skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here we have another instance of self-promotion that does not align with what GGP mentioned. Thank you, Genesis and Lambda, for promoting yourselves in a startup thread. Given your long-standing presence in this industry, I would expect better engagement from you.
And here we are at the core problem: Implementing laws without being able enforce them is not only ridiculous but harmful for the credibility of any governmental institution. This is the core problem of all EU tech regulations.

Instead of developing operational excellence in their prosecution authorities to be able to track down and punish bad actors, they install regulations for everyone and try to simulate competence harming their own economy.
Does it feel better in Dubai than in Riyadh?
Til mitt Romney is only worth 300 million
Playing age of empires 3 on deck is so good with touchpads...
Been worried about the CIA recently but they have upped their propaganda game with this video. Some great film making / storytelling techniques deployed here
This is a bit out of context but nonetheless, it's inspiring: https://www.jezzamon.com/fourier/

Spectrograms and fourier transforms can also be applied to making music through diffuse AI. https://www.riffusion.com/about
Modern python is not more elegant than modern JS, I disagree (I’ve been coding in both for over 15 years).

Python has a good degree of elegance to it, and it does have less warts due to its less stringent backwards compatibility requirements. But JS is very elegant, and better at it than python thanks to python’s shitty lambdas vs js anonymous functions.
It seems to me that they made the same mistake that I did in my GitHub archive queries, they do not filter bot accounts. JavaScript, without filter, is on top 1 because of dependabot. If you filter all bots then Python is number 1, see: https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2023/1
I went to see many small to mid sized films in the 1990s - 2000s, and heres the thing: it was often just 3 or 4 other people in the cinema. Seems like a misallocation of resources. The old system wasn't perfect either.

Nowadays the energy, ingenuity and talent that would have gone into making smaller films is instead going into making premium TV. I can see why cinema purists are upset by the shift to streaming, but as an audience member I'm currently getting an unlimited buffet of content on 3 streaming services paying about what I would have paid back in the day to see 3 movies.

Are you not entertained?
Commentary on the tech eco-system might be the only retreat Stack Overflow has with the advent of generative AI. Hope they can see the pivot. Oh, and bring back the jobs business, that was pretty good
Named after characters in the mythologies of the groups, e.g. Fenrir from Norse mythology. Initially they were all named after Titans (because Saturn is a Titan), but they ran out of Titans. As far as I can tell, the Norse names are all names of Jötunn which are to some extent a parallel to Titans in Norse mythology.

I like that the moons of Uranus are names after Shakespeare characters.
i am having that exact conversation with the modal cofounders themselves: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1658147687408238593 but my subjective judgment is that it is a bit too early for quine smol developer.

i think self hosting/quines are a nice curiosity, but not really a practical need since this isnt a PL. i made this to build smol apps, lets keep it practical
PS3 emulation still requires a very beefy PC. Something like a ryzen 5600x as a minimum. I don’t see this thing running many games.
Start with this list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquired_taste and then explore the entire Wikipedia portal on food https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Food and drink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Drink .
From your link:

> David Guzman, author of a book on craps lingo, has said that the term comes from back-alley gamblers during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Frankly, no. I much prefer interacting with humans than with machines, and I emphasize interacting. A machine does what you tell it - it will not enlighten you, will not surprise you, will not create new knowledge.
My dad served at camp Lejeune during Vietnam. He got kidney cancer in his late 50s - both kidneys. Luckily they identified it early and he survived that, but then died of Pancreatic Cancer ~13 years later. It’s really crazy how they covered it up and how hard it is to get benefits for it.
Our culture is stuck because of the insanely long copyright terms and mass media that has produced them.
yeah sorry i wrote those on very little sleep. happily take a PR to improve but in my mind if the reader needs help on doing git clone and entering in environment variables then this project is not ready for them yet
Well not exactly - Table 6 isn't concerning at all to me.

> look at those confidence intervals - they're all over the place, meaning the model performance isn't very reliable. You have confidence intervals comprising 30-40 percentage points!

OK let's look at the confidence intervals. Let's look at the first row of the table. It has a pretty big confidence interval [76.0, 100.0] for its 'Performance (with Overlap)' entry.

Let's dig in to what this really means.

We can see from the first entry in that row only 12 of the 1273 questions from the 'MedQA (USMLE)' dataset had overlap (as they define it) with text in the training data. This is fewer than one percent of the questions. It's also a small absolute number. Twelve. The 'Performance (with Overlap)' entry is an attempt to judge how well the model does on these twelve questions. On average it does pretty well but there is a wide confidence interval because the number twelve, the number of questions that overlapped the training data, is so small. Because it's so small, it doesn't provide much of a sample size to estimate exactly how well the model does for questions that it has already seen.

