skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When a small business needs expert advice, they can almost always get what they need by hiring expert consultants.

Yes let's create an outside dependency on mission critical elements with a business who makes money on billable hours. Meanwhile the smart people you didn't hire took a job at your competition.
It is not really 1D - to perform any T/F transform (FFT, (M)DCT, etc.) you need a number of samples in the time domain, so you are essentially transforming 2D (intensity over time) to another 2D representation (magnitude or magnitude+phase over frequency) - this is why MP3 style codecs usually have multiple frame (or "window") lenghts, usually one longer for high frequency resolution and one shorter for high temporal resolution.
I can only project from my own experience, and I think that no/low-code fail because every platform I tried (and I tried many) still fail hard to become RAD.

They aren’t getting eaten by LLMs, they just suck and that’s already a low bar to die due to a reason de jour. Cool looking toys to experiment with in a free money economy.
but you don't know. Only he knows that he's going to pick numbers the binary search will fail on and he states as much as his reason that you shouldn't play the game.
> well, perhaps the most famous african writing system has a fairly large inventory of over 1000 characters, but it hasn't been widely used for about 2000 years due to religious persecution

Which is ...?
I would definitely approach this problem by having the LLM write code to scrape the page. That would address the cost and accuracy problems. And also give you testable code.
Sounds like a disincentive to publish to me. Remember when all bandwidth was synchronous in the USA. The telecoms were indifferent to which direction the packets went. The cable companies either through technical limitations were the first to offer asynchronous bandwidth as a product to the masses.

Cables companies distribute content and the business model relies on scarcity of access to the content. Their content evolved to leverage centralized advertising model and scarcity of access to content.

This was completely different in the USA during the T1, ISDN, and eventually SDSL.

I always associate the xDSL with the eternal September of the web and it's content.

How one classifies a conspiracy is actually a whole different topic. I would call this more market manipulation.
Instead of directly scraping with GPT-4o, what you could do is have GPT-4o write a script for a simple web scraper and then use a prompt-loop when something breaks or goes wrong.

I have the same opinion about a man and his animals crossing a river on a boat. Instead of spending tokens on trying to solve a word problem, have it create a constraint solver and then run that. Same thing.
That was remarkably non-responsive to my question.
OK I have been the ultimate decision-maker in a number of SaaS vendor selection situations so I am the target market for people who would build an offering using this. I can tell you that multi-tenant shared anything is pretty much an absolute dealbreaker for me and most people like me. Why?

1) In any financial regulated environment your regulator will usually specifically require this (at least in jurisdictions I'm familiar with). Am I prepared to go to battle with my regulator on behalf of a vendor? Most definitely not.

2) Even if I'm not in that situation, do I trust the vendor to have tech protections that work well enough that my customer data won't leak if there's some sort of problem, leading to a GDPR/data protection nightmare? No. No I don't trust anyone that much. I wouldn't even trust code that I myself had written that much (ie when I have built b2b saas solutions I have insisted on single tenant shared nothing). I've actually used (a demo of) a multi-tenant saas where the vendor has insisted on the security of their multitenant solution and been shown another customer's data on more than one occasion.

3) Even if I did trust the vendor and wasn't in a regulated environment which required single tenant, would I be prepared to go to war with my internal legal counsel over the data protection implications of multitenant? No. I want to keep a good working relationship with them and their life is hard enough as it is. They want single tenant shared nothing that's good enough for me.

4) Even if none of the above applies a lot of big corporates will want the option to host a solution in a cloud subaccount that they own. That's clearly not on the cards with something like this.
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OT: What emotion/message are you trying to convey with ":P" in your comments? I never really get these.
I've seen another website like this that had this feature on hackernews but it was from a retrospective. These websites have the nasty habit of ceasing operations
If GDP rises but wages stagnate, where does the money go?
And then if Ballmer assumes the other party assumes he's being adversarial we get into game theory.
Throw Them a Proper Parade
Not only that, he was also better than Gates at math. From the acquired podcast episode on Microsoft:

> Ben: He's gregarious. Anyone who's ever met Steve or seen a video of Steve, you are well aware that this man has a presence. But the thing that people don't know about him is he is so unbelievably analytical. Steve is the guy that outscored Bill Gates on the Putnam exam.

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Also the number only exists in Ballmer's mind, so if he wanted to, he could change it to be unfavourable should you make a lucky guess.

Here, you can play the game with me. Higher. Lower. Higher. Higher. Lower. Correct. Six guesses, you owe me $1.
Finishing is a construct, an escape. No project is ever done. There are always improvements to be made, bugs to be squashed. "Finished" is just a label we put on a place on the timeline, a point after which someone is morally allowed to jump ship.

Example: I'm in the middle of moving jobs (military to other military). I was given a couple weeks to train my replacement, an impossible task. My boss just asked me if I had "finished" training him. Um ... well .. I am leaving. So whatever training we are doing is certainly over. That is what "finished" actually is. Is the job finished? Certainly not. But my time as a contributor has come to an end and so I am finished with the task and am jumping ship.
It could also be that a lot of languages don't actually have integer types and just use a 64bit floating point number instead - ala JavaScript etc.
You said above:

>> she wasn't sentenced for insulting him

...which is the falsehood that I pointed out with those links. I never claimed that the threat of violence didn't factor into it - you're the one who claimed that the insults didn't.

