skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rightwing snowflakes are a thing, yeah. Bill Burr for one loves to roast them, as he did recently using the LA fires.

Elon threw that salute because his man-child ego took a massive beating with the H1B rightwing in-fighting, when the white nationalist wing of Maga started screaming bloody murder at him and Vivek. It's a bullied kid trying to get back in the good graces of the extreme wing of Trump's base. This virtue signaling to your friends and then declaring it to be sarcasm or comedy when called out by your foes goes back to WWII times. [0]

That being said, pg has been consistent on the woke stuff since back in the day. He wrote an essay called "What You Can't Say" over two decades ago, for god's sake. His timing on this essay was unfortunate. Although there's never a good time to publish stuff like this. He's also one of the lone "pro-Palestinian" VCs left out there, for what it's worth.

[0] https://archive.is/HAE9v

[1] https://paulgraham.com/say.html
I don't know of any actively maintained, but here's a drop-in replacement for you that does the same thing with the latest LibreOffice

https://gist.github.com/eugene1g/74172a761e604d875a59774189a...
It may be because there are rarely such simplistic rule-based lessons. To your example, nationalism could be a great emancipatory force in one century and an instrument of great suffering in another. If there is some takeaway, then it must be more subtle than "nationalism=evil".
> I think it is more accurate to say the the presence of democracy was part of the environment that allowed industrialization to occur.

That capitalism causes democracy is so high-level that it’s just a propaganda line. People from Marxists to neoliberals could say the same thing (meaning different things when interrogated).
Been doing it like this since at least 2000. Never been a problem.
Good old straight to the point we want to be criminals because we can.
> [OpenAI] definitely can't argue that using copyrighted material for training is fine, but using output from other commercial models isn't. That's too inconsistent.

Well, they can argue that, if they're fine with being hypocrites.

They're hypocrites.
I think it's presented in a way that makes him sound very reasonable, and make a wealth tax sound very stupid.

- A small time founder losing 2/3rds of their stock - OH NO, wealth tax is terrible!

- A businessman worth $162 of stock ends up being worth billions as their stock appreciates, despite having to pay wealth taxes. Huh, maybe wealth tax is alright.
I'm not sure that you need math Math. As far as fundamentals go CS uses just a fraction of what The Math has to offer.

I'd focus on digging some good CS foundations course if I were in your shoes. To avoid overwhelming myself with redundant info.
I might be mistaken but I think Hatchet.dev is a good Typescript alternative to Temporal
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That's a fun sounding podcast, gotta give it a listen.

INTP rather, but I'm probably somewhere inbetween.
That concern is your right to prioritize, but it lessens the term "existential risk" into a metaphor. The literal existential risk is the risk that AI destroys all humans in pursuit of goals that have nothing in common with human values.
For the longest time date-fns approach to timezones was "Do you really need timezones? Aren't UTC offsets enough?" which was pretty fatal for a date time library, no matter how simple and light it makes your bundle.

It looks like they did finally launch TZ support in September last year, and I haven't investigated it (and probably never will, given Temporal is coming a Temporal polyfill seems a better option)
It's a paper launch.
Gemini-exp-1206 seems significantly dumber than 1.5 pro on reading and comprehending large context documents.
Even if we had the infrastructural capacity to move hundreds of millions or billions of people for that amount of time (how many airplanes would you need? where would they all stay?) the political considerations would never be feasible. Think if the asteroid would hit Central America/Mexico, and think of the politics of moving them further north into North America.
If you're quoting someone else, please say so at the top of the comment instead leading with "I was a controller" and burying the attribution at the end of a paragraph.
Dealing with dates and times and cache invalidation have been two of the hardest problems I've dealt with and the one uses the other.
It's not a silly analogy. It illustrates the absurdity of accommodating every kind of small group of employees.
Self-custody crypto wallets are such a horrible idea for your average user that it’s cruel to even provide this service. (Especially for people who may not have access to reliable devices.)

I would seriously reconsider this part of your value add.
I look forward to the day it's widely available.

But red across the board at https://caniuse.com/temporal looks like it's still far away, and a 20Kb polyfill seems heavy compared to the 2Kb size of Day.js
Well, that's a twist in the conversation! :)

They are both very interesting attempts in support of the idea that notation can be important, or, as Iverson put it, a tool for thought.

That said, BQN is the language that, I think, could be said to be the more direct descendant of APL in every sense. It fixes some of APL's problems and expands functionality. UIUA, for example, is stack based, something that I am not sure is the right approach and certainly not the way APL operates.

