skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For security issues, this is true. For finding that the company is lying, evil and obviously engaging in malicious practices... why ask them for a comment at all, except for a better blog post? Fuck them
While I have absolutely no issues with the word "shit" in popular terms, I'd normally like to reserve it for situations where there's actually intended malice like in "enshittification".

Rather than just an imperfect technology as we have here.

Many people object to the term enshittification for foul-mouthing reasons but I think it covers it very well because the principle it covers is itself so very nasty. But that's not at all the case here.
The only instance I’ve ever seen this claimed was swiftly proven false: https://www.harrisranch.com/news-info/harris-ranch-refutes-m...
Technology advances by supplanting human mechanisms, not by amplifying or cheapening them. A loom isn't a more nimble hand, it's a different mechanical approach to weaving. Wheels and roads aren't better legs, they're different conveyances. LLMs as a replacement for dealing with people but offering only the same certainty aren't an advance.

LLMs do math by trying to match an answer to a prompt. Mathematica does better than that.
It depends what dialect of C++ they are using but I believe you would need at least 3 months of hard studying to go from zero to a functioning C++ programmer.

I’ve been using C++ for over a decade and I still don’t feel like I know enough about the language. It’s a bottomless pit.
The last time I put music on a floppy disk was 20 years ago, trying to get a single mp3 off an old Windows 95 computer with no USB or network support. I had to use WinRAR to split the file up across multiple disks, move it to a more modern system, and stitch it back together. It worked, if I never wanted to use another floppy disk after that. I wasn’t completely successful, but that’s due to work stuff that couldn’t ve avoided, and was far less annoying.

I will have to pass the floppy disk music scene. The idea brings back annoying memories.
Anecdotally, I’ve definitely seen a high correlation between schools I’ve heard of and those I haven’t. Schools don’t need to be top 10, but top 100 seems to help a lot. And this is for programming jobs.
No, I labeled news sources who have intentionally deluded you as bad people. Some of those bad people are probably globalists. Some of those globalists are evil. All of the above are people that can’t even pretend successfully that they care about you nor your country. No, this stance is driven by the truth. Truth by which you haven’t refuted nor provided evidence to the contrary beyond one line:

> Trump appointed judges that stated row vs. Wade was settled case law during their confirmation hearings, directly lying to congress.

First, actions matter more than words. The Supreme Court is balanced now and is doing a commendable job. See FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, and Moyle v. United States as 3 examples.

Second, judging by everything else you’ve written I don’t think you’re capable of detecting lies or not. Repeating what you heard on MSNBC or CNN is about as correct as reporting what you heard on Breitbart and InfoWars. They don’t let the facts get in the way of a good narrative.

Regarding the rest of your response, you don’t have an argument to the contrary so now you engage in Whataboutism. What about this? What about that? If you want to engage like that, start a new comment for each of your new topics. But so long as you want to send the conversation in a new direction, you show that can’t argue the validity of this point and you have lost this debate. Which is okay

See further:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
I agree with you to an extent. The problem is they weren’t taught finances at all. Most kids don’t understand that just 5% annually can compound to a crazy amount.

I don’t feel bad for the current kids or anyone who grew up with the internet because they know better. If you have an internet connection and didn’t research loans before taking them out then that’s on you. The new gen or the iPhone generation as I call them are much smarter than us because they see most millennials got a useless degree and work somewhere unrelated. Which is why they don’t listen to us but I don’t blame them. Good on them.
> you can introduce levels of complexity

yes, which is why the job market sucks for most people. being able to do the job is no longer good enough.
It's not at all clear that "restarting with a small subset of cards" is better. It means that you're very likely to fail to recall almost every card outside the small subset, which increases the work you must do to memorize the deck again. Any card that you verify immediately is going to save you a lot of work down the line.
Or... Just release your program under the GPL.
Possibly not, not all of them at least.
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I disagree with this take because LLMs are, always, hallucinating. When they get things right it’s because they are lucky. Yes, yes, it’s more complicated than that, but the essence of LLMs is that they are very good at being lucky. So good that they will often give you better results than random search engine clicks, but not good enough to be useful for anything important.

I think what calling the times they get things wrong hallucinations is largely an advertising trick. So that they can sort of fit the LLMs into how all IT is sometimes “wonky” and sell their fundamentally flawed technology more easily. I also think it works extremely well.
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You're right. We faced those same issues. So we plan to move those prompts and completions to be sent as log events with some reference to the trace/span and not actually on the span.

The span can then only contain the most important data like the prompt template, model that was used, token usage, etc. You can then split the metadata (spans and traces) and the large payloads (prompts + completions) to different data stores.
I noticed this when I had nickel-titanium glasses frames maybe 20 years ago. If I folded them in half at the bridge they would get hot, I could then conduct the heat away with my fingers, then, releasing the tension, the bridge would get very cold. Just like a refrigerant, but solid.

