skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you not talking about Julia v1.9? Packages precompile to binaries (.so/.dll) in this release, and will support direct calls pretty soon. It sounds like you're talking about a much older Juila.

> A lot of Julia's public benchmarks are not idiomatic Julia or packages were created to elide how nonidiomatic they are.

??? https://docs.sciml.ai/SciMLBenchmarksOutput/stable/MultiLang... this is pretty standard code.

I do enjoy programming in Fortran but let's at least keep it concrete and to reality. The older Fortran versions do have a small amount of optimizations that are hard to perform in other languages because the lack of aliasing can make difficult to prove optimizations possible. But the newer Fortran versions don't optimize as well without forcing things like ivdep, which is similar to Julia, which is why you tend to get the same/similar machine code between LFortran and Julia (since both are using the same compiler, LLVM).
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics,"
I worked at one of the companies in your list and will tell you from experience that they've moved on from the old and tried process for many types of interviews. My technical process with them back in 2019 was:

1. Tech phone-screen: work through a simple but relevant to your job exercise (no leetcode stuff and code didn't need to run... i.e. could be pseudo code).

2. Take-home exercise: where I got the chance to write quality code at peace and a technical design doc describing my process and findings. I'm certain the take-home made up for 80% of the decision.

3. On-site: chatted with both engineers and non-engineers about the exercise, and how I would've approached new hypothetical but real-life requirements.

Everything past the take-home exercise mostly revolved around that exercise. If let's say I had cheated the whole exercise, I guarantee you it would've been evident immediately for many reasons – including the fact that when I was working on the exercise I discovered and reported a bug in their own production software.
Cadbury's has always been the sort of standard cheap block in Australia for my whole life (I'm in my 30s). Nobody ever considered it especially good (though having tasted Hershey's chocolate it is better than that), but having said that it definitely used to be better than it is now
> Also, all browsers these days just do a fancy page zoom instead of directly manipulating font size.

This is very not true. Hit Alt V Z T in Firefox, for example. It's even on WebAIM's accessibility checklist (https://webaim.org/resources/evalquickref/#scaling), which makes it important: that list is very selective.

Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 has at least three different kinds of zoom, depending on which input device you use to trigger it. (Multiple types of zoom: good. None of the keyboard / mouse / touchpad bindings doing the same? Bad.)
How about, wildly dangerous relative to other commercial passenger jets? Second in fatal accidents per million miles flown only to the Concorde, which didn't fly very much. Why would you want to continue flying a plane that was statistically 5-10x more fatal than peers? Surely there's no good reason to subject passengers to that, even if it were still relatively safer than automobile fatalities or whatever else you might compare to, not when safer aircraft are generally available?

https://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm

(Note this data is only up to 2019 for 737 models, but that's exactly the time period at which decisions had to be made, of whether to continue flying it or not).
I thought the story was that the normal training should have sufficed, and that it did in some cases where the same issue occurred and the pilots were able to handle it (themselves not having any special training either).
>He first went to Hong Kong, then like Korea (we’re not sure), then Russia.

What? He went to Hong Kong, then got a flight to Ecuador via Russia. He chose Russia as layover location because Hong Kong has a limited amount of flights and he ruled that the one least likely to arrest him en route. There was no "we're not sure."
Ha ha - I had the opposite reaction ...

"Oh dear, some god botherer has wrapped their special text in a shell script. Why is this on hacker news? #$%$%$@!!"

Turns out I quite misdirected myself. Don't agree with all his tricks (some are very brittle) but impressive anyway
You should watch collateral murder and a million other thing released that #1 show atrocities, and what you take is a red scare cry? Nothing to see here because Russia?
Kinda offtopic: I really like the main idea of this article, but the contents are really generic and feel like they were generated from the heading alone.

Generic call to AI regulation and vague statements like "undermine efforts to promote responsible consumption" - like what does that even mean?

Like the whole article is basically filler... I dunno...
The title is more optimistic than the article...

