skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100%. I'd like to hear your thoughts on this, but it's possible to argue that IDEs are purpose built and a lot more powerful for programming. This is exactly where we think building the right tooling would allow us to give an IDE-like experience for AI models to perform the same kind of tasks a developer is able to today with IDEs.
If you keep posting unsubstantive/flamebait/political/ideological battle comments, we're going to have to ban you. You've been doing a ton of this lately—not cool—and we've been asking you to stop for a long time—very not cool. No more of this, please.

Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35558080 (April 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29923717 (Jan 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29123203 (Nov 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27216698 (May 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26440096 (March 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24562304 (Sept 2020)
A simple, elegant solution to deepfakes
I'm aware of arithmetic encoding and it is definitely the most compelling example of encoding arbitrary data with a single number. On the other hand, there is a lot more to arithmetic coding than the ability to encode lists of numbers—all the considerations involving the context of each symbol, which are essential to the process of compression. I just felt that it might be helpful to give an example which didn't implicate all that complex compression apparatus.
You really don't want to learn what you have actually ingested over the years.
The link is still there but is black so you can’t see it. Do you have in mind changing this link color ? Then you may add a css stylesheet to HN, depending on your browser there’s extensions to do that for you.
The comment was poking fun at how the page literally does not render anything except a solid green color with js disabled
I still conflate them too tbh.
That's not what enshittifying means. I noticed that there are many assumptions in your post:

1. all leftists/progressives are obnoxious/preponent/deranged (I personally disagree)

2. only leftists/progressives are alienated by the recent changes (I disagree, and know many counterexamples)

3. leftists/progressives even exist as a well-defined group (I disagree, unless you're talking purely in context of American politics - in this case it's worth specifying, since Twitter is used worldwide)

But thanks for your perspective. I my social group nobody is happy with the way Twitter is going, so it's interesting to know that some people see it completely differently.
A physics undergraduate degree is different than a lot of degrees in that it's 100% incomplete for the purpose of training towards a real profession. Nobody hires physics bachelors. It's just the four year mark of your studies to be a 8+ year trained physicist.

And for that purpose of being an intermediate degree to becoming a physics PhD, Navier-Stokes isn't relevant. You don't use it in most fields that are generating physics PhDs in the 2000s and beyond.

There's only so much time to teach somebody in four years and there are significantly more important things that are also being left out (e.g. more thorough courses on group theory).
I would unironically like to see the future like that. Realistically, it won’t happen even in a thousand years.
Interesting observation. And I say so as a (Christian-raised) atheist, albeit of the moderate secular variety.

Religious observance in the UK has fallen through the floor since the early 20th century, and is more avidly practiced by our immigrant communities (Muslim, Catholic, Hindu, Sikh, Jewish, African Christians) than most "native" Brits.

And yet very few are motivated by Hitchens/Dawkins-style, burn-it-all-down atheism, more of a, "meh, haven't really bothered to think about it" thing. Brits have given up on their own culture out of some kind of depressive laziness, and yet it's often those very same Brits who get angry at immigrants for celebrating their own traditions.

"I hate Muslims because they shut the pub and turned it into a mosque", usually said by an overweight, balding man who stopped going to said pub five years ago because drinking supermarket beer at home was cheaper.

To come back to your original point. People had objectively far shittier lives a century ago, less SLS but perhaps they were just too busy dying of silicosis, industrial accidents or TB.
I have and I'm really glad I didn't have this thing on me so I didn't have to waste time looking for a flat-ish surface to awkwardly balance the screen kickstand on. I do wish my laptop had mounts for carrying straps tho...
this is true, but lambda calculus is somewhat usable by a human. how many people have written runnin code in combinators (I have, sadly)
I only ever directly interacted with Kris once, and that's all I needed. She was so kind to me when I reached out for advice and support during an extremely difficult time in my life.

She will be missed so much.
Yeah, but perhaps we're living in a multiverse and you'd have to encode which universe the movie was released in, which may require more bits than the entire movie :)

However, interestingly, by scanning other universes you may find similar movies with slightly different plot turns.
Its in the interest of the rich to exploit the poor; corner markets, destroy competition (I.e. welfare), price gouge. Hopefully a day will come that the future happens so fast that the rich cannot predict the market, and that the only way to secure their wealth is to invest in public services which will have some guarantee of being used.
lol thats true tho! we built it on a custom template :V
Probably a similar amount, actually. It's not like the Soviet lunar landers were manually landed; the 3-second speed-of-light delay to Earth meant that only the rovers were operated that way.
You have either never been part of a "proper cult" or are at the moment part of one.
Most public speaking relevant to technology is reading slides. Not exactly an awe-inspiring task.

And some other kinds of public speaking (e.g. Trump’s or Biden’s speeches) are so bad that I sincerely believe any moderately intelligent person should be able to do better.

