skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I was impressed by the amount of interesting info and the well-written delivery.

I found the bio of the author, Jo Marchant, on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00B9DBJ3E/about):

> [Marchant] has a PhD in genetics and medical microbiology from St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College in London, and an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College London. She previously worked as a senior editor at New Scientist and at Nature, and her articles have appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian and Smithsonian magazine.
Whiskey was also one of the inputs.
Style is consistent constraint (2023)
Data vs. Lore
The traditional problem that analog computers faced were that voltages could vary from run to run and thus give different results, to the point that analog computer manufacturers made their own power supplies and capacitors to extremely high tolerances.

It's not clear in the paper if this problem was addressed or if the rapid training possible meant that in practice they never had this issue.
Universal Hydrogen, pioneer of hydrogen-powered flight, goes bust
>E.g. in the topical case, people would be fine with the encampments on the streets and in the parks if they consisted of rich people?

Yes. That's called gentrification. And they don't limit themselves to parks; they'll happily go after your property - not through purchase at a fair price, but through legal maneuvers and political influence that aren't available to people of lesser means. And this is arguably more destructive to the fabric of the existing community than a few tents (whatever you might think of what replaces it).

>Like rich person shit on one's lawn won't bother anyone,

Well, that of their dogs.

>rich people's blood encrusted needles are fine

They get around this by doing blow instead.

>and a rich person tent blocking right of way is an amusement to marvel at?

Every oversized SUV built in the past 2 decades.
Original discussion: https://github.com/orgs/micropython/discussions/15219
I did this too. After I got through the withdrawal, I basically found myself sitting at my desk and waiting to die.
I think you are crazy putting money into passive index funds.

As for the investors, knowing when to pull out is when they start pushing articles like this. They’re already out and want your capital to go where they are going next.
Incorrect. If I say “ think of a famous actor”. (Please do it benefit reading on..) l, aha you actually look back at the process and study it, you’re not actually choosing what you choose. It’s a mere illusion. The famous actor has in fact just come into your mid on its own. There was really no choice.
Probably back to the lowest common denominator of speed.

128 bytes at Bluetooth 1’s 1mbit speed is 1ms.
A slightly more interesting (though dated to a couple of years ago) take on the dwindling support is that

a) people died and got replaced by voters with a different opinion, two years ago this was accounting for about a third of the overall rate of change.

b) there's a hefty partisan split, with labour voters ever more sure that it was a bad idea, but Tory voters initially becoming more convinced, and then later becoming more disillusioned.

https://ukandeu.ac.uk/will-support-for-brexit-become-extinct...
Connect: Libraries for building browser and gRPC-compatible Protobuf APIs
One bit of programming advice I would give myself is, on large projects, ensuring that appropriate constraints are in place is more important than functionality. You want to be able to come back to an area of code after a few years (without looking at it) and everything that has been added should still make sense. Patterns that you don't want to see should be hard to do - the natural inertia will stop it from happening. Designing things that "allow people to do anything", while seemingly a benefit, end up causing a lot of problems in the long run.

A reasonable argument might be that it should be watched / policed but this is harder in practice than in might seem. A lot of orgs are fairly decentralized, meaning that no central entity can make the call (probably a good thing imo). If appropriate constraints are designed into the system this kind of energy sapping discussion will not even need to happen in the first place.

Essentially, adding constraints at t0 adds degrees of freedom in the future. Coding is a bit like a garden - you need to ensure that the garden makes sense as it grows.
Feels very Confluence-like to me. Which components look better in Confluence in your eyes?
Well it took Netflix years and years to reach the current point though.
It's still not clear to me that LLMs are actually useful, but I'm perfectly willing to accept that I'm some sort of neo-luddite (how deliciously ironic a term by the way). I wonder, do you think there are examples of companies that have good strategies now? And if so, what utility are they getting out of it?
Not really. Though it would be interesting to see a progressive, wealth-based sales tax implemented, it surely does not exist.
I am a member of WG14. You should check the C standard. I do not see how "time-travel" is a possible reading of the definition of UB in C. We added another footnote to C23 to counter this idea:

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3220.pdf
"Any other behavior during execution of a program is only affected as a direct consequence of the concrete behavior that occurs when encountering the erroneous or non portable program construct or data. In particular, all observable behavior (5.1.2.4) appears as specified in this document when it happens before an operation with undefined behavior in the execution of the program."

