skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the thoughtful reply.

> Well it's hard to argue about that tradeoff in general, but I think the existence of languages like Python, Ruby and PHP is compelling. Though I'd accept the argument that they help optimise for neither performance nor changeability!

I see the point you're making, and I don't disagree with it. But I should be a bit more clear in what I really meant in my parent comment:

Given whatever language a developer is working in, whether it is fast like C++ or a slow language like Python (or perhaps even Minecraft Redstone), I think the programmer that takes a data oriented approach (meaning they write their code thinking about the kinds of data the program can receive and the kind it will likely receive, along with what operations will be the most expensive) will have better code than a programmer that makes a nice object model following all the SOLID principles. The majority of the OOP code I've worked with spends too much time caring about abstractions and encapsulation that performance is lost and the code is no better to work with.

> Regarding the DOD/OOP wars, I really love this article, which argues that OOP doesn't have to be bad[1]. I also think that when performance is a requirement, you just have to get more particular about your use of OOP. For example, the difference between Mesh and InstancedMesh[2] in THREE.js. Both are OOP, but have very different performance implications.

Absolutely agree here. Classic gamedev.net article. ECS != DOD and I think the next parts of the article illustrate how DOD isn't necessarily in opposition with programming paradigms like OOP and FP.

With that said, I think it can be argued that common patterns within both OOP and FP circles are a hurdle at times to utilizing hardware to its fullest. Here's Casey Muratori's argument against SOLID principles[0] for instance.

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I think the point still stands: performance isn't in opposition to making a maintainable/changeable program.

[0] https://youtu.be/tD5NrevFtbU?si=sED7befZRnVnQIxQ
The existing regulations would still exist if encryption was allowed. Spammers still are incentivized to not encrypt their spam to maximize the number of listeners that exist.
If the software has a small marketshare and is struggling to get new users, then this would be true. When the software is already hugely dominant, the same dynamic does not apply. Trying to lock-in customers when they're not customers yet is a bad idea, but when they're already your customers, it makes business sense.
I don't get this at all. What does the little flashing light achieve?

I find minor irritations like this very distracting so I'm not really sure what the theory is
> With a 1982 commodore 64, a tight polling loop could detect a button press within 7 microseconds of its occurence.

Now if they just would have made multiprocessor C64s so that one could have been dedicated to that tight loop ...
> These charging stations were built with a business model of set-it-and-forget-it. This doesn’t work.

Except it does work for Tesla chargers. I never had any issues when using superchargers. But connect to a fast charging station operated by one of the other vendors - payment doesn't work, it's out of order, handshake issues.

I have no other explanation except the hardware and software are low quality.
Exactly. I measured vector vs an efficient linear probing hash map very recently and the cutoff was single digit. Even against unordered_map or plain std::map the cutoff was surprisingly low (although in this case I would trust a synthetic benchmark significantly less).
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That's pretty funny, this AI stuff never fails to amaze me. Did some quick google-fu and found this article: https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-llm-ai-responds-bett...

> Prompts with emotional language, according to the study, generated an overall 8% performance improvement in outputs for tasks like "Rephrase the sentence in formal language" and "Find a common characteristic for the given objects."
I don't think the article is valorising the detail view at all, only to highlight the lack of appreciation and neglect of the ability to move down the layers as opposed to moving up.

Higher level abstractions tend to be not grounded. When we operate on abstractions, we also tend to move up and lose the capability to execute on the lower layers. It results in a lot of inefficiencies and presents new failure scenarios.
He touches upon the tragedy of modern simplified lobotomy crayon full-screen UIs:
They are horrible to use for any usecase they weren't specifically built for:
In slack and teams, I often end up screenshotting something,
because the information I want to consult,
cannot be displayed at the same time
I am in another editing view.

This includes scrolling (not in slack/teams, that single thing actually works): Often you cannot scroll back up in history to see earlier discussion as you are typing.

Which segues to my pet peeve: In the dumbed-down modern online discussion forums, the UI and search for finding earlier discussion is horrible.
There is no calendar/timeline navigation,
but just an endless contextless scrolling, where you can scroll back for 20 minutes to reach "7 months ago".

