skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kotlin is widely popular, official language for one of the two dominant mobile platforms. It accounts for 0.37% of all search results gathered by TIOBE. Meanwhile, languages on the first 4 positions account for more than 50% of hits. Languages like PHP or Go, which you can still call pretty popular are on the order of 1-2 %.

It's completely subjective. The objective metrics (if web search are them, which is kind of dubious) tell us that whatever-language-you-like is probably orders of magnitude less popular than Fortran. The "real" popularity that you experience - how big the community is, how many packages are published, how many success stories are there - heavily depend on where you are, who you know, and what you want.

The index: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
> Once a company in the US has figured out a treatment for eclampsia, Europe can steal this knowledge for free (i.e. price-control them according to cost) while the US company must price-gouge against the manufacturing cost to recoup the R&D costs. This factors heavily into how much healthcare costs in the US (not to be interpreted as 'it's the only reason')

Recouping R&D costs has been disproven time and again. Medical companies spend far more on average on marketing (and lobbying) than on actual R&D.
UCS-2 length is also something that is still required today.
Every day I stay away from r/popular and large subreddits is a day I end up a bit happier and less angry.
There is no missing half in pointing out that the French revolution solved some inequalities. For all the blood and failure it had, some changes it introduced proved to be irreversible, such as the introduction of a constitution, and the people becoming a significant political player that has to be acknowledged when ruling.

And I would say that reading someone talk about some positive outcomes of an event and immediately feel compelled to call their views simplistic and whitewashed shows some bias.
This conjures the fear that the agency in question is bad at this. Do you have evidence that they are? Can it happen? Yes. We could also have it so that no wrecks from minorities are counted, such that we are blind to how they are impacted. Would be terrible. No evidence that that has happened.
> The amount of time/effort required to create a reliable estimate would probably double the cost of the completed project (ie, even after taking into account the overshoot on the informal estimate). The number of failed projects as a percentage of all projects would fall, but less projects would even start.

Another way of looking at it is that for most projects, the uncertainty in the estimate only reaches zero at the end of the project (when you know, hopefully, how much was actually spent). If a project is lucky, the initial uncertainty is low and reduces monotonically over time as the project progresses, so that the estimates gradually converge on the real cost.
AI can fix clickbait headlines by rewriting them
Isn't that the level emoji sequences work at?
Think of the children?
Can someone fill me in as to why the Council of Trent is trending here?
>> Burning biomass isn’t ideal when we’re dealing with an atmospheric CO2 crisis.

But it might offset other carbon based fuels. I was just trying to think of a use for that massive blob to get rid of it.

CO2 may be a threat down the road, but what if this blob chokes the oceans in 3 to 5 years? It's growing fast.
We Should Stop Using JavaScript According to Douglas Crockford
Infrastructure as Code impact on development teams
This is a new one for me :)
Your phone bill is approaching $1500 annually? What are your parameters? Unless that’s unlimited data lines for a family with lots of added devices, that’s a ton of money.
Sam Altman said recently that they are already working on making GPT-3.5/GPT-4 finetunable, they are just limited by the availability of compute (partially since none of their SFT infrastructure uses LoRa).

I had previously assumed it was safety concerns, since I don't see what stops someone from finetuning away all guard rails.
Yeah at this point I view Amazon Prime as a streaming service with an extremely odd set of perks.

It's also interesting the various bundles- I found out about the Grubhub+ one, which is normally $9.99 a month and is free with Prime. If you use one or two of the services bundles it ends up being an obvious money saver.
If you wish to delete a submission that is past the time limit then email dang hn@ycombinator.com as he may not see the [please delete]
...your data of course. Which is, I'm confident, what you're saying.

It will be interesting what the privacy policy & controls will look like on something like this, particularly given the COPPA issues Amazon is recently dealing with.

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/policy-news-views/amazon-re...
Both of these will affect quality.
Webb Maps Surprisingly Large Water Plume Jetting from Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
When I saw the 2023 date, I was very confused, as I could have sworn I read this years ago.

