skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s the hardest part, figuring out the reward. For generic tasks it is not easy, in my implementation in optillm I am using the llm itself to generate a score based on the mcts trajectory. But that is not as good as having a reward that is well defined say for a coding or logic problem. May be they trained a better reward model.
and... it would keep everyone on their toes a bit more, vs just having a group of folks that nod and say 'yes', 'no' or '3 points' a few times at the same time every day.
The Illusion of a Pagan West
It went from being a potentially infinite public creative/informational space to a privately owned strip mall with a few boring shops where you have to show your ID to get in. Same thing happens with any neat physical location too - gets commercialized to hell, becomes totally ruined and boring by last-movers, commandeered by academics who act like they invented it, and productized by capitalists who want to turn any/all freely available blessings into expensive yet shoddy products (plus ads).

What once presented a true and superior alternative to the mainstream firehose of advertising and propaganda became "Fox News Presents The Donald Trump's Presidential Campaign Show (Sponsored by SquareSpace), With Your Hosts Kim Kardashian and Jake Paul!" just like the radio, film, etc. - it gets commercialized/ruined.

We need a new thing, bsky aint it.
Ironically, my switch only has a bad frame rate when it’s on the dock / plugged into a tv.
Microsoft seems determined to push people away from Windows with its user-hostile tactics—built-in ads, constant nagging about Edge, and forced OneDrive backups. It's really soured my experience. I’m done with Windows personally. While I have to use Win11 at work, I won't use it anywhere I have a choice.
The Rise of Bitcoin-Powered Pools and Bathhouses
Well.... What kind of password did you have? Was is complex and extremely difficult to guess .... Or?
Hopefully this is not too tangential, but it's something that's been on my mind a bit recently.

When you had kids (or I guess anyone who is considering having kids), did you ever fear of "passing down" your trauma?

I feel that us tech workers, for all intents and purposes, have "made it," which might best position us in general to overcome and prevent a cycle of trauma to the next generation.
> I take your point, but also get why people might have viscerally negative opinions about this particular subject?

I don't think it's just the fact that his videos are expensive click bait where he throws money around... it's the fact that he has some very shady, borderline illegal(maybe actually illegal?) practices. the livestream marketing the chocolate to children to win entries into giveaways that he then scrubs from the internet are probably not legal is one example. there are a few videos on how scummy he is. I think the visceral reaction to him as some kind of genius is warranted.

that said the pdf has some nuggets of wisdom even if it's from a tainted source.
I think this still has it backwards. People, who are not experts in the content they consume, can't be relied upon to distinguish good from trash. Not because they don't experience the difference, but because they don't know the indicators.

I couldn't tell you whether my surgeon was any good or not leading up to an operation, but if they were bad, I'd sure be able to tell 2 weeks later.

I think it is ultimately up to professionals to have some pride in their work. I think they'll also need to have a certain amount of protection from hacks willing to undercut them.
Are those mostly tech people or is it the general public?
Neither 8 nor 9 are valid octal digits, please stop that
I had my YouTube account banned because I changed the channel name into something that trigged their AI. Maybe it was that I’ve never uploaded a video or written a comment? Who knows. Anyway I was fully expecting to have lost my account (and my playlists) forever based on the bad reputation Google has, but when I clicked the “do you disagree with this” appeal thing it took very little time to have my account restored.

This is very anecdotal, and Google’s automated process is probably as horrible as it’s generally made out to be. It was just so surprising to me that it wasn’t, that I thought I would share it.
The US, British and German militaries stopped regularly allocating amphetamines for just that reason by 1941. This is not new research.
Up to how many times per person? Do I have to be there illegally? Does home have to be where I am from originally or can I ping pong between Sweden and Finland and collect a paycheck each time?
Is it the async part that's a problem? Or is it that chilling with besties is all we ever really wanted?

