skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I rather doubt that a devout believer in one of the Abrahamic religions (or any other) would have spent so much time and effort portraying a cosmic picture of human insignificance - a picture where humans are litte more than a tiny species of ants trying to survive in a world of Tyrannosaurus Rex, where a casual accidental stomp might just wipe us all out.

Really, you don't think Lovecraft's diehard atheism contributed anything to his worldview or to his literary work?
and you only need 3 separate apps to communicate with people. what a mess.
I think that's probably because 5MHz already has shared military use in some countries.

Also to remember what I was told: it's a privilege not a right. Limitations are to be expected.
I think we get an apparent contradiction because of how we stratify the data. According to the CDC/KFF study, firearms are still the leading cause of death for people age 1-19, and substance use is only 6th in the list for that age group. If you instead interpret "young age" as another age range, then indeed other causes of death may appear more prevalent.
> sometimes a PL has to go down an unconventional path to make something new.

Absolutely, just look at Haskell as an example.

> most important part is figuring out who is going to use the PL and what problems they are solving.

Completely agree. Rust and Go have received a lot of criticism over the years, but I think that is often down to them not being as general purpose as many people try to claim. The creators had particular users and use cases in mind.
Nice. You need to initialize x to 0 instead of -m&m though, or you miss the solution with x=0.
Didn't France have a plant specifically for this? And real waste was vitrified to store with less headaches?

Anyway, too bad we have too few breeding reactors
It's funny because you ascribe some reasoning in ChatGPT's answer “Gerhard Schröder”, but somehow missed that it's also able to give you two other answers that are unambiguously wrong…
> What amazes me is that any grown up person thinks it is a good idea to update vehicles as if they were telephones

What amazes me is that any grown up person thinks it is a good idea to update telephones as if they were software and not phones.

Or rather that it is a good idea to have phones that need updates? Either way, we're all one 1/2 assed push update to a fridge, vacuum, washing machine, phone or car away from a really annoying day.
The verb is "accidentally", actually!
I used to dialin to Pine (and Lynx) at 1200bps. If I remember correctly, I could read about as fast as the words came to screen. If you're just saving for reading later, 5kbps is tons for email.
Canonical Launches MicroCloud to Deploy Your Own "Fully Functional Cloud"
Is that like a reverse codegolf?

setInterval(() => console.log(Math.ceil(Date.now()/1000)), 1000);0

This could be 0.999s late, but seems good enough for REPL usage
> > Batteries are about 1000x more useful on the grid than nuclear,

> Citation needed! Also: did you know that all existing commercial nuclear plants can ramp up and down in power at about 2-3% (~25 MWe) per minute? They often simply choose not to because the current market structure doesn't incentivize them to.

That's a nice way of saying that nuclear power is much too expensive to not run plants at maximum capacity all the time.

>Add a price to low-carbon load following and all the plants in the US will start doing it.

Citation needed. Considering the price of wind or solar, investors are much mor elikley to over provision using those technologies. Nuscale just had to axe their SMR (supposedly the future of nuclear) project in Idaho, because they couldn't find subscribers and their cost of overrunning massively.

> Batteries have a big disadvantage in that they do not generate any electricity. They also have pretty miserable energy density, which correlates eventually to chemical waste. To store power in batteries for a night in the US, you'd need many thousands of skyscrapers full of batteries.

Except you don't need to store the power to run all of the US for a night, you're just making a strawman.
I absolutely hate talking to strangers and can't relate to a single comment in this thread.
EDIT: I did not see the script-lab mention at the end of your comment.

Microsoft Script-lab will allow you to do just that.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/profiles/script-lab/

The other issue: it is not trivial to share an addin to end users. You need to publish it to marketplace or sharepoint. Sideloading requires SMB server and GPO. However there is an option that is not mentioned anywhere: it is possible to embed it in a document and it will install when it is open for the first time (after user confirmation).
You're thinking of LLMs as basically pattern matching "a is b", but that's not really how they work. In fact, the incredible thing that LLMs can do is that they can understand (some) colloquial language and shades of meaning. LLMs can grasp all sorts of strange textual nuance; they can't grasp the cases "Foo is Bar's mother" strictly implies "Bar is Foo's son"?
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The (purported) point of an LLM is its ability to represent language. The inability to represent such a critical nuance would represent a fundamental failure in that regard.
While I like Janet, and find it to be a lovely little language; I think it's important to note that it lacks lists and cons cells, and so as a result some people don't label it a lisp, and programming in it is unlike other lisp languages. It's similar, because the syntax is similar and the macros and various forms are lifted straight from lisps; but the feel of programming in it is very much like programming in C, and I find it's less like Scheme or Common Lisp.

