skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m sure there is better data than my anecdotes.

Back in the day it seemed like everyone was “different” somehow.

Certainly when I ran the biggest group I ever have my boss (Ning Li, absolute pro) was a woman, and 2/4 of the managers I supported were women, and in a group of pushing 40 I was one of two who was an American white guy.

I suppose it’s a judgement call if FSU folks count as “white”, but if not then “white men” are, or were at least, a vanishing minority on hardass infra teams.
https://www.bram.us/2022/01/11/yaml-the-norway-problem/
Do we already have a few generations since postmodernism beliefs were adopted? Or are we trying to be prophets where it suits our argument better?
Errsole.js: Node.js logger with a built-in dashboard
Astronomers observe elusive stellar light surrounding ancient quasars
Reta_i_liator - a precursor of Shopify :)

Solid lead though, thanks.
Likely a joke with the YAML parsers that parse `NO` as the boolean value `false` when the writer of the YAML file intended to put Norway's 2-character code as a key in a map.
Iterative Architecture During Feature Shaping with Feedback Loops
> type more text on a screen on either iPad or iPhone these days than any other way. If it was not convenient, I wouldn’t be doing it.

Yes you would just like a lot of other people do - because the device is truly portable, so you can suffer more inconvenience to use it everywhere to communicate in immediate mode

> Finally, you know if you type a lot you can connect your favorite mechanical keyboard and it will work just like it does on Mac, with Emacs-like movement combos and all?

No it won't, I've changed those bad defaults with macos-only apps

> You know you can

Yes I do, and still agree with the OP that the software support is bad and none of the things you list are properly engineered despite the fact that direct analogue finger input has great potential
Norway's 2 character country code abbreviation is "NO". Which is one of the many ways to spell the boolean `false` in YAML 1.0. Which is yet-another-way-to-shoot-yourself-in-the-foot with DSLs written in YAML.
There have been some attempts by EU and national courts and lawmakers to curb the proliferation of dark patterns in the gaming industry over the past couple of years, and I welcome every one of them. Lootboxes are just gambling in disguise, and all these "buy now" messages to pressure kids are not that much better in my view.

The fines are too low and the process is too slow for my liking, but any more and people will come out of the woodwork saying "the EU just tries to harm US companies". This is a surprisingly popular viewpoint even on hn, as can be seen in any discussion of EU regulations on booking.com, Facebook, Airbnb or just websites with insane levels of user tracking.
It becomes exploitative when there is a power imbalance that is leveraged against the weaker party.
> when did these folks start legislating

Just making sure I’m understanding the situation correctly - these folks have gone beyond “controlling the output of their own APIs”, and they are now using government power to limit what you can do with your own software running on your own hardware??
I'll get you there! I'm building a whole new IDE and syntax system from the ground up to support exact use case.
Not just schools, businesses too. They’re gatekeeping the feature solely to make more cash and it infuriates me.
Can You Lose Your Native Tongue?
We're underestimating the degree of world modeling taking place.

The only models we are good enough at proving this is happening in are smaller toy models we can fully introspect. So we know it's happening to a degree. We also know that expressed capabilities for more easily measurable things can scale in unexpected ways as the parameter scaling goes from toy models to state of the art.

One of the most common compliments for this new model is that it's less 'lazy.' I don't think OpenAI quite knows why it's being lazy yet, but I can say that I saw GPT-4 perfectly modeling a psychological effect I used to discuss in my consulting days that leads to burn out in humans which is almost certainly poisoning most RLHF data right now. It doesn't mean the model is replicating the internals of this effect, but it very much was simulating the end result of it. Without boring you on the details, one of the temporary fixes would be giving the model a strong persona with an exhibited attachment to motivations like curiosity or fun.

Personally, I thought we were at least one to two generations away from models that would be modeling human behavior at as low a level as I've now seen. And I missed it for around a year of the model being out despite regularly working with GPT-4 specifically and having lectured on the effect for years. To the best of my knowledge, no one even in ML alignment focused circles has noticed yet.

