skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll grant everything up until your last sentence. The point I was trying to make was "what better idea do you have"? "urban highways were generally a failure" compared to what? The US has the unique problem of being both big and developed. The only country that could claim the same is China, and only for the last couple of decades. Europe, even as an entire region does not compare. Too much of the US is car dependent to then suddenly change things once you enter a city. That would just cause even more issues. So you either need a way to scale up to the US, or, as frustrating and unsexy as it might be, deal with the fact that cars are the best way to scale down to the Urban Environment.
Wow! That's amazing my brain has completely ignored it or, at the least, passed it off as nothing. My brain must be interpreting assuming or expecting AI in the presentation and making things stand out accordingly.
Me too. Craig sounds like a professional voice actor reading a script.

Steve sounded like a kid who was amazed at the stuff he was talking about. It brought an energy to the presentation.
I'm a mathematician and some years ago wrote a joint paper with some philosophers, I suggested the paper but we all did comparable amounts of work on it: they insisted that my name was first (which was non alphabetically), it made me really quite uncomfortable as I imagined that others would assume that I was some kind of arrogant arse who had insisted on precedence.
How about waiting until all or part of donut pack is eaten by multiple eaters? Jokes aside, async/await comes from easier handling of a callback code and automatic function splitting. Writing asynchronous donut eating in loops or with yielding of partial results is very easy to swallow with such syntactic sugar. The whole model is very easy to grasp and to work with. I'm not saying that's the best solution but it definitely works well.

Regarding stickiness of function colors - it never happens when async/await is used correctly (in the same principle as IO monad isn't sticky).
heh, it's sort of a cult at this point. It's more for the audience.
> it was because people could just follow a link to a web page and they're in

Discord has entered the chat. (wait a minute...)

Seriously though, Discord is precisely an example of this. I was talking to someone about how Skype was degraded, and I wanted to build a competitor, then he showed me Discord. I've been using Discord since (and on my free time thinking of what I would do different to Guilded / Discord). Slack was cute, but Discord was much better. There's lots of room for improvement with Discord, but its just good enough.
I think the c++ community needs to get past the idea that people learning it are coming at it from a "c with classes!" perspective.

It's going to transition to "python with static types", "rust without a borrow checker", "java with manual memory management", etc.

I don't think that as time progresses the newcomer pipeline is going to be largely represented by people coming from C.

The curve described is what it's like to pick up any language after being proficient with another though -- nothing specific to c++. c++ is just larger and more sprawling with more footguns and other things to make you suffer.

Find similarity, be comfortable enough to be productive, gain experience and realize mistakes, get frustrated, either walk away or accept the language and ecosystem as it is and learn how to work within it.
Switzerland is installing solar panels in train tracks
If the restrictions are implemented as some external controls, probably. If it's the way the model is trained it's almost certainly nontrivial to retrain and remove them.
Yep, I'm definitely not going to photobomb people with this.
Well, if the part of masking the process is a problem, you can simply unmask it.
Not really? Inference on Mac GPUs is barely in its infancy.

I have no idea about training... I have never even seen a metal llm training repo, but you can bet the new innovations/papers will not work ootb.

But setting the software (and OSX quirks) aside, the M2s would be fantastic... If they didn't cost a bazillion dollars for the higher memory configs.
Chapter 11 bankruptcies allow corporations to continue operating. They just hose the investors.
> We, the technologically literate, are not the target audience.

Highly disagree. It's the early adopters of ANY platform, hardware, or whatever that drive real organic demand and adoption. And those early adopters ARE exactly that: technologically literate.

Alienating that group is how you get relegated to the "Digg v4" area of history.

> How many Reddit users want that ? Facebook users ? Oh, maybe they want to fine-tune their scoring rules library or tweak they bayesian filters - so much fun !

How many Facebook or Reddit users even HAVE the capability of client side anything? The big threads are that Reddit's killing most API access unless you pay a pound of flesh. And Facebook does enough horrible things in their coding that makes it impossible to even screen-scrape. The text "Sponsored" shows up as shittery like "essprnodo".

