skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author introduces a distinction that I hadn't fully considered before: difficult writing is not all equally problematic. Being misunderstood is a problem, but how and why you are misunderstood matters.
What stands out for me is how often drinking is shown as an integral activity in the media. And most of us don't even notice. Come home from work, kick back and pour a drink.

Do the same with a cigarette nowadays and most would do a double take.
You are absolutely right. This AI race has been sort of funny to watch among the big tech incumbents.

Google kept on launching faked demos and hurriedly released an openly race biased image generator all in a bid to catch up with OpenAI.

Meanwhile Apple has been sort of lethargic. Recently annouced a deal with OpenAI to add GPT to their devices. They seem happy to continue playing catch up in this regard.

I think Meta is probably the only big tech giant that has kind of got their execution right straight from the jump. Can't point to any slip ups from their "AI announcements".
It is not the idea that matters but the execution. Execute well and you will succeed with a mediocre idea, execute badly and the best idea in the world is not going to help you.
What IP did they steal. Please be specific.
that sounds very painful.
Good discovery wouldn't solve this problem. One one hand, you have an ever-increasing pile of good content (all of the games, books, blogs, videos, podcasts, films that were created in the past) but people only have 24 hours per day to consume.

For example I've spent a huge amount of time playing a game that's over a decade old. And I'm reading a book that's from 1952.
I can never remember whether /x means "the last x bits are 0" or "the first x bits are 1"

People should write 80/48 or 48/80 to be clear
Have you really seen language chosen based on formatting?
50 shades is laser targeted. To the point that I tried reading it and abandoned it before 25% because the laser targeting is extremely precise and missed me :)

Just because it's not depressing oscar bait or space opera it doesn't mean it doesn't have some merits.

Although i find it hard to believe it was done as a "labour of love".
Yes, Apple is an Arm founder.

The comment implies, though, that they get a special deal because they are a founder. Neither Wikipedia nor the linked articles say that.

There won't be a source because the details of the current commercial contract between Apple and Arm will be highly confidential.

In any event, it's vanishingly unlikely that Apple gets some special unique rights to IP created in the 2000s as a result of having a big shareholding in Arm in 1991 which they sold completely in the 1990s.

Yes, Apple probably gets a great deal but because they are a huge, enormously high-profile customer who has worked closely with Arm on the development of their latest IP.
Windows won't take screenshots of everything you do after all unless you opt in
Andrej Karpathy
Thank you very much for your feedback and insights!

Two follow up questions:

You mention that functions/types are just values and can be created at runtime. IMHO you get the same with Java (8+) and everything running atop the JVM, Golang and some other programming languages. Why is this such a big differentiator for you?

The other thing I find interesting, that you didn't mention tooling at all. For me, navigation in bigger code bases is a killer feature ('one reads code more of ten than write it'). Code navigation/auto complete is IMHO much inferior in dynamic languages, even for small projects and with state of the art IDEs (IDEA...). (And not even mentioning deploying the software to servers/clients.) Did you find issues with the tooling in these projects, don't you care and just use VIM/Emacs or wasn't it just bothering you enough to mention?
Interesting, I've seen it used like this in the past:

"you can't just walk to Mordor" - I guess the "cant" is to refer to the grave consequences. (orcs with blades are dangerous)
Using Windows OS xp
You are absolutely right, he did indeed share those thoughts. I do remember now! Thanks
What's the difference, from a patient perspective, if they data is stolen or just blatantly sold on the open market ?
Asking for a friend. /s
thanks for asking; here, I'm taking sample input data from a blog post that might look like this, and I have specified the format below, which I'll feed to an LLM and will get a response as a JSON, which will be type-safe and validated at the backend.

