skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if the next great competitive advantage will be the ability to write excellently; specifically the ability to articulate the problem domain in a manner that will yield the best results from LLMs. However, in order to offload a difficult problem to a LLM, you need to understand it well enough to articulate it, which means you'll need to think about it deeply. However, if we teach our students to offload the process of _THINKING_DEEPLY_ to LLMs, then we atrophy the _THINKING_DEEPLY_ circuit in their brain, and they're far less likely to use LLMs to solve interesting problems, because they're unable to grok the problem to begin with!
SpaceWire to Gigabit Ethernet Converter
I think there is a bit of a 3rd category as well:

1. What can tools do better now that no human could hope to compete with?

2. Which other tasks are likely to remain human-led in the near term?

3. For the areas where tools excel, what is the optimum amount of background understanding to have?

E.g. you mention memorizing maps. Memorizing all of the countries and their main cities is probably not very optimal for 99.999%+ of people vs referencing a map app. At the same time needing to pull up a map for any mention of a location outside of "home" is not necessarily optimal just because the map will have it. And of course the other things about maps in general (types, features, limitations, ways to use them, ways they change) outside of a particular app implementation that would go along with general geography.
It's the customer-facing software that looks sub-par. There are hundreds of thousands of lines of embedded code in almost each ECU. Those cannot be crap in a prius without having an effect on the car's (the hardware) performance.
o1-preview is the best model I've tried thus far, but I wouldn't say it's even capable of putting a basic CRUD app together, without constant coaxing major adjustments and on my part.
It's also just a natural thing for a game to make bleeps/bloops/whoomps/booms vs storing raw audio type data.
> Keep working with a beefy x86 workstation

Instead of the cheapest, entry level alternative? How is this even remotely comparable?
I came here to write the same thing. Getting an estimate accurate for at least 5 digits on all netflix video watches worldwide can all be done with intelligent sampling (like hyperloglog) and likely one macbook air as the backend. And aside from the compute save the complexity and implementation time would be much lower too.
I worked at Intel for about 7 years. It is unbelievable how many terrible mistakes Intel made to get here. All that damage is self-inflicted and it was very clear to most of us who worked there. Leadership was extremely incompetent starting from Paul Otellini in the 2000s.
Unfortunately until this day Proxmox doesn’t support full disk encryption oob, despite using the word „Enterprise“ in the first paragraph of their website. Yes, you can go your own way and install on an encrypted Debian, but you will miss important features and are on your own. It all comes down to ZFS not treating FDE as a first class citizen.

Very sad state of affairs.
Maybe. But even if that's true, then why did the people "inclined to report on it" only find out about it right after Dobbs?

You could say it was just coincidence, but this isn't the only story making accusations against conservative justices that came out right after the Dobbs decision. I'd say its far more likely the result of opposition research. Which doesn't necessarily mean its not true, just that you should take it with a few extra grains of salt.
That's a lot of "cabbage" to shell out for some kimchi.

Back in north Florida they used to have quite a few cabbage farms between Gainesville and Jacksonville.

Not much else, there was quite a distance between very small communities and not many places to stop or get gasoline.

There were more roadside produce stands than that, where the only produce offered was usually cabbage. Often at a crossroads between a dirt farm road and the two-lane highway with fast moving cars and eighteen-wheelers. And nothing else at the crossroads except for the lonely little cabbage stand.

Naturally the eighteen wheelers were often overloaded with cabbage :)

Some even cab-over ;)

Very few people were inclined to stop, it wasn't Chinese cabbage anyway ;)

One of the farmers was trying to give motorists more incentive to buy some, and had a big sign; Cabbage - Slaw Down.

I thought he was out standing in his field.
user counter:
https://bcounter.nat.vg/
Uber Lite is also not available, but I'll have to try a Uber next time!
When speaking of Math class, are you ignoring everything up to pre-calculus or do you think everything from addition flashcards, times tables, and long division is useless? I'd argue those exercises are invaluable. Seeing two numbers and just knowing the sum is always faster than plugging into a calculator.
I have a USB switch, this will help me to use with my bluetooth devices.

