skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll defintely give it a try when I can but in the meantime I wanted to congratulate and encourage you for the *simple* and yet very practical website presenting the project. It's so rare nowadays that it deserves it.
Huh this could have been written by me. I am a kid of the internet. A place built on altruism.
Unfortunately nothing yet. Feel free to hit me up at the email in my profile and I'll let you know if I do write something up.

Another pretty cool fact is that I've so far managed to build the entire thing without having to fork Postgres, only using all the built-in extension points which are really great.
> money is not a good indicator of value provided to society

Ok, it's the least worst system we have...unless you have an alternative. I'm all ears.
The authors have sold their agency to the publishers, they are the authors' agents.
Didn’t they exterminate all the capybaras that had gone wild in Norfolk 20 years ago.
"The Democrat decided to reject the measure because it applies only to the biggest and most expensive AI models and doesn’t take into account whether they are deployed in high-risk situations, he said in his veto message."

That doesn't mean you're wrong, but it's not what Newsom signaled.
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Someone will probably downvote you for making the irrelevant mistake saying US vs UK, but your point is absolutely correct that “America” is colloquially the name of the USA, not a continent or set of continents, in both US and UK English.

I suspect OP knows this, and is fighting a battle to try to change how Americans speak their own language — it’s not rare, in my experience, for people in other countries of the Americas to be annoyed by this usage.
not sure where they got that info for the "software developer median salary" but pretty sure thats not the median salary for software developers in the Netherlands. It's about half that.
I wish we generally used solutions like this instead of always reaching for the 200lb database hammer.

however, I think the article would benefit from distinguishing this approach from a 'real' database. that is MVCC gets you a lot more concurrency because it spreads out the exclusionary state in both time and space.

the optimistic concurrency used in the article works well at low contention and then becomes arbitrarily latent as more and more proposers try to jump into same RTT gap with both their initial attempt and their retries.
I don’t want to lead with the mean retort that people who say they don’t care about money often don’t have any, so let me give you the kinder version - I think you come from a place of immense privilege. Either born in a first world country, or born to well off parents or in a rich society.

otoh, Where I come from , we have a proverb that’s hard to translate but describes our misery quite accurately - “we don’t even have enough water to wipe our anus after we poop”.

So that’s why I seek wealth. Not because I’m not content, or stressed out or whatever. Because the people I was born with, my cousins, brothers, relatives - they are still digging ditches. I am no smarter than them perhaps, but because I chose to pay a little extra attention at academics, atleast I have some money to buy some water so I can wash my butt after I poop.

Don’t hate on people who want money. The world outside your tiny bubble is very, very poor.
Ok, we've unchanged the game in the title above.
What happens if you have to maintain and extend the codebase over many years? Will your workflow work for fixing complex bugs reported by users?
I'm working on software that isn't source-available (as of now, anyway).

I've written an app that is aimed at a specific demographic (so I'm not linking to it), and I'm developing an improved backend admin app.

This involves mostly Swift, using UIKit, to produce an app that will run on iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS. The backend is PHP, and doesn't need much work.
It's good to know people crawling themselves out of poverty just lack the right hobbies
I get that, I wasn't passing judgement. You guys must be super sensitive to be downvoting me for just sharing another point of view.

Personally, I find xmpp and IRC to be easier ways to talk to friends and interest groups when they use those networks. The software is simpler, faster, and a better experience for me.

Matrix is a bit of an exception where it's slow and buggy and barely hanging on.

But me and my friends don't care about discord stickers or nitro or giphy links or the discord store or any of that kinda stuff that you go to discord to use. And thats fine if you do.

People can want and enjoy different things and also "want to easily talk to their friends or interest groups without having to worry about it."
it does seem very likely that $ per token of inference (at fixed quality) will continue to go down rapidly as hardware and software continues to improve.
Notably, Bill Joy found them significant:

"Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" (2000)

<https://web.archive.org/web/20170801001546/https://www.wired...>
Code generation was a thing for decades but there are still jobs writing CRUD based apps by hand.
Audio Basics, Ep. 1: Signals, Waves, Mixing, and the Physics of Audio [video]
> All I can come up with when I search for safe jobs is athletes, politicians, and live music performers.

Anything where the point is specifically human effort rather than the actual result, plus ones that set their own rules.

So yes, athletes and politicians; for the moment also prostitutes (pending better bioprinting, not because it's in either category); but also some art — not all art, just the art where the point is to show off how rich you are; most live music was automated away a century ago, what remains is likely also the category of art where the expense is the point.
From reading the parent site the use cases seem to be large enterprise and cross site components, say a twitter embed or advertising bar.
I’ve been building a copilot for an underserved language, and paused that in March with a little time since spent making a full language service: something where you can parse and resolve methods and types, and generally query for useful info. Perhaps it’s the root of a LSP server in future.
Agreed. I was expecting to read an article on something "ipad kids", but instead found a very inspiring and heart-warming article
Create Maps Effortlessly – Master React Leaflet with TypeScript
I built a service that lets you bolt an oauth/oidc provider onto your app with a single callback. https://github.com/poundifdef/connectivly

It lets you use whatever you’re already doing for auth, and lets you become an oauth provider, or issue tokens instead of people passing API keys, on top of that.

