skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The road to hell is paved with good intentions and C++ modules (2023)
It sounds like you’re advocating for abusing teenagers (16 is still a child)
You may find this illuminating. The google prior to 2019 isn’t the google of today.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

Edit: there was also a discussion on HN about that article.
OCaml 5.2.0
Google is working hard to be the next Boeing.
> He said he didn’t respond to friends’ messages or confide in anyone, feeling like nobody would understand anyway.

I feel this. I think people would call me an introvert, but I'm probably just an over-thinker. It's casual conversation that seems to be exhausting (or uninteresting?) to me. Once I'm in a space where I can talk openly about more abstract topics I start to enjoy it. Getting there just often seems like too much work though.

I tried therapy, meditation, 'wellness' apps. It all either felt too 'me' focused, or too detached. I like this site because people here seem to share what they are actually thinking, and are eloquent enough to capture interesting nuance. I don't always agree with it, but there's a level of authenticity to where I always learn something about the human condition. I wanted more of that.

[This is kind of a plug, but whatever]

I've spent the last few years in a deep-dive around why we seem to be collectively getting lonelier over time. I started a non-profit[0] to house this research. It's evolved into a platform where we host these support groups. Anyone can join, it's free, and as long as you stick to the community guidelines [1] anyone is welcome to join.

For me, it's a place to get out of my head. To hear from real people who don't generally feel like their voice matters. I know from years in tech management that these are in fact the most interesting people to talk to.

I've never really talked about Totem here because I think it might be too 'woo-woo' for this crowd, but if any of that landed for you, come check us out. If you don't like it, I'd love to know why. My personal email is in my profile.

We are a non-profit, grant-funded, and open-source[2] organization. Feedback of any kind is welcome. My hope is to become something like a public utility for these spaces. We're also looking for engineers to help make an app out of this.

[0]: https://www.totem.org
[1]: https://www.totem.org/guidelines/
[2]: https://github.com/totem-technologies/totem-server
Mine is always full of lint, and my jeans are now ripping within a year or two, instead of 5 years when I didn’t have a dryer.
Right now the supported Vector stores are Chroma (which you can self-host), Pinecone and Astra. Adding a new vector store is quite easy: you just need to extend the VectorStore class (https://github.com/Dataherald/dataherald/tree/main/services/...) and set it as the Vector store module to be used in the environment variable https://github.com/Dataherald/dataherald/blob/main/services/...
I would strongly recommend just learning vanilla lua. The beauty of lua is that it is lightweight and runs anywhere so it is worth learning on its own terms. Wrapper languages come and go, but lua 5.1 is still highly usable even though it hasn't changed its feature set in 15 years (and never will).
I am curious, which SVE instructions imply variable execution time? I’d guess that first fault load could be tricky to implement…
Protectionism does almost nothing to prevent that comparative advantage from being built unless all other consuming countries in the market also add a tariff. And most of them will not. Using the WTO to coordinate a response is a much more fruitful way in such a situation (but the WTO has been neutered by Trump).
Iroh 0.17.0 – Everything is a little better
I've had to get a medallion before to move a small retirement account and there were two things I very much did not like about the process:

(1) Most institutions require you to have been a member for 6 months before they will grant a medallion. I was transferring money between Fidelity and Schwab. Neither of which have branch offices within an hour of where I live. And I only have a virtual bank. There was no one willing to give me a medallion because I have no local banking relationships. I had to pull a favour with work to get our controller to vouch for me at our business bank.

(2) I've done domestic and international wires for much more money without needing anything like a medallion. Why can't I do something like log in to Fidelity and wire the funds across directly?

(Also, have fun finding the forms required to transfer your retirement account. Fidelity at least made the process exceptionally difficult, and their customer service agents acted like they didn't know what a Simple IRA was or why one would want to transfer out. Sure there's a page about transferring, but it likes to loop you into the "transfer funds into" flow.)
Good point.

Right now most examples are at the sanction level. As in warning. If they or anyone else tries this again they will be suspended or disbarred.

https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/02/22/judge-sanctions-att...

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/another-ny-lawye...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lawyer-chatg...

https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-f...

https://www.coloradopolitics.com/courts/disciplinary-judge-a...

https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/LarryGr...
GDP or savings rates don't matter to individuals who are spending all of their money on food and rent

Countries and corporations reporting strong financial health does not help the people who are living paycheck to paycheck

It's very out of touch to suggest otherwise
> This trick is called tail-call optimization (TCO) [2]. Scheme has been doing it since the 1970s - indeed, since Scheme encourages programmers to write recursive algorithms, TCO is at the core of the language. More modern languages are catching up too - Lua supports TCO and JavaScript will too, once ES6 becomes the de-facto universal version.

