skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you not own a washing machine if you can't use it to render 3D videos on the computer inside?

You don't own it if you don't have complete control over its functions, including that of the computer inside. These things are coming loaded with "smart features" nowadays, you absolutely don't own a thing if you can't modify or delete that stuff. It's their machine, they're just letting you use it.
The official app store will surely have 99.9%+ market share, just like the Play Store does on Android. Not many companies will want to give up 99.9% of their total addressable market. And Google has the same sort of review process Apple does. Are there any examples of critical software that users depend on only being released in a way that circumvents Google's safety mechanisms?
Well LLMs are also “command-based”. They are called prompts. In fact they’d just continue the text but were specifically trained by RLHF to be command-following.

Actually, we can make automomous agents and agentic behavior without LLMs very well, for decades. And we can program them with declarative instructions much more precisely than with natural language.

The thing LLMs seem to do is just give non-experts a lot of the tools to get some basic things done that only experts could do for now. This has to do with the LLM modeling the domain space and reading what experts have said thus far, and allowing a non-expert to kind of handwave and produce results.
The people you know is certainly not a representative sample.
I mean, end of life medical care is already incredibly expensive with very, very little benefit in terms of QALYs saved. We do it anyway. I fail to see how this is different, let people fight to live.
Sunk boat had not moved for hours, data suggests, contradicting Greek officials
> In three recent trials testing the performance and accuracy of the new LPU, the device showed promise against its supercomputing and quantum computing counterparts in the following ways:

They proceed to cite three not-yet-peer-reviewed manuscripts by the co-founders [1,2,3]. In all three papers, they use a simulation of their LPU (that runs on CPU or GPU), and compare to some classical heuristics on an AWS instance.

I read [1] and the results are... preliminary at best. They compare their simulation to a single deep-learning-based heuristic called RUN-CSP on tiny MAX-2-SAT instances (<350 variables). Deep learning is great but it is generally not SOTA on combinatorial problems. Still, RUN-CSP is not bad, and its authors seem more reasonable; in their paper, they write: "Despite being generic, we show that [RUN-CSP] matches or surpasses most greedy and semi-definite programming based algorithms and sometimes even outperforms state-of-the-art heuristics for the specific problems." Note that RUN-CSP is indeed generic and was by no mean fine-tuned for MAX-2-SAT.

In summary, LightSolver only exists as a simulator on GPUs, that simulator was only tested on very niche problems, and even then probably not against the state-of-the-art. I am trying to be polite here, but to be clear: the BS-o-meter is strongly in the red.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.06926.pdf

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.09517.pdf

[3] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.03788.pdf
For early stage products, it's often more like "we have no idea how to price this and we don't want to publish it yet".

You can basically come into those calls and name your price or walk away.
> This would make you a non-exempt worker in the US and in many other similar jurisdictions, meaning that you're being paid hourly instead of salaried.

Yes, in the US. I questioned whether that's a universal definition.

I'm not being paid hourly. I get paid the same monthly salary regardless of how many working days or hours exactly there happen to be in a particular month. A February that happens to have the fewest possible work days pays the same as a 31-day month that happens to have the highest possible number of working days.

The number of hours per working day is set in the contract, but it's flextime so I might work one hour less than that one day and one hour more on another. Paid overtime is also a thing, but either way, I'm entitled to compensation in either form if I work more than X hours a day.

"Salaried position" may have a specific meaning in the US but that doesn't mean that's exactly what salary universally means. I think that particular phrase is just language specific to the US and some other similar jurisdictions.

"Hourly" and "no compensation for overtime" aren't the only two logical possibilities.

And either way, since real output from most knowledge work isn't directly quantifiable anyway, I'd say people are at least to an extent paid for their time rather than directly for their output. That was the original claim, and I think whoever pointed that out was right about it being part of the problem.

> Please cite the language in your employment contract that entitles you to this.

Please consider the possibility that I'm not in the US. You're just going to have to take my word for it.
Most markets have several products/services worthy of attention. But in the “consumer VPN” space I think https://mullvad.net/ is the only non-shady clear principles player there is? Even established names like Proton seem to partially swindle you with buzzwords like servers inside Swiss mountains. None of that with Mullvad: clear about what they do, what they don’t do, and how they do what they do.
Having enough inrush current to trip a breaker doesn't seem so terrible or entirely unexpected, but electrical fires? That's certainly bad news, the breakers are supposed to be sufficient to protect the wiring.
The drug itself might be paid for, as well as tests under the scope of the study (which might be narrow), but services to administer the drug, and tests or treatment for effects not in the scope of the study, aren't always covered. Or, in the stupidest cases, approval gets bogged down by the drug company, patient, or administering clinic/practitioner trying to get the patient's insurance to cover whatever's not covered by the trial for so long that the patient no longer qualifies (or is dead) by the time insurance relents and agrees to pay.
Because of shared memory most panics and seg faults in a worker process take down the entire server already (this wasn’t always the case, but not doing so was a bug).
Archived link without paywall: https://archive.is/OAKFM
David Pogue, who traveled to the Titanic with OceanGate last summer, has said that he was on the control ship when a previous sub was "lost for about 5 hours".

