skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve written programs to solve and create those grid-style logic puzzles (such as “Five men went to dinner. Mr Brown ordered fish. The man with the red hat ordered lamb. The person who ordered beef was not Mr. White… etc.)

Once you have a way of encoding the clues into a machine-readable syntax, it’s trivial to solve. But, the tricky part is creating a good puzzle that can be solved by a human without guessing. That’s an art form. A brute-force solver won’t suffice to analyze your randomly generated sets of clues; instead, you need a solver that is only capable of making the types of deductions a human could make. Very subjective.
Just in time to get rekt
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I think some of the posts on here are very anglo-centric. I like that HN is a place that serves no one particlar nation or people.
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What will happen to Reddit to make it unusable? I feel a bit out of the loop here...
I love how Blizzard became a prime example of the effect MBA-ification of a well functioning company has on everything.

I have nothing but disdain for these greedy, incompetent, useless assholes. Just feel bad for the talented, hard-working staff who generate real value.
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I have been experimenting with Langchain and Javascript recently so I decided to document a simple web app using Node and React with Langchain.

The app has a simple interface for a user to upload a document and ask questions (csv, pdf, or txt). The server will forward the user's natural language query to an LLM (BYO API keys from OpenAI or Hugging Face) and the responses will have the context of the document. Hope you find this explainer helpful!
Central management and ease of cancelling is a huge factor - App Store subscriptions are painless and I'll do them without a second thought, everything else is hell and I avoid them as much as I can.
Yes, but there's usually a lot of magic thinking involved about technology that supposedly got lost, but in actuality nobody had at that time.
>Neuralink is a thing that will never achieve any sort of mass-market appeal, though, so I'm not nervous.

The only way I see it happening is if not having it becomes a significant competitive disadvantage in the workplace. If it could also stimulate parts of the pleasure center, perhaps that too.
I see the specs on the Steam page only mention Intel model Macs which is interesting.

I assume (which I hate to do) this is also Apple Silicon native and not running in Rosetta??

Edit: oops it says in the article but the page did not fully load as I blocked the cookie. My bad.
You sound like...a drug addict in heaven talking about drugs.
Both of those topics are rabbit holes to fall down into and discover a whole lot. There is not one way to do either, and there are different conventions for different platforms, languages and compilers.

I'd suggest to start with the paper "Aspects of implementing CLU" from 1978 that covers both CLU's early type of exception handling and Iterators, which are a form of closures.
To find out how modern C++ - style exception handling is done, read "Itanium C++ ABI" (yes, Itanium !), which most of the Unix world used as template for x86-64 and AArch64 later.
Then look up "Zero overhead deterministic exceptions" for a proposal for C++ that didn't get picked.
Leaky gut is not pseudoscience. It’s actually a real medical condition called intestinal permeability.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8427160/

That’s not to say that any quack can just diagnose you with intestinal permeability without doing any tests, so I agree with you on that.
Doesn’t sound like a core market for Eminem. I mean, I find it hard to think of use cases where an artist will really lose out in business terms because someone chooses an AI version of their music over the original. In this case I suspect they wouldn’t have really licensed or tried to licence Lose Yourself.
Fun fact about wiping the headset down —- there’s a study at Yale to determine whether the Oculus mask can be sufficiently sanitized for safe use in pediatric cancer wings (a high bar) because of it’s form factor and immersive experience. Turns out it absolutely cannot. Sanitizing that mask is practically impossible.
Artists, musicians, gamer, hopeful pro athletes and parents all make sacrifices in the rat race.

The game of life is what all of us have been feed.. seems to work for some.. maybe there are other paths for others. Who I am I to judge?
some people just need to dance
No, I'm suggesting the entire hype over "superintelligence" is religious in nature. There is little evidence that the current AI systems are anywhere near human intelligence and none that "more than human intelligence" is possible. Further, the abilities attributed to the "superintelligence" are completely godlike---it's omniscient and omnipotent, right? Nothing it can't do, potentially?

So, if you're not worried about the extinction risk of God, why should you be concerned with the risk of "superintelligence"?
Better memory management. Seems to be handling the same workload with less swapping than window 10. Did an in place upgrade so my workflow and setup was exactly the same.
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Just in case you're not joking: if that were the case, there would be few-to-no questions with no responses, but there are plenty of those. I won't deny it's possible there is some of that, but I doubt it's all that common.
The Julia REPL front end is written in Scheme IIRC
It basically doesn't say anything about what's new (besides color passthrough), that's rather annoying.

