skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that a few people mentioned it having better than average knowledge of obscure things from the internet, I asked it what the llm tools from Simon Willison is. Gpt2-chatbot said "Log Lady's Mug". Gpt-4-turbo said "Log Lady Mysteries".

https://imgur.com/LHg4m5V

I tried a few versions of the prompt, including asking first about shot-scraper. It knows shot-scraper was made by Simon Willison and mostly knows how to use it, but that didn't help it with llm. Long tail is still a problem.

If I had API access to this, I might be interested in trying to find if there exists a prompt that can improve this sort of thing.
Well yeah, people were designing airplanes before computers were a thing.

Or, to be less snarky, the more computational power you have, the more design possibilities you can explore.
> One of the exciting things about the broad switch to NACS in the US was that other fast charger networks were going to have to compete with Tesla's network

What standardization will bring is more investment and development. Companies are less interested in investing in infrastructure when there are dumb standards fights which lead to pointless incompatibilities.

Part of the reason why Europe's EV infrastructure is further along is because of standardization. Everyone can build to the same standard and have it work with all brands of charger and all brands of car.

With CCS winning the protocol war in North America and with Tesla's plug now standardized as SAE J3400 (aka CCS type 3), more companies will be willing to build out more chargers. North America is years behind where it could have been, but at least it's slowly heading towards standardization and compatible charging infrastructure.
> SLS burned an absurd amount of money and spent over a decade making sure that the first launch went relatively well, because they can't afford to have visible failures

SLS burned a lot of money because it needed to have massive production in politically-needed districts.
> A key point to keep in mind is that SQLite bytecodes tend to be very high-level

That's right. "Bytecode" is a spectrum. SQLite's bytecode is higher-level than e.g. WASM, JVM, Python, etc. (Notably, because the original source code is higher-level.)
Poor people spend a larger share of their income (and therefore put it to productive use stimulating the economy, hiring people, etc). Rich people tend to hoard their pile, and spend a smaller portion of it.
> I hope that our daughter Kess

Voyager fan by chance? :-D
I share his views on many things, but I won't work for him as I need time to be with my family. Eighty weeks aren't for me.

I don't want him to fail, however. I'm happy we live in a world where some people work hard to advance our technology.
I’ve read quite a few news stories on this and I still don’t understand what Musk is trying to accomplish. Tesla has been hugely successful. The model Y is the best selling car in the world. Sure, there is a downturn, but why make such drastic changes? It just doesn’t make sense.
Same for me. I bought a Lamy Safari fountain pen with a triangular grip that sort of forces me to hold it the “right” way, and it was transformative. What, handwriting can be pain-free? And I don’t have to consciously remember to adjust my grip because it pushes me that way? Miracles!

More info here: https://www.themanual.com/culture/different-types-of-pencil-...

My hand wants to use the lateral tripod grip by default, leading to me gripping the pen too hard and my hand hurting. The Safari gets me to use the dynamic tripod grip which is vastly more comfortable. They’re both considered “mature” grips, but one is much better for writing lots of text in one sitting.
"Woooooooooosh"

Still not responding to the argument.
I love the Computer-Hosted-In-A-Computer products (for absolutely no good reason), I have both one of the education market Mac LCs with a IIe-on-a-chip in the PDS slot ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIe_Card ) and one of the slightly later PowerMac 6100/66 DOS with the first-party "Houdini II" 486 DOS card - The Houdini IIs are SoundBlaster 16 compatible (...ish) and the Is like the 610s bundled had kind of janky sound, so they're a little more "useful" (insomuch as a feeble 30 year old PC hosted in a 30 year old Mac is "useful").

The firmware is "uncanny valley" level mutant; it looks enough like a PC for DOS/3.1/95/98, and there are shim drivers to use the shared-in peripherals, but anything that does more direct hardware access will immediately notice it's not a PC and freak out ...that said, Despite claims that it's impossible, I did once get it to boot a minimal Linux system (IIRC some bullshit with a Tomsrtbt disc set and loadlin to chain load it from DOS, it was quite some time ago) - _barely_ functional, useless, but fun.

