skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a reason why you don't see frontier-grade AI researchers throwing around meaningless numbers to go with the most layman idea of a product in the field imaginable. The whole thing stinks. I reckon this is some kind of extortion scam intended to trick people into compromising IP.
I think the $7,500 federal tax credit screws up most people's depreciation calculation. Or at least not keeping that in mind skews people's perception. For example, I purchased a Nissan Leaf years ago, when it was still eligible for the full $7,500 credit. The MSRP was ~$28k. But I only paid ~$21.5k. So it seems like it suffered 23% depreciation the day I drove it off the lot, since no one would pay more than that for a used one, otherwise, they can just buy it brand new for $21.5k themselves. But that 23% number doesn't affect the owner of the car.
Reacting to the example in the Readme: Rails controllers are not the place to put view logic. That’s what the view layer is for. I suggest showing a view helper as an example instead.
> and the work/life balance is good for the middle aged

> under continuous competitive pressure so it is far from a snoozy place to serve out time - it's a mission and a struggle every day, things change often, the pace is fast

How do you reconcile these 2 statements? Maybe there's something else you mean by work/life balance?
Have you tried https://github.com/emacs-jupyter/jupyter
Eg as org-mode code blocks.
Considering the state of offline media today, I doubt there is any going back to the real or imagined pre-internet days of media.
It's actually counting the atoms.
but one need to learn lisp to read it?..
Yeah? Do you blame the kids?

Or do you blame the parents?
Honestly, I don't really know if I should or shouldn't be.

ESG actively allocated investment dollars that were specifically designated for socially and environmentally responsible businesses into oil & gas companies, so in that case keeping up appearances is actively making things worse than doing nothing.
I honestly don't see what's so hard about a bot simulating "the norm" within the margin of error. This cat-and-mouse game is just like a GAN, the end result is indistinguishable even by a bot.
Cars are actually a good analogy. They seem helpful in a lot of ways, and they can be, but ultimately they're harmful to your health, other's health, environment, and the design and ability to construct places and locations free of drudgery.
It is concerning, but it’s a symptom of a problem that, if you are concerned, you probably knew about already.
I had a similar issue!

Around 2017 I moved into a new house and my MacBook Pro started getting latency spikes every few minutes. Not as bad, but still noticeable. This irked me quite a bit, because I spent several weeks wiring my house with the best POE-powered WiFi access points available at that time.

So I spent some time debugging the issue, and it turned out that the culprit was in the location services! For some reason, the weather widget tried to check the location every few minutes, and that involved scanning for the WiFi access points. Which in turn meant that latency spike, I posted about it on StackOverflow ( https://superuser.com/questions/1142798/experiencing-high-la... ).
But why should there be two polar opposites: utility & art? Even when reading comments on HN I appreciate a a well written narrative with clarity and cohesion, instead of an assorted stack of bullet points.

The idea is that good writing actually makes you think clearer (both writer & reader); it’s not just a nice to have.
I think it's a shame that ESG/DEI/etc all got lumped in together by the culture warriors on various ends of the spectrum. It makes logical sense that a business that acts responsibly vis-a-vis its environmental externalities would generate greater value in the long run (whether because they've avoided fines, or reduced the negative externalities, or whatever) [0]. I don't think we'd have as much of this climate backtracking if the "E" had been kept separate from the "S" and the "G". Unfortunately, now it's all been lumped together as part of the never ending culture war. Shame.

[0] This doesn't speak to the problem of "greenwashing" investments, but that's a different thread imo.
But is this per capita? GDP and population are not necessarily linear
+1

What could be useful here is if postgres provided a way to determine the latest frozen uuid. This could be a few ms behind the last committed uuid but should guarantee that no new rows will land before the frozen uuid. Then we can use a single cursor track previously seen.
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But they seem to use much wider grammars, because their (synthetic) dataset is a bunch of coherent stories at the level of 3-4 y.o. children.

I would consider the "Simple English Wikipedia" the next training set / benchmark.
When you do that you are just putting the whole book into context for openAI to reason about. That works if the work of smaller than the context.

For longer documents or for groups of documents you need a kind of search to extract the most relevant passages to throw in the context.

That is RAG. That search you do.

It's usually a semantic search using embedded data created by a specialized model to create these embeds and a specific algorithm to chunk the document into smaller pieces to derive meaning from.

