skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I commented a while back on another post about a company I worked at which actually made developers spend a few days a year taking tech support calls. This takes their responsibility for and awareness of the aftermath of their work to a whole new level and from my perspective was very effective. Could be an alternate route to address the same problem.
The height of ski chic in Scotland used to, at least when I skied regularly, consist of offshore foul weather gear emblazoned with the name of the oil company (or oil service company) the wearer had borrowed it from.
If you're trying to model those "puzzlers" on actual dev work, then doing any of those things without a library/framework is a wrong answer.

Or is that your point? That coding like a pro means gluing those things together?
> SSL certificate lifetimes are going down. Dates proposed. 45 days by 2027

45 days ? So much ? Why not expire the next day ?
That was true like 5+ years ago. By now market prices of housing have gone up to match the tourism profit lure I guess. It seems common nowadays for the owner to own multiple apartments, like 8+, where as in the beginning it was one or two.

I prefer ordinary hotels nowadays. Especially when travelling with children.
I would love to set up a real managed digital network for hams, with stuff like roaming and the like.

But I'd be more interested in technologies that are one to many rather than the one to one calls on mobile phones. Open public channels keeps the ham community connected.

Something like DMR Tier 3 or Tetra would be great.
Humans have millions of years of evolution in vision processing, and yet we still regularly have 100+ deaths a day in the US, plus many more injuries and fender benders.

I don't doubt that it's possible with machine vision alone, but it makes the challenge substantially harder.
We used to have a BBQ skewer that we used for various purposes, including adding holes to belts. We'd heat it up on the gas hob and then burn a hole through the conker. I actually still have the same one I've inherited in my kitchen drawer. If you have an awl, you could use that instead, but I'd recommend heating it to get a cleaner hole.

You need to use a long enough string. Old cotton shoe laces are actually perfect as the aglets make threading that much easier.

The force of one conker against another is enough to sometimes make it spin round, but not enough to do any real damage. You just need a long enough string that your fingers are not in the firing range. Obviously there is a vanishingly small risk of a piece of conker ending up in the eye but I never witnessed that or any other injury happening. The biggest problem was usually upset kids when their prized conker got destroyed.
But then how would you smash theirs? That sounds a bit like cheating by staying at home and not playing.
I’m sure your definition of success on the personal front doesn’t bother him that much.
Not a myth. I went to school during the twilight of the conker. It absolutely died because risk-averse teachers banned it, to howls of protest from us kids.
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté might be even more insightful then for you. Healthy and happy people don't take drugs or engage in excessive dopamine-based activities. This is not a trivial insight as it explains why only some people actually get hooked on drugs like Heroin as opposed to everybody which is what most people assume.
We are using this at work. Generally I'm pretty happy with the configuration driven approach. You have config objects for all your collections where you define the types of the fields and everything else happens automatically.

With this comes a few gotchas. It's easy for an unassuming developer to change the name of a field (e.g., upper to lower case) and suddenly all data is gone in production since this affects the database. What you should do instead is write a migration.

I'm also not a fan of Lexical. It's very focused on being a good rich text editor but not on being a good document format for your clients. For example the way they render lists is, in my opinion, simply wrong (see https://github.com/facebook/lexical/issues/2951). Or this https://github.com/facebook/lexical/issues/6269. You also have the added complication of using the Payload flavor of Lexical, which can add its own complexities.

I haven't had time to look into its GraphQL API yet.

Documentation wise I'd compare it to working with NixOS. For some simple tasks the documentation is useful but for anything more complicated you want to look at the Payload source code. Especially when you start customizing the UI. Which generally works pretty well.

I wish they had thought about versioning the Rich Text somehow, so a client knows which version of your documents they get.

Overall I like it.
But why swap it out then? Just install the new hardware alongside.
For extra security I always use already expired certs.
And they have way better dynamic range.
While Sonnet-3.5 excels in accuracy-token, o1 excels in self-reflection in small isolated tasks. With AlphaCodium, o1 tasks are broken to small isolated tasks, while the flow introduced in AlphaCodium actually guides the steps and overall decision making framework.

We will see more of these frameworks for different use cases
That's something else I noticed as an open source developer: Many people who just used the code didn't realise how much work it was.

They used the code and thought it was good, but did not connect that to anyone's work. They knew that there was a team working, and they also knew that they could apt-get some software, but didn't really see any connection between the two. Which led to questions rather like «Is the "common good" a nickname for Automattic's bottom line?»
“It’s not the Devil, it’s a daemon.” That’s a not a conversation I would want to have.

The etymology of “daemon” in the computer sense is Maxwell’s Daemon, a thought experiment involving a mischievous demon.

