skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people in either region are not making any significant effort. They just live their lives like everyone else around them. The difference is in what that looks like.

Anyway, what's with this dichotomy "corporations should change behavior" vs. "consumers should change behavior"? Those two interact and influence each other. Obviously, both must change their behavior. This is a process that must be bootstrapped.
Could they use the money to get a ux team ?? I m still not sure what to click to make the picture go big :s
I would appreciate, for you to not speak about the V community and V devs, which consists of many people (660 contributors currently), with various positions and attitudes, including me.

I have not spoken about anyone being a salty rival, whatever that means.

Thanks in advance.
I wonder if SteamOS 3 would work with this?

Much nicer than dealing with Windows.
Anywhere.
Sorry, but people don't always understand and some die as a result.

Maybe it should have been flagged for off-topic hopelessness.
New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour
- GIL

- No sound typing

- No proper package management

- Runtime type checking only

- Interpreted

I guess thats what he means with "Not a real language".

I disagree.... Its a tool that has it place. But its often used as a hammer.
>> Unfortunately, I suspect we will get a two-tiered system, where the "middle class" (whether that's disappearing is another question) can afford human content/human support/etc, and the working class are forced to endure poor experiences with AI generated content and so on.

Due to the economics of information, this is unlikely for contents. The cost to watch Avatar is often quite close to a local film with <1% its budget. The most interesting clips made by content creators (Ted Talks, Veritasium, MrBeast, etc.) are accessible to everyone with internet access. There will be some price differences based on access points (theater vs TV vs phone) or resolution but not necessarily the content itself.

I also suspect the best contents in the future will be co-created by humans and AI.
Still not as pleasant has having a little icon for each webapp showing up my alt-tab list, and an icon in my launcher I can click on.
Three Antiquities Traffickers and Their Fall from Grace
People use all their cloud services via Firefox, not so much via Word.

Also, you may be writing one document but have a hundred tabs open for research.
> Maybe it's because of the advent of self taught engineers?

I doubt it. I'm self-taught I don't think I do any of this. Some of the worst engineers I've ever worked with were those fresh out of a comp sci course. I find ability in this field comes with time and one's effort, not educational background – it simply takes a lot of time and effort to be a good engineer.

I think what you're noticing is likely the result of the average Covid-era software engineering hire. I've spoken about this in other comments, but there was such massive demand for software engineers during the pandemic that companies were forced to lower standards to the point where almost anyone who had written code at some point in their lives could get a job fairly easily.

I'm a contractor so tend to work at companies with quite large contractor numbers and over the last year I noticed a lot of these crappy Covid hires were no longer getting contract renewals and were not being rehired. It's mostly normalised for me now and I'm back to working with people who are competent again. However, if you were at a company that hired a lot of new permanent employees during Covid then I'm assuming that's going to be a drag that lasts years unless the company is letting those Covid hires go.

Over the last decade I'd say the quality of the average software engineer has improved quite a bit. But my perspective of the average software engineer could be quite biased.
So the cost of 3-4 FTEs at a company that employs >4000. Cool.

And how much does the change cost them in terms of:

- Not being able to hire talent when they need because they don't know or aren't willing to work with Elixir.

- Spending extra time training engineers.

- Having to hire more senior engineers/those versed in functional programming vs generalists.

- The rewrite itself (I'm sure it didn't happen magically overnight).

Unless the number had a few more zeros at the end of it, there's no scenario where this project made real business sense vs being some principal engineer's vanity project. $2M is what a company like Pinterest spends on an off-site or a random exec's spot bonus. There are probably analytics dashboards that no one looks at that cost >$2M/yr to produce.
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I think it’s more complicated than that. It’s pretty easy to live in most western European cities without a car. It’s almost impossible to live well in most American cities without several cars per family. America has been engineers around environmentally unfriendly habits. Today’s consumer has little to do with the massive foundation on which their society rests.

Edit: my family has only one car, but it’s because I hate driving / commuting and have worked remotely for 10 years. If I had to drive to work, we’d have two cars.
Ask HN: Are cold showers safe for immunocompromised people?
I had my spleen removed when I was six years old and have been asplenic ever since. However, I never seem to have had the problems that are common to immunocompromised people. I have fought illnesses, fevers, and the like without any outside help, just like immunocompetent people do. If anything I feel myself more fragile, if that makes any sense. But since asplenic people are officially considered immunocompromised, I approach the situation cautiously. Therefore, I wonder if it is safe for me and other immunocompromised people to take cold showers.
That's not Bard, it's only the search feature that highlights content from the linked article, which is a quote from ChatGPT's response after the user deliberately prompted it with false information.
The issue is how it interacts with other designs, such as forwarding of unknown attributes who are now poisoned
Isn't the major difference here compared to others the BEAM?
That's definitely true and top-down regulation is important so the whole economy has to clean up its act and it's not a competitive disadvantage for any one company to do it.