Your objection is basically like 'there is so little data contamination between testing and training datasets, that there is not enough sample size to tell exactly how well the model does on questions that it has seen in training' which wouldn't make much sense as an objection. In particular, it doesn't mean that "the model performance isn't very reliable."
I wasn't aware of that. I didn't want an apple watch and the other android watches all felt cheap. I also didn't want to spend what a TAG Heuer Connected would cost (which I believe has much better service). Yes, CHF 1000 is a lot but compared to an iPhone or a Samsung Fold which I do not own, I didn't see this watch as being too crazy.
I’ve found this idea to be unappreciated; I bet most people think that a business dying means they failed, but in a strict sense a business only failed if it didn’t generate net positive cash over its lifespan.
Seems like most businesses would rather reinvest the resources they already have - being in a position of some success makes it easier to find more. Fad toys are a good example: do you cash in on the fad and ride it out smoothly until demand dies, or do you try to parlay into some bigger brand? Popsocket did this pretty successfully, but plenty others probably failed.

All else equal I think a longer term success is more admirable, but many companies end up existing primarily to keep themselves alive. They acquire startups and ride out brand well beyond their useful life. At what point do these companies become net harmful?
As a continuation to this thread, for anyone interested, here's the link to a Discord community for developing and sharing GPT/AI tools to enhance everyday life:

https://discord.gg/579renpEPn
That idea usually works, but doesn't apply to WebGPU, as it has some specific hardware and software requirements to be supported.
So I guess that means you wouldn't hire this guy. Walking red flag that he is:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-dean-8b212555/

I hate that "service" as much as you do, but people use it for all sorts of reasons. So if you're going to use it as a blocking filter, well, I guess that's the kind of luxury you can treat yourself to.
Firefox is working on implementing WebGPU support too.
What has somewhere like Shapeways.com quoted you to print it?
Wait - a highly efficient heat pump technology for EVs using the exact same gas EVs were created to avoid? And they say God doesn't have a sense of humour!
Italian Village Installs Speed Cameras, Records 58,000 Infractions in 2 Weeks
"But also, I've had very positive experiences interacting with the KDE community. Bugs get fixed, the developers care, I can send out PRs and they get merged."

I'm not an OSS dev, isn't so with Gnome community?
C++20 Support Comes to C++/CLI
I do the "stop eating 3 hours before bedtime" version when I can, which seems fine.
Is, though, the literacy of software strictly necessary, or an artifact of lower technology? Isn’t it the case that you can use plain English to explain _exactly_ what a piece of software does, and as such, you can, _exactly_ supplant software with plain English?

I think everyone in this thread is patting their backs right now about the necessity of precise syntax and symbology to express programs, but that’s still missing the point. Literacy and communication is built around the ways our minds already work (indeed, it’s often an artifact of a culture distilled to its essence). We _don’t_ need computer language symbols and grammar and syntax — it’s just another form of expression, and definitely not one that fits the human mind nicely.
Recessions were much worse for everyone when the gold standard was still in use. The Bank of England has data going centuries back.
> How many times do you need to write a CRUD app from scratch?

Personally, I really don't mind doing this. And each time I get a little better at it. I much prefer this to having an AI agent write code for me that I then have to audit and verify it does what it's supposed to do. I highly doubt this will reduce work.
Did you hear about Pluto? Messed up, right?
These folks should invest their talents in India instead.

My mom was talking about how her siblings were selling their inherited property in Bangladesh (where land prices are skyrocketing) and buying property in the US, Canada, and Australia. And I’m like—you realize this is helping to keep Bangladesh is poor, right? All that capital flowing out to developed countries. (Not to mention the brain drain.) Meanwhile they’re voting to turn America into Bangladesh. -_-
Is this Related to https://nightride.fm/ ?
Worse, a socket read can return a UDP packet from any client as QUIC associates connections using 64-bit identifiers in the UDP payload, not using IP/port pairs. Ditto for the fact there can be multiple logical streams per connection. So any user space QUIC stack is responsible for routing packets for any particular connection and logical stream to the correct context using whatever bespoke API the stack provides.

IOW, with QUIC a file descriptor no longer represents a particular server/client connection, let alone a particular logical stream. From a server perspective, a user space QUIC stack is effectively equivalent to a user space TCP/IP stack.
(Relatedly, user space QUIC server stacks are less CPU performant than HTTP stacks using TCP sockets, unless they use something like DPDK to skip the kernel IP stack altogether, avoiding the duplicative processing.)

The BSD Sockets API for SCTP (the original, non-UDP encapsulated version) permits 1-to-1 socket descriptors for associations--logical streams within a connection--in addition to an API for 1-to-many--1 socket descriptor representing a connection, over which you can use recvmsg/sendmsg to multiplex associations (logical streams). So you have 3 options for using SCTP from user space, from a dead simple, backwards compatible sockets API that matches how TCP/IP sockets work, to the low-level QUIC model where user space handles all routing and reassembly. I would expect kernel-based QUIC to work similarly, except combined with kernel-based TLS extensions, which is already a thing for TCP sockets.
> Where does good data come from?

