skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It completely depends on what you want to do with the information in the table.

Yeah, it's marginally more strain on your eyeballs to track some 30 degrees across your field of view than glancing back and forth, but that only matters if you're reading every single value from left to right, row by row. It's extremely common to want to also compare values from top to bottom, column by column - or even just one particular column, known only to the reader. That's the whole point of a 2D table.

It's one thing for an e-reader to have an option to flow longform text across multiple columns for that one guy with a 5120 x 2160 monitor who chooses to view the text in full-screen, another to apply "too wide is bad" everywhere.

In particular, this looks stupidly blank in landscape mode on my 21:9 smartphone. Toggling Firefox to "Desktop Mode" shows it easily fits in that orientation.
I seem to recall that you can do the opposite as well: stash some extra data at the end of a binary file. The 'tclkit' system used this to package up an executable with the scripts you wanted to ship.
https://onatm.dev

It's been a while since the last entry but I got some interesting low level stuff there

- https://onatm.dev/2019/04/05/anatomy-of-a-hack-assembly-prog...
- https://onatm.dev/2019/04/07/anatomy-of-a-hack-assembly-prog...

and this one is my fav piece: https://onatm.dev/2020/08/10/let-s-implement-a-bloom-filter/
It's a virtue signalling treadmill. Demanding term X to be banned, because it is allegedly harmful, signals the unusually high virtue of the demander. But as soon as the term is actually banned, there isn't any more virtue to be gained from being against it, so some other term has to be declared harmful next. Ad infinitum.
https://mebassett.info/essays - whatever idea I have that I think is worth exploring in a rambling essay. some hits have been

Human attention has become a marxist commodity (https://mebassett.info/human-attention-commodity)

AI is Useful for Capitalists but Probably Terrible for Anyone Else (https://mebassett.info/ai-useful-for-capitalist)

Empathy and Failures of Democracies (https://mebassett.info/empathy-failures-democracy.html)
No, the government does not have an interest in creating a chilling effect that goes far beyond the actual law. Rather, it's commercial copyright holders who have that interest, and they lobbied the government to include this scary warning.
Not knowing how to do it and reading and failing until I figured it out.
Repeat for 15 years to become a skilled crafts person.
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Copyright law & the definition of a "derivative work." See e.g. 17 USC §§ 101 and 106. See also https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.pdf.
Sure there is. Where's the NYT article on the grusch hearings? Journalism? Try establishment mouthpiece.
I set this up on my M1 Mac yesterday, it’s awesome, and because I have Mac on all the time I only need it installed on that machine
Sure, I mean, that's my assumption, the question is more of "how important is that connection" in a given instance. And, I suppose down that line of questioning, do we have the knowledge/systems/etc to overcome any losses?
Building a real product that people were willing to pay money for.
> What was missing:

n) Your old college friends have secured their material needs while you barely make rent.

n) a PhD student that joined the program after you just surpassed your number of publications.

n) your thesis supervisor just bumped you off primary author to contributor in your own paper.
Especially that they do basically no development at all on said sources. It is almost completely financed by Oracle.
Everyone you consider "great" at something had mentors who helped them get there. One of the biggest differences between me now, and me when I was new to software engineering, is that now I ask a lot more questions.

When I was new, I was insecure about seeming like I didn't know certain things and wanted to "prove myself", so to speak, so I would keep my head down and try to figure things out for myself.

Over time I've realized that leaning on others with more expertise than you is how you learn and grow, and asking questions and collaborating with others does not reflect poorly on you as an engineer (quite the opposite in fact).

These realizations are what have boosted my confidence - I know that if I'm ever working on something that I don't know how to do, I can go talk to someone who does know and learn something new. If you don't work somewhere where this is possible (i.e. you're always the "smartest guy in the room", as they say) then your growth as an engineer is going to be limited.
Someone offering to buy my program. I was 13 or 14 years old and wrote a program in ZXSpectrum BASIC to mange a schedule of upcoming movies for a local broadcasting outfit.
Javascript, like python, was "simple yet flexible". Thats what made them successful.

When a language is successful, people start to bolt on extra bits of syntax and features (async, prototypes/classes, lambdas, etc). Eventually it is no longer simple, and the learning curve gets steeper for new users.

Someone comes up with a new simple yet flexible language, all the new users start with that instead, and the cycle repeats.

BASIC/visual basic/VB.net went through that cycle in the 90's. C then C++ went through that in the 2010's. Python/Javascript is going through that now. Go is about to go through the same.
I write this on unintended consequences in tech, policy, and business.

https://unintendedconsequenc.es/
or after a few years of postdocs and job security that comes in 12-24 month bouts, you might have moved into industry anyway and just starting making 60% of what you're making now.
Unaligned doesn't really seem like it should be a threat. If it's unaligned it can't work toward any goal. The danger is that it aligns with some anti-goal. If you've got a bunch of agents all working unaligned, they will work at cross-purposes and won't be able to out-think us.
How often do you find yourself near a stingray?
Sonic: A fast JSON serializing and deserializing library in Go
Very interesting, I just learned that Deno has direct support for doing this! Very useful, indeed. Thanks for mentioning it.

