skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I may have found the only two sane people on HN. Of course, my handle is 'oldandboring' and yours is 'Agingcoder' so perhaps our grey hairs have something to do with this.

I find it's not just technical people but everyone, everywhere seems to have irrational understandings of the nature of business and of the employer-employee relationship.
Ah gotcha. Yes, the actual layout of arrays is:

header
size
capacity
data ptr

Where `data ptr` is a raw pointer to data that is realloc'd as the array grows.
I agree with your entire post without reservation. It makes me wonder though:

> that terrorism is political (and usually not driven by like a supra political cosmological hate).

What are the motivations of US school/mass shooters? So far, the answer has been 'mental health issues', but given the relatively sudden rise in the attacks (while weapons have been available for decades), 'mental health issues' seems 'hate our freedoms'-tier.
I just bought my fist spam can this week and I gotta say I’m a convert. It’s like a hot dog that sits flat enough to develop great browning and even become bacon-like in the pan if you wish. Pair it with some kimchi and I’m in heaven.
You can still do that and it's still superior to streaming. I have my mp3's on my pc and listen to them with AIMP (I did use winamp until very recently) For when I'm out and about I sync the files in my mp3's folder to a 512GB microssd card in my phone, so I have my full music collection with me at all times. I use Neutron player to listen to them (Its just an Android music player that is able to browse and play mp3's by folder and not just id3 info, cus half of my mp3s were ripped from cd and have no id3 info)
> we all know that this is a cognitive distortion.

This is also true of those who form emotional attachments with current AI. The people developing romantic relationships with Replika etc. aren't engaging in healthy behaviour.
>this makes many people ask what is truth and what are humans?

After enough philosophy, this is close to a solved problem. There are so many breakdowns of what is truth, including adding words to describe different truths.

If you are hung up on a single universal definition, you are most likely limited by language, a human construct rather than the understanding of Truth. We all know what Truth is, we know that 2+2=4. As Laozi would say 'If you try to grasp it, it will slip". There is a time and a place for analysis, but there is also losing the forest for the trees.
There is a lot of synthetic content about academic subjects on YT now, and it's very low quality. I used to search for lectures to listen to while walking or driving but now need to wade through tons of enshittified spam. Even if it's reading wikipedia or other long form articles, the voices and graphics are bad.

Actually I paid for Blinkist recently and really enjoyed it at first. They have a lot of "blinks" that state at the end that the voice was synthetic and I was legitimately surprised at the quality, having not even noticed until they told me.

This seems like a good move for YT to maintain a basic level of quality (which I'm amazed can actually get worse), but I suspect it's a pretext to avoid paying out to "illegitimate creators" for commercial reasons in a way that makes them look like they care about people.
You are both wrong an arrogant, congratulations. Next time, don't guess.
But not even consistently.
Hey maybe they're just treating Donald Trump like Hilary Clinton or Stacey Abrams. Claiming elections are rigged when you lose didn't start in 2020 or even 2000
False how? It's just one person's observations and opinions.
a) this was a post facto letter when he realised it was more popular to rail against Jews
b) he was very clear earlier on that his main goal was to remove US presence from Saudi and other “Muslim lands” - https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-911REPORT/pdf/GPO-91...
I've got good results with white noise, not sure if that's something that would work for you. And of course I didn't suggest that this eliminates other distractions.
On your list I'm not sure I understand what the "Editor Extension"/"Tool" distinction is. Both continue and rift are under "Tools", but they are VSCode extensions.
The Shura uses double-shot keycaps, where the legends are a different colored plastic whereas earlier TEX models used UV printed or laser etched keycaps.

