skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're interested in ENIAC history, there is a lot more interesting material to check.

Jean Bartik has e.g. also written an autobiography, see "Pioneer Programmer: Jean Jennings Bartik and the Computer that Changed the World" (2013), Truman State University Press.

And there is a lot of interesting information in the Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand patent court case. Here is a summary: http://jva.cs.iastate.edu/courtcase.php. Here is a Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell,_Inc._v._Sperry_Rand.... And here is the judgement with all the details: https://web.archive.org/web/20160327031754/http://www.ushist....

And of course there is the story written by Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli: https://web.archive.org/web/20230306052255/https://sites.goo....

There are also some interviews which you can find on youtube.

One must also be aware that there are a few publications by people who were also involved in an inglorious way, but preferred to convey a different but wrong version of the story in their favor. Jean Bartik and others have addressed these publications (e.g. in other Amazon reviews, or in the referenced interviews).
This looks like a variation on dictionary based compression --- minus the dictionary. Followed by variable length encoding.
1) You're assuming the educational institutions themselves are engines of anti-fascism. But plenty of very fascist ideas have come out of universities.

2) You're ignoring communism and the far-left. Plenty of disastrous ideas are produced in a vacuum by intellectuals at universities. To give just one example: Khieu Samphan, was educated at the Sorbonne. His ideas lead to the deaths of a quarter of Cambodia's population.

3) Even if we give you 1 and 2, where do you stop? How much money should be poured into education (esp if it's the taxpayer)? Resisting fascism seems like one of those infinite 'our work is never done' things that have unbounded demands.
Isn't the obvious approach to use thr LLM to write the code or definition for the STRIPS system and then use that system to search for the plan?

Have they tried that?
Isn't it?! There's plenty of talking about how "we're regressing to hieroglyphs", but that doesn't capture the nuance in usage of emojis in different languages.

Your example expands well to old-school emoticons. Where I live, an "xD" serves as a laugh and is used in rather general way. Meanwhile in the Anglosphere it's stereotypically associated with specific demographics
We forget 90% of our memories within 1 week
Thank you, internet. I needed that today :)
That choice happens all the time, it's wild to me you never had it come up irl.

It's really clear when someone is invited to step up in their job and refuse because it would entice more working hours, but it happen as much when people leave full time position because it doesn't give them enough time.
> This video is like comparing AMD to Apple.

What do you mean by this?
Very cool. They look great. Thanks for this
Also reasonable: "Let's reduce time+ money wasted poorly educating people"
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Underrated comment and great advice.

If all your friends and acquaintances look like you and don’t have differing perspectives, then you should totally widen your social circle.

Speak less, learn more. Ask questions.

Break out of the loop. Say no to the algorithm.
Forget aerobars: Ars tries out an entire aerobike
I'm starting to think we should think of the pre-historic times as the "simple machine age". When I see the artifacts I'm left with the impression that these people had plenty of labor and they were exploiting and learning the use of simple machines.

Everything they did could be explained by mastery of use gravity, ropes, and levers. If the materials used were primarily organic in composition the tooling would be long gone by now.
Same deal with openpilot. Comma team claims they’re “solving self-driving cars” anytime people mention perception improvements or quality of ride concerns. openpilot basically can’t turn at intersections anymore.
Any idea about the Untether accelerator pricing ?

e.g.
tsn200 40W 500TOPS
tsn800 300W 2000TOPS

Similar products [1,2] are approx $1-$2/TOPS (this is theoretical 8bit int ops, so multiply by x2-x4)

[1] https://www.axelera.ai/
[2] https://hailo.ai/#discriminative-ai
I'm no fan of the Higher Edu Industrial Complex but this is correlation, or at best blaming the messenger.

- Different people have different ambitions and motivations. Perhaps some degrees attract ppl who don't see money as a key motivator? Yeah, given the cost of edu perhaps they should, but we all do things we shouldn't and shun what we should. The point is, we need more analysis before we start making new decisions on actions to take.

