skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forgive my ignorance, but isn't that "used pizza box" fuel more or less ideal for a breeder reactor?
Then the same "implicit subsidy" goes for literally every facet of human activity. Do builders of wind turbines and solar farms also pay commensurately for the pollution in the manufacturing and development process?

Everything is implicitly subsidized because every action that any living being takes affects some other living being and the ecosystem as a whole, because we all live on the same planet. It's a meaningless statement.
Windows 7 remains Microsoft's best operating system.

- Works pretty well.

- No ads

- Doesn't really need updates.

The soundest Microsoft OSs were probably NT 3.51, Windows 2000, and Windows 7.
> Elon Musk doesn't have an army, and Brazil does.

You're kidding, right? Brazilian army? What a joke.

Besides, Musk is friends with US politicians. Recently showed up in a photo besides Trump himself.

After this Twitter debacle, I've seen news about some republicans proposing laws that would deny the passports of foreign officials which implement censorship. A law that more or less targets these judges. A law that is essentially beneath the notice of most americans. It caused these brazilian judges here to basically throw a temper tantrum in public. "Unacceptable", one of them called it. As if there was even a single thing he could do about it.

Every year the US puts us in a little copyright infringement watchlist, so it's not like they don't care when our actions affect the american economy. I wonder how they feel about a brazilian judge outright stealing millions from american companies via completely arbitrary fines for not complying with orders whose legality is questionable.
Thought experiment on the nature of reality:

- In a much larger universe, write down in a log book every event to every particle at every instant, from the Big Bang to the restaurant.

- Put it on the fireplace mantle and leave it there.

This is basically a log of a simulation. It exists in much the same way as an ongoing simulation would, except that its time dimension isn't shared with the simulating universe. But every observer within has had the same observations as if it did.
The most advanced test for AI
Okay. Time is a computation. Patterned or otherwise predictable computations can be performed instantly and thus are not time. Only results that can’t be precomputed are part of our perceptions. That’s what I got out of it.
Yeah, they weren't much faster with adopting WebGL nor Vulkan nor OpenGL ES either (even if it did indeed suck). Something tells me the business incentive isn't there as much for high performance on the web compared to desktop nor even mobile (which is starting to increase demand as Asia makes more AAA esque games for mobile).

It's also not like advancement has been a priority for tech this decade so far.
No, this should/can be based on data. Data says [1]:

1. Range

2. Cost (correlated with range)

3. Lack of charging infrastructure

Where I am, unless you own a home, charging an EV is more expensive than gas.

[1] https://www.supplychainconnect.com/news-trends/article/55137...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidirectional_network
There is also a fair bit left after taxes: "Based on estimates of the average tax rate on estates, the February 2023 payment implied the death of someone possessing a fortune between $17.5 and $40 billion."
Automattic is doing open source dirty
I'm sure their is a hidden joke about interest payments for the federal debt. Wonder what the gov will do with the cash they found in the couch.
The same (pros use less, consumers pay for more) goes for internet connectivity. A techie knows he will never need or saturate more than, say, 200mbps. While a consumer will see the "200/500/1G" offer and opt for the middle.
There was a restaurant I went to in CDMX this summer and their menu was a public preview link to a document in Figma. I couldn't stop laughing at the fact but delighted by how well it just worked. I love this stuff.

I have tons of little single HTML file sites I make from this [Vue template](https://vue-template.spaghet.me/). I also have sites just published as public Notion docs, inline photo libraries from iCloud, etc. Its amazing how easy and available it is to just connect stuff, and how often I want to over complicate things and build something from scratch when I can just link stuff together.

On an aside I also love things like [mmm.page](https://mmm.page/) for quickly stitching together little micro sites or single use sites if I don't have time to do something else. Its fun exploring all these tools
Do you have links to the text only news sites?
Replacing founders with professional managers was the norm in SV until the mid 2000s and the Zuck era began. See for example Google with Schmidt.

The problem is about delegating effectively, especially in the case of delegating to executives. The issue is treating parts of the org as "black boxes" and optimising for the wrong thing as a founder. Some founders/CEOs delegate the things they don't want to do or aren't good at. Others want to reinvent the wheel in terms of what "managing" and "direct reports" means. Still others just want to set the vision and hire some "strategists" etc. (who's doing the work?)

Founder mode is basically optimising for the quality of the product down to the gritty details and keeping wannabe professional fakers that manage up on a short leash.
I wish! Hopefully AI can help with that too, but (contra Kurzweil) I fear medicine moves too slowly and it is already too late to save our generation from aging. Hopefully our kids can reap the benefits.
Well, yes. There's a vast overproduction of PhDs.
Large companies fail in spectacular ways all the time. Google is super successful because they tapped into the biggest cash cow of all times. Not because the employees are somehow very capable and above any oversight.
It is an intelligent argument but it isn't leveraging it's own insight enough.

