skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The first ones that come to mind are Southern India and SE Asia that don’t have a lot of police presence and their societies have low levels of violence.

As long as you behave, are not of the wrong minority, do not end up as scapegoats, do not get close to the wrong social group, and do not cross anyone who’s a bit charismatic.

Also, I am not sure which SE Asia you speak of. Myanmar is a genocidal military dictatorship, Thailand is a totalitarian police state, Singapore is a quasi-dictatorship, the Philippines are rife with violence, and I could go on. Sure, some countries of the lot are better but “SE Asia” overall is not really an example to emulate.

And every time I went there, southern India did not look that different from central India, or particularly pleasant if you are in the wrong family or social group.

Anyway. Yes, I’ll take a half competent police and a decent legal system any day.
Then nobody will ever use your browser. Simple as that.
Families of Boeing 737 MAX Crash Victims Want Former Executives Prosecuted
A wild COMPETITOR appeared!

Hello from Australia! I've been working on a related concept for about a year now, to solve a slightly different but related problem. I haven't produced anything yet, lots of research and planning, but this might light a fire under me!
Cool!

>>Released in 1977 from Gabriel, Chutes Away challenged players ages six and up to save the day as the pilot of a Coast Guard land and sea rescue plane.

The mission was to drop a set of eight plastic parachutists into various scoring cups on a revolving terrain, accumulating points and rescuing survivors along the way. To successfully drop the parachutes on target, players used the game’s built-in reduction-lens viewfinder in concert with an aircraft control lever. The lens-mounted scope provided a quasi-realistic aerial view and players initiated their drops using a Drop switch in the control panel.

The toy’s spring-wound motor allowed the terrain to move without the need for batteries, while an on/off switch controlled gameplay. The air-rescue target game took up a decent amount of table space at 21 ½ x 16 ¼ x 16-inches high.

Chutes Away’s popularity allowed Gabriel to release a Night Rescue version of the game, which added a small search light to the bottom of the plane, allowing children to attempt their daring rescue missions during the day or night.

https://toytales.ca/chutes-away-from-gabriel-1977/
This goes against fairly general advice that I’ve received from early intervention specialists, including for my own child (not diagnosed as neurodivergent, just speech delayed).

In our case the kid picked up signs we were teaching him (not ASL, just intentional signs) weeks before corresponding words, and there are still words he signs and understands but can’t pronounce. The point was to introduce expressive language for functional concepts (hunger, wanting help, wanting to be picked up, etc.), and beyond its role as a precursor to spoken words, it absolutely made our lives easier.

It’s a well known phenomenon that the ability to pronounce words lags behind the ability to express “language”. Your kids clearly didn’t need it, but it’s still a useful tool.
YouTube has a lot of informal conversational content in all sorts of languages, too. Podcasts etc.
LangChain got its start before LLMs had robust conversational abilities and before the LLM providers had developer decent native APIs (heck, there was basically only OpenAI at that time). It was a bit DOA as a result. Even by last spring, I felt more comfortable just working with the OpenAI API than trying to learn LangChain’s particular way of doing things.

Kudos to the LangChain folks for building what they built. They deserve some recognition for that. But, yes, I don’t think it’s been particularly helpful for quite some time.
> Pointing at tech and blaming it for degrading the human condition is refusing to take responsibility of your own predicament. (not saying anyone here is doing it - it's a generalization!)

So i take issue with this, but i also don't necessarily argue that i'm right. This is similar in my mind to free speech on podiums, and where we sit in general on responsibility of collective health, etc.

I personally don't think we're much beyond monkeys. Some of us are fortunate and aren't tempted by addictive behaviors, substances, etc. However i suspect most of us are.

Of course there's some argument that no amount of addictive substance (drug or otherwise) absolves your personal responsibility to not consume it, but with enough resources and legal right-of-way, how can we expect the average person - aka humanity on average - to resist well funded corporations pushing so many angles of it? Would we not be ensuring our own damnation?

The reality is far less addictive and destructive than i described above, i'm not trying to be hyperbolic about the reality of the situation. Nonetheless i do feel like most consumer relationships for the last 40 years has been more adversarial than not, and companies have only grown more talented and funded towards this test of will. It leaves me unsure how to proceed, for humanity.
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" (1974)

https://www.bartneck.de/projects/research/pirsig/zen.pdf
I worked at a bootcamp 10 years ago called MakerSquare (we ultimately were acquired by HackReactor) and that was our problem as well.
I've used a Sensirion SCD30 (NDIR) sensor attached to a Pi running Grafana, which can be connected to via a web browser.
There's a couple things here and it depends on your needs.

The word "track" suggests history.

I've got a https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0861777SL which does what it says on the box and works. I've got one in my WFH office and one in my bedroom. There are times when I've woken up from a restless sleep to see that at a higher number (especially in the winter when the house is a bit more closed up). Also the track where I can look at the history and see things "oh yea, last about 4h after I cooked dinner the CO2 went up a bit."

