skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There definitely are more options than applications reading and writing character streams, you’re just not even considering them because you’re too entrenched in the environment you’re familiar with. Take Powershell for example; the syntax may be horrible, but the way it passes structured data is truly different and way ahead of classic UNIX shells. The design space is huge; just dismissing any possible improvements before even sitting down and thinking properly is frankly not a good strategy.
I’m on Mounjaro and it’s pretty crappy. Works great, lost around 70lbs so far in around 8-9 months but it makes me feel pretty sick and other side effects are no fun. It’s especially not good that it’s so hard to get ahold of and you have to build a tolerance to its more negative side effects. So when my pharmacy leaves me hanging for a few weeks, or a month at a time and I have to then go right back to the max dose, the ride is even less fun.

I would love to have more energy too. I hope this clears trials soon.
I was explaining this to a friend who's a top-shelf cabinetmaker.

He was telling me how he would sell high-quality cabinets to homeowners, basically by building a "dream kitchen," that far exceeds their budget, then backing down, by removing features, until they have something that exceeds their original budget, but would still be quite good, and that they want.

He was saying that I should use his methodology.

I explained that his sales are to the people that would actually use the cabinets, so they have a vested interest in high quality.

In my case, I would be working for a business that absolutely doesn't care about quality. They want the cheapest, shittiest garbage they can possibly get away with pushing. They don't use it, and many of them won't even be responsible for supporting it, afterwards, so there's no incentive for quality.

The same goes for corporations that don't try to retain talent. If someone is only going to be around for eighteen months, they are paid well, and they are pressured to produce a lot of "stuff," then you can expect them to produce a lot of ... stuff. They don't give a damn about supporting it, because they are already practicing LeetCode for their next gig.

I have found that giving people a vested interest in Quality is essential. That often comes from being responsible for taking care of it, after it is released, using it themselves, or having their reputation staked on it.

I don't feel the current tech industry meets any of these bars.

Most of the software I write, is stuff that I use, and I am intimately involved with the users of my work. I want it to be good, because I see them, several times a week. Also, I have a fairly high personal bar, that I won't compromise. I have to feel good about my work, and that doesn't seem to sell.
It's not hypocrisy. These people aren't these ones advocating for cypherpunk. They are mostly wallstreet bros that have carved a lucrative market. They see stealing from others as completely fine, but if people do the same thing to them which they're doing to others they throw a hissy fit and use their connects to make an example and set precedent.
Any AI personal assistant that is working for me should do everything short of illegality to protect any information about me, or what I do, that I haven't explicitly told it I want to be shared, and with whom.

You might say that's crazy, but that's just Overton. It's the expectation we have of librarians (and that they have of themselves.) It took PATRIOT to erode that norm (and many others.)

Right now, that at the least means running it locally, although that's not going to be sufficient.
> they got hustled, they cry foul, and the DOJ is going to spend huge amounts of money litigating their case?

Do we know how the case originated? I similarly agree this seems bizarre. It’s probably illegal. But unless it’s setting an important precedent it seems like a waste of public money.
Never having activated Facebook or any similar service make one immune to 'fake news' in that it becomes just one more concept being bandied about by propagandists. Some of it is clearly nonsensical, other instances are facts which happen to inconvenience those who apply the 'fake' label - Hunter Biden's laptop, Ashley Biden's diary [1], etc.

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ashley-biden-diary-claims/
What an idiotic article - we surveyed a bunch of people and because their answers didn't correspond exactly with the title an an emoji we concluded that they were, in some way, wrong/confused about it. Regardless of whether or not, in certain contexts, people actually use that very emoji to convey some of the 'wrong' sentiments.

This has the air of science research conducted by a 12 year old blogger and dressed up as content.
They've invented multiple TCP replacements to reduce page latency. Remember SPDY?

Not to mention improvements to TCP itself (BBR congestion control).

This is really sad. Seems like a product team throwing many tens of millions of dollars worth of performance research out the window.
I think multicursor vs macro is basically a case of whether the feedback is instant, rather than delayed.

Multicursor (in other editors) is a lot better, because you don’t have to think about which exact motion to use as much (since you can see it as you do them).

On the other hand, macros and vim motions are a lot more general, but require you to think about the exact motions a lot more ahead of time.

I think substitution (and command) previews (vs not having these features when substituting) is a good parallel to what multicursor adds over just macros.
Should we expect the rise of the descriptivist emojians vs prescriptivist ones?
> Depending on the age of your friends and the context, that could be causing misunderstandings too.

That's why I only use it with my friends. The meaning in my social circle is very clear because we all use it for exactly the same purpose.

Of course emojis aren't the only ambiguous communications. Words can be as well, although you can almost completely eliminate ambiguity with words. It's hard to do that with emojis.

