skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure I follow your line of reason. From a technical standpoint, I see only one reason why Rust could not completely replace C. And that reason is obscure hardware platforms that LLVM doesn't target. Otherwise, it's superior in every way I can imagine. More complex? I guess that depends on your project. If you work mostly in small code bases where it's easy to get things right, then I'd say it's a toss up. But if you're dealing with a large multi-threaded code base, with lots of heap allocations and shared ownership etc... Rust will be far less complex than C. I highly doubt the Linux kernel developers introduced Rust to add more complexity. They did it to reduce complexity in the system, and make it more accessible to new developers. The Rust compiler is soooo liberating once you get over the initial learning curve, which I admit can be a little annoying.
Capitalism doesn’t inherently mean companies get to alter the laws to favor themselves or government should decide winners and losers with bailouts. That’s a function of the political system involved.

This is something else. In some ways it’s closest too feudalism where the rule of law is subservient to various powerful entities and limited competition exists parallel to various monopolies. Though obviously it’s very different from the historical examples of feudal societies.
More accurately, corporatism.
Which industry are you talking about?

The pharmaceutical industry is international. Many of the big players are headquartered in UK, Canada, etc.

Hospitals are mostly non-profit, and mostly purely domestic.
You're conflating crawling with querying/ranking in a weird way. And: grep - are you serious?

(Yes, you also namedropped Pagerank for some odd reason.)

The thing is, though: You can't easily outsource the crawling and then do the quering/ranking inhouse. The reverse index and various other data structures you need are inherently tied to the data structures from the crawler output. This is a very large amount of data and it's changing often.

The outsourcing that is being done is at the "search query to results" level. That is why this is so disappointing.
How would the quoted price move without transactions? (And I realize we're bleeding over into market making dynamics here)
> Im not sure

Because its not true.
Not strange at all in context.
Does not work neither.

It seems this thing has zero interop with noscript/basic (x)html browsers like links.
I don’t think people are anti camera. People are against using cameras to retroactively police EVERYTHING. No one likes the spitter, but the example of the blind person lending her keys out to someone doing a grocery run for them is where this is stupid and harmful.

A rational human would have seen that a stranger was accessing the building using a disabled person’s credentials with armfuls of groceries and correctly surmised the situation, or made a quick call to confirm that it was authorized. Instead, a formal process was initiated where one possible outcome is that a low income blind person is evicted. That didn’t happen, but it is a waste of resources to have a formal process to have a blind person file a report explaining their shopping needs.
Well if the recent uncensored lama models prove anything is that a model will never say "Sorry I cannot do <thing>" if you remove the examples from the training data and will measurably improve in performance overall. You can reduce hallucinations without messing up the model to a point where it declines to do perfectly normal things.

It's understandable that OpenAI, Antropic, Microsoft, etc. are playing it safe as legal entities that are liable for what they put out, but they really have "lobotomized" their models considerably to make themselves less open to lawsuits. Yes the models won't tell you how to make meth, but they also won't stop saying sorry for not saying sorry for no reason.
The proposal is from Intel. How sure are we that we know better than Intel?
And this can be tested. Do a huge number of cycles of water treatment. Maybe 1000 or something.

Measure the amount of aluminum in the powder before and after. And/or measure the amount of aluminum added to the water too.

You're going to have to do some testing similar to this anyway since you need to know how long the stuff stays effective. At some point it could wear out and lose its germ-killing powers. Or maybe it doesn't, but you need to know that.
The design is beautiful! I'm shocked this isn't more popular on github.
The first time I heard Carlos on a college radio station I had to stop and pull over - it was as close to a sea change moment in my life as anything - at the end of the day she was/is a human being and it sucks that she has to be an icon of anything because her work speaks for itself and independently of that she is who she is - I love Wilhelm kempff for his interpretation of Beethoven but have no idea of his self-identify - I truly don’t agree with Wendy’s view on copyright but that doesn’t delegitmize what she has created - it takes strong personalities to break conventions and that force isn’t always “right”, but we’re better for those that have them
What does linux have to do with anything? They can use 64-bit only mode any time they like, and plenty of Linux machines for the last 4-5 years have been pure 64. It's mostly people using commercial software (games, stuff like Skype) that have to have multiarch, but less and less of those are 32-bit as time passes.

Additionally, of the three main x86 OSes (Windows, macOS and Linux); Linux' solution to dual-mode is easily the worst, specifically so it is easy to run it in pure 64 mode.
WeWork certainly provides value to the companies that rent their offices (including the one I work for). If someone else were looking for office rental options I'd recommend WeWork on the basis of the experience I've had working within their office space over the last 8 months or so. But obviously it was massively oversold as being a lot more than an office remodeling/ maintenance/ cleaning/subletting service.
These were separate experiments and thus I reported their results separately. Honestly, if anything, I was expecting more failures the second time around.
> read fewer books but take the time to write summaries for the good ones

The odds of finding good books goes down if one reads fewer books. Taking suggestions from others is not a good substitute for finding one's own "good ones".

