skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Scott Alexander thing is interesting to me in terms of how online dramas work because the drama assumes its own momentum and the facts struggle to maintain the pace.

Scott Alexander was not in fact doxxed. He said in his final post before deleting his blog that the NYT planned to reveal his name, deleted his blog and the NYT published their article three weeks after he had already revealed his own name.[1]

The pros and cons of whether they would have revealed his name became this massive hoo-hah and maybe they would have revealed his name given the chance but the fact is he was not in reality doxxed by anyone other than himself.

[1] eg this article cites an anonymous source saying that none of the proposed article about him had yet been written at the time he took his blog down https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/16/21325678/venture-capitali...
It’s not, most high performance sedans will leave it out as they don’t have enough volume to affect the averages anyway.

My 2018 RS3 doesn’t have it, where as even the 2018 S3 does, 2024 still doesn’t have it: https://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php/991842-RS3-Sto...
> mediocre programmer won't be able to judge the allegedly expert level output any better than a non-programmer, so I don't see how that would work

Sure. Plenty of businesses are. Particularly in the commercial automation sector that numerically hires the most people.

> more likely that great programmers might just increase their productivity

For those in high-productivity, high-margin businesses, yes. For most of the world, no—the surplus productivity doesn’t outweigh the compensation and concentration risk.

I broadly expect a spate of age discrimination lawsuits in the near future because most businesses don’t need a few stars. In the meantime, I’ve watched a lot of people find two people in Brazil + an LLM equals one WFH very good (but not brilliant) coder.
Sure, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t improved. Try calculating 99! on a TI-59. I doubt it can do it, and I know the modern TI-30XIIS can’t do it, but my Numworks can (although doing it twice forces it to clear that section of RAM). The calculator space may be slow to improve, as most non-testing calculations have went to computers, but that doesn’t mean they’re not useful, especially with scripting languages allowing me to convert between whatever units I want or calculate anything easily.
Off-Topic, but drove around for a few months in a TN state “PWNAGE” license plate for the few months I lived there to intern :-)

I loved that plate, it looked cool in real life; and I kept it, it’s proudly hanging in my NL office now.
> there are problems that 'brilliant' programmers can solve and no number of mediocre ones ones

These people will continue to have value. But most businesses don’t have problems that can be profitable solved only by brilliant coders.
People like to forget a thing: Kanban, which is the scrum "ancestor", was designed for FACTORY MASS PRODUCTION of already designed parts, not for designing new ones, on other words it's a system that works only if what you do is pre-defined, does not demand much intellectual, creative activities and anything it's well known in advance.

Applying it to creative activities is a classic application of a religion to a society blindly believing it's universal. It's not. That's the substantial stress.
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C# wasn't created by just Anders Hejlsberg. There wouldn't be a C# without Scott Wiltamuth or a Peter Golde (and a lot others). Though I guess you could argue that there wouldn't be a "modern" C# without Mads Torgersen who is also Danish.

That being said. "GP" jokingly said languages which were considered "best". I'm not sure what C# is supposed to be "best" at? It's not Java and it's certainly not LISP.
On Debian at least you can check for modified, removed or added files using cruft-ng.
Just because the internet is free?

So it makes sense to pay a lot more for the always United tickets rather than the $10 fee for internet on the flight from some other company that had cheaper tickets?
> If you want to include angles outside those bounds, then you care about what exactly occurs where, and while you can unambiguously define angles between 0 and 90 to have all positive trig functions, you can also unambiguously define them to have negative sines and tangents.

You could define trig functions differently, but then you'd need a separate pair of unnamed functions to express "the ratios of unsigned side lengths of a right triangle in terms of its unsigned interior angles". It's the same reason we don't count "-1 apple, -2 apples, -3 apples, ...". Or why horizonal and vertical lines usually fall on the x-axis and y-axis instead of the (1/√2,1/√2)-axis and (-1/√2,1/√2)-axis. We optimize for the common case.

> If you do that, you'll completely lose the information about where sine is positive and where it's negative. You can apply any phase shift you want (as long as you apply it to both functions) and their differential equations will look exactly the same.

What do you mean? "sin(0) = 0, cos(0) = 1, and for all x, sin'(x) = cos(x), cos'(x) = -sin(x)" is perfectly unambiguous. If you changed the initial conditions, you'd get another pair of functions, but then they'd no longer be the sine and cosine, they'd be some other linear combination. And for that, refer to what I said about the x-axis and y-axis: better to take the stupid simple (0,1) solution and build more complex ones from there.
> The name caught my attention and made me laugh

Hehe that was the point! :)

What kind of things have you made?

