skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technical detail:

> Each A3 supercomputer is packed with 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors backed by 2TB of DDR5-4800 memory. But the real "brains" of the operation come from the eight Nvidia H100 "Hopper" GPUs, which have access to 3.6 TBps of bisectional bandwidth by leveraging NVLink 4.0 and NVSwitch.
IOS Safari does not like this, but it looks interesting.
Sun ultra 20
Denormalized tables are like bedrooms: the mess is fine if it is your own mess, not so great if it is someone else's.

Right now I have some data with both MUNI and MUNICODE. I just thought I'd casually check and sure enough, I have a non-trivial number of cases where the two do not match up right. So, the risk there is ... which one do I believe?
It’s where the people with the most guns say it is.
because people who are thinking about a topic because they saw it on HN are more likely to submit links about it
You've brought up an interesting idea in my mind: the infinite patience of AI. No more burned out, jaded customer support people. No more exhaustion answering the same questions over and over. No one feeling motivated today but in a bad mood tomorrow. In some ways, AI will regularize/normalize the CS experience.

I actually believe this will be a huge net benefit.

There is a pop-psychology idea that I recall where three bosses were given to a group of individuals. One boss was always nice, one boss was always mean, the final boss was sometimes nice and sometimes mean. The interesting result was that people disliked the sometimes nice boss more than the always mean boss. The conclusion was that an always mean boss is consistent and therefore they can be planned around. It is the uncertainty of the sometimes nice, sometimes mean boss that causes stress.
Yep my 13 year old will often pop her head round the door wondering about how dad is listening to a song she's heard sampled on TikTok or some crazy video.
Apparently, there's a bunch of The Smiths songs living multiple lives in the new world of the TikTok / short-attention span / ADHDNet.

On a script-related note, I spent a bunch of time back in the day reading through these:

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~kjell-e/tekla/red-dwarf/scripts.h...
> No-one, not even the smartest human, can dwell in more than a few places at once because to dwell in a place is as much about the people and emergent social structures there as it is about the tech.

John von Neummann was fine 'dwelling' in several dozen places. I get why it's hard to admit that outliers several standard deviations above exist.
I like the idea of JS modules but they don't entirely negate the need for bundling. Sending a single compressed, tree shaken, minified JS file down the pipe can be a lot more efficient than waiting for the browser to load all those files.

Theoretically HTTP/2 push could've helped here, forcing the necessary files into the browser cache, but that's been removed from browsers.
Yeah because the desktop is just a special File explorer view.
Aren't they different use cases? I want generative AI to produce something for me. I want search to find something for me.
From somewhere near the middle of the linked article:

> All of that is to make the point that any treatment of ‘Celtic’ warfare is immediately begging an enormous question because ‘who were the Celts?’ is at best an unanswered question and to be frank, probably an unanswerable question.

This table is also of interest: https://acoup.blog/2023/05/12/collections-who-were-the-celts....

So I guess you agree with the author.
> it's impossible to find talent

It's been 4 months and counting that I've been trying to land an Elixir freelance contract.

My theory is that dev. happiness and productivity is so great in Elixir land, there is not much churn, so talent is available, jobs, not so much.
Cheers, well met.

> thought that your epitaph was premature.

It's possible. I gave up prognostication when I didn't predict Twitter. I recently checked Craigslist for jobs in my line and it was empty...

> the symbolic calculator via teletype is still getting me to the point of "correct" faster than ChatGPT.

I prefer it myself. But we're not the mass audience, eh? My entire career is built on the fact that most people won't even learn Python or JS (let alone bash.)

When we connect these models to empirical feedback devices they'll be able to tell us correct things.

Schmidhuber says his goal is to "build an automatic scientist and retire."

> Natural language is packed with ambiguities and unspoken/unwritten context, and is thus a terrible programming language. People will end up spilling paragraphs of prose into text models, to do poorly and unpredictably, what a couple lines of bash would have done perfectly.

But you have to learn bash first. Now we can offload all that overhead to (fast powerful) external processors.

