skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might have seen this already, but Rachel By The bay has a few recent blog posts on how feed readers commonly get things wrong, and a service she's got to "score" your feed reader based on it's observed behaviour:

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/05/27/feed/

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/05/29/score/

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/05/30/fs/

Don't be "that guy" who releases software that once deployed widely creates "thundering herds" that knock unsuspecting websites down <glares at Mastodon>
Because petulant manchild thinks he is best car engineer on the planet. Its why FSD in its current state is such trash, its why a lot of the car is leaps and bounds better than most other cars, and basics that should have been accepted as learned lessons have to be relearned at the expense of the consumer and ridicule by the rest.

Autowipers do not work. Cannot work, will never work. My tesla can't see a full downed tree in my lane, gets spooked by dips in the road and pops collision alerts, how the hell would it see rain.

There are plenty of tasks that become impossible when using the wrong tools. It's like trying to move a lot of sand with a fork.
What's Musk going to if 1) Trump is reelected, and 2) he follows through on his promise to ban EV sales?
Good point, I think the issue for me is probably more of a lack of the ability to set manual wipers on a continuously variable schedule than just with autowipers specifically. I have no option that's good for the "misty" rain I described beyond hitting the "wipe once" button on the stalk every ten seconds.
It's more fun trying to guess.

Personally I think they're talking about Apple fanboys.
Or EV enthusiasts. Hard to tell.
I still practice DRY, but I try to not overdo it with unnecessary abstractions. More recently I've been practicing SPOT (Single Point of Truth). I interpret this in two ways. One, every piece of data should have a location that reigns over all others. It's okay to have duplicates of the data, such as caches, but any copies of that data should be treated as ephemeral and possibly inconsistent with the source of truth. Second, there is some overlap with DRY where some logic that answers a question or computes a result should not be duplicates. A specific function or class which computes something important, should probably not be duplicates, but implemented once and reused. A great example is authentication, you most likely should not duplicate code that checks whether a user is authorized to do something. In a sense, the code which computes whether a user is authorized in itself becomes a "source of truth".

There are still good reasons to DRY early on. Actions that need to be performed synchronously, rather than acquiring the same lock in several places, consolidate your code so you're so there's at most a few places you acquire and release that lock. Cache invalidation, having a single class for reading and writing some piece of data makes it much easier to keep the cache consistent.
Looks like it's a presentation transcription.
Picking one particular item hit by a tax in one locality is not a very useful anecdote for the general narrative
Just grug it out
I don't know why Steam would choose the name of an existing element. Why would they choose to confuse us like this?

(Just a joke about the LORA complaints that always come up)
+1 for novamin, it really does make your teeth feel smooth and glassy-like.
Interview with the Grugq [video]
Trivially multi-threaded benchmarks comparing 12 big cores vs 4 big / 4 little :/
>But it’s fine because their customers agree to keep beta testing while they figure things out on production cars.

This is the bottom line right here. It's the same with many other products too. It's not really wrong to run a business this way, because SO many customers apparently like it and continue to support these companies. Other examples are Microsoft and the ads it's baking into Windows, and Netflix and its price increases combined with feature degradation (like cracking down on password sharing in families).
Obviously it's not the $5, but the research that matters. We are beta-testing their vision based rain detection algorithm for them, for free (in fact we are paying $5 to test it).
this is superstitious nonsense. pex contains no pfas and is the least likely kind of plastic to create microplastics

it's disturbing that people saying things like 'I would bet that running a single load of synthetic clothes in the dryer creates more microplastic than making 1000 cut and crimped connections of PEX tubing.' get flagged to death as if they were spamming penis enlargement pills; that comment was obviously correct
But it can be done better with more sensors. Why handicap the technology? It seems to me like the compromise isn’t worth it here.

My phone can take my face scan in a room that’s pitch black, because it uses infrared sensors and a projection of dots. It’s able to check who I am, regardless of the natural light in the environment. If that technology was limited to “only a camera” it would be way worse.

