skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Modern regenerative agriculture involves animal husbandry, not just plants. Most such farms are capitalist enterprises. As usual with this sort of twee opinion piece, the author has no clue how things work in the real world.
Sometimes they just don't fit elevators / stairs :)
Let's say I wanted to use one of their quantized models with this OpenLLM project. How would I do that?
That’s a full mis-representation of my argument while projecting your view.
Don't worry: I wasn't disagreeing with that part of your comment, or actually the comment in general.

RMS, the FSF and the GPL have had a phenomenal impact on software. But apart from RMS's own shortcomings, the result of that phenomenal impact is that his role is diminshed, to a de minimus level.

It's like Tim Berners-Lee: massive impact on the world but by now no real role. Nothing wrong with that (especially when it's such a nice person as TB-L).
Oh so I'm just overthinking it? Sorry. I thought ELO was some trendy new algorithm being used somewhere, and this was a jokey application of it.
UML is not documentation, it's code for people who can't read code. UML diagrams offer no additional information to someone who already can read code (and write readable code). They are training wheels. Mature bike riders don't use training wheels. Mature teams don't write UML -- they write code instead.

Other forms of documentation have their own tradeoffs, but I was not discussing those. You're the one who automatically equated UML with all possible documentation.

> to build good software they’ll want to capture requirements, communicate with other teams, and test their software

UML is awful at all of this.

> At the end of a successful day, I should have ...

> “smart people like me do X and not smart people do Y”

You don't see the irony here?
because people are spamming HTTP POST with payload and there is no verification process, just use ID of the Hitler.
That’s not what goodwill is. It’s the premium paid over NAV for acquired companies
> I tend to look at it like this: humans have a certain base capacity for worrying

I heard someone say it this way once: everyone has a problem bucket. With some people, it holds a pint. With others, it holds a gallon. But whatever its size, it's always full.
It worked fine, a lot of people are still using WSL1 and the Windows Android Subsystem is still closer to WSL1 than WSL2, and in that case in Windows 11 Microsoft is even selling that to ordinary users in the Microsoft Store.

The performance was never that bad, depending on your use cases is all. Admittedly a lot of use cases for developers are heavily file I/O bound or deal with dark details and edge cases of syscalls rather than the happy paths (because developers gonna develop), so of course developers felt the performance sting there.

(I'm very curious if WSL1 on the soon-to-come Dev Drive has good performance, because it will bypass a lot of the file I/O filter drivers that caused some of the worst WSL1 performance for developers. That seems like an obvious and interesting win, if the case.)
I'm not sure how to answer your last question, really. I mean it might be rhetorical but I honestly believe I'd benefit from both coursework and this year off. A lot to consider, but I appreciate the advice.
> You know your logarithm calculation rules, right? Right?!

Eh, at one point I did. I'll take your word for it. It seems familiar.

Now factor in number of rearrangements since the universe started. Or heck, let's keep it simple to the last 4.5 billion years.

I count about 30 atoms in a nucleotide, so X is a bit more than 10^523.

Let's say 2 rearrangements per day (this will vary dramatically, but I have to pull some number out of a hat). Over 4.5 billion years that's on the order of a bit more than 10^12. so X is around 10^511.

Yep, still more than astronomical.
GPT-4 has 360B parameters + math calculations
I think this is all a red herring. At least until we crack GAI, at which point paperclip maximizers and other lethal agents of pure technology come knocking.

Point being: technology, so far, has never been autonomous. But technology also doesn't grow on trees, nor does it stick out from the ground like a valuable rock. Technology is actively invented, and requires costly reproduction and maintenance. It only sticks around if enough people deem it worthy to have enough resources allocated to birth and propagate some piece of technology.

In other words: there is always someone commissioning the technology. Someone with use for it. When considering the gains and ills of progress, it is IMO wrong to focus on technology itself. Especially when talking ills, it's a good way for the actual cause of suffering to remain hidden. Every technology that ever harmed anyone was commissioned and deployed by somebody. Perhaps commissioned with ill intent from the start, or perhaps only repurposed for evil. But it's not technology that does the damage, but people - and these days, organizations, which is both government branches and businesses.

Going back to agency and autonomy - technology doesn't have agency, but people do, and importantly, large organizations seem to have separate agency of their own. Sans of GAI, no tech will turn on all humans on its own - but a corporation might, and corporations wield the most powerful of technologies.
Lipitor was formulated in 1985, went through an expensive and exhaustive trials process which concluded in 1994, and hit the market in 1996. Today it is one of the best selling drugs in the world, has revolutionized heart health, and saves tens of thousands of lives in the US annually.

