skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An alternative take:

Swearing was more abundant in the earlier days and the code that survived until today is probably better that what got lost along the way.

In general the coding population has grown, we're more used to coding in corporate settings with code reviews, commit message processing etc. and the bulk of devs aren't just as emotional in writing their comments (some will still swear like sailors, but it's not the norm)

> The study relied solely on the source code written in C.

This in particular, probably reduced the number of hobby and beginner's project in the study.
Seems like the northern hemisphere and the tropics are up there too, and the northern hemisphere is taking off for July.
It's turtles all the way down with this crap.

I observed the "audit" of my county's VVPAT. When the printout was found to be illegible, the admins just printed another copy. Proving, at best, the printer occassionally worked.

My county trashed our touchscreen voting machines.

Sadly, vendors, technophiles, and a certain type academic, remain undaunted in their enthusiasm for unverifiable elections.

Eg Adjudication of postal ballots, at scale, isn't any better than the touchscreens they replaced in that regard. How hard could it be? Well, the stack my county uses, for "efficiency", fully digitizes the audit trail.
What's the beef with Electron?
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Curious-Replay-for-Mod...

https://github.com/AutonomousAgentsLab/curiousreplay
> Yes there is a UNIX under macOS, and some POSIX under iOS/iPadOS/watchOS, Android, which hardly matters to userspace frameworks and official programming stacks.

On the contrary, the fact that more and more of the parts where development happens shifts further and further into userspace is exactly what I'm getting at.
> love2d is really the most minimalist things you can call a game engine

I think DeFold is closer to that.
> "Threads collects data about your body"

This could come from any number of sources. Running AI to determine race, height, weight, and age from a profile picture for example.

> "Threads collects data about your web activity": How? It reads referrer headers.

Or it fingerprints you and your local network so it can associate browsing outside the app with your threads’ profile to better target ads?

Honestly you seem 20 years behind the times with how invasive tracking and analysis can be.
Ok, good to know. Have fun fighting the good fight.
Network is slow. So you are waiting on the db for most of a request lifecycle.
This is such a wonderful post! Heavenly.
Thank God the autonomous car doesn't get drunk, because even currently it's only a little safer than the dataset that includes tons of drunk people.
Glad to read about your experience, because I just checked out their website and was about to bite on the free IPU access. But if it needs some special proprietary software to work in the first place, I probably won't bother.
Dumb machines already kill people for mundane reasons.
I couldn’t agree more.

I could live with apathy towards documentation, but it goes beyond apathy. There is often outright hostility to anyone who “wastes time” writing documentation or doing design work. Agile grifters have absolutely ruined this profession.
> There is going to be a lot of tool consolidation at most organizations coming in the next few years.
Already happening where I work - multiple security tools being phased out because of tools that do everything now.
Dhalgren is a very difficult and very long read. It might benefit from a hypertext or ebook form because it is so self referential and the main character is such an unreliable narrator, sometimes I would read one section, then have to refer back to make sure I was at the right place in the book because this happened before or this text was already used somewhere else or some other character said something different about the same experience. The sex scenes were very repetitive after about the quarter mark to me, but those seem to reflect a lot of his personal experience.

I thought Babel-17 was more approachable, shorter and smaller in scope.
Not in other comments, so commercial Mathematica can do it. Theorem proving languages such as coq or agda can as well, especially if you're doing really heavy math.

Probably pretty soon we could have the machines (LLMs) convert our prompts into code or solve it directly, depending on exactly what needs to be solved.
CodeGen2.5: Small, but Mighty
Salesforce AI team just released the next version of CodeGen and it looks more than promising!
I got my ass handed to me by my dad when he found out I had been playing LSL3 at a friends house. Speaking of the LSL series, we had mastered the whole "how old are you" quiz at the beginning of LSL1, and had photocopies of the bizarre copy protection solutions for 2 and 3. I think I enjoyed LSL2 the most, the one on the cruise ship.
America bad.
Isn’t proliferation and ease of availability of student loans making college more expensive?

