skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry. There's a lot of breakage on that map page, including "403 Unauthorised: a valid access key is required to access the geoplugin API over SSL" Firefox is filtering out much hostile code. Yet the CHAdemo map for Europe looks fine. Only the US is sparse.

Plugshare, which is crowd-sourced, shows far more CHAdemo chargers.
There's also the option to manually approve every comment.
I mean if you want to use that as an example it would be like taking a bus or walking 50km to the next town...
That's fine, though USDA makes this exceedingly rare
How does the data / telemetry Google collects on everyone compare with Google Cloud data collected on paying customers?
Perhaps people in the Netherlands value right content over left content more than you realize.
You probably want to check out the Zero to Production book which is about using Rust for back-end development.

https://www.zero2prod.com/
Remembering GitHub's Office, a Monument to Tech Culture
I believe the reason they are saying it doesn’t matter, is that without a clear statement of what happened from the decision makers, people can speculate.

One of those things people will speculate on is if this was one of the reasons. The fact that it is also part of the equation means it can’t be outright ignored and so will also need to be addressed. On top of that, this is already an underrepresented group, and regardless of if it was a primary motivating factor, it does not help show that group that they are welcome and in fact harms any effort to do so.

It absolutely matters if it was or was not a factor in this decision, but without clear information about the decision making process, speculation will occur, and that in and of itself is harmful.
coding is not a career, it's just part of the work that you do in a career
Feels like every single developer advocate/relations person goes through a phase where they write an introspective blogpost about their life/job and role.

They always hammer on the same couple of issues:

1) it's a tough job because developers communities are hard to build and more difficult to keep engaged.
2) people in management at their company don't understand the real role of a dev rel
3) companies are doing devRel just to say they do devRel and check a box

These 3 points are in every single devRel blogpost you read since 2012: it's crazy how it's never been improved since the days of Twilio/Sendgrid doing devRel at scale?!?!

IMHO if devRel aren't respected or seen like divas/influencers these days it's because that's the meme of devRel itself...and there's always a little bit of truth in memes, isn't it?

It is similar to how some people think that jQuery/PHP is for meme programmers or that Node.js is the only real dev language[1] meme.

So will DevRel be able to rise from the meme world and sit at the table with engineers or marketer leaders or VPs of whatever? Well, this blogpost shows that still hasn't happened.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nodejs-is-the-only...
> Part of me is very disappointed in the enormous waste of time that is the “crablang” fork, and wishes the people involved could have engaged in a constructive manner instead.

Any group who decides to fork Rust probably isn't in a position of power to turn the whole Rust Project and Rust Foundation into something less messy. Without knowing any of the specifics about this "crablang" fork, creating a well-resourced, thoughtfully governed fork is often a pretty good solution to stewardship issues, and sometimes, new governance structures and procedures can even be ported back into the original project (see node.js vs io.js). Writing it off as "an enormous waste of time" where the people involved should have "engaged in a constructive manner instead" seems disingenuous.

Not that this is a core part of the post, and this doesn't detract from the overall message.
...vs idea of uncaring mods that don't want to do the job they signed for so they will just stifle conversation on topics that get too hot ?

Those threads don't happen everyday either
Fasterthanlime is something like my spirit animal. Prolific and educational blogs that have challenged my knowledge with whimsy joy and catharsis. Also apparently emotionally intelligent and making the right moves here.

Sometimes it's better to drop out and start something new. An unofficial convention would be fantastic.

I'm sick of the clout chasing in these niche tech areas, it always drowns out the real passion and all the fun. The passion that fosters a healthy community and technological success.

Sometimes I wish a personality test was common for these ad hoc governance type positions (not just rust but with any OSS software). Not to exclude people but to decide if things are balanced. The people who want nothing to do with these systems often should be the ones figuring it out, but the people leaving trails of bodies behind them to plant their flag should be nowhere near them.

Thanks for sticking up for the people resigning and framing the bullshit in a realistic way. Also thanks for staying positive and I hope you keep blogging!
Lua was on my very short list of languages to learn. Will need to revisit that.

Also worth noting, NetBSD has had lua hooks into their kernel for about 10 years I think.
The Mysterious 50 Ohm Impedance: Where It Came from and Why We Use It (2021)
FBI establishes tip line to report CT street takeovers
Can I eat what a T-Rex eats?

Or what a shark eats?

This argument is absurd.
Sabazios
Maybe the first words will be:
"I heard you in the water, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid."
But this experiment didn't lead to a marked improvement on the way to superintelligence, now did it? A set of LLMs, set up to this tasks by humans, managed to create a smaller LLM that is just as much a transformer based sequence predictor, with the same basic flaws.

That isn't self-improvement in the sense the explosive self-improvement of a superintelligent AGI is described.

