skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what this actually means. Should Hashicorp's employees work for no money, because ideals are more important than money?

Money is just necessary. It doesn't matter if other things are more important on some theoretical hierarchy. If you need a necessary thing then that's all that matters.
I feel similar.

Just a feel.

Perhaps based on different priors, certainly different 'lived' experiences. Or prions. Why do yours fire that way? Can you explain it, meatpuppet? You only exist in my head, after all, as does everything. Unless there are absolutes, but they after all are givens, and if indeed you are real and so am I, then in what scope is our realness and how do we communicate that knowing, or feeling depending on truths, if not with a string of mutually understandable covenance, in this case language.
And the use of "primarily", when there is a much more common use case, so common that it's baked right into the standard libraries.
But for ransomware there needs to be a hope of restoring the data. In this case the value would need to be more oblique.
That's some extremely vigorous hand-waving in TFA!

Some automaticity theories were oversold, yes, but TFA, in typical SV-style "rationality" manner, manages to hand wave away large parts of reality.
Actually OS/2 1.3 Presentation Manager in 1989 (also developed at Microsoft).
The most depressing thing is talking to children about potential careers at the moment... My girlfriend have a couple of younger siblings, one of them loves art and draws endless – he really wants to design characters for cartoons and video games. The other loves programming and wants be a developer. I've always encouraged these passions of theirs, telling them if they work hard they can do the things they love as a job and get paid well for it. I don't know what to tell them anymore...

I worry that over the last few decades we've been going through a golden age of career opportunities without really appreciating it. With a few exceptions no career considered desirable has been fully automated, and at the same time the variety of jobs that we can do has grown almost exponentially. I mean even something like farming where there's been a lot of technological innovation we still absolutely need farmers – will the same be said about graphic designers in say 5-10 years? Perhaps we'll need a few people prompting the tools, but will it actually make sense for anyone to physically draw anything?

For the most part in the past people had to do whatever job they could. I worry we may be returning to that world. It seems likely there will still be service jobs where human interaction is valued, but eventually it seems all jobs that don't require that human presence will eventually be automated. Although, we're probably still quite a long way off all manual labour jobs being automated fully.
Yes, but choosing people makes your feed more cluttered than choosing topics.
If you think Nvidia isn’t a volatile stock then you have no business discussing stocks at all. By any standard industry measure, Nvidia stock is highly volatile and it can be seen mathematically by just looking at the IV over time.
It has never been easier to create workflows to automate contract management procedures than it is with Dock 365. With a variety of workflow choices, you can enable adaptable workflows to manage and arrange diverse sequences inside your contract management system.
How can you tell the difference between spin and time dilation?
The real economy certainly makes things, but it does also evolve frauds; the difference is that they get banned and you have to think up a new type of fraud.

There's also the issue of the "business cycle". Why do we have recessions? What can be done about them? Can we mitigate the damage of crashes? Not a solved problem.
He's asking to be hired by the company behind Bun?

How <<isn't>> the previous comment relevant?!?
Agreed on all fronts, and I ride similar to you I think (I used to love outracing the spandex-cladders on the steep hills on my shitty racer). I used to spend £350 on old french bikes (I don't remember the brand), just due to the sheer elastic thrill of the cornering, but parts were far and few between and I usually had to ad-hoc some horrible solution to keep them going.

This was in central London half a decade ago, and one piece of mind that I had when going for these types of bikes: no one wanted to steal them. I had yuppie friends who would fork out 1-2k on a new bike that they were too afraid to scratch to actually ride, and it would be stolen within a few months of its purchase. My bikes? I would leave them carelessly chained to some weak fence confident in the knowledge it would still be there when I came back to it.

There is freedom in cheapness.
> today’s observable universe is roughly 13.8B years. By the time you travel to the edge of that universe

Careful. That's the age of the observable universe, not the size. The radius of the observable universe is 47B light years, which is larger because of inflation.

> Therefore you never get to that edge, making it infinite.

FWIW, I disagree with the conclusion. Finite but expanding fast is not infinite (disclaimer: mathematician not a physicist).
> We're forgetting how to look under the hood and understand "why something works".

But under the hood there is a hood. And under that hood there is another hood. And under that hood there is a brand new car you don't know how to open the hood, and so on.

I cannot devote my life to know everything or I won't be able to provide for my family.
What does time horizon mean?
You can also follow hashtags which for me is much more interesting than following people.
You can find just a few sources below, out of the MANY studies done.

The gist is: fat is not bad; at all. Most of Vitamins contained in Milk are fat-soluble. That means that all the good properties of milk are transported by fat. Also, whole milk is less processed.

Here's a very "intuitive" reasoning, as an exercise: if Vitamin D is fat soluble... how is it possible that Skim milk has MORE Vitamin D (or A) than whole milk? (answer: because it's artificially added).