I was pretty happy with Facebook in 2007 when it was posting pictures and making stupid jokes with my actual friends (not the whole world and whatever is trending).
Oh no. Man I had so many arguments with this guy. I didn’t know he was dying.
It's hypocritical, those closest to Jimmy have get-out-of-jail-free cards and others get fired. And the "no doesn't mean no" stuff reeks of toxic hustle culture.

Most handbooks are boring and legalese because they can be evidence in court.
Of course, you could avoid this entirely with Hedera HBAR and fair consensus on the hashgraph. But the puzzles are on BTC where the money is.
IMO, spending 24 hours in ketchup doesn't sound any "lower" than jackass sitting in a circle and throwing stuff at each others' balls. So I would say that raced ended 20 years ago.
U-Haul Australia is not associated with the American company at all. They just were able to register the trademark first, even using the original’s brand assets.
> Even if you have all the software handled, building a team of moderators who are willing to sift through all the crap and stop the child porn, cat in a blender videos, war footage, sexual harassment, upskirt crimes, etc. etc. is tough.

In the context I think we're discussing, you deal with that by controlling who has accounts on the instance, not by policing posts one by one.
Journalism is at least as much about providing entertainment as about 'problems'. And as far as entertainment goes, producing this article was a lot less effort than eg staging the Olympics.

Btw, generically talking about IP misses important distinctions here: this is an article about trademarks, not about copyright.

To give another example Brooks Brothers is a company founded in 1818, and I presume they still have their trademark. The trademark is not there to protect some creative achievement anyone had in 1818, but to help consumers not confuse the real Brooks Brothers with other people who make apparel.

(Whether you buy that justification or not is a different question. I'm just pointing out that trademark and copyright are two different beasts.

Another distinction: if you sit in your shed isolated from the outside world, and you produce a product to sell, generally whatever comes out of that process can't violate copyright---even if you produce exactly the same thing as an existing product)---but it can violate trademarks and patents. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean-room_design

In much of the modern world copyright is granted automatically, but trademarks have to be registered and defended.)

I am very skeptical of the very idea patents, and somewhat skeptical of copyright, especially long terms. But trademarks are an entirely separate category, with entirely different trade-offs on a societal level. There are things to be skeptical about but indefinitely renewable terms ain't one of them.
I feel like posting on public forums only works if you have a big enough name. I want to be wrong about that.
If you are in Sweden you have already left Damascus
>If you read the full PDF it’s clear he is very carefully gaming the algorithm: [...]

How is this different than any other technique to maximize engagement/readership, eg. inverted pyramid format for newspaper articles? It's probably designed to draw people in and sell copies. Is that also "gaming the algorithm"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)
I did that as well and then ordered some super inexpensive glasses online (Zenni) and have been super happy with them. I ended up buying a second pair that I leave at work so I don’t have to carry them around with me.
I had a notification pop down while looking at it and the timer did reset, stopped, and said „that was definitely something. Let‘s try nothing.“. A neat little site, that‘s for sure. Also worrying that websites can see when I receive a notification.
Makes you wonder whether anyone outside of your immediate friends and family will miss you.

RIP Dan.
I daily drive a Pinephone Pro as my only smartphone. I adore it, but I think you're right about the precentage that ended up in a drawer.

I'd still say it's worth it overall though: the low price pushed it into many more developers hands than could afford the Librem 5. More developers (and users for bug reports or community support) means more viable software for all Linux-mobile devices - which has resulted in people being able to hang on to other devices for longer! Notably, the Pixel 3a is currently making headway to be useable under Mobian, but this also applies to other devices that I haven't followed as closely, such as the Pixel 4a, the Oneplus 6, and so on.
You never have to look at it. I have an Excel - one file a year - with a schema that makes sense to me, then a Python script to convert that to {year}.beancount. The script is triggered by fswatch.

So I get a browser frontend with fava and data input in Excel.

