skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ugly truth though is that "catalog parts" carry with it a whole boatload of overhead in the form of sockets/memory infrastructure/voltage regulators/cooling standards etc. The current "big money" is in being the core that gets integrated into a phone or tablet. It makes me sad too as this is a pretty spiffy micro-architecture to play around with.
COBOL had a release this year. Just because something is maintained for legacy applications, tells us nothing about is health/popularity for greenfield code.
Goto is control flow. You can’t do control flow with function calls in the sorts of languages we’re talking about, so goto has to be built into the language, typically as a statement.

(In some of these languages you can do awful hacks like using hooks intended for debuggers <https://entrian.com/goto/> or rewriting bytecode <https://github.com/snoack/python-goto>, and frankly what Svelte does is quite similar, just implemented as a compilation step rather than at runtime.)
Maybe they work shorter days?

Or maybe someone thinks it's better to be explicit about how they work like crazy. Or they want to be "generous" by giving you Saturdays off once in a while.
British Court: Patient Can Be Denied Life-Sustaining Treatment Against Her Will
In the 1990s show seaQuest DSV, there was a "talking" dolphin that spoke to the humans via a computer interface that the boy genius character had created.

In one of the episodes, the ship's computers get wipe so the boy has to rebuild the dictionary of the translation system by showing the dolphin flash cards.

I remember thinking that was an interesting way to build a translation layer between two different species with a BIG assumption that the dolphin could understand the symbols on the flashcards.

The internet, being what it is, even has a Wikia link about this: https://seaquest-dsv.fandom.com/wiki/Vocorder
> Perhaps, though I could see there being issues like "I see fish on our left" "well, you're always wrong so we are going right" being an issue.

This isn't a black box because the whalesong encodes some type of behavior that we could, in theory, observe and decode even if we didn't understand the atomic pieces of the whalesong. It's how you study any unknown language--you learn a few relations and then gradually build up a richer lexicon and grammar that gives finer-grained understanding.

I'm not sure what the dog whistle example is intended to demonstrate, as even human language has a significant learned component.
It is interesting to think that 500 lines of code is something one can write in one or two days. But, writing a C compiler in 500 of comprehensible code (even in python) is challenge in itself that may take months after a few years of solid learning.

I wonder if is this a good path to becoming an extremely productive developer. If some one spends time developing projects like this, but for different areas... A kernel, a compressor, renderer, multimedia/network stack, IA/ML... Will that turn a good dev into a 0.1 Bellard?
People don't really care about facts. Only the next thing to be outraged by.
What was your former jurisdiction?

Provided the employee is appropriately classified as except OR they are hourly and paid appropriate overtime rates, I'd expect they are ok. Maybe their hours don't surpass 40? More likely there's no limit on number of hours worked (I'm unaware of any in my state)
Other modern examples include Musk’s stock manipulation trial, and jurors refusing to convict in cases where police use excessive force.
I made similar project in TypeScript[1]. Basically multipass compiler that generates x86 assembly, compiles it to binary and runs it. The worst thing were register allocator, designing IR code and assembler.

[1] https://github.com/Mati365/ts-c-compiler
I'm surprised no one has mentioned qpdf.

https://qpdf.readthedocs.io/en/stable/overview.html

It turns a PDF (typically everything in it is compressed binary blobs) into a mixed binary/ASCII file (which itself is a PDF) that can be edited with vim.
It flattened in the midst of manufacturing outsourcing and globalization. Bring back the heavy industries and it would look much more different.
Is there a C compiler written in Python that aims for maximum readability rather than trying to get as much done under X lines of code?
Most jobs in the bay area are 6-7 day a week jobs. You may not be logged in to Slack on Saturday and Sunday but you're monitoring email or on the look out for PagerDuty.
Trying to come to this discussion I accidentally misclicked and ended up in OPs profile, to learn that he’s a cofounder of Overleaf (hi John, big fan of the product). Overleaf, which has the purpose of turning markup language into PDFs, whereas Nougat turns PDFs into markup language. Made me wonder how many of these inverse/symmetrical/twin products there are, where one turns foos into bars and the other turning bars back into foos.
I used this for ages, and asked my team to use it, but I gave up in the end; without the remote SSH capabilities and devcontainers, Microsoft have a tight hold on using VSCode to the max.

