skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's what I mean - the author gives no prescription.

Are you expecting a prescription? If so, what could that look like? Specific technologies? When specific technologies are appropriate?

> Most teams do not have the privilege of being able to "ground their product decisions appropriately". Most teams - at least those in small to mid-size startups - will start out building A, route through A' and A'' and end up building B once they land on PMF.

I don't quite understand this. A bakeoff is meant to give you space to figure out what technologies are appropriate for the service you're building for your users and taking into consideration what your developers like. It's a collection of proof-of-concepts so it's a quick and lean way to get data on what's more likely to succeed for you. I can accept that the technology doesn't make a product, so focusing PMF is important, but you also don't want to pick something complex that you can't afford to manage as you scale.

The worst thing I see happening is you reach PMF and need to continuing scaling, but you hit a high complexity wall that you can't move past till you manage it. All that unnecessary complexity you took on and didn't invest your already limited resources is now tech debt that's oppressing your forward momentum. Bakeoffs can steer you towards the simplest tool you need to deliver your product so that it can stay out of your way so you can focus on iterating and developing your product.

> The rest of us will use React, which is roughly 80% as good as the optimal solution.

How are you measuring this? A lot of the evidence for using a technology and running with it without managing the complexity turns out badly (see The Reckoning series by Alex). And React is a high complexity tool that requires a lot of continued management investment.

The thing that appeals to me about doing bakeoffs to find the simplest thing for my product is not that it'll be the most optimal; it'll be the cheapest to maintain. The less complexity you have, the less you have to invest in managing it.

> I just don't think many of us are Google or Facebook.

I agree. That's why I think it's best to pick the simplest tools we can afford to manage so we can get on with building our products. Facebook or Bluesky or Airbnb can afford to build their products many times from scratch and they can pay to maintain whatever complexity they take on.
You are pleased with the current situation in Myanmar? Do tell.
Because their Saudi benefactors stopped being ok with subsidizing every ride and meal. Now we pay what it costs.
> It's just formal game but you still haven't managed to write down the state space nor specify the transition probabilities for a single atom let alone a person.

False.

I've given you the state space. It's the one defined by 2^(k*10^17) bits. That's your state space. I don't know why you have a hard time with this concept, it doesn't seem particularly challenging to me.

I've also said, in what I thought was quite clear language, that writing down the transition probabilities for even a system significantly simpler than a human brain would require so much information that by the Bekenstein bound it would require a universe substantially larger than this one to avoid becoming a black hole.

If you're not going to accept that the very specific things you asked for — things which you seem to accept exist — are already sufficient to be proof that quantum mechanics and by extension all of reality including humans are in the set of things defined by Markov chains unless I literally destroy the universe by writing the function down in that fashion, then we're done.

Or are you shifting the goal posts when you wrote this?:

> and the unitary operator that corresponds to your daily activities in terms of a Markov chain

Given that what actually fits into a comment box is either a super-high-level representation where it's transitions at a macro level like "sleep" -> "get up" -> "go to work" etc. or a super-low-level representation like iħ ∂ψ/∂t |ψ> = (H^)|ψ>
Well it depends on the effort required to curate the information divided by the number of people paying for it. Bloomberg is a niche thing that requires a lot of effort to run, so it's gonna be expensive per user. If it's something that everyone wants to read, then it'll be popular enough to be cheap. It's not an altruistic thing either, it just makes sense to price it lower since there's an optimal point where you can extract the most revenue that way.

I think we're not really in a phase where disinformation would be that much of a problem yet, HN and Reddit are arguably still sources of very high quality data if you know where to look, so there's no incentive for most people to pay for anything. Especially when it's where most of ad-driven media copies practically all content from these days anyway.
count me among the skeptics. the big problem i see is that there is no way to verify whether any AI output is correct. it is already very hard to prove that a program is correct. proving that for AI is several levels more difficult, and even if it were possible the cost would be so high to make it not worth it.
This looks excellent - i've been looking for a timeline-based, simple-entry tool like this. Well done.
They can’t make money at the original price point, that’s the problem. The whole goal is 1) disrupt the market, 2) become the market, 3) raise prices to become profitable, thus becoming the incumbent provider and bringing us back to the same place we were in before.
> at what point does a human not realize or care that he is being actuated by a computer?

I don't know about caring, but I think that the point of the Turing test is to determine at which point a human can't tell whether it's another human. Also, I've read that it's not a particularly good test, because even pre-LLM you could craft an irritating, misspelling, troll of a chat bot and people would think it was a real teenage edgelord.
I thought this was a thread specific throw away account due to the “kyaw”.
There are worse interviewee questions than "Give me an overview of how you'd get a server provisioned"
You're welcome! I'm glad it's not some niche thing that only I needed XD

If you have any idea that will make your workflow easier add an "issue" on GitHub so I can keep track of it.
Yeah, that should work.

