skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. And I'm thinking I want to see a permanent lunar base but also, "Where does it end?"

Humans walked on the Moon in my lifetime. I should be contented with that.
Glad to see Google employee still has 20% of their time to do side projects!
Python UI is especially interesting for ML/LLM folks who can build demos without changing tech stack.

I appreciate OP's ideas about how this project is compared to Streamlit?
the textbook is better, I think that might mention it but I don't recall
state tracking...
It's the new billionaire yacht club.
This would probably fix Linux emulation for some games is my understanding, weirdly enough, all the games I hear have DRM / anticheat issues on Linux are the games I avoid, usually they are the more "popular" games that don't interest me.
> Hopefully we can all agree that LALR parsers are terrible?

Yes, I think most of the bad reputation LR(1) gets is from stuff that is actually LALR(1) with its nonsense reduce-reduce conflicts.

Another great thing is that LR(1) parser generators are being written now that instead of just spitting out a 'oops there was a conflict on these two things in this state', they can actually give you back two conflicting prefixes giving you much more insight in what causes the defect in your grammar and how to fix it.
I actually don't know; I just saw that they were available, I didn't try them.

I assume it would be horrible, though. :-)
> This describes almost all human activity outside agriculture. Shelter, medicine, education, transportation—none of this is biologically necessary by some measure.

Of all things, why would agriculture be the one exception from "leisure"? On the other hand why would shelter be considered anything but a biological imperative?

Shelter is essential for survival. Agriculture is the kind of advanced organized activity developed much later than foraging or hunting.
Planes and helicopters burn, though.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/freak...

Here's an attempt to develop a jet fuel that wouldn't burn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y33N0raKZBo
Yeah, I have had the exact same argument, with that same grandmother; she said NY and California are horrible for business and that's why "no one is opening up businesses there". When I pointed out that that's just not true, California and NYC actually have a lot of very successful and profitable businesses, the response was that "tech" and "finance" don't count, for undefined reasons.

> My point is that they also didn't really directly benefit much from tech, or international trade, or global finance. So they really didn't have a big stake in being right or wrong.

I mean, they have some stake though; presumably most of them have a 401k or some equivalent if they have government jobs, which probably invests in a diversified S&P500 fund or something similar, and most of the biggest businesses in those are tech companies. They should care a little about those business; their retirements probably depend on them.
A War on the Nile Pushes Sudan Toward the Abyss
The critical understanding doesnt predict that LLMs cannot solve problems. It predicts how they will solve them. There is no information, a priori, what the LLM has been trained on. You have to prompt, then see the answer. Once the answer arrives, the critical understanding provides a route to repairing the answer when not accurate or useful.

LLMs do not reason. They appear to reason by repeating the structure of reasoning in their training data. This is indistinguishable in many cases.
Window and buffer size is a problem on high latency links.
This article is nearly 10 years old. Is this still true?
Also the only reason the prices of “natural” diamonds are high is because of intentionally constricted supply
You can customize the UI quite extensively using our Style API https://google.github.io/mesop/components/style/

If you like tailwind, I think you will like this as it's essentially like writing inline styles, but with a Pythonic, strongly-typed API.
GenAI helps folks in rural communities make sense of their health
> The federal government picks up a lot of the slack that an independent Texas would have to do themselves...

Federal money doesn't grow on a tree in D.C.--it comes from taxpayers in the several states! So while it's true that the Federal government would stop paying for these things, it's also true that Texans would stop paying Federal taxes. With this in mind, it's clear that Texas could easily afford to assume any and all federal obligations by replacing federal taxes with their own equivalent taxes.

I've heard it said that Texas is a net recipient of Federal dollars, but only by 1-2%. Given that Texans will likely want a signaficantly smaller government, this can easily be covered via spending cuts.

> I haven't really seen any compelling evidence that Texas being part of the USA has held them back.

Texans are subject to federal law, which is regularly dicated to us by people from thousands of miles away, with whom we have little in common. If that's not being 'held back', what is?
An emission-state-switching radio transient with a 54-minute period
They didn’t really care about it before the Mac App Store either.

The OS and its libraries just aren’t designed for high performance gaming the way MS has put time into that on Windows.

They have Metal, which is supposed to be nice. But that’s their Direct3D. Where is all the other DirectX equivalent?

From what I’ve heard anecdotally that seems to be a big part of the problem. It’s not just that they don’t have Vulcan (which I think is a red herring). Or the GPUs were abysmal (they were on most models before Apple Silicon).

There’s no whole-picture. Just pieces.
Certainly feels like it.
Could this also be interpreted as non-Temu customers are subsidizing the free/cheap shipping of Temu customers?
Have you tried suno? It is quite good at least for some genres
If the default settings of a system are to make it public, then yes it is the "stupid customers'" fault for not clicking the check box to make it private.

