skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trump is case in point of the two government system between elected power and longstanding unelected power that remains between elections. He was just a loud mouthpiece to appease his political base basically. He, like presidents before him, did not do anything substantial to buck the steady march of the us hegemony. He was not unilaterally making any decisions. There is a lot of business in government and in military that the president is never briefed in. We like to think presidents are like a Napoleon figure, charismatic and in full control, but government would be so unstable if that were to be true and to turn over every four years. They are simply the presiding spokesperson of the hegemony, which is too large and well incentivized for the status quo for any one individual to meaningfully influence.
The cut that hurt the deepest for me is when negated search terms stopped working. You used to be able to get subsets of data, finding things without a homonym, but now the algorithm just gives you the most common results and the most paid ads.
Beware Isolated Demands for Rigor (2014)
Tbf the author doesn't hold this against aspartame but rather uses this sentence to set the mood before making a case for aspartame (being safe).
Former Canonical Dev Is Working on a Script That Replaces Snaps with Flatpaks
It might surprise you how many people don't know how to, or don't bother with, setting DnD. Or they simply forgot this time to enable it.

Sure you can blame the other person. But what good outcome do you gain by such an attitude?
Do you mean the conversion from YYYY-MM-DD to Unix Time? That can be quite fast; I wrote a blog article showing some algorithms that take less than 10ns to perform the conversion: https://blog.reverberate.org/2020/05/12/optimizing-date-algo...

Recently I came across another variant of the algorithm that is even smaller and simpler. I've been meaning to test this variant and add it to my article (assuming it is correct), but I haven't had the chance: https://dotat.at/@/2008-09-10-counting-the-days.html. (EDIT: I just tried it out. It works, and while the source code is smaller than my other variants, epoch_days_fast() from my article is still smaller and faster in terms of machine code: https://godbolt.org/z/Kjnafzqcx vs https://godbolt.org/z/e7nchjKGW)
That’s how the big oil industry operates, trying to make all the alternatives even less appealing.
> takes a reasonable amount of math knowledge figure out

hard pass. I do not enjoy when a video game makes me feel like a failure because I don't know trigonometry or calculus.
They get a notification if they have chosen to receive notifications. It's not like the sender forces themselves upon someone else.
Could it be that these folks have a different value system than you? To them money is made to be spent not horded. You can always declare bankruptcy if you run out of it. Isn't it allowed every 7 years.

Why is your way better? You probably value the thought of having money more vs actually spending it. Time passes by for both parties.
You know, when terms get transferred from other languages, they don't always retain the meaning from the original language and may undergo a semantic change in the destination language. For instance, nobody is going to characterize the modern usage of "demagogue" (originally just meaning "a popular leader" from Greek) as "purposefully misleading", and you shouldn't be doing that for these Chinese terms either. Also I don't know where you're getting this "intended cultural exclusion" thing from when that's what you yourself are doing in your comment by insisting your outsider interpretation of these terms in a different cultural context is correct. Thanks!
>to just abruptly obliterate a large chunk of all the books and music and television produced from 2010 onwards I assume you wouldn’t be so dismissive of it

If only a single copy was obliterated I would be just as dismissive because any of the destroyed material can still be accessed and archived by using another copy.
Ask HN: How do you make developers trust your product?
An ongoing trend I see in the software industry is that especially developers do not trust other developers, unless there's already thousands of others trusting you...

I'm trying to launch a product for developers. The product involves storing private data on my cloud/servers. Even the big cloud providers like Google cloud, Azure and AWS have trust issues, but I guess people trust them because so many others are already using them. So besides fake it (user count) until you make it, what other means could I take to make users (other developers) to trust my software.

I think this is the main issue with "cloud" computing and if we solve this it will open up market share for smaller companies to take from the big players.

Also there is the economy of scale, that especially in software it costs almost nothing to serve one more user when everything is automated. So must all software companies become big companies!?

For normal users (non developers) it's a bit easier and you can still break into new markets, but we're heading in the same direction there too, users flock around the biggest companies and their products.
“Let them eat cake,” would be more succinct here and brevity is the soul of wit!
Since dying is a valid implementation of UB, I don't see a problem. It's definitely better than memory corruption.

In general my preferred way to handle OOB is an unchecked exception (like in Rust or C#), but that's not really an option C.
Except Go.

"Go does have undefined behaviour: if your program has a race condition, the
behaviour is undefined" -- Ian Lance Taylor, https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/MB1QmhDd_Rk

It annoys me to no end how Go could be created in the 21st century and willfully ignore so many lessons from the state of the art in language design. The more code I read and write (basically every day, by good programmers), the more disappointed I am in how much of a missed opportunity Go is.