I’d hate to have college only be for people with means to pay. But I think tuition fee increases have far outpaced inflation.
Yes this is covered in the (very short) linked article.
What do you suggest happened?
What context size is used? Can you "brute force" your way by using let's say 16k or 32k of context?
> the best GPU available at any price

That’s… very debatable. Don’t get me wrong, they’re definitely competitive at all levels but AMD absolutely is too & very arguably is better in some cases.
My experience was so identical to yours, except replace Kings Quest 1 with Kings Quest 3, and replace “pick up carrot” with “kick cat”. Other than that I could have written this post myself.
Yeah, Logseq really works with my mind. I create pages, but as anchors to refer to various people or concepts. Every block is created inside the daily note. It took me a while to stop overthinking it and just use the daily note.

Logseq's killer feature, though, is the Anki plugin:
https://github.com/debanjandhar12/logseq-anki-sync

... it's so easy to create and revise cards using this plugin, which is really important, as I almost never get a card's shape right for committing something to memory on the first try.

A couple caveats I'd mention:

* Logseq's sync system was really buggy for me during the time I used it. I stopped using it for a while, as the sync was the only way I could get E2E encryption and still have mobile access. With iOS advanced data security, I feel like iCloud sync gets me most of the way there.
* They really need to invest in the editor experience. If I had something like a Bear or Typora experience within Logseq, I think I'd have my perfect tool.
You misremember—it’s the other way around. IE never supported self‐closing arbitrary elements, because IE never supported rendering an (X)HTML page using an XML parser.

Requiring the slash to self‐close, and allowing any element to be self‐closed, were features of XML that never existed in HTML. When XHTML came around, rendering it required an XML‐capable parser, signaled by the webserver serving the page with the application/xhtml+xml MIME type instead of type/html. Doing so came with a slew of other effects required by XML like hard‐erroring when markup was not well‐formed.

This was a big change for both browsers and web designers, so the XHTML 1.0 spec featured a compatibility mode: since XHTML 1.0 was essentially a one‐to‐one representation of HTML 4 elements as XHTML elements, XHTML documents could be rendered with a plain HTML parser, so long as they followed various rules to look like an HTML page, such as self‐closing only elements that are self‐closable in plain HTML. To incentivize people to move to the new MIME type, the W3C made this compatibility allowance temporary and removed it from the next version, XHTML 1.1.

Of course, the consequence was inevitable. Effectively nobody used XHTML 1.1, and effectively nobody used application/xhtml+xml. W3C’s insistence on promoting breaking compatibility with the overwhelming majority of the web led to its loss of control of the HTML specification to WHATWG, a coalition of browser vendors. W3C’s nascent XHTML 2.0 withered and died, and WHATWG’s desired vision for HTML5 became the new standard de jure, not just de facto.
OpenAI launches ChatGTP code interpreter for coding using natural language
It's obvious. Most drunk people can get home without someone having to grab the wheel and help them. A few do require that, and they often get stopped by police.

Since almost any ai system currently needs SOME help on a 100 mile drive, yet most slightly drunk people would complete that drive just fine, you could argue close to that.
Fascinating. Thank you for sharing. I’m glad you were able to arrive at a diagnosis. I’m sorry to hear it was such an odyssey. I wonder how many other patients like you we are missing.
Can I use the API more than 25 times in 3 hours?
Writing bad quality software is often even more expensive.
Mythic is supposedly back, they raised more money in March 2023.
The irony is that 99% of them haven't actually read the paper the term originated from.

One of it's only recurring warnings was the danger of underestimating what a "stochastic parrot" can do in practical terms.
There are two senses of 'competitive' in play here: the sense in which a market can be 'competitive' or not by featuring alternatives that are comparable and whose successors leapfrog one another in various virtues over time, and the sense in which a product can be 'competitive' within a market by being more or less at least as good as whatever else is out there.

