skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and the fact that they have a summer house where at least one pair resides. This person lives differently to me.

He seems to live in Finland. It's a sparsely populated country covered in forests and with an abundance of lakes[0] which has led to a quite democratic summer house culture. It's completely normal even among working class to own a summer house by a lake.

There's of course variation. A large summer house close to population centers will be more expensive than a plain one, more remote, and/or not by a water body.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lakes_of_Finland
Make sure to check which firmware version the module you got is using.

The module I ordered last year still uses an old firmware from 2020 which has telnet access available.

The module I ordered a few weeks ago uses a new firmware with no telnet access, which also means no way to set the serial number anymore.

I haven't yet checked whether it's still possible to access the interface via uart.
Grok just uses Flux, fyi
Can you share the theme you are using ? I want to check if it can be deployed on github pages. Thanks.
If you are really into it, write a blog post about the reddit thread (and the flagging of this thread?) and post here.
How would Hoodmaps go about “stop amplifying” without breaking your dictum to “stop censoring”?
Solutions for specific problems I mentioned do exist for niches. But none of them can solve it well for all niches, which is what I believe is necessary. What we need is for all datasets from scientific papers to be easily accessible and licensed like code.
Well, the username `fleaflicker` could fit an account that someone uses to respond to people who annoy them, and who they think are parasites and far beneath them.

But it's not necessarily an alt of Altman. HN has a lot of people who'd say that, and a lot of people who'd like to smack those people and other people, and also the normal (old-school) Internet levels of trolling.
I think the visibility is important. After 20 years in the workforce, I've learned that it's more important to be liked than it is to do a good job. If people work from home, the managers have trouble knowing who to keep, and who to lay off, because they can't interact with you socially in person.
All OP said was that they found them goofy looking. Whether or not you're into high fashion doesn't change the fact that taste is entirely subjective and everyone who finds them too thick, or goofy looking, is more than welcome to that opinion. Doesn't make them out of touch or narrow minded at all.

And please, look at all of Meta's own comments on the size of this prototype - it's obvious that the size isn't because it's "in" in high fashion, but because that's the smallest they could reasonably get it.
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More than C or C++ will ever be.

It is like complaining a bullet vest doesn't protect against heavy machine gun bullets.
Though from the wikipedia article [0], it looks like it has only been used successfully three times (2017, 2019, and 2020). There's a fourth in-progress by Johnson&Johnson, where the summaries state that the bankruptcy has been twice dismissed by courts as being invalid.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_two-step_bankruptcy
I would say different motivations for different people.

What disappoints me most is when there is no motivation whatsoever :(
you mean, true?
Still better than many web3 projects
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Keyboards may be more efficient, but do you see people using blackberries today? If your theory was correct, we wouldn’t all be using touchscreens.
Altman, Ctrlman, Deleteman
Like models, all analogies are wrong, but some are useful, and they become most illuminating precisely on the boundary where they break down.
Same. I live in a poor neighborhood but it has two dope parks, a swimming pool, cool places. The map tells me I'll get murdered at the streets I cross literally every day and night
I am getting “parasocial relationship”/“confidence scammed” for currently $1.23 a month, which feels like a quantitative difference from the situation in the article if not a qualitative one
When you say "blows," do you mean in a subservient sense or more like, "it blows it out of the water?"
> [flagged] Sam Altman: Long con was "child's play for me" (reddit.com) 160 points by upwardbound 1 hour ago | ...| 40 comments

Incidentally, in the comments here, `upwardbound` had an interesting plausible take on this familiar link. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41657334
Most people do whatever they can get away with. Even on this forum I've seen people expressing the idea that "you should be able to do anything that's not illegal."
They've been pretty consistent with the Meta Quest things.
Seems obvious to me that the quality of the models is not improving since GPT-4. The departures I’m guessing are a problem talent has with ‘founder mode’, Altman’s choice of fast pace, this absence of model improvement with these new releases, and the relative temptation of personal profit outside of OpenAI’s not-for-profit business model. People think they can do better in control themselves. I suspect they are all under siege with juicy offers of funding and opportunities. Whether or not they will do better is another story. My money is on Altman, I think he is right on the dumpster rocket idea, but it’s very difficult to see that when you’re a rocket scientist.
I love your blog! Most blogs are clearly firewalled from the human that wrote them. But, yours almost feels like you take a bit of your lifeforce and somehow imbue it into the blog itself. Those posts are alive. I hope it isn't like a scene from the Dark Crystal where the Skeksis (your blog) are sucking your (urRu) life force from you. If so, I'll go find a landstrider and see what I can do.
But then the counterfeit battery wouldn't be usable in a modern iphone due to lacking the cryptographic signature.
Formally codifying abortion was not a popular issue among voters in 09. In other words, you're somewhat right, it wasn't important to them because it wasn't important to voters. People seem to think that this issue has always had the support it has now.
He wants to be the next Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates. But all his endeavors have this feeling of him taking advantage of real hackers to steal the spotlight. Like, he is the smallest contributor for the success of ChatGPT but became the face of OpenAI globally.

