skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a nice idea and decent proof of concept, but it's not good enough at anything to be useful right now. Everything it does can be done directly in ChatGPT/Code Interpreter.

There's definitely value to be created in being the layer that provides easy access to AI tools that are built to do the specific set of tasks an end user needs. On the other hand, it's going to be really challenging to compete with large incumbents who have both the distribution channel and the data. If Salesforce builds something like this, you don't have to give it all the company info that this tool is asking for, and anything it create can be immediately saved/used in the appropriate place for the business.

Integration with your existing data and services is really going to be key for this sort of thing - I would encourage anybody building something like this to have a clear strategy along those two dimensions before spending a lot of time writing code.
Are LLMs the Beginning or End of NLP? [video]
Can you just use green threads (goroutines) from the get-go? Or, by Hyrum's law, is the fact that legacy Java threads are really OS threads part of Java's de facto public API?
5 of my close friends work at Meta, and 2 at Google. All engineers.

I visit the NYC Union Square and Hudson Yards offices regularly for dinner, and even the Seattle Westlake and MPK ones whenever I’m visiting. The mood there is much much better post layoffs. Possibly even better than it was pre COVID.
I probably agree that if downvotes were only for off-topic/trolling/unhelpful comments the situation would be better, but I don't think we're there; I am fairly confident that downvoting for disagreement is common and officially okay.
Does anyone know whether Obsidian can do this with some plugin, or whether there's another tool that can:

I'm looking for a documentation tool with a decent GUI for editing documentation in, which is backed by git for tracking changes, without having to have git configured locally (for non-engineers).
When the tiniest water droplet cannot be stopped by an N95 mask.

After all, the entire length of a single COVID virus is only 70-90nm long.

What was the manufacturer-rated N95 stopping power of particle size again? 95% at 300nm! And it quickly goes south after that.

Also, because of ANY sufficiently virial load, the water droplets are even smaller.

Don't try and pull that nonsense of a human breathing action having cause a Brownian Motion to being able to catch even smaller particles because all cited papers mention unnatural atmospheric pressure (1800 mbar) to achieve this kind of filtering.

So, superiority complex, indeed.

Might as well wear a simple cloth mask. :-/

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7579175/

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8436814/
Explore the Dragon Realm: Build a C++ adventure game with a little help from AI
Space-X should be discriminating against non-US citizens. It's the target of substantial espionage attempts from China.[1][2]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/us/politics/cyberattacks-...

[2] https://www.dni.gov/files/NCSC/documents/SafeguardingOurFutu...
This actually seems like a good counter argument.
Arc, but I think it counts because it's a lisp-like....
The invitation is just a formality. Those countries (and many more) already expressed their interest to join BRICS: https://www.reuters.com/world/what-is-brics-who-are-its-memb...
Generally submissions about politics without any tech angle do get flagged.

Politics that do have a tech angle (e.g. SEC/FTC actions, net neutrality) are more on-topic.
Isn't that just for banks though? And not Venmo & PayPal?
This makes absolutely 0 sense. Bitlocker cannot be setup on Windows 10 Home edition.
Uber raises its minimum age for California drivers to 25
> Without them needing to leave my app to check their Venmo / PayPal app to see if the payment arrived.

They'd get a notification anyway?
There are now builtin iterator versions of most of these looped functions [1], should be shipping in stable Chrome next month. The "give me an array at the end" function is spelled toArray.

But it's not going to help all that much with this problem. The iterator protocol in JS involves an allocation for every individual value, and while in some cases that can be optimized out, it's pretty tricky to completely optimize.

It's always going to be difficult to beat a c-style for loop for performance.

[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-iterator-helpers/
When a company refuses to hire you because of some arbitrary legal definition, you will want your government to enforce its labor laws.
> There are benefits and downsides to AGI. On the upside, AGIs can do most of the labor that consume a vast amount of humanity’s time and energy. AGI can herald a utopia where no one has wants that cannot be fulfilled.

This is not a utopia, but a juvenile and unthinking definition of utopia, or a dystopia in disguise. Most people thrive on some sort of challenge to at least do basic tasks for themselves. A world where AGI fulfils every need is more like being in a senior's home where everyone does everything for you.

It sounds good at first but is actually a nightmare where your autonomy is stripped by the lack of goals to work towards.

Immense surplus and easy access to everything all the time means human beings will no longer need each other much either, so it means a world full of people uncaring towards each other. Fulfilling any want without hard work to get it means becoming effectively like a bacteria, consuming every resource in sight, transforming us into even more of a plague than we already are.

