skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're mixing explorers with frontier mentality.

When life was hard and the prospect of getting to new land on a frontier to potentially improve your (and most of the time your family's) life, it gave people very potential tangible benefits to go there against the risks.

Going to Mars, a deserted place where living a bare life is only ever possible if a lot of life support infrastructure in small pods is running 24/7 without a hitch. Where there is no direct benefit in terms of human accumulation, not at least for a few generations.

Which millionaire living a good life on Earth would consciously choose living in a cramped pod with strangers for the rest of their life, to look out onto a Red Desert of nothingness every day?

The novelty of doing a short walk around will disappear fast, the motivation of "let's build a city here" would be 100% dependent on the provisions sent by Earth, and there would be no end in sight for your life in little pods while you toil away Martian soil, lose muscles, have to consume a diet of potatoes, while at any time if your life support systems fail you and everyone else you might bonded with are done.

Explorers without much to lose on Earth might embark on this, millionaires living a cushy life not so much.
I don't know absolute values but Excel still has several advantages which make it faster:
- Excel is written in C++ and compiled natively which will be a bit faster than Java running on the JVM. And Java running as WasmGC is about 2x slower than Java on the JVM.
- Sheets is limited to 4GB of RAM by the browser, Excel isn't.
- C++ can do shared memory multi-threading, WasmGC cannot.
Metallic ionic solutions are usually strong acids. They are made by dissolving metal in sulfuric or nitric acids. Looks like they are using copper sulfate as the electrolyte. After the copper is deposited you are left with sulfuric acid.
That was the gist I got too, but the relatable-ness felt undermined by the pithiness and the specifics. It resonated though, which is why I felt it said something about where people are at.
> Does anyone find it strange that this is described as a loss for the victims?

Pay attention to the ads appearing on NBC, I guess... (cf. Manufacturing Consent)
Google obviously has the advantage here, but it also seems like they’re willing to squander it. The Gemini rollout has basically been clippy 2.0 so far. The Gemini interface in gcloud seems to know nothing about how services work, the chat summaries consistently fail, the search summaries are comically bad. I’m usually not one of these people who wants to “block all the AI stuff” but with google products I do.
I do see it that way. It's not a matter of perspective, it's just that interacting in that way requires me to split my attention between what we're talking about and the protocol we're using to talk with.

That modality is not one that I encounter often, so it's a little like trying to speak with someone using a language I'm not fluent in. I have to pay attention to the language itself as much as what we're using the language to convey. That's why I find it exhausting.

Unless the conversation is really critical to have, I'm more likely to disengage with it to a degree and just let the other do all the talking. Which is not always a bad thing.
Right, they must have accumulated the money beforehand. But what they are doing right now with it is the opposite of accumulating it. They are taking the money that they previously accumulated and spending it on lots of random bullshit.

Suppose you were to discourage accumulation, with a tax for example. Wouldn't that lead to investors investing in even more random bullshit?
There are too many projects and not enough DBA's to go around.
The "job security" joke is probably rooted in reality. Lots of jokes are. I may be fortunate to have not run into it, or merely not observant enough to distinguish it from incompetence.
One script to rule them all ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ﾉ⌐■-■
var c=document.querySelectorAll('input[type="checkbox"]');function a(e){e<c.length&&(c[e].checked&&(c[e].click(),setTimeout(()=>a(e+1),500)),!c[e].checked&&a(e+1))}a(0);
Corporal and capital punishment don't reduce crime.

All they do is give people - often people who have no involvement or had no impact from the crime - the feeling of vengeance.

Except it's the criminal justice system, not the criminal vengeance system.
in my last 10 years of generic stem research/data analysis, I've gravitated towards adopting "standard" data formats, e.g. generic timeseries in hdf5 and "small" utilities that do simple things to the data and produce plots. this allows me to extend/adapt/remix my pipelines much faster than I could by developing either custom scripts for each case or one big app to solve everything. of course I didn't invent this, it's pretty much the UNIX way for non-ascii/structured data.
This is in the works in the dev branch (thanks pchx :)

https://github.com/google/gemma.cpp/pull/274
That’s right up my alley. I can’t wait!

