skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does that mean we should worry more in the coming years?
The point about Chinese tech companies is that they're really innovative, especially in recent years! on the other side, there's no high level of transparency of what they do/intend.

I guess we could expect more innovation in such a highly regulated space, regarding that Chinese government really supports these kinds of advancement. Not so sure what would happen in the dark side.
I mean that some people with Tinnitus hear it all the time. Maybe you've got another background quiet tinnitus. I know I've got it all the time and when it's quiet I can hear it.
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Backend: Ruby on Rails, Next.js Frontend: React, jQuery, vanilla JavaScript, Shopify theme and app development

Résumé/CV: on request

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Senior software engineer with 15+ years of experience. 2 years of experience working in Microsoft (Office 365). Worked on many small teams and startups since. Built a few Shopify apps that are in the Shopify App Store now. Built many custom Shopify apps for various clients. I've got my own LLC in USA. Looking for a full-time job. I'm independent and can build full-stack software on my own, but prefer working in a team where we can grow together and learn from each other.
Expected pay: $100k-$200k
'Out, Out--'

The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard
And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,
Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.
And from there those that lifted eyes could count
Five mountain ranges one behind the other
Under the sunset far into Vermont.
And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled,
As it ran light, or had to bear a load.
And nothing happened: day was all but done.
Call it a day, I wish they might have said
To please the boy by giving him the half hour
That a boy counts so much when saved from work.
His sister stood beside him in her apron
To tell them ‘Supper.’ At the word, the saw,
As if to prove saws knew what supper meant,
Leaped out at the boy’s hand, or seemed to leap—
He must have given the hand. However it was,
Neither refused the meeting. But the hand!
The boy’s first outcry was a rueful laugh,
As he swung toward them holding up the hand
Half in appeal, but half as if to keep
The life from spilling. Then the boy saw all—
Since he was old enough to know, big boy
Doing a man’s work, though a child at heart—
He saw all spoiled. ‘Don’t let him cut my hand off—
The doctor, when he comes. Don’t let him, sister!’
So. But the hand was gone already.
The doctor put him in the dark of ether.
He lay and puffed his lips out with his breath.
And then—the watcher at his pulse took fright.
No one believed. They listened at his heart.
Little—less—nothing!—and that ended it.
No more to build on there. And they, since they
Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.

or

'Desert Places'

Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast
In a field I looked into going past,
And the ground almost covered smooth in snow,
But a few weeds and stubble showing last.

The woods around it have it - it is theirs.
All animals are smothered in their lairs.
I am too absent-spirited to count;
The loneliness includes me unawares.

And lonely as it is, that loneliness
Will be more lonely ere it will be less -
A blanker whiteness of benighted snow
With no expression, nothing to express.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars - on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.

are both pretty dark, off the top of my head. He has a number of poems that are more subtle and dig away at you in the best possible way.
Then, as GP implied, the U in UTC is a misnomer. Considering replacing it with a better name is logical considering the development of technology and our improving ability to go out and explore.
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Just wander itself is almost working in a browser - kind of hacked together right now, but will be pushed to the open-source soon. The same Wasm payload should be able to run in the browser or through wasmtime.

For the rive-renderer / 2D integration, it is going to be a much longer path to get working in a browser together with wander.
LFP is for base, low-range models; Panasonic's NCA for the mid/perf trims and the MY in the US.

Tesla's QC problem is serious and still affects all EVs made in the US -- the batteries in these EVs have little to do with it.
Just wait for AI to start pumping spaghetti code everywhere.

That's AI phase one

Hey, I phase 2 is even better disguised exploit code hiding behind acres of seemingly plausible AI generated code
If a binary library ABI is backwards-incompatible, they change the package name. I was just guessing at the reason epoch is avoided and that <6 is probably an awful example.

So now I actually bothered to look it up, and it turns out the actual reason is that the epoch changes what version is considered "greater", but it's not part of the .deb filename, so you still can't reuse version numbers used in the past. If you release 5.0, then 5.1, then you want to rollback and release 1:5.0, it's going to break things in the Debian archives. https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#uniq...

Additionally, once you add an epoch you're stuck with it forever, while if you use 5.1+really5.0, you can get rid of the kludge when 5.2 is out. https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.ht...
The update was pulling from trusted upstream archives. I'm sure Debian verified that.
It's been a couple of years but I enjoyed that part of Postmarkapp's onboard included "and now do an API request". Not sure if they wanted to make sure that I'm technical able to do it or show off how easy it is.
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in the real world we all currently live in?
I’m no grammarian but I think it should have a comma after “world”.
> This only demonstrates that the system is chaotic, not that there is no closed form solution.

This seems a bit off, it seems like[1] an implicit assertion ("only(!) demonstrates") that it is not possible for a system that lacks a closed form solution in fact (beyond our ability to discern) to be demonstrated.

