skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And here we are two decades later.

The conclusion to draw from this is that the hypothesis "the only thing in a document should be layout information not arbitrary code." is wrong and misguided, since whatever the format is, in the end "nature" (us) will make it evolve in a way that has some amount of arbitrary scriptability ; if it's not JS in PDFs it will be ActiveX controls, a government-mandated proprietary app, having to do a trip to the city hall to have the clerk play an algorithm step-by-step by hand, or something else, but something will always eventually come up to fill that void and you will have to use it whether you like it or not.
I think it was in an interview on Norm MacDonald Has A Show that Lorne was asked what the best era of SNL was, and he said the best era for SNL is just whatever one you grew up with. I think he's right about that.
Indeed, we also end up learning about our sun in levels of detail no person should find enthralling... lol =3
One of the assumptions of vanilla multi-armed bandits is that the underlying reward rates are fixed. It's not valid to assume that in a lot of cases, including e-commerce. The author is dismissive and hard wavy about this and having worked in in e-commerce SaaS I'd be a bit more cautious.

Imagine that you are running MAB on an website with a control/treatment variant. After a bit you end up sampling the treatment a little more, say 60/40. You now start running a sale - and the conversion rate for both sides goes up equally. But since you are now sampling more from the treatment variant, its aggregate conversion rate goes up faster than the control - you start weighting even more towards that variant.

Fluctuating reward rates are everywhere in e-commerce, and tend to destabilise MAB proportions, even on two identical variants, they can even cause it to lean towards the wrong one. There are more sophisticated MAB approaches that try to remove the identical reward-rate assumption - they have to model a lot more uncertainty, and so optimise more conservatively.
The problem with functions is that when you see something like this:

F(X);

there may be implicit conversions happening to X here depending on its type, and, crucially, the declared type of the argument - e.g. Integer to Real. This would be a separate function call in many cases, so it's not just a single address to patch - indeed, you don't even know the size of the code that will need to be inserted in advance.
> designed to appease (and in some cases enrich) a very small, fickle, and vocal portion of the population.

Note that the people enriched here aren't the poor minorities, it are the self proclaimed leaders of these movements that gets high positions in governments and companies and thus enrich themselves.

There is no value in making those grifters richer, even though there is value in helping poor people.
What's causing it in the US?
Yes, sorry. I mean in the same way as the other person who's replied to you.
Don't give me an "account" somewhere I'm expected to use on a regular basis but require me to use magic links.
The ones SP had back then couldn't get through the snow. Article says they had 4 of the things trying to clear the tracks.
It's no slower than any other calculation, and works reliably in my experience.
What in particular tips the balance to Taskfile compared to just(file)? With one of my clients I’ve been using just for months, so I’m curious. Thanks!
I'll put it this way: if it were easy and efficient to take a train from Chicago to Bloomington, Dubuque, Rockford, Ft. Wayne, every one of these places would make the effort to make it worthwhile to ride that train. Instead we just accept that all these places are effectively served by Chicago's OHare Airport, and there's no reason to travel among these places.
Yeah, this is not good. I've experienced other outages on their other products (e.g. GitHub Actions), but not even being able to do a basic git pull is an entirely different level.
SSH access appears to be rejecting my key too.
Every human yes, every thought would be no in my opinion.
Because loudly attacking individuals for not being in complete agreement with your views is rarely effective?

Even more so when some of your views are not widely seen as an agreed upon social norm.

Also, I didn't see anything arguing for this in the article in the first place.
The quickest solution, assuming learning from the problem isn't the priority, might be to replace the entire chain of lights without testing any of them. I've been part of some elusive production issues where eventually 1-2 team members attempted a rewrite of the offending routine while everyone else debugged it, and the rewrite "won" and shipped to production before we found the bug. Heresy I know. In at least one case we never found the bug, because we could only dedicate a finite amount of time to a "fixed" issue.
Passover Coke (similar to Mexican Coke in USA/Canada - made with cane sugar instead of HFCS) lists the same amount of sodium as HFCS Coke (45mg / 12 fl oz):

https://stopandshop.com/groceries/beverages/soft-drinks/cola...

https://stopandshop.com/groceries/beverages/soft-drinks/cola...
>Someone being payed 100 million dollars is expected to have 20/20 foresight. Ludicrous sums of money come with ludicrous expectations.