Amusingly, the vast majority of the DOS cards for Macs are lineally related, Phoenix Technologies designed the first gen cards for Apple, sold some aftermarket through AST Research, then Orange Micro bought the line from them and made most of the later aftermarket options.

...I'd love to complete the set and find a MacIvory/MicroExplorer or something, but I don't actually care for Lisp and the people who do have made the prices on working NuBus boards astronomical.
That’s because your computer is a hobby, and mine is a business. My customers use Windows and macOS. They have happily paid for my house, my car and my retirement. :o)
I will check it. Thanks for sharing the link.
Projects of mine that LLMs assisted on:

A web framework for C using clang blocks with request-bases memory arenas for easy memory management.

A CNN trained on video stills of playing various chords on guitar hosted using PyTorch in a SwiftUI iOS app

A DSL using Python Lex Yacc for piping CSV data into a runtime that spits out matplotlib graphs in PNG bytes ready for imgcat.

Right now I’m working on language server in written F# using Fparsec with an intermediary AST for capturing multiple parser errors.

I’d say these are relatively advanced endeavors and that there’s a lot more than boilerplate going on.

And yes, I can explain how these things work as LLMs require quite a bit of guidance.
Apple poaches AI experts from Google, creates secretive European AI lab
I also, from reading a lot of literature, took this meaning. I’ve never been a fan of the word though, probably partially because of the ambiguity being discussed here
> lots of small building blocks of static machine code precompiled/shipped with DB software binary

You might call those interpreter operations.
> Svein Sollie, the transportation director at ASKO Norway, the logistical arm of Norway's largest food retailer NorgesGruppen, used his personal credit card to put down an initial deposit on 10 of the Tesla Semis in 2017 but has not received any.

"We are not happy with the situation at Tesla," Sollie said. "(It's) almost seven years now, it's a long time to wait.”

...

Meanwhile, UPS, Walmart Canada, Sysco and Schneider National (SNDR.N), a transportation company that works for PepsiCo's Frito-Lay, said they are turning to Daimler Truck, maker of the Freightliner eCascadia. All four companies said they had begun to put dozens of eCascadia electric big rigs on the road.
FWIW, Mercurial has this, and calls it changeset evolution:

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/doc/evolution/
i carry a small field notes[1] book in a slim leather sleeve that also serves as my wallet, and i tuck a pen[2] in the fold. i change out the notebook every few months when it's full.

i value how compact this is, and i value never needing to charge any batteries. i also value being able to rip out a piece of paper and hand it to someone or place it somewhere.

in the first few pages of a new notebook, i often find myself wishing i had access to the old notebook (sometimes i carry both for a period).

i would consider switching if the form factor were small enough and the battery life were long enough. i would appreciate having full access to my archive, and the ability to backup/post-process the data. i would still miss having the ability to rip out a piece of paper. i'm honestly not sure where i'd land on the final decision.

1: https://fieldnotesbrand.com/products/original-kraft

2: rOtring 600 w/ fisher space refills
Not sure if it's too similar to pressure-fed engine, that one works with a clear acceleration direction, which really helps to keep fuel at the local bottom.

> A separate, expendable gas supply pressurises the donor tank to force the propellant out and over.

But what if the fuel is a mix of liquid bubbles and the gas freely floating in the tank?

(BTW, on the different point, some pumps applicable here could be really simple, like analogous to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_ejector#Water_aspirator)
I didn't yet watch the video, but my overall point is that Gateway and Moon HLS is not the thing which will help us get to Mars. Or least it is bad for innovation per dollar spent. The best place space station to construct for future Mars expedition should have been in the LEO and fully manned. Moon orbital station is a detour. Actually more of crutch for the Orion. And HLS will land in a different mode than future Mars lander.

