skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole idea of async functions is to run tasks concurrently and with simple syntax on a single thread. Hiding the actual concurrency under the runtime, only when it is waiting for IO.

It doesn’t matter that node is single threaded, nor does the GIL have any impact on single thread.

It’s once you start doing cpu heavy work inside the tasks this will hit you.
> Perhaps marginal electricity cost that much, but that’s a very different statement.

Marginal electricity is what people use at the margin.
Not much, you?
I would suggest to drop the subsidies, instead of bolting on extra rules.
The Rising Threat of Malicious Extensions in Microsoft’s VSCode Marketplace
Apple’s problem has never been the “barrier to entry”. They know developers will make apps for their platform no matter what. If Swift becomes more universal it makes it easier for Apple developers to also develop for Android (etc) which Apple would see as a bad thing.
Google isn't doing it for free, they're doing it because you're the product.

We actually do need to demand customer service for free services.

They're exploiting our information, and using the fact that they're exploiting us "for free" to give nothing back.
This is similar to one of the Tough Mudder obstacles except the sword is your body.
> Poverty, which the study defines as less than half the median U.S. income

Is this the same definition of poverty used by the federal government for all other poverty-related statistics? If not, it sure is interesting that the study would come up with it's own definition. Unfortunately the links study appears to be behind a Jama pay wall, I'd love to see how they came up with that and whether it was defined before the study was conducted.

> The onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 brought about a sharp increase in U.S. poverty as millions of people got sick, were thrown out of work, and lost health insurance.

Also interesting that the issues here would still be categorized as caused by poverty rather than the pandemic and our pandemic response. Poverty contributes plenty of issues that can lead to an early death, but if the study is attempting to roll those up and label the proximla cause of death as poverty how is the increase in poverty and related deaths not rolled up as an effect of the pandemic itself?
Game developers (usually) master this. Introducing a complex game step-by-step without overwhelming the player.
> But the cell phone market was a pretty well-established and sizable market. The AR/VR market is not.

I guess that's one way to look at it.

But compared to what was popular when the iPhone was released (Blackberry, Treo, Nokia), it was the iPhone that jumpstarted what became the modern smartphone market we see today.

Apple is uniquely positioned to usher in the modern AR/VR era, especially if it's true that iOS apps will run in on the headset. Nobody is better than Apple at capturing the imagination of developers.
>> They are now worth millions of dollars on the open market

> No, they aren't, because there is no open market for private company shares.

I do have offers to purchase my stock. In a bygone era, I could simply instruct the company to transfer my shares and broker the transaction myself.

I get what you're saying though.

The purpose of my post here isn't to complain so much as inquire about people who have executed forward sales and are willing to speak about the experience. From what I understand, this is being done quite a bit and I guess the idea is that company never has to find out...

Edit: formating
> it seems a bit unfair to exclude anti- (or at least non-) materialists for not having a theory.

I do not exclude them on the basis of not having (what you consider to be) a theory. They have a theory: consciousness has a non-physical dependency. The materialists theorize that consciousness is merely physical.

The issue I have is that non-materialists seem to be bad at conveying this theory. Just claim belief in the non-physical upfront. The chess vs weather comparison is a terrible analogy. They seem to lack the courage of their conviction and in turn dress up a simple concept.
Their intent all along was to wait for the defaults to start pouring in so they can claim all the assets they funded. The speedrun way to plant infrastructure around the globe and manage their own banana republics without raising the hackles of an adversary. Making a deal was never an option.
> I spent around $100k to purchase this stock and paid tax on the gain.

Yes, that’s how options exercises work.

> They are now worth millions of dollars on the open market, but the company will not allow me to sell them...

But you were prrsumably aware of that limitation when you entered into the agreement under which you purchased them (if you dispute that that is the agreement you agreed to, thebmn, definitely, you need a lawyer.) So, even insofar as you describe the “open market” accurately, that market isn’t open to you.

> I understand it's risky, but at this point they just aren't letting me get a payday...

Perhaps not. Are they obligated to let you get a payday? Is it in their interests to do so? If neither of those is the case, why do you expect they would?
That 91% figure comes with a big caveat: it's the percentage of people who reported they had health insurance at any point during the year. So if you had coverage on January 1st but lost coverage on January 2nd and never resumed coverage for the year - you're still considered part of that 91%.

There's also the challenge that not all coverage is equal here. The ACA (and certain follow-up legislation) set some baseline, and states may also have their own minimum coverage criteria, but it can vary wildly. The ACA's biggest impact was mandating coverage for common-but-critical things like childbirth etc.

