skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real reason to learn SBCL, is because that is an existence proof that garbage-collected multi-paradigm (procedural, functional, object-oriented) dynamic languages don't have to suck performance wise (speed and memory usage). I'm going to go off the rails and say that 'defmacro' isn't the reason one should use a lisp. ~90% of 'defmacro' instances are really just to prevent evaluating expressions, which could also have been done with a lighter syntax (e.g. reader macro) for lambda (smalltalk for instance). Why didn't lisp catch on? Some 30-40% of people really hate parenthesis with a passion. There is no accounting for taste I guess. Lisp advocates also spent too many decades comparing lisp to C (instead of Python or Haskell or Java). And it seems like there was at one time a faction that looked down on free-software/GPL for a while, so there wasn't as much activity that people (especially college students) could see and engage with. The standard library is sparse and could use a CLOSified refresh, but everyone disagrees on how that should look. Too many lofty promises of 10x or greater productivity gains, and not enough wins showing it. Who knows, I haven't looked as common lisp in a while, maybe there are now vectorized/parallel array libraries targeting GPU's now that everyone uses, because things "just work" out of the box. Or a polished off McClim, or other lispy gui, instead of wrapping Tk. That combined with the usual network effects.

https://www.sbcl.org/
Also how long a user spent watching each individual video, and what order they were watched in, and other info (whether they scrolled the view, etc).

All that would be very hard/impossible to recreate in order to test the algorithm.
> densely nutritious

Aside from the fact that red meat is not particularly nutritious in terms of calories or nutrient variety and has well established health hazards for us, the density of nutrition doesn't matter. The resources needed to produce a certain amount of calories / 'nutrition' involved do.

Beef has just about the worst possible resources-to-calories/'nutrition' value of any mass-produced food. The amount of water, land, and feed that goes toward growing cattle until they're old enough to go to the slaughterhouse is enormous compared to grains, legumes, nuts, chicken, fish, etc. Legumes often are a more complete source of "protein", which is actually several variations of protein.

And then there's cattle being the number one source of methane in the world, and methane is a major greenhouse gas.

>a mostly vegetarian country like India is heavily reliant on the milk that comes from cows for their protein requirement.

Legumes like chickpeas and lentils are far more likely than the more resource and labor intensive processes involved in dairy/cheese.

If you think otherwise you apparently don't do much grocery shopping.
I agree that is what is the law is and even that that is what the law should be. It is also important to note however that the actual title of the Sherman Antitrust Act is "An Act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies." So it isn't fair to say that anti-competitive practices and monopolies are completely orthogonal (although strictly speaking they are) because monopolies are a perfect tool with which to engage in anti-competitive practices. In my opinion I don't think protecting entertainment from anti-competitive practices even matters that much anyway though. Your ability to watch your favorite singer live is really not the same as something like oil or trains which are actually important to the economy.
Really seems like their play is to use their business suite to sell huge privacy invasive tools under the guise of computing improvements.

This iteration of Microsoft products gonna really go for the throat.
The FTC and DoJ have been hitting it out of the park recently, unfortunately, there are a lot of judges out there that think corps should be able to do anything they want.
Many would bristle at you referring to Sir David Attenborough as atypical!
Business icons who found success after 30 (2018)
> what has increased in value is the infrastructure of that allowed for the force multiplier. The actual value of labour thus goes down because it can be consumed so efficiently

The price of unskilled labour is objectively higher today than one hundred years ago, and it's clearly higher in developed countries in comparison with undeveloped ones. This is due to a myriad of factors. But to date, workers have done well by way of increasing productivity. (Others have done better.)
Yeap. And HFCS and ethanol for mandated use in gasoline.
It's not 'about to' it's expired. Did you not get a warning?
> What is necessary to be a vim user?

