skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this inherent to LLMs by the way, or is it a training choice? I would love for an LLM to talk more slowly when it is unsure.

This topic needs careful consideration and I should use more brain cycles on it. Please insert another coin.
I liked how you set your bio in the "About" section, kind of circular dependencies :)
If the physical universe is all there is, no (for anything that I consider a reasonable definition of free will).

If the physical universe - matter and the laws of physics - is all that exists, then all you can be is matter that obeys the laws of physics. You're atoms that obey the laws of atomic physics, making up biochemicals that obey the laws of biochemistry, making up neurons that obey the laws of neurology. There's no room there for you to have free will. There is no way for you to make a non-determined choice. Worse, there's no room there for you to be a person. You're just a very complicated machine, and nothing more.

Yes, there is quantum uncertainty at the lower levels of this machinery. That doesn't give you free will, though, because you don't control the quantum uncertainty. It controls you (or at least your atoms, to some degree).

Yes, I know, compatibilism. That makes free will and physical determinism compatible by making "free will" into something less than what I think true free will is.

So, no, true free will is not possible - if the physical universe is all there is. Neither is true personality possible.
What is silly and obvious to you is exploratory for others. When you cast shade on curiosity, you snuff out the potential before it ever comes to light.
I see, thanks for contextualizing it for me; I hadn't known about the ecosystems NLnet is involved in.
On a really long timeline, it's probably high-end services businesses that have the most job security. I'm thinking of professions like Michelin-quality chefs, performance coaches for top CEOs and athletes, etc. These will likely never be replaced by any sort of automation, at least within our lifetimes.
At this point pharmaceutical companies don’t do a lot of their own research - Novo Nordisk is a bit of an exception, largely because it’s the commercial arm of a diabetic foundation.

Pharmaceutical companies acquire the winners when it’s obvious they’re winners and they pay a lot for the privilege. That’s how biotech investing has worked for decades now. The risk of drug development is spread among several layers from publicly funded grants to VCs to public investors and finally pharma pays for the winners.

VCs fund the early stage, once the startup has something promising that can go to clinical trials they IPO (VCs often fund phase I), then when it’s cleared phase III a pharma company acquires it. Sometimes its so obvious that a drug will work and there’s so much competition that they acquire them early like Sofosbuvir for $11 billion, years before its approved.

You can’t make a killing investing in pharma because everyone before them takes all the risk and gets a lot of the profit. Pharma makes a commensurate profit for providing an exit for public investors and the expertise to mass manufacture and distribute the final product, not all the windfall from developing the drugs.
It must be a Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
NASA LRO image of China's moon far side sample return spacecraft in Apollo basin
i agree

we are tentatively working on a proposal with the chrome team that takes the most important concepts of htmx and integrates them into HTML using more standard attributes. Alex Petros, a core htmx dev, gave a talk at Big Sky Dev Con on this idea here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inRB6ull5WQ

this will obviously be a much longer and more difficult process, but hopefully it will give HTML enough oomph that htmx will often be unnecessary

all of that doesn't change the fact that the code above is hyperscript, not htmx
Hubble is such a productive piece of an equipment. What a shame there has been only one pointing outwards all these years.
This has "I could recreate twitter in a weekend" vibes. I am not out here rallying to lick corporate boots (I am in the 'hand the drug companies a cheque to recoup research costs, and make the drug generic' camp), but this is a really bad take.

The $3 billion comes from researching and demonstrating the role of GLP antagonists, determining how to use them as a medication, developing manufacturing and distribution processes, and dosing mechanisms, testing, documenting, and getting the appropriate certifications and approvals to ensure that the risks of using the medication are reasonably well understood and communicated. Then there is the cost of marketing and educating the medical services providers in various fragmented markets about the effects and efficacy of the drugs and presenting them as alternatives to existing medications.

$3B sounds like a lot of money, but when you consider that the efforts above take hundreds to thousands of people over 30[1] years to achieve, it's not alot.

As for the idea that people should or could manufacture or self-administer these drugs safely at home, yeah, that might be the case for a very limited number of people, but I am going to lean on the ghost of George Carlin for that “Think about how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of em’ are stupider than that”.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5707151/
Not directly.

Coding is communication. It will look very different 20 years from now, but it will still be communication. What's important is writing good specs. They have to learn to communicate, how to sort blocks of stuff cleanly.

OO might not be around in 20 years, but the principles of encapsulation, inheritance, SOLID, etc will still be around. Evolutionary programming will probably be much bigger in 20 years, and it's hard to see how, but it'll probably involve knowing what goals to set and how to design systems.

