skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Writing performant code is a highly complex and arduous task that is highly dependent on compiler, language, system, hardware and actual needs.

It's also about understand the black box that is your program by using tools beside the programming language to understand memory usage, allocation patterns, blocking operations and dead-time, bloat, destructive interference in multiprocessing applications, NUMA-stuff and so on, and so forth. Then there's program-specific things like SIMD-processing, using efficient algorithms, differences created between standard-library implementations.

So, which language is faster is just a chapter in a book about performance. And, comparing two languages it feels like comparing apples to oranges. If you had the chance to go back and write a program over again, you will probably end up with an overall different, hopefully better, design.
Gonna be honest, most strategy games bog you down in uninteresting, obnoxious micromanagement, and most of them are very nearly the same game with different content.

Most of the time there's a certain central archetype of optimal play(maximize resource income&spending, optimize build order), and very little moment-to-moment salient decision-making that requires adapting to circumstances(excepting micro which is never fun). Contrast that with roguelites and the way every single time you play you're offered different options, have to adapt to them, and work out a build viable in both the short- and long- term.
To help me with something similar, I score my ideas against a number of measures and questions. It's helped me choose something to build over the last 6 months or so.

They are;

### Idea Validation
- Is this - Unworkable (consequences for the user are serious if not addressed)
- Is this - Unavoidable (something the user needs to do)
- Is this - Urgent (and needs to do now, number 1 thing)
- Is this - Underserved (MVS isn't served)
- What is the Minimal Viable Segment
- Is this - Blatant and Critical?
- Is this - Latent and Aspirational?
- What are the - Dependencies
- What are the - External Factors
- Could there be a - Backlash
- Is the timing good
- Is this - Discontinuous
- Is this - Disruptive
- Is this - Defensible
- Describe the - Before / After
- Is this - Gain / Pain > 10
- How big could it be 1 - 10
- Founder / Market fit (am I an expert?) 1 - 10
- How sure are you that this is solving an acute problem & do I have personal experience 1 - 10
- Have a new insight (maybe counterintuitive insight) 1 - 10
- Has this only recently become possible?
- Are there network effects
- How frequent a problem is this
- Is this a 0 to 1 idea
- Can this be a monopoly
- Can it make money
- Could I work on this for 10+ years
- Could I build this

### Value Prop Statement
- This is for (target customer)
- who is dissatisfied with (existing solution)
- due to (key unmet needs)
- We offer (venture name & product category)
- That provides (benefits of solution - not better, faster, cheaper)
> You cannot unleash a machine on the mountains of text stored on reddit and magically expect it to tell fact from fiction or sarcasm from bad intent

I didn't say you could, but that a machine can't decode the mountains of text doesn't mean that the answer isn't (perhaps only) on Reddit. I don't think people would be that interested in search engine that just serves content from books and academic papers.
> Yet they could afford _homes_

I’m not from USA, (so only educated guess whether statistics lie), but I wager that millions could not afford homes then and millions can afford a home today.

My most minimal effort attempt at stats follows.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/184902/homeownership-rat....

> …in 2023 the proportion of households occupied by owners declined to 65.7 percent…

Also:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeownership_in_the_United_...

(Shows that it was bellow 70% in 1989)

first graph has very sharp peaks and dips, but please note that the y axis has values from 62 till 70.

Based on this I would say that it would be misleading to state “in 1980 people could afford homes and today we can’t afford”

But I can see a lot of “outrage” in US media.
My unrequested speculation: more people got college and university degrees, but that did not change their ability to own a home. (But it did change their expectation, especially how pricey degrees seem to be in USA)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_th... (percentage of educated population had has risen steadily since 1950)
I'm on Linux
> Looks like you're on Mac

Nope, Linux.
In what way is that an answer to the question "What sites are similar to Hacker News"? I'm honestly curious.
Use doubles, use Kahan summation, use 2Sum algo, use larger precision floating point library?
Crossing Two Red Lines at Once
Exactly my first thought after reading that.

Part of me wonders if it's a bit of a joke, panning a genuinely useful feature (in any other language) as disposable and silly (in this one).
Some other links,

The Rete Matching Algorithm (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11364718) - Mar 2016 (21 comments)

Project Area52 (http://phrack.org/issues/56/6.html)
I do this too (the rare times I'm at a place that does this) but that doesn't mean there's no adverse consequences. I would be interested if the effect still shows for people who consciously round up.
A taxonomy of what we mean when we talk about "resource-constrained" might be helpful for those seeking to gain this knowledge. Limited CPU, RAM, etc are the obvious contenders - but then there's also "resource-constrained" as in "I'm the solo dev of this project and have 5 hours in a good week to work on it", or "this runs in a weird place without Internet that I only get access to twice a year". I've been in all of these situations, sometimes multiple at the same time, and they've been great forcing functions to find new paths towards simplicity.
And then we have a zig-zag bijection for too many serialization formats.
This is in UK. The "but what about privacy?" argument has been lost there a long time ago, so they make do with what they have.
I think back to my childhood and cannot remember much of it before the age of ten. Small snippets here and there. I certainly can’t remember gaining self consciousness or learning to speak. We know that most children do not remember anything from before they are 5-6 years old as adults unless it was an extremely traumatic event.

