skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything you said about factory work is also true of creative work. Authors will tell you that it's 10% writing and 90% rewriting.

I try not to guess at motives and goals of people I don't know because I don't think they matter. It doesn't sound like your opinions would change if Altman submitted to a brain scan where you could verify his purity (or not), and honestly mine wouldn't either. And no, I dobn't see pathos in for-profit entities talking about safety. Carmakers, construction companies, and theme parks all do the same thing.

I see AI as a productivity multiplier, much as you described factory automation. And I see a lot of information workers suddenly echoing the same concerns we all ignored from factory workers, because oh wow now it could affect us.
The EU is primarily a trade bloc, and it is in natural competition with the Eurasian Economic Union: countries can have tariff-free trade with either one bloc or the other, but not both at the same time. The current scramble over Ukraine is primarily motivated by the EU and the EAEU economically benefiting from the country being in their respective trade zone.
All laws have corner cases that are not covered. All laws.

If laws were to cover every imaginable situation, they would be huge. Some already are... you have a whole bureaucracy working to understand them.

That's why you often hear about the "spirit of the law" where humans know pretty well what the legislator is trying to accomplish, even though it's not fully codified in subsequent rules.
I remember the world before micro USB chargers and it was a disaster only mitigated by regulation. Calling it trivial is missing the forest from the trees. It was a good decision and it's good to finally see an end to this madness after 15 years of 'Who has a Nokia/Samsung/Sony charger?' to 'Who has the USB a/b/c/iPhone cable?' to hopefully 'who has a charger?' in five years.

Humanity does not have an alternative to bureaucrats because lassez-faire markets optimize for maximum company profits over all time spans instead of consumer convenience.
Perhaps another casualty of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law ?
why i like arduino.

why i kind of like old IBM PC environment. x86 + a few bios calls, dont even need DOS after you load game.exe
>There are many many more users of CL, I just listed some household names.

I know. But it's still admitting defeat, as they're not as many as to make its liveliness self-evident, and make giving a list of projects using the language moot.

Nobody will ask for such proof from a language whose liveliness is not in dispute, one for which the see constant mentions on social media, jobs posted, major new projects being written in them, companies using them left and right,
books a-plenty being written all the time about them, meeting people who use them is trivial, and so on...

>You just can't win this argument, if you try to prove the opposite you automatically lose, that's rather unreasonable.

This "inabillity to win" using such proof though, makes sense though if one understands "language X is dead" as not some kind of absolute statement that nobody uses it, but rather as it was meant: "it's not as lively as it was, nor it is particularly popular".

"But this company uses it somewhere" doesn't really answer it. Companies use all kinds of niche stuff here and there, on legacy projects, stuff they bought, or stuff done by some small team and used because "it works, so let's keep it", but that stuff remains niche. We can find companies using Eiffel, APL, and whatever too. Does mean they're not dead-dead either, doesn't mean there's much life in them.

If it was one of the handful of "Google sanctioned official langauges" for example that stuff is written is, that would be a good argument (even if that was still just an individual company).
To hell with webpages that alter scrolling behavior.

But to be fair this page was better than most pages that dare to do it, it was almost not buggy on this page.
Do we see the same thing in unvaccinated populations? Like the Amish or PNG or African countries that has super low uptake?
Power of Prospection
Buy an OLED monitor/tv and an OLED smartphone. The issue is still there, but to a much lower degree. Also, black is black (off). "Once you go black, you can't go back."
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35654783
I wrote “in most languages” specifically thinking of Arabic-derived scripts, but don’t know of any others.

Older scripts, and those descended from other roots, seem to have this property.

Of course in practice Arabic writing is as easy or hard for humans to learn as any other system, so the evolutionary pressure/affordance to get rid of hard parts still applies.

But the theory of early visual system affordance could in principle be studied (though I don’t think fmri is really solid enough yet). Any historical implications of course will always have to remain theoretical.