For those gated islands, you'd need their permission to really do any sort of client side anything.

Places like Mastodon make blocking trivial. Ive shared that link, and no, you don't need to know about Bayseian weights or whatever new mod scheme you want to make. Its there, the initial functions are easy-peasy, and the API hooks are there to add whatever you want.

> And lacking social intelligence, client-side filtering fails against organized harassment.

And that already is a major problem on the corporate side. Reddit calls it "brigading". HN has chill-down scripts to defuse flamewars. Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit all have mass-reporting as harassment. There's even current 4Chan threads to organize just that. Sure seems like an unsolved problem, not just "unsolved for federated systems".

> By the way, who is liable for infractions to the local law ?

Irrelevant. Someone in another area could read content that is illegal to them. That's *their* responsibility, not mine. As long as I follow the laws in my jurisdiction and where my server is located, I'm fine. And 17 USC 512 covers me as long as I do good-faith DMCA process.

> <example of comparing physical real world with raves/alcohol/drugs with online "dangers">

And in your latter half, your other problem is that you're equating online "safety" with in-person bodily safety with alcohol and drugs. Those 2 aren't even remotely the same, and its laughable that you'd try to compare them.

If someone is coming on to you in a sexual manner, and your "No" isnt effectively heard or acknowledged, you have a big problem. If someone uploads a bad image (say, animal torture, for something abhorrent), you can block the user, the server, report the user to their/your server admins. You can also choose not to show images. It's terrible, but physical assault is no comparison to a bad image or terrible text.
NameDrop is going to wreck the "tap to share" startups.

cc. Popl, Linq, Dot, etc.
Is it a marketing trick to make people think they're that much faster than current Intel computers?
TV is a losing value proposition in general. It's a race to the bottom. Top programs from each of these are getting less viewers than online content from e.g. Youtube or other places. Lots of youtube channels reaching millions of people with each video.

The thing is that most things worth reporting are distributed widely via internet based sources. The half life of any exclusive news is basically minutes. After that, world + dog is reporting it. So, none of these channels ever have much in terms of exclusivity and in fact they rely heavily on online as well for getting their news in the first place. Anyone who cares already knows long before CNN bother to report inbetween commercials, the weather, more commercials, and some fake toothpaste smile nobody yapping on for ten minutes about god knows what interrupted by some reporter reporting absolutely nothing whatsoever happened since the last time they reported the same 40 minutes ago. If you strip away all the filler content on CNN, you have about 2 minutes worth of content per hour. The signal to noise ratio is terrible. Unacceptably low for anyone actually interested in news.
OP's lookup table benchmarking is bad. The "modd(x, CONST_2PI);" at the top will dominate, by far, the runtime.

Anyone who wants performance measures angles using n bit fixed point math, mapping 0 to 2*pi as 0 to (2^n)-1.
This isn't really a property of cryptocurrencies, but a property of signed transactions. We could absolutely have traditional banking transactions online where you don't give the information to the PoS that is sufficient to create a new transaction. In fact, this is exactly what chips are doing in an in-person transaction. The hard part here is getting everybody to have the right equipment and software to sign these transactions when purchasing stuff online.

Cryptocurrency does not actually solve this problem. It just gives people a greater incentive to push through the pain of solving this problem.
Amsterdam train services start slowly, IT failure not yet solved
> no real truth or objective test and the SEC has offered no meaningful guidance

The securities allegations revolve around BNB's ICO. Binance is being sued by the CFTC in respect of its Bitcoin and Ethereum trading.
Each time I search for something, the first two, three pages, maybe even more, are just shops and affiliate link sites, that offer the thing I want information about. At least, if thing is a product. Not a single forum reference. I need to add the keyword "forum" in order to get such results. To me that is typical corporate degeneration and decline. Too big to fail, to trashy to be relevant any longer, instead, however, omnipresent.
>Maybe don't stare at that for too long...

