skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Direct link to the video: https://www.facebook.com/galapagoswhaleshark/videos/45772650...

Sounds primeval, though I’m sure it’s actually something boring like a jet ski passing overhead.
Yep. C and SQL are the two languages I've used my entire career (30+ years). I still use SQL almost every day, C not as much. Shell scripts and unix utilities are in there as well as daily-use tools.
My HS drafting class had a plotter which I found mesmerizing. Something magic about the digital and analog working together in such a tangible way. Glad they kept experimenting and pushing things forward.
You can also go the route of dispensing with phones and learn to transcribe solfege into a notebook. This is something I just started exploring and while it does take practice to gain the ear to transcribe things, you can start by learning to write down children's songs like Baby Shark(do re fa fa fa fa-fa fa-fa)and gradually work up to pop melodies - and once you do that, songwriting becomes a very natural process. All the precision stuff, you can work out in the DAW once you have a general indication of melody and rhythm.
Tailscale VPN + Tailscale Funnel + Termux?
I’m hiring retirees at half pay, they double dip and get some benefit enhancing goodies. We are having trouble hiring IT type roles. It’s easy to get $18/hr people or $70/hr people. The middle is brutal.
For both points, that's my point. You get your guy to figure that out for you. Knows tax laws and asks you questions to see what you can prove,etc...I've itemized when a return was guaranteed before to maximize it.
I looked up a video. The guy was piercing lipo batteries with nails, inside and outside fire proof bags. The bag appeared to be spewing out just as much toxic gas as a battery not in a bag.
Most modern “prodigies” are different from those of the past, the main huge difference being that they have insanely motivated tiger parents working the marketing machine and the system to accelerate their child. And indeed a lot of these children are not actually special any more once their non-accelerated peers catch up.

Terence Tao is a bit of an exception because he is genuinely a far outlier in talent, and he also got a lot of direct tutoring from world-leading mathematicians (like historical prodigies). Like historical prodigies his achievements spoke for themselves, he may have had an accelerated academic career, but it was not the acceleration itself that was noteworthy.

There are plenty of prodigy-level children you never hear about in the news who don’t have parents working the system on their behalf. IMO the news articles like “tested out of HS via GED at 14 and enrolled in local commuter college” is the 30 under 30 of prodigies. Many children could do that, and it’s not even really an indicator of prodigy as much as it is being maybe at the 99%ile.
Then what exactly did you mean when you said, "I thought the science had evolved and clinical trials are no longer necessary for vaccine development"?
> And in private circles, it could be debated responsibly.

To quote the original comment in this thread: ""The original Remove Richard Stallman post contained leaked communications from a private mailing list."
Biological control is important but not a panacea. Not all invasive species have predators/diseases that are effective, specific, and maintain a viable population without human intervention.

Biological control can go horribly wrong. One of the most notorious examples is the cane toad, which is in plague proportions across northern Australia.
Bad Bots Now Account for 30% of All Internet Traffic – Infosecurity Magazine
Right, I worked on a async non-blocking project in C++ in the 90s. It was a lot simpler than any modern project, no cloud, no yaml, no containers, no fancy security. Sure it didn't have a pretty web interface but was great software.
They're all faster, more productive and richer environments than modern web apps?
Oh well. Hoping Microsoft doesn't win any appeal in the UK then.
> The redwoods would have to severely contest that idea.

WTF does that even mean?

Too bad you can’t grow redwoods in the desert I guess?
Why not just say what's common (over hyped dead-ends)? Snark don't make you sound smarter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygL_xcavzQ4
I'm the opposite. I have zero interest in this. I've never had a flu vaccine in my life. I've had the flu maybe once. And I'm nearly 60.
Children under five are at high risk from influenza. Even if you see nothing wrong with the antisocial and frankly eugenicist idea of letting the elderly and obese die off for want of herd immunity, you might consider the utility of keeping children alive so they can feed and change you in the nursing home.
Could you please stick to the rules when posting here? You've been breaking them badly and we have to ban that sort of account. I don't want to ban you, so it would be good if you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of the site more to heart.
What about the good bots?
Covid-19 exposure alerts system shuts down in the majority of U.S. states
The Slow Death of AM Radio
I already mentioned the Western Juniper, a “native” plant which the USFWS actively finances burning. A moral framework where some native species need heaven and earth moved for them to not be burned while other native species need taxpayer dollars to finance their combustion isn’t very appealing to me.

Live and let live, I say.
>he didn't know about any of the "bad stuff" and was deceived

???