- Supply and demand. It's not the degrees themselves that are the problem but market assigning value to them. Hear me out. That is, we can't collectively brag about the number of college degress and masters degrees as a key metric of our edu success, and then turn around and say "Oh shit. There are too many of too many of these."

Put another way, even if you shift all the negative ROI degree people into positive ROI degrees the value of the positive ROI degrees will then degraded (and the negative will climb).

- Let's finally admit that the experiment of (politically driven) cheap & easy student loans was in many ways a failure; another classic example of what happens when the heavy thumbs of politicians manipulate markets. It's funny (read: silly) how to make homes more affordable the POTUS is canceling student debt. Dear Mr/Ms President...what happens to price when demand increases? That is, cancel debt will eventually increase prices of other things. Classic political balloon grab, classically missed by the media.
Me too, but my day job means I handle a bit of secops, password managers are rolled out as security tools to users operating in enterprises where things like mandating people don't keep their passwords on a sticky note on their monitor is usually step one...
Interestingly, for my older sister, the answer is yes. For my younger sister, it is no.

I agree with the point, though. It's more socially acceptable for a women to choose a lower paying job that she prefers.
There is a well defined meaning of "insignificant" in this context: none of our activities have any material impact on what we see beyond the confines on Earth.

So the precise claim is that to describe any interplanetary scale (or up) process you can completely neglect humanity in its entirely, because its contribution to the process is negligible.

You are right that there's an unspoken step from "too small to impact the sun in any important way" to "insignificant to the universe", but it is not actually a very large step: being unable to affect one's surroundings is a classic sign of powerlessness.
> For someone doing it for the 5000th time, there's a lot of slowness

inherENt

> in the design.
Do you really expect employers to use their increased bargaining power in favour of workers? Of course doubling the number of workers in an industry is going to lower wages.
You're comparing medians to means. The means are much lower due to the average being skewed upwards by the wealthy.

Edit: the averages are much higher than the median of course
Do you have an example of an autistic person screaming in terror all the time?

As in all the time I mean, not just the times you’ve seen them.

I’ve never met someone who does that so I’m curious how it works.

My friend growing up was nonverbal, we used to play legos together. He would scream when he was touched and forced to do things, but it wasn’t all the time. So I imagine someone like your describing would feel that sensory overload all the time. I’m wondering if it is ever alleviated through dark or silence, and if not that would be hard to live with.

I guess in my experience autistic people don’t scream when they’re left alone, but my experience is very limited.
> It's enough to pay the bills, but pays less than she could have had at a corporate job. She got an English degree and couldn't be happier with her choice.

My sister says something like this. She is horribly depressed and 'loves her job' and doesnt want to be like her dad who had a great paying job and retired in his 50s.

Humans are adaptable. Sales are a bit immoral, there are plenty of jobs that arent immoral.
China electricity production from 2000-2020 overlaid on US electricity production from 1950-2023. Seems like it is definitely possible to achieve a steeper slope.

https://zlnp.net/serve/us_vs_china-electricity_production.pn...
Small reactors don't add up as a viable energy source
Get ready to through out your GC as soon as it works and build a better one or different one. And then again, and then again. It's more like art.
The one that will win will be the one whipped/flogged to within inches of its life, has the most performance enhancing drugs and spurred the hardest.

I'm not a gambler nor do I agree to the brutalisation of animals for human enjoyment.
I did this when I switched from Real Engineering to Programming.

Took a 40k/yr paycut, but I knew my income after the experience would be higher.
That is a cool video. Tho, to be fair, it is enclosed in a Pb / Pb-glass housing to shield it!!! Haha :)
Had you watched the video before commenting, you would know the point of the video is that Consumer Reports gave Mercedes self driving a much higher rating than Tesla. Video shows how awful the Mercedes software really is
I saw a language speaking quizz test in my replies to a Google search with the browser. Not in app. Probably part of an a/b testing.

