skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> How did you develop them from zero if you were missing those basic skills?

It is really hard to answer this question because it seems that they were an emergent property of dozens of hobbies that I had (I tend to be seriali hobbyist). Seems like trying to explain how I did learn to ride a bike - I can name few basic skills that are required, but showing which exact part of learning bike riding made it stick is no easy task for me (I remember it as trial and error process and this was the same with my children - they just practiced riding bike and the skills developed thanks to them sticking to the practice).
It all looks like a kind of tacit knowledge that can only be developed by pure practice (melodic memory through remembering and playing songs, aesthetics through creating your own compositions, logic through solving problems)

My own story is rather simple - I used to play guitar, a bit of keyboard, sing using karaoke, listening to songs paying full attention and than playing guessing games aking to local tv game called "What melody is this?".
At first I was awful at this. But then something changed; I started to notice that I can recall melodic and rhythmic structure of some songs - and this was totally new ability to me (I remember that as a kid I was made fun of by my peers that I could not recognize any songs and my singing voice was wildly out of tune).

One caveat though - It's not like I am any good at music - I estimate that getting to level where others would tell "wow you are good" will take at least another 10 years (and it is not that important because I prefer the journey part, not the destination). But still I know I was a lot worse before forcing myself to learn. And probably if I would get a teacher that would motivate me and give feedback I would get here a lot faster, but as I said - it's the journey, and I really like to learn everything myself.

The message here is that I do not think that most people are unable to learn this kind of skills (those being music, logic or even simple aesthetics). The problem is that most do not have the drive, will or simply the time to stick with practice to overcome their own limitations.
Might happen sooner than we think, if we can just jumpstart a proper space program and a space economy. Once we pass Voyager I (and II) in the future we could always retrofit it with a newer form of battery (perhaps one that works indefinitely, based on antimatter).
It's not unusual. MSFT funded apple mainly to not appear to be a monopoly.
The David Hume Tower has been renamed 40 George Square.
More formally speaking, programming is a game, and a program is a strategy.

Programming is a two-team alternating-play game, between Murphy et. al. on one side (the environment) and the program, as coached by Alyssa P. Hacker et. al. on the other side (the programmers), on the other side.

Sometimes the programmers have the initiative, and the environment must provide a value of product type (from which the programmers have already decided a choice [a sum] of elements to keep).

Sometimes the environment has the initiative, so it may choose a play from a sum type, and if the programmers wanted to play a winning strategy, they must have provided a product of responses, so that no matter which summand the environment plays, the program has a suitable response.

When no further moves are possible, the game ends.

At this point, if the program has successfully produced quod erat faciendum, the programmers win. Otherwise (in some cases something else has been produced, in others the game has deadlocked) the environment wins.
There are plenty of Usenet clients available though. You also have quotes around your query.
That looks really remarkable.
Know each other's work through publications, connect via email (ostensibly to ask for clarification on a detail, or to request a preprint), maybe meet at conferences but not always. I've written a couple of papers with people who I've never met in person (and that's not uncommon).
Yahoo Pipes was full of XSS vulns. I used to play with cookie grabbers
Fair enough - I promise I won’t call dang a thug if he removes my comment!
Show HN: Serendipity, a kind to your eyes theme for VS Code and other UI's
if only whitespace was treated as such visually, and the IDE would serialize to whatever the repository uses, and similarly for YAML-JSON.

> Now that terrible text editors won

yes. but not all hope is lost, maybe AGI helps/wipes us out!
I'm running ubuntu 23.10 and was pleased to see that xsnow (apt install xsnow) has been updated and "just works". A nice update on xsnow from decades back, but there's a vintage mode for the nostalgic.

The new xsnow added stars, aurora, birds, moon, stars, wind, blowing snow, moose, meteors, reindeer, snow that builds up slowly (the flakes compress) etc. Sadly snow builds up on the settings window, but with weyland it doesn't build up on normal windows.
I just wish they could nail down the product name.

I thought ".NET whatever" was confusing, and now it's Copilot.

In terms of the other Copilots, they all have different release dates.

Here's a topline review:

Copilot in Windows started rolling out on Windows 11 on September 26 through a Windows 11 update.

Copilot for Microsoft 365 began rolling out for enterprise customers on November 1 and will roll out to non-enterprise users at a later date.

Copilot for Sales will be available in the first quarter of 2024.

Copilot for Service will be generally available in early 2024.

Copilot in Viva will begin rolling out to customers "later in 2023", according to Microsoft.

Github Copilot was the first tool to release, all the way back in 2021.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-microsoft-copilot-here...
> If the problem was decomposed based on ‘natural’ lines that tend away from dependencies, then the idea of treating stuff as fragments would work. But they don’t know what that means, so it doesn’t happen.

This is such a good line. Most dependencies I see in enterprise software fail miserably at this and that's why they think they need a monorepo.