Source: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2022/demo/p60-27...
Seems really hard to peg any one factor as "the cause". How did you land on runaway medical costs?
Because there's probably lots of accounts worth $50 to get into.
Love it! The older kids in the fam regularly revisit this game to recreate the lan battles of old, would love adding these to shake things up a bit :) post up a paypal donation link if you'd like some $$ for your efforts!
And there are plenty of processes that were "no problem" to opt out of when they were introduced, and are impossible to opt out of today. Frog, boiling pot, etc.
.NET MAUI[1] and AvaloniaUI[2] run on iOS pretty well, and one can use Rider/VS Code/other editors to develop apps.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/ios/cli

[2]: https://docs.avaloniaui.net/tutorials/developing-for-mobile/...
I think that is in fact what we do.

I think it is possible to build up a rational case for an objective universe starting with just perception. Firstly if the only thing that exists is conscious awareness, where does the informational content of the world you perceive come from? It doesn't come from your awareness, because you are not aware of it until you perceive it. You can say it comes from the subconscious, but the subconscious is not part of your conscious awareness. It's external to it, in the same way that your hand is external to your conscious awareness. There has to be an origin for perceptions that is external to conscious awareness of those perceptions.

From there we observe that these perceptions are of a consistent and persistent form, so it’s rational to conclude that they have an origin in a consistent and persistent source. From there, and taking into account our ability to test our perceptions through action, we can build up knowledge about the world of our experiences.

As for trusting logic and rationality, does it give consistent and useful results? Test it and see if it continues to work reliably over time. If applying logic provides random, contradictory or unreliable results that’s a problem, but maybe you can correct that by modifying how you reason about things and trying again. That’s learning. So I think we do have the cognitive tools we need to build up a robust account of reality starting from base perception.

We didn’t start off human society and civilisation with scientific laws as our founding axioms. We inferred them from sense data, including the process of physically testing our ideas in the world.
Awesome project. Was poking around to see how the sources are generated, but it seems like the repo doesn't exist (or was made private)?
https://github.com/fastenhealth/fasten-sources-gen
> Everyone needs water to live. The actual price of water, fairly pricing in long term externalities, may be too much for a family of four to afford their 8 or 10 kgals a month. At least for many such families.

Depends on where you live. And perhaps we shouldn't encourage people to live in such dry areas where an honest pricing of water would make living unaffordable?

> But when you price it at the marginal cost to pump out the extra gallon, it becomes economical to do silly stuff like grow water intensive crops in the desert and draw the city's aquifer down.

Your pricing should take the longer term into account. An auction style pricing can do that. (Or a system that simulates auction-style pricing. No need to go through all the hassle of actually holding auctions.)

> Hence the conundrum. Price it fair, some people can't afford flush the toilet. Subsidize it at a flat(ish) rate, or even just ignore externalities, some people can afford to destroy the commons. So, conservation pricing.

That sounds like your conclusion is driving your argument.

Give poor people money, if you want to help them. Instead of mucking around with prices.

They can then use the money to either pay for water or move somewhere less inhospitable. Or spend it on something they like even more than either of these two alternatives.

Btw, flushing toilets with drinking-quality water sounds like a big waste. You should only do that when you have plenty of water to go around. Perhaps that family wants to buy a composting toilet, and pocket the savings? Instead of flushing water down the drain every day?
When they left, they had a certain amount of time to exercise. So, it needn't be that they were still with the company when they exercised the options.
Really cool! Does it work in browser if I want to compile .t spec using JS/TS?
Unlikely, rust is rather inconvenient for gui applications.

And not at all compatible or easily bridgeable with obj-c, which was not optional.
All of these GPT detectors manage to sell snake oil in 2023 - amazing economical example how demand creates supply even though supply is literally impossible.
They are already doing that. But you still need chemists because they can make the things and check them and find alternative routes and produce analogues etc

There are quite a few tools using DL models that work extremely well to devise synthetic pathways for compounds. But you still need someone to make them.
A lot of the easy to automate chemistry (combinatorial chemistry) didn't really give good results compared to the amount of money it gobbled.

And these days in chemistry we are seeing a lot of what is happening in the electronics world as well. With a set of companies producing different materials and executing different parts of the process for another one (think Apple cpus with the whole chain from the Swiss EUV mirror makers, the wafers producers, the machines producers, TSMC that orchestrate the whole thing, etc). Pharma companies are externalizing a these days for the chemistry, the analysis etc.
Bevy is a super interesting project. We are considering it for an RTS game.

I know that some efforts have been made to make Bevy deterministic. Which would be great and allow RTS games. Cross-platform determinism is not necessarily needed or wanted. Determinism on AVX2 would be fantastic. What is the plan for determinism?
I think the comment is more like a joke with /s missing
No amount of lipstick on the java pig will make it as ergonomic to use by default as kotlin.
I fully expect to someday lose access to my gmail account because I regularly delete cookies and I won't give them a phone number. If they won't accept a password as proof of ownership on an account, then the account will someday be dead.
Doesn’t that depend on the city you live in?
It happens. There's always a compromise to make depending on the hassle to reset the password.
Yes, it could be dangerous if you blindly rely on its reliability for something safety-related. But many creative processes are unreliable. For example, coming up with bad ideas while brainstorming is pretty harmless if nobody misunderstands it.

