skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Sounds like the plan is to have the signals from each probe add up coherently, which means the laser pulses need to be coherent with each other. The wavelength of optical light is 100s of nanometers, so that is the level of precision required spatially, relative to the much much larger probe spacing that they quote. This (plus the required temporal coherence) is probably not possible without the probes actively locking their lasers to each other, but now each probe needs the optics to send and detect the optical signal from at least its nearest neighbors. I can't say if this is impossible given the weight restrictions, but it sounds rough.
Aren't there drains specifically meant to limit the possible pressure differential, after people's organs got removed by ones than didn't have that feature?

Relying on a human operator for safety when you could make something inherently safe still seems like a design issue.

I haven't been to many pools, and only ones with a shallow end, but I don't think I've ever just seen an open pipe hole
I believe it is easier to create a language when you are "younger" because it's the only time you don't know what you are up against.

I remember one of my coworkers who worked in marketing and had a side project. He asked me if I could help him build his search box. This is someone who dabbled in computer science in college but never worked in the field. His search box was a NLP where the user could write free form to query some data. The file was thousands of lines of generated code that branched into a funnel of specificity. It worked for the terms he tested with, but not with those real users actually used.

It was overkill, but it was damn impressive. If he knew better, he would just have a few fields with filters for search like I ended up suggesting. You have to be young to try the NLP approach first.
They even have a map.

https://peering.google.com/#/infrastructure#edge-nodes

It also says "Static content that's very popular with the local host's user base, including YouTube and Google Play, is temporarily cached on edge nodes. Google's traffic management systems direct user requests to an edge node that provides the best experience."
Tooling is the biggest issue with a new language, and language servers are great, but I see a space for some kind of meta language server, some sort of generic pre-parser that handles C-style, or tab delimited, etc. A common feature of language servers is a fault-tolerant first pass that allows for multiple errors to be reported at once. That first pass is where I’ve noticed a lot of repetition between languages!
OpenProject, Taiga, Redmine, Focalboard, Plane, ...

Plus all the "knowledge management" apps (Affine, ...) plus all the project hosting platforms (GitLab, Gitea, ...)
Agreed.

Waking up at 40 and telling yourself "I need to accomplish something great" seems like a waste of time, unless you're already ambitious and working towards it. (And if you are, you don't need my advice.)

If you're not building out of genuine interest and instead trying to compensate for something, what you're lacking is not a new programming language.
>I haven't seen anyone saying we can make pseudoscience go away forever.

You must not have been looking. There are government and media officials coming out against "mis-, dis-, and mal-information" on a constant basis. These same people are the biggest liars around.

>We're just questioning the wisdom of embracing and amplifying it to reach people it wouldn't have before.

"You can have free speech as long as you only speak quietly in your own closet." The power to curate information or "amplify" it as you say is practically very hard to distinguish from censorship when you choose to show only things you agree with, or show only the worst straw men for the other side.

>There are undoubtedly conspiracy theorists who think the exact opposite: that including pseudoscience is a conspiracy to make people think it isn't being censored in other ways.

There are some "conspiracy theories" designed to discredit anyone who is skeptical of authority. The people who complain the most about conspiracy theories really just want people to stop thinking independently, and start accepting whatever their establishment says.

>Thus, that a given action might strengthen or weaken the conspiracy theories of at least 1 pseudoscientist isn't enough to justify doing the action or not. Neither choice will make conspiracy theories go away.

Conspiring to suppress conspiracy theories sure won't make them stop. Being right and showing positive results to the contrary is what wins the day.
Interesting. But, I would think it's not that you can't create a good language past 40, but it's more of a question of not being to devote enough productive years pushing the language forward, promoting it, updating it, to make it popular.
"Any kind of big idea which is spread primarily through video instead of text is immediately suspicious. Could you please send a link to a written version of the main points from any one of those video?"
I'm aware that that's the theory.

But if it's really promising and ready and I care enough then I'll notice anyway.
No, the second approach's meaning is more obtuse. What does "usually" mean? Are there acceptable alternatives? If content is in an alternative mode of communication, is it acceptable?