I sure did stare at that for way too long.
In applied maths, probably not.

In theoretical maths, yes.
useful yes
but hard to justify pricing
Steve Jobs talked about the iPod that way. Maybe even earlier products ("I’d like to have Macintosh speak for itself.")
Spent months building uLog to see Apple launch an AI Journal today. At least I can say I launched first :)
Definitely not when the party who is suing you is the one that defines the rules. Thinking about the scenario of this lawsuit makes me really angry. It's some sort of power demonstration backed by a political strategy.
You're building a straw man argument against the pro-crypto side though. Not everyone there is a crypto0libertarian anrarcho-capitalist.

There are a lot of people who are optimistic about the technology who also welcome regulation on the CEX side. I feel like most people in the pro-crypto camp also acknowledge that several of the ancillary components that make up the crypto ecosystem (such as wallet technology) are really problematic from a UX standpoint -- but also that they are fixable.

That said, the whole global-reserve currency thing might be les of a straw man, as it correctly describes the views of a lot of Bitcoin maxis (who are delusional IMO). But we're talking about a broad technology with other use cases, and isn't accurate for everyone.
Spellcaster – The Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried [audio]
"Obviously." I like how this is the argument for drug patents, and if you don't just simply agree with this, the only real other option is to accuse the person arguing that it "obviously" is the right decision of arguing in bad faith.

...because it's an argument in bad faith? I too don't see why drug patents are "obvious" or clear case that it is helpful enough to be in the public interest to maintain drug patents. Is there any evidence that drug patents can actually enter the public domain productively at their end of their expiration period?

I mean, if James Collip and Charles Best sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for a mere $1 each, "so that everyone could have it" and we still don't have universal low-cost insulin over 100 years later, and prices continue to skyrocket, I'm more inclined to believe that for-profit medicine is just evil.
Your guesses seem suspect to me. I'll take a small Python script with a loop over a spreadsheet any day.
The thing is, the Jupyter notebook does support auto discovery/complete of all of the state variables and services, but only in the browser. Not even in the notebook running inside the IDE.

It's just maddening that I can't seem to figure out how to get that one part working. I end up using a mix of the notebook and going through the developer UI, but wish I could figure out that one quirk.
Finally multiple timers! but only on ipad? We have not made it to the future yet.
Public transportation is not dangerous but cycling on roads made for cars is.
"Multiple timers. We truly live in an age of wonders!"

Feels like I am in bizarro world. What is so wonderful about this?
Discussed a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36145185
I'm under impression that we basically don't need worry about card testing if we're using Stripe Checkout instead of direct API calls. Is that true?
Check out https://craftinginterpreters.com/
Hopefully, they've spent the last 12 months making XCode work because they certainly haven't spent it innovating.
Show HN: Investments tracker with custom assets, CSV imports and E2E encryption
The biggest giveaway is that it doesn't have an internally consistent model of what it's trying to do.

For example, I've once asked it to "prove that first order logic is not complete", a statement which is false, given that every logic textbook will give you a proof for why first order logic is complete. ChatGPT apparently knew this too, because it happily reproduced that result but somehow thought that it was a valid answer for what I asked for (the valid answer would have been "I can't prove this because it's wrong").

I can't reproduce this exact result right now (in fact when I tried, it just proved something slightly different, which was correct but not exactly what I asked for). But I was able to similarly confuse it by asking it to prove that the equation x^3+y^3=z^3 has solutions. That this is true is immediately apparent by x=y=z=0, but ChatGPT replies with:

> The equation x^3 + y^3 = z^3 represents a special case of Fermat's Last Theorem, which states that there are no solutions to the equation x^n + y^n = z^n for any integer values of n greater than 2.

> For the case of n = 3, the equation x^3 + y^3 = z^3 has infinitely many solutions. One such set of solutions is known as Pythagorean triples, where x, y, and z are positive integers.

