skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was addressed in the article:

The relationship between the theoretical computer scientists in mathematics and the applied ones in engineers is a little like the relationship between biologists and doctors, or physicists and bridge builders. Keeping applied and pure versions of a discipline separate allows each to focus on its expertise, but limits the degree to which one can learn from the other.

It's a bit like the difference between writing about film and making a film. Unless noted otherwise, a person writing about film has little to no filmmaking experience... Hence, I am always surprised when people are surprised that someone who majored in computer science can't program.

The upshot is that the writer agrees with you (and expands that agreement into a larger theory about what college education should be for).
This uses CSS selectors and can be run from the commandline.
Do GLP1 agents go through the brain blood barrier?
What is going on in the third example?

"Let a,b,m,n be integers, and suppose that b^2 = 2a^2 ..."

So,
(b^2)/(a^2)=2
b/a = sqrt(2)

or, in other words, sqrt(2) is rational. then it goes and uses this in the rest of the example.
Same here. It's a tool and this is really the best part: it's a tool and I like it too. :)
Because the workers taking your order are doing other stuff that a robot can't do, and they can't be paid $9 less an hour for not taking orders on top of that other stuff.
here's an alternative I've used in the past:
pup
https://github.com/ericchiang/pup
Dune Genesis (1980)
The pinetime looks nice. Everything else I really want to see succeed... But it's fairly hacker-y. I like open source, but I'm not really a big fan of hackers-only stuff that doesn't just work.
That's a romantic idea until you realize you're now dealing and subservient to the dredges of society, the worst kinds of customers, the worst kind of people. Far worse than a niche market specialized technology sales prospect. Get ready to have a new contempt for humanity. Get ready to be raked over the coals by Yelp.
The crucial difference is that ELIZA's scripts were made by hand and a modern LLM has gigabytes of "scripts" that were learned automatically. They're not really comparable.

We didn't know how to do this learning, or have the data and hardware to do the training on back then.
I think it's actually a good move here, using a real language would invite too many comments getting caught in the weeds along the lines of: "actually the language does X, Y and Z to implement coroutines which this article skips over"
In the US? It absolutely is protected speech.

Your test sentence fails the Brandenburg test: it is not "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action", nor "likely to incite or produce such action."

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/brandenburg_test
You can have the blue pill or the red pill, and we're out of blue pills (2023)
> "and is completely free"

It's not completely free. [0] A set of features are available free. The complete set of features runs > $4/month, depending on whether you pay monthly or yearly.

[0] https://workflowy.com/pricing/
Define exactly what you mean by "a swarm of satellites"? Each satellite in a GPS style constellation (and I haven't looked into the details, but I believe that all of the major GPS competitors use the same technique- Galileo, GLONASS, Beidou) has its own atomic clock in space and really can only do satellite navigation stuff[1]. Generally speaking, in the medium altitude orbits preferred for this mission, 24 is minimum for world-wide network. Having some more of these specific, large satellites is good: it helps you have more of them in sight at any given moment anywhere in the world, which should give you better accuracy, though having them too close to each other doesn't really help that much, and it helps to have some in reserve so if there is a problem with one you can activate another and quickly fill the gap. According to wiki there are 31 GPS sats operational (plus four in orbit but on reserve), 31 (plus five in orbit but on reserve) Beidou, 23 operational Galileo, and 24 GLONASS operational. So you can see that all of the major operations are at about the same number of satellites for a traditional global satellite navigation system.

It might be possible to do a different technique and use a swarm of internet satellites: something like how the TRANSIT (aka NAVSAT) system could, in theory, provide navigation from satellite internet machines. In practice you'd need to know each member of the swarm's orbits very precisely to have sufficient accuracy with their Doppler shift, which means that you prefer station-keeping burns to be infrequent[2], and because they are in low orbit- lots of drag, so they need to regularly burn- that's harder to do (this is why the existing systems use medium orbits). Also, a TRANSIT style operation can't really give you turn-by-turn directions on your cellphone, it was about updating a very powerful submarine inertial guidance system with big honking mechanical gyroscopes every few days, the INS on your phone isn't nearly good enough to handle turn-by-turn directions with TRANSIT update rates.

1: Japan has their own Just Japan system, QZSS, which I have vague memories is different, but I don't remember enough to explain it.

2: The way these systems work, you can never really have more accuracy than you know the satellites location in space. In general, you want ground based systems to track and update orbital parameters after every satellite burn to get the necessary accuracy.
Leqembi is the only FDA-approved disease-modifying agent. There are a few others that delay the progression of dementia by about 6 months.
From [1]:

> We demonstrate that our RAG approach trains the model to perform better RAG on the set of documents it is trained on i.e., in-domain. By removing the oracle documents in some instances of the training data, we are compelling the model to memorize domain-knowledge.

What if you wanted to train it to say that it didn't find the answer?