I certainly would not want to live in such a world.
This isn't really a counter argument. It's more of a form of rhetoric argument, which is also what you're accusing GP of.
United States spends more money on fundamental science than any other country by a large margin.
Perhaps an example helps. And then I'll agree to disagree :-)

If you are, 6 months ago, before generative AI, an exec or HR person and you spot on the web, or are helpfully sent, 2 photos of your cherished spokesperson having a great time at a nazi campout. Then what? Well, you better think a few cycles before firing that spokesperson. It may well be real, it may well be Photoshop.

Generative AI does not change that issue. Eventually it will make it easier to generate that content, not yet. But you are still making a decision that matters on the basis of very manageable labor. More manageable than before does not change the importance of the decision you have to make. Many will make that decision without considering it but it's more a question of awareness or care than means, no?
From what I understand, large infrastructure investments (such as building out a green electric grid) are great for the economy.

Even if it's a net cost though... it's not like there isn't enough money to go around. If only there was a way to redistribute that wealth so that poor people didn't get even poorer.

I really truly don't think the only two options are "do nothing" or "do something but at such a great cost to people's quality of life that the cost outweighs the many millions or billions of lives saved".
Yeah I guess you're right. If that's the case I'd expect the journalist to ask some follow up questions to broadly define in which circumstances it would or wouldn't.
I think Intel having in-house manufacturing was one of the big causes of them getting "Too fat and slow to respond" - from the outside much of their fall from grace was due to massively delayed production improvements rather than designs and IP. As far as I can see, the architectures were pretty much done and ready to go, just the expected targeted process missed it's mark.

With Nvidia and other GPU competitors being IP-focused, effectively outsourcing all this "manufacturing stuff" (to the same 3rd party much of the time), that's one less thing for them to keep up with, and one less think that'll hurt if they do start "falling asleep". I can't see this happening to Nvidia in quite the same way right now. My point was that not having manufacturing makes advantages of consolidation larger, not smaller.

I wonder what would have happened if Intel realized it's manufacturing wasn't hitting targets and "quickly" added TSMC as an option, would AMD even have had a chance with ryzen? There was clearly a time when AMD had superior manufacturing processes through them, if Intel's designs of the time were on the same process would they have managed to grab the headlines?

And no, I Strongly disagree that NVidia running unchecked over the entire market being "Good for consumers", and not sure if the capital expenditure of getting over this moat is really much smaller than things like resource acquisition or infrastructure, they have $billions in current software ecosystems and hardware designs. Those $billions probably could buy you a fair bit of infrastructure investment on the scale you mentioned. Look how much Intel is burning right now just to get a toe into the market and not laughed out the door - and they're still clearly behind their competitors right now. Their chips aren't anywhere near competitive from a performance-per-area point of view, and their software is rather poor for the vast majority of use cases.
back when we were scaling a saas offering in the late 2000s, we were told by some sales 'engineer' at a certain company well known in those days with lots of hype marketing (that died explosively a year later, big shock), that ML would solve all our engagement problems. It was hyped up, just like AGI is now. the reality? it has made a difference, no doubt, mainly in the form of incremental improvements at best. this feels eerily similar.

I've sat in countless pitches and meetings with bright-eyed founders touting the imminent rise of AGI. There's a palpable excitement around the topic, but from a purely business perspective, there's an equally strong air of naiveté.

I often wonder if proponents of AGI have truly considered its commercial implications. let's indulge the idea for a moment and say that it becomes a reality. how do you price it? how do you convince industries to adopt and trust something that mirrors human cognition, with all its opacity, when we still grapple with the biases and imperfections of simpler AI models?

add to this the astronomical R&D costs. the sheer capex required is a massive barrier. even with vc backing, the path to profitability seems tenuous at best. and in our current startup landscape and inflation reality, such ventures are money holes.

to me, AGI feels like childish pursuit of the shadows of sci-fi dreams. there's merit in pushing the boundaries of technology, but mistaking theoretical marvels for immediate commercial viability is a classic pitfall. for now, I'll reserve my enthusiasm until someone can convincingly bridge the chasm between agi's promise and its pragmatic business value.
> while attempting to grasp new concepts, numerous questions might crop up that encourage you to delve deeper and acquire additional knowledge

So far GPT-4 has proven to be much more helpful in giving me pointers or straight up answers (that I DO check!) to some of my questions than any other source, tool or entity in my life. I've explored and lightly discussed topics I never knew I was interested in.
Up until now you had faith in the justice system, feeling that it was not used for "political" purposes?
Tor Project boosts Onion sites' defense against DoS attacks
> Would the world really be that much better if SpaceX could hire refugee non-ITAR HR people or janitors ?

