skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lest we forget that this stream-of-consciousness confusion was state of the art just a few years ago.

It makes sense if you think about it: a small model's "internal state" isn't rich enough to keep track of whatever it was supposed to be talking about.

It makes me think that the reason LLMs need to be so large is that the internal state needs to be bigger than a typical human "idea", whatever that might mean.
Could a script be a program?

Because it would be much smaller in a bat file than contains :

echo Hello World!
IoT LTSC is supported until 2032
The Armenian Zildjians might be displeased to be called Turks.
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"Visiting a single Internet Web page" is considerably more involved than that. In practice, it means making a request to the DNS servers and running Javascript that's injected by the CDN/proxy which "verifies" (runs some heuristics) that you're allowed to load that page.

It's like a restaurant that complies with a local food access requirement to be open at a certain time... but only by having a drive-through that requires you to not just be a human being, but also to drive a car to get to the restaurant.
Your second paragraph – you might have a point, but to be fair, the same could be said for pretty much every person in high office. (In other words: what's your control?)

Even as a liberal, what bugs the heck out of me is that almost no Democratic politician/functionary has ever worked in the private sector in any meaningful way. How can they understand anything about the way the business world works, or should work? Answer: they don't.
Fair enough that Tesla is disqualified for poor governance. Lacking the G is disqualifying, but lacking the E isn't? Tells you all need to know about the programme.
> It bothers me on a visceral level and I'm constantly wondering if it's just me.

It's not just you.

It disgusts me so deeply I wish computers had never been invented. A wonderful technology with infinite potential, capable of reshaping the world. Reduced to this sorry state just to protect vested interests. They used to empower us. Now they are the tools of our oppression.
Any metric that becomes a target ceases to be a good metric.

The wrinkle is that measures that don't easily quantify are more resistant. For example, showing provable use by other reputable or trusted projects, or a significant amount of resources allocated to maintenance, or ...

Really just anything that can't be reduced to a single number in a canonical way will in the long run prove far more useful for longer.

This of course shifts some of the burden onto potential users to assess things more critically, and forecloses direct numerical comparison. But the idea that you could just look at a number and make such comparisons was faulty from the get go.
How are these old posts invaluable? Do you think a paywall would have generated enough revenue to pay for serving them? If nobody is willing to pay for access, doesn’t that mean they are in fact not valuable at all?
Seems like it would be simply enough for a household to just have at least two cutting boards:

One for anything which is not likely to harbor dangerous bacteria. (eg: vegetables, bread, etc.)

One of meat, which gets cut and then gets cooked, and so theoretically a bit of bacteria is no issue in any case.

I can see how this would be much tougher for a commercial kitchen, though.
Hmm. I don't have SSH, but have many GH projects, and have been active for a decade. So, I would be filtered out as not an active dev, with the spammers?
I think number of clones is a much better metric (it's like proof of work, it needs compute to clone a repo). For me starring a repo is liking bookmarking it, nothing else. They might as well just mark it as "Bookmarked" instead of "Starred".
Prioritize the stars given by accounts you follow in the UI. Done.
I dislike this framing. I was paid money for over a decade to write GPL'd code; I didn't do it as a gift. I release my code under the GPL for selfish reasons: I want others to be able to improve it, and me to be able to take advantage of their improvements. To me, it's not a gift, it's just the most efficient way to write software.
If you get interested in early cymbal makers, Zildjian can trace it's origins back to the 1600s... that's hard to beat. But there are many from the turn of the century that are just as good but less well known like XE Ajaha. We're also in a bit of a "Golden Age" for young independent cymbal smiths. So there are fabulous, hand-made cymbals being made every day now. It's all about the bronze.
You don't need to be the best to be worth it. The ok ER doc still saves lives.
If you're working at a large company and downtime is extremely expensive, this checklist is a good guide. Otherwise, if you have good test coverage, you can get by with something simpler. It's super rare to have a breaking change in go.

