skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely lack the words to be super eloquent on this front, but I boil it down to a computer comparison. No matter how complex a computer we make it will take inputs and compute outputs. I now of no evidence of a level of complexity at which this is no longer true. I think the idea of free will is enticing, I'd love to look at a situation in which I prevailed and say "yes, I overcame everything to make that happen." But I think the only supported conclusion is that I made the decision and action I made due to a complex, lifelong history of things that happened internally (biology) and externally to me.

Comparatively, I think free will is essentially asking that a computer take inputs and it's programming and shrug that all off to come up with a completely novel output.
787 isn't a small plane! 787 is just 11% smaller by wingspan and just 3% smaller range than long-range 747. In large part, 747 and 380 went away because they were fuel-inefficient 4-engine planes, not because airlines wanted to fly tiny planes between LA and NY.
Considering how most of the software we run is open source, I don't think legacy support is that important. I think lots of organizations would be happy to switch for 10% improvement in performance or power.

Open source could really facilitate a golden age in CPU design where backwards compatibility really doesn't matter.
I’d like to see this asshole waste 2h every day in public transport and get less work done because of a noisy open-plan office.
how does a 300-600$ PC explain a decent part of a 20000$ robot?
I run Buttondown, so it pains me to suggest a competitor (I kid, I kid) — but to my understanding, EmailOctopus has the best free tier around at the moment, at 2500 subscribers / 10K emails.
That's super cool! What shader language is this using?
Nice find. I think I'll try it out. Although I was hoping for a real SQL type experience. I don't understand why no one just copies SQL so I can write a query like "SELECT * FROM $json WHERE x>1".

Everyone seems to want to invent their own new esoteric symbolic query language as if everything they do is a game of code golf. I really wish everyone would move away from this old Unix mentality of extremely concise, yet not-self-evident syntax and do more like the power shell way.
> couldn't get the containers to start after that, couldn't figure out how to debug it

Docker monoculture and it's consequences.
I can also recommend checking https://github.com/tidwall/jj
boats added this small addendum post today: https://without.boats/blog/coroutines-async-and-iter/
I also worked overseas on a visa tied to my employer. I managed to move job to stay in the country; otherwise I'd have had issues too. But I didn't think it was an awful situation exactly - it was the exact one I'd chosen.
It's not really because they don't want to have to learn it, it's because XML is fundamentally the wrong data model for most data. JSON is great because it matches the object structure used in 99% of programming languages - for JS it is the object structure.

Find me a programming language where objects have attributes, the order of members is significant and can be interleaved, everything is stringly typed etc...

It's a shame because I agree the tooling for XML is still better than JSON. But not better enough that it's worth fighting the data model mismatch.
levels.fyi shows amazon total comp within a few percent of google's for comparable roles
I'm going to guess there is not an insignificant number of people that had my understanding.
Meta folks if you are reading this , please give us a real SDK. Great hack though until we get that!
Does it mean there were no additional documents attached when creating this custom model? I guess so.
Flutter is great, and Dart is awesome. I still don't understand the hate for it - mostly from people who have never shipped in production.
It would be great if the internals added %W as an option that would also include the relevant trace. Shouldn't be unreasonable or impossible.
> Fossil fuels are literally dead animals

By mass, fossil fuels are mostly from plants, algae, and bacteria rather than animals.
Aaaah I see : - ) still, if it's only very occasional "do you remember that photo?" queries, that shouldn't add up to any significant cost. But a full retrieval - yeah. Interesting how the price ramps up!
For these next-gen CPUs? No idea.

For Longsoon in general, it was apparently enough support for RMS to use one as far back as 2010: https://usesthis.com/interviews/richard.stallman/
I'm being pedantic here, but JSON numbers are sequences of digits and ./+/-/e/E. Whether to parse those sequences into 64-bit floats or something else is left up to the implementation.

