skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see the point. Your work is going fine, so why not look for a hobby that you enjoy instead of making a burden out of finding a work related hobby? There are plenty of non coding things to do and their differences from your day job may bring new ideas and perspective.
I got an excellent education from the public school system and had passionate, committed teachers throughout, and was well prepared to pursue an engineering degree at a top university. The solution to education is not to try and scale up some absurd and ineffective AI system that is worse than teachers, it's to pay teachers an actual proportionate salary that is in line with their impact on our society so we can retain good people. Just because people like Karpathy understand AI doesn't mean they understand education.
You're awfully quick to rule out time travelers.
I don’t understand the juicero. If you are “juicing” what is basically canned fruit, in what world could that be better than blending and straining fresh fruit?
May want to change its title to the original: The critical window of shadow libraries
I agree with this, I love SerenityOS and LadyBird looks very interesting. But scaling that to a serious and safe browser with C++ is going to be hard.

Plus, I don't see how Firefox is really broken. Right now, forking and shipping with a custom user.js is sufficient to fix most annoyances.
It's also easy to game the system. Turn a couple of 3's into 5's. Your "velocity" goes up for no real increase in work.
I was curious about feature size (e.g. wire width). The number of transistors can actually be found in some datasheets (don't remember exactly which manufacturer published it though).
Totally. I remembered the phrase I should have used: a false dichotomy (https://xkcd.com/2592/)

If you were going to buy a car today sir, would your budget be above or below $40k?
It's not quite a free trial, but the FAQ at the bottom promises "no questions asked" refunds upon request.
Most of the hard work is actually feature construction rather than monolithic models. And afaik gradient boosting still rules the world
> Otherwise you end up with people insisting on using DOS for enterprise applications in 2024 because that's what they've used since 1984

Or Visual Basic and Windows XP
Apple disagrees: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/set-up-voicemail-iph3...
A very easy way to get basically every current AI model to hallucinate:

1. Ask a highly non-trivial research question (in particular from math)

2. Ask the AI for paper and textbook references on the topic

At this point, already many of these references could be hallucinations.

3. If necessary ask the AI where in these papers/textbooks you can find explanations on the questions, and/or on which aspect of the question or research area the individual references focus.
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This, 100%. When engineers have focus, no context switching... things get done. When they're interrupted with useless Zoom meetings every 2 hours, productivity drops off the cliff. If you have 2 meetings 1 hour apart, that 1 hour is basically useless: by the time you're in the zone, you're interrupted again.
What do you have "unreasonably" high standards for?
We already do something vaguely similar with MLAT, measuring the time delay from transponder signals at different receiver sites.

MLAT data can be used for either unofficial situational awareness in non-radar facilities (to display non-ADS-B aircraft), and in some limited cases can be fed directly into official radar displays when running in sensor fusion mode.
Have you optimized for sleep and exercise?

If you haven't, there's no other drug or behavior that can boost your cognitive abilities without first optimizing those two things.
I don't follow how we go from "they are bad product managers and customers" to... therefor time estimates are bad. I do not think it is unreasonable for our primary stakeholders to ultimately care about time. I also do not think it is unreasonable to give error bars in estimates like "this project is uncertain, therefor estimates will be variable".
I'm 35, I had similar issues. Tested my testosterone, it was at 290 ng/dL. Went on TRT, my tests since starting have been from 650-1050 ng/dL. Night and day difference in energy, focus, emotional regulation.

As a bonus, it helped slightly with body composition and strength.
Your situation seems rare.
Ruby still gets used in indie and professional games for scripting but it's just got fewer advantages vs something like Lua or even JavaScript.
By unique we mean one of the numbers we can represent by 50 bits in each patch we encode plus some bits for error correction and some bits for noise, it's in the faq but we will explain it better. If the domain is all the encoded patches with a particular id then the mapping is surjective.

Thank you for the link and the excerpt!:)
Most of your favourite mathematicians knew each other
For generating synthetic data you could have a SETI@Home setup if you consider each home as a node that generates some amount of data.
I mean, such a setup can be built with Exo, I wouldn’t suggest including it as part of Exo.

Out of curiosity, would you ever support training or at least fine-tuning?
Given his proclivity for keeping them secret and out of wedlock, how would anyone know?
We shouldn't have to explain that it's plainly obvious that society massively benefits from an educated populace, especially one that claims to be a democracy. There are incredibly broad benefits from a reduction in crime to the expansion of the skilled labor pool.

I've noticed that many people in tech seem to disregard or disrespect educational institutions. So I'll turn it back on you. What draconian reason could you possibly have to make the argument that we shouldn't try to give every child an equal opportunity for a high quality education? Do you hate living in an educated society that much? Are you interested in living in a malthusian nightmare?
They had that too.
This article was not written for the reader, but written because the writer loves to hear himself write.
> Feynman, Bill Gates, Socrates, etc.