NVIDIA is definitely not 'competitive' in the sense of participating in a competitive market, or in the sense of being characterized by furious striving for rapid and continuous improvement. Many of their newer cards are barely 'competitive' with their own cards from a generation or two ago.

It's extremely clear to me what people mean when they say that NVIDIA or their GPUs are not meaningfully 'competitive'. I don't think it's that hard to see, actually.
What’s a good source to learn and practice AVX?
I don’t know about Wisconsin, but based on how UAW behaves in California, I’d need strong evidence before I believed they acted in the interest of graduate students in any state.

Here’s the “do what the union agreed to even though your campus voted against it or you will be fired” notice that UC sent to the UC Santa Cruz graduate students:

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/graduate-student-prot...

The “small group” of striking students they mention led to UC calling in aid from the military and federal police:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kppna/california-police-use...

They also set up lots of barricades and released a fleet of police drones.

It would have made more news (and likely continued longer), if it hadn’t started just before the Covid lockdowns.

Anyway, this all happened after the students protested in front of UAW meetings, and were ignored by their union reps.
Using FreshRSS to “Like” blog posts via Webmention (2019)
I think an interesting model would be a college which is “worker owned and operated” in the sense that the faculty must take in all of the administrative tasks themselves, or at least a significant portion of it. No one wants this kind of task interfering with more interesting work (teaching, mentoring, research), so there would be strong incentives to minimize waste and simplify process.
Not sure about what Meta is using for Threads, but gunicorn and nginx are a common set up for Django in production.

Some will use `python manage.py runserver` in production, and they are using the defacto wrong set up. Don't ever do that.
I thought that some of these tools had a lot of open source components (look at https://github.com/aquasecurity for example) but they can still charge lots of money because it's yet another service that a company doesn't want to host/configure/maintain themselves.
What you are looking for is in the discipline of DevOps. The place to start is by reading The Phoenix Project, by Gene Kim et al. Then you’ll read the Google SRE Book and the DevOps Handbook.

The modern approach is called CI/CD - Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment.
> You still need to be able to write a coherent, non-ranting complaint letter.

I’m pretty sure that would be right up GPT4’s street. It has done wonders when we had some trouble with some hotels.
Or as Good to Great calls it, "Confronting the brutal facts".

"This is bullshit" is an important realization. If you can't say it, then things will stay miserable.
No, no to all of this.
> I swear people on this site were saying the same thing about AI in general 3+ years ago before transformers blew up the scene.

They kind of weren’t super wrong. What people usually mean by this is that the product doesn’t match the hype. It very much didn’t.

Even now we’re only starting to catch up to the breathless promises from back then. Barely.

The main difference now is that the barrier to entry is lower so it’s starting to get some interesting uses cases come out
AMD Radeon RX 7600 review: Another water-treading midrange GPU for $269

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/review-amds-269-rx-7...

“AMD fails again: RX 7600 review”

https://youtu.be/Yhoj2kfk-x0
In the program where I did my Master’s, there was a professor who had a salary of 300K and didn’t seem to do anything exceptional compared to his peers. PhD students told me he had been the president of some unit at the university and when he stepped down, he didn’t let go of the money. This silly financial idiocy easily costs 3-4 grad student more to the university every year.
I did not! That’s kinda cool
If your problem is with the ownership of Twitter, I don’t understand why you would run from the arms of one wannabe cage-fighter into another’s.

If your problem is with ethics, FB isn’t a beacon of good behavior.

If your problem is getting rate-limited or losing your blue checkmark, I guess go wild, but you probably already loved Twitter too much to leave.
Personalized ads have to know about you in order to target to you. You'd assume the more they know, the "better" they will be at targeting.

This leads to an industry-wide race to collect as much data about people as possible.

This leads to a lot of large, valuable, aggregated datasets stored in a few large central locations.

