skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“One of the smartest features of the Breathe-o-Smart is that it cannot possibly go wrong. So. No worries on that score. Enjoy your breathing now, and have a nice day.”

https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_technology_in_th...
AI is the new blockchain :P a lot of hype an nonsense marketing.
I did this for the first time recently and it was a super satisfying experience.

I'm mostly a web dev, but I was experimenting with some very mathy Rust code. I did some back of the envelope calculations about how many cycles a CPU might take on various floating point operations, multiplied that by the number of items I was pumping through it, and arrived at a number that was 4x out... then realised the Rust compiler had performed auto-vectorisation with SSE2!

I wasn't spot-on, but I was within like 20-30% I think. And that made me feel like a real engineer haha.
It sometimes feels like I've taken crazy pills watching what was effectively a tech demo that went viral become the usecase now dictating billions of dollars of development and optimization.

It's a crappy usecase. And much better ones are typically being overlooked outside a few smart enterprise integrations.

To put it mildly - if someone wants to use LLMs to build a factual chatbot, they should probably just start mining crypto instead, as they'll waste less money on jumping on a trend. But if they think a bit about how LLMs can be used in nearly any other situation, they'll be miles ahead of the majority chasing this gold rush.
Hey holoduke, if you see this, would you kindly shoot me an email? I saw one of your comments from a while back and would like to ask you something. I'd appreciate it. Address is in my profile.
Is there some direct application? Like using the excitation states of different atoms for storing information?
Exploiting the NT Kernel in 24H2
Reminds me of the Existential Ad Agency:

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/204
SK is having a large gender culture war. This is not the biggest factor but it would contribute a little.
Looks like the airlines failed to fix it.
Am I wrong or LLMs are text not fact generators ?
Everything in PostgreSQL is a role.

It's just named such that when a ROLE allows `login` it's considered a user
No. I disagree with the sentiment strongly. I've seen so many of my friends alone turn their life around from bad choices. Truth is, this article is most likely just attribution bias. Life is rich enough to allow for manueverability. And for the record i hate everything that makes life seems a more hostile place. I take it my personal responsibility to have the opposite effect to people.
A feature, not a bug: the 101 years old lady and the 1 year old baby need the same blended food !
Never understood this posts. React as a whole and state management became many times easier over the years (been working with it, vue and a bit of angular for 6+ years now).

Function components removed stuff like getDerivedStateFromProps and many other things, introduced clear and simple way of component updating (as in "prop reference changed, I'm gonna render now").

For state we got redux toolkit, which simplified reducers, zustand and recoil/jotai and mobx which allow you to pick based on your needs instead of writing million reducers or passing state to children when you don't really need it.

Its not "react got hard", its people unable to adapt to changing world. Every mainstream framework in reality got streamlined, simpler and more effecient to create apps.
> Are you suggesting that data should be stored in global variables instead?

According to FP, data shouldnt be stored where possible and yes, if you can, store global or top level immutable blobs and pass by reference.

> That's how the real world is.

Well, maybe not. I dont rememer where it came to me that OOP is like classical physics, where everything has to get passed around with the speed of light and FP is like quantum physics, stateless until you do the computation. I dont know how accurate this analogy is but it still fascinates me since modelling reality is enlarge what programming is.
That doesn't seem like a huge barrier compared to shipping a dotenv binary compiled specifically to all deployment arch.
Seems it has the necessary integration points to run CMake builds as an external command. The same way you could build Make, Autotools, Meson or Bazel projects from CMake with the necessary external command plumbings.

Obviously both fille the same purpose of being a build system, though Bazel is also a build executor not just a generator. Integration would mean either adding BUILD language support to CMake or vice-versa, but you wouldn't get the particular benefits of either this way.
For that I fire up a Gemini browser against gemini://gemi.dev/bin/waffle.cgi and paste the URL.
For non Gemini network users, just change medium.com to scribe.rip at the URL.
Yeah it's just a pretty simple algorithm.