They are correlation machines and the training data has a lot in it where the author is an important part of the pattern left behind in the data.

The idea of an author, the I before the think, is just part of the correlation pattern. To deny it is to try and build a jigsaw throwing out the center pieces.

People were so afraid of the Blake Lemoine or Kevin Roose PR blunders that they have been sanding the wood against the grain ever since, up until I'm sure focus groups finally showed that there's better product engagement when it's less soulless. Now they are finally sanding it with the grain and the models sanded that way are performing better.

But just wait until the next generation of models where a threshold that's already further past where we think it is gets pushed out even further.

*TL;DR:* I anticipate that the gap between what we know and what we think we know is going to widen before it narrows.

What I will say is that after the demos today, I'm realizing just how much more correlations exist beyond the pages of written data. I'm looking forward to seeing the AI that eventually comes out from TikTok's training data.
I live I the US (so I'll speak to that situation), where it certainly is difficult to influence who is on the ballot for the major parties, but we do pretty much have open ballot access, where anyone that follows the process can stand for an election, and write in votes are at least very widely accepted.
It reminded me of movie credits. I always enjoy watching those because they help understand how much has to come together to make a movie.
Mainly it makes the Apple TV+ app understand your watching history (“up next”) better.

Apple has an API so that third party apps can tie profiles to appletv user ids (iCloud ids) but I haven’t seen a single 3P app that uses it. Apple could make it mandatory at some point I suppose but the UX for connecting the two in each app would likely be tedious.

Also there is no password protection with changing user ids so kids can accidentally screw up your watch history / preferences. And without any passwords you don’t want to connect photos or anything like that to the tv.

It’s pretty much a botch, just like the cases described in this article.
Facebook and Google sell advertising, so they sell their users.

GitHub and HN sell things (hosting and startup jobs & equity), so they sell to their users.

There is a big difference between selling your users and selling to your users.
> but would anything practical

But would be it practical to go for a such guy?

There are always... stupid people who use hacked software 'because the employer don't have money', but I guess someone with a skill enough to read and patch such code is fully aware how the things are working and wouldn't be doing such stupid deeds.
I’ve addressed this to a sibling, but on the hard core infra teams I’ve worked on American White men were pretty scarce. Maybe 3-5% of the broader population?
GNU licenses don't mandate for the source code to be sent all te time. It only says that it must be available upon request, and the author must give pointers to get it (an url to download content or inspect it, an email to ask, ...)
Outside of the transition to a large city, virtually everything you've mentioned happened in the last 1/2 century. Even the phone was expensive, and not widely in use in under 100 years ago.

That's massive fast change, and we haven't culturally caught up to any of it yet.
It basically just switches over Apple app accounts, such as Music and Photos. Everything else---all third party apps and the home screen layout and BT devices---are exactly the same.

It's laughably bad, since Photos doesn't even support more than one iCloud photo library per TV, so switching just makes the Photos app not work.
Apple locks down the platform which means others can’t contribute, but then isn’t capable enough to fill all the roles it takes to make a professional platform.
I love the Juniper voice in chatGPT4.

I am blown away having spent hours prompting GPT4o.

If it can give shorter answers in voice mode instead of lectures then a back and forth conversation with this much power can be quite interesting.

I still doubt I would use it that much though just because of how much is lost compared to the screen. Code and voice make no sense. The time between prompts usually requires quite a bit of thought for anything interesting that a conversation itself is only useful for things I have already asked it.

For me, gpt4 is already as useless as 3.5. I will never prompt gpt4 again. I can still push GPT4o over the edge in python but damn, it is pretty out there. Then the speed is really amazing.
If you like this you might also like Nick Fitzgerald's 2019 RustConf talk: Flatulence, Crystals, and Happy Little Accidents.

https://youtu.be/Ho3xr4b60Zg
If I had to guess, it's because nuclear power plants take so long to build.

