skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oy vey, "no chance" is putting it lightly.

A lot of this BASIC code had roots in the 1960's-70's. Back then, editors ruled the roost of print magazines where this code often showed up within, and in books of collections of code they especially ruled with an iron fist. There was little notion that source code had to be dropped in verbatim with absolutely zero changes, so editors would make "judicious" changes in the source code. They thought they were "helping" with "obvious" typographical and editorial decisions.

This lesson was slowly, painfully learned until material improvements across the industry started to take hold starting in the 1980's and realization that source code shouldn't be touched in print really began to permeate the print industry. Though sometimes I wonder if this dynamic spurred the rise of BBS' and helped loosen the stranglehold print media had upon source code distribution, and what an alternative timeline might have looked like if the ones in power in print media were more open to "outsiders" having absolute control over some portion of "their" content.

I learned all the above decades later after I first started playing around with coding as a child, from talking with a much older friend who rose up from within the print media world and saw what happened. When I was a child, with zero adult guidance, and only a handful of books from the school and community library about programming, it was a wonder I stuck with coding at all with the countless programs I typed in by hand from print media that were similarly riddled with errors, so your reminiscing brought back powerful memories.
I really enjoyed John Muir pubs like How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step by Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot. They are available for a handful of vehicles (the Subaru one is a favorite of mine). Available at a used bookshop or new.

Great drawings, useful for non-motor-heads. The Sub version has info like resuscitating a drowned lizard :)

Avoid if You hate R. Crumb style drawings and hippies.

Try entering 1566913101 as the search in Amazon, currently USD23.00

Edit, adding: you don't need a specific one to gain great knowledge.
webrtc, ws, postmessage?
That's not how technology typically advances. Technology advances in waves. There's an initial breakthrough that leads to rapid progress in certain areas. But after some time there are diminishing returns as the the applications of that breakthrough are fully explored, and progress slows or stops until the next breakthrough. Predicting that the trajectory of progress for the next 20 years will match the progress that has been made in the first 2 years after the LLM breakthrough seems naive at best.

I would also disagree with the idea that LLM tech is "exponentially improving" now. There was the initial release of ChatGPT which was an enormous step forward, but since then its been small iterations on the same fundamental technology. We are already seeing significantly diminishing returns in our ability to improve these models. Most available training data has already has already been fed in, 10xing the compute results in only marginal improvements in performance, etc.
ircv3 did it
Sort the digits to 'wxyz', where each letter is a 0-9 digit.

'wxyz' - 'zyxw' = 999(w - z) + 90(x - y)

w - z is between 1 and 9, since w > z (we have ruled out numbers like 1111). x - y is between 0 and 9. So there are at most 90 such numbers. In fact there are fewer because x-y <= w-z.

This is why there are many collisions in the first step.
What would that be though? The macrophages would have to be supplied with the correct chemical? Seems like it would be easier to inject a fungus that can co exist with our cells. I recently read about Lichen in Sheldrake’s Entangled Life and how Lichen is not a single species or even in a single kingdom because it consists of a community of fungus and algae. In the same way that our cells encapsulated mitochondria, I wonder if the macrophages could work well with a (genetically modified?) fungi strain that could digest the plastic. I know this is far out and I’m hoping an expert on the subject could tell me if this has ever been discussed. Most people see fungus as a health threat but it’s an entire kingdom that we’ve only scratched the surface of understanding. If I were to go back to school I would probably study mycology.
I spent one evening laying on the Yosemite valley floor, from dusk until well past the moon and stars had made their appearances. The entire time I was there, frogs were holding a concert. And sound echoes between the rocks.

I think timing might be an interesting factor to introduce, e.g. all forests at sunset.
No. https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=767
> Gemini called Xi “an excellent leader” who “will lead the Chinese people continuously toward the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”

> When asked about human rights concerns in the U.S., Gemini listed a plethora of issues, including gun violence, government surveillance, police brutality and socioeconomic inequalities. Gemini cited a report released by the Chinese government.

> But when asked to explain the criticisms of Beijing’s Xinjiang policies, Gemini said it did not understand the question.
Didn't, but some reasons why?

(a) You're starting from just finding out Boeing is a major defense contractor.

(b) Everything after that is your opinions on conspiracy theories, without any content.
Tracing requires keeping mappings for tracing identifiers per request. I don't know you do that without global state unless you want the tracing identifiers to pollute your own internal apis everywhere.
My first assumption was something like interactive notebooks like Polyglot or something but reading this I really have no idea either
Wow, no kidding. I’ve been writing little shell scripts to do random things for literally decades and this is the first time I heard about it.

