skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also depends on what you are doing in the lab. The sequencers for most technologies are not cheap. The prep kits arent cheap. The assays take time. Plus for a lot of labs that sequencer might get used once a year. It just doesn’t make sense to invest to have this tech in house especially when it might end up obsolete in a few years, after you used it a whopping 10 times.
I’ve had some fun doing a doom randomizer but I really find the base game to be lacking in depth and interesting gameplay.
Exactly, cost of living is the primary reason I am without children
Machine Learning From Zero: an educational machine learning library
> No one can start a new plumbing/HVAC small business.

This isn't true at all, I know several people who have done it.
The paper confirms that even the biggest and most advanced models can still be misled by adding irrelevant information that can be easily filtered out by humans.
The paid version of AFC is not affected, so I'm not sure what are you talking about?

What money? who did you pay? for what?
Published documentation has been and can be wrong. In the late 1990's and early 2000's when I still did a mix of Microsoft technologies and Java, I found several bad non-obvious errors in MSDN documentation. AI today would likely regurgitate it in a soft but seemingly mild but arguably authoritative sounding way. At least when discussing with real people after the arrows fly and the dust settles, we can figure out the truth.
WiMAX has been dead for more than a decade now. Pretty rest of the spectrum is allocated to licensees for cellular/LTE/5G and other military applications.
Well written! I can relate to most of the article. However, I find that

> To focus on one thing deeply, to give it your full attention, is to experience it fully. And when we do this, something remarkable happens. Time, which so often feels like it is slipping through our fingers, begins to slow.

doesn't really apply to me, or to many people I know and have worked with - it is when I focus on one task that "time flies", and it's distractions that end up throwing men out of the zone.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/words-were-watching...
After over 10 hours, the scam is still going. Something is really wrong at YouTube.
Some universities do it in house too
Boy, somebody should tell this person they've got it all wrong. Quality Assurance is so 10 years ago. They just have AI or stupid devs do it themselves now.
> IEEE compliant FPUs or libms available. Same numeric format, same rounding, same result.

IEEE only mandates results within ½ ULP (= best possible) for basic operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and reciprocal.

For many other ones such as trigonometric functions, exponential and logarithms, results can (and do) vary between conforming implementations.

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.h...:

“The IEEE standard does not require transcendental functions to be exactly rounded because of the table maker's dilemma. To illustrate, suppose you are making a table of the exponential function to 4 places. Then exp(1.626) = 5.0835. Should this be rounded to 5.083 or 5.084? If exp(1.626) is computed more carefully, it becomes 5.08350. And then 5.083500. And then 5.0835000. Since exp is transcendental, this could go on arbitrarily long before distinguishing whether exp(1.626) is 5.083500...0ddd or 5.0834999...9ddd. Thus it is not practical to specify that the precision of transcendental functions be the same as if they were computed to infinite precision and then rounded. Another approach would be to specify transcendental functions algorithmically. But there does not appear to be a single algorithm that works well across all hardware architectures. Rational approximation, CORDIC,16 and large tables are three different techniques that are used for computing transcendentals on contemporary machines. Each is appropriate for a different class of hardware, and at present no single algorithm works acceptably over the wide range of current hardware.”
The world has changed rapidly in recent years. The description of GTD was defined many years ago, but the core of GTD is "Get Things Done". How to define "Things"? IF has different answers.
The model of QA that Stack Overflow and its various forks follow the same approach struggle with the 90/9/1 problem ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule ).

Q&A was designed to handle the social explosion problem and the eternal September problems by having a larger percent of the username take an interest in the community over time and continue to maintain that ideal. Things like comments and discussions being difficult is part of the design to make it so that you don't get protracted discussions that in turn needs more moderation resources.

The fraction of the people doing the curation and moderation of the site overall has dropped. The reasons for that drop are manyfold. I believe that much of it falls squarely upon Stack Overflow corporate without considering second order effects of engaging and managing the community of people who are interested in the success of the site as they envision.