Sounds like you're more upset about CEO compensation than anything else.

>The presumption that we're all rational actors with access to reliable information is not borne out by history. Anxiety and ego trump reason every time, and those at the top are often trapped in misinformation bubbles that make them think a fire is nothing but smoke.

Except in this case, you don't even have to invoke "Anxiety and ego trump reason every time", because even someone who was perfectly rational couldn't have predicted covid 19 and the wfh revolution.
I'd say it's hard to give a clear-cut, very specific definition of the word. It's also really hard to believe that people can't figure out the meaning given context and such.

It is by no means whatsoever a less defined term than "fascist" and the semantic problem seems missing there.
what about corporate ownership?
In Canada potentially Chinese immigrants in Vancouver/Toronto, in the US it's an over-generous monetary policy (through low interest rates, especially during COVID)
I don’t know, I tried to find stats but couldn’t. Harassment can be phone calls, emails, text messages etc. which can be very hard to track down and numerous so they clog up systems.
I think "breakdown" is the wrong word: he's always been this way. I think he may have Borderline Personality Disorder. The behavior Matt is engaging in here is called "emotional dysregulation", which is characteristic of BPD, and he has a long history of doing it whenever he faces even the slightest criticism.

In 2010, he attempted to get Ben Cook fired from his day job for writing an essay criticizing his dual role as head of both Automattic and the Wordpress Foundation. Over the last few years, he has waged a disproportionate war against queer users on Tumblr for lightly criticizing his leadership.
I believe that most of the papers presented here focus on acquiring knowledge rather than deep understanding. If you’re completely unfamiliar with the subject, I recommend starting with textbooks rather than papers. The latest Bishop’s "Deep Learning: Foundations and Concepts (2024)" [1] is an excellent resource that covers the "basics" of deep learning and is quite updated. Another good option is Chip Huyen’s "AI Engineering (2024)" [2]. Another excellent choice will be "Dive into Deep Learning" [3], Understanding Deep Learning [4], or just read anything from fast.ai and watch Karpathy's lectures on YouTube.

[1]: https://www.bishopbook.com
[2]: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/ai-engineering/97810981...
[3]: https://d2l.ai
[4]: https://udlbook.github.io/udlbook/
I’m not a WP user, and I don’t want to ruffle feathers, but I can read and I think WP .com might not be getting the credit it deserves for contributing 4000+ hrs/year to WP development. Some of the contributors to WP are the very best open source developers out there; they look at kernel performance, image encoding corner cases and php, and land fixes. Not sure if Mullenweg is communicating that as clearly as he could, but it’s true. Without contributions like that, I doubt WP would be as well known as it is.
Just tax land value.
It sounds like you need to quit and get a different job.

Maybe you should do a different kind of work. Lots of people derive happiness, even joy, from their work (including software developers; Steve Gibson [1] is a good example of that).

If you need help finding that, I recommend the book What Color Is Your Parachute?

[1] https://www.grc.com/intro.htm
Clad in shining armor, I’ve sworn to protect all that is holy and honorable. My vow drives me forward, blade at the ready. My task today clear: to beat a dead horse, and, if that fails to satisfy the call, to lay my blows upon a dead snake, a snake that is dead.
GitHub Actions are also failing with 500 (gateway timeout) errors when trying to fetch the repository.
Yeah, honestly, even when I was a teenager I wasn't a huge fan. Sometimes it'll have a funny bit but the bit goes on way too long.
New Paradigm in Front-End: Life Cycles to Methods and Variable Assignments
Occultation of Mars on 14 Jan 2025
Absolutely - in enterprise software, it's the certified configurations that are not something you can mess around with, if you like support.