This is annoying on technical forums, where a feature discussion from 2 years ago may be very relevant to figure out the hows and whys.
I have no proof but I have no doubt EV charger companies receive succulent donations from the state for the number of chargers without specifying their operational status.
Total win for them in the long term.
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It would be interesting to see a real census of the folks who want to keep ia64 support in Linux, with some breakdown of their motivations. Cases like "Control software for our factory's special $Millions-dollar machine only exists for ia64" seem far more sympathetic than "I love my basement collection of archaic computer hardware".
Because we are afraid of death, of the annihilation of our everything it brings. So leaving a legacy alleviates that a bit - we die but we are not dead-dead as long those memories are alive. For some it will be an immortality project, for others a silly endeavour, but I say as long it makes one happy (less scared) let them all have it.
Let's be honest, no you wouldn't.
It's definitely a stark contrast, but it's also two vastly different domains. One is traditionally the domain of deep science and simulations, and the other is the domain of artists and creatives. Their announcement is also pretty clear - it's a new generative model (Lyria), which seems to do some impressive vocals generation (at least in the sampled videos); combined with a creators' platform/toolbox.
But you know what? I couldn’t give a rats ** if science proves it one way or the other. It wakes me the hell up. Everytime.
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The out-of-tree repo https://github.com/torvalds/linux/compare/master...lenticula...

From a distance I think it should stay gone - nothing is stopping the users from using an older kernel forever-more - plenty of other devices do and it's not like these are going to be used for anything important.
Actually msft CEO mentioned in his presentation that OAI moved to Azure's vector search and AI search services for ChatGPT.
Seems like you know what you are talking about!

What's your take on GraphCast - do you see it as a step forward?
I believe the first gas stations were built after the first power plants.
Such a factory wouldn't be chasing the latest version of anything, it would probably be air-gapped.
nice CTF. thanks.
Same. I can't stand people hovering around my desk. Every little thing they do or say distracts me.
author names sound familiar, wheren’t they working for a spyware vendor?
I feel like taking the servant leader approach is also a trap for your own development. And it shouldn't be like that. It kind of defeats the purpose of taking the role unless you are a masochist (I sometimes am...)

But it is hard of course. You also dont want to become pointy haired boss.
"Hallucinations" is too charitable of a term for making stuff up. It personifies "AI" which doesn't need help selling its "intelligence".
I upvoted this, and also I am wondering, is this much different from any other benchmark?
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I think they are running their RAG on Microsoft's Azure Cognitive Search. Satya mentioned something about it in the yesterday Microsoft Ignite keynote
Slack gets a lot of flak, but in my experience they're far from having the worst web app UI. For instance, have you tried the abomination that is the AWS management console? Not sure about the pricing for Slack and for AWS, but I bet companies tend to pay a lot more for AWS, so you'd think they would be able to come up with an acceptable interface - but no, it's a Rube Goldberg-esque monstrosity where even the simplest tasks require you to traverse at least five slow-loading pages...
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All true, but quite banal? All those blog posts that sell themselves as profound philosophical insights while pushing truisms like pearls on a string are, well, disappointing. This is hollow.
It's not that the narrative concept is innately cyberpunk, just that the aesthetics are an exact match for modern Cyberpunk. My go-to method for setting the wallpaper on a new device is just to image search "cyberpunk wallpaper" and they all look very much like that opening shot.
A few weeks ago, standing at an incredibly busy pedestrian crossing in Shenzhen, China, I noticed how strangely quiet it was for somewhere so busy. Then I noticed, every car, bus, and scooter was electric. I went to Taipei after, and the constant roar from mostly scooters was unexpectedly loud. I hope we speed up the shift to electric vehicles.
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>Being critical regardless of age is very valuable. There's this thing that if a young person does something pretty damn cool, they're made to believe it's extraordanirily good, rivalling even the best in the industry. I think it's called the "Gifted Kid Problem" in certain circles.

I think you nailed something that I was wondering while browsing this thread. What difference does it make if a person practiced 5-10 years a craft resulting to winning an award if that person started when he was 10 vs. 25? The headline would not only be radically different if it was a 30-year old who did it because he studied since he was 20-25; We might not even have a headline. It would have been "oh, someone won the award. Yay?"

Do we reward the output as as standalone (as is) during the contest, or do we also reward our perceived potential (imagine what this person would do in 20 years)?
The third thing is, what if there is no need to invade?

Taiwan is a liability, on the grand scheme of things. We need to not have a concentration of such vital capability in a single source.

The cost of an invasion or the cost of booting up fabs in more Western nations - or even in the global south? This is the real question.

War will only happen when the decision is made that its cheaper to steal a factory than build another new one. This is not always the focus of the conversation when it comes to the hegemonic power of China's ability to make things... but it should.

Especially when The Western Empire™ makes decisions about the values of other states ..
I have to admit, my response to the study was "BS. Trendy BS."
But then now reading these comments, I think I might need to try a cold shower...
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Wow, AI really will democratize music creating. This is an awesome way for people to translate their ideas to music without needing to be privileged enough to get violin or guitar lessons.

