skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not the only one. I will continue to fight the losing battle for "confabulation" for as long as the problem remains current.
I play around with White Lightening occasionally because of the ease of making games with it on C64 and the comprehensive documentation (PDFs of it have been preserved).
Foundation is an embarrassment. It has nothing similar to Asimov's books.

And focusing on the series only, forgetting the books, it's mediocre at best, and total cringe at worst. Didn't feel original or new. The storyline is just like some cheap movie that no one remembers or watches.
Any elaboration on this fire sale?
What's the justification for this recommendation? I find this really curious since I had some stomach acid issues that started during the pandemic (like, perhaps late 2020) that I assumed were stress related. I don't remember actually getting COVID in that time span (my uni was testing us every 3 days so I would have noticed if I had it around then). My primary care prescribed me famotidine for it in ~2022 which helped for a while. I still take it regularly but I did a 90 run of omeprazole last year.
x-mixed-replace Was the only mechanism that did that and chrome removed it and it is not standard and never was
Many tools try to achieve similar eg. https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/babelfish/

One company, CompilerWorks actually had tools that transpiled many SQL dialects. They were bought by Google https://www.crunchbase.com/acquisition/google-acquires-compi...
No, in Forth it would probably be:

1 MILLION YEARS AGO NOW

In other words, push 1 to the stack, multiply TOS by 10^6, multiply TOS by 86400*365, negate TOS, and finally add TOS to the current time in seconds.

Forthers did this kind of thing all the time -- invent Ruby style DSLs based on Forth's stack semantics.
The title is, of course, a reference to The Onion:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%2...
Some smaller ones, but nothing big. There was a user submission contest that got some traction, but the jump up from BASIC to using this was not easy. This was the time of 'rock star game devs' but interrupts, memory paging and sprite libraries probably crushed a few teenage dreams. An old video of what it could do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgmZ2Ht-QiQ
I have yet to read a review for how-to-build-your-own-pc that recommends water coolers (or more exotic stuff) as risk-free and maintenance-free. I don't mean a year or two.

I run my desktop since... 2018? and didn't have to think about noise, power consumption nor worries about short-circuiting everything, ever. There is no computer in this world power worth losing this (for me, I know I am pretty far from enthusiasts in this).
Struct layout happening in generic code makes sense (and is actually required since you can reference it in `const`s). It seems unlikely that they made function calling fully backend agnostic, since it'd require assigning the registers for parameters and result in generic code, and not in the backend.

I'd expect the generic code to lower the function parameters to primitive types (pointers, ints, floats, etc.), but the backend would then distribute those over registers and/or stack. Keeping that compatible would still require an (unstable) specification implemented by all compatible backends.

Unwinding might be tricky as well.
Shows the Kate Middleton photo as 90% real, 10% AI - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/npww1z7n9su7qgx410qgp/Screens... - the source may have tested it and thought 90% was good enough...
naah, there still will be certain patterns and they will be recognisable.

once something sora 1.5 level of ability is there – definitely reverse-sora model which can recognise ai-made videos should be possible to train as well
Asbestos is also naturally occurring and as a result there's an ambient level of asbestos in the air regardless of how hard you regulate.

I find asbestos to be such fascinating substance. As a kid I thought it was cool as hell ("a fluffy rock!?") and even now I think it's pretty neat in its natural form. Because asbestos has so many useful properties - ridiculously insulating and non-flammable - many of the substances that replaced the asbestos are the PFAS this sentence is complaining about. As far as I know there's still not a good non-PFAS substitute in many cases.
You're acting like this is a court with a judge. The company makes up subjective rules and then subjectively enforces them. There was never any arguing to begin with, they just ban you if they don't like you, or at random for no apparent reason, and you have no recourse.

> Now there's no more arguing. Is it generated or is it real - and is it marked if generated? I still fail to see the downside here.

How is this supposed to lead to less arguing? If there was an easy way to tell if something is AI-generated then you wouldn't need the user to tag it. When there isn't, now you have to argue about whether it is or not -- or if it obviously is, whether it then has to be tagged, because it obviously is and they've given that as an exception.
> The mini-explosion of AI mushrooms apps is emblematic of a larger trend toward adding AI into products that might not benefit from it — from tax software to therapy appointments.

