skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They did a wonderful job with C# and .NET Core.

You mean the products Microsoft created when it became apparent they were losing the lawsuit about their embrace, extend extinguish tactics with J++ and their custom Java implementation. And also had to cough up billions of dollars in a settlement with Sun [1].

[1] https://www.infoworld.com/article/2667124/update--sun--micro...
> According to many people on HN, they changed completely, and they have nothing to do with the old epoch of Ballmer and Gates.

Yeah right. Why is there spam on my windows 10 start menu?

> Instead, in 2023 you have to still install Windows first to avoid problems.

You do? Got a new Linux desktop. I'll eventually put Windows on it. I was planning on installing it on a separate SSD just in case. Will that destroy my Linux install? Should I unscrew and remove the Linux SSD to install Windows?
As someone that has actually used the browser for the past few months, it’s really about the flow and UX. Arc fits in the MacOS environment and has many small flourishes that just feel good.

There has been a steady stream of new features, my favorite one being Peek which opens up a temporary page on top of the one your current tab.
her role crashing the company into the ground is completely omitted in her book, which has been popping up on my linkedin feed. Her gender and former title is clearly more important than what she accomplished, much like Marrisa Mayer.
The excuse is partially egregious, as if the mosaic filter doesn't exist. Can't shake the feeling the marketing team just didn't find any of the real images powerful enough. Probably had a bad conversion rate to donations in the focus group.

Surely a non-profit like this their number 1 priority should be accuracy and truth in the harm/crimes they are reporting. But nah its not about any of that is it.
There is no such thing anymore.
> I suffer a lot with context switching all the time, I'm responsible for many serious things that could lead the startup to a completely failure.

I believe I'm in a similar situation. Currently on a small startup where I do backend/frontend programming in Typescript, C, Golang and Lua across multiple different projects. I'm high on ADHD and context switching is very difficult to me, to the point where if I start a day working on a project and finish it early, I end up not switching contexts until the next day.

> I'm really not sure if I have the skills for the task/challenge, etc. People like me and my job, but I'm pretty sure I don't have the skills for so much just yet, I think that is the source of all the anxiety.

This seems a bit like imposter syndrome. When I was younger (38 now, almost 20 years working as a programmer) it bothered me when I was not working hard and I felt the need to always show myself being very productive. In time you will learn to care less about how you are perceived at work.

> Plus doing/feeling it 8h/day every day kills my mind.

Do you really code 8h/day? If so you seriously need to lower your pace as this is not sustainable. Pick one or two cognitive heavy tasks you can complete in a couple of hours and once done do light things such as answering questions on slack, writing documentation. Also take healthy pauses to read HN and other articles you find interesting (this is what I'm doing now).

Overall, try to view your job as a marathon and not as a sprint. It is fine to work hard when on a tight deadline, as long as it is the exception.

Here are other very good answers in this HN thread:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35793026
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35793147
Why wouldn't they be? They still use the same 12 notes that correspond to keys on a harmonium.
I can read. I swear.
> because the "learning curve" of anything else wasn't worth their time

As someone on the other side of the divide who hates these products, this is accurate. A non-standard product is a non-starter in most fields unless it has a killer advantage.
No, it's amazing at words. Humans use words to encode concepts, but ChatGPT doesn't get the concepts at all - just words and their relationships.

To the extent that humans have encoded the concepts into words, and that text is in the training set, to that degree ChatGPT can work with the words in a way that is at least somewhat true to the concepts encoded in them. But it doesn't actually understand any of the concepts - just words and their relationships.
I had to give apple my credit card to install xcode...

e: and I'll never forgive them for it
"Now" is almost certainly a fantastic time to buy the S&P500. It's on sale. But don't expect to see that money for ~5 years.
RTRO launches an algorithm-free social app for friends, creators and brands
From my perspective (as a Rack user and developer of Ardour, another DAW), you're somewhat stretching the definition of a modular environment there.
How is z/OS like that?
Glad to see this concept being used. I was thinking the other day how odd it is to have IaC then keep the code siloed from the app code. Why doesn’t the app make it’s own infra? I think you have articulated how that would work.
This is silly, though. Are NASA and friends not advancing science? You need way more than a credit card to replicate their work.

I would prefer more open advances, but hard not to feel gate keeper for a term to claim they aren't advancing the science.
Do you mean Chromium based or is it literally Chrome behind it?
Here’s 5 more invites:

https://arc.net/gift/m/c04e59ea
The web experience of Word, Power Point and Excel, are appalling. Laggy, resource hogs. Excel & Power Point are damn near unusable on anything complicated.
Oddly enough in the 'least significant section', with scores <0.5, it's nearly all Daily Mail articles focused on the UK.

