skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough. OTOH, generating human-like text responses is a relatively small part of the human brain's skillset.
This exaggerated sensitivity bulshit is becoming unbearable.
What’s your LinkedIn?
> Bill Gates had the aptitude to be a leading researcher at probably anything if he set out to do it. He was already doing coding whilst working on math courses, so his attention was divided. Simons focused 100% on math until doing trading.

Ok, I guess you're right. A smart guy who completes a hard math class and is even also doing coding can probably do anything he wants.
Hey, I would love to see you trying it out.

The main reason why I chose quarterly is because a month is not enough to draw any conclusions.

Say you are a freelancer and want to increase leads. You added a calculator, but because of seasonality and traffic volatility, you can have more or fewer leads. But over the quarter, you can see the trend.

Because of the price point, quarterly pricing is not an issue; it also gives you room to experiment with the tool and fine-tune it for the best result.

I plan to put it on PH, but I don't have big hopes for it since it's a pretty "boring" app without much hype. I am working on connecting it more with AI (AI will generate a complete calculator based on your description), and then maybe it will be a bit more interesting to indie hackers.
These look very nice for marketing purposes but as I user I despise this trend of making the icons for everything look nearly identical to each other. It completely defeats the purpose of having an icon in the first place.
The idea of having passed peak pollution could suggest that we are beginning to see positive changes...
> You don't pay ordinary income taxes on the unrealized gains of your house.

The proposal to tax unrealized capital gains would not tax them as ordinary income.
>and they don't also rebind <C-w>. Go from trying to delete a word (backwards) but end up losing a whole session

This is literally why Vim binding for Jupyter doesn't work for me and also why the "terminal" in Jupyter Lab is worse than not existing -- I can't help but press C-w
I'm not convinced it's a self-correcting problem.
How would you define spyware in a way that doesn’t require state approval to have overseas users for any application or service?
Never underestimate Zuckerberg Inc.'s ability to consistently do the bad thing.
I feel like the reactions here are selective outrage. Real objects and sometimes living organisms are created and destroyed in the name of science every minute of every day.

An ad that was likely done in a single take, let’s be real, doesn’t matter at all in the big picture.
I think that it is primarily grounded in objective measurements and scientific understanding
The optimal way would be to have a web browser run under a unikernel.
Given the description about "sampling from an infinite" something, it's likely this was intended as a variation on reservoir sampling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_sampling
Nice article, thanks for sharing! Been implementing my own string type for fun recently and this is a useful reference!
Venice: Private, Uncensored AI
So sad. He seamed like an extraordinary man.
Independent Game 'Saturnalia', Postmortem of a failure [video]
> understanding' simply means knowing a man is to a woman what a king is to a queen,

Turns out this is beautifully represented by embeddings alone!
Or https://dwm.suckless.org/
Conversely, how many monkeys control man versus the counter of how many men control monkeys. This is something that is observable and countable.

Giving a system intelligence gives it power, we are the gods in the monkeys eyes.
Is there a reason to care about that number?

Oh I thought of another one, if people smoke more cigarettes then the ratio of cancer deaths to packs smoked decreases!
True but another article I read mentioned Hollywood types being "upset". In what way did the advert hurt them?

Might someone somewhere been rubbed the wrong way? Perhaps. With 8B+ ppl on the planet, anything is possible. But I agree with the post you commented on. That is, the "outrage" felt manufactured. It's been a slow tech news week and perhaps the media was bored and needed some web traffic?

Note: I recently read Kara Swisher's "Burn Book". In a way, entertaining. But when you realize that she - openly and shamelessly subjective to a fault - considers herself a journalist you quickly realize what a cluster fuck that profession has become. Editorial is not journalism. Op-ed is op-ed. We outside The Media shouldn't have to explain the difference to those on the inside.
> understanding' simply means knowing a man is to a woman what a king is to a queen, but without the need to learn about words and letters (that should be just an interface).

Citation needed
Looks so cool. Really want to try it
Microsoft confirms Windows 11 24H2 turns on Device Encryption by default
Seems like the difference between cell phones and landlines implies things like self driving cars will be spread without relying on most people in a region affording them before construction starts.

The fully automated vehicles may be a lot more dangerous in some places than others, but you'll probably be able to get run down in the middle of nowhere.
It's getting better with France and UK pushing to drop that "not escalate" demagoguery in favor of actually facing the problems. And it's helping.

Macron surprisingly was very on point about using the uncertainty tactic as a deterrent method, instead of "we won't do this / we won't do that in order not to escalate". It's good he finally got to that point, though it should have been clear from the start.

Other allies should also remove all restrictions for Ukraine on using weapons to hit targets directly in Russia.

