skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which speaks to maybe that cargo should just ship with sccache turned on by default so that the “normal” experience for developing Rust has this seamless experience. Intelligent caching should always win. I’d like to see rustc get sccache integration that works at the MIR level too so that changing something that doesn’t change the code gen meaningfully still gets a cached response (e.g. changing some comments/whitespace, moving functions around, etc).

Even cooler would be if LLVM itself could also cache internal expensive parts of compilation and optimization across process instances. That would make a huge impact in cutting down incremental builds.
We tried the "no material consumption" thing for a few hundred thousand years. It was slightly unpleasant. This material consumption thing though, it's got its pluses. We probably need to feed higher up on the energy food chain, now lower. Fission, fusion, and whatever is above that.
iOS and Android largely do this for you as long as you use the platform's accessibility features.
Honestly that sounds like a problem with the way you are managing prs. The PRs are too big or you are overly nitpicking prs on unimportant things
Not well. You'd need to know which user-agent strings the AI scrapers use, which is impossible to enumerate.
> Not sure I'd want burning things on a boat

It is difficult to get much in the way of hot food or even hot coffee on a boat without burning things.

What about an electric stove, you ask? Well... that just moves the burning from the stove to the generator, unless you are wealthy enough to own a very large boat with a very large bank of very expensive batteries.
s/try/train/
"Productive" may have been a poor word choice. When faced with a sea of AI-driven options people will be looking for a differentiator. The human touch will be the differentiator. There will probably be a lot of efforts to authenticate human involvement.

Consider the alternative. A million models all competing for human dollars. How can any of them succeed if they are all interchangeable? It stops mattering that they are better than humans if they can't make money.
AIUI, I'm myself way below BBS age too, I believe you sign in to a shell program to someone else's *nix box that offers BBS features. The shell that spawns at the remote side is a stripped down ncurses program rather than being /bin/bash.

The program allows narrow range of actions such as `ls /var/bbs/threads/`, `cat /var/bbs/threads/$1`, or `cat | sed -e s/^/\n$(whoami),$(date)\twrote:/ >> /var/bbs/threads/$1.txt`. The grumpy neckbeards with accounts on the remote system would have extensive secret sauce for `/usr/bin/expect` that can aggregate changes for each file so they can catch up to the latest flamewars happening there, while it wouldn't be a requirement to be explained how far away you are on spectrum, or something along that.

idk. More than happy to be corrected.
One point needs correcting though - nowhere in the article I say that node is outperforming C, on the contrary - I stressed that I didn't use any flags so that people don't come to a conclusion that C would be always slower, and I explicitly mentioned not get fixated on such benchmarks.

What it was meant to show is that V8 is *good enough* to even consider it for the job :)
>How do you know?

I've seen it happen multiple times, once to myself.
I don’t think it’s particularly controversial to state that non-European cultures were making and working steel. I think it’s fairly revisionist (a narrative outside the academic mainstream) to state they passed this knowledge to Europeans and this knowledge was useful in at scale steel making (implying that Bessemer process has its origins outside of Europe/America).
MD static sites are great, but changing your content layout is fun for no one
I would never agree with this statement of the author: "You won’t stop until everybody is using your app." Why ? All the apps I ever build (or participate in their development) where targeted to the fit the most, without sacrificing the business requirements or other important/critical aspects of the app. Otherwise will end-up with an unusable product.
> My attention has lately turned to the possibilities offered by ‘new’ materials, especially ceramics.

