skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a very rudimentary understanding of how electricity and electronic circuitry and transistor work, but it does make me wonder:

We use programming languages like C to create complex branching algorithms that are turned a linear machine code tape. Programmers generally can not understand assembly even if they understand the branching code that is turned into assembly. Even if assembly had variables, just the fact that if/else's and function calls are turned into jumps is enough to make the code too complicated to understand. It might be possible to disassemble back to C by resolving the jumps into something that is easier to understand.

Imagine if brains worked the same way. That there is actually a naturally-forming high level "brain language" that is turned by a "brain compiler" function into a low-level "brain assembly," but when we look at it all we see is the assembly. That what the brain is actually doing is relatively simple, but because we can only observe the output of the compiler function it appears to be insanely complex to reverse-engineer.

Then again, I don't have the faintest idea of how brains work either.
How to Stop a Very Large Fire [video]
> Altera and Xilinx make FPGAs, not ASICs. They are two fundamentally different kinds of chips.

But FPGAs can replace ASICs especially with regards to RADAR / signal processing. Its clear that they prefer these Xilinx / Altera chips, because they're bothering to try to black-market import these chips and avoid sanctions.

> Why would Russia invest tens of millions of dollars on making its own series of 5 cent microprocessors when it can just import cheap commodity STM32 chips? There is no point in manufacturing them, it's simply not a smart way of spending money.

Because we have laws (that should be better enforced) such that Russia isn't supposed to be getting those chips right now. Starve Russia of those chips.
Idk about others, but I feel like journalism has gotten even better.

For instance, Jon Bois has some absolutely incredibly well researched videos on YouTube that go deep into the history of sports teams, and there are relevant and easy to consume graphics that go along with the story.

Just because print journalism struggles to compete and can't capture the majority of the sports media market like they used to, doesn't mean that journalism is collapsing.
I’d not be surprised if the hardware division of MSFT (Surface) is working on a personal assistant product powered by OpenAI. It’s easy to see how good it could be : I find the hands-free voice interface of the ChatGPT iOS app really good at handling conversations, some slight improvement above that (eg dealing with latency on either side) in a polished MSFT hardware product would beamazing
As I say, the US does not like certain speech, but it does like other speech. Some cultures do not like "freedom of religion" either. For an example which mixes them both, the US protects the Westboro Baptist Church, many cultures wouldn't.

The US criminalises people using freedom of speech to copy a movie, many cultures are quite happy with that. The US limits incitement to suicide, libel, threats, all sorts of things. US law is even at odds with what many consider US culture -- they tried banning, and there's always larges movements to ban burning a piece of cloth.

The US world view is not the only valid one. It limits speech in one way and allows it in another, same with religion.

The merger of "economy" with "people" is another world view that not everyone agrees with. The American view is generally growth and free trade should be allowed, but even America has limitations on that, and those limits go more that others in some areas and less in others.

Many cultures -- including western ones -- look at Reganomics and deregluation as something that should not be allowed despite . A future civilisation will hopefully look back at the difference between how the rich live in their penthouses and how someone sleeping rough in San Francisco and think "how terrible was america to allow this"
> why would a company ever do a stock buyback if changing the amount of issued stock didn't change the price?

Buy low/sell high maybe? They buy their stock when the price is low and they think it is undervalued so that they can sell it later when the price more accurately reflects the value or even better when the price is overvaluing their stock.
I don't understand how a video game company can be seen as more of a synergy than Songtradr. Given that songradr is in the digital rights exploitation business, I would guess they are more likely to be helpful to artists.

Don't forget, you can only upload original tunes to bandcamp (no covers). If songtradr wants to exploit those rights further (publishing licensing, better PRO work, etc), they have to pay the artists - which most artists would love.
Every thing looked pretty much the same in the Windows 3 line. And almost everything looked the same on the NT line.

At the time of Windows 95, things were still basically homogeneous.
I believe LINQ maps to a chains of function calls on an enumerable, with the functions usually taking anonymous functions as input (and then the series of functions is rewritten into a SQL statement by EF to hit the DB). I don’t think you’d be able to support type analysis if you didn’t specify the enumerable upfront

Eg

Mylist.select(x => …) can determine the type of x, because it has the type of mylist —> List<T>

Select(x => …).from(mylist) and you simply can’t determine x, because C# type analysis can’t go backwards.

So I think it’s less a UX question and more of an absolute requirement for the API to work at all. The alternative would be a SelectFrom(x => …, mylist) function so it can be submitted in one shot, essentially what SQL is doing, but that’s disgusting — who doesn’t love function chaining?
IMO, infix operators in math are a historical relic of function notation being developed after the basic operators became widespread. I’ve always thought uniform prefix notation is ideal, whether it’s lisp-style (+ 1 x y) or the more common +(1, x, y)
I cant believe you are making me say this but…

s/federal agents/local police/g
Can you make up for the bad by doing good?
Maybe you might know. I assume most webpages and native apps are harvesting all data available that they can get their hands on that the users/OS will let them take and then selling that off to the highest bidder. Including information that is completely unrelated to the operation of the application.

