skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weapons of war don't just appear before a revolution starts, somebody has to buy them. Of course the spread of communism was helped by the USSR's active investment in revolutionaries in other countries.
It was on the ordering page, but... that has changed?

Hmm... ordering a cybertruck was different a month or two ago. For example cyberbeast used to come with full self driving and the home power interface. It also talked about wraps (which you had to order through the app?) and which would schedule at the service center.

Now the website has changed, fsd is 8k, and no mention of wraps during cybertruck ordering.

I see mentions:

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-six-cybertruck-wrap-colors/

https://electrek.co/2023/11/30/tesla-cybertruck-comes-in-two...

but no longer on the tesla website?
At most, Title IX addressed the "girl's can't make the team" issue here. Where's the equal funding for slow, out-of-shape klutzes?

(Actually, I don't know if Title IX addresses co-ed sports. And no matter how co-ed on paper, the rough nature nature of standard football will still result in anything-but-equal gender representation - both on the team, and in those scholarships.)
“They’re Made out of Meat” https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
like a JDAM
I agree it is cool and fun and nice to see. But the investment here seems minimal. Preexisting image generation capabilities (with a link to Imagen-3...) plus some "prompt engineering" slapped on top of https://github.com/josefjadrny/js-chess-engine.
100% agree with you. We went with a religious option because of cost, and, despite the religious aspect, are finding it much better.

We couldn't afford the private schools that are ~$50K, but, like you say, higher cost doesn't necessarily mean better education.
My first was “Cowboy Bebop”. Pretty sure it’s not in the training set.
Maybe "Thanks, your country"?
indeed. HN contributed too!

And reddit, and twitter -- especially twitter
I am of the opinion that "lockdown" is illegal detention, and conditioning them from a very young age to accept it.
Wait for it. They'll drop a link to their product soon.
> Most LLM users seem willing to change from Chat-GPT to Claude, for example

There is some nuance to this. If you're building an application that embeds an LLM, then your "user" might be a prompt engineer, not necessarily the user using the application. It just so happens you can use the embedded magic using the prompt yourself.

Example: https://asana.com/product/ai

Not a single mention of Chat-GPT or Claude, but if you google you'll see they use Claude under the hood. So I would argue the branding is actually "AI" not ChatGPT.

It's a bit like Crypto and Bitcoin. Not all Crypto is bitcoin, but all bitcoin uses crypto to power it. People recognize both the branding of Crypto and Bitcoin.
Looks like they're using something like motion matching to recover fragments of the presenter's motion that match the pronounced phonemes. The actors were probably instructed to avoid almost all movement to make sure it was blendable. That would explain why the guy's hand have such erratic and non-natural movement.
In this example, is it really the case that all 20 are dependent into each other so you have to combine all of them into a single enum? For the ones that are independent you can keep them as booleans and you should.
or, in a line, "Hegemonic War Theory"
I tried it with something fairly abstract about a decision I was working on making. Fed it a bunch of information, details about me, my background, the factors I'm considering in the decision and the impact of getting it right/wrong.

It was interesting. I certainly wouldn't say it was useless, I think the contrived dialogue actually touched on some angles I hadn't considered and I think it was useful. Not in a 'oh shit it's clear to me now' kind of way but it definitely advanced my thinking.
I knew this was coming, so kudos to you all for getting out of the gate!

I've implemented this in our workflows, albeit a bit more naive: when we kick off new processes the user is given the option to "put a human in the loop" -- at which point processing halts and a user/group is paged to review the content in flight, along with all the chains/calls.

The human can tweak the text if needed and the process continues.
OP I feel like you should quit your job now and find a better place.
When I see these kinds of arguments I realize how important and how fragile the rule of law is. People jump to conclusions very readily and are easy to whip into a frenzy by malicious authorities.
so it for was drugs, just not heroin.
> I see this is because most statically typed languages have nominal typing and not structural typing.

I don't think that's it. I think what's needed is an accumulator method for error interfaces so that you can accumulate new errors into existing errors.
Job seekers doubt AI's promised productivity gains
This is where I would argue that it's a terrible language choice for the environment. (The need for rest frameworks) There aren't a lot of established or mature options for this, and a lot of them don't give you very much to work off of. It's going to be a bumpy road for exploits in this area.

> act as a indistinguishable resource rotating high churn, globally distributed teams of vendors, contactors, consultants, internal staff...

So this is a huge organizational problem that isn't helped by Go. This is more of a higher level problem and the lack of technical leadership in the company. Any language you go with .. you're not going to do well by trying to utilize everyone there. Picking a language that gives you the impression that you can blend the skill levels will end up with a disastrous mistake with a lot of slippage on the development side. Will you generate a ton of code? Yes, the language encourages it.

