skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since it is objectively true that LLMs are predictive text engines first and foremost, it leads me to the hypothesis that the intelligence displayed by them, and by association, perhaps humans as well, is in fact imbedded into memetic structures themselves in some kind of n-dimensional probability matrix.

In the same way that an arbitrarily detailed simulation could in theory be made into a “make your own adventure”lookup table, where the next “page” (screen bitmap) was determined by the “control” inputs, the underpinnings of reason could easily be contained in a mundane and deceptively static medium such as a kind of multidimensionally linked list structure.

It could be that neural networks inherently gravitate towards the processing of symbolic grammar (sequences of “symbols”) and that the ordered complexity inherent in arbitrarily high dimensional interrelations of these symbols in human memetic structures is sufficient to create the process that we think of as reasoning or even sentience.

While I definitely struggle to intuit this interpretation from an emotional standpoint, the sheer multitude of states possible inside such a system are sufficient to appear infinite and therefore intrinsically dynamic, and I fail to find evidence that they could not be instead developed from a static data structure .

If there is a grain of truth to this hypothesis it would fundamentally change the philosophical landscape not only around LLMs but also regarding intelligence itself, the implication being not that LLMs might be intelligent, but rather that biological intelligence might in fact derive its behavior from iterating over multidimensional matrixes of learned data, and that human intelligence owes much more to culture (a vastly expanded data set) than we may have previously imagined.
Technically you can, but the hoop jumping isn’t ideal.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/FAQ...
Minix 3 is a microkernel.

Earlier versions were not. IIRC, Linux was bootstrapped on Minix 1.x.
I don't see why a browser would "just trust" that because it is a private IP - the TLD is what matters. When you hit an internet TLD you should play by internet rules, when you hit a LAN TLD (or IP range) you could play by LAN rules. The judgement being decided by where the domain in the http request, not the final destination of any DNS lookups

If you directly went to 10.254.127.1, or some-domain.lan, that should validate differently to going to accounts.google.com
A few years ago, before the advent of Copilot (and ChatGPT), I was telling my students their future as programmer was bleak, because most coding is either interfacing stuff, or creating an often incorrect heuristic to solve a single instance of a well known class of problem -- and all those activities could well soon be automated thanks to datasets like StackOverflow.

I now consider that ChatGPT for programming is a confirmation of my intuition back then.

Now, I understand that article as being too shallow again, by defining short term strategies for working with ChatGPT without considering a long term view on what it means for programming overall.

And I'm sure I'm not alone in finding the impact of ChatGPT (and future generative AI) on programming as obvious...
Given what has happened previously and all the bickering about "the blob", I suspect this simply won't be implemented except for possibly a token target.

Has anyone checked if the legislation has the special clause for "prosecutions require permission from the Attorney General"? (i.e. politically motivated prosecutions only - this has been seen before)
They also organized courses and certification which is super important in Enterprise
I wish more of this Dynamicland stuff was made available. I'd be happy to set up a projector and camera on my ceiling if my kids could play with some of this stuff.
Are you kidding? 50$ per address is cheap? These should be practically free! 50 is infinitely bigger than 0.

IP address is just a number! There's no reason to charge money for a number. If you are out of numbers, make more numbers. There's an infinite amount of numbers. What's next? 1000$ per social security number, because we are running out of 9 digit numbers?
That doesn't say the content but only that it is indexed.
> so that the network effects benefits Mastodon better

I think this premise is incorrect. Not many people remember but in the first few months after the launch of Twitter, it used to be a nice place for geeks to hang out and share the next interesting hack they were working on.

Then the network effects kicked in. Then celebrities came in. Then their followers came in. Twitter became a melting pot where every Tom and Harry now had a voice. Guess what that did to the platform. The place became full of noise, trolling, flame wars and spam.

Why do we want network effects for every new social media? Can't we leave them small and homely?
And yet global ipv6 adaptation rate is ~40% with steady growth. Some regions are well beyond 50%, most notably US.
Remember that the Play Store uses encryption to download apps to the phone. If the law is enacted then this encrypted channel will technically need to be compromised too, which Google might also object to. If Google withdraw the Play Store from the UK, then what are they supposed to do?

This law doesn't just apply to messenger apps. It applies to almost every single act you perform on the internet. Everything will be mandated to be broken, including your browser. If you run a web server using https, you'll be breaking the law. If you ssh to another computer over the internet, you'll be breaking the law. If you connect to a VPN to access a work/university/school network or indeed a commercial VPN, you'll be breaking the law.
Without some design knowledge and experience (and dedication), starting from a blank canvas in Figma, Framer, or Penpot is going to be extremely difficult. Design is an art and skill in its own right.
Like a lot of other people, I have a blog that I seldom post things on. Mostly on the topic of creating the blog itself. I try to be humorous and informative but who knows how much of either I actually am haha :)

https://blog.pangalos.dev
Hmm but what's the solution? Type out the reasoning for every line of code for an entire codebase?
If every ISP had an IPV6 to the house/mobile, we wouldn't be having this debate. The argument is for the ISPs who still don't have it.
I believe the UI might be the biggest issue for most users. Lack of engagement is not that much of a surprise, as Mastodon is not designed to create content addiction the way Twitter is.

