skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A modern language with generics and quality IDE experience with the ability to write truly composable code is what interests me in the project. Modern shader codebases are truly enormous, but the languages up until recently lacked any tools for composition beyond the function. HLSL got templates in 2021 and GLSL is a dead end with no development.

No Metal support is IMO no problem. I and most of the rest of the games industry couldn’t care less about MSL. Nobody uses it. I’ve seen numbers from Apple that say upwards of 80% of developers they asked target Metal via SPIR-V Cross and HLSL from DXC.

I love what this project wants to do, use a “real” language to get the developer experience while writing shaders. However IMO slang will eat Rust-GPU’s lunch. You are right, borrow checking is not useful for shaders, and slang delivers most of the same language improvements (modules, generics) while being able to target many more platforms. And slang is production ready, unlike rust-gpu.

I’d still love to see what rust-gpu could become though, especially with DX12 moving to spirv in the future. It’s be nice to share rust code between my engine code and shader code.
Since you not only "know" the outcome, but it apparently it's ancient history for you already - why are you asking?
I am guess this is a "joke" reply because of the forced colloquialism but this is not a subsidy for the business, it was a group of companies bidding to provide rural broadband service.

This is concerning 9 Billion that was awarded in 2020. The 2021 infrastructure bill included and additional 40 Billion. None of the 2021 money has been spent and companies that won the 2020 award have been given extensions:

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/dish-directv-fcc-charlie-ergen-j...
The economics prize is not an actual Nobel prize, but something "inspired" by the Nobel prize. It's little more than a tool to push neoliberal policies to the public, with 34 of the 56 winners tied to the Chicago School of Economics.
They are constructed reality as opposed to inherent reality. We invented a fake metric then created incentives (adjusting the allocation of real resources) to optimise the fake metric.
Using indexes instead of pointers in data structures works well, and the cost of the base address + offset is negligible, as similar address calculation is already generated by the compiler when accessing into an element of a data structure. In addition to that, mention that indexes can be used as offsets, or as an actual indexes of the size of an individual element, i.e. in that case non-trivial data structures with e.g. >= 32-byte elements could address hundreds of gigabytes of RAM.

A practical use could be e.g. using bit fields can be convenient, e.g. having 32-bit indexes, with the higher bit for the color in a Red-black tree. And in case of requiring dynamic-sized items in the tree nodes, these could be in different 32-bit addressable memory pools.
> If you read the linked issue you will see that the plan for legacy printers is to move the printer drivers under a separate application that CUPS can then talk IPP to.

Ah, yes. Thanks for pointing that out! I wonder how much more secure that will make things for those who have to use legacy printers.

> Since mobile phones also only directly support IPP

Technically AirPrint is not IPP Everywhere, they use a different raster format and some different glue. For example my Brother printer supports AirPrint but fails ~50% of the IPP Everywhere self-certification tests. But that’s splitting hairs.
The economics prize is not a Nobel prize.
Do laypeople know Kepler?
As the sibling said: "not at all".

But I see why this could be confusing. In the article he wrote:

> Postgres will happily add padding to the underlying data in order to make sure it is properly aligned at the physical layer. Having the data aligned ensures faster access time when retrieving pages from disk.

And this is correct. The problem is that "physical layer" refers to the physical memory layout and how things are loaded into the CPU. And not how they are stored in the disk(mostly).

I'm not expert in this subject, but as far I understand the main factor for this kind of behavior is the way a CPU reads data from its cache, i.e. 1 line(64bytes) at a time. And this is why we always pad to factors of 64(2, 4, 8, 16, 32).

This is the first time I read about this in the context of PG, but I've already encoutered the same issue in C and Go. So for me this is just a new manifestation of the same underlying problem.

https://mecha-mind.medium.com/demystifying-cpu-caches-with-e...
Why U.S. Regulators See Minicars as the Enemy
I work in industry supporting these supply chains; our advancements are part of a hive mind that could be harmed if individuals were artificially highlighted for achievement.

The academics can have their awards, we smile seeing the world change a bit at a time.
Not sure if this question belongs on this post but kinda interested in how validation and e.g data schema enforcement work in local first / distributed infrastructure.

Assume this is built into the way you think about the model (and my mental model definitely isn't there yet), but having read the permissions part of the jazz docs (on/off?) and thinking about how client-first platforms like firebase do it with private rules on a centralised server .. I don't get it. Is it possible to do complex validation against e.g writes? Is it a natural state of CRDTs, somehow handled in the PKC, or just a side effect of the data models demanded of the setup?

Any info or pointers to further reading would be ace!
Javaccripts been evolving fast, and there is a huge community behind it
Using capitalisation is actually reasonably useful for people with certian classes of disabilities, maybe concider it purely from the perspective.

So is breaking up things with whitespace which you did reasonably well.

