skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
110 years! I wonder how many she'll get out of that for being the first out of the woodwork.
How do they compare to EDLCs (Supercapacitors)?
No. Something like this: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/git/trees?apiVersion=2022-11...
This uses a pretty silly signal of readiness. It only counts a package as "ready" if the package maintainer actively went in and added 3.11 to the package metadata. It notably does _not_ count a package as "ready" if the metadata specifies a particular version of Python _and above_, nor if the metadata indicates the package is compatible with _all_ versions of Python 3. Goes without saying that it does not attempt to install packages to see if they break, or run tests, or anything else that might be a better signal of "ready," and even those methods might not be 100% accurate either.

Asking package maintainers to update their setup.py or whatever for every Python release is just crazy when actual breaking changes are fairly rare. This is nothing like the similar site that existed during the Python 2 -> 3 transition. It would just be more busywork for already-busy open source Python package maintainers, most of whom do this in the free time.

Since the signal is so weak, I'd go so far as to say usage of the "ready," "supported," or using those green boxes and black checkmarks is deliberately misleading. Feels like a site that exists just to stir up twits on the bird site or something.

Nobody should take this seriously.
> I think one of the main issues is just getting it into peoples minds that $6,000 is a reasonable amount to spend on a bicycle

Not sure I agree, given that you can buy a perfectly serviceable 2nd hand e-bike for a good deal less, though if you want something capable of carrying kids/groceries etc., you're still looking at a considerable outlay if you have very limited savings (3k seems to be a pretty standard ask for good condition ones). Still, you can get new e-trikes with reasonable carrying capacity for well under 2k, and a lot cheaper still if you're fit enough to power it yourself :)

FWIW, I don't personally go largely car-free for any sort of financial reason - I just much prefer getting around by bike than car, and as long as there's access to a car when needed it's basically never an issue.
Definitely depends on the language. OCaml exceptions are quite performant, for example, and get used in a lot of ways that you probably wouldn't want to use them in other languages.
It's largely an artifact of trunk-driven development. Everything is behind a feature flag. The benefits of this approach vastly outweigh the drawbacks IMO, but one of those drawbacks is that you tend to end up with large numbers of dead codepaths behind forgotten flags, because cleaning up old flags becomes a multi-stage process, with no incentive to follow through but your team's "standard" processes (that probably nobody's checking on) and your own desire to keep things tidy.
It is great if you live somewhere with low light pollution. Stare at the sky long enough then you notice steady moving lights.

I did a couple of astrophoto sessions (noob) but that was a great experience just staring up.
From their website:

The beauty of film grain is back in the digital world. The grain will be reduced before encoding and transmitted via a grain table in the AV1 bitstream. After decoding the grain is added back and now it is possible to enjoy film look even at ultra low bitrates.

This is a very subjective thing to do! I don't like it.
You can reason why or why not you believe your code is correct, and ultimately come to an understanding if your reasoning proves correct or incorrect, but AI is just working off of patterns from its data sets.
It will lead to shorter phone lifespans.

In addition to extra waste with every battery, and smaller batteries that have a shorter usefully life, replaceable batteries mean a weaker phone that is more prone to breakage.
I wrote a bunch of stuff, but then I deleted it and decided to just copy someone better at wording than me:

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy

I view materialism much like Newtonian physics. It's a fine approximation for the situations you'll face almost all the time. I just choose not to wear it like a set of blinders, because I don't want to deny the evidence of my senses when they don't fit it.
Tesla Autopilot Deaths Count: 19 (my note: this total death count is 1/5th the amount of people who die daily [104] from human caused auto accidents)

Come on, you’re way too smart to make this comparison. The percentage of Autopilot-driven miles in the US per year rounds to zero.
Someone, somewhere, needs to write requirements.

These requirements need to be precise, unambiguous, and complete.

The AI could help the requirements writer to “fill in the gaps,” but the main onus is still on the author of the requirements.

