skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got stuck into txr lisp a few years ago, and wrote some code for parsing bank statements. It has a builtin DSL (the @ syntax) which is great for text processing (better than perl IMO).
It's also a fun language to learn, with lots of cool features such as combinators, continuations, macros, pattern matching, range objects, JSON objects, etc.
It's more powerful than python, R or julia and would make a great successor to those languages for data science, but there are very few libraries ATM so that's a long journey. Here are some I wrote (including a zsh script for browsing the manual): https://github.com/vapniks/txr-libs
IMO a good first step would be to use the txr FFI to write a library for Apache arrow: https://arrow.apache.org/
FDA Approves First CRISPR Gene-Editing Drug for Sickle-Cell Disease
The restaurants didn't want a "buffered bike lane" as you describe because they would lose the ability to put parklets (extra seating in a parking space) in parking spaces. I agree though, buffered bike lanes would be preferable to the current mess.
Been using iA Writer for 10+ years. It's made me a better writer. The way it started highlighting cliches and fluffy turns of phrase a few years ago has been chef's kiss.

I wish it supported .adoc because sometimes markdown just isn't enough.
Yea, and it is super cool to think that, but either

1. the kinetic barrier is impossibly large that even novas cant cross it, or

2. the "stable" elements are not very long lived in astronomical time scales.

Probably both are true, either way, it's a wash - no super heavy elements for alien races to play with.
Ha, probably an insignificant amount. The internet is nothing if not confidently-stated positive results, no matter how wrong they might be. No wonder this is how LLMs act.
I never said the majority of the population has severe incurable diseases. I said that have genes that aren't great (maybe they have a predisposition for certain diseases or they're a carrier but are healthy themselves).

Also, many diseases don't effect you until after you're past reproductive age. Evolution doesn't care if you get Alzheimer's at 70 but it still has a fairly large burden on our modern day society.

Sickle cell is particularly interesting because the gene that causes it makes the carriers less susceptible to malaria. So there actually was an evolutionary pressure for people in areas with high levels of malaria to have it (which is why it's so common among African Americans). Apparently it's better to die of sickle cell at 40 after you've had kids then die of malaria when your 10.
Having little capital allows for a great deal of growth in wealth. If you're total wealth is $1, assuming you've got an income, if you find a way to shave ~50 miles off your driving, you're going to see triple digit growth in your wealth.
Perhaps it's possible they could add a pre-filter that cancels selected birds. I often have squawky magpies and starlings that drown out the bird I really want to know about.
Could a multimodal LLM finetuned on whale sounds be used to translate whale language to human language?
Isn't it the case it is currently not possible to create any neutron heavy isotopes and that causes the half-lives to be on the low end?

All of these isotopes are neutron-heavy. Lawrencium 261 has 103 protons and 158 neutrons, for example.

In fact, the only stable isotopes with fewer neutrons than protons are helium 3 and ordinary hydrogen (protium).
I think a lot of the difficulty in Prolog comes down to the fact that you can read Prolog programs three ways: as a restricted form of first order logic (Horn clauses), as a procedure, and as an execution model. The last is double confusing because almost all programmers are used to controlling the execution model and Prolog demands that you relinquish a lot of control there ("Algorithm = logic + control" by Kowalski talks about this a bit). You also cannot ignore any of them because any non-trivial Prolog program exploits all three.
Honestly, I wonder if the best solution is just no bike lane at all. The thing I hated about the old lane was the need to constantly move in and out of the lane to avoid parked cars which felt more unsafe than just riding with traffic (which can't go fast on Valencia anyway due to the light timing).

The idea though that Amado's closing was specifically due to the bike lane seems hard to believe unless the business was already extremely marginal (I believe the bike lane might have been the straw that broke the camel's back but it feels like a scapegoat for other issues).
Same. I've been extremely resistant to any device without a headphone jack. I don't get this weird obsession with removing them. Apple made the idiotic decision originally because they have this weird air of "knowing better than you" but what I don't get is why other manufacturers followed suit.

Oh well.
It's like you're making my points for me.

- Have you interviewed Elon? You have great insight into his "actual" capabilities, as well as his "actual engineering knowledge and experience", not to mention his sleep schedule.

- Do you think there's no value in technical leadership?

- Why do you think progress can be made by many correct decisions at the detailed level made by many engineers, but not by a few correct decisions at the high level made by an engineering leader?

- Do you honestly, honestly believe the only thing he contributed to was the rear-view mirror because that's his only patent?

(by the way, that's exactly the kind of joke that he would love)

- Has it occurred to you that he did not file a patent application for every single thing he did?

