skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You ever notice how all cars look like all the other cars? There's rarely an exception, they mostly just copy each other. They seem to stick to a design, then someone makes an enormously brave move of slightly changing some small thing, and next year they all copy it.
I don't see I or any other developer would abandon their homebrew agent implementation for a "standard" which isn't actually a standard yet.

I also don't see any of that implementation as "boilerplate". Yes there's a lot of similar code being written right now but that's healthy co-evolution. If you have a look at the codebases for Langchain and other LLM toolkits you will realize that it's a smarter bet to just roll your own for now.

You've definitely identified the main hurdle facing LLM integration right now and it most definitely isn't a lack of standards. The issue is that the quality of raw LLM responses falls apart in pretty embarrassing ways. It's understood by now that better prompts cannot solve these problems. You need other error-checking systems as part of your pipeline.

The AI companies are interested in solving these problems but they're unable to. Probably because their business model works best if their system is just marginally better than their competitor.
> ? Do they have hailing? I thought you would have to use an app.

I´d call this an example of language evolution comparable to 'calling someone' which used to involve either raising your voice so the person could hear you or walking towards wherever that person is but now involved pulling out a communication device which bridges the gap between caller and callee. The same goes for 'hailing a cab' which used to involve standing on the side of the road, hand raised and possible shouting 'taxi' upon which a horse-drawn or self-propelled vehicle with driver pulls up to drive you somewhere in return for payment but now involves pulling out a communications device which bridges the gap between customer and 'driver'.
> Either way, the VC's value is to be able to predict whether Dropbox or Zumodrive deserves their bet, and they clearly couldn't.

This is an extremely wrong-headed view of what VCs do, and one thing investors do _in general_ is to have a strong idea of what they know and don't know, and in particular, what _nobody_ knows is which companies or products in particular will succeed or fail. If they knew that, they'd put all their eggs in one basket.

What VCs do is allocate capital in a way that mitigates risk for themselves.

There's actually a _really_ interesting way to think about what VCs do, which is that they _offload_ their own risk onto founders and early hires of startups. VCs invest their money across a broad basket of investments, founders invest all their time and money into _one_. VCs and early hires are taking a massive amount of personal risk. Almost all of the profits of VCs come from what is essentially a risk arbitrage -- they get more profits than they should be from the smaller risk they're taking by investing in a startup, and founders and early hires get less profits than they should be from the personal risk they're taking by starting a company.

The structure of investment deals is often setup in such a way that even events that "feel" like they should be a payday for the founders, such as a funding round or even a sale, could end up with them getting nothing because their shares get diluted, because they have lower priority ownership stakes than the VCs do.
The proxy layer was the cause of yesterday's outage according to support.
Most modern night owls just have very bright whole-house lighting and a world-class 24/7 carnival in their pockets.
So like most JIT languages nowadays?
I am going to go out on a limb and say there is no real value prop to fly.io. I could completely be wrong but it always feels like the modern MongoDB. Everyone wants to use it but I am not sure they are extracting value from it and instead its a shiny toy that is fun to build from.
From http://www.nerdware.org/doc/abriefhistory.html

> 1995 - Brendan Eich reads up on every mistake ever made in designing a programming language, invents a few more, and creates LiveScript. Later, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of Java the language is renamed JavaScript. Later still, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of skin diseases the language is renamed ECMAScript.
We should pivot the culture to one that is pro-liberal arts again. These people know how to read and write better than STEMs in general.

CS as the only path to programming was always too narrow, and often people with a broader education are better at creative solutions. With AI-assisted programming I'd argue they have an even clearer advantage now.
> More often than not most of what startups do is not unique

The message is also that if your start-up is based on deep tech moats choose another seed. (Think of YC's home runs. None had an industry secret/IP secret sauce.)
There is a new comment by antirez in the past few minutes: https://github.com/redis-rs/redis-rs/issues/1419#issuecommen...
It has the tone you describe, but I think letting that lead you to avoid both sides as problematic is premature. Melodramatic rant doesn't mean wrong, and if the author is even just half right, there are things we as a community should rectify. Avoiding both sides is an issue if one side has far less power. To make a daring analogy, under the #MeToo banner there were certainly accusations that were false or played up, but many came from sincere people who were backed into a corner. When you hear such an accusation without sufficient evidence yet, the nature of the issue is such that you should be considerate of the underdog. Like it or not, taking a side can sometimes be the only reasonable position.
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Should not the author be able to decide if his work may be used for generative AI?