We do quarterly upgrades of all services in a monorepo (about 20-30). The steps are basically this:

- Upgrade all dependencies to their latest versions, fixing build and test breaks (I read release notes for Go, but not for dependencies)

- Look for deprecated packages and replace them

- Upgrade all toolchains, including CI/CD containers, go.mod, etc.

- Run all tests

- Deploy to the test environment and make sure everything is green

- Deploy to staging and do some sanity checks

- Deploy to prod, keeping an eye on metrics for an hour or two

We're on k8s and the state of all clusters (i.e. which images are running) is tracked in git, so a rollback is just git revert + apply.

In practice, after about four years of this, we've seen maybe a dozen build breaks, and I can only remember one regression caused by a breaking change in a library[1].

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24211
I can imagine access to raw data instead of some stupid come-on-game-me-able predefined indicator, and that I can run some private statistical analysis over it. People would use (and share) different algorithms and gamers will at least wander through this collectively created mud without any understanding except for the defaultest measures.

But of course this is too complex and “no one will use it” (tm). So we’ll better have a screwed up recommendation system that doesn’t work at all, cause that’s simpler!
You mean 10 months of free support remaining.

Pretty sure there is going to be an option to pay for additional support duration even for home users.

And there is an edition of Windows 10 that is supported until 2032, so it's not like they aren't still doing security patches anyway.

I would be willing to bet MS may even decide to extend the free support duration. But if they hold out on making that decision until the last minute, they can still persuade more users to switch to W11. So if they are going to extend the free support, I wouldn't expect to hear about that until much closer to October.
Andrej Karpathy's guide to Micrograd - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMj-3S1tku0 - is probably the closest equivalent, in that it covers the basic ideas of backpropagation and autodiff frameworks like PyTorch, and ends with an implementation of a very basic framework (https://github.com/karpathy/micrograd) you can train small neural networks in
You can achieve a similar effect with both, yes. However, they fundamentally work differently.

Tailscale (e.g. wireguard) is a way to create a virtual private network between two (or more) machines. This means they can pretend they are on the same network, even if they are physically on different networks. Now, having them on the same (virtual) network, means you can open up the firewall on the target machine (for that specific network), and access services that are running there. You'll still need to use the other machine's IP address/name on that network to access it.

connet on the other hand is more like a projection (or tunnel) - it opens up a TCP listener on your local machine, and internally forwards all connections and traffic to the TCP listener that is running on the remote machine. At your local machine, it looks like you are running the target service locally, and you access it via localhost.

I hope this explains how is connet different from Tailscale, thanks for checking it out!
But that hasn't been working for the average American, right?

Aging is rough.

And the high calorie to nutrient ratio in this country makes it really hard to avoid adding pounds.

This country is calorie and diet obsessed, and yet average weight seems to keep increasing.
not to mention all the microplastics released in the dishwasher when it runs! this sounds like a bad idea to me.

I personally have a dedicated wood cutting board that is for meat only. I cook my meat to safe temperatures anyway so i’m not too worried about sanitizing it perfectly. I just do my best with hot water, soap, and a sponge.
Have you actually read that paper? I ask as it doesn't seem to be open access.

It seems clearly absurd, though. They claim that 1 degree of temperature variance reduces GDP by 5pp, which is an insanely huge effect. They're saying that variability (not growth) of a size you can't even feel would eliminate the entirety of US economic growth and push the rest of the world into a large recession.

This kind of paper where you regress things against each other with no attempt to understand or explain the underlying causalities, nor have any ability to validate the results, is the sort of thing that yields false positive results all the time, it's textbook replication crisis stuff.
I enjoy planning my calendar. (Really). Dont let AI take that pleasure! Of course other people may like AI to do that.
I think the point is that they are informed by MSM and reddit reporting on his tweets.
No, wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com is a customer of Cloudflare, but the outcome is the same.
I used Turo to test a bunch of EVs a while back - I just priced in the Turo added insurance since mine didn't cover Turo (apparently Progressive does).

