skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Photons follow wave-particle duality and electromagnetic waves can be linked to probability distributions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon#:~:text=A%20photon%20.... However, unlike electrons, photons have no exclusion principle (aka you can’t have multiple electrons in the same position) nor a repulsive potential. So the same probability wave can apply to countless photons. If you “reach into” a high amplitude portion (high probability) of an electromagnetic wave, you will “scoop out” a handful of photons. If you reach into a zero amplitude portion of the wave, you will scoop out none
It's strange that you're painting this as a "social 'sciences'" problem, when all the problems you listed are with the phys.org article itself. The social scientists in question are properly qualifying their statements, it's just that the media is taking those statements and running with them.
DAUs is indeed a much more meaningful statistic over total number of 'created' accounts over the past 7 years. That doesn't mean 13M accounts are using Mastodon. It is far less than that.

But I doubt that you will get a verifiable and up-to-date and official figure on the DAUs of Mastodon, as they do not show or have such a figure. So we can only make guesses at this point.
Google search is broken because the internet has evolved in the AdWords era. Every person with a heartbeat has realized the monetary potential of making money from page views and SEO, so there’s a race to the bottom to capture the top spot for every search term in Google. Even if Google comes at it from an objectively user centric perspective this seems like an insurmountable problem to solve. But adding insult to the injury, post Sundar Google is just IBM/oracle at this point. So it’s just circling the drain at double the acceleration.
I said exactly the same thing about 25 years ago when I got my second computer, a pentium 90 with 256MB of ram and 540MB hard drive.

Believe me, at some point your computer will be slow and old.
hmm that's weird. did you make sure that you typed "implement: <task>" ? it has to be in that exact format for it to generate code. we're gonna make this experience much better soon
And maybe the people who never had reliable access to energy but suffer the consequences of excessive CO2 emissions? There are quite a few of them.

As is argued elsewhere in this topic, energy companies already have billed everyone for the benefits provided by their product. What the lawsuit is alleging is that they haven't taken responsibility for recklessly misleading the public about negative externalities associated with their product and that they should be punished for it.
Great article. I’ve always wanted to try and build a toy language for the fun of it, great to see something that breaks it down so well.

Curious if anyone has any additional thoughts to add onto this for anyone who wants to build one themselves?

I have experience in C++, so will likely use that or rust (I imagine rust’s built-in methods might make it way easier at least for the parser, although idk if ownership rules get painful for work like this).
Amazing work :) Do you know if glibc gmtime_r() might be impacted by the active timezone? My "massively expensive" experience above came from gmtime_r() on Amazon Linux running in Lambda, but I can't remember the exact scenario involved (or e.g. if TZ were set), it certainly seems unlikely worth putting the effort into it that I did if the costs were similar to those observed in your post.
> Part of the issue is that, once you get to the other end, you don't have a private vehicle

You can bring a bike onto many trains
Just wondering if there is a video or demo, or anything so we can see it before going through and trying it out? It seems super cool
I would even think OP could research and send a very bare bones C&D, and possibly get a couple local (potentially free) consultations on that to learn more.

If the other entity doesn’t reply favorably then assess the cost/reward[1] of hiring a lawyer.

[1] and one thing I didn’t see on the post is how much this is impacting their business. If the PA one is localized and they don’t get a lot of use from that region, is it worth it to pursue? But if the poster is in PA as well, it could have a reasonable effect on them
so what’s a good course / book or way to learn more?
So few words to say "I don't have an intelligent response".

My points stand no matter if you run from them or not.

Freedom of religion is a protected class no matter how much it hurts your feelings that that freedom means you can't bully people into supporting something you don't like.

I understand you're a bigot and won't accept alternative viewpoints. It's okay. Its also why you run from the conversation.

If you actually addressed the points I made instead of deflecting you might have to admit that freedom of religion means others don't have to endorse your choices.
Good call out. Edit - FWIW, energy sector stocks are also down YTD (certainly correlated with lower prices of an inelastic product).

I also realized the linked sourced from Coatue hasn’t been on HN and is a good source for independent discussion like this. Submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36565261
How difficult is it to understand that the ability of making the right choices depends on how you are raised. Where you grew up etc.
People who say success is a choice are conpletely wrong.
It’s the least affordable car market in modern history
that's probably a good thing, because karma isn't really a representation of actual quality so much as it's mass-market appeal and bandwagoning.

you can crank out great posts in a 100k-1m user discussion sub all day and you'll never make anywhere near as much karma as popping into PCMR and doing "NVIDIA bad" "4060 too expensive" one-liner shitposts. 100x the karma for 0.1x the effort.
TaskMatrix
It's not bad at all https://github.com/lemire/Code-used-on-Daniel-Lemire-s-blog/...
> I'll be sure to correct any chinese coworkers I have using these purposefully misleading phrases instead of the correct ones. Thanks!