It’s non-trivial, but then so is any form of accounting.
Poland wins World Cup in football goes first in the impossible events department.
I don't think they kept private keys because why would they if their intentions were to give the money away not just dangle it briefly.
Notice that I gave as an example the early days of Google. In those days, it was stacked with 99th percentilers working full tilt: Sergey and Larry, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, Luiz André Barroso, Urs Hölzle, Amit Singhal, etc.

Of course it was eventually taken over by product managers, bureaucratic bloat, and WLB maxxers. I think my observation only applies to a company in its ascendance. As it matures, the 50th percentilers and the MBAs take over. And it slowly declines. Less slowly if it has achieved a monopoly (search, in the Google case).
Here’s the squid game story. Thankfully nobody died but it was not a safely run set: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/02/style/mrbeast-beast-games...
I think the key thing here is he's talking about "the person who made the previous world's largest slice of cake".

In other words, if I were working on a new programming language (just as an example), and could go hire Anders Hejlsberg as a consultant, well, that -is- going to be a mega cheat code. The amount of experience he'd bring to bear to even a 30 minute call would be insane. He would save me months or even years in mistakes and bad directions, and lead me straight to the core of whatever I wanted to do.

That's the thing - he's not talking about hiring a generic "cake consultant". With that in mind, it'd be much easier to find those people - you'd know them by their achievements.
Cant upvote this comment enough. This comment should be at the top of this thread!
If we’re being pedantic about this uncommon pronunciation of gigawatt, it’s jigowatt.
Any browser engine is free to do the work to use per-platform APIs. If your argument is that cross-platform browser engines won't do the work to optimize with platform-specific APIs but that Safari will, WebKit is a cross-platform browser engine and so it adopting CoreAnimation on Apple platforms in addition to supporting other platforms is exactly the same amount of work that it would take for Blink or Gecko to do the same thing.
>I would argue the opposite…

Proceeds to not describe the opposite, and instead projects the viewpoint of the generation that grew up believing that becoming social media icons was the equivalent to being Steve Jobs.

We just recognize the grifter attitudes and process from extensive exposure.
I'm skeptical. During the same period of time, I suspect that the number of professional women in the workforce increased significantly, and it seems likely that this would have a much bigger impact on household income inequality than online dating. In 1980, a high-income man would be significantly less likely to marry a high income woman, simply because there were fewer of them to marry.

Also worth noting that this study focuses on household inequality, where dual-income effects would be strong. Online dating certainly offers no explanation for why executive pay increased 400% since the 80s, while blue collar wages stayed flat.
My kids have a lot (probably too much) screen time. None of them watch Mr Beast. I think he is recommended to people who don't have well developed Youtube histories. He is sort of the Taylor Swift of Youtube. She might be a fine musician for all I know but no music service is going to recommend her to a listener it knows wants metal. Beast is a safe recommendation for people who only have a casual interest in what the platform has to offer. He never appears in my recommendations. The algorithm knows better.

We watched Youtube together as a family at first and when the kids got older I helped them find creators and setup their own subscriptions. The worst thing a parent can do is sit them in front of Youtube Kids brainrot. They started with lots of education,science,maker/craft,animation and PG gamers like Hermitcraft.
> Or if you're a bakery, you won't keep two or three cake cooking spots just on case someone comes in witb an extraordinary order, you won't make enough on that to cover the lost opportunity.

I think it's always worth thinking about what you can leave slack / idle space in. For example, you might not keep multiple stations free, but you might invest in a larger oven than you need to make the cakes you currently make. Or you might invest in more bakery space than you need, including extra workspace than you can utilize at 100%. Not because you necessarily anticipate higher demand, but because you might get a customer that's asking for a cake bigger than your standard. Or because you might have a customer placing a large order and need some extra room to spread out more, or to have a temporary helper be able to do some small part of the job even if they can't use the space as a full station.