I see a future where we all make our own music and share it freely with family and friends. This means less listening to manufactured pop songs written by suits with the sole aim of making a profit. This will still happen of course but at least we'll have another option.
TIL. It also has a (small) list of downsides.
I don't really understand why China would even invade Taiwan. They would be killing "their own" people, and destroying "their own" infrastructure (by their perception).

Much better option is some sort of economic war, sanctions, naval blockade... US is importing a lot from China, even factories in Mexico are just assembling Chinese parts.

I do not think support for Taiwan would survive for very long.
>Sending emails, setting proper meta tags, creating forms, not having security vulnerabilities, undoing broken upgrades, caching, … are all features that a fully-featured, bloated CMS like Wordpress really shouldn't need plugins for.

You could say the same thing about Emacs.

Wordpress provides the infrastructure. It doesn't have to provide everything and the kitchen sink.
Copied from another thread:

Networking is not marketing and you should not approach it like marketing. It's about creating a network of reciprocal, trust-based relationships. The main currency in the network is trust, and people stake their reputation every time they connect people with each other.

In-network transactions are frictionless because the usual diligence is not necessary. You can use your network to get insider advice, trustworthy recommendations, profitable contracts and mutually beneficial deals, yet never write a single contract or issue a single invoice. It's all based on trust and the assumption of goodwill.
You must have a very peculiar definition of a hallucination.

Why would an LLM reciting a fact correctly be hallucinating?
Not quite. Many other datastructures can be shoehorned into contiguous, cache efficient representations.
As an aside, the illustration strongly remind me of the classic illustrations in the Alice in Wonderland book (published in 1865).

I wonder if it is the same artist or if it was a shared style at the time.
100% on the blog post, but as for the comments here: Don't listen to the naysayers.

WordPress is crazy popular and rightfully so, already powering 40%+ of the whole web, like TechCrunch and the New York Times. And thanks to Gutenberg and especially the newly launched Full Site Editing, this number is gonna go up even more.

Anyone who's not using it is missing out big time.

PS: See also https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/
> This is probably going to be much harder and more politically painful than people realise

I'd recommend you watch Starmer's interview on exactly this topic where he brings up all of the problems you just highlighted. He discusses a high-level idea of what he wants to do to fix the issue but part of the political pain is the blunt fact of inaction or reversal of green investment over the last 13 years.

> So the problems with NIMBYs and local opposition

The NIMBYism was created by the Tories when they changed the rules so that a single objection can kill a planning application for onshore wind farms. That's why this is an effective ban rather than an outright ban.

> we were never reliant on Russian gas

In a roundabout way, we are reliant on Russian gas. If we weren't, the UK wouldn't have been among the worst hit by fuel prices going through the roof. Anyone with half a brain knew immediately that those reliant on Russian gas would switch over to the same sources that the UK used, putting upwards pressure on the price that we would pay.
> The first is that people don't recognize how important TSMC is, and how much its hardware powers.

TSMC might be the the best and ahead of everyone in technological sense, but there are enough semiconductor companies worldwide to handle a potential TSMC demise. So what if our hardware stops improving at breakneck speeds (which might happen anyway in the near future..)?

I can argue that would be a good kick in the ass for every software dev that writes shitty bloated code. People like that won't be able to "just add more CPUs" to their problem and they'll have to do some actual engineering again. The state of software dev and performance today is abysmal given the amazing hardware we have.
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Because it's a discussion about science and their comment is totally valid.

One of the biggest parts of placebo is going through the motions, whether you believe it or not. The original commentor appears to be aware that their approach may not have any scientific basis so mentioning the potential of placebo is fine.
is it any good for pdfs that are NOT images?
I've tried both ChatDOC and GPT-4 for PDF processing, and honestly, among all the PDF chat apps, ChatDOC is the only one that can accurately answer questions based on the content of tables. Really good tools for finance professionals and academias.
Microsoft did the right thing in putting ads on the Windows desktop. They can make more money that way, and increase shareholder value.

For every user like you that gets angry and switches to Linux, there's countless others that don't, and MS makes more profit showing them annoying ads, so it's a net gain for them.
A wise move to stop the UK becoming accidentally Turing complete.
This part seems like "draw the rest of the fucking owl"
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I haven taken advantage of O(1) removal on linked lists (although typically intrusive ones, not std::list) many times, but I'm pretty sure not once I did a linear scan specifically to find the element to be removed. Typically you save the iterator on some index on insertion.
Why would anyone need a capslock?
>they mostly just fix boring problems that users shouldn’t even be worried about having to fix at all

Because the problems they want to fix aren't the problems I want to fix. I don't want to send emails with Wordpress, or do polls, or whatever. If we add the superset of features to the core Wordpress it would be a 1GB install, with a team of 100000 needed to maintain it.

