skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, I see. I guess that's possibly true. On the other hand, the loss of someone close to you is practically inevitable. Eventually almost everyone will experience a devastating death (unless the person is the devastating death).

In my observation, the inability to let a child off on their own without any form of supervision or in this case tracking, means that the parent is not ready to let go of that child when they are an adult and need to be given the freedom to succeed or fail on their own.

I am admittedly biased. My sister was tracked from about 12 until this day and she's now 26, I believe. She gets upset when my mother isn't checking in on her. Likewise, my mother can't go more than a few hours without calling my sister. She will regularly check her phone to see where my sister is and then comment on her whereabouts and call or text her to ask why she's where ever.

Likely there are parents who are going to be able to handle these tools responsibly, but I am not sure there is a responsible way to use these.

But I am also biased against them, hopefully I am wrong. I saw how my sister has turned out from having a late-blooming helicopter parent and my wife (one of a dozen kids, so very hands off parents) and I have tried to give our own kids age appropriate freedoms.

I have been amazed by historic accounts of children. One example that sticks out to me is a letter a man in Texas wrote to his brother. The man's wife had died and he had to take care of some affairs in Texas. The man's brother lived in Kansas and he was writing because he'd sent his two children (12 & 13) to Kansas with his herd of cattle to sell. I don't think I'd ever be there, but I do think children are more capable and trustworthy than we give them credit for and we don't give children enough room and as a result we have some extremely childish adults who have never been given the chance to fail and get back up.
Out of curiosity, which networking appliance form-factor computer did you purchase?
Show HN: Transiter, backend web service for transit data
About 6 years ago, when I was first looking for a software job out of grad school, one of my portfolio projects was a train time app for the New York City subway (realtimerail.nyc). Eventually I realized most of my backend code was agnostic to the specifics of the NYC subway. Over time, I evolved it into a general purpose backend that (in theory!) works with any transit system that distributes realtime data in the GTFS format.

Nowadays you can run Transiter, install a transit system you're interested in, and then use Transiter's REST API to query data like "when is the next train". There's a demo site at demo.transiter.dev.
that argument applies to literally every single person to ever exist. do you tip every one you interact with on a daily basis? coffee server, bus driver, lunch server, office cleaner, hairdresser, grocery assistant...

maybe it's a cultural difference
It is Arrenius & Company.
30+ years in the software industry. Everyone did this back in the day - then it changed for 3 reasons (1) completely unsustainable (2) people didn't upgrade, or being forced to upgrade and pay large prices got grumpy about it. (3) the money people figured out subscriptions were more profitable.

There's tonnes of companies that have legacy 'pay upfront' models, that hit the wall as they'd saturated their markets, then their revenue stream dropped off and all of a sudden saw the wall of transitioning to web/mobile needing to happen and didn't have the funds to pull it off.

I'd almost completely forgotten about it until I was challenged by a prospect in a meeting monday 'is this one of these new lease software systems, I want to own it!" had to educate him on the way the world worked now...
Wouldn't "large, low-earth orbit constellation" be a less hysterical title?
"Screen Time" under Settings on iOS controls most of the functionality. You can set downtime, school time, allowed apps, and permitted contacts for your kids' devices from that.

For example my daughter is permitted to contact anyone in her contact list (which I approve, so no strangers - and it auto rejects texts from non-contacts) from 0730-0900, then just me and mum from 9-3, then anyone from 3-7, then just parents again. And no apps of any kind from 7pm onwards. That way no distractions at school but she can reach us in an emergency and she can get hold of us when at sleepovers but no playing games at night.

It's a little confusing, and if the docs are shitty I'll have to take your word because I haven't even managed to find any yet, but it does work well. It does however all work once set up.
This is much bigger than this particular issue. This is the same as the Xz backdoor: supply chain attack. It’s sad, but the fact is you cannot actually trust anyone else’s code unless you audit it yourself. Even something seemingly-well-vetted like Xz can be a vehicle for malware.
I'm not sure what such an approach would accomplish. If the goal is to prevent the kind of problem seen in the OP (which, let's be real - is a rare occurrence) in order to avoid an unplanned outage, you've instead created a situation where it'll fail to connect far more regularly as you're kicked off the network for not correctly handling the provisioning process. You're trading a rare unplanned outage for a common unplanned outage.
It doesn’t necessarily mean he is lying though. Our brains change our memories such that it fits our current narratives.
Was reading 1978 Elements of Programming Style a while ago. It's mostly Fortran and PL/I. Some of it is outdated, but a lot applies today as well. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Programming_St...

They actually have a Fortran example of "optimized" code that's quite difficult to follow, but allegedly faster according to the comments. But they rewrote it to be more readable and ... turns out that's actually faster!

