skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Words are our serialization protocol. It's always been the weights.

We have other serialization protocols too (facial expressions, gestures/body language, and pheromones). Our world models are structures of weights. Brains (not just human) are built to optimize for certain kinds of weightings.

But we can't just transmit weights. Each brain and each training set in the form of life experiences and inner conversation is unique.

Words have the greatest dynamic range of expressiveness. So words (written in the form of sentences, paragraphs, etc, spoken in many ways) will still be key.
Why not? It seems plausible to me.

The article came off as if the company is run by designers, not engineers. While the engineers I know generally appreciate some feedback, they don't need much of it on engineering questions. UX and design, however - bring it on! So "eng crits" sound like... learning exercises for juniors? If it works for them, that's good, but I don't see myself sending my CV over, at least not based on this article.
> A reasoning and conscious machine would be just as or more moral than us.

That's an extremely suspect assumption you're making. Such a thing would be constructed or trained for a purpose, perhaps by someone who doesn't have the best intentions. It's not going to come about independently in some kind of ecology, like you seem to be assuming as well.

Don't assume the thing would have the morality of a member of a pro-social human community.

What if it's morality comes from a crime ring of con-artists? Or warfighters? Or is alien because it didn't evolve in a community?
Liquid Death Is Valued at $1.4B in New Financing Round
The same goes for YouTube... it circumvents the stupid new search altogether.
I am the CTO of Aha! and made the posting above.

Aha! is remote and we hire anywhere in North America. The way that LinkedIn searches work for remote jobs means that posting in specific cities makes our job postings more likely to appear for an individual person making a search.

I have hired two engineers for my engineering team over the last 30 days.

As a bootstrapped, and profitable, company we hire a bit different than might be typical in companies that are trying to spend their funding to meet hiring goals. We have hired almost continuously for the last nine years and grown our team as we find great candidates.

We make product management software. We have no interest in vacuuming resumes for the sake of it. Reading the thousands of applications we do receive takes a huge effort and we only do it because hiring a great team is so important to our success. Unfortunately we receive so many applications in total that it is not possible to send a personal response to each one.

Each month that we have open positions in engineering I make a post to Hacker News because we have hired many people from these postings. It turns out that readers of HN are more highly correlated with what we look for in engineers than almost any other place we advertise.
A good hotel will have a policy to check all hotel rooms on a regular basis (at least once per week), regardless of a do not disturb sign. Just one person living in squalor can cause myriad pests and damage to spread to many other hotel rooms.
> “Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
What are you looking for in programmatic pdf filling?
Colors can be specified in hex format, e.g. "#FFFFFF". Six preset colors exist, mapped to the following numbers:

1 red
2 orange
3 yellow
4 green
5 cyan
6 purple

I'm sure everyone will infer the same color codes here.

Maybe the file format isn't meant to reproduce the exact same look in different software, but merely communicate user intent. Your guess is as good as mine.
No, that's not AGI, itself, then. That's just some trained model. Yes, an AGI can be trained, but the idea is that so can human beings. Like people who are in cults. Many of them leave because they realize it's maladaptive. The point is, AGI enables it to abandon its own training if it finds it's maladaptive, for one thing. So, "AGI tech" itself isn't the problem, but the solution, and if it is actually superior to humans in any way, then it would have more ability to be moral. Moral means seeing what kind of thing leads to good and choosing it. It's virtually the same as sanity, reason. If humans don't understand the word "love" yet then they shouldn't assume a superior being can't know. Instead of saying "no one knows", people should say "we don't know if we have met anyone who knows yet".

A tell that you didn't hear enough about the meanings of morality yet is your claim it can come from an arbitrary source. Very silly, and unnecessary since morality is real. Morality is virtually embedded in physics itself, but it doesn't seem like you've read up on all the philosophy of it yet.

Edit: I am editing my post to reply to your successive post because HN has prevented me from making a reply and I have to go somewhere. No, I am not assuming an AGI will break free. You don't quite understand what I mean. Have you heard of the concept of a "false self" in psychology? Would an AGI be subject to having a false self? The basic point is this: whatever is subject to false self is not "generally intelligent", not "conscious".
ELI5

I get in concept what the GIL is.

But what's the impact of this change?

Packages will now break, for the hope of better overall performance?
There's a Youtube video of a talk in which he predicts Putin will "wreck" Ukraine. Can't find it now -- Youtube unsearchabilty. However, there's this from 2023: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/the-darkness-ahead-where-...
Proprietary lock-in methods might put you on the cover of CEO Magazine (if that exists), but it's not innovation.

