skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The demo was really cool. I tried the dentist scheduler and I wasn't able to get the AI off track. The voice can be a bit mono-toned, which almost sounds like the AI is bored
Microsoft used to sell Windows as a runtime. Like, you would ship Windows on floppy disks as part of your software product for end-users.

16 bit Windows was consciously designed, intentionally made modular, to accomplish things like this. Albeit the author was surely not the intended customer!
(that's why I chose a specific example of when Health Canada was in the wrong, and they later turned around and admitted masks do protect people, which was already clear to many people early on).

Carve-outs for small organizations would be great here, though!
> When the AI bubble bursts I wouldn't be surprised if takes down major tech companies with it.

Hopefully, knock wood. Maybe it will even slow down the genrral enshittification created by those major tech companies.
"McKinsey shut down UCI in 2021 and has played down its relationship with the Chinese government since coming under political pressure in the US, where lawmakers have questioned if consulting in China conflicts with the firm’s work for the US Department of Defense."

Answer: yes, your advisory work for the Chinese Govt. conflicts with your advisory work for the US DOD.
You can't choose NOT to expose it because you can't stop Amazon from exposing it.

Amazon says it's not secret, so it's not secret. They make no attempts or guarantees to keep it secret so there's always the threat that Amazon themselves can expose it on your behalf. You can't stop that no matter how wrong you think it is.
That was definitely not my intention. I'll take a closer look at the permissions.
> Many times the author tries to say the same thing 20 different times to fill a book. Many of those books could have been a great 30 minute presentation.

This is indeed how many, many of these books started -- as a $x minute presentation or an article.

I always try to find the source presentation or article and consume that before reading a book. It has served me well. You get the core ideas, concisely, without the fluff.
Mhm, but it kinda hurts to see, that AMD is able to push out APUs powering the likes of a Playstation 5 and everything on a single chip, while on desktop you need to buy the cpu and a chunky gpu seperately.
> The original chef probably shouldn't have told everyone their recipes were always gonna be available to the world for free in the first place, but we were all young and dumb and idealistic and didn't think things through at some point in our lives.

And if a person had a bunch of money/funding in their youth and made extravagant promises that they later reneged on because "oopsie actually I can't afford to do what I said I would", then they would be viewed as untrustworthy and we would expect them to be abandoned by the crowd that was hanging around them in the good times. And when it's not a person but a corporation, I see no reason to be at all sympathetic.
> Most companies that process health information in the US need to become HIPAA compliant

I appreciated what Delve is doing for these kind of companies but what about non-tech small companies & individual therapists that process health data? We enlist the services of multiple behavioral / mental health providers and most of them use personal devices / SMS / GMail for transmitting PHI[1]. I understand this may not be the target audience for Delve but getting these kind of companies HIPAA-compliant is a real need.

[1] https://www.hhs.gov/answers/hipaa/what-is-phi/index.html
We are talking about very different things. You are talking about mistakes that happen, sure that happens, write-offs of inventory or what have you obviously happen in every organization. We lose track of things, it happens, it's fuzzy. All accountants get that.

That's not what I'm talking about at all. I'm talking about rounding math. If you always round down, and I always round up, and then we supposedly have 50M identical transactions, what is the likelihood that we are even in the same ballpark? fairly low.

There are even many movie and TV shows involving rounding get rich schemes, including Superman: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/14925/has-a-pro...

When you are talking about millions or billions of dollars, a rounding error can account for significant sums of money.

When you and your bank are off on how much money you supposedly have by 6 or 8 figures due to rounding, you absolutely better care.

The US has no consistent rounding laws for accounting, but the EU has a consistent rounding rule around the euro. The EU has an entire paper around rounding the euro available here: https://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/pages/publ... The US basically shrugs and makes no ruling, because if you ever go interact with many different banks, you will find out that they don't all round the same.

Also you might find the wikipedia page interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding There are plenty of rounding options, and sometimes figuring out how an organization you interact with decided to do their rounding can be a fun exercise :)

If you know anything about dealing with money in computers, you know that floating point math and money math are completely incompatible, so you have to do decimal math to deal with money. This is like engineering of financial systems 101. Rounding math is financial systems 201.
Perhaps I can help, or maybe learn something.

I don't really understand the confusion here, you write a stored procedure, you document it, test it, peer review it, then stuff it into the database. You then write code that uses it. No sarcasm, but what's the problem?
Dell wishes!

I imagine (or hope/wish) that there will remain a market for machines that don't include this. I don't see a day when I'll be using AI systems on my own machines, and I don't want to pay for hardware support that I'll never use.
A new theoretical development clarifies water's electronic structure
Age of Empires 2 gets another expansion 25 years later
> The cultural Revolution was sudden.