However, I don't like this frequently repeated claim that "it's actually big companies that are polluting!". They're polluting on our behalf, that's not an excuse.
Power Laws Have More Power Than You Think
I see what you did there.

Came here to say something similar.

Concur
Less plastic is ending up in the oceans, Utrecht researchers say
Or maybe parchment paper, which uses silicon instead of paraffin.

I use some silicon kitchen stuff. It's terrific. I'm dreading some future revelation that it's even worse than PFAS (eg Teflon).
The "free plan" for your family gets you a considerable amount of things for free (considering you are a nuclear family), 5 free family members, unlimited families to link as relatives etc. You can pay a very low price (we support PPP) to get access to unlimited family members and memories.

On the business side we have cut our burn rate a lot so it is really cheap to host it.
Modifiability is also true of python objects and classes. This is basically reinventing obj.__dict__

The real difference is that since it's not an object, "self" isn't in the function signature which to be fair can be annoying for a collection of stateless functions. So this is actually closer to a module.
The problem with Microsoft's SSH agent is that it requires a running service. If you are not an Administrator, it is by default disabled and unusable.

Later versions of PuTTY pageant.exe are now able to service the Microsoft clients, without extra privilege or a running service.

It is a better fit.

The PuTTY site isn't responding on my phone at the moment, or I'd post a link to the docs.
A Suburban Slumber
Why are the issues not the same? Are you privileging meat over silicon?
> to keep planetary civilization running

Did you mean: "to never decrease consumption in rich countries"?
If I choose not to fly then the plane will still depart without me. Many airlines flew completely empty planes during the pandemic.
Yes, but they were moving from enterprise JAVA which is considerably more verbose
The Scrum Master plays a crucial role in the Scrum framework, which is an agile methodology used for managing and delivering complex projects. The Scrum Master is responsible for facilitating the Scrum process and ensuring that the team adheres to its principles and practices.
In grasshopper you can organize through tags, and colors, which create profiles mapped to urls, so they also apply for instance if you are in History view. The profile can be set to match the root, or the exact url. You can also filter different kinds of tabs, like unloaded, or playing. There's also a button that appears when a tab is playing, to go back to that tab (focus it).
If any Firefox devs or PMs are reading, PLEASE build even a simple tab grouper into the browser natively.

Regardless how recommended a given extension is, all tab manager extensions require access to all web content which is too much. I’d rather use something built in but barebones rather than an addon
Kind of related, for anyone curious with parsing and JS: I have to recommend peggy for writing simple parsers for files to be consumed by JavaScript. Pretty niche, but does it so well. I developed a few packages using it so far.
Perhaps, however, SIMH (http://simh.trailing-edge.com/, https://opensimh.org/) also calls itself a simulator rather than an emulator. Six of one, half dozen of the other, I guess!
Usually that’s not a problem it just means adding OpenAI as a data processor (at least under ISO 27017). There’s a difference between sharing data for commercial purposes (which is usually verboten), vs for data-processing purposes.
Not sure with this has to do with Bard, since it is just a snipped from a website,

When asking Bard "country in africa that starts with k", I get the following:

There are 3 countries in Africa that start with the letter K:
- Kenya
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
Kenya is the most populous country that starts with K in Africa. It is located in East Africa and is known for its wildlife, including lions, elephants, and zebras. Kenya is also home to the Maasai Mara National Reserve, one of the most popular safari destinations in the world.
Kuwait is a small country located in the Middle East. It is a major oil producer and has a high standard of living. Kuwait is a popular tourist destination, known for its beaches and desert safaris.
Kyrgyzstan is a landlocked country located in Central Asia. It is known for its mountains and nomadic culture. Kyrgyzstan is a popular destination for hiking, skiing, and camping.
I hope this helps!
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> I've never had them slip out of the socket, for instance, like US or EU plugs.

Aside from old-style type-C plugs (two prongs) in old sockets, I've never seen an EU plug work itself loose in a socket, let alone slip out of it. Usually, there's the reverse problem: they're difficult to unplug, even when you want to.
When it comes to being forced to drive in the US, sure, but everything in the US from cars to buildings to meals is massively oversized compared to Europe. That's a personal choice. Many americans also proudly vote against environmental legislation or public transport infrastructure. That's also a personal choice. Blaming big oil for that is just an excuse.
Harsh Truths of Friendships During Difficult Times
This is kind of what kills me about the current crop of assistants. They all make my ADHD life harder, not easier. The Google Assistant, for example, cannot handle the few obvious things I ask. "Send an email to Jim." Nope. "Record my weight in Google fit." Nope. It won't look at any calendar that's not a Google calendar. It puts other people's flights on my schedule. It tells me I've got good traffic an hour before rush hour, but doesn't give me an update as it gets worse. I've probably wasted more time trying to get it to work than it's ever saved me. And it's twice as good as Siri was.