Thank you!
I wonder what people think about that part of the article where the author paints people who want to see the unedited version of the show in a negative light. The author presents “but i am not epileptic” crowd as ableist and insensitive.

I strongly disagree and this kind of take makes me sympathize with the author less than I would otherwise, subconsciously.

I can simultaneously support the idea that we should make adjusted content for people with epilepsy, or in a more general sense - it is a sign of elevated society to strive to accommodate people with disabilities or differences, but at the same time resent the notion that accomplishing the above has to mean that asking for an unaltered experience is “wrong”.

I feel that putting those two demands on the opposite sides of the scale is “wokeism”.
China is all in on renewables because their domestic fossil fuel resources are extremely limited. They import close to 100% of oil and gas and significant coal right now, basically the same situation the US was in before fracking took off. Xi is worried about being cut off from energy by an American blockade.
This is one of the golden applications of LLMs. You can see the variety of structured formats proposed in comments, the different use cases, and honestly it seems like a bad idea to privilege any single format. Instead, you as a data consumer can use LLMs to parse common language recipes into the structured format most appropriate to your needs. DAG or linear? JSON or XML? You decide!
I'm not seeing that. Hydrogen requires a ton of very expensive infrastructure for storage. Its density is impractically low for storage in tanks, it can't be liquified under reasonable conditions, and reversible hydrogen-binding materials so far have all been duds.

If you happen to have an underground geological storage available, then it might be reasonable. Right now, there's a demonstrator project for that ongoing in Germany. I guess this qualifies as "local"?

So yeah, if you need storage for 3-12 hours of runtime, then batteries are fine. Sodium batteries are probably going to fit this niche once they become cheaper. Anything more than that is a big gaping hole in the renewable story with no good solutions.
One thing that is clear with a press release, that it's biased to highlight good sides of the company. With media, without deep investigation and knowing the background of certain news media, you are in the dark about bias. So in a sense press release is more reliable.
According to the NY Post they came in at 6am this morning and seized his phone and other electronics: https://nypost.com/2024/11/13/business/fbi-seizes-polymarket...
GTA + Moving Shadow record label... legendary for showcasing d&b to a wider audience.

https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Moving_Shadow

For those interested I can highly recommend the "Moving Shadow Sampler Series" mix anthology [0]

[0] https://www.discogs.com/label/396717-Movingshadow-Sampler-Se...
The name derives from the fact that they originally arose in connection with trying to determine the arc length of an ellipse. See:

https://people.math.rochester.edu/faculty/doug/mypapers/wayn...
Updated DB Resolver
A few years ago, had worked on a db resolver for gorm v1. This is an extension of it, decoupling gorm and adding request coalescing.
One very common risk is simply giving another company your clients data. Your company may have confidentiality contracts with its corporate clients that prevent this. Alternatively, consider for example the situation where you are trying to integrate AI into a customer service process. Your customers may have some legally protected expectation of how their personal data is processed by your company.
It makes building and deploying a shop and integrating a payment processor a snap, rather than a massive project.

It’s a great choice for a vast number of small companies with other things to do.
I recall the Wipeout 2097 soundtrack[1] blew me away as a kid.

I had heard some techno and eurodance was popular at the time, but the sounds coming out of the speaker at the store where the demo ran was on another level.

Bought the CD and listen to it every now and then, and Orbital's Petrol track is still up there on my top 100 list.

There was something raw, and edge, that seems lost in so much electronic music these days.

[1]: https://www.discogs.com/release/6385-Various-Wipeout-2097-Th...
Yep. Though it’s really hard. To capture the US market (E*Trade, Fidelity, TD Ameritrade, Scottrade, Schwab, Interactive Brokers, Robinhood) it took me and another engineer almost 2 years. It’s non-trivial.
Legalized online gambling in Brazil is leaving more people in debt
Very uncomfortable to watch indeed.

