skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, seems pretty obvious what this was written for (even if they didn’t know it): building commands/prompts for LLM ensembles. It’s just too perfect —- the LLMs could easily implement their own combinators. Would be a huge step towards self-improving systems…
I don't think it's the case. If you have truly free energy then transformation of matter in whatever you want it to be becomes a purely technological question.

And in any case, having spaceships and no avocado is much better than the inverse.
...also, great scrabble word.
(This is just an example of if the reason they wash their car is because they destress that way. If it is because a clean car makes them feel pride you can apply the same process. Perhaps fancy clothes or a fancy watch fufills the same desire etc)
Yeah, I literally do both, and it's sweet as hell.
True. However, as I experienced it, there was negligence regarding a base load problem among those favoring renewable energies.

I got into emotionally charged arguments for even asking, "Will Germany produce enough electrical power after shutting down nuclear power stations?" People told me base load was an outdated way of looking at the energy market and a conservative talking point to justify cutbacks in subsidies for renewables. An often repeated argument was that Germany has been a net exporter of electrical power for many years, so reducing capacity should not be a problem.

Personally, I feel that neither side engaged in an honest public debate. I remember very well a leading Green politician, Jürgen Trittin, declaring that the transition towards renewables would cost each German citizen as much as an ice cream cone. Yes, politics must create positive momentum, but being off by orders of magnitude signals fundamental incompetence. The usual counter is, "Had everything gone according to plan, it totally would have worked out." That is childish and not a way to do serious politics.
yes, but do we want to turn all that land into high density housing? (ok, i exaggerate but) there are tangible benefits from leaving spaces open and untouched.
The great thing about debt is, everybody will be dead and no one will care about some number in some powered-off data center showing negative balance.
We're using some unstable features (hence nightly), and I just updated our Rust version on Thursday (https://github.com/candy-lang/candy/pull/948) because the previous one (nightly-2023-07-21) was too old for a dependency. So we're not usually using this recent Rust versions.

Thanks for letting us know about the binary size! We previously enabled debug info in release builds to use flamegraphs, but actually don't need it for most builds. I just disabled it (https://github.com/candy-lang/candy/pull/950), and the binary size went down from 177.4 MB to 14.2 MB for me!

The CLI should work, or at least we're using it regularly when working on Candy. Can you please share your OS and the command and output, maybe in a GitHub issue? We definitely need to improve our documentation and the CLI's error handling. Does running `cargo run --release -- run ./packages/Examples/helloWorld.candy` from the repository root work for you?

The VS Code extension also uses the CLI internally since that exposes a language server, so it basically runs `cargo run --release -- lsp`. But we also have to improve the stability here.
Humm, you can run anything on a Raspberry Pi as long as it has an arm linux version? Or it's interpreted and the interpreter runs on said arm linux, as in this case.

It would have been interesting enough without the Raspberry Pi part.
My uncle bought me a book on climate change in the 90s when I was a kid. I have spent all my life knowing we are moving in the wrong direction and chose to use my voting power and my purse accordingly.

The issue we really face is that the needed change is fundamentally incompatible with the way wealth is accumulated on the top today, how growth is expected and required at every step.

That means the first change that needs to happen is purely mental: Either we march into doom to make a bit more money for the richest or we restructure our system so it doesn't need growth to provide wealth. And once we have that mental change the next harder step will be convincing the powers that be to implement it.

We are now farther in terms of the mental question than in say 2010, but things move too slow and many people have not fully realized the existential nature of the problem.
> Many projects have a few core files (or packages / modules / whatever) where most of the changes happen

Is there any way to view this automatically on GitHub? E.g. some kind of file change heatmap.
A README.md in each package/module/top-level directory is also rendered by GitHub's UI in the file list at the bottom (in locations like this: https://github.com/shipmight/shipmight/tree/master/src/backe...), I've seen this in some projects as well.
I use such lists on my server's router and Firewall to block incoming connections from those IPs and bad ASNs, including with geographic blocking. Less traffic, smaller attack surface, less trouble.