Seems like you can make correlations with almost any type of data these days so I imagine even things that seem useless to capture could be valuable in the future.
Having been through a few acquisitions, I have learned the truth of this. Eventually, I learned that if a company I work for announces they're being acquired, the best course of action for me is to start looking for other opportunities.

Even if I'm not laid off (which I haven't been yet in these situations), I'm effectively being hired by a new company that I haven't vetted. It's the perfect opportunity to reassess to determine if I fit into the new company and to scout around for something I may fit better in.
To be fair, at least I was paywalled from reading the article, so it's highly likely many are stuck working on the headline alone.
The problem with Pantheon is that it only captures the skin-deep aspects of macOS. Power user features and progressive disclosure thereof (which are a big reason why macOS has a technically capable userbase) are mostly stripped. Like GNOME, it doesn’t support minimizing windows for example and not only doesn’t have a global menubar but eschews menubars entirely, with functions that don’t fit in hamburger menus either getting buried or cut entirely.
Wonder if anyone has taken “GEMM is all you need” as a paper title yet.
EventSource: Server-Sent Events in Swift
As I always mention in these threads, these are not mutually exclusive. We can both have empathy for those laid off while at the same time questioning the organization's size.
> Both BMW and Mercedes have EV platforms, have you done your homework?

Doing some quick googling I could not find any source for margins of BMW / Mercedes on their EVs. I remember EVs fron GM / WV being mostly unprofitable, but maybe those are old news.

Can you please share some links for those who want to be more informed?
I'd argue the number of startups that have trust all local network connections is not far behind. I doubt a company seriously considers their wifi connectivity as a threat vector until they get to a series B size.

Hypothetically I'd imagine if you take early startup infrastructure snooping + <insert criminal act here> you probably have a criminal enterprise that's cashflow positive.
You'd be surprised how much friction you'd have for C++ reflection. First, since it's a custom build step, you can do a mix of custom code gen and C++ constexpr/consteval for static reflection. Here's a header-only implementation for adding compile time reflection purely within the language [1]. And v8 already does dynamic code gen as part of its build process (to generate the snapshot to speedup instantiation of the isolate).

Some amount of dynamic reflection is also a must since JS is a dynamic language with reflection support + you need to walk the GC tree.

Of course none of this necessarily exists within the compiler part of the codebase as it's unlikely to be needed there, but clearly doable.

I don't know the specific details of reflection needed for the abstractions you reference and clearly V8 is still doing some amount of manual IR generation, so it's possible it would be a substantial investment to actually retrofit those techniques into v8 (+ the current capabilities may exist in the wrong part of the codebase for applying it to the JIT itself).

One would have to do a careful analysis of historical security exploits & specific techniques and their ability to prevent to figure out if it's worth adding those abstractions (especially since there is a potential performance tradeoff as you mention). As I said, I think there's insufficient research in this area to establish a compelling body of best practices (not to take away from the contributions of the GraalJS team to this space).

[1] https://github.com/veselink1/refl-cpp
Copyright does not last forever (even if it lasts longer than you may like.)

Mickey Mouse entered the public domain a few weeks ago:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/01/arts/public-domain-mickey...
Disagree on RXJS. Oh how I loathe it.
I can't say that you are wrong. I still find it hard to take as a complete argument. For one, you can almost certainly autocomplete all column names with an indicator for the table they come from. For two, you should be far more consistent in how you prefix things like that. :)
You seem to think that improving GDP is a goal. Many cultures don't think that, they look at the damage from a high GDP and think that it is more important that the environment is protected. If you banned the burning of oil in the US, that would be awful for GDP, but many americans would like that.

You seem to think that the ideals of the American view of Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, and ever increasing GDP, are inalienable. That's a very myopic view of the world.
Sounds like have a big ego if you think your opinions are ahead of the curve.
You don’t need AI for this. There are plenty of audio tools that will chunk a file based on speech pauses. I think even sox can do this on the command line.
In discussing AI they lament bias. In discussing human judges they laud the fact nationality and body shape and the judges seat position plays a role. So, when a machine is biased it’s a problem but when nationalism, racism, etc is rooted in a human judge it’s a feature? Technology really shouldn’t be written about by journalism majors.
Company is driving some of the first Tesla Semi trucks
> PepsiCo operates about 21 Tesla all-electric Semi trucks as part of a pilot program towards their goal to be carbon neutral by 2040. Here's what they're learning.
This is a little lib I love and was surprised to see it had just 15 stars. Great, simple async API. It's an important dependency for my LLM chat app, FreeChat, and the LLM-based game I'm working on now.
Your body has a built-in device that does exactly what all these devices described do, along with providing some filtration of air before it gets to your lungs.

