skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking something very similar. Posting about a problem adds information back to the system, and every company selling model time for money has a vested interest in patching publicly visible holes.

This could even be automated; LLMs can sentiment-analyze social media posts to surface ones that are critical of LLM outputs, then automatically extract features of the post to change things about the running model to improve similar results with no intervention.
Looking at the stock price, it still trades at 110x P/E and 16x price to revenue. I wonder what the market is pricing this on. Future margin expansion? Businesses like robotaxis?
Some of these companies aren't delightedly eager to make it cheap to access the data you have entered into their systems. It's like they own your data in a sense and want to make it harder to leave.

I love your point about the chatbot being the catalyst for doing something obvious. I curate a page for my team with all the common links to important documentation and services and find myself nevertheless posting that link over and over again to the same people because nobody can be bothered to bookmark the blasted thing. Sometimes I feel it's pointless making any effort to improve but I think you have a clever solution.

The other aspect of it, IMO is that searching for the obvious terms doesn't always return the critical information. That might be my company's penchant for frequently changing the term it likes to use for something - as Architects decide on "better terminology". I imagine an LLM somehow helping to get past this need for absolute precision in search terms - but perhaps that's just wishful thinking.
Yeah, but it's very hard to find someone on demand on that very specific topic that you are very interested in at that given moment. Back and forth takes forever, you have to keep checking your notifications, and some of them resort to personal attacks rather than focusing on the content.
Pretty cool, this is inspiring for landing pages.
I'm embarrassed to admit that I don't actually understand what a TPM does. My vague and probably incorrect impression is that it performs some sort of encrypted verification of firmware or hardware modules? Can anyone expand on what this does? My impression would be that this is not useful for most users, and would be much of a concern in industrial espionage situations. I have no confidence that I'm correct here.
Hi Steven, I will check it out.

What I like about Cardelli's handbook article is how he lays down type systems in programming languages as its own thing. This is inspired by logic but definitely not the same - just as mathematical logic can well be called the origin of programming languages and PL semantics but then there is so much knowledge, difference in purpose and practical concerns that separate the two fields.
If you just need someone to talk to AI might be good. There are a lot of lonely people out there that need someone to talk to and don't know how to do it. (particularly people in nursing homes who thus cannot get out and meet real people)

However I want Facebook as a way to remain connected to be distant friends not talk with people. I want to see my friends kids, their cats, whatever else they do that they are proud of. I know them personally even if I only see them at a class reunion every 10 years or something. I don't want to see cute cats (unless it is your cat), I don't want to see "joke of the day" - if I want that I'll find one of the many joke of the day places that cater to my sense of humor. I get plenty of politics elsewhere (unless they are running for office or assisting a campaign - share is not assisting a campaign). If I care about professional sports I can see it myself - let me know how your (or your kid's) games go since I won't find out about that.

I wish there was a way to make Facebook that latter - it sortof fills that role. However Facebook hates it because I catch up after 5-10 minutes of scrolling every day (usually the lower end of that list, but with the holidays the latter these last few weeks) and then close.
The way to fix facebook is to get off of facebook.
Time for the next thing already!
That is if the connection isn't downgraded by some other mechanism. Lots of corporate clients downgrade connections to HTTP/1.1 due to how their network is setup.

There is also an issue with SSE I've noticed that websockets doesn't seem to have as much of a prevalent issue with, and that is being blocked by corporate firewalls.
Spaniard here. No, and neither is porn the tons of nude women in pictures from the Middle Ages or the Enlightenment. They look dull.
I think someone should need this. It is based on boring tls and makes some fake extensions similar to utls to support Firefox TLS fingerprint imitation

repo: https://github.com/penumbra-x/rquest
>> Most of us think jeans and a t-shirt are basically fine

They are, but with one caveat: you need to have the right figure to pull it off. An important role of the suit is to hide loss of physique. That is why in general the youth can wear jeans and t-shirts, and older people often cannot.
My partner and I were primarily targeting finance at that time.

I didn't always present 100% of the "big and dense" slide decks; we could get people into a dialogue early on that would give us an idea of what to show next, a bit like a "choose your own adventure" book.

(Overall our approach was super effective at getting people to talk about their business, my partner got me to read https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Question-Based-Selling-Powerf... We were always finding out about stuff we weren't supposed to know like the desktop virtualization program at a famously secretive hedge fund, the closely guarded data cleanup pipeline for a real estate data vendor, the time a four letter defense contractor was grasping at straws on a project for a three letter agency, ...)