Because it's not built around linked lists, the core type most encountered for lists of data is arrays and tuples. Neither is conducive to efficiently removing elements mid-set, or composing two sets, or interleaving two sets, or other operations that require reordering, replacing, adding or removing elements in the set. When I'm writing code in lisp I don't think about that overhead much, because for linked lists it's not an issue.
Think different indeed
And perhaps the OP would.
Horrible popup on the blog, cant cancel it pn mobile
The fastest code is the code that never runs.
This would be great but in practice they'll just use third-party ad networks, which pay regardless of Apple's decision. It'll definitely break those pesky inflated subscriptions though.
There have been several half-baked efforts to introduce new kinds of automation into Office but none of them have all the functionality of VBA. But I guess working on that again is too boring and unappealing so we get flavors of the month instead.
I typed this in chatgpt: I'm non-english and I need to write this out better: I'm a CEO, a former developer, and I think need it.

But don't know your idea.

And it gave back:

Certainly! It seems like you're expressing that you are a CEO, a former developer, and you believe you need something, but you're unsure about the specific idea. Here's a more refined expression:

"I serve as the CEO, bringing with me a background as a former developer. Currently, I find myself in a position where I recognize the need for something essential. However, I am open to suggestions and would appreciate your input on potential ideas."

Feel free to let me know if you would like any further adjustments or details!

Then I said, let's say I have a table users-fname,lname,id,email and another table messages: fromUserId,id,message,toUserId and I need to find all messages that user 1 sent to user two, in SQL

and ChatGPT replied with:

SELECT messages.*
FROM messages
JOIN users AS sender ON messages.fromUserId = sender.id
JOIN users AS receiver ON messages.toUserId = receiver.id
WHERE sender.id = 1 AND receiver.id = 2;

So the basic answer is, Yes you need ChatGPT, but for more than just SQL.
Phones just had one job...
It's pretty funny where we ended up.
I don't know how or why, but yes, it has become less accurate over at least the last year or so.
Yeah to be honest I did something like this and then I switched to C#. Now I"m just a software developer.
I give it 18 years before those instances go dark...
Who is bdr?

I actually know Brad (who runs the site) so this is quite a pleasant surprise for me to see it here!
I would be hesitant to use Jack Welch and correct bet in the same sentence.

His overall strategy at GE was to shift it from it's traditional roles in heavy industry to instead focus on finance and real estate. This worked temporarily as the company rode the real estate bubble. When the bubble pop'd the company lost half its value.

In other words, don't evaluate his statements on nuclear without context or critical thought.
No matter what lofty heights you achieve you're never really free of external constraints.
Monocrystalline is the most expensive one to produce, the process of manufacturing monocrystalline solar cells is very energy-intensive and produces a big amount of silicon waste.

They're not especially robust in cold weather and while they do last longer, they do also degrade in output over time just as the poly versions do.

To maintain a 1 GW farm requires ongoing upkeep, etc.

Again, there are no magic problem free resources, just like low volume uranium mining, large volume mining and production processing to sustain solar power has toxic side effects and impacts people.
Can companies actually enforce "fines"? The closest I can think of would be a "breach of contract" penalty, but you'd still have to go to court of file small claims for that. I don't see Apple getting into any of that to improve the quality of the App Store.
There's an old video game called Seven Cities of Gold wherein you play a european explorer poking about the new world. It has procedurally generated game worlds, and claims to use some plate techtonics. I don't remember if you could actually circumnavigate the world, but it gave a great experience of gradually uncovering an absolutely massive map, packed with things to see. Designed for platforms with SERIOUS technology constraints, the author packed a LOT of game play. Given the historical subject, it also offers up some serious topics for thought / conversation.

As always, the Digital Antiquarian has a great article about this game:
https://www.filfre.net/2013/08/seven-cities-of-gold/
All of the retro shaders and things like cool-retro-term seem to overdo the curve too, making everything look like a 9" TV, when for me 14" was the most common size and much less pronounced curvature. The tail end of my CRT experience however was 19" and 21" Sony and Viewsonic flat tube monitors with trinitron masks and 36" trinitron TVs, so retro stuff never looks right.
Was interested to check this out for Helsinki, but site loads blank on Safari :(
Sure, they're great, so long as I don't have to modify them.
Indeed, lots of people on both sides of the divide think that the current spending is wrong, and I would assume many from around the world wouldn't consider our priorities 'prudent'
Or just build reprocessing plants like france, where abt 90% is sent back to the reactors. The remaining real waste is solidified to be stored more easily. Or just build breeding reactors that perform this by default (except solidification, for that we still need vitrification). Solidified waste is dangerous for abt 300 yrs
iOS autocorrect is legitimately terrible.

I promise, there are zero circumstances under which I text "nm man u?" and intend to use a short form of "Manchester United"

(And unlike other ducking annoyances, this one cannot be worked around with text replacement shortcuts.)
Ok, so the argument is that we know we went nuts regulating it to oblivion, and this is a fault in the technology and not ourselves - then you go to admit that it is a massive tactical and technological advantage we need?

