skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But I'm not pretending that autofree isn't documented as WIP, nor am I suggesting that anybody should use anything unintended.

I am simply pointing out that a single claim from the article is still relevant to how V functions today. To be more specific, the still-relevant claim is: "So forcing the value to be allocated on the heap reveals that autofree leaks the values."

The post I am replying to did not say "almost none of the claims in this article are relevant now," it specifically said "none" without qualification.

Maybe I am just unusual in how I use the English language, but I would unquestionably consider this to be a case where you should really qualify the word none, because otherwise it's just not true.

Whether autofree is completely in alpha and intended not to be used or not, the claim from the article that it doesn't work for everything is relevant. I don't see how it couldn't be.

Surely if autofree is WIP, it's no big deal to simply agree that the fact it doesn't work on heap-allocated structs is relevant to its current state?

Now, to be clear, I am aware that arguing over a single extremely small point is, to some degree, missing the point of the comment I was originally replying to. But this is also just how I talk about things on the internet. If part of your claim is untrue, even to an extremely minor degree, I will point that out. This is why when I personally claim things, I almost always qualify what I am saying. (See? Even here I said "almost always," because I just naturally add qualifications so as not to overstate my case).
The *root mean square is 120V.
So your first statement is correct for apartments and condos. Typically 3 phase comes into the building then each unit gets 2 phases and a neutral ran to them. This actually works out to 208V phase to phase but phase to neutral is still 120v. Appliances like cooktops and ovens are definitely less power when ran off of 208v. For single family homes you only get a single phase, a center tapped transformer steps down the voltage to 240V leg to leg so coming into the house is two legs from the transformer and the center tap which is your neutral. Some really large houses sometimes get 3 phase but that is very rare. Usually large houses will just bump to 400 amp service.
The DSA forces platforms to allow federation and to expose public API endpoints.
So it solves this because it makes it possible for your to talk with someone on a different app.
I'm honestly seeing little value in asterisks with WFH and the move to passphrases. Feedback is important when you're typing a long phrase with complete precision. Plus shoulder surfing is simply not a thing when my physical security profile now involves a locked front door and a call to the police.
This is funny on two levels. On it's face, it's absurd and clever.

It's also funny because when you or someone you know falls ill or is injured and is unable to work you'll realize that all the boot licking you did when you were able bodied means precisely nothing without worker protections. This comment will be in your history and maybe you'll even remember writing it. There will be no safety net for you - private or public - because before you needed one you made efforts to ensure it wouldn't exist for anyone else.

On second thought, it's not that funny.
Yea sometimes the share prices even go up bc the market sees “efficiency”
Go is a small language that is widely used and easy to pick up.
Spouse under the assumption they either accept ownership of the debt or they already were the owner of the debt.
It feels like your not reading my comments thoroughly, or associating non-existant claims to them. No one has said anything about whether radio waves are 'made of electrons' prior to your comment.

Also, what does 'practically feasible' have to do with the parent comment?

A lot of things that are not practically feasible are nonetheless mandated in some form or another, and are still punished for if a transgression is detected via happenstance, there are many examples throughout history.
AI as a 'nomer' really realy reminds me of what we used to call 'impressions'. It just gives you the impression of a result.

People use the word AI to refer to a picture, video or audio clip that (in effect) does an 'impression'. Like an actor doing an impersonation.

The abstraction thing is a big topic. An indirection, frameworks and LLMs are asbtractions that are 'flat' or expand outwards on the architectural blueprint of code(s). These are ideal, or semi-ideal code ideas that are understood objectively, built from a set of primitives that someone, somewhere chose.

The other 'abstraction' is the heirarchy of abstraction, from electricity, to binary, to machine code, to assembly, to C, to C++.

I think there is another "couple layers" of abstraction above programming languages as we have them. But there is a grueling No-Mans-Land of work to get to the 'next step up'.