So was Lipitor’s development and approval process a failure? If you ask some patients and their families who were stuck in the early 90s with hope but no access to the drug, they would probably say so. And I understand the emotions involved, but the truth is that if human civilization has existed without a lifesaving treatment for hundreds of thousands of years, delaying it for a couple more to better under its effectiveness is the right decision for the public good.
It's even more of a grift, especially since the choices for verifying the rule is actually followed are either "trust me bro" or Treacherous Computing.
While that is a good point, there are many other frequently prescribed drugs with shorter rx periods - antibiotics, benzodiazipines, sleep medication, emergency medications like inhalers and Epi pens to name a few. If you look at the list of most commonly prescribed drugs¹, opioids aren't even in the top 15, which makes that statistic even more concerning, albeit obvious in hindsight.

1: https://clincalc.com/DrugStats/Top300Drugs.aspx
they aren't getting a pass if they rates on the loan they hold keeps going up.
It does not take more than a couple years to get fine enough programming skills to make it in the professional world. Do not consider yourself behind, I highly doubt any significant % of engineers knew what cs was when they were in high school. Focusing on personal projects, interning, freelancing while in school will put you waaay ahead of your peers.
The problem with structural/duck typing is that words can mean several things. For example `.run`ning your duck is probably very different from `.run`ning your Thread. I think the Symbol is a way to signal "this is the dispose function whose contract is defined in the JS `using` spec and not some random function that happens to be named that way".
> > Run the nix installer

> Ok and this requires root access

On a tangent: I wonder why this is still the default.

The nixStatic binary has, since quite a while, support to as a non-root user create a "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-${HOME}/.local/share}/nix/root/nix" -> "/nix" unshare chroot before running the rest of the command if "/nix" is missing.

It's only a real issue if you really need to run something as root, or something else that needs unshare chroot itself, but in that case, I guess you could just have a /nix store folder anyways.
Voice commands being usable is the one thing I miss from having an Android phone.
This was our aim with Slint
Right but that would still be true if they were globals instead. Putting all the globals in a class doesn't make any difference to how much state you have.
Fine. Won't use them for science. The significant question remains: why is someone trying so hard to crush that video?
"Going out into the deep forest, far from humanity, isn't solitude because the car that got you there leaned on social connections."

Ok. Sure. You can take that position, but it is not clear how you think that fits in the context?
Actually, you can find online examples that demonstrate how easily you can teach a neural network how to do y = x^2

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70407674/how-to-teach-a-...

Neural networks, from one perspective, are good at finding hyperplanes between data points from two different sets. You can teach a neural network how to recognize X belongs in your dataset of choice, so it's relatively easy to find other points in the dataset of y = x^2 or so with that building block.

I am no expert, but mechanistic interpretability seems to make the most sense in understanding individual NN layers: each layer recognizes a different combination of features corresponding to a certain pattern and feedback from the layers below. At a scale of 40B+ parameters and 120K context windows, we start to lose track of what the machine is doing, but it's not inconceivable that with such large numbers it can regurgitate very large portions of text with 100% accuracy.

Scale matters a lot.
I gave it a fair chance and it was a deciding factor in why I left a company believe it or not. Only one person could maintain and fix deployments. Not from lack of trying from seasoned experts and no new comers. It was the worst user experience I have probably ever encountered. Meanwhile I was able to pick up terraform and docker in a matter of days...
I wish people would keep in mind that a person’s position and their supposed hypocrisy are two different things. A person’s position does not become false if they happen to be a hypocrite.
I found a 2020 blog post from the author, announcing a pause of the project https://eli.sohl.com/2020/04/26/pressing-pause-on-theseus.ht...
So you're telling me that there _is_ a chance! ;)

And I'm very sad to (re?)learn this finite number of atoms in the universe, that's quite underwhelming for something expanding all the time.
To be fair, you did warn
me!
But does Czechia have rampant vehicle crime whether, personal or public?

https://knoema.com/atlas/Canada/topics/Crime-Statistics/Burg...

Versus

https://knoema.com/atlas/Czech-Republic/topics/Crime-Statist...

Maybe the data from knoema.com is wrong somewhere but may I also present to you something you probably know about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Metro
I'd recommend binary ninja if you're serious about reversing. Not that expensive for a personal license.

Ghidra is nice, but being FOSS it will always be slightly worse then paid. It's fantastic for free, but not perfect. If reversing is part time/once a month/once every few months then its probably the best choice. Used it for a few years professionally.

binja is my favorite and been using it for the last year or so. just an absolute pleasure to use and collaborate with. IMO the best of all these tools. vector35 are great to work with as well. plugin development is real nice too

IDA pro is the worst. hexrays are plain awful to work with and its so overpriced.

hopper haven't tried, but seems good. mac only though

r2 is interesting. great if you only have a headless connection, but difficult. Learning curve is tough, and payoff isn't necessarily there. an alternative to ghidra if you want free but want to feel more l33t
Compromise is a method of ensuring that nobody is entirely happy or unhappy.
I'm a bit divided on this feature. On one hand, I would like to have this feature; it would be awesome to see the recommendation of people from different jobs. On the other hand, I'm a bit concerned about privacy. The system must ensure that each group is big enough to avoid the leak of someone's recommendations. I don't want anyone to know exactly what I'm liking and what I'm watching.