A camera is cheaper than LiDAR. But it’s also less capable.

As best I can tell. Other cars just use a dedicated infrared sensor to detect the water? Seems like a weird corner to cut. Seems like tesla cut those in favor of just having other cameras attempt to fill in? But seems like that isn’t working.
Well then, I’d say it’s good it finally caught up to him!

Being well known for committing crimes and getting away with it doesn’t seem like a good thing.
> I suspect an emperors new clothes type of situation where employees are too terrified to state basic facts, like “we tested 20 ideas out but none worked

Or maybe the emperor is a "idea #16 is good enough for me" type of person?
It doesn't matter, Windows is insufferable. Like a giant advertisement pretending to be an operating system. They need to start again from scratch or just simply give up and ship Ubuntu
The rain sensor is the one component that I’m shocked they would just spend the $5.

It works so freaking well.
Steam should have been replaced with electric engines right away, bypassing whole combustion engine age.
Finally, I can see who is using this years Pantone style guide!
Actually I'm somewhat certain that the vehicle speed is determined by the motor RPM, the known reduction gear ratio, and a known tire size. That's why speed can be inaccurate if you switch to incorrectly sized tires.
You can think of the Jerk Threshold problem as one of a prisoner's dilemma with a (sufficiently large) extra term, which you can think of as some combination of personal guilt, societal punishment, and whatever positive prosocial instincts humans have.

In the classic prisoner's dilemma, your payoff is +3 if you defect and the other prisoner doesn't, +2 if neither of you defects, +1 if both of you defect, and 0 if you don't defect and they do. There's no Jerk Threshold in this problem - regardless of your opponent's behavior, in isolation, you are always better off defecting.

But let's add the extra Antijerk Term - call it A - that you pay to defect. This could be you feeling bad about defecting, or it could represent the chance that you face retaliation for defecting later, whatever - there's some slight cost to being a jerk. We can see how the Jerk Threshold changes.

Your payoff matrix is now [[2, 3-A], [0, 1-A]]. If your opponent has a probability p of defecting, you can compute:

E[cooperate] = p * 0 + (1-p) * 2 = 2 - 2p, with the former term corresponding to you getting screwed and the latter corresponding to cooperation.

E[defect] = p * (1-A) + (1-p) * (3-A) = 3 - 2p - A, with the former term corresponding to the defect-defect state and the latter one being you screwing them.

For A < 1, 2 - 2p < 3 - 2p - A, so you're still in a prisoner's dilemma. But for A > 1, the problem abruptly shifts into a cooperation game, because 2 - 2p > 3 - 2p - A for A > 1.

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In this case, the Jerk Threshold abruptly shifts from 0 to 1 (that is, nothing could make you cooperate -> nothing could make you defect). But in the real world, the A term varies depending on context. The A term with a friend is very high, because you have a lot of opportunity for retaliation and they'll feel especially bad screwing you over. The A term with a stranger you're somewhat hostile to is low (maybe even negative). And A varies from actor to actor - some of us have stronger consciences than others. So you end up with bubbles where there's a stable local equilibrium (because the A values are high internally and that maintains stable cooperate-cooperate equilibria) despite differences with the outside world.

Properly modeling this probably looks something like the Ising model [1] on some complicated social graph. Which explains why we see these kinds of phase transitions - most real graphs are dense enough to have them. The bubbles we just described correspond to magnetic domains, and the incentives not to cooperate while in contact with a defect-bubble (or vice-versa) correspond to the high potential energy of domain walls.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ising_model
I used to think it unlikely that ARM would take over Intel x86 on the desktop. Now I'm starting to believe that Intel's days are numbered.
I am greatly reminded of iDraw from my RPG Maker days, fun times.