Not coincidentally, since many people more important than him left OpenAI, they lost the lead in LLMs development and Claude/Anthropic seems to be growing way faster.
"People tend to overestimate what can be done in one year and to underestimate what can be done in five or ten years"

I've heard this applied to all kinds of human goals, but it seems apt for AI expectations as well.
Hmm, yeah me neither, there are just comments? I hardly ever use reddit and often leave confused.
> Robert Reich

Says the fool who authored NAFTA
Looks like a great tool, thanks for sharing!
Excuse me but what sort of bullshit is this?

Anyone with sufficient intellectual power to grok building AI must be fully aware of the monetization value of the same. If you are navel gazing over AIG taking over humanity you must first step through the stage were capital and AI couple up.

So it is not too much to ask since others who also were aware of the inherent unwanted social distortions that was entirely predictable were relying on these individuals and "non-profit" organizations to actually live up to their claims.

As it is, it seems like a thinly disguised propaganda to recruit and benefit from altruistic and capable workers in the field to then have Sam Altman (and whoever is behind him $$$) to parachute and take over and say "oh well, you can'tn expect people to be truthful and have principles! What are ya, a chump?"
I am currently of the belief that the death penalty should be reserved for the most extreme of the most extreme circumstances. The Boston Bomber & The Park School Shooter are two prime examples.

There is a very high burden of proof for both of them and to my knowledge, no doubts as to their guilt. I personally find it morally reprehensible individuals like themselves are still gifted with life after the lives they ruined.

Maybe this is a mindset I will grow out of as I grow older.
Would you have recommended moving slower to build the first atom bomb?
Dash is great. I use the free open-source alternative Zeal, works for Linux, Windows and macOS.

https://github.com/zealdocs/zeal
>no memory, no self-modification (learning).

This is also true of those with advanced Alzheimer's disease. Are they not conscious as well? If we believe they are conscious then memory and learning must not be essential ingredients.
"the coroutines RFC has lasted longer than World War 1 or 2"

This sounds bad, but I wonder how many features have taken this long to include in other languages. Is this really as out of step as it sounds?

There is the move-fast-break-things mentality, but is that how you want to design a language?

Seems like we are missing some middle ground step, where there are good features, maybe even done, and stable, but they aren't getting worked into the main language.

Maybe a decision making problem.
Dang that king is bloodthirsty. I played for a while and it ate all the best blocks I ever made (a 512). Can my high score be the best I was doing before I lost it all?
> next consumer electronics platform

I really hope this isn’t the case. We have enough screens around us as is, the last thing I want is screens pressed up against my eyeballs
If you were born in the late 70s or early 80s you'll likely know him, otherwise yes, he's not the movie heart throb he once was.
TLDR: Yes, do this.

Back in 2006, I started my own little consultancy - I focused on Ruby on Rails (I was very early in that game - to my knowledge the first in the UK to specialise in it as a tech stack), had a lot of opinions on the Web 2.0 and tech scene more broadly, and very little cash to spend on marketing or any serious sales efforts. In short, my only option really was blogging.

My company website was basically my tech blog. Whenever people googled me or my company name (I had business cards, I did a lot of free networking events too), the blog would come up. Every piece of work I got came from that blog or word of mouth. Kept me going for 4 years until it was time to go do something else.

I think having a "personal website" in the form of a portfolio you add to and just link to from your CV might help more if you're a designer.

A blog, or at least a set of articles/editorials/deeper thinking pieces, will help if you want to showcase you're not just another monkey in a seat at a future employer as a senior developer. It will pay a lot more dividends if you want to go free-lance.

In terms of finding topics to write about, well, that's simpler than a lot of people make it. Whenever you're coding a side project, reading something on HN or elsewhere or watching a dev YT or whatever, ask yourself "what do I think about this?" and make a note in a dedicated note for ideas on your phone or in a notepad you keep nearby. If you consistently do this, after a week you'll have a list of lots of things you have thoughts about. Spot a pattern or theme? Cool, go write a blog post. Or two. Or five.

A slightly more formal method for this is called a Zettelkasten. A lot of nonsense has been written about this (and as a method, it's produced some awful writing from people who didn't understand how to use it well), but I think a good primer for this is Bob Doto's "A System for Writing" - it breaks down how to capture ideas, thread them together into something to write about, and how to then produce some good writing. It's quite lightweight once you make it a small habit, and I've been reading this recently and found it a lot more helpful than other books on the method.

