skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is all a fun linguistic ‘what-if’ game - but when you start posting ideas online about ‘pure Germanic heritage’ you might find you attract an audience who are not just interested in word games.
It bothered me that I can't swipe the image slideshow on my phone. Having to wait to see the next one show up.
> I can buy that dereferencing null is a special case, but why is 0x2 special?

It isn't, in the general case. But JavaScript engines do some dark magic with pointer packing / NaN boxing as a performance optimization (most things in the VM are single words, passing around a single word is usually way cheaper than full unboxing), and I suspect bun in occasionally running into issues where it gets returned something from the JS engine which it thinks is a pointer but actually it's a packed, special value. This is a logic error, that turns into a weird memory issue at the abi boundary, not a memory safety issue.
Anyone know of the best way to get approved? I’m not a academic researcher but I really want to start experimenting…
I was curious about the result of the investigation since the article you linked said it was not yet known whether the self-driving features of the Tesla were active during the accident.

The outcome of the investigation was that the Autopilot was not engaged and the cause of this particular crash was human error:

"Per the investigation, the car data showed that the driver hit the gas pedal rather than the brake. The Model S then entered the rest stop, going 60 mph, hitting a curb and then the trailer."

https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/deadly-tesla-model-s-crash-...

And another source that's not a Tesla-focused website:

https://www.mainstreetdailynews.com/featured/fhp-human-error...

I'm not saying Tesla's self-driving tech is safe or trustworthy, but this is not a relevant example.
If you’re willing to accept a little bit of extra syntax/ceremony, the `do` expressions proposal[1] is pretty much this (but it’s only stage 1 so who knows when/if it’ll land).

1: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-do-expressions
> There is currently a hot war between the two countries with the largest nuclear weapons stockpiles.

This is simply not true. No two way about it.
Or you could just stand up?
Way back in the early 2010s I was very "excited" about coffee script and similar projects. They sounded like they should be great for productivity.

When I actually tried to write a project in coffee script, the results were the opposite of what I expected.

The code was harder to read, harder to modify, harder to understand, harder to reason about.

There's something about removing stuff from syntax that makes programming harder. My hypothesis is this: your brain has to spend extra effort to "decompress" the terse syntax in order to understand it, and this makes reading code unnecessarily difficult.

So I fundamentally disagree with the underlying premise of these projects, which seems to be based on PG's concept of "terse is power".

My experience suggests the opposite: there's power in being explicit. Type declaration is an example of such a feature: it makes explicit something about the code that was implicit.

Type declarations add more to the parse tree, and require you to type more, but they actually give you more power.

The same can be said about being explicit in the language constructs.

There of course has to be a balance. If everything is way too explicit (more so than needed) then your brain will do the opposite of what it needs to do with terse code: it has to spend more effort to remove the extra fluff to get to the essence of what the code is doing.

Being terse is good, up to a point. Same with being explicit.

Languages that try to bias too strongly towards one extreme or the other tend to miss the mark. Instead of aiming for balance, they start to aim for fulfilling some higher telos.
correlation != causation.

Also, the residents were probably interested in increased property values, just like all home owners are.
Exercise more effective than medicines to manage mental health
I had the same thought!

Then, my next thought was:

Who (in industry) wrote this? (and got FTC to publish it? wanting to drive some agenda forward).
It is a pretty well known fact. The concept of human race is developed by racist ideologies (obviously), see for instance [1], and is as such a banned concept in many countries.

[1] https://bioanth.org/about/position-statements/aapa-statement...
Reminds me of working at a big company where everyone gets openly cc'd on an email and people start using reply-all and soon everyone is bombarded with ridiculous replies. But then the funniest part comes when higher-ups start replying all to say "stop hitting reply-all!", as if that somehow helps. I understand the temptation to say something, but sometimes you just have to let it blow over because anything you do will just make it even more obnoxious
Soft skills over hard skills?
You have to split it up which slows it down a lot. The 14B model doesn't fit fully on a 3090, though the 7B fits easily and is very fast. Other replies either may have meant this or thought the original comment was about llama.
Relax. By the end of this year we either crossed the singularity or we're in the next AI winter.
> This is only true if we are only talking commodity crops. But the average farm in the us is still only ~400 acres.

