skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this the result of Apple trying to make installing non-MacOS OSes on the M-series harder, or Apple only caring about the "happy path" of MacOS installing and booting on M-series chips and not caring about whether anyone else can?
There's a lot of language semantics which make the REPL convenient to write interesting amounts of code in, Gilad Bracha details some in <https://blog.bracha.org/primordialsoup.html?snapshot=Amplefo...> (with the message reflected in the medium, embedding the Newspeak IDE in the document for examples). It's unrelated to compiling or interpreting; many Common Lisp implementations will compile code from the REPL too.
RAG really is not the right tool for that. It does not event prevent hallucinations. It is useful because it can retrieve information from documents the model never saw during its training phase and does not require a costly re-training. It is not a fine tuning either, and it cannot fundamentally change the model’s behaviour.
I'm hoping now that Google Podcast moved to Youtube Music which can be added to Youtube Playlist, podcast listeners are going to figure out sponsorblock applies. I wonder if that's also why a bunch of my podcasts haven't migrated to Youtube.
> machine parsable formats,

Isn't the point of wikidata to offer machine-parseable formats?

Also: how can those formats be locked into a paywall?
A different frontend wouldn't fix Jira. It's slow because the underlying APIs are slow. The frustrations mount mostly from the sheer number of rules that are built on top of it by users; if your alternate UI obeys those rules it will still frustrate users.
I support this and think it should be a model for other organizations. They already publish the data for free. It's already being used to train models. Companies are already using those models to profit. I'm not sure I understand the concern.

I hope to see their APIs expand in future work, successfully tying together machine learning with their prior work on publishing a knowledge graph enriched with high quality structured metadata.
Why are you quoting somebody else when replying to me?

You’ll have to be more specific about what you mean by dark votes.
I agree there should be some spaces free of politics. Will avoid.

(The original point was -- if the law is strictly worded such that it is a crime only if there is demonstrable benefit for the person who is paying then the "loophole" exists where the person getting the benefit and the person making the payment can be separated. I could have said the same thing without using the most recent known example of a similar attempt.)

But also crime and fraud are what they are -- whether committed by politicians or business people or those in other professions.

If we are talking about something questionable done by say SBF or Elon Musk and they also have some political connections or leaning -- that might not in itself make the discussion political. Yes there are subtle ways those discussions can carry undertones and phrased to score imaginary points. In that sense avoiding references where possible is advisable - probably akin to 'defensive driving'.
More likely it'll lead to more red tape and shuttering those programs down and making them useless. They know that they make life-altering mistakes all the time. The nature of 1-in-a-million ensures that they're inevitable. Preventing all of those is not possible.
I've been following the commit logs of this for awhile, and I'm really impressed by how active it consistently is. I think most people who aren't deep into Emacs might not realize _how_ monumental a task it is to be competitively featurful and configurable. But I actually believe that Lem is getting there! And it can already evaluate a considerable amount of elisp, such that `calendar-mode` from vanilla Emacs can simply be run inside of Lem.
I think it features in the song “we are the champions,” so before 1977. I think “I’ve made mistakes/people make mistakes” has been used to euphemistically describe a lapse of judgement for a really long time.
Its too bad research papers can't be organized like a git history. We'd see many forks that never end up as pull requests that are merged back to main. And probably forks of forks that stray too far from the founding paper's intent. It would be nice to more easily identify original versus derivative research. Maybe that solves a different problem. I like their suggestion though:

"I offer a prag­matic cri­te­rion: what makes a crit­i­cism im­por­tant is how much it could change a re­sult if cor­rected and how much that would then change our de­ci­sions or ac­tions: to what ex­tent it is a “dif­fer­ence which makes a dif­fer­ence”.
This is why is­sues of re­search fraud, causal in­fer­ence, or bi­ases yield­ing over­es­ti­mates are uni­ver­sally im­por­tant: be­cause a ‘causal’ ef­fect turn­ing out to be zero ef­fect or grossly over­es­ti­mated will change al­most all de­ci­sions based on such re­search; while on the other hand, other is­sues like mea­sure­ment error or dis­tri­b­u­tional as­sump­tions, which are equally com­mon, are often not im­por­tant: be­cause they typ­i­cally yield much smaller changes in con­clu­sions, and hence de­ci­sions."

So, 2 papers, both with data and claims.

The first is critiqued on its claim because the data, while correct with quality methodology, doesn't support the extent made in the claim. This critique is more meaningful because it changes the outcome of the paper and any decisions following its publication.

The second's claim is within the bounds of the data but there is a discrepancy in the data collection which is the source its its critique. Fixing that doesn't change the claim but may indicate more research is needed. This critique could change decisions made from publishing, but if the claim is still within the reason of the data, then likely not.

