skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The second link is broken: "no healthy upstream"

Edit: it works now. Are you the author? I’d be happy to add a reference to it.
Odd I've seen multiple videos where he does code, albeit simple examples but still low level C stuff. His video explaining how the original gameboy graphics work is pretty informative imo. I suppose he could just be parroting stuff he has found online but I wouldn't call him clueless.
It will help greatly if authors annotate unsolved problems with difficulty levels to let unmentored readers know what they are up against.
Yes, its painstaking for authors to provide solutions to all problems so why not let readers contribute and post their solutions ? The link to such a forum can be part of the book text.
And thank you for the superb book.
And highly hierarchical systems suck at developing software, as they go waterfall by default and in case of a fault do not retract.
Here's the great truth you've yet to learn: you're always going to get stuck "working" for someone, even if your app takes off. Either the biggest client(s), or your majority shareholder(s), or the board.

So my advice is still go get a real job at a successful small-to-medium sized company so you have a better chance of learning all aspects of running a business for a while.

There's a reason the average age of successful start-up founders is 45:

https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/a-study-of-27-million-startup...
Russia is encircling themselves with NATO by bullying everyone around them.
You are addressing the wrong person if you think I give two hoots how many more acronyms will the AI area invent to conceal the fact that the only thing they actually achieved is remove a lot of artists from the job market.

I don't care how it's called. We don't have it. I am not "confused over terminology", I want to see results and yet again they don't exist. Let's focus on results.

> In reality the whole notion of AGI->ASI auto-FOOM has been experimentally discredited

Sure. Because we actually have this super-intelligence already and we can compare with it, right? Oh wait, no we don't. So what's your point? Some people gave up and proclaimed that it can't be done? Like we haven't seen historical examples of this meaning exactly nothing, hundreds of times already.

Look, we'll never be able to talk about it before you stop confusing industry gate-keepers who learned how to talk to get VC money and obfuscate reality with, you know, the actual reality in front of us. You got duped by the investor talk and by the scientists never wanting to admit their funding might have been misplaced by being given to them, I am afraid.

Finally, nope, again and again, we don't have AGI even if I accept your definition. Show me a bot that can play chess, play StarCraft 2, organize an Amazon warehouse item movements and shipping, and coordinate a flight's touch-down with the same algorithms / core / whatever-you-want-to-call it. Same one, not different ones. One and the same.

No? No AGI then either.

> Furthermore, the very idea of ASI can’t be taken for granted. A machine that trivially solves humanity’s pressing problems makes nice sci-fi, but there is absolutely no evidence to presume such a machine could actually exist.

The people in the bronze age could have easily said "there is no evidence we would be able to haul goods while only pressing pedals and rotating a wheel". That's not an argument for anything at all, it's a short-sighted assertion that we might never progress that's only taking the present and the very near future into account. Well, cool, you don't believe it will happen. And? That's not an interesting thing to say.

Other people didn't believe we could go to the Moon. We still did. I wonder how quickly the naysayers hid under the bed after that so nobody could confront them about it. :D

But anyway. I got nothing more to say to people who believe VC talk and are hell-bent on inventing many acronyms to make sure they are never held accountable.

I for one want machines that solve humanity's problems. I know they can exist. I know nearly nobody wants to work on them because everybody is focused on the next quarter's results. All this is visible and well-understood yet people like you seem to think that this super narrow view is the best humanity can achieve.

Well, maybe it's the best you can achieve. I know people who can do more.
Not necessarily. If a call center can improve productivity by 20-30% by driving contacts to self-service (AI chatbots and search) then they will do so regardless of stock market hype.
What this does != what PHP does.
> they significantly scaled back their nuclear ambitions.

Currently (June 2024) they're all the way down to:

China intends to build 150 new nuclear reactors between 2020 and 2035, with 27 currently under construction and the average construction timeline for each reactor about seven years, far faster than for most other nations.

