skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of those things I see as productivity issues, not language fundamentals. TypeScript solves types in JS for me the way Laravel solves superglobals in PHP.

Adding properties to an object is fine IMO. Arbitrary properties and prototypes are, to me, a much cleaner system than PHP's somewhat confused mix of array, object and class. The lower you go in JS the more unity of concepts there is, whereas the lower you go in PHP the more hacks you discover.

All of the above said, I would prefer a string concatenation operator to overloading +. JS template literals mostly solve that for me in practise. And what I really actually want is an equivalent of Haskell's <> or mconcat, which concatenates anything monoidal - strings, lists, etc.
I think they should always allow it, just simply because... if you don't you might lose users, they might fork it and make a privacy-first version, then we get more fragmentation.

FOSS has so much fragmentation trouble already.
I went to a latin jazz show this weekend, and Arturo Sandoval played the flower song, from Carmen. He improvised a few blue notes into the melody, it was subtle, and the effect was masterful.

I wishef that they could release to music to YouTube or something, because I'd love to understand the changes that were made to the music.

If they could release it as a limited-time piece, or limited play price, thena lot more people could listen to it.

I know, I know, it's just not that simple, piracy, enshitification, and all that. But it would be really cool to hear it like that again, and a temporary release from the venue would let a lot of other people experience it, and also maybe side step some copyright issues.
OP says SRAM, which doesn't decay so no refreshing.
It's a nice idea, but how do I find the lists that are actually legitimate?

I've just resorted to RSS+bookmarking every small site with good content I see. The bookmarks get fed to YaCy, even though it kinda sucks. I just can't trust content aggregators and search engines to deliver good unique content.
It’s important…if you’re building a chatbot.

The most interesting applications of LLMs are not chatbots.
> you are probably left pondian and have a habit of writing your friends. I like to get all transitive and write to mine.

"Writing your friends" is transitive; "writing to them" is intransitive.
> Of the top 3 auto manufacturers in China, BYD is the only one that isn't a SOE.

That isn't surprising. In a country where all domestic companies receive subsidies/advantages, a private company with that kind of leadership is the most successful one.

> just how much, if it at all, subsidies are factoring into BYD's success is speculation.

Everything is speculation. But what are you even disputing, that China subsidizes domestic companies or that receiving subsidies that competitors in other countries don't get is a competitive advantage?

> It's even further speculation to say that BYD is being subsidized exclusively, and certainly something I never imagined, or advocated.

The claim is not that BYD gets subsidies other companies from China don't get, it's that BYD gets subsidies that companies from other countries don't get.

> China built up it's manufacturing capability over decades on the back of low labor costs.

That was the hook, but then in order to get that they had technology transfer requirements and the operation in China had to have majority ownership by China. That puts companies in a bind: Move to China now and lose to a company from China later when they learn how to make your product, or refuse and then lose immediately to a competitor willing to sacrifice their future for cheap labor they can use to under cut you on price today.

> This is not due to 'subsidies', but investment in, and a culture of, education.

It was effectively subsidies for educating domestic industries on how to capture existing markets.

Then it became general subsidies, as they accumulated enough resources to do that. Use surplus in industries that have already been captured to provide support for new entrants in industries that haven't yet etc.

> In the west people sit and laugh at smart people on sitcoms (looking at you Big Bang Theory), while in China intelligence isn't some social shortcoming.

In the west sitcoms make fun of everything. That's what sitcoms are. Meanwhile American kids grow up to design rockets and build the internet and invent medical devices and sequence the human genome.

> I'll defer to Tim Cook

This is describing the consequences of the subsidies. Government tilts the playing field in favor of their own companies and that industry moves to that country. Several decades later, the people who know about that industry are in the country where the industry is.

> necessary government investment/subsidies

It seems like you're trying to argue that the subsidies aren't the reason industries moved there while also arguing that they're necessary in order to get them to move there.

And how are the subsidies supposed to do any good if everyone accepted that they're reasonable and then everybody did it? They would no longer confer any competitive advantage, they would just create inefficiency by over-producing in whatever industry is receiving the subsidies.
I would be fine with silence if modern systems were engineered to give timely notification of liveliness (vs press button, wait 30 seconds to see if it did anything, press a bit longer...)
Let's hope so, because it seems really useful.

In the meantime, I found an open-source equivalent https://modelderm.com/en.html but if we could see the certified + tested tool it'd be nice :)
Oh wow, I did not know they developed a js backend for it.
the bank CEOs found nothing wrong or no indication of fraud

Do you have a source for that? This is what I found. It says a single banker says they conducted due diligence and cut his net worth estimate in half.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/trumps-civil-fraud-verdict-app...

