skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. AI is to remove the annoying, repetitive things you don't care about or like doing. This is the opposite of that.
Had to log in to my rarely-used HN account to mention that I had played Biolab Disaster over and over again years back but lost track of it and forgot the name. Kinda wild to find it again by sheer luck!
I'd be careful of ascribing too much to intrinsic moods and behaviors there: Imagine how different it could be if passing the National Prosperous Job Exam gave one a metaphorical license to print money and the alternative was family farm labor.

I'm not saying that situation is superior by any means, but you can see it in some countries, and I think it highlights how some attitudes are culturally and economically bound.
Bad advice. Most people are not deciding between coding and some other great job that they’re passionate about. I’m not passionate about coding at all and never have been but I can’t imagine anything better. Pay and work life balance are way too good

I agree with the other guy in this thread. Loving your job is a luxury that most people can’t afford
I think it's audience-dependent. For readers with less background and less pre-existing motivation to learn the material, I think it helps to cut down on the density a little. It's kind of a cruddy experience to have to pause and digest every sentence as you go and it makes it physically hard to read a book that way since you have to constantly track where you were.

If the audience has more background in the material and a stronger pre-existing motivation to read it, then it is probably a distraction, and they need a higher density of information to keep flow.
Swim lessons don't require you to swim every day for the rest of your life
Not just yes men, but an entire monoculture of people who don't see how exceptional and different they are from the vast majority of humanity. Unfortunately, their culture is being reinforced by fat, soulless advertising money and not any philosophical or moral superiority. With their collective finger on the AGI button, this may be our downfall.
We thought bringing more capitalism would open up the CCP to more progressive government and attitude towards their citizens. None of that happened, and it’s probably worse now than in the 70s when Nixon gave it a shot. It was a complete failure.
patents owned by Blackboard, such as https://patents.justia.com/patent/9053500
To me, simulation and god go in similar directions in considering what's bigger and around us. But for simulation, it's in the sense of physics: in the sense of digging always deeper in understanding what we are truly made of. There is no given to experimental proof in physics. They depend on our ingenuity, and also on our technical and financial capabilities - can we manage the high energies? the costs? - Can we even think of what to measure and how to measure it?

There is no a priori impossibility in experimental "simulation physics". Same as the rest of physics. It's no harder or easier to think of practical applications as the rest of high energy physics - whether small or large scale (much of which seemed initially remote - but finds applications as the dust settles and engineering progresses.) And "high energy" is the wrong word. Just "physics".

I feel there is also no a priori impossibility in applications of better understanding what we are mentally.

The problem with religion in general, no matter how many gods it demands, is that it's grounded in ungrounded precepts. And it's actively managed to work around proof. A simulation substrate is not likely to be changed by humans just because other humans are studying it.
Just let them get it out of their system. It's actually pretty entertaining to read the carefully-worded hatemail people post in these threads, knowing full well not a single Google employee will ever read a lick of what they're typing.

Edit: You guys don't have to downvote me for telling you all the unwelcome truth. Nobody actually thought they were broadcasting to Google's management, right?
He seems to only be talking about tech jobs, which is actually on the sunnier side of the STEM job situation.
I thought he was going to talk about how, most non-IT/CS STEM degree graduates won't find an industry position that makes use of their skills at all, beyond some very vacuous notion of being good at problem solving or technical writing. I think that's the real waste. When somebody spends their entirely early adulthood studying and practicing a scientific discipline, only to end up programming SAP applications afterwards.
As the sibling notes, it started as SN7404… except that's still not the full part number; it's missing a trailing N for PDIP-8 (assuming that's what you meant, as it would be the historical reference)

Now to get from SN7404N to SN74AUP1T04DCKR:

SN74 is still the same

AUP gives you 1.8V logic, this "naming component" goes back to the 70s/80s with 74S

1 gives you a single gate rather than 6 of them. You should be ignoring these if you're looking for the 6-gate variant.

T gives you level-shifting capability. You should be ignoring these if you're looking for a "normal" chip.

04 is from the original 7404 name, for an inverter.

DCK replaces the N, indicating a SC70 2mm × 1.25mm SMD part

R is not part of the part number, it's an ordering specification for a specific reel size. You should be ignoring this while designing, until you need to worry about delivery details.

> all this adds up to finding parts being very annoying when building stuff

idk, I've never had problems due to naming schemes. Parametric searching is IMHO where things become painful.
> Congress passed laws granting those executive departments some latitude on what it is they are allowed to enforce

No, the current administrative state goes far beyond that. Executive branch agencies are writing "regulations", which are actually laws, directly, not just exercising discretion about how to enforce the laws that Congress writes.

