skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, you’re almost describing Google’s TPU sales approach, and we can all see how that goes
I was going to write about more things that I want, but it didn’t feel like it fit so much.

I would love a basic admin interface plus some auth.

It would be cool if rails mirrored some Devise helpers so that Pundit/Cancancan worked out of the box.
there's also administration-zero which is basically scaffolding for admin pages and would be similar to what they'd give you built in if they were to. they consider it outside the scope of rails' responsibility as scaffolding is so easy to make.

administration zero doesn't do much other than install a few gems, and include a scaffold that you can use to generate admin pages akin to django but you do get pagination and search and filters added on top. no magic though just rails scaffolds. https://github.com/lazaronixon/administration-zero
The content.lanl.gov server is hanging indefinitely and never serving the images. So it seems the images should be there on the server, the server is just dead in a weird way.

I have emailed the journal and told them about the bug.

In the mean time, you can read it in the PDF version with images intact at https://cdn.lanl.gov/files/arq-2023-1_14f30.pdf#page=37 (mirrored: https://gwern.net/doc/statistics/probability/2023-summerscal... ).
Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases
After using a standing desk for months, I developed hip pain that I haven't recovered from 2 years later. Maybe just a coincidence, but I don't think our bodies like standing in one place any better than sitting - in fact it could be even worse. Motion is lotion.
Audiophiles can't hear the difference either. They usually fail blind A/B tests.
I put some effort to choose high-CRI light sources at home, but I have to say the difference is not very notable in many everyday situations, only when doing specific things (e.g. playing a board game where colors matter). What irritates me more are badly dimmed LEDs, i.e. too low frequency, causing a visual "stuttering" effect on moving things, espcially reflective objects.

But generally, I agree.
My solution is a bottle with something pleasing to drink.

Modern vacuum containers make cold and hot beverages almost constantly available which makes me get up quite frequently.
Russian government requested Bellingcat to be taken down
Yes.

1. It is single-threaded, which severely limits throughput for a single instance.

2. All communication must go over a socket, which severely impacts latency for use cases where it could otherwise run in-process.
try out https://github.com/lazaronixon/administration-zero

just a thing to install an admin generator scaffolds which you control fully after the fact. no magic just generators.
Since when Apple is "quality"?

They are a _perception_ of quality.
agreed, I'm a programmer living in SF for over a decade, but not in the VC or AI space, and I checked 3 boxes off
Even so, the more Windows machines I had back in the day, the less real work I got done. Something was always not working, with no obvious pattern. Most problems took work to fix.

I learned not to install and uninstall things. Even if I needed to.

The more Mac’s I had, the more likely I ran into a problem as well. But it was usually just some glitch.
Dr. Jang said: "I've not transcribed this work yet it's future work. I can send it once it's transcribed, however from skimming the various chatgpt texts you sent me, the people are generally wrong, their relationships are inconsistent between all the text you sent me, these issues are why I do not go to chatgpt to help me with my research. The document generally is indeed about requesting the courts oversee the apprenticeship work. Minors could work, however, when minors are used it needed to be overseen by the courts, this document is the court overseeing the work"

She provided this as one she just got done working with: https://s.h4x.club/z8u9xmv7 (John King Esq. but try giving it to an LLM)

I will also happily again admit a bit of goal post moving on my part. I was probably a little to harsh on it (maybe because I'm used to her and her history geeks talking about how they don't work well for their research).
Agreed, article is totally wrong. Read any Amazon review for a cheap household product and you'd conclude that people have outrageously high expectations of quality.
I put the Children of Time into my Libby list. Thanks!

Project Hail Mary is very good. All of Weir’s stuff is good.
No, an absolute massive amount of people do. In fact they have been doing exactly as you recommend, because as you note, it's obvious and required for a basic proper evaluation.
Pagefind – Search library for static sites
I'm not sure if your sarcasm is towards your hinted at solution or the false claim of the problem. Also, isn't sarcasm against the guidelines for this reason?
Or maybe a countdown
Betaflight doesn't handle communications, but also it's just meant for hobby FPV usage.

