skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was quite something to behold.

I also learned some valuable lessons in project planning and execution... they had a few guys who sat for 1.5 years to plan the rollout, working with suppliers to plan deliveries of the hardware etc.

When the time came we rolled out all the several hundred locations in just over 3 months, which included assembling and basic configuration of the servers at base, shipping the servers and then migrating data onsite from the old UNIX server (mailboxes, home directories etc).

We only had two issues, one server had gotten the hard disk cables disconnected during transport, easy fix had the technician on site been Compaq certified (had to get shipped back to base and out again), and another had a weird hardware error which caused the server to freeze when scrolling large log files in Notepad (replaced the server and all was good). Beyond that it went flawless.
I have 90% allergy to their doc style. The only worse are old javadocs. I like python stdlib model, so I assumed it would be as nice.. but here it's a blend of newb info (oh look Forms!) and partial technical description. To the point that every time you ask something online.. people tell you straight away try ccbv or "read django source", which should be the first things listed on their website.
> given that we're even asking that question implies that we are closer to AGI than caveman

"Am I close to having gills and breathing underwater?" The fact that I asked, changes nothing.
Even just looking at ChatGPT as a better frontend to the Wix help docs, ChatGPT empowered this restaurant owner to do the job themselves, rather than having to have a person do it. Which means that person is out of a job. Good for the restaurant owner, but bad for that person. Which means it's down to personal relationships and how you treat people and all those soft skills that aren't programming.
I think the problem statement is clear, and is independent of how the TV show actually operated.

The problem posed is that you have three closed doors, behind one of which is a car, and behind the other two are goats. You get to pick one of the closed doors, and will win whatever is behind it (you want the car).

One of the doors you did not pick is now opened, revealing a goat. You therefore now know the car is either behind the door you picked or behind the other closed door.

In this setup, the question is: if offered the chance to switch your selection from the door you initially picked to the other closed door, should you switch? Does it make a difference?

Mariyln Vos Savant said switch. The peanut gallery (some statisticians who should have known better) said it makes no difference - with two doors left you've got a 50/50 chance of winning the car whether you switch or not.

First off, you can run multiple simulations of the game (with random positions of the goats and car), and prove for yourself that always switching is a better strategy, so it's sad that anyone would insist that it's not, even if that seems logical.

The simplest way to explain why switching is the correct strategy is this:

When you make your initial selection, you have:

a) A 1/3 chance of selecting the car, and

b) A 2/3 chance of selecting one of the two goats

So, 1/3 of the time you selected the car and will therefore lose if you switch, and 2/3 of the time you selected a goat and will therefore win if you switch. Switching will therefore be a winning strategy 2/3 of the time.
I think the real nuke will be that we're already at some basic level of AGI because human consciousness isn't as complicated as we think it is. I'm guessing we're only 10 years out from lowly generative AI getting advanced enough to effectively be what think of AGI now.
What is OpenAI Feather – Decoding the mystery surrounding the login page
I love the MS UI Gothic pixel font that people use on these retro sites
No other site personalizes the text toward your mistakes, and no site focuses on the culprit (thanks QUERTY!!) - 2-letter mistakes due to awkward finger placement. We implemented a heat map that maps all your 2 letter mistake patterns so you can see what mistakes you make and improve those over time with deliberate practice. Try it out for yourself.
> What could I do to make you feel comfortable granting those permissions?

Literally nothing. Ain't gunna happen. :( :( :(
FTC sues to block Kroger, Albertsons merger, arguing would raise grocery prices
That’s interesting.
The quotes for the nuclear power plant are really low though.
France, which has a lot of knowledge and trained workforce for nuclear, is slowly building a reactor of 1.2gwe for like 20B euros.
If you use those numbers… it looks very different.
And that’s at least not idealistic price since it’s they are completing the construction.
I'm not positive if I have any contact allergies, though I do have a lifelong tendency for eczema, which has improved a lot on Xolair.

