skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely not. Increased borrowing meeting the lending standards is a proxy for economic activity and the system is designed to expand money supply into increasing demand for money. The fact that the issuance itself doesn't consume countries worth of power is a feature, and it doesn't mean that it's backed 'by nothing' - it's backed by the economy and the legal system, and created in response to demand. Zoom out a little bit.

The system itself is actually quite elegant and has functioned very well over decades and a wide variety of market conditions.

Remember despite new money being created now in loan issuance the aggregate supply is shrinking so it's silly to look solely at issuances and say they're 'out of thin air' when the system is actually reducing the supply. Look at the whole thing, not one slice.
> I'd love to learn aside from "it's more efficient" (aka cheaper) the compelling reason for using wood vs cement.

It's less expensive in many ways. Materials cost less, it's faster to build, it requires less skill to build, maintenance is less expensive, and changes are less expensive. Unreinforced masonry is a significant earthquake risk, which may a factor.

Wood meets the requirements and it's less expensive, so there you go. There's downsides of course, but modern building requirements are tough to meet with any construction type; drafty houses make for expensive HVAC, but tend not to accumulate moisture which leads to bad things.
>While Congress and other parties have many faults, they’re still a damn sight better

This is clearly an inflammatory opinion with no substantial backing provided, I'd love to hear your reasoning for coming to this conclusion. Indian politics isn't as black and white as you're making it out to be.
Government money would risk making them dependent on it, which would reduce their ability to be self sustainable and independent, which risks becoming political. Best avoided if possible.
The title is mathematically equivalent to “what is nobody is good at maths?”

This currently-prevailing attitude that humans are interchangeable cogs with no individual talent or personality would be hilarious if it wasn’t so destructive.
I never played Deus Ex, so I'm judging solely by the published videos and frames. The effect seems quite bad and unnatural to me. In the 1st side by side comparison, for example, the block blends with the terrain in a way that it shows its corners reflection on the terrain. Shouldn't be there some hierarchies coded so that the sand blends with the block base without looking like the block is penetrating into the terrain? Also, the 2nd video example shows some evident perspective errors wrt parallax. If this is the alternative, I would choose any day the basic hard-intersection version.
I think if you took a survey about which code is easier to read a pile of expressions acting as closures inside of nested method calls or a loop, you would likely find most programmers have comfort with one over another. That's objective because it's how pseudocode, the most widely used language agnostic abstraction used in computer science beyond plain text, is written. But that's really not the point and it never was, right?

You can grill me if you want and say I am the problem! Zing ouch got me so good! Those HN points will get racked up, so much winning...

Or you can read between the lines. I drew an unspecific example with microseconds of thought behind it. People who know what I am saying know what I conveyed is fine. People who know me, know I regularly use pipes and chained method calls all day. The point is, the paradigm could go either way, it depends on culture(reading the room), and design decisions. Had I of flipped my example and said "method calls can make code way cleaner than for loops" which in some contexts is equally valid your antiparticle HN contributor would make the same argument you made calling me the problem. Get it?

I would say people trying to shit on everyone around them for being casual are more of a problem then anything else. Especially in collaborative development environments. That supercedes any code anyone could contribute. But that's my take and I'm not going to suggest it belongs on some arbitrary list of ad hoc HN rules (of which none hold water)... I won't be writing a five pager with examples where what I said was sound valid and best praxis, I have nothing to prove, and that was never the point. Everyone who knows what I'm talking about gets it. Happy flag planting with imaginary enemies.
We're building this at DinMo! (dinmo.com)
We started with a context augmented assistant with retrieval and augmented queries, but we're actually working on training a smaller model for each client datawarehouse by creating a specific training dataset. You can check out a video the first version of the assistant here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRClskxe1Wk
Did you had luck with newer motherboards and DOS? I've seen IDE compatibility mode for SATA removed and DOS can't access disks even for diagnostics, like Victoria HDD.

And what use cases do you have in DOS that can't be done in Windows/Linux Live CD?
> Have you forgotten the New York Times job ad for South Asia Business Correspondent for India?

The NYT is not the primary source of truth for policymakers in the United States.

I agree there are a number of issues with the NYT's Delhi office, and a lot of that stems from bad pay.

The media ecosystem in the US works the same way as how the media works pin India. I haven't seen very nuanced discussions about American institutions in the Dainik Jagran, Hindustan Times, or WION either.

> Yeah and since when has Western media ever understood this nuance?