Not to sound like a contrarian, but how can it be a sweet spot if you write an article on making it better and doesn't even want to use the laptop?
Personally, I wouldn't. An external battery is cheap; Macbook Air logic board replacements are actually free if you have AppleCare+, but then you lose your laptop for days while it's being repaired. I'd just have the solar panel just charge a (small, portable) battery and use that battery to charge the laptop, with bonus points for not having to have your laptop tethered to the solar panel if you want to use it while the sun is out.

As far as the Macbook air goes, the official chargers will do 5V, 9V, 15V and 20V output, so yeah, no probably; it supports those.
Never really understood why people have lawns in the first place, no-one ever sits on them. Really shocked me when I moved to the US, people value having backyards and just don't spend time there (yeah I'm watching you commenting down on how much you use it and challenge you to actual journal how much time your family spends in there)
Yes, lives saved by making local pd your only lifeline in mortal combat in self defense. They'll arrive shortly after the crime has been committed. A bit late if you ask me.
iirc The governor can request changes on which the legislature will then vote on, which is what happened.
It’s always useful in these threads to mention some top anti-union talking points that get trotted out. There’s a podcast from Citations Needed that covers them and how they’re incorrect[0]

0: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-177-popular-anti-...
Many of the changes can be read about here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgan_Air_Flight_3407

The biggest one was requiring both pilots to have ATP certificates, effectively moving the bar to co-pilot from 250 hours to 1500 hours of flying. Lots of other changes that taken on their own are small, but overall it was a pretty massive set of changes.
Your appeal to authority using WG14 (hapless goldbricks) and google/Microsoft (C++ shops) falls really flat.
International regulations are often very lax and not well enforced in a lot of mining operations in the developing world.

We only know what people tell us or show us (unless you are fortunate to be able to boots on the ground investigation yourself). Companies and profitting parties in the lithium supply chain want us to believe that mining is ecologically sound and not abusing people. The first hand accounts and investigations of numerous investigators tell a different story in many areas of world.

If you read up on what lithium mining actually entails (in many areas it is not really mining per se)... you'll realize it is an ecological disaster. Big mining operations are big ecological disasters and small operations are small disasters. The same can be said for oil sands and other resource gathering endeavors, so I'm not trying to paint lithium mining as particularly bad. But it is not good.

The EV and battery industries are very interested in white-washing the lithium supply chain... but it is very, very dirty. I'm not an ecologist but from what I've read it appears to me that is much worse than fracking in many operations around the world.

If the Salton Sea, California, lithium mining operation really gets underway... we'll get a chance to see what "best practice" lithium recovery looks like, which will probably have much lower ecological damage per unit lithium. The Salton Sea area is already pretty messed up, anyhow.
It's not either or. But in this situation the Swedish people have a better chance of influencing their own government than the one trying to get it to do what it wants. In this situation the boss is powerless over swedish people if the goons lose their power.
There is a strong advantage to regular mowing in my area (new england): way less risk of ticks.
It's a real problem a'd with kids that spends time outside, ticks can be real scary. I got a few bites on myself and once on a kid, thankfully without side effects.

What is impact of more natural landscaping wrt ticks in 'ew England?
If they're a group of people working toward some common purpose within an organizational structure that's legally recognized, that's a corporation. Just because it's become a bad word in certain sectors doesn't mean the concept is inherently corrupted.

>For example, try talking about "a corporation of churchgoers" and see what kinds of reactions you get.

I would point out that most churches are 501(c)(3) corporations ;)
Could you explain how 2) is controversial? I'm not from the US myself - is the amount of immigration not a product of political policy? At least legal immigration, which I believe is significantly larger than illegal.

As for 3) part 1 ("by Democrats"), that's more than controversial - it's outright false, at least the implication that it's only Democrats. Dig up any graph of yearly legal immigration to the US, and there's no significant reduction during Republican administrations.
My P1 (G4) gladly accepts power over USB-C, depending on what I'm doing the 80W my monitor supplies are not enough and it slowly discharges, but it's enough to keep it going for a day's worth of work and recharge over night.

