skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks super impressive, but at the same time, I'd really like to hear someone actually working in molecular biology what they think of this. While I am working in this field, I only deal with software, not molecular design and wetlab stuff. But I see how people there currently work and have a very hard time imagining them fiddling with pieces of paper and origami blocks on a desk, looking at poor quality images and awkwardly move stuff with a laser pointer. I like the physicality, but at the same time, it seems very limiting to me in terms of scope.
Sorry, I should have been more precise.

Yes, Common Lisp stores the s-expression. And you can get at it by applying an operation (in your case, `function-lambda-expression`) to some opaque handle.

The function itself isn't stored as its s-expression. Neither does any reasonable interpreter work by walking the s-expression. (Doing so would be very slow.)
It would be interesting to see some benchmarks, especially comparing the same queries between Mongo and Ferret. Also, while the readme does say it's meant to be a drop in replacement, it does not say whether feature parity has been achieved. I would very much like to see how it fares with an ODM layer.
I once asked the people behind this effort and my understanding is that they don’t really know either.

It’s just internet points I guess, except not with points and not on the internet.
Rebuff: Detect and protect against prompt injection attacks in LLMs
Reminds me of a demo of using MS hololens to tell a scientist where to pipette something.

Just put the plates on a liquid handling robot - stop trying to treat the person as a robot.

The other aspect - the human -> computer ( as oppose to the computer -> human ) interface is interesting - it sort of reminds me of the first multi-touch demos.

ie exploring how best for humans to communicate intent to computers - though again - a bit like the example above around automation - in my view the best UI is no or less UI!
> The captain's unclear headspace became evident by his protracted tirade. He was likely mentally unfit for the task of captaining that day, and the rant was evidence of it.

Reading through the article, that's not the feel I get. As presented by the article, the captain state of mind did had an effect, he was not at 100% of its mental capacities.

But reading through the CVR transcript, the communication between the first officer and captain was good, and the crew did fly the plane from take-off up until the end which implies that the breach of the "sterile cockpit" rule before take-off did not had any major effect. They were fully focused on the task of flying immediately before and during the emergency.

They simply both made mistakes/bad judgement calls.

In fairness, the captain did make more mistakes, and some of these mistakes maybe may have been avoided if he was in a different state of mind. But at the same time he was placed in a situation where these mistakes could occur and become catastrophic (very old and unreliable plane lacking maintenance and ways to easily troubleshoot an engine failure).

In my opinion, he, or any other pilot could have made the same mistakes even in a right state of mind. It's also an unreasonable assumption that pilots will always operate at 100% of their capacity.
Cory Doctorow – Enshittification
Cory Doctorow: Platform Capitalism and the Curse of "Enshittification" (podcast): https://podtail.com/podcast/future-tense-full-program-podcas...

I downloaded the podcast from here : https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/01/jo/...

Users, Advertisers – We are all trapped in the ‘Enshittification’ of the Internet (2023-03-11): https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/11/users-...

"Enshittification" - Wiktionary : https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enshittification
When people can't distinguish truth from lies, or don't know how to conduct basic research on the truthfulness of something, it's the product of failed parenting and/or a failed education system.
Weakly Chiral Aperiodic Monotile
What do you mean by 'deep' vs 'surface level' macros?

Do you mean something like implementing Prolog with macros in Lisp as a 'deep' macro? Or something else?
Care to share your blog?
On the contrary, we came to realize the security and stability issues caused by loading foreign code in-process.

Modern hardware is powerful enough to go back to classical UNIX IPC for plugins, while achieving security and host stability in the process.

Plus, shared memory is still a possibility for performance, with the same caveats as loading in-process foreign code.

It is also how Plan 9 works, everyone loves Plan 9.
Coming from C and having used thread and being totally ignorant to javascript, this article really helped me grasp async in js by clearing away implicit misconceptions I held :

https://medium.com/young-coder/5-misconceptions-about-asynch...

And also that talk on the event loop : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOL7MC4Pl0
WDM guy here. Sure, 80 channels are space for lots of 400 Gb/s circuits... But we still fill cables and keep laying more. Though yes, the big 1288 fibers cables aren't common. Also, lambdas don't terminate at every node - so sparse network topology implies that filling all channels on a single link is a merely theoretical situation.
No, it just means recognition and helps with awareness. Any support needs to come from the community.
Could it be nothing of that but disregard for toxic behavior of op who either doesn’t have clue about tone, causes and consequences of the actions or refuses to own it.

With the way how the post is written, and I find the end especially toxic, with points about trump era, throwing shade on a guy with hints of racism, I cannot see that this was just some unfortunate misunderstanding.

omg your possible explanations: misoginy, ponies, anti left - you seem to forgot to add transphobia and tech bros to the same sentence to have flesh royal
I Just Went to SF, and It Feels Empty Despite the AI Boom
No, there are options between the two extremes.

