skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pascal was an amazing simplification of ALGOL, but then Wirth went too far, and Modula-2 was worse, not better, as the wild success of Turbo Pascal showed.

Then Borland was deranged, and Microsoft was able to tempt Anders Hejlsberg to the dark side. Their derangement resulted in C++, and eventually .NET, a lose-lose-lose situation.
If you open the photos in the article on a separate tab and view them fullscreen then you would see what there is actually people on most of the photos.

#2 lower left corner

#6 lower left corner at least 4 people visible

#10 someone walking at the 'south' end of the road, cars; a man at the storefront a bit farther; some people at the crossing and at the other end of the road

#11 there is one on the left side

#14 around 10 in the middle of the photo, cars and probably people at the farthest end of the road

#16 a lot people actually, because it's some celebration, in the middle of the photo; a lot of plain clothes (or dark coloured uniformed) people on the roads (look at the bridge)

#17 around 20 people easily distinguishable, clearly some cars at the other end of the road

Sure, this is waaaaay less than needed to convey an image of a living city, but as other people say, there is a clear bias for this type of people-less shots at KCNA.
They may just be renderings or heavy edits. I noticed a total lack of parking facilities for almost all buildings pictured. Highways are also pretty small for being next to what should be major traffic generators. There is also an absence of signalization at intersections where I would expect them. No auxiliary lanes or turn bays are marked on the pavement. Pavement markings are unblemished by tires. It doesn't make sense.

They're not real or nobody drives.
Are you honestly saying that crypto currencies are so fragile that the mere knowledge of a token identifier is enough to frame the owner for a crime?

If so, that's just further evidence of how ridiculous the entire crypto currency concept is.

It's also kind of amusing that the very mechanism that would supposedly protect you from the extortion is the same mechanism that would allow the criminals to cover their tracks after stealing your crypto.
I think the analogy would be more like craft falling through the atmosphere. I found one NASA article that says interstellar wind speed is 26 km/s, which is four orders of magnitude smaller than .2c. Practically speaking I think you can model it as a constant .2c headwind.

> will be forced to apply rudder to compensate. These things have no rudders.

These things are pretty hypothetical, but I think the concept pretty clearly requires them to have something resembling a rudder since that's their only realistic means of attitude control.

Or, essentially they would be like people in wingsuits falling.
I wanted to try the repo by Karpathy, but I still don't want to learn C (Llama is probably his only C repo), so thanks for posting this.
> basically 95% of which are frontends to ffmpeg

I wonder what the approximate net global economic benefit of ffmpeg is to this point?
I don't find that pretentious at all. What I'm conveying is that we have the Things We Think We Want and the Things We Actually Want. The former live in our minds, the latter are actually realized through our everyday actions and choices.

> I just noticed your username, “soul of mischief“, and now it makes sense to me. Are you trolling?

It's against the rules of Hacker News to assume bad faith. I certainly am not arguing in bad faith, nor do I intend to make anyone feel bad for the sake of it.

I purposefully wrote an abrasive comment in order to stoke the minds of others and make them think inwardly. There was one time in my life where I also needed to hear those exact words. That no matter what adversity I face, I must make times for the things I really care about.

I must constantly re-evaluate what drives me and check to make sure I'm not letting life pass by without achieving at least some of my goals. I must not make excuses, and I must not make excuses for others. I must not be negative toward those who are in a better station of life.

As for my username, it is derived from a popular hip hop group, Souls of Mischief, who are part of the larger Oakland set, Hieroglyphics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXJc2NYwHjw
I had to blink twice last time when I installed Sonoma on a new partition that I did not have to provide a wifi password.
This appears to confirm that. While I can understand that some people would appreciate this, I'm not exactly chuffed by a fresh install silently grabbing passwords from an old install.
For something a little older (and a bit less organised), see https://www.oldcarmanualproject.com/

That said, a lot of newer official service manuals don't really go into detail and just give instructions on how to disassemble and swap parts; better than no manual, but a huge contrast from older ones that would also include detailed theory of operation and troubleshooting information.
My 1994 freshman Intro to Compsci was a Modula-2 course, and seeing it here for the first time in 30 years has reminded me of what acute anxiety feels like :) That class scared me right into the humanities for a few years.
why would vandalism be more of an issue for trains than cars?
ooh, labor times too, to see if you're getting screwed by your mechanic...

and use rockauto.com for cheap parts (not affiliated)
IBM used Modula 2 to write parts of OS/400, the operating system of the IBM AS/400 – nowadays the operating system has been renamed to IBM i, (in part) since it now runs on identical POWER hardware to AIX. (At first, when they moved to RISC, they shared CPUs with the RS/6000 but had their own servers with incompatible firmware, only later did they unify the server lines and firmware so the same servers could run either operating system.)