I wonder how the animators themselves could stand it.
Donkey Kong is peak jungle music (besides other music types (which is basically all of them)). Sometimes I imagine that when the first jungle evolved, it did so because it anticipated that Donkey Kong will eventually be created. As something inevitable. And so is the ocean, the tundra, pretty much everything. Sounds unlikely? Listen to the Soundtrack und think again. Something so beautiful, so magnificent, it's like the opus magnum of some higher being. Something for us to ponder about, to marvel at. Just like life itself.
I’ve been thinking about this. X appears to be a far right extremist website exactly because extremist far left left en masse, leaving the square to far right people and people that don’t define themselves by what website they have an account on.

So yeah, counter-intuitive, but X appears right-y because leftists left.
I don't understand why in the current era we don't have videos just post-processed by the media player / TV. That seems like it would increase accessibility while not irritating folks who do not have epilepsy.

I tried to search to see if something like a plugin existed for VLC, and I didn't find anything. Seems like it should be solvable at least if the media can be parsed ahead of time or with some delay for a live feed.
Cool AI Search Webnavira.vercel.app
Both can be true! This is essentially making it easier to do [x] argument, which itself is essentially security through obscurity.

It was always possible to do watermark everything: any nearly-imperceptible bit can be used to encode data that can be used overtly.

Now enabling everyone everywhere to do it and integrate it may have second-order effects that were opposite of one's intention.

It is very convenient thing, for no one to trust what they can see. Unless it was Validated (D) by the Gubmint (R), it is inscrutable and unfalsifiable.
Watch it it is so cool you will tell me give it a try https://webnavira.vercel.app/
I'm not sure I understand the geography point - maps and indexes have been around for hundreds of years - what did the app add to make it not worthwhile learning geography?
HyperLogLog and PostgreSQL: https://github.com/citusdata/postgresql-hll

Or even simpler, Roaring Bitmaps: https://pncnmnp.github.io/blogs/roaring-bitmaps.html

https://blog.quastor.org/p/grab-rate-limiting

https://github.com/RoaringBitmap/CRoaring
Vogtle 3 and 4 were such colossal economic failures that they likely killed all investment in nuclear for the next decade.
It's probably more the animators than the writers at fault. (Though not on purpose, of course).
How did the people who wrote the LLM and associated software do it when they had no such thing to "just look it up"?
give it a try https://webnavira.vercel.app/
Thanks! I try hard to produce quality technical pedagogy, so you just made my day.
I think the key factor here is that the website allowed Americans to bet on the political market. Which I still don't quite understand, the FBI waiting until after the election for this. Why didn't they go after them sooner?

Feels wrong.
Honestly, I used to be a slacker. ChatGPT revived my productive in learning by 10x..

I used to be overwhelmed by information and it would demotivate me. Having someone who can answer or push you to a direction thats reasonable is amazing!
I'm back in Objective-C now for a large mixed codebase for a client and enjoying it. It was my first compiled language starting in 2002 so I've got about equal time with only it as I do with Swift alongside. And I'm spending more time these days in other projects (microcontrollers, mostly) using C so it's a breath of fresh air. I'm finding it generally faster than Swift in Xcode, which is a bonus.
Ty, all good points
I recently saw a new burger joint pop up on Uber Eats with an address not far from my home. It turned out to be the address of the last remaining Ruby Tuesday restaurant in my area, but the burger place did not advertise any connection to Ruby Tuesday. Seemed very sketchy to me.
Obviously there are no details yet, but I suspect it's as simple as:

- Polymarket is still very illegal in the US

- Lol. We all know it's easy to get around that

- If the CEO knew or was complicit in US citizens breaking laws, he could be in trouble. And if there was evidence he was encouraging it, he could be in big trouble
If you write in a manner that gets you dismissed as a chatbot, then you've still failed to communicate, even if you physically typed the characters in the keyboard. The essence of communication isn't how nice the handwriting is, its how usefully you've conveyed the information.
triple false-flags to sow/reap FUD
There's still plenty of fresh underground music and the 'kids' are doing just fine. Yeah there's loads of mainstream garbage out there, but there always was. The main difference is that this stuff was being invented, whereas most electronic music now is derived from those early 90s invented genres, but even saying that there's still plenty of creativity.

