skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One big advantage of eyeballing your rocket designs is you'll create plenty of opportunities for rescue missions so you can practice rendezvous. ;)
Hahahahaha this can't be real
Yeah, I mean, with the number of users they have world-wide, they probably have good per-country or even per-county distributions of call rates...
Because he didn't argue those positions because they were sensible responses to COVID, he argued those positions because he was reactionary. Coincidentally, at the time, they were the best methods we had to control against covid. So, maybe at best your point can be taken that he didn't deny covid, just the implications of it. I'm sure any reasonable person can see why this is a distinction with little meaning.
I have to believe that some, if not most, Republicans would go for a bill like this. A bill that's "freedom-from", costs nothing, is pro-worker while not being pro-labor, you get free talking points for "see you don't need unions."
We build houses differently now than years ago. 100 years ago, sure, you can totally make your own house because that used balloon framing. Today, with all the safety features built into a modern house, its a lot harder to take a few unskilled people and raise something up without it being a fire hazard.
I remember driving to college nearly 20 years ago and one of the headlines on the radio (NPR morning show) was that the DOE had unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer at the White House that day. It was going to do a whopping 6 Teraflops, and they explained what that meant. And I remember thinking about all the possibilities with that kind of compute.

I understand that this 1.5 TFlops may not be an exact comparison (or maybe it's the same), but if it's even within an order of magnitude, it is beyond mind-blowing, and we've just crossed over into at Exaflops at the supercomputer level.
You do realize that Google invented the transformer architecture, and OpenAI has simply scaled it up?
Slang itself is a language: https://www.jedsoft.org/slang/
I find this very hard to believe. Microsoft is also working on integrating chatgpt. But chatgpt itself probably could never have been built within Microsoft. Managers gate keeping their own jobs won’t allow it
Do an image search on "helium crypto solar power" and you will see many other versions that look much more like the one in the video.
> I haven’t encountered any other way to write iterative expressions whose number of iterations isn’t known at the top (like map and reduce).

`unfold`, Rust's `loop`, generators, working tail recursion elimination (the lack of which loop/recur is a workaround for)
Native English speaker here: I flubbed the first time I read it - specifically the 'all places wild' bit at the end.
I do not see how that becomes possible without the Internet archive effectively mirroring a large percentage of YouTube. I recall at one point, IA wanted to archive just the video metadata and realized even that would be technically challenging.
GoatCounter added custom event tracking sometime last year. Not sure if it's what you needed.

https://www.goatcounter.com/help/events
They were one man shops.

20 years ago, the going rate for installing a socket in an existing wired and ready to go junction box was $50. It's about a 5 minute job. I know it's about 5 minutes because I've done a lot of them myself.

I'm sure prices have gone up a lot in the last couple decades.
How then?
> It's more about organizational bureaucracy, innovator's dilemma, organizational priority, risk tolerance given the scrutiny they're under, etc.

The paypal argument
Haskell has almost all of these.

> Instead of writing 10000500, you can write 10_000_500, or 1_00_00_500

https://ghc.gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/doc/users_guide/exts/nume...

> Balanced string literals

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/raw-strings-qq-1.1/docs/...

> Generalized update syntax

Use Lens. `fileName %~ max 2`

> you can write the sequence 1, 2, … n-1 as 1..<n.

Yup. `[1,2..n-1]` There's far more to it, you have access almost a SQL-like sublanguage.

> Symbols

In Haskell you use hash has a prefix instead of colon.

Haskell sadly does not do automatic lifting, no extended parameter blocks, and no kebab-case.
You don't think there will be a skate mode enabling the user to stand still and be transported?

The Wall-E people will probably desire it.
> Imagine a company like AWS renting their AI system to do a specific function. It's going to be interesting.

This is where I see the money being made. Offer the LEGO bricks startups use to build successful niche products, then steal the most profitable ones.

Amazon Basics Medical Coding AI.
I'm glad you've found it easy to follow!

My best guess at the middle regime is that there are _empirical correlations between features_ due to the limited data. That is, even though the features are independent, there's some dataset size where by happenstance some features will start to look correlated, not just in the sense of a single feature, but something a bit more general. So then the model can represent something like a "principal component". But it's all an illusion due to the limited data and so it leads to terrible generalization!

This isn't something I've dug into. The main reason I suspect it is that if you look at the start of the generalizing regime, you'll see that each feature has a few small features slightly embedded in the same direction as it. These seem to be features with slight empirical correlations. So that's suggestive about the transition regime. But this is all speculation -- there's lots we don't yet understand!
I was with you until “basic” :) Figma is an amazing beast!

