skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>lack of innovation drives consumer fatigue, which hurts the brand (other companies will innovate and eat your customers).

But is adding features no one wants that sometimes degrade the user experience "innovation"?

I agree if they don't think about what consumers want and make updates they could get overtaken, but I don't think anyone is gonna jump to Android because they can get a 2MM smaller chassis --- the opposite, they might want an "innovative" phone with a removable and swappable battery, multiple SIMs, FM tuner, and a few other features that aren't "shiny" but the iPhone lacks.
With the help of GPT, I think the bad habit part is non-existent anymore. Learning it from GPT really helps people nowadays. Ask ChatGPT 4.0 some questions, and you will be shocked by how well it describes the code.

Just don't ask to fix indentations because it will do it line by line for hours. But it finds mistakes quickly and points you in the right direction.

And of course, it comes up with random non-existent modules once in a while which is cute to me.
It looks like they mean that the curriculum is open source. Hopefully we'll eventually get lecture videos on MIT OCW.
The older I get the more I appreciate that those proverbs aren't just rhetorical.

I always assumed people would learn from history, because everyone knows that proverb. And yet now as I'm pushing 40 it seems more a warning, people will refuse to learn from history, and they will repeat it. So be as prepared as you can.
Saving a penny to outsource external sales that’ll be out of the product management loop during early stage, just isn’t compelling, sorry. To my ears it sounds more likely an agility drag than anything.

It might work for a product that’s already found a segment and is looking for new markets.
Given that the Jews were forcibly expelled from their homeland by the Romans, by definition, any Jewish self-determination would need to take place in a land that is at least partially[0] already inhabited. You now have two choices:

1. Deny Jews the right to self-determination altogether, continuing the dispossession of an actively persecuted people, indeed, the same one that was about to face the Holocaust in Europe, thereby punishing them for their own historical victimization, or

2. Acknowledge the legitimacy of Jewish self-determination, even if it takes root in their historical homeland and entails negotiating with and sharing the land with other peoples, thereby accepting that historical justice often requires grappling with imperfect realities, and that two national claims can coexist without one invalidating the other.

Or are you arguing that self-determination only applies to groups of people who haven't been exiled from their homeland (i.e. the people that need self determination the least)?

[0] Before Zionism, the population of Mandatory Palestine was 98% smaller than the same region today. Even the Arab population has increased 26-fold. So, yes, technically it was inhabited, but dramatically less developed. And even then, Jerusalem was 60% Jewish.
The metaphor really just jumps right out at you.
The problem with such reflexive absolutism, as I've pointed out many times, is that you end up advocating for the speech rights of people who are advocating for genocide. I shouldn't need to point out that killing people also terminates their speech rights and that advocacy of genocide is thus an attack on free speech.

You do not have to defend the free speech rights of people who are themselves attacking free speech (and free life). In fact, it is foolish to do so.
I remember seeing her work alongside of other artists, and before reading the plaque with the name, think, "meh, kind of underwhelming" and then seeing "oh, it's Yoko, that's why it's here".
debt goes down in real terms

but "tax on savers ie the rich"

rich normally are rich enough to protect their savings from inflation.
e.g. by putting it in an effective monopoly - land or housing (housing is a monopoly if you also are rich enough to have some influence on what / where houses are built / not built)
They still exist? The houtis and the toutsies.
Yeah, I've been beating this drum for a while [0]:

1. The LLM is a nameless ego-less document-extender.

2. Humans are reading a story document and seeing words/actions written for fictional characters.

3. We fall for an illusion (esp. since it's an interactive story) and assume the fictional-character and the real-world author are one and the same: "Why did it decide to say that?"

4. Someone implements "chain of thought" by tweaking the story type so that it is film noir. Now the documents have internal dialogue, in the same way they already had spoken lines or actions from before.

5. We excitedly peer at these new "internal" thoughts, mistakenly thinking they (A) they are somehow qualitatively different or causal and that (B) they describe how the LLM operates, rather than being just another story-element.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43198727
Just an (uneducated) guess here, I don't believe capsules carry the necessary amount of fuel that it would take to accomplish this.
I would have liked more discussion on handling uncertainty; how big is it, how well calibrated is it, how are they approaching variance reduction, how do they reduce the predictive distribution into decisions, etc. And no discussion of causal inference in the marketing section.
you're right, I'm just arguing that when we talk about colors we talk about the subjective perception of it, the thing that we see, which is what is usually referred to as color in any normal conversation. I didn't know there was a different definition of color which was a synonym of wavelength, in that case you're right. So as you say, the debate is arbitrary because it's about different definitions of color.

