skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I came up in the late 80s/early 90s sampling era. Guess what era of music most samples we used came from?
APL started at Harvard (though it developed more in IBM) and even nowadays there's the ARRAY workshop co-located with one of the main PL conferences.

The thing is that while array programming is amazing for some specific problems it's not going to help you make sure that you don't have memory errors, race conditions, or wrong states in your program
I think India does a pretty good job on it.

There's not a huge vegan market in India but vegetarianism is a huge thing. To differentiate between vegetarian and non vegetarian food there are different colored symbols [0] that explain whether food is vegetarian or not. Avoids the big label but anyone who wants to know can easily identify it.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FSSAI_new_labels_for_ve...
Thank you for most of the points, it's easy to miss the good parts of development of the recent years.

I don't however agree with this one: "It will take a few years, but I'm sure we'll have a viable alternative to Android in the near future." I think many essential apps (such as banking, or "less essential" such as for bike- and car-sharing) will start requiring device attestation as soon as even low-end Android phones start shipping with hardware TPM.
Many comments here are along the lines of: "we have ... gypsies ... here too and they are called ...".

I recently visited a museum in (Kingston upon) Hull - 'ull. The Streetlife one. A wall board managed to describe most of the wandering tribes hereabouts (UK and Éire), where they hail from, their modus operandi, a brief history and how to refer to them with a fair chance of not causing offence. I had no idea that Roma and Romany were not the same thing ... well it hadn't crossed my bows.

That is probably most people's approach - largely indifference and a fair dose of what is effectively racism - passive but nonetheless ... racist.

There are several TV series here eg "My big fat gypsy wedding" and some serious documentaries that are educating us and at least shining a light on travellers and travelling societies. The interplay between staid society and travelling societies has always been a tricky one. I think the world would be a much poorer place without travellers.

My house overlooks a park - its on the side of a valley. Our garden has a 40' drop to the lawn, with a zig zag path down. An urban stream (Dodham Brook, Yeovil, Somerset, UK) runs along the bottom. On the other side of the stream is the QEII meadow - about an acre of flatish ground, with a cafe at one end.

For a couple of years a bunch of travellers have rocked up on the meadow - Irish. I think. Their boy trotted his pony and trap up the path of the old railway line (long gone - cheers Mr Beaching) for a few quid. They repaired some cars and sat around a fire, long into the night. Funny thing is that late night noise went down. My new neighbours simply fitted in. All they left was some scorch marks on the grass, which was better than the twats who allowed a barbie to set fire to the meadow. There are some concrete BBQ stands less than 50m away.
After calling the second dish "delicious", the author asks what the purpose of the endeavor is. Obviously it doesn't have to taste better than real fish to be worth pursuing. If it's ballpark as healthy, and it's delicious, then (price permitting) there will be a huge number of interested consumers.
I am a vegetarian, almost vegan, entirely for ethical reasons. In theory I agree with you that meat replacements shouldn't need to exist. In practice I seem unable to escape the 20+ years of meat eating shaping my taste buds. Most of them are just not good. I find the Impossible Meat to be passable in place of ground beef.
I always found the inconsistencies off-putting (though my high-school English teacher was not taken by my attempts to note them).

Fred Saberhagen has the titular character write a pretty convincing defence in his book _The Dracula Tapes_, which is well-worth reading so as to be able to enjoy _The Holmes-Dracula File_.
EnBW earmarks €200M to build out HPC infrastructure
Stella is goated. we've been dancing around interview scheduling but will definitely schedule one sooner or later.
Maybe you missed the part where Vos is openly talking about impeaching Protasiewicz before she hears a single case. https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-justice-i...
The "War Against Humanity" subseries is chilling. This is such an important project.
Big Names in Big Tech to Attend AI Forum of US Senate's Schumer
> Conclusion: we need to use much less energy

Your thinking is that we can't build solar panels and nuclear reactors fast enough, but we can build housing fast enough to move a significant fraction of the population to higher density areas where they don't have to drive as much? Because that's the low-hanging fruit on energy consumption, and it's a massive scale long-term construction project with significant political opposition.

