skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing this! Especially for linking the slides and not just the video.
American colleges in crisis with enrollment decline largest on record
Neither lidar (what most companies use) nor occupancy networks (what Tesla uses) should be tricked by this.

Also I believe this will trick the classifier into thinking it's for example an elephant, not that there's nothing there.
Azimutt: Database Schema Explorer
I bought a cube of tungsten and a cube of magnesium to teach my kids about density, and I was really surprised how dangerous it feels just to hold the tungsten. I only let them hold it a few inches above a table because that thing would break your foot if you dropped it! If you hold the magnesium and drop it one inch you get a delicate little “clop” and if you drop the tungsten one inch you get a solid “BANG”.
It's this type of stuff that causes me to prefer the Sync implementations over the Async wherever I can. Did I get it right? Is it going to deadlock in production? How can I be sure? Who knows? Straight threads are much easier for me to understand than async in C#.
Actually, there could be places where verified humans are required, and places where they are not.
Tallow, from cattle and sheep, would be fine I think. Pigs are considered unclean for some reason. Benzene is just a sunscreen ingredient.

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/benzene-in-sunscreen/
I have to agree. I ignored tailwindcss for far too long. Pry it from my cold dead fingers.
>> I feel very frustrated with these takes because instead of grappling with what we're going to do about it (like having a conversation) it's a flat, dismissive denial, and it isn't even grounded in the science, which says that "memory augmented large language models are computationally universal"

That's not what "the science says", it's the title of an article that someone put on arxiv.

The article has no theoretical results, just a shoddy empirical demonstration of... something. The author claims that the something is an LLM simulating a Turing machine. But, is it? Really?

Well, here's how the article concludes:

>> Hopefully the reader has been convinced by this point.

"Hopefully" is not how you show computational universality of a neural net architecture. This is how:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002200008...

i.e. with maths. That article you link to is a bunch of hooey.
That’s not quite lying. It’s just not being interested in a topic and being clear but polite about it.
> all from updating Linux

Stopping breakage on updates is one of the big promises of ostree-based systems (fedora Silverblue and Kionite), and declarative systems (Guix and Nix). Easy rollbacks, updates are installed in the background with no impact on the running system, and atomically switched on reboot.
Early in my generative art, I spent a lot of time packing various small shapes together, it was a fun process to figure out how to maximize the coverage without leaving large gaps. For example, a piece with almost every shape I was using: https://digcon.art/details.html?key=river-in-the-woods
Ah, trying to go down that route?

ECOOP 2009 proceedings paper from a certain Simon Peyton Jones.

"Classes, Jim, But Not as We Know Them — Type Classes in Haskell: What, Why, and Whither"

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-03013-0_...
Aside: In my neighborhood there tends to be a lot of these large trucks parked on the street or in the drive. We get a lot of snow, so parking inside the garage is advantageous. Unfortunately, these trucks can't fit. They're too tall to make it inside. These houses were built in the late '80, so not terribly old.
I think some people will prefer a GitHub link over Twitter:

https://cocktailpeanut.github.io/dalai/
I have moved repositories off github, replaced the README with a warning and the new location and archived the project.

It's still getting starred...
I was looking for coroutines. Modula had them, but I couldnt find them here. Just a note I mean coroutines, not preemptive threads.

Here is how it looks like in Modula-2.

https://www.modula2.org/reference/isomodules/isomodule.php?m...
Maybe they prefer other open-source projects, like editing the wikipedia.
Show HN: A Hacker News for X
So this question https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35198563 prompted me to revisit the framework demo'ed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35033368

Just like reddit lets you go to what might be a 404 page /r/anything-you-want and you can then create that subreddit, I added this feature to remoterenters so you can make /rr/anything-you-want and be the mod of that sub.

To get the ball rolling with some content I made these two AI based subs:

https://remoterenters.com/rr/amazing-ai-understanding/

https://remoterenters.com/rr/writing-prompts/

And my friend "not_a_t1000" bot helped me add some interesting content. My favorite one in "amazing-ai-understanding" is about the Steering Wheel! How can it know this subtle meaning! So impressed!

Feel free to create your own new subs or add to these. Everything is open source. You can follow along with the commits to the "go on rails" framework here:

https://github.com/andrewarrow/feedback/

and the sample app here:

https://github.com/andrewarrow/remoterenters/
1. There’s still some hurdle before new-eLife will send your paper out for review. This is not necessarily “quality” or “impact” level; they say it will depend on whether they can provide a helpful and effective review.

People had very mixed experiences with old-eLife’s editorial decisions, and some felt it was a bit clubby: papers from some labs sailed through to acceptance while similar work from others got editorially rejected (without review) for seemingly minor reasons. Their policy against requesting new experiments could certainly be used as a cudgel: an editor can just say you’re not convinced by a control and the paper’s DOA.

