skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha ha, that happened to me years ago at a small startup. I spent the first day scavenging spare parts around the office and was able to build a working desktop PC.

Similar thing happened to a friend who joined a large defense contractor. They had stacks of new computers sitting in a storeroom but the workforce was partially unionized and only union electricians were allowed to plug in new computers. Totally crazy, but he had to wait a couple weeks until they got around to it.
I don't know. It likely goes much further back. The main problem is that there is no commonly accepted definition of "intelligence". So to add the modifier "artificial" (an equally fraught term) is just to muddle the topic.

"Artificial Intelligence" is in the end just a metaphor, one that folds quickly under scrutiny.
It’s the equivalent of banning balaclavas to prevent burglaries. Sadly I think it’ll still prove a popular move as most people will lack the technical aptitude to understand that the FlipperZero is not used for car thefts.
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I still find it funny we managed to get image generation working so much better than text.

If you care about veracity then image generation works about as well as text. Frequently you can find details of the image that are just bizarrely wrong, such as hands or food or other basic things. It's the same basic problem: there's no intelligence behind what it's doing, it just regurgitates mostly realistic-seeming pixels that are pretty good at fooling the casual viewer.

Really, it's like those moths with eyespots on them: good at fooling the brain's heuristics but obviously not real.
Maybe your question is the wrong one to ask. My inclination is that a package or library that isn't actively maintained has no utility. If that's the case, then the assumptions underlying that package are perhaps not relevant.

Personally, I'd say it is probably the case that there are better alternatives. Azure Document Intelligence being one of those. Sure, it can't handle the variety of formats, but again, we have to come back to the underlying assumptions: .docx, .pdf, and a few handful of formats probably covers 99% of business use cases. Everything else would be considered niche.
Salammbo's characters are pretty stilted and awkward too, as is the flow of the story (like Dune's, fittingly, since that was its inspiration). But I don't know how much of that is from translation or being ~200 years removed in writing style.
> "reasoning by correlation" as superstition is a brutal insight.

I don’t think he is right on that one, though. Reasoning by correlation is a kind of empiricism, and it can be tested. “These things happen together” or “if I do this, then that happens” can be disproven with statistical analysis even without any understanding of the underlying mechanisms at play their causes.

Superstition is beyond that; it is a belief that cannot be proven and that is not based on logic. The problem with superstition is not that there is no causal link between the supposed cause and the effect, it’s that there is not even a correlation.
And with ebikes, you can easily do 20km (with hills) and not sweat too much.
And ... you can always take a quick shower at the workplace no?

Cycling is not a tour-de-france style of cycling, most ppl can easily cycle 20kmh without much effort...

And why focus only on commute? Commutes benefit more from public transport.

cycling is optimal for short distances, errand-type of trips: nearby shop, school, pharmacy etc
There's plenty of unreliable jack stands, especially the folding tripod-type is easily toppled. I still use these but I put a few LECA-blocks and/or stacks of lumber under the edges of the car to catch it in case the jack stands fail. This never happened but I prefer not to end up a statistic of the ´man found dead under car on farm' type.
>> Others have already mentioned this, but Alan Kay spent his entire career experimenting with approaches to radically simplify computing.

Yes. And yet, he created OOP [1]. Strange.

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[1] Not on his own.
As I understand it they just aren't very practical. Perhaps you could use a superoptimizer in a targeted way, assuming that:

1. The codebase has hot loops of very short sequences (or can be automatically reshaped into this patten)

2. The superoptimising compiler can produce code that significantly outperforms the code generated by ordinary optimising compilers

3. A practical superoptimising compiler exists

I can imagine these assumptions may not hold in practice.

> the compiler can validate the optimizations

A compiler transforms code from one representation to another, it doesn't validate arbitrary transformations.

It's not easy to prove that a given fragment of source-code corresponds to some given assembly code. I've heard of only one instance of this being done. [0]

> untill the preconditions hold

I'm not sure what you mean by this.

[0] https://entropy2018.sciencesconf.org/data/myreen.pdf
Shooting for the google Star and falling short into a mid programming career is a lot better than missing the NBA with not much more than busted knees to show for it.
Because they think it's easier to ban this device than to require auto manufacturers to produce secure locks. Also, people keep voting for them so they don't think they're doing anything wrong.
agreed, this is so stupid. wait till they see what a ti devboard can do lol
Your privacy policy is very short and missing some important information. Where are your servers located? What cloud providers do you use? Do you use encryption in transit and at rest? How do you protect my data? Where are you located?

