skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I disagree, people who are not expert consumers of information, but do think “arXiv is science stuff” are easily misled

I think you are talking about an extremely small segment of the population, so I don't think we're talking about a very large social impact. I'm also unconvinced that that segment doesn't generally take ordinary tech press releases at face value anyway.

> I trust citations from private companies without strong academic pedigree

OK, but the first two authors on this have doctorates in ML and applied photonics respectively. They don't have peer review on this paper, but I don't think you can say they're lacking in academic pedigree.

> It’s pretty easy to con investors if you have the same “look” as a real lab.

I don't know. My feeling is that the "conning investors who are terrible at due diligence" game is largely unavoidable and mostly a zero-sum competition between con artists. So while it's obviously bad, I'm not convinced that the specifics matter all that much. Fools and their money, and all that.
Not quite Marxist but sort of neo-Proudhon.

What makes anything intellectual property really?

(Unless it's literally personal property, such as a diary contents.)
Renumeration is one thing, property another.
Seems like a really hard problem though. A dead-man switch is likely to get triggered unintentionally if you're literally in a firefight. You could improve a bit with some kind of consensus protocol - "we all agree these six radios have not been compromised" - but coordinating that in practice seems hard, and vulnerable to an enemy capturing a single radio and initiating the consensus protocol.
That was some key context lost in the simplification of the original code[1] for this blog post, though. The blog post's code returns the temperature (throwing away the next line), whereas the original adds it to a map and returns the next line.

[1] https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc/blob/dfec2cdbe6a0334cf...
Consider trying oatmeal with lactose-free milk. The number of lactose-free dairy products varies a lot around the world, but if you’re in a developed Western European or North American country, lactose-free milk itself is almost certainly available in at least two different fat levels. The most widely available brand in the US, but certainly not the only one, is Lactaid.

(Special mention: Germany has an impressive variety of lactose-free options. Even lactose-free Nutella equivalent, lactose-free cream cheese, and lactose-free mascarpone! Many lactose-free products in Germany have competition between the store brand, a major brand or two, and/or a brand or two focused on lactose-free.)
Do you have easy ways to monitor power usage on any power plug over time, without needing to check out a display on the plug or to install some shady chinese Android app?

I have a nice used Dell Poweredge T320 with a single Xeon E5-2428L that's been running on only an SSD (and then a raid 1 of 3.5" HDDs) for over 8 years, but electricity prices are rising and I wish I could measure it precisely, idle and under load.
The FDA could impose a ceiling over the price the company is allowed to charge if they are in a situation where there is reasonable expectation of efficacy but the trials haven't been consistent. Would that appease your concerns?
I did the same for a law firm in 2000-2001 but it was Outlook to Palm Pilot for their docket calendar that I developed for them. Good work!
Ah, in that case you might want:

text-size-adjust: none;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: none;

(it's infuriating that these options need to exist!)
Did your chef wash their hands? Handwashing 'lie detectors' could find out
No this not a really good criteria. There is Linux support for a few MCUs, including a few STM32 Series.
Having a MMU is a much better criteria.
Brain waves travel in 1 direction when memories are made, opposite when recalled
What is your source of info here? Can you be more specific? Who are they?
Hm. I'm interested in hearing more about the specific scenarios where this sort of tool is useful.

I skimmed through the HN comments and see that it can be used for adding diagrams to code comments. But what else? Slack, Jira, READMEs, SMS, Signal etc all allow you to include pngs.
Thank you! Much appreciated, and let me know what could use more work!
The diagrams I am pasting in are usually like 80 x 40 chars and keep you from having to tab out into documentation. They don’t change often so they don’t create messy diffs. I don’t think that’s unreasonable. Nobody on my team seems to mind. I don’t think this is a problem and I’m having trouble understanding why you think it is.