I wonder then if Helen’s experience is because her recognition of the moment of self consciousness came later than most children?

Many years ago I had the random opportunity to do DMT and took it. Whilst I’d never do it again, the experience was without doubt, one of the most profound experiences of my life. It is often described as an ego stripper. The feeling of returning to self consciousness remains with me to this day almost 30 years after that experience. If you’ve ever watched an old Linux machine boot up, and have the kernel load, watch a credit to Swansea University flick past, before finally being “ready”, you’ll have some semblance of what being born and coming conscious of oneself, and in the case of DMT, reloading the memory into the hot cache. It takes a while to get back to the “I”, and those moments in between are both terrifying and simultaneously freeing and beautiful. Since you’ve previously just suffered from a brain crash and reboot, it’s no wonder.
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"According to nuclear safety expert Bruce G. Blair, the US Air Force's Strategic Air Command worried that in times of need the codes for the Minuteman ICBM force would not be available, so it decided to set the codes to 00000000 in all missile launch control centers."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_action_link
Came here to make this remark. As a society we've really evolved in hooking our kids onto things that they cannot resist as early as possible in their life, building a future customer base i guess?
Useful, thanks. Note that the "after the argument, list fallacies" part can be swapped out for other lists.

For example:

1. Evaluate Argument Strength: Assess the strength of each premise and the overall argument. [ChatGPT is an ass kisser so always says "strong"]

2. Provide Counterarguments: Suggest possible counterarguments to the premises and conclusion.

3. Highlight Assumptions: Identify any underlying assumptions that need examination.

4. Suggest Improvements: Recommend ways to strengthen the argument's logical structure.

5. Test with Scenarios: Apply the argument to various scenarios to see how it holds up.

6. Analyze Relevance: Check the relevance and connection between each premise and the conclusion.
> If it increases faster than blockchain size, then we're OK.

Hope is not a strategy, and things should actually be the other way round: to avoid centralization, blockchain projects should be designed to scale at the same rate available compute power does externally: b/w, storage, etc.
What?

> Strangely, you won't often see this kind of pricing in offline retail stores, only during promotions

I think I see this whenever I enter a regular supermarket.

> When paying online, people's consumption psychology is more impulsive because you don't take out cash when paying; you just pay a number, and the money is deducted from your bank card

People overwhelmingly pay by card at actual shops and rarely use cash.

This may depend on the location of course.
> Anybody who has ever tried to teach math to an unmotivated student would have faced the question, 'Why do we learn math when we could just use a calculator?'

If it goes the same as your example for AI then soon people will doubt your knowledge on the grounds of not coming from the assured source. (The ai)

I generally agree with what the OP said: having an instant and correct answering machine available will remove most of the challenge of learning, leaving you completely unable to progress beyond the guided tours also called academic tests / certificates.

But the people talking about the calculator actually have a point, because the only reason to learn math is to understand the concept behind the formula, which can tell you why it works in certain scenarios and not in others. That's usually not what's taught in class however, instead they're made to run through formulas to get a "deeper understanding". And that's pointless beyond training to do exactly that: applying a formula at a pre-selected problem that has a correct answer. This doesn't really transfer to anything you'd do outside of school in any creative profession.

It's perfect for accounting and MBA roles though - even if they're not gonna be doing the calculation themselves, but they Guess identify which formal to apply, so ymmv
What convinced you to let them play? I’m genuinely curious as I’ll never allow any my kids to play these sort of exploitive games (or in this case platforms since not every Roblox game is exploiting).

I’m not preaching by the way. Exposure may be a better strategy to teach about the dangers of these digital garbage cans. I just don’t want my kids to grow up having even experienced any of these things that I consider terrible consumption patterns. Similarly they don’t get on YouTube or any form of SoMe until they are at least 13. I am a little undecided when it comes to actually creating something… I’m not sure how I would handle it if my daughter wanted to make a YouTube channel about her gardening as an example. Or in the case of Roblox create a game.
Low-Power Optimization Techniques for ARM Cortex-M Microcontrollers
Yes, what is up with me asking it a question about a subject or something else and it starts lecturing me what the subject is etc. It is never brief, concise, it always has to add these definitions of the subject which I already know.
Why too many? It's a neat trick.
The difference here is that people are asked to be on the lookout at some specific moments when a crime is known to be occurring, while cameras can - and are, per TFA - being used for straight up fishing expeditions.