I'd still consider this VMware as a service, although not full VMware, but just enough for the checkboxes. Maybe you don't get API access, console access, etc, but the main thing you are selling is vmware (to check the certification boxes), and not a generic VM.
100% of the times I search for something and click on a stackoverflow link for the answer, it gives me a captcha. I hate this, so now I actively avoid clicking stackoverflow results. I've been slowly replacing those searches with questions to ChatGPT.
Yep, 100% of git operations are failing. CI/CD and dev operations are at a halt.
That sounds like a reasonable average, yeah. Some tiny changes take 45 seconds, some harder changes take 40 minutes.

I find that working in working code increments that are as small as possible to be ideal.
Why are there two research branches?

Seems like there's one AI engineer, which is b. The other two are researchers, one doesn't even focus on AI since ML covers a broader swath of disciplines.
So, I'm very visibly queer and from the south. I have always been appreciative of gestures like this or in the parent comment - because it is not a safe thing there to assume that people would be accepting.
Too much regulation or greedy landlords depending on your political persuasion.
I think we have a bit different interpretations here.

> read everything in depth

Is not necessarily

> first read the entire manual of the library I'm using, all 700 pages

If I have problem with “git bisect”. I can go only to stackoverflow try several snippets and see what sticks, or I can also go to https://git-scm.com/docs/git-bisect to get a bit deeper knowledge on the topic.
If software doesn't want to run on your hardware because it can't make sure you're not tampering with it, why is it wrong for doing so? You're not necessarily entitled to the ability to run the software right? I understand the implications this has on ones ability to create custom operating systems is troubling (eg this could destroy desktop Linux), but at the end of the day I guess it is just a choice the developer is allowed to make. It's not like they distribute the binary with no strings attached.

And there are some real strong reasons why you benefit from this sort of ability, such as preventing folks from cheating in competitive games. I can't say that all uses seem to have good reasons to use it, but that seems like more of a vote with your wallet sort of situation. Perhaps the play store should also have stricter requirements on acceptable use of attestation and ensure they are upheld.
Small correction: SNL is scripted, not improv. The skits can feel "unpolished" in a similar way to improv, but I think that's usually because they only have a week to produce each one from scratch.
OTOH, flying was considered a luxury in the USA until the airlines were deregulated in 1978. https://www.npr.org/2024/07/05/1197960905/flying-airlines-de...
And so what if my webpage about an obscure 1994 Australian rock band get a few ads injected into it?
Everything else in my life gets ads injected into it (TV, Music, Movies)
Such a silly argument.
Anyone who can't see past Python's indentation-based syntax is a person who doesn't understand Python.

(Both literally and figuratively!)

When "significant whitespace" is at the top of someone's complaints about Python, I'm immediately done hearing about their superficial criticism of the language.
NIMBYism making it extremely difficult and expensive to build supply as is needed.

in 1946 the US had a population of 141M and built 700k housing units

in 2024 the US had a population of 336M and built 90k housing units
They still hallucinate way too much, so you'd need to manually review it on every update.
It’s always supply. It’s fair to criticize foreign ownership/hedge funds purchasing homes, but the overwhelming reason is that we are not building enough.
Commercial ISPs are a 1980s idea when few people wanted the service.

Municipal networks, even if last mile only, are the only sensible modern approach where everyone deserves to have access to the service.

Then you can layer different national providers on the framework for individual and commercial contract service and then you can realistically talk about a municipally operated "best effort" /free/ service for everyone else and for those who cannot afford anything.
>Regardless of existing US citizens not getting offered 1MM, what does the regular citizen get if Greenland were to join I wonder?

They get

* Enhanced national security

* Long-term tax revenue from mining and other natural resources
This is my experience as well, the hardware is still excellent but the app experience has really deteriorated, even in the latest app
> You get the LLM to draft some code for you that’s 80% complete/correct.

> You tweak the last 20% by hand.