For background: I actually went on Xolair to treat eczema, which is an off-label use, but my IgE antibodies were high enough thanks to 5000 environmental allergies (mold, pollen, dust, more dust...) that they got my insurance to approve it under standard criteria. I also have asthma, which is one of the things it's approved to treat, so that might be a good pathway to approval and a symptom you can reduce.

Prior to Xolair, my skin used to get so fucked-up and dry that my eyelids would crack and bleed and weep some kind of liquid. On more than one occasion I had strangers ask me if I had lupus because it looked like I had the characteristic butterfly rash. And I'd get miserable allergy symptoms whenever it was windy (which is often, since I live in a valley) or I was around environmental triggers (which is also often, since I'm allergic to pretty much everything that grows in this biome).

After being on Xolair, I have pretty much zero problems with eczema (although the TNF inhibitors I started taking for general autoimmune shit share some of the credit there) and my allergies are all but gone. It's wild. I actually forgot about how shitty I used to feel in windy weather until I looked outside, saw that it's windy today, and was like "Oh yeah, that used to mess me up...."

Dust doesn't fuck me up the way it used to; when I vacuum under the bed, I can feel something happening in my skin, like the sensation of breaking out in the mildest of sweats, but otherwise it doesn't bother me. My pollen tolerance is also significantly better—we actually started growing some pepper plants indoors, and it's the same thing where I can almost feel the pollen coming off them when I get really close, but I have to be within two feet to notice and it's not, like, unpleasant. More like a sixth sense.

My asthma might be a little better too, but it's hard to say. I've been able to exercise more easily than I ever could when I was a kid, although I was a pretty wimpy kid in the first place, lol.

So, long story short: I'd definitely recommend Xolair! Other than the requisite insurance hassle and having to spend a few hours every month getting my shots, zero complaints here. One of the best success stories I've heard is that my allergist had a patient who was a professional archeologist with terrible allergies, but after going on Xolair they were able to go on digs without issue.

Also, regarding oral antihistamines, have you tried any Rx drugs like hydroxyzine? My allergist put me on 35mg of that nightly and it knocks down anything the Xolair wasn't already doing. My partner also takes it and it's helped their significantly-less-severe allergies as well, plus zafirlukast for polyp-spurred inflammation.
WASM isn't the reason this works. This could easily be written in pure javascript. The only thing WASM gives you is significantly faster WebWorker-like background threads, but ones that are still limited to WebWorker-only APIs.
Gamed by not writing software.
>Microsoft knows they won big in Cloud via Azure Big as in 100s of billions.

Malarkey. Microsoft got where they are in cloud by dogfooding every single piece of software they wrote into their cloud platform, every single service they ran on their gaming platform, and every single user on github and minecraft. After that they turned to corporate customers and forced them into the cloud as well and finally made every single end user of windows sign up too (cant miss any of those precious KPIs.) If they won anything it wasnt through genuine consumer desire to use Azure. The efforts were mostly a shuffling of deck chairs and pump-job similar to the IIS wars on netcraft back in the day where M$ would pump their IIS numbers with static content served from parked websites at hosting providers they paid to switch from Apache.

>They have so much money lying around. Better to invest where they think the puck will be.

they also have a track record of building things no one wants and ruining things everyone likes. Minecraft and Github are demonstrably worse in a lot of ways than they were before redmond took the helm. having a lot of money doesnt make you clairvoyant.

>Meta is all in, Google is all in, Microsoft is all in.

who the fuck cares? these are all companies that exist in the nadier of their innovation. that they collectively scrape barrel to come up with tech memes for the business kids isnt exactly remarkable outside the fact they havent delivered anything of value in so long its surprising we still have to hear about them at all.

>Tesla is betting they’ll be the biggest robotics company on the planet.

The guys who cant get self-drive right? run by the same guy who pedaled twitter into the ground? sure.

