skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shedding More Light on Photonics for Multi-Die Systems
Google is in such a hard place. I unwillingly came across a SEO conference while I was vacationing and every single SEO practitioner is using AI tools to fill the web with articles and low quality rehashes while using Google's inability to punish them while not punishing Forbes and the like (while also publishes low quality articles at times). I honestly don't know how Google is going to solve this one and in another decade how will things look like.
Although this post doesn't establish the premise sufficiently to comment on the data or its schema, I would venture that much of the time what you want is a GROUP BY query on columns of the table, rather than a column of pointers.

What distinguishes a Foo from a Bar? Are 1, 2, and 3 (or I, II, etc.) actual data values, or simply row numbers arising from a sort on something else?

If you're writing the back end for OmniOutliner, and you must use a relational database, then maybe you'll use tricks like these. Otherwise, I would see whether you can come up with a schema that better models your data.
> There's a whole branch of philosophy and political science based around that notion. Here, I couldn't even get to first base to explain why as there is so much stuff to cover.

As an individual human being I reject all of it. See the rest of my comments to really understand where I'm coming from. No one owes society their creations.

Edit - Since we're citing philosophy, see: Ayn Rand.
Apple reboots the Steve Jobs reality distortion field with the Vision Pro
cute :P
This is bad reasoning. Ex post facto laws are intended to prohibit making otherwise legal prior actions retroactively against the law, as no law was broken at the time the events occurred, so it would make a mockery of the rule of law to find someone guilty of a crime when no law was broken at that time.

What you’re arguing against is absurd. Regardless of the existence or lack thereof of a relevant statute of limitations, ex post facto laws have nothing to do with prosecution of acts that were already illegal at the time they were committed. It may not engender respect for the law or respect for lawmakers to remove the statute of limitations after the time has already passed, but I side with those who the law has already failed: victims of those who break the law to the detriment of victims.

If justice delayed is justice denied, then the statute of limitations is a double-edged sword that makes a mockery of the law and of those victims of the law’s failure to be enforced; the original victim is victimized again by denying them their just reward: justice itself.

Similarly, we collectively also suffer as a society when lawbreakers aren’t held responsible for their actions, which further foments contempt for the law, by allowing a state of affairs that is demonstrably unjust.
For my public transit planning course, I tried to use gurobi to optimize the schedule of a given fictional city involving a single inner city loop with 8 branches or so. The problem ended up being an MILP with tens or hundreds of thousands of variables, and gurobi couldn’t give me optimal solutions after days of trying - only approximations, with poor bounds.

I know my approach may have been naive, but so was the problem. I think in real life people tend to use some sort of stochastic search to get good solutions, perhaps genetic algorithms or simulated annealing. Which won’t give u provably optimal solutions, but you’ll more quickly get good solutions.

Gurobi is my go to method for optimization, but I often don’t get solutions.
How will Vimeo or another YouTube competitor pay their infrastructure bill without ads or paying customers or 0% interest rates?
You missed the entire point. Physics and biology exist to help humans understand the material universe. Anything supposing that humans aren’t actually intelligent or conscious or whatever, or lack agency, is wrong since all of physics and biology are an offshoot of that agency meant to enrich it.
There is also Dreamm https://aarongiles.com/dreamm/
And GNU parallel is very aggressive about citations which I get but it's also too much
For most HPC, you will not be able to maximize parallelism and throughput without intimate knowledge of the hardware architecture and its behavior. As a general principle, you want the topology of the software to match the topology of the hardware as closely as possible for optimal scaling behavior. Efficient HPC software is strongly influenced by the nature of the hardware.

When I wrote code for new HPC hardware, people were always surprised when I asked for the system hardware and architecture docs instead of the programming docs. But if you understood the hardware design, the correct way of designing software for it became obvious from first principles. The programming docs typically contained quite a few half-truths intended to make things seem misleadingly easier for developers than a proper understanding would suggest. In fact, some HPC platforms failed in large part because they consistently misrepresented what was required from developers to achieve maximum performance in order to appear "easy to use", and then failing to deliver the performance the silicon was capable of if you actually wrote software the way the marketing implied would be effective.

