skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general it seems that organizations that are accepted to the GSoC program are no-profit like associations, that develop a product for the sake of developing it, probably there are also exceptions.

Anyway, it seems that qdrant is more a for-profit organization. So maybe that was the one of the criteria that was taken into account to exclude it?

My understanding might be wrong/incomplete, please let me know if that's not the case.
One More Time: You Can't Make a Competitive Selection Process "Equitable"
I know, but someone in Class A, or B, that gets a drone for christmas might want to do some research before flying (some will prevent you from flying at all!). As too with amateur rockets (not the little model hobby kind) but anything that would show up on radar. ATC doesn't like it when things magically appear.
Bluesky Frustrations – Part 2
Why do jobs in America pay so much more than in Britain?
Grafana: Open and composable observability and data visualization platform
It's really not hard to find a college willing to take your money / government sponsored student loan, especially for the type of person to get a Thiel fellowship. It's not a major opportunity these people are giving up.
Leasing Like a State, Or: Public Housing Is Development Policy
> "If we stopped arrests and did nothing else, that's a positive intervention because of the well-documented harms of incarceration [on people with addiction]," said Morgan Godvin, a former heroin user who now studies drug policy in Portland, Ore.

"Instead of fixing the system, let's just ignore it, then pretend it's actually a greater good to just degrade these people and let them die in the gutter."

I also don't buy that the Portuguese alternative is really any different:

> Experts here say people who use drugs are constantly nudged toward health care and addiction treatment, including methadone programs and housing.

Yet, they don't describe their conversion rate or their results in "successfully" getting people to trade one addiction for another and then accept welfare.

Meanwhile, drugs are the obvious issue in and of themselves. If you don't want to criminalize people for possession then you need to openly confiscate drugs and do as much as you can to prevent people from possessing and using them.
High quality is orthogonal to high feature count. I think in most industries you need to balance it at least somewhat to keep up with the feature leader
> What are people supposed to do?

I tried drinking copiously but eventually my insides started hurting. So I don't know either.
As Ukraine's economy burns, Russia clings to a semblance of prosperity
How to build prototypes as a back-end engineer
You'd think so, but that shouldn't be necessary with spaced repetition. It's the same how you'd memorize a verse such as the following:

> Roll forth, my song, like the rushing river,

> That sweeps along to the mighty sea;

> God will inspire me while I deliver

> My soul of thee!

> Tell thou the world, when my bones lie whitening

> Amid the last homes of youth and eld,

> That once there was one whose veins ran lightning

> No eye beheld.

There are 8 lines in this verse, so you make 7 flashcards. One flashcard just teaches you how to remember the second line, having heard the first line. Another flashcard just teaches you how to remember the third line, having heard the second line. Et cetera.

Then someone comes along and quotes the first line to you, and you can immediately reproduce the rest.
Human Ancestors Were Nearly All Vegetarians
Who would spend even a minute for a unknown company called 'Qdrant' ?

They would develop for Google because Google would give an additional value to their CV.
I’ve literally never heard of someone defining a free market as a market with government subsidies.

It’s usually defined as a market free from (excessive) government control.

I think you might be trying to shoehorn domestic policy concerns into a broader definition of free markets.
I'm from Portugal and I've lived in the US (not Oregon).

Maybe related, maybe not, but I've noticed that people in the US seem to have a chronic distrust for the police, government, or generally any authority figure. Do you agree? In Portugal if you're asked to go talk to police/gov/drug counseling/etc, you show up because that's what you're supposed to do.
Mainstream media both needs outrage for engagement and to stoke "yellow menace" flames to characterize 2 billion people as a "threat" and manufacture consent to appease the powers that be to make the case for expanded military-industrial complex spending instead of healthcare.
Apache 2 for those interested in such things: https://github.com/overte-org/overte/blob/2023.11.1/LICENSE
Except when Excel mangles your genomics. Or dates.

