skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you may have missed the point. By "significant merit" I meant "significant enough merit to be very deserving of a Nobel prize". The Karolinksa crew can award and have awarded the prize for nonsense in the past, but this wasn't one of those instances.

Of course, if your point was "it doesn't matter how deserving the winners are, they're all corrupt" then that's the sort of argument that facts can't counter.
Unfortunately it also feels like our tiny bubble of sanity and reason is rapidly shrinking (witness the current conspiracy laden reaction to hurricane Helene)
My kid is allowed to watch 2 hours of youtube a week, but it's always supervised by me or my partner. He chooses what he wants to watch and gravitates towards science experiments, cartoons and some shows for kids. He stumbled a few times into dead ends such as mindless content (other kids or adults influencers playing Minecraft for example) but we guided him out of it. He now knows how to stay away from all that. As parents we do a lot more to keep him engaged with reading, outdoor play and other activities. Technology is an inescapable part of the future but we try to mitigate its bad effects and let him take the good parts. Seems to be working wonderfully. The goal is for him to realize what is good and what's bad without parental policing. Apart from Youtube there's Duolingo music and math that he does a few days a week. It's wonderful to see him resist the pull, turn off the device and go to some other activity by himself.
Discussion (31 points, 23 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41769013
I'm stuck on how precedent works differntly in civil law (the rest of the world) and common law (only USA and UK)
Another good one is (in python):

print(chr(sum(range(ord(min(str(not())))))))

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Source: https://x.com/chordbug/status/1834642829919781369
This is classic Musk. Is this guy even capable of conducting honest business?
> why laymen with prompts

Thats the baby mode stuff dude. You have missed the forest for the trees if the only thing that you can engage with, is the simplest, most low effort usecase for AI.

There are so many other things that can be done with AI. The immediate, obvious stuff would be anything to do with Video To Video AI generation.

IE, imagine someone shoots a video the normal way. With all the creative input that this involves. And then you take that video, and you change things in it, using AI.

I don't know, you see the video and you realize that you need to add an additional lightsource in, and you want all the shadows to autocorrect. You could use AI to do that.

Thats just a random/intermediate usecase off the top of my head, that involves a lot more creative input than just "prompt in, video out".

I am sure that there could be a lot more crazy usecases, but you aren't going to be able to see then, because you are instinctively losing your mind by only talking about the dumbest and most easy usecase of prompt engineering.
It takes time and induces brain fog for at least some time after exercise. There are other side effects too.
Can someone ELI5 what they did?
An additional several thousand dollars per month for any moderately-sized team, especially if you've got a bunch of microservices, sounds very expensive to me, and would probably get axed quickly by any devops team I can think of that's actively working on reducing their costs.
> being able to fork a desktop OS from 20 years prior, make it into a mobile OS, then to a tablet OS, then to a watch and a headset OS, and then have billions of users on it all and make a trillion-dollar company out of it⸺does that not sound like good engineering to you?

Microsoft and Google basically did the same thing, and in neither case it's really a testament to how "good" their respective software is engineered. If the amount of driver cruft on MacOS is anything to go by, the engineering underneath iOS and WatchOS is probably a fucking nightmare in most respects.
Kudos on the vendor-neutral ! Too many vendors doing their own "comparisons" which only list the features their tech excels in.
I hear what you are saying but there is the other side. Perhaps the opinion/feeling you are having is related to getting older.

We've learned a lot about what works and what doesn't in programming languages. Goto considered harmful and all that kind of stuff. If you want to get a Lisp/Haskell fanatic really going point out how so many of the features in those languages have finally made their way into mainstream languages (lambdas, etc.).

What we don't often consider are all of the language features that didn't make it.

This process didn't stop sometime in the past. It is happening right now. That feeling of unease may not be an indication of the quality of the features you are considering. It may largely be uncertainty about what features will or will not stand the test of time.