The Cultural Revolution could only have happened due to the very specific ideological backdrop that existed in China at the time. The heights of it were sudden, but it didn't come out of nowhere.
how do you know the difference from a closed source project and an open source project?
Instagram confirms it's developing a Snap Map-like 'Friend Map' feature
No, I can see that. It's the same as the logical OR operator | computing unions of sets. I just fail to see how this solution is better than a standard parameterized query, it feels much more opaque without any obvious upsides.
The difference is MH knows what's behind the doors and deliberately shows you a goat.

It's not 50/50 because the choice wasn't random.
Do you have an open and public PR that shows off Darwin's PR review capabilities? I'm reading a lot of words about what it can do, but I'd much rather see an actual example.
EmuWOW now runs DEC Alpha binaries
hardcore punk is still alive and well. It's just actually underground. Most newer bands are back to tapes and zines, maybe a bandcamp.
English sentences with pronouns can show that cases exist in English, rather than that they don't.

Without cases "she gave her number to him" becomes "she gave she number to he".

Yet, that is precisely what we have when we substitute concrete names for the pronouns, except for the possessive: "Alice gave Alice's number to Bob".

Pronoun cases and possessives convey the flavor of what it's like to use a language with full-blown case. You just have to use your imagination: what if all the nouns have cases, and there are six or seven of those cases.

More cases means that, for instance, rather than one "her" word that can be used as "give to her", "do to her", "her number", "go with her" , the language will have different declensions.
https://without.boats/blog/notes-on-a-smaller-rust/

And the follow-up:

https://without.boats/blog/revisiting-a-smaller-rust/
Mostly an example of cruft, although I do see the potential for this unexpected behavior to cause software to misbehave or crash.
> india in particular

Last time India (and Pakistan) tested a live nuclear weapon was 1998, and both faced SEVERE sanctions at the time - and was a major reason both countries stopped buying American weapons systems and switched to Israeli and Chinese vendors respectively.

The only country left that tests nuclear weapons live is North Korea
> There are topics presented as problems that I'd hand off to accountants or other specialists we're probably already employing.

But aren’t we supposed to be automating this stuff? What software do you think the accountants use?

You go to the accountants to ask the questions, but if you’re billing at scale you can’t just push the problem aside. The accountants already have jobs to do and billing is not one of them.

> They're less complex than whatever your developers are working on

I worked on billing systems for a long time. They are definitely more complex than whatever your developers are probably working on. It’s all in the article.

Just take proration. The user joins half way through the month and you have a monthly billing cycle. How much do they get charged?

If you think this is an easy question, you don’t understand billing.

> The article tries to paint hard legal requirements as a difficulty, but in practice this means the specs are easy to find and well documented.

That’s the funniest thing I’ve read here in a while! The legislation is not even kept in one place. It’s often opaque. You need an accountant to explain it to you. It gets worse when you’re working with public companies.

I’m sorry but your replies are the typical “billing is not that hard” of an inexperienced engineer, posted to an excellent article explaining exactly why billing is hard.
SCOTUS questions Florida and Texas social media laws on First Amendment grounds
It will handle taxes soon!
Tiny... The installer is 4.5 GB :')
You can walk over to the user's desk and ask them not to share it. Whether or not Amazon leaks it is unrelated to my employees' ability to follow instructions.

There is a lot of data that exists in a space somewhere between "100% secret" and "100% public". This is one of those situations, for many organizations.
I think it has been demonstrated multiple times in various places that empowerment of women and access to birth control ultimately stabilizes population growth. [1] There is no need to have a program or have governments decide who and how. People naturally do it on their own given the means.

[1] https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/population_and_...
This calculator might be of interest, since it does this, compares with renting and allows you to investigate other adjacent scenarios:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...
> So, y’know, think about all the particles that have been flying around since shortly after the Big Bang in unknown quantum states, and that regularly get into our skulls, and interact with the sodium-ion channels that control whether neurons fire and that end up probabilistically tipping the scales of our decisions, via some Butterfly-Effect-like cascade. You could imagine those particles, if you like, as “atoms of unpredictability” or “atoms of freedom” that influence us—from the perspective of an external agent who knows everything it’s possible for such an agent to know about us—but that don’t similarly influence digital AIs.

Why wouldn't this happen with AI?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_error#Cosmic_rays_creatin...
Where's the injection? (you might want to take a look at the example in the issue I opened, it's more complete - I'm not bypassing the DBAPI, I'm working with it)
It didn't take long for perplexity, anyscale, together.ai, groq, deepinfra, or lepton to all host mistral's 8x7B model, both faster and cheaper then Mistral's own api.