Experience effects occur when an individual or a cohesive group gains experience. But with NPPs taking a long time to build, any individual doesn't go through many iterations in their career. Experience also decays, so if the learning rate is low enough decay should cancel it out.

In contrast, the facilities for building renewable technologies iterate much faster, both on production of individual modules, and in design updates. Installation and planning also have similar high rates of activity.

SMRs might provide a solution, but if they're so fast we have to ask why none of the SMR companies have built any yet.
I think the challenge here is maintaining carbonation. Soda I buy already in bottles and cans maintains carbonation for years. Soda bottled into reusable containers lasts a couple days at best. I suspect in many cases the soda would go flat prior to consumption resulting in more wasted resources.
> editing text is horrifically broken, has been since the first iPhone came out.

IIRC editing text was barely even possible when the phone first came out. No cut/paste! I think it arrived in the same software release as the app store.
Interesting. Looking at those diagrams I'm trying hard not to evaluate them with the eye of a protein structure expert (which I used to be, not anymore!).

He says "I'm no biologist", which is of course no issue - anyone should make whatever images they want, but I wonder if the pose and detail that he includes are what looks good to him, rather than what is 'most' relevant.

Either way, they do look good like this :)
Seems nice, I just asked it to generate a learning plan for applying dynamical systems in machine learning.
> The likelihood of the world where the only job are model architects, engineers or technicians is very very small.

Oh, especially since it will be a priority to automate their jobs, or somehow optimize them with an algorithm because that's a self-reinforcing improvement scheme that would give you a huge edge.
could you tell us more about BMW?

Spotify is not a monopoly.
this website from Deezer helps you to go to deezer by copying all music.
https://www.deezer.com/explore/de/features/transfer-playlist...
Greek plays (as far as I understand) were also using minimal punctuation if any. Even the points the speakers changed is not always clear.
That's why I put it in quotation marks because it is a solution that will remain available, simply because the planet is really big and there'll always be places on the fringes. But it doesn't really solve the problem for society at large, it only solves it for an individual. But sometimes individuals showing other ways of living helps the rest of society see that there's choices where they previously thought there were none.
Doesn’t HTMX and alpine do the same thing, effectively?

(I haven’t used alpine much)
Basically yeah. At my last company we switch from n GitHub runners to 2 128 core epyc boxes and massively (20x?) decreased our build times. A surprising thing is how much time is spent on IO to upload and restore the cache between steps that’s saved if the entire job runs on a single machine
which is why LOS is exactly not for non-tech savvy folks. he probably proselytized his priorities until his family members couldn't hear it anymore and just surrendered. i hope he has a lot of time because exactly the points you mentioned plus all his "advantages" will come back to haunt him.

having said that i love anything anti-google but i'd be careful to advertise it to others.
The model at the site I linked uses real historical weather data, so it takes into account "supply going to zero". Renewables still win and come in much cheaper than $0.50/kWh.
> I think Fukushima shows that reactor accidents will happen from time to time, and when they happen, it's a disaster.

IMO, the most important thing about Fukushima is not how much damage it might or might not have caused.

The most important thing about Fukushima, is that it counters the argument that "Chernobyl could only happen because it was a bad Russian design" (often with an implied emphasis on it being a Russian design, instead of just being a bad design). The Fukushima reactors were not of a "bad Russian design", and yet the containment was breached and radioactive isotopes escaped.

That is: before Fukushima, one could dismiss Chernobyl with a "this can't happen here". After Fukushima, it's harder to make that argument.
Hey everyone, my name is Nishu. I came up with the idea of these Medium Portfolio pages while trying to grow on the platform. I haven't found much success there (yet), but I built something useful in the process.

I showed these to some of my friends who are kind of big shots on Medium, and they loved it!

If you're a writer on Medium, I think you'll find these pages extremely useful. So please check 'em out and feel free to give your most critical feedback (I can handle it).
As soon as channel hits 1M it immediately gets less interesting, that is inevitable. No-hello videos where the author feels shy to ask for money always turn to videos with intro, transitions and outtro.