> Imagine forcing an artist to unlearn

Mathematical models cannot learn. What happens in fact is the owner of generative AI takes a bunch of copyrighted works which took a lot of effort and money to produce (instruments, mics and other equipment is super expensive), puts it into computer and sells whatever the computer has calculated from those recording. Do you see any learning or any creativity here?

There were cases when suno (or udio) was reproducing producer tags almost verbatim (but in lower quality) for example. This shows that the model was not simply calculating some probabilities of patterns of pitches, durations etc, but was storing the copyrighted content almost unmodified.

Also, personally I have no interest in a service that generates a song for you because it takes away all the fun. Maybe something that helps to find mistakes in composed music and help learning would be much more useful.
> it respects your intelligence and sheer common sense

I wouldn't make the pedestal too high. There's plenty of very disturbing, low-brow stuff published in Japan.
According to NHTSA, about half of all fatal crashes occur at night, even though only 25% of driving happens at nighttime. So yes, we are pretty bad at this.
I think those are cases of successfully becoming *the* company for the thing in the minds of decision makers before the hyperscalers decide to try and turn your product into a bundleable feature.

Which is not to disagree with you, only to "yes, and" to emphasise that it's a fairly narrow path and 'amazing at execution' is necessary but not sufficient.
We need to define conflict of interest. Question: is an investor who gives money to one organization, but is not involved in the decision-making, conflicted if they give money to another organization? Are they self-conflicted (undermining their own likelihood of success)? Are they contractually or legally conflicted? Have they breached the trust of people they invested in? Are they ethically conflicted?

Answers to these questions are non-obvious. Attempts to simplify the set of relevant questions means imposing a worldview.

On the ethical question, a consequentialist would say it depends on the outcomes. Like many consequentialist analyses, this is complicated. Consider this: Investing in a similar company might validate the market and make it more likely for the company and/or its people to reach viability.
Are you referring to amount of channels supported by controllers ?
I'm not a journalist, so I might be missing something, but the recent trend to include "Musk's" in headlines is really off-putting. If the story would not be a story without his name attached, maybe it is not actually that newsworthy.
> No, I don't think somebody getting into Re-Zero is going to start reading VNs like Umineko someday

You realize Umeniko got an anime? Yes, some of the people who watched that anime probably went to read the books, is that really so hard to believe? Authors who got their works animated see a lot more book sales as well. Then as they read those books they might want more so they look for adjacent books, fueling the entire industry.
sure, but that limitation didn't show up architecturally, other than requiring more cycles to perform a load or store.
I think this is actually okay. Execution matters, not the idea. Also if YC was trying to do coordination between its portfolio companies, it would be against the interests of the founders themselves because the founders do not care if another company in the YC batch succeeds or fails - they don't have a stake in that other company.
This is so cool, bookmarked it. It sort of get the impression that Jekyll is slowing turning away from being a boring static site generator to something way interesting.
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They’re doing some things but there’s no proposals to do anything in the large to move it towards memory safety by default.
Shiites often depict their important religious figures and martyrs, but with the face replaced with a bright glow.

Like this: https://www.deviantart.com/shia-ali/art/YA-ALI-343625919

It's also not uncommon to depict e.g. Ali with a face. Sunni salafist movements are the ones that are fanatically against such art, and they are quite savvy with propaganda and backed by very powerful friends on the peninsula and elsewhere, such as the backers of the Gulf dictatorships in London and Washington.
Elon says a lot of contradictory stuff. Which makes him either a con artist or a politician --- take your pick.
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This is good advice, though people are getting distracted by the unnecessary morning/evening talk.

This is a real problem for people who have a habit of reading a lot of news and social media first thing in the morning. Some people show up to work having consumed hours of the latest rage-bait on Reddit, sky-is-falling takes on Twitter, and news about the latest wars, disasters, and political problems. They’re emotionally and mentally burdened before they even get started on work.

It often manifests as people claiming they don’t have any time to do anything outside of their 40 hour work weeks. I’ve mentored several early 20s people working relatively easy jobs, having no significant other or kids, and no real obligations who lament how they never have time or energy to do anything after working 40 hour jobs. Every single time having them check their screen time stats results in eye-popping amounts of Reddit, Twitter, TikTok, and other endless streams of stress and ragebait content. Putting a 30 minute limit on these apps with their phone’s built-in tools can work wonders on fixing their lives.
> Otherwise you will end up in a vendor lock.