But yes...the original publication date was 2015, as noted in the "Information" section as well as the copyright. Looks like when Cambridge University Press took over publication of the journal, they pushed everything on Jan. 1, 2023, so all the articles have that "publication date".
Allinpod.ai is a speech and video generation app for content creators, powered by the latest AI technology, inspired by All-in podcast. Create engaging audio and video content with Besties.
Yes, it's a wildcard subdomain, works for every site.
Baudrillard saw it all in the late 1970s, in his book On Seduction that extrapolates the importance of video games from Pong and his later Simulacra and Simulation which outlines 13 parables for the information age, each of which could be the basis for an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. (e.g, Terminator as a study of the post human, Total Recall for the reality bending power of technology, Last Action Hero is in the liminal space between reality and fantasy)
A recent link on HN was the archives of Reddit comments from pushshift.io; of the first year of Reddit (December 2005 to December 2006), the comment counts on subreddits with >100 comments were:

115 ru
129 de
215 tr
380 nsfw
765 ja
932 freeculture
985 request
1487 joel
1784 lipstick.com
2022 features
4208 science
31266 programming
322776 reddit.com

Where "joel" was Joel Spolsky's programming blog. That's quite programmer-heavy. Some of the comments on "reddit.com" in 2005 were:

> "One thing I've noticed is that the bulk of reddit's content is usually IT-related or at least culturally related, while digg is more generalized in its content (perhaps this is a product of time?). My point is that it seems to me that the fact that the "who" uses the site has a greater influence on usability than "how" the site is used." -

> "In the beginning, digg was pretty much all tech-related links, and whenever someone posted anything else you'd get a flurry of "this is a tech news site"-type comments. As the userbase grows and you get a more diverse demographic using the site, it becomes less "elite" and expands into other areas."
Perhaps more so than most places, Manhattan's a real mix of iconic things that have seemingly been there forever and a ton of ongoing change--including the massive transformation of whole neighborhoods on the time scales represented by this map.
If I was an intelligence agency, I would have one department whose job is to 'get caught'. Ie. they use dumb methods to spy on obvious targets, like using exploits to install malware that leaves a wake of plenty of discoverable info and loudly sends data back to the mothership.

I would then have another department whose job is to be as subtle as possible - for example, all their exploits are 'in ram' and all data sent back is plausibly deniable. (for example, rather than using a random 256 bit nonce while establishing an HTTPS connection to apple to check for updates, use 256 bits of encrypted data you wish to exfiltrate)
Maybe I'm taking this too seriously, but the authors seem preoccupied with airing their own frustration with the views of Deepak Chopra. Using such an author as a data source is distracting because he writes about a sort of spiritual thinking that - based on the tone of the article - the authors presumably do not practice themselves.

I would be interested to expand the author's definition of bullshit to account for instances where the 'bullshitee' has insufficient knowledge about a topic. In the same way a true statement about theoretical physics would be indistinguishable from bullshit to anyone not trained in the subject.

I found this paper close to touching on a method for understanding truthiness in generated text, but falling short into comedy.
Interesting. I wonder how it compares to Voila. What I like about Voila is that you can use ipywidgets natively and then render Jupyter Notebooks directly to a web-app. Maybe this will be a decent competitor.
"The Houston Astros are seeking an Analyst for the team's Baseball Research and Development group. The Analyst will work closely with the Director of R&D and the analytics team to conduct research and develop methods that encourage the effective understanding and application of information throughout Baseball Operations.

The role will include, but not be limited to, online video analysis and developing robust code that can be transmitted by various means including percussive impact of waste recepticles."
Its shared, just not simultaneously. Its more a shared experience of «we all went through this suffering earlier»
She's not related to him, that was some myth that spread online but it's not true, please stop spreading it without citing concrete sources.
The open-source Mobile Verification Toolkit scans local iPhone/iPad backup images for filesystem IoCs (Indicators of Compromise) cataloged in STIX format, https://docs.mvt.re & https://github.com/mvt-project/mvt

> A collection of utilities to simplify and automate the process of gathering forensic traces helpful to identify a potential compromise of Android and iOS devices ... released by the Amnesty International Security Lab in July 2021 in the context of the Pegasus project along with a technical forensic methodology..

STIX IoC format, https://www.oasis-open.org/2021/06/23/stix-v2-1-and-taxii-v2...

> The [threat intelligence] work was based initially on three specifications contributed by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for development and standardization under the OASIS open standards process: STIX (Structured Threat Information Expression), TAXII (Trusted Automated Exchange of Indicator Information), and CybOX (Cyber Observable Expression).

iOS IoC sources, please add to this list:

https://github.com/AmnestyTech/investigations
https://github.com/citizenlab/malware-indicators
https://securelist.com/operation-triangulation/109842/
These are sweet -- thanks for sharing.

> Bridging the Abstraction Gap Between End-User Programmers and Code-Generating Large Language Models

I love the idea of giving users feedback on how to get better at prompting the LLM. I think the key to using this approach within Mito is giving users guidance at the right time -- sometimes shorter prompts get the job done, and they're always easier to write :)

A really sweet integration of this approach could be: when the LLM generated code errors or when we notice that the user undoes their previous prompt, we offer the user help in converting non-working prompts into ones that follow best practices of breaking complex tasks down into small steps.