To be clear I'm in no way implying this was your intent (I see it as an interesting "quirk" of our culture)...I'm mainly interesting if you can see what I'm getting at.

As a thought experiment, stand up two instances: one is our current situation (inability to discern, indeterminate), the other where we have (somehow) proven out (or, come to believe we have, reality being Indirect but experienced as Direct, thus: "is "proven", thus: "is") that a closed form solution is not possible: would the second instance "be(!) a demonstration that the system has no closed form solution"? (Thinking more....I think maybe the choice of the word "demonstrate" may very well make a path to seeking the truth of the matter ~impossible to achieve in these sorts of cases, especially if one takes cultural forces[2] into consideration).

[1] Using "pedantry", which few people understand the technical meaning of, and tend to flip flop on depending on what is being considered (precision & accuracy in science/physics is good, precision & accuracy in philosophy/metaphysics is bad - no explanation or justification needed: a Cultural Fact).

[2] Which make the 3 body problem in the known to be deterministic physical realm seem like child's play.
Now I'm imagining hiding drivers under the hood, or in a car following ...
You could argue (and I would agree) that tax credits are not the same as cash handouts.

However, subsidized loans below market rate are a transfer from the taxpayer to Intel.
I know some bores so good that 100 seconds passes, and I shake my watch ~ 1 second has passed, so there is a subjective localised field around some people..
Ah the fun of known knowns, known unknowns, unknown unknowns, and weak negation.

https://blog.research.google/2024/01/can-large-language-mode...

Negation in the training data, exhaustion, or unknowable unknowns like future events is about an LLM will ever be able to say it "doesn't know" reliably.

LLMs have no concept of truth or correctness really, they are just probabilistic appending to output to match learned ideal patterns.
Premature optimization – a tale of Java Garbage Collector
Yeah. Frost has some really dark poems. The chainsaw one is always my go-to example. I've had people basically not believe them when I've told them.
Hello Tucows,

Is there an email address to contact and learn more about this opening? Thanks.
Hmm. I think that can be read different ways. He had a dark foreboding for the day and the crow encounter only saved a part of the day. Rather than optimistic, it could be perceived as still able recognize a small bit of light through his darkness. That's what great about art. The perception and situation of the viewer shapes the experience.
Agreed, the way thermodynamics is often taught is such a mess.

My personal and controversial [0] take is that the free energy should really be seen as the Legendre transform of the entropy, not of the energy.

I know it is ultimately semantics, but this viewpoint makes the passage from the micro-canonical to the canonical ensemble so much nicer. In particular, the saddle point approximation for the canonical partition function makes it natural that the ensembles are equivalent in the thermodynamic limit... through a Legendre transform!

Bonus corollary: the statement mentioned in the blog about the derivatives being each other's inverses is just saying that T(E) and E(T) in respectively the micro-canonical and the canonical ensemble define the same relation between E and T.

[0] Proof of controversiality: even Wikipedia disagrees with me here, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic_free_energy
Their GPUs as sold already include RAM.
Upsetting how quickly the other thread was flagged and downranked.
That seems like an inappropriately uncharitable interpretation of what shes written.
Einstein's watch would beg to differ with Einstein!
This is the now-flagged to death HN thread on the Guardian version [0]

I would hope they can be unflagged and merged, this appears to be an important story about a novel use of technology.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39917727
On the face of it this seems to imply, moving slowly and deliberately.

However this is not always true.

Example: Detroit lions Vs SF in 2023 playoffs.
Avoiding blundering means being adaptable to the situation at hand - not using instinct derived from previous battles.
But it doesn't have the BEAM VM. The runtime matters a lot, and LiveView wouldn't work as well if it wasn't running under the BEAM.
1. some tests, over the wire preferably, would be nice

2. redis.go does not seem to be nessary it just changes signature of redis client constructor without much difference, might as well inline its contents

3. using fmt too much, if you don't need run time variables encoding, can do something more simpler. like writing to w.Write([]byte) directly. fmt uses reflect and runtime type detection, better avoid if not needed.

4. code comments do not follow godoc conventions. they should start from symbol name. did you run go fmt and some basic linters?

5. mutex is not used. and it should be pointer.
They're trained (and possibly scripted) to not "know" things or not be able to do things.

But at their core, they're going to generate the most plausible continuation, even if that isn't very plausible (like non-existent functions). I think this can be improved (playing with the temperature in self hosted models depending on the nature of the task e.g.), but it doesn't seem fully solvable with current LLMs.
No, but manned mission can override software if unexpected scenarios are encountered. You can't expect software team on earth to account for all possibilities for a first time mission.

Software can be tested for individual operation. But can't be relied for end to end co-ordination.
> I'm not entirely sure how they justify that.