Except that it does not unlock full power unless the slim-tip is there. It is a bit slower but on the plus side it is dead quiet and runs a lot cooler.
I hope you do not include me in the pro-piracy category! I buy books and I like to hold them in my hands before buying. I've even bought books to reward, in some small way, authors that seem like good people.

Unfortunately, as in most things, the context of my question seems to have gotten ignored:

> As consumers, we are regularly told that price of goods or services is absolutely all that matters.

Modern anti-trust law pivots on this principle. Modern attitudes toward labor and hourly rates are based on this principle.

Why are we asked to abandon this only in select cases, cases where we as consumers, end up carrying the bulk of the burden?
We do have big open pit lithium mines here too though. Or is it a photo of the Super Pit or something equally silly? :)
Fatigue rules were changed to be more strict. Requirements for regional airlines pilots were changed to require at least a minimum of 1500 hours for both pilots, previously only one pilot was required to have 1500 hours. Standards for grading stall recovery were changed to avoid incentivising the behavior observed in the pilots in the 2009 crash.
Hence they said (to me) because low elo players are going to underestimate value of activity & king safety
There’s a world of difference between having GPT4 write your scripts, and writing scripts with GPT4.
These days, a lot of folks do undergrad in India, then a masters in the US, OPT -> H1B and were definitely not coupled up or married before they came to the US...
The internal state of an LLM knows when it is lying
OK, I disagree with the "subset" point, though I yield to your majority opinion on the matter.

My argument is that we can declutter discussion by treating all "moral compass" arguments as orthogonal to an "ethical plane".

If our subjective judgements are treated as internal (booze==sin), and de-conflicted from the external, legal arguments, we'd be in better shape.

But too many are invested in the status quo to tidy up the model like that.
Robots can be thrown in the trash when the newer models come out. Describing humans as robots with an adjective tacked on is, quite literally, dehumanization - a favorite tactic of fascist creep. Hence why, despite not being religious myself, I always view people like you who profess such views with more than a little suspicion.
That’s very unlikely, tokenization is really simple and usually quite fast (scales with input size). Unexpected slowness with a larger context window might point to a non-existent or unoptimized KV cache.
There's a problem: an adequate mockery of sapience will be externally indistinguishable from genuine intelligence; it's the inaccessible internal world of the thinking thing that is its distinguishing characteristic.

In other words, beyond a certain point it's impossible to tell.

At the same time, it's just as impossible for me to know that another human is sentient, even if we meet face to face.

(So it's pretty much a moot point.)
I guess I am the only one that is not cultured enough for this movie. It looks like a bunch of random, mostly fast forwarded, clips changed so many lives on HN
> Snowden was not a whistleblower

> Despite Snowden's later public claim that he would have faced retribution for voicing concerns about intelligence activies, the Committee found that laws and regulations in effect at the time of Snowden's actions afforded him protection.

> Snowden was a disgruntled employee who became engaged in numerous spats with his supervisors.

> Most of the documents Snowden stole have no connection to programs that could impact privacy or civil liberties

> Snowden was, and remains, a serial exaggerator and fabricator

Review of the Unauthorized Disclosures of Former National Security Agency Contractor Edward Snowden (pdf warning): https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/hpsci_snowden_r...

Highlights (pdf warning): https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/snowden_report_...
I personally only use heavy-weight, slow, complicated and hobby grade JavaScript.
Oh no.

