skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting! They say they went from a stack-based IR, which provided faster translation but slow execution time to a register-based one, which has slightly slower translations, but faster execution time. This in contrast with other runtimes which provide much slower translation times but very fast execution time via JIT.

I assume that for very short-lived programs, a stack based interpreter could be faster. And for long-lived programs, a JIT would be better.

This new IR seems to be targeting a sweet spot of short, but not super short lived programs. Also, it's a great alternative for environments where JIT is not possible.

I'm happy to see all these alternatives in the Wasm world! It's really cool. And thanks for sharing!
Right? The best you can do it test a sampling of fuse from a batch, to there failure point, which destroys the fuse.
Their previous answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40454640
by the way, the full text of the Nouméa Accord signed in 1998 after a previous insurection contain in its preamble the admission by the french state that New Caledonia/Kanaky is a colonized territory:
https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000000555817/

The french state admitted it, the United Nations recognized it. Only the current french government is not recognizing it because it is gradually morphing towards extreme right and facism.
It actually felt that way...
I must be in the minority here, but I don't think most people exercise any reason. I'd even venture that the vast majority of people haven't reasoned recently at all. In my mind, reasoning is an ability... a willful act to engage in thinking through an abstract problem. Most people don't do this and just use rationalization and learned behavior, which our brains are good at.
> Sodium ion batteries are doing just fine.

Again, this discussion is about the as-is situation. If and when Na-ion enters mass production on a comparable scale, I will happily discuss it.

> Negative energy prices at peak generation times are increasingly a thing.

That does not indicate that we over-produce to a degree that would make H2 as a storage vector viable. Plus, alot of over-capacity has more to do with lagging infrastructure (e.g. Germany has enormeous problems getting SOlar power to where it is needed) than it has with actual net-overproduction.

> f you’re willing to increase the cost of energy

Again: Economic concerns lose lose long term to environmental and physical ones.
The availability of a lexicon triggers the use of SVO word order (2015)
MacOS on touchscreen is not that great (think graphics tablet). So you’ll still have to bring a keyboard and a mouse/trackpad everywhere.

I’d rather see they make it more convenient to run your own software. It’s either 99 usd a year or 7 days installation.
> But on second thought, I think there might be an actual scenario to worry about: Activists hijacking the system to show political messages.

Oh, the horror
NumPy 2.0 Migration Guide
The world premiere of the new Porsche 911 [video]
"Fasten your seatbelt" doesn't usually mean "twirl it wildly above your head".
Parliamentarians urge next UK govt to consider ban on smartphones for under-16s
You most definitely don't need a domain name and I have never been "issued" and IP in my life. It's assigned by my ISP for the duration indicated by DHCP.
Put it this way: if over-supply were a problem, what would happen?
> You also said

> > NAT is here to stay

It's not generally good form to cherry-pick things I said from other threads and put them out of context. "NAT is here to stay" can for the purposes of this discussion mean "Thinking about global vs local addresses is here to stay", even if it's not NAT per se that is happening (ie. if you're using a ULA + global unicast, like I do.)

> you're almost certainly confused

I'm not confused. I do split horizon DNS. I serve WAN and LAN clients (not currently from the same DNS server, although that's what I'd prefer to do. The same hostnames are currently configured in different DNS systems depending on who's asking, hence "split horizon".)

To be clear, here's my setup. It's not unique or interesting compared to any other "home lab" setup:

- I have multiple machines that I want to be able to access by DNS name externally.

- I also want to be able to use those same DNS names for local configuration, to keep things sane.

To do this, I have two options:

1) Use the publicly-routable global unicast addresses in my DNS, and make a system to keep them updated in a reprefix

2) Use a ULA prefix for local DNS, and the global unicast equivalent addresses for public DNS, and make a system to update only the public DNS when I get reprefixed

I chose option (2) because I want to mitigate the damage that happens when my ISP reprefixes me. (It's happened 6 times over the past year, it's not uncommon.)

When I get reprefixed, any local traffic that's using DNS to lookup the address keeps working as usual, because the ULA address doesn't change. I have to worry about reconfiguring public DNS, but that's the lesser of two evils IMO:

Because if I picked option (1), I'd have to reconfigure public DNS and my local traffic would all be disrupted while the reprefix happened: My hosts would all be trying to communicate with one another via their old prefixes, and failing until DNS reconfigures.

And this is all not to mention that I have to do the exact same reconfiguration dance with my firewall config: When I get reprefixed, my pf.conf is now referencing invalid IP's. I disable-by-default so it's not a security issue, but it's something that I had to solve with automation (in my case, by templatizing my pf.conf and writing dhcpcd hooks that reconfigure it when the prefix changes. It wasn't trivial.)

