skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the early days of the web, that is exactly what we did. I was part of a home shopping network, prior to HTTPS being a thing. We were given enough budget to put together a pentium pro, a fractional T1, and coded up a website in C++ that allowed folks to use the same cable TV call center infrastructure. That original 5K generated 200k+ orders.
yes Mark - am familiar with your work and good reputation - and yes things go in cycles - seems like every decade AI swings from neuro to symbolic and then from symbolic to neuro - I too spent a decade on 5th Gen computing and then a decade on Semantic Web and now back to neuro with LLMs - but this time adding symbolic on top -- because, as you mention, it is only by combining these approaches that real AGI can happen. Models on their own are what I call "instinctual intelligence" - they don't think they just react immediately with no intermediate cognition. That's not going to get us that far. Symbolic reasoning ABOVE the models is necessary to get to human level insights.
I have crohn's disease which is also autoimmune and directly related to ingesting certain things. I think a lot of autoimmunity has to do with intestinal bacteria and their relationship to our innate immune system. And to a lesser extent it seems that almost every aspect of life is effected by what we eat, how we feel, how we act, how we grow and die. Maybe in 100 years we'll have fecal tests and bacteria pills to catch and prevent a paradigm shifting amount of ailments.

I know I've tried tons of different diets and exclusions and things. I've got a pretty good list in my head of what i can and can't eat but it seems to change q bit every couple years. I used to not tolerate bread but eat sugar and it seems to have switched some time in the last decade. Anyways, i wish you luck with your journey and I'm glad you've found something that works for you
that word you’re using, “compatible”, I don’t think it means what you think it means

putting a knife to pieces of lego to cover up the mic and speaker of a device that costs hundreds of dollars for some visual customization is just plain stupid
Designing Developer Tools:12 Insights from Crafting the Ultimate Note-Taking App
Guided AI Agents: Turbocharging the SMB
Cheapo crap compared to the Acapella Sphaeron Excalibur, that apparently go for close to a million USD: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YPcAusiXRD0
Came here to express the same sentiment.

> Sometimes a big ball of mud is exactly what’s needed...Banks are another example...It’s soul crushing...which is partly why I left.

Not a very convincing argument. ;-)
big ball of mud is a great pattern for games (non live-service ones, at least)

once you ship, you don't really need to maintain it the same way as other software. tech debt is free money if you ship before having to pay it back

and players often like complexity and interaction between systems, so there's less benefit to isolating them in code
Yeah -- this was good logic back in the day.

Now one has to scroll down -- sometimes several links -- before finding a link that isn't an ad.

Maybe this is where encouraging people to use the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button would help, because it should still go to the top non-ad-link?
Is Jimmy Sabatino America's Loneliest Prisoner?
It strikes me as surprising to imply that we don't have time-keeping standards for solar system exploration that take into account relativistic differences.

the CSPICE toolkit from JPL/NAIF has a bunch of routines to calculate local time, local time of arrival of events from other places (light cone, I suppose?), down to the nanosecond.
These statements are orthogonal though i.e. 2300->3800 is still less than 20% per generation (17% per if you use the exact single core numbers for the M1 vs M4 iPad). That might be meaningful for your workload but it also means 20-30 percent per generation is quite a bit off.
I don't think any of the Linux GPU drivers are written to work with UEFI/ACPI.
I'd guess the phishers spent a lot of time and burned some google adwords accounts looking for what would get through any automated checks they had.
Sesquipedalian
The BBC has edited the article and the line I quoted I can no longer find. I was pretty sure that particular person the quote was from was described as living in the US (as is another one of the examples in the article).

One of the other individuals in the article lives in Saudi Arabia, which has a very highly developed banking system.
CO2 Footprint Calculator
https://archive.ph/0Itzv
Outlawing encryption worked so well, let's try outlawing static data sets.

DeCSS fit on a tshirt; it'll probably take a bit more code to derive any given set of naughty weights or other verboten data from Pi.

see also "third hole template"
I don't think so. That would make every drone a potential missile.