Snowflake can't take the blame just because you went and dreamed up a scenario where customer support tells users to make their data public, then got mad at them for your imagination.
> practical reason that requires sending people to the moon still?

The big one that robots can’t do is studying human biology in space.

How do we fare long term on a foreign body? What does trauma medicine look like? How do we accommodate the diseases and disabilities that frequent our non-astronaut grade population? Is gestation, birth and development possible in low gravity? Et cetera.

Then Moon provides the easiest place to do this at scale by virtu of being the closest place to Earth with in situ resources.
In recent times, technology has proven to be more sophisticated and just like any other currency that can be stolen or lost, crypto and other digital assets has proven to be more difficult to recover but not impossible, and just like searching for any other monetary currency, you need a trustworthy and honest agency or personnel who can track and recover the value lost or stolen, in my case I hired easyreclaim0 gmail. com, they followed the blockchain and was able to recover over 85% of my stolen funds within a couple of weeks. The fees for the services I received was fair and communication was excellent.
Failure of 1 chute was designed for, though yes, it wasn't a great look.

> It poses substantial safety concerns in the case of an accident where you need to abort the flight

SRBs are in general very safe, which is why they're still used for human rated rockets.
No. Profile first. Make sure you've tried tweaking params like batch sizes.
I’m sure this will devastate the stock price and people’s pereception that general AI is here and amazing and going to take our jobs and and and.

But I am a hacker news peep. I’ll read this and lecture my manager in the next meeting about the shortcomings only to be dismissed and watch money funnel into this monolithic autistic secretary.
>Detection and mapping is very good today

No. We can't detect asteroids coming from the direction of Sun. Just ask people of Chelyabinsk, Russia. [0]

[0] https://www.livescience.com/space/asteroids/the-sun-is-blind...
This type of self affirmation has a quality of denial.

Also the above description is reductive to the point of "Cars can't get you anywhere because they aren't horses."
Source?

I get Starship 34,000,000 kg + 12,000,000 kg vs
747 ~200,000 liters ≅ 150,000 kg, or about 1/300 th of what Starship holds.
At which point your only options is (unless you're in the) FAANG or making your own business if you're in tech (or relatable ish businesses). Or moving to a low cost of living state / city.

I feel like the ceiling for me is awful, since in Florida the cost of everything is going up, but companies aren't willing to pay competitive salary, despite boasting about it, they all seem to pay standard / average pay.
I've run into this. I work at a place that claims they pay top market rate. I've poked around other options and it seems like they're right about that!

Back in 2014 when this article was posted, it was probably more true. Lots of money frothing around and salaries were growing and growing faster than employers were willing to keep up with for existing employees (although even then, I had a job that gave me a substantial raise just to keep up with the market.)
Our copyright model isn't sufficient yet. Is putting a work through a training/model sufficient to clear the transformative use bar? That doesn't make you safe from Trademarks. If the model can produce outputs on the other side that aren't sufficiently transformative then that single instance is a copyright violation.

Honestly, instead of trying to cleanup the output, it's much safer to create a licensed input corpus. People haven't because it's expensive and time consuming. Every time I engage with an AI vendor, my first question is do you indemnify from copyright violations of your output. I was shocked that Google Gemini/Bard only added that this year.
> While other genocides use information technology for communication and propaganda, this one is unique in that information technology is used throughout, including in target selection and killings.

No, its not. Heck, the Holocaust used information technology for target selection.

> The Rohingya Genocide does not e.g. use drones

The genocides in the former Yugoslavia used most of the weapons of then-modern warfare, which may not have included drones but certainly involved plenty of weapons systems that incorporate "information technology" in doing the killings.
This comment is an invitation to an uninformative comparison. Apollo was just barely able to take a crew to the moon and back, with many expendable stages, using 5% of US GDP to do it. Almost all the value in Apollo is indirect value in the form of technologies developed for Apollo.

Why replicate that? Indeed we should ask: Is there a goal to value, other than the obvious "the Chinese would get there first if we don't?"

A lunar "base" would just be a vastly more expensive ISS. We will discover that lunar regolith is a bigger nuisance than floating boogers in the ISS.
This is excellent. Like the Dyson sphere, predicting signals for technologies that we can imagine but not yet construct seems like a great way to guide our search for other life.

Now we need a team of smart folks to identify tearing or other processing anomalies in universe-scale simulations.
I think the biggest problem with this approach is it effectively pins you to a encryption key and algorithm (unless you embed some information in the key that lets you version the key, gotta think of that upfront).