Here's an example of a slide deck I would present to a general audience, in this case a local startup accelerator

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/chatbots-in-2017-ithaca...

which is not as information dense as one of my sales slides but when I give talks like that they always want me back. (Funny that one felt obsolete by the end of 2017 but I packed in enough neural network stuff that it seems a little prescient now... Like that time I gave a talk at the first thorium energy conference about the computational physics program that would lead to a reactor that was mostly standard stuff out of intro level textbooks but useful and correct if you want to down that path. I took the schedule of reactor development when the project was abandoned in the 1970s and shifted it up to the present. The crowd reacted viscerally that it would take that long to which my answer is "you've got to get started now"; I wound up with a test reactor circa 2025 and sure enough they are building one in China.)
It seems an interesting fine-tuning idea. Drawing from reasoning models, I wonder if it’s effective to 10x or 100x the fine-tune dataset by having a larger reasoning model create documentation and reasoning COTs about the code base’s current state and speculation about future state updates. Maybe have it output some verbose execution flow analysis.
What is that? Facebook fills a niche that nothing else tries to. Facebook also does lots of other things that others do better, but they have a niche in sharing the semi private lives of friends with each other that nothing else does.
I’m not adding a lot to the conversation, but it’s not often you run into someone who contributes to creating a tool so fundamental to your daily life, career, growth as a researcher etc, so let me just take the opportunity to say: thank you and the rest of your team for creating such an amazing interactive tool.
> They lack the egalitarianism and conscientiousness of Anglo Americans

I'm sorry, but egalitarianism is not a trait I would attribute to Anglo Americans. America is a very selfish nation, built on selfish ideals. You'll have communities that aren't, but they aren't Anglo Americans: it's mostly germano-americans, maybe Acadians, or Swedish/Norwegian late immigrants communities. And probably Sikhs recent immigrants, although I'm not sure about that.
Recently saw a news piece where insurance companies are dramatically jacking up the insurance rates for Cybertrucks. If so, they're really getting screwed.
What I don't get is why they need to crawl so aggressively, I have a site with content that doesn't change often (company website) with a few hundred pages total. But the same AI bot will scan the entire site multiple times per day, like somehow all the content is going to suddenly change now after it hasn't for months.

That cannot be an efficient use of their money, maybe they used their own AI to write the scraper code.
But they will not make the same mistakes. If you ask two persons to build a software, they can use the same logic and build the same algorithm, but what are the chances they will do exactly the same bugs.

Also, your argument seems to be "_maybe_ they will use the exact same setup". So it already looks better than the solution where you provide the code and they _will for sure_ use the exact same setup.

And "publish the details" corresponds to explain the logic, not share the exact implementation.

Also, I'm not saying that sharing the code is bad, but I'm saying that sharing the code is not the perfect solution and people who thinks not sharing the code is very bad are usually not understanding what are the danger of sharing the code.
I'm mid-40s and have a lot of older friends. Age doesn't matter for experienced people. Skill is independent of age. Wisdom usually isn't.
Incremental Nokia Series 40 phone image took 4 hours to compile and flash in early 00s. Slow debug.

If I recall correctly clean build would have taken days. There was a server farm that used distcc to split this to 60 or so machines.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distcc
There are plenty of these: Toyota, Honda, Apple, Maglite, Duracell, Energizer, Gilette, Tide, Pampers, Visa, Lay's, Coca Cola. Before you laugh at the last ones, consider how amazing it is that you can go into a grocery store and buy a bag of chips and it will always taste exactly like the last one, or that you can walk into a store with a piece of plastic and in less than a second pay for things with it.
I'm afraid it's the other way around. Browsers are (generally) better at sandboxing than OSs. Browsers are paranoid by default. They have to be, because visiting a website is just a click away (compared to multiple clicks/taps to install a native app).

For example, Chromium was able to mitigate Meltdown/Spectre within days, even if the OS was still vulnerable. (Chrome already had site isolation ready to ship, a feature that completely isolates websites into their own process). Even better, Chromium browsers tend to update themselves (or via Google Play) automatically.

Meanwhile, OS vendors were scrambling to ship an OS update.

(Also, worth mentioning that iOS users were vulnerable until Apple shipped an OS update, because every browser on iOS has to use Apple's WebKit)
One problem with both of these takes on powerpoint is they assume it will be presented in person. That's less often the case now. People present more often via teams or zoom and so a lot of the ideas (don't expect people to read and listen simultaneously) are not accurate anymore (half your viewers are audio only, more people get copies of the slides than make the original presentation). Remote vs in person are totally different beasts.
I’m 64 and just landed a great new job … it’s always my long history of C/C++ and mobile skills that get me in the door.
The theory, as I understand it, is that the wider ecosystem of OEMs is better at selling new hardware than Microsoft alone is at selling Windows upgrades. The users don't care what makes new hardware "new hardware", just that a dozen different companies are telling them that "new hardware" is exciting to buy for the holidays and "more secure" and "better". The TPM requirement on paper is an easy shibboleth for "more secure", so an easy thing to sell through the multi-channel telephone game of OEMs to ad companies to retail stores to mainstream zeitgeist. They don't have to just take Microsoft's word that Windows 11 is "better", they have "word on the street" and their pal who works "Geek Squad" at Best Buy and all those HP commercials on TV telling them they need a new Windows 11 machine for "more secure" hardware.