Oh, dear. Yeah, none of that is going to go well. Kind of surprised that Apple and Google haven’t put their foot down about the mushroom identification and therapy, at least; that’ll get people killed. And I wouldn’t want to be the person whose argument to the tax authorities for their dodgy return was that a magic box said it was okay…
You certainly don't have to engage in conversations about things you cannot imagine. Would not be much point in it.
But I mean, this article was literally about a measurable effect from Mars on Earths climate and I never claimed there was a measurable effect or any significant effect at all on the brain (that would support Astrology). Just that there is influence.
Can you show me one (1!) artist who makes a living wage off of crypto payments without any kind of ponzi-like speculative aspect? An artist who is just using crypto as means of payment AND actually getting paid with it. Just one example is enough.
I think a lot of issues with language model coding come down to three issues.

The first is the models themselves:

1. A lack of longer context, i.e. white boarding or other means of breaking down problems into components, being able to focus context in and out, etc. This is a direction models are going to go.

Just like us, they are going to benefit from organizational tools.

The other two are just the need for normal feedback, like we developers get:

2. They need a code, run, evaluate, improve cycle. With a hard feedback cycle today's models do much better.

They quickly respond to iterative manual feedback. Which is just an inefficient form of direct feedback.

3. A lack of multiple perspectives. Groups of models competing and critiquing each other on each task should improve results for the more tricky problems.

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I personally think it is astounding that models generate somewhat reasonable, somewhat buggy code on their first pass.

Just like I do!

I don't know any coder that doesn't repeatedly tweak code they just wrote due to feedback. The fact that models can output first pass code so quickly without feedback today, suggests they are going to be very very good once they can test their own code, and converge on a solution informed by different attempts by different models.

A group of models can also critique each others' code organization for simplicity, readability and maintainability.
>the storage pricing [for dedicated clusters] is significantly cheaper than the storage pricing for shared clusters.

why is that? I was skeptical when they said there are no cold starts, your DB runs always and never shuts down to zero. It appears this is a billing innovation, to bill like serverless and put the cost of compute onto the storage column.

At some point your db is munching through costly ram and processor and oft times doing nothing. Serverless is meant to indicate a solution to this concern. it's just hard to see at a glance where the efficiency gains of this approach really are (seemless migrations and branching are cool and all) so it looks like it's too good to be true.
Having so much success with "The Things That Worked" that we used some of the excess bounty to allow testing "The Things That Might Not Work" until we found more of "The Things That Worked" was one of the best parts of the enlightenment age to the industrial age.
I love cookie popups, I get to reject all kinds of marketing and tracking cookies.
Very poor accuracy, I only have it ai photos and they were randomly 60% real or ai. It's practically useless.
Exactly, a warranty is fine in theory, but I care about machine uptime and where my own time is going.

Often the time to deal with warranty exceeds the cost of a new component, in which case I don’t bother and just try a different brand.

Case in point, had some trouble with WD NVME drives - just tossed them, bought Samsung, and moved on.
How? Staff an OSHA inspector to stand around in every garage? If Jim at Jim's Auto Service doesn't want to wear a mask, he's not going to wear one. It's not like oil where there's an evidence trail and a big mess if he decides to dump 50 gallons in the back lot.

Yes, there's more that could be done in regards to PPE enforcement, but I think that's really an orthogonal issue. Asbestos isn't necessary in brakes, and can be banned regardless of PPE enforcement.
If the oil revenue went away, or even declined a lot, the country would be in serious trouble. They’ve been working to get ahead of that for a long by time diversifying, but from an economic risk standpoint they’re still far too dependent on oil revenues.
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Your video is crazy.

I have never seen anything like that up here in New England. That towel has more ticks on it than I've seen in my life, and we're not exactly a low-Lyme area.

Good luck!
Human beings regularly hallucinate details that aren’t real when asked to provide their memories of an event, and often don’t realize they’re doing it at all. So whole AI definitely is lacking in the “can assess fact versus fiction” department, that’s an overlapping problem with “invents things that aren’t actually real”. It can, today, hallucinate accurate and inaccurate information, but it can’t determine validity at all, so it’s sometimes wrong even when not hallucinating.
I already have two of his books. Will definitely read them.

Anything else?
While you may think it didn’t have an effect a recent 99pi episode covered it and it sounds like it has definitely motivated many companies to remove chemicals from their products.

It’s not perfect but it has had a positive effect https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/warning-this-podcast-...
You can be scanned every way with different frequencies or methods and still not find a cause for migraines. Then find it can be stress, referred pain, or many other things.

Use the medicines to fix many issues and the mechanism for its action is unknown yet produces a positive outcome. This affected a handful of people yet gets a lot of attention like shark attacks versus drowning.

Any topics that are outside of the programming space are getting significantly worse for comments to where it’s becoming a waste of time to refute them or even acknowledge that they are trolls.
W3C adopts new Code of Conduct
I inferred that she understood the conclusion of the axioms she handed down. Once Luo came to the same conclusion, he came up with a solution relatively quickly, and I’m not sure that the years he spent pondering the problem helped with that.