> For "approximate", natural language is fine, and possibly even optimal, but for precision, for "correct", it is unsuitable.

Nyet. Read the links I gave you. Our task is selection from the choices the machine generates. That's how you build an intelligence amplifier. The machines are capable of arbitrary precision.

> consumers who have lost all faculties of discrimination.

That's the only faculty the machine can't replace. That's the purpose of humanity: to answer the question "What are people for?"

I don't know what's going to happen, but I am pretty sure of the overall envelope of possibility. We might become the slobs in Wall-E, I don't know.

- - - -

> If the market size serves an estimate of work the world wants performed, and something as "done" as a bicycle still pulls-in $68B/yr, while software still earns trillions, then by the money-metric we have quite a ways to go before we are anywhere near finished.

I'm still not sure I'm getting what you mean? What's "finished" mean here? People buy bikes, yes, but I don't see the connection to my thesis that talking computers will rapidly make obsolete things we programmers take for granted now: Programming Languages, Bug Trackers, Bugs, Frameworks, Libraries, Apps, etc. Just as the smartphone subsumes many previously-separate devices, these "Talking UI" systems will subsume most of what we think of as programming.
They were clearly scraping the bottom of the barrel on the last few seasons, but yeah, Community had some great stuff in it too.

Brooklyn 99 was also pretty consistently hilarious.
YMMV. I very rarely have the IDE and tsc disagree. Even though it happens occasionally, I'd much rather have instant type feedback as I work and have to fix some errant types with 10s+ feedback right before checking in than have 10s+ feedback all the time.
One salient difference is that animals don’t seem to be capable of hypothesizing about their futures, including their death. Unlike humans, they are are oblivious of the fact that they will die someday (or be slaughtered someday).

Sean Carroll had an interesting podcast episode related to that: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/01/02/221-...
Thanks for the reply. Winmill is definitely something that I'll need to take a closer look at, when time permits. I do suspect though that it's going to be a bit too heavyweight to be a direct replacement for Rundeck.
Hacker news today:

6. Rails Cheatsheet

7. The Rails Doctrine

Interesting coincidence. Right on top of each other too.
>I don't get it.

Because reputation and reality are two different things. IBM still produces significant amounts of research, for example in semiconductors. It's usually the top or among the top companies in terms of patents per year, which is a decent measure.

It's the same with Oracle. Has a bad reputation among the hipster internet crowd, but researchers or engineers generally earn good salaries and have significant freedom and problems to work on for probably any domain of CS you're interested in.
It is exploitative indeed. I would probably pay 2x operating cost for such a service, and would need some proof that it isn't using my data elsewhere.

I think they are just betting on some sort of 1st mover advantage. Once this gets enough competition, pricing will be crushed.
And my main worry is: are they just going to cancel the new thing that my company invested six months and $250,000 of engineering time integrating with…
> my sense of security in said standard of living has taken a nosedive.

Doesn’t that imply a decrease in standard of living? Not easy to quantify one. I personally see not living in fear as a staple of standard of living.
Am radio is being removed from many cars
of "usage"? I never bought that claim as it's not clear what usage they mean – on 100x8 months or 10000x8 months?
Well that depends if that's actually permanently stored or not, it's very possible it just caches a short time
…or you can use a standard formatter like standardrb and end that conversation entirely.

You’re right, it’s easy to bikeshed on which syntax constructs are more elegant, but the Ruby ecosystem provides tools to eliminate the need for that conversation.
China is the one country that doesn't allow a concentration of the wealth in the top 1%.

Look at India, they don't come close to China if you compare how the standard of life improved for the masses.
Very true. I have a friend (with a wife and child) that has blow a grotesque amount of money on"cute" vtubers. In his words it's completely platonic but no man spends thousands of dollars on merch and "donations" over a tiny anime girl and not lusting over it.