In terms of tone - nerdy or professional - I would suggest you need to keep it authentic. Be you. However, be you in the context of you wanting to get hired, not you in the context of being out on a Saturday night with your friends.

The tone should not be interview formal where you're trying to be the most professional you that you can ever be, but the you where you are in the office talking about the thing you're talking about to a colleague. In fact, just imagine you're talking to some of your existing colleagues: what would you say to them about this idea? Perhaps get some of them to proof read your drafts before you post. Try not to be too negative, cynical or sarcastic (not just on your blog, in life in general), and you'll find people out there thinking "hmmm, maybe I'd like to work with this person some day".
You think buying apple stock and bitcoin would put you on the radar of intelligence agencies? Wouldn't that grouping be some massive number of middle class millennials?
> Non-coders seem to understand these analogies intuitively.

Yes and no. Sometimes non-coders just want you to throw together a prefab house.
This, combined with the possibility to also show events from gitlab would be really nice, since for work I work with gitlab (which I like better than github).

Gitlab also has an api to do this: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/events.html - so should probably be doable to add it.
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I remember Meta (your old Meta not the new Zuck's Meta) had an amazing section of the site where you could submit and see sort of like Kickstarter proposals for use cases and I always wondered where all that creative devkit type passion went. Probably on a couple hard drives in a lockup.
They got their act together because there was a language built on top of Javascript that fixed all its problems, and it was quickly gaining wide adoption. If they hadn't done anything, we'd probably still be transpiling CoffeeScript.

History repeated itself, and now Typescript has even more popularity than CoffeeScript ever did, so if the ecma committee is still on their act, they're probably working on figuring out how to adopt types into Javascript as well.

More relevant to this argument, is the question if a similar endeavor would work for Rust. Are the features you're describing so life changing that people would work in a transpiled language that had them? For CoffeeScript, from my perspective at least, it was just the arrow functions. All the sugar on top just sealed the deal.
I think you missed the point, unless you need another analogy to try to literally debunk
Haha, wireless plumbing. What a delightful image. =)
I think it was in a book by Grady Booch that I read something like:

No one would ask an architect to add a third basement to an already complete skyscraper, but it happens in software all the time.
Mind did, but I am a technical writer not a dev so take that with a grain of salt.

During my job search, it was nice to have a portfolio to point to because I didn't have any "official" writing samples from my previous jobs (gov't). I wrote tutorials on some simple tech stuff - e.g., "How to install [this tool] on [whatever OS]" - as well as some thoughts on trying to learn computer science fundamentals as technical writer.

It really helped in the interviews to be able to talk candidly about all the fun I had learning different things, and the process had given me a deeper understanding of the tech related to the job.
I think the hardware and idea is great. But I simply can't ignore the fact that it is made by Facebook, which is basically the posterchild for modern addiction optimizer adtech business.

The last company I'd want to put right in front of my eyeballs for any extended periods of time is Facebook.
I think the diversification is a strength, honestly.

CERN and high-energy physics has _massive_ datasets. Making them all available on-line isn't practical.

Other researchers may have one or two files that they want to cite as part of a paper.

Healthcare research may have confidential data for which there are specific types of access control required.

I don't think GitHub would be financially sustainable or scalable if it was able to host millions of one-file repos, alongside repos that grow terabytes per day, alongside those that hold highly sensitive data.
Indeed, the larger the scale, the more impact (including the costs of operation) a piece of software has. In a dozen^W^W OK, a thousand places where the scale is large, engineers shave off a percent or two of resource usage, and this saves company money.

But most places are small, and engineers optimize the time to market while remaining at an acceptable levels of resource consumption and support expenses, by using stuff like next.js, RoR, etc. And that saves the company money.

There is also a spectrum in between, with associated hassles of transition as the company grows.

My favorite example is that eBay rewrote their backend three times, and they did it not because they kept building the wrong thing. They kept building the right thing for their scale at the moment. Baby clothes don't fit a grown-up, but wearing baby clothes while a baby was not a mistake.

Ideally, of course, you have a tool that you can keep using from the small prototype stage to the world-scale stage, and it lets you build highly correct, highly performant software quickly. Let's imagine that such a fantastical tool exists. To my mind, the problem is usually not in it but in the architecture: what's efficient at a large scale is uselessly complex at a small scale. The ability to express intricate constraints that precisely match the intricacies of your highly refined business logic may feel like an impediment while you're prototyping and haven't yet discovered what the logic should really be.

In short, more precision takes more thinking, and thinking is expensive. It should be applied where it matters most, and often it's not (yet) the technical details.
yes, but aren't we the creative gardeners/pollinators? Not to mention that software is naturally more dynamic and cross-compatible than real plants, given to all manners of chaotic mutations and grafting.
"negativity" or people who are stating their perspective on a product.

