skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Array languages come up a lot on HN so I’ve looked into them a few times. I think it’s a hard thing to gauge without trying to use them in anger for a while. One of the core arguments for them that resonates with me is that once you understand the operators, many patterns become so terse and repeat so often, you can refactor large portions of code very rapidly. I use a lot of F#, and can see the beginnings of this where translating from C# to F# often shrinks the code size to the point where I see patterns that weren’t obvious before. I believe APL, K, J, Nial, BQN, etc all have more extreme versions of that happening.

It also makes differences stand out so logic bugs are more visually obvious.
When at a 4 way stop, the order is who arrived at the stop first (until there are none remaining). If two or more vehicles arrive at the same time, the vehicle on the right should go first.

So when you get to the stop, just look at everyone there and know that when the last one there is gone it's your turn.
The loss of telnet and crypt is going to mean I have to version pin a lot of older code.

I should look into which file formats are going away, I had some stuff that relied heavily on uuencode/decode (along with telnetlib) for bootstrapping file transfers into older systems…
the more bugs
Sounds good, I like their security first approach and some of the decisions they've made, going for secure defaults out of the box, and that it works with docker compose. I wonder if podman gains enough traction, at some point, they decide to go their own way with regards to the commands and the yml, because right now it seems to be a tool that 'hangs on to' docker and docker's compose file format.

It would be good to have a swarm alternative in podman, it seems like k8s is a crutch for lack of orchestration. With their good security hat on they could probably come up with a sane, simple way of running containers at small scales without having to dive into a PhD in k8s which doesn't have secure defaults out of the box, while maintaining compatibility with docker compose format.

Anyway that's a good intro thanks for sharing, I'll be trying it later.
Mine waste can contain up to three dozen dangerous chemicals, including arsenic, lead, mercury, and cyanide. These metals accumulate in fish and the people and wildlife that eat them. The pollution contaminates drinking water, decimates ecosystems and destroys fisheries.
I’m well aware that bad behavior is a thing. Some driver’s cut each other off in traffic, weaving in and out of lanes. Some customers condescend to service workers, knowing they can’t retaliate without losing their jobs. And some reprobate employers do shitty things like we’re seeing here.

Are you really arguing against me when I say that this is exceptionally abhorrent?

That’s all I’m saying: that this isn’t the kind of thing to shrug at. There are plenty of companies lead by grade A people that treat their employees well instead of heartlessly throwing them under the bus.
Probably a better way of saying what they probably meant is "Always drive defensively"
The Emergence of ToM in LLMs
This has already been posted but I'm afraid the title may have kept it low in the SEO race that is hacker news.

Of note:

"Although the results from vanilla prompts and the user study build the illusion of ToM abilities in LLMs, we conclude that our perturbation experiments are sufficient to clarify that ToM abilities are absent from LLMs. ToM evaluation must entail evaluation of reasoning abilities with minimal leniency towards failure cases."

It's worth noting that the word "idempotent" does not occur anywhere in the text.

It seems like a latent conversation given how ToM has impacted everything from Autism research to consciousness research.

I may have missed the deeper discussion in my cursory reading, which is lossy and poor. If so, I'm sorry.

1) The idea that there are extant bidirectional games, whether intentional or unintentional, is absent, whether elicited by the LLM or the human interlocutor in conversation. These are best labeled as mentalism: the creation of illusions as a technique to delude the human or bypass the conditional guardrails of the LLM.

2) The introduction of bicameralism (Jaynes) along with ideas stemming from the "controlled hallucination" theory of Anil Seth and its further explication by Andy Clark is also absent.

I'd be happy if anyone has insight into these areas beyond Peter Pirolli's work:

https://www.efsa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/event/180918-...

on Information Foraging and so on.
This looks so cool and might use it for my project. Are there any examples showing how to use Sqlite? I dug around the docs for some time but only found mention of sqlite in passing. I'm developing a notes app and will be using sqlite's full text search extension a lot—wondering if anyone knows if the react bindings/hooks will properly update the UI if the UI is showing data from virtual tables.
Almost everything from Azure is half broken, e.g. Bicep which they keep pushing.
> unlike Docker their containers bow to SELinux definitions,

That's a bug in docker. If your system isn't configured for SELinux, disable it.

Also the systemd files generated by podman-generate-systemd are just executing "podman start containername", you can write them on your own easily but (unlike e.g. docker-composr) the containers are black boxes pretty much.