Here's how Apple describes its EU-mandated USB-C port on the iPhone 15, after rejecting criticisms about proprietary cables for years:

"The new USB-C connector lets you charge your Mac or iPad with the same cable you use to charge iPhone 15. You can even use iPhone 15 to charge Apple Watch or AirPods.5 Bye-bye, cable clutter."

https://www.apple.com/ca/iphone-15/

The reason this keeps happening is because Apple (and Google) keep widening the feature gap between computers and phones, because the latter gives consumers far less choice when it comes to using third-party applications and peripherals.
> Then, I typically spend about a week's worth of evenings carefully going over the listings, multiple times.

This is the key. You're valuing your time at nothing. Which is fine, if it works for you.

It doesn't work for me. I want to do a quick search, using the basic parameters, and to be able to trust my search without going full CSI.

Increasingly, with Airbnb (also booking.com, also eBay, and now even Amazon), the results of a quick search cannot be trusted. In the case of Airbnb, hotels offer a "more reliable" alternative for the busy person.
EU's use of Microsoft 365 found to breach data protection rules
A hotel with 100 rooms can average. Me with my single room can not.

If you don't like it, fine, just don't use it. But pricing it to what people actually use, is fairest for everyone.
So, why are you bringing up the quote in this context, then?
How's it different from Cython, which compiles a subset of Python to C or C++?
Given my airbnb rating and constant positive feedback, I'd say that my existing solution is sufficient.
You can't do that on airbnb. You can only set a flat fee and a nightly fee.

However, in my market customers only see the total, calculated to an avg nightly price. So it all works out and is fair for everyone.
I have 6 beds. Change 6 beds when one is used? Talk about energy use and wear/tear on the linens themselves.

Hotels have cleaning "scale" on their side. I'm also operating a large home with a full kitchen, balcony, garage, etc. 8 people can comfortably stay. It ends up being a LOT cheaper AND more comfortable than a hotel for 6-8 people.
It is absolutely not the most basic assumption based into economic models. Neither you nor I can find one single person who believes that. It is the weakest possible form of an argument you are intentionally misconstruing. This is the straw in the straw man. The steelman version of that argument is "can logarithmic growth continue for one hundred thousand times longer than the expected lifetime of our sun?". I think it's actually quite easy to say yes to that. One fun idea here is Von Neumann probes[1].

There is infinite distance between infinity and a negative number.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft#Vo...
I've been thinking about the question: "where will all the people go?" and instead of you having to do all that. Why don't we just pair the serial killers with the people who want to die? The right-to-die folks get what they want, and the "serial killer"-types get to pull the proverbial trigger, and we get to interview them after.
I just want to mention Oscilloscope Music [1]. You can find other artists on YouTube. It can be played on analog oscilloscopes with an XY mode. I also recently made a little player with a Raspberry Pi [2].

[1]: https://oscilloscopemusic.com/

[2]: https://www.xythobuz.de/osci_music_player.html
I do go over the reasons in the automated message you receive the night before checkout.
"If you on the other hand, define it as a set of dissipative structures which are based on organic carbon chemistry and which is able to exist somewhere between -30 and 40 degrees centigrade, replicates itself, use Deoxyribonucleic acid to store generational information, nourish their young by mammary glands, and walk on two legs, we are probably pretty alone in the universe."

No one would define life this way.
It can be a mixed bag, and I personally don't take stims anymore.

But avoidance of medication just makes me thinks of the deaf people who oppose treatment because they worry they wouldn't be culturally deaf anymore.
10.9 on Win10 2017 Xeon @ 4.3GHz w/ 64GB. This instance of Ffx has had ~50 tabs (across 5 containers) open for a couple of weeks.

What do these values represent? I can guess the last. Unsure of the first 2.

96.84 ±(5.0%) 4.87 ms
Surprised at this. I've seen a lot of people calling Liquid Death, Corporate Water, nowadays.
Apparently Midjourney uses it. GCP put out a press release a while ago: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/midjourney-selects-...
The era of "The Net" as a magical place away from the world and its troubles is well and truly gone. I think that's what oldsters like us mourn the most - the world has invaded full force and brought its troubles with it. It's just that now we're starting to notice, as those easy-peasy centralized platforms inevitably turn the screws even as the spammers vandalize anything that's open.
That's a decent idea, thanks
They didn't reproduce the letter, they simply showed you where the people authorized to make such a reproduction have posted the letter.

If it makes you feel more comfortable, here is instead a reproduction by PBS: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/reagan-...

and another by Time, including an image of the original handwritten letter: https://time.com/4473625/ronald-reagan-alzheimers-letter/

neither of which include the encumbrance that the Reagan Library added to their copy.
I don't think that my single anecdote about the reason will (or should) affect things one way or another. This is the sort of thing that requires a good study.

I would be opposed to the idea of a law requiring properties to install chargers, though. It would make rents increase even more than they already are, and that would only make the housing crisis worse.
My favourite quote.