And we should still do it, if only to get housing prices out of crazyland. But what makes you think we can do it any faster than we can build generation capacity?
Not to pile on, but in case it's interesting: there had been one downvote and upvote by the time you commented. The lowest the score ever reached was 0.
> Why delude yourself?

Because bacon-cheeseburgers are tasty. Being able to eat something similar, without the ethical and environmental concerns, is a very attractive idea.
> to open up yet another front

You should have a good look at the map.
Just sent over my resume via the application! Sounds super exciting!
You could lie and write a bigger number. It's harder to lie about having six figures strapped to your wrist for anyone to see.

It needs to be a signal that can't easily be faked to be useful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stotting
hot knife cnc attachments are a lot of fun because of the low forces involved, and they can deal with a surprising amount of material variety; just make sure to deal with fumes.
> We could have grown at many points along the way but haven't wanted to. Instead we've stayed small, focused and profitable.

You're a "Small Giant": https://www.amazon.com.au/Small-Giants-Bo-Burlingham/dp/0143...
Good luck explaining that one to your accountant.
I'm not in the industry or in any hiring teams, but I do wonder how many interviews in the future will be thrown together with ChatGPT itself.
Yes, since it hadn't been mentioned elsewhere:

cannabis can trigger an EXTREME early onset of CEV (Closed Eye visuals) when coming up on LSD.

Like:
massive bong rip
"Damn, those neighbors dogs should stop barking. Or maybe I could muzzle them. That doesnt make any sense. They aren't my dogs. hmmm. Maybe I should lay on this lawnchair and look at the stars. Holy fuck...."

Limbs trembling from nervousness, intense CEV's, only relinquishing when I somehow managed to sleep 10 minutes later - or stopped forming memories before going to bed.

If you do not smoke weed errday 420 blazeit, I would NOT suggest smoking when on L until you've already familiarized yourself with it's uncomfortable aroma of uneasiness.
“masterstoke” was the term I used when I discovered it.
One useful outcome of this debacle is that it exposed a loophole in the Great Lakes Water Resources Compact.

Under that agreement, pumping water from the Great Lakes for industrial purposes is supposed to be disallowed, preventing e.g. chip makers or bottled water companies from buying land and setting up shop to pump water out of the lakes for export.

During this agreement, the city of Racine was given enough incentive to allow FoxConn to pull water from the lake via the city (there's an exception in the compact that allows cities who already pull their drinking water from the lakes to keep doing it). So Racine bypassed the compact by using their legal way to pump Lake Michigan water to supply FoxConn's industrial needs.

Fortunately this didn't happen, but the GLWRC needs some editin'.
As Hurricane Idalia caused flooding, some EVs exposed to saltwater caught fire
Made a list a while ago that got me started on my freelance path, YC work for a startup job board is one of them

https://github.com/pxue/awesome-startup-communities/blob/mai...
MultiNWriter a Go library for adding/removing duplicated writers at runtime
I needed a way to support N number of monitors to a long running task which lead me to making MultiNWriter. It supports adding/removing duplicated writers at runtime allowing things like adhoc websocket monitors to a command execution output.
Hotshot – independent film inside wildfires
The bits you've quoted aren't contradictory, and the contradictory bits aren't quotes, even though you put quotation marks around them.

The passage about Kennan's father is perfectly coherent. He didn't live up to the class status he married into. The career he chose could have been lucrative, but wasn't, not because of a lack of expertise but because he was inept at other things. There's nothing contradictory there and it's normal stuff for a biographical piece.

I can't understand where your criticism of this article is coming from. I could understand someone disliking it because they disagree with the author either ideologically or about Kennan, but since you say it's not that, I'm at a loss.

Personally I learned more about Kennan from it than everything else I've read about him put together. That's not saying much, as I'd only read maybe 3 or 4 things, but it's interesting, and he was a fascinating figure. The obvious thing to criticize would be the tedious bits when the author abandons his topic and becomes a harumphing curmudgeon, but at least he gets back on topic after that.
I think it's well accepted that mood / mental state can affect performance. It's also well accepted that smells can affect us emotionally. I think the burden of proof is on anybody who doesn't think smells can affect performance.

