skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of prod support can't be done remotely, for practical (need access to this physical environment) or security reasons.
Possible > impossible.

I'd first trust unicorns shooting rainbows out of their posteriors before the cryptocurrency vision; neither works for fostering civilization, but at least the unicorns aren't proposing an economy based on paying everyone for wasting energy.
I love the craft of coding, and I still use ChatGPT every day to good effect. It writes the boilerplate code for me, and leaves the fun part to me. Don't underestimate the power of getting to a good, working solution faster.

I wrote a blog post about it yesterday:

https://henrikwarne.com/2024/08/25/programming-with-chatgpt/
Only use docker engine ("moby"). Docker desktop makes no sense on a Linux system as it introduces a VM into the mix, further adding complexity and reducing performance. https://docs.docker.com/engine/
Ultima Online is a very unique social experience compared to today's landscape of multiplayer games, and there are different "Eras" of the game which can impart a particular flavor to the experience, eras like: UO: Renassaince, UO: Lost Lands (aka T2A mechanics), and others.

Its a sandbox game just like Arcage, Neverwinter Nights, Albion Online, Everquest, Star Wars Galaxy, Eve Online, Black Desert Online, etc in which the game's goals tacitly produce a local society, typically from players' in-game avatar "Characters" just playing the game. PvP is emphasized on many of the servers.

Right now there is a very good UO Freeshard server called "UO Outlands" with hybrid rules that are quite satisfying and with updated maps/dungeons/landscapes designed to encourage the classic vibes you've heard about and aren't really available in other, modern games.

If you just want to take a look, there is a Youtuber named "Trammie", he prefers to play a pure-thief character and he semi-regularly records streams of live play. Its a good look at one high-level play style that is nearly unique to UO and still available.
The linked company page says they are located in Hillsboro, Oregon[1]. Which is where Intel also has a campus[2]. My guess is that most people of this new company just moved across the street. How are non-competes in that state?

1. https://www.aheadcomputing.com/#comp-lzm51d9d

2. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/corporate-responsibi...
Sounds like the 90s and Glamour Shots all over again. The point of those photos was to look expensive to send the message that you're someone important who is worthy of such spending of resources. Once it becomes available to everyone, it no longer has that value.
> eventually be more usable

it's one thing to have preference and sense of aesthetic, it's another thing to claim that said things are universally more usable. If not for components that were invented in VSCode (LSP) then no one would be using vim these days. There are plenty of hills to die on that's much more noble than "I like this editor"
Devs at Asia's top messaging app drowned in Slack, tamed it with ChatGPT
I think Elisp already implements a lot of things that CLOS would give you, like around method combinators (with defadvice, if I remember correctly). It's probably more ad-hoc, and you might want some extra customizations on top, but I'm not sure.
KFC tastes horrible - at least we know how to _not_ fry chicken.
„It works when implemented correctly“ might not be the lesson you want others to learn. But looking at China, boy did it work for them.

Once you start dealing with bad actors, you'd have to kick out pretty much anybody. Did western europe played fairly with post-cold-war eastern europe? No. I hear South america have issues with US too.

In reality this works great for established powers to keep status quo. For the rest... It depends on how many rules you're willing to bend. Or how others go above-and-beyond to help you out for some reason that is not part of the system.
What percentage of CPU time is used by the pipe in this scenario? If pipes were 10x faster, would you really notice any difference in wall-clock-time or overall-cpu-usage, while this decoding SDK is generating the raw data and ffmpeg is processing it? Are these video processing steps anywhere near memory copy speeds?
But they aren't making hiring decisions based on stereotypes; they are making hiring decisions based on someone not being who they claim to be. Right?
nVidia?
We are using that for one of our customers that insisted on using it. It works but it's expensive and a lot of their managed solutions are a bit outdated. Last time I checked they still offered Elasticsearch on a version pre licensing change that is definitely no longer supported. Their support and documentation are a bit of a mess as well. I got stuck a few times on things that just weren't working where you had to do some non intuitive thing to get things going again. My strategy with them is to keep things simple and not let them manage anything I care about. So, I run my own Elasticsearch cluster there.

Basically it's just Openstack with some customizations. The rest of our customers run on gcloud. I'm currently eyeing Hetzner as I want to lower our hosting cost.

But the point of Openstack is that it's generally fine and that the feature set it offers is a commodity. AWS definitely overcharges for this stuff. If you do the math, most of their vms will cost you the hardware it runs on within months typically. Amazon runs this hardware for many years. In some cases they host multiple vms on them. Their margin on this stuff is huge. That's why they are so rich. You pay for the convenience and the uptime of course. But undercutting their pricing profitably isn't that hard.
Ad the first case - I don't think that's accurate, sometimes people just want to have nice pictures to look at for themselves.