These datasets create strong incentives for criminals to steal them and governments to abuse them.

I don't want any of these things. I don't want to be known to various sketchy entities. I don't want to be abused. Is all this stuff really worth it to you just so you see some better ads?

I don't even want to see any ads. I simply don't want advertisements to be interlaced throughout my life. And I damn sure don't want them to be watching me back.
Not really. Market also says otherwise.
I keep using an example I read from a blog about how to think about this, (pls don’t shoot me here, I’m just the messenger):

1. Avg case is we cross 2.7 degree Celsius hotter by 2100. Worst possibly 5 degree Celsius hotter according to ICPC.

Let’s assume this is a given truth, so what are the negative effects of being 5 degree hotter. If you’re in America, 5 degrees hotter will make USA more like … Spain or Argentina?. So the worst case on average is cooler than current day India. Why all this apocalyptic messaging? (This is before even contesting the models, Science etc)

Edit 1: A lot of people talking about ice age, burning age, rivers stop flowing etc. please think more clearly, Is India uninhabitable? (Has it lost its rivers etc). People talking about places becoming uninhabitable, again please think clearly, Qatar is one of the hottest places in the world, 5 degrees hotter does it make Qatar closer to Sahara desert or is there quite a way to go (almost 15 degrees more to go?) . Most places in the world will remain cooler than present day Qatar after the warming! (Assuming the worst case warming)

Edit 2: I’m more sympathetic to the arguments about crops and animals dying but this is not apocalyptic to humans. Bad for nature sure, we should try to protect them but humans will be fine, we will manage to grow the crops and animals we need, worst case in different locations than now and I’m not even sure of that (technology?).
I went to Syncthing.net and they didn't mention iOS or Android.

Does it run on those?
That article is amazing to read with the benefit of a week's hindsight.
I hope you work on compiler backends.
I run Ubuntu LTS on many of my servers. Most of them are just VM hosts running KVM. If I had to do it again, I'd go with Debian. Ubuntu upgrades often do strange and surprising things. I remember doing a minor upgrade with 20.04 and losing the default route! Another minor upgrade renamed network interfaces. (20.04.1 I think?) The machine was completely inaccessible remotely.

Perhaps this was "my" fault because the machine had been updated several times, originally at 14.04 through various LTS releases, accumulating cruft.
I can't even find a calendar that lets me enter where I'm leaving from to get to an event and where I'm heading after it to add the travel time automatically, with a specified margin of error.

Much less can I export the details of my activity from my smart watch or my web browsing history so I can easily review my day and figure out what happened and why.

Calendars suck at being calendars. We're not even close to ready to have them be repositories.

What I wouldn't give to be able to export logs from everything I use that keeps logs and map them to a calendar...as long as I have control of the data.
I hate to break it to you, but crypto has been "over" many times, only to come roaring back. It's cyclical, based on the price of Bitcoin.

I expect people will go nuts about it again in a few years before temporarily abandoning it.

At least that was the case in 2011, 2013, 2017 and 2020-21.

I don't see any value in crypto projects personally, but if you think it's going away forever, expect disappointment.
Only 35 papers? I bet if you just asked ChatGPT it could list at least 100! /s
> Also, there will be significant consequences for humans (which could be catastrophic and hard to predict if we don't limit warming to say 2C)

I have trouble visualizing what form the catastrophe would take. The worst I can imagine is global famine, is that what we are talking about here? Or rather local famine, acting as catalysts to civil unrest, wars etc?

Basically, I think the climate debate gets fuzzy here. Granted, just like you say, it gets hard to predict, but given that, what makes certain temperatures a threshold for disaster?
I assume OP was referring to “source available” schemes where the source is published or sometimes selectively disclosed but not licensed for anything other than review, ie you lack the right to run or copy it.

Needless to say, it’s not accurate to call that “open source”.
Understanding Mr. Brightside [video]
Imagine a scenario where most of the strings being processed contain a single null character, with no other characters. In that case checking for the null character first would be optimal.