Trump admitted on the witness stand in November that his company did not always provide accurate estimates of the value of some of his trophy properties to banks. Trump said the discrepancies did not matter because his estimates bore disclaimers and that he had plenty of cash to back up his loans.
A former Trump banker at Deutsche Bank, David Williams, testified in November that conducting due diligence on information clients provided was standard practice. In one instance, the bank adjusted Trump's net worth down to $2.6 billion from the $4.9 billion he reported, Williams said, adding that such a revision was "not unusual or atypical."

The state's lawyers are expected during the appeal to offer the same arguments they presented to Engoron. They have said this law can be used to police the integrity of the market generally and does not require complaints from victims.
They are expected to emphasize Trump's "outrageous" conduct, including overstating his net worth by as much as $3.6 billion and lying about the size of his own apartment. They also may argue that Trump's case is unusual because few companies are accused of fraud on this scale, according to some legal experts.

Trump is being attacked recklessly,

Again, what do you think about the massive evidence against him in each case?
> the law prohibits trading on material nonpublic information.

Isn’t it public information the moment it’s said audibly in a public space?
If running a moonlight client on one becomes possible, I might be actually interested in buying one, just for casual gaming at home. The Steam Deck looks great but is pretty expensive and a little overkill when I could just stream from my desktop to a less powerful device.
You're giving me high blood pressure.

A pascal walked into a bar.
I'm pretty sure someone who has accumulated deep knowledge and expertise on NSE gets paid a lot more for their time. Unless you're talking about ChatGPT computational time?
Initially, I thought it was the turn-by-turn mapping app. Apparently, there are three wise companies.
Go may (also in my understanding, it's not actually a keyword, but close enough?), but Rust does not.
What I also find annoying is when I try to make mix based on the year the songs were released, and the remasters screw it all up. I’ll play a 00s mix and get a song from the 70s, and the 70s mix will be missing it.

I tried to manually go through my music library and correct this long ago. I only made it into the B’s. Looking up every song was painful, and the discrepancies in when it was released sent me down far too many rabbit holes.
FWIW, feature maps are not really reliable (to put it mildly). Knowing what area the model is "looking at" is virtually meaningless if you don't know what it's looking at. We already knew it was looking at the brain so is it turtles all the way down? Those maps are great for confirming what people want to see "oh look it tells a cat from a dog by the eyes" but have no explanatory power. If they did then the paper would be about AI finding a physiological difference and would tell us what it is, not some handwaving about "here's where it looked".
Last time I used Joplin (many years ago) it stored notes as flat Markdown notes with YAML headers. I stop it using because it gave me lots of headaches and at the end of the day your favorite file browser + your favorite text editor is a far superior solution than a jack of all trades that excels at none. My notes stack is neovim + fzf + git.
I feel like I'm missing some boat, but I'm not sure what boat it is. These "AI" systems seem very superficial to me, and they give me the same feeling as VR does. When I see VR be some terrible approximation of reality, it just makes me feel like I'm wasting my time in it, when I could go experience the real thing. Same with AI "augmentation" tooling. Why don't I just read a book instead of getting some unpredictable (or predictably unpredictable) synposis? It's not like there's too much specific information there. These tools are just exploding the amount of unspecific information. Who has ever said: "hey, I have too much information for building this system or learning this topic"? Basically no one.

It's just going to move everything to the middle of the Bell curve, leaving the wings to die in obscurity.
You have absolutely no idea who Jeff Dean is, do you?
> Julia as the hyperparam space for Mandelbrot

It’s kind of the opposite, no? The Mandelbrot set is the set of points where the Julia set for that point includes that point.
In the sentence with ann Oxford comma, there are a group of strippers, plus two men.

In the sentence without, there are two strippers, the first named JFK, the second named Stalin.

Here’s a drawing to help…
http://helveticka.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/oxford...
Humans are smarter than machines. We "sense" bullshit in patterns that machines cannot yet intuit. I can tell when something's AI generated. It has a smell or a flavor that's different from human work and it's a variable pattern because, like a southern accent, I can tell if it's Georgia or Alabama, Gemini or Claud, even if very capable machines cannot.
Yes, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39315585

" Why Bloat Is Still Software’s Biggest Vulnerability
> A 2024 plea for lean software "

The problem involves so many dependencies that it is impossible for an individual and maybe even megacorporations to fully audit the code base and prove the software behaves as intended. Everything these days is best effort.