Ad the second case - we will see, but it definitely won't happen overnight, and there will be a lucrative market in between.
IANAL, but racial discrimination based on a name is certainly illegal. However, rejecting a candidate who can't speak English well despite attending a university in the US isn't illegal.

If the based their decisions on the 2nd half of that, it could be fine.
So, every db-column gets a "in_use_boolean" assigned? It gets reset every year, reset on first use query and auto-purged after a year and a day. Self-pruning database..
Good. Those high talent genius minds deserved better. They deserve all the support and love they can get on their new ventures.
Why does the time horizon matter? Imagine I own an immortal goose that lays a golden egg every 100 years. I may not live to see an egg but I can sell the goose based on the expected future payout. A bank could invent some financial instrument that pays me 1/100th of a golden egg every year for a fee.
That’s such a cynical thing to say. I guess in your mind, drug companies carry out these trials in a complete
vacuum. Patients take on all the risks.
If you do offer equity then that's a slightly different thing. That can be considered payment by those who are willing to take the risk.
However, a lot of "startups" in EU do not offer such thing. They do standard employment with unpaid on-call. And those can f right off.
There are tire particulate matter capture devices out there, in research at least [0]. This solution plus having a heavy vehicle weight-dependent tax could help (i.e. encouraging more 2 (or 3) wheeler transportation regardless of whether motorized or not).

[0] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/195595/worlds-first-device-c...
I think you're right, a more-generic author-name domain that used to exist is not active anymore either.
Like most things, there's a gaping chasm of variance between teachers that are phoning it in and teachers that want to engage their students in learning.

I know a teacher who leaves for work at 6:30am, gets home after 5:30pm most nights, cooks dinner for the family, and spends the rest of her evening marking work and preparing lesson plans for the next few days. Then there's preparing reports, which is like a 6-week lead-time task in addition.

During holidays she's definitely more relaxed, but still spends an absolute sh*tload of time preparing lessons for next term.

She's specifically on one end of the spectrum, but that's also what it takes to get a class of up to 30 students to actually pay attention and make some worthwhile progress at their schooling. She chooses it though, she loves it, she lives for it.

I couldn't do it to that degree without going insane.
The same way any other labour protection laws are enforced?
Big Tech in China doubles AI spending despite US restrictions
https://archive.ph/ELI6A
At one time Musk stated that SpaceX data suggested that needing to add back 15% of what was removed was a useful target. He suggested that some of the biggest problems came from failure to keep requirments simple enough due to smart people adding requirements, because they offered the most credible and seemingly well-reasoned bad ideas.
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I'm a toss up between blind reviews. I like them in theory but I'm not convinced they work well in practice and at scale I think weird things happen.

Review works well at small scales because people are more passionate about the work than the money or career, though those matter. There's better accountability in smaller communities because they're more reliant. But blind is often a farce there since you recognize one anothers writings, subtopics, niche, whatever.

At scale review sucks because there is no accountability. Venues need to reject on percentage of submissions, not on the quality of work that year. It's insane it's a zero sum game. And at scale everyone is over burdened and quality control goes down, so malicious/lazy reviewers are even incentivized since they gain time for being lazy, they have less scrutiny when rejecting, and they increase the likelihood of their work being admitted when doing do (I mean every work can be legitimately criticized, so a reject is ALWAYS defendable, even if seen as harsh. This isn't true for accepts). But also at scale, blind is weird. It exists for small labs but not for big ones.

So I don't know. I think many forgot the point of review. That we should all be on the same team (team science), and competition should be friendly. That reviews should leave the authors feeling like they know what they can improve on not like a review read a different paper or just read one figure (and wrong), and just dismissed (that's not a review). And that wastes lots of time and money as well as increases the problem as papers get recycled through the slot machine.

So I don't know. But I do know the point of publishing is to communicate with peers. And this can be done by open punishing. Sure, this might make the signal of citations and number of papers noisier, but I think it's already pretty noisy even if we don't want to admit it. And maybe it's not a bad thing for those to be noisy. I think we rely too heavily on them currently. Maybe if it was clearer that noise existed we could be more nuanced in our evaluations, which is what's frequently lacking these days. Who knows. But I do know the system today is not one I want to continue being in and this sentiment is far from uncommon. So something needs to happen.
Yeah I agree those so-called startups deserve your scorn.
> Separating Data from Instructions in Prompting

Does it actually separate them though? I had thought the core LLM algorithm design pretty much made it impossible, as everything (system prompt, external inputs, its own recent responses) is ultimately one giant stream of tokens, with no difference in their pedigree and no formal demarcation/escape mechanism.

It sounds like this is about differentiating two kinds of input that are both within the system prompt, but the issue extends to regular usage too: Everything is really just a statistical wording-fight between different pieces of injected data, favoring whomever authored the most weighty phrases/hints/cues to get what they want.
> But I want the government to spy on potential criminals.