However, that's only the standard sensor stuff (temp, humidity, CO2).

If you've got amazon devices, I've got https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08W8KS8D3 ( Amazon Smart Air Quality Monitor ) which sits in my kitchen because I'm interested in other things there too.

I've had some https://milacares.com air purifiers in the house. They work as air monitors and purifiers. I had some issues with them, but they worked for a good while.

Consider if you want instant or historical data. Do you want other data too? What integrations do you have in the house with other home automation? How much DIY are you going to engage in?
Something like Sillytavern let's you edit the AI output which isn't an option in the web version.

Sillytavern also supports prefills which is an API feature not allowed on the web version.

Editing the system prompt is also not permitted in the web version but should be doable in any third party front-end.

I also use Poe sometimes which doesn't have all those features but at least allows custom system prompts when using Claude.
Two thoughts here. First, you say you're not done and don't have functioning software yet. Sounds like you've built many of the components in isolation? A bottom-up approach can work if you know exactly how they'll fit together (either through experience or part of a well-known framework or design pattern) but it sounds like you need a top-down approach here: Build the public interface and a test harness for it first. Then fill in the scaffolding until it meets your objectives, ie commit to working software from day 1 no matter how clunky. Top-down and bottom-up approaches aren't mutually exclusive, as long as they meet in the middle somewhere.

The second issue is more of a process one. Ask why do you hate adding points to tickets as though a ticket should be set in stone? Why do you avoid updating them? It sounds like your ticket system is providing unnecessary friction for you. This is fairly common in greenfield projects - there are so many microdecisions to be made on a minute-by-minute basis that capturing them all in tickets would be insane. Ticket systems are designed for a steady flow of bug/feature reports on existing software. So while it's nice to have the chaotic freedom of a greenfield scenario, it's usually worth it to get to "stable" quickly so you can treat it like a standard iterative project. But in that pre-stability time when the problem is still coalescing in your mind, it's a bit foolish to try and capture every microdecision in a ticket up front. You still need to capture it somewhere but it's more important to write coherent design documentation than individual tickets at this point.
Which executive pressured the engineers, was there any accountability?
I don't know the details in this case, but it seems plausible that someone still owns the IP and thus might be in a position to initiate legal proceedings.
FYI, Twitter links aren't really reliable any more. When I click that link, I see just one message promising a thread but no thread.
That's why we cannot have nice things. The stuff that worked with a dozen members didn't work as well with twice the participants (some of them with little respect for compromise - which is effectively the founding value the whole Union apparatus is based on). Removing veto powers in the Council was the only way to ensure things could keep getting done.

Note this was done through treaty amendments, which were agreed by all participants.
To be completely honest I think you are somewhat naive. I have seen organizations push through decisions, which were obviously bad, in fact nearly everyone on the lower levels agreed that the goal of the decision was unachievable. But of course that didn't stop the organization.

> I mean if someone literally tells you something isn't safe, especially the person who made it, you can't tell him it will work.

You literally can.
It isn't this.

It's because if meta mistakenly gives the wrong account to the wrong person, the potential losses are huge.

Whereas if a judge gives the account to the wrong person, meta isn't liable.

There is nothing else they can do when someone set up their Facebook account 15 years ago and has lost their email address and phone number from back then.
It often took quite a long time for those historic frameworks to get the abstraction right. Survivorship bias sees us forget all the failed attempts.

I'm unconvinced there is no room for a framework here because LLMs are somehow special. LangChain just missed the mark. Unsurprisingly so, it being an early attempt, not to mention predating general availability of the LLM chatbots that have come to define the landscape.
No the laws will be whatever eventually will be shaped by the majority / more vocal / powerful part of the population. The same way that every state writes laws.

It just does not make sense to have laws in a jurisdiction that are not aligned with the views of the habitants. It's like passing an anti drug law in Medellin. Good luck enforcing it to the cartels of the neighborhood.
So that their partner doesn’t think they are cheating.
> I feel like Amazon must have solved this for all practical purposes.

Seeing how some of my recent orders have been packaged, I have my doubts.

But there definitely seems to be some algorithmic packing going on. Here's an example that piqued my curiosity:

I just received two bulk DnD miniature sets, a small 3-pack of wolf miniatures, and 2 packs of silicone rings. The miniatures and the rings were ordered in separate carts on different days, but arrived on the same day.

The bulk miniatures showed up in one package (not surprising), but the wolves and ONE of the ring packs were packaged together. The last ring pack came in its own package.

Clearly whatever their algorithm is, it's calibrated to avoid "overstuffing" packages. But why not group like things together? Why put the rings with the wolves?