> So then how do humans generalize so well from so little language data? Is “pre-training” on visual data the secret to our success? No. Because… blind people? What are we doing here?

The problem there is that the author making the same mistake they identified earlier. Things like vision or touch are techniques, what matters is the amount of data that is ingested through them. Vision obviously presents vastly more data than text. But a sense of touch is actually vastly more data too, because touch is interacting with the same source of data as vision. It loses colour information and the bandwidth is lower, but there is still a lot more there than text.

If the article had estimated how much data was present in bytes it wouldn't have dismissed vision so easily. What matters is there are orders of magnitude more data than all the text on the internet available for training in the real world. Data that can't be polluted by AI blogspam, for that matter.
I believe it's simply a unit of measurement we use to understand the movement or rhythm on which the universe operates, so it could be termed the "progress of computation" if that makes more sense but it's all in the same effort.
A lot of content overlap for sure, but there are some differences in the type of content and significant differences in the algorithm / the distribution of content types within one’s feed.

For example, I’ve found that YouTube shorts will identify multiple creators or formats that you engage with and rotate between them, while Instagram reels tends to find one niche you respond to and then bombard you with it.

Regarding comments, shorts will promote shallow observations about the video while reels promotes controversial ones to get one to engage by arguing.
This assumes that a map, if sufficiently detailed, is identical to the territory.

Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t - but it is a highly debatable metaphysical assumption. I’m not sure how seriously we should take some people’s claims that they “know” that such an assumption is actually true
Looks nice.

TLDR: Huly, an open-source platform, serves as an all-in-one replacement of Linear, Jira, Slack, and Notion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKmpm0ms_Sg
To be fair, $2MM of LIDAR units seems more like a R&D purchase than a stockpile.
Following your lead, are we not also arguing about the airspeed of a European swallow?
250 companies, schools and orgs pledge to provide overdose antidote naloxone
Wdym physicics is stalled? I was told we just need to build larger collider's.
Thank you :-) Personally I thought the "cluster" part would cause most consternation, but apparently that part sounds legit :-)
The softmax value y is a linear combination of the vectors you're attending over:
y = a1v1 + a2v2 + ... + an*vn
where a_i >= 0 and sum(a_i) = 1.

Then y is a convex combination of the v_i, and sits in the convex hull of the v_i.
Per the article [1], the same ILA union president was previously against EZ Pass.

Baristas provide a point of human contact and socialization which cannot be automated while preserving humanity. Truck driving can, and it’s an isolated job. Automating it would lower shipping costs, which lowers inflation, enables faster turnaround since robots don’t need to sleep, improve safety (theoretically) because robots don’t get tired and robots don’t take amphetamines to work crazy schedules, and can be programmed to respect speed limits etc.

Now that said, truck driving is also an absolutely huge job source. To replace that would be to kill of a decent income for a huge percent of the population. More important than a union, we need to have government/policy handle any massive workforce transition.

[1] https://nypost.com/2024/10/02/business/union-boss-harold-dag...
Pretty obscene that somebody could have so much wealth that $7,000,000,000 is just the tax bill. Also weird that it's framed as a "gift."
There is a downside, every attention layer has to effectively compute attention twice (run scaled_dot_product_attention). As scaled_dot_product_attention is usually one of the most expensive operations in training and inference of a model, it seems like networks using this may be substantially slow and perhaps should considered against larger networks with more attention layers.

https://github.com/microsoft/unilm/blob/master/Diff-Transfor...
> Needlessly rude and needlessly pro-e-waste.

I've got to disagree with you there.

The hardware isn't safe enough for windows to run on it anymore, it's too much of an easy target.

If you want to keep using that hardware then put linux on it.
> Though APL may strike some as a strange language of choice for deep learning, it offers benefits that are especially suitable for this field: First, the only first-class data type in APL is the multi-dimensional array, which is one of the central object of deep learning in the form of tensors. This also signifies that APL is by nature data parallel and therefore particularly amenable to parallelization. Notably, the Co-dfns project compiles APL code for CPUs and GPUs, exploiting the data parallel essence of APL to achieve high performance. Second, APL also almost entirely dispenses with the software-specific "noise" that bloats code in other languages, so APL code can be directly mapped to algorithms or mathematical expressions on a blackboard and vice versa, which cannot be said of the majority of programming languages. Finally, APL is extremely terse; its density might be considered a defect by some that renders APL a cryptic write-once, read-never language, but it allows for incredibly concise implementations of most algorithms. Assuming a decent grasp on APL syntax, shorter programs mean less code to maintain, debug, and understand.

