iteratively, stepping through the entire file buffer by the desired split size (= total file size / desired number of parts), and marking the position of a new line character:

In many cases it is better to just pass the raw byte offsets to the workers, then they can skip to the first newline and progress until the next newline after their "end offset". This way the launcher doesn't need to access the input data at all.

This can be ineffective when boundaries are not self-describing or when the minimum processable chunk is near the expected batch size (as you will have significant swings in batch size) but I think would work quite well for this case.
> "I should specify that if you’re a tourist in Japan and buying these games because you genuinely want to play them, I don’t have an issue with you," Jia says. "It’s the people who clear entire shelves just to scalp them online when they get home that ruin the hobby here for everyone."

So it’s less about tourists and more specifically about scalpers.

Yeah, I can agree with that sentiment in general.
Such a format exists and is called PDF/A: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A#Description

PDF viewers can have a matching PDF/A mode where all non-PDF/A features are disabled.
Careful with That Lock, Eugene
A really interesting idea. Checking what locks a database migrations holds in CI so you can automatically add warnings to pull requests that are likely to cause downtime.
Retro console and game prices always have been expensive in the US but steadily getting more and more expensive (less and less availabe stuff outside of collectors). And you don't even have to think about very old stuff (NES/SNES), the 3DS and its games are now above MSRP in most markets.

Japan prices were always cheaper (different region code, no english translation in games etc)

Lots of people have a lots of free money so they just bought up everything. Rich get richer. Not billionaire rich but rich enough to casually spend on a Japan trip just to buy up as many games as possible.
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> someone has read or at least scanned my speaker bio

I'll do it after, if your talk catches my attention.
perhaps that is what beauty really is - the absence of extremity
True. I was thinking exfil and communication. Of course fuzzing/DoS is doable.
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mathematicians work up to isomorphism; artists work up to plausiblemorphism.

(another example: logicians work in syllogisms; rhetoricians omit the middle term and work in enthymemes; artists provide nothing but a middle term)
>. Working out, brushing teeth regularly, eating healthy, etc, are not enjoyable in the short-term, and people with higher IQ / more successful tend to be able to better control their impulses and have longer-term vision.

That's not as easy as that.

Having dealt in your formative childhood years with poor health due to poor medical care where doctors just pump you with antibiotics and fuck you up, poor dentists and orthodontists who make your conditions worse, living in loud polluted neighborhoods where you're not getting quality air and sleep, not getting proper nutrition as a kid due to poverty, getting bullied and harassed every day leading to constant stress and anxiety, etc, all these impact your looks from your early life and are not in your direct control as you make it be, and won't easily get remedied no matter how much you brush your teeth, eat well and work out in adulthood.
And even JavaScript only conceptually uses doubles everywhere, JavaScript engines do use integers where they get away with it. Your loop counter is almost certainly an int. You can use this to your advantage for optimization purposes if you carefully craft your statements to probably fit in integers (e.g. by adding bitwise operations)
Talk about a misleading headline
The lessons I wanted from this article weren't in there: Did all of that expenditure actually help their product in a measurable way? Did customers use and appreciate the new features based on LLM summarization compared to whatever they were using before? I presume it's a net win or they wouldn't continue to use it, but more specifics around the application would be helpful.
This has nothing to do with capitalism.
The current title doesn't reflect the opinion of the person being interviewed, which is more nuanced and less controversial:

> "I should specify that if you’re a tourist in Japan and buying these games because you genuinely want to play them, I don’t have an issue with you," Jia says. "It’s the people who clear entire shelves just to scalp them online when they get home that ruin the hobby here for everyone."

In other words, a better title would be: "American expat laments scalpers are emptying Japanese retro game stores".
> Elon Musk before and after they became wealthy, they're better looking despite being 10-20 years older.

IMHO sort of but when you massively overdo it like some you start looking pretty freakish. Also I don't think there is any evidence Bezos had any plastic surgery done? He probably just got a better stylist. Must OTH.. well...
How did buying a bunch of used games make them richer?
I finished it a couple hours ago and I've also never played the games. Given Hollywood's track record for video game adaptations, it was much better than I was expecting. Hopefully this will set a new bar in that regard.
If the FCC does not do something, they will.

As to why it has not happened yet: it is easier to corrupt a new infrastructure from the beginning than change one that is already entrenched.
Generative UI being creation of a specific UI dependent on an obedience from your model? What model is it?