So this already applied even on 197something hardware. Also reminds me about this quote about early development of Unix and C:

"Dennis Ritchie encouraged modularity by telling all and sundry that function calls were really, really cheap in C. Everybody started writing small functions and modularizing. Years later we found out that function calls were still expensive on the PDP-11, and VAX code was often spending 50% of its time in the CALLS instruction. Dennis had lied to us! But it was too late; we were all hooked..."

And Knuth's "premature optimisation is the root of all evil" quote is also decades old by now.

Kind of interesting we've been fighting this battle for over 50 years now :-/

(It should go without saying there are exceptions, and cases where you do need to optimize the shit out of things, after having proven that performance may be an issue. Also at scale "5% faster" can mean "need 5% less servers", which can translate to millions/dollars saved per year – "programmers are more expensive than computers" is another maxim that doesn't always hold true).
Will a sub-$100 SBC with this chip on it be put on the market?
I make classification models based on BERT-family embeddings and classical ML algorithms from scikit-learn. These take about 3 minutes to train, calibrate and evaluate and in the process of doing this the system has actually trained 20 or so models and selected the best.

I've tried fine-tuning classifiers based on BERT-family models and found it takes 30 minutes to train one model and the results I get are pretty unreliable. The best models are better than my embedding + classical models by a hair but the average model is worse.

I find it nervewracking that I don't have clear guidance on how long to train the model like I did back in the old days when I could train networks with early stopping.

I read a lot of papers where people trained a model to do something similar and usually they copied the training parameters out of some other paper and didn't seem to really think about the parameters. The "best practice" seems to be you should build a large number of models with different parameters and pick the best model but hardly anyone does it because it would take too long and if you started thinking too hard about how your parameters affect your results your head might just explode.

Granted my problems tend to have an upper limit on possible accuracy so it might not be possible to turn my 0.81 ROC to a 0.97 ROC whatever I do. I am definitely looking for a problem where I can get better accuracy and also thinking about fine-tuning a T5 to do classification tasks (like put #hashtags on a Mastodon post) but I am in no hurry.
Yes. If you abstract without a specific need, you are likely to end up with an abstraction that either wastes time because it's never used or that you will later need to fight against because the changes you need to make don't mesh well with it. At that point you have to choose between a lengthy rework of the code or awful hacks to bypass the abstraction.
Quickly? without blocking myself?

Nextjs + Hasura
Heck, I graduated high school 28 years ago and occasionally I still got nightmares that I didn't study for the SAT (Baccalauréat) exam. Mathematics doesn't appear as often as language, where's the dread that I have to rote learn some 37 "literary commentaries" of great writer masterpieces and there's like two weeks left till the exam and I haven't even started on them. And math is some second change of variable technique for solving integrals and another 46 similar tricks without which one has no chance of passing the "leetcode" of the day within allotted time and a grade that offers chances to a good job^H^H^Huniversity.

Which is strange since not only I didn't start late but I put a solid and unremitting effort into this since some two years before and passed with high grades both the SAT and the university admission exam.
How to Train a Million Context LLM
D3 Receptor-Targeted Cariprazine: Insights from Lab to Bedside
Bullshit generators are fun to write, and every seasoned programmer has probably written one, or a similar app, at one point. It's nice to see someone new discovering the joy they can produce.
'Smart' antibiotic can kill deadly bacteria while sparing the microbiome
They'll be tried as mutineers and pirates.

Marine law is optimized for the well-being of ship owners, not anyone else.
There is an amazing book describing all of these issues and more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outlaw_Ocean. It was an eye opener for me, I had no idea what kind of awful stuff goes on in the maritime space
Sounds like a good reason to generalize dev containers. At least both dev and deployment environment will be somewhat isolated. And the worst you can do from the dev container is commit bad code, which can be seen in code review.
If I had diabetes and knew that I could either take pills or insulin or whatever multiple times a day every day for the rest of my life OR I can take a flight to another country, hang out for a few days, get a shot and be at least temporarily completely cured, I will take the flight.
Chairwoman

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/leadership/
While likely true, it's also helpful for pushing narratives requiring legislation that OPENAI just happens to be grandfathered into. I suspect more of these claims as the government forms a stronger opinion / rules around AI proliferation.
It produces pretty decent results; not always the best, but it makes browsing papers on the web more seamless.
I have ~$1.5M after ~10yrs in software w/ ~5yrs being in big tech. Live in the US.

Almost all is in S&P500 index. It doesn't feel much different than when I had ~$100k in the bank. It is nice to have some safety net and know I can weather most any storm and get back on my feet. I took a few months off a few years ago. I did an expensive masters for fun. Otherwise no big changes.

It isn't enough money to stop working or buy anything crazy. And you realize that no matter how much you have, the instinctual fear of not having enough is still there. Still stuck in the corporate world and no clear way out. You just keep working and seeing the numbers go up slowly.