By analogy, it seemed as though Einstein came up with the general theory of relativity, and instead of publishing it, just gave his colleagues strong hints about which direction to look in. Thanks, I guess, but it would’ve been nice if you’d passed along “E=mc**2” so we could’ve started applying it in the mean time.
This is very confusing! Our skin can make lots of vitamin D. Lots if not more than this case describes. A quick search yields the following:

"A whole body exposure to UVB radiation inducing the light pink color of the minimal erythema dose for 15–20 min is able to induce the production of up to 250 μg vitamin D (10,000 IU)"[1]

Surely naked homo sapiens got a bigger dose wandering around the highlands of Ethiopia 100,000 years ago. What kind of perverse logic led to setting the RDA to 600 IU daily?

It makes no sense. The patient didn't have hyper parathyroid disease either! Very weird.

1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4642156/
> As best as I can tell, the risk is close to zero for minor and occasional exposure in otherwise healthy individuals. I'm open to seeing hard evidence to convince me otherwise.

Asbestos is interesting in that the mechanism of carcinogenicity is very well-studied and well-understood. The fibers get into the lungs; the body can not get them out of the lungs; they cause persistent cell-damage as they mechanically rupture lung cells; and then the resulting chronic inflammation eventually causes cancer.

Because it's so well understood, we also know how to protect against asbestos. If the fibers are never airborn, they can't get into the lungs. If you're wearing an N95 mask or respirator, they can't get into the lungs. If you can cough them out in the moment, they don't stay in the lungs. Once they're in the lungs, you're pretty well screwed. It's a sliding scale of how screwed, with more exposure causing more cancer risk, but the fibers are not coming out and will continue rolling cancer dice while they're in there.

Having asbestos in your walls or ductwork is not going to kill you - the asbestos fibers aren't in the air. Doing a DIY reno on your asbestos-containing walls absolutely can kill you, and there have been cases of mesothelioma linked exactly to that.
like this:

https://app.suno.ai/song/ebe24f8b-f50f-43f3-8062-2c081d7c9dc...

(this is the old v2 algorithm available to free users)
Preface: Dive into Systems
Absolutely. He also scratches my How It's Made itch. Another one to look at would be Practical Engineering, for the Civil Engineering side of things.

As a Mechanical Engineer, I love how Bill able to present technical subjects in a way that accessible to people up and down the mechanical aptitude spectrum. More than once I've considered "How would Bill say it?" when I needed to communicate technical things.

https://www.youtube.com/@PracticalEngineeringChannel
I say this with full understanding of the situation you are describing: ignoring accessibility is not a reasonable cost saving measure, to a degree is immoral, and ignores that almost everyone will be temporary or permanently in need of accessibility at some point.

Not every object needs accessibility - a flashlight might not need braille - but this should be the absolute exception that proves a business is viable in its delivery.
I think the "Peak Oil" mindset peaked in the 70s.

While solar, wind and hydro seem infinite - they don't just magically reach the end user. Solar requires solar panels which have a finite life span. Same for all the other energy sources.

Oil has done so well for so long because its such an energy dense resource, works in so many operating conditions, and is readily available and shipped to nearly everywhere. It's really quite incredible.

Yes, there are likely negative effects from using it - but I'd expect to see that energy source play a critical role in resolving those issues too.
I have a blog post by Norvig where he gently chides me for wasting enormous amounts of CPU trying to find a counterexample to the Beale Conjecture.
Not exactly frameable, and not exactly something to be proud of, but I got a chuckle nonetheless.
White Lighting was really a sprite editor packaged with an interrupt driven DSL for games, but back before DSL was a term. Forth was a good choice for a compiled target on the platforms back then, given the constraints. Ironically I do ruby now.
Libraries are not archives of books. They are community hubs. My local library has programs for seniors with early mental impairments to do puzzles with volunteers to slow the progression of their decline. Another has programs for street youth.
I have fond memories of reading this book as a teenager. I was watching an introduction to computer science course online. I think maybe from Yale or MIT, and the professor recommended Hacker's Delight. It was a beginner class teaching C, and I mostly only had experience with BASIC.

