skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twenty years ago it was quite expensive for an American to visit Europe. Typically only the upper middle class could afford it. Since then the European system has become stagnant and for every US tech company that’s ballooned in value many thousands of investors have become wealthy.

In Europe, the average person has no recourse (or will) to take advantage of the wealth creation that’s taking place elsewhere. In fact people seem to think that the economy is a zero-sum game. Economic illiteracy reigns. The public healthcare system is not even good. Anyone who can afford to goes private, and if you have any kind of problem that’s not well-known (like SIBO) you will have to pay thousands of dollars out of pocket in order to heal yourself. Housing is far more expensive relative to wages. Taxes are far higher than anywhere else (the middle class pays the majority of the taxes in Europe). Most of the population subscribes to some form of “enlightened” atheist humanism or hedonism, but due to low fertility and immigration, the population will soon be replaced by Muslims. People go to visit and marvel at Cathedrals and other great works of their ancestors but then refuse to ask themselves why they’re incapable of making anything of such value today. It’s true that the high-speed rail is very convenient, but in the end its tourists who benefit most from this, and those tourists are increasingly foreign.

Meanwhile, many words are spilled over electronic media by overly-socialized Europeans and the corrupt elite who lord over them about how great Europe is compared to everywhere else. European cities top the “best in the world” lists while the native people who actually live here struggle to improve their lives.

How long will Europeans continue to delude themselves into believing the Reddit-view of the world?
My M2 Air gets very warm when moslty opening either Xcode or Android Studio’s emulator.
Fellini's Casanova and his over the top performance.
Ah, no bundlers, no minification, no types, a dream! So, real product example pls? And how you templating your html? Not JSX, obviously, so, string literals?
Oh, no I was talking about ex https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(classical_thermodyn...

There's other kinds of 'entropy' that have distinct lineages and contexts than 'information entropy', but information is kind of the basis for everything physically so if you squint a bit you can make any non-information entropy look like information entropy
Most answers seem to be different documentation and reminders, but I'd like to focus on something a little different.
I think Scrum and daily stand up is a "forcing function". It creates tension in individuals. Even if you get side tracked at work, and you are a bullshitter, most would probably reason something like "It is better so do some useful work that I got assigned/committed to so I can report progress tomorrow. And I want to avoid conflict". That would create "force" to move you and the rest of the team forward.
Tools and reminders etc. are all good, but weak forcing functions.
You still have to be disciplined.

I don't think you can create that same force pure solo, but can still improve current process. One way could be to have a friend, sibling or virtual assistant that you do the same reporting to every few days. Perhaps pick someone assertive. And as you know, if you bullshit you just fool yourself. Hopefully something like that is a strong enough "forcing function" to snap you out of your tangent and back on track for a few hours/days before the next report.
> Instead of an engineer who’s an order of magnitude “better” than their peers, leaders should look for people who are willing and able to learn—and to help their whole team learn and execute, too.

No. Build a whole team with people who willing to learn new stuff around that rock star.
SLS as currently launched doesn't have enough delta-v to even really get to the moon with Orion.

That's why SpaceX is supposed to fly an absolute gargantuan amount of mass both into lunar orbit, then down to the moon, then back off the moon! They are supposedly going to do 5,000 tons out to the moon, orbit, land and take off the entire 5,000 ton starship. Payload may be 100 tons +. It's a big if, but if they can anything close to this it'll be crazy.

Orion is weirdly heavy for the SM, and the SM is weirdly weak (I don't think it got redesigned when SLS came along).

They are trying to fix this at $600m - $1B / year with the Block 1B upper stage.

But SLS after $20B (+ another $20B for orion) definitely CANNOT get folks to moon and back. Orion payload is truly tiny.

I think SLS will be good for maybe some flyby missions to the moon? One way to keep it going would be to do a one rocket mars sample return option / dump Orion totally... That actually seems like a useful approach.

But its not clear to me that old space can do a fixed price contract, they are so used to cost+ they really need to be able to overrun budget. All these projects had initial budgets that are fractions of what they are now but with cost+ that actually is a positive for the contractor. And the headaches on a mars accent and return vehicle would be high.
Langchain was released in October 2022. ChatGPT was released in November 2022.

Langchain was before chat models were invented. It let us turn these one-shot APIs into Markov chains. ChatGPT came in and made us realize we didn't want Markov chains; a conversational structure worked just as well.

After ChatGPT and GPT 3.5, there were no more non-chat models in the LLM world. Chat models worked great for everything, including what we used instruct & completion models for. Langchain doing chat models is just completely redundant with its original purpose.
Do opinions differ whether that particular beer crate is real? Of whether the name is appropriate?
Wow what a fun little interesting time. My wife and I made it to the end on mobile!
MagSafe saved my butt a few times in the past.

Full disclosure that was pre-USB-C. I haven’t “tested” USB-C in that way.