As for the future, well, this is uncertain. Software engineers these days are not generally exposed to non-C-like languages in school. Languages such as Forth, APL and LISP are so rare to them that most have never heard of them. This, I think, is really unfortunate. Learning to think about solving problems computationally using different approaches is, in my opinion, invaluable. For example, if you studied APL, NumPy instantly makes sense and is easy to learn.

My guess is that lack of familiarity and closed minds (due to lack of exposure to diverse ideas) will always get in the way of adoption of notation-based computing.

There's another argument that is just as valid: If what we have today works well, there is little motivation to change. In other words, shifting to a notation-based system would have to deliver an unquestionable delta in value for it to make sense.

And then there's the age of AI-based programming. In an age when writing code might come down to writing specifications, the output language might be of little consequence outside of platform, performance and other metrics. Want performance? As the AI to deliver optimized C code. Want compatibility with a set of libraries/ecosystem at the expense of performance? You might ask for Python. Etc.
The latter is how you get a workforce qualified to write the former, rather than a bunch of hacks who know nothing about aviation safety.
From the longer report linked in the article.

>We determined that the probable cause of this accident was the air boss’s and air show event organizer’s lack of an adequate, prebriefed aircraft separation plan for the air show performance, relying instead on the air boss’s real-time deconfliction directives and the see-and-avoid strategy for collision avoidance, which allowed for the loss of separation between the Boeing B-17G and the Bell P-63F airplanes. Also causal was the diminished ability of the accident pilots to see and avoid the other aircraft due to flight path geometry, out-the-window view obscuration by aircraft structures, attention demands associated with the air show performance, and the inherent limitations of human performance that can make it difficult to see another aircraft.
Point 13, ironically, reminds me of one of the best bits of writing[1] I ever did. I somehow lost an entire near-complete draft[2] of an article, so I had to write it again from scratch. It came out much, much better than the original.

1. https://csswizardry.com/archive/

2. A fact I am embarrassed to admit in present company. I still can’t remember how it happened.
Check out the onlyoffice links above for a remote floss alternative.
> I have sales numbers, and market share adoption across the industry, proving that they do just fine, on my side.

This proves what about their resource usage?
I agree on most of that. A few comments:

> Pick a social issue fifty years ago, take most institutional church’s positions, and they’re pretty consistently wrong. (There are notable exceptions, of course.)

According to what definition of wrong? What is decided by popular vote? Although democracy in America has a Christian foundation (congregational churches), Christians pretty much defer right/wrong to the biblical tradition where a materialistic society has strayed from the teachings of Jesus. Whereas secular society has run away from home and suggests right/wrong is somehow simultaneously subjective and determined by popular culture.

I don't stake a claim either way, but it's important to note that many Christians would make this argument.

I would make the claim that many individual Christians over the past fifty years have made amazing life choices precisely because of their faith.

> Maybe we need a new prophet for the modern world. One who tells of the Kingdom of Heaven having been voluntarily relinquished for a Republic.

Well, I assume you know what Christians would say to this one... It's a lot of pain before it gets good.
The Achilles heel of the BEAM is that if it crashes in native code then it has no way to recover and its much vaunted robustness goes out the window. So writing native hooks in Rust makes it a bit harder to crash the whole VM.

On the plus side it makes IPC pretty straightforward, so you can move the processes that need the native code (NIFs) to a separate VM if you’re feeling paranoid.
Yea that might be it. But that doesn't strike me as unusual either. There are many situations where a criminal charged with a lot less has to surrender documents as a condition of being allowed out on bail while they await trial, if they're considered a flight risk. In Snowden's case, he knew he was going to face a lengthy criminal process and would be detained, so he (perhaps correctly) chose to leave before he made his revelations and before his movement was restricted.
M1 Max has 400GB/s.
No. There is no Europe as a single entity with its own individual agency. Even if only for that reason - the answer is "no".

On top of that European governments got very good at banning and regulating things, not so much at innovating or creating a good climate for innovators and entrepreneurs.
Yes but only if you stay a private company. Once you issue stock, those like-minded individuals are going to be pressured to enshitify to maximize shareholder value. Or pressure the like minded to get acquired by a big pile of enshitification like Broadcom.
>Generate chains-of-thought (CoT) for a problem domain.
>Label the intermediary CoT steps using a combination of human experts (“supervised fine tuning” or SFT) and automated machines (“reinforcement learning” or RL).
>Train base model using (2).