As for making these people adopt it, maybe a multi-stream client would suffice - I still remember how convenient Blackberry's approach to transparently putting together multiple streams for multiple services was.
The “risk premium” is already jacked. I’m paying 6% on 10 year old debt that cannot be discharged. Shouldn't the risk be very low to lenders and have a much lower rate?

Why would the most secure debt have such a high interest rate? (Treasuries at the time were 2-3%)
Futures in Rust are annotated with the #[must_use] attribute [1], same as the Result type [2].

This means the compiler will emit a warning (can be upgraded to an error) if you forget to await a future even if it doesn't return anything.

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/future/future.rs....
[2]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/src/core/result.rs.html#49...
Unlikely. The police will not renounce capabilities to track down all things a suspect ever bought.
Are ISPs IP owners? I think they should be one of the main payers in this scheme. Question is who should get the money. Definitely not the companies currently having IP assigned.
I'm biased towards more practical books but here you go

- Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Kleppmann - not in your circle of interest necessarily but not in your circle of non-interest either.

- Introduction to the Design & Analysis of Algorithms by Levitin - not very popular but a great book. Interestingly, it groups algorithms around design techniques e.g. decrease-and-conquer, divide-and-conquer, greedy, DP.

- Algorithms by Sedgewick and Wayne - great algorithms book if your main programming language is Java, I keep coming back to it.
How do you ensure quality?

Review and testing.

Reviewing is easier when there is less code (i.e. libraries are in use)
https://origami.kosmulski.org/

Origami: my designs and general musings
That seems like nothing, but I _did_ just see this, which points more towards an actual issue with the cars: https://www.autoevolution.com/news/breaking-nhtsa-petition-s...
Explode on Impact
The only reason this would be a hail Mary would be if you have a cynical (and correct) view of the conservative majority of the supreme court that they are willing to completely debase themselves and the law in order to get a desired outcome.

The law clearly states that the president can "waive or modify" any provision of the federal student loan program. Justice Roberts argues that forgiving some student loans is not waiving or modifying provisions, it is rewriting it from the ground up. Which I don't think any honest assessor would agree with. You could literally add one line to the existing provisions to accomplish the loan forgiveness.

But more importantly, you must have standing to bring a lawsuit and this was one of the weakest cases the court has ever approved for standing (possibly with the exception of the 303 creative case) because there was zero evidence of harm to the plaintiff.
But in other areas most residential bandwidth increasingly comes from wireless techs. Even in homes with wired service, nearly everyone uses wifi rather than wires, let alone fiber to end machines. The last mile is generally not fiber, nor is it a literal mile.
The question of whether the CVR recording demonstrates good communication is something of a red herring. As the article and NTSB report make clear, the crew deviated significantly from the correct procedure, which should have led to the unambiguous identification of the working engine. While the crew were not arguing, cockpit discipline had still broken down, with the result that the pilots talked themselves into believing that they had a double engine failure.

The deviations started with the captain struggling with an overloaded radio channel, which should have been cut short by squawking 7700. Th article notes that the controller was a woman. Was that an issue in what followed? It’s a possibly-relevant factor that we will never get a certain answer to.

No one is assuming that pilots will always operate at 100% capacity, which is one of the reasons for having procedures intended to catch common errors.
And yet I bet you still have an ipv4 address too and half your things attached to your wifi dont support ipv6.
It would likely help them get funding much more easily than earlier.
You definitely need a mutex here (or use atomics), otherwise you have a race condition
Yes but did you actually learn it? Is watching a videotaped course from Berkeley about gauge theory the same as sitting in the class doing the homework, etc? I learn by doing.

Do you know where the bugs are when CI fails or when something shows up in QA or worse, when a customer files a bug report? The hard part of programming never was generating boiler plate, it's designing programs with the context of the problem and preexisting code keeping in mind the customer and company goals. That's what good developers do in my opinion.
Look, you are saying many things that can work in theory, but in practice all LEDs I have seen that cost reasonable money dim using PWM and have detectable flicker.

I know "good LEDs" exist but if we are talking a few dozens of dollars per good photography-grade LED fixture then we are at a point where the savings compared to running a dirt cheap regular bulb approach zero or even go negative. At least in reasonable time periods, maybe such good LEDs are cheaper in the very long run but that's not for sure (faulty units exist) and even if it was I probably wouldn't even live that long.
Thanks for your reply.

