skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incredibuild is a pretty good product. Though there's nothing else out there that I know of that's similar.

Does anyone know?

> Incredibuild (at the very least) redirects file io back to the original machine and so the executable running doesn't really know what machine it's on.

I know MPI runs nicer on a networked drive but isn't necessarily transparent

Plan 9 can do most of this with some scripting...
What’s wrong with being excited and working hard towards something? Hoping for nearly anyone’s demoralization is not good. I wish you a spirit of adventure that takes you many exciting places!

Also, what specific safety problems do you think need to be solved?
You know you can just not engage and they will reciprocate, right? Don't make eye contact and just mumble something in response if they try to talk (and you aren't comfortable staying completely silent, because that's also an option you have.) They don't take it personally, they deal with the general public and know some people aren't up for chat.
Went in thinking I would find out a few pitfalls for the event-driven app I'm writing...

> Commands only have a single consumer. There must be a single consumer. That’s it. They do not use the publish-subscribe pattern.

...oops.

Now the question is how much (more) time I want to spend on a(nother) rewrite.
Boss: You look... particularly excited to be working today

Me: I'm just trying this new technique to boost productivity
A couple times I've put a "if (now() > xxxxxx) fail()` in tests for this reason.
Wow! Well done
I learned to program my C64 in assembly language thanks to Jim!
Sure, I'm in much the same boat. I did my last programming in COBOL in the 1980s, and it wasn't even the main part of my job. I've made no effort to keep my knowledge current. I'm simply not a techie, if ever I was.

But reading Hacker News is always interesting, so here I am.
Very cool, simple, and easy. This is exactly what demos should be.
Simple solutions to hard problems seem to be falling out of favor.
I always thought it would be an interesting exercise to build an event-based controls system. There's a lot triggering action X based on event A. And actions based on composite events. I never found anyone who had done it.

Edit- I should say I never saw one in the wild, quick search found some academic projects https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=event-driven+control+sy...
My joke since the 90's was that AI will have to wait for someone dumb enough to figure out how we think. I guess that means it is finally time for me to share my thoughts :P

My mind expressed annoyance with how sure LLM's are about everything. This is not a sign of intelligence - quite the opposite! I know people like that. The smartest sounding training data sounds the best I'm sure but intelligence is to be as accurate as possible about how sure you are. You zoom in on the facts, estimate their certainty then prioritize the data that matches the correct level of certainty. Humans hallucinate all the time, we call it imagination, it's great stuff as long as you present it as that.
> A few years ago I saw someone calculate the energy required to melt the ice in front of a locomotive (I think) at speed; IIRC it required a (not small!) nuclear reactor's worth of energy.

Sounds like https://what-if.xkcd.com/130/.
People on here can often get super-niche about a topic where there might only be a rather limited number of people on the whole planet who are in the clear on it, and I think that might be a big part of why you feel that way. It is also the reason why this place is pretty unique and (given some interests) amazing.
I have done web development since the 90s and I can tell you authoritatively that most of what people talk about, like those frontend frameworks, are gibberish.

Or at least, they're not worth the hype they're given. The wheel is constantly turning, and the hot new framework of today is just a re-hash of something already done years ago with a pretty facade.

You probably learned the actual fundamentals of the web, which is exactly what a good developer should do. Nowadays "frontend devs" don't know how to make the most basic functionality without React, Bootstrap, and 99 other pieces of bloat.

Frankly the stuff I look at just disgusts me on a fundamental level. Like as soon as you decide to use React, you've just mandated up to several megabytes of JavaScript simply to render your HTML. That's abhorrent.
> so it's probably not the best use of resources

Cool, so what useful software are rust programmers writing with all that free time? Where is it?

Where's the "killer app"? Whatever it is, nobody is talking about it.
> That’s all right—it means we can still pull off the greatest heist of all time. The biggest, shiniest jewel in all of science—why do people do what they do?—is still sitting in Nature’s vault, waiting for us to drill the lock, melt the hinges, blow the door, whatever it takes. I am going to steal that jewel or die trying.

Is it really possible? And if it was, think about the implications for social control and democracy, etc. Might this actually be more dangerous than anything to do with LLMs.

Or is it like the search for the philosophers stone that transmuted base metals to gold?

Also, how many people will get hurt and messed up in the process?
Animals sans humans are honest, so there are no betrayals.

