skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I can't really follow these threads.

I saw:

> What's the benefit of learning a PURE functional programming language, opposed to just using a language which has adapted the best bits and pieces from the functional programming paradigm?

I also saw:

Though you can break purity with just inputs:

define f(o): return o.x
let a = {x=1}
f(a)
a.x = 2
f(a)

I don't know if that's the tail-end of a reductio ad absurdum which is trying to demonstrate the opposite of what it stated. Either way, to be clear, the above would be rejected by Haskell (if declared as a pure function.)

I guess if you learn a functional language "which has adapted the best bits and pieces from the functional programming paradigm" then you might think that the above is broken purity, but if you learn a "PURE functional programming language" then you wouldn't.
I have a 7900 XTX. There's a known firmware crash issue with ComfyUI. It's been reported like a year ago. Every rocm patch release I check the notes, and every release it goes unfixed. That's not to go into the intense jank that is the rocm debian repo. If we need DL at work, I'll recommend Nvidia, no question.
For that matter is a KL a "real" PDP-10?
Oh yeah so you want to explain how Epigenetics can transfer the memory of my Grandfathers 17th Birthday Party to my brain?
I'm convinced this happened recently with LED bulbs as well, even though I've found no definitive proof. The LEDs I installed in my house 10-12 years ago are still going strong, but every newer one I've purchased gives up the ghost within a couple of years. And I only purchase brands with a good reputation, like Feit and the like.
Isn't this just same as sssd? You got daemon with various backends, and then nss wrapper lib to query that daemon.
On an individual level, the way to solve it is to stop watching the popular stuff and go with indie-made things. In general, it's a good idea to consume less media anyway.

On a cultural level, the key is to promote local productions. Those will never get popular, but at least the local community will gain a better sense of connection through the artistic expressions of their community members. So for example: photo exhibitions, short film screenings, art galleries, all tailored to local productions.

Personally, I have no interest in the formulaic garbage coming from the pseudo-anonymous void.
Have you ever had one that wasn't? That said, I'm going to go eat some balaclava now.
https://www.cbc.ca/mediacentre/program/about-time
really appreciate that dsco (author here)
As (ostensibly) our collective agent, the government seems like a decent candidate.
No dedicated stack pointer isn't much of a problem. Stack growing up might be.
71k tapes, 400k hours. 480p H.264 (already better quality than VHS) can be encoded at around 300MB/h, so the whole collection would take approximately 120TB, or less than 10 LTO-9 tapes. It's always amazing to see the massive increase in storage density over time, although reliability is a different story; nonetheless, tape is an established good choice for long-term archival.
To me the interviewees didn't come off as you describe at all. They are discussing the subject matter, which is the focus of the book "craft of programming" (see: subtitle).

Also most of them (at least) are known to have a focus on the practice of programming itself. They are literally authors/stewards of established algorithms, programming languages, operating systems and browser engines. What else would would you expect?
I think for music that certainly seems likely - 99% of my listening is artists who I will never hear on the radio. Books too, probably. But I don't know how relevant that is for something like movies. Outside of the occasional independent theatres, movies force us into a relatively limited selection. But if anything that media is becoming irrelevant as new media like YouTube and Twitch rises to prominence.
This kind of thing always just reads as "I don't like what is in pop culture," mostly because while these metrics tell one story, the tails of the culture are bigger than they have ever been. Pop culture looks so shitty because people don't depend on it the same way they used to.
If you're going to make flip chips, let me know.
Combining Risks
I don't think are current memory architecture is fundamental incompatible with a paging based vector. Doubling the size of pointers is expensive. However, given current RAM sizes, our existing 48-bit effective pointer size is already large enough. It isn't enough to give every allocation a massive amount of virtual address space to grow into. But it should be more than enough to seperate out actual memory allocation from virtual address space allocation.

This would mean a more complicated malloc, where you ask for both an actual memory allocation, and an amount of address space to be allocated. And will still require you to have some sense of the maximum size you might need in a given vector.
Also, it forces memory allocations to be multiples of the page size, which isn't always ideal.
I bought one of their entry level wifi routers and was completely unable to configure it without first setting up an account on their cloud service and using that to activate the router. Maybe it's possible, but if it is they hid it very well. I know their hardware tends to get good reviews, but the whole experience left a really bad taste in my mouth
ISA shouldn’t be more than a 10% or 20% performance impact or so, per jim Keller
The slow part here is going to be HTML handling.