Excel is the worst thing ever happened to data scientists.

If sciencist knew awk/perl + gnuplot and basic C, most of the errors would't happened.

From HN: Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24070385
I appreciate the nitpick! Words do matter.

I'll share my definition of these terms, for me they have very precise definitions:

A merkle tree is a specific data structure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree

> In cryptography and computer science, a hash tree or Merkle tree is a tree in which every "leaf" (node) is labelled with the cryptographic hash of a data block, and every node that is not a leaf (called a branch, inner node, or inode) is labelled with the cryptographic hash of the labels of its child nodes. A hash tree allows efficient and secure verification of the contents of a large data structure. A hash tree is a generalization of a hash list and a hash chain.

If you have hashes co-located with data, and data spread throughout the chain, it is not a merkle tree.

A blockchain is a linear chain of hashes of the content in each block of the chain. In a blockchain, for any given block, there is only one valid next block.

When a blockchain is propagated over a network, there is a consensus algorithm used to agree on state of that chain. Bitcoin uses proof-of-work to agree on the next block. Anything that allows multiple nodes to reach consensus on the state of a blockchain is a consensus algorithm. SSB uses proof-of-signature, and the sequence number, as its consensus algorithm. The network reaches consensus on the state of any particular chain by validating the signatures and that the sequence numbers are in the correct order.

Colloquially, blockchains have been conflated with their consensus schemes. When people use the term blockchain conversationally, they generally mean a blockchain that propagates over a network using some sort of consensus algorithm. This conflation of consensus with blockchains has lead to many people in the p2p space rejecting the term blockchain to distance themselves from the crypto hype bubble, even though the data structure itself is quite useful.

Finally there is a Merkle-DAG, introduced by Juan Benet, that acts as a unifying data structure for both blockchains and merkle-trees. Merkle-DAGs can also express novel data structures that are neither a merkle-tree nor a blockchain.

tl;dr: a blockchain is not a merkle-tree, and a merkle-dag might be capable of representing a blockchain but they are separate concepts. A blockchain is independent of its consensus algorithm, although colloquially the two have been conflated.

P.S. Merkle-DAG might be capable of representing git, would be fun to give it a try sometime using something like IPLD.
Recording is visibly opt-in and retention is limited by default for the same reasons as chat and email—the US legal discovery process is a big burden even for the innocent. The only time I see it happen is a planned presentation to a group where future reuse makes sense. Some of our all-hands org meetings even take anonymous questions.
Checkout primatejs too
What's with the hashtags inside a normal blog post? It's not like they're writing this on Twitter or anything, and the hashtags aren't clickable, so I wouldn't expect this to serve as SEO. I would guess one of two things: (1) they plan to post the same content to social media or (2) they've decided that people search hashtags in their search engines in general.

I'd be interested if anybody has more insights into this.
> it will process events while waiting for syscall

How does that work?

According to the source code quoted in the article, there is a separate "coroutine-safe version of time.sleep", which seems like it shouldn't be needed if V has a general solution for unblocking blocking syscalls.
Cursive: The IDE for Beautiful Clojure(Script)
From the article:

> Everything described here is correct for the b66447cf11318d5499bd2d797b97b0b3d98c3063 commit. This is a summary of my experience with the language over 6 months + information that I found on Discord while I was writing this article.

From https://github.com/vlang/v/commit/b66447cf11318d5499bd2d797b...:

> felipensp committed Nov 20, 2023

Can you clarify how you're calculating 2 years? Today is February 24, 2024, so the parent comment saying 3 months seems pretty accurate.
I gave up on OO programming over ten years ago (twenty mayby)

So the intellectual exercise leaves me cold. I, too, have read of them (SOLID) dozens of times and can never Remer them.