Technical blogger videos are not public speaking - there is plenty of editing.
> What do you think will happen to your renewable energy after decades of similar disregard?

I hope it's not the governments' mistake to make next time, given how much easier it is to scale renewables anywhere from multi-gigawatt down to however many milliwatts solar powered pocket calculators were.
I don't fully understand the point you are trying to make, and how science plays a role in this discussion.

Apart from this diversion, I do think people heard about other gods alright, but communities used to be quite isolated. It has been possible to collectively ignore other religions for centuries. Technological developments in transport and information distribution, such as the printing press, may have made it increasingly harder to keep a lid on the group think. Seems like a reasonable argument, no?
It works if you use -E both when leaving the user environment and when reentering it. There's something in the environment variables that needs to be set for the new firefox instance to communicate with the old one to pass along the new window command, and using -E both times carries it along.

Also ssh is somehow able to load this from somewhere without carrying it along. You can "ssh desktopuser@localhost" to restore it, though this does mean you need to set "DISPLAY=:0" manually.
Note that the listed probabilities of surviving N-disk failures are not correct, though after calculation, though the differences may not be that important.

Listed survival probability of N-disk failure in 8-drive/4-vdev mirror.

1: 1; 2: 0.857; 3: 0.667; 4: 0.400; 5: 0; 6: N/A; 7: N/A; 8: N/A

Proper survival probability:

1: 1; 2: 0.857; 3: 0.571; 4: 0.229; 5: 0; 6: 0; 7: 0; 8: 0

Comparatively, survival probability for 8-drive RAIDz4 with equal amount of usable space:

1: 1; 2: 1; 3: 1; 4: 1; 5: 0; 6: 0; 7: 0; 8: 0

Personally, I'd use multi-vdev mirror pools only for data that is either backed-up or data I can afford to lose completely.
No idea what's happening, but is it possible that they're importing electricity from dirty sources? That would change the colour from green to brown.
I recommend reading the book review each day on https://aldaily.com
Would love to hear your thoughts on why its DOA? We are still discovering the right UX, interaction points
Me: at least 306,887 civilians killed (per United Nations) in the Syrian civil war with 6.7 million internally displaced & 6.6 million refugees.

You: why not champion the potential for tools like twitter to act to release all of that energy?
I don't think most data centers are water cooled.
It works. You just need a legit serial number from a device. I have used one from my mac and it worked.
I get those when I use it from home. I think it is because I use it a lot from home because my RSS reader YOShInOn automatically rewrites links to paywalled sites to that site. At work I have no problem, even using the same devices.

I get around it by using Tor, where I occasionally have to fill out a CAPTCHA or occasionally get told I'm not allowed to use the site because of automated activity but I don't get stuck in that loop which I can't get out of.
> and on a mobile, it sucks times ten

People often like to design for mobile devices but not for mobile connections.
Discussed at the time:

GCC always assumes aligned pointer accesses - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22887685 - April 2020 (91 comments)
Are you sure you're not confusing John Warnock with John Walker, author of the Hacker's Diet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_(programmer)
Thanks for this! I've personally never used Emacs but I'm definitely taking a look now. A wild idea we have is to make the interface between AI and dev tools extensible, because we can't potentially build a fine-tuned integration for the full world of developer tools. But if developers are interested and they see the benefit of getting AI to handle these tools for them, they can probably work on implementing the interface and let AI take over.

(I'm sorry about the usage of AI so many times haha. I've been staying away from saying LLMs because they're the state-of-the-art today, but that potentially changes as soon as next year)
Foolish dreamers anyone that thinks Chrome being open source makes a difference in Google's Web domination masterplan.

US is one country among 195, and the other 50%, which are mostly from Safari, are one of the reasons why the Web isn't yet fully assimilated as ChromeOS.
Stable 20 year career paths are only possible with stable and large rent seeking companies under some form of govt. protection or crony capitalism.

> How much of this innovation is baed on tech that was created and funded with public money and gov grants and then privatized when it became commercial and profitable

Very little compared to the amount that goes in after privatization. Also look at the alternative, if the govt prevents commercialization even if a single cent of public money is invested, there will be lesser businesses, lesser jobs, etc.

> > How much of this innovation is baed on tech that was created and funded with public money and gov grants and then privatized when it became commercial and profitable

It is strange to take this stance. Because it can be asked the other way too.

How much of that govt money initially came from taxes from those that businesses paid?

https://www.businessroundtable.org/archive/media/news-releas...

Always think of second-order effects (e.g. Canada now asking Meta to allow news back on its site).
Got to pump CV with frameworks you know? Promotions don’t write themselves. Bonus point: job security. And when you leave who cares what poor shmuck will have to support it?
Wow, what's wrong with your computer?
Feynman is not sufficient as a physics textbook.