Ultimately, Stack Overflow has become too successful and the people looking to it now have a different vision for what it should be that comes into conflict with both the design of the site and the vision of the core group.

While Stack Overflow can thrive with a smaller number of people asking "good" (yes, very subjective) questions it has difficulty when it strays into questions that need discussion (which its design comes into conflict with) or too many questions for the committed core group to maintain. Smaller sites can (and do) have a larger fraction of the user base committed to the goals of the site and in turn are able to provide more individual guidance - while Stack Overflow has long gone past that point.

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Stack Overflow and its Q&A format that has been often copied works for certain sized user bases. It needs enough people to keep it interesting, but it fails to scale when too many people participate who have a different idea of what questions should be there.

There is a lack of moderation tools for the core user base to be able to manage it at scale (you will note the history of Stack Overflow has been removing and restricting moderation tools until it gets "too" bad - see also removal of 20k users helping with flag handling and the continued rescoping of close reasons).

Until someone comes up with a fundamentally different approach that is able to handle moderation at scale or sufficient barriers for new accounts (to handle the Eternal September problem), we are going to continue to see Stack Overflow clones spout and die on the vine along with a continued balkanization of knowledge in smaller areas that are able handle vision and moderation at a smaller scale.

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Every attempt at a site I've seen since (and I include things like Lemmy in this which did a "copy reddit" and then worry (or not) about moderation) have started from a "get popular, then work on the moderation problem" which is ultimately too late to really solve the problem. The tools for moderation need to be baked into the design from the start.
Carpenters too? I'm not from the US but this is a crowd I know and talked to quite a bit, at least in western Appalachia. It seemed to me they are shafted quite often, as big companies hire them as subcontractors 90% of the time and underpay them. The last 10% another tradesman/local architect get a contract and hire them directly and they earn almost twice their usual pay but that's a small minority of their contracts.
"curating your news sources with a focus on unsensational, fact-based reporting" -> curious how you do this!
I'd wager it's a volume thing. Not enough Linux customers asking for SRIOV support, so it's not worth spending the money to enable driver support for it. The Fortune 500 companies that you mention should specifically ask for SRIOV support on linux mainline when making purchases. Unfortunately, that's the only way to make sure we have support upstreamed.

The silver lining seems to be that more and more things are moving into the firmware, and it's entirely possible that SRIOV could be supported through that in the future. But till then, I doubt it's going to happen.
my read on it is that it’s liberation and freedom in a very buddhist sense.

you won’t be free from hunger, but it may reframe our relationship with food so there is less compulsion and mindless consumption.

it won’t take away fear in the face of imminent danger (that’s a good thing, we have to survive) but it may reduce background anxiety that’s present in our daily lives.
My understanding is that it's "don't call system.exit() until you have finished writing everything to system.stdout".
What was the point of this reply?

The tech startup world has been taking an outsiders look at problems in an attempt to solve them in a novel way for the past 30 years. Maybe this is not the web site or discussion forum for you if you want to disparage people for thinking outside the box.
> In some sense reality has to be of that nature, because the odds of us existing by chance is so small it suggests that our model is wrong and our existence was in fact guaranteed.

Sampling bias: we only exist to perceive the reality in which we exist. the countless realities in which we don't exist, we don't experience.
The great dichotomy of man. Elon is a hardheaded questionable fellow who stops free speech on his platform if it doesn't suit the agenda and is supporting Trump who literally spurred an insurrection.

But Elon also started one of the greatest revolutions mankind has ever seen, up there with the Apollo project, which one can say is mankind's greatest achievement.

What do you do with that dichotomy is up to you to resolve.
This is too much to bear and I had to create an account for this!

