skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! I actually planned to learn some prompt engineering best practice and kept iterating, but the performance kept getting worse and I reverted to the first version. I ended up using a pretty straightforward one just asking to find events with dates, using the precision available for example, if only year is available just using year, otherwise it will make something up like YYYY/1/1, output the event in JSON format with a headline and a more detailed description. My experience tells me a better model is much more important than the prompt engineering (but ofc the prompt needs to be basically right). For cost consideration, I was trying to use openai 4o-mini and the performance was bad no matter how hard I tried for better prompt, but when I switch to 4o, it works for even a basic prompt.

One issue it's struggling is that I want it to output a negative year if it's BC/BCE, it sometimes messes it up, either using positive year for BC/BCE or negative year even it's AD. I changed the prompt to include date in the detailed description because I found most of the time the date in the description is actually right, and ask it correct the date by referring what's in the description to be positive or negative. I feel this fixed the issue for the most time, but seems still happens for some case.

Overall, the challenge here is that I don't really have a benchmark to evaluate the quality of the timelines yet, I basically do a manual random sampling of timelines to check the quality myself. The future work (if I keep my current interest on this) would be building a benchmark which can auto evaluate the quality so that the iteration of prompt can happen and also might try different LLMs.
But … he didn’t found any of those companies?
Create Consistent Character as Textual Inversion Embedding with Stable Diffusion
"B-b-but this is necessary, because reasons"

Also add security and privacy costs to this.
Musk did not start Tesla.
Acela does have the quiet car.

Many more people do sleep on planes than busses.
I'm sorry you are going through this.

I'll be blunt. I believe in the UK (as in NZ) a statement of truth or opinion is not defamatory. One would still have to go through the motions though, to prove it.

Reading the blog post I am left with the feeling you are on thin ice. You don't qualify it as an opinion and it doesn't sound you have evidence to support the claims. Screenshots may not suffice. You would need witnesses and statements or documents to prove it.

You will need these if the person unmasks your address and brings a case to court.

As usual IANAL.
Ads? Which ads? None on my devices at least. Block the filth already, there is no reason to subject yourself or your family to it. Get a device which is under your own control - nothing made by Apple, get an Android device on which you install something like LineageOS or GrapheneOS or another similar AOSP-derived distribution, do not use unmodified stock Android distributions - and install several layers of content blocking. Use a VPN with an endpoint at your own router on which you have more content blocking, that way you can safely use public WiFi hotspots. I never see advertising and would not accept anything else.
> it can also just be because the dev doesn't bother or does the bare minimum

sounds like a people problem — which is management problem.

> I'd argue the creation of tech debt is often coding problem. The longevity and persistence of tech debt is a management problem.

i’d argue the creation of tech debt is more often due to those doing the coding operating under the limitations placed on them. The longevity and persistence of tech debt is just an extension of that.

given an infinite amount of time and money, i can write an ideal solution to a solvable problem (or at least close to ideal, i’m not that good of a dev).

the limitations create tech debt, and they’re always there because infinite resources (time and money) don’t exist.

so tech debt always exists because there’s always limitations. most of the time those resource limitations are decided by management (time/money/people)

but there are language/framework/library limitations which create tech debt too though, which i think is what you might be referring to?

usually those are less common though
Article is 8 years old, so a 10 year old phone makes sense
H5 bird flu
Using Cloudflare for anything risky seems short-sighted, but rather than just complaining about that, here is a proposed solution: https://njal.la/ (not affiliated, just a grateful user)

100% focused on privacy, relatively cheap, available over Tor, established by Peter Sunde (of ThePirateBay/IPredator/Piratbyrån fame) and finally in 2020 RIAA and MPA both complained about Njalla which gives a bit more confidence Njalla haven't completely sold out yet.

I don't think I'd even go for a mainstream US service like AWS, Google or Cloudflare if I what I want to host is even slightly controversial-but-not-illegal or where I prefer the hosting provider not to know who I am.

(worth noting though, Njalla is still a company who has to follow the applicable laws, so unsure how much it would have helped in OPs case)
That man speaks so much bs that it’s amazing people believe anything he says.
It is somewhat surprising, because one of the most famous papers in chaos theory, "The Applicability of the Third Integral of Motion" (Henon & Heiles), basically starts by saying a similar assumption isn't true, that stars aren't ergodically distributed in the axial/radial directions.