Nasa over engineered pad 39A and now they have a pad that can probably launch anything. But SpaceX with stage 0 did absolutely nothing even though most rockets in history used a diverter of some kind. A simpler and cheaper solution is welcome, but ignoring physics and doing nothing is just baffling (especially for the largest rocket ever). Even RocketLab with their tiny Electron have a diverter. You can see it here: https://youtu.be/P_tGKxL6CLI?t=31
Nice site, thanks for sharing. I really didn't know any better since Alexa (which was shutdown a while ago) or the "Top Websites" tab of similarweb.com (quite biased)
Ariane 5 User’s Manual (2011) [pdf]
There's some information: http://demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net/2023/02/03/unesco-sta...
Defeatism adds to the problem and it doesn't bring solutions. If we're already accepting that idiotic laws will pass, obviously they will. Let's call this what it is: a myopic and totalitarian law created by misinformed and clueless politicians. Let's fight it tooth and nail until we bury it.
Yeah, my question was more rhetorical though. Amazon could know for the same reasons. Except they make submitting any sort of complaint like that very difficult. If you want to report a review you can't even select a reason for why.
Sailboats are an interesting use case. What percentage of the deck do you think you could apply it to? Assuming you want to keep your non-skid, and a bunch of the deck space is shaded by lines and sails.

Apparently one of the problems here is that the paint has to be "very white", which I assume means that any dirt reduces the effectiveness. So that would be another challenge on the boat.
this is so cool i can't even!!! when the hakken as a traditional dance?
Waze supports this situation and more via the “Reduce difficult intersections” toggle: https://support.google.com/waze/answer/7666303

It’s apparently used to apply an additional routing penalty for “difficult intersections”, assigned by map editors, which provides a robust way to avoid these situations, including difficult left turns: https://www.reddit.com/r/waze/comments/ffypgb/avoid_difficul...
Well, I would think that this is not yet solved. If AIs are allowed to use copyrighted open source code (without honoring the license terms) like they are currently doing, why couldn't they use copyrighted proprietary code, like the leaked sources of Windows?

And if they can use leaked proprietary code, why couldn't they use basically everything they have access to, like your emails?

In my opinion, it should all be forbidden, but you will find plenty of voices online that think AI should be able to (ab)use open source code, so...
I did the same when I ran GNOME, but I realized I'm doing too much work to mold it to my taste and I still end up unsatisfied.

So I switched to tilling window manager and never looked back. I can customize and setup up things just like I want. Tilling window management is to be honest secondary function for me. Customization is number one.
Article is from 2014.

Also note that Freeman Dyson sadly died in 2020.
Go back to 2007 with this rhetoric... this "cheap eastern European manpower" easily earns multiples of your US minimum wage.
Just buy a 8K tv?
1. Have a title. It is most helpful to have some authority, even if completely superficial. This will empower you to set the direction for the learning and prevent the learner arm wrestling you when things get tough or when or defy popularity.

2. Be a leader. Listen to their concerns (really listen). Simultaneously be firm, direct, and honest. Don't let their insecurity drive the train. If you are in charge then be in charge, because you are trying to help improve them.

3. Set left and right limits. This is best done with automation, because the automation will either be without bias or at least equivalent to everybody. Automation can be test automation, compile checks, lint checks, and even vanity checks. Vanity (code style) is highly subjective and should only be applied via static analysis.

4. Document. Write down the learner's current learning and progress at each mentoring. That documentation will be used as positive evidence of their growth and progress for their manager evaluations.

5. Keep them accountable. Impose some minor amount of ownership and liability onto the learner. This will impose the need for the learned material. Simultaneously reassure the learner that this is a friendly environment with minor tolerance for failure. If it really is a safe environment then you as a manager have taken additional steps to increase internal automation to mitigate away as much risk as possible.

---

If after a good training structure the material is not sinking in one of two things are happening:

1) You are a bad teacher, probably due to your own biases. You have likely redefined reality in a way that reaffirms your own strength and fail to see the difference.

2) The current work is either not of interest to the junior or the junior is not intelligent enough. That is why you document at each mentoring for trajectory.

In my experience most of these training failures occur from the trainer not seriously taking ownership of the training (absence of leadership) and a complete failure to identify internal risks. When internal risk is high nobody cares about what you care about.
I did. I meant that it's still not some terrible unwieldiness like the difference between a normal laptop and a gaming laptop.
conversely, I think we have been in the singularity since the late 1700's. For many thousands of years human manufacturing capability was effectively flat, a few blips and bumps but the advancement was generally steady and linear.

And then in the late 1700's things changed. The graph went hockey stick and has stayed exponential since. However from inside this bubble there is a sort of tech dilatation where everything appears normal and flat and it is only the future that has exponential growth.
Oh yeah, I hated that when systemd would kill (restart) my libvirtd daemon (and my various VMs/containers whenever I adjusted my systemd-controlled nftable.