This metric is misleading because of how it's calculated. Since you're weighting each farm equally, a 1M acre farm gets the same amount of weight as a 100 acre farm. Therefore, if in a country you have 100 acres of farmland in total, and the farm sizes are 90, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, you'd end up with an "average" farm size of 10, but in reality most of the farmland is actually part of a megafarm.
That is very interesting. Do you happen to know if Rockstar Games was onboard with this? Or would this be considered fair use, given the lack of competitive overlap between the supermarket and video game industries?
it is very healthy for mental therapy sessions

>> But for a few thousand people, the mental health support they received wasn’t entirely human. Instead, it was augmented by robots.
>> “People who saw the co-written GTP-3 responses rated them significantly higher than the ones that were written purely by a human. That was a fascinating observation,” he said.
D's GC is optional. You don't have to use it. You don't get all the D features without the GC, but you do get everything that C++ can do.

One unnoticed feature of D's GC is it enables safe memory allocation when doing CTFE (Compile Time Function Execution). This can be used even when the code being compiled for runtime does not link in the GC. It greatly increases the power of CTFE.
ChatGPT is sometimes precise and clear, but I've yet to see any writing come out of it that I would describe as elegant. It tends toward the mediocre-college-essay end of the writing quality spectrum.
But if those things are considered AI then why would it matters if you market them as AI?
On the Risk Profiles of AI Startups
Slightly obnoxious too … specially the last sentence.
When realpolitik gets real.
Believing in a relative basis for rights means that slavery is ok as long as the consensus agrees on it. So slavery in the US was completely moral right up until the start of the Civil War and it's moral anywhere in the world it is fine today (as long as it is legal / consensus). I don't think that's moral at all. An absolute basis for rights is above law or human discourse - slavery was appallingly evil exactly because it was an stain against the enslaved peoples' human rights to liberty (regardless of whether the law allowed it or not).

African Americans didn't earn the right to not be enslaved. They always had the innate human right to liberty regardless of what the law said, abolitionists defeated the oppressors that suppressed their innate rights to liberty.
All the kids spend too much time online, so I'm not sure casting shade at them really gets us anywhere. If that's not the case for your kids, I'd love to hear how you're getting that to work.

If you're not talking to boys about Andrew Tate because it hasn't come up (because it would be too cringe, as the kids say), don't worry, YouTube (reposts) have got you covered.
China Lithium Probe Shuts Down a Tenth of Global Supply
> There's also nothing stopping you from creating an iterator interface in userland.

I don't see any way you could do that with these ranges, and I'm unsure to what extent you can do this for any of the built-in types without their co-operation. If it needs co-operation then there's actually a lot stopping you from creating a useful iterator interface.

Also there are a bunch of plausible iterator APIs ranging from a very narrow API like Rust's Iterator trait to something as broad as C++ "iterators" which are effectively just (sometimes magic) pointers.
After seeing the dumpster fire that was the Warcraft 3 remaster, and the awfully executed heel-face turn in World of Warcraft's most recent writing, do you really want to see Blizzard make a Warcraft 4?
Wrasse Icon Zone
I was in a similar situation, maybe someone could benefit from the experience:

We're in a cold climate here, so one early goal was to have more deciduous (leafy) trees on the southern side. This provides shade in summer but solar heat in winter.

Right now in that southward location is an overgrown ~60 year pine replant. Bad for sun, bad for fire. We ended up taking down a total of 50 (!) dead spindly pines. The building now gets noticeably more sun, but (intentionally) you can hardly notice a difference in forest density! However it gave a lot more room and sun for the maples and oaks already coming up, which are the species we want to encourage.