If you want autonomous stuff with more advanced features ArduCopter is the way to go.
It might be the old thing but it's still widely supported by Next - in no small part due to the backlash over the IMHO way overengineered App Router.

I still use the pages system and actually find myself increasingly moving back to just using Vite + React if I don't need access to the node-based API.
I'm not following, why would you assume that a good student taking an exam at the edge of their ability not do significantly better if they trained on the exact same questions (with the same solutions), as opposed to ones that are slightly different? I for one have absolutely struggled as a student when faced with questions that seemed similar to ones from previous exams, but actually had a crucial difference, and by looking at the examples on pages 9&10 in the article, I'm pretty sure I would have been likely to be confused too.
> without needing to spend the effort to deeply understand existing code

Or, more importantly, explain to others why you're deviating from "standard"
I use SQLite for this sort of thing (small e-commerce storefront, wife's niche popular blog, etc.). Actually, I use multiple - one for the DB and Diskcache for the cache.

Caching is cheap, backup is trivial and cheap, and pulling down a perfect snapshot of production when I need to fiddle with something is also trivial and cheap.
Yes, that's what I said. The whole point of hallucinations is that they aren't "arbitrary facts recalled from the training data". They represent attempts to synthesize (i.e., infer) new facts. But because the inferences are not accurate, and because the synthesis process is not sound, the attempt cannot be called reasoning.

It is equally possible to "reason" about things you already know, as about things you've just been told. In fact, the capacity to speculatively, without prompting attempt such reasoning is a big part of cognition.
it's reliable in the sense that the data is there and won't get lost, and i can always access it to download bits and pieces if i need them. it is not reliable in the sense that i could always do a full restore from it without cost. having an unsoldered SSD reduces (but doesn't eliminate) the risk of me having to do a costly full restore from that backup.
Ask HN: Moving from an IC Role to Vice President at a young age, any advice?
Long story short, I currently work at a big tech firm (synonymous with a rainforest) on a fast growing cloud product as a solutions architect. At about 4 years of experience so far there. I was recently offered a VP title at a Fortune 1000 systems integrator that has product ambitions to lead technical implementation of this cloud service for their organization and customers. It’s a significant pay bump, at least 50% over what I’m currently making.

However, I’m only 27. Never been in a management position before, but led and executed on some key projects in my current role and was crucial to growth of a profitable sector of the business for Rainforest. While I do believe this is a great opportunity for career growth, my lack of experience on the management side of the professional world creates some doubt that it’s a good role. It feels like I’m skipping a rung in the ladder, so to speak. I have a clear understanding of what I’d be expected to execute on, and good relationships, but would be inheriting a team of about 5 managers and reports immediately upon joining and expected to set direction, and manage this organization.

For those on HN that have been in a similar position, do you have any advice or input? Books or blogs to read? Thanks in advance!
I think quality and art are two different things, quality is craftsmanship employed in solving a problem and art is a form of creative expression.

Even for Netflix, sure the content on Netflix may be for casual watching but from a product design perspective I feel it is far superior to prime, max and disney. I strongly believe that I keep paying for netflix because of this, it is the easiest place for me to watch and reduces all friction in the entertainment experience.

Quality matters but it needs to be more holistic - the world doesn't care for your pixel perfection but solving the need - in this case casual entertainment.
> Log virtual POST codes to a text file for a physical motherboard I'm troubleshooting to see where it's hanging up

That sounds awesome but my brain can't follow today.

What did the setup look like here?