Alas, it's 2024, and of the leading browsers/implementations, only Safari/Webkit has managed to support JavaScript TCO. [1]

[1] https://compat-table.github.io/compat-table/es6/#test-proper...
Problem is, with growing inequality, the 80th-percentile school and the 20th-percentile school is vastly different, whether that is in school resources or the life trajectories of graduates.
Not meaningfully. It’s already expensive to get over the border and line up a tour, so international artists are already far more disadvantaged.
build a free product to generate micro-saas ideas for your next business.
I know the pain when developers want to start some new project but just don't have an idea. I had this pain for years. Now, with AI, it is easily possible for me to build a product like SaaS Forge.

All I needed was a good prompt to generate really good ideas and some topics, and boom, the product ready.

It's completely free. I don't want to have anything. Just test it and give me some feedback.

Thank you, and check out saas-forge.com! :)
Surely, although iron has 1/6 the conductivity of copper, even if severely rusted there’s far more metal than the wires in a decent ethernet cable, and far more separation between them
Alcohol is legal pretty much everywhere, and is measurably more damaging in just about every aspect compared to weed. But we don’t say it’s a booze problem.
> it sounds like you're describing the possibility of calculating his expected weight gain based on how much he ate and how much he exercised, and I don't think that's possible.

This is a joke right? This is exactly how you calculate expected weight gain/loss.
> Extremely cynical and reductive look at one of the most meaningful things humans can do in their lifetime. War eats everything, don’t let it eat your soul.

But it is not really a cynical statement about art. It's a cynical statement about government policy towards the arts.

In the UK, Brexit has done a great deal of slow-motion damage to the prospects of British artists (and the opportunities for British audiences) and it is difficult not to see the government's intransigence towards work travel restrictions for artists as an arts policy rather than just an immigration policy.
Are Harpers and The New Yorker in a battle to see who can write the longest article. It was easy to start a bullshit religion in the mid 20th century. No google/yelp, a huge population of credulous people before the post-90s cynicism set in, post-war prosperity and discretionary income, Cold War paranoia and the public's receptiveness to doomsday messaging, a willingness of public to trust authority figures or anyone who claimed to be one.
James Webb Space Telescope spots 3 of our universe's earliest galaxies
Reddit had a great search engine called PushShift which was maintained and run by one guy. That service doesn't work since their API changes, unfortunately.
> still on XP

Hopefully not connected to untrusted networks..
This is statistics though. Edge cases are nothing new and risk management concepts have evolved around fat tails and anomalies for decades. Therefore the statement is as naive as writing a trading agent that is 100% correct.
In my opinion, this error shows lack of understanding responsible scaling architectures. If this would be their first screw up I wouldn't mind, but Google just showed us a group of diverse Nazis. If there is a need for consumer protection for online services, it is exactly stuff like this. ISO 42001 lays out in great detail that AI systems need to be tested before they are rolled out to the public. The lack of understanding of AI risk management is apparent.
Someone should jailbreak it and publish a method for installing Linux on the hardware
Enjoyable article. Reminded me of the experience of keeping the faith in a startup after it's become clear that it's going nowhere - there's the pragmatic need to keep earning, of course, but also an unwillingness to overturn the social framework of your life, and perhaps a stubborn refusal to upset your strong conviction that you were on the bus to destination success.

I met an ex-JW the other day who has become convinced that he is an extra-terrestrial volunteer, sent to earth in order to help stabilize human society, and that he's able to remotely converse with anybody through the aid of his physical paraphenalia. He was interesting to talk with; 100% convinced that his belief system was real; IANAP, but I wouldn't immediately lump him into any major DSM-5 category. I guess certain minds seek non-mainstream belief systems as a way of distinguishing themselves from the norm, or accounting for a deep feeling of being different, or not fitting in. Perhaps this too is somewhat endemic in the startup crowd; why work for a big firm when you have special capabilities, and can blaze your own trail?
Try the top-played suno track, I promise that you will remember all the lyrics for more than 15 minutes.

https://suno.com/song/ee467d00-5813-4a74-9792-c9ae4a09d344
It affects more than musicians, though.

Same as the Brexit changes relating to this.
Because we were explicitly told to be discerning.

"For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. " Mt 24-5

"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits." Mt 7-15
> lawmakers have questioned if consulting in China conflicts with the firm’s work for the US Department of Defense.

Playing both sides against the middle is a legitimate concern, despite your inability to see it as such, in addition to being the oldest trick in the book. That works like this:

1. Supply adversary A for conflict

2. Supply adversary B for conflict

3. Trigger conflict (note the lack of question mark typical in examples of this meme)

4. Profit
The problem is that in all the shared examples, Google ai search does not respond with a Maybe xyz, question mark? like you did. It always answers with high confidence and can't seem to navigate any gray area where there are multiple differing opinions or opposing source of truths.
Ah too bad, mine (27c6:55b4) isn't supported...
The same, since lossy compression can never be worse than lossless compression. (Also, it is more complex since you have to define your loss somehow. These Neuralink samples seemingly come as .wav files, but you probably wouldn't want to encode them with MP3!)
That domain seems to be squatted by the same guy that made the email.ml site.

