skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even compiling code isn't deterministic given different compilers and different items installed on a machine can influence the final resulting code, right? Ideally they shouldn't have any noticeable impact, but in edge cases it might, which is why you compile your code once during a build step and then deploy the same compiled code to different environments instead of compiling it per environment.
> This warps men's perception of women in both selecting a wife; and in assessing the beauty of their wife in the long run especially after children.

Which is a bit ironic given that the charts seem to show that men are assessing women reasonable, while women are suffering from exactly the problem of unreasonable expectations that the quote describes.
Functionally it makes sense. Pringles chips being in a can instead of a bag means the chips can travel farther without being damaged or broken.
Shared resources add complexity - perhaps a middle ground would be a government run data centre ( modular nuclear reactor etc, reuse of wate heat etc ) which various organisations can host their own hardware.

This already exists in the private sector ( but without the dedicated nuclear reactors ).
Cycnical job at the unbridled optimism from the Arab Spring era where people were mostly overthrowing one type of absolute ruler for another, when the main driver was inflation/food&energy costs.
Lol, in the Web3 case, "take over the world" was only a metaphor. This is a big difference for AI.
Sounds good in theory, but is that really true in practice? Are there delivery companies paying premiums today for drivers with demonstrable orienteering skills?
Oh you are so wise, hovering over every thread and bullying non-mainstream opinions!
Presumably because he owns the site. You would think this would be the one place that PG didn't get much pushback on his opinions. I'm not too surprised though; he hasn't been very involved here for years so the culture has shifted.
> I'm reminded of similarly useless "sustainable cardboard furniture" that came out about a decade ago.

Apparently no one learned their lesson, because the cardboard olympic village beds were also (allegedly) pretty terrible.
I don't think I asserted that it isn't within their rights. But this is the direction things are headed, and it is a threat to free and libre computing.
To the extent there is black-and-white thinking here, it’s in reflexively dismissing HTS due to its links to Al Qaeda. (Or thinking their roots are some secret.)
The way the author talked about the feeling of if a sequel could live up to the original, and how it had been mostly forgotten, reminded me of Warlords, which together with civilization and rail road tycoon was the main turn based strategy games of my youth. I remember there was a sequel, but it would always freeze up on our computer.

... And I don't think I've stumbled on anyone on the internet talk its praise.

Was it just an oddity in my games library, or did other people place it along side the classic turn based strategy games of the 90s?
> 80% of product diversity is really just pricing discrimination in disguise

Very good and yes: Think of it from the manufacturer / seller perspective. Why shouldn't it be? If the goal it to optimize profit or return (and it is), then anything less would be a waste of opportunity. Even kickstarters go to great effort to think up ways to "justify" "bonus offers".

This is often one of the great failures of new ventures not to try and offer versions or features that SOME customers would love to pay for.

Except not pricing discimination in that these prices apply to everyone (who doesn't know the discount code). Just "differentiation" and "price point". Offering a different price to someone who "calls" from San Francisco, Kansas City or Mumbai is a different issue, and less palatable.
> You're also racing against opponents to beat them to connecting to major cities.

Although the AI players have some interesting limitations – they'll never connect a city you've already connected to, and they'll never build a line that crosses one of your own lines. To be fair, I don't know how important those fudges are for balancing the game, and if so, how the playing strength of the AI players could be balanced in a more realistic fashion (plus considering that the game is from almost thirty years ago)…
"Sustainability" is a garbage buzzword that at best means money being wasted on people writing pointless reports and usually means pushing a far left agenda.
> except for either MoE related shenanigans (what historically prevented determinism in ChatGPT)

The original ChatCPT was based on GPT-3.5, which did not use MoE.
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And yet, here you are, making the lewdest of remarks. You're making me uncomfortable and need to stop making hurtful accusations that could be damaging to people. We're trying to have a polite discussion here.
If you give the government tools for hiding information, the government will abuse those tools. This is what freedom looks like. I have family members in this dataset, and they would be fine with it because they would pick freedom and this is what freedom has to look like.
I think I once read on reddit that the first few votes a comment gets pretty much determines whether it will score sky-high, or get downvoted into oblivion.

In the same way "colored people" can gain these connotations, just from other few people (falsely or not) inferring that it has those connotations. There need not be a history. I've seen too many blowups over the years about the word niggardly to think otherwise (more than one of these has made national news in the last few decades).