> It'd be one thing if most of their regulations were widely overreaching, but "don't dump fertilizer in the Missouri River Basin so that we don't have mass die-offs of aquatic life" seems fairly reasonable.

If Congress thinks that's a reasonable law, it needs to write that law. It cannot Constitutionally delegate the power to write that law to an Executive Branch agency. The Constitution would need to be amended to allow Congress to do that, and it hasn't been.

> What isn't rule of law is when some company gets to roll into a working-class town, dump a ton of chemicals, make people empty their savings to treat chronic illnesses that said chemicals caused, and tell the victims to take a hike because the EPA no longer has any authority because of regulatory capture.

In other words, the government regulations you applaud, in addition to being unconstitutional, do not actually work. Yes, indeed regulatory capture is a thing--and it happens because we have ignored the Constitutional limitations on what laws Congress can pass and allowed legislative power to be transferred to unelected bureaucrats who are much easier to capture than elected representatives and whose activities are much harder for we the voters to control.

> If you want people to take the law into their own hands, by all means, continue decaying the system that was set up because of a myopic view of some document written by a bunch of slaveholders.

If you don't want to live under the US Constitution, go move to some other country. "Rule of law" means you can't just ignore laws you don't like. The Constitution, whether you like it or not, is the supreme law of the land here in the US, and it does not allow Congress to pass any law it likes; it puts restrictions on what laws Congress can pass. To change those restrictions the Constitution needs to be amended, as it already has been twenty-seven times--one of which was to abolish slavery.
now rewrite it back to JS with https://github.com/KilledByAPixel/LittleJS

j/k :D
Frankly I think the author doesn't go far enough. The internet isolated cocoon lifestyle isn't just harmful to individual flourishing for all the correct reasons listed, it's simply self destructive which is only touched on tangentially.

If you take the pandemic digital hermit lifestyle to its logical conclusion you get a place roughly like South Korea which was a few years ahead of the curve. Practically no family formation or not even sex life with a birth rate < 1, widespread social isolation and so on. Introversion is almost a euphemism for what's happening because for a lot of young people it seems like something more akin to complete isolation is the norm with entire stages of proper adult development completely delayed or missing.

This isn't just bad for individuals who obviously don't develop if they don't take risks and leave their comfort zones and live permanent Peter Pan like lives, it's gonna come crashing down when there's nobody left to deliver packages to their homes (Hideo Kojima as a sidenote, weirdly prescient again with Death Stranding essentially anticipating this entire discussion). Just calling it introversion is deeply underselling how much of a problem that is in developed countries.
> a crowdsourced group of real distributed humans testing apps for anything malicious

I guarantee they would get sued/attacked into oblivion, within a year or two. Look at what happens to Krebs. He gets SWATted, all the time.

They would need some good backing, and have to be subject to fairly stringent controls, themselves.
> and reading real articles and comments on the web

and how do you know when you are or not?
Yeah, ugh, what were they thinking? The whole point of a fan letter is the personal connection, telling that person you admire who you are and why they inspire you.
According to some comments under this submission, even x86 assembly isn't suitable, or only under specific circumstances that are generally not available in userspace.
The "yes-man" culture in that sense would spread as a virus if there's enough leadership on higher level with that culture.

Simply all who disagree will be eaten out, and "yes men" will be the only ones to stay.
To be fair, they modified Impact _a lot_. In some of their development streams[1] you can see a heavily extended Weltmeister (Impact's level editor).

Imho, that's fantastic! I love to see devs being able to adapt the engine for their particular game. Likewise, high_impact shouldn't be seen as a “feature-complete” game engine, but rather as a convenient starting point.

[1] https://youtu.be/4lZfnM9Ubeo?t=3215
The Internet Is Broken: Idealistic Ideas for Building a GNU Network [pdf] (2014)
Interleaving Books
In all things, moderation. Security must be evaluated as a collection of tradeoffs -- privacy, usability, efficiency, etc. must be considered.

For example, you might suspect that the NSA has a better sieve than the public, and conclude that your RSA key needs to be a full terabyte*. We know that this isn't perfect, of course, but going much beyond that key length will prevent your recipient from decrypting the message in their lifetime.

* runtime estimates were not performed to arrive at this large and largely irrelevant number
I would argue that negativity comes from you even if the project is not that great yet. But i see passion, openness and someone trying to tackle a very big problem. What did you do today? I tell you what I did… i have been negative with post that are negative about a project. So peace on earth and hopefully we can make together a better world.
I'm not sure how the solves the issue of a voter that wants to reveal their vote.
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I don't block ads. I block being stalked throughout my passage online by 3rd parties that are not even of your choosing. I'll stop blocking your ads when they are no longer stalky.