Ok, strange flex but this about what I have come to expect from this “debate”.
France went "Negative learning by doing" [1] in their initial build out and Flamanville 3 [2] is looking like a complete boondoggle.

[1]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03014...

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Pl...
I mean I think it's fair to look askance at any environment that includes misfeatures like `On Error Resume Next`.
I really enjoyed the article.

I think one way to simplify language creation is to use an existing language with somewhat similar operational semantics as a compilation target. This simplifies the backend a lot and leaves more time to explore what the language (frontend) should look like. The backend can always be rewritten at a later time. My personal choice is usually JavaScript[1].

Regarding type checkers/type inference, I've also ran into difficulties with this topic, and I've written several articles trying to make it more approachable[2].

[1]: https://gilmi.me/blog/post/2023/07/08/js-as-a-target

[2]: https://gilmi.me/blog/tags/type%20inference
Why are ads lumped in? Typically they are only a fraction of the content they are sponsoring and they provide a service to consumers by connecting them to businesses they may find value in.

Nothing stops spammers from spamming on HAM right now and it's 1 to many which makes it more effective.
You'd still want a way to trace exactly what versions of what components went into the binary that actually got flashed to your device. I 100% support FOSS firmware, just I think it's orthogonal to this.
So how to anti nuclear activists cause massive cost overruns? The nuclear industry is a multibillion dollar industry with extremely close ties to government (probably one of the closest after the military industry). But somehow a movement, that still gets largely dismissed by politicians as environmental nutters managed to get them to overrun costs?

I mean the myth of the supposedly all powerful anti-nuclear lobby is actually hilarious. I mean took fukushima to get Germany (arguably on of the most nuclear sceptical countries) to decide on stopping nuclear (despite the majority of the population being against nuclear power for years prior) and under quite favourable conditions for the nuclear industry.
Interesting, I hadn't considered that that could be seen as another aspect of technofeudalism. I don't think it's really what people are talking about with the word, but it is an interesting connection.
Without Linux support it's not cross platform.
Mare-ryl-und
Why is this necessary? There is no paywall.
I always like collecting such papers, thanks.
Preventative health care on average.

Europe might not be always great, but at least people aren't afraid to go to doctor early before things become too major.

And it can really add years to life for lot of people.
I'd be curious to see a comparison with Kiri Engine and see how that compares to the alternatives, and with the various different methods supported by Kiri Engine.
Interesting if morbid bit of serendipity that that should occur during the age of 27 when the 27 club also exists.
You are not factoring in resiliency
The best fried chicken in Maryland is at Pollo Campero in my opinion. :P
This is a great way to hire people who all meet a homogenous standard of behavior. It’s absolutely efficient from an engineering standpoint to eliminate weak links who can’t solve basic engineering problems.

It creates a team of people who are good at tests, and good in testing environments.

However, there are so many things that make an engineer great that have nothing to do with how they solve problems but who they are, how dedicated to improvement they are, etc.

But they may not be someone who:

-thinks quickly on their feet
- finds this type of situation tolerable
- may have disabilities one can’t see that would make this kind of interview difficult for them
- have personality challenges or anxiety in social situations that make interviews like this impossibly difficult

The list of reasons that “whiteboard testing interviews” don’t work well is long.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with this approach if that’s the kind of organization you want to build. But it does tend to create homogeny and act as a gatekeeper for “those who do not fit in.”

Some of the very best engineers I have ever hired would never make it though this interview. But they were amazing engineers who did world class work.
It doesn't just handle the gap but when the first one sends.

Suit yourself, though.
Diogenes: If I were mortal I would be Socrates as well.
The person who submitted this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bdr
"An emotional breakdown" is an odd way to describe burglary, assault, attempted kidnapping, and battery that had been planned out and prepared for following two months of Lisa stalking someone who was sleeping with a guy she'd previously had an affair with.

I'm not suggesting that it's similar in any way to losing a toolbox. Lisa's entire situation was clearly something very different, you're right about that, but an emotional breakdown (while not a precise medical term) is typically used to describe an episode or outburst caused by too much stress/pressure. It's strange to see it used for a series of premeditated crimes that took months, involved lots of planning, careful packing, and a journey of 900 miles by car to reach the victim.
Algorithms are not physical either in software or chemistry. Patents in chemical engineering are essentially a set of differential equations that can be applied to a real system, no different than software algorithms. If you replace “molecules” with “bits”, it is identical to software. Patents in chemistry have no connection to specific physical machinery, they are abstract concepts. The reason software algorithms are patentable everywhere is that they can be manifested as concrete logic circuits and electronic circuits are patentable.