On top of that, they seem to have relented in the telemetry and it can be fully disabled now (though I haven't tested the truth of "off").
That sounds reasonable to me. If you want protection, file for a patent and share the information. Society benefits from information being more widely available, so it doesn't make sense to specifically help protect secrets.
I used the app rcmd and karabiner together to ensure I have deterministic app switching. I remap caps lock to right-command key using karabiner and then use rcmd for app switching.

Caps-lock + letter key means I can jump to any app instantly.

Other people map caps lock to escape or turn it into a "super key" but I don't like fiddling very much.

If you are doing web dev I find using chrome beta to always have your app front and center so it doesn't get lost in research tabs, since mac used "app switching" instead of "window switching" it's a nicer workflow.

So I have capslock+a mapped to terminal, +s mapped to chrome beta, +d mapped to editor, +c mapped to normal chrome, etc..

I've used a bunch of different approaches over the years like workspaces, multi monitor, global terminal hotkey, windows style "alt-tab" etc... I've found deterministic app switching to be way better.
Makes sense. Are you familiar with how to create one? Because I’m not, but I’d volunteer to link to one.

SBCL is a package on most Linux distributions, Quicklisp is a package manager for SBCL:
https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/#installation
You need to define your boundaries of "feasible" more clearly - some of us old farts remember it being "feasible" to drag a full-ATX tower, peripherals, and a CRT display to LAN parties!

It was... not really a good idea.
Replying to myself: also, at least in my experience, if your job is digging ditches, making well formatted powerpoints like in consulting, or some similar mindless work, you can pretty much just add more hours and be productive. For brain work, it doesn't work that way and six days will get you less output than four. I'm pretty sure this is accepted wisdom.

So either they have a bunch of mindless grinding work to do that doesn't require autonomous thought, or they're going against accepted practice for working productively. I'd be concerned if I was an investor.
Keep it going! Our startup's extension is listed on Open VSX Registry and we're very happy doing so.
One idea would be to install the iMac on an AV-type cart with a UPS underneath. Then you could cart the whole setup around without having to reboot.
Regular expressions ... this representation is a somewhat fundamental and mathematically general representation of interacting with strings - the DLSs in question here are, quite obviously, nothing of the sort.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_language

Regular expressions have a deep mathematical background. An ad-hoc DSL from a company that specifies infrustructure does not.
From [1]. " A demake is a video game remake on an older platform, or one which converts the game to an older graphical or gameplay style."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_game_demakes
InstallAware Open Sources AGPT
Run any Windows software on macOS (including high performance 3D games) for free in a single click!
There’s been more effort in the Ember community poured into telling us it’s not dead yet than into doing anything relevant outside the Ember community in the last decade.

Might as well have said Dojo and Knockout, it would have meant the same thing.
Nope.

The best amplifier I've met was hired as a junior coder to my team and was paired with a couple of 10x coders on a project with a client who was "hands-on" and loved to micro-manage, having been a software developer themselves a long time ago.

The Amplifier's coding output wasn't that good, but the team as a whole was doing better than before so I investigated.

Turns out the 10x guys weren't that keen on communicating with ... well anyone outside of the team, much less with non-technical clients (or technical clients who loved micromanage). Both were your stereotypical cold pizza and warm cola coders with limited social skills. They could kinda sorta manage the meetings and emails directly from customers but didn't exactly relish it.

The junior hire was more like a 0.5x coder, but had ample social and organisation skills and worked extremely well as a liaison between the team and any external contacts they needed, taking over most "useless" meetings with the product owner and customer.