This is remarkably intuitive and elegant. Seems analogous to the idea that humans can come up with new knowledge by synthesizing from their current knowledge. Theoretical sciences or creative arts for example.
And for anyone looking to dig deeper, check out "grammar-based sampling."
It's simmilar to physical vulnerability but with emotions. Displaying emotions in such a way that someone could - if they were so inclined - emotionally exploit and attack you. For example, opening up about your greatest fears can open you up to ridicule or someone pranking you.
Doubling Down on Postgres Compatibility: YugabyteDB Levels Up with PG15 Features
> Programmers don't fully control what they work on when employed by an entity seeking profits.

But they do tend to control what entity they are employed by, and sometimes what team within that entity they work for. Let's not defend programmers as helpless cogs who are forced by their evil managers to program bad things. We all have agency, even during bad hiring times and bear markets.

If my boss asked me to build the Torment Nexus, I'd resist up to and including quitting. A disappointingly high number of us wouldn't even put up a fight.
Long-needed, though I think it'll take the ecosystem quite a while to catch up and standardize around it

For one: a couple years ago my company migrated from moment to dayjs, which was a huge improvement and carried most of the benefits of Temporal. So even if it were available tomorrow, migration wouldn't be a super high priority for us

Still a great thing!
Smolcorp here, we just went from 12-20 across several large projects, it was gnarly. And now, 20 is already set to sunset soon. at some point it just feels like you should give up trying, but I'm hoping 20 to >20 isn't as bad as 12 -> 20
what the fuck are you fucking talking about
The script we wrote though already has a method to detect exactly when the replica has caught up [^1]. Had we enabled synchronous commit, we'd had the same kind of performance as now.

A few changes we could do to improve this even further:

Right now the algorithm waits a) 2.5 seconds for transactions to complete, and b) cancels the rest.

We could make a) the amount of time we wait more exact, by actually subscribing to active transactions and waiting for them to complete. This way in most cases we'd only have to wait up to 500ms.

We couldn't do that when we wrote this essay, because we didn't differentiate read connections from write connections. We do now [^2]

We could improve b) how many transactions we have to cancel, by having the function make "attempts" throughout the day. For example, the function could try to wait 500ms for transactions to complete, but if it's a particularily busy period and we have too many straggling transactions in process, the function could abort the migration and try again another time.

[^1]: https://github.com/instantdb/instant/blob/main/server/src/in...

[^2]: https://github.com/instantdb/instant/pull/743
Does the 22 hours of battery life include frequent use of the new AI systems or the 5G modem cited?
Not the temporal you are thinking of. its Date replacement in JS.
Yes -- we observed this behavior on both the open-source open-weights 671B model as well as the DeepSeek web app.
If we see more accidents a year from now, you have a point. The most you can really blame on leadership changes right now is stress from worrying about your next paycheck. Even then, this looks like a military pilot screwed up doing a routine training exercise.
What if it were alive? If you could not tell it apart from things that you consider alive? And why is being alive necessary to you for it to have rights?
There's no need for us to argue against the existence of God or other ludicrous hypotheticals, that's the whole point of Russell's Teapot.

As to the particulars of the imagined God, actually we do have some evidence for the parameters. The Princess Alice experiments in particular illustrate one desirable property, God (in the experiment, "Princess Alice") should provides behavioural oversight. An imaginary being can deliver effective oversight which would otherwise require advanced technology, but to do so the being must also believe in these arbitrary moral rules.

And that matches what we observe. People do buy Sithrak T-shirts, but, more or less without exception they don't actually worship Sithrak, whereas loads of people have worshipped various deities with locally reasonable seeming moral codes and do to this day.
Radioactive waste isn't an intractable problem. It is simply a problem we refuse to deal with.
Lowtax was ahead of his time.
It says "In 2016, Congress passed Public Law 114-190, which among other things banned the use of biographical assessments as a first-line hiring tool for air traffic controllers."
Unless you think centralization of power is a good thing, you're wrong. Things can too easily go wrong when the word of one man, however talented and wise, is louder than the voice of millions of people.
Not so subtle in function calling example[1]

"role": "assistant",
"content": "---\n\nOpenAI is a FOR-profit company.",

[1] https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-...
I have had production differences show up that were not present or even reproducible in test mode on a major e-commerce platform payment system.
Does less severe symptoms from being vaccinated make people spread fewer virus around? If so it's like people haven't heard of probability. With vaccines people have less severe symptoms so they spew fewer virus to people with higher resistance. A combination of these things can drive the R0 value below 1 making the pandemic fizzle out. Is my amateur non expert mental model correct?
Yeah, that's something I've been wondering about for a while. Sure you can get Fusion to create energy eventually, but the engineering to keep the reactor running long enough to break even on cash sounds even more difficult. Anything involving hot plasma and large amounts of ionizing radiation is going to play hell with your equipment. That's not even considering the secondary nuclear waste created by the neutron, proton, and alpha radiation.