So it's not a matter of "You know what I mean, so who cares?". They may realistically have had to put in significantly more effort into understanding what was written.

That isn't entirely true for something silly like the word smol.
I like this idea, after all math is its own field of study. We might call it "field prize" or something like that (this comment is just a pun)
How do LeCun and Bengio feel about being left out of the most prestigous prize of them all? (Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio was together awarded the Turing prize in 2018...)
"does not mean that bacteria are hanging out in the blood in a physiologically meaningful way."

That's the whole point of this sort of research - to find out if there are physiological connections and what they are.
> So, if you're iterating on your product at all, don't go on-prem because it’ll be slower to innovate.

What could you possibly be exprrimenting with that you need the cloud to run? Kafka? Even that is self hostable if you have enough storage and network.
If you can tie login to a person's phone (passkey, google authenticator, text message, etc) than you can raise the bar. Most abuse is by a very small number of people who will not make it difficult to detect (like cycling through accounts during batch processing, many accounts from the same ip). Logs will be your friend and you really only care about the worst offenders, the rest won't be worth the time, effort, false positives
In the sense that there are a variety of requirements that need to be checked, there are. Each industry is different. Ferrocene has mostly been driven by automotive so far because that’s where the customers are, but they’ll get to all of them eventually.
an orphan is absolutely not the same thing as a 'baby on demand'. God you people are tedious to talk to.
> you mean having a fixed-style

This is confusing and meaningless.

The only reasonable definition of "hard wrapping" is "you insert linebreaks were not previously present into content in order to fit a specific number of columns", and under that nothing should be hard-wrapped. People never call ASCII art or poems "hard-wrapped", or say that code is "hard-wrapped" when you add natural line breaks at the ends of lines (e.g. "if (cond) {\n" or on web "<p>if (cond) {</p>") because that's not how people use that term.

Poems and ASCII-art aren't hard-wrapped by definition because the line-breaks are already present as part of the content itself. For the code and emails, I already conclusively showed why those are bad.
I would think this is mainly limited by loading and unloading. Trains are faster than ships so the same cross-section can carry more. It's cheaper to just build more tracks to increase capacity so you don't need custom trains.
Esp since CAP is easily pronounced. "PACELC"? Is it "Pace-elk"? "Pak-Elk"? "Pacel-C"?
Security issues are the driver now. I had to shut down some machines at work last month because their CPUs have a microcode flaw that the vendor is not releasing a fix for.
And still, it was supposed to not be vulnerable to enemy radar. And a multi decade old anti-air system, with the benefit of good intelligence and incredibly sloppy American operations, managed to shoot it down.

Why would anyone think a helicopter that would be flying much lower to the ground, would be invulnerable to e.g. man portable air defence systems?
Evil Geniuses: Delving into the Safety of LLM-Based Agents [pdf]
The one by Ben Eater?
Ah, i see, we disagree on what is "human language". An abbreviation like HTML and it's different capitalisations to me sound a lot like a feature of human language.
Ferrocene is breaking several norms in this area, and “ancient toolchains” is one of them. They’re able to certify new ones remarkably quickly.
This might be fiery take, but I think the X.400 standards for naming and messaging would have been a lot better than the chaotic email situation, and probably would have made more sense from a commercial/legal perspective than making DNS "the" global naming system
There's probably some enterprise level deals going on there (as with every service provider), but they will still be paying them A Lot of Money every year.
Not at all, the chemical industry also can do this.

Worse, we store untreatable chemical waste forever (see Germany's many chemical waste dumps), unlike nuclear waste which will eventually become safe.
And this will thoroughly destroy UX for any user who opens your site in multiple tabs. Or reopens the site after submitting a form and closing the window.
Yep. Javascript is everywhere and with tools improving constantly.
There was at least a credible story of fission/fusion for the benefit of humanity. Here, we know that AI is primarily used for target systems, surveillance, opinion manipulation, slop content, etc. If AGI ever succeeds it will be used for eliminating all knowledge jobs.

Nuclear weapons have not been used since 1945. Do you think that systems like Lavender won't be used in the future? Zero chance.
Makes perfect sense. If public transport is the most convenient method of travelling, then most people will use it. You get the society you design for, and most of Europe is designed for public transport first and foremost.
> You not having kids isn't making a sacrifice because there is no world in which you have kids.

Can you point out where I said these things were a sacrifice?

I actually don’t think any of those things are sacrifices — they all add to my quality of life. Obviously I have to guess on the kids thing and I can’t be 100% sure about the driving thing, but I’ve flown before and it sucks. I live in a smaller apartment now than I did when I was younger. I ate meat for decades. So I know the alternatives.

> You not having kids isn't making a sacrifice because there is no world in which you have kids.

Of course there is! I have just chosen to not make that world a reality.

> This is just a normal nihilistic life style being spun as meaningful behavior

Then the same can be said of somebody who says that eating meat and having kids is good?