Being a landlord should be risky. If it isn't, something is incredibly wrong.
That's not true. Wikileaks was releasing all sorts of documents. I think the stuff about western governments just got a lot more attention because it broke through carefully crafted narratives and beliefs that people had about those governments. If some info about Russian corruption was released on Wikileaks, most Russians would be like "I already know most of these government people are corrupt, what is the news?"
We use our yard every nice day. Technically we use it every day because our dog has to go to the bathroom somewhere and it’s nice just to let him in the back yard, but most days we play outside with him and/or read and/or work outside. Coming from the suffocating city, it has been really nice to have just a bit of private green space.
At the 350 rpm of the input gear it’d be early by only 1.3x10^80 times the age of the universe.
Wait til they see the math test results.
How can we trust you to be custodians of the gold? What if you are robbed? Are you holding all the gold?
I’ve spent a fair bit of time with EmuDeck and as far as I can tell, it doesn’t pollute your system install at all. It’s very lightweight. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that it’s basically just a bunch of bash scripts that configure everything with sane defaults, plus a lightweight GUI.
I think theoretically this machine would work in reverse.

Relativistically this is not the case.
Yes, downvote a question that should've been answered by the title. Pathetic.
>> "They pretend to pay and we pretend to work"

I have a monitoring instance which monitors a couple of URLs of some client. Every now and then something is wrong somewhere and it's spams the messenger with 'not available'. In a minute it spams again, now with 'Resolved' status. I can just turn the trigger time to two minutes or change it to trigger only after a two/three consecutive failed checks... But should I?

Not only it wouldn't change how much I receive for this service (a pint of Guinness/mo, really), but it also would make it look like the monitoring isn't monitoring. I don't want to make proofs what it's actually working.

Bonus point: if I receive the alerts I know what the monitoring works.

And to the TFA: I made a proper VPN network for a client a decade ago: a VPN concentrator, dual path through two ISPs to the main office with the on-premise services, 15+ branches in the city, a couple of remote ones. Except I didn't buy Cisco gear, but some, ugh, not quite enterprise gear running FOSS solutions. Did I got anything from it? OFC no.
I recommend shellcheck and shfmt pre-commit hooks:

- repo: https://github.com/shellcheck-py/shellcheck-py
rev: v0.9.0.2
hooks:
- id: shellcheck
args: [-e, SC2154, -e, SC1091, -e, SC1090]

- repo: https://github.com/scop/pre-commit-shfmt
rev: v3.6.0-2
hooks:
- id: shfmt # requires Go to build
args: [-i, '4', -ci, -sr, -w, -s]
> But then journalists, who got the check as a matter of course by their employment, started treating it as a mark of credibility and demanding people they didn't like be stripped of their check.

Never once saw any of this.
Thanks for providing the missing info!
Exactly! It seems pretty clear that someone will reproduce llama and alpaca with a commercially viable model within the next few months to a year at the longest. So if you want to build something based on top of this technology, it makes sense to build it on top of llama/alpaca internally, and then swap it out with something commercially licensed when it’s available. Then you’ve got a huge head start on anyone who is waiting for the stars to align before they start trying to build something at all.
Welcome! Thanks for the info.
> you'll realize that explicit casts enforced by -Wconversion only hide errors

I find I'm increasingly annoyed with the advice to 'just add a cast' to fix conversion issues.

And safely casting between signed and unsigned is something that should have been added to C about 40 years ago.
It's like the basis of that old meme:

In Soviet Rusia, wheat tames you!
> Because people who are good and social with the group do not have a contrarian character.
To whistleblow against a very powerful organisation... you have to be a pain in the ass.

I am confused - people who are good and social have no principles and value? They have no backbone to stand up for them?

This is like the worst definition of social - like amoral sociopaths desperate to fit in.
You can also view it in a positive way: "this guide is complete and comprehensive, and it's as good as the Bible", or something along these lines.

That's the way I always viewed it anyway, but I'm also not religious, so who am I to say how you view things, right? But just a thought...
With someone immunocompromised on the property long grass and mosquitos are a problem.

We mow heavier around the house because of this, too lazy to do everywhere.

Where we haven't been mowing really bad weeds have taken over. We are poisoning our way through them but it takes time.