I should point out that compilers also generally do not do true time-travel: Consider this example: https://godbolt.org/z/rPG14rrbj
As long as it cannot show anger and frustration, due to "sweating", it may be an interesting behavior.
English Rebel Songs
What are you putting your money into?
'I think lots of people tend to objectify the homeless, to think of them as somehow less than, or fundamentally different from, "decent society".'

In some cases people avoid the homeless for safety reasons. I've seen a few get violent over small or nonexistent issues. Obviously that's not everyone. But it can be enough for people to avoid interacting and potentially upsetting someone who might be unstable.

How did the divorce make him homeless? I'm not doubting it, but just wondering the mechanism. I know one person that ended up homeless eventually semi related to divorce. They had large child support payments, had an accident and went into a coma, lost their job and the support payments drained their account while in the coma (nobody petitioned the court for an adjustment due to his coma), and the court issued a warrant over the unpaid support. Then they couldn't find a good job due to the unpaid support and warrant.
> You need a big table to leave it set up and play with a group that can get together regularly, but that is not different from running a RPG campaign.

I think you might be under-estimating how long a 1500 hour game is. A person who works 8 hours a day works 2000 hours in the course of a year.

And if the game's in-person, there's travel time - it's not like a computer game where you can do a 1-hour session every evening for 4 years.

Even a the longest RPG adventures like "Dungeon of the mad mage" (famous for people getting bored without completing it) tend to be less than 500 hours.
It’s so different though, I don’t see why we even compare the internet and AI. The internet connected people, of course there would be money in that. AI cuts out people, how will that make money, except for the very few people at the very top controlling the marionette strings? And now all the people without a job have no money to buy products or services? That doesn’t bode well for any market.
n/m not sure how i missed it in tfa.. i do remember trying it at the time and it had a similar mixed response from people, but mostly negative.
Why did I not know that this:

case 1 ... 10:

Is valid C? I have been programming in C for years, what standard is this from?
The psychological, cognitive and social impacts of Internet use
Amen. I said the same thing many months ago but the true believers on HN who could not see beyond their own paychecks down voted me like I was advocating for satan.
Thank you for your service. You're a boon to your community and helping people in real need.
Alright, Allwinner D1 - still requires vendor-provided components for almost everything, and its pre-ratified vector extension[1] required special compilers until very recently.

[1] https://github.com/riscv/riscv-v-spec/issues/667
The return on investment on anything that’s over-bid due to hype is usually quite poor.

I don’t see strong reasons to think AI will be different than tulips or South Sea investments in that regard.
If blockbuster had waited and then just copied Netflix, they'd still be around.

They failed to do either one.
The usual line that Lenovo gives is that this is for FCC reasons. The argument goes that the laptop is FCC certified as an entire unit, and changing the WiFi card technically invalidates this.

This is quite plainly nonsense. Every other manufacturer allows WiFi adapter replacements because every module on the market must be individually FCC certified.

Technically, the claim does make sense under a creative interpretation of the FCC rules. I think the real reason is likely so you'll buy replacement FRUs from Lenovo under your enterprise support contract, as well as ensuring you use a module that is known to work reliably with the software stack shipped on the machine.

Basically yeah, its an anticompetitive measure.
Static Allocation in External RAM on ESP32
Nobody wants this especially since there are still quite a lot of cars that have old radios.

I thought there was an agreement that we would wait a little longer but for what ever reason the SRG thinks they know better.
They're cashing in millions through the Oregon Lottery's shadow economy
Developing software for highly integrated embedded systems requires hundreds of thousands in validation, verification and testing hardware.

Wether the hardware and software are open is totally irrelevant. You can't have outsiders develop for it.

>it's hard to make them non interchangeable, meaning that after an initial phase there will be no VW or Rivian sw but common "distros" compatible with various cars, certified by the public to be safe for public use on the road.

This is completely delusional. This is not how hardware or software works at all.
https://archive.ph/EeJqN
How so?

YouTube is one of my favorite subscriptions because it encourages "the little guy". As I understand it, once you hit 1K subscribers you start making revenue from the videos you create. I'm all the time using videos there to learn things, and I'm able to share that subscription with my family in what I feel are reasonable terms.

Yesterday I used it to remind me how to install a roof vent. Money well spent.
Previous discussion on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40807703
"Make this page distraction-free" or "Make summary" will work too.
Is this not expected? Every hype encounters a “Trough of Despair”. I think costs need to decrease dramatically before the current state of AI is worth the money that is being dumped into it. Both in terms of GPU costs and electricity because it’s insane.
It only works if the case label body is a single line or is enclosed in brackets.

