skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
to me 28,000 sounds like fairly conclusive proof that it wasn’t luck, even if he did sell ten times that many after it was revealed. authors need time to build an audience

but then writing is something that’s much more discernible to the common eye. a good author is good, a fantastic (pop) author is addictive. unless you have a very attuned ear, the same is not true for violinists
Note that this is not part of the CS curriculum at MIT. It's a series of classes during Independent Activities Period in January which is mostly unstructured time when students can do or not do any activities that catch their fancy. It works well for this sort of thing but students also do a ton of stuff that isn't especially academically-related.
After spending three months trying to migrate legit accounts to MSFT Auth, I agree with this comment completely. Their account migration approach is broken from the start, but more importantly, there is absolutely no customer support. What should have been a 5 minute phone call turned into a 3 month long chat and email nightmare, with multiple support reps telling me there was nothing they could do.

Apple is not really any better. God help you if you accidentally lock your Apple ID, you will be subject to a month-long wait before it can be fixed. Why that long? No idea. Nobody at Apple has any idea why it couldn't just be 2 days, and they will frankly admit to you that it makes no sense, then spout some meaningless 'because of GDPR regulations' nonsense that has absolutely nothing to do with GDPR regulation.
I suppose the non-semantics point of everyone in this chain is: there is nothing about this patent from Apple that explains why using a dynamic temperature/power limit model for the speakers is uncommon in laptops. They are neither the first nor last to get a patent to do this, why then should it be the "real" reason most laptops don't?
Any idea if it supports any of FreeCAD's "Assembly*" modules?
Causality is fun. The order in which things happen can be different for different observers. With light on earth humans don't generally experience this because of the small distances involved. But you can design an experiment with sound where 3 observers are placed in a large field and 3 loud noises are made, and each observer will tell you the noises occurred in a different order.
I'm surprised you didn't slyly link to the donation page.

One entity contributing more voluntarily does essentially nothing. All it does is give a free victory to competitors.
> but AI strikes me as a bit different from crypto in that it's creeping into our everyday lives.

Taking this further: Crypto was creeping into our lives, but only in the FOMO sense; People thought they needed to invest in crypto because other people were going to invest in crypto and they didn’t want to miss out. The actual use cases of crypto aren’t attractive to most people, aside from ideological or law-evading circumstances.

AI is different because people are rushing to actually use it for their own benefit. Investors are rushing to place their bets, but we already see big companies deploying AI in the real world in ways that are being used by the general public.
Keyword Programming in Java (2007) [pdf]
I guess it is more habitation than toolusage, which is more common in nature, so its not as interesting however some of the constructions are really elaborate planned and beautiful in their own right, its truly fascinating.
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Hahaha... tell me more about whether bank reserves really matter, or reverse repos count and how many EuroDollars there are in "circulation". Even people at the Fed know they don't know. The global credit machine and rehypothecated swaps are both the liquidity that keeps things going and the confounding variable that makes any estimate of "money supply" hilarious. How many years (and $T) of QE was there... and nothing. Then supply chain breakdown and poof! You might as well argue it was caused by "printing bitcoin".

https://youtu.be/pn8nh0jUvbs

Talk to an honest graduate economist. These are all inputs to a complicated foul smelling brew. I'm not arguing that debt doesn't increase risk (eg doesn't matter), but (especially when repaid) it can easily be deflationary. I will argue that we had a perfect storm of deflationary pressures (high initial rates, rising productive demos, globalization) and now we have the opposite (zero rates, falling productive demos, deglobalization) and it was all started with a pandemic and broken supply chains.

The best description I can give is that keeping businesses and consumers solvent/spending during the pandemic (note that was actual spending not QE) did ALLOW prices to rise rather than causing massive demand destruction (and likely depression-deflation). Inflation at least allows those decades of debts to be repaid and might lower risk.
"c" isn't "the speed of light" so much as "the speed of causality". Light just happens to be massless packets of energy that move at the speed of causality.

For all intents and purposes this is happening in real time from our local frame of reference.

https://youtu.be/msVuCEs8Ydo
It would seem this would be the perfect kind of class for online learning. Perhaps even as a wiki to crowd source helpful contributions. Most learning doesn't even have to be directed, but just point students in the right direction. This is a ripe area to find ways to better facilitate individual initiative, because a moderate level of effort yields tremendous reward. Plus, you can easily determine if you are doing it right.
I think there is a fundamental difference when you have an actual usecase.

You can do useful things with AI, the market can reward people for being useful, and push out the stupid things.