TEX’s older method is common to a lot of keyboard manufacturers and is prone to wear like you’ve seen. By contrast double-shot keys will get shiny, but their legends will always be legible no matter how many years they’re used.
We have iron artifacts which are thousands of years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Age says "The earliest-known meteoric iron artifacts are nine small beads dated to 3200 BC, which were found in burials at Gerzeh, Lower Egypt, having been shaped by careful hammering." That's 5,000 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaca_H%C3%B6y%C3%BCk shows "Dagger with iron blade and golden hilt from Alaca Höyük. Early evidence for the use of iron in Anatolia. 2500-2400 BC." You can see the iron is heavily rusted, but clearly present over 4,000 years later."

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10814-019-09129-6 says "Larger numbers of iron artifacts, too many to list individually, appeared in the second millennium BC. Waldbaum (1978, 1980, 1999) produced several early syntheses of available references to iron in the Bronze Age Mediterranean and parts of the Near East, totaling about 150 artifacts. The majority of these come from the Late Bronze Age (c. 1600–1200 BC)." These are over 3,000 year old.

Even if iron could not be found, where are the furnaces, tuyeres, and slag which are part of iron production?
I think the technology to 3D print at the cellular-protein scale (microns to nanometers) is a ways off still. For anything like muscle, you'd need micromachines (comparable to actin-myosin) linking fibers (in muscle they're about 50um in diameter and a few centimeters long) that would work in coordination using some kind of energy (in animals the fuel is ATP) source.
I expect the large social media platforms to emphasize verification that accounts are controlled by real humans even if they are pseudonymous. X (formerly Twitter) is already heading in this direction. AI social media accounts and even accounts where they're unsure if the account is a genuine human or AI are likely to end up shadowbanned.

I suspect newer platforms and small enclaves that want to be larger will be tempted to use AI. Reddit's founders infamously created fake accounts and put fake posts on their platform when it started to make it look active.[0] That was actually a pretty common technique to address the "chicken and egg" dilemma that every new forum has: Nobody wants to join a forum that has no posts and no active users but the forum won't get posts or active users unless somebody joins. AI can solve this problem much more efficiently than if the founders are writing the fake posts.

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddi...
Yeah! If I'm in the states, I will take 2 days off and drive/fly to Boca Chica to see it with my own eyes.
If you squint hard enough anything might look any other thing, that doesn't mean that AI generated music can be compared to conventional tools that help you to create music.
Why dismiss conspiracy hypotheses out of hand? Conspiracies happen all the time. As Data becomes a more important resource, asymmetric access to data will become an ever more prominent feature of those in power.

I would say the important thing is to recognize that our pattern recognition overfits for malicious actors with hidden knowledge, probably for evolutionary reasons. The fact we evolved to have more false positives than negatives in this field is emphatically not a reason to dismiss all such hypotheses out of hand.
> The markets don't give a crap about you or your life in the same way it doesn't give a crap about the life of your competitors which you put out of business.

It's not just markets. You also don't care about the employees' psychological safety of, say, the toothpaste manufacturer you buy the toothpaste of. You just want toothpaste.

While I personally think it's important to have high integrity, and to work in a company where this is not undermined, ultimately it's about whether or not your company is doing something valuable enough for others to pay for. That's why your salary comes in every month.
At least in Brazil, because of this pretty infamous accident, people now know to be aware of blue light sources.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
With all due respect, this is just the original article re-hosted, which I was under the impression we were advised against submitting as the canonical link. I really dislike MSN links like this because they make it very difficult to find that actual original URL without going back out to a search engine, and the page is cluttered with advertisement and pushes for Microsoft services. The only indication this was published by WSJ is a badge next to the headline and once you scroll the headline out of view there is no other indication this is published by WSJ and not Microsoft. Arguably sites like archive.ph do a better job of showing attribution than MSN does.
Eyra Does the Impossible
Normally yes, to maximize the amount of time they have for a do-over if something goes wrong in the initial countdown.
Is it? I didn't think it had anything to do with bravery.
I pretty actively try to stay away from orange man escapades. I'm sure we'll get more than enough when he's president / evil dictator for life again /sigh
Corn and soybeans are the wrong comparison. Ignoring the huge industry focus on optimizations for corn/beans, a more true comparison would still be against a large-scale vegetable grower.