Have you used it, to know what is the baseline size of the file it generates? e.g. the size of a "hello-world" command, which would be basically 99.9% composed of the runtime and core libraries.
My 20 year old air conditioner recently died and I was looking into replacements. In my climate the temperature ranges from 40C in the summer, and -40C in the winter. After doing some research, it seemed pretty clear that having a furnace+AC was the way to go for my climate. Hardly a magic bullet technology.
> When companies become more powerful than governments, this is to be expected.

When that happens it means they became too powerful. Political power can only come from votes.
heh, for sure! I know I'm more sensitive to this kind of stuff than others are. I wish I could let this stuff go
I find this part super interesting:

> He describes studies that have found a substantial delay in the reaction time of people talking on their cell phone while driving --- or even just holding conversations with someone in the car while driving. A similar delay has not been found in these studies when the driver is doing more passive activities such as listening to the radio or an audio book; it is the need to focus on a conversation that limits the working memory's ability to effectively support driving at the same time.

When your mind is holding items in working memory, that means that it has less space to focus and execute effectively on the main task at hand.

Just writing things down gives some resolution of that task/thought so that we can fully show up for our main thing.

Working on a new notepad for jotting things down to free up working memory. The goal is to make it easy to capture things and add some organization when you want.

Curious to get feedback. https://www.stashpad.com/blog/working-memory
A petty one: seeing people interview and bomb on simple questions.
Nice article, and I like the choice of the word "integration" rather than "generalization" to describe the ability of a model to take an internal representation and apply it in a new scenario.

I continue to think that Relational Frame Theory [0] both explains why these models work so well, and also how they're able to integrate knowledge through nothing but language. I believe that a researcher could show that LLMs emergently encode "frames" that describe relationships between concepts; that frames can be combined to form more complex expressions; and that frames can be reused in different contexts to make "novel" connections.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_frame_theory
The biggest confidence boost as a new programmer was the first time I wrote some software on my own, other people used it, it worked, and they liked it. This happened within about a year of starting out. I suggest everyone try to build products and give them to people. Nothing more validating to me than building stuff people want.
Why waste clock cycles and storage and bandwidth carrying around 100GB of textures that you don't need most of the time?
Are all variables still global unless defined not to be?
Gartner: Most corporate strategists find AI and analytics critical to success
> Local newspapers were mostly funded by their classifieds section.

Local newspapers (at least in my US state) were mostly funded by their commercial ad placements, not by the classified section. Classified ad revenue and the purchase price of the paper were minority fractions of their revenue.
I live in Milton Keynes, just across town from Bletchley Park. It’s pricey, but a great geeks day out - there’s a lot to see and the demo of the reproduction Bombe device is fascinating. Also, though it’s a separate admission charge, there’s the National Museum of Computing on the same site with a heady mix of 80s home computers and rebuilt early computers. Don’t miss it!
Here’s mine :) https://david.coffee/

I blog about random bits and blobs in tech. Sometimes a review, sometimes trying out something new. Wanted to try and keep it interesting and not too fixated on one category.

Last post is a mini review on a travel router, and if you need one - https://david.coffee/the-case-for-a-travel-router/

Or going through the process of getting custom molded earplugs done - https://david.coffee/my-custom-molded-attenuating-earplugs/

Or using Elixir to build a distributed ChatGPT CLI - https://david.coffee/mini-chatgpt-in-elixir-and-genserver/

Not as active as I wished
That is my take.

It's worth noting that the only time I've payed any attention to twitter is in the last several months, so it's weighted to be worse than it was prior to recent happenings.

The server where I have an account has had downtime twice in the past 200 something days, and had search go down once in that time frame. Occasionally I'll see an update from another server saying "<search|image hosting|replies> are temporarily down", but life goes on fine and they rejoin when they can.
A flying car prototype just got an airworthiness certificate from the FAA
The UK has one player, Octopus Energy, who offers innovative tariffs.

Their SEG (feed in tariff) rates are also about 3x higher than anyone else offers. You can either go for a flat rate of 15p per kWh, or go on their flex tariff where your import and export rates rise and fall with the wholesale rate (up to the energy price cap of 34p per kWh import).

Because net metering is not a thing in the UK, it also means if you're getting solar it makes more sense to get a battery to cover nighttime usage, or to charge with cheaper off-peak energy, or to export shift to when you'll get more bang for your buck.
> This is called non-blocking IO

No, that's not quite right.