Even to an above average intelligence person, that’s a lot of explaining.

Most pre-modern peoples believed in demons, and most people believe images have power.

This seems like a violation of the best practices of logo design.
So it's a POSSE[0] system, like everything should be.

You keep your content on systems and platforms you control. Then republish to walled gardens and silos, either via a link to your own platform (which is downranked by algorithms...) or repost the content.

[0] https://indieweb.org/POSSE
Ahh 10-d chess.
Robert Cailliau – Collaborated with Tim Berners-Lee on the World Wide Web
> Might be able to find services that publish posts from emails.

Posterous[0] used to do that and it was good. Then they sold their souls to Twitter and, obviously, all the good went away after a year.

(one of the founders then launched Posthaven[1] but a) fool me once, etc., and b) he's an intensely problematic lunatic.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous

[1] https://posthaven.com
The problem I see here is: what competition? There doesn't exactly seem to be any in the rocketry space. There's Boeing, but that place is a disaster right now. I guess ULA is still around, but they're not doing anything groundbreaking at all AFAICT, just using old rocket designs to launch some satellites. Where else can these people go?

Twitter people can go lots of places, both competing social networks, and also various other internet-related or software places. Tesla people can go to lots of different competing automakers. But I don't see anyplace nice for SpaceX people to go.
Does anyone know of a TTS mod that could convey feeling? E.g. ebook reading for novels? Or can one request feeling in any of the models of this discussion?
Generate a new certificate for your connection for every round trip.
I agree that the guest shouldn't have said it was 'abuse' to put the logo up. There is no actual harm that can come from that picture.
Perhaps. Airships will likely want to travel along jet streams since the wind speeds can outpace the airspeed of the airship. The neat thing here is that weather that will be problematic can be predicted days in advance, not just hours. Even 2 hours gets you pretty far in an airship in wind-calm, especially compared to (say) container ships. When you aren't in wind-calm, you can probably take advantage of winds by choosing your altitude wisely.
It's not a "specific strain", it's an overwhelming consensus that "both weren't necessary". There are, of course, people who take hard lines that "both were necessary", but they are in the minority.

At this point the argument has shifted to "was the bombing of Nagasaki necessary to end the war" with the common thought agreeing more or less that some initial large show of force was necessary.
It's much more likely to have died out because of smartphones. The boredom of the pre-smartphone era led to all kinds of ingenuity. Kids were bored so they found ways to not be bored. Nowadays everybody is addicted their phone, simple pleasures such as violently smashing two nuts together no longer have the same pull.
Agreed about learning a new language starting with PE.

After that, I like to invent a big gnarly scenario that I don't have to completely solve, but one that takes me well out of the range of typical cookie-cutter tutorials. I want to find all the sharp edges on a new language/library/framework.
paypal was not his success. he didn't start it, he just got pulled into a merger, and he had to be forced out of the company before it could succeed.
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LLMs were never designed for this. In Apple's language: "you're holding it wrong".

It's an impressive technology but its limits are highly overlooked in the current hype cycle.

AI researchers have known this from the start and won't be surprised by this because it was never intended to be able to do this.

The problem is the customers who are impressed by the human-sounding bot (sounding human is exactly what an LLM is for) and mentally ascribe human skills and thought processes to it. And start using it for things it's not, like an oracle of knowledge, a reasoning engine or a mathematics expert.

If you want to have knowledge, go to a search engine (a good one like kagi) which can be ai assisted like perplexity. If you want maths, go to Wolfram Alpha. For real reasoning we need a few more steps on the road to general AI.

This is the problem with hypes. People think a tech is the be all end all for everything and no longer regard its limitations. The metaverse hype saw the same problem even though there's some niche usecases where it really shines.

But now it's labelled as a flop because the overblown expectation of all the overhyped investors couldn't be met.

What an LLM is great at is the human interaction part. But it needs to be backed by other types of AI that can actually handle the request and for many usecases this tech still needs to be invented. What we have here is a toy dashboard that looks like one of a real car, except it's not connected to one. The rest will come but it'll take a lot more time. Meanwhile making LLMs smarter will not really solve the problem that they're inherently not the tool for the job they're being used for.
Yes - but humans possess other senses, and crucially, our eyes have a much greater dynamic range than even the best cameras (and they are not fitting the absolute best cameras, because that would be even more expensive than LiDAR).