But for kids? It means putting stuff in a box. It means automating the things you do every day or at least reducing the cost. They'll learn far more from Factorio or those tycoon games on Roblox than they would from a book.
It's true, as an acronym MBGA just slips off the tongue.
Meta, where they run a PHP monolith with mysql? ;)
Artspeak – Creative Coding Platform
Yeah, it only takes a lapse of concentration to slip into bad form when you're lifting heavy.

I went to a personal trainer in order to learn proper form, and he told me I wasn't ready for barbell lifting yet. It took about 6 months of body weight / mobility training before I was ready.

Even then I only started squats with bar weight, and went slowly with progressive overload. Same with deadlifts, using a trap bar. If I feel tired one session I just skip or cut the set short.

I'm almost 40 so this very cautious approach helped prevent injury. I recommend everyone talk to an experienced personal trainer before they start a weightlifting routine.
I had disc herniation and my mother, who is a retired doctor, said to just do a lot of fast walking. This is the only activity I could do anyways after running marathons just months before. So 10 to 21.1 km walks helped a lot.

I also did some own research. The disks tissue has no blood vessels and the only way to get nutrients is via diffusion, so any activity is essential to accelerate the diffusion and recovery. Walking puts gentle axial load on the spine and knees and is simple and more accessible than e.g. swimming, which is probably even more gentle but hard to do daily for an hour.
I highly recommend you listen to the recent 80000hours podcast with Rachel Glennerster on Market Shaping, or read her book, Strong Medicine.

Advanced market commitments, i.e. governments signing contracts that guarantee they'll pay $X hundred million for a solution BEFORE the research has been done, is the way to incentivize this while avoiding the disincentive of governments becoming extremely tough monopsonic price negotiators once the drug has been developed.

The development of more drugs could be funded this way, through global health organizations like GAVI, such that medicine wouldn't need to be developed by gouging some for the benefit of others.
Chat Control is explicitly a proposal for a new mass surveillance mechanism, not a mechanism for targeted surveillance of a person suspected of a crime.
Similar things have been around for a while and there are several variations to be found for the AVR, using the I/O pins rather than the ADC.

See US Patent 6,870,148 B2 March 22 2005 "LED WITH CONTROLED CAPACITIVE DISCHARGE FOR PHOTO SENSING" by Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab (MERL).
https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloa...

Also:

Dietz, P.H., Yerazunis, W.S., Leigh, D.L., "Very Low-Cost Sensing and Communication Using Bidirectional LEDs", ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), October 2003.
BibTeX TR2003-35 - https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2003-35

Which is good for ~30 Baud and distances of inches at best.

https://people.ece.cornell.edu/land/courses/ece4760/FinalPro...

https://forum.chibios.org/viewtopic.php?t=2179
> I didn't understand why I had to use URLs instead of `npm i`

(a) With npm, Microsoft is the gatekeeper of everything NodeJS. URLs are the most decentralized way to do dependencies.

(b) Self-hosting can help with some security issues with npm. Makes it easier for private projects to not have to trust npm hosted third party libraries, which is important in many corporate environments.
A breach can happen in many ways, and this is one of them.
Watching a launch in person made me really fear for the astronauts lives even though they were on a reliable vehicle. I can’t imagine the concern of this crew and their family knowing they need to try and come home on this platform.

I hope NASA will wait for a supply mission to bring a Crew Dragon and test Starliner further.
Given that there is one or more weekly posts from his website here [1] for some reason, I'd suspect most of the people know this fact already.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=haxx.se
Banana reaches 900k concurrent players
The presumed flight path at the time it went missing is perhaps relevant, and that was within the vicinity of Diego Garcia, as the flights last few known turns were heading toward it. It seems odd the US would not care nor have tracking ability.

I've seen analysis that showed the flight was within range of several over-the-horizon radars at the time of disappearance and for hours after, ie - someone should know more than we do. As often with such things, I can't find it again.
Adversary countries also have a deeply wrong view of a population which views dissent as a sign of weakness instead of a process which grants strength. What they want is misleading. They would want to use it even if it was in fact, good for the "victim" country.

It brings to mind declassified documents that revealed how the KGB basically pissed money away trying to destabilize the US economy by engaging in large irrational trades. All they really did was make money for those who had the fortune to be on the opposite side of the trades.
None of the cars had seat belts as it was never mandated.

You did not have that option.
Wise aren't a bank again though, they don't have a European or UK banking license.
Thank you!
I feel an anxiety if I don't see open applications.
How many of them are from profitable studios? Most of the stuff on steam isn’t going to be from big household names.
> But curl is better than anything you could reasonably develop yourself in C++.