The standard 1-acre lot of corn or soybeans product goes into most anything other than a person’s mouth. It’s like comparing an acre of backyard garden to an acre of hay.
> but in once case you need to have deep-ish understanding of the optimizer and SQL

I will never understand why devs think they need to understand their chosen application well, but not SQL. Your application relies on SQL, so why shouldn't you deeply understand it? Relational algebra isn't that complex compared to other things we take for granted as necessary.
Heck yes.

We are so used to assuming that good text means good thought. "emergent" behavior is assumed to be full on thinking and learning systems.

Calling it Hallucination is absurd.

Humans hallucinate. Humans can be deceived or deceive because there is an active effort to hide something.

An LLM is producing the next best token. Its either always hallucinating or never hallucinating.
> Except we can’t get LLMs to say it doesn’t know

Here is a direct pair of quotes from a recent conversation with GPT4:

> Me: Answer in a single sentence, please. Do you, or do you not know the contents of Dr. Franz 1994 paper "Code Generation on the Fly: A key to portable software"?

> ChatGPT: No, I do not know the contents of Dr. Franz's 1994 paper "Code Generation on the Fly: A Key to Portable Software."

Is it prone to being evasive and waffling and not wanting to admit when it does not know, and preferring to jump to conclusions and try to get away with generalities, yes. Asking about this paper is one of my repeated test cases because it does so badly (there are few online sources on it, but his paper is online; other than that one of my blog posts and the Wikipedia article make up the bulk of text about it). And so it did when I tried it last - it waffled on about the (unrelated) concept of semantic encoding from NLP.

As far as I can tell, it is correct: It does not know the contents of the paper. It barely understands the high-level concepts involved (

> it doesn’t process the concept of “know” and “don’t know”, heck it doesn’t even process the concept of true and false.

> It’s a language model. It models the statistical properties of human languages.

It can explain them and use them. We don't know enough about what "knowing" something or "processing" a concept means in terms of human thought processes to know whether there's a meaningful distinction between the level at which an LLM processes these concepts vs. humans or whether there is a meaningful distinction between reasoning and intelligence vs. "modelling the statistical properties of human languages".
I think this is a vast simplification. People vary. Sometimes drastically. Sometimes even from day to day.

I have certain foods that seems to dramatically change the way stimulants like caffeine affect me. For whatever reason if I eat bananas and nut butter (maybe I have an allergy or food intolerance?) I find that caffeine makes me feel like I crash. When taken on an empty stomach I can get very "wired" but it also depends heavily on my sleep schedule and the time of day I take it.

I've noticed I can get an incredibly productive boost from caffeine when I take it at a time that disrupts my current circadian rhythm. I (used to) usually drink coffee in the morning and it rarely felt like it helped at all. I knew if I was desperate I could drink it around noon and see a big boost but then I wouldn't be able to go sleep on time and would pay for it the next day

Genetics, diet, microbiome, epigenetics, sleep habits, study habits, social health, seasonality, etc all likely play some role in the way people metabolize caffeine.

There is no published evidence that stimulants universally make people ADHD more tired or calm.

And personally I believe given the right conditions anyone might get to experience the effect of caffeine actually making them sleepy.
In the enterprise software space, a ton of work goes into maintaining old platforms and backporting security patches and the like to old versions of software. That a not small part of what you're paying those companies to do.
Why is this unfortunate? I have visual art on my walls that is mostly just for the background. This doesn't destroy the experience of going to a museum or a local art fair and experiencing visual art. Not everybody has to engage with everything in the way that you do.
It's not unusual for students to crush and snort ritalin before exams in the UK.

We have an interesting system - final year exams are essentially a one-shot thing in the UK. If you are lucky enough to able to retake a final exam, your mark is capped at 40% - a third class mark. An upper second class degree is required for PhD entry.

