skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true, but most people aren't aware of the nuance. I tried to emphasize native plants in my post - the vast majority are pioneer plants (that natively grow in that particular ecosystem). There are certainly "weeds" for a particular ecosystem that are harmful. I refer to them as invasive species (and yet, aren't all native plants 'invasive' at one point in their evolution?). "Weeds" is a particularly loaded and poor term for describing most of these types of plants.
Thank you all so much for the overwhelming support. The repo has gained almost 100 stars today, and that brings a lot of visibility to the fantastic works in the OOD community. I hope this sparks even more interest in the area, so eventually neural nets can be more widely deployed and truly live up to their potential, beyond all the hype.
It is missing also "for christ sake show me something new" thing. Instead, it is attempting to out me in a box and never venture outside of it.
Not buying that. America is not a nation of poor people.
> How do you use Nix on a project, any tips?

Combining nix with direnv is a popular combo for dev environments. Example: https://determinate.systems/posts/nix-direnv

If you haven't worked with nix before, the quick start here is a good place to start https://zero-to-nix.com/
But how many apps need that? Can you give examples?
Cool I will check the repo - it's that part I am definitely interested in the most and where the options are changing just about every day now. Good luck and see where it goes !
So <i> will give my screen reader an Italian accent?
I had the same thought, but overall, there is probably an order of magnitude more people using LLMs in applications or fine-tuning them compared to those trying to pretrain LLMs from scratch.
The title is correct, but that is just because of the ubiquitous presence AI will have.

But as for their "The bottom line: AIs don't know what they don't know. And that can be very dangerous" ...

Do they mean exactly like the non-ai trading algo's, or the TA-bro's, or every day-trader on the planet?

I'd personally worry more about some corp truly figuring out next level AI trading and just amassing trillions in a very short timeframe.
We have mass-energy equivalence.

Do we also have information-energy equivalence? Can we use the Landauer bounds to prove by transitivity that information and energy are equivalent?
An opinion piece with some flawed reasoning. It ignores the effect of the US containment policies which probably are the cause of a fair portion of the Chinese economic underperformance. And it also formulates autocracy equals lack of economic growth as some kind of economic law which is just not true: The Chinese economy grew plenty (and received plenty of US investment) after the Tiananmen Square massacre.
No it does not. Science is full of contradictory results, that is why it is super easy to cherry pick studies.

You can't tell anything until it is in scientific consensus stage, precisely because a single study rarely means that much.
I stick with Vim, as it tends to be pre-installed on many Linux systems in the cloud (e.g. Digital Ocean droplets). I get the same on the server as I use on my MBP locally.
You can play with it here too! https://app.normalcomputing.ai/composer

cc https://twitter.com/NormalComputing
Still running a M1 Air 13“, now into my third job since, and refusing to bother with company provided computers. Still feeling as great as 3 years ago… will only upgrade if the next gen is substantially better (read: not just %faster somewhere).

Can comfortably develop on my lap for a full day if needed, only MS Teams draws power like crazy, but apart from that 8 hours+.

Best computer I ever had I think.
Yep.

And when they're 4 - 8, they can entertain themselves and just need a little bit of occasional help. So you can have kids that age at home and still get some work done with reduced, but not zero, productivity.
Can you give an example of a noxious weed that isn't a super useful pioneer?

Where I live, some of the top 5 weeds that feed the most insects (notably dandelion and a thistle), are also among the top annoying weeds in agriculture and vegetable gardening.
I do think it's sad that Podman doesn't offer official Ubuntu packages.
I'm stuck at v3 from Ubuntu itself.

It feels hacky:
> CAUTION: The Kubic repo is NOT recommended for production use.
Britain, for example. For others, there are the former Soviet bloc countries. The ones that voted for more free markets have done significantly better than the ones that clung to socialism. Chile is another one that prospers and declines based on them vacillating between socialism and free markets.
Same for me as well. I either listen to rain sound videos on Youtube or use my own sound generator.
I wonder if there is a name for the idea that the more you earn the lazier you get.

Sysadmins used to know a lot but earn pittance compared to “devops” or “SRE”; then those more expensive folks outsourced the majority of their hard work to cloud vendors who charge 5-11x the cost for compute.

Developers earn 5-10x more than 15 years ago, yet continue to choose solutions for their own convenience and time saving. Stating that its better for the company if they have to work less.

Surely at some point its just your job to consider the entire ecosystem and your contribution to it.

Otherwise why are you worth all that money?
There is no quality on youtube.
Edit: The project does not run on "docker machine" as per the graceful correction by OrbStack's developer below[2].

It's a proprietary container interface that - as far as I could tell - runs on the outdated and unsupported "docker machine"[1]. An alternative would be to run a more recent container runtime of your choosing in a VM through UTM which works beautifully.

