skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Understood. There has been some amount of that in the past. And probably this kind of pushback will rise up again as the work starts to materialize. I think some are a bit fearful of the potential bad consequences - and it remains unclear which will materialize and which will be non-issues.
And of course some have other things they wish to see improved instead, cause they are satisfied with current state. Actually many will be quite happy with (or at least have accepted) the current state - cause those that were/are not probably do not use Python much!

What I see from the development team and close community so far has been quite trust building for me. Slow and steady, gradual integration and testing with feature flags, improving related areas in preparation (like better/simplified C APIs), etc.
It's not a cloudflare thing: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Worker/post...
Roadmap: Healthcare AI
800 is a lot, even for someone with a big lab.

More than likely many of those authorships were "honorary", that is Masliah "lent" his (once-famous) name to help others publish their own work. He likely provided little actual contribution to many of these papers.

As such one would normally only give an author "full" credit (and responsibility) if they appear as either first or last in the list of authors. In the biosciences these are the positions indicating substantial contributions to the published work.

His co-authors are now going to be very annoyed as association with this "honorary" author will now cast doubt upon their own work.
If you have a Quest VR device Godot just released an editor with live scene updates I am bookmarking this to try see what it looks like in there.
This is not a criticism, just an observation: it looks like what I imagine an ocean of hot corn syrup would look like (after dyeing it blue). The viscosity seems right; possibly the surface tension is not what ocean water would have (a colloid of salty H2O and biomaterial, which is common in real-world experience but quite ugly for computational fluid dynamics).

Also note that the ocean spray here is a post-hoc effect, but for a real ocean the spray dulls the sharpness of the waves in a way that will be (vaguely) apparent visually.

Of course there's almost no "physics" in this elegant, simple, and highly effective model, so I want to emphasize that suggesting directions to poke around and try things should not be construed as an armchair criticism.
We agree on that, I was not trying to market communism as better. The point is that countries such as China get away with this behavior. For human rights and happiness it is a disadvantage, for the powers that be in China, an advantage.
Let's not ignore better architectures, training techniques and computing power.
In a pdf book, what I am really missing is the spacial position of a piece of knowledge. Particularly for reference books (I am an engineer, I still have a large amount of reference books) I look up on a regular basis, I know/remember where I need to search without the need to express it in words to run a search through a 1000+ page book.

But, maybe I am just an old guy and this is just because I learnt this way.

Maybe the new generation is learning directly "digital" with other knowledge access mechanisms. For example, I intuitively store a "position" in the book, maybe they intuitively remember a "keyword" to search for in the book.
Edit: The numbers have been revised by adding the missing -O3

The comment was based on what I saw by running an unoptimized C++ binary. You can repeat it yourself on your machine.

But yeah - in general, C++ can be 70x faster than python on many benchmarks, which is why tools that translate between languages exist.
Elon Musk's Midlife Crisis over Populating Mars
I think it is more to trigger some nostalgia induced sales from those who were kids in the 80's.

Despite the renaming we used to call the raiders for years as teenagers in the 90's
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/elon-musk-populate-mars-lifetime...
UK citizen and 23andMe customer here. How likely is the sale of UK/EU customer data, or is it worth submitting a GDPR deletion request anyway? Get my data deleted before it's sold.
The smoking ban caused a small bump - and we suddenly realised all the pubs had stinking toilets that the smoke had masked - but I think it actually resulted in both better environments for a wider audience, and a massive benefit to public health, particularly in working class communities. Long term, I think it led to a better pub environment for more people.

There have been consistent and regular crackdowns on underage drinking for well over a century - I don't recall a particularly large crackdown in recent years, but the licensing has changed: the Police now have more leverage over whether a publican and their property should keep trading than they did before, and that's meant a lot of idiot landlords who didn't give a damn about the social problems their idiocy caused have been forced out of the industry. Those who run a tighter ship stay in business.

By far the biggest shift seems to me, generational attitudes to drinking. When I was in my early 20s, I was in the pub pretty much every night (and many lunchtimes), and I wasn't alone, and was drinking with colleagues and friends who were the same age all the way up to retirement age and beyond.

The people I work with today in their early 20s might go out twice a month, and even then might only have 2-3 drinks all night. They're more likely to go to the gym in the evening, or to head home and watch Netflix or read their Kindle than to go to the pub.

