skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compiler developers lately seem focused on emitting LLVM IR.
Turns out robots make for better people than people.

Also I remember the refrain that "I'm just text on a screen dude" made more than once on the boards I used to visit at the time.
I live in rural Ireland, and I've heard more than one story about a farmer who discovered some archeological find on their land and just plowed over it to avoid the hassle.
That would be Github that's owned by Microsoft who also make Windows? They can get weird arcane code.
Thank you for making that! I was using a plugin to export to markdown but it wasn't ideal.
If it's just the bare minimum to survive (e.g. food + roof), there's still quite a lot of self-interested incentive to pull your weight. Of course, some people would be satisfied with the bare minimum but my guess is it wouldn't be a large percentage of the population.
Fair critique. I was mostly trying make a thorough case first.

I’ll definitely have a followup focused more on queues.
I would assume they are running it for a company, in which if said user gets hit by a bus you want to be able to bring someone else in quickly that can run the operation.
Ok. This JVM-level switching is called mounting/un-mounting of the virtual thread and is supposed to be several orders of magnitude cheaper compared to normal context switch. You should be fine with millions of virtual threads.
Man, I've missed classic Slashdot-style "didn't read TFA".
> it was something that really interesting people were focused on as a platform for writing, design and creativity

I've been spending less time there recently, but these last few years I've been part of various communities which were all about sharing creative writing; so it's still there, but maybe not as visible?
The same thing as any other labor shortage? Employers offer more money, and people who want that money apply for those jobs?
> It is illegal to use a metal detector to search for archaeological objects anywhere in the Republic of Ireland, unless you have written permission from the government.

So if you were (say) digging some footings for your new garden shed, found the items, and didn't much trust law enforcement - but were, in abstract, a patriotic sort, who wanted to do the right thing...

True story: A friend of mine was digging foundations for a new shed in the back yard of a house he owned - and discovered human bones. Police got involved, and it was a big, big PITA. Even though experts from the local university pronounced "the remains were buried over a century ago; the victim appears to have died of infectious disease". And my friend had bought the house (from an unrelated party) just a few decades prior. And the house had been used as a hospital a century or so earlier, when "bury the paupers in the back yard" could easily be tiny-hospital SOP during an epidemic.
It's only available in certain paid versions (https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2022/12/format-displ...)

Which is too bad, it's the one thing keeping me from writing design docs in google docs.
<xmp> and <plaintext> never die!

I think/hope/believe that even though these elements fell out of grace of the standard bodies [1] long time ago, implementers simply cannot go against backwards compatibility here and remove them like spec suggest and MDN scaremongers that it "was not implemented in a consistent way" [2], yet last time I checked, the support in major browsers was pretty solid [3].

- [1] yet https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/obsolete.html#xmp tells still acknowledges that "User agents must treat xmp elements in a manner equivalent to pre elements in terms of semantics and for purposes of rendering. (The parser has special behavior for this element though.)"
- [2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/xm...
- [3] https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/issues/2168#issue...
Device tree seems to be standard fare, just like ARM.
It’s one Docker command and an NPM script. Not sure where you got hung up, but I’ve spun up several with simple Bash scripts. Glad you found something that works at any rate.
I'm curious to see how this all plays out across different disciplines. The process of learning calculus is different from learning a language, which is different from learning the history of science, which is different from learning ethnographic methods.

There are all kinds of self-interested reasons educators might resist some of these technologies. But this also seems to be one of the areas where people from the tech world impose some idea that could potentially work for their limited domains of expertise but don't work at all for others.
We have (probably unwisely) put off hiring a junior because I'm so productive with an AI assistant. I have built a complex desktop app in less than 8 months by myself. I have deep domain knowledge and have only recently brought on a systems analyst to help with QA testing. The PM has no idea about the requirements, at all. My boss (technical architect) has barely had to lift a finger.

This was my first app in WPF. Huge learning curve, Copilot has been indespinsible.
This is called mounting/un-mounting and is much cheaper than a context switch.
My understanding is that the context in which the pieces are found is of enormous import to archaeology. It would be better to one site done properly with the rest in the ground than lose the context from a larger number of sites when the artefacts donated anonymously.
> Why are we still throwing any weight behind the two main political parties?

Because they have the capillarity. You can push change locally with other players, but, if we are talking about federal elections, there's little other option.

So, if you don't support one candidate, the only choice you have is to vote for the other one. Not voting is a no-no.
LibreOffice has an open issue requesting Markdown export support:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160734
The opposite. Whenever some project migrates to an inferior alternative like Github or Discord they always claim a number of arguments which boil down to "it's where people go these days" (e.g. less friction for newcomers, most people have an account there already, larger community, whatever excuse you can come up).