There's a night in London called Cartulis (which is usually at Fold), when I go there it feels very much like the early rave scene to me (this is just one example, of course). I think there's a tendency when we get older to not be as exposed to the bubbling undercurrent of music, so it's easy to just say "it's not as good as it used to be", but that would be a mistake imho. It's there if you look for it.
I highly recommend the Steve Naroff interview. It's 6 hours in two parts, but it's worth the investment.

Not listed here, but also available, is the oral history of Brad Cox and the later Objective-C paper authored by Naroff, Cox, Hsu (the author of the linked blog post) for HOPL IV. Someone else will have to dig up the links.

You can also find interviews by other NeXTSteppers on the CHM site like Avi Tevanian and others. I think the Naroff one is best.
The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster is another very good one:

https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/...

And re-skimming it just now I noticed the following eerie line:

> There was the button that produced literature.

Wild that this was written in 1903.
You need ability, means (as in -- have the money to spend time on it), and motive. Many people have the ability. Many people have the means. (And there is some overlap, but the overlap isn't that large.) Few people have the motive.

The combination of all three tends to mostly appear in nation states. They have the motive, and they have the money to fund people with the ability to pull off this kind of attack.
An interesting aspect of waitid is that it allows you to access the full exit code of the process (i.e., the entire int instead of just the bottom 8 bits).

Unfortunately, many operating systems implement waitid() on top of one of the older APIs, meaning the top bits get lost regardless…
I have a bad feeling about Wonder. One opened near my office and had a load of free meal promotions and it was packed. A few weeks later it went very quiet. I had a few meals and they were decidedly meh. The promise of ordering options across a dozen different cuisines is appealing but not when all of them are underwhelming.
On the other side of the coin: have a kid with epilepsy. After learning about possible effects of K448/Mozart's sonata in D Major, we keep a copy of it on all our phones, and it does seem to relax him when he is having a seizure.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95922-7

Always thought it was funny that the only other song they had found (up until 2021) with a similar audio signature was from "Yanni Live at the Acropolis"

Also, I found and watched the porygon episode in the last year, and it's certainly pretty intense.
Why do the words "Steve Jobs" and "programming" in the same sentence very slightly rub me the wrong way. Probably because one thing he wasn't, amongst all the superhuman things attributed to him by Apple zealots, is a programmer.
Did anyone download the payload before it 404'd?
Possible extra explanation:

- You've forgotten the denominator

Features A and B may be equally important, but B may be applicable only in specific circumstances. If you'd compare A and B on the metric of "how often it's used", you may see B being used much, much less than A, but that's not reflective of the feature, but of the job being done.
I think the author does a fine job of pointing out you don't know whether this scene can harm you (you can be hit by it while not having had a seizure before in your life), so you cannot make an a priori judgment on whether you can safely watch the scene unedited.

So playing the edited scene seems like the safest choice for everyone...
better to let them die in vain and lose irreplicable, un-re-execable data?
That’s not true though, whole tones and tritones won’t cover the whole chromatic scale
> EVCache

EVCache is a disaster. The code base has no concept of a threading model. The code is almost completely untested* too. I was on call at least 2 time when EVcache blew up on us. I tried root causing it and the code is a rats nest. Avoid!

* https://github.com/Netflix/EVCache
How to investigate memory usage of your rust program (2022)
You submitted the same thing 4 times in 4 days?

The topic investors/founders might be find interest here, but we probably want some more content /discussion worthy stuff.
I do not care how you got BDSM in google's front page, while myself, typing "gimp", has: gimp.org, apps.microsoft.com, wikipedia.org etc

I had to go to page 9 (!!) to get something unrelated with the software: "noun verb (used without object) to limp; walk in a halting manner: a sprain that made her gimp for weeks."