Also, the second to last least significant article seems to be incorrectly categorized: "Regenerative medicine has come a long way, baby"

Which is actually a serious look back at the advancements over the last quarter century, hardly deserving the second to last position.

It seems like ChatGPT is ranking them not based on actual content significance but presumed significance of the headline. (Which would also make sense technically as ~1200 headlines is about the max context length of GPT-4).
And when we run out of clues what AI can't do yet, it's AGI?

(You imply that a "can't do yet" will remain forever, which is the open question. If you ask me, AGI is only possible if the tech has ~unlimited agency, which implies control over computer and energy production facilities.)
Sorry, killing human beings en masse can never be a good thing.

Have some compassion. Countless Russians are being conscripted to fight a war they don't want to. These are all children of someone.

That things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce can happen speaks volumes about this. The wars are between countries, not their people.

Don't lose your humanity.
All I know is government contracts, but I've been pretty successful at estimations. Much like the top posts in this thread, none of it is for free. Most of the time requirements come in a few sentences, maybe a paragraph, rare cases a document. There's no estimation until the requirements are flushed out in some type of use case which has some bearing on the technical constraints of the system. (The client pays for this, and provides feedback.) The next step is planning, which is where estimation comes from. (The client pays for this.) In terms of planning I do strive for maximum 16 hour chunks which helps accuracy. For estimations that I have low confidence in, I'll have conditional chunks that may be used. All of this is transparent to the client.

If the client asks for an estimation before the above steps it's known by everyone that it has no official meaning, because everyone is aware of the above process.
This was a bad accident and a fascinating story.

I would like to just remind everyone of safety context, where the WHO is currently estimating 7 million premature deaths per year from particulate emissions from fossil and biofuel combustion energy sources.

Despite several high-profile and memorable nuclear accidents, nuclear fission remains among the safest and cleanest ways we know to make electricity. Plus it's low-carbon to boot.

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
Not when it's 0.01734 AU from its star, and therefore 1.7% of the distance compared to the earth to its star.
This is assuming the LNT (linear no threshold) model of radiation damage is true. Which it probably isn't. Lower than predicted deaths from accidents such as Windscale/Sellafield are sometimes taken as arguments against LNT.

However, in all such discussions, one needs to be aware of the strong interest of the British government to keep all things around it's nuclear weapons program secret. So maybe the public figures are fake.
I think it has to match some kind of tabbing workflow some people use. I tried it and didn't like it at all. But I don't feel like I have a tab problem, I use virtual screens to separate research subject.

I use brave too. It feels snappier than anything else, and I regularly test other browser options for a minute/hour/day depending on how well they do, and I've kept coming back to brave. Built in very fast and good adblocking seems to win out.
True, but for FORTRAN maybe a month.

FORTRAN IV/77 has some statements that IIRC correctly have or will be removed from the newer fortran and that I think no other language has. Things like computational gotos, and a few others I have forgotten. Those could cause a bit of confusion with people looking at this old code on HPC.

Unlike COBOL, at least moving from FORTRAN you will not need to deal with rounding issues on floats.
The old EMS hardware synths (and it bigger cousins) that used a pin matrix were often said to be much easier to grok than systems with cables.
One thing is for sure. His book will sell like hotcakes. The recipe to this is as follwoing:
- 50 oz of fear as our base ingredient
- mix in some grains of truth (like OpenAI being a company very restrained with their IP and competitional advantage but painting a different picture in the public)
- stuff it up with halftruths, distractions and handpicked cherries as you like to make it look colorful and shiny (nevermind how these taste because if they taste it they already bought it and you can never go completely wrong in taste if your base is sugar aka fear)
The paper does, the cited article does not.

The abstract of the paper ends with: In all three analyses, we find strong supporting evidence that emergent abilities may not be a fundamental property of scaling AI models.

That seems to answer the questions with 'yes'?
> I haven't actually looked at it, but I have the feeling that the Firefox code base is godawful...

Damn, didn't know that one can develop skills to evaluate the quality of a code-base by just "feeling" it and not looking at it at all - quite impressive!
Right so the difference is logistics? The Chinese don’t have the logistics aircraft carriers / foreign bases yet to effectively bully people beyond their immediate neighbors?
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This is a good idea but I already disagree with the output. Of the top stories, the majority of them are "could" and "probably" -- that isn't news.

News is something that either has happened or is going to happen. If it might not happen, then it's speculation, that isn't news (imo).

e.g.

- "US Braces for potential recession" -- no, the REAL story is the interest rate is going up

- "US Debt default could happen by 2023" -- pure speculation, not news

- "WEF predicts jobs disrupted" -- speculation, not news

And also I echo the other comments about it being overly US-centric, but that's par for the course.

