skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
have clarified. i was posting from a user point of view, though (given i love lurking and hanging out in loads of IRC channels via the bridge today, and i'm gutted to lose that. it feels like the ultimate splintering of communities.)
When you break a stick you just break a stick. When you simulate breaking a stick you know everything about the broken stick.

What if you broke the stick to study its material properties? Then you would need to spend months carefully taking samples and measuring all the broken spots.

With a perfect simulation? You're done the moment it ends. All the data is there available with a copy paste
Up to?
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There's a little bit of discussion from when I posted this a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36550687
Bezos also owns the Washington Post. Make of that what you will.
I interpreted `published` along the lines of blog posts, in which an article can be either a draft (visible only to the author) or published (visible to the world). This seems different from dev/prod venueing, where having separate databases altogether makes sense.

I understood the column-first approach more as an alternative to putting all columns for an entity in one table, especially when rows often don't populate every column. From that perspective, what's being described is a strong separation of concerns; applying this to dev/prod would be a weakening of this separation, and so probably not what is desired.
And there could be an OTS Free Software solution with far less operating costs than TM.
The number’s up for 999. And 911. And 000. And 111
> They've been, and continue to be, fantastic stewards of the Linux ecosystem.

I disagree with this. I view them as one of the main factors in what I see as the ongoing degradation of the Linux ecosystem. But reasonable people can differ -- I suppose your stance probably depends on what you value in Linux.
No well done review site will remain good once it reaches a critical mass. Private, small scale networks of friends are the future of trusted reviews and recommendations.
https://archive.is/TVPWD
Goodreads wasn't "the future of book reviews", it was a good review site that might have innovated great new things or might not have at all.

But regardless, Amazon should never have been allowed to acquire it -- it was incredibly anti-competitive.

Amazon never wanted to do anything with Goodreads at all -- as demonstrated by the fact that it hasn't done anything. It was a purely defensive move to prevent anyone else from acquiring or partnering with Goodreads, because their database of books and reviews could be used to instantly start competing with Amazon's book business. Amazon snuffed out that threat of competition in an instant.
The comment you're replying to doesn't claim that any particular group of people was offended.
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> I think it's more plausible that teaching focuses on this surface knowledge because it's much easier and more legible, and looks and feels very much like "programming education" to someone who does not have actual domain knowledge (because other subjects are usually done in the same way), or who isn't thinking very much about it, and then similar problems and a notion that testing should be "fair" and "cover what students have learned" lead to insufficiently outcome-oriented exams, which then sets up incentives biasing students in similar directions.

And that's how you end up with CS students aceing theory exams, while completely flunking the coding exam...

> Computers are not at all human, in that they do exactly what someone has set them up to do, which is often not what they thought they were doing, while many beginners expect them to "understand what they meant" and act accordingly. Every simple-looking capability is burdened with detail: the computer "knows what time it is" (thanks to some nontrivial engineering with some possible failure points); the out-of-order CPU "runs just like an abstract in-order machine, but very fast" (until security researchers find a difference); DNS "resolves domain names to IPs" (but is frequently intercepted by networks, and can also serve as a covert backchannel); video codecs "make videos smaller" (but are also complex domain-specific programming languages); text rendering "is just copying bitmaps into the right places" (unless you care about Unicode or antialiasing or kerning).

Although people don't really encounter complex leaky abstractions like that as a beginner in coding. More likely, they'll encounter some simpler poor abstraction like Scratch blocks not being all fully composable in an intuitive fashion, or a sheer wall of complexity (e.g. getting taught in Java/C for an introductory course)
The only bit of info/detail:

> The problems most often experienced by the participants included: "the system was slow," "the system froze temporarily," "the system crashed," "it is difficult to find things." The participants had backgrounds such as student, accountant, consultant, but several of them actually worked in the IT industry.
I went looking, without luck; not all that surprising given it's not released yet. Someone has since provided a photo. Now that I've seen it, I'm not sure what the fuss is all about (on either side of the issue).
This seems like a load of crap.
> By joining Amazon, Goodreads has accelerated their mission to delight customers with the help of Amazon’s resources and technology.

Seriously, reading the diarrhea vomited out by corporate PR shills nowadays seriously makes my teeth hurt.

Do those people actually believe the bullshit they're spouting to the general public?
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I'm one of those who is affected by the decision, and I also hope the chan mode ends up being the chosen solution and implemented before times runs out.