Are new materials, such as ceramics, recyclable?
>>>>> We’re going to look at a dead simple, cat-themed, companion app I created especially for this article. <<<<<

Reading that sent me a chill. So now people are creating new app for each article! Reading further, I understand why it had to be done for this article, but just imagine. Now a days even one-off events have dedicated APP for visitors management. What next, one for each booth of the event.
Huh, in those closing remarks Adam Smith appears to care about wealth inequality per se, that's slightly surprising.
In a crowded field filled with things like The Boys/Gen V, Blue-Eyed Samurai, Shogun, Invincible, Stranger Things, and Chernobyl, Severance is literally my favorite. thing. ever. Hands down. No question. I'm dying for another season, and I desperately hope that there's a single, definitive story they hope to tell within a another season or 3, and then stop.
Indeed... this term is about as useful as "chemical" or the general usage of the word "toxin". It can mean a lot of things and is generally ill-defined, but it somehow always manages to sound scary.
1:05 - OpenAI board saga - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvqFAi7vkBc&t=65s

18:31 - Ilya Sutskever - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvqFAi7vkBc&t=1111s

24:40 - Elon Musk lawsuit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvqFAi7vkBc&t=1480s

34:32 - Sora - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvqFAi7vkBc&t=2072s

44:23 - GPT-4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvqFAi7vkBc&t=2663s

55:32 - Memory & privacy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvqFAi7vkBc&t=3332s

1:02:36 - Q* - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvqFAi7vkBc&t=3756s

1:06:12 - GPT-5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvqFAi7vkBc&t=3972s

1:09:27 - $7 trillion of compute - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvqFAi7vkBc&t=4167s

1:17:35 - Google and Gemini - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvqFAi7vkBc&t=4655s

1:28:40 - Leap to GPT-5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvqFAi7vkBc&t=5320s

1:32:24 - AGI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvqFAi7vkBc&t=5544s

1:50:57 - Aliens - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvqFAi7vkBc&t=6657s
People said it would take twice as long to make two versions of the same frontend, so they spent a hundred times as long making crossplatform, responsive, accessible GUIs that often feel terrible to use no matter who the user is.
If anyone saw this and also read the books please say how the show is and if it’s worth watching! The books were excellent.
> Couldn't this be handled in robots.txt?

That would require knowing all the user agents that would scrape content, assuming that you want to only exclude AI scrapers and not search engines in general.

OpenAI's user agent is GPTBot[1], I am not sure about the others.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37030568
> No. I have a monopoly on faucets made to my design, not on faucets generally.

You can try to subdivide any particular market but you still can't get yourself out of the second half of the post: If the products were actually substitutes then the prices would approach the marginal cost. If they're not, they're not.

College textbooks are an obvious example of this. Anybody can make "math textbook" but only one of them will have the homework problems your professor will assign in them, so you need that one and the publisher has a monopoly.
All binary operations can be reduced down to NAND gates, so in a sense all your computer does is that one operation given a variety of inputs.
This is what I've been told to take by my provider, and I've been taking it for at least 5+ years.
Or, if you’re building for clients with a traditional “enterprise” and “secure” IT infrastructure: add refresh buttons and call it a day.
If there’s one thing in my experience that consistently fails in these environments and cannot be fixed due to endless red tape, it’s trying to make real-time work for these type of clients.
It's really not. It's fine, at best. The exapanse is so much better
> What's the point of using Docker for PHP apps?

Same reason you'd use Docker for anything, why would it matter if it's Python, PHP or Rust?

Is there something specific about the language that makes Python (or other language) more suitable with Docker for you, compared to PHP?

(Personally I only use Docker when I start to deal with multiple hosts/distributed architecture, which doesn't happen a lot tbh)
Thats a fair point, and I agree some people are primed to be defensive- perhaps rightly so. It seems quite common for people make broad cynical assessments of society and others, and then make exceptions, opposite to the opposite.

Part of this is a human inclination to focus on problems that need fixing, and forget what is working well.

As an example, my initial gut inclination is to agree with your condemnation of social definitions of successes (materialistic, commercial, ect). However, when I slow down question it, I don't think it actually matches my personal experience of society. I certainly don't think it is true for myself, my friends, neighbors, and acquaintances, who mostly have views I find much more attractive (e.g. they all think success is living a life of integrity, thoughtfulness, happiness, and love).