That said, yes, it would be nice if there was a way for my car to automatically scan car plates around, linked to my phone so that when an amber alert comes in and I explicitly choose to enable the scanner at that point, it would report matches for that particular number automatically.

But we all know that's never going to happen. Well, the automatic plate scanners
in every car will probably happen eventually - it's too easy technologically for someone to not come up with a bright idea to mandate them "for safety". But they will be enabled and effectively controlled by law enforcement 24/7.
OCaml 5 essentially has it, as "effect handlers". It's how lightweight concurrency is implementated.
Ongoing discussion,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40478923
Because normal crop dusting airplanes: are big and heavy, forcing big batteries. Hotswapping 10kg battery pack is much more feasible than hotswapping 100kg one. You can work whole day using 3 batteries regardless of size, but having to swap 10kg battery every 5 minute is more feasible than swapping 100kg battery every 30 minutes. Those planes cant land right at fields edge, so big chunk of energy in its battery would be needed to fly to and from nearest airstrip.
Ask HN: How optimized is human intelligence?
How optimized do you think human intelligence is compared to the theoretical max? What do you think the max optimizes for?
I think it has to be more of a compiler driven movement. GCC and clang have to be the ones that accept to implement the standard of an alternative committee. Now I get this alternative committee doesn't exist yet, and there is no agreement of what the future could be (cpp2, cpp front, circle, carbon..) and it's a huge investment.

But developers will follow compiler. I sure would use circle if it was not a proprietary compiler.
Thanks, was not aware of that!
As the article points out, most people they've asked around those cameras were provisionally supportive of them (so long as they "help with crime").
As an aside, I'm surprised at how rude some people's prompts are. Lecturing the machine, talking down to it etc.

The bot is a bewildered dog. It wants to help you but it is confused. You won't help it by yelling at it.
This is more or less also what (GNU) ddrescue does[0]. It first tries to do a linear copy of the full disk, skipping any errors, then goes back and tries to re-read the error sectors until you either cancel or it succeeds. It also keeps track of everything it's doing so you can stop and start the process without it redoing work.

[0]https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual...
That's why IQ is a metric that can be improved. It highly correlates with education to a certain point.
The silicon power drives all went read-only. Power cycling never brought them back, and they had various levels of lost. It was clear at least one chip failed and the drive was doing it's best to at least let me recover what I could off of it, but given how many went this way, I just gave up entirely on the brand.

I've only bought the pro level of the Samsung consumer drives (nvme m.2) and they've been stellar. I have no experience with their enterprise drives. I also wouldn't buy drives off of eBay. I don't think of eBay as cheaper than amazon/b&h/etc, and the risk of a fake is just so much higher on eBay.
“Here’s a nickel kid, get yourself a better OS”?

Still, the fact that some PDF processors can make this work shows that the format isn’t broken “by design”.
The correlation may have been on a cultural level, rather than individual. I.e. cultures with a high degree of literacy train their children in logic and abstraction; primarily oral cultures do not.

The hen and the egg problem is obvious here, of course. Does writing lead to logic, or does an emphasis on logic necessitate learning writing? I don't know how this is controlled in the studies Gleick refers to.
I'm sure there are other things that could be captured and analyzed aside from images. Gait, perhaps? It's similar to web tracking - each individual method might be very unreliable, but the intersection of them can be extremely specific.

Or just implant RFID into every citizen at birth. It's for your safety, after all - if you get lost or abducted, that's how they'll find you.
Assembling a team and keep working on something for 10 years when you are unsure whether it will work or not, requires a huge amount of passion, dedication and patience. I think most people would quit early if they don't see a rapid pay off.
Oh so the Elon trajectory.
this is a good post about topics people don't discuss enough. thank you for sharing.
I wonder what you would say if you had read the history of presidential pardons!

https://www.businessinsider.com/list-of-most-famous-shocking...
Similar has been reproducible on my end, it reminds me of gpt2; they are pulling from things like Reddit threads and articles from the onion
>You've implemented resumable generators!

Like yield in C#?
One could hope, even though it is still my main browser, it hardly matters in many browser matrixes nowadays, and I doubt there is anything left to take it out of tiny market share it currently has.
"If you are only one developer" suggests zero interests in being nuanced.

To be clear, this linked specifically to simplicity which I'm certainly in favor of emphasizing the importance of. But IME the exact opposite happens when people try to imitate Google overall in a smaller setting, where instead too much resources are spent on meta-issues instead of the product being developed.
It absolutely is.