If you’re wondering why I need diagrams in source code, then the answer is I usually don’t need them but it helps. The only project where they were game changing was where we were using Neo4j as a backend and being able to clearly diagram the data model was really helpful.
The temperature fields are interleaved with name fields, so I don't think you'd get any extra benefit from SSE. Also, since the temperature field is variable-sized, it would probably not pay off even if it was stored by column.

SSE was successfully applied to finding the delimiter between the name and the temperature, though.
Thank you so much! Would love to hear your feedback! =)
It's look like Apple used all dark patterns you can imagine to make this as crap as possible. I really hope EU will force them to act better.
That looks nice! I stopped using Insomnia after they introduced the forced login to save your collection and wiped all my stored requests…
That's windows and games. Truly a PITA. And the worst thing is the rich companies can just bribe their way into people's computers by offering their games for free. EA and Epic are both guilty of this and I won't install that just on principle alone.

That being said, maybe if there was a good sandboxing, ot wouldn't be so bad?
I believe this is going to be interesting as I find this OpenAI scene indeed fishy. It's like they are taking advantage of having a superior product.

OpenAI was supposed to create AI for humanity but after realizing the worth of their product in the market they closed their gates. They haven't even released any information regarding the data they use for training their LLMs.

They seem to be raising money from investors to pour into new startups that are powered by OpenAI products(Like a fund manager?).

In the space where companies like Meta, and Apple are open-sourcing. It's only obvious to reciprocate if you are calling yourself a non-profit and acting totally for profit.

This lawsuit will bring a lot of mysteries and will be interesting to follow along. The Hot Chick in AI seems to be in trouble this time.
There is no distributed postgres that behaves like a single one (except for being a bit slower sometimes or do).
>The direction of theta and alpha travelling waves modulates human memory processing

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01838-3

Abstract

To support a range of behaviours, the brain must flexibly coordinate neural activity across widespread brain regions. One potential mechanism for this coordination is a travelling wave, in which a neural oscillation propagates across the brain while organizing the order and timing of activity across regions. Although travelling waves are present across the brain in various species, their potential functional relevance has remained unknown. Here, using rare direct human brain recordings, we demonstrate a distinct functional role for travelling waves of theta- and alpha-band (2–13 Hz) oscillations in the cortex. Travelling waves propagate in different directions during separate cognitive processes. In episodic memory, travelling waves tended to propagate in a posterior-to-anterior direction during successful memory encoding and in an anterior-to-posterior direction during recall. Because travelling waves of oscillations correspond to local neuronal spiking, these patterns indicate that rhythmic pulses of activity move across the brain in different directions for separate behaviours. More broadly, our results suggest a fundamental role for travelling waves and oscillations in dynamically coordinating neural connectivity, by flexibly organizing the timing and directionality of network interactions across the cortex to support cognition and behaviour.
> They train the LLM directly on the corpus so that the documents are embedded in its weights.

they do not outright say that in the paper as far as i could tell. i only got it from reading hn comments. just very confused why they use a nonstandard term like "internalize" which just pisses me off because ML is hard enough without inventing your own terms
I speak Hebrew and I listen to a broad range of voices coming out of Israel. Do you?

If you tell me what country you're from I'll try the same trick on you, take some selective voices from your "leadership" and present them as if they're policy or the official position of your country.

Punishment or retribution is not Israel's policy here and is not what's being executed on the ground. Are there some crazy voices in Israeli politics. Yes. That proves nothing. Also many of those voices were heard in the immediate aftermath of Oct 7th that was so brutal, barbaric, and shocking, that "blood was boiling" and emotions ran high.

What you're saying here is basically blood libel. To take your analogies, it's not different than the stories about Jews drinking the blood of Christian children. It's an antisemitic lie in the form you present it. That people have the audacity to draw comparisons between what the Nazis did to the Jews and what's going on in Gaza is mind boggling.
One potential of optics is teraherz frequencies.
By the way, GNU Bison implements general LR (GLR) parsing by something that can be called "fork merge LR". The documentation states that Bison's GLR algorithm resolves ambiguities by forking parallel parses, which then merge. It's not the same as forking due to a preprocessor conditional, but worth mentioning.
It is planned - see here for more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39646300.

