skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it's puzzling to me how posterity can tell if something has the quality to stand the test of time, but we, the contemporaries, cannot.

Though it seems that eventually, remarkable work does find its way up, even if the authors might not be around to enjoy the belated appraisal.

And in that case, what more can one do but do the work and hope for the best?
I'm guessing you already looked at org-mode code blocks which basically do the same thing as a juypter notebook without a web protocol, webUI and anything else if you wanted an experience that is easier to commit to a git repo and has a notion of cells which is the magic sauce for juypter (it was originally derived from ipython which is a command line interface). I am also a emacs user :)

Juypter has an interface and API built in. What Zasper is the reimplementation of the juypter protocol. You can see this at [1]. Juypter kernels are very different from Mathematica notebooks. Mathematica notebooks aren't related to juypter.

Juypter kernels encapsulate language runtimes so that they can be interfaced when called from a notebook.

[1] https://jupyter-client.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Come on now, even the author is pretty clear they're making compromises. Whether that's slower internet speed, lower quality display, worse battery or inability to run modern apps/web apps. There are a lot of ways in which this is making a trade off to priortize cost vs productivity. Sure, you can say all the ways in which the old laptop is inferior are unimportant, but I would atleast like to see some serious consideration of it.
Until I read this article, this thought had never occurred to me.

Not that I use a plastic board anyway.
Yeah, just a low effort drive by comment of mine driven by nostalgia. Was feelin a little mischievous.
TL;DR: It's a very interesting line of thought that as late as Q2 2024, there were a couple thought leaders who pushed the idea we'd have, like 16 specialized local models.

I could see that in the very long term, but as it stands, it works the way you intuited: 2 turkeys don't make an eagle, i.e. there's some critical size where its speaking coherently, and its at least an OOM bigger than it needs to be in order to be interesting for products

fwiw RAG for me in this case is:
- user asks q.

- llm generates search queries.

- search api returns urls.

- web view downloads urls.

- app turns html to text.

- local embedding model turns text into chunks.

- app decides, based on "character" limit configured by user, how many chunks to send.

- LLM gets all the chunks, instructions + original question, and answers.

It's incredibly interesting how many models fail this simple test, there's been multiple Google releases in the last year that just couldn't handle it.

- Some of it is basic too small to be coherent, bigcos don't make that mistake though.

- There's another critical threshold where the model doesn't wander off doing the traditional LLM task of completing rather than answering. What I mean is, throwing in 6 pages worth of retrieved webpages will cause some models to just start rambling like its writing more web pages, i.e. they're not able to "identify the context" of the web page snippets, and they ignore the instructions.
Not everyone has a dishwasher.
Now I really wonder: what did the company and the equipment used look like 400 years ago. And what music style were cymbals used for 400 years ago?
I find it ridiculous that the article blames the young generation. It is as if someone calculated their projected profits but the trends are different. Calling the young "Peter Pan"s will not solve the issue in any way. The society changes and marrying, taking a mortgage and having kids is no longer the norm.
It's not just you but what people who hate remote attestation tend to forget is that it's a sword that cuts in both directions. Servers can remotely attest to you, not just the other way around. Signal is an example of an app that demands a remote attestation from the server before uploading your sensitive data.

Attestation is just a tool. It can be used for all kinds of things and doesn't privilege one side or another. The average app developer doesn't truly care what device you use, they just want to cut out abuse and fraud, which are real problems that do require effective solutions.

Ultimately, trade requires some certainty that both sides will act as they promise to act. Attestation is more important for individuals attesting to companies because individuals have so many more ways to hold companies to account if they break their agreements than technology, like the legal system, which is largely ineffective at enforcing rules against individuals due to cost.
Yes, the implication is there and I am happy to be shown why CO2 is so key when man-made contributions to that tiny amount is so small also
MS Swaminathan worked and learnt under Borlaug. I'd like to think of them as hammer and anvil - Swaminathan is the hammer who worked out the implementation on the village level, but without Borlaug the anvil present to provide the technology, would have had his hands tied.
Google has sources: the sites/URLs of the search results, some of which may be reputable or be the source itself.

LLMs like Phind can cite parts of their output, but my understanding is they're prone to missing key details from or even contradicting the citations (the same issue as LLM "summaries" missing or contradicting what they're supposed to summarize), at least moreso than human writers (and surely more than reputable human writers).
All of those are very, very, easy to automate. There are plenty of bot accounts that have unintentionally checked the full list.
Wow that really works? So cool. I should bring my VMs back in house. Spare laptops I have.
FWIW I tried doing AoC for a few days with EdgeQL, and the experience proved to be quite interesting.