But it’s a really great feature. And frees up a USB-C port for other use.
> Iceland has more geothermal power than it knows what to do with

Build more aluminum smelters and data centers!
I believe Deno's LSP does use this push model, the missing ingredient is that the LSP server itself is implemented in Rust, but bridges to TypeScript's Language Service API in JavaScript/TypeScript. The TypeScript side calls functions like `readFile()` that Deno then needs to provide, so they need to get the in-memory file contents from the Rust side to the JS side.
It is extremely satisfying! I would enjoy having community feedback about it too, but so far publishing a new version has been too heavy a lift. Maybe one of these years.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11240350 has discussion of one change we made to Arc, though it's already 8 years old - the midpoint between today and the original release of Arc, I guess.
Disclaimer, I converted some demo react app to htmx as a learning tool.

I reduced data transmission by about 20 percent. Cut the time to first render of html in half.

Power usage on the client was down ( probably because the test suite finished sooner) and the server was also lower, but likely for the same reason.

The html returned by the demo and my app was identical except for the react lib and htmx library. The selenium test suite only needed minor changes to work with htmx, I tried to keep the layout the same.

I can't speak for the developer experience or time spent writing the react version, but the htmx was not too painful.

I'm not sold in the fact that it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.

I should probably spend some time and make a blog post so that people can pick it apart and tell me how bad I am at doing it the react way.
That proxy wars occurred during the Cold War, one can argue that these conflicts were actually a result of nuclear deterrence. Unable to engage directly due to the threat of mutually assured destruction, superpowers instead fought indirectly through smaller nations. This could be seen as evidence that nuclear weapons did prevent direct conflict between major powers. Also history shows that nations have engaged in extremely costly wars before. World War I and II saw unprecedented casualties, yet nations still fought. Nuclear weapons introduced a new level of destructive potential that went beyond conventional warfare. And there were periods of extreme tension, like the Cuban Missile Crisis, where nuclear war seemed imminent. The very existence of massive nuclear arsenals suggests that both sides were prepared for the possibility of mutual destruction.

You can question the role of nukes as peacekeepers but I think the case for nuclear deterrence keeping the peace is strong. Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) is widely credited as a key factor in preventing direct conflict between superpowers during the Cold War. The presence of nuclear weapons forced them to pursue competition through economic, cultural, and technological means rather than direct military confrontation. “Race to the moon” being one such result.
You've just suggested tax fraud, and the mechanism you referred to is no longer a viable method for accomplishing it...
In principal I agree, and it's not like I'm losing entire days to this sort of thing (well, once I did, but only once), but there's a tricky interplay of experience + lingering imposter syndrome. I do a fair bit of jumping around between languages and frameworks, so when I, say, come back to JS after being away for 6-9 months and I see something unfamiliar, there's usually a 60/40 split that it's a bug vs something the JS community has decided is a new "industry best practice". Before immediately going to the author asking for an explanation, I attempt to do my due diligence and be sure that I'm on the 60% side of that split.

It's just that lately the split has been more like 60/30/10 between bug, some new thing, and garbage AI spew.
I believe they pause withdrawals until they get enough liquidity. Users very much dislike it though.
We use instruct models extensively as we find smaller models fine tuned to our prompts perform better when general chat models that are much larger. This lets us run inference that can be 1000x cheaper than 3.5, meaning both money saving and much better latencies.
> How do you augment capitalism to incentivize such behavior?

By regulating it so that it serves the needs of the people living in it, and embedding those regulations in a system resilient against regulatory capture and nepotism.

As all economic systems, it’s ultimately only a means (efficient resource allocation) to an end (prosperity and growth for somebody).

Who that is, i.e. how the results of that growth are ultimately redistributed is not a question of economics but politics.
The author's commentary is definitely personal and biased towards that. That said macOS isn't necessarily the golden example of perfect hardware support by its OEM either, e.g. Linux supported hardware accelerated GIC support on Apple silicon 2 years before Apple did. macOS generally does better about it than 99% of other options do their respective hardware but I'd leave room for exception.
It's still around, but the whole point of the distro has shifted. The history section of CentOS's Wikipedia article gets into it pretty well I think.
For starters, they have much smaller populations, and more natural resources per person.

They also rely on America to provide the bulk of their national defense...
I’m not sure of that. In fact, I hope that’s the outcome. I worry that capitalism has destroyed the revolutionary spirit.
I didn't know the author’s opinion, and I skipped that section given I know my own preferences already.

But I think it’s fine it wasn’t up top. If you want a Mac you already know you have to buy an Apple computer. If you want to run Linux natively you likely already know you don’t want a Mac.