It's not that there is a history of discrimination, it's that we've all made a public sport out of demonstrating how not-racist we are, and people are constantly trying to invent new strategies to qualify for the world championships.
Do you have any points of substance you can elaborate with? I would genuinely like to hear your argument.
This comment is kinda harsh isn't it?
Do you have anything specific from his words to support:

> ... mind become filled with mush

> desperate pledge of allegiance ...
We've been using Taskfile, which is fantastic and super understandable, but it's only a task-runner and as such wouldn't meet OP's needs. I hated `just` and did not find it at all intuitive.

Only problem I have with the article is saying that Ruby doesn't work on Windows is just categorically false. It's one of the easiest languages to install and use on Windows, even easier than C# and Java, and I'm a Java/Kotlin dev, so that's saying something. It's literally just a single exe/msi installer.

But you wouldn't want to be using Rake anyway, it's not really that good, and is only useful if you're working in an environment where you don't want to install anything and you hate Make. Then Ruby is very often installed by default with Rake and so you get a 'free' build tool. Rake was good 10 years ago, but not so much anymore.

Anyway, if you needed a specific kind of tool and built it then all the power to you. Can't blame you for not wanting to use the other options!
Prime example of why woke got associated with negative connotations.
I don't think it's quite accurate to call it a bouncer; there's no way to connect to IRCCloud's bouncer with your own client. They do provide a bouncer-like managed service though, and a pretty nice one at that. Long time user as well.
> If the source is open to read, for me it's open source

Not everyone agrees with the OSI definition but I'd say almost noone agrees with that definition there.

I think most people understand what you are describing as "Source Available". Could even be a commercial project.
Telling that you believe this as Boston has to fix its deep seated racism.
I wish you success with this! I really was surprised to see that there isn’t a modern make replacement that actually does what make does, and does it well: build /compile things with a notion of inputs and outputs and out-of-date checks. Most appear to be “just” command runners. That’s a very useful thing to have, but it’s not really a make replacement.
Then again, many “build tools” do get very large and unwieldy eventually, so maybe it’s more a case of the good make replacements simply getting too much traction…
It's enough to simply say that HTS is much better than what came before them, and they are.
Charlieplexing:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlieplexing
https://freeourfeeds.com/
Depending on how bad of a problem it is, one can get the glass coated to reflect infrared, and that heating issue is cut down dramatically.
If recycling is more expensive, isn't recycling the wrong thing?

The price isn't some random number attached to an activity. It captures the various costs associated with it and is helpful in directing behaviors for this very reason.

Recycling is more expensive, it likely means that there are associated costs (e.g. transportation, sorting, cleaning, processing, etc) that make it less economical than just throwing it in a landfill. And all these additional costs likely make it the "wrong" decision since they likely contribute to carbon emissions or otherwise wasteful use of the earth's resources
ah, that makes a ton of sense actually. Thanks!
Software Is Eating Hardware – Lessons for Building Magical Devices (2014)
Precisely. One commenter above got close to the point but then completely missed it: they suggested that people get into “wokeism” with good intentions, such as wanting to reduce things like sexual harassment. Then, they ponder whether there is a way to reduce sexual harassment without becoming “woke.” They fail to realize that you don’t simply declare yourself “woke.” It is a label others assign to you once you decide you are no longer going to tolerate things like sexual harassment.
Elon censored me for mentioning my Mastodon handle on Twitter. Me and anyone else who did the same.
Curious :why Bluesky and not Mastodon? I would have thought that decentralization would be a better safeguard against Bluesky becoming Twitter after being successful...

Honest question: I left Twitter so long ago (I guess that I never got it) and am not really using Mastodon... so I think that I'm not the right people
All of the same vibes I got when I found out some outfit managed to take a cock ring with accelerometers and an associated phone app to production.
I can't help but wonder if this is intentionally ironic.

(From TFA: "There's a certain kind of person who's attracted to a shallow, exacting kind of moral purity, and who demonstrates his purity by attacking anyone who breaks the rules.")
It's interesting that none of these anti-woke oracles can tell that they're at the center of an even greater cancel culture mob than the one they purported to be against. Wasn't PG just getting canceled a few months ago by the right for speaking up about Palestine? Give it a few years, this manifesto will look hilarious.
I understand intellectually that employing a double-standard can work in the context of populism, but like you I find it absolutely exhausting. People who's party and ideology control every branch of government still pretend that they're plucky, marginalized freedom fighters.

Sigh
Ah the government LOVES using that excuse to hide from sunlight. "I'm sorry we can't honor this FOIA request because it would be too expensive, money we could use on better things."