It's not as if it's not already one of the most full featured CMS as it is, or can be used for tons of things without anything else out of the box, from a personal or business blog, to a full featured publication with multiple authors.

>import/export should probably be rolled into core

The core does have import/export.

>comment spam shouldn't be the default (although arguably this just means comments should be removed from core)

Not having comments in the core would be controversial to say the least. Not to mention against the TFA complain ("not enough stuff in the core").

>technical SEO should be covered by the CMS

It is, for the most part. The rest is SEO snakeoil the third-party plugins cover.

>WordPress should have a built-in way to handle forms and configuring e-mail sending.

Are forms and email the role of a CMS?
Oh, and the (lack of) window borders:
This is a concrete and practical problem - I often get into fights with multiple open browsers.
I will have 2 or 3 browser windows open,
each containing an ongoing selection of related open tabs concerning a given separate task/subject.
As I try to resize, position and minimize-maximize those 3 windows, I will have trouble figuring out the right area to get hold of "window N". (because of the modern minimalist way of drawing it, especially in dark mode).

This problem is made worse by the modern violation of the title bar itself.
Originally, the title bar would be exactly that, with identical design across multiple applications.
Nowaways, the titlebar is a free-for-all anything-goes, with everything-but-the-actual-titlehandle stuffed into it. And worse, if it gets cramped for space, the title-handle (by which you move and handle the window..) is the first to lose and go!
So you find yourself begging your application window "is there any place I can interact with you to move you?"

Surely we live in the age of the instant geniuses.
People thought they were having intelligent conversations with Eliza; people even have satisfying emotional conversations with teddy bears.

It's not a good measurement.
For me (coming up on 9 years of LEAF ownership), the app is something that helps me find the station in the first place and is something that’s more likely to be with me and easily found than a rarely used card or fob.

I had a Chargepoint key fob for a while, which was also always with the car, but it eventually broke and a replacement was chargeable to me, so I chose not to buy it, as I already had the app.

The app isn’t required, but I prefer it.
If you want the best people to work in an area you need to pay them. I'm surprised given the possible returns these aren't seven figure jobs.
If you don't know Lisp, and start writing your own, you're only learning your own concoction, and not any other Lisp. And that concoction has its limits. It doesn't compare to the breadth and scope of the Lisp culture.

Interacting only with something you have made is the worst possible way to learn anything about existing, mainstream Lisp.

Not knowing anything about the prior art will practically ensure that your own thing is a collection of quirks specific to it, and that then ensures that your Lisp knowledge is entirely rooted in and limited to that thing.

You're just not going to single-handedly reinvent things that took numerous hackers over several generations to figure out. You may be "good", but so were they, and there is only one of you.

You will not even be able to converse with actual Lisp people, due to not having the right concepts and terms.
An expert in a field tends to be an expert of the rules of thumb, the references to consult when the rule of thumb doesn't deliver the desired results, and the nuances and exceptions that are the art part of 'science and useful arts' for their field.
Yep, we're the exactly same in this regard. This is why expecting people to do anything consistently right from memory is a recipe for catastrophe. Aerospace knows this very well, so pre-flight checklists are standard.
> While performance is perhaps the primary motivation for the for advice, sometimes it helps with expressiveness as well.

Compilers can do this. And I don't think the second part of that sentence is applicable very often.
IOT? It's a blinking LED, pretty much always the first thing you learn in embedded. No need for internet, just an LED and a microcontroller.
From https://www.space.com/spacex-faa-license-second-starship-lau...:

> The liftoff is set to occur Friday (Nov. 17) from Starbase, a SpaceX facility in South Texas, during a two-hour window that opens at 8 a.m. EST (1300 GMT; 7 a.m. local time in Texas).

2-4am in NZ. Don't think I'll be staying up.
Yet another tool from Google that's closed. No model, no code, no real details. You can't even run the model today.

Google continues to live in the darkest timeline when it comes to ai and ml.
That's a fair criticism. WordPress definitely lacks a lot of seemingly basic features, like a contact form, a decent user management system, etc.

I guess if there's one thing that might be attracting people to hosted solutions, it's that many of them do provide these sorts of features built in.
A basic tenet of what?

Not sure about the definitions about prophylaxis and metaphylaxis but I was under the impression any systemic use of antibiotic use in healthy animals was outlawed e.g. in the EU.