(But I’ll have to.)
That is a fairly safe base case - but would you have seen the opioid epidemic coming that resulted in this Supreme Court lawsuit? These things are being proscribed by reasonable doctors as painkillers and appear to have done more rather serious damage.

I will cheekily note that you wouldn't have been following the science if you did, these things were safe, effective, FDA approved and administered by the experts.
I've used Arch for about 10 years now, and I haven't done a reinstall ever. I've moved to new hardware (laptops and servers) several times over the years, so I've done fresh installs on the new hardware. Does that count?

> a system that requires regular reinstalls to be usable/stable.

Windows 95, 98 and XP were like that, no? Those have been the standard business operating system over the years.
We can trust the process of science but we need to be mindful of how to critically examine a body of literature. When I see most lay people examine literature all they do is cherry pick what they like and discard the rest and ignore any analysis or methodological concerns
> Is it safe

That depends upon your definition of "safe".

Note that, for most web users, they will see "somepart.domain.com" as just another part of "domain.com", and so if there is something on "somepart.domain.com" they disagree with (say, adult content), they will blame "domain.com" and complain to you, and/or your registrar, about said content.
> similarly capping total contributions to any PAC.

This is a first amendment violation. If the PAC can make the case that it is not campaigning for a particular candidate, then it's simply people exercising freedom of speech to tell others what is important to them.

> Equating money with free speech is a mistake in my view.

In your view, but from a scientific perspective, you're objectively wrong. Everything's fungible. Especially when we're talking about speech that occurs over mass media, which costs money to access.

> For political purposes I think everyone should have an equally powerful vote

When things like strategic voting are possible, it's impossible for everyone to have equally powerful votes because that would require everyone to be equally intelligent. Anyone more intelligent than you has at least the potential of voting more strategically than you do, and their interests will then dominate yours.
Yes, whole heartedly agree. The social impact of addiction and the ostracism of those suffering with addiction has undoubtedly only made this situation worse. I was more leaning towards doctors/pharmacies that were operating as pill mills - I.e. the handful of regions in the Appalachias where there were more scripts for Oxy than there were people in the county
It might be helpful to compare the production values and reach of today's software with the software of the past. Yes, software is complex. Yes, it's on purpose. And yes, it's largely necessary. For an indie project a coder is free to relax any number of constraints, which is why we sometimes see incredible work from independent developers and small teams. Sometimes lightning strikes, too. For everyone else, the rules unfortunately apply.

Then: Support a single platform, Windows or Mac

Now: Support Windows, Mac, and Linux, ARM or x86, as well as mobile.

Then: Support a single market

Now: Support a global market with region-specific localization

Then: Write software for wealthy and highly technical early adopters

Now: Write software that anyone in the world could possibly consume

Then: No accessibility

Now: Accessibility requirements for software being codified into law

Then: Zero or low consumer expectations, win by creating something new (blue ocean, lotus123 versus literal paper)

Now: Nearly everything has been done, win by differentiating on comparative quality in a field of options (red ocean, figma vs keynote)
For others who have no idea what Kinopio is:

Kinopio is "a spatial thinking canvas for your new ideas and hard problems".

https://kinopio.club/hello-kinopio-m6UmPzsVTQUcarM6ROPsu

It's not my kinda thing, but very neat!
India has more Internet users than most continents have total population.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_India
WasmGC has recently been completed in Firefox, the feature tracking page says since Firefox 120:

https://webassembly.org/features/

(hover over the cell for Firefox and Garbage collection).