Was there a lot of engineering, novel problem solving, and even new invention? Yes.

Does that matter to customers if it comes together in a product that they don't feel is good enough? No.

For a site focused on tech and startups there is an awful lot of whiteknighting for companies who should know and do better.
Service charge? Mandatory tip?
It doesn't matter how heinous the murder was if you have the wrong suspect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DrsVhzbLzU

> Priti Patel: this is about having deterrents...

> Ian Hislop: It's not a deterrent killing the wrong people!
I’m not seeing anything convincing here. OpenAI says that it’s models are better at reasoning and asserts they are testing this by comparing how it does solving some problems between o1 and “experts” but it doesn’t show the experts or o1s responses to these questions nor does it even deign to share what the problems are. And, crucially, it doesn’t specify if writings on these subjects were part of training data.

Call me a cynic here but I just don’t find it too compelling to read about OpenAI being excited about how smart OpenAIs smart AI is in a test designed by OpenAI and run by OpenAI.
Literally a sucker punch. It doesn't seem like true cooperation as they don't share in the catch. I also didn't see any measurements of how much they caught versus hunting alone.
Scored 9876 and won it on first run but i did use the undo button! :) I stumbled the first half a bit but got the hang of it in the end and after finishing it I think i had more fun than original 2048. This is because this game requires you to carefully place the pieces each time while in original 2048, you could get to 1024 with just a lot of repeated movement (down+left for me) to group all biggest numbers to a corner
*That you notice.

Assuming that the output isn't biased towards the operator's interests is naive.
I thought it was a vibrator...

... and the word 'people' in the title
was just being politically correct.
Sometimes I wonder if anything can actually impress anyone on this site.

Words have plagued image gen since the start. Now there is an image model that, with an extremely simple prompt, does an awesome job with words.

If they expanded their prompt and played with a few seeds until an image with perfectly realistic vegetables were generated, I wonder what the next complaint would be.
Tails is getting brought into Tor. Hopefully this is good for privacy
> Matt needs to calm down ...

... means, "this seems more important to Matt than it does to me" and "he should just accept it shouldn't matter to him any more than it does to me".

Which, when paraphrased, explains why the comment tends to further provoke those who are passionate about something dear to them.

Often it's dear, and they are uncalm, because it came from them or is part of them in some way. That's the anti-calm appealed to by "think of the children", an inciting phrase. We're to recognize that our creations are worth our care.

Put another way: not all indignation is unrighteous.
GPS is a ready-made infrastructure that took decades of hard work to build and maintain. When the comic was made, image recognition didn't didn't have the same done for it, but now with pre-trained models everyone can do it in 5 minutes too.
Mine did, but as a junior as with probably many others. The react based website was a demo in itself and it also was a portfolio demoing my other projects.

It landed me my first part-time job in the field after I had been in university for around 6 months. At that time I had been really productive with kinda clever and cute projects - for example a desktop app that could search powerpoints and pdf files with keywords and present you the resulting pages in a nice-ish UI. (edit: java to parse the files and an Electron app to orchestrate it and provide an UI. It was shitty but it worked.)

After I had been at uni for 1,5 years and a part-timer for a year I got several offers from some pretty cool IT companies when on job search. I’m sure the site with a decently sized portfolio helped then too: I had some nice-ish projects considering my junioirity and could demo them on the site. I took up one of the offers and still remain there.

Haven’t updated the site once after I got this job, since I haven’t found that much motivation for personal projects anymore. :(
Less than any of their major competitors like Qualcomm or even Nvidia buying Intel.

In any case I find it hard to imagine that regulators in US, EU, UK, China etc. would ever approve this unless Intel was on the actual brink of bankruptcy. e.g. Nvidia wasn't even allowed to buy ARM when the markets they were competing in barely intersected.
Personally, and I need to read more, is that ethically the problem lies with sharing. Is Matt/automattic ethically obliged due compensation? I think not. WP Engine is its own company like automattic. Would it grace WPE if they do compensate with money or resources? Obviously, but then you might also want to put them in the foundation oversee committee if they do half of the work.

The law, I have no idea in what direction this is going to go!
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GPS wasn’t novel but GIS was less common and especially so for the open source side of things. I think that conversation makes sense if you read the first part not as “get the latitude and longitude where the photo was taken” but as “determine whether those coordinates fall within a polygon in the NPS set” where it’s not very hard but does require a little bit of work if you don’t already have an existing GIS setup.
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it's not really a matter of if at this point, it's a when... it's the peak of screen technology that we've been hurtling towards for nearly 100 years