We had a bunch of tough requirements so the deep investigation panned out nicely - only spent a couple of thousand and got to road trip with several nice vehicles and family had a strong favorite which we bought (used).

I'm fairly sure people who rent the cars on Turo need a specific insurance program but not sure if they cover these kinds of events.
Fast switching on a background schedule while packets continue to flow but at slightly reduced rate should be possible. Might be very export controlled though given obvious application.
push 1
pop rax

is even shorter (credit: https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/q6mnz1/what_is...)
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You're missing the point of GPL-style licensed Open Source Software. It's a matter of copy_left_, vs copyright. The difference isn't comparing the rights of GPL software writers/publishers vs the rights of movie publishers.

It's about the idea that software (and, for many, all digital media) should be free. The GPL is designed to "infect" other projects, by forcing them to be free if the GPL code is included. It's using IP/copyright laws to combat profiteering in software (and, in the case of movies, Blender releases a GPL'd movie every few years).

It's the activists' FOSS license, unlike the MIT/BSD/Apache licenses, which are just the literal definition of Free and Open Source, no strings attached.
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Of course people should blame honey for deciding to act unethically. If you’re actively looking for ways to get away with being a scumbag, you’re a scumbag. Crime isn’t the fault of the police or the parliament. Crime happens because someone wakes up and decides to commit a crime. Honey is the same. It’s nobody else’s fault that honey exists. Honey exists because someone found a legal way to steal money. Then they decided to do it.

Any system of rules will always have loopholes. It’s the mark of civilisation that people choose to act honourably even - and especially - when they could get away with being a dirtbag.
yay for microplastics (and maybe phthalates) all over my utensils, plates and glasses!

on a serious note, I try to avoid putting ANY plastic in a dishwasher unless it’s silicone. what’s wrong with buying a cutting board that is used for meat only? do your best scrubbing it down with hot water and soap, and it’s not an issue. Especially if you cook your meat to a safe temperature anyway.

Even better, avoid a plastic cutting board to begin with:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.3c00924
Copyright itself is arguably theft sponsored by the state, because information can naturally be freely used/shared by all of humanity. Creating property rights in information reduces the collective knowledge of humanity (the commons), because now information can't be shared.

The goal of the GPL and viral licensing is to undo copyright as such.

I don't agree with this maximalist approach because many forms of knowledge wouldn't be created without a financial incentive. But there's many niches in the economy where free software creates greater economic benefit than a proprietary solution.
Extending on the copy-pasteable snippets, another big improvement (flaw to avoid) is to include all imports to the code snippets.
I fear we may have gotten away from the Windows kernel writing an output value asynchronously to a user space address on IO completion.
Side note but is it really that crazy for Github to implement a feature to see file size of a repo?
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Many people generally don't change boards enough, yes. And keeping plastic boards after they are quite deeply grooved is a problem.

If your dishwasher doesn't have a sanitize cycle (or you aren't using it) you may not be getting hot enough at home anyway to be up to the standard a commercial kitchen would need.

Of course you may not have a dishwasher at all.
Idk if there is much code that "hasn't been written before".

Sure if you look at new project x then in totality it's a semi unique combination of code, but breaking it down into chunks that involve a couple lines, or a very specific context then it's all been done before.
I tried Brave this year. I now use it as my Chrome-based option when things refuse to work under Librewolf, which is my daily driver. I disable the `resistFingerprinting` option in the Librewolf flags though, because I like scrolling in 144 FPS. I don't mind the cost in privacy.
Cloudflare's —and most similar services'— stance here comes from these VPN funnelling not just people like you, but also attackers. It's untrustworthy traffic from their perspective.

