skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Isn't there a concept similar to "no free lunch" in biology?

There's a difference between "there are probably trade-offs here" versus "this is impossible because otherwise it would have happened already."

Consider that land plants evolved lignin to grow tall, leading to gigatons of free lunch sitting around for tens of thousands of years before anything else found the trick of digesting it.

If there weren't any free--or at least below-cost--lunches out there, nothing would evolve, because there'd be no benefit in changing anything.
I've found Elixir to be easy to understand given what it's doing, and it's doing a lot more work than Python does for each application. The thing is, though, that there are a lot of declarative frameworks in Python that make applications go further without burdening a developer with low-level detail. Elixir does the same thing. Elixir and OTP abstract away a lot of complexity, at times too much. Import enough frameworks into your Python application and you'll be making a lot more decisions. Thinking about process management for every application you write (BEAM process, not OS process) pushes you up front to think about the paradigm that is used everywhere, and once you grasp what you're considering you can apply your understanding of concurrency when using other languages. This often happens when an Erlang/Elixir developer works with Rust: many programmers adopt message-passing rather than sharing state, and as they make their system more robust think about how to control threads/tasks, adopting OTP-like paradigms.
Why would it be embarrassing, do you think being a founder makes you somehow better than other people? That's a weird statement. And I am saying this as being a founder myself.

In any case, you've seen more in those years than a lot of people have in their lifetime, use this knowledge and move on the way your gut says.
Many years in the making, and a great move by GitLab! Hugely impactful as a way around GitHub’s moat as the de-facto social network of open source development.

I follow hundreds of developers on GitHub, though mainly just to keep track of who I’ve interacted with, effectively adding them to a dev-specific address book.

I have a much harder time keeping track of non-GitHub devs on alt platforms as I can’t sign up to all of them, but if I could follow them on the fediverse that’s actually preferable over GitHub’s proprietary follow list.
Gitter is now a Matrix.org instance, so pretty functional if you ask me.
I don't understand why anyone was surprised by computers processing and generating language or images.
Can someone explain how "I have my whole genome sequenced by Nebula" relates to the news just now that "The human Y chromosome has been completely sequenced"?

How can someone have their whole (!) genome sequenced already when so far we weren't able to fully sequence the Y chromosome. And this person seems to have a Y chromosome.
> > I can’t think of a compelling to use windows outside of gaming.

> - Office

In a corporate env maybe. Libreoffice is enough for home use.

> - Adobe

Only reader. For special pdfs.

> - Ableton

Never heard about it.

> - Visual Studio

What's wrong with vim ?
What do you find more difficult?

The achieving tasks in it or the getting paid to do so part?
Email is already decentralised. A domain costs a few bucks per year. You can point the MX records at any IP address you control. There's half a dozen decent mail systems you can self-host. Everything up to this point is trivial and things like IPFS only complicate this.

The hard part is making sure your emails get thru to your recipients, and fighting off the spammers on your end. I'm very much interested in how they're going to tackle this.
It has multiplayer, but I admit I never really spent any time with it.
if you go to https://selfservicerepair.com you will find you can only get parts for iphone 12 or later. There is no parts for e.g. iphone 11, iphone XR, iphone XS.

For 'iPhone 12 mini TrueDepth Camera Bundle' you have to pay $280 in EU countries + shipping I guess. If your iphone 12 mini breaks in ~2 years from now probably will be cheaper to buy just working second hand iphone 12 mini.
So is life, made up of judgments, not always fair.
Obviously we need to write a rust based minimal but compatible rewrite of css engine but in canvas
Some enterprise customers are given just over a month’s notice to migrate
They are not useful, sorry. They are vanity professions. All of the anthropologists in the United States could be abducted by aliens from Alpha Centauri tonight and we wouldn’t notice a difference in the morning. If all of the semiconductor professionals disappeared in the same manner we’d have serious problems.

I’ve got nothing against anthropology as a field or anthropologists themselves, but they wouldn’t even show up on the tech tree. You don’t need a PhD to be a school teacher and, frankly, we would be a lot better off if instruction was done by practitioners instead.
Look ma! They reinvented Freenet
This is also possible (not "common", but possible and no one bats an eye as it happens multiple times a year) in America, it's called an insanity defense and it requires expert testimony by a psychologist.
If you know how to write tailwind, you know how to write CSS. The utility classes it provides are just a sort of shorthand form of CSS. With component based frameworks there isn't much of a need to define CSS classes in my opinion.
A stranger providing you a service for free doesn't have an ethical obligation to answer your emails.
This presentation is very good! A few days ago, I started thinking how code from a functional language could be converted to imperative code for better performance, with in-place operations (instead of object regeneration) and a complex (and likely slow) optimizing compiler. However, things like closures, composition at runtime and partial function application just made everything 10x harder.
Struggling a bit to find the quote, but in Ken Burns' National Parks documentary, it mentions that John Muir used to bend over and look at things between his legs in order to see "the upness" of the world.

