skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using Ellipsis for a few months now. I have zero regrets about paying for it now and likely will pay them more in the future as their new features ship.

For a solo engineer like me who's working in multiple codebases across multiple languages, it's excellent as another set of eyes to catch big and small things in a pull request workflow I'm used to (and it has caught more than a few). I'd argue even as a backstop for catching edge cases/screwups that may lead to wasting my time that it's already more than paid for itself.
Run it through Claude and ask Claude to summarize :)
JavaScript for Loop over Properties in an Object
I mean for a split second I thought "Wow, they were charging for their service, this is nice". I guess that isn't enough anymore. You pay them and then they also get paid by selling you. What a world we live in.
Many companies still have tons of job openings right after the day of their layoffs. You could argue they might be hiring different positions, but it's somewhat odd.
That is what tipped me over the edge for this little rant. I've talked to a lot of folks who don't have a background in the data ecosystem and want to do fairly mundane things ("copy data out of a parquet file into a regular text file") and just hit this wall where they have to learn to deal with edge case after edge case.

The person in that comment, they didn't choose to get this dump of data in this format, but now they have to contend with it, and it sucks that he - someone who's a very capable dev - had to spend to much time on this problem.
I appreciate the caveats.

Notice I mentioned analytics use cases which is a subset of all the software engineering use cases. CSVs have their place as a simple interchange format. They’ve been overextended to use cases they were never mean to support — I’m speaking out against these.

If you’re using CSVs for data work (outside of simple ETL) it a bit like saying let me write a relational database on top of flat text files as a data store.

Meanwhile the world has moved on to engines like Postgres. But no I’m going stick with my flat text format.
So here is the thing, if you have a 'safety net' you really don't have 'scarcity'. These effects manifest in the presence of the stress that you can't "undo" or may not survive the decision you make. That is what pushes the decision down into the "fight or flight"/"survival" part of your brain which is very focused on surviving "right now".

The book's entire premise is that you can end up making decisions in that mode that end up having worse outcomes.

We joke about companies that make choices to survive to the next quarter that end up killing the company long term, but it is the organizational equivalent effect.

Using the winter coat example, make it winter, you're homeless, and you have exactly $60 on you and two coat choices. If you buy the $60 coat you have to figure out how to get more money to eat, which could not pan out and you could starve, if you buy the $40 coat you know you can eat at least for a little while before you have to get more money. So that choice is survival based. If you get the expensive coat, then the next thing you work on is replacing your money supply. It either works and you survive or fails and you starve.[1]

One of the interesting things about basic income programs is that it provides a safety net which allows people to make better choices because they are not in survival mode.

Another revelation for me was that I had not previously realized that while I accepted people making bad choices under the influence of drugs or alcohol, it had not occurred to me that survival stress could be just as debilitating!

"Why did this person do this thing? Oh, they were drunk." that was easy but
"Why did this person make this clearly stupid choice? Oh, they afraid of dying." that wasn't at all understood by me early on.

[1] The reality will be somewhere in the middle but that is the nature of the human mind to see the worst outcomes as most probable.
Someone please acquihire Sean and his compiler! This guy is a once-in-a-generation polymath: an expert in compilers (obviously), GPUs (worked on CUDA at NVIDIA), physics and topography (JPL etc).

Buy the compiler, get somebody who could build you a nuclear reactor, drug discovery simulator and a GPU architecture. Deal of the century.
Epigenetic Theory of Aging
Better title: Image classification models suck at identifying nouns that they've rarely seen.

Crucial context:

- They're only looking at image models -- not LLMs, etc

- Their models are tiny

- A "concept" here just means "a noun." The authors index images via these nouns.

- They didn't control for difficulty in visual representation/recognition of these exceptional infrequent, long-tail "concepts."

