skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But what if, and stick with me here, a compiler is capable of reading and processing your code and through simple scalar evolution of the conditionals and phi-reduction, it can't tell the difference between a switch statement and a sequence of if statements by the time it finishes its single static analysis phase?

It turns out the algorithmic complexity of a switch statement and the equivalent series of if-statements is identical. The bijective mapping between them is close to the identity function. Does a naive compiler exist that doesn't emit the same instructions for both, at least outside of toy hobby project compilers written by amateurs with no experience?
They kind of did that on the Nintendo 64 with the expansion pack for extra RAM: https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Nintendo_64_Expansion_Pak
None of this applies to crows. They're very happy to eat our rotting corpses and day old vomit. So feeding them can be an adventure if you try hard enough.
>Well, what could his parents afford when they were his age?

[Article is from 2019, before Trudeau boosted the Immigration numbers to astronomical numbers] "In 1971, those in the top 20 per cent by income had a home-ownership rate approximately 10 per cent higher than those in the bottom fifth. This difference has grown severalfold in the ensuing decades. Millennials are entering home ownership in small numbers and later than their forebears: 50 per cent of millennials own a home today compared with 55 per cent of people their age in 1981."
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/08/01/Gov-Created-Housing-C...

The housing situation in Canada (not just Toronto and Vancouver) is on a scale unlike any other developed country.
Mirror: https://archive.is/UnPTx
There is no plural in Japanese.
Imo a good WAP connected directly to your computer works just as well as with a high end cable. I have both and didn't notice a quality difference either way.
I don't think that "as early as 2025" is dishonest regarding the measurements and facts.

Sure, the headline is written in a way that draws attention, but it is not dishonest clickbait or written to mislead, IMO.

Others here have hinted at the so-called "hot-model" fallacy, which is relevant to the timeline. [^1]

Apart from that, the article does make clear that "collapse" can be a gradual process.

Even climate change effects that hit very suddenly in a climatological sense can easily spread out over hundreds of years.

This does not in any way rule out tipping points with extreme changes that wreck ecosystems, e.g. average temperatures dropping or rising by 10 degrees Celsius over 20 years in some regions.

[1] Sabine Hossenfelder has a great video on this topic, should be findable by querying "climate sensitivity".

The search results I find are mostly (affirmative)
statements of that "hot model Problem", such as this article: https://www.science.org/content/article/use-too-hot-climate-...

I am not a climate scientist, but I have heard the claim that the models that best model 2020-2024 (especially 2023-24) disprortionately often fall into the category of having been dismissed for being "too extreme" before.
Presumably the way macros are implemented, using a partially-evaluated metacircular-interpreter.
https://archive.ph/8vouM
updated to even faster lru implementation at the expense of a maybe a bit lower hit ratio
https://github.com/cloudxaas/gocache/tree/main/lrux/bytes
What if you give each slot independent command pins but not a complete memory channel?

What if you use a similar technology to registered or load-reduced memory, but put the register on the system board instead of the DIMM so it's in front of multiple DIMMs that then share the channel into the processor but not the traces on the system board? This may also allow higher capacity DIMMs in consumer systems.
Congratulations, I really enjoyed it. I never play videogames and I'm on mobile, but I engaged instantly.
Allen Farrington: Capital in the 21st Century
Poor attempt at trying to make the URL unique possibly and prevent it from being blocked. Someone could easily block the domain or use regex to block comments with that domain.
The examples use `.lo`
Let's game it out.

You go there to work remotely. Food/labor/rest are super cheap.

Everyone is starving to death there, to the point where meth is casually used by most people to stave off hunger pangs.

Not to mention, if they decide they may just get some fun leverage out of a foreign hostage, they may just decide to claim you committed a crime and beat you half (or 3/4's) to death.

This is just the news stories I can recall off the top of my head as well...
> because I didn’t want my house to fill up with books that I might end up not reading.

It takes all kinds to make a world?

