skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>, lots of US tech companies wouldn’t have grown 30% without thinking twice

So what? Apparently that didn't work in any way, since their stocks are crashing and they need to mass fire. So what's the benefit of what you are saying at all?

And why would 30% growth be some goal just because its a high number, compared to a stable job market?
You couldn't meaningfully "prevent memory leaks", and that's what Rust's Leakpocalypse was about.

Suppose I have decided to model marriage. My Person type has a spouse: Option<Rc<Person>> and when you marry() another Person it fills out both spouse references. Now I make Bob and Alice, and marry them off, so Alice contains a reference to Bob, while Bob has a reference to Alice. Romantic. Next, I throw away my only Alice reference, but that's OK, I have a Bob, and Bob has a spouse field with a reference to Alice, so Alice isn't destroyed. Then I throw away Bob, likewise Alice has a reference to Bob, so Bob isn't destroyed either.

I have now leaked two Persons. I have no way to get them back but they exist forever (well, until program termination).
Speaking for the US, but as long as Monsanto and Tyson make money selling the food their farms grow in the cities I'm not worried about a John Galt-style "strike" of agriculture. Doesn't make the existing system fair or right (it's honestly disturbing to me how much agribusiness is centralized), but I honestly have no concerns about the rural food going away because the rural population is upset with the urban population.
Again, depends on a circunstances. A lot of outdoor sports? A car makes it easier. Commute, kids or not, a car can even be a necessity.
I think what will happen is that there effectively be an arms race between the bot generation and detection sides. As anomalies are discovered in the distribution of content generated by bots vs humans, bots will update to remove the anomaly. And researchers will try to find new anomalies. In the end as bots get better, the difference in the two distributions will be indistinguishable in practice.
You seem to think that answering my question isn't part of his job. It may be that you have the wrong measure of productivity.
There are all kinds of shenanigans around this whole Binance fiasco

[SEC says Binance and US affiliate redirected billions in customer assets to Zhao's funds](https://www.theblock.co/post/233652/sec-binance-and-us-affil...)

[Elusive Ex-Binance.US CEO Catherine Coley Reemerges in SEC Suit](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-07/elusive-e...)
Show HN: Using the ClockworkPi DevTerm with an iPad
The ClockworkPi DevTerm is a peculiar portable Linux device with numerous delightful features, albeit some frustrating ones as well. This guide will demonstrate how to configure the DevTerm to overcome its limitations, such as the small screen size and the somewhat challenging trackball. Additionally, it will provide instructions on using the DevTerm with an iPad Pro.
HashiCorp is a public company and their quarterly report yesterday was a major disappointment to investors.

Layoffs are a signal to the stock market that management is taking the problems seriously and cleaning house.

Look at Meta’s stock price. It crashed in 2022 right up to the first layoffs in November. That’s when Zuckerberg declared efficiency is a primary concern. The stock has nearly tripled from November.
Mostly, they are making a mistake. Some people are writing APIs where they genuinely need Rust's efficiency, but not many. I don't think the language of the project team can be blamed for encouraging this, but the community has unfortunately normalised it.
Even cheaper, and IMO slightly more reputable, the $50 withings scale is pretty great, and it's half the price of the version with useless body composition measurements.
If this project interests you but is a bit more minimal than you need, the Janet language is a slightly-less but still pretty lightweight embeddable Lisp with a strong library and community: https://janet-lang.org/
The initial idea was for us to be able to work full time on it. Here was the rational.

I'm in Montreal, Alexis is in Paris. The cost of living in these cities is pretty high. We have families. So let's say we need to bring in $100 000 CAD per year.

9$ per month ~= 8$ after Stripe taxes. Then 35% off from the government. If I'm extra generous and lucky from the taxes, we get 5$ per subscription.

Then we need to substract the costs of hosting on a PAAS for 40 000 users. Let's say it's an extra $. So we have 4$ per subscription.

If we need to bring 200 000 $ CAD at least to live decently with our families, we would need 50 000 paying users. That is without the churn, right, which is pretty high currently at 8%.

7 years later: we don't even have 500 paying users

The dream of working full time on Monica is still there, but without VC money, I don't know how we could achieve this.
Those are vague, nebulous, handwavy arguments. Some (like the inefficiency of hydrogen) are dog whistles that fall apart on close examination of the applications for which hydrogen would be suitable. The geography for OFF RIVER pumped hydro is not rare at all; it's present basically anywhere there is sufficient vertical relief (feasible even in deserts), in enormous amounts.

The generic problem with "it can't be done" arguments is you are claiming all possible ways of solving a problem don't work. This is a very strong claim, and is not backed up by such vague arguments.
Is the gov kicking down doors for shit posters?
Thanks, any feedback is welcome if you do try it out at some point :)
"Not too bothered about styling" is quite important. Datalists are relatively uncommon and I think many users may not know what they are seeing and how they can interact with it.