If that horse wants to wrong me, he will make it clear he wants to wrong me. That might be a wrong, but it's not a betrayal.
Saunas, hot baths, and excercise improve blood flow.
Viagra doesn't "make" you hard, you still need sexual stimulus. I've taken it and then the sexual opportunity fell through, so I went back to coding or whatever, and I didn't notice anything different.
Nitric oxide bad for you? Pretty sure it is good for you ,otherwise super foods like beets and leafy greens would be bad for you.
I think it would have the opposite effect. We could end up with a few all-in-one systems that would dominate the market and have little incentive to improve or compete on usability and price.
One day a federal research grant will fund a project that determines the specific form of brain damage that leads to libertarianism.
It's commonly used in bodybuilding competitions.
I’ve read about people using tadalafil as a nootropic in the past. Is there even a difference?

It’s so easy to get a prescription these days might be worth a shot.
10mg works really well in my experience.
I thought this was a parody at first for that reason, haha
I do C++ and graphics programming. I know nothing about web dev, so whenever I see stuff about databases and REST APIs, I'm clueless.

The key is to be growimg what you know in your area.
Would you expect him to say anything differently?

“it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary (or company valuation) depends on his not understanding it.”

- Upton Sinclair (with edits)
Because only the rich are able to buy their way out of justice. No one wants to go to trial indeed.
MINIX 3 specifically, a microkernel research OS with a NetBSD userland that was focused more on research and less on teaching.

If Intel had any sense or were to revisit this area in the future, they probably should've selected a RTOS in the L4-family OS like seL4 that was formally-verified or went with negotiating a special deal on INTEGRITY-178B because this OS would be widely deployed on both billions of individual devices and on critical infrastructure.

MINIX 2 was a completely different OS. It was extremely simple and modeled after UNIX similar to Linux, but much more minimal. It was so minimal that the fundamental parts of the i386 protected mode kernel code were printed in their entirety in Andrew S. Tanenbaum's & Albert S. Woodhull's book.[0] In an operating systems course, I recall patching a university cluster machine running MINIX 2 to adjust the keyboard controller's repeat rate to the maximum. If you wanted more granular control over keyboard input, you could write an (real or protected mode, depending) interrupt handler to only look for make and break codes of individual keys and then report them at whatever rate you wanted to however your operating system accepted input events. Breakdowns in how this and how real hardware works is typically an explanation for duplicate or missing keypresses occur under virtualization, such as when a user task switches to and from a VM console on another machine during a virtualized key down state.

0. Operating Systems: Design and Implementation
Second Edition, 1997, Tanenbaum & Woodhull, ISBN-10: 0136386776

https://minix1.woodhull.com/osdi2/
> Had multiple submissions get exactly zero interest I was certain would be bangers.

A lot of stuff simply gets lost on 'new'. I mean how many people even go there? I rarely do so myself. The cases in which I upvote a submission with very few points are usually when I want to submit something I found elsewhere and enter the link in the search before posting.
Maybe, but maybe not. If I told you I'm either giving you actual viagra or a placebo, you might get more aroused even if given placebo. Because psychologically you'll be thinking "There's at least a chance I took viagra right now"
Over the counter in Brazil.
I keep all my negatives because they're the physical artifacts of the experience, but they're really blown out of the water by slide film positives. Instead of the color inverse, the slide film holds the honest-to-god image of whatever you photographed perfectly. No color tricks or prints needed to display it. It will never be as perfect as digital, but it's surprising how close it can get, especially with slides. There's something visceral about holding a piece of film to the light and seeing an exact image projected right back.
Because 99% of them aren't working on anything.

They are the ones on the sidelines making money selling courses, going on podcasts, getting engagement money from X etc.
As tomcam has already pointed out, Mondrian is in no way a Cubist.

I would also argue that the colours are nowhere near those of Mondrian. 'classic' Mondrian paintings feature a very exact and reduced aesthetic consisting only of pure applications of red, blue, yellow, white, black, and gray.

As an artist with a history of collaborating with computer engineers, I can say that Mondrian, Van Gogh and the post/impressionists seem to constitute the vast majority of artists who are used in projects like this (style transfer, non-photorealistic rendering, image generation etc). I can see the attraction: they are simple to conceptualize and have a fairly shallow tonal range, being largely defined by their colour and form. However, I would love to see more attention paid to artists like Rubens, Turner, Rembrandt etc.
realtime systems just prealloc everything at the beginnging.
Misinformation poses a smaller threat to democracy than you might think
If something feels like it's interesting then go explore it in more detail. Read a book, find some relevant YouTube videos, take a Coursera course, read more in Wikipedia. Access to knowledge on the Internet today is amazing.

I have studied Math/Comp.Sci. I've been writing software professionally for a long time. There are specialized topics I'm not an expert in that might go over my head, if I'm interested enough I'll spend time and dig deeper.