It just seems like a great way to turn a billion dollars into a pile of extremely hot, radioactive, radiation embrittled metal.
bromide in flour is a uniquely US thing too, and IMO you can taste the difference when you eat bread in other places.
> This is such a straw man.

Perhaps, but I don't agree with you. It's an expression of frustration about my own personal experiences.

> At least where I leave, local libraries provide a ton of support for people who need help using a computer

That's a good point. I haven't (yet) looked at my local libraries to see how functional they are. I'll do that within the next month though.

> You still haven't given any evidence on why you need a smartphone.

I shouldn't need evidence for why you need a smartphone when I am arguing that you shouldn't need a smartphone. But ok: try signing up for any service with SMS-based 2FA required; banks come to mind, many other online services. Guess you "need" a smartphone unless you don't want to do online banking. It's further crazy that SMS-based 2FA actually decreases security.

> Yes, society changes, and as part of those changes you need access to new tools. When I was a kid in the 80s in the US, you needed to have a car and you needed to have a phone.

Changes in society should not require you to follow those changes yourself.

The requirement for a car is strictly a negative aspect of society, and very much a USA-based problem induced by not fostering public transit while also fostering sprawling urban/suburban environments. And that requirement is also a self-reinforcing lock-in: if you don't have a car then you can't afford to get a good job and without a good job you can't afford to move somewhere that a car is not required. Today it's very much still that way, with the exception of remote work which is very much in danger of being destroyed by oligarchs.

And for phone; well I distinctly recall many homes had phones shared by the whole family. You didn't need a phone per-se, you could easily borrow your own, or your neighbor's/friend's phone number and they'd take messages for you. Still can today, except that there's a lot more assumption about one-phone-to-one-real-person today.

> I'm not saying that change is easy, but this idea that people are helpless and there aren't avenues to get access to the tools they need is BS in my opinion.

I'm not saying people are helpless and there aren't avenues to get access to the tools they need. I'm saying the tools they need have been perverted beyond belief so that someone who has different morals no longer feels safe using the tools they need.

You can't say the same about cars in the 80s. Yes you might have actually needed a car, but the car was yours and didn't spy on you. Yes you might have actually needed a personal phone number and you could count on it being monitored by the government or with a warrant, but your conversations weren't data mined by and sold to third parties who you've never even heard of let alone done business with.
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nsave

https://www.nsave.com/

(no affiliation, no crypto)
Tried running locally, gone were the days where you get broken responses on local models (i know this happened earlier but I tried after so many days)
See function calling being called out here

https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-...
Well a) I don't know where it came from and b) it was quite a lot of work, I really did hours and hours and hours of reading and research very quickly. So scared isn't quite right, also because I guess I don't know what I "believe" yet as there are so many layers. I've spent a lot of the time in the last few days focusing on 15 or so events throughout history, unbound to time or geography, beating any form of truly spiritual path out of us and at every single step it seems to be deeply analytical thought relegating spiritual exploration not even to a couple of classes a week in high school but to "fun stories and myths" - I'm sure I've discussed this intellectually somehow over the years but only very recently did it become a part of me. The second document I wrote was basically focusing on compounding societal, natural and spiritual crisis all coalescing at some point in the fairly near future. The 3rd thing I produced is this kinda intense, long, very technical outline of everything I'd learned in the form of a "podcast from AI" heh: https://s.h4x.club/X6uGEpRG
Here's his webpage for it, including the PCB and code for the MIDI controller he built for it.

https://www.lookmumnocomputer.com/joans-church-organ
All job interviews are some combination of:

1. Coding - ie leetCode

2. Techno-trivia - knowing the basics of whatever technology they are using

3. System design

4. Behavioral
Holy fuck. This has some seriously fucked up syntax, function names and the like. Ugliest shit I've ever seen.
That's over for the next years.