If I didn't know an object's label, I too would struggle to identify/draw it...
In the current state of the world ethics is faked. Survival is everything. AI will be used for weapons and for power grab by politicians and billionaires (e.g. through mass manipulation). Gene "fixing" will be used by those who can afford it, 100%. Today everyone wants to be better, stronger and smarter. Otherwise you and your offspring (if any) are doomed to stay in lower castes of society for ages. Be sure the top castes will arrange that.
Evidence on the presence and history of assortative mating
About the movie: It's amazing how much second guessing many / most of these works get. I get that this is a result of the budgets required (although Blade Runner wasn't a high budget movie) and (consequently?) the number of people involved but it's like nobody can resign themselves to trust the original vision (script, visual design) or trust the director. With test showings fraught with the risk of being poorly understood or grossly clumsy in the correction. Major works of art - that must rely on general public ticket sales.

For me, this is one of the movies I re-watch periodically simply for the visuals - the work done on the setting in concept art and the glorious result in turning that into film. "The kind of place the crew of Alien live in when on shore leave", sure, but just a fresh look and well implemented. Certainly hugely successful on that.

Any recommendations on creative fresh looks in recent SF movies? Say the past 15 years?

Mortal Engines was fresh, silly, and fairly well done. And silly.

The Zero Theorem was quirky and worth mentioning... but... too half-assed and grunge, used-furniture that's been done many times?
> "its purpose is to help ChatGPT users more easily discover and engage with publishers’ brands and content."

What end user actually wants this? I've never in my life woke up and said, "You know what, I'd love to 'engage' with a corporate brand today!" or "I would love help to easily discover Burger King's content, that would be great!" The euphemisms they use for 'spam' are just breathtaking.
skitter -- the leading X should be pronounced as the reverse of the trailing X. Xylophone, xenon, xray.
and then they use the output of chatGPT to train their open models
There's no way this doesn't backfire. OpenAI has no moat, so making the bot/api a shill just means people are going to use something else.

GPT5 would have to be an order of magnitude better on the price/performance scale for me to even get close to this.
> A llm is biased by design

I don’t think some bias is inherently in models is in any way comparable to a pay to play marketing angle
would have been a great article if used metric. I cant imaine what 100 inches is, let alone 1000 inches
It’s amazing how fast OpenAI succumbed to the siren’s song of surveillance capitalism.
I think you're in for a rude awakening. The software engineering field will be an unrecognizable landscape 5-10 years from now and you'll be looked at like the guy who codes in text edit with no ide if you arent using some form of an AI to generate code -- notice I said generate, coding from scratch will be a thing of the past also.
Speak for yourself. I was the one who made the original taboo comment and you are simply putting tons of words in my mouth.

There are much simpler, much more solid mechanistically scientifically associations that are still taboo to discuss that imo have nothing to do with race (race isn't even a real thing).

For instance, a common argument I hear is that "standardized tests are just testing affluence" because the correlation between parental income and standardized test performance is so high. It seems pretty obvious to me that there are potential heritable confounders there, but I would never feel comfortable discussing this publicly.

It's also frustrating because people will strongly implicitly weight the evidence by what they want to be true. Anything contrary to what they want to be true gets much stricter scrutiny than the reverse. For instance, "there is good science to support significant effects of environmental factors, so it's not like we're missing a lot" is simply not an accurate statement of the science. Measurable environmental factors don't explain even remotely close to everything. A lot (or all of the remaining) could just be random variance, but the idea that there just isn't much variance left to explain otherwise is absurdly wrong but people want it to be true.
> "Level up" is about printability, not material characteristics of the end product.

You think that. The people in forums who go "I never print in PLA" despite it having advantageous material properties for some use cases (it's very stiff, for example! sure, it snaps hard, but it's strong until then) do not.

Printability and usefulness aren't on the same axis, but when it comes to FDM materials, a lot of people do.
no dependence on a third party
I agree with him on the notion that we have no 'free will' to speak of. In the end, we are just physical beings that must operate according to cause and effect, whether we are 'compelled' or not.