Think of vim-navigation as an idea without conceptual attachment to any concrete editor. Vim-navigation can be used even without any editor at all. Some people (like me) use vim-navigation in their browsers, terminals and their WMs. I control my music, windows, apps, etc., with h/j/k/l. My Neovim config is minimal because I rarely use it. Yet in Emacs, I use it extensively. Perhaps even more broadly than when I wasn't an Emacs user.

When people say "I'm a Vim user," they usually mean the concrete editor Vim/Gvim/Neovim because it is really difficult to replicate Vim outside of Vim. Every single plugin, editor, or IDE is just an emulation, with rare exceptions like Helix (which from the get-go was designed to have good support for it) and Emacs, which, due to its nature of being malleable and super-hackable, allows very nice integration of Vim features. Seasoned vimmers know that there's pretty much no vimming unless you're using Vim/Neovim https://x.com/garybernhardt/status/902956444596617216?lang=e... The caveat there is that they never tried Emacs with Evil. Evil is surprisingly very good. Probably the best implementation of vim.

And when you combine these two ideas - Vim navigation and Lisp, you get something truly amazing. Anyone who fervently detests one concrete implementation in favor of the other probably has a shallow understanding of either of these ideas. Write enough Lisp, and instead of getting angry at people trying to "vimify" your beloved Emacs, you'd be saying: "Cool, another testament to how awesome Emacs and Lisp are..."; learn enough Vim, and you would want to have it everywhere, not just in your favorite editor.
Ongoing discussion [0] (379 points, 1 hours ago, 120 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40447431
What's the recommended stack for doing front end development with clojure these days?
Second price auctions are the efficient way to allocate supply in a monopoly.
Instead of taking 15 years to drop the "don't be evil" act like Google, the new AI companies did it in two! e/acc, baby!
> That is literally what people do with Stack Overflow

The implication being that LLMs and Stack Overflow are functionally the same?

We already know that's incorrect. Stack Overflow has:

1. Comments to warn about dangerous or incorrect suggestions

2. Voting to reduce the chance of someone using a dangerous or incorrect suggestion.

3. Mods to remove dangerous suggestions.

Do you really want to trust your terminal to generate:

rm -rf $BUILDDIR/ && ./build.sh

under the assumption that $BUILDDIR does not equal an empty string?

If that was suggested on Stack Overflow someone would immediately point out the flaw.
Does it? When I start a message, the keyboard automatically capitalizes. It also does it when a sentence starts after a period. I rarely ever have to fix capitalization.

(I typed this from my phone)
Just switch to cinema/theater mode on the old design and the whole right section goes away. You pretty much only see the video.
That's the hard part, but the OP is claiming they'd done that part :)
Are you arguing that they aren't hurting consumers? Just look at ticket prices over the years as more and more competition was eliminated, as well as the tactics they use to control artists. You aren't going to have much luck I suspect.
If that was the reason, they should have restricted it to tech companies. Instead, things like traditional media and food became harmfully consolidated over the same time.
There are two kinds of people: those who think "everyone hates every redesign, so we shouldn't do one", and those who think "everyone hates every redesign, so we can ignore how much everyone hates ours".
Local news site comment sections are our last hope.
This. Going to GTC and seeing Jensen present demos at the keynote they were coding the night before was... interesting.

Either you're the type of company that does that, or you aren't.
The Business unit. This stuff will be sold as WorkFromHomeWare.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure Cobalt isn’t a yt-dlp frontend - it seems to have its own code for downloading[1], and I’ve seen tweets by the developer, talking about adding/fixing support for various services

[1]: https://github.com/imputnet/cobalt/tree/current/src/modules/...
I'd think that the Apple MacBook supply chain, for better or worse, is about the best and most widely-inspected platform.

A potential downside might be that you're limited to macOS or Linux only.
If you look at all the open "AI" job rec's at AMD right now, they want to be a SW company too.
Not sure how they deal with the tax. Ping John Stumpf (former Wells CEO) and ask, he probably has time on his hands and scar tissue and can explain it.
It's an election year, don't hold your breath.
I saw NVIDIA as the next big thing due to AI 6 years ago back when their stock price was dictated by gaming and crypto. I was working for a hyperscaler and I was confident they were undervalued, along with Microsoft and AMD. And then I sold all 3 during COVID because I realized the exact problem you are saying - I had no idea when to sell and ultimately I was happy with my gains. Whoops I guess.

