skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI Discourse Is Talentless Business Students Trying to Give Young Engineers PTSD
Fun read for those frustrated with LinkedIn posts, not super informative per se ;)
> It's not just about the async and await keywords. It's also about adjusting the types, thinking differently about parallelism (not concurrency), and a few other things.

No, you're overthinking it. The way concurrency works with async await is exactly the same as the way it works with green thread[1]. It's a bit different from what happens with OS threads but at the same time the difference between OS threads and green threads doesn't seem particularly impactful for you since you are happy to ignore it when talking about goroutines.

> Then that's not the same code. This is syntactically and semantically different. And that's exactly what makes async/await interesting and useful.

It's syntactically a bit different, but not semantically, at least not in a meaningful way: Rust async vs JS async is more semantically different than old Go[2] and rust, and old Go was more different to Go now than it was to Rust. The syntax difference is what makes it the most different, because it allows for terser constructs in a few cases (this is were the readability benefits kick in, but it's limited in scope). But that's basically the same difference as Rust error handling vs Go's (it works functionally the same, but Rust's approach allow for the terser `?` syntax that was added a few years after 1.0).

> The screaming case wasn't necessary.

Sorry about that, it wasn't about screaming and more about working around the lack of bold emphasis in HN comment formatting but I see how it can be misinterpreted as aggressive.

> Increased expressive power doesn't always help with increased readability.

If language A has more expressing power than language B, it means that the same developers can express things in language A the same way he would for language B. That is, his code would be no less readable when written in language A than if it was written in language B. Of course that says nothing about cultural differences between subgroups of developers and how some people in one language could write code that is less readable than other people in another language, but this has nothing to do with the language itself. (Bad developers write unreadable code in any languages and Go is a good testament that limiting the expressing power of one language isn't a good way to improve readability over the board as Go's leadership eventually recognized).

> To continue that discussion in a constructive way, we would need to agree on a definition of readability and how to assess it objectively

That's not something we can easily define formally, but we could work from code samples, like I suggested above.

[1] at least for cooperatively scheduled green threads, which is what go did for almost a decade. If you go back to the time where go had segmented stacks, then it's literally the exact same semantics in every way including memory layout.

[2] by “old Go” I mean Go before they introduced a preemptive scheduler, which happened a few years ago.
100% agree. Sounds minor but one of the biggest usability issues for new user since the launch of the standalone quest is the confusion of users on whether to use trigger or X / A button as primary action.

And I'd say it's more than a minor annoyance, it's wild that the issue has existed for nearly a decade and their UX team thinks it's ok.
I really enjoyed these 3 together:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOSfM2V8EkI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB7NxVpskI0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmKWkiDAm5k

Great atmosphere. Makes me think of a good video game soundtrack. Interestingly they don't sound good if you only play 2 of them, you need all 3 to pull the harmony together.
Check out Descript. It's been awesome when I used it in the past
I'm working on a stock portfolio management app: https://itako.app/

After diving a bit into finance last year, I found the book "Smart Portfolios" by Rob Carver, which basically aimed at teaching simple heuristics to help create and manage robust stock portfolios. Sadly this book has quite a few simplifications that were valid at the time of writing but are not anymore (ie. interest rates ~= 0). So I set myself to re-implement this a bit properly in a tool for me and eventually other people.

It's up and running online but still a work in progress. It only work for US stocks and the charts can sometimes display non-sense.
Learning radio can help improve your skills in understanding the analog underpinnings of networking, CPUs , electronics & circuits .

So many issues come about by taking these for granted. EMF interference , a short circuit or a noisy power supply can cause non-deterministic issues that will drive you mad unless you are aware of the root cause.
Thank you for providing feedback. We will continue to optimize and improve the model.
Modern available therapies:

1. Resect the cancer with healthy tissue without knowing the actual borders

2. Pour poisons until just before the patient surrenders and hope for the best

3. Bombard with ionising radiation (Hippocrates: if all therapies fail, apply cauterization)

Actually it is Ancient technology.
FYI to the devs... I got the same error on Firefox Win11 x64.
The main thing churches have going for them is that they are "all ages" and specifically family.

The VFW, Elks Lodge, Masons, Knights of Columbus, they're all old and mostly men.
I doubt it would take very many suitable examples in the training dataset to fix problems like that.
Nope, the supreme court ruled that a secret prison remains secret even if publicly known.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-827_i426.pdf

"On appeal, the Ninth Circuit agreed with the District Court that much of the information sought by Zubaydah was protected from disclosure by the state
secrets privilege, but the panel majority concluded that the District
Court had erred when it dismissed the case. It believed that the state
secrets privilege did not apply to publicly known information.

...

Here, the
information held by the Ninth Circuit to be nonprivileged would necessarily tend to confirm (or deny) that the CIA maintained a detention
site in Poland. The Government has shown that such information — even if already made public through unofficial sources — could significantly harm national security.