So you have multiple pieces involved into the job. A chunker, an embbeder model, a vector database, etc.
These tiny models in general have really weird failure modes. I tried the tiny stories prompt about asking mom for a dog who said no, and it output an incredibly dark story about how she asked her dad and they got a dog but it had pancreatic cancer (paraphrasing, it went into detail about the surgery etc.) and then starting writing an informational PSA about who is at risk of pancreatic cancer etc.
I'm also on team Keep An Eye On Things™, and approximately none of it really feeds into an anxiety loop. (There's a tiny sliver of the pie that does, but it's easy enough to talk myself off that ledge and go engage in a Weltschmerzspaziergang[0].)

I know it's stuff I can't control, and that's sort of the point. I want to know what I can't control so that I can know what I can control, if that makes sense.

0: Otherwise known as "touching grass."
While I agree with that ideal I’m not sure how realistic it is. Trump was elected on a populist platform and quickly betrayed his base again, this time before he has even taken office. What are people to do, vote harder? It’s not like Kamala would have fixed this either. If Kamala had a better chance of winning the ‘Tech Titans’ wouldn’t have switched teams. They would have done anything the government asked for so long as the scamming ad revenue kept flowing.

If we mean ‘we tech workers’ then you’ll just be replaced, just like how I was when I quit being a researcher at FANG companies over this and other ethical concerns. The only observable outcome is that my clear conscious came with the cost that I’m far poorer than I could have been. I’m lucky as I’m still well off but not everyone can make that call and survive. These scamming behaviors are trivial to detect and especially so at the large internet company level. It exists on these platforms because the owners want them to.
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How about Amazon style meetings with 4-6 page memos?
I agree with all you are saying. None of which negates the point about nor buying cash.

In the case you mention (where the company is bankrupt, it has (by definition) run out of cash.
Certainly there's not enough cash lying around to move the needle.
It's almost as though companies should be most concerned with profit and not unproductive virtue based working groups that don't produce shareholder value /shrug.
Good luck! These are difficult times for workers. Our societies will eventually figure something out, but until then it is best to adapt to these rapidly changing circumstances to the extent of our abilities.
> Also, given that this is the author's work laptop, what's the economic justification for not investing in the primary tool you use for work?

The author explains that there are motivations not related to money (we live on a finite earth, the manufacturing of a laptop encompass a considerable amount of energy and raw materials for mining, etc).
I work for a very large company. I'm very close to throwing my hands up in apathy because the company keeps throwing the teams in our area into chaos and disarray with little regard for the humans in them.

We have no investors to answer to. We're printing money. Yet at every opportunity company leadership reveals itself as this slavering beast where the only people in positions of power have gotten there through duplicity and a lack of empathy.

The tech job market is terrible. I'm trapped in the guts of a machine that was supposed to be one of the "good ones".

I'm not sure there's anything to do for people who want to act ethically and be decent to each other if even the "good" companies show a complete lack of regard for anything but making their profits take off into the stratosphere.
As I said, I know bash, I've been writing bash for 20 years. I often ask Cursor to write code because it's literally faster to type "cmd-k, ensure exactly two params are passed, 1st one is a dir, 2nd is a file, enter" then it is to type the code myself. It's like I'm programming with natural language rather than whatever programming language. Like a high level programming language, I decide what the program should do, and AI figures out how to do it. It's analogous to writing bash instead of c. I could write my scripts in c for MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE, but I don't because it's less convenient. I could write this snippet of bash myself, but I don't for same reason.

Re: macros: Cursor works this way as a shortcut for all manner of boring code in any programming language and for this kind of thing is very trustworthy. Using it leaves me more mental energy to spend on other things. Macros (I think I call this "snippets"?) are only worth it for frequently repeated tasks.

This is what that prompt produces. Besides putting the count check first, it's what I would have written myself:

if [[ $# -ne 2 ]]; then
echo "Error: Exactly 2 arguments required" >&2
return 1
fi

if [[ ! -d "$1" ]]; then
echo "Error: First argument must be a directory" >&2
return 1
fi

if [[ ! -f "$2" ]]; then
echo "Error: Second argument must be a file" >&2
return 1
fi
Market is so bad so it would be too risky for your roomie to get another job. The employer knows this and exploits this. I understand it.
Justified fire is still fire
Sounds cool but it's frustrating to see no dates or signs of progress on the site. Maybe their plans are measured in centuries.
Really harsh calling it a useless degree (even though I don’t disagree) but expectations should be in order. Hell, even Harvard MBA is 200k+ in the hole, so without a plan afterwards it may not be the best choice.

If he wanted to work in academia I think it’s a very reasonable choice.
I'm experiencing the same issue which is definitely exacerbated by straying from a 'default' configuration e.g. using a custom browser screen reader, browsing from Brazil, using a VPN, using Firefox. I think eventually I'll be completely locked out of the 'mainstream' web
You mean, like Tom and Jerry or Coyote and Road Runner?
Why?