Perhaps as we get older, we want languages that have all of the good stuff we've learned from the past and none of the experimental stuff that we aren't too sure about yet. That might be because we are starting to notice that we won't have enough time left in our remaining days to sort all the new toys into the good/bad bin.
They were following the orders of their immediate commanders, just like any soldiers are supposed to do. Prigozhin's "chain of command" at that moment was part of the government's chain of command
Their position is wider than the kid ban. Why would you watch something you characterize as such. So two options, either they are hypocritical and inconsistent and actually watch a bunch of YouTube to form such an informed position that it is all slop OR they don't actually watch so they wouldn't really know. The kid part is almost besides the point. I bet on hypocritical, watching a bunch of hours but then complaining that it all sucks, I've seen plenty of people do that.
Senior engineers are more likely to be the ones who have seen how mindless adoption of fad-of-the-day translates to product quality, and are more likely to choose a solution that they have seen actually work, and for which they know the warts and how to handle them. That's a good thing - experienced engineers should be conservative when it comes to code that runs in prod. Customers are not guinea pigs.
the real killer feature of tiktok is how easy, how much it encourages (or at least used to?) remixing anything and contributing your own content back.

it's like youtube combined with instagram upload fitlers or something like that
I dislike the "singled-out" aspect of it. If we're leaving Insta alone than it's pointless imho. Either bring the case properly with the big offenders or don't bother. Dumping the TikTok audience into Insta & YT won't accomplish anything.
I was traveling a lot at the time. Carrying lots of physical CDs without damaging them was a pain.
> Is the book less important, less valuable, because of who wrote it?

That is the underlying thesis of their protest: old white man bad.
Funny thing about deterrence conversations in the west is that it’s so often characterized as a one way street. That the west can be deterred limitlessly and that others like Russia are impervious to deterrence. As if Putin were some fearless automaton with complete confidence. Because if anything spells confidence it’s having 4 out of 5 of your latest in service ICBM tests fail, including the most recent. Just how confident is Putin, having personally fostered such an endemically corrupt society, in his recently manufactured pits? Russia’s pursuit of a nuclear powered drone that would attempt to be a weapon of mass destruction by virtue of creating an irradiated tsunami reveals an intense fear of the credibility of their current deterrence.
"The states accuse TikTok of using intentionally addictive software designed to keep children watching as long and often as possible and misrepresenting its content moderation effectiveness."

How is this unique to TikTok? Should this lawsuit succeed, would that open up American companies to the same claims?

This smells very election-yearish.
Same feeling. It’s rather painful to read Kotlin code because of so many features that imho are not really that needed… and every developer wants to use them all.
To be fair, Apple is still one of the most innovative companies in the personal computing sector. They spend a lot in R&D.
How is it "extremely annoying", it sounds like it doesn't even affect you.
The satellite spectrum battle that could shape the new space economy
Delphi has a currency type, as does C++Builder (so, a native Currency type available in C++ with that toolchain.)

This one seems to carry units, as in, it is not a type with math for a known amount of fixed point precision that differentiates this library, but that it captures that plus the unit -- the currency, USD, EUR, etc -- that it is in.
>While I agree with you in principle, in practice Google makes side loading so convoluted and scary that I think they do need

Huh? You download an apk and click a security prompt to allow non-store installations and it installs them, it's not particularly hard or complicated.
Most of Canada is common law too. I assume most ex british colonies are.
because code is like pasta

In more ways than one
https://archive.is/SIh2f
For a geometric approach to learning linear algebra for graphics programming I strongly recommend The Dark Art of Linear Algebra[1] by Seth Braver.

[1]: https://www.bravernewmath.com
Can we compromise on "alternative"?
I can’t believe I mixed up Budapest and Bucharest :(
csh% Got a light?
No match.
csh% sudo got a light?
No match.
csh% man 5 betteridge
For the "no response" case, e.g. clients ignoring the retry-after header (or in the particular situation where I learned this trick, retrying aggressively on 401) one can implement an "err200" response in the load balancer which makes them all go away ;).
It's been ages since I looked at child seats, and that is a valid concern. But, it doesn't change my stance on increasing the cost of owning a larger vehicle. Having a child is massively expensive as is it, adding a bit of cost to car ownership would hardly be a dent in that total.