People communicating with other people using native language? We can't have that! Please revert to proper international languages like latin or esperanto immediately!
Ask HN: What is the term for GAI-based serverice “Generation Engine”
I've had this discussion internally with colleagues about what to call GAI services like Chate-GPTx (where one can enter a query in hopes of recieving a generative response, like new source code, narratives, and concievably images, etc." It's not really a search engine (though the debate continues as you could imagine GAI as an engine that searches a solution space. "Generation Engine" seems apt to us, but I wanted to crowdsource in hopes of finding the term used by the technical community at large.
Is Azure as simple to use as OpenAI? Their documentation are much less simple.
short code review:

- the `tokens` method returning a variable-length tuple is a very bad idea; modern Python supports the `datatype` decorator which should be used in this case

- I'd strongly recommend using a regex for lexing; much easier to get it right than a long if/elif/else block

- I'd recommend refactoring code and implementing the `next_token` logic so that it works for any generator; an example implementation could be (WARNING: I wrote this in 5min, would require extensive unittests!)

class Peek:
def __init__(self, it):
self.cur, self.nxt = itertools.tee(it, 2)
self.current = next(self.cur)
def __next__(self):
self.current = next(self.cur)
return next(self.nxt)

- statements with a "prefix" (like `print X` or `if Y`) are very easy to parse (just use the lookahead token!) but when you get to parsing expressions, I strongly recommend using a Pratt parser (extensible operator precedence parsing)
> As individual characters, “mai” means burying, and “dian” means points. The phrase “maidian” literally means “embedding points” or “burying seeds”.

> It can be translated into tracking, tagging or user data analytics depending on the context.

or "breadcrumbs", to highlight the similarity of stuffing someone's pockets with something that trickles out so they can be found later
You're reading way too far into someone getting the context wrong.
It was written in English.

https://repository.upenn.edu/entities/publication/130b7021-2...
unwinding user success = product death
tldr: Nim's creator doesn't want to get involved in building a community. Araq is based af. This is known since a while. Despite the fact, a community has been created with all kinds of people participating. A rule we have is their opinion worths as much as ours. Sometimes we have political debades in #offtopic but generally everyone is civil and channels are moderated by a whole team of eager mods. Toxic commenters here try to frame it as the end of it all. Nim's future is not uncertain. Tomorrow is another day.
>They're basically saying that social inequality is not the sum total of rich people having made good decisions and poor people having made poor decisions. As an individual, it is possible to make savvy decisions that raise your circumstances; however, as a society-level phenomenon, it's incorrect to say that poor people are only poor because they screwed up.

Does anyone honestly think this? Is this a strawman? I don't think you need a study to make you conclude that individual choices don't explain 100% of differences in income/wealth. Someone born in a worse school district is obviously going to be at a disadvantage compared to someone in a better school district, all else being equal. The same exists for luck or other random factors (eg. meeting the right people).
This was me. I had a Radeon 290x. It worked alright, but fglrx was terrible (and the config UI was the only non-English app in my system, it didn't respect locale settings), and when AMDGPU first arrived, it was a horribly buggy flickering mess. I upgraded to a 1080Ti after high-end Vega failed to materialise, and nvidia's drivers kind of just worked, especially on Ubuntu (they were proprietary of course, but so was fglrx).

It wasn't really before Wayland started being a serious option that nvidia started to become a problem. I've now upgraded to a Radeon 7000 series GPU, and the open source drivers are a breeze and Wayland works much better than it does under nvidia's drivers. But I maintain that at least during the GTX 900 series through probably the 2000 series, nvidia was the only reasonable choice, even on Linux, especially if you wanted anything mid-range or above.
I think you meant to say user satisfaction? Or did you pay for google reader?
Maybe try spending time "on high altitude" when you are not working. Some athletes do this to increase their oxygen uptake. If you are not already doing physical training, you could probably increase your oxygen uptake by a lot just doing something that gives you a pulse of 130 bpm or more for 15-60 minutes or shorter intervals, start with 2-3 times per week.
Yeah AMD has the edge on efficiency it's odd it's kind of an "underrated" feature nowadays.