If anyone has insight into why Amazon's algorithm would do this, I'd love to hear about it.
By your logic, Zimbabwe should be the flourishing paradise of Africa; I'm not sure there's a country that has seen so thorough an enmity between its post-colonial ruling elite and its former colonial master (well, maybe Algeria). Yet ZANU-PF's signature achievement is the forced redistribution of land away from the white settlers, and in the process promulgated the utter ruination of its own economy.
Such a cool idea, the quasi-realistic "bombsight" was so fun :)

> allowing children to attempt their daring rescue missions during the day or night.

Oh wow I wish I had that version.

Maybe in Lego...?
Also PlayStation was notiorious in game development, by being the first games console with a C SDK, until then it was only Assembly.

When arcade games started to be written in C, it was still using mainframe and micros, with downlink cables to the development boards.
Mate I really don't know how to help you but even on the examples in the pdf there are clearly n-gons. In 5 of my 10 test there were n-gons. There are always starfishes with 5 or more connected verts. If you want to nitpick on the wording go ahead but these meshes are shite.
Because their husband secretly has HIV? Secret outside of the relationship, that is.
Many of those inter-island flights are on Boeing 717s. Will they have an electric replacement by 2045?
You seem a little lost.

This is the thread in response to the comment “You know what's awesome? The biosphere, which recycles 99.9999% of its own matter in a vast, global cooperative, driven by unending clean source of energy that is literally beamed in from space with no waste products.
Chucking it all in a hole? Not even close.”

Which is why mass human (and non human) deaths from natural processes related to the biosphere and it’s wastes/chemicals is pertinent.

Because throwing stuff in a hole is sometimes actually a pretty good thing to do compared to many natural processes.
A couple of months ago I tried using z3 to create an itinerary for my honeymoon. It seemed like a very straightforward implementation of a TSP with a few extra restrictions. It's 2024 and I had an M2 - which is basically alien tech for the period when these problems started being solved - so I figured that in 5 minutes' time I'd have the perfect walking trip in Rome. To quote TFA, how hard could it be?

The whole story might become a blog post some day, but the punchline is that Moore's law ain't got nothing on NP-hard problems
Last time I implemented this myself I just computed the epsilon closure at each step.
Because they can get HIV from their husband, but also cannot discuss HIV, refuse sex, or take prevention steps for themselves without reprisal.
I don't understand your point, can you elaborate on the dynamics at play ?
> Not making an ethical/moral judgement here, just a practical one - is there any reason to believe that giving employees ownership of the projects will be any better than having "management" own it if all factors were truly considered ?

It's not either-or, the ownership is shared. As responsibility goes, the buck ultimately stops with management, but when the people in the trenches can make more of their own decisions, they'll take more pride in their work and invest accordingly in quality. Of course some managers become entirely superfluous when a team self-manages to this extent, and will fight tooth and nail to defend their fiefdom. Can't blame them, it's perfectly rational to try to keep one's job.

As for tying the quality to pay in such an immediate way, I guess it depends on who's measuring what and why. Something about metrics becoming meaningless when made into a target, I believe it's called Cunningham's Law. I have big doubts as to whether it could work effectively in any large corpo shop, they're just not built for bottom-up organization.
> the new mantra of "Government can't do anything, the markets have to regulate that problem."

That's been the conservative line for 35+ years. How is that new?
Ktye/K
How do inserts into SQLite views work?
Test firing of a 3D-printed rocket engine designed through computational model
I shortened the title a bit from "LEAP 71 hot-fires 3D-printed liquid-fuel rocket engine designed through Noyron Computational Model."

From the article:

- First rocket engine built entirely through a computational model without human intervention

- Likely the shortest time from spec to manufacturing for a new rocket engine (2 weeks, usually this process takes many months in manual engineering using CAD)

- First liquid fueled rocket engine developed in the United Arab Emirates

- Engine worked on the first attempt

- No CAD was used in the design
And this is how all unjust systems sustain themselves. You WILL participate in the injustice, or be punished SEVERELY. Why do the people doing the punishing want to punish you? Because they WILL participate in punishing, or be punished SEVERELY.

People have wondered how so many people ever participated in any historical atrocity. This same mechanism is used for all of them.
A study has been following 'gifted' kids for 45 years. Here's what we've learned
Say goodbye to "junior" engineering roles
I think we need to begin to use specific names when talking about approval processes, rather than just lumping everyone under the same "FDA" brand. E.g. Are certain people in the organizational structure have a history of fraud being detected, drugs being recalled vs. others who were involved perhaps at every step of oversight and 0% of the drugs approved with their involvement have never had recalls?

Not being specific with language appears to, whether purposefully done or due to a lack of discipline, add a prominence or add a label or brand on top of a pedestal - maybe deserved to be done so by some of an organization's people - but then others new to an organization with unknown track records, their work then will ride on the coattails of an institution with a certain reputation (whether accurate or not, whether deserved or not).

