skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well sure, that's the point that you're trying to make. I thought anything most people felt you were claiming you need a theory related to the novel Discovery or convention. That is to say how it might work and what the expected outcomes are. I can't go to the lab without a theory that my car can get me there. That doesn't mean I have a hypothesis for what will happen when I mix two substances in the lab.

Thinking that something will either happen or not happen if I mix those two substances is not a theory.
It makes you a doctor if I’m a person who is qualified to make people doctors.
I met him in person at the Nvidia AI inception event in Berlin a few weeks ago.

Very friendly and down to earth personality. He said that Nvidia had tough competition when he started (there was only on chip graphics acceleration in 1994) and literally no market for his product because no applications/games supported external graphic acceleration. Still, he and his team were convinced that general purpose computing (CPUs) for everything is not as good as providing a dedicated, specialized computing unit (in this case for graphics). So they just built it and made it. Even though they were nearly bankrupt for multiple times, they survived until 2023 and established themselves as a leader in their field.

He basically worked on this for 30 years. Not many founders show the same endurance.
> how immigrants to the US always ended up in high level positions

What's your definition of "always" ?
In my family every single male relative is an uncle(and every female is an aunt).
Obviously the point is to save time by not going there. It’s not like it’s a big secret that it’s cheaper to get it yourself. It’s also huge if you have kids since loading them in the car and making them wait at a restaurant is a pain.
A lot of exposés of LLM weaknesses involve abusing the ambiguities of English with questions that are impossible for humans to give a satisfactory answer to, because they can be read in multiple ways.

Part of my bullishness on LLMs is that a lot of the criticism is so bad, and if they weren't the real deal there would be more low hanging fruit to attack them on. Cryptocurrency was having real problems from the first moment people realized how much data they would have to download to initialize a node.
Doesn't Apple have some leverage here? They may not control the overall browser market but they mostly control the smartphone market (or at least the profitable segment of that market) and lots of those users prefer to use Safari.

I'm aware Apple implemented similar tech a while ago, but I have infinitely less confidence that Google would use it responsibly.
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A 2-Day Indie Project Using OpenAI and Next.js
I’ve just launched my first indie project, personalities.me, inspired by tutoredtrip.com. Built in a whirlwind two days, it’s my exciting entry into the indie world.

Simple Stack:

- OpenAI for LLMs
- Vercel for platforms
- Resend for emails
- Next.js for full-stack
- Tally.so for surveys

The website is quite rudimentary, and for an engineer with a background in backend development, it was no small feat. The functionality is also very simple, but I believe it’s a meaningful start.

I’m eager to connect with those interested in this space and would love any advice on reaching out.

Here’s to the start of my indie journey. Feedback and support are welcomed and appreciated!
If you don't buy a car you don't need parking space and more likely to use public transport (most beneficial), allows better urban planning. And if everyone buys cars manufacturing is more damaging to the environment
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now that putnam is here you can glean some details because they talk about working on the code more and about the stuff putnam is optimizing
This smacks of out of touch bureaucrats saying "what do the kids like? Video games? Lets get some of them together." $20k covers next to no development of a modern video game. If they _actually_ wanted to engage with folks creating popular games in order to create pro-civic content, that'd be neato (imo) but it's going to require actually paying for quality.
Types have always been a hard sell for me. I honestly never have issues with types being wrong when I write code, and I understand that this is missing the point. The point is that the types define a very concrete interface and we know up front when the interfaces break, and can statically check that the interface is correct everywhere.

I feel that mathematical types are so far distant from the type system of something like C or C++ that the term foot guns itself somewhat.
I still find uber very cheap, they beat out the price of a cab in NYC half of the time for me.
The restaurant is chosen by you, not them. Now you could argue that they should suggest a closer location, sure, but it does tell you where it’s coming from.
There's clearly not a one-size-fits-all answer to this. I am a big advocate of reading widely and often especially during your early career. It's surprising how often tidbits from seemingly unrelated areas help one contextualize situations and generate new ideas. Plus, work time during one's early early career is usually unproductive work-wise but highly productive learning-wise.

A related problem is how to balance reading the background material with getting started on a project. How many papers should one read in an area before writing their paper? How familiar should one be with a technique before presenting the results to business partners?
>because it is illegal to measure demographic breakdowns in many European countries

It really isn't illegal to measure, where did you come up with that?
Congratulations to everyone involved and the entire Nim community!

Nim has been my language of choice for the past decade and I'm really happy with the new features in Nim 2.0. Some of them are real gamechangers for my projects. For example, default values for objects theoretically allow me to make Norm[1] work with object types along with object instances. And the new overloadable enums is something Karkas [2] wouldn't be possible at all (it's still WIP though).