As others implied, it doesn't make much sense to be afraid from port scans from the Kiwi Farms servers (maybe if you host ActivityPub services and want to block any Mastodon servers associated with them, or something like that). A lot of threats come from the big cloud providers networks, which are not so good at keeping out threat actors.

As with DShield (a similar collection by SANS Internet Storm Center), I have a problem with the TOR Exit Node category. It seems rather like 'every IP that has ever used TOR'.
Same reason why all sorts of gnarly scams (melamine milk, gutter oil, etc) are/were so prevalent in China: there were no consequences. But some of the melamine people were sentenced to death, and the article notes that the government is starting to clamp down on fake research too.
> it doesn’t answer the question of why fake research is so prevalent in China.

"Bad incentives are a big part of the problem."
It's way ahead of C++ in terms of async.

So much time is spent on async because it's important and most other languages have ignored it for a long time.

Ever tried libuv in C? That was just a nightmare to work with, callbacks within callbacks within callbacks.

Rust's approach to async is the best I've seen so far in any language, even high level languages like javascript that depend on async to even function.
As someone in the past that advocated for GNOME, and Gtkmm, with articles written on The C/C++ Users Journal, the less I have to touch GNOME the better.
Go's approach to async programming is indeed simpler, but its FFI and handling of stateful coroutines can introduce complexity and overhead when bridging with external code. Using CGO is slow because it requires synchronization of the coroutine state between libc and Go. Everyone avoids CGO whenever possible, so it is not a solution.

Rust chose a different path that is not more complex, but the complexity lies elsewhere.
Very interesting, in particular the motor cortex results, which have also been replicated in fnd patients. CFS is starting to look more and more like a functional brain disorder like fnd.
I dunno, it's kinda nice to get an engineering Master of Science equivalent for 600€ per year in a good public school (private school doesn't mean better school), with heavily subsided rent if you need it, then go to work and have zero debt, get social security, have kids and childcare is also subsidized, and you can't get fired without a reason, and when you do get fired you get a portion of your salary for months, which is so good that many people get fired on purpose.

I get way less than 60k gross in France, but apart from the house that I had to buy kinda small because it's close to a big city, it's nice. Many people around me have it worse, and I'm not sure if it would be a great idea to give everyone around the globe the purchasing power of an average American.
I think even "actual cognition" is highly unlikely to need anything much more than associative memories plus some state and a loop. The expense being having to "execute" a large number of steps rather than "just" effectively pulling learned results from "cache".

To be very reductive, an associative memory can hold a truth table. Put minimal state, IO and a loop around that and you have a universal Turing machine. Which is why the "it's just memory" or "it's just Markov chains" is so tedious - it says near nothing about the computational power of the system including the model.

There's plenty of reason, of course, to question to what extent we know the abilities of the models, but when people assume dismissing it as "memory" or "just statistics" or "just Markov chains" I usually take it as a signal they don't understand how few limitations that imposes.
Call hierarchy trees usually cut cycles with a "there is already a node for this method elsewhere in the tree" end stop.
Yeah we NEED more strikes in the UK
Immediately stop using fossil fuels (and let most people die). That seems to be her general advice.
Had to find their Github project to understand, that there is a separate desktop bundle for free.
On the contrary; it's the essence of ethics.

Character is what you are in the dark.
I love this. Also, beautiful way to cater to both adults and kids by their cheeky language such as "heel Holland wipt", or " wipper van de maand"
> A run-of-the-mill Amiga 500 has 512kb of "Chip RAM" and 512kb of expansion RAM

Nitpick: a stock A500 had just the 512kB Chip RAM. Many users opted to add the A501 RAM expansion with an additional 512kB Fast RAM which was not directly accessible by the graphics hardware. Although labelled as Fast RAM, it was slower than actual Fast RAM due to the expansion architecture.
> If corporations and private firms were so appalled by the government lowering the standards, they could've easily formed internal agreements to simply not lower their own standards

Wouldn't that have been illegal on multiple grounds?
I'm 5 years older than the original post author. In the beggining of the pandemic, I collected enough Atari, Amiga, and few other materials to learn assembly for fun. There's even a Udemy class on it:
https://www.udemy.com/course/programming-games-for-the-atari...