You can't really do useful things with crypto. The ecosystem was a gradient between straight up fraud, to sketchy financial engineering projects that well technically not a scam are right on the border of being one. There is no room to reward actual progress so obviously the money is going to get dumped into the sketchy shit.
Not trying to denigrate your response, people do need to make informed decisions. However, "trust your doctor" / "ask your doctor"? People always say this phrase as a knee-jerk reaction. I think that a scientifically minded board like HN can corroborate my experiences in that: MDs are not scientists, in most cases not up to speed on current research (or any form of "science" or what one might believe as science) and many times the most inept at anything other than following their training. Its a reason medicine is moving at a snails pace and we need more open source or civilian science initiative.

Among our community I say, make your calculations and take your dose. Don't talk to your doctor, you'll receive no usable feedback, instead, report your results.
Rich moneybags never has to sell. He can just take out a margin loan and skip the taxes.
Any country isn't heading this way?
> I'm a terrible programmer

Oh? Did you win some award? I'm curious as to how you're determining this?
I get that, but I don't get why this is "[a] reason why Mac speakers sound better and louder than most". Because Macs' speakers sound great even in MacOS.
I’m going to say what everyone is too scared to: Starship
GP has a valid point on the ROI comment, though - the platform will be promoted regardless of second thoughts on externalities such as accuracy and social effects.

Large buckets of money have been already thrown its way, and there must be a ROI registered, even if it's pushed fast and hard and through lots and lots of PR.
I think about this often. Is this reality's "update loop"[0]?

[0] https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/game-loop.html
This is pretty kooky and bitter, probably not worth giving it much thought. Also he seems, and admits, that he is even less knowledgeable on the field than the people whose contrarianism he apparently takes a t face value.
I don't think this is something that will come down to technical merits.

Unfortunately it is a popularity contest, where entrenched network effects are working against Elixir.

As a Python programmer, I truly believe Elixir/Phoenix is the best stack out there from a technical perspective.

However the incredible breadth of libs and resources ... and most importantly the mind share (both available devs, but more importantly available jobs for seniors who commit to Elixir) means that it is still just not a competitive choice.

Almost all commercial software dev is not about technical excellence, but rather about applying the available tech to a particular business domain. And there Python (and .Net, Java, PHP, Ruby ... even Go) are so far ahead that sadly Elixir doesn't look like it will make it.

I don't know that anything can be done about this. For all that I think Elixir is better, I, like most devs, am not about to sacrifice (or even impair) my career for the cause. Personal remuneration wins out.
If you downvoted this, please do us all a favor and open ChatGPT and ask it to describe how it works.
A while ago, I would have agreed. I've long since learned that the reason our industry has the management problems it has because we don't prepare people for leadership. At all. We just throw them in the grinder and hope it works out.

This means there are a lot of people who see stress and work that way because they don't know any better. A lot of people who think it's "manager vs. team". I can't cure that by myself, but as long as I can offer nudges to rethink that, I will.

Like almost every systemic problem, it only gets fixed if a large number of us keeps trying to fix it. (That said, I certainly get being tired of trying to :)
Author here. The creator of UXN is a friend of mine and we chat semi-regularly about our VMs.

I have a lot of respect for uxn and credit it as an inspiration, but
the goals of each project are different. UXN is a 16-bit system with 64KB of RAM accessible. It will also probably always remain interpreted. These design restrictions are seen as tools to foster creativity.

UVM is a 32/64-bit VM. It's currently interpreted, but I've designed the instruction set with JIT compilation in mind. I have a PhD in compiler design and I'm fairly confident that I can make a fast JIT for UVM in a relatively short amount of time, when I feel the design is mature/stable enough.

At the moment, UVM is relatively immature, but I want it to be a small/minimalistic VM that you can still build "real" or modern software in that takes good advantage of the capabilities and performance of your machine.

Another difference is that IMO, UVM is more approachable. UXN's assembly language is fairly esoteric IMO. It doesn't look like any other assembly language I've ever seen. That doesn't make it bad, but it does potentially make it harder to learn and harder to leverage an existing base of programming skills. UVM's assembly is designed to not be surprising if you've ever programmed in assembly and know the basic ideas about how a stack machine works. I also have a WIP C compiler that's already usable to write simple programs. See my little snake game for a fun toy example: https://github.com/maximecb/uvm/blob/main/ncc/examples/snake...

Assembly syntax example: https://github.com/maximecb/uvm/blob/main/vm/examples/factor...

I'll point to the fact that there is almost no boilerplate necessary to start drawing some pixels on a 2D canvas, which IMO makes it a fun platform to develop for. Like I said, it's immature, but I'll iron out all the bugs I can find and keep making it better.
If you think cryptocurrencies are in any way comparable to the recent progress in artificial intelligence, I’m sorry but you’re a Luddite.

If you’d have presented anybody reading this with ChatGPT two years ago, they simply would not have believed it was possible.

This kind of step change in AI ability is interesting enough in itself without having some kind of insidious and completely unsubstantiated conspiracy theory behind it.