Imagine, for example, that you picked DES and "kangaroo" as the secret several years back. You are now pinned to an algorithm and key with known security problems and a weak key.
The bare args are for the path(s) to search.

zfind -w 'size>20k and name="foo"'

I could consider having the first arg reserved for -w

zfind 'size>20k and name="foo"'

but I much prefer the quotes and being allowed to write > instead of gt.
This concept is timeless. Numbers might vary though..
Boeing are a morally rich company for the peace and hope their products bring to the children of Gaza.
> I would also like to point out that CUDA and rocM are also considerably easier to write than the Vulkan equivalents

I agree that Vulkan has more boilerplate, but I think that's because Vulkan is an open standard and makes fewer assumptions which means the API has more ceremony. For example Vulkan might be implemented for custom embedded hardware; its design helps give the manufacturer more leeway. CUDA and ROCm were designed by Nvidia and AMD for their own hardware and so they can bake in low-level assumptions which means a more streamlined API.
The very name NT initially was a testament to that, as it originally referred to the Intel i860 (codename N10).
Germany pioneered a lot of modern propaganda techniques in WWII:

The first television broadcast on earth was of Hitler, and his chief propagandist, Goebbles, continues to have significant influence on modern propagandists. For instance, Biden's publicly compared the tactics Trump used in the 2020 "Big Lie" campaign to those of Goebbles. Of course, there was also the Hitler Youth, which was a pretty successful social engineering campaign.

On the computer side of things: IBM mainframes were famously an enabling technology for the holocaust and german war machine.
Unfortunately there is something worse - mankind. They never fail to find ways to grift and exploit and abuse.

Surely the biggest financial institutions in the country are opening a low-regulation exchange for the betterment of the public, right?
Framing people as “false info traffickers” sort of reveals to me that these researchers sort of do believe only one viewpoint should be allowed? They talk like military censors do during wartime, or political commissars.
> Saturn V was ridiculously expensive [1] and incomparably unsafe.

Von Braun was asked if the Saturn V was safe to launch. He asked six of his engineering reports, each replied nein. Von Braun replied that the Saturn V had six nines of reliability.
>> What's madness is the state allowing property owners to leave vacant, dilapidated buildings to blight the neighborhood. Owners should be required to maintain their structures and keep them occupied, or forfeit the property.

> The government should tell property owners that they are required to keep their property occupied otherwise the government should seize their property? This is an extremist view.

It is not an extremist view. It's a public policy failure for land to sit vacant like that. Squatters rights can be a solution to that (e.g. in the US, squatters can actually get title to the land in cases of long-term abandonment).

> Who defines what “maintained” means? Beyond safety concerns about the structure (and even then, they shouldn’t be able to tell me anything as long as I post a danger unsafe structure keep out sign and lock the doors), why would the government have any right to tell me what to do with my building?

This is actually the extremist view, private property rights do not trump all other considerations.

For a very clear example: if you're surrounded by starving people, and you own a warehouse full of food that you plan to let rot because you can't be bothered, the government absolutely does have the right to tell you what to do with that food.
Don’t plagiarize.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/06/mo...
They were the (one of the) first ones to usb-c on laptops. I don’t think they were ever planning to do usb-c on the iPhone, they had no reason to be this late.
Seems like an advertisement for this blog platform without offering anything new.
Thanks for the question! Streamlit is definitely more mature and I think it's a great tool for many use cases.

Where I think Mesop shines is that you get a lot of flexibility, just by writing your UI in Python. For example, Mesop has an out-of-the-box [chat component](https://google.github.io/mesop/demo/), but if you need to customize it, you can actually just copy the [chat.py file](https://github.com/google/mesop/blob/main/mesop/labs/chat.py) and customize it however you want.

In comparison, Streamlit is great to get started with, but once you're trying to do some complex customizations, you'll often need to write your own React/TypeScript component.

I think the other thing is that Mesop has a [different philosophy for building UIs](https://google.github.io/mesop/blog/2024/05/13/why-mesop/) (e.g. based on functions) which results in a distinctly different developer experience. This is, of course, subjective, but I think the Mesop approach scales well as your app grows (e.g. thousands of lines), which even internal tools and demos oftentimes do.
Hello Micron GDDR7
> Humans walked on the Moon in my lifetime. I should be contented with that.

I'm apparently younger than you, and humans have not walked on the moon in my lifetime. I'm discontented by that.
I assume it will always be true outside of employees who are exceptionally VIP or employees selling to union/government roles that are compensated strictly according to length of tenure.

The employer gets labor at a lower price, and the employee gets lower volatility.

If you want the best price, you have to do the work to keep buying and you have to do the work to keep selling, only way any market can work.
So I want to read an encrypted mail, then delete it. What do I do?
We have no idea how human thinking works and no idea what consciousness is.

I'm getting so tired of listening to software engineers LARP pseudo neuroscientists with 6th grade level insights.

>Of course, the [AI] brain isn’t ‘conscious.’ It doesn’t have any survival instincts which we humans do.

Bruh...
> why would agriculture be the one exception from "leisure"

You’re right. I was thinking for purposes of survival, but nomadic tribes disprove this assertion.