[1] https://norm.nim.town

[2] https://karkas.nim.town
Important to remember this kind of stuff when people tell you to work hard (for them) to get ahead. We're all just worker bees enriching a small network of capital holders.
AGI to ASI might take hours if all that's needed is more compute. Such an intelligence might exponentially spread across the internet. Though I don't think it's the most likely scenario.
Discussion and subthreads off the main thread flow organically, and it's OK for them to not stay strictly on the main topic of the post (they're still on the topic of debugging, they haven't suddenly started talking about cars or stamp collecting).

Sometimes the best insights and comments are found in a side-thread.

Besides, this is one of several comments you've left with the same putdowns in this thread. They have added more irrelevant to the discussion noise than their parent comments ever did.
> In France, most immigrants kids don't even know the possible paths to get into a top school.

What do you mean? As an immigrant to France when I was in 3rd grade [0], I knew in a couple of months that I had to go to a good high-school, to get into a good prep school, to get into a good grande école. Everybody knows this. And everybody knows how to get there: be good at math, and have good grades in general.

[0] In France, school grades are "reversed". Grades 6 to 3 are "collège" / middle school / junior high. Grades 2, 1, "terminal" are high-school.
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Let's talk about Biden, then. How tall was the president when he was born?
Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber and former CEO of Expedia, also has a pretty illustrious immigrant family - see the Personal Life section of his Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dara_Khosrowshahi
when you do it for entertainment
Immigration is a choice and this acts as a filter. Second - the USA and many new world societies are not built around ethnicity. This means that hard work has a decent return on investment. In the old world, who you are and whom you know are often more important than your skills.

European society is constructed around sharply defined ethnic groups, often identified by name and appearance. Ethnicity cannot be changed.

Curiously, Indians and Chinese nationals tend to do well in the USA because their motherlands are poor. This means that only the most well off can even contemplate moving to the USA. Obviously, these folks do well relative to poorer immigrants. Europe's other problem is that it attracts mostly low skilled, older immigrants.
If you don't take couple to mean literally two and instead use the colloquial definition of 'a handful', say 10, then you'll find there are many devs making $120 an hour.

Also you pay this once, this isn't some recurring charge every 10 minutes.
Society doesn't have that car taking up space on the side of a public road all day, for one thing. Less parking, narrower roads, smaller parking lots, things are closer together, things are more walkable, we burn less fossil fuel, people get more exercise, people are healthier, people are happier/more productive.
Aren't all capacitors energy-storing?
True, spinning up nginx and setting that up is the cheapest option I have come across with the best enterprise support. It's also available in Microsoft to deploy instead of using their tools. However, some people like being cloud native.
what is the 'real deal', exactly?

I feel like people have this vague idea in their head of what everyone is trying to build, but don't really have it defined in a concrete way.
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Hacked Mac mini M1. With added Power over Ethernet feature and the ability to run from a standard power supply. Externally indistinguishable from the usual
Anyone who does not choose death over picking up the phone is a true psychopath.
I regularly get Uber/Lyfts from JFK and Newark without hassle. I don't know why I'd want to ride with a regular taxi.

Taxis still suffer from all the things that created the impetus for ride sharing platforms:

- Lack of price transparency. Will tourists landing in JFK know that $100 is an acceptable price for a trip into the city? Or that $150 is a scam?

- Lack of driver rating (or passenger rating)

- Maligned incentives. The taxi driver has incentives to extend the trip as long as possible via traffic or a long route. This is not the case in ride sharing apps.

- Accountability. Doesn't happen in NY, but seedier parts of the world taxis have abducted and robbed/raped their customers. Ride sharing provides centralised ride records and GPS data for passenger and driver.
Eh, I bet they are actually quite friendly. Supposedly they both are very nice and I would argue that nobody understands each other's life better than each other. Plus, much of all of this is to their own gain. If AMD killed their GPU division, then Nvidia would be a monopoly and might get broken up or stagnate so a different company could swoop in and kill them. AMD's bet on TSMC is NVIDIA's 4090 gains.
Ha! Perfect example!
This happens in European tech companies, there just aren't many (that aren't American anyways).
Make sure they're good at math, and have good grades in high-school so they can get selected to a good "prépa". Make sure they don't slack off in prépa.
Terrible idea if you are not white, do not have a French surname or are visibly muslim.
Perhaps a silly question: If there were previously no profits does that mean they had previously paid no taxes and now will?
And yet you'd think Elon Musk would've been quick the jump on this particular bandwagon – in past years I would've expected Musk to have setup competing teams at Tesla and SpaceX, first to replicate wins. Alas recently it seems that he does not have the singular focus he once had.
Yep, recovering is a losing proposition.

