skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion it’s better at filtering down my convoluted explanation into some troubleshooting steps I can take, to investigate. It’s kind of like an evolved Google algorithm, boiling down the internet’s knowledge. And I’ve had it give me step by step instructions on “esoteric” things like dwm config file examples, plugins for displaying pictures in terminal, what files to edit and where…it’s kind of efficient I think. Better than browsing ads. Lol.
The ETTO Principle (2017) [pdf]
> aren't motivated to become very skilled beyond the level of a chatbot

Everyone has some amount of common sense. The current state of the art does not, so it cannot make decisions. This is why these things can't currently replace real support beyond being a search function exceedingly capable of interpreting natural language queries and, optionally, rephrasing what the found document says to fit onto the query better

You can't even have these systems as first line support, verifiying whether the person has searched the docs because you can't trust it with a decision about whether the docs' solutions are exhausted and human escalation is needed. There currently simply needs to be a way to reach a human. I'm as happy as the next person to find that a no-queue computer system could solve my problem so I use it when my inquiry is a question and not a request, but a search function is all they are
>So if I go and work for Iran's missile program it's fair game then right?

If you think that beating women for not wearing a hat is something good then yes.
The Unbearable Slowness of Being
Very complex. https://github.com/makerdao/dss/wiki

The summary appears to be that participants can stake their non-DAI crypto assets into the system, and then borrow an equivalent amount of DAI at current prices minus a haircut (e.g. 80% of what they put in). This is the way DAI is created. Borrowers pay interest on their borrowed DAI. (How does this not result in a negative total amount of DAI? not sure)

If your borrowed DAI falls below another threshold (e.g. 90%) of the value of your collateral, you lose all your collateral. Someone somewhere gets to buy your collateral for only 90% of its dollar value in DAI, and is incentivized to do so because they can then get 100% of the value back on the open market. Therefore borrowers are incentivized to keep their borrowing below this threshold.

That's a pretty standard DeFi loan system; it seems there are also a lot more tacked-on bits which, I assume, prevent it from melting down in a similar way to all the other DeFi loan systems...
You are right that in the scenario of exchanging crypto for physical goods there is counterparty risk but when using crypto along with digital contracts there is not.

I think what you are missing is that in all transactions in the current financial system there is an additional source of counterparty risk in the bank itself. When SVB failed, if the government did not intervene all depositors would have lost all the money stored in the bank and all pending transactions would also have been lost. Or if you use a credit card, if the issuing bank goes bankrupt between the time the purchase was made and the business received the funds in their bank the business would lose the thing they sold and not receive money for it.
This is the theory that has been pitched for years. The reality, it turns out, is that no game creator is motivated to build their game in such a way that it can support third-party assets tied to a blockchain.
Yeah, feeds sound cool except there are too damn many of them.

I have to monitor my phone, Teams, Slack, email, and some other bespoke notification channel my employer invented. It's too much, I don't want more. As much as possible I try to get stuff pushed into email, as once it's there I can interact with the message in the same way, no matter the source.
The existence of more complicated things does not mean that other things are not also complicated.

Financial markets that are open to the participation of billions of people, amalgamating all the behavior of all those participants, are complicated. Perhaps not nearly as complicated as quantum chromodynamics, I dunno, but complicated nonetheless.
One of the things we learned from previous business is that it’s better not to give journalists access to your things. If you can greyball them you should. It’s harder when your offering is a consumer SaaS app, but if you have bigger enterprise deals it’s rarely beneficial.

They are not very smart people, in general, but very good at optimizing for the thing that gets them views: ragebait.

In this case, there’s nothing to be done for it. Ideally, Google spins off image models to a separate company that doesn’t hurt the brand.

The rest of us will have this tool. But perhaps it’s too much for the normies.
I think the word “random” has been accidentally left out of the headline.
The whole idea that we're going to build software systems using natural language prompts to AI models which then promptly (heh) fall on their face because they mash together text strings to feed to a huge inscrutable AI is lazy and stupid. We're in a dumb future where "SUDO make me a sandwich" is a real attack strategy.
> What's the script's license?

For legal purposes, let's say GNU All-permissive License. I promise not to sue :')
"Otherwise you’re describing testing implementation rather than behavior, indicating you’re writing bad tests."

Yeah, people have been threatening me for decades with the claim that if I write tests to test internals I'll have to refactor like crazy someday. I'm still waiting for someday to come. Meanwhile, it has caught a lot of bugs.