I do agree that we need to do small steps before big steps. But overall this "lets save money with reusing Shuttle stack" has backfired spectacularly. And delayed both small step and bigger step for decade(s).
I think most people associate bytecode VMs / interpreters with general-purpose programming languages, but it's a surprisingly useful concept in other contexts.

Sometimes bytecode VMs appear in unexpected places! A few that I'm aware of:

- eBPF, an extension mechanism in the Linux kernel
- DWARF expression language, with interpreters in debuggers like GDB and LLDB
- The RAR file format includes a bytecode encoding for custom data transformation

More here: https://dubroy.com/blog/bytecode-vms-in-surprising-places/
Activists thrilled after parts of agriculture law deemed unconstitutional
Testing a new version of Stack Overflow Jobs
The solution to this is not to split, but just follow Qualcomm. Their vision for the future of the ISA is simply much better than SiFive's.

Right now, most devices on the market do not support the C extension, and any code that tries to be compatible does not use it. Qualcomm wants to remove it because it is actively harmful for fast implementations, and burns 75% of the entire encoding space, which is already extremely tight. SiFive really wants to keep it. The solution to fragmentation is to just disable the C extension everywhere, but SiFive doesn't want to hear that.
APL interpreters are tree-walking, but they're backed by C procedures. Then GCC optimizes quite well and you get excellent performance! With stuff like vector instructions.

Getting on par with GCC/Clang with your own JIT is pretty hefty.
100lbs is obviously not a lot of mass for refueling to mean much. But, if Apollo needed to launch 3000t to land 16t on the Moon, a Starship with 100t of payload and say, 300t of propellant, would need a ~75000t rocket from Earth. Efficiency improvements reduce this a bit, but not meaningfully.

Hopefully you can see how that's kind of unrealistic and unscalable to do in one launch.

Orbital refueling is a core technology necessary for sending useful amounts of payload around the solar system because the rockets themselves can't really get much larger without becoming completely uneconomical. Congress understood that orbital refueling would make their obscenely expensive SLS program unnecessary, which is why they effectively banned NASA from using the word "depot" (until Senator Shelby retired) under threat of canceling the entire space technology program, and strongarmed ULA into not pursuing an upper stage capable of carrying Orion and performing orbital refueling (which again, would've replaced a $2B per launch rocket with a couple of launches of a ~$150M rocket).

The number of launches sounds like a lot, but consider that F9 is already launching 2-3 times each week, and Starship is being designed explicitly to not have the factors that are limiting F9 cadence from increasing further. The engines are better designed for reuse, the launch infrastructure is easier to build many copies of, the boosters always come back to land, the second stage integrates onto the booster at the launch pad etc.

Also, as a side note, they'll need roughly the same number of refueling flights for Mars. The fuel requirements for going to the Lunar surface and Martian surface are actually pretty similar, since on Mars you can save a lot on using the atmosphere to slow down, while you can't on the Moon.
The guy has a dozen children with how many woman and seems to take any drug that anyone offers him. This is not what I'd have considered a conservative about 10 years ago, but now I don't really know. It certainly paints a picture of someone who is deeply unhappy despite (or perhaps because of?) his unfathomable wealth. I don't like him, but antipathy isn't exactly what I'd call my feeling. I'd almost feel sorry for him if he wasn't so rich and smug.
Dealing with the Complexity of Economic Calculations (1997)[pdf]
I feel like that’s more of a ukulele question than a music theory question, but I do wonder if it gets it wrong for the same reason diffusion models struggle with hands.

Music theory is a great topic to test though, since GPT-4 struggles a little with it.
> There were certainly interactions going on between cultures in Europe and the Middle East in ancient times

Sure.

> and Greek culture was certainly influenced by Egyptian, Mesopotamian Persian cultures (which are often not considered "Western")

No doubt about it. Especially ancient egyptian civilization. The ancient greeks themselves have said so.

> but for example China

There was some contact, but certainly not as much between mediterranean peoples. That's obvious.