Edit to add: Have a contrary opinion worth anything? Prove it by sharing it in writing.
In that time period the game would have been written in Assembly, Doom was still years away.
It looks complicated.

Here is my technique.

Trace the control flow and regenerate the flow on target programming language.

In their's they have abstracted problem such as blocks and operation. But adding more condition to the philosophy is hard thing. The core principle needs simple
Hey, I do agree and don't agree, for the same reasons perhaps. My words are a bit utopian I suppose, and I do realize things aren't black and white. People need to have the wits about them to know what impact stuff has on them as a person, and this is really difficult to do. in my mind, that's a problem of our world, but that's i guess an personal issue i have with it. it's not a requirement for people to be more conscious, though i'd wish they (and myself!!) were.

I think, people should be free to talk, even say nasty things, and others should have thick skin. But, i don't insult people, because i don't like to hurt people, even though i don't think they should be hurt by my opinion even if i give it. so you are right its a bit in the middle, where at one side it's a problem things impact people collectively, and on the other side people should not let things impact them like that.

They are free to choose, but the choices might not always be clear or known.
The main reason ChatGPT took off was:
1) Response time of the API of that quality was 10x quicker than the Davinci-instruct-3 model that was released in summer 2022, making interaction more feasible with lower wait times and with concurrency
2) OpenAI strictly banned chat applications on the GPT API; even summarising with more than 150 tokens required your to submit a use case for review; I built an app around this in October 2022, got through the review, and it was then pointless as everybody could just use ChatGPT for the purposes of my apps new feature).

It was not possible for anybody to have just whacked the instruct models of GPT-3 into an interface for both the restrictions and latency issues that existed prior to ChatGPT. I agree with you on instruct vs ChatGPT and would further say the real innovation was entirely systematic, scaling and changing the interface. Instruct tuning was far more impactful than conversational model tuning because instruct enabled so many synthesizing use cases beyond the training data.
IP addresses vary in scale in terms of the number of devices behind them. There are many, many reasons for this including corporate gateways, mobile networks, CGNAT, VPNs, public wifi and yes, even home NATs.

There's no "normal" UA cardinality count that you can use for filtering. However, there may be other traffic characteristics that are useful; the shape of the distribution, for instance.
Congrats on the effort. Looking forward to have this expanded or further developed. The reason why I still use Notion is definitely for their database feature and an usable mobile app. It’s hard coming back to desktop-only
Why would it imply they are cheating and not simply protecting themselves from their partner’s HIV?
Yup. I was just writing on the charitable side. It wouldn't bother me if they taxed everything that was not gratis good works, such as feeding or housing people without sermons, but the bigger step that is really necessary is taxing the snot out of them if they touch politics.
Nothing, just another person who absolutely has to bring up some sort of unrelated politics in every conversation. If it's not Russia/Ukraine, it's Israel/Palestine, and while those topics are important, I wish people would back off and stop injecting these topics into everything else.
I disagree about those questions being good examples of GPT4 pitfalls.

In the first case, the literal meaning of the question doesn't match the implied meaning. "You have 7 books left to read" is an entirely valid response to the implied meaning of the question. I could imagine a human giving the same response.

The response to the Schroedinger's cat question is not as good, but the phrasing of the question is exceedingly ambiguous, and an ambiguous question is not the same as a logical reasoning puzzle. Try asking this question to humans. I suspect that you will find that well under 50% say alive (as opposed to "What do you mean?" or some other attempt to disambiguate the question).
> My point is that there has to be an extra force that keeps reminding them "this place is what it is and it was built by immigrants and we value that". If that exists or not in the US, I can't comment from the outside

It does, there’s a pretty strong message in the US that it was built by and for immigrants. But it turns a large number of people have heard that and said “well now that we’re here, let’s close the gate”.
The Aranet is wonderful. I have had mine (Aranet 4) running for at least a year on a single charge.
If, for achieving zero emissions, all capacity needs to eventually covered by wind anyway, then building out all that solar seems pointless. That money would be better spent on wind.
The curse of technology is that it is neither good nor bad. Only in the way it is used t becomes one or the other.

>I would love to see more programmers refusing to work on AI.

That is just ridiculous. Modern neural networks are obviously an extremely useful tool.
There's a delay as information makes its way from engineering to external comms.

Very likely, the indexing issue happened late in the afternoon after the comms person had gone home for the day (the tweet is 4:00 PM), a situation room was convened with a bunch of SREs and engineers with expertise, they sent an e-mail to external comms saying "Post that we're having issues with indexing", they got to work diagnosing the problem, they pushed a fix in a couple hours, and then they sent another e-mail saying "The issue is fixed."

The external comms person checks their phone after the kids have gone to bed, sees an urgent message about an indexing failure, posts that on the status blog, then checks the rest of their e-mail and sees that it's resolved, so they post that.