However what you say is good practice anyway. The spec (RFC 8259) has this note on interoperability:

> This specification allows implementations to set limits on the range and precision of numbers accepted. Since software that implements IEEE 754 binary64 (double precision) numbers [IEEE754] is generally available and widely used, good interoperability can be achieved by implementations that expect no more precision or range than these provide, in the sense that implementations will approximate JSON numbers within the expected precision. A JSON number such as 1E400 or 3.141592653589793238462643383279 may indicate potential interoperability problems, since it suggests that the software that created it expects receiving software to have greater capabilities for numeric magnitude and precision than is widely available.
Geothermal energy now helps power Google's desert data centers
Invisible details – Building contextual menus [2020]
I've been interviewing a lot lately (naturally) and I've had a similar experience. I keep getting really good initial feedback on my resume, make it through several rounds of interviews with more good feedback, and then come out the other side with "We're reprioritizing our 2024 plans" or some version on that theme.
Twitter has all sorts of content. They are maybe filtering that stuff for you for some reason. Their algos move in mysterious ways. This is quite interesting just at random - AI turning memes into video https://nitter.net/Suhail/status/1729365655227711812#m
She did herself and the next owners a favor by ripping out the smarthome crap.

It's like shag carpet: faddy, kitsch, and high maintenance. Smarthome stuff in particular is just so overkill. I don't want to overengineer my home. I don't want apps and QR codes and documentation just to water my garden or operate the lights. I'm not a nerd who enjoys tinkering with this stuff. I have shit to do. I want my hose to work like a hose, my washing machine like a washing machine, etc. And that's the case for most people.

Playing with smarthome gadgets is a fun niche hobby, but it's not a hobby most people want.
there's got to be some syntax though. jq does a unique function that isn't defined in any other syntax. i'm with you, the jq syntax is weird and sometimes difficult to understand. but the replacement would just be some different syntax.

these little one-off unique syntaxes that i'm never going to properly learn are one of my favourite uses of chatGPT.
Major brands are not only pausing ads on X. They're stepping away altogether
How much do a small number of well trained chemists cost to employ? I’d expect north of $100k a pop. Although I guess this doesn’t help if you still need a chemist to interpret the output of the arm.
"I was motivated to exercise out of laziness".

"I was motivated to be aggressive out of laziness".

People will assume you're trying to make a joke, with good reason. Anyone seriously trying to claim they chose to be aggressive rather than silent out of laziness is involved in what's known as a post-hoc rationalization.

This stance only appears difficult to justify to you because in your head apparently words can have any meaning you want.

To draw an analogy. If I come across a child with down syndrome who vehemently argues that 1+1=3, that doesn't make it so (inb4 redefining binary operators in math). And at some point I can either care enough to try and educate this child or I can let them be with the understanding that they're going to have a harder time in life.

And so it is that I leave you.
why not contribute to the existing jq project instead of starting a new one?

We have so many json query tools now it's insane.
But does it converge using wrapping math for all usize values?

There might be a cycle in theory.
Car drives round ice rink to test AI-powered traction control
Just for perspective this is about mach 5. But I guess there is no speed of sound if you're ignoring the atmosphere :)
Sean Carrol AI-mind analysis
This is an audio analysis by a physicist who is a university professor.
He has a deep and searchable AMA database
I honestly wish Red Hat sold a prosumer version of RHEL with support
Microsoft's ugly 2023 Christmas sweater –it stars Windows XP and almost sold out
If you are commander of an explicitly Anti-Air cruiser, and you are unaware that any F-14 tasked against you would not have an anti-ship missile and would be abusing some other weapon "off-label", then you should not be defending a carrier fleet from aircraft. You should be familiar with the airframes, weapons, and abilities of your adversary.

The F-14 is not an attack aircraft! It was designed to intercept incoming air threats and bombers!
Several times when I’ve asked ChatGPT for an approach to something, it has spit out code that uses an API that looks perfect for my use case, but doesn’t actually exist.