Arbitrary opinions that cannot be decided by mere bias in data aggregated by an AI of any sample size or source. This is the fundamental flaw and why it's all horseshit.

You know artists many years ago already covered all this.

Impressionism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism
The use keys that don't damage the boot, so it can be reused?

They are clearly in the booting business; they are protecting the boots so that they can make more money from more cars being booted.

Someone actually challenging the boot industry rather than colluding with it would use an angle grinder to destroy boots, so that they are forced to buy new boots without making any income.
Please show a coal plant that irradiated an area as large and as badly as Chernobyl or Japan. The radiation from what coal plant, is being eaten in fish caught across an ocean?

What you're saying is a lot of matches lit around the world is the same as a nuclear bomb going off in NYC because it's the same amount of energy released in little fireballs.

You get it - right? Do you? Chernobyl will happen again - for some reason. Imagine it happening in the middle of the US, and 1/3 of the country not being livable for 10k years. That's the maximum damage from nuclear.

France has lots of reactors. What happens when Hungary's dictator joins Russia, and sends two hundred dispursive cruise missles at 5 reactors in France? Yes, this can happen. It almost happened in Ukraine recently - have you, umm, read Any news in the last year? Big panic in all of Europe.

You don't know what can happen.

You do with coal.
Would be sick if the music wasn't horrible lol.
A little follow-up:

1) the proposal suggests incompatible things: filling the sea, generating electricity from elevation difference (then you shouldn't fill it), and desalinating the water with the energy. If I understand correctly, desalination is very energy-intensive, so it's a big question whether a dam of 60m is enough to desalinate its own stream of water.

2) if it's just a pipe that lets water in, this may be like Garabogazköl gulf in Caspian sea, with salinity levels as high as in the dead sea -- and note that its inflow is 200m-wide canal, not a man-made 10 or more pipe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garabogazk%C3%B6l

3) costs of digging a trench are at least quadratic to its depth. To have it stable, the trench must have slopes at sides no more than 15%. This means the area of cross-section is depth^2 / 0.15. If it's just 100m, the cross-section is 66K m^2. If it's 200m, it's 266K m^2. At 100m depth, every km of canal is 0.06 km^3 of ground to move. At 200m, it's already 0.26 km^3 -- a quarter cubic kilometer per kilometer of length! Oh, that's why the engineers thought of nuclear blasts here.

So, unless humanity is ready to use nuclear weapons that massively, this idea is just a dream contradicting itself.
> Else this licence simply wouldn't work.

Well OK but then I don't like their license either, if they have make me do things I don't like as a requirement to make their license work.
It really is. We use Copilot with three senior and two junior devs, and all of them really reported that it consistently suggests code snippets that are exactly what they were about to type.

Initially, I was a bit concerned about handing it over to the juniors, but it turns out, they aren’t really used to working with an IDE and context aware suggestions yet, so they don’t use Copilot to its fullest extent and often type stuff out even if it’s suggested to them.
"Personally I recommend inventing TCP and working with the inventor of Ethernet to develop TCP/IP."
Buy My Product for $1
- The company is incorporated in Germany.
- It's in the B2B payment space.
- The company is liquid and generates $1k a month.
- Costs are $600 a month for accountancy (Thanks to Germany)
- Costs are $250 a month in Digital Ocean.

Why for $1?
- The cost of closing the company is $10k and take 24 months (Thanks to Germany)
- Taking the company (not only the product) will do us a favour.
It would be great if browser makers published their own statistics on this kind of thing. They presumably have the real data. But they don't share it, so the next best thing is for a community of interested developers to try to collect it themselves. Of course that's not as good as the real data that the browser makers have, but what better option is there if you need data like this?
Luckily, lawyers in the 1970s already figured this out, by anticipating the research on causality that computer scientists and mathematicians like Judea Pearl and Peter Spirtes did in the 1990s. Really!

In the first instance, you just can't use race as a feature, since it is a protected characteristic. But, you might also be worried that protected characteristics can generally be easily identified by looking for innocuous traits that correlate (since people tend to cluster into communities). For example, if you know an American's ZIP code and their three favorite musicians, you can determine their race with an accuracy in the high 90s. (Basically, the US is still just as segregated now as it was a hundred years ago, and black and white Americans tend to listen to different music.)

So when the US Civil Rights Act was passed, the courts came up with the idea of "disparate impact" -- when doing something like hiring, you are not allowed to base the decision on features that disproportionately affect one group rather than another, even if they are formally neutral, unless the feature directly impacts the ability to do the job.

