skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It takes a few people in an inner circle turning code to their benefit. Then playing their complexity game is the best way to make money.

Software engineering should have been much more than it is. Dedicating SWE to service jobs in the corporate sector has pushed all the idealized software into very few research streams.
I'm just a bit surprised that this post says nothing about Heaviside who rewrote Maxwell's equations in the form commonly used today.

According to wikipedia [1], Heaviside significantly shaped the way Maxwell's equations are understood and applied in the decades following Maxwell's death.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside
> It is better for the progress of science if people who make great discoveries are not too modest to blow their own trumpets.

This is a nice remark, but very difficult to implement in practice. In reality, many non-modest people will overrate their contributions, while the few modest people will have a hard time to act non-modest in certain situations. We are in a world where modesty is even rarer than 100 years ago. I am sure many important discoveries are hidden in the myriad peer reviewed publications published just for quantitative reasons.
But that’s how public healthcare works. You create a system based on population level evidence.

If regular mammograms don’t reduce cancer deaths, then you don’t pay for them. That might be some people get diagnosed later, have to undergo more aggressive treatment, but that added cost is more than offset by not paying for mammograms for the entire population.

Works great at the population level, but at the individual level it may mean some people “slip through the cracks”.
That’s interesting, thank you.

Does it not leave inaccessible vast swathes of philosophy where, almost by definition, science cannot contribute answers? Such as the nature of numbers and other metaphysical things.

I haven’t heard of the areas you mention in a sibling comment, so I’ll look them up. Do you find that you need to refocus attention to areas where scientific premises are useful as axioms so that progress can be made?
The whole thing is best summed as 'whatever you have, you will always want something else.' Even if you have self-actualization, which a psychotherapist in here say isn't even really achieveable.

Ultimately you'll realize that you want something that is impossible, like changing the immutable aspects of you ('transcendence').

There is no real shift between self-actualization and transcendence. Just wanting more to be above your peers, from being at the top of the hill (self-actualization) to being at the top of the world, for all time (transcendence). It's all still in the framework of competition.
> it's a term that technically should scare you more than "skin cancer".

For the unitiated: Why?
I had the opposite experience; hired a few friends for my company over the years, and it didn't end well. Some were very had for me to terminate, though they were having a net negative result on the company.

Now I have a need for a profile that would likely match the one for my best friend when we were 15 or so, but I don't want to risk that as well.
Have you ever woken up from a dream where you're sure you've forgotten 90% of it, but remember the portions most relevant to your reality?

No information has to be transfered in these cross-universe death/wake-ups. You can simply wake up with no recollection of the dream.

I'm not suggesting that branches containing separate information ever merge. I think my language was imprecise. I'm suggesting that one's perception of self-awareness and consciousness merges. The consciousness you have access to leaps to the next available branch.
I guess that is the different between Hardware and Software. In hardware Production Hell definitely means they are in trial production but things are not yielding.
> physics has no formulation of spacetime in discrete terms

There are some attempts of working with discrete spacetime (e.g. causal set theory), but yeah, all our best descriptions so far very much assume smooth spacetime.
If the content of the music is filled with commentary and jokes about the use of AI to create facsimiles of celebrities and comedians and the exploitation of the technology for the purposes of mass commercialization by billionaires, you might be able to.

After all, you can open a store selling shitty coffee and market it as Dumb Starbucks.
Axel F
"To Nazis emotions were a hindrance, they included the “irrational” compassion"

Have a look at Rosenbergs influental writings for instance. Or well, "Mein Kampf". It is not a rational, but very emotional work. All of their ideology starts with mysticism around nationalism. Finding greatness while giving yourself up to the higher rightful order. The Volk, connected by blood.*

All "rationality" was applied after that premise.

*The right blood of course. Investigated, determined and mandated by buerocrats with pseudoscientific methods.
Cancer is a brand name tm. It makes people do stuff, get treatment etc.

The brand is beneficial to the medical system, which about managing disease for profit, rather than making people well.
Illuminating the Illuminated
What's your point? Everything they did, including Einstein's (and everyone else's at the time) quantum mechanics work, was based on continuous space and time variables.
Yeah I’ve found both Eloquent (Laravel ORM) and Entity Framework to be more than flexible enough and to produce surprisingly good SQL. You do need to keep an eye on the queries if produces though because innocent changes can make a huge difference in performance.
> As far as I know there is no ARM equivalent compatible with GDB

Sad... This would've made debugging much more ergonomic on my phone.
I got to say, having using Teletext again when writing that blog post, I do actually prefer consuming my news that way. That surprised me.
CoPilot is good a as a one line autocomplete. It's short enough that you can review the suggestion and decide whether or not to accept the autocompletion or type out your own completion.