Use a VPN but use a normal network. VPN back to your home, your office. Your traffic will probably take a throughput and latency hit but it looks like real residential traffic, and that's a lot less sus.
There’s apparently so much plastic already in me that I don’t care. What I care is not having that chicken fluid soaked into the wooden board.
One of my childhood friends works at Zildjian and has been involved in their metallurgy stuff lately (his picture is actually in the article!). From what he's alluded to, it sounds like they consider their trade secrets around their processes to be the main reason for their competitive advantage, and they're extremely careful about who they're shared with even internally, and the number of people who know some of them probably number only in the single digits.
I don’t want to follow anyone, but I do give stars to repos I like.
I don’t think you can run the IoT version for general purpose use.

Also if you’re using windows on an IoT device…
A better metric until it becomes a target. Once it is a target, getting a billion clones is trivial.

Github should just stop showing star counts. Who cares about them.
Start an airline that offers $1 cheaper tickets but they kick you in the groin, you’ll make bank.

Start an airline that offers $1 cheaper tickets but they crash once a month, you’ll go out of business before you can say “but FAA regulations make that impossible anyway.”

People care deeply about airline quality on the axis of how good they are at keeping you alive. They don’t care so much about amenities. That’s not “don’t care about quality,” that’s “don’t care about a specific notion of quality that you believe everyone should care about.”
Not really, at least judging by the state of my plastic boards. Contrary to wooden boards, they’re completely unsuitable for dishwashers. Who knows what were these wooden boards treated with to make them “food safe”.

I hope you don’t use any polyester if you’re so concerned about my plastic board. Just imagine all that plastic from washing polyester. Or maybe you have a car with seats made out of plastic bottles fished out of the ocean?
why so much ram?
People in the embedded space care. Symbian OS was compiled for small size, only certain parts were allowed use O3, such as the jpeg decoder.
I'm presuming that "promoted to their level of incompetency" is phrased that way because it is humorous — but puts too fine a point on the incompetent part.
> Maybe somewhere between SQL and Prolog is the future of programming.

Must be Datalog then ;)
How much of this is hype we think?

Serious question: are people actually making use of "agents" in their companies to do the tedious work that most vertical agents solve for? I find coding agents (codium/cursor/copilot) useful, but I've not seen (successful) deployments of vertical agents at scale.

Klarna claims to be all in on the custom agent game, but I'm not sure how much of it is real vs. propping up for the impending IPO.
In my case I saved up for 8 years then moved to the country as a student (much cheaper rent). Mine was Japan but other countries would be even cheaper to live in.

Didn't do anything special to save except not having kids.
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From the article, the cymbal-making came first, and then the name followed:

The company’s proprietary alloy was alchemized 13 generations ago in Constantinople (now Istanbul) by Debbie Zildjian’s ancestor, Avedis I. He was trying to make gold, she said, but he ended up concocting a combination of copper and tin. “The mixing of those metals produced a very loud, resonant, beautiful sound,” she said.

Debbie explained that in 1618 the Ottoman sultan summoned Avedis to the Topkapi Palace to make cymbals for elite military bands. The metalsmith’s work pleased the ruler, who gave him permission to found his own business in 1623. The sultan also bestowed Avedis the family name "Zildjian" which actually means cymbal maker. He went on to craft cymbals that were widely used, including in churches and by belly dancers.
Nah. It's mostly just the HN bubble that claims to want a chronological feed. The casual users are actually the ones who most prefer the algorithm so that they see posts about major life events at the top even when they haven't logged in for a while.
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He's too lazy to write an email. He's probably too lazy to build a computer.

Unless building your own computer is like LEGO now. It's been a few years since I've needed to do it.
I'm a long time fan of Sabian cymbals but good lord their new logo is so awful. The old one was way better and it's especially bad when compared to Zildjian's iconic logo.
Do we need that type of metric anyways? Surely there are better ways to measure a repo's activity...
> spam requests, especially from China, Russia, and India.

On my small website, bot traffic is almost entirely from DigitalOcean VPSs.
Sometimes, they are surreal stars for surrealist languages that zero people actually use:

https://github.com/TodePond/DreamBerd - 11.7k stars