My reasoning was because I worked from home, I would have more spare time. Sadly the reality is... no. Oh well, time to continue working on those :D
Our brains can reuse patterns they learned in one area into another area, LLMs need specific examples and can combine these in weird unpredictable and often inhuman ways losing context and meaning, the bits humans care about. They often aren’t even a good starting point compared to just thinking deeply for 5 minutes.
The thing about know-how it's that it is a secret. But the moment you fill a patent, it is not a secret anymore, but clearly http redirector concept based of geoip db lookup of the client is as old as the internet... We did this in early 2000 just based on public IANA ip address split over each RIR as a naive approach without a proper geoip DB.
I think this is exactly what most people are misunderstanding. LLMs are wonderful tools for navigating the sociolinguistic matrix, which embeds the majority of human knowledge both explicitly and covertly with a huge amount of contextual nuance.

Transformers are capable of decoding and operating on this covert knowledge as easily as the encyclopedic knowledge that we tend to assume is the “main part” when we write something down.

What llms demonstrate is that language covertly encodes logic and algorithmic knowledge that is at least as rich as the “factual” encoding that written content seems to be at face value.

LLMs just make this knowledge accessible for computation. What is amazing is that this function alone is capable of producing a simulacrum of agency and intelligence all by itself. This suggests that the human cultural component is a pretty huge part of what we consider to be “human” and without it we’d just be clever apes.

It’s the clever ape part that LLMs don’t have, but it’s possible that the transformer model might be able to “ape” most of that as well if applied to the task of existing as an embodied entity in the world (see transformer use in robotic task completion)

I would not be terribly surprised if comprehensive multimodality, encompassing the entire spectrum of sensory experience as well as physical environment interactivity, gets us really close to something we could consider AGI.

Just as LLMs extract the embedded relationships in written knowledge, the physical and sensory spaces encode an enormous quantity of information that can similarly be generalised to extrapolate a cornucopia of additional concepts (gravity, object permanence, physics in general, relativity, etc). Meaningfully “tokenizing” these spaces will likely be the key to making this work effectively.
That I can easily believe. Someone should make a benchmark of how many requests you can serve from a java backend compared to a rust backend that's heavy on IO and network.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I like the way they look, too. But they seem to be very slippery when wet.
Looks at the complexity introduced by programmers over the last 20 years :-)
If we have enough cheap energy, the other stuff doesn't matter. It is like someone from 200AD being worried that we're not all working the fields and we're going to starve in winter - that isn't a constraint on modern society, we broke it with cheap energy. Fuel goes in the machine, the machine does lots of work, and then we get food.

In fact, it might literally be like someone in the UK in 17xx worrying about the early industrial revolution because of climate change. The cost benefit calculation favours the industrial revolution by a heavy margin. If energy gets cheap enough, climate change happens and nobody needs to care.
I assume you mean the geomagnetic poles which have always drifted and do occassionally flip and not the poles of the axis of rotation which experiences axial precession.

You might enjoy reading:

ASK NASA CLIMATE (August 3, 2021) Flip Flop: Why Variations in Earth's Magnetic Field Aren't Causing Today's Climate Change

https://climate.nasa.gov/explore/ask-nasa-climate/3104/flip-...
> Apple has not been able to make Siri work well

It's been widely known that they are working on a LLM version of Siri which is predicted to launch at WWDC.