Maybe I have done a great job of building a bubble and my personal data is driven by selection bias. However, I am more inclined to think that something similar to the fundamental attribution error[1] is at play when making general judgements about society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error

That part of your posts that I don't understand is what seems to be a hostility or cynicism around introspection in general. You say things like:

>[it] actually reveals what they are really more useful for specifically: gain power without any purpose or meaning.

>To what end? Oftentimes, that tale goes...

This comes off (to me), as if you genuinely think these things are bad. If not, Im curious if you expect people to understand you are intentionally being provocative by steel manning a position you dont hold?
To answer your question, yes.

I really enjoyed this book, and it sounds you might too

The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are Paperback – February 1, 1994
by Henry Petroski (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Useful-Things-Artifacts-Zip...
or r/animetitties
I agree. We need more supply to push prices down. It’s too bad for the people who bought at the peak, but it makes housing more accessible which is a good thing.
Smashing, not grinding. Not nearly as fine. Also, chemistry of food is very complicated... even if we stipulate that it's getting basically powder-ized in either case, if there's head involved in the process at any point it will behave very differently if it's pulverized before or after. (Think grinding flour vs chewing bread). I'll admit I'm now curious if plain, normal flour meets the definition of 'ultra processed'.
I read something saying blending in industrial food production affects absorption into the body which is thought to cause some of tut negative effects. So yes, the industrial production methods are also implicated.
> 1000Hz monitor

Wouldn't you have to first upgrade to faster cells in your retinas?

A glance through some research in this area doesn't indicate a benefit to going beyond 250 Hz.
Most of the comments here recognize the risks of vague and broad language versus writing targeted legislation for current problems and updating as things progress.
How do these low-quality studies come about? Who is paying for them?
The symptoms sounded like burnout from the beginning. Hypochondria is a common symptom of stress, depression, and other mental disorders. A scary and confusion symptom when one does not have tendencies for it normally. There isn't one clean piece of evidence for any energy weapon or attack hypothesis. It's about time the mass hysteria surrounding Havana syndrome is laid to rest.
For all mankind is bad now, sorry. S1 and 2 were great, once it hit the 80's it all went to hell.
That’s a very loose definition of “correct code”.

If you write out of bounds or occasionally read memory you didn’t allocate and how do you know you get away with it, so that you can declare the code “correct”? Your program may crash only once in a thousand years.

In my book it still would be incorrect as soon as it breaks the interface contract of the API, even if it never crashed or misbehaved.

Also, in your definition, you can’t complain if a program stops running after even a tiny OS upgrade it wasn’t “purposely built for”, for example because it that didn’t exist yet at the time the program was compiled.
JetBrains' Temporary Solution for macOS 14.4 Issue with Java
Most dogs & cats, even cattle, drink rainwater all the time.
It’s generally less of a legal liability and more of a reputation thing; as you grow you will get more and more users telling you off. See Wordle for an easy example.

Plus, its not that hard to do correctly, so the “we’re a startup on a critical burn rate” stops working as an excuse rather early
Official documentation: https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/rp2040/rp2040-datasheet.p..., Booting is page 130 ff
Be bold, start cold!
Appreciate your concern about spamming but please fix your url. Very painful esp on mobile
> Right, but the average person would go on a trip requiring these pills very, very sporadically. Imagine going camping or hiking irregularly throughout the year but needing to take these pills 20+ times?

Couldn't you just take it a few days before you go camping or hiking each time?
Infinite scrolling, at least in most implementations, makes it almost impossible to find historic content. This could be useful e.g. to journalists and researchers, but even as a private individual I would sometimes love to be able to see what person XY posted in, say, 2019.

In other words, infinite scrolling works in "pure consumption" contexts. You'd never want to add infinite scrolling to some backoffice admin interface.
I read the first one and, while it's definitely epic, I couldn't get past the terrible dialog and cardboard characters. I get the nerd appeal, but just because you're mainlining hard sci-fi doesn't mean you should have to put up with awful writing. Reminded me of Ready Player One.