It's called "your nose."

https://www.google.com/search?q=athletes+nasal+breathing
>politicians and bureaucrats want to centralise power. They may very well sincerely believe they need that power for everyone's good.

So you admit they are not actually liberals and when they say they are they are incorrect.
As an electrician, do NOT do this. Electrical screwdrivers sometimes already include a wirenut wrench, but the ones that mount on a drill are a joke, and dangerous to wiring. Wires for line voltage especially, need to be well-connected.
can't get flacs from YouTube and some people also want to support the artists.
This is so true that when I'm planning on starting a new business, I intentionally wait for a downturn before I pull the trigger.
Yeah. Article reads to me as "Eventually, a calamity that will affect me".

Lots of people are already suffering: women who can't get medically necessary abortions, trans people who can't get care they need, etc. It's a calamity for their lives. It's the marginalized people who suffer first.
The engine loss was a detail in the article that I hadn't seen anywhere else in the commentary and speculation on the landing. Even now many commenters don't seem to be taking this into account. Even if there was redundancy built in, an engine loss makes things much more difficult. I can see why they're claiming 100% success despite being upside down.
> Also I just cannot accept any analogy of dark forest with empty and dead place.

Huh? I don't even know what you are talking about.

First of all dark forest is not about empty and dead place. Its about being able to blend in with the forest so no one can discover you. Once spotted you become dead, once you spot someone else in your best interest is to destroy them if you can do it without being spotted.

In the books there are several civilizations, and hits that there were plenty more living in higher dimensions.
calamity

an event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a disaster.

"the journey had led to calamity and ruin"
What about this paragraph?
What role levels are you applying to where you are advocating for a specific direction?
"Make things that are easier to reason with. Code that is easy to reason with and replace is the code that will run for decades."

I agree 100%, and, apparently many others did :

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

When I started out programming in the 90s the KISS principle was mentioned, but I don't hear it so much these days. Maybe we all ought to start talking about it more.

Having been a developer for ages, ridiculous over-complexity of software has always been a problem. It comes and goes I think.
The Chemistry of the Colours of Bodily Fluids
I also live in a cold climate. I get very bad eye problems below -15 C. at -10 I can handle just using my normal glasses but below -15 I need goggles. At -20 I put on a balaclava with goggles on top. It all depends on your age and medical problems.

The temperature problem can also be underestimated. You really need the right clothes. I have a little list on my phone for what to wear at what temperature and I pack some alternative clothes to add if needed. In case wind was harder than anticipated or it's so slippery and bumpy that you will never get any sort of speed.

I use Lungplus for breathing. I have two models, one for below +10 C and one for below 0 C that heats better. Asthma isn't funny. Cold allergy neither. I'm probably not totally sane going biking at -35 C.
my experience with HF is that it's incredibly useful for exploring models, and making prototypes, demos and MVPs.

Once you want to scale to production, you're right, it doesn't make sense to use the HF repository, it makes more sense to clone it into S3 or something else that you have more ownership over.
> And it’s not just AI companies and this isn’t new. This is art of human nature and will always be.

To some extent but it's much more egregious in companies like OpenAI where they promoted themselves as being founded for a specific purpose which they then did a complete U-turn on.

It's more like a non-profit saying they're being founded to provide free water to children in Africa and then it turns out that they're actually selling the water to the children. (Yeah, scamming is maybe part of human nature too, but thankfully most people don't resort to that.)
Very polished project. The founder is now helping build Val town, which seems pretty awesome, too:

https://www.val.town/

(Also his blog is a great read: https://macwright.com/)
It doesn't actually have any real impact and there are plenty of counter example, but the fact that Activision is a 40+ years old company who slowly grew to that number before jumping 40% in two years for no reason (no major shift, new product or anything like that, no "we own the world" like microsoft, ...) somehow makes it feel way worse to me that yet another not even a decade tech company that grew crazy for the numbers.
> Is it just me, as I'm in the middle of a job search as everything is shifting where I feel like I've progressed past?