If you have five equations of motion in a six-dimensional universe (3 space + 3 velocity coordinates), you can compute the future trajectory of each point. Two equations come from constant energy & angular momentum, and these constrain where in phase-space the trajectories can go. Another two equations are do not make any such constraints, which implies stars are at least ergodically distributed in a 2D phase-space. Since none of these equations constrain the axial/radial velocity, you would expect the dispersions to be equal for both directions. However, this turns out to not be the case. This means there must be a third isolating equation of motion out there, and the surprising thing Henon & Heiles find is it's chaotic! Sometimes it constrains points to 2D regions of phase-space (i.e. concentric circles of orbits), and other times it lets them move in a 3D region (i.e. chaotic trajectories filling the space).
We're going straight to Mars. The Moon is a distraction
I feel like all of the posts here are only going to the list of problems for the potential lawsuit (as photomatt found out for their WP engine thing.)
Why not host in China or Mongolia or Russia and never have to deal with any of these issues?
Thanks I will contact them. I've lost count of how many organisations I've contacted. This lies with Cloudflare really to bat it back and say this isn't right.
It’s astounding how bad FB Marketplace search is, though. For very popular things, it’s fine. For browsing and “huh, that’s interesting,” it’s fine.

But if I am looking for something specific, it is an incredible failure. It’s so bad I suspect they intentionally don’t want it to work well. That is, I think they only want to optimize for low-effort social buying, not picky people who know exactly what they want.

For this reason I have bought way more stuff off eBay than FB Marketplace recently.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Brazil says 93% of the population live in Brazil’s main time zone.

So what?

I was wondering how much the day length actually varies in Brazil. Isn’t most of the country near the equator?
The US Constitution doesn’t really apply to foreign nationals in their native country.
No reason, but Elon style is - if he delivers to deliver qualitive and not quantitative improvements to technology.
This is very concerning, specially due to the size and omnipresence of Cloudflare. What are the alternatives here? How can we guarantee freedom of press to journalists on the internet?
Welcome to why we've always warned people to learn to sustainably self-host. After a while, the deep pocketed will begin to use disintermediation and deplatforming against you.

It's hard. It seems like it shouldn't be necessary, but it is.
He wasn't. He stated from the start that all of his stories were gimicked to remove the singularity.

This theory does not do that.
This is not a problem at all as long as you use very good typing because the local contract boundaries are what matter unless you use huge amounts of global state which everybody knows is a very very bad idea and has been demonized for decades
It only exposes ports if you pass the command-line flag that says to do so. How is that "without asking your permission"?
I'd rather not give my money to any of them! I realise you're probably being ironic given the whole USA free speech thing.
It’s not like Musk builds rockets. He pays for it but that’s it. He also spent $44bn on an American president. He’s clearly intelligent but is he a genius?
The situation certainly won't be similar 3-5 years down the line, but it also won't necessarily be different in the way that people are predicting.

In the section about the 70% problem, the author writes:

> The good news? This gap will likely narrow as tools improve.

This is not a fact, it's a prediction, an article of faith. It's a common prediction, that these tools will only get better over time, but that's not guaranteed! I think it's likely as well, provided you define "improve" incredibly pedantically, but the unspoken part of this prediction is that the tools will improve _significantly,_ and _that_ part is one I have doubts about.

Honestly, I think it's pretty likely that we've just about hit the local maximum of our current techniques - training newer, bigger models is fantastically expensive and doesn't seem to have the same jumps in capability as earlier generations did, and stringing together a bunch of models in an agent produces frankly only modest improvements for the cost increase.

I've written about "the 70% problem" before (not by name, though), and my biggest worry there is that you require experience and good judgement to be able to use these tools effectively, and these tools by their nature erode that good judgement and deny you the experience. Juniors won't have to work through "the tough parts" of programming and build up the skills required to understand when an LLM is leading them astray, and even experienced programmers can lose familiarity with their own codebases as they rely on LLMs to provide the "understanding." Think of all the times where you haven't had to interact with a service for months, how long it takes to warm back up to it -- what about when that's _most_ of your code, because LLMs have been preventing you from needing to gain any deep understanding about it?

What happens if, in 3-5 years, LLMs don't get significantly better, but we've stopped producing properly capable Intermediate and Senior developers, and even started atrophying the skills of existing Seniors?

(Couple this with LLM-using developers who can move mountains in a day to kickstart new projects and get promoted, but leave behind a trashfire of a codebase for more "classically" experienced developers to clean up and maintain at a much slower pace. That's a problem that's _always_ been in the industry, just magnified due to the power of LLMs.)
If you add pear and spices to vodka, we call it liqueur and not pear-flavored vodka. So no, you are wrong. And the AI is wrong. But that is okay, if you want to enjoy leaning into the hype that's your choice.
From what I recall, it was the actual protection method that was protected by DMCA - when DVD protection was cracked it was forbidden to distribute a particular section of code so they just printed it on a Tee-shirt to troll the powers that be.
https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/konwinski-prize
> 60.9MB transferred