[1] https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/blogs/9_raft.html
I have no problem with a brain dump :)

Really appreciate the kind words! Indeed, actually launching is hard. Like everyone, I've got a big pile of abandoned side projects sitting in a folder somewhere.

I think we're pretty aligned on staying organized. For me, the most important bit is "capture". I need to be able to get tasks out of my head and into a task tracker from as many places as possible. Then later I can triage them.

Godspeed attempts to help with this by offering a global hotkey for quick entry, and an iOS app with Siri and shortcuts support. We also intend to add "log a task by email" soon.
Isn't parsing html not like xml? I recall you need a special and weird algorithm to parse html properly. Was a long time ago though, dunno if that was "fixed".
The people holding the money bags who don't want the inefficiencies removed, will have their money bags removed by people who do.

Not instantly and not perfectly though. Inefficiency can be very resistant to change as you are pointing out.
Developed Economies Could Stagnate as Fossil Fuels Reach Their Limits
That strongly reminds me on telerik themebuilder: https://themebuilderapp.telerik.com/
They allow you to inspect the designs like a dev mode but once you start customising it they charge you for "define a variable". I really hope this is no behavior to enforce devs to pay for IDE functionalities in the future.
I am not seeing any mention of a certain US security state 'investor'that gave them a bunch of money and PR, either in the article or in comments. I suppose it's uncouth within polite company to speak of such things.

We now have a single organization shaping the information access patterns of the people all over the world ostensibly paid by ads. Right.
I had the same experience with twitter, but I decided to be difficult about it: after about a month of daily complaints, they finally unblocked my account, without (of course) ever admitting that they had blocked it solely to squeeze a phone number out of me.

Turns out, I have no real use for their service, and I can't remember when I last logged in; but it felt like a moral victory.
I think there is a difference between a message board where everyone sees the same messages and surveillance software which spy on users to build behavioral profiles, which are then used to tailor content for each user. The surveillance software is an active participant in the conversation. It is no longer merely the medium.
Agreed. My comment was more relating to the fact that comments about 'what' something is, aren't as helpful as answering the 'why', which you just did. =)
One interesting idea that got lost in the last 10 years was "push compute to the data", saving a network transfer.

It seems like these days most systems prefer the flexibility of separate data/compute and are willing to pay the network tax for it.
> The 3rd rail of course, is that to fix that you would likely either enter a 'culture war' with each side challenging the others, or you just have to go back to a non-engagement tuned way to deliver updates

There is another option, to give users choice and control over the algorithms and content moderation. Bluesky had a recent blog post outlining their Stacked Moderation scheme and open sources project that allows anyone to create a moderation server, which you can use in Bluesky. It would seem this ought to apply to the feeds as well, which they seem to offer a better paradigm than Twitter etc Al already, but not yet what I'm talking about
LLMs are increasingly good at your 40 year old soft social skills like humility, so don't bank on that being worth much very long.
Those position counts don't account for blunders or bad tactics which the players will take advantage of in order to simplify and win. In go, any move that lets your opponent cut you off is highly likely a blunder, so counting every other move other than the obvious one you have to play in order to not lose is pretty useless. You can also call it a bad move if you are not under an immediate threat and you are not invading. (this is a guess, I am not a go player) So counting the rest of the moves developing in your territory is also useless.
> I am not sure when my `yahoo.com` account was created but it was in the late 1990s. I have never ever used the address anywhere. It gets lots of spam.

Mine has been around since October of 1996. It, too, gets lots of spam.

> I have a low single-digit Slashdot account.

A friend of mine has slashdot uid of 6. He must have known the original crew.
Could be implemented by processing the output of jq
I don't know why they are referring to this as a "nurse." Sure there are some nurses like NP's that can give medical advice. Most nurses in a hospital setting are hands on and in-person interacting with patients implementing care as prescribed by MD's. A video call on a tablet is not going to replace that.

I could see this replacing tele visits. Of course, what happens when this AI reads a Summary of Benefits and Coverage document from an insurer and can only respond with "unfortunately your plan does not allow me to..."
That really, really depends.

Some of them, once you got a drink or two in them, would tell you about the indignity of academia: teaching 101 classes to kids who would rather not be there, scrabbling for grant money, the bitter jockeying for resources. Sure, you get your true-blue types, but they were largely outnumbered by people haunted by the sunk cost fallacy. And it's not really about nice cars, it's about "being able to arrive at the class you are teaching on time because your car doesn't break down every five minutes."
What made it pump this time anyway? It’s been weird because I don’t see a lot of buzz. Last big pump had every airport I visit and the Super Bowl plastered with crypto ads. This one has been virtually silent, which is either a very bullish sign or a sign that it’s manipulated and totally hollow.
Any chance for me at 45 and without stellar academic background? Or just hope for better chance next life?
I guess in my research (which has involved proofs), I haven't always known where a proof would lead a priori? I don't usually start with a statement I want and then look to prove it, it's more like I explore various derivations to see where they lead (probably with some kind of hunches), and then some of them end up in an interesting place.