In the original CISC version of the OS/400, the operating system kernel was mostly written in a PL/I dialect called PL/MP, but parts were also written in Modula 2. As part of the transition to RISC (PowerPC), large parts of kernel code were rewritten in C++ – although a significant quantity of PL/MP survived the rewrite, and a smaller quantity of Modula 2 – and apparently, to this day, some components of the IBM i operating system are still written in Modula 2.

My impression is, they wanted to replace PL/MP with a more mainstream language, and so started rewriting the PL/MP code in Modula 2. However, once it became clear that Modula 2 wasn't taking off, they switched to rewriting it in C++. But, typical "lava layer" anti-pattern, [0] all three of the original, the old rewrite and the new rewrite survive.

[0] https://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-lava-layer-anti-...
> Meringue is an object-oriented implementation of datetime functionality in php. It’s built atop the few fundamental universal abstractions, so it’s minimalistic, intuitive and extendable. At the same time, it allows carrying out complex datetime calculations due to its inherent declarative nature.

And there I was, expecting this to be a novel food-based metaphor about how certain kinds of philosophy are sweet and delicious, yet crumble easily under the slightest pressure.
„I‘m a pretty good local maximum“ that is what any local maximum would tell you if asked how it likes itself
"If something is free, you are the product."
> ”crazy that one of the largest commuter rail systems in a state with some of the highest taxes cannot just spend $8 million to replace the windows.”

Presumably they don’t want to replace faulty windows with more faulty windows that will just develop the same issue again over time.

And it won’t be just be a case of going out and ordering different windows: train parts have to be carefully tested, certified etc to meet safety regulations.
Thousands More Teslas Are Piling Up in Parking Lots
We just started on this. Imagine what the next two decades will bring.

This long tradition of stuff you speak of has only been a couple years at most. Draw the trend line. Extrapolate the inevitable consequence.
YouTube TV !== YouTube

YTTV is their "cable" product
To quote the classic:

"Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick"
It's your problem only.
You mean rockauto.com and I agree it’s a great source for parts
Humans aren't better at solving NP-hard problems so I don't really see the connection with consciousness here.
Thank you, was looking for a cheap webcam security set up using the great near-wasted cameras on older android phones.
"not that expensive" is relative; it's still a lot of money. Sure, it's not trillions of dollars, but it's still billions of dollars. YouTube has historically not returned a net profit (and I haven't heard of that situation changing).
In the limit, that's called Copy and Patch!
There's also a project where they have GPT-2 running off of an excel spreadsheet.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/once-...
C# not C++ I think
>travelling at roughly 28 miles per second.

That's (~45 km/s) pretty close to the Sun's escape velocity from Earth (~42 km/s). I wonder if there's a chance it's interstellar.
yes, yes, bias like the fact that Wehrmacht was not a human menagerie that 0.01% of the population insist we live in.

https://www.google.com/search?q=gemini+german+soldier

prompt-injected mandatory diversity has led to the most hilarious shit I've seen generative AI do so far.

but, yes, of course, other instances of 'I reject your reality and substitute my own' - like depicting medieval Europe to be as diverse, vibrant and culturally enriched as American inner cities - those are doubleplusgood.
You mean C#, right? C++ (and MS's adoption of it) predated Hejlsberg's move to MS by quite a bit. He worked first on J++ (for which MS got sued) and then C#.
This looks neat! If browsers change, would the extension automatically update or would we have to update the extension or something?
I also think the very fine hairs may just be very irritating, not necessarily allergic, although you should get tested if you think its true.
>And that's what they said about programs that take finite time to prove whether or not other programs halt.

An actualization of human creativity exists. Your brain.

The existence of your brain as a physical thing indicates that human creativity can be actualized. It’s literal proof via existence.

It’s the complete opposite of what you describe. We have proof that it is 100 percent possible.
Hertz Charging a Tesla Renter for Gas Was Not an Isolated Incident
porque no los dos? use <source>
We should have that, thanks. It is open source. If anyone wants to add that.
Right, it's obviously end-to-end encrypted because if it weren't, everyone would have been screaming for years about how horrendously insecure it was.

iCloud Keychain is fine, just use a good password. There's no particular harm in letting Apple store an encrypted blob for you on its servers.
That is not related. Mac computers store the last successful wifi credentials in in the EFI, and use them to give macOS Recovery internet access.
I’ll have ai randomly generate unique styles of code and start copywriting it all.
It gets even worse.

