skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is hard to read though.

What isn't? Java or C# with deep hierarchies of nested classes and tons of boilerplate, extensive use of interfaces or overuse of exception checking?

Python with its magic methods and decorators and misindentation?

Javascript with the callback hell, inconsistent type coersion and sometimes tricky async code?

Ruby with its weird metaprogramming and monkey patching?

C with the pointers mental acrobatics and pre-processor macros?

Perl with weird default vars like $_ and tons of regexps?

Haskell with its monadic structures and heavy use of weird symbols and operators?

PHP with the crapload of its historical baggage, global vars and inconsistent, non-standardized function naming?

Any programming language can be considered hard to read, quirky, slow, inconsistent, or lacking some feature. Everyone knows there are only three God-given, bullet-proof, guaranteed ways to write robust, fast, consistent, bug-free and scalable software. Three... Humankind has yet to discover those.
In order to get to this kind of place, you have to pass three filters:

- Your org must be big / famous

- You must be the public face of your org

- You have an irresistable urge to say edgy things you probably shouldn't

People who are comfortable with their place in life are less likely to make it through this filter.
And AI will make it much worse by lowering the effort required to do harm.
That's extraordinarily nonsensical for something written so prominently next to the price. It doesn't even work if you assume that the continental decimal notation is being used. I'd go as far to say it might even be a criminal offence; quoting the Weights and Measures Act 1985 section 31, emphasis mine:

> Without prejudice to section 30(2) to (4) above, if in the case of any goods required by or under this Part of this Act to have associated with them a document containing particular statements, that document is found to contain any such statement which is materially incorrect, any person who, knowing or having reasonable cause to suspect that statement to be materially incorrect, inserted it or caused it to be inserted in the document, or used the document for the purposes of this Part of this Act while that statement was contained in the document, shall be guilty of an offence.
I find the behavior varies depending on whether your browser sends a Referer header. (Which is still a fail on their part.)
> ... in what other contexts would you use the word "grok"?

My understanding: When complex knowledge is absorbed through deep immersion.

I was surprised to see to grok as a synonym for (? a possibly very superficial flavour of) to understand.

Would have loved to know why, from a linguistic perspective, GP used that word in this context.
Do things like lawn services and clothing shops count?
Normal fiber optic can be tapped surreptitiously[0]. There are a number of companies that sell anti-intrusion tech, but it's hard to say which side is winning with respect to what governments can do.

[0] https://fac.ksu.edu.sa/sites/default/files/06149809-Optical_...
tl;dr AI models are the next "munitions" after encryption
> and these AI safety folks don’t seem to give a shit about that

Because that’s literally not their job or role. Why would enforcing copyright be in any way shape or form their responsibility?
I’m sure you don’t see a problem. From your comment history, you use the term ‘Satanyahu’, and nearly every comment is about Israel and Palestine.
Nice thread and here was me thinking you meant something any Cisco router or switch product page
I don't use any of that. Still waiting for a twitter equivalent without the political drama.

Don't need fediverse complexity and confusion my friends and family can't understand.
I think learned helplessness is the best model of depression we have. In other words, depression may simply be a natural response to repeated bouts of futility. Many animals show similar depressive like symptoms in experiments designed to cause it.

So maybe it's becoming harder for the young to avoid something they don't want, or obtain something they want, and this is the fundamental reason behind rising rates of depression.
I don't get it then. You expect ctrl-s to do nothing. So why would you press it at all?
That's cool. I've created a website(https://papertube.site) that essentially transcribes video conversations for reading on Kindle. Right now, I'm relying on third-party APIs, but I was thinking about self-hosting to reduce costs.
I enjoy Elixir but this situation is quite unfortunate, there is alias, import require and use for referencing / pulling in code external to a file in some way or another, plus the possibility of calling a function from another module directly by name without an import statement using the module name – and the most annoying part of it is that none of these give an indication of which file the other module is from, which is like 50% of the utility of an import statement for me.

Instead there is this pattern of naming modules based on the file path they are located in, which is not enforced.
even though I see the existential concerns with AI, I was at the table with a group of ISPs for the same governance conversations about the internet in the mid 90s and probably still have an RSA encryption munitions t-shirt in a box somewhere.

what got bypassed was telco and ITU regulation, and the internet demolished the "converged" telco oligopoly system on content and publishing pretty naturally and in a fairly controlled way. given the impact of social media, could similar governance as is being advocated here have enabled the growth and whole new economies the way the platforms have? I don't see it.

the people who ostensibly require your consent to serve you are the absolute last people you want to give control of powerful economic tools to, as first, what would they need your consent for if they have the tools, and since they don't actually make anything, by definition these people exist to optimize for solving zero-sum, closed loop problems in their own decision power and for redistribution to their coalitions. they do not -and will not- use AI to create the things that grow. charitably, governors and managers can be the shit from which things grow, but we are not in a shit shortage.

imo, governance is the antithesis of desire. open source everything, build everything, release everything as fast as you can because these are the same old people who wanted cryptography backdoored, the internet content policed, speech punished, and now AI controlled. every generation must find a way to thrive in spite of them.
Energy usage of training or inference?

