skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The roadmap I linked above. The WASI folks have done a poor job at communicating, no doubt.

Just for you I did some googling: see here[0] for the current status of WASI threads overall, or here[1] and here[2] for what they are up to with WASI in general. In this PR[3] you can see they enabled threads (atomic instructions and shared memory, not thread creation) by default in wasmtime. And in this[4] repository you can see they are actively developing the thread creation API and have it as their #1 priority.

If folks want to use WASIX as a quick and dirty hack to compile existing programs, then by all means, have at it! I think that's great. Just know that your WASIX program isn't going to run natively in wasmtime (arguably the best WASM runtime with the strongest long-term outlook), nor will it run in browsers, because they're going to follow standards.. not WASIX. I don't think anyone believes exposing POSIX fork() to WASM is a good idea, even if it lets you build existing apps 'without modification'.

Please stop accusing me of being polarizing. I just don't want to live in a world with two competing WASI standards, two competing thread creation APIs, and a split WASM ecosystem overall. I want good tech to win, not shitty power plays.

[0] https://github.com/bytecodealliance/jco/issues/247#issuecomm...

[1] https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/wasmtime-and-cranelift...

[2] https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/webassembly-the-update...

[3] https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/pull/7285

[4] https://github.com/WebAssembly/shared-everything-threads
Sure, but the size scales out. Texas isn't an island either.
You can take things to the EU courts only in specific cases. You have to find out if it's an applicable human rights issue (it isn't). You can try to get the European Commission interested (good luck with that). Etc. Even if an EU court examined the case and made a decision, Sweden wouldn't necessarily implement the judgement.

See e.g. https://commission.europa.eu/about-european-commission/conta...
Stronger thigh muscles may prevent knee replacement surgery
The implementation is new but as far as the UX goes, it's very similar to <script language="html" name="my-template"><!-- --></script>. That said, the UX is going to be slightly better for <template> simply because it's is an official standard and so IDEs and tooling will be more likely to support it without additional extensions or plugins.
Nice project. It looks like there are a couple of map layers? Because if you look at Truckee, California (near Reno), it looks like you have two text blocks trying to both show Truckee.
Wastewater numbers clearly show extremely high # of cases.

And anecdotally - I just got it 3 weeks ago, along with my whole household (Hamilton area), after avoiding it for the entire time prior to this. My elderly parents got it a couple weeks before that. Coworkers of mine got it. It's all over the place right now.

Just got back from the family dr's office today. The doctors were all in masks. The nurses weren't bothering.
Does not work in the web app, I refuse to install their software any more. Leave it in the browser where it can be boxed in and restricted
Nice. Japan's mint does its own hot metal work, rolling mill and all. The US Denver mint does not; the metal coils come from some commercial rolling mill. There are no precious metals involved any more, after all.
Jacob, what a cool project! It was fun to read, which speaks to your writing skills.

On my iPhone SE (2020) the scan-line effect is distractingly low res (1), perhaps because of my lower screen resolution?

1: https://nexus.armylane.com/files/RPReplay_Final1701128035.mo...
Cory seems to think LLMs are little better than Markov chains. His anger is exhausting in its ineloquence (“enshittification”), ignorance (“spicy autocomplete”), and general disdain.
You can't really comment in the who's hiring thread either,there are pretty particular rules
Superposition makes sense when you understand all of ML as a convolution.
I appreciate the frank honesty, I'll be taking the same approach :)
As other comment mentions, the tax credit system makes it harder for them to compete with a China-built product. BYD have had some successes selling electric buses in the US though (the tax credit applies to consumer vehicles):

https://en.byd.com/news/byd-receives-largest-battery-electri...

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/09/30/byd-cars-arent-in-the-u...

That said, I also think politics in the US will make it much more unlikely we see significant inroads into consumer vehicles here.