The junior coder ended up receiving some training and was "promoted" to a Scrum Master/Producer/Project Manager (the exact title escapes me) for the team. Everyone was happy and productive.
You might have too many nines there. Based on its surface area, that's 0.51 square km or 0.15 square km of the land area.

Sure, the density of "stuff" is very irregular. But I can look out my window at more Earth than that right now. I agree with your point that there's enough on Earth for at least 1000 human lifetimes, and it's pretty fractal in nature.
This makes sense. Why didn’t the man in the car attempting to do a 70mph u turn on a freeway consider the possible saved man hours for society?

If you think about it getting misted because your car plows into oncoming traffic is actually not that bad because some day others will be able to pay $15,000 for DLC in their car that unlocks “road head”. It’s basically on the same level as antibiotics or the Haber-Bosch process in its necessity for the flourishing of mankind
> Plastic straw bans are nothing much to do with global warming

What I was saying was the "climate denialists", being a label applied by people who disagree with them, including on things like straws, is an extremely broad church, and not very useful for actually describing what people think.

> Tesla is in global terms a fairly small part of the market

Can you cite?
For those of us not into baseball, how did it evolve 30 years in?
Not surprised WaPo leaves out relevant non-climate reasons that also contribute.
Walking with a objective

For now the app off-grid is my drug

It is hard to get started but ot gets so addictive once you get in the mid game

I now walk like 20km every day
Currently I’m following the idea that it starts with good work priorization. With other words: What work shall an organization/team/individual actually execute? Which tickets shall be picked from the infinite stream of tickets? How do you know that the right tickets are picked? Unless this questions can be answered, measuring the individual performance is completely impossible in the short term. One can „work hard“ and produce a lot of code, write many tests, do many tickets with low ROI and still achieve subpar results. Thus the measure of productivity must truly capture the added value of one’s work. And there is no „one size fits all“ solution.

Long term the differences in productivity are clearly visible.
It is a shame Adobe designed a format so hard to work with that people are amazed when someone accomplishes what should be a basic task with it.

Their design philosophy of creating a read-only format was flawed to begin with. What's the first feature people are going to ask for??
Microsoft's marketplace but definitely not all extensions are theirs.

What is the reason that Codium can't access the extensions?
That's like Edge wouldn't be allowed to load extensions from the Chrome store.
> ?? A 3060 or a slightly bigger AMD/Intel GPU can stream llama 7B about as fast as someone can read,

That's the thing: you need a whole GPU per concurrent user, this is insanely expensive if you want to run it as part of a SaaS (which is what most for-profit want to do). Of course running models locally is much better in almost every regard, but nobody is gonna be a billionaire with that…
> I often wonder how far away we are from funding being withheld from states with bad public policy as perceived by the party in power. It sets dangerous precedents of coupling human suffering to policy maneuvers

This has been going on for many years. From GOP states refusing to accept expanded Obamacare grants, thereby restricting access to healthcare for the poor to refusing to extend 9/11 first responder healthcare until people like Jon Stewart got involved, oppression and cruelty has been used as leverage in policymaking going back to the founding of the US.
for pass@1 HumanEval tells how well the model solves a task from a set, given only one chance to solve it. It's not the perfect metric, there're other like DS-1000, MBPP (we have included them on HuggingFace model card). HumanEval is good for benchmarking with other models as it gives a fast idea how powerful the model is.
Um, no thanks.
The day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday, was NOT a day off on the company calendar at one of my previous jobs. And yet every year, without fail, the CEO sent an email a few days before saying he was giving us Black Friday off.