They should, ideally, have to perform this work while sitting in a smelly public bathroom.
This would have been an excellent argument had the word been evidenced in use contemporaneously with the Iliad. We have no such evidence of this.
Food accounts for 26% of emissions. 31% of that is meat. Nearly all of the usage is fossil fuels so decarbonizing electricity won't help unless electrify agriculture. Turn off the fossil fuels, the combine harvesters stop running and half of people die (the peasant farmers of Asia are fine). People mention permaculture as alternative, but that requires lots of labor. Is the plan that everybody becomes a peasant?

The problem with talking about smartphones and planes is that they aren't enough. For example, a big portion of energy usage is heating and cooling homes. Are you saying people need to give up AC and die in the summer? Or give up heating and die in the winter? Obviously, we should insulate houses, but like solar panels, that takes fossil fuels.
It’s the biggest upside.
For all the stupid things Google provides a ready answer for, their inability to answer “when does this come available and how” is annoying.
If you had a decent dose, then yes, for weeks/months after, you can close your eyes, think, and start to see shapes.

It is not what D.A.R.E describe as LSD, being stored in your spinal fluid - more of a HPPD/PTSD artifact of the more benign variety.
> https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_toc.html#SEC5....

> Phrases may be marked up according to idiomatic usage, typographic appearance, or for use as hyperlink anchors.

So the original standard considered both approaches valid, later standards decided that typographic usage was invalid.
What is the significant harm that is being forced on vast numbers by open records? I could see harm to a small number of people but for the true “vast” number, there is no impact.
Yes, indeed, or Tailcat (now search.brave.com), or Bing...
I use both Google and DDG (and also Brave search, depending on the browser/machine) and Google is usually better for me.
Did you find any? I was brainstorming on an "at home but offsite" backup storage solution. Potential issues with lightning and conductors led me to the same need for PoF.
The implementations of array programming in use today are quite different from APL, and they all came from industry.

> it's not going to help you make sure that you don't have memory errors, race conditions

Not only does array programming abstract away those kinds of errors, it also solves the problems that I care about: code that is faster, more expressive, and easier to read and write. Unwieldy type systems do not help me solve those problems.
Well, intrinsic complexity can be split, but artificial complexity might be added on top of it.

Languages and libraries that are well designed and compose better end up being great at taming complexity.
Functional languages are made to compose better, but their popularity is a hint that they are not that simple to use effectively.
Yeah. Although, that was my point?

This wasn't a rant against React. It was about the inmates (or junior devs) running the asylum.
You Live In A Society is the best you can do? Pathetic.
> Hidden in plain sight across the way from the Harris Ranch Supercharger’s main stations, behind a Shell station, is a small diesel plant that has helped power Tesla’s footprint.

Could have fit that in the title...
I have Aurelia 1 apps that have been in production since 2015. They don't need to be really touched. But, when they do, they're really easy to modify. I am currently using Aurelia 2 and will have similar scalable apps that will be in production for years to come too.
FWIW, I've noticed an uptick of that, too. Not sure what to make of it.
Very rarely these days do I print source-code.

But on the odd occasions that I do, I print the code with a monospaced font directly to .PDF.

I then transfer that .PDF to a large-format Kindle (like the Scribe).

When I don't need that anymore I delete it from the Kindle, but retain a copy of the .PDF for future use if necessary.
Yes, but not all property registers in the world are public (or at least web-accessible).
On a much smaller scale we do this in our family. We take weird, wonderful, or strange occurrences and formalize them to family traditions - pretending we’ve always done them and they are sacred. It’s wonderful part of our family culture.