There are other fundamental flaws in Go, but that would be off topic.
The term silicon valley has long since transcended geographic boundaries to signify the tech and vc/startup sectors as a whole. Facebook and Amazon and Uber and Theranos and FTX are all a part of it. It's about the culture and the people that participate in that culture, move fast break things etc. That's what's been going through trainwreck after public trainwreck. And even if you wanted to tie it to a geographic region, which frankly is irrelevant - the vcs are based out of here
I don't know why you were downvoted, you are absolutely right. Lots of apps could be web pages and they would be tiny and have much better control of permissions and updates. Apple knows this which is why they try to make sure it doesn't happen and threaten their app store.
And it's closely related to the Gibbs free energy (available energy), which decreases with increasing entropy, all other things equal.
The key is to make sure you're reading books by Landau and Lifshitz. Landau was more the famous as a theoretician, Lifshitz was the better writer.

That said, these are definitely books to read when you're in the mindset of studying for PhD doctoral exams in Physics. I loved them at the time but would definitely have a hard time curling up by the fire with them on a rainy afternoon.
It would be incredible to gain access to the archive of exams, particularly those administered during Landau's era. These must surely exist in paper format somewhere, right?
Maybe gating makes sense for slow growth and so might be appropriate here?
> who care what's inside if it can play games well

Intel might
Genuinely, I had similar experiences going to church as a child.
English is not my first language but I think I'm ok at it, however I still can't figure out WHICH type of ride the article says travelers prefer.

"Commuters Prefer Origin to Destination Transfers" would mean they prefer home->destination over destination->home? Does origin mean home?

"much more likely to make the trip if it’s near their home than near their destination" would mean they prefer the trip if the station is close to home, but it's ok for the other station to be far from destination?

"reluctant to take the train if they have any transfer at the city center end" would mean the exact opposite, they prefer station close to the destination?

Which one is it now? home->destination, station close to home, or station close to destination preferred?
That particular overconfidence in bashing Theranos as an outsider company who would never have been able to fool Real Silicon Valley (tm) is definitely a core part of the narrative that's developing, since nobody believes they'd have disowned her if she had succeeded, and those very same VCs got rugpulled with FTX not that long after making all those confident assertions look very silly in hindsight.
Linux, PyTorch, TensorFlow, literally every programming language used everywhere except perhaps MATLAB and CUDA (and even there most of the libraries are OSS, and those languages aren't FAANG property anyways)

I think there's a kernel of truth to what you're saying -- namely that big tech would be fine without oss and mostly builds out their own alternatives whenever necessary or desirable -- but it's definitely not true that BigTech "doesn't use OSS", "has internal versions", or "only use it for recruiting"
My gpu is quite recent and the only thing I had to do was make sure I'm running a recent kernel.
Do you think that Google, the startup of decades ago would have scaled as rapidly if they had to license Solaris and Oracle? Same question for Twitter and Facebook without PHP and Ruby and MySQL and everything else they bootstrapped from?
No, that's false. The presence of opportunity does not necessitate unequal spoils. The final outcome of inequality is total monopoly, which is the death of opportunity for all but the monopoly.
Seriously. I don't even consider a provider if they want to charge for bandwidth. I'm doing about 50 TB/mo atm.
The SF dilemma:

- can’t own a car because expensive, no parking, will get broken into

- can’t use a bike because roads are dangerous for bikers and bike will get stolen if parked outside

- can’t use uber/lyft because expensive, companies abuse drivers

- can’t use public transport, because it doesn’t cover enough of the city, timetable unpredictable, can be dangerous or unpleasant

- can’t use self-driving cars, because they occasionally interfere with public services, are run by big tech
> The goal at the end is to have a deep understanding of the LLM space and its adjacency.

This is kinda a hard thing to quantify. How are we defining deep? Like you want to understand how they work? The Karpathy videos are good for that. But I wouldn't call this "deep".

If you want to get down into the weeds and into the mud, you need a hell of a lot more than 13hrs of education. You're also going to have a hard time doing this because most people are going from an engineering perspective of "enough to work with it" rather than "I fundamentally want to understand all inner workings". If you are the former, then the fastai course and others are great for you. If you want to really get deep though, you're going to need a lot more than programming. You're going to need some pretty advanced maths too: high dimensional statistics, metric theory, and optimization theory are some. (Most researchers aren't doing this btw) But if you do go down this path you'll also be able to understand the full spectrum of generative models and have a clearer picture. But I should also say that there is still a black box element to these models as they are so large that they are near impossible to analyze. But it is definitely achievable to learn a 2 layer transformer autoregressive network and fully understand its inner workings. But programming skills alone won't get you there.
From what I learned from covering this in my Master's degree, the efficiency comes from the DPLL algorithm, which can efficiently solve many real world inputs, but still takes exponential time in the worst case.
Guy Kawasaki “The Art of the Start” TiECon 2006 [video]
I feel like the turning point for me was when Google removed the ability to always exclude certain sites from searches. I had a number of sites configured Ty always be excluded because the results were always useless. Ever since, the list of useless sites in my search results has been slowly creeping up.
Why? Full-time professional drivers are subject to the same rules as casual drivers. They should program them not to perform traffic offenses.
One of the reasons I hope hacker news stays relatively obscure. Fingers crossed
>If you need to do work in order to revert to the previous state, does it imply you can extract work when going to the first to the second state?