Then his wife proceeds to get out of there asap, idk man, actions speak louder ...
Which just demonstrates how nuts this all is. You’re in this jurisdiction on day X it’s one crime, another jurisdiction on day X+1 it’s another crime.

There are real crimes happening you can get upset about (and maybe even do something about). This is about internet points for people that want to be seen to be upset. They are trading on the suffering of the very people they purport to represent.
> That tells me that there's something still structurally missing about the training efficiency.

Imagine Alice is abducted by aliens and given reams and reams of unfamiliar symbols and trained to predict which one came next given a long long prefix. Alice held in a cell alone with just symbol sequences for 15 years, and by the end of that period she's gotten pretty good at predicting which symbol comes next. Bob's experience is exactly the same. Neither has any way to understand what any of the symbols mean. Finally, Alice and Bob are let out of their cells for a break, and meet Krang. Krang explains that Alice has been doing a sometimes acceptable job of producing computer code for a kind of computer she's never been able to directly interact with! She might have gotten really good by the end of year 1 if anyone had explained that she was writing programs, or given her access to a REPL, or a debugger, or a manual. But she's been trained with exactly the same procedure as Bob, who has been pumping out advertising copy.

Current code LLMs are only doing next token prediction, and critically they don't have access to a model of formal semantics for each language, an interpreter or debugger or compiler, etc. This is a shame, because program generation is arguably one of relatively few areas in which we could give our models a "complete" view of the domain. An appropriately structured model could generate the program, predict and observe the AST, predict and observe the IR graph, predict and observe generated bytecode, predict and observe program traces from execution, etc, etc. But it doesn't do any of that. It doesn't have an explicit model of what the program will do during execution. It doesn't have an ability to check that an invariant is maintained at each iteration of a loop. It doesn't get to check that what it wrote behaves as intended.

Yesterday, one of the chat models which also can generate code gave me a Kotlin example which used a language feature that Kotlin doesn't actually have (basically scala-style pattern matching), and of course was totally unaware that the generated code was not even valid Kotlin because it never attempted to call any part of the toolchain.
I’m not sure what your point is. You still have those options.
Write a blog about the problems, what you've done to try to fix it, and how nginx is completely unusable and you're going to switch to apache/netscape/caddy.

Post it to HN, get traction.

Get way more help and responses than you can shake a stick at, and track where they come from.
I'm disappointed not to see anything by Lloyd Sumner here. He's notable for taking off on a Schwinn(?) in 1971 to bicycle around the world, with something like $100 in his pocket. Whenever he ran out of money he'd bike to whatever local university was available and offer to lecture on computer art for a small stipend to keep him going. His book about the trip, The Long Ride, was a joy to read. Here's a link to some of his art: http://dada.compart-bremen.de/item/agent/220
Sounds same as when I started codding, hallucinated some code, compiler told me it is non-sense, and eventually I understood most of the rules... I still mess it up...
> An astounding portion of the brain's neurons really go towards proprioception, smell, taste, motor function, etc

Object recognition leads to abstraction. Motion perception to causality. I wouldn’t be surprised if proprioception is key to human self-awareness.

These are key logical concepts that are used in language, they are not isolated.
You see the share market like someone who invests in value stocks. The other poster is showing their hand that they view the market as a casino. Which is sort of the prevailing 'theme' that comes out of places like WSB's.
The negativity around this in kind of mind-blowing to me. I would absolutely love access to an effective pan-flu vaccine. I wonder if someday my fantasy of a universal Rhinovirus vaccine could become reality too. I can only hope.
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See as someone who knows Rust fairly well.

let &mut -- Essential keywords.
writer = -- Duh
Writer<T> -- Generic types. Important.
::writer::new -- Boilerplate.
(connection.clone()).clone; -- Relentless cloning is a big problem.
...
.unwrap -- "Consistent names for optional types," is an issue in Rust. Every module has different jargon for Some(x).

Rust certainly isn't perfect. The borrow checker creates... awkwardness, that requires .clone hacks to solve.

Flip-side is, I'm coding in CMake right now. I've had to create multiple bash scripts for manually deleting my build files and general day to day.

Software is a young profession.

Everything is shit.
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I don't have a premise other than, "these things are not alike; this article equivocates on 'writing'."

I make no claim about whether nor not tech docs can be masterful. It's weird of you to go in this direction?
The space jam website from 96 is still up :). Standards go a long way.

https://www.spacejam.com/1996/jam.html
Please provide a reference to the research discovering that wildfires are a necessarily “bad thing” in deserts across bio-geologic timescales.
> "racist rants"

It is true that I'm being condescending to racists. I'm also not expecting a positive response if the person (not necessarily you) I'm engaging is racist. It would be foolish.