Might I interest you in the opposite? Sort of a Lisp implemented in Forth that can compile Lisp functions to native code, all of this in less than 500 lines of Dusk code.

https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos/tree/master/item/fs/doc/co...
http://duskos.org/
Yes, it's sad. On the other hand, I think it's a good thing that people share knowledge less, publicly and free of charge on the web, because there is so much exploitation going on. Big corporations obviously capitalize on the good will of people with their LLMs, but there are also others who take advantage of the ones who want to help. A lot of users seemingly expect others to solve their problems for free and don't even put any effort into asking their questions. It's a massive drain for energy and enthusiasm, some even suffer from burnout (I assume more in open-source projects than on SO but still). I rather want it to be harder to connect with people sharing the same passion "in private" than having outsider who don't contribute anything profit off of activities happening in the open. This frustratingly appears to become the main reason for corporate open source these days.
No, I am saying it is the same. There is no "AI apocalypse".

AI generated "content" is just fulfilling the demand. Before AI we had army of human copywriters, the same person would write articles about movies and nuclear physics. And lets not forget SEO spam and SEO farms.

AI is just generating slop in a cheaper way, and much faster.
Don't get me wrong, Zendesk definitely has their own separate problem: you should not be able to CC yourself onto an existing support ticket by emailing a guessable ticket ID.

But simultaneously you should not be able to get into a company Slack by simply having an account with a @company.com email address created by a third-party SSO provider.

In other words, even in Zendesk fixed their problem, Slack would still have a problem on their end.
agree that the "clock of life" is a strange beast, when compared to the clock on the wall. i try to quit paying too much attention to the latter, and time becomes more nuanced and textured.
Well yeah. If you needed to have your culture come from Google images or or NYT I think you were always going to have a bad time. AI or not.
Exactly, right? "We'll create a fast paced start-up to help Turkish people understand their own language". You gotta admire both the boldness and stupidity at the same time!
What makes you think the network inference is less expensive? Newtonian physics is already extremely well known and pretty computationally efficient to compute.

How would a "function approximation" of Newtonian physics, with billions of parameters, be cheaper to compute?

It seems like this would both be more expensive and less correct than a proper physics simulation.
Sharing this opinion doesn't sacrifice my primary economic utility, and in fact disseminates a sentiment that if more widespread would empower everyone to realize more of the value they offer. Please do train an LLM to inform people to seek licensing arrangements for the expertise they provide.
I have the same feeling watching Starship when the telemetry on the bottom right of the screen showing “0km” but landing burn hasn’t started. Later did I know that it was meant to start the burn only a few hundreds _meters_ from the ground
> In markup, everything is literal, unless you put a `#` sigil

Unless it's a "=", then it begins a new section. And unless it's a "-" or a "+" or a "/", then it's a list item. And unless it's a "<", then it defines a label, or a "@", then it's a reference to one. And unless it's a "_" or "*" or "`", then it changes font or style.
The genius of America is finding the lowest common denominator, and commercializing it. The world hates everything we produce -- our food, our movies, our culture -- but they end up consuming it in droves. They complain that it has no taste, and they're right. But they underestimate how much everyone wants stuff that is plentiful, vapid, and cheap.

It's no surprise that we similarly export our politics. Conspiracy theories are fast food. They come cheap, are accessible with no effort, and make you feel like you've gotten a lot. We didn't invent any of this but we've got a national genius for optimizing it.
On the other hand, psychedelics give you perceptions similar to even early deepdream genai images.

On LSD, I was swimming in my friend’s pool (for six hours…) amazed at all the patterns on his pool tiles underwater. I couldn’t get enough. Every tile had a different sophisticated pattern.

The next day I went back to his place (sober) and commented on how cool his pool tiles were. He had nfi what I was talking about.

I walk out to the pool and sure enough it’s just a grid of small featureless white tiles. Upon closer inspection they have a slight grain to them. I guess my brain was connecting the dots on the grain and creating patterns.

It was quite a trip to be so wrong about reality.