The more interesting aspect of that you could use it to bolt on an entire app store or ecosystem on top of your existing product or api.

(ping me if you want to look at this more seriously from a business perspective!)
The US has got into a place where for most people political opinions are a package deal that you get shipped to you in a box from a major political party. You don't think through each issue and come to a conclusion, that takes too much time, you just subscribe to the bundle of your choosing and accept everything they offer.

Are you strongly pro-life? Well, that comes bundled with an isolationist foreign policy these days, so let's just check that box for you while we're at it.

Are you in favor of gay rights? Well, that comes bundled with opposition to Israel and support of Palestine.

It's not about what makes coherent sense, it's about groupthink.
What is the unique value proposition of this book? How does it stand apart from the numerous amount of other books on the same topic?

Marketing is hard when there isn't a clear brand. Branding is hard when you don't have a very simple and clear differentiator to promote.
Assuming he's not 70, I guarantee GitHub pages will turn to shit before he dies.

But also fair point. I think we should all have a contingency plan I'm case of death, regardless of where our stuff is hosted. Self-hosted stuff indeed becomes a ticking time bomb after death. Even on 3rd party services, it's apparently a nightmare trying to get access to a deceased person's Google account, where Google Sites may live, etc.
Even better when done without profit as a motive, like community volunteer efforts such as https://www.portlandfruit.org/
That argument would require regular socialization and redistribution of all wealth. The market does not prioritize what the society needs, because individual needs are weighted by wealth and income.

In a Western society, everyone's needs are supposed to be equally important. We often don't even make majority decisions, because we assume that the constitutional rights of a minority are more important than what the majority finds reasonable.
Request-response is on our todo list and will be introduced in an upcoming release :)

What are you needing request-response for?
i'm curious what is the longest conversation you've ever had with an untreated schizophrenic person?

it's so obviously a "real disease" even if we don't fully understand the biological basis. it's subjective but honestly, there are just a ton of completely obvious cases.

abuses of the psychiatric system are very bad, but schizophrenia is so so clearly real.
Was it possible to have Python parse its own ast and rename those variables?
Trying to bring the finishing touches to a Common Lisp SSG I made during a handful of vacation afternoons (https://git.sr.ht/~q3cpma/make-website) and filling the resulting website (https://world-playground-deceit.net/) with more content. More motivated by #2 now that the generator does 99% of what I need.
"What about when protestors use physical force and violence to destroy businesses and property"

Then they're no longer protesters, but rather rioters.
This predates modern VC by centuries. Early trade routes which connected humanity across continents were highly speculative, requiring huge amounts of capital, and were only profitable years later.
What do you think of the Internet? Has it worked? Has it scaled? Is it reliable?

Remember that Alan Kay, his team and his colleagues had a lot to do with this thing you are using to rant here :)
I'm working on a scripting interface for android that's based on js https://github.com/MurageKabui/PhoneDo

Basically a mobile app with an integrated IDE and terminal with custom commands tailored to execute js code that interfaces with native android features
Tweet content:

NotebookLM is quite powerful and worth playing with
https://notebooklm.google

It is a bit of a re-imagination of the UIUX of working with LLMs organized around a collection of sources you upload and then refer to with queries, seeing results alongside and with citations.

But the current most new/impressive feature (that is surprisingly hidden almost as an afterthought) is the ability to generate a 2-person podcast episode based on any content you upload. For example someone took my "bitcoin from scratch" post from a long time ago:
https://karpathy.github.io/2021/06/21/blockchain/
and converted it to podcast, quite impressive:
https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/ba017fec-7068-4085-97...

You can podcastify anything. I give it train_gpt2.c (C code that trains GPT-2):
https://github.com/karpathy/llm.c/blob/master/train_gpt2.c
and made a podcast about that:
https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/2585c187-b059-475a-b4...
I don't know if I'd exactly agree with the framing of the conversation and the emphasis or the descriptions of layernorm and matmul etc but there's hints of greatness here and in any case it's highly entertaining.

Imo LLM capability (IQ, but also memory (context length), multimodal, etc.) is getting way ahead of the UIUX of packaging it into products. Think Code Interpreter, Claude Artifacts, Cursor/Replit, NotebookLM, etc. I expect (and look forward to) a lot more and different paradigms of interaction than just chat.