Nope. The work comes from the system coming from ordered state into unordered.
Why the problem above is good for intuition because you can work out how to reverse the state. You invent semi-magical barrier which is fully transparent for particles A and reflects particles B, then you start to push such barrier from left to right up to the middle, compressing gas B (and making work!) and leave left part with gas A only, then repeat similar exercise on the right side.

>Given the scenario you just laid out it seems no work can be extracted just by letting mix two substances that are at the same temperature and pressure. But there is something about it that doesn't quite add up to my intuition of symmetry and conservation laws. Could you please elaborate more on that?

As far as I understand this asymmetry was the exact reason why entropy was introduced. Then later explained by Boltzmann via a measure of number of microscopic states.

Naturally second law of thermodynamics forbids perpetual engines.
The project I work on uses C++ and memory bugs are a small percentage of actual bugs. Additionally none of the security bugs have been from memory bugs.
> but Nvidia just works

Not really. On some/several/many Nvidia cards (I had a few), one can't even boot with a stock Ubuntu CD, because Nouveau has (unfortunately) a very lacking support, and proprietary drivers are not preinstalled by default on the CD.

AMD's drivers are at least open source and integrated in the kernel. On the other hand though, having owned several Nvidia and AMD cards, I didn't find any brand to be noticeably more stable than the other (each one had issues).
> Saying it was truly conscious would be like saying that a video of a person was conscious.

I hope we believe what's true, regardless of what that happens to be — we get bad futures either way, if we think sims are conscious when they're not, or if we think they're not when they are.

I've used the film/TV analogy myself, just over a year ago, when it was GPT-3 (and LaMDA behind an NDA) rather than ChatGPT et al: https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/lamda-turin...
In medieval times they used to rob teeth from healthy young subjects. It was possible to "implant" those teeth just by jamming them by force into gums. Success rate unknown.

So you could grow teeth in-vitro from patient's own stemcells and then implant those. I would be safer and not much testing needed.
Oh, good. Now, do 'hair'.
Assume this every day and pays itself multiple times over the lifetime of car
I wonder how many apps don't handle errors from read() anyway.
> In Western culture, if someone suddenly and unexpectedly confessed this to you so quickly you would start running, I think.

As a Chinese I can't wrap my head around the concept of running away because someone loves you. So to enter a relationship with someone you have to not love them while still loving them...?! Do western people all have fear of commitment?

I'm just glad I'm married now (to a Chinese girl) and not having to deal with this mess.
David Goodstein in the old PBS Mechanical Universe series gave a good lecture about this.

https://youtu.be/eZdUKMDfJ_o?t=1365
It still wouldn't be true because there are points in time smaller than a second.
Then Google replaces the kernel in ChromeOS, returning Linux's share to 1%.
Did the girls accept?
That’s when the Kakhovka dam was destroyed, shortly after the Ukrainian counteroffensive began.
"Fixing" search is, at this point, to Google, "getting people to click on more ads"
Republishing as somehow it got flagged, as I was composing:

You just disparaged Niall Ferguson's opinion through your own opinion. The difference in weight is unclear.

Edit: and the largest part of the article is compilative (informative about the position of different parts)...

> outcomes

Well, he published his books, he has professed, he "writes and lectures": what outcomes should be expected from him?
While many learn calculus in high school, many also don't get it till uni. Not everyone is at your level, or took your same path, and that's okay. Don't shame people for not knowing when they're trying to learn.
Oh no worries; I am not trying to pick bones, just offer my perspective (:

I realize you were quoting another source, I just get slightly annoyed by the phrase "writing is thinking" and its various other permutations that come up.

For me, that is very much not the case.

I agree that writing/speech is the normal way to answer a (written/spoken) question. It's how I would clumsily describe my thoughts to someone in that circumstance. But it is not how I would form those thoughts.

Though I have also had conversations with people basically saying they can't imagine thinking without words — the two are one and the same, to them.

Lots of weird brains out there; I enjoy it.
Were you also left with the worry that motion blur was being neglected??
> This is why I laugh when people say they include site:reddit.com in their web searches for product reviews

when SEO became gamed and the signal filtering was transferred to reddit, it became inevitable that eventually Reddit Optimization would occur for commerce as well.