And was a little bit pissed off to have my search results space wasted with a stupid widget I didn't ask for and out of the blue.
This whole ordeal reminds me that I actually do need to go back and clean up and edit all my stack exchange posts.

Not because I want to protest but because they are bad. Even highly upvoted and accepted answers of mine are pretty poor quality, don’t give the best advice, and in some cases provide misinformation. I am very sure I instructed people on how to make Frankendebian in more than one answer. And I can’t be unique in this regard.

Just scraping Stack Exchange without someone reviewing what that information actually is, is going to actively feed bad information into the model.
We need to bring models closer to animal brains; more research, better models. Not just keep adding gpus as fast as we can. Everyone knows this obviously, however seems we are going to push the limits even though we know we need something vastly better in the basics.
Everyone has outsourced anything that isn't nailed down, that's why not to pay attention to ceo's threatening to outsource you. If they can/could they will/would no matter what. The threats just mean that they can't. There is nothing special abut telco's in this regard.

Telco's don't have leverage to compete on anything but price really, they don't have the capital to innovate, they are prevented from vertical integration by regulation, customers will not pay for service... and it's expensive. So, it's bargain basement time. Their investors have piled them with debt and now are looking at them as an annuity business. One big issue is that humans only have very limited bandwidth requirements and so much networking can be done in the data center vs out on the edge now. This means that I don't really see another generation of edge networking coming along and realistically this does reduce telcos to the old utilities that they once were.

Time for renationalisation?
If I understand correctly, the massive flood in Dubai was directly caused by their rain-seeding program, right? Hope I didn't buy into some conspiracy theory :D but I read somewhere that they have been seeding rains over Dubai for many years.
Those who fork are not kings, but are princes who become kings.
Tesla has spent more billions on ML than any corporation in the world. I can’t wait to book my first FSD robotaxi ride at some point in the next decade.
I don't love it either. But let's be brutally honest here: the single inflection point where the world of software shifted from "usually buggy, routine crashes" to "usually works, presumptively secure" was the arrival and gradual embrace of Java and its managed runtime in the late 90's and early 2000's.

Were there other technologies that do the same thing? Sure. Were they better? In some cases. Was Java really the "first" by whatever metric? No.

But Java is where the world changed, it just is.
The owner just became a farmer in April 26
Fair point. Excel's pivot tables can't easily do medians.

Edit: Actually, it's pretty similar with medians (via Python now).

The bottom 10 are: Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft, Library and Archives Assisting, Movement and Mind-Body Therapies and Education, Dance, Alternative and Complementary Medicine and Medical Systems, Theological and Ministerial Studies, Film/Video and Photographic Arts, Personal and Culinary Services, Other, Music, Mason/Masonry

The top 10 are: Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences, Nuclear Engineering Technologies/Technicians, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Operations Research, Personal Awareness and Self-Improvement, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Marine Transportation, Systems Engineering, Mining and Mineral Engineering, Computer Engineering.
Mercedes is the first company to sell vehicles with SAE Level 3 Autonomous Driving enabled in the United States [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40098468
Quora already started to decline years before LLMs becoming popular.

I think, it's not AI that ruined Quora, but monetization. It's a strong case of Goodhart's Law. The measure is popularity and user retention.

In an ideal world the correct target would be the quality of questions and answers.
One of the reasons I prefer reference counting.

While it does a little less, the complexity tradeoff just makes more sense to me.
I don’t fear Java as much as I fear its acolytes.
Many promotions are actually pay rate cuts for salaried jobs. My job wanted me to work a 13% hour increase for a 7% raise.
Asparagus once flourished on California farms. Why is it disappearing?
I studied a bit of programming in other degrees but am mostly self taught.