As mentioned, we don’t program in machine code, anymore. Maybe the result of an AI-assisted construction would be machine code, but it would take an AI to test, debug, and maintain it.

I know that every C-Suite denizen has been dreaming of getting rid of “annoying engineers,” for my entire career, but that won’t happen, as those requirements will look a lot like … code … and I guarantee that the C-Suiters will have zero patience for writing it.
The war on merit takes a bizarre turn
> They just do.

On roads where motor vehicles aren't allowed? On roads blockaded so motor vehicles can't access?

That's what "stopped up for cars" means.
Ask HN: Why are there over a dozen recent no code Excel spreadsheet startups?
I recently noticed this mostly from reading TechCrunch and talking to a friend. Once I noticed 2 or 3 and actively started searching them out, I noticed a lot more.

To give you an idea, here are all I've found. I'm sure there are other ones out there. I've also seen many on IndieHackers, but these are all the ones that have raised VC capital:

Rows.com

Clay.com

Spreadsheet.com

GetGrist.com

Nobodb.com

Retool.com

Equals.app

Coefficient.io

ActionDesk.io

Parabola.io

Rowy.io

They all seem to have been formed in the past 3 years, have raised funding in the $10 million range and all seem to do the same exact same things in slightly different ways. Basically import in data from various Databases and other sources like Twitter and Instagram and do excel operations on the data as well as some other additional functionalities they've added and generate charts. I'm not even sure if this is solving a real problem. Does anyone here have experience with this space or know more details about it or have used any of these SaaS products?
That would depend on the tempo, the listener, and a host of other things.

One thing I learnt, funk feels like this: https://youtu.be/gLjXWiZVCrs?t=297 - Clyde Stubblefield's amazing drum feel on Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose - rely on a very subtle swing ratio, very slightly >1. I've found delaying the offbeat quavers (1/8 notes) by something like 1/32 note triplets gives something like this feel. It doesn't sound swung, but if you play it evenly (with a 1:1 swing ratio), it sounds horrible, dead, the groove is lost.
I guess for me it's one of those things I got tripped up on initially but came to appreciate later. It taught me how to be more precise about characters and reasoning about them in code.

There's also cases where case sensitivity should matter in naming in my experience, and it's not possible without it.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf

Table A on page 5 has one breakdown. Table B on page 6 has employment by industry.
I am not a fan of case insensitivity either. But it must be easy to write a case insensitive grep. I wager that a nim grep would already exist.

I do agree that this is a red flag decision.
It gives a movie texture. Compare Lord of the Rings vs. The Hobbit. Even bad (for todays standard) CGI fits perfectly vs. the clean fake looking one.
This is the most reasonable explanation. I even know a couple people whose jobs were affected by Covid took the time (and government support) to do a career change.

It happened with the airlines too. When you're without a job for more than a year, people move onto new companies, new careers or just retire early.

Singapore airlines continued to pay their pilots to not fly during Covid, knowing it would be tough as hell to restaff once they opened up. Apparently they rotated them through what little flights were available (cargo predominated) to maintain their skills. Once flights were restarted, they had no problem with staff shortages.
Hope both of them spend some time in prison too. It would be pretty insane if don't go to prison as part of a plea deal (where they testify against SBF or something).
I'd agree that "the current state of AI" will be assistants, abeit powerful ones.

With that being said, we've seen incredible increases in the ability of AI, even in the last 5 years. We're approaching human-level ability in NLP quite fast - and will surpass it soon. I (personally) don't believe that the past 23 years will be a great indicator for the next 23 in terms of AI. Some of the driving forces in the past 10/15 years are: hardware (we started using GPUs), Transformers, and massive - and I mean massive - increases in training data, fueling a nonlinear progression.
> I don't know if Houten has this feature but there are often movable bollards that allow emergency vehicles to take shortcuts.

