skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was cited from a Newsweek article, and Cliff said this about it later: "Of my many mistakes, flubs, and howlers, few have been as public as my 1995 howler ... Now, whenever I think I know what's happening, I temper my thoughts: Might be wrong, Cliff ..."

You may be right about humans biasing toward easiest to obtain information, but that doesn't say "don't use AI assistance", it says "use care when using AI assistance".

Also, Cliff wasn't saying the information was easier to use, since in his case, it was actually harder to use than just looking it up in a printed encyclopedia or the like. But none of the problems he mentioned were inherent problems with the internet, they were because it was a brand new medium still working out its kinks. AI may well be harder to use for coding right now, at least for many use cases. However, a look at the bigger picture strongly suggests it is the future, just as a look at the bigger picture in 1995 would have suggested that the internet was the future, at least for answering questions like "when was the battle of Trafalgar?"

This is consistent with my horse/car analogy: the car wasn't the problem, the problem was people who assumed cars were going to keep themselves on the road like a horse would naturally do. You can get a huge gain, but you have to be smart about how you use it.
Walkers are one thing; it's when people stay overnight and can't be asked to pack away everything they hauled in that a layer really begins to accumulate: plastic wrappings, bottles, butts, wads of beshitted toilet paper, and so on. But I've witnessed enough hedge-rubbish in Snowdonia to not be blown away relative to what I saw in Switzerland and Norway.
> On the surface, this sounds like a cool feature

It really doesn't. Not a single person I've spoken to likes the idea of this, at all, and I'm not talking just tech people. Every last person I've spoken to of all ages and from all walks of life at best is like, "I can turn that off, right?"
There is a direct relationship between fuel usage and carbon dioxide. It's very simple to tax fairly.
You don't need a permit to buy a handgun (i.e. the ones used for nearly all of the crimes) in the US to my knowledge.
So what do you expect? That cars will continue to be manually operated and that the number of cars on the road will go down due to better public transport?
I think self driving and public transport are actually complimentary. The principal benefits of owning your own automobile are convenience, as it’s always available for your use, and range— it will go wherever you want. Enabling vast fleets of on demand taxis is already well underway, making owning your own vehicle less attractive. The next step imho is bundling rides together, making NOT owning your car cheaper still. For urban cores, I would expect shared self driving to crowd out private cars pretty quickly.
I mean, I'd love an affordable sedan with affordable credit, but instead the automakers would rather shove me into an overpriced overbloated SUV with a payment that's getting scarily closer and closer to "mortgage" territory.
Mesa 24.1 brings new hardware support for Arm and Nvidia GPUs
Data files like PDF, JPEG, MP3, etc. are different than HTML pages. It’s sensible to keep the shortcut for those because they are useful files outside of the browser environment.

It’s virtually never useful to have a shortcut to save HTML pages.
Nice dissertation but loops is all you need.
https://d21u3ic0kp9e91.cloudfront.net/choir/04/index.html

here's the lips choir detached from the rest of adult swim
So are a lot of African countries.

It's culture.

Scandinavian cultures consistently rank the best.
Just because the EU wants to ban gas cars in the future doesn't mean there is demand for EVs today.
It's called an unpopular decision.
Aren't we talking about Medicaid and food stamps here? Middle class health insurance is indeed an employer subsidy in the US (and it's bad), but Medicaid isn't.

Part of the reason we still have this system is that unions like being able to provide healthcare as a benefit though.
I am using freecad this way already. The macro is for generating variants as part copy objects (fully independent) which are then exported as STEP (or STL).

The macro expect a part container named "export_family" with a single spreadsheet that is used as a template to set any properties and generate the part name.

It will also export any objects within a part container named "export". It also handles recursive part container.

All of that makes possible to export for 3D printing in a single click. Including handling multi material objects more conveniently.

I tried the variant link, but I could only have one variant per link somehow. I couldn't import the same part with multiple variant in the same assembly.
That was the idea with Bluesky, but people refuse to budge from Twitter without DMs integrated into the platform.
Literally the entire population of New Jersey would revolt. Everyone's doing a minimum of 10 over unless there's traffic.
It seems like this would be most suitable for a system aggregating data. As long as you aggregate enough data points that the error averages out, it wouldn't be an issue.

I guess another use case could be as any kind of "hint" where you need to do an authoritative lookup regardless of the filter lookup.

E.g., the file might be on this host, but you'll need to reach the host and check for the file either way, so if you go to the wrong host sometimes, it's not the end of the world.

That's something that's not possible with a bloom filter.