We still need to do some work on this feature though, we'll make sure to document it when it's well-supported.
Around the time Trikafta became widely available I used to work for a
clinical trials company. I remember one guy with CF telling us the full story of his life, how plenty of his friends with CF died in their 20s, and how, after taking the new meds, he felt effects within the first hour. It was like a miracle. If I remember correctly, there’s still some 10% of CF patients for whom it doesn’t work but I hope we will soon eradicate this horrendous disease altogether.
I expected a lemire style full SIMD implementation :(
There are many variations of the original code used in different solutions. Many of them return the temperature like the variant used in the post, but they split out the part that finds the decimal dot into a separate function. Then you can reuse that twice: to finish parsing the temperature, and to advance the cursor to the next row.
Usually these salts remain chemically stable for longer periods of time. In the case of alkaloids, they become protonated (here LSD-with-a-proton, a positively charged particle; the tartrate being the negative counterion) and as such are thus less susceptible to oxidation. Can't steal negative charge from something that doesn't have it.

And with LSD freebase that's not an unnecessary luxury, as it isn't the most stable against decomposition. To answer the question... probably this is the most stable formulation to get it into a pharmacy? I guess like you say, not blatantly calling it LSD helps image building too.

With vyvanse, that's actually something else: not a salt but an amino acid covalently bound to amphetamine. This gives a much stronger bond than between tartrate and lsd ions in the salt, one that can be hydrolysed slowly in the gut to produce the active drug. LSD tartrate doesn't have a similar slow release property.
I was not, as I am a english speaker with no knowledge of Dutch. I find it a funny coincidence, but if I change the name bef now it'll mess with my muscle memory.
Why would a startup need their own store?
> Marketplace developers will need to pay €0.50 for each first annual install of their marketplace app. First annual installs included in your Apple Developer Program membership can’t be used for marketplace apps.

Apple really makes you pay for it.
Have you ever caught yourself constantly checking a website for a specific update? Check out my guide on building a bot that fetches Rome's current temperature from a webpage and sends it to you via Telegram. Let me know your thoughts!
> Slingshotting about the moon to gain velocity relative to the Sun doesn’t work. (It only works in one direction.)

Most slingshot maneuvers do gain or lose momentum relative to the Sun! And they do work in both directions (gain and lose) – we've used them for quite a few probes, e.g. MESSENGER.

> Slingshotting about the moon to gain velocity relative to the Sun doesn’t work.

It does, as used by e.g. STEREO [2].

All that said, they're still not "free" in terms of delta-v by any definition. They provide an efficiency gain, but sending stuff to the sun is still prohibitively expensive for anything other than lightweight scientific probes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MESSENGER

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEREO
That's what Phase II is for.
DHH’s blog two days ago: Committing to Windows
https://world.hey.com/dhh/committing-to-windows-2d6388fd
Wired going to bat for Google.
Trikafta is a real breakthrough for CF patients. What's not mentioned is the cost - about $300 000 per person per year. [1]

In 2037 the patent will run out, and the generic price will likely be 90% less.

Fortunately, for Americans with good-enough health insurance, it's covered, so ... yay? For those without insurance, or in other countries where $300k is basically unaffordable, well bummer for you, you'll be the last generation to die of it.

I get the insane costs, and risks, of developing these things. I get that the profit motive is what drives there to be any research at all in pharma. I get that the price has to be high for everyone, or insurance companies will balk.

And yet, even knowing all that, there's a sour taste when we -could- (literally) save lives, but, well, money first ya-know...

I don't have an answer to this issue- there are downsides to all proposals I've heard. But this approach seems, well, pretty harsh.