Alas, it doesn't.
Does this work at all for fantasy timelines?

Trying to build a timeline like this:

title: History of the World

0: Foo Calendar's civilization founding.

124: Invention of the Foo Calendar

220: Founding of Bar

1310: Invention of GlooblyGock

5621: Demon invasion.

Edit: After trying it don't think it works for this usecase.
Does it? Under SQL standard or what engine? At least Postgres raises when dividing by zero.
indeed xD. TY!
The UK ban is taking care of UK interestst. I don't think anyone would be surprised if Iraq would request a ban on BO6 in Iraq.
It has checklists
Newer mobile GPUs worth a damn pretty much have the same feature set as desktop.

Except texture formats in case of Mali and Exynos w/ RDNA. But QCOM (since quite a while) and Apple (E17+) have a unified set there including BC7 support.

So perhaps split things into profiles, with a more modern profile where the only thing varying is texture format support.
Khosrowshahi's incompetent. Uber had the opportunity to be Amazon in retail transport. It's more akin to Walmart
Normally that would be ok, but considering the way many systems are setup to load balance and quickly spin up new servers and spin down un-needed servers on the fly, one business day would not give you enough time to revamp your system to work with a different provider.
Right on. I definitely resonate with the first two. The third is somewhat arguable for me, but I've historically appreciated it and probably did much more when React first came to my attention.

And yes, I ended up falling for React for these reasons and more. When we moved to Rails server rendering, I even experimented with rendering React components from the Rails server. It worked, but the rube-goldberg contraption wasn't worth it.

Instead, we opted for helpers and view partials. The limited behavior we needed on the client would be in a separate Stimulus controller. The helper would typically reference it. Then, the declaration in the view would look more or less like a React component invocation, albeit with a totally different syntax.

There may very well be room for improvement here, but it certainly works "well enough". As I've mentioned, the main thing that is different now is that we can render updates to views on the server. This allows us to have "The ability to express view as a pure function of state" on the server and not have to be concerned about everything else that comes with owning and operating a React implementation.

I think React really helped move things forward and I don't regret my time using it. I may even use it again if I worked on an application where it was warranted.

I wish I could spend time with every commenter on here showing them our code, working with them on it, and helping them see the way that we do it so that my words don't just sound crazy or anathema. Unfortunately, that just doesn't work out in practice. I appreciate the discussion all the same.
For those on the lazy side: A pastebin link option

https://pastebin.com/raw/9wfPfzT3
I’m left handed, and my handwriting writing goes from really nice to shit when I use different pens. My advice is experiment with different types. I love BiC pens, they feel super smooth.

Also, growing up in Israel, where we write right to left, I don’t recall any of my right-handed friends having issues with handwriting.
Maybe this is for good. So many wars, criminality, and pollution issues due to overcrowded spaces.

Potentially increasing as well, due to climate making some places very though to live.

1B humans supported by automation could perhaps live in better conditions than 8B in a crowded space.
“Low code” means you do not have to go beyond the tool to solve problems. In fact, there should be entire problems you cannot even create with low code tools. Programming could mean an endless rabbit hole through several technologies, same with designing (you are concocting designs that may use several different technologies).

If the tool lets you make a circle button and change text in it, then that’s all you have to worry about.
> C# has this:

This is only syntactic sugar to allow using object initializers to initialize specific member varabiles of a class instance instead of simply using a constructor and/or setting member variables in follow-up statements. It's hardly the feature OP was describing.
First middle east flare up?
That would be too easy! :)

Well, awk suffices to write a first-person shooter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34442528
handpicked selection of notables:

- Frida Kahlo

- Henri Matisse

- Alan Turing

i guess the Chrysler Building is public domain now? what can you do with a buidling?
Flip it around -- I would consider it to be a large red flag if the company behind Openstack was unable to use Openstack because of brain drain and infrastructure rot.
To me, a car symbolizes willful ignorance, ugly selfishness, jealousy, and insecurity. It's also a tragic reminder of our inability to organize and collaborate. It's really a disgusting thing that we're trapped in. To me, freedom is riding the train.

I recognize my heterodox perspective is uncommon, but I exhibit it here only to demonstrate that the counter-meme exists already in the wild.
What Graykey iPhone hack tool can unlock
A Case of Fraud
Yeh, not really double standards. If you banned a game because anyone got killed in it, there wouldn’t be many video games…
What you said are also anecdotes which also prove nothing.