Sources:

- https://qz.com/405498/the-case-for-drinking-whole-milk

- https://archive.is/0yBjZ
The marketing message around the suburban lifestyle has been sold as as the “American dream” or the “Australian dream” for more than a half century… its a profitable social manipulation that benefits politicians, land owners and all the businesses involved in house construction… it’s not that the end result is evil, it’s just pushed as an aspirational ideal that everyone should strive for when there are downsides for society at large when it comes to things like infrastructure maintenance and other costs shared by state/local governments…
This topic among others was covered by a Computer Architecture class back in my university. That class is mandatory for all CS students. Though I have to add that it's never been brought up after I started to work.
Sure, see Yi Liu, et al. (2021) [1] and Kim, Kyeong Ok, et al. (2023) [2]. AFAIK they all predict a rapid initial diffusion into the Pacific ocean with a much delayed inflow back to the Korean waters among others.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr...

[2] https://sciwatch.kiost.ac.kr/handle/2020.kiost/43977 (no actual paper available, I inferred its details from [3])

[3] https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_internatio...
Why does density affect time? How are the two related?
If you read the article carefully, there is quite a disconnect between what they are saying and what they actually measured. If the article is correct about what they did actually measure then the study is mostly useless.

To validate their hypothesis, they would need to get into the regions and place measuring equipment to collect on the ground in-situ data.

Notice that their measurements were taken from space, which is really only a precursor set of data. They need to get into the forests and do onsite measurements to validate or invalidate their ideas. The space data would tell them where to set up their measuring stations. Now that data would be quite intriguing as it should show up just how critical the problem is. It may well be more critical than they estimate

This kind of experimental technique is quite faulty and incomplete. For me, it would be great to see a really comprehensive set of data taken at many points over a large region.
It's a bad practice always since the user can easily choose if he/she wants to open it in new tab by themselv but not the other way. For a user there is zero benefits in this practice
IntelliJ definitely shows the arguments lol
It seems like most of it is a rewrite of this 2010 article by this Tandy Trower guy who worked on Windows:

https://www.technologizer.com/2010/03/08/the-secret-origin-o...
I think OP refers more to the "code-golf" part than FP: the repo contains code that uses OO when necessary and FP (although in a very light way) when it can. The biggest issue is that it tries to be as short as possible, which makes it hard to understand. Code should be simple, not short. Instead of looking at Loc, we should look at "how much time does someone need to understand this part of the code".
It's a risk for Bob, I think he should be the one judging whether it's worth it or not, since he'd probably get in trouble over this. What I take away from this is that it'd be helpful if the tool clearly warned him of this risk.

Other than that, I'm sceptical for using LLMs for lots of things, but this I find cool. In my consulting work (and even before as a CTO), I usually train PMs, CEOs, really anyone who didn't make it up a tree by the count of 3 some basic code/tech literacy.

Imagine if Bob used this tool to learn about SQL and the data scheme. Now he got a glimpse of the inherent complexities, knows better when and how to ask for help, can have more trust in and better conversations with those engineers. Sounds naive probably, but I've usually seen these results from my (manual) efforts.

Of course that only works if the tool exposes the generated SQL in some fashion, it looks like it can but I might be wrong. If it's like you say and it's just natural language in, data out, I'd say that's more likely to do harm than good :)

Edit: Took a minute to look at the code, and it looks like there's no API to generate SQL from a question, just the "question" API that generates SQL on the fly and returns the data. I really think there'd be a lot of potential in at least returning the actual SQL query along with the data. Hope I didn´t miss something!
> I don't want to have to second guess the compiler.

No one wants to have to second guess the compiler. And it's almost never the compiler, until it is. As a grad student, I remember someone else in our lab spending a long time on a particular issue until he tracked it down to a not yet reported bug in gcc.

99% of the time you can rely on the compiler (or the language runtime, or popular library X), but we also need to be able to identify the rare cases where the lower levels of the stack are broken and how to either fix or work around them.
> This seems like a pretty basic thing for a government to do.

Then why is it only EU countries and authoritarian governments that do it?

> They need to know your address for a lot of things.

And when those things come up, they can ask your address. But requiring people to register in general is a step too far.
> You mean, you have to be ready to be punished for breaqking shitty laws just to point to their shittiness.

Sure, but in my case nothing happened, so, meh?
Not even close. Something like Anchorhead, All Thing Devours or Entangled it's far beyond of what an LLM can do.
Volatility in stocks is measured in terms of “IV” (implied volatility) and Nvidia (and Tesla) have some of the highest IV in the stock market which is why they are so interesting for people trading in options making money from theta decay.