With cars like the BYD Seal and especially the MG 4, European car makers are getting very concerned about competing against them in their domestic markets. The MG 4 is already the 2nd best selling EV in the UK etc, and is extremely price competitive vs a Tesla Model 3 or a VW ID 3, as one example. In many cases they are likely just one model refresh away from offering a product as good as a typical European manufacturer for less cash, the speed at which Europe has gone from no Chinese car sales at all to them starting to be a threat is pretty incredible by historical standards of the industry.

I still think the designs aren't always to European tastes, but the gap gets narrower all the time and one can't ignore the prices. Many of them now have Europe based design studios to fix this. A lot of Chinese comeptitors also don't have the baggage of having to wind down a huge ICE business and can just focus on making good EVs, much like the advantage Tesla has had over legacy US automakers in the EV space.

https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/mgs-european-sales-do...

Personally, I think it's just a matter of time before China built EVs dominate significant segments of the European car market, as strange as it may seem now.
This is, despite how it may otherwise appear, how I see it. I think that the decision is a good one, made by people and a company I don't trust.

The broader context of Syrus' actions within the community (which reflect on Wasmer as its CEO) are what raise concern for me.
As I mentioned, the wire needs to be properly supported, then there won't be any stress risers. I've never had one crack and fail on me.
You just need posits! John Gustafson will teach you how. Amazing concept. It would be amazing to see it in more hardware. It's especially good for AI and numerous other applications. Puts floats to shame. Of course this guy starts with integers, which are great, but for floats posits are amazing especially if you can control the bits dedicated to each 'fraction'.
Can you name a specific thing that doesn't work the way it should?
Never. Fulltime dad since 2019. I've been lurking here and on Reddit but never got anyone to respond :(

Little sad. However an impetus for mother of all inventions: social network for plutonic relations? ;)

Loneliness is a crisis and becoming an epidemic. There needs to be a way men in particular needs to find a way to connect without making them feel...may I say... despairing or desperate? :(
Was the only magazine subscription my Dad had growing up, always loved paging through it as a kid.

RIP.
Important part:

> At Busch Gardens, the first of three ponds removes biological material, the second pond removes nutrients and the third pond stores water as it is cycled through an ultraviolet disinfectant filter.

> The third pond in that process is the one with the sinkhole.
As much as I can appreciate Doctorow’s exasperation, I find his dismissal of the doomer vs accelerationist debate rather pithy. I would love to be convinced that “dumb” LLMs can never gain sentience (or be finagled into sentience with a wrapper).

What is the actual argument for why that’s true?

(I realize you could turn the question around and ask why I think it might be possible in the first place, but I feel like my expectations have been blown out of the water so regularly and so increasingly frequently that I can’t default to being a naysayer anymore)
Google Play keeps banning the same web browser due to vague DMCA notices
Why add the complexity? Cause you can. You can also submit the data to contribute while at the same time receiving and displaying it in their webpage.
It is, in my opinion, still "electrons". More pedantically, the electron field is still the mechanism for nonzero current, regardless of its exotic state. This must be the case as there's no other stable charge-carrying field that's not strongly localised to the nucleii (in this material, or any solid material I can think of). The article does a lot of waffling without admitting this basic point.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft
Also that Shinkansen trip was about $250 and worth every penny. Didn’t even need rideshare or taxi.
How do you know? I've found at least three restaurants, non-chain, in my neighborhood that have ghost websites and phone numbers set up. I don't know whether the restaurants know/agree/have licensed, but I suspect not, and suspect it's a larger/legally cautious place, because I have called to order and heard very precise/specific phrasing:

"Hello, I can take your to-go order for Restaurant!"

"Is this Restaurant?"

"I can take your order for Restaurant whenever you're ready!"

as in carefully coached to never actually say, just imply, that they are Restaurant.
Surprise surprise, people using services that announce their IP address and intention to seed torrents get caught because they were announcing their IP addresses.
Here is the now unredacted complaint:

https://ia800508.us.archive.org/12/items/gov.uscourts.cand.4...