Right now, it's just too darn cheap to own one in the US, leading us to policy decisions that prevent smaller, more efficient, cheaper vehicles. And diminishing safety for non-car uses of public spaces. We'd all be safer, richer, and healthier if more of us could get by without owning large vehicles.

And note you said "mini-SUV". I'm more concerned about the Escalade EXTs and super-cab pickup trucks and things.
Everyone is worried about the desperation nuke. Yet all nukes in history have been to teabag civilians once you’re already winning.
> evolution happens via “mistakes.”

That’s a nice slogan, but it’s a gross oversimplification.

In the natural world, you can say that mistakes in DNA replication leads to evolution, but that’s discounting the entire process of natural selection.

Same with creativity.
Look at Picasso. His was a technically brilliant realistic painter at 15, but his work later in life evolved to be more abstract and weird.
I don’t think that was the result of mistakes, but rather intentionally breaking patterns he learned in his youth.
Fukushima could have been easily predicted. That’s what passive safety is about.
> You can just as well think of everything a model outputs as a hallucination

Exactly. Don't forget that an important factor in the success of GPT3 was RLHF, which is essentially training the model to produce "hallucinations" that are more acceptable on average to human trainers.
A look at the rise and fall of IronNet
I think he meant up/down data transformation migrations, not entire new dbs or collections.
I guess it makes sense to use that link above since it goes into much more detail. Changed from https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/summary/. Thanks!
Silicon Valley Career Coach for Founders
When a founder has to leave their startup, they face several challenges. It isn't very easy to position themselves to employers as a regular worker. Instead, they have demonstrated creativity and entrepreneurial talent that is unsightly to companies hiring for a regular job.

Has anyone ever heard of a career coach in silicon valley, who is highly regarded and also helps founders when they get into this situtation?
>We had to ban YouTube, and doing so was possibly the single best boundary we've set as parents

Sounds horrible. My young teens have been on youtube for like 6+ years. They can watch hour long videos no problem. So what if they are trash sometimes? They are into it, paying attention and it's their entertainment. But then they also end up watching and learning so many different things they aren't going to see anywhere else. Or randomly come across chess videos then start watching those etc.

My kids have more screen time than 99% of kids I know, yet they are super well behaved, have many interests, do well in school, etc. I couldn't ask for better kids.

>If we hadn't we'd probably have never spoken to our kids again.

Sounds like a You problem. Not a YouTube problem.
Strings in C++ standard library do suck (and C++ is my favorite language).

As for UTF-16, well, I don't know that UTF-8 is a whole lot more intuitive:

> And for UTF-8 data, you have the same issues discussed before: Multibyte characters will not be converted properly, and it breaks for case mappings that alter string lengths.
Use an External GPU on Raspberry Pi 5 for 4K Gaming
Could you help explain how we would achieve an attention score of exactly 0, in practice? Here’s my take:

If we’re subtracting one attention matrix from another, we’d end up with attention scores between -1 and 1, with a probability of effectively 0 for any single entry to exactly equal 0.

What’s more, the learnable parameter \lambda allows for negative values. This would allow the model to learn to actually add the attention scores, making a score of exactly 0 impossible.
Why Does Time Seem to Pass at Different Speeds? (2011)
More like switching from one extreme of propaganda to another.

Like what were you doing during the late 2000s and the early 2010s? All of these "controversial" topics, the skeletons in the closet and self-critique have been open and available for viewing from the beginning.

The only difference is that how they are viewed, in the past as lessons to inform the future, today as ammunition to attack, or to distract from one's own misdeeds.
BigQuery now supports SQL pipe syntax
But was only usefull with free trade guarantees by a sea empire. In colonial empire times it might aswell have been alchemy to make free cheese on the moon.
>Very few people alive before 1956 are working today.