Doctors don't drive emergency vehicles, they drive their own cars.
> Hotels have raised hourly wages by 25% since early 2020, and employers are offering greater flexibility in scheduling. Still, workers are nowhere to be seen.

I dunno, my pay sure hasn't gone up by 25% in the past 2 years.
This is pretty much the exact outcome one would expect, no?

The only question I have is if/when Sam Trabucco gets charged… he’s managed to stay in the shadows much better than his colleagues.
Curious to see if they also strike a deal with Nishad Singh. He was the director of engineering at FTX that supposedly authored the code that exempted Alameda from liquidation.
Whats the source of that image? It looks like a suspicious result, for example the white shirt is lost in the "upscaled" image. Was is trained on a specific set of images to prove this point?
That seems highly unlikely, and with efficient recycling, completely unnecessary. There are a number of uses where plastic is the best solution - economically and environmentally.
New York State Will Now Force Companies to Include Salary Ranges in Job Ads
If entire industries are going bankrupt then it indicates that the service they provide is not economically feasible. The end result is that consumers just have less choice due to reduced services.
Adding noise improves the perceived detail, which is important at low bitrates.
Is this for real? They really thought git was an appropriate tool on which to build a messaging service?
But reasoning includes statistical correlations
Didn’t Musk want to do a whole rewrite of Twitter? And Hotz questioned him on that?
Seems like Hotz bailed because he realized Musk has no idea what he’s doing. Source: https://youtu.be/DkxRB_YW3s0
Agreed. As well it is common for people to have roommates to pay a lower bill. Our 3 bedroom house is $3100/mo but we split it three ways and it feels super affordable that way. Bit crowded at times, though.
I live in a suburb north of Dallas and on a short walk can see footpaths at the end of cul-de-sacs, former paths walled off with bushes, and former paths walled off with brick. The places where you can see the old sidewalk under the brick wall are particularly sad, I think. Speculatively, I agree with the people who have commented on the hostility to "undesirables". Here, I think road expansion is at play, too. As the streets these cul-de-sacs face become 4+ lane 45 MPH roads, the walls become necessary to manage road noise and walking down said road becomes more and more unpleasant. Notably, the brick walls are consistently and obviously low quality, and tend to fall apart until they eventually break at the bottom, sag, collapse, and are replaced. It's a pattern I only saw when I moved here (though I was never properly suburban before that).
I thought it was "via a cow", which is noisy and dangerous.
I think you’re misunderstanding my assertion or I’m not communicating it properly. People will die behind the wheel, this is inevitable. You will not get to zero auto fatalities in our lifetime. 19 deaths for how many Tesla miles are driven autonomously, in your words, rounds down to zero. For comparison, GM’s ignition switch recall (which they knew was deadly for a decade), required a 30 million vehicle recall, resulted in 124 deaths, and a $3B loss in GM shareholder value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_ignition_switch...

~5 billion miles have been driven on Autopilot (and that growth rate accelerates as Tesla continues to ramp manufacturing), and if it was truly wildly dangerous, we’d be discussing far more than 19 deaths from 16 incidents. Check my math: assuming the above, that’s 1 death every 263,157,894 Autopilot miles driven.

You are more likely to be killed by a shark attack or a falling coconut than Autopilot, statistically speaking.

https://www.tesladeaths.com/miles.html

https://electrek.co/2020/04/22/tesla-autopilot-data-3-billio...

(I appreciate the kind words by the way, thank you)
What Does the Sea Sound Like?
This is why I, for one, only watch movies that have no subjective quality!
I agree experiences are what make a life, but things are relatively cheap, and services are expensive. The best thing to save on is paying less rent, better financed mortgage, shop around for cheaper insurance, etc, etc.

For things, focus on tools that help you do more, save time, etc, not bling, and buy the best quality you can afford. Specifically go for quality, not just the most expensive, which will have often have added bling and exclusive price tags to attract people with more money than care.
You can create a folder with a '.app' extension and put the script in there. Just make sure the script is executable with chmod and remove the '.sh' extension.
I'd guess when the "AI hallucinating" issue becomes better than "human mistakes: issue ?