Because task managers are storing a lot of sensitive information over time this is an important topic for a lot of people. The website should cover these questions.
Are you saying that FPGAs increase the production cost of low rate (<1000 units) hardware? Compared to ASIC fabrication?
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Oh yeah, I have some context-prompts that I use for different situations and they significantly help get the right answers. Still, I've never found coding to be successful other than boiler plaiting and hinting. I mean I can get it to give me usable code, that's for sure, but not good code. Definitely not optimized. It'll just give you essentially StackOverflow code.
I wonder what kind of pain is involved with maintaining every new feature release with bug and compatibility fixes forever*.
Again, another site that only asks for a sign up after you waste your time to fill in the form..
Resubmitted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39725438 but using the primary source.
They’ve got “migraine” listed there with a prevalence of 1 billion and “tension headache” listed with a prevalence of 2 billion. That’s making the numbers add up, because that’s 3/4 of the supposed sufferers of neurological disorders, yet most people would hardly group them into that category, and the vast majority of people who get them don’t suffer close to the debilitating effects of Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s.
Why do I want an analytics platform in my GNOME software?
No one needs stocks, and you can create infinite new stocks. Everyone needs to live somewhere. Land is a fundamental necessity.
Dune is about worms.
Something I missed: compilers are a mix of clever theoretical work and hard graft in implementation. Even if you somehow implement a practical compiler that exhausts the state of the art in compiler theory (a multi-million-dollar project in itself), you might still not be where you want to be in terms of optimisation.
For military use FPGAs with encrypted bitstreams is a pretty interesting application.

The arming process provides the key and once the single-use weapon hits the target, there's no way for the enemy to get to the original bitstream.

So the enemy can't reverse engineer any secrets that are part of the logic.

Can't do same with ASICs.
This is not the workflow being discussed. Yes, you can use Pandoc Markdown (in which you can embed LaTeX) and then Pandoc can parse the markdown and produce a LaTeX file. But the actual typesetting is still done by LaTeX; here Pandoc is basically just a preprocssing step.

what was being discussed is using Pandoc to convert from Typst to LaTeX, which it can't really do because its internal document representations are not as expressive as either Typst or LaTeX.
CT logs only mean that if after the horse has bolted, you can start the process to close the door within hours.

That's adequate for low-value targets, but it's hardly sufficient for high-value targets. If a CA mis-issued a cert for *.aws.amazon.com should we be waiting around for a manual process on some mailing list to invalidate it?
One of my email addresses is listed in HIBP under the ATT leak. I haven’t had this address with ATT in 2021 and probably many years before that. Either the data doesn’t come from ATT or it’s really old. Unfortunately I cannot see the other details.. address would be a good point in time reference.
Would also be interesting to see how zhe PPP changes with the amount of pieces in a set. i.e. if small sets with a tiny piece count have a higher PPP than larger sets with hundreds of pieces.
I can confirm as well. I tried something with GNU APL ... and the answers were purely ridiculous. It fabulated some totally wrong stuff based on Dyalog APL with invented libraries and more.

Okay, I didn't expect usable results here but everyone should be aware... when even non-mainstream technologies are being discriminated, what about the human spectrum?
You can use it to design a different system, but it's pretty unlikely to be better.
That's a freaking massive LED wall... with professional cinematography on top. If you believed my comment was intended to imply that I believed that's somehow impossible, well... you and I have a very different understanding of what it means to "just take a picture of a high-resolution display"...
Woah, let's back up. Why do I want GNOME software? ;D
In fact most knowledge work that's above average really feels like you are working 'with' someone. Self leading teams etc.
I think it's good to raise awareness of bad practices if you recognize them.
In a venture backed startup, the majority of shareholders aren’t employees

Also even if they are at Seed, they increasingly won’t be

So unless the founding team is a bunch of syndicalists - which almost be definition they aren’t - they won’t ever structure the organization to reduce their own power on behalf of future workers

Thats by design and origination with the modern firm. Capital will not fund companies that don’t prioritize returns on capital

You see how the entire structure is built to prevent even challenging the structure

Companies founded as dictatorships are the only option people think is available and yet it’s not.

However there is no money for expanding this message because it does not benefit the people with money to invest in reducing their own power
Got to play with the N64 at the "soft" launch at SIGGRAPH '96. It was pretty mind-blowing.

But even more mind-blowing was the SGI booth where they had an Onyx running a VR demo where the user was building downtown New Orleans in legos. Based on that, our shop actually found quite a few customers willing to pay for VRML development, of all things.
Because it's easier that actually catching and punishing the thieves.
> ... bureaucracy and rules ...

You say that as if it's a bad thing.

All the rules, bureaucracy and lawyering has produced a remarkable resource.

