skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m feeling kind of the opposite lately. I’ve been considering going to a single monitor setup, because I feel distracted by everything that’s not on my primary monitor. I keep all of my “focus” items on the primary, and non-focus items (slack, discord, calendar, etc.) on the secondary monitor.
It makes sense if you want to be able to dump new chemicals in the environment and count on your “small government” representatives to do nothing about it.
I'm not sure if it's exactly a hallucination, but when asking for a simple explanation of the Rayleigh limit using the newest beta model, it confidently gave a series of backward answers, suggesting the closer you get to two light sources the less you can differentiate between them...the analogy was used like 6 times, but at least it was consistent!
It's absolutely a problem, and it needs to be fixed, and Boeing should be punished for letting it get this far. But it's not worth disrupting flight plans to very, very, very slightly improve the safety of a mode of travel that is already like seven orders of magnitude safer than driving, which most of us do every day.
Gotcha, thank you, appreciate the insight
Or Congress
"A bit lacking" is putting it mildly. I love Egan, but he wraps his hard sci fi worldbuilding efforts in the minimum veneer of a story that can be written to tell you about the universe he's imagined.
Recite, Reconstruct, Recollect: Memorization in LMs as a Multifaceted Phenomenon
just for info, for planes it depends, for daily short-distances (aka, because of the "per trip" risk), they are actually more dangerous than a car. It's true for long-distances, but not for short.
>If the legislature are not experts - and they're not on many many topics - they need to either a) find those experts for advice or b) keep their hands out of it.

Or c) set aside budget to fund their own infra and pool of expertise to enable members of the Branch to conduct legislative business competently, and most importantly, independently, of the other two branches, like was the original intent behind the Library of Congress.
That's called Websim my friend and it's a heck of a lot of fun

https://websim.ai

This is what it generated for one of the non-existent articles

https://websim.ai/c/P32MdBI15Ytxwwlth
Proof that the only thing that matters about any software is whether it's easy for beginners to get into. What's wrong with Erlang that in ten years it's seen so little adoption?
They do not. I wish they did!
Cognitive Ability and Educational Attainment as Antecedents of Mental Disorders
Thanks for your replies, everyone. I added the context to get a clearer picture.
do you know more home computers that did the display controller like the apple II did?

I think it may be inspiring to people who make their own diy cpus
> Linux kernel has an incredibly strong userspace API stability guarantee

These guarantees are not that strong, unfortunately. For example, API between kernel-mode and user-mode halves of the GPU driver is unstable. To have 3D accelerated graphics on RK3288 you gonna need either libmali-midgard-t76x-r14p0-r0p0-gbm.so or libmali-midgard-t76x-r14p0-r1p0-gbm.so userspace library, depending on a minor hardware revision of that RK3288.
> the real problem is _corporations are lazy_.

But we knew that already. The people coming up with the rules must take that into account otherwise you get prop 65 warnings and cookie banners everywhere.
People and AI = Billion Dollar Company? [video]
Darn, I was gonna do that optimization
Computer-designed proteins guide stem cells to form blood vessels
Ensuring a "correct labeling and clean environment" is really expensive. I mean, really expensive. It's not going to be practical.
An e-reader will reinvigorate your reading habit, and give you something to do any time you have a spare few seconds or minutes. I carry an e-reader everywhere (I have big pockets) and have never regretted it.
Philadelphia is the odd one out there. Unless you live in Center City, most people have cars.
We do retros at the end of a sprint: midday Wednesday.

We use a trello board with the following headings:

- what didn't go well

- what went well

- ideas / discussion points

- show 'n tell

Everyone spends the first 5 minutes putting items for things they want to talk about. Then we go through them in order.

There's also an actions tab where we put anything important that arises during the retro. Those usually get turned into tickets or future meetings by the manager.

Usually there are 4-5 things that we discuss over 45 mins to an hour.

As far as I know everyone's happy with how they work (including me).
The TLDR of these kinds of devices: great for reading/text, terrible for video and scrolling. Love mine, here's a video of me using a similar device with lots of common android apps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvO9ScTdwz8
That's interesting. I suppose that if I won the lotto I would want to try expensive things to see if they were worth the extra money. I've never dried off with $700 towels before, would I feel $695 fancier for using them?
>A bullet-train equivalent in the northeast corridor, or between LA/SF would be a dream.