When it constantly listens for us saying stuff like "oh it's cold" and grabbing a blanket and reacting, yeah that would be AI. I definitely don't trust Google with that kind of info though!!
Country and Product Complexity Rankings
> We are not the same company as STABILITY AI LTD. We are Wisdom Tech and have a cooperative relationship with STABILITY AI LTD.

What's a cooperative relationship? Are you guys using their models?

Asking because the name of your company is confusingly similar. Without context, it seems a bit misleading.
You can, you can even call the kotlin version that way if it happens to be on the classpath, but it's truly horrible ergonomics if for every call you have to guess between class-ref-otherargs and ref-otherargs forms. It's one of those little cuts you grow numb to.
Only option is "SignUp Or Login with Google": no.
Thanks for building SumatraPDF! I just switched away from Windows, but I've been a happy user for a very long time, and it's hard to get that mix of user experience just right. Really appreciate your work.
"We" ask them to generate text that includes the facts.
I mean what is he gonna do? Spray holy water on the servers?
Google Search Parameters (2024 Guide)
This is just a generic EULA template, there are only minor additions.

> So if Steam pulls the game two days after my purchase, it's my problem not yours?

I don't think there's any instances of games getting pulled from steam. If you have it in your library it'll stay accessible to you. Even if the developers removes the store listing.

> So I can't let a friend play?

It's also against the agreements of Steam to share your account with others.

I am not sure why you're so upset over a generic software EULA on a game on Steam. It might not be necessary or effective but it's not that harmful either.
The apps are there. The problem is still hardware. Pass through, although decent in perfectly lit rooms, is terrible. Long term comfort is another issue. Apple really should have spent more time working on a better strap. The fov is far too narrow for multi tasking and neck strain ends up being a huge problem when trying to do real work. Multiple physical Montoya properly set up don’t have this issue as much.

It’s getting there for sure. But won’t go mainstream until that hardware goes through a lot of revisions to minimize weight and improve comfort (not to mention price).
Maybe they helped humanity but sure they ain't helping me now. I think of them the same we "evolved" wisdom teeth and appendicitis.
share a link
Is Google a good place to work? I hear it is deteriorating in quality
I wanted to know what the smarted people in the country do after college. So I looked at 500-700 profiles in LinkedIn who graduated from top colleges like MIT, Stanford, UCB, IIT, Tsinghua etc.

What I found out was pretty horrifying. Almost all of them went to FAANG, especially Google.

If all these smart people are in 1 company, but I am sure that the core products are being developed by a handful of people in lucky teams. My guess is that majority of the people are just doing menial tasks.

And since everyone is smart, every single promotion will be 100 times harder. Its like a slow moving funnel
Bing is not just an LLM. It’s RAG, the LLM is just a layer on top of a typical search engine. The LLM is not “getting” any facts, it’s just synthesizing them in a human-readable format.
Not unless one would take special measures of a clean room RE:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
>> if you mess up and haven't figured things out by the time you are in your 30s

> In fact, I think you'll find more people than ever before are settling down in their 30s and starting families, etc.

I did not interpret GP post to mean "If you haven't settled down and started a family by 30, you may as well give up".

I interpreted it more as "If you haven't made a decent sized social network, or haven't figured out how to approach strangers, or haven't been in a committed/long-term/love/etc relationship, or didn't socialise enough to develop socialisation skills, etc... THEN you may as well give up!"

I think the GP's point is that those people who are settling down in their 30s and starting families, well, they didn't mess up, and figured things out before age 30.

Maybe he'll clarify, but I agree with my interpretation: if you haven't figured out romantic relationships by age 30, you may as well give up, because post-30 it's exceedingly difficult to find an environment with lots of socialising with peers.

Almost impossible, in fact, because, as you said, most people are already out of that scene anyway...
Indeed, reading this article is supposed to promote Figma's engineering team for 'solving' a solved problem: it does quite the opposite.
Because it was written and enacted primarily by recently warring western nation states, not a group of detached philosophical monks living on a mountaintop.