Does the compiler know that this isn't true? No, it doesn't. The author of the article is making an assumption about the contents of the data that might seem reasonable but isn't necessarily true.
And sadly since updating the marks, on 3 out of 5 street view photos of one of these places someone has parked there anyway:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7184242,-73.9928144,3a,75y,3...
Cosmically, I don't think we matter, and that person is right. Even if we don't destroy ourselves in this century, the Earth will eventually be roasted to a crisp by the Sun expanding. Not that it makes me feel any better, just trying to consider what that perspective is.
I'm guessing it's a gut feeling based on seeing a lot of the same types of influencers who used to endlessly hype up crypto now making similar noise about AI. But I agree that that assessment is unfair to AI, even if the hype is ahead of current abilities.
Marqo provides automatic, configurable chunking (for example with overlap) and can allow you to bring your own model or choose from a wide range of opensource models. I think e5-large would be a good one to try. https://github.com/marqo-ai/marqo
Today I needed to contact a government service office for a task that only a human could perform. Now unfortunately, the phone tree of this office is broad and deep, you need to authenticate with about 4 data points before continuing, and if you hit the wrong option after authenticating, they will hang up on you without a second thought.

So I authenticated got through to the correct option on the first try, and it seemed like they were going to drop me into a queue to wait for a live operator. And then a recording informed me that "due to a high call volume, nobody is available to take your call." and dropped the call! Can you believe that. No option to leave a callback number or wait 4 hours in a queue, just terminate the connection. I called back and got the same thing.

The website does have a chatbot, but of course it is not capable of connecting to a human being and only capable of relaying the simple FAQs they've programmed into it.

I am pleased and impressed, for the most part, with the proliferation of Live Agent Chat for many services. I really prefer this over a telephone interaction (most of the time.) So it's good when I can easily break past the "virtual assistant" trying to FAQ me and get to a human.

But in this case, today, I suppose there were no humans to be found. Tragic. They have good compensation packages there.
Microbenchmarks are hard. You aren't doing any meaningful work that could benefit from speculatively executing instead of stalling for the conditional value.

Similarly you might be busting the pipeline by chaining together the jumps so close together.

Not saying your point is wrong, just saying your proof isn't super solid.
They partly broke hierarchical tags with the rewrite. If you have a tag hierarchy a.b.c and you put a note at a or b, it will not show up in the tag list. That ruined my main organizational tool.

And the limited depth of notebooks has always been just wrong, which is why I use hierarchical tags.
They made the Sega Dreamcast hardware 25 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast#Hardware
> Sometimes I could tease out the connection but not always.

I think that was Delaney's intention. The narrative, and the city aren't really open to analysis. Bellona is a hazy, druggy, liminal space and its incoherence and narrative instability is part of what makes it so beautiful.
Every company should go to ridiculous lengths to avoid rewrites. Rewrites of significant tech (as a proxy, lets say 100+ kloc) spell doom. Doom.
Microsoft Edge Pre-Installing Google Docs Offline Extension
~"because the chatbots aren't good enough"

Chat bots are annoying due to potential inconsistency, having to guess the types of things you ask for, due to their latency, but they've made major advancements recently, and we are only beginning to see what's possible.

If those companies using chat bots are failing to provide value, then they won't be competitive and they will go away. Why do we want to discourage them from exploring this new area? Experimentation is critical to understanding what will work and to the development of our society.
> embarrassingly parallel

I don’t see why such a thing should be embarrassing. Or, at least no more so than being acute or obtuse. Just as long as nothing is askew.
A lot of stuff in AWS has changed since Q3 2021.
Unfortunately a reality vague decision of the technique. They say you can train multiple models at once but wouldn't this require N times more memory? They also say that models that require heavy compute won't parallelize well which also seems just a bit absurd because aren't all those shaders all firing off perfectly in parallel to do all the big matrix math?