(Yes, Asahi exists and has done an amazing job, but the Mac doesn’t have official Linux support and the Framework does)
> 5. doxyPEP (two pills of doxycycline taken after sex, 90% effective against syphilis, 80% chlamydia, 50% gonorrhea)

Preventatively using antibiotics is a horrible idea, for one it increases the risk of creating resisitant strains, and we are already running out of antibiotics (especially broadband ones). Moreover, antibiotics in general are known to mess with you gut biome whose importance we are just beginning to understand (we know it plays a role in many physical and mental illnesses for example). Then there are the side effects which for doxycyline include diarrhea, increased risk of bowel cancer, higher sensitivity to the sun (and associated risk of skin cancer).
Netflix Launches Its Own Line of Popcorn for $4.50 a Bag
Wouldn't it be better to generate multiple tracks that can be mixed / tweaked together, rather than a single track? That way you can also keep the parts you like and continue iterating on the parts you dislike.

If the sound is already being generated at a specific time, surely you can make it generate an output that can be consumed by existing audio mixing tools for further refinement.

The problem with doing these all-in-one integrated solutions is that you're kinda giving people an all-or-nothing option, which doesn't seem that useful. Maybe I'll end up being proven wrong.
Parfit’s equivalent of “there’s no such thing as tables or chairs” is “there’s no such thing as France”. In other words, it’s a label we give to a collection of people, but France doesn’t technically exist other than as those people themselves.

It’s one of the points I disagreed with him on (his line between “exists” and “not exists” seems arbitrary, like he is forcing a particular layer of abstraction), and it somewhat undermined his bigger argument about the nature of the self in Reasons and Persons.

In some ways, France is more real than people comprising it. In almost every way, a chair is more real than particles or fields that it can be modeled as.
Actually, they used a Coravin[0] so they can test the wine without opening the bottle!

[0]https://www.coravin.com/pages/how-it-works
We're so far behind from having alternative OSes that are able to run software that's based on Win APIs that any compromise seems reasonable. Essentially, all we have at present is monopolistic, spying, ad-dropping Microsoft or nothing, so any alternative has to be better.

Linux with Wine is fine in its own right and I use the combination but it isn't a true substitute for the ordinary user who has been used to using Windows for decades. Witness the pitifully small numbers of Linux desktop installations compared with Windows and the even smaller number of Linux users who use Wine. (Yes, I know Linux's desktop share has increase recently, and that's a good thing, but the numbers are still trivial.)

Seems to me pragmatism has to reign in the way that many users install Nvidia drivers on Linux. Granted, it's not the ideal for open source but the compromise is better than the alternatives.
I think it's the last release you can cling to old ifcfg scripts or whatever they are called. But yeah. Just update your shit.
You get the equivalent setup in ipv6 by having your home modem or router deny inbound connections.

I think port forwarding configuration is a pain that does not offer value over just poking a hole in your firewall to do an authenticated connection over ssh.
I guess since state is fully encoded inside a single state variable and of course the output counts, it would be trivially simple to switch between multiple input streams and incrementally count words in each of them as new data arrives.
> Most programmers who come across an array of values assume they know what the values mean

Oh yeah, let me add from the audio synthesis world that this disease is prevalent here too
Yes it was a brain fart — fixed!
But it's a simplification: One iteration is enough to detect lying.

In a real ZK proof the probability of the prover lying reduces after each iteration but never reached 0.
Why would there be bewilderment? Interest rates are, of course, the cost of money. We saw the cost of money fall to essentially nothing because the demand for money dropped off a cliff. As with anything, the price then fell to compensate. That's your basic supply and demand.

But why would the market no longer have a strong demand for money and see money as being essentially worthless? Because nobody knew what to do with it. That's why we got little out of ZIRP. ZIRP was merely a symptom of the populace not having a strong vision or direction in which to use resources. It was in reaction to the environment it took place in.

Had we had loftier goals and grander visions we'd have gotten more, but the cost would have also been much higher (i.e. ZIRP wouldn't have happened).
No, corporate taxes are paid on net income which does not include salary
Are you replying to the wrong comment? I asked for one example where an open political system led to radical Islamists cementing power
And anything paid out to owners in the form of salary is taxed. The point is that they can't pay dividends or do buybacks
> Also, this has been public for months:

Posting the hash to twitter as a proof that "something" exists reveals no actual information, so it's not considered making the exploit "public" in any meaningful way.

From the blog's timeline, it's been visible in code diffs since ~April, but only called out as a CVE since 10 days ago, so I'd consider this one hot off the presses.
> they never considered the chlorine as part of the purifying process, simply precautionary

In many parts of the world they do not add chlorine. Our water tastes and smells like a swimming pool in comparison.
I agree, and in fact I would consider working with junior developers a highlight of my day because there is an inherent virtue in the "beginners mind". And you're not wrong that juniors writing things that seem more complicated than they have any right to be producing is not a new thing. It's more that the patterns have skewed. Over a nearly 20 year career, I've developed pattern matching skills that can catch this kind of code...when produced by humans. It seems that I'll have to adjust my priors now. That's all.
Without numbers/longer hands on impressions it’s hard to know.