I'm open to the possibility that there's something different about the way I write code that causes me to not have this problem. Stay tuned to my blog over the next couple of months if that intrigues you. In the meantime, as reality fails to correspond to theory, I go with reality.
> For example, when you play games online today and you purchase cosmetic items or you play magic the gathering and buy cards, it's pretty silly that you only own a license to use those things for as long as the game exists and there is no way to trade them.

Those cosmetics or digital MtG cards would be just useless strings of bytes without a game to use them in. Might as well tie them to the game explicitly, by storing them on the game's server. Also, there's a way to trade digital MtG cards in Magic: Online (not in Magic Arena though). A friend of mine has made a living trading those digital cards for many years (by running trading bots).
The von Neumann-Morgenstern Collaboration (1938-43)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes side-by-side cut of raw footage vs. final film
Sadly my ad blocker hid the video on first load. It's at the very top of the page once you turn your ad blocker off.
This looks like it'd be quite useful for faking documents more convincingly. Existing handwriting fonts always have tell-tale regularities and there's so few that forensics analysis exposes them easily.
Unskilled feels unfair, it requires a fair bit of skill, and you're also learning how to forge while doing it.
And yet, this turns out to be not really how the human psyche works! It is useful to keep this in mind, and to be reminded of it.
Might also depend on how you define "hacker". Most people don't know the true meaning of the word, and should be using "cracker" instead.
A lot of legitimate Firefox Addons say that. Just means Moz can't manually review every single extension if they want to allow their users a good extension experience...unlike developing Chrome extensions
What is this “it” that might “lose”? A country is a homeland for a people. Democracy is an abstraction. “It” cannot fight or “lose” against the people of the nation. The people exist. Democracy is simply rule by a majority of those people.
Not OP, but based on my (limited) understanding.. it should be possible to use something like a smart contract to provide a stable and auditable surface area whereby two parties could exchange funds for goods via escrow. You would be trusting the underlying platform, but it seems to remove the dependence on the person selling to you as being a good actor.
Redo the math....
Once you pass trivial that would definitely pass into the realm of thing I'd want to expose to my tests. "Starting from this state and given this set of inputs do I get to this state?" is a pretty basic test, and maybe there's a bunch of people way smarter than me who can naturally run complex state machines in their head, but I find myself frequently surprised by at least one thing they do and I do not generally just splat them down into the code correctly on the first try.
Yes there are quite a few algos and YT already uses many of them but it only takes one person to find a workaround then publish it and it again opens the floodgates.

All the different mechanisms that youtube has used is an interesting rabbithole but its ultimately an unwinnable cat and mouse game unless you have an algo that understands the actual content.

Even the human reporting has become weaponized. Don't like the message of a video? have a bunch of youtube accounts flag it and it gets demonetized.
Audi Will Paywall More Software Features Starting Next Year (2023)
Ares Industries is YC's first weapons company
Nah, they would just enshittify like everyone else. This world is trash. The only hope is it pisses off enough people for them to contribute to some open competitor, the circle of softwarelife
I like out of the box thinking here. Recently I noticed that my phone (Samsung) has "bedtime mode" which makes everything displayed on the screen grayscale - I have used it couple of times and observed that it makes various content much less interesting and attractive for me
Also disabling media sounds could be good idea.
I understand the struggle. Finding and keeping customers can be a challenge, especially in B2C. But $15K is good, so I would continue fighting for it. To reduce the stress, you should automate everything as much as possible. I’m also currently learning Pine Script, so thanks for giving me a side business idea.
Drivers need to do a better job following the conventions and laws of the road. The number of times that a driver has merged into my bike lane to make a right hand turn without checking over their shoulder (or merging into me on purpose, if they're in a killing mood) is (metaphorically) uncountable. And no, only checking your mirror doesn't count! You reduce your blind spot if you actually turn your head, which is why you have to turn your head in your driver's license exam!

I have been pushed off the road by a Tesla merging into a right turn lane -- a vehicle with a million sensors that should have been screaming at its driver. My friend, who was on a bicycle and following the conventions and laws of the road, was killed by a driver making a right hand turn.

Many states (in the US) have minimum safe passing distances required for drivers to adhere to when passing a bicycle. Maybe 90% of the time (anecdotally, in very liberal-leaning, bike-heavy areas of the Bay Area in California!) they don't. And so in return, we take the lane (as we are permitted to do, by law), and pissed-off motorists try to kill us.
Epic Systems is building more than 100 new AI features for doctors and patients
It's extremely poor form to victim blame cyclists. Cars are the killers in the equation, and cars are the problem.
Most of the time it's the human-friendly version. The detail should be available, though.
Pretty sure the systemic solution is either decrease the local population (evacuate) ahead of the well forecasted disaster or to increase the supply of the item (i.e. [mh]otel) ahead of the well forecasted Woodstock II instead of having the poor suffer.
For context, I work on my car a bit, and the shop manual for it is hundreds of pages (thousands?). Now scale it up to a factory, maybe without manuals. Disassemble, crate it, assemble it 5000 miles away.