On the other hand, I had friends who resorted to moving when first their apartments, then their house, filled up with unread books.

(they got them in bulk from library sales, and left all the resulting duplicates by the door for guests to take home)
Unix-inspired so it's entirely text oriented.
Apparently not a scam, but there's an amply supply of reports on Reddit about the shabby treatment of people who have had the misfortune of getting caught up in their opaque and time-consuming selection process (leaving candidates in limbo by not telling them whether they passed the assessment or not, for example; not allowing them to apply to different roles with the same email / phone number; etc).

Meanwhile it's run by a company called Surge AI and you can probably guess how much its principals make.
Google (and others) please implement link analytics with "ping" or "sendBeacon"
Washington Post: "Don’t waste your time recycling plastic"

New York City Administrative Code: "Any person who violates this chapter... shall be liable for a civil penalty.. in an amount of twenty-five dollars for the first violation, fifty dollars for the second violation and one hundred dollars for the third and each subsequent violation... A person committing a fourth and any subsequent violation within a period of six months shall be classified as a persistent violator and shall be liable for a civil penalty of five hundred dollars for each violation" https://law.justia.com/codes/new-york/2006/new-york-city-adm... (Title 16 sanitation, chapter 3 solid waste recycling, subchapter 6 REGULATIONS SUBMITTED TO COUNCIL AND ENFORCEMENT)

Not an idle threat, either, my apartment building has been fined in the past.
From that article: "actual contents of minds are tremendously, irredeemably complex".

But they're not. The "bitter lesson" of machine learning is that the primitive operations are really simple. You just need a lot of them, and as you add more, it gets better.

Now we have a better idea of how evolution did it.
Thanks for clarifying, this is exactly where I was confused.

I just read about how both sentencepiece and tiktoken tokenize.

Thanks for making this (in JavaScript no less!) and putting it online! I'm going to use it in my auto-completion library (here: https://github.com/bennyschmidt/next-token-prediction/blob/m...) instead of just `.split(' ')` as I'm pretty sure it will be more nuanced :)

Awesome work!
I found it didn’t work well for me, because it didn’t play well with any other email clients or any other calendars. I felt the migration tools were great and I was able to quickly leave gmail, but I couldn’t tolerate the lack of support for integrations and ended up leaving for fastmail after about 1 year.

Honestly, I don’t want to be the product like gmail, but I don’t need total security to the point of eclipsing out everything else.
A free version on the Internet Archive:
https://dn790000.ca.archive.org/0/items/OnWritingWell/on-wri...
Russian FSB Counterintelligence Chief Gets 9 Years in Cybercrime Bribery Scheme
I recall seeing the super of my building mixing the trash and recycling. Really turned me off to the impact of separating our refuse.
This has (in some way) already been done[1][2][3], though almost always focused on the "indie hacker" scene - how will this site work differently?

[1]: getmakerlog.com

[2]: WIP.co

[3]: buildinpublic.xyz
Wow you might want to document yourself a little bit.
They didn't do themselves any favors by putting out a nicely animated teaser for season 2, which was made by a studio that otherwise didn't work on season 2 at all (they were busy animating Captain Laserhawk for Netflix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjDOpHuUppU
I used to race my coworkers through those lines. Going through normal security 9/10 times, I would win. They’d finally come through the other side to find me sipping on a Starbucks coffee. But when I lost, I lost big time, and I’d have to meet them in the bar.
> Sony doesn't publish numbers but a good guess is 3-4 million active players.

I find it really hard to believe that 3 million people put on PSVR2 every month. That thing gets basically no content.
I absolutely agree that latency is the real thing to optimize for. In my case, I only leave the application to access the db, and my applications tend not to be write-heavy. So in my case latency-per-request == how much work the computer has to do, which is constrained to one core because the overhead of parallelizing any part of the pipeline is greater than the work required. See, in that sense, we’re already close to the performance ceiling for per-request processing because clock speeds aren’t going up. You can’t make the processing of a given request faster by throwing more hardware at it. You can only make it faster by creating less work for the hardware to do.

