skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, that’s sums up the incentive for publishing so many papers and get citations.

Some professor put it in a nice way - the current system motivates us to think of research in terms of LPUs - least publishing units. No matter how established your lab is, you’d try to publish as soon as possible, leading to a lot of papers with not a lot of contribution. If tenure committees and all other systems that gauge academicians require people to say present their only top 3 or 5 seminal papers, then people would try to put their best work out there without the constant pressure of always publishing - win win for everyone. Unfortunately, the ones with the power to make these changes are the ones gaining the most in the current system so it’s unlikely to happen.
Not just me then. It was great and then suddenly it became completely unusable. Lineage OS got a few more years out of it. Technically it still works but even Lineage dropped it.

Sadly the Samsung Tab A 10.1 that came later also suffered a huge performance drop (like many seconds to open the keyboard) and there's no supported Lineage for it, so it'll probably just go in a drawer and be forgotten.

Another family member got an iPad mini around the time I got my Nexus, and that's still going.
Excel is the archetypal backwards compatible program.
> 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.

I'm already familiar with the Engelbart paper, but this is what people have already been doing with Google; with copy-paste from Stack Overflow. More often than not, all of the generated choices are either partially or wholly incorrect, and in need of either a cross-breeding or a euthanization. In this respect, LLMs are no different from the answer generators which preceded them. Only the priesthood of RTFM knows what to breed, what to gene-edit, and what to put down.
The thing I don't like with Elixir/Phoenix is the code generators.

I hate code generators with a passion. They obfuscate the inner workings of the library. Have you tried to find a tutorial which do not use the Mix task "phx.new"? (an up-to-date one).

For example, if I need an API, I will pass `--no-assets --no-html --no-live --no-mailer --no-dashboard` and the generator still creates a static files folder and static files related code.

If I want the strict minimum, I have to take some time to remove the un-necessary code.

Don't misinterpret me, I think Phoenix is a great framework, just like Python/Django, and Ruby on Rails are.

But sometimes, I just want Flask/FastAPI. You can say "just use plug_cowboy", but IMHO, "plug_cowboy" is more like "express.js", not really a FastAPI-like framework.

Also, absinthe is the only GraphQL implementation that natively supports subscriptions (via phoenix+phoenix_pubsub). In Django (graphene), you need so much more boilerplate with django-channels and yet another library. In JS land, Apollo Server also do not support it natively, you need graphql-ws and a pubsub implementation as well. And most of those pubsub implementations will need a Redis (or whatever) to distribute the queue between multiple web workers, while Erlang/Elixir have been designed for this (which actually simplify your infrastructure).

In the end, I often go with Django Async (via ASGI) with Server-Sent-Event (via an async StreamingHTTPResponse) to avoid the complexity of GraphQL subscriptions. But even that, I need a pubsub via Redis to make my multiple workers aware of each other. While with Elixir, a simple libcluster dependency, and a `receive` in the endpoint handler would be enough :)
He's obviously not talking about the state of the road surface. Anybody who's spent much time in Baltimore, not just in the tourist areas, knows what I mean.
I don't know about _eye opening_, but The Art of PostgreSQL really changed the way I work for the better. Like a lot of people, I used to be one that would pull all my data into Python for processing, Pandas-style. Once I learned how to do it all directly in PG everything became trivial.

[0] https://theartofpostgresql.com/
Reasoning from how we know something works is a shaky foundation when the passage of time causes them to become more complicated and correspondingly causes us to less understand how they work.

The existing ones can write code. Suppose we get ones that can write better code and engage in self-improvement. Now you have something which is a billion lines of code and is under constant self-modification. We no longer have any idea how it works, but it can feign consciousness in much the same way as existing LLMs. What's the test for if it actually achieves consciousness?

I can give you one that a human being in good health will pass and a rock will fail. Can you give me one that an AI feigning consciousness will fail?
I hope a merger between Uber and Lyft is blocked by regulators. It would doubtless lead to higher fees and lower regard for ride share drivers.
Don't fall into the doomerism trap and fear mongering orthodoxy. Climate deaths are at an all time low, global poverty at a low, there are more trees than there were 100 years ago, the Great Barrier reef is coming back. It has more coral now than in 36 years. The Earth and technology can handle it just fine.