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/04/new-version-of-siri-wit...
It's not suss, it's a well-known fact. Netanyahu has lobbied within Likud to support Hamas as a way to prevent the PA from making inroads in Gaza.

Here's a Times of Israel article about it: https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...
It's wrong enough where writing raw mermaid is still faster at this time, IME.
I know that Zig is quite different from Rust and it is less mature, but I do wonder how its async compares.
mausoleum - "magnificent tomb," early 15c., from Latin mausoleum, from Greek Mausoleion, name of the massive marble tomb adorned with sculpture built 353 B.C.E. at Halicarnassus (Greek city in Asia Minor) for Mausolos, Persian satrap who made himself king of Caria.
Don't ice core samples seem to indicate periods warmer than today?
I don't know, man. I think README.md works just fine.
Fixed. Thranks!
"Valhalla, Deliverance
Why've you ever forgotten me"

Some say they are still chanting to this day.
Also launched on Product Hunt -> https://www.producthunt.com/posts/namique
It feels that Chinese govt. is complacent in that scheme however: allowing scientific scams have helped to increase interest in science domestically and create illusion of productivity internationally. Now it has began hurting, so they are cracking down.
You think Nazi speakers at CPAC are making pro-Palestinian arguments? If you have anything showing the contrary, I would be very interested to see it.
I think you can define degradation. I can make objective claims that less biodiversity is worse than more biodiversity and use it to measure degradation without humans around. I can measure this degradation in planets without humans or model out the degradation in a future where humans are extinct, and call certain situations objectively worse than others under that yardstick.

Maybe I misunderstood because it seems you're claiming if there's no humans around it's impossible to model any phenomena, but we possess abstract thought to make up those situations and define things like degradation in the absence of humans.
Lol I expected it to be a book about QNX. I'm too deep in a rabbit hole here.
I like the self-built approach especially for the learning value.

If you’re using this in a CLI tool you’re writing in Python you might be using the library rich anyway, which provides this functionality as well including some extra features.

https://rich.readthedocs.io/en/stable/progress.html
Discussed at the time:

Architecture.md - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26048784 - Feb 2021 (153 comments)
Early Savatage (one of my favourite bands) are a rare occurrence of American Power Metal.
Thanks for taking the time to write your "rant". It was informative.
What exactly are you going to spend it on?
Put a loop around a Markov chain where you provide a 'tape interface' taking instructions from and feeding input back to, the state, and you have a Markov decision process with a hard-wired decision maker acting as the tape. Provide the right Markov chain, and you have a universal Turing machine. So the extension needed from a Markov chain to something that could be programmed to do what you describe - say by running an ML model - is only very slight. And we do provide loops, and state when we run inference, just not infinite.

I'm agreeing with your overall point, to be clear - my point is that calling something a Markov chain is effectively calling it trivially extendable to something that can in principle compute everything any physical entity confined to the known laws of physics can, and so what it boils down to is whether or not the model is trained in a way that gives it those abilities, and not the put-down of the potential ability of such a system that people usually intend the "just a Markov chain" as.
No, it's a well-known fact. Netanyahu has lobbied within Likud to support Hamas as a way to prevent the PA from making inroads in Gaza (which is seen by most in the West as the only way for a Palestinian state to occur, since Hamas is classified as a terrorist organization). Basically, keep the terrorists running Gaza, and no one will make a serious effort to pressure Israel into recognizing or allowing Palestinian statehood.

Here's a Times of Israel article about it: https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...
Please don't take HN threads on generic tangents or into ideological battle, and especially not with pre-existing talking points.

This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39497752.
Usually whataboutism includes something that is also historically accurate, but from the other side, so as to distract the reader.