Some of my tweets (I should write a blog post):

- https://x.com/1st1/status/1864069589245858083

- vs SQL https://x.com/1st1/status/1864412869108092997
My favorite language for implementing short Hello World programs in is HQ9+ [1].

Joking aside, this page [2] used to be a great tutorial on writing small ELF binaries, but I'm not sure whether it will still work in 64-bit land. It proved very helpful for writing a 4K intro back in 1999.

[1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/HQ9%2B

[2] https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.ht...
The happy hacker: A guide to (mostly) harmless computer hacking
> The fact that people feel they can't share their opinion is what damages free speech.

I guess I should shut up about how stupid I think Elon is, I wouldn't want to offend anyone after all!
Nice idea! How's that working out for you? Stock OS? Bazzite?
Most people are happy living in a fair ecosystem - it's only the 1-2% of the population that seek control, money and power that start trying to exploit the system.

Only if we let that minority keep manipulating the system without consequences, it becomes the driving market force that the rest of the population also feels they have to comply to, to go along, as it already has happened in finance, academia, etc.
Several related cases; the opinion in one of them is here: https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/25a0002p-06.pd...

Lousy reporting: although it quotes the opinion and links to other articles on the same website, the article doesn't bother to cite the opinion or even mention the name of the case, let alone link to the source.
> I don't mean to start an argument here, but do you actually believe that endorsing a specific religion is the same as endorsing gay rights?

I'm LGBT and agnostic.

Schools banning crosses and the Swiss banning burqa are very similar to the LGBT flag removal in Michigan. It's all censorship to enforce the ideology you agree with.

A free society would do none of these things.

Instead we have two angry sides playing games to anger one another.
It's the latter. It's pretty much an agent for their GitHub repo. The agent needs access to their code and keeps some kind of knowledge that it generated in a tree database. Wouldn't it be considered a red flag that I can access their data whenever I want? If I used at-work encryption that just means that I have the ability to access to data whenever I want. However if they did some sort of self-hosting then I can only access it temporarily via APIs and thus I can only access the data temporarily when &they want.
What I find fascinating is how ML models hallucinate in a way that is sometimes reminiscent of a fever dream.
I should probably sit down and do the math on elecricity vs. gas and the payback time, but for reference I am something of a bottom-feeder when it comes to cars. I have pretty good success with used ICE cars in the $4-6k range. I look for southern cars with no rust/salt damage. They are out there, but you won't find them on Carvana.

My current daily driver is a 20 year old Mercedes E class that I bought for $4k. It's a V8 and takes premium gas, but I average close to 20mpg and don't really drive enough miles for that to be a huge dealbreaker. With $4/gal gas I might burn $8/day with typical driving. That might be roughly 10 kWh in a Leaf? I don't know what the losses are in charging but if that's 20 kWh to recharge, that would be maybe $4/day? So I'd save maybe $80/month if I drive 20 days a month? That's all very wild guesstimating but seems like it would take 10 years to pay back the price difference, also considering that I could not really drive the Leaf on any longer trips at all.
When I'm actually looking for coupons I tend to use an incognito window, but there are times when I'm clicking a link from reddit to see something someone has mentioned and then later go to the same site and buy something I was planning on buying and in those cases if the original link had an affiliate code, I'm pretty sure they end up getting credit for the later purchase that they had no involvement with.
A German guy did something similar with the "Parallel Live Simulator" app [0] and got free stuff from shops by pretending to be an influencer. [1]

It was funny, sad and scary at the same time.

0 - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bigbrain.p...

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9otwVwVCxSc

edit: typos
There were some recalls I believe that prevented them from handing over to customers at a few points in the last year. Currently the only inventory available in the markets I just checked only have 5-10 of the $100k Foundation series as available.

Also curious to know if those lots are still storing trucks. A dozen trucks stored in a lot doesnt really mean much, look at any ford or chevy dealership.
Just move to Bluesky or Mastodon.
The data parsing is just one recursive query to read one line at a time, and it is done pretty much the same way in each problem.
I like doing calisthenics furst thing in the morning. Pullups, pushups, etc. Great way to start the day.
> Android devices are fully open and you can reflash them to whatever OS you want.

It doesn't matter. Those devices fail hardware remote attestation.

> Some remote servers won't give you service if you do that, but nothing is locking you out of your device.

The device's purpose is to be used. If it can't be used without giving up things like banks and private communications, it won't be used.

Device is not locked, it just turns into a paperweight if you actually unlock it.

> As Android dominates the global market, you already live in that world where most devices are open.