What I do agree with you: It does encourage the mass hiring of developers with low to no expectations of performance. (Seems like that's google's focus these days) But that's a bad thing for the developer who wants to achieve a lot of results (not just write lines), and to develop our teams.
This is why school choice matters. Parents can send their kids to whatever school is best for the kid, not whatever school is best for the teachers unions.
Would be really interesting if you could reverse engineer the model which yields 1/phi as the correct answer. Evidently for some non-uniform measure on the onion you could do it. What about for considering the onion as a half-ball? (Although if you're cooking it really is primarily the thickness that matters.)
Yes, there is a high correlation between intelligence (no matter how you measure it throughout childhood) and achievement in adulthood. A huge, massive difference. Obviously there are exceptions. Somebody seeming like a bad student is not one. Do you really need a citation for that?
You don't have to turn it into mush with a food processor, not all veggies are caramelized. High end restaurants usually optimize for speed but not over quality. Not sure why were talking that when this technique is for home chefs.
> Branding is a moat but it's not a deep moat.

Let's do an opposite question. What's Google's moat? What's Apple's moat? All I hear from everyone is "X is not a moat", which while true doesn't mean company couldn't be ahead of the competition forever.
still need fiber though
There are studies that support this: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33779525/

Conclusions: A pooled analysis of available randomized controlled clinical trials demonstrated that Vitamin B2 400 mg/day for three months supplementation had significant effect on days, duration, frequency, and pain score of migraine attacks.

For some months I've been taking 200 mg/day and it reduced the frequency of my migraine attacks in half.
I think this is a really wise take, and one that I honestly haven't seen before. I would certainly try a language like this.

The one thing I would add: Provide a well-trodden path to easily drop down into Rust/C/C++ for performance critical functionality. I have found this to be a big point in Python's favor over Go; you can write things the slow way (ie. executing in the Python runtime), then profile and figure out where to push things down into an extension. Often you're doing something that already exists in a library like numpy or pandas or polars, but if needed, you can write your own extension.

Does WASM enable FFI on its own?
Those people just use Terminal.app or Windows Terminal. They're not installing alternative terminals emulators.
Confiscation would be a good passive response and it would not need a warrant. The added bonus is intel is widened to include the name of the person for record and tab sheet. Plus, future searches would be given warrant due to previous record.
I think it could be neat to leverage ligatures, i.e. preceding glyph could either affect the seed of the next or even make different "cursive" connecting swashes. Words could become pictures with individual "glyphs" blended together.
Not being passionate about what you're doing at work is your sign that perhaps it's a good time to leave. Of course, find another job first and then leave.

Before you do that, take an honest assessment of why you're no longer passionate about your current employer. You need to understand why they no longer scratch your itch, why they no longer excite you. See if you can identify traits to be on the lookout for when seeking new employment. You'd really hate to leave one place that's not exciting you just to go somewhere else that's not exciting you, either.
Computer science has never been software engineering, though there's been a lot of cross-pollination.

But there's still a world of difference in my opinion between "how can I put all these tools together to deliver a solution to the problem" versus "oh crap, the service is running out of CPU again, argh, my service provider changed how we specify CPUs because the old way wasn't good for someone who isn't me, and okay, I'm upgrading, and oh shit the upgrade also changes how we get to the encryption keys and now it's busted, let's revert, what do you mean it irrevocably upgraded our key store to the new version and now the old version doesn't work, fix that then, oh, we can't because that's all in the cloud and we missed the upgrade emails in our other big pile of emails argh argh argh fine, call an incident and bring in half the teams in the company".

The latter was not created in the past 5 years, but it has gotten noticeably worse. When things work, they work better than they did before, but when things fail, they fail harder, in the sense that they can create much more complicated snarls than they used to. I much prefer even dull requirements elicitation meetings to too much of the latter.
the CocaCola commercial that everyone "hated" that "destroyed the brand equity" according to numerous news outlets solidified to me that we are passing a mark and this is the last desperate gasp of multiple industries coping with the rapid advancements AI is bringing.

Sure the Coke ad was a bit cringe. But the reality is in 5 years most ads you see will be AI and nobody will care.

That along with the Ben Affleck Rant that AI won't replace Hollywood. Watching Ben Affleck talking about how you can't replace the chemistry of actors working on set made me imagine what the conversations of famous stage actors were when film came along. You can argue film didn't replace the stage, after all broadway is still there, but it is not comparable to the economic influence of TV and Film.

In 10-20 years, human made Film, TV will still exist. But it will most likely be a small amount of the economic activity that AI produced media will be.