I just had another look and the Liskov one reminded me: Class derivation is bad, the reason one of the reasons OO is so awfully hard, so, no, i do not remember it

Sorry Uncle Bob. Love your work, disagree with your opinions
> You can have types for One, Two, Three … Inf and then define division of type Four by type Two as type Two and so on

That's not far from TypeScripts type system
MUDs would work great inside WhatsApp.
They recently raised a Series A: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39101682

Additionally, the product that this Summer of Code is for is open-source so it's a win-win for everyone.
I also applied with Glicol (https://glicol.org/) and got rejected. I guess the main reason is that the project is not as mature as others. I am basically working this project on my own with almost zero extra funding. There are so many places I want to change.

I am currently working on a new website. The old stack is Vite, Svelte and Windi CSS (discontinued unfortunately). So this time maybe Astro + Solid + Tailwind.

And I am also trying to rewrite the whole Rust backend if possible, so there is quite some work to be done. What I want to change most is to make the dsp algorithm of each node clear and easy to understand and contribute to. And I also hope that the entire rust project can have complete bench and test, as well as ci, and get rid of the proc macro.

Generally speaking, what I actually care about is how to compose music, and the new possibilities that live coding brings to improvisation and composition. There is also network cooperation, real-time or non-real-time cooperation, and cooperation with AI. What possibilities can these bring?

Let me know on GH or Discord if you are interested.

It's a good chance to try Rust, WASM, DSP, etc.
“Easy, just…” lol I do like the joke (and I appreciate you pointing out that in reality things aren’t necessarily _that_ simple), but as I understand it these programs (internships?) are targeted mostly at young folk/undergrads who are still learning the core skills, in which case projects that are conceptually easy but require you learn the skills to actually implement the conceptually easy task within the confines of real world constraints feels reasonably appropriate?

I could be wrong, because it’s not really a field I do anything in but based on what you said it’s sounds about right for a first “real project” task an intern would do at a big tech summer internship (this is as someone who has helped summer interns over the years, but never did one myself so it’s based on seeing what tasks are given to someone in their first ever internship vs people who have interned previously)
It will be interesting if a lot of research gets published in Chinese journals and not the West. If this happens I wonder if Western researchers will get their information from Chinese journals or lag a bit behind Chinese researchers on the answers to these questions.
To the best of my knowledge, Europe does not have a fentanyl problem comparable to that of the US with last I checked 50+% of overdoses in the US having traces of it in their system. Our wide open southern border [not a comment on immigration] allows this poison to spread far and wide.

OxyContin and similar prescription drug addictions are widespread, at one time (still?) heavily pushed by deep pocketed pharmaceutical companies. I think that was a uniquely American situation. I wonder how many of the people now addicted to other opioids in the US were initially exposed via these prescription drugs.
the left hand of darkness, read it recently
Software engineers and drills and holes in the wall: https://xkcd.com/2021/
https://xkcd.com/905/
I don't know Go that much, but given you're a Go dev', why not using a "full-stack" framework to help your reach a better productivity ?
I'm pretty sure they meant 'selfish' in a positive way, to emphasize that we are not aiming to 'save the planet', we should save ourselves. If we all die, the planet and its ecosystems will be fine eventually anyways, they still have about 4 billion years to restore itself.
The reason is simple. Many companies hired a lot during the pandemic to meet the crazy demand. That demand is long gone and coupled with that the promise of AI to get more work done for cheaper is driving companies to conduct layoffs.
> 1) Health insurance is already required to pay out at least 90% of your contributions, so even a hypothetically perfectly efficient replacement could only eliminate 10% of costs, all things equal.