[1] https://www.statnews.com/2023/11/03/trikafta-cystic-fibrosis....
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Fair enough, guess it’s not that big a deal. Cheers for making it though!
On the one hand, I see the appeal of getting away from a gatekeeper like Apple telling me what I can, and can't do, on my own device.

On the other hand, it would be very cool to also be able to avoid companies like DJI forcing sideloading of their heavily obfuscated app [0], as is currently the deal on Android.

Is there a way to accomplish both?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39438842
I like this a lot. Happy to support any project willing to reject the usual “success story” of selling out to VCs and turning your product into subscription-based SaaS junk.
I loved the book The Billion Dollar Molecule (Reviewed by Nature here: https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt0594-521.pdf) about the founding of Vertex Pharma. Really drives home the amount of money, time and luck it takes to make a breakthrough - the author needed to write an entire second book to get to the part where they started making real revenue. The second book isn't as good, but if you like the first enough you might try it anyway.
Why can a startup not provide one or become one?
I wonder what you mean here. What code exactly would get auto-vectorized? Parsing the temperature surely not, since it's not in an array of fixed-size fields.
Museums are a good place to put that energy/feeling. In particular, the Computer History Museum in Mountain View has a lot of, err, computer history. Going to museums about World War II is not remotely the same as having lived through it, but they help those who didn't understand what it was like.
Maybe someone wants to start up a new store?
That seems like quite a likely outcome unless the store offers sellers more value than it takes. The liklihood of that for the specific example of the Apple store is pretty low. If the stores cut were more of the order of 5% it's be much less likely that sellers would feel the need to work around it.
As someone that has used M1 Macbook Air for a few years, I can confirm that this is absolutely non-issue unless when you compile for an extended duration.
Should Valve have had a million dollars for Microsoft to be able to launch Steam?
Back when the word "nanotechnology" used to mean itty-bitty robots* rather than some extremely fine chemical processes done in sequence, or extremely small particle size, I had wondered if we could get to the point of said itty-bity robots before all of the brilliant people who made playable games for restricted consoles like the Atari had retired.

* More specifically, miniaturized robots consisting of one or more robot arms with multiple degrees of freedom, a CPU, some kind of storage (perhaps something like wound-up DNA serving as tape on reels), executing programs written by humans.
"Information carrier" means the actual medium the light is travelling through, doesn't it? Which has to be matter of some sort.
The pillars of happiness with Arthur Brooks [video]
And, curiously, the Alzheimer drug do work, just like hypothesized by the "dumb advocacy groups". You just have to take them earlier in the profession of the disease.
> That's windows and games. Truly a PITA. And the worst thing is the rich companies can just bribe their way into people's computers by offering their games for free. EA and Epic are both guilty of this and I won't install that just on principle alone.

I have returned my last two game purchases on steam because they didn't launch into the game but an alternative login. I will no longer accept that. I'll chose another game and I wish many more will do that but I'm not hopeful.
What dark patterns are you thinking of here? I usually think of dark patterns as tricks that companies use to guide users to make a particular decision. Such as making the undesired link text smaller or harder to find.

While I don’t think Apple is doing what most people wanted them to do (just allow users to install alternative stores or sidelod apps), I think they’re being quite transparent here.
The suggestion is to escape from toxic thoughts, immersing yourself in prayers instead?
ReactEval: Evaluating LLMs on front-end code generation
> In exploring configuration-preserving parsing, we focus on performance.

Why, because this goose is so thoroughly cooked that all that is left is optimizing for speed?

There is a lot of misplaced focus on performance in CS academia, and also in software.

Suppose we have some accurate tool that does something useful with a C program, but it takes 5 minutes to run instead of 5 seconds. So what? Someone still wants to use it. Suppose the program is used by millions of people, and that 5 minute run only has to be repeated half a dozen times during development.