> I didn't lie in the comment you linked

You said something factually false about someone while knowing it could be false. That's epsilon away from lying, and it's certainly deceitful and deceptive, as are your statements above.

> didn't magically guess

So you magically guessed in the most malicious way possible instead of asking who I was talking about.

You also said:

> Are you lying or misinformed?

So you extremely confidently and aggressively projected your assumptions onto me.
> Today however, disk space is no longer considered an issue

On desktop machines, perhaps, but this is certainly not true on all platforms Linux runs on.
How much are you lowering the satisfaction of those users though? Sure you may end up with more cashflow, but a much smaller, less eager group of users to be promoters.

The point of this is imho likely to boost the numbers as much as possible prior to IPO at the expense of the UX, brand, and by extension product
Although Ballmer could still be incorrect, because a 'sufficiently logical' player would also presumably know that he could pick numbers that'll be the most difficult to find via binary-search, so by the same logic you could also meta-game it, and assume any number that can be found in 5 steps with a binary search is immediately out. This would narrow the search space to only 37 numbers, which can then easily be found within 5 guesses.

But he also knows that you know that he could pick numbers that will be the most difficult... So could then pick one of the numbers that actually are guessable within 5 guesses to trick you.

But then you also know that he knows that you know that he could pick difficult numbers too.

I'm not entirely sure if this invalidates Ballmer's advantage, but I would be interested to know what the 'perfect' strategy would be for this game considering the meta-game.
Also if you want a program to call itself, which is sometimes useful, this way lets you actually call the same program, rather than assuming the name and path.
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Nice, you played the game and you earned $0.20 [twenty cents]. Definitely a bad choice. But then you got viral on HN, and made good on your investment.
> doesn't make political decisions.

Twitter is made of people and owned by people who use it to make political decisions. That was the case before Musk and is still the case after Musk.
The banks don’t care because they package the loans up as securities and sell them to investors. The investors don’t care as long as they’re packaged up with a bunch of other healthy mortgages.

This was one of the causes of the ‘08 financial crisis.
I admit that I assumed that "geometric browning motion" was just "a random walk with more extreme movements when it goes away from the starting place," and that was wrong. What geometric browning motion in fact is, with some handwaving simplicity, is exponential growth with some jitter.

I will note that "stocks are priced via geometric browning motion" would satisfy the EMH. And that the underlying growth trend of GBM, in a real world, is, like, "the stock market actually values real things about the company that you can find out, but which other people have already found out."
If they keep up with that volume without paying their full attention

some work is not about volume but about quality. and exactly the fact that the work can not be measured is the problem. some work can not be done effectively when you are tired, and some work is even dangerous. driving for example. paying attention to safety and security requires you to be a wake and able to focus.

as a programmer i have good days and bad days, and noone can say whether my work is the best i can manage or is slacking because i have a second job. and if i am spending more than my market rate salary as a programmer affords then i need to change my lifestyle, not get a second job.

in germany for example the laws for the maximum time of work an employee is allowed to do in a day covers all jobs. two full time jobs would simply not be possible because you are required to have 11 hours of break between two workdays.
Do tell for those of us that do not have to deal with snow? What do you do?
pretty neat! it feels like if you spaced out “important” beats instead of most of them and shrunk the play area so the paddles are larger, it would have an even more interesting effect.
> how do you enjoy it without the guilt about not doing more important work that leads to more important results?

This is a serious suggestion: look into therapy to help you examine what and why you think and feel. For example, seeing some things as more important than others (including one's well being) and reacting to the situation with feelings of guilt are not a given.
The actions are legal, in the sense they have been approved by the Supreme Court. We can argue about the morality of the Supreme Court deciding on the legality of their own actions, but in practice, they are, by all means, legal.

BBC has a decent article that estabilishes a critique of the same points you mentioned in your post: https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/articles/c4n3wklk255o some of your complaints are quite fair, some don't.

In particular: "The Brazilian constitution specifies that the Supreme Court can only judge those with “privileged jurisdiction" isn't true at all. The Brazilian Constitution states a whole bunch of attributions to the Supreme Court, which you can read (in Portuguese) at:

https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/constituicao/constitui... (search for "DO SUPREMO TRIBUNAL FEDERAL")

The role you mention, about ruling over "privileged jurisdiction" is one of 20+ attributed roles, a small fraction of their attributions.
As an interviewee my first question would be – are you going to play fair, and how can I verify it?
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I worked on codebases large enough where enabling autocomplete/indexing would lock the IDE and cause the workstation to swap hard.
> Could numerical operations be optimized by using algebraic properties that are not present in floating point operations but in numbers that have infinite precision?