Sound depressing, but that gives us incredible freedom to investigate causes of human misery and correct them.
Amtrak will never be successful until they can control their scheduling. During my last (and perhaps final) attempt to take the train from Saint Paul, MN to Madison, WI - the train was six hour late arriving in Saint Paul. I could have driven the same distance and arrived at my destination before I even stepped foot on the train to depart.
Wealth is correlated with conscientiousness.

Conscientiousness is partially heritable.

The bankruptcy rate for former NFL/NBA/Music superstars and lottery winners is significantly higher than that of trust fund babies.

Make of that what you want.
Hybrid Basic/ASM Programs on Commodore 64
> Additionally, members of the program receive priority placement and “richer brand expression” in chat conversations, and their content benefits from more prominent link treatments.

Hi, the future called and it's been enshittified.

Hey, OpenAI! You could harness AI to give every child a superhuman intelligence as a tutor, you could harness AI to cut through endless reams of SEO'd bullshit that is the old enshittified internet, you could offer any one of a hundred other benefits to humanity...

...but NO, you will instead 100% stuff AI-generated content, responses to questions, and "helpful suggestions" full of sponsored garbage in the most insidious of ways, just like every other braindead ad-based business strategy over the past 25 years.

If this is your play, then in no uncertain terms I hope you all fail and go bankrupt for such a craven fumbling of an incredible breakthrough.
Would you not like it if you didn’t self host?

If I’m being honest if it is a big issue to self host but it’s value to developers is obvious and apparent why not pay?
I would double down on your claim and say 99.9% of JS devs don't review dependencies. Also 100 years ago almost zero doctors washed their hands. The majority of people in a profession doing something does not make it any less negligent.

My customer base is almost exclusively companies in industries like Fintech where giving strangers the ability to push any code they want to production is undesirable.

In one case, the customer has their own internal team review all dependencies -and- has my team review them, and only adds a dependency to the allow list that get a thumbs up from both.
Love this and am tremendously impressed by this team's persistence. Congrats on the launch!
I have a mountain of links that I’ve posted before and at need can link to again.

These are bad people. I’ve known about Altman’s crimes for over a decade and I’ve failed to persuade Fidji (who I’ve known for 12 years) of them at any weight of evidence.
For a similar device (with a different UI) check out the Woovebox. I love mine as a portable groovebox and I'm experimenting with having it be the brain of my dawless setup.

Would buy or build one of these in a heartbeat.
You need to be more specific. Keyboard shortcuts aren't usually something people think about on websites.

But if you're releasing a desktop application, then you're better off setting up the infrastructure to support keyboard shortcuts now rather than later down the line.

And for the love of God, make them customizable (even as simple as a JSON file) otherwise you're always going to have frustration from users using unusual keyboard, setups, other countries, different IMEs etc.

You also have to think about your target demograph and the expected workflows around your product. Is your product designed to be used a few times a week, or is it something that needs to constantly be used and there's dozens of mouse clicks associated with every action?
As I understand it, pretty sure that is impossible. When it is input a single datum, sure, trivial. As soon as it is fed a second one though the weights are already a kind of blend of the two tokens (so to speak).
Why is this flagged? I would like to hear the reasoning from at least one of the people flagging it...
Especially for interactive sessions, it absolutely should! :)
Does this matter? Yes, there's a lot of waste. But you also have a 1Gbps link. Every second that you don't use the full 1Gbps is also waste, right?
Literally anything in the document could out them. Color, font, word choice, numbers, etc. OpenAI fired two researchers this year for leaking information, likely watermarked resources. OpenAI takes this seriously
thanks. this worked
> Why would anyone use chatgpt if it spams you?

Google would suggest people have an incredibly high threshold for such shenanigans
Im saying that there is no difference, and most of the arguments around fee will and responsibility are distinctions without a difference.