In the meantime cbsnews.com itself has been added to my DNS blocklist, just in case.

Grumble grumble moan moan.
It is out of the vast amount of wealth americans have due to absurd weath inequality
We are too busy driving rovers on Mars to explore our own planets inner structures.

Many of the deepest shafts are commercial diamond mines. Not science.

Imagine a Liquid Nitrogen cooled probe through the earths volcanic layers.
There are probably organisms living there that we have no idea about.
This was written with regard to academic education, but it's interesting when viewed from developer education.

I think Pluralsight had pretty good quality content for devs. Yet "Vista Equity Partners has written off the entire equity value of its investment in tech learning platform Pluralsight, three years after taking it private" https://www.axios.com/2024/05/31/vista-equity-pluralsight

> You know what happens when someone pays you a nontrivial sum of money? They hold you accountable for results.

Did Pluralsight not deliver results? Or are there other forces at play, e.g. devEd is distinct from academicEd? (Genuine question, no subtext here.)
It’s China who is bullying Taiwan. Taiwan could never have dealings with China ever again and be fine.
Jokes do tend to be inane...
While I don't have any myself, when I'm out and about I'll look around and see kids outside playing. Basketball, hopscotch, tag.

Even when I don't see it live, chalk drawings on sidewalks are clear giveaways that young people still go outside and have fun.

I grew up with the internet pretty readily available and still had similar adventures to what the parent comment mentioned.

The internet has become ubiquitous to everyday life, but humans are still human and kids are still kids.
How does one practically avoid flu exposure?
What's the aim of Students 4 Best Evidence?
I did implement an A* routing "offline" routing algorithm based on GTFS data + walking paths (OptiTravel) and built a GTFS server (to easily serve the data, do geospatial queries, ...) a few years ago. Granted that this was a university project, for some cities the calculation was rather intensive (e.g: London). I might be wrong though.

[1]: https://github.com/denysvitali/optitravel

[2]: https://github.com/denysvitali/gtfs-server
Oh I don't know, writing papers is something I absolutely do not care about or like doing. I absolutely see the appeal. It's kind of like all of the math "tricks" that I learned after learning the actual methods on how to do the maths, but AI/GPTs is like just teaching the tricks without a proper understanding of how/why the tricks work.

The problem is that AI is a hammer so everything is a nail to them.
Telling people that is like demanding someone switch to Linux. You can save yourself, but demanding it from others is hilariously ill-fated.
We have a 30-day money back guarantee. I'll copy/paste from the bottom of mathacademy.com:

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That's an extremely narrow view on what's technical debt. (imho)
It probably did test well. If you take a bunch of average people and ask them to view an ad with a simple uplifting message (eg tech helps you connect with people and be the person you want to be), it will almost certainly test positively.

And this is a fine strategy for most ads, where pop culture critics are not paying much attention. But critics have tech and AI specifically firmly in their sights these days, so you probably need to consider whether you want to cater to that audience, or whether you're just hoping they'll be getting annoyed at someone else at that time.
I've found Google's AI ads to be ghastly for quite some time for using AI to "fix" or replace joyful human moments, so I'm glad to see the exposure of the Olympics is making Google rethink this.

For example, Google's original Gemini launch had an ad where someone wanted to use AI to caption their dog photo for social media: https://youtu.be/b5Fh7TaTkEU?t=36s

There was an older ad for the Pixel camera app where it could use AI to "fix" a family photo where one of the kids was making a funny face, and instead give him a "JC Penny catalog photo"-approved smile.

At this point I wonder if they've just replaced their marketing team with AI itself, because I can't believe a human with actual emotional experience would have green-lit these ads.
What you're writing was true a couple of years ago, but right now six week bootcamp isn't going to get you a job at all in Western world. In my country even new grads with 5 year CS degrees struggle to find jobs, especially if they don't program on their spare time. Meanwhile doctors can pretty much choose their workplace, and earn at least twice as much as average dev.

I would never recommend any technical role in this field for anyone who has no genuine interest in it. Sales, project management etc might work better.
They aren't a book; they're a tutor. Tutors cost recurring money. A brief google search shows that in my area, 1 hour of math tutoring goes for $50 / hour.

Can they achieve equal or better results than a tutor? That's a separate question, but that's the market they're in.
Why? I ask as someone who doesn't have an X, but am also ignorant to why someone would not use it.
Short of a coup or rebellion, China isn’t turning “democratic” in the next hundred years. 50 years of favored trading status with various countries has done nothing but cause CCP to dig in harder and it’s a bigger dictatorship than even Mao imagined.
Thanks for steering the discussion in a more constructive direction than where I was going.