However, both measurements of wavelengths, the qualia or subjective one and the numerical wavelength or objective one, both exist only in our minds. There exists a measurement if and only if there exists someone that measures, even if it is an objective measure
> …by the Danish tourism board?

Nope. E.g.: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/28/10-most-livable-cities-in-th...

> The best city people choose not to live or have kids in. Got it.

Pretty much. The only way a dense city can work is by limiting its growth. The denser the city, the smaller the birth rate (in the developed world).

The best place for kids as evidenced by the birth rate? Suburbs.
I read "Atlas Shrugged" but I found it to be a frustrating read, mostly because of how simplistic its worldview is. When I read it, I felt like the complex issues it tries to tackle—capitalism, government, individualism—were reduced to black-and-white moral arguments, without much room for nuance or ambiguity.

The characters didn’t help either. They came across as one-dimensional: the so-called heroes are always right, always rational, while anyone who disagrees with them is portrayed as either stupid or evil. That kind of writing makes it hard for me to take her "philosophy" seriously.
You asked a bunch of specious questions about the DoE. The DoE is part of a complicated and fragile system. It isn't as simple as turning off a light switch for a part you don't like, and chances are you probably don't fully understand the thing you don't like in the first place. Chesterton's fence.

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Now, to your point about standardized testing of skills vs reasoning, I would love to hear a proposal for ensuring "correct" critical thinking is assimilating into student populations. This doesn't scale and is subject to severe bias. Standardized testing measures more objective traits that are indicators for critical thought. IMO a solution must build on top of that foundation, not throw it away. You add a compass, you don't throw out the map.
Well, your post is certainly well sourced haha.
The best tech stack I have ever worked on was in an adtech company. The code was beautiful and the utility functions to interface with various AWS services were really really neat. I built a near real time estimator using Theta Sketches.

While job searching, I have tried to use techs like Sketches in my filters but it mostly draws up a blank. Would love to work on genuinely interesting stuff like that again.

It honestly did leave a bad taste in my mouth whenever I thought what the end goal of it all was.
Generally i think harvey weinstein should be unemployable in any position of power. if people hear about what he's done and still want to hire him, sure, they can go for it, but they'd probably appreciate knowing about him before doing that.
It targets a different audience overall.

I've been using it a bit, and I like it. However, it is a lot more like programming in Python (rather than defining configuration) when you do anything outside the normal rails.

That's not a bad thing, but it is a different thing.

Still testing it more, and my needs are different than everyone else's, but so far I wouldn't say to anyone who already uses Chef, Ansible, Salt, etc. they could switch to Pyinfra, because the 'core' tool for automation is similar, but the ecosystem is altogether different.

I am moving some of my personal projects over to Pyinfra though, but for now mostly to flesh out my own understanding of it—my main stuff is all still Ansible.
Isn’t it at the president’s discretion to decide whether there’s a “foreign adversary” owning it, or just some country with questionable vibes?
I agree completely, and I think it's disgusting and despicable. But honestly this sort of thing has been happening for many, many decades, maybe even centuries, it's just been done a lot more discreetly in the past. The big difference now is that it's so blatant.

While that might sound like an improvement (and kind of is as at least we're getting more honest), I also view it as a big regression. At least when there's perceived shame in being corrupt, people aspire to be better. When it just becomes routine, I fear it's the beginning of the end.
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> She did, however, ruin what was to be a legendary collaboration between Lennon and Chuck Berry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSGm0RUDxo
I use this to keep my (too many) Linux desktops configured.

A systemd service runs ansible-pull about 2 minutes after boot. It does its thing.

It has some annoyances, but it works fine. I don't think about it anymore. The git repo is the source of truth.
Makes me wonder: did Bill write all of this text? Did he decide this effect is cool and must go in? Did he even know about that text effect?
For me, Ansible and Pyinfra, but I've been leaning on shell scripts for very simple things that I know will be mostly the same for 5-10+ years, and sometimes I wrap those into larger playbooks.
Sure, but why would it matter if it did?
I started Z80 assemnbler (on a ZX80 computer) that way. But I soon get fed up looking up opcodes and especially calculating relative jumps (especially backwards ones) by hand as I often seemed to make off by one errors causing my program to crash.

So I wrote my on assembler in BASIC :)
I often ask people to imagine that the initial setup is tweaked so that instead of generating stories about an AcmeIntelligentAssistant, the character is named and described as Count Dracula, or Santa Claus.

Would we reach the same kinds of excited guesses about what's going on behind the screen... or would we realize we've fallen for an illusion, confusing a fictional robot character with the real-world LLM algorithm?

