skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you tried sol2? It's vastly more capable and transparent. It's also 100% native C++ code, so is just part of your application, with no extra tooling required.
I can absolutely see that. My earlier impression of Udacity was that they were amazing, so it was jarring to encounter the actual content. Still well founded material, but definitely showing wear.
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This. That's like saying a radiation exposure can make you "see funny lights" — while being technically true, this is not the important thing to underline given a situation where such a danger is out there in the environment.

Makes you wonder.
Sundar Pichai was working at Google via McKinsey
I don't think it is at all established that unidentified stuff is flying into our airspace, Chinese spy balloons notwithstanding. This narrative doesn't take one other factor into account. The notorious, well known, extremely well documented and researched fact that humans are incredibly poor witnesses.

The flaws and failure modes in our perceptive and recall facilities are so extensive it's amazing we survived as a species at all. I suppose it comes down to the fact that as long as perceiving a potential danger that isn't there doesn't directly get you killed, it's better to err on the side of caution rather than risk ignoring something that could be an actual threat.

So before we start considering the infinitesimally low but possibly non zero chance that an unexplained observation is actual extra-terrestrials that travelled many lightyears to stick a probe up someone's butt, lets first consider the chance that the detection was simply mistaken.

After all, we have huge numbers of very well documented cases of people, including pilots, navigators, radar operators, etc including even whole teams of specialists definitively and provably getting something wrong. It happens alarmingly often. Aircraft and nautical navigation errors, collisions, target misidentifications, blue on blue incidents. Tragedies such as the highly trained command crew of the USS Vincennes getting target identification and tracking systematically wrong at multiple levels of review despite multiple contra-indicators and shooting down an airliner.

So wouldn't we expect there to be quite a large number of such cases where we never discover the source of the error, or ever positively identify the actual reason for the inaccurate observation. Given the number of provable known cases, it seems plausible that we should expect there to be a rather large number of unproven ones, whether aliens exist and are occasionally flying around over our heads or not. So really, large numbers of unexplained but false detections are to be expected, right?
The difference is that my comment didn't suggest anyone had an unhealthy home environment based on their opinion on this topic. The parent comment did.
I think you could make an argument that nuclear weapons made many parts of the world safer for quite a while in exchange for a catastrophic risk.
The U.S. military lifts the Chinese balloon's 'priority sensors' from the ocean
What surprised me is how fast icbms travel. It's like 15 minutes from Russia to the US via ICBM. Other side of the planet in no time because it's traveling though outer space to get here
The dose makes the poison
This sounds more like "incumbent" than "first"
First thing I thought and expected to see after reading the title. Like, where is the skynet genesis quote? I guess we are too old
I'm not sure if they still do this, but when I signed up for an account on Elektrotanya many years ago I had to pass a basic electronics engineering quiz in Hungarian. Google translate worked well enough and I passed, but I thought it was marvelous.
Is that difference the "inversion" mentioned?
I was also confused by this. It’s literally writing the email in a text editor.

But this probably means that the poster has no knowledge of what the CSV format is. (which is sad to see that we created a system in which someone intelligent and tech-savy enough to pull out such a prank has no curiosity/background culture about very basic things in computers. Not to blame him, blaming the culture and the education)
No the first iPhone demo went off without a hitch. In hindsight, we found out that the iPhone hardware and software was buggy during the demo and if SJ had deviated even slightly from the script it would have crashed.
Not sure about north America but south America, specifically Brazil, has had its own "development" of sightings:

- Official UFO night: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34672842;

- Varginha UFO incident: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varginha_UFO_incident;

- List of UFO sightings in Brazil: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_Brazil.
I've asked myself the same a couple years ago, auditing yourself is impossible, it could be done by a third party but it'd be expensive if they do it for your particular use case.

Another possibility, still by third parties, but auditing udates to open source code for the public to use, they'd have to use certificates to sign updates, we'd need a secure version of NPM which only contains audited packages. There would exist good audits and bad ones so you'd have to choose depending on level of quality, and you'd have to pay them too somehow.

And there's a solution that would be a cheap way of finding the most obvious problems: AI-augmented audit, easy to automate, but could probably be fooled by some code changes.
It's the least likely explanation, far, far down the list of much more real, plausible, and actionable facts - entertaining this particular one above the others in order to placate illogical fantasies is a grave mistake we should stop repeating
Zimbabwe has a famous siting back in the 90s where a bunch of school children saw some aliens. Were they were taken a piss or influenced by American UFO culture? Who knows

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-57749238
> Excluding Zuck, at IPO the "employees" in aggregate were the largest group of shareholders.