I'm sorry, but freedom isn't free. That includes a cost to have visibility into the government. Making special rules on 'what visibly' also just ends up getting abused like the 'expense'.

This is what freedom looks like.
I am a conservative but I can't imagine how anyone is not tired of Musk at this point.

Not 1984 but just standard 20th century type dangerous cult of personality with one person having way too much power.
Over the past couple of weeks there have been two heavy virtue signalers in my social circle that have turned out to be complete assholes to people around them, and I had that thought exactly. Maybe the very reason they feel the need to get approval from "virtuous" people is because they themselves are so awful.
fr Nathaniel Hawthorne is immensely relevant in the present day
I don't really see the problem. I find it perfectly acceptable for people to be able to change every single thing about their cars. If it's an illegal mod you can let the law deal with it.
I think it's just the fact he spends this much time thinking about wokeness. His whole argument is it's unimportant and performative, so then why did he spend all this time writing an article about it?
Recycling a plastic bag is not necessarily better for the environment than burning it.
You probably wouldn't want to host CSAM or even more abject content. Also the performance would be terrible.

The issue with unmoderated content is that it always devolves into a neonazis and other hateful/deranged groups echo chamber, and everyone else leaves because frankly who wants to engage with that? Look at 4chan for an example.
An image/map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:M2_tidal_constituent.jpg
Certainly this essay is, mostly, “not wrong”. But I was hoping PG might use his powerful brain and hundreds of words to explain how one should combat structural racism and sexism without the unfortunate side effect of “wokeness”. As far as I can see, he just recommended you do it “quietly”. Disappointing.
The price rarely captures all the costs.
Yes! This makes sense from a learning perspective: More samples add additional evidence the datapoint is actually what you observed - based on one sample the model is closer to a mean regression (which would translate to more balanced class probabilities in classification).
Transformers have trouble counting repeated entries (there was a famous failure case of ChatGPT, asking it to count the number of 1s and 0s in a string). This model has some tricks to solve this.
To be fair, there are worse mistakes. It does say 99% CPU.
>If DEI was improving the bottom line measurably, as its proponents promise, capitalists would be loath to scrap it entirely.

This may be true, but if you are going to construct such a sentence you might want to address the fact that the title of this thread is stating that one of the biggest capitalist companies in the world is trying to do just that. The elephant in the room and all that.
They are, but they're portable. They collapse and you throw it in your bag.

The mStand is beautiful, but it's not portable.
(regardless of the merit of your criticism, this comment was at least very funny to me, so thank you for that)
I don't think the "be nice to everyone" is the thing people are annoyed with, rather it's the "you will be canceled if you step out of line even once" that comes along with it.
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Apart from HN, which other sites do you continue to participate in?
Yes wondering what the confidence intervals are.
That's not correct, they are offering a bouncer if you are a paid customer: https://blog.irccloud.com/bouncer/
On top of all of the other criticisms, this isn’t functionally what I want. I still would end up looking down to see the laptop.

I guess it’s better for people who only work on laptops and don’t want to have separate keyboards and pointing devices.

I travel a lot and I use a Roost laptop stand

https://www.therooststand.com/

A standard Apple keyboard and mouse, and a portable USB powered monitor that gets power and video from one USB cable and monitor stand

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4KH2GH3
Fun hack! Not sure what the use cases are, but maybe adapting UI to a user for accessibility would be useful
We need to stop having government bailouts for natural disasters, that just incentivizes people to keep doing what has been shown not to work.
I am user of dreamhost so the images get stored there. I wrote about my set-up on my blog.

https://www.planetjones.net/blog/03-05-2023/relaunching-my-p...
The antiwoke crusaders are just as intent on moralizing and language policing as the worst of their opponents, and in places like Florida they're actively implementing limitations on speech and academic inquiry. To the extent that Graham and his fellow travelers in tech believe in freedom of expression, they've picked dangerous allies.
I mean, it's a good idea, I just wouldn't buy the one in Korea to get shipped over here. I don't get the cynicism, someone in Korea had this idea and made the product, probably intended for other people in Korea where the shipping isn't an issue?
That does not look in any way equivalent to the stand in the article.
Instead of rushing to judgement, maybe let Syrians decide for themselves. No one wants a return of ISIS. But if Israel keeps occupying territory and undermining HTS rule then we don’t know what will replace them. Destroying the military assets that might have assisted in that fight may be seen as shortsighted in the future.
The writeup page is also definitely worth taking a look at: https://mitxela.com/projects/fluid-pendant
Yes Jupyter notebooks are inspired by Mathematica notebooks, and the documentation for the latter explicitly mentions literate programming.
Thanks a lot! Currently have an issue on documenting how to use for more samples at https://github.com/PriorLabs/TabPFN/issues/129. Will do this soon, maybe give an upvote there if it matters to you.
Your head is stuck in FAANG land.
Good idea. Co-location does let the government's current expertise shine (energy, land access)

My point is there's something there I think! This report buries the lede with AI keyword drivel, but there's an opportunity beyond just hype in there.
And this is something, so I’m doing it.
Ken, I love your work on the Apollo hardware.