As a guard on capabilities, it would permit a rise in abilities with gains in both hardware and software efficiency. Is this desirable?
Honestly, I don't think you're wrong, and this is from a guy who is getting a PhD in formal methods.

Formal methods are super cool, and formal verification is even cool, but it can be really easy to think it's always perfect. It gives you such amazing guardrails most of the time that it can be easy to stop looking for when there aren't any.

For example, model checking is cool and useful, but sort of by definition it is exhaustive and as a result you end up having to restrict scope in a lot of cases (For example, redefining the INTEGERS set to {-1000...1000} in TLA+). This is almost always perfectly fine and can catch a lot of weird cases, but it's easy to forget that "nearly everything" is not the same thing as "everything".

Obviously I still think formal methods are worth it, but they're not a substitute for being careful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U9MI0u2VIE

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/10997/wer...

great scene.
I feel naming this is rather personal as we all think differently, and organize files mirroring our way of thinking. I find it odd to have an LLM do that. How often do you use it and how does it fit withing your workflow?
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Current Nikon cameras have no limit and can even receive continuous power from USB-C.
Product appears to be an ID Tent from Evi-Paq. It has inches on the front 'leg' and cms on the rear.

https://forensicssource.com/collections/evidence-markers/pro...
> You can be sure they won't be slowed down by regulation.

You should read up on existing regulations. The EU AI Act explicitly exempts national security, research and military uses for example.

Regulation isn't some all or nothing force that smothers everything. It's carefully crafted legislation (well, should be../) that is supposed to work to benefit the state and its citizens. Let's not give OpenAI a free for all to do anything because you think China is making Skynet drones.
Logic doesn’t explain human actions. And never will.
IIRC, the platform was built off development/evaluation boards that was primarily targeted towards the education market, anyway, where bells and whistles are a priority.

It looks like the platform here is a low-frills one from a company that isn't Altera, Xilinx, or Lattice. Good! I'm glad there's some competition.
See: http://literateprogramming.com/cweb_download.html
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Pharmaceutical companies invested and invest money in patient's groups, which are nonprofit lobbying groups whose jobs are to somehow make questioning a diagnosis, or any particular drug or surgery that has been proposed to treat it, something bordering on (often explicitly claimed) racism or genocide.

They supply the media with constant press releases, publicize industry-generated studies, and give politicians something uncontroversial to support in order to pretend like they're working. Nobody is lobbying against some weird type of cancer, or the drug that doesn't work that is being offered as a "hope."
"contains water" is very obviously insufficient for this to be anywhere close to true.
How statistically sound is the claims of ketamine depression treatment?
Scroll down to the lower images. They have both inch and centimeter measurements on other photos.

It's more likely that they take photos with both measurements.
not to be mistaken with 31337 ;-)
Some gun calibers are measured with inches, so maybe they have some imperial markers on hand to measure bullet casings?
Been a dev for over 30 years, never used any of this stuff. Projects fail to ship for many reasons, but its never this.
The photo with evidence marker 11 clearly shows both inches and centimeters.

There's no conspiracy here. They're just taking photos with both sets of measurements.
Hottel expressed both explicit bias against solar research and implicit bias against one of his charges, who was actually a much more natural advocate for the technology (
https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/journeys-innova...). He headed MIT's solar research efforts, for sure, but again, I find this strange, since so many of his decisions reflected an undue skepticism for someone in that position. What a coup for his apparent ambitions that his name is on so many of the institutions whose purposes he stunted from the most advantageous perch imaginable: "leading" them.

Ultimately, he was a true advocate for combustion-based heating (solar also being focused on that rather than electricity generation through mid-century), which lead to the national status quo of high levels of airborne pollutants both indoors and in the environment, as well as the ever-present threat of one's domicile or business detonating with little notice. But, you know, worth it since hydrocarbons are cheaper. /s I apologize for the snark, but the way people like this get the benefit of the doubt in retrospect is quite frustrating. They made the world we were born into worse, and they did it on purpose (or negligently), for specious reasons. Fixing their mistakes means acknowledging that they sucked.
I got the Kobo colour libra. I'm really enjoying it. I had a kindle and I really hated on it. It felt so laggy, I never got used to the touch vs buttons.