I had to think through that and I think I like it.
Wild speculation: Probably the latter; why would Apple go to all this trouble to allow booting non-Darwin OSs and then deliberately break it?
thanks for changing my life!
What makes it useful is precisely that it is not learning.
This totally changed me and enjoy lisp so much more using vim. No more emacs.

https://susam.net/lisp-in-vim.html
My point is that to piece together an almost AGI agent or at least more useful generative AI requires these changes. A killer app isn't a singular magic thing but many small advancements. OpenAI still isn't even close, but it's demoing bits and pieces that are closer.
Does the article draw on “worse is better” ? https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
API keys are unrelated to the $20/month product, and the keys are pay-as-you-go. The newest model is $15 per million tokens of output, which is to say, you would be extremely hard-pressed to spend $20/month on the API.
I thought I wasnt alone but perhaps I live in a sparsely populated alternative history where Emacs gets simpler over time. Once you know the basics they dont change. Some more advanced tools gradually simplify or improve but it takes years. Various ideas are explored by users around the globe and the simplest and best ones survive: we now have magit and eglot and treesitter support. And org, but also markup. The shells are true shells with unlimited context and full access to the OS. Similarily for the REPLs. The only thing I miss is changing tools all the time and losing history, which felt like a refreshing excuse to start over when I was younger —- these days I dont have the patience and time.
kagi? youtube premium?
> I would expect most any answer to be loopy and partially wrong (or really I'm not surprised when they are) based on the short question, its just something you build intuition around as you use them.

That sounds pretty unpleasant as a rule to follow.

How should I ask instead?

Can I make an LLM do the question-expansion for me?
The linked announcement pretty clearly implicates a bug in m1n1, the Asahi bootloader, which appears to have been fixed. It’s beyond a stretch to attribute malice here. Nothing indicates the platform is being locked down. Users simply need to update the bootloader before updating the MacOS firmware.
Other use case is relistening to old podcasts - about half the stuff I listen to is historical which lends itself well to a relistening 10 years later. The content may well be still relevant but the ads are surely not.

The other podcasts I listen to are current and mostly ad supported - this isn't great for them
Huh? If you want anonymous transactions, you won't be using checks either. That's what cash is for.
But that is old. Vim can easily interact with lisp real time. It would and probably never will be the same as emacs which is a lisp env. Still it is good enough.
It's true, speaking as a US to Finland expat. The median CS grad I've met here in Tampere handily outclasses the CS grads I knew at Northwestern - which is no MIT, sure, but they're definitely no slouches.

Marc Andreessen once described reading a magazine as a teenager and seeing the "Midwest tinkerer" archetype of tech mogul, people who figure out a little bit of everything from scratch because on a farm you just have to do that to stay afloat and then bring that mindset into their SWE work and become minor legends wherever they go, and having this sudden enlightenment moment that shifted him from quiet nerd to confident striver. I spent my honeymoon year in northern Finland and came to the conclusion that the whole country is like that. Except, no one filled them in on just how absurdly good the margins on software can be when you throw business prowess into the mix. So many companies here been punching well below our weight class. (Okay, the very business-hostile nature of making a startup in the 90s/00s didn't help either - that's less the case now.)

I'm convinced it's more sociological than legal, although there are elements of both. My long term aim while I'm here is to be missing link between Finland and Silicon Valley. These guys are genuinely, still, much better than they themselves realize.
It is the topic, you're right. Open Source is the appropriate reply to the topic.
TIL that’s why the black bar is at the top of the page.
It can handle it fine in that sense, but still unquote it before sending it over to the next node. Which might have the bug.
Not really. This is not his first technology startup [0]!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Norton
Suunto was a phenomenal company. We just got a guy from Suunto recently at my current workplace and he's incredibly sharp.
And Google is a pretty good counter-example to “The Stanford startup has developed no new technology”
As usual, the US plays lone wolf and screws its "allies" over. We have a saying in France: promises only bind those who believe them. I'll belive the US is actually intent on curbing global tax evasion when I see it.
Avoid being a cliche by hustling and bring something awesome with tech too. The two aren't mutex.
Does Higher Density Cause Lower Birth Rates?
What about Rust do you dislike?
> But as a practical matter, I wouldn't be surprised if some Wikipedia editors balk at their volunteer work being actively marketed and reformatted for ease of LLM training by the very platform that solicited their volunteer services,

I think that will heavily depend on just what the money goes to.

A better user experience, tightening up the code behind things, fewer nag screens for donations? Justifiable.

Jimmy Wales going from decently-compensated to a bad case of Founder Syndrome? Not so justifiable.