Using less power (thus less W to dissipate that will end up heating your room) for the same computing power? Who wouldn't want that?
Isn't there a theorem that says that the overall rate is constant in a closed system? If you look at the universe as a whole, it would be closed, and we wouldn't have any impact. However, I learnt about entropy decades ago, and never applied it, so don't take my word for it.
Yes, and the open-source ones are not accelerated, and the closed-source ones don't work.
You've ignored the brand and product part. Which is as big if not bigger than tech when it comes to Reddit's success.
I think this and the other comments here show an important cultural difference: Western culture places more emphasis on personal responsibility: if you don't want to be disturbed, the expectation is that you turn off notifications. Japanese culture seems to be the opposite, in that you expect others to know you do not want to be disturbed, and thus you don't bother with turning off notifications.
A look at the Red Hat Enterprise Agreement “loophole” for rebuild distributions
The "flapping fins" and "two great mugs thrust out from each side" certainly seem like ailerons and ballast. And the mentions of it going at "a great rate of speed" sound like what happens to dirigibles when they get caught broadside in side drafts. What's interesting is the mention of a metal prow. Later dirigibles had docking tips and lightning rods on their noses, but a metal prow seems like it would cause a lot of issues with center of lift. My only guess is it was some kind of lifting surface and the entire craft was an aerostat and not a true lighter-than-air craft.
Nothing uses Vulkan.
Banking industry where I had four or five offers and one of them wouldn't meet the final $2k of difference. That would have been the most interesting opportunity but I followed the money and was young and foolish.
Is it just me? 100m doesn’t seem like “a lot” of money to cover legal, rent, infrastructure, engineers, administration, for a “really long time” to me. Having a reasonable buffer seems like a responsible thing to do.
I’m pretty sure fighting the elements to survive includes knowing when and how close one is to water freezing, and water boiling.

So I’ve yet to hear a good argument for why Fahrenheit is better here, it does not really “relate to humans”. Humans regularly sense, encounter, and use temperatures above 100F so that is not the “endpoint of human sensory perceptions” and in the northern areas going before 0F is common. Not to mention you fridges freezer likely goes below 0F and again you sure can feel the difference between -10c and -20c
There were definitely TUIs of various sorts well before 1990, although they tended to be application-specific rather than "operating system" level stuff.

Here's one I shipped in 1983:

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1983-11-rescan/pag...

A better-known system from the time was Framework, developed by Robert Carr and team and released in 1984:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framework_(office_suite)
it’s usually not a good thing cuz it’s indicative of demand being down which usually means the economy is weak
Bitter rivals. Beloved friends. Survivors
I saw the Mac and was intrigued, but never touched one at the time. I hadn't played with one yet. BUT, about a year later, I DID check out an Amiga. Same CPU inside of it, but this one was in color. And had a GUI also, but also a CLI if you wanted to use that. AND it pre-emptive multitasked out of the box (no protected memory though, so it did crash). I got involved with the Amiga before the Mac...and I couldn't understand why people liked the Mac so much with how limited it was comparatively.

Just shows the power of presentation and a company behind a product that could launch it to bigger things. Commodore never really understood what it had with the Amiga, but Apple did...which is why the Mac has stuck around and the Amiga is just a footnote now.
thats why chatgpt works so well, it literally replaced google for searching basic syntax
This article was written in 2020 and it shows. I type these queries into an LLM now and 95% of the time within seconds it outputs outstanding answers.
https://archive.ph/r9gB2
I wish I could see the screen on my Playdate. I've found it incredibly difficult to see under normal lighting conditions.

I wish they went with a different display.
Nvidia will always require a closed source userspace, the only part they've opened is the kernel side. And the new kernel driver only works for 2000 series or newer.

But it's still a pretty huge step in the right direction, even though it won't be as nice as AMD's fully open source and upstreamed driver.
Yeah! There is a YouTube video linked in the repo. I’ll edit the description to add it to the HN post as well :)
I just thought it was silly! I actually appreciate the clarity, I wish more posts had a "flair" indicating what hides behind the link.
.... "syntax highlighting, linting, code navigation, testing, packaging, documentation, operating systems/architecture support"

This has nothing to do with using a parser generator or not.
Cooking sites have been this way for a long time. Google for a recipe for something simple and the top results are long articles about the foods, the process, and so on. At least the better cooking sites put a link to the recipe near the top.
I take the point, but a developer with any experience is able to use google as a portal to get to the relevant SO or documentation page very quickly in spite of whatever shenanigans google+seo tries. It's not like every time you google some syntax you're actually distracted by tutorialspoint or whatever garbage. These sites must just feed on people who are in the first day or two of their careers, after that you don't even seen them.
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I am not sure a different search engine does any better in the face of reddit and twitter outages, if those places held the content I want to find.