That's what I think is ultimately so compelling about the 2-person podcast format as a UIUX exploration. It lifts two major "barriers to enjoyment" of LLMs. 1 Chat is hard. You don't know what to say or ask. In the 2-person podcast format, the question asking is also delegated to an AI so you get a lot more chill experience instead of being a synchronous constraint in the generating process. 2 Reading is hard and it's much easier to just lean back and listen.
This feels like it might have had something to do with the likely demise of a bunch of for-profit "educators" (ITT, AI, and the like). That was still a few years away, but the writing was on the wall for investors who wanted to get off the sinking ships but still continue the grift. I suppose the view on the government side was that for-profit education wasn't an inherently corrupt venture, but that the independent nature of the companies involved made the profit motive take precedent, and that tying them to institutions with their reputation on the line would help to maintain instruction quality. So much for that.
I've been doing a new Qt Widgets binding for Go - https://github.com/mappu/miqt
Exactly this. The equation also fails simple dimensional analysis -- it's nonsense.
I've written software that has had a big impact, on a lot of lives. I'm still doing it.

I haven't been paid a dime for it, and I'm quite happy with that.

I don't think PG, or any VCs would be at all interested in my work. They might like the work, itself, but it's not gonna make anyone rich.
Israeli atrocities against Palestinians are something that one can criticize independently of Palestinian atrocities against other Palestinians.

Thinking Palestinians should be freed from Israeli oppression does not necessarily mean one agrees with every part of their culture or everything their government does.
Pretty much no corporation in the last 40 years has suffered the consequences of their actions. Boeing has killed how many people and it's taking an act of Congress to even start talking about some consequences later, maybe.
Just finished a python package for a 'readability' calculator for Japanese: https://github.com/joshdavham/jreadability

Not the most impressive project, but hey, some of my friends found it cool!
Sorry, maybe “third party” isn’t the correct term. Let me try to lay out my point a bit more clearly:

Plaid’s business model is — Company A needs a consumer’s data from Bank B. Plaid takes the consumer’s banking credentials, gets the data, and sells it to Company A.

At no point in this process does Plaid go and sell this data to another unrelated Company C. The lawsuit cited was about Plaid not sufficiently explaining its position between Company A and Bank B to the consumer. It was not about Plaid going and selling the data to the highest bidder.
Divisiveness is the wrong solution to real problems.

I am happy to discuss any cultural value respectfully and seriously. But nothing productive will come out of a discussion mired by incendiary language and identity politics, it is a waste of time.

Just look at how the article dives into divisive controversies from the first sentence. There won’t be meaningful discourse on social media for it. Hate and anxiety is the best it can hope for. It’s just not written in a way to foster collaborative efforts, not in the masses.
It's worse than this. According to TFA the actuator is mechanically attached even during non-precision approaches.
Avalonia version of my terminal Redis client https://github.com/cosmez/RedisMan
Got any progress photos?
I love your TCP over JSON idea. Maybe we can implement layer 2 that way as well, with CSMA/CD: {startTime:2024-09-29T13:56:21.06551, duration:00:00:00.0024, packet: …}
I'm building up a small but resourceful artificial intelligence research group focusing on specializing in the triangle "machine learning - search - natural language processing".

Have got a bit of funding, a building, an 1.3 M€ GPU cluster. Also looking for Ph.D. candidates and contract developers.
(The hard part is spending the money wisely but in 8 weeks - it is a time-limited government budget that "expires" - while teaching writing papers and writing grant applications.)
"two person podcast" format is very similar to the extremely popular "FAQ" format.
>and doesn’t take into account whether they are deployed in high-risk situations

Am I out of the loop here? What "high-risk" situations do they have in mind for LLM's?
Oh crud, I never check the usernames posting when I should. Thanks for the polite response to a somewhat aggressive comment!

I will admit, I stopped reading at "bollocks" thinking the rest would be about your disfavored news sites, so that's 100% on me. Will try to check out your talk over dinner, your thoughts on photography here are certainly compelling.

In general I think the problem here is "you're addicted to the internet to the extent that you're consuming content you don't even like" more than any particularity of 'hero images' (TIL!) or generative art, but that's very possibly a projection of my own struggles. At least I'm addicted to HackerNews and Reddit instead of finance news, I suppose...
> It does cost money, but its a one-time fee.

Just to be clear, you get one year of free updates and additional years will be $25/yr (per computer). Reasonable in my opinion.
Given what Scott Wiener did with restaurant fees, it's hard to trust his judgement on any legislation. He clearly prioritizes monied interests over the general populace.
for sure so let's ignore any suffering or complaints and celebrate every tragedy because it's worth it in the end for someone else?

just hand wave anyones pain away because it works for you? I guess people are used to it
"Threat of being punished" isn't a healthy motivator for a society.