That is painting a car a new color. It's a new color coating, it may look very good, and the effect may be desirable and useful. But it's still a car, and no closer to a warp capable spaceship than before.
Perhaps. And also allow a brigade to suppress opinions they don't like.
YouTube always gives me the vague “people in your area and time of day” answer, which is totally bullshit. It’s content driven. You watch a video about fighter jets, or Ukraine, get Matt Walsh telling you how we have to eliminate trans kids. Watch an Alan Watts or Terrance McKenna video, get an ad about how the ancient Egyptians used magic flutes to generate antigravity fields to build the pyramids.
If the app's workload is quite similar to whatever benchmark showed the 8x improvement, then yes.

Otherwise, i.e. in the real world, it's very unlikely to be that much. High throughout workloads should see improvement, but each application is different.
Do you type faster than what javascript is able to handle?
Further weird because the federal reserve issues the currency in which the assets are marketed... so was there really any risk, in the usual sense?
I don’t know why you’re being downvoted, because for most people that don’t work with low level syscalls this is the kind of question they have.

From what I understand, some async operations will be faster in node on newer versions of the linux kernel, when node uses a version of libuv that contains this PR.
Agree. They should’ve allowed for more discussion before sending invitations and more effort should've been made to come to a mutually beneficial solution. But going from an invited keynote (great honor) to an invited talk (honor) is not what I would call a deliberate attempt to "disgrace one of the experts in my field." It’s a single track conference where the speaker would be heard by all attendees and could’ve championed his ideas to the larger Rust community.
This does not help with evolving Rust forward with a robust ecosystem … something should be done …
> who would have suspected this was racially motivated?

For the last several years, there are many people and groups who have gotten tremendous positive feedback from being a victim. So, many people would jump to this conclusion for outrage, sympathy, and signaling their virtue.

Thankfully, it seems it may be coming to an end now since it’s disruptive and at odds with reality.
Steel Bank Common Lisp 2.3.5 released
Fair enough. I hardly ever use grid cause I usually find flex handles 99% of my cases. But grid can be nice in certain instances. Haven’t tried RN for anything other than ios and android but am curious about the other platforms. And I guess the rest of the argument is just the age old debate of web vs native app. I think for some apps you’d be hard pressed to convince users to open a browser every time and type in a url, but certainly for other apps it’s fine. I won’t rehash that whole debate though :)
I always take "profits" with a grain of salt.

It is so easy to manipulate them and in the end they are a highly leveraged statistic.

For example, this "staggering" drop in profits is attributed to one time "workforce restructuring charges" ie a tax write down rather than changes in operating revenue and expenses.
What's your definition of absolutely necessary?
"a new era", really?

ChatGPT can be quite corny in default mode. I recommend experimenting with prompts to make it sound more natural, and not using its responses verbatim in your communications.

Cool project though.
Bill Pearl, 4x Mr. Olympia, is a very famous one. There are other successful bodybuilders who are vegan. Pretty trivial to google, so I'm not sure why you issued such a challenge but there ya go.

"Meat is definitely not the secret to bodybuilding,” Bill Pearl later said.

https://www.thebarbell.com/vegan-bodybuilder/#:~:text=Jehina....
Let's say that you are someone with a dedicated drive to contribute to AI, with the ability to grasp the complex program space, and spend many hours figuring out the solution to the problem. I.E the perfect tinygrad candidate.

There is a high chance that you are probably neurodivergent to some extent.

So instead of WFH, where you can remove distractions and work on your own time, you are now forced to abide by someone else's schedule, take time commuting, e.t.c

In office work is for people/positions that require hands on work with hardware, or you are hiring for replaceable positions where people don't have dedication to the cause and are going to do as little work as possible for the same pay. Tinygrad is neither.
The commenter mentioning reading small chunks from /dev/zero says specifically GREATER than the stated x8 throughput, which makes me think it's x8 in the general sense.

I could be mistaken though, it seems odd not to post any sort of numbers/benchmarks.
I'm reading your comment as saying that if I don't think Snowden/Assange should be pardoned and set free, I'm implicitly supporting mass surveillance.

I wanted to provide a counterbalance to that view. Snowden is a complicated case - in my view it isn't as simple as 100% hero or 100% villain - but Assange is in my view relatively clear.

Wikileaks and Manning appear to have leaked anything they can. I don't support such a scattergun approach. Also, while some of their leaks pertain to surveillance (the vault 7 ones) most of them do not.

Then there's Assange. He was facing extradition to Sweden under a European Arrest Warrant for rape alleged to have taken place there, but instead skipped bail on the pretext it was all some US conspiracy. Until extradition was approved he was free on bail. Likely had he been extradited to Sweden he would also have been free on bail, and the burden of proof would have remained on prosecutors. I'm sure he would have had a fair trial.