Also datalists appear quite different across different browsers, which is fine of course for a native form control, but annoying if you're aiming for a more consistent look.
1) LE has repeatedly shown that new policing powers will be used illegally, and without repercussion for their misuse. When the abuses are curbed and punished, perhaps they can be trusted with new shiny things.

2) between geolocation tracking, sting rays, ALPRs, phone/internet/email/web history providers subpoenas, doorbell cameras, face recognition, FISA/national security mass surveillance, drones, etc. one is supposed to believe that LE does not have the technological tools to do their job?
> You also lose the ease of just walking over to someone to ask a question.

I can almost guarantee that this person doesn't want to be interrupted in their work at random by people "just walking over to ask a question".
> Many undergraduates also confidently regurgitate incorrect proofs of linear algebra theorems, do you consider them completely lacking in reasoning ability?

No. Because I can ask them questions about their proof, they understand what it means, and can correct it on their own.

I've seen LLM's correct their answers after receiving prompts that point out the errors in prior outputs. However I've also seen them give more wrong answers. It tells me that they don't "understand" what it means for an expression to be true or how to derive expressions.

For that we'd need some form of deductive reasoning; not generating the next likely token based off a model trained on some input corpus. That's not how most mathematicians seem to do their work.

However I think it seems plausible we will have a machine learning algorithm that can do simple inductive proofs and that will be nice. To the original article it seems like they're taking a first step with this.

In the mean time why should anyone believe that an LLM is capable of deductive reasoning? Is a tensor enough to represent semantics to be able to dispatch a theorem to an LLM and have it write a proof? Or do I need to train it on enough proofs first before it can start inferring proof-like text?
> Passkeys are synchronized across devices using services you already use and trust, like iCloud Keychain from Apple, Google Password Manager, and 1Password.

I don’t trust any of those, and it’s weird that anyone does.
The way reddit seems to be unable to implement useful and complex new features leads me to wonder what their development practices are like.

It's like they can only create simple new things, but more complicated stuff is beyond them. Complex features like moderator tools, rate limiting, accessibility, a working video player, and a rich text editor.

Are they only hiring the cheapest least experienced developers? Too few devs, or too many managers?
I really don't understand how US citizens tolerate non democratic nonsense like Gerrymandering.

Today there is no technical reason why votes couldn't be "pooled up" to whatever an election is about (e.g. for presidential election pool up on a whole US level, this would give every US citizen the same voting power no matter where they live and remove anti-democtratic problems like the electoral collage, uneven value of the vote etc.
I have spontaneous conversation and ideation daily at my remote job. In slack. Both with teammates in DMs and team channels, and in more general channels.

I have never had trouble asking people questions. And I get asked them all the time. In fact, that the questions and answers are written and async is superior. When I was in the office, people would frequently take conversations to Slack (or say "could you Slack me what you just told me?")

Personally too, I find written communication to be superior. I will do quick video calls with people but that's rare (and usually to the taste of the other person).

We also have excellent training backboned by mentorship.
Google DeepMind’s game-playing AI just found another way to make code faster
The authors of the study are all from the chemistry department at the University of Kansas. Is this really the sort of paper they should be authoring? https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/...

The methodology is terrible. The prompting was as simple as : "Can you produce a 300- to 400-word summary on this topic: INSERT TOPIC HERE" where some example topics are:

A surprising fossil vertebrate

Stem cells remember insults

I can't see how that prompt is going to come up with anything comparable to the human text which is based on perspectives articles in Science.

And they don't report these numbers but I can from the tables.

Document false positive rate (human assigned as AI) 0%

Document false negative rate (AI assigned as human) 0%

Paragraph false positive rate (human assigned as AI) 14%

Paragraph false negative rate (AI assigned as human) 3%

In summary though this is a garbage tier study for entertainment only
Here are the actual guidelines: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/ventilat...

Note that when they say "5 ACH" they include both actual air changes and "effective air changes" due to filtration or germicidal UV:

"Some air cleaning and air treatment devices do not bring in outdoor air. Instead, they clean or treat the indoor air to reduce the concentration of infectious particles. Thus, they give eACH without the need or expense of conditioning outdoor air."
AI to detect AI. I’m skeptical that AI will lead to the end of the world, but who knows. At this rate, the AIs will go to war on each other and we’ll just be casualties of the crossfire.
The paragraph under the headline was almost not readable for me, had to highlight it. I think "text-neutral-500" blends too well with the dark background.
That's certainly an observation (and one I agree with), but it's a stretch to call it "sharp".

Everyone and everyone's mother has already made the claim that VR is dystopian. Snow Crash was written in 1992. For literally decades before it's been even implemented, VR has been the quintessential symbol for the irony of technology both bringing us together while keeping us apart.