The fictional character named "ChatGPT" is "helpful" or "chatty" or "thinking" in exactly the same sense that a character named "Count Dracula" is "brooding" or "malevolent" or "immortal".
What you describe is more accurately called the "prosperity Gospel", not evangelical Christianity. Mainstream evangelical Christianity doesn't believe anything like what you describe.
To be fair UK has the unique problem where everyone starts their electric tea kettle all at the same time...

Makes me wonder if you can smooth out certain peaks by introducing individualised random delays in the television programming ;)
There is a bigger safety margin for humans if you need to land in a relatively large area in the water somewhere with a larger range of acceptable velocities. I believe they considered a propulsive landing over land but decided against it to simplify the initial design.

10 years later though they have added this ability as a backup [0]. Which again shows how if human lives are on the line you want to favor redundancy and simplicity over flash.

0 - https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2024/10/dragon-propulsive-la...
I don't really understand the point of all this (on Linux). Just mmap(2) a virtual address range as large as you think you will ever need and let demand paging do the rest. No need to explicitly reallocate anything.
I've seen many an art project that eventually stops being updated and is used to serve up malware -- sometimes with a bonus expired or nonexistent cert.

It should never be a requirement to enable JS to download a binary file like a PDF.

If you're concerned about scraping, put in a robots dot txt and/or give it to an entity like Internet Archive to host.
Tax write offs are available to Democrats equally.
Actually, there was about a 15-year period where many people didn't think PCs were good for anything, because they had access to much better (shared) computers. That's the context where http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/bitty-box.html comes from. See also http://canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html#book8. Throughout the 01980s PC Magazine worked hard to convince business decisionmakers that IBM PCs weren't merely game machines; if you look at old issues you'll see that computer games were completely missing from the abundant advertisements in the magazine, presumably due to an explicit policy decision.

I personally encountered people arguing that using PCs (as opposed to VAXen or mainframes) was a waste of time as late as 01992. And I actually even sort of joined them; although I'd been using PCs since before the IBM PC, once I got access to the internet in 01992, I pretty much stopped using PCs as anything but a terminal or a game machine for years, spending virtually 100% of my computer time on VMS or Ultrix. When I was using PCs again, it was because I could run BSD/386 and Linux on them, in 01994.

(Maybe you'd assume from my own story of enthusiastic adoption that "nobody ever sat in countless meetings asking[,] "How can we use the internet?"', but if so, you'd be extremely wrong. In 01992 and even in 01994 there were lots of people who thought the internet was useless or a fad. Bill Gates's The Road Ahead, published November 01995, barely mentioned the internet, instead treating it as a sort of failed experiment that would be supplanted by the Information Superhighway. Metcalfe predicted in 01996 that it would collapse. David Isenberg was still arguing against "Bellheads" and their "Advanced Intelligent Network" in 01997: https://isen.com/stupid.html)

It can be easy looking back in retrospect to oversimplify events like these with the benefit of hindsight, imagining that the things that seem obvious now were obvious then. But not only weren't they obvious—in many cases, they could have turned out differently. I think it was Alan Kay that argued that, without the invention of the sort of graphical user interface used by most non-cellphone personal computers today, the personal computer as we know it never would have become a mass-market phenomenon (though video game consoles were) and therefore Moore's Law would have stalled out decades ago. I'm not sure he was right, but it seems like a plausible alternate history to me.

Of course, there were "killer apps" as early as VisiCalc for the Apple ][. Accountants and corporate executives were willing to read through the manual and take the time to learn how to use it, because it was such a powerful tool for what they were doing. But it was designed for specialists; it's not a UI that rewards casual use the way Excel or MacPaint or NCSA Mosaic is. Without the GUI, or if the GUI had come much later, plausibly personal computers would have remained a niche hobbyist thing for much longer, while somebody like Nintendo would have locked down the unwashed-masses platform—as we now see happening with Android. And (maybe this is obvious) that would have made it immensely less useful.
it's https://topvibecoding.tools/

vibe posting not as good as vibe coding...
Search Will Rule the AI Era
IMO, Italy, France, Spain. In that order. We have a home in Czech Republic (my partner's country of origin) and I'm also partial to the food there (I'm also east European but a generation back), but it's probably not quite as objectively good as the first 3, still better than Canada though.
I’m not weighing in on the specific protests here—I’m actually not unsympathetic to your point about that. I’m talking about the general power of the government to decide what kinds of foreigners it wants to allow in the country.

Do you think the first amendment means the government has to allow in immigrants that are Nazi sympathizers? What about Communists?

Americans have free speech. But Americans can also decide which foreigners are allowed the privilege of being on American soil. In fact, I would say that it’s precisely because we have free speech that we must carefully guard who is allowed into the tent.
not a grift, just a mistake on the post!

link is https://topvibecoding.tools/
This was not immediately clear as sarcasm, I was worried about my name-sibling
China: "let's wait 74 days and tell them we might talk about tariffs" and get another 75 days extension.