It's interesting that low alcohol drinks are the biggest growth sector, and I've seen 0% beer on draught a little more in recent months. It might seriously help the sector if we just accept getting sloshed every night isn't good for people, people are realising it, and that you need to cater for that.
> an active attitude towards system complexity: Just keep it to a minimum!

I would rather want a rich standard library which exposes all the common system facilities, algorithms and formats conveniently - the so-called "batteries included" approach.

Ideally I believe SmallTalk should be a layer of the operating system (but not try to replace the whole OS and implementations).
https://12ft.io/https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2...
One of the more ridiculous assertions I have seen, as if cannabis causes people to lose ambitions, any more than a million other things that can happen in society.

You know, like wage stagnation in the face of skyrocketing real estate costs.
The controller I linked to in my initial post does indeed contain a PCIe switch, which is how it can connect 8 PCIe devices to a single x16 slot.
The plebians should be doing business during their commute, never stop hustling! /s
"Life is a game no more no less."

Exactly.

So take a game AI from Deep Mind, link it to some AI that can build a world model, categorize images, put it in a robot, maybe an LLM so it can talk to you, give it some goals. See what happens.
Emergence of cooperation in the one-shot Prisoner's dilemma through AIs
I'm doing the following approach:

1. Create new project.

2. Carefully inspect every file in the project. Remove everything non-essential from every file.

3. Repeat step 2, until things just don't work and find out why they don't work.

After that work is done, you'll be with few files which are somewhat easier to understand than the original state.

On my experience, people who create tools, usually have good built-in defaults, so you can actually delete almost everything.
I checked the "destroy my sample after analysis" checkbox. So the analysis is there but not the actual sample. Maybe this is somewhat better?
There’s an HEB and a Kroger within 1 minute from each other where I live. On the day before thanksgiving, people will be parking in grass medians to go to HEB, and the Kroger lot will be mostly empty; people seem to avoid it here.

I often joke that the only thing keeping me from fleeing Texas is HEB.
> Yet they chose an obscure problem in chip design

It is not obscure (in chip design). If anything it is one of the most easily reachable problems. Almost every other PhD student in the field has implemented a macro placer, even if just for fun, and there are frequent academic competitions. A lot of design houses also roll their own macro placers since it's not a difficult problem and generally adding a bit of knowledge of your design style can help you gain an extra % over the generic commercial tools.

It does not surprise me at all that they decided to start with this for their foray into chip EDA. It's the minimum effort route.
No one is being forced to bet. The crime is not teaching people self sufficiency and good decision making. If heroin become suddenly legal I would not start using heroin. It’s a choice and it takes self control. It is no one’s responsibility but one’s own to make good decisions. “A fool and his money are easily parted” holds true here. Don’t be fools.
> Another poll, conducted by Echelon Insights, which was cofounded by former Republican digital strategist Patrick Ruffini and pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson, found that Harris is 7 points ahead of Trump in a head-to-head matchup, on 52 percent to his 45 percent. The poll surveyed 1,005 likely voters between September 23 and 25.

1) Is 1000 likely voters enough?

2) It's funny how there's no mention of The Economist's track record on such things.

3) Along the same lines there's no mention of magin for error / level in confidence in this *prediction*. Oops I mean projection.

4) While there are plenty who are "out" (so to speak about supporting DJT), there are still those who are not so open. How do these polls account for these people?
Hello, I recently read in the comment section on HN that the waves at Nazare are more like 30 meters high. Maybe you mixed up meters and feet ? Just to let you know, in case you didn't notice the other comments. Cheers, mate.
gdpr might help you with data in a web database or data warehouse but if they have anything outside of that you're still screwed. I doubt a failing company has the time, energy, or resources to comprehensively clean up your data everywhere. Definitely submit the request but don't expect it to prevent your info from being resold
I wonder if they could now add a way for the interpreter to automatically find instances where it could run your code in parallel?

You’d think certain patterns could be probably safe and the interpreter could take the initiative.

Is there a term for this concept?
> In order to assess the difference between deliberate practice habits between elite-level performers and moderate-level performers, it was also necessary to recruit moderate-level performers.

Hehe :)

Edit: Very interesting read, with nice examples of both successful and unsuccessful artists in various fields. One key trait in becoming successful seems to be willing to put in the effort. This in turn seems to only work if you actually enjoy putting in some effort. It makes one wonder if this can be a learned trait, or whether enjoying something is the actual (proxy) talent someone is born with.
"aggravating than amusing."

But it is distracting.
Huxley didn't necessarily say everything was fun, just that it is distracting.