It is like that famous quote:

“When most people say they want to be a millionaire, what they might actually mean is “I’d like to spend a million dollars.” And that is literally the opposite of being a millionaire.”
It could be one of the generated sentences, but I composed it via wetware, in order to get a more-meaningful-than-average utterance:

Meaninglessness (because a product of a random process)

is liminal (because it's betwixt and between, neither meaningful[0] nor meaningless[2])

because the context is shared (the vocabulary for the generator —the context shared between we meaningful creatures and the stochastic parrot program— are constraints, especially chosen by the artist to be evocative no matter how they are combined)

[0] compare SLN:

Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like[1] she's singing
Ooh ooh ooh

[1] there are many references to animal sounds sounding like human speech; here are two:

Ajax in the Little Iliad —having turned Athena's grey eyes green by managing to tank without asking her for buffs— is driven mad[2] by her shortly after he loses a prize to Odysseus: he interprets the greek cows, instead of saying "moo", as saying "μου" (mine), each claiming the prize for herself, not for him ... and so he kills them all.

In a less sanguine vein, Pechkin the Postman also has a nervous breakdown after thinking Khvatayka the Jackdaw is continually asking him "kto tam?" (both a fairly corvidesque sound and "who's there?" in russian) despite his efforts to explain that he's the postman bringing a magazine.

[2] in The Eden Express (1975), Mark Vonnegut points out that maybe he could've figured out he was going schizophrenic, if only he'd stopped to notice that everything had suddenly become meaningful.
kid wouldnt have a cell phone, just the watch.

same cost as a mid-tier smartphone, and 10/mo is for the networking features aka cellphone plan.

kid can't lose it like a cellphone since it's strapped to them, and sill gives them some basic call / text / tracking but without giving them access to the Play store, Tiktok, YT, etc.

the more i think about it the more i'm okay with the idea -- i've done the custom side-loaded android ROM for a kids phone strictly for the purposes of locking it down and it was a PITA.

OTOH now google gets to snoop on your kid 24/7 which i don't love...
I think if the mossad is included in your threat model, you may as well just pack up and go home.
ChatGPT-4o vs. Graph Theory
Is there any way to look over past discussions on the books?
There was a fire here recently that burned a thousand homes. I’d see if I could buy some land and start making a subdivision of modest 2bedroom homes. I might be able to get the land, infrastructure and first home done for 1m, then hopefully sales would support filling in the rest.

The housing crisis is largely a supply problem. Fix supply and you start to alleviate the problem. The good news is that along the way you have a cash-flow positive business.
I think creating something for fun is good by itself, also the app looks good.
Personally I wouldn't use since I use Linux and prefer OSS, but the app looks really cool, congrats
Patentability of LLM and AI
There are alternatives of varying risks that pay more frequently.
There's no free plan and I need to pay $59/month from the get-go. It makes no sense for my projects I'm afraid.
I have built a tool for this. Its free to try. I didn't put enough effort to grow it, however. I don't want to spam here but if anyone is interested please let me know and I'll provide a link. The service includes a dashboard with Metrics and Insights, customization and more.
These are deep insights that I appreciate.

I do feel like workers do take on risk, however. People invest their time in a company and can be arbitrarily let go. Years of domain knowledge they have invested that may not be transferable. The people laid off from the fast food franchise I mentioned are having a tough time finding new, relevant employment.

What do you think about companies like Publix and their stock buy in program ? Do you think that is feasible ?
> Ever seen an engineer do a loop and make n+1 REST calls for resources? It happens more often then you think because they don't want to have to create a backend ticket to add related resources to a call.

With REST, though, that pain is visible to both sides. Frontend engineers generally don't want to make N+1 REST calls in a tight loop; it's a performance problem that they see and that is very visible in their Dev Tools. Backend engineers with good telemetry may not know why they get the bursts of N+1 calls that they see without asking the Frontend or digging into Frontend code, but they can still see the burstiness of the calls and have some idea that something could be optimized, that something is maybe too chatty.

There are multiple ways with REST to handle things: pagination, "transclusions", hyperlinks, and more. Certainly "single page endpoints" is a way as well, no matter how gross it is from REST theory, it's still a pragmatic solution for many in practice.

REST certainly can please everyone, given pragmatic compromises, even if it isn't very clear or standard.
Macs come with a weird thing where they have a Java in the path, but when you run it it takes you to a Java download page. It might be worth adding that to your instructions rather than bundling Java yourself?
> not marketing campaigns

> reddit

A great marketing tactic is to pose as reddit users. If you have just 2-3 realistic accounts, you can ask a question as account 1, and write your answer with account 2. Now imagine a company with $$$. They can guide an entire thread.
I recommend you find a copy of Lenchner's book Creative Problem Solving in School Mathematics (2nd ed.). Lenchner ran math olympiads for late elementary school / middle school for decades, and does a good job of covering a wide variety of useful strategies for approaching nontrivial word problems (i.e. real math problems, not just arithmetic drills). But you don't have to be interested in contests per se to get a lot from the book. In my opinion that's going to be more pedagogically valuable and more fun than Trachtenberg. Here's an Internet Archive scan https://archive.org/details/creativeproblems0000lenc

Your kid would also probably really enjoy The Number Devil, a breezy novel about a kid who gets trapped in his dreams with a devil who won't stop telling him about elementary number theory, using various dream-world props.