Little wonder people will do _anything_ to pass those exams.
It seems like it would be better to resolve those disputes in the court instead of dismissing them all on procedural grounds like the doctrine of laches
Really? Then show me a video that doesn't look like what I described, if you want to be taken seriously. That demo is, what, 5 clicks with a decent gui builder?
Set it and forget it doesn't work, but we also don't need need full timrtime attendants. Regular (weekly? Monthly?) inspections would be fine.

Infrastructure always needs maintenance. You can't get away with it. If you build it, you should regularly inspect and maintain it.
Show HN: Create, read and share knowledge based books, generated by ChatGPT
Just provide a brief description, choose a language and let AI write the book for you.

Here are a few examples of generated books (but it is more fun to create your own):

1. The Rise of AI: A Journey Through History and Progress - https://booksbyai.app/OFdwhGb7280LD1IQ

2. Time Mastery - https://booksbyai.app/Ksq1L2OEqY1IyubO

3. Open Source Success - https://booksbyai.app/tVpZy3wkQoDtwKOs

4. The Cosmic Blueprint - https://booksbyai.app/fLaciiXJxDLPkkn7

5. Ancient Greek Technological Triumphs - https://booksbyai.app/9koxdWbpahPfq7bL

6. Electric Innovator: The Life of Nikola Tesla - https://booksbyai.app/REPOhr3ANFu554VG

What would you create a book about?

Please share your books and feedback in the comments.
I think the fundamental idea of "start thinking in graph structures for spacetime instead of rubber sheets" is good and going to eventually pay off. But right now it doesn't offer anything testable and thus is useless for anything but thinking about while high.
Every modern Xilinx FPGA with enough logic to implement a Commodore 64's functions can more than clock at the 1MHz required. 50MHz-200MHz is reasonable. A $40 Artix A35T can handle this.

Why do you need more?
Think of it this way.

Say unaided, you can get to 85% proficiency in 6 hours and that's about all you can sustain.

With smart drugs, you only get to 75% proficiency in 6 hours but can keep going and will hit 95% in 9 hours.

Think of it like a pick up truck with two gas tanks. It is less efficient than a small car but because of the larger tank it has more range.
> why people who take a lot of stimulants tend to go through boom-bust cycles over time

SBF (and all those in Alameda+FTX who got scripts from their in-house psych) in particular having the biggest boom-bust cycle in stimulant history. Though that doesn't count world leaders alleged to have stimulant use history.
This man uses the archive button
Read the paper, or at least the abstract before you criticize researchers for misunderstanding. They were testing performance on the knapsack problem.
1. Is the way I'm thinking about this useful? Or even valid?

The process is simpler. GPT reads the image and creates a complete description of it, then the user gets this description and creates a prompt asking for a tailwind implementation of that description.

2. I see this skipping the sketch/figma phase and going directly to live prototype
Perfect for making cassoulet...
From https://github.com/sunfishcode/eyra

"Eyra is a package that supports building Rust programs implemented entirely in Rust."
This story made me laugh so hard.
> Even with nixpkgs pinning, our code failed to compile after only a few years. Outside of nixos itself, it does not appear that the build environment is the same; aspects of compilation change, and we ended up needing to change compiler flags a few years later, while expecting that we might need to again at some point.

Was this using flakes or no?

Since you mention pinning, I'm guessing not.

An experience report, even if brief, would be very valuable to a Nix/NixOS community working seriously on reproducibility.
sad to think the closure of OiNK and What will definitely have set the wheels in motion for some cultural artifacts to become lost.

Preservation should be legalized and its absurd to claim it harms sales when Universal Music has $2B revenue
We don't need more research or missing some key technology. Its only a motivation problem at this point.

Even battery tech is _way_ more advanced than the current lithium that is cheaply available - only the demand isn't there because its already so cheap - thats again a motivation problem to get the demand up and costs down for alternatives.