> This is not a coincidence.

I despise this kind of writing — writing with 100% confidence and then providing zero evidence. It reminds me very much of my reading of writing from “the election was rigged!!!” conspiracy morons. 10 minutes of my life I’ll never get back.
I thought the modern C and C++ communities effectively standardized on CMake? I've never heard of BUSY before this, and I'm dreading the "now there are 14 competing standards" implications.
Dow said it was recycling our shoes. We found them at an Indonesian flea market
Even on a 'quiet' black hole I feel the ergosphere is filled with enough high energy particles traveling near the speed of light that you would quickly turn from an observer into high energy x-rays.
Its a long acting benzo and less prone to abuse than xanax. When used appropriately for break through anxiety it works well in combination with atarax.
More power to you. If this is what your heart desires, get a few - just don't go claiming they say something about your qualities as a person :)
The AI safety discussions mask that we are nowhere near high powered AGI. Maybe we'll never get there, but the discussions make AI look more powerful than it is, i.e., it's a marketing angle.
Target literally has a camera on every self check out kiosk to show you're on video.
Lol, does Apple also owns a patent that prevents other manufacturers from making something else than pieces of plastic trash devices ?
If you already have Caps Lock remapped to Control, why not just use Ctrl-[ to get back to normal mode?

Ctrl-[ is the same keycode as escape in terminals, and it's much easier to reach. For me, remapping jk in insert mode results in lag after typing 'j'.
Cheers, UK.
Direct link: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/googles-data-saf...
Interesting. Can't the different processes all listen for connections on the same socket (e.g. using EPOLL_EXCLUSIVE or somesuch)? I kind of agree with you though that if you need to have some kind of fine-grained coordination between processes using shared memory then the failure of one process could still leave the shared memory in a bad state. I suppose you reduce the blast radius a little for memory corruption issues when programming in something like C, but these days if you are using a type safe language I'm not convinced it buys you much in terms of fault tolerance. But I am really keen to understand if you actually lose anything in terms of performance.
Yeah, ok. I presume that by your standard anything less than FLAC on a Bowers & Wilkins Nautilus is unworthy your ears but for us mere mortals the MacBook M1 speakers sound amazing for music as well. It's a massive improvement compared to any other laptop speakers I've heard.
Typographic Hierarchy in Print, Web and App Design
Interesting concept, how close could we get to Sagittarius A* without being melted even if we were in a spaceship that was 100 feet sphere thick sphere of lead? I feel like the distance would be way further than you’d expect.
If you’re going to claim this username, the very least you could do is to never comment independently, but only respond with the key points of the article as summarized by ChatGPT.
I could definitely see milk consumption increasing if prices were lower. Tons of products use cheap fats that could use butter instead if it were cheaper. If milk products were cheap enough, you could use it as animal feed. If it was really cheap you could burn it for energy. Also worth noting is that the dairy industry is subsidized by the government, so the amount of milk being consumed is already higher than you would expect if the price was set at the market price.

For eggs, similar things could occur. Soy lecithin is a common emulsifier, but could be replaced by egg lecithin if eggs were cheaper than soy.
> The future is behind schedule.

This reminds me of the old 2600 crowd poster of "1984 - we're behind schedule".

I don't think this quick find[1] is the original poster, as I seem to remember it referencing the Secret Service rather than the NSA, but it sure does capture the whole idea well enough.

[1] https://steemitimages.com/DQmTEZ3U2U5DrgXDax5wmvaXvWa7rKyaS8...
Not untrue about many parts of the US too by the way.
Maybe for small fluff stories about fashion or politics. I haven't seen any AI content an important topic that wasn't riddled with easily-spotted inaccuracies. For instance, an AI might be able to pass a law exam, but ask it to actually explain a legal concept to a real attorney and it falls apart. AI, all AI, still lacks actual understanding. Lawyers are still going to be paying other lawyers to write articles for a long while.
I think it's "we" as in "real humans" vs them "AI chatbots". It would be easy to avoid them at the moment but might be a lot harder in the future (in a way it becomes difficult to use physical cash in many parts of the world). In a curious twist of fate, I suspect this article will be probably fed to train the next generation of AI models though.
But writing implementing some of those basic data structures is some of the funnest things to do in uni.
You can pattern match on basically any shape, not just atoms. Imagine you’re parsing a protocol over tcp and want to grab groups of characters between deliverers, you can pattern match that. I rewrote an hl7 parser from Java to Ruby to Elixr some years ago and the elixir implementation performed as well as Java and was more readable by miles.
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I'm no longer interested in cmake or any other dynamically typed build specification language (actually an old-fasioned, string-based scripting language in the case of cmake). I tried to like cmake for twenty years. Now I'm migrating all my projects to BUSY. I'm even leaving qmake behind because it essentially suffers from the same disadvantages than cmake. GN is a much superior build system (or meta build system, if you insist), but unfortunately it is also dynamically typed using glorified strings for all kinds of semantically significant stuff. I want to be able to statically check my build specification and profit of 60 years of programming language best practices, not to guess around and waste time with a specification language suitable for toy projects if at all. BUSY is not yet a standard, but it has the potential. There is enough room in the world for different standards on the same topic.
Mathematicians absolutely have been trying to formalise QFT for decades, with excellent success in many areas! Have a quick look at the nLab page for quantum field theory: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/quantum+field+theory . It is a complicated and hairy problem, and one that's frankly not even well-defined, because QFT can be approached from different perspectives. Often, this is done by using analogies with simpler quantum mechanical theories or classical field theories, but these end up not holding up to mathematical scrutiny when you try to implement them in a naive way.