There's no need for hyperbole though. Libera overall only has a few tens of thousands of users, there's no way the vast majority are accessing it via Matrix like you say/imply. I'd wager we're less than 1000 impacted on libera.
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I can't think of anything that could speak on this level, and yet be completely and obviously (if you give it like, an hour of back and forth conversation) devoid of intelligence or thinking.

It's not devoid of intelligence or thinking. You're just using "what I'm doing right now" as the definition of intelligence and thinking. It isn't alive so it can't be the same. You are noticing that its intelligence is not centralized in the same way as your own mind.

But that's not the same as saying it's dumb. Try an operational definition that involves language and avoid vague criteria that try to judge internal states. Your dog might understand some words, associate them to the current situation and react, but can't understand a phrase.

These things can analyze the syntax of a phrase, can follow complex instructions, can do what you tell them to do. How is that not "understanding"?

If that isn't intelligence for you, I don't know what else to say.
Does Zig have a formal grammar (like C)?
I wouldn't think so in the case of a stick breaking, but if you consider a more realistic scenario like running a risk analysis across a hyperdimensional problem space, there is certainly something extremely interesting going on there.
Most Tests Should Be Generated
People overly impressed by LLMs haven't spent a lot of time trying to make them actually useful.

When you do, you learn that they're talented mimics but still quite limited.
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You are right, basically anything can be viewed as a computation.
Ray Kurzweil discusses this extensively in his book The Singularity is Near, building upon previous work by Edward Fredkin.

> To appreciate the feasibility of computing with no energy and no heat, consider the computation that takes place in an ordinary rock. Although it may appear that nothing much is going on inside a rock, the approximately 1025 (ten trillion trillion) atoms in a kilogram of matter are actually extremely active. Despite the apparent solidity of the object, the atoms are all in motion, sharing electrons back and forth, changing particle spins, and generating rapidly moving electromagnetic fields. All of this activity represents computation, even if not very meaningfully organized.
(From The Singularity is Near Chapter 3, The Limits of Computation)
Except the essential difficulty with programming is not typing the code or even understanding the syntax and idioms of a particular language.
Author here. The key differentiator is the use of cable, which was at least 15 years ahead of its time. While the service itself was capable of bidirectional communication like a modem, it was often on one-way networks because the technology had not been upgraded.

Quantum Link and Prodigy are likely the most common comparison points, though this used a proprietary platform for much of its life, leaving out people who already owned, say, an IBM PC or C64.
Yeah, that sucked for sure and we hated to disappoint people like that (co-founder here). But you have it exactly backwards. FoundationDB was never open source. There was a binary that you could download and use as a trial, or you could buy a license for real use. The users that bought licenses got to keep using those licenses. Some of those customers went on to build billion-dollar businesses on top of FoundationDB (Snowflake!) A few years after acquiring the tech Apple themselves open sourced it (!) so now it is open source. The big challenge for users is that most of the sophisticated "layers" that make the tech into more of an easy-to-use database rather than just a storage engine are still proprietary.
I love this video, thanks for sharing it. I'm watching it right now and I think I'm going to refer to his "teapot supremacy" from now on.
I think precisely the point is that money isn't wealth.

Government can print as much of the latter as they want; wealth goes up when we can collectively buy more and down when we can collectively buy less, regardless of how many dollarpounds that is.

But GDP is measured in money, and can only connect to wealth if we get get inflation right, but that's really hard because inflation depends on what you want to buy — childcare costs don't matter if you have no kids of that age.

That said, I trust the domain experts to get this right, even though the various governments may be incentivised to claim their own preferred numbers. Even at worst, they'll have thought of vastly more influences than I can even imagine.
You can. Here is my version: <https://godbolt.org/z/91KecEfbM>

Results:

N = 10000
range 1218.1
sentinel 937.258
mine 672.227
ratio 1.29964

(ratio is range/sentinel, not mine/whatever)

You can get even more crazy with SIMD. But for all that you need to know the length beforehand.

Edit: The b4 variable should actually be called b8. That's a remnant of a previous version, where I used 32-bit chunks.
There are good teachers and bad teachers. LLMs are at best, bad teachers.
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This article starts off pretending to be a criticism of Amazon, and this is highlighted in the headline. After a few vague critical gestures towards Amazon in the first four paragraphs, it gets to its real point: Goodreads, a social network, has woefully inadequate censorship, which can lead to financial losses to authors and publishers.

According the the WaPo, Amazon's crime with Goodreads seems to be that it hasn't kept the site up with changes in censorship standards and technology, and just lets whoever say whatever about books.
To be honest, the ability to effortlessly repel Zoomers strikes me as a feature, not a bug.
I’m a software developer. They’re not going to buy me one.