If you want more problems after that, there are a lot of great puzzles in Kordemsky's The Moscow Puzzles https://archive.org/details/moscowpuzzles3590000kord_m9a0, or you could take a look at Fomin, Genkin, & Itenberg's Mathematical Circles: Russian Experience which your kid could probably just about handle.

There are also some great puzzles and games explained at the website of the Julia Robinson Math Festival, https://jrmf.org which can be played with fairly basic easily available materials.
One critique is that I wish there was a feature to manually make a word highlighted. It's pretty good at figuring out where to branch, but for really lexically dense topics, it would be nice to specify it without needing to type in the chat. Perhaps a "hover for definition" feature would suffice, similar to Wikipedia.
There was this sci-fi novel I read some decades ago about a supercomputer that knew everything and could answer any question, so one day it was asked something like "what has been the biggest invention ever by man?". The supercomputer whirs for a while, then replies "God". I can't recall what novel was, I read it probably 35-40 years ago, but I believe it was much older.
This is pretty great, provides a nice set of breadcrumbs for a deep dive into any rabbit hole.

Once thing that threw me off was when I went to the original panel and clicked a second topic, it cleared out the panes that I had explored off the first topic. I had to discover they weren't really lost by re-clicking. I think it would be better if there was some visual indicator they were still there - perhaps the topic (and sub-topics) get collapsed but are still visible with the heading of the selected topic?
The artist gets the delivery fee to print your own ticket?

I thought of the monopoly suit is between live nation and ticketmaster and their control of venues.
A few thoughts:

1. Is your target customer a software developer? It seems like your customer would be a executive, perhaps at a smaller business. You want to get that person's attention. I think open-sourcing is more likely to get developer attention.

2. There are lots of other marketing strategies you could try (content-based marketing, going to tradeshows, cold calling, etc).

3. If you have existing customers, I think you really need to work with them on in-depth case studies that explain why they benefited from choosing your solution. You should also see if you can market to other, similar customers.

4. "customizable by any developer" - That developer should be you. This I have personal experience with. We initially delivered a product and left it to the customer to configure. Later, we discovered that customizing the product for the customer delivered better results, better relationships, and allowed us to learn about our own product and our customers.

Anyway, I would do a lot of sales/marketing brainstorming before I open sourced. It seems you see it as a marketing strategy, but I think you should consider other avenues first. Good luck!
"Our Usage Policies prohibit the use of our services to deceive or mislead others. This includes
deceiving people about the authorship or source of content generated using our models, by
engaging in activities such as:
...
Creating automated systems that falsely present as being a real person, or don’t
disclose to people that they are interacting with AI (unless it’s obvious from the
context)."

Suspiciously absent from the list of takedowns is anything on Reddit. Given the amount of obviously-chatGPT puppets on there, I'm somewhat 'surprised'.

Also a good reminder that if you're using ChatGPT for anything, they can and will examine the traffic and contents of your messages / replies.

I wonder if in the future they may offer a "service" to content providers. Say you're a reddit / forum / etc. You get supplied an API that you can run queries through that match any content that may have been generated through their service. You can then tag those accounts as bots. Of course, such an API will have costs associated with it...
The new doctor who season is the cataclysmic database event
Right. So there's no real agency, so it's a firing. Unlike the case where you're just asked which of the two companies you want to be CEO of.
They've been given replacement phones and SIM cards while their personal electronics have been seized.
Batteries on Silicon MacBooks can't be replaced under warranty by third parties
Too bad we can't make NYTimes and all of the other interminable screaming news organizations who constantly yammer about terrible things and inveigle their way into every aspect of American life STFU forever.
You're thinking of Sandi Metz: https://sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction
You may not be meaning to, but saying the "Content fails to accord" is pedantic and does not clearly explain what you find unsatisfactory about the article.

Because it seems like you're missing the point, Chris.

It isn't just about marketing or pre-selling (although that is vital for any profitable product).

It is about ensuring that if you are building something, you have open channels of feedback to who your ideal future user (or customer) may be.

I have seen many technical founders spend months and thousands of dollars building something they believe in, for it to only flop at launch.

Just as you can create technical debt in an MVP, you can also build "product debt" to create something that doesn't fit any market or solve real problems if you don't first challenge your assumptions around your ICP (or ideal market).