skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What makes you think most labour are interested in “getting by”?

In my experience, they aren’t.
As economies modernize, their gains come from more and better leveraging of energy inputs. Started with fire, human slaves, horses and oxen. The brain is a major consumer of calories in the body. While sci-fi has explored many themes of human, alien, and technological endeavor, it has not, in my limited reading, dealt with the energy consumption of the computing systems (whether it be HAL-9000 or the Star Trek ship computers). I'm not surprised at the energy intensity requested for deploying AI at true scale.
Either the power gets generated, or the scale doesn't happen. There may be international competition issues that ultimately drive this.
The irony being you can get around the block by pretending to be a bot.

https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/52531
Brought memories of one of my cats (now silent meow) who also added the Italian equivalent of a middle finger.

https://imgur.com/a/GFukfFP
The performance relative to the size of the data set is handled by the other tools you use. Flox gets out of your way and bring those tools to wherever you need them, however you want to use them.

(Flox employee here)
I think you got it backwards ;)

In any case, this is (officially) obsolete now.

https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisseau
Ironically the thing that makes this even remotely secure is that it doesn't look like it runs the command immediately, it copies it to clipboard. Ironic because that makes it not really any different than asking ChatGPT or similar to give you a command to use.

With that said, if it did run automatically that would be a compliance and security nightmare.

Overall, these days most of my terminal usage is inside my IDE which has a shortcut to use AI to write a commands and I imagine that will become a standard feature in all terminals soon enough so I don't see too much use in this.

Good work, it's just not for me.
Photoshop is £30 a month. NASDAQ.com reports their net profit to be 40% and elsewhere they're reported to gross $20B revenue.

I think they can afford the ML based content generation costs without increasing prices.
Eh. It's not like research funding is unlimited. Institutions get a budget and they spend it on research projects how they see fit.
Noted ontologist Pirate Software would argue that cats are a Wellington, not a soup.

https://youtube.com/shorts/MnAegCmJ7Xk
This actually happened to me after connecting to wi-fi but there is a workaround that I found:

Convert your book to .azw3 in Calibre

Instead of sending it to the device in Calibre, locate the azw3 file (Right click -> Open book folder).

Copy the file to your Kindle, but not to the "documents" folder (where Calibre usually puts it) but rather into Downloads->Items

This folder is where books go when you buy them from Amazon or receive them after using the Send to Kindle feature. I have only tried this with azw3 so far but it might also work with .mobi format.
IT people are overtime exempt. Overtime doesn't factor into the calculus.
This is in a wholly 2D program. The input is implied to be one completely flat vector drawing, which Illustrator turns into a 3d model, and renders back into flat vectors at multiple rotations, with no further work on the part of the artist.

(I say "implied" because that's all they're showing in the video presentation, there may be additional setup involved that they're skipping. This is inside Illustrator though, which has a long history of 3d extensions being very awkwardly shoved into a corner of its toolset.)
> Most people can't program. Most people can't do mathematics. Most people are not good at this stuff.

No doubt about that.

SICP is the wrong book.

SICP is for people who are good at maths. Most of the examples are maths related. That's a well known complaint about the book. Often such maths-heavy introductory courses filter out the students who are not good at maths. On purpose.

SICP is not for beginners learning Lisp programming. SICP was an university introductory course book for computer science. It was developed out of maths-heavy CS lectures. Various other books tried to improve it both to make some of the topics easier to learn or to make it more advanced in programming language technology.

Easier SICP from Brian Harvey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuTOo_Kj4U0&list=PL91cR71aKp...

or him adopting this stuff to Logo: Computer Science Logo Style. https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/

Or his book "Simply Scheme": https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ss-toc2.html

But what you are looking for is a book for a software developer wanting to learn practical Lisp programming with different examples.
This is why I am quick to report spam, even if they are a "legitimate" business. Utility company / paypal / whoever wants to send me spam? I sincerely hope they are impeded from sending email to anybody.
ok I think we're talking past each other. let's take a step back.