If we can get above 'high level programming languages' then we can capture some subjectivity from the programmer.

I really struggle to think in flat abstractions or blueprints/maps of code, to my own detriment. But it does make sense as a concept.
This is naive in the extreme. There are many scenarios where passwords are needed, for bootstrapping, a disgruntled admin leaving, etc.

There is a role for a common secret in a secure ecosystem (password, passkey)
How about we pay crypto bounties on attacks on carbon infrastructure when the price gets to low?
If there's no evidence a call is being recorded, I'm very comfortable that it is not.

That said, I do think it's harder to establish solid working relationships purely virtually. Possible but harder. During the pandemic a lot of people probably coasted based on prior relationships and we're likely starting to see some of capital running out.
The Helsinki University's course looks very promising! Thank you for sharing the link!
I should have clarified: I think they said they did it on their home router.
You admit that most people won't have the money to retain their cars, thus they will lose the greatest tool for individual travel ever. So you want to force poor people to be stuck in their current location regardless of how safe it is, and how much opportunity it has.
I recommend the book "The Idea Factory", which is about Bell labs and begins with a short biography of Vannevar Bush.
Right, then you get cancer and lose your job, savings, retirement, and start from zero.
Sometimes you need an emergency cup of tea
The Case for Rust in the Web
> And even if you trust Google to do no evil, do you also trust your government? Because often enough Google will hand over your data to local authorities.

I'm agreeing with the rest of the post, but I can't imagine the FBI/NSA/whoever else stopping their snooping campaign because you've changed a switch in some settings dialog.
This shows a quite limited understanding of what FE development (and product design) entails these days. But, it's sort of true if you don't build anything interesting.

Same applies to every other component of a "not interesting product" btw, if all you need is a DB with some crud endpoints you can get great solutions without writing any backend code.

I think the "disrespect" is largely a left over from the time when FE was seen as styling with a little bit JS, it's a different world right now.

I don't think it's as prevalent anymore, plenty of BE devs moving towards FE, plenty of respect as well, and any decent organization realises the importance of FE in actually delivering anything.
The point is that people who buy huge cars can't claim that it's Ford's fault for polluting when it's their personal choice to get a wasteful vehicle. Same with people who fly a lot for fun or any number of environmentally damaging things.
bummer but love the ambition and the podcast. hope to see you continue pushing local first in your next endeavors, adam!
Programming Is Horrible
Especially when it's interest free - thanks, BNPL startups and venture capital! I appreciate interest free loans at your expense.
We should call this the Chinese Democracy Problem.
> which is a correlated objective but not the same thing.

True, but even if they didn't share it with their subscribers, "How much would this user like this movie" is a valuable tool in keeping subscribers.
On the core levels – yes.
Sounds like you work in a kind of cut throat place. Is yours a common worry? I have never worried about anything like this in the last ~7 years of working remotely
> * Have you seen The Room? Anytime I see the same person's name in the credits for all the roles, I immediately start to get nervous.*

Sounds like that's more of a personal problem than one about this sort of video generation in general.

> Also, small teams is not a single person

Yes, which is why I likened this to what was in my original comment: "just like people make video games all by themselves or with a small group of people"
> Unless it is a very old construction or a smaller home, houses in the US as well as most of americas are provided with multiple phases in Y configuration (3-phase, 4 wires, one neutral).

> So, for a small apartment, maybe you'll get a single phase wire plus the neutral, or more commonly 2-phase wires plus neutral, up to the full 3 phase wires plus neutral.

> The phases are usually 220V between then and 120 between any individual phase and the neutral connector.

I am an American - an electrical engineer in the Midwest - and I was on roofs last week after a tornado came through our town, working with the distribution panels. What you said is not correct. Homes get 240/120 nominal line voltage, or 220/110V at the load, 180 degrees out of phase, plus a neutral.

That is not the same as two phases plus the center conductor of 3-phase Y.