It could be just you. Perhaps you're so far ahead of the curve that it will take years for the rest of us to catch up, and by then you'll have moved on again.
I imagine the point is not to implement some species of sync primitives currently not supported by Linux, but to implement exactly what windows does, so one does not need to emulate them in userspace.
Some modern free speech topics include the right to publish 3d printable firearm designs, and the ability to anonymously receive a signed block chain hash which others recognize as some sort of value without being compelled to report that speech on a 1040 form even when you've received no compensation/gain/income for doing so.
>"everyone above 40 is retired"

...does that mean that everyone over 40 gets a government check every month? How much is that payment (relative to say the minimum wage)? Presumably those payments not indexed to inflation? So after a couple of years of 100% real inflation, you'd need to get a job anyway?
Neat. Gonna do this to my IDE tomorrow. Might help a bit.
Any such crime involves a transfer of money, and the destination country is easily determined. The point is not to figure out where the criminals are, but to place responsibility on the country that can act on it. That's why I said the refund should come from the destination country, not the country where the criminals are located. If the criminals are not located there, then that country will have a claim on the next country that the money is transferred to, etc.
JSX email is an open-source library for developing email templates
This library makes building email templates feel like modern development rather than writing HTML from the 1990s.
Didn't Nest have a >$1B valuation at some point? /s
The slides[0] (page 17) mention alternative solutions. One of them is faster userspace switching. That sounds a bit like something google has proposed before with switch_to/FUTEX_SWAP[1]

[0] https://lpc.events/event/17/contributions/1517/attachments/1...
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/824409/
We have this nonsense in Washington too, I made an effort last time I went to pick up takeout to bring one of my reusable bags with me to avoid the 8 cent bag fee, they had already bagged my order in a new one, the restaurant was like "Oh you have your own? We'll just take that one off your hands." Well, it wasn't one of the restaurants it was just a random grocery store one I had laying around, what are they going to do with it?

I wonder how many people even know those heavy bags ARE supposed to be reusable. I only know because I was bored and read my shopping bag.

We also have some kind of ban on fastfood giving you plastics without you asking for them first that as far as I can tell literally no one, except for a singular KFC near my house, actually abides by. It's all just ridiculous theater.
>Before this scandal basically no one knew or cared who the president of Harvard was. All of a sudden, we all have an opinion.

This is how all new information works.

And the highest ranking member of one of the highest ranking schools being a known cheater seems like a newsworthy thing (regardless of the motivation of those publicizing the information).

It is signal rather than noise, in that it can provide a more accurate prior probability to people about the brand name of the school and people coming from it.
Yet, their models are always deemed as second class (see recently Gemini), so I think they are trying to pretend to be "catching up" with vague announcements like this.

Good for shareholders, that's all. Not really sure I believe their "open science" argument.
I've spend way too much money on different scarfs, neck gaiters, face covers of different fabrics and performance material to keep my face warm during winter and moist free over the years. I instinctually tried mouth breathing, but all it did was draw fabric closer to mouth and made things wetter. I think maybe I didn't fully transition to breathing out through nose because it feels unnatural. Maybe it's one of those things where the solution is obvious but hard to adopt. So now I'm wastefully going through a few boxes of masks during winter months. TBH, only time I remember breath through mouth and exhale through nose is maybe meditation videos. Certainly not in any of the random winter wilderness survival videos. Which is why I was curious if this is some like cultural knowledge being passed.
I'm interested to understand why you think it should differ between OLAP and OLTP?

Are you suggesting that columns closer to the top matters for OLAP bc OLAP is columnar? Ultimately, a query planner is going to figure out what happens first, so I can't imagine your point has anything to do with execution.
No, that's now the scenario the parent poster gave: They never even suggested that the Wallet-Taker was somehow the true legal owner of the cash!

All they said is that the other person, Wallet-Dropper, is something less than the prima facie legal owner. This permits several possibilities, but in every case Wallet-Taker still seems to be doing something wrong:

1. If Wallet-Dropper is a thief, then Wallet-Taker is just a thief stealing from a thief.

2. If Wallet-Dropper is the well-meaning temporary custodian of unclaimed property that they cannot (yet) claim as their own, then Wallet-Taker is a thief, taking to deprive the legal owner (wherever they are) of their property.

3. If Wallet-Dropper is the new legal owner of the discovered cash, that's theft by Wallet-Taker no matter how much you think Wallet-Dropper "didn't really earn it."
This seems silly to me.

Transcribing a photo or painting into a tattoo seems almost necessarily transformative due to the limitations of the medium.

There are severe limitations on how dark black can get, ink fades which has to be factored in.

Even skill-wise, it's a small subset of tattoo artists that are good enough to replicate a face well enough that it isn't transformative by nature of not looking like the reference at all.

They're not going to extort money from your average scratcher who couldn't manage to violate copyright if they tried.

Even moving beyond that, in practical terms I don't understand the economic reasoning here.

Tattooing is a heavily manual process. There is no route to "industrial copyright infringement" like with books or movies where they can be effortlessly shared. Kat was tattooing for hours on that; I would wager it took over 8 hours just to ink that, ignoring prep work.

Combine a heavily manual process with a limited number of artists capable of producing infringing material and I just can't see what the end goal is. To put everybody back on flash for all their tattoos? To get Midjourney to generate reference material and avoid copyright?