Founder Syndrome: a psychological condition wherein a person who starts a venture believes the venture should earn them a net worth on the order of billions of dollars, regardless of its actual economic value, and is willing to seriously enshittify the venture's product or service in order to make this delusion come true, especially in preparation for an IPO. See also: /u/spez, SPAC, Facebook, Unity Engine
Nice idea for developers who are approaching Azure, except that among the start apps there isn't Blazor which is from Microsoft... you're certainly doing it to attract other developers.
right, I didn't really mean to debate what companies are inside/outside the Big N club (or whatever you want to call them). I agree with your overall point that Big N salaries are not representative of what a typical tech worker can expect to make.

the part I don't get is why you chose to emphasize that google base+bonus is about the same as those other companies. I don't know the google particulars, but I'd guess stock makes up almost half the target comp of someone at that level. that's a big difference even if the stock stays totally flat.

I'm not familiar with the google particulars, but I don't find stock comp to be much different than a quarterly bonus. there are some good and bad years, but the way refreshers and promos are handled cause actual comp to converge to 10-20% above target in the long run, even if the stock grows spectacularly during your tenure.
The help didn’t exist originally: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40430064
You call "strong claim" something I prefixed with "probably"?

It seems for loops in your link can be slower because .length (a function in disguise) is repeatedly called. I do save .length when writing JS. .length calls has been hard to optimize and it can't hurt too much to cache it at the start of the loop.

Now it's good news if today's engines are able to optimize most of .forEach. The amount of optimization JS engines can do never ceases to amaze me and yes, any performance claim in JS needs to be constantly reviewed and checked at the time it is discussed.

You can't take a "probably" as gospel. Still, it was a bit lazy of me to not re-check, I guess being called out was warranted.
How the War on Drunk Driving Was Won
Closing is one thing—at least you can still use the issue as a communal gathering point to make slow progress. The casual locking on the other hand is mystifying.

And so often there’s the added gaslighting of a project that provides some rationale for closing but then inexplicably locks too as if that’s the same.
I'm pretty sure the point of saying it was dark fiber, meaning there's no one else on the link, was to show how secure and performant their interconnects are. The point of the article is mostly marketing, after all.
Besides the last line, their entire comment is just a quote of Ping Pong by Stereolab.
> Maybe the author just independently came up with this, thought it was cool, and wanted to share?

That's perfectly fine, but that's besides the whole point.

The point is that between coming up with something and implementing it, there should be a step to check if anyone already did something similar.

The whole point of researching prior work is to a) don't waste time reinventing the wheel, b) leverage prior work to improve your own ideas, c) make better use of your time by doing meaningful contributions instead of taking a risk on whether you're ripping off someone else's work.

That's the absolute basic standard on scientific publishing, for example. If you pick up any paper at all, you'll notice that right after the introduction and summary you get a bibliographical review listing any relevant work that your peers already contributed. When anyone submits a paper, the reviewers can and outright do reject your submission if it fails to adequately contextualize the paper with regards to prior art and related work. One of the points is to ensure the author is not wasting everyone's time with a novel approach to the wheel.

More importantly, if an author fails to know what's already there, how can they tell their idea is any good?
(I work on a tool completing with the entrenched)

Building one’s business solely dependent on the grace of another’s API access is a pretty precarious position. Beyond that the incumbent APIs are usually slow and severely rate limited. Building improvements on top would necessitate a complex sync/caching system, plus if you want to layer on real time collaboration your job is even harder since you need to maintain your own state (for collab in your CRDT format or whatever) that you periodically reconcile with the underlying tool. At that point, you already need a complete backend so you might as well be a stand alone product and just offer 2-way sync with the incumbent as a value add feature.

Anyways, we built something like that https://www.notion.so/help/guides/synced-databases-bridge-di...
When your debugger is telnet circa 1980, non-printable characters are a liability. (You pay for it later, when people who've never seen "...end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>" botch the implementation.)
Getting it out of a repository wouldn't make any more vetting appear as if by magic.

And if you're facing an attacker sophisticated enough to send different contents to a browser and to curl, then you're probably not going to find their backdoor in the first place. And it would be stupid of them to depend on that trick, so this becomes an extremely niche case not worth worrying about.

And multiply that sophistication by a hundred times because this is on github servers.

The "what if the file is truncated" issue is the only realistic one, and competent installers like this one define functions and don't run them until the last line.
I mean tbh, a list structure with logN indexed access, insert, and removal seems like a really useful structure.

I just wish it was built into languages as one implementation of the list type
It seems just a minor update your software issue. Obviously Apple could not test software outside theirs. And if there is a beta that can trigger the issue it is up to the software developer to fix it.

We can all have conspiracy theory. And some might even be true. But really has to look and check. If it can be fixed, it is an inconvenience of having frequent update and Apple did break software as its philosophy is very different from Microsoft (which is more IBM way in a sense).
Like Zed's `SumTree`!