Google Gemini were showing something that I'd call 'adapted output UI' in their launch presentation. Is that close to what you're doing in any way?
Didn't Musk undergo a massive amount of plastic surgery and had other stuff like hair transplants (and presumably a lot of steroids)?
Moose test
I get the impression that the author of this article has never spent serious time around children and see them as something that needs to be constantly coddled else they bruise.

Also since when does "written in a different time" means "aged poorly?" Did Pride and Prejudice age poorly because Elizabeth doesn't follow Mr. Darcy on Social Media only to criticize his posts?
And pollution. People forget that pollution is not just the fuzzy and far-off consequences of global warming, but also very real and immediate deaths and illnesses.
If you show your task/prompt with an example I'll see if I can fix it and explain my steps.

Are you using the function calling/tool use API?
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that's not what he said.
I presume the line of thought continued that the well-off used their liquidity to fly to Japan, buy retro games, and then sell them at a markup in the US.
It's no different in the US. You used to be able to walk into a thrift shop with $10 and come out with several NES games. The popularity of retro gaming has made that a thing of the past.
I think a better model would be for the site itself to provide the modules, but the browser will hash and cache them for the next site that may want to use the same module.

This way, there's no central authority that determines what is common enough.

This model does not allow for versioning. For this model, it would be risky to allow it (one website could provide a malicious model that infects the next site you visit).
Please. "richer" could mean +$1

Since you couldnt be bothered to do 1 minute of research... these types of games fetch huge prices when imported, mostly from white men with too much money.
It's an interesting example of "Politics as the Art of the Possible" that Fort Bragg (after the Confederate general) was recently renamed as the wonderfully generic Fort Liberty, rather than "Fort Grant".

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

We can be sure "Fort Sherman" never made the short list though it might have gotten some chuckles, at least among the brass hailing from northern states.
tl;dr - cars are too big and people don’t realize how big a hardship overhanging the sidewalk imposes on the handicapped.
I wasn't thinking about philosophers in particular, but rather about mathematicians and scientists.
Nutrition Science Is Broken. (2019)
You need a healthy turnover for community to sustain itself. You can't be too biased towards locals because you will end up with a stagnating community with a whole lot more problems with your schools/hospitals/insfrastructure/...
I love old video games. When I was still living in Seattle, I thought it'd be fun to join a local retro game group on Facebook, hoping to maybe connect with people who share my hobby.

I very quickly realized that the group was, almost exclusively, people bragging about their "hauls" as they raided local garage and estate sales. No one ever talked about the games, or playing the games. Just a weird, vaguely competitive hoarder mentality.

Gross people. Gross hobby. Emulation is a blessing.
Yes, it has improved a great deal, and ghcup has been an important aspect of that improvement.
> thinking outside of groups seems to be the really key challenge

compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anattā

(personally, I'd think the Internet would feel broken because "nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded")
Libertarian does seem to mean different things to different people, but if somebody is supporting government or propping them up because they are concerned about preserving or maintaining current or traditional social values, that is the definition of a social conservative, not a libertarian. A libertarian position on that would be a "you do you" , but don't force others to do "you." A "the government should enforce or promote this" is a social conservative position.

But yes, I mostly agree. Most of the people I know who would identify as libertarian, suddenly become much more comfortable with government action when the government is wanting to do something they like, or is even run by their person. Once "the other side" gets in control, they seem to rediscover their libertarian principles. Seeing this was a good reminder to me that we should look at actions, not words, when deciding who to vote for.
You're missing that jvanderbot's post was itself a strawman, about the title.

And I still say the way they insisted on flagship being the wrong word while using the phrase "no more sense" was a form of not understanding. Doing it on purpose doesn't mean not doing it.

If that's not what you meant by "understanding" then I'm sorry for not reading your mind. It doesn't make me a liar. And you don't seem to have made any attempt to understand what I meant.

And you're doing your own strawman with 4. You know that, right?
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mode 13h in tasm while pretending to understand line algos takes me back
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I believe low hanging fruit is not specific to CS.

Regardless, it is a perfect metaphor. You want to eat an apple: which one do you pick? Taking the low-hanging fruit is less work right now and gets you to your immediate goal, but disregards general efficiency. Sure, picking a whole tree is more efficient. But if you want a single apple, taking the low hanging fruit is the fastest approach. The metaphor works because it actually implies that it's not the most efficient approach, just the easiest
I've been hunting down column level typing for a while and did not realise polars had this! That's an absolute game changer, especially if it could cover things like nullability, uniqueness etc.
I find it hard to believe that racism in Europe and NA is particularly more rampant than in the rest of the world. Probably the complete opposite these days.