Now, to get back to my original argument: IPv6's simplicity benefits "erode" when you consider that worrying about internal vs external addresses is still something you have to deal with in the real world, at least in residential deployments where you don't own your own prefix. Granted: These issues are inherent to any system where your ISP is dynamically assigning you IP's, but it's important to understand: Yes you can have real endpoints for all of your hosts simultaneously without dealing with NAT, but you still have complexity to deal with to make this work, due to it being the real world.
Question: is C gaining in popularity? If so, why exactly? Are their good reasons to be using C in product development rather than more modern languages?
> But this isn't the case.. 5-6% of the population have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscalculia, but can be otherwise normal.

This nitpicking is a red herring.

The issue that separates "AGI" from current AI systems is the lack of generality. (Humour me.)

In particular, the lack of reasoning capability. And what the pessimists argue here is that there is no road to get there for current systems. Transformers are approximation machines, and are generalized for that specific task. But that's also where it stops, they can't do things that aren't such pattern-approximation.

Optimizing a transformer for arithmetic isn't a step towards AGI, because it is not generalizing. You'd need to do this for every conceivable task and subtask. This is the exact reason why imperative-programmed AI architectures were discarded.

Put bluntly, this approach will never get you a transformer that won't shit itself when asked to do novel reasoning tasks, such as novel mathematics. (Which I will remind the reader, anything but the basic programming work counts as)

And critically, the fundamental architecture of these transformer systems doesn't allow the combination of them into other AI systems to acquire generalized capabilities. There's no way to make an LLM hook into a computer-algebra-system, you can only feed 'finished' output of one system into another.
Either you mispasted the link or HN's software just followed redirects and/or resolved canonical links from the HTML which changes the URL. Happens occasionaly.
This is really cool!

I have something similar just for checking out PRs in a single bash function, powered by gh and fzf:

function ghpr() {
gh pr list --limit 100 --json number,title,updatedAt,author --template \
'{{range .}}{{tablerow .number .title .author.name (timeago .updatedAt)}}{{end}}' |
fzf --height 25% --reverse |
cut -f1 -d ' ' |
xargs gh pr checkout
}

Screenshot: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/console/assets/3612203/2805...
While birds are technically a kind of dinosaur, lizards are not.
No one seems to realize that Lets Encrypt is a single point of failure now. You compromise them and you compromise a huge percentage of traffic on the web.

Their root CA can't really be revoked either unless you want to turn off most of the internet. Not that big CAs would ever suggest anything like that in the name of "security"
If you're in the EU that should be possible, although the software is still limited to using Apple's public approved APIs since Apple still has a security notarization process software can be installed from third-party sources.
You can do this today, and this would only work on a roof in that context.
Yes, we need glass that is transparent to wind.
The case against the concept of biodiversity (2021)
It's hard to live without trust for me. But knowing so many stories about...
The article talks about allowing more light into greenhouses, but the material also cools a room. One of the biggest reasons for greenhouses is to trap warmth for plants during cold periods. This might be fine for actively heated greenhouses, but I doubt it's the right choice for passive systems.
I've seen multiple NFL games be stopped in the middle because of one person flying a drone. They take this stuff extremely seriously - I wouldn't be surprised if the entire concert was put on hold until the drone was stopped. The people who have done this have served jail time and been hit with 6 figure fines.
The correct term is "non-avian dinosaur" for the ones that died en masse, but making that point in the first place is already pretty pedantic, doing it with snark is just being annoying for the sake of being annoying.
Developer Salaries in ML/DS Linked More to Location Than Skill
>alcohol, tobacco, junk food, weapons, motorcycles, fireworks, etc.

All of these, except junk food, are banned in some place or another by power-tripping governments. Although they are working on the junk food part. Is the implication to get phones banned altogether?

>Children should likely be more protected against the harms of phones until they have developed more to have a greater ability to use them safely.

It's funny that nobody seems to be able to point out what this unsafe thing is that they're being protected from. All you get are social science studies during the replication crisis in one of the sloppiest sciences we have and it's protected by moralizing. I don't see anything concrete in the harm that people are talking about that rivals things like traffic accidents (kids play outside more = more victims of traffic), general injuries (swimming, falls etc) etc.

This all just sounds like the old "don't sit too close to the TV, it will ruin your eyes" or "d&d is satanic" that we were scared with as kids.
They absolutely should bear responsibility for authoritatively telling people wrong and unsafe cooking temperatures for meats or spreading lies about people on their results page, in their own voice. "It's just a random text generator!" isn't a protection against, say, gross libel.

They pass the threshold of criminal negligence when they keep up a system that they know will actively mislead countless people in subtly dangerous ways. The problem being hard or the tech being fundamentally unsound doesn't wave away their culpability - if anything it destroys any reason why they should be given some leeway.
Their home page says it is:

> Running on the battle-tested Erlang virtual machine that powers planet-scale systems such as WhatsApp and Ericsson, Gleam is ready for workloads of any size.