- Or that he certainly had a directing influence in almost every aspect of those cars?

- Or that his main contribution is creating the business and factory system that makes the cars?

There's a lot to criticize about this man, and all other people who do things on a big scale, but it really looks like 99.9% of the criticism is just mindless, directionless hate.
Why build a monorail in a small town with a centralized population around a town center?
The question is how trivial is it to get the folder id. If it's just an incrementing integer, is it really providing a good salt? Im not actually asking that question or asserting that it isnt, just explaining what you missed.
Tautologies are tautologous.
> Previous State-of-the-Art: [...] The number of parameters in the LSTM layers of these models vary from 2 million to 151 million.

> We present model architectures in which a MoE with up to 137 billion parameters

Back in 2017 most models were well under 1B, GPT2 (2019) was one of the first "big" non-MOE models at 1.5B in size. People weren't sure how well/much they would scale.

The CoralAI TPU has a mere 8 MB of SRAM in 2019!

GPT3 was 175B in 2020.

Now nearly all LLM's are at minimum 1B, but dense 70B is now common.
Homebrew is also the Homebrew of Linux, with the bonus that it works on more than one distro.
As sibling comment `@wellpast` commented, but to extend it with my point of view.

We can roughly say we can have three out of: (high) quality, (low) time, (low) communication complexity, and (low) money. (time is a dependent here.)

People are trying to apply factory processes and structures to a team sport, an engineering discipline. You do not teach or build a basketball team by breaking down each attack phase into steps and checkmarks.

You try to minimize communication and make the team work as one. It is a team and individual building, not a process building exercise. You make a plan, and follow the Moltke's the Elder conclusion:

"no plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force."

(Or paraphrased as you have heard: No plan survives contact with the enemy.)

All (types of) Engineers know this. But software engineering is "special."
And it is not a "move fast and break things issue."
That is part of all engineering or team playing too.

It is the type of business mentality, that because a plan did not go exactly as expected we need to add more process. Whatever that process may be. Because if "I as a manager add a process, then the next failed plan, I am covered, and I will blame the individuals."

Process has a place to ensure things happen in a legal and moral framework. And minimize adverse circumstances -- e.g. we bet all the hedge fund money accidentally when running tests.

Process is used differently in most startups and corporations with not the team in mind.
Only if you paid money to have your posts seen and liked, and then Twitter restricts your posts anyways.
Everyone knows the inflation numbers published by gov are not realistic, so wages have risen more than published numbers, but not real life.
You can't properly run an economy on "pissing off" whims like that.
>>and everyone is happy

Except for the cars trucks and busses.. you know the ones who actually pay for such infrastructure. I would be more okay with such things if they separated the costs and made the bike lanes tolled or funded by bicycle registration.

But that doesn’t solve the problem of what the displaced motor vehicle traffic does when they now have less lanes of travel on which is divert to neighboring streets which causes other problems.
The first post accumulated 200 votes in 1h and got killed for no apparent reasons.
Cat 8 wiring, patch panels, and racks.

My shittastic apartment has Cat 5 wiring to 4 plugs while I can get 5 Gbps internet I can't use.
> Yes, companies constantly fire their American customers due to their nationality, or refuse to take Americans as new customers. (Banking and finance, in particular). Now, that's not a moral stance about American wars, it's just the natural outcome of the regulatory environment.

Specifically due to FATCA and related regulations that require foreign banks to report US citizens and potentially open the kimono if the IRS demands more about what they're up to.

No one outside of the middle east gave a shit about Iraq or Afghanistan enough to take the financial hit from pulling out of the US.

Even with moral shortcomings the US market was too big and too stable to walk away from. The Russian market was marginally stable, corrupt as hell, and mostly a source of raw materials and simple value-adds. For the EU that meant cheap gas, at the cost of funding people who hate you, and not taking steps to better nuclear or renewables.
Wait, I got the titles confused. The LIFE-CHANGING MAGIC of not giving a fuck was great. The idea of Konmari applied to obligations was clever.

The Mark Manson one was not good.
Kinda weird that the other one isn't on the front page anymore with 200+ upvotes in 3 hours.
dupe of:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38540333
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38557103
You can get a new Lenovo mini PC with these features for the price of a new Raspberry Pi 5 and its accoutrements?
Try in a 1930-40s house with vermiculite insulation. You need asbestos monitoring whenever you crack open a wall or a ceiling. Of course, the same can be said for and 1970-80-90's house with Chinese drywall.

I'll never get 10G from my basement to 2ed floor office. I can run fiber along the chimney, but there is no way down that doesn't disturb the vermiculite insulation.