I'm always getting reminders about bills I've auto-paid, that Google has dug up from the bowels of my email, and yet I still find myself scrambling on things I forgot about.

I'm highly unimpressed by anything other than the incredible confidence with which these systems will lie. Online and phone support is bad enough, AI will not make it better, not because they can't make an AI that could figure out that you need a technician to come, but because corporate won't trust the AI to not deliver a pony along with them. And who could blame them? As soon as they give AI any power it will become the tool of the stainless steel rat. Instead, it will continue to be used to fend off support calls and fudge internal metrics, just like the last round of automated support.
In fairness I don't think we've needed any AI or even state help in achieving this but it stands to convert some recently loss making outlets into profitable entities again.
My mom collected these when I was growing up. Thanks for sharing, I think she'll get a kick out of this
It is more along the lines of "I can't do much personally against big companies". In the same way that you can't just "personally" create a better public transport system instead of driving.
> Why would the poor not be able to afford human generated content?

Because, why not? It's called segmentation.

> Copying human generated context costs basically nothing, so the marginal cost of letting the poor view it is basically nothing.

How do you explain why more recent movies are more expensive to buy or rent on streaming services, then?
They have gone from denial to 'It's too late so don't bother to try stopping us' as a propaganda strategy.

This is just part of that.
Are you really asserting that these models aren't learning? What definition of learning are you using?
And also, every now and then, the BMW's engine or uber-complicated automatic transmission will have major issues, and you're out of $5k-$10k.
Lucky you. I'm still scraping together whatever my memory kept but so much is gone.

It felt like it would last forever...
Large energy companies should be nationalized and run rationally, i.e. in a way that acknowledges the extreme scarcity of waste absorption capacity we are faced with.
I don't know where this idea comes from that we can get more from language models then what we put inside. Thinking we can process any amount of data and get a competent surrogate mind out of it borders on magical thinking.
Thank you, that worked!
The article is strange in that it claims there is much more plastic in the ocean than previously thought.

Other articles about the same research state the opposite though : these researchers think that there is about 3.2 megaton vs the previous (UN) estimates of 75-200 megaton.

The Nature article : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01216-0
(1) seems like a bug rather than a feature, to me, outside extremely narrow use cases. It's generally much better to be able to statically reason about what code exists and how it is structured and called, than to have to reason about runtime behavior to determine those things.

I agree with (2), but I'm not sure the pattern from the OP is a good example of using that power. It seems like using a language feature - mapping a string to an anonymous function - when a better one exists: defining named functions. Named functions can be looked up dynamically by name in python, and are (I think) generally more clear to a reader, especially with the standard documentation and type hints.
That's because under current regulations they would lose their license to fly that route, which is certainly bad, but it doesn't extend to everything else.
To me it’s been clear for a while: copyright is a fiction which has outlived its usefulness.
According to Wikipedia [0], Hayfever was already described in the 10th century. It is less common among people who grew up on a farm and more common with rising temperatures and air pollution. Hayfever is also significantly more common in urban areas.

Assumably all of these factors play a role in the prevalence today, though that doesn't rule out the existence of other undiscovered factors (e.g. a disease, as some people speculated).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allergic_rhinitis#History
We have not reached the same level of usability as VB6, Delphi, and WinForms, where you can drag and drop buttons and textboxes onto a form, click to add some code behind them, and have stuff just happen.

Web front-end is horrific by comparison.
Does AI really speed up projects by 10x? In my experience, tools like copilot help with the smaller things, but it's bigger things that really matter in a project.

For example, the right database schema or the right architecture I could easily see saving you 10x the development effort, but these are the things copilot is least able to help you with.

Am I misunderstanding something here? Or could it be that what you are finding is that your experience is helping you build faster, and this is being misattributed to AI?
i actually heard this name before but only knew it as “hacker language” (????), which sounds like a mainstream form of it, and makes sense since i read it on a newspaper
It does not sound too incredible to me.

Erlang and BEAM was designed to handle Ericson's telephony services. Piping-lots-of-stuff-in-parallel in fault tolerant fashion is the main use case around which it was designed.

Of course this is anecdotal.
I'm not entirely sure about the centralization part. We already have models that can run on consumer hardware and are freely available to use for anyone (e.g. code-llama 34B is actually a viable gpt 3-5 replacement, if not slightly better)

Training these is still out of reach, but fine tuning is getting close (LoRA) and running them is almost easy at this point.