> Lawns cover 40 million acres, or 2%, of land in the US

This is because they are amazing. They have a lot of mental health benefits with little mental work. You just mow... and immediately see the benefits of your work. Mowing is like the first coat of paint. It's a great example of how people are happier in the moment doing chores than in the moment with their kids.

This theme adds mental work, which is fine if you have it to spare, lawns are great iterative projects.
Thanks again. I wasn't even aware of ARC. I'll start recommending that. However, there's a big gap between what customers "should" do and what they are willing or even capable to do. I'm sure most people and most companies have no idea how email even works these days. Eg, I'm the only one on my team of 10 infra folks that has any clue at all.

We are just going to have to agree to disagree on p=none. Regardless of the policy, the receiving MTA and MUA has all the signal it needs. p=none is very far from being a green light.

> You don't have to take all the domains to have a sufficiently accurate general statistics.

I'm not a statistician, but I would think that without random sampling, you do? There's no description of how they selected which domains to track.
They are not the same thing. TV ads are meant to be played with or without being watched. Show producers get paid either way, but if people don't watch their shows be ready for them to be pulled off the air. That's why Nielsen numbers are important.

YT producers don't get paid if no ads are playing. Really, if you don't want to see ads, then don't watch the content. If you really want it then get YT Premium. Simple as that. I find it immoral that you watch the content with ad blocker and then try to justify that is within your right. Sorry.
Thanks - there was talk when Fuschia first became visible that it was to be locked down. The project site does not agree with that.
We already store hazardous waste in controlled conditions in massive amounts, even waste which doesn't have a half-life such as mercury.

Why aren't we getting headlines that "we need to store all this mercury till the end of universe and time"?
The article is a moving tribute to the power of Reggio's vision and the brilliance of Glass' score.

I was living in Santa Fe in the '70s and was at that first screening, it was the world premier, at the Lensic Theater. I still have the stub. I was there because Godfrey Reggio came into the sandwich shop I was a partner in and because I was friends of friends of some of the guys on the camera crews shooting footage in the Southwest and working with Alton.

I recall it as a pivotal moment of my 22 year old life. It was like nothing I'd experienced. The lack of 'anything happening' lasted a few minutes. But I recall starting to 'get' the symbolism and the narrative the images convey. Much like the author I was floored by the music. I was a prog rock fan with an appreciation for classical music. Well, Beethoven at least, so the concept of a long form piece was engaging. The epic sweep of the imagery and music gripped me and held my attention throughout. Since then many of those images have come to mind at various times. And the final sequence of the Saturn V leaving the launch pad in slow motion coupled with the beautiful, haunting score to it blew me away in the moment and I can still recall its impact now.

Koyaanisqatsi is a rare work of art. The article brings me hope. The world is quite fucked up right now and while it's completely possible for us, all of us, to change things to mitigate the situations there is little cause to believe that will actually happen. Then I come across someone articulating such a profound resonance with a work actually closer to 50 years old and it sparks that hope.
Looks nice. Soft to walk on. Great for kids and pets. Fairly inexpensive to maintain. Never really understood why people don't like lawns TBH.
It’s rarely the comfortable choice however.
They're coming for lawns now?
> This is really bad career advice.

Depends entirely on where you work. In any place with 4+ layers of management it sounds like a reasonably good idea.

You want to be seen as doing your best for the project, but not sticking your head out more than is reasonable.

The project will fail, but you’ll be remembered as the one that almost made it succeed, and you’ll have more political capital to make the changes you desire going forward.

Conversely, if you keep hammering at something when it is clear everyone doesn’t believe you or doesn’t share the same values, you are just making everyone hate you. Even if the project does somehow succeed.
No. I worry about it being used to spam my cell phone. I don't give that number out to Web sites or any other suspect parties. For that, I have a Google Voice number... which OpenAI refuses to accept. So they can lump it, along with their bogus "open" name.
Tell me you've never used LSD without telling me you've never used LSD.