To choose trees, I took a sun path app and walked back and forth along the south wall. This let me choose only dead pines that were shading the building in winter.

Another goal was to avoid burning. The pine logs now rot peacefully (waterlogged) on the forest floor, feeding fungus while they buffer rainfall and cover chipmunk holes. Don't worry, there's still abundant dead stand habitat as well.

For ticks, you might consider chickens or ducks. Note that they will eat and scratch everything, so you might get one of those cheap solar electric fence enclosures. You can enclose a large area for little cost, leaving some habitat areas where toads and salamanders won't get gobbled up!

Cheers and good luck all
I don't want a physical object, though. With the way I'm doing it the author receives payment and I get to read their book without having to find space on a bookshelf or carry a bunch of bulky books with me while I travel.

Clearly there are already ways to remove the DRM, and the lifespan of a Kindle is decades so they will not easily be able to add new DRM to the old hardware.

In my opinion, it's roughly analogous to Steam but it moves at a glacial pace.
Money isn't a substance tho, it's an idea/concept.
Ok, I'm on board with the frustration for "AI believers". I have to deal with it every day.

I don't think the strategy is to be _more_ annoying than AI evangelists. That blog was painful to read.
As someone from the USA who really only sees road crews from time to time, is the prevalence of obesity in construction really that high? What kinds of construction. I imagine you couldn't replace residential roofs if you were too large, forever if your job consisted of mostly ground based walking tasks like... I have no idea. But maybe some types of construction have more obese than others.

I haven't known many workers in that trade but all my experience is with thin and deceptively strong men who look permanently beat up from years of labor and small accumulated accidents.
AlDente for better battery management than Apple’s default heuristics. It pains me too much sitting at my desk all day with the laptop plugged in at 100% capacity. Now I can leave it plugged at 70% and charge it to 100% only when I know I’ll need it.
This message is not new. Advertisers should take another look at our earlier AI guidance, which focused on fairness and equity but also said, clearly, not to overpromise what your algorithm or AI-based tool can deliver. Whatever it can or can’t do, AI is important, and so are the claims you make about it. You don’t need a machine to predict what the FTC might do when those claims are unsupported.

Really great and ominous closing paragraph.
I love me some lisp, but I definitely prefer my JS-hosted code to be as close to JS language and semantics as possible (and that’s after a few years working in ClojureScript). Then again I’m commenting in a thread about an article with CoffeeScript in the title so I’m probably the weird one here.
Meetup for LocalFirstWeb.dev (Lfw.dev/) at 4PM ET on Tuesday 2.28.2023
of course it would be ideal if everyone could be reasonable and not abuse these processes, but that's obviously not the case. So the decisions seems to come down to maybe having new ugly buildings vs having no new buildings. I think people that need somewhere to live would choose the new ugly building instead of overpaying for old buildings.
Show HN: The most fun way to learn to code
Almost always the probably, almost certain answer to an essay like this is a "no."

Google could focus on making C++/Rust interop as smooth as Carbon's instead.
Plot twist chstGPT wrote it lol
> We do a preauth

Probably that was it, but my point is, there is no process you (as a customer) can follow to remove the fraud flag.

Also the flag was still there long after the preauth.
Fermat's Library has a weekly newsletter wherein they showcase interesting papers.
Their SAAS allows for easy annotations in the margins of papers, and they do a great job of adding context and insight to the papers they send out. I don't think I'll ever need their service, but I do enjoy reading the newsletters.
Instead of putting my fall leaves on the curb for pickup, I used them to smother the grass where I wanted to plant a vegetable garden. I saw way more bumblebees the next year and occasionally caught them burrowing into the leaves. Just letting things be a bit messier goes a long way.
Sandwine: Sandbox Wine on Linux using bubblewrap
You check in the transformed code and it’s gone, except for the Ghost of Syntactic Sugar which will haunt your codebase forever and make the juniors wonder why all the code is so awful.
> If having sex is a right, who are you proposing they have it with. How do we ensure that someone is available for that?