Seems like you could combine a shared static file and a host local cache to work around the errors as well (e.g., each host can cache whatever keys they've looked up that were wrong, but they can do LRU to get the best of both worlds (frequently accessed data is correct, while you can look up infrequent data with some chance of a miss).
> A pathetic one-line non-explanation for such a giant bug, that doesn't even align with the facts of what actually happened, is not congruent with the actions you'd expect from a company that cares about privacy.

I disagree. External statements are guided by legal and comms departments (along with Engineering of course, but eng never has final say on what goes out).

External statements don't necessarily have any relation to how things are being handled internally. And this fuck-up (assuming it's as described) also doesn't reflect whether the eng team made a genuine best effort to ensure full privacy. Teams make mistakes, even huge ones. From personal experience, the biggest bugs come from the smallest root cause -- that single typo in a single file that somehow snaked a narrow path through every test on the production pipeline.

Now, is Apple working hard to fix this? I have no idea. All I know (and my original assertion) is that when I worked there not long ago, privacy was genuinely a Very Big Deal that was a top (often the top) company-wide north star.
Thanks for the recommendation, I really enjoyed it!
I may be wrong, but I think the parent poster was talking more about the language and ecosystem than the community. I, too, have found the community to be amazing. But the language itself used to be quite frustrating to learn. It's better now, but I think that by the time it got fixed many companies and teams had already been burned.

Clojure is particularly vulnerable to that because it really is an enterprise applications language. That makes it more vulnerable to learning curve problems than a language like Rust whose most direct competitors are other languages with comparably steep learning curves.
> The author of “Let Over Lambda” dislikes Emacs and does not use it.

I have no idea what Hoyte like to type in, but why does it matter what text editor he uses? Einstein didn't had any computer, not even a calculator. Do we have to use paper and pencil for all the calculations just because Einstein did? Our physics teacher in gymnasium, forced us for 4 years to do all calculations on tests by hand, at four decimal places, with that exact excuse: Einstein didn't have a mini calc. Non of us have become a Nobel prize taker in physics :).

> Also, a lot of the interactivity is required by the standard to be built in to your Lisp’s REPL, so you can do quite a bit if your REPL isn’t primitive.

Mnjah; not so much really. Using at least SBCL from plain command line really sucks. If you mistype something you have to retype everything, no history, etc.

> SBCL doesn’t even have readline

If you are on some *nix OS, you can get a long way by just using SBCL with built-in sb-aclrepl + linedit. Aclrepl gives you "command-like" stuff, similar to ":" in Vi (or M-x in Emacs), and linedit adds cursor motion, history and some basic completion. I would still not type entire programs in repl, but for running and testing the code it is a basic survival kit. For me personally it is enough.

There is also cl-repl package which gives you native bindings and some extras if you want to go all-in readline from within the lisp itself.
Being on public healthcare is not really a shame though. It's like totally normal here in Europe :P And pretty good too. I'm glad I don't have any worry about my healthcare, the risk of insane bills, that I might lose expensive cover if I get fired (which is in itself also a lot less likely as there's no "at will" here) etc. It's just a solved problem. Yeah it costs us some taxes but it's not as insanely expensive as in the US (in fact I probably pay less tax than a US citizen pays in monthly health insurance).

I think state healthcare is pretty ideal.

Food stamps though, that's not cool.
I also think so.

Hiding who owns or operates the airplanes isn't what causes fuel exhaust, I think.
> why Celorio is going after the manufacturers

It's hard for the government in this country to regulate guns. But, if you can force the manufacturers to care about this issue by hitting their bottom line, they might start paying more attention to where their products end up. They have both the ability and the money to affect the sellers.

Think of it as solving the problem via the marketplace, rather than government intervention.
This is a a false dilemma. Force corporations to raise wages, continue to provide social safety nets (so basic needs are met), and if there is a gap, raise taxes in a progressive fashion. There is enough wealth to not configure the system in this manner; to continue to do so is a choice. It's just a big spreadsheet, you're arguing over a cell or two, I'm arguing over the function result and working backwards from there.

Otherwise, we admit we're just fine with the current setup and that is who we are. We prefer the human suffering for magic numbers in a database.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8ijiLqfXP0

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-45
This is a nuanced discussion that is always derailed by the usual "down with evil corporations!!" rhetoric.

Let's say there are a thousand people on food stamps, getting $2000/mo from the government. A company comes along and says "we will employ all thousand people part-time for $1000/mo, and so the government now only has to pay them $1000/mo in assistance". Did the company do a good thing for society?