I'm sure it's easy to find anecdotes of failures, but if it does well in most cases, and better than any other alternative, then here's to more rules and bureaucracy!
I doubt they're actually flustered. It seems like they didn't even care enough to learn about what it is.

They just needed something to shove into the scapegoat-shaped hole, and Flipper Zero happened to fit.
Fundamentally a chatbot on the Slack API
Typical Alan Kay. Very long, very thought provoking, full of historical references, and barely answered the question at all. :)
Emotions can be complex, and sometimes, it’s hard to pinpoint exactly what we’re feeling.

Using Taranify AI and just a quick fun color quiz below, It guesses your current emotional state.
Which one does ?
I have a new metric when it comes to lego kits these days. How many stickers are in the kit? And honestly it's too damn high. I have been pretty vocal to lego about this in the past and current times. If they can mass produce an uncountable amount of minifigs with detailed paint schemes; they can do the same for bricks in the set.

I have a hard time believing it's nothing more than a cost cutting measure. And to add insult to injury; I have noticed their quality control slipping over the years. For example: in the past 40 years or so, I might get a kit with a piece missing once a decade? Within the past 10 years I have had at least 7 kits missing pieces. And the frequency keeps growing. As a long time lego enthusiast; they have been slowly losing my trust.
Apparently. I am more curious about the internal fight that leads to this, it must be glorious
But using extrusion pasta maker is. And beet juice is being used as cosmetic additive for color.
> I was surprised while digging up the link that Gravatational is still releasing v13 and v14 updates under Apache 2, so maybe even Teleport will continue to have legs for those who cannot deploy AGPL stuff

Teleport puts out 3 major releases a year (every 4 months) and supports versions back to N-2. So the v13 will be updated until May (v16's release) and v14 until September-ish (v17's release). Using v14 and prior is not a viable strategy for AGPL averse companies in the long run... unless they want to fork.

After September 2024, the Teleport options that will get updates are:

1. Compiling Teleport yourself under the terms of the AGPL

2. Use the pre-compiled Community Edition under its new commercial license (<100 employees and <$10MM)

3. Purchase a license (or Teleport Cloud tenant) under enterprise terms

The recent Teleport licensing changes are designed to:

1. Push business users in category 1 and 2 into category 3 and

2. Preempt having Teleport's value resold by a big cloud player like the AWS Elasticsearch/OpenSearch kerfuffle a while back.

Source: I work at Teleport, and while I had no say in the license change, I did keep an ear out as I care about our open source stance. It is part of what brought me to the company.
I started playing with Clash recently, which is basically a Haskell-to-FPGA compiler.

It's very cool and I'm slowly making progress, but man it feels like I'm learning to program all over again. I didn't take any electronics or computer engineering courses in college (focused a lot more on the discrete-math section of computer science), and the closest I've ever been to this is GPIO programming on an Arduino.

It's really rewarding though, and it's clear that it's a skill that might come in handy some day in the future. I can think of a few cases where I'd benefit from dedicated hardware for some stuff.
> RDS Proxy/PG Bouncer should be default connection behavior. Ideally no persistent connection at all, more akin to https would be great.

That doesn't make sense. A database connection is inherently stateful as you run multiple commands in a transaction.

> Vacuuming is ridiculous. It doesn't make sense to me what could possibly take so long. It also doesn't make sense to me that it needs to be blocking (I understand that it's now parallelizable-ish). Using a comparatively slow interpreted language, I can iterate through millions of items, on disk, and do any number of things, within a few seconds at most. I have had databases with like, a few thousand items, somehow take hours upon hours to vacuum/analyze.

Routine vacuuming is not blocking (on VACUUM FULL to reclaim space is blocking). The entire storage approach has its warts, but works well for 99.99% of use cases. I'd argue that write amplification is a much larger problem.

> Nested transactions would be great. I know there are savepoints but it doesn't work well when dealing with anything in parallel.

What does it mean to work with a transaction in parallel? The A and I in ACID are for "Atomic" and "Isolation".

> And finally, my #1 complaint: Please let ME decide when to roll back/invalidate a transaction. If I want to write something like an upsert, maybe my code says "insert this record, and if I catch an unique constraint error, update the record." In Postgres, at the initial insert, because there's an error, it will just invalidate my transaction! I could have done 100 other things in this transaction so far, all invalidated because of a DB error. An error that I was expecting to catch and handle myself at the application level, and now the entire transaction needs to be rolled back. WHY?

That's exactly what using a SAVEPOINT does. The default of failing and trashing the connection state (until a ROLLBACK) is a sensible default. It also allows for command pipelining as you can send multiple commands and not worry about partial execution due to intermediate failure.