I have no source for the lack of R&D in open source. It is a widely held view even within parts of open source, often commented on, and generally not considered controversial. As an example I am personally familiar with, database technology is virtually all developed privately and is far ahead of what is available in open source. Open source tends to copy whatever bits leak out, is decades behind the state-of-the-art, and the gap has been getting worse over time.

Software that requires man-years of extremely specialized expertise to produce tends to be a poor fit for open source. The people with these skills are well-paid and in high demand, often with contractual clauses that do not allow them to work on open source. They have families and other interests. There are few incentives to spend years of their lives building this software for free.

If this kind of software is to become open source, it will require incentives that are not a pure loss for those that know how to build it. This is the current situation. Someone has to pay for it.
Nuclear is not so expensive because of regulation that's another myth. Considering the scale and possible impact wind and solar often have much more regulations (just look at Bavaria where the ruling party essentially blocked all new wind installations by creating requirements that reduced potential sites to nearly 0). A nuclear power plant is essentially a thermal plant plus the nuclear part so how would it be cheaper than a coal plant?
> Also: did you know that all existing commercial nuclear plants can ramp up and down in power at about 2-3% (~25 MWe) per minute?

How often can they repeatedly ramp without getting into trouble with reactor poisoning?

To load follow with nuclear France devised an entire scheme where their monopoly owner would let reactors take turns reducing their output.

Then on top of that the fueling schedule is synced since the later a reactor is in the fuel lifecycle the less it can ramp.

Try that on a free market.
This seems really cool. Am I correct in reading that this explains away the need for (some? all?) dark matter?
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If it really goes through. It is just adding extra standard step or tool to CI/CD chain. Problem now is that there is not good enough tools, but it is not unsolvable problem when enough people get involved.
Per the HN Guidelines:

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

It is quite unnecessary to hear you call everyone you disagree with uneducated or similar.
That seems rather convoluted. The generator function is gratuitous, and the promise stuff is unfortunately verbose (pity there’s no async version of setTimeout built in). I’d write it with a recursive function, this way:

function t(){let m=Date.now(),s=Math.ceil((m+10)/1000);setTimeout(()=>{console.log(s);t()},s*1000-m)}t()

That maintains the accuracy, but frankly just a 1000ms interval will probably be good enough in most cases, though it’ll drift all over the second (e.g. it loses about a millisecond each tick on my machine under Node), and it’s certainly much simpler to reason about.
As opposed to what, getting a free pass to ignore security because you're small? (And really, it's a "burden" to track what you're shipping? That's all a BoM is; a standardized format to stamp a binary with a list of ingredients.) Do you think mom 'n pop diners should be exempt from health inspectors?
> Unix time is the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC. This number never goes back or forward, it's simply the number of Mississippis you would have counted if you started Jan 1, 1970 at 00:00:00 UTC.

Wrong. UNIX time is number of days since epoch × 86400 + seconds since beginning of day.

In real world some days have been actually 86401 seconds long, which means that UNIX timestamp is (currently) 37 less than number of seconds since epoch.
Excellent blog post. The only thing which I wish was there was an explanation of how promot + completion training would be any different to pure completion training. From my understanding oftransformers, it ahould be the same.
Wouldn't a thermal diode be a lot more useful?
Because it's the only option? When I was writing my PHD thesis in Word 2003, there was no other possibility to generate list of references than to write the script yourself. So I did. This doc is still lying around somewhere and probably works. While not very pretty, still more readable than Perl or Python :D
Empower parents to do what exactly? Routers have the ability to pinpoint and target devices, shut them off at certain times, and have global filters. AdGuard gives even more fine grained website specific features, letting you shut off YouTube for all devices.

Specific devices like the Switch and MacOS also let you setup times, block apps, block websites, and allow apps to only work for a certain time.

Kids will try and get around the blocks to keep playing games, but punishing them for getting around the blocks and talking to them about it instead of trying to automate everything still works
Citizen future: Why we need a new story of self and society (2022)
How is this worse than C? In C the program.might bit even crash and instead have a remote code execution vulnerability.
Keywords "some" and "quite". Also, only (likely) half the information. "John is Alice's parent.", "Who are Alice's parents?".

And that is ignoring questions like single parent households, adoptions, biological parents, step parents, multigeneration households, getting disowned...

If a reversal is correct 90% of the time, that is useful. However, it will still be wrong 10% of the time.
I had wondered, perhaps there will be an LLM specific framework that works idiomatic to how the LLM operates. I wonder if an LLM optimal framework would be human readable, or would it work differently. The downside obviously, LLMs work by processing existing solutions. Producing a novel framework for LLMs would require humans to make it, defeating the point a bit.
Oh yea, sure. But the article makes it seems like the model is trained on some predictive model, instead of a synthesis model. That seems weird to me.