I love old houses, but they present a whole different set of engineering challenges and DIY skills.
Apps That Use AI to Undress Women in Photos Soaring in Use
Lol. Bay area folks thinking a 900sw ft apartment is big.

You could have a 2000 sq ft apartment in Iowa for the cost of a 500sqft bay area apartment
Interesting feedback. I’ve found memory profiling in python to be vastly annoying, and tooling less than adequate.
I’ll give it a try.
"dog whistle" is such a nasty concept. You can accuse anyone of anything you associate their vocabulary with. The only limit is your imagination and the accused can't really falsify it.
A saying that I once heard and appreciate goes like this:

"A programmer who releases buggy software and fixes them is better than a programmer who always releases perfect software in one shot, because the latter doesn't know how to fix bugs."

Perhaps similar to the saying that a good driver will miss a turn, but a bad driver never misses one.
> since drivers run over the flex posts

New York City's solution to that was to replace some of the flex posts with anti-terrorism bollards which will stop a runaway truck. Not all of the posts. Just enough of them to get the message across.
ya, but not enough to overcome PD's limitations.

You're better off buying a little steam turbine and generating electricity directly off of the stove. On top of the electricity, you get to keep the heat.

Or, better yet, buy a propane tank and a suitably large generac. Then pipe the cooling water into radiators in the house.
What's happening here is plain for everyone to see. IDF has much much more resources, power and influence to suppress the free speech of individuals. You are using IDF's right to free speech as a way to justify the suppression.
> but Kaczyński brothers weren't prosecuted.

Is there any indicator they should have been in this case?
Based on recent history to live up to 100 years you need to become or better to be born a billionaire.

Nutrition and exercise could significantly increase quality of life, but not the length.
Also, this headline has almost nothing to do with his Twitter account. Twitter was simply the medium for message.
>Poverty in the UK dropped significantly under Labour
> False & incorrect, Labour simply moved a few million 18-30s from unemployment to University/Loans thus changing the statistics.
> and after they were replaced it flattened.
> Those millions of students then became a heavily in debt unemployed.
This comment reads like it was written by someone who has never biked, let alone in SF, and especially on this bike path.

This is a bike highway and you can consistently be faster than the cars in path by up to 2x the speed during rush hour.

Walk buttons don't really work in SF, all lights are automatically pedestrian enabled. Bicyclists don't have to hit any buttons to go. In fact, they have their own automatic bike specific light, or they ride with the car lights.
Different lines have different issues. Where I live the Amtrak cascades line is pretty good and I rarely had issues with it not being on time when I was using it regularly for over a year. The Coast starlight on the other hand was always late and you just had to build that into your plans.

A lot of this issue comes from freight stealing priority from passenger trains. By law, passenger trains have priority but Amtrak has no way to enforce this which makes Amtrak trains less likely to run on schedule.
What we really need is Ambient Connectivity. Check out Bob Frankston's (inventor of the spreadsheet) writings.

https://rmf.vc/ambientconnectivity
In this particular problem, I see that there's a certain threshold where replacing duplication with abstraction really pays off. But everyone has different views here and there and no one really has a good answer. So we have two choices:

1. Proactively refactor the code. This makes it a future prediction problem, which is never easy.
2. Keep it as is, refactor when it really becomes a pain. You gotta do much more work than where you made a right prediction.

Many hardcore engineers (including me) prefer the option 1 since it's more of fun, but in my experience, we're usually not great at making a good bet.
Why Europe is particularly good at big science
Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38572675 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38567507
I use vanilla firefox on Android and dont se any shit like that. So i say you have maleware
The Cambrian explosion was, however, constrained by the partial pressure of oxygen in the hydrosphere (and, indirectly, the atmosphere). And free O2 couldn't begin to build up in seawater until after the Great Oxygen Catastrophe when the crust and upper mantle was finally fully oxidized, mopping up all the unoxidized iron and other elements. (Which in turn killed off almost all previous life forms, which were methanogenic and to which oxygen was a deadly poison/metabolic waste product.) The speed with which this happened was in turn constrained by tectonic subduction ... it all turns out to be a knotty ball of string that took at least a couple of billion years to unwind.
It's scary and startling how easily pro-Israel actors manipulate social media. I fear we are entering a post-truth era where how many times something is retweeted, liked, or upvoted will decide whether it is truthful or not. People are also karma junkies, so slightly tweaking the algorithms to promote certain content and demote other can have a large effect. Demonetizing someone for tweeting "Free Palestine" is not censorship per se, but definitely regulates how people express themselves.
I would say that also applies on highly regulated industries or where lives are on the line.