No, just because an article arbitrarily treats them as a group and every other entity as an individual entity doesn’t make them ”the biggest group”, and the immediate pre-IPO distribution (when comp was more heavily weighted to equity and there was no practical way for most employees to exit their equity position pre-IPO) is likely not refleftive of current distribution more than a decade post-IPO distribution.

And “employees excluding Zuckerberg” aren’t a coherent, interest-aligned group abyhow.
> can make people dizzy and drowsy

LMFAO vinyl chloride is a multi-organ carcinogen...its literally one of the quickest ways to stage 4 right up there with Benzene exposure.

phosgene was also part of the release when Ohio decided a "controlled burn" of the vinyl chloride was somehow a good idea. the plume could be seen from commercial flights.

honest to god the damage control media outlets are attempting in the midst of what by every definition is just under a massive environmental disaster is just ridiculous. If this happened in China it would be front page news.
This so much. It's incredibly hard to sell to developers anyway because there is strong "I could do this myself" attitude with many people.
Think about it, we stopped watching traditional news, then shunned news that was too slow because twitter was faster though sometimes wrong.

so traditional news media was like "aight, bet" and now we are where we are.

the trump era fully solidified that the more ragetastic you can make your title, the more people tribe up and engage in the comments so your one shitty little 30 second article now has people mobbing together in droves for the comments and your ad rate is through the roof. what you're writing doesn't even have to have any fact, it can be all opinion, and in most cases this can afford you even more leeway to be inflammatory.

does anybody else see this happening or am I just here rambling at the sky?
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This either slipped my mind or I missed it back then. I have this nagging suspicion that I did see this news back then. The "memory hole" efforts were successful, though. Thanks for the notice/reminder!
I hope you realize that by "the government" you're referring to the BBC, who DMCA'd it. It is not hard to DMCA, it is easy.
A number of rescued foxes and other wild animals were also affected in the nearby area [1].

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/fox-dies-owners-arms-after-ohio-tra...
You are quoting Carl Sagan. I am quoting another Harvard astronomer, Avi Loeb.

What Loeb is pointing at is that in the real world you can't expect extraordinary scientific evidence while refusing to fund the research that could produce such evidence.

I am not claiming that these observations are caused by aliens. I am merely pointing out the inherent contradiction behind statements like "we don't know what this is, but [we sure know] it is not aliens".
I haven't used it, but I know plenty of people who today use ChatGPT for work or for school every day.

If you are ok with a higher degree of inaccuracy in exchange for minimizing your efford by a lot, ChatGPT is a game changer for many people.
Google’s search business doesn’t have to be killed by AI chatbots
Put the wiring in PVC pipe, and make sure the panel's junction box wires are secured tightly inside the inner folds (or use products that secure them).
That's a weird thing to guess for a company with Korg's reputation? Any specific reason you'd say this?
If there is any chance that human error contributed to this disaster (either via the people there or maintenance deferred or done less than perfectly), then "a more humane work schedule" would have made that less likely due to everyone involved being well rested.
I don't understand your argument.

So God can only exist if we are the only intelligent life in the universe?

That's some outdated geocentric reasoning.
> Every rust post brings out one of these. Where's the evidence? The linked article doesn't even touch on on it. rust-lang.org isn't a big rainbow flag or anything.

The article actually does touch on it, but it's very easy to miss since it's just mentioned in passing as one example in a small section noting ways in which the language tried to be build "a culture that was known for being unusually friendly and open to newcomers," which kind of makes it even weirder that someone would be so triggered that they would need to post a whole rant about it and dismiss the entire article as "obligatory LGBTQ nonsense":

> Along the way, the Rust community was also building a culture that was known for being unusually friendly and open to newcomers. “No one ever calls you a noob,” says Nell Shamrell-Harrington, a principal engineer at Microsoft who at the time worked on Rust at Mozilla. “No question is considered a stupid question.”

> Part of this, she says, is that Hoare had very early on posted a “code of conduct,” prohibiting harassment, that anyone contributing to Rust was expected to adhere to. The community embraced it, and that, longtime Rust community members say, drew queer and trans coders to get involved in Rust in higher proportions than you’d find with other languages. Even the error messages that the compiler creates when the coder makes a mistake are unusually solicitous; they describe the error, and also politely suggest how to fix it.