{
"data": "Title: The Effects of Sleep on Memory, Authors: Dr. Jane Doe, Dr. John Smith, Publication Date: 2022-09-15, Journal: Journal of Neuroscience, Abstract: This study explores how sleep influences memory consolidation. Our research indicates that participants who had a full night's sleep performed better on memory tests compared to those who did not. Keywords: sleep, memory, neuroscience, cognition",
"format": {
"title": { "type": "string" },
"authors": {
"type": "array",
"items": { "type": "string" }
},
"publicationDate": { "type": "string" },
"journal": { "type": "string" },
"abstract": { "type": "string" },
"keywords": {
"type": "array",
"items": { "type": "string" }
}
}
}

or it can be an HTML, or general text document, or an article pdf whatever

Expected Output will be this,

{
"title": "The Effects of Sleep on Memory",
"authors": [
"Dr. Jane Doe",
"Dr. John Smith"
],
"publicationDate": "2022-09-15",
"journal": "Journal of Neuroscience",
"abstract": "This study explores how sleep influences memory consolidation. Our research indicates that participants who had a full night's sleep performed better on memory tests compared to those who did not.",
"keywords": [
"sleep",
"memory",
"neuroscience",
"cognition"
]
}
Delightful and beautiful.
The End of the Road for Bespoke Web
It works, but faaaaaaar from perfect! Perfect would include a lot more things like auto completion, syntax highlighting etc etc etc
I recently switced to Captura from from ActiveScreen recorded and I love it. Didn’t observe any bugs at all. Great piece of sw.
I mean cool and all, but as an electrical engineer literally shaving off microamps from my design I can't help but wonder what the energy use behind the AI-generated backdrops is. After all we have kinda a situation as a planet.
That's sad, because once an author achieves some notoriety, they are basically stuck into writing the same thing for the rest of their career, for fear that they will lose their existing audience.
Ask HN: Give me your own definition of theoretical computer science
Theoretical computing is perhaps for you philosophical, logical, paradise, without limit or more?
You could've just said "no"
Can you use ImageMagick to split the columns into single files…? E.g. if the columns are the same on every page, you can feed the coordinates to ImageMagick. Then do OCR on each of those files.
Ask HN: What are you working on? Share what's interesting about the problem?
What are you working on? What’s most challenging, interesting about the work or the problem?

Are you using any AI tools? What does your setup/workflow look like? Where do you find it most useful/ least useful.

What other tools are you looking to further explore/excited about?

As for me —
I am currently working on building data pipelines, merging data from various sources into our database, finally mapping the data to our entities.
The work is pretty straightforward, not very challenging.

The most exciting part for me is just exploring the patterns to build out the solution.
I have built integrations 4 times, ground up, until now. Always with a different data processing pattern goal in mind.

And here I find the copilot very useful, the threshold of picking a goal, that is learning about various ways of achieving the same end product goal with different constraints.

I don’t enjoy the `chat`, I don’t use `auto-test` generation, I sometimes use the `explain`, and I am truly grateful for the autopilot when it comes to remembering the syntax.

On the other hand, when I am in the flow, and stop to think about something, I find the autopilot auto-compete to be distracting, and often it’s just more work to review the code it suggests.
Now, this could be my shortcomings/skill-gaps, I am open to accept that, have not thought about it quite deeply.

Apart from copilot, I use Claude, to generate throwaway code, and the quick scripts.

I am not using any other tools, I keep exploring though, but didn’t find utility in paying up for other copilots/coworkers/ai-tools.

Non AI-tool that I am trying these days is Zed editor.

After working as a full-stack for quite some years now, the next technology I want to work on is database.