One example - we had a cookie decorating party a decade ago and found once we had a house full of friends that we no cookie cutters at all! I ran to the CVS on the corner and for some reason the only cookie cutters they had were leftover Halloween ghosts… we’ve made Christmas ghost cookies every year since. We wouldn’t dare make trees or wreaths or Santas… our kids think this tradition is passed down for years, with varying insane stories as to why. It’s a huge part of Christmas fun to get out our ghost cutters!

Tradition is the glue of culture.
Liquid Types enabled a 6x speed up in high-performance parsing of UDP packets, according to "Scrap your Bounds Checks with Liquid Haskell" of Gabriella Gonzalez [1].

With Liquid Haskell, the bound checks are moved from runtime to compile time, semi-automatically handled by SMT-solvers. Static types help programmers to write correct programs faster, and the programs also run faster.

As an aside, speeding up programs with static analysis (constrained dynamism) are also present in Mojo (a variant of Python) or Swift [2].

[1]: https://github.com/Gabriella439/slides/blob/main/liquidhaske... "Scrap your Bounds Checks with Liquid Haskell"

[2]: https://github.com/modularml/mojo/discussions/466 "Mojo and Dynamism"
I’m still not sold.

How often are you getting $30k contracts that can be done in two weeks? Remote workers can still travel the world and work remotely if they can tolerate the timezone differences. I just got done with a rental in Costa Rica where I lived by the beach for 40 days this summer while working remote.

I don’t particularly care if I have to ask permission to get stuff done in a company. This is actually one of the reasons I spend a lot of time doing nothing: I’m blocked by other people and am waiting for them to resolve something or get their specs straightened out. By the time there is work for me to do, I’ve spent a lot of time idling. The actual work is done quickly, efficiently and I’m back to waiting for more work. The bottleneck is always other people, it’s not engineering taking too long.

I’m not going to push those people to hurry up either. They are under other pressures and it’s none of my business how long they take. As a remote worker, they are out of sight and out of mind until they have something useful for me.

Sometimes when we finish a big project, there’s a period of 2 or 3 months afterwards where we basically do very little except maintenance of the new deployment. Conveniently this year, we planned for those months to coincide with the summer.

Everything I’ve heard about freelancing has told me it’s not going to be this easy. It’s going to be a pain in the ass talking with clients all the time and stressing about keeping money coming in.
> Also… don’t people just take an Uber or bus if not driving that often?

In big cities, sure, but in most of the US, public transport is over 2x as slow as a car and semi-regular Uber exceeds cost of ownership of a used car. Where I live my total cost to own and operate a lightly used car is under $1000/year. I bought it prepandemic under $5k and could sell it today for around $10k.
It's now my fulltime search engine. It's really good.
Quantisation thankfully is applicable to RWKV as much as transformers. Most notably in our RWKV.cpp community project: https://github.com/saharNooby/rwkv.cpp

Tooling/Ecosystem is something that I am actively working on as there is still a gap to transformers level of tooling. But i'm glad that there is a noticeable difference!

And yes! experiments are important, to ensure improvements in the architecture. Even if "Linear Transformers" replaces "Transformers". Alternatives should always be explored, to learn from such trade-offs to the benefit of the ecosystem

(This was lightly covered in the podcast, where I share IMO that we should have more research into text based diffusion networks)
Not really. It's the very definition of an ad hominem.

If the study uses non-factual information or does not interpret the data by understanding the nuances that may yield different interpretations, then the author's educational background may offer an explanation. But that isn't the critique here.

It's just reverse ageism with a mix of elitism.
Also take a look at Dafny, Why3/WhyML, and Ada/SPARK. Very pragmatic tools that are getting some industry adoption.