What also works as a deterrent is Russia knowing that for any hit, they'll be hit by Ukraine in return, and not just on the front lines, but anywhere inside their territory.
OK right, same architecture, but different trained models.
This is great. It would be a good C/C++ interview question to compare these. Of course you can't expect a Raymond Chen level performance, but it should give some insight into experience with low level programming.
Do you think the Yuuzhan Vong would have been a better choice as a common opponent for the Empire and Republic in sequel films?
Spot on. An iPad won't last long enough to become some omes beloved object.
With bicycle love the idea that you still can feel yourself as a fish
>Yes, there are compounded words like strawberry (straw + berry) and you can capture meaning at a higher-resolution, but most words are not compounded

What's really cool about tokenization is that it breaks down words based on how often parts of the word are used. This helps a lot with understanding different forms of words, like when you add "-ing" to a verb, make words plural, or change tenses. It's like seeing language as a bunch of building blocks.
There's an indian sci-fi novella about AIs whispering pickup lines into prospective daters, to the point that the daters don't really understand the flirting, and essentially the AI's are flirting with each other through their human hosts.

The name and author eludes me
Why Germany Is Choosing Natural Gas over Nuclear Power
Right. That has essentially always been the case.
Yeah, I got these vibes too, but especially from the cinematography. It was kinda _lingering_ on all the little ways each item strained and broke under the weight of the press, almost like it was something to savor. It was weirdly voyeuristic, in a way.
$15,000 TypeScript Bounty
I Used Resume Spammers to Apply for 120 Jobs. Chaos Ensued
That is what I see. The amount of disposable content has made actual information hard to see.
> just want to be clear if these are the gods we worship here

“We” don’t worship anything here.
> complex highly intelligent life capable of space flight is extraordinarily rare in space and time

That feels right to me especially given the timescales we are dealing with when we consider things even just in a galactic context. Heck, even the timescales on this planet alone are such that there could be multiple complex intelligent life forms on earth separated by sufficient time that they are never known to one another! Not to mention the fact that there are intelligent life forms on earth right now that we barely understand. For all these reasons It seems to me that we are far more likely to come across an alien artifact than an alien, and we haven’t started looking for these.
... no? Unless you're referring to null as a bottom type, then that doesn't hold. Are you describing some property of a specific language?
I'm talking about Adguard Home which is the selfhosted open source DNS server and adblocker.
> How would it look compared to aviation?

Well the goal of SpaceX is to launch as many rockets as technically possible. Even if SpaceX could only reach the same impact as the rest of the aviation sector, that would be infinitely too much. The aviation sector is already a problem.
Thanks! I also added them to my other game that's been here before: https://www.luduxia.com/whichwayround/

The funny thing is I modeled the service for leaderboards on a commercial product an old boss of mine wrote v1 of in PHP/MySQL over 20 years ago. https://web.archive.org/web/20040806114005/http://www.macros...

Games people end up with things like massively sharded mysql and replication fun. One of the nice potential things with fdb is keeping transactions within user scope, and not having to deal with the sharding/replication yourself, you just have to arrange the keyspace correctly instead. I have worked on games where people sorely underestimated the complexities of db replication and literally burned tens of millions in recovering from the mistake.
This looks neat, but has a lot going on.

I really like how minimalist yet extensible lf [0] is and just use edir [1] to rename files in bulk. Gluing them both together is really easy too.

- [0] https://github.com/gokcehan/lf

- [1] https://github.com/bulletmark/edir
I've been doing a bit of research on and off for the past few years on decompilation and it's definitely challenging to decide how close you want to go to matching. If you can get the exact compiler and exact compilation settings, it's totally feasible to do matching decompilation, and if you're able to make this somehow incremental such that you can incrementally work up to 100% matching over time, it seems like a really good approach, but it requires a lot of groundwork and understanding how the compiler and linker really work. In the process of matching compilation of functions on a binary I was analyzing that was compiled with Visual Studio 2003, I realized that very subtle differences can cause e.g. different register allocation, even in an old compiler with dramatically less sophisticated optimization passes.

Anyway, I guess this tangent is really unrelated, but I think more people should be embarking on decompilation projects. It's very fun, and it's uniquely rewarding if you manage to get some non-trivial decompilation of code to work properly.

I had one odd use case for decompiling that was actually, as far as I know, completely licit: WebView2Loader. Microsoft distributed the WebView2 SDK as 3-BSD so that you could integrate it into your applications without worrying about licensing, but the glue logic that actually interacts with the WebView2 installation and instantiates the COM objects is closed source. But... since it is closed-source 3-BSD, without a EULA... we can reverse engineer it. It being a relatively small shim, I did just that[1]. This was an easy exercise armed with an interactive disassembler, and since it was relatively simple and very small I didn't need to bother with matching anything: I just roughly replicated the behavior instead. The use case for this was allowing people to make WebView2 bindings that didn't have any external dependencies; the OpenWebView2Loader code was ported to Pascal and Go by others, making it possible to have pure bindings that don't require any C code or external DLLs and can directly talk to the WebView2 installation. There's now a static copy of the WebView2Loader with the SDK, which obviates some of the use of this, but this is still a nice approach for Go where you can entirely avoid CGo or messing with weird object format conversion. (It's way better than my original approach for WebView2 in Go, which is to emulate the Windows linker to link and execute an entirely in-memory copy of the WebView2Loader DLL using a lot of unsafe code. That also works, but it is much more bug prone and frankly horrifying.)

