skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Early this year, I've been suffering with @guvectorize in Python, so I don't disagree completely... Anyway:

> First of all, the intent is implicit, so it won't be clear for a new set of eyes.

Yep. Many times the change is obvious, like changing + to fx+ But if the change needs a big rewrite, it probably needs a good comment explaining the simple versions and the tricks to make it faster. Even better, have the functions `something` and also `something_slow` with the simple slow implementation so you can make a few test and check they give the same result. I've used that for big refactoring/rewriting, in the moment I run the two functions and the results differ by more than 1E-10, I made a mistake and I have to revert the last change (hopefully).

> Author written about Guile 3, but is it also true of Guile 2 or 1? Will it hold true for Guile 4?

I don't know about the details of Guile, but I know about Racket. (I guess Guile has a similar culture.)

It the code is fast in the current version 8, then nobody is sure if it's also fast in the previous versions 7 or 6 or ... The compiler get a lot of tiny invisible improvements and perhaps one of them made your code fast. It's difficult to know.

About version 9 ...

There is an informal implicit promise to make idiomatic code faster. So I expect fast idiomatic code in version 8 to be fast in version 9. Moreover, I'd classify a big slowdown as a almost-bug and hope it's fixed for next edition. (It happened in the 7 -> 8 transition when the back end was changed completely, but the problems were rare.)

Non idiomatic code is more problematic, for example if you use too many `set!` to make the code faster. I don't expect that code with `set!` to be slower in version 9, but perhaps the version without `set!` may be faster in the new release.

About the changes proposed in the article, I don't expect them to cause problems in the future. Perhaps the Guile compiler will be improved to make them unnecessary, but they don't look problematic.
Yeah, I'll just throw this here seeing as the other main thread on here is so long - his website _is_ wild, and I'm not prepared or willing to go through and figure out where all we agree and disagree. BUT, the linked library is public domain, and the dude's website specifically says he's against forced attribution [0], so one should feel completely free to use the library and his other projects without even mentioning the author.

[0] "Attribution mustn't be forced and the requirement of attribution (e.g. by a license) is inherently wrong." https://www.tastyfish.cz/#:~:text=Attribution%20mustn%27t%20....
Why does a human being behind any words change anything at all? Trust should be based on established facts/research and not species.
A towering presence of British stage and screen, with Dame Judi Dench being about the last of that golden generation since the passing of Diana Riggs (Olenna Tyrell).

Time for a rewatch of Gosford Park while archly sipping gin out of a china teacup with a raised pinkie.
Publishers sometimes have advertorial divisions. This is not a new phenomenon. No, this does not prove true your favorite candidate’s lies or alternative realities.
More like post-Soviet. Regardless of the country of operation (which included e.g. Ecuador at some point, in which the owner of lib.rus.ec, the predecessor of libgen, moved), all these shadow libraries and knowledge preservation attempts represent consistent political action by the individuals with views formed by samizdat and the Soviet/post-crash reading culture. That includes Sci-Hub, Libgen, and those most never heard about but which were extremely influential, like the SU.BOOKS BBS or lib.ru.
These models are not repositories or archives of others work that they simply stitch together to create output. It's more accurate to say that they view work and then create an algorithm that can output the essence of that work.

For image models, people are often pretty surprised to learn that they are only a few gigabytes in size, despite training on petabytes of images.
Way lower than the $100B I heard they were aiming for
>But what I had never noticed until now is that knowing that a human being was behind the written words (however flawed they can be, and hopefully are) is crucial for me.

Everyone is going to have to get over that very soon, or they're going to start sounding like those old puritanical freaks who thought Elvis thrusting his hips around was the work of the devil.
Rewriting Rust: A Response
No it isn't, it's very straightforward in every single civilization that has experienced it. humans + opiates = misery. it's not like we're some kind of paragons of logic and rationality we're animals and these are exploits
If your car's old enough, though, it may be still stuck with a 3G modem that is no longer capable of phoning home.
With all due respect, the lawyers I've seen who commented on the issue do not agree with your assessment.

The things that constitute potentially infringing copying are not clearly well-defined, and whether or not training an AI is on that list has of course not yet been considered by a court. But you can make cogent arguments either way, and I would not be prepared to bet on either outcome. Keep in mind also that, legally, copying data from disk to RAM is considered potentially infringing, which should give you a sense of the sort of banana-pants setup that copyright can entail.

That said, if training is potentially infringing on copyright, it now seems pretty clear that a fair use defense is going to fail. The recent Warhol decision rather destroys any hope that it might be considered "transformative", while the fact that the AI companies are now licensing content for training use is a concession that the fourth and usually most important factor (market impact) weighs against fair use.
The update is in your favor. If it were the other way around you'd want to start a class action suit. (I am assuming you're not an arbitration lawyer that priced themselves out of the market)
I've thought that there should people, your family and/or friends, who have to sign on to enable you to gamble - where they will be on the line for any debt or a certain % of the debt the person has, etc.