It doesn't matter if you care how terrible or how cringe AI is. Or that AI quality is worse than what existed before. What matters is in 5-20 years with a new generation what 90% of them care and if AI has more utility that not using AI. In the authors case in the short term for that particular medium, AI was not more useful. But in the long term AI will dominate every facet of our media.
Right but physical media is not dead because of consumer demand. PS4 physical games were huge.

In the US there are still a lot of regions where a 50-100 GB download is just not reasonable.

I know console manufacturers hate retail and the used market, and want that sweet direct income. but it would be a powerful brand move to set higher standards for the physical release. I believe Nintendo has gone this direction.
> invest 2x the resources into a person that will never likely tinder a significant benefit to society?

So you would rather have the cleaning lady, the garbage collector, the truck driver,...
not got proper read/write/calculate/economics... education and increase their chances of ending on the side where they fall for addiction instead?
https://sfconservancy.org/ ?
This is a siren song product for nerds. It's just begging for you to buy it, work perfectly for a few months and then break your heart.
The bonus I mentioned was all over the news in Sweden last night. No, it was not paid yet, but looks like there's little chance that will be stopped.

Edit: example news from a few hours ago: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/vasterbotten/northvoltarbe...

It's unclear if the employees receiving that are actually top management, but honestly, I would be surprised if they're not, as they are the ones who always get this sort of bonuses.

EDIT 2: you don't need to speak Swedish to understand what North Volt itself wrote is about a bonus program, so yes, it most definitely is a bonus: "bonusprogrammet är avgörande för att upprätthålla arbetsmoral, motivation och lojalitet"
What is the alternative? And is it really better than encoding into the data type?

Only option I can think of is writing unit tests for each case, which doesn't seem like too much different.

And without type encoding you never sure that invariant always hold. You can always manipulate any options in any part of the program. Then after any modification you have to perform a "sanity check" if options are in a well defined state or not. I don't see how this is better than encoding the invariant into the types.
I've wondered about this too and if in our quest to colonize the solar system and mine asteroids we will inadvertently destroy remnants of dead extraterrestrial life or artifacts of alien species such as defunct sentinel probes that were hidden in an asteroid.

It would be tragic if the only proof of alien life in the solar system was gobbled up by some automated asteroid miner that turns asteroids into shitty consumer goods.
It's scary how people immediately side with authorities in these situations. You can lose everything in an instant by getting charged with something nefarious and it just takes a couple of bad cops.
fine just give up then, you already lost? Fuck that, let's not pretend like they are omnipotent all the fucking time.
Why are they even holding a hearing? It's all political, and I'm sure the decision is already made, and the hearing just a dog-and-pony show.
For those who may not be aware, this was precisely the spirit of why affirmative action existed and why I personally supported it. These are the type of things that happen when our society misunderstands an executive action (because it was never a law) and debates in bad faith the intent of the premise for political purposes.

I agree that focusing on 'equality of outcomes' is not a good fit for our American culture and it should be about 'equality of opportunity'.

From wikipedia (which quoted Harvard):
"Affirmative action is intended to alleviate under-representation and to promote the opportunities of defined minority groups within a society to give them equal access to that of the majority population."

If focus is illiberally applied to the outcomes, then those at the edge of the bell curve are denied opportunities that likely work for them, i.e. the slashing of gifted programs as a gifted student.
This was what I was referring to. The stdlib is what would need to see backwards-compatibility-breaking changes, not the language itself.
Nauty and Traces (graph canonical labeling and automorphism group computation)
> manage the workflow

Hey, if you're specifically looking for providing deterministic guardrails around agent calls, I'm solving that particular problem.

We're sort of an "RPC layer for tools with reasoning built in", and we integrate with human layer at the tool level as well.

We're operating a bit under the radar until we open-source our offering, but I'm happy to chat.
Are you a solo founder Dexter?
This is something we frequently saw at Uber. I would say it's the same as there's already an established pattern for this for any sort of destructive action.

Intriguingly, it's rather similar to what we see with LLMs - you want to really activate the person's attention rather than have them go off on autopilot; in this case, probably have them type something quite distinct in order to confirm it, to turn their brain on. Of course, you likely want to figure out some mechanism/heuristics, perhaps by determining the cost of a mistake, and using that to set the proper level of approval scrutiny: light (just click), heavy (have to double confirm via some attention-activating user action).