I love my Meta Quest 2, and I'll blindly buy Quest 3 as soon as available. It's an awesome game console, and the games' quality is very consistent (I also do PC VR, and even though PC VR has some neat stuff, it's much more effort. I usually can do PC VR only 1 hour in a row because any frame jitter gives nausea, while Quest manages 1 frame drops per hour).

That being said, I'm expecting to be let down:
- No more Carmack. I'm pretty confident he helped push quality forward, and quality is really what puts Quest 2 ahead of its league. You must really have 0 head tracking issue and 0 frame drop.
- the design with camera islands screams at "designers wanted a say", but they forgot practical use. Quest 2 was smooth, which makes it easy to put into a bag and out, and camera' lenses were kinda protected. Here you've got the worst part of all. If my smartphones are any reference, the ones with islands are scratched within 6 months. My Quest 2 is 2 years old and looks to be able to sustain 5 years without a hitch. I'm not optimistic about Quest 3.
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I guess I don't see C as programming language for writing scripts in either. In my view any language that requires a separate complication step is not a scripting language, and therefore not a language in which one writes scripts. In C or Zig you write programs.

Maybe I am just being too pedantic.
Naming is hard.

https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
SFTP (sort-of-FTP over SSH) was never browser supported afaik.
I'm not sure about FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS), did browsers support it when they supported regular FTP?
> We don't want women to be stay-at-home mothers for good reasons, but society as it is hasn't caught up with that

not all women—my wife, for example—agree with this sentiment.

we bought a house and got married, but my income alone is not enough to pay our mortgage, bills, food, etc.

we want to have children as soon as possible, but unfortunately we don't know when that will be, purely due to financial constraints.

in the meantime, my wife must work to supplement our income to keep us afloat, and to accumulate some savings for having children later on.

I'm a full-time-employed programmer for our local school district. in an ideal world, my salary alone would be enough to support raising a family. but, today, this is not the case.

fortunately, we may have a solution that could work for us, as it's presently working for a close friend: have the wife run a small, in-home daycare for a few other children, in addition to taking care of our own.

it's a less-than-ideal solution—we'd love to have the mother of our children spend her full time and attention on just our own kids—but that's not really feasible in today's society, unless you are lucky to have generational wealth or some such.

and, of course, this is all from the perspective of someone who doesn't have any sort of temporal limit on my ability to procreate—I can only try my best to understand how my wife feels, living through her prime fertility years anxiously waiting for the Right Time To Birth Children, purely based on financial constraints.

but anyway, believe it or not, there are women out there who would love to do nothing else but raise children and take care of the family home, while the husband provides income through work. it's really unfortunate that we've chosen, as a society, to sideline the desires that these women have for their lives, which were the unquestioned societal norm only a few short generations ago.
I've been doing some budget digital nomad for several years and the most boring part of it is having to re-explain what I do for a living every time I meet someone - oh why does every conversation start like this? I don't think I've even met a single soul who knew what programmers do or what "digital nomad" is when traveling within the USA over the past 2/3 years.

Granted, this is mostly rural camping and small-city AirBNB all in the borders of the US. (Except for one time I stopped in DC for a month - strangely the only people that came to talk to me were the homeless and even they held decent conversations)

We're getting our adrenal glands pumping over Narcissistic obsessives dedicating every ruminating moment towards writing the next hit piece where they finally resolve their past scenarios, and they finally said all the right things to the wrong people, in an orgy of retraumatizing material. Just ignore them, go travel, say hi to people, change the world and all that stuff.
Regarding the issues, there are some projects like git-bug https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug trying to embed these sorts of meta-work into git.
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What I did was integrating Svelte with Fastify.

Initially that required lots of custom stuff (before SvelteKit and Vite had SSR) but now it's fairly easy to integrate with Vite. I have this repo I used to experiment a bit with that.

https://github.com/PierBover/fastify-vite-svelte-template
Yeah. I'm going to be helping to work on expanding CI for OpenBLAS and have been diving into this stuff lately. See the discussion in this closed OpenBLAS issue gh-1968 [0] for instance. OpenBLAS’s Skylake kernels do rely heavily on intrinsics [1] for compilers that support them, but there's a wide range of architectures to support, and when hand-tuned assembly kernels work better, that's what are used. For example, [2].

[0] https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/issues/1968

[1] https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/blob/develop/kernel/x86_6...