> "allegedly"

Allegedly doesn't mean that they are wrong. It simply means that I don't know if they are wrong or right, because I don't have enough data. If I thought it is complete bollocks I would have written it as such.

Also you seem to ignore that the main point of my comment is the "hypocrisy", i.e. only pointing out racial statistics, ignoring the gender (and possibly other variables, such as age) related ones.
> Green thinks it’s unlikely that the sound came from a boat; Darwin Island is an extremely remote location, where few other boats venture

That said, it does sound quite a lot like a motor!
Integrating social responsibility into core CS
IANAD, but another way of expressing that, by my understanding:

There are two major strains of the flu, and one or the other becomes the dominant strain every year; it's difficult/impossible to predict which. And due to the way vaccines are made (injecting the inert virus into unfertilized chicken eggs for replication), the annual vaccine has to be made off of one strain or the other.

This "universal booster," instead of targeting one strain or the other, would be able to immunize against most/all. That doesn't mean that it's a one-and-done vaccine like measles; it could still require annual renewal. But it would be affective against all strains, so you wouldn't find yourself with the flu despite getting the shot (i.e. what happens to me literally every year).
Of course the mRNA vaccines don't make you "healthier". Health isn't a simple one-dimensional scale. They make you better able to fight the virus they target.

As for not having colds, that's nice. I'm guessing you haven't had a lot of exposure to people with colds either. I hadn't had many colds for years either, until I had kids and they started preschool.
Everyone one that has counter examples thinking they prove the opposite, are just not waiting long enough. All the kids think they will be young forever. Can't blame MS for new JS libraries every month, or a new language released every month. This web site is dedicated to people showing off things they created, which replace something that turns into debt, and in turn also become flavor of the month.

Yes, biased old man that saw 30 years of code get replaced with the latest "thing that kind of works like the old thing, but not really as good, but we have to do it to keep up with technology or we'll have debt". I've seen old VB6 apps fulfill a business need just as well as anything written in a full LAMP stack that takes a team to implement. (not that I'd ever use VB6, but hey, it did a job).

Take me out back of the shed and end it quick while I'm hunched over programming something cool.
The last time I was doing music production, I was learning how not all instruments are created equally.

If you want to do some pop music work, drum beats are a dime a dozen.

If you want to do high quality orchestral work, you're going to have to fork out some serious cash for stuff like EastWest Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra, Vienna Symphonic Library, Garritan Personal Orchestra, and others.

I'm sure things have since changed and you can now get some of these on cloud subscriptions, but you couldn't really achieve the same depth at all with some of the stuff you'd get as standard packs from your favorite DAW.
I agree with this, but the comment I replied to is responding to an article about market-making.
Most (all?) of your Makefile targets don't represent actual files to 'make'.

You're using make to run a bunch of tasks, including where tasks may depend on other tasks having been run before.

A task-runner tool like `just` is better suited to this task.
https://github.com/casey/just

`just` has some nice UX improvements over `make`. (e.g. doesn't require soft tabs, can list recipes out of the box, recipes can take command line arguments, supports .env files, can be run from any subdirectory).
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/10/29/560292442/ba....

The plants that the bats rely on in Arizona is already on the protected species list and, coincidentally, in the area discussed in TFA.
aha, thanks for the correction; i thought it was vt320 and up only

was that for images tho or just softfonts
That's what I'm getting at - if you've threatened to fire someone, they've clocked out; they know they're gonna get shit on so they're going to basically wait around until you actually fire them.
Analog computers still exist but they are neither general-purpose nor easily programmable. Their big strength is solving differential equations, which they do better than digital computers in some cases.

General-purpose reprogrammability is the key advance of modern computers. Although it can be argued that Babbage and Lovelace had this idea in mind, they never built a complete working model.
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Externally visible stuff: definitely. You really need something like TeX or by now Linux and some GNU Tools etc. to stand the test of time.

My very first job was to work on the backend of some software for internal use. You have probably all bought products that were "administered" in said software. When I worked on it it was 15 years old. It evolved over this time of course but original bits and pieces were all around me. And I evolved bits and pieces of it as did others. By now it's been another 15 years and while I know they did a rewrite of some parts of the system I bet that some of both my code and the code I found to have been written almost 15 years before I started there is still around and you and me keep buying products touched by that software without knowing. The rewrite was also done by at least one person that was around when the original was built. He learned a new language to implement it.ut he took all of his domain and business logic knowledge over.