Finally, a third approach would be to make the action undoable - like in many applications (Uber Eats, Gmail, etc.), you can do something but it defers doing it, giving you a chance to undo it. However, I think that causes people more stress, so it’s rather better to just not do that than to confirm and then have the option to undo. It’s better to be very deliberate about what’s a soft confirm and what’s a hard confirm, optimizing for the human in this case by providing them the right balance of high certainty and low stress.
well, that's simply not how any business works, even in the most extreme naively theoretical socialistic case. why would a company do that? - employees don't (generally) own the company.

even for some reason they were forced to, in practice, a cadre of employees (most likely the ones you'd want to fire in the first place), would instantly form some new ad-hoc political layer to exercise political power and control the organization, voting, etc.

so you just end up with a layer of useless management and a independent layer of useless politicians, neither of which are willing to fire themselves.
I looked at the numbers at various startups and felt the same

https://ashishb.net/all/llms-great-for-business-but-bad-busi...
Is the sugar ultra processed?
awesome - let us know how it goes!

great catch on pricing mismatch, just fixed, thank you :)
Wouldn’t it be simpler to do what the Martian did?

Bring low mass items: seed and bacteria.

Mine high mass items: dirt and water.

Concentrate sunlight
It will take time though, if the internet had completely disappeared in the mid 90s nothing would have fundamentally changed
(not OP) Yes, the quoted strategy is from The 4-Hour Workweek (Ferriss 2007)
No satire
And it's ASML more than TSMC.

Or maybe there's a highly profitable role for all the different parts of the value chain.
You said a few weeks ago that

> As many countries demonstrated, wealth does not buy good genes. Talented kids stand out, as long as we have a decent public school system, which places a high academic standard and holds teachers accountable. That's how East-European countries and Asian countries produce high-quality students.

What implications does this have for all students getting trained rigorously in the public school system? People that also speak of genes like Charles Murray say this is a fool's errand and that we should effectively just throw them off the ship.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42118967
It's definitely not CUDA advantage. If you can get Pytorch/flash attention/triton well supported in any hardware, a huge chunk of client don't care if it means cost saving. Case in point Google's TPU had extensive usage outside Google when they were cheaper for the same performance. Now that isn't the case.
thanks - definitely worth saying - I've thought a bit about the 10c/operation rather than 200/$20 - might give that a shot or A/B test a little
I think your conclusion is on the right track. Syntax sugar propagating results is in a way equivalent to exceptions. What you are missing it isn’t just equivalent to ordinary exceptions. It’s more equivalent to checked exceptions. A very powerful concept, that unfortunately got a bad rap, because the most widespread implementation of it (Java) was unreasonably verbose to use in practice. You might claim Rust is still too verbose and I don’t disagree with that, it’s a big improvement from Java at least, while at the same time providing even more safety nets.
You walk. In that case, I would walk regardless because I would ask if there were any issues with the vehicle and if a problem with the A/C wasn't disclosed, what else wasn't disclosed?

When I show up to buy a vehicle, the only thing I'm doing is taking it to a mechanic for a look over, and completing the purchase if it's all clear. That's it. The time for disclosure and negotiation is over. Not negotiating things in person (as opposed to over email where I have it in writing) has saved me countless hours over the years and made buying things much more pleasant.
makes sense - glad to hear the problem resonates - if you had an extra engineer, how would you evolve what you have today?
I like scala and I think it's a great language even with teams.

I think you're overlooking the context of the language. It was a language that introduced a lot of new concepts to most programmers out there on top of that it was flexible to accomidate existing Java developers (for better or for worse). It evolved and grew quite a bit.

The fact that you could develop different styles made the language a lot more useful.

I'm not sure what you mean by transferable skills.. but that sounds like code for overly excessive coding preferences by hiring groups. If you're working with Play you'll be able to learn Finagale, or go to Http4s.

When you attack a codebase, you can't consume it and understand the full context easily, the range of operations that a code base is expected to do is far too vast for that. Even with Go, you can't just pickup and go that quickly. It may (if you're that experienced) become easier to understand. But with a large codebase, it's going to make it much harder as that it encourages large drawn out functions and verbose handling of errors. Also, Go's testing preferences tend to make it harder to write good and effective tests.
Apparently my brain is broken because I can generate almost nothing but pink errors, though it seems to be a bit non deterministic:

Taoism

Tibet

Tibetan Buddhism

Wrathful deities

Existential angst

Dantes inferno

Major religions

Australian indigenous

Salvador Dali

Others generated sets but should have generated errors because the results are so uninspiring:

Mandalas

YouTube face

Phallic symbols

Corporate waste

Asymmetric deformities

Corporate propoganda
Totally agree with this. It's a sign that what you're working on is just one of what will be a series of half-baked ideas, pivots, etc. as random stuff is being thrown at the wall to see what sticks.

Find yourself a job on a profitable / cash cow product and you won't have this problem.
I interpret it to mean that we shouldn't be adding sugar to any of our foods. The natural sugar in the foods we eat is plenty.
> i can't imagine why you'd carry cash for such transactions and not a cashier's check.

because people forge cashier's checks far more easily than they forge cash. I certainly wouldn't take one as payment for a truck without going to the issuing bank first and withdrawing the money (as cash). In which case, there is no need for the check.