I dunno - I guess if the concept is grand enough, maybe it's worth putting on the waders and slogging through the rest of the series.
The benefit of these innovation generally don't accrue at all to the bottom half and minimally to the next quartile. As someone not in the top quartile I would given the chance much prefer to be an EU citizen both in general and in respect to this regulation.
X is too bloated! We need Y, which is leaner and more tailored to our use-case.

(years pass...)

Y is too bloated! We need Z...
Sometime around 1999/2000ish, I built a sort of distributed database application. Early web app days, Perl and PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, and almost no JavaScript. It was for fairly sensitive data that the users were a bit squirrely about sharing, so the idea was that you stored all of the bits you owned on your local node, and you could send a remote query to the whole network and each node would execute it, notify the local owner of the data "hey, Sally wants a copy of this record", and they could choose whether or not to send it back.

Some of these installations were located in the middle of nowhere, and in those days we couldn't count on Internet access of any kind. But the company happened to also own a dial-up ISP... so I came up with a system, which I'm kind of proud of even though it was quick a hack. We ended up piggybacking the whole thing on dial-up e-mail using GPG-encrypted attachments. A couple of times a day, each node would call into the ISP and do a standard POP3 and SMTP routine, processing incoming requests and dropping off outgoing ones. Because it wasn't important for it to be real-time, we made the whole thing work asynchronously with the customer only having to supply a phone line.
That’s fair; I might have been a little gung-ho with this introductory flavour text
Until reading this article I hadn't realized that emotion detection is banned (edit: but confirmed only in workplaces and educational institutions)

I've had it on my list to try integrating Hume.ai (https://www.hume.ai/) into a prototype educational environment I've been playing with. The entirety of their product is emotion detection, so this must be concerning for them.

My own desire is to experiment with something that is entirely complementary to the learner, not coercive, guided by the learner and not providing any external assessment. In this context I feel some ethical confidence in using a wide array of inputs, including emotional assessment. But obviously I see how this could also be misused, or even how what I am experimenting with could be redirected in small ways to break ethical boundaries.

While Hume is a separate stack dedicated to emotional perception, this technology is also embedded elsewhere. GPT's vision capabilities are pretty capable at interpreting expressions. If LLMs grow audio abilities then they might be even better at emotion perception. I don't think you can really separate audio input from emotional perception, and it's not clear whether those emotional markers are intentional or unintentional cues.
Facebook's response is insightful. They only run ads through their own network.

# Facebook.com/ads.txt
#
# Facebook inventory can only be purchased from Facebook advertising
# systems, and cannot be purchased programmatically through open
# exchanges. Therefore there are no authorized sellers or resellers
# listed in this facebook.com/ads.txt file.

https://www.facebook.com/ads.txt
I get that focus is important but I could do without the whole "a randomized algorithm could run a company as well as a CEO" rubbish.
Maybe required by EU law?

Not a friend of accessibility though. It requires so much work to satisfy a small base of users.
Severance is one of the best shows I've ever watched. I can't think of a single thing I dislike about it.
I'm having a really hard time to be optimistic about this. After all, it is still David Benioff and D. B. Weiss behind the scenes, aka the guys who screwed up GOT in a way that was thought to be impossible. I guess they can play more to their strengths with finished source material, but lack of story was clearly just one of many huge problems.
Well the company's job is to detect deep fakes/photoshops. From their site.

Detecting
Authenticity
in the age of AI
We detect AI-generated images to protect the integrity and authenticity of your service.
The endpoint is that being a programmer becomes as obsolete as being a human "calculator" for a career.

Millions, perhaps billions of times more lines of code will be written, and automated programming will be taken for granted as just how computers work.