In Texas, I35 runs north and south. But it also splits at one point, creating I35 east, and I35 west, so if you’re going from Austin to Dallas you take I35 east northbound.
And only enabled if 2FA is enabled. It won't work without (as won't many Apple services).
It is always bizarre to see people advocating for boondoggles like flat out reinventing the wheel but fully government funded this time.
The provocative title was a mistake and distracted from the main story: a new dataset that never existed before on PL creator ages.

I'm going to update it.

Thanks!

New version: https://pldb.io/posts/ageAtCreation.html
A quick Google says only 2% of North Koreans own cars, and they have strict gasoline rationing. Nobody drives.
if you have an iPhone, iPad or any other logged in device with the wifi password it will auto grab it from that device without you doing anything.
Stupendous and eloquent amendment to today's compendium of literary appreciation.
Netflix doesn't need to subsidize anything. YouTube subsidizes a lot of videos which don't have ads.
The majority will enjoy and like whatever is pushed on them. Decades of radio and TV should be enough evidence for this. Music or video is not popular because people like it, but because somebody decided to make it popular by pushing it on people.
> Metro-North Railroad and NJ Transit use a single pane of polycarbonate glazing almost a half inch thick.

That's exactly what you'd expect from half an inch of uncoated polycarbonate. Resists rocks and small arms fire, can be pressure washed to remove graffiti, but will scuff.

There are a few ways around that, but they all add cost.
There is kind of a statistical bias here.

Let’s say language creation capability is very age independent. Most of those that create their language early will invest their time in that, masking the fact they would have been just as successful when older.

And this effect will grow with age, since they have had more time to hit that milestone. Old language creatives will be more and more likely to have already created their language. So we are progressively under-sampling older language capability.

TLDR; There is still hope for me!
I don't get your point, how is what you're suggesting here different from a few papers we already have on KV cache pruning methods like [1]?

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15805
>Or an overhead sign in the car showing eta and name of next station?

I believe the cars (definitely the newer ones) have exactly that. It seems like an odd complaint to me, but it's totally possible NJ Transit moved older cars that don't have this feature from more heavily trafficked lines to lines that don't have as much traffic.
Hi all,

The provocative title was a mistake and distracted from what I was trying to share: a new dataset of the ages of programming language creators.

I've reframed it with a new post: https://pldb.io/posts/ageAtCreation.html

If someone wants to post that, maybe there can be more constructive conversation.

Thanks!
The source article [0](2 points, 10 hours ago) is more informative, although it mostly references a month-old article [1](15 points)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40406608
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40004526
It's so wild to see people so confidently being wrong in a comment. YouTube has seen profit since 2013, with margins growing each year.
If you want an all sky solution, zwoastro.com ships an all sky lens with many of their small sensor planetary cameras. There's also a selection of software to handle the photos, making time-lapse, uploading etc. It came in really useful for seeing the Aurora outburst. Here's a short write up I did for my local club recently: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?id=101640086556073&story_fb...

I'm also working on a new one that uses an ASI533 Pro and a 4mm lens from a mirrorless camera to get better quality images.
For a given function like `power`, you can unroll the interpreter loop and eliminate branches on the instruction, so the code has less branching overall.
It there a coherently written article about whatever this blog post is rambling about?
manufacturers have all switched to online-only, subscription shop manuals that don't lend themselves to easy archiving to PDF.
Actually, peer review journals are public debate. The much-applauded "consensus" is essentially voting. If you follow the money you will quickly see the connection between science and politics, both internally and with the public at large.
Go has the nice quality (shared with Pascal) that it pretty much sticks to being a set of computer instructions, which means when you read Go it's easy to understand more or less exactly what the computer is doing. Great for auditing. Not so great for building large systems as abstractions over types.
> but Chrome just capped the precision at two digits.

Seems like just giving a straight integer would be enough for the main intention. Or fuzz the decimal points, if higher precision is really needed.
If it’s not usable, why is there so much useful software written in Go?

I haven’t had a lot of trouble writing some interesting things in Go that I’ve found difficult to redo in C++ with similar simplicity.

Sometimes a language doesn’t need a ton of bells and whistles to be usable.

Wirth understood this and accomplished much.

Consider how we’ve been able to fix Voyager - simplicity can save.
and Tunic!
Interviewing for Sr eng positions (IC5) most gave me 400k or so total compensation (about 230k in salary and 200k in stocks give or take). Then again this may be due to being in NYC.

IC6 were higher.