(Ironically, HN is buckling under load right now, or some other issue.)
The aluminum collected from aluminum drives in WW2 wasn't really used all that much, but it did make everyone feel like the war was important and that they were contributing. Similar thing with blood drives after 9/11, most of which was thrown out.

Even if recycling plastic doesn't do much (a claim I'm not certain about), it makes you think about the planet every time you throw something away. This can carry over into other behaviors, i.e. making people more adherent to recycling metal (or anything at all!), composting, reusing items, or whatever. It's important to be right about these things and not just correct.
The author says, "suddenly, in some classes, A’s are almost unachievable, unless you score 100%. And F’s don’t exist." Why would that happen if this was only about "fluff" and "no zeroes"?
Fentanyl, human trafficking, and identity theft can all be quite lucrative as well. Externalities matter. A high revenue stream does not equate to high benefit to society.
Quieter and more dominated by relatively green programmers.

I can't get good entropy about tech anymore from Reddit (e.g. I often look on hackernews or Twitter to find out how the sausage is actually made when it comes to bits of tech stacks and so on)
There's used to be a site for that called advogato. Looks like it was shut down in 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170715120119/http://advogato.o...

(I found my posts on there from 2000 to 2001. Looks like you could also tag other users in your updates. Apparently I became the "official documenter" of ClanLib and completely forgot about it. Sorry.)
I taught undergrads before phones became ubiquitous, and I'm not sure the situation was substantially better then: https://jakeseliger.com/2022/01/31/most-people-dont-read-car...
OTOH Altman has said that next release will be about same advance on GTP-4 as that was over GPT-3. Dario Amodei has said something roughly equivalent - to expect solid gains this year but no reality bender.

I think the real potential gains come when they start extending the architecture, but as long as it's just scaling up and different training/inference regimes, then it seems it'll be more of the same rather than game changer.

Given how connected the whole SF/AI scene appears to be (alchohol + drugs too?), it's hard to imagine a company the size of OpenAI not leaking. If there had been any amazing discoveries there, I think there'd at least be rumors (and not just "they seem to have something called Q* going on").
These aren't North Korean entrepreneurs building businesses in a free market. Any enterprise in North Korea should be understood as slave labor to provide support for a criminal regime.
iphone 1 was way better than any of the alternatives at the time. Probably a better analogy were the bulky portable phones of the early 90s, which ultimately became smartphones, but after two decades!
In modern C++, macros are a viewed as a code smell because they are strictly worse than alternatives in almost all situations. It is a cultural norm; it is a bit like using "unsafe" in Rust if not strictly required for some trivial case. The C++ language has made a concerted effort to eliminate virtually all use cases for macros since C++11 and replace them with type-safe first-class features in the language. It is a bit of a legacy thing at this point, there are large modern C++ codebases with no macros at all, not even for things like logging. While macros aren't going away, especially in older code, the cultural norm in modern C++ has tended toward macros being a legacy foot-gun and best avoided if at all possible.

The main remaining use case for the old C macro facility I still see in new code is to support conditional compilation of architecture-specific code e.g. ARM vs x86 assembly routines or intrinsics.
> * 86 billion neurons in a brain [1]*

> * 400 transistors to simulate a synapse [2]*

> * That's 34 trillion, 400 billion transistors to simulate a human brain.*

You forgot about:

1-Astrocytes - more common than neurons, computational, have their own style of internal and external signaling, have bi-directional communication with neurons at the synapse (and are thought to control the neurons)

2-Synapse: a single synapse can be both excitatory and inhibitory depending on it's structure and the permeant ions inside and outside the cell at that point in time and space - are your 400 transistors handling all of that dynamic capability?