There are C++ UI toolkits wrapping Win32, Cocoa, etc., and sometimes such toolkits are statically linked into the executable, meaning that dead code elimination should be able to minimize the executable size. I'm thinking in particular of wxWidgets. But even with C++ and static linking, it's easy for a library to be designed in such a way that you end up paying for stuff you don't use. The last time I did a project in C++ with wx, 10+ years ago, my program itself was quite trivial, and it only used very basic widgets, but the statically linked Win32 executable still ended up being ~2.5 MB. I didn't get very deep into why, but my understanding is that code for a bunch of features (printing, drag and drop, etc.) got linked in, even though my application wasn't using it, because the window procedure had to handle messages related to those features regardless. I guess, to optimize for minimal executable size, the API would have to be designed to require the application developer to explicitly initialize only the features they need, and in this case, the message handler would have to be more dynamic.

Sometime I'd like to design a new toolkit inspired by wx and SWT, in either Rust or Java. In the latter case, I'd use the new Foreign Function and Memory API to call the native APIs. I'd be interested to see how much GraalVM Native Image could optimize an application written with such a toolkit; I recall you've said good things about how much Native Image can optimize program initialization in particular.

There seems to be a broad consensus, though, that Win32 in particular isn't suitable for "modern" desktop apps, and so, by extension, neither are wx and SWT. Certainly in the Rust GUI space, all the popular toolkits are drawing their own widgets, and even reimplementing lower layers of the stack like text rendering, thus contributing to the trend you talked about where applications bring along their own runtime. I assume there are actual deficiencies in OS-supplied APIs that are leading to this, though a sufficiently jaded person might argue that developers are in fact wasting their time on unnecessary things for one reason or another. Anyway, if the classic Win32 widgets are still good enough for some parts of the OS itself (although, admittedly, fewer and fewer with each release), then presumably they're good enough for some subset of applications as well, and if the developers of those applications had a convenient and lightweight abstraction layer over those classic widgets, then we could start to reduce bloat.
It's not Google employees being targeted as much as the bots
It's interesting how from the very beginning of this AI hype cycle the focus has been on replacing human creativity.

One theory I heard from Robert Evans is that a lot of the tech bros (Altman, Musk, Andreeson, etc) have developed their vision of the future they're working towards from dystopian sci-fi. This is a hard sell because it's.. dystopian. So they feel the need to preclude any other possible vision of the future by drowning it out with machine-generated dreck.

I have another theory. My theory is this stuff doesn't really work for anything useful. Efforts to make AI drive cars or fold laundry have failed. But they have noticed that the randomness in the AI algorithms produces an effect that kinda feels like creativity so, you know, sell it to Hollywood.
"AI can be a great tool for enhancing human creativity, but can never replace it."

Even their response is so dystopian and out of touch. Completely misunderstanding what is wrong about this ad.

The problem is not with replacing creativity, problem is attempting to replace what should be a genuine, emotional interaction between a young aspiring human being to a person they look up as their role model.

The idea is here to create that connection, not automate it away as some sort of nuisance.

You can automate away all the appointment negotiations, business interactions and all that, but this is the one thing that should never be automated.

The outrage is justified because someone so out of touch is working on a tech that may influence our future by a lot. If they are so out of touch, how can they make any decisions that people would like.
I don’t believe Google actually did a good faith test of this ad with a real focus group. It was one of the most disturbing things I’ve seen in a TV ad in a long time.

People don’t want AI to disintermediate their relationships with other humans. If I can’t trust the words you send are actually from you, then they become meaningless. If you used an AI to write something you probably didn’t really even read it, much less write it. How is that anything but an insult?

But it’s one thing when it’s between adults. But to take a kid of an utterly innocent age and pretend that it’d be good for the kid or meaningful in any way for the athlete to use AI in this way is just utterly sociopathic.
Wow awesome TIL! Thank you!
BMP coupled with 7Zip would outperform too (probably by a bigger margin). It just boils down to gzip vs gzip-replacement compressor.
If you compare this with the recent Apple add of crushing everything into a thin tablet, I can at least see the reasoning and the benefit. They should have seen it from other perspectives and changed it, but there is something smart there. This is just not smart from any perspective, and it's hard to imagine how people at Google didn't understand this.
Pretty much true. Not only that, but if you look at the Kickstarter page, what exactly was my job? Engine programmer. Not gameplay. Th engine is pretty much complete, as are all of the tools. Problem is it taxed me so hard and left me with so little extra time and cognitive resources that I could not properly lead the rest of the project or the team-mates whose job it was to do the gameplay aspect... Which is absolutely a leadership failure on my part, and I'll happily own up to that.