I’m definitely keeping the name. It’s a great fucking name.

You need more than name though you need substance. This works for me. See what happens in future!

Definitely kill that first alert. It is annoying. just some weird logic edge case annoying to resolve. Wanna have a stab?

"Gems" "pearls" world?? What you thinkin??
When I went to a public university in Europe, I realized after a month or two that lectures are a waste of time, and I stopped attending most of them. But the structure and guidance provided by the university allowed me to study things more efficiently than I could have done on my own.

I think the key is that universities are not schools. They are places of learning, not teaching. If you go to a university and expect to be taught, you are probably wasting your time.

And that vision is not really compatible with tuition fees, because they can easily turn you from a student to a paying customer.
looks like it's the size of the model itself, more lightweight and faster. mini-lm is 80mb while the smallest one here is 16mb.
>Tell me you haven't worked in network infrastructure without telling me you haven't worked in network infrastructure.

Am I wrong, though?

>I mean, sure, officially, when all laws are followed and in a friction-less plane this is correct. However the United States does all kinds of shit unilaterally outside it's own borders, literally all the time,

You can just say we went and blew up Nordstream, you know.
I was side-wondering whether OP is an X employee with all that x.com linking and mentioning. (What's hax0r about X in the year 2007+17, laments childish-laconic-portion-of-me =)

In the audience space of meet.hn, defaulting to github/gitlab/sourcehut/etc profiles instead would have been just more apt =)
Conceptually related The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_o...
The vast majority of software is "just chaining APIs together". It makes sense that LLMs would excel at code they've been trained on the most, which means they can be useful to a lot of people. This also means that these people will be the first to be made redundant by LLMs, once the quality improves enough.
> Society views the fascistic impulses of those in control stifling innovation and growth as damage

You think society sees financial regulations as fascistic impulses that stifle innovation? Where do you get that from?
cf. "but I wish they finished writing the equations out"

The article mentions EGS but, as far as I could tell, only seemed to present it to contrast it with the claim that Quaise is using a worse single-bore strategy.

If I'm just misreading, and it sounds like you're saying I am?, it'd be really helpful to show your working so I can see where the models are differing. There is a factor 100 difference somewhere, it shouldn't be that hard to spot!
They operate the registry, but are not a registrar (bad choice of terminology) since they sold off that part of their business to Squarespace. Unclear to me who actually raised the price here since you can register a .dev domain with many registrars.

That's insane though, I assumed renewal prices were more or less locked in after you own a domain. Even the premium ones that go for thousands say they renew at the standard $12 or whatever.
I had thought it was a historically recurring status symbol, showing that the owner of the hands wasn't required to use them for manual labor.
Ventilation is good even with electric, just to deal with pollutants being put off by the food being cooked. As I understand it, these are often worse than the combustion byproducts, but I'm not well informed on the composition of each kind of pollution.

So I think in either case, kitchens should have good ventilation. Fortunately, it's just an ingress and egress hole in the house with a fan. If trying to retain the moisture and temperature of indoor air, it's more complicated because heat may have to be exchanged and air dehumidified (though kitchen air is often hotter and wetter than general air conditioned air).

However, this is also true of ventilation needed to prevent well insulated houses from getting damp and moldy and removing other indoor pollutants, such as from off-gassing of new home goods, etc. In summary, we need ventilation period. It should be a part of building codes and it should be done in a way that is appropriate to the local climate.

I'll be buying a house in the next few years and if I'm allowed to get gas, I'm not actually sure if I will or not. Customarily it's what I've used and it works well for my needs, but induction has advantages. I'm open to it. If I had my pick, I'd probably have a mix of induction and gas ranges, but maybe I'd look into induction and be sold. I just don't want this forced on me on with such thing rationale.
Well, people generally don't like being on the receiving end of price discrimination. So you shouldn't be surprised when people refuse to fly with you because you charge you more to fly with them just because you have children with you.

Although, I wonder if maybe the real reason for this might be to discourage families from flying with them....
> any exchange willing to trade for those amounts do KYC and follows AML?