3-Brain waves: are now shown to be causal (influencing neuron behavior) not just a by-product of activity. Many different types of waves (different frequencies) that operate very locally (high freq), or broadly (low freq). Information is encoded in frequency, phase, space and time.

This is the summary, the details are even more interesting and complex. Some of the details are probably not adding computational capabilities, but many clearly are.
Redacted Reddit comments are the new "forum post with important info in missing Photobucket link"
We have chips in our watches that are more powerful than a super computer from a few decades ago, and yet after all this time we still haven't really improved readibility from 1970s terminals.

I still have to battle to find a serious manufacturer that makes flicker free panels, I still have to battle to find monitors with a smooth refresh rate and pleasing accurate colors. Currently there are no displays that allow me to read text for a prolonged period of time.

This seems such a no brainer thing to improve, especially since most tech workers spend their days reading and writing emails, spreadsheets, documents, code, etc.
I get nearly daily "hi!" type messages and friend requests on various social media platforms from what are obviously fake accounts - which leads to the question of why is anyone accepting these requests or bothering to interact with these fake accounts? This pig butchering might be a new variation, but confidence scams have been around forever. Are people just that lonely, unaware, or greedy?
Sometimes valid email addresses will be rejected as invalid, and sometimes invalid email addresses are still successfully delivered. Validation guarantees nothing, and at most it should be a UI cue.
While the web trends away from open, Facebook is zigging where others are zagging and supporting the resistance technology-wise.
The patterns
Any other possible actions we can take for punishing these sorts of bad actors?
> I created a "large test suite" to be more intensive. On my dev machine it needed to run for 8 hours.

During such long and compute-intensive tests, how are thermal considerations mitigated? Not saying that this was case here, but I can see how after saturating all cores for 8 hours, the whole PC might get hot to the point CPU starts throttling, so when you reboot to next OS or start another batch, overall performance could be a bit lower.
> I'm sure that somewhere buried in a wall of text they state what this is all about

If they could've, they would've. Unfortunately, this has been bit of a problem in the Nix community for a while. No one mentioned in this letter is an "abusive" "right-wing" "concern troll" by any stretch of imagination. Actual behavior that kind would most likely result in an unanimous ban. But none of the evidence buried in this wall of text supports that assumption. Whether the authors realize it or not, this letter consists almost entirely of ad hominems and accusations of ulterior motives.

Just as an aside, I wrote "almost," because I do think the handling of the sponsorship was an issue here despite the letter framing this as not the central issue. Military sponsors aren't a great fit for a community of international volunteers, especially one trying to put AI on drones. I'm not comfortable with that either. But were the accused members of the Nix community abusing and concern trolling to push a right wing agenda? Definitely not.

The other issues though, are just disagreements. The letter is taking screenshots of random disagreements and claiming it as proof of, again, "abusive" "right-wing" "concern trolling" behavior. Some vocal members of the Nix community love to do this. All. The. Time.

They disagreed with me. They didn't do this or that. That means they must be against social justice. They're persecuting minorities. They're concern trolling. Oh, here's another person trying to stay away from all the drama. They're complicit too.

This is the stated mentality of these vocal members. This is also the reason I avoid posting in NixOS Discourse and Matrix off topic chat channels. It just feels like some are more interested playing Game of Thrones. It's not representative of the community, but I don't want to attract unnecessary attention from the vocal few. I think this is harmful because destroys healthy decision making on difficult issues by excluding people not looking to pick a fight. Fun fact, the same sort of drama also played out when #nixos IRC migrated to Matrix following the Freenode incident.

Actual concrete example. The Nixpkgs repository includes a file containing a list of maintainers. A PR was made against this file, and one member of the community asked the PR author if they can make the maintainer name the same as their GitHub username.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/120729#discussion_r621...

And this exploded. Way out of proportion. Some were pouncing on the member who made that comment. To me, the response seems far more abusive than the original comment ever was.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/120729#discussion_r621...

Accusations were flown, like "denying someone of a name." Like, seriously?