It will take longer in the fields where neural networks are banned, like government-related software.
So they can maximally inconvenience the non-customers. Things like, "oh, you waited for 2 hours and are about to miss your plane? Please back up so our special customer can jump the line".

Cost optimization can turn anything to crap. As a kid I used to go to amusement parks on off days and get 10-20x the riding in, because nobody was there. Often could go from a ride exit to a ride entrance and hop right into a seat. Now they "optimize" this, run rides so you always have to wait 20-30 minutes.
While your application of the halting problem here is wrong you actually can use it to prove your point about chatGPT.

Have it recite the halting problem

In a new chat have it write a python program that tells you if a given string containing a python program will halt.

It's great at hacking, and completely incapable of engineering.
Statistical correlations are a subset of reasoning in general
I do not share your optimism. Right now we are seeing what AI can do with one hand tied behind its back. In my experience, when Github Copilot makes mistakes they are frequently ones that it could’ve avoided if it ran static analysis on its suggestion and realized it was mentioning variable names that aren’t in my code. If the next version of Github Copilot integrates with basic VS Code tooling like Intellisense, it will be insanely powerful.

Like, I see a lot of people saying things like “It’s just pattern-matching, it still needs an engineer to guide it”. That’s true of this version of Github Copilot. If it improves at the same clip as some of these other large models, I suspect it will become much much less true in a short time horizon.
Clickbait again
Maybe not essential, but say I (a data scientist) was thinking about learning Kubernetes what would be the reasons you'd give for avoiding it?
The fed by raising rates is trying to clean out these low-margin businesses by making them less attractive to investors. This means they will fire workers and stop buying goods which is supposed to bring down inflation.

Think about it, in the current environment, the choice becomes: 1. Invest in a low margin business or 2. just call it a day and buy Treasury bills at historically high interest rates and make a guaranteed state tax free return without having to work.
Python's StopIteration has entered the chat.
was just thinking of this - like vectors vs bitmaps - wonder when we will see video transmission enter that arena
I hope this isn't too shocking but a lot of janitorial and housekeeping work is done by retirement aged people who don't have enough money to actually retire.
Some cheap European hotels are made like the expensive toilet booths where they basically just hose them down —-no fancy carpeting. All surfaces except the bedding are washable. Makes for easy cleanup and quick turnaround.

It’s not for everyone of course.
Nobody is saying that every phone with a replaceable battery will break.
My understanding was that it does a limited form of reasoning via "train of thought." Maybe it can only transform the ideas in the ways it was trained with but when you break it down there are only so many primitives here.
In Atari BASIC and Commodore BASIC, you didn't even need to retype a line. You could cursor up and edit it right on the screen. This saved a ton of typing.
To many film artists, what you’re suggesting seems like the equivalent of hardcoding a custom massive bass boost into commercial headphones because “it makes music better”. It might seem better to you, but you’re modifying someone’s art, which is actively detracting from the film for many.
4M of them got long covid and are unable to be worker that is sufficiently reliable for shift work in the service sector.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/new-data-shows-long-covid...
Yes several million workers died, retired early, or weren't allowed to immigrate to the US.
i actually tried prompting chatgpt for mccarthy-style writing a few weeks ago, and like this it sounded nothing like him; more like a teenager who has heard somebody describe his writing trying to guess what it sounds like
I don't think it's <1 anywhere in that song, not sure why you linked to this. It sounds a bit less than 2 mostly, the super-common 12/8 shuffle feel, as in e.g. Rock Around The Clock (1955) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgdufzXvjqw and a zillion other songs.
What don't you like about it? It sounds like a good approach to me.
Unfortunately I've done a bunch of research into this and I've never been able to find a print-on-demand service that prints the zines in a way that I was happy with. Print on demand is easier for regular books, but the booklet format is a bit weird.