Generally, you want some external way of verifying that you have something useful. Sometimes that happens naturally. Ask a chatbot to recommend a paper to read and then search for it, and you’ll find out pretty quick if it doesn’t exist.
That's one aspect of the problem yes . That and the lies. A lot of chemistry papers are simply not reproducible.

But that's different in industry, where only few companies share things.

I wish there would be some kind of data broker for companies that would release data publicly when companies die or abandon projects.
Obama are became Trumpcare became Bidencare. Obama may have put his name on that shit sandwich of a plan, but both parties have been in charge since and no one has explained how the bastardized middle ground of not quite socialized Healthcare is the right answer, or proposed a proper fix to the broken attempt at a crawl/walk/run strategy.
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> I'd much rather see a calculation of how many years of life are lost, an actually meaningful metric.

How do you calculate the number of years lost? Do you subtract their age from the national age expectancy or do you run a prediction model to extrapolate the age each individual would have lived to given what data is available for them?
So, assuming that the section prohibits transfer without approval (you left out that part), the agreement explicitly includes a forward contract, so what you are looking for is advice on how to break the contract without getting caught, right?
soon it's gpt fighting the fraud and doing the fraud
I'd love to do that to create fighting games character sprites. Combined with Mugen, it would make for a very fun experience and the LLM could help on adding attacks and gameplay logic.

Where should I start to make this happen? Stable Diffusion without customization is really bad at creating character sprites.
So this was Synthego’s OG thesis, but it didn’t validate in the market.

In the last 5 years, the industry has moved to using the LabCyte Echo in high-well-count plates for this kinda work. Zymergen (RIP) Amyris and Ginkgo have this scaled up to something that resembles model train layouts, where plates are shuffled between discrete workcells by little trains.

One of the challenges is the sheer volume of data — Illumina sequencers generate multi-TB files for analysis (synthetic biology context) — with most folks not having “fast datacenter networks” so overwhelmingly I see folks buying Snowballs, AWS direct connect, or running on-prem.

Industry is broadly interested in this kinda thing, with efforts like [1] [2] (me), and many many others integrating into the Design-Build-Test pipeline. Commercial MD (not necessarily only protein folding) has had a huge boost due to NN’s as well, with companies like [3] [4] cropping up in order to sell their analysis as a service.

Academia has also not been sitting idle, with labs like [5] [6] doing cool stuff

Pure, classic microfluidic setups are a huge PITA, but technologies like the Echo or [7] have the potential to change some of the unit economics.

[1] https://atomscience.org/

[2] https://radix.bio/

[3] https://deepcure.ai/

[4] https://syntensor.com/

[5] https://www.damplab.org/

[6] https://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/

[7] https://www.voltalabs.com/
There are absolutely systems available commercialy that do that and they work extremely well, especially for small molecules like that.
Yes, you're totally right.

Trying to take this in a more constructive direction though: what happens if I go bankrupt? I have no idea how all of that works, but I can imagine a judge saying this limited transferability clause isn't legal or something. How can I go bankrupt when I kinda-sorta own millions of dollars worth of company stock?
I live about 2 miles from a regional airport. Normal flight patterns mean I rarely hear planes flying in or out. Occasionally, when the winds require a different pattern I’ll hear a 20 seater jet.

Air shows. Ugh. Nothing but the loudest, most obnoxious airplanes ever made circling over my house for 4 days straight. At least we’re done for 2023. Time to figure out when next year’s show is so I can be out of town.
As others have mentioned, GPT is quite good at reading semi-structured data and producing a structured output. I find it is very effective to ask it to output in an already popular, domain specific format whenever possible. Let it use familiar idioms, instead of trying to coerce it to use a bespoke format.

So here's a simple attempt at taking the output of `black --help` and turning it into a python `argparse` script. You could feed the `--help` or man page for pretty much any command into GPT-4 with this sort of prompt and get an argparse script. It probably doesn't hurt that GPT-4 is already familiar with the argument syntax for all the popular cli tools.

You could then imagine executing the generated code against a faux-argparse library which instantiates the data structures you need to render a Trogon UI. Probably best to do this in an appropriate sandbox.