Not sure how long it would take, but I want to switch domain to becoming a database developer, and hopefully with copilot reducing the threshold of experimentation, I might finally be able to!
Nothing sexier than the government telling you what to do. Maybe they should focus on helping people work less, so they have more time to… get bored, and find someone.
Yes, you can have your JSON output in a format that You will specify,

Example Data: John is 25 years old and studies computer science at university. His address is 123 Main St, Anytown 12345

Format that you want will look something like this,

{
"format": {
"name": { "type": "string" },
"age": { "type": "number" },
"isStudent": { "type": "boolean" },
"courses": {
"type": "array",
"items": { "type": "string" }
},
"address": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"street": { "type": "string" },
"city": { "type": "string" },
"zipcode": { "type": "string" }
}
}
}
}

------

Output,

{
"name": "John",
"age": 25,
"isStudent": true,
"courses": ["computer science"],
"address": {
"properties": {
"street": "123 Main St",
"city": "Anytown",
"zipcode": "12345"
}
}
}
> When needing to split a bill (an exercise in exact simple arithmetic)

Not so exact or simple when the diners and total (after tips, etc) are co-prime

> an absolute ban on asking a mathematician

you can see why, annoying theorists focusing on the general case are the last thing needed when Tony Soprano wants the money now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96XJl7mxDtc ?v=AxR2BOXln4w
I guess we need to invent ads, so that we don't all have to become influencers?
Yogi Berra? I thought you were dead.
Easier to test if Jenkins can SSH in than to test a former employee cannot. Especially if you don't have the unencrypted private key.
When you are prepared to die in a plane crash because of your decrepitude, how much risk to others is entailed in a case like this? If the plausible answer is “not that much” I am with you. But nonagenarian self-actualization at the cost of other people’s lives and limbs is a different story.
im reading this gengis khan book and it makes me wonder what he'd have done in this situation.
> Point being is that no only am I skeptical of the claims of what I should and should not consume

Science does not that you that. It just tells you that there is no healthy amount of alcohol to consume. Science also tells you that there is no healthy amount of tan, but you still need the sun to get vitamin D. Leaving it still up to you what to do with that information.
My use of "aside" was supposed to indicate that it was not critical to your core point that you re-emphasise here.

Going through the numbers one step at a time and keeping track of the units, I believe the core problem is that the original was a meaningless unit in the first place, taking the total system construction cost and dividing by the power output (but expressing things in the middle in terms of energy produced over the whole year).

(Not that it matters except to help me avoid such mistakes later, but because the numbers which are important are in units of $/Wh not $/W, I just assumed and that assumption led to me doing the thing I did).

So, we have: PV for $3.06/W, nuclear for $4.34/W

But that's not what energy is normally priced in, energy is normally priced in [money]/[energy] rather than [money]/[power], to convert between them I have to account for system lifetimes.

The IAEA says nuclear plants have a lifetime of "between 20 and 40 years"[0], so I'll pick the half way value of 30. PV is generally guaranteed to last at least 20, but expected to last 30; as very few have been around that long and the tech is rapidly changing, I'll be pessimistic for that and pick 20.

With those assumptions, this gives nuclear a cost per unit of energy of $16.5 / MWh (which is extremely cheap, so much so it's outright suspicious!); and PV a cost per unit of energy of $17.49 / MWh (which would also be extremely cheap, bordering suspicious, though by a smaller margin as the normal LCOE is lower anyway).

For comparison, this graph suggests PV is usually about 3 times that and nuclear usually around 10-11 times that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelized_cost_of_electricity#...

Now, with these numbers, you don't really need to ask about the cost of storage, the nuclear option is just directly cheaper than the PV. I assume the surprise here is that maintenance costs are not included in construction costs? But then I'd be going down a completely different rabbit hole trying to dig into how Lazard reached those numbers.

Would be good for everyone if China's actually done what people keep asking for with cheap nuclear power.

[0] https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/29402043133.pdf
I once met Bill Anders on Orcas Island.

Years ago I was making a video about describing a stone that I found on an Orcas beach, and I was consulting with geologists and biologists. I met at a local cafe with a marine biologist to get her opinion about barnacles on the stone. As we were talking, a man at the next table mentioned that he thought the stone was possibly volcanic. He also said he had a petrologist friend I should talk to.

Nice coincidence. The guy said his name was something-something... I'm not good with names and pretty much forget them instantly.