This would be in the interests of the current market leader though - eg. Redis.
I'm aware this isn't a *proper* solution, but "throw your current API key at it, then as soon as you're done playing around, execute a test of your API key rotation scripting" isn't a terrible workaround, especially if you're the sort of person who really *meant* to have tested said scripting recently but kept not getting around to it ("hi").
Now just to worry about GCP getting shut down with a few days' notice. /s

But in all seriousness the gall to raise prices before actually fixing the reliability problems is pretty shocking. I understand it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg thing where you maybe are tight on resources but there's no scenario where it's acceptable to have a product with these kinds of problems and then raise prices on existing customers who are putting up with it.
It does have airport database. https://images.slideplayer.com/13/3854202/slides/slide_7.jpg
Read a recent comic or do more than superficial googling or Wikipedia. If you can't tell then nothing I will say will help.
New vehicles and setting up depot operations.
Romania dropped several zeros in 2005, so 1,000,000 became 100. As someone who was around at that time, I still tend to think of prices in the old system, which makes me look ridiculous to younger people and even most of my same-age peers.

Albania dropped a single zero way back in the mid-20th century, and yet even generations born long after that still think of prices in the old system. The first time I went to Albania, I was paranoid and made a scene in shops, thinking every shopkeeper was trying to rip me, a foreigner, off by quoting a price an order of magnitude higher. My face was red when someone finally explained how the country works.
I agree with your points, but to be honest Bungo Stray Dogs got me interested in Osamu Dasai and Akutagawa...
Man, Edmund Scientific is a throwback. They used to have an awesome surplus store in NJ full of all kinds of nerd stuff.
Scaling Laws for Precision
I react very similarly, right after my reaction that these websites are a bit of a pain to use.
obviosly.. we is

> Relatively modern, capable tech corporations that understand that their code is an asset. (This isn’t strictly big tech. Any sane greenfield C++ startup will also fall into this category.)

and @bagxrvxpepzn is ofc

> Every ancient corporation where people are still fighting over how to indent their code, and some young engineer is begging management to allow him to set up a linter.

:)
Just combining two 16 bit registers for a logical 32 bit address would have been better than the weird partially overlapping addressspace.
Wow, TIL "JavaScript" is a trademark. I'm sure it's unenforceable now due to the term becoming ubiquituous.
It doesn't matter, it's still an ad. Adwords aren't the only form of ads. See the reviews and purchase links in the screenshot? That's how Google is going to profit from this.

Adwords is only a small part of the modern day Google's monetization efforts. Today, they're doing everything they can to prevent users navigating away from Google property[1]. They plagiarize content from other websites and put it above search results. By 2020, less than 2/3 of Google searches ended in a click to traditional search results [2]. Why would they do that? So that they can show you more ads, of course.

This is yet another attempt to direct users away from the websites they were browsing to Google's ad platform. It's particularly egregious because it's disguised as the website's own doing.

[1]: https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/07/28/google-sea...

[2]: https://sparktoro.com/blog/in-2020-two-thirds-of-google-sear...
You realize most of those stories were originally books? They turn books to mangas and then to animes.
> Because when you're a professional programmer, tools are a huge part of what you do and how you do it, same like a race driver would need to be passionate about cars.

I am a professional programmer. Have been one for more than two decades. And perhaps for professionalism, I think there is no space for passion when it comes to choosing the tools of the trade. Passion would make me pick unsuitable tools because well, I would be passionate. Passionate people don't tend to make rational decisions.

I would expect a professional carpenter to be the same. They may have preferences due to familiarity, positive experiences, etc and so forth. But passion?
Maybe if you're limiting yourself to AWS-wrapper cloud companies. What good is a $2/mo cloud instance if it's down multiple times a month?

Just get a $5/mo VPS instead if you're really concerned about a few dollars a month.
7zip vuln – I found errors in this program. YouTube [video]
I disagree. The phenomenon is reactance and people declaring flat-earthers a serious epidemic only made it far more popular. It is assumed that the same happened with vaccination and other topics as well. And people that like freedoms are especially vulnerable, because some start to demand to ban flat-earthers, which certainly creates an understandable reaction because of a vast horizon of implications.

This is a problem with communication, but the medium is irrelevant. That people tend to dislike smart asses is a factor here.
there was a time when I configured my mouse to have buttons for ctrl+w, ctrl+t, ctrl+shift+t, ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab and I actually used them... until I had to use another mouse on another computer
Extremely controlled environments like the entire city of San Francisco?

Sensor fusion is a thing. There are no two systems that “argue with each other”. I can’t believe the same old ignorant tropes are still making rounds.
Because they boxed themselves in with legalese. Companies would definitely switch off Microsoft services if at all possible if the company's lawyers thought their trade secrets were getting sold off. So I think the "as necessary" framing does probably prevent them from doing some things.