If I find that a book I'm reading is not good for me, I start skipping, first a few parapgraphs, then a few pages, then a whole chapter and so on, to see if it gets better. And I'm even prepared to stop reading it altogether if it doesn't get any better. That gives me more time to find and read better books.
there are no plans to limit trusted publishers. in fact there is another in the works: https://github.com/pypi/warehouse/issues/13551
The limits of my experience with his work was a tongue in check overview of early 80s arcade games and the players. He painted them as defenders of earth against an alien onslaught.
I get it now. It's just like some grocery stores used to operate. They purposely moved stuff around so people have to wander in order to find things. Or they put common items far away so people have to interact with other stuff. Theory is that it increases sales.
One of the neeva co-founders claimed that they built their own real-time index from the get-go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34333817
There is a lot more of this in the US than anywhere else in the world though, and that's because the US also has by far the worst homeless problem.
I suspect this article refers to binary positional notation, specifically, although it could have been more explicit about that.

Having said that it would indeed have surprised me a lot if powers-of-two based calculations wouldn't be among the oldest ones we have. Doubling or halving things seems quite natural.
It's infuriating to learn that LA spends taxpayer money to send bus stop designers on overseas junkets.
> the reasoning behind the Lone Star State’s new law is that electric car drivers don’t buy gas. Taxes at the fuel pump are the primary way that most states, Texas included, amass funds for road construction, maintenance, and other driving-related infrastructure.

I approve the sentiment, but think for fairness sake that these increased fees should be on tires for EVs (as tire replacement is a direct proxy for road use).

> The average Texas driver burned through ~55 million BTUs of motor gasoline in 2018, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That’s equal to about 440 gallons of gas. At $0.20 per gallon, the standard car owner in Texas is paying just $88 per year in gas taxes—far less than the hundreds more EV drivers will now be throwing into the pot. A 2022 Consumer Reports analysis determined that a Texas driver’s gas tax contribution is even lower, at just $71.

440 gallons of gas is equivalent to maybe 8 - 10k miles per year. EVs tend to add more wear to roads than non-EVs, but something like a $70 tax per tire would probably be about right.
I was stunned when I first saw San Francisco.

I’ve traveled a lot, and never seen anything like it.

It’s like a gigantic refugee camp. That’s not something you see in any other major city, including California.

That’s not “America” - that’s San Francisco.
Agreed. I recently had a conversation with an immigrant nurse from Bosnia, but in the US, her credentials only allow her to be a CNA. She literally had the same nursing job in Bosnia but now gets 1/4th of the pay to clean up poop. There's a nursing shortage too. The higher education system in the US is insanely corrupt and has massive reach with licensure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_capitalism
I coach competitive youth sports. My teams are my second home.
you cannot fathom how bad eg Xilinx's FPGA tool suite is. like beyond the fact it's like some kind of frankenstein monster because they bought up a bunch of smaller tools and glued them together with fucking tcl, any individual piece is worse than your worst open source compiler/ide/whatever tool you use to build software. and yet people say that it's 10x better than the competitors' offerings. hell on earth is being an FPGA dev without a direct line to Xilinx employee for help debugging (which is how things really work professionally).

just lend some credence to myself here - vitis, their supposed hls offering that turns C++ into RL by magic and genius and oracles, today embeds LLVM 7.0 (released in 19 Sep 2018). gee i wonder how many perf and etc improvements have landed in LLVM since 7 since today LLVM is approach 17.

i could tell you more but it would just spike my blood pressure after 6 months of not having to deal with that mess.
Population and Welfare: The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number [pdf]
You're correct, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_ho...
wait until you hear about credit ratings, also facebook and probably every big tech got all kinds of metrics like that on every person
Ask HN: Why didn't Don Knuth test ChatGPT himself?
Why did he give his questions to a grad student to do the testing?
>Senior national security officials said Friday that all of the incidents described took place before the FBI had completed a series of internal reforms—including written justifications for searches, more oversight and requiring analysts to actively opt into searching the foreign intelligence database.

"Written justification for searches" is a recent reform? So until now, they didn't need any paper trail of their searches? Not that in house approval of your "justification" is really enough for this.