And to be clear, I'm not even criticizing the product. I think the Vision Pro could be very cool. I'm criticizing the idea that this blog said anything insightful.
I'm no SF expert and haven't been back in a long time, but I used to travel there in early 2000s and thought the number of homeless and agressive people was a lot more than where I lived in both LA and NYC.

Knowing how post-pandemic and post wealth grab has made the homeless population grow I can only guess how SF looks now.
A quarter pound is only just over 100 grams, or about two shot glasses; you'll just breathe that out as water vapor, and then some. Plus sweating happens even when you're not feeling moist.
The same story exists across the US. How does San Francisco fix a national health issue when Congress refuses to do anything but cut taxes on the rich to force us into begging from someone who is obviously more pious given their wealth in a tilted wealth acquisition game.

How does SF fix a public looking to be served rather than serve themselves? Hypernormalization on fiat economics to accomplish anything is destroying everything.
While I understand what you are saying, I would disagree. Saying that something is completely safe when it isn't (as you say nothing is completely safe) makes it appear that people are being lied to when someone does have some type of reaction.

I think we are better of thinking of risk in terms of every day risk management. Comparing risks to things like driving 10 miles, getting hit by a meteor while sleeping, etc. can help create a better understanding of the risks.
Yes, people often mention the number scientific citations that mention AlphaFold as "proof" of its value. Unfortunately, padding researcher CVs is not a net positive for humanity, and so "moving academia further ahead" (by what metric?) is not necessarily a desirable or worthwhile goal if your definition of "ahead" is sufficiently warped as such. Perhaps, one day, the first real human being will be helped by medicine that couldn't have been found/created without AlphaFold. Unless a scientific endeavor is actually useful to humanity, who cares if it "moves ahead"?
As others have already said, you can get millions of executions of serverless functions for literal pennies on other platforms.

These serverless platforms already tend to cost A LOT more than running traditional servers, but your offering is 200,000 times pricier than an already costly option.

One thing to note here is that those traditional providers charge per request, while your product is priced on actions, which are blocks in the request flow. Realistically, any non-basic API will have several blocks for each request, thus considerably inflating your numbers.

To put things in perspective here, 1 Req/s is 2.5M Req/Mo which is already over your highest plan, and while it may be a considerable amount of volume for a medium app, it’s still something you could run on a $5 VPS and have 99% of your CPU sitting idle. For your proposed pricing, you could literally deploy tens or hundreds of dedicated servers around the world for each client that signs up and still end up being ridiculously overpriced.

As another example, given the current Reddit debacle, we know that an average user of theirs makes ~380 API Req/day. This means that 175 users would saturate the 2M actions in your highest Team plan. How would you justify 30.000$ for 175 MAU?

If these prices are somehow based on your costs for hosting the API you seriously need to rethink your internal efficiency

That said, I like the style and concept of the product, but there are still too many missing features, especially to justify a price that’s many orders of magnitude higher than anyone else.
Better for who? For sure not workers
regardless of who is right, the fervent opinions and bless-your-hearts in this thread tell me that I'm better off using neither. Purity tests are fucking dumb, escalating goalposts are fucking dumb, worrying about how others compute is fucking dumb. We're all nerds here, there's no need for this level of emotional investment into other people's opinions..
Libc isn't just an ABI, it's a library - one that relies on an opinionated runtime. That's the demon, it's incidental complexity that has been ossified by past design decisions. There is no fundamental reason that interacting with an OS has to require anything more than the minimum necessary to transfer data to/from the kernel (e.g. supervisor trap instruction).
They include filtration or germicidal UV: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/ventilat...

If you do want to bring in outside air, you can use a heat exchange system to minimize the energy impact.
> does expertise in Guile (base Scheme is trivial) carry over anywhere interesting?

If you ever want to embed a dynamic language in a native code program for configuring/scripting the latter, Guile is a great choice.
What's the false positive rate?

It's already difficult enough to not be accused of being a bot instead of a human.

I do not want the future to be "rule by AI".
I'm not actually sure now you mention it; it used to be a serious crime to mess with weights and scales, when they were used for weighing coins. Probably still is.
The game developers conference is jacking up their prices all the time too. It's super annoying that the Vault wasn't included by default with an all access pass. And the division into summits is confusing and annoying as well.

GDC needs competition.

I think Vancouver or Montreal would be a great destination, cheaper too.
It was easy to look good when the money printer was churning out negative rates and you could rely on investors to pump money in you instead of actually turning a profit. A couple of years ago you could literary close your eyes, put your finger randomly on some no-name company and if you invested in that company you'd get great returns because everything was going to the moon.

Now we're gonna see which companies are actually sustainable and which were coasting on dreams and cheap money.