If they were to start making AIs of those things he'd miss his rent.
But you could do an equivalent TPU<>TPU interlink. Surely that can’t be the reason.
.app is the equivalent to .exe on MacOS, so for most MacOS users the answer is probably daily.
They’ll probably feed us up with healthy organic food first, and deny us those pesky antibiotics.
This is nonsense. I have many comments disproving this nonsense. And EV credits only happened long after Tesla was already well underway. And it was also something that all car companies could and did use.

In fact, credit hurt Tesla quite a bit because they burned threw them very early on when lithium batteries were super expensive and then later foreign competitors could undercut Tesla using mass market vehicles by using the credits.

And fuel credits are an enforcement mechanism that gives rewards and penalties to car companies based on how well they follow regulations, its not a government subsidy.

> government space contracts

If you want to see how well space companies do when they only do government work, look at ULA and Boeing.

SpaceX from the beginning attacked the commercial market with great success and the US went from 0% of the commercial market to like 60-70% in like 5 years.

Yes of course SpaceX gets government space contracts, its fucking space, governments are involved. But SpaceX was literally the least government oriented rocket company in history.

If you actually compare SpaceX to other space companies and Tesla to other car companies, the claim that these companies are uniquely depended on government totally collapse.

Just one example, Tesla got 400M$ loan to produce Model S (advanced vehicle manufacture), Tesla paid this loan back with profit for the tax payer before they had to and change the car industry, Ford and GM took multi-billion $ loans built a few compliance vehicle and have since delayed the return of those loans.

But yeah, Tesla is evil subsidy company, when they received less and did more.

And the claim about his companies raising huge amount of money is also false, compare Tesla and SpaceX with its peers, like Lucid, Rivian, Blue Origin, Relativity and that story falls competently apart.
I'm sure your software is great, and I don't mean this personally, but I just find this philosophy really strange. You don't write defensive code, and you don't often check for errors. You just let pieces of your application fail, and feel that this is OK because the overall application continues on. IMHO, Elixir isn't "saving" you from "transient heisenbugs", it's encouraging you not worry about them, which means that they will proliferate.
I would wager in 10 years time we're all looking back in dismay about how AI has just been used to produce an endless stream of fake news, empty-feeling generated content, spam, ads and other forms of monetisation that make our lives miserable.

Some menial administrative jobs that have virtually no value but aren't yet fully automated will be wiped out by conglomerates who offer their white label AI solutions at scale...but that's it.

Think about Google search. Has it really improved much in the last 20 years? Some HN frequents will swear it has gotten worse.

What about your desktop computer? Sure it's about 10x more powerful than 2005, but has having one really changed your life much since then?

Diminishing marginal returns.
>Making Organizational intelligence and knowledge management convoluted and compartmented is one of if not the core way that managers keep power over employees. So that’s not a problem that a company wants solved.

Of course they want it solved. They just don't want to pay for it (and neither do customers).

Larger business customers are not exposed to this madness that consumers and small businesses are having to deal with. Large customers get their own account manager who has all the information and all the permissions to fix things. If necessary, they get their technical issues escalated to real specialists.

With these advances in AI, perhaps more of this will become available to everyone. Keeping power over staff (hopefully) won't be a huge problem if "staff" is some AI.
Speaking of Nikon, the Nikon F2, a fantastic, fully mechanical[1] SLR, is widely available on the used market for <$500 and compatible with nearly every full-frame Nikon SLR lens ever made with an aperture ring[2].

My current personal favorite "vintage" camera is an F2 with non-metering prism, type H full-field microprism viewing screen, and 50mm f/1.2 lens (still a current[3] Nikon product!), mostly because it has the clearest, brightest, largest viewfinder image I've ever seen on a 35mm camera.

[1] Other than flashes and optional electronic metering prisms.

[2] The only exceptions I'm aware of are the PC-E tilt/shift lenses, which have "soft" physical aperture rings that still require electronics, and therefore power supplied via the lens mount, to actually stop down the lens.

Also, my claim only fully applies to non-metering F2 viewfinders; metering prisms protrude a bit from the front of the camera body and interfere with the mounting and/or operation of certain lenses (including, I believe, all PC lenses).