I've got a big library of kindle books but I mostly read new books so it wasn't a big deal to switch. I mean, I've still got the kindle if I ever want to re-read something, I gave the device to one of my kids. Plus using something else opens up buying from many different places rather than JUST amazon.

The Kobo feels faster and smoother. The buttons are nice. The interface is nice. I don't rate the colour display that highly, but it's a nice gimmick and I don't read stuff with lots of graphics anyway.
It's like reverse audio-book, but how do you tackle issues related to video content, as the visual medium contains more information dimension than just sound.
It would be super cool to see it generate the missing definitions and declarations to make it comparable in a regular C compiler. It would help a lot when reconstructing missing header files, and similar lost source data.
I completely forgot this was a thing, but its existence was etched in my brain. I wasn't aware that anybody read those files. The name would fly by when extracting a zip, but that's it.
It would be better if you could just read doxygen docs or something like this instead of having to reverse-engineer someone's else code. Because the code is just an example of using functions and doesn't give their complete description.

If you write something like Linux kernel, write doc comments.
Holy shit that has to be the least convincing argument I have ever read. Did you even read it?
If those merit slots are limited (just due to the facility and staff limits they would need to be), then you will run into the same scenario. It will become competitive without a strict standard required. We see this with the specialty public schools at the primary and secondary levels already.
Sending all your personal files to an external provider seems like a recipe for a privacy disaster. Luckily, they provide an option to use your local Llama instance.
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There is in fact a line between using discretion and critical thinking and falling prey to paranoid superstition. This is important because there are people who prey specifically on people who are vulnurable to conspiratorial thinking and they are very good at it.

For about half the population of the US right now if the Daily Wire or like Joe Rogan came out and said that refrigerators are a deep state conspiracy that has been transing the kids, that would be it. No more refrigerators. There would be piles of refrigerators miles high at landfills across the country and having cold drinks would be a sure sign youre a corrupted liberal.
Every even mildly successful B2B sales org works like this, in my experience.
Fair enough. But then Midler v Ford doesn't support your argument. Do you have a case that does?
Why is the sealed mapping unmapped on exec*()? What about spawn and fork?

Are there libraries for handling this yet?

> IIRC, with CPython the NX bit doesn't work when any imported C extension has nested functions / trampolines

How should CPython support the mseal() syscall?
How crimeflare worked: https://www.marketingscoop.com/tech/piercing-the-cloudflare-...
SB-1047 regulates all LLM's after training a suboptimal 1e26 FLOP model
No. I only accept medical advice from pharmaceutical industry press releases.
You’ll be censored but are nevertheless absolutely correct. I suspect many of those downvoting you have never had a 3 year old.

I have several children, and great relationships with all of them. A couple are definitely smarter than me, and I’m on roughly equal footing with the others. That said, 3 year old children are simply not capable of the complex thought and emotions described here.
> sure, there's ways to hack them to do some subset of those things, but that takes a lot of setup time

The things I mentioned (local symbol auto-complete, reference-chasing, global go-to-symbol) are things that modern code editors do by default for any programming language they can syntax-highlight. (And also, unlike with an IDE, they don't require any understanding of a particular "project" format to do so. You can git-clone any random repo, throw it at them, and they'll see a directory tree of source files and blindly index everything in it.)

> ask the IDE to do a refactor of some code, remove unused dependencies,

Honestly, I think I just... haven't ever felt the need to do these things in Java?

When I'm fixing bugs, I'm usually just rewriting one line that calls something to call something else instead. Or adding a check for an edge-case. Or wrapping a blocking call in a semaphore or worker pool. Or making something more idiot-proof by replacing a primitive `int numSeconds` with a Duration. 99% of my "coding" time for a Java problem is actually spent investigating whatever heisenbug brought the problem to me (usually after already passing through a coworker's IDE's debugger, to no avail.) The actual solution I arrive at after such investigation, is usually trivial.

Which is to say, I write Java code, but I never really need to maintain any. I'm not on the team that owns the codebase; I'm just a pinch-hitter there to quickly fix customer-facing DevOps issues discovered in prod.

And, at least for that role — which might admittedly be an unusual one for a Java project — I don't think an IDE would help me get problems solved any faster than I already solve them.
Thanks for the heads up.

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You have just described the lives of most humans for all of recorded history. Seriously -- not being sarcastic. Subsistence agriculture does not provide a secure life, and (more recently) neither does working 14-hour days in a factory. And a lot of the surplus wealth produced by that labor went to.... wars and luxury for the wealthy.

None of this is new.
Yes that would also work.

IMO "kWh per hour" is clearer, because when dealing with power generation those are the units you deal with when you are connected to the grid.