In the old days, we ran our own personal websites and we want our content to be discovered, in contrast with today where someone else host our content and wants to have a lot more say on what is discoverable. I think we need to have less reliance on centralized hosts if we want more control over searchability of content.
Kudos to Jeff for being willing to issue a public correction like this.
They use deduplication to upload differential backups for costs reduction, let you pay for months or years in advance, donate (iirc) 10% revenue to The FreeBSD Foundation and have more professional support.
The field of statistics is kind of based on the idea that you can take a sample and it might represent a population. Maybe you have a more specific complaint about the Steam Survey methodology in mind that I'm not picking up on?
Thanks for pointing that out, I'll adjust the title.
Nobody is claiming otherwise. You're not understanding education about understanding.
There's also opportunity which can quickly bring more money and promotion at IC level. Some big companies just have budgets for the hiring role and can't step outside it no matter how the hiring manager fights for you. You need to weigh up the pros/cons in such a scenario if the role is about more than just money to you. Sometimes it's pure $$$.
DuckDuckGo gives me a relevant StackOverflow as the first result. Furthermore, it displays it on the actual search page, on the right-hand side.
JavaScript IS the gom jabbar
Thanks for the helpful advice. What would you recommend to someone who is interested in learning about diffusion models? I have a CS degree but I have 0 knowledge about AI. Things like Stable Diffusion have blown my mind and I’m really interested in learning about this field. Lots of courses out there but I lack the expertise to discern which one is good.
Some people have no idea how nice it is now compared to 15 or 20 years ago.

I took an NVME out of an Intel machine, threw it into an AMD machine, booted it, and everything just worked, graphics included. No weird network drivers to track down, sound card drivers, proprietary graphics or even xf86- stuff needed.
I grew up around people with the belief poor people are poor because they are lazy or made bad decisions.

If a poor person would make good decisions and not be lazy, they wouldn’t be poor.
It isn’t irrational if the concerns you’ve mentioned makes the market think the fed will have to drop interest rates again sooner rather than later.

At this point the market is essentially a drug addict that just got a shot of Narcan and rather than atone for its sins, has gotten excited that it’s going to live long enough to get at least one more hit.

There’s no discipline, no long term, fundamental thinking. Everyone is (and has been for a few decades) just another ape from r/WallStreetBets, even if he or she is wearing a suit and goes to work in a fancy office tower.
> ... when the study didn't look at any real-world decisions whatsoever, but merely at performance on a battery of academic tests, (whose relationship with real-world decision-making we're expected to take on faith)?

These aren't even decent forms of those academic tests, either. When I read it yesterday, I was very unimpressed: https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/14nuucw/economic... Every single variable here, whether their self-reported current income as relatively young respondents (who haven't had much career/lifetime to build up large SES differences) or the very brief questions about individual cognitive biases which are then discretized to throw away even more information, is poorly measured, and there's not much of a sample to begin with. So, they predictably find that none of their measurements are correlated with each other (the biases don't even correlate with each other), and report the amazing discovery that "economic inequality cannot be explained by individual choices". They fail to reject the null (perhaps because their data is so bad?) and conclude they have proven the null.
100% agréé, and not just on programming searches. That's why it's so easy for my to justify gpt plus to myself. Could be programming questions, holiday planning, business advice. Just about anything
Can't we somehow transplant the gene from rodents that makes their teeth regrow during their entire lives?
> a developer with any experience is able to use google as a portal to get to the relevant SO

That's mostly because SO search is (or, has historically been) terrible.

> or documentation page

Ironically, documentation pages exist and many of them are terrible. But even the great ones aren't linked to in code snippets. Got a squiggly line? It would be handy to have a link to documentation!
Not universally; in the Netherlands, country of bicycles, it's not actually allowed to bring your bike with you during rush hour. Folding bikes at best. But even a folding bike is a bit of a ballache.

The legal alternative: last-mile bike rental, there's a scheme from the railways where you can rent a bike for the day, it was about €6 for the day.

Another alternative is to buy a cheap bike and just leave it at the train station overnight. That's allowed as long as the bike isn't abandoned for a month or so, after which it'll be removed.
> * But to me, the user, it feels like I’m paying for my answers with my time pointlessly scrolling around the page to find the answer I came to the site for. I can’t stand it; I feel like I am being duped, misled, being taken for a ride, just so I know how to make pancakes, or how to do a simple thing in common programming language.*

Absolutely agree with this. I strongly prefer reading the official language API documentation directly, which makes me very sensitive to the quality of the documentation.

I have also replaced my google searches (which usually are more along the lines of “what’s the most idiomatic way to do x?” or “what’s the most correct way to do x in $LANG?”) with ChatGPT. It’s super fast, generally pretty good for the types of style questions you’d usually have learning a new language, and I can directly query it about what tradeoffs different techniques have in various common situations.

ChatGPT has finally gotten me off Google’s Wild Ride.
If my word is enough, this article was actually written by me. Although it would be quite ironic if it was written entirely by GPT, with no revisions whatsoever :)
But the point is that different people can make the same bad decisions and end up with vastly different economic outcomes.

I personally made some absolutely terrible decisions when I was younger that could have put me in jail or in the grave, but I managed to avoid both of those outcomes. ;-)
The survey is a random sample every month. I think a fresh steam installation also triggers the question if you want to participate in it right then.