The comparator - turndown.js - is built on top of domino.js, a mature HTML lib built as a more performance-focused version of Mozilla's DOMJS (an already mature project in itself), so even as slow as NodeJS itself may be, you're running up against some pretty well-crafted libraries in an ecosystem with a long lineage of HTML handling.
As far as undergraduate work goes EE is harder due to the math background required, indeed. However, the thing is, if you take the same brilliant minds who would ace EE, and reallocate them to software, they won't magically throttle down and limit themselves to undergrad CS concepts; they will find and tackle all the complexity they can withstand. You end up with the JS ecosystem, CI/CD, IaC, columnar databases, and so on. So I wonder if some of this is happening where thinking that AMD doing undergrad CS-level effort is all there is, where there is actually invisible complexity that is being missed that NVidia managed to tackle.
That's been outsourced as a 3rd party plugin (iFolio? I think).

Works OK, but I did like the Apple interface better.
Take one small idea and start writing at once
Readable version: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1802331845633212554.html
Monetization Experiment: Fairytrail, Travel Buddy App for Nomads
ELI5 attempt:

Your genes are a recipe book, not a blueprint. What recipe is chosen is based somewhat on environmental effects. When you reproduce, you pass on the book + the earmarks on the pages.

In your comment, the word "Explicitly" is the controversial part. Of course a memory cannot be _explicitly_ (like .mp4? lol) encoded in genetics. But effects pass on, or so says the field. It's the same as how the word "Memories" in the title is doing a lot of hand-wavey hype generation. Can I share a password or birthday party during intercourse? Of course not.
It’s more meaningful than you might think because the majority of people on earth probably aren’t decedents of this guy. Especially in the 1700’s when our first presidents where born.

Essentially zero US presidents are Asian, Hispanic, etc. Pick a Native American from 30 generations ago and you don’t see this kind of family tree. It’s an expanded circle of privilege through time.
It’s a closure oddity. The closure captures a reference to the variable, not the value of the variable at the time of its creation. Given that, the results are entirely predictable.
Any business with an IT department should be drowning in them. Monitors still ship with VGA cables even though they are rarely used. So if you know anyone in a smaller IT dept that doesn't have really draconian rules over assets they would be more than happy to give you a pile of them.
The article glosses over some details of a decade old study, that might have maybe shown that some types of conditioning using electrical shock might have epigenetic effects that persist in gametes and effect later behavior. The study attempts to show it indirectly and hand waves at the mechanisms. It doesn’t test for DNA methylation or anything similar.
There are lots of providers that aren’t CloudFlare/Google/etc: https://github.com/curl/curl/wiki/DNS-over-HTTPS#publicly-av...

(There’s lots of smaller providers, but lots operated by governments, ccTLD administrators, and other major organizations)

I only bring this up because the idea that the major providers “are” the internet is the only reason this is a possible and a problem in the first place.
Eh, I mean what other explaination is there for "instinct". You have genetic and epigenetic factors that give something a predisposition to respond to stimuli in a specific way. Makes sense to me, but it's just a theory (as most things are) and we have a lot more to learn.
Without sponsorblock and adblock I'd rather just not watch YouTube at all.
In the US, "apartment" at least strongly implies rented. You'd normally say condo (or co-op) if you own. (ADDED: Or just "my place" or something like that generically.)
On other typical 32b MCUs you end up doing this kind of bitbanging purely from software, while RP2040 has the PIO which is kind of programmable bitbanging accelerator. Similar hardware blocks in other MCUs are either single-purpose (think USART), or much more limited and mostly only found weird automotive parts.
This is quite possibly the best possible news I have heard yet from proton, and makes me feel much more likely to recommend them. This is wonderful news.
I'm not talking about gaming, I'm talking about general purpose computing (although even for gaming your statement is pretty bold). Since she's CEO of a publicly traded company, it seems pretty weird that she would ignore the fields where the money is at, while Nvidia becomes the most valuable company in the world. So she's not just ignoring developers' wants but also her stockholders'.
I doubt any of the famous three letter US agencies would need (or want!) such a wide open door as a "specific URL" and logging in with an administrator account acquired from the firmware itself. I would think that they would want a door that couldn't be opened by someone who happened to spot it, to not give anyone else the same advantage.

No, this is more likely the result of a test or some annoying procedure during development that needed more access than the device would normally provide - I've seen it before, and I think most people who work with embedded systems at least at some point in their career have done something that would be bad if it ended up in production units.
Wouldn’t wolves generally be significantly less dangerous because they are generally more skittish and avoid being near humans?