Hey, Boost.Beast is alright.
It's a shame that the list is in that order (both on the htmx website and in the book). Items 1 and 3 are simply not important, whereas 4 is by far the most important feature that HTMX offers.
This is new for me:

At the same time, the Clinton administration endorsed surveillance advertising as a business model, so there was an incentive to gather data about your customers in order to sell to them.

I assumed the lack of trustworthy small payments on the internet pushed adtech forward as an alternative income source, even without the governement endorsing anything.

Does someone know more?
Sure, and a counter to my claim is that we have a fully socialized system for the military (funded entirely by taxes), and that certainly hasn't stopped weapons from being developed here at all, and it hasn't stopped us from giving these weapons to other countries as a form of diplomacy.

The military industrial complex of course has its own share of many problems, but clearly having the price be reasonable for the average Americans is not one of them.
See github repo: https://github.com/mrdaybird/artspeak
Scott Manley recently did a video on Hubble's single gyro mode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra2IpumLMfs
Yeah another uneducated take from a new account who'd thought. Hungary is paying thos fines because they currently, actively and willingly violate human right laws.[1] Not because they "build border protections". Even if you want a significantly more strict immigration and asylum law, human rights must be protected.

But that's always the trick of the fascists, First violate the rights of the undesired so you can get people used to it, then violate the rights of the rest.

[1]https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/06/13/ecj-fines-hung...
The problem is that strong AI is far more multipolar than nuclear technology and the ways in which it might interact with other technologies to create emergent threats is very difficult to forsee.

And to be clear, I'm not talking about superintelligence, I'm talking about the models we have today.
This is what I see as being the fail. The fact that there is such a thing as the Tesla charging network to me is a complete fail. The fact there's a bunch of different apps I need to use, all requiring registration, is a fail.

With petro, you pull up to the station, swipe your card (or phone, or watch), and pump.

It's obvious the market has abysmally failed in solving this problem, so why haven't the governments, who've spent A LOT of money via the BEV subsidies, not seen this problem and regulate the entire process? I'm an American and so I understand why my dysfunctional and broken government is unable to accomplish this, but I'm not understanding why Europe finds itself in the same boat?
Should be replacing state in the history stack rather than pushing a new state.
htmx does not require you to make a server request for every interaction:

https://hypermedia.systems/client-side-scripting/

i would note that if you are going to make a server side request, HTML can be faster than the equivalent JSON:

https://github.com/1cg/html-json-speed-comparison

https://github.com/1cg/html-json-size-comparison
As well as C++ there are:

5.1 Qt for Python (PyQt)
5.2 Qt for Ring (RingQt)
5.3 Qt for Java and Kotlin (QtJambi)
5.4 Qt for Rust (CXX-Qt)
5.5 Qt for Rust (Rust-Qt)
5.6 Qt Quick for Rust (qmetaobject-rs)
5.7 Qt Quick for Rust (qml-rust)
5.8 Qt Quick for Rust (qmlrs)
5.9 Qt Quick for Zig (qml_zig)
5.10 Qt Quick for Zig (zqml)
5.11 Qt for Crystal (qt5.cr)
5.12 Qt for Nim (nimqt)

https://wiki.qt.io/Language_Bindings
It's not just designing the formula, getting the parameters right is going to be a right pain. You might have meant that as part of "designing" but it's a significant challenge in its own right, over and above having a formula that's the right shape.

Not to mention numerical accuracy in the implementation, but I'd assume that's mostly known patterns at this point.
Been investigating that once I have a doctor I’m wondering what therapy to push for or avoid.
Puppy Linux made me feel the sweet taste of freedom many years ago. It was the one which introduced me to the GNU/Linux ecosystem. I owe B. Kauler big time, and I wish him all the success in this world.
> small dataset (100GB)

What counts as large or small definitely varies a lot depending on the context of the conversation/analysis.

MotherDuck's "Big Data is Dead" post [0] sticks in mind:

> The general feedback we got talking to folks in the industry was that 100 GB was the right order of magnitude for a data warehouse. This is where we focused a lot of our efforts in benchmarking.

Another point of reference is [1]

> [...] Umbra achieves unprecedentedly low query latencies. On small data sets, it is even faster than interpreter engines like DuckDB

> TPC-H Small Dataset = 866k tuples, sf 0.1

[0] https://motherduck.com/blog/big-data-is-dead/

[1] https://db.in.tum.de/~kersten/Tidy%20Tuples%20and%20Flying%2...
How to Internet (2016)
Sorry for the confusion. We ship minimal Electron (Windows) / Cordova (iOS) wrappers to interface with our website. They're a pain to set up but don't require all that much code themselves.