There's a train between Miami and Orlando with an average speed of 69 mph. My guess as to why it happened there instead of in the northeast corridor is that the costs of procuring rights of way were significantly lower.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightline
Joel has since said that that he doesn't really agree with that advice anymore, at least not in the same way. Super annoying that it gets parroted over and over again as though it's the word of the lord.
Separate root and home partitions brother. As in, keep root on BTRFS for rollbacks and keep home on extf4 where you keep.all your dbs and VMs. This way you get best if both worlds, no need to mess with nocow parameters.
I'm glad you like it. It's built using:

- OpenAI

- Ruby on Rails

- Postgresql

- Docker

- Digital Ocean
Milk-V Reveals Technical Specs of Milk-V Jupiter RISC-V Mini-ITX PC
The Four Barriers to AI Adoption by Ttunguz
Like I said, the ecosystem is strong. The language's design hasn't aged well, so nowadays any Java code I see in prod has 1-4 annotations above every class and method to get around the limitations of the language. Similar to how some C code will rely heavily on macros.
Why stop at 21, why not get 1 supreme court from each state? You could get 2 if you wanted to be spicy and setup a sort of room for them all to debate in. Then after they heard the debates they could vote on the matter and if it passes it gets written into law. A sort of congress...
> Before someone starts getting their pants in a twist at this idea, you can configure a solution such that commits to branches don't need a conventional commit format, but that the commit that merges a PR into master must have conventional commit format.

Not can, must. You cannot enforce this for local development since git(1) doesn’t allow project-wide hooks for security reasons.
I was in similar situation. Arch user that bought the sell from NixOS. It worked great after a painstaking setup (everything you think you know about Linux systems in general is wrong!) and was a joy to use but when it broke, it was a complete mess due to how quirky the whole OS is. P.S There's nothing simple about NixOS and the documentation could use some work.
Yeah there is a large group of people becoming radicalized every day on twitter as they realize Andy Merrill (Brak) drives an Amazon truck.

I think more are also trying to understand why Andy isn’t credited as a co-creator when every account of the creation of it says he is.
> maybe from here it is just mostly engineering, data and regulatory capture, and the question of creativity won’t be the defining one. I’m not saying this is likely but I don’t think it’s unlikely either. Actually I’d say it’s more likely than not.

I think there is still a lot of taste involved, and also that there is no reason to think that the current default scaling path is the optimal one. Sure, maybe even a braindead OA can reach AGI solely by coasting on inertia and scaling up on MS's Stargate and just training for long enough and spending enough on data and truly bruteforcing it. But that doesn't mean they'd be the first one there. There are a number of ideas floating around about how to do scaling much better. (There is no reason to think that Chinchilla was the end all be all.) And if you lack creativity or taste, you will neither think of nor pick the right one until after it has been proven out... just like pretty much everyone else ignored the scaling results in DL until well after GPT-3. Look at Baidu: their researchers published the first contemporary scaling law paper. Where are they now?
Kind Games: The GDC Talk – Lostgarden
Interestingly, Egan pokes some holes in his own work here: https://gregegan.net/PERMUTATION/FAQ/FAQ.html (spoiler warning) and I think is all the more credible for doing so, totally on brand for a hard sci-fi author.
Interesting. Do you have a source for that? Does that include people crashing privately owned airplanes (which I don't think are relevant to this conversation)?
In a sane world, if Congress were okay delegating their responsibility, presumably they'd be okay rubber stamping whatever agencies sent their way (with the advantage that they could more thoroughly review something controversial). If they're not okay rubber stamping, then I suppose they weren't actually okay with delegating their responsibility.

Like surely the EPA could send them a 1 sentence bill saying "amend section H paragraph III to add chemical X at 30 ppb", and they could have it passed in a day if they have that trust.
I use the wahoo fitness brand chest strap. I like it because it's barebones, clipping on the strap activates it and then it's just a standard bluetooth health device that the watch can see and utilise. When paired to the watch, the built-in sensor switches off, which is easy to confirm visually.

For comparison: Where the watch's in-built sensor will give me around 12 readings a minute the strap gives me 60 (and this one is around 10 years old now). That's quite useful for HIIT, as well as getting a better judgment for how your heart rate is recovering after brief periods of intensity.
That's what sigrok or wireshark are for, IMO. Of course, you lose something for half the price. The ST one does have a protocol analyzer.
Unlike SCOTUS federal agencies actually have to follow codes of ethics.

Deferring to megacorporations is in fact the outcome here since the justices know Congress will not act.
AI can't beat my composite sketches, says record-breaking police artist
- https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2024/4/forensic-ar...
Just realized that Gemma2 is pretty bad in programming tasks. Lol.
Maybe I should have elaborated further. I do a lot of tasks where I need to switch between 3 or 4 different windows/programs frequently. On a single screen laptop, this quickly becomes tedious, but on a multi monitor setup it’s much easier to keep everything organized.
I'd like to have a Slack bot that explains this situation:

"Thanks for contacting pavlov. Due to operating system limits, his reply to your message won't be published until 3pm tomorrow. Your patience is appreciated."