Afaik the main games in town are Griffiths, Townsend, and Sakurai if you are a tryhard

iirc I prefer Sakurai & Townsends treatment over Griffiths but I might be misremembering

e: oh yes, i think griffiths intentionally avoids dirac notation which imo screws you later on down the line
Wouldn't 50% be outlandishly good for solar? I think even 25% would be exceptional.
Just because another system would fail these people too doesn't mean that our current system in how it works isn't failing these people. And just because big bad communism is another shit extreme, that doesn't mean that there are no other economic systems, or if you prefer, potentially variants of our current economic system, that would be better.

I won't pretend to know the solution, but either capitalism in general or the capitalism we currently have, with for example its misaligned incentives, exploitation and death traps people live in, sure seems to be a huge part of the problem.
Related. Others?

Was This Lost Computer Code Worth Billions? (Jan Sloot Digital Coding) (2020) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36499676 - June 2023 (2 comments)

The Stick of Jan Sloot (2004) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29623524 - Dec 2021 (22 comments)

Ask HN: What was the secret that Jan Sloot took with him to the grave? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13443135 - Jan 2017 (4 comments)

The Stick of Jan Sloot (2004) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8699058 - Dec 2014 (18 comments)
And most of the bias probably isn't due to the training data anyway. A good amount of work has gone into censoring the model.
I can see how the first two do, but I'm not so sure about the third...
isn't this the semantics of any old c++ object with a copy constructor (and all the other stuff, of course)
For wind sure, but is that true for solar? Solar panels are max 20% efficient and head pumps typically have a COP of 2-3, so solar thermal only has to have an efficiency of around 50%. 1 second googling tells me it is 70%.

I think the real reason nobody does solar thermal is because it's just so much less practical to deal with pipes and pumps and heat reservoirs than wires and batteries. Also it is useless in the summer when you don't need heating.

Wind is always going to be niche for most people for obvious reasons.
The immutable data-structures library Immer provides such type:

https://sinusoid.es/immer/containers.html#box
Yes, and Brian Reid and Glenn Reid, who wrote the Adobe PostScript "Green Book" aka "PostScript Language Program Design", and "Thinking in PostScript", the PostScript "The Distillery", and "TouchType" for the NeXT, are brothers!

https://freecomputerbooks.com/PostScript-Language-Program-De...

https://freecomputerbooks.com/Thinking-in-Postscript.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28115946

>Glenn Reid wrote a PostScript partial evaluator in PostScript that optimized other PostScript drawning programs, called "The Distillery". You would send still.ps to your PostScript printer, and then send another PostScript file that drew something to the printer. The first PostScript Distillery program would then partially evaluate the second PostScript drawing program, and send back a third PostScript program, an optimized drawing program, with all the loops and conditionals unrolled, calculations and transformations pre-computed, all in the same coordinate system.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19751161

>Around 1990, Glenn Reid wrote a delightful original "Font Appreciation" app for NeXT called TouchType, which decades later only recently somehow found its way into Illustrator. Adobe even CALLED it the "Touch Type Tool", but didn't give him any credit or royalty. The only difference in Adobe's version of TouchType is that there's a space between "Touch" and "Type" (which TouchType made really easy to do), and that it came decades later!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19882301

>Brian's brother Glenn Reid was also very active in the PostScript world, he worked for Adobe (Illustrator), Apple (iMovie) and Fractal Design (Painter, Dabbler, Poser), and NeXT (Interpersonal Computing).

Brian Reid also published the Usenet Cookbook, maps of Usenet in PostScript, and wrote the story about "The Mother of All Grease Fires" that almost happened outside of where he worked at DECWRL (DEC Western Research Laboratories in Palo Alto).

https://milk.com/wall-o-shame/bucket.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reid_(computer_scientist...
> If someone doesn't know awk, then of course it'll be complicated and opaque - the same is true of practically any language

I don't think this is true. Before I learned Go, I could follow along most Go programs pretty well, and learning Go well enough to get started took less than an hour. Every attempt I've made to learn more Awk, I've bounced off.
I understand that fine. My problem is the author calls out the “raw value” as distinct from “raw pointer”, implying a non pointer value which would be the content of a tree node. This makes the entire paragraph hard to make sense of.
> Extreme outliers arent useful to the discussion.

Your opinion.

Gibson was an outlier, but not an "extreme" outlier. Isaac Asimov wrote over 500 books in his lifetime, all of which were of reasonable quality. Enid Blyton wrote over 800 books. Barbara Cartland wrote 700. R.L. Stine is well over 400 and still writing. There are many others.
I think if the back end provides generic fields and the front end acts as an independent consumer of the API, then you essentially have two apps each with their own entire MVC (or whatever paradigm you are using), one on the front end and one on the back end. So I wouldn't quite say that "the view is more washed out across the stack" but that you have two views (and two models).
A longer video by Stonebreaker (PostgreSQL) about DBOS (DataBase Operative System) on 2023-04-26:

“Michael Stonebraker - DBOS: A Database-oriented Operating System”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB4bJqDzsU8

I’ve been thinking of building something like this for some years, and I read that IBM’s AS400 (now iSystems I think) worked essentially in this way.