Binance paid U.S. regulators a $4.3 billion for violating U.S. anti-money laundering laws a year ago. There are many crypto exchanges that have poor KYC or deliberately do it in a way that can be circumvented - Bitzlato was one example. I imagine if you have some dirty Bitcoin you can find an exchange today running in a non extraditable jurisdiction that will trade it for cash for cut.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/co-founder-seized-crypto-...
How is this thing useful? Does it mean you can use the Trial to develop games completely free hassle on NS after its done, and you don't need a popular engine like Unity, Godot, Unreal?
IMHO C# is a very good, pragmatic language. It is not unique and groundbreaking like say Lisp, but it has a very well balanced set of features which makes is both productive and maintainable. It doesn’t have the level of boilerplate which make Java tedious, but its strong static type system makes it (IMHO) more maintainable than say Python for larger projects.
Place shuffling in planes is a novel "invention". Putting existing features behind a Paywall isn't being smart and innovative. it's a signal for to little competition and a cash grap.
i3wm inspired wm for Windows
I would say that.
Thanks! Compared to xv6, you will find some important pieces missing. For example, there's no multiprocessor support and no scheduler, only one process can run at any time.

I should also note that user space programs can do memory allocation via syscall, but I currently have an issue with the kernel memory that I probably need to remap higher in memory. So, most commands inside the OS are still executed from kernel space, although they use syscalls and everything as if they were user space programs. I'm having a lot of fun creating device files inspired by Plan9 to communicate with the kernel.

There's a lot of work yet to arrive at something that feels truly complete as an educational OS, but I'm hoping to get there eventually. I really like this project because I'm learning along the way all the time!

Your first point is one of my main goals: I want the whole OS, including user space programs, to fit inside one brain. I'm always trying to find ways to keep complexity low without compromising too much on performance.
from en.wikipedia: The name "Huliaipole" (lit. 'walk-about field') reflected the nature of the area where it was founded, which had frequently played host to fairs for a long time before the settlement's foundation.

Nu, even english folk songs detail the sorts of activities people get up to at fairs...

Yeah, harlot arguably fits very well; its original sense having been "vagabond".

I first encountered black, white, and red in a schoolyard joke:

Q. What's black, white, and red all over — and can't fit through doorways?

A. A nun with a spear through her head

and I guess the civil war would be the next black[0], white[1], and red

but currently I prefer the chorus:

Девушки бывают разные
Чёрные, белые, красные.

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSoOFn3wQV4

[0] between Lyube and Zelenskyy, it seems both sides in UA would now like to claim Makhno as one of their own. (pity about the burning of the Jolly Roger flag in Huliaipole, even if Makhno said that one was a fake flag)

[1] the b/w portion, at least, seems to cover Wrangel's retreat from Sevastopol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_gm5P7R_fQ
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Probably nothing a junior programmer wouldn't be able to do relatively easily.
> Even obesity can be cured.

Eating less isn’t all that much of a breakthrough, but it certainly highlights how hard it is to get people to do something they don’t want to do.
I’m sorry, what is even your point? Are you trying to claim that obesity is not a problem caused by megacorps by pointing to a health problem that was and is caused by megacorps? Are you trying to say that cigarettes don’t actively contain an addiction chemical, namely nicotine? I actually have had people claim this, as they were tricked by cigarette companies, so it wouldn’t shock me if you thought something so stupid.
In my experience, Agile methods give power to non-developers which can be a good thing or bad thing depending on the workplace and the individual behavior or perspective of participants.
I'm having a hard time putting this into words. Apologies if this isn't terribly clear.

As easy as it is to dismiss tech hype - nothing wrong with doing that honestly - autonomous city driving is inching closer to the ubiquity it promised a decade ago. And come on ChatGPT is pretty amazing even if it is over hyped.

Hackers are everywhere, they're just doing work and not writing hype posts.

Tech news is all jobs.

I love this article just don't fully agree with it. Love the convo in this post too! Keep it coming.
If you want it from an industrial perspective, I suggest checking out “Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us“ by Michael Moss, and “The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite” by David A. Kessler, former head of the FDA.
This is the first I’ve even heard of people disinfecting their groceries because of Covid. Honestly that sounds rather crazy to me.
There was also the "white Australia policy" though. And China is the perfect scapegoat, like NK, since they seldom make public statements, and when they do, the west tend to treat it as across the board false.

But the top Area Studies scholars are not working for the government. I hang out in quite a few Chinese telegram chats (mostly sysadmins and just bullshitting - the term translates well literally but carries a slightly different connotation in that it's not falsity per se but bragging/exaggeration OR falsity, depending on context). There's a pretty general sense of neo-imperialistic motives on the part of the west and it's hard to blame them considering that for a nation that wasn't annexed it effectively had very little to no say in the administration of various parts of its territories for 160 years. Whether out of arrogance or because there's a huge blind spot (or both), this has led to missing out on numerous opportunities in effectively gain leverage on the CCP in significant ways, like getting rid of the quota system for H1-B visas so those who were on F-1s and graduate can actually stay and work in the US, or give general asylum to the protestors against the Chinese takeover of HK, a cohort that is educated, have relevant skills, speaks English, and compared to the rest of China, are relatively wealthy. The official fear of a brain drain have been around since the 1880s - the Chinese Exclusion Act was the preferred policy of both the US and Chinese governments, one that helped nobody and legitimized racism parallel to Jim Crow. One would think that we'd be over that by now.