I have a masters in financial economics and another in business.
The natural evolution is employers pooling their recruiting criteria to not have a single company bare the burden. Then they outsource it, and you end up with private entities managing the qualification tests, and you're back to a system where you pay to get through the door.

We already have that for instance with employers requiring MS certification to be sysadmin with the full salary.
Doesn't Mercedes guarantee level 3 only on certain stretches of road? Shouldn't a better comparison take place there?
If true, it could be big for countries which already are or are trying to become strong on nuclear.
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There's no reason to suspect most training runs could only be run e.g. during the workday. So a 24/7, more or less constant supply of electricity, like what nuclear characteristically provides, is something training centers could really slurp up.
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I concur.
Consider TFA. The symbols are not converted to from ASCII smileys and are used like an extension of the charset. Conversely, I remember web chatrooms in the mid-00s, where a colon-paren would always be converted to the service's pallette's rendition of an emoticon, pretty color and 3D to beat.

Plus, there's a question of how people use them, but that distinction I think came later
> And already, AI co-pilots are beginning to change how programming itself is taught. ... Academics are finding that the fact that students are using AI tools frees up time “to teach higher-level thinking – for example, how to design software

Except software design is not any kind of programming.
Another quote from the full interview:
"I guess a big part of my theory on this is that there's not just going to be like one singular AI that you interact with because I think every business is going to want an AI that represents their interests. They're not going to want to primarily interact with you through an AI that is going to sell their competitors' customers."

A huge Freudian slip there.
There won't be if those ambitions are just increasingly complex and abstract financial instruments.
> The end of the cold war, however, helped stitch the global economy together more tightly.

The truth is, there never was truly order in the first place, at least not in the way that markets truly function. Globalization wasn't a natural phenomenon per se. It's that a handful+ of entities saw an opportunity to optimize a system (read: profit enormously) that in reality was too complex and too volatile (e.g., wars, natural disasters, climate change, sociopolitical dynamics, etc) to be optimized.

The world is effectively return to exactly how it should be. Granted, less optimized and less profitable for the chosen few, but nonetheless exactly how it should be, like it or not, for better or for worse.
and I know a ton of people miserable and stressed because they are buried in college debt. The fact the government has created a system where 18 year old kids can rack up massive debts that can't be removed via bankruptcy is insane. Changing that would instantly fix the system, colleges would have to prove ROI or it would go back to how it used to be for non-practical degrees(only rich kids wasted their time and money on them)
> this region have been governed by workers party since forever.

Not quite. The state of Rio Grande do Sul had 2 PT (Worker's Party) Governors: Olívio Dutra (1999-2003) and Tarso Genro (2011-2015).

RS's capital city Porto Alegre had a much longer PT administration (Starting with Olívio Dutra in 1989, ending with João Verle in 2005).

> zero floods. well, small ones that overridden the dams

Fine, but there hasn't been this much water, and especially condensed in this small period of a few days, since ... well, I imagine always. Even the previous record flood of 1941 in Porto Alegre was due to 22 days of rain. This took about 3 or 4.

> last extreme right elections put an extreme right government in that region

I'm not sure I'd call Eduardo Leite (current and previous State Governor) extreme right. That said, he's a typical liberal, and as such he likes to defund the State. He decreased public spending in civil protection by 90% from last year. And that's after last year also saw floodings and cyclones.

If you're talking about the Porto Alegre administration, I would maybe agree with the "extreme right" label on the current mayor, Sebastião Melo. Previous right-wing mayors have been mostly regular conservatives and/or regular liberals. Still right, still bad, but not quite Bolsonaro bad (though at least some are Bolsonaro supporters).

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I came across a document from Porto Alegre's administration in 1992 [0] (first time with the Worker's Party in office, under the always thoughtful and overly intelligent Olívio Dutra) where they do an extensive analysis of the anti-flood systems in place, options on how to improve them and how important participation of civil society is in these processes.