Also your comment seems to correctly throw into question the sustained long-term value of OpenAI. Figma will undoubtedly keep delivering value for years to come.
I'm a bit older, but my whole life teachers pounded into our heads "go to college" and get any degree. My dad was denied a management position purely because he had no degree (any degree at all would have been enough and he would have got it), so what they said wasn't necessarily wrong, but it was reckless and has led to a lot of hindered lives. I was sorely disappointed when I graduated with my marketing degree and it didn't matter to anybody. I went back and got a CS degree, so I'm ok now, but I did miss the first few years of my kids' lives working full time to support them and also doing a CS degree in evenings and weekends for 4 years. It would have been much better to have just done the CS degree. I am a little bitter.
Streaming services subscription model is wired. I refuse to pay for something that I can barely use 2-4 hours per month (considering 4 streaming services).

Most absurd is situation, when I need to use software for business, but natively it has build in spyware and my data analyzing for AI (yes, Adobe, its you) and also there is no option to use it offline for more than one week, so piracy is only way how to have working software that I actually pay for. It absolutely ridiculous consisering that I pay for this software over 7 years.

There are no professional alternatives yet. Monopoly of Adobe with their agressive dictate needs to be broken.
Perhaps this bug could be a feature?

A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots & leaves."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_&_Leaves
Modern designs are a lot different than those monolithic '70s designs. Now it's a bunch of mass-produced small parts self-assembled in orbit, with a phased-array transmitter. Manufacturing's way cheaper that way, once you start scaling a bit. (See NASA's SPS-ALPHA project or the book The Case for Space Solar Power.)

The other big change is the prospect of $50/kg to LEO with Starship. Falcon Heavy's advertised price is already down to $600/kg.
Noted. I've read the rest of the conversation and it's very interesting.
Does not seem like given a lot of the auto factories in the south are not unionized and multiple attempts to unionize them failed because the workers reject them.

Then there was that famous failed attempt at unionizing the Amazon warehouse in Alabama? I think? Yeah there was a lot of shady stuff going down but it just does not look good among all the other failures.
Interestingly, I almost prefer Clojure's `recur` semantically. Means you don't have to change the function name twice if you rename it, and it's hard to miss that you're recursing.
States of War
"Research has long recognized the destructive potential of ethnic nationalism."
Yeah I am completely aware. They invented it and search got even more useless.
The odds were truly stacked against this scrappy group of well-connected billionaires, supported by the largest tech companies in Silicon Valley, able to hire the top talent in the world, originally touted as a non-profit that would democratize AI instead of gate-keeping it for the profit/benefit of the aforementioned.

At least they didn’t say “sike” as soon as the tech was good enough to monetize and pivot to being a for-profit tech company in itsel- oh.
Monthly News – December 2022 – The Linux Mint Blog
We do have what we call "fraudulent misrepresentation" in the US. It could give me grounds to seek damages or invalidation of certain misrepresented provisions, but doesn't automatically make the contract meaningless over here. The two problems are specificity and proof, both of which require more consent from the receptionist than they are probably willing to go along with.

It would be fraud to misrepresent a material fact at time of signing, such as the quality of goods or, say, if a loan officer says that interest is fixed-rate, when the contract says it is variable-rate. But for my case, what does "standard legal stuff" actually mean? I'd argue it is actually pretty standard for a Bay Area tech company. What does "don't worry about it" actually mean? If I asked the receptionist to explain more or "does this include a non-disparagement agreement?", I doubt they would have said anything.

For proof, I was in California, which is a two party consent jurisdiction for recording. So I could have pulled out my phone and said "I'd like your permission to record what you just told me about the contract. Can you please state your name, position at Company X, and what you just told me about it being all standard legal stuff?" If I was that receptionist, I'd probably call security.
and vice-versa

Doesn't the reverse pollute the function namespace? If every obj.fun() can be written as fun(obj), doesn't that cause ambiguity with a previously imported global function fun()?
That's just a matter of habit. The exact symbol isn't important anyway.
I was thinking about this. You take something like ChatGPT, point it at all your company's documentation, and boom, instant customer service. Pretty darn good customer service based on my experience. Feels like it will instantly invalidate all existing customer service chatbots once this propagates.
This summer I was preparing the ClickBench: https://benchmark.clickhouse.com/

When I tried to use DuckDB on the same dataset as ClickHouse, it simply did not work due to OOM: https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/3969

I also told them about our experience of using various memory allocators, and why you should never use the GLibC's malloc.

This issue was fixed.
Demographic implosion will catch up to the third world countries. Then the US is royally screwed. Some places like China its already too late.
> Replace them with integers at compile time like a global enum, and so the runtime only needs to compare integers instead of potentially lengthy (especially if UTF-16) strings.