Employee names are still redacted. Given Zuckerberg's views on privacy, one wonders why they should remain "anonymous".
Wait what are you referring to specifically? Any anthropomorphism in the article is _clearly_, clearly the author's admitted simplification due to the incredible density of the subject matter.

Given that, I honestly can't find anything too upsetting.

In any case, anthropomorphism is something I don't mind, mostly. Is it misleading? For the layman. But the domain is one of modeling intelligence itself and there are many instances where an existing definition simply makes sense. This happens in lots of fields and causes similar amounts of frustration in those fields. So it goes.
Lots of children in bad households have made out to be ok, and plenty of children with well-off families.

Disabilities birth/young age is act of "god". It's perfectly fine to take care of them. However they only account 1-2% of the population.

Death due to Missing Coverage is overrated. All Emergency Units take in patients and most exaggerated medical bill people actually don't pay the said bill
Think of it this way: looking at the neurons is like looking at the assembly and trying to understand how a video is played on YouTube. Yes, in theory it’s possible, but realistically no one would be able to do that. At least not in a reasonable amount of time.
Ask HN: Work 10 hours a day how do you manage your time?
I work 10 hours a day in a physically demanding trade, work out most days, eat, spend time with family. It doesn’t leave much time for reading or learning hobbies I’m interested in, how do you guys manage your time?
The default limit for an account that was not used much is one image per minute, can you please add support for timeouts?
> why use de Bruijn indices for symbols, instead of some other scheme, such as the index of the lambda in the string?

It's pretty natural to use de Bruijn indexes, since their meaning is local and their composition matches the language semantics (they have a denotational semantics, which gives expressions an intrinsic meaning). For example, with de Bruijn indices the expression `λ0` is always the identity function. If we tried a different scheme, like "the index of the lambda in the string", then expressions like `λ0` would have no intrinsic meaning; it depends on what "string" they occur in, which requires some concrete notion of "the string", which complicates any interpreter, etc.

Whenever I see an implementation of lambda calculus (or some derivative) which doesn't use de Bruijn indexes, I require some justification to convince me why not :) (There are such justifications, e.g. performance optimisations, use of a host language's naming facilities, etc.; but I've can't think of any reason a self-contained, minimalist approach should avoid them)

> why use a self-delimiting format in the first place?

There are various technical reasons to prefer self-delimiting languages when working in algorithmic information theory. For example, prefix-free (binary) encodings are paths through a (binary) tree, with programs as leaves. This lets us assign well-defined probability measures to the set of all programs (assign 1 to the root node, and divide each node's probability between its (two) children). It's also more natural when programs are executed before they're fully known; e.g. reading one bit at a time on-demand (say, generated by a coin toss)
The traders and the bankers are not the same people.

I totally believe you and the traders tend to be very keen about what the near future is going to bring (barring black swan events).

As for the Dutch, yes, it's embarrassing.
I think even Soylent involved some people at some point, so to be honest there are inefficiencies there that we should aim to scale away from to maintain annual growth.
They moved entirely online a couple of years ago. Now they're just shutting up shop entirely.

> putting content online is much more scalable, cheaper, faster, etc.

But it's a much worse format (in my opinion) for reading something like PS. When they moved online, I stopped reading them because the media itself removed too much value for me.
And A123 [1], later acquired by SAIC to form the foundation of China’s present leadership in batteries.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A123_Systems
Adding comments just to fight with prettier is... uglier. I rather just not use prettier at all. It's more harmful than good IMO.
They may often be used with small embedded computers, but 1 Coral TPU handily beats even a top-end CPU for the stuff Frigate needs it to do -- and it does it at minuscule power draw. Sure, it's inference-focused, and that means it has limitations: it sucks for e.g. speech models, too. But it's pretty great at what it does and gets used in real applications too. My guess is you saw the USB-C model, but they do M2, big cards with multiple M2 slots, and miniPCIe (popular in industrial applications) too.
The computer science version is: how much data can you compress to 64 bits? Well you can come up with any payload, create a compression algorithm that returns 0 if it matches that pay load and 1 ++ payload otherwise, then compress that payload. If the “number” is the binary number expressed by the payload that is your maximum number. You can go as high as you like.
Because Al sold shoes at a time before we thought it was rational to pay someone $400k a year to write shitty Python code.