...

Here, the state secrets privilege applies to the existence (or non-
existence) of a CIA facility in Poland, and therefore precludes further
discovery into all three categories of information the Ninth Circuit concluded to be nonprivileged.

...

This case is remanded with instructions to dismiss Zubaydah’s
current application for discovery under §1782. P. 18. "
I would argue there is a danger of conflating "productive value" with creative effort. The general view is that productive value is measured by how much a market is willing to pay for a product or service. I would venture to guess that most creative efforts aren't very marketable, unless your view is that society should go back to artisan craftsmen. Nobody particularly wants to consume the music that I create, so they have little to no procutive value, other than the joy I get from doing them. On the contrary, a lot of non-creative work has immense productive value. Re-shingling my roof isn't a particularly creative job, but I'm still willing to pay for it.
Soon enough we will train models with the firepower of GPT4 (5?), that are purpose built and trained from the ground up to be medical diagnostic tools. A hard focus on medicine with thousands of hours of licensed physician RLHF. It will happen and it almost certainly already underway.

But until it comes to fruition, I think it's largely a waste for people to spend time studying the viability of general models for medical tasks.
I'd really like to see what the value proposition is over org-mode first and foremost. Yes it runs on Neovim (is it exclusive to Neovim?), but vim-orgmode is a thing.

From watching the videos, the guy mentions that a problem early on was that it was constantly compared to org-mode, which was confusing to people not familiar with org-mode, so I guess they're trying to get away from that?

I watched a few videos and saw syntax and features almost identical to the most basic level of org-mode.

The one feature it seems to have over org is that it uses a C++ based parser, which might be faster than the mostly elisp parser from org-mode? But even that means it relies on features of C++14, which isn't included with macOS, so I'm left feeling like this is half anti-feature compared to org-mode's highly portable parser: If Emacs works, org-mode will work, and Emacs is mostly elisp itself, so if the elisp interpreter works, Emacs will work.

If I can run an executable I can run org-mode essentially, but this requires I'm allowed to install a whole new compiler on a machine before using it.

I think it was Prot that put forward a strong case for building an org-mode specification with multiple compatibility levels, so that tools for other platforms could say they implement a certain subset of its features and syntax using a simple shorthand like "Org-Mode Level 3 Compatible". I'd like to see that effort go further.
A developer happiness product, https://workdna.com. It sends out employee pulse surveys that are purpose-built for dev teams and don't suck to fill out.

Lots of companies just cobble together a Google Form full of irrelevant questions, send it out, and throw their hands in the air when nobody fills it out.

WorkDNA surveys your team on criteria like CI/CD reliability, test flakiness, PR feedback quality, job satisfaction, and psychological safety. The surveys take 20 minutes to set up, 5 minutes to fill out, and are completely anonymous.
If you down mind marp (markdown for slides), it can do a pretty good job of generating that.
> Businesses don't raise prices to "keep margins the same"

It's absolutely common practice. A few luxury businesses can get away with outsized margins, but everyone else in the physical goods business is working at 60-70% gross margins (so MSRP is usually ~3x cost). Grocery stores are outliers with absolutely razor thin margins.

In twenty years in e-commerce, I've never not seen prices updated to keep margins in a narrow band.
I'm working on a tool that easily allows you to theme your UI using CSS variables called Blueberry. https://www.getblueberry.io/

The idea is that each CSS variable becomes a widget and then the Blueberry endpoint will serve those variables so you can let your users customize profile pages/portals and other places they integrate with you UI.
> by letting her know she will be able to buy a house if she wants one

It should be easy to prove, right? Run the numbers for median income at specific age, house costs, interest, inflation, etc. for your area. If it's obviously affordable, you can show it. Depending on the location, you may not like the answer though... That fear is not completely made up, you know?

I guess most of us are waiting for that inevitable bubble pop, but... you know the saying about irrational markets.

> environmental disasters will be constant

The way things are going and with our response... yeah, I worry the same. At this point just the inertia of the system will make things worse for close to a decade, even if we get much better. It's a valid worry.

If you're saying to her you're basically ignoring those possibilities, that's unlikely to help with being worried.
I'd conjecture even further. The most valuable users of LinkedIn, those with in-demand skills, are more likely to be running a high-spec'd device where they don't care about these issues.

On my phone, 500MB would put you as ~30 largest app on my phone. Those largest 30 include, messages (large attachments), photos app, music/media (downloaded for offline play) and a variety of junk games I never play.