A missile doesn't have to specifically be a rocket. Cruise missiles often/usually have jet engine.
I would actually say that this is more of a system/OS issue to a point. Why doesn’t my OS keep such often-used programs in memory, simple opening a new window when clicked, like mobile OSs do? Just because desktop hardware can get away with a lot more, I believe that making programs go to a background mode, and pausing its thread would make everything so much smoother with zero, or even beneficial effect on memory/battery consumption.
How do I do that in vscode? When I'm trying to close vscode, it asks me to save unsaved files.
My mother waited for 3 months for imaging on her heart. 4 ER trips in that time, she spent much of it afraid she could die at any minute. We tried to comfort ourselves with the idea that her GP and the cardiologist knew what she was experiencing, surely if it were as critical as it felt to her something would be escalated right? But when they finally got a lock at her heart they all but handcuffed her to the hospital bed, and scheduled emergency surgery for the morning. 4 valves repaired and I don't recall what all else. She is doing well now, but our conversations during those months where she was simultaneously trying not to scare me, but also make sure her affairs were in order will undoubtedly be with me for the rest of my life.

Our system is broken.
China report claims cooking oil carried in same trucks as fuel
Fraud. If somebody dropped a dime on him he'd get fired. Or he could get caught because they took a look for rewards accounts that had made an unreasonable amount of sales. Either way they will have CCTV footage of him doing it over and over again so, if caught, he will be badly busted.
The problem is non-profits are not optimal vehicles for societal change. And indiscriminately throwing a large lump sum at organizations that haven't grown to be accustomed to managing themselves in that sort of environment can have deleterious knock-on effects.

A very crude and reductionist example is donating to a clothing center (that is basically a tax write-off vehicle for HNWI) that then dumps those clothes into foreign countries destroying their local economies.

It is such a hard problem, and I have yet to see any brilliant leadership in this area. Off the top of my head, American libraries are the most recent effort that I would consider to have been led well.
It’s pretty straight forward— you compare the average risk for individuals to the rates for those exposed to carcinogens. For instance, if a population of people develops lung cancer at a rate of 2% by age 70, and a population of smokers has a rate of 10% by age 70– the difference between the base line and the exposed populations becomes the “preventable” count.
That's a whole lot of words to say nothing. Perfect government press release.
When I tried to pay on a website a while ago I kept getting "unknown error". Fast forward about an hour waiting in the helpdesk phone queue, and turns out you need to set up a special password for that. This is not an "unknown" error, it's a known error... Why can't it just show me? Sigh.

I wonder how many people they've need to "help" with this. Yes, I know there's tons of old code in many banks, but they would have saved money if they had a single developer work on this full-time for a month or something. Support people may be cheaper than devs, but they're not free.
Your link says SB1524 does exactly what I wrote in my post. SB478 banned junk fees, including at restaurants, in Oct 2023, and then SB1524 a week ago allowed restaurants to charge junk fees.

> SB 1524 was a last-minute bid by lawmakers to extract restaurants from the junk fee ban known as Senate Bill 478, which Newsom approved in October 2023.

There is no reason that a restaurant menu should have a mandatory charge on everything shown separately from the prices for the food, other than for restaurants to be able to make prices seem lower than they are.
Same. LibreOffice exported to PDF.

Also I cram everything into one page while keeping things readable. Being concise is an important skill. Personally I find it ridiculous people with a few years of experience and 3+ pages. I have 12 years of industry experience and don't feel the need for that second page yet.
> This suited me down to the ground because I pointed out to everybody that Javascript couldn't be guaranteed to treat numbers and calculations in a way that would keep the regulators auditors happy,

Javascript can represent dollar values up to $2.25 billion at a resolution of ten-thousandths of a cent without any loss of precision.