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-decoded-rope-sumtree
I didn't read this article, but I suggest you read The Social Conquest of Earth by E O Wilson. We are cooperative animals, much like ants. There's nothing Machiavellian about individual ants. It's a great book, a direct response to The Selfish Gene which I find pernicious in how often and how poorly it is quoted.
The official form isn't the real mechanism though. The real mechanism is that somebody in the company is in charge of that system, the general public has no access to that person, but someone inside the company can find them in the company directory and bend their ear. That's the case whether there is an official form or not.
I was really sad to hear he had passed. Since the first computer I ever programmed was a PDP-8/e I thought the guy who designed it must be a genius. When the Computer History Museum was being formed I gave them "1K" ($1024) and the person who collected that at the reception I was attending was Gwen Bell. I told her I admired Gordon's work and she called him over to say "Hi". We talked for about an hour about the PDP 8 and how the /E differed from the first 8 and the 8/I. Later, at a Vintage Computer Festival event Gordon was being honored and I worked with my Dad to gold plate an XR2242 front panel key which we then attached to a medal ribbon and presented to Gordon in a flip up Medal Presentation box. He got a great kick out of that.

Definitely one of my heroes.
It is similar to the retrieval stage, yes. The concept of RAG is to then feed the retrieved fragments to a model so it can generate an answer that takes them into account.
Republic Bank just failed in the past month (not to be confused with the First Republic Bank that failed last year).

This newest Republic failure was a bank started by the guy who created Commerce Bancorp which was purchased by TD Bank. The guy is a piece of work: https://archive.is/DwtAx

(I wouldn't say he is young but really not the guy for the job given the history and the banking environment now)
> I'm not sure the paper-like presentation of the article shows that the author was in pure discovery mode, eager to share something new and interesting.

If the author was following a paper-like presentation, the author somehow skipped the section listing relevant prior work. This is something every single journal enforces, as researching prior work is the very first step any author does when they come up with something.
Terms of service enforcement is a matter of civil law.

Your legal wherewithal relative to those who abuse them is what gives your terms of service teeth. Or leaves you toothless.
- The SMTP client they implemented could insert a newline such that a line was comprised of only a single period.

- The SMTP client spec says that an additional period would be added here.

- The SMTP server spec says that it would remove this additional period, bringing us back to one period.

I don’t get how this led to there being no period at all. Am I missing something?
Assuming that these are typical outputs from Amber:

https://github.com/Ph0enixKM/Amber/blob/master/setup/install...

https://github.com/Ph0enixKM/Amber/blob/master/setup/uninsta...

The inconsistent indents and decorated variable names made them less readable than hand-written Bash scripts. I understand that most compiler outputs are not meant to be human readable, but generally we would get minification and/or obfuscation in exchange for losing readability, and Amber doesn't seem to offer those yet.
It can be both:

* You can of course run Microsoft's AI on Windows on this hardware.

* But I'll bet you can also use the NPU and the drivers that Windows has with different AI software.

* And sooner or later, I'm very interested to see Linux drivers for these NPUs so we can have nice hardware-accelerated AI without needing any proprietary software.

So I'd say that FOSS is an appropriate reply, but there is room for a continuum of answers.
Don't you ever let reality get in the way of a good story
Sir, that is an amazing answer and a real gem of info on HN - thank you!
I have a pretty low opinion of Bukele in general. I think the tactics used for the seemingly miraculous suppression of gangs actually weaken the rule of law in an abstract way.

I think law and order rest on a contract with the governed. Robert Peel probably got much (though not all IMO) of this right and as far as El Salvador goes I think 5th and 6th of his Peelian principles are the most trampled in Bukele's El Salvador. Something about Bukele's regime somehow reminds me a bit too much of Italy in the 1920s.

I would like to think that the rule of law can be so strengthened and engrained in society and the citizenry so moral and educated and resources and care so abundant and given freely that down the road we wont need cops.
Rereading your comment, I see that my answer rather falls short of your question. I don't claim to know anything about Weird Al beyond what he wrote on that page.
GMKtek? These boxes are inexpensive, but also are known sources of malware from China, no?
As the email message says, this is due to a bug in the Asahi M1N1 hypervisor/bootloader (from the Asahi Linux project) which OpenBSD piggybacks on.

https://social.treehouse.systems/@AsahiLinux/112454079096607...
It flows in the reverse direction of what I’d expect (out is at the top, in is at the bottom, the opposite of any visual programming or diagram I’ve ever seen). It’s also represented in a way I’ve personally never seen ANN’s drawn. I thought you had to connect the dots in the middle and thought “huh? It mustn’t work on mobile” until I read the comments and tried again. And this is with decades of clicking things domain knowledge, and a small bit of neural networks knowledge.
I’d like to hear what it has to say about Winnie the Pooh
The character has a very distinct tonality. particularly the inflections and word emphasis.
This is great! I'd love this to be integrated into my podcast app (AntennaPod) just like Sponsorblock for YouTube.