All things remaining same, yes. But all things won't remain same because the incentives would be completely different. The 10% rule has incentivized the entire industry to raise their prices so that 10% will be worth more each quarter. Private insurance would rather have insulin at $1000/mo instead of $10/mo so that they can take $100 instead of $1 and they would rather collect $2000/mo in premiums than $200/mo. Medicare, on the other hand, can and should negotiate prices down: https://www.cms.gov/inflation-reduction-act-and-medicare/med...
https://archive.ph/2024.02.22-191816/https://www.nytimes.com...
Unless it’s 1 bit per 100ms?
Isn't that essentially reddit?
Make your own uber?
Yeah I think you’d take the GSoC so you could have qdrant and gsoc on your cv, but also many folk do need a job to pay bills, and even an “unknown” company paying bills and being experience on your CV is better than Walmart (in my case The Warehouse)

[edit: s/Qurans/qdrant, sigh autocarrot]
Didn't both Seattle and Portland try Portugal-style decriminalization + treatment incentives, only to see a massive spike in drug overdose deaths, even compared to similar US cities which did not pass such policies?

It seems relevant that the background and current context in the US is much different: we are fresh off two decades or so of big pharma and consulting firms attempting to "turbocharge" prescription opiate sales (and succeeding). The current turn to heroin adulterated with fentanyl is certainly downstream of that.
Won’t work with a rice cooker though :/
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem."

That's a very famous quote by one of our presidents. Like all other American pathologies that have festered since I was a child, I assume it will get worse before it gets worse.
Five times faster sounds almost too good to be true. Could you give some concrete examples of prompts? Is this senior or junior devs? I would love to hear more.
Feedburner was an amazing way to qualify websites popularity then became followers and likes trapped into social media.
I love how this thread immediately filled up with all the accounting nerds on the site. Good to see you all again!

I’ll do my part and throw in what I believe is the most popular modern take on this, beancount. I ended up going back to ledger but if the super old school interface and stack bother you, beancount might be nicer. Plus the beancount docs are just out-of-this-world good for learning double-entry accounting in general.

Docs: https://beancount.github.io/docs/the_double_entry_counting_m...

Comparison: https://beancount.github.io/docs/a_comparison_of_beancount_a...
Opinion pieces should present all their counters if they want to present themselves as unobjective, and not just the ones they think they have an answer for.

USA is not Portugal, transport, production, and distribution of drugs is not from the same sources. Wide scale economics are not the same either. People are also quite different.

For example, Portugal "solved" their problem, but their rates are annually far beyond what Singapore has in accumulation over decades. Why not aspire to be more like Singapore rather than Portugal, NPR's Brian Mann?
Yep, you're absolutely right. My confusion came from mixing up irrational and transcendental. I think the cut and paste method works for sqrt(2) which is clearly algebraic.
To clarify: I'm not in favour of censorship itself. But I am in favor of moderating the behaviour of a model that many thing is half-intelligent and trust a lot, and can be "fooled" into saying wrong/hateful things. Issue is, unfortunately I don't have any solutions myself.

Another thought I had: what about times when LLMs suggest something dangerous? I may call it instructing the model to not do dangerous things, you may call it censorship. For example, when a model suggested making chlorine gas- (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/ai-po...).

Do you think such outputs are good? The vast majority of products in everyday life have warnings or failsafes, from cars that chime when the seatbelt isn't put on to all sorts of warnings on allergens.

Allowing a completely "free" LLM has risks, and honestly even if all HN'ers agreed to not censor it it likely wouldn't matter as companies would rather censor than have liabilities.
>Even youtube had rss feeds for channels.

It still does!
I kind of wonder if gaming will start incorporating AI stuff. What if instead of generating a stable diffusion image, you could generate levels and monsters
Yes and no. The first records are a genius mix blending power metal and synth like rhythms.

I think there's a noticeable difference from the block of 'Heading for Tomorrow' until 'Insanity...' and 'The Land of the Free'.

Then there's a pure power metal band.
For when it isn’t?

To move assets to agents without a trace?
In the US its not going to go well for me if I tell my boss I have to take the afternoon off to go to drug counseling.
> My New Year's Resolution in 2019 was to learn the piano. Key to success is building mental representations of music and the keyboard. Increasingly, I do this by playing pieces on my mental piano

As a correct pianist (lots of classical study, and sometimes I am paid to play in bars), this seems very weird to me. I don't see how doing this could be any useful for learning, it seems like a waste of effort.
My neighbor, a retired chemist, tested US grown rice sold in Costco and found high level of arsenic.