Top designers for Ferrari? Famous architects working on buildings costs tens of millions? Other expensive people like that I can see it.
That’s fun. Although a picture indoors seems unfair. Somehow I knew one of the pictures had to be West Virginia and got within 40 miles. But the indoor one I got the exact opposite of the country because how are you supposed to tell? Literally all convention centers in the US have the same walls and awful garish carpeting.
Maybe the US/Fremont version has these panels gaps, the ones built in China and Europe don‘t.
That `run=true` was just bad API: "boolean trap", yada, yada. The rest of "80% abstraction" idea is not well supported, and I don't buy it.

The abstraction is either good or it isn't. Some stuff just does not abstract well. A function or an API is not necessarily "an abstraction".
You're missing the point of the question.
Yeah yeah, they've broken the old TweetDeck. You need to wait for the pop-up to ask you to transition to the new TweetDeck. Or, search on the internet for the Javascript variable you have to change in your console.

The more important question is that they've removed the Activity feed, where you could see likes from other people. Which was like a realtime feed to what your friends were doing on the website. The website is way more boring now.
Note my use of scare quotes around 'hallucinate'

The user of an LLM still gets a vote, right or wrong. If we have a good understanding of how the human mind works - empathy - we can gain a better understanding on how to clarify the very semantic confusion of which you speak!

Here's another example that just popped up in my feed: https://kottke.org/23/07/will-ai-change-our-memories
Do we really lack a good understanding of LLM's and deep nets that we need to be afraid of them? I would love to see this disproved with some open source work on the internals of these models and how they do inference and exactly reason.

And why they could possibly never realize an AGI with the current stream of models. Being able to display human level intelligence and creative in confined spaces (be it Chess or Go based models) is something we have been progressing on for a bit - now that the same is applied to writing, image or audio / speech generation we suddenly start developing a fear of AGI.

Is there a phrase for the fear of AI now building up?
My guess is that MSDN POs prioritize testing with Blink/Edge WebView2 over other engines.
Or why not create communities on GitHub itself?
It's more like if we had calculators that could not do any arithmetic operation at all...

Someone someday might figure out how to make the calculator actually calculate, but not yet.
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This is simply not true: GPL requires you to share all code needed to build the binary you shipped including their minor patches. GPL also has a clause: "You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.".
Author here. I didn't put it up, but the title was busted on the original listing which I'm assuming played a role in its resurfacing.
Ironic how the first thing you're greeted with upon opening this link on mobile is a huge popup covering the entire page asking you to allow cookies, with no easy way to decline.
The line is coming out of northern Russia in the Arctic on the map (you can see the Kamchatka Peninsula), there's another line in the Atlantic, and it doesn't have the right amount of dashes.

Hanlon's Razor seems to apply.
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The article says “very” ambitious. So there’s no contradiction here
Excel works for the business, but see how much money is estimatedly lost yearly due to excel mistakes.
> Nobody wants a watered down faith that doesn't judge. Why be Christian at all?

Truly spoken like Jesus himself. /s

Meanwhile I have to wonder if, like in Ireland, this is all just down to people losing their faith in an institution that spends vast time and energy protecting pedophiles.
165 miles. Started off 200 miles away but became obsessed with PA. and never really got closer
It doesn't need to be the next iPhone to be a great business. Famously, AirPods alone would be a Fortune 200 company (probably higher now).
> Sure, but is there any reason this cannot happen without NFTs?

There is no fundamental difference if you swap the TM brand for another. By using an NFT-based solution, the middleman can be cut out entirely, while maintaining feature parity, and without introducing extra burden on venues. An OTS Free Software application can expose the same functionality to venues without needing to maintain any infrastructure, and without dealing with TM.
This just reads to me as “I prefer working with small teams with great communication.” Sure that’s lovely; but it doesn’t scale.

Depending on your scenario you might not need to scale past a handful of devs. In that case pretty much any process can be made to work well, including a completely linear commit graph.
Another five years away it is, then ;-)
It sounds to me like this "NRS" is advocating for a textbook rent-seeking system that would obviously favor themselves, just like how taxi drivers' take-home pay is so low despite taxi fares being so high since they all have to make their exorbitant taxi medallion lease payments.
Finally, a chance to say what I really think about computers!

I feel that the majority of time working with computers is not actually computing numbers (addition, subtraction, multiplication) but LOGISTICS.

Logging into systems, Moving data around in memory and between servers, into registers for a function call, to and from a REST API, installing packages, finding dependencies, chaining together library functions.