You can write HPC code on top of abstractions, and many people do, but the performance and scaling losses are often unavoidably integer factor. As with most software, this was considered an acceptable loss in many cases if it allowed less capable software devs to design the code. HPC is like any other type of software in that most developers that notionally specialize in it struggle to produce consistently good results. Much of the expensive hardware used in HPC is there to mitigate the performance losses of worse software designs.

In HPC there are no shortcuts to actually understanding how the hardware works if you want maximum performance. Which is no different than regular software, in HPC the hardware systems are just bigger and more complex.
Not comparable. Wholesale market vs residential price is not the same.
Chinese generative AI models pass official assessment
You admit you don't know what advice I'm giving, yet you insist it's me just telling them to power through it and my motivations are as a braggart.

You can't see how presumptuous and rude this is? And how weak you are presuming all of these people are? Treating them as if they have no agency and they cannot handle hearing someone else's life experience.

While I don't doubt for many people it would be harder to lose weight than it was for me, you also have no idea how hard it was for me to lose weight. So what? Other people like me exist.

I lost weight by listening to other people who lost weight and learning from their experience, and I'm available to do the same for others. Why you think this is "fucked up" and demand I shut up is just bizarre.
Society may be "completely OK" with human artists taking inspiration from each other. It's a big old reach to assume we are "completely OK" with Microsoft and OpenAI doing the same thing with computer software as subscription service they sell.
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My unscientific take on this issue:

1. According to the "Pay in the Roman army", Wikipedia [0]: in 235AD, a legionary was paid about 1350 denarii per year.

2. I cannot find the price of salt in Wikipedia, but according to the "Roman goods prices" [1]: in 301AD, price of salt was capped to 100 denarii for about 17 liters of salt. It was capped because of inflation, so it is reasonable to assume it was not higher in 235AD.

This means that in salt, a legionary would have to be paid with around 230 liters of salt per year. If paid weekly, it's about 4.5 liters of salt per week.

If the numbers are correct, this is indeed completely unrealistic. No one needs 4 liters of salt per week, a legionary wouldn't carry 8kg of salt on top of his equipment, and where would all that salt come from? This raises many more questions for centurions, who had roughly 30 times bigger salaries.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_(Roman_army)
[1] https://imperiumromanum.pl/en/roman-economy/roman-goods-pric...
https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Where_to_get_the_games
Isn't this what most of the world is saying to environmental activists who argue that we should go back to pre-industrial levels of production to "save the Earth"?

I for one think that indeed there are many cases like this where the only feasible way out is forward. The film GATTACA expressed this very human sentiment well:

> You want to know how I did it? This is how I did it, Anton: I never saved anything for the swim back.
If we relied on individualists for everything we would still have no sewage system or water supply. Famously British parliament refused to fund a sewage system until they were tortured with stench for months.

Extreme individualism leads to societal collapse. In fact the concept of society means there are some limits on individualism.

The other day I saw a bigger toddler kicking a smaller toddler in a museum, with no parents in sight, and no one was willing to intervene until my wife did. People just look at their feet and ignore the issue.
You're right that the addition vs. multiplication issue likely does not matter on a modern chip. I just gave the example because it shows how the CPU architecture can affect how you write the code. I do not recall precisely when or where I heard the idea, but it was about a decade ago --- ages ago by computing standards.
Thats a major asshole move and I’ll reference it when people ask about bad acts from OpenAI. Thanks!
Notably, REAPER, Studio One (beta) and Bitwig are available on Linux.
Rough estimate: I got the LED panels from AliExpress (https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2255799924064579.html), the price fluctuates from around $10-$12 each x 12, so round up to $150 for the lights.

They practically give ESP32s away with an oil change, so you could call it done at that point, but I chose to use a QuinLED Dig-Quad (https://quinled.info/pre-assembled-quinled-dig-quad/) to make it easy to wire up and mount on the wall. That cost me about $60 shipped. And I added a MEAN WELL LRS-100-5 power supply for $20.

Finally for the laser-cut frames, I burned up about $30 of wood, and there's some minimal amount of 3D printer filament as well. Along with the incidental things like having to buy a spool of 3-conductor cable, connectors, etc.