> “The C and C++ compiler[s], when I make mistakes, make me feel like a terrible person,” Shamrell-Harrington says with a laugh. “The Rust compiler is more like it’s guiding you to write super-safe code.”
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If Star Trek taught me anything, it's that Aliens don't want to interfere with lesser lifeforms! Unless it's for our own good, then they will but try to hide it [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Watches_the_Watchers
Any recommendations on medium price oscilloscope? How do you hook it up - insert it into the 1/4" signal path? I've never used an oscilloscope so I fear I'll order something close sounding but completely wrong :)
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What are JS/TS programmers using rust for?
For that case, I probably would use Shadow DOM, it's great for library components.

For application development, I prefer the light DOM.
I think every major OS ships with some sort of calculator. The problem is discoverability. If you're in the middle of browsing, it's quite a bit of effort to say "oh that's right I have a calculator on here let me just find it in the start menu/Applications folder" as opposed to it just being there in the same app you're already using.

Widgets would be a potential solution but they keep being tried and abandoned soon after in desktop OSes.
My point is, I find the whole C++ bashing bizarre. Not to mention the never-ending Rust evangelism.

Rust is a good language and tracking memory access and ownership is something that's not always easy to do in C++, even with smart pointers.

For some projects, like browsers, that's a big deal, for others, like games, not so much.

But, it's not like you can't do dumb things in Rust. You can explode your code in any language you desire. Your skill is the only limit.
> what's the evidence that this derailment had anything to do with the attempted rail workers strike? AFAIK, the primary issue there was sick leave--and, generally, a more humane work schedule.

The workers had many other complaints, including companies forcing workers to drive dangerously long trains with a single person staffing it. That seems absolutely relevant when you have a train car burning and nobody notices.
I feel like hardly anybody is all that serious about it in the first place.
Think harder, chief
It's "childish" to not get this joke
That wonderful book is basically upper college level dimensional analysis.

It unfortunately skips the basic level that you learn a little about in high school.

This makes sense because the book was originally a PhD thesis about solving research level problems with dimensional analysis, so the easy problems were already solved, but makes it a bit of steep start for the casual reader who doesn't already understand the basic idea.
That's not just closures, but a confluence of closures, async, and more.
> I don’t know if there’s anything we can do.

I know something we could do, at least for websites. Google could finally make good on their announcement and make CWV actually have a measurable impact on rankings. I work for affiliates/SEO people. When CWV was announced, suddenly they cared about performance. Then the deadline came and went and Google decided not to make it really count after all, and they stopped caring. You don't have to be better than your competition if you're not extremely slow, because either you're on 1 and you get the user, or you're not, and the user never sees your site (traffic on rank 2 and 3 drops dramatically, and beyond that it's barely noticeable).

If Google decided to punish slow load times, large layout shifts, huge payloads, and tons of JS by downranking the sites, you'd quickly have very fast websites all around.
I think I should clarify this in the article further. What I meant to say is: "after you've implemented the basics, e.g. input handling, basic renderer, file I/O etc. and you've got a basic game running, then you can start with prototyping code in Lua".

I feel like I've fallen into a trap of writing the code in C++ first ("because it's fast!") and then porting it to Lua when I realized that I need to write too much "binding" code.

For example, if you're writing a very simple AI, you can write a FSM/Behaviour Tree implementation entirely in Lua and then write AI logic directly in Lua. This way, you won't need to write binding code between Lua/C++ for these FSM/BT implementations.

And then, after you've written some code with these structures, you can see if you need to port it to C++ for performance or not. And if you do, it will be easier to design API since you already know which parts you need to expose.

One thing that makes prototyping in Lua fast is that the code, which looks simple in Lua, can easily become a pretty difficult template meta-programming code in C++.
I'm pretty sure a bunch of people on HN were complaining about this exact postinstall notice when it was set up. People saying "it's his right" were the downvoted minority.
Don't forget that many workers end up with stock too, either via options, grants or other mechanisms. Or maybe they just buy the stock because they things going well at the company.
Are we now linking pornography to being the source of a rise in mental illness? No other possible factors?
I bet you also think it takes effort to write the same boilerplate resignation letter/good bye letter.

I’ve used the same two since 2012 across 5 jobs.
Tim Dettmers [0] has been updating the linked article for a while now. It is a great primer -> deep dive into the world of GPU's for ML/DL tasks. I don't need 4x RTX 4090's but I really want them. As it stands now, I use an old M40 that I modified for water cooling. The only tricky part was configuring Win10 to run the card in WDDM mode as opposed to TCC mode without onboard graphics. To be honest, I am not entirely sure how it works as the pass-through is an older quadro card.

How do I justify the purchase of DGX-1 as a hobby programmer? Call it my mid-life crisis purchase? I mean, its not that much more than a mid-range 2023 Corvette Stingray.