Later, I'm with the biologist on the beach, looking at barnacles when a P-51 Mustang comes screaming overhead on a low pass over the island. I lived on Orcas and I had never seen that before.

"Oh, that's Bill Anders," said the biologist. "Remember, you met him at the Orcas Hotel cafe. He was on Apollo 8."

That made a lot of sense. The Apollo astronauts were trained field geologists!

I suspect his crash was a suicide. I come from a flying family and this is how pilots commonly fantasize about dying on their own terms.
Or maybe we have to read the article to find his opinion:

> Debating whether Moses’ bridges discriminate is an unhelpful distraction. But can a bridge be discriminatory? Absolutely.

Personally, I thought the author was a bit offensive in that he kept suggesting his own values should be reflected in good design and he couldn't seem to accept that there are other opinions as valuable as his own.
I think it depends on the country, no?
Do signed/annotated Git tags have any special advantage over lightweight tags?
I'd been using the normal `git tag -m <something>` command over the years to create tags and releases for even my open source side projects. But today I learned that such tags (unsigned or non-annotated) are supposed to be used only for private or temporary use. And we are supposed to do the following instead so that the tags actually get signed with our identity:

git tag -m "v1.0" -a "v1.0"

The `-a` tag can be used to add useful notes to the commit apparently. But apart from that, do you see any special advantages, especially when pushing code to Github? Is Github going to treat annotated code/releases/tags somewhat differently in any situation? I'm asking from a more pragmatic or utilitarian perspective.
Half of it is ergonomics so basic, that people wouldn’t even mention as a feature.

With this reasoning you could remove tab rearrangement, open in new window and similar “most don’t use” features.
We might be different types of people (your comment about regret strongly suggests we are), but I've been in some very hairy situations where I was fairly sure I was about to die traumatically and I didn't experience any of what you're suggesting. Instead it was a calm resignation or acceptance that was oddly peaceful.

Not that I don't want to live, but I don't fear death and would take the plane crash over wasting in a hospital any day. I have a DNR registered with the health service in my country to make sure that never happens.
I'm from Tuscany and I kinda enjoy discovering new street with maps when it tells you the shortest roads and not the most used ones. However, in Sicily it's hell on hearth, getting out of Comiso, a small town, was very, very hard
Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2024 – Day 1
Day 2 is here: https://vaniea.com/post/shb-2024-day2/

> Interdisciplinary invite-only conference discussing how people interact with security technology. The conference is designed to share ideas, questions, and promote interesting discussion that can lead to deeper understanding and future breakthroughs.
I would want to see sources before taking a comment like this seriously. I used to live in one of the most regressive Islamic countries in the world (where abortion was absolutely not allowed), and my wife had zero issues aborting a pregnancy when it was found to be threatening her health. It was done within hours and without a single moment of controversy.

Do you have any case law to support this being a valid concern?
The medicals for pilots are exhaustive and frequent, so you can be assured he was probably in better health than the majority of the population.
ESG quietly saving the world while being demonised by the usual suspects in the US.
I think the answer is very short: marketing beats quality. We are paying too much attention to the content itself but the root cause is the distribution. It is the same with startups.

This is already studied at nauseaum in search economics, long tails, the medium is the message, etc.
Most people die at home with family. Only certain over-medicalised countries have a preponderance of the elderly dying in hospital.
I just wish people would start building this kind of stuff around Asciidoc and not Markdown. Markdown works fine for notes and short how-to's but once you move into longer manuals that need more structure elements you quickly run out of options.
What’s a pfp?
It is definitely a bad influence. Crystal meth is the favourite around here and especially in combination with alcohol it is pure poison.

But it is hard to tell in hindsight, how a children would have grown up different. I know some, who turned out quite well, despite all this. You couldn't tell by the looks and behavior that their mother was drugged at birth (and before and after).