Rage, anger, outrage, keeps people engaged more than amusing.
PDFs have pages, and I usually find that I remember about which page something is on in a PDF I am reffering to as I do when it is printed or in a book. I definitely think there is lots of oppurtunity to improve the UX, but there a a lot of advantages to electronic presentation.
>I think the real issue was your boss wasn’t active enough in your work to make it robust to coding mistakes.

That's a major issue and it went beyond coding, I picked a very well known and influential advisor and eventually discovered he didn't really direct any research or write papers, that was all the research assistants and postdocs. I was pretty much left on my own and expected to surface with a paper to put his name on.
but that will end up business drive! don't you dare or lot of stakeholders will have to take the bus!
This sounds silly but I’ve actually turned off garbage collection in short running, small memory programs and gotten a big speed boost.

I wonder if that’s something they could automate? I’m sure there are some weird risks with that. Maybe a small program ends up eating all your memory in some edge case?
With Rust, code runs at native speed, multithreading is easy and safe, and the package manager doesn't suck. I will never use Python if I can help it, but not just because it's slow.
Reference counting is a kind of garbage collection.
That is not even close to being a spreadsheet.
The Kernel isn't reproducible due to modules being signed with a temporary key that gets created and discarded during build. This is to allow loading those modules when secure boot is enabled, without the user needing to sign each and everyone themselves
Rather build a L2ARC or metadata special device hybrid setup using ZFS or skip ZFS and go for lvmcache/ mdadm style RAID with XFS or something.
> Reference counting is not tracing garbage collection.

???

They didn't say it was.
"Potentially breached" would probably be an accurate phrasing.

If you had my private data written in the back of a notebook, that you carried around with you to coffee shops, for a few days, I'd feel substantially better than if you did it for a few years.

Likelihood that someone peeked scales with time.
After a 15 years of struggle EMDR resolved my PTSD
The problem is that the scaling law goes in two directions, things becoming (potential exponential) cheaper because they are done (produced) a lot and things becoming _(potential exponential) more expensive_ because the scale you try to archive so so much beyond what is sustainable (or in other word the higher the demand for a limited resource becomes the more expensive it becomes).

Similar this law isn't really a law for a good reason, it doesn't always work. Not everything gets cheaper (in a relevant amount) at scale.
There are portable downloads of PyPy here https://pypy.org/download.html
yeah, the "in real time" is what kills me. the old joke of blue bar races, rendering, buffering, and any of the other things us gray beards had to put up with is just unimaginable to the whippersnappers of today.
I think Meta’s cluster will be slightly larger than 100k next month, scaling to 350k by end of year. And double of that sometime next year. According to their info.
> First of all, I know it's all people like you. And that's what's so scary. Individually you don't know what you're doing collectively.
- The Circle by Dave Eggers

> In the course of her job, Resaint had met people like Megrimson, executives who went into work and sat down at their desks and made decisions that ravaged the world. They didn't seem evil to her. They seemed more like fungal colonies or AI subroutines, mechanical components of a self-perpetuating super-organism, with no real subjectivity of their own. That said, she would have happily watched any of them die.
- Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman

I know it's still science/climate fiction, but very relevant to your point.
I mostly stopped reading paper books, as I do almost all book reading through Libby app on my tablet that has a high resolution display like most tablets produced in the past few years. It's a superior experience than a paper book in almost every way.

At work and home, with 4k monitor, it's so much easier to put multiple reading materials side by side and read / research across.

In 2012, even on the state of the art computer systems, the reading experience wasn't as good as it is now.
> ole miss, mentioned in this article, is located in mississippi, the blackest state in the union.

But what about the demographics of Ole Miss itself? A quick google (by no means authoritive) shows it has a significantly lower proportion of black students than the state itself does. And Ole Miss does have a history of racist incidents… (not that others don’t!)

I’m not saying black people shouldn’t study there but it’s a little more nuanced than “this college is in a state with lots of black people so it must be ideal”
Check out SolveSpace! It might be just what you want, don't be deceived by its retro UI.
No video since nobody was around, just one abandoned station. But - the waves revertebrated in the fjords for next 9 days as its seismic impact was recorded all over the world.
Including the output of py2many --mojo=1 test.py here for completeness.