These vagaries permitted in your revision are clear and inherent in the original commenter's motion. Therefore, I submit your adjudication of "shorter and the exact same meaning" is woefully superficial in it's drive for simplicity, to the point there is no thought left that is clear in the original garden. Further, exact and technical communication is what separates Hacker News commenting from the hordes of subreddits that thrive on imprecise babble.
Looks like the output is significantly darker than the input. This can happen if you don't unbias the noise near the black level. You may want to experiment with adjusting the noise estimate taking into account the black level
I don't want to be dismissive, it's a fun project, but this has been done a lot already - maybe not with llama3 but the architecture is basically the same as llama2. Look at the big list of from scratch implementations on Karpathys llama2.c page.

Is there something particularly different about this one?

Edit - guess not?
I understand that by making the bytecode constant a lot of optimization become possible. But I can't see how you can unroll the interpreter loop past unknown inputs to the program?

That is, if the program is a pure function like power(x, y) (from the top of the article) then I understand if the bytecode is constant and the inputs x, y are constant then you can unroll completely. In fact, in that case, you can just do a full evaluation of the entire program to a constant. But, if x and y are unknown at compile time then you can do very little, I think?

I guess the example at the top of the article is saying that if you know y but not x then partial evaluation can still help a lot. But in a real-world program the first unknown input that causes a significant branch in execution will block progress, won't it? (edit: in particular unrolling has to stop, unless you consider multiple paths)
> So long as storage costs decrease exponentially I think they'll keep everything.

I agree. That's why I've recently made a practice of backing up things to which I'd regret permanently losing access.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-comput...
A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Social Norms in Bollywood and Hollywood Movies
At least they use punctuation. We've recently had a project on HN where the author used only lower cases and no punctuation because they equated it to being chained by the system.
Here is the link to the source code:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crowdwave/checkpoint401/ma...

And the github repo:

https://github.com/crowdwave/checkpoint401
do you wanna be cool or not?
Congratulations, you have just invented large language models.
> Communication is about being understood.

This assertion is in error. Communication is about transmitting information. What happens to that information after the transmissions is beyond scope of communication.

Don't get me wrong -- we have communication companies and classes named "business communication" and fields of inquiry titled "communication." Yet, the common trend to each of these is wrapping the transmission of information up in additional services. Analogous to how OpenAI and Mistral wrap up LLMs that you and I and anyone can run on our own into well-defined managed services. We use the term for these companies "Generative AI" or "LLMs" when in reality they too are wrappers around a much simpler concept.
There's a lot of nerves and bacteria in the digestive system that might contribute some of it. That and various hormonal glands and reproductive systems.
How to Survive and Thrive in the AI Apocalypse: Living in the Machine Ecosystem
As an undergraduate I had to use Modula-2 in the first year programming courses. It was a decent language for teaching programming, but I don't recall anybody who liked it. Those in systems programming quickly switched to C the next year.

It may still be useful for teaching. Low level enough that you can teach memory allocation, etc. Simple enough that you can cover most of the syntax in an introduction course.
While I agree with your comment, for some peoples non-drowsy antihistamines are a myth.

I must be overly sensitive or have a deficient BBB because 10 mg loratadine transform me into a lethargic zombie for about 48 hours while providing minimal relief. A double dose of vyvaanse and a few coffees are not enough to bring me out of that state.
This is silly. If I’m only rebuilding 1 file out of a 200 file source base, I guarantee the non-unity build will be faster. Just the number of characters I have to tokenize in this thought experiment should be enough to convince. If this isn’t the case then you’re doing some sort of n^2 c++ boost every header includes most other headers shenanigans and you need to stop that rather than doing a unity build.
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> What passes for "AI regulation" is an attempt to divert attention from the real problem - arbitrary exercise of corporate power.

Trouble is, everyone puts a different thing after that dash.

It's not that arbitrary exercise of corporate power isn't a thing, it totally is, but AI is every problem that humans can come up with, because AI is all about automating things and solving problems, and that includes as a subset all the bad stuff we do to each other both on purpose and also when we just fail to care about the side-effects of our actions.
It is relevant here because it goes to the very core of what we're talking about, though.
I don’t expect Sam to know every detail as CEO. But this particular clause is very impactful and something that the CEO of a startup would have had to sign off on rather than some underling making the decision on their own.
This is a common misconception. It's something that was discussed orally and taken out of its context and is being repeated today [1]. Besides the fact that NATO is a voluntary alliance and not an empire. At one point Russia was even considered for joining NATO.

The Budapest memorandum however was a written agreement, much more meaningful, though sadly not binding.