[2] https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/blob/23693f09a26ffd8b60eb...
Pricing out of third party clients via API fees > only official website and clients are available > they get worse with monetization attempts > smart people who don't want to put up with less-useful UIs leave > site becomes devoid of "good" content.
I think societies haven't really determined what is fair in these cases. To give you a counter example: Millions of young artists look at art museums and incorporate what they see and learn into their own art. Creators of the images they look at get nothing from the proceeds young artists end up earning later in their lives. Is this unfair?
They can steal a lot more data from you using the app, that's why they insist on you installing it.

I avoid native mobile apps for anything but the most essential for this reason. If it wasn't for the cars and public transportation I'd be using a feature phone by now.
Also Amazon: "Hey bitch, we built and run your .gov cloud infra in your NSA/CIA staffed Mormon Data Centers"

Look at me ; Who is the surveillance now

(Yes the intels use mormons a lot...)
> I think that most people can't give it a dry run without that liquidation, though. Having a normal job gets in the way of that lifestyle and is virtually guaranteed to sour the experience.

I was thinking you'd probably take your standard 3-5 weeks of yearly PTO, plus however much unpaid time off you could get your company to agree to. That would make for a good month, month-and-a-half, or possibly two months test. And, I think if at all possible you should try to work while traveling, either your current job or some freelance work, because that would be part of the actual experience you're testing.

> It's definitely not for me. I need a lot more stability than that.

Same here. I like sleeping in my bed and making pizza, and taking showers any time I want. Also, as a designer, it's kind of a non-starter for me, since I can't seem to get by without a gigantic monitor.
Coming with regulation ensuring a good level of safety would be a good thing but it will never ensure that everything is harmless.

It can be tricky to define and demonstrate a specific level of precaution. Precaution is always limited, at some point you have to stop testing and start producing something at reasonable cost.

Precautionary regulation is orthogonal to responsibility of individuals putting public health, safety or environment at risk and knowingly hiding the risks. Even if we could argue that strong responsibility encourage precaution with no further regulation: something too risky would be cancelled quickly or C-levels would risk serious jail time and bankruptcy.
> With the image generators, they are able to take a relatively small text prompt and create an image that is many bytes larger than the input.

Yes, but that's not the hard part. The diffusion models in question work fine without any kind of text supervision, modeling purely the image. We also have plenty of text embeddings, so also not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you have a model which takes a large amount of 'random noise' (what even is 'random noise' in text?) and then make a tiny update which makes it more sensible such that it can diffuse towards high-quality text? Once that's solved, then control or conditioning is relatively easy.
Yup, I wouldn't mind subscriptions so much if it was a simple "one and done, keep it going if you want" deal. Ask me for $10 per month, not $10 a month, with auto-renewal enabled, impossible to turn off or difficult to find the button due to a million toxic UI patterns trying to trick me into giving up, and 2 or 3 pathetic "pwease don't go!" prompts once I do.

If I buy a month, and never renew, it means I'm done using it or I didn't find it valuable. Don't send me emails reminding me, don't notify me. I'll find out when I open the thing up again and see my sub is gone. If I want it back, I'll buy another month.

The value in a sub for the end user is that I don't have to sign my soul away for a program I'll use once or twice a year. But the common pattern tries to hide that away and fool me out of money. Frankly, it's offensive and gross, hence, fuck subscriptions.
Yes to the first question. The second question isn’t clear enough to answer.
People have just fallen out of love with it and are realizing how it really isn't that good.

Sorry "prompt engineers" but papers on arXiv show that when you give it fairly sampled problems it struggles to get the right answer more than 70-80% of the time. When you are under its spell you will keep making excuses but when you are looking at it objectively you'll realize the emperor is naked.

If you give it very conventional problems it seems to do better than that because it is a mass of biases and shortcuts and of course it will sentence Tyrone to life in prison because it's a running gag that "Tyrone is a thug"... That's how neurotypicals think and no wonder why many of them think ChatGPT is so smart... It mirrors them perfectly.
For some needed context, Reddit clients will be charged for API access.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_ca...
More or less unlikely than a superintelligent AI converting all of us into paperclips?
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I don't think most reddit users care about reddit politics so no
The UK made concessions too late. By the time they decided to stop kidnapping* American sailors and forcing them to work in the British Navy, the war had already started.

*impressment is the word they used.
That's cool, but don't conflate the fact this doesn't appeal to you with it not appealing to the general population.
KDE Plasma desktop environment in particular and GNU/Linux in general. Way ahead of any closed and proprietary alternative.
I agree the main issues are about perceived impact of itinerant visitors (who treat a community like their amusement park) and spending disparity (paradoxically giving locals income and also driving up prices). And, those who are visibly "foreign" are easier targets to vent when frustrated.