The Mac may have way faster storage. Or higher bandwidth RAM. Or run cooler. Or start faster. Or longer battery life. Or a better trackpad. Or keyboard.

Or not.

A lot of stuff in both machines is commodity parts. Apple doesn’t make its own screens and the Air is the worst screen their offer (I love it, but it’s relative). They don’t make storage chips or RAM chips or WiFi chips. A lot of stuff any company could do.

And, even ignoring the RAM/SSD prices, Apple loves their 30-40% margins. If Framework is willing to make less per machine they have more to spend on each unit even at the same price. Some of this is lost to volume discounts they don’t get, but it still helps.
Everyone has a very similar value system.
This feels like a valid use for langchain then. Thanks for sharing.

Which models do you use and for what use cases? 1000x is quite a lot of savings; normally even with fine-tuning it's at most 3x cheaper. Any cheaper we'd need to get like $100k of hardware.
A lot of people have the luck to get there but misses the opportunities
I doubt that you can make it faster on the GPU than on CPU when utilizing SIMD, reason being that you are actually doing something close to trivial upon looking at each byte in sequence. So you transfer it from CPU memory to GPU memory in order to do almost nothing with it.
Certain capacitor materials are slightly piezoelectric and can be used as microphones.
I disagree. The biosphere doesn't recycle many things, and instead just buries them underground, much like humans do. Just look ores: all that stuff that humans are mining in the Earth's crust is material from ancient asteroids that struck the surface and got buried.
2024 summer solstice is Earth's earliest since 1796
In 20 years of having laptops, I have never ever damaged the laptop or power cable by accidentally pulling on it or tripping over it, despite pulling or tripping on it fairly frequently. For some number of years during that time when I had a Mac laptop with MagSafe, I very often accidentally knocked the power cable out, which was always super annoying.

I've been using USB-C for charging on three different laptops over the past 8 years or so, and I've been perfectly happy with it.

I'm sure some people have damaged laptops with non-MagSafe charging, but I've been more annoyed with MagSafe than I think it's worth.
You’re right they’re both aiming for a very different ideal. Mac is more towards integrated/small/light/seamless. Framework is more expandable/serviceable/upgradable/tinkerable.
Doesn't langchain provide useful functionality when it comes to RAG? Here it seems it does considerably more but being a mere shim abstraction?
>Yes, but how can it be detected reliably? Considering there is much to be gained in fooling us. (think parallel construction)

I was fooling around with a fan constructed addon training module for novelai.

I had a blast, reconstructing a few different narratives and sort of melding them together was a lot of fun.

I let the tool name the characters. And the names it came up with were better than halfway decent. So I kept them.

Turns out that while novel ai makes some sort of best effort to remove copyrighted proper nouns, the additional training module had reinserted some. After it had selected the first, it immediately selected his brother for the next one.

If I hadnt gotten suspicious and googled the names in depth, I might have spread the story around. It wasnt ever destined to be published but I could see people falling into the same trap.
> capitalism is a zero sum game, thus the disincentive to give what you've got.

Only in a zero growth environment. And in one, which economic or political system is not a zero sum game?

> consider that our planet is fucked by global warming thanks to "optimal resource allocation" which takes no account for long-term consequences

Pricing in long-term consequences and accounting for externalities is arguably not a contradiction to capitalism (and I think we should absolutely do much better there).

Ideally we’d even account for the effects of societal unrest due to massive wealth inequalities or areas becoming unlivable due to the climate, or just the immorality of poverty if nothing else.

But that’s a political decision (what do we value how much) in the end, not one of economic systems. Who gets to decide that is determined by the political system, not the economic one. And corruption of political power can exist in all systems.
I’d love to hear the story behind this
In the US you also have situations where all that science means that effective treatments exist but they are entirely out of your reach because of insane healthcare costs.

I can't imagine having to watch a loved one slowly die knowing that you are surrounded by doctors who could save them if you only had the tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars they demand or if you'd been living in basically any other developed nation on Earth.
Following the links leads to an amazing cloud-top view of a gigantic jet taken by a pilot: https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2019/10/25/close-encounter-w...
Right, but the problem is when a company can't (or won't) quantify a no-frills normie price. I don't think anybody is complaining about the fact that huge needy clients will cost more and so will need to pay more; the problem is marketing material that says "we will treat everyone like a huge needy client".
*were, for spitzer and Compton
More ARM Linux Laptops Are on the Way
It’s easy to avoid seams if you don’t have them in the first place by milling a huge chunk of the laptop one out one chunk of aluminum.

But that’s expensive. And I agree with you it’d likely make upgrades/repairs much harder or more expensive and may remove modularity all together.