On those you're of course expected to do safety and testing up to the limit of the "value of a statistical life"s within the expected project impacts, but it still has time and budget limits.
Honestly I think the root problem is that universities have a degree in computer science, whereas what most people want is to learn to build computer software.

The two overlap most of the time in subtle ways where the science gives an important foundation, such as learning Big O notation and low level memory concepts where exposure helps. I've personally seen this with a smart coworker who didn't go through university and is great at programming but I'll catch him on certain topics such as when he didn't know what sets and maps were and when he tries to sleep a second instead of properly wait on an event.

However, the differences between computer science and building software are problematic. Watching my wife go through university, she's had to struggle with insanely hard tasks that will not help her at all with software, such as learning Assembly and building circuits. The latest example is the class where she's learning functional programming is not actually teaching it to her. Instead, they combined it with how to build a programming language, and so instead of giving her toy problems to teach the language she is having to take complex code she doesn't understand well that generates an entirely different programming language and do things like change the associativity of the generated language. In the end, she feels like she's learned nothing in that class, despite it being her first experience with functional programming.

On the flip side are the things that are necessary for software that aren't taught in university, like QA. For me personally, back when I was in university a decade ago I never learned about version control and thought it was just for back up. Similarly, I never learned databases or web, as the required classes were instead focused on low level concepts as Assembly and hardware. My wife is at least learning these things, but even then they often seem taught badly. For example, when they tried to teach her QA, instead of hardcoded unit tests, they made her give random inputs and check to make sure the output was correct. Of course, checking the output can only be done by rewriting all of your code in the testing files, and if there's a bug in your code it'll just get copied, so that kind of defeats the purpose. Even when the assignments are relevant there is often no teaching on them. For example, her first ever web code was a project where they told her to hook up 6 different technologies that they had not gone over in class, with only the line "I hope you've learned some of these technologies already".
Quarterly planning is a noisy optimisation problem
> If these tools become easy enough for mathematicians to use

Sick burn, Gowers.
> Non-consensual pornography of public figures has long been a scourge of the internet

It's part of being a public figure. If you can't deal with it, don't attempt to be famous. Why should we care about the feelings of narcissists?
Where did the wood come from?
Where did the calories you used to make the chair come from?
Where did your tools come from?
Who trained you?
Who owns the property where your workshop is located?
How much marketing effort did you have to spend convincing another human that the chair is actually worth $250?
What potentially carcinogenic chemicals did you treat the wood with, and how much grant money is your government giving to doctors to treat the consequences of those carcinogens in the larger population?

All of those factors have hidden externalities baked into them that erode the net value you're creating. My argument is that it's all just a shell game where we're passing costs down the line to future generations while telling ourselves we're creating something valuable from nothing because it's what we need to do to sleep at night. We just don't perceive the longer-term externalities in a lot of cases.
Shelter is a luxury good. There are millions of homeless people on the street, ignored while the talking heads claim the economy is "better than ever".
As long as it emulates Windows and DirectX, they have achieved nothing, specially when SteamDeck clones running Windows 11 take over, as expected during 2024.

Now had they managed to convince said studios to write native GNU/Linux games, or to port their Android/NDK games into GNU/Linux, I would have agreed Valve managed something.
With what little FANG legalese I know, this IMHO covers Al ranges of nasty behaviour.

But of course we won't know either way until it's tried in court.
Re-read the comments, others have not done it.

Audi has a mild-hybrid 48V (as do many others) that also runs some other things like active roll control and the power steering pump.

They still have a 12v system running infotainment, seat heaters, defrosters, powered seats, lights, etc. etc.
Show HN: GIF Horse, a GPT to generate animated GIF from a prompt
This custom GPT leans on the code generation and image creation capacity of GPT-4 to break down a prompt into a sequence of frames, generate them, and give you a download link to the animated .GIF output
I really hope there isn't some organized anti European AI mob flagging posts. Because this stuff was really weird.
While I'm not sure if it's user tracable, Reddit also started changing the link that is produced when you share a link to a post. It is a /s/<id>, which I absolutely despise.

I share links to things when I'm logged in, but I want to ensure that the receiver has no way of tracing back the sent link to my Reddit identity.
You don't generally have to check if your food is made with lead or carcinogens though right? And if inspections aren't compulsory some people are going to get lead poisoning before word gets around, or get cancer decades later and never know. Better to have someone qualified to check it before it gets to the shelves. Granted I'm using lead as a hyperbolic example, but I'm sure you get the point I'm trying to make.

Why are free markets better at dealing with partial knowledge?
Yes. And this result is comming from that project.

Gašper Beguš who is the linguistics lead of Project CETI is the first author of the paper this article talks about.