So I’m thinking someone should be building an automated product manager!
GLSL - OpenGL Shader Language

Definitely check out ShaderToy to see many other examples: https://www.shadertoy.com/
Privacy would be a big part of it. Video of my home could potentially contain lots of private information. How is that risk minimized?
We already do this with automated e.g. drug testing. I've worked with a couple different machines (and worked on the development of another) that existed specifically to rapidly do certain chemical and biological tests, to parse through computationally or AI suggested drugs. They run at about the same cost, with similar service contracts, and they're VERY common in the pharmaceutical industry. If your goal was to find a process to produce some precursor chemical necessary for material development (prior to heading to the foundry), it makes sense.
I really wonder if a mixed approach isn't best. Make the planes like trains, where the propellors would be electric motors, while there's a generator in the fuselage running on AVFUEL it was already going to burn in a jet engine. Reduced complexity, centralized weight, possibly modular system where bigger loads can be possible with a generator swap for more output and propellor swap for more bite.

I'm sure some level of batteries would be required for safety if the generator dies mid flight, but a load of emergency batteries is much smaller than a load of main fuel cell batteries.
which states?
I feel you. If you want to hear my write-up against nits... https://graphite.dev/blog/what-are-nits

> When folks defend nits, I suspect they are actually defending “non-blocking” comments - including educational remarks, context sharing, suggestions, aspirations, and more. Poor definitions from Google’s otherwise excellent style guide muddles two orthogonal ideas: non-blocking comments, and trivial preference-based requests. The former is a healthy means of communication between engineers writing code. The latter is an inconsistent inefficiency.
The same reason why most people stopped manually editing some random files via FTP to do deployments: to get a proper reproducible, automated and monitored production environment.
> Unfortunately JSON numbers are 64 bit floats, so if you're standards compliant you have to treat them as such,

Are you sure? Looking at https://www.json.org/json-en.html I don't see anything about 64 bit floats.
You draw your own conclusions:

https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1729532438508941359?ref_...
> Sounds like a lot of HN people just don't like desire friends period.

At work? They are not my friends. Over almost a decade working for the same company there's one person I can consider a friend and I'm pretty sure I'll continue to talk once we are working at other places. Everyone else? Not friends. Friendly, sure.

Work is really the wrong place to be looking for friends. Hopefully one has a life outside of work.
I think in the same way that autocomplete does - I may not have typed out `.length` or whatever it happens to be in the language I used last year enough to remember a year later if it's len or length or size and if it's a property or a method after a year goes by without me touching that language... but then it's a simple search away to refresh my memory, and overall the autocomplete saves a LOT of time that makes up for this.

Yeah, if you never knew what the code that got generated did in the first place, that's not gonna apply, but if you're using it as basically just a code expander for things you could do the pseudocode for in your sleep, you're probably gonna be ok.
https://netwrck.com AI character chat is probably what you are looking for
I would agree, but the evidence is that this isn't really true. Waco and Ruby ridge are examples of the government deciding someone was a threat and their guns allowed them to have considerable political impact. Yes, they were taken down, but their actions drastically weakened gun control in this country.
> Rolls-Royce continue to develop for the nuclear power market - I'm guessing driven by government/military money.

Correct - RR are the manufacturer of the PWR reactors that power the Royal Navy's submarines. They are trying to capitalise on this by branching out in to SMRs.
> I'm disgusted, but not surprised, that teenage kids are generating CSAM like this. Even before we had diffusion models, we had GANs and deepfakes, which were almost immediately used for generating shittons of nonconsensual porn

I think the big difference now is that 1) it's much easier to do now, and 2) the computational requirements and (more importantly) technical skills have dramatically dropped.