My theory is that you want to have a big picture and be able to go into details when/where you need to.
Fundamentally, that's why you love HN. It's why I do, and anyone else does too. Even if you don't understand something, you are drawn to try, and that itself is a hallmark of intelligence. We come here repeatedly because it stays interesting, because it is always something new.
It is a very convenient way to move higher latency operations from the realtime path to a near real time path. E.g. you want to send an email when a payment is authorized, you don’t want to wait for the whole SMTP transaction so you just post an even and reply back to the user. Also settlements of captured autos, 5st sort of thing. Even saving some user pref, start the task, reply back to user. and if it fails async send a failure msg.
A lot of people seem convinced otherwise, but to me GPT-4 is only a minor improvement (in best cases) over 3/3.5. Nowhere near the significant improvement after GPT-2. I'm assuming GPT-5 won't be any sort of breakthrough either.

Not that that would be hugely disappointing - all of this has been such a huge improvement in language modeling compared to the junky crap we had before.
How many shuffled decks do you need to with 99% confidence determine if I used say Mersenne Twister or a hardware-based RNG?

edit: I know MT has a rather large state, but it has some issues. Alternatively what about say one of the 128bit state PCG generators?
Vague memories here, but I think Tolkien is said to have built his stories primarily as background for his constructed languages, because he believed that a language cannot be created in isolation without seeming hopelessly artificial and shallow.
That is true that it was originally for cardiovascular issues.

However, it seems that there was at least theoretical consideration that it could be used to treat ED

A nice overview is here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd2030
I don't know the history, but I have to imagine that it was motivated by this sort of reasoning: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/4j8nq2/fahrenheit_ce...

I don't defend any other imperial units. Bring on the kilograms, meters, and liters. But when I saw that thermostats in Europe change by increments of 0.5 my gut reaction was "this is silly".
I’d like to see how this effect from Sildenafil compares to increased NO levels from eating beets.
I think sometimes just observing/listening will let you see patterns. And a lot of life is just matching the patterns and comparing/applying it to your experiences.
If Robyn is not an instrumented SSL terminating load balancer with HTTP/3 support, there must still be an upstream HTTP server that could support ASGI.

ASGI (like WSGI) makes it possible to compose an application with reusable, tested "middleware" because there's an IInterface there.

awesome-asgi: https://github.com/florimondmanca/awesome-asgi

ASGI docs > Implementations:
https://asgi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/implementations.html
50mg 3x a day, according to the study: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.124.32432...

Seems high to me, but I've never taken the drug. I assume most people take it just a few times a week for it's intended use? Is anyone aware of research that shows positive benefits to health at recreational doses?
One could say that operating on pure foundation models is running out of gas, but there is a lot more to do.
Nitric oxide is a crucial part of the biology of life, especially animals. Viagra does not specifically impact the amount of nitric oxide in the body or the nitric oxide cycle mediated by arginine. It instead enhances the effect of NO in the smooth muscle. I would not worry about nitric oxide in general as it’s crucial for the basic functioning of your body.
In case dang sees this: The title here on HN doesn't match the original title of the article, and (to me at least) it now gives the opposite impression as what the article is saying.
I believe if you submit a link that’s already on “New” it will merge them and automatically upvote the existing submission.
Underlying banks were insured. The shit show is they lack records showing who owns what money in "communal pools" of money they stored at those FDIC banks.

FDIC can't get involved because they can't even tell who rightfully has what money where. Lol
Yep. Originally developed for high blood pressure and angina, but in clinical trials was found to be more effective in treating ED than heart issues.
This is America: we demand a low-effort, overpriced solution, preferably in pill form.
I would prefer to be approximated as a theoretical engineer, yes )

It was (?iappe?) -- admittedly a misfire -- to encourage (simultaneous) annoyance+delight in the reader's own tendency towards premature generalization

BtW
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert_W_function

Apropos also of the work of one (post-selected by capital punishment) aristocrat-student of A,VI translated, uncovered by way of chasing down the 'W-strat+iHoml apps' cetacean

https://books.google.com.sg/books/about/Fewnomials.html?id=V...

As to mock-frivolous over-compression (& the untimely defence of aaaahimsa):

>Hence some say the game of nine-holes was called ‘Bubble the Justice,’

https://languagehat.com/bumble-puppy/

>superfluous

https://old.reddit.com/r/DebateTranshumanism/comments/gf56o6...

(I am not the /u/[deleted])
It must be that we see the tech from our teen years through rose-tinted glasses.

I fondly recall the computers and games from then but all of that objectively sucks today
I think there's nuanced distinctions between:

- something that can't be modeled because there's no training data

- something that can't be modeled because it's fundamentally stochastic

- something that can't be modeled because the discrepancy in simulating the generating process, for your specific model, can, basically, be made arbitrarily large
You need a reward system or game. There are lots of professions and areas/topics of debate where one can just make up convincing nonsense. In a competitive area or one with quality feedback there is no need for the blabbering of fuzzy humans.