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/120729#discussion_r622...

I feel bad about bringing this back up, but it only seems fair to show the whole picture given the drama.
I mean... there is nothing sacred about the physical manifestation of a book. You can always print and bind a PDF if you want. It's remarkably inexpensive to do that these days.

I've long hypothesize that people's love of art is inextricably tied to thing-ness. That is, art-lovers are often obsessed with the physical manifestation of the underlying art (music: vinyl album, painting: physical painting, sculpture: physical sculpture). I became interested in this art thing-ness idea in this during the renaissance of 3d printing a couple decades ago, when I saw so many incredible sculptors online, that seemed to get zero attention, because there was no "original" to go see in a museum... but you could just print one at home.

My favorite artist during that era was Dizingof: https://www.youtube.com/@dizingof/videos
Huh, personally i believe the improved experience of a physical book is worth the small hassle of owning a bound stack of paper. That and i also have a love for owning a personal library. If something isn't worth keeping than I'll get rid of it but I'll always give a book a chance to make it to my shelf. I'm kind of a book hoarder though, I've been learning to let go more recently.
>certain the stores and even individual employees are rated on how fast they get the orders done

They weren't fifteen years ago. The only speed incentive was not pissing off the customer. That may have changed, I can't say.

One thing I didn't consider earlier, if the store is busy enough the oven might be full and the cook hits the button to clear the entry they're done with so they aren't confused.
This seems to be true for many plastics but PET seems to prove to be valuable as recycling material. The Lidl Schwarz group actually went into recycling recently and I doubt that they do it for feel good [0] . I also doubt that most of mixed packaging but also tons of coated card board has any chance of recycling.

[0] https://gruppe.schwarz/en/press/archive/2021/lidl-and-kaufla...
> A large part of becoming a decent engineer [2] for me was learning to stop trusting what professors taught me in college

When I was taught about performance, it was all about benchmarking and profiling. I never needed to trust what my professors taught, because they taught me to dig in and find the truth for myself. This was taught alongside the big-O stuff, with several examples where "fast" algorithms are slower on small inputs.
> I definitely heard it used to literally mean only the kernel. Circa 20 years ago and earlier.

You may have, but it was a nonstandard usage. Even your 2004 Wikipedia article distinguishes between OS and kernel. Userland is certainly part of it.

AmigaDOS, 1991, manual p22: "Each AmigaDOS process represents a particular process of the operating system— for example, the filing system [...] AmigaDOS provides a process that you can use, called a Command Line Interface or Shell. (https://archive.org/details/1991-baker-jesup-et-al-the-amiga...)

MS-DOS 6.22 (1994) concise user's guide consistently refers to the entire thing including command.com as the operating system (the kernel here is named msdos.sys.) (https://ia801204.us.archive.org/33/items/msdos_manual_622/ms...)

Hell, the whole Linux vs GNU/Linux thing, which has been around since 1992 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy), was explicitly about the fact that "Linux" is just the name of the kernel.
From early Sperry days “BTFOOM” it was the last effort in the OS error system, printing this then halt. Beats The Fxxk Out Of Me, was the official wording.
Will the four-day work week come to pass? – Computerworld
You don't need attribution to see this. You could just create some landing page for your Ads, and see impact for users coming to that landing page.

Attribution is very useful for Ads platforms (e.g. Google) to build more efficient targeting models.
I wonder if 20 years ago same guy was suggestion to give up electric cars because they are too expensive.

The discussion of what is the best way to deal with plastics should be done with data, formulas and graphs not with opinions.

And on top of that, there is not even one material "plastic" it's a class of materials, and for which probably the solution is different, like some should be forbidden, others recycled, etc.
Maybe you should play videogames....seems you would enjoy them.
>> as easy to finish as it is to order pizza delivery online.

Employers want applicants to prepare them a full course meal, not order a pizza.
China sees foreign threats everywhere as powerful spy agency takes center stage