skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect my father was an easier man than yours, but he's also an insecure narcissist.

When I began playing chess, he was my opponent for many, many games. Until I won a game at 9 years old, which was the last game we ever played.

I've always been a bad study of people, though. I wish I could have seen through my father the way you seem to have always seen through yours. I was in my 30s by then.
> The productivity benefits perhaps take us closer to the aspiration Keynes had when he wrote Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren in 1930, in which he forecast that in a hundred years, thanks to technological advancements improving the standard of living, we could all be doing 15-hour work weeks.

Well, you see, the benefits have to be split between capital and labor.

The system is called "capitalism."

Figure it out.
For most people most issues would in at their home network. So that's a good first guess for any connectivity problems. Rarely it would be somewhere between your home and the ISP. If it's a small rural ISP then it might be ISP->Internet though I'd think that's rare. Most large scale ISPs have enough redundancy and capacity.

As someone else mentioned ICMP addresses certain classes of failures if enabled but I think the historical reason is more along the lines of the Internet was meant to run over lossy connections. For example, when a certain link is saturated routers will just start dropping packets. Reporting each dropped packet back to the sender is just not a good idea, it adds load to a system already potentially operating at capacity. TCP assumes packets can get lost and retransmits them. When a link goes down routing protocols will potentially send those retransmitted packets over a different link/path. I.e. there's no real concept of "connection down" other than the application layer or TCP eventually giving up (which can take a very long time). The kind of ICMP message that will immediately terminate a connection is when the server machine doesn't have anything listening on the destination port.
Indeed, regarding watercraft have seen it as “you don’t sell the boat you sell the dream”
That's unfortunate. Thanks for the heads up.
I think strictly speaking signedness does affect things, assuming we're talking C/C++. If x has type int and were to take the value of INT_MIN, then evaluating -x would result in a signed arithmetic overflow, which is undefined behaviour. (Related: the C standard now insists on use of 2's complement, where it used to permit other schemes.)

If x had type unsigned int, this wouldn't introduce undefined behaviour.
What happens in the brain to cause depression?
What is the purpose of this? You pull some stuff out of IDA and bash it until it works? Not entirely sure what you could do with this given the mechanics behind what it does to fill in the missing code…
I always thought he confounded the Super Size Me experiment by guzzling all that soda. That much High Fructose Corn Syrup alone will give you fatty liver disease.

Anyway, RIP Mr. Spurlock. You lived a flawed life but gave us some really interesting films which will live on. Thanks.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-hig...
Me: "Thanks for the link"

You: "I’m not clear about which part of my comment you are trying to call bullshit on"

Me: <Confused>
Perhaps headphones, cubicles, or offices per person could help?
Yep, can absolutely relate.
How are any investors cool with the ROI of AI in 2024?
Pretty embarrassing overall, but a lot of these are fakes.
Reading festival 2006, which I attended, age 17, sounds incredibly similar. Drugs, fun, violence, sex, overdoses-a-plenty, physical/ verbal abuse to the few police/ security present, the ritual burning of tents on the last night, the horrific state of the toilets. A kebab food truck being surrounded by hungry, angry teenagers and shook until it tipped over. Meanhwhile the angry mob shouting 'The Greeks want their kebab back you fucking turks'. No police/ security in sight. And in the end...no free chips or kebabs. I planned to see tens of different bands that weekend but only just managed to drag myself to see Kings of Leon and Bloc Party. I too, like thinkingkong, spent probably a good week or so, inside, in front of my computer recovering. I never camped at a festival again, and never will. I regret nothing though and cherish what little memory I have of the event, as strange as that might sound.
I am soon to launch my app for the second time with the new feature that allows customers to embed created staged real-estate presentations to their website. This allows for sellers to have an interactive presentations out of any real-estate they are selling on their website with ease and without sending the traffic away. I would love to hear more thoughts about my app. Thank you HN community in advance. Find out more here: https://taggerapp.io/en/discover
So, replace Google with calling the DMV?
I worked for a large company with offices all over the globe where 95% of meetings were online. I worked there for several years and don't remember anyone ever complaining about the setup, even though we were in an open office.
You might be surprised finding out that nearly all meetings are recorded by one or more participants for transcription, automatic notes, summaries and action points.
I think this applies to all genders. I don't know a single person who is happy using these apps. However, I'm curious about what other HNers think, especially women.
I think communication layers are critical as well. On a team they are more important than the coding and that's why you hire someone to lead and organize everything.

Removing the large team removes those layers and it's why a two person team can do the work of 12.

Adding in documentation, training materials and providing support can happen at the end of the development cycle freeing you to support the project 100%.

It's not that you remove communication or documentation but do it at select intervals. Don't do a full scan of a table everytime you need a value found in the index.
I recommend checking out the ruins that litter Northern Arizona as well then.

