skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not exactly, evolution doesn’t happen instantly. A digital comparison to an organism would be something like this:

An organism is a collection a billions of threads all running the same code but starting at seemingly random entry points. Before dying, each thread forks one or more threads (depending on external factors like available memory).

In order to reproduce, the “father” code sends a copy of its current code, but only the bottom word of every byte. The “mother” program combines this with the top word of every byte and then executes it in a chroot jail to make sure it will actually run. Once it is confident it will run, it “births” it onto its own machine.

Every thread in this process is running on non-ECC memory, with cosmic rays bit-flipping things, though there are threads running around making fixes to broken threads (actually, just killing them before they can fork).

The implementation of the threads isn’t relevant here (such as modeling proteins, atp pumps, and such).

In this, evolution fitness would be less cancer (fork bombs), doing usable work, successfully mating, etc. This evolution pressure might look like preventing mating until the program is a certain age or performed certain milestones and a “score” of how well it has done its work (both partners want a good “life score” but not too high — liars could exist! — to proceed with mating).

Evolution would occur naturally over many generations. From one generation to the next, they look nearly identical, but from hundreds of generations they might look identical, or not. The “not” part is evolution.
Oh, you really need to read "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?" https://academic.oup.com/analysis/article-lookup/doi/10.1093...
This is all so obviously refutable if you look at the fact that this affects the USA so much more than other countries and even there if you go back three generations, peolr with essentially the same genes just at fewer calories and - surprise - were less fat.
Surprised no one has mentioned chezmoi[1], which takes parameterization of configs to its awesome, extreme conclusion[2].

[1]: https://chezmoi.io/

[2]: https://github.com/cglong/dotfiles/blob/ea33143679e936f4043a...
It's possible I'm too optimistic on this point. I feel I have a good grasp of how bitcoin works, but when it gets to layer 2 it gets fuzzier.
The initial discussions sounded really promising, as they seemed to mirror HTTP on top of TCP/IP. And we all know how much of a slow burning revolution that turned out to be.

But http seems simpler than what I've read about lightning more recently.

Total wild speculation follows:

As for the channels problem, it feels to me like you have something like ISPs or AOL being the thing that's needed to kickstart it.
And perhaps the ISPs or AOL in this world are the employers and lightning banks. So yes you need bitcoin to open it, but with an employer you have the potential to have an entity with bitcoin resources and with a reason to send bitcoin to an individual.

Perhaps HD wallets with lightning kickstarter funds apportioned to new employees. This feels similar to the needing a bank account or national insurance number in the UK (social security number? in the US) to start getting paid, or similar to needing an internet connection. Yes you could choose to get paid in bitcoin and have the fees come out of your wage, and this would be similar to getting paid in physical cash today. Or you could get over the slight roadbump to get you onto the lightning network.

What would a real layer 2 look like in your opinion?
Ah, it's "thread", thanks! I probably need my morning coffee ... I don't know rust to any detail and was wondering what is std::spool.
My conspiracy theory is TikTok was allowed to succeed to give Facebook a competitor so it couldn't be accused of being a monopoly.
Bitcoin rewards energy efficiency by design, which is why the vast majority of bitcoin mining uses excess fully renewable energy.
perfect info, yes, it's a way of discovering things that bore no relationship to what you had already seen, except that your cohort also liked them.

You triggered me to remember additional elements of my idea. the 80's saw the arrival of the CD-ROM, and I thought "Consumer Reports can't publish a detailed chart of everybody's taste, but I'll bet their movie voting database would fit on a CD-ROM, and a piece of statistical software could figure out what movies each person would like." But I didn't think people would pay enough for the service to get a new CD-ROM in the mail every month, and if it didn't stay up to date with the latest VHS releases :) it wouldn't be useful, and Consumers Union was such a ... purist/hairshirt type organization how could anybody even work with them.
Seems like mostly good advice that we all learn (well most of us) but is rarely written down.

I have to caveat this though:

> Therefore, reducing coupling will reduce the cost of change.

This seems like unwise advice. People are going to read it as "coupling = bad" and then try to eliminate coupling even between components that are still coupled, through things like dynamic typing, queues and so on. This only reduces the appearance of coupling.

For example say you have an API endpoint that is supposed to perform some action in another service. A lot of people would "decouple" them by having the endpoint place a request in some shared Kafka/MQTT queue or a file or whatever, and then the other service can poll that. Tada! Decoupled! Much better than a direct RPC call right?

Except they still depend on each other - you've just made the coupling less robust, so it can easily break when you make a mistake refactoring.
I think people are missing the context that the prices of even the largest LLMs trend towards $0 in the medium term. Mistral-medium is almost open source, and we are still early days
Tokyo's 'oldest man' had been dead for 30 years (2010)
The possibility of change exists, but one of the hardest promises Bitcoin makes is that you can't change the rules mid-game like what happened with stocks. That is one of the most attractive things about this asset class - if the US regulators want to change how a crypto is traded ... tough biscuits. They have to convince the market participants, globally, to trade the new way. The bar might be orders of magnitude higher than for getting rid of stock certificates.

