skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Experimental particle physicist here. What you say about Higgs particles "they don't exist under normal condition" is loosely true of all particles in nature in the sense that a particle is nothing but a "quantum" of a "field". Fields pervade all physical space and can vary in time. Particles (or quanta) simply represent a local state of observable things. A field can only do certain things to certain physical states and at a probabilistic level. Notice that fields do things even with the vacuum which is just another state from which particles can be "extracted".

The peculiar experimental challenge about the Higgs field is that it can extract its quanta from certain physical states (certain initial conditions in a particle physics reaction) only at very high energy and with low probability, but that is true also for other particles. Its truly peculiar thing is that the presence of the Higgs field, in addition to the fields of all other particles that we know of, explains why quanta in general have a mass (although this is not clear for neutrinos) through a mechanism where the Higgs field interacts with the quanta of other particles.
I'm opposed to DEI but I'm not sure if states banning it sets a good precedent. As much as possible, the government should leave the academy alone.
How to Cancel Your Hiccups
Okay, this is a little challenging to describe, it is something that I've always been able to do. I've tried to describe it to many people, but so far only ~3 people have successfully executed the technique.

First, practice a "false hiccup". Do this by mildly inhaling, then abruptly close off the inhalation somewhere in the throat. There should be some kind of "vacuum" effect that feels similar to a hiccup, you should feel this somewhere between your belly and chest.

Next, time this "false hiccup" precisely with a "true hiccup". If done correctly, the hiccup should "cancel". Using this technique, it has been many many years since I've hiccuped more than twice in a row.
Thanks! So if I understood you right, whatever coupling does to the fields, it's something doesn't involve virtual Higgs, is that right?

Is it fair to say that both virtual Higgs and 'real' Higgs are two types of excitations of that field, except that virtual particles can't be directly observed?

I find the name virtual particles interesting, since they don't seem to be exactly the same kind of ripples as particles, and physicists frequently seem to disagree on how 'real' they are as a matter of interpretation
I was taught it was not terribly effective except in case of lightning strike. We weren’t taught how to do it in Mountaineering-Oriented First Aid because of that, and because the leadership, wound care, trauma, and specific conditions aspects of the course took almost the whole three days.
It took off in London towards the end of COVID really, some pubs & cafes and most cinemas for some reason (with a few honourable exceptions like the ICA and the Picturehouse chain).
It’s actually pretty easy to argue for “equality of opportunity” (i.e. reducing or even making up for an unequal start of life) from a meritocracy viewpoint.
I live in a former socialist country, but most of the system has not changed a lot.

Most of what USA does, from affirmative action to preferential hiring based on race or any kind of born-with status would be seen as very racist and/or sexist here.

Even to get into college, points (from grades and standardized testing) are the only thing taken in consideration in most colleges (visual arts, acting, and music being notable exceptions).
This seems quite presumptive. First, intelligence doesn’t seem to be unidimensional. A 140 IQ person can be fooled by an optical illusion just the same as anyone else. It’s just not a problem that’s able to be intelligenced away from our cognition. That doesn’t mean a 140 IQ person can’t beat an 80 IQ person in many many other competitions of intelligence.

Second, if you are truly “accepting the premise” of superintelligence, a superintelligence would know exactly this line of reasoning and just opt to at least mimic vulnerability to prompt injection.

I wouldn’t hang civilization on this proofpoint. Doesn’t seem meaningful at all.
Won’t the same apply to public online conversations (social media, forums)? Anyone can be a bot, and thus I think something like conversing digitally with only those whom you exchanged keys with their phone via bluetooth or NFC irl will be more and more common? I know no solution besides web of trust architecture + irl exchanged keys.
GPT's knowledge isn't up to date enough to know about the feature I mentioned. No, it wasn't written by GPT. It wasn't clear to me from the post that superoptimisation pertains to optimisation of machine code only.
It is your wording that constitutes flaming and is off the limits regardless of political stance.
I wonder what the second and third order effects of this will be?
> Didn't he save Twitter from total bankruptcy?

Did he? I see no evidence Twitter was at risk of total bankruptcy before he bought it.

> Still SpaceX and Tesla are examples of effectiveness overall

Which reinforces my point - both were formed and successful while Elon had good optics.
AI as an Evolutionary Trend
> I would have thought that should be gold and silver

The Vatican City flag (when also referencing the descriptions of elements imported from the coat of arms) uses yellow and white and gold and silver (and the gold and silver are on the white.
If a telephone company knowingly serviced a contract killer, they would be fine.

Same with postal service, etc.
Being a savant at creating and then solving a particular kind of puzzle is certainly a form of smartness. Figuring out whether it's a form that you want to have involved in your business is another form of smartness.