The Firefox people have also been very active in WasmGC's development.
I wonder if you could create a ConLang with built-in usefully-hard encryption that is possible to do without a computer. Seems daunting, but the brain is an incredible machine.
De-regulation and regulatory capture are almost opposite things. De-regulation is a solution to the problem of regulatory capture.

Regulatory capture is a central problem in America today. The big powerful entities- major corporations, large unions, special interest groups, etc have the time, resources and incentives to lobby for laws (regulations) to be written in their favor.

The result is the American public is very heavily regulated, but in ways that are beneficial primarily to the powerful incumbents. This spans everything from copyright law favoring big hollywood studios to USDA regulations favoring the handful of major meat producer corporations to medicine, manufacturing, retail, real estate, etc.

Regulatory capture is also why the divide between leftists saying more regulation and rightists saying less regulation are both often missing the real problem. The US already has millions of lines of text for regulation, the problem is that so much of the regulation is bad and written to favor whoever donated or could sway votes to whichever representative crafted the language.
I see people pulling trailers all time as well. It is still far less than 10% of the trucks I see on the road.
Imagine that a significant number of people went, say, to Mars. Now they are there, and suddenly they want better conditions. Could it trigger crash program in terraforming to improve the conditions, so that mere decades away Mars would be more hospitable? What money couldn't do here?
I understand that busybox bash is specific to the windows port.
Of course it's all BS. Putin was stationed in Dresden, the GDR in 1989 and he probably shit his pants when the Wall fell and the KGB was too busy with other stuff to extract him. That's why he made up this childrens' story that the US promised not to expand NATO Eastward: misundertanding + whisful thinking + PTSD.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-06-15/russia...
> When he raised these issues — first with Spirit management and then with Boeing’s ethics program — he was fired

Eh, at cursory glance it looks possible that Boeing has wrong doing. Perhaps we'll see an email come out of discovery from Boeing telling Spirit to solve the problem (of somebody raising complaints).
I think Microsoft Office's mere existence precludes Google ever being considered a monopoly in the office apps space.
Nice. I like the event based/callback based parsing tools for XML a lot. A little more cognitive work up front but much more efficient. A little sad if unsurprised that XML is still a thing in 2024, but if you have to read it, use a streaming parser.
> victims have to pursue a much harder and more expensive set of lawsuits to get money from the Sackler family

They also have to litigate away a 2004 indemnification agreement extended by Purdue to the Sacklers in 2004, which could result in litigation and liability draining the pot before pay-outs can begin.

Definitely more complicated than I first appreciated.
Which is strange, because I tend to feel like minimalism both avoids over engineering and is more mentally stimulating in practice.
I stopped the game when I had over 50 sols collected, I think. Preparing dinner now.

Gonna replay later again :)

What does the $ amount on the canvas tell me?
It's a net loss of money, without anything tangible to show for, at the end.
Hey, this is Gabe from zenfetch. Been following you guys for a few months now since your first launch. I definitely resonate with all the problems you've described regarding celery shortcomings / other distributed task queues. We're on celery right now and have been through the ringer with various workflow platforms. Only reason we haven't switched to Hatchet is because we are finally in a stable place, though that might change soon in which case I'd be very open to jumping ship.

I know a lot of folks are going after the AI agent workflow orchestration platform, do you see yourselves progressing there?

In my head, Hatchet coupled with BAML (https://www.boundaryml.com/) could be an incredible combination to support these AI agents. Congrats on the launch
Being MIT licensed, does that mean that another company could also offer this as a hosted solution? Did you think about encumbering with a license that allowed commercial use, but prohibited resale?

Also, somewhat related, years ago I wrote a very small framework for fan-out of Django-based tasks in Celery. We have been running it in production for years. It doesn't have adoption beyond our company, but I think there are some good ideas in it. Feel free to take a look if it's of interest! https://github.com/groveco/django-sprinklers
Touché - So I say to purchasers of gas and oil: You're also welcome.