Would be a stress antidote.
As an aside, I've always wondered how society will drive the response to climate change into a ditch - it'll be at the hands of lawyers (because, you know, they are policy experts).
> one of the safest

This seems to be a severe misunderstanding, basically all typed pure functional languages are more safe: haskell, sml, ocaml, etc.

It is safe without a garbage collector that is the core benefit.
No I claim Finland should not have been a NAZI ally.
There is no excuse and nothing will wash this part of history clean..

Oh and since we are counting dead:

The siege of Leningrad of which Finland was a part of:

>The siege became one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history, and it was possibly the costliest siege in history due to the number of casualties which were suffered throughout its duration. An estimated 1.5 million people died as a result of the siege.
Yes, and what exactly is "the judicial Power"? Roberts, C.J., famously said that it was that of an umpire calling balls and strikes.

As a far-fetched analogy, Chevron deference is a bit like having a committee of uninvolved players and managers determining where the strike zone will be for each ballpark. If the team owners agree on such a meta-rule, then the umpires need to call balls and strikes based on that meta-rule, using the strike zones determined by the committee. It's not up to the umpires to decide that the owners can't delegate that authority to the committee.
I find the pedagogy of Erlang and Elixir to be sparse. Maybe those programmers just start out strong and don’t need soft on-ramps. I know they’re working on it but not having types is also a big deal for project scalability and not just performance scalability.
Throw a potato as high up in the air as you can, and catch it with your face.
Even if that’s true (and you may be more often than you realize), you still rely on a great deal of code that does, like searching and sorting.

It is a little disappointing how few programmers know how to construct a nontrivial loop that both always terminates and does what it’s supposed to for all inputs.

Binary search is a classic example. If you think it’s trivial to get right, you probably aren’t. Knuth has some interesting things to say about it in The Art of Computer Programming.
This might be a good moment to drop a thing I made last year but never shared the link for. It's a bitmap editor that outputs Apple ][ shape tables.

https://robterrell.github.io/shape_table_maker/shape_draw.ht...

Apple ][ shape tables were a rarely-used vector drawing technique -- rarely used because they were fairly slow to render and there wasn't great tooling for making them. High level of difficulty plus poor results... it was almost as easy to write blitting code, even with the odd Apple ][ video memory layout, so most games ended up doing that instead.

Anyway, if you are curious about shape tables, here's a thing for you.
The politicians writing the law were likely unaware (or ignored) the Cobra Effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect#The_original_cobr...
One of the better comments in this thread, I would only qualify that different levels of ability mediate much of the "how hard is it to make an unmaintainable mess" dimension. Dplyr/tidy code can be pasta, as can pandas, and there is really a whole new level of that given llm generated nonesense edited/tweaked by novices masquerading as seniors.

Apropos this idea of a vs code competitor, I wish they would spend more effort on existing products. I find quarto frustratingly buggy and meanwhile see no reason to move my workflow from vscode to this new thing. Ymmv
TBF laziness is the natural order to the universe. Ain't nothin doin more than it has to.
>If they fuck up , the delegating power has the ability to rein it in.

We synonimize "an Act of Congress" with something long, drawn out, and ardorous for a reason. With that ability to rein in locked behind gaining the buy in of the rest of the Congress, it leaves an Executive Agency able to play "scope chicken" with the Congress.

Making law is Congress's job. Id a rule needs making, the Legislature should have in place the framework to handle the act of rulemaking; but importantly, seperately from the enforcement mechanism. The Judiciary should equivalently accommodate a venue for redress of grievance w.r.t interpretations in play.

Failure to do the above without the seperation of power is a failure to govern.
> I don’t know what the margins on bread are

Well they're usually called crusts for starters.
Rewriting Wren AI LLM Service for 1500 Concurrent Users
They don’t have the ecosystem that makes React worth it.
Props for gov.uk! I’ve looked at its documentation and design system and see both as peak user experience and clarity.
I think when people say safest they mean the safest "C like" language with zero cost abstractions.
> No, accelerometer data is only recorded to the FDR. Which has a limited storage window

Apple and Google could fix this my streaming accelerometer data to the ground when people are connected to in-flight wifi. It is fairly easy to identify which phones out of a set are the stationary ones.
>and never would have happened without

We don't know that now do we?