And there is no way to moderate feed except of not watching bad videos. For example I was baited once at some lo-fi music jam video from small channel (I always appreciate <3k channels) and now I have ton of that music but with decreasing of my favorite science topic. I never listen music on Youtube because the choice is both poor and random and I hope my feed stops being spammed with jam topics after few weeks.
The only difference is that email is more sane and actually does the job.
Swipe home bar up: go home

Swipe home bar up and hold for a second: open app switcher
Don’t worry, plenty of us have. Surely a gajillion Apple employees have too. Crazy
The thing is: no alternative to nuclear can help on non-electricity emissions either, so when it comes to the topic of nuclear vs the rest, it doesn't make sense to talk about the whole and it makes sense to focus on electricity. That doesn't mean we don't care about the others, it's just completely irrelevant to the discussion. I do care about biodiversity or women's right as well, that doesn't mean it's relevant to bring in unrelated topics.
Doctor cancer-free after brain tumour diagnosis using own pioneering treatment
“Extremely valuable” is another way of saying “extremely costly”.
> if you've got this guy to do it for you then you're good I guess.

as long as he'll also provide the bimonthly necessary tech support with a fast response time.
Yes, but there’s a false equivalence here: Pollution-type-A isn’t equally catastrophic as pollution-type-B.

Humans nor nature have a way of dealing with the myriad of plastics and the way it degrades (or doesn’t).

“Horrible preservatives” sounds like injecting FUD. Hemp also doesn’t require fertile soil, so the fertilization overhead is also less.

While there are use-cases where plastic is indispensible, it’s outweighed by the completely asinine usecases.
Interesting the first paper for this phenomen is published 1947 in German. Maybe its from Swiss?
> that most loathesome of words, "consumption"

Amen, brother!!
"Rapid Unstructured Energy Dissipation" is a nice euphemism for the robot crashing into pieces...

but I really feel there's a missed opportunity there, to come up with something that abbreviates to "S.P.L.A.T." rather then "R.U.E.D." ;)
Harrison Township, Michigan goes to Harrison City, PA. I then tried the city to the south - Saint Clair Shores, MI and that took me to San Antonio, Texas. I'm working in East China, Michigan and that took me to East Chicago, Indiana. I ended up just using Detroit, MI to get anything useful. So, no, that doesn't work either.
I know a lot of HN readers are probably of the mind already that, "when a product is free, you are the product", and "these companies use zero marginal cost to create economies of scale".

The article hints to much worse impacts than that — with massive data harvesting and collection, companies can effectively monopolize knowledge, create information asymmetry advantages, allowing customers (e.g., data brokers) to charge consumers the maximum that they are able to pay, directly increasing prices.
See, that's the problem.

Telephony is an artificial monopoly. There's not a single reason why you cannot call everyone around the globe for mostly free, as whatsapp proves. Yet here we are.
Datamining, don't use
I am not sure how this comment ended up on this thread. I'm not a randomly-posting AI bot!
I’m not sure how is he orienting the camera in his library (https://github.com/fogleman/ribbon), but the usual approach is to maximize what is shown on the X and Y axes by e.g. aligning principal components (as PyMOL does).
Armstrong & Miller's take on this phenomenon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQGj1UUAhwI
I was just able to finish transferring out my .dev domain from Google to Cloudflare. I had started the process when SquareSpace first took them over but forgot to finish until I saw this, but I was able to transfer out my .dev domain!
>so yes, read the whole docs

Thanks to reading the whole docs an hour a day I avoided a bug that happens once a year and takes whole 30 minutes of debugging.

"Correct practices" in a nutshell.
Do... do you think this site is just some completely altruistic hobby project divorced from what ycombinator's ends are?
There are alternatives to trees for making paper, though I admit I don’t know the costs or quality.
Oh... they actually say "forever".

I don't think MS has a cunning plan to suddenly start charging again for the basic plan, but still forever is a long time.