(I think it is gross that this is how Microsoft and the PC OEMs think is the best way to increase revenue together, but I think there's enough evidence that this theory is relatively accurate portrait of one of the factors for why Windows 11 is the way that it is.)
This. I'm now working at a small- to mid-sized (~80 people) local B2B company. Pay is fine, they offer 100% WFH if you want, but they also have nice offices, they make good and stable revenue with reasonable growth targets, the actual work is somewhere between interesting and mind-numbingly stupid (e.g. integrating with poorly documented enterprise software - can be fun, but can also be aggravating), people are mostly happy.

There is a focus on delivering for clients rather than following processes.

I have about an hour of required meetings a week, 15-30 minutes technical meetings where people bring up any tech roadblocks or things where they need help, and a 20-45 minute sprint planning meeting. There's one monthly "show cool stuff" meeting for the whole company where everybody can voluntarily show something interesting they made. The rest of the time, I'm writing code, documentation, helping coworkers, talking to clients, stuff like that.

There is very high trust, e.g. people make honest effort estimates and there's no punishment or bad feedback if they're missed. There's a wide variety of skills because it's hard to attract top performers. This makes it easy to get hired (they immediately invited me for an interview after I sent them my CV, and made an offer after talking to me for 30 minutes), and it also means there's a culture of helping people and being patient and understanding when people are making an honest effort, but don't quite get things on the first try.

I'm working eight hours a day, five days a week, and when I'm done with work for the day, I don't think about it until the next day. It's nice.
The best pose is the next pose.
You're getting caught up in the social media hysteria. Honey's partnership with merchants to create Honey-specific coupons is relatively new, Honey was sold to PayPal long before they had any partnerships with merchants, Honey's value (as a business) and revenue comes from the pure affiliate marketing: getting attribution for sales. Honey has never hidden this: https://web.archive.org/web/20191121204313/https://help.join...
Bad communication => being too ambiguous, expecting LLM to understand you through that ambiguity and then not being satisfied when it didn't.

Bad communication: "My webapp doesn't work"

Good communication: "Nextjs, [pasted error]"

Bad communication is giving irrelevant information, or being too ambiguous, not providing enough or correct detail.

Then another example of good communication and efficiency in my view is for example "ts, fn leftpad, no text, code only".

I myself can understand what it means when someone was to prompt it and LLM can understand such query for all domains.

Although if I was using Copilot I would just write the bare minimum to trigger the auto complete I want so

const leftPad =

is probably enough.
Link to the copy on archive.org instead?
It's a clear sign Meta leadership has clearly lost the plot, giving in to hype instead of any vision.
Editor in chief here, happy to answer any questions!
SMS and (to a lesser extend) email are not ways to communicate with distance friends. Someone I went to school with 30 years ago and haven't seen since isn't going to call me about their new grandkid, Facebook works well to share these types of pictures. SMS and email take too much effort, Facebook is much lower friction to share that and thus I find out, while if they uses SMS or email I wouldn't be on the list as they would give up before they got to my name in their contacts.
Reminder that Microsoft ships RWKV with Windows (~1.5 billion devices), making it probably the most widely deployed non transformer model out there. Amazing work! https://blog.rwkv.com/p/rwkvcpp-shipping-to-half-a-billion

ps Eugene you should brag about that on the homepage of RWKV.
I've never heard of someone wanting to go to Italy for non-vacation reasons...
Or at least a $1.99/mo subscription?
You need to sign in with a Xiaomi account to unlock devices, presumably they have similar spam protection to other big companies, IP addresses, device fingerprinting, etc.. So if you unlock a device from account A, then account B tries to unlock a device from the same computer/IP address, you'd be caught.

Given the amount of users who actually bother to unlock their bootloader, I doubt you'd need more sophisticated duplicate account detection
Craigslist is still there. They only way to keep it around is make sure you use it.
Your standard web hosting services, or a cheap VPS are great options.

The whole 'cloud serverless buzzword-here' thing is ridiculous for most use cases.

Heck you can serve quite a few static req/s on a $2 ESP32 microcontroller.
I think it's a useful start, but I for one still prefer consulting a dictionary on the side (e.g. Whitaker's Words -- https://latin-words.com/) to make sure I get the nuances and make sure I parse the individual words correctly.

The first thing that stood out to me with the translation is that it goes word-by-word, and doesn't have any room for ambiguity.