It happened not to block this time, but the write was not "non-blocking". It could have blocked.
70% of 53 billion is restricted, but presumably they still make significant money from interest/investment on that money. And IDK, but I assume it's all tax-free too, since the alumni probably wrote a big chunk of the tax code. Are these profits considered part of the endowment too and with similar restrictions? If unrestricted, is the available student aid commensurate with that, or does it disappear into operations and/or dean salary?
> This is literally the plot to a B-movie.

Are there never any B movies with realistic plots? Is that some sort of serious rebuttal?

> Sometime in the near future this all powerful being will kill us all by somehow

The trouble here is that the people who talk like you are simply incapable of imagining anyone more intelligent than themselves.

It's not that you have trouble imagining artificial intelligence... if you were incapable of that in the technology industry, everyone would just think you an imbecile.

And it's not that you have trouble imagining malevolent intelligences. Sure, they're far away from you, but the accounts of such people are well-documented and taken as a given. If you couldn't imagine them, people would just call you naive. Gullible even.

So, a malevolent artificial intelligence is just some potential or another you've never bothered to calculate because, whether that is a 0.01% risk, or a 99% risk, you'll still be more intelligent than it. Hell, this isn't a neutral outcome, maybe you'll even get to play hero.

> Care not about your racist algorithms! For someday soon

Haha. That's what you're worried about? I don't know that there is such a thing as a racist algorithm, except those which run inside meat brains. Tell me why some double digit percentage of asians are not admitted to the top schools, that's the racist algorithm.

Maybe if logical systems seem racist, it's because your ideas about racism are distant from and unfamiliar with reality.
> your thesis supervisor just bumped you off primary author to contributor in your own paper.

I mean, woah. Even that's a little too far for phd-land
You and I agree. I've been on the web since 1996 and the credo you talk about is deeply ingrained in my ethics.

But it's still wishful thinking. We live in the age where AI is so bold as to scrape the crap out of even the largest of other big tech companies without blinking. Without permission, attribution, compensation. So surely a little Mastodon scrape isn't a problem.

There's no need to talk about how unethical it is, we agree. Problem is that it's hard if not impossible to stop. That what I mean by naive.
Before, during, and current, though the Remix hyping train has fallen quite a bit as of late, I think in no small part due to Twitters recent changes.

I want to like Remix, but they have an odd culture around it, aren't really all that willing to talk openly about decision making or hearing valid criticism of the framework, and made some very bizarre design decisions with the framework itself, such as having zero ability to customize the build pipeline in any meaningful way
one nicety that Slack etc. can't match is that this works on a local network even if internet access is lost (and doesn't slow down with terrible network latency). Going to install this on our server on the Greenland ice shelf...
https://blog.joeross.me

The latest in a long line of blogs spanning back to 2005ish.
You could also put the binary data in the first line of the Basic program after the ‘rem’ command, change the line number to 0 using the poke command, so that it’s not possible to edit this line. The second line would run the code using ‘randomize usr’. There were also fun tricks with control sequences, that would hide the ‘rem’ command and the line number, and put something like “Cracked by Bill Gilbert (c) 1982” instead. Gosh, why I still remember all this nonsense after all these years…
It's actually difficult to say what the cost would be if everyone switched over. The reason is that natural gas is subsidized, both on the production side (at least in the US, which wants energy security) and on the consumption side (because it's politically unpopular to let people freeze to death). Of course, electricity prices are also affected by subsidies. Figuring out the true operating prices would require some research. However, it remains true that, in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, it is usually preferable to heat a home with a heat pump than by burning gas directly (there exists a temperature below which any given unit will become less efficient than burning gas, but unless you live in a place where this temperature is common then heat pumps will still come out on top (and the fact that residential gas lines are notoriously leaky and basically just venting nonstop into the atmosphere makes the calculation even more favorable)).
These huge centralized mono-system monopolies are quite the fire-hazard when it comes to security.

If microsofts centralization allowed for a attack vector to take down the whole western hemispheres productivity for a week - could the resulting rage destroy the monopolies?
"Rampancy in Marathon is more or less a process of recursive self-improvement, which LLMs are literally unable perform with the current state of the art."

Not directly, but in a sense they could be seen as using (or at least collaborating with) humans to improve themselves.
> I suspect it would still be pretty decent.

A fun thought experiment, but I suspect they'd be bankrupt from the meritless lawsuits that come from being big, or in prison for not being able to follow laws they had to be big to lobby against.

And even if not, the combined efforts of the scammers would probably evolve faster than two people could react.
The flip side is that R&D is a lot easier and cheaper when you don’t have to worry about accidental infringement. But your last paragraph suggests we’re already in agreement.

