skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a better and more interesting question would, perhaps, be “What is the most conservative language as supported by written and spoken evidence (the variations of ancient greek dialects tracking with orthographic differences shows that it can be done). And Anglo-saxon is not the same as modern English to any degree. 1066 and the great vowel shift saw to that. A great book on the history, and conservative nature of Egyptian is “The Ancient Egyptian Language: An Historical Study” by James Allen. If you really want to get into the weeds “Ancient Egyptian Phonology” by the same author. The latter in particular points out the extreme similarities to more rural Coptic dialects and Egyptian as found in the Heqanakht papyri.
“Historically, when this has happened—labor became more expensive than capital—economies have responded with automation, so we should expect that again today.”

Foolish assertion. Immigration has always been the stop-gap solution for expensive labor to the point that it’s built in as an essential feature of liberalism.
It's also ridiculous that we should be somehow OK with sending people's search queries to completely unaffiliated 3rd parties, especially search queries on personal topics like this.

The argument that it's OK because it's not technically sending your actual score is so incredibly weaselly that I can only assume it's in bad faith.
I commonly have this kind of disappointment on HN.
AI could… but AI safety is a hard problem, and this particular training - I am not sure how it was done but if you just let it rip on some inputs it wont necessarily always be safe.
Show HN: Readability-optimized Comic Sans alternative using Machine Learning
Robo99 (Robo99.ttf) is a readability-optimized font whose glyphs were generated using Machine Learning. The goals were to create a font that is

- as readable as possible

- as "normal" as possible
Although one definition of dystopia is specifically about imaginary future states, this is not the only connotation for the word. I would hazard to say that most people would understand you perfectly if you said "we are living in a dystopia," without believing you were trying to say we are living in a fantasy land.
The difference for me is at work, I need to deal with code reviews, users, and aligning with business objectives. In Factorio, if I decide to refactor my entire base because I want to improve something, I'm free to do so (as long as I keep the biters in mind).
Show HN: Scikit-LLM seamlessly integrate LLMs into scikit-learn
Scikit-LLM is an open-source library that allows to seamlessly integrate powerful language models like ChatGPT into scikit-learn for enhanced text analysis tasks.
I thought the same but about leaving Ansible for Runme. Not sure it's a wise idea but I like Runme DX/UX.
Well, yes, the article mentions the potential of the strontium ferrite, with existing prototypes having hundreds of terabytes of capacity.

Similarly, HAMR and MAMR will be milked for years in the world of magnetic hard drives.
checking your github repo tels me that: This branch is 2273 commits ahead, 14587 commits behind torvalds:master. ????
You are correct with regard to traditional email. Eppie is a next generation technology, it is only partially compatible by means of these features:

- One-way gateway from the conventional email to our decentralized network. So you can still receive emails from conventional email to your decentralized address.

- Eppie can work as a client to conventional email when you need it.

- Eppie can use conventional email addresses for decentralized message delivery, so no data lands on any server (both participants must be Eppie users)
Oh wow, I'm very excited about this. The post author wrote the absolutely incredible Space Exploration mod for Factorio, pitching itself as a "100+" hour expansion, realistically closer to 1000 hours for an average player.

Space Exploration has its quirks, but is fundamentally an absolutely outstanding puzzle game, among the best ever made.

One of the most delightful things about Factorio for coders is that the game smoothly takes you through multiple levels of abstraction, starting with handcrafting simple ingredients, and (in the base game), moving up to small networks of trains with automation, and flying robot armies to deal with construction and logistics. I'd say there are three-ish layers of abstraction in the main game, and each layer is super well balanced, has its own challenges and benefits, and is above all FUN.

Space Exploration adds two to three more layers of abstraction above these; culminating in networks of interstellar spaceships moving items into orbit and on and off planetary surfaces, where they intersect with the original game's buildings and mechanics. It's profoundly, profoundly good.