I don’t see any incentives for decency.

Decency is as desired by society as “made locally.” Very few people are willing to pay for it and behaving that way he tremendous opportunity costs.
The simple fact of the matter is regulators in corrupt societies believe that laws are only good if the public generally breaks them.

These societies may deceitfully claim to follow a rule of law, while objectively being rule by law.

They generally believe that if you can't use the law to coerce people to some form of arbitrary action after-the-fact through blackmail, the law is useless, and they glory in their power and control of others (privately).

This is why they write law ambiguously enough so it can apply to just about anything, and twist it later just like how it is written in Animal Farm.

Safety is just one of many propaganda narratives used, its all for the benefit of society where everyone is equal, some people in such societies are more equal than others.

Corruption is generally not done by the brightest, it often neglects rational principles for long-term survivability. The problem is these people become delusional warping things until collapse under a de-facto state of non-market socialism drives ecological overshoot into a great dying, if no other crises takes them first.

The chancellor will have his butter while everyone else starves, right up until he can't.

You can't have capitalism under a money printing fiat regime, where the majority of the market cooperates. Economic calculation requires independent adversarial decision-making, and for production in the economy to continue, in general, it requires producers and consumers to make more than enough to cover costs (in purchasing power, disconnected from currency debasement), a profit.

Fractional reserve issued debt, with no fractional reserve (0%) is money printing, its been that way since 2020. Basel III uses valuation as a capital reserve, so when valuations based in fiat change suddenly to the negative, the few banks left can collapse without warning. Value has credibly been shown to be subjective, it changes for every person, so you have to ask who decides the value. The same people issuing the debt as a reserve get to decide, which is a recipe for delusion, and chaotic collapse.

A conflict of interest like this never results in fraud /s...

Government has long been trying to make the public helplessly dependent on them so that no matter what they do (even if they break oaths and the constitution), they'll still retain power through a corruption by dependency. Its sad that such evil blind people have been allowed to get into these positions of power.

Survival will in the near future come down to whether or not we can oust such people from those positions or if people will complacently just follow them to their deaths believing lies.

Lies of omission, even unknowingly and without intent, are still lies, and result in the same destructive outcomes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2nb4x9BiQY
I can't see anything on the link. But, if the title set forth in the post accurately portrays a position by Musk that the First Amendment's reference to "freedom of speech" is meant to contrast with paid speech, then Musk's brain is more drug addled than commonly understood.
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> The "unsubscribe" button in Indeed's job notification emails leads me to an impassable Cloudflare challenge.

That's a CAN-SPAM act violation.

FTC: "Tell recipients how to opt out of receiving future marketing email from you. Your message must include a clear and conspicuous explanation of how the recipient can opt out of getting marketing email from you in the future. Craft the notice in a way that’s easy for an ordinary person to recognize, read, and understand. Creative use of type size, color, and location can improve clarity. Give a return email address or another easy Internet-based way to allow people to communicate their choice to you. You may create a menu to allow a recipient to opt out of certain types of messages, but you must include the option to stop all marketing messages from you. Make sure your spam filter doesn’t block these opt-out requests."[1]

Experian was recently fined for making it hard to opt out of their marketing emails.

The actual regulation text:

§ 316.5 Prohibition on charging a fee or imposing other requirements on recipients who wish to opt out.

Neither a sender nor any person acting on behalf of a sender may require that any recipient pay any fee, provide any information other than the recipient's electronic mail address and opt-out preferences, or take any other steps except sending a reply electronic mail message or visiting a single Internet Web page, in order to:

(a) Use a return electronic mail address or other Internet-based mechanism, required by 15 U.S.C. 7704(a)(3), to submit a request not to receive future commercial electronic mail messages from a sender; or

(b) Have such a request honored as required by 15 U.S.C. 7704(a)(3)(B) and (a)(4).

That seems to cover it. File a CAN-SPAM act complaint (spam@uce.gov). Send a copy to the legal department of the sender.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/can-spam-act...
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Nope. I find it hopeful. Maybe people in general are sick of the pandering and performative nonsense and are finally realizing "awareness" is a bullshit made up thing for people to feel better while doing absolutely nothing useful. As others have pointed out, this sort of stuff is actively harmful once entities learn to easily game it.

This sort of thing has sucked the air from anyone actually doing useful meaningful things - since anyone paying attention just rolls their eyes when someone talks about being green or whatever. Sure, some companies and orgs actually are legitimately doing useful and interesting stuff - but it takes so much personal research into each one now that anyone blathering about how they are green is met with instant suspicion to anyone remotely paying attention to the space.