Based on my software experience, I can sort of go in blind and figure out how a system functions. I suppose that translates to real world too..
As a ex-hacker who left the scene to wear a suit and become a "grown-up", this is refreshing and much more palatable vision of the community that I wish I had seen more of when I was younger:

`` Hackers should not think of themselves as "oh I am this little guy fighting Big Corporation" or whatever. This is low agency behavior. Instead become the corporation and RUN IT THE WAY YOU THINK IT SHOULD BE RUN." ''

One question though, to the suggestion that hackers should focus on raising capital in a way that gives them breathing room... how the hell am I supposed to do that?
And of course Manila is not the westernmost point in the Philippines. Wikipedia has local mean time in the Philippines going from -16:12 to -15:34 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Standard_Time), although that assumes that the current Philippines have the same longitudinal extent as in 1844 - and I can't quickly figure out the history well enough to know if that's true.
Sales engineering, technical marketing, product management, training
468 of the 538 seats in congress, including 100% of house seats, are up for election every 2 years.

On top of this, you don't need to change every seat in congress, you generally only need a tiny handful to flip to switch control - for example at this moment the Senate is 51 to 49 and the house is 220 to 212 (with 3 vacancies). To flip both houses would require only 7 seats to flip, or 1.3% of congressional seats.

The big difference between congressional and executive elections is that congressional changes explicitly do not represent national shifts in voter opinions as they are regional elections. Only a national election can demonstrate a true shift in voter opinions, and when such a shift occurs is exactly when laws should change.
I almost never see bots close issues that are less than 30 days old. Many projects can change a lot in 30-90 days and the bug may no longer exist, keeping issues open when they may no longer be relevant isn't helping anyone either. If it is still relevant, it can simply be re-opened. I don't see any downside to semi-aggressively closing stale issues. If it's easily reproduced then most good projects will mark it so that it won't be auto-closed.
I believe this depends on the location of hosting. One version is that things are hosted by URI on wizards.com. Another is the data being stored on something content-addressable like IPFS where anyone with the content can verifiably attest to both ownership (b/c it's on the block chain) and that this is the real thing (b/c the content hashes match).
I call them a vodka salad, which is closer to how they are served these days. It's a buffet trip on a skewer over a half cup of dressing with a shot of vodka in it.
juices are just natural ingredients only sodas. might aswell take the original .
This doesn’t make any sense to a developer.

Do you have to support all assets on the chain? That has a very high barrier of entry, unless the assets are shared between games. But that’s not how art styles work, you can’t just drop a random asset in your game and expect it to fit in. So unless all the games are just reskins of each other that doesn’t make sense.

I guess it could be a mod situation? But then the platform holder can just do profit sharing a la Roblox.

Or do you only support certain assets? At that point why not just make your game off the chain and collab with other properties?
In written communication it often works for me to create an explicit numbered list with indentations and plenty of white space between the items. It also makes it easier to refer to the items in the following communication.
We had learned helplessness on a drag and drop bug in jquery UI. I had like three hours every second or third Friday and would just step through the code trying to find the bug. That code was so sketchy the jquery team was trying to rewrite it from scratch one component at a time, and wouldn’t entertain any bug discussions on the old code even though they were a year behind already.

After almost six months, I finally found a spot where I could monkey patch a function to wrap it with a short circuit if the coordinates were out of bounds. Not only fixed the bug but made drag and drop several times faster. Couldn’t share this with the world because they weren’t accepting PRs against the old widgets.

I’ve worked harder on bug fixes, but I think that’s the longest I’ve worked on one.
The car and the bike in the first photo ( http://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25582867/ai... ) look about as realistic as the average AI-generated human hand.
Marcosticks – the finger dynamics of using chopsticks
When I got into Scheme, Oleg Kiselyov would occasionally post to Usenet comp.lang.scheme with some new discovery or insight, or neat software library that showed Scheme as a serious language rather than purely academic (e.g., SSAX).

If you're reading this paper, but haven't used Scheme much yet, three things to be aware of:

1. `syntax-rules` is nice, but there's much more powerful and easier to use constructs now, like `syntax-case` and Racket's `syntax-parse`.

2. When you see Oleg doing something like breaking `syntax-rules`, I think it's usually not like a pitfall of C or C++ that anyone could make inadvertently, and more like you probably have to be as knowledgeable and clever as Oleg to break it this way. It's more something to come back to, after you've already learned to use these very nice and powerful tools, so you can appreciate it, and not just get confused or scared.