All of those strings will be interned, and can thus be compared by identity. Which is an integer comparison.
Yeah I'm 10 years older than you and never had any thought that "any degree will do". Although perhaps I'm old enough to see that this was legitimate thinking in my predecessors. There was a time when just completing college was fairly uncommon and acted as a class signifier. I believe having a degree, any degree, would have made you an officer automatically in the military (and still does?) and would have opened the door to all kinds of business professions.

Now it's just too common for any old degree to matter. I think perhaps for Ivy League this strategy still works.
That is a shit ton of money
If you have a high-deductible health plan, generally you can open an HSA account, which does allow for medical expenses to effectively be tax-deductible.

There are a bunch of restrictions and loopholes though. I once opened an HSA and then actually had to close it because it turned out my insurance plan had *too* high of a deductible to be eligible, go figure.
Elixir's sigils are amazing. There are date sigils that allow you to do what the OP does:
~N[2023-01-01 12:00:00]

But you can also define your own sigils to create new "custom syntax" for almost any struct. Kind of a special case of reader macros, I guess. Very convenient.
Tbh, people have tried and made many tools like Figma, but I'm yet to see anything that comes even close to Figma's speed. There's some incredible engineering under the hood.
Plumbers and electricians contort their body and are moving up and down into cavities of various sizes all day. It definitely takes a toll on you.
There's huge differences in the individual trades and what it means for your body.

The vast majority of my friends are in the trades (I'm the outlier with an office job) and over the course of 20 years, many things have improved. Better tools, machines to do the very hard parts, etc. Some trades aren't super physically taxing, whilst other are, like plasterers.

So the comparison is complicated, and you'll also have to take into account the physical and mental wear of an office job.
They emailed months ago asking if people wanted to opt out; it was a concern but I suspect the vast majority of people both want to be in it AND are already trivially googleable as being in YC.
It would have been unambiguous in a world where we all agreed that both months and days start at 0 :)
Yes, but if they were taking that action, they would have instructed the public land officials on a cover story, not allowing them to create a mystery out of and open those boxes.
And FAANG or investment banking pays even higher than then that.
The Salt Lake City Metropolitan Statistical Area is #24 as ranked by population, so it depends what one would consider "major".

To me, top 25 seems major, but to someone else top 20 would be major. I don't think "major" in the context of metro areas is an official term.
Twitter leak: 200M+ account database now free to download
I understand consciousness well enough to name two necessary-but-insufficient prerequisites for it, which I call continuity of input and continuity of learning.

The former means that it has to be always-on, with some form of continuous input stream, like our senses, as distinct from the current ML systems that sit there idle, waiting for discrete input and giving discrete output.

The latter means it also needs to be, effectively, continuously using that input to re-train itself, as distinct from the current systems that are trained once or multiple times in discrete batches, then used over and over again with that static model.
Platform channels - https://docs.flutter.dev/development/platform-integration/pl...
Negative array subscripts. So a[-1] means the last element of an array, a[-2] means the second last, and so on.
Why is this being down voted? Upon re-watching the video, I did notice a visible stutter in scrolling the app on the left.

(To be fair, I didn't notice it the first time I watched the video.)
This is where things get interesting in React Native. The answer is: yes you can have smooth animations. However, the animations have to be driven at the native level and not in JS.

The reason for this is: React Native is on a run loop. And on each loop, new state is shared over a bus from the JS side to the native side. So if you manage the frames of an animation over this bus, it's going to be very slow. If the native side manages the animation, you don't have this overhead.

The same goes for touches. If you touch something, the native side gets the event and then this goes over the bus and RN picks it up. But if RN then responds to that touch by highlighting a view, that means another message has to go back to native - lots of overhead. For that to happen without a perceptible delay you have to have these events handled on the native side.

Another thing that can happen is too many things in the view change at once: you then have a traffic jam on the bus and the UI slows down or becomes unresponsive. This can happen if state changes too quickly.

You can get decent performance out of React Native (especially on tables, which is otherwise a dark art in iOS), but you have to know where the bottlenecks pop up.
Compare to lisp macros?
Capturing information by actionability not category
I fail to see how that is an argument against what the parent comment said. Google invented transformers and OpenAI made it into something compelling. More compelling than what Google has done with it.
Well, libertarians believe in natural law doctrine as a core belief, right? So you must have rights which can never ever be given up, not even by contract.

In the scenario it wouldn't be that no one would want to enter contract with the company because it couldn't provide those protections. Many protections are a result of inalienable rights, so you can't have a contract which removes those protections.

Since the organization wouldn't have legal personhood, it would mean that the owners and/or employees would be personally liable if the company were to violate one of those inalienable protections. That makes investment or membership in those organizations extremely unattractive.