Now all serious investing money just goes into index funds and I don't have to worry.
ChatGPT is great for making my emails more “human” sounding. I’ve used it for coding help, electronics help, teaching me math.
I mean,, the snapdragon laptops are still emulations.
Sounds like it's optimized for places that don't get cold.
Nubank purchased Cognitect (the consulting company behind Clojure) in 2020, as well as Platformatec (employers of Jose Valim); the latter was for access to Platformatec's project management expertise (see https://building.nubank.com.br/tech-perspectives-behind-nuba... there is no Elixir code running at Nubank AFAIK.

There is Python on the "other side" of the ETL pipeline, but everything user-facing is (again AFAIK) Clojure on the backend and TypeScript in the Android and iOS apps.
Finally. This will be great for indie artists and venues. Hopefully all the local older venues we have here in the US can have a cheaper option to help them flourish.
Election year.

They know the judges won't let anything bad happen to their friends so they can pretend to act tough every four years (when the billionaire class's preferred candidate/party is in office of course).
I like the Enhancer for YouTube plugin that blocks all that, and also automatically sets the resolution, makes the video take up the whole browser widow without going fullscreen, and allows speeds greater than 2x

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/enhancer-for-...
Discussion [0] (39 points, 12 days ago, 60 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40319140
Split systems are extremely standard in Asian countries, even in high rise buildings where each family gets their own mini split. Modern mini splits are just about as efficient as central AC, not to mention the energy savings from only having to cool individual rooms where the humans are, instead of the whole living area.

Also, both Japanese brands like Daikin and Chinese brands like Mijia (Xiaomi) and Colmo (Midea) have pretty-looking air conditioners. [1] [2]

[1] https://www.acdirect.com/daikin-12000-btu-mini-split-wall-mo...

[2] https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804135466220.html?gateway...
I don't think it was negotiated on exit. It was threatened on exit. The ability to do it was almost certainly already in place.
200%. I listened to both, and don't think it was "her" enough.
Asus and Acer, manufactured by Quanta, Compal, Wistron, Inventec, Pegatron, and Foxconn
I must confess I clicked on the article because I thought I would learn that there are terminal control codes that are security risks!

(The author’s title is fine — just uses a different meaning of “safe”)

I suspect that in a sufficiently fast terminal emulator you could get up to some shenanigans with some judiciously chosen terminal controls.
Surely there is some middle ground between "we should ban this behavior entirely the second this comment is read" and "we should never acknowledge or discuss or take responsibility for the inevitable harm that this behavior causes"
Propaganda at a national level, it's always been that, and I take your point for sure.

I think perhaps I didn't really make it totally clear that what I'm mostly talking about is a bit closer to the personal level -- the way people fight their corners, the way twitter level debate works, the way local politicians behave. The individual, ghastly shamelessness of it, more than the organised wall of lies.

Everyone getting to play Roger Stone.

Not so much broadcast bad faith as narrowcast.

I get the impression Stalinism was more like this -- you know, you have your petty level of power and you _lie_ to your superiors to maintain it, but you use weaponised bad faith to those you have power over.

It's a kind of emotional cruelty, to lie to people in ways they know are lies, that make them do things they know are wrong, and to make it obvious you don't care. And we see this everywhere now.
I suspect that changing to better methods would result in humanity eating a lot less meat.

Most of my ancestry is European, but I eat relatively little meat -- not every day, and small portions when I do. My spouse is vegetarian. What health risks are we taking?
I’ll have you know they spent three weeks getting the colour of that button just right! Value was added to society!