But also idleness might look like "you don't spend all of your time baking orders for customers". If you never build in slack for creating, experimenting and learning, you'll fall behind your competition, or stagnate if your design and art is a selling point.
Surely focusing for you untrains your eyes how to focus and is bad for you in the long run.
Even something as simple as a single word can give away absurd amounts of information about us.

I used to be ashamed of my nationality and actively tried to hide it. I was very successful at it too, never had a single person identify me... Until I tried playing an MMORPG I used to play when I was a kid and was still learning English. Long story short, I misspelled the name of an item because of my childhood memories. Turns out that mistake was very specific to people of my country.
Every time I see this, I refer to Krazam's brilliant video about LinuxCon Worldwide. https://youtu.be/nUsDk8wjRPs?si=KnSxBan1QV5WVwih
>Got an email security alert from gmail

I'd make sure that it was a legitimate alert by going to (https://myaccount.google.com/security) because there's tons of fake alerts going around, a lot looking quite legitimate. Was the first thing that almost caught me in years.
Systems that use immediate strict categorization don’t work for some people. At a company I worked at we went with a two-phase approach. A person would write notes (literally iphone notes) in the following format:

Apr 5 24
-50 Alice tools
-220 Bob home project

Apr 2 24
+20 Bob returned loan

Note that time goes “up” to avoid scrolling too much on open. Later we loaded it into a script which would parse dates, detect keywords and make templates for proper double-entry. It would detect both the outer “agent” and the internal analytics and also put the original text as a comment. What it couldn’t detect had to be manually categorized and (sometimes) added to the script. Of course the script used editable lists for correspondence, not only hardcoded values. These lists were person-specific, so that Alice and Bob wouldn’t have to sync their vocabularies.

I cannot imagine any of the people at that company filling this

9/19 (1234) comment here
Cat1:cat2:cat3
Cat4:cat5

every time money moves and they are in a queue, in the car, talking to someone, etc. They’d simply resort to smaller notes again in the notes app or in the chat, or would try to “remember” it, to fill properly at the end of the day (more likely week).
The SIM adapter is actually sitting on the top left corner of the retail packaging.
had a similar experience early in my career in finance. 35 year old associate (old for the role), ex green beret, always so level, even when dealing with a lunatic VP. asked him why he was cool as the other side of the pillow: "nobody is shooting at me"
Interesting. I guess I’m lucky to use a Mac? I hadn’t realized that bluetooth connections with hearing aids didn’t work on other computers.

I haven’t tried to do it in a while, though. I prefer to swap my hearing aids for AirPods when listening to music. It sounds better and they are also easier to pair with multiple devices.

As a possible alternative, I wonder if there’s a good way to route computer audio through your phone?
That just doesn't seem to follow for me. Aren't most browsers auto-configured to request the language they were configured in? And don't most browser installs / setups default to the language of the user's system?

I feel like if the browser requests English, odds are overwhelming that the user wants English. Assuming otherwise strikes me as someone trying to get a bit too clever with their heuristics. (And ending up in a worse place than if they hadn't bothered - location is a terrible, terrible heuristic for language.)

I think the real issue here, though, is that the language button at the bottom of this page isn't interactive until several dialogues have been clicked though. Dialogues that are likely totally incomprehensible to the person trying to change language.
If the device is locked to a carrier, you can only use SIMs/eSIMs from that carrier.
> but I think I’ve suppressed a lot of stuff and ultimately is starting to wear me down.

Unpack it. It's easier than you think and more worthwhile than you might guess. It's not some massive liberating experience but it can remove some blocks and make change a more familiar sight in your life.

> and I end up just laughing and making some jokes and stuff but never have similar stories to share.

Things like this will "get in the way" a lot less often.

> bringing up some weird emotions I hadn’t experienced or thought I had dealt with

You have this perspective already. This is actually a great sign. Too many people find out at the end of a self inflicted tragedy.
> Feels like the pace of change and expectation you’ve mastered the latest and greatest is greater than it’s been in a long time. And give the job market it’s hard to fall behind.