Opening this page 6 and a half times would exceed the monthly download limit on the first broadband internet plan my family had about twenty years ago in Australia.
Having gone through it I think the biggest hurdle is the 12ish credit hour paradigm in undergrad. You learn so much faster in grad school because you can actually dig in and focus on one subject or really one project within that subject at once. As a TA it was pretty common to hear students didn’t study at all for my exam because they had a chemistry exam that seemed more challenging and worthy of cramming, so as bio majors they failed the bio exam to cram for a chemistry prerequisite they might not have passed either. And I can tell you from experience that whatever they toil over in the library for that chemistry class that absolutely none of that will be used in their careers in biology or medicine. You don’t need to memorize how a paladium catalyst works in any job on this earth perhaps, but you need to do that and be able to see through basically a riddle on top of that to pass your ochem requirement, along with a dozen other similarly inane synthesis exercises you forget as soon as the term ends.

And what is worse, many students fail their ochem and the weight of that on their gpa sometimes forces a pivot out of the field entirely. Another potentially good scientist lost to unhelpful process.
I used Njalla for my domain. I was going to move off Cloudflare but I shouldn't have used it from the start. I never imagined they would just roll over to a court order given they don't host the content.
GrapheneOS, Firefox/Mull and uBlock Origin. Nope. :)
Remember, Cloudflare is a for-profit corporation that is listed on the stock market and are held accountable to local laws. While over the years they've done an excellent job of positioning themselves as fighting the good fight, they're not an activist organization and they are solely accountable to their shareholders.

If you sign up for a paid Cloudflare account, you're essentially submitting to what is called KYC (know your customer) in the banking industry by handing over payment information which personally identifies you. This opens you up to this kind of thing.

Cloudflare does not provide a level of anonymity. Instead it creates one more way to identify you.

As an aside, what is happening in the UK regarding free speech is worth keeping an eye on, no matter where you lean politically and how you feel about the players. It is going to shape the future of the global internet. It's also creating sharp divisions between the incoming conservative US administration and the left leaning UK labor government over there, and it will be interesting to see what the "special relationship" looks like coming out of the next four years.
Cowsay with More Animals, in R
Who is your host? I'm looking for recommendations and they sound cool.
Getting government education and training subsidies may also be a cause. Getting universities and community colleges to emphasize Comp sci classes and certifications probably provides a bigger, cheaper IT labor force. The corporations don't have to train or pay to train. Win win!
There are different sorts of WireGuard setups with different difficulties
I guess a lot of it comes down to what scale of publicity wandaluzt wants to deal with, whether they want to put more fuel on the fire or let it burn out, but I'd say sending a tip to the press who deal with these topics would sting more. The Register for their hosts being leaned on and their responses, Private Eye for the politics.
You don’t have to set up a corporate form to do business like this in the U.S. You can just start selling things and as long as you properly report your taxable income, you’re fine.
GrapheneOS unnecessary. Plain Android with Firefox and uBlock Origin suffices.
In what way? Unfortunately this is a last ditch desperate attempt. I've seen the CEO post here and thought I had to take the shot.
This piece obviously puts sales in a bad light. If you had asked me what a salesman is like in my early 20s, I would have described them much as this article expresses.

But in my career in Silicon Valley I really came to respect good salespeople. I often had roles where I was debugging customer-reported issues, and good salespeople make everything smoother.

I came to a conclusion that there are two types of sales transactions: one that is a one-time transaction and one that is an ongoing transaction.

The one-time salespeople were just like this article: they are just trying to close a sale knowing that they don't ever have to deal with you again. If they lie, they don't have to deal with the consequences. So their incentive is to spew any kind of nonsense or lies or manipulation to close the deal.

The other type of sales guys depending on building relationships. with engineers on both sides, with management, with purchasing and billing people, with everyone. When I was working on customer bugs, having a great sales guy representing the account made everything much easier. They could get the customers to loan hardware, assign more resources, get documentation, negotiate for time, etc. I respected these great sales guys because they had real skills and talent in these spheres that I didn't.
The labor is paid less than people flipping burgers usually. Post docs make less than fast food managers. Grad students less than the line cooks. And a lot of undergrads are “volunteering” or have half their wage paid by federal work study. A lot of labs their reagent costs are very low and they might used shared university equipment that’s already had a grant written to purchase it by the institution. It probably costs orders of magnitude more to outfit the kitchen at a mcdonalds than it does an average academic lab.
I suppose but I also have to eat and the skill set I have is technomancy.

Division of labor is fine, I think it's a fairly unique attitude in tech that we have do something (tm) with our skills. No one asks the accountant to get out there and fix climate change.
Which law is this specifically? Airfone was a thing for years.
ads aren't chewing though my mobile data. I generally don't go to any sites with ads. The few times I open a link and it's covered in ads I close the link.
> everybody agrees on it is that is is someone else's fault.