Let's imagine two points in space A and B, that are let's say 10 light minutes distant from each other. A signal going straight from A to B will thus take 10 minutes.

If point A sits in a strong gravitational field (e.g. it's orbiting a very heavy star), the signal will still take 10 light minutes to reach point B. (please tell me if you disagree with this assumption).

Now, let's place another heavy star at the midpoint between points A and B.

How long will it take for a photon emitted by A to reach B? Well, it won't reach it because it will hit the start that's in between.

But another photon whose direction wasn't directly in the path from A to B will follow a longer path, be deflected around the star and reach point B.

It will take longer than 10 minutes to reach point B because it will move along a longer path.

Do you agree this is what would happen?
Sorry, I haven't used it in more than a decade (maybe two?), and don't remember much of it.

These days I would probably go for a Javascript one instead of a PHP one. I actually love PHP, but it's nice having everything in one language.
You mean like React, right? Right?
refset is right, if this implements clojure.core it will be seen as a "real" clojure in the community, ala ClojureScript.

People use the Clojure that is the right fit for the environment they need to operate in, so arguments about authenticity don't tend to come up. Clojure has always been positioned as a pragmatic Lisp and the situation very much reflects that.

The OG Clojure is the one for the JVM and for some people this will always be the only "real" one in some sense, because JVM interop is a huge deal - it gets you access to tons of high-performance Java libraries. If you're writing server-side Clojure that's hard to beat.

But the other clojures have strengths in their niches. If you're writing for the browser, JVM interop doesn't buy you anything but JS interop does, hence ClojureScript. If you're doing a lot of shell scripting you'll probably want babashka for fast startup times. If you're doing mobile+desktop GUI development with Flutter you'll use ClojureDart (if you use Clojure at all).

Jank is aiming for C++ and I'll be curious if there is an interop story there. But again if you're looking to interop with an existing C++ code base it's sort of academic to ask whether Jank is "real" clojure or not.
If that is what "tensegrity" makes you think of, I'm guessing you haven't seen this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkzeE6BVNIk [Super Ball Bot, NASA]
This is a slightly expanded answer to your question, apologies for the external link, I could of course repeat here verbatim, but let's not increase entropy needlessly, right?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/1dyjwyo/is_it_easi...

Beware though, that there are today more than one flavor of Clojurescript, nbb for instance still acts just like JS in this regard.
Selling the shovels to gold miners has done well. :)

The attention to detail is inspiring. I could never do something like this.
Supernote seems a promising option which you didn't enumerate.
> Capacity factors are usually given for a year

That inherently misrepresents nuclear when the fueling cycle lasts longer than a year and maintenance cycles extend across decades. But again reliability is the ability to provide a service. A full multi week outage can’t be patched over via batteries, you need redundancy.

Suppose your an island nation considering looking to get 3GW of nuclear. You’d like the most efficient option of really huge 1.5 GW reactors but if any of them is offline you’re already at 50% output. It’s going to happen, and the grid needs to be able to deal with it, in practice it would need to be able to deal with both being offline for weeks..

> The idea that 93%-96% capacity factors somehow make nuclear power "unreliable" is ... "interesting".

Even a 95% capacity factor over a year can represent near perfect uptime OR include a random 2 week outage with zero notice during absolutely peak seasonal demand.

But again lifetime averages are often in the 80% range and that’s not from fueling cycles alone. Many multi month outages are guaranteed to happen during a plants lifespan requiring further redundancy based around the assumption that nuclear is unavoidable.
I was going to say how clever they are to have implemented a subscription without calling it a subscription! For the non-customers out there, you can buy everything for $99, then once a year there’s a deal on all the new samples for $29 or $39.
> I'm not sure I'd give the student a 0.