I think it's important only to be aware new things, definitely not master. You may even only need to read an article or two on a new tool to grok its general use case and see if it actually offers anything new, or if is just a new flavour of the same old.

Maybe I am just a fast learner but I definitely see no value in learning every new tool outright. I keep an eye on it, but once you separate the wheat from the chaff there is really only one or two fundamental tools worth trying out every few months. Of those, maybe only one a year worth diving into.

The job market is whatever, you can't get meaningful experience on tools you don't use on projects anyway. So just do a week of afternoon deep dives before an interview and you'll be fine.
“How is this different than any other technique to maximize engagement/readership, eg. inverted pyramid format for newspaper articles?”

Because it’s extraordinarily effective?

He made it to the top of YouTube with it. If it’s the exact same thing as other existing techniques how come others haven’t been able to match his success with those classic formulas?
The "precise" part is not even necessary. In short, if 90% of the time guessing the intent works, then I may want to use that system anyway. The projects almost every one of us work with are underspecified anyway, but we have a decent intuition of what should happen (or we just don't care in many edge cases and let the default failure happen). We can read the result and say "is the good enough?" and iterate as you described.
I think many people conflate popular and accessible media with essential culture.
The Benefits of DecisionMaker.tools
It may not be Substack, but I recommend Stratechery.
All of DFW’s are life changing, but you have to remember that it’s just one perspective despite it seeming so right. Big Red Son and Shipping Out are some of the more humorous: https://www.openculture.com/2012/02/23_free_essays_stories_b...
Yes, we misrepresent others constantly. A more basic point is that we are misrepresenting ourselves - Without a clear, detailed vision of thought/emotion flow, statements like 'I did this' are reifying this flow into an agent(not as a convenient abstraction to stand for a group of thoughts, but a felt sense that there is an 'I' actually doing something).
the problem of finding discrete logarithms is the same problem as breaking elliptic curve cryptography.
I never intended to be the next Steve Jobs, I just expected that my dedication to learning and building useful skills would be rewarded in some sense. Things aren't that simple, of course.
Async has a lot of benefits, but I think if 10x as much of the content we engage with asynchronously was originally live interaction between people we have a personal bond with (or at least can recognize the humanity in from a distance), we would notice a positive difference and want the internet to be more like that.
WSL does count. The average Linux user doesn't know squat about how the kernel, drivers, or services work; they just like the CLI. If MS can give them enough of the Linux CLI and functioning packages to do their job, it's game over.
Hating on "nitpicking" is the funniest thing to me. It's a bold admission that one has abandoned attention to detail. Huge red flag.
I barely know who Mr. Beast is but isn't his whole channel about, like, the joy of doing nice things for people? Like yes, it's for profit, and yes, it's schlocky and distasteful to us wise adults or whatever, but there's seriously nothing you find redeeming about kids enjoying seeing people getting their vision restored?
GeoGuessr star player's tips for success in the popular geography game
> send each other

I imagine it's a lot more uni-directional.

Where there is a messaging platform, there are unsolicited dick pics.
I think it's more likely that it's included for liability reasons.
Or that signaling altruism saves the obscenely wealthy from criticism, which is a popular cynical take on the utility of philanthropy.
He was a legend, for sure. I hiked with him a bit during my 2001 thruhike. By that point he was already... uhhhmm... not really "hiking" the trail as much as "hanging out on the trail, walking a bit, sometimes".

I didn't realized until earlier this year that he passed away back in 2016. https://appalachiantrail.org/leadership/jack-tarlin/
For as much slop as gets produced on YouTube, I think the high quality educational content more than makes up for it. You can literally look up any subject and find a full blown series on the topic.

His huge budgets and willingness to reinvest all the profits into future videos have allowed MrBeast to produce a lot of unique videos which are effectively unmatched by anyone else. Right now they're really the undisputed kings of the platform, by a massive margin.