[0] https://timdettmers.com/2023/01/30/which-gpu-for-deep-learni...
Then why is it true in this case, specifically?
It exemplifies the "individual exceptionalism" attitude of many Americans, wherein they attribute all their successes to themselves and all their failures to external forces beyond their control.
Stealing someone else's comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34784255

The sick day thing is the only thing that gets talked about so that people come to the same conclusion you have. That was a big part of what they wanted, sure, but they also had plenty of demands on better safety precautions.
Testifying to Congress is a pretty key skill for a Google CEO at the moment, to be fair.
> The more interesting question is “why don’t people avoid slow software.”

Outside of pathological cases, even slow software usually is still lot better than no software and doing things manually, especially when the number of users is >1. I believe that is big reason why people do not avoid slow software.
So future AI development will require proper training data created by humans, but have continuously harder time finding it because human creates become rarer and it gets harder to distinguish between human and AI created content?

Well, I'll just go and ignore the internet for a decade or so until this thing blows over then...
The US military has something interesting to say about that: https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...
Who do you suggest to replace Pichai?

The founders (Sergey and Larry)? Eric Schmidt? Or someone new? Who do you think the "Nadella" or the One who can lead Google?
There's a float16 version of GPT-J rewritten in C++ here that apparently fits into 16GB...

https://github.com/ggerganov/ggml/tree/master/examples/gpt-j

it's CPU-only and runs inference at "about ~6 words per second" on an M1 MBP
I'm not sure why you think this is blown out of proportion. The fact that they had fear of the train car explode and cause a much worse disaster (ie, not small scale) cannot and should not be written off.
Angle is a dimension, and not equivalent to length. Fight me (and Matlab).
How come Galactica did not make to the list?
It's interesting that there's broad consensus for this but if the related question of misogynist-but-not-actually-pornographic influences from, say, recently arrested rapist Andrew Tate had come up, the question "how do we keep misogynist influencers away from children" or "how do we ensure kids are 18 before they first hear a racial or homophobic slur, let alone repeat them" would have met incredibly strong pushback.

The belief seems to be that ideological content is necessarily always entirely harmless, whereas nudity is magically harmful?

Not to mention widespread book-banning on the mere mention of LGBT people, which are deemed "not suitable for children" despite not actually having sexual content?

How do we actually determine harm here, and avoid being buffeted by propaganda? There's a long history of banning all sorts of things on think-of-the-children grounds. Things like "access to information about contraception" have previously been considered obscene. How do we avoid going round this discourse treadmill forever?
The Stadia closure sealed it for me. Such amazing tech for what it was, completely unable to see the long-term and stay dedicated to a tech that's obviously going to have increasing adoption into the future. Handed over that entire market to MS without a fight. It even had a perfect release window during COVID when everyone was home and wasn't able to find PS5 or Xbox to buy.

Everything around that product was a summary of how Google handles things now. I can't take any new product release seriously from them anymore.
This series of posts disagrees: http://cliffle.com/p/dangerust/1/

Spoiler: the end result uses idiomatic Rust, doesn't use unsafe and is faster than the hand-optimized version in C (and hand optimized one in Rust).
Microsoft's AI Bing also generated factual errors at launch
Are you:

- weary of these getting downplayed (pron. wee-ree = you are tired of it)

- wary of these getting downplayed (pron. way-ray = you are suspicious of it)
This is a tough question.

Is there any chance to build a web app on top of the library which people would use? This could be a way to monetize, although I don't see ICs using such a tool.

Another way could be consulting/service based on your library. Let's say the library produces results and you can sell these results as a report to the company. The boundaries between consulting and service in such cases are quite fluid in my opinion.

Anyway, as others have mentioned, selling libraries to ICs is hard. Most work on their own stuff that fits their needs. Coding is also a way to understand and to build up intuition about things, so not sure.

I would actually go talk to a few people you think you could sell to at some time and figure out what they think about using such a lib.
Not the op but note Korgs latest 1000$ digital synths are all powered by raspberry Pi. Most other digital synth manufacturers too use off the shelf chips like SHARC etc. There's neither shame nor is it rare for established manfucaturer to use available stuff and not reinvent the wheel. The world market for these devices is smaller than we normally assume and second hand market is huge. There isn't as much money in synth hardware as one might think.
Schooling was invented in Germany (Prussia) in order to churn out massive amounts of soldiers who would obey any order without questioning. It is no surprise that education continues to be very backwards in the country who invented the worst system.
There is actually a Stargate episode about this where two civilisations lived in bunkers and fought each other with drones without really knowing why anymore.
I can easily tell whether the code that ChatGPT writes for me is wrong by using an IDE. But it’s always closer to meeting my exact requirements than a Google search.