skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just this morning I listened to a radio interview with pianist Igor Levit. It was excruciating. He had to think for seconds before every third word in a sentence, creating awkward pauses, and when he had finally finished an answer, he had only transmitted trivial content. I am sure that if they had sent him the questions a few days earlier, he could have prepared much more interesting and eloquent answers. I felt very bad for him, because I recognized myself. If you ask me a question I haven't thought of, I usually have an answer ready immediately. The problem is that I either don't like the answer, or don't know if the answer is correct, and I would like to have time to refine it, think about it, check it.

Major problems then arise if I have already started to answer the question to avoid an awkward pause, and realize several words in I don't like the answer. Finding a way out of the words you have started then feels like texting while driving along the road with 100 km/h.

I have been in several interview situations in my life (including two on national radio), and the ones that went well were usually the ones where I either knew the questions beforehand, or in which I was asked questions I had already thought of and memorized an interesting answer.
It took 20 minutes to load that website.
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"It is on par with human agents in regard to customer satisfaction score", they say. Is this measured before or after the customer finds out that the AI's seemingly satisfactory answer was all lies?
So, what did Apple break in the EU?
ZK-blind: JWT verification with zero knowledge proofs
As soon as I hear supplements, I get wary. It's a lot of work to figure out if each supplement is in fact legitimately what you are paying for.
> Rather than visual noise, it makes comments sections immediately recoognizable as such.

As if they weren't recognizable as such before

> The tool support is trivial, and you can always run a simple regex to fix it up.

Why all this when you could avoid it from the start?

> Line comments in general have the advantage that they can be trivially nested, and the nesting be immediately recognizable as such.

Has nothing to do with and is not applicable to comments written in Markdown
Which language are you looking for?
It works for languages like the Marathi language.
Will have to specify the language, you want the reply for.
If you want to get the reply in English (translated), you will get it!
Thanks for the thoughtful post and citations which I did not have on productivity gains. I don't think we have any immediate fear of the industry disappearing but I do think it is important to be mindful of these tools as they can make you a better engineer.
You’re right! The trapped ion approach (IonQ) is the most promising direction toward scalable quantum computing.
Superconducting qubits — such as those used by IBM and Google — require extreme cooling while ions can be trapped at room temperature.
Superconducting qubits are also plagued by substrate imperfections, while trapped ions — being “nature’s qubits” — are absolutely identical in their quantum mechanical properties. This allows trapped ion quantum computers to realize the best demonstrated gate fidelities.
Is it inevitable that we infuse our AI debates with religious rhetoric?

Yes --- because LLMs are being trained on it --- even if inadvertently so.

How can it be otherwise when the majority of people are trained on it as well and the information is pervasive?
Quality of tweets has actually become better over the last year. Even in the last few weeks, most of the get rich schemes are correctly tagged as spam and hidden.

Also x traffic has risen over any other social media.. Not sure how abc made the judgement
If you consistently extend the length of your life you can keep your mid-life crisis going on indefinitely.
Why No?
Even if all it took was blood transfusions from your son, would it be worth it?
> never mock the code that is under your control if you can help it.

This is just nonsense. It'd effectively mean you only had integration tests. While they are absolutely fantastic they are too slow during development.
So in Russia there's this Pleistocene Park, which is a part of tundra where grazing animals are left to be in hopes of recovering the ancient arctic steppe landscape.

I hope they still exist and get some finance in the current polit-economical climate.

Nothing prevents the EU from buying a large amount of Indonesian lands (Brazil, etc) and making it a Orangutan paradise. Like a national park but this time actually international. I guess everybody will be happy, including Indonesia who will sell or rent out this land, and private property laws will prevent deforestation.

Instead of this EU just nags Indonesia that it should preserve its pristine nature instead of developing its economy. Stick is being waived and no apparent carrots. That looks highly hypocritical, given how European countries of the past absolutely devastated their lands for the sake of economic development. Even now, Norway is planning on killing every one of their wild boars[1]. I'm not sure how the effort to reintroduce wolves elsewhere compares with that plan. Reintroduce a couple dozen wolves, kill 2k boars?

Returning to the Californians, with their urban sprawl they've already wasted a large portion of landscapes in their state, taking advantage of the awesome weather they are having. When they start telling other people around the world how they should be living and developing lands, the only appropriate response is "stop lecturing us, provide material help instead".

1. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/19/norway-conside...
You're correct, but my point is that it should not be allow, especially in cases where the corp involved is directly responsible for the safety of end users.
Homebrew adds a location to your $PATH that is writable by unprivileged users. This means any non-root process has privileges to mask any binary on your system. They do this in the name of "convenience" - so that the Homebrew process can install apps without the user entering their password every time.
There's this joke about clients not knowing what they want, so they couldn't possibly explain it to an AI and therefore developers will keep their jobs.

Honestly AI works for writing a small function, and it's definitely superior to Google / SO when searching for code examples.

But in the context of a large app with more exceptions than business rules and where you have to take in to account legacy code & constraints ... I don't see an AI figuring that all out for the simple reason that it's too hard to explain to it the big picture.
A man I know bought a house that way something around forty years ago. Originally there were five or seven owners. By the time I met him, only three of the owners lived there: him, his wife (who may not have been one of the originals), and another.

After his wife died a couple of years ago, he began the process of selling it. This was complicated, and the fact that he had had the use of the house all those years led some of the other owners to say he should get a smaller proportion of the proceeds. I believe that this has all been resolved to his satisfaction, but I haven't seen him in a while.
Also from Microsoft in 2021: Make Every feature Binary: A 135B parameter sparse neural network for massively improved search relevance [1]

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/make-every-fea...
Also forces you to artificially build social connections which for some introverts might be challenging and upsetting.
> there is a reason why the extra word is there.

Fashion, but there is no good reason for it to be there. It does not communicate anything.
maybe? You go on Cloudflare's console, click on "pages", click on "new app", name it, drag your folder of website files in and you are done. automatic deploys are also available by linking a github account.

It's probably one less click to get a droplet turned up on Digital Ocean, and then you have to configure nginx or caddy (which is like five minutes if you've done it before, 30 if you haven't). Probably worth doing if it's your livelihood and you're afraid of Cloudflare disappearing, but if it's just a mess around... eh.
"Avoiding the sun" does not mean "avoid going outside"
Long sleeves, hat, sunglasses go a long way to prevent burns and skin cancer. Sunscreen, too, but something tells me this guy doesn't do sunscreen.

source: married to a dermatologist.
Being able to clearly & confidently explain your value can be a career maker or breaker. But for generalists, this can be extra tricky. I know this because I've spent my WHOLE career not quite feeling like I 'fit in' at work.

When talking about your squiggly skillset.... How deep do you dig? Which experiences should you focus on? How do you frame it in a way that makes sense?

There's 3 things traits I see as the DNA of high-calibre generalists. Understanding these can help give you the framework to recognize, talk about, and leverage your skillset. I call this the 'Generalist Value Pyramid' and I hope it can help you too!! :)

Here it is:

The Foundation: Broad Expertise

A deliberate cultivation of skills and knowledge across multiple fields. This layer emphasizes not just a superficial acquaintance, but a meaningful depth that enables unique insights from one discipline to another.

Your broad expertise lends itself to you being a lifelong learner, and savvy at applying this knowledge in real-world scenarios of varied, sometimes seemingly disparate, domains.

This diversity in skill sets allows for more creative problem-solving and the ability to adapt — huge assets for a world of work which is changing what feels like every quarter.

The Heart: The Generalist Mindset

Though harder to measure, this is an undeniable measure of a great generalist: the little sparkle of magic you seem to bring to every single job. A surefire sign? Your colleagues and bosses can’t quite put their finger on it. They just know you’re an incredible asset to their organisation.

Characterized by your unique approach to thinking and problem-solving. This includes the ability to spot patterns in disparate data, simplify complex scenarios, envision the larger system at play, and apply creative thinking to develop innovative solutions.

You’re often known as the ‘go-to’ person for anything ambiguous. Even without direct experience, you have a reputation for instinctively finding a way forward, or for wrangling the best people together, to figure it out.

Generalists excel in environments of uncertainty and complexity because they can draw on a broad base of knowledge to see connections that others might miss, and they have an innately unique approach to connect these dots.

The Apex: High Emotional and Social Intelligence

This is why generalists make incredible leaders, c-suite execs, founders and CEO’s. Your high EQ means you lead, communicate, and collaborate better than most.

You’re likely highly empathetic, have a knack for building strong relationships, and find that influencing positive outcomes in team and organizational settings comes as second nature.

It’s your strong interpersonal skills that tie everything so beautifully together. You don’t just have diverse expertise. You don’t just have a knack for solving problems and being a ‘fixer’. You aren’t just empathetic and a great leader.

You’re all of these things, combined. And that combination has tangible, inexplicable value to an organisation.

