skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Without _something_ like an app, how do you even know what you can interact with?

You just tell what you need or want and the AI will suggest you options.

>What good is it for you if you can’t even choose what music app you want?

You don't want a music app, you want to listen to music. The AI will simply play it to you and any additional features that you might like will be available. Feel like doing karaoke? Just tell to the AI. Want more songs like this? Tell it to the AI. Not sure what you want? Tell the AI that you are not sure and ask for suggestions, maybe vaguely describe how you feel. You get the idea.

> would there be no competition? There would, but not in the current sense.

Maybe there would be experience designers and knowledge brokers. The AI might tell you that you will need a weather info subscription if you need something specific that is not provided by your current subscriptions. Maybe you want some specific recipe from a home lighting style from a designer? The AI can help you purchase and apply that. Maybe you want to try dating? It wouldn't be an app but a subscription you can join and the AI will handle the UX.

However, I think there will be games because games are apps whose value comes from interaction with the app itself.
Yes it's ridiculous. Literally all working software can be implemented in hardware. In fact all working software is implemented in hardware. There's no other way to run software than in hardware.
I'm not sure the article supports what the headline says.

There are not half as many carbs in wheat and potatoes as there were. I don't understand nutritional value to mean 'amount of trace vitamins', and neither does wikipedia. Is this a fair definition

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutritional_value
You know HN is ycombinator right?

That when you come to this site you have to type in the words ycombinator for the url right?

You said Sam is HNs darling. That's different from saying HN viewers. So you literally did not say what you said here.
I think nothing, since they don't know where to find a specific book.
> "Why does it feel like goalposts get moved everytime there is a significant progress in AI?"

Why does it feel like people think this is a useful or interesting whine? OK you brute-force solved tic-tac-toe, you built an AI. Congratulations, everyone recognises the dawn of Artificial Intelligence - and truly, enumerating all states of tic-tac-toe is all we ever dreamed of, all we could want, it's really all there is to intelligence. The term "AI" will never ever be used to mean anything else.

The term "AI" means (solving the first problem that was ever suggested to be AI decades ago) - how is that a better state of the world? What has anyone gained from "not moving the goalpoasts"?
Maybe it would be better to do something like 3 on 1 off 3 on 2 off.
Datalog is definitely relational. More so than SQL.

In terms of temporal data handling & relational & Datalog, it's worth looking at Differential Datalog: https://github.com/vmware/differential-datalog
The answer to the last question is what the sunk cost fallacy is all about, the answer is it doesn't matter what you've already done, it only matters what is the optimal solution going forward.

And "this person" is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Beck btw.
Example of almost exemplary British journalism (apart from the floaty ad, easily clicked away):

https://www.private-eye.co.uk

Also podcasted as 'Page 94' and the editor Ian Hislop is a longtime panelist on highly (have I got news for you), can be seen on youtube.

*Mr Hislop's description of Boris Johnson coming out of make-up and deliberately messing up his hair is very telling.
In the Monkey selfie copyright dispute Slater could not claim copyright because he did not operate the camera. Corporate personhood or juridical personality is the legal notion that a juridical person such as a corporation, separately from its associated human beings (like owners, managers, or employees), has at least some of the legal rights and responsibilities enjoyed by natural persons. If Mr. Slater was incorporated would his copyright ownership be clear? If an ai was a corporation not an asset of a corporation and could prompt it's self would the output then be copyrightable? There are a lot of ifs in there but still interesting.
They're still too expensive. They are made "affordable" via financing. That was a banking solution. EVs can be financed. Yet they are still too expensive, over the life of the car. "Expense" also including the inconvenient differences in the manner in which they have to be used.

EVs are awaiting an unforseen tech solution to their expense.
No. And I could have sworn I even looked up the spelling for what I meant to type.
Nice write up. Just to flesh out the third class using C++11.

std::atomic<std::atomic<bool>*> lock;

// Code that uses lock

std::atomic<bool> my_flag = false;
auto* other_flag = lock.exchange(&my_flag);

// spin
if(other_flag) while(!other_flag->load());

// You have the lock. Do work

// Release lock

auto* next_flag = &my_flag;
if(!lock.compare_exchange_strong(next_flag, nullptr)) next_flag->store(true);
> It's the C# story all over again.

At least C# has a real cross platform story for a while now.
I've been here for about ten years - even in that short period of time it already feels like a different climate, especially in winter. They are totally mild now, more like the spring or fall than the winter of even a few years ago.
Where the line is - ie how much human creative input would be needed for a work to be covered by copyright seems to be unclear legally. There are some interesting parallels to this dispute I think: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disp...
Yeah, nothing wrong with that, ˋai.` is a valid domain name just like `foo.bar.ai.` :)
You don't need a fence if you can thread a data dependency through from all memory operations inside the critical section to the release.
if you like CRDTs, have a look at pijul version control.
So, we also need the complimentary decline rate, because, as the bumper sticker says, my other CAR is a CDR.
Because you can't downvote submissions, you can only go in and write a negative comment. Makes complete sense to me to see
the effects of that with this article.
That it has no evident effect is the point I was trying to make. Could I have phrased it better?
This should be a TV show. Hire this person for a job in a remote place and after that hire another person to fuck him them and sabotage what they are trying to do. Film it -> Success
I usually don't call marketing material literature.