China has commenced operation of the world’s first fourth-generation nuclear reactor, for which China asserts it developed some 90 percent of the technology.

China is leading in the development and launch of cost-competitive small modular reactors (SMRs).

From 2008 to 2023, China’s share of all nuclear patents increased from 1.3 percent to 13.4 percent, and the country leads in the number of nuclear fusion patent applications.

~ https://itif.org/publications/2024/06/17/how-innovative-is-c...

Which is quite the wind down from . . . ?
Weapon production is something any country wants to build up domestically, otherwise the country wher3 the producer is situated can impose restrictions and political pressure - see the limits the US sets for use of US weapons or the German denial of Taurus deliveries, or the swiss refusal to give ammunition for air defense to ukraine
it is something to worry about if you care about playing the original. I'm only interested in straight ports with minimal QOL features like 60fps(or unlocked if viable), higher resolution and controller rebinding.

I haven't played a single remaster that I preferred to the original game. I'm fine with remasters existing, but only if faithful ports are made available as well.
I use a Philips wake-up light. I've also heard good things about Lumie. They wake you up with graduallu brigtening light rather than any sound and I could never go back to a daily alarm clock.

I do also have music (usually a radio station) come on about 15 mins after the light reaches max, (a) in case I don't wake for some reason; and (b) because I like listening to music in the morning.
"Googlers, if you're reading this, JSON-LD could have the same level of public awareness as RSS if only you could release, and then shut down, some kind of app or service in this area. Please, for the good of the web: consider it." - lol
> taking some time to learn a standard, SQL.

One huge problem is that learning SQL will take you nowhere, unless your schema consists of a few tables with a handful of rows at most.

There is no standard SQL, and there is no serious application development without having to delve into the sanctum sanctorum of your database vendor.
Yes, I understood that. It's a common fallacy, but in reality markets just aren't fully efficient like that. Reread my above comment.
> A trusted third party

And why wouldn't it be Nielsen :) I remember when they sent me cash in the mail as a kid, fun times.
I've seen the "workspaces" thing in a few different browsers now. I know Vivaldi and Arc have them, and it sounds like it's a separate thing from profiles, but I don't quite grok what the difference is between workspaces and profiles. Can anyone help enlighten me? If you use both workspaces and profiles, what do you do differently between them?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.

But then, the current hype wasn't there to produce something useful, but for "serial entrepreneurs" to get investor money. They'll just move to the next hyped thing.
Bolt looking to raise $450M as Breslow returns
My Mr Knightley: Tying a Cravat (2012)
A relative decline in a segment where the overall total is growing might mean that the segment’s absolute number hasn’t gone down at all.
Bolt wants to raise at a $14B valuation with $28M in revenue
Ill be honest I am kind of confused. Why is there sleep deprivation in the most powerful Navy in the world? I thought it wasn't run as a "the least hands for the job" type corporate culture as surely there is in essence unlimited budget. Or is this naive? Does every organisation/organism always minimise expenditure as much as possible until something sort of breaks?
And for that matter, some people do live that kind of live but still fall through the cracks. Not everyone is lucky enough to graduate during a strong economy, apply to exactly the right jobs at the right time, etc. There's a lot of wasted talent out there that many businesses have little interest in seeking out.
> BigCos won't let their employees use these tools to write code because you can't let code leak off prem.

Ridiculous blanket statement. A bunch of places use external LLMs.
Game consoles with more than 256 cores??
Good luck with the reliability issues: https://www.lycee.ai/blog/ai-reliability-challenge
> But as to the hype, we are in a brief pause before the election where no company wants to release anything that would hit the news cycle in a bad way and cause knee-jerk legislation.