It also does away with one of the crucial aspects of "better than human safety" - driving in conditions where a camera is uselss - think moderate to dense fog, heavy rain etc. etc.
I've seen this argument brought up a lot, but I've never seen someone attempt to answer the counterfactual. If LIDAR was added to Tesla's now, how much would FSD improve? I've seen people here who have used it say that with the current software FSD is already pretty good, but my guess is that even with LIDAR they'd still be far from L4. So what kind of difference would we expect to see if, say, tomorrow Tesla announced that they're going to start using LIDAR?
I highly doubt that. At least not in a native way. However, you could make an adapter from the native interface to wasm components. Would be interesting to look into!
The human eyes are also mounted on a neck that can turn it around in all directions. Kinda useful for parking
I wouldn't put the blame on them though. There's a lot of obfuscation and posing as science.

But at the moment it's intractable to do it at scale at a meticulous, evidence-based way. It's a bit of a Santa Claus moment to realize this. People want to believe someone has a proper grip on things. Medicine has done wonders in narrow, specific things like various surgeries - I'm mostly talking about everyday GP stuff where some average 65 year old has generic issues like blood pressure. It doesn't mean that nothing can be done, and I'll in fact say that a smart person with some biology/chemistry background and internet access can often figure out what they actually need,better than a median doctor with limited time and little deep thought effort to spend on the case.

Cultural change is very hard, especially since doctors enjoy a very high status which they earned through long years of very hard work. So the attitude similar to the opposition to Semmelweis persists.
More Brits will have played football than soccer too, I believe.
Of course it is. Meta likely paid Apple to rank it that way.
How much did it cost?

If _much_ lower than 200 USD per visit in a very wealthy country, then I assume:

(a) dentists don't make very much money. Less than 100K USD?

(b) most of the work is done by poorly paid dental assistants (20 USD per hour or less).

Running a high quality dental clinic is expensive, both for equipment and staff. How can it be so cheap in Norway?
Apparently this is coming from Apple, which makes sense considering their stance on security.

I still think more enforcement and standards around IoT SSL are the way to go, with shorter timelines not necessarily more beneficial.

Let's face it, whoever is renewing every 90d is going to be renewing every 45d just fine.
It's the devices and companies that use yearly expiries (and still PAY FOR CERTS!) or don't use SSL at all that are the problem.
> showing a low-speed, closed-course theme park ride in order to build confidence around Tesla’s progress toward actual real-world driverless capability is almost too childish to call a fraud

This guy has lost confidence in Musk's promises.

I never really understood how Musk can claim to be so close to full autonomy when these cars clearly struggle with basic things using the exact same system that supposedly drives by itself. Automatic high/low beam or detecting rain does not work very well. You wold think that a system that cannot detect oncoming traffic (high/low beam), or actual rain has some other problems when it comes to self-driving.
Factorizing numbers is not an important goal for anyone in the industry despite the popular media peddling this story for decades.

Quantum computing companies are selling research equipment and software for research organizations. It's a valid market.
We need more safetyism culture. We need to ban root access completely by 2030. 10-factor security for login. 256 digit OTP and you must insert a drop of blood to login.

At least, we’ll be super secure!
Yup - if there was a camera today that could consistently (and without any fiddling) reproduce things the way my eyes see them (especially in high dynamic range or low light situations), I would buy it immediately!
Everyone is a self-made man. You’re responsible for your own shortcomings and successes. Life is a single player game, since you only have access to your own thoughts and actions.
For any comment making fun of elon’s face, I’ll find you twenty criticizing more substantive traits.
I was about to post the same thing! I've thought about this literally for decades.

I also had to wait for years to learn what conkers are - and I'm still confused. I'd love to know the context/history/culture that DNA was referring to because it doesn't make any sense to me as written

So conkers are chestnuts on a string used for childhood smashing competitions. Ooookay.

But why would Yooden Vranx have "lots of" chestnuts on his spaceship? And why "of course"? Was that something that should be expected from an adult, or maybe specifically a captain of a ship? And why would a child think chestnuts were as special as the weird galactic stuff?

To this day, I think he was referring to something else which got lost or changed in the editing process. Maybe there was a side bar about "cosmic conkers" that got omitted, but the later reference was kept. Something.
With this logic you should also insist on legs instead of wheels.
The games cheat industry was huge[1] back before the internet was a major thing. Entire books about cheat codes, walkthrough to get the best gear and to beat the game in the easiest way possible, then websites full of cheats, etc.

People, on average, like to do the easiest thing possible and on top of that, they frequently like to brag about what they've achieved and how good they are. Social animals and all that.

[1] By the standards of the time.
The guy behind the article is bashing on Musk on constant basis. What a biased, one sided, bullshit article. You can also check his also rantings. I guess.. he wanted to work for Musk, but was never able to? Why the hate?

He even deleted my comments when trying to argue on some of his statements. Lol.
It looks like a top choice for me. But a big part of why I'm probably still going to use WordPress is because of the Gravity Forms plugin.