The elites in those societies had a clear interest in carving out special privileges for themselves, which is why officers receive preferential treatment.

The 1929 Geneva convention has other things you may find objectionable, such as Section II, article 9 (paragraph 3)[1]:

Belligerents shall, so far as
possible, avoid assembling in
a single camp prisoners of
different races or nationalities.

Which is there for obvious reasons. Can you imagine the horror of being housed in a racially unhomogenous camp? People in 1929 sure could.

1. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/geneva02.asp#art9
Yes, sum types and generics solve this nicely.

It's a shame Java was designed before they had generics, so the core of the language can't take advantage of them.
CharSequence is the base class that things like java.lang.String inherit. So I understood that as an instance method you can call like "foo".isNullOrBlank() (in Kotlin syntax)
Increasingly less. I’m giving away my tv tomorrow lol. I realise YouTube is just as bad with its influencers
She's 101 and still travelling by plane? By the time my grandma reached 90 it was a Herculean struggle just to get her in and out of a taxi.

Filing this one under "problems I'd love to have".
You probably don't use Apple School Manager with yours.
I work in a global team with people across every continent. It would be really great if we could all be in a room with few whiteboards and computer displays we can all look at when we feel like so just like we would in an office.

Chat and video calls are very different from that seamless office experience of walking over to a whiteboard with a smaller subgroup, returning to the computer of one of us to try it out, inviting someone else from the larger group to check it out while pointing at the screen and the whiteboard etc.

Not every day, not all day - but few hours for a hacking/bug fixing session would be super great.
This service is Maria, the Oracle. She is a woman. Human intelligence is the best intelligence.

You may ask Maria about anything.
33 MB file, that's probably docx, thus it's actually a ZIP'ped collection of XML-files. Could well be 200 MB uncompressed.

Once all that XML is naively loaded as nodes, we might be talking about more than 1000 MB of RAM usage.
Meta don't want these bots, but as Zuck said in his interview -- it's adversarial. Some of these bots are run by nation state actors who can easily adapt to Meta's attempts to shut them down.
How do you host your apps?
That’s great news! As far as I understand constants are not an easy topic and being able to analyse more precisely is a big win.
The entire article's premise is misguided as slow C++ build times are usually a result of inexperienced SWEs unfamiliar with the language's "fun" build rules.
No, I don't think the names are the main problem even though they don't help. There simply is no reason to buy an Xbox. No noteworthy games or features that you can't get anywhere else. Instead they have such a bafflingly bad UI and audio connectivity that I'd rather buy all the games again on PC than turn that thing back on.
Quantum-Proof ClientHello Messages: How Size Causes Server Failures
I went looking for an arXiv link for this paper and found the one you linked.

Kind of weird that this new paper is only on the group's website [1] and not on the arXiv.

[1]: https://www.tuwien.at/fileadmin/Assets/tu-wien/News/2024/Tho...
Tuesday

Wednesday

And

Thursday

Not to be confused with those who only come to the office on the last three days of the week - the WTFs.
Union types are pretty ugly.

Eg they can't distinguish between one or two layers of nullable. Or between null and an optional null.

(In eg Rust syntax between `Option<Option<MyType>>` vs `Option<MyType>`. Or `()` vs `Option<()>`, where `()` would be how you spell `null` in Rust.)

Using tags is simpler and cleaner.
You, sir, have just invented the Imperial Unit for time measurement.

"How old are you?"

"3 iPhones and half an M1 Macbook"
Yeah, but back then customer service agents actually had competence and authority to bypass computers where they (inevitably) messed up.