Instead he made it to the Ecuadorian embassy and stayed until he made himself unwelcome. At which point he was arrested by the UK for skipping bail and has since been subject to the very extradition procedure that was his pretext.

I'm British, although I no longer live there. If you are the US government and you want to extradite someone legally I can't imagine a friendlier jurisdiction than the UK.

I'm also mildly irritated that the UN torture experts keep sounding off that this is torture. Not at all. Assange chose to enter the Ecuadorian embassy and in doing so chose to break the law by not attending court. He chose to remain there for a considerable time, making labelling him a flight risk so obvious as to be automatic. When he came out of the embassy, he was convicted and jailed of that crime. He has also remained there because he's currently subject to extradition proceedings and no judge is going to grant him bail. I'm certain living in a confined space in the embassy wasn't pleasant, but that was a choice. I'm certain prison isn't pleasant either (no matter what UK tabloids say) but that is a consequence. This is a far cry from what, say, the Syrian regime does.

I support encryption and anything that frustrates mass surveillance because I believe fundamentally that private citizens have a right to a private life and that invasion of that privacy should be specific and justified, including when it comes to electronic communications. I accept that law enforcement will sometimes be faced with a situation in which they cannot decrypt communications between two almost certain criminals and this may make their job harder, and I'm happy with that trade-off. In the end, all a pervasive backdoor does is target law abiding citizens, as criminals by definition won't feel bound to put their keys in escrow or whatever. They're already developing their own handsets and the police have shown themselves capable of targeting them (encrochat).

At the same time, if Assange is extradited to the US tomorrow then good riddance. I don't see that I have to support him in any way in order to object to mass surveillance, pervasive monitoring and mandated backdoors.
risc-v is not limited to sifive, there are several other implementations. And yes, arm and x86 made angry ppl with enough resources to make happen risc-v, and it has been a decade and it is still gaining momentum even if the market is over-saturated with arm and x86. That's last point is really positive, and it allows us to think risc-v could be successful.

But I agree that without _REALLY_ performant implementations, risc-v WILL fail and rumors say that things won't start to get serious before 2024. Nevertheless, in its current state, failure is still a more than valid outcome.
Over 80% of the components in the C919 are produced by foreign suppliers. Export controls could be applied to these companies in order to slow down China's rate of production, iteration and innovation.
How many of <T> ethnicity are in the community?

What is the average level of commitment and capability of <T> in the overall community?

If that is low relative to the community distribution members of <T> may not feel comfortable seeking speaker slots simply because they understand their relative ranking and do not want to potentially disrespect the group or humiliate themselves.

This is completely normal behavior for all <T>. Even in large subgroup most people do not consider themselves worthy of speaking at top conferences.
Probably Voyager 2. Running since August 20, 1977 - never been rebooted (because good luck doing that)
Life on Earth is an out-of-equilibrium process that has been running for ~3.5 billion years.
I agree about MAL (which I also came across thanks to HN). I've seen comments on HN to the effect that you are better off looking at the source code of an open lisp to understand how to do it properly, but I found working through MAL really educational and motivating. I was really pleased when I got my MAL implementation (in C#) to self-host.

I only really cheated once (by looking at an existing implementation) and that was when I was implementing macros. I discovered I'd misread something in the MAL guide and was doing the correct things, but in the wrong order.

I'm now doing MAL again in Rust as a way of going up the Rust learning curve, and when I've done that (or enough) I'm going to see if I can code a garbage collected version of MAL (probably using 'Crafting Interpreters' as a guide - another really superb instructional resource).
Part of it is profiling, data gathering, and part of it if you happen to mention something that is not-supposed-to-be-mentioned, you will be targeted by private comms, job offers, etc. to collect further info.

Edit: for example, US military is buying locations data from a Muslim prayer app (1). You can assume also same happens for other apps by other 3 letters agencies, like dating apps, social media (including HN), and others. No action needs to be taken, just data gathering for whenever it’s needed.

(1) https://www.businessinsider.com/us-military-location-data-mu...
2nd is good and Third is ok
C and C++ are about the worst possible languages to use for scripting—let alone interactive interfaces, which even the current crop of conventionally “scripting” languages is kind of bad at[1].

Having an interpreter to poke at in-development code, though, would IMO still be useful. (I wouldn’t use Haskell or SML/OCaml for scripting either, and yet I swear by their interpreters.) Even GDB has something like one—the expression fragment the “print” command understands includes casts, which means it can parse type names, and for unoptimized C that’s honestly half the battle.

Or take it from (younger) Russ Cox[2]:

> All current C environments suffer from a much larger problem, namely a lack of interactivity. You can’t sit at a prompt, enter C fragments, and see what happens.

[1] http://yosefk.com/blog/i-cant-believe-im-praising-tcl.html

[2] https://swtch.com/~rsc/systems-2002.pdf
Good shout. I've added another example image near the top, instead of burying the lede for people wondering what it's about.
> A LLM can pull from itself training text, LLM code, and fine-tuning examples. Then it can monitor its own re-training.