I've found that people with substantial open source experience are often much better at figuring out what the 'natural' lines are because they tend to see the modules and libraries which they produce as final products. Their libraries are designed to be highly composable and cater to a broad range of use cases and systems.

The key is writing components that are generic and broadly compatible. You want to avoid putting business logic into your dependencies. Try to keep all the business logic at the highest level possible in your code.

It's very simple if you think about it; just imagine that you're a new developer on a large project, what would you want the code to look like? Most likely, you want to be able to understand what the system is doing by reading as few files as possible and you want the system's features to map to these top-level files in an obvious way.

Because when you're debugging a feature, the first thing you need to do is figure out where in the code that feature is implemented. If you can't come up with a simple answer to this, then your system is probably poorly implemented.
I can understand the need for analytics on an advertising-supported site with >1M DAU, on a complex web application.

But anything smaller than that and analytics are mostly vanity metrics. A lot of the traffic is going to be bots anyway.

Write for pleasure. If you must, look for qualitative signals like discussions of the article on HN or Twitter.
My favourite analogy:
Heliosphere is like water flowing from a faucet into a sink: the water represents the solar wind emanating from the Sun, and the point where it meets the sink's surface illustrates the heliosphere's boundary with the interstellar medium. Just as water changes direction and slows down upon hitting the sink, the solar wind decelerates and changes direction at the heliospheric boundary, where it interacts with the gases and particles of interstellar space.

Photo to illustrate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere#/media/File:Helios...
> Just use GoAcces for fuck's sake. You don't need more than access logs. What are you going to do with that analytics data anyway? How much can you even trust that it's real and not bots that are getting better every day?

I can provide you a very simple example. You have a blog, with articles. On a multi-thousand word article, you know that traffic that spent <30 seconds on it are either bots or people that didn't read through. If that's most of your traffic, your articles aren't very good or your introductions suck. If almost all mobile traffic is like that, your site probably looks bad on small screens.

You get the point, I hope. Access logs are useless for this kind of basic information.

Another very good example - there was a blog from someone involved in the UK GDS initiative, that described the case of a woman sitting with a handheld console in the waiting room of a government office. Initially you think she's just playing, but peeking over her shoulder, you see she's filling an application for unemployment. The browser on the handheld is horribly outdated, but she probably doesn't have another choice. Therefore knowing your audience, and adapting to it is crucial. From them:

> people now access GOV.UK in many different ways - 16,500 visits came from games consoles in the last month (Xboxes/PlayStations/Nintendos) - including 65 sessions from a handheld Nintendo 3DS
(this is in 2015 https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2015/11/20/2-billion-and-counting/)

It entirely depends on what your website is doing if you need analytics or not. But a lot of orgs and people actually do, and can and should make use of them.
I know QT is a very successful graphics library that works incredibly well, so clearly they’re on their game.

However.

I’m puzzled that a software rasteriser can possibly be performant enough for modern UI applications.

If you compare it with other sophisticated UI stacks for example, WPF or chrome (1), you can see a detailed and well considered use of GPU acceleration.

Does qt not do this too? I’m very surprised.

[1] - https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/gpu-acc...
https://ir.hashicorp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/...

Hashicorp seems to be doing alright to me. Don't look at the stock price.
> even though there was no computer on Earth at the time fast enough to decode it

I'm not sure what is meant by that. Not fast enough to decode in real time? There is/was no need to do that. The transmissions would have gone to tape in any case.

Here is a link describing how to decode such a tape: https://destevez.net/2021/09/decoding-voyager-1/
I’m interested in how an article like this comes to be. I can tell that it was made with a lot of care and I’m sure it took a while to polish to the final result (high quality content + polish = high cost). I’m still not sure what’s the purpose, it doesn’t seem to be a marketing piece, although the underlying message is clear between the lines: if you liked pipes, you’ll like retool. Or something along those lines.
"maybe", then you don't know if it is easier to write a rust naive compiler than a C naive compiler (look at tinycc, cproc/qbe, simple-cc/qbe, etc).
For other User interfaces here is the link:
- https://michaelandreuzza.com/work/serendipity/

Installation
- Open Extensions sidebar panel in VS Code. View → Extensions
- Search for serendipity
- Click Install to install it.
- Code > Preferences > Color Theme > Serendipity Midnight - Serendipity Sunset - Serendipity Morning
- The theme is available for editors, shells, UI's and more coming up. Checkout the website

Available Options
- Light Morning
- Dark Sunset
- Dark Midnight
- Dark Midnight Electric
"tough" and "firm" are dog whistles for multitude of pathological behaviors
That one guy also took money from his space exploration company to buy a social media site so that he can be even more of an online edgelord.

Not really trustworthy...
OK, thanks.