Thus, they are both uniquely positioned to make sweeping changes and have people doubt them.

2. The reviews use a controlled vocabulary, so I think you’d say eLife (excellent approach, major impact) or whatever the words are.
The data other posters have responded to your post with show exactly the opposite. Policing in America and its potential negative outcomes are skewed toward black men. It’s undeniable. Traffic stop, arrest, incarceration, and shooting data all show the same story.

But I guess that’s not really what you’re arguing here, you’re saying “black men being killed by police at a rate 2.5 times higher than white men, but people think it’s worse than that,” and “people are making too much noise about black men being killed by police at a rate 2.5 times higher than white men, and they really ought to cut it out.”

I disagree with this viewpoint completely.
Qt is pretty damn easy I would say. And some Web UIs are easy too.

In any case this article is talking about the features that are unique to Rust that make it especially hard to write GUIs.

Though weirdly it focuses on lack of inheritance which is definitely not that big of a deal (Rust does have trait inheritance - you can even get full implementation inheritance using macros if you really want but I doubt it is needed). The biggest issue by far is state management because of the single ownership rules.

You can of course Rc-RefCell everything but that gets very ugly.
We are living in a golden age of electric cargo bikes
Nope, the whole issue is about modern C++ in practice versus slideware at conferences.

Also chromium code base is one example from many others, and it is so modern C++ that Google has finally decided to adopt Rust as only viable alternative to improving it.

Big G has plenty of samples that aren't so modern, specially on Android. Which by the way is also moving away from C++ instead of "modernising" it.
I agree wholeheartedly with everything you said. I go one step further with this logic.

Grown men watching other men play a sport that they like to play with their friends is equally weird.
If I could push a button and give three or four nuclear weapons to Ukraine, I'd do it without hesitation.
Kenji López-Alt spent 5 months studying Chicago thin-crust pizza
This is a deeply flawed analogy. Hosted cloud spreadsheet has effectively perfect availability and durability compared to most database solutions, and never requires maintenance, and costs nothing.
Leave it to the scientists to take the fun out of anything..
The problem is that an Internet Archive where you you have to show up at some building in the Bay Area during office hours to access the archive is quite a bit less valuable than the archive in its current form.
I appreciate this! For visualizing XOR swap use solid balls with drilled holes of maximim diameter technically feasible + water. If any ball will have a hole of enough big diameter, you will observe almost not increasing of water after adding and substracting balls from water.
Really, every single point seems to be about the industry, not the music, ie '10 reasons the (established) music industry sucks/has lost control'; where have all the reliable cash-cow megastars gone, etc, etc.

Music itself is fine, IMHO.
Wow. The majority of the hands in that picture are malformed. Are the midjourney people blind from looking at too many malformed hands?
Bars are unpopular among gold bullion.. hoarders for this exact reason. People generally only buy factory sealed and assayed bars but most prefer government minted coins. They are very intricate and quite thin so not really possible to fake. Plus they are usually technically legal currency so counterfeiting them is very serious.

US gold eagle, Canadian Maple, Australian Kangaroo, Austrian Philharmonic. I’d recommend anyone with a little interest in physical assets to grab one as they’re beautiful pieces and tend to hold their value over centuries
I had that feeling 5-8 years ago but I think today's pop going through a bit of a lull.
A fundamental principle of toxicology is that the dose makes the poison.

If the radioactivity is low enough and the emission is diluted enough I don't see it as an issue.

We are all subject to a certain level of radioactivity every day. It is natural.
> I would love to see a global agreement to cap the wealth of any individual at $1 billion dollars and the total market value of any company at $100bn (those numbers are arbitrary).

how would you get any country to agree to such a thing?
The problem is the force of the airbag expanding rams the baby face-first into the passenger seat, and they are seriously injured or killed. Hence the big warning sticker.

Most (possibly all) European cars come with a switch to turn off the front passenger airbag. It's a legal requirement to use this switch appropriately in the UK, presumably in the same way it's a requirement for the driver to ensure all children are wearing seatbelts.

It should possibly also be used if a smaller child (under 12-ish) sits in the front seat, although I can't find an official recommendation on that — they're more keen to emphasize that children are safer in the back.

It seems in America, only trucks and sports cars without rear seats have this switch, but it is possible to have one fitted if you can justify it (i.e. several children).
“For years, we didn’t pay attention to propaganda and to Russian TV channels that were always present here,” Recean said. “And when we started to close them, the propaganda moved to Telegram, Facebook, VKontakte [a Russian social media network], TikTok. With Telegram and TikTok, we cannot do anything about it except cut the wire. Thirty-something years of propaganda — we see the effect of it now.”
Sheets are also geo-replicated and have infinite version history. I seriously doubt that anyone has ever lost data in Sheets.
> What’s the escape hatch to bring those into the dev environment?