I did wonder at the time if they could replace the refrigerant in fridges with this but figured they would eventually fail from repeated bending.
As a small artist living in quite a tiny niche - didgeridoo music - I have to say that the requirement for having your music on spotify is a no-go. Artists like myself don't benefit from spotify, I don't think, it's a net loss and you join the ranks of people with questionable actions (cf., e.g., spotify-AI-generated content). BC and/or YT would be viable alternatives for those who actually need discovery IMO.

E.g., here's some unexpected percussive organic trance for you that my collaborators and I put on BC: https://dojorich.bandcamp.com/album/tubecolab (I'm Freddie Veggie, btw). Music of that scope doesn't "perform" on spotify, so I won't invest in having it there.
No no no, Rabbits mistakes are honest small mistakes from a great company! But this author, man of pure evil, hasn't waited long enough for my favourite bunny company to cover up their lies :(
bro it's just reference of not-so-funny skit of monty python. not a big deal by any stretch.
> Some people don't see electric cars / chargers as ideology that must remain absolutely pure of oil.

It’s normally the anti-EV people that seem to go for this angle as a kind of “gotcha”. They are normally the ones spreading the “all the chargers run on diesel generators” misinformation too.

Can you run a charger on a generator? Probably. Is it standard practice or mildly common? Absolutely not.
Great article. I've always thought that pessimistic sci-fi dystopias were on the rise, but it turns out most still have positive endings. The observation about walking out of the theatre, and seeing the worst ahead of us is quite interesting.

It would be cool to compare with other, non sci-fi stories. EG: I have been noticing the rise of escapist fantasy narratives in popular media — wish fulfillment stories where a Mary Sue like main character rises above all challenges without struggle. You can see this particularly in light novels, manga, and anime in the now popularized "isekai", "cultivation", or "system progression" genres. It would be interesting to find out how the public's fascination with these types of stories correlate with economic, social, or political undulations in the real world.
Someone with a gmail address most likely.
Right, like I mentioned. If you understand the loan and your ok with it then go to college. If you don’t know basic finances or how interest compounds then sit home until you figure things out because your playing with fire.
> Hence why a question "did you train with Youtube?" to a certain CTO is so difficult to answer.

Make it so they're automatically guilty if they can't provide a definitive negative answer.
> thread you reference is criminality and infanticide

The point is historically--and across the animal kingdom--the default is parents minimally "prioritising relationships and resources on a parent to child level." Irrespective of odds of survival.

> fallacy you've fallen into from your prior post is to confuse that population level dynamic with the parents drive to pass on their particular genes

The drive to pass on genes is biological. It operates at the individual and group levels. We have no evidence the desire to pass on one's genes has any biological roots; reckless abandon produces more offspring, after all, and plenty of species, including humans, show both kin preference and out-of-group sympathies.

> insane to me that it isn't even possible to consider the parent has an instinct to prioritize relationships and resources with children most likely to reproduce

We're having a discussion. It's being considered. The problem is the evidence is stacked against it. If a phenotype is conserved across animals and humans, the simplest hypothesis is it has utility. At that point, evolutionary pressure at all levels will tend to work to conserve it. Including through parental instincts.

> some want to work hard to make sure it isn't seen as a reasonable hypothesis

It's a reasonable hypothesis. The problem is it has no evidence for it and plenty for the null. Pigs roll over and smother their piglets. That isn't a sign of hidden selection pressure, it's just bad parenting.

That said, I'm not cleanly rejecting it. We don't yet have a good model for the genetic basis of mental disorders. And a lot of mental disorders, e.g. a tendency towards random violence, could have served someone well in antiquity. So it very well could be that parents rejecting kids who won't have children in high school is innate to some. But again, we have no evidence for it.
> real incomes [...] have both increased over time.

This does not seem to be the case, at least not when observed over long enough time periods to filter out the noise. Looking at the earliest income records we seem to have, incomes were on par with what we find today. Wages have increased, which is perhaps what you meant, largely because they are a comparatively recent invention and had nowhere to go but up. Of course, now that most incomes are derived as wages, wages have reached the point of stagnation as well.

> having a degree has a substantial effect on where you are on that spectrum.

The spectrum is that of humans, not of income. Clearly someone with, say, down syndrome is not the same as someone without. To think that people are all the same is erroneous. Indeed, someone who has down syndrome is statistically unlikely to succeed in college and, likewise, statistically unlikely to do well in the broad economy. –– That does not imply that attaining the college degree they lack will cure what ails them.

> If you are talking about something else, it would probably help to more clearly articulate your meaning.