As I laid out in my other comment, I think training AI in particular is covered under the "improving Microsoft products or services" bit of legalese. I do wonder how companies lawyers will respond to this though. They probably thought of that phrase as just allowing Microsoft employees access to documents to see how Word or other pieces of software were being used, or to fix crashes, etc.
A lot of companies pay and treat tech writers like shit.

If you're a decent tech writer who can write well, grok engineer speak, collaborate well with engineers during crunch time before a release, and apply your technical knowledge to build and maintain documentation infrastructure... well, you'll get comped slightly beneath the level of a developer with similar experience.

For folks like me who enjoy the writing side of things, it's worth it. But there are very few people who truly appreciate both the writing and the development side of the role. You honestly need both.

Most companies pay poorly, and wind up hiring non-technical folks who can barely manage a CMS. Those people can be helpful in a larger org, but at the end of the day, most technical orgs need a truly technical writer who can talk with the engineers directly and mess around with the product pre-release.
> Microsoft's Connected Experiences feature automatically gathers data from Word and Excel files to train the company's AI models. This feature is turned on by default, meaning user-generated content is included in AI training unless manually deactivated.

Not to say that Microsoft products respect privacy, but I don't see evidence that user Word/Excel files are being used for training.

The linked services agreement has had the same language (copy/transmit/etc. "to the extent necessary to provide the services") since at least 2015[0], and "connected experiences" seems to group a wide range of integrations; some like dictation/translation probably utilise ML, but that does not mean training on user content.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20150608000921/https://www.micro...
> Execution matters, not the idea.

Execution matters _as much as_ the idea.

A good idea executed poorly produces bad results.

A bad idea executed well produces bad results.

This is what YC is hedging (was it the execution or idea) by investing in duplicative startups.
> when do people look at blank tabs?

Sometimes I'll open a new tab and click the site I want from my commonly used sites Firefox presents to me on the new tab page. In such cases my hand is already on the mouse and two clicks is about the quickest I can get to one of those sites.
The token characters and checkboxes are a symptom of design-by-committee corporate culture anyways and even without them, the quality isn't going to be any better because again, it's corporate slop.
Just don't call them before the hour and start a different one again.Because otherwise within the hour, you will be billed for hundreds of hours...If they are of the type billed by the hour....
I’m baffled by your remarks about sketch-to-image. Maybe I’m missing something in what you mean, but sketch-to-image, to various degrees of completion (that is, it’s more than just sketch-to-image), lets you guide things in a way that prompts simply don’t. It’s rather useful if you’re trying to compose something specific, and plenty useful in other scenarios too.

Does sketch-to-image make sense? Um… yes? Absolutely? I genuinely don’t understand how you could even deny it, let alone act as though that’s the obvious answer?

Am I misunderstanding something of your meaning?
The general is that income, like wealth, is correlated with age, not ransom. Most workers under 18 will be making near minimum wage. Workers in their 20s are probably still starting their careers. People fall off again when they are older, as they either retire early or in some professions just become less capable.

So when you put it all together, a lot of people with an under average career will have an over average income at 35: Just not an over average income within the cadre of 35 year olds.

The lack of correlation with income at 20 comes from how many careers require training that doesn't give good early income. A future doctor, barista or AI programmer are not likely to have. a great income at 20, but their incomes and wealth diverge rapidly as some have longer training with different outcomes. The doctor will hit the 1% after residency. The AI expert might start making money earlier. The barista is probably ahead in his 20s, but it's unlikely their income grew quite as much, although many a barista is working on doing something else. So again, looking just at percentile of income at different ages is going to lead to mistakes as different life curves are being aggregated together.
> Because exceptions are not a goto anymore than a return is a goto

Not true at all

* goto goes to a specific hard-coded address

* return looks up the previous address from the stack and goes there

* exceptions are a complex mess that require branching logic to determine where to resume execution
A Survey on LLM-as-a-Judge
Intel also released both the 8086 and 8088 as 40pin DIP's.

Squeezing four more address pins in would have meant multiplexing four more of the pins on the chip, and if you exclude power/ground pins there are only 13 pins that are not multiplexed, and several of those either can't be multiplexed (because they are inputs, i.e., CLK, INTR, NMI) or would have made bus design even more painful than it already is for these chips.

The 4 bit shift, instead of 8 bit shift, for the segment registers was likely as big an address bus they could do that would also fit the constraint of "fits into a 40pin DIP".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Intel_8086_pinout.svg
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