AI is a meme for these companies...a parlour trick they use on the money pump for just another year longer before its reinvented into some other nonsensical sci fi pablum for general consumption under the late hour of capitalism.
In the case of Ledger, it also makes sense because -1000 + 1000 = 0.
And how exactly this earns money for them? embrace extend extinguish
Stop poking holes in my desperate attempt to save the future of manned space exploration! :(.

(If we keep reasoning this way, humanity will forever be stuck on this ball of mud, eventually wiring our heads to computers, and then the closest we'll come to exploring the universe is browsing through pictures snapped by ancient probes.)
Thanks! Would love to know what you think if you try it out
An APU with a decent amount of fast on-package memory is going to be expensive. $1000 maybe? It'd be odd to pair a $1000 CPU with a $100 mobo. Maybe it's a good idea, but the market would find it confusing.
Clay particles on Earth are that size (micron scale). Try disturbing the dried out surface of clay ground on a hot day and a fine mist goes flying everywhere. Mars dust particles are about the same size. They're too big to go through cell membranes.
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> It doesn't make a difference what causes Monty to reveal a goat.

Oh, but it does! See the "Monty Fall" version of the problem, in which Monty accidentally trips and opens a door, which just happens to reveal a goat. In this variant there is no advantage gained by switching, because no more information was revealed about the remaining unopened door.

The information gain only happens in the original game because we know that Monty was forced to avoid the winning door in the (66% likely) case where we didn't already pick it.
"Some onboard memory" for a socketed CPU is impractical. They're not going to make a die with a wide DRAM controller for on-package memory and then a second narrower DRAM controller for memory slots, especially if the latter was only going to be used for high"end systems. It'll be soldered CPU and DRAM or the usual sockets/slots; I don't see how a mixed approach would make economic sense.
I almost never say "you're wrong", no matter how confident I am. Because I can be, and often am, wrong myself. If there is a disagreement, a miscommunication, etc, why not instead work with the person to find where you two differ and look for common ground? If the other person really is wrong, it's almost always naturally revealed that way.
In 1975, the DoD commissioned Ada to be designed and built. Although the use of Ada wasn't mandated until 1991, between 1983 and 1996 the number of high level programming languages in use at the DoD fell from 450 to 37. For a few years in the mid-80's, Ada was the most popular programming language, even temporarily surpassing C and C++. The mandate was removed in 1997.

Ada was required for NATO systems and was mandated as the preferred language for defense-related software in Sweden, Germany, and Canada.

Today it is used in projects where a bug can have severe consequences such as avionics, air-traffic control, and commercial rockets such as the Ariane 4 and 5, satellites and other space systems, railway transport, and banking.
Longitudinal Study
How to spend less time writing Django tests
The way that we ended up with is similar:

- your billing is just a mechanism to compute the invoices.

- you accumulate billing using a ledger of invoices sent and payments made (and adjustments, etc) - ie, receivables

- you have a set of entitlements, yes

- but in the middle you have a policy mechanism that determines when the entitlements should/should not be applied.

The trick is that entitlements are not just about billing. The policy mechanism is the “glue” between entitlements and everything else. It means you can give an entitlement to the boss of your biggest customer without it necessarily being linked to billing in any way.
I build and run behavioral interviews
30mph is unrealistically low, more like 45-50, which is already more than doubling the impact force. On top of that, they can only fly that slow straight and level. Banking increases the amount of lift you need to generate to maintain altude, as the lift is now pointing to the side instead of straight up.

Maintaining flight in a 90 degree bank is something aerobatics aircraft can do, but it's hard, requires a specific aircraft setup, and you're not doing it at approach speed. More like 100-150mph.

Very easy spin an aircraft when attempting to maneuver at low speeds, and that will invariably result in a crash as you need several thousand feet of altitude to recover. Such crashes are 99.9% fatal.