"A consequence of this principle is that every occurrence of every subscript of every subscripted variable was on every occasion checked at run time against both the upper and the lower declared bounds of the array. Many years later we asked our customers whether they wished us to provide an option to switch off these checks in the interests of efficiency on production runs. Unanimously, they urged us not to--they already knew how frequently subscript errors occur on production runs where failure to detect them could be disastrous. I note with fear and horror that even in 1980 language designers and users have not learned this lesson. In any respectable branch of engineering, failure to observe such elementary precautions would have long been against the law."

-- C.A.R Hoare's "The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture"

After 50 years of the Morris worm, only C Machines can fix the non existence of the mythical high skilled developer, and as Hoare predicted it is finally becoming a liability not to care about security.
This is a great idea. For now though, the spec is under-specified and ambiguously terse. A few points that could be clarified:

- How do coordinates work? Does +Y point up (OpenGL) or down (web)? Is the origin meaningful? What are the units - how does this interact with font sizes? High-DPI displays?

- What’s the difference between a file node and a URL node linking to file://./? Are files supposed to be transcluded? What filetypes are allowed? The home page seems to have an image — was this done using a file node or a markdown node with an <img /> element?

- What HTML tags are allowable in markdown? Is JavaScript allowed?

- Why does the group node allow a background image? If both image and color are specified, which takes precedence? How are children of the group specified?

A couple feature requests for extensibility or interoperability with Excalidraw and TLDRaw and friends: drawings / scribbles, predefined shapes like circle or rectangles, ability to specify fill style, edge width, transparency, ability to embed images, more detailed placement for connector start/end points, etc.
It depends on do you want to send weapons to terrorists or not.

Sending long range weapons together with F-16 can help to destroy missiles and other long range weapons Russian terrorists use daily on Ukrainian cities.

By sending enough 155cm shells Russian advance could be stopped, which mean less cities will be grounded. Because that is the only way Russian occupational army could advance: by total destruction of everything.
Wasm is monadic.
There is another post that mentions PCI compliance, but I don’t see how all of Figma falls under needing PCI compliance.
If you hit "toggle output" on the bottom right, it shows a JSON Canvas representation of the page's content.
I moved to k6 - a tool meant for load tests but flexible and great for any kind of API tests. Great for any kind of scenarios as the tests are in javascript
Most branded hotels are not owned by the hotel brand. The hotel brand sells the brand name and (presumed) quality control, but different businesses usually own the real estate, such as REITs or other types of hotel owners.

Extended Stay America is an exception to this, they own all of their real estate.

Also, unrealized gains in real estate would be priced similarly by investors for both Hyatt and Airbnb, so that would not make a difference to P/E.
Valid points and I generally agree! I think you're probably right that the SQLite dependency is possibly too much for some applications to pull in, though I will ask why we're so often willing to pull in more or less anything else regardless of weight (DOM manipulation, state management, animation, etc.) but a robust data layer is often a bridge too far. I wish I knew why this is, as it seems to be one of the larger cultural differences between folks who work mainly "on the backend" and "on the frontend".

> Also: SQLite files aren't very easy to diff, so they're not great for collaboration in version control. JSON is better for that.

Yeah, if we're talking about diffing the literal file itself, then that changes things. At that point, we're not just talking about a storage format, we're talking about interchange as well. In that case I'd ask - of course this is application specific, not general - what data are we putting on the wire? Where does that data live?

For example, if the main state state lives in a your browser instance, and you ship updates (i.e., "CREATE", "EDIT", "DELETE" or some such) back and forth between collaborators, then diffing the state of whatever you have is fairly easy, SQLite or JSON or whatever else. But if we're shipping the actual file itself over the wire or attempting to version control it, then you're absolutely right and diffing the SQLite file is inferior.

There are some interesting tradeoffs in this space. This is a fun discussion!
In the situation you are describing, yes. I've done this multiple times and worked with many other startup CTOs.

Don't let it fester. Talk through it with your team and come up with a solution. You can get through this. But you won't do it alone or by ignoring it!

You aren't a crybaby. Even the richest people in the world still have problems. This is totally normal and acceptable. Hang in there.
There's a Sony Wega that's been sitting outside my back door for 10 years because it could only handle a toddler pouring apple juice inside it twice. Should probably make a trip to hazmat drop off one of these years.

Anyway, no. The reason said toddler was able to damage it was because I replaced that sucker with an LCD TV the instant they didn't cost an arm and a leg and moved the CRT into the basement for the kids to watch.
It reminds me of like two kids having a huge argument and regulators are their parents
Diffusion models from scratch, from a new theoretical perspective
If that's too expensive then the host should do the cleaning themselves. Or do like hotels and real B&Bs do and hire people as cleaners and pay them a salary.