I'll confess, I've used this construct to mean "omit the first line of the next case label but otherwise fall through".

If you think of the case label as merely a label and not a delimiter between statements all of this makes sense.
Seeing that AI is being subsidized by investors I wonder how long it'll take for said investors to want a return on their investments and if AI is too expensive for anyone to actually want to use it. Because I don't think a lot of people would pay the actual cost it takes to run AI.
This was one of three times Americans have won the olympic marathon, and in none of the three was the Americam the first to enter the stadium at the end!
What’s the current state in the field? I suppose there must be some preservation attempts already going on, even if they need more resources.

I’m surprised at the response you got, which seems like… skepticism bordering on hostility. Is there a reason this should be a hot button issue? (Please excuse my ignorance, if it is at all redemptive, it isn’t India-specific I just don’t know anything about archeology in general, haha).
I suggest another consideration: where the homeless live? In all countries we have poor and rich areas, but curiously homeless are mostly concentrated in large cities, while many are anyway poor outside they tent to have at least something resembling a home, maybe an ancient barrack or a camping van but still something. They still being able to find some occasional or regular low wage jobs still better then nothing.
Well I’ve pretty much pulled it out of everything and bought a house (no mortgage yay) but I rode NVidia, BAE Systems with a safe position held on an actively managed ETF.

I’ve got a huge pension lined up so I’m going to go on holiday a lot basically. I get a lump sum early payment of that soon so I can invest that somewhere more productive.
AI winter is coming! Fascinating how the bust part "boom-bust" cycle invariably comes for every promising tech.

On a good side, we have finally have the first generation of AGI. Give it another ten years of improvements before we reach the next AI boom.
Are you on the latest version of Firefox? They mentioned something about YouTube stalling in the release notes.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/127.0.2/releasenotes/
One thing I didn't see mentioned is that there's a function for automatic sprite animation loops based on a global timer. This is how some Neo Geo games have huge environmental background animations like waterfalls, pulsing/flickering lights, etc. without bogging down the CPU.
> Inland water-based transport has fallen out of favour these days,

Where?

It's definitely not out of favour here. We are a water nation, but inland shipping for cross-border transport is at the same level as road transport, and an order of magnitude more than rail transport.
https://opendata.cbs.nl/#/CBS/en/dataset/83101ENG/table

We've got the Rhine, but that's hardly the only navigable big river in the world. One of those has much more carrying capacity than a railway and a lower cost.
Why the world needs systems leadership, not selfish leadership
I stopped caffeine. It sucked for a week, and I’d taken a week off because I knew it would be hell. And it was.

But after a week I felt free.

I barely consume caffeine anymore, like if I’m with friends at a cafe or something. Otherwise I don’t make tea or coffee at home unless I have guests who want some.

Some results I’ve noticed is that I literally don’t give a shit anymore about any pressures. I’ll just #dealwithit and it’s fine.

I also sleep way better and I am able to utilize the full waking day (I wake up at 6am and I sleep at 10pm).

One thing that’s strange is that it seems caffeine no longer has much effect like it used to in the rare occasion I’ll have a coffee. I’m able to sleep just fine and I feel no burst of energy or anything. Just a warm drink so maybe it warms me up a bit when it’s cool.

Idk. 10/10 would recommend quitting caffeine. My mind is way clearer (no brain fog from being groggy) and it runs like a diesel engine just pulls like a mfer all day.
I was talking about nested indents, like this:

f(a,
b, g(c,
d
)
)

Vscode cannot indent it properly due to how indent rules (simple regexes) work. Formatters like “prettier” exist but they can only format whole-file. Maybe try that (downside being you’re at its mercy completely).

I guess you are experiencing either auto-indent like that or the partially selected lines problem (when selection doesn’t touch \n at both ends). Vscode and sublime should also have a way to “paste raw” without reindenting. Try copying proper non-partial lines and/or pasting raw at column 0, removing automatic indent and adding yours afterwards. I know it’s tedious but I’ve seen enough people editing in ms-style editors and they all had this issue. Most just accept it as a fact of life.

As a vim user I’m afraid I can’t help much here. My copy-pasting is almost always line-oriented (V-mode copied lines always pasted after current line, regardless where the cursor is) and indent rules are very robust so it rarely indents things wrong. I also have gv> and gv= to re/indent just pasted text. I’d ask on stackoverflow (stackexchange) or on HN which popular editors have whole-line modes or maybe vscode/sublime plugins which can help with that.
B2 and F22 also *require* a hangar. You literally cannot expose F22 stealth paint to the sun, as it degenerates over time.