When people talk about their solar generation, they say "I generated X kWh today", not "today my system averaged Y kW over Z hours" and leave the math to the listener. kWh per unit time is common when talking about home energy generation.
So a double boiler?
The thing is, in the scenario you described, I am pretty sure the person getting no job offers would trade places with the person getting offers, but the reverse is obviously not true.
>That doesn't really make sense, does it? These issues have been going on for centuries; how does that explain a rising trend?

The noise of negativity is both exaggerated and amplified while the sights of positivity are both downplayed and silenced by media, both mainstream/commercial and social media.

There's a reason terms like "doomscrolling" came to be. Reducing exposure to the media can go a long way to improving mental health if someone is overexposed.
I'm curious about the limitation? Wouldn't a team of AI agents that is well designed complete such tasks? I assume the challenge would be in coordination and autonomy?
CSS is becoming too complex. The syntax looks like it wants to be output by some compiler instead of being crafted by hand. Personally I also don't have any pleasure anymore writing CSS these days.

Sass and BEM methodology works fantastically well. Naming things isn't that hard, but Tailwind/utility approach is also extremely useful.

Those new features, besides container queries is just gibberish. Layer? WTF? The cascade is bad enough as it is, most devs can't even deal with the cascade it's why Tailwind become so popular. And we should dive even deeper into the cascade BS with layers and scoping and whatnpt? Again, this all looks like it was made to be output by some CSS compilers, not written by a developer.
Anything involving life or death decisions
Agree, something i noticed also, is that people who make PLs, like Guido van Rossum (Python), Rich Hickey (Clojure), Guy Steele (Common Lisp), Stroustrup (C++) and many others, they use natural language expertly.

They express their thoughts in a simple way yet accurate, they are not getting confused, they do not use a million "you know" and "like" hand waiving and getting lost in the weeds.

Stating that PLs are not absolutely the same as natural languages is true, but no association at all? Or very little association? Difficult to believe.
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There's a fairly simple explanation for this. We've seen in studies that experts aren't fundamentally any better at remembering things. We just get better at chunking more and more abstract groups of information together. We can never increase the around 7 pieces of information we can hold in short-term memory. But we can increase what and how much those 7 pieces represent.
Not everybody that is depressed is in a shitty life situation, quiet the opposite.

I have no idea how you come to that conclusion and devalue people, that have the medical need for medication.
Have you considered streaming such content?
I can think of additional spatial dimensions. If we were to perceive those that surely would feel like an explosion of consciousness?
Is that right? The C band is only 4 or 5 THz wide, so that's impressive packing. (I'm way out of date, I know there is QAM and whatever.)
I hope you are trolling and not serious.
oh that's awesome. I wanted to build that as well. tiny nit pick, left aligned is easier to read than justified, imo.
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Popper is GPL licensed, so Apple cannot use it.

(If you're going to say "but they could use it if they relicensed all of iOS as GPL": don't be daft.)
Can you confirm that said file is purely static data? Chunking a file like that is one thing. Handling one with cell references is a different animal.
The ToS doesn't say anything against gambling sites. Even if there was IP reputation damage, it's not appropriate to cut them off so immediately. Especially when they're a long-term paying customer.
Sure, we can ad hominem this all day. I suppose it's entirely possible the reason that in team after team over 20 years, the reason it's always a small number of engineers who get the most done, by a very wide margin, that the problem all along was me. This despite the fact that I consistently see the same gap in teams I don't manage -- where every project has a small handful of standout engineers responsible for most of the codebase, and then a whole bunch of people who inch along.

But what's your own experience been? Have your own teams been absolutely full of high-productivity developers, everyone contribute roughly the same amount?
This is awesome. Would prefer left aligned instead of justified but that's a nit-pick
I said 30% of the requests on the web use HTTP3. And now a day CORS and other mechanisms that are not cited in the articles.
For the double-boiling uninitiated (like me):

A double boiler uses steam from the hot water in the bottom pot to gently heat the contents in the top pot. This keeps delicate ingredients away from the intensity of direct heat.
Is tehre a transcription engine (?) that works on Javascript? I'd love to make a browser extension that allows me to transcript Whatsapp audios instead of having to listen to them.
What a simultaneously terrible and inspiring story- I wish Jake the best for whatever that is worth in such a terrible situation. If you guys didn't click it, I highly recommend his wife Bess's corresponding post to this one- "Forever is such a short, long time" it is one of the best essays I have ever read on love and relationships. There is an incredible amount of wisdom in what she wrote, that can only have come out of living through incredible hardship. It literally made me cry, and I am going to quote her in my wedding vows I am writing.
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