skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His books were half of what I read between age 12-25 (edit: more like 12-20, and I meant only novels, but it doesn't matter here)

Sad to see him go.

Picking up his books again as an adult only took away the magic in some of his weaker works.

Mostly, the magic remained.

The guys learning to play Bach and building a wall, the delirant anon in NYC chasing paper trails, the adolescent boy learning to levitate... the evil man offering glasses in a post-apocalyptic city:

so many memories remain, I don't know much about Paul Auster but I can say he was an influence on my life. Because of randomness (a relative picking Mr Vertigo as a present for me, probably because of book-store recommendations)

Paul Auster's characters always appear as somewhat mythical, living through a personal transformation.

Many of his characters have an aura of NYC artist/cultural authority stick around then, but it does not bother me at all.

Like many of my favorite authors, he injects much of his own personality into the main characters, even with multiple books using a novelist/writer as the main character.
Everyone being pedantic would change their tune instantly if it were an even money family-feud style bet for the top answer.
If you need to feed multiple files to chatgpt or another LLM, this makes it way easier than manually copy and pasting.

This app shows you a file modal. Use Shift or Option keys to select multiple text files across one or more directories.

All of the selected files will be concatenated for easy select all / paste into your LLM conversation.

Output format of selected files is:

### `[filepath]`
[file contents]
### `[filepath]`
... and so on.

- Output is in a text field for easy copy-pasta.
- File path starts at the common parent of all selected files
> we always have a backlog sized for a team twice the size of the one we have

While it certainly is true, the side-effect is at the same time the oldest items in the backlog deprecate with time.
Even if the model correctly got 20%/80% on the very last layer of it's token prediction for just these two tokens, the design of the how the model leverages these probabilities would not choose them at that ratio.
wdym? i doubt this qualifies as a job posting
You might not want to squash everything into one commit before merging, you can still have multiple commits in one (fast-forward) merge, as long as each of them is in a good state. This is made relatively easy by using the `--autosquash` feature of `git rebase`.

One issue I've seen a few times is that some commit in the middle of a topic branch is the problem, but if you didn't rebase it then that commit itself would look fine on top of the topic branch's parent. However, after merging it's now also on top of other commits, and the interaction with those was the problem. That makes it very hard to find such a problem. Rebasing the history of the topic branch before merging will make finding it much easier.
Because it's a stupid prompt. Especially for humans.

Because you're really asking what they think the first response would be. That's left. If I knew a machine would pick left 80% of the time, I would bet left 100% of the time. And I'd be right about 80% of the time, which isn't perfect, but is profitable.
Does Japan make a much more substantial investment in institutional mental health care?
To nitpick a bit

> WSL runs Linux programs under a different kernel by replicating the syscall interface

Only WSLv1 did this. WSL 2 is very boring architecturally, it just runs a full Linux machine in a HyperV VM domain.
Why can't I talk to Claude on my desktop computer? Seems like a no brainer to turn Claude into the Star Trek computer
A $3,400 electro-capacitive keyboard that gets rid of stabilizer noise
> But generally it's extremely tedious and verbose

Is it? In my experience it's very short, especially considering you can catch multiple errors. Do my users really need a different error message for "invalid sql" vs "sql connection timeout?" They don't need to know any of that.

> There's also the fact that stack traces are not proper error messages

I would say there's not a proper error message to derive from explicitly handling sql errors. Certainly not a different message per error. I would rather capture all of it and say something like "Something went wrong while accessing the database. Contact an admin." Then log the stack trace for devs
Glad you replied and I retract my harsh comment. Top search result indeed an imposter app asking for money!
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If you don't mind my asking, how do you maintain your property? It may be illustrative to see what some of the alternatives to the scenarios you described with your neighbors might be.
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is so buggy you can't install the OS [video]
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So what machines can I choose from? Like, if I need a 24 GB GPU, will you have one? And what’s the pricing? Where do I find that info?
Where was the rug pull? The only people negatively impacted by Sentry's relicensing were people trying to monetize it. Did we negatively impact you? Anyone else in the community? Not that I've ever seen evidence of.

Live and die on your hill. We'll keep focusing on building our product - which requires us to be able to be able to pay developers for the enormous amount of time it takes them.
Making Documents with Makefiles
I don’t get why people would pay for a bright orange box, or a snazzy little pin, when you can do the exact same thing with a phone app. Siri and Google’s offering on Android phones will eliminate this market when they start in on this stuff. I don’t see why any company making an AI widget would be valued high, unless they’re trying to get bought by Apple.
Back in about 2008 I found a huge load of UK CED discs for sale, plus about 10 different players. As someone who'd been fascinated by vcd, I was interested in this other appendix media - sadly I didn't buy it all, but for the best, looked like a massive lot!
I had a previous job that paid me for the time it took to do a takehome interview. (it ended up being right at the minimum before having to report it as taxable income). I highly welcome this, as it signals a commitment from the company that they're serious about the candidate
> The direction is always the same "spend max a couple hours!"