Interesting to see that there's research showing a real effect from this!
> So then you just `wsl --install` and you get a proper Linux distribution.

You mean `wsl --install` will install Slackware on my computer ? /s
It’s not a direct method, but really, you should try a) study the source code of the big ‘frameworks’ such as Bootstrap (especially if you dig into the comments & issues / patches that fixed worse practices with better practices) & b) hit F12 to start inspecting sites that are doing things interesting that you’d like to know about (but keep in mind they might not be experts & how you might improve it).
Sounds more like they've been using the 87-key QWERTY so far, but now they also found the numpad.
Because I know enough not to write prime testing code that resemble anything like that loop to have to care about reducing its search space. If you actually want to test my knowledge about prime number, you can ask and I will tell you about using some probabilistic choice instead, and that I know fast deterministic one might exist, but I am not up to date on the state of the art.

If I have to write the loop above, I am assuming it is the Fizzbuzz equivalent of your company to show that I know how to write a while loop. I am not thinking about reducing the search space because I am writing the code semi-unconscious and frankly just want to get to the next question.
Also, often you don't need to save your Jupyter notebook in the unergonomical json format; instead save it as a script containing your code cells (and the markdown cells as comments). Thus you can run it directly from the command line in whatever language your notebook is, python, bash... To save notebooks as plain text files you pip install jupytext, and it magically works: jupyter will interpret your .py files as notebooks, and so on.
It looks like HN automatically stripped the reference to the comment I originally linked to: https://github.com/rui314/mold/issues/190#issuecomment-14028.... The title should be more clear in this context.
And how often does it get that wrong too?

It’s more likely it’s just, once again, generating the most probable answer - and if you shake the magic 8 ball enough you will get the answer you were expecting.
Not only I am not here to save people's work, those were two examples when you asked for one, and now proven wrong, got to move goalposts with additional stuff, because "those don't count oh oh".

A JVM is a JVM, regardless of deployment scenarios and who gets to use them.
whether it's allowed or not is probably less pertinent than whether it'll get downvoted. I've never seen a flagged comment that was just "thanks", but I suspect I probably have seen a heavily downvoted one, although I can't think of a specific example
Increasing the supply of labor decreases wages.
Louis Rossmann has talked a lot about why he isn't part of the authorized program.

There are two main problems he mentioned, IIRC. (It's been a while, so my memory may be wrong or the situation may have changed).

Firstly, you can no longer do component level repairs. So replacing some capacitors that got waterdamaged is no longer allowed. This is part of the agreement you make with Apple.

Secondly, although you can buy screens and batteries, you can't keep them on stock. You need to get the phone from your customer, then order the parts from apple, then wait for them to arrive, perform the repair, and only then can you finish. If you want to do "While you wait" repairs it's impossible.

It's a bad look to go off on a rant about Apple every time a customer asks a question, so I can understand them being annoyed when someone asks them if they're part of the official program.
> Linux itself has plenty of support for TCP offload engines

Could you link to any specific Linux kernel source that implements support for TCP offload? AFAIK networking subsystem maintainers were always opposed to accommodate TCP offload because it is A Bad Idea.
AI won't work to reeingineer society, just like the last 100 "latest things" didnt. There is a massive undercurrent that always goes in the opposite direction of technology advancement: tradition!

You need new people growing up and living in a new paradigm to get these changes, you cant just ask (or expect) people who have lived their life one way to change completely to some other way of living
runpod, togethercomputer, replicate.

Matthew Berman has a tutorial on YT showing how to use TheBloke's docker containers on runpod. Sam Witteveen has done videos on together and replicate, they both offer cloud-hosted LLM inference as a service.
More realistically in 500 years there'll be no remaining record or understanding of what that mysterious stuff in that cave actually is, and the fact that people keep dying after going there will be put down to superstition.
if we are still around
Unlike javascript, elixir makes you write synchronous code, e.g.

def process_items(items) do
items
|> Task.async_stream(&Processor.process/1, max_concurrency: 2, timeout: 7000, on_timeout: :kill_task)
|> Enum.to_list()
end

Semantics of regular and concurrent code is the same
His English friend is not the one making childish requests so that's not relevant.
I'd imagine this heli was flying pretty low
It’s pretty amazing how lively they are, right? Almost as if everyone was asked to return to the office?
Yes, I'm skeptical of the headline. Are they blocking a UA or what? It was going to be the LLM-scrapers ignoring robots.txt in order to promote some kind of new standard of discouraging them.