My brain's looking at a test motherboard, then at 86Box (which would presumably run on your main system), and I can't figure out how to connect the dots.
Starting me on E1M9 with the arrow keys and a pistol on what I'm told is Nightmare difficulty is a dick move.
I think most people choose value, which might mean that sometimes quality plays a factor, but rarely means it is the sole factor.
Why waste a perfectly good Cybertruck ? Model Y also has plenty of room, and it can also drive itself.
I'm always baffled by this "forget how to cook at home" example, but I suspect this is more about having fast food within walking distance, while not having a grocery store within walking distance ??
Indeed, but ICE cars aren’t exactly easy to extinguish either. Here is the diesel car that started the fire at Luton. Notice the fire extinguishers around it? They obviously weren’t enough.

https://twitter.com/andysoullinux/status/1712232395049422942
Maybe "embrace the grind" encapsulates "fail fast"? Success rarely comes from failing just once—most of the time, repeated failure is part of the grind.
I'll add that there's plenty of porn easily accessible on Reddit and Twitter and those websites haven't implemented any age verification measures yet. Chat apps like Discord and Telegram host a lot too.

My guess is if the lawmakers are successful in making porn websites comply with age verification then all social media websites will have to next.
Great article in how it enrages the reader. Im not even kidding. Not caring is irrelevant, not noticing the difference is irrelevant too. You notice how their photos are stunning then argue your crappy shots are some how equal. lol

A big test in the 90s showed that if pages load instantly visitors click around. For each tiny fraction of delay beyond the limit the clicking very gradually declines. Non of the visitors has a concious experience where they click only 3 in stead of 4 over 75ms extra delay.

The article describes what is wrong with capitalism most poetically. The only measure of success is consuming. I wish we could think of a hotswapable replacement but it wouldnt be as proffitable so it cant work.

Grasshopper pizza it is then
> The iPhone especially in America is a unique case.

iPhones have a >50% market share in Japan, Canada, and in a few European countries (Danmark, Sweden). The common point I see between all those is that they are high-income countries.
I would be interested in knowing if any of those people change their behaviour though. What people say is irrelevant. Do they actually buy differently?
For some product segments, the economics of software development and mass production have completely eliminated the high end. The classic example is in smartphones: you can spend around $1000 for an Apple iPhone 16 or Samsung Galaxy S24 but there's literally nothing else more exclusive or higher quality available. I can't get a better phone at any price.
PHP in Browser, Powered by WebAssembly
Kinesis is not Kafka (at all), nor is Google Dataflow Flink (perhaps you're thinking of Apache Beam?).
Do you have an extra bonus day at the end that doesn’t belong to any week?
I'm confused. The topic is the Julian and Gregorian calendars and things very close to them, right? Nothing in those calendars is based on the phase of the moon.

Months are obviously inspired by the moon, but there's no attempt in this system to make them go anywhere near lining up. And that inspiration wouldn't block any attempt to align week starts with month starts.
I’m in charge of the laundry at home and I tell you it for sure helps me tell apart my wife’s dark blue tights from her black ones when I’m sorting things into piles. :)
you definitely don't want to stand the whole time at least - teachers and cashier's who go a whole shift standing have issues with joint pain and I think it's bad on the ankles?
Yes, the earth has rotated on its axis and a little bit more in a solar day (361°, 24h0m). You can count sidereal days instead (360°, 23h56m) if you want to stop after exactly one rotation.
That doesn't mean anything. Asking "which is faster" is fact retrieval, which LLMs are bad at unless they've been trained on those specific facts. This is why hallucinations are so prevalent: LLMs learn rules better than they learn facts.

Regardless of how the base64 processing is done (which is really not something you can speculate much on, unless you've specifically researched it -- have you?), my point is that it does degrade the output significantly while still processing things within a reasonable model of the world. Doing this is a rather reliable way of detaching the ability to speak from the ability to reason.
This post is really funny to see written by an engineer, an entire profession dedicated to the art of measuring precisely the lowest quality we can use while still accomplishing the task.

Having discerning taste is a vice not a virtue. I actively try to limit the number of areas where my taste is ruined by high quality because it makes me noticeably worse off. My life isn't better for experiencing better quality, it's worse for the other 99% of the time.