The products we've built so far are power-centralized, but augmentative. Where we go from there is up to people, not the nature of the technology. My hope is decentralized and augmentative, but the worst case scenario is indeed centralized and substitutive.
This is basically MOLOCH.

We can't stop ourselves from 'crappifying' ourselves.

We are driven by local min/max in society that we can't break free from, until the system breaks.

Moloch
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

Past post on 'enshittification' from Cory Doctorow
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36611245
This is a pretty realistic balanced real-world benchmark of web frameworks (and languages): https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

It shows that Python with Django is literally 40 times slower than the fastest framework. Python with uvicorn is 10 times slower.

The use of languages like Python and Ruby literally results in >10x the servers being used; which not only results in higher cost, but also greater electricity use, and pollution and carbon emissions if the grid where the data center is located uses fossil fuels.

Not to mention, dynamically-typed languages are truly horrible from a code readability point of view. Large code bases are IMO difficult to read and make sense of, hard to debug, and more prone to bugs, without static types. I'm aware that Elixir is dynamically-typed, but it (along with JS) is an exception in terms of speed. Most dynamically-typed languages are quite slow. Not only do dynamically-typed languages damage the environment as they're typically an order of magnitude slower, they also lower developer productivity, and damage the robustness and reliability of the software written in it. To be clear, I'm in favor of anything that increases productivity. If Kotlin were 10 times slower, I'd be happy to pay that price, since it is genuinely a great language to work with, is statically typed, and developers are more productive in it. I'm not sure how Elixir mitigates the downsides of dynamic typing (maybe lots of 'type checks' with pattern matching?), but it would definitely be super-nice if a well-designed (Kotlin or Haskell like?) statically-typed language targeting the BEAM existed...
Does it use ‘Bond villain’ rather than implicitly mention Sean Bean in order to avoid spoiling the demise of a character in a movie from almost three decades ago?
> Interface for these through LLMs

no code pivot tables?
Yeah. I don't understand why modern browsers don't allow disabling tabs. I already have a window manager that's quite good at managing windows. I don't need another level for that with its own rules.
Yeah, you alluded to this at the end, but you don't need to define these as methods on an instance (requiring `self`) if they don't require state.
Honestly, I am all for more good quests in Silicon Valley or tech in general, but if the authors think that Anduril (autonomous lethal tech and surveillance) and Delphi Labs(unspecified cookie cutter AI company like thousands right now?), plus advocating for Peter Thiel on the side, are "Good Quests TM" than that seems way too on the nose for me.
"Big bad energy companies" is tiring. We demand the energy. Sure they should be held liable for lying. But it would be hard to convince me that if they did tell the truth things would of played out any different.

Energy is the life blood of our civilization.
You can absolutely personally not buy so much shit from big companies.

You can also vote for more public transport, which most americans don't.
Your second thing-that-looks-like-a-quotation does not appear to be quoted from anywhere. I don't think you should do that.

(I am not sure whether your last line is your actual opinion or sarcastic, given the "no true ..." phrasing, but for what it's worth I think it's unironically correct: no one with any brain thinks ChatGPT is anything much like a superintelligence. There are people who expect AI to become godlike, for better or for worse, but the most they're saying about the likes of ChatGPT in this connection is "progress sure seems to be pretty fast these days".)
Would be great to be able to search them.
I don't understand what value the dictionary is providing here, I suspect none?

How is this better than just functions in a module? (import the module as math_exprs, use getattr)
I don’t know, but anyone who has the motivation to “interrogate it to no end until it clicks for [them]” already didn’t have trouble to become well-educated before. AI can speed things up for those people, but I can imagine much less impact on general education.
... less power

It is a sore point for me that physicists have long wrongly plotted distributions on log-log paper, drawn a line, and pronounced they discovered a "universal" power law without ever once using words like "estimator", "significance", etc.

My first paper was wrong because of this and when I was asked what I thought the cause of our observation was I didn't give my real answer (which I'd already had given and had rejected) which was that our analysis was bogus. Mark Newman was at our lab at this time and later on he wrote some good papers on this project.

https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1062
That’s been of limited success as soon as urban development becomes politicized among the 80%. The NIMBY’s in SF might be the immediate challenge, but the folks in the rest of CA afraid of their little suburb becoming like East Palo Alto maintain the overall legal framework that gives those NIMBY’s power.
Monads and Haskell is not a requirement to understand a functional programming language.

Also, I find it hard to believe that anyone who knows N+1 programming languages would have a hard time understanding Elixir quickly, it looks like most mainstream programming languages used today, with slightly different syntax for some things.

Take a look at https://elixir-lang.org/crash-course.html and you'll see what I mean, it's basically Ruby with some slight modifications.