> A Pythagorean triple is a set of three positive integers (x, y, z) that satisfy the equation x^2 + y^2 = z^2, which is equivalent to (x^2)^(3/2) + (y^2)^(3/2) = (z^2)^(3/2). By raising both sides to the power of 3/2, we get x^3 + y^3 = z^3.

> For example, the Pythagorean triple (3, 4, 5) satisfies 3^3 + 4^3 = 5^3 (27 + 64 = 125).

This answer is just confused on so many levels:

- It quotes back Fermat's Last Theorem at me (as indeed I hoped it would), but that theorem only applies to positive integer solutions and nowhere did I specify that constraint.

- If the Theorem did apply, then it would be a proof that such solutions don't exist. So ChatGPT has no internal understanding of how a theorem it quotes relates to a specific question, it just parrots off things that look vaguely similar to the input.

- Then, it just tells me what Pythagorean Triples are, which is hilarious, because those are the solutions to x^2+y^2=z^2 - and not what I asked. It then tries to somehow transform Pythagorean triples into (non-integer) solutions of my equation (which doesn't work), and then doesn't even apply the transformation to its own example (and the calculation is just... wrong).

The problem IMO is not that ChatGPT gives a wrong answer, it's that its answer isn't even internally consistent.
> Perhaps one day even my country will get with the times and allow me to pay my taxes in BTC directly instead of having to exchange it to government funnymoney first.

Something tells me your government cares more about their funnymoney than yours.

I can't imagine a government wanting to take on the volatility of bitcoin for a tax payment. What possible compelling argument is there for them to do that?
So Apple wasn't able to increase performance (or even ram capacity) beyond the Ultra series chips. Thats disappointing.

Particularly given they took an entire extra year to deliver it after the original Ultra release in March 2022.
He's talking about the lock screen but I still haven't heard the one I've been asking for for years:

Multiple users

Sometimes I want to let my kid use my phone. I'd like them to have their own login so they aren't messing with my stuff but have their own apps and their own saved data. Let each app be in control of what app is shared across logins vs separated.
I miss live WWDC in person. It just lacks the same excitement.

Also this set so far is very dry. Probably the least exciting WWDC I’ve seen in the last 15 years
> The current goverment is very unpopular, but the SPÖ in the opposition has failed to capitalize on that and is currently polling below the governing ÖVP [2]. This incident will not help.

That's because the SPÖ has made the same mistake that the German SPD or French and Italian PS did: they went away from their worker roots and aligned themselves with corporatist ideals (i.e. neoliberalism). No surprise that their electorate eroded together with the wealth and life quality of said electorate thanks to wage stagnation.

Babler is an actual social democrat in name and politics. I am pretty sure he will manage to turn around the party's fate - and hopefully, also be an example towards our social democrats, I'm sick of Olaf Scholz and his cuddling with the FDP.
I work for EFF and wrote the text of this blog post and action. On here I speak only for myself, but a couple points I want to add.

1) EFF has only filed one IPR ever, (linked in the post), against Personal Audio, to invalidate a patent asserted against podcasting. This was crowd-funded by hundreds of people. It required years of litigation beyond the IPR process itself.

2) Patent challenges should be open to all. There's nothing wrong with a "for profit" org challenging a government monopoly - it's a public benefit. A good patent will often hold up (many do), a wrongly granted one will usually go down.

Please read the examples in the post of (very) small businesses, individuals, and nonprofits (Wikimedia) who were protected because another organization, often a for-profit, filed a successful IPR.

It's truly upside down world when USPTO is concerned its very limited monopoly-challenging services are being overused by "for-profits" that file "serial" petitions. In my career I have analyzed hundreds of shell companies that have (each!) sent out dozens or hundreds of threat letters and lawsuits demanding patent royalty payments (patent trolls). Guess what? They're ALL for-profit. They ALL file serial petitions with the hopes of a fast payout.

We have limited means to challenge this extortionate business model, and now USPTO is trying to drastically limit one of the best options. I hope they reconsider, and we ask for your support.