Individual choice happens if someone believes in an extra-physical soul or not. It happens if you believe in determinism or not.

The question of if someone could have made a different choice is meaningless without an argument for why someone would make have a different choice.
RIP. I haven't had any issues like that yet; but I've also barely used it out of that exact fear.
This looks super interesting.
I had an idea to make something like this 2 years ago when I was super into PKMS' but AI wasn't as advanced back then.

What would you say have been the biggest challenges bringing this to life?
I imagine the write calls show up pretty easily as a bottleneck in a flamegraph.
Many retail power utilities in the US allow each customer to choose a single rate or a time-of-use rate. I think in both cases prices are set and published months in advance.
> The main reason this therapy isn't available is because the FDA has decided that the risks of gene therapy aren't worth the benefit of curing color blindness. I agree with that evaluation, but I also think mavericks should be allowed to try curing their own colorblindness (assuming they had informed consent and paid for the therapy themselves).

In what way do you agree with that evaluation then? The FDA certainly doesn't force anyone to undergo a treatment. And my understanding was the FDA doesn't decide who pays for a given treatment. In particular I don't think they define what medical insurance companies (or Medicare/Medicaid) have to pay for, do they? I think they just say whether the treatment is ethical to be performed at all. So when you say that mavericks should be allowed to try it, I think you're simply disagreeing with them?
With publishers' brands. This is not about getting Burger King ads in your ChatGPT responses, it's about getting NYT and Ars Technica's content into (and linked from) ChatGPT responses.
gym route is also important and heavily used
Sure, but you could probably still find someone with a deep understanding of the tech who is not directly working in the field.

Or. Maybe you can't - the article also mentions how the US still lacks a CTO and they've tried to find one for the entire Biden administration.

My main issue is that policy makers love to...make policies. Which is exactly what EO14110 is all about. My major concern is that the US is going to box itself in with these regulations, and lose the race to China(or others), and our lives will ultimately be much worse because of it.
I'd be surprised if they can use all of C++'s advantages in a freestanding environment. Even Rust struggles there though at least it's a first-class option.
A few colleagues are fully enthralled by Hubermann, I forwarded the hit-pieces about his infidelities, the colleagues did realize that humans need more than drink green goo and see morning sunlight to feel right :-p
Why would they care, when they can't see the animal suffering in front of their nose? When it's just something abstract in the newspapers sometimes, and it's more fun to watch Netflix or hang out with friends than read more about that?
That doesn't appear to be the case here; they have a pair of Airbus A330-900Neos for this purpose.

https://flyairsenegal.com/en/air-senegal-usa-operations-upda...

https://airlinegeeks.com/2021/09/06/air-senegal-flies-to-bal... has a photo of it on the ground at Toulouse, France.

(It is apparently a wet lease, though.)
We tend to define ourselves by our differences and I think this is especially true when it comes to close contacts - our family is the large comparator so often times you might hear "Well, I'm more short tempered than my father" from an incredibly calm person - and that contrast that they've observed may be quite correct from their perspective but measured against others it is a relatively less significant difference.
Things are always changing, new gaps forming. Is a lot of the low hanging fruit gone? Yea, but still a lot of opportunity out there.
Once every 50 years and 2 billion kilometers, it's a failing memory chip. But you can usually just patch around them, so no big deal.
One could argue that was by design. After all, Sam's other company is built around a form of global surveillance.
What 'leftist ideas' collapse?
I moved to the suburbs with the intention of having kids right after moving (and we did have one 1 year after moving). I suppose that I was young at one point in my life.
This sort of advertising feels a bit like the original AdWords from Google. They were text-only and unobtrusive and pitched as basically just some search results related to the content you were viewing, so they were sure to be relevant to you. And they pretty much were, for a little while. Then they morphed into full on annoying ads
The Forensics of React Server Components
We shouldn't penalize the internet at large because some developers write terrible code.
There have been studies against twins, separated at birth, that suggest there is a significant genetic component to personality [1]. To me, this seems obvious.