Would love to hear if this resonates? :)
I'm aware not all websites would be cleanly cached, but a lot of text-based pages can cached and be useful, the HTML is already rendered, why waste it? For instance all HN discussions can be cached easily.
Wonder if it was from group deep breathing exercises in confined spaces.
Hardly for this reason, but it does look suspiciously high doesn't it.
Ah that's what that meant - then we agree
How very fortunate for you, the lucky few. For the rest of us, telling management is more often like going to HR about your problems - a bad idea.
And yet China's relative success is due to protectionism (or failed antitrust in USA/EU).

In a "winner takes all" situation, how else can the EU compete ? (The US did protectionism too while their industries were fledgling, to avoid getting crushed by the British...)
Montgomery Burns?
Peter Attia seems a lot more credible and without the woo-woo.
thanks, I'll give it a crack
I'm not sure how this is anything to do with AI. It's just plain and simple advertisement that lies to you. This has been going on as long as people had something to sell. I guess buzzwords are the lie that gizmodo is using to sell now.
I did not understand what real world computing use would quantum computers have over the current generation of compute in terms of architecture/efficiency or a measurable metric. Thanks for explaining.
Strength/problem solving/impact I can agree on. But flexibility has to be added to your routine.
I don't think we need to see numbers from FAANG to see that as an industry in while, AI assistants/AI auto complete can save time. I am probably just not as smart as a distinguised engineer like yourself but I find time savings using these tools.
Or you can just use a sunscreen everyday and get the best of both worlds :)
Bullish? Is there someplace I can bet against them? I don't see how Starship isn't getting into orbit on this or the next launch, barring major regulatory sabotage.
Was talking about this the other day. Generative AI may be okay at writing content, but the conversational search interface is where we've seen a ton of value.

We have an LLM that sits on top of docs, gh issues, videos and more, and surfaces them in a friendly, accurate way.
Any models published as well?
He's doing exactly what he wants with purpose and determination. Probably enjoying himself. It's not what I would do, but you know - to each his own.
The recent changes in iMessages and Signal for PQC made me think there may be something imminent going on in this realm
Interesting return to ternary. Effectively, each weight says only whether it's correlated (+1), uncorrelated (0), or anti-correlated (-1) with the input, and the structure of the network is the actual computation over that information.
> If you honestly think that statistics based AI can replace software engineers, then you either have no software engineering experience, don’t understand how AI works under the hood, or haven’t worked anywhere that does anything more than CRUD api development.

I don't understand how brains work under the hood (does anyone?), but zoom into the brain and you get chemistry, zoom into the chemistry and you get quantum mechanics, and that quantum mechanics is statistical in nature.

I don't know if that truth matters or not, because I don't know which layer of abstraction is the most relevant one for our intelligence. And without knowing that, I don't know if these models we have now can or can't be scaled up to do what we do: if what we are really does depend on some microtubule quantum computation, then no, no classical computer can ever be like us (though it is, still, statistics); on the other hand, if everything we are comes from the strengths of synaptic connections and internal bias of our neurons, then any sufficiently complex model can absolutely do all that we can do, and much faster too.
You can just run postgres natively: https://github.com/zonkyio/embedded-postgres-binaries + https://github.com/zonkyio/embedded-postgres

or through WASM: https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite
> I was right: it was a risk, and it did slow us down. However, by being forced to use Rust, we ended up with a better design that was safer and easier to debug, and it was just as fast as the C++ equivalent. In the long run, it was a massive win. We’re all in love with Rust now, and 5 years later we’ve replaced nearly all of our non-Rust code (mostly Go) with faster, safer, and better-architected Rust equivalents.

Seems like a win?
His loci do have an origin though. An affine space doesn't have an origin. So basically, his loci is (canonically isomorphic to) the module.
Sure, but the inexactness of this modulus operation would not be any more unpredictable than all other kinds of float inexactness. Unless you're talking about the case where you don't know whether your operands are ints or floats. But in that case, there are tons of other unpredictabilities. For example, a + b will round when adding (sufficiently large) integers-represented-as-floats while it will never round for integers. So if you take floating-point math seriously, knowing that you're actually dealing with floats is the first step.
That's an interesting idea! Would love to try that on MNIST one day.
There's overhead in transferring data from CPU to GPU and back. I'm not sure how this works with internal GPUs, though, insofar as RAM is shared.

In general, though, as I understand it (not a GPU programmer) you want to pass data to the GPU, have it do a lot of operations, and only then pass it back. Doing one tiny operation isn't worth it.
Pity that the post from understandwp is marked dead, it was helpful to me:

"The "100 Bytes of CSS to look great everywhere" - https://gist.github.com/JoeyBurzynski/617fb6201335779f8424ad... should help with achieving that.