Edit: I should also say, good job! It's a nice website
If you're interesting in learning why this narrative is completely fabricated, look no further than this video. Yes, I absolutely hate linking to YouTube, but this is Patrick Boyle, and if you know anything about him, you know that he knows what he's talking about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHZnVdBZJfA

My question is why is the narrative being fabricated in the first place. Certainly the governments of Russia and specially China understand that they could never be the world reserve currency. Is it just the media vying for clicks or something more insidious?
RE: 1-layer neural nets, yes, that's the point.

Deep learning has been a series of *engineering* successes stacking over each other rather than theory being applied rigorously.

It's hard to scale training on the "dumb" approximators like a kitchen sink regression, and balancing overfitting becomes a nightmare.
What about just turning your phone off?
HTTP2 improves on that bottleneck but not as much as expected. I'm struggling to find relevant benchmarks now, but anecdotally even on localhost when using a dev pipeline without a bundler (such as Vite), any reasonably complex application takes many seconds to fetch thousands of small JS files.
"The confirmed exoplanet with the shortest orbit is K2-137b, which orbits its host star, K2-137b once every 4 hours, 18 minutes. The planet is 0.89±0.09 times the mass of Earth, and orbits its host star at just 0.0058 times the distance of Earth from the sun."
> In the browser I can already mix Rust and TypeScript, there's copious example code for that.

I’d love to see a production architecture and file structure for this setup if anyone has a pointer to a GH repo or something similar
Link to paper on ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.02253
it is possible to hire the research division, you just have to be a multi-billion dollar enterprise. They do joint research partnerships and outsourcing for large organizations to build out new technology. IBM is not very good at commercializing IP, so the partner takes on that responsibility.
Rigor and mathematical terminology make it simpler and easier, because you can say more things with fewer words and more precision. Mathematicians are not masochists. Compared with truly understanding the theorems and the concepts, the effort to understand the terminology is basically zero.
They'd eat it.

Depending on how high and fast it was raised it would likely lead to a steady stream of landlords defaulting on their mortgages and leaving the banks holding the property.
> The difference is that IBM made abstractions of machines work through several generations of hardware

Great idea - but with PASE they’ve effectively killed it. With PASE the abstraction is gone and everything compiles to POWER machine code, which makes it no more “abstracted” than AIX or Linux or Windows is. And they keep on encouraging customers and ISVs to do more with PASE, and more of their own products rely on it. Which means IBM i is going to die on POWER, and the whole hardware abstraction stuff, while used to great effect once (the CISC-to-RISC transition), is now pointless
I assume it means the same thing as to vendor anything else: to bundle dependencies as a part of your application instead of giving users "links" to the dependencies served by a third party.
Does this really matter though? I mean - you can cry and shout as much as you want but this will only satisfy your own ego.

This is like shouting at a wall.
Interesting find. They explicitly call out Chromium, and enhancing it (rather than their own proprietary forked SDK?) so hopefully they contribute back.
Take me through how this compares to 'Trusting Google' in Chrome - as in, owning multiple google accounts and using their profiles built into Chrome.

I realize I may be unique in that all my contexts come with unique Google Workspace accounts - separate domains as well.

So perhaps my setup is what they attempt to replicate for folks with fewer accounts?

[Edit] would love an invite :D
[Edit x2] I love this community, I got one, thank you!
So what is the cut off? At what age is a language no longer "young"? 15 years? 20?
Hallucinations are a feature, not a bug. GPT pre-training teaches the model to always produce an answer, even when it has little or not relevant training experience, and on average it does well at that. Part of the point of RLHF in ChatGPT was to teach the model not to hallucinate when it doesn't have good supporting experience encoded in it's weights. This helps but is not perfect. However, it seems like there might be a path to much less hallucinations with more RL training data.
As others pointed out, humans hallucinate all the time we just have better training for what level of hallucination is appropriate given supporting evidence and context.
I agree. Two of those look (to me) more like illustrations than photographs anyway, so I see no problem with AI using AI for them.
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I just found that on the NASA site, it really is just a tiny orbit. I got the impression the planet was in a habitable zone from the article.
This question always stumps the anti-human nihilist.
A really interesting factoid about Arc that I'm not sure many know about: their upcoming Windows app is written in Swift and SwiftUI. They've contributed significantly to the language to get it building on Windows and are re-implementing Win native backends for some of Apple's core libraries. All of this will be open source when they're done (or so they claim).
I believe he's actually saying that Yuan becoming a reserve currency means increased risk of capital flight from China. China benefits if everyone outside of China is using the Yuan, and if they mitigate capital flight, there's no downside.
Here are just a few, presented for your curiosity. I have no affiliation with any of them. One thing to understand is that the decentralized application themselves are running over Ethereum. The only way to see the blockchain is either running a node yourself, or through a block explorer which is running its own node and giving you the ability to explore what's happening through a web (e.g. https://etherscan.io/)

So for each of them I'm going to present a frontend UI to the decentralized application, that is just a nice UI hosted on a centralized server that makes it easier to interact the decentralized application. And where to find the smart contracts, these are the code that is running on Ethereum. You don't need the UI to interact with them, you can always run an Ethereum node and relay your own transactions to the network. But as a user you may also simply use the web UI if so inclined.