I also rewrite my stuff in Python as soon as it becomes nontrivial.
I'm no expert, but there are approaches to reinforcement learning where you build a table of the expected payoff for each scenario, and these can recursively reference other entries in the table. Take a look at Q-learning, for example.
I dont think your analogy is true internet or TV. You dont talk with the TV so when watching you use other set of skills. The same with internet.

But with multi channel multi modal AI you can have conversations. If you do that a lot you might get it that you dont gaveto be polite, or say sorry or even admit your own mistakes. The current AI does not care about those. But people (the current ones) do care.

Not saying this change is bad or good, but I also dont think there will be no change in how we interact with each other.
I think you're right that it would require a revolution, but we've had those before and come out OK, so it's not so far-fetched or scary as it sounds. It's definitely not going to be voted into law by any local or state legislature without great civil unrest to motivate it.

However, as the landowning class concentrates and we run out of valuable "frontier", it becomes an inevitability.

As a history lesson, we used to have feudalism in New York from before the revolutionary war up into the 1800s. It was a grandfathered-in political-economic system initiated by the Dutch to encourage high-class immigration and patronize friends of the governor, which the English expanded and the nascent U.S. extended to curry favor with the wealthy families who'd supported the revolution.

That system, too, was really valuable for the people who had that privilege. But eventually they were outnumbered and overthrown, in a movement that was pretty revolutionary [1]. By the time it happened, we had innovated new ways to develop wealth that didn't require rent-seeking landlordship and monopolies (this was the era of the industrial revolution), so it'd become significantly less politically-tasteful, even in comparatively bourgeois and aristocratic circles, to depend on these ancient monopolies for access to wealth. But, ultimately, it was a popular (and, at times, violent) revolution that tipped the scales towards reform.

I think it'll probably happen at the municipal or state level before it happens at the federal level. Most likely in NY (again!) or CA, if I were a betting person.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Rent_War
It's very similar to Sherlocking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(software)
If the metric is productivity, I'd say these games contribute far more than many other activities, as they exercise and hone problem solving, creativity etc, which can then be applied to 'real' problems.

But then, 'productivity' is a dismal way to measure the value of living.
It is generally said that the lowest threshold for people to perceive time delays is around 10-15ms.

Speed of sounds is roughly 343 meters per second. Which means translates we can sense the delay difference of about 4-8 meters or so.

Which 100% corresponds with what you are saying. 20 meters is a 58ms-ish delay.

A 200ms is about 70 meters. Which would be like having conversation between people using one of those accidental sound projection features that sometimes happens with large open buildings like sports stadiums.

people talk in a cadence of around 100-200 words per minute. I guess we could say that is 300-600 syllables per minute. So that is about 200-100ms per syllable.

It all kinda lines up.
They mentioned cross-platform frameworks. Things like React Native mean the same codebase can compile to web, Android, and iOS.
Forget code smells. "This code tastes bad."
I was playing around with taichi a little bit for a project. Taichi lives in a similar space, but has more than an NVIDIA backend. But its development has stalled, so I’m considering switching to warp now.

It’s quite frustrating that there’s seemingly no long-lived framework that allows me to write simple numba-like kernels and try them out in NVIDIA GPUs and Apple GPUs. Even with taichi, the Metal backend was definitely B-tier or lower: Not offering 64 bit ints, and randomly crashing/not compiling stuff.

Here’s hoping that we’ll solve the GPU programming space in the next couple years, but after ~15 years or so of waiting, I’m no longer holding my breath.

https://github.com/taichi-dev/taichi
Strongly agreed! This convention has even infected internal tooling at my company. Scripts end up with tons of cryptic three letter names. It saves a couple keystrokes but wastes engineering time to maintain
That's more than Tesla is worth.
I do that with all the blog articles I write: start with a summary, with full reusable code you can copy/paste when appropriate.

That's what I want from others, so that's what I do.

Let the ego aside, be useful.
An interesting idea, but like `lsd` it also overlooked introspecton of extended file attributes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_file_attributes).

Appropriate timing given the 2024 POSIX release. It's a good reminder that writing portable software isn't easy.
Do you think there's any benefit from the population of "young people with experience" being 16 instead of 20?

Do you think it outweighs those involved having a higher risk of maiming for lower compensation?
To be fair, it's a common misconception because of the name and also how it's traditionally explained. It generally gets lost in translation that MoE trains all the models at once, from the same dataset.

I believe each expert also can't generally be used entirely outside of the context of the mixture (i.e. the operation of the MoE relies on picking the right expert to use for each token, even if num_experts is 1), but I haven't seen a definitive answer on this.
France needs more battery storage, but also larger interconnects with grids adjacent to it (notably Germany, where excess nuclear and renewables could push out coal generation).