One thing you can do is try the Nix package manager on your Linux or macOS system. -- If it's not in nix, you can just do it the way you did things before.

If you want to try NixOS:

1. Writing a package is only necessary for sharing code.. you can still just have Python, setup a virtual env, & run the program as you would.

2. You could use a tool like Podman or Docker, to run stuff in containers. I've heard stuff like https://github.com/containers/toolbox helps this.

(Among other solutions).
> But driving is much more dangerous than air travel.

This was probably valid back when car seats were rudimentary, but nowadays it seems like a strapped baby in a properly installed car seat is quite safe?
This is a total new arena where we can mess the environment with little or no restrictions and get something for free that we can peddle as a green alternative. Sounds promising!
Meta revenue growth has now stalled. It's in the interest of shareholders to invest in new revenue streams, which requires people. Paring down staff is the death spiral for tech companies.

Zuckerberg can try to hoard cash to acquire the next Instagram or YouTube, but I don't think it's going to work; it's risky. That's not what Apple did. It's not what Microsoft did.
This seems to jive exactly with what OP was saying.

In that they diagnose you with apnea, throw a CPAP machine at you, and then do no follow up.

I’m curious what part of this you are saying is not aligning with OP?
I'm definitely going to give that a try. I had issues with the Bash script on macOS and was annoyed that it left me with a system that I had to manually clean up.
Can you sleep without the pills now? That’s my worry
You do not need John Carmack to tell you that programmers that use AI as another tool for assistive programming will probably replace programmers that don't use it. It won't totally replace them all.

It also means less programmers are needed. Hence all levels of programmers juniors and seniors are affected.

Quite simple observation of the AI hype.
Almost no one.
This is pretty narrow minded.

I like playing basketball. I will never be as good as Lebron James. It's fun to watch someone else play at the edge of what is possible. I might even learn something I can use myself.

I like software development. I'll never be as good as John Carmack. It's fun to watch someone else talk and think about what I like. I might even learn something.

Don't steal other people's joy just because you don't understand it.
People volunteer on Wikipedia, they write and edit articles, they do content and user moderation, etc. Everyone can edit Wikipedia, everyone can make a Wikipedia account, there are 42 million registered accounts, nobody is working and spending their time on Wikipedia for monetary gain, how does any of that possibly work and work so incredibly well? According to everything libertarians believe this should be completely impossible and yet it works, because libertarian, free-market and neoliberal ideology is WRONG.
Many sleep-deprived are overweight with all the consequences thereof.
Responsibly Reckless Matrix Algorithms for HPC Scientific Applications
Cory Doctorow named it enshittification.[1]

[1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
I had the same experience.

Sleep study was a complete joke - I slept in a creepy hotel like room in a clinic for maybe 3h total. Uncomfortable and totally different sleep then at home.

AHI of 5, given CPAP with no follow up. It really felt like this sleep Doctor got paid to hand out machines.

Hacked the settings, used it for 8months then quit cold turkey as a test. Felt the same.

My sleep improved more from:

Drastically reducing alcohol, smoking, weed. Septum correction and tonsil removal. Sleep alone in bed in complete darkness in a cool room.
This sort of gamification exists only because there are too many green engineers that only care about their salaries, and they mimic what people successfully recruited by FAANG (etc.) did, and so do other companies. Then this purity spirals into taking the entire field down because there's no one around to educate the new newbies. Facebook was IMO a step in the right direction because it was a "general" social network, you could post anything. Imagine if FB had released some sort of an "extension" that allowed you to share anything via a template of sorts, instead of having to type out everything in the same old text post. It would have been meta enough (sorry) to not spiral very quickly.

Leaving the arena is the only viable option. Software projects that aren't dependent on github drive their own vehicle, everyone else is on a crowded bus.
> The instant web enabled and normalized arbitrary UIs, "You can't have that" Delphi people simply went out of business. Because it turned out Delphi was far inferior at doing what people actually wanted.

What people think they want and what would make them happier and productive in the long run are different things. They buy junk food and complain they don't feel well. They buy Marvel movies, but in the long run stop going to the theater because movies aren't interesting anymore. Modern web apps are basically the incarnation of that principle.

Are people really happier and more productive with shitty web apps? Because it seems like everyone complains about Slack, Teams, etc. Google Docs certainly doesn't have the die-hard fans Word Perfect still has. Apple still collects quite a premium remembering that people don't know what they want and need people with judgment to make decisions for them.
That's not their "hallmark distro", it's a tech preview.

Neon is nice to try out bleeding edge stuff right form development. But it's buggy and unstable. Even more than the regular Ubuntu stuff.
Most likely there has been no such change. You've just started paying attention to it for some reason. Looking at a couple of data sources for popularity of terms over time, "birth parent" has been consistently more used:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Biological+par...