Writing has technological constraints as well; look at cuneiform vs, say, Pali. Since Arabic evolved after predecessor systems already existed, technological affordances clearly had a, or the, major influence.

Edit: I read your comment again, and just to be clear: your question is really “why is Arabic different”. Latin, Georgian, Aramaic, Brahmic, Chinese, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Maya pictographs, all have roughly the same form factor.
I did that once by hosting json files on a webserver in a different country.
Lightning is capable of faster speeds. They just (probably rightly) decided it wasn’t worth the cost to put that in their phones when basically nobody transfers data on their phone using a cable. I believe one iPad had it before they switched to usb-c.

Obviously HN readers are the exception.
Sadly at about about half the Geekbench 5 score. M2 is single core 2061, multicore 15281. 6850U has single 1469 and multi 7365 scores. M2 is also ahead in Cinebench R23 and splits the single and multi in R20 with the 6850U.

To go from that to 70% ahead on multicore would be amazing because it would force Intel and Apple to respond.

The cynic in me, having watched Intel and AMD fight for the desktop crown post Ryzen launch though is skeptical that the scores are some combo pushing power limits to rather undesirable levels and extremely selective benchmarking (It's 70% better at this one thing).
It'd be so much better... for Pfizer to sell to consumers individually for 10-100x the price!
> I'm pretty sure anyone on earth would know whether or not they were on 75 micrograms of LSD

I wouldn’t. I have no idea how strong the effects of LSD are supposed to be based on a dose. I suspect only people who have taken LSD know really.
Here’s an example:

M-x, “apropos”, RET, “copy text”

No apropos matches for “copy text”

Using just “copy” returns two undocumented variables first. I did eventually find kill-ring-save, but it took more digging than I’d like. Obviously if I embraced (or at least remembered) Emacs’s terminology I’d have a better experience, but I’m not there yet.

Edit again: “copy selection” found copy-region-as-kill, which is maybe what I should have searched for originally. Not sure yet how it differs from kill-ring-save.
Maximum Minimum Competence – What Is Chevron Deference?
In before the Elon apologists claiming something batshit crazy like:
* this was always meant to happen or
* this would have happened even if Elon didn’t gut the entirety of the Trust and Safety team
This is correct. https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture
>They're saying we can't put sawdust in bread, if they're that interested in a small product like that then what's to stop them banning lead in toys?
Confusion was probably the point; they wanted the good will associated with the old name (and if possible, migrate the users over to bootstrap the new thing), even if doing so would destroy that.
https://historycollection.com/buried-alive-common-victorian-...
look into
https://promptlayer.com/
https://www.helicone.ai/
https://wandb.ai/site/prompts
BeOS had pretty much no concept of users and process segmentation. Basically anybody who can enter a password has unrestricted access to everything and all programs can run with equal privileges, à la DOS/Amiga/macOS_classic/Windows9x. This is fine for a workstation (maybe?) but definitely not suitable for hosting server applications and daemons that you want to be run in restricted security contexts.
If an advancement in plug capabilities is enough of a value-add for users, then the mobile will have both.
Same here, I think about that line often. It applies to a lot of different scenarios in tech.

The most common one is probably pointless redesigns. Outside of games, users usually aren't pulling up a particular app for the pleasure of using it, they just want to use it to accomplish some other goal with as little trouble as possible.
Did you try inline as well? Why are they not as flexible as the macro? Couldn't the swap not also process two arrays?
> and still be left with 16 hours to have a sleep, eat and do some other things.

Well there's your problem. You don't need to sit back the whole time while you're waiting for approval, it's okay to leave your chair.