This is really cool. At about 150 lines, terse indeed. And it makes sense that of course APL could work well with gpus, but I’m kind of surprised there’s enough of it still out in the wild so that there’s already a reliable tool chain for doing this.
Interesting theory, but how do you explain that most prisoners don't end up as stick figures with swollen feet?

Because I suspect they don't have a diet with protein powder.
We've known lead was harmful for nearly 2,000 years though [1]. Compare that timeline to compounds created, widely used, and then discovered to be harmful in the past 50 years.

I am not advocating for lead or copper soldered water pipes, but I am conservatively skeptical about PVC being totally safe for the same timeline existing lead pipes have been in use. In July the EPA proposed raising the priority rating of vinyl chloride on its toxic substances list. It doesn't seem implausible to me that in 50 years we'll be taking about PVC pipes the same way were talking about lead pipes today.

I am not claiming that PVC water pipes are dangerous just that I am skeptical there is enough historical data to claim they are totally risk free. I am not a scientist or expert on this subject

1.https://penelope.uchicago.edu/encyclopaedia_romana/wine/lead...

Edit: added source
Other species don't call it profit because they don't have language, but if you broaden this to "We are the only species that will become extinct because short-term individualistic concerns trump ecological stability" ... it isn't true. Predator/prey dynamics and ecosystem collapse are common to a lot of ecosystems; I remember studying them in calculus at the same time as exponential growth and logistic curves. Locusts are a very familiar example where they act like common grasshoppers when food is abundant, but then start a swarming behavior that destroys whole ecosystems and kills off the vast majority of locusts once they detect that there isn't enough food to go around.
I tried the SuperHTML on a hand-coded site of mine and it reported only one problem and that problem is incorrect as far as I can tell. It tells me that the `</html>` tag is never opened on an HTML 5 doc with a `<!DOCTYPE html>` opening tag. The author does say it's not perfect and I probably need to double-check my understanding just to be sure. In any case, it seems like a useful thing and I am also surprised I never thought it was missing.

For those who are like me and don't know the term, "a language server for HTML" is referring to the plugin that evaluates your HTML syntax. That might be a narrow explanation of the tool but that's the basic idea I got from trying it.
Yes, of course, need only make a good mechanical design to solve problem like that
What an exercise in false equivalence. Does every facet of human activity have the same impact as CO2 emission from fossil fuel combustion?
List in https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
I am seeing on multiple AWS accounts CloudWatch log groups are not loading. It even says you have no log groups, that's not the case.
It's easier to find people who are confident that they understand a microservice, but the fact is that it interacts with the system as a whole and much of that interaction is dark matter. It's unknown unknowns that lead to Dunning-Kruger. People looking at a large system have more known unknowns and are less likely to be overconfident to the same degree.

Also we need to have about 5x as many people graduating with formal classes in distributed computing as are now or have been for the last several decades and it's just ridiculous how many people have to learn this stuff on their own. Distributed debugging is really had when you don't understand the fundamental problems.
You also have to keep in mind, "An economy exists, whether we create one or not." Too many people approach economics like people standing beside a waterfall, ignoring the stream.
> The soundest Microsoft OSs were probably NT 3.51, Windows 2000, and Windows 7.

Indeed.

Has anyone done a blog/video retrospective on the internal team structures and leadership which shipped Sound Editions™ of Windows?
There should definitely be a clickbait exception to that. Sure, "YOU WON'T BELIEVE what robot vacuum ABC hacked" might be work better if you want an unaltered title, but it's objectively worse in every way.
It might be selection bias, but my impression was that it is very hard to find a phone without this feature (going back to the Windows Phone and semi-smart feature phone era as well). The usual downside is that they do not spring to life unless a wired headphone is connected, because the cable is used as the antenna.
It's an argument about simulations, not about reality. If reality is a simulation, then arguments about simulations apply to it, but that's the big if.
If (like me) you're okay with connectivity but not cameras, there are quite a few choices out there. The Roborock Q Revo is basically brand new, has just about everything you'd ever want in terms of features / performance but uses lidar for navigation.

If a network connection is a non-starter, your choices are way more limited. It looks like the eufy 11s doesn't have any sort of app / wi-fi support.
> A robot vacuum will literally change your life.

For me at least, my robot vac stops well short of that.

But the feeling of smugness I get while I sit on the couch doomscrolling or watching Netflix, while being able to tell myself "Look at me, I'm an adult! I'm doing the chores!!!" as my extremely dumb non wifi robot randomly bumps around my lounge room is priceless. Totally worth the couple of hundred bucks I paid for it, and the minor rearranging I had to do to make my apartment suitable for it to roam around.
Orden in Spanish means both command (mandate, instruction) and order (as from sort).
You still get that by using the same Rust frontend and using GCC instead of LLVM as the backend. A parallel reimplemented from scratch front end at best lets you find under-specified aspects of the current implementation. Not sure it actually helps the ecosystem though.
> the newly started program could inherit all sorts of things from your login session. It might have some random current directory, it might have stray file descriptors that were inherited from your shell or login environment, its standard input, output, and error would be connected to your terminal, and it would have a controlling terminal, leaving it exposed to various bad things happening to it when, for example, you logged out (which often would deliver a SIGHUP to it).