What if the company had instead said "we will employ 500 people full-time and pay them $2000/mo, so now the government only has to take care of the remaining 500"? Is that better or worse?

Or what if the company only employed a hundred people and paid them $10000/mo so they could live a good life, at the expense of the rest?

If one of the employees had 8 dependents and another had none, should they both get the same salary for the same work? What if it isn't enough for raising 8 kids?

Or if none of these options are palatable should the company and its warehouse not be allowed to exist at all? How does the government generate tax revenue for social services in the first place then?
Well the Israel does have a history of door to door killings, please reference the 1948 Nakba massacres and Deir Yassin atrocities. IDF used Palestinians as literal human shield. No amount of whataboutery could erase the horrors IDF has committed in Gaza. Have you seen the videos IDF personnel posted themselves, looting homes, bombing any stone that is standing? Digging graves on cemetery? Mass graves around Al Shifa?
Agreed, the first (and only!) time I went skydiving we jumped from 12k feet and can't recall feeling any difference in my conscious state.
In academy for example, including the publicly funded institute mentioned in the article (European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute). Also, there is a blog page on the deep mind website where they cite "millions of researcher" around the world using alphafold [1]. Some of those institutions might be happy to develop the new alphafold.

On the other hand, even in academy, scientific articles are not always the best examples of open and reproducible research [2,3]. And in computer science, it is common for articles to be more focused on algorithms than on implementations.

[1]: https://deepmind.google/impact/meet-the-scientists-using-alp...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducibility

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
clojure-lsp and clj-kondo work with any editor and are both excellent.

https://github.com/clojure-lsp/clojure-lsp

https://github.com/clj-kondo/clj-kondo

I've always used (Neo)Vim with Clojure.
Headline says 1/3 of those 700k are on food stamps. Would an extra $900/year be enough?
Counter-point: I happen to be working at $dayjob on things related to Components (both on the host side and the module side), including using some "WIP" things like the "resource" feature (opaque handles with methods), and haven't hit any edge cases.
From using Bluesky it feels like the goal is to build a social media experience that’s as decentralized as possible without sacrificing the user experience.

So, they want the experience to be like Twitter for the users that don’t care about decentralization, but to be backed by something like ATProto underneath for those who care.

I’d say Mastodon is more “the entire point is that it’s decentralized”. Bluesky it’s a major point, but not the entire point.
> I have to assume that my vehicle will collect data that could be used against me in court.

They always have, for a long time. Exploring event data recorders is an interesting art to get into and put together how crashes play out, sensor-by-sensor.

To play along at home: https://crashdatagroup.com/ -- amusingly, one of the referrals mentioned on the page was essentially "Someone hit my parked car and then claimed I was driving it at the time" -- the EDR sounds like it saved them from a fraudulent claim.
I think churches were a lot like spoken word venues with performers who try to copy the best, occasional traveling stars, and the most usable advice being memes that predate Christianity.
This is of course a popular opinion and pretty much the C++ philosophy. Unfortunately a lot of the benefits of functional programming cannot be fully realised unless you are "all in". The paper "The Curse of the Excluded Middle" is somewhat blunt but it makes some good points: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2611829
The UTF-8-Everywhere Manifesto (2012)
Past HN discussions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867503 (2020 - 282 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11933113 (2016 - 153 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7070944 (2014 - 149 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3906253 (2012 - 182 comments)
You own the hardware. But in the modern world we do not own the software that allows us to make use of the hardware. If deactivating OnStar requires a modification to the car's software, I can definitely see how it could effectively be illegal to deactivate. In the world of modern tech, the concept of ownership is practically dead.

But I don't know if a modification to the software is actually necessary or if that's what OP was getting at. Just speculating.
For all the the debacles OpenAI is going through, it's quite interesting how other models are going through without much hullaballoo.

Snowflake's Arctic comes to mind. Great model - it will answer any dark question I through at it. No safety rails. I liked that it didn't treat me like a baby!

Llama/Phi is pretty chill too. Can ask it about bombs, viruses, chemicals and it won't refuse.
Decentralized just doesn't work in a centralized cyberspace.

You need to recreate your own centralized cyberspace and then build the underground path to the decentralized canyon.

Then provide a mothership allowing others to dock of their own standards and protocols. Yet allowing them to take off at their own accord with the data of the centralized hub.
I wonder... The comparison here is against a bloom filter, but is this actually more similar to a sketch?