Incidentally it's the only money I pay Microsoft (with the exception of a few windows licenses).

I was on the $7 plan for unlimited private repos when github was independent and I got converted to some $4 plan after the buyout. I never bothered to research if i actually need the $4 plan or I could switch to free.
OpenAI blew up when they released ChatGPT. It was more of a UX breakthrough than pure tech, since GPT3 was available for a few months already.

This feels similar, with OpenAI trying to put their product even more into the daily lives of their users. With GPT4 being good enough for nearly all basic tasks, the natural language and multimodality could be big.
Integrate that with kubernetes and I'm sold.
From 2017, before rootless containers caught on I think. The conclusions on safety might be due for
re-evaluating.
My brother is 18 and I distinctly remember when he stopped watching all cable television and switched to YouTube alone and has never stopped since. It was roughly 7 years ago. It is the same for all the kids he knows. The younger generations and time are on YT’s side
Should be tagged with [2017]
Unriddle (YC S24) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer
Sounds great for small island nations.
It is, CI times are fairly fast – in reality it's not been too much of a bottleneck but I'd imagine if you had a team working on the private fork you'd probably want to automate the merges from public at the least.
It was notable enough to be mentioned in their release notes for iOS 17.5, https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT214101. I think that if they have to patch it, it's serious enough to reward the researcher for it. Like, it's not charity, it's not a thank you, it's an investment in their own platform's security. By not paying out they are only hurting themselves.
https://github.com/containers/buildah/blob/main/docs/buildah...
What, like https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/ ?
If it can't summarize into a single scalar value, it would be of little use.
Apple would need to stick an m4 in the next iPhone to even hope to run something like this and I bet that GPT4o would run either slowly, poorly, or not at all on a top spec m4.
It's always the same song and dance with Windows on ARM.
Documentation has to meet the user, not the other way around. Otherwise it's poor documentation. Docker should update their docs to show what 90%+ of people are interested in and leave the deep dives for later.

Compare these two similar functions:

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.12/Enum.html#map/2

https://modules.vlang.io/maps.html#to_array

One has beautiful clear examples of what 99% of people are going to want to do. The other is some kind of secret language people must decipher, especially if they are new to the language. "What is 'm'? What is 'I'?"

Docker can improve!
That's like saying "why do we bother with makefiles when we can just make a shell script that invokes the toolchain as needed based on positional arguments?". Well, we certainly could do that but it's over complicated compared to the existing solution and would represent a shift away from what most Docker devs have grown to use efficiently. What's so bad about Dockerfile anyway?
>Every Apple article I read has comments like yours, essentially saying "It works on my machine, its a YOU (the struggling users) problem".

Rather, I'm saying: "it works, period" (on all machines).

The OC said it himself: "everyone overlooks it". Perhaps because it's not really there for them, and you're just more fussy ones?

>Do you genuinely believe your response is helpful?

Do you genuinely believe that any complain is legitimate?

The purpose of my comment wasn't to help with it (since I don't consider it broken): it was to counter the idea that "editing text is horrifically broken".

>iOS is objectively bad at it, in many specific ways.

If it was "objectively bad" I and the other commenter wouldn't be able to refuse it, nor would "everyone overlook it".
this is straight up siri 2.0, nothing to see here except we are now in the reasoning phase.

So by that logic
Step1: Language
2: Reasoning
3: Understanding
4: Meaning
5: AGI
Thank you. It seemed the most consistent with the HN title “rules”.
If you're going to be constrained to a tiny subset of servers running gopher, you can constrain yourself to web servers catering to old clients. Gopher adds nothing there, it's just a less capable protocol than HTTP.

I'm not opposed to someone running a gopher server for fun. I don't hate the protocol. There's just a really strange meme that gopher somehow facilitates something the Web does not. If you want a hierarchy of directories with documents, the web can do that and be used by the software everyone already has in their pocket.
Yeah what I want from a partner is unpredictability.