[1]: https://github.com/jchv/OpenWebView2Loader
Don't the Haredi refuse to enlist? Doesn't seem sustainable...
I broadly agree. There are caveats, however.

Things might develop a dynamics of its own, not necessarily intended or in the interest of any major player. Similarly to how Facebook don't necessarily want to promote political extremism, conspiracy theories or teenage girls killing themselves, but are nonetheless driving these developments as a byproduct of following their business incentives.
Usain Bolt is a superhuman
For me, it’s a mix of both. I’m a musician and a photographer. I felt a visceral negative reaction because those objects are sitting here in my apartment, and I’ve invested thousands of dollars and thousands of hours into them.

I also found the symbolism a bit distressing, because it takes the general worry I’ve felt about AI’s impact on art and music and animates those worries very literally.

Most AI/tech proponents are quick to point out that the original forms of expression aren’t going anywhere. But this felt uncomfortably close to “where we’re going, you won’t need these things anymore”.

And the thing is, I’m a big fan of the iPad and it’s incredibly useful as a companion to these artistic endeavors. But I’m not a fan of the idea that it supersedes them.
A great scientist. Rest peacefully Prof Simons. He probably deserved the Nobel for Chern-Simons theory.
My data backups are stored on ZFS on machines equipped with ECC RAM. Am I sufficiently prepared for this moment?
Agreed. But a lot of services don't even send plaintext anymore. Public services generally don't, in my country. And that's a shame.
All 3800+ of them? That's a number of icons per day for one person.
Got to have the correct attitude to gain altitude. (Attitude has a second meaning in respect of spacecraft.)
we old vi users don't use key combinations, that's an emacs thing :)
Furthermore, lying is (almost?) invariably performed in order to put one or more persons' minds into states which differ from those that the lie-teller supposes they would be in if they had spoken the truth.

This view supposes that the lie-teller has a theory of mind with regard to those other people, but does this mean that a 'lying' AI must also have a theory of mind? I don't think so, as I can readily imagine that AIs (and people, for that matter) could learn the utility of saying certain things as opposed to the alternatives, without regard to their effect on the state of mind of other people, and without regard to which of the candidate statements would be truthful. In a sense, it would be like 'cheating' at a game on account of not knowing all the rules.
Good. Phase 2 prep of paperclip production continues as planned.
You're right, I did conflate endorsement with if this actually is fraud, my bad.

Probably the core of the disagreement here is different definitions of "fraud". For me personally, information that is misrepresented and hides behind the mask of an unreasonable amount of work to be correctly understood is a form of fraud, and I know others don't share that definition.
> They're old and obsolete

Just like that iPad will be in a couple of years.
Booths, designs, and acoustic tile ceilings off the top of my head.

They went with easy to clean floors and took out the acoustic tiles leaving the ceilings and air handling systems bare and echoic.

In fancy buildings you also had a lot of decorative wood and molding breaking up the sound. And those embossed tin tiles, covered with a few layers of paint.
Nobody has more unfinished projects than me. Nobody.

I'm the literal King of Unfinished Projects... The Emperor of Halfway, The Sultan of Lost Interest.

And... that's entirely OK. Not a single one of these unfinished projects was wasted time. Not one of them.

Projects take you on a journey - it's deeply educational, better than any bootcamp/crash course/class you can ever do. Projects challenge you and develop your mind. You learn new things, and overall grow as a person the more projects you take on and work on - even if they are short lived.
This is good news. I found a new job in early 2024 and it was brutal, it took about 6 months of looking and interviews with ~20 companies, which is a lot considering my prior offer-to-interview ratio was pretty close to 1.000. I still ended up taking a ~40% pay cut and took a job using tech I don't know well.
A general obligation of due diligence in international law?
An interesting quote:

> The implications of such a general obligation of due diligence are also significant for the development of technology in a broader sense. If Microsoft release VASA-1 which offers lifelike audio-driven talking faces generated in real time, OpenAI release their voice cloning tool, or in relation to the provision of LLMs such as ChatGPT, is the US under a general obligation to prevent their use from causing harm to the rights of other states, for example, widespread harassment of target groups, criminal activity or political disinformation? Is the US under a general obligation to prevent Meta’s services causing harm to the rights of other states, or China under a general obligation to prevent TikTok’s services causing harm to the rights of other states?
Consumer facing stuff so nobody in my use case is running much other than a few versions of Safari or Chrome on desktop or really Safari on mobile. (87-92% iOS on mobile)
And their cardiovascular fitness and overall endurance
Who cares about this? I can't think of anything more unimportant and naval gazing than trying to extract subtext from an ad. Scrolling through the comments on this thread I'm genuinely surprised to see so much earnest rancor and performative outrage over a meaningless ad. Stop worshiping tech companies and go touch some grass.
Literally 3 months back I would have disagreed with this article. Since that time I’ve been working on contract for a startup coding their backend from scratch in Typescript. The CTO/advisor insisted on nodejs because that’s what he’s familiar with. When I started I didn’t know quite enough about modern Javascript, didn’t know anything about Typescript, about mongoose or deploying and scaling node apps on the cloud. About the only thing in my favour was that this is still a C style language with familiar syntax.

I decided to go with Nestjs since it sets up somethings for you out of the gate. I’m still not fully happy with that decision, but it is what it is. Btw, I don’t even know how to write tests for any of the code I wrote. I’m still figuring that out. We just needed quick and dirty code that we can test in real world. But we’re happy with this, admittedly shitty, backend for now while we have been testing it with our initial audience.

So now I’m leaving heavily on the author’s side that the modern JS ecosystem and the language itself is pretty good. It still requires quite a bit of sophistication to understand what is going on, but it isn’t a nightmare inducing mess that popular programming culture makes it out to be.

I don’t think a complete newbie would have been able to do what I’ve done over that last few months. You still need to check a lot of your expectations of the language and be careful. But quite a lot about this ecosystem and the tooling available is undeniably impressive.

I would just advise people not to fall for the “backend elitist” mentality that is so prevalent in the discourse and actually try things out for themselves.
Primordial black holes are a fascinating topic. One of my favorite hypotheses is that "planet nine," a large possibly 1-5 Earth mass planet suggested by some orbital models to exist beyond Neptune and Pluto in the far outer solar system, may be a primordial black hole.

If such a thing existed it'd be a black hole about the size of a billiard ball and would be extremely hard to detect. It would not emit Hawking radiation (Hawking temperature still below the CMB), so the only thing it would emit would be when it encountered something and tore it apart. In that case you'd see X-rays, gamma rays, etc., but maybe only briefly. Only way to find it might be to model orbits accurately enough to predict its position and then look for gravitational lensing.

If this companion object did exist it'd be a gigantic discovery of huge importance. It'd be within reach of probes, making it possible to study and even do experiments on to investigate things like quantum gravity. It could also be used in tight gravity assist flybys to accelerate probes to incredible velocities, maybe making interstellar probes a lot more practical. It'd be our very own way to yeet stuff to the stars, assuming these things could withstand insane g-forces (so probably not humans unfortunately).
Most of it appears to be fake to me. It has a very generative AI feel.
The trick is to "package" the code you write from the very beginning

For instance programming in Clojure it's incredibly easy to write your own libraries. It's just a separate namespace in a separate directory on disk. If you work on projects and push most of your work into mini-libs not only is it more maintainable but it makes it very easy to then reuse code in subsequent projects. So even if you don't wrap up the "main" project, most of the work is in a reusable format
That’s what makes this discussion so fun ;)
> Why so much? Not because of high demand. Because of limited supply

Eh, "high demand" is meaningless on its own in this case. There's high demand relative to the supply.

And not everyone recognizes value in an old cabinet and throw theirs out (further reducing supply), but that just means the market isn't efficient, but that's true of the market for most things.
The one thing really killing expression is constant outrage about everything. If everything you do is wrong, the only thing you can do is nothing.
I thought Numberphile is sponsored by Jane St. Another math focused quant firm.
Fwupd: Passim listens on 0.0.0.0:27500 and [:]:27500 until reboot
That stuck out to me too. There is a (not universally accepted) idea that language itself determines our capacity for understanding, called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. While it traditionally relates to humans, I've been casually working to apply it to LLMs as well.
I really want primordial black holes to turn out to be the missing antimatter from the Big Bang, but I don’t think that could ever be tested. And of course a mechanism for this would probably need new physics since antimatter interacts the same as normal matter wrt gravity.
I love that there are a lot of great options in this space. This one looked nice due to its selection pane: https://xplr.dev/
This is a really cool tool! I wanted to ask - you mention HAR files - how do you ensure tokens and secrets don’t end up in them / stored on your end or anywhere else they may end up?
Use this silk material as a cover for bass traps? Win-win
Truly, it's far from reassuring that the rest of think-cell's developer blog is more about "modern C++" debates on style and pitfalls ("Should we stop declaring functions and use global constexpr lambdas instead? Consider argument-dependent lookup...") than about developing their product.
I understand that aspect but Apple has no choice but to push the envelopw. How important is his review if he has nothing to say?