[1]: https://github.com/docker/machine

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37107233
I don't think the guy is suggesting phones are great general purpose servers people should host online services on.

On their own, they are small and efficient. Proper servers need 10x, 100x, or more power just to boot. Sure, AMD has some amazingly efficient Zen 4 cores now. But cores don't exist in a vacuum. Just spinning the fans on such a machine consumes more power than a phone could even dissipate.
Björk - Dancer in the Dark
C++ Primer is a great book. Thanks Stan!
> I look forward to a day where driverless taxis become cheap enough (due to lack of having to pay someone, and supply and demand)

Going by previous history, this is unlikely to happen. The companies seek profit and will simply pocket the margins instead of passing them on.
As wacky as this all sounds it's definitely not the worst possible outcome. Megalomaniacs ruling over tribes, kingdoms and nation states have been throwing their people into bloody wars since the dawn of time.

If America and China are dead set on having another dick measuring contest, we're all much better off if they do it with drones halfway between here and the moon, instead of near earthbound population centers. By all means let's make outer space the future of war, as far away from humans as possible.
Still a bit newer, but thanks for mentioning OrbStack! Happy to answer questions as the dev.
Straying a bit off topic, but I think one of the more sensible approaches to information-energy equivalence is a thermodynamic engine with an information reservoir (in addition to the heat and work reservoirs normally considered). https://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.1224.pdf https://journals.aps.org/prx/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevX.3.041003
Think about it this way — the sun is the prime energy input to a biome.

- In a temperate forest, basically nothing eats canopy foliage. Maybe they did when we had mastodons and forest elephants, but we don't now. Trees grow, die, and get eaten by fungus.

- In grasslands, nearly 100% of the photosynthesized energy is available to megafauna.

Deer simply can't eat the bark of adult trees, or get to the leaves. Yes, some trees drop a lot of nuts, but it's nothing compared to what a prarie can support (aka, millions of bison).
Out of curiosity, is the poor posture which comes with using a laptop (mainly over extended periods of time) something you actively think about?

This is the main reason why although I love my MacBook M1 Air keyboard and screen, I still use an external monitor and keyboard for the majority of my work.
Ah the good old breaking your legs in economy to make you appreciate the ‘value’ of business. Works every time.
In my layman’s naive view the promise of generative AI is the ability to estimate highly dimensional non linear systems effectively and efficiently. At some level these can be viewed as solving non linear systems. In my career a specific class of important problems has been estimating systems of partial different equations, and specially stochastic partial differential equations. Monte Carlo methods are often the most computable estimations. I’ve often found we approach these things by either actually linearizing or estimating a linearization of the system and using linear algebra to solve, then transforming back. All these techniques requires enormous amount of computation and extremely complex math and numerical methods. To my naive understanding (I’m more of a core systems person that’s been adjacent to the work) quantum promises to help here by directly simulating the system.

Would this thermodynamic technique provide solutions to these sorts of non linear optimization and system solving problems? It feels from my reading it might, and in a simpler way to express.

Forgive my likely display of extraordinary ignorance.
Keep hoping, because it won’t happen. Practically no consumers care except for other software engineers complaining loudly on HN, and meanwhile companies save millions by not handcrafting their CRUD apps in assembly.
my problems are 1. it's insanely expensive for what you get, and 2. background play was a feature everyone had until google put it behind a paywall.

finally, without something like sponsorblock you still end up with ads uploaded as part of the video.

I can't overstate how much I despise advertising.
Youtube also lies regularly about the current quality. I often see 1080p (Auto) or 720p (Auto) which it selects by default. But when I reselect it manually, because it’s clear that it’s not, it suddenly starts rebuffering. Happens all the time.
Uhm is there a community of "us that we hear about"

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EDIT HOLY FN SHIT:

>* A similar occurrence is seen with strokes of the visual cortex where a visual field defect occurs and the brain conjures a piece of visual data to fill the spot. *

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When I turned 45 (I am 48) - I began seeing "floaters"

Could micro-floaters in vison (in my right eye) perhaps indicate micro-strokes? or future-strokes...

I am serious - need to look into this.
Hey, dev here — not sure what you mean. OrbStack currently ships an official build of Docker Engine 24.0.5, which is the latest version as of writing. Previous versions used Alpine Linux's build.

I did intentionally delay the update from 23.x to 24.x by a few weeks while I waited for things to settle, because last time I updated from 22.x to 23.x shortly after release and some users were hit by bugs that hadn't been ironed out yet.

Edit: Noticed that you edited your comment to say that it uses "Docker Machine" instead. That's not the case. OrbStack uses a nested architecture where it runs Linux machines [1]. There's a special machine called "docker" that runs a copy of the Docker Engine, but that's not related to the old Docker Machine project.