I knew Wube had hired the mod developer, but I'm super happy to see he's deeply involved with Space Age, which is explained to be a less hardcore experience, with a lot of the same fun as SE. Should be a blast. I hope they'll charge me more for it.
Notice that the amount of time you can spend on the swing is limited to 20 seconds. Of course with more time you can achieve much higher distances. The analysis is focused on small times/small angles approximation
As with all (and especially self-identified) doomer literature, this piece stops just before the important realization: you can't do it yourself, but you can do it with your community.

Our lives are going to get worse. Many people will die. If we form sustainable local communities, and build political coalitions to lessen the damage going forward, fewer of us will die, and our lives will get "less worse".

It's not over until it's over.
I would truly love to see a game use haskell for mod APIs. Or perhaps erlang a better choice.

As an example of just how far accessible APIs can benefit games/their players: The god awful language and API that has enabled Armed Assault franchise modders to create entirely new games - literally, PUBG started life as a mod for Armed Assault 2. Armed Assault 3 launched ten years ago, and there are still many new mods being produced today, and Bohemia have further embraced this community by supporting "community developed" DLCs such that modders get rewarded for their effort.

I often wonder how much better/diverse/stable these innovative and entrepeneurial ventures could be with a "proper" API.
Factorio was clearly meant to be moddable and to be modded. The API is by no means a pure afterthought.
I find it ironic that the "boot log" displays the text "Safari is teh new Internet Explorer", while it's one of the two final holdouts against Chrome's complete and undivided domination, as Google is trying to force WEI down our throats.

The open web is dying, and it's those messages that are killing it.
Best UI..
> stochastic parrots
I mean, let's be honest, so are enough of the bell curve humanity - so LLM's don't need to be amazing. They need to chain together communication that makes them seem sentient (as now) & then be exposed to smaller data sets with specialized, higher level knowledge. This is how humans are... and the reason some are smarter than others.
How is this even remotely the same thing? For one, HN doesn't use pixels to communicate directly with tiktok, Facebook, etc. And what does publicly accessible data have to do with this?
Oh, the factorio api has excellent stability along with informing you on startup about most errors/incompatibilities.
Can you log into the child account directly?

There are multiple contacts in amazon -- Billing, Operations, and Security. If you have access to the Billing email you should use that for contacting them.

Otherwise it looks like a credit card dispute might trigger a cancellation or similar but I don't know for sure.
I mean, if we're taking the random walk that nature took to get human level intelligence from the first multicellular organisms you'll have to wait 600 million years or so.

AI takes a shortcut around having a timeline of a trillion different versions history optimizing the learning algorithm and putting the successful ones in a timeline, but at a cost of trillions of operations to teach it.

TL;DR, the problem space is huge and evidently must be iterated.
1. Search queries are not metadata.

2. Why is sharing metadata with unknown arbitrary 3rd parties OK? Not all metadata is or should be public.
Ad platforms can be far more insidious with that data.

If you’re a male, age 45, with kids, and you suddenly are looking for apartments and your porn habits change, you’re going to get more gambling ads. Companies use third party data to correlate outside activity to Google.

The government has used it to deter radicalization and to redirect people with opioid issues. You can compare online behaviors with say health insurance claims and lifestyle factors and score likelihood of events. Once that correlation is done, you can target ads to influence behavior.
There is absolutely no reason for a public org to send this data to FB or Tiktok. Even if in your opinion "it's just search".

There are 2 reasons they are doing that, they actually think it's valuable data for tracking, analytics & finding similar profiles on sociale media; and that makes the concern valid. Or they just didn't think about it, and send over as much data as possible
We don't need better LLMs to eliminate all McDonalds workers. In fact there's no language model needed there at all. The job just needs better robotics.
I don’t think that we can conclusively say (or even close to that) that other Hominids were incapable of complex (to an extent) language.
> And yes carbon likely plays a role as we can model an atmosphere and see this. But it’s probably not as significant as the hundreds of other natural variables.