[1] https://hls.harvard.edu/today/there-was-no-promise-not-to-en...
From Code to Quill: A Kubernetes Quest with Sig Docs
Weird, somehow I was on their website, and couldn't find a link to GitHub. I wonder if I followed another link from here and assumed it was the submitted one. Sorry and thanks.
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> That is the actual, literal, impossible part. If the head is launched at speed x and the tail at speed y when they catch up they cannot stay assembled, unless "drag" is code for "magic".

Drag is just drag. The craft are all launched at roughly the same speed and will start slowing down due to drag. By changing orientation they can control the speed/direction in which they slow down. This is a small effect, because the drag imparted by gases in interstellar space is minimal, but over 20 years at .2c it seems like it should work.

If there's a problem with this plan it's more likely to be that the encounters with the interstellar medium is more energetic than we expect and the craft either slow down too much or are destroyed by gases constantly impacting at .2c for years. But assuming the craft have enough shielding, the idea of using the drag to maneuver should work fine.
I learned fusion from Doc Brown -- you get me some banana peels and stale beer and we're in business!
With regard to the "pride in uselessness" thing, I caution you against generalizing here. Different people get into math for different reasons, but I would say that all the pure mathematicians I know of are motivated principally by interest in the problems they care about, and don't think too much about questions of purity.

There's a nice quote from Courant in his "Introduction to Calculus & Analysis" where he warns against "smug purism", exhorting students to draw inspiration and insight from other fields because it will make them better mathematicians. I think this is the attitude that I encounter most frequently among mature, pure mathematicians.

Chebyshev in particular was known not only for working on problems that had engineering applications, but for using methods and techniques from engineering to inform his approach to pure math problems. As the founder of the St. Petersburg school of mathematics, this approach had broad impacts on (later) Soviet mathematics and global mathematics as students brought up in this tradition went on to train later generations of mathematicians around the world.
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That's sad and I can see how it must be incredibly frustrating.

Perhaps this is why so many AI books are made available for free online by their authors? For example Sutton and Barto, and Goodfellow are both available online from their authors.

Perversely I am much more likely to buy a book if the authors make it available for free. I find a hard copy more useful to study and I prefer to pick a book after sampling it (as you would in a bookshop I guess). I wouldn't go as far as getting an illegal copy to preview so those books without an easy way to review are a lot less likely to be bought (by me).
Nice! What equipment do you use to capture? And does it push to some server... running RTSP?
Yes, some of those early cards were monsters usually due to some combination of discrete 7400-series logic (i.e. economies of scale weren't there for most ASICs yet) and memory chips (individual DIP chips as SIMM/DIMM modules weren't a thing yet) in the 8086 and into the 80268 era. I remember issues with some of the early clones not having full length/height slots causing an issue with some of those cards. By the 386 era, those monster cards had mostly died out on the desktop side at least (there were a few specialty cards that persisted into the late 80's/early 90's probably before enough customers complained about not fitting in their new system.)
Unsupp0rted’s law:

Whenever someone asks “am I too old/young” for something, answer yes without elaborating, until they rephrase their question into one worth answering.
An answer to the Fermi Paradox!
To be fair, Catania has more fabs than any other city in Italy (2 with another fab in construction), also being home to the largest stmicroelectronics establishment in Italy, so I guess it kinda is Italy's silicon valley
What I'm saying is that they will have to be as soon as they accept an external contribution. The code they accept will be licensed under the AGPL by the contributor. A hosted-only version including both the contribution and hosted-only features would be a derived work, and thus require source disclosure under the terms of the AGPL.

(It is possible to keep stuff out of the "standard" distribution and only disclose when asked, but that seems like a whole lot of effort to maintain two identically licensed code bases.)
No, we don't. We don't even know if existence has an extent in time, because our only way of "interfacing" with time is our experience of memory we can't prove is real.

For what you know, you're a lone entity confined to an infinitely short period of time, and all else is an illusion.

But of course this isn't a useful assumption in most respects.
That can't possibly be true.

East Asian countries have a long tradition of lacquerware, which is made with urushiol-containing saps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacquerware

In fact urushi is the Japanese word for lacquer, the plant is in the genus Toxicodendron.

Like most jobs until recently, making lacquerware was hereditary, and (clearly) the people making it were able to withstand sustained and direct exposure. It's possible that there is a genetic proclivity involved in ability to do the work, but just as clearly, there is hyposensitivity gained in exposure.