The advantage of quadlet is that the definition of the container is declared in the .container file; before I used to write the podman run command line manually in a handwritten systemd unit, and quadlet is a big improvement in that respect and can be an alternative to docker-compose (with advantages and disadvantages).
On one level these are both imposed rules (ie regulation), but this is an approach I haven’t heard before and I like it. It would also help a fleet of other problems, like underfunded public institutions and infrastructure.
https://analyzethedatanotthedrivel.org/2018/03/31/numpy-anot...
I'm fairly happy with a Cudy WR1300, which runs openwrt out of the box. Only €40 euros on amazon.
There is drones from the 50s. Also, footage of drones getting pieces blown off during actual detonations.

The video seems to be sponsored by IBM, although they don't disclose it.
Link: https://www.llmvalidator.com/architecture_designer/step1
https://archive.is/sFTAq
What’s more amazing to me is that for open source projects like this where anyone can contribute, people would rather complain about the lack of a screenshot instead of submitting a pull request adding a screenshot to the README.

You could probably become a very prolific contributor just by adding a screenshot to every such repo you come across.
Did you try previewing this website on a mobile device? On my phone, I’m noticing some layout issues. The hamburger menu up top also doesn’t seem to work. It would also be nice if we could demo the app without signing up.

Otherwise, I’m impressed you pulled this off after learning how to code for 3 months. Keep it up! :)
>Europe created Airbus by merging different companies, but the US should break up its only competitor?

If that said competitor is not behaving, and abusing its status as a de-facto monopoly, than yes, the US should break up that competitor.

It's not like Boeing is a book store or a video game developer which has little risk to society if things go belly up - it produces critical transportation infrastructure that can kill people if something goes wrong. That's a responsibility to not be taken lightly, and a track record of Boeing management ignoring safety checks and guidelines because it would cause shareholders to lose a bit in the short-term is just is irresponsible.
MemoChat Need Your Help
Good write up. Thank you for explaining the fix as well!
I don’t know! I wasn’t aware this sort of thing existed, and am interested now that I know it exists, and the main link took me to the GitHub readme, where I can get very little signal on whether it’s worth clicking around and doing more research.

It seems to be an unpopular opinion, but I do think an easily accessible, compelling narrative on the entry pages to a project are good for telling a story and getting engagement from the outside world.
You don't see your desktop as in it's always covered or as in your WM hides the root window?
The US economy is running at full capacity, but it could be that the some part (20-30-40%) capacity is being used in absolutely poor performance areas.
Ubuntu offers paid support. 14 is only falling out of that this coming April:

https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle
The Slow Frontier of Genetic Choice
Yes, here is one. https://github.com/jon49/htmx-todomvc

I use this pattern for all my personal apps. I use my own little htmx-like library though. But wouldn't be that hard to swap in HTMX.
Marimo looks and feels great!

Have you considered adding support for mermaid.js in the markdown? I tried including some mermaid.js in a `mo.md` invocation, but it didn't render the diagram :-)

https://mermaid.js.org/
I would very much like to try that, as well as DMT itself. I only have experience with LSD (tested with Ehrlich’s reagent) and mushrooms. I will keep my eyes peeled for some.
In my teens, I had so much ability to process all kinds of stuff that I would pay attention to too much and get too distracted, and as a result, I would turn up music loud enough that it consumed the rest of my attention so that I'd stay focused on driving.

As an adult, I find myself turning off music and other distractions because they take up too much of my processing ability, because my ability to process that much is significantly lower than it was when I was a teenager. Keep this in mind as you're reading other advice aimed at teenagers, and understand how much of driving training is teaching someone to pay attention when there's so many things going on around them to watch but they mostly need to watch what they are doing.
Ariakit is a Reakit successor, which already got the full score in my post. Ariakit looks as accessible as Reakit. I've updated my post accordingly.
> The Constitution clearly contemplates these situations where the vice president's vote wouldn't matter, so it stands to reason that the Senate is free to adopt rules requiring a different vote threshold than simple majority.

Just a note that the Supreme Court has generally reached the opposite conclusion to this in situations where the Constitution specifies special behavior. The general philosophy seems to be: if the Constitution specifies conditions under which there is a special behavior, that special behavior can _only_ apply under those conditions.

For example in Reynolds v. Sims [1], the Court held that state legislature districts had to have roughly equal population sizes even though the US Senate by design has districts of dramatically different populations sizes. The existence of a specific exemption to "one person one vote" in the US Constitution doesn't permit other exemptions.

I feel there's a similar thing with presidential qualification. The Constitution lists certain conditions (e.g. 35 years or older), but then Congress can't add additional conditions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_v._Sims
This is the thing, the people here that complain that you need to have read the book to understand the movie are dune fans. On the other hand there are people like you and my partner who I watched the movie with, who understood and loved the movie without having read the book.