In any case, I’m fine with companies making the pragmatic choice to pursue patent protection. But being defensive and flippant about it isn’t a good look. It’s much better to argue for instance that you put yourself at a disadvantage if you’re the only business that doesn’t patent their innovations, and that a patent portfolio also has a defensive function.
In scenarios where an individual customer/tenant can have isolated data this makes sense.
Is there any reason why the client application itself can't be one of the nodes in the distributed system? Does LiteFS support a more peer-2-peer distribution model (similar to a git repo) where the client/customer's SQLite database is fully distributed to them and then it's just a matter of merging diffs?
> a tremendous amount of time and effort was invested to retrofit it as such

Great things require tremendous effort and even time.
-40C? That's an extreme situation. Heat pumps can be installed with backup heating as I understand it.
Major one missing: China built 5,000 miles of high speed rail in 6 years. In California, it's been 15 years and we have 0 miles complete. Also built numerous hospitals during pandemic in a couple weeks. Demolished and replaced a bridge in 43 hours: https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a.... General pattern of completing infrastructure projects at a blistering pace - and they work.

Also landed a rover on Mars in 2021 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhurong_(rover), but I"m not sure how it compares development speed to NASA. Designed for 90 days, lasted 4x that.

As much as the US denigrates China for allegedly trampling on "freedoms," I bet our way of doing speedy big projects in the past has a lot in common with China's current progress. You just have to quash special interests sometime. Autocracy gets shit done.
That's thanks to the HTML and DOM API, not "JavaScript".

Early web companies didn't even need JS; every interaction coulf reload a page.
Guess it wasn't just my system, they've since fixed this. Though at the cost of the footer never being visible without scrolling now (even at ~2100 x 1080 size).
This Bulgarian Writer’s Books Bend Time
Games have two other elements that make them an oddball:

1. The data integrity mostly doesn't matter. Crashes, corruption, whatever. Just throw playtesting at it until it kind of works. Higher discipline than that is only needed for multiplayer.

2. Most of the engineering exists to support a pipeline to create, load and render specific assets at a specific level of dynamism, ranging from "menu text" to "skeletal animation" to "character creation". It's the definition of what an asset is or can be, and how dynamic it has to be, that can make the difference between "days" and "years" of development. A team that can argue its technical case eloquently can chop out the most expensive kinds of assets, make extremely shoddy tools to help deliver the ones that remain, and still end up with an engaging experience.

When we discuss old engines like Quake, the genius in them is primarily in finding exactly the right specification of assets to hit the target machine of the time while achieving previously unprecedented levels of detail. It's easy to make a game on modern hardware run at 500hz if you stick to rendering Atari 2600-grade scenes - it's the additional detail that turns it into a major project to hit 30hz.

Today the burden in games has shifted away from the runtime performance costs of a scene - since there are a lot of standard methods of getting an acceptable result, including entire engines with level-of-detail systems to help automatically downgrade graphics - and towards the production cost of achieving detailed assets, which is more in the realm of what technical artists now do as a dayjob.
cf Philip K Dick's "Perky Pat layouts", which, as far as I can tell, involves Americans role playing being American.

Most europeans I know of LARPing Americans do a sort of reverse-SCA and play Cowboys and Indians.

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A9xRVVDDFQ
I wouldn't say it's true in general. You can certainly choose what to put active effort into learning/revising, but memorisation isn't really something we have direct, conscious control over.
That i have been planning to build . Would like to contribute if you make it opensource.
Sorry for being thick. You said:

The power of the generator is that, unlike an iterator, the collection of values doesn't "exist", it is created on the fly.

What is a specific example where this is true?
I think this is how GOG ships the Linux version of Battletech.
According to leftwing media outlets like The Guardian, Twitter has been on the verge of collapse every day since Musk took over.

Hopefully people are starting to understand why the legacy media pushes this narrative.

Legacy media is bitterly fearful and resentful of a social network where live news, critical thinking and free expression is permitted, and none of it can be monetised by legacy media elites.
haha I had the exact same ideas, but then I was "bah! I'll put it out there and I'll add functionality over time"
> I actually don't think the Internet has been a good substitute for a local distribution of information.

It started off looking very promising for that sort of thing -- but when people fled for the likes of large social media properties, that killed things dead. Facebook, Reddit, etc., are very bad at encouraging local community.
None of these projects were created from dust.
Thanks a lot for the lwn article suggestion.

Dave Cutler(Windows NT) too found the DEC support to be a safety test for cleanliness.
After I just watched the Mythbusters episode where they show some experiments that you can do at home.

One of the ones you can't is mixing water with dry ice. They put a rubber "hand" near a soda bottle, which they then fill up and cap tightly in the way you shouldn't do.

The damage to the "hand" was really impressive.
Can't you get backup heating in addition to a heat pump for the coldest days?