Source: https://twitter.com/Pogue/status/1670835763536183297
"Don't forget to like and subscribe"

On a side note, long time ago I saw someone who make a bot trained on a selected sample of chats between people on the internet - and the tool swore a lot.
Interestingly, my country (Brazil) doesn't seem to regulate the grid frequency for use as a time reference, at least as far as I could find. So if this happened here, and if the microwave used the grid frequency for its clock, the clock would stay wrong.
Because gen z uses both discord and reddit heavily
I would say that properly configured Tortoise is better, but that comes with the massive caveat that Tortoise:

1 - Is a real pain to get 'working right' - it's not even remotely batteries included

and, more importantly:

2 - Is incredibly slow. I've been turning Heart Of Darkness into an audiobook as a unit test and it takes ~30m per paragraph, on average. Add to that the occasional hiccup where a block gets transcribed badly (Tortoise occasionally 'drops out' of it's selected voice) and Tortoise only really works if you have a ton of compute and you still don't mind waiting forever.
As someone with a surname that is easily made fun of, I urge you to just leave off irrelevant quips.
I'd love to hear if the length requirement can be removed with advancements like phased-array systems or plasma antennas.

Would be cool to be able to text across the world.
I’m not in the “he was right” camp but I don’t see how you can call it incomprehensible. It’s certainly not well-written, but it lacks the opaque prose that leftists especially are so fond of, and is easy enough to follow.
This confirms my preconceived beliefs, and so I'm happy to see the science agreeing with intuition.

Unfortunately, exactly the same attitude would lead the people in question to reject the validity of the result! Not only does the round earth conspiracy insist on using garbage 'science' to propagate the big lie, they are also using that same science to insult the flat earthers! This will therefore agree with their intuition.
Almost nothing about medicine operates nearly as cleanly as that example; that's one of the major challenges with medical science. The seatbelt analogy breaks down in this context because the hypothetical of "Even if every automobile collision without seatbelts was fatal, and every collision after seatbelts became mandatory was survived, even if nothing about the cars or driving conditions had changed" doesn't reflect medical reality (and in the rare instances where it does, i.e. when improvement for the test group becomes obvious, immediate, and apparently side-effect free, it can become morally imperative to discontinue the control group).

In medicine, you get confounding factors like change in standard of care year-to-year and facility-to-facility. You almost never get the kind of "clean-room" trials you get in mechanical engineering (and, indeed, the processes to create them would often themselves be unethical). So the best you usually get is trying to reason around (to torture the analogy a bit) "Well we introduced seatbelts three years ago and relative to the year prior to that, fatalities went way down... Oh wait, but COVID also happened the same year we introduced seatbelts and everyone stopped driving" if you compare a current trial to past non-trial standard care as the control group.
At least the 5 star scale has become exceedingly clear that anything below 4.0 is hot trash.
Well, what counts as a “paradigm”? I can’t see any definition of that. If you’d ask 10 people to divide the history of UI into some number of paradigms, you would for sure get 10 different answers. But hey, why not pick the one that makes for a hyperbolic headline. Made me click.
Imagine walking in to your boss and saying "boss, the battery pack works, but some sweaty Europeans may be forced to sit naked in their uncooled apartments without a belt to hang it on. I think we should delay the launch."

This is a very odd take. Southeast Asians and Louisianans work in conditions that are technically considered "uninhabitable" by OSHA. The response isn't working naked. It is not a use case that any company would consider primary.

Also, you know, you can always put on a belt without clothing.
What treatment is this? Atezolizumab? (I also have recurrent SCC of the tongue.)
Nobody cares what color their iMessage chat bubbles are. It’s complete nonsense. We have a group text chat at work, other than a little friendly gentle ribbing about people owning the wrong phone (much like following the wrong sports team), it never even gets mentioned. My kids are the same way, they have group chats with their friend groups and the ones that speak in green bubbles are not ostracized because of it.

I just recently switched to an iPhone (not quite 2 years ago) after owning Android phones for years. iMessage wasn’t even a thought in my purchasing decision. It’s a great messaging app, but at the end of the day, it’s just a way to send text messages.
CGA, trauma inducing palette doenst exactly scream wide audience accessibility. This game has a very strong and distinct art style.
Amazon Governor is a Bolsonaro ally: https://g1.globo.com/am/amazonas/eleicoes/2022/noticia/2022/...