This allows us to publish to the respective stores. Would be hard to convince non-technical users to click "Install as PWA" because noone knows what that is.
libwget exists too, and is licensed under LGPL. The wget/wget2 tool itself is GPL3 licensed. The "MIT" license is less complicated to comply with than LGPL, but that's probably not why it's getting chosen.
Because renting a car, while it would probably make sense financially, is an additional hassle that I don't want to put up with? Especially if you live in a rural area, the next car rental may be pretty far away (and not reachable with public transportation), so it gets complicated fast. Getting and returning the rental car might even take longer than the break you need to take for charging, so you might as well take the electric car and use the break to rest...
Boost is super heavy, and I've heard people refer to it's inclusion of solutions as a sign of a poor game programmer (I do not give such judgement, but just passing that sentiment along).
Be careful with crunches. Depending on the source of your lower back pain, crunches can make the pain worse.

You can give them a try, but definitely stop if you don’t see improvement or if it seems to be getting worse.
I see this opinion posted several times and I agree.

There is no need to risk human life at this point.
https://archive.ph/dHz08
I can't tell whether you're ignorant or cynical.
Genuinely curious as I've been looking into starting a coding camp for my city: what are the unforeseen risks you saw in your experience? or delights?
> Sometimes its so obvious that a drug will work and there’s so much competition that they acquire them early like Sofosbuvir for $11 billion, years before its approved.

Then why doesn’t someone else pay $12B?

Clearly there is a limit, and it must be related to risk. The risk of the drug failing to sell at the price you hope it will sell in the quantities you need it to sell to earn the desired ROI.
if it is safer, its more like a photo finish than 2x or 10x or 100x safer
Sadly? This is only logical no?
I use ChatGPT the whole day and when not using it I'm using my own developed agent (WIP). I was using midjourney too but chatgpt got as good as it so not needed anymore. What I don't use anymore is Google.
It's called democracy. It's better than the alternative.
So far the ban on nuclear energy in Germany has brought more open mining of coal, increased carbon emissions and now they have to keep subsidizing Russia's war machine.
you would render the result as an HTML table and then as JSON, i would guess

https://htmx.org/essays/splitting-your-apis/

https://htmx.org/essays/mvc/
Canonical and Ubuntu Are Down
Unfortunately C libraries aren't known for their use of strong typing or the "make invalid states unrepresentable" paradigm, and C itself is very weakly typed so it's not even feasible to write strongly typesafe APIs in C.
Signals and the Operation of Complex Systems
lol - it's all good. Props to you for recognizing what was going on and taking the time to research it and make use of it!
>Patents should expire after a certain amount of profit is made from them, or come with some level of responsibility to use them for the public good.

Not only patents, that should also apply to copyright and the like. If the goal is really to push insensitive for innovation, creating uncapped profit will mechanically lead to undesirable situation (as per the stated goal) where an oligarchy will relentlessly take the lion’s share and let next to nothing for the rest of their late competitors.
This sounds great. I will mention to some folks I know, that might be able to use it.

Meetup.com was a good idea, but I found them to be useless.

Here's my experience:

I was interested in hosting local meetups for techhies. I wanted to do it around Swift, so I knew there wouldn't be many of us.

Meetup had two "paid" tiers. One, was up to about 20 people per meetup, and the other (more money), was for an unlimited number.

Since I knew the meetups would be small, I opted for the cheaper one. I didn't expect more than five or six people at any meetup.

Once I started posting meetups, though, I started getting a lot of bogus signups. They were clearly bogus, as many had nothing to do with tech, or were unreasonably far away (like New Jersey or Upstate). I suspect most, if not all, were fake profiles.

These signups filled the meetups, so I would get like, one real person showing up. All the rest were no-shows.

Coincidentally (I'm sure), I started getting a lot of upselling contacts, recommending that I get the unlimited plan, as my meetups were so popular.

After a couple of these, I figured out which way the wind was blowing (straight across the cow manure), and dumped Meetup.com.
> "here's what you should have prepared for our 1:1s"

Tangentially, I'd like to survey attitudes about this kind of 1:1. I'm of the opinion that my 1:1 with my manager is my time to discuss my thoughts and needs. If a manager is assigning me homework so I can "come prepared" for yet another status update, they can sacrifice their time to make that meeting happen.
> ASI might come to see humans as more than just ants.

Might. Might not!
That "certain amount of profit" might be a lot higher than you think.

Developing new drugs is a multi-billion dollar gamble. Between FDA approvals and research that doesn't go anywhere, drug making is a really losing game unless you make a metric ton of money.
One’s the biggest advertising company the world has ever seen that hoovers up personal data like there’s no tomorrow. The other one is almost completely funded by said advertising company and has shown multiple times that they will put their profits over the users' wishes including but not limited to adding ads directly to the browser.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Casey Muratori about reaction videos in the programming space
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