One of these doesn't quite belong ;)

But these AI researchers don't even understand these figures except as advertising reference points. The Socratic dialogue in the "sparks of AGI" paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712 has nothing whatsoever to do with Socrates or the way he argued.

Fourteen authors and not a single one seemed to realize there's any possible difference between a Socratic dialogue and a standard hack conversation where one person is named "Socrates."
After I saw an early iPhone had Facebook integration built-in, i.e., the owner cannot remove it, I completely gave up on the iPhone.

If it's really necessary to check Facebook from a phone, then https://mbasic.facebook.com is sufficient.
I remember reading about that, from the Chipletter in 2022[0]:

"The XT/370, with a hard drive, could be purchased for as little as $8085. This compares with a basic PC/XT with 256K RAM for $4395 and adds a lot more functionality."

...

"So what was the PC XT/370? Put simply, it was a PC XT (the original IBM PC with a hard disk drive) with three additional cards:

PC/370-P : A card with one modified 68000, one standard 68000 and lots of logic chips.

PC/370-M : A card with 512 kilobytes of memory.

PC/370 EM: Providing the ability to emulate an IBM 3270 terminal.

The XT/370 then became three machines in one:

An IBM PC/XT.

An IBM 3270 terminal that could be used to access a System/370 mainframe.

A machine capable of running some System/370 software."

[0] https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/motorola-intel-ibm-make...
Game developer here. Read Zevin's book. As expected, some parts are spot on, some are wildly off, but within the industry there is also a wide range of experiences.

If you want to learn more about actual game development stories, I recommend Blood, Sweat, and Pixels:

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/blood-sweat-and-pixel...
Using an LLM as a general purpose knowledge base is only one particular application of an LLM. And on which is probably best served by ChatGPT etc.

A lot of other things are possible with LLMs using the context window and completion, thanks to their "zero shot" learning capabilities. Which is also what RAG builds upon.
Affiliate programs for desktop software are difficult to pull off.

If commissions are low, there will just be no interest. If commissions are high, it allows affiliates take out Google ads for your product name and route all searches for the name through themselves.
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Others have tried and the IRS has even provided a helpful guide on if your endeavor is a hobby or a business (https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-news/fs-08-23.pdf).
This has the advantage of executing all your shell mcguffins too, so PYTHON4_LC_COLOR=Europe/Orange is set for the entire desktop session, not just the shells you launch from your desktop environment.

(By the way, exec is a fundamental Unix syscall of interest in that it replaces the current process’s code with new code. Your logout call will never run. The exec is the last thing zsh does before being replaced by sway.)
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I do wish people on this website would stop using themselves as an example of the median anything.

HN readers, in my opinion, are a decent median sample of the group of "self-motivated learners". :-)
Are you capable of considering the statements and actions of individuals of differing politico-ethical views without smug disdain?

Pragmatically, self-righteousness skews perception and understanding.
Yes teaching how to learn is the way for schools, but it is hard to explain to kids and lots of adults.

Just a nitpick that school enforcing memorizing particular list of facts or memorizing poems - is indeed teaching people how to learn, because how else will you explain to a child or an adult "hey you know if you read this thing 10 times and then try to repeat it another 20 times from memory - guess what !!! that is one trick to learn to memorize something."

But if they spend time on finding out how to memorize hand picked for them stuff and how to perform on exams on limited and picked topics - that sounds like they will be able to learn anything but still too many don't realize what the real lesson there is.
Paradoxically, it's the fast food staples that are most difficult to do at home – because you need a fryer. Haute cuisine is no problem making at home, because fine dining is not based on using fryers. It can't be made with restaurant speed nor quantity, but you can get the same quality at home.
“Mounting a disk image” is the dumbest thing that apple ever came up with and failed to fix to this day. Just read that sentence out loud, none of it makes any sense to the famous “mere mortals”.
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Which is easy money that Apple uses for the company as a whole. They don’t make Safari because of Google’s money nor is it likely they would stop developing it if that money was no longer paid.
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> No bonuses for higher velocity is the real reason no one takes it seriously.

Bonuses for higher velocity based on guessed story points would be an even bigger reason for not taking it seriously - or rather to overestimate everything in order to gain the impression of higher velocity and the bonus associated.
The problem therein is that that time depends on who is given the story. Perhaps that should be part of the estimation itself? (Who is working on it.)
Ironically, I just started playing around with the newest version of Sketch on their free trial, having bought Version 3 way back or something.