I'll make a note to check this out. Also kudos for supporting Windows 7, even if one of your distribution channels no longer does.
It's worth pointing out how different this is from the previous narrative. Now they're saying "we don't think Sam can simultaneously do two strenuous full time jobs and still give each the full attention it deserves". Before it was "Sam is recklessly pursuing lines of research on the logic that a 51% chance of doubling the value of the earth and a 49% chance of wiping us all out is a positive expectation".
Is there a benchmark for how many times my laptop gets bricked after an OS update?
> Like even with cryptocurrency, there were a lot of people mistaking the issue of scalability - namely that "as a store of value" crypto would consume incredible amounts of other resources (and a lot of people got stuck trying to figure out how somehow "a hash" could be reclaimed for useful resources) to do less then alternatives, with "the energy usage itself is the problem".

To be fair, technology-wise they mostly solved this problem via proof-of-stake.

From an individual point of view you still expense enormous resources as a miner / validator in a proof-of-stake system. It's just that now the resources come in the form of lost opportunity costs for your staked tokens (eg staked Ethereum).

But from aggregated perspective of society, staked Ethereum is essentially free.

That has some parallels to how acquiring regular money, like USD, is something individuals spend a lot of effort on. But for the whole of society, printing USD is essentially free.

> Because environmentally, I can install solar panels to do zero-carbon training (and if LLMs are as valuable as they're currently being priced, this is a no-brainer - if people aren't lying about solar being "cheaper then fossil fuels").

There's still opportunity costs for that energy. Unless you have truly stranded electricity that couldn't be used for anything else.

> Finding optimizations for LLMs is good because it means we can build cheaper LLMs, which means we can build larger LLMs then we otherwise could for some given constraint, which means we can miniaturize (or in this case specialize) more capable hardware. The thing which really matter is, can the energy usage be meaningfully limited to a sensible scaling factor given the capability that makes them useful?

I agree with that paragraph. It's all about trade-offs. If we can shift the efficiency frontier, that's good. Then people can decide whether they want cheaper models at the same performance, or pay the same energy-price for better models, or a combination thereof. Or pay more energy for even better model
Similar to the 1000 interns question from the article, I've heard:

"if AGI was available via an API tomorrow, what would you build?"

And it's difficult to come up with a great answer. Certainly the summarization, classification, translation, named entity type tasks are a great start (in fact it's the main thing I use LLMs for). But surely there's a more impactful direction you could steer the tech. Even if the resource was just 1000 slightly above average interns.
Ha, maybe that's been an option for longer and I just never thought to try that particular incantation. I even googled this issue and didn't discover that. Will have to try on mine now.

I do find it amusing that you now have the option of long pressing the scroll wheel or pressing the stalk button to thrn turn the wheel to change speeds... But the direction of the change in those two cases is reversed; in one case up on the wheel is faster, and in the other it's slower.
With neither a dip stick nor a check plug, how does one know how that the transmission contains the "specified amount"?

I mean: Automotive fluids tend to shrink over time, for a wide variety of reasons. (And sometimes, they get bigger, which is usually even worse.)

How do you know that it has the correct level?
The one time Nixon was pardoned by a member of his own political party.
Have the biggest stick. Use it responsibly. The idea that anything else will work is naive.
Kinda conveniently ignoring the elephant in the room that is M4.
i'm wondering if it's an artifact of "dark mode"? but apparently not.
Anecdotal but I've found it much easier to start DRY and then later duplicate code that diverges a little bit from the original. What is hard is working with a large code base with lots of duplicate code. When you need to change one thing, but there's multiple places you need to make that one change, I've found it very difficult to track down all the places which need to be changed.

When you can't DRY, or when it's simply not practical, at least try to find a way of keeping track of duplicate code. Using enums and global constants can help you by finding all the references to those symbols and locate all the places in your code which need to be updated or refactored.
Normal human eyes also have more dynamic range than the cheap cameras used in Teslas. This matters in some difficult lighting conditions.
When is it right for a robot to be wrong? Children trust a robot over a human
This is a really great book.

It continually amazes me how people will hurt others just so they can get through the situation they are in (as the book posits).