> On the Design of AI-powered Code Assistants for Notebooks - uses Mito as part of their case study

Andrew McNutt, one of the authors presented this paper here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0prh8mE3bI Their different classifications of notebook code-gen tools has actually been super helpful in my own thinking. Thanks for the help, Andrew if you're a HNer
Finland are also working on this:

https://www.wisaplywood.com/wisawoodsat/

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Techn...
Witch – macOS window switcher replacement
You make think so, but it's a minority opinion, particularly among people who use reddit a lot.
How is your phone bill $125 - month? I have usage based billing and it's between $25 and $80 depending on my usage.
Research is obviously warranted on the possibility of shrew blankets that can automatically detach when they touch down.
Oh it’s from the Russian government, so you KNOW it’s trustworthy.
If it was a failure I wouldn't attribute that to Lisa Su either. Because AMD's success kinda started around the time Lisa Su joined, the products they came out with at the time certainly didn't have much to do with Lisa, technology wise or strategy wise.

There are definitely many cases where CEO should bare responsibility for the company's success or failure, but definitely not in the case of AMD.
The flip side is that this makes Prime much more sticky - if you want to cancel Prime you need to find a new mobile provider and port your number over.

There's no way they keep Prime at the same price while also adding mobile service, but I guess we'll have to wait and see. Or maybe they do and start raising Prime prices in a year or two, knowing that said sticky-ness will keep people on Prime even if it starts costing close to the amount you'd pay for individual mobile service anyway.
Neighbors, with whom we share a swimming pool, parents of my kids friend's, church and sports.
After admitting this, the judge should fine the landowner the $7 million he illegally tried to appropriate.
I learned a new word, "equipoise". That is, there an ethical dilemma when conducting a controlled trial: it's not ethical to withhold treatment from the control group, if the treatment is already known to work. You'd be basically sacrificing peoples' health for the sake of trial results - to get data that's not worth much (since the treatment is already known to work). This seems to be a big issue in medical trials.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_equipoise
On mobile you can hardly even scroll down a thread without the page crashing and dumping you right back at the top. 75% of the time it’ll be an error page and you have to refresh again to get past it.

I can’t imagine people will tolerate this when they’re forced to use this UI and not their favourite app.
No, they didn't? How stuff is moderated is more or less down to the top mod of the subreddit.
I haven't run the numbers, but I would expect that doing that would make it slower than just running on the CPU.
Background (2003): A systematic review of the literature found no evidence to support the routine use of parachutes to prevent death from gravitational challenge and concludes with "We think that everyone might benefit if the most radical protagonists of evidence based medicine organised and participated in a double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, crossover trial of the parachute." [https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459]

2018: Protagonists of EBM both organized and participated in such a study and found that parachutes don't make any difference in survival when jumping from a plane.

Also in 2018, https://www.cmajopen.ca/content/6/1/E31.full looked at the use of the parachute metaphor in medicine and confirmed most people didn't quite get the joke
I did!

https://optirtc.com/

I'm extremely happy with the team I work with.
Any particular reason not to run this model on a single Jetson AGX Orin 64GB?

GP Core count is much lower than than the 4090 but it still does 275 int8 TOPS for only $2k
I would just be happy if there was a way I could simply buy and download audiobooks

instead it’s some kafkaesque kabuki dance/rube Goldberg machine required to listen to an audiobook without getting into a long-term monopolistic audible subscription
I have two questions:
- If pulse waves 'aren't propelled by the explosion', what propels them?

- Why would seeing a pulse wave in nitrocellulose prove that it's an explosive (as you claim), if you're defining pulse waves as any sonic wave?

I'm having a hard time understanding your position, or your reasoning for why nitrocellulose isn't an explosive. I also still haven't been able to find any resources that corroborate what you're saying.
Thanks! At the moment it does the conversion for the total price and the price minus Upwork fees but due to the complexity of understanding different tax codes it doesn't do any of that. There will be some unknown banking fees in the transfer which we also don't take account of for now.

150+ currencies are supported and for now we use this simple API: https://apilayer.com/marketplace/currency_data-api
So we pretty much love the closed nature of "Open" AI, and don't hesitate to send a lot of data to it, but we're suspicious about a small open source python file?
In this context IT IS FUD.
> The headline of the submission lacks meaning and provides no information. You would have to click into the link to realize wha the discussion is about.

Nonetheless: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> My point is that this article sets up a different (and valid) discussion

Different? No. The discussion is the basically same as before.

> provides wider context

Some of the other HN submissions I linked above also provide wider context. This is a dupe.

> Other discussions on subsequent days (especially if new information comes out -- or when other developers affected by the change speak up) are useful and should also be encouraged.