Interestingly, I always took restrictions on time seriously.
When I was told I should spend max 3 hours, I stopped latest at 3 hours, often earlier and discussed shortcommings of the solution based on spent time in the interview.

That strategy is easier when you are not that interested in that particular job though.
Nobel-winning neuroscientist faces scrutiny for data discrepancies in >30 papers
Typical response unfortunately. Why even stoop to such a low level of throwing shade when you have nothing intelligent to add to the matter?
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I'm surprised there's only a single mention of RCA's Select-A-Vision. Basically a video record encased in a hard plastic sleeve that used a needle to read the analog data.

Clever concept, but doomed to failure by digital formats.
I feel like you must have inserted your comment before reading any of the blog. Those cloud providers have been contributing to OSS Redis for years at this point. ++ the way their platform works isn't even competing with Redis' managed offering. You'd know that though if you made it more than halfway down the page.
I am certainly not saying that it is time fair or that it doesn't result in a lot of excess work being done.

Take home assignments are there to minimize the amount of time spent per candidate with the most limited resource in the interview process - the people on a small team doing the interviews.

That is the problem that it is trying to solve.

Trying to minimize for the candidate time spent, increases the amount of the limited resource (the interviewers' time) and may mean that the interview process will be longer than is acceptable for candidates (are you willing to wait 4 weeks between the last interview and offer?) and removes the interviewers from revenue generating tasks.

There is no good solution to this. Often take home assignments are the least bad solution.
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Since the formation of both Earth and Mars (approximately the same time) the Sun's output actually increased by ~33%.
Also, Fortran is 1954 (70 years old this year) and LISP is 1958:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_programming_languag...
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I love my minidisc player. My first real reason to own an optical cable - 12 year old me was very cool.
What happens on Gitlab when you do Git push
> n 1976, while Van Flandern was employed by the USNO, he began to promote the belief that major planets sometimes explode.[30] Van Flandern also speculated that the origin of the human species may well have been on the planet Mars, which he believed was once a moon of a now-exploded "Planet V".

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It's not about punishment, its about pricing in externalities
The hypothesis posits a significant role of endurance running in facilitating early hominins' ability to obtain meat. Proponents of this hypothesis propose that endurance running served as a means for hominins to effectively engage in persistence hunting and carcass poaching, thus enhancing their competitive edge in acquiring prey. Consequently, these evolutionary pressures have led to the prominence of endurance running as a primary factor shaping many biomechanical characteristics of modern humans.

Very skeptical of this hypothesis. The evidence suggests early humans subsisted on plants far more than animal meat. Likely what meat was procured did not entail chasing gazelles or antelopes for miles on end, but rather hunting for rodents and such. Or setting up traps.

Second , if this were true, we would expect all or the vast majority humans to be good at endurance running, but there is considerable variance of individual running ability. In high school, for example, as I can recall from personal experience only 25 percent of the boys in class could run a mile at a decent time and only 25% could not complete it. Those who failed were not necessary obese or otherwise had obvious medical conditions like asthma, but simply lacked the stamina for whatever reason to finish it without stopping multiple times.

Endurance running is more of a consequence of bipedalism and increased height and lighter bone mass, the ability of which is highly unequally distributed, not that enduring running arose from evolutionary pressure. As humans became lighter and less stocky, endurance running became possible.
... and allowing as many people who can realistically work from home do so would go a long way toward alleviating this. But managers don't believe you're working unless they see your face in person, so keep on commuting...
Wear an Apple Watch to bed. See if you are sleeping continuously and entering deep sleep or rem.
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Kind of ironic they try to collect an email on this page and you simply have to hit view only.
Also a disincentive to not buy land to build on, because now you have to pay for the demolition of the dangerous pile of rubbish on it pretending to be a house to reduce the tax burden.
Almost certainly not if you set the temperature of the model to 0, since then the output would be deterministic minus MoE stuff.

If the temperature was not zero, then it seems technically possible for the output tokens to weighted closely enough in probability to each other in a way such that the randomization from temperature causes tokens to be printed in the appropriate distribution.

However, I'm not an LLM expert, but I don't think that people use a "temperature" while training the model. Thus the training step would not be able to learn how to output tokens in the given distribution with a given temperature because the training step does not have access to the temperature the user is using.

EDIT: I made the assumption that the LLM was not asked for a sequence of random numbers, but only one number per prompt. I think this fits the use case described in the article, but another use case might be asking for a sequence of such numbers, in which case training might work.
Or in Tracey Kidder's book The Soul of a New Machine, the hardware engineer who tires of debugging nanosecond timing heisenglitches, moves to a commune in Vermont where he will not have to deal with units of time less than a season.
That you understand that another's perception can be different than yours puts you in a high tier in my book.
I mow and weed wack. Looks tidy, but lawn is mix of weeds and grass.
Given the NLRB's position on "Google's ideological echo chamber," - the likelihood that the NLBR would rule in their favor seems non-existent given their strong defense of corporate rights to punish speech at work.

