skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently used my blog as a way to learn how to use Make and Makefiles. I write posts in Markdown, and my Makefile generates HTML for each using Pandoc, then stitches it all together into one `index.html` file. The webpage behaves like a single-page-app, with a table-of-contents and everything, with just some CSS trickery.

I know there are probably frameworks and tools that do this for me already, in ways both more flexible and robust than how I've done it, but I've really enjoyed the process of getting to this point. I started writing dumb shell scripts and struggling with weird cases and messy code, then learned more about Make and improved on things by a lot. In the end, it didn't take a lot of code, yet I feel like I can be really pleased with the result.

I have come to really like Make, I have to say. It is probably used more often than it should, judging by some of the comments here. I've seen a few Makefiles where a substantial percentage of recipes are `.PHONY`, and maybe those are the cases where you should think about looking for a different task-runner? Not sure, but I enjoy Make anyway.
Not only double-check, but probably triple- or quadruple-. There's too much chance of hallucination to trust one or two instances; I think this could be done, but would require a number of disconnected instances doing the translations, with the resulting documents compared with each other to see a) which ones are more prone to making things up, b) if they hallucinate in similar ways, and c) where they agree, which would allow further study to find out what may have been in their training that allowed similar results to be output.
That’s a great way to give market share to another platform.. perhaps a critical market share.

Result: 5 years increased profits, afterwards: google is finito.

YouTube is all they got at this point
Here is a good reference:

https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/perf_train_gpu_one
It's easy to nay say, the COVID mRNA vaccines were great, it's nuts that people hold them to some imagined standard.

Like a single dose is less effective than multiple doses, especially if later doses are targeted at the circulating virus, but the first shot has an enormous protective effect, alerting the immune system to the type of virus.
If they're good at what they do, and provide value sharing their knowledge, yes.
I ran into a few in Beijing. I guess it might just be a unique coincidence?
As a rust programmer... etc etc.
Most US workers aren't under an employment contract, it's at-will in both directions. That said, everything is negotiable, and if one is sufficiently motivated and has the leverage, an employment agreement can be crafted even without jeopardizing the at-will relationship.
Because commute time is work time. Plain and simple. There are very few unemployed people that take the tube for 1 hour in the morning and in the evening just for the sake of it.

Since work from anywhere showed that a lot of work can be done remotely, if a company wants someone to work on premises it is obvious that they have to pay for the extra time and effort spent.
At this point, isn't is better for the country to officially accept USD? Is there is any other way out of this kind of inflationry spiral?
I found the same thing, already onto reading my third article there. You could almost call it procrastinating.
How is that funny? Compared to previous times it seems there aren't that many groundbreaking programs, from what we can see. Most of aviation innovation is suppressed by market demands - we want tried and true, low-risk designs. This is in stark contrast to the 50s-80s.

Space is a fairly small market, but has some stuff going on. Nothing on the scale of the space race era. Even in the 90s they were talking about how space launches would become so routine. Then, if you launched a mission it was likely 70% new tech, procedures, or experiments. Now all the missions build off of previous ones. Hey, look a new space telescope! Been there, done that, barely makes the news.

Defense is a wildcard since the interesting stuff is classified. There are some interesting problems in the DARPA competitions. Not a lot of freedom in those jobs - lots of politics usually.
These buildings aren’t designed for subdivision, and attempting to subdivide them, probably would cost 100s of millions.

For instance, MPK 2x are essentially airplane hangers.
I think it's due to many power banks being so shitty that the chance of them catching fire in normal operation is not insignificant.

From the EASA guidelines on lithium batteries (https://www.easa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/dfu/Backgroun...):

> Also, spare batteries, including power banks, should not be recharged while on board the aircraft. Additionally, power banks should not be connected or providing power to a device while on board the aircraft.
A fantastic blend of salesmanship and freedom from ethics?

“This is a preorder. Estimated starting ship date is July 2023. Thank you for your patience and understanding.”
If the demands were reasonable, I'd agree with you. But cutting 33% from discretionary non-military budgets is not a reasonable demand.
Authentication profiles. Basically one can specify on the SIM profile that for the certain PLMN (mobile operator) only certain authentication methods are allowed (2G, 3G, 4G use different auth methods).
The German eID already has this feature. You give it a number of years, and it replies with a simple yes or no.

The problem is that it's expensive to implement. Your options are A) going with an identity provider who charges you per session, B) interfacing with an eIDserver provider yourself (which the identity provider in A does for you) with all the necessary certifications, government red tape, and UX intricacies, or C) also building your own eIDserver, which is a lot more certifications and red tape, plus mandatory very specific hardware HSM that, to my knowledge, aren't even available anymore.