Wanna know what else dominates the global market? WhatsApp. In many regions of the world, without their services, you are ostracized.
"Zildjian" is an Armenian last name, but "Zildji" (zilci) means "cymbalist"/"cymbal-maker", or more generically, "bell-maker" in Turkish. "-ian" is the Armenian patronymic suffix. The whole word means something like "Cymbalistson" which makes it the most fitting company name to produce cymbals.
> Having only 6-7 job markets in the entire US for tech workers continues to be dumb and short-sighted

That may be true, but it's also true that for many educated people, and especially for people who are non-white, much of the US is just not a very attractive place to live. Amazing observation about the "world,s richest country," but it's true.

I wish more US cities had public transit, and diversity of food and people, and broad cultural choices, and good race relations ... but they mostly don't. And even if the city is livable, you're surrounded by a rural MAGAscape.
> I get it. It's hard to be optimistic as a kid; parents have to try harder than ever to keep them pointed in a positive direction.

So true. The amount of suicides among young people is staggering. It is like they globally don't see any aim in their lives. I thought about this for a long time and believe the reasons are quite complex but definitely also include the points you mentioned.
They are not comfortable with the fact that I can look at their code base whenever I want.
Similarly for direct comparison, ULID has 48-bit timestamps, also at the millisecond, and 80 random bits.

Also to compare, the ULID spec technique for monotonicity is to take a single random value and then start incrementing the lowest bits, trading random entropy for direct "nearness", one after another. Versus the rand_a approach is effectively using the most significant bits, but keeping more random entropy.
More specifically, TFA:

> the F.C.C. lacked the authority to reinstate rules that prevented broadband providers from slowing or blocking access to internet content.

Which means it's up to congress to endow the FCC with that authority if we are to have said neutrality.
Yeah, there is so much more than just hitting these cymbals. How and where and how hard. Anyone who strikes one is not likely to ever forget the experience and it takes quite a while to even scratch the surface of how many different sounds can be produced with each model using various techniques.

I used to crawl around drum sets when I was a baby as my father was a professional musician. I mounted the set as soon as I could and it was the only instrument I was was ever really interested in. Alas, I was heavily discouraged from pursuing music as a child by my mother. She blamed our shit life on my father and his obsession with music and he basically quit after the divorce and went into entrepreneurship (funded by my grandfather's GE stock) to pay our child support. I digress.
Talking to you.

Regardless of whether you are factually correct, "I'm guessing that you are a bot, powered by someone's home-trained LLM", the likes of which "usually... go to reddit" is a personal attack. Don't do that here.

When did you not answer that? In the post I replied to, when you said exactly none of the things you said in this post to justify your position and argue against his.

It's not that hard. Give real argument. Don't give drive-by insults, no matter how appropriate you think they are.
> Requiring real ID

Yeah, people would love that for sure.

> showing _regional_ stars like Apple/Google would be a start.

What does that mean? I thought regions only impact ranking not the net amount of stars (assuming we're talking about Apple/Google Maps). Which as far as I know, github doesn't do ranking.
It is not that we are addicted to subscriptions as consumers, it is that the businesses are addicted. For one thing, business analysts like it, because it is easy to put a value on an annuity.

In the case of entertainment "it's expensive" is both true and false. Not long ago a lot of people had $130 a month cable bills but you got a stupendous amount of content and if you looked at it that way it was cheap (it certainly doesn't dwarf rent, mortgage, student loans, and many common expenses.) Today even if you subscribed to Netflix + Apple TV + Peacock and also watched some Tubi you're paying a fraction of that.

If you were buying one CD a week that is many times the cost of a Spotify subscription. As much as I believe it will be the end of gaming as we know it, GAME PASS is a great deal in the short term compared to buying an AAA game every 3 months. (The AAA game is a risky business model though because I have a choice of which one to buy and if your game sucks... Sorry) Game developers really want to get you playing a service game like League of Legends and never stop.
I try to be charitable with 15 year old wannabes.

Because 15 year olds who don't wannabe something, generally don't turn out interesting. And most 15 year olds who already have their life figured out are either wrong or boring.

But these are perspectives from a few decades later. At the time, I too had strong opinions about people who wore their aspirations on (or between) their sleeves. We called them poseurs. Because we had more opinions than knowledge. Like 15 year olds. :)

(Aside: you have to admit though: The Zildjian logotype is pretty great. Also, because you'd often get a free t-shirt with purchase, it was hard to tell the legit from the poseur without getting them to sit at the kit.)
Doesn't seem to be the case anymore: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42369757
The more direct solution would be a law that required distributing human-editable code alongside software. No need for copyright or anything remotely similar. Code being copyrightable would just be getting in the way at that point.

But in a world where that is politically infeasible, we have to use whatever tools we have at hand to get as close as we can. And, unfortunately, the tool we happen to have is the modern copyright regime.
This is heartening to see; Much of what I read about business here are driven by selling the company after a few years as the explicit goal from the start.
> The entire point of Honey is that it is activated at checkout: how else could it work?