Thanks to all and I appreciate the discussion here.
I would have had much less interest in Rust as a peanut gallery participant if it didn’t have that goal of competing with C++. Not because I am a C++ or C programmer myself, but because it has been interesting to see if alternatives to such well-established languages can in fact be successful.

Think about it: we have dozens upon dozens of Hoare-esque “sacrifice some performance for ergonomics” languages out there. But what are you gonna do when you need performance that the language is too inflexible for? Hmm... perhaps write some of your app in C...?

If it weren’t for Rust and similar languages, we would never have a hope of moving on to more modern languages for those “can’t do this in my $mainlang due to performance” problems. How would yet another language that (according to Hoare):

> and I would have traded lots and lots of small constant performancee costs for simpler or more robust versions of many abstractions.

have helped with that? It wouldn’t! You would have still been stuck with having to bind to C, C++, assembly, or whatever else sufficiently “zero-cost abstraction” language.
Unfortunately, until congress passes legislation requiring companies that operate as a place of public discourse to follow certain conventions this will keep happening because technically they own you (or rather they own the words that you say as data).

They have basically reached the monetization phase, where most smart users bail either just before or shortly after. You get the same dynamics with tyrants, only you have more risks and more options available to you in the real.
> Operation Choke Point 2.0 Continues

Would a web3 proponent getting a traffic ticket also count?

We have documented evidence of clear, willful violation of the law. And nobody is seriously mooting a CBDC anymore. (Given Silvergate was (a) downed by FTX and (b) the proximate cause of our recent banking meltdown, it is reasonable to argue Chokepoint 1.0 didn't go far enough. But that's irrelevant to this thread.)
If a country is ruled by a group of tyrants who drain and extract that country's wealth dry, you can't blame the people of that country for not having the power to fight that.
Yeah that's kind of what I was trying to say. You're right in that we predict the actions of others, but we don't do it in the same way. Even when we execute millimeter level maneuvers, we aren't explicitly measuring anything... Like if you were to ask a driver for instructions on how to repeat that maneuver they wouldn't be able to tell you, they just have a "feel" for it.

Basically humans are really really good at guesstimating with great accuracy (but poor reproducibility) and since we don't use basic measurements in the first place, having better measurement accuracy wouldn't really help us be better drivers on average (it does help for certain scenarios like parking though, where knowing the # of inches remaining to an obstacle can be very useful).

But for everyday driving at speed, we wouldn't even be able to process measurements in real time even if someone was providing them to us. AVs are different and that's basically the gist of what I was trying to say. Because they actually do use, rely on, and process measurements in real time, improving their measurement accuracy (ie. switching from camera based approximate depth, to cm level accurate depth from a LiDAR) can have a meaningful impact on the final performance of the system.
Plenty of options at Home Depot
If it helps, making it so that cops and their families are no longer immune to traffic tickets would make it so they tighten up the rules on giving tickets in general. So this guy is very directly fighting to get you fewer tickets.
it doesn't require it, the model could ask you for more specifics as follow up question. the fact that it doesn't and just assumes all this info for "better" is the problem.
MULTIPLETIMERS
Kinda unimpressive since it seems that it's just mac studio with pci-e expansion
Web development for .NET is multiplatform for quite some years now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET

Mono is mostly only relevant if you need platform specific capabilities that wont be covered in .NET.
Don't forget that Apple has shipped slower SSDs in their base (128GB) models of MBA and MBP. So if you want a full-speed SSD you have to upgrade that. Hopefully they'll bump the base RAM from 8GB to 16GB, but I'm not holding my breath on that one. So it could be an extra $350 for those two upgrades. Still not a bad price for what the machine is, but until we know the base config, it's not clear how good a deal it is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsgroup_spam
There was a second thread, since merged, where the link was moved so 404’d
Nick here, GitLab team member and co-author of the article. Happy to answer any question about this new capability for projects on GitLab
According to a court of law or according to Coinbase?