No, that's actually contrary to HN policy:

"Are reposts ok? If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Moreover, the other developer's link in the Kotaku article was also already submitted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36151713 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36147411
Amazon spokesperson was just quoted denying this. "We're always exploring adding more benefits for prime members but we do not have plans to add wireless at this time."

Reported by CNBC at 9:40ET
> As if those are unrelated concepts.

They are. A slow/moderate increase in prices (even 20% a year) has nothing in common with “the salary you've received on the first of the month has lost most of its value by the end of the month”, the social and economic causes and consequences of these two events are completely different.

> that the common sense understanding of inflation

It's only “common sense” because Milton Friedman convinced a generation of people of it, but it goes pretty much against all empirical evidence (including in recent time). The sun and stars don't orbit around a fixed earth either, btw…
This has been going on in South Korea for a while, but to the best of my knowledge, only as a service to your own children or relatives: https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=201910231... Doing it in exchange for money may have been invented/popularized in the US.
I have a great deal of respect for Douglas Crockford but he's offering a complaint without a solution. By his own admission, it's too late for any new languages to seriously take hold.

This video was recorded before the rise of LLMs, making the specific language we use even less important. The reality is that the sunk costs of your existing codebase will almost always outweigh any advantage of trying a new language.
Thanks. Ideally I wanted a curated learning material highly recommended by this community. I know how to Google and a YouTube video or a research paper are not how I want to approach my learning.

As a distributed systems practitioner, if someone were to ask me “how do I learn distributed systems?”, my answer would be unambiguously to read the book “Designing Data Intensive Applications”. I am looking for that one gem in AI to learn from, with zero background.
This looks cool (although i dont buy the popular claim that GC is a no no for game dev) i wonder how does this compare to past projects to create Common Lisp without GC. For example, ThinLisp - https://www.thinlisp.org/ - and if this project could learn something from past projects in order to not reinvent the wheel
Prime is $150/yr
I have no idea who you're joking about, so this post is "a doctor exists that both has (or does not have) eyebrows and seems to be a narcissist."
> Edit: Emergency alerts are solicited by owning a phone in a country that mandates that cell carriers send those messages.

That's so pedantic, I'm inclined to disagree - if it's even correct. Not everything that's unsolicited is spam. An unsolicited thank you note isn't spam.

More components of spam are traditionally a large, indiscriminate number of receivers, and low quality messaging. Irrelevancy does partially capture both of these.
Amazon Dash buttons actually just set a flag true, "send this product in next batch", multiple presses were idempotent.
In the comments, swannodette promised a response blog post to this one. Here it is: https://swannodette.github.io/2013/03/09/logic-programming-i...
BD-R writable DVDs seem to provide either 25GB (single layer) or 50GB (double layer) storage, and seem like they would have longer lifetime than spinning discs, SSDs, or tape. I guess if I can deal with 50GB chunks that may be the best option.
That idea came up in the massive thread created by the author of the iOS app Apollo. A compelling reason it wouldn't work is it creates confusion and tension between Reddit, Apollo and the user when things don't work, as well as with regards to who's paying for what. If I have to pay Reddit $10/mo to use it, why do I also have to pay this app developer $1 to use their app? When it fails, is it Reddit who owes me support or Apollo? What about outages? Just a lot of moving parts. Not that I don't think it's worth it, but it does get confusing for average users.
You seem to be misunderstanding how evidence works, it is not about “what you consider” and is entirely based on fact. We also don’t talk ARR in isolation when we decide on interventions, it’s NNT vs NNH and considering the specific risk being reduced and the specific harm.

I’ll use your 2% ARR for death although there are better numbers in different patient populations.

In other words: Statins will save 1 life for every 50 patients treated and prevent 1 in ~20-40 non-fatal cardiac events, a medically significant result period. The NNH is > 100, and the harm is a self-limiting myopathy (and a possible risk of accelerated diabetes-onset in observational studies, that is still outweighed by the reduction in all-cause mortality and MACE).

The evidence is unequivocal that the benefits far outweigh the harms.

Separately, you have a personal choice to take/not take any treatment, and you may personally feel treating 50 people to save 1 life is not worth it for you, because you subjectively feel the numbers don’t fit your personal risk/benefit model. This is where you are saying 2% ARR is insignificant to you but this says nothing about the evidence or rationale behind the treatment.

> risks of side-effects have been down-played.

Except every study looking at side-effects has shown they were overstated in the initial trial.

“The most severe complication of SI is discontinuation of effective cholesterol-lowering treatment in patients who, by virtue of their CVD risk and cholesterol level, might otherwise benefit.”

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00219...
The "radiation hardening" aspect is metaphorical, this is referring specifically to removing characters, not bit-flips from gamma rays.