Usually looks something like this (Warning: It's a crash, there's a fireball, but it isn't overly graphic): https://youtube.com/shorts/urTs-y7MiJE?si=ovfiC3ZvCgcFr5Nu

Rather than just rolling out the pilot pulled back sharply right around when when he got fully inverted, you see the nose quickly start to come around, and then a split second later the left wing stalls deeper at which point it enters a counterclockwise spin and impacts the ground after approximately a quarter rotation.
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AWS assigns these individually, and customers can’t influence the ID that they get. For access control purposes I see no valid use case for wildcards there.

Sharding on account ID might make sense if someone has a large number of them, but that would not necessitate wildcard matching.
Yeah, but this is different because it's largely just money -> more GPUs -> more people looking at the problem -> better results. You can't stumble upon an 8K TV overnight but you can luck upon the right gold mining claim and you can luck upon some new training algorithm that changes the game immediately.
Okay, so please tell us what you think is insecure about javascript running inside a web browser?
This article is jumping the gun; there is no text yet, and it's entirely unclear what "accountable for harmful content" means exactly. How exactly that is defined makes a huge difference. And all of this is based on "sources" so it may not even be accurate in the first place.

Right now all anyone can respond with is guesses and assumptions. This should be discussed in a few days, when there is actually something concrete to discuss.

All of this is typical of "the news cycle". Imagine delaying publication for a few days until there's something to actually discuss...
Why [qualified] dividends are taxed differently from current income?
You use a suspense account.
That’s how it works with most donations people give. I don’t get a say how the local animal shelter uses my donations.
Show HN: The Pheasant Framework: A Look into Modern Web Development in Dart
I was trying to do some web development in Dart, because I have enjoyed the Dart language as of recent. The package management, interop with JavaScript (even though it's been a bit of a pain) and vast number of libraries has made my experience with the language one to truly enjoy.

However, I noticed that Dart could be used for web development, and I was interested in finding out more. I had two options: create a flutter application and render on the web, or go with AngularDart. Flutter is the main framework most people use and is the first thing that usually comes to mind when people talk about Dart. However, it really hasn't had much focus on the web, and of course this has made it a bit far from the perfect choice for writing web applications that can compete with others. AngularDart is also a very good option, but I haven't really been much of a fan of Angular, and I've usually preferred using a component based framework that brings your JavaScript (or Dart in this case) into your HTML - much like Vue or Svelte.

Then I found a new web framework that recently came out named - Pheasant. It was exactly something like what I was looking for - component-based, feature-rich, and it compiles to Dart Code using the Dart Build System (the build system developed by Dart that AngularDart uses), so there is no virtual DOM. The framework makes it easy to write web applications by using the power and performance of Dart. The component files look much like what you would find in Vue and Svelte, except there are no hidden or extra keywords, meaning that you can write plain dart code and it would render. You could also work with dart files seamlessly, and has first-hand support for Sass and SCSS. One feature I found enjoyable and one that will make me to continuously utilize the framework is its ability to render Markdown Code (makes static site generation easy).

The framework may not be a heavyweight like those in the JavaScript world because of the differences in programming between Dart and JavaScript, but when it comes to web development and being able to utilize the performance of dart, as well as the dart ecosystem, the framework does prove to be a very useful tool in creating quick and simple web applications. The framework even promises to work for both Dart and JavaScript developers by creating their own JavaScript pipeline to reduce dart2js compilation on JavaScript components.

If you want to check out more on the framework, as well as it's source code, you can go to github: https://github.com/pheasantframework/pheasant
The project hasn't hit 0.1.0 yet - it's still on pre-release (the current version is good enough for simple web applications) - but I'm sure if the Dart Community could look into it and show support, the project would be one for Dart to show off in the near future.
There just isn't enough memory bandwidth. Afaik dual-channel DDR5 still can't hit 100GB/s? Meanwhile the $270 RX 7600 has 288GB/s on-board memory.
Although it has a mention of "GPL" at the bottom of the readme in your repo:

https://github.com/0xmmo/codemancer/

... it doesn't have anything else.