The principal-agent problem looms large.
Why did you use the term dynamic programming programming when referring to the memorization part? The term of art, dynamic programming, is at play here but refers to the initial design of breaking up the problem into recursive sub-problems.
> meritocracy is the gold standard and no, I do not believe that we need to make up for an “unequal start to life”

In labor markets, sure. But isn’t merit for a youth largely built through education? Certainly feels like full-blown meritocracy without accounting for equality of opportunity is for some a self-fulfilling prophecy and for others a catch-22. At any rate probably a recipe for supercharging wealth inequality.
It's widely considered likely that affirmative action will be banned by the US supreme court in the next few years.
Brazil’s 490/2007 Bill: Stripping Indigenous Communities of Their Land Rights
Nope, those are not the smartest developers. Those are the cleverest developers.

The best developers solve the hard problems without writing the worst code.
You should help poor children, no matter what race they are, before those DEI offices are needed for them.
The pruning part can do a lot of heavy lifting to make it a practical tool.

Related: I work on Souper (https://github.com/google/souper).

Feel free to reach out if anyone has questions!
That's perfect -- as easy to write and to read as printf. I feel like an idiot for not using it all these years.

Edit: Oh, it's in C++23 standard. Only took them 38 years! ;-)
Most of the predictions of the negative aspects of globalization from the 90s came true, specifically, about the hollowing out of working class jobs, the polarization that would result, and the erosion of western values to accomodate the despots we trade with. I was against globalization then because it was just a way for governments to collude with one another to dilute their accountability to their national constituents. Today, these governments literally import voters and distribute them throughout their country to prop up their political parties in contested areas because natural citizens don't vote for the looting and demolitions of their own societies.

Globalization just became "globalism," and remains a cynically anti-democratic and anti-nation state movement that is the expression of a totalitarian urge. It is not reversing, but its growth has taken a brief break. Its architects know it is going to cause conflict, and judging by what we saw of them in the first few rounds, I suspect they are only resting and organizing for the next phase.
We have volunteer election workers facing credible death threats in the US. If I had Bezos level money, I'd definitely have a couple of folks around to manage the potential crazies, just in case.
I’ve no idea about Texas but if there’s one thing that Florida doesn’t have is a dynamic economy. Per capita pay is pretty low compared to more developed states, even in areas where salaries are usually good, like tech.

It’s great if you have a remote job that pays well, otherwise you’re in for a surprise for what people offer here.
This reminds of an undergrad paper I once wrote in which I showed that binary functions in n variables need asymptotically not more (and seldom less) than 2^n/n boolean gates.
An open-source alternative to QuickBooks
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing this!
The values you're espousing here are the core lesson I took from John Ousterhout's A Philosophy of Software Design.
its obviously an impossible question to answer with confidence but i attempted to put some fermi estimates here https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1657603239251181570

and based on kiinda conservative assumptions, ai coders start being competitive in 2028
When AI truly becomes helpful in the workplace developer jobs will probably change a lot but I think the biggest change will be in the size of the business scope. Most projects I've worked in could easily grow ten times if developers were ten times as efficient.

At the same time I've always wondered why IT problems haven't all been solved comprehensively already because so many problems seem so similar.

I can't really fit those two narratives together.
Icons Are Having a Dilemma
Depends on what you consider a continent... considering where we slavs came from originally, we did kill a bunch of people before we settled here, and we've also been used as slaves by other cultures, then killed a bunch of other cultures, also killed a bunch of our own cultures, and in more recent times, a bunch of germans, took away almost everything from everyone, gave it to the government, then a few decades of peace then a bit more of killing ourselves again.

So basically the same as any other country.

edit: but it seems you expect people who never owned slaves to give their spot to people who never were slaves.
The page will render perfectly fine before it is hydrated when using getStaticProps. To verify , simply run LightHouse in Chrome on a page with cache busting on and look at the screenshot timeline. It will render in a fraction of a second, long before React gets loaded.
There is no good measure for policy making. Goodhart and all that.

But it does serve as an often-indirect measure, as part of a plethora of other measures, to simply explore the effects of policy.

I’m not aware of policy that focuses on improving GDP per se (not saying there isn’t any, Im just not that tuned into politics) but I am aware of people criticising their government when GDP has dropped after a major change. That’s the appropriate use, though.
accepted "(char *)" in microport unix compiler, back in the day. correct was "(char *)0". lint missed the error, as well.

you youngsters have no idea you good you have it.
This is a dynamic that I don't think has existed for a while.

In the 90's there was a real need for the average person or business to require a faster computer.

For quite a while (~2005-2020), computers seemed to be approximately sufficiently powerful for the majority of tasks outside specialized/niche cases.

Now, suddenly, LLMs and other ML models have crossed a threshold of everyday usefulness such that it is worth throwing more compute/memory at it.