Add to that the users who, so far, are most likely confronted with this for the first time and the clunky "official" apps (though you could implement your own) that require your website to do funny stuff like redirecting to localhost.
Does anybody know what currently the most expensive part about YouTube is?

Storage

Bandwidth

Processing/encoding
Spotify's Soundtrap claims to have live collaboration, haven't tested it though so I don't know if it's actually realtime or just a step in that direction.
This is, at its core a software distribution problem. Windows, Linux distros, etc. must have a way wherein the OS requests to download a more optimized version of the package.

I think this is most easily fixed for Linux distros, all it takes is for them to create a new architecture, say amd64_avx, which only contains packages with avx optimizations enabled where applicable.
>I have friends in Argentina. You know how they are protecting against inflation? Good old US dollars

Yeah, go pay for bread at the store with Bitcoin in Argentina. How much is the transaction fee again? /s

I'm also smiling when the crypto bros are still shilling Bitcoin for the millionth time as an anti-inflation snake oil (which I was hoping not to see on HN anymore, but this is why we can't have nice things), when the USD was used back in the '90s in Eastern Europe for this, and is still used in Russia for the same scope today.

Hard stable currencies in cash are so much better, safer and easier to exchange for needed goods, than any shitcoin.
From the summary:

"We perform the most comprehensive evaluation of Code LLMs to date and show that StarCoderBase outperforms every open Code LLM that supports multiple programming languages and matches or outperforms the OpenAI code-cushman-001 model."

So I'd assume not up to par with gpt4 or copilot. Can't wait to see it evolve from here!
But this isn’t acting in their best interest. It’s acting on the personal feeling of inadequacy of the execs. That’s it.
I strongly disagree. My lower class sets of grandparents both had pianos. Other family members had violens, accordions, portable little organ things. Making music was the norm before the radio just like the original poster said. Do you think classic blues pianists came from rich families?
Haven't worked with many people I'd spend time with outside of work
I would try round-tripping it at least. But I would have to know a little more Akkadian to tell if it's coming up with synonyms or completely different words.
"It is unethical unless your library is in opposition to some other oppression."

One person's 'freedom fighter' is another person's terrorist.

These ethics guidelines strike me as well-intentioned, but naïve.

"If you write something innocent and later find out that it is being used for evil, you are now obligated to do something about that. You can’t ignore it or say you didn't know. You are now stuck and have to do your best to make that situation better."

If you create a library and a state-sponsored hacking group uses it, what are you expected to do? Call them out? It is not like other users of your library would associate you with the hacking group. Anytime a general purpose tool is released a devious creative mind might find a way to use it that the original creator did not think of.
> Is it really surprising that folks are unwilling to accept a decade or more of giving the GOP whatever they want?

That's the political reality. If they don't want to deal with reality, then I guess we'll see what happens.
>Continuously inflating the money supply kills an economy and slowly destroys its society.

Isn't it exactly what FED and ECB have been doing post 2008 till 2022? The infamous QE? The reason you can't afford a home anymore?
Telia.se is down for 5 hours
> the allure of what you do makes it less likely that you’ll jump ship to something less exciting but more lucrative (similar to how game industry devs tend to make less than regular software engineers, from what I’ve heard—you can exploit people’s enthusiasm),

I used to be a game developer and you're exactly right.

People tend to frame this observation in a negative way, but I hate that mindset because it portrays employees as lacking agency. The way I look at it is that people choose jobs based on the total compensation package: salary, bonus, on-site perks, coworkers, work environment, meaning, social cachet, etc. All of those are meaningful and valuable to people.

Obviously, sure, it would be great to be paid six figures to work on a tropical island for a few hours a day applying sunscreen to models while the UN videoconferences with you to express their gratitude at how you're saving the environment. But, alas, those jobs are few and far between.

In reality, people make trade-offs and choose the jobs whose entire compensation package fits what they are trying to get out of their life. And, for a social species like Homo sapiens, it should come as no surprise that for many people, some of the most important parts of a compensation package are prestige and glamour. So when a job with a lot of social cachet (journalist, novelist, actor) doesn't actually pay that much in cash, that makes sense: it pays more in other aspects.
What happens to your variable interest rate loan if that happens? On a 50k loan does your monthly go from 300 to like 3k??
At least one presidential candidate going into the next election has proposed dollarization as (part of) a way out. I don't know how likely he is to win or his other policy positions though.
Meta observation: Taxes itself are ridiculous.
Seems like this could also be an insider threat where someone at Trezor knew all the BOM details and could pull this off
If the app is sandboxed, then it's the same level of risk as browsing the web on your phone. Sandbox escapes are rare enough that the people who find them aren't deploying them against randos.
Honestly, while some bureaucracy is inevitable, how oppressive it is can vary a lot. The last large multinational corp I worked for had a fairly horrific amount of it. The one I work for now (roughly the same size) has a tolerable amount of it.
> wonder how much more productive our economies could be if everyone was taught programming