You can train a weaker model with output from a stronger, but can you train an LLM from output from itself?
Depends on how much JS is trying to handle.
I think the most charitable thing that you could say about Zero Hedge is that it's... weirdly credulous of Russian propaganda (which in itself would make it a bad news site; you don't want a news site that'll just reprint any old nonsense it sees on Twitter). However, there may be more to it than that: https://www.newyorker.com/news/benjamin-wallace-wells/is-the... (see the bit about Colin Lokey; the Bloomberg source article goes into more detail but is paywalled).
It is absolutely having an impact on the outside. I'm currently putting together the architecture of our new Content Delivery platform, and considering different parts of the stack. The look from the outside is of a project who recently has been making very bad decisions from leadership - it makes me consider what to get our team to upskill in, or to hire on, as we move away from "everything in JS".

A Go stack is looking quite achievable.
Which wont fundamentally classify as "Art".
Magazines those use high quality human artists production will continue to sell in more value, simply because, what they contain are always unique and new. AI fails to render anything new other than a mashup of existing patterns. Human artists can re-imagine and re-contextualise. AI cant' :)

But here, the legal system is going to bit anyone who would fully use AI as they would be zero copyright or intellectual property rights attached with anything an AI creates unless they can prove that it came as a product of training on data they own and produced alone. If it involves general data online there wont be any intellectual rights they can claim for the creation. Hence making each copy of that worthless.
"And most of the time, it turned out that the intentions were, in fact, good! But the execution was poor — or that there was a lack of resources, a lack of process, or a lack of manpower, or a deadline to hold, or it was just that person being that person again.

...

And it’s not like they’re really bad people, it’s more like they tend to… use back channels rather than follow process? Or they have too many responsibilities, and are unable to fulfill all of them properly? Or maybe they don’t listen enough?

Or maybe it’s not individuals, but pairs of individuals who have a feud for some reason or other (sometimes completely valid). Maybe one party feels slighted by something that happened years ago, maybe they have irreconcilable goals or technical views, or differing opinions on what belongs where."

The complaint has not been that they are bad people, it's that they are incompetent. This seems to confirm that some of the people involved are indeed incompetent.

This seems way more cut and dry than the author is portraying.

Kinda crazy that this was supposed to be a clean slate for Rust governance.
When is Elon getting one?
Happy to.

I am using this as an accessible (in term of discussion material) hallmark for the ability of the system to self improve. Accessible because everyone has heard of it by now, and so I don't have to spend time explaining it.

The AI Doomsday scenarios require that a system self-improves massively, even beyond our ability to even theoretically understand. After all, some of the assumptions give them next to magical abilities like nanotechnology that we similarly don't know if it is even possible.

It stands to reason that an entity that can do that, or is in the process of becoming capable to do that, would begin by eliminating obvious flaws in itself, that would make it comparatively easy to stop.

After all, it's not much good being a super-intelligence, if some smartpants with a laptop and too much time on his hands can just trick me into deleting myself, is it?

> But it seems to me that von Neumann or Einstein was just as vulnerable to getting hit in the head with a baseball bat as anyone else.

Yes, and despite both of them being geniuses by human standards, neither of them was a superintelligence on the level the common doomsday scenarios ascribe to AI.
Would be really good a change no the communication side. But I am without expectations side there where days without any explanation about why a draft for trademark pourposes was so bad.

Now working with Rust I have the same feelings as working with Java...
Those look more like similar than completely different experiences.
Is this not what Android Go is supposed to be?
> If a particular political group is frequently posting videos that flagrantly break the TOS... they're much more likely to get reported and banned before they make much headway.

They are also able to get feedback and learn how to adapt, in the cat-and-mouse game of spam/SEO/wrongthink. IMO, these groups are the ones that know how to exploit the algorithms best, because they have a ruthless survivalship happening.
This is quite a narrative. I think the correct perspective is: YouTube caters to local governments, which often want to limit what their population has access to. Many countries regulate their speech much more heavily than the United States.

You watch what your government wants you to watch.
Why is it always the same types of people peddling the same noise?

You're constantly posting russian propaganda here, with links to russian propagandist telegram channels, foxnews.com, RT, propagandist twitter accounts, propagandist youtube channels... and of course you're singing the wonders of Elon Musk next to this.

"Blah blah the west, liberals, etc" -- please. You'll jump at the opportunity to defend Russia and whine about "The West" the first chance you'll see. Don't pretend you're in favour of anything just in this world.
Wrong question, the right one is: How to make 10 billion people live with decent life standards and comfort without destroying the planet?
Thank you for reaching out. This is what I am talking about:

> "It was JeanHeyd who called Rust out for having no Black representation among Rust conference speakers."