> How much of a productivity increase is that? Well jeepers, if you’re only doing 1/5th the work, then you are… punches buttons on calculator watch… five times as productive

Except, it’s probably four times as hard to verify the 80% right code as it is to just write the code yourself in the first place.
>price increases that ISPs add to customer bills to “make up for it.”

This implies that ISPs won't do price hikes to begin with. My bill went up $5 over 2024 alone. Not even an announcement or anything. They'll make up whatever excuse they want, similar to CA's increase in wages to fast food workers: "we'll have to fire staff or shut down if we pay workers $4/hr". All the major chains are still around a year later. Some tried the AI drive thru thing, but they all reverted back.

> this would be better handled as an explicit tax that’s passed onto customers of the ISP.

I agree. Itemized lists should definitely be a default, and not something inaccessible at worse, and needing to poke a company for at best.
Decades of public support for treating housing as an investment shaping zoning and other related policies, the relative profitability of constructing budget vs luxury housing, and more recently, inflationary monetary policy,
he was great on the pod too https://www.latent.space/p/learn-prompting
in Canada, like in the US, it's a lack of supply mostly because of draconian zoning and land-use policies. Chinese immigrants are NOT the primary cause of housing cost inflation, and are likely not even in the top 10 causes.
I suggest you try steel-manning this. Imagine that the people who want these things have rational reasons for wanting them. What might they be?
I kind of see this the opposite way...

Or rather, I guess I feel like it's a sign of the immaturity of the space that it is still kind of unclear (at least it is to me) how to build useful things without reading all the research papers.

To me, it seems like there is an uncanny valley between "people who are up on all the papers in this reading list" and "people who are just getting a feel for how these LLMs respond and slapping a UI on top".

Maybe it kind of reminds me of the CGI period of the web. The "research papers" side is maybe akin to all the people working on networking protocols and servers necessary to run the web, and the "slap a UI over the llm APIs" is akin to those of us slinging html and perl scripts.

You could make ok stuff that way, without needing to understand anything about TCP. But it still took a little while for a more professionalized layer to mature between those two extremes.

I feel like maybe generative AI is in the early days of that middle layer developing?
Most ironically, this point can be aptly applied to the post expressing it.
WiiM is great i have 2 minis and 1 pro plus (good DAC for main speakers).

It somehow just works? Unreal. updates are bugfixes and new features…
Most unreal thing. Their phone app didnt require me to create account? When was last time i saw that?! It just found speakers, setup network and Bye, enjoy.
Yup, SSH rejecting my key, thought it was something at my end but no. Can't run any Yocto builds... I guess a good opportunity to take a walk or do some life admin.
Even the later tintin books are awkward: its the comic equivalent of a sausage fest; The only 2 women I recall are: Tintin's cleaning lady and Captain Haddock's favorite Bianca Castafiore (a comical drama queen and opera singer).

Practically every other character is a man.
Sure, but it's one thing to not be building enough for people to live in, and another thing to not be building enough for people to keep empty flats as speculation vehicles.
electricity rates in California are out of control in the summer because there is no competition.
I hope you didn't wait until now to push your day's work!
Meaningful is a weasel word here. Even 0.1% price increase which would be impossible to measure directly still adds up across the entire housing sector.

But, equally important is simply the number of natives prevented from buying the home they want because someone is getting a vacation property.
They did.

> “ To address this limitation, we turned to data augmentation, artificially creating new versions of each image by modifying colors, adding noise, applying distortion, or rotating images. By the end, we had generated 600 augmented images per car.”
A technology as unreliable as LLM's is definitely not the biggest thing since the WWW, and perhaps will fade out in time except for niche cases where reliability is not important and users are willing to pay the enormous amount it costs to run them. (After investor money has run out)
I’d test it in one market, or even one bar, and see if people use it.
I think he's funny but overused. Just like Kate McKinnon before him. I like them both, but it makes me feel like they know they've picked a dud cast so stick with their favorite.