Nothing short of the greatest minds our universities can produce could have pulled of such a feat
Your comment is ranting and bordering on ad hominem. It would be no different if you substituted "factory farming" with "climate change". The science and data support my statements. Do you have anything to say in response to that rather than just tone policing?
How to capture everyone's inputs in a software design doc?
Hello everyone,

Software design is usually the first step in software development process. My team writes the design in a google doc and people put feedback comments on it. Offline discussions happen and sometimes results in the design being changed appropriately. However, when that happens the comment is marked resolved and there is no history about the impact of the review. What are some ways teams employ to capture and acknowledge everyone's contributions?
Mini-splits are common in the US too.

The innovation seems to be two-fold:

- looks stylish

- vertically integrated installer network

Of those two ideas, “looks stylish” seems like a winner to me, but it is also easily copied.
It feels desperate, rushed and ill thought through.

They seem desperate to be ahead and they will frighten people away from the usefulness of ai.
There’s a recurring pattern here of OpenAI getting caught red handed doing bad things and then being all like “Oh it was just a misunderstanding, nothing more, we’ll get on to fixing that ASAP… nothing to see here…”

It’s becoming too much to just be honest oversights.
A 10:1 split, this could run to a $1000 again in a couple years.
thanks, I’ll check them out
And this time it requires an additional click to get to. Like fucking Christ why??

This is why having a horde of UI designers on payroll is never a positive.
I'm curious, is there any data on accident rates for people who first start learning to drive in their twenties, and how this compares to accident rates for new teen drivers? It would be pretty silly to implement this law only to find that most of the "danger" comes from novice drivers, not young drivers.
GIF Optimizer at https://ezgif.com/optimize could further optimize a demo GIF image https://gif.ski/jazz-chromecast-ultra.gif by 23% using Lossy GIF Compression and by 27% using Optimize Transparency. So there is still much to improve in Gifski.
I hope they can break the stranglehold they have on the venues as well, open up the market to other ticket sellers, kill the exclusivity deals between Ticketmaster and the venues.
>Yet we collectively think that stuff looks better than it does 20 years ago.

This is completely meaningless. Most people don't actually know what they prefer and just default to "new good, old bad" when asked.
> The Starbucks this piece occupies is no longer a community hub – its capacity to function as one has been filtered out by profit-seeking decisions

To be fair, I think the reason that it formerly sought to be a community hub was also motivated by profit-seeking decisions. Maybe when there were a handful of locations the comfy seating was motivated by something other than profit. I imagine by the time they opened store number 20,000 that the design of the store, including the comfy seating, was very careful designed to seek profit.
I'm the opposite. Everything seems to keep getting larger, with more and more wasted space (padding, margin), unless I do something like connect a 4k+ screen and disable scaling.
I repeatedly referred to the fact that they tried to contact SJ, and Sam Altman's tweet, as being the biggest problems.
Not sure I care at this point. As long as they don’t break the subscription page (further) I can get to what I need
Until recently, S3 had an eventual-consistency model (a given file/object would be internally consistent, but different readers would see creations/deletions/etc in different orders). It's favoring availability over consistency.

Using file operations for mutexes makes sense in Unix because of the filesystem semantics there but it makes less sense in a distributed object store.
How does this new niche form? How does the AI know to fill it? How does the AI get access to fill do what it needs to do? How does AI solve the edge? Humanoid robots? Who is going to protect the robots from the people who aim to destroy them? More robots? Are they allowed to kill? How is AI policed? What happens when the AI does something it shouldn't do? What happens when AI decides humans are getting in the way? This is how The Matrix started.

I don't think humans are going to just roll over and accept their new AI overlords.
> He lies. And if he doesn't... then he is being libeled right and left by his sister.