A place where it's easy to drag and drop forms, do conditional stuff, edit thank you messages, connect inputs to other stuff like spreadsheets, zapier etc.

If any CMS / plugin could fix that for Payload. Please let me know!
Speaking of talks, here is an older presentation I gave about "oh no, quantum computers will break cryptography, danger danger!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6ANtrjbqN4
Though they can't move away too much from the teardrop design, it's one of the most aerodynamic shapes (and why so many production cars look like a decorated teardrop). Still agree they could have been bolder with other parts of the silhouette, it's unimaginative "futurism" coupled with some strange need to be branded Apple-esque.
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> Androids, eg humanform robots, will require the capacity to navigate on camera alone.

But those cameras don't have to be simple visual spectrum cameras, do they? They could have, for example, in each eye, LIDAR, infrared, several focal lengths of visual, etc. Not to mention being able to augment those sensors at places humans just don't get sensor data (e.g: back of head; outward facing from shoulders, hips, etc.; constant presence monitoring via ultrasound / IR / 2.4GHz, etc.)
>CEO of Rocket Company named Gwynne Shotwell

That's an entry on

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym

if I've ever seen one
Hmm.. this is the line where it become elitism? Google enables people to be productive and thousands of businesses to function. What's the difference between using Google and a PC in the 90s? That you own the hardware? The hardware is useless to most people without the software. OK, so it's the data. Well, Microsoft were (and are) champions of vendor lock in. Even when they claimed to use open standards they messed it up (see the Office XML formats). If anything, Microsoft conditioned people to believing that personal computing was just running the software in your own house. It doesn't mean you are meaningfully in control of it, though. For me, it's only a short jump from there to what we see today where people just do the computing on someone else's computer too.
I had the same with the strawberries test. For the ones that supposedly gave the right answer, I tried again with "strawerberry" and they promptly failed miserably.

Now, given the token encoding I think naive letter counting is not something we should expect from LLMs, but still serves as a nice reminder to actually ensure the test/validation data is not part of the training data.
Another way of saying this is that we do this with a system comprised of human eyes and a human brain. We’re very good at making machine eyes, but the brain part is proving extremely difficult for us to reproduce with machines.
It looks like the EX90 lidar only points forwards, which is insufficient for full self-driving.
I honestly don't really like the "let's slow down" approach. It's hard for me to buy into the idea that simply slowing down will increase product quality. But I think your comment already contains the key to better quality: close the feedback loop so that engineers are responsible for their own bugs. If I have the option of throwing crap over the wall, I will gravitate towards it. If I have to face all of the consequences of my code, I might behave otherwise.
How are you going to find (not even talking about correcting) hallucinated errors?

If money is involved and the LLM produces hallucination errors, how do you handle monetary impacts of such errors?

How does that approach scale financially?
Extremely inequality that keeps increasing, political movements that try to change this are killed in the crib, a dying empire.

Just because the Central Comittee is called Blackrock, doesn't mean the American economy is not being more and more centrally planned. Free Enterprise is dying.

I mean economically, the political system is still "free" (less and less), it's not a dictatorship (yet).
The history of technology is pretty much directly opposed to your wishes.

The prosperity of technology basically solves the problem with the most terrible hardware possible.

For example, if you have a really good microprocessor that works, what you should do is shrink it until it barely works or speed it up until it barely works to get a similar version for cheaper or faster version for the same price.

Same goes with cars. If you have a car that works with ultrasonic and lidar and cameras, eliminate the expensive sensors and reduce the cost.

Reducing the cost will let more people afford the cars, and sell more cars.

To Musk that is basically his plan all along - to replace ICE cars with EVs. Just wish we could keep turn signal/wiper/headlight stalks.
What's wrong with collaboratively working together? Why is there a need to create an atificial competition between a "offence" and a "defence" team?

And why should team members be collaborative amongst their team? E.g. why should the "offence" team members suddenly help each other if it's not happening generally?

This sounds a lot like JDD - Jock Driven Development.

Perhaps the underlying problems of "don't touch it because we don't understand it" should be solved before engaging in fake competition to increase the stress levels.
I'm just amazed to see that this was not The Onion
I do applaud this kind of work. Better, faster tooling for data as files and moving across runtimes is sorely needed.

Two things I would hope to see before I'd start using Vorter is geospatial data support (there's already Geoparquet [1]) and WASM for in-browser Arrow processing. Things like Lonboard [2] and Observable framework [3] rely on Parquet, Arrow and Duckdb files for their powerful data analytics and visualisation.

[1] https://geoparquet.org

[2] https://developmentseed.org/lonboard/latest/

[3] https://observablehq.com/framework/