I resemble that remark ;)

I am quite few people indeed.

Starting a new company soon anyway, and it's going to take a lot more effort than just working there.

Plus it does have something to do with automation and cargo subcontracting in my niche domain.

>The industry completely changed in just a few years

That does sound about right, IIRC it did only take from 1956 until about the mid-1980'a before containers were everywhere, a relatively few years when it comes to cargo operations.
Here, have your 5 yuan, comrade.
And the foundation would keep track of it by Automattic saying this is how much work we did...
I can understand the sentiment against the current "AI" crace with chatbots. But are you dismissing neural networks as a whole as non-impactful?

What about;

- Improved weather forecasts

- Protein folding

- Medical imaging and diagnostics

- Text-to-speech and voice recognition

- Language Translation

- Finance fraud detection

- Supply chain and logistics optimization

- Natural disaster prediction
And if we look at the current social trend of everyone feeling more and more alienated from each other, perhaps we should push back on the social dialogue.
Presumably one wouldn't throw away the built packages if some other build fails just because we're delaying installing the packages to `/` until later.
I don't think so; his name only appears five times.

By contrast, "Boring" appears 19 times, "Tesla" appears seven, etc. The only time he's mentioned in the article outside of the headline is when it (accurately, and without any sort of negative implication) speaks about his vision and goals for the tunnels.
It is certainly a bluff. Accidents or misunderstandings aside, the only time the US chose to press the issue as it were was when it faced a serious threat to having its nuclear deterrent rendered completely ineffective (Cuban missile crisis). No one's launched nukes because of non-nuclear events in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan or Cuba, and no one will seriously contemplate it over losing pieces of eastern Ukraine or Crimea. Even taking the war into Russia proper won't do the trick, murder-suicide is only on the table when the threat is existential.

The bluff does, however, work very well in slowing down and dissuading Western help to Ukraine by cultivating the "don't do X else nukes tomorrow" memes and propaganda talking points. Very effective foreign policy tool for a nuclear-armed fascist dictatorship, other will certainly take note for future invasions.
Wi-Fi needs to be turned on, but the connected network is irrelevant, similar to AirDrop.
Important missing info I suppose for some readers - that's what the "p" in "pae" stands for - physical address extension. It has no bearing on virtual addresses.
Paul Virilio has been saying that for years
+1 for Axis
CPI is very tough to determine.

For example, how do you calculate the CPI on computers? They’re a million times better now, but are also cheaper. My Macbook is not the same product as my 486 from decades ago.

This affects everything. Take medical care as you said. The outcomes there are much better than before, so how do we calculate inflation on medical expenses?

If you provide a 10% better product/service for a 10% higher price, is that inflation? What if all of society gets richer and insists on the second, better version of your service as a minimum?

If houses get bigger and nicer and our standards for “a house” go up over time, and houses also get more expensive, then what is the inflation on housing?

I think they’re genuinely doing their best with the CPI calcs, even though it’s not possible to get a true number.

Long story short though, life has gotten dramatically better in material terms, for everyone, especially the poor.
Victimhood supremacy combined with provincial identity reinforcement discourages well-rounded education, liberal values, and dismisses classics as "old white patriarchy". The author fails to realize they are no longer a liberal nor that they are racist, sexist, and ageist.
Before reading the article, my approach would be so much darker… a bit of gasoline and a lighter can do wonders for the memory of a person who “forgot” a password.