What lifestyle isn’t nihilistic by your definition?
One could even argue it has all of the benefits and less of the dynamite scent.
> I liked when things were simpler too, but the reality (for better or worse) seems to be that AI is not going away.

we'll see what happens once the parasites have killed the host
They are allowed, but they're extremely uncommon nevertheless.
Archaeologists found an ancient Egyptian observatory
> should not be permitted to collect its customers' personally identifiable information.

No. They should not be permitted to retain and/or sell that information.

Out of curiosity, why do you think we have KYC laws in the first place?
So could FTX, at the time of its bankruptcy, let everybody get the assets they had title to?

Because that was the issue wasn't it? They said they were holding stuff for customers, but didn't. The way I understood it the fraudsters only held a fraction of the Bitcoin they were supposed to hold, for example.

How would the scenario work where bankruptcy wasn't declared? They would have refused to provide assets to customers, the customers would have sued, and the fraud would have come out anyway.

Delaying discovery when you're underwater on your obligations means you're just piling on more crimes. Which is probably what lawyers explained to the chief fraudster. It gets harder and harder to claim an honest mistake.
Definitely. I remember months of anticipation as a kid leading up to Christmas Day when I received my Captain Scarlet outfit.
Indeed, you seem to enjoy long rambly paragraphs, which you are entitled to.

The time and attention of your fellows is valuable and merits some thought before writing. Conciseness and clarity are more valuable than the number of pixels used to type a sentence.

Good luck going forward

Edit0: And no, most would agree that free association is an ideal of the human condition - you're welcome to disagree. Feel free to chat with a lawyer.
At what point do these companies return the money?
Workday Beats Oracle and Microsoft in UK 'Matrix' ERP Deal
Many of those are unfulfilled promises of the type that have been around for 30 or 40 years at least. And climate modelling: what's the point? You can't predict climate change from history. That's the whole point of the research.

So then wait until those promises have been fulfilled, as has so often been the case in Nobel prizes. Remember Higgs?

But the negative effects have been clear. Might just as well give the Nobel Peace Prize to Zuckerberg.
Kanellakis award too for theoretical cs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Kanellakis_Award
Big community or not it still sounds like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. But whatever good luck!!!
Agree! The push for "right to repair" isn't just about individual choice
So I watched the video on the home page. It made almost zero sense to me. It was all very vague and seemed to be targeted at people who already knew all the product and the problems is solves without needing to be told. if that was the goal then great but maybe another video targeting a wider audience?

I got the point of rails and meteor immediately. it wasn't clear at all if this was even solving similar problems or what
Capitalism has actually been reinvented many times - basically every time there's a significant change in how the Federal Reserve operates, this is a reinvention of capitalism. It occurred memorably in 2008 and recently in 2024. This new 2024 version hasn't had time to reach a stable state yet. It was preceded by cryptocurrency bubble capitalism since 2020.
Fireside Chat: DHH, Matz and Tobias Lütke (Rails World 2024) [video]
Geico tells El Reg, no, it's not canceling all Cybertruck insurance
Yasser Arafat is one
It really makes me so sad to see that some people can be so confidently so wrong.

It really does appear that believing in renewables as a way to perpetuate industrial society at scale has become part of some people's identity, and regardless of any actual study on the subject, this belief appears to be a necessity to be part of non-deplorable human society.

Nuclear reactors are a safe way to electrify as much as can be and reduce the body blows societies are going to take in the coming decades. Some industry is not doomed, and social stability can be maintained, at some cost, if and only if we use all technologies at our disposal for what they are, and calculate the risks and rewards right.

Facts are sadly unmoved by any faith, and the real path forward as painful as it may be, is only open to those that accept that they can always be wrong, and will always have to learn more.

Please pfdietz cite your sources and please prove me wrong.
> The cases where you want platform-specific integer width (that is not something like size_t/uintptr_t) is extremely niche (...)

I think you got it backwards. There are platform-specific ints because different processors have different word sizes. Programing languages then adjust their definitions for these word sizes because they are handled naturally by specific processors.

So differences in word sizes exist between processors. Either programming languages support them, or they don't. Also, there is also specific needs to handle specific int sizes regardless of cpu architecture. Either programming languages support them, or don't.

And you end with "platform-specific integer widths" because programming languages do the right thing and support them.
Probably Yasser Arafat
Plugin development is currently not supported but planned in the long term. I decided to finish basic useful plugins and distribute Smartclip with a set amout of features, to see where it goes. I will include Plugin development in the long run, depending on the feedback and usage.

As Smartclip is a hobby and I've worked on it in my freetime for many months on end, I decided to protect my work. I don't make money with it and published it as a useful tool for developers. It provides multiple features that are not available by Albert and Flow Launcher, even without providing plugin support at the moment. Its main functionality is a clipboard manager, that is similar to launchers, but not the same.