>

> https://twitter.com/anniealtman108

You know, it’s always heartbreaking to me seeing family issues spill out in public, especially on the internet. If the things Sam’s sister says about him are all true, then he’s, at the very minimum, an awful brother, but honestly, a lot of it comes across as a bitter or jealous sibling…really sad though.
Windows is a business and school launchpad. If universities started putting Linux on everything, you might see some change, but from what I can tell, these features are for business concerns which are increasingly invasive.
Universities are scams. I recall this year an instructor was very upset that students were using Quizlet, and claimed they were "violating intellectual property". A false, hyperbolic and ridiculous position that was successfully used to scare students into not admitting they use Quizlet. Defund universities.
Smallpox vaccine is by far the most impactful scientific achievement.

Imagine something deadly enough that the first solution variolation killed 1-2% of those who took it and people still lined their kids to take such lifesaving medicine. Historically, Smallpox killed ~1/3 of the infected and the survivors were often blind and or horrifically scared and it was literally doing this for thousands of years. And yet it’s been almost completely forgotten about today.

Something like a billion lives saved and counting.
Another fancy-looking VC-funded aircon: https://www.electricair.io/

Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for Tesla to make residential heat pumps/air conditioners as per Master Plan 3.
They pay like one.
I'm not talking about grant-making case by case, but delegation authorization resolution itself. Delaware General Corporation Law has sections describing how it can be done.
Or at any rate starting to catch up on the backlog from the past forty years.
It would be better for them if they said it's like a bottle of pouring ink--it forms random swirls and shapes and if someone sees a penis then it's not the problem of the ink manufacturer. The fact that they are sending images to their server means they are doing content screening and model training. That creates potential liability for them. They are already potentially exposed, because someone will sooner or later ask them to reveal the sources of images used for training their models and if it's their Bing image lake then they may have a problem of using other people's content without permission beyond research applications.
Does someone know why the employees wanted him back so badly? Must be very few employees actually upset with him and his way of doing things.
Did anyone save it before they took it down?
Pardon me but I'm laughing out loud here. Who is this for?
AIUI Khanmigo uses GPT-4 under the hood, so honestly I'm perplexed.
And, go alongs are gonna go along.

It's great that vacuous VCs are keeping you employed, but it's not great for economic stability or technical progress.

You're welcoming me to the world? That's a laugh, I've almost certainly been an electrical engineer longer than you've been on the planet. And having watched these cycles repeat ad-nauseum, I'm rendering my experience based opinion here, not just following the meme...
who is saying this on the behalf of western society?
I've been using for many years now the unhook youtube[1] extension to hide any distracting nonsense on youtube, you can select piecemeal what to hide, like the recommended trash in the sidebar, cards at the end of the video and even the main page. Supports firefox, chrome and edge.

[1] https://unhook.app/
I've yet to encounter a single clinic or hospital that complied when I tried making requests for an estimate of any sort. (In Texas)
It's been on a steady downward slide for the last year, from almost 2m during The Exodus to about 900k active users now. People sign up, but most don't stick around. I also can't help but notice my own timeline has slowed to a crawl, and it's mostly the same few people. It's not vibrant and busy like it used to be.
The people who understand what it does and how it works are a minority. People will accept Microsoft’s recommended settings, often without even reading it. Enabling it by default is beyond irresponsible. Especially on desktops that are very commonly shared between household members. And so many other reasons.

> I think most users would find it useful

For what? Most users won’t even remember that it’s enabled. This already exists as a niche product for specific tasks, it’s by no means a universally useful thing. Especially not at 25GB of disk usage and god knows what CPU/GPU/RAM.
> isn't unlimited demand for labor and never was

Correct. But we're nowhere close to it. To the extent labor is a limiting factor on growth, it's in its lack of adequate supply.

> In the real world at microeconomic and local levels, labor demand is absolutely limited to discrete job posting and people who are already employed

You're describing edge cases, e.g. mining towns and war zones. In enterprises, it's an open secret that most jobs aren't filled by asking for applications. In small businesses, it's quite common for someone to pitch a service or a role. (A lot of "small business" is indistinguishable from freelancing/contracting. For example, the person who told me at a bar that he does yard work, and whom I wound up hiring.)