skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lemmy and my Switch to PieFed; Threadyverse software alternatives
How many thousands of regular cars are there for every self-driving car?
they match the waveform, and also the letter shape.
Unlocking the Power of VictoriaMetrics: A Prometheus Alternative
You could also portray this as yet another case of theory trumping practice, which is also symptomatic of modernism.

The idea that a language based on a small, elegant set of composable primitives is inherently better for programming in the large as well has not been borne out in practice.
One reason emacs is popular for lisp programming is that the paredit package (or its newer competitor smartparens) do basically exactly what you describe: structural editing of sexp-based languages.
I wasn't aware I ever voted for Elon Musk to have money.
Its a bit shocking that this was listed for less than $1M in 2019 (https://images1.loopnet.com/d2/2Vrc0SwjmdZElIikDsbDegOdsX10L...) .

In less than 5 years, price has more than doubled or roughly 25% each year.

Apparently this was an AT&T data center.
I think the same thing happens with mathematics education. Even though I took maths up to 2nd year university, I never really got what it was like until many years later when I watched all of Leonard Susskinds Stanford lectures in order on YouTube. It just gave him a way of thinking and talking about something far more interesting than the symbols themselves, and I got the sense that if I had been introduced to the majesty of the universe and then shown how English as a language was inadequate to describe it, that I might have been more motivated to learn the symbols.
Want! Looks like fun.
Treating the anecdote as a legitimate rebuttal, I can only assume the meaning of the passage is that completely economic disempowerment of most humans is a non-starter because those humans will thus have no money thus there would be no economic incentive for universal automation/disempowerment.

I believe this is a fallacy. It's like saying that the dog food industry shouldn't exist since dogs don't have any money to pay for it. What I mean by this is: the economic utility of dogs is so insignificant that any economic activity that happens to benefit them will not be by their choice. Did the sudden unemployment of millions of horses prevent the rise of the car?
Fair enough! I only wrote it early in my career, it might feel more restrictive now
Look for "power meter" if you want stuff like this. I bought this one a year ago: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B99Z2GJK/

And this one for USB 3.0 four years ago: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B019RHJRM8/

Modern ones give a whole lot more information than the one in the article.
I would agree with you but in the case of Swift is largely confined to the Apple ecosystem with other platforms as an afterthought, while both C++ and Rust try to cover as many targets as possible.
The RFC for a URN scheme for federated content: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4198

I ended up using this for XML namespaces.
Surprised that Anker isn’t obviously on there.
Actually his strategy is mostly to buy businesses that are so fundamentally solid that even an idiot could run them (because one day an idiot will). The whole "fixing it up" thing is for the so called activist investors.

The basic problem is that people do not want to appreciate the social value of capital allocation, well because a side effect of it is often making millions or even billions of dollars for yourself. And yet not having this mechanism is precisely the reason why the USSR collapsed.
The original USB-C spec called for cables to have optional displays to show why the cable had problems connecting. Did anyone every see one of those?
"worked" as in "made OpenAI happy" but not as in "retained their customers". People were getting banned for using words like "melon" (racist implication, said the filter).
>Moreover, if it's the former, then good riddance. An ad-backed site is harming users a little on the margin for the marginal piece of information. Getting the same from a search engine is saving users from that harm.

Of course! It's certainly better to ruin the few sites that support their attempts at high quality content with ad revenue. Much better to let Google have that money, because of course the tech giant has nothing to do with enhsittifying everything through ad revenue of its own and pervasive tracking, or enabling ever worse content through SEO and AI gaming.

You can appreciate that a modest site trying to survive through ads isn't necessarily evil just because it looks for a way to make money off its content?

I mean, what specific harm are you referring to? Particularly compared to the much more obvious harm of Google absorbing ever more of the web in favor of its tentacled surveillance/SEO gaming machine.
Very cool. Thank you for creating it and thank you for sharing the story.
At one startup I worked at, the CTO accidentally nuked the master branch from both his local machine and upstream. We restored it from the copy I had on my laptop. This incident didn't result in creating backups to my knowledge
I would not find it useful, because that would entail 5X the costs, and the cost is not worth the extra benefit of less hallucinations
It still has 62 bits of randomness; you have 4,611,686,018,427,387,904 values every millisecond.

I would judge the chances similar to UUIDv4: theoretically possible, but the chance is so small it's practically impossible.
It would hardly accomplish the unseating, but influencing people to stop using it even if just for search, would be helpful.

Duckduckgo is the only thing that has come close to doing this, but insignificantly. Unfortunately, while DDG seems less sinister than Google, it is also less functional - I find it one of the worst engines for most things. I really miss Scroogle!