The scrapers are all rewriting their privacy policies to just say "all your text is belong to us" so I don't see much recourse for the media outlets, aside from being large with lots of aggressive IP attorneys.

And what becomes of all the archive.is pages we're feeding to them anyway?
Every time someone has tried that kind of equal income distribution, everyone has wound up gotten less, no one got more (except the new ruling class).
How far we’ve come for MSFT to have a project (Citus, which Hydra forks from) released under the AGPL.
Maybe you can try https://flows.network/, which supports environment variables when creating an app. You can also manage the environment variables later with their UI. Click on https://flows.network/flow/createByTemplate/Telegram-ChatGPT, you can see you could set up system_prompt.
Decentralized? Email? What does the MX record point to?
Hi there, we're working on an open-sourced time series database, and during its iterations, we encountered metadata incompatibility that required downtime maintenance. To minimize both downtime and the risks associated with manual errors, we successfully implemented an automated process using Argo CD Resource Hook and Argo Workflows to facilitate the upgrade procedure.

Defining two types of workflows: the PreSync Workflow and the PostSync Workflow, allows for enhanced control and management over each stage of the upgrade process, ensuring its controllability and efficiency.

We summarized the detailed upgrade procedure in this article and some enhancement measures we plan to implement in the future. Open for discussions!
As long as it is not twisted into the device being allowed to nag you over the use of non-genuine parts.

Apple should not be allowed to inconvenience users of aftermarket/non-Apple parts.
Not impressed after spending a few minutes on your website.

First off - What happens with my information after your quiz?
"Please enter your e-mail. This question is required.*
Question 5 of 5"

I suggest you to inform the user about data-policy before the User clicks "OK".

Another problem on your website is this;
"Password must be at least 6 characters".

You should follow best practices when it comes to password policy requirements. I mean, you are working with sensitive information right?

For anyone who reads this comment and have ADHD, you should check out NICE | The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence before you consider giving money to random people on the internet claiming all kinds of psudoscience..

Link - https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng87/chapter/Recommendation...
I was lucky to attend the ignobel award ceremony the year that the peace prize was awarded to the creator of the Stalin World amusement park. This was also roughly the same time period that the annals of improbable research founded the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists.

I’m sad that these important awards have never gained wider recognition, but perhaps they are too far ahead of their time.
I too have changed my mind and do want to do the washing up, ten minutes after realising that I have clearly lost the argument with my wife that it's my turn and desperately trying to redeem some credit for it.
> Isn't there a concept similar to "no free lunch" in biology?

Not really, no. There are examples of complex multicellular animal life with negligible senescence: some species of tortoises, of sturgeon, naked mole-rats — they don't die "of old age", only by illness and violence.

But even if there was no free lunch, we might just be able to pay the price in a way that evolution can't; I'd be very surprised if we could even engineer a gene for an organic MRI machine, let alone have one evolve naturally, but we can use what genetics evolution gave us to build a machine to liquify helium to turn unnatural rocks into superconductors to peer within our bodies and look for growths.
They're not banned from competing in chess tournaments, the open category is still available. This policy change was introduced to prevent men from violating the boundaries of women-only competitive spaces.

This is being done for the benefit of female chess players, not conservative politicians.
That would never work for human reasons. Specifically, a non-nuclear nation will never want their energy security to depend on the goodwill of nuclear nations. At any time, those nuclear nations could turn around and jack the price of fuel rods 100x, while also denying the non-nuclear nations the ability to make their own with the threat of sanctions or war.
> I wouldn't squirrel my documentation away in an ipynb file.

This! ipynb files are a nightmare to deal with. Fortunately, you can use jupyter without ever seeing a .ipynb file, by storing your notebooks in a different format (e.g. as programs or as markdown files). Bonus points: you'll hear fewer complains from your local graybeards if they can edit and run notebooks from their favorite text editor.
> - Ableton

- Visual Studio

Why would someone use both in a corporate env ?
For some reason, the free-market arguments only apply to the people at the bottom of the pyramid.

If you want to buy bread in a supermarket, but the bread is more expensive than you would like it to be -- hey, that's the market price, deal with it.

If a company wants to hire a specialist, but the specialist is more expensive than the company would like them to be be -- attention people, our society has a serious problem that we need to solve immediately by reforming education and immigration and whatever else might be necessary.
>Live systems in nature seem to solve similar problems with way less compute available

Do they really? They're certainly more energy-efficient in business-as-usual mode, but a human brain has 86 billion neurons, 600+ trillion synapses(!), and each instance takes 15-20+ years to train to do complex logical tasks. Even if the per-cell work is tiny (and, is it? cells are amazingly complex), 86 billion (or 600+ trillion) times 20 years is a lot of computation.
Also, stuff that we need at scale to keep things running, but are somewhat harder to source like sulphur... Which is used for agriculture.
Who said anything about infinite cancer free lives?