So all together I'd guess it was around $300. A completely no-frills version could be maybe half that.
I haven't touched PCB design/EDA since college because it was so cost prohibitive and I lost the student license to Mentor Graphics, but it's something I've always wanted to return to. I am excited to try this out!
I too would love to earn a living by pursuing my hobbies. Too bad, I'm not in the 0,001-0,1%
Great article. I try to follow this advice as much as I can. My personal website (https://www.jviotti.com) runs almost purely on well established UNIX tools like Make, Pandoc, Sed, etc. Repository here: https://github.com/jviotti/website.
I'm a physicist but not an expert in this field, but my guess would be the answer a comprehensive "no".

The way satellites orbit is incredibly well described by Newtonian mechanics and there the impact of their mass on the shape/timing of the orbit is by changing the center of mass of the combined satellite-earth system. That is you only get measurable effects if the fluctuation in the mass are big enough compared to the mass of the earth.
Not a moreutil, but I recently discovered `pv`, the pipe viewer and it's so useful. Like tqdm (Python progressbar library) but as a Unix utility. Just put it between two pipes and it'll display rate of bytes/lines

Apparently it's neither a coreutil nor a moreutil.

Here's an HN discussion from 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33244768
I ran my own company for 10 years and when my revenue dropped to the point where I needed to get a job, I ended up consulting as a happy medium. I don't have to deal with the majority of the bullshit a regular job entails and I can still work on my next idea.
C'mon HN, don't we all know that they used kites?

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jun-24-me-14211...

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/caltech-researchers-succe...

To this day I am not sure that this wasn't some sort of elaborate prank, but at the time the researchers appeared to be sincere.
My mother had her Iphone with all default app notifications enabled. It was a nightmare. I disabled them all except Whatsapp and Messenger at some point. But I imagine that is how most people phones look like?
To turn it around on you: what's wrong with old games? Does anyone ask the same about books?:

"What is the appeal with books that are this old?"

Not very often from what I can tell. I do see the sentiment you've expressed regarding games much more often. Why is that? I'm not sure. Perhaps it's just a sign of the immaturity of games as a medium (compared to books, anyway).
Copyright shouldn't be a problem for anyone. It's simply a bogus idea that artificial scarcity of information is a benefit to society.
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Check if your electricity provider offers a renewable energy plan.
My electricity provider does and it adds about $15 per month.
I've seen the preamble to his manifesto quoted enough to know that isn't the case. Kaczynski's views on "the left" are point for point mainstream within internet culture now, and plenty of people will defend his views on technology, if not his violence.

There was a recent thread about him here[0,1]. Plenty of people denouncing him, of course, but also lots of sympathy. I've also noticed a trend to reform (and excuse) his violent actions as being the effect of psychological torture by the CIA and MKULTRA. The linked article goes a bit deeper into how influential his manifesto has been on the culture.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36392976
[1]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/19/unabomber-te...
>FOSS robot cars seem like a great way to bypass emissions controls, safety regulations, and plain common sense. It'd take what, half a day, for some teenager to modify the firmware to double the 0-60 and blow up the battery pack at the same time?

generally we don't pen laws in order to save a singular idiot teenager -- more-so the aforementioned teenager bought a product and then ruined it; the teenager already received the punishment for his actions by the destruction of their own property without the need for jurisprudence and complexity.

Also : Nearly every major car manufacturer in the world has been caught semi-recently violating emissions standards. Some have violated safety standards. Given that this hasn't been an impasse for the worlds largest companies, why presume that the FOSS equivalents would be worse? Our regulations have failed to constrain the largest companies who are apparently beholden to the most regulation and law the world has ever seen, but somehow FOSS individuals/collectives need to do better than these billion dollar behemoths? Nice.

I don't get why people suddenly think that when something is 'dangerous' then it's okay to throw in the towel on personal property ownership and take whatever lend-lease-borrow program is offered in exchange. Cars have always been dangerous, and aside from gross safety and emissions laws, we're allowed to modify them.

I don't understand why this changes radically when a vehicle becomes electric, were gas tanks and high pressure fuel injectors suddenly safer than I remember them being? "The stupid teen who burns his house down" certainly applied to things in the past, and we didn't go out of the way to lock down the fuel tank into an inaccessible black box in response, we just dealt with the inherent risk of dangerous equipment and somehow avoided full-blown chaos and calamity through educated precaution and training.