Help in what way? I understand what I am articulating. If you are, perhaps, implying that someone else might not understand, that is certainly possible but affects me not. There would be no logical reason to seek to improve clarity in the case.
I just had this experience a week ago. I've worked with C# commercially but for the past 4 - 5 years I've been working with TypeScript mostly.

There was a fun HR girl that sent me a message how she found my profile compelling and we should schedule an interview. I said why not. After 45 minutes of asking me all sorts of questions, she asks if I have experience with .NET 5.

I went on to tell her that for the past years I haven't worked with .NET (though this was obvious from my CV) but have worked across multiple stacks, heavy TypeScript which shares a type system and the same creator bla bla. Then she asks but have you worked with .NET 5? I told her I worked with .NET Core for personal projects, but when I was working in .NET there was no .NET 5. And she stopped it there. "I'm sorry but I don't want to waste your time, they are looking for someone with .NET 5 experience."

Honestly, it's so stupid. I have more than a decade of experience working with software, been founding engineer, CTO, not shabby at DS&A. I can't imagine what kind of company would let their talent pool be so limited by such a factor. Unless you're doing some heavy .NET voodoo, but this wasn't the case.
Kind of. There’s still the admin overhead of scheduling and coordination to get things done. Rich people typically have a larger surface area to cover (big houses, big yards, lots of cars, etc) and all the projects and maintenance that come with them requires a lot of phone calls and getting people to show up.
No, the barriers to entry in this case are extremely high. Higher or about as high as they ever were.

You’d be trying to compete against products into the development of which two of the biggest global corporations have invested billions over the years. Eve MS itself could barely dent Google’s market share…
Depends on the dataset available. Usually final odds because that is what is preserved for posterity.

You are right of course. My back testing was more for interest than for any other purpose. And the bookies models are obviously optimising for other outcomes than mine.
> Aliexpress does not do such stuff

Seriously, what in the hell are you smoking?

On Aliexpress a search for “milwaukee power tools” the top 100s of results are for clear counterfeits ($50 for an high torque impact wrench is not real, dude), some “compatible” battery replacements (ie cheap crap that Rossman complains about) or some used tools from consolidators of questionable repute (a 90% rating on Ali is really bad).

Gosh man, I love Ali for what it is, but if you don’t know it’s a cess pit of counterfeiters with gamed search rankings and mostly fake reviews you are extremely naive.

> technical parts are more likely to be upto specs.

Bullshit. There’s considerable overlap between the two in the marketplace. You think the shitty suppliers are just limiting themselves to Amazon and avoiding Ali? Aliexpress has less oversight than Amazon. Why would the QC on Aliexpress be better?

Rossman’s offhand remark is a bit of hyperbole. It’s also a bit silly. He laments the lack of trusted brands on Amazon and the mass of crappy ones. But the trusted brands are still there, Amazon still carries tons of brand name products. It’s true their search prioritizes crappy things as the marketplace is overrun by shear volume, but this is no where near as bad as Ali. I don’t know why you or Rossman think Ali is somehow better about product quality, but you’re both full of shit on this point.

> Milwaukee also have official store on aliexpress.

If they do (and I doubt it, since everything you’ve said is detached from reality), it is not available in North America, so not very useful to me or the majority of Amazon’s customers.

Or do you actually believe the “Milwaukee Tool Store” selling $50 impact wrenches is official?

Moreover most of their products that are clear counterfeits (the shells look legit but they completely phone it in on the control pads) in customer photos have close to 5 star ratings. Yeah, no manipulation going on there.

Amazon is nowhere near that bad.
sounds like nice projects, but from my experience the maintenance costs are much higher than the pure hardware costs. In addition, certification costs shouldnt be underestimated, especially for radios - so any m2 / minipcie solution for lower volumes is much cheaper.
Lilygo [1] got quite impressive low cost devices... but there its the same, limited certification and not sure about industrial temperature/humidity capabilities.

[1] https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t-sim7600
Does the "everything comes with Windows out of the box" still apply for the servers and workstations where I imagine the vast majority of these high-end GPUs are going these days?
Exactly, this is why you I’m happy the younger generation doesn't listen to us. We listened to generation x and got into a lot of trouble for it. I knew parents who would encourage 100k of debt for their child for an art degree..
Upvote just for the title and idea
Nope. But I did have to do the pledge of allegiance every day until high school.
Ah, it's purple now. It was green when I studied, became red before I graduated. When I search for it now the thumbnails look unfamiliar.
> Apparently, urea and ammonia in the waste went untreated

Of course not; these are not germs that are killed by a hot exhaust pipe.
Would consider rewriting in a language that is more portable? Ideally this would be a single binary, excluding the models!
Sounds very Peter Watts-esque.
same... also that saying "churning out 1k lines of code per day" is automatically good... sounds like churning out 1k points of complexity every day
Cyberpunk was always the “real sci-fi” in terms of what was actually going to happen wasn’t it? Murder drones, corporations having more power than nation states, the EU block becoming regulatory, climate havoc, the gig economy and a continuous restructuring of centralised society.