We know how to build energy neutral houses (well insulated, produce their own energy/heat, ...) and can produce food much more locally (see how the dutch deliver produce to around the world with minimal resource/land usage, look at what solarfoods is doing, ...) and also energy neutral.

transport can be shifted to EV public transport to a quite large degree, the energy coming from renwewables. excess renewable energy can be used for hydrogen production which then can act as portable fuel, maybe even used for airplanes one way or the other.

... but all this stuff costs money. money that ordinary people right now are severely lacking, because a few people are hoarding all of it instead. take that money away, use it for fundamental infrastructural projects, done by local companies in parallel (not one megacorp), which creates tons of jobs, which stimulates the economy. Like a green new deal.

This all can be achieved here and now, and once going the prices for relevant materials/tech plummet, and not so rich countries can also start doing it.

Why are people preferring to work themselves into poverty for some billionaires' profits instead? the point of a government is that it oversees areas like the economy and course-corrects when something goes wrong. if everyone including elected politicians worship some capitalism god instead, there is a need to change personell, maybe have a look into alternatives to vote for instead of the past parties that don't act on the important issues?
great.

i am trying this now with a chrome-shortcut, window size 50x50, stay on top, js with blinking background on the bottom rigth corner of the screen.

If it helps, i will use a esp32. thanks.
Incomplete support from Clang’s STL (especially in Apple Clang).
oh that thing. I've always found the flow for "editiable PRs" in github to be horrendously confusing and difficult to use. we do all of our edits in Gerrit.

I was hoping you meant a checkbox that says, "this contributor is OK with the maintainers taking over this PR to finish it up"
Its accurate if a Human looks at it.

LLMs are fine - people are attributing superpowers to them when they discuss hallucinations.

LLMs do not "think". They created the correct text as they were modeled to do.

The observer feels that the facts are wrong.

That's an issue with the observer, not the model. The model was never trained for facts it was trained for text.
It also has the advantage that records have a substantial niche amongst music aficionados and collectors as a desirable music and cover art format. Even obscure records in genres few people care about have some chance of surviving outside archives.
(Someone posted about the last DVD rental place in London recently, and my first thought was of all the stores selling vinyl that outlasted it)

In this case it's clear the records are no longer in any danger of being thrown away (and were never in danger of being wiped and recorded over like other storage media), and what the collector and his celebrity backers are really looking for is a suitably "special" venue to showcase them
The enemy of my enemy...
Thune, Klobuchar release bipartisan AI bill
This is probably the most consequential AI legislation to come out of the U.S. Senate thus far. Curious what folks' takes are.

Bill text link: https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/7dea8daa-f6...
Yeah, back when I drank a lot of coffee, one cup would make me feel calmer, while going too far and drinking like 3-4 cups (which I did do once to see what it was like) makes me feel like shit, have a headache, be unable to sleep well, etc.

After stopping, even one cup makes me jittery and I no longer feel like I need to drink coffee to feel awake.

Caffeine dependence is terrible and widespread.
It can happen even without connecting to the network. The discs that new movies are on can have updates that will disable your player's ability to watch any DRM'd Blu-rays, even old ones that previously worked in it.
Techdirt/ Mike Masnick also repeatedly claims there is no disproportionate censorship and that Democrats and Republicans get censored an equal amount. He's very much been in a Silicon Valley bubble since 2016
Yeah, I'm not sure how now, but I think I misread/misunderstood the comment I defended. Can't now read it any other way but as a claim that they typically don't use Electron for it and instead talk to X/Wayland directly. (I have no idea, but would have assumed Electron handled it sufficiently for the vast majority.)
Or someone like Stephen Hawking who has great ideas but no other option for speaking.
I’m in this boat too, although I don’t use VIM. On macOS where mnemonic key shortcuts are the norm, function key usage is low enough that them being layered isn’t an issue, and layered arrows are actually nice than dedicated once you’re used to them.

I have a few boards with the HHKB layout, only a couple of which are HHKBs. For me the layout is nearly perfect, just wish I could have it in my laptops too.