The customs situation is a pain though, I wish I had a better solution.
LLM's aren't just "matching patters", they demonstrate emergent behavior, allowing them to do much more than what they were explicitly trained on. At the moment AI models might not be able to utilize "train of thought reasoning" like we can, however the distance between these emergent behaviors and "reasoning" is much shorter than we realize (and will continue to converge in the future).
You are correct. This place needs to fill the coffers of even the ones who missed out a few times. Then we will think it's more than a scam.
Right, but the whole reason he gave to do a whole rewrite was that Twitter’s tech stack was horrible… but then couldn’t even answer what is that tech stack and what makes it so horrible
You can find (more than a year old at this point) articles from bar owners trying to re-hire their old staff. Those people found new jobs, because they had no choice. They couldn't afford to not work for years.

And, unsurprisingly, they wanted more money to return. Restaurants, hotels, and the like, tend to be extra stress for no more pay.
I'm not saying this vision won't eventually happen, but I see some barriers here:

- We'll want human engineers reviewing and testing the code generated by the AI.

- We'll want human engineers building a better, higher quality training sets

- I suspect AI will run into the same issues that humans do when making changes to complex existing code bases.

- We'll want better languages and libraries for the AI to program in

- This may all be well and good for standard types of applications, but I wonder how well it will work for novel types of computing

- None of this will solve the problem of needing to clarify our ideas (https://xkcd.com/568/)
Sam Bankman-Fried’s former friends pleaded guilty and are cooperating
Sounds like it was maggots.
> That was true in the "blogosphere" too, and nobody freaked out about it.

It wasn't; the blogosphere had no-one sitting in the place where Mastodon server admins sit. The closest equivalent would be, what, webring admins? But a single blog could be part of any number of webrings, so getting dropped from one wasn't a big deal, and I don't remember any shenannigans like banning members of another webring from commenting (and even if that kind of spat did happen, comment banning happened at the individual blog level, not at the "server" level).

Some people did get banned from the actual servers, e.g. Livejournal or Wordpress, but that was a Big Deal rather than something that happened over social drama between tinpot admins. I remember e.g. Dreamwidth being set up in response to some content policy, but that was a one-time event and a clear content policy. And even then, no-one was trying to block these whole servers off from each other; if anything they went out of their way to allow e.g. commenting under an account from somewhere else.
So you can run `top` and see exactly what config the process is running under. If it was started with a config file, that file could’ve changed or disappeared since startup.
The speed at which it happened is the funniest part for me.

The fact that SBF has been doing a nonstop tour of “I couldn’t have done fraud because I’m just too darn stupid. I didn’t know what was happening because I’m a dullard, a dunce, a fool of incomparable naïveté!” makes this incredibly funny.

Dude tried so hard to throw his polycule mate under the bus, but it doesn’t look like that was the best strategy.
It’s just not a problem. And even if it were a problem it pales in comparison to the deaths and societal cost to driving. You’re thinking about 99.99999% problems and sacrificing common problems (kids being run over etc.).
I am arguing that if it can't do the computation required to turn the dial, then it is highly unlikely to be able to make a program that does so.
Enjoy your laptop made of bamboo.
I've only worked at established companies. My experience was probably exceptional. At my first job, there were 30 SWEs and 4 technical writers. Boy, did that make a difference - both for our customers and for us engineers.
The "maximum" sentence here isn't even a theoretical maximum; it's just what happens if you take the statutory limit on what could be sentenced in the worst possible combination of circumstances, and it assumes that charges don't group or get served concurrently. It's annoying that they cite this number at all, because it simply has no bearing as to how things get sentenced in reality.
No, I think it's basically the same. If you're concerned about this stuff, you boot up your own server.
Modern ML models (the kind used in GPT) are Turing-complete afaik
I think a lot of digitally introduced noise looks pretty bad, but it's hard to imagine noise removal actually improving movies that actually were shot on film.