So the early arrival of the neutrinos is entirely the result of EM radiation being absorbed within the star and re-emitted, while the neutrinos can pass straight through. I wondered if that was the explanation.
Show HN: Zid, the Breathe Assistant
Also where the (outdated) idea that "the internet never forgets anything" came from.
> I wish they would block iPlayer if you don't have a TV licence.

It's not totally blocked but you do need a license for iPlayer legally. I wish they'd let me tie my license to my account so it stops making me answer whether I've got one.
but usually even the structure is wrong, and there's no option to disable a template in Helm, so I need to install and then manually edit/replace things, or just script Helm with bash or something, which is terrible .. so the whole things is just a big ball of WTF.

yes, it's nice to do env-var-substitution, and --set is not that dumb.
My 14" M3 Max 128GB devours the battery in less than 1.5h when inferencing LLaMA 2 70B and is noisy as a SpaceX rocket... The same with my Zephyrus G14 7840U 4090 64+16GB.
Definitely agree with the puzzle sentiment.

I've been fortunate enough in my career to reach a point where I can sell myself as a "freelance firefighter" and now my gigs consist mostly of exploration of dumpster fires or legacy projects reboots - which I find incredibly fun. The simple sounding puzzle tasks such as "can you get this ancient project to compile on a modern compiler" are such a refreshment compared to feature planning, OKR sync and other endless, directionless and unmeasurable work.
Your take here converges with a long-standing debate in AI regarding embodiment.

Our natural world doesn't distinguish between "inputs" and "outputs" -- instead, all the causes, effects, and even our analysis of every process itself get jumbled into one physical world. As embodied actors, we get to probe and perceive that physical world, and gradually separate causes from effects in order to find better models. Where statistical ML, symbolic AI, and NLP have been more isolated disciplines from e.g. vision and robotics, the latter have argued that their ability to interact with a disorganized natural world would be essential for AGI.

More recently, these boundaries are breaking down with multimodal training. If an AI can learn image/text, text/text and image/image associations simultaneously, is it stepping beyond the world of "human outputs"? Will other modalities be essential to reach human+ capabilities? Or will learning relations between action and perception itself by critical?

Nobody knows yet! But IMHO, the right way to explore these tasks is by understanding what is necessary to succeed at specific tasks, not a generalized notion of AGI. We don't know truly where the limits are on our own ability to reason or extrapolate across modalities.
I think Intel are still relevant on the basis of having broadly competitive specs (not quite as far at as others, but pretty close), and their own production capacity.

There is enough demand for both TSMC and Intels capacity.
Good idea - one "analytic" is to put your email on the site, and see how many people say hello!
But just how much does society benefit? Many of our universities are priced so high that I suspect that they'd be capturing most of the value of publicly funded post secondary education.
https://github.com/firebase/firebase-ios-sdk/issues/6115

https://github.com/material-components/material-components-w...

Two examples that come to mind but there are plenty
I understand your concerns about meddling and disruptive regulation and I could cite some instances thereof that are overly heavy-handed but I won't do so here as they'll only distract.

The difference with the early aviation compared to dust-borne diseases is that with aviation it was unclear at the outset what it was that needed regulating and the extent of any such regulation so it's understandable that regulation grew with the industry whereas the effects of dust-bourne diseases on health had been known about for centuries.

Two thousand years ago the Romans knew about the dangers of asbestosis and mesothelioma as the result of mining asbestos although they called it the wasting disease—only criminals and bad slaves were sent to mine it. Similarly, volcanic ash and sand/silica on the lungs disease—whose medical name I cannot pronounce let alone spell—and coal miners' black lung disease have also been known about for centuries.

Moreover, in more recent times (late 19th and early 20th Centuries) these diseases, especially asbestosis and mesothelioma were the subject of government inquiries and the dangers well established. For example, the British Admiralty held inquiries after workers and sailors became ill from the effects of breathing asbestos dust from the lagging on steam pipes. That nothing was done and that no significant regulations introduced as a matter of expediency has to be one of the most unconscionable government decisions of all time—that delayed the introduction of effective regulation in respect of asbestos for over 80 years.

(The lack of regulation is a bit close to home, my father, a mechanical engineer, was exposed asbestos on war ships during WWII and afterwards in the power industry and it severely affected his health. Also, I recall as kids when my brother and I would visit my father's place of employment asbestos was that common we'd make mud balls out of it and throw them at each other. By that time government was well aware of the dangers of asbestos and black lung disease for going on a century but had still done nothing about it.)
Tbf thats how its supposed to work. By quoting it you are explicitly searching for the text "how do I find a usenet text client".

Remove the quotes.
> Expectations have changed.

Yes, people have come to accept shitty software. You'd think that software developed for the public good would try to be better though and at least retain the old standards for power user tools.
Spinning out the "tech elites" trope is a bit of a jaded argument (and you're commenting on a tech forum?).