Ignoring that, I am following the tangential topic about digital nomads, work visas, and taxes. I think the regulations are still trying to catch up. Some folks have a fantasy that when the internet is involved, they are working in cyberspace at the remote end of their network connections. But, the actual rules in most jurisdictions tend to be about your physical location while working. They usually lack any clear rules to disambiguate the spectrum from "traveler on holiday making a few phone calls" and "permanent work from home with foreign employer". This is a gray area and relies on selective enforcement.

My experience is a little dated, but I think it is still, sadly, too relevant. I was an expat in SEA about 20 years ago. I was not an itinerant nomad. My partner took a local job there and I went along for the adventure, so we tried to settle in one place. But, my best work prospects remained in the US tech market, just like a digital nomad. My US clients knew they didn't want the hassle of hiring me outside their normal tax jurisdiction, nor the legal risk of pretending I lived in a US mailbox. All the legal advice we could find led to one frustrating answer. To be totally legal, we had to start a local consulting company and take on some local staff (and local shareholders!) so that our company could sponsor my work permit. This also awarded me the right kind of extended visa and proper re-entry permits for when I needed to travel internationally.

Our company then had to engage my US "employer" via subcontract. We effectively had to have local staff on retainer even though I didn't need them to satisfy my US client's needs. We had the accounting and tax headaches of running that company, plus local personal income taxes in our host country. Then, as a US citizen, I still had to file US income taxes and try to get all the exclusions and credits to avoid double taxation. Aside from losing money to pay unnecessary local staff, it was difficult to minimize profits that would distribute to the shareholders for what was just an overly complicated solo consultancy.

At the same time, I was well aware that others were flying below the radar. They ritualized "visa runs" to cross borders and reenter on temporary tourist visas. They played games where they told a different story to each jurisdiction about where they were really domiciled. I've often wondered how many of them succeeded in this cheating game for decades since I knew them, or whether they eventually got caught up in some kind of financial disaster.
so this is what we are getting instead of flying cars
Things can just go bad, no matter how hard you try. There is always some level of risk involved, especially if you have a family or personal history of mental illness, in which case it's advisable to not fuck with it at all. "Set and setting" doesn't paper over everything.
As for man #1, that's some dedication. Let the man play.
> No Man’s Sky has been built from the ground up with a new rendering pipeline to take full advantage of Metal and Apple silicon. In addition to the Apple silicon Mac lineup, it also runs on select Intel-based Macs.
True - power can go both ways. I think the physics definition still applies to the sociological definition - its essentially the same thing.
It's not in general, but the topic here is keeping in touch with your friends and family, not the relative culture shock of moving domestically or internationally.

The real metric you'd want is travel time to "home base" in hours. I'm just suggesting that inter-state/country moves are a useful fuzzy approximation of that.
Would this game run properly on an M1 Macbook Pro? Does a trackpad and keyboard cut it as in interface for a game like this?

I'm so out of the loop with gaming and gaming hardware, but I've been half watching this one for ages and have to admit that I'm tantalized.
Non-click exploits are freaky. I wish there was a way to detect if my device is compromised.
"The Japanese thought they could parallelize Prolog programs for their Fifth Generation Computing Project in the 1980s but found out quickly that you couldn't."

One of the lessons I'm still trying to absorb is how convinced we all were (and many still are) that there must be a ton of implicit parallelism in the world, but once we went looking for it, it turned out there was hardly any.

I've been chewing on this for years, trying to figure out whether this is something true about the world, true about the problems we try to solve, or because of the pervasive use of the imperative paradigm which is highly ordered and makes it very easy to impose ordering constraints. Now, clearly, the latter is a non-trivial component... but I still struggle with whether it is a full answer, because when people sat down with clean sheets of paper and tried to solve problems with extensive parallelism, they've largely failed to get more than low single-digit speedup factors. Non-imperative paradigms like logic programming have been tried, especially in these projects.

It isn't exactly news that our intuitive beliefs about our code and the real characteristics it has is quite out of whack. This underlies the pervasive advice to just go grab a profiler whenever you're trying to accelerate some code because even experts in the field with decades of experience are routinely completely wrong about what is slow in some bit of code. This is one particular aspect I'm still struggling with. It still feels like there should be so much more parallelism available....
Consecrated life and holy matrimony are supererogatory.