All that being said, I find these comparisons silly. Tesla is riding the hype machine, and discounting products like crazy to grab market share. Toyota is stable, mature and playing an entirely different strategy.
Well, at some point in history C was about telling a physical machine what to do. You can see that in the operations it exposes.

I don't know what modern C is for. The one that manipulates an abstract machine with concurrency oracles and time travelling metadata on object identifiers. It looks like an aberration derived from C++ to me.
Can this be pulled off legally? What can CNN do to stop it?

Can this be done well enough that it's actually compelling for viewers? How? Do they just rebroadcast the stream and put something over it?

Is X mature enough to handle this? (DeSantis tried to do a big event a while back and it was a complete flop if I remember correctly).
There is an enormous issue here. A service provider committed crimes against customers and their justification is the customers were using a protocol to exchange something. The service provider has no idea what the something exchanged was.

It's similar to arresting someone because they are speaking French. I don't speak French and I don't like people who speak French because sometimes French people say stuff I don't agree with. I don't know what they're saying but I hate it.
There will be people like Sacklers until we start putting them away and throwing away the key. We do need to put rich people in jail at least every now and again, if for no other reason than to demonstrate we're not a banana republic.
Many of the most high profile names involved in Purdue Pharma or the Sackler family have retired or have passed away, so garnishment wouldn’t be as impactful as asset seizure (directly or from the estate of those that died)
why would it be harder? wouldn't it just be the next family that tries to get away with crap like this will be scolded sooner?

it seeem like if you want people stop doing bad things you can't let them get away with bad things. here, the family was trying to get away with billions. The bankruptcy court said, "yay, ok". The Supreme Court said "no, not ok"

I don't understand the dissent. unless the dissent is friends of the family trying to spin.
Just for fun, I reproduced this in GPT-4o, then continued to challenge ChatGPT to notice the flaw in its reasoning. It finally did when I asked why it was excluding Alice from her brother's sisters.

I asked it to present a fact which, if remembered, would help it not make the same mistake. Its first idea, "When considering sibling relationships in a family, always account for the person in question as part of the sibling count unless specifically excluded," was too specific, so I asked it to generalize this insight.

Its response: "When analyzing a problem, always ensure to fully account for all relevant entities and their relationships. Double-check your assumptions and consider the problem from multiple perspectives to ensure completeness and accuracy."

I told it to commit this fact to memory and generated a fresh session with the original AIW prompt. It then answered successfully.

I would like to find some other prompts like the AIW prompt that LLMs struggle with and test the effect of this "remembered fact" on them.
That's the way to do it! Mind you paintings are bigger than stamps so it feels like you're cheating.... :)
This generally seems to be true. It doesn't help that poor reporting methods exacerbate the issue.
This seems like the inverse of EDM.
> no reason to cooperate with the state

The idea of the rule of law + the state's monopoly on violence is that you WILL cooperate with the state if the law says you should. It may even be worth some losses to keep that up.
see also Machato
They were (apparently) sheltering money specifically to pay for personal legal damages, and they voluntarily offered it back during the bankruptcy proceedings in exchange for giving up their liability.

The court ruling is not about the legality of their financial shenanigans, but the authority of the bankruptcy court on deciding such matters.
That's exactly what didn't happen here!
At the factory that builds the 737 MAX, Boeing rethinks how it trains new hires
That's exactly what I was going to bring up with this. As a doctor I just chuckled when it got to here

> Xenon is considered “the perfect anesthetic” for 5 reasons:

> It’s extremely fast-acting — xenon gas kicks into full effect within seconds

> It wears off quickly — once the gas is removed, normal consciousness comes back within a minute or two

> It doesn’t interact with other drugs

> It leaves no lasting side effects or toxicity

> The anesthetic state xenon induces is extraordinarily powerful

The vast majority of drug incompatibilities are not a result of the physical interactions between the molecules. It's the undesirable effects that they exert in tandem on physiology. A vasodilator and a negative inotrope don't have to chemically react with each other to give a patient a very bad time.