People underestimate, I think, how much nudging happens at the institutional level which cryptocurrencies might shut down. It is a really exciting experiment from that perspective.
Bitcoin didn’t go to zero with people buying it through shady exchanges operated out of tax havens, and you think Bitcoin will go to zero AFTER its available to every investor in the US through every finance app and is being sold by giant hedge funds?
It's amazing how much information can be extracted from functional MRI data. That's like figuring out what a chip is doing by looking at which parts are using warmer because they're using more power.
Was this generated by some AI? It it a parody?
That's not a metric.

That's a use case.

Certainly, no one here is arguing that there are things openai refuses to allow, and given that the effectiveness of using GPT4 on them is literally zero, a sweet potato connected to a spring and keyboard will "beat" GPT-4, if that's your scoring metric.

If you want a meaningful comparison you need tasks that both tools are capable of doing, and then see how effective they are.

Claiming that mistral medium beats it is like me claiming the RenderMan beats DALLE2 at rendering 3d models; yes, technically they both generate images, but since it's not possible to use DALLE2 to render a 3d model, it's not really a meaningful comparison is it?
Last time I checked, the only profitably-recyclable materials were metals. Glass barely breaks even, which sortation frequently tips it over the edge. For everything else--from paper to plastics--the Portage story is one of the town socialising the cost of collection and sortation. Not some economic novelty.
I was thinking along the same lines---doesn't it allow for "permanent memory leaks"? I mean, if someone has just bugs in their (possibly non-Rust) code, not necessarily trying to exploit anything.
Renewable capacity grew at record pace in 2023
I can't remember the source, but I remember hearing that the two demographics in society who average at a healthy BMI were endurance athletes and vegans.

I struggled through my 20s to keep my weight under 200 lbs at 6ft tall. Then I went vegan 4 years ago, and started running during the pandemic. Nothing crazy, just 5-8 km once or twice per week when it's nice out, and lots of beans and tofu in place of meat and dairy. I haven't weighed in over 185 since, and that's without fasting or counting calories.

I'm sure that viruses and environmental toxins and whatever else contribute some amount at the margin, but I'm convinced that it's diet and exercise, in that order, that are primarily to blame.
In France, https://www.internet-signalement.gouv.fr/PharosS1/ .
Honestly find that Instagram tries too hard to show me thirst traps - that I’m not interested in. It assumes that since I’m a male, I must automatically overwhelmingly like looking at attractive women.

Its too one dimensional.
have you tried the recent revival of interlisp and medley? i'm interested to hear what you think
iShares is blackrock
Also part of the announcement:

The GPT store

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38941158

https://chat.openai.com/gpts
Yep. I personally use ChatGPT far more than Google search these days.
I'm a big proponent of freedom in this space (and remain one), but Dolphin is fucking scary.

I don't have any use cases for crime in my life at the moment beyond wanting to pirate like Adobe Illustrator before signing up for an uncancelable subscription, but it will do arbitrary things within it's abilities and it's google with a grudge in terms of how to do anything you ask. I stopped wanting to know when it convinced me it could explain how to stage a coup d'etat. I'm back on mixtral-8x7b.
I guess a good way to extend the sports betting model analogy is that Buffett’s moves are so large + controlling seats on boards is equivalent to sports players fixing games in response to bets made on them? Buffett wants stock to go up, he can tell the company to take actions to do so. Something individual retail traders (or most funds for that matter) cannot do.

As a layperson, I always wonder: is there some equivalent of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle at play in the market? There is no way to make an observation (in this case, a trade) without altering the very thing your are observing (the market).
For me the reason is actually much more simple - I just get better content. Instragram gives me bunch of marketing and influencer stuff not unlike the crap on Facebook feed. TikTok has much more dumb entertaining content. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh right. I meant desktop computer operating systems.

But desktop computer chipsets is the same mess. We can be glad already that there is competition between 2 vendors (1). Some years ago it was probably over 90% Intel.

Servers is not fundamentally better, just with slightly different market shares.

And everything is x86, which is certainly not the optimal solution from several aspects. I wonder whether that would be still alive with some healthy competition between at least a dozen of vendors.

Edit: (1) 2 plus Apple, which is better than only 2, but sti not fully free competition. Few people choose Apple because of their chipset.
Paying brilliant researchers then refusing to ship their work happened at Kodak, Xerox, and now Google. History repeats itself
I use virtual machines for development.
>> Two days ago there was a storm that damaged some generators and left the batteries very low that they resorted to rolling blackouts, as there was not enough electricity for the island.