So I say they are getting exactly what they wanted to get.
You sound crazy.
RISC-V looked at that and said "Watch me, I can do even more".

Also, it's a safe assumption that everyone is on x86-x64-v2 now which includes up to SSE4.2. And almost everyone is on x86-x64-v3 which includes AVX2. In practice there are about three main "bubbles" of supported extensions. Intel did try to throw a wrench into that with AVX512 but luckily AMD took a saner route and everything converges on more or less the same set of supported subsets of AVX512.
The "B" means that UBI is a welfare system where everyone in the relevant population group receives the same basic income (at least in some technical sense), regardless of their other income. The "U" means that "everyone" gets it. People sometimes distinguish between full and partial basic income, depending on whether the basic income is sufficient to cover most people's basic needs.
The critical window of shadow libraries
People treat Github like social media
A company I used to work for during the pandemic (before becoming a founder) was very very deep into the culture wars of RTO mandates.

They had a cycle of HR making big sweeping proclamations, followed by leadership (a group I was part of) spending 2-3 months trying to corral the raging employee anthill it created, settling into a norm of no one really doing it, and then a few months later HR would decree RTO and start the cycle all over again.

It was hugely frustrating and disruptive to a workforce that, at the engineering level, really just wanted to do good work they could be satisfied with and live their lives outside of that.

The overwhelming sense that I had was just confusion. It was a company who’s entire overcomplicated and wildly over engineered business essentially ground down to running a very niche and specific service for our clients.

They spent _so much_ time focusing on RTO chaos and changing internal systems, reorgs, reworking processes, moving and consolidating branches; things that are NOT “run this service for our customers”.

I am always just baffled at the amount of attention this type of thing gets from companies. As a now-owner, my feeling is that you should care about exactly one thing: doing $YOURS_BUSINESS more so that customers give you money. Anything that distracts from that is something that deserves the minimum amount of attention you can give it to be dealt with before getting back to your core business of doing the thing you’re good at so people give you money.

RTO mandates (note: not working in office as I recognize some people’s preference for that, but the mandate) are so hugely distracting and bear such an enormous cost in talent, finances, productivity - it touches every area of the business in a negative way. I will never understand how some people can justify it to themselves, not because of some moral argument or anything but just because of the distraction and cost it causes.

But, it was the final push I needed to go do my own thing, and that’s a very happy new norm for me. So maybe I should be thanking them?
Set aside your notion of whether banning pornographic material / nudity is acceptable or not for a moment.

> “The problem lies in the automated system used to detect and review the content,” says Pia Semorad. “Technology fails to distinguish between artistic nudity and real photographs, and images are constantly blocked, making our account unsearchable. This amounts to censorship on social media, even if we are not violating the rules.”

What's to stop someone from creating an OF and asking AI to painting-ify their pornography?

If you ask the average person, "hey, should nudity from {the 1400s|last week} be censored under pornography rules?", they'd probably say no to the first and yes to the latter.

But how do you differentiate? How is Meta supposed to know there's cultural / historical significance to something?
I don't see any mention of table support. That will be the first thing I try, I hope it works... if not now, eventually.
I love railroad syntax diagrams. Not sure why, but I guess it is because they work in my brain. Grammars just seem to be shown in a way that makes it easier for my visual brain to comprehend.
Yeah. It’s definitely spiking. I managed to survive 4.5 years without catching it and just caught it this week.
Only weird thing is why they are so late to the party; first-party proxying is so obvious (and not novel) solution, they could have pushed this out already five or ten years ago.

This is also the reason why I have been always dubious on PiHole and other DNS based or network level blocking solutions. Blacklisting DNS entries or IP addresses was never going to be workable approach.
> Today, as artificial intelligence (AI) learns from the collective intellectual and creative output of humans and uses this to dispossess workers of their livelihoods,

Has anyone actually lost their job to AI yet? At best it helps some workers do their jobs faster as many innovations in the past have. Historically, this increases the amount of work expected to coincide with the capacity for doing work.

For example, CAD software replaced hand drafting. This didn't remove jobs, clients just expected things to be designed faster and in greater detail than they were before.