You know that humans hallucinate too, right? All the time, whether intentionally or unintentionally. Our memories are sparse, and we fill in the gaps with things that sound reasonable. We do this constantly. We also lie. Also, constantly.

LLMs are definitely not intelligent from a reasoning and "shape rotator" perspective, but the competence of wordcels and the entire concept of "verbal IQ" has been absolutely obliterated in a just few years.

Once we integrate human reasoning and "shape rotation" models, it's game over.
Hi! I applied for the Senior Data Analyst role - super interested in this opportunity. Is there a way to get in touch with someone directly?
To add yet another entry into the genre is Asimov's _The Gods Themselves_, where humanity exchanges energy between themselves and a parallel universe with different physical laws, only to discover those physical laws are leaking over and will result in the destruction of the Sun. The middle section is the story of the aliens in the parallel universe and is an interesting look at a three-sex species, and it makes me wonder how Asimov would interpret modern LGBTQ issues.
For the same reason that a netbook/Chromebook is probably enough for most people: users rarely install native apps on laptop form factors these days - apart from the "essentials" like an office suite, and possibly specific programs they use to get work done (image/video editors etc.).

A browser is one thing that users will go out of their way to replace, making it a pretty attractive vehicle for stuff like this.
And by the way, there's plenty more evidence that Debs was a pacifist besides that one quote you're objecting to:

"Summarizing Debs's thought in this period, the historian David A. Shannon wrote: "Debs's desideratum was one of peace and co-operation between labor and capital, but he expected management to treat labor with respect, honor and social equality"."[1]

"Debs said in part: 'Your honor, I have stated in this court that I am opposed to the form of our present government; that I am opposed to the social system in which we live; that I believe in the change of both but by perfectly peaceable and orderly means.'"[1]

"In 1924, Debs was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the Finnish Socialist Karl H. Wiik on the grounds that "Debs started to work actively for peace during World War I..."[1]

"On June 29, 1894, Debs hosted a peaceful meeting to rally support for the strike from railroad workers at Blue Island, Illinois."[2]

"Debs first welcomed the military, believing that they would help to keep the peace and allow the strike and boycott to continue peacefully."[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Strike
Study shows LLMs respond differently based on user's motivation
In the ultra-competetive world of AI chatbots, where's Yandex?
Has Yandex been sleeping, or do we expect something in the near future? Thoughts?
For the new CPU (Ryzen 7940HS), having the latest Linux kernel is beneficial.

And due to third-party programs, Ubuntu is the most well-supported Linux distribution.

Additionally, I am most familiar with it and also use it on the server side; for this reason, I choose Ubuntu.
ХУЯ – A Russian Programming Language
There's also a video of the guy who made the language explaining it (in Russian): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4EOMbmIqqw

Compiler is written in Rust:
https://github.com/tsoding/good_training_language/blob/main/...
My own company has found significant advantage by using LiveView with Alpine, specifically in CSP mode since we can't allow `eval` to happen on the client. When I originally looked at LiveSvelte it seemed very new and untested. It also had some unsolved implications in strict CSP environments. Glad to see that it's become very useful!

Our own pattern (LiveAlpine?) is as follows:

Does the component need HTML? Then use an HTML Component.
Does the component have server-side state? Then use a Live Component.
Does the component need client-side behavior and/or state? Then also define an Alpine component.
Does the component need to receive client-side events from the server or make HTTP requests? Then also define a Phoenix Hook.
On the discovery progress, we can't look at all 200M papers with the LLM, so we prioritize some of them (the first 100 most promising) for deep analysis. Within those, we find a few that are relevant. But the rate at which we discover these tells us roughly what will happen if we read the next 100 (if we're discovering new relevant papers all the time, we will likely continue). We need a better explanation on the website, but we can statistically model this to quantitatively predict how many papers we would find if we exhaustively searched the whole database.

More info here: https://www.undermind.ai/static/Undermind_whitepaper.pdf
Around here, the best way to deal with a bamboo infestation is with a backhoe.

Bamboo is big grass. It spreads via seeds and roots. It all needs to be ripped out.

When I lived in Africa, we'd have bamboo forests, with trunks up to about a two-foot diameter (and about six inches apart). Completely impassable.