E.g. Dana White of UFC appears to have a gambling problem, but maybe with how much money he earns it actually isn't a problem - but what if it at some point it gets out of control, and that is hidden from friends or people that care about him - and where that loss of control could be hidden from sight, kept secret until it's perhaps too late - however that looks?
Some good feedback here and in the thread overall.

I also use a 3-way horizontal split these days for editing, I've found that the wider our screens get the less I use the edges. So now often I'll keep the left focused on the headers to variable definition, the middle for the main editor and the right for methods where the middle is calling or being called by something.

In Visual Studio you don't have to dock windows, but the current generation of floating window doesn't really conform to what I want. Someone else mentioned Haystack which I haven't seen before:
https://haystackeditor.com/

I quite like the layout of Haystack, although I don't think one wants to take it too far such that it begins to resemble visual scripting. I think a block based approach where you have different blocks for the different types such as classes, variables and code might be worth exploring.

I'll definitely post back sometime with feedback on whether I've come up with anything interesting.
when you punish drug use with prison, it is better for it to be legal.
AI in the AEC Industry
As a full time working in the AE(C) industry, I am wondering how you guys are using AI, if AI has impacted anything from design to scheduling techniques. If youre in the Industry and use AI I would love to hear it
Number of earlier stories on same "closing in" topic:

OpenAI Fundraising Set to Vault Startup's Value to $150B

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41514954

And even earlier

OpenAI in Talks for Funding Round Valuing It Above $100B

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41514954
Many would agree that the official CNN and USA Today are already "fake" in a sense.
I am sympathetic to someone diligent about not acting on their attraction to children. I’m attracted to adult women. I didn’t choose to be. I just am. I can’t imagine how much it’d suck if people wanted to kill me because I liked women. So in that sense, I feel bad for people attracted to kids who take steps to never, ever act on it. That would be a tough life to live.

OTOH this guy claims to have “non-sexual” pictures of naked children on his website. Damned if I’m going to click through to see if his idea of non-sexual is the same as mine. Someone advocating pedophilia while collecting pictures of naked children is beyond the pale. That’s acting on it. I cannot and will not tolerate, let alone accept, that action.
I've done some testing with using ZFS on top of LVM with dm-writecache.

Worked well enough on the small scale, but sadly haven't had the time or hardware to test it in a more production-like environment.

Also, it was starting to feel a bit like a Jenga tower, increasing the chances of bugs and other weird issues to strike.
You say that, but to me the Americans have a stereotype of making outrageous demands and then getting big wins because sometimes people say yes. And if he doesn't ask for what he wants he certainly won't get it.

Empathy is a good practice when managing others and have control over what they do, but in business negotiations it is often productive to just make your wants and budget clear.
I am tired of people saying, "I am tired of AI."
> You cannot protect yourself from subconscious manipulation by advertising and marketing firms that pay billions of dollars to find and exploit subconscious weaknesses that we all possess

By learning the techniques they employ, a subconscious manipulation by them, becomes a conscious observation by us. Education defeats these methods. An argument could be made that more money will be spent to continually find deeper subconscious manipulations. I would wager, the ROI would diminish quickly.

I would rather be manipulated by private industry than controlled by government. I cannot out vote a majority, but I can out wit a billboard.
Doesn't Google also punish small sites that do similar things? Like if I made a site that was sincere as an individual where I review kitchen utensils where I add affiliate links I'd be penalized, but the larger established domains are allowed to do the same thing without Google punishing them?
The point of stem cell treatments is to replace cells that are no longer there doing their job. It's not too relevant for the replaced cells to be in the same spot, as long as they exist and produce insulin, you are good to go.

You could argue for the location having physiological implications, for instance: it's convenient for the liver to be right after the intestines (connected through the portal vein), like this, it metabolizes large amounts of whatever is absorbed intestinally at once, before it reaches systemic circulation.
This may hold true for the pancreas as well. It uses duodenal glucose concentrations to know exactly how much insulin to release, which may not be representative of the rest body's glucose concentrations.
Practically speaking, it is far safer to inject stem cells in the abdomen where you have room for erscqror and can do surgery on without much trouble vs the pancreas, if anything goes wrong there, you could easily kill a patient.
Let's be real, CNN, Fox News, etc are all fake/propaganda. On Fox News, Trump can do nothing wrong, Biden can do nothing right. On CNN it's nothing but sunshine and rainbows for Harris/Biden and the opposite for Trump...I mean look at this story title from CNN's current frontpage: "Roy Wood Jr. reacts to Trump’s ongoing McDonalds remarks"

I'm an independent and as far as I can tell there is zero attempt at unbiased factual reporting of the news.
That can change on a dime though, if Zuck decides it's in his financial interest to change course. If Facebook stops spending billions of dollars on open models who is going to step in and fill that gap?
Will victims increasingly turn to courts to suppress publication of stolen data?
Unfortunately, sharing a codegen backend is neither necessary nor sufficient to enable the sort of seamless high-level cross-language integration that you appear to be requesting.
The plot thickens! Also wouldn’t this present some sort of a conflict of interest as each of these sites (Forbes, CNN, USA Today) are now competing with eachother for SEO?
I think GP was referring to 'hoarding media' specifically, not just hoarding in general.
Yes, but what really matters is what and how the general public, aka the consumers want to consume.