For reasoning about larger chunks of code I find ChatGPT better than CoPilot as an LLM assistant. Trying to use CoPilot for making large sections of boilerplate like the kind you might see in a db->api->web project is just full of frustration. It doesn't realize it makes makes tiny inconsistencies everywhere so you are permanently babysitting. I think the key takeaway is that if you have repeated code (An entity, a DTO, a controller, a frontend component all sharing some set of names/properties) then its better to change jobs than change tools.
May I draw your attention to the light-mode/dark-mode toggle-switch-button-thingy of this very blog? ;)
Interesting... but it does NOT say what those features are supposed to be. Or did I miss the PDF?
Another angle to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39129655

A great blog, by the way!
Sadly, Russia don't want to retreat from Ukraine, so millions of Russians will die anyway, because there is no other option to force them out.
yeah, in an ideal world I'd rather use spare backyard space for this rather than grass.
Oh. That does look like a watch. Seems to be the only model though.

Noted, thanks.
Could it be that instead of attempting to falsify anything I had merely been attempting to promote a really fun game? Ancient astronaut theorists say yes!
> Cognition is discrete

There's little evidence even of this, except in the trivial sense that language (minus prosody) is composed of discrete units.
The news headline is inaccurate. The message was not a hoax. It was a joke. No deception was involved. The recipients of the message are in fact the man’s friends who boarded the same plane with him.
Yes, I had a glimpse at current research, it’s being worked on, but it’s not yet there. Also sequencing is still too expensive for more general application.
> But here’s where the CEO becomes relevant. Tesla is, in many ways, Elon Musk. Some parts are astonishing, inspiring, and good — what I’ve called above the car on down. Other parts are little more than lies and gimmicks.

From what I understand (and I may be completely wrong), those "astonishing and good" parts, about the design of the vehicle itself, were already mostly in place before Musk managed to place himself as Tesla's CEO (which is an interesting story in itself).
In this article, we’ll walk through assembling a “6sense-lite” toolkit.
Does OpenAI delete the chat conversations?
Note quite sure from the docs:

- https://openai.com/policies/data-processing-addendum
8. Term; Data Return and Deletion

- https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy
4. Your rights (Delete your Personal Information from our records) [note: BTW "for your rights" really on purpose?]
QML pre-dates it by a year or so, it's basically in the same vein. Everyone wanted to co-opt web-devs for desktop development at that point.
FYI a lot of people are asking questions which one of the project members has been answering on Reddit the last few days.

https://www.reddit.com/user/PicoCreator/
1 in 10 is the usual order of magnitude for side effects labelled "common", so this doesn't disagree with the 90% number at all.
IIRC 3.11 had no process isolation and the IP stack was an afterthought. So every application bug could crash or hang the whole system. And networking problems could freeze everything.

It's rather unlikely that something complicated like an X-server was bug free.

So the system you describe as rock solid, can only be rock solid as long as no real world application is running on it.

IIRC NT 3.51 was the real first kernel where a buggy application could not affect the whole machine. But at least in early days BSOD was pretty common, maybe depending a bit on drivers you needed.

(Did not do any archeology now, just from increasingly vague memories.)
Imagine there was a grid for space. For simplicity consider a regular grid of size 1unit in one direction and 1unit in a perpendicular direction. If such a grid existed, using one unit of ?something? would move you 1 unit along the axes of the grid, but you'd need 2 units of ?something? to move root2 units 45deg to the grid. Any discrete grid of any shape or size or pattern would have something like this, some sort of preferred alignment, but as far as we can tell there no such preference. Physics in free space is rotationally invariant and thus not on a grid thus continuous.
That lawsuit proves that had AT&T been allowed to sell UNIX from day one, history would have taken a different course, and C might not have been relevant outside Bell Labs.
Who produces these? And at what cost?
What's New in Go 1.22: Slices.Concat
But that is a terrible way of dealing with hard problems.

I recommend Rich Hickey's "Hammock Driven Development" talk. You don't solve hard problems by poking at it repeatedly until something works, that is the recipe for terrible code and abstractions. You instead take a step back from your computer and digest it until you come with a well-understood solution.

This approach is what separates the experienced engineer from the junior. Code is the least of your problems.
All the people who use thinks like the word "information" in this context are confusing thermodynamic, logical, probabilistic, (+ many others) and equivocating.

"Information" is not a physical quantity, and there cant be a "volume" of it. Nor does this have anything to do with real numbers.

It is impossible for there to be any system extended in space and time to "zoom infinitely" into a continuous range and hence record an infinite amount of information. No one claims this, and the formulation of physics (entirely on real numbers) does not require it.

Rather to say, eg., space is continuous, is to say its unbroken. There is no physical quantity which is becoming infinite.
On the "yelling at me" part - I find this an absolutely puzzling design pattern that a number of automakers have adopted. I was driving a Volkswagen ID4 - their mid-size electric car - the other day, and my dog was on the back seat.