We _need_ a native interface that portable software can target, to at LEAST get to the level where 'If you trust the OS, then the rest of the software is known to behave as expected' is a statement that can be made to have a plausibly secure environment for End to End Encryption on anything.

This __has__ to ship, in a DEFAULT install of Windows AND OSX AND mobile computing devices (so iOS and Android too). It absolutely has to be a baseline target, otherwise we'll never get past shipping the browser, again, out of band as yet another thing that must have it's entire monstrosity of libraries updated for every security patch.
> -

I see you placed spaces around your em dash, which is the AP way. Which I'm using to segue to this completely off-topic question, because you actually know these things: I see you did not use a proper em dash (I don't judge). Does the AP Style Manual see that as an em dash, different than an en dash and from a hyphen, or is it just a dash? I don't think the Style Manual ever uses the term em dash and doesn't necessarily differentiate. What would your journalism professor say?

I know, I know - who cares? I do!
This effect is also seen on buildings where old signs have been removed, revealing the cleaner surface that was covered up.

Reverse graffiti has been described by promoters as an environmentally friendly form of advertising

It could literally be called "greenwashing".
On a few occasions I've done a few weeks of refactoring the php source toward creating just such a fork, but decided it was just going to be too much work over time for too little benefit for too few people. And that's true of pretty much all "legacy-free" forks: it's fun to rip out all the legacy crap, but you're left with an incompatible language in the end, at which point you're probably better off starting with a different language entirely.
Let me know if you get FDR rick-rolled :P
Samsung phones can still be rooted, at least outside of the US (the only place I see complaints about is when people buy Samsung phones in the US from a carrier). It is a bit annoying though that you have to link your phone to a Google and a Samsung account and keep it active and connected to the Internet for at least 7 consecutive days because of Samsung's anti-theft system.
I mean, again, I think that's true, but only up to a point. Basically what I'm saying is that up to a certain point economies of scale are good for production, and beyond that they mostly just become good for profit.

I feel like the main problem people are having with my comment is I said "virtually all" economies of scale and forgot to say "beyond a certain point". By "all" I meant "across all domains" (as opposed to just content moderation), not "of every possible size all the way down to individual artisans". I agree that there is some level of economy of scale that is probably required for things like production of clothes, but I think we should try to keep companies close to that level.
Like the XKCD thing explainer style!
There’s at least one open source remote play client that could work on the Steam Deck, and the official one if booted into windows.
Not sure why I expected something much more insighful when opening the link.
The knowledge base that LLMs have today, is probably enough to derive very high quality content/knowledge. Data and information coming "from outside" won't cease to flow, but will otherwise increase.
On the other hand, I see value in somehow indexing/marking human generated content, or at least human supervised/approved content.
> Or maybe they couldn't hack the collegiate level work after coasting through primary and secondary education.

Or maybe at 20 years old they didn't yet know what they wanted to do with the rest of their life but had been pushed into college anyway by overzealous parents and teachers.
Becoming an entrepreneur because you want to make the decisions isn't enough of a reason. You also need an idea that's so good, you must see it through and make it a reality. If you don't have that idea, get a job.
Well they list Flatpak as a distro and I have a feeling they're including SteamOS running on Steam Decks in the stats which is based on Arch now. I'm not sure how much we should read into these stats.
Over the years, there have been dozens of serious attempts at reinventing bookmarks (from third-party services and plugins), and none of them have caught on.

My conclusion is that they're just not a concept that works for people; they got squeezed out by web search on one side and complex note-taking applications on the other.
It already happened.

"...the Therac-20, which could produce X-rays or electrons of up to 20 MeV.

"This dual accelerator concept was applied to the Therac-20 and Therac-25, with the latter being much more compact, versatile, and easy to use. It was also more economical for a hospital to have a dual machine that could apply treatments of electrons and X-rays, instead of two machines. "

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

This has been posted many times.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38458448
I don’t like comments like this. I’m not picking on you in particular because I see them all the time, especially as drive-by comments. What I like a lot about HN is that typically these drive-by comments are not highly rewarded.

There is a kind of cocktail-party level expertise that is behind comments that scientific results are obvious. First of all, even if they were, it’s likely there’s a novel angle the researchers are targeting. We should ask ourselves why a researcher would spend time on such “obvious” results.

Conveniently, the article author asked the researchers why they would study this. It’s not just a question of whether their brains are dissimilar, but how.

Second, whether male and female brains are structurally similar is controversial. As the article states, brain structures tend to look mostly the same in men and women.
Those are handy to have anyway. I have a tester that originally had 64 keys that is down to 56 or so… I normally like really light keys, like 30-40g, but it’s nice to have much heavier action on a few keys like backspace and numpad enter so you can give em a really satisfying thwack without bottoming out.