Jokes aside, I think this probably depends on use-case. You can't easily return the computer. And you can't easily buy (and then return) 100 computers if you have a large one-time computation to run.
Thats still more steps than just walking in and yelling out "Hey Google, play my music"
P.S.: Possible outcome: Publishing may shift (back) to forms, which involve higher costs, like print, in order to provide a suitable filter, both economical and in terms of an higher-order review (as provided by a publisher). The Web, lacking any of these filters, may actually follow the way of Usenet.
I missed the mention of "pandering to governments worldwide" in this article, what are you talking about?
There's a place for both even with a REPL I think. Sometimes when I'm tracking a bug down or writing a new function against an old one, I find that I'm writing little one-off functions or worse, replicating a function body line by line in a let block to simulate arguments. Once I opened up a project and realized I wanted one of them, but it was lost when the REPL closed. I literally got as far as opening another file to stow these little utilities before I realized I had reinvented bargain-bin testing.

My dream is still to come up with some ergonomic way of blending the two. I want to have tests written, but swap out the thing they test live in the REPL. Or register new one-off tests from the REPL for things I don't think will be useful once things are set in stone. I've heard one of the several billion testing frameworks for common lisp does something like this, but I haven't checked it out yet.
2006 Mazda here. The thing's bulletproof.
This is where open-source low-cost models shine and could be useful today.

These models aren’t very smart, but seem to be good at role-playing. Open Assistant actually has more personality than GPT (mostly because it can be a bit creative and unpredictable), plus says “as an AI language model” much less often.

More importantly, the ability to run them locally and/or cheaply means you can put them in ML side projects and games and unrelated apps. And since the code is open-source, advanced developers could even augment them to improve the memory and add plugins.

The main problems are that I believe most of these models don’t have a “system” prompt, and are also a lot worse at remembering things. But I’m sure the former is being worked on and explicitly encoding state (e.g. by reminding the chatbot in each prompt) can fix the latter.
Blood–brain barrier opening with ultrasound device in patients with glioblastoma
I find it interesting the people actually think they might be special enough that people in a "few scant centuries" would even care to know who you were. We've long left the 15 minutes of fame to thinking we'll live in history.
I don't think that's quite it. As I understand it their corporate structure basically has two entities a non-profit and OpenAI LP which has been accepting capped-profit investments. Different investors (early vs late) have received different capped-profit deals from 100x to 7x. Once all investors are paid off then all further profits are meant to flow to the non-profit (not sure what they are meant to do with it!).

Not sure about how this related to the founders, other than Sam Altamn apparently having zero financial stake. I'm guessing the other founders may have put money in and have capped-profit deals ?
My pet peeve with so-called greenfield projects is that actual greenfield projects are extremely rare. As soon as your shiny new service has to interact with other services, you will run into their stakeholders expectations, and your project will inevitably build up tech debt until you go full circle. You may blame essential complexity, but often it's just the unstable nature of the industry.
Got any studies on this I can read?
From what I have seen/heard - GitHub has plans to remove the "Recently updated" search feature from the new search. That is a completely stupid and ignorant decision, and I am so angry about it I think I'd risk my HN account to express the full spectrum of my feelings.

Like, what the fuck.... am I supposed to be at the mercy of some algorithm now to find relevant and fresh code? I'd love to see the person who came up with this idea to give a talk on why they think it is a good idea.

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/48301#discussi...
That's just the default style. Try a request "...in the style of marvin the paranoid android" or "talkie toaster from red dwarf" or"Ernest Hemingway" or "Donald Trump" for a bit of variety.
I'm always amused by HackerNews being presented as this awful, unreadable, low-contrast atrocity, when it is the most user-friendly, easiest-to-read, most seamlessly customizable thing I access on literally any given day.

That being said, yes; awful low-contrast sites exist. But it's not, hah, black and white. There's certainly such a thing as too high of a contrast - depending on the person, monitor, and background light.
Well, someone has to say it, right?