Monolithic libvirtd (which is disabling the systemd libvirt) is the way to go.
Mentioning national security is not political.
Selection and use.

Either "reusable carbon fiber" is the design, and you need to test what it takes to break that.

Or "single use carbon fiber" is the design, and you need a new hull each trip.

They did neither.

They didn't stress test the reusability before putting people on board, and that's both one of their biggest mistakes and one of their biggest differences from SpaceX.
The other pilot was told by the chief pilot to not fly with the captain.

Also, see this quote:

> “This is the way we work when I am with her, you know, you have to yell at her to force her to do things.”

This is ignoring the paid-in-blood lessons of the worst aviation accident in history (Tenerife) that could have been avoided if the captain listened to his crew. Crewmembers should always feel free to speak up in safetry critical situations. You don't "force them to do things".

I don't think this contributed to this particular incident because both pilots agreed on the wrong engine but it is very valid criticism IMO.
In today's standard I don't think Steve Jobs would have been a techbro. At least not one like this prick Rush or SBF.. But who can tell, every coin has 2 sides I guess
To flip the political polarity, this is a matter of free speech, an issue championed by the right as of late- and involving Twitter, no less! It becomes an interesting case study once you strip away the triggering particulars and examine it from a bigger picture.
This means that as an art form, its dead. Which seems about right.
It began in 1970's with programming languages like Concurrent Pascal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_Pascal

Simula,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simula

And plenty of other ones,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroutine#Implementations
On the flip side if we overreact and destroy our food and logistics systems over it the suffering will be worse than climate change. If the right people gain power I could see them doing something totally misguided like banning fertilizer or destroying electricity grids.
I don't think it's thin-skinned to complain about those tweets. It would bother me too if someone who attended my presentation in professional capacity personally attacked me in a public way like that. It's absolutely completely unacceptable, even in a more casual setting (I'd expect to get banned or at least a stern warning if I said something like that on HN, for example).
It's not a conspiracy. Fly ash contains heavy metals that would leach out of the cement. There are more challenges remaining to be solved than the Wikipedia article suggests.
You're completely missing the point: if the rocket fired up its engines and immediately went off course from the pad, they would have to trigger the flight termination system at ground level which would cause the near fully loaded to rocket to explode on the pad.

If an area of a launch site is so valuable as to not be allowed to ever be at risk of mishap from the rocket launch, then the launch site should not be there.

However, the launch site is there and has already passed review for launch operations from that location. The occurrence of a launch failure or damage to the site does not suddenly mean re-evaluation on that basis: the default state of all rocket launches is that the rocket may explode upon ignition.

The environmental suit is motivated by people who have had an axe to grind with Elon Musk specifically (as opposed to SpaceX) unifying up with the regular environmentalist opposition, but neither has a valid claim here: a rocket failure resulting in destruction of the rocket and the facility is part and parcel of having any area performing launch operations.

Talking about "confidence" is irrelevant because that's not how you do a safety assessment: the assessment is "what happens when a failure happens, not if". You can only factor in "confidence" if your mitigations would depend strongly on an expected rate of failure being achieved.
That’s a good start gitlab or GitHub either way, drop a link here if you can
I ran this experiment when I was in my early twenties and I’m now in my thirties mate, so don’t try playing the “decades of real life experience” card. If you want to run the experiment yourself and come back to me with your findings then I’m all ears. Until then, how about you stop trying to play armchair psychologist with internet strangers?
Our journey at F5 with Apache Arrow (part 1)
> There was a subtext of "bigots are not welcome here".

Talk about being inclusive, huh.
Context: https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/318205-the-big-south...
@elonjet

But I'm sure you've got a post hoc justification for that.
Python Software Foundation News: Announcing the 2023 PSF Board Election Results
A) pretty sure this post is about someone getting fired for misconduct. That has nothing to do with the listed topics. At best it could be mildly political since they were allegedly fired for political views, but that is not the main discussion.

B) the rules only tell to avoid

C) at least I do not have such rules places upon me

all in all, nice try, but you have no argument
Well in order to compare things properly we would have to check if the Viaduct is still there 2000 years from now.
Missing the forest for the trees ?
Oh, thanks for bringing that up. That network visualization is just so simple, so good and so inspiring. What a great way to convey research.
Bigger question how will safe messaging apps exit the market?

Will people need a number for a privacy friendly foreign nation to continue access?
Zaporozhi was shelled by Russians on August 2022. By Russian constitution it is part of Russia.

And Russians could sabotage Zaporozhi Nuclear Power Plant in many ways:

* cut power line for cooling reactors and disconnect it from electric grid (already happened)

* destroy backup power generators for cooling

* bomb nuclear waste store

* bomb cooling water reservoir with bunker buster rockets (Russians already did that on Kachovka)

* use dirty radioactive shells, to raise local radiation levels. That also counts as nuclear disaster!