In industrial facilities, it's reasonably common 208V 3-phase in a Y configuration, with three wires each 120 degrees out of phase with each other. This is typically used for lighting circuits, because it's 120 phase to ground and can use commodity bulbs and ballasts. More commonly, machines will run off 480V 3-phase, which is 277 phase-to-ground.
> LLMs are slowly being commoditized

nah there will always be demand for the best one
Can you elaborate why we're living in the era of Textual? Genuinely. It seems like a pretty nifty library but I'm not sure it transcends to killer library territory. Thanks!
I used to have that with Poetry but it's been very stable since 1.5ish. PDM looks interesting but the "doesn't need virtual envs" bit scares me and rye is a personal project that may one day be something more [1]. I don't think I'd switch package manager away from Poetry for the foreseeable unless the folks behind Ruff [2] create one. I love Ruff.

[1] https://github.com/mitsuhiko/rye/discussions/6
[2] https://beta.ruff.rs/docs/
Explaining Emergence
Woooofftt. That's bad advice and in an even worse order. There are a bunch of steps in between getting denied and just YOLOing it out of pocket. It looks like going through the insurance company's peer to peer process is probably going to work out. It is still a bit up in the air but its looking positive. We'd already started down the route of getting connected to lawyers in case it doesn't.

I don't think "do it out of pocket and try and claw the money out of them after the fact" was ever on our list of options. I wouldn't consider that unless the lawyers suggested it. We were looking into going overseas to have to done, which honestly its another big indictment of this system.

The point still stands about how insanely inefficient this whole system is at the macro level. The fact that lawyers are getting involved in routine medical procedures or doctors are suggesting what they know is incorrect treatment is a sign of deep inefficiencies. We aren't an outlier either. It is profitable for the insurance companies to jerk you around, fight you, try and sneak past denials were they can.
Defined-benefit plans do not work. Maybe you can pick out some arbitrary 20/30/40 year window where they did, but with current demographics and projects demographic changes the math just doesn't add up.

At least with defined-contribution plans you are able to save for yourself rather than just hoping your retirement fund is still there in 50 years and having to save for yourself on top of that.
I've been seeing reports like this daily from people close to me, especially in the tech world.

I increasingly feel that we need these breaks, and it leads me to conclude that we've really messed up the work model we've built in society.

Perhaps a part-time model would be more humane and mentally sound for a healthier society where people can enjoy their short time on this planet.
Most American kids are never taught economics, and if they are, it's a basic version in late high school at best. If you ask a kid who owns a business or how prices/values are determined, they'll probably have no idea. Guessing that the store manager owns the store seems more natural than thinking there are invisible stakes that may have traded hands between entities you never see.
It's so sad that the same politicians want to regulate all kinds of information sources to "combat" disinformation ("fake news").
Before you settle on JavaScript (which, by all means, is quite useful) you may want to decide how seriously you take the talk of "AI era". In AI and machine learning, Python rules.
In many cases you cannot see the correct abstraction without introducing the duplication back. When working with particularly messy code I often do sort of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnaugh_map of important variable states to see what actually happens before I can refactor it.

This is basically introducing the duplication back.

Whether you keep the duplicated code or refactor it in a different way is another question, what matters for the "duplication is cheaper than wrong abstraction" to be true is just the fact that by introducing abstraction early you wasted time refactoring one way and back. Refactoring isn't free. So in fact leaving the duplication there would have been cheaper - Q.E.D.

It doesn't mean you should never risk it, but it does mean you should think hard before you do it.
Doing it at the family level or between neighbors who like each other and agree to share from victory gardens and greenhouses and personal farms is much different than what the parent proposed. Multi-generational family compounds are an awesome idea. This also solves retirement issues for the elderly.
I am familiar with PHP, JS and was able to create basic to moderate complexity things like CMS 5-7 years ago. Thank you for the advice
Wishing you success and a minimum of frustration and despair in your searching. It's taken me 18 months to get a job offer worth taking, and I would not wish 18 months of unemployment on anyone, no matter their ability to survive.
Snow Crash is definitely the place to start with Stephenson, but it's also a bit dated at this point and in many ways seems like his least "visionary" book. Stephenson went very much from a balance of style and substance to the latter over time, and it gets a bit tedious. Anathem and Diamond Age are pretty good too. From there, you will have enough context to figure it out.