Back then we had the world's first Participatory Budget [1] in place. In the document, the administration acknowledges that sanitation and flood prevention were not among their main flags during the election campaign, but the people voted and the administration started working on it.

This is how democracy should work IMO. It's not perfect but it's way better than simply voting to put people in office. Unfortunately it's been all but dismantled after PT left the administration.

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/y02s8cvxf6qts3ktgc70q/PREVENI...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_budgeting
Conspiracy theories are for people who need to believe there is order and purpose in the universe. They need to believe someone is in charge pulling the strings because the alternative, that it’s all just chaotic randomness, is too hard to deal with.
Media Server CPU
ASCII smilies are not emojis though, they are repurposing other chracters for building emoticons as ASCII art.

Emojis (絵/e = picture, 文字/moji = character) refer to characters that represent a picture of something as a single character.
Yes. But that sort of growth wasn't politically feasible in the US. The most economic options at the time were coal and nuclear, both of which were strictly off the table.
The majority of people want free shit, regardless of whether it’s a giveaway or a download. That’s just not an argument for or against piracy.

The legal stage is not “can people get free shit in the future” but “can people take it upon themselves to gain/give reasonable and rightful access”.

If we simply “give up the fight” and let companies decide what we can and cannot have, they will put locks on every piece of content. Then locks on every piece of hardware. Then locks on every interaction. Then silos around everything. And after that they will subjectively decide what we get exposed to since they own the distribution channel. Maybe no independent artists. Maybe no content that “has an agenda”. Maybe lists that would make banned book lists look tame.

And that doesn’t even count the ability retroactively remove access to what you grew up on, what you love, and what you hold as important. Regardless of whether you “purchased” it or not (because in this scenario you would have “purchased” everything).

If we hand them absolute power over our experiences we hand over everything.
We just want to write code for money in peace.
Replica of Penny's Computer Book from Inspector Gadget (Arduino Nano ESP32)
Quora was bad when I visited it in 2021. So what year it was good again?
Isn't the premise of this video of the Consumer Reports comparison a bit of red herring?

It seems like Consumer Reports is comparing Mercedes Driver Assistance with Tesla Autopilot and then the video goes on to compare it to Tesla FSD.

Obviously, the average person doesn't know there's a difference and may be misinformed by CR to believe that Tesla sucks, but we can acknowledge here that Tesla Autopilot is very meh compared to FSD, and it's entirely feasible that Mercedes has a justified better rating between these systems, even if FSD is light years ahead.
Not just the road. Drive Pilot is a radar based following technology. It won't drive on open roads at all, it can only follow a car in front of you that it has affirmatively detected on radar (the point being to eliminate the false positives that radar is known for). If it changes lanes or gets too far ahead the system will disengage. Likewise there's a speed limit of 60kph or somesuch, etc...

It's mostly a stunt, basically. It's an answer to "What's the fastest path to SAE Level 3 in any context", not "How to engineer an autonomous driving solution?"
We have plans for (millions) of HPDE sea floaters which should last for 10-20 years (structural strength is not a major issue iirc)

Is there a pathway to replace these with recycled plastic something?

would love for this to come fr9m OceanCleanup plastics somehow
CPA skewing data?

To become a CPA, you typically need enough hours that college offer a “5th year undergrad” program where you get a Masters in Accounting with just an extra 1-2 semesters.

I wonder if this is skewing the data either more positive or negative ROI
Hyfetch has LGBTQIA+ pride flags, but it has neowofetch which doesn't have them.
Taliesin
GC and AAA probably C#.
The grid in Western Massachusetts is over burdened. Local colleges are building their own peaker co-gen plants to meet needs.

From my POV the US grid needs a rethink that prioritizes local production with large transmission lines used only for redundancy access.

We should probably break down our energy usage between heating and everything else. The heating load is my biggest obstacle to net-zero. I'm working on solar thermal designs to get to zero. Solar thermal avoids the need to interconnect with the grid which currently is maxed out.