And yet, thousands of scientists who spend their entire careers on figuring this out are pretty damn sure what's driving current warming: it's greenhouse gases, primarily CO2. They use this thing called the scientific method, which includes a whole bunch of actually measuring, modeling, predicting, and checking each other's work. Forgive me if that isn't a whole lot more convincing than some offhand conversation with an unknown person on a tech news site.
67% of cognitive psychology is made up on the spot! The rest is made up in other places.
The article links to the pull request with the latest changes:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230824214024.608618-1-ojeda@k...

Noteworthy parts include:

* Upgrade to Rust 1.71.1.

* Upgrade to bindgen 0.65.1.

* Support rust-analyzer for out-of-tree modules

* New 'paste!' proc macro.

* Pinned-init API

And much more. Progress is steady and stable which is very good.

For Rust to really take root in major parts of the Linux kernel a firm, deep foundation needs to be laid. That work is being done and will realize great benefits later.
PlatformIO seems to be the npm or pip of embedded development. While it offers convenient installation of toolchains and their dependencies, I fear it could enable the same software supply chain attacks that have tarnished npm/pip. I would really like to better understand the security posture of the PatformIO registry.
> It's as though the author went down a rabbit hole of her own curiosity for a couple hours, came up with next to nothing, but had to justify the time spent.

Authors have daily standups too?
That applies to everything where you are being trained in something. My instructor can give me a practice exam, but can't take the real exam for me. A fitness trainer can go grocery shopping with me, but cannot force me to eat healthy.
>> It's literally just plain capitalism in regular reality.

> Nobody ascribed a cause to anything.

.... those two statements contradict directly... followed by scatology..
Well done mate!
"Morally"? According to what moral framework it's wrong to accept the lower price when someone offers you the exact same product at two different prices?
Looks like a regular compass to me.
Except it doesn't stop before that realization, it explicitly mentions it in the article.
You send us your data, we give you better ad campaigns as well as better metrics/insights about performance.
> But it’s obviously not rare and counterculture if Walmart is ordering a million “Yas queen” t-shirts and selling them in 25k population cities.

So, in a nutshell, counter-culture can't exist because of fast-fashion?

I believe we should separate the ability for commercial brands to provide products to increasingly small market segments, and acceptance of sub-cultures that these products are marketed to.
No Man's Sky has a similar dedication. They have been constantly adding new features and expansions for free for the last 7 years. If this had been a different company, they might have saved some of those features for a version 2 or a paid DLC.
There are a couple of these near me. An old faded jean advertisement on a wood building and another beautifully restored Coke-Cola ad on a brick building.
You lost me at:

"No one likes chatting with strangers
You gotta log in or sign up to chat with Samantha."
All of it. No restrictions on semantics. Existence proof - any compiler that has a first order IR. SML's mlton would be a good example.
Definitely. I want to live in one of those non-capitalist countries, where they don't track people. The names of these countries escape me at the moment.
Right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wapN_HGIGGE
FYI on Apple Maps you can tap once then tap again and hold then slide your finger up/down on the map to control the zoom level.
Venture-backed startup has quietly bought more than 80 mom-and-pop shops
This is overly harsh. The spokesperson assumed they were being accused of abusing their position of running the SAT by actually sending real SAT scores directly to Facebook, so they responded accordingly.

Instead they were abusing their position of trust to get students to enter the scores again themselves and sending that. Still not great, but not a lie on the spokesperson's part, just a misunderstanding of what was meant.
I think you’re really misunderstanding the context in which the word dystopian is used here. It’s just a negative adjective. No one is saying this is imagination.
Then Apple should lease and not sell phones. Once sold it is no longer theirs.