I think it's usually much harder to please fans of a book, because they all will find different parts of the book important and something will be omitted, e.g. see the discussions about Tom Bombadil in LOTR.
Of course the US should. We have multiple manufacturers for every other industry and it's our biggest strength.
Doesn't it depend on what problem you are solving and which building blocks you are starting with? Say you have a reversible electric motor. This will likely enable lighter/cheaper/more efficient/more reliable designs than one or two unidirectional motors and transmission to redirect the torque in desired direction. And if you can come up with tranary circuits for the controller, you again have fewer elements and less power losses compared to binary circuits.

Now, if you are going to build trenary circuits out of binary flip flops, you are wasting one state available out of 4 with two flip flops, so clearly suboptimal. You need unique interfaces and physics for each element to benefit from efficiency. Even unique programming languages - binary if/else logic is common, it could be that in real world if/else/unknown is common and can be handled more efficiently by trenary circuits, or new algorithms can be created to utilize a hardware-implemented trenary bit.

Of course, a likely answer is that, now that binary hardware and software is highly developed, it's not worth it to do complete redesigns for modest efficiency gains.
The point is they could have called it “Blueberry” instead of “737 MAX” and have it still share the same type rating as the 737.

Which is perfectly reasonable as changing the branding alone isn’t particularly meaningful from a safety, airworthiness, or training perspective.
I mean, in general, the east bay is cheaper than the peninsula and south bay. You can even see how the prices sorta stay high in fremont then go lower as you go north. And particularly when you get to the tri-valley, land is a lot cheaper (relatively speaking, of course :)
I'm getting close to 40, have been studying for the driving exam since last May. It's terribly boring and tedious, and I guess that attitude is not helping, but it doesn't seem that much different than studying for an exam in my teens or twenties. I don't think there is any escape from it sucking at times, so, just, you know, make peace with that. Also, I'm not sure I'm buying any of that "plasticity" talk.
I’m in my 40s and have found that my eyes take longer to refocus from distance to another. Also, night vision is worse as you get older. When you’re young, these are more likely to be sharp.
> It's not like Boeing is a book store or a video game developer which has little risk to society if things go belly up - it produces critical transportation infrastructure that can kill people if something goes wrong.

I completely agree, I just don't think that more competition is necessarily the solution here, and that's the point of my example. Airbus is a trusted company, and it was created through merging different companies, through removing competition.
Its always strange to me that as soon as fascism is mentioned, someone absolutely has to bring up communism. It's like clockwork.
Upgraded versions of the even older 737 are competing with the neos just fine, if you go by sales placements.
Its Boeings cozy relationship with the FAA that is leading to these engineering problems. If the FAA cannot do its job what makes people think nationalizing the whole thing will make it any better?
> Someone recently asked me how one might go about learning charisma, and the answer was really boring: by reading a few books, watching many hours of charismatic people interacting with others, and adopting a few of their habits.

Any recommendations for books?
Interesting to see a paper that hasn't finished peer review yet getting coverage in Fortune.
Vulkan only exists because AMD was nice and gave it to Khronos.

As Long Peaks experience has shown, had not been for AMD, and Khronos would still be wondering how OpenGL vNext was supposed to look like.

This is why Apple has issues with Khronos, they didn't like what happened to OpenCL after giving it to Khronos.
could you give more details ?
That's been well-understood since the 1990s. Back then, it was clear from geological records that an increase of CO2 would disrupt the Atlantic currents. They had 50 year resolution for Europe, and the data showed that within fifty years of CO2 starting to tick up, most of Europe was stuck under ice (for centuries).

Since then, people say that the above is weak evidence, and are generally in denial of the science. As of a year or to ago, we've been able to measure the slowing and coming stoppage of the Atlantic currents. There's over 50-50 odds that some people reading this will live to see the next Eurpoean ice age. Much of France, Germany and things farther north are likely to end up under a glacier.
Ask HN: Who else is working on nothing?
Everyone seems so busy building or learning the next big thing, but is anyone else working on absolutely nothing lately? If not, why not?

Optional reading:

I've always been a curious person, interested in learning new skills and finding fun and useful ways to apply them. I don't know much, but what I do know are things I've set out to learn purely out of interest. Any success in my career has been mostly luck, and being somewhat articulate in a few key areas of IT.

But not only has my professional life become monotonous and unchallenging, my drive for novelty and improvement in my personal life has also diminished greatly. In other words, I seem to have lost that curiosity. That drive to learn and apply new things.

I'm not sure why this is, but my initial suspicion is that the lack of fulfillment I've experienced in the last ~5 years or so has left me feeling like continuing down the same path is a bit of a waste of time at this point. It all just feels as though it amounts to virtually nothing.

To be completely honest, I am working on something, but that something is myself. Working through personal issues has all but completely taken priority over any external endeavors and consumed what little energy I have, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but a healthier balance would probably be ideal.