I always rolled my eyes when Thanksgiving would be near and we'd get the benefit of an "unplanned" day off again.
It was Ontario, Canada. It was either > 40 or 44 hours that counted as overtime, I can't remember if there was anything about the number of days.
The PDF specification is wild. My current favourite trivia is that it supports all of Photoshop's layer blend modes for rendering overlapping elements.[1] My second-favourite is that it supports appended content that modifies earlier content, so one should always look for forensic evidence in all distinct versions represented in a given file.[2]

It's also a fun example of the futility of DRM. The spec includes password-based encryption, and allows for different "owner" and "user" passwords. There's a bitfield with options for things like "prevent printing", "prevent copying text", and so forth,[3] but because reading the document necessarily involves decrypting it, one can use the "user" password to open an encrypted PDF in a non-compliant tool,[4] then save the unencrypted version to get an editable equivalent.

[1] "More than just transparency" section of https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2022/01/31/20-years-of-tra...

[2] https://blog.didierstevens.com/2008/05/07/solving-a-little-p...

[3] Page 61 of https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/pdfstandard...

[4] For example, a script that uses the pypdf library.
It always did seem curious that people who believed heavily in climate risk never seem to put their money where their mouth is when it comes to Waterfront property. If you believed there was a serious risk of sea levels rising you wouldn't spend millions on a house with a waterfront view below sea level
If banks believed there was a serious risk of sea levels rising they would put a discount instead of a premium on waterfront property. But I still cannot find any discount property that is discounted because it's next to the ocean
According to the paper, tidal energy has a total capacity of 10^29 Joules, and current global energy consumption is 10^21 Joules per year, so if we converted 100% of current energy consumption to tidal energy and didn't increase it at all, it would last 10^8 = 100 million years (rounded to the nearest power of 10).

Equivalently, after 1000 years, we'd see a rotational slowdown of around 0.001%.
Just like MS's CI, and I guess MS is the more valuable target.
That is a fascinating idea. We do have a tendency (understandably) to try and understand the universe through our own lens. Our thinking is heavily tied to our sensory input, so it is challenging to imagine what having echolocation or magnetic senses might be like.

But there is no reason we should expect other species to communicate and think in the same way we do.
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Show HN: Recognize license plates using fine-tuned yolov8, OCR and IP camera
Hey, just a work related project I made, which could be open sourced :D

If you're looking for an example on how to use/fine-tune yolov8, I feel like taking a look at this repo and reading the README could help you get up to speed (also linked some nice refs)!

This is actually a full rewrite of a proprietary project I made (and documented on my site) like a year ago, will do some finishing touches (write blog post about it, mark the old version deprecated, record a tutorial on how to set it up on an Ubuntu server, etc, etc) in the following month, but felt like sharing it now, cuz I consider it done

The only proprietary part is the client, which receives the images and does stuff with db (has to interact with internal APIs, so there's no reason to make it oss anyways). Also, the client contains only the business logic, all of the fun ai/web server stuff is fully open under AGPL-3.0 (and an example client without the business logic is available ... in rust btw xdd).
> woo woo healthcare

What a time to be alive.
If I were an investor I'd have concerns about employee retention.
Zuckerberg’s 'Twitter Killer' App Struggles for Traction
Those trees are made of carbon that was already in the atmosphere, and they will release it back into it whenever they die in the next couple centuries anyway. Trees are basically irrelevant as carbon capture, unless they're cultivated to maturity and then buried underground.
> > Good luck with that. Hope is not a strategy, but hopefully the future is not as bleak as the current data predicts. Show me a voter cohort that will willingly give up substantial go forward quality of life for people on the other side of the world who they have not nor will never meet.

Voters might never do it, but the guy who wins the Presidency and only has to face voters every 4 years, he starts thinking about Nobel Peace Prize the moment he sets foot in the WH, and to make a legitimate candidacy he needs to be a great humanitarian and/or getting some significant Foreign Policy victories.

Bush 43 took it upon himself to fund a whole lot of malaria and HIV prevention campaigns, and even Trump pursued the defeat of ISIS and normalization of relationships between Israel and the Arab world.
That’s not even all.

- Why are these ESM imports allowed in a non-module script?