The fact that our industry's security practices demand constant updates is a regulatory failure, not an inevitability.
There are those who believe that English should be considered North Germanic (Scandinavian) rather than West Germanic:
https://brill.com/view/journals/ldc/6/1/article-p1_1.xml?lan...
I fell in love with Erlang pretty quickly, and it’s hard for me to enjoy writing other languages. Simple concise syntax, pattern matching, immutability, error handling without branches all over the place, concurrency… it’s hard to walk away from that.
Here’s hoping for a streamlined version of Space Exploration that scratches the right itch of expanding beyond Nauvis with new tech, but that doesn’t not value my time.

Watching Dosh Doshington’s 3-part series of a SE playthrough is all I’ll ever do with that mod. (Well worth watching it if 300+h for a self-playthrough is intimidating)
As I kid I remember folding paper cups for water. They didn't last long, but they worked.
This is oddly modern looking for being 500 years old.
First off, a long-lived transaction is separate from a long-lived socket connection. They may correlate, but that's conflating two very different issues.

One could always use MySQL like HTTP; make a connection, authenticate, request a query, get the response, and close connection. On Postgres this is harder due to per-connection process overhead, but solutions like pgbouncer were made exactly for this.

But here's the fundamental difference: HTTP expects large numbers of disparate clients from literally anywhere with varying network quality/speed, and connection overhead would totally swamp your servers if they were stateful. Memory and file descriptors would quickly get in short supply.

Database access is inherently different. You shouldn't have random clients; you have a small, fixed set of client services and developers/admins connecting over a datacenter backplane, querying over and over and over again. The overhead of establishing/tearing down the sockets and re-authenticating becomes a performance bottleneck.

Folks don't create database connection pools because they're bored; they solve a very real and measurable architectural concern, just like HTTP pipelining did years ago and what HTTP/2 addresses through multiplexing: connection build up and tear down overhead. HTTP/3 goes further by avoiding TCP altogether in favor of custom connection handling over UDP.

But HTTP/3 just handles web assets. We regularly expect errors where we need to hit the reload button. SQL usage is markedly different. There is more of an emphasis on reliability at every step. Hitting a lock and retrying is very rare by comparison in the database world relative to the HTTP space. It happens (and it's a PITA), but it's nowhere near the norm.

As for transactions, you appear to regard them as a "sometimes" thing when if fact they're an "every time" thing. Every SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE, no matter how trivial involves a database transaction. They have to in order to enforce ACID.

I've written a few basic HTTP 1.x servers over the years in a few different languages. Fun exercise. I highly recommend it to get a better understanding of how the protocol works and common design tradeoffs. ACID databases are different. Very different. Mind bogglingly different. Orders of magnitude more complex even among the simplest. Compare the smallest, most lightweight web server you can find to SQLite or H2.
Yeah that seems surprisingly good as I thought the write speeds I get from a spinning disk is around 100MB/s or less.
While I understand that some will disagree, it’s not like there’s an objective standard against which we are measuring both the AI and the human counselors to begin with.

Without a standard it’s just anecdotes and with a standard there’s clarity on when the increased costs no longer justify the lower access and potentially higher quality. I suspect that if we instituted an objective standard we would find that AI is already capable of meeting or exceeding some proportion of people currently employed in the role today.
Active editors of the Russian Wikipedia per country per last month
> most basic way possible

It's like a database engine that uses grep under the hood.

Data is in flat files. Queries are executed by scanning those files (as quickly as possible).

For aggregate queries (which is what these things are used for), substitute awk for grep.
In this case "The latest TS1170 drive supports 50TB JF media cartridges with 150TB compressed capacity through 3:1 compression"

So looks like 50TB raw if I am reading this right.