We should also be explicitly aware that deep fakes are still new. GANs in 2014 were not creating high definition images. They were doing fuzzy black and white 28x28 faces, poorly, and 32x32 color images that if you squint hard enough you could see a dog (https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661). MNIST was a hard problem at that time and that's 10 years. It took another 4 years to get realistic faces and objects (https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.10196) (mind you, those images are not random samples), another year to get to high resolution, and another 2 to get to diffusion and another 2 before those exploded. Deep fakes were really only a thing within the last 5 years and certainly not on consumer hardware. I don't think the legal system moves much in 10 years let alone 5 or 2. I think a lot of us have not accurately encoded how quickly this whole space has changed. (image synthesis is my research area btw)

I'm not surprised that these teenagers in a small town did this. But the fact that all those adjectives exist in that order is distinct. Discussions of deep fakes like that Tom Scott video were barely a warning (5 years is not a long time). It quickly went from researchers thinking it can happen in the next decade and starting discussions to real world examples making the news in under their prediction time (I don't think anyone expected how much money and man hours would be dumped into AI).
Why on earth would you copy Cron's incomprehensible syntax? You're writing code in a statically typed language! You can make a nice type checked API that actually is understandable without having to use one of the many many crontab generator UIs.

Crazy API design!

Edit: seems like there is a WIP typed API but I still have no idea why you would lead with the terrible one...
Fun, of course. Existing projects are boring almost by definition. And this is volunteer work.
Sorry, here's the source on the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LcUQeTzIo4
But it is a feature. Musk’s takeover of BLUEBIRD is a deliberate act of transmutation, possibly even demolition.
> This article is consistent with my recent experience with academics being a frenzy to produce papers riding the AI/ML hype, yet producing bunch of practically useless papers.

Much of CS is like this; useless papers with incremental improvements at best. Without having read the paper, I'd guess plain ARIMA etc. do well enough in univariate forecasts.
I am unable to do https://python-type-challenges.zeabur.app/intermediate/calla...

I am doing

type SingleStringInput = Callable[[str], None]

but it doesn't seem to work :(

EDIT:

I got the problem. You need a new line at the end since it seems as if it is concatenating my last line to the first line of the test.
I mean, why should any scientist think about ethics? [INSERT $GOLDBLUM_QUOTE HERE]

Also, when you start to invent new technology, you're not just a dispassionate objective scientist pushing the boundaries of knowledge. You're an engineer whose products are also engineering society.
As a "white devil": way to totally fail to understand what I wrote. Nothing I wrote argued for discrimination, and it's flat out dishonest of you to claim so.
HN should just autoban all alien posts
Panstellar here: Stargate
Why?

"The release shows that domestic CPUs have reached a new height in self-sufficiency and performance. It also demonstrates that China is capable of producing first-class products based on a proprietary CPU structure,"

As this is also kind of one of the responses to the West trying to technology-boycot them (what can be considered now hugely failed and soon, if not already, backfiring..) could also be seen as a feature, and not a problem?! ;)
>By definition (an LLM as a “compressor”) this shouldn’t happen.

It depends on how lossy the compression is?
I thought the JSON spec says that numbers can have an arbitrary amount of digits.

Also, what!! Hey! Miss you man.
If you're going to use KeePass, do it right and use KeePassXC (that's what I use). It's cross platform. I sync the password file between my computers and my phone and I use KeePassXC client on my phone as well. And I use a completely different KeePassXC password file for work related passwords which I keep on my work computer. How many times have Okta and LastPass been hacked already?
If you have some really sensitive passwords you could have your password file inside a Veracrypt container. Also, you can use a key file (can be anything including an image) along with your password for added security.
I've only used a very small amount of AI assistance (mostly Anthropic's Claude), and always to learn, not to do. That is, I will ask it what's happening, why are things breaking, etc. It doesn't have to have the right answers, it just needs to unblock me.

I hear it is also quite useful for doing things which you know extremely well but are tedious to do. Anything in between is certainly a danger zone.
It sounds like the real pro strat for an attack would have been to launch a single F-14 with a commercial jet taking off right up close behind you.