> It literally did not coincide at all, given that the coal plant in question closed in September 2022.

You simply don't get it. You're oddly requiring the bad storm happen soon after the plant was closed down for there to be a connection, which is obviously not the case. One can take an action which creates a vulnerability that takes some time to finally cause a problem.

You're saying something as silly as: the removal of the bolts holding in the emergency exit plug did not cause the hole in Alaska Airlines flight 1282, because the door didn't fly off immediately after the bolts were removed.
> Your prediction for the future that a ledger with the throughput of a 28.8 modem will absorb the world's value is "fact"?

Yes, the base layer network is ideally suited for storing extremely large amounts of wealth, for large amounts of time. No other asset has qualities that come close, they all leak value compared to bitcoin.
I was hoping someone who knows more that me to correct/expand my comment. Thanks
what do you mean? I've been trying to get a good W2 job.
Killing 3G for the sake of... what exactly? Nothing else is really using that space and literally 2.5+ million people seem content with the service.
This is described in the every prospectus that was approved today. Prospectuses are public.
This. I love the Kotlin language but Java had just caught up and the things that made Kotlin super exciting several years ago are less exciting now as Java advanced. Also I looked back at Kotlin recently and things have gotten way more complex than I remember around 1.0.

Kotlin needed to succeed on the native front to live beyond Java. It didn't and that puts it in a perilous long-term spot.
Wow, that’s pretty aggressive.

Thanks for sharing.
>Drive by wire isn’t the problem

Yes it will be when you loose all power while going 80mph on a motorway because rodents ate the wiring 10 years later.

"tons of electronics" in modern cars is not required for the most basic functionality such as steering and braking. Yes, you loose power steering and power breaking if it goes off, but you can still drive (unless maybe you've never driven without it and it surprises you during a high speed takeover manouver etc).

This "drive by wire" takes away the most essential security feature present in "all" cars up to now. A direct mechanical connection between the steering wheel and the wheels. Even manufacturers of small airplanes (like "executive" 8 seater jets) say "no way" to this tech unless it controls an auxiliary control surface.

Putting it in a production car that will get crashes, it will corrode (yes copper wiring and insulation corrodes too), it will get attacked by rodents and it might get driven in 50 years from now as a "classic" is sheer, unabridged, stupidity of the highest order.
Pascal predates Ada, and already had ranges, CLU and Modula-2 also predate Ada and had generators.
I think with Mixtral Medium they mean MoE 2x13B which is on top on huggingface leaderboard? It is still not close to 8x175B, but size alone is not most important factor. With smarter training methods and data it is possible we will see performance similar to gpt-4 in open source mixture of experts of smaller sizes.
XrossMediaBar
Maybe in the backend but for mobile (android) kotlin is still a thing and will be for a long time.
There are two problems Kotlin faces; Kotlin the project/product and Kotlin the language. While this article touches Kotlin as a Product, it’s very thin on the Language aspect.

Here’s an old post discussing the real troubles Kotlin Lang might face due to the inevitable divergence of Java/JVM.

https://np.reddit.com/r/java/comments/ndwz92/can_i_get_some_...
I do not understand why IKEA makes it so hard to attach a FÖRNUFTIG purifier to a wall or under a table. I bought one to attach it under my son's room table, which fit perfectly, but putting four screw holes into the FÖRNUFTIG was a pain in the ass. It would make those things so much more versatile if scrwholew were already perpared.
>This is just calorie cycling with extra steps.

That's almost right, but it's carb cycling, not calorie cycling. The difference does matter.

>TKD, CKD, intermittent fasting, dirty keto, keto with a once a month weekend pizza binge, whatever, almost any combo of "eat less for awhile, then eat normal for little bit, then eat less again".

I believe that the best approaches, for a given period, will be 2/3 of the time on minimal-to-no carbs, then 1/3 on carbs (which, for seven days, rounds to 5-off / 2-on). The leptin information also suggests that an obese person shouldn't be off carbs for long periods of time, and one week is a nice time frame for people (go low-carb during the work week, have carbs on the weekend).
No you cannot.

But there have existed regulated CME Bitcoin Futures instruments to short Bitcoin more than a half decade now.
Slightly digressing, thought atleast in India, Instagram has started catering to a lot of serious businesses especially startups. If you want to market, go to Instagram.. Well Tiktok has been banned but it was never taken here as a serious platform by businesses.
I have fond memories of FidoNet from the late 80's and early 90's!

Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Store_and_forward

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet

(Also, abstractly speaking, Physical Mail AKA "snail mail" AKA The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) -- as well as other shipping services (i.e., UPS, FedEx, DHL, Amazon, etc.) -- are all effectively store-and-forward networks, except that they are physical (as opposed to digital) ones...)
I was hoping for some examples of what the author would consider to be bad typography on a watch, typography they don't like. Instead, we just get a generic statement of "Many brands use off the shelf fonts but small." Perhaps this is them subtly implying that they don't like it, but to me that just sounds like they're "acceptable", not "bad". Combine that with the fact that typography is about as subjective as music, I see no issue with how things are currently.
Google reorganizing Pixel hardware: Fitbit's James Park leaving
I mean, I obviously agree that the complication in the US tax system is crazy, and also think that every country should do what the UK does in allowing PAYE income taxation (Pay As You Earn - most people in standard jobs have their company take the correct amount of tax from each salary payment and pass it direct to the government, the employee then doesn't even have to file taxes at the end of the year unless they have special circumstances).

But in this specific case of "minor error [...] leads to significant money losing tax implications" - it is really an error that would be possible in absolutely any "fill in your tax info situation", since the mistake they made was writing the wrong number into a "taxable income" field. That mistake can still be made even in a country whose tax system is as simple as "everyone pays X% of their income as tax, and fills in a one-field form where the only question is "what was your income for the year?". (But yeah, a simpler system would mean less opportunity for making simple mistakes, and easier to check if any have been made, for sure.)
Yet if the video sampled Metallica for too long, it would be removed and the feds at your door within minutes. Such is an algorithm that is tuned ad revenue and lawsuites, as opposed to protection. The above story just confirms what the scammers in this video say about youtube about wholesale content scamming with AI editing software.

https://youtu.be/ZMfk-zP4xr0?si=R3RxVJJ7WxhKDj_L
This is why I don't like publicly-traded companies much. It's always just about short term gain and long term losses. Why would you give up research and development, just so some executives can buy themselves another yacht?
I’m not sure why you’re being so hostile here. I agree everything can’t be a crisis, and if there were a way to have people in the office only when something important is happening, I think quite a lot of companies would go for it. But you can’t set remote work as the standard and then announce that there’s crunch time in July so everyone has to come in 5 days a week.
That would be true if new products could make appreciable top line impact/growth during the horizon for CEO comp packages, which is typically 3 years, and if it was easier to make new revenue than slash headcount.
Case ranges are in gcc for a million years. And also nested functions. I used nested functions a lot but, it was never ported to clang which makes it a bit of a problem for portability, also, nowadays the linker complains about having to make the stack executable, which is another problem; so I had to stop using them.

I also don't understand why the "C standard" hasn't evolved further -- there was a discussion lately about the committee being out of touch.
Some of these extensions makes life so much easier. Instead we get stupid stuff nobody need, or have been in a header for 200 years (ie, <pthread.h>, whoohoo, I'm delighted this standard header is now a... standard!)

For nested/sub function, it makes so much sense it's not even funny. Having micro-callbacks right there before the call to qsort() (or any other) is SO much better than having to farm out a context, yet-another-static-function etc...
Talking about extreme situations, here is another possible scenario - if electricity is then rationed and works only for two hours a day, people with cigarettes or gold may actually buy the food, while people with Bitcoin go hungry, and the value may plummet.
I predict that VMWare as a "best place to work" is not going to age well given the Broadcom takeout of VMWare.
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ is a good starting point.
> Israel, a liberal democratic state with a free press

Israeli law allows news censorship by the IDF. Currently, if you are a news outlet working in Israel, you have to pass your war coverage by them [1,2] even the CNN is forced to do this [3]. I don't know, but you seem to have a strange definition of free press. Should I list some of the series of scandals of IDF caught laying in the past to complete the picture? Just remember that they tried to convince people that the words [Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday] in Arabic are Hamas members names [4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Military_Censor

[2] https://theintercept.com/2023/12/23/israel-military-idf-medi...

[3] https://theintercept.com/2024/01/04/cnn-israel-gaza-idf-repo...

[4] https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20231116-...
Yeah, that’s worse. They took hosting AND a job away from someone.
Hang in there Googlers :(
Hacker News was pro-crypto circa 2015 when Coinbase launched.

The change of the tone here is mainly because of the changed audience. Hacker News was originally a forum for founders and hackers. Now it is a general forum for salarymen software developers.
Curious that you mentioned "4.5-preview". What do you mean there?

To my knowledge, and I searched to confirm, GPT-4.5 is not yet released. There were some rumors and a link to ChatGPT's answer about GPT-4.5 (could also be a hallucination) but Sam tweeted it was not true.
And who would have masterminded that tridimensional chess play?
Ask the pro Palestinian content creators about how many posts get smothered with zero traction, how many get infractions and how many replace the word Israel with invented words to not be blocked by TikTok’s algorithm. How many now have backup accounts because they are threatened with removal.
I think they didn’t want to antagonize any specific watch brand.

Any example of bad typography, for my money, is Louis Vuitton’s latest watch, which uses Myriad (Adobe Illustrator’s default font): https://eu.louisvuitton.com/eng-e1/products/tambour-automati...