The indigenous civilization there (before it collapsed in the 1200s and its survivors migrated south and became the Aztec) built multi-storied pueblos, a number of which were even built into the rock.

If you're ever out around Coconico and Flagstaff, you're in for an absolute treat.
That's right, plain autodiff just ignores branches. Our canonical "why is this even needed" example is a program like "if (x >= 0) return 1; else return 0", x being the input.

The autodiff derivative of this is zero, wherever you evaluate it, so if you sample x and run your program on each x as in a classical ML setup, you'd be averaging over a series of zero-derivatives. This is of course not helpful to gradient descent. In more complex programs, it's less blatant, but the gist is that just averaging sampled gradients over programs (input-dependent!) branches yields biased or zero-valued derivatives. The traffic light optimization example shown on Github is a more complex example where averaged autodiff-gradients are always zero.
Inflation is the first derivative of prices (when that is positive, when it's negative it's deflation). So as long as inflation remains positive, prices will never drop. Current economic theory maintains that the first derivative of prices must never become negative (no deflation), since that encourages saving money and slows the economy resulting in more deflation.
I am not very expert in archiving and in how the Archive works, could you please either elaborate or link me something? Sounds very interesting!
this is why I have been arguing there will be no AGI
https://www.lycee.ai/blog/why-no-agi-openai
Rust Foundation reports 20% of Rust crates use 'unsafe' keyword
Agreed. “Do the simplest thing that could possibly work” has sometimes been good advice for me, even if that simple thing is unsuitable at scale, not production-ready, etc. There are problems for which that solution is a stone’s throw from an optimal one. And if not, seeing the downsides of that naive solution can still point the way to what needs to be done in the ‘real’ solution.
I modified the suggested prompt to "adopt the role of academic and industry domain experts most qualified to answer" the first question I asked. I then asked it to teach me about VPNs. The response I got doesn't immediately seem inaccurate, and it overall feels more organized, I believe because of how terse it is. (I've seen ChatGPT use similar organization, but because of all the extra text it just feels messier.)

It left out some things (perhaps trying to be terse) and makes some questionable choices. As an example, it lists various VPN protocols, listing IPsec, followed by L2TP/IPsec, but never explains L2TP. It doesn't explain any of the protocols, but simply has an "Advantages" and "Disadvantages" section for each (this may just because of how I phrased my question). And the three follow up questions asked for by the system prompt were provided and are good questions, but two of them are effectively the same question.

As part of my question prompt I mentioned that incompatibilities between vendors is sometimes a problem for me. It provided a "Setup Consideration" section called "Compatibility" which only states that I should insure the protocol, client, etc. are compatible. Which is obviously a useless response to that part of my query.
Both the M3 and the EPYC will be useful for far longer than the time it takes Apple to have the M4 on their next-gen laptops. Computers last a lot longer than they used to. I have a 10 year old Mac Mini that’s still comfortable to use, and, while an M3 Mac is a beast, it’s not that much faster than an M2 (or an i7) to create a qualitative change in my workflows. What is possible now was already possible last year. It’s just faster now. I get a higher return on investment with better keyboards and screens.
And yet, that's still the state-of-the-art in psychology.

Circa 1990, good ol' Simon Baron-Cohen observed that autistic children answered certain questions (intended to test empathy) in a consistently unusual way, and he decided that meant autistic people had no theory-of-mind. Never mind that the questions were ambiguous, and the scenarios were underspecified. It wasn't until 2012 that somebody (Damian Milton) managed to get the obvious alternative considered by academia. The "no ToM" theory is still implicitly assumed by some new research papers, despite there being no reason to prefer it over the "double-empathy problem" hypothesis.
Yup, the only use case for lenses like this is when you don't know what you're going to be pointing it at. If I have my stuff available I'm not going to use a superzoom. But when I'm limited in what I can carry I'm almost certainly carrying a superzoom.
Even with all those comments, it still ends up being less characters than other languages :D
There will be no AGI here is why:
https://www.lycee.ai/blog/why-no-agi-openai
A bit out of my price range, but the dog looks good and for $1600 is quite affordable.
How does my grandfather exist in this complicated world? You don't need a smart phone.
This reads like an AI summary of an actual HTTPS explainer. Terms get introduced with no context - no explanation of what a certificate is or how the chain of trust works, assumes the reader knows about public key cryptography, describes six out of the seven OSI layers (RIP presentation layer) without mentioning that term at all, etc.

TBF it is titled as mediocre!
Inspiring and horrifying, in equal measure. When is the west going to understand that Putin respects only strength and grow a pair? We should be giving the Ukrainians everything they need. It is the right thing to do. But it is also the military bargain of the century - the Ukranians can continue to decimate the Russian Army and NATO doesn't have to lose a single soldier.