[3] https://www.nikonusa.com/en/Nikon-Products/Product/Camera-Le...
The Big World of Small Objects
Correct. It’s a flawed and hypocritical political tool, one used exclusively by one party when they don’t want to actually do the hard work of governance.

The American people would be much better off if there were no debt ceiling.
Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common
I think what people want is Design Pattern, not abstraction "implementation".

Design pattern is real abstraction, because it's about thinking and designing. Abstraction is not related with specific implementation.

So, duplication is fine until you figure out the real Design Pattern to be used.
Open in Emacs, hit `control+h` then `c` with your cursor on the character, it'll show everything you want and more: https://i.imgur.com/X8xp1WS.gif
(also shows the decomposition of composed characters so you can discern ä vs ä and emoji combinations)
Spenmo (YC S20) said to be beset with major risk and compliance lapses
They’re not writing in the imperative mood. An imperative prompt would read:

Be an ai chatbot
Be kind and helpful and patient
…

But at that point the text prediction would probably devolve into 4chan green text nonsense so it’s probably best not to go there.
Exactly, just don’t do in-band signalling.
Was going to say the same thing, my Nexus 7 was a piece of crap as the storage went to floppy disc speed.
Yes, that's hard. But the original comment was solely about IR design.

For me, I'm not worried about companies adopting my platform. I just want to not have a C++ dependency. Yes, I hate C++ that much.

So I'm not terribly worried about other languages. I am worried about many different backends, though.
Anycubic Photon Mono X2 Review: Refreshing the Midsized Resin
Great. We just need to find a way to vent that extra heat off into outer space. Problem solved. /s
Fox earns exorbitant carriage fees from cable companies because they are one of the most watched among the demos that still cling to cable TV. They could practically run their business without ads and still stay afloat. Tucker will be 100% dependent on ads. And the advertisers will have to be willing to directly associate with his brand. More likely he'll have a small number of dedicated sponsors from ideological partners.

https://www.mediamatters.org/murdoch-family/fox-news-wants-m...
Asahi Linux is a new Linux distribution in alpha that only supports Apple hardware. All of the distro's supported laptop models have HiDPI screens, and in my experience, Wayland has done a much better job of handling HiDPI screen scaling than X11 ever since it was supported as a full session in GNOME 3.20 (May 2016).

For every FOSS project, it is up to the maintainers to decide the scope of what the project supports. Asahi Linux maintainers have every right to drop support for X11 when it increases the development burden and, according to the post, has lower performance than Wayland on the supported hardware.

Anyone who absolutely needs to stay on X11 due to a use case not yet available on Wayland-compatible software, your options are to switch to a different distro, fork Asahi Linux, or wait for that use case to be supported on Wayland-compatible software.

Based on the decisions mainstream Linux distros and desktop environments have been making, it's clear that Wayland adoption is increasing while X11 is gradually being deprecated. By the time Asahi Linux hits stable, supporting only Wayland will become an even more obvious choice than it is today. The words "don't come to us asking for help" may sound harsh, but they clearly communicate that X11 will no longer be supported on Asahi Linux.
The parent was making a joke, but one way to answer your question might be:

You feel bad because you assume they - like you - feel something when you mistreat them, and you assume this at a very deep level that might not, itself, feel like anything to you.
Try Hack too.
> Existing code exerts a powerful influence. Its very presence argues that it is both correct and necessary.

I’ve probably paraphrased this line to every junior engineer I’ve mentored. It’s such a succinct and pithy insight.
Theyve also dominated the market with anti-consumer practices.

They should take responsibility for being the Internets video archive because they've faught so hard to become it and pushed everyone else out the market.
Yes, but that would require academics to grow a practical bone in their body and realize "understanding" language is just one piece of the "intelligence puzzle."

The hype will die down on LLMs (slowly... all those ML researchers need to justify the sunk-cost of specializing into a very niche, albeit sales-friendly, field).