These things still matter when the program is run from a boot script or init daemon, rather than a login session!
Me too, how is case conversion perfectly done in modern languages such as Zig [1], Rust, or Swift?

[1] Ended up looking at https://github.com/JakubSzark/zig-string
Now, I'm just having fun - I disagree with the premise of this article if it states the universe is young or some bs like that, that said I am leaning more to the universe being a created thing than I'm not, like I'm 90% sure this was made - 10% with serious doubts.

I have conducted my share of comparative theology - I've read everything that's come out of the ground but that isn't where I arrived at this conclusion. Science keeps presenting me with proof of the universes construction.

Most recently I encountered this patent form the 1990s - since has been vastly expanded upon but this actual patent is fairly damning to any "random universal generation" concepts bc what it utilizes kinda can't exist and yet it does.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US6017302A/en

How can a species evolve so that it's behavior can be exactly controlled and dicted by a noise at a frequency it cannot hear and is undetectable outside it's effects?

That is that patent - we are that species, a noise I cannot hear or detect in any way can me have to shit. Or fight. Or fuck.

How did I evolve that capacity? How did you?
If you don't trust Google, why are you using Drive in the first place?
I don’t want to become the switch-statement guy, but neither can I resist, apparently. There are no technicalities in what is allowed in a switch statement: the same things are as with bare gotos. That is, a switch statement is a fancy goto, and case labels are just labels that look a bit funny. Except for the case labels being restricted to inside of the switch body, nesting doesn’t really come into it.

So then the question becomes, which things are you allowed to jump over? In C++, I don’t really know, the restrictions seem fairly stringent. In C, you can jump over anything except a declaration using a variably modified type (i.e. a variable-length array, a pointer to one, etc.), but keep in mind that the variables whose declarations you’ve jumped over will be uninitialized even if the declaration does have an initializer.
I wrote up more or less the same idea ten years ago, but in what I think is a more accessible presentation:

https://blog.rongarret.info/2014/10/parallel-universes-and-a...
> put linux on it

Then run Windows 7 in a VM on Linux.
The internet you use to transmit this message wouldn't exist without fossil fuels - and I am not talking about energy, but computer and networking materials.

Ditto the fertilizer and many other things that keep you alive to type on here too.

It's very hard to maintain modern civilization without oil/gas products. Unless you want to be Amish.
Except for the randomness introduced in Quantum Mechanics.

If they ever solve the randomness, then if the map is down to every particle, then yes, the map and reality could be the same. But think at that point you need a computer the size of reality to keep track of every particle.

Or, maybe the entire universe is one giant wave equation. But again, I think you need a computer the size of the universe to solve it.
> American Lease, says in a new filing that Fisker now believes there is no way to transfer the information connected to each SUV to a new server not owned by the bankrupt EV startup.

I am really curious what type information transfer is not possible? Perhaps all Fisker SUVs communicate with Fisker.com and American Lease will not get ownership of that domain.
Yeah, I should have posted that. This is the one I use the most:

https://text.bpr.org/

I forgot to save the links to the others.
But you don’t know the cleanup cost yet, so how can you put a dollar amount on the subsidy?
Anyone can write a program to factor numbers into their factors.

Just start at 1, and iterate until sqrt(x).

Whats the big deal?
Should have hoarded .gov .mil and .edu

The ROI for selling those would be insane.
No, it's more like you got permission to play on course you don't normally play having Tiger Woods as your caddy using his clubs and then you get to make the score card say whatever you want. But only if you really want to buy into the premise your response made any sense in the conversation
This article could perhaps do a better job of explaining what is talking about.

As some explanation, in C++ you have three general modes of returning a value:

string function1();
string* function2();
string& function3();

The first is return by value, i.e. a copy of the value is returned.
The second returns a pointer, which presumably points to a string in memory somewhere.
The third returns a reference, which is similar to a pointer except, in general, has the semantics that you should assume the object is either allocated on the stack or is owned by some other object and therefore should not be freed.

const string function1();
const string* function2();
const string& function3();

Adding a const constraint to a pointer or reference is useful because code that receives the returned value is prevented from modifying the contents of the string or calling any of its methods that aren't themselves declared as const.

The point of this article is that when returning a copy of a value, it is largely pointless to prevent the caller from modifying the returned copy; and therefore that compilers should warn when this is done.