skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah that’s right. I’m used to RuntimeException since that’s what people subclass to get out of the checked exception mess. The exact hierarchy around rare things like OutOfMemory just isn’t something that ever comes up in day to day work so it’s easy to forget.

Thanks for the correction.
I'll mention it. PhobGCC is awesome and thank you for making it!
It's just getting started. Solid state batteries are getting close. There are big companies, from Toyota on down, putting together manufacturing facilities. Nio is already shipping an early semi-solid-state battery.

The solid state battery era looks like this:

- Much better safety. No thermal runaway problem. Survives nail test.

- Upwards of 5,000 charge cycles.

- Charge times around 5 minutes.

- Maybe better energy density.

- Cost not yet well understood. Manufacturing is hard.

For small devices, the battery should outlive the device.

For cars, the usage model looks more like gas cars. Drive 300-400 miles, recharge in 5-10 minutes.
This has land-use implications. Gas stations can convert to charging stations in the same
footprint and layout. No need for giant parking lots of chargers.
Anyone get the bug where you can't get away from the Safari tab that's screen timed because anything you type into the address bar gets deleted by another popup?
Biggest of them all: interest. On a $1M mortgage, you’ll almost pay $2M as interest over 30 years even at 7%.

Historically interest was never as low as during the pandemic. And most people bought houses using mortgages. The average “cost” of owning a house is much more than the selling price, even before you account for the upkeep.
You live alone in the forest and chop wood during the winter. The next winter you're much better at the task and chop more wood. There's no difference in money supply, population or any such. But your economic output has increased.
I have been using it recently and like it. It is MUCH better than Windows native snipping software. It is also open source and free, so that's an added bonus.

Having said that, I wish we can select the objects (e.g., text box, arrows) we have created and move them around. Right now, we can only undo and if an arrow is drawn a few steps before and now you want to reorient its head, you are out of luck.

In the past (4-5 years ago), I used to use Jing (now called TechSmith Capture) and liked it a lot: https://www.techsmith.com/jing-tool.html and liked it. But I think the company decided to remove some features and/or require some sort of account creation; on top of that, it (if I remember correctly) kind of lost its earlier simplicity, so I stopped using it.
It seems like ado__dev posts advertisements for source graph quite a bit here. Maybe give it a rest for a bit?
Oh that’s interesting and I think you’re right. Software as it’s developed today is very abstract but spreadsheets have a visual representation that makes them much more approachable.
I always heard this explained simply as supermarkets putting milk at the back so you have to walk past a bunch of other stuff to get it.
Can you quote him directly please? You're saying implying but it's more likely you're placing that assumption or interpretation on it. Was it actually concerns he put forward of how easy it would actually be for Apple to do so, rather than claiming they will 100% do so?

Re: "I don't think it would be hard to prove a billion dollars or more in damages for the kind of legal team Apple could easily assemble."

It's practically impossible to prove - in fact his statement and his reach you talk about could perhaps even have driven up their revenue, if we're just going to play armchair expert and put assumptions forward as reality.
The hyper desirable areas are no longer affordable to even millionaires.
Fundamentally, yes. Everyone at a base level is driven by desire, either for change, money, recognition, what have you. We all want to progress in life by fulfilling these desires, and most people will tell you that the market won't reward you for playing fair. If you work at a business, you fundamentally have to play the game to ensure progress. The entire article here is about how you will be manipulated if you don't question the literal wording of what HR tells you. If you don't, you could be missing precious weeks of job-searching and interviewing time. Making you believe it's about personal improvement is one of their many time-wasting and greedy tricks.

So if you're not part of management setting up the game, and if you're not one of the players conscious of the House Edge, how long can you play at the table? I really do empathize with people who have benign expectations of business politics and want to go attend those silly bar-crawl/"after hours" events. But those people, nice as many of them are, are tools. The only way to put yourself ahead of the management is to stop being a sycophant, and to strategically deny your employer free office hours.
But she coined "The Conway Effect"

When “others” (such as women and people of color) make innovative contributions in scientific and technical fields, they often “disappear” from later history and their contributions are ascribed elsewhere. This is seldom deliberate—rather, it’s a result of the accumulation of advantage by those who are expected to innovate. This article chronicles an example of such a disappearance and introduces the Conway Effect to elucidate the disappearance process.