One of my 1000 business plans I will never execute is to build an automated chemistry lab where one can order different ingredients to be subjected to different processes, treatments and measurements. The researcher/customer would have no influence on the input or output and no humans in the building. I'm clueless about the scale to have a positive cost benefit analysis but if it can be good enough to throw things at the wall and see what sticks it seems an AI could be useful to pick the best ways to blow up the lab.
Related Misinformation poses a bigger threat to democracy than you might think[0] (13 points, 3 days ago)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40587204
I used to buy it over the counter in Mexico for recreational purposes, now I have some ancient prescription I don’t need that’s renewed annually for free. A stiff breeze will work, it’s actually remarkable. It will totally make your skin flush and make you feel light headed, not surprised by any of this.
you seem to be working hard today
That's not an accurate belief. Every film has an engineered characteristic curve; a different look. Which wouldn't happen if they were faithful.

The same thing is true of "raw" digital files; manipulation by the engineers is involved, even if the photographer does nothing.
it’s happening! i just finished something that assists in “CRISPR Design” and helps gene editors.
There’s millions of lines of production Rust at tons of companies. It’s beyond one single killer app. Basically every major tech company relies on at least some Rust at this point.
Counterpoint, even if you only have 256 bits of entropy (which is common for many widely used PRNGs), you can prove that there's bias due to the pigeon hole principal, but finding a shuffle that is under-represented is computationally impossible.
> If GPT-5 or whatever it would be called comes out as a failure, only then you could have a chance at concluding what the title says.

What if it already did, and it's called GPT4-o? Like sure, OAI realized it was a mostly marginal improvement over 4 after it was finished. But did they know that ahead of training?
Says the PM, right before they get promoted.
> And I am not talking about predicting the future, but more predicting the next action to take based on current state, sensor data in a more seamless way.

Like self-driving cars?

Self-driving cars is an engineering problem, let alone an AI problem, and we still cannot solve it despite trillion dollar economic incentives.

Just putting together some LLMs on a fuckton of data does not work. Tesla tried that, and failed.
…that’s what the article says… did you read it?
And that's why a SAGA describes that flow.

Don't take it into consideration and you're fucked.

Source: previous "seniors" didn't take it into consideration, they left
Humans have their drawbacks?

I have to say, I really urge you to consider the nature of your framing here.

As you can tell I am quietly (or maybe not-so-quietly) appalled by the zeitgeist around generative AI, but even if I were not, I hope I would still see that this kind of linguistic framing is insensitive and self-defeating if not wholly inappropriate and demeaning if you want to see any co-operation from educators, who are as a broad picture, tired, dedicated, hopeful people who -- unlike LLMs -- can and do place significant moral and ethical value on teaching.
There is no grass to touch in the back rooms.

Jokes aside, what’s wrong with having an interest in a (seemingly very) niche subject that doesn’t harm anyone and is a pretty cool investigation task?
I think only if it got a certain amount of points or so. See i.e.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40616660 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40620056
The Life of Google's Secret Weapon, Joshua Wright
> AI capability has been following an exponential growth curve

Math benchmark:

Minevra, Jun 2022: 50.3%

Opus, Mar 2024: 60.1%

And there is a high chance it leaked to Opus training data, since it is old and now popular benchmark.
Exactly, and Django isnt the Python alternative to Rails!
That article, evidence and conclusion seems incredibly thin
I've seen successful, but flawed usage.

Every use I've seen sent events after database transactions, with the event not part of the transaction. This means you can get both dropped events, and out of order events.

My current company has analytics driven by a system like that. I'm sure there's some corrupted data as a result.

The main issue being people just don't know how to build and test distributed systems.
Yes. Let's have a league where athletes drop dead all the time.
I can't be the only one that entered this thinking that God finally put the controversy to this GoF pattern to rest.
iCloud for Windows already includes a Passwords app, that syncs to the same Keychain database in iCloud that the new macOS Passwords app will sync to.

iCloud for Windows does not include a Messages app.

Not really sure which part you're confused about?
Julia's random number generator does this. See https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/94a0ee8637b66ab67445...
I do the same because 20 years ago a roadside bomb blew up next to the vehicle I was riding in and caused it to roll over and down an embankment and the repeated impacts compressed my lumbar discs which after about 10 years manifested as degenerative disc disease at L5-S1 and a series of disc bulges and scar tissue build-up up and down my lumbar region that compressed the nerves leading to my genitals and ultimately led to a spinal fusion of that area...

...and a low dose makes it so my penis functions normally.

It's fantastic, really.
It’s hit and miss. Links to academic papers I usually don’t even try to read.

For borderline stuff reading the comments often helps highlight the significance