Did you read the whole thing?
Thanks i like that! Likewise, the relativity of wrong reactions to our situation needs to be considered I think. There seemsnto be consensus now that it is too late to address the problem only in the right way. We should still do all of those things. But to avoid mass suffering, it is well past time we considered planet scale climate engineering as a valid approach. It is risky, but risky is, like wrongness, relative. And the wrongness and riskiness of acting without knowing all the effects is relatively less, not just than continuing on the current path, but even than adopting all the right behaviors at this late hour with no other steps.
Llamafile: Bringing LLMs to the people, and to your own computer
Seems like you applied the principle correctly here. When you first saw the fence, you did your best to find a reason for its presence. You only concluded that the fence had no purpose after you ruled out sensible alternatives.

The principle is not that all fences necessarily have a purpose for their presence, it's that we should assume by default that any fence with an unknown purpose has or had a legitimate purpose at some point, until we are confident otherwise.
It's impossible to determine if this was satire.
Summary: 10-Minute Toughness by Jason Selk
Could be one of two issues here. Either your old controller could have been faulty, or the other one, the new controller has a firmware update or HW revision that fixes the issue your old one had. Impossible to know without deeper dives in HW & FW revisions.
Google, AES, others to create marketplace for 24/7 hourly renewable energy certs
This is part of why I hate 2FA implementations that force a specific app. One of the sites I have to be able to log into added 2FA that requires a specific app, even more annoyingly, if setup with another app, the setup isn't outright rejected, it just produces the wrong totp.

It's much more convenient to have a yubikey+backup or something with a sane backup/sync system (eg password managers like Bitwarden).
Sounds like a junior work
this is kind of silly. there's absolutely no comparison between being completely self-sufficient and using a phone that can't access the internet. the oversized reactions to these stories always remind me of the mindset of addicted people. and for full disclosure I've had a dumb phone for over a year. I had no way miss my smartphone it was a total curse on my life.
Fiduciary duty is the requirement that the managers of a company act only in the best interest of that company and its owners. It would be clearly against the interests of the company and the shareholders to allow the employees to unionize
It seems like you're not comparing apples to apples. Investigating someone else's code to alter it is always going to be harder than writing new code, even on paper in several languages.

I do think that CSS has enough footguns to say that arbitrary CSS is not very good; well-written CSS is a very small subset of CSS in general. It joins many other languages in that regard-- C, C++, Javascript, PHP, Bash, the list goes on and on. As in all of those languages and more, with some basic familiarity it's not hard to sling some fresh code together and have it do what you want. Making it scale maintainably is the hard part.

(For my 2 cents on the matter, the way to write Good CSS(tm) is using CSS modules to limit scope, using flexbox or grid for all layout, and being rigorous about creating stacking contexts when you need to modify z order. Application of these three rules has made my life as a senior frontend engineer generally quite easy.)
I've visited the U.S. a couple of times on holiday and even from that perspective, it's stunning just how many places are designed exclusively around the car. Even just walking from one shop to the next is awkward as they often have fences or hedges to separate them, so you have to walk from the shop, through the extensive car park, onto the main road that has no sidewalk and then into the next car park.

But yes, you're right. If you design exclusively around the car then not using a car becomes very awkward. Also, without any meaningful public transport, the suburbs also lock in car usage.

However, car usage is only really practical up to a certain density of people due to their poor space usage. When you get more people using cars, you need more roads and car parking space. This tends to separate the various amenities to fit in all the extra space, which then means that more people will need a car to travel to them due to the extra distance. That leads to yet more roads and more separation of the shops etc. until you reach a point where there's massive congestion at popular times. However, building more roads leads to induced demand and even more congestion, when the actual solution is to move facilities closer to where people live/work so that they're not forced into driving everywhere.
I'll try to clarify. I met a large number of people who had all the tools, facilities, ability, and help they needed to not be homeless and still chose to be homeless.

Just as an example, one young man I spent a lot of time with had a family that wanted him to come home, but who wouldn't let him smoke weed in the house. I wouldn't have called him an addict by any stretch, but it was something he was unwilling to give up. He was a strong, able bodied guy that could have gotten a job. Despite all of this, he decided he'd rather live on the streets and do what he wants. (Could he have had severe mental problems and be making all of this up? Sure, but I don't believe that he did).