IMHO such a correction was long overdue, but the central banks kept negative rates for far too long while everyone cheered them one because they saw their crypto, stonks and housing portfolios go to the moon and though this was great and nothing bad could happen because "line always goes up".
I don't think that's necessary, since cargo and source repo is tightly linked, just make that source repo supports returning user name or org name.

I don't see a reason you couldn't use exisiting org/username from Github as namespace, can they squat on it? Not unless they steal it, in which case, Github should be notified.
> We can't just dismiss Psychology, cancel an entire field because it has difficulties.

We can stop pretending that the garbage currently produced has any value whatsoever.
Are you sure you don't an extension spoofing the Edge user agent? When I access bing.com/chat from Chrome, I get a screen saying "Unlock conversational search on Microsoft Edge".

You can avoid that by using Bing Chat for All Browsers.
Prism is for monitoring international communications, not domestic.
That's not easily solved at all. That's an incredibly complex system you're proposing.

IMO the solution is simpler. Heavily rate limit the creation of namespaces. That's less viable for crate names, but it should be very uncommon to create more than a few namespaces. You could give people a low number that aren't rate limited, like 5, and then rate limit them to 2 a day afterwards.

They can then publish unlimited crates under those namespaces.
Not in this case I'm not — I'm saying here that "nuclear won't save it", which is different, especially as there are many other solutions.

You yourself elsewhere on this post are promoting hydrogen storage (I wish all the luck to whoever is working on that); I'm personally in favour of a global power grid; there's a bunch of fusion startups that may or may not get past the political hurdles plaguing fission even if/when they succeed at net power; genetically engineered bio-oils are also a possibility (as feedstock not just as fuel!); geothermal and tidal are also renewable but not seasonal.

But on the other hand, I am worried about non-aligned AI, about biodiversity loss, about peak phosphorus, and a whole bunch of other things.
> You also lose the ease of just walking over to someone to ask a question

Isn't that the distraction people try to avoid? I don't think there is an expectation from anyone that people should walk over to someone's desk and ask questions. In fact, I believe it's the opposite of what's typically being welcomed – do your own research, dive deep into the problem, work with the problem from different angles, etc.

I do not believe that remote training is awful. When someone's trained remotely, they can always record a meeting and come back to that recording many times in the future. If something is unclear, just send a message. Nobody's recording screenshares in the office, so training/onboarding material from your co-workers gets easily lost. This leads to distractions, such as walking over to someone's desk and asking follow up questions.
Browser reading mode is good for fixing this
the answer is "the law of cause and effect" and "the problems"
You're not wrong exactly, but this mentality gets the causation backwards and induces a kind of helplessness -- "we can't have better transport until we have higher density". But you can build good transport infrastructure first to make the place attractive for densifying development.

A while ago there were some photos that got shared around of a Chinese subway station built out in the middle of nowhere (Chongqing I think?). It was held up as some self-evident absurdity produced by a crazy top-down system. But a few years later the place was thriving with new buildings and businesses, precisely because of the station.

It's not absurd. This how things used to be done and people have just forgotten it! In the American west, railroads came first, towns later. London grew the "Metroland" suburbs out of the northwest railway expansion in the 1920s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit-oriented_development

Build it and they will come!
My account on Reddit is 17 years old.

I’ve been on lemmy for a couple days. I’m still very unsure about it. It’s not the technical changes of being federated, those didn’t take too much effort even for me with no experience with mastodon etc.

It’s more the underlying politics that are jarring. The lead dev uses Castro as his picture and the other founder has mao on his personal page masthead. There’s a VERY prevalent anti western sentiment and even reccomending things like podcasts that use western viewpoints are downvoted hard. And I haven’t even been to their “communist” instance.

The read I get is it’s got a lot of communism/socialism ideologues that have never lived under the thumb of the regimes they are advocating.

Even on some of the inclusive specific ideas instances like beehaw, a prevalent reasoning is if your instance doesn’t defederate/block other instances unaligned with xyz, it means you aren’t dedicated to making a safe space and thus should be defederated too. It’s a dangerous game if that plays out on the larger more popular instances.

It just feels off and as if I’m an outsider or unwelcome at best. Unsure if I will stick around. It’s not nearly same as the early Reddit days and especially the pre-digg migrations (and there were a couple)

I also made sure to register to one that doesn’t profess any political leaning. But still, unsure given the overall vibe.
You’re commenting on a site that is fairly well known for being pedantic.

> Then there's the issue that the crates.io registry is on GitHub, and only GitHub

There are a number of issues with this. The public crates registry is available in sanctioned countries, and it’s not even used by default anymore.

This is independent of crates.io only supporting GitHub as a sign-up option. People from sanctioned countries can also sign up for GitHub accounts, but cannot access private ones or paid membership features.

The author conflates these two issues in a way that confuses the point they are trying to make, which has nothing to do with the crates.io registry being on GitHub or access from sanctioned countries.