There is also a lively discussion and more examples on the Gist."
Would be nice to have hardware instructions that work on 5 tris natively.
Same for me. Everyone interesting is on there. It's lively and I like it.
Bitcoin jumps above $60k since November 2021
Actually there are those semi awkward clips where shein invited a few western influencers to show them their green, safe and happy factories not to long ago.

They are on it :)
I have heard that the first commercial neural network chip (by Intel, in the 90s) was analog ?
What happens once the stipend goes away? What happens when the tool stops being “free”? I know these publishers are desperate for lifelines at the moment but I hope they are thinking ahead to the time that Google no longer needs them or their content.
Google is doing the thing that it punishes other publishers for doing? Whaaaaa? /s
At Google they draw the distinction based on i/o. Anything that does i/o wouldn't be considered a unit test by them. Unit tests are usually for algorithms, math functions, data structure classes, and stuff like that. Most developers have never needed to write any of those things because they're abstracted by modern languages, which is why I suspect the terminology confuses some people.
They said they don't think their answer is best because the question was "What does it do" not, "Where is it from".
The original argument for unit tests was on semantic units (do a thing) and not code units (a function). The interface could be a class or a set of functions, but the idea was in part not to break it down further than needed or combine separate requirements into one tests.

I think code units / syntactic units became popular as a simplification of the original idea, people copying the style from examples and seeing it as a solution to their problems without actually understanding what the example was describing. Then it gets repeated over and over as "test individual functions" until the original idea is lost and most people haven't even heard of it.

Nowadays the original idea is partially described by black box testing.
I find X to be far more enjoyable than at any time in the past, but I suspect that's because we have different politics. Peak unusability on Twitter for me was, say, 2016-2021, a period during which people who disagreed with me on there literally emailed my boss to try to cause trouble for me, a period in which I was routinely piled-on and called the most offensive and ridiculous names by massive accounts for relatively banal and benign moderate opinions.

That's all mostly gone now and many of the most insufferable users (from my point of view) have moved elsewhere.

People who happen to have accepted the dominant Twitter culture of that period don't see any of this in the same way a fish doesn't know what water is.
As I understand from Wikipedia there are four fundamental quantum algorithms that perform better in some way than the best-known classical counterparts, and many more algorithms in total. The four fundamental ones are:

* HHL algorithm for solving (sparse & insensitive) systems of linear equations

* Grover's search algorithm for determining black-box inputs

* Shor's algorithm for factoring primes

* Quantum fourier transforms

The above have various potential applications such as:

* Deep learning [0]

* Finance [1]

* Solving large-dimensional differential equations [2]

* Solving constraint satisfaction problems [3]

I also came across a webpage called Quantum Algorithm Zoo [4] which looks like it answers your question in much more detail.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.11463

[1] https://www.google.com/books/edition/Quantum_Machine_Learnin...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.05903

[3] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s002000050134

[4] https://quantumalgorithmzoo.org/
Oh, ok. Yeah, that's supported, but it's also supported today without HTML with the snippet tag (and @code tag).
You should update your OS.
Unfortunately, he seems to have gone far beyond the scientific mindset and is quite focused on pushing his pseudo-religious movement "Don't Die", replete with holy (olive) oil.

It would be one thing if he was already 100 something and pushing these ideas post facto, but at this point, everything he's doing could turn out to have long-term negative effects. We simply don't know yet, because that's not how science works.
big bux government money too, and political parties dark moneys. Endless cash flows
> Getting people to give up seems to be the main goal, not a side effect.

Unfortunately it feels like many customer service organizations follow this principle, chatbot involved or not.

Which makes the organizations that allow you to talk to a human who can actually help you that much more striking. (As you say.)
Hey now, you forgot, that mop is just an Aliexpress dropship :)

... Bonus points for a Community Note that calls it out as a dropship and also links to the Aliexpress listing with their own custom affiliate tag bolted onto it.
Summary: The historical start of the year is March 1st. That's also why some months have misleading Latin names that are off-by-2.
I'd be curious to know exactly who you're following. I maintain a very small Twitter presence and literally any tweet from any modestly-visible public account will have at least a handful of bot replies. These tend to be one of the following:

* Artificial (LLM-generated) engagement

* Crypto scams (usually one bot asking for a link to the latest money-making trick and another bot replying)

* The now-infamous "M Y _ _ _ _ _ I N B I O")

Additionally I've noticed that almost without exception every ad Twitter has served me for the past few months has been for an AI-generated drop shipping site hawking the same handful of AliExpress products. I can't remember the last time I got an ad for anything resembling a major brand.
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