The easy answer is to direct them to Grindr or the nearest gloryhole. There is no shortage of prospective partners willing to relieve even the most undesirable men of their sexual tension.

It may not be exactly what they want, but at that point they're just being picky. Everyone's a girl when they're face-down.
I certainly don't think we are always in accordance with our absolute human rights.

In a relativistic basis for rights, there is not "reviewing what we consider immoral", because morality is just "what every we consider moral". Slavery is moral (at least in 1850s America) because the consensus was that it is ok. Under an absolute basis for rights, it's clear that slavery was wrong then, and wrong now, and will always be wrong (regardless of what the law or consensus says).
Good job, FTC

Hopefully it goes after some people.

I once worked for a founder who was running afoul off some FTC regulations. When the team brought it to his attention, he claimed to have never heard of the FTC. When we explained what the FTC is, he started arguing with us saying it had no authority over him, and he'll make the decisions for his business.

Money really does make some people crazy.
In Clojure it does:

(-> "Hello, World"
string/uppercase
(string/split #",")
first
string/trim)

`->` is a threading-first macro, and `->>` is a threading last macro. More here: https://clojure.org/guides/threading_macros
Ah, fair enough. It is a little confusing taking the changing currency, and then potentially also inflation into account. Interesting story overall though.
The article is citing real experiments, names and numbers, and is very well argued.
nitpick: 800m world record is 1:40.91

... the 800 is also not a race where the WR time is challenged on a regular basis. Championship 800m racing is a wait and kick affair which never lends itself to ultrafast times because the first 400 is loafed.

The scary thing about David Rudisha's WR set at the 2012 Oly was that it was a solo wire-to-wire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKEOjWEzVGs

That DOES NOT HAPPEN in championship middle distance racing. Does not happen.

Almost all middle distance records are set with precisely controlled tracks, weather, pacers, and racers to provide best conditions and drafting and temperature for the best times.

Rudisha showed up a the Olympic Final, threw down a gauntlet to the field, and blew them away.

You can see at the 500m mark of the video there were four or five runners who perfectly paced and tactically positioned themselves, where 999/1000 times the leader will fall off and get blown away by the chasers. What happens as a chaser is that instictive additional adrenaline surges as you chase down your quarry, and you're running through a draft for additional momentym.

At 500m, Rudisha accelerates and leaves these other runners, who perfectly placed themselves for the usual chasedown, and just leaves them in the dust.

Now consider he is losing 1 second a 400m without a draft/rabbit....

Also, I'd like to point out that the 800m is probably the most painful race of the track events. Typically you'll be well into anaerobic debt as you complete the first lap, and the second lap is allllllll pain. A typical 800m racer will hit 500m or so, his body is saying "HOLY SHIT STOP WHAT ARE YOU DOING" and that's when the racer ... has to kick and exert maximal effort for the next 200-300m.

Rudisha as I understand wasn't a rift valley tribesman, the usual source of Kenyan elite distance runners who have genetic adaptations to altitude and efficient oxygen use / high VO2. He was a Maasai from the central lowlands.

Just an amazing race.

Now, I'm also a cynic of Olympic level performance, but that's for another day.

RE: D1 recruits at 15:00/5k: the NUTS part of that is that 15:00/5k is barely competitive pace for elite MARATHONs these days (under good conditions like Rotterdam, Chicago, or London). So you get recruited for D1 for running a speed for 3 miles that an elite racer keeps up for 26 miles.

Kind of along those lines, a lot of people don't realize how elite rabbits have to be just to run the proper pace for 1/2 to 1/3 the distance. They can't really go under the top 50 in the world to rabbit, otherwise they won't have the reliable talent to run the pace even on a so-so day.
Farmers have always been at the forefront of tech. Well, ok, not all farmers. But in the history of tech and automation, it is usually farmers who lead the charge.