Great place for small critters to escape big predators.
Is there any consequence for inappropriate flagging?
> and to open the doors so that once the initial shaking is over you can escape

Just to make sure to stand far away from the doors you leave open as they can swing and hit you.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time :

>It is a common myth in the United States that DST was first implemented for the benefit of farmers.[38][39][40] In reality, farmers have been one of the strongest lobbying groups against DST since it was first implemented.[38][39][40] The factors that influence farming schedules, such as morning dew and dairy cattle's readiness to be milked, are ultimately dictated by the sun, so the clock change introduces unnecessary challenges.[38][40][41]

>DST was first implemented in the US with the Standard Time Act of 1918, a wartime measure for seven months during World War I in the interest of adding more daylight hours to conserve energy resources.[42][41] Year-round DST, or "War Time", was implemented again during World War II.[42] After the war, local jurisdictions were free to choose if and when to observe DST until the Uniform Time Act which standardized DST in 1966.[42][43] Permanent daylight saving time was enacted for the winter of 1974, but there were complaints of children going to school in the dark and working people commuting and starting their work day in pitch darkness during the winter, and it was repealed a year later.
> “We were not interested in killing [Hamas] operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity,” A., an intelligence officer, told +972 and Local Call. “On the contrary, the IDF bombed them in homes without hesitation, as a first option. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations.”
Why do electric car company try to bite off so much? The saying goes "don't re-invent the wheel", but that should be extended to not re-inventing door handles, speedometers and the basic driving controls that have evolved over the last century. My car has a mechanical latch. No wires. No electricity. The lock has an electric actuator, but the mechanical linkages work just fine without power. Who out there was on the focus group wanting electric-only doors?
I don't understand why it was flagged, obviously it is a sensitive topic but AI being used to kill people is very clearly a HN-worthy topic
The fact that the main display flashes between blue and red depending on throttle or coast is ridiculous.
To me, that's optimism. It's really the same feeling I get from The Magpie. It's like; There aren't many good things about the winter, it's cold, it's miserable, but look how pretty it can be sometimes
You could probably use something like CAMM which solved a similar problem for lpddr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAMM_(memory_module)
You mean something other than "your new ISP shares your location with Google & Amazon"?
How is data stored in this tier? Is it just on big slow SMR disks?
Let's see how long it takes this time! I'd give it 50% odds of lasting 12 minutes.

Edit: Flagged after less than 9 minutes, I overestimated!
We know from the Corecursive podcast on the hidden story of SQLite that Dr. Hipp did indeed reference and pull at least one alg straight from Knuth's books, which he had behind his desk. What a different world that must have been!
When Americans clamored for rivers that didn’t catch fire and for smog in LA to go away it became clear to corporations that it would be much cheaper and better for profits if they setup factories in poor countries that didn’t require them to stop egregiously polluting. Thus began the momentum for free trade agreements and breaking down of trade barriers.

I used the term “globalization” as a proxy for free trade. That was bad on my part.
What is the benefit to buying a car from a company very few people have heard of? I don't know the price point of this vehicle (imagine not cheap), but regardless, personally I would never buy a car from a company without a reputation built up before for sales, reliability, and post-sales service.
I got a teacher.

I did find that the steps that I took to get to intermediate all helped immensely. Learning triad shapes all across the neck, learning all the notes in the neck. Learning the basics of theory for chord construction, and learning how to build chords in the guitar neck. Then focus on time and keeping a the forms of songs.
As a teenager, I would say I still like reading books (I'm in EU) but one of the things that makes us hesitate is the dopamine we can get from IG or even Discord servers!! It's so easy to lose the attention during reading a book.
I find that philosophically, "all math is discovered" is a better way to think of mathematics.

E.g - it's always been true, that given a set of axioms A, B, and C, the claim X is true. Humans discover these conclusions when they explore implications of taking different assumptions to be true.
The meter is defined by the speed of light in a vacuum, that doesn't change on the moon
Say what you will of the ossified auto giants, making cars is hard and they have a pretty good track record.

Whenever I read of the build quality of upstarts like Tesla and Rivian, I'm reminded if this.
Is the NSA a secret funder of this project? I suppose having accurate bathymetric data might have business or scientific applications but the only immediate use that comes to mind is undersea warfare.
China is betting on battery swaps to tackle EV chargers shortage
> Source for this?

A what? What does source mean in this context?

Regardless, the Vision Pro needs to sell approximately an order of magnitude more units in the next couple of months to catch up with the iPhone 1.
Oh, so you've experienced those "stale" bots on GitHub. Good times.
UberEats and DoorDash are still money-losing operations that subsidize the actual cost of the service, despite rising prices, barely paying their workers, and abusing their relationship with restaurants.
Unfortunately that's "industry standard" nowadays. I lost count how often I had that discussion over the last two decades.

Just look at stuff like pip, npm or pretty much any "modern" package manager in use by developers - they're all pretty much designed to pull in a shitload of arbitrary unaudited and in some causes unauditable dependencies.

And nobody wants to listen. That's why I prefer to work in heavily regulated areas nowadays - that way I can shorten that discussion with "yeah, but regulatory requirements don't let us do that, sorry"

The absolute basic should be having a local archive of dependencies which at least received a basic sanity check, and updates or additions to that should review changes being added. CI gets access to that cache, but by itself does not have network access to make sure no random crap gets pulled into the build. You'd be surprised how many popular build systems can't do that at all, or only with a lot of workarounds.