But this is really quite normal for mathematics. Nobody argues that quantum mechanics is poorly-defined, even though the quantum mechanics that physics undergraduates learn is certainly poorly-defined, and most physicists will never learn about rigged Hilbert spaces or know enough functional analysis to define it properly. This never results in any actual disagreements. All trained physicists will come to the same predictions if they start from the same assumptions, even if they don't know the strict, mathematical formalities.

Definitional issues almost always arises because of infinities, and true infinities are rare in physics -- it's almost always just an approximation for "very big" or "very many". QFT has a lot of infinities. Quantum mechanics promotes classical theories with finite numbers of degrees of freedom into infinite-dimensional wave functions. QFT attempts to do the same, but with classical theories having uncountably infinite degrees of freedom. It's no surprise that there are definitional issues.

And even if you have an axiomatic mathematical model, you'd be surprised how little added value that is to physics as a whole. It's certainly an interesting and important area of research, but the fact that it's ongoing doesn't somehow invalidate the predictions made using formal methods, because those methods are reproducible. Renormalisation isn't magic, it's just a set of rules that you apply, and in fact, those rules have a quite natural physical interpretation (in terms of bare vs effective theories).
This is the case in all states that are parties to the Berne Convention or the TRIPS Agreement, which covers all but half a dozen countries in the world.

Related thread from earlier this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34880663
Quite a few years back I had a conversation with a colleague about how "curator" would be a hot job in the future. I envisioned an internet awash with content from the "creator economy", and a breed of people picking up the hidden gems. I failed to even envision the factor of AI generated content.
My head tilted at the title. I suppose "Mysterious object WAS dragged into the black hole a super long time ago..." doesn't have as much sizzle.
Do people bookmark this script with the `/u/0` or `/u/1` URL component that depends on login order? See the comment elsewhere in this post about "authuser" which might help.
> about 26000 light years away

about makes this suggestion completely impractical
I also need to leave gmail, and I keep saying that to myself every year
>Respectfully, I don't think you can blame the US for electing Tories who are swerving towards the cliff...

No. I don't blame the US for Brexit or the Tories. But, as if those were not bad enough, there are the endless foreign policy decisions where the UK just immediately follows whatever the US does, even if it is economically suicidal.
It feels like I won't be reading any books published from 2023 onwards unless they came from writers I already know and respect or are known and respected by those writers.
> Its the latest evolution of internet side-hustle culture: Creators posing as business moguls are encouraging followers to use ChatGPT to earn money by churning out AI-generated content.

I followed a random number of highly polished influencers and gurus as part of my Twitter feed. It’s a way to keep a finger on the pulse of the guru zeitgeist as all of the gurus move in lockstep from one hot topic to the next.

Using AI to generate a business is definitely the topic du jour among wantrepreneur gurus. They’re sharing fantasies about using AI to create every step of your business, from coming up with the idea to writing email campaigns to helping them write all of the code. They share examples of high profile success stories that claim someone used ChatGPT to make a business from scratch with zero experience and now they’re making five or six figures per month without having to know anything.

It’s wild. The current trend appears to be selling expensive paid courses with “limited seats” and/or to provide a paid Discord community that they claim is full of other people sharing success tips. ChatGPT has been a dream come true for people who sell wantrepreneurship materials. I suspect they’re using ChatGPT to generate a lot of the materials, too.
It looks 3 insect pincers or mandibles.
mozilla kept complaining about google, yet they accept their juicy money by selling their users

in 2 decades, they could have built their own search, many tried and many found success!

mozilla kept complaining about the playstore, yet they happily put their app there

in 2 decades, they could have built their own store, many did!

Sometimes i wonder what Mozilla's real intent is, where did the money go?
Meetings *are* the work
I’m very concerned about or supply chain issues as the article mentions. Moving huge portions of our manufacturing to China has made us incredibly vulnerable. I imagine that’s why Russia and China are ratcheting up now