I can bang on about older games being better all day long but it doesn't stop Fortnite from being popular, and somewhat rightly so, I suppose.
Let me break down how the media industry works nowadays since there’s a lot of confusion in these comments.

Most media organizations have a small number of in-house journalists on verticals that make sense.

The rest of the content is curated and brought in from content partners and written outside of the news organization.

In practice they function more like a social media feed than traditional newspapers. I’m no fan of CNN, but this isn’t exactly a scandal, media had to adapt to keep up with so much being on social media these days, they all do this.
Thanks! We passed this onto our dev who works on accessibility :)
I think the upcoming AI bust will be similar to the 2000s dotcom bust - ecommerce was not a bad idea or a scam! And neither are transformers. But there are cultural similarities:

a) childish motivated reasoning led people to think a fairly simple technology could solve profoundly difficult business problems in the real world

b) a culture of "number goes up, that's just science"

c) uncritical tech journalists who weren't even corrupt, just bedazzled

In particular I don't think generative AI is like cryptocurrency, which was always stupid in theory, and in practice it has become the rat's nest of gangsters and fraudsters which 2009-era theory predicted. After the dust settles people will still be using LLMs and art generators.
https://archive.is/RoCwU

https://archive.today/RoCwU
Every state is supposed to be a "laboratory" of democracy, but we really screwed the pooch with cannabis legalization. At least one state should have gone the way with absolutely zero marketing allowed (like tobacco currently is), and all containers should be in standardized, sterile, black & white containers, with only the name & description of the product, and big warnings describing the dangers (like cigarette packs in Australia).

24 legalized states, and not one chose this approach which is a shame.
>Technology constantly makes things worse.

And it also makes things a lot better. Overall we lead better lives than people just 50 years ago, never mind centuries.
There's lots of smart serious people who aren't technical but the problem with Altman is that he isn't serious at all, he's a pure grifter, focused only on headlines
Come on, do you see "sports" (completed separated from gambling on them) to be a plague on society? Do you have anyone in your family or social circle that had their lives destroyed by sports? It's not even comparable, your comment seems to be in bad faith
Anything obvious is priced in.
Copilot is terrible. You need to use Cursor or at the very least Continue.dev w/ Claude Sonnet 3.5.

It's a massive gulf of difference.
I agree that would be a valuable proposition were it to be true (no idea, IANALE). But what I found impressive was the claim that said "robot" could do it even more similar to a human's work than a human lawyer could!
Bcachefs is fully merged into the kernel since 6.7. The drama was around Overstreet trying to merge significant code changes to a Release Candidate kernel that should only be receiving minor bug fixes at that stage of the development process. It was developer communication issues, not anything that impacts the user. The changes will just have to wait until the next kernel version.
I'm currently reading "Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb". The first section of the book focuses on the Russian A-Bomb program in the 1940s and how much of it was accelerated through espionage conducted against the US and UK. I'm struck by how painful a slog spying was. These spies were always effectively working two jobs and much of the nuts and bolts of spying and conveying information to handlers sounds like boring, thankless work. Often, the spies were not paid at all. There are excerpts where handlers bemoan the difficulty and lack of compensation of their spies. All-in-all, it sounds like a crappy job. You really had to be a true believer, I guess.

And yet, in the 1940s at least, the Soviets were absolutely looting the Americans. During the lend-lease program between the US and Russia, planes were flown out of Montana to the USSR. US military officers recalled Soviets flying dozens of large briefcases on each flight. Once, a US officer inspected those briefcases and found detailed factory schematics, product and process diagrams and plans, reels and reels of detailed photographs of machinery and parts, and classified documents on the R&D of uranium enrichment. Apparently, in light of this discovery of massive industrial theft, the U.S. took no action.
Well think of it this way, why should gpu manufacturers only build for the lowest common denominator? If someone wants a 600W chip shouldn't they be able to get one?

On the other hand, game studios can obviously not design their games around such chips.
Then those new models get distilled into smaller ones.

Raising the max intelligence of the models tends to raise the intelligence of all the models via distillation.
> The winter after this is gonna be harsh.

That'll be investor types who bring this stupid "winter" on, because they run their lives on hype and baseless predictions.