Or... Actually this is sort of like a posting list (e.g., a list of places that a given document appears: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_index)
I wonder if social programs were pulled then people would push harder for changes, unions, benefits, etc. As it stands now the social programs keep people pacified.
To my knowledge it is impossible to change this behavior in Firefox. You can hackily override it by adding an extension which injects some js that captures the ctrl-s keys, but that can also break sites that legitimately use that functionality.

Data files like images are a reasonable use of the shortcut. Downloading HTML is nearly always unintended behavior.
this is an excellent example of when you'd want to use counted b-trees, but much more generally, they provide a middle ground between arrays and linked lists

in arrays, indexing is fast (one instruction), but insertion and deletion is slow

in linked lists, indexing is slow, but insertion and deletion are fast (≈10 instructions)

(iteration is fast in both, though on modern cpus you have to store multiple items per linked-list node for that to remain true)

in counted b-trees, both indexing and insertion/deletion are fast, though not as fast as in arrays or linked lists: logarithmic time instead of constant time, with a larger constant factor
That's often a problem with designers -- they only make a happy flow and only the end of it. No in-between states, don't understand the latency and errors exist, don't dig into boundary conditions and edge cases. It's a typical no-my-job-svg response to boot the problem upwards so their manager will make them aware of those pesky things.
It's a lot more precise data, and getting it from private companies without a warrant makes the bar potentially quite low.

My concern is more that it's ripe for parallel construction in cases that otherwise wouldn't make it out of the gate.
I had one in highschool, and a 3a before that in high school - at the time no one else (at least in my school) used a laptop/equiv; I managed to be allowed as a dispensation due to dyslexia and illegible handwriting. The keyboard on the 5 was a vast improvement over the 3a, as well as the OS. I did quite a lot of programming directly on it - I remember OPL being one (only?) of the languages built in - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Programming_Language

My mother came to visit me recently, bringing my 5 back - unfortunately it looks like I left the batteries in all those years back and they leaked, so it's likely dead.
I remember hearing that as a kid growing up in the 90s that it purportedly existed.

IIRC the closest thing you get to that on the EZPass system is speeding through a toll plaza when they were still a thing flying through the low speed readers.
So basically make the urban environment a sea of constant fast driving cars filling all available space. There's a reason a lot of cities are converting roads and urban centers into non-car area. Parking and car lanes replaced with bike paths and green areas. It's a much better quality of life. Which, oddly, some people prefer to a 1800s style corporate dystopia where most people's miserable lives are nothing but a means to drive ever more wealth to an elite minority.
> AI tools and tutors never can and never should replace teachers.

This part confused me on several levels.

Let's break it down.

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1. Tutors (human) can not replace teachers on a mass scale

True, and the article touches on this: human tutors simply don't scale!

2. Tutors (human) should not replace teachers

False. Bloom's 2-sigma problem [0] states that on average, 1-1 tutored students outperform 98% of classroom-educated students. (!!!)

Therefore, if we could replace 1:30 education with 1:1 education, the evidence very strongly says that we should.

In other words, the only reason we have teachers, instead of tutors, is because we don't have enough tutors. If we had enough tutors, we would simply 1-1 tutor everyone -- assuming our goal is educational achievement.

3. AI tutors can never replace human tutors

This is a strange claim. It seems to imply that all technological progress will suddenly cease after today -- not just in AI, but human-computer interfaces, robotics, etc.? (Note: the article doesn't make this specific claim, so perhaps I'm straw-manning here.)

I don't expect convincingly human androids for a while. But are androids really necessary for teaching math? GPT-4o seems to do fine! [1]

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As far as the tech goes, I think the only thing missing is memory and personalization. Currently GPT doesn't know what I know, and what I don't know. What is the dependency graph of knowledge? (KhanAcademy had one, but they've taken it down...) Where in that graph are there gaps in my understanding? What are my specific goals and interests?

Can we present the most relevant learning materials to me in alignment with all these parameters? Or else, can we generate them on the fly? It's all a solvable engineering problem.

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[0] https://nintil.com/bloom-sigma/

[1] Math Problems with GPT-4o [video]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40347320

[1] Math Problems with GPT-4o: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nSmkyDNulk

See also: One study predicted human-level AI tutors by 2025

[2] Achieving Bloom's Two-Sigma Goal Using Intelligent Tutoring Systems (2020) - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339246677_Achieving...
Wanting F-1 capable engine is like wanting exact recreation of combat performance of F-4. No one involved has cared about that for more than 40 years. Just people who don't understand the tradeoffs so they judge stuff based on silly heuristics.