> On the other hand why would shelter be considered anything but a biological imperative?

Shelter beyond temporary protection from the elements is not necessary for survival, as exemplified by nomadic tribes.
Like the kind of free speech you get when Israel's lobby drafts and helps pass laws that making boycotts of Israel illegal?
Also worth noting that test pilots of experimental aircraft generally wear parachutes, at least for higher risk tests. This includes tests of commercial aircraft.
Has anyone tried FocusMate or similar services? I have not used it myself but I think it may be useful to overcome procrastination. However, I doubt that having a random collaborators (a new one for each session) could do much for my motivation. I would prefer to keep collaborating with the same person for a longer period - a week or a month, to get better accountability
Thanks, good point. I'll make sure to add it.
> Or as I have been saying since the 1990's, the only difference between marketing and propaganda is that with marketing at least you are trying to peddle a product instead of an ideology.

I disagree, ideologies are often already in there, even when they are simplistic "power-tools are for men and all men require power-tools", or "having better stuff than your neighbors is a virtue, failing to do so will lead to dangerous ostracization."

Very tame "Our blender spins twice as fast as the competition" marketing might be arguably free of ideology, but that's a decreasing minority.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.04615
I think the point was more that doing this as a way to avoid the red tape of getting permission to open a new connection is odd?
Even the spooky spy and torture people choose the crappy low bidding implementation partner
US already has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Cyber_Command
I think the key insight behind this approach (and I'm biased here having written something similar) is that the difference between QUIC and (wireguard + network stack) is A LOT less than you might think.
The Chinese state is a fact-checking organization, with all the foibles and follies that are associated with letting people (e. g. free-willed beings) fact-check other people.

Fortunately, reality allows for multiple inheritance, the Chinese state doesn't have to only be a fact-checking organization.
I wonder how stock options play into this. Assuming you have generous stock options in a thriving company, wouldn’t it be worth it to stick out 3-4 years for a majority of that equity?
(sigh)

Do you expect a reply when you start like this?
Tackling a new frontier pays off over the long term.

I understand that it can be difficult to see that far ahead.
Product manager in need? Look no further
Ever since I finished all 4 seasons of "For All Mankind" I've been eating up news like this.

Truly awe inspiring stuff happening these days
Is that true? We live in a remarkably gilded age where a handful of people (whose names we all know) cashed in on the Dot-Com Boom. Their pleasure appears to be, for a few of them anyway, rockets and spacecraft.

A vacuum of billionaire self funding? Of course not, but would these ventures have progressed to where they are without the deep pockets of some of these billionaires?
> "propaganda", was too loaded.[0] And honest.

Quite often I default to the word propaganda when talking about anyone's PR campaigns in my own personal battle with trying to undo this. I ratchet it up when talking directly to marketing/PR people. Pretty much every time I'm just looked at as yet another crazy person.
> And lumping the Chinese state together with fact checking organizations is not a good argument.

This was not just the Chinese state. Fauci said from day 1 that this was not a lab leak and anyone saying that should be discredited.
> billionaire yacht club

They comment on a thread about Boeing’s Starliner ferrying NASA astronauts to the ISS atop a ULA rocket.
Well there's a problem here. There are rules. But no one really has to abide to them. There are no consequences against a sovereign nation other than political allegiance risk or travel risks for convicts.
Don't feel bad there are huge corporations and even the government pushing some foods. And the risk gene is rare, like less than 2%
Have you tried getting your son off all milk products for a few weeks? And really try and avoid non organic wheat, as it is harvested with roundup which is implicated with leaky gut syndrome.
> empowered by their self-righteousness ... Total dehumanisation

Jeez, just like those supremacists of the yesteryears Hollywood made movies to warn us about, then?
I truly don't think it does. AGI - a human level generally intelligent agent - is possible with today's technology. It'd take a lot of classical programming work - definitely man-centuries, but even if nothing new comes out and microchips stop progressing, it's possible. Look what can be done with the dumbest system imaginable - just raw input to raw output based on unfiltered conversations of internet idiots. I just can't see how it isn't possible if somebody invested the necessary man-centuries, which isn't that much - a mid level software house with few years of time.
That depends which story will sell more ads.

Elon Bust saying it’s going to replace us gets many eyes on ads even if it’s a dumbass statement.

So just depends on the demographic your news sells ads too.
And judging by some comments here, humans must have gotten dumber since then. Or we would never have invented writing, agriculture or even basic clothing.

"This problem is actually not that easy, the average person couldn't solve it either, especially if the numbers were bigger", "Yet another cherrypicked clickbait study to make LLMs look bad, those people are just scared of being made obsolete", etc.
There's nothing inaccurate about what he said. These laws make it illegal for Americans from boycotting Israel. As an American state employee, organizing a boycott against Israel will get you fired or arrested because allowing it would be breaking the law.