However I could be in an area that is above average pay rates. So I wouldn't dispute your numbers, they do seem more likely to be accurate.
What does the optimization make time for? What is the goal? Maximum accumulation of resources? Health? Happiness? If I save ten minutes by meal prepping, do I have to optimize _those_ ten minutes?
Never have unprojected text. I learned the hard way it's just not worth it.
I'd love to see a 16GB variant of the RPi5 some day.
"It is a decentralized asset competing to be the new global reserve currency, aiming to inherit the role gold once had and the role the dollar holds today."

If the ability to convert cash/dollars to bitcoin and vice-versa was now removed, interest in crypto would substantially die in the next four hours. Crypto is a parasite. This is another article looking for an attack vector to the host body.

The petro dollar story began and existed for decades neither reflecting Crypto nor is it a reaction (good or bad) to Crypto since it didn't exist.

Hell, by this article's logic we could talk about re-denominating energy expenditures by housing assets, diamond, or high end sports cars. It pointless conjecture.
Merging like that doesn't work -- it will tend to overestimate the number of distinct elements.

This is fairly easy to see, if you consider a stream with some N distinct elements, with the same elements in both the first and second halves of the stream. Then, supposing that p is 0.5, the first instance will result in a set with about N/2 of the elements, and the second instance will also. But they won't be the same set; on average their overlap will be about N/4. So when you combine them, you will have about 3N/4 elements in the resulting set, but with p still 0.5, so you will estimate 3N/2 instead of N for the final answer.

I have a thought about how to fix this, but the error bounds end up very large, so I don't know that it's viable.
Nice. The per element atomic locks rather than per collection is a neat optimization I wouldn't have thought of! After a decade+ of LMax Disruptor being a well publicized multicast circular queue. https://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/
Some powers are the absolute last thing you want to have in government hands because they are so abusable. Power over publication is one of them.
Appreciate the suggestion!
Yeah, I noticed the same thing. Quanta's version of the algorithm is not only confusing, it's also wrong.

I think the pseudocode in the paper is very hard to beat.
No, you need intelligent things to be intelligent.

And it would probably be good to distinguish between "things that appear superficially intelligent" and "things that have genuine capacity for internal experience" while you're at it, since the popular perception on this forum seems to be to just declare that physicalism/materialism is obviously correct and explanatory and we can just brush the hard problem of conciousness under the rug. People are so eager to endow the statistical model that has been designed to produce responses that are statistically feasable in a given context (a very impressive feat of technology to be clear) as having internal experience.

Chomsky happens to be more right about LLMs than 90% of the popular discourse will ever be able to understand, which isn't that suprising considering the impact if this "crank's" earlier work.
Instead of just a pass/fail, it's often helpful to describe why it failed. Especially with something as difficult to diagnose as auth.

Missing auth, malformed auth, invalid signature, expired, etc.
I’d like Active Oberon to be more broadly applicable.

A2 is a pretty neat system. But using it outside the environment it comes with feels a bit crazy! (Same with all Oberon’s I’ve played with)

Sometimes things become over-opinionated to be generally useful perhaps?
Can't even right click text lol
so QuickBasic (4.5, etc) give you the option to compile your source for purposes of distribution but while you are coding/testing/etc it's purely interpretive.

QB is the free to use bundled version for MS-DOS that doesn't have this feature.
The fact that it's very hot doesn't mean an explosion, especially if it's also very thin. The total amount of heat energy actually stored in a theoretical miniature fusion reaction needn't be much.
True, to some extent this is also an artefact of (comparatively) poor software optimisation for pi. In this case almost certainly zoom and others apps will be using cpu encoding/decoding rather than offloading.
And if you want to understand I'd recommend this post (gpt2 in 60 lines of numpy) and the post on attention it links to. The concepts are mostly identical to llama, just with a few minor architectural tweaks. https://jaykmody.com/blog/gpt-from-scratch/
I use VLC for that.

I press shift-s to take a snapshot, not sure if that's a default hotkey or I set it to that a long time ago.

In the preferences you choose where it will save to and what format.
With our current technology, it isn't possible for us to accelerate any amount of tungsten to relativistic speeds except for a few atoms in particle accelerator. The rocket equation means needs ludicrous amounts of fuel to reach relativistic speeds.

This includes near-term technology like fusion reactors. You could take Jupiter along for fuel but still not reaching 99% of light speed. For stationary launchers, they would be super long or require enormous amounts of energy. Giant arrays of lasers aren't "possible with current technology".

Relativistic projectiles probably requires antimatter. Which are pretty far beyond our technology. There is big question is antimatter rockets are possible, they require producing and containing a lot of antimatter. Although, it instead of accelerating super fast, it is probably easier to send the antimatter.
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