My experience of Ireland is outside of Dublin which seems to be where you've formed your negative framing of the country. The dialogue has regressed into anti-immigrant/anti-government sentiment. And no, it wasn't always that way in the same ferocity.

It might make you feel superior telling people they're out of touch as you're a "frontline worker" but sounds a lot like hubris.
Still you can't ensure they were normal people to begin with. And you can't say that they weren't under strong influence. I bet there was a bit of "peer pressurre" from propagandized psychos where the poor Austrians were already on the "job".
Ping me when the software stack for the AMD hardware is as good as CUDA.
I was wondering, if at this moment an "alien" probe similar to Voyager passes by our solar system in close proximity to earth, how likely is it that with our radio telescope arrays etc (as they are currently set up), we, a "sufficiently advanced civilization", will be able to detect it? How much radio power do the probes emit? Will our scanning radio telescopes be able to pick up any trace of the signal, given the tx antennas are oriented away from the earth?
Great product. What technology are you currently using? I'm searching a technology to solve the machine readability for PDF documents with a lot of technical tables with weird colspans and rowspans.
Can you elaborate on how is it portable? Can I move a deployment in between cloud providers as an example?
I think you misunderstood what I mean. Sparse ML is inherently memory latency bound since you have a completely unpredictable access pattern prone to cache misses. The amount of compute you perform is a tiny blip compared to the hash map operations you perform. What I mean is that as you add more cores, there are sharing effects because multiple cores are accessing the same memory location at the same time. The compute bound sections of your code become a much greater percentage of the overall runtime as you add cores, which is surprising, since adding more compute is the easy part. Pay attention to my words "_more_ compute bound".

Here is a relevant article: https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/03/deep-learning-breakthrough...
"Tough" is dumb, and opposite if it is not necessarily "relaxed" but could be "cautious" and "thoughtful" instead
Or tell an even more interesting story, 'cause that's what they want to hear.
This is the way. However, if you do want to view some stats about your site, you can get them by checking the domain on Google Search console [0].

[0]: https://search.google.com/search-console/about
It's worth it in order to experience a more efficient discussion UI. The difficulty is in finding newgroups where actual worthwhile discussion is going on.
ChipStar: Run CUDA/Hip on SPIR-V via OpenCL/Level Zero
Time marches on, but I wonder how many new linux users will never see so many cool old programs as they just do not know about them.

Does that thing everyone keeps trying to get us all to move to (I am a hardcore ICEwm / *boxwm user) support all of the old X stuff like xsnow, xscreensaver, etc?

I was sad to realize that xroach is no longer in Debian (or Gentoo, there is a bug report from 2009), however, others still exist: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/204241/x-windows-sp...

As SE says, do not forget the "santa" option to xsnow. I forgot about it.

This always reminds me, anyone remember Koules? https://www.ucw.cz/~hubicka/koules/English/koules.html
I don't think encapsulation is the answer either. It leads to the same problems that the author mentions (which I think are real).

Brian Will has a very good video explaining this (timestamp is where he talks about encapsulation).

https://youtu.be/QM1iUe6IofM?t=1090
Aren't you part of the royal family?
I've embedded llama.cpp for a while now. There may be a point where it's not embeddable anymore, but for now it works great. My experience with the others is don't bother. The build systems and dependency management is truly awful.

Also, I'm obviously talking about porting here. You will need to tailor the code to your needs, thinking of it as a library. You cannot run an unmodified program.
The first carve out was already a mile wide, i don't even know what it protects against in this new one.
Just signed up this seems like it will replace some docker containers I have running on a free tier of fly.io dumping into a supabase free tier. Very cool thank you for sharing!
Do these "generic bugs" ever happen the other way around? Meaning, do they ever disable any form of communication to Apple or are they always enabling?
was is preregistered (published before) or this is just his explanation after-the-fact?
I've actually done some volunteer work at the James Clerk Maxwell house. The people who run it are great and love to show people around if you want an in-person tour. Just email and they can organise a time.
Ask ASML.

The contraints all depend on the scale of the alignment required.

I wonder what is the wavelength range used for their interferometers, and what kind of mecanical engines they use (probably piezo electric based engines).
> It's bad enought that marketing departments has convinced 99% of companies (or has overruled product / engineering) that it's good to track and make websites slower in the process.

Because there are no product tools and analytics to track and make websites slower in the process?
Qt itself has a few "graphical frameworks" to do the rendering.

QWidgets is what you're referring to. That's what is used to build traditional desktop applications and is rendered using software by default.

QML/QtQuick is their GPU accelerated scenegraph: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtquick-index.html . It is mostly used in mobile/embedded systems, but they do have desktop components too.
Nasty liquids that clean the glassware is one thing... nasty liquids that would dissolve the glassware (and you) takes it up another level. I was happy when I got past that part of my experimental career.
yeah - this is basically stealing