Google is a monster, and as much as many would love to see it go away, it's here to stay without some unprecedented paradigm change. Thankfully the work of some few provides some options around it. I try to support this, though am frequently perceived as odd for doing so.

If it helps any, Amazon is shitting its own formidable pile of waste upon the internet. I can't find an article on any consumable product without wading through dozens of blogurgitations exalting the magnificent cloaca of Lord Bezos - regardless of search engine!
But there is a difference in the picture. You'd also determine that it's going left when looking at the windshields, as only the left side is completely straight.

Honestly, this image is a terrible example to illustrate their point. I think it's more likely that children are more likely to actually use public transit, which is why they'd be able to detect the missing door quickly.
I prefer no blank lines. If you feel like you need one, write a line comment instead describing the next section.
I don’t think any of this is really “obstacles”; the start of most relationships I’ve been in usually does feel like some kind of experiment where I and the other person are figuring out if when we mix, there’s chemistry, and, at least in the better ones we do talk about how it’s going (“retro”?) so if it turns out we’re both tepid on something we can try something else. I ask everyone I’m close to for transparency and empathy. I don’t really vibe with the specific and somewhat rigid Agile Nomenclature the author enjoys but generally the spirit of the ideas here make good sense to me and don’t seem wacky to do if you’re a he, she, or they.

I’ve felt the big asymmetry in trying to find women to date online as a man, but after you start talking to someone enough to discuss what you want in a relationship, if they’re not excited about the stuff you’re excited about why bother?
Was that not nationwide? I guess I had just assumed it was as all my local McDs have it.

Seems to work just fine the few times I’ve tried it, but as a native speaker of US English without much of regional accent I’m not exactly a tough test.
No. Something stuck out to me today: Instagram presented me with Meta’s AI prompt.

In the interface it prompted me to ask it anything. It’s a blank text box that I’m supposed to interact with.

But why am I using that in something like Instagram? What’s my motivation to ask this AI something within Instagram?

It dawned on me that even the most sophisticated AI companies out there have no idea what to do with LLMs and where they are best applied.

Later on in the day I talked to a colleague and they work at a company that is demanding they make an AI product. They have no specifications or vision on what it should do.

Every company that does this is going to make a glorified chat bot, which of course they’ll inevitably find out nobody wants.

Every company that has needed “AI” has already been using machine learning and data analysis techniques that have nothing to do with LLMs for years now. What we see now are a bunch of companies with no vision trying to figure out how to make the next ChatGPT.

But hey I like your post as a science fiction book. Do I think AI will help surveillance states? Sure. Do I think that we are going to get the worst case scenario sci-fi novel version of the future? Probably not.
Well okay, but a great many people disagree and this sort of thing isn't captured in an AST, so clearly it's not a suitable format for storing code.
Just an anecdote.

I took CS61A by Brian Harvey in 2009. I loved the course and I actually spent very little time learning the syntax and most of the time learning the concepts.

So I fully agree with Prof. Brian Harvey here.
Many unions, like the actors guild, or nurses' union aren't tied to specific companies. You see auto workers' protesting and Biden trying to appease them, but in the end it doesn't matter much because they are weak. Sure the union might end up just killing their industry, but that's no different from public unions getting crushed by resentful voters, which we've seen in cases with police unions.
Oh tell me about it. Even in software from the introduction of flat design, everything has been reduced to white space and nothingness.

This is actually a great conspiracy of low skilled designers around the world who joined companies when this trend first started and now they outnumber the high skill designers and will not let this system go.

Look at some of the mac app icons of the past. Beautiful, highly skilled work.
I'm betting on co-operation leading us to better outcomes in general.
It really depends on your mindset. I grew up with math (composable operators, no side effects) and a lot of immutable + virtual operations software (maya, samplitude, shake, combustion) ... so to me imperative programming, with all the control flow, subtly changing state and time dependencies, coupling of concerns was almost instantaneously an fatal issue..

Backus also shifted away from imperative inspired languages to design FP/FL language (I thought they were contemporaries of BCPL but came 10 years later, later than APL), even though he contributed to FORTRAN directly.
I would think that this is one of those LLM use cases that will definitely happen once McDonald’s finds a technology partner they like.

On the other hand, I also wonder if humans are too good at this task to make a big capital investment worth it. The employees who take your orders at McDonald’s aren’t standing around doing nothing, they’re wearing a headset and multitasking.
Meta also uses (nearly) this for scripting to the search index. Both at index and query time. I think it's a good for that
Thank you, I did not know this. I was about to comment and say: Why not go with m4(1)? I have used it for a personal homepage and while it certainly will try to stab you in the back like any old macro processor will, it is more full-fledged that its C counterpart and will also allow to to smugly state that your homepage is POSIX compliant [1]. There are a few guides out there from around 2000 to get you started, but at some point one needs to read the original paper [2] and let your imagination run wild.