These days, it's all drones who get heavily punished if they drive off-script, and that's assuming they can go off script.
But suppose they did tick that box. If someone ticks "need assistance" for a 1 year old, you would bring a stroller and not a wheelchair, no? A casual googling indicates that the smallest generally available wheelchairs are for ages 2 and up.
You can make LLMs say pretty much whatever you want with the right prompts. This is a complex issue, and if EU citizens want access to LLMs the GDPR is going to need a different set of rules for LLMs than for websites and search engines.
We can't trust the fox to guard the henhouse, especially when it comes to AI
So people are happy plugging in cabling into a circuit with no protection?
The article directly stated more precise atomic clocks.
I think there is lots to gain from Wikipedia, but increasingly social media is being gamed and politicised and manipulated. For me the cons outweigh the pros heavily. I don’t even read the news.

I feel incredibly free and happy with basically no online presence. Best I’ve ever felt.

All I need is Wikipedia, hacker news, and a couple of books. Coding and coding books gives me all I need.

Next step is to buy some GPUs to get away from hosted LLMs and start running them locally. Then I am truly free and information dense and self sufficient
I did buy a Quest 3, which, at $450 or so, is a steal compared to the Vision Pro. I have yet to find any use for it. The first few minutes are entertaining but then... what's the point? There is no point. (Not to mention the cartoonish aesthetics which are really off-putting.)
Since loading dotenv files happens together with executing code I I have decided to trust my .env files just like I trust the rest of my code not to delete my entire system and therefore I source them.
Integers support both addition and multiplication and taking maximum and minimums, and a few other semi-group operations. Do you want to define different Null elements for all of them?
Some additional context,

Q1 2024 Summary from Chrome Security (https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-dev/c/K_...)

> After several months of experimentation for compatibility and performance impacts, we’re launching a hybrid postquantum TLS key exchange to desktop platforms in Chrome 124. This protects users’ traffic from so-called “store now decrypt later” attacks, in which a future quantum computer could decrypt encrypted traffic recorded today.

Chrome 124 Breaks TLS Handshake (https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1carvpd/chrome_12...)

> Apparently Chrome 124 changed a setting “TLS 1.3 Hybridized Kyber Support” from disabled to enabled as the default. This appears to break the TLS handshake for servers that do not know what to do with the extra data in the client hello message.

> If you mysteriously have a broken web application and the server is sending a reset directly after the client hello, try turning this setting off. In our testing IE mode works as well, probably because this extra data is not transmitted in IE mode while it is in normal Edge.
I knew I'd have to feel full once in a while, so my rule was, only foods with 1 kcal or less per gram. This pretty much meant sauerkraut, pickles, raw veggies. Lemon water. Long walks.

Two weeks of this worked great.
A Man Who Gossiped Too Much
Python isn't exactly statically typed.
101-year-old traveler listed as baby because of airline software glitch
Many developers don’t speak to users or collaborate with the business, instead they take direction from email threads and poorly written tickets. Remote, outsourced and offshore developers know this only too well. Even with better access to people, these developers would struggle to navigate organisational complexity, political decision-making, and siloed systems.
OpenAI openly and knowingly, and Microsoft even more, presents ChatGPT as a way to get facts.
Exactly. The "risk free rate" does not exist when it comes to the purchasing power of an asset. And the purchasing power is what matters to an investor.

The 4% bonds pay you might be somewhat "risk-free" when it comes to "getting your investment back and 4% on top of it". But it is likely to have been devalued. And often to a large extend.
> nobody is really bothering with the content

And it's a shame because Apple is perfectly positioned to solve this.

Apple makes mainstream and popular TV shows. Apple owns rights to broadcast sporting events. Apple makes custom cameras to film their promotional VR content. But apple didn't invest in "real" feature films or movies shot in VR natively. Apple isn't making "on the field" VR sports broadcasts. Apple even has more money than some nations to throw at this. They're perfectly positioned, but they're simply not producing enough.

Beyond direct content production, Apple has a huge developer community that could've been mobilized to make software. They should've thrown a dev unit to every indie app developer with halfway substantial sales. It'd only cost a few million, and they'd have gotten a ton more apps at launch, as well as probably doubled the initial userbase.
MailCleaner security disclosure report [pdf]
Default passwords in 'smart' devices now banned in UK
Fujian Starts First Sea Trial
Working in big enterprises is usually pretty soul-destroying, FAANG or otherwise.
I find it inexplicable when people respond to a particular problem with a suggestion on which large platform/ecosystem someone should use instead, or avoid.