Also I would add, volatility measures continued volatility over periods of time, not single days. Most pharma stocks are essentially static for months or years until they announce one good result and the stock jumps 30% in a day. This doesnt mean they are volatile stocks, compare Gileads IV to Tesla for example.
I literally just quoted the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...

Oh, and I bet that if you updated it, it would look much better, because I’m not experienced in front-end development, and I’m guessing you are. So don’t say Hacker News is so beautiful while you know you could make it better.
I believe smokers generally become a burden on social systems a few years earlier than nonsmokers, and so have fewer years where they are a benefit.

I can't see how that could potentially be a net positive for society.
> maybe they were backing up their stuff properly, but backups were wiped as well.

You realize this is contradictory?
Saudi in brics is major news and a potential threat to the petrodollar order that has run the world since the 70es.
The baby would have to be delivered by a Spin Doctor.
Yes, I agree with you as well. But with the word of caution that they're not the silver bullet and people should still educate themselves regarding macronutrients.
I believe it's an open question, the curvature of the universe, and hence whether the universe is infinite.

Others have already clarified that the big bang tells us the observable universe used to be tiny. In other words, the universe was much denser. It does not tell us the absolute size of the entire universe.
EU's per 100g standard makes it easy to compare products. One product 22g sugars / 100g, the other 27g sugars / 100g. Read that on the labels, then choose.

And %: say, peanuts 51g fats/100g -> ah, product is roughly 1/2 fat.

Personally I ignore "Serving size" as meaningless bs.

As for whole packaging: say 22g sugar / 100gr, and there's 350g in the package. 3.5x22 is too difficult to calculate in one's head? (roughly!)
Yes, exactly, among other things. See my updated comment.
The one I found a while back was a DOS in UTF-8 decoding. I believe it's since been fixed but things like that given that the standard library hasn't been audited. Andrew will definitely have that happen at some point but I'd not put anything Zig into production right now, personally.
I thought to myself, "this is a contraption that only a man could dream up." And then I clicked through to find... husband and wife? Did they dogfood this thing together?
At this late date most of the details have fallen out of my memory, but checking PS3 and PS4 release dates, yes, it must have been PS3. I remember now that it was the PPC one, which also indicates the PS3. IIRC we had to change our codegen to avoid the "sets flags" versions of instructions because on that CPU they were all microcoded and took an immediate 20 cycle penalty or something...
On the text games, you have Z Machine games from IF Archive. You need Frotz or any Z machine interpreter.

A good list:

-Anchorhead

-Spider and Web

-Entangled

-All Thing Devours

-Vicious Cycles

-Enemies

-Curses+Jigsaw

-Inside Woman
Show HN: Web App with GUI for AutoML on Tabular Data
Saw in twitter few days ago, "inventor" had this idea when he visted a zoo and elephant was walking in circle before giving birth and zoo attendant wrong said that elephants do that to help with the childbirth.
I'm thinking of what is going to happen to the placenta as that comes flying out and your newborn baby becomes a human bola.
> it has to make assumptions about what's going to happen before it knows it, and those assumptions are going to be wrong. How wrong

Speculative/optimistic techniques are not limited to branch prediction, you encounter various forms of it pretty much everywhere, without knowing it.

* Your hard drives have a read ahead buffer, fetching in advance future data, just because most reads are immediately followed by an other one for the data just after.

* Your CPU instructions are pre fetched, because most instructions are _not_ jumps, so you will 99% of the time just execute the instruction right after it.

* Instruction reordering where your compiler will decide that future instructions not affected by previous instructions could be run in advance.

* Overall any kind of caching is some form of optimistic technique. You are preparing future results.

If you think about it, optimistic/speculative techniques are ubiquitous, and used even at _high_ abstraction levels.

The famous python mantra of "better ask for forgiveness than permission" embodies that spirit. It encourages a coding style of "try: do() except: nope()" rather than "if check: do()".

Standing "against optimistic/speculative techniques" is standing against transactions, rollbacks, caches. It's just not a viable line of thinking IMHO.
Rivendell is an example of the cautionary voices I was talking about above. Grant Pedersen has already spoken about having to buy some good traditional parts while they are still around, so that he will still have stock for customers of his bikes. Once some things are discontinued, they are never coming back.

Sure, you can find a nice old 1990s frame in an attic. But it probably has rim brakes, and in some countries you can no longer find replacement pads from a local bike shop, only special order, and rim-makers are gradually discontinuing high-quality rim-brake rims. It probably only fits an 8 or 9-speed cassette, and both Shimano and many local bike shops want users to upgrade to 10/12/whatever speed. Product churn alone is forcing the industry in a troubling direction regard of we retro-grouches would like.
Granted, i am no submariner, but i wasted some time of my life in the early 00s in the german army.