[1] https://docs.orbstack.dev/architecture
I'm a bit confused by the "still". How often would you expect to upgrade hardware? Keeping a computer for three years is completely normal for most people.
Yup, given how "well" Mojang handled their acquisition of bukkit (the modded server that gave players a wide choice of plugins and was the cornerstone of multiplayer), with it collapsing near immediately and really only living on as the legacy API other alternative server options use... And they were at the time one of the darlings off the games industry...

I've zero belief in anything about this being good long term given what R* and take two have done the last few years..
> I need a source on Trump getting $700m

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/d...
Several times I tried to use podman on mac to replace docker tooling, the idea of daemonless-rootless is enticing. However, there's always things that doesn't work or work differently on podman that make it not easy to work in team that predominantly using docker.
Usually it's about networking setup or compose compatibility.

Maybe someone encountered similar situation can share your experience.
I was about to make a joke about how many lines are required for an electron hello world but it was even more than I expected.

11 for the HTML document template

7 for the boilerplate package.json

3 more for the scripts addition to package.json

3 more for the “devdependencies”

20 for main.js

from: https://electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/quick-start

A fairer assessment would be C++ with Qt to be honest though.
I'd pay maybe $5/month max, which is infinitely more than they make from me now given I block everything and have as far as I recall never willingly clicked on an internet ad in my life.
The auto update apparently only applies if you purchase from the app store.
Got to love that casual nepotism xD
Also, but it's easier in C++ and it consumes 99% less resources.
What do you mean still? They’re only a few years old at this point.

It shouldn’t be impressive that a basically new computer still does everything that one would want to do.
Then came the adtech boom. <img> got things started but a hidden iframe running ads in rotation? That minted fortunes.
Agreed, it makes a difference how a service came to be in its current state. The present offerings are the product of a long decline after years of deliberate enshitification. Don't support the rent seekers at google.
> people writing code that don't care one wit about "elegance" or "power" or "beauty" or whatever

Lisp can’t force you to take full advantage of what it’s good at, and if you prefer not to, it’s probably a waste of time. As the saying goes, you can write Fortran in any language.
What was the reason for using a density scanner then throwing GPUs at it, rather than just using a scanner that worked, such as 13C MRI ?
Gfxstream, used by the android emulator and others.
The Brace Little Toaster is a great film, but you might want to preview it yourself before watching it with your kid. There are some scenes of peril and (machine) death that are surprisingly intense for a kids' film and your kid might not handle them well.
True… here I’m going wondering if it’s time to upgrade my 2017 MacBook Pro because a couple of keys started to fail and I’m having a hard time…
iwantmyname.com, because I couldn’t find anywhere else that would sell .ms domains for cheap. Never had a problem with them
Show HN: I made customizable language workbooks with GPT-4
The San Francisco Bay Area had few ferry services in 1989 as well.

Which is why word "rediscovered" was working hard in my earlier comment, rather than merely loitering as some may have suspected. Whilst there was some ferry service prior to the quake, existing route service was expanded greatly, and new routes added:

"Water Emergency Transportation Authority | Draft Final Transition Plan"

The Alameda/Oakland Ferry Service (AOFS) was started after the Loma Prieta earthquake on October 17, 1989, in direct response to the collapse of a section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and the nearly month-long closure that followed. the evening of the earthquake, private excursion vessel operators moved people across the Bay. By the following Monday, emergency funding had been secured and ferries were being operated between the San Francisco ferry Building, Oakland’s Jack London Square, and a temporary terminal at the foot of Main Street in Alameda. After the Bay Bridge was reopened, ferry service operated by Red and White Fleet and sponsored and funded by the city of Alameda, Port of Oakland, MTC and CalTrans was continued....

Vallejo’s current-day ferry service started in 1986 when Red & White fleet started limited commuter ferry service to and from San Francisco and midday service to marine world, which had just opened.... After the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, ferry ridership increased
dramatically and remained high for several years. In 1994, the city
of vallejo purchased their first high-speed ferry boat...

<https://weta.sanfranciscobayferry.com/sites/weta/files/weta-...>

A more general history at Wikipedia notes that Oakland, Alemeda, Berkeley, Richmond, and Treasure Island service all post-date the Loma Prieta quake: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferries_of_San_Francisco_Bay>
Not sure about Netflix, as I do not have a sub, but the US entertainment industry through all the online sites is suggesting gay content in abundance to everyone, also the straight people, so the writer seems assuming too much divination on the part of the Netflix algo here.
Well, I can't stop you from using a nonstandard definition :-) The original definition of superscalar from Agerwala and Cocke of IBM was dispatching multiple instructions to the execution units every cycle. This is the same definition used by the other sources I've checked.