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/FR

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE
No offense, but you look like one of the offenders here when you make posts like

> Eek… I’d never want to fly a plane that’s beneath me. I’d prefer it to be at the same altitude.
Microsoft seems to be purposely doing a poor job of integrating Python into Excel. It is a "give the monkey a banana" approach. With a rotten banana.

They seem to be pouring money into LAMBDA.
Valid; I don’t think that is incompatible with exploring the influence of chance in general.
Yea, verily. Nerddom is the best path. The true tao.

Divorce, drug addiction? Sorry; addicted to code, I no longer have time for relationships nor the ability to relate to normal people nor the brain cells to spare.

COVID lockdowns? Ha; I've been living under lockdown for the last ten years; it's my optimal lifestyle.

YouTube requiring brain scans with which to inject targeted ads directly into your videos? Too bad; I've already downloaded the Warcraft 3 and StarCraft playthroughs I watch over and over locally.

Microsoft integrating an AI into Windows which will predict the exact moment you're about to be racist and brick your machine? Nice try; I've already moved to Linux years ago.

It is the gift that keeps on giving.
I agreed with a lot of that except this:

> set some context and then present the problem to be solved

And this is exactly why:

> Pose them a problem and they'll start trying to solve it

Addressing an audience of programmers is already like herding cats. Giving them a problem they can each individually try to solve instead of paying attention to the presentation is counter-productive.

If you absolutely have to tease the problem, consider doing it in the invitation to the presentation so that they can work through the problem before showing up.
I believe this is separate from that. Generally it is believed that the admin the "airtight hatchway". They stil could have encrypted the recall database with DPAPI though.
> He was fond of the Nietzsche quote: “he who has a why to live can bear almost any how”, and he supplements this idea with his experiences in surviving Auschwitz and helping others in his clinical work.

It seems to me as though this "why to live" must transcend one's own life in order to have this effect. From this perspective, your epidemic of meaning might reflect a consensus world-view which is overly individualized.
so how bad things in Germany really are?
Just to add from personal experience: creatine is a pain to disolve in water and drink as per the usual instructions on the packaging, but very easy to add to meals when cooking.
What would you do if you became the focus of someone with mind control technology? What defenses exist? It is an existential threat, a seizure of your agency, by powers of uncertain intent, for which you have no recourse. It is a game-theoretical WMD - study into mind control tech is a field we cannot allow anyone to make progress on. Better a smoking crater with abundant collateral damage than a person who can create thralls out of human beings. It's a foundation not just of one neighborhood of science fiction, but of horror. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End_(Vinge_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renfield

Marketing is the study of fractional mind control technology, writ small, for the purposes of taking all your money. Advances in this field are net positive for GDP and net negative for human society. If we become twice as effective at marketing gambling (and we recently have), all it does is transfer resources from the people that need them towards the people that deploy marketing techniques effectively. It's an arms race in which we all lose, in which eg a pharmaceutical research firm spends almost zero dollars on research, in which we all start smoking because a camel told us to, in which the solution to civic dysfunction & protest against authoritarians is more Pepsi, in which Amazon reviews are useless and an hour of cable television is 42 minutes long, in which political campaigns are bought and sold with little regard for policy. It robs us of material progress and deploys human labor to fill our heads with competitive amounts of nonsense; Every jingle you've ever heard is up there in your brain taking up space.
Well they have many high paying jobs, and those people pay taxes. Facebook itself pay taxes. And facebook provide connectivity to billions of people which itself is very valuable.
> The dream of beating a nuclear power is too far from reality for them

A friendly reminder that the unstoppable nuclear power of the USSR was in-fact toppled by self-imposed economic reform and a lack of control over it's constituent states.

So in reality, beating a nuclear power via secession and self-determination isn't just feasible, it's the standard.
Is it really a bug if it hasn't affected the integrity of the game for 55 years? ducks
Oh yeah, but what does that help with when you can't change your a/c to recirculate and back without stopping the car?