Take control of youselves and don't turn evil!
In a Tesla there is a clearly labelled dedicated button on the steering wheel to active wipers and the ability to change the speed with the thumb scroll wheel, I would argue it's easier to use than twisting the barrel of a stalk that you can't see and can be in different locations hidden behind the wheel
I don’t think there’s anything particularly mysterious here. Of the three early automotive propulsion technologies, internal combustion engines were the best compromise at the time, as it was compared to the gas turbine in the 1950s and 1960s, rotary engines in the 1960s and 1970s, and lead-acid and NiMH battery vehicles in the 1990s.
Take out the sim card
That isn't nuance... Even if you recorded it yourself, you may still not have rights to distribute...
Is Surface Laptop using active cooling? It is pretty well known that MacBook Air sustained performance is limited due to thermals.

People have been doing mods which transfer the heat to the frame. This gives big performance boost at the expense of hot computer on your lap.
I thought about smell but actually vehicles do malfunction, and smell can be an important indicator. “Something is wrong with your vehicle” is a real scenario that actually happens pretty often.
Engineering for Slow Internet
I thought it would get people to imagine ways things could happen. Not that it was an easy answer in itself.
And in general, "The defendant had intent to commit another crime" is, in this context, a finding of fact that is in the jury's court.

Successful commission of the crime is not required. Nor is it required that the jury all agree on what other crime was attempted. If the prosecution makes the case that the defendant tried to commit 12 other crimes and each member of the jury thinks intent on a different crime was proven beyond a reasonable doubt, they are well within their conscience to convict.
Agreed. But I wanted an electric SUV with room for kids and dog and such, and the Model Y absolutely blew away competitors in 2021 in terms of space for people and cargo, in a reasonably sized vehicle. Still does to some extent; no one else has the small third row option, which is fantastic for driving kids' friends and such. Also the charging network was/is far superior to alternatives. So I was willing to put up with some Tesla nonsense for those advantages. Probably wouldn't make the same choice in 2024 though, as alternatives have improved, and Tesla's gotten weirder.
8 year old unicorn++ with a public demo sounds credible?
My dark perspective here is that what Will is saying is that, as the number of people under you grows, the ability of some people to completely bungle everything up without consequences goes up. And this isn't really about really bad engineers, but really bad first and second level managers, as upper levels are often quite bad at identifying performance at those roles.

So what I think will is saying is not really to not trust your engineers, but to mistrust your managers.
PG didn't know that the CEO of YCombinator was investing YC funds into a separate company that he was also CEO of? I'm not sure who that reflects worse on, PG or SA.

Conflict of interest aside, it also paints SA's whole "I just love the work, I have no equity in OpenAI" in a completely different light.
Easier just to deploy more renewable energy
the idea behind the original Matrix movie script.
Seems like the Chevy Malibu is currently selling significantly under MSRP:

$20,915 -- https://www.jimmckaychevrolet.com/new-Fairfax-2024-Chevrolet...

$20,999 -- https://www.cooperautogroup.com/inventory/new-2024-chevrolet...

$20,665 -- https://www.earnhardtchevrolet.com/new-Chandler-2024-Chevrol...

$21,065 -- https://www.graffchevy.com/inventory/new-2024-chevrolet-mali...

$21,995 -- https://www.homewoodchevy.com/inventory/new-2024-chevrolet-m...
It has really gotten bad… hoping tradition holds and Windows 12 is better because there is potential here.
This is what I would immediately suspect to start. Probably a good start, even. Does run into complications of jurisdiction and hazards of growth. None reasons not to do something.
My (easy?) answer: blockchain-based owned by no one news/discussion platform a-la Reddit/HN, moderated by AGI instructed for fairness, fact-check, against private-interest propaganda and deceit.