It's actually the biggest reason I stopped volunteering. Over the years that I volunteered, I noticed a steady shift from people who really need and/or want help to a large number of people like the young man I described. When helping out the homeless people you can't pick or choose or make judgements, so you treat everyone equally. But it became very hard to hand out things like sleeping bags to folks like that young man and then see people who really did have nothing unable to get one.

But, yes, in your example if you offer anyone a free million dollar house they will take it over living on the streets, but I don't think that's a very realistic comparison.

Also, to be clear, I'm just some dude. I don't have any realistic answers to fix the problem.
I’m curious why you bring up the rare cases of matriarchal societies as a way to disprove the general thrust of the argument. The existence of a few matriarchal societies doesn’t disprove my argument that biology makes us patriarchal.

If I said Dutch people are taller than Spanish people you wouldn’t start talking about your one tall Spanish friend as a way of disproving my argument.

Something is making you clutch at straws to try to disprove the argument that biology causes patriarchy.

On the second point. Leaders take risks to get into the leadership position. That’s why the lower ranks are taking huge risks.
Sure. But the point of the article is for Document or Object-Oriented. And the specific points would apply to Datalog, too.

My point was you can do the equivalent of Event Sourcing with SQL and even better with Datomic.

> In Event Sourcing Church, we’re not doing that anymore. We’re not losing business data; we keep them. We keep them as events.
I’m always amazed at some of the responses here whenever the mentally ill are brought up. Suggesting that they should simply be hospitalized for their illness. That would be lovely, but speaking as someone who has been locked in a hospital before, it’s very expensive. When I’m between layoffs, I do have health insurance, but I don’t imagine that’s the case for the chronically ill.

When I bring this up here, I’m told that these people just need to engage with some system and they’ll be well taken care of. I have seen no evidence of this myself; as the article and your experience would suggest, it’s just the opposite.

The best someone can have going for them is a family member with money, but the mentally ill tend to burn their last bridges quite often.
Agree I also think that we should leave naming stuff SSH to IETF and OpenSSH to OpenBSD, in this case the maintainer seems to be unrelated to both
Excitement of 70k Swifties can shake the Earth as recorded Seismic Network
there are seven major classes of nutrients in food: carbohydrates, fats, fiber, minerals, proteins, vitamins, and water
An Evaluation of Large Language Models for Sarcasm Detection
Note: the hacks have nothing to do with his Amazon employment and did not rely on any privileged access to Amazon systems.
Depends on the kind of book and subject matter. Dwarkesh is right about books you need to read all or nearly all of to get the benefit. But to answer "Do people care about understanding?" for a lot of books: No. The reader cares about their problems and solving them.

Based on reader feedback, only a special kind of reader reads a programming book cover to cover. 90%+ people who read substantial parts of a programming book, dip into the parts that interest them after, perhaps, reading the first few chapters to figure out how to navigate the book.

Online, you have the freedom to do better and to publish similar material in multiple modes, from passive and linear, to self-paced interactive to human-guided. There isn't one answer, which the post touches on in several places including regarding spaced repetition.

LLMs are likely to have an impact on the value of pedagogical techniques like spaced repetition because spaced repetition is a tool for overcoming human impediments to acquiring and navigating huge, difficult, knowledge bases. Then using that knowledge requires enormous effort and aptitude. That's where humans competing with LLMs are like pick-and-shovel miners competing with a giant dragline at mining coal.
good for you to choose that cloud-only world - when it is no longer a choice, others have a real problem.
"published without much thought given to legal issues."

Indeed, with all these logos in the code/repository, I wonder how long this will last.
And at 1 hour it's still at the top in spite of all the negative comments. I'm assuming it got flagged by enough of us and yet it prevails. Odd.
It's top-down vs bottom-up, or custom vs generic.

Top-down vs bottom-up:

Top-down: starting from the business domain, and then mapping an implementation onto available technologies, tools, and vendors.

Bottom-up: starting from the available technologies, tools, and vendors, and thinking how to bolt up a working solution out of them.

Custom vs generic:

Custom: DDD, CQRS/ES, Sagas, TBUI (Task-based/driven UI), GraphQL, Algebraic Data Types, etc.

Generic: RDBMS, CRUD, REST, ACID transactions, CDC, generic admin UIs, nocode/lowcode, limited/generic types, etc.
OK.

In the case at hand we are dealing with a mathematical function. In->Out is all there is. Back-estimating a mathematical function by sampling is as close to reverse engineering as anything is.
As with all things in life, it's a matter of accumulating evidence up to an acceptance criterion. That criterion can never be 100% certainty, because nothing can be 100% certain.

The difficulty lies in agreeing on what that point should be, and on the magnitude of any particular piece of information as evidence for or against any particular hypothesis.