As far as The Three Body Problem - it's ok and starts off really strongly, but then just completely falls apart.

I have not read Iain M. Banks, what do you recommend as a start?
If you think there's almost always no actual difference, consider this: in the United States, the richest 10% of all households own >70% of the country's wealth. The richest 1% own 35% of the country's wealth.

The rest of the population may own some stock, but it's a pittance relative to the capitalist class. We're not running the show.

Regarding Bill Gates, he acquired his wealth by exploiting workers, not to mention everyone else, engaging in illegal monopolistic practices. Moreover, he's even wealthier now than he was before retiring from Microsoft and claiming to want to give most of his wealth away. And he's 67 years old, time's a wastin'. The problem is that wealth begets wealth. Gates doesn't even have to work to continue to accumulate wealth, so much so that he can't seem to give away money faster than he makes it.

That's the essential difference: having to work for your money vs. having your money (and also everyone else) work for you.
[Author] Can you cite some examples of this so we're not talking in the void?

I've actually tested Llama 2 for summarization but haven't blogged about that yet, and across multiple domains, Llama 2 is pretty good.

I do see some differences -- Llama 2 doesn't follow instructions as cleanly, and is more verbose.

It's not a plugin replacement -- in the article itself I point it out. GPT 3.5 largely followed instructions to return A or B. Llama 2 didn't so I had to use another LLM to post-process.

I'm not saying you should always use Llama 2 or ChatGPT. It's that for some use cases, you can save a lot of money by using an open source alternative.
Everyone is going to parent their kid their own way but is it even possible to protect your kid from hanging out with "bad kids"? I was fairly sheltered. Religious family, didnt have my own car, had to tell my parents where I was going when I left the house, lived outside of town farish from anywhere else but I still had plenty of opportunities to hang out with bad kids and do bad things. I had my own set of morals and those prevented me from doing anything TOO stupid in high school.

I know a decent number of people who came from homeschooled or religious families who went absolutely wild their first two years of college because they had been so sheltered growing up. This was at a Christian university where you had to live on campus for your first two years, drugs/booze were banned, and you couldnt have people of the opposite sex in your dorm rooms.

TLDR: eventually your kids will interact with "bad kids". What are they going to do then?
Goldeneye is among the best, but for my money I think Timothy Dalton gave us the best Bond performances we're likely to ever get. Brosnan did it well, but Timothy Dalton just oozed cool killer vibes.
Inventor syndrome. Same thing with our cell phone networks and space ships. When you invent something you end up with the most “archaic” version, by definition. But it seems to still be working. American pragmatism says there’s better places to allocate resources.
I'll just add that python provides a pretty good transition for matlab people doing scientific programming, it keeps all the simplicity for scripting, had a good range of packages, etc, another person brought this up too.

For the generation who used matlab in grad school and then abandoned engineering and science to become software engineers, it provided a good soft landing to transfer skills.
I stumbled across Wisley Airfield [0] one day - very strange, doing a long bike ride across London, I plotted a route that avoided main roads and suddenly found myself in the middle of a mile-long runway. Right next to the A3 and RHS Gardens at Wisley, not a lot of people know about it. There's a public bridleway across it, no problem for anyone who wants to explore; last time I went past, there was armco across the runway which I think might be to stop illicit drag races.