https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/2018/10/mco2018100...
Looking for app to confirm daily attendance of individuals at various locations
Looking for a phone app where 20-30 year old students can confirm daily attendance at an external jobsite. We have about 50 students doing their externships, and they need to confirm their attendance every day. I'm looking for two clicks of a button, nothing complicated.
Because they have a brand reputation and all the (recent) words coming out of Elon, his media platform, and his AI are shit and people don't like them and it would conflict with Apple's brand image - they don't even let movie villains use iPhones and you think they'd put the potty mouthed, anti-science pro-fascism LLM he's trying to make onto their phones?
At this point it's only a matter of who's got those damn gpu's and enough of them, or not, willing to deal with, eww, Oracle even. Since already in bed with Microsoft, why serve a lesser evil - upgrade to Oracle.
I won't say it's impossible for me, but there's a huge, tangled mess of psychological, social, habitual and lifestyle reasons that prevent it. Starting with, ever since I finished high school and was no longer forced by my parents to get up on time, my natural awake time is between ~11:00 and 04:00. Any attempts to shift it to what society considers normal tend to drift back to baseline within a week. These days, 報復性熬夜 (revenge bedtime procrastination) is a significant factor, too.

(It's 00:15 here as I'm submitting this comment; I'm fully wake and alert, as opposed to how I was 3-4 hours ago.)
Can you trigger it with the PrtScn key in windows like you can with sharex? I can't find an option for that.
It isn't even that high of a barrier for entry though? If someone really wants a piece of software that does something, there's probably already some python library for it. calling some imported python function isn't hard

if someone is too lazy to find some python library to import, but driven enough to come up with an unambiguous way of telling a model to do something in natural language, that's a borderline non-existent demographic

really it's kind of baffling to me, some people just hear "code" and think we're talking about some undecipherable thing like the Voynich manuscript. makes me feel like the guy out of the Zen and Motorcycle maintenance book who was confused why his friend refused to figure out how to fix his own bike. some people just refuse to learn. if they wanted to, they would have already
What is the fastest way to get up to speed with techniques that led to the current SOTA?
Please stop deleting and reposting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah, Objective-C Protocols are so old that they influenced Interfaces in Java 1.0.
> language is, in the big picture, very very small

You may enjoy Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling" [1][2].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140222103103/http://subterrane...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_o...
Elon's record on trust and safety is not in-line with Apple's values.

And ignoring that its quality is far behind OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic etc.
Makes sense. Perhaps there could be an option in the menu to set the default expansion level:

- level 1: collapse all H1 sections

- level 2: collapse all H2 sections

- ...

Basically like org-mode's cycle feature with the tab key. And then clicking on a headline will expand it.
As someone dealing with Swift everyday (and, before that, faster langs like Elixir and Typescript), I can only agree. Sometimes my incremental builds take 20-30 seconds and it feels like a huge toll. Waiting on the CI (which is a weak machine) is up to 25 minutes until the test suite has passed - a large chunk of that being compilation time. Releases take 5-10 minutes.

I really like Swift, but I’d highly appreciate faster compilation times.
"Adequate explanation" is a tool of relatively small scope, dependent upon the judgment of individuals, which is of relatively great scope. If many individuals judge it "telepathy" then that carries weight. Let's not put the cart before the horse.
At what point do we just come and say that the FDA is corrupt.

The study of MDMA showed benefits for PTSD: https://icer.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/PTSD_Revised-Rep...
i don't have experience with rust async, although i used to maintain a csp protocol stack in python async, which is pretty similar, so tell me if this is wrong

i feel like the same kind of thing can happen even if you start entirely async, because something that was previously synchronous may have to become asynchronous, which leads to having to revalidate all your concurrency assumptions all the way up its (static) call stack. wherever you were depending on not getting preempted, you need to change the code to not depend on that anymore. but if ram is so tight that you're concerned about the sram for a second stack, maybe that's a pretty small task rather than a major rewrite

that said, i don't recall having actually had that problem
I have yet to see this, but I feel a strong need to praise noclip for pushing out absolutely stellar video game related documentaries!
Counter-counterpoint: "They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain (1979).
Better than talking and being overheard. Also, with telepathy you could have any voice of your choice, with any sound effects.
...but your X-10 stuff will need to be replaced.
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TIL Nazis were socialists and North Korea is Democratic republic.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40649014.

I'm sure you didn't intend to post yet-another flamewar tangent but that's what this would lead to in the limit case.
Okay read Walter Isaacson and Vances biography and get back to me. There is hundreds of examples in each. Or read this thread that has a few snippets from the book. https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...