The knee-jerk legislation has mostly been caused by Altman's statements though. So I wouldn't call it knee-jerk, but an attempt by OpenAI to get a legally granted monopoly.
That's even more interesting! The only non-religious meaning of soul I've ever heard is a music genre, but then English is my second language. I tried googling it and found this meaning I wasn't aware of:

emotional or intellectual energy or intensity, especially as revealed in a work of art or an artistic performance.
"their interpretation lacked soul"

Is this the definition used? I'm not sure how a JSON document is supposed to convey emotional or intellectual energy, especially since it's basically a collection of tags. Maybe I also lack soul?

Or is there yet another definition I didn't find?
Maybe people should be getting nervous that the whole flower power mentality of FOSS doesn't really scale when there are bills to pay, and families to nurture.
What if you click an action in a popup and closed the popup or navigate to another page in the SPA all-together. Without a toast you have no way of knowing if an async action failed.
I agree though that we should try to put the info closer to the user's attention, but still Toasts should be used as a fallback.
I personally just settled on adding stuff into $debian_chroot; it's not what it was meant for, of course, but it means I don't have to customise my dotfiles.

#!/bin/bash -e

VIRTUAL_ENV="$(realpath "$1")"
export VIRTUAL_ENV
PATH="$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin:$PATH"
export PATH
unset PYTHONHOME

venv="$(basename "$VIRTUAL_ENV")"
if [ "$venv" = ".venv" ] ; then
venv="$(basename "$(dirname "$VIRTUAL_ENV")")"
fi
if [ -n "$venv" ] ; then
debian_chroot="$venv${debian_chroot:+|$debian_chroot}"
export debian_chroot
fi

exec "$SHELL"
You can be right or you can be effective
He appears to have a long history in emulation and games development and is presently works as a lead dev at limited run games. What are your claims based on?
There's only so many countries with nuclear and that the two most technically respected countries in the world both shut their entire fleets down as a result of Fukishima is a fairly strong signal even for those not paying attention.
Sounds like you're interested in Tampermonkey.
This is much needed to deter an invasion of Taiwan, and to defeat the PLAN if they decide to do it.
Over on lobste.rs, someone cited another article retracing the history of the Semantic Web: https://twobithistory.org/2018/05/27/semantic-web.html

An interesting read in itself, and also points to Cory Doctorow giving seven reasons why the Semantic Web will never work: https://people.well.com/user/doctorow/metacrap.htm. They are all good reasons and are unfortunately still valid (although one of his observations towards the end of the text has turned out to be comically wrong, I'll let you read what it is)

Your comment and the two above links point to the same conclusion: again and again, Worse is Better (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better)
Released the first vector graphics engine, that can run at any precision
It's a Growth/PE-lead deal with Ryan returning as CEO.

Either he'll execute and help Bolt hit the metrics needed to IPO, or the fund will spin it off or sell it to another fund or company.

Either way the terms are very generous for the two unnamed funds.

I think Index Ventures and ADIA (making an e-commerce push recently) are the two partners because of their e-commerce heavy portfolios, can justify unlocking one-click pay within their portfolio, and can protect Revolut from Klarna's recent expansion into neobanking.
I have clarified my original comment. Regarding your comment:

> Japan is in the process of restarting all of their nuclear plants.

They are still "in the process" after 12 years, and their capacity is still less than half of pre-Fukushima level. Japan has had more solar generation than nuclear since 2014.
and all the bars and casinos allow smoking indoors to the detriment of all of their staff and patrons simply because of the gambling lobby.
Recently taught myself Python and now I just love it. Sorry you had a bad encounter with it.
I live in the Deep South, where I've gotten around on foot, on a bicycle, and by car. It's clear that some drivers see me as a nuisance when I'm walking, but I don't really see that as my problem.

In my observation, vehicular traffic anywhere doesn't care to have non-vehicular traffic sharing the roadways. That doesn't mean that pedestrians, cyclists, or regulators should necessarily defer to their wishes.
'hacking' is commonly defined as "using tools for something else than their initial purpose".
It annoys me that there are two completely different VC funded companies with the same name and yet no article does a good job at disambiguating them in the title.