And certainty that you won't be punished is?
No major political party in the US is pro-Palestinian or anti-Israeli. The democrats are moderately pro-Israel and the republicans are extremely pro-Israel. The pro-Palestinian consensus among young people on social media is almost totally unrepresented in mainstream politics.
look, if someone has actually have a new drug that works like antipsychotics but doesn't have the nightmare side effects, i am very happy for that person to get filthy rich.

if this pans out the way they hope, by all means give the lead guy a couple yachts or whatever he wants. space tourism, gold statue of himself, whatever. big bonuses all the way down the org chart.

there's the potential to reduce an absolutely staggering amount of human misery here. frankly (again if this pans out) our homelessness crisis would look very different if this drug had existed 20 years ago, when the mechanism of action was discovered.

the people who cared enough and took a huge concentrated risk to do this should just get rich, if in fact it pans out.
How many traditional Conservatives in the US remain? Maybe 10-20%?
Aside from the fact that you've got your negatives confused:

Grad students' assistantships often require them to teach classes. It's not "a way to build favor with the professor," it's required for them to stay in grad school.

As for whether they're "random" or not: how would you know how they assign classes? I doubt it's by lottery.
Your idea could perhaps work only in space, a bit closer to the sun, operating at peak power generation 24x7. On the ground it takes a lot more area in panels than is used by a datacenter.
> The market does not prioritize what the society needs

What do you think prices do? What do you think income is reflective of?

Companies that make lots of money provide things that lots of people are willing to pay for. This is the reflection of what people need. Exxon makes money because people want to stay warm. Cargill makes money because people want to eat. Apple makes money because people want to be entertained. Eli Lilly makes money because people don't want to die.

What do you know that millions of people all acting in their own self interest don't know?
I have become more and more inclined to deem the advertising industry considerably worse than the military industrial complex, and I hope that some higher force smites the executives involved with great vengeance and furious anger someday.
> Have you heard of someone getting "better" after taking anti-depressants and being able to come off them? No. They have to take them for life. That's not a cure.

There is no medicine in the world that you can take for a limited time to fix problems forever. That's not how medicine works. That's not how the world works.
Good timing, as I just put the finishing touches on this month's devlog:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/september-2024-113011369?utm_m...

Basically, my rhythm-based roguelike on original NES now has a proper economy, with gold gain and shops to spend the gold in. It also now supports PAL and Dendy systems, which is especially wonky due to the different framerate, but helped a bit by this being a rhythm game. As long as the music plays at the correct tempo, the rest of the game adapts its speed and "feels" correct at the lower framerate.

Tons of work left to do, most of it pixel art (I'm learning as I go) but it's progressing quite nicely.
> One useful trick for judging different kinds of work is to look at who your colleagues will be. You'll become like whoever you work with. Do you want to become like these people?

Reminded me of this gem: https://moxie.org/2013/01/07/career-advice.html
Usually these things end up with “well obviously my personal priorities are objectively true…”
There exists art where the human connection and effort is the point, and this is not because you want to show off how rich you are ("owning" this kind of art is not what most of us are after).

However, Transformers movies and equivalent "art as a product" will be made by algorithm or GenAI, if they aren't already.
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Kind of stopped writing code for a while. Been a few months.

Going back to the basics... a ToDo app
If offshore humans can't beat on shore humans what chance does AI have in the near future?
Salaries without skin in the game leads to failure. People just trade for their own benefit within and outside the system.
Imagine the only thing you know about AI came from the opening voiceover of Terminator 2 and you are a state legislator. Now you understand the origin of this bill perfectly.
I just started building a small website for structural engineers with various tools on it (eg. capacity of a steel column). I have spent thousands of hours in the past building fancy excel (incl. vba)and mathcad documents for personal use and this is my first time trying to do it with "real" code. I went with Blazor and c#, so far it looks like a good choice. The long term goal if the projects is a success and becomes popular would be to have a FEM engine for 2D frame structures running in the browser client-side.
torchtune (https://github.com/pytorch/torchtune) - a PyTorch library for fine-tuning LLMs, particularly for memory-constrained setups. Try it out and fine-tune Llama3.1 8B on a single RTX 4090!
CEO is the riskiest, high profile hire. Million dollar golden parachutes are a rounding error distraction. I'm not justifying them, but it's generally just contractual, and the cost of getting rid of a low performer (which is no different to the rank and file, just at a much lower unit cost).
Between a lecture vs an FAQ, I don't think there is any clear winner.
I feel like creating software applications is not what leads to high salaries as a software developer.

Its creating software applications and then signing up to support said software codebase for 100K+ users and agreeing to pager duty and triage management for it for more than a 5-10 years.

Perhaps AI purveyors should focus on automating customer/bizdev support by creating frameworks/workflows for AI pager duty and AI triage management.