I would want all money calculations done by the backend team as a matter of policy. But it's not a technical limitation.
Arduino Plug and Make Kit
Which bank? I'm with LLoyds and transactions are verified via the app, not SMS.
Yes, my AIB card reader works like this. When transferring money to an unknown account I also need to enter the amount and "sign" that with the card reader. For adding a new payee it's a challenge/response.
Why isn't there any market fulfillment for "safe, non-intrusive ads", on the part of a vendor? Is it because it's not possible, or not worth the overhead either because of cost or no effect on consumer behavior/blocking?

This seems like it ought to be low-hanging fruit. I would have less aversion to clicking on ads if I did not default to it being a security risk.
The overengineering here produced a poor result. I have found a lot of success using the pandoc_resume project, which is literally just a content item written in Markdown, formatted into different outputs using a LaTeX template via `pandoc`. With this, I output a PDF that looks great, and output HTML which I put in as a non-touched file in my static site generator, and it works very well.
What do you do to make Idea slow? On my computer, everything is blazing fast. Idea is very fast, like 1-2 seconds to open a project and then it's just works instantly. Same about vscode.
> Could you unpack...?

Excessive prioritization of satisfying their immediate emotional needs (for more-is-always-better data collection), with relatively minimal healthy or long-term regard for the national security utility of the resulting behavior pattern.

To be fair - quantity of data collected is a stupid-but-obvious metric, which the CIA probably uses for many status/budget/promotion decisions.
ARM. Every second that passes, for each person that is born that will use a computer, at least two people who will never use a computer is born. Those two people will own a phone though, and that phone will have an ARM chip.

As time goes on, more and more ARM chips will take roles traditionally taken by x86-64. Hell, ARM is already the best-selling architecture. Laws of scale will dictate that investments in x86-64 will fail to keep pace with ARM. Apple Silicon is already showing a small fragment of that effect. The chips are incredibly competitive, and for what Apple has chosen to focus on (perf-per-watt), unbeatable. ARM investments by other companies are catching up to Apple, and x86-64 does not make enough money to reverse that trend.
I wonder if Sci-Fi novels contain any info on time representation, reference, and distribution.
https://auderemagazine.com/2020/11/29/walter-tevis-the-big-b...
You think troubleshooting on any other OS is less technical? Isn't my experience unless you count the OS refusing to give you information required to troubleshoot at all as user friendlyness.
Are you implying we should name the kids via some BabyLLM? /joking
$50 for 50GB seems like a fair offer for the US market, especially given the possibility of coverage in remote locations.

But keep in mind that US market is unique, as it's extremely overpriced with very poor quality/coverage. Looks like average price in the US is $6.00/GB. Compare this to countries like Israel ($0.02/GB) or Colombia ($0.20/GB). Whenever I travel, I usually have a better coverage and faster connection in a jungle than downtown SF.
Maybe you already know this and your comment was in jest, but the real reason is that the Go lexer automatically inserts semicolons (https://go.dev/doc/effective_go#semicolons) using heuristic rules which forces the opening brace to be on the same line.
Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words
"Take vi(m)."

Yeah, a code editor is by definition for developers.

The question here was about the OS in general. And it is a pretty established fact, that linux is popular with developers, but not with mainstream normal people. Unless linux comes in the shape of android, where everything linux is hidden and locked down.
Thanks for the reference. That looks like a civil complaint. I doubt they'll realistically face prison for it as they implied. But was probably said to make a point.

Noticed they demanded a jury trial. I guess his lawyer feels pretty confident the guy is either innocent (seems doubtful) or that they'll be able to get a jury to go along ideological party lines.
What would be the effect on the "Grabby Aliens" model?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3whaviTqqg
https://www.primearray.com/products/Maxtet_3.0_usb.php

https://b3n.org/automatic-ripping-machine/
Hogwash. I’ll agree that it’s not as simple with logs, but amazingly powerful, and even more so with distributed tracing.

They both have their places and are both needed.