This article is about the fintech company, not the rideshare company.
ST-NICCC demo for the TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator
This is my port of the Oxygene ST-NICCC demo to the TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator.

You can see an updated video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS20MHHLv8A
At least 9 got through.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Iranian_strikes_against_I...
have you never used a calculator?
The most useful ChatGPT has been for me consisted in teaching me some nice recipes for elk eggs.

For the record, before spelling the recipes out, it made sure I understood that collecting elk eggs may be unlawful in some jurisdictions.
Machine Learning Prediction of ASD from a Minimal Set of Medical
Not really just visualize 2 rows of alphabet: the top row normal alphabetic, the bottom row the character you'd have to type to select the upper row character.

This obviously assume the screen is not simultaneously snooped, which is feasible..
> intrinsic, instinctive quality,

What are a few examples of things with an 'intrinsic, instinctive quality'?
The point is that metadata lies. Intentionally, instead of just being coincidentally wrong. For example everybody who wants to spew LLM produced garbage in your face will go out of their way to attach metadata claiming the opposite. The value proposition of LLM categorization would be that the LLM looks at the same content as the eventual human (if, in fact, it does - which is a related but different problem)
This is amazing, thanks for the breakdown. I guess this article makes it seem easier than it is. I will stick to SoM for linux for my projects for now but definitely going to try some stm32g0 and the like custom boards
Ukrainians use Maxim guns to shoot down ICE-propelled Shaheds. Pretty hard to saturate that. You generally want to saturate the more advanced systems.
To the submitter: You don’t have to (and arguably shouldn’t) add the year in parenthesis when pointing to content which is less than a year old. That’s a convention to be used when submitting something years in the future so people readily have context that the ideas expressed may be outdated.
I have all speakers on Ethernet to start with. But I also had to put them into the same vlan as my phone, as I could not come up with a firewall config to span multiple vlans. It’s tricky.
>> the previous sailor may have set the rudder 5 degrees right in order to compensate for wind or water current.

>> In older ships, speed is basically controlled by a forward/backward joystick. Push it forward and the ship accelerates. Pull it back and the boat slows or goes in reverse.

>> Most of the flaws of the touchscreens could be just one software update away.

Sorry, they lost me with this. Dont lecture professionals about interfaces if you clearly do not understand the systems controlled by those interfaces. Ships are not cars. Rudders are not steering wheels. This is not a video game.
For me, the most amazing thing about LLMs is translation between written languages (human, not programming). I can only speak to the translation between English and Spanish on everyday topics, but ChatGPT often produces translations that are near native speaker quality, and even when it doesn't, the results are almost always far, far above the "good enough to communicate clearly" threshold. It's incredible.
> The chasm between a small required effort and zero effort is vast, from the user's perspective.

Wow! I think I have intuitively/subconsciously worked this into some products I have developed but never had it articulated this way. This is very useful. Any books you'd recommend on this topic?
Not surprised at all. Vietnamese people have the best outlook and approach to life I've ever seen.
You will probably like .NET's CLI tooling after Python:

brew install dotnet-sdk
# or
sudo dnf/apt install dotnet-sdk-8.0
dotnet new web
dotnet run
curl localhost:5050

C# will give you, in some ways, Python-esque experience if you make many one-off programs as you can simply write Main as python script but with 10-50x performance. You can also go very low-level with C syntax with unsafe, or take a middle ground with performance-oriented APIs - it's a language closer to the metal than Kotlin or Go.

To build a native binary, just make a template with --aot arg. like dotnet new console --aot or do dotnet publish -p:PublishAot=true -o. {folder} (if template doesnt have it). .NET 8 build toolchain sometimes not the fastest (it's seconds but still) but .NET 9 improves upon that quite a bit.