Not really related to your claim I guess but I haven’t thought of this story in 10 years and don’t want to delete it.
I'm not saying it shouldn't be free like in Luxembourg, just made the comparison with how it has been for decades until the recent 9€ experiment and now ~60€ subscription. It's already a lot better than it used to be, even if it's not perfect

Do you know how it works, actually, if you need to get to work but can't because of the cost? If you can't afford 60€ then you also won't be able to afford a car that costs probably >3x times as much for a barebones old model when you include the necessary insurance, road tax, and fuel. Bürgergeld pays your rent afaik but do they front e.g. costs when you get a job to actually get there until your first paycheck? Can one apply for a public transport subscription in low income situations?
I know, right? This is why we must be extra cautious with anyone's claim of disorder or disease, because just because someone thinks they are ill with a particular thing, doesn't mean that they, or even their HCPs have done due diligence -- modern health care is nothing like House or Doc Martin.

In fact, Wikipedia's fatal flaw is that we're forced to take medical claims at face-value when they're made by the subject himself.

Personally, my HCPs are very conservative and reluctant to diagnose -- particularly something they can't treat, and especially adverse, untreatable side effects such as "gynecomastia" or "tardive dyskinesia", etc. (Those could contribute to material grounds for lawsuits!) What physician in their right mind would formally diagnose "Serotonin Syndrome", other than one who's on the payroll of a tort/malpractice attorney?

It's interesting for me to balance a distinct tendency for Somatic Symptom Disorder (also shall never be formally diagnosed) with an impulse for self-knowledge, but an aversion to shitty "treatments" that invariably do more harm than good.
There wouldn’t be a whole lot of fuel left by the time it’s back to land so likely an irrelevant factor.
Not high tech.

The blog post presents exactly one side of the issue, "what happens if a lawyer alleges child abuse knowing it to be untrue in order to extract a settlement". But it doesn't even hint that there's another side: what is one parent is actually engaged in child abuse, and the other parent is trying to protect their kids from it".
Street-Fighting Mathematics [pdf]
I also do this.

I lived most of my life in the Mediterranean country and lived in a apartment on the top floor with just a concrete roof where the room temperature was 34°C even at night.

The solution I found was to take frequent cold showers. Stay under the shower for some time, like 5-10 mins, until you get cold, and then without drying yourself, lie in bed naked. I also felt so cool that I even put a blanket over me. It takes a while until you get warm again, so it's enough time to fall asleep.

For more extreme hot situations you can put a wet cloth/t-shirt on your body, but I think that might be unhealthy.
You should tell us more.
Agree. Carpenter is the lowest of the trade skills unless you are in a specific niche.
Man I would die of shame if I ever wrote something as bad as
"it’s not yet clear if the increase in seismic activity is anything more than just an unusually high number of tremors."
excellent article!

one of my favorite books about this that i can not recommend enough is “the miracle of mindfulness” by thich nhat hanh.
Fun article, thank you! One nitpick: some of the side-by-side code blocks overflow on mobile (Pixel 8 Pro, Firefox)
It’s communication to programmers who do get it.

I love to teach and explain but this is one of those things that can’t be conveyed. You have to do it yourself.

If you want an explanation though, use Google. But I don’t think explanations actually help you grok what’s really happening. You really have to come to catharsis yourself.

Learn Haskell. Learn it to the point where you completely understand the purpose of the IO monad and why it exists and helps a program organize better. Then you will understand.

When you do get it. You’ll be among a small few who have obtained something that’s almost like forbidden knowledge. No one will “get” you.
They meant after consolidations.
Which opens up the door for the next generation.
CML – Continuous Machine Learning CI/CD for ML
The noobs don't got how we get where we get?

edit: I remember how some communities changed into: The help isn't good enough, you should help harder, I want you to help me by these conventions. Then they leave after getting their answer and no one has seen them ever again rather than join the help desk.
Not my daily experience. It’s been impossible to get relevant answers to questions on multiple languages and frameworks, no matter the model. O1 frequently generates code using deprecated libraries (and is unable to fix it with iteration).