Prompt engineering is turning coding problems into language problems. It’s conceivable that humans writing code becomes artisanal in a century.
6 is all wrong.
DDR5 supports non power of 2 sized modules. You can find 48GB DDR5 modules, for example.
the problem is the sorta person to buy a wallet from a classifieds website isn't willing to spend $30 on a scale to weigh it, because if they had that money they'd just buy it from the official store instead
Great question and I'd like to add one:

When you started your consulting business where you advertising or through networking to find clients?
The problem is if 0 is a valid pointer and I write

volatile int* x=0;
x=0x1234;

Did I just deference the null pointer or make a valid write to that memory location? There is no way to know for sure, you can only apply heuristics to make a guess.

Of course if the lines are that closely spaced you can guess, but in real code they can be in different translation units.
That's fine though, and it's exactly how we would want it to be aka it's for the students but if someone is ernest they can just 'participate' in some thing. That's a positive outcome I can't fathom getting upset by that.

That said, showing up for a class isn't exactly 'an education' either.
Lots of deductions and credits are on top of the standard deduction. School expenses, child credits, child care expenses, retirement savings, EIC credits and student loan interest are some very common things.
Right. However, I don't see the reason to believe there is a billion ways to solve the fundamentals. And even if, they're not all equal here: we're considering solutions that are very simple, provide huge leverage, and are continuous.

For our own brains, this is because evolution is the OG incremental learner - it just doesn't do leaps of faith, nor does it invest resources. Incremental evolutionary advancements must quickly stack into something improving survival rates, or else they get selected out of the gene pool. This strongly suggests that brains (human and animal alike) are based on a design that scaled easily and continuously - one that started simple and could be improved step by step, with each step being simple and conferring some non-zero survival advantage.

For our AI work, LLMs are exactly this: they derive from simple models that were iterated on over the past few decades, in small steps. They are still structurally simple as programs - but they've hit the right structure that allowed them to make qualitative jumps in capabilities from simple scaling - more parameters, more memory, more compute, more training time, more input data. This may be just my own perception, but I feel that LLMs are exactly the kind of model that an evolutionary process would be able to develop incrementally.

With the above in mind, plus the fact that LLMs are trained on the output of our brains (and their output is rated by our brains), makes me believe it's highly likely that, with language models, we've stumbled on the very same fundamental method of implementing thinking that is core to how our own brains work.
It would be cool if HN had a list of popular / repeatedly submitted url's/articles like this one, and a total count. Would be a great list to look over, too.
Enzymes don't care if you believe in them or not. I don't care whether people are sympathetic to my comments or not. I care what is true and what is false, in the real world where it matters to real people. You can read the decades of high-quality and well-replicated research in this area or not. Either way you will live with the consequences.

And just so we understand, these are some institutions you imply have somehow misrepresented the science they funded, performed, peer-reviewed, and published on this topic: the National Institutes of Health, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Australian National University, University of Southern California-Los Angeles, Sam Houston State University, University of Cincinnati, University of Texas at Dallas, Iowa State University, and St. Louis University.

Family structure is part of it too, but I figured my comment was already too long. Yet if somehow you return black family structure to its pre-1960s state of harmony, you will still face the problem of disproportionate violent crime rates. This article is from 1958, years before extra-marital birth rates took off in the US black community:

https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,810...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_family_struct...

The only solution is to face facts, apply equal standards of justice without regard to race, and keep that single-digit percentage of violent black criminals away from regular black folks and everyone else so good people have a chance to succeed. Over time with consistent and fair law enforcement, improvements in medicine, and effective universal public education, I am confident people of all races can live together in harmony. That is the objective of the American idea, and its success or failure will make or break this country.
Ableton is really expensive. Logic is just as good if not better, and much cheaper.
do you prefer mental gerbil mill instead?
To me this sounds a lot like reinventing CSS.
If you mess up you have to then correct the state.
I know this isn’t anything new, but TrustPilot is just a scam.

If you don’t pay there is no validation over people posting reviews even posting to the right page (we got bad reviews for a similarly named online store). And they don’t let you link to the page.

If you do pay, it’s effectively a percentage of revenue, they take you for all they can get. They then let you link, check reviews before they are published, discard ones that don’t meet your requirements, and also provide (paid) tools to encourage reviews from customers who you know will have had a better experience.

It’s such a bare faced scam, and shocking that they have the audacity to do it.

On top of that there are all the typical content issues with online reviews, people only using 1 and 5 stars, people venting for things outside the company’s control, and so on.