One of the main issues with feral/wild dogs (or wolf hybrids) is that they are much less afraid of humans and therefore are more likely to attack livestock, pets or even actual people when given the opportunity. Under normal circumstances actual wolf attacks are (and probably were historically) and feral/hybrid dogs are just attributed to them.
https://archive.is/UnVyG
Eilenberg and Steenrod is great, but if you're not quite ready for algebraic topology, Mac Lane and Birkhoff's _Algebra_ [1] is an introductory abstract algebra text that makes well-motivated use of category theory throughout. From the preface:

…we hold that the general and abstract ideas needed should grow naturally from concrete instances. With this in view, it is fortunate that we do not need to begin with the general notion of a category. The most basic category is the category whose objects are all sets and whose morphisms are all functions (from one set to another); hence we can start Chapter I with sets — more accurately, with sets, functions, and the composition of functions — as the fundamental materials. On this background, Chapter II introduces the integers as the most basic example of an algebraic system. All the other categories which we need are quite "concrete" ones — each object A in the category is a set (with some structure), and each morphism from an object A to an object B in the category is a function (one which preserves the structure) on the set A to the set B. Hence we can give in Chapter I an easy, explicit definition of a "concrete" category, leaving the full treatment of the more general notion of a category to Chapter XV. In the same spirit, the idea fundamental to the notion of adjoint functor turns out to be the simple one of a "universal" construction. This idea, introduced in Chapter I for sets and in Chapter II for other concrete categories (such as monoids and lattices), is then developed with successive examples throughout the subsequent chapters.

[1] https://archive.org/details/algebra00macl
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3923835/

"Parental olfactory experience influences behavior and neural structure in subsequent generations" (2014)
Building an AI Agent (To Modernise COBOL)
Though phones and modern cameras do store location in exif, so caution is needed publishing it in any way, since a download may contain the exif.
My letter-color synesthesia continues to fire on all cylinders well into adulthood. It's just a form of memory association of course. I can see that this 'e' is (in my editor) white text on a muted grey background. But that 'e' is also, simultaneously, the brightest lime green you ever laid eyes on. Like #00FF00, extremely light green. Every 'e' in every word lights up in my mind's eye in exactly this color. Most vowels do the same, consonants are inconsistent, numbers are pretty strong.

It's a fun little memory trick, and it was surprising to learn that it's not a universal experience. Not just "your letter-color association is different from mine" (it seems to be highly personal) but "wait, you don't do that at all?"
Europe's cell phone qualities vary a lot by country. Even in western Europe, some surprising countries(1) have absolutely terrible networks. As a Canadian we have some very expensive mobile plans, but our network speeds are mostly very usable in 95% of the places I'll ever end up (I routinely stream netflix/youtube/etc on the train between Toronto and Montreal).

(1) I'm looking at you Germany, where my connection between Hamburg and Berlin was mostly edge and my LTE connections in the cities were barely useable. I even switched local SIMs from T-mobile to Vodafone because it was so terrible, but was the same result.
I read the article, the linked study, and two studies citing the linked study. The claim that memories or “lived experience” is inherited is not supported by the study.
> Likely taxing the latter, which will be very unpopular

Better civics education should be able to overcome this vieled "fuck you, I got mine" attitude. Richer cities already subsidize rural areas, and rural areas support cities with non-monetary benefits like food. Politicians shouldn't be able to so easily divide us when we need to support each other.
Parent of parent explained the premise of the video correctly. For someone who's complaining about the parent not watching the video, it really comes off as you having not even watched the video.
Virtualizing Our Storage Engine
Well, technically yes. To see why that's the case you'd actually have to work with their products.
So what units does it show? Are, say, those two little green blocks down on the lower right (May this year?) two jobs more than seekers? Two percent more jobs? Two times...?

Without that, it still says pretty much nothing.
The nice thing about conformal coating is that in general you don't have to do as many repairs versus non conformal coated boards.
But would the landlord call it an "apartment"?
Additionally, when you have strict input token limits: it’s way easier to chunk Markdown while keeping track of context than it is to chunk HTML at all.
3rd, behind China (who is way ahead) and Japan.
The threadiverse is definitely less popular than mastodon, but I think it has a lot of potential.

Here are a few good instances for the curious. You can quickly browse the main pages and see if the content appeals to you:

- https://beehaw.org/ (heavily-moderated in a way that many people like)

- https://lemmy.zip/ (my home instance)

- https://programming.dev/ (most of the big programming subreddits live here)
So, can you give any evidence or even point at a suggestion that inheritable epigenetics can encode inheritable memories?
From TFA:

> The study made use of mice’s love of cherries. Typically, when a waft of sweet cherry scent reaches a mouse’s nose, a signal is sent to the nucleus accumbens, causing this pleasure zone to light up and motivate the mouse to scurry around in search of the treat. The scientists exposed a group of mice first to a cherry-like smell and then immediately to a mild electric shock. The mice quickly learned to freeze in anticipation every time they smelled cherries. They had pups, and their pups were left to lead happy lives without electric shocks, though with no access to cherries. The pups grew up and had offspring of their own.

> At this point, the scientists took up the experiment again. Could the acquired association of a shock with the sweet smell possibly have been transmitted to the third generation? It had. The grandpups were highly fearful of and more sensitive to the smell of cherries.
Mapnik 4.0.0
"Nobody would suppose that the fact that human
beings everywhere always throw their spears pointy-end first shows that there
must be a gene for a pointy-end-first instinct." - Daniel Dennett.