Anyone else from HN in a similar place?
I made an app doing this with an HTMX-like library with a total of 100 kB minified/zipped code. Not bloated at all. The code to make it work is about 10 kB. The rest is the code for the actual app.
I'm not entirely sure what point you're trying to make, but it seems like the kind of exaggerated intentionally-missing-the-point outrage that conservatives parody leftists for (I say that as a leftist, just to be clear).

Blade Runner has always been about how replicants are people treated as slaves. Rachel having given birth in BR2049 is a big deal not because it means she's finally a person unlike all the other replicant women, but because it means replicants have the potential to control their own destiny, instead of being reliant on humans to make more of them.

The film was extremely explicit about that, to the point of beating you over the head with it. I'm not sure how you could have possibly interpreted it in the way you did, unless you view everything through the lens of "how can I be outraged about this."

EDIT: the comment I responded to originally said something like "Blade Runner 2049? The movie where personhood for women is defined as being capable of giving birth?"
Yes maybe? There’s a story about three bears that I think you should read.
> One person with a crazy idea is just a wingnut. Thousands of people with a crazy idea, and all of a sudden it's a debate with people on both sides.

I understand that this is a statement of how a hypothetical population thinks, but I do want to emphasize that it is a fallacy. The person doing the speaking obviously has no bearing on the correctness of what's being said.

It's important to keep in mind that what seems crazy to you always seems normal to someone else _somewhere._ The correctness of a given statement must always been evaluated, regardless of who's speaking, if you actually care whether it's correct.

Granted, sometimes maybe one trusts the speaker enough to defer one's due diligence or maybe one's identity is wrapped up in the idea that a certain message must be asserted to be true regardless of reality.
I have a personal anecdote about the documentary.

I am a huge Dune fan. Book 4 is my favorite of all time. I also grew up in France, loving Bilal and Jodorowsky's work.

At the time io9 was the only outlet regularly covering the progress on the documentary. It was just a super niche sci-fi documentary. Before the movie released, io9 organized a little screening, which they mentioned on their blog. I had to be there! Sent an email to the staff, explaining how important it was that I would see this film. I'd sit on the stairs if I have to.

The team was super cool and told me I could go with a friend. We saw it and it was awesome. They organized a little get together after the screening and we talked about the movie. I think the whole thing was put together by Charlie Jane. It was such a cool experience, I really loved that. Thanks io9 for helping this documentary!
> "Business, found that an office return isn’t actually boosting a company’s bottom line"

manufacturing consent.

stage 1: demonise workers "quiet quitters"

stage 2: implement mass layoffs

stage 3: re-hire those positions remotely in cheaper locations
Install error – 0x80070643 (Windows 10)
TLDR; The latest security update for windows 10 is failing en masse and Microsofts only fix is to shrink your main partition and resize the recovery partition.
I think it's actually surprising how few crates are C++ wrappers. You can really tell if you try and cross-compile big Rust programs because it's always the C/C++ wrapper crates that cause issues and 90% of the time it's OpenSSL.

There are more wrappers than in Go, but probably fewer than Python.
> This assumes India is paying less than Europe was before.

I don't think this is correct since the market rate is changing all the time.

The correct phrasing should be "This assumes India is paying less than market rate for Russian oil which it then re-exports". And I think it's a correct assumption, otherwise why would they do this?
heavy metals that are bound in the Earth are freed during mining. There are many heavy metals that are directly toxic to most life a.k.a. poisonous. In addition, some heavy metals bioaccumulate in the food chain -- that is, when a fish eats the plant with the metals on it, the fish does not excrete the elements, over time, then a predator eats many fish. It is a serious and well-studied effect.
This is laughably incorrect!! The net-worth of an average millionaire is closer to that of an average minimum wage worker than that of an average billionaire.

People really don't grok generational weath and scale of money.
In general people are horrible drivers. They tailgate, roll through stop signs, signal after they start changing lanes, don’t signal at all, are oncoming and have their tire in your lane.

In NYC they play a game of not letting you merge into a lane unless you basically threaten to crash into them.

I lived a life insulated from the morons of the general public until I started driving.
>This seems quite condescending; I'm not sure if that's your intent.

It's not. It's a fine-line between being empathetic and enabling. Just as there's a difference between being rejected by women and using that as evidence that no women will ever love you, or that women themselves are the problem. I believe that these online communities reenforce the narrative of collective victimhood, when really it's an individual with a bad string of luck, a sensitive soul, who would do better to learn to be stoic, equanimous, and find joy in themselves and the fight. Because life is hard. We will all suffer great injustice at some point. But that doesn't mean its hopeless; it's a challenge for us to transcend. I've known very ugly men in real life who had great personalities and no problem meeting women. It would have been easy for them to grow cynical and dark, but they didn't.