F35 is put into more harsh conditions (ex: allowed to be stored outside in the sun / rain). This could be the reason why they have stealth maintenance issues.

So maybe they've "spent" the F35's easier maintenance on easier storage? Hangars / covered bases would reduce maintenance costs, but that might not be reasonable for every deployment.
I’m confused by the evidence they use:

> to justify those costs, the technology must be able to solve complex problems, which it isn't designed to do

Planning and reasoning are the two greatest areas of research in AI right now, with an OOM more researchers devoted to it than there were to the first generation of generative AI architectures

> In our experience, even basic summarization tasks often yield illegible and nonsensical results

Summarization with current generation models is excellent. I can get a summarization of a several-hour-long-call with better recall than I could have had myself, for less than $2 in inference costs.

> even if costs decline, they would have to do so dramatically to make automating tasks with AI affordable

We’ve seen a literal 10x decrease in cost from gpt-4-32k to gpt-4o in a single year of AI development (3:1 cost blend). And that ignores that sonnet-3.5 is 50x cheaper than gpt-4-32k while getting better scores on pretty much all benchmarks?

> the human brain is 10,000x more effective per unit of power in performing cognitive tasks vs. generative AI

Patently false, we’re not untethered brains floating around and require shelter, food, and a ton of other energy intensive requirements to live, and an AI system can perform a task that it is designed to do easily 10-20x faster than a human could.

If anything this makes me more bullish about AI systems having a positive ROI; the criticisms they have are based on extraordinarily (if not nefariously) dumb assumptions.
some do, most don't.

wearing headphones gives way to the assumption that the person is listening to something other than their surroundings; their talking is probably directed at someone on the phone.

hearing aids can be used as headphones as well, but generally aren't.
That's also probably against the last right to repair EU laws if the laptop is sold in the EU.
>I think you could go back in time and s/AI/internet.

That's a great example. You could also include systemic events like the introduction of the microcomputer, smartphone, and even "Web 2.0." AI looks like it will be a systemic change, we just don't know what that change is yet. Companies that find the winning formula will have a competitive advantage. Companies that ignore it will start a downward spiral that will be difficult to survive.
AGI is just going to spend its cycles looking at cats pics and /r/unixporn.
of the former housekeeper,
-> of the former housekeeper of the brother of Ravel
Have a friend who's a barista. Had a dispute at work where they wanted her to clean the blood all over the bathroom after someone had bled all over the place (she didn't think that should fall under her job description)
Of course, but even with help there are folks who are just way too confrontational and difficult to deal with. So they get kicked out of shelters and even healthcare professionals hesitate to deal with them.
Power station's last coal delivery arrives by rail
“I pity the fuel”
Implementing the modulus operator for floating-point numbers
that's the point: i can't tell and that is uneasing
They touch on the political affinities between the Union and Liberia but no so much the Confederacy and Brazil. I wonder if something similar was going on? Brazil still had slavery at that time. After the Confederates lost I recall learning that some slave-owning farmers moved down to Brazil to continue their slavery-driven farming practices. They only had 20 years though because slavery was banned in Brazil in the 1880s.
There was never universally recognized early success in FSD.
Can't one just literally say that AI is not allowed? It's not fair use when you're going directly against the license.
It's already creepy if you understand where the source material comes from.

> In their experiments, the researchers used commercially available human cells, purchasing what are called Normal Human Dermal Fibroblasts (NHDFs) and Normal Human Epidermal Keratinocytes (NHEKs) that were isolated from either juvenile foreskin or different skin locations from adult donors by a company called PromoCell GmbH.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/06/researchers-craft-sm...
You’re saying they’re different because good is not like bad. But companies don’t business plan from moral judgments.

AI will transform production , distribution, and consumption at least as much as the Internet did.
see schoolbook algorithm for the n^3 bound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_of_ma...

It comes from directly applying the definition of matrix multiplication on a square matrix.
Both Confluence and XWiki are huge and your experience is subjective, so it really depends on which parts you'd want to see improved. General improvement should not be made through extensions, it should really be done directly in the product. Quite some customers have pushed for improvements over the last months, for instance we now have page ordering in the navigation panel as a core feature thanks to their valuable feedback.

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