In the Media that is actually consumed and read and used by policymakers like when I was on the Hill, as well as in the educational programs that bring future Americans into the Foreign Service.
This is also the case with similar popular platforms like WordPress, there is always tension between expanding what you can do to include nearly everything people can think of, and at the same time keeping some basic checks/safeguards. There is also the issue that the most popular platforms and plugins will receive the most attention from attackers. Technologies like Wasm at least provide hope to alleviate some of those concerns by "sandboxing" the modules (ie if a module is a spellchecker it should not be allowed to connect to the network, etc.)
BA/Spring still has tournaments too, and predates SupCom1 (though Spring was of course following the promotional materials released for it, the Supreme Strait map was already in it before the name of Seton's Clutch that it's based on was even known), and BAR(/Recoil) used to stand for Balanced Annihilation Reloaded.

https://challonge.com/CROWN_CUP_7
At a given shutter speed, the sensor gain is exactly as high as you would expect it to be at f/1.5. It’s just that with the much smaller surface area of the sensor, the signal-to-noise ratio is way worse.
I guess the alternative is just bounding the number of instructions and proving inside or outside your language that it is sufficient for your program.
Sure, I'm fine with that. I guess my point is that those posts, to me, just try to convey that one should write good code, and that good code is not necessarily using all the tricks in the book (rather not).

But then they tend to go as far as to say "never use this concept, because it's too complex", or even go towards wishing that the language did not offer any "clever" features, which I disagree with.

Yes, write good code, as in "maintainable". But don't say that a concept is always bad (be it tertiary operators, recursion or templates). It depends on the language, project and situation.
Your maths is wildly off in my experience. We had 4 tools for custom parts making ABS plastic parts made in 2013. These were considered hard tools and produced over 100,000 parts each across 5 years and cost us £30k made in the UK in about 4 weeks after material was available. The parts were each around the size of an adult fist and the tools were multi impression. They weren’t large enough to have any hot runners (I think I’m remembering that term correctly) but they did have movers in them.

If we had wanted to make the parts out of PVC we would have had to use stainless steels tools from memory and that would have been more expensive.
> “Often their history is quite telling – they have visited Russia often, for example,” said Kallioniemi.

I'm still puzzled by the July 4, 2018 Republican visit to Moscow. Why didn't this cause more of a stink? Why did they choose July 4?
You should submit this to https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x
if you're uploading a compiler you could just upload a binary. unless it's a very specific system you can probably just put it together "at home" and slap it in there.
I've seen no evidence that autonomous vehicle operations in cities is anything more than a novelty service
Doesn’t that just create echo chambers?
One Click Deepfake
I did a few minutes of research. I did not find any such person. So I'm inclined to agree; the author may have meant Geoffrey Hinton.

See also: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/06/07/ai-promise...

> Gary Smith points us to [this news article][1]:

> Geoffrey Hinton is a legendary computer scientist . . . Naturally, people paid attention when Hinton declared in 2016, “We should stop training radiologists now, it’s just completely obvious within five years deep learning is going to do better than radiologists.” The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first AI algorithm for medical imaging that year and there are now more than 80 approved algorithms in the US and a similar number in Europe.

[1] https://qz.com/2016153/ai-promised-to-revolutionize-radiolog...

> Geoffrey Hinton is a legendary computer scientist. When Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio were given the 2018 Turing Award, considered the Nobel prize of computing, they were described as the “Godfathers of artificial intelligence” and the “Godfathers of Deep Learning.” Naturally, people paid attention when Hinton declared in 2016, “We should stop training radiologists now, it’s just completely obvious within five years deep learning is going to do better than radiologists.” The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first AI algorithm for medical imaging that year and there are now more than 80 approved algorithms in the US and a similar number in Europe.

> Yet, the number of radiologists working in the US has gone up, not down, increasing by about 7% between 2015 and 2019. Indeed, there is now a shortage of radiologists that is predicted to increase over the next decade.
(bit of a rant here, you've been warned)

As someone who could've developed an IT/programming career, but didn't because I felt things were already bloating back in the '00s, I agree with the majority: "harvesting your own food" can be rewarding but also a tedious and thankless job. It's certainly not for everyone, but if it works for some people then it is (let's put efficiency aside for a moment) perfectly valid. In fact, being more of a H/W guy I find myself gravitating towards this approach more often than not. Leanness and reproducibility is key for my workflow (I went the RF-world path), I can't afford different end results when a dependency changes/breaks something.

IMHO, keeping up with the modern paradigms for S/W development looks like a never-ending nightmare. Yes it's the modern way, yeah it's the state of the art. Still, I didn't feel it was a wise investment of my time to learn all those "modern dev" ropes, and I still feel that 20 years later. I'm nowhere near antiquated and I'm on top of all things tech (wouldn't read HN otherwise), it's just...