Terrible indeed.
In the same style : https://sunders.uber.space/
Too Bad OSM is really lacking for this kind of data...
I just did rough math by looking at this counter [0] over the course of 10 minutes. ~10 per second was about 2 hours ago, it was around 4 per second around 10AM Eastern time, yesterday.

Yes on the Musk factor, it would appear. There have been a bunch Bsky mentions in multiple news sources in the US and UK in the last couple days. That appears to driving account creation.

[0] https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats
Its a ghost kitchen. It isn't 30 restaurants, its one restaurant with 30 brands.

This idea was tried years ago (they'd claim to be the first) by a company based out of Indianapolis named Clustertruck (https://www.clustertruck.com/); though their branding was more "one restaurant, 30 food truck brands". The aim was: you can order a bunch of stuff, the software in the kitchens times it to all come out at the same time, and ETAs the driver to pick it up for delivery.

The company is still around but isn't all that successful. They split the software portion into a second company, closed down a bunch of kitchens, raised prices, etc. I think the reality that hit them was: It really doesn't matter all that much that you can order tacos and pasta all in one order, except for large parties but that's an uncommon situation. The genre of food matters less than the specific food being ordered (e.g. I don't just want a burger, i want a five guys burger). Additionally, the food might have usually been delivered at a higher quality than a typical Uber Eats/etc delivery, but that's still a distance away from restaurant quality; but the prices were obviously higher than eating at a restaurant.

Uber Eats/etc are barely successful, and the only reason they can find that success is because they don't have to manage all the typically lossy parts of food delivery (restaurants & the drivers). Gig apps are good businesses because they avoid this vertical integration: No depreciating assets, little real estate, low competition, no worry about managing minimum wage workers, no health inspections, no stoves breaking down, just some software engineers and marketing (I'm simplifying but you get my gist). Why anyone would think vertically integrating something involving a restaurant is a good idea is, well, crazy. Even ghost kitchens on the typical range of delivery apps are stupid; oh sure your startup is one of the most classically unprofitable kinds of businesses on the planet, I bet that'll survive when interest rates rise.
Thanks. That's at least somewhat validating.

What I'm taking away from the discourse here are these things:

1. Yep. I'll fuck it up.

2. But that is usually fine, because people tend to be kind and helpful in a gym.

4. I can also hire someone to help, and perhaps I should.

5. Although none of this come without cost, the rewards of doing these things tend to be greater than the cost.

And that brings me a hell of a lot closer to being able to make informed decisions and set reasonable expectations (for all things gym) than I have been previously.

Thanks again.
> wonder if lidar + CV would work better here rather than a pure CV approach

Not according to Tesla
Adding negated and number intrinsic types to TypeScript
New York City Council Votes to End Broker Fees Squeezing Renters
Breath of the Wild is much more “do anything.” Exception to prove the rule?
I can't accept Drum and Bass, we need Jungle I'm afraid.

Genuinely glad I got to experience so much of it growing up with a PS1 and the genre's stuck with me. If you want to focus on listening or have some soothing background noise, it's perfect, versatile.

While not all jungle, shouout to PS1 racing games for their killer soundtracks. The glorified mixtape of Gran Turismo 2 (all versions!), Colin Mcrae Rally's acid beats, everything in Ridge Racer. Really feels like vidya soundtracks peaked there.
If for no other reason, this is good news in that it encourages a larger number of platforms with a diversity of information and opinions. Being centralized on any one platform serves no one except for the platform's ownership.
This is so far fetched that makes me believe this editorial could be sponsored by Kremlin.
I want to know why too. If they’re fleeing musk then why now?
I can't fathom a job applicant so careless they would not even attempt to read the prompt in full before regurgitating ChatGPT's response. Then again, I'm not one who deals with resumes. Nor one who would do something like that in the first place. Probably things like this causing people to apply for 500+ jobs and companies having to filter through thousands of applicants, neither one truly reading it in full...
Oh, this is great. I was doing it the hard way. This has an accounts per second counter built-in!