"You might as well use vi."
> I bought a Pixel 7 Pro from store.google.com (Canada) ... being sold “unlocked” by Google

Carrier-locking is not permitted in Canada, so all the discussions about where the phone was bought and that the full price was paid are immaterial.
probably not the best example because both the Catholic Church and Latin are likely still going to be around when all of us, most programming languages, companies and probably countries are in the dust

peak popularity in the <current year> in a domain where most things have a half life of less than 20 years isn't a good indicator for longevity.
This could be done more cleanly in keyboard firmware.

I recovered from a deep dive into mechanical keyboards by trying Topre switches, the obsession killer. I now have four Leopold FC660C keyboards with Hasu FC660C controllers, with custom QMK firmware.

After many experiments, I've been won over by making every key near home row a "tap / hold" key. Tap for usual keystroke, hold as a modifier to access a custom keyboard layer with the other hand.

This is an empirical question. I've learned chording keyboards. I had the original FingerWorks TouchStream multitouch keyboard, tech which Apple turned into the iPhone. I've owned various ergonomic and small keyboards. I've tried many versions of my own firmware. I learned Dvorak on a one-handed half keyboard, and experienced the miracle of knowing how to type Dvorak both hands with no practice. Brain plasticity is very important to me; I've tried everything I can.

"One finger each hand, near home row" is stripped down chording that wins hands down over any other typing system I've ever tried. Taking advantage of the quadratic address space (versus a linear multiple using a fixed set of modifier keys), I control every aspect of my computer this way.

"Control-Xylophone" has kept me from ever accepting Emacs. I should write a two finger chording interface to Emacs, in the spirit of Devil Mode.

Leopold FC660C Mechanical Keyboard
https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_det...

Hasu FC660C Controller
https://1upkeyboards.com/shop/controllers/fc660c-controller/
FTA:

> “Google’s directionless approach”

This phrase has applied to all parts of google since the departure of Schmidt.

I used to think it was a shame, but eventually realized we’ve been lucky.
isn't pernicious anemia also caused by B vitamin deficiency?
One of the more fun projects of the last ten years was a project designed to fail.

We had an in-house data centre, and we needed more capacity at certain times of the year. Justification was needed for more dedicated capacity in the face of cloud infrastructure.

So we built a system to use spot pricing to spin up extra instances, securely, on AWS, google cloud or azure. This could meet bursts of demand at busy times.

At the end of the exercise we had a working system and managed to prove it was better value and more resilient for the organisation to increase on-premises capacity.

Fun project though!
I agree to a large extent. At the same time, we have a problem in this country where scientists are paid a pittance for their fundamental work, which downstream is capitalized by corporations, paywalled, patented, and sold for a huge profit.

One thing that many scientists do is start businesses using their research, which serves as an incentive in the face of meager salaries. If not for the prospect of commercializing their work, many people might not even go into the field. In our capitalist system, this is unfortunately how things work.

So if you want to make scientific work all public domain, then as a society we need to make real investments into science to properly fund it. We also need to close the loop, such that large corporations who profit off this publicly funded work are forced to pay back into the system at a proportional rate. No more 0% corporate taxes, which cause money to pool at the top.
Elon is fairly left leaning by any reasonable standard from a few years ago. It’s not Elon that became radicalized (He’s cringe and autistic but not a radical), it’s the partisans who attack anyone who is vaguely a centrist, either by cancel culture or often times physical violence.
While nearly all phones (including iPhones) have been waterproof for almost decade now that does not solve the issue with capacitive touch screens not working when wet, where to put the phone where it won't slip and break on the tiles, and the terrible quality of phone speakers in general. And then you have a wet slippery phone to put in your pocket (plus probably water trapped behind whatever case you have on it).

Or just pay a small amount for a dedicated speaker with handsfree voice controls...
> physical things last a long time

There's a lot of survivor bias here. I have had plenty of dumb physical things fail in what seems like unreasonably short times.