I make this distinction because as a user, if you simply see a webpage you may ask yourself what's even the difference between that and a traditional web application. The point is that the web UI is just a nice UI, that is not needed to interact with the smart contract. The web app may have downtime, be taken down, censored by your country or ISP. While Ethereum always runs, 100% availability, permissionless, and uncensorable. These properties may not matter to you or for most applications, but they do matter for some users and applications.

Uniswap:

- This is an exchange, like a stock exchange but implemented over Ethereum.

- Frontend URL: https://app.uniswap.org/

- The smart contract(s): https://etherscan.io/address/0x68b3465833fb72a70ecdf485e0e4c...

Ethereum Name Service:

- This is like DNS over Ethereum. It resolves the ugly addresses 0x302834... to more memorable names like "andsoitis.eth". So you can snatch yours and tell people to pay you to "andsoitis.eth", for example.

- Frontend URL: https://app.ens.domains/

- The smart contract(s): https://etherscan.io/address/0x314159265dd8dbb310642f98f50c0...

Aave:

- This allows to lend and borrow.

- Frontend URL: https://app.aave.com/

- The smart contract(s): https://etherscan.io/address/0x24a42fD28C976A61Df5D00D0599C3...

Alchemix:

- Self-repaying loans without risk of liquidation. You can borrow up to 50% from your own-collateral and gradually pay it back, without risk of liquidation.

- Frontend URL: https://app.alchemix.fi/

- The smart contract(s): https://alchemix-finance.gitbook.io/user-docs/contracts

ZkSync Era:

- A zero-knowledge layer 2, that helps scale Ethereum. You can run decentralized application for a fraction of the price you would do on the Ethereum mainnet. The layer 2 posts proofs of correct execution to Ethereum. This way you can run tons of transactions while enjoying the security of Ethereum.

- A bridge to the L2: https://bridge.zksync.io/

- And a block explorer: https://explorer.zksync.io/

- The smart contract(s): https://era.zksync.io/docs/dev/building-on-zksync/useful-add...
That was just an fyi + link to original source for those like myself who prefer* primary texts, if available.

* p.s. for example, to get the referenced canonical sources (to learn - best way to dig into a domain and find out who was/is who). This paper has not disappointed; this is its first citation:

More is Different - Broken symmetry and the nature of the hierarchical structure of science, P.W. Anderson 1972

http://www.isnature.org/Files/Anderson_More_is_Different.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_W._Anderson
Is there a technical solution? Can't you replace your Edge executable by a hardlink to your preferred browser?
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I would argue that that quote contains the idea of AI
Well to be fair to the parent a 'consensus without evidence' is just an appeal to popularity.
Probably inherent because they'll fire you if you don't perform so you put dark patterns in or you get cut. I know they quit the official stack ranking... but I wonder
I thought so too. When I started Geometry for Programmers, I was going to write all the formulas as SymPy snippets. I thought that was a brilliant idea because, yes, normally programmers are much more comfortable with code rather than with math notation, and math is not about notation anyway. Case in point, you can turn any SymPy expression into LaTeX with the `latex()` function. It doesn't make the expression any more mathematical, so the other way should apply just as well, right?

But the very first review shown that I was wrong. Very few people saw this as a good idea. Most wanted both formulas and code. Apparently, there is a certain "comfortable" level of math language in a math book readers do not wish to give up.
Thank you! ReLM is a great find! I like that it drives the generation itself so that it can explore different beams more intentionally. And to do the JSON Parsing well against enums/unions/oneOf, you really have to support backtracking in a way that works basically the same as it does for regex so I'm looking forward to digging into their implementation.
I'm also interested. Just guessing, but I guess it means that while they use their own (slow compiling) 'Mu' dialect for most applications, they have switched to using 'standard' GHC for their front-end apps.
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> ¹² If I were a cynical, paranoid conspiracy theorist, I would float the theory here that Apple at some point decided they wanted to leave open the capability to sue the other video card developers on the Khronos board, so they are aggressively refusing to let their code touch anything that has touched the Vulkan patent pool to insulate themselves from counter-suits. Or that is what I would say if I were a cynical, paranoid conspiracy theorist. Hypothetically.

Such a shame that they lobbied against SPIR-V on the web. Textual formats are evil.