> I trust the courts and the process.

Good luck then. You _will_ need it.
I believe this impression is mainly because people think of France and Germany as separate countries, not as a combined EU market.

Imagine if you'd compare only California against all of China, it would look like the US was in seriously bad shape.
Elisp already has a (partial, but for most purposes complete) implementation of CLOS as part of the cl-lib package.
That's why we have jobs with good pay for maintaining these build stuff: some software engineers really hate to deal with "arcane config" for no good reason.
>On Lisp Machine, Zmacs ran in a multi-threaded Lisp

I wonder what the processing architecture of those Lisp machines were like. Did their "cpu"(?) had special circuitry for implementing lists, CAR and CDR? Was this multi-threaded-ness something built-in in hardware?
Here is now an article that has some numbers on Telegram moderation and policies

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41354528
Well, in your case it wasn't clear cut, but YAGNI is still a good default approach, I'd suspect maybe even in your case.

First of all, it wasn't guaranteed that this feature of yours would come. Even in this case, the feature came, you could probably add it with not too much effort, sure maybe a bit more than otherwise, but on a large project it's hard to guess the future. What if someone else would have taken that task, maybe they wouldn't even recognize why those columns are there and they could have just reimplemented it anyway.

Also, a year is a long time, and who knows how many times it would have caused additional work and confusion.

> A: hey why this thing here, it doesn't do anything / never actually used?

> B: I dunno, Alex added it because 'one day we might need it' (eyeroll), will get very touchy about if you try to remove it, and will explain how he/she can predict the future and we will definitely need this feature.

> A: and this thing over there?

> B: Same... just move on, please, I can't keep re-discussing these things every month...

And, if your team wouldn't have applied YAGNI, you would have 1 feature that was a year later needed, and probably around 20 that was never needed, yet caused maintenance burden for years down the road.

I dunno, YAGNI is one of the most valuable principles in software development, in my opinion.
Each method is designed so two IDs both generated with that method don't collide with each other. Reserving bits for the method avoids the problem of having to also ensure that for all pair-wise combinations of methods, two IDs generated with those methods don't collide. This is also why there is only a finite set of universally agreed upon methods.
In the political arena of recent years, lawyers and judges "being made a laughing stock" has not turned out to the be the deterrant it was once thought to be.
> an llm invented a novel solution to an important problem in programming.

This will likely not happen and is a horrible benchmark for productivity. The advantage of using LLMs as a partner for coding is that I myself will have more time to generate “novel solutions” since a lot of the low level stuff that I still need to write can be done in less than half the time.

I never trust it to write code I can’t write for myself and things I can’t make tests or verify.

It’s not about generating more lines of code but having more time to think of the more mentally demanding stuff. It’s like having a junior developer that can work really fast but I will still need to check what it does.

As a very personal benchmark, at work I know how much time it takes me to build repeating things from scratch that can’t be automated. By my estimate, having the LLM saves me around an hour or two of coding a day. That doesn’t replace my time but those 20-40 hours a month of time saved is worth the 20 bucks on average I pay for it.

Tldr; it won’t make anything novel but it gives me more time to make things that are
No. 99% of the costs are put on patients who take these drugs that are often ineffective. Heck, they give dying patients placebos. Yes, patients are willing to give up everything to live (and sometimes merely for weeks/months), and pharma is using them for experiments. Do you want to put a price on that? What a cynical thing to say. This isn’t some AB testing for a new web app feature.
Cool idea although idk about the risk factors one — this seems like its cherry picked a few projects with contributor agreements and decided theyre high risk when there are so many more projects with the same structure.
It is a scam. https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/16hvw0b/is_the_temu_...
No, we just think "I'll get in the car and drive to the hospital, talk to my sick friend, and then drive home by way of the petrol station". Higher-level, but definitely still procedural / imperative. (Then while we're driving we'll think "I'll turn left here" or "I'd better overtake that lorry", or whatever. But we don't need to plan all that beforehand; we do stepwise refinement on-the-fly.)

I think most people think more or less like that, and that it is not "a sign of autism".
This is a blind spot for pretty much entire industry, and arguably spreads beyond tech, into industrial design and product engineering in general. Of course being transparent with your users is going to be more confusing - the baseline everyone's measuring against is treating users like dumb cattle that can be nudged to slaughter. Against this standard, any feature that treats the user as a thinking person is going to introduce confusion and compromise conversions.
That so called "old saying" you mention makes no sense in the real world. From my experience top % engineers hate working with bottom % engineers since they massively drag things down for everyone, so firing the bottom % ones actually makes life better for the top % and convinces them to stay, and vice versa, keeping bottom % engineers around for long actually convinces top % engineers to leave since they want to work with equally competent people who can get shit done and not be around incompetent people who coast and watch the clock, or worse, drag everyone down.
The core feature of Gaia-X is that it makes it easy for small EU software companies to get up to €200k in "de minimis" tax gifts.