Steam engines, electricity, pumps, spreadsheets, solar, big data, drones. You name it.
Now I finally understand the pre-recorded messages in Portal 2.
I can see that they're boolean logic diagrams, but I haven't gotten any further with figuring it out. I'd appreciate a hint too!
I assume this isn't a deliberate strategy and is instead a result of an automated system with almost no human supervision. If it just crawls the web looking for PDFs, it won't be able to distinguish between legitimate and pirate copies. This kind of unsupervised automation is typical of Amazon and other tech companies.
If you find this article boring, you might want to watch this show instead, where somebody asks live AI replicas of Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro stupid questions: https://youtu.be/QXsnvPRwNss?t=560
I think in the scenario this is trying to defeat, they already know who most of the other people are because their facial recognition software worked & they're already looking at their socials, purchase history, etc. All the 3 letter agencies are using this info, plus whatever else they have to construct some kind of case against them.

So, they become the low hanging fruit. The more resources we give our TLA's, the less this matters, of course :)
It's a lot like the VR hype cycle of the past 5 years. Maybe there will be more of an actual change from the AI stuff, though.
Yeah, I did the math at one point on using seacans for a few different projects and at least around here they weren’t at all competitive against stick-built structures. They’re easy to transport multi-modal. That’s what they’ve got going for them. If they didn’t need to be lifted by cranes and stacked, they could be cheaper (structurally weaker), but then they’d be useless for their intended use.

I do see them used a fair bit around here for job-site offices though, but that’s again using them roughly for their intended use: put it on an 18-wheeler, work out of it for a few months, and then pick it up and take it to the next place
I hope people develop a better understanding of this than the bloody coin fiasco. Society can’t effectively deal with something it considers magic - even a low resolution understanding + accessible expertise will help massively (think law or medicine).
Take Chat GPT. In the case of humans, language is just a way to express knowledge. In ChatGPT its the other way around - the focus is the correctness of the word chain. It happens to get some things right because other people have chained similar sentences together in expressing that knowledge. Even if it’s “lying” to you as long as the sentence is correct and the paragraph reads nicely, it’s done the job it was designed to do.
“It’s an ambiguous term with many possible definitions.”

“Does the product actually use AI at all? If you think you can get away with baseless claims…”

Last I checked basic optimization techniques like simulated annealing and gradient descent - as well as a host of basic statistical tools - are standard parts of an introductory AI textbook. I’ve been on the receiving end of government agency enforcement (SEC) and it felt a lot like a shakedown. This language carries a similar intent: if we decide we don’t like you, watch out!
I didn't mind the coffeescript experience, but it's deeply hurtful to productivity to dev in a platform that doesn't end up winning.
It's a heuristic (claims to be probably helpful). You might as well complain that checking string size first as part of an equality check of strings that demonstrably have a very large distribution of sizes is obviously dumb because obviously you can construct same-length strings at will. Breaking rules of thumb is the easiest thing in the world.
Maybe you should simply read the Wikipedia page addressing the Franc CFA… contents of that video is, hum… arguably untrue. I don't know Caspian Reports, but in the current context, claims from a Baku based organisation should at least be carefully cross-checked.
Wait, that state still works? Has Adobe forgotten to pay their LobbyCloud subscription bills?
This is true.

It's widely believed there is an existing agreement that makes this possible.

From 2013[1]:

> Earlier this year, a senior Nato decision maker told me that he had seen intelligence reporting that nuclear weapons made in Pakistan on behalf of Saudi Arabia are now sitting ready for delivery.

> Last month Amos Yadlin, a former head of Israeli military intelligence, told a conference in Sweden that if Iran got the bomb, "the Saudis will not wait one month. They already paid for the bomb, they will go to Pakistan and bring what they need to bring."

Saudi Arabia funded the Pakistan nuclear program back in the 1970s[2].

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-24823846

[2] https://www.arabnews.com/node/2069831 "This was the time when Saudi Arabia opened its doors to Pakistani workers and provided financial aid to the Bhutto regime in order to thwart India’s nuclear ambitions."