He is a constant technical driving force.

> if you kicked Musk out of SpaceX and replaced it with absolutely any random guy as CEO, do you believe reusable rockets would never see the light of day?

Would we have reusable rockets in the same timeline as SpaceX, absolutely not. The proof is all the other rocket companies that have failed to do so, including government entities.

So yah obviously if Musk never founded SpaceX, we would not have reusable rockets right now.
I'm guessing the free tier available to OAI is not the same free tier available to anyone else.
I don't think that allowing a bully to smear anyone's reputation with each tantrum is a smart thing to do, specially as Musk's tantrum consists of attacking a central piece of Apple's sales pitch: security.
This may also be true. The human mind is very complex, particularly because it's main purpose appears to be simulation (well, maybe second to survival, though I think you might agree we simulate to future survive.)

Additionally, our minds may network and the clues have always been there.
Yes. Everyone was ridiculing him for believing they could do it. Including industry experts.
> a crack dealer's free tier

Pretty sure GCP & AWS employ a lot of ex-Oracle people.
I use that daily. Very simple but has exactly the features I need.
Why do people always assume anything he says isn't why he does what he does? He's repeatedly stated why he cares. It's rather frustrating. Like assume good faith please.
Enjoy it.

Btw, can you sit quietly in a room for fifteen minutes, stilling the thoughts in your own mind?
Not quite how that played out. He wanted complete control, they told him no, he pulled his money in the hopes of bankrupting them. When he reneged on the $1 billion he pledged in funding they were forced to seek funding elsewhere (Microsoft).

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/24/23654701/openai-elon-musk...
I run a little kube cluster on it that serves as the brain for my home lab on it and it’s been cranking along just fine for the better part of half a year. It’s all IaC and ephemeral so if it died tomorrow I could just restart it. Quite generous for $0
Within a decade battery technologies capable of thermal runaway should disappear.
lots of progress in transgender issues since then because of people like lynn conway. Because of people like her, fewer people will lose their careers (or have to rebuild) or kids just because they corrected their gender.
A bit meta, but your response is part of boosting that SNR, in the best way possible.

We already saw the front-page discussion about "slop", but we don't have to let it wash over all of us, all of the time. Thank you (and GP) for doing your part!
The parent is not wrong:

The total number of children in the world has already peaked (2017?) and is now dropping.

The population growth should still continue for about a human lifespan from here (50-80 years depending on who you ask).

That last growth is just those children growing up and becoming adults. I.e. They are the “last big generation”.

We will see the population drop again, if we dont fuck up the planet before that happens.

I think you would have difficulty finding countries in the world where fertility rates (children born pr woman) are not dropping.

Bangladesh went from 5.5 kids pr woman in 1985 to 2.1 in 2017. This is a global trend.
Jet aviation fuel is typically kerosene, which has an average carbon chain length of about 10, as compared to diesel which ranges from 12 to 15.

Among critical factors, diesel fuel freezes at far higher temperatures than kerosene, which is important for both aircraft (which typically fly in ambient temperatures about -40 °F/°C) and polar operations. Blends such as Jet A1 and Jet B (kerosene + petrol) have still lower freezing points of -47 °C and -60 °C respectively.

Diesel's freezing temperatures are ~ - 8--9 °C / 15--17 °F. Kerosene and jet aviation fuel are rated to -40 °C / -40 °F (both temperature scales are the same at this temperature).

Piston aircraft burn petrol / gasoline with a freezing point of ~ -73 °C / -100 °F.

Shorter hydrocarbon chain lengths -> lower freezing temperatures. Methane (CH4) is liquid to -182 °C / -195 °F, and only liquifies at -162 °C / -259 °F.

<https://www.amspecgroup.com/news/types-of-jet-fuel/>
I’ve heard of people being cut off without warning on the free tier.
My pet theory is that Musk basically unraveled when the study came out that there does not exist enough CO2 on Mars to terraform the planet:

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/mars-terraforming-not-poss...

Note the date on that: it was published in Nature on July 30 2018, and it wouldn't surprise me if somebody would've sent a preprint to Musk up to a month before then. The "pedo guy" tweet during the Thai cave rescue was July 18 2018. Musk's "funding secured" Tweet that the SEC sanctioned him over was Aug 7 2018. His appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast was September 2018. Most of his children and extramarital affairs post-date 2018; at that point, he only had the 5 with Justine Musk. Pre-2018, most of his ideas were crazy but at least engineering-focused on reasonable causes.