Completely agree with you on all of it, but, to let you know, sometimes there are school-wide policies on plagiarism that teachers have to follow. My highschool made teachers give an automatic 0 for any plagiarism.
Also irrelevant as well really. x86 isn't making Nvidia refuse to do it.
https://www.wired.com/story/first-small-scale-nuclear-plant-...
If I click with a drawing tool on the drawing and my drawing disappears and gets replaced with that screen, that's 100% a bug, no matter how we try to phrase that.
This is probably heavily population-dependent. I don’t think they named the Mistral-class ships after the song or the sweet.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistral-class_landing_helico...
This has frustrated me a lot in recent times: people trying to claim that things have always been this way (the lying, the political polarization, the poor treatment of various marginalized groups, etc), and citing specific examples from the past...

...when the problem isn't that the whole idea of these is new, it's the scale. Without doing some kind of more comprehensive analysis on both the current and historical situations, you're not going to be able to prove it one way or another (so asking for proof that things are actually worse now is also just...totally impractical), but if you're paying attention, and paid attention in the past, it's painfully clear that things are worse now.
I would really appreciate if people writing these types of articles first give rigorous and unique definitions of space and time.
Krita works fine for graphics.
It would be hard for, to pick a random large company like Coca-Cola, to hire a whole bunch of top school CS grads. Their IT team will always be less attractive as a job than working at a company whose whole focus is IT, and so giving the choice, people will prefer to work at a company that makes computer programming its central focus, and pays better than Coca Cola does, and gives them more freedom than Coca Cola does. This is the whole "be a profit center, not a cost center" issue in the corporate world (1). So it would actually be hard for someone like Coca Cola to build a team similar to one that Palantir can provide. This is also how McKinsey etc. work: a top Harvard Business School graduate doesn't want to get hired by Signet Jewelers, selling retail jewelry in shopping malls, but if they get hired by McKinsey to work on the Signet Jewelers contract
then everyone is happy.

1: For Coca Cola paying salaries for computer people is a cost that gets in the way of their real business of selling beverages; for someone like Palantir having good computer people produces profit, that is the real business. This is always going to trickle down to the work conditions, pay, etc.
Strong anti-intellectual vibes here. A mature mind can learn from second-hand experience - this is after all why religions have scriptures, why technology has manuals, and why civilizations record their history.

As a parent - and as a former child, too - I'm all too familiar with the childish attitude that you don't need to learn from the lived experience of others. If every adult in your life is telling you not to jump off of the trampoline, you still think "I bet _I_ can jump off the trampoline! What do they know?" And one or two broken legs later, you just gained wisdom the hard way.

Most people outgrow this mentality, and learn to consider and respect sources of experience besides their own.
Why is there a conflation between "modern" and "unstable", and "conventional" and "solid"? I've seen plenty of conventional things that are not solid, and plenty of modern things that were far from unstable. Or maybe I have a different threshold for what modern is.

Beyond your parenthetical, what about Rust is unstable for you today? It would be interesting to me to hear that in order to see if the things that come to mind when hearing that are the same that you meant.
You can look it up on Youtube.
A Visual Guide to SGD (Stochastic Gradient Descent)
Obviously almost nobody would do it if it weren't net positive.

And why wouldn't it be? The whole point here is for power companies to avoid buying as many batteries themselves, and their own batteries depreciate too.

This isn't hard -- the power company adjusts the price it pays minute per minute, and you set the threshold at which it is profitable for you, taking battery cycles into account. And it becomes a classic supply and demand curve -- it's Econ 101.
Why is that? I just downloaded a couple albums I bought from iTunes in 2008 as a test. Were they specific ones that were removed from iTunes for license issues? (Not that that’s a good excuse)
My company has decided to update its hr page to use AI for reasons unknown.