As noted at the end of the video, their (DBOS) website is here, ane they are open sourcing some of the code:
https://dbos-project.github.io/
The main advantage of nano is the tui user interface where commands and menus are displayed graphically. Second advantage it's pre installed on most systems. I would use vi if I knew how to quit , copy and paste, and navigate around the screen.
I'm trying to remain impressed and open-minded, and there's no question these things are super cool, and something genuinely exciting. And who knows how much they'll improve over the next few years? But so far, if I'm brutally honest, they have largely been frustrating to work with. I am a teacher, and I use them (mainly via APIs) to generate questions for worksheets and study guides for my students. The idea of letting the computer help me save time on creating those kinds of exercises so that I can then focus on the more interesting/challenging activities initially sounded so good, but I've found I'm completely unable to trust these systems to generate correct information. Almost every question set or study guide I've generated had at least one, sometimes several, serious errors that would have led my students astray.
It does still save time, and I'm sure it will get better. But like you said, the fact that I have to constantly correct its output basically eliminates the possibility, at least for now, of using it as a tutor to teach me material that is genuinely new to me (something I was looking forward to doing). I simply can't trust it for that at this point. We'll see how things evolve.
Utm is just qemu, and qemu is actually open source. Utm hides an enormous amount of what they do (just saying not open source again in a different way), and that's definitely not what you want in a base system.

So it would likely be much better to simply install qemu instead.
Strong rec to avoid use of sudo for brew or (p)npm, not sure why you'd want to do that.
I also only spoke with Nova once. She was kind and helpful beyond what I could have hoped for.

Her energy and enthusiasm for life shone like a bright star.

She will be missed.
That's a lot of words to say that the lab leak hypothesis remains unsupported by evidence.

Because it was on Quillette I thought it was building up to supporting the lab leak hypothesis by throwing around a load of gish galllop.
It's true, these are all generalizations but regarding 2) I do find a weird overlap between that group and people complaining about Twitter/Elon.

And yes this is very American-centric. If its worth anything, I'm south american and I live in south america, and this hasn't become an issue here.
I'd say that if a capable scientist like Einstein was given them (assuming they didn't know the rest of the theories), they could build upon them to derive or get to close guesses of large parts of physics. The lines are quite loaded with broad equations that covers very fundamental stuff - including constants and elementary particles.

A few equations being fundamental for big theories built upon them wouldn't be unheard of. Maxwell's equations for example cover several important fields of Physics. Newton's 3 laws cover classical mechanics.
I wonder if there is a similar factoring that would factor out mutability. a log I guess.
Discussed at the time:

Scripting with Go - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30641883 - March 2022 (66 comments)
Saddened to hear of John Warnock's passing. His co-founding of Adobe and co-designing PostScript had an impact on solutions I designed and implemented in the beginning of my professional programming career. In the early 90s, I extensively used PostScript for reporting solutions on a bespoke Construction Support System which were used for designing and assembling trains and trams.

Those days, working with FORTRAN and PostScript, were foundational for me. To this day, the reference books from that era hold a place on my bookshelf:

https://coding-and-computers.blogspot.com/2022/12/postscript...

Warnock's innovations have been instrumental in shaping digital publishing and design.
You mean qemu.

Utm is qemu, but they just removed the open source part. So it's just definitely worse.
>Driverless Cruise car collides with SF fire truck, injuring passenger

Come on man, it's the title of that article ...
Well, consider the art installation called Descension by Anish Kapoor[1]. The vortex which makes up the piece emerges from the constraints imposed upon the fluid by the artist. If we replaced the water in the installation with any fluid with similar viscosity, the vortex would remain. Thus it appears to be the case that the vortex does _not_ supervene upon the actual substances which makes it up per se.

In the case of Descension the constraints are somewhat artificial and imposed by the artist. Arguably, the phenomena supervenes upon the physical structure of those constraints. But consider some living organism. It's various physical parts might be replaced by other parts with similar properties (with respect to their function) and the organism would keep existing as itself. But there isn't any particular substance which maintains the constraints which define the organism. Some philosophers of science (eg Terrance Deacon) uphold that this means emergent phenomenon do not supervene upon their material constituents per se, and are thus not determined by the laws of physics which dictate their properties. I don't buy it, but it is a position.

[1] https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/02/anish-kapoor-decensio...
The submitted title was "Scripting with Go: A Modest Proposal" but the phrase "modest proposal" doesn't appear in the article, so I've taken it out.

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There's another great maze in London called "Zone 1", many tourists and locals get completely lost in there every day