I am coming from the perspective of states and behaviour. I have read about session types but my syntax is not inspired by them.

Types are important and useful but I am more interested in the rigid parts of code that types data flow through otherwise known as control flow. I feel it's an ignored part of computer science.

My goal is easy parallelism, asynchronocity and reactivity.
Don't forget the victim surcharge.

Remember that Al Capone was jailed for tax evasion.
https://blog.kaetemi.be

Mostly development notes, and whatever seems interesting or fun enough to share. Not blogging very frequently.
Show HN: Pytheus – Python Prometheus client built with multiprocessing in mind
Sharing this side project of mine, if you had issues while using multiprocess in python when collecting metrics this might interest you :)

The library offers the same interface between single process & multi process, the only difference is doing a function call specifying which backend to use and everything will work out of the box.
It supports default labels & partial labels so that you can build your child instances incrementally.
It strives to be flexible & well documented.

There is also an experimental backend for it written in Rust as a way to support asyncio applications, more in the docs!
Twitter did just that, lol.

Then, "they" will adapt.

Then, they will have to shutdown internet during riots (irony).
oh, C++ metaprogramming!?
Yeah, it’s (3.5 and 4) good at writing code overall. I’ve had it write me entire programs (of smaller size) and mostly I just have to correct for library usage (because it’s built on outdated docs) or small things like explicit casting in a language like Python where that’s needed.
When I download it, it's indeed 4KB not 4kb. I still think it's really impressive for the entire demo though. It's not just a procedurally generated landscape, it's the camera and scene changes, it's the lighting, the spotlights and music.
> Creating a future in Rust does not have any side effects like running the future in background. This is not JS. Creating a future is just creating an object representing future (postponed) computation. There is nothing spawned on the executor. There are no special side effects (unless you code them explicitly). It works exactly as any other function returning a value, hence why should it be syntactically different?

Fair point.

> Contrary, an `await` is an effectful operation. It can potentialy do a lot - block execution for arbitrary long time, switch threads, do actual computation or I/O... So I really don't understand why you want to hide this one.

I disagree here. Any normal function call can do these things. On the other hands an async function returning a future does nearly nothing. It sets up an execution context but doesn't execute (in Rust). But they usually look like a function call that actually performs the action - not so! An explicit "async" in front of it would make the program flow more clear instead of hiding it.

> Maybe the naming is confusing - because `await` does not really just `await`. It runs the future till completion. You should think about it more as if it was named `run_until_complete` (although it is still not precise, as some part of that "running" might involve waiting).

That's exactly speaking to my previous point. The program flow is not 100% immediately obvious anymore. One could argue that "await" is fine as is but maybe adding "async" to the call and not just function signature would add clarity.
No, we keep being required to have ipv4 so our customers can reach the sites they are trying to get to. If it was just as simple as deploying ipv6 and retiring ipv4 we would have done it already. But someone just had to make them not interoperable.
Ask HN: Would you mind sharing any hobbies or activities you enjoy?
Walking, swimming, watching movies and listening to music for me.
What would happen to the contract between Cloud Innovation and AFRINIC if AFRINIC collapse? Since ICANN assigned AFRINIC to manage those ipv4 addresses, it seems logical to me that the contract between ICANN and AFRINIC would stop if AFRINIC is unable to fulfill that role.
Not surprising as most tech books are not readable for males either!

I do not think you are using the word "philosophist" correctly. It generally refers to "a would-be philosopher" (see https://archive.org/details/centurydictionar06whit_0/page/44... ) or "An adherent or practitioner of what is held to be erroneous speculation or philosophy" (see https://web.archive.org/web/20220412002840/https://www.lexic... ).

It would be odd if you meant it that way, rather like saying you'll stop being sexist if you see at least one female phrenologist.

If you haven't met a female philosopher, well, that's your fault for being so isolated, isn't it?

I mean, I've only ever met one astronaut, a woman, but that doesn't I'll be sexist against male astronauts until I meet one.

If you live in the back-country with little contact with others, or live a monastery which prohibits women from entering, or live in a sexist country which discriminates against hiring women as philosophers, then that would explain your odd and insistent sexist beliefs.
Uber drivers aren't strictly speaking taxi drivers, in that they don't actively drive around looking for fares but instead wait for users to contact them via app - in other words, they're pull-based and not push-based. Medallions were a response to the push-based taxi market, which was 100% necessary as smartphones didn't exist in the 1930s.
I am a noscript/basic (x)html browser user, does mastodon have such interface (a bit like nitter, but for mastodon).
Airplane manufacturers have continually worked to make their planes more fuel-efficient, it's kind of a consumer product in that ultimately people fly on those planes.

Laptop CPUs and GPUs would be another. Look at the success of ARM in cell phones and the Apple M1/M2 chips.