But I do have done physical dumb devices that are 100+ years old. I do not interpret that to mean that everything from that era / factory / manufacturer lasts 100 years, just that all of the surviving items did.
I think that is the reason jupyter is as popular as it is.
I call it, "collective post nut clarity". The tech looks nice at CES but the users are waking up to the fact they now need to swap their mirror, thermostat, door locks, etc. every few years. Smart LED bulbs are ironic in that LED bulbs were supposed to be so efficient they would save the planet and now people regularly throw them in the garbage for "smart" features. Everything is a con.
You managed to burn another 212 words that added nothing to the
statistic you were replying to.
Numbers are symbolic themselves, as is all math.
I swear it's been a clause in their phones since they were called Nexus instead of Pixel where you breach the warranty when you unlock the bootloader. I never bother anymore but when I used to swap the Android versions myself I recall running into something saying as much.
Fantastic! Now do power tool charging packs.
> As a four-stroke engine only fires twice for every rotation of the crankshaft

Should be the other way around, each cyinder fires once every two revolutions.
Possibly, but the unit tests are reproducible, committable code. They're like Dockerfiles for your REPL session.
Apple has been known for doing a whole bunch of R&D which affects the industry. Hell, they were heavily involved in USB-C, and got no competitive advantage from that R&D spending – they just got the opportunity to make better products. Same with WebGPU and other web standards (and, well, there's the freely available WebKit!).

"Companies won't invest R&D into making freely available standards because if it's freely available it's not a competitive advantage" is clearly not something which bears out in the real world.
> at least NP hard

Excuse me, I have a question. I was under the impression something is either NP hard or it is not. When you say "at least NP hard" it suggests there are levels beyond NP. Am I misinformed, or am I misunderstanding you?
I've tried it with mine and it wasn't anything like it. But then English isn't my first language so I have a bit of an accent.
Yes.

If you want to save some money, it will give you an automatic 25% discount if you just wait around for some amount of days before buying the full version. Applies to both versions of the app.
Good? I'm just imagining what life would be like if all cars sounded that way. And, as anyone who ever had to drive a car with a broken exhaust muffler can say, it's also nothing special...
This is interesting. Astronauts are generally picked from humans in peak physical condition. I expect the reason males are less efficient is due to them having higher physical peaks. It would be interesting to compare males and females of similar absolute physical status.
This doesn't even make sense looking at national politics, which are far more vicious and the stakes are much higher.
Afair Karpenter handles that. AWS gives some lead time before taking away spot instances. Karpenter puts a taint on the node and spins up a replacement. The scheduler gently evicts the pods, and nothing is lost.

This does require architecting your services to be shut down tolerant, but that's par for the course. If you're using Kubernetes you've probably already settled on the "[herd, not] cattle, not pets" idea.
What this argument overlooks is that pure black also isn’t found on computer displays. Even for OLED, black is really dark gray if you have any amount of ambient lighting. Displays are a part of nature in that sense.
Yank instead of paste.
Frame instead of window.
Kill instead of delete.
kill-ring-save instead of copy.

I was going to add 'visit instead of open', but I guess that bit has changed over the years. C-x C-v no longer invokes 'visit-file'.
This, but SAFe
Given that fentanyl overdoses are now the leading cause of unintentional death for young people in the USA, if that trend continues then we should expect to see higher average levels of opioid resistance evolve over the next few generations.

I also expect to see hormonal birth control become less effective over many generations. Those for which birth control fails are likely to have more children.

Of course, all of us here will be long dead before any exploration pressure exerted by those drugs becomes apparent at a population level.
This makes sense how Tesla markets FSD in terms of traditional accounting. While not a part of official BOM, $15k for self driving is a big chunk of the final price for those who select it.
Carpenter Gothic
If fame is the objective, there is also arson to consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herostratus
Author here. You're correct. I started this when I was getting into formal languages / compiler design, but I couldn't dedicate much time to it after writing the lexer and parser. Later on, I didn't have much interest in finishing it, in large part due to a growing dislike for Go's design philosophy. It was a nice learning experience, though.