But here, you don't present any argument that your recommended course of action will have a desirable outcome, or any outcome at all.

Which, ironically, fits like a glove.

Fine, I get it, the term has been over-used and has consequently become meaningless. Orwell noted the over-use of "fascist", in 1944! Feel free not to use it. But surely you are not expecting some kind of outcome?!
Interesting example. How does denying root to the user mitigate this attack?
Same with SJWs. Lots of people wore that label until their actions caused it to become negative, at which point everyone who proudly wore it pretended to never have ever heard of it before their ideological enemies started using it. No doubt some new label will replace woke, be worn proudly, get tarnished by the people who wear that label, and once again they'll try fleeing from the associations they created.
Not very many profiles in courage awards going around in silicon valley these days.
Can you please make your substantive points without resorting to the flamewar style? Your comments are standing out as more flamey than anyone else's that I've seen, so far, in the thread.

In particular, it would be good if you would note and follow the following site guidelines:

"Don't be snarky."

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

Your views are welcome, but we need you to express them in the intended spirit of the forum. The same, of course, is true for anyone with opposing views.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I’ve been using something similar called Twinny.
It’s a vscode extension that connects to an ollama locally hosted LLM of your choice and works like CoPilot.

It’s an extra step to install Ollama, so not as plugnplay as tfa but the license is MIT which makes it worthwhile for me.

https://github.com/twinnydotdev/twinny
I found the essay cogent and accessible. He's very active online and engages in good faith even with his detractors.
Paul Graham was never smart. He was always just a successful guy whom lots of naive student mistook for a guru on account of his success. That happens a lot.

Young people in need of guidance would do well to read the classics and disregard everyone with a pulse.
I hate lights in general. People's garden security lights over a mile away can illuminate my bedroom. People walking around at night with LED headtorches in my face (I am now blind thanks), I can't see the sky at night thanks to overly powerful street lights, and they didn't stop me nearly being murderered a couple times, and worse to my friends. Working in an office we had constant bright overhead lightning. Everything is needlessly overilluminated.
Christians are so new. I wonder why Pharisees aren't mentioned more often when bringing in this topic.

Actually, "pharisaical" is the dictionary definition for this kind of hypocrisy.
looks great. I made a similar app called Scribe where you can highlight passages of the transcript.
It's working on the web but also as an iOS app.
https://www.appblit.com/scribe

To solve the server IP sometimes being blocked by YouTube, the app fetches the transcripts in the browser.
Malloc(0) & Realloc( ，0) ≠ 0
Also some of that older stuff it can be the compiler only let you have 8 chars for a variable name.
Wow, I really hated this article. Thanks for the bad opinion, Paul.
reminds of when i was a kid and noticed a virus had taken over a registry. from that point forward i attempted to delete every single registry file, not quite understanding. Between that and excessive bad website viewing, I dunno how i ever managed to not brick my operating system, unlike my grandma who seemed to brick her desktop in a timely fashion before each of the many monthly visits to her place.
I don't think he would have written this 10, even 5 years ago. It only really started becoming a trendy viewpoint in his social circles recently.
So, upon loading the page I get two Google Chrome ads displayed. It's not exactly reinforcing my feeling of anonymity, tbh...
I believe we are at last seeing the person for who they really are.
> Walmart is selling one right now

The ESRB and Walmart are OK with kids playing a casino gambling simulator, but that doesn’t mean Google or Apple should be too.

For a parent who looks at their kid playing on their phone with a Vegas-style video slot machine on the screen, complete with a "Spin" button, it appears to be gambling. At a minimum, it’s normalizing real-life casino gambling motifs for their child. Some may find that objectionable for children, and it appears the tech companies agree.

If you can't see that this is 99% of a video slot machine game, just without any cost per spin and 8-bit graphics, then maybe you should visit a casino: https://youtu.be/Vaw2g0tQo58?feature=shared&t=102