And... the performance and UI reliability seems to be wildly worse than ever. Pretty disappointed so far. Features have certainly improved, but when I close a sub menu for colour picking or font selection, the menu doesn't go away. Dragging a selection between artboards is choppy as hell, and it doesn't even seem to be using that much ram. It's like they shot themselves in the foot trying to compete with Figma on the collaboration aspect; while the collab functionality seems fine, the main interface is just getting me down.

I am still using 1password 6 standalone though, fuck em it's fine for me.
Yes. My memories are fragmented and dissociated from each other, especially traumatic ones. Processing the PTSD is literally reconnecting with and processing those memories that were pushed away to protect me.
In this case, the much overused 'censored' is really more accurate but like with most such works, unmangled versions were published in 90s after the fall of the Soviet Union. There's a tangential mention on the wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Platonov#Official_suppo...
If not animal cruelty, is definitely animal stupidity (and by animal I mean human animal)

We talk about eating a big animal that died from some unknown cause (maybe plastics?, or poisons?, diseases?), and then resurfaced after a while by the accumulation of decaying gasses. And don't miss the best part, the 90cm parasite worms living in the ear
Well apparently that worked better than conventional peer review in this instance.
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I can estimate rather accurately how much time it will take me to cook a meal assuming that:

- I already mastered the receipt as I prepared the very exact same one many times in the past

- I already checked that I have all the ingredients required at hand

- I will cook in my own kitchen

- no entropy engine (aka family members) was thrown before in the kitchen to put utensils in an other place than the place were I tidily store them (admittedly without conducting formal formation of the rest of the disruption forces)

- no one will interfere because the way I do it is not the super fancy other way in which it could also be done

- no external catastrophe happen which obviously need to be taken care of immediately, just at this point in recipe where by the time I will come back most of what I did so far will be better started again from scratch because the underlying laws of physics I was assuming so far changed so significantly that the left ongoing work is now utterly incompatible with the divergences that universe bumped to

Meanwhile, in the easier transparent stationary landscape of software development, whenever I came with a to-my-mind-credible estimate for a non trivial endeavor, it was systematically rejected and superseded by a soon-to-be-blown-away deadline.
Excellent, thank you:)
The point is that you set a goal and made progress towards it. Ideally you choose goals for yourself and it's expected that you won't complete them all.

I still don't like it.
Can you link the trend search that you found useless? I'm not seeing any changes, but I only use it a few times per year.

Not that I'd be too surprised. Google Search and Image Search have become shockingly bad for many of my queries.
Now take into account that it has to be lightweight and DL falls shirt
Nothing stops us from using specialized tools in this case. They just need to not work on "single source of truth" of their respected domain, but on a projection of a single artifact into relevant dimension. Devil's in the details, of course, but at least with IDEs I can tell with certainty, based on my experience, that sticking to editing directly the single source of truth plaintext codebase is wasting much more time and cognitive effort than IDEs are saving us.
It means you stood in the wrong place. Don’t stand behind, stand next to the donkey.
> Quotient and modulo with a variable RHS is expensive

For dividing ‘big’ bignums by ‘small’ divisors, I would use/tweak libdivide (https://libdivide.com/), and spend the time to optimize the division.

For dividing ‘big’ bignums by ‘big’ divisors, that may not be worth it.

(Determining the correct values of the various ‘big’ and ‘small’ values left as an exercise for the reader. Those will depend on the hardware at hand)
My only experience with GuardDuty was when Security unilaterally rolled it out, and it promptly began eating CPU in ECS containers. Unfortunately, this included PgBouncer, and their throughput plummeted.

Took a while to figure that one out, not least of which because ECS has absurdly shitty UX, with little to no observability.
The reason a division by 1000000 can be efficiently turned into a multiplication is because you're targeting a system that has a 32x32->64 multiplication instruction, which has plenty of room to spare. But if you have that, you would be better off using e.g. 2^32 as your modulo.
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If you try this (and I have, just not with fruits), someone will complain they can't graph fruits. You'll tell them that's the point. They won't listen, so they'll map fruits to numbers, and now you have the same problem anyway.

My personal preference is to use time estimates with some uncertainty. A day or less. 2-3 days. A week at most.
https://evenizer.online/acara/dua-lipa-radical-optimism-tour...
I’m confused by the therabreath story and how it relates to google trends being bad? I see data that matches all my expectations for searches of that mouthwash.

What are you missing? What do you want more of?
They definitely would and do, the vast majority of time series work is not about asset prices or beating the stock market
This is my experience as well. Story points in and of themselves are worthless, but as an excuse to discuss the project as a team, they can have some value.
Image recognition can generally be done very efficiently on a single commodity PC. Even a phone that is a few years olds can do quite a lot. Or a Raspberry PI. So it generally does not need distributed computing solutions.
I am talking about models like YOLO, ResNet, MobileNets, etc.
I would just use masking tape. It's designed to come off surfaces without leaving a residue.