Without logs, I would not have been able to pinpoint multiple issues that plagued our systems. With logs, we were able to tell google, Apigee, it was there problem, not ours. With tracing, we were able to tell a legacy team they had an issue and was able to pinpoint it after them telling us for 6 months that it was our fault. Without logging and tracing, we wouldn’t have been able to tell our largest client, that we never received a 1/3 of their requests they sent us as our company was running around frantically.

They’re both needed, but for different things…ish.
I feel like you have two choices for password reset flows:

1. Insecure ones

2. Ones where many users needing recovery will get locked out with no ability to recover their accounts, guaranteed
Fun fact: long credits at the end of the movie were invented by George Lucas for American Graffiti in 1973 [1]. He didn't have the money to pay everyone so he offered to put their names in the credits instead.

And thus started a new chapter in the exploitation of film crews, where you don't get paid enough but hey, at least your name is in the credits. All the other producers were immediately like -- that's a genius idea to pay the crew less! So now all movies (and even TV shows) are full of hundreds and often even thousands of names in the credits.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069704/trivia/
> The massive influx of poorly prepared junior programmers in the last decade

It's been more than a decade. Take a time machine back to 2014, and we're
complaining about religious zealotry among followers of the GoF book,
debating whether SOLID means anything useful at all, and enjoying spicy
rants like "Rails is a Ghetto." I think the problem is not so much that
junior programmers are generally ill-prepared to do professional work --
that much is to be expected -- but that the industry continues to be
unable or unwilling to evaluate competence.
Not a lawyer, but that would be a fair use question, which I hear are notoriously complicated.

Colloquially, I generally expect a remix to be comprised of the original instrumentals/beat (potentially edited, but virtually nothing actually new added), potentially new lyrics, and to still be recognizable as the original.

The "still be recognizable as the original" part is a huge problem for fair use, and why I don't think remixes generally qualify. If it doesn't sound like the original then it's not a remix, but if it does sound like the original it can't be fair use.

I think the underlying issue is the resulting work, not the process that went into creating it. I think (but am in no way sure) that copying parts of songs would be fine if you did something to them so they aren't recognizable as the original.

As an example, if I take a song by the Beatles and repeatedly compress it until it's entirely compression artifacts, I would bet that I could publish that. I don't think it would matter that I started with a copyrighted work, what matters is that my finished product bears no resemblance to any other copyrighted work.

That would mean it's just a normal "is this work too similar to existing works?" standard applied to humans as well.

There is still an ancillary question of whether it's okay to train on copyrighted music, but that's really a different question than whether the works it creates infringe.
As someone else has said [1], look where the puck is going. China's renewables and storage deployment trajectory is going vertical [2] [3] [4] [5], and will strand a lot of their coal assets [6]. India is, admittedly, going to need some pressure to encourage the desired outcome (along with the Philippines and Indonesia [7]).

> so calling US laggards in that context is misdirection.

Not at all. The US is doing fuck all compared to China, except for California who is driving clean energy and storage aggressively. The US could absolutely drive out fossil generation more rapidly, based on China's efforts in plain sight. Politics, laziness, and lack of will.

Edit: China is also forcing steelmaking to electric arc furnaces vs coal [8].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40937008

[2] https://globalenergymonitor.org/report/china-continues-to-le... ("China continues to lead the world in wind and solar, with twice as much capacity under construction as the rest of the world combined")

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-04-12/china-... | https://archive.today/8Dy4D ("China Already Makes as Many Batteries as the Entire World Wants")

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40919052 ("HN:
China's Batteries Are Now Cheap Enough to Power Huge Shifts")

[5] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/06/next-step-for-china-s... ("The next step for China’s clean energy transition: industrial and commercial storage deployment")

[6] https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/china-coal-plants ("China is building more coal plants but might burn less coal")

[7] https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Countries-Inc... ("The Countries Increasing Their Coal Dependency Despite Climate Pledges")