- Even if $counts somehow references counts, how is either in scope in any part of button?
I take it you disregard pretty much all of quantum physics then?
When I wrote “backend” was a poor choice of a word. “Meta-model” is probably a better choice of wording.

I hope it did not detract too much from the point of focusing on subtasks and modalities for FOSS as GPT 4 was built on a $163 million budget.

Finally, good point. We’ve got no idea of what OpenAI’s MoE approach is and how it works. I went back to Metas 2022 NLLB-200 system paper and they didn’t even publish the exact details of the router (gate).
There is a difference between "understanding the work" and "knowing how to do the work".

I've had multiple Producers who "understand the work" of creating mobile games as a whole and understand how the team needs to work and interact to produce a result on time.

None of them could code a mobile game to save their life.

What your example is talking is a situation where a fresh off the press MBA is shoved in to a very specific field and they start just doing pure numbers and Excel management out of a management book without knowing how that specific industry operates.

Managing a team of deep-sea welders is VERY different from managing a software team, which is again different from managing a team of people building a physical machine.
CaseYak – AI Estimates Car Accident Case Values Based on US Jury Verdicts
Curiously, unlike many, my wrists and fingers have been fine but I have tight/frozen shoulder and neck issues. Keeping the UHK halves apart and Magic Trackpad in the middle has probably been helpful, I can’t say yet.
Linked from another thread: http://cm.bell-labs.co/who/dmr/chist.html

It explains the memory limits and what happened :)

> After the TMG version of B was working, Thompson rewrote B in itself (a bootstrapping step). During development, he continually struggled against memory limitations: each language addition inflated the compiler so it could barely fit, but each rewrite taking advantage of the feature reduced its size. For example, B introduced generalized assignment operators, using x=+y to add y to x. The notation came from Algol 68 [Wijngaarden 75] via McIlroy, who had incorporated it into his version of TMG. (In B and early C, the operator was spelled =+ instead of += ; this mistake, repaired in 1976, was induced by a seductively easy way of handling the first form in B's lexical analyzer.)
Wouldn't the same be true of the many retail jobs out there that never guarantee Saturdays off?
that's for employers with 15 or more employees
Cool.

Here's one for the Apple II [ http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/portal/ ]

and the C64:

https://tasvideos.org/2122G
I’ve been taking myself on field trips like this most of my adulthood; jelly belly factory, distilleries, breweries, watchmaking, vinyl pressing, chocolate factories, coffee roasteries. “How it’s made” tours are a top thing I look for when I travel.
So if eg. iran bombed obama, because obama killed a bunch of civilians with drones (well.. gave orders), that would be ok and acceptable?
Why is the team size more relevant than the equity share when evaluating fairness of 1 day weekends? Since usually full-time workers aren't compensated for overtime, and startup pay is usually low, while founders and investors take the lion's share of an eventual payoff
"- We implement a loose SCRUM methodology with a 15-minute standup every day
- Our product/engineering cycle is two weeks and culminates in a demo/product planning day"

Imagine working Saturdays so you have time for a all day Scrum ...
> I see that mind often and it makes me very sad

It's not always a bad thing. It gives you the chance to do it better.

When is the last time you looked at your work from 10 years ago and thought you'd do it exactly the same way today?

And the cost to destroy and rebuild software is so much smaller than other industries that produce things that exist in the physical world. Why not take advantage of that?

Also: job creation.
They're simply reporting that conditions of high temperature and drought reduce photosynthetic fixation rates more than they do total respiration rates (and fire losses). What's significant about the research is that they actually quantify these rates using a network of hundreds of carefully monitored forest plots across the region, it's not based on a computer model.

Overall they report that the tropical forest across this region became carbon-neutral, i.e. no more carbon was taken up than was released. Looks like careful rigorous science to me.
> I fear the end result of this is going to be federal bailouts of state insurance programs, which means that money will get politicized and used to further someones agenda as a means to passing.

Welcome to the future: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Flood_Insurance_Progr...

Congress has been bailing out the program for almost 20 years now.