[1]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/m...

[2]: https://maibriz.de/unix/ultrix/etc/m4.pdf
Animal language is obviously on the same level as human laughter and cries and whimpers. Animals don't teach language to each other like humans do.

But I don't see what that has to do with consciousness, to me animal language is much closer to consciousness than human language. Consciousness is all about emotions, not language, and animal language that humans also has is directly tied to emotional expression. Our ML models managed to mimic human language before animal language, human language is more robotic.

Sci-fi shows tend to also do this, robots talk with voices that lacks the animal components of humans and instead just do the human language. So the popular view is that animal language is the conscious parts and human language is the computational/intelligence part.
He’s explained in interviews that he’ll buy things like a steel mill for less money than its scrap value, then install his own (competent) accountants and start making an actual profit on top of that.

Imagine this from the perspective of the employees: years of bad management, facing down the barrel of unemployment in a shrinking industry. Suddenly Buffett turns up, fires the bad managers and tells you profits are up so here’s a Christmas bonus. Capitalism at work.
The "noise level" heading is spelled "noice level" and at first I thought the author meant "nice" spoken like an Australian lol
Unsurprising considering Anker doesn’t pay for basic UL listing for many of their AC power taps.
I'm guessing one of these questions had to deal with a timetabling diagram.

https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...
It means we can build the same thing and check the output hashes. In terms of deriving a method for trusting build infra, it's basically the end all-be-all. I almost don't know how to answer it.
Could you elaborate further on this? Is it not the case that they'll still need to support numpy 1.x for at least the near-term future? My understanding was the parent comment was specifically talking about the technical difficulty of multiple versions for the same Python package, not the social problem of project and community management across breaking changes.
Ah right, it would still take a long time to download.

My use case is a have a local NAS that i use for backup but i also want things backed up offsite, so i mirror the backups to b2 (and soon to glacier).

I would download and extract the takeout archive locally, then run borg with the NAS as the borg repo. It tries to dedup and only store incremental data in the Borg repo.

If the takeout data consistently has enough of the same “shape”, the b2/s3 storage would only grow by roughly my incremental takeout archive size, rather than storing 200 more GB every time I export a takeout.

So yah, it would use a lot of space locally and temporarily, but the idea for me is to minimize cloud storage but also being able to extract files from older takeout archives.
But that is exactly what is changing right now.

Foundation is being rewritten in Swift, Swift has moved out from under apples GitHub and is pushing more cross platform tooling for windows and Linux.

It’s not as flexible in terms of targets yet as Rust, but it’s also not just locked to Apple platforms.

And for a big chunk of developers, that trade off is fine.
The cost of implementing this system vs paying a teenager minimum wage makes it not worth, and probably not worth it for a while. A lot of use cases for generative AI seem to miss that you can get humans to do them for pretty low costs and installing a new AI system is quite expensive and potentially error prone.
And you wonder sometimes if the products being advertised, themselves, couldn't matter more than the targets reading them. We've learned to recognize crappy offering and AI can try to make me read more and more ads relevant to what I'm saying, if it's a crap product, I won't pay anyway :(
> average human being is quite dumb

Compared to what? Average human beings are geniuses compared to animals.
As a conspiracy theorist, my intuition suggests to me that there are people within the government that would frown upon the general public getting too interested in (and skilled in) the complexities and nuances of human coordination. That sort of thing is The Experts job.
I'm aware that there's are local keylogger/payload cables around which let you transmit data short range.

My surprise was specifically about the supposed cell modem within a 6€ cable
Already seeing content writing freelancers struggling to secure work on Facebook. Improvements to Gen AI will only exacerbate this problem going forward.
No luck there. I'll keep looking.
Yea I got one of these and found it very useful. So easy to get a USB cable that is secretly not to spec or otherwise dysfunctional and is making things charge slow. (Most common: 5W when it should be ~20W.)
Bruh. I mean this as a genuine ask. Have you heard of Nix and is there a reason it didn't land on your radar or was rejected?

Because what you want exists and has a thriving community, and a package set that outclasses, well, statistically every other package manager in existence.

I swear, it's a daily occurrence for me to see software engineering challenges posited here as damn near impossible that Nix has been solving for over a decade.

What if you could run a single command and have exact insight to the source you're using for every single package on your system with the context of the dependency graph it exists in.

I cannot wait for this wave to crash and for people to realize how much engineering effort is reduced by using Nix. And that all of these things they know they want for years, already exists. But hey, the syntax takes time to get used to and how do you compare that against the countless blog posts and hours and institutional knowledge you need to actually use docker properly. And then later on some Go-based SBOM tool made by a VC-backed startup that fundamentally still does an inferior job to Nix. Sigh.