But yes, I agree some kind of AI-ish guided suggestion process would be interesting. You'd have to quantify "interesting" probably to build such a thing but I suspect it could be done.
If I recall correctly, hbase performance problems had a lot to do with jdk 1.6 garbage collection, rather than the data location strategy.
As a former Alzheimer's researcher, this is a big fucking deal. It puts together a lot of clues (APOE risk, microglia) and finds a theory that makes a lot of sense. All around the world, there are labs pulling late nights trying to figure out how to drug this.
There's a really interesting paradox where, compared to healthy adults, intramuscular lipid droplet storage near mitochondria is increased in:
1) People with obesity
2) People with type 2 diabetes
3) People who do endurance exercise

Even though #3 is highly protective against #1 and #2. The best explanation I've seen is that the important difference is why the lipid droplets are being deposited [1]

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00424-005-1509-0
> "Real" information like this is way [too] expensive for companies like this to have.

Or rather, mistakes are not expensive enough to deter them from over-collecting and under-protecting.
It depends on what the computer is doing. My home server runs 24/7 and idles around 80W. I have a backup server at my parents house that uses about the same amount of power but it only needs to be one once a week for an hour while I run my backup. Why would I have it wasting power doing nothing the other 99% of the time? So I have a Raspberry Pi that sets up a reverse SSH tunnel to my house which idles under 2W. I use that to send the Wake On LAN packet to the server.
To make a labored analogy I think we are doing a terrible job of maintaining the internet and access to information for future generations.

Every time we make publishing content online easier for the masses, we lose a chunk of the people who would have grown their skills to get their message out. Cloud providers, social media, bullshit like Cloudflare, etc. preventing people from learning how to do it themselves. After enough iterations there won't be enough people who know how the cloud works to keep the cloud going.
I think that's more because software is in everything and the product that software is in is what gets the liability as a whole.

iirc, the Toyota breaking issue & lawsuit was ultimately a software issue. The code was such a mess that I decided I wouldn't buy Toyota again. This was maybe 8-10 years ago
Bill Gates used to call people idiots to their face all the time
If a platform wants section 230 protection, then it can't use a content display algorithm because that is editorial control.

[edit] I stand corrected.
But a restriction would halt service once the money is gone. You can go into debt faster than you can respond to an alert.
> And what exactly is the output, other than talks and some programming learning tools for children?

The papers and demos are the output. They were a research outfit, not a startup. OP claimed that Kay "never offers anything but the most vague suggestions" when he (et. al.) provided several very concrete working demos. It's hardly his fault if no one took him up on them, is it? (FWIW I suspect some of their work had an effect on MS Word & Excel UI but I don't know for sure.)

> I haven't seen any significant new insights or advances.

Where have you looked? Did you read the papers that VPRI published? OMeta has been mentioned else-thread, I like that Nile programming language, the COLA system seems neat.
I've put together probably 50 sets over the past 5-6 years. I pretty much only buy the largest sets they make, especially Technic. I doubt I have many sets under 1500 pieces.

I've yet to find a single missing piece so far. Many times we thought a piece would be missing, only to find it trying to escape somewhere. The plastic bags carry a pretty heavy static charge in dry winter conditions, and the tiny pieces love to stick inside those in the corners where they somehow turn damn near invisible.

To be honest the quality control is pretty unbelievable. If someone tells me they had 6 sets with missing pieces over the past 5 years my initial reaction would simply be to not believe them as it's so easy to misplace a piece during a 2,000+ piece week-long build. I've misplaced dozens to the point of having to order replacements from ebay or whatnot - only to find the pieces lurking around my house before the new parts even arrive. The joke of the household is you need to order a replacement part and then you'll find what you're missing a few hours later by complete accident.

I've found pieces in the strangest places. If you accidentally sit on one they will basically become one with your flesh, and I've found random pieces floating in the tub completely unexpectedly.

Knocking on wood my luck (and Legos QC) continues.
ETFs, supposedly. I am pretty suspicious of anything that gets pumped up when it becomes easier for normies to trade it.
Right? I have friends who are nurses, sitting at home and taking video calls regarding the delivery of medical advice is almost precisely the polar opposite of what they do. In many cases they're even legally prohibited from doing so!
Way down under the multiplayer fixes:

> "Mitigated potential remote code execution issue."

Would be interested to learn more or see a postmortem of that issue
Hadoop and family fell squarely in the category of something where I always felt I was missing something important. Because it was being discussed everywhere, but I could never match it up with a problem I needed to solve, even though we were dealing with other “big data” systems.
I think it's the ETFs + retail investors.
Because he repeatedly ignored fellow researchers pointing out that the seismic activity he attributed to interstellar impact did not differ from seismic activity recorded at that location whenever a heavy truck drove on the main road near the detector.