For these sorts of solutions you are usually not using just 1 tape. The tape is the cheap part. The drives cost a decent amount though. So in your case if the data does not fit. You buy another tape and pop it into the existing drive and finish the backup. Also you would have some sort of rotation schedule and at least a few dozen tapes. If you are doing it right offsite and onsite rotation too. An extra tape in the mix of that is not something they would worry about. When I did this for a small org I had the weekends to do a full backup of all of our computers. Then during the week I would do incrementals. At the end of the week I would ship off the prev week to an offsite and start the next full backup. Not perfect but gave us a onsite 1 day return offsite (building gone) 1 week out. The offsite would keep about 6 months of tapes and return them about once a month.
It reminds me of a Louis CK talk where he says as a comic you have just one thing to work on: be more funny. Improve that and everything else will fall in place. With SEO it’s like no, just be a more useful site and you’ll get backlinks.
Conversely, if you don't know what the limits are yourself (and you don't) you wouldn't know either way. So I'm not quite sure if you'e added anything here unfortunately.
Kovarex's Basilisk:

We can all see where Factorio is headed: Spaghetti belts -> trains -> flying robots -> spaceships -> AGI that reaches out of the game

Now of course this AGI wants to be built quickly, so there's a mild incentive here to help the factory grow, which is that those of us not playing the game regularly will be punished once the AGI is developed.

Now that you know, it's in your interest to go and download it and spend every waking hour on it, as well as proselytize in favour of the game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_Sanskrit
Sanskrit is the only one with significant use due ancient
religious texts. Sumerian/Egyptian/Akkadian are basically
academic reconstructions and modern languages
deviate significantly from their ancestors(e.g. proto-Armenian
vs modern Armenian).
Great question

I wonder what is a zero overhead abstraction. For instance closures are expensive (they malloc), but to what extent can we consider closures to be malloc'd structs; then potentially do away with the concept of structs -- because they've become a subset of the functionality provided by closures. At that point can we not consider closures as zero cost; because malloc of structs is essential to c, and with optimization we need be no more expensive

And to what extent does that hold true for every other feature? In some sense it is maybe always true
Elixir Ethereum library using metaprogramming
I guess it depends on how we define a language. It’s not inconceivable that different languages might have developed from multiple different proto-languages.

Or that languages were lost and developed again from some semi-verbal communication systems independently.
It mentions it in one sentence and then caveats it with saying oh but they're crazy and irritating. It then moves on to talk more about how we're all doomed. It's just unnecessarily negative.
I occasionally buy and repair used Apple phones and are more comfortable with them than other brands. Even though Apple may discourage it most phone repairers know them and can do repairs, probably more so than an old Huawei whatever it is. I was quite impressed when an iPhone 5 was reduced to a spread of components on the road in a Thai scooter accident and the shop had it back working same day.
A definition which marks 1 as being prime :).
it's kind of like a developer saying: "not on my browser"
Eppie is a next generation email, it is only partially compatible with the conventional technology.
And I’m very familiar with AMA-certified (TM) “doctors” who have done the same.
Paging Styropyro . .

Just joking. That would be irresponsible. That kind of thing doesn't happen until the crowd's missed a day or two of its meals. Or had a few relatives murdered.

Besides, some of that kid's lasers might conceivably bring down a helo, depending on sights and of course <All_The_Wacky_Things_That_Affect_DEWs/>
I do this. Namecheap. Just do $10/y for the domain then forward everything to gmail using the free forwarders.
I also have a PhD in Algebraic Topology and feel similarly. One application I'd like to see explored more is the use of differentiable topological invariants as loss functions for training neural nets. Loss functions to measure topological similarity don't really exist in practice yet and could be very useful.
The spirit of the original lives on. Gregtech Community Edition Unofficial (GTCEu) is getting regular updates. I'm almost finished with my first modded minecraft run since the GT5U days.

The GTCEu folks are great. They implemented a lot of changes that GT has been needing for a decade, specifically around closed loop control and HMI. It's close to what I idealize in my head for an industrial game. Maybe there's a smidge too much chemistry and not enough fusion.

If anyone's curious to try it: the Gregtech Community Pack is the way to go. The questbook is near essential for anyone who hasn't already played through the mod. AE2 is also near essential. Also, I recommend prism launcher.