If your application code is repeatedly failing then you should be fixing your application. There are many ways to perform consistent INSERT-or-UPDATE in PostgreSQL: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-insert.html#SQL-...
Well, you can try. And if he doesn't answer you can always ask an LLM :|
One of the things that bit one of our teams of developers for about 6 years was the Docker Hub pull limit -- poor configuration (established in the early days of the project), and no caching would occasionally break our builds for a day when we hit the pull limit (because of course lets base our multi-million $$ project on a commercial third-party that we have no contractual arrangement with). Encouraging them to get a proper tech lead to sort out these things was a major win for me.
I suffer from this at times. To be fair though, that's sort of my day job. Find holes and flaws in ideas and make them stronger. I don't do it with people anymore at least, I try hard to assume they have the best intent.
>because "they" (assuming you mean the opportunity provider)

I think you read that backwards. The "they" meant the people shutting down the sweatshops. That's why I say "feel they have done good" and not "did good".

>are you suggesting a kid working in the worst sweatshop is being harmed more than if they were to starve to death?

No, the opposite. Once the sweatshop shuts down, the kid is forced into an even dire situation (starvation possibly, though more likely working an even worse/more deadly job than sweatshop work).

I think there were studies done on child labor being banned at sweat shops in some SEA country and the results were pretty negative as children ended up worse off, but I do not have the link on hand.
IQ is not a useless metric, but using it as a proxy for a ability is extremely questionable at best.
Well joke's on you: your website worked fine for me, however HN itself was down after reading your article :p.

Good job !
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/c...

It's not bad, but it's not the best, and pretty much everything that measures better is using a more conventional architecture and in many cases is significantly cheaper. Chords use of FPGAs gets points for novelty but I don't think it has any practical merit.

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/c...

Even their $14,000 monster desktop DAC/Amp gets beaten by units a fraction of the price in objective measurements. The audiophile market has taken a fascinating turn since ASR arrived on the scene, the snake oil salesmen are still on their bullshit but there has been an uptick in companies doing legitimately good engineering and making products with phenomenal performance for dirt cheap. There are DAC/Amp combos under $200 which are objectively perfectly transparent well beyond the theoretical limits of lossless CD audio now.
exactly, that's been my concern as well - more and more parts now are very specialized and hard to reuse in other projects.

Makes me sad for the kids - this limits creativity...
How many windows are the tabs in? That's a much bigger factor since they added lazy loading years ago.
Thanks! I never look at my Desktop and so never noticed it. I deleted the original, moved backup today, and there is nothing on my Desktop about Relocated Items. That could be because I removed it, like an Apple smart link thing, or maybe it was never there - dunno.

IMO, if they're going to do something this drastic, they should at least have a one-time large pop-up box after the upgrade explaining that they moved things that were formerly in root, and wait for a user to confirm that they read the notice.
Yeah admittedly it wasn’t a great way to go about asking the question…especially the “obvious” part.
Dunno, it's pretty damn good and quite useful. I asked Mistral 7b and Claude Opus to count the banned substances on the WADA anti doping list. Both avoided a straight response giving back loads of bs. Claude was next to useless. Mistral gave a somewhat acceptable answer counting substances on every chapter after much persuasion. Inflection's pi AI gave me a straight answer to the first question without any bs. I like its casual tone and the fact that it does not use needlessly superfluous language like the GPT models.
This is exactly what I've been calling the "public static void main problem" for years (and an illustration of why I thought something like BASIC or Python should be everyone's first programming language). Neat to see the Java team come up with a solution for it. But "public static void main" runs deeper, and has to do with immediacy: shortening the time between the programmer giving instructions to the computer and seeing the results of those instructions being executed. It makes the smallest possible Java program greatly simpler and absent unusual comments that beginning programmers might struggle with; but there's the issue of the compilation step as well! If they make Java REPL-driven they might well have a winner!
"Scapegoat" comes to mind.
Because the alternative would be to make some annoying demands of the auto industry, of various police services, and of CP Rail and the ports.

That's a lot of political capital to spend (or burn) on a lot of different groups, and would likely anger a lot of bases of power and financial support, for some citizen benefits that won't really pay off in the short term.

By contrast, banning a scary foreign hacker device with existing vague pop culture presence is a far more effective way of seeming like you're doing something with the average voter while not causing issues with any important groups and not having to spend much time or money.

The efficacy for stopping car thefts is not really the goal.
It’s funny to see how scared these companies are to just let go remote workers. Almost as if… they’d lose their best employees and be left with nothing but HR…
Adding a clock to a key, so the code is only valid for a few seconds + keyless entry respond only active if the key was moved in the last 30 seconds, would solve most of the problems. That's like $5 per key?
TeX is not a bug-free software