Some animals live longer than us. Many of them have lower cancer rates than us too.

Seems like a good idea to investigate the possibility of having longer and healthier lives.
Marijuana, hallucinogen use, binge drinking at historic highs in U.S. 35-50Y
Modern MOND theories modify the gravitational force at their simplest, they do not presuppose a quantum origin of that force. Ergo they're not creating new fields. More exotic MOND theories (like emergent gravity, mentioned above) reframe gravity as an entropic, not fundamental, force, akin to the "force" that "pushes" heat from hotter areas to colder areas. Again, not a quantum origin. It's still possible emergent gravity requires some kind of quantum component.

Again, the "evidence" we have for "dark matter" is just inserting dark matter post-hoc to explain some mysterious misalignment between theory and data. That's all it is. Mechanisms for explaining that discrepancy are called "dark matter" because people aren't imaginative enough to entertain any other possibilities besides "it's definitely another particle, bro". I'm not saying MOND is more correct, we can't say that at this time, what I am saying is the confidence and zealotry of dark matter advocates is severely misplaced and amateurs do not have a grasp on what exactly is being claimed to notice that there's nothing actually being explained, no theory per se whatsoever, when words like "dark matter" are bandied about, and so feign the confidence that the dark matter die-hards themselves project.

As for Einstein: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_constant
Great article. Although I am not sure if we really are reaching the value limits of the current LLMs, as the author mentions. Some fields as legal litigation are being disrupted as much as call centers have, but the change is happening in a much slower fashion, for many reasons. The productivity gain in these fields is potentially high, but so is human displacement. Relevant fact to consider
There’s a big difference between being immortal and not having to die at some preprogrammed time that is purely a byproduct of our evolutionary history. It’s a spectrum.

We don’t know what it will take to make us healthier/love longer.

All we are doing is trying to understand our bodies.

All cancer and heart healthier research is also trying to effectively increase human lifespan. So are anti smoking campaigns and seat belts.

No one would comment the way you did for these. We just take these for granted as a good thing.

But trying to understand the genetic basis of aging is however you put it.
Interesting, maybe I should consider using my glass straws more, since I like drinking lemon water in summer.
I'm quite sure there will still be humans in 500 years' time, but I suspect the global population will be much smaller, and life will be more primitive and much less technologically centred.
No, you typically get all the money wired into your bank account immediately after the deal closes.

It's possible to structure a deal where the company has to reach a series of milestones to unlock each additional tranche of funding, but this is less common.
I think if you manually hit widows update, you get the preview updates. no extra opt in
Talking with people from different backgrounds I noticed that almost no one appreciates the scale of demographic shift the industrialized world (so that includes China and India) experienced over the past two decades.

Young people have become a scarce resource and it's painfully visible already.
The name is foretelling of the end result: a flying spaghetti monster.
You are ignoring the fact that a toddler, once their musculature develops, is able to learn to walk after several tries.

Show me a humanoid robot that can do that.
While we're at it the government should set fixed prices for everything and for maximum efficiency they should also control the rate of production. We can call our nation the Democratic People's Republic of Soviet States.
Cindy Crawford looks odd: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d5cc5f_9477f35409954b6386...
There are many reasons. Failing at extrapolating exponentials. Uncertain thresholds for how much compute and data each individual task requires. Moravec's paradox, and relatedly people expecting formalizable/scientific problems to be solved first before arts. There are still some non-materialists. And a fairly basic reason: Not following the developments in the field.
> In my last job hunt no company turned down this request and two adjusted their processes to accommodate it.

It’s not that companies don’t want to hire fast (or don’t need to), I’ve worked at startups (in UK too), big tech and worked on hiring.

But if the rush is in their side and they want you, that’s different to an exploding offer in many ways, in that they aren’t trying to pressure you to move fast to improve their negotiating position and worsen yours, they’re the ones on the weaker position, and to get you to move fast for them, that gives you leverage.

You decide if you care about the offer and the company/role etc. and then ask them for a deal that’ll make you cancel your other interviews now in that case.
Well, since Brexit anyway.
>If software salaries are higher than EE salaries, EEs will move into software. Although occasionally I talk to people who seem to believe changing careers is impossible for some reason

Maybe because it is impossible in practice?

I'm an EE trying to move from embedded SW to higher level (backend/dev-ops since I had some experience with that and with python), and all I get are rejections ("sorry, thanks for your application but we can't move forward with it since we have so many quality applicants with more experience to choose from").

To me it seems, the current market doesn't seem to favor career switchers at all. Companies seem to be looking for seniors or at least mid level experienced in their area of work, so switching careers does indeed seem to be impossible right now. Or maybe I live in a bad market.
Here we go again... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224