Might need duct tape and a chair as well.
thank you for wasting 2 minutes of my time as I obviously looked for the paper in parallel to listening to the video XD
And apparently Segger Studio says NO to "old granpa style toolchain" by introduce this several weeks ago: https://www.segger.com/news/pr-240927-ozone-support-rust/
.. watching two City workers having a meeting at a property right now.. it took more than two months to do three small repairs on the City owned lot.. one right now.. This same City is quite wealthy from property taxes and other sources here in western US coastal town.. Do these two City employees "sit home and collect money" ? Does orchestrated, planned and persistent foot-dragging with extra benefits, fall into the same outrage category as "these so-called dock workers" ? Both sets are employees.. the names are different but the outcome seems similar somehow? difficult to reconcile that one is publicly shamed, while the other gets stronger and more entrenched over time.
> I don't think there is much room for a "society-changing innovation" within CS that isn't either an engineering feat (Linux, Docker, FFmpeg) or an algorithm that could fit under a mathematics price (FFT, Navier Stokes).

I'm not sure I agree with that. There's plenty of theoretical computer science that isn't really "engineering" and would fall into a pretty different category than stuff like FFT or Navier Stokes.

If you look at something like Concurrency Theory, for example, and work with stuff like Pi Calculus or CSP or Petri Nets, those aren't "engineering feats", but also kind of fall into a different category than the rest of math, or at least pretty different than Navier Stokes. I think you could make a pretty strong argument that CSP has been a pretty big innovation in regards the academic state of the art while not simply being engineering.
The stdint types only date to C99. 32-bit transition happened much earlier than that.
https://www.segger.com/news/pr-240927-ozone-support-rust/
Hear hear, agree whole heartedly.

Minor nit: bike shedding refers to, in the original, arguing about the color of the paint on the shed.

It follows that not all discussion is bike shedding.

In this instance, the references to C++ allude to a common best practice for programmers of avoiding custom operators, which goes far beyond an aesthetic, i.e. style, i.e. color of paint on the bike shed difference. There are engineering consequences. This also applies across languages, I'm familiar with it only from trodding the same path you are, through Swift.

Bike shedding bike shedding is indeed possible, so I won't suggest an umabiguous definition. :)

The bike shedding reference in OP is to the different flavors, but equivalent, syntactic sugar that you mention. This uses the new shiny. But this creates toxic baggage, because among other things, because to a naive implementer, there is no solid engineering reason to e.g. avoid custom operators, it's just a scarred C++ graybeard enforcing their opinion :)
You’re right, I was just being short. Will give you a longer and more concrete answer tomorrow
When you write your comment you have your intent in mind. However the readers often project their own ideas into your comments. You need to tread carefully with this subject matter. Try to be aware of what others may imagine you are saying. Next, write your comment in way that explicitly removes those possible misinterpretations.

As an example: I haven't reviewed your other comments and I do not wish to discuss them.
After 911, public discussion shifted from totalitarianism to terrorism.

I was raised long before this shift. Going by the comments here, many readers of HN were not.

Today's equivalent, in the public's view, of this school janitor would be a janitor who joined ISIS in his youth, and stuck around for the beheadings.

In a couple decades, society will lose its preoccupation with terrorism, too. Then we'll all get to read "so he was in ISIS, big deal" comments together.
Totally not even vaguely fit to be a magical girl. That sounds like signing for a Saw movie. Somebody else can go be Kiki and fight with Miyazaki about ruining Japanese society.
LittleTable: A Time-Series Database and Its Uses (2022) [pdf]
So many transformative things in the US are like this: the iPhone, ChatGPT, Tesla, SpaceX, Google, YouTube, Amazon, Windows, Facebook, nVidia. It’s pretty cool that companies have a front man like they’re a cool rock band.

I think only Broadcom is that size of a tech company with no front man like that.
Nicely spotted! Then, I really look forward to seeing this method tested by others! Epic stuff.
We're saying the same thing, really. Basically until AWS/GCP/Azure have minimal egress fees there is no way we can switch over to a different storage provider. They obviously know this so it will probably never happen.
How to evaluate multi-turn LLM chatbots
It does work, you just need credible trigger thresholds for the salami tactics, treat tactical nukes as strategic, and have enough nukes to punch through ABM.
What about Golang support?