[0] https://www.google.co.uk/maps/search/wisley+airfield/@51.303...
All rust code is undefined behavior
"Duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction" makes sense coming from the Rails community. Between the meta-programming, lack of static types, large amount of unit tests, etc. Rails has a tendency to lock a project into an abstraction choice & is very expensive to change. The pain is particularly intense during major version Rails upgrades. From my experience, the Rails framework got in the way & bogged down project velocity. It was difficult to move away up to ~2010 as many of the jobs were locked into Rails. There were many frustrated Rails programmers around that time. When node.js, Go, & other languages/platforms came out, there were finally full stack libraries that did not lock in abstractions as heavily as Rails. Nowdays, I use astro.js, solid.js, & target isomorphic libraries. The flexibility of Javascript with the static types of Typescript make changing abstractions significantly easier. The Javascript ecosystem spent far too long focusing on SPAs when the isomorphic MPA was low hanging fruit.
Bitcoin ETF appears to be on the way after court hands the SEC a stinging loss
That's a reasonable point. This is Techempower as I mentioned originally. In pretty much all the benchmarks PHP smokes Elixir
First time you're seeing evidence of coporate-taxpayer corruption?

Where did they say that?
It's only benign if we don't see new policies that say "everyone must disable keystroke obfuscation so we can still spy on traffic".

If a company's security strategy relies on the ability to tell if a given stream of encrypted bytes is shell traffic, and that it can be fooled by timing obfuscation, they need a better strategy. Attackers won't care to follow a "no timing obfuscation" policy.
Right?! I actually did think it was named after face huggers and wondered about the terrible branding...
That's something I've never seen in real life.
- Alphabetical App Grid (I don't see how this is not a default thing)

- Blur my shell

- Clipboard Indicator

- Sound output device chooser

- Windows is ready Notification Remover

- Ubuntu AppIndicators (this comes with Ubuntu)

And to make it usable I also purged everything that has anything to do with snaps.
"To disrupt the botnet, the FBI redirected Qakbot traffic to Bureau-controlled servers that instructed infected computers to download an uninstaller file. This uninstaller—created to remove the Qakbot malware—untethered infected computers from the botnet and prevented the installation of any additional malware. "

That's pretty sweet that they healed hundreds of thousands of computers
Who Was Rube Goldberg, and What Are Rube Goldberg Machines?
The answer is that both are important. The trick is extracting the nodes and edges from the text automatically (which can be done with transfer learning from a foundation model) and then embed the string so you can search for things like it later, using the keyterms you find (and which are stored in the graph).
[Author] Can you be specific about which part of the research is dishonest?

We've shared the code openly, you can reproduce it yourself if you want.
Incredible thing to hold a decades long grudge over. It's a park, music venue, nature preserve, and part of the museum campus now. All of which I have to assume is better for the residents than an airport, however visitors may feel about it.
A lot about networking sucks, but that's what people are paying them for.
Only the biggest MMOs, really just WoW and FF14, can deliver PvE content at a pace even close to satisfying players. It's expensive to develop and players can only play the same content PvE for a limited amount of time. It's just not possible for anyone but the largest dev teams.

I would like to see an MMO that really focused on a wide range of gameplay systems rather than content. It's been attempted before, one example I think is Archeage, but unfortunately ruined by monetization.
I think part of the problem is that very few people have a large gap, or at least very few people are honest about it. It's hard to compare two groups when one of them is N=9997 and the other is N=3.
What about voice control so you could shout ELEVEN?
To produce a kilo of cotton (roughly equivalent to a t-shirt and a pair of jeans) takes 20,000L of water. It’s just fundamentally an extremely thirsty crop.

Not to mention that cotton is notorious for depleting soil nutrients, so it is often grown with very large amounts of fertilizer, which also polluted waterways and their outlets into the oceans.
Everything about Elite: Dangerous is a huge grind. You basically cannot play it casually, even in the completely offline and singleplayer session.
Honestly, I would dump it, but the wife loves it and they have good content. I switched to a basic plan before they eliminated it and saved $'s from their crackdown as we didn't need the additional screens that I thought we did anyways.