How can anyone believe the FBI gives a shit if it took them well over a decade to go "maybe we should write something down when we use this."
In America you’re expected to be your own king. Any problem with public spaces, public transit, etc. is deemed a personal failing because you aren’t able to afford your own limousine to shuttle you from your castle to your friend’s.
Not only an American solution, but also an American problem.
Like just about anything. And the measure is something like "does someone who has spent some time with GPT-4 find it at all surprising that it can do X". A posteriori, it would be much more surprising if GPT-4 failed to resolve "optimystic" to "mystic" and "optimistic". Even though it's handicapped by its encoding when it comes to wordplays.
As someone who currently spends time on two continents it's always jarring to return to the USA. The first thing that hits you is the wealth. The second is the wealth disparity. The third is the dysfunction.

It's truly a remarkable place but often feels like a rocket ship pulling itself apart at the seams—a lot of exceptional velocity and a ton of social problems that just no one can seem to get a grip on.
Being intentionally annoyed by kids isn’t a license to “kick their shit in” and is far more antisocial than any of the completely nonviolent nuisance cited that I’ve ever seen or had happen.

Don’t steal gum, but more than that, don’t commit felony assault.
Exactly, most of the country’s most corrupt conglomerates could never survive capitalism, but thrive on government sponsored monopolies and taxpayer funded subsidies.
Daphnia should poop instead lay eggs all the time, or alternatively the bacteria should be able to decompose eggs. Maybe fish should lay eggs too?
DoD Trusted Foundry Program (2018)
(I forgot to state the implication: that it would have known about it from that context even without ingesting fan-erotica)
A 250L tank with a 3.6kW electric heater element, programmed to turn on when batteries hit 98% full (and off again when batteries fall below 95%).

We really only use it for short showers, and it stays warm enough for that, for about 3 days without power.
> Istanbul is flourishing because it's the Turkish capital

The capital of Turkey is Ankara, not Istanbul.
Popular Pirate Bay proxy site disappears from GitHub
Sorry this is totally unsubstantiated fantasy. You’re not even wrong. I don’t know how to point that out here
That's oligarchy, which is still capitalism.
I'm not sure what understand what they were. The were regular theaters that showed regular movies all night. You paid your $2 (or whatever a ticket cost) and could sleep sitting in your seat. It was relatively warmer, dryer, and safer than outdoors.
And pretty much all of the living ex-presidents including some presidential candidates and other federal officials who lie to congress without any repercussions.
He has people for that kind of thing. Probably he doesn't want to sign up like giving them his email or phone number or whatever they want. Also he is negatively disposed towards the LLMs if you have read what he thinks about them. Maybe he doesn't want to tempt himself to put 'big tiddy robot gf' in the textbox and then that's everywhere in the news, that Don Knuth typed that.
A thousand residences takes a lot more space than parking for a thousand cars.

In my area, the lot is full, but the buses are fairly empty, as there is not enough parking to support the bus station.

I agree about zoning for density. That’s not the problem in this case.

There’s nothing wrong with individually owned vehicles in rural areas. Work with that, instead of fighting it.
Idk if anyone is fine with those examples you mentioned. Unelected bureaucrats get to pick where this money goes. Also, not sure why you had to throw out race.
We have a diesel generator but its only needed a few days a year; even with regular testing it only goes through about one jerry can a year, far less than we use for transport (would love an EV!)
There have been many but none I know of have predicted what we are experiencing now.
Well, I can only speak for myself, and for those in my peer group, but we regularly help each other to rebuild our lives.

It takes a community. It's not usually something we can do, on our own.

Long story, and not one for press, radio, and film.
Writing an Arcade Game Emulator
> magine you could go back in time to the ancient world to jump-start the Industrial Revolution. You carry with you plans for a steam engine, and you present them to the emperor, explaining how the machine could be used to drain water out of mines, pump bellows for blast furnaces, turn grindstones and lumber saws, etc.

> But to your dismay, the emperor responds: “Your mechanism is no gift to us. It is tremendously complicated; it would take my best master craftsmen years to assemble. It is made of iron, which could be better used for weapons and armor. And even if we built these engines, they would consume enormous amounts of fuel, which we need for smelting, cooking, and heating. All for what? Merely to save labor. Our empire has plenty of labor; I personally own many slaves. Why waste precious iron and fuel in order to lighten the load of a slave? You are a fool!”

That's not the correct sales pitch to use with an emperor. The correct sales pitch is to show him how he can win battles.

Throughout history, until the 19th century, a lot of military confrontations ended up with a side hunkering down in a castle, and the other one sieging that castle. Most sieges were unsuccessful and the successful ones were costly. One of the methods used during sieges was the undermining: you mine a tunnel from a safe distance until you get under the fortification's walls, and there you enlarge the hole until a part of the wall collapses.