In other words, you have to show that the features you are basing the decision on _causally influence_ the decision you are making, exactly like you see in Pearl's causal influence diagrams or structural equation models or whatever. Eg, if you want to hire a math professor, you can base the decision on the articles they published in math journals, but you can't base it on whether they like old school Goa trance.

So, what about black box neural networks, where you don't know which features are being used? In this case, it's pretty clear that you shouldn't use them directly when making a home loan, because the law wants to know what features are in use, and you can't answer the question of whether you're redlining when you have a black box. However, using black box techniques to learn (eg) the best random forest model to use is fine, because it lets you easily see which factors are going into the decision before deploying it.

FWIW, people have been doing this for decades already. (I did stuff like this back in the 1990s.)
I like that I can scan down the comments on HN and usually find one that says what I wanted to say.

Damn straight. It's not narcissism to have ideas and be excited about them and to suggest that a team or a founder pursue those ideas, whether or not that jibes with someone else's original vision.

The OP doesn't tell us what the reaction was of the person who offered him help, when he re-explained his vision. Was the reaction something like "oh, okay, I didn't realize you felt so strongly about that?" Was it "I'm a narcissist and I don't care what you want?" I think the OP might be a little insecure about negotiating with other people-- which is fine-- but what not fine is to turn that into universal advice for other people about not talking to strangers.
Ban such sites with loud music and hijacking back button
Thanks, how well does it handle an external 4k display with the intel graphics btw?
I write (when I write anything; I am a product manager) mostly compilers, databases, optimisations and create/invent programming languages and DSLs for the former. This work contains a lot of tedious stuff which I hate, but also contains (80/20 rule) work that takes by far the most time and least code; hardcore and cutting computer science mixed with a lot of cross cutting decisions (a wrong decision will destroy a lot of work all over the place). That’s the work I like. I don’t see that work being replaced by AIs soon (10+ years), but the tedious work I hope will be replaced today, and it is getting there; currently large swaths are now done by copilot or gpt for us.
If you can find the video explaining how they did it (I guess it was presented at chaos computer club), it's a must see: very funny and enlightening ! (for a geek, that is)
We shared during our event in March that we'll be adding Spain, Italy, Belgium, ... | Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35967906
this one too doesnt let you go back if music starts playing
That's what happens when your leadership has third world carbrain (especially as a mode of exclusion) expectations.
They do produce probabilities at the end of generator, And they do select a single token for output. With highest probability or somehow randomized.

So, end users see only one value. But with access to internals all high value variants can be considered. The easy way to do it is to select one, save the state. Look forward and roll back to saved state. Try another token. Select the best output. The smart way is to do it only at key points, where it matters the most. Selecting those points is a different task. May be another model.
I don't know why you are being downvoted. Launchpad related damage is not a property of the rocket. Space X has launched smaller rockets that have damaged the launch pad.
So having a launchpad failure is like having the mission fail in its entirety because you can't build a better rocket to fix the problem, you need a better launchpad.

What I am trying to say is that there was nothing standing in the way of a successful Starship launch. The engines were known to work. The booster was known to work. The second stage was known to work. All they did was put it together and test stage separation. This should have been the moment where it became obvious that Starship will be ready for Artemis 3.

The first Starship Prototype was launched in 2019. If you assume that they started development in 2018 (Musk has proto starship slides as early as 2011), then it is actually as much behind as SLS, which had to delay its planned launch after five years.
God yeah, I can’t stand this style of smug storytelling.
Martin's Scorsese's last film, The Irishman, cost over $175 million (not including marketing)...which actually puts it over the budget of most Marvel movies.
For what it's worth I find the fan on the Deck to be very quiet. Rumors are Valve is silently making updates, although it's impossible to see what version you'll get.
That's also the explanation for the name of its descendant: Steel Bank Common Lisp.

(Carnegie => Steel, Mellon => Bank.)
This is a headline right out of the Onion.
But also a great way to raise gov revenues, or increase the speed limits to what locals actually drive at
What does “third world carbrain” mean?
We ran into a similar issue once, and addressed it by changing the sorting column from id to created_at which has the same ordering but doesn't have an index on it. Good to know Postgres optimizer can be tricked even easier.
So they still have an advantage then ?

Microsoft can continually train on the majority open source and or public code with zero limitations while others can’t ?
There are definitely ease of use benefits to more tailored solutions. If workflow definitions are really simple and don't change much, JSON might be easy. Most things I prefer the DX of writing the logic in code. And it wouldn't be 50 different codebases—it would usually be a single codebase with 50 different functions.
I think he says it because saying things and watching the whole world talk about it is addicting.
Why?

Intelligence is good for problem solving. You have a problem you need solved. Do you prefer a human do it rather than a machine? Why?
For 24h fasts, I recently learned that fasting from breakfast to breakfast, instead of, say, dinner to dinner, doesn't mess up my day night cycle, like the other alternative does. The breakfast seems to strengthen the body's feeling of it being a new day.