Now I have to buy the name brand which is more expensive, now I'm focused on all the schlock-y writing of the latest Marvel movie I'm at with my friends instead of enjoying it, now I can't unsee the damn keming or blurry fonts on everyone's computer but mine. Don't be the hi-fi nerd whose ears will
be put through a cheese grater any time you hear music through cheap speakers for the rest of your life. Ignorance really is bliss.
Some of us remember the 90s-00s era of debugging non-tech family & friends windows machines for various critical ailments with great frequency until they all switched to Macs.
I do it for some accounts where I don't care that much about having 2fa, but its forced, and its easier than getting SMS notifications.
> Control theory is an entire discipline.

That’s what I said.
People want to maximize the value they receive in exchange for the money _and time_ they've spent. Quality is one metric which often fully captures this ideal.

You're willing to spend more time and effort to get a product that you perceive as being a higher quality provided you can find it. You're willing to pay more for a better plumber but you realize it takes quite a bit of time and experience to identify that plumber.

Life is filled with these compromises. Attempting to understand the notion of "quality" through Netflix's offering is unlikely to reveal anything pertinent. For precisely the same reasons that bad plumbers exist and still get enough custom to support themselves.
Except that Claude often takes into account things it thinks might be typos.

This is not code. Forgetting a semi colon will not make the output break. It thinks 'maybe they wrote he instead of she' and then gives options for both situations.

It is meant to solve real world situations where people might not type properly, it is not a word problem solving machine.
*Dale Gribble
And type declarations are s-exprs.

The advantage of type after name is that it keeps the traversing order consistently pre-order (node, left, right), instead of either:

- the notoriously ridiculous spiral cdecl: reading stuff right (output), node (func name) and left (input)

- create a new name to describe the function in pre-order: Func<Input, Output>
Regardless of whether or not your point is right -- I don't think Amazon reviews are a good yardstick for this. Product reviews are a tiny but noisy minority, who may or may not even act in line with their grievances. (i.e. some people just like to complain) A better metric would be return rates and/or sales figures.
I’m saying I prefer to design a database with sql, views, and native applications rather than python classes and web interfaces.
Everything can be taken to extremes but up to a point you can definitely hear the difference - e.g. MP3 vs FLAC, quality vs budget headphones etc. I never wanted to go any deeper than that for fear of escalating costs!
not the same person, but i don't. however my laptop for sure does because even when i am not working it is used as a communication and entertainment device. and when traveling those hours go by fast. unfortunately battery run time is one of the issues that linux hasn't cracked yet. i wish i could get 14 hours of battery time out of my laptop
eh, it's a spectrum.

i would not call myself an audiophile, per se, but i can hear the difference between a 128kbps MP3 and Opus 96kbps. same with $10 ear buds vs $150 iems, or my laptop's shitty 3.5mm stereo jack and a $30 usb dac.

once you get into stuff like $1K iems or dacs it's mostly bullshit (aside from brand/aesthetics, and things unrelated to audio fidelity). same with anyone claiming they can hear a difference between FLAC and Opus 160; trust me, you can't.
If 90% of your problem users come from 1-2 countries, seems pretty sensible to block that country. I know I have 0 paying users in those countries, so why deal with it? Let them go fight it out doing bot wars in local sites
Price comparing Macs and PCs has rarely been accurate. The experts I remember would hammer the price difference and say Apple was dying so the investment isn’t worth it.
ReAct Prompting: A Strategic Look at Next-Gen LLM Interactions
lol we made same comment at same time :D
>Sure, I can tell the quality once the thing is in my hand. However, that's far, far too late.