Dare I say it… TrustPilot should just be ad supported. Scrap all the scam bits, invest in independent content moderation, and advertise on review pages. I think the incentives would be better aligned.
A google search for their first prompt (ignoring, of course, the prompt intended to get chatgpt into "the right state of mind") "Can you speculate on how the biblical name of king Manasseh of Judah would have been written in Babylonian Cuneiform?" actually turns up the https://armstronginstitute.org/160-esarhaddon-prism-proves-k... link describing in detail the artifact they are interested in as the 5th result (4th if you don't include the post itself). Seems a lot simpler than trying to prompt chatgpt into giving you search terms that you use in some other search anyway.

But, lets say you're still amazed by that initial part of the post. The british museum (where the author had seen the artifact) provides translations of it here: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1929-1012-...

Let's compare them to chatgpt...

chatgpt:

> (49) They built the lofty temple.
(50) As for the temple's foundation, they laid it solidly
(51) Like the Apsu, it rose up from the heart of the earth
(52) Its shrine was radiantly visible in the midst of the city
(53) Its brilliance extended over the lands.
(54) They established the kingship in Hatti and made the crown resplendent.
(55) They made Menasi king in Assur, established him as ruler in Babylon.
(56) Qausgabri ruled in Uruk, Musiri ruled in Ma'ab
(57) Issenen, king of Hazitu, reigned over the people of Esqaluna.

true translation:

> (49) they made (unburnt) bricks. That little palace
(50) throughout I destroyed and much land
(51) as an addition from the fields I cut off and
(52) added thereto : with limestone, the solid stone from the mountains,
(53) I laid its foundation and filled a terrace :
(54) I assembled the kings of the Hittites and across the river.
(55) Ba'lu, king of Tyre, Menasi, king of Judah,
(56) Kausgabri, king of Edom, Musuri, king of Moab,
(57) Sil-bel, king of Gaza, Metinti, king of Ascalon,

And, in fact the thing that the author seemed to care about (whether it was about Menasi of Judah), chatgpt, unsurprisingly, got wrong. Though again, just using google would've answered that immediately with the detailed description of the prism that I noted it returned as a top result above.
> But it doesn't make a lot of sense to me since influenza will be mutating to escape the immune response.

unless there is sufficient number of people that take it and it works well enough to eradicate it like say polio was.
I'm not even retired yet, but I see a clear increase in demand for experienced generalists since the beginning of 2023.

My guess would be that many companies are now trying to restructure from large "agile" teams back to the small groups that get actual work done.
> The category of "tech literate enough to use zips but not enough to know not to blindly click links in emails and also aren't covered by their company's security policy" is a pretty niche group.

As someone that has worked on a support desk in my youth, I can assure you that this is not true. I've seen 20-year-olds open bad attachments or fall for password reset phishing. A new one is a texting scam from your manager, etc asking you to do them a favor. Scammers are pretty good at what they do (even if it seems obvious to us), that's why the US is scammed out of billions a year. The new TLD is absolutely going to get people scammed. It might not be on a nightmarish level, but it's going to happen.
The MIT Press to launch open access journal Imaging Neuroscience
A Survey of EXplainable Artificial Intelligence Studies on Medical Images
Is there a way to see breakdown of exactly what a company is paying lobbyists, either directly or via a consultancy? It's currently a lot of manual work searching for e.g. Amazon and looking at the eleven trading names that lobby the EU via a multitude of consultants.
Good Bye Spinners: Enhancing UX with Optimistic UI at RemixConf
Sourceware, one of the longest standing Free Software hosts, joins SFC
For context: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/academic-publishing-is-l...
Really worked great for Venezuela!
there's a lot of people that get a bad cold and think it's the flu. the actual flu can be insanely debilitating. (some get a lighter infectious dose and they escape a real bad case though)
Parachutes wouldn't help with that anyway, the crashes were just after take off.
You can work for $1000 and it might be fair.

But if you see your colleague doing as much as you do and more for $600 then neither of you is working for a fair wage.
Only reason rk3399 ended up blobless was because ChromiumOS team holds that standard. Any ARM SoC used in a Chromebook has to have open firmware.

Tap that market, and doors will open!

Un/fortunately nobody don't want a riscv laptop. The (currently available) cores just aren't good.
try asking phind.com, if it brings up outdated info just give it a link to catch up on the latest stuff, it helped me grok next js server actions and convert some code to use server actions over api calls.
Longevity "science" is just the holy grail quest dressed up with faulty research. Many of these compounds end up under patent and sold as nootropics by companies with ties to researchers while actual longevity drugs like rapamycin and metformin are underutilized.
I don't understand this. If you ever want to do anything with the funds in that wallet (e.g. sign transactions using the private key), you're going to need to connect it to a machine that can connect to the Internet. Otherwise, how is this any better than a cold storage paper wallet?