The less administrative and marketing driven grift the better, even if it's a tiny little baby step. This sort of thing has done more to harm the environmental movement than helped it from where I'm standing.
IIRC SWI-Prolog can be embedded in Python if that's your thing. Interfacing with Scryer Prolog might be require a bit more but ought to be doable, and if they haven't surpassed SWI in some performance metrics yet I'd be surprised.

I'm kind of a lisper but I find it easier to get things done in a proper Prolog than the kanrens.
consuming content
Framed in a slightly less condescending way: what kind of prompts are you sending the AI about my events?

How does it give me a starting point for "Fix bug tickets that came in over holidays" or "run to trader joe's to pick up groceries"? If this isn't a good use case for it, what kind of events are?
Scott Aaronson: Aligning Superintelligent AGI (2024) [video]
Yeah, I kinda want to see two kinds of big kinda-evil forces fight, in the hopes we get some fair and consistent rules instead of "it's vague enough that you can do/prevent anything as long as you have enough lobbyists and lawyers."
There's nothing wrong with that per se, especially for a company.

I'm only referring to hireability in new roles. If someone is staying in such a role that entire time, especially if their niche hasn't evolved such that it indicates refreshing tech skills from time to time, they shouldn't be surprised if the rest of the world has moved on from where they've stayed.
Mini Karen, on the other hand...
It seems the voucher codes they 'find' are not the result of them searching the Web.

They are simply codes provided by partnered businesses and may be beaten by codes you can get by searching yourself.

If true, then this is them outright lying to the user.

And you know, if they don't find a coupon code for you, one might still be at least a little annoyed that the original 'salesman' didn't get their affiliate commission; it instead being pinched by another.
From the article:

> They probably trained the model on a synthetic dataset generated by GPT-4o.

This seems to be the case. I can speculate further. They trained on copyrighted material that OpenAI did not.
They provided political cover and bogus argument that industry could regulate itself instead of proper government regulations being put in.
I'm interested in a miniKanren port, or something like it, to TXR Lisp. I would possibly make it a part of the standard library of the language, so programs could rely on it just being there.
Wow, the amount of ads I get is insane. For every three posts, one is an ad:

- Post (from a friend)
- Ad
- Post (from a random page I don't follow)
- People you may know (I don't know any of those people)
- Ad
- Group post (from Group I don't follow)
- Post (from a random page I don't follow)
- Ad
- Post (from a friend)
- Post (from a page I follow)
- Ad
40% of the internet’s traffic now is bots, with about half of those being malicious. Fail2ban is decent for a very small DDoS, but useless for one with any substance, and also useless against bots scraping data or probing for weaknesses.

Also remember, especially on AWS, bandwidth is expensive. A CDN cache + blocking bots = big savings.
The Model 3 refresh isn’t a new car though

And they announced the Cybercab at $25k, potentially eating into the Model 3

They’re not just dropping a $25k Model 2 this year

The Model 3 refresh and the upcoming Model Y refresh got leaked a year out, there’s just no leaks for a Model 2 whatsoever.
95% solution might work for small startup X or small biz y but at large company scale 5% is a huge deviation to correct on. Maybe just depends on the client and how touchy they are. At my company, we measure metrics in bps and moving something 50 bps is a huge win. 500 bps would be unheard of.
Note it's not that number, but roughly the square root of that number, that matters.

And they might be quite non-uniform. If the scheduler tick and the nanosecond clock are synchronous, you could end up with a few thousand popular values instead of a billion.

It's not a real concern today, and probably won't be a real concern in 10 years, but it's not so far removed from possibility that no one has to think about it.
Dupe (31 points, 15 hours ago, 67 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42571545
Just because the user agrees to Honeys T&C does not mean the user has the right to share the coupon in that manner. The coupon originating company did not give the user the coupon with permission to share.

If it was a printed coupon and photocopied it would be obviously illegal, I’m not sure how the digital equivalent would not be illegal. If such a coupon was publicly available then it would be like if honey went and fetched you a new coupon instead of copying an existing one.

Even if the user says they have the right it doesn’t mean they do, and at what point does it become handling stolen goods. Consider a scrap dealer accepting a clearly stolen catalytic converter, would that still be illegal if the scrap dealer did not pay for it? How ‘clearly stolen’ would it have to be to be illegal. What is a reasonable amount of verification?
Elon Musk Uses Cybertruck Explosion to Show Tesla Can Remotely Unlock / Monitor