Here's what I want: I want the freedom to modify my own property, and when that modification becomes in violation of an agreed upon law I should be punished.

Forget all this pre-crime 'what-if' save the children bullshit. Punish offenders and let civilian non-offenders do as they please until such time that they violate a law or standard -- which would be more enforcement than the world is seemingly applying to every other car manufacturer in the world.
It's technically easy to not charge/cancel the user if they haven't used the services. But it's impossible to convince the product and business leads this is the correct thing to do. You will quickly get the "industry standard" response.

It's demoralizing working on the subscription feature since it's filled with dark patterns.
> The other is that the author makes the mistake of over emphasizing the vegetarianism aspect (which i think some comments here also are).

The author is specifically writing from a vegetarian/vegan perspective, as noted in the article:

> I was now here on the pretense of “study abroad,” but really just crisscrossing the country to find foods that would excite me and other would-be vegans back in Los Angeles. I had to learn about the tofu dumpling of love.

Emphasis mine.
> more like a floating point ... or more like a fixed-point ... ?

It really depends on what kind of analog hardware you use. Not exactly like either. You would different causes for error: Thermal, inherent indeterminism of interactions, decay/drift of value over time, boundary breaches with values near extrema, etc.

> IMO it is surprising fixed-point values don’t come up more often

The C++ standard committee has seen a paper on adding those to the language, as a library feature: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p00...

There's a kind-of-popular fixed-point-math library for the language:

https://github.com/MikeLankamp/fpm

and I'm sure they have received some attention in other languages.
> because there is nothing I wanted it to do instead.

"Simply do not say anything and move on" is something to do instead.
Then “personal wiki” would be a contradiction in terms, which it however isn’t.
I'm not missing the point, I'm saying you're wrong. There's a difference.

Also:

> Anything supposing that humans aren’t actually intelligent or conscious or whatever

Doesn't really match what I was writing about: if it turns out that a thing which is "just a pattern recognizer" can in fact be "intelligent or conscious or whatever", it's up to us if we see intelligence or consciousness or whatever in the pattern recognisers that we build, or if we ourselves descend into solipsism and/or nihilism.

Or if we take the traditional path of sticking our fingers in our ears and go "la la la I'm not listening" by way of managing cognitive dissonance. This is a very popular response which should not be underestimated.

But the laws of physics are quite clear, that a whole bunch of linear equations (quantum field theory) gets us chemistry, which gets us biology, etc., and the only place in all this for the feeling of existence that we have is emergent properties. Those emergent properties may, or may not, be present in other systems, but we don't know because we're really bad at characterising how emergent properties… emerge.
> taxi usage is at least somewhat up

When's the last time you phoned an operator to book a taxi? If taxis are doing better, it's only because they learned from Uber (and the likes) what the job-to-be-done actually is.
> And OpenAI quite literally sells access to their models, and if those models are pushing out verbatim copyrighted works as has been alleged by the NYT, then they are by definition reselling copyrighted works without permission.

This style of argument has been previously made regarding things like torrenting during the heyday of piracy ("why would you need <x> except for illegal purposes!")

In my opinion, it's the exact same argument saying that selling a tool means taking responsibility for how that tool is used by its new owner. You can use a shovel to both create something new (plant a tree) or destroy something (rip up your neighbor's garden).

The problem isn't the tool, the problem is how the end user uses it. These models aren't living thinking entities that enduce or on their own infringe copyright / do other illegal activities.

They aren't encouraging people to misuse them and it is solely on the user's shoulders for their choice to use them in a way that would cause infringement if the result is used commercially.
Well, if you don't use the language, of course a more advanced feature would be gibberish. You'd have to actually learn the language from the beginning, not at the middle or end which is basically what this blog post is talking about.

All that the blog post is saying is that if you have a trait A, you can make a function where it will return something that implements A, from another trait B. It's a way to make traits depend on another. It's similar to if you have an interface called Drivable (and classes that implement it, like Car or Bike) then you can make a function like `drive` that returns something that implements Drivable, inside some other trait. All that `async fn` is is syntactic sugar for something that implements the Future trait.
... it is an easy road to go down on. In politics you can notice politicians start blaming the voters for not voting in a way that they can get a majority but have to cooperate with other parties.
Ofc, your stuff is awesome man :) ..thanks!