Reading EU Report:
sure its criticized, it does not make it wrong.
Diaspora opens with a character literally developing itself, what more could you want?
I think this is the clip that the "no easy task with the primitive video equipment of the early nineties" link in the article originally linked to (it's a local news "behind the scenes" segment):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrQXLdYtZKg
They're billionaires because they don't waste their money? I don't think so. They're billionaires because they invest in companies that provide shed loads of value to their customers, so their stock is worth more.
I am not a Rust fan by any mean, but it feels like this rant is not completely informed. Things like:

> Just give me a garbage collector, and let me do what I want to do!

and

> But when compared with other languages (like Go), its “safety” to me is more of a detriment.

Sound like the author is not exactly clear about what "memory safety" is. Many languages are memory safe. The difference is that Rust aims for memory safety at zero (in practice "very low") cost. If garbage collected languages could do that without sacrificing their simplicity, they would do it.

It's a tradeoff. If Kotlin is fine for you in terms of performances, then use it! Rust is rather an alternative for C/C++, where performance matters. Feel free to use Rust wherever you want if you love it, but don't use it when performance does not matter if you hate it!
Time it takes to drive between large cities at least 80 km (50 miles) apart
You can detect gravitational waves based on the strain (amplitude) directly, rather than relying on intensity like electromagnetism.

Because the amplitude is inversely proportional to the distance, but intensity is inversely proportional to the distance squared, this could allow for communication over longer distances.
Almost every single passenger is carrying an accelerometer with them. We just have to use that data.
Between endless builder patterns and the let if/match syntax it does get quite wide and ugly relative to C or something. But it definitely has its upsides.
Link to the actual opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-175_19m2.pdf

> "Still, no one has asked us to reconsider Robinson. Nor do we see any need to do so today. Whatever its persuasive force as an interpretation of the Eighth Amendment, it cannot sustain the Ninth Circuit’s course since Martin."

> "Public camping ordinances like those before us are nothing like the law at issue in Robinson. Rather than criminalize mere status, Grants Pass forbids actions like “occupy[ing] a campsite” on public property “for the purpose of maintaining a temporary place to live. Under the city’s laws, it makes no difference whether the charged defendant is homeless, a backpacker on vacation passing through town, or a student who abandons his dorm room to camp out in protest on the lawn of a municipal building.”

The argument is pretty interesting. You can't make something that is normally illegal legal just because of some trait of the person. If a park has posted hours or parking rules, you can't ask someone for proof they don't have a home to determine they broke the rules or not. Which is different than rounding up all of the homeless legally using the space during the day and telling them they have to leave.

They do have a problem with the 9th circuit's interpretation of the Eight Amendment. In the court's view, the eight amendment is about protecting you from unjust punishments. But you can't use that argument to determine if something is a crime.
> Wildly impractical

I couldn't disagree more strongly. Part of the vision in PARC (and Alan Kay's life work) was to create learning environments for children, and this demo is set in that realm, so having kids figure it out themselves is enormously empowering. Obviously not what you want if you're trying to sell widgets, but the widget-sellers themselves could benefit from this kind of environment to develop a usable widget-buying experience.

> The UX has already been thought out ... [and] ... refine[d] over time.

In such an impoverished way, in my experience. One of the things Alan Kay has said (elsewhere) is that the environment at PARC allowed them to experiment with radically different user interfaces in the afternoon, after thinking about it at lunch. This implies an in-depth knowledge of the tools, yes, but developers need that in any environment. I'm doing volunteer work now and having to learn to use several software systems (EventBrite, MailChimp, Salesforce). The difficulty of using these systems is in range for me as a retired software engineer, (although endlessly annoying), but other volunteers need extensive training. There's is nothing 'refined' about them, in terms of ease-of-use to the end users. The current tools for developing the interfaces (HTML, CSS, SQL, Javascript, etc.) are also primitive compared to the environment shown here. Again, it's a lengthy task to become a power use of the system demo-ed here, but no more so than to become a power use of the 10 or more technologies you need to learn to make a modern web site.

As a web site developer, with these kinds of tools, you'd develop your own tools and abstractions (an intermediate layer) to build with, none of which would appear anything like the physical world manipulation tools that have been built here.
Yes, you can compare figures here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_accident

But it's anecdotal, I mean, realistically, the plane is still better for long distance.

You can sort by journeys, vs, km.
I don’t understand your comment: if you develop software as a team, it seems important to communicate and to know what the others in your team are working on?

Also, I really don’t see it as ‘social’ meeting, to me it’s a focused technical meeting about the work that is going on.
It is routine procedure, the very purpose of chapter 11 is to protect the company from liabilities and negotiate a new structure where both shareholders and bondholders and employee unions take a haircut in order to salvage the company and its business model.

Company will never recover from chapter11 Unless bondholders, employees, union, all take a haircut and build a new economics(cost structure) for existing business model