> Thanks to a multi-core actor based concurrency system that can run millions of concurrent tasks, fast immutable data structures, and a concurrent garbage collector that never stops the world, your service can scale and stay lightning fast with ease.

It's accompanied by a code example with 200,000 async tasks being spawned.
An AI-controlled robot isn’t going to be intubating, placing 14 gauge lines, or doing blocks anytime soon. And even for algorithmic-type things, the reason you have anesthesiologists around is for all those times when the standard algorithms stop working or are inappropriate to begin with.

Anesthesia is probably one of the last specialties that would be replaced by robots and AI.
Answers from Planet Tux: Ingo Molnar Responds (2000)
Amazon Returns Have Gone to Hell
> Sounds like IPv7, from year 1993: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1475

The author(s) of IPv7 (TP/IX) 'abandoned' / altered it to CATNIP:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1707

This was put up for consideration for IPng, and compared with TUBA and SIPP:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1752

The general idea of SIPP(-16) was chosen (and tweaked) to be IPng, now called IPv6.

The criteria needed for IPng candidates were:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1726
It may be more transparent than glass, but it's sitting on top of the glass, so it's not letting in more light. It only matters if it's better than other kinds of coatings you can get for windows now.
ML/DS is Machine Learning/Data Science
Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?
basically what would your ideal job be, in an ideal world? would you contribute towards making society more rational, healthy, and well-coordinated? or do you have better ideas? sorry if this is a silly question just a random thought.
Yeah, but this massively expands on what data becomes vulnerable.
It's not enough information no matter who it is. If it's someone with enough political, social, or institutional capital you might overlook the annoyance but it still only tells you when. Doesnt say the what the when or the who, all of which have consequences for what I need to do to be prepared.
No but you may sell that location data to send them Fast Food eDream on their Tesla AI VR Crypto Quantum Unit
<model-viewer>: Easily display interactive 3D models on the web and in AR
Note that there are only 2 such layers. "60" refers to the Iron-60 isotope.
Variant records have existed long before (Algol 68 had them!) that that one crab-related language was a thing.
>If you had the state / city charge rent to owners

Also known as sufficient property tax.
At first I thought that the introduction was hyperbole, but the write-up does actually more or less deliver on it. Written in plain English that anyone can grok, it's a good summary of what quantum is, what it isn't, and why you should care. Definitely recommend reading if, like me, you're not too familiar with the field.
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Doco – builds documentation sites from Markdown documents and folders
> Also, the premise here is that you're increasing supply. The monopoly landlord would have to outbid everybody else for the new supply or they'd lose their monopoly, and have to pay the monopoly price or else the new units would be cheaper than their existing ones. But then the construction companies would be receiving the monopoly price and become flush with cash to build even more housing until the monopoly landlord ran out of money.

All of which presumes the risk here is all on the monopoly landlord, when this isn't the case. Even disregarding zoning, construction companies have to compete for bidders, and the monopoly landlord may not have to compete with bidders. Additionally, if insufficient housing is really a problem because more people and businesses are moving into the neighborhood, then the monopoly landlord isn't likely to have problems running out of money. If that isn't the case, and there is sufficient housing (or renters are struggling to afford rent), then they have market advantage over new entrants to the market in the appropriate pricing of bids. This increases risk and pressures margins for new entrants, limiting their ability to compete, which puts risk onto construction companies in bids. In other words: it is quite possible the new entrants or construction companies fold before the monopoly landlord does.

Again, it's all iffy, but, fact is, every new supply constructed comes with a cost, and it falls on someone, even if cost/unit goes down. The assumption that that cost won't fall on renters, isn't a certainty, nor is the assumption that renters will be the ones to benefit from a decreased cost/unit.
Original article : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48150-2
Its called Windows. But if you bought it from Microsoft , you will got creepers peaking you along with advertisements.
And it crashes a lot.
I used the icq web interface for a few years. It was 'ok' it was missing a lot of features but worked in a pinch.
Depends if property tax was appropriately high to encourage productive use of the land (rather than letting it sit empty).
Ok. Weird that there is such a lot of talk about the 30yr mortgages if no one has them.

I'd also be completely unable to afford the deposit for the home I own now (£500k loans at 80% LTV or so). The key was of course buying a small flat, selling that, buying a larger flat with the profit from the first as deposit on the next, selling that. The "income" in terms of property value increase from these month over month for 20 years was almost constantly higher than what I made working each month. If I didn't have the past trades behind me, I'd be renting to my grave. There is zero chance I'd even begin saving for a £100k deposit. It would be 100% of my fun/vacation money for ten years at least.
The author is Rand Fishkin, who's not a journalist. He's the founder of SparkToro and Moz, both companies that provide tooling and analytics for SEO.