Can’t imagine any way to make any money on that, though.
Not for nothing and maybe you already know, but beware of cdiff. It can result from too many broad antibiotics and is scary as hell.
How would announcing it elsewhere help with the "Aggregatable" part? Are people accepting advertisements for small PA subnets?
Server workloads are predominantly x86. Even with AWS/Azure/Oracle push it's not changing that much.
Really? You find it more likely that some form POST is going to result in a useful response?!? I have to often coordinate things with a ton of people who work on random projects or with the customer support of various companies, and FWIW my experience doesn't match that at all :/.
I think that's more of justification and excuse than a legitimate belief.
Personally, proprioception ranks ahead of hearing for me.

Vision is first, but proprioception is how assess nearly everything else. Braking speed, acceleration, throttle input, cornering, traction, hydroplaning, tire pressure (even in specific tires), alignment issues (down to the specific wheel), balance issues, toe rod issues, transmission issues, engines issues, wind, payload, towing, etc, etc, etc.

I could probably tell you within 100lbs how much and roughly where payload is in the vehicle simply by feeling how the car is driving.

I literally cannot do racing game because I can’t sense the vehicle. Flip side, I used to think professional racers were crazy for being able to call in subtle issues to their crew chief. Turns out when you drive a specific car enough, you learn how it out to feel.
Like often, both will probably happen
I wonder how much of the benefit is from just not using json vs reducing round trips. I guess if you had a large table you could stream (smaller than normal) row groups from parquet? Not sure how much work that would be though.

I'm not sure what the optimal response size is for an http response, but probably there are diminishing efficiency returns above more than a MB or two, and more of a latency hit for reading the whole file. So if you used row groups of a couple of MB and then streamed them in you'd probably get the best of both worlds.
If entrapment is unprotected in a relevant jurisdiction, seized domains/servers could be used to disrupt or even unmask actors. Release a new dropper and make the payload build tool malware itself. Now these actors can't trust what they get from each other, even if they trust the person who is supposed to be in control of the service.

That would be a radical departure from the status quo of boasting loudly and plastering seizure pages up everywhere, and the suggestion here is that they are trying different things.
The issue is the President is also the face of the country, and a lot of voters are tired of having to choose between two geriatric guys from the last generation of politics.

Trump gets a huge boost from voters who are simply exhausted from being told consistently that only those over 70 need apply (especially when so many perceive that it's a generation that is selfishly leaving the world as bad as possible on their way out).

Though Trump is also part of that cohort, he's not considered an insider (counterintuitively; you can't get more inside than "was a President"). So he resonates with people who want an end to business-as-usual.
Of course it's probably not a good thing.

The question is which is worse, almost everyone getting away with it until/unless they have political enemies, or most everyone equally pretty much getting away with it.

I'm comparing bad to worse, not good to bad. I'm saying in this case it's worse, even though everyone getting prosecuted may be better.
The largest stegosaurus fossil ever found heads to auction
> The only thing I was missing was when I didn't know how exactly to phrase something (the exact keyword to use).

I think that's the only things GUI (or TUI) directories have over CLI. I remember having Wikipedia locally (english texts, back in 2010) and the portals were surprisingly useful. They act like the semantic space in case you can't find an article for your exact word. So Literature > Fiction > Fantasy > Epic Fantasy will probably land you somewhere close to "The Lord of The Rings".
this is pretty awesome. the warrant for seizing the domains is similarly awesome.
Most developers are going to outperform vector search. We “get” how computers do lookups so we build our queries appropriately.

Vector search is amazing for using layman concepts.
Yes, it seems the more efficient use we have for compute, the more valuable compute is to us, and the more compute we will be able to afford.
The law is interpreted anew each day. Nothing is outside the law.

Perhaps if all rules were written in stone, and clear of ambiguity, we would not need judges or the legal process. But that’s not how any of this works.
It's the party that may be making a category error.

There's no law that they must run the incumbent; it's just tradition (and a tradition with some reasonable underpinning... "Why should we listen to you if you don't even back the guy you sold us last time?"). But many voters are exhausted of tradition and fearful of where it may lead.