Although I agree with you that "humiliating" might be too loaded a word (but it drives clicks, so here we are).
Tron has whitelisted tether to mint USDT.
If it does boost that hypothesis, what then? Are there things you can do aside from the basic focus on diet, exercise, and sleep?
The mad dreams of an electric mind
You should believe it. They reach a high of $450,000 in 2014 dollars, so well over $500,000 now: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/cost-of-buying-a-taxi-li...

They were at that price because of artificial scarcity. They created a tidy income stream for the governments who sold them, who found by limiting supply the prices when auction rose spectacularly. The net result was not enough taxi's to fill natural demand, while taxi drivers paid to delivery an artificially limited service were paid stuff all. This wasn't unique to Sydney - the model was repeated all over the world; they just copied it.

It created the perfect environment for Uber to step into. Because it was copied everywhere it was a huge, worldwide market. To exploit it Uber had to knowingly break the law, and lie about it. You can see that reflected in Uber's highly criticised internal culture at the time. The governments and taxi drivers fought Uber tooth and nail. Where I live taxi inspectors booking rides with Uber, and fining the drivers for not having a licence. Uber responded with technology, using their apps to track their phones and modify what they saw. The inspectors saw no Uber drivers around. It was open warfare for a while, technology vs the law. Technology won in that case. Uber's "it's all about me, whatever it takes to win" culture was probably a necessary part of that victory. Now the war has been won I see Uber is changing it's culture.

Here in Australia, the taxi licence owners watched the value of their licences evaporate overnight under Ubers assault. When it became evident the huge debts they took on to finance the licences meant they had no hope of competing against Uber commercially, they sued the government over the inflated prices they were forced to pay. The government responded to the law suit by saying no one forced them, they were sold at auction. The courts largely sided with the governments, perhaps because they have near infinite legal resources and the taxi's were broke. Some governments later did hand some "sorry" payments to the taxi drivers, but there were more token amounts.

So the real reason for the enormous pain the taxi's have had to endure (I'm sure it cause financial ruin and suicides) is taxi's licenses were effectively a very poorly implemented tax. When a business discovered how to use new technology to exploit the opportunity created by that tax, it wasn't the drafters of the law who suffered, it was the taxi's. They have my sincere sympathy.
It wasn't an interesting idea, it was a footgun. There's nothing naturally advantageous about the machine your process happens to be running on. In the era of very large machines there may be substantial contention for the block device that by coincidence is in the same chassis as your CPU.
Even Apple's $2B fine seemingly hasn't stopped its beef with Spotify
That's largely correct. HTML5 changed the status quo from "eh, it should be XML but every browser applies its own weird hacks" to "well, the hacks still apply but at least they're defined by the standard now". The proper solution would have been XHTML, but we can't have nice things.

This seems to use html5ever[0], which is a "proper" HTML browser also used by the Servo browser.

[0]: https://github.com/servo/html5ever
I think I'll have some yellow ones.
This guy is achieving internet fame for all the wrong reasons. What he did was pretty dumb and definitely over-the-line transgressive, but now he's gonna be a poster child for Perverts Anonymous.

Is it true what they say that there is no such thing as bad publicity? Maybe he can parlay this thing into some kind gig as influencer, or content creator, or something.
Not only drink, but all animals always prefer rainwater in puddles, or other random "unclean" (by modern human standards) containers vs. pumped ground water. There is a lesson there for humans, if only we would pay attention.
Denying a motion to dismiss is much less meaningful than this editorialized title (by The Register) suggests.
I thought the issue was not Unsafe methods (which are only just now starting to be marked for removal) but rather various bytecode weaving libraries like javassist. As the JDKs progressively enforce bytecode verification more strictly these libraries sometimes run afoul of the new restrictions. (I speak from a little experience here, managed a somewhat involved upgrade path from 7 to 8 way back in the day which had this issue.)
That just isn't true.
I agree. And it feels crazy that 2 lightbulbs consumed more than that power a few decades ago.
This is an interesting perspective. I've recently been playing with sequent calculus, and I'm writing everything upside-down because I'm starting with the statement to prove and applying the derivations mechanically to produce the proof tree.

But hearing how you approach proofs makes the standard directionality make much more sense.
made a video to explain the concept easily https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yECKKA44YJA
California Must Triple Rate of Carbon Emissions Reductions to Reach 2030 Target
The difference is that with the one-time payment you get to keep the version you have forever, including bug fixes, compatibility updates, and cloud sync, which are all ongoing costs for us.

With the subscription, you lose access when you stop paying.

So I think it is pretty comparable to an old school one-time payment, but with bug fixes and compatibility updates added on top.