You are just spreading Russian lies.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/20/politics/biden-former-fbi-inf...
The relative value of things change even in the absence of money (e.g. in a barter economy, or for one person stuck alone on an island). Therefore the fuzziness cannot be attributed all to money.
If this were issued to politicians and I saw it on a train, I'd think "wow, state secrets" and it'd immediately scream "high value" to me.
"Quality education" has to come together, unfortunately (contrary to conservative thinking) with free money and food too, as hungry people do not learn.
And there are many people here whom I am happy not to have to interact with anywhere else. :)
Saw them a few years ago at the Hammersmith Apollo in London. Cramped venue for a Metal concert, still one of the best I have ever been. Of course here in Europe they mostly played Savatage songs.
They were exaggerating. According to Wikipedia it's at about 27%.
I was a fan of all these little docs/diagrams-as-code standards:

- README-driven development
- ARCHITECTURE.md
- ADRs
- arc42
- C4
- etc.

Now I just put Obsidian vault inside the /docs folder of the git repo.

Instead of using somebody else’s standard, I just organize and refactor docs as I go, in the same way as I manage my personal notes in Obsidian.

Initially I wanted to use a common subset of Markdown that will work both in GitHub (GFM) and Obsidian, but then I gave up, and just use Obsidian flavor of markdown with all its proprietary features like Dataview plugin, templates, etc.

Mermaid and LaTeX is built-in in Obsidian, and there is a plugin for PlantUML.

For visual drawings/diagrams there are builtin Canvas, DrawIO and Excalidraw.
This is a side rant, but as a newcomer to your wonderful country, it’s depressing how many homes for sale have completed tiled backyards.

I totally get it from a maintenance perspective, especially when they are so small already, but at least get fake turf or something!

Hopefully in another twenty years there will be more grass :)
I might be a bit too cynical, but isn’t this how usually regulation usually works?

It’s all fun and games until someone goes too far.
I remember when he got arrested the second time... The shots of him looked awful. There were radiation burns all over his face. What a depressing end for this guy.
Related. Others?

Tacit Programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28413195 - Sept 2021 (1 comment)

What’s the Point of Pointfree Programming? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25509468 - Dec 2020 (1 comment)

When Does Point-Free Notation Make Code More Readable? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15365214 - Sept 2017 (73 comments)

Programming in the Point-Free Style - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14077863 - April 2017 (101 comments)

Point-Free style: What is it good for? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1175946 - March 2010 (22 comments)
You can, this has been done since xml was a thing (yes some of us are old). The api to do that is necessarily horrible, so no one sane does, though.
This is a surprisingly harsh take on what appears (from the caveats included) to be a well intentioned attempt to add some statistics to the conversation.
Complete Removal of handcrafted evaluation (HCE) is a pretty big milestone.

Original strength of Stockfish was closer to Type B strategy (per Shannon) as opposed to Type A(brute force) of Deep Blue.

That is Stockfish was evaluating relatively few positions / second compared to brute forcers (like Crafty,Fritz etc).

This was offset by the best eval (basically crowdsourced human GM/IM/FM knowledge) heuretics.

As an FM I could "exploit" Fritzes and Crafties from 1995-2005 by using holes in their eval.

Tim Crabbe provides some examples from that era: https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess2/honor.htm

With Stockfish, its eval was always top notch (compared to GM) and constantly improving.

Obviously Stockfish was always a few orders faster than a human.
.. and don't ever want to buy a place in the city itself, since a square meter costs more than 10k€ in most of Paris.
Surely learning an algorithm is memorization? I still remember the physics equations from when I was at school (a long time ago) because it was drilled into us repeatedly. Stuff like v = u + at, or s=tu + 1/2 (at)^2, etc etc.

I don't really recall how they were derived etc but I did memorize them. It definitely doesn't mean I'm good at physics or understand the deeper meaning of these equations. I also had to memorize bubble sort, merge, heap, quicksort etc when I was in university, but I don't think I could invent these sorts from first principles without looking it up.

Memorization doesn't really equal understanding, it's just memorization.
No, I do not think so. Not in the scale Chinese govt. does this, anyway.
It was Malmö, but cost of living in stockholm is much higher.