There is a (imo bad faith) argument that Honey directs you to a cheaper vendor (How? When? I’ve never seen it) thus saving the consumer money. I have never seen anyone use Honey this way and I’m not even sure what user behavior / UI they have built up around this flow but I feel it’s just to cover their ass.
I always report more than 40 hours a week for my internal company tracking (because there's usually a couple of internal firm meetings during the week), but it's never usually more than 45 hours. We've been pretty meeting-lite lately so I'm usually just reporting 42 hour weeks lately.

That being said, I don't worry about tracking bathroom breaks, or the occasional mental break here and there. My client is happy, I'm getting done what they're wanting to get done when they're wanting it to be done, I just bill 8 hours for the day and it's not a big deal (obviously it isn't, they've been willing to pay for me for almost three years at this point on two different projects and I get glowing reviews whenever I request feedback from them to pass along to my boss).

I work 8:30 to 5:30 so that includes an extra hour for lunch, by the way, so that's not counted, no. But I'm at home, so it doesn't feel like work anyway, just an hour to relax, have a sandwich, let the dogs out, and maybe throw a recipe in the slow cooker for dinner.

I'm actually in the middle of a 3.5 week break because I had so much built up time at the end of the year. I knew my client does a two week furlough for consultants at the end of the year so I was already planning for that, and also was planning a week for a wedding trip for a wedding ceremony/reception that had to be cancelled because a recent hurricane pretty much destroyed the town it was going to be held in. And I took a week off for vacation earlier this year.
https://finish-h.im
Exactly, it doesn't even help the owners themselves, because people will keep asking the same things over and over again. It's not like a forum where you can easily search by topic.
Awesome work, kudos to the PyPI team. Will it be possible to receive notifications of projects quarantine as a member of the public?
>you realize that everyone, including yourself, is doomed to incompetence

Appreciate the perspective of applying this to one's self instead of only others.

I've often wondered if I can escape this or delay it by refusing management positions or other promotions beyond an IC role. Continue gaining efficiency and knowledge and striving to excel in a lower position I'm competent for.

Maybe the best hope is just delaying it. And even then you're probably just limiting yourself in other ways, which can lead to resentment.
I did something with JSON back before there was reasonable native support - it's certainly not robust, but it handled a few syntax variants for a use case where we had an extra attribute column that serialized JSON, and wanted to surface one of the fields as a proper column on the table.

https://blog.tracefunc.com/2011/11/19/parsing-json-in-sql-ht...
It's a bad point. Forcing companies to maintain internet forums just because third parties may want the data in them isn't a reasonable thing to legislate.
Do we have a similar issue on GH? I think the nature of the service and its target audience affect this problem in a big way. You can follow anyone on GH, but there's no mutual connection option at all. LI has following and mutual connections. LI also has a much wider audience.

How might a 'connection' look on GH? Will people freely connect, or will they appraise requests more closely?
Yep, wake up 10am, work with maybe a gym or walk break, 8 hours of free time.

Still get far less done than many parents posting here. There are upsides to a rigid routine and not being able to put stuff off as easily.
> see my friends’ baby pictures and

That's the thing, your "friends’ baby pictures" still being posted to FB is an US insularity thing, we used to do the same here in Eastern Europe until, I can't tell, 5 to 7 years ago but at some point that sharing of family photos on FB has just stopped.

As with other things internet related (see WhatsApp about 7-8 years ago, TikTok now), the US still seems to live in the past and isn't up to date with the newest stuff. As per WhatsApp, Facebook (the company) was lucky enough to be able to buy it back in the day (and, even then, lots of US users on this forum had never heard of it, which goes to show that insularity that I've mentioned), but with TikTok they don't have that option available for them anymore.

It has been mentioned here in the past several times, but many US-based people on this forum should take a step back, look at the outside world, and realise that, in many respects, they've been out-manoeuvred by said outside world when it comes to the internet. And I'm not talking about places like China, which is head and shoulders above the US when it comes to all things digital, but I'd be willing to bet that nowadays many people in Subsaharan Africa (several orders of magnitude poorer than the US) carry out more of their day to day tasks via their mobile phones and the internet compared to the people in the US.

What big US tech companies got going for them is a captive market (I don't think that the powers that be in DC will let any new TikTok-like non-American company to happen again) and, more importantly, lots and lots of money, both in their coffers/investors' pockets and, just as important, in their clients' pockets. But they don't have the edge anymore when it comes to innovation and to being relevant to people's lives (again, outside the US and some related markets).
One can still want much looser copyright. For example, 14 years by default, pay $$ to extend it, increasing exponentially each time (as compensation for stealing from the public domain). At least I'm willing to call extended copyright terms stealing if we're going to call format shifting and other personal use cases stealing.
> Requiring real ID

Sir, this is an HN.
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