Database management systems don't bother with it anymore, your almost stateless deamon has no hope of gaining anything from it.

But wide logging and error identification are things too; and very useful ones. And those plug on the same spots that were created for error recovering. Because of this, those are also not very common on our current system software.
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Even if we accept the premise, the problem is that what's surprising varies per person.

Particularly if you are an expert on the topic you are presenting, chances are that stuff that seems obvious to you will be surprising to others.

If you give a talk focusing on the limits of your knowledge (as a proxy for "surprising stuff"), most likely you'll lose most of your audience.

As a corollary most good talks will have a big chunk of stuff that will seem obvious to you... because it won't be for a lot of people.

Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/1053/
> something that never/rarely happens here in Europe

It's a young country built on the premise of immigration and kicking out the natives, that might be part of it.
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I definitely see what you are saying, but I don't think its procrastination. Knowledge compounds, meaning the more you learn, the more you can learn. Beyond learning, reading is associated with many positive outcomes, such as increased empathy[0] which is probably a differentiator in technical fields.

As for technical skills, I think it was Bob C. Martin or Andy Hunt who said that if you read one technical book a year you will be ahead of most of your peers.

My personal opinion is if there is a project you want to work on, do that. But if you aren't excited by anything at the moment, keep reading! Following your passions gives you a deep well of energy and it seems you are passionate about reading, so I'd lean into that and not worry too much about it. Its not the worst thing to be well-read.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/novel-finding-rea...
Maclisp in ITS running on an emulated PDP-10
> A lot of exposés of LLM weaknesses involve abusing the ambiguities of English with questions that are impossible for humans to give a satisfactory answer to

There's a general unstated assumption that a truly intelligent entity wouldn't make mistakes, which is sort of contradicted by, you know, the existence of humanity. I think making (certain kinds of) mistakes is a _sign_ of intelligence, rather than a sign that it's not.
It is literally illegal to gather race or ethnicity based data in Europe.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/16/france-and-ger...
I believe the parent was insinuating that it's harder for immigrants TO poland or germany to rise to high positions in buisness because they start learning german/polish later. Of course they will be able to communicate in english, but it's not a substitute when it comes to leading people and culture/charisma (I have personal experience with this sort of thing, living in a country but not speaking the language well)
Way to spin it!

Completely ignore the family cartel thingy and focus on the American dream.
I don’t know what you would make as a captain three years from now. Note that it would very likely take longer for one to become a captain. Three years is the fastest theoretically, which would require continuous time at sea.

Right now, captains with Master of Towing endorsement are getting $800-$1,200 per day, depending on the region and type of work.

Deckhands on a track to become captains are getting $300-$500 per day. I would pay more for the right candidates.
If the material exhibits diamagnetism because electron movement is restricted to small regions of the crystal where relevant atoms were substituted, then does this suggest a room temperature superconductor might be possible if all the relevant atoms could be substituted during manufacturing? This sounds like a synthesis problem?
I think this is generally true, but also if this is verified it will suddenly have billions of dollars thrown into it overnight... possibly similar to the speed that covid vaccine research was done; there's a TON of money to be made for the first company that can put this discovery to use. This is a once in a lifetime sort of discovery.
It's mandatory in the EU, so also in Slovakia, to pick up a second language from relatively early in the scholarship, it can theoretically be French, German or English but in the vast majority of cases it's english.

https://www.eursc.eu/BasicTexts/2019-01-D-35-en-4.pdf
Light weight journal trawling: https://pypi.org/project/journal-brief/
If people were motivated to build compelling education content for free, congress would not need to incentivize it with a contest, no?

Incentives aren't there. As somebody who has judged indie games festival entries, I can tell you that even there it's rare to get a game that feels like it's complete, and even rarer to find one that feels like it's actually executing a gameplay idea. I don't know many folks who would bend over backwards to make a game for the government.
> Seriously asking, what do these USB/battery irons do that's desirable?

Not necessarily a feature of only battery powered ones, but the more “high tech” irons have an advanced thermal sensing and regulation feedback loop that is aware of how much heat is being sunk into whatever the tip contacts with. This allows for easier soldering of many different thermal masses to heat up, e.g. if your circuit board has beefy traces for high currents without thermal reliefs, you will see some plug-and-play irons struggle heat it up in a reasonable time. If you are working with consistent trace sizes and thermal masses per joint, then you may not see a benefit.