Climate ‘doomers’ are replacing climate ‘deniers’. U.N. reports and confusing headlines created a generation of doomers:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/03/2...
Who then? Individual action cannot make a dent. Corporations? Maybe when there is a profit incentive I’ll believe it.
The Elements of Programming Style by Kernighan and Plauger

Software Tools by Kernighan and Plauger

The Psychology of Computer Programming by Weinberg

A cartoon-illustrated DIY Honda Civic repair book from the 80's I no longer remember the name of.
Damn, that sounds insane. Is the UK the only country in the world with this? What is the reason?
1991 Dodge Probes are easy to steal, too, let's sue Craigslist while we're at it. This is a pointless lawsuit that won't win, and also won't do anything to hurt Hyundai PR if that's their goal.
defamation applies to people, not objects, right?
Misunderstanding, maybe? You were responding to an absolute. I’m pointing out there’s plenty of use cases besides that.
I earn 2-3M per decade not including investments or IPO. I've sent multiple children to a University. Giving my children 60K-290K in cash while they were studying is not something that crossed my mind once. In fact I would argue you're supposed to struggle a little bit in college.

According to Elon's dad, he was rich:

‘I drove them to school in a convertible Rolls-Royce Corniche, they had thoroughbred horses to ride and motorbikes at the age of 14. They were spoilt, I suppose. Maybe that’s why Elon is acting like a spoilt child now,’.
PR people are a cancer on society.
In all the open source cases I’m aware of, the roles are just normal text.

The ability to trivially trick the model into thinking it said something it didn’t is a feature and intentional. It’s how you do multi-turn conversations with context.

Since the current crop of LLMs have no memory of their interaction, each follow up message (the back and forth of a conversation) involves sending the entire history back into the model, with the role as a prefix for each participants output/input.

There are some special tokens used (end of sequence, etc).

If your product doesn’t directly expose the underlying model, you can try to prevent users from impersonating responses through obfuscation or the LLM equivalent of prepared statements. The offensive side of prompt injection is currently beating the defensive side, though.
At least IBM has a reputation. The overwhelming majority of CS graduates will go to work at companies that have no reputation outside their fields because no one's heard of them.

This is just how work is for most people.
As I understand, you don't really need money to make a co-op, but what you need is cash flow. The most plausible route I've heard is freelancers forming a co-op where they pitch in some portion of what they make to a shared pot to even out the lean time in any particular freelancer's stream of gigs, as well as potentially sharing work if a client asks for more than an individual can do.

Of course, that requires the participants know and trust each other, but it seems a plausible way for individuals without a bunch of money to start a co-op.
It's a consequence of the orbit's eccentricity - the perigee (low point) in the orbit is to the south. The satellite is moving faster around the perigee, and slower near the apogee (high point) over Japan.

More info here: https://gssc.esa.int/navipedia/index.php/QZSS
Wind/solar are always wind/solar + something else. That something else is usually pipelined gas.
Having the ability/capability to enact change is not the same as caring. A person, or a whole species, can care about the suffering of others without having the ability to do anything about it, or even realising the scale or nature of the problem due to limited intelligence.
Non-linear dynamics and chaos by Strogatz

https://www.stevenstrogatz.com/books/nonlinear-dynamics-and-...

I literally read it cover to cover like a novel
It was common to see viruses spread by someone sending an executable attachment called "amazon.com" or similar and have people click the link to open it. Most email providers now flat out strip attachments with .com extensions.
I'm starting to become fatigued by all this TikTok news. Either ban the app or don't. Causing anxiety over TikTok without any action is the worst of both worlds.
The issue is likely getting the people working for free to listen to a designer
I don't think its right, but I understand their view of why they perhaps wanted to do it.

I had contact with quite few folks from IBM when I was at Red Hat and met Distinguished Engineers and Fellows and all they seemed to do was make slides and go on meetings. Literally powerpoint would be used for everything, Architecture? do it in powerpoint? Documentation, do it in powerpoint. Do it in powerpoint, and then invite lots of people to a meeting to share your slides, get as many people on the meeting as you can. These would be endless meetings scheduled into eternity, where the goal of the meeting was 'alignment', the same people going around and around not really getting much done, apart from agreeing on some things, and disagreeing on others. I stopped turning up, as it was a waste of time, so it was 'escalated' to my boss 'why is jossclimb' not coming to our alignment meetings?!?'

They were also clueless about how to deal with us. Had folks 'escalate' as we would not agree to something that first required it be accepted upstream in a community. Would have to say to them 'my word is not worth much, we need to get consensus in the community', this was read as us being difficult and not following some VPs wants to the letter. "This is very important to Arvind"

I will get shit for saying this, but half of them could disappear into the ether and you would not notice anything (apart from SWEs having more time outside of perpetual meetings around powerpoint to put their heads down and build some software).
Oh, this is good to know thanks.
That's how open source software works. You are allowed to sell it.
I don't really want to debate this. I think you chose your wording advocacy instead of just nuclear for a reason.