That said, I also think the last season has been better about diversifying the cast, and has generally improved over what it was a few years back.
I want to make sure I understand this correctly. If you bought a house a few years ago, Spain will effectively rob you of it now? Or will it only apply to new purchases, so you'll have to pay x2 market value if you want to buy one?

If it's the former, than even flaunting such a plan is a complete catastrophe for any foreign investment in Spain from now on. But if it's the latter, it'll just bring to life a whole industry of middle-men, which will use their EU residency to buy property in their name to be used by other people.

Both ways, it's yet another attempt to force a market to do something that will lead to either disastrous, or just bad results.
You can roll back to the old app and firmware. It does take awhile to do but it is listed as "Sonos S1" in the app store.

Because it is older it has problems with dark mode/light mode. But it is as fast and reliable as ever.

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/downgrade-a-sonos-pr...
Yeah my skin gets really dry in the winter.

I'm not sure how intentional I was, but I didn't actually say it was one of the most popular sketches performed in the last 20 years. People love the Connery.
Hush. It's better when most of the world thinks it's overcast and rains here year round. We have too many people as it is.
These are my favorite to read since it contains a full, traceable, logical path to get to a conclusion. It's much easier to understand why they think something.

On this flip side, my least favorite are when someone name drops thinkers as a way to reference an ideology. It's very hard to actually know if someone understands the ideas behind that name, so it's usually impossible to understand why they think something.

And, the names they drop often were the types to present their thoughts as the first, rarely, if ever, dropping names themselves, which I always find an amusing "they were allowed be free thinkers, but you can't!"
alternative link: http://archive.today/PJIHr
Experiencing this as well. I was a bit concerned something was wrong with my key but alas it is not my key but an outage.

Developer "snow day".
It's the FYB point[0], apparently.

[0] https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2004/08/28/the-economics-of-sof...
> On Wednesday night, after warming up at the ski lodge’s fireplaces, the bedraggled passengers boarded a special train that included eight Pullman sleepers and two dining cars. No streamliner equipment awaited the travelers this time: These cars were riveted steel battlewagons from the 1920s. They were heavy, quiet and toasty. The Southern Pacific had retired these cars, regarding them as worn and ungainly—but they showed their value on this night.
> sort of a demo of how we're all dumber than lab mice

Funny you mention that, in the scrolling "breaking news" bar one of the stories was "LAB RATS UNIONIZE AND DEMAND FAIR COMPENSATION"
It's fascinating watching people in ostensibly leadership positions in our industry continue to fundamentally misunderstand how productivity works in knowledge work.
This is very true. I'm serializing a science fiction novel on Substack. I offer a completely free subscription, and a paid one (with a few extra goodies included). I have about five people subscribing for free, so someone is reading (which is really what I want) but last week someone actually bought a subscription, which was completely unexpected and thrilled me to death.
I'm effectively dead in the water here. I guess I'll go touch some grass. Thank you to the SRE's who are looking at this.
If the API only has additions, then Microsoft would still need to convince game devs to actually use them (and Valve will point out that if they do, their game will not work on Steam Deck, so there's a clear downside).

If some APIs are removed, it breaks older Windows games. I can't think of any historical API that has been completely removed in this way - even stuff like DirectDraw and DirectPlay is still there even though it has been deprecated for decades.
When too many flats are used as speculation vehicles, the bubble pops and the problem solves itself.
Calling a person by the wrong pronoun is insulting, simple as that. The social convention is: "I say 'he' if and only if the person in question is male". Thus, calling for instance a transgender woman 'he' or a cisgender man 'she', is saying you don't see them as a man/woman, thus denying a part of their identity, just like when you call them by the wrong name.

I'm sure you would agree that a man with long hair or whatever should be called 'he', so I also don't see why that doesn't extend to transgender men for example.
Sorry, I guess I meant "sketch comedy". But a lot of it is written the week before/of the show. So what I meant to say was something like "it's all pretty off the cuff" vs a movie or other show I guess, and that unpolished quality is what makes some things super funny to me or just not hit at all. Again, feels hit or miss.