Even if ground stations are localized in the middle of the Amazon, it is neither easy nor cheap to gather a resources to disable it.
NGL, when watching this I was thinking, “this is the secret origin story of Emacs.”
Unrelated, but a song by the band was in the 'BlackBerry' movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuqEpjcBfaU
Why Amazon built a second headquarters and how the pandemic reshaped HQ2
The threaded design wouldn't necessarily be single-process, it would just not have 1 process for every connection. Things like crash detection could still be handled in a separate process. The reason to use threading in most cases is to reduce communication and switching overhead, but for low-traffic backends like a crash handler the overhead of it being a process is quite limited - when it gets triggered context switching overhead is the least of your problems.
Same with go.
What statistics? All the stats I've seen are that there has never been less poverty in the world.
I noticed a lot of emotional language in this post, and wonder whether anybody can take it seriously.

This certainly doesn't seem at all like a scientist's work to me, and in fact is the kind of moralising that leads me to wonder - what can be the values of the person who wrote it?
> and they shut off the ship’s internet to prevent us from tweeting.

Some how that makes it even worse.
It seems everyone is in a rush to LLMify their interfaces same as the chatbot rush. Same as the blockchain all the things rush. And so on.

I thought about interfaces a lot and realizdd that, for most applications, a well-designed GUI and API is essential. For composability, there can be standards developed. LLMs are good for generating instructions in a language, that can be sort of finagled into API instructions. Then they can bring down the requirements to be an expert in a specific GUI or API and might open up more abilities for people.

Well, and for artwork, LLMs can do a lot more. They can give even experts a sort of superhuman access to models that are “smooth” or “fuzzy” rather than with rigid angles. They can write a lot of vapid bullshit text for instance, or make a pretty believable photo effect that works for most people!
Even in the ocean, human remains may be partially preserved if the conditions are right for it. They found human remains in or around the Vasa, a Swedish warship that sank in 1628. Mostly just bones, but also a little bit of soft tissue more than 300 years later.

> Organic materials fared better in the anaerobic conditions, and so wood, cloth and leather are often in very good condition, but objects exposed to the currents were eroded by the sediment in the water, so that some are barely recognizable.[43] Objects which fell off the hull into the mud after the nails corroded through were well protected, so that many of the sculptures still retain areas of paint and gilding. Of the human remains, most of the soft tissue was consumed, leaving only the bones, which were often held together only by clothing, although in one case, hair, nails and brain tissue survived.[44]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)#Deterioration

The brain in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD8xOCoct4w
It's a totally different feeling to sit at a communal table vs visiting someone in their private office, even with the doors open. It's the difference between studying with your friends together at the library and visiting your professor during office hours.

Not saying either is better or worse, just different. I'd prefer the open collaboration model and would never want a private office, no matter how spacious it is. It's just lonely.

On the other hand, I also wouldn't force people to sit at the big table (or come into the office at all) if they work better alone. People are just different and their workspace needs should be respected as much as possible.

Even when fully WFH, I paid for a coworking space membership without a private desk, specifically for the collaborative feel and social chit chat. Many others did the same. And others still paid for private offices with their doors closed.

There's no one size fit all approach to this, and IMO there shouldn't be because people aren't the same. Companies that try to lump everyone together under one policy just ends up with a bunch of desks that sit empty most of the week, grumpy WFHers who reluctantly come in because they have to (getting nothing done that day), and sad extroverts like me who are surrounded by people who don't really want to be there.

Why not just let people choose, as long as they can still do the work? The control freak mentality is the problem, not private offices vs open layouts.
Ancient Britons built Stonehenge then vanished Are we closing in on the killers?
The real conspiracy here is that the people who truly believe the world is flat died several hundred years ago, and today's camp is doing it just for YouTube views and ad revenue share.
The context there is "combining commercial and free open-source Qt licenses"; if you are using either commercial or open source licenses exclusively, there are no such restrictions.
I have no hidden agenda here, so I compared, I admit, peaches to oranges, Chicory to Stardew, just because Stardew was the first popular indie game I found to compare with. Feel free to choose a successful indie game within the same genre as the Chicory, and then we can try to analyze the differences again.

> Stardew was genre-defining

What is the argument here, that it was very good? That's exactly my point, it was very successful because of how good it was (rather than lucky).
I gave up, I just do bits and bobs for internet people now.
> But to say society is making success impossible is simply untrue - I see so much opportunity and so many upcoming people all the time.

It's not impossible. It's harder than it was 20-50 years ago. Real wage growth has stagnated since the 1970s. The cost of higher education has grown at a faster rate than wages can keep pace. Young people (those under say 35) can't afford to buy homes, with the rate of home ownership amongst this age group dropping by ~20% since 1993. The median age of a home owner is now 56 years old, the highest it's ever been.