The generated code didn't run out of the box. Slightly modified below:

from python import Python

fn main() raises:
var json = Python.import_module("json")
for i in range(100000):
var file = open("test.json", "r").read()
var data = json.loads(file)

var wealth_str = data["user"]["wealth"]
var wealth = Float64(wealth_str)
print("OK")

Not much faster:

# time -p ./test
OK
real 1.69
user 1.16
sys 0.40

But you get a small shippable binary:

# du -sh test
4.1M test
One interesting method I have learnt over the years is to use logistic map function to create some random notes:

https://glicol.org/demo#chaos
>the COVID model that drove lockdowns in the UK and USA was nothing but bugs

I would love a source but I believe this given my experience with coding standards in the computational biology space, especially given that some of my own previous work and teaching touched on those models, and I couldn't believe any of the models that were publicized because they were at odds with what I thought the scientific consensus was about spread and containment models (96 hours after patient 0 it's pointless to attempt to restrict movement).
I’m glad I at least downloaded my data so I can have it forever and upload it where I like. I don’t regret having 23andme genotype it. I knew the pros and cons when I did it and the pros outweighed the cons for me.
The US Government already has my DNA. Because of 23andme, I was able to discover I had one copy of delta-32, and that’s pretty cool.

I was also able to find out where I came from and connect with distant relatives. To those who are tightly connected with their huge family, you’re privileged.

I’d be sad if this resource went away but I don’t fear it being used for nefarious purposes. I can rest assured the US government is already miles ahead toward that end.
For hobby/maker/semi-pro that would be Fusion360, Onshape, FreeCAD or Solvespace. And more, probably...
I think you can argue that 'books' were deemed as intellectual in Huxley/Orwell's time, so banning them would be a sign of society decline ---> BUT, todays books can be seen as just part of the entertainment distraction. Books sales are up, but how many of them are YA, Manga , Pop-Fiction. They are as shallow and distracting as a TV Show.

I tend to think even reading the worst trash book is still better than Video. But it is still playing into distraction.

Note: I Like Manga, but those series that are 100 volumes long, that is distracting.
You'd run into the halting problem. Maybe for some small subset of programs it'd be possible to prove a short runtime, but in general it wouldn't be, so this type of automation wouldn't be impossible.

It sounds like maybe you want GCs to be very tunable? That way, developers and operators can change how it runs for a given workload. That's actually one of the (few) reasons I like Java, its ability to monitor and tune its GC is awesome.

No one GC is going to be optimal for all workloads/usages. But it seems like the prevailing thought is to change the code to suit the GC where absolutely necessary, instead of tuning the GC to the workload. I'm not sure why that is?
Reliable implementation most likely involves solving the halting problem.
Snikket Server 20240904 – Jabber/XMPP – Simple, secure and private messaging
Forkosort
Ask HN: Why does current interest in retro computing focus on the early 80s?
Will future generations remain more interested in this time than in any other?
Little niche grocery markets aside, it's frustrating that whole areas of commerce are no longer viable for ma and pa.

I read The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America which lays out how big players came to dominate this industry (in fact my great grandfather owned one of these neighborhood grocery stores that A&P apparently put out of business).

Speaking of ma & pa, I remember when ma & pa could buy a color Xerox machines, rent a small retail space and they were suddenly in the copy business.

Or when ma & pa could rent a small retail space, buy a bunch of VHS tapes, and were in the video rental business.

Looks like restaurants and nail salons are most of what has been left for us.
In central Florida, Kroger is virtual.
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Here's a visualization of Paxos and MultiPaxos that seems to be based on Ben's work: https://visual.ofcoder.com/.
Show HN: Coded a Fruit Ninja Clone with ChatGPT O1 Preview – MIT
https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/emoji-chop/
My problem is I'm so burnt out from the aforementioned stuff I don't have the motivation or energy for the cool stuff anymore. I feel like I need a year long sabbatical first, but reality says otherwise.
The one nice perk about the state of things atm in python is I can very easily filter out devs by their choice of python IDE (or lack thereof).
I always believed that while creativity can be developed through focus and practice, the pace of learning varies from person to person. In general, creative people are highly intelligent, work with tremendous focus and are dedicated individuals.
Food streaming? You might be onto something.

Maybe we can make it more energy inefficient though and deliver the groceries by drone.
Or a large class action suit for all the money it lost and info it leaked.
For the record: neither has Meta/Facebook.

Their stock crashed hard after they pivoted to focus on the metaverse. It has since more then recovered - but saying that Meta marketed their VR to please investors is kinda silly considering how Mark Zuckerberg keeps doubling down on this investment to date - despite how massively the stock crashed.