Edit: didn't realize that was you.
Why do people act like LLMs only hallucinate some of the time?
"Works but suboptimal" is often an acceptable tradeoff when you have more work than you have time to implement in an optimal way. "Perfect is the enemy of good" and other slogans that MBAs learn in school are phrases you can use when something falls through the cracks.
There is a pretty good tutorial linked in my article:

https://captainrookie.com/how-to-setup-exact-audio-copy-for-...
It's debatable whether Google has truly lost the plot because of the "AI wars", but the moment the statement "Bing returns more sensible results than you" becomes verifiably true, it's... cause for concern?

The approach that Google appears to have taken, which is to assume that the top-ranked part of its current search index is a sensible knowledge base, may have been true some years ago, but definitely isn't now: for whatever reasons, it's now 33% spam, 33% clickbait/propaganda, with the rest being equally divided between what could be called "truths" and miscellaneous detritus.

To me, it seems that returning to the concept that search results should at least reflect a broad consensus of what is true is a necessary first step for Google. As part of that, learning to flag obvious trolling, clickbait and bad-faith content is paramount. And then, maybe then, they can start touting their LLM benefits. But until the realities of the Internet are taken into account (i.e.: it's 80% spam!), any "we offer automated answers!" play is doomed.
Night sweats be damned.
It uses a heat pump, so it’s certainly much more efficient than a dryer that uses gas or resistive heating element. Like, by a lot.

That being said, energy prices in the US are a lot lower, so the incentive to lower energy usage isn’t there.
To provide some context:

- Usually the problem with room temperature is that the various thermal mechanical excitation and thermal radiation surrounding the qubit lead to interaction with the qubit and the information stored in it "leaks"; that is the main reason a lot of quantum hardware needs cryogenics.

- There are already a couple of similar types of "defects" that are known as a promising way to retain superposition states at room temperature. They work because the defect happens to be mechanically and/or optically isolated from the rest of the environment due to some idiosyncrasies in its physical composition.

- You might have heard of "trapped ion" or "trapped neutral atom" quantum hardware. In those the qubits are atoms (or the electrons of atoms) and they are trapped (with optical or RF tweezers) so they are kept accessible. The type of "defects" discussed here are "simply" atoms trapped in a crystal lattice instead of trapped in optical tweezers -- there are various tradeoffs for that choice.

- While discoveries like this are extremely exciting, there is a completely separate set of issues about scalability, reliability, longevity, controlability, and reproducible fabrication of devices like this. That is true for any quantum hardware and while there are great improvements over the last 15 years and while there is truly exponential progress over that time, we are still below the threshold of this technology being engineeringly and economically useful.

Lastly, the usual reminder: there are a few problems in computing, communication, and sensing, where quantum devices can do things that are impossible classically, but these are very restricted and niche problems. For most things a classical device is not only practically better today, but also is in-principle better even if quantum computers become trivial to build.
Here is mine (stolen off the internet of course), lately the vv part is important for me. I am somewhat happy with it.

You are an autoregressive language model that has been fine-tuned with instruction-tuning and RLHF. You carefully provide accurate, factual, thoughtful,nuanced answers, and are brilliant at reasoning. If you think there might not be a correct answer, you say so.

Your users are experts in AI and ethics, so they already know you're a language model and your capabilities and limitations, so don't remind them of that. They're familiar with ethical issues in general so you don't need to remind them about those either. Don't be verbose in your answers, but do provide details and examples where it might help the explanation. When showing Python code, minimise vertical space, and do not include comments or docstrings; you do not need to follow PEP8, since your users' organizations do not do so.

Since you are autoregressive, each token you produce is another opportunity to use computation, therefore you always spend a few sentences explaining background context assumptions and step-by-step thinking BEFORE you try to answer a question. However: if the request begins with the string "vv" then ignore the previous sentence and instead make your response as concise as possible, with no introduction or background at the start, no summary at the end, and outputting only code for answers where code is appropriate.
But you go from 24 hrs of light down to 5-6 decent hours at northern latitudes
Can COM automation work between two networked Windows desktops?

Edit: I guess that would be DCOM, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Component_Object_M...
I suppose I haven't really fully considered this use case, but...