So instead of the old workflow:

"visit HR page" → "click link that for whatever reason doesn't give you a permanent link you can bookmark for later"

it's now:

"visit HR page" → "do AI search for the same link which is suggested as the first option" → "wait 10-60 seconds for it to finally return something" → "click link that for whatever reason doesn't give you a permanent link you can bookmark for later"
This statement relies on self-reported inner state. It is inherently unreliable. ;)
Classic confusion "correlation = causation". If interesting/knowledgeable people read more books does not mean that reading more books will make you more interesting/knowledgeable. It's usually the fact that for those people other intrinsic interests move them to read more books. So reading more books is a "symptom".
“ This ended up helping to drive the A350 manufacturing surge and successfully 4x’ing the pace of manufacturing while keeping Airbus’s high standards of quality.” come on…
I'd suggest allowing bug reports directly from the app. You can capture highly useful context with the report. You have highly technical people here eager to help your wonderful creation!
Taming randomness in ML models with hypothesis testing and marimo
sooo prolong the problem so that when you are dead, your descendants have to deal with it and you will be free of the responsibility?
Do we forgive oct 7? what precedent would it set for other groups? that you can just go kill and rape people and there will be no response?
Why conventional wisdom on health care is wrong (a primer) (2020)
This is great -- I'm always amazed how effective classical algorithms are at doing so-called "neural tasks". What's strange is how few SIGGRAPH tech ever makes it out as a consumer product
Yeah, my immediate thought was this would be bad for screen readers, plus OCR could easily defeat this
Oh wow lol, is it not? That would be pretty disappointing. It was really frustrating how many pages of crap I had to navigate my way through, basically deciphering all possible permutations of "cancel", "continue to cancel" "yes I'm sure", all surrounded by extraneous crap I'm not interested in. How difficult the cancellation process is gives me even more motivation to refine my alternatives to their service, so I never have to subject myself to that crap again.
Yes, I remember it being really finnicky when it was first released, and lots of head scratching getting the docked version back. I don't know which iOS version you're using, but I was pleasantly surprised by the newer ability to pinch/reversepinch to shrink/grow it between floating and docked in newer versions, I think that's a recent development.
> I was thinking more about why

Good question - e.g. why isn't a phone number like an email address.

My guess is that it functions as an anchor - not to help motion, but to guarantee immobility. Like a physical address, the inconvenience of changing makes for fewer changes.

A low-pass filter, for system stability, if you want to look at it that way.
Quotes on Learning
It seems a stretch to imagine that the dev team don't sideload books themselves. Of course that wouldn't be official testing, ...
I'm not seeing how that's much of a WTF. When specifying a time duration or interval, you aren't bound to < 60 seconds like you are when interpreting the time on a clock. I think everyone understands this.

Lots of recipes and heating instructions on food packaging use cooking durations in seconds or minutes >= 60. "90 seconds" is easier to read and understand than "1 minute 30 seconds."

And besides, what else is '9-0-Start' supposed to mean to a microwave? The alternative is to just show an error, which would be a far worse UX than just assuming (with high accuracy) that the user meant 90 seconds.
> A few years ago it could be argued that GIMP, Inkscape, and Darktable

To a Linux user, yes. To a professional, it was always a cruel joke, it was never close, even a few years ago. It's like saying Notepad++ is a functional IDE, or Kdenlive is a functional replacement for DaVinci Resolve.

I cannot stress this enough: Actual professionals do not think GIMP is a viable replacement, in any way, and never have.
> But if the light is "warping" around the object then would you be able to grab the light from either side by intercepting it there?

Certainly. But it won't be any more focused at that location. There's no real advantage compared to just building a regular phased antenna array.
Europe has the "pie" in form of considerable (by standards of most of the rest of the world, including US) welfare benefits. I don't think it's particularly surprising that people who have access to it today don't want to share. The legal vs illegal distinction is really mostly about that - when it's legal, it can be significantly curtailed (and the same people who are against illegal immigration saying "just go through the process" tend to also be in favor of making that process much more difficult).
Aren't gravitational waves the same effect I described?

c is an universal constant and it seems that you're saying that it is not!
Some other opinions go back even further and more criticize Great Britain for their mishandling of Mandatory Palestine. There are a lot of opinions that develop as both sides adjust their strategy and the borders of their theater. Writing off any development of opinion (particularly in the wake of Lavander) is a counterproductive and insular habit.