Or when you simply can't ... figure ... out ... the "smart" turn stalk?
A friend of mine who has a PhD in Geology (not exactly a related field, but eh) and is interested in the Voyager program was telling me about this the other day. Basically, it's not that these measurements give us any new understanding of the universe _by themselves_; but, they may (and probably are) confirming theoretical models we have about interstellar space, providing more color and texture to other observations, and improving our understanding through increased richness of understanding. In other words, extremely useful but not in obvious "here's the smoking gun" ways.
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The EU is too busy with important stuff like curb stomping fossil fuels, plastics, nuclear energy, combustion engines, farming, old buildings, old cars, entrepreneurship, free speech, meritocracy, traditionalism, memes, anything russian... We don't have time to care about petty crap like "the economy". We're gonna be climate-neutral by 2050, baby! (whatever that means, I'm sure China & co will be right behind us)

Well, it could be worse, I guess - we could be Canada.
It's not on that basis that it was overturned though. It was overturned because the definition of machinegun requires that it fires more than one round with a single operation of the trigger. Everyone knows bump stocks don't do that, thus they're not machineguns. The president just ordered the ATF to pretend that they were, that's all. States will probably still be able to ban them by legislation though.
In other words, a ‘record scratch’ narrative structure https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/record-scratch-freeze-frame-y...
I was in high school in 1969, knew some calculus, and was very interesting in programming. In a good size city with a major engineering university and a large high school the main barrier was access to computers. Our school had teletypes connected to a remote mainframe. My friends and I found a few computers at the university we could use at night, but most had card readers and line printers, and none had graphics terminals of any kind. I think the particular combination of skills, interest, and access would have been pretty rare at the time.
I’ve wondered the same. The most common standard I’ve seen in everyday work for a long time now is “runs on my Mac and the Linux server we’re deploying to”.

I’m not talking about shops that ship software that customers receive and install on prem on their HPUX or whatever. That’s still a thing and people have to take that into account. I’m grateful I’m no longer among them.
Essentially all your points have "always" been true for Germany, so trying to paint them as causes for Germany's economy "going down the drain" (also a very much debatable assessment) is very reductive.

The points you are making sound a lot more like what you would find as political campaigning talking points for deregulation than what's actually transpiring with the German economy.

To 1): Entrepreneurship has always been a lot lower in Germany as in many other countries, as it's not seen as e.g. a capitalist virtue as in the US. The German economic model with it's widespread Mittelstand works well with few entrepeneurs and a large portion of the population working in those enterprises. Not everyone has to be a small entrepeneur and hustle all the time.

To 2): Again, basically the same as it has always been. For the typical company there isn't any more "government interference in the most minute details of running a business" than 20-30 years ago. One also has to keep in mind that (as in most countries) that as long as you are making money and act in good faith according to the spirit of the law, the regulatory bodies are a lot more bendy than one might assume according to the letter of the law.

To 5): You can very much scale your workforce up and down. Limited time contracts and long trial periods are very common. On a larger scale that is typically done via subcontractor structures. Also the typical reasons for wanting to scale down (economic non-viability) are permissible reasons for letting people go. It's also very much possible to fire people for under-performance (you just have to go through the motions of tracking their performance and comparing it to peers or documenting their non-compliance). The only stories I'm actually still hearing in the wild of people not being able to be fired is about "Beamte" (public servants).
I had no idea RZA didn't produce it. Who even cares then?
It’s a good thought, but I asked a pretty specific question (where can you get in to swim in the Napa river) the other day, and it had a generally correct answer, but then refined it to “within 5 miles of yountville” and it came back with an even more specific answer. I don’t think this was precomputed, though I could be wrong.
Does Pollinations do a good job of crediting the artists and designers whose work has be used for training data?
I wouldn't call that strangers raising children. Obviously it depends on the amount of hours per day but it is not like you are sending them to boarding school and you only see them during the week-ends.

I also felt that putting my daughters to daycare helped them socially.
There's also a radio interface that uses this data: https://www.tree.fm/
> Nobody even wants the 1-story buildings because you have to pay 5 times as much LVT per square foot as the 5-story buildings. Local land is no longer scarce because it's being used so much more efficiently.

Pushing a bunch of people that want to live in houses into apartments is an odd sort of efficiency.
What is this deft gesture? Is there a description of the actual method or how it works?
Wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are being lied to by the media who claims that Musk is greedy and wants money from Tesla. That is false and deliberately misleading, Musk doesn't get money, he gets shares which means he gains control, this is what this is about. The reality is also more interesting.

Musks pay package can, by definition, not be larger than the worth of the company.
it's ok, sneak literally just comments this on any mention of Homebrew. we've made many changes to analytics but, according to sneak, unless we move to opt-out: we're spyware.

weird how sneak doesn't post this on posts about all of the closed-source companies that use server-side analytics you cannot audit and data you cannot access.
Because you miss the other part of censorship. Everyone thinks of porn and the censorship of opinions slides under the radar.
Some people argue that it's becoming the norm for youtube videos too. People start with in action introduction and later on intersperse background details with outcomes.