3. Some of Oleg's Scheme software has been repackaged to make it easier to use. For example: https://docs.racket-lang.org/sxml/ (Also, Oleg's SXML became a de facto standard for representing XML and HTML in Scheme, and some of us have tried to make other tools compatible: https://docs.racket-lang.org/sxml-intro/#%28part._.Tools%29 )
I humbly suggest that you read beyond the first few paragraphs. The author goes on to significantly expand the definition.
Beautifully said.

I'll also add that I wouldn't even call what he's showing "semantic web", even in this limited form. I would bet that most of the people who add that metadata to their pages view it instead as "implenting the nice sharing link API". The fact that Facebook, Twitter and others decided to converge on JSON-LD with a schema.org schema as the API is mostly an accident of history, rather than someone mining the Knowledge Graph for useful info.
Researchers: Employers should use science to optimize job interviews
I have a slightly different view on this. ZIRP allowed companies to do crazy things when it came to tech investment. For instance, would Kafka (and by extension, Confluent, and much of the distributed-systems landscape) exist if LinkedIn hadn't decided: "you know, let's not think too hard about whether building a custom queue system is fully economically rational, let's just let our engineers do it, and we'll be able to spin it to investors/shareholders as a good use of capital." It's no coincidence that this happened in 2010, the first year that the interest rate dropped below 1% (and substantially so).

https://www.rtinsights.com/the-technical-evolution-of-apache...

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS

Were the people who worked on that project value-optimal for LinkedIn? Maybe, maybe not. Were they "lazy" and a "waste" in the value they brought to society overall, especially including the spin-offs and startups that members of these teams would go on to build? I don't think that's an accurate characterization.

Zero-interest was an effective way to incentivize public companies, VC-backed companies, and their LPs to spend large amounts of money on speculative engineering work - speculative enough that one might even call it research, but the fact that we could call it something other than research is the entire point.

It's far from the only such incentive, and it came with many, many downsides, including the creation of many over-funded startups that over-promised and caused harm in their under-delivery.

To be sure, startups aren't going anywhere. There are surprisingly fun challenges when profitability and sustainable growth are core requirements for every project, both macro and micro, and it's just an evolution of our hacker mentality to have to deal with these new constraints.

But I fear that we've lost the incentive to have companies invest speculatively in crazy projects without having a sufficient replacement for ZIRP, and it may take a generation before we understand how that will have affected the rate of innovative output for the entire world.
They seem to be looking for low RPM, relatively higher torque applications. Maybe like a stepper motor? It’s claimed that you don’t need a gearbox.

“Ability to hold a position with virtually no energy losses”

https://www.c-motive.com/technology/
There is no "H" in "Worcester."
Gross weight cubed, of course.
Mostly, the problems of a semantic web are covered in the history of Cyc[1].

When I started to use LLMs I thought that was the missing link to convert content to semantic representations, even taking into account the errors/hallucinations within them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc
What, you don't like doing GC only N requests (ruby web servers), disabling GC completely during working hours (java stock trading), fake allocating large buffers (go's allocate and don't use trick)?
There isn't a stable single number.

There's not even a single number from the BLS. They produce separate numbers based on the household survey and the payroll survey.
Err, the page doesn't explain why I would want to do this. What's the advantage of Atom, which can be read on a web page or a standalone client, versus email, which can be read on a web page or a standalone client?

I know some advantages of email:

* I already have an email reader that I use every day.

* The newsletter was designed for email, so it'll probably look better.

But what do I get by going with Atom?
Does Technical Analysis  really Work?
I've recently become a bit obsessed with technical analysis.
I even made the prediction tool to improve my trading skills.
(https://guessupdown.com)

However I honestly don't know if I'm on the right track.

Since I really lost a lot of money on stock market,(40k usd,damn!)
Or should I just fucking stay away from the stock market?
Ouch, $5b yearly of course!
Ha, I did a PoC of this awhile back using lambda and SES and I was pleasantly surprised that it was relatively easy to do and worked pretty nicely, but eventually I went back to just reading all my newsletters (and unsubscribing from most of them...) in my email client rather than using a feed reader, so I decided it might not really make sense as a product.

I had the thought that maybe it would actually be neat to go the other direction, to be able to subscribe to feeds, but have new posts emailed like newsletters, but I never tried that out.
> No one can do anything about it

Maybe online, but with state actors the fear is what they can/will do to you IRL and how to avoid ever raising suspicion. And moving a billion dollars overnight is something that I think is impossible to do with raising eyebrows, regardless of the technical mechanism to move it.