Everything around you banks on an ever expanding economy and continuing inflation. Housing, pensions, etc.

Saying that this is not a strategy is just plain wrong.
What is “theoretical max” for intelligence?
They also have a hurricane upgrade package.

Now we're cookin with gas
> “I’d expect heightened attention to ongoing due diligence around the financial condition of these kinds of middleware vendors, none of which are profitable, and increased focus on business continuity and operational resilience for banks engaged in BaaS operating models.”

This is exactly why banking regulations (e.g., FDIC) were invented. Private organization could not be depended on for "heightened attention" or to do "due diligence". It's little wonder that these new private organization would behave similarly. It's amazing that this person can say that with a straight face.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Deposit_Insurance_Corp...
I can.

And some people appear to think that drawing those thoughts should be criminalized.
From the same article, meanwhile, out on the street in public space:

On a humid day in Bethnal Green, in east London, we joined the police as they positioned a modified white van on the high street.

Cameras attached to its roof captured thousands of images of people's faces.

If they matched people on a police watchlist, officers would speak to them and potentially arrest them.
I went through something similar here in America very suddenly due to illness. Were it not for family, we would have been homeless.

It’s hard to go from Hero to Zero. Now that you’ve made it, all I can say is “never forget how that experience made you feel” - that way when you vote and you pay your taxes you’ll know why you do it. Ideally so that it’s not even worse for the next guy.
will be interesting to know if this is a bait and switch or simply a concession to the majority of users that just want free stuff
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When you ask an LLM to carefully reason step by step before arriving at its answer, that seems pretty much the same as conscious reasoning to me. Of course, when asked to justify a gut reaction after the fact, it will just come up with something that sounds plausible (and may or may not be true). Just like humans do.
I mean the max efficiency for intelligence, which is pretty abstract so part of the question is what does intelligence even mean as it supersedes humans and the metrics we care about
You just proved yourself incorrect by picking a year when there was no king, completely invalidating "a single name, everything else is completely useless".
Hm. The contradictions specifically are a thing I notice in humans that I think are entirely normal[0]. But the early LLMs with the shorter context windows, those reminded me of my mum's Alzheimer's.

That said, your analogy may well be perfect, as they are learning to people-please and to simulate things they (hopefully) don't actually experience.

(Not that it changes your point, but isn't that Machiavellian rather than psychopathic?)

[0] one of many reasons why I disagree with Wittgenstein about:

> If there were a verb meaning 'to believe falsely', it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.

Just because it's logically correct, doesn't mean humans think like that.
tribbling this.

'freenet' is an isp in my country, and if this does not hint at it enough, too generic of a term
It’s heartwarming to hear that /g/ has apparently not changed even one iota from when I last looked at it in high school 15 years ago.
Wall of Pizza
Made a few years ago as a fun way of doing a donations page and a way to thank those who supported my open source slacking with the delicious gift of pizza.
does not inspire confidence indeed
What turned me off Kagi is that they spent a huge percentage of some recent funding they got on making ridiculously customized overengineered…t-shirts.

Their development process seems to be “just say yes to everything that piques your interest” and so even with their steep pricing I’m fairly sure they’ll run out of money quickly.
And haven't there already been at least two reasonably popular but incompatible versions before? I think 0.5 was still used for quite a while when 0.7 was around. They offered similar services and anonymity concepts though.
I definitely remember things from around ages 3-4 which are absolutely not traumatic. For example I have fond memories of both my great-grandmothers who both died when I was 4. I remember spending time with them. I also have other memories from that time, just can't be sure about the exact timing. The ones with my great-grandmothers are impossible to be from later.

And I definitely have complex memories from around 5-6 years old, which do qualify as "gaining self consciousness". Of course I can't pinpoint exactly when that was, but it's a significant memory I have... the exact moment when I realized these things.
Overtesting usually comes from TDD cargo culting where literally every function in the code, no matter how small, is a "unit" that needs to be tested.
Be humble, work with smart people, don’t give up too quickly, appreciate that luck plays a factor.

Simmons, Charlie, and surely others have said that, maybe did that as well, and… got lucky.
It lacks context, it could misidentify half of the people scanned and still have the police report that number.

eg: 33,000 people walk past cameras but only two are flagged as matching a person of interest on the watch list.

One of those is a mistake, the other was correctly identified.

From the Police PoV that's one mistake in 33,000 .. but whose to say the remaining 32,998 people were correctly identified?

Perhaps they were all criminals that weren't identified, perhaps they were all not criminals but not correctly matched.

Perhaps 2,000 were criminals and on the watch list but not identified.
Equally, I know plenty of "Bruce Wayne" types who don't live in crappy conditions, are highly in-demand for their skills and extensive knowledge, but are very much asocial when it comes to in-person stuff.