The Japanese car makers got their foothold in the American car market with very fuel efficient cars in the mid to late 1970s, before various fuel efficiency laws were passed.
> Threads are a resource hog.

I agree. They are if we spawn OS threads everytime we need a thread. The equivalent in async would be spawning the entire overhead of the event loop every time we need concurrency.

Obviously, we don't do that.

WorkerPools don't need respawning. Greenlets don't need respawning. Virtual Threads handled by the runtime don't need respawning.
From that post:

> we implemented this: http://swain.webframe.org/squeak/floppy/

> (using Linux and modifying Squeak to work with SVGALib instead of X)

> in just 900mb

"Just" 900MB?

That is, er, not very comparable. Nearly a gigabyte, versus a single floppy? (Circa 1.4MB albeit very heavily compressed, so over 2MB of code, maybe 3.)

That is a difference of approximately 2 orders of magnitude, heading towards 3 OOM: 1000x bigger.

Am I misreading?

You definitely did not get 900MB on a floppy. It wouldn't even fit on a CD (~700MB uncompressed).
> I can't help but think the author craved a tap on the back, and wanted to send a message saying: "please like me because I'm one of your gang. I despise sexism and this story is factual evidence that the rival gang (sexists) are incompetent assholes".

FWIW I think Admiral Cloudberg's not a guy. Fair chance they've experienced sexism themselves.
You're agreeing with the comment you replied to. they were saying it was flat until ~1700 or so.
I am not sure if any hate is warranted, but it is true that coming up with a new license which does not comply with open source licenses, and proceeding to call it open source definitely did not help to create sympathy.
There is nothing wrong with releasing something under a proprietary license but calling this license change "Doubling down on open source" is damaging.

https://logz.io/blog/open-source-elasticsearch-doubling-down...
Oh, the page is still up!

http://swain.webframe.org/squeak/floppy/

900 kB. Quite a big difference. 1,024 times smaller, in fact. :-)
It's funny because I found a way to disable auto update for snaps in 2 minutes by Googling and half of the angry voices in gere are because of auto updates. What is going on?
This may seem trivial, but the name "Mastodon" never quite works for me. Compared to "Twitter" it is less descriptive and has an extra syllable. That might not seem important, but to achieve scale it might be off-putting to prospective users.

Also, anyone familiar with the term "mastodon" knows it refers to an extinct mamal, aka "a dinosaur". Possibly a not great look.

Whether a new name would even be possible at this point is not something that I have an informed opinion on.

Disclosure: I dont use Mastodon or Twitter, or basically any social media.
"early stages of corporate dystopia". If anything, we're on the other side of it where companies are being held to some ridiculous standard that we don't even hold elected officials to. Remember Netflix having to fire Kevin Spacey for being accused of something that the president of the United States actually admitted to? How does this fit into the dystopian medium you think you live in?

I'm obviously not condoning abusive behaviour, I'm using this as an example of how much scrutiny there is on these corporations.

It's the same in this case: you're taking the view that a company should allow itself to be dragged into politics by the employee who publicly represents it. Surely that's wrong, isn't it? Companies should not be involved in politics. That's specifically what you are against when you call them dystopian.

This person, who I assume is an US citizen, is absolutely allowed to criticise the army, but they should do it as a citizen. Ultimately, the army serves the citizens and corporations serve customers.
A nicer UI which is more like Twitter!

Honestly, what most non-tech people care about is how the app looks[1]. And not if it's decentralized, federate or whatever. That is also why most open source alternatives fail, they might have great tech ideas, but they either look ugly, are a pain to use or both. The tragedy of open source, I'd say...

[1]: and that it's free
North and South should not be in air-quotes. They're correct, by definition.

"Top" and "bottom", however, can be air-quoted. There's nothing that says north equals "top"; north and south are arbitrary, and are just terms chosen to designate the two poles. The only reason people think north=top is because most maps are oriented that way.
And the default installation on all PC? Antitrust? Hello?
> just upgrade.

I wish it was that easy.
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I like the Fediverse just the way it is already. Not every social media network needs to be excessively popular.
>This whole thing works due to the consent and demand of the people and the people they ultimately put in the government.

The people by and large supported debt forgiveness. The people by and large want health care and labor reform. The people by and large supported Roe V. Wade.

The Federalist Society controls SCOTUS and the will of the people no longer matters.
That iPhone you're using? More people died for it than did for the whole of the (Western) space program.
I like working on side projects (based on whatever is trending in tech at the moment, think LLMs, generative AI etc.)
I also like climbing, hiking, bubble tea, and collecting old movies in my native language and upscaling them.
I live in the UK and have had residential IPv6 for many years. I also used to work for a UK-only online retailer and our traffic was around 40/60 v6/v4 back in ~2017 if I remember correctly.