> the Americas had no direct contact with Europe until much later and developed in isolation to each other.

Who cares?

What's your point? Your comment didn't address what I wrote. I said there is no such thing as western civilization. Just like there is no such thing as eastern civilization. Not sure what the point of your comment is.
That’s under the assumption that evolution works as taught in gradeschool. Under big-step evolution, no such contradiction exists.

Indeed the evidence would tend to point towards big-step being the primary mechanism of speciation (fossil gaps, bizzareness of many intermediary states), but this is such a strange proposition to folks who have a P != NP prior that they tend to dismiss it out of hand.
There likely isn't a problem defined by some metaphysical being or alien that's being solved for. And if there was, how would you assume that our current "search" isn't incredibly fast when compared to the alternative, whatever that would look like?
Tenant protection rules do not increase housing. They do the opposite.
I wrote a naive lz77 packer/unpacker in C for a c64 game. https://github.com/geon/woorm/blob/master/tools/lz77.c

Not fast, but the compression ratio was decent, and made it easy to fit a bunch of levels into the game.
You know it's a slow day on HN when people just start posting random pages from RMS' website.

FWIW he has a Mastodon account (https://mastodon.xyz/@rms), mentioned on his site under "social media[0]."

[0] https://stallman.org/cgi-bin/showpage.cgi?path=/stallman-com...
It seems to me like they didn’t learn anything. You can’t have a business whose product is meant to overcome state censorship, unless, perhaps, you work for another government. It can work as an open source project though as there’s no legal entity to coerce, just a diffuse and ever changing group of contributors. Plus of course the trust question. As a closed source project, they could be paid or forced to add a backdoor. It’s possible that they didn’t help anyone at all.
Don't give Bryan Lunduke any attention. The man has been 100% grift from the start - his turn to producing right-wing and conspiracy content has just been a symptom of this.
They might be "parallel" if there were no zero-sum time trade off, or no time pressure. I wouldn't mind so much spending time fielding interrupts all day every day, if I didn't have anything else I was trying to get done. But that's not the reality. And for me (and I think many others), it isn't just additive, because time pressure makes me anxious and less focused, which slows me down more, which increases the time pressure, which makes me more anxious, etc.

By the way, I'm not trying to say that this is always happening in my work, or even frequently, but this is an actual bad outcome that I experience from time to time. I currently have, and have been fortunate in my career to usually have very good management and teammates who are very respectful of each other's focus time.
Wait, no, you do not just get to claim OCR is as easy as "right click copy, right click paste".

Even if OCR weren't kind of crappy, which is absolutely is, you still have to physically take a scan or photo of every page, potentially assemble them, load it into the OCR software, then distribute it.

Yes, there are services that will OCR a book for some amount of money, but that's still more work than just copying a digital file. I would still need to package and ship the book, get out my credit card to pay, unpackage the book when it's shipped back.

It's categorically more effort, pretending otherwise is just outright dishonest.
I’m quite sure I don’t want a different bespoke UI for everything. And given the non-deterministic nature of these models it’s going to be different even for the same task. Now instead of hunting for the right buttons after a software “update” with some genius redesign: I’ll be hunting every time I use it? Sounds like a nightmare.

I do agree with the author though as to the deficiencies with a purely chat based interface especially for power users or technical interfaces.
It’s simply a non-starter for me. That said LLMs will complement power user interfaces nicely by helping the new user learn them.
Yes, the timing of that compilation of bytecode and machine code can be either AOT or JIT.

For example, Java/JVM compiles bytecode AOT and compiles machine code JIT.
Reddit has steadily declined over the past few years and it seems to have sped up since pissing off the mod community last year.
Photo caption also mentions 500+ people
Thanks a lot!

You can run your Mozilla Add-On on Chrome or Edge by adding a --polyfill flag, but for now you need to manually add the extension to Firefox. I do plan to support Firefox in the near future, but no browser runner available at the moment.
I did once have a file that had UTF8, Windows-1252, MARC8, and VT100 (really) all mixed up in it. I think the data had gone through multiple migrations between software in its past.