We never had any problems with harassment or anything like that... for one, the women i met there were at least twice as tough as the men in the same unit and had an attitude that let you forget really fast they were from another gender. I never understood there could be any form of problem... though, perhaps the infantry just attracts other kinds of women than more "civilised" forms of duty.
It's only factor 2 with an increasing array though. At which point you can just take the last element, that's way faster.

So really you end up having to make assumptions about the input to get the performance boost.
Show HN: I built this Postgres logger
Hey HN,

Some of you were really interested in Postgres logging with pgAudit in my previous post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37082827

So I built this logger: https://rocketgraph.io/logger-demo

using pgAudit to show you what can be done with Postgres auditing. It offers some powerful features like "get me all the CREATE queries that ran in the past hour". These are generated by AWS RDS Instance running on my Rocketgraph account. Then they are forwarded to Cloudwatch for complex querying. In the future we can connect these logs to slack so you can get slack alerts when a developer accidentally DROPs a table.

If you like my work, please check it out here: https://github.com/RocketsGraphQL/rgraph

And if you want this logging on your own Postgres instance. Use https://rocketgraph.io/
And setup a project. pgAudit is automatically installed.
Code in the cells breaking out and manipulating the page where they are embedded.
With next to no muscle tone and very delicate bones, a newborn human body would probably be at great risk of injury and death unharnessed to have its joints, especially its neck, at the speed you'd need to whip its shoulders through the birth canal.
If you haven't tried dBeaver I highly recommend that you do. It's an excellent tool that works across Linux and Windows, supports all the big databases well and is a solid replacement for things like SSMS and pg-admin. Works well with sqlite too.
We aren't even close to development work being automated away.

Maybe art because it's often less critical. If your logo looks a bit goofy because it's AI-generated it doesn't matter. If your production server crashes because of a problem in your AI-generated code, it does.
For branch instructions but not for conditional move instructions, the processor will happily execute the next instruction before the values are actually ready, then invalidate the work it has done later if it turns out retrospectively to have been wrong. This is called branch prediction.
I just realised those might be an issue :-) Going to test anyway. Hard to forget one's first love.
I'm thinking there must therefore be a Zoolander robot that can't turn left.
const X = 299,792,458

c = X m/s

m = c * 1s / X = X/X m

s = X * 1m / c = X/X s

c = X*(X/X m)/(X/X s)

X is const, so c is const too.
Seem worse, sure.

If it is or not, depends on the specific use of the transcription.

Consider "I went to Lenny's" being transcribed wrong by a human as "I went to Denny's" or by an AI as "Ivan to Lenny's".

Both are wrong, but if you get a human to check, we can be oblivious to the human mistake for the same reason it was made in the first place plus the effect where seeing text alters our perception of what we hear; the AI error being inhuman means we can spot it when the human error is imperceptible.
Looks like VanMoof went... VanPoof.

I'll show myself out.
Thank you. I came here after reading the article ready to post 'What is it about the quasar that gives us this information?'. Did not have to read far to get the answer.
My first machine was a TRS-80. My first large program was a compiler from TRS-80 BASIC to Z80. I subsequently disassembled the ROM in the machine to figure out how things worked.

These skills stay with you, and if you read articles like this then you can keep broadly up-to-date with the insanity that is current CPUs. Things like pipe-lines, branch prediction, and different levels of cacheing are optimisations that you can acquire as you go.

If you're an auto-didact web developer then you never have the opportunity to learn these skills, or the need to do so.

I know a lot of people who are comfortable with doing this, but in my case it's a generational thing. If you want to do it then you can. It's not hard, it's just a different skill from those you already have, though sufficiently related that you wouldn't be starting from scratch.

But starting with modern CPUs can be hard. Learning the basics from older, simpler CPUs can help. Doing some kind of embedded programming might be the way to get started, or working on an emulator.

As always, YMMV.
One wonders if the couple that came up with this had any children.
Moore's law is about transistors, not CS:GO. CS:GO benchmarks stopped advancing as quickly because Moore's law is - objectively, despite the protestations of semiconductor companies - dead.
> Andrew has already stated publicly that Zig should not be used in production until v1 due to security vulnerabilities in the standard lib.

Andrew has made the claim a couple years ago that Zig should not be used in production yet. The part about security is not at all part of anything he ever claimed, and is in fact only something that you went crazy about on your own.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34669045

While I can understand holding real hard onto your opinion, please don't put words in people's mouths, especially when the person in question does not share your position on the matter at all.
"It's hoods, all the way down..."
sorry..... the shock factor is what is supposed to disuade potential smokers and smokers for giving up smoking
Also: given the sheer cost of cigarettes in Europe, it's becoming a slight status symbol, even more so if you share your cigarettes.