... are you not aware of -ffast-math? There are several fast-math optimizations that are basically "assume FP operations have this algebraic property, even though they don't" (chiefly, -fassociative-math assumes associative and distributive laws hold).
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— Wittgenstein(Tractatus 7)
An additional quote from that link:

> In short, the authentication process for IPMI 2.0 mandates that the server send a salted SHA1 or MD5 hash of the requested user's password to the client, prior to the client authenticating.

ipmi also has a maximum password length of 20 characters. In realworld you have to note that we only expect hashes to remain secret from known pentesters who have a limited contractual runtime, not a real attacker with unlimited time on their hands.

I'm very critical of this. It's been in the spec for 20 years. Is not the whole point of software that it is easier to change than hardware? It's easy to say "you should put this on a vlan" but I pretty much ALWAYS see ipmi on the business network in my assessments. If you put dumb stuff in your defaults then you're gonna end up with dumb stuff all over the globe and that includes every business without a knowledgeable security administrator that decides to "buy a server".
By analogy is one of the most powerful tools that humanity has. Using a rod to get a lure where you want it might cross over later in to getting a rope across a ravine.
It's not obvious because new cars in 2024 don't have the problems of rust buckets from the 1970's, unless you suppose that happened by accident and not because of competition between automakers.
It's the same as "trickle-down economics", known to be untrue but the original belief is memetically stronger and sticks around. Simple "truths" are easier to believe in... (and easier to regurgitate in short-cycle attention[-span]-deficit news)
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Transparency is often lacking in datasets used to train large language models
It is probably this one:

https://youtu.be/1FyhLQOsNac?feature=shared

But it might be this one:

https://youtu.be/1jTDaS2ZPVo?feature=shared
I can't believe that no one has mentioned that one of those accounts is a sitting Brazilian Senator.
This is why we can't have nice things. Security footguns everywhere!

I'm fascinated by the intersection of argv[0], and the execve behavior of replacing the calling program with the called one.

Aside from that, I quite like argv[0], for a much more limited set of reasons than considered in this interesting and comprehensive article. I like the ability to "retitle" a process to put a useful, descriptive, or branded name in there to be seen by ps, et al.

NodeJS also exposes this feature, but not quite as you might expect. Whereas in C, setting argv[0] from within the program's execution context will alter what is observed by ps, in NodeJS process.argv is just a descriptive getter. Setting its slots has no effect outside of its context.

But this is where process.title steps in. Setting process.title allows you to (in an OS-dependent way) change the name reported in ps and similar tools.

Read more here: https://nodejs.org/api/process.html#processtitle

Please don't kill argv[0], its lease hath all too short a date
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I've used Affinity for years, it was pretty much in a feature freeze state before V2 (which didn't really add anything major). I'm fine with that, it's more capable and user friendly than GIMP and Inkscape so I was happy to pay for it.
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Concern over housing costs hits record high across rich nations
The ultimate conclusion of which is likely that both parties will decay to picking the secret value/first guess randomly (although I'm not sure if the optimal distribution is perfectly flat?), which is also something that we can model.
I've had good success running Playwright screenshots through EasyOCR, so parsing the DOM isn't the only way to do it. Granted, tables end up pretty messy...
The way forward is to make Ballmer pay with time for screwing with you, which gets us into geopolitics, and then using the resulting MAD dynamics to make the game fair again. That's how adults with keys to the nukes do it :).
https://docs.python.org/3/library/pprint.html
I have opened the article in question. I have NOT worked through the technical problem, the complications and interpretation surrounding Ballmer, nor have I digested the contention being presented. I am capable of these things but I am on the clock and I do not value performing the work required for this particular article.

With that said, I wanted to share the following. Perhaps it will spur discussion.

Our leadership -- whether in our professional circumstances, in our sovereign and communal circumstances, or in our choice to lead ourselves; perhaps it is in these leaders that a view, or a decision, or a proclamation -- perhaps it is in these impulses that the world is changed.

Can you assign truth to an impulse? Is it a communication for consideration? Is it a demand for compliance?

I assert that you can do so. The words were spoken. Thus, the impulse was true.

If you desire to do so, please consider.
I wish they regularly crash tested the same model car against it's older equivalent. Like a new honda civic against a 5-10y old honda civic. That would be very useful to see how safety technology has improved.

I have a 2006 miata, and I keep hearing that newer cars are now safer and that I should really think about upgrading, but it's hard to part with a paid off car that has been nothing if not reliable. It also has some sentimental value. It's the last remaining relic of my 20's
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Not a fan of the web based OOB management, it's convenient for now but this morning I had a right faff trying to connect to an old iLO3 service, which is new enough to force https but old enough that all it's protocols are deprecated on modern machines.
I've used vPro and found it almost deliberately difficult to use, and poorly documented. It could be so easy but just isn't. Like so many things... shakes fist at sky.
I wish amateurs would stop propagating the false idea that disk space and memory are cheap and not a problem.
I just learned that rustup/rustc/cargo etc. work like this too. I couldn't understand why the gentoo formula was symlinking the same binary to a bunch of aliases.
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Nope. When conditions change in the world, that creates a gap in the market. Even if everything were perfectly efficient now there would still be a need for markets to change tomorrow
Dude, cool your jets. The site guidelines call for you to assume good faith; you are failing at that.

While you're at it, look up the definition of "lie". It doesn't mean "made a mistake out of confusion".
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