An advantage of battery powered ones specifically (especially for new learners) is that you can eliminate the need for an cord that could be damaged by the user of the device in which it’s powering.
The poster isn't talking about engineers but about C-level and board members. In Germany you don't even need to go to university to work in tech, you can enter through the apprenticeship career route.
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Basically, but it requires no extra syntax. `var some_seq = @[1, 2, 3, 4]` is a stack-managed sequence. That's all there is to it. There's no unwrapping any pointers or boxes or what-not, the type is just `seq[int]`. Put another way, things that have become best practice in C++ are default in Nim with no syntactic noise.
Is it a bomb?
Presumably during encounters the probe was in a different control scheme to keep its instruments pointed at the planet, as opposed to keeping its antenna pointed at Earth.
Nitter (Twitter frontend) is written in Nim: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/
Why does the stdlib implementation do so badly in the first place?
In the decade before crime rose, ‘broken windows’ policing stopped
It is actually the exact same level of effort as code as it is code.

If you mean stored procedures are harder to test than something like ORM in Django than that is just a huge misunderstanding of how you properly write stored procedures while also not understanding how hard it is to actually test a lot of ORM logic.
Why would it be near impossible to tap? Couldn't you just fly a drone around one of the ground stations and intercept all the communication?
Meta's name change was a success. It beat out the 'Facebook Papers' revelations
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Amazon and Google are still amazing. What better alternatives did they drive out?
Of course, society could stop giving tax breaks to huge corporations, and fund the IRS so that tax revenues are effectively generated. We know who has the political power in society, it has little to do with age demographics.
This author is the poster child of "confidently incorrect". Forest acres burned per year has been steadily increasing according to every reputable source I've seen (see the WRI link in another comment, I've also independently verified this in north America). Furthermore, that's the wrong metric. We need to consider things that are actually relevant to human beings - number of air quality emergency days, evacuations, financial damages, water quality issues - all increasing too.

It's one thing to be wrong or ignorant. It's another to cherrypick evidence and get the big picture so wrong yet still go out there and shout it from the rooftops anyways. The idiot has no shame.
And how do you know they are widespread? Is it because people just casually say I take drugs? If that's it, then it still falls short.

In those countries they actively hunt for drug users, they don't wait for you to get caught high at some kind of street checkpoint.

And the population having an active moral compass helps for sure.
I'm not sure about this. What are people's experience with CBT? Personally I've gained a lot of insight from psychoanalysis in a more traditional framework.

If anything CBT has some weird religious undercurrent, Protestant flavored, "don't sin! Think the right things"
It isn't really a language community so interested in web server efficiency, and until recent years threading efficiently was kind of tricky with the GC scheme they used. If someone wanted Nim to rank high you could do it, but I'm not sure it is worth the effort?
Yes, the effect _is_ the same. Regardless of the mechanism, you can only lift water from above with a sufficiently short hose.

It is incontrovertible that this system would have to push the water up from below.
A comment similar to this one made me try a taxi from the airport a few weeks ago, instead of my usual Uber.

They went miles out of their way, the taxi had no seat belts, and at my destination they told me their credit card machine was out of order and they could only take cash ("I can drive you to an ATM"). I said no, and suddenly the credit card machine worked again - but they insisted on a 30% "card fee".

I did a chargeback.

This sort of thing has always been my experience with taxis.
Possibly it wasn't compiled with `-d:release`. I only looked briefly — is there a way to see the source code and cli flags used for the various implementations?
Same as Rust. Vec and HashMap are stack pointers to the heap-allocated container storage space.
Consider for a moment that the language generation neural network in your brain may not have continuity, and that it may exist elsewhere in your brain.
First cousins once removed is the relationship between yourself and your cousin's children.

You and your children are first cousins. Your children and your cousin's children are 2nd cousins. Your children and your cousin's children's children and 2nd cousins once-removed.
I would ask what that means.
I assume these community shows will also be streamed in some manner, so will they be exempt from taxes to prevent double taxation? I don't think there is an inherent value to public radio/tv efforts--they're self-selecting for audience and so have limited reach. You cannot now recreate the atmosphere of the 50s/60s when everyone gathered around to watch the moon landing or listen to a public address. Seems like a waste of tax dollars, they're better off raising money for public transportation (the MBTA is ranked worse in the country) by taxing air travel. One benefit of streaming tax will likely be that some people might choose to watch less online programming (including me, I already think MA wastes taxes).
Merge Intel and Nvidia, put Huang in charge of both, to cause family drama and get us some good chips.
the joke is about the "end up" part of your original post.
as in, they were not racists until you talked to them.

it's just a joke...
Yeah. The high scores alone can get you into some top universities like Berkeley, but not Ivy League or certain others like Stanford.
Yes, the UK is the exception in Europe. The ethnic diversity of the European Parliament dropped significantly after Brexit.