If I recall correctly, myCANAL (the French Netflix) used to have a similar feature. You could access the recommendations of personalities of the channel, but it was curated manually.
Nice one, I'm saving it, thank you!
It won't be a big barrier. Voice stuff is not as computationally intense as video or LLMs, so it's still an area where small teams or hobbyists can make a dent.
what about support for Windows?
I am glad that Hitler isn't #1 on this list anymore. Because Hitler, despite his best efforts, could only be a distant 2nd when pitted again the true #1 best human being : Rupert Murdoch.
Depends on your requirements. If you need 11 nines durability S3 is probably still cheaper
A nice vindication, but only protects old companies, not new ones which are more likely to be victims
Purposeful title change, and a funny one at that: Android already does.
Why are we better served by wasting bits?
money, what else?
I've also definitely seen a lot of CPU bounding on postgres.
I got The Bosnian Genocide and the Dallas Cowboys and that one was a tough call…
Thank you for sharing your ideological views, but this is not the appropriate venue for that. If you want to have a software _engineering_ discussion about the trade offs involved in sharing global mutable state, this is a good venue for that. All engineering is trade offs. As soon as you make blanket statements that X is always bad, you’ve transitioned into the realm of ideology. Now presumably you mean to say it’s almost always bad. But that really depends on the context. It may well be almost always bad in average software projects, but PostgreSQL is not your average software project. Databases are a different realm.
Again one of those impossible to kill memes, along with bad mounting instructions (they are on par with Lego, and way better than a lot of industry ones). Usually tells you more about the person making that point than about the point they try to make.
It in fact still works in low power mode.
Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things, and in this case I don't have much of a guess. (Of many flags, only one came from a YC founder, so it wasn't that.)

I've turned off the flags now, in keeping with the rule that we moderate HN less when YC or YC startups are part of a story: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

p.s. Vouching only works when a story is [dead]
If that's the case, it's still hypocritical - he was one of the early investors in OpenAI: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-openai-reason-exis...
You will not be let into Beehaw with this attitude, an attitude of "I'm a normal person with no specific intentions", or with any stated intention other than what is prescribed.
It's proto-pager code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_signal

https://www.pagercodes.com/common-pager-codes.html
An MMA announcer with a podcast, however many broesefs listen, and a Kennedy who turns out to be a crank across multiple topic areas, don't deserve the time of day from anyone. Nobody has to discredit them anew.
A slight aside, Tiwai is now now owned by Rio Tinto. Every few years Rio Tinto claims the power is too expensive and they may have to closed down. Then they get a discount and carry on.

They are at it now. That place closing down would lose 1000+ jobs if n a region that doesn’t have a ton of options, the world would lose a greenish supply of aluminium and I would potentially get a discount on my power bill when I stop subsidising that massive company (that smelter uses a bit over 10% of NZs electricity).

Oh, and Rio Tinto have dumped toxic waste in various places too.

https://www.powercompare.co.nz/n/tiwai-point-aluminium-closu...

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/468066/tiwai-point-toxic...
> Enjoy this type of game while it lasts, because this era is coming to an end, it's just not sustainable.

Do you also think blockbuster movies are not sustainable? Because AAA games have a very similar business model. Actually in some ways games are more attractive due to the possibilities with DLC.
For me its more like I wake up and check if humans have been replaced yet. Oh good, it's another day that I don't have to share one time pads with my mother to ensure that I'm talking to her and not a simulant performing fraud on a massive scale.
> Not a single electrician on payroll.

Directly, yes maybe. Many companies don't have in-house experts (and get shafted by vendors as a result, as they're lacking the competence required to assess the quality of work).

But indirectly, they all have. In Germany, at least, you're required to have electrical appliances inspected by a licensed professional (an electrician or otherwise qualified person) at least every two years - most companies opt for using dedicated external companies, but you can also train someone for that task. On top of that come all the electricians hired by the landlords - the ones dealing with complaints and remodels, or servicing lifts, escalators, HVAC, datacenters, ...
JWST Is Powerful Enough to See Biosignatures in Exoplanets, Argues New Paper
Apple is part of the problem here.
This case is in Swiss which is not using US trademark law.
The logo is clearly different, the products of both companies/org are different. But still Apple wants the other apples.
I wish all Apples fanboys all over the world create an online petition to oppose this action.
"Prebiosignature Molecules Can Be Detected in Temperate Exoplanet Atmospheres with JWST" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02897
I wonder how much of the WSL1 I/O performance had to do with the syscalls, and how much with them being visible to Widnows Defender and other anti-malware software, which all like to hook into every single file I/O operation userspace programs do. WSL2 I believe, being a full-fledged VM, gets to hide from those checks.