More resources may or may not give us better results with these resource-hungry models, yet it's surely the case that more resources allows more individual LLM agents to be deployed. If the marginal utility of an incremental agent is nonzero, then there'll be demand for more compute.
I can't understand this life style. To be the best at thinking deeply I need my mind to relax and focus in the goal, so to obtain a flux that point me in the direction to progress. Any anxiety or hurry is only going to make me blind to new opportunities. So, my advice is to learn to focus in a good target and forget playing being the number one.

Edited: Anyway, if you are unable to change that life style, I suggest you dedicate your life to something important for the rest of society, perhaps that can ameliorate being second in other fields.
If a safety upgrade to driving a car made people crash their cars more, you'd call that a bug. For DNS it's a feature called DNSSEC.
Yeah; in most of Western Europe sable is a color, but apparently in Germany and parts east it's considered a fur...
Ask HN: Has anyone else found coding easier when using a CPAP machine?
Today is my first-day coding after wearing one. I'm shocked at the improvements in my focus, short-term memory and ability to intuit a solution.

I'm shocked at how much my Apnea has been limiting me. I'd love to hear if anyone else has found this.
Or the US. Look at Operation Chokepoint or all of the people locked out of payment processors for wrong think. It's a theme that seems to transcend national boundaries that is accelerating. It's even on this forum. I just had a mod threaten me for making a snide but perfectly G-rated comment about NPR. It's not good!
Volume is measured in liters or m³.
> So much of modern c++ is trying to get around just using the preprocessor.

...and that's a good thing
> an immensely talented developer who would spam unnecessary patterns all over the codebase

He may have been talented but unnecessary patterns are the hallmarks of a bad programmer
Not that it really matters, but on your second point:

$ <example.json jq
[
1,
2,
3
]

…but if you are using a POSIXish shell, which I do not (fish).
> Why not go a step further and demand that all roads should be put underground, too, so that pedestrians can enjoy an idle stroll on green meadors above ground without all the annoyances that come from car traffic?

Don’t threaten me with a good time
Aiding and abetting (or accessory, more generally) has legal criteria that must be met fully:

1. The accused party must be aware of the perpetrator’s intent to commit a crime

2. The accused then took action to help or encourage the perpetrator in carrying out their intent

If both are not met, the accused person cannot be held criminally liable. I’m sure each of us have met a single one of these requirements in isolation. For example, if you watch a crime happen, you likely met #1 and if you helped out a random stranger and the help you rendered later assisted them when committing a crime, you met #2.

We as a society agree that just the act of solicitation for murder is crime, one that is totally separate from a murder charge. It is also a crime to sell a weapon if you are not licensed to do so in some jurisdictions.

A lot of legal theory revolves around the concept of “mens rea” (which itself has four levels: intent, knowledge, recklessness, and negligence), and “actus rea” which is the subsequent action as a result of the accused’s state of mind. Entities that act as a common carrier are shielded from this because their position in any transaction precludes any knowledge of the specific details of what they are facilitating.
How do they legally ban DEI offices? Aren’t universities basically businesses in the US? (Not an American.) Even if not, aren’t they allowed to do as they see fit?

Really surprised the government has the ability to do this, but I’m not super well educated here.
As far as I can tell, many modern CPR classes dropped the breath part. Just focus on the chest part.
You will pay more tax than file as single.
« I don’t think that parenthood has anything to do with genes »

See, this is why 80% of people are annoyed by the « woke » and other progressive discourse: Taking minority or rare cases (Transgenderism, LGBT, Obesity, etc.) that are exception to the norm, and using them to completely and absolutely deny that any norm exists or that the norm exists for legitimate reasons.

I’m sorry, but for 100% of animals and 99% of humans, parenthood absolutely has a lot to do with genes. The whole point of natural reproduction in nature is for genes to transmit. That might be inconvenient for you and you are welcome to express it, but denying it and ridiculing the vast majority who understand that makes you sound annoying.
Ssssh...the HN Rust Brigade will hear you
I never claimed the near monopoly of current processors is moral. My claim is easy: we have the right to conduct a business according to our ethics.
Here's the corollary of that: how does typical DEI actually help equality of opportunity? Put another way, do you think a black student from a wealthy family in San Jose or a poor white student from rural Alabama needs more help? Now show me a real-world DEI program that would help the white student instead of the black one.
The renormalization of white supremacy on the basis that "meritocracy" just happens to favor white men over nonwhites and women.
A system like this will lead to an overall increase of mis-readings. Humans are incredibly forgiving and lack focus when confirming opinions, versus generating raw opinions.