If there is functionality missing right now for it to be a useful product to you, I would very much be interested in that feedback. If you are just one of those people that read the license and drop it, only because its not open source, then please move on.
Cops love facial recognition, and withholding info on its use from the courts
Capitalism concentrates power to the top; those powerful people are the ones who have had the power to reinvent it so far. E.g. in 2008 when the Fed began QE Infinity, which never ended.
Feynman would voice his objections if he were alive ... what about nature was discovered? ANN is an application of a variant of Universal Approximation Theorem ...
Escape the Low-Code Trap: Uncovering the Hidden Pitfalls of Low-Code Platforms
FWIW, the 2021 IIJA at least has a clawback for those companies that take funding but don't deliver

https://www.ey.com/en_us/insights/government-public-sector/p....
This issue is less about halting electronics consumption entirely and more about creating responsible systems for recycling.
Thank goodness if you don't have hard line breaks you can choose your preferred line length yourself.
It may help to learn the personal story behind the book. A lot of it is based on Lindgren's own childhood and young adulthood. She was quite the character: gave up her son to a foster family, married a real-life "gentleman spy" character, then worked as a government censor reading other people's letters. Whatever her life was, it was definitely not boring.
You just invented a mid-level engineer.

If you manage to have more breakthroughs to senior then you can maybe leave it unattended for a few months but not if the product team is inexperienced or strong willed. The code will still end up as unmaintainable spaghetti.

So you need more breakthroughs to achieve staff or higher which requires a lot more agency and initiative on the part of the bot to push past what your team mates think they want and do what actually needs to be done modifying not only the code and the requirements but the process that leads to miscommunication and inefficiencies within the org.

If you manage to invent a bot that knows what’s better for the people prompting it and acts on that then you’ve potentially also violated the first law of robotics and created a death bot.

And boy oh boy would it be astronomically expensive to run.
JS was not built for half the things it’s doing today. But it does it :)
Yes, it looks similar to the Hitch-Hiker's Guide graphics from around the same time, they were cartoons.
The ZX Spectrum bit seems unlikely, considering that was a Z80 box and the quality of those graphics is pretty good.

See the Terrahawks game on the Spectrum:

https://youtu.be/diLez1bM3jo

Is there a source for this, that would actually be interesting.
Yes, I know what you mean. I'm reading McCarthy's original paper now and what I'm noticing is that not all of it is low level in the second sense. For example, mathematically cond would be implemented with copairing/matching over left- and right-injections. Coproduct is the dual category to the product category that pairs belong to, so would be more natural than the higher-level cond, but much less efficient in practice.
> New technology can always be used for good or bad.

Always? Like atomic bombs?

> His work in ML sets the course for a better future

That very much remains to be seen, isn't it? So far, the negatives outweigh the positives.
I think nicotine is one of the very few components that can enhance some brain functions very slightly. It does however have far more negative side effects as its role in nature would suggest it would have.

This is an exception and other common drugs like caffeine that do not have any positive effects at all. Or any other drug for that matter.
LlamaSim – Simulate political polling with LLMs
Hey HN! I'm building LlamaSim, a multi-LLM framework to simulate human behavior at scale - including election polling.

It uses gpt-4o to generate synthetic identities, and uses Cerebras's Llama 3.1 8b models to run groupchats and predictions on any event/question. I'd really appreciate any insight/advice on improving it as much as possible, as I'd love to continue building upon it! I've been brainstorming a bit with long-term memory storage (such as using mem0) and live news feeds to make it truly agentic, as well converting it into a graph-theory based approach as well!
Good point. I neglected to consider standard libraries (stdlib) at the time. If those are allowed, then a lot more can be done with one's code without reaching much farther. Thank-you.
For the interested reader you can see a paper talking about this by Martin Kleppmann https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.05393 - the author of DDIA.
This works better in my experience,

https://hailo.ai
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-ai-kit-availab...
The value of land is largely subjective. It is based on demand, among other things. If the government assigns arbitrarily high or low value to land based on hypothetical worlds where the land could be used for high rises, factories, or whatever as opposed to what economics has proven is the best actual use of the land and its best estimated price, that is just a terrible version of the same thing we have now.
IMO Turing Award is plenty prestigious - and has more legitimacy as its awarded by the relevant community (ACM) - rather than some small group (the Swedish Academy of Sciences) - tbh on that vein I'd say the right thing to do is to ditch the Nobel and let each community in the relevant field decide as a community the work to honor - prevent fiascos like this.

(and, working in the field, I completely disagree with the qualification as "most ...." - it has well known deficiencies and has not yet stood the test of time)
IIS picked 29 hours as the smallest prime over 24.

https://serverfault.com/questions/348493/why-does-the-iis-wo...
It seems to be an InstantDB alternative that integrates more closely with React.