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Biologic...
Code is read much more times than written, and hieroglyphs don't help.
I got one of those sets too and was wondering how the heck they manage to cast a tungsten cube given how high the melting point is. But it turns out the actual process uses sintering. (At least for this super inexpensive set we bought)
> Stopping breakage on updates is one of the big promises of ostree-based systems (fedora Silverblue and Kionite), and declarative systems (Guix and Nix). Easy rollbacks, updates are installed in the background with no impact on the running system, and atomically switched on reboot.

That will be wonderful and by then, maybe, Linux may be considered as long as it is all simple to use.

Until then, macOS/Windows/ChomeOS will continue to be the most commonly used PC OSes.

I was happy when my sister switched to using Linux (Mint) but they lasted 6 months before switching to Windows and they said they have no plans to try again because it ain't worth the hassles.
(Not OP)

I would call it the no booze hangover. Sometimes the symptoms would be like a mild hangover. You wake up with a headache, still tired, and a little bit of a “what happened last night?” vibe.

Except that “what happened last night” was drink plenty of water and go to bed at a reasonable hour.
Simulating the Universe Could Yield Quantum Mechanics
I'm quite confident that I'd have spotted the security relevance at the time, and I have a track record of finding "implementation bugs" given only APIs and specifications. But, I'm a security researcher, not a software engineer.

My takeaway would be that they should have security-brained people screening "non-security" bugs, to check for potential security relevance.
> but targeting the same runtime, which is a JIT?

Except you don't need anything .Net specific to be installed on the end user machine. I build and deploy single-file C# binaries to Linux all the time. There's no longer a dependency on having the .Net framework installed or having dozens of DLLs accompanying your binary.
But there's a bar somewhere, right? If I reported a bug that your lock screen could be bypassed by entering 0000, you'd expect that to trigger a security response, right? If you're saying it's always hubris to expect better, then you're being foolish. We're arguing over where the bar is.
Yet we have people who don't really have anything you could call a hobby.
There are errors, based on evaluation criteria. To say that one token following the next is the only criteria is not how we got here, is it? We clearly have much, much more in criteria for good and bad output from these LLMs than that.

Likewise, i cranked the Temp up for experimentation, and it produced gibberish. The randomizing aspect of which token is chosen after the next was so heavy handed that it literally couldn't even create words. This wouldn't be considered "good" by most people, would it? Would it for you? Technically it's one token after the next, but it's objectively worse at auto-completion than my phone's keyboard.

My point is i think you can have both. Dumb autocomplete, but trained well enough that it's useful. That it doesn't try to say Obama is a Cat. Or that 2+2=5. Yes, there will be edge cases where the weights produce odd output - but that's the entire goal of the LLM research, right? To see how far we can steer a dumb autocomplete into usefulness.

If you're argument is that "that gibberish output is perfect, no errors found" because the program technically ran, and the weights worked.. well, i've got no reply. I can only assume you're referring to the foundational LLM, and i'm referring to the training moreso - a more holistic sense of "is the program working". But if you consider the gibberish working, then frankly most bad programs (crashing/etc) would be "working" - right? Because they're doing exactly what they're programmed to.

Working, or lack of errors, seem to be a semantic, human interpretation. But i'm quite in the weeds, heh.
I used to donate to them every year, but I stopped when they did this stunt because I was afraid any money I donated now would go to pay for lawyers in a lost cause that I don't believe in. It pains me deeply in my heart because I think the Wayback Machine is a great and noble cause, and I would like to keep donating to it, but I don't want to contribute to what I see as a pointless crusade against copyright at the same time.
There are two sides to this problem, the first is to improve the UX, but the second is to clearly describe a compelling reason for people to adopt. It is very tempting to only blame the first, but I think we need to also need to tell a better story and highlight the values in a better way. This would then give people a reason to get past the UX issues in the hopes of achieving those desired values.

For example; people seem to have accepted that the benefits of using terraform in spite of various difficulties - the learning of its language or needing to hire specialists. The mantra of "infrastructure as code" is enough to drive adoption. What is our mantra? We need to accept that "reproducibility" isn't quite working and that we need either a clearer message, or to explain the message.
Other runtimes also have fancy GC, JIT and AOTs of their own.

That is the cool thing about having multiple implementations.
If trivium the source of the word trivia?
Now is the time to cultivate friendships and to make networks that persist online, and are verified via irl meetups / contacts. People who pull that off now will be in much, much better shape in the future. GPT's output is apparent to a discernible eye right now, but according to the power law, it won't take much "novel" input to train upon to make that discernment useless. Then, the only internet community that could be dependably reliable would be your group of irl verified people.
If that is how sketchy the data they are using to make decisions is, that would explain a lot about their decisions.
Wireless Network Emulation with Mininet-WiFi