There are processors such as the Motorola 88100 and the Intel 80960KA that had multiple functional units and scoreboards, but were not considered superscalar. The follow-on 88110 and 80960CA processors could issue multiple instructions per clock, and were called superscalar by their creators. https://techmonitor.ai/technology/motorola_lifts_the_veil_on... https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/63681
I don’t want to give Google my credit card, because in case of any problem/litigation, they can take away my Gmail. They’ve painted themselves in a corner with routinely deleting accounts for political reasons.
One smaller UI improvement I would like to see is being able to retrieve the exact git commit of an installed flake. This seems not to be possible atm. Main argument for not having this is putting a reference to the git commit into the nix store folder would break hermetic evaluation. (You can habe multiple commits resulting in the same code.) It should however not be too hard to log that information separately somewhere else. It is somewhat disapointing for this link to be missing when flakes are already tied to git as they are.

The log entries could also include a flag if the flake was installed "dirty" (having uncomitted changes at the time).
A thinkpad keyboard replacement cost ~50$ last time I needed it (and I thought it was unreasonably expensive).
> Wasn't the whole OSX's new paradigm a switch to high level language and frameworks , with compositing window management to display super fancily rendered hello worlds ?

No, not really. You're making it sound like Classic MacOS applications were written in assembly, when it was mostly C++. Switching to Objective-C was more of a lateral move, not a clear step forward in time or level of abstraction.

The Mac OS X graphics stack was a pretty big change from Classic MacOS, but it wasn't that much of a change from NeXTSTEP, which worked with 12MB of RAM + 1.5MB VRAM. NeXTSTEP just wasn't as eye-catchingly colorful. Early OS X did poineer gratuitous use of some effects like translucency with blurs in desktop GUIs, but since this was the time period where GPUs were becoming mainstream, these effects weren't egregiously resource-intensive.

And considering that OS X was adapted with relative ease to power a smartphone with 128MB of RAM (with the graphical effects turned up to 11), it definitely wasn't fundamentally bloated in the way that today's Electron apps are.
> Building third party flakes takes forever since every flake uses its own version of nixpkgs.

That's not quite right. It may use a predefined version of nixpkgs and there may be a reason the version is hardcoded to something. But if that's not what you want, you can use something like `nix run ... --override-input nixpkgs nixpkgs` and it will run with your current system nixpkgs version instead.
Does this hold up when taking quantum mechanics into account?

Let's assume you need at least m = n^2 particles for a physical system modelling a n by n matrix and model the change of the system from setting the state of the particles (to the matrix elements) to measurement by a finite number of interactions between particles (by exchanging a photon):

- a particle can interact with a particle of the heat bath

- a particle can interact with another particle of the m particles of the system

I guess this result holds up if the second interaction kind does not matter because the first interaction alone then takes a constant time for each particle. The whole thing becomes a massively parallel computation (with m threads).

But the second interaction should matter, otherwise how can the system capture/model dependencies between variables (I guess)?

My intuition would be that subsystems of particles get closer to the equilibrium by interaction with the heat bath and then two subsystems combine their wave functions to one by the second kind of interaction. You got subsystems that are in local thermal equilibrium that combine and split their wave functions and as time goes to t_0 the subsystems sizes that are in local equilibrium get larger and larger until they reach size m at time t_0. This does seem to take longer for more particles (not that massively parallel anymore). Anyone got any insight into how this scales?

(This only matters under the assumption that the number of photon exchanges (that each particle experiences) for each of the m particles is finite and constant (or gets larger with larger m) for a fixed temperature. I could easily have missed some things that could make these thoughts irrelevant.)
$30 a month?? No way I'd consider YT worth as much as all other streaming services combined..

Maybe I'd consider $3. Especially since even "ad free" videoes themselves now have lots of ads baked into them by the creators. Not a fan of the double dipping.
Translation: "This post on a Venture Capital website implies that the legacy of Jay Miner's greatest engineering accomplishment is running a Michigan school's heating and air conditioning system, making Jay spin(); in his grave."

Moreover, this story is very old, is probably no longer true, but continues to resurface from time to time.

I think a novel benefit of open source is that it shields engineers from the often fatal consequences of being on the wrong side of a billionaire. As a consequence, there are now a couple of generations of engineers who can't relate to what life in their occupation was like before the open source movement went mainstream.
https://youtu.be/9XTJNy_OrjE

Why does the definition need expanded?
Real hackers use C-x M-c M-butterfly

https://xkcd.com/378/
Hey I'm Marc

I was kicked out of the Spanish class in junior because I was building paper planes (topics were so boring)

I'm now learning Korean and discovered GPT-4 is really good at creating grammar exercises about any tpoic

So I built WorkbookPDF to learn any language with your favorite topics

For instance, you can learn French with Cheese & Wine related exercises

Would love to hear your feedback
write a hello world application in gtk or qt and see how much assembly you get.
Send the video to yourself via Whatsapp. It plays in the background.