It also funnels money into open source office software and "European data spaces", which is (very loosely) tools to replace US clouds with open source. I would say it's doing exactly what it's supposed to do, making it easier for EU companies to ditch US cloud services.

And didn't exactly that happen here?

4 years ago, the "Schwarz IT KG" company was a day-1 member of Gaia-X. And now they have billions in revenue from AWS-like cloud services.
Hey all! I'm working on a context-aware CMS called trilly.

The idea is fairly simple: the client app requests content and passes the context (key-value pairs) along with it. In the trilly app, the content manager sets up different variants of the content for various context field combinations, and the one that matches is returned. Context can be anything, from user role or user location to more abstract things like A/B group or user behavior. It's just data.

I have a couple of ideas on how to extend this system - realtime LLM-generated variants, or more sophisticated context fields (date/number ranges, randomness, etc.).

For now, however, I'm exploring whether this idea would be useful for someone, so thanks for all the comments.

https://trilly.vercel.app/
Their position is that k8s is the wrong layer of abstraction. They might be right, for their business model. Or it might be a case of intentional blindness.
Curry–Howard correspondence = direct relationship between computer programs and mathematical proofs
> Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?

If is is encrypted, then it aids terrorists and can be banned. So it is encrypted, whatever the technological details. It's a political decision.
Your original assertion "signal knows who is talking to whom" does not follow from "Signal relays the data".
No this doesn't work. In Norway there is typically a minimum 6 month wait. Or you can see a private person who takes money today. Same in Germany, and the Netherlands, and basically everywhere else I lived that has subsidized healthcare. It's one of the things that falls through the cracks in my experience.
Thanks I couldn't remember the exact number. 15% seems like a reasonable r&d overhead to reduce inefficiencies in the product. But I suspect the optimal number would change depending on the product's lifecycle stage.
pretty neat! Nice use of a notion DB
they probably share it with russian authorities. Just look now. russia is allowing protests in favour of him (they only allow protest they support) and they arrested a french citizen on fake drug charges right after
> Did their "cpu"(?) had special circuitry for implementing lists, CAR and CDR?

It was implemented in Microcode on the CPU.

> Was this multi-threaded-ness something built-in in hardware?

Some. The process scheduler was written in Lisp. See for an early example on the MIT Lisp Machine: https://github.com/mietek/mit-cadr-system-software/blob/mast...
More volatile, actually. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.231344

It's a big reason why ordinance has a shelf life and has to be destroyed once it hits that age.
Silicon Valley might have started in Italy with Olivetti, but political issues and unfortunate events stopped it from happening. There's a great podcast about it (Italian): https://podcast.ilsole24ore.com/serie/olivetti-occasione-per...
I love how many Telegram fans have claimed over the years that neither Durov nor Telegram had links with the Kremlin, and how the Russian reaction to his arrest shows a very different picture.
I like the Swiss implementation of this. A manager _can_ contact an employee on a Sunday, but then the employee is immediately on weekend-rate overtime even if they just got an email with "deal with this next week". So, many companies have systems that hold back e-mail sent outside of working hours until the next working day unless specially authorised and costed.

Never underestimate an economics-based solution to a legal problem, a.k.a. "if you really want to ban it, tax it".
I played Renaissance and the following one on unofficial servers for about 6 years between 2003 and 2010. My offline and online friends would easily play 6-8 hours per day, and when we were offline we were talking about it. It was like a second life and an incredible escape, but looking back at it we were all addicted to it pretty badly. I get flashbacks and cravings to this day.
Andrei Alexandrescu has a term for this: “aggressively intermediate”.
>when they attacked SpaceX for not recruiting "refugees" to work on export-controlled dual use rocket tech.

Sauce?
> The OpenAI CEO wants to extend his life by 10 years, but doesn’t care the poor die 15 years earlier than the rich

Reminds me of a Woody Allen joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPbzP19dlgM

The poor already have shit life, shouldn't they be glad it's over quick?
This comment was really hard to parse and understand.

Are you an educator or pedagogy researcher? You certainly act as if you are.
I've only discovered him a couple days ago while browsing youtube. I stumbled upon his "musica da lagoa" [0] video, and watching just this video was enough to see his passion for music and talent. The guy is genius.

[0] - https://youtu.be/lZbfNtDCHdM
you forgot Ibiza ;) "countries with a german speaking majority" might be more correct
It’s also great for key-value store like DynamoDB. Much cleaner than compound keys prefixed with a timestamp or iso date (or worse: wasting a secondary index on timestamps).