> In 2000 I was in the same place

May I ask what moved you and where you feel you moved to Paul? For
myself, trying to transcend that anger, as I expect you have during 25
years, is emancipating. To take ownership, rather than pleasure in
anger, allows shame begin doing its hard work, the path to a powerful
and infectious change of perspective. "I did this" is empowering
because it restores agency lost in the fog of rationalisation - some
of which you allude to. What a free person does a free person has
a firm right to undo as they choose. Taking responsibility is
therefore a freedom rather than encumbrance for the rational person
who hopes to engineer a way out of a complex problem. These are
conclusions I'm drawing toward in the last parts of my series on "Tech
rights or responsibilities", which I hope you'll enjoy as a whole when
the final chapter is written.

edit: s/emacs-org/HN/
> Our goal is to maximize unregretted user-seconds.

i already regret reading this
I’m the type who always has a side project going. But I do sometimes wonder why we don’t expect plumbers to go home after their 8 hours and mess around with their home plumbing lab in the basement for another 2 :)
Even an i-device can use adguard plus and get rid of most of the ads.
To disambiguate, the person on the plane could learn to use hand signals (e.g., Cued Speech) and the AI model can be trained on that.
> lack of defense of free speech in the US

Free speech (as in the first amendment) allows you to say most things, it does not however compel others to broadcast or host your speech. So there is no free speech argument for a service provider to be required to host your website or protect it with a reverse proxy.

You can speak, but nobody is required to give you a megaphone and nobody is required to listen.
I heard about some resin 3d printers that work inside a resin instead of open air so that they don't need support.
My left leaning mother claims that I am an improbable hybrid lifeform, based on the Star Treck cast.
half Klingon half Vulkan.

I have never owned a television, and didn't watch it in my familys home, so I have to take her word for it.
For Mac and iOS users, Moneywell is by far the simplest for using an envelope system. I love it. Local data. Solid syncing. Native app. Drag and drop money where you want it.

Edit: no notifications. Sorry I forgot that was one of your criteria.
Blog about this and provide more detail and background. Links to content, screenshots of the subpoena. Looks like your post has been flagged here. I'd go into more detail if you want visibility on this.
In this case I’m talking about overt, vocal racism against black and brown people in Poland and Ukraine where I have lived for several years.

That isn’t to say that I think central or Eastern Europe are outliers — I have personally witnessed at least as much racism in countries considered to be more progressive, like Sweden.

The point is, to say it’s virtually nonexistent is plainly untrue.
https://www.akamai.com/newsroom/press-release/akamai-announc... related
We're just arguing about abstractions. Do people need to always understand "under the hood" of abstractions? Obviously not, most of us don't know how ADC works or how CPU instructions are pipelined or how light pulses end up as 1's and 0's in a buffer somewhere, but requests.get(...) is a genie that we can still use.
I gave up and went to Excel. I track the utilities separately, for everything else I import the monthly reports from the banks and do the analysis every quarter. Initially I was spending more time with this, but I am disciplined enough that I am just checking that I am in line with my expectations, no need for alerts. For some grocery account I don't check the balance for an entire quarter, I am always inside the limit.
True that! What I feel is that computing was fundamentally designed for CLI usage (which is, by today's standards, minimalist), and that GUIs arose later for the want of convenience, but it's not necessarily the best or the most intuitive way to handle things. Especially bulk operations like pattern based matching, or data handling.
My personal belief is just that AI assistants feel faster, not that they actually are. I'm sure they are in some specific circumstances but on average. They feel faster because your work is different, you put in different energy. I don't want to say easier (probably is) because just context switching has similar effects. People are really not reliable self evaluators. It's always the top comment on any post about some psychological study but never for these AI things. Truth is it's hard to find objective measurements. Lines of code, commits, things shipped, etc aren't strong metrics.

But I think the opening of the article is important, it asks why products aren't getting better [0]. We all feel this, right? There's so much low hanging fruit that could make our lives less frustrating but is never done because it isn't flashy. Like Apple, you got all that AI but you can't use a regex to merge calendars? Google, you can't allow a test task to be made in the past (extra helpful when it repeats). Wikipedia still uses the m address and you go to the mobile site from desktop if you don't manually remove? I could go on and on but I think we're just in the wrong headspace.

[0] imo products are getting worse, but that decline started before GPT
I've solved this by mostly not even using most sites on mobile anyway. The vast majority of whatever dreck is served up is purely worthless anyway, social network-powered chum, listicle nonsense, or whatever does load up reflows eleventy times and crashes the tab. This link included. What little is left beyond that is just shallow information that you can mostly get from the original sources (this link included).