Its even more funny because I knew the guy that wrote some of the code I worked with directly from a different company but I had no idea he worked there or that he worked in that project until I saw his name in the CVS history. Yes CVS. I personally moved it to SVN to "modernize". I hope that was recognized as "technical debt" and they moved to git but I wouldn't know.
They kind of do, their reputation is like the AWS of quant firms. Like you might get paid about as well as your buddies in “peer firms” but the hiring standards are a little looser and you have a 50% chance of ending up on a team with a hellish WLB guaranteed to burn you out.

If they want to rehab their image IMO they need to get KG out of the limelight (which I guess this puff piece does) but also fix their WLB reputation.
>Preferrably, I should be using an SSH key, but for the sake of simplicity in this article I am sticking with simple password authentication.

I prefer to see something that improves over current best practices.

I accidently had a setup like that. But it turned that wireguard had/have the ability to get stuck. Probably problem with the implementation from mikrotik.

A watchdog of some kind is needed for this kind of setup.
People are commenting core OS libraries and kernels, but the Space Jam movie website from 96 is still up. I bet the guy that wrote that didn't think it'd be around nearly 20 years later, I hope it never goes down.

https://www.spacejam.com/1996/jam.html
It is, relatively speaking, far easier to write a C compiler[1] than one for any other higher-level language, and the language lends itself to low-level tasks without needing to use Asm.

[1] There have been multiple articles on HN where a single person has written a C compiler.
Have any reputable literature to share that backs up your opinion?
Crypto-in-crypto seems kind of wasteful... Something like fail2ban would be preferable--block assholes from the entire network for hours (or days) so they can't hammer other ports for vulnerabilities. Between LocalForward and ProxyJump, I hardly ever need my WireGuard tunnel.
Not many jobs still pay you for the work you did a month, a year, 10 years, or 25 years ago. Not many jobs pay you just to sit at home and make up stories either. Of course many people want a job like that.

But the actual day-to-day doing of it, well, that's quite another thing. And most of us just aren't cut out to be an Agatha Christie, Stephen King, or Isaac Asimov.

You see some of that in music and similar things as well. For every AC/DC or Guns N' Roses, there were a million garage bands who worked hard but were lucky to get a gig at a local dive bar or a family member's wedding. That never stopped people from wanting to do it though.
I've been doing this for over 30 years. Not only have I seen years of my work deleted, I've also seen large fractions of the rest of it never even used.
You get a lot more context though. The training set is just "here's lots of code and some comments and docs". You trained on your own experience with interface, your process expectations as a human in real world, on the whole chains of "we need to achieve this, so we're splitting it into those tasks", and many other related contexts.

In RPG terms, the models put everything into intelligence and no points into wisdom.
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“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” is a must-read for fans of Blade Runner and the cyberpunk genre.

Also, it’s interesting that in 2023, we can reasonably definitively answer that question for any definition of “dream”.
bandwith costs?
Now you're talking! Lemonade.
Nice argument! And to clarify further, the equivalent implementation for `random(random())` could be viewed as a rejection-sampling implementation of random(random()).

Another intuitive rephrasing is that while both min(random(), random()) and random(random()) are guaranteed to be at most your first draw, with random(random()) your second draw is constrained to be within the interval of your first, whereas with min(random(), random()) there's no such constraint on the second draw. Thinking about P(x > y); x,y~U should then provide the illumination.
10x worse is how I'd put it. First example that comes to mind: Microsoft Teams.
I do actually like that they don’t resort to water analogies like a lot of electronic instruction tends to. The hydraulic analogies I think only work to a point and then become more of a hindrance to deeper understanding, so you eventually have to un-learn it to progress.

I guess there is probably an ideal middle ground where it can be presented as a “you can think of it kind of like this analogy, but then here’s the actual concept you should learn instead of learning the analogy” kind of way.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Species
> nearly 20

Nearly 30. Sorry :-)
Here you go: https://twitter.com/pbhushan1/status/1451807240659161090/med...
> All the code generation tools, StarCoder included, still have hallucinations.

This also includes humans. We "hallucinate" in very similar ways. For example mistaking localhost:8080 for localhost:8008 in a large config file. Attempting to use methods that were deprecated and no longer exist, etc.

IMO there's two ways to prevent this is - one is to make better performing models (architecture/training data/training amount/etc)

The other is the exact same as humans. Compile time tools that let it know immediately if it hallucinated, types, linting, tests, etc.

You just do it as a loop the exact same as a human. You write code, the compiler tells you that method doesn't exist, you adjust your code/consult the documents (also doable with agents).
Don't look, but C is slowly being ripped out and replaced with Rust...
We're trying to reclaim the word