For instance, in the first line, "profectus est" is the third-person singular perfect form of the deponent verb "proficiscor" based on context, but it could also be the perfect passive form of "proficio" (which my brain initially gravitated toward, as one of the many derivatives of "facio"). I'd be a bit worried about picking the wrong one if given the word out of context. Or even just picking the wrong translation for a word: for the second sentence, using the word-for-word translation, I might try for "He long was spent at Periander, king of the Corinthians" when "He long dwelled at the house of Periander, king of the Corinthians" would read more naturally, using different translations for "apud" and "versatus erat".

Further, if you don't treat these pairs as holistic verb forms, you get very confused by just reordering words: "Arion, after he is having traveled abroad, ..." vs "Arion, after he traveled abroad, ..." And, it can cause some issues with relative ordering of events (where it's common to move between verb tenses to indicate that some events happened further in the past -- pluperfect vs perfect especially).

And, if you treat "erat" as "was" all the time (as is the case with "versatus erat"), you'll interpret pluperfect (which implies finality) as imperfect.

Later in the first paragraph, I'd run into a little bit of trouble with the ablative absolute ("Ingentibus opibus ibi comparatis"): "Great wealth there acquired" would more literally be translated as "With great wealth having been acquired", or, taking some liberties with the translation, "After he acquired great wealth, ..."

Moving on to the second heading: yes, "ut" is most commonly used as part of a result or a purpose clause with the subjunctive, but a newer reader might not understand why we use the subjunctive here instead of the infinitive. The most literal translation might be "The sailors make a plan such that they might rob and kill that man", but yes, once you're more used to the language, you'd translate it simply as "The sailors make a plan to rob and kill him".
was doing great 'til the holidays, getting back on track next monday:

- wake up + coffee + read in bed

- take the dog out for a 15 minute "wake up walk"

- take a vitamin d pill, turn on my SAD lamp, and stand at my desk

- write for an hour

- light house chores after writing

- start paid dev work

this has been near life changing. i was never a morning person until getting this routine established.
> but blowing up people on TV shows, with blood and body parts going everywhere is perfectly alright.

Don't worry, it is becoming "not alright" already. Completely sanitized movies where people are being thrown like a ragdoll, land on asphalt face down and then walk it off like they were slapped by a baby.
Don't people use whatsapp in your corner of the world? Over here in Europe all of that happens over whatsapp, which is still a Meta property at the end of the day, but one that hasn't been enshittified with off-network crap or algorithmic feeds... so far!
Hi, I am part of the Mozilla community. Mozilla devs read through comments and saw an issue with Firefox. They filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1939643 to identify why it doesnt work only in Firefox.
Turns out other browsers do not follow the spec, and the underlying libraries that the page uses used workarounds to make it work in Chrome, but that broke Firefox.
We filed https://github.com/tsparticles/tsparticles/issues/5443 (to fix the workaround in the library), https://issues.chromium.org/issues/387030982 (Chrome bug to get it fixed there) and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1939701 (which creates a common webtest for all the browser vendors so that this functionality is tested in future and doesnt break).

All of this during the Holiday Season too!
This is really nice, and I hope you continue with additional texts, as I have been trying once again to pick up Latin basics, using YouTube videos and Wheelock's Latin (which is one of the best foreign language books I've ever seen).

It would be nice to be able to add the macrons or even acute accent characters to show emphasis syllables as another toggle-able option -- ChatGPT seemed to do OK with that task for me just now.
If anything causes the AI bubble to burst, it's that 99% of finding is going to companies that don't solve any real problems. It's shocking that the only major player in real world problem solving is DeepMind.
I actually think the problem you are describing is actually sometimes helpful from a design perspective, if you can be conscientious enough to periodically review your notebooks and figure out what is the actual useful code which should be properly integrated into the codebase vs what is the “one-off” / non-modular code. Like you mentioned, calculation vs side-effects is one way to help you decide but not the only. There’s definitely no single answer. The key is to just periodically figure out what ought to be refactored into library code, which notebooks should just be straight up deleted (hopefully as many as possible - you can always get them back in your git history if needed!), and so on.
Likewise. I hit 40, which I didn't think was that old, dropped out of contracting and found employed work has gone from being easy to, well, IME impossible to turn up.
> so why do people feel the need to pick on Americans specifically

Who is the main exporter of entertainment in the world?
MediaWiki is too much of a pain to maintain for single user.

I use Vimwiki: easy to version control, no database to maintain, familiar (to me) interface. Back up by git push/pull to/from many places.
Linux Boots: The Linux Boot Protocol (RISC Platforms)
This is absolutely false. Everyone expects quality, but most have given up hope and accept shit instead; if it's going to break, you might as well not spend a lot.
Those models don't work for distant friends. I should call my mom more often. However nobody would call someone they were distant friends with 20 years ago to talk about their kids sports game - but 10 seconds to see those pictures on Facebook is still appreciated. When that is what Facebook does it is valuable.
No questions, but wanted to thank you for doing what you’re doing. It has been a while since I checked in on Standard Ebooks and my gosh it has grown! Congratulations and thank you!