If it's any consolation, I doubt we'll see progress towards a "technological singularity" until the current crop of career scientists retire into the dirt -- or there is a fundamental change in resource allocation allowing other, more creative types to start experimenting with building out a probabilistic model for:

Human language in -> determination of "what to do"/workflow to run -> run

We're seeing a few startups in this area, but I haven't seen anyone create any useful agent.
America's Surprise Revival: The Suburbs
Toronto restaurant caters to neurodivergent diners
They will also push back on your plan to replace the existing system with a microservice data-lake using event sourcing with Kafka, using a service-mesh on a Kubernetes cluster on the distributed cloud. Either because they haven't kept up with the latest tech, or because they have the experience to tell beforehand that your vanity project may sound cooler but increases complexity for no real technical advantage.
The racking is either spaced to allow machinery between rows, or panels are suspended using cables and a structure above the machinery max height. Not a consideration for crops that are hand harvested.

https://www.farmersjournal.ie/agrivoltaics-can-crops-and-sol...

https://d3mdtxxgfz6upn.cloudfront.net/WEBFILES/000/753/181/1...
I've personally never heard of anyone having a problem with my ligature preferences (other than "they're weird"). People know ≠ and != mean the same thing.

But a presentation introducing syntax? That's just silly. I can't believe someone would get that wrong.
I remember very little of the show, but the phrase "breast octopus" with appropriate accent will never leave me.

Whether that says more about me or the show I do not know
> ... if you’re prepar­ing your code for oth­ers to read—whether on screen or on pa­per—skip the lig­a­tures.

Here he's referring to code in books, slide decks, and during presentations, not for editing.

Just below the section the above quote is pulled from, Butterick explains

> One in­spi­ra­tion for this piece was the La­TeX crowd, who would rou­tinely write me to in­sist their ty­pog­ra­phy was in­fal­li­ble. And yet. I kept see­ing La­TeX-pre­pared books that in­cor­rectly sub­sti­tuted curly quotes for back­ticks.... “But code sam­ples like these aren’t really am­bigu­ous, be­cause every­one knows that you don’t type the curly quotes.” ... But many of to­day’s pro­gram­ming lan­guages (e.g., Racket) ac­cept UTF-8 in­put.... So am­bi­gu­ity is a real pos­si­bil­ity. Same prob­lem with ligatures.
Funny that this is said from a .mobi website, which is also a file extension. Granted, .mobi files are much less used and much less standardly shared than .zip files, but still it made me smile.
What straw man? You made these assertions:

1. Rust is low level

2. Low level details leak through abstractions

3. This creates a difficult trade off for use cases that do not require manipulation of low level constructs

I am making these assertions:

1. Pointers are not particularly "low level"

2. The tradeoffs when pointers are abstracted away are worse

3. It is sad that trained professionals believe that pointers are difficult to understand
What does it mean to be aware of our environment? LLMs can produce knowledge about themselves and the environment. Would placing a LLM in a body that has sensors which convert the current environment into a text stream make LLMs concious?
There is no way any individual action will affect climate change.

Advocating for the shutting down of oil and gas is the most effective way to combat it

Taking the subway or not flying often or not eating mear won't change much if anything at all, its just virtue signaling.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-empty-gestur...
It's interesting that the author is complaining about the readability/usability of ligatures while their site has horrible linking usability. Tiny red superscript circle with zero indication of what text is linking and what size the clickable area of the link is.
That seems overly risk-averse. Legal privilege does not require such extreme vigilance in op sec. One does not breach privilege by googling keywords relevant to a case then the client's address for example.
> Mem2reg works fine on variables whose addresses have not escaped.

The question of pointer provenance is really about trying to formalize a workable definition of "escape." This turns out to be far harder than it looks, because it turns out that converting a pointer to integer necessarily needs to be an escape, and all of a sudden, there are all sorts of hidden places that causes pointers to become integers that you never expected (such as storing a pointer in a stack variable, if memory is untyped).