Maybe before we start patting ourselves on the back and handing out free money we should have a concrete example of an AI doing actual useful work without any human intervention.
You're cramming an analogy into your point. Systems like economy and people dont fit into an electrical diagram.
- increase of brain power

- smarter future voters

- increasing participation in productive and constructive society

- more voices and more discussion

- eliminating the bias and discrimination against people who receive basic income

- eliminating small scale opportunities to lazycheat

- eliminate the continued rise of the currently too easily abused right leaning parts of the population

- ...

it will take time, of course
Yeah, definitely this. We think that the specs are pretty much baked after a year or two of shipping, so the focus is now on making things faster, which requires very complex algorithms, but don't worry, once we get it done, it won't have to change anymore! Right?
... then new use cases come in. New feature requests come in. We want to adapt the current code to the new cases while still covering the existing ones and also maintaining all the performance boost we gained along the way. But the code is such a mess that it is just not feasible to do so without starting from scratch.
>. If you pay $200k for a SWE, is saving $100/year worth it to go for gitlabknockoff.com instead of gitlab.com?

Arguably Gitlab sounds like a GitHub knockoff, although it's actually more expensive.

No moat plus a clear dominant competitor.

Now it's possibly Gitlab could still be a smaller player, but they'd probably have to accept a much lower valuation and trim costs.
Do farmers just give away food?
Do doctors give away healthcare?
Do trade people who build houses do so for free?
Does Target have a right to not sell porn? Or is that censorship?
It's the opposite of what they want. Artifacts in isolation are not very useful to archeologists. They want them "in situ".

For instance, digging up a graveside and pulling all the artifacts out, without extensively documenting every inch of what was found at the graveside even uninteresting things like arranged rocks, destroys the context that might have yielded insights about burial customs.

Archeologists prefer everything to be left alone undisturbed, and generally the idea is you only go looking for artifacts when trying to answer a specific question, or if the site is going to be destroyed anyway for construction. From their perspective treasure hunters are going out there and destroying the record of history.
Thanks for weighing in! But this is just speculation, right? Are you speaking from experience? I'm specifically looking for someone who does it to explain it.

I mean, I can make my own guesses about various forms of attention seeking and hopes to somehow cash in on high karma all day long but, to me it feels like HN is among the worst possible venues for that. I'm not aware of easy ways to convert HN karma into cash flow like you maybe could with followers on other platforms. So I don't immediately see a benefit in just farming karma for its own sake.

Is there some benefit to karma farming I'm not aware of? Like, some points-to-dollars conversion stream that I'm not in the loop on?
Does this play nice with react or similar Dom diffing frameworks?
Can the animation values be fed in through react state variables?
There’s this old fivethirtyeight article that says that people love their political parties until they actually do anything, that once you start turning ideas into policy, people have something tangible to evaluate you on, and they do so harshly.

I’ve had this observation/theory lately that the culture moves opposite to the government (in a free society) so I wonder if publicly associating yourself with the potential next administration is good for PR. Will people turn against tech once tech is actually in power? People are already sort of innately distrustful of big tech. And what is bigger than tech so closely aligned with the federal government.
I wonder how they know the axe-heads are 4k years old. Carbon dating tells them how old the material is, but how do they know when the head was formed into an axe? The same goes for cave paintings. They can date how old the paint is, but how do they know when it was painted?
The major issue I have with all the UBI studies is that it ends. If you know that UBI ends in say 2 years or 3 years, your actions will be different if it is a true UBI. That skews any of the results of people's behavior.
> That's exactly how GPUs work.

(NVIDIA) GPUs don't have one common instruction set - they are just shipped with one blessed suite of tooling that hides the differences between a very limited set of architecture families. Many different PTX instructions have radically different performance characteristics between families (because they aren't actually hardened in some.)
rebrand it then
Installing Portainer on top of Caprover (available as a one-click template) fills in most gaps in my experience.
A fiscally balanced UBI is simply one where the average taxpayer receives the same amount of UBI as they pay in extra taxes.

In the US the average taxpayer makes $40K, and currently pays $6K in taxes, for a net of $34K.

If we add a $1K/month UBI, then under a balanced plan that taxpayer would make $52K and pay $18K in taxes for a net of $34K. That's a tax rate of 35% and is obviously feasible since there are lots of people & places with much higher rates.

Similar calculations show that a UBI of $3K per month is not feasible.

$1K/month won't cover rent in most of the US but it might be possible to live on it if you live in shared housing and eat nothing but rice & beans.
Seeing Radiation with the Naked Eye [video]
So, it's just a question of Congress passing the right rules and not messing it up? That's not very reassuring...
I’m going to study fascism instead of working.
>[Infineon] has already corrected the mistake, but Infineon did not report the flaw to NASA because the company did not know what the transistors would be used for, Fitzpatrick said. “They did not realize it was going to affect us.” Infineon did not respond to a request for comment.

Not exactly responsible disclosure! NASA buys rad-hard transistors, and Infineon "didn't know what they'd be used for"?
I can't believe the manufacturer didn't alert them and they had to hear it from another customer. Surely the manufacturer wouldn't want to be named as the reason that a spacecraft orbiting Jupiter went dark due to their faulty components.
> Learning math early guards you against numerous academic risks and opens all kinds of doors to career opportunities.