Counterpoint : "But, as Weiss discovered in a 2008 study, moths and butterflies can retain memories from their time as caterpillars, suggesting that the creatures' nervous system remains during the transformation into a butterfly."
Ugh, you sound like my mom - never would let us have any of the delicious soft fresh bread if there was still old bread left.
Agreed—all that it really shows is that all of them but Van Buren have some form of British ancestry. Even the fact that they're all descended from a King of England isn't especially noteworthy at those kinds of time scales.

That said, what's incredibly impressive, if true, is that someone managed to track each of their geneologies that far back along that line. That's not an easy feat. And this isn't just an internet legend: at the very least there really was a girl who really did put together a chart, and she got taken seriously enough to have it included in a Library of Congress exhibit on the Magna Carta [0].

I'd be interested to see the actual chart she made. One possible explanation for how she was able to do this is if each of the presidents connects up to English aristocracy fairly recently, which would account for the records being intact and would be more interesting than just the fact of a shared ancestor in ~1200.

[0] https://loc.gov/exhibits/magna-carta-muse-and-mentor/magna-c...
> to help keep small businesses alive.

That’s what a lot of this concern is really about. Legal bailouts for mediocre boomers who run inefficient, unambitious businesses with high prices.

Small businesses try to guilt you for your business as they rarely offer something worth buying on the merits unless they occupy a niche.

> Walmart and scattered Dollar Generals fill the void left by shuttered independent grocers. Frerick worries about the mid-level grocers “collaps[ing] like the rest of America.”

“Independent” in this case meaning high priced grocers people didn’t want to shop at. They got wiped out for being unable to control their costs.
Seeing other countries from the reductionist lens of tourism is the McDonalization of humanity. Now the human condition has been reduced to a list of superficial and trivialized activities on Tripadvisor.

Take a selfie next to a statue, eat at a restaurant, buy some souvenir made in China... now you can check a country in your country list and say "I have been to n+1 countries". What was the cost? burning a massive amount of plane fuel to get you there that is equivalent to you burning your trash for a full year, something that in a planet governed by a rational species would be illegal to do.

The article talks about something much more profound. Long distance tourism is at our current technological level a planet-killing industry and should be outlawed.
Have you ever lived in the UK? Because I've never thought of "two or three" as meaning that two is more likely than three.

Are you sure that other people actually mean this when they say it, or are you just adding the extra connotation in your head?

Also I'm not sure I've ever heard anyone say "three or two". That sounds weird, like saying "fork and knife".
I really wish we could return to an era of congress that had appropriate mistrust in business and a strong desire for anti-trust busting. I think it’s one of the most important things we could do to prevent capitalism from going off the rails.
Fire up the Animus.
Sure, lord it over the rest of us peons. We can’t all be overachievers, you know.
archiving for the future... perfect bet on a single stock... hmmm
There’s a big difference between DNA methylation on gametes leading to behavioral predispositions in offspring and the claim that memories and experiences are inherited.
Megacorps don't do innovation. As in technology, so in culture.
Par for the course. They may as well have one for Butch Cassidy too.
wonder what cool insights we can see now that AI can process this data; a history of how consent is manufactured by local media?
There's tons of content to consume nowadays you don't have to be limited to pop culture.

The problem is pop culture gives everyone a shared interest to talk about and contributes to social cohesion.

Imagine talking with your friends about Jaws, or Nirvana when they first came out.

I can still find quality content but the people I can talk with it about are limited.

Pop culture provided sort of a commonality between people where we could unite over various pieces of art.

Now we have sports though.
If it's blue, then yes.
Well, I'd say using an entirely different collection type than the rest of language (STArray instead of [a]) is already a big complication. It also ends up being more than double the size of the Java code. And, as the author admits, it's actually even slower than the original not-quicksort implementation above, because it actually has to make a copy of the original list, and then return a copy of the mutated array.

So, one of the best sorting algorithms ever devised is not actually usable to sort a [a] in Haskell... I maintain this is a good example of making an easy problem tough.
Um, if you're an actual cybersecurity expert, positively perceived by others, you can contact forum mods to be allowed to post. No whining if they disagree with you. Go to the website and see the sidebar links.
Instinct is totally different from memory.
I think for me psychedelics are a good tool to learn observations like this. Now I often can recall this state without taking any substances. I think my meditation also has improved.
There are probably some parts of drug development where AI tools could be helpful. But I don't see how they could help with the actual limiting factor in drug development right now.

Designing potential drugs is nice an all, but the thing that would make drug develompent more effective would be predicting if those drugs will make it through phase III of the clinical trials.
Does the IA have an archive collection where all that data sits? I search IA but multiple collections get shown with varying content and sizes