For many types of organizations this isn't necessarily a problem, but for organizations in many sectors such as healthcare, anything that requires hazardous labour, the automotive industry, private security, etc..., it means that investment is really not a good idea because your personal liability might put you in jail.

This is of course because the organization couldn't negotiate a contract with it's clients where the clients would give up these protections, because these kinds of protections which derive from natural rights can't be given up.

So in the end you need legal personhood to protect the investor class, otherwise capitalism doesn't really work anymore when investors are too afraid by personal liability. And that's why legal personhood for the purpose of general enterprise started 300 years ago and is now a thing everywhere save for North Korea (even Cuba and the USSR had to allow citizens to form limited liability entities with legal personhood for economic activity, because even when you don't allow investors, limited liability turns out to be very practical when you have partnerships with very large numbers of partners)
> These tools are 19th century stuff (including all the AI junk)

I'm not really sure what you're looking for here. I mean, you could claim that modern cryptography is based on ideas from the ancient Greeks (factoring numbers), and is therefore old and busted. Is every idea just derivative unless it uses a completely new kind of math?

Software developers (maybe not you, but a large percentage of the users of this site) tend to automatically think older ideas are worse. But that's not true in math. Mathematical ideas don't expire. The idea of the number 7 is aeons old; the number 0 over a thousand years; the complex number i 450 years. But the numbers 7 and 0 and i are still extremely useful, in infinite combinations. If you think we have milked those numbers for all they're worth, you have an extremely limited imagination.

Sure, most of the "AI junk" is a combination of old ideas like linear algebra and gradient descent, but used at a scale orders of magnitude larger than their creators ever imagined. (And quantity has a quality all its own.) It's that combination of ideas that is so powerful. Besides, backpropagation is a pretty damned novel idea. If you're looking for the one truly new idea from AI, it's backpropagation.

You are vastly underestimating the volume of the idea space available to explore simply by combining the ideas and materials we already have. Crossover is a better source of variety than mutation is. You may be right that truly new concepts are the "raw materials" of invention, but we never run out of the raw ideas we have, and they prove to be useful in their combination up to the limits of our imaginations. It's actually surprising how likely you are to come up with a reasonably good idea by simply considering a few randomly-selected ideas together.

> we are stymied on the complexity front (materials, chemistry, biology, medicine etc)

Again you seem like your standard is: if it's not an entirely new thing where nothing like it has ever existed before, then it's boring!. If you think the volume of the idea-space from combining the materials, chemistry, biology, and medicine we already have/understand is X, it's almost certainly at least 2^X, or even X! (factorial).

Besides, we are coming up with brand new materials all the time! Materials science is one of the most exciting frontiers of human technology.
> For prospective founders who are looking for inspiring leaders, here is a way to discover founders who have had experiences that reflect your own and learn more about their founder journey.

I'd guess a directory of 10,000 YC alumni could be awesome, if you're a new YC founder doing B2B sales cold calls.

(YC might connect their current/recent startups to each other. But this could help you put shoe to the pavement, and knock on many more YC alumni doors, where you have the name of a likely well-placed person, and a small "in" with them. Unless that's frowned-upon.)
Also known as (in Python, that is):

yield from y
They exist in K/Q. A single-word identifier-shaped symbol begins with a backtick, or a multi-word symbol can be created with a backtick and double quotes. A sequence of symbols is a vector literal, and is stored compactly. For example:

`apple
`"cherry pie"
`one`two`three

Many languages will intern string literals implicitly, or allow a programmer to explicitly intern a string; for example Java's "String.intern()".

The problem with string interning, especially for strings constructed at runtime, is that for the interning pool to be efficient it is very desirable for it to be append-only, and non-relocatable. A long-running program which generates new interned strings on the fly risks exhausting this pool or system memory.
The shoes are around 4lbs each. I wonder how much of that is the battery and if you couldn't get them to more negligible weight with a connected/worn battery.
Can't be worse than yoga.

Edit: Downvote me all you like. I've done yoga, I've done plumbing, I've done electrical. Yoga takes the cake by a mile for most painful contorting.

And yet I know an 86 yo woman who has been doing yoga 3 time a week forever and is fit and sharp.
The 'your car is about to be towed' siren is astonishingly loud, an inevitably at 4AM. It saves them time but jeebus.

https://youtu.be/WvN-HLf_ekM
Agree they had an unlimited budget and hired true top talent. But my point still stands, none of the big companies are spinning up a group of 200 people in a new org and releasing game changing products. They can only do it by funding external groups. Facebooks whole business model was hiring expensive engineers that are good at executing and just copying any new competitors product.