I'd have to delete LinkedIn 40x to save the same amount of space as the dozen or so junk games I have on my phone.
High-Performance iOS Apps
And a series on Netflix at the moment. Quite watchable.
people who do that sort of thing want shooting
&'a Node<'a>

This (from the non-working "obvious" way) seems to be a common mistake, where the lifetime of a reference is the same one in the type parameter of what it refers to. Does anyone know if this has a name, or if there's some useful resource that talks about it in particular, outside of the context of circular references?
RFC 3986, from 2005: “Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax”:

Using <> angle brackets around each URI is especially recommended as
a delimiting style for a reference that contains embedded whitespace.

<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986>
Unquestionably one of the great inventions of the modern age.

I take issue with the repeated use of 'churn' to describe ordinary milk cans. A churn has a dasher and paddle, to turn cream into butter. Nothing described nor pictured in the article is a churn.
Sky News was able to secure a civil engineer to give insight and analysis into this disaster in the morning hours.

It was a lightweight structure built in the spirit of minimizing cost and anticipating container ships that were approximately ¼ the mass that they are today. That giant ship smashing a critical base of support, the structure could not support itself and experienced rapid failure.

Necessary action item: Structure owners adjacent to commercially-important waterways should reassess their risks of collision by modern-sized extreme ships and mitigate where possible to preserve life-safety and sometimes property.
You are right that #1 isn't unique. But I think you're wrong that we've got the issue easily solved because it's rooted in human psychology. Just look at the last few years of Boeing headlines and tell me you still think schedule pressure in a competitive environment is a solved problem.

Your response to #2 assumes the researcher wants to create the most transparent and highest-quality paper. Because of perverse incentives, I don't think this is the case. Many times researchers just want a publication because that gets them the career status they're after.

Good point on #3, but it still leaves the question about the tradeoff between quantity and quality. I can surely churn out many more reviews of questionable quality than I can a single, well-researched and thoughtful review. The quantity vs. quality tradeoff is really what is at the heart of that point.

>And yet we have millions of clients hiring millions of consultants

The existence of that market doesn't mean the market does what you're claiming. Many times, consultancy is a mechanism to pay for plausible deniability rather than a novel solution.
Naomi games ported over to the Dreamcast just fine. It was essentially a Dreamcast with more memory if I'm not mistaken.
Sega Rally 2 used the Model 2 board.
I expect not chantilly, just plain whipped cream.
No, we're talking about stopping children having social media accounts.
Not necessary impose their lifestyle, but benefit from the secular/non-orthodox society work without giving back anything.
I have a folder called operations/recipes and I put separate files in that folder. I have files like nginx, supervisor, etc. etc.
PyTorch for Deep Learning and Machine Learning [video]
It's crazy. We've stopped treating children like children and started treating them like babies that need constant supervision.
Living not too far outside Minneapolis, we rebuilt a bridge that rather famously came down a bit over 15 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge
The MilCD exploit was already patched in the last hardware revisions (VA2) so I imagine it would be a bit like the Switch (IIRC) where early models are vulnerable to exploits and more desirable on the second-hand market.

I'm not sure what the agreement with Microsoft was, but it was probably on a per-game basis if the developers wanted to use Windows CE.
I looked a bit into the LORA protocol. It does offer reception below the noise floor. LORA doesn't do anything to attempt to make other LORA transmissions seem like noise to a receiver that's attempting to lock to your transmission. This makes it possible for a transmission that's closer to the receiver to essentially jam a transmission that's far from it. I guess since LORA isn't used that much, it's not a problem these days. I think it's being used as part of Amazon's sidewalk network though.
There is usually worse stuff on the fields than diesel, but this is about flowers which do not get eaten.

And the same design would likely work with a battery at some point in the future. But currently diesel is standard on the fields.
Those are good tips and also a good diagnosis
Can it output LaTeX? If so, you could try beamer.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/16-mile-bridge-baltimore-co...
A compiled programming language for analog quantum computers.
that reminds me Nyman's "In Re Don Giovanni"
If they play the cards very carefully, they can pull out and recycle all the steel of the old bridge, and use that to pay for a new (cheaper) concrete bridge.
Being as the timelines for seeing this product in action may be measured in decades (i.e. time of death, hopefully far away), how will you convince your customers that you will still be operating for decades? What happens if operations do cease?
Long-term (decades), no-subscription archival storage. Essentially, you buy a block of space, upload your data over time, and it gets distributed when you need it (if you lost a primary backup), or on your death (to friends and relatives, or whoever you choose), or on a specific future date.

It's a mashup of a safety deposit box, time capsule, and deadman switch.

It's not ready yet, but will be ready in a few weeks. If you're interested, I would really like to talk to you. My email is ethan@ethanmye.rs

FWIW, I did use chatgpt to write a lot of boilerplate JS and fix my bootstrap templates!

edit deadpan->deadman
For a bridge such defenses are called dolphins.