In my experience, WSL1 was fast enough even on large git repos with lots of files (after tweaking some Git settings), but performance crashed once corporate nuked my Defender exclusion lists, making both the repo and the entire WSL1 filesystem suffer from "real-time checks" on every file write.
One piece of Ikea furniture I assembled had two different depths of the same diameter nut. A single sentence warning about using the correct depth nut at one point would have saved me approximately 90 minutes of frustration.
Because it takes a lot of time and because the comments can get outdated. I also want this for all my code bases. But do I always do this myself? No, especially on green field projects. I will sometimes go back and annotate them later.
Oh it's certainly not for me, no question about it.

Yet, it's curious that you compare Slint to LVGL/Flutter/Electron (I don't know about Qt) when none of them have this intrusive requirement.

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>What's intrusive about it?

(a) Display the AboutSlint widget in an "About" screen or dialog that is accessible from the top level menu of the Application.

(b) Display the Slint attribution badge on a public webpage, where the binaries of your Application can be downloaded from, in such a way that it can be easily found by any visitor to that page.

(c) You may not remove or alter any license notices (including copyright notices, disclaimers of warranty, or limitations of liability) contained within the source code form of the Software.

(d) You allow SixtyFPS to use your Application on the website and in advertising materials of SixtyFPS as a reference and to display your logo and trademark for this purpose.

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Please don't pretend like a/b/d aren't big asks by saying "you wont even provide attribution?"
Lemmy has/had the other extreme where it was full of "Gen Zedong" people.
When i was a kid I spent hours and hours playing Burrito Bison on Newgrounds so I know Juicy Beast know how to make games, really good and enjoyable games.

As for the article, it was an interesting read and I almost predicted every raison why the game was a failure but I don't agree with some:

1.The "strike a deal first" one is nonsensical. Get famous enough on one platform and the sales will be as good on the others.
2. Only one console at a time should've been obvious ( currently it's the Switch first, others later)

I also think that a significant part of the failure comes from the fact that the market was saturated with party games at the time as i remember seeing a lot of ads about similar games and then it just stopped. Also, these kind of games are not really that interesting and become repetitive very fast and no single-player / online multi-player killed it before it was even out.
Right to try should be absolutely fundamental. If patients want to try unproven drugs, give it to them, it's their body, their lives. Especially if they're terminal. I see absolutely no downside. The government really has no business telling us how to manage our healthcare, but dammit they try!
That’s certainly reasonable, and I’m hearing enough anecdotes that I wouldn’t have grouped them together to form an unfavorable opinion (or at least no less favorable than Larry Ellison, Richard Bronson, or any of the other socialite billionaires).
Algebraic effects use delimited continuations (and this appears to match toss/return). Call/cc captures an undelimited continuation. Totally different.
It still is. City of SC (silicon valley power) charges $0.13/kWh vs north of $0.4x/kWh from PGE. It's simply impractical to charge EV at home regardless of which plan you pick at PGE, due to aggressive tier limits and the intentionally crippled "EV plan". PGE is legalized robbery.
Also seems to apply to US houses, doesn't it?
temporarily until inflation gets triggered again then they'll probably be riots in the streets.
Yes, but apart from the aqueduct?
Effekt: Lightweight Effect Polymorphism for Handlers (2020) [pdf]
Why not charge for support? And waive those charges for clients above some (public) spending threshold (to reduce the perverse incentive of making the product difficult to use so you can profit on support)?
The introduction of the SAT kept Jeb from going there.
> Another point I’d like to make is that modern European lifestyles exist partly due to American military hegemony, which has allowed European nations to redirect their defense spending to social programs.

I see Americans make this comment a lot. Putting aside whether or not it is true that it enables higher domestic social spending, the comment never seems to come with the realisation that many Europeans deride the “need” for higher defence spending. This is due to Europeans’ perception that American military adventurism is what creates the instability from which Europe requires American protection in the first place.

Many Europeans will say: “America, please stop bombing the mideast or continuously expanding NATO; this will stop creating problems that result in you demanding we spend more.”

In other words, many Americans presuppose the validity of their military adventurism and assume Europeans agree with it, and thus think they should want to participate in funding the defence of blowback from it.

By contrast, many Europeans would rather America did not try to play global policeman, or if it’s going to do so, then happily accept paying for European defence as the price of Pax Americana / US hegemony.
Then maybe you have bigger problems than Google's $1000 refund?
Ah, okay. That makes sense. Thanks!

I've updated the post based on your feedback.