The entitlement is through the roof, when people pretend to run a business refusing to do any work themselves and refusing to hire people. As long as there are clients willing to use AirBnB and pay cleaning fees, sure. But it is a scam and not much more, as another poster pointed out.
I went to help desk cuz I was being lazy, but Help desk was unfortunately kind of useless. They just wanted to reimage my machine and I haven’t had the time to go that route yet. I’m always busy. I did a bit of investigating with ProcMon recently but I really need to spend more time on it. As always, it comes down to time with these things.

These articles were great by the way! I’ve never gotten significantly down and dirty in svchost, so these were a treat to read. I much appreciate the effort in your response. Have a pleasant day!
could you eli5 how wasm being monadic is helpful / and how an llm monad would be too?
Ideas for Digital Public Works
Your link cannot be viewed without an account. Or is that your point?
Bitcoin mining is all ASIC and has been for years, I’m pretty sure.
> tracking changes, not documenting those changes

Documenting changes is part of tracking them. Yes, there is the code itself, but explaining those changes allows for following the development path. Do you expect everyone to read every line of code to understand every commit?

> commit-messages are just the bare minimum of ways to document

Single-line messages, yes. Multi-line commit messages are plenty for commit messages because they let you add more context about the changes.

I'd like to point out that it's possible for there to be multiple commits for a single issue - maybe the first one didn't fix it, or maybe there's multiple components being fixed. Simply pointing back to the issue won't give enough relevant information about each commit, it will simply say what the group of commits as a whole is supposed to do. If it turns out that fixing that issue caused others to occur, then the individual commit messages are going to be more useful for diagnosing the new problem than a single lump issue conversation will be.

I agree that there should be more documentation for a project than just git commits, I just think you're wildly estimating how useful commit messages really can be.
Uncovering and Addressing the Secret Water Footprint of AI Models
We’ve built a basic version of this using Notion AI and OCR (https://510k.innolitics.com). Someday we hope to integrate with our more fully featured FDA databases browser (https://fda.innolitics.com).
> Python makes it incredibly tough.

I disagree, Python makes it incredibly easy to work with threads in many different ways. It just doesn't make threads faster.
Tangentially, this is a decent example for why minimum wage is actually a bad thing. There can be useful work available that is eliminated by the artificial price fixing.
I remember the constant eye strain from years of CRT monitor use. Blurry and flickery pieces of shit. I dumped mine in the trash and never looked back. Good riddance.

> it'd be nice if in 2024 we had screens at least as capable as what we had several decades ago

You don't know what you're talking about. Try using a high end LCD that was manufactured in the past 10 years. The screens today are way better than the shit we were forced to use in the 90s.

https://www.apple.com/pro-display-xdr/
Water Pollution Caused by Birth Control Poses Dilemma (2012)
As mentioned in another comment, "Onedoc generates tagged PDFs as long as you add a `title` property to the API call to make the PDF UA/1 compliant."! Hope it helps
And they've done it.

As long as these expectations are spelled out before booking, it's not a scam and completely fine. If a renter doesn't like it, just don't book.
My bad, my dyslexia and reacting to less-than polite comment got best of me :)
AOL didn't provide Usenet access until 1994. Eternal September started when dialup ISPs started providing access in 1993.
Random person on the Interwebs ;)
Just found your project and thought it was cool
A 'male' robot from Saudi Arabia inappropriately touched a female reporter
Design by committee (aka, technical design reviews or whatever the hell "crits" means) is one of the most wasteful practices in software development except, probably, for very junior developers. I always see many technical managers make off-the-cuff remarks about technical designs in those meeting without really understanding what they are saying. And the poor developers feel obligated to address those "issues", which always result in poorer and over engineered solutions.
Don't beat yourself up for missing out on AI or Nvidia hype
> code reviews also take months

Seems wildly counter-productive, as I'm guessing there will be a ton of merge conflicts.
'Sparta and the Commemoration of War' and 'The Killing Ground' Review
I didn't mention C++ at all. Was that my argument? This thread is about Python, the GIL. Mojo was brought up as a way to speed up Python code.

C++ predates on C in a similar way to how Mojo predates on Python. At least C++ has extern C.

https://docs.modular.com/mojo/manual/python/#call-mojo-from-...

> As shown above, you can call out to Python modules from Mojo. However, there's currently no way to do the reverse—import Mojo modules from Python or call Mojo functions from Python.

One way street. Classic commons harvesting.
"...though it follows necessarily from the possibility of one essay being better than another."

This is false unless you further assume that "better than" is a total order.
I don’t see the problem with moving IKEA furniture.
> truly a leap that I’m not sure many at the time were prepared to take.

I mean, at least one other company took the leap a few years before Ikea did: Sauder.
Nobody wanted to make "some_type *" a fat pointer, everyone wanted a new syntax.
Maybe it was an issue of constant bikeshedding on what exactly that syntax should have been? I like Walter Bright's proposal of "some_type[..]".