Or we can let the Russians win and have to deal with millions of Ukranian refugees. Probably followed by Russia attacking another country.
The government lies by taking items out of the "basket", like coffee last week, and adding in cheapening items such as TVs, as though you're gonna buy a new 4K TV when your grocery bill has skyrocketed.

BTW 50% increase over 5 years is only 8% annually
I recently wrote a blog post about why "AI agents" are still too early, too expensive, too unreliable: https://www.kadoa.com/blog/ai-agents-hype-vs-reality

The WebArena leaderboard[0], which benchmarks LLM agents against real-world tasks, shows that even the best-performing models have a success rate of only 35.8%.

[0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M801lEpBbKSNwP-vDBkC...
I think there is a brewing backlash to algorithms intruding too much into the human domain. These apps have likely peaked though I don't know what will replace them.
It’s 2024. You can’t develop a low-level disk tool, because there is no such thing as a low-level disk interface anymore. Using the rawest available interface, your tool will be several levels of abstraction away from the level Spinrite claims to operate at. It’s like saying you’re going to get AWS S3 to rewrite an object by accessing it through the HTTP API. I mean, sure, maybe, but any copy will do that just as well.

It may “work”, but the question is whether it works better than simple ddrescue.
thank you beltalowda
I can see this and surprised it did not happen ages ago.

I am sure women are being bombarded with date request to the point they will get burnout. Never mind the men who are faking their profile.
There's no dismissal here, merely the quotation of a ridiculous statement, which dismisses itself.
Aliens: Neoplasma II for ZX Spectrum 128K and ZX Spectrum Next
That’s carbon dioxide you’re thinking of. And it’s not a symbol of environmental death, it’s people who emit excess amounts of it. But that’s not a very good symbol for an ecological process, though it’s a fine one for representing carbon.
Common Lisp and/or its implementations (and a bunch of other dialects) have most most of the features of the original LISP directly, often with minor changes, like many of its operators and data structures (like the linked list). It was designed to be largely backwards compatible with earlier LISP. Original LISP implementation features like the self hosting machine code compiler, loading of natively compiled code and the ability to save/restore images of the Lisp heap (which really was already in the 1960s LISP) are also provided by various later Lisp implementations, incl. several CL implementations.
Also, education is more expensive.
Artemis 1 Orion Re-Entry [video]
The same Bhagavad Gita says that everything has a beginning and an end: consciousness too by that logic. Even the gods, including
Vishnu/Krishna, during Maha Pralay get destroyed and rebuilt. There is no escape for anything. Ethernal consciousness is an illusion.
That isn't a great method, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophic_cancellation

I wonder what methods give good results for this sort of input though.
Not to mention that "getting the job" is often far more difficult and/or stressful than doing the job or showing up to work or being seen by others on your commute. No one wants to admit how much talent is wasted due to the job application & interview processes.
It set off the flamewar detector, got flagged by users, and got downweighted by a mod.

The 'customer support of last resort' genre is common and not usually a good fit for HN [1]. If people feel this story is unusually relevant and interesting, I'm not sure I agree—long experience has taught us that one-sided articles like this nearly always leave out critical information—but I also don't mind yielding in an occasional specific case, so I've rolled back the penalties on this thread.

The issue from our point of view is not about story X or company Y—it's a systemic one: the most popular genres of submission (especially the rage-inducing ones) get massively over-represented by default, so countervailing mechanisms are needed [2] if we're to have a space for the more intellectually curious stories that the site is meant for.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
It's wonderful to have new problems to solve. I'm looking forward to Robert's Rules of Order finally being considered a networking protocol between autonomous agents.
I use it as a placebo to quieten down that part of my brain that would otherwise stop me from working. I wouldn't want to meet the sort of people who would want to meet me from these apps.
Im ta nating
Forgotten dollar sign or whatever token is a reference to variable.

text vs. $text

And testing in production.
Not sure why everyone is stuck on "from scratch" part. This is from scratch in all practical terms to me. They would be wasting their and viewer time if not done this way.
> It's a bit like sight reading in music

I was wondering if there was any correlation in the ability to sight read music and to quickly understand code.

I played a few musical instruments as a child and teen but never got good at sight-reading.

I've heard that musical ability and programming ability are often correlated but I could never have made it as a working musician. I did make a good career out of programming though.
Microsoft convinced the CIO that they can't meet regulatory requirements unless everything is recorded and under central compliance records management.
Nitty Gritty Gameboy Cycle Timing – How to Discover Emulation Timing (2011)
Well... of course. Those are jungle animals.

Chickens roost in trees instinctively. Is a relatively safe place for those races that still can fly. Bantams either do it or look for a dense spiny shrub. Industrial races lack the confidence and are too heavy to jump safely without fracturing their hips.
Yep. SS7, Diameter, and the whole telco stack has really become the cyberphysical equivalent of tech debt.