I will acknowledge that xenon does appear to have interesting effects, but nobody should be base their health and safety on what the author has written. Their analysis on its safety is far far far too superficial to be worth anything.
I expect that an article dedicated to interesting technical details will not be flagged.
I don’t understand the proposed reality they (we) should live in.

They are trying to advocate for software that doesn’t hurt its users in a sea of enshittifaction.

They should stop because corporations produce powerful software?
If I had lost a family member to drug abuse I would want justice (ie. jail time) not money.
Isn't this a problem that fixes itself? People have lots of money and throw it at stupid businesses and lose it.
Almost every other principle in the charter can be used to shoot down changes for safety, so I'm afraid the safety part is only wishful thinking, hoping for a Sufficiently Smart Compiler/Analyzer to save them.

The charter also calls for codifying known solutions, and not new inventions. But the known solutions for memory safety require things like more advanced type systems, that aren't in "the character of the language", and aren't "small and simple". Safety could be improved by severely restricting pointers, in conflict with the "programming freedom" principle, and of course performance overheads or backwards-incompatible changes are unacceptable.

So the charter says that C should have a cake and eat it.
Nice to see that the screenshots have full alt text transcriptions of the text in the image.
That's already happening with j2cl

https://github.com/google/j2cl

Java everywhere.

Also j2objc

https://github.com/google/j2objc

Write the logic in java and get it on iOS, web and android.
I was so confused by the initial part of article. BS here, BS there…
Picking up from there: The games in this paper and model are annoying.

The 2.6B would get stomped by Phi-3, so there's no comparison.

Fair enough. 2.6B vs. 3.8B is a fairly substantial size difference thats hard to intuit when its 2.6 vs 3.8 versus 2,600,000,000 and 3,800,000,000.

But then we get what I'm going to "parameter creep": Mistral 7B vs. Llama 8B vs. Gemma 9B. I worried after Llama 3 went 8B that we'd start seeing games with parameters, but, thought I was being silly.
Linera left with Morales. The President of the House apparently left to Argentina. but Salvatierra didn't flee? Resigned of her own accord.

And, again: Anez called prompt elections and peacefully handed power back to MAS less than a year later. She had every opportunity to avoid that: the election took place during the start of the COVID pandemic.

Anez is not good. I don't dispute MAS appears to be the better steward of Bolivia. But Morales had plenty of time to set up a constitutional succession and build a long-term movement (note that Morales and Arce hate each other, and there are rumors that the coup has more to do with that relationship than anything else). Instead, he tried to secure an unprecedented 4th term, after his unprecedented 3rd term, after his unprecedented 2nd term. Is it any wonder that there was chaos in 2019? If Morales had just annointed a successor, MAS would have won in a walk.
Well, it is. The victims had a settlement agreement worth billions of dollars, which the Sackler family was going to willingly provide in exchange for legal protections.

Now that legal protections are off the table, it is very unlikely that any new settlement will be as generous, and in fact quite unlikely that any settlement will be achieved at all.
Very nice, thank you!

Unhelpfully my only pain point with XML parsing is colleagues refusing to use XML in favour of json or, in really grim moments, yaml.

So I'm delighted to see a sensible modern web language implementation of the one true data exchange format. Thank you for sharing it.
The timeout can be about 200 before you need to chill out..
I'd love to take one of my old calculus tests using chatgpt4o and see if I can do better than the B/C's I was getting.
As an aphantasic myself I found this a really relatable read. I too had been very creative up until my teen years and then just sort of stopped, also in favour of hard science. Where I had once been able to draw freely whatever I liked, I somewhat suddenly no longer could. Similar to writers block, I felt like I lost my imagination.

Now days I would describe my mind to be much like the terminal of a computer but without a user interface.

Anyway I enjoy reading about people’s mental/cognitive experiences because the deeper you dig the more you begin to realise that people don’t all think or process information the same.