It takes but a moment to look up these things and realize there are systemic issues at play, but no, continue to share anecdotes and hyperbole.
Designing clinical trials from scratch is a very difficult and time consuming process so almost all of them are modeled after previous successful trials targeting the same class of medicine - as specific to the new drug as possible.

There's a lot of copy pasting followed by customization - often by "contract research organization" consultants who specialize in different types of clinical trials - but there are no "frameworks" as we would understand it in software engineering.
A new digital world order has already come to Kazakhstan
Yes, it makes sense except that the rating will be provisional and the variance really high until you have a lot of comparisons.
In many ways this is the same choice of wanting to live and do business in countries with a strong rule of law. I don't want other people to be able to opt-out of the law when they think it suits them, I want good ground rules that make things better.

Apple's walled garden has created an Apps market in the same way that governments create markets in the economy: by creating basic rules of conduct and commerce that allow people to feel safe enough to transact.

If side-loading appears I expect a race to the bottom as apps attempt to move people out of the App store and into a progressive web of predatory dark patterns that eventually kills all trust in the platform.
Historically, the protection was against death and destitution of the family when it was discovered that dad dying of consumption had mortgaged the house to the hilt to afford the overpriced opium.

With the modern social safety net, perhaps the traditional protections can be relaxed.
Presumably, the prosecution would charge criminal attempt of Neb. 28-416. The burden would be on them at court to establish that the cash, the text messages, the vacuum sealers, the person they were contacting in Colorado, and their itinerary constituted "substantial steps" towards (1) buying a bunch of hash oil in Colorado and (2) driving it across Nebraska on their way back to Virginia.
My mk1 TT is based on the mk4 "platform" so can use spare parts from Golf, Jetta, Ibiza, etc. Plenty of cars used the 1.8T engine too which is handy.
Defer is more general than using, you can use it for other use cases, for logging

logger.log("start")
defer logger.log("exit")
...

for keeping alive a reference (because you need to call C code)

global.keepalive = myvar
defer global.keepalive = undefined
...
// call C code here

etc
You bring up a great point about XBox PS, and Nintendo. Nobody is forcing them to allow alternative game stores on their platforms. If anything there is less competition on game consoles due to all of the platform exclusives.
The user won’t say what they experienced. “reddit retaliating against me” could encompass anything from “they gave me a flair that said ‘poopy head’” to “they sent assassins to kill me”. Some of that spectrum is legal, some isn’t.

Lots of mean, bad things are still entirely legal.
(I added a bit to the comment above, sorry)

I think there's a clear difference between a command and a declaration. Prompts are declarative.
So what would be different between those and forked processes?
I've been pondering / ruminating with this too; I've been somewhat surprised that few operating systems have played with reserving per-thread address space as thread-local storage, or requiring something akin to a 'far' pointer to access commonly-addressed shared memory.
I'm sure they do. But the chances of dying on board of an experimental submarine which is subjected to absolutely insane pressures are probably quite a bit higher still than the chances of dying on K2. But whether it's higher than the Titanic exploration missions is not the same as the manned Titanic missions of which there have only been very few.

Those things work right up to the moment that they do not, this stuff is at the cutting edge of technology and tourists simply have absolutely no place there. The only reason those rich folks tend to do stuff like this is because they like to brag about such stuff, not because they're interested in the science behind it (if they were they likely wouldn't go). The Titanic is less accessible than space.
Lower calorie is only better if trying to lose weight. I'm trying to get my daily calories (to maintain or increase my current weight) for cheap, so high-calorie inexpensive foods are preferable. Low-calorie foods are only worthwhile if they're particularly nutrient dense (ex. green vegetables).

Another downside of low-calorie foods (apart from price) is that it's hard to eat enough volume of them to stay at the same weight (which negatively affects strength/focus). For example, 2000 calories of grated carrot would be ~11x the maximum stomach capacity of an average person.
My US city just cut it's fixed bus service. I want my country/continent to try and be more like yours!
Use a hammer (or shoe) to gently hit the backplate from the inside, as close to each nail as you can.
I don't really get this. The paradigm has always been there, it has been the technology limitations that have defined the UI so far. Having robots and computers that humans talk to has been a fixture of sci-fi movies. Perhaps the most notable example being 2001: A Space Odyssey which came out 55 years ago.
> Once you understand the DSL, you’ll truly understand how incredible their documentation really is. It is incredibly succinct.

I guess that's great if you build IKEA furniture for a living.

I'm doing that only about once a year and don't remember all the subtleties of the DSL. Just a week ago I got caught by something which was differentiated by 2 different shades of gray which I unfortunately did not notice the first time around.

This point applies to computer DSLs as well - if your users don't write your DSL at least monthly, then the DSL might be more trouble than it's worth.
Yes, nothing beats independence.