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/mixtral-8x7b-instruct/h...
Scale it down... you don't buy a million dollar home with a mortgage. That is crazy. Buy a smaller, inexpensive "starter home", and move every few years, so the increase in property value both upgrades you to a more valuable home, and pays off more of the debt. Maybe 3 homes and 15 or so years later, you have that million dollar home and zero mortgage. And you got to erase the capital gains taxes during the process because you get that $500K write-off every time you move, not just at the end.

Now re-do your math for 15 years after that, and the final number will look better for the same 30 year time frame.

I'm not saying real estate is always the right answer - it isn't. There is no guarantee that values will rise like they have over the last decades, and there are costs along the way. But even so, you probably end up in a better place when you start out at a reasonable scale.
Image formation with multiple wavelengths – simulation [video]
Youtube video's by Todd's workshop show that good quality plate was very effective at stopping arrows. Even heavy welsh/english warbows at short range. But a high volume of arrows would potentially find gaps in the armour.
I'm at the middle school library you mentioned, and it's even worse than you made it sound. They aren't letting me check out ANY books at all; something about "not being a student here"? They said I could try the public library, which is open to everyone and not controlled by the school district.
> Not only is Marilyn's interpretation grammatically valid

I would consider both interpretations equally valid. If anything, in law we have the "rule of the last antecedent" (phrase/clause modifies nearest antecedent noun) so that the hater's interpretation could be more correct if based only on this rule.

This language is ambiguous: "host ... opens another door, say #3, which has a goat."

The two options are Marilyn's interpretation of the door always containing a goat (invariant version), or that one door he opens (say #3) just happens to contain a goat (hater's version) but it could have contained a car.

As suggested by someone below, a much clearer formation could have said "host opens a door with a goat, say door #3" to avoid this particular ambiguity.

There's also the issue of usage of "which" signifying a non-restrictive non-essential clause.
lynx -vikeys gopher://hngopher.com
They don't, but it takes a lot of chutzpah to be angry at dice!
> It isn't like you typically click on only the very first Google link because 1) Google is that good (they aren't)

I know it's popular to hate Google around here, but yes they are. It's their core competency. You can argue that they're doing a bad job of it, or get bogged down in an argument about SEO, or the morality and economics of AdWords, but outside of our bubble here, there are billions of people who type Facebook into Google to get to the Facebook login in screen, and pick that first result. Or Bank of America, or $city property taxes. (Probably not those, specifically, because the majority of the world's population speaks languages other than English.)
I like Darwin - could easily move to CodeDarwin, GitDarwin, DarwinHub, AutoDarwin, etc. I think the urge to keep everything as one goofy name is overkill, and spread bc everyone wants their project to be as central as python. But there’s plenty of combo names - numpy, scikit, and github, off the top of my head. It does open up the semantic space by about 6 orders of magnitude, just counting English nouns.

Obv I’m in the minority there tho… for single-word names I’d focus on the themes of building, concretizing, deploying, maintaining, etc, with a bit of the typical LLM wizard/ai/scientist terms. Sooo perhaps (some play on-)…

- Hephaestus / Vulcan

- Atlas

- Ancient wonders like Troy, colossus, pyramids, Great Wall

- synonyms for “base”: foundation, stratum/substrate, core, nexus

Love the app :). As you can tell, I vastly prefer thinking up names to actually doing work! If I had my way it would be dAIrwin, but that’s why no one asks me these things lol
Smart the EU had been ahead of the US on ease of payments for a while but FedNow was going to surpass their system. This should keep them to at-least a similar level.
While Darwin can generate code for you, I think generating new projects from scratch is already being done by a lot of the major frameworks. Check out the native docs/tooling around the kind of stack you'd like to build!
Myth of the Well-Educated Manager
i think i got one: the winner is chosen by 'style', instead of simply strongest bot

while competing, camera drones and internal POV cams stream to audiences, who can 'feedback' to the robot

i don't want to go down the 'microtransaction' route, but maybe there's a way teams could leverage that to bide their style during less tense moments, before pumping it up when the time is right
NIST Releases Version 2.0 of Landmark Cybersecurity Framework
A smart move by Microsoft is to not be reliant on another company for their AI needs.
My jacket is coming up on 13 years old now. Every one of those it’s been worn 2-4 weeks on snow, plus year round on rainy Sydney hikes, dog walks and kids soccer games. It’s just fine.
Yes, the university had Windows computers... and they also had the FT in the building where Len worked
yes but couldn't the countries that want to do simulations just buy through india/saudi arabia etc?
The cumulative number of former Intelligence Community personnel hired by Meta & Google since 2018 is staggering. Before 2018, there were only a handful. Here are the combined hires by both companies:
CIA-36
FBI-68
NSA-44
DHS/CISA-68
State Dept-86
DOD-121
I was just a kid at the time, I can't remember what they did with it over time. I do remember it getting pretty large one time and the executives were nervous about this pile of money they didn't know what to do with. The CEO/owner was a very honorable and decent guy though and I have 100% confidence whatever was the RightThing(tm) to do is what he did.