It also didn’t have a lot of happy endings. Because the world didn’t end, it just got continuesly shittier.
If you know the name ahead of time, syntax parameters[1] (if your scheme supports them) work well. syntax-case lets you break hygiene to insert new names in a controlled fashion (but has issues with names known ahead of time; see linked paper). Renaming macros do too, I believe.

1: http://scheme2011.ucombinator.org/papers/Barzilay2011.pdf
> unless somebody is doing something stupid like sending files via json

But that’s exactly the complaint the GP was making here: That mp3s are being base64 encoded rather than using a transmission protocol that handles raw bytes.

So despite your counter argument, you actually agree with the GP.
> and all the projects and maintenance that come with them requires a lot of phone calls and getting people to show up.

They have people for that too. It's called personal assistant or secretary.
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Not yet, should I make an issue for it?
Hi there,

Thanks so much for sharing your experience and insights — it's incredibly valuable to hear from someone who's been through this journey. I really appreciate the honesty and the heads-up about the challenges.

1. You're right, the time tracking space is indeed somewhat crowded, and competing with big players like Toggl and Clockify is a huge task. I'm aware of the uphill battle with SEO and marketing, and your experience reinforces the importance of having a solid strategy.

2. Content marketing is definitely tricky, especially with so much already out there. I'm exploring unique angles and user stories to hopefully stand out, but it's clear that traditional methods have their limitations.

3. Advertising costs for competitive keywords are another tough hurdle. I'll be keeping an eye on creative marketing approaches to get the word out without breaking the bank.

4. The long funnel for desktop software is something I've been considering as well. Ensuring a smooth user experience from download to payment is crucial, and I'll be focusing on making that as seamless as possible.

Thank you for maintaining Qbserve and sharing your learnings. I hope to find ways to navigate these challenges and appreciate any advice or tips you might have.

Wishing you all the best as well, and thanks again for the candid advice!

Cheers!
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> Most

doesn't mean there isn't a lot of local fraud. Elizabeth Holmes comes to mind.

Let's not forget that fraudulent Alzheimer's paper that misdirected Alzheimer's research for decades.

The Pons and Fleischmann cold fusion fraud?

Does it matter if most come from foreign scientists, when prestigious journals publish them? What are we supposed to do, reject papers with foreign sounding names? Why aren't the journals doing proper vetting?

Attempts to suppress any counterclaims to the official scientific opinions during covid would make anyone skeptical.

Then there's this:

https://www.oaklandreport.org/p/the-misrepresentation-of-oak...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-media-say-crime-is-going-do...

One should be careful about statistics reported by an entity that has a strong self-interest in the outcomes.
Now I wonder how much music you could fit on a floppy if you recorded the analog signal? A double-sided floppy drive would be perfect for stereo, one side for each channel. Maybe use a spiral track like on CDs instead of the usual concentric tracks? But of course that would require custom-made (or heavily modified) floppy drives, and it would sound about the same as a cassette.
> everything in society is engineered to handle it well

Except nuclear reactor backup systems </tongue in cheek>
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https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/types/loans/interest-r...

6.5 / 8 / 9 according to their own website

These are about the same as when I was in school during the great financial crisis

I have/had loans from 2.5-6.5
If they had then the elliptic integrals that they're reducible to would also have closed form. They don't though.
Definitely. I'm not suggesting money doesn't matter, I was thinking mostly about the question of whether or not happiness levels off after some point. I think my question was kind of whether at some point, it's less about the money and more about what's bringing in the money. Before that point the money itself would definitely matter.

Or maybe it's the money itself all the way through. Just a lot of possibilities.
One megabyte?!
And a real engineer. Not just some basic things where you can just get a certification.

Like I tell people, I don’t think you need 4 years to learn basic things like html, css and some JavaScript.
Thanks! It can vary greatly between use cases - but we've seen extremely high detection rates for tagged texts (>95%). When switching to production, this gets trickier since you don't know what you don't know (so it's hard to tell how many "bad examples" we're missing). Our false positive rate (number of examples that were tagged as bad but weren't) has been around 2-3% out of the overall examples tagged as bad (positive) and we always work on decreasing this.
LLMs still do not reason or plan. And nothing in their architecture, training, post-training points toward real reasoning as scaling continues. Thinking does not happen one token at a time.
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Glad to see you have a healthy perspective on this and I hope your wife will eventually find a healthcare job with better conditions. Its really quite amazing how much we depend on these people yet treat them so poorly.