Never write an article promoting some solution, without discussing some alternative!

There are possible issues with gummy glue; it can be stubborn in adhering to cards. Getting stubborn piece of gummy glue off the back of a tiny Micro SD card could be not fun. You don't want to require the user to excessively handle the card or put mechanical any stress on it. They are thinner and more delicate than credit cards (and the bulk of those is just plastic. Only the chip and the magnetic stripe are sensitive). Some users could end up trying to use a MicroSD with a piece of the gummy glue on it.

I wouldn't want to put anything across the contacts of the SD card, which would mean that the adhesive would be on its back. But in that case, the contacts stick out of the page, inviting damage.

Imagine the user clumsily shaking the letter out of the envelope, such that it it fall out, opens, lands with the SD card down, and is immediately stepped on by their five-year-old.

If you put it on the paper contacts-down, you can tape over the back.
The number sense I talk of is not being able to do numerical calculations easily or in your head but rather understanding how to operate with numbers and their different representations. A person who can understand algebraic geometry doesn’t have trouble understanding things like simplifying x + 5/3 x. People workout any number sense have a hard time with this. Knowing that 8/3 is just a different way of writing 1+5/3 is confusing to them.
I'd love to work at Hugging Face! Happen to be hiring any new dev relations/product/AI engineer type roles?

This is such a great piece.
I wish they'd sell prints of these
This is the second VR winter, of course; perhaps there will be another yet to come.

This is a key idea, and a pattern one sees over and over:

> Something can be amazingly cool and part of the future, but not a big part of the future.

I think that self-driving cars will also prove to be in this category.
Since this is best over a local network, I wonder how easy you could make the crowdsourcing aspect of this. How could you make it simple enough for everyone that's physically in your office to join a network to train overnight? Or get everyone at a conference to scan a QR code to contribute to a domain specific model.
It’s a lot of things, and it takes a while. EDMR, modified IFS, somatic work, massive amounts of internal reflection and relational work have all contributed - it’s not something I could just buy. I remember 80% of my childhood whereas before I only remembered something like 20% (the nicer parts and a few impactful moments). I remember school, I remember real details of being in my 20s including emotional memory, I remember what it was like to teach myself to code. All of this stuff wasn’t accessible until I started learning about structural dissociation.
Scrolling is a bit janky on Safari on iOS. The page “jumps” occasionally.
It would be, but its not top priority to finish by yesterday. This is a new direction, so I'd rather have it be good than quick
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The fundamental issue isn't addressed but it sure is hinted at. Scheduling is an NP problem. As queue size, or backlog, or (insert thing here that tracks work to be done) grows it takes n^p calculations to schedule it optimally. This is hit on when it mentions small teams hitting their estimates. They can do this because their task list is small enough to go through all the permutations and actually come up with an accurate estimate. The only way to keep an n^p problem under control is to divide and conquer it. The leafs of that process must not go beyond a fixed size and the task divisions can't be recombined prematurely. Everything else is just yet another management idea that that will fall apart when the task has too many pieces. Once agile or any other management methodology acknowledges the fundamental mathematics at the core of things I may actually take them more seriously.
What stops management from committing Feature A to be delivered after 250 tasks are completed? Yes the fact and the reasons that the Feature A expands to 500 will be documented, but who will care about it? This will still be a "delay" from the management point of view.
I saw this and thought, all I really need is an app that tracks Hyprland focus events (in my case) along with the title.

Thanks for paving 90% of the way.
I actually built a site to auto generate up-to-date interactive visual diagrams for codebases.

It's pretty plug&play, using static analysis & LLMs we generate documentation + an interactive system diagram you can recursively explore.

https://vision.useadrenaline.com

All the auto-generated diagrams are exportable as mermaid
Only Texas will give him all the tax breaks and tax funded dollars he wants. Its especially funny given how much Texas gov hates green tech/etc.
Reportedly close to 100% turnover in the actual userbase (versus the paying part of the government) every 2-3 years. So it's not about deviating from routine, but those users aren't given a voice in the change efforts.

This is an issue with the program management which is very common in government. They are too change averse even when change is necessary (to satisfy their own requirements in this case, the DOS box can't connect to the network but they want the system on the network).
That's not comparable to Russia today. Now there are surveillance cameras, internet surveillance and machine learning, but not back then.

Also it wouldn't have happened hadn't it been for Gorbatjov who introduced the glasnost (transparency) policy reform. Another Stalin, and history would have looked different.
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