I had write to my own "clean this as well as possible" thing, and it did a good enough job.
Deep Dive into Linux Page Cache
Maybe it's an unfair example but: the number of people on Earth. We know the quantity more or less, the leftmost digit in base ten, then it's a lot of work to figure out the other digits.
Just anecdata, but my 90+ yo mother, living in a 60's 3-bedroom ranch neighborhood, is surrounded by three single men not working. All three live in houses owned by their parents or siblings, all of whom live elsewhere. All three have struggled with life-long chemical addictions, and only one of the three seems to be solidly in recovery. One is on disability after a work-related injury years ago. One has been in and out of jail. The third (and youngest) is the only one with some college, but somehow never got a degree and now refuses to make himself presentable enough to get through even an entry-level interview. Without their families' support, the two not on disability would probably be on the streets.

I'm no expert, but from what I know of these men (over many years), they all have an independent streak and never conformed well to "working for the man," i.e., being told what to do. There are certainly ways for someone with that mindset to succeed, but many just don't seem to be able to figure it out.
> Company has had a long head start, and could have focused on core assets of a car instead of dreams that never happened and seem likely to never happen.

It seems like Tesla had to go "Hail Mary" on the dream/scam of "FSD" as a head start in electric vehicles doesn't provide any moat/advantage for simple vehicle sales. Whatever temporary advantage Tesla had in the drivetrain is negated by how much work that had to do to create (and often reinvent) every other part of car manufacturing.
I see the dead internet theory is proving more than just a theory.
There should be. Libraries have taken on that role because no one else will.
> I'd assume the boil-off should be insignificant

It should be, but we haven't done it yet [1].

> active cooling systems can be used, they don't need to be big or complex

Cooling in space is always complicated given the only way to dump heat is radiating (or dumping into ejected mass, i.e. boil off).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_propellant_depot#Heavy...
Yea I think the issue is “CTO” at a 5 person company just doesn’t feel like the same level of accomplishment as CTO of a much larger company/team. It’s tough to grind for years and not see the growth you expect and be in the position you expect. I hate to say it but if climbing titles and making the most money is your goal, you should probably not stay somewhere for 3 years. 2 most, then start looking for your next opportunity making more money, running a bigger team, doing something more exciting, etc.
Is Keepsafe using AI to look at your nudes?
It’s called a browser extension, why call it web extension?
I want to remind here that, according to some professional space roboticists, humans in space can run certain missions cheaper than automata.

Maybe it's somewhat outdated point of view - it's about 10 years old. But, if you think in general, you might still agree that for complexities above certain point robots could become very, very expensive.

Also, we shouldn't forget that human flights became vastly cheaper than they used to be.
Fake engagement by Reddit to prop up usage numbers?
It’s curious you and the other guy got the almost exact same response for the unicorn.
Why open source needs a one-time license model
The code size reduction instructions are an extension that will go through and will eventually be supported by everyone, and is not the bone of contention here. They are designed to be "brown-field" instructions, that is, fit into the unimplemented holes in the current spec.

The reason the spec is going to split is not them, but the fact that Qualcomm also wants to remove the C extension, and put something else in the encoding space it frees.
If people followed up immediately after they said "Hi", "nohello" would not exist, or it wouldn't be relevant. Saying just hi is a problem because often, people interrupt each other by "hi", followed by several literal minutes of "Typing..." on the bottom of the screen, or nothing at all.
And if the store is hosted outside of Europe? Just like how nobody can access the pirate bay?
This looks really helpful - thanks!
This is extremely cool. Even the readme is beautiful!

I'm going to give this a try. I've been holding off on adding an extension to my app because of the absolute cluster that is Google Play.
I'm not sure what pisses me off more, the confirmation that the internet is indeed full of undead activity, or the sheer laziness of this specific example. My god people, it's the age of LLMs, at least mix up your astroturfing a little!