There's some chatter that there's a soft-coup since Xi haven't been leading the nightly 30 minutes of propaganda, probably for the first time since the 1980s the news, broadcast nationally, didn't lead off with some inane report of leadership meeting dignitaries. The truth is anybody's guess but an actual military coup is unlikely to occur after the Lin Biao incident. The fact that America doesn't even seem to be aware of this is telling, and in North Korea's case, even more amplified.

Also, a nation-state cannot by definite launder any money since money laundering is only a thing because the state wants its cut. But here, by their theory, all of the money is going to the nation-state so... what laundering are they talking about? Theft, perhaps. Expropriation? Sure. But laundering? That makes no sense unless you internalize that America or whoever is actually the world's policeman. Good luck with maintaining credibility with that outlook.
I think C# is a perfectly fine language, but as you say it's not really groundbreaking or unique. It's probably not even my top-five choice for general purpose language in 2024 but it's obviously gotten (is still getting) "the job done". If we're to praise Anders Hejlsberg's work I would personally pick Typescript above C#. Just look at how influential Typescript has been for global development in the previous decade.
We are having two different conversations. My question was of course based on the invention of AIs that are actually competent.
https://www.crowdsupply.com/zerowriter/zerowriter-ink

There is an open source dedicated writer that just went on sale. It looks quite compelling and hackable.
Deep bore, sadly I don't think I have enough space for a horizontal system
A whalefall of sorts.
You're saying that because two different objects can to solve the same problem, they must work the same way.

An abacus and a calculator were both made to solve relativly simple math problems, so they must work in the same way, right?

And apple and an orange are ways to store sugar for plants, so they must be the same thing, right?

No. That's not how any of this works.
An abacus and a calculator are two different tools that solve the same problem.
They don’t act like each other just because the abstract outcome is the same

> You're proving my point, things like them changing continuously are exactly what I mean when I say the brain is more efficient.

I don't see how that proves that neural networks act like brains.

It's also not just a difference in terms of efficiency, it's the fundamental way that statistical models like neural networks are trained. Every time their trained, it's a brand new model, unlike a brain, which is still the same brain.

Also, neural networks and brains were NOT made to solve the same problems... even if your argument made any sense, it doesn't fit here.
Maybe they shouldn’t have mixed truthful data with obviously untruthful data in the same training data set?

Why not make a model only from truthful data? Like exclude all fiction for example.
Interesting. In our high school math class when -3^2 was hand written it was ok to interpret it as (-3)^2. But maybe that could have been because spacing would be used as some informal parentheses.
5840 hrs awake, based on 16hours per day.

2080 hrs at work, based on a 40hr work week - of course not counting days off.

Math seems to be mathing (mostly) but it feels wrong, work definitely feels like it takes up much more than 1/3rd of our waking hours.
https://archive.ph/QVqzn
Nice. I like the tiny size a lot, that's already an advantage over SBERTs smallest models.

But it seems quite dated technically - which I understand is a tradeoff for performance - but can you provide a way to toggle between different types of similarity (e.g. semantic, NLI, noun-abstract)?

E.g. I sometimes want "Freezing" and "Burning" to be very similar (1) as in regards to say grouping/clustering articles in a newspaper into categories like "Extreme environmental events", like on MTEB/Sentence-Similarity, as classic Word2Vec/GloVe would do. But if this was a chemistry article, I want them to be opposite, like ChatGPT embeddings would be. And sometime I want to use NLI embeddings to work our the causal link between two things. Because the latter two embedding types are more recent (2019+), they are where the technical opportunity is, not the older MTEB/semantic similarity ones which have been performant enough for many use cases since 2014 and 2019 received a big boost with mini-lm-v2 etc.

For the above 3 embedding types I can use SBERT but the dimensions are large, models quite large, and having to load multiple models for different similarity types is straining on resources, it often takes about 6GB because generative embedding models (or E5 etc) are large, as are NLI models.
Yes, and I would say that no other passenger would appreciate a full flight alongside an alone child.
Has anyone thought of using embeddings to solve Little Alchemy? #sample-use
Some people might just like the rolling release model, huge software library through AUR and good documentarion.
Navigating OpenAI O1: Options Beyond the Preview Quota
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Over almost 20 years, on Linux? I doubt it.

There've been a bunch of integrity-impacting send/receive bugs in zfs over the years.