Of course, this only works if the tunnel you dig does not get flooded. If it gets flooded, you're out of luck. But put a Newcomen engine there, and your attackers can keep digging inside dry tunnels. Who can stop you now?
OK. we're using about 20 to 30kWh per day (depending how much heating or cooling is needed). But with no gas.
Why would Intel propose it if there are is no benefit?
How I do my to-dos
Lots of images, I think. Maybe they are not optimally compressed.
I'm happy I don't live in California anymore. Although some of my taxes were spent on these gender equal shades, I left 13 months ago.
Vagrancy laws in the United States were dramatically expanded after the Civil War, to restrict and control the recently freed slaves. In some cases, the penalty for vagrancy was to be forced to work for someone for free.

(Imagine if you were a recently freed slave, trying to escape the place where you were enslaved, traveling around looking for separated family members, and then that happened to you.)

The unique appeal of a vagrancy law is that it doesn't require a crime to be committed, so it becomes possible to outlaw certain kinds of persons.

Now in the 21st century there's a whole new set of reasons why people become homeless. And I'm not saying that it's easy to deal with encampments in public.

But many of the solutions to these problems are already ruled out in the USA. And that's precisely because the US has attempted to carry on slavery by other means. If you look carefully, you can see that the American obsession with punishing the poor or the sick almost always derives from fear of a racialized underclass. Thus it's impossible to make a public space welcoming, because you-know-who will benefit. It's impossible to make public health good, because you-know-who will benefit.

Not everyone who believes in these ideas today consciously knows that these ideas are racist in origin, but that's definitely how they started.

P.S. of course now the US is such a dysfunctional kleptobureaucracy they can't even deliver bus shelters, literally the simplest possible permanent structure, even when they say they're trying to undo racism
Oh yes, the old,

"Everyone gotta have ID because what if there is voter fraud"...even if it eliminates the right to vote for some people.

"Everyone gotta get preauthorization from insurance because what if there is insurance fraud"....even if the delay kills someone on the hospital bed.

"Everyone gotta carry REAL ID because what if some people are illegal"...even if the delay in getting REAL ID causes legal people to lose their jobs.

The only place this "Everyone gotta do XYZ" trope doesn't apply is in gun licensing and arms background checks.

I have said this in the past, but I will say this again: "America is a country based on denial of rights".

And that one statement explains all the history of America - slavery, red-lining, captive insurance, broken legal immigration, broken college admissions, school-districting etc.
Is the non-profit status of hospitals supposed to mean that they are not driven by the allure of ripping their patients off?
I think most of them have much higher EQ that probably makes them more normal even if it also makes them better at hiding their faults. Trump and Elon are a little different somehow, they really really want continuous affirmation from their biggest fans all the time and will do whatever it takes to get it.
I don’t know if it’s that simple. It’s gotten a lot worse in Philadelphia in the last few years, and there were still quite a few homeless in Philly when I was there before the new status quo.
That was Frank Reynolds' rant from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia that came to mind :-)
Well, like I have said, before, I always find it fascinating, when folks in a professional venue, initiate relationships with an attack.

Not exactly sure the advantages it brings, but never a dull moment, eh?
Your comment read a lot more like you were making a factual comparison rather than a theoretical argument…but I do agree that if schools were to theoretically not be audited then that would be bad.

I do find the second half of your post a lot more compelling though. That’s what you should have lead with in your earlier comment. :)
How about not letting them die on the streets? I thought Canada was a society.
What’s with these “data-driven” nonsense posts? You live in a west coast city? Go outside! Use your eyeballs! You think the naked guy who’s floridly psychotic and taking a dump on the sidewalk would be A OK with a cheap dwelling?

The people smoking fentanyl at the train station and on the buses? They just need a little house and they’ll be fine? Such utter neoliberal nonsense.
Too close to the border?
I found that to be the least infuriating thing in the article.
How could any computer scientist not be curious enough to experiment with ChatGPT himself/herself?
Holy shit! Someone reiterated what they thought the article said and you go nuclear. Do you think this is even a remotely good way to comment?
Because the rest of the US sends them to California.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...
If you've ever met an overly apologetic person and yelled at them to stop saying "I'm sorry", you'll know the first thing out of their mouths right after that is "I'm sorry". Not sure I'd use that examples as a herald of the end times for LLMs.
Grammarly must be a bottomless pit of VC funds--tons of TV ads, and now this big pivot to an allegedly mature product.
Nyxt has a vim mode, but it’s more inspired by emacs, and therefore fully customizable.
Not exactly fiasco. Some smart ppl spent $300k to jetset across the world for "research". They definitely do not consider that a fiasco!
So does phones, eating, daydreaming, bad lighting, bad weather, bad road design, road rage and so on. Extra seconds using touchscreen while on modern adas is safe.
85 and he still bikes home. I need to start doing some exercise. So I can be that healthy in 40 years time.
I always liked the intro. Police busting into someones apartment, Edison Carter (jourrnalist) wanting to know what the problem was. Cop flips over a pillow by the TV, says something like:-

"It's an off switch. She'll get years for that".