Refugees and asylees are explicitly US persons, not foreign persons, under ITAR, so the implied legal premise of the question is false.
Yep, in the old days (almost 20 years ago now), I worked at a startup with its own racks. We'd go up there once a month to swap some drives. In my 5 years there, I had to use remote hands exactly twice to reboot a machine. A few other times, one of the servers froze but we were able to reboot it with ILO. This was 3 racks, about 30 machines spread between them (definitely a bunch of empty space, too.)
It's saying the previous recommendations were 1000 calories a week. This study found that a 45 min workout using 631 kcal produced similar cardiovascular benefits. But yes, 631 kcal during a 45 min high intensity workout is still quite a lot.
Indeed I used DSView which is a fork of pulseview.
Cloudflare's service works well for this
We are pretty proud of this release, it represents a big upgrade over the last one.
I heard he also worked a lot on .NET, maybe a key role. Google.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/brics-2023-s... :

“South Africa said that more than 40 countries have expressed interest in joining Brics and 22 have formally requested to be admitted.”

and

“The membership of the new members will come into effect from 1 January 2024, Mr Ramaphosa said.”

I assume the 6 being invited are a subset of those 22. So it seems “invited” is a diplomatic way of saying that the other 16 got held back at the door, at least for now.
Greeks.
No, that's the definition of non-idempotency.
I've stopped eating at places that require QR codes. The only advantage is when you can select the items in the app and pay for it all in that one place. It's quite useful for things like Dim Sum where you're getting lots of small things over a longer period of time.
Is automation not what every engineer strives for when possible? Especially software developers.

From my experience with github copilot and GPT4 - developers are NOT going anywhere anytime soon. You'll certainly be faster though.
You could branch out in a lot of directions from here. Compiling from source is another option, or messing around with config files. Depends on where you want to go in the education.
> these issues were only discovered because my dad is somewhat active and noticed a dramatic decrease in his stamina

It can't be overstated how important this aspect of regular physical activity is. The feedback on your body's condition is priceless.

It's like the old adage "it's not a prison if you never try the door". You don't know you're unwell if you never try activities requiring fitness.
No, because a competing theory is that heat this year is due to the eruption of a large underwater volcano at the start of last year, which expelled a truly astounding amount of water vapor into the atmosphere. Water being of course, a greenhouse gas.
From all the computers that I've seen with intrusion detection on by default, they only give you a warning from what I've seen.
Pick ten random 26 year old porn actors. I bet you their most recent scene was categorized as either "MILF" or "teen".
I thought this was about GitHub copilot
We do know that stimulating the right temporal lobe with electrodes causes auditory hallucinations. This is the same area that is responsible for actual speech processing on the left side.

We also know that the left side wernicke and broca's areas are used in conscious language production while the right side does not seem to be at all (in the vast majority of people, with some exceptions where the lateralization is flipped).

Where it gets interesting is his review of historical literature and cataloguing use of metaphor (or lack thereof) in ancient writing.

He takes the Illiad and shows where in the original greek, there's essentially no metaphor for internal emotional or psychological states that's conclusively non-physical. Even apparent references to emotional states reference physiological responses, not specifically emotions. This was right on the cusp of when he suggests the change occured. In the Illiad when someone describes their motivation, it's almost always attributed to a god telling them to do it. Similar accounts abound in literature.

There are many accounts of ancient rulers directly conversing with some hallucinated being as if they're there. As is there art depicting it. But it slows down around and stops around the time of the bronze age collapse in the region.

His suggestion is that it originated with people hallucinating their dead relatives, their dead tribal leaders etc. which is why they would sort of prop them up like they're still alive and have something to say.

I was very, very skeptical at first, but the neuroscience was actually pretty thorough for being written in the 80s and I couldn't find any of it that has been debunked to my knowledge.
Server-side rendering React in OCaml
Thanks for asking. I've always thought of the JVM as magical technlogy--I'm certainly not alone in that view. But in trying to learn more about it, I was greatly frustrated by the difficulty of reading the code base.

As you likely know, the Hotspot JVM is open source. But reading the code is very difficult, in part because it grew organically and in part because of its unusual design, in which many actions are buried deep at the end of a long series of function calls involving unexpected classes and unusual methods, etc.

This led me to thinking there would be value in a JVM written as a single cohesive codebase. And given that there is a 300+ page JVM specification and a reference implementation, I thought to myself, how long could this take? Two years later, and with help from two major contributors, we're still finding out! ;-)

Eventually, we hope, it will be a fun/interesting experience for users to pop open their Go IDE and watch a Java program execute--which is why we're intent on making sure it's written in 100% go.

In a larger context, Jacobin might eventually be useful as an embeddable JVM.
I had so many horror stories with managing corporate IT accounts with AT&T at a previous job. So much so that they are one of my only hard-true-boycotts.

For a time I knew how to get free iPads from them due to an exploit in their horrendously long shipping and failure to activate them without several layers of phone calls.

Not to mention endless hours of hold time with support to fix their mistakes such as totally illegal unagreed-to upsells and charges.