I see former friends/classmates that went this way, and they're in a constant cat-and-mouse game where 50% of time they're learning/setting up something dev-chain related, the rest 50% doing actual work, and 98% of it feeling way too stressed. I see modern Android devices with their multi-MB apps, bloated to hell and beyond for a simple UI that takes ages to open on multi-core, multi-GHZ SOCs. I see people advocating unused RAM is wasted RAM, never satisfied until every byte is put to good use, reluctant to admit that said good use is just leaving the machine there "ready" to do something, but not doing anything _productive_ actually.

And yet.

Without that bloat, without the convienience of pre-made libraries and assist tools for almost every function one could desire, we wouldn't be where we are now. Imagine for a moment doing AI-work, 3D movie rendering, data science etc. with a DBless approach on single-core machines with every resource micro-managed to eke out the most performance. It's simply not feasible, we would still be on the 90s... just a bit more hipster.

This article resonates so well with me. And at the same time, it feels so distant.
You're proposing that they fight against all "surveillance?" Who exactly would they fight?
Here's the definition of Hindutva according to the Supreme Court, if anyone's curious

“Hindutva is understood as a way of life of state of mind and is not to be equated with or understood as religious Hindu fundamentalism…it is a fallacy and error of law to proceed on the assumption…that the use of words Hindutva or Hinduism per se depicts an attitude hostile to all persons practicing any religion other than the Hindu religion.”
Kind of what you want, with wasmEdge and FastCGI https://wasmlabs.dev/articles/wordpress-nginx-fcgi-mysql/
Thank you for your answer.
This is more or less what I am trying to do. I agree that people caring about specs is a culture thing, I want to convince the VP that we need a clear workflow to work on complex features. If you had to recommend a tool, which one would it be ?
What percentage of the diagnostic radiologists won't bother to even review the AI output? 3%, 10%, 30%? It'll increase as the AI improves. Unless the image is sent to multiple radiologists or their metrics (eg spotting AI errors) are updated, we'll get crap results.

I know one top tier diagnostic radiologist and he could tell which piece of equipment an image was taken on (or if something is out of calibration) with a fairly quick glance. Regularly on the phone with techs and technologists to get things fixed or reimaged. He retired recently.

From his telling most of the work has been outsourced to India for the last 10-15 years. He only gets the really challenging stuff.

edit: Interestingly, it seems like breast imaging is still done more in house and there are regular reviews, but that's from a different source.
Scrapers scraping scrapers.
Exactly. Maybe it’s good the IA stays out of government and politics stuff.
Just to provide some context : The reason people believe this particular doctored (or AI enhanced) image "could be true" is because this "toolkit approach" has been employed by the Left Wing in India. The Right Wing in India regularly points it out on Twitter. So if both sides are slinging mud, its race to the bottom for the getting lowest common denominator on their side. I sometimes wish why can't we unbundle these left vs right issues and decide stuff case by case. Hence I support TruthGPT by Elon.
Respecting a person's choice of gender is not the same as respecting their insistence of "identifying" with a non-existent virtual animale waifu character. One is a person born into the weong body, the other is a bunch of pixels. One is in reality, the other is not...

It's concerning that this needs to be spelled out.
Thanks Holger. I have fond memories of the BWInf times!
I’ve seen several of each advertised. (Well, “Generative AI” if not specifically “GPT” on the tin.)
Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see any information about costs.
For a different approach that has FastCGI and MySQL support: https://wasmlabs.dev/articles/wordpress-nginx-fcgi-mysql/
this, @dang please review the title
(er, 6MB/sec)
I am also a non-technical person learning to code with GPT as my mentor.

If non-techie people are willing to pay you $15 for you to write simplified summaries of programming concepts, so they can glance for 15 seconds at the occasional email they receive, then good on you. I can actually see people paying, but let's be real... ChatGPT can do this.

Your value add is that you're just giving a 'path' for someone to follow along since they won't know where to start. But anyone that 'wants' to learn will quickly find a learning path like javascript.info
I wouldn't call assembly 0-based. Sure, the zero flag is convenient for branching on zero when counting backwards but what makes assembly 0-based apart from that? I'd say having a pointer to the first element of an array is pure convention and you could as easily point it to the imaginary element before, similar to how the program counter always points to the next imaginary instruction on most architectures.
Not true of the organisation verification.
It will affect leeching torrents that don't have a ton of seeders. No forwarding could render a torrent unusable that would otherwise download just fine if you had an open port.
So much of modern c++ is trying to get around just using the preprocessor.
You will, once the lack of driver is priced in.
Cloudflare Workers "Bundled" is a legacy mode that is not the default these days. Unbound mode (the default for paid subscriptions) offers 30s CPU time.
Right, I'm completely okay with that. I guess I just don't understand why there are regularly blog posts trying to explain what should be common sense: "write code that it nice to read and maintain".