I don't see where this will help with negotiations. China is even not afraid to pull the same tariffs. Why should they sell then? Just retreat and put servers in Europe. Leave us completely.
> she’s not the kind of artist that makes your jaw drop or blows your mind with technique.

But to be displayed in MoMA she'd kind of have to be.

> Art’s all about the path you take, the experiences you collect, and the way you view the world.

I guess I see your point, the fact that she is the widow is also part of the artist and the artwork. That's fair. But, I'll also say that who she is is the 90% part and the 10% is the art. If one anonymized her work, it would never have made it to those galleries or exhibits.
To sum this up a bit: Harmonic distortion is well accepted, unless done to an extreme amount. What people seem to struggle with most is intermodulation distortion, cross modulation, etc.

If you ever want to hear a guitar sound as rich as a synth, listen to someone running full polyphonic outputs for each string into a distortion per string. You get the rich harmonic violin/synth like tones of every string but can play full chords without any of the intermodulation products!

I'm kind of surprised guitars have stayed monophonic for as long as they have, and I feel like the next advance might be a cultural shift of guitars to a true polyphonic output path. Would definitely open up some interesting DSP pedal opportunities as a bonus.

The future is distorted guitars that can play complex chords imo
… and they hoard wealth by paying a guy in China a fraction of the cost for the same labor.

In effect, Chinese workers crossed the American workers’ picket line. There’s a reason organized labor calls for solidarity.
Capsules don't have wings so its hard to fly. SpaceX wanted to try propulsive landing on land, but NASA rejected it as unsafe. Inflatable landing balloons like Starliner was proposed, but it was rejected because it added complexity (needs a step to drop the heat shield before it inflates and also, needs a step to inflate the balloons)

It was the simplest choice
No, neither Smalltalk nor any of the Lisp environments that purport to support hot code reloading have the same facilities the Erlang VM has.
Named after the most successful polar exploring ship.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fram_(ship)

If you could admire a ship, this would be it. It is on exhibit in Oslo.
Right. If Chef had adopted agentless earlier (or, rather, made Chef Solo less confusing to use), Ansible would not have eaten its lunch like it did.
Perplexity gave me a little hand in those references ;)
>Who gives a fuck ?

Your company's general counsel, for starters
What do you have in mind that Pandas will benefit from cuda cores?
Related post:

https://danb.me/blog/gumroad-is-not-open-source/
Try archive.ph
Except that's not how it works...
Which is fine. Not everything needs to be defined to be suitable for businesses. It's even fine for things to be defined to be explicitly not suitable for a business.
Location: OR, USA

Remote: I'm good with either

Willing to relocate: very

Technologies: Machine Learning, focusing on principled derivation (model identification, optimization, estimation) rather than just doing empirical trial and error.

Resume: https://github.com/ductri/resume_public/blob/main/tri_nguyen...

Email: ductricse@gmail.com
The atypical part is only that this is an all new one - suburbs have existed for more than 100 years now, so there are a lot of older houses in the suburbs, many of them don't have 200 amp service (though the owners are upgrading them as they as things like AC that need more power and were not considered in the original design)
Chef is still popular in the enterprise. It's a good tool.
It's interesting to me how Rand wrote books about socialism leading us to a world where irrationality takes over in a dysfunctional world and we now live in a world where unrestrained capitalism has caused irrationality to take over in a dysfunctional world.
From the Washington Post:

> Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) said Thursday that he planned to support the Republicans’ funding bill; he needed at least seven other Democrats to overcome a filibuster and set the vote up for final passage. Nine others who caucus with Democrats joined him and nearly all Republicans voted to advance the measure....The 62-38 vote came after days of turmoil among Senate Democrats who were split on either working with President Donald Trump and Republicans to pass a continuing resolution that includes $13 billion in cuts to nondefense spending or allowing the government to shut down.

https://wapo.st/4jnGaem
> Forbes first became associated with Sierra in 1991, when he agreed to join the company’s board. Ken Williams, Sierra’s co-founder and CEO, considered this a major coup...

And then:

> “Have you and Ken ever thought about selling Sierra?” <Forbes> asked her out of the blue one day in the lobby of the Paris hotel.

> “No,” Roberta answered shortly. “We’re not interested.”

> “But if you ever were, what sort of price would you be looking at?”

> “A lot,” Roberta replied, then walked away as quickly as decorum allowed.

Pretty clear which of the two was the better business person.
Seriously. I look at people who made big transitions in opinions with more respect than I do people who have never changed. What are the odds that you'll be correct with every opinion you form the first time? It's time people starting learning Socratic Wisdom again