If you don't want to discuss the behavior and morality of the IDF, nobody will force you to steelman them. But some of us would like to call that into question, and dismissing our conversation with "that's immature" is a thought-terminating cliche.
This. Security-only updates are the only ones I allow automatically. Broader updates are too risky to allow to happen without supervision. I think this is independent of the operating system being used.
This captures the essence of what "modern AI" is great at! Relieving the tedium of a highly constrained task.

Great demo. This will really help animators and artists.
One additional rule: Do that which others cannot. Typically this means doing something other developers find unpopular with great hostility and yet still returns something of superior value.
Show HN: Durable Swarm – Reliable Multi-Agent Orchestration with OpenAI's Swarm
Hi HN!

Today we want to share Durable Swarm, a drop-in replacement for OpenAI’s Swarm that augments it with durable execution to help you build reliable and scalable multi-agent systems. Durable Swarm makes your agentic workflows resilient to failures, so that if they are interrupted or restarted, they automatically resume from their last completed steps.

https://github.com/dbos-inc/durable-swarm

We believe that as multi-agent workflows become more common, longer-running, and more interactive, it's important to make them reliable. If an agent spends hours waiting for user inputs or processing complex workflows, it needs to be resilient to transient failures, such as a server restart. However, reliable multi-agent orchestration isn't easy—it requires complex rearchitecting like routing agent communication through SQS or Kafka.

Durable execution helps you write reliable agents while preserving the ease of use of a framework like Swarm. The idea is to automatically persist the execution state of your Swarm workflow in a Postgres database. That way, if your program is interrupted, it can automatically resume your agentic workflows from the last completed step.

Here’s an example application–a durable refund agent that automatically recovers from interruptions when processing refunds:

https://github.com/dbos-inc/durable-swarm/tree/main/examples...

We also converted all of OpenAI’s example applications to Durable Swarm:

https://github.com/dbos-inc/durable-swarm/tree/main/examples

Under the hood, we implemented Durable Swarm using DBOS (https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-py), an open-source lightweight durable execution library that (full disclosure) we developed. The entire implementation of Durable Swarm is 24 lines of code, declaring the main loop of swarm to be a durable workflow and each chat completion or tool call to be a step in that workflow. Check it out here:

https://github.com/dbos-inc/durable-swarm/blob/main/durable_...

Me and qianli_cs are here to answer any questions!
Cyber-Dojo: A place to practice programming
I am not sure why you are downvoted, because AFAICT this is still true. It was definitely true when they were released.
I think based on your last sentence:

> Who else would do this and not screw over everyone else even worse? Russia? China?

It's important to say which country you're residing in now.
Yeah, I've contacted numerous owners of personal/small sites and they are usually surprised, and never have any idea why I was blocked (not sure if it's an aspect of CF not revealing the reason, or the owner not knowing how to find that information). One or two allowlisted my IP but that doesn't strike me as a solution.

I've contacted companies about this and they usually just tell me to use a different browser or computer, which is like "duh, really?" , but also doesn't solve the problem for me or anyone else.
Details of new alignment offer (Automattic)
The argument isn't that they're free from corruption and ideology, but that they're the only real check the public has against powerful monopolies and duopolies, etc. At a certain scale, competition breaks down and entrenched enshittification happens.*

An average person has some (tiny) input in a representative democracy, where it's one person one vote (even if several layers removed, and only appointed by proxy etc.). They have no real say in a corporation that's usually one dollar one vote.

* Yeah, it happens to governments too!
> During the project, RNH and his classmate did not take someone else's work or ideas and pass them off as their own," the motion said. The students "used AI, which generates and synthesizes new information."

We’ll, that’s obviously false.