Can't tell you how many times I would specifically decline something like "mobile device insurance" only to see it on the bill the next month.
I have solved this conundrum by calling the country "Türkiye", while calling the bird… also "Türkiye". Thus ensuring symmetry.
What a wonderful response to return to. Appreciate the work you put into this.
Not that your point is invalid, but I wouldn't be linking Guns, Germs, and Steel. Quite a few historians have heavily criticized the claims in that book for being overly reductive pop history.
Asylum seekers and refugees are U.S. persons under current law. ITAR treats them exactly the same as a U.S. citizen or green card holder, even though they are foreigners. So the DOJ action is as a result of SpaceX job postings that excluded some non-citizens who are still U.S. persons, which is unlawful discrimination by country of origin or citizenship.

From the link: "U.S. person means a person (as defined in §120.14 of this part) who is a lawful permanent resident as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(20) or who is a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)." The section cited for Protected Individuals includes refugees and asylum seekers.

Honestly, this is a pretty common mistake in the aerospace industry. Most people have only a vague understanding of ITAR and EAR, and don't realize that U.S. persons includes refugees and asylum seekers in addition to U.S. citizens and permanent residents. I have actually made the same mistake of writing a job posting that required applicants to be U.S. citizens or permanent residents, excluding refugees and asylum seekers, but HR caught it.

I don't think this is a huge scandal or anything. I suspect someone at SpaceX wrote the language for the job posting without fully understanding all the permitted categories in export control law, and that language went a long time without anyone noticing the problem. The DOJ will sue them and win (SpaceX might not even fight it) and they'll pay a fine and have the correct language. I really doubt someone at SpaceX made a deliberate decision to discriminate against refugees and asylum seekers.

Edit: I read the complaint in more detail, and it's really weird that the DOJ alleged this discrimination happened from 2018 to 2020. SpaceX was a huge company at that point and really ought to have had compliance/HR/Legal that would have caught this. So IDK, maybe there actually is more to the story.
I can say from personal experience that for at least five years it has been common for small companies to buy a laptop direct from Dell and for it to have a bitlocker encrypted drive without anyone choosing that.
The news is that the current BRICS agree to admit new members
>Can’t say this doesn’t smell just a little political.

The President of the United States very publicly called for Musk and his companies to be investigated back in November of ‘22. Ironically, this was because of supposed relationships with other countries.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/biden-says-elon-musks-rel...

So he deserves investigation due to foreign business relationships, then gets sued for not hiring (edge-case) foreigners to build state of the art rocket technology. Cue the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme song.
I feel like you're missing the point that the existence of such a niche store would have no effect on the "money left on the table" of the main app store. To affect the main store, they would have to

a) Put their app on the niche store and not on the main store (which would lose them money; fewer people will go to a niche store and buy a paid app than a freemium app. Therefore, developer have no incentive to do this)

b) Alternatively, they could release both the niche paid app and the free-main-store app, in which case consumers have little incentive to pick the pay-up-front one - so no change there.

Sure, such a store could exist (and should), but it will be a blip on Apple's radar (and all the more reason they should just allow sideloading)
> Btw, the Linux kernel people are also quite fanatical about not breaking user space. But the rest of the Linux ecosystem ain't.

Yes, even for basic end users. If I'm just using Ubuntu, the entire GUI layout changes randomly over the years for no reason. And we have Linux workstations at work that I hardly use; one day, they all changed desktop environments because of some chain of incompatibilities involving X and Wayland, idk idc.
> be honest, you don't read a book on every API call you copy from Stack Overflow.

I don't, because I don't copy code from SO in the first place. But when I'm using or encountering an API that I'm not terribly familiar with, I absolutely do read the documentation for it. It's part of my continuing education and how I maintain a diverse professional skillset.
You don't need a link to process and understand what I said about the 11% reduction for every dose.

Think a little. Time passes between doses. Even your own study shows the doses only reduce transmission a little. This transmission are occuring as time goes by. Thus if you check later doses against earlier, yes you'll see a reduction in transmission. Because tons of people were spreading it.

You could have done this study with chocolate chip cookies over time and said "yes, 6 months of eating cookies reduces covid transmission by 11%"
No they shouldn't be discriminating based on citizenship. That unnecessarily limits their access to talent. There may be roles within SpaceX that require a security clearance and therefore require US citizenships, but the discrimination should be applied based on the role and not as a blanket company policy.
Toyota partnered with Pony.ai and have a fleet of level 4 taxis operating in all major cities(eg: Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen) in China. Honda has level 3 self driving cars on the market in Japan that you can buy today. Kia is working on a level 3 car and also announced level 4 taxi plans. Hyundai also has plans to add level 3 functionality to their cars.
Or, worse, build a marginally competent completely bespoke website on an ancient toolset they are comfortable with and that’s impossible to maintain or integrate with anything that wasn’t part of the original specs.