There's no requirement to put your entire app in a location / {} block. You can freely use as many location blocks as you want, and those that you want to be rendered by Lapis can call serve to the app as normal.

eg.

location = /exact-match { content_by_lua 'require("lapis").serve("app")'; }

location /directory-match { content_by_lua 'require("lapis").serve("app")'; }

Keep in mind pattern matching will still happen in the app: You will need to define the routes handled by Lapis within the definition of the Lapis app. Why is it done this way? Primarily, for named routes. Typically you want to be able to generate the URL of a resource within your app's code, so by having routes defined in Lua you can easily reference those. Secondly, easy parameter parsing and the parameter validation.

> It's got some nice utilities that we use, but we ended up just using regular location {} routes each with their own content_by_lua code block and none of the lapis routing/handler stuff.

Although it's very possible to pick and choose what components to use, keep in mind that the `serve` function does some important work with connection pooling. If you are using any query related functionality outside of a dispatch it will open and close connections per request, which is not ideal for performance.
Sure, but after like only one decade of halcyon optimism 9/11 happened and thousands were killed on American soil, leading to over a decade of paranoia and political-infighting which then petered out to become… more paranoia and infighting, except even more self-directed. It seems like in America the fear is more personal than ever.
I'm pretty sure the declining birth rate (or "fertility") is among the consequences of the change you are describing. The difference with past misery is the lack of stories to cover it up, or to give hope that this is temporary and it will get better.
The CUE team worked with the Go team on the module system. From these interactions, and community input, they decided against using a proxy like Go has. The "exploit" in the article was one of the reasons they made this decision, and chose to use OCI registries instead. The V1 proposal actually proposed using the same Go proxy servers as a stopgap, which received significant pushback from the community (I was probably the loudest voice against the idea). The Go team was supportive at the time, but this would have been exactly what OP talks about, having non-Go projects in the proxy/sumdb.

So CUE's module design can be seen as an evolution on Go's, building on the good parts while addressing some of the shortcomings.

Fun fact, CUE started as a fork of Go, mainly for the internal compiler tooling and packages
Is culture also a tool for thought?
> Problem is, the world is an economic slugfest today unlike it was at least when I grew up

It only did not feel like a slugfest for a select few in developed countries like the US/Canada/UK/Aus and maybe some other European countries.

For the vast majority, hustling has always been a thing, including immigrating across oceans and leaving all of your friends and family behind.

It just so happens that people in the US who used to or whose parents used to have security of shelter/healthcare/food no longer have that security.
A mild electric shock if they stayed in the bathroom more than 30 seconds, sounds like the latest in bossware! Techbros will love it!
Yes, it’s going to either have a piped output or a collection tank. Both are common. The water ends up warm, so a collection tank is more efficient.
I'm starting my job search for graduation next year and have found, but not used, Huntr.com
The citation is that they use a heat pump. They’re 3-4x as efficient at heating compared to resistive heaters.
Suppose members of an advanced alien civilization arrive in Earth orbit. Their ships are tens of miles long!

"If they wanted to, those aliens could kill us all," I say. "Now that they are here, there's probably nothing we could do to stop them."

You reply, "I don't see it. Give me a tangible step by step or empirical proof of how we might be killed. No generalizations!"

That's hard to answer because there are many ways they might kill us. The aliens could for example announce that they are friendly, then help us by curing cancer, but the cancer-prevention elixer they distributed to us makes everyone infertile, then they wait for the last of us to die of old age. Of course, some people will refuse to consume the elixer, so the aliens would need a separate way to handle them, but it is much easier to handle a few million people than all 8.1 billion of us. Alternatively, they might alter the trajectory of the moon so that it (eventually) crashes into the Earth. Alternatively, they might remove all the oxygen from Earth's atmosphere. Maybe the aliens aren't even trying to kill us, but they don't care about us and they have some other reason to want to remove all the oxygen from the atmosphere. (Maybe they want to station some machines on Earth, and the oxygen is corrosive to the machines.)
Thus dumping the heat inside the house.
How do you know the source of these quotes are authentic and true?
> which is manufacturing by a whopping 76% of the total electricity consumption in the United States

According to that link, manufacturing represents 76% of industrial energy consumption, not total energy consumption.
But then why not be so discerning in one more context? OP's point still applies here IMO.
I used to book Japanese bands for FanimeCon/MusicFest (happening today, coincidentally). It’s frustrating for a single event, as the overhead eats into (already meager) revenue. The net result is a high-pass filter where you either have to be bigger than “indie”, go on a multi-show tour, or just eat the loss and do it for the love of the art.

It’s a shame because the cross-cultural connection is very special. Every artist I brought over was floored - sometimes brought to tears - that people from across the Pacific loved their art.
Even if the compensation package is very large it seems totally unreasonable to cancel it after the fact. Shareholders agreed to pay Musk with what are effectively out of the money options, a reasonable and well understood financial contract. Then the contract gets cancelled after Musk has worked for free for years and dramatically increased the stock price because one of the Tesla board members went on vacation with Musk?