Back then I barely understood binary, and pointers completely confused me. I remember most of the book feeling like a collection of magic tricks. Sometimes I pull it out to rekindle that sense of wonder.
The time my job as a software engineer will be obsoleted by AI is the day singularity happens, and then we will have much much bigger problems. Anything less is just so far from it, that it is a laughable excuse of a code generator.
First, you might want to refresh your understanding of the scientific process. Its first step is "Observation/question." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method

Next, the acceptability of journal papers without conclusive experiments varies across fields. In some fields, such as observational sciences (e.g., astronomy, ecology, sociology), observational studies are common and valuable contributions to the literature. These studies often involve collecting and analyzing data from real-world observations, surveys, or existing datasets without the need for controlled experiments. In such cases, it is perfectly acceptable to publish papers based solely on observational data.

When you say, "is not enough," the question I respond with is "enough for what?" It's fully acceptable to publish a paper with observations in order to stimulate interest and encourage further research in the area. It's not necessary for a journal to require final results.

Finally, consider some of these famous and important papers which were published as observations without conclusive results. Should they have held back and waited until conclusive results were available?

1. Edwin Hubble's "A Relation between Distance and Radial Velocity among Extra-Galactic Nebulae"

2. Albert Einstein's "The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity"

3. Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"
This is like the argument from magic, no? For you, any sufficiently complex system that responds to language might be conscious? Are babies less conscious than ChatGPT to you?
I think the concern is people might use the label out of caution if Adobe has some automatic AI enhancement in your video editor or whatever?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39746806
Well done US, leading the world as always
Most places I have worked had Nagios or other monitoring in place for the certs but there is always some end point that nobody in operations new about. The most common were things added by marketing outside of normal change control. Those were self induced horror stories for the marketing team I suppose. I this case if you had a tool I think your best bet would be to partner with all the CMS providers that marketing teams or any team that tends to skip change control tend to use and make it a value added service.

I've also seen some certs expired for obscure government endpoints used to validate information about people. The most challenging part of that was not technical but rather finding someone that could fix it and cared enough to treat it with any level of urgency. The only option to monitor those was internal monitoring tools as they are in most cases firewall restricted meaning any tool someone makes would have to be self hosted. We would notify them ahead of time. Then notify them again. Then try to call someone. The bigger challenge with these was not expiration but rather chain validation when they would not install intermediate certs and then expect us to install of their certs on our tens of thousands of servers as a work around. Nobody would believe me if I said which agency had this problem the most often but this will be our little secret.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002239992...
How would you know?

It premieres in 3 days? (March 21, 2024)

Or you were at sxsw? In which case you mean the first episode was amazing?
Indeed. You can literally spend as little effort as physically possible working on accessibility, and you will still be doing better than way too many businesses, and people with disabilities will still give you props for your literal minimal compliance.
I would definitely prefer end to end AC over cycling in >30c heat
The UK's relative decline has gone on long enough, time for a new strategy
thanks bro :3
Failed stable diffusion test. Obviously a good idea but no the tech doesn't deliver.
websockets and sse are a big headache to manage at scale, especially backend, requires special observability, if not implemented really carefully on mobile devices its a nightmare to debug on frontend side

devices switch off network or slow down etc,... for battery conservation, or when you don't explicitly do the I/O using a dedicated API for it.

new connection setup is a costly operation, the server has to store the state somewhere and when this stateful layer faces any issue, clients keep retrying and timing out. forever stuck on performing this costly operation. it's not like there is an easy way to control the throughput and slowly put the load on database

reliability wise long polling is the best one IME, if event based flow is really important, even then its better to have a 2 layer backend, where frontend does long polling on the 1st layer which then subscribes to websockets to the 2nd layer backend. much better control in terms of reliability
I'm sorry, but this "sneering" attitude is hideous. It's OK to do this job yourself if you have enough experience. It's also OK to not do it yourself because it is, in fact, dangerous. It's also OK to suggest that other DIY'ers err on the side of caution if they aren't 100% confident.

What's not OK is insisting broadly to man up and do it yourself, stop being helpless, etc. You could encourage an innocent person to severely injure themselves. It's pointless and irresponsible.
Yes, it also puts the ideal of self-reliance in perspective: While some level of self-reliance can be desirable, there is tremendous value in specialization and trade.
Yeah for a decent period of time, the accessibility of Dropbox's desktop app was entirely dependent on one passionate blind forum user who called us out (politely!) every time we messed something up. It was a great, productive relationship that led to us continuing to release test builds on the forums for longer than we would otherwise have done so.
The goal of protein folding simulations like Folding@Home is not to predict 3D structures - it's to understand how folding actually works, and why it sometimes doesn't work. When FAH came out it was already very obvious that there were good computational shortcuts to predicting the end state (the Rosetta approach), but those don't tell you very much about the physical process. Different questions call for different approaches.
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Betteridge's Law of Headlines [0] remains undefeated.

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