Painstakingly writing static source code will be seen the same way as we see doing hundreds of pages of tedious calculations using paper, pencil, and a slide rule. Why would you do that, when the computer can design and develop such a program hundreds of times in the blink of an eye to arrive at the optimal human interface for your particular needs at the moment?

It'll be a tremendous boon in every other technical field, such as science and engineering. It'll also make computers so much more useful and accessible for regular people. However, programming as we know it will fade into irrelevance.

This change might take 50 years, but that's where I believe we're headed.
If chatbots aren't saving you time you need to refine what you choose to use them for. They're absolutely amazing at refactoring, producing documentation, adding comments, translating structured text files from one format to another, implementing well known algorithms in newer/niche languages where repository versions might not exist, etc. On the other hand, I've mostly stopped asking GPT4 to write quickstart code for libraries that don't have star counts in the high thousands at least, and while I'll let it convert css/style objects/etc into tailwind I it's pretty bad at styling in general, though it is good at suggesting potentially problematic styles when debugging layout.
>> count your macros

Hes also talking about a whole diet. Making sure that he gets everything he needs and in the right proportion. He's getting exercise.

This is miles away from "I only eat processed food" that some people have moved too. Some without even realizing how much processed food they are eating.
I’ve done it before where I have a big sample project for multiple articles, but tbh it’s a lot easier for me as well to keep everything independent
Just for closure: back on the work machine and it looks fine. If I ever see the "pixelated" form again I'll get in touch (now that I know it's actually not supposed to look that way.)
I was going for 15nm as a base and have absolutely more than likely got my maths wrong, but if there's one way to get an answer on the internet, it's to post an incorrect one ;)

So, thank you.
I get it - what you're saying is a very common-sense regulation. Reasonable people can disagree about this.

But different societies prefer a different balance here.

Americans are used to a more caveat emptor situation. Europeans want more regulation. Which one to choose is a political choice.

What's happening is that the political choice that the EU went with is being forced on the rest of us, whether we like it or not.
He did his manually for some reason and I know it took a few hours.
Please provide citations and what is meant by "high quality", and if you are referring to at scale using blast furnaces vs small artisanal production.
seconding this, it failed to correctly identify an AI image which had the DALL-E watermark clearly visible

what plans are there to guard against people intentionally poisoning your training data by miscategorizing the images they upload for classification?
everyone should be taking this stuff seriously. EU's accessibility act is set to be implemented in 2025 and the US congress also has a bill in the works that mandates greater accessibility across all governments.
While lead is generally considered to not be drinkable, even in desperation, no one's putting the Brita water filters on their faucets to remove lead, and it's silly to even suggest it.
One idea to consider. Make it easier to implement by changing the query syntax.

Instead of a query parameter, which always requires a script to process:

example.com/.well-known/avatar?resource=acct:username@example.com

Make the requested email address part of the path:

example.com/.well-known/avatar/username@example.com

People can put images into their HTTP server directory named as email addresses. This makes it easier to implement for vanity domains. No server-side code necessary. It still allows someone to build a dynamic script that handles the "/.well-known/avatar/" path.
I'm so old phreaking was the only way for me to communicate with people outside my area through BBSs on my C64.
This is awesome! Since some years ago we don't see NLP things that we can run in normal computers we have at home (no, a 24GB GPU still isn't normal). I have some questions:
How much time do you take for training?
Which are the specs of your system?
In total, how much is the training dataset?
Adobe Illustrator user files always had `.ai` file extension
Yes. I'm just noting as currently implemented, it's not very usable.
If they had filtering for the low quality trash, it'd be more useful.
'Havana syndrome': New studies find no major evidence of health impacts
The analogy with Ready Player One is apt. Both are things that my nerd friends raved about but I hated. Three-Body Problem had the excuse of being read (by me) in translation, though.

Another nerd disconnect was all the people who told me I just had to watch "For All Mankind", a hideous alt-future soap opera that nobody should waste their time watching.