True, and I believe that at some point in the past products came with a relatively generous return window.
I wonder if maybe the goal is to provide the actual scholars with options, approaches or translations they hadn't thought of yet. In essence just what you said, structured guessing, but if you can have a well-trained bot guess within specific bounds countless times and output the patterns in the guesses, maybe it would be enough. Not, "My AI translated this ancient fragment of text," but "My AI sent us in a direction we hadn't previously had the time or inclination to explore, which turned out to be fruitful."
Well, I don't use makefiles to deploy software with Rust. I also have never used lex or yacc, but I bet there are similar tools in the ecosystem, or wrappers for those. That would obviate what I will offer below.

Often a new language in a project would define an application boundary. So those would be different containers or services. I may deploy via container images, or an OS specific installer, etc. If we aren't crossing an application boundary I may use FFI. Sometimes I use https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-bindgen/ to smooth that over for C dependencies. There is also a nice concept called a build.rs file: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/build-script-examp.... There's also tools like: https://github.com/casey/just and https://sagiegurari.github.io/cargo-make/

I rarely use multiple languages with Rust. A lot of interpreted languages have bindings through crates and can go in to a project through Cargo (python, etc). If it involves JS/TS on desktop, I'm usually using Tauri for that. Guess it depends on the system?

Hopefully that helps. You can also still use a Makefile if you want I just haven't dealt with one in a long time.
Is this still sarcasm? Isn't a major point in the problem that the majority of firearm violence isn't reported on, thus potentially skewing any policy solutions by obscuring the underlying problem.
I thought the same thing. I have a personal project that started out as a file system replacement (object store), but also does some amazing DB operations and is useful for analytics. I have often thought about trying to turn it into a profitable business; but the thought of needing to raise insane amounts of capital just to get a few years of runway, seems daunting.
That is not at all the reason for the great firewall.
In this case, it's less about discoverability, but more about long term archival. Will daemonology.net continue to exist forever? Arxiv.org might perish, but I am sure the community will make sure the data will be preserved.
Completely true in some segments and you can see apple even tried the 1%er watch thing with the ceramic editions. They did keep the Hermes straps around, so it’s really just veblen good accessorizing now.

On the other hand there’s the old line about how America is great because the minimum wage worker and CEO both drink the same Coke.

Nowadays food has stratified far more and you’re more likely to have the bottom end drinking discount label house brand soda while the 1% doesn’t even drink Coke but instead some artisanal small batch thing you’ve never heard of for $5/can.
node is used extensively on frontend. Massive bundles of js libraries. That is indeed part of the webpage.

And it doesn't matter how typical or not, I'm referencing the case in point.
There is also vintageish SCXML underwritten by the w3c, with the panoply of xml friends (an xsd schema hence validator, xpath queries and xslt transforms). Also being part of the uml chart family it should be xmi-borne, if you wondered.
Most be true then :)
Don't worry about skipping a rung - more often than not, title inflation happens when you move into the services world. It is a sales technique -- customers feel good when a VP is leading their product. There is an unbelievable number of VPs in some industries.

You would only need to worry if you were actually going to be doing VP-level work - building organizations instead of products. It sounds like you are not expected to be at that level. You just need to run a small existing org, not build out new ones. So just make sure you are able to do the actual job you are getting hired for, and enjoy the nice title.
Right there with you. The trend towards video content instead of written sucks so much.
One Set of China. Five Generations
sorry to hear that. I think the consensus is that neither standing / sitting for long amounts of time is preferable - avoid static positions.

For me a standing desk decreases "friction" to move around. I find myself bouncing from foot to foot, pacing back and forth, etc.

A chair OTOH makes it too easy to be motionless for longer period of time.

That being said, an electric standing desk makes it easy to swap between sitting / standing.
While most of what you write is true to some extend, I do not see how reviewing will get your paper published, except maybe for the cases the authors can guess the reviewer. It's anonymous normally.
I agree with everything except for Kamal. I'm happy to have someone else handle the server side maintenance. Maybe once my service grows so huge that handling it myself makes sense moneywise, but starting off that way is overkill when there's such affordable alternatives.