Sure there are places that will sell switches in lots of 5 or 10, but it’s really nice to be able to swap out and experiment and see just how much heavier works for a given key.

My actual ideal would probably be something more like a layout that aimed for equal perceived (instead of actual) force. So basically heavier towards the middle and lighter towards the outside, but done mindfully of kinematics and ergonomics.
This is a great answer also. You have a no-brainer and resume-safe opportunity to switch job. Do you need to learn sales or some other skill? Watch for IP and confidential information but otherwise that might be time to do a little time in a different part of business organizations. Sales, recruiting, marketing, product management... Which one might depend on the entrepreneurship you are aiming for.
several ways. There are definitely better types of flooring that are far more forgiving such as thick carpets versus a cement basement or something. A good medication review and ensure they are not taking meds they don't need or getting on meds they need timely such as antibiotics. Regular engagement from health care workers, I work as a home care aide and visit seniors daily and we ask them each day if they had any falls. Increased falls can indicate other health issues and the possibility to treat them. On that same line we can teach them better ways to do things and support them in tasks they may struggle with. Regular exercise helps as it encourages muscle building and that works hand in hand with balance and muscle control. But at the end of the day people are going to fall and that is okay. We have to let people live life and sometimes that means they are living at risk. There has been invented an airbag system for fall risk patients. It is worn as a vest and if you fall it deploys an air bag system that protects your hips, head and neck. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/azTnlWGSy5U
"I believe it was Orwell who wrote a friend [a letter]:"

It's perfectly correct and common to say "wrote a friend".
perfectly, no chance at all for imperfection. entirely sure of himself, he is.
Not watching them doesn't mean they don't exist, or that nobody watches them.
I would be shocked if hormones didn't have some effect on the brain considering how much of an effect they have everywhere else. Hell, I know some people who take the "brain sex" angle re. transness speculate that varying levels of hormonal exposure in utero could be what causes gender dysphoria post-utero... in which case, would adult endogenous hormones be responsible for brain structures, or would brain structure dictate which kind of hormones your body expects?
I assume they meant prior to this study. Which still has only 90% success, and presuambly needs replication, refinement, etc.
I think we’re kind of past the point where we post prompts because it’s interesting, but this one still had me thinking.

Obviously it doesn’t have memory, but it’s the first time I’ve seen a model actually respond instead of hedge (having mostly used ChatGPT).

> what is the longest prompt you have ever received?

> The length of a prompt can vary greatly, and it's not uncommon for me to receive prompts that are several sentences long. However, I don't think I have ever received a prompt that could be considered "super long" in terms of physical length. The majority of prompts I receive are concise and to the point, typically consisting of a single sentence or a short paragraph.
Trying to enumerate printers doesn't imply that the application will use them, it could easily be part of the initialization of some framework, shared library, language runtime, or whatever. Unless there is some actual user interaction, there is no way for the OS to know what the user is trying to do. It is best to err on the side of not making assumptions.
Season 3 of the "Crooked City" podcast was all about this and an entertaining listen if this article got you hooked: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/867-crooked-city-dixon-il-997...
How the hell these incidents happen?

In the era of cloud and microservices why each user does not have their own dedicated resources?
> you aren’t supposed to

In the world of grammar, these words are always a shot at your own toes. I'm missing a few myself and I learned: always specify a domain or a source.

The AP Style Manual, the bible of grammer for journalism (at least in the US), says to put spaces around the dash. However,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39436513
the audacity, of Sony
Some silly examples of stuff it might find that aren't actually brain differences:

1. There's an M/F letter or other identifying text on the scans
2. Men and women get put into the machine slightly differently, and the ai sees a slight difference in the pose of the scan
3. It sees something else that's identifying and pretty good at splitting, like ear holes for ear rings
My Linux machines sleep when not in use and get a reboot when there's a kernel update, so about every one to two weeks.

My Mac Mini also sleeps when not in use and only gets a reboot when there's a macOS update, which are typically months apart.

My Raspberry Pi runs Pi-hole and it gets booted every few months.

Everything is on a UPS so there's never a reboot due to power failure.
Folded optics and metalenses would like to have a chat. They just started using it on the iPhone, I imagine either tech will make it to laptops in the next couple years.
Just pushed up a quick change to the app. If you have a moment to try the login again, I'd love to see if I fixed your issue. Thanks for giving it a shot!
2 times a month on osx. I do t even need to I just do it when updating. OSX super stable