She triggered the seat belt alarm, but not straight away, only once we were on the German Autobahn. It showed the icon on the dashboard, then it started beeping. Then it started beeping louder. Finally, it settled into a loud, high pitched beep that continued throughout my drive, designed to force me to obey.

This is directly dangerous. I'm going 130km/h - what the fuck am I supposed to do about the seatbelts now? Not that I even wanted to...

It is this idea of "forcing your customer to obey by inflicting discomfort" that's puzzling me. I can't think of any other industry or product that would think this would be a good idea. Just show me the damn icon and if I decide to ignore it, that's my choice...
Yeah this article is so full of weird issues I have never had. The whole bit about full self driving makes no sense to me. You are using the keycard instead of the phone key which misses the point completely. Its not as if other cars don’t have plenty of issues at any price point.
Excel 16-Bit CPU
A real shame, I've been using Nitter to check lots of art accounts, but even with https://twiiit.com/ I find myself reloading it multiple times to find an instance that's not rate limited.
Because it has commercial value, and the engineer would be misappropriating it. Anyways, I don't much care beyond "the situations are not really comparable".
Thank you! I'm not experienced with 7B models.

3 things stand out to me:

- it's absolutely not useable for the kind of use cases I solve with GPT-4 (code generation, information retrieval)

- it could technically swallow a 50 page PDF, but it's not able to answer questions about it (inference speed was good, but content was garbage)

- it is ok for chatting and translations (how is your day?)
It is discrete insofar as we're talking about sequences of thoughts, ie., reasoning.

What offends the minds of some people is the world might not be like their mind at all. They want always to analogise everything to Reason.

Everything should be countable, everything should be knowable, etc.
I taught this subject at the graduate level.

With an emphasis on basis functions and computing we could do it in a single semester.

The more interesting thing was that most students had practically no useful previous knowledge despite formally having some years of eduction on the subject

My insight was the biggest issue was the eduction system failing the students and not anything specific to Maxwell’s equations.
Making an NES to N64 controller adapter [video]
That's not how intellectual property works.
Good one.

The key here is how we manage the positive ones. And this is where the current system fails. We have yet to find a good way to manage them without doing unnecessary treatments causing more harm than good.

But instead of fixing this problem, we opted to stop screening. Which, for me, sounds stupid. But it sure is easier to do.
Do something else. It's not a secret but people from good backgrounds get comfy and cannot see from the outside how it all looks. The cities of concrete, steel, and the forces of modernism suffocate the human. The endless goal of capital peer pressure. The numbers only ever go up.

Have you made wine before? Spent 3 days in the wilderness? Read the FBI Wikipedia page? Climbed a mountain? Achieved ego death? Make a giant sandcastle? Do you do things where you enjoy being human?

None of those things will give you your infatuation for compsci back, but they can let you fall in love with the human experience. Loving every other aspect of the universe comes naturally with it. You may even find something far better than compsci.
> There is 'journalism' which is basically propaganda served by AP and Reuters

It has always been like this, we're just starting to notice now. The fascinating thing to observe is that they're still continuing to lie as if nothing changed, even though they get called out for it on Twitter via community notes or quote tweets. Not even a reaction, apology or correction. They just continue lying.
> The take-away is, secure your new stuff as early as possible, ideally even before the service is exposed to the Internet.

What? Ideally..before? Seriously? It is 2024.. and this was true even decades ago, absolutely mandatory.

(Still remembering that dev that discovered file sharing in his exposed mongo instance (yes, that!! :D) without password only hours after putting it up.. "but how could they know the host it is secret!!" :D ).
I'd love to see an ansi text renderer, to be able to run gtk programs inside my xterm (optionally, with some sixel thrown in...).
>Are feet and NM not part of the standard Imperial units of measure?

In addition to the other replies you're getting here, the US for instance does not use imperial units, despite what many people on the internet believe. Imperial units are used by the UK (hence the term "imperial"). The US uses "US customary units", which sometimes overlap with UK units, and other times have the same name but are different. An imperial gallon is quite different from a US gallon, for instance, but imperial and US inches are the same.
At this point assuming that a tech company deletes anything and not put it in deep storage with "very deleted" flag is just naive if they can afford the storage.
Exactly, case management is the key problem here. Re-naming is just a band-aid.
There was an Australian anesthesiologist (whose name escapes me atm) and he did lot of work on kernel latency but I think he gave up.
This is just another coding style. After 1-2 weeks you get used to whatever you're reading. Try it and you'll see.

It's the high-level code that can become an issue (structuring the state of your program, using dependency injection incorrectly, having a convoluted monad transformer stack, putting very specifically typed effects in your Reader etc.). If you make mistakes there, you will struggle to read, write and reuse code, and even then, not all is lost. If there's bad structure you can most often transform it into a good one. When there's no structure, that's a problem.