I haven't looked deeply into Fishkin's companies, but I wouldn't expect either to be on the user's side when it comes to privacy. Both companies seem to monetize clickstream data and personal information from users who probably didn't give informed consent.

If the source was trying to get this information to a responsible journalist who cares about privacy, I have no idea why they'd approach a company (not even a news organization) who seems to fund the erosion of user privacy.
It's where I get all my PD movies, among Jamendo's dump for music albums.

This is really bad for CC media.
because it wouldn't let their power level reach 9000
> Since they are projecting infrared with moveable projector they can sweep effects around the stadium, and cover the projector with cut outs to make things like hearts.

That is wild! I had assumed this was controlled by some sort of wireless communications signal.
An analysis of the TUX web server (2000): https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/1079...

Ask Ingo Molnar About TUX (2000): https://news.slashdot.org/story/00/07/06/1850219/ask-ingo-mo...
Was confused by this as well.
Professional Counter Strike Players fail to notice eachother for almost a minute
That sample seems quite a bit more opaque than glass
I don't understand why the article keeps saying it's more transparent than glass if it's mounted to glass. That's like wearing spandex under your parka to stay cool. I suspect there's something more coherent in the paper. Cool material though.
I think two-word contranyms are more concrete, like "fight together".

Oversight is a less ambiguous example of a single-word contranym.
Artificial CEO and Corporate Leadership
Yup. My family is heading to Vienna for the same reason this summer. I wonder what fraction of attendees will be US residents?
>People make the same specious arguments about gpu production during mining booms etc. Surely producing more gpus will lower the price, or reduce the profit per gpu at least? Are you saying prices don’t fall with increased supply!?!? that’s a counterintuitive statement, Mr Bear!

That is not the argument. In your example, demand is increasing more than supply, so obviously prices would not fall.

Supply has to increase at a rate greater than demand (including higher property taxes to incentivize sellers to increase supply of properties for sale).
"homie" here.

I do DNS such that the same hostname, which I control, resolves to the ULA address if asking locally, but the public address if asking from an external machine. But it's not literally the same server, I use DNSimple for my public DNS and unbound on my local DNS. You can split hairs about whether split horizon means "the same DNS server serving both views" or not, but that's a needlessly pedantic snipe. But to cut off this argument: Sure, you're right. You score one internet point, I used the word "split horizon" incorrectly. You're very smart.
“Hyperdecanted” with blender, right?
Let's revisit the original post, which wrote something critical of a $3 million government contract. Should that be legally perilous? Should be people be scared to express opinions online about how their governments award 7-figure contracts, out of fear of the contract recipients hiring law firms and suing them?
AI Boom Occurring Across Every Scientific Field
there's also wizardshot.com, which is free
Emulating the machines you list in an FPGA only really makes sense if you put the microcode in block RAM, until recently the devices at prices most people could afford didn't have enough block RAM to do this.

In the meantime, most input devices have moved to USB which is a lot harder to interface, someone could write a USB stack in Lisp for MIT/LMI machines or for the Xerox systems but it is a big task. The Tang Nano architecture of using a separate conventional CPU for IO seems like cheating to me though I suppose it does match how Symbolics machines worked.
It diffuses the light so the background gets blurry, but the light is more efficiently transmitted
> Dinosaurs only died out around 100 mya.

Isn't 66 mya the generally accepted value?
Multi startup CTO/CPO (including one yc, and one growth stage high growth). So AI has been interesting for me across the three businesses I am working on. For two of them, it has enabled us to do things which were not possible at high fidelity before (eg. unstructured data entry). For the third growth stage place, it is allowing us to increase the net margin as we scale by reducing the number of operators we need to hire.

I see the biggest impact in more traditional startups which involve a lot of manual labour. For us, LLMs are letting us scale much faster than we could before.

For the dev teams I manage, LLMs provide a lot of shortcuts whereas before we spent extensive time hand tuning parsers and simple automations.
Statistical MT for Suggesting Variable Names for Decompiled Code
This is completely irrelevant. McDermot's point was that scientifically-plausible definitions of reasoning were not actually being used in practice by AI researchers when they made claims about their systems. That is just as true today.
From the article:

"Our relative lack of skill at investigation becomes clear when we look at the accuracy rate of StackOverflow answers. For the amount of sass you see on that platform, you’d expect the programmers to at least be right. Except they aren’t. We have whole jokes about this too. Again, this is what was used to train the LLMs. Models trained on human data can’t outperform the base error rate in that data."

I think this is an important metric to consider. These LLMs are being trained on data sets with bad results and bad code with no real way to tell the difference. Only someone experienced in this field can read a SO article and appreciate the quality of the responses. An LLM is just summarizing bad information.
I regularly visualize what monumental undertaking it must have been to run a country with a paper administration. Today we have applications a million times more complex running on low end boxes. Small countries don't even compare to the big tech user database. It seems what little arguments the abdication had going for it self require a context before 1990.