Said average developers then banded together and built an e-commerce website that sold shoes drop shipped direct from the sweatshop and put Al out of business.

No ma'am indeed.
Not wanting to take away from any excuse to quote Douglas Adams, I think what they meant by "born 40 yrs too late" is that they are young(ish) and feel that being around 40yrs earlier would've suited them better.

Either that or it's Thursday, I could never get the hang of Thursdays.
enshittification is a useful lens for understanding various aspects of platforms. I think it's actually pretty eloquent.
> Investors invested a lot in the UK post 2014 because being part of the EU was a big selling point. Who knows how it will play out now that the UK is isolated and with open borders.

I'm sure the working class are devastated that foreign investors have potentially lost money

> Excuse me but how is this the EU's fault and not the UK's own fault for not enforcing some sort of minimum wages before?

it has one?

you have missed the point entirely, and have now dropped to arguing in bad faith

goodbye
Something like SKI calculus seems a lot less arbitrary than lambda calculus in terms of representation, perhaps.
I do the same. I fast between 8pm and 12pm the following day (classic 16/8 model), but I have a black coffee around 10am as I find it helps reduce hunger.
> Haters gonna hate

If you dismiss all criticism of your behaviour in this way, you'll never gain any insight into why so many people find your behaviour so objectionable.

It's not because "haters gonna hate". It's not because you're operating in a competitive and highly visible space, and so of course you're going to receive some "hate", or whatever other dismissive narrative you might have cooked up. Look around you: people in similar positions just don't generate the reaction that you do.

When Wasmer eventually folds, it will be your fault, because you refused to reflect on how your antisocial behaviour destroyed all trust in the brand.

I don't know how to stop that from happening. Maybe a good therapist could help? Heck, your board would probably even be happy to pay for it, given the potential upside for Wasmer.
Their comment seems reasonable, no need to be hostile to it
I think the newer brother printers might be ... different now.

I looked at color lasers and they seem to take TN229 cartridges. There are 3rd party replacements, but they seem to cost more than the brother ones.

also, in a twist, most printers on amazon have been strongarmed into doing "amazon dash replacement" stuff bolted on.

brother also has added a toner subscription service.

And reviews complain that when the printer decides the toner runs out (by numerical count), you can't do a "keep printing anyway".

I can't tell without buying a newer printer first, but I think you need to just check reviews first.
I've never read something so self ingratiating, yet also rant like. Seemingly an average social network post. No content, all substance.
See a highly upvoted answer in a question about zlib related things, suspect it was probably posted by Mark Adler, and turn out to be correct.
Microsoft Contributes Azure RTOS to Eclipse Foundation
officially, ukraine could not use them on their own. only russia had the "launch codes". part of the reason why they gave them up in the first place. not sure how much of a problem that is in practice. in any case, ukraine would have also needed the resources to maintain them which is no easy task. so I guess the answer is: we'll never know if it had any impact.
Ask HN: Has using ChatGPT/LLM's improved or worsened your coding skills?
I think the integration of AI tools into the workflow of all white-collar jobs will be as significant a change as the advent of the PC. Because of this, the long-term effects on our competence in cognitive work is something worth consideration.

On one hand LLM's offer everyone a personal tutor with a range of knowledge far greater than any human. This could mean LLM's help humans learn faster and become smarter. However, in using them we outsource cognitive work that would otherwise be instrumental in the learning process. Our mental scaffolding atrophies and become helpless without AI tools.