I would just add every environment is not equally suited to each type of power generation. Each environment needs a different peak load. Batteries can get you through a single peak when sized well, at large expense. We don't want natural gas to be the fallback for renewables universally.
Ask HN: How long would it take you to return current date?
I was chatting with some friends about how much setup is required for many web frameworks, even just to display a "Hello world."

So, if money were on the line and you had to return the current date (dynamically) from some publicly accessible endpoint, starting right this moment, how long would it take you?

Seconds? Minutes? Dozens of minutes?

If you're feeling brave, time yourself and post the results here.
It's a damn shame, too... the original nexus 7 was a great form factor and a great looking device. As soon as an OS update came out it destroyed it. I thought that was what destroyed it and had no idea that the emmc was also a problem until much later.

I also loved my nexus 5... until it got stuck in a bootloop. It was a week or two out of warranty but Google replaced it for me anyway... only for the replacement to start bootlooping as well. Which is another damn shame, because the Nexus 5 (not P) remains my favorite looking phone ever. Nothing even comes close aesthetics wise.

It was at that point though that I completely swore off Google hardware and given their track record since, that was probably a good choice. Maybe not every device, but enough that, along with just how unreliable Google has since been as a company on the software side, has basically killed any enthusiasm for Google. Enough so that I doubt I'll buy another Android phone, unless Apple does something remarkably stupid, and I'm not even sure what that might look like.
The headline literally matches the content of the article, even the quotes you posted. So saying that people "didn't read the article" is a strange claim.
Mysteriously I still know people who refuse to acknowledge even after it got up to like 115F you need air conditioning. They’re like “it’s only a few weeks a year.” Uh…. On the other hand, their SO’s and children often whisper on the side how they’re going to force the issue this year.
Cool project!

I wonder which kind of organizations adopt tools of this kind?

How does this play in the long run with maintenance and upgrades?

It would be great to hear from someone that ran such thing for a few years and has some insights to share..
I wrote one (https://solipsismwow.com/#paper). But it's literally fake. Thanks GPT.
coops work best in cases where the product is relatively easy for competitors to start their own coops; things like farming, building, etc.
Well, there is a difference between "fake science" and "tried to do correct science but ending being wrong". If the second is "fake science", then basically all that Newton has ever produced is "fake science".

For the social science journals bit, are you thinking of the "grievance studies affair": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair ?

Ironically, this study has generated a lot of "fake news" on the field of social science. The conclusions of this study were widely spread mainly by people for ideological reason. When we look at the study in question, it's clear the conclusions are quite different than what the rumors say. For example, the same researchers tried such hoax before the ones they mention in their study, except that these hoaxes failed to be published, and they "forgot" to mention it. They did not have any control group, neither as "correct article" or "article defending the opposite ideology" (so, how can we conclude that the reason these bad articles were published were because of ideology if you don't know how many articles are published without being critically reviewed). They also count as valid a lot of journals that are pay-to-publish and not seriously used in the field. One of the author, ironically, ended up supporting platforms publishing conspiracy theories (and he was even banned from Twitter) (not that the study should be judged based on that, but it's a funny anecdote: the author who, according to some, had the courage to defend real science against bad woke ideology, who ends up demonstrating that he never cared about real science and is driven by ideology not science)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Air_Act_(United_States)
Do they currently have the freedom to do that? Not in my country. The anti-nuclear lobby won that battle decades ago... and there is huge government interference in our energy infrastructure.
I'm with you on AirPods being socially awkward. Seems that everyone always has at least one in their ear, so you never know if someone you're speaking with is blasting music, talking with someone else, or actually focusing on you. Really tough.
I think there's a degree of survivorship bias here. Single-leader feudal power structures are common in business because they're the standard model for businesses here, so you have plenty of examples of them being wildly successful. But there are also lots of examples of failed feudally-structured businesses!

Personally I can think of multiple examples of successful co-ops in one of the two industries I work in (games), in part because there is less of a stigma against less-traditional business structures there. Co-ops have successfully built and released wildly successful projects in a repeatable way. I think we simply don't have enough data to decide at scale whether co-ops are inferior to the way we run corporations in the West.
I feel like I responded to this above, but I’ll restate it. First, I’m not really following your logic.
Not everyone is running for President, and are not potentially liable or guilty of breaking the law.

No, law as ‘CODE’ is too monolithic. Citizens cannot face prison because actual life in society may or may run afoul of the law given its vague, ambiguous, or even self defeating language
Haha you'd think so but nope. I found this out by hitting Ctrl+Z while editing a Word document, no realizing I'd accidentally clicked on the desktop. Next minute, the 14GB VM image that I'd copied to my local machine a week ago was missing.
We used it as a textbook for a graduate level math class at Johns Hopkins. I really appreciated his treatment of the material. It's so accessible, and yet still rigorous enough for advanced math students to get value out of it
I've read other stuff related to this issue. It seems to me our current system exists in a social reality for which our metrics of authenticity were not designed and it harms both credentialization -- which is recognized as a problem -- and also serious science in ways that are not readily acknowledged as a problem.