He said some of it comes from run off at chicken farms where they use arsenic to give the meat a better color.
Lmao I wrote my own csv translator using regex, because I thought this was a paid feature of stuff like Plaid only. You’re a lifesaver! How do you download your statements though? That’s still a small sticking point for me, and it sounds like you still need to individually go to each bank and pull each statement. Maybe I just have too many credit cards lol
They have more starts than C# at 10k
> They didn't kill RSS - they introduced people to it.

For myself and most people i knew that knew of RSS feeds, we weren't introduced by google reader, we migrated to it because it was a great reader. Then once they had everyone onboard reader and there weren't really anyone competing becuause reader was great and universilly liked, they killed it, striking a gigantic blow to RSS in general.

It really just is not a case of google just "bringing people in then letting them go". They did the equivalent of offering free hamburgers at the corner between Burger King and McDonalds and then shutting it down after the two chains had gone bankrupt. And you might say "Sure, but people still enjoy fast food!" and that's true, but after that it's not burgers people are buying, it's burritos, because the burger market becomes a wasteland when someone does something like that.
An individual human starts out a mewling baby and can end up a maxillofacial surgeon through at least partial examples of recursive self-improvement. Learn to walk, talk, read, write, structure, argue, essay, study, cite etc all the way through to the end, with what you previously learned allowing you to learn even more. There's a huge amount of outside help, but at least some of it is also self-improvement.

Also, for the purposes of talking about the phenomenon of recursive self-improvement, individual vs society isn't the end of analysis. Part of the reason AI recursive self-improvement is concerning is that people are worried about it happening on much faster than societal timescales, in ways that are not socially tractable like human societies are (e.g. if our society is "improving" in a way we don't like, we or other humans can intervene to prevent, alter, or mitigate it). It's also important to note that when we're talking about "recursive self-improvement" when it comes to AI, the "self" is not a single software artifact like Llama-70B. The "self" is AI in general, and the most common proposed mechanism is that an AI is better than us at designing and building AIs, and the resulting AI it makes us even better at designing and building AIs.
not remotely medical advice; talk to your psych if it's suitable for you, but TMS is similar and FDA approved for depression, if you're able to access that. TDCS is more accessible if you're wanting to try something out at home.
I think someone could come along and create a great RSS reader in the same way Obsidian came along and built an amazing note taking app.
Netvibes was/is free, Google Reader didn't work nearly as well for me when I tried it.
That's an interesting idea. Covers both political parties, with the left undermining trust in the police, and Supreme Court. The right in the FBI and journalism.
Stockfish 16.1
You're not in favour of "censorship", you're just in favor of "moderating". Po-tay-to, po-taa-to. Regardless of what words you want to use, we fundamentally disagree on this. If you want to espouse your "pro-moderating" position in the future, maybe choose an example that's not from 8 years ago, as things have changed quite a bit since then.

edit: I see you edited in the chlorine gas example. Do I think a cooking chat app should accidentally recommend a recipe that recommends chlorine gas? No, the cooking app makers should have the ability to control the LLM so it doesn't do that. Do I think the cooking app makers should be prevented from making these decisions, and instead have those decisions forced on them by the base LLM model? No. I think app developers should have control over how to censor the outputs. The base LLM should be uncensored.
Mēh!

Let the Chinese authorities burden themselves with questions of DNA markers and ethnic groups

Eugenics has not done anyone any good, and when used as a means of controlling populations it goes to very dark places

If the whole stack is not kept ethical, it is not ethical at all. If not ethical then it tends to evil
Singapore is a police state whereas Portugal is a Liberal democracy.
Mostly #2 of what the other response says. The entire input to the NN is what it's learning off - the weights are static, you are changing the probabilities based on which context is provided and it's length.