Well anyway I guess nix will keep being used by hedge funds, algorithmic traders, "advanced defensive capabilities" companies, literal (launched, in space) satellites, wallet manufacturers, etc, while everyone else listens to the syntax decriers.
"Senior" engineer is a meaningless title consider most companies mark that as ~5 YOE.
What you're saying makes sense, but I still don't think it's right. Imagine the classic broken bank-balance update algorithm from concurrency 101. It's safe Rust to individually wrap every operation with a lock instead of wrapping the entire transaction [0]. Both Rust and Python prevent data races as narrowly defined by the Rust docs [1], but semantic bugs like that can easily sneak into your code if you aren't careful.

Not to mention, Rust chose not to do anything about the memory fence problem. You're probably mostly fine on x86, but acquire/release semantics and all that nonsense still apply when writing concurrent algorithms in Rust (you'll often get lucky if you have something like a queue/channel and use message passing, since implementations of those often have a few fences internally, probably the fences you need for semantic correctness in your own algorithms). You're a lot more likely to see that sort of problem crop up in embedded work.

[0] That's obviously a bad idea, but more intricate concurrent algorithms are tricky to write in Rust for the same reason they're tricky to write in other languages. You get a bit of help from the compiler which you wouldn't really in Python if you design things to leverage the type system and prove the invariants you need to uphold, but the compiler doesn't know about any of those invariants aside from data races.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/races.html
>stance on not deploying American boots

No, clear announcement all Americans (and British for that matter) will be cleared before the inevitable invasion, so please come in and do as you please.

Imagine sitting in a park with friends. You all watch as a tweaker comes up to your group and starts ogling one of your friends. What do you do? Do you loudly proclaim ' I dont want no trouble sir I think I left laundry on' and hastily walk away?
I was about to make a quip then I realized it’s actually somewhat of a valid point: if we’re going to inflation adjust USD purchase price, we need to inflation adjust RAM requirements. 512 MiB in 2012 went much, much further than how far 512 MiB will take you in 2024 (especially for the low-end desktop usage, rather than the embedded cli users).
> For instance, a±b∓c means "a+b-c or a-b+c".

I feel like this would be less confusing if rendered as "±(a+b-c)". It's the same amount of cognitive effort for figuring out the second term/factor, but you get the first one for free.
> some days we all wake up in a trolling^Wprovocative frame of mind, and F35 meta-dogfights on message boards are always a hoot

To be clear, I have never been a lead designer of nor pilot of any kind on a military aircraft.

> why, given modern sensor packages and modern software engineering, isn't it "just common sense" that machines are better at it than humans now, or will be soon enough?

Idk, why isn’t Cruise a murderer off meds?

> Electronics can take a lot more nuclear radiation

Radiation in this context doesn’t refer to gamma rays. It refers to detection.

> Can you elaborate on (again, exactly) why this role is inherently impossible to automate?

It’s not. Impossible and not currently possible are miles apart.

Our sensors are still prone to being overwhelmed in a way humans are not, and the time to solve that is longer than the production time for a new intermediate force, i.e. NGAD.
https://mg.lol/blog/data-blocker-teardown/

The normal PortaPow tells the device that it's a charger.

The extra paranoid version with no components on the board will often limit charging, it depends on how the device treats a complete lack of data pins.
AI generating material new revenue at megacaps is likely. If AI currently generates only 5% of Alphabet's revenue, and if 100% of the cost of this revenue is $ spent on Nvidia's hardware, then this represents 15% of Nvidia's revenue.

Seen another way, in this example, Nvidia would only need ~7 Alphabets to sustain current revenue.
Don't they already have one with a brain in a jar?

https://www.istockphoto.com/fr/vectoriel/protection-gm101056...

I thought so.

An unlabeled jar, how appropriate.

Nobody is supposed to know where Igor got that brain anyway, and how much you should trust the way it thinks there in that jar.

So be ready when you pull the stopper off of that thing.
Yep.

For now at least there's an infuriating amount of "Do you want AI with that?"

That aside, technically I see AI results as a (one of many many possibilities) regression fit | "best match" (by some criteria or another) result.

That's a good start, but having dealt with such things in applied domans for decades there's still a whole other level of "it's close, but is it correct", what if we fudge the metrics and measures, etc. that still calls for informed human judgement.

Potentially a great tool but still needing a craftsperson. For now.
I used to experience this had a kid! Not only did words and some names have shapes, but they were quite often coloured shapes. I have quite strong memories of some of the associations I made between names and shapes. However, I have completely lost the 'ability' as an adult. I do not feel it at all.