[8] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-11/china-for... | https://archive.today/pKy4K ("China didn’t permit any coal-based steelmaking projects in the first half of the year for the first time since announcing its major climate neutrality goals in 2020, according to a report released Thursday. All 7.1 million tons a year of steelmaking capacity permitted by provincial governments in the first half used electric arc furnaces, a cleaner process that runs on recycled scrap and electricity, said the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air in its report on Thursday.")
'All I did was rebuild my life to cater to the external demands, and now I can life ok.' Well, good for you for being able to burn your life to ash & start again. Sometimes that's a good thing!
That's only for few minutes before I uninstall it.
What's more useful to me is "I'm not sure" or "I'm very sure", but LLMs can't provide you with a level of certainty. They're very sure about everything, including things they make up.
This is part of a trend in paleontology.

If you google for "francevillian biota" or "stirling biota" you'll find some freely-available PDFs describing what might be multi-cellular life's fossils in africa and australia.

There's also https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms11500 "Decimetre-scale multicellular eukaryotes from the 1.56-billion-year-old Gaoyuzhuang Formation in North China"

I'm kind of hoping that paleontologists decide there was multi-cellular life on earth which got wiped out by the Snowball Earth Marinoan and Sturtian global glaciations.
Sounds like you're saying either:

1. Engineers don't care about the health of the codebase and it becomes/stays a ball of mud, OR...

2. They do care, and end up refactoring/rewriting it in a way that just creates even MORE complexity.

But I think this is a false dichotomy. It just happens to be very difficult, and as much of an art as a science to keep huge codebases moving in the right direction.

I haven't worked at Google, but from what I've heard they have huge codebases, but they're not typically falling apart at the seams.
Kay is derived from Kate. Kate is Derived from Kathy or Katherine.
Formlabs acquires 3D printing startup Micronics mid-Kickstarter campaign
If (somehow/waves hands) you could parallelize training, maybe this would turn into an implicit regularization and be a benefit, not a flaw. Then again, physical parallelizability might be an infeasibly restrictive constraint?
“The solution to this problem is just don’t have this problem”
Military Documents Related to F-35 Lightning II Leaked on Social Media
As a currently (but ideally not permanently so) childless adult...what does it matter what the other parents are naming their babies?

btw and fwiw, Max is a good name.
What increase has intel made over the same time period? Feels like a lot less. CPUs are mature technology.
Doyensec – Securing Applications Against DB Race Conditions
Neat, a new C program! I get a little frisson of good vibes whenever someone announces a new project in C, as opposed to Rust or Python or Go. Even though C is pretty much a lost cause at this point. It looks like it has some real sophisticated performance optimizations going on too.
I think you have a different definition of "different lines".

BART is like a tree. The branches join together into one trunk. It's shared tracks into the same stations. So measuring the frequency of all the lines makes sense, as long as you only want to move between stations on the trunk.

London is not like that (if I understand correctly). Elizabeth and Thameslink don't share tracks between common stations.

So London has much higher aggregate than BART. But the statement about BART's train frequency on the trunk is not a nonsense statement.
Build Image Search with Linear Algebra Fundamentals
I wrote a post about how to build image search using OpenAI's CLIP, and I included a Google Colab notebook that walks you through step by step the coding process. My article also gives the reader all the fundamental linear algebra and ML they need to know. Enjoy!
You have a talent for writing in a way that's both approachable and full of information. It comes across as super knowledgeable without losing that wonderful sense of childlike curiosity, which I think makes it particularly approachable or even inviting. It reminded me of PBS Space Time.

It's an artful balance that is so rare—especially online—that I think some of us just savor it when we do find it. I actually went through your older comments (sorry) just to keep reading what you had to say...
> Versus what?

Can Linux have something like the Mac App Store where apps don't have access to the whole system by default?
Please tell us more about the trading firm. Sounds interesting
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Everytime I hear the words "earlier than previously thought" makes me think the whole "thought process" is wrong. Which makes me think we know very little actually but its often advertised and taught as fact.