"Sure that plane looks like it's moving fast and diving straight towards us, but it's just an Airbus A300."
Sorry, I meant over a lifetime of ownership+replacement. You'd have to replace the IKEA table more often but it's a lot cheaper. Also, I don't deny that a hardwood table may even cost more over a lifetime, hence why very few people have/buy/make them now given the overall cost/value proposition
Very well done. Bright lights even bleed (not sure the right word) beyond the border of the sphere to simulate atmosphere (or lens?) effects.
The effects of communicating uncertainty around statistics, on public trust
Cool idea to overlay the real time rendering on a video of the actual sphere. Someone ought to capture a gaussian splatting scene of the sphere, that would be even better.
Is there a primer on what exactly "SAF" or "low-carbon fuel" actually is? It's not "just" hydrogen, or is it?

It just sounds too convenient to be a real thing. "Oh, just use the LOW-carbon fuels. There's your problem!"

Edit: Not disputing the fact that electrical airplanes present a staggering affront to the laws of physics due to weight. Just seems like the "third alternative" here (to status quo or battery) is being taken for granted.
There is exactly _one_ of those Lightning Pro models at $51,990 within 100 miles of me in Ford's dealer network.

The XLTs are a bit better with about a half-dozen or so at the $55,990, also within 100 miles.

Most of the Lightning inventory is loaded and far above those base model prices. We're not even talking $60k, we're talking $75-90k...For an F-150 and today's interest rates...
Man on the moon is such a fantastic (in the original sense) thing - I think it’s an end in itself!
Just bundle your b/e production entrypoint as a single js file similar to f/e.
Since this is HN, he probably is. And not only that, he is probably going to select this as his hill to die on. Good luck.
In Portuguese "toranja" is a grapefruit, in English.

Wikipedia says it is a hybrid between an orange and a pomelo, developed in Barbados.
Its definitely smaller in terms of capacity. Different seating configurations aside, notionally the 747 could seat 366 passengers whilst the 787 can seat 242.
I've been having big time imposter syndrome lately, too. I haven't received a single offer in any of the interviews I've been doing, either. It's been especially hard to keep that at bay after getting laid off again, but that's how this economy seems to be going for the foreseeable future.
Lots of people taking to the God AI character on https://netwrck.com
The nice thing about line numbers is that you didn't have to learn a different code editor for different computer brands. I could walk up to any computer that had BASIC in a department store, and program up my favorite childish prank on every brand:

10 PRINT "This computer is overheated."
20 PRINT "WARNING: Computer about to EXPLODE!..."
30 GO TO 10
RUN

Newbies walking up saw the active screen, got wide-eyed and walked away quickly. One even called security, as I watched from a distance. Good times!
I feel like I'm talking to an LLM with a very limited token history. Yes, it would, if Bob actually agreed to a real contract. Have I not made it clear why I don't think purchasing a DVD constitutes agreeing to the license attached to it? That was literally the point of my very first reply to you: the difference between agreeing to something and being told "I declare that you agree to this".
As nice as that would be I can imagine the support staff required would balloon quite a bit and where businesses sometimes make funky choices on how they build their things, prosumers may do that at a higher rate and make for harder to support systems.
There is an existing platform in production right now in a few different facilities. We are currently re-writing it from scratch.

It's almost an LMS, more of a UI that allows a portal for students to access many other LMS's, all the while storing and logging the data and building a transcript.

As crazy as it sounds, prisons can tell you that I didn't stand up for count (roll-call) in 2014, but can't tell you what classes, if any, that i have taken over the years or anything about my educational progress.

The only thing I can say is to reach out, hopefully we can figure something out :)
If life experience has taught me anything it’s that government run programs will be expensive, inefficient, ineffective and impossible to remove once in place.

We can all freely donate our money and time to organizations that make a difference and we also have the freedom to stop if we don’t believe they are effective anymore.

The moment a government program exists, that freedom to choose goes away and you’re stuck with whatever the result happens to be.