heh 20 something years later and he still takes my calls to listen to my crazy business ideas.
If there any person they care about "free" vs "<100$" filing software
Radicle: Sovereign peer-to-peer network for code collaboration, on top of Git
It's not that he is making $3k a month, he gaining the equivalent productive value of of $3k.
How to Win at Software [pdf]
The G chips are also pretty seriously crippled by the cache reduction from 32MB to 16MB. It hurts their compute performance so much they behave similar to equivalent chips from a few generations before as well. I suspect its done to hit a power target but its an unfortunate trade off making these chips a bit of a let down.
A lot of people in America use the word “investment” to mean something more holistic than just “financial investment”. A house is commonly referred to as:

- An investment into the future (guaranteed housing, assuming they can pay the bills)

- An investment for their children (safe neighborhoods, good schools, etc)

- An investment into the community (homeowners tend to stay in their house for much longer, and are more interested in participating in community politics as a result)

You seem to be fixated on houses as a financial investment. They aren’t a great investment, you’re right. But you also can’t keep yourself warm and children sheltered with a million dollars in stocks.
Look, you're the one that set the bar at "exclusionary" - by the numbers, these are all highly exclusionary institutions (more than three quarters of people won't get it) - we're just arguing over the fine details at this point.

If Harvard reduced financial aid, meaning that more people were dissuaded from applying, and that brought the numbers up to the same - would you be happy?

Looking at acceptance rate to define what is good or bad is just weird.
Billionaires, CEOs, and politicians are dumping ALL of their stock. What do they know that we don't?
Why all the doubt? "not sure" "can't imagine"

When the source says they already did their due diligence...
By that logic, you should never brush your teeth.
Apple Lisa Operating System Reference Manual (PDF, 1983) – Pagetable.com
Isn’t it similar to the majorana anyons Microsoft hopes to use to build a topological quantum computer?
Calling it a demonstration of a "phase" or "order" is fine to me, but IMO calling it "matter" is misleading. "Matter" to me implies some degree of passive existence. This is about as far from passive thing as possible.
> If you hadn't already said you didn't work in tech, this would be the smoking gun that would clue us all in.

Um, you should look up 'rayiner — he's now a lawyer but (from a former life) has better tech credentials than most.
I am actually a moderately happy Apple user. The old phone I have is good. The smart watch works well for my needs. The laptop is light, quiet, cool, and I spend most of my productive time in a terminal.

I don’t really care about my phone as a general purpose computer.

Where the rubber hits the road for this one is what developers do. IMO the answer is to go all in on web apps. Make it obvious to the user that it’s Apple degrading the experience.

At this point of the game, all Apple will understand is churn. And it is churn. They are rent seekers.
My general answer: any tool that has a large online community. I’m not the dev, but any LLM-backed responses will naturally depend on that LLM’s familiarity with the tech. With that in mind, RubyOnRails and create-react-app (+ some node backend) seem like the natural winners.
> but I have no idea what the SQL will look like except in the simplest cases

that's really on you as Django makes it very easy to find the answer to that because Python makes it very easy to inspect objects at runtime
Tangentially related.. When I was at uni I got very bored one summer and started making a spreadsheet of when certain people posted to a message board I frequented. This started with 3 people then became 15. It was very interesting to then plot that because I could make educated guesses about their sleeping habits, when they were at work etc. especially given what they wrote.

I could then make inferences as to their geographical location and other identifying attributes just based on when they were active on this message board. Regrettably I am a data nerd and would love to see such an analysis done on Hckrnews, etc. but I doubt it would be of interest to most others.
To the extent that this is true, I think the legal structures we have forced them in to, in particular changes due to the Taft-Hartley act, have led to this. For example it is illegal to strike without leadership approval, so the act forced more power in to the hands of leadership, thus making it more like organized crime.

And this is the point. Unions are not inherently bad, but the way we do them is.
How about counting fatalities per distance?
I never really got the point of the Z1 non-extreme. If it enabled them to ship a device for $400 or less then it would make some sense as a Steam Deck competitor, but not when the Z1 ally was $600 and you could double the performance by going up to $700. (I know it's gone on sale for ~$450, but IMO that should have been the launch price, with sales putting it below $400.)

Honestly, the whole Z1 lineup puzzles me a bit, since it feels like just a re-badge of the regular mobile chips with some slight tuning. If AMD was going to go through the effort of making a gaming focused chip, they should lean into that with more emphasis on the GPU side, and perhaps some extra cache or more memory bandwidth. Maybe even drop a couple of CPU cores. What we got instead just feels like a cheap marketing ploy.
The consoles are not socketed or upgradeable. That's the difference.