We see there is no reasoning with Putin, and we absolutely must give Ukraine more weapons, ballistic missiles, and nuclear warheads!
If a headline taken out of context counts as overselling, almost all websites oversell and underdeliver.
> That means that 5*x of stock can "exist" even though that amount was never issued by the company.

that's totally fine if it was lent and re-lent out and short sold etc.

After all, you don't bat an eye that similar thing happens with cash!

The only problem i have with your explanation, which is also the only part i dont think is true, is that the broker's "fail to deliver" portion. The broker _owes_ the buyer a stock, and there's a clearing house that ensures the broker is good for their money. Which is why Robinhood stopped the purchases of GME at that short squeeze, because they can't place enough deposit to ensure that they _could_ make whole their buyers at the clearinghouse.
A quick introduction of what this is about would be great!
those links are great counterarguments. But we are still in early stages, which i dont think is indicative of the end state of these tools (though that can be debated of course).
If you believe that humans have an infinite memory and can optimize to be just on the right side of the plagiarism line, then I suppose it is the same thing.

Now my opinion is that humans are not machines, and therefore it makes sense to not apply the same laws. To me, it seems natural to think that a human will never remember every single word of a book they read. Whereas a machine can totally do it.

> It's how the human uses it's output is what is important

I would take it from the other direction: the AI should be able to prove that it "read" the words like a human (i.e. with a "bad" memory and everything that goes with it).
I don't get the drama. To me this looks like a normal process in an industry that discovered a groundbreaking technology. A new technology pops up, everybody rushes to innovate, lots of actors do nonsense, some do the right thing, but for many of them you don't know beforehand which is which. So you throw money at all of them. The rush creates some really good ideas and innovations. And a lot of BS and wrong decisions. Within a few years, the successes emerge, everybody else is flushed out of the market.

Today fiber is the network tech. Except for the last mile, everything is fiber. We're at 400G per port, soon 800G, and the market keeps growing and 1.6T is the obvious next step. Normal growth process.

So, I don't really see the takeaway here. What to learn from it? Not to invest in hypes? That's not really how we grow.
I have tried to use Bottles on my Steam Deck, because I have old CDs of Windows XP and older games, like Wacky Races, Re-Volt, etc., I can copy the files off the CD, into a folder on my Steam Deck and then run the installer as a non-Steam Game with Proton compatibility, and the installer runs and even manages the video test that's sometimes present in game installers, but after this I need to run the game.

I can edit the non-steam game and use the installed game path, but then it fails to launch because some of these games used to require that the game CD was present in the CD reader, obviously I don't carry it around and plug it in he Deck, this is why I've tried the same thing using Bottles but I'm not sure if I can easily mount a CD or ISO or folder this way, and only in the context of launching a game, not persistent. I have to look further into this and also check Lutris maybe, but if someone knows how to solve this, I'd be glad to hear about it!

For some games, it might be easier to patch it and remove the CD check...

For Re-Volt, a community engine and launcher exists, RVGL, which makes it way easier.
I wonder if there is a lingering bitter aftertaste from the VM emsissions scandal [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
The role of psychology in enhancing cybersecurity [pdf]
Yes, I'm having trouble getting precisely to what you are talking about. Do you mean something like SBCL compiling to machine code, for example? If so, how does that affect using Common Lisp to implement some DSL, in the sense that it takes away the power of s-expressions for achieving this?
It carried a load of hopes and dreams of future mars explorers. :)
I never had an argument, honestly. I was just tut-tutting about how everything, including HN, is overpoliticized these days.
> Is there a word for this kind of behavior?

Mental illness.
I agree, so I guess I was commenting on the fact that successful techbros we don't mind so much, it's just the unsuccessful or egregious ones that stand out.
Loved being part of the demo scene in the 80s and 90s. Learned so much, still proud of what we squeezed out of 8/16 bit computers.

Luckily never got caught ;-)
I don't understand what it means (and that page doesn't explain) for a 'constraint' not to be enforced? Do you somehow get some sort of warning, but not an error, i.e. the insert/update is allowed to work, everything proceeds as normal, but it's there to check on and correct if you want?
True but it just felt too fast with the respawns. Maybe my memory is wrong but it felt like going far away enough to despawn that zone from RAM was enough to make them respawn. I would have preferred a few days. If I clear a camp enough, maybe have them bring backup.

I stopped playing the series after 3 because they did feel that way, but without gameplay features I wanted to match. Games that rewarded stealth, but without stealth-specific mechanics like you'd find in Hitman or MGS. It feels like the writers want to encourage stealth but the game designers didn't. At least for 1-3. The original I definitely accepted it more because of the era.