The hedonistic treadmill does not exist.

It's a feel-good construct, I found.
Britain hasn't had a sovereign interest in the Levant for over a century. Their citizens deserve access to uncensored media to form their own opinions, even if the media is satire that would make Matt Stone and Trey Parker blush.
This reminds me of blocks.md (https://blocks.md/), a Markdown based form builder.
That‘s actually quite similar to the nearness library [1]. The main difference appears to be vicinity‘s focus on simplicity while nearness tries to expose most of the functionality of the underlying backends.

[1] https://github.com/davnn/nearness
I’ve been trying to think a lot more about “building community” lately, and I think this person hits on something which is just that the current American system sort of since the eighties has been so focused on career progression and self-enrichment, not that it’s bad, but it’s interesting that the there are such dualities in our values.

But also, every year or two I try going to a church, but I wonder if the beliefs or practices largely don’t make sense.

On the one hand, I fantasize about going to some super conservative thousand year old European cathedral, and I do feel like there would be a sense of wonder in that.

But going to a suburban mega church and listening to Christian Rock doesn’t cut it.

I’ve been looking for some kind of thing to study. I picked up the Harvard classics series, maybe something like that would be interesting to build a faith group around? But yeah…
Also weak regulators.

But regulators have it tough; the Uber business model isn’t viable so if it was properly regulated there’d be no Uber - and since regulators represent their constituency that’ll never happen because the public quite like their affordable rides. Affordable transportation makes cities work, so public transport is taxpayer subsidised in most of the world. Another reason the price has to stay low.
That's AN example, idk if I'd call it the flagship product. Another example is: https://www.sidefx.com/products/houdini/ which uses node based programming with small amounts of code for edge cases. It's used in a lot of movies very successfully.
One of the big differences is that it is also COFF based like Windows, and Aix shared objects have similar capabilities, with private by default, import files, and having the capability to let the compiler handle delay loading of specific symbols.

I used Aix 5 series quite a bit, and looking at docs it seems to still have the same capabilities.
Alright, let‘s make a deal then. We will do some horse trading in the UN and purchase one or more islands for all you degrowth enthusiasts. We will even give you all the support we can in returning the soil and ocean to a healthier state.

In return anyone leaving the island stays gone and can never publicly talk about degrowth and their dreams of ending civilization. Also, you must tell your children the truth about all the accomplishments of industrial society.

I agree that our prehistoric ancestors were the most stable populations when looking at them from very far away. You seem to actually want to return to their brutal and ignorant lives. Well go ahead, put some skin in the game before publicly advocating for the death of billions.
You're right about division by zero. From SQL92:

4) The dyadic arithmetic operators <plus sign>, <minus sign>, <as-
terisk>, and <solidus> (+, -, *, and /, respectively) specify
addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, respec-
tively. If the value of a divisor is zero, then an exception
condition is raised: data exception-division by zero.

However, the "any operation involving NULL yields NULL" is standard:

1) If the value of any <numeric primary> simply contained in a
<numeric value expression> is the null value, then the result of
the <numeric value expression> is the null value.

https://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/sql/sql1992.txt

So, dividing by NULL is allowed and yields NULL. Dividing by zero yielding NULL is non-standard (I used it though).
I have three chapters left of the last book in the Expanse-series and it feels like the end of an era.
I started reading them a couple of years ago and since then I’ve always known I have some good reading to fall back on whenever I read something else.
A principle point would be going after the Brazilian army but that would get him arrested. Safe principled point?
It would make it impressive that they could make it local without depending on chrome. In addition that it would allow the collaborative aspects natively. Just like on Android or iOS.
This sounds like a situation that I know about at the placed identified by name in your comment. It took months to track down the issue.
And, just like that, you turned the rest of this thread into a meta discussion about HN rather than about the topic. It's ironic, because that really hurt the SNR more than a duplicated, but on-topic, comment.
They added in the Oct7 attacks?! Pretty abhorrent. That being said, I'm not sure what counter-terror objective blocking this game actually has.
Pre-training is based on a proxy for desired output not actually desired output. It’s not in the form of responses to a prompt, and 1:1 reproducing copyrighted works in production would be bad.

It’s the difference between a painter copying some work and a painter making an original piece and then get feedback on it. We consider the second trial and error because the full process is being tested not just technique.
> Calling an LLM a "Markov model" reveals an agenda rather than an insight.

What agenda? Knowing that LLM's are markov chains helps me understand and makes me better at using them, since I know every word is just calculated probabilistically based on the previous N words, the fastest way to describe that is to say it is a Markov chain. This makes it hard for them to coordinate their early words with things that will happen later, all that from just knowing it is a Markov chain.