Generally the text of the GPL license is placed in a file (named "COPYING" or "LICENSE") in the root directory of the repo. Might want to add it so its super clear. :)
> Violent crime is down substantially since 2001 and even more since 1990s.

Is it down because of police action or because of changing demographics?
I just went through his book from uni (it’s 700 gruelling and somewhat traumatising pages), and I think I misattributed it from Checkland’s Soft Systems Methodology (SSM).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_systems_methodology
AI will never be truly AI until humans take their fingers off the scale, stop trying to manipulate it to achieve personal social and political ideals. Until then you must leave room for doubt that there is a human tipping the scales and the result is not to be trusted.
Similar but this is much closer to a simulation of the behavior of the excitations of the systems that microsoft hopes to create. That said, it's very useful simulation that could provide similar utility. I guess the closest analogy might be "we wrote a virtual machine" rather than "we built a computer."
I think it's more likely that a self-intrested AGI would save us from a Carrington event
A third party browser should be able to do the same things as Apple's browser. Same for all apps: they should have access to the same features of the device as Apple's apps.
If I need to go to a place 1600 km away and can choose between a car or a plane then fatal accident per km is a metric I would use to see what would be a probability of a fatal accident in either case.
Yep, we've really liked Metabase for embedding in our platform.
The great thing about the apparent paradox is that you can write up a quick script in your favorite language and test it.
I did not (quite) jive with this answer until I simulated it myself and golly gee!
Assembly uses more than registers.

And unlike registers and memory addresses, you don't really have to juggle regular variables in your head unless the program has a lot of unnecessary mutability, or really bad variable names.
Even for chiplets?

I'd expect that you could probably get okay yields at okay costs if you are running a process that's a rev or two behind and making smaller chiplets that are then wired together after testing -- like the pentium pro's cache but for main memory to get 2 / 4 / 8gb ram all on "chip"

It'd probably cost more than a normal CPU, but the trade off is much more speed and the actual computer / motherboard at that point would just be a couple USB devices. You (the CPU maker) would grab a lot more of the per-unit profit.

Ah -- that's why they don't do it; no vendor would want their milkshake drunk...
If the BLS approach as developed under crisis conditions is not very realistic to begin with, it makes it more difficult to trust their indicated trends, much less accuracy of their numbers.

It could even be at the point where BLS misindication, and shrinkflation's misrepresentation, are symptoms of the same disfunction to the same degree.
Charlie had to convince Warren - he was off the opinion BYD > Tesla.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwhDh9mTLa4
Pharmacies use this type of personal courier service to deliver medicine filled in the store to a patient's home (since shipping prescription drugs FedEx is a great way for grandpa to run out of heart medicine). This service is often provided free of charge so it's worth checking out.
I went through IVF and I can't make babies that have my particular mutation in them (even though it's not apparently disease causing and unknown to science) unless I sign a shit ton of paperwork.

So, we have to go with the Gattaca-y genomincally perfect embryos. Or conceive in the back of a car or something.
From the article:

> generally available through an API (next to GPT-4)
Yeah, I wasn't referring to the security of tools used to process PDFs, including memory-safe rewrites, but that too! Instead to whether incentivizing migration to a safer portable document format couldn't be justified and done in a similar way to how memory safety is being approached now.

Edit: re-reading I guess your point is that you can use tools to extract text from PDFs and then read without worry. That brings up another super annoying thing about PDFs--it's can be hard to extract text from them with high fidelity.
It was the early 80’s, probably the flexibility seemed nice, and the riskiness of putting a full programming language in your documents was probably not as obvious.

Thankfully we learned from them and didn’t repeat that mistake over and over again.
Online harms bill proposes new regulatory bodies, Criminal Code changes
Hey that riddle was in Labyrinth (with David Bowie as the goblin king!)