Imagine a Radiologist that already has to read 20 scans per day. With AI helping, and Radiologists just confirming, they will probably be expected to analyze 40 scans per day. Eventually the Radiologist will quickly get into a habit of confirm, confirm, confirm... 500 times in a day. They will stop treating each case as a real reading and instead they look at the AI's output and think, "looks about right" and will become complacent in actually providing valuable feedback. Furthermore, they will be expected to produce more work, meaning they are giving every case less attention than previous. They will begin to just trust the AI to keep up with their schedule.

The better use of AI is to flip it on its head. Let the radiologists continue to work like normal. They will produce reports like they do now, only 20 per day. But the AI will analyze each scan after them, and if it flags the scan as remarkable or disagrees with the radiologist, then it bubbles the scan back to the top for further analysis. This way Radiologists are still expected to provide their expertise as they do currently and we generally rely on their opinion, but we will have an added layer provided by AI to catch anything that might be missed. This overall improves the accuracy of medical imaging instead of compromising it (which the original proposed AI solution certainly would do). Productivity would not be increased in this scenario, but accuracy (and indirectly malpractice instances) would improve.

I for one, would not want to get scanned somewhere that relies on AI to analyze my scan. But i would love a place that used AI as a second pair of eyes to confirm a human's findings.
> Any impropriety in the process would have almost certainly toppled the government and led to an immediate election.

Didn't they just have an election that resulted in the minority government? Meaning all parties knew their chances of overthrowing the current admin were slim.

> Paul Rouleau

Weird. He was nominated by a Liberal administration and found no wrongdoings in the actions of... a Liberal administration!

> The senators are appointed by various leaders and are, at least in theory, not aligned with any political party and given lifetime appointments.

By who? Who nominates those people?

> And the Governor General is also pretty unaligned.

And nominated by?

> The King is obviously a hereditary role and lives in England

So weird to read that a foreign, non-elected person can have such a big impact. Feels completely alien.
Nit pick on my nick pick. I will remember to use my original version only when choosing between different people named Nicholas.
If a banana costs ~60¢ (depending where you get it!) and GPT-4 is 6¢ per 1k tokens… you’re better off using a monkey for everything > 10k tokens!
Not close to as in "it can nearly write it correctly", but close to as in "I believe within a small number of years, gpt-4-like tools would be able to write you a unix-like kernel from scratch and have it actually work, with no human input".

I think we already have most of the pieces in place:

* big language models that sometimes get the right answer.

* language models with the ability to write instructions for other language models (ie. writing a project plan, and then completing each item of the plan, and then putting the results together).

* language models with the ability to use tools (ie. 'run valgrind, tell the model what it says, and then the model will modify the code to fix the valgrind error')

* language models with the ability to summarize large things to small.

* language models with the ability to review existing work and see what needs changing to meet a goal, including chucking out work that isn't right/fit for purpose.

With all these pieces, it really seems that with enough compute/budget, we are awfully close...
> Take for example this one-liner:
> [program listing...]
> In this condensed program of 4 lines, the following happens:

Right a "one" liner I see...

once it gets above roughly 100 characters you are no longer allowed to call it a "one liner"

and style note putting the pipe"|" at the end of the command instead of the beginning acts as a natural break and lets you avoid the backslash escaped newline nonsense.

curl ... |
jq ... |
awk ....

vs

curl ... \
| jq ... \
| awk ...
Can you explain what is bad about DEI offices, using tangible examples? Who do they hurt?
It’s not that simple. People who do not get CPR live. Others who get CPR didn’t need it. Control group of 0 is missing the complexities of real life.
Testing difficulties delay launch of faster Acela trains, Amtrak says
And every few months someone wants to switch to a new framework or module for one specific reason and then the codebase is riddled with 10 different ways to do the same thing.
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Do you accept the payment and profit or can you refuse the transaction? A parent comment claimed we must process all transactions, legal or not.
ESPN still is the worst at accessibility though, HBO needs to try harder
I'm still waiting for the sound deadening paint that will also power my home by absorbing ambient vibrations.
Most Bitcoin Inscriptions belong to a single person
IANAL, but US states tend to have broad powers while the federal government is specifically limited by the constitution on what they can do. The supreme court could later find that these states banning DEI is illegal per the constitution, but for now the states typically have the authority to do as they please as long as it's not something already found to be going against the constitutional clauses that grant citizens rights.

That reads a bit confusing, but basically the constitution exists to give citizens rights and specifically limit the federal government. States can do more than the federal government but can't trample on the rights of citizens.
It doesn't pertain to the optimization of machine code only, but the distinguishing feature between optimization and superoptimization is that superoptimization produces an absolute shortest possible program given an instruction set. GPT doesn't do that. Copilot won't do that. Whatever cleanup feature you're describing is a non-sequitur here.
Just expect to be treated as an brainless execution monkey at those places. I have done it in the past and quit after 4 months. Have a new grad of mine who took a 1 year contract with a lab and I want him to quit within 6 months as the kinds of people who tend to become researchers are also jerks.