"A notable example of dolphins used to protect a bridge is the Sunshine Skyway Bridge across the mouth of Tampa Bay. In 1980, the MV Summit Venture hit a pier on one of the bridge's two, two-lane spans causing a 1,200-foot (370 m) section of the bridge to fall into the water, resulting in 35 deaths. When a replacement span was designed, a top priority was to prevent ships from colliding with the new bridge..."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_(structure)

The MV Summit Venture was a 33,900 deadweight tonnage ship. MV Dali was a gross tonnage of 95,128. Nearly 3× as large. It's questionable whether dolphins would have totally prevented such a tragedy.

Yet similarly, expect dolphins to be brought up as a key component of resiliency for any designed replacement bridge.
Patching this now!
Agreed! Such a lovely simple effective idea.

Also reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po%C3%A8me_symphonique
Honestly I feel like the Zeitgeist is that anything that smells of “optimization” is supposed to be preemptively justified. Like do you need a borrow checker or a static language or an AOT language implementation or...? Like anything that looks like they might by-default give you better performance (perish the thought) is supposed to be justified by some line about, oh well it turns out in our case that we need this thing actually, please forgive us for not using a dynamic language.
Testing the High-Performance StarRocks Database
Would it even stand a chance at 1 mph? If not, what is the speed that would make it imaginable for the bridge not to collapse?
You don't get two owners that way. You get something slightly less powerful than owners, which still has all its preconditions satisfied: you can check that it is in bounds, and if so you will find an element of the expected type. You cannot corrupt the underlying allocator's data structures, you cannot resize the array when there are outstanding pointers to its elements, and you cannot violate the type system.

Rust's goal was never to exclude all shared mutability. (Otherwise why support things like locks?) Rather, it excludes only the kinds of shared mutability that open the door to undefined behavior. The point of all these sorts of "workarounds" is that, because there is no longer a single unrestricted kind of shared mutability, you now get to pick which version of restricted mutability you want: reference counting vs bounds checking vs ghostcell's higher-rank lifetimes vs whatever else.
Even without the cards they are still doing that, hah
Choose both options from your suggestions, it's not that they are mutually exclusive, y'know.
These AI models don't train themselves, and the companies offering them need people to operate their service and write their apps and backend. AI software engineers mean they can get away with fewer humans in the loop to do things, but for now they still need a human in the loop. So we're not doomed quite yet.
I think the parent comment was referring to something else.

In the paper the tasks are only completed by GPT-4V. For a valid scientific investigation, there should be a control set completed by e.g. qualified doctors. When the panel of experts does their evaluation, they should rate both sets of responses so that the difference in score can be compared in the paper.
I first discovered Arena through their Twitter profile. They post so much interesting stuff. It's what Tumblr should have been from the start. I just hope it is sustainable well into the future. There's too many important ideas that could be wiped out if this gets shut down.
Stakeknife: Britain's spy in Ireland who got away with murder
CloudFlare pages ftw!

If you really wanna get fancy , then maybe this
https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/how-to/deploy-a-word...
Nix generators works on regular Linux distros with nix installed.
> Finally, believable numbers. Please note before this in this very thread you claimed “800% increase” which was totally incorrect.

You cheery pick my comments and cannot be bothered reading.

We’re talking against fully optimized-autovec-all-llvm-options vs hand written asm. And yes, 800% is likely.

The 20% is intrinsics vs hand written.

> The video codecs I use daily are mostly implemented in hardware, not software.

Weirdly, I know a bit more about the transcoding pipelines of the video industry that you do. And it’s far from hardware decoding and encoding over there…

You know nothing about the subject you are talking about.
Xenon is a pretty standard SMP design, having 3 cores is basically the height of its oddity. It was a fine early-multicore CPU for consoles.

The Cell was very much not that, the SPEs were unnecessarily difficult to use for a console and ultimately a dead end though they made for great supercomputing elements before GPGPU really took off (some people built supercomputers out of PS3s clusters as that was literally the cheapest way to get cells).

The Cell supposedly cost 400 millions to develop, a cost largely borne by Sony. MS got IBM to retune the PPE for Xenon, but they'd likely have made do with an other IBM core as their base had that not existed.
We have a "democracy",

Yet no privacy.

It's almost like the people who run the country,

do not believe in democracy.
separate but pertinent question: what was the mv dali's air draft? (FSK bridge's clearance is 185'/56m) was the container ship going to fit under the bridge, i.e., perhaps the incident was an aborted attempt to crossing under the bridge?
F = MA

A looks like 'barely a bump'
M is what got the bridge.
And how do you know they're not a child?

Bars do it by having you show an id.

Online pot dispensaries do it by having you upload an id.

Texas expects porn sites to do it by having you upload an id.

How does Florida expect a site to do it?

This is a legitimate question that I want the answer to. Presumably "check this box" isn't going to cut it. So if it's not the most common way to enforce an actual legal restriction, then what is it?
KofC is also very specifically tied to the Catholic Church, so it has no reason to try to substitute for the role filled by a Church.