It's like trying to stomp down on sneakerheads scalping sneakers/GPUs/etc, or fighting hackers in an online game - you have to treat it as a process, not a victory that can be won with a single move, because everytime you make a move they're going to come up with a new strategy to get around it. What matters is that you keep coming up with counterstrategies for those.
My gaming rig is 100% AMD.

Have state of the art, AMD linux dev kernel, mesa RADV etc, GPU firmware.

But still on x11 native due to the steam client.

Basically, it is a video game console hardware (since they are all AMD too) I can hack into.
Surely you can think of some example of coming on too strong.
> I don't really understand the resistance to it

ISO and WG14 are European organizations and thus culturally act like guilds. And you're not in it that's why.

My suggestion for improving C is add first class types and boxing and unboxing to phat pointers.
Reminds me of ”how to animate cube in Houdini” -https://youtu.be/NLiL0GLSvIw
I just made an updated tool that should work

Replace http://twitter.com by http://traittor.net

http://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672

to

http://traittor.net/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672

Is normally bypassing no registered account and limit by day.

Unfortunately it does not work with all the tweets and especially the recent ones

Have fun :)
Where would you say experience ends, and qualia begins? The way these words are being used seems to make little distinction between them other than one referring to a specific instance of what the other refers to in generalized terms.

As for myself I would argue that an experience, and therefore qualia, amount to an accumulated and generalized succession of multiple sensory inputs amalgamated by feedback and hysteresis over time, and informed by the gross structure and constraints of the sensory apparatus they are carried upon.
I hate closed platforms as much as the next guy, but I wouldn't count on this getting very far. Snap has a lot of functionality that Flatpak doesn't (and vice-versa). They fill almost completely different niches, and I highly doubt desktop Linux users were the cash cows Canonical was counting on in the first place. It's nice that this exists, but it's not the David vs Goliath story many might spin it to sound like.
station close to destination preferred

Yes, this one.

Imagine if you can drive 3 miles, park your car, and get on a train that goes all the way to your office. You'd probably do it.

Now imagine instead that you live right near a station but, once you get to the other end, it's 3 miles to your office. You probably wouldn't take the train at all.

Part of the issue is that, once you get to the other end, you don't have a private vehicle, so you're subject to a bus schedule or whatever.
TFA? :-/

TFA - What does TFA stand for? The Free Dictionary

https://acronymS.thefreedictionary.com/TFA
> > Suppose I show you a snapshot of a random universe, would you be able to tell if the entropy of the universe is going to increase or decrease as the time progresses?

> Yes, if it has low entropy then entropy will probably increase

The problem is that it probably increases in both time directions, such that the state of minimum entropy is now. As you said, we have to stipulate that the entropy in the past is low, we can't (yet?) infer it from observation. Which raises the question what justifies us making this assumption in the first place.
I think you can very well extract work from having a membrane and selectively let one substance mix into the other but not the other in the first [0]. It is called Osmosis [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semipermeable_membrane
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmosis
Science in the context of politically charged topics generally disgusts me. The outcome, that is. In theory it could help things, but it never does. The authors’ personal beliefs interfere every time. From the conception of their idea, to the research, to the decision to publish the results. By the time we read it, it’s no different than a biased news article. Only the intellectual level at which the biases/beliefs are presented differs.

This particular paper is no different. Sure, people are born into different economic conditions. This is obvious. Beyond that, there’s nothing useful to see in the research.
Wow, I 've never thought that I would see that in life
> This is why we should not roll our own anything.

This seems like a major overcorrection. It's equivalent to saying "you can't know anything" "no one is qualified to do anything"

You really have to consider the downsides. In cryptography, "don't roll you own crypto" is the maxim because the downside is pretty bad. Make sure you're an expert before writing crypto.

What's the downside to mis-parsing leap seconds? Maybe a 500 on a super rare request? Then they patch it and it's fine? Most computers are off by more than 1 second anyway.

I think this mindset comes from developers looking into some field and realizing it's super deep ("Did you know there are missing dates in the gregorian calendar if you go back hundreds of years? Your time library is incorrect if it doesn't handle these cases!"). And sure, most things aren't completely correct, but you have to consider what the downside is to being slightly wrong. Maybe it'll be wrong in cases that will never actually happen in practice.
I'll concede that inheritance is a principle of OO, but I'd love to see a video try to make the case that the other three apply specifically to OO - as opposed to all programming languages.
The Rise and Fall of Skype
I think your way is very normal (I do the same). Inductive matches how humans really tell stories but isn’t the right tool for an e-mail to execs
Maybe someone should pull LMDB's mmap/paging system into a usable library. I'd love to use the k/v store part of course, but I keep hitting the default key size limitation and would prefer not to link statically.
Often said: "Them as has, gets"
I recall a number of imported cars in England from the USA during the 90s. These were road taxed and MOT'd insofar as they also had British license plates. For added emphasis, these were huge vehicles from the 80s on tiny English roads.