> emoji are very often used to clarify the meaning of text.

My observations are that outside of the most basic emojis, they are more likely to confuse me than to clarify.

I really do, 100%, understand why people use emojis. Honest. I'm not saying they're bad and shouldn't be used.

I'm just saying that (outside of the basic ones) I find them to be misleading and confusing so much that I don't dare use them and gave up putting in the work trying to decipher ones when their meaning isn't immediately obvious to me.

No harm done. People can use emojis all they want, and when people use them with me, I certainly don't comment about it. I'm often not fully understanding their meaning, but that's actually fine. If it's something important, they're very likely to say it in other ways as well.
I used Manjaro before Arch, but I've never even heard of Retardutide.
Really cool - I'm looking forward to reading through this. Since you mention, Crafting Interpreters, how would you compare this guide to that?
Trying to get 10 people to agree which is the best chocolate ice cream is closer to the quality problem.

I appreciate the scatological approach, though. And most of the time when I hear the word "quality," it's said in anger that could easily be communicated by flinging poo . . .
> But unless it’s setting an important precedent

It is
Chronos v14 – Updated server health monitoring tool
Cannot be complete without a reference to Wat

[https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat]
Ironically, the age group experiencing the highest amounts of loneliness are young adults aged 18-34. The American Psychiatric Association reports that 30% of the people in this age group experience chronic loneliness.

People in the 35-65 age bracket aren't fairing much better.

Most unexpectedly are the people who are 65 and older: only 22% of them experience chronic loneliness.

I would have thought that loneliness would increase as one got older and that the 18-34 age group would be the least lonely. Boy did I get that wrong! Completely backwards in fact!

If we're making bots to help lonely people, then it'd be nice to have some regulations around the behaviors they'd be encouraging, discouraging, and the handling of potentially very sensitive personal information. At the minimum, there should at least be bot-user privilege that law enforcement can't subpoena. We should start looking at these bots as therapeutic entities and start treating them, and regulating them, appropriately.
A big part of the problem is illustrated by the fact we are now trained to google e.g. even basic information about our own podcast. Big tech gets so much more out of us than we get out of them - their products are entrenched largely by perception. You can use another search engine. Open a spreadsheet from your Documents directory. Run 7-13B models yourself with llama.cpp. Save a bookmark. Wait three seconds. Whatever you need to do you can do. The data brokers, ad men, media corporations etc. now identified as "the technology industry" are (explicitly) in the business of wasting precious time, not saving it.
One bit that stood out to me:

"Strategic Incompetence — The best way to to make sure that you are never asked to do something again is to royally screw it up the first time you are asked to do it."

I haven't read the full article thoroughly, but this is a good "life hack" thing to keep in your back pocket. Use with care.

A flip side to it: if you want to get someone else to do things for you, tell them they're really good at it, even if they're not especially (only works with certain personalities :)

I feel like at some point you need to come clean about these things, though. Otherwise, you start stringing yourself up with a web of lies.
Thank you so much for doing this!- You're awesome!
Remix is a great framework and I recommended it over Next.js. Also, pay no attention to all the haters here, it's just the usual anti-React HN mindset.
LLMs aren't trained in English with the same granularity that you and I are.

So my analogy here stands : OP was trained in "reading human language" with Roman letters as the basis of his understanding, and it would be a significant challenge (fairly unrelated to intelligence level) for OP to be able to parse an Arabic sentence of the same meaning.

Or:

You learned Arabic, great (it's the next language I want to learn so I'm envious!). But from the LLM point of view, should you be considered intelligent if you can count Arabic letters but not Arabic tokens in that sentence?
So is React Router a framework? Confusing.
I have chosen to use another search engine, which I pay for. There are other alternative that are free and definitely good enough for a common usage.
Israel is way more a European culture than it is Middle Eastern.

This really is not a productive line of thinking, you know. As the Palestinians keep saying -- it make no difference to them where the settlers came from, or what their culture is.

If anything it seems to indicate an unusual fixation on (what you perceive as) the essential traits of Israelis. Which in turn feeds into the right-wing propaganda that all serious criticism of Israeli policy and/or Zionism is fundamentally dishonest and driven by you-know-what. It's like candy to them, in fact.

The only reason Australia participates is because of the shared European culture.

Then start a campaign to have Australia booted out of Eurovision. Go ahead and shout down their performers every time they take the stage, whatever you gotta do. But if that's the only substantive point you have against Israel's participation -- it's an awfully weak one. And again, suggests a weird and lopsided fixation with the topic.

[Morocco has] not participated since probably because of poor cultural fit.

Their music is infinitely better than almost anything that makes it to the perennial Schlockfest that is Eurovision, for starters. But we digress here.
Related. Others?

Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24586831 - Sept 2020 (9 comments)

Marc Andreessen on productivity, scheduling, reading habits, work - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24534674 - Sept 2020 (99 comments)

Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19357028 - March 2019 (68 comments)

Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6974035 - Dec 2013 (1 comment)

The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5098744 - Jan 2013 (1 comment)

Marc Andreessen’s Productivity Trick to Feeling Marvelously Efficient - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4690262 - Oct 2012 (42 comments)

Marc Andreessen - Guide to personal productivity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=886015 - Oct 2009 (27 comments)

The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26385 - June 2007 (2 comments)
Abstractions are layered a specific way, though. Layering upon something suboptimal will always be limited by the suboptimal layer.

Ncurses or bubbletea et all may hide it from you, but they still only paint over the bumpy legacy wall below without being able to really improve on it.
Basically, by splitting the airflow into a shorter and longer channel, the slight delay in the longer channel cancels out the most annoying frequency.

It would be interesting if they stacked two or three together to muffle even more noise.
That's a lot of it.

The marks are also removed from their own support and defence networks, and have to rely on strangers.

There are any number of interesting consequences and manifestations of this. One that comes to mind is the development and prevalence of fast-food franchise networks (McDonalds, KFC, Jack in the Box, etc.) which largely co-evolved with the US Interstate Highway system. For the first time people were traveling long distances by automobile and needed identifiable foodservice options they could trust to at least offer consistent service. Similar effects in the hospitality sector with branded hotels and motels. Previously such services had almost entirely been local institutions, known to locals or the occasional transport workers (truckers, sailors) they served.

An interesting foreshadowing of the Interstate food/gas/lodging phenomenon developed on the passenger rail service of the Santa Fe, most especially that of the Harvey House chain of restaurants located at station stops and catering specifically to the rail passenger clientelle: a large passenger influx arriving on a (nominally) fixed schedule and requiring a full meal service within a specific interval during the train's station stop. The chain was launched in 1876 and grew to 45 restaurants (and 20 dining cars) in 12 states. I believe this was the first chain restaurant, literally strung along the rail lines:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Harvey_Company>
> “The pyramids seem like pretty monumental work”

You don't say...
Why does d3 not work for you if you just want to manipulate the svg directly? You can use it to generate or update arbitrary xml as far as I know.
It’s a matter of degree, not kind. I don’t think you could argue it’s a horse of a different color. That migrants literally rioted speaks to the depravity of the conditions.

That we inadvertently and indirectly influenced and inspired certain Germans to build their own kind of literal gas chambers modeled on those of the United States is not a matter of debate, is my point. That they took it “too far” is not our fault today, but it is all our shared legacy and responsibility to not dare repeat or enable.
>> rebelled-against emojis, meaning the emojis that people use for different meanings than what their title suggests they mean. The top emoji people don’t use as intended is the persevering face, with only 5% using it as intended and the majority using it to signify frustration

I’m willing to bet money that less than 5% of the people using the Eggplant emoji actually mean eggplant.
It's fine to have a philosophy, yes, but if GDPR and the right to be forgotten is not taken seriously enough[0] by a founder of a young product I'll have a hard time to see anything beyond just a mere marketing piece without any liability.

[0]: see sibling comment
Yes but you are trading off a lot of people with a one kind of disadvantage, dyslexia, for the benefit of very very few people with a motor skills disability that affects their ability to draw or manipulate an input device which is a different disadvantage. What's the acceptable ratio? One handless person enabled for every 100,000 dyslexics sidelined? Is that fair? How do you work out an acceptable tradeoff?

It is not a given that everyone can or should be enabled to do everything possible at any cost; people in wheelchairs can't be firefighters and we don't make all old subway lines fully accessible because it is incredibly expensive.

Disadvantaging a huge number of people for the benefit of very few has a societal cost.
but I saw others applying it to convnet and reporting good results.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40356296
So is this the case that the information is in the data set? Or the code is very well defined to be so small? As an outsider it's surprising that such a capable model can be so "simple".
Facial expressions are confusing and ambiguous too. Maybe the emojis are WAI
My experience using GPT4-Turbo on math problems can be divided into three cases in terms of the prompt I use:

1. Text only prompt

2. Text + Image with supplemental data

3. Text + Image with redundant data

Case 1 generally performs the best. I also found that reasoning improves if I convert the equations into Latex form. The model is less prone to hallucinate when input data are formulaic and standardized.