Seeing .map.filter becomes a quick pattern match. You know what's happening there. It does not matter if it's a named variable or just part of a long

a.map
.filter
.reduce
.map

chain.

I agree, if your goal is to hire a lot of people, then you might want a style that does not strain the pattern matching abilities too much. We can compare which style is the best for that.

Nothing stops you from extracting a sequence from a long chain into a function to reuse it elsewhere.

pipe(
object,
map,
filter,
...
)

Many languages today allow declaring functions inside functions. I'd argue that in that case it's better you declare functions as close as possible to the place where you'll call them, which can be inside another function.
Tranformers are what you don't need (for time series forecasting)
They probably have a reason why their product is not just a video. They need integration. Going with what the platform thinks should happen, if it even offers such a control, will probably be a UI disaster in its own right.
Do you really think they would redact valuable training data?

In Europe the GDPR rights should apply, but even then, it is always a leap of faith.
You keep saying method_missing is "bad" but what exactly is so bad about it?

The main complaint about method_missing has always been the inefficiency. The class hierarchy is walked every single time and only then is method_missing called. The use of define_method is a pretty neat solution to that problem. The method that wasn't found gets defined and it doesn't rely on method_missing again. Like a cache.
> HN is a bit of an exception

Even here, depending on the felt "hotness" of the topic in the community, you might get a lot of negative sentiment for trying to find a middle ground or daring to look at generalized claims in more detail.

I think, in general, people now seem to require you to signal that you share their identification with a certain thought before an open discussion might become possible.

One important aspect seems to be that the higher your educational level, the more likely you are conditioned to identify with your own thoughts. This amplifies polarization on an intellectual level. There is something in it for the individual thinker taking on a new polarized belief. It adds to their identity.

The ultimate catch then is to take the position that I just outlined as an identity contrary to "all" others who are polarized. This is yet another trap.

Hence, the exercise is to practice not getting polarized while being compassionate to those who are. It's just a tendency of the human mind and nobody should be judged for falling for these traps. It's too easy to fall for it given our current conditioning.
Where did you hear that? Elon was CEO long before the Model 3 existed. Before Elon was CEO, they weren’t delivering any cars at all.
What a depressing thought even if it’s still far away.

Life itself started about 3.5 bn years ago. So we’re well beyond the half-time of life on this planet.
Why so? This is in my book the best form of advertising. It provides anyway something useful for the interested reader, while exposing the (alleged, at least) usefulness of their services. Much better this that a banner or a pop-up in some random website that tracked you down as a Ruby developer.
Not really. qBittorent is built on Qt (thus the prefix), and has a hand-rolled webui in pure html + css + js (with a couple of helper libraries, but no heavy frameworks):

https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/tree/master/src/w...
> As it was it left me scrambling with three small kids.

you did not mention whether this early termination was communicated beforehand.

nevertheless this person probably never was your friend. sry
Surprise! As soon as you aren't thinking about your code and not understanding it...
A wage btw is no help after a lay-off and job security is pure gambling in cycles like our current one
I never even started. On a vacation I tried to get a LLM to write me an interpolation function for two hours. I had a test data set and checks laid out. Not a single of the resulting algorithms passed all the checks, most didn't even do what I asked for and a good chunk didn't even run.

LLMs give you plausible text. That does not mean it is logically coherent or says what it should.
Thanks. I just read the sample, and looks promising. (Unfortunately, I don't see a no-DRM EPUB/PDF available for purchase, so no impulse purchase for me today.)
As soon as I read “evolutionary perspectives” I noped out. Musicians aren’t competing to spread their genes, especially not as a result of evolution.

Music may have helped us in our journey somehow, maybe even as a precursor to language. But music is something we do to bring us together, not to compete for dominance.
Believe is something religious people do. The great thing about science is belief is unnecessary. If someone makes a fantastic claim it is reasonable to be skeptical. Skepticism is not an obstacle when you can prove that your claim is true.
This is a wonderful little toy. As an aside is it difficult to pick up and use a 303 with no prior synth experience?
> If aggressive treatment regularly saved lives the healthiest 35% of the population, one would probably see a noticeable difference in mortality between the randomized groups.

It isn’t different from no treatment according to that statistic, but it does save lives. Unfortunately, it also kills about the same number of men.

It also, for thousands, decreases quality of life. Unnecessary operations can have side effects and there are scares on early false positives. Even the visits for checkups decrease quality of life a bit, and you’ve to do millions of those to save a life.

The problem is that, once the word ‘cancer’ has fallen, people categorize dying and side effects such as erectile dysfunction as the cancer’s fault and surviving as being thanks to medicine. So, on parties, they’ll say “doctors saved my life” and “cancer killed my brother”