Much more important are stable social conditions. A junkie mother who loves her children and is there for them at least some of the time is way better than no mother and just distant social case workers to whom the children are just a job. (Some are doing a great job with love, but they ain't the majority around here)

But there definitely also are cases of disabilites, that are very likely drug induced.
Really? I just bring water to a boil, put eggs in and set a six minute timer. Move them to cold water and peel. Perfect soft-boiled eggs every single time.
I don't get this. It shows some mangled text that looks like defaced CSS, accompanied by the error message “Extra open brace or missing close brace”. How is this content injection?

But the rescue murloc is cute.
Yes, finding some PoC for account takeover or something that involves XSS is cool and whatnot, but I'm asking whether these theoretical chain of exploits have ever actually been documented as being exploited to a significant degree.
Nah I like New Scientist and Quanta Magazine etc… to give me an insight into a complicated topic. It isn’t adequate for a professor to understand the subject to write a thesis sure, but there is no harm in more people kinda understanding something. This is especially true of the sort of dumbing down the big short film did, when the impact on society means everyone should sort of understand what happened Nd why the economy tanked.
I had some “burn-in” on a 4 in waveshare display that lasted for about 10 refreshes. I bought it used so who knows how long it was stuck on that one screen
It’s a brave person who stakes their business on swimming against perceived common wisdom. I’ve seen it succeed, at least for a while, at some startups.

The cognitive load of managing expectations of clients, investors, etc who are trained to expect the stand way of doing things seems to get too much though, over time.
Major adoption across the industry,being taught at university courses, bootcamps, shipping in commercial OSes?
Whoever said they bought that gTLD? They substituted it in their code (which would result in NXDOMAIN... unless someone buys that gTLD, anyway). Then they added a block for it which appears to not always work.
One learns something new every day, as someone not native in English.
have you tested this? how fast and accurate were the results? or are you simply assuming that all compilers are perfect?

my experience outside of ada is that decimal arithmetic is never fast on binary computers
Unrelated to MXM but I've struggled with the same problem you described (swappable GPUs on laptops). The current solution I've settled with is to get a laptop with a pcie gen4x4 nvme slot, install an oculink adapter on it and connect my full size RTX 3090 to it.

No performance diff far as I can see (oculink on pcie gen4x4 should have ~64GBps bw) and still super portable. and I can finally upgrade the CPU/display and GPU independently
https://map.purpleair.com/
Earthworms have transformed the Isle of Rum's landscape
Because it is travesty of what is effectively a microkernel architecture.

A free beer UNIX clone won, that is quite different than any technical advantages.

Even Android does the same with Binder IPC, since Project Treble.
Microsoft Store is like App store, except Microsoft doesn't give two shit about quality and you're not locked-in.

It's like they took entirely wrong lessons from App Store.
What are you thinking? I was wondering about dividing them into sets.
Wow, what a clueless article. Or maybe a deliberately biased article.

The majority of sales and debut authors are ebooks, and traditional publishers aren't involved. This has been true for years. Read publishing is pretty much pointless if you aren't a celebrity. Yes, there are a few that make it, but a handful, compared to the numbers that make something significant self publishing. And the trad publishing process is so slow. You can write and market several books in the time is takes to get one book to reads the old way.

If you aren't a celebrity, self publishing is the way to go.

Not that publishing an ebook is easy, but the process of much more controllable by you. And the payback is much higher.
How hard it is to rival Visa/MC duopoly?
These are incredibly profitable public companies. But does anyone think they can be dethroned? İs it possible?
> I feel like new cars are obscenely expensive right now.

This is the main issue. The salaries haven't followed the same trend like the price of cars.
ai will write the code, now we can finally sit back and drop all this acid!
Does anyone have any idea as to how affordable these treatments are?

It is a huge deal to work out a way to fix a problem, but working out how to make it more affordable is also a big part of developing the medicine.
Ah sorry, I misunderstood, my bad.

I think your analysis sounds good: Apple certainly gets special deals, but those deals don't have anything to do with having been a major share-holder of ARM some 30 years ago.
Libraries Are for Learning Life Lessons