$ black --help | aichat --model gpt-4 --prompt 'write a python program that uses argparse to *exactly* parse this tools command line'

```python
import argparse
import sys

def main(args=None):
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="The uncompromising code formatter.")
parser.add_argument("SRC", nargs="*", help="Source files to format")
parser.add_argument("-c", "--code", type=str, help="Format the code passed in as a string.")
parser.add_argument("-l", "--line-length", type=int, default=88, help="How many characters per line to allow. [default: 88]")
parser.add_argument("-t", "--target-version", choices=["py33", "py34", "py35", "py36", "py37", "py38", "py39", "py310", "py311"], help="Python versions that should be supported by Black's output.")
parser.add_argument("--pyi", action="store_true", help="Format all input files like typing stubs regardless of file extension (useful when piping source on standard input).")
...
parser.add_argument("-h", "--help", action="help", help="Show this message and exit.")

if args is None:
args = sys.argv[1:]
parsed_args = parser.parse_args(args)
print(parsed_args)

if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
```
This Python program uses argparse to parse the command line options for the Black code formatter. You can run this script and pass the command line arguments to see the parsed output.
Anyone uses any other AI tool for programming other than vanilla ChatGPT/GPT4 or Github Copilot?
Those fines are laughable. There should be another zero or two on them
Yeah, I think you're correct about that part. Perhaps rights were signed away - lawyers rejoice.
World's largest compact car. Yawn.
It was a funny joke and I was giving him a note about it, maybe he can improve it.
This is standard practice for embedded and high-reliability systems.
> Depends on where you live. And perhaps we shouldn't encourage people to live in such dry areas where an honest pricing of water would make living unaffordable?

This is a really big aspect of it, and "save water" applied without thought can be counter-productive.

Where I live, the water comes out of the ground in wells, goes through the system, and leeches back into the ground in a giant septic system (that they call the wastewater treatment plant). It's pretty well contained and as long as we are nowhere near the limit the main thing sewer/water is paying for is maintenance of the system.

That is NOT the case everywhere in the USA, especially the states where water is piped in from miles and miles away.

I do agree that much of the problems we have is forcing public utilities (water, power, transit) to ALSO be social programs; this dual-goal always ends up messing things up.
I unironically sometimes reply to people in real life with "as an online AI language model, I don't have any intentions or opinions. Is there anything else I can do to help?"
Hi ! Nice ! It lacks available style, RGB colorization, PNG64 logos includable ; and if possible ; i'd love one where I can shove in an url as parameter, to let the thing fetch the result ; But i might be completely dreaming on that last one :p
Missing Oracle Cloud which has a massive GPU footprint - https://www.oracle.com/cloud/compute/gpu/
> it always comes down to type inference on polymorphic types which causes these issues

Unless I'm thinking of something different, doesn't OCaml have type inference on polymorphic types and fast(ish?) compile times?

I was under the impression that the breakdown of causes for Rust projects compiling slowly is very project-dependent as well. From what I can remember common culprits were monomorphization and/or LLVM, though I'm not sure if that has changed recently.
Probably should have started this in spring 2020, when no one was visiting.
Just looking at Java’s upcoming string interpolation makes me so happy I moved to Kotlin years ago.

https://openjdk.org/jeps/430
I think literally speaking it is most Americans. By less developed I don't mean rural, just not a major city like LA or NYC.
Ketamine no better than placebo at alleviating depression, unusual trial finds
Many of the best board games are less than twenty years old. Cardboard based entertainment has made huge strides recently.

By and large, good boardgames are not so much timeless as 'fairly new' instead.

There have been a few good games earlier, but it's really instructive to have a look at the ranked list of boardgames at https://boardgamegeek.com/browse/boardgame and check the publication dates.
I think you two are saying the same thing.
We have cultural artefacts of people reporting first person experiences going back as long as we have writing, and longer from oral traditions. These are in the form of narratives, poetry, songs, etc. What is the story of Narcissus about if not the immediate visceral stimulation of visual experience?

We can also infer it. I find it hard to see why cultures would produce representative art if they had no experience of seeing it. In a world without first person experience it’s hard for me to imagine what function representational art would have.
I highly recommended not assuming that the engineers working for Intel are idiots. If something seems like an “obvious” mistakes by you, then it is highly likely that you have zero clue on the constraints that forced the decisions.
Don't bother arguing with them, they obviously are not rational enough to see what is in front of their face. Most people are like this, although they will die saying otherwise.
Kotlin wasn't developed for Android. And can be run anywhere.

It was JetBrains pet project to fix archaic stuff in Java without making a Scala. It was designed from the get go for a wide base (as wide as java).

I'm not sure how it became Android's main target, but I doubt it was the original purpose.
Do you think this is common knowledge though?

I'm pretty sure all YC companies have limited transferability clauses now.

And with the rise of IPO-scale private fundraising, it's possible that a company can remain private literally forever.

This changes the calculus for a young person considering joining early at a startup and I'm not sure that is a good thing for the startup ecosystem.
This is an ideal use case for chatbots. Hook your carbon monoxide controller to an LLM trained to administer a reverse Turing test. I'm kidding, but not really. Our family is dealing with this and I am considering wiring this up for personal use down the road.