Get it right, and get it in people's hands should be the priorities, and not necessarily in that order.
But for what? You still need to submit your app through the Apple review process. If this was true Sideloading I’d understand but the way it is now I don’t see any advantage.
Yes, exactly! “Our math doesn’t work unless we invent something to make up the difference”. Feels very much like the Ether scientists believed in earlier. Of course, it might really be, but it feels suspect.
Your original assertion was:

> Multithreading is just as "relatively" easy in other compiled languages.

Maybe that is true for your case, but broadly speaking it isn't true.
No. "Bourgeois/ie" is such a widely known word in English that I didn't realise it wouldn't be understood. It can be read as "[capitalist] elite"/"ruling class"/"1%"/etc

It's possible I used the word slightly wrong as the definitions I've now looked up often refer to the "middle class", though as I understand that could historically refer to people who we'd think of now as very upper class, just not actual nobles. Nevertheless, the above reading is what I intended
Why High Drug Prices Are Good for Americans
Considering I can install any app on the PC, this comparison doesn’t make sense. AFAIK Apple still reviews and gatekeeps any app. Even from other app stores.
I’m the principal maintainer at work of a couple hundred bash scripts that use httpie and jq. I don’t have a huge appetite to redo that work… but this certainly seems nicer!
For what reason does Apple need a million dollar bond for someone to release an App Store? They don’t for regular apps. What’s the difference?
I remember the first time I read about this technique used by the Linux kernel to find the \0 at the end of the string. If course XORing with another char will detect that char instead.

But before you run to implement it as a drop-in replacement for strlen() all over your code, please note that in real-world cases the string length is not guaranteed to be a multiple of 8. When you read the last long, you might overrun your memory buffer and trigger a page fault.
I find real-time audio mixers super interesting. A lot about writing your own can seem easy, until you find yourself in a fight against latency. If you hit 30ms you're dead, the mixer will become almost useless in a live setting. That's why the big expensive equipment hasn't been replaced by iPads. The highly regarded commercial SQ mixers [0] have 0.7ms end-to-end latency thanks to an FPGA inside.

I also firmly believe that, in the future, everything will be connected via Dante [1], which will be another example of commodity(-ish) computer networks eating everything.

[0] https://www.allen-heath.com/hardware/sq/

[1] https://www.audinate.com/
Erdoğan says upcoming Turkish local election will be his last
I'm not entirely convinced.

I've seen interns that are better than some of my 15+ year colleagues.

I'm better than most of them myself, but I've also seen interns better than me -- better problem solving skills and attention to detail I suppose. Very inconsistent correlation in terms of time spent outside of filtering people. Of course, you used to have a knowledge advantage that would hold for a bit, but intelligent usage of GPT-4 removes even that.

I'm pretty sure the whole enterprise is a combination of being gifted intellectually, with maybe a sprinkle of actual effort and abilify to sustain your attention on supremely boring tasks -- but mostly just your innate gifts at work.

When I say "better than"... well, here's my opinion: In programming, someone more talented can be up to 10x more productive at each tier of competence, shall we say. My least productive (senior and junior) colleagues are 10-100x less productive than me. My most productive colleagues (senior and junior) are probably 10x more productive than me.

This is an interesting discussion to me because I used to believe the whole tiered conception of programming knowledge until I learned that this wasn't the case through experience.

It's all just problem solving, and you're either smarter or less smart and you can't change this with even 1000 years of study.
I know somebody who had a liver transplant. They didn't gain any new memories or lose their old ones. Unless the doctors used a liver memory transfer device, I don't think memories are stored there.

And, I'm not an astrobiologist but I don't think DNA stores your memories and experiences.
UK academic's Wikipedia project: an article for a woman from every country
I am trying to figure out the advantage. The way it is implemented now the App Store wouldn’t be fully independent anyways and still bound to review processes.
I think these days we generally just use Copilot/an LLM.
Very tempting! But, will there be a lifetime version/license? Would rather pay upfront instead of ending up potentially not really using it much for 2 years.
EU needs to address this as it is still gatekeeping.