Great for back-end, gamedev, crossplat GUI apps, low-level data-crunching with SIMD and high-level data crunching with Parallel and Task APIs, all kinds of background daemons.
How much bigger of a health hazard is manufacturing/installing solar panels compared to nuclear? Let's say, per one terawatt-hour of produced energy, how many people die doing each?
Can you prove to me the counterfactual point: that without Obamacare, insurance premiums would have not risen?
i think you're confused. the killer app is everyone following the same format, and such, capitalists can extract all that information and sell LLMs that no one wants in place of more deterministic search and data products.
Japan's top ranking for 'experienced disrespect' is somewhat amusing, i'd be interested to hear anecdotes.
I use workspaces in Vivaldi and they are pretty much a set of tabs that I can switch as a set, but all under the same profile. As an example, in my dev workspace I have GitHub, localhost, and a few other things I might need. In another workspace in have Google calendar, Jira, gmail, etc… I can switch workspaces and it will switch all of the current tabs in my browser.

But, I’m logged in, say, in the same GitHub or Google account across workspace.

Profiles on the other hand (I’ve used those on Arc) change where you are logged in… so I can be logged in to my work gmail on one profile, and to my personal gmail on another.

Personally I don’t find profiles that useful just for the fact that I simply use different browsers for personal and work… but a use case for profiles is, for example, to be signed in as admin and user to your local dev web application and test things between the two just by changing tabs instead of having to logout and login
This makes no sense. You mean the evil businesses owners, dressed in all black, sneak into her backdoor in the middle of the night carrying burlap sacks embroidered with the money emblem on them? You can't presume to know what anyone thinks.
That is exactly the thought behind SGML/XML and its derivatives. XSL is kind of clumsy but very powerful and the most direct way to transform documents.

JSON-LD to me looks more like trying to glue different documents together, its not about the transformation itself.
Most PS4 emulators work in the same way as Wine.
To be fair, that Swiss decision was completely reasonable. The systems they were scrapping were old, unmaintained and not produced anymore. It made no sense to invest time and resource to teach a lot of ukrainian air defenders in order to then launch a small limited amount of missiles and then scrap the system anyway.
its good to see you giving direct feedback.
The way people put food on their table also matters.

I see a lot of negative reactions from programmers precisely because it is good at what they do. If you’re feeling threatened you’re much more likely to focus on the things it can’t do
That is your personal anecdote, n=1. Not that your opinion doesn't matter or carry weight, but it doesn't say much more than the comment you replied to.
> which contributed to it being used only by a relatively small share of our user base.

And that's why telemetry is such a brain dead idea. People then actually make decisions based upon "number of people using feature X" which is incredibly... lets just say "unwise".
It’s very common for AI products to render markdown with links and sometimes images, hence this problem: https://simonwillison.net/tags/markdown-exfiltration/
Are you able to use imagus on the phone? I love imagus too, but the images in this app seem to convey that this is meant for opening imgur links on mobile.
Mostly did this:
https://github.com/IngmarStein/unifi-sonos-doc

I had all speakers join my WiFi with none on LAN.
> E.g. you define it in steps, and in the function line out each step. This also helps your own thinking

Yeah but there are other ways to think through problems, like asking other people what they think, which you can evaluate based on who they are and what they know. GPT is like getting advice from a cross-section of everyone in the world (and you don’t even know which one), which may be helpful depending on the question and the “people” answering it, but it may also be extroadinarily unhelpful, especially for very specialized tasks (and specialized tasks are where the profit is).

Like most people, I have knowledge of things very specific I know that less than a 100 people in the world know better than me, but thousands or even millions more have some poorly concieved general idea about it.

If you asked GPT to give you an answer to a question it would bias those millions, the statistically greater quantative solution, to the qualitative one. But, maybe, GPT only has a few really good indexes in its training data that it uses for its response, and then its extremely helpful because its like accidentally landing on a stackoverflow response by some crazy genius who reads all day, lives out of a van in the woods, and uses public library computers to answer queries in his spare time. But that’s sheer luck, and no more so than a regular search will get you.