The thing is, getting to the point where you can write good code takes experience, not blog posts that say that recursion and tertiary operators are always "clever".
>> I haven't even included UPI in this which has been an absolute game changer.

Wasn't the work on UPI started in 2009 and the vision statement was prepared in 2012, 2 years before Modi/BJP came to power?

>> In April 2009, National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) was formed to integrate all the payment mechanisms in India and make them uniform for all retail payments. RBI in 2012 released a vision statement for a period of four years that indicated commitment towards building a safe, efficient, accessible, inclusive, interoperable and authorized payment and settlement system in India. UPI was officially launched in 2016 for public use. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface
AFAIC all of those have degraded.
> I don’t expect my x86 program to stop working after a software update or not to work on new x86 CPUs that’s just ridiculous.

Your x86 program doesn't work on Apple Silicon without something equivalent to a recompile. Old operating systems very commonly can't run on bare metal new hardware because they don't have drivers for it.

Even the IR isn't actually machine code, it's just a binary format of something that gets compiled into actual machine code right before use.

> Also if you expect anyone to compile anything you probably haven’t shipped anything in your life.

Half the software people run uses JIT compilation of some kind.
I'm sure other languages would have more than 17 useful features.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jul/27/long-covid-c...

weird, this headline doesn't say lockdowns costing workers up to £1.5bn in lost income. But i'm sure you're very concerned about that damage too.
It's also, and perhaps primarily, a vow.
> I have no doubt that AI is not going to kill us because 95% of companies won’t even be able to build it.

I take your joke, but the argument doesn't hold water for many reasons. Here are only two:

1. Even if only 5% of companies can build something dangerous, that's more than enough.

2. The "AI" doesn't have to directly kill us; we're capable of doing that ourselves with only a little bit of informational, societal, and/or economic degradation.
My wife does product lifecycle management and development, and it’s been fascinating watching just how hard it is to actually make and sell something physical. Her company’s products aren’t even electrical, but require complex textile work that has its own set of challenges.

Concept to sales in stores can be a multi-year cycle. There are late night meetings with factories in China. Patent issues that can require workarounds that seem absurd to those of us in software. Iteration time of product concepts that require a physical prototype can take months of work between a designer and the manufacturer.

And then there is one of the most important final steps of having the product end up in stores across the world: shipping!

Pre-COVID a shipping container ran between $6-9k, during COVID it ballooned up to $36k. Margins suddenly got waaaay smaller and that had a trickle down effect where even retailers were then pushing for higher margin to compensate —- squeezing her company on both ends.

Don’t even get me started on Amazon….
I wish constexpr actually asked the compiler to evaluate an expression at compile time and not just a statement.
Striving for the Impossible: Reasonable Crypto Debate
Yes, precisely that.

Also, "Halal" is a means to gain religious supremacy/monopoly in the food sector. Only Muslims are permitted to work in Halal abatoirs.
Joker is a small interpreted dialect of Clojure written in Go
Give me 20 min and I could “few shot tune” a model dedicated to posting time wasting, but click baiting, responses to threads. Imagine combining that with a mobile proxy farm (millions of real proxies) and some automation tools.

That’s today, imagine in 2 years or 5 years.

It sucks, but the internet as we know it is over.
Just use the word "Filter Bubble". It's cleaner. /Facebook meme
True. Outside niche forums like HN, blockchain isn't even notable enough for people to brand it useless...
It's not unnecessary if the feature is something you want?

There's this pattern on HN: people value a feature as having 0 utility and then become annoyed that someone has paid time/performance/money for them. Well duh, if you discount the value of something to 0, it will always be a bad idea. But you're never going to understand why people are paying for it if you write off their values.

At my last job there were countless pieces of UX to make things smoother, more responsive, better controlled by keyboard or voice reader, etc.. that required JS. It was not possible to make our site as good as possible with CSS, and it certainly wasn't worth the tradeoffs of loading a big faster (not that it couldn't have had it's loading time improved--just, cutting JS was a nonstarter).
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Our manufacturing (tool design, machining and production) is based in Guangdong, China. We have strong ties (15+ years working relationship) with the factory, which may have some pricing impact.

The tolerances on the high-run part are non-critical (but still need to match the other part for a seamless ultrasonic weld). It's got curved surfaces, and the surface texture was EDM'd on.

Likewise, not at all an expert - but have about 10 injection-moulded products under my belt; I just got back from China pricing out two new projects tooling projects. My email is in my profile if you ever want to reach out!
I get that teaching is part of the contract. I just would hope that a professor is hired based on that fact...