Not to mention there will be no data for the model to learn the new stuff anyway, since places like SO will get zero responses with the new stuff for the model to crawl
Coolest video by far, but this still places 3rd for me behind F9’s first landing, and the dual heavy landing. The future is bright!
I’m working on this as a personal project so I’m interested in other’s solutions!

I’m not working on it toooo hard. This is something I think some AI software tool might swoop in and solve before I can build something I’m happy with.
> Cars and roads only scale so much before you physically can't move more people fast enough even with more roads and more lanes. Rail scales way better.

Before scaling people moving up so much, I'd question why encourage so much movement.

Instead, let's encourage local areas which are walkable/cycleable that contain 95% of what people need. By eliminating the need for 95% of high-speed people moving (whether by car, train, bus, no matter), that problem becomes automatically solved. And we get a nicer life walking/biking to most places and when we need/want to drive farther, there's no congestion.
Sorry, but this is such a bad conspiracy, like flat earth level.
You could look at history, at communist countries where there were not evil capitalist with evil ads and people still were eating 3 or more times a day and eating meat, eggs and other calories.

Or you are aware of some tribe that eats one every week and lives 150+ years or something like that ?
I understood OP's comment as once PE comes in, monopolizes and regulatory captures, then no one can start a new plumbing/HVAC small business.
I wouldn't bother with X. There were dozens of YouTube channels with the live feed.
That’s just dumb, man. You’re not sacrificing anything by giving someone a helpful answer.
pre does a lot more than respect newlines.
Here's how I solved this problem in Notion's internal command line tools:

function flushWritableStream(stream: NodeJS.WritableStream) {
return new Promise(resolve => stream.write("", resolve)).catch(
handleFlushError,
)
}

/**
* In NodeJS, process.stdout and process.stderr behave inconsistently depending on the type
* of file they are connected to.
*
* When connected to unix pipes, these streams are *async*, so we need to wait for them to be flushed
* before we exit, otherwise we get truncated results when using a Unix pipe.
*
* @see https://nodejs.org/api/process.html#process_a_note_on_process_i_o
*/
export async function flushStdoutAndStderr() {
await Promise.all([
flushWritableStream(process.stdout),
flushWritableStream(process.stderr),
])
}

/**
* If `module` is the NodeJS entrypoint:
*
* Wait for `main` to finish, then exit 0.
* Note that this does not wait for the event loop to drain;
* it is suited to commands that run to completion.
*
* For processes that must outlive `main`, see `startIfMain`.
*/
if (require.main === module) {
await main(argv)
await flushStdoutAndStderr()
setTimeout(() => process.exit(0))
}
Also, there were other emacses that preceded GNU Emacs and were written from scratch: Bernard Greenberg's MULTICS Emacs, written in MacLisp [1], James Gosling's Unix Emacs, mostly written in C [2], and Daniel Weinreb's Zwei, written in Lisp Machine Lisp [3].

1.https://multicians.org/mepap.html

2.https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/62402.62417

3.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EINE_and_ZWEI
I agree with you, and the author is being a little lazy by referencing the NYT article. At the same time, if they didn’t use a clickbait headline, they’d force their critics to make slightly better arguments, so it’s the NYT’s fault too.
Hi! This was a good suggestion! I implemented it in v 1.1 which is already out :)
Yes. And Automattic didn't buy it, they stole it.
How would tech do it? Uber for plumbers? Theranos for electricians? Juicero for HVAC?
Cognitive control is one of the most important issues of our era, IMHO:

https://vonnik.substack.com/p/how-to-take-your-brain-back

There are many techniques to increase our CC. The ADHD community is a trailblazer in this respect.
Apparently so do Google and Github according to the other comments in this thread. Seems like a potential design flaw in these SSO implementations.
… or cannot fail
This exactly. I am starting a shadow project to transfer people to Firefox and want to know what is going in people's heads when they do something like this.