Everyone knows that and wants to migrate towards a virtualized stack, and has been in the process of doing this for at least 15 years now, but you are faced with some very hard accounting questions around how to eat the financial cost of deprecating legacy (physical) infrastructure without incurring a massive financial penalty.

It's a hard problem, and countries like SK, China, and India weren't hit by it because they are greenfield deployments.

It's similar to how Germany and Finland lags in fiber because they went gung-ho very early in copper broadband back in the 90s.

It's a ridiculously complex system. (And that complex system is increasingly being replaced by equally complex K8s, but it makes sense given the dynamic scaling that comes with telecom)
Americans view the economy depends on whether they rent or own
Establishing credibility with a vacuous statement like this isn’t exactly convincing. What about this team indicates to you that such a mistake is outside the realm of possibility?

OpenAI has brazenly proceeded in questionable (or forbidden) legal territory - why is this case different?
> Match Group, which has more than 40 dating brands including Tinder and Hinge, and Bumble, which also owns Badoo and Fruitz

Consolidated oligopoly seeking creative inspiration. Reward offered.
Nvidia CEO says Tesla 'far ahead' in self-driving tech
There are interesting polls that show 70% of Americans feel their own finances are ok, but as the geography expands to local, state, and country, the perception turns increasingly dismal. People are viewing that which they cannot perceive as the worst. This seems to indicate an information dissemination issue. Other polls show that people self report most economy news they see is negative. Doom and gloom sells. There is also COVID hangover, people are still generally blasé
Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev could be quite proud of his periodic table of elements in pictures )
those agents might end up with the same solution we came up with - endless meetings and then make the simplest piece of crap possible to meet half of the requirements.
Aren't there documented bot pricing wars?
I used to replace strict Boolean conditionals with sigmoids in order to achieve continuous transfer for Bayesian change-point models.

Does this do something similar or is it fancier?
Lol, what are you smoking, mate? The OpenAI standard M.O. is to Just Do It without asking permission.

Not sure why you are so enamored with them, they're just people, of the sort who will do anything to "win", which makes a high degree of scrutiny prudent. Also, OpenAI has a track record of behaving in self-serving ways, which indicates they primarily care more about extracting economic value than anything else.

I wish you all the best.
Show HN: Geometry-aware Hashing of GeoJSON objects
Just a quick little feature I implemented over the weekend.

TODO: Assure that polygons can be palindromic as well
> Problem is readability by maintainers in the future

Sounds like a problem that exists in every single programming language to date. And the reason that problem appears is not because of the languages themselves.
Not as far as Fusion...
I'm not sure what you were expecting people to take away from your message, with the way that it is worded. It may not have been the intent, but the particular way you expressed your point heavily implies it.
Women are the big winner of dating apps: thousands upon thousands of men at disposal without to have to put any effort into finding a partner. That rose their standards like nothing before and caused (at least in my country) a culture shift against starting conversations IRL. On the other hand, it's harder than ever for random guys (like me) to pick the interest of Western women even IRL, to the point I'm not trying anymore.

Despite women being clear winners and most men clear losers of dating apps, notice how the title of the article is only about women supposed suffering. In a way it's a good metaphor of the dating market: women always demanding more and men just have to suffer and shut the fuck up.
The pricing link in hamburger doesn't open for me.

Chrome Android
I was talking to my friend today about dating apps being a softporn addiction
Ask HN: Have you tried weight loss drugs?
I just saw the recent South Park episode which talked about weight loss drugs but they didn’t take any clear stand on the matter. In fact I thought they were mostly positive about it.

Can you please your practical experiences with them?
I wrote a blog post about this a few years ago that goes viral every now and then[1]. The issue is that these companies have been forcing an asymmetrical market (surprise surprise, that's how they make money); the irony being that marriage/dating markets have been historically seen as some of the most efficient markets around. In fact, economists study these as "ideal markets."

There's also a lot of pushback against the hookup culture that has become prevalent in the past decade (facilitated primarily by the apps), and of course Covid has made social groups much more rigid. As a single guy in my 30s, going out to a bar and meeting random people (even guys, let alone women) seems much harder than it was just 3-4 years ago.

Dating apps are also extremely superficial where to have a modicum of success these days you essentially need to do a photo shoot. Women hate them because of weirdos and bad dates, men hate them because of atrocious m:f ratios, and frankly, I hope they go away. They've probably done more harm to our society than good.

[1] https://dvt.name/2020/02/24/rfc-lets-disrupt-dating-apps/
Bacteria defy textbooks by writing new genes
A big advantage of WasmGC is it would allow your binaries to be smaller, since you wouldn't need to bundle an allocator for heap::alloc and free. Kotlin and Java binaries can in some cases be be much smaller than C++ and Rust for that reason.