Mendel, father of genetics, failed to become an accredited teacher. His work on genetics would likely get no recognition in this environment of credentialism is king.

Some guy who knows enough about genetics he created his own home pill to deliver genes into his gut to fix his lactose intolerance is being ignored by the world. Someone recently told me on HN that his video sounds like a scam video of a sort that is common (probably in a redacted comment).

I have a genetic disorder, which fails to pass the credentialism test. For that and other reasons, I didn't bother to say anything like "Sorry you don't know enough about genetics to follow it."

The individual wanted to know where the "studies" and "papers" were. And they likely don't exist and will never exist because there's no profit in it for someone else to try to build on his work.

I don't know how we fix this, but the world has changed and it's valuing the facade of scientific work more than actual scientific work and it makes me want to scream.
Oh dear. I won't be surprised to see this being true since TikTok is just a worse version of Facebook/Instagram who has already admitted and shown evidence of them violating the privacy of its users [0] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5], and its defenders are just running out of excuses faster than a running tap at this point.

Before anyone says 'All social media companies do this', If large social networks like Facebook have been fined in the billions of dollars for such repeated privacy violations, then given the size of TikTok, you might as well agree that for TikTok to continue to operate in the US, it must to pay a multi-billion dollar fine for such repeat offenses and abuses of its user's privacy simply on the grounds of the size of the many users on the platform.

[0] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-...

[1] https://www.scmagazine.com/news/privacy/uk-tiktok-16m-fine-c...

[2] https://fortune.com/2022/12/22/tiktok-data-privacy-blunder-c...

[3] https://futurism.com/tiktok-spy-locations-specific-americans

[4] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65126056

[5] https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/08/tiktok-lgbtq/
Show HN: Clean, Minimal Todo-Lists
That would not have helped you in the case described in the article.
Are there any Windows GUI applications written in Rust that are a good place to start for someone who wants to learn more?
Show HN: HTTPS://Yordam-Top.pages.dev/
I have made a simple and website for collecting customer support contacts.

It is not filled yet but I will do it slowly and hope for your help.

Yordam in uzbek language means "Help" and Top means "Find".
could not agree more with the author here.

Swift certainly is a nice, impressive, modern language but it seems like Apple created a language they want themselves to rewrite OS frameworks with millions of lines of code. i could also see it as a rival to C++ in Game (engine) creation. i don't see it suited at all to the average app with less than 100kloc though.

points from the article:

> […] but I personally think it's harder to master Swift than to master Objective-C

absolutely. one can learn Objective-C in an afternoon if you know C - and master it in a few weeks. mastering Swift (like C++) could take decades.
why is that the case? because it is a very complex language with many advanced features (like C++) that solve problems that you don't even have in simpler languages. some of these features also solve problems for extremely complex projects or some performance requirements but the simple truth is that most apps on both mobile and desktop are relatively simple (<50kloc) and are better suited by simpler languages with high productivity.

(and you can always drop down to C if you see performance issues with Obj-C...)

> I don't see how I'm sacrificing safety by continuing to write Objective-C.

me neither. yeah Objective-C is not memory safe but no seasoned programmer would ever make those mistakes that Swift aims to solve here - with a high price.

our flagship app is still written in Objective-C and i see nothing to gain by switching to Swift.

p.s. shameless plug, if you live and breathe Objective-C and want to work on a cool app (MacUpdater), drop me a line at jobs@corecode.io
TPU's have a TPU-TPU interconnect that is faster and lower latency than any GPU cluster [1]. That said this is a huge leap for GPU's on GCP. For A100's SOTA is 1.6tbit per host over Infiniband (which azure and some smaller gpu clouds provided), AWS had 400-800 Gbit and GCP had .... ~100gbit.

SOTA seems to be 3.2Tbit for H100 clusters so this still seems a bit slow? (Tricky as they don't give us a clear number just 10x). H100's are much more powerful per chip though so at least initially the clusters will be smaller and not network bound.

The tricky thing is no one other than Azure of the big providers seems willing to pay Nvidia's margins for RDMA switches, it seems this is still the case.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.01433.pdf
It's an interesting problem to solve though.

For one thing, there are lots of US investors who will lose money. Should they be made whole?
YouTube ad killed "you got me".
Sure, you could give 100 people the competitors product, have them use it and then review it and just publish the negative ones. Maybe that’s also useful market research.
I don’t think that’s what most people buying reviews online do.