Musk has repeatedly said his ambition is to die on Mars. After a reputable scientific paper came out saying that if you step off Starship, that will be the very first thing you do, he doesn't really have anything to live for. Meanwhile he's given up so much for that goal (most notably, his first family) that it must feel pretty bitter to have invested so much in something impossible.

For that matter, the psychology is likely pretty similar to the core MAGA demographic, many of whom work hard all their life to achieve the American Dream and then find that the American Dream is going to other people.
I dunno, why wouldn't you want an LLM trained by a company whose owner keeps inviting child pornographers and neo-Nazis to post? What could possibly go wrong?
While I love the idea of leaving messages over the years for my kid to have and - hopefully - treasure I'm not sure that email is a great way to do it.

What worse way to introduce a kid to email than having a thousand messages in your inbox! I hate my inbox as is, I wouldn't want to start it off this way.

I like the general premise though.
I don't know about routine skimming of history, but promo committees in big tech look at both commits and code reviews (the comments you left on others' commits).
Looks very cool, thanks! Yeah, that's the kind of thing I mean, it sounds like there are a few ways to do it.

The paper cites https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscentsci.3c01263 which is triplet even, though who knows what the research group would do if they actually implemented it...
The problem is that people confuse science with science fiction. Is the same problem each time somebody says the name "spider" here. Oh "Children of time" tell us all about how smart are spiders"... hem. Not.

There aren't known spores found out of earth. Only on the books. But histories in those books aren't real. Biology is real.

There is not any reason to assume that a earth fungus or a fern could made a spore able to survive in a rock in the vacuum of space for thousands of years. And the reentry in the atmosphere would reduce it to ashes at the end. Super-spores from entirely new types of organisms would be spotted by taxonomists.

Those hypothetical "genomic experiments" to modify things extant yet could only happen in a limited amount of individuals.

Most probably they would never work. Think in a computer program and paste some code at a random position of characters. Maybe in the middle of a word. The probability that the program still keeps running after that is very low. The line would need to fall exactly between two closed blocks. DNA is more complicated that computer programs. You can't just introduce random genes here and there unless you have genetic scissors for exactly this problem (we have this tool but for a limited number of cases), and know exactly where and how.

As those life beings would be defective the modifications would be diluted first on a much bigger population, and cleaned by evolution or predators soon after that.
You can't put 9 women in a room and get a baby in a month. - project manager adage.
If you can live without a cellphone, you're not living in reality? Interesting argument.

I wonder how all those people did it in the 90s and 00s and before the age of smartphones.
A quote from a GMC designer:

"I remember wanting it to feel very locomotive - like a massive fist moving through the air"

I suppose it appeals to a kind of selfish stupidity.
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A strong bodied tea such as a ripe puerh goes very well with bourbon and honey
Handling there is probably the right thing to do.

I think the argument is that there is probably a better way of expressing that in code than exceptions. Perhaps returning an Either<Data, ErrorCode> kind of value.

There’s also an argument that that’s not truly an exception because it should be expected that an I/O error is a reasonable possibility. Things like OutOfMemory or VirtualMachineError are more what they may be thinking exceptions should be saved for. Truly unexpected things.
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Extensible scheduler class to be merged for 6.11
There's only so much one can do through plugins. We can't write a plugin to make an app simpler, more lightweight, open source, and without electron.js.
If we're going to talk about telepathy and all mean the same thing by it, we need a rigorous definition of the term. Does anyone have one?

If asked to guess, I'd start with "the communication of meaning among humans in the absence of signification", but I am unstudied in the field and have no idea what prior art exists.

edit: I did say "rigorous". Please cite your sources, and note that while I am admittedly guessing above, I'm borrowing the terms "meaning" and "signification" from the jargon of semiotics in order to do so; considering the subject matter, to raid a sort of philosophical "fringe science" for terminology seemed apropos.
> the US and Canada just ratified it

Canada ratified it years ago (if we're not counting optional protocols), but according to https://indicators.ohchr.org/, the US hasn't. Do you have a source?
flyio at the bottom of the pack? seems legit.
"Burning" in the opsec sense. Disclosing the existence and extent of their data collection by letting too many non-cleared peeps in on the secret.
More expensive up front but in my experience the hardware lasts longer and is usable for longer. I just recently retired a 15 year old MBP due to a battery swell. I’d still probably have it on my desk and occasionally using it if i wasn’t concerned about it exploding and burning my house down.
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