"The fence was a mistake" is a completely legitimate conclusion here. The principle exists to prevent us from jumping immediately to that conclusion out of convenience, arrogance, or ignorance. It should not be interpreted as preventing us from ever reaching that conclusion after some careful consideration.
The first sentence lists it as including

> carbohydrates, fat, protein, minerals, and vitamins

So, it seems accurate to include minerals, which are essential for health
The actual paper:

Historical changes in the mineral content of fruit and vegetables in the UK from 1940 to 2019: a concern for human nutrition and agriculture

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/09637486.2021.1...
Or also looking to be hired as a writer?
you can also simply buy a second-hand flip phone off of any online marketplace. there are lots of resellers in this space.
It is a step at the end of a decade+ old system. My predecessor was only there for a year. I can't imagine how anything could have changed in this case. Upstream is a legacy product that runs without updates from the vendor. I have now from my predecessor when he left saying that he can't get anything changed at the vendor, because there is noone left there who knows how to change anything on this product.

But I agree, as a generalisation the situation could have changed.
I wasn't paying much attention to HP by then as I had moved companies and roles. As I recall, everyone strongly suspected this kind of thing because the public reason for his departure at the time didn't really pass the sniff test. There was also a lot of boardroom and executive drama at HP before, during, and after Hurd's time there.
https://archive.is/2JIMw
I don't understand what part of that link is supposed to prove the person wrong. Could you cite that part, or at least point out what part of the above statement is supposedly wrong in the first place?
Never used Xcode as anything other than a dependency for other dev stuff and in that case it's huge, takes ages to install, doesn't clean itself after installation and easily fills 50-100 gigabytes with useless "simulators" that has no relevance for most.
At that point, you give up on the search for understanding and must evaluate the fence given the information that you do have and can make sense of.

It's really not any different from any other decision making process. The principle exists to encourage critical thinking, not to obstruct progress.
Does it replace with 'Open'AI or "Open"AI?
Certain topics get a lot of interest (positive and negative) based on the title alone.

Event-driven isn't quite peak hype any more, but it still gets a lot of instinctive love from a certain group of people, and a lot of instinctive hate from another. So you get a whole bunch of upvotes (but they don't have anything substantial to say about it), then a whole bunch of negative reactions in the comments based on the title alone. And then in this case, you get a whole bunch of negative reactions from people who tried to read the article and couldn't get past the weird tone.
Or the plutonium rock band Disaster Area. Long live Hotblack Desiato until taxes are due.
I mean, I applied to SourceGraph for a Machine Learning Engineer role on Thursday, and all they gave me was a rejection, on Friday. Where's mah boat? Also, I have this awesome (aspirational) assistant / agent / coding helper thing that's open source and even has some comments so ... can I have a job?
I was inclined to dismiss the claims of CO2 on crops. This kind of language sounds to me as kids spouting agendas they don’t even really understand… People too easily scream “climate change” every time there is a severe storm.

That said, I found CO2 levels seem to have changed by 25-30% from 1960. And a small multiples of the current concentration, humans tend to feel effects.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1091926/atmospheric-conc...

Maybe there is something to this?
>our fossil fuel consumption must have been reduced drastically compared to now.

Tens of millions of people, and possibly more, see this argument as low credibility. Meaning, that the argument for EVs should probably be made according to their inherent merits and not climate arguments.

Put another way, I'd be careful about tangling up the EV push in divisive climate politics. As one is arguably likely to taint EVs in the minds of the public, leading to ever greater pushback in regard to their adoption. Don't underestimate public response to being told that they have to change their lifestyle because of hotly debated assertions. No matter whether or not you think they should be debated.
If that’s the sort of density you want (countryside), moderate density housing is your friend. Your primary threat is suburban sprawl.
I agree that concentrating poverty makes things worse, however, that is highly unlikely to change. The development patterns you mention are the explicit result of planned development with the express purpose of segregation. The US is the way it is because it's how the majority of people prefer it to be. Nobody wants to see the ugly underside of poverty. Most people prefer to wall it off. Out of site out of mind.
>When comparing the same quantities of the same foods over time, they found that the amount of sodium (Na), iron (Fe), copper (Cu), and magnesium (Mg) found in them had significantly declined between the first and the last time point.

Doesn't seem concerning at all. If you're a man you probably have too much iron.
It's not as exciting as it look: you spend a lot of time waiting. And then working in difficult conditions. Then waiting. Then something fail and you look for a hack. Then you work. And you wait. And you come back.

I did get into serious trouble once or twice, but over two decades, the average netflix factor is pretty low.

Corruption and nature owning you is surprising the first few times, but after the 50th occurrence, it's just the new normal.

So you'd have to make some talented editing.
Right now, the price of oil is still not set by market prices, but kept artificially high by the OPEC cartel. Petrol could be much cheaper if the oil producing countries wouldn’t optimize the production (and hence, price) for maximum gains.