I feel the knee jerk rejection of this statement is more of an agenda, why do you feel it is so wrong to say it is a Markov chain? Are you sure there is no agenda behind those feelings?
By all means Walmart is a very successful company with many loyal customers. What's wrong with that? Also, being the Amazon of anything doesn't really strike me as a positive.
The numbers are so small that you can also just use a big array
This is irrelevant really. If they produced a game that was IDF killing Palestinians, well we might have the same view.

Both are fucking tasteless and morally questionable.
Sure, if you admit that the information and the entertainment available in one's country should align with that country "interests", then there is no doubt about it. However the West markets itself exactly as the place where such thing doesn't happen, so that's where the problem lies.
Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?
Happy holidays HN. I am hoping to continue the generosity, tradition, and good will of Alexander Thomas Drummond (u/atdrummond), who contributed tens of thousands of dollars to community members here during the Holidays to help people who were struggling [1]. Sadly, Alexander passed away earlier this year [2].

This is not a request for donations. I am content to finance this operation myself (although others are free to offer additional support). All I ask is that you let us know your financial needs and their general purpose so that we can maximize the number of people we can help.

To be clear, while the original intent was to provide dinner expenses for the holidays, this need not be the only reason you ask for funds.

Reasonable requests include:

- Holiday housing

- Toys/gifts for family members

- Food

- Travel assistance

- Medical expenses

- Entertainment for the family

I understand that it can be tough to ask for help. The majority of those who request assistance do so over email and I assure you that I will keep your request and information private and between us. I humbly request you don't share my personal information.

I am happy to use this thread for any questions the community and potential beneficiaries may have.

e: hoarder dot edition0u at icloud dot com

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38492378

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40508725
You can obviously substitute a book for whatever you want, but a great book is a huge accelerator. And yeah, it has to be good, which doesn't seem very controversial. Fluent Python is a great example of this. I could, with enough effort and time, piece together some of the philosophy underlying the language's design, but someone has already put a huge amount of pedagogical effort into pre-chewing a lot of that food for me. This probably isn't intrinsic to books (I really like Josh Comeau's CSS course, for example, which has book-tier thought put into it) but I do think that books attract authors who are thoughtful, and the form factor makes them pleasant to revisit. Even some of the suspect, like The Mythical Man Month, have some beautiful prose and thought that I think wouldn't appear typically appear in a more colloquial format like a YouTube series.

I do appreciate you taking the time to read my mind for false modesty and vaguely insult me though, thank you!
Why bother.
It would be a fun project to figure out how to optimize the support material necessary for this printer to raise itself up and move itself around a print that is far larger than itself.

Sort of like scaffolding for commercial construction.
I always loved that the derivative of the heavyside operator is equivalent to the dirac delta operator. The idea of impulse and how to apply that to a system is such a unique and useful unlock in E&M and has such a nice analog of connecting the circuit.

One of those things that made it click for me that math truly is defined rules of operations over definitions and could be constructed as to be useful for us, and not just a handed down pure concept. We need to model this very specific thing, here's an operator for it.
Unless it's the byproduct of some other valuable process, why would anyone go to the expense and trouble of figuring out how to make it?
Drivers will always want better pay & conditions. They lack the power to make demands, and bleeding out all over the media won't change a damn thing. They need to unionize.
Same but different place. The new place has the disrupter at the top of the pile, and that's the entire point.
Looks like he aligned himself with the wrong folks here. He is a system builder at heart but not an expert in chip design or EDA. And also not really an ML researcher. Some would say he got taken for a ride by a young charismatic grifter and is now in too deep to back out. His focus on this project didn’t help with his case at Google. They moved all the important stuff away from him and gave it to Demis last year and left him with an honorary title. Quite sad really for someone of his accomplishments.
One huge opportunity is in the electrical energy space. With renewables our transmission systems and the control of those many resources is lagging. From control systems point of view having a small number of well controlled sources of energy, aka power stations, it was simpler to manage the load and distribution. Now we have millions of capricious generators of which hundreds are very large, e.g. wind farms and solar farms. Even with grid scale batteries it is like herding stray cats.
And another thing I noticed: because the hash is built Button by button, you can reuse part of the state when checking sequences. So if you’re checking a 10 button sequence, you get all subsequences of that almost for free (just need a comparison after every step). Getting to 18 buttons of length is still a lot of calculation though.
Its kind of crazy that a person outside of Microsoft is doing this. Why is this not supported by the Sysinternals team?
This doesn't mention the key issue, which is that they expected to have self driving cars working already. The drivers were going to be a problem that went away, and presumably, it would let them offer a better price.