For anyone who in coding, writing, or any kind of work use ChatGPT or other LLM tools, do you believe your overall skill in the realm it helps you in has improved, stayed the same, or worsened as a consequence?
Really cool idea. Would be neat to also be able to click railways as well. I think openrailwaymap provides some cool details like owner, max speed, electrification.

I also noticed the map makes it look like the trains are travelling slightly south of the track. It seems to converge once you zoom in though, so I think the data is probably accurate, but somehow the map is distorting things.
> If your greatest achievement ended up with a bunch of people dead - maybe there would have been more utility in self-destruction.

In other words, American Indians who were proud of their spears and axes should instead have embraced self-destruction.

Yikes.

My ancestors were vikings. Should their victims also have embraced self-destruction rather than make the best weapons they could to defend themselves from the vikings?

> maybe you need to be in situation where violence is a possible outcome to remember no one wants it.

Tell me more about how the vikings "didn't want violence"?
> Large Language Models (AKA "spicy autocomplete")

Yup, really fucking tired of this. I'm somewhere in the middle of this whole debate, but it's a debate worth having. And I think the people belittling AI to autocomplete are likely putting a little too much magical thinking into their own consciousness.
I'd guess the right-wing ones won't.
Good riddance to X. There's a reason why people and companies are leaving a place and an owner that amplifies neo-Nazi expression and conspiracy theories like QAnon.
I thought it sounded very familiar, so much so I checked the date twice.
Utterly sick and downright twisted, but hilarious. Thanks.
Not 100% sure, but it look like with "Shein drops up to 10,000 new items on its website daily" (source: https://www.npr.org/2023/10/13/1204983212/shein-america-fast...), it is H&M and Zara on steroids.

The expiration date on clothes is so short that now transporting it by boat is not too slow, and they have to take plane.

(writing this post, while wearing 4yo jeans, and 5yo t-shirt)
I'm not sure it's me who's doing the strawman. In many situations (in the real world), machines are expensive, they don't like stopping, and workers are relatively cheap. You can either meticulously plan your factory so that every worker always has something productive to do and pay for expensive safety equipment that also slows down the machines, OR you can just pack your factory with enough workers and make them work overtime, making sure the machines are always working.

Guess what a true capitalist would do?
such a wonderful article, really enjoyed reading it
Random parenting tidbit: I have two kids, and they had tantrums. When it was spiraling I took them outside. I have found the sound of nature calms them, weirdly. The change of setup maybe helps.
Link sends me into a captcha loop.
I never intended for it to be presented as perfect and on average the little guy sees a lot of return from Brussels.

But there is plenty to be improved still, however, I'm cynical enough to realize this may well be as good as it gets.
This makes me sad, but also a long time coming. I remember reading them cover-to-cover as a kid several decades ago, but the quality went down, ads went up, etc. and I haven't read one now in 10 years or more.
The best approach there isn't to lower taxes (although a deduction for a primary household is fine of course) but to allow them to defer payment until it's sold/they die. Since in this situation their house is also worth several million dollars.
Is the logo someone farting?
Posits formerly unums, these are amazing. The best solution I've seen. Look up John Gustafson. This article doesn't mention him or posits. They can expand with inaccuracy but retain precision. Or sacrifice precision for accuracy. Making the best use of the bits depending on the application.
I'm just trying to answer your question, but I don't think you're exactly clear on what you want to know. It's ok, no need to get defensive about it.

Whether or not 'one end of the wire gets heavier' depends on what your doing. If you are using the wire to power an LED from a battery, then no, because electrons are removed from one end and placed into the other at equal rates. Charge and mass within the wire are both globally and locally conserved.

If you do something where charge/mass isn't conserved such as removing electrons from one side (i.e. by rubbing a fork on a carpet) or by using an electric field to 'tilt' the electrons to one side, you can create a (very small) mass imbalance. This activities are not usually considered to be useful electrical current.