Technology types on the other hand don't give a shit about predictions, and just keep working on interesting stuff until it happens, whether it takes 1 year or 20 years or 500 years. We don't throw a tantrum and brew up a winter storm just because shit didn't happen in the first year.

In early 2022 there was none of this ChatGPT stuff. Now, we're only 2 years later. That's not a lot of time for something already very successful. Humans have been around for several tens of thousand years. Just be patient.

If investors ran the show in the 1960s expecting to reach the moon with an 18 month runway, we'd never have reached the moon.
Gemini is also very cheap and comparable and works well as a drop in replacement for OpenAI models.
I would still recommend you give CouchDB and PouchDB a fair shot. They are used successfully by many folks.
I’ve heard that a while back Google had a change to their algo that heavily prioritized widely used websites as “trusted”. The very most well known sites in the world, such as cnn.com, would be treated as the best results for anything they contained.

In response, many of the most used web sites flooded their own sites with transparently fake product reviews full of SEO phrases about “we spent N weeks testing K products to root out the very best” and very little else. The actual reviews would be pretty much copy-pasted from the description provided on the product producer’s site.

And, that’s how Google made itself useless for finding product reviews.
My heart aches for you. As does, no doubt, your stomach.
Considering that 10 years ago Xerox copiers was already able to scramble numbers in technical drawings, I can't wait to see the mess that a printer editing documents by itself can engender.
I own a physical copy. Great book.
Tcl/tk Wayland support when?
From what I'm to gather by reading Part One, the author runs his own affiliate link SEO sites and is mad that big-name brands are doing it better by leveraging business deals and brand recognition.
Someone gave the various models an IQ test and the previous ones scored 80-90 so a bit dim compared to humans, and o1 got 120, quite bright for a human. https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1fhwfyl/openai_1o...

this may have consequences for how useful it is.
Well, yeah but right now we're reaping many benefits from the industrial revolution. Malnutrition for sure. Not saying it's the same as the AI boom though.
I don’t think this is the best way to clean PCBs but it would make a great machine for marinating food, moving the marinade around continuously for max/even absorption.
> VHS was released in 1976. VHS-C was released in 1982.

So? The first commercial camcorder came out in 1983 (Betamax). VHS-C predates the camcorder of any format (the first VHS-C VCR JVC HR-C3 coming out the same time).

> The first VHS camcorder was not VHS-C.

I told you a specific make and model.
Do you actually have a reference to any make and model of VHS camcorder commercially available prior to 1984? The NiCd 10kg “portable” JVC HR-4100 shoulder strap VTR came out in 1978, tis not a camcorder.

To be clear I’m (consistently) using “camcorder” with the commonly accepted definition of a camera and video recorder in a self-contained unit. With that definition the earliest commercially available VHS format camcorder was the JVC VHS-C mentioned, with Matsushita coming out with the full size M1 a few months later.

Prior to the GR-C1 there was a neat accessory to shoulder carry the aforementioned VHS-C portable, but not a camcorder (regardless the first VHS on your shoulder was VHS-C). This was sort of a poor man's Betacam setup.

https://www.totalrewind.org/cameras/C_SFP3.htm

Prior to that your options for portable VHS were the heavy carrying strap separate VTR like the JVC HR-2200 and the HR-4100 (sometimes referred to as “Portapaks” which was a genericization of Sonys open reel systems from the 60s). They were heavy and inferior to the contemporary Betamax and U-Matic S options, pros didn’t really use them and few enthusiasts were up for lugging 20 kilos of shit around. Hitachi made a few units as well.

Prior to 1985 there were just a handful of VHS licensees. JVC/Victor, Matsushita, Hitachi and Sharp with the other names like RCA as rebadges. No camcorders I’m aware of. I think you’re mistaken, but would be very interested in being corrected with specifics (as would the Rewind Museum).

https://www.rewindmuseum.com/vintagecamcorder.htm

The thing about hardware/electronic technology history in general is that the difference between 1976 and 1983 is not subtle. While VHS came out in 1976, and video tape in the 1960s, the technology to mass produce the level of integration for a camcorder did not exist (or at least was not cost effective) (not to mention the power efficiency leaps necessary as we were stuck with NiCds). Anyone that regularly dismantles any kind of electronic equipment from the 1970s to 1980s is aware of the extreme shift in integration that occurred during that time period, LSI ASICs, surface mount, things that were nearly unheard of in a commercial device in 1976, took hold in the 80s. It took a great deal of further engineering to make a camcorder possible, the tape format being around wasn't the issue. VHS-C like Betacam was developed in anticipation of this, not the other way around.
The foundations of our education systems are based on rote memorisation so I'd probably start there.
Binance founder 'CZ' leaves prison on Friday
https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/2020
Many states cap ABV of spirits.
Long may he reign