Case 2 and 3 are more unpredictable. With a bit of prompt engineering, they may give out the right answer after a few attempts, but most of the time they make simple logical error that can be avoided easily. I also found that multimodal models tend to misinterpret the problem premise, even when all information are provided in the text prompt.
Researchers manipulated Swiss public transport app for unlimited free rides
I use an upside-down smiley face to mean that something is not what it is. Especially if something is opposite of what is being said. Get it, upside down - opposite of normal smiley... And the fact that it is smiling smiley softens the tone as opposed to being aggressive. How on earth does somebody manage to see passive aggressiveness in it...
I would like to see a breakdown of the 13% who think of 'DASH SYMBOL' (U+1F4A8) as smoking because in my (second-hand!!) experience it's mostly vape bros and bowl-rollers who use it that way.
Storing nanoseconds as a double is probably the dumbest thing I've heard this week.
The lack of tools and historical documents that explain the feat. It is hard to believe that thousands of people made these monuments simply by using "pounding stones" to extract them from quarries.

Many construction theories otherwise paint a picture of a labor environment that's almost impossible to imagine.
A small noncryptographic PRNG (2007)
I am an Egyptian, I read about this years ago. But maybe they didn't have a solid proof back then.
This just screams arbitrary application of rules to an entirely new system. How can you enforce rules for something with such a murky definition of the actors and their actions? Sure it “looks like” old finance, but it most certainly isn’t.

This exercise of arbitrary rules on a murky, hardly even legally defined entirely new system, is why I can see the reasoning for something like defi to want to exist.
Egypt was "ridiculously fertile" but it also had a very short but intense growing season, and it was also completely dependent on the quality of the floods, not enough flooding and the fields would not hydrate, and you'd get a famine, too much flooding and it'd overrun the levees and destroy villages.
Peaker natural gas plants aren't that cheap. Batteries are competitive with peaker plants.
I'm working on something like this! It's simple in concept, but there are lots of fiddly bits. A big one is performance (at least, without spending $$$$$ on GPUs.) I haven't found that much in terms of how to tune/deploy LLMs on commodity cloud hardware, which is what I'm trying this out on.
There's just a lot more innovation and development in the offshoot projects than in the big projects. The main project is gradually agreeing on /some/ default key bindings for lsps, as seen in this release (core does a great job on neovim no offense meant there.)

In the same time, LazyVim and AstroNvim have built whole worlds of configuration and LSP integration because they are free to tinker, at a speed far outpacing core neovim. Because the core project wants/needs to cater to everyone. Even you said it was a straight upgrade (to Vim, I assume) and just keeping it that way is not easy.
Peach too
LLMs are deterministic with 0 temperature on the same hardware with the same seed though, as long as the implementation is deterministic. You can easily use the OpenAI API with the temp=0 and a predefined seed and you'll get very deterministic results
So much of the DeviantArt story reads like Tumblr. Two platforms appealing to amateur and small artists grow to great relevance among a patchwork of subcultures. Then, they start trying to turn a profit and end up alienating the entire userbase that carried them to that point. DeviantArt is much further down that road than Tumblr is, though. It's sad to see. Both platforms were key to the WWW of my childhood.

I wish the artists well in their AI copyright legal pursuits.
The paper's author speaks up in some episodes of the APL Campfire (https://apl.wiki/APL_Campfire):

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1VMeSzJLyE&list=PLYKQVqyrAE...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jBQ53cRi0s&list=PLYKQVqyrAE...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a65K-0jaWc4&list=PLYKQVqyrAE...
That's true for all countries, since every single one is located on a moving tectonic plate!

But some countries experience little "intra-country coordinate drift" per year, which can make local/regional geodetic datums attractive.

That approach wouldn't work for the US, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Andreas_Fault
> Blessing arbitrary "bUt I tHoUgHt It WaS aBuSe" complaints with the guns of the State is, the overwhelming majority of the time, not in a child's (or society's) best interest.

I can totally buy that it happens some of the time (and every time it's a tragedy), but the overwhelming majority of the time? I find it hard to believe. It's not like the US government has an unlimited CPS funding to meddle with every parents.
They should probably workshop that name a bit more.
This just came up in my browser for the first time today. Very distracting and not that useful. If I can't turn it off that is concerning.
Nvidia CEO says future of coding as a career might already be dead, due to AI
From my understanding as well, they didn't exploit a bug in Ethereum, but in the MEV bots' parsers. Hopefully all those Google searches for a Saul Goodman-esque Cryptocurrency lawyer will pay off.
Financial Table Extraction in Image Documents
> Keep in mind that the start of the industrial revolution predates the mass adoption of the steam engine

Well of course the start of it predated the mass adoption of steam engines, but as I understand it the start is generally considered to be when steam engines were first put to use pumping water out of coal mines, that water then being used to flood canals to transport the coal. That synergy was incredibly powerful, making cheap coal available in cities which allowed urban populations to rapidly grow, providing a workforce for the factories which would eventually (not initially) also be coal powered. That's the industrial revolution as I learned it.
>well, I got banned on twitter 3 times in the past 30 days

Do you know why? Your blog post seems thoughtful and interesting and doesn't include anything that seems ban-worthy.