[1] https://www.apa.org/monitor/2015/01/double-life#:~:text=That....
Nagle doesn't save the derpy side from syscall overhead, but it would save the other side.

It's not just apps doing this stuff, it also lives in system libraries. I'm still mad at the Android HTTPS library for sending chunked uploads as so many tinygrams. I don't remember exactly, but I think it's reasonable packetization for the data chunk (if it picked a reasonable size anyway), then one packet for \r\n, one for the size, and another for another \r\n. There's no reason for that, but it doesn't hurt the client enough that I can convince them to avoid the system library so they can fix it and the server can manage more throughput. Ugh. (It might be that it's just the TLS packetization that was this bogus and the TCP packetization was fine, it's been a while)

If you take a pcap for some specific issue, there's always so many of these other terrible things in there. </rant>
Don’t forget BGP or running out of disk space without an alert.
I am not a religious person but I experience the Universe as a consciousness that pervades the entirety and contains all the intelligence required for it's operation. I agree with Erwin Schrodinger that "“The total number of minds in the universe is one. In fact, consciousness is a singularity phasing within all beings” and I call that singular consciousness God. Our brain does produce consciousness but tunes into it.

So you can see why I might vehmently disagree with people like Saplosky who attemt to reduce us to mere machines. How depressing, which is ironic, since Saplosky's Stanford lecture on depression really started me on the road out of my depression.
For me the most damning thing about Blade Runner is how much it comes alive during Rutger Hauer's monologue. Maybe it was intentional that the rest of the movie feels entirely emotionally dead, but it wasn't a good decision. It's a noir pastiche, but actual noir stories are lurid and sexy. Philip K Dick understood that, and all his books no matter how mind-bending have an element of pulp.
On the ios side of the world, the ipad 1 has old apps and runs ios 5.x. The ipad air2 is at 10.3.2 and will go only to 15.8.2. Stay old, keep your old apps.

I keep old hardware that still runs. They do the basics that I got them for: music scores and lots and lots of book and article reading. And I haven't read them all yet.

On the mac end:
Supposedly, 32 bit apps stopped running post Mojave.

No problem for old hardware that won't go past Mojave anyway, and I recommended sticking with Mojave to a friend who has 32-bit apps.

Older mac apps I bought all are downloadable from the app store if they show in the app store under my purchases.

And perhaps some are missing, if the apps shown have all been updated to run post-Mojave. I am actually trying to simplify things. (not easy for me)

On the ios side of the mac app store, a lot of apps from 2013 and before are not downloadable. So, no Wild Berries and Herbs app for me.

At least on a mac you can copy apps from the /Applications directory and sneakernet them. It seems that you need a third-party app to extract ios apps via a cable. Not going there.
Hi there! I recommend trying them out to see which one you like best :)
Does anyone know of a good way to enable TCP_NODELAY on sockets when you don't have access to the source for that application? I can't find any kernel settings to make it permanent, or commands to change it after the fact.

I've been able to disable delayed acks using `quickack 1` in the routing table, but it seems particularly hard to enable TCP_NODELAY from outside the application.

I've been having exactly the problem described here lately, when communicating between an application I own and a closed source application it interacts with.
As someone who is not an academic myself, but likes to listen to podcasts where academics discuss issues with each other, I often find that the conversations feel contentious, and sometimes they are, but the vast majority of the time the academics themselves feel like they're having a perfectly cordial and productive conversation. So I do think there is something to the idea that academic discussion comes across as being negative.
Hi! Max from Nixtla here. Those are users of our open-source libraries. nixtlaverse.nixtla.io, not users of TimeGPT.
I reject the framing.

We can't have it both ways. If we want model makers to license content they will pick and chose a) the licensing model and b) their partners, in a way, that they think makes a superior model. This will always be an exclusive process.