Learning math, just so you can learn it again is quite pointless!

Much better hack is to skip academia completely, and go self educated. No debt, no pointless extra classes, no risk of being misaccused, no politics! You can even move to cheaper country, with nice weather, to have better environment for studying!
Cite sources as any Ive seen disagree with these points.

Any history pre-new deal shows how incorrect this standing is.

Also, taxes aren’t theft. It’s the cost of living in society and providing for societal, shared goods. “Streets are theft!! All roads should be toll roads!” Want a grand society…
It can't be done without massively increasing government spending, the numbers doesn't even add up.
This sounds like an absolute nightmare to implement. The point of UBI is to have a safety net so that you can spread your wings and pursue passion projects and ventures. It's not supposed to be a ball and chain you bear so that you can eat while tech billionaires do everything they can to price you out of the job market. Not everybody has daddy's money to spend while they work on their startup.
this is why humanities matter
Ah thank you. Too bad.

Funny that they paywalled that feature, while tools like Colab are free.

Generally, Google has made code-related and academia-related tools freely available. Oh well.
Not only do you steal from working people to give to tv watchers, you also structurally shift the market by forcing all jobs to pay more than the baseline minimum wage, which means that all would-be workers that cannot provide more than $x in value to an employer would never be hired. This tends to impact unskilled workers, who tend to need experience to increase the value they can offer employers.
It's more like the opposite of what malware does--malware usually names things so they will look like something you want. Like malware would be naming the directory something like /images or /fonts.
sure, you do that whenever you can, which is pretty much anytime you don't have very high frequencies

in order to get to where you don't have very high frequencies, you need analog filtering on the input and the output, and you need adcs and dacs suitable for the application. you might also need attenuation, amplification, impedance transformation, and/or mixing on the input and output. all this stuff is analog and requires this kind of analysis to understand

but whenever you can do stuff in the digital domain, you do, because you can easily reduce the error introduced by digital computation as small as you want, and you can redesign your signal processing after your space probe has passed neptune so a soldering iron would be inconvenient. and you can fit arbitrarily complex filtering and other signal processing into an arbitrarily small package, near enough; what would be another precision capacitor in an analog circuit is just another 16-bit coefficient loaded from your terabyte microsd card in a dsp setup, if you're processing a slow enough signal
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Those references to "group characters" and "representation theory" cracked me up, in a good way. For those who have an engineer's exposure to Fourier series and transforms, these would be the logical next steps to appreciate the big picture.

As a pedagogic device I get some success with is by keeping things concrete, showing that shift in time (index) of a very high dimensional vector, is same as multiplying with a fixed matrix. Same with the difference operator, summation operators and so on. Then one can think of singular value, or eigen-decomposition of those matrices, that's the point were students realize why these operators "become" point-wise multiplications and divisions.

Works with those who have some experience with finite dimensional matrices.
No.

The universal in UBI is key, it means everyone gets the same basic amount, no matter how rich (reframing on purpose to make a point). No one wants to give rich people more money, not even those who conceived of the plan.

When people start talking about UBI, they are really talking about a guaranteed minimum income. And that's effectively welfare, which we already have. So it becomes mainly a discussion about reducing barriers to access welfare.
Most of the arguments seem to be that UBI will reduce labor participation. That seems logically correct, but why is it morally correct?

In US (and in western countries), we have the capitalists benefit from the increase in productivity and the working people penalized. Maybe, it is time for the pendulum to swing the other way? Why should the the wealth generated by the society not go to the society (instead of a few wealthy people, as it happens today)?

For all the arguments about how it can increase the cost of labor, I would say so what? The profits of the corporation can go down a lot and go to people who make it work.
This change doesn’t look like it would’ve required much scrutiny, though… it’s three lines long and seems (admittedly as an uninformed outsider) to be obviously wrong. Like, ignoring the fact that Jia Tan happened to be an adversary, I’m kinda shocked that their code review process let it through—unless the standard quite literally is “recognized contributors get rubber-stamped without further review.”
Right there with you. The fun is gone. It is all about $$$ now.
The Process of Designing a Product
it's still not enough to raise children, for example, or buy a car, or get more culture. you need that extra money and it will be easier doing that shitty job if you get enough time for variety and your bank account statement doesn't raise your stress levels.
Yeah, but if they figure out that the transistors are problematic, at least, they can do something about it, even if it does delay the launch.

They may also use this as a spur to wargame failure mitigation strategies, so they'll be ready, if they do go belly-up.