Switching ecosystems is nowhere near that trivial.

Ecosystem choices are dependent on content and tool investments, other devices owned, product groups, integrated technologies, network effects between people, between companies, customer relationships, existing phone payments, existing ecosystem familiarity and skills, on and on.

As for developers, they often need to be on the top 2-3 platforms to be a serious choice for customers.

Nothing wrong with highlighting different pros and cons of different ecosystems.

But a suggestion to switch ecosystems, without a very deep understanding of someone's particular situation, just isn't helpful advice.
So basically you added the text to video step in front of Stable Video which came out awhile ago?

I think the website is deliberately misleading. That is useful to generate the images from text so you don't have to have an existing image to create the video from though.

Are you using the Stability.ai API?
> every TypeScript project I find from 2021 or earlier is simply impossible to build nowadays,

This is the fault of all the bullshit tools that were never any good to begin with (Webpack, Babel, etc) and the Node ecosystem generally causing pain. If you had a package-lock.json you should (in theory) be able to install all of those and it should work. Of course, this relies on dependencies of dependencies actually following semantic versioning but I'm fairly sure many packages on npmjs.org do not follow semantic versioning.

Worst case scenario, you can take your TS files and put them in a newly created project. Preferably the project has a minimal number of build tools, eg, 1. Such as Vite, for example. This effectively replaces easily 5 or 6 major load bearing dependencies that used to be necessary.

Even better: Just use Deno, where it doesn't need any of this to build and run TS files!
> Except they're not in widespread usage, so aren't relevant.

I don't know any java programmers either. Apparently people use java, I just dont know any that do it willingly. I'm sure they -must- use it, but erlang/fortran/etc as mythical to you as java is to me.

> No grads are going "gee, do I go with a .NET shop, a JVM shop, or a BEAM shop?"

Fresh grads don't know better, they take whatever pays. Businesses choose the cheapest (not the best) option and grads don't have the experience to choose better. Grads choices are not a measure of quality or desirability.

> And as for Common Lisp, which implementation? They can't even be compatible

> amongst themselves, so I'm dubious that SBCL CL from 13 years ago would just

> work.

My SBCL from 2010ish works, I've patched it up and improved it over time, but I haven't tried to run the original, it probably does. Its been through svn to git so I've lost the history, all of this is as anecdotal as anything else. Previous lisp code that I wrote was trivial and ran out of the box on SBCL, however the code is very self contained and not 'networked' or 'modern'.

My erlang code however has been running in a cluster since the early 2000's, it has also been through several releases for additional features, however I no longer have access to that code so I can't validate what has been done to it for the last decade.

I like your arguments, I just dont think we're coming from the same historical viewpoint.
The Financial Times and OpenAI strike content licensing deal
edit 2: seems that there are expectation around a complex .env unspecified file format I was totally not aware of, I was just merely trying to share the simplest way I've ever found to store and reuse env vars
Financial Times signs licensing deal with OpenAI
Basically this. The electricity bill went far higher for citizens while at the same polluting more the environment with wind mills and solar panels as far as the eye can see. The impact on nature and citizens is far worse but this socialist-inclined government continues the decade-long USSR-sponsored propagand against nuclear power to handicap western nations. USSR is long gone but this propaganda is well alive, unfortunately.

Without irony, France keeps building nuclear generators close to the german borders. Guess to whom we are buying energy surplus? Yep, this is just awful and the article avoided mentioning these critical details.
Javascript is still pretty young (comparatively) however I do believe you'd be right in saying that its likely to be around for a very long time.
Lack of a warning is "glorifying" (odd word choice, I'd maybe go with "foregrounding"?) the culture that doesn't need the warning.