(/s for those who need it)
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I'm am sorry that you were blinded by my reaction. I don't know if it counts as esoteric, but it's probably my Proton VPN connection through Germany that made the server decide not to serve the page. Whether that's "the cause" or not is a matter of opinion.
You can make an alright set of lock picks out of them.
Originally I built the site on mediawiki... just a choice I made back in the day that stuck. Don't get too hung up on it!
Banks Are Still Where the Money Isn't
Even more taxes on semi trucks that deliver the food that's already growing unaffordable that will be passed on to consumers then?
I also don't think this counts as a strike, at least the actions taken do not fully fall within the protections of a strike even if they were striking for a reason for which strikes are permitted. Disruptive protest like what this was isn't a legal strike.

Anyway I have no objection to them taking things to the NLRB, I just don't think they will win. I suspect google will settle by paying some or most of the terminated employees some severance or some other token gesture and will consider themselves lucky to be rid of activist employees.
Pikachu's everywhere were shocked.

This is just the same guy, over and over. If he isn't too old, I bet he was into dropshipping too. Always on whatever new grift, always ready to start selling shovels to gold miners. I wish people were smarter about this stuff.
And what are the metrics in comparison to not using PCH?
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A core economic concept is externalities, positive and negative. Positive externalities are undervalued by the market, negative ones are overvalued by the market, like cigarettes.

There aren't many ways to resolve externalities. If you pay people to quit cigarettes, people start smoking to get paid for quitting.

For negative externalities, sometimes you just really have to make the good more expensive, or we'll end up bearing the much larger societal costs down the road, like we did for lead in gasoline and widespread cigarette smoking.
This is likely something that will happen globally, simply because of demographic trends.

Large cities will also be impacted, with a delay, as this is where most young and educated people choose to live, for obvious reasons.

In my opinion the housing market is the real demographic dampener, more than anything else, and it means that the long term trend for both demography and housing should be a slow oscillation around equilibrium.
I used to do this back when C++11 came out and ended up regretting it. When a feature just comes out, you can understand it possibly in isolation, but it's very hard to understand how that feature will fit in with other features, tools, libraries etc... and so you use it in a certain way according to how various blog posts and thought leaders say you should use it, and then after a year you end up realizing that no one could anticipate that the new feature has all kinds of footguns and certain features even end up being deprecated or superseded by yet another new feature.

When a new feature comes out, it's best to let it settle in a bit, maybe experiment using it on smaller side projects, but avoid diving into using it too early before it's really well understood.

For example I now cringe every time I see the curly bracket initialization of the form T{...} and how that was advocated as the one true way to initialize everything in C++, only for everyone to realize a year later that it has its own footguns (like with initialize lists) and with C++20 fixing almost all of the original problems that led to T{...}, the best practice nowadays is to go back to just using plain old T(...) and there's little to no reason to use T{...} anymore.

There was also Herb Sutter's Always Use Auto, which then was revised to Almost Always Use Auto, and now I think most developers take the sensible approach of use auto for redundant names like iterators, or unnamable types like lambda expressions, and avoid using it everywhere so as to turn your codebase into an opaque soup of inscrutable keywords.
> Machines distribute accidents without bias

Isn't that a good thing? Or are we assuming we have control over the other drivers who are bad drivers and will kill us when they wreck into us?

> Also, if you know a car is being driven by a human rather than a machine, you can use your empathy to anticipate what a human driver is going to do in a situation and prepare for that

People keep claiming this but I think it's a claim without sufficient evidence. I've watched humans go backwards up a one-way street. I've watched humans stop at three stop signs and miss the forth. I've watched humans drive perfectly up until the point they had a coronary. I suspect it's something people like to believe because they get to say "I avoided that idiot swerving on the highway; that kept me safe" and they miss the huge confirmation bias that they're really safe because they didn't get wiped out by the guy who had the heart attack and suddenly drifted into the oncoming traffic lane, leaving no time to react. It's an illusion-of-safety feeling that, ironically, comes from so many human drivers being erratic in non-immediately-dangerous ways, far more often than an automated vehicle is erratic at all.

We don't hear a lot about from the tens of thousands of drivers killed on the road every year failed to use empathy to avoid that crash, because they're dead. So we're missing a huge datapoint to evaluate the "humans can communicate with each other empathetically on the road so they're safer than sharing the road with automata" claim.
Because UK does not appear in the article's intra-EU groups on panel B.
I remember seeing a Nokia or Here demo around that time that looked like similar or the same tech. Do you know anything published about it with technical details? Seems like enough time has passed that it would be more accessible. I would love to learn more about it.