Let me back that up with a citation. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1839723/
I would imagine that's too insignificant to factor into that particular calculation.
> Nobody blames Google when the answers are wrong

Don't they?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google#Possible_m...
That link doesn't make a claim quite that strong. I also don't know anyone that has eaten it.

Given that I know dozens of people who demonstrably lost their sensitivity to poison oak via the accidental chronic exposure regimen I outlined above, at the very least it should raise a scientific question. It would be easier to dismiss if it was an isolated case or two. No one exposes themselves like that intentionally.
>I don't think AI is going to send out nukes, I do believe it's going to replace every single person's job and make the powerful even more powerful.

The shitty part being: it won't replace people's jobs at equivalent skill and quality levels. It'll just make the output and consumer experience much, much shittier, because for some weird-ass reason a lot of these executive types seem to literally believe that minimizing labor costs is more important than providing value for the customer.
I hadn't encountered conscious agent theory before. I took a quick look and it seemed to be solipsism wearing a disguise. Can you elaborate how it distinguishes itself from solipsism in its arguments that it might be real?

I found the evolutionary argument rather odd. The disconnect between perception and reality is pretty much the standard belief these days. Unless I'm reading it wrong it was making the claim that 'reality' is a non causal artifact of conscious entities but one that was caused by evolution, which seems contradictory.
Too poor to fix their shift key
Exactly right.

The money space programs spend is but a drop in the ocean compared to military budgets.

We can - and should - do more than one thing with government budgets.
Counterpoint : I don’t have a neckbeard and Myst and Riven are the best games I’ve ever played. Period.
I shoot RAW from an older Canon 5D which Resolve does not read natively. So there's a bit of a conversion step going from CR2. My typical workflow is to use Adobe RAW to process the images, then import the RAW directly to AE to render out with whatever repositioning or cropping. Let's not forget LR Timelapse[0] as part of the workflow too.

[0] https://lrtimelapse.com/
Oh, I'm sure there are plenty of hurdles, I was just wondering if the latency problem could by solved by having the computers in orbit.
Mostly agree. Winged design can be much gentler for passing the atmosphere on the way back comparing to capsules and can probably even get passively to landing speed, the drawback being the requirements of the landing strip. They are also better to control, both with choosing the place to land and even with ability of having atmospheric engines, which would get them close to aircrafts in handling landing.
Nothing wrong with minimum wage and OSHA. When the government creates a level playing field, capitalism can flourish.

When companies stop competing with each other, and start trying to suck as much money out of the government that they can - that's when things fall apart.
Counterpoint: I don’t have a neckbeard and Myst and Riven are the best single player games I’ve ever played. Period.
Not OP, but thank you for the detailed feedback. I've been considering various options, including Swing, for a small desktop tool.

May I ask how are the apps made with Electron, Tauri, Wails or other WebView-based GUI toolkits performing on macOS in these regards?
> programmers typically peak in their 30s

Should programmers expect to get worse at their job in their late 30s or as they enter their 40s? This seems like a surprising conclusion.
The bandwidth costs are the key. Good luck getting rates anywhere near what Google’s effectively are. Spoiler: you can’t. You probably can’t realistically get to 5x their costs, byte-for-byte.

Which makes competing with them effectively impossible except for a very-few other megacorps.
I do think that if we'd make Shuttle today, it would be much more reliable than it was. Successes of vertical Falcon-9 landings notwithstanding.
What isn't prominently mentioned in the article is that endurance and retention are highly related --- flash cells wear out by becoming leakier with each cycle, and so the more cycles one goes through, the faster it'll lose its charge. The fact that SLC only requires distinguishing between two states instead of 16 for QLC means that the drive will also hold data for (much) longer in SLC mode for the same number of cycles.

In other words, this mod doesn't only mean you get extreme endurance, but retention. This is usually specified by manufacturers as N years after M cycles; early SLC was rated for 10 years after 100K cycles, but this QLC might be 1 year after 900 cycles, or 1 year after 60K cycles in SLC mode; if you don't actually cycle the blocks that much, the retention will be much higher.

I'm not sure if the firmware will still use the stronger ECC that's required for QLC vs. SLC even for SLC mode blocks, but if it does, that will also add to the reliability.
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