Coq and Isabelle also see some use, but they are more costly to use in my experience.
Or for anyone interested in a concise summary based on the transcript: https://subsip.io/summary?youtubeUrl=hixwIOd_C44
The problem is that far too often extensions' authors require unnecessary privileges under excuses of need for improvements (usually of doubtful value). And users are used to accepting it...
It's not really news, though it calls itself that. It's entertainment, and it's written and dramaticized to get readers/viewers and ad views. This is true on both sides of the political spectrum. Strong opinions engage viewers, often even if they don't agree with them. Fox News or MSNBC don't care if people are watching them because they love them or hate them, as long as they are watching.
car meet deer meet death in my neck of the woods anyway. Satteltes can't predict deer. Most of the time we can't even predict them.
There’s also a much easier method - just get the delta of every Tesla on the road to the speed limit and you can see how well traffic flows. All the navigation apps already do that
Cheers mate. It does seem trite until your old lady pops out the first one. Then you sit there and wonder why the hell you spent so much time working or spending time doing silly things like brunch and bars when watching kids do kid things is infinitely more entertaining.

Writing in the book of life takes living to whole new level. I wish I had kids sooner.
I find it intriguing that BS's Dracula was required reading in VA. I may be wrong but I doubt any UK or Eire skool mandated it.
>I am thinking for example of "do the needful" which I understand being born in India. I don't hear it used except by Indian English-speakers but I think it should have equal status as your examples.

When my U.S. employer opened a technology center in Chennai, with the full intent of making two co-equal teams 12 hours apart, one of the first idioms our American staff learned from India was "do the needful." This is just to let you know that a whole bunch of very American tech people use this delightful and handy phrase all the time.
Among the few documents that we have of the “dark ages” period in Anglo-Saxon Briton are the property deeds and grant documents. It gives us a little glimpse into the lives, politics, and language of the period that we would not have otherwise. Consider future historians before we hide more records needlessly.
People in this thread have said the results on Google for those terms include more scams/malware. I have no idea if that’s the case.
Two Decades of DTrace
Also, what were the reasons for printing them out?

Mainly to go through and understand other peoples' code. The beauty of open-source is that you can stand on the shoulders of others. But you have to know what they were doing so that you can see whether it would be suitable for your project, and what changes you would need to make to make that previous code work for you.

('Cut 'n' Paste' does not work. You need to suit the code to the project.)
not if they try to turn a u turn on a highway at 70
Presidential candidate websites

Only ones in the first two pages (or more) are Biden's campaign website (of course) and Marianne Wilson's website. No RFK Jr, no Vivek Ramaswamy, not even Trump's.

Either it is egregious incompetence, or it's deliberate.
Synthetic food.

I think good synthetic meat etc is still some way in the future, but things like milk, juices, pulps, and animal feed should be easier and make even more sense.

Why grow a whole tree when you just want OJ, a whole cow when you just want it's breast secretions, etc?
also try with a fake substance that only smell like lavender, let someone choose for you. repeat various times and when you get enough data, compare!
possibly with more than 1 person.
What was the issue with twitter?
It's really easy to accidentally let a 30-minute nap per day turn into a biphasic sleep schedule.
What other architectures should we be taking note of (that stability is supporting)?

Especially in the text space that you feel will change the current transformer LLM paradigm?
Reasons Why You Should — or Shouldn’t — Upgrade to the iPhone 15
https://archive.is/tOoUs
Interesting point. I guess our sense of smell coupled with memory and observation and poisoning our enemies and losing our loved ones over the eons allowed for a sophisticated pallets such as the nuances sommeliers have
Do let me know your use case where it perform poorly?

And I would look into getting it better supported in upcoming datasets we train with =)

( I mean this genuinely, we have an entire discord channel for #failed-task to help us keep track and push for the model to be better )
Interesting. I'm not quite there yet, I'll eat what I'm served without being too picky but the fake thing just doesn't work for me. But interesting to see alternative experiences. Maybe I'll grow into it, but there are other things like that in particular foods that I've never been able to appreciate (for instance: certain textures that I don't like). Obviously this is all well at the level of 'first world problems', in a pinch I would eat whatever is available, no matter what kind of personal preferences I have. But as long as there is choice I'll settle for 'real' vs 'fake' any day. Maybe one day some fake that I can't distinguish will come along and then I'll fall for it. But for now it isn't there yet and the uncanny valley is one that I'd just as soon pass right by.
Semicolons, braces, and indentation are redundant. That can be useful, but it’s the opposite of clean.