skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some discussion on the 20th anniversary a few years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28967446
Most of those emigrees have returned. Out of all people I personally know only two still live abroad, and only one of them has no plans to ever go back (but has not changed his passport because it's truly difficult).

And saying "they could easily have emigrated" shows that you have zero touch with the common man. No, many people can't "simply leave" even if their profession is in demand.

Edit: ah, I now see your other comments. No further discussion needed, don't forget to label me either a paid troll, a useful idiot, or both.
My only experience with Rust has been synchronous mostly with little to show for in terms of async. And I liked Rust. When it ran, I was damn sure it was going to run. There is comfort in that: "Tell me what to fix". The clippy stuff etc. was great too.

I read the 3 parts of this website and 'Wowsa'... I'm definitely not going in that direction with Rust. I'll stick to dumb Go code, Swift or Python if I do async heavy stuff.

It's hard enough to write good code, I don't see the point of finding walls to smash my head into.

Think about it, if you write a lot of async code, chances are you have a ton of latency, waiting on I/O, disk, network etc. Using Rust for this in the first place isn't the wisest since performance isn't as important, most of your performance is wasted 'waiting' on things. Besides Rust wants purity and I/O is gritty little dirt.

Sorry my comment turned into a bit of a hot take, feel free to disagree. This async stuff, doesn't look fun at all.
I honestly do not know why this is not on the front page.
Have you ever seen a USB stack (even for HID boot protocol) in assembly on a commercial BIOS?

Yes. On AMIBIOS 627.10 and Award v6.00 (both used into the early 21st century) the USB stack is 100% Asm, as is the rest of the BIOS.

I left that scene in the late 2000s but my understanding is that C didn't start showing up in BIOS until the UEFI era (Tianocore etc.).

There have been some leaks over the years of both "old-school" and "new-school" BIOSes, so these facts can be verified.
Yeah, it does teach me more about how LLMs work on the inside when it can't answer a plain English logic question like that, but I can provide it a code example and it can execute it step by step and get a correct answer; it's clearly been trained on enough JS that even a complex reduce + arrow function I watched kunoichi (am RP model nonetheless!) imaginary execute it step by step and arrive at a correct answer.

I think it's something like the counting parts of problems that current models are shaky with, and I imagine it's a training data problem.
He said cheaper cars are coming in the first half of 2025. He also confirmed cheaper isn't $25k.
It's also strange because it's already well established that SpinLaunch is physically infeasible and borderline impossible to engineer, regardless of whether you have a 2nd stage. The article is written as if SpinLaunch has already been successfully tested for spaceflight, but it has not. No one should be promoting this scam.
Fantastic! I love gitea and this makes it even better

Self hosting your entire stack is getting easier by the day!
Tons of people can recite the Bible and the Koran from memory.
They pulled him over for a completely bogus reason. They were going to search him no matter what. Concealment would do nothing since they were already dead set on searching the car.
No. They certainly enter into and administer contracts with private companies that are unfit, incompetent, and corrupt though. I've seen it more than once.

You didn't actually believe elected politicians all personally carry out the bidding and contract process and oversee the projects themselves, hopefully.
> The cases are principly different. A car's registration technically belongs to the state. It's the state's license plate and it's essentially illegal to drive on public streets anonymized. Meanwhile, the aerial surveillance program was tracking at the individual level on private property.

I am an ex-employee of Flock. Flock uses far, far more than registration to track vehicles. Colors, including differently colored body panels, damage, bumper stickers, trailer hitches, wheels/rims, roof racks, are all parts of their vehicle recognition, that also happen to be tied to ALPR.
They have a few blog posts about this license: https://blog.gitbutler.com/gitbutler-is-now-fair-source/, https://blog.gitbutler.com/the-future-of-open-source/

I don't think they are the first ones to open-source their code on a timer, but they are trying to popularize the idea.
Thats a cool idea, kind of reminds me of ctags.
Again, I haven't seen the movie, but I did read about it long ago when it first came out: I thought one of the premises was that computer screens don't exist (or are rarely used), and people only talk to their computers (or AI assistants). To me, that makes no sense at all, because speech is a vastly less efficient form of information transfer that anything visual.
Let's take the 2020 figures for annual human carbon dioxide emmissions.

35 billion metric tons.

What's your back of the envelope energy figure for extracting that weight of a gas from the atmosphere, pressurising it, and lifting it to orbit and sending it to Venus?

Got a rough notion of the number of trips, fuel and resources that would need every single year?
Sounds good, I should rename myself to JackNicholson so you can google my authenticity and take it at face value.
I think being able to build something in less than three minutes that would take a CS student a week is pretty worthwhile, personally.
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How much of that was expected to be as the lead author? That's an impressive body of work either way. I think that most top-tier CS conference papers are the product of a couple years of work from inception to presentation.
Discussion (15 points, 4 hours ago, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41928893
I have two OLED Vitas, a beat up one I used for 10 years and a gently used complete in box I imported from Japan. I prefer the LCD, and have for several years. However this is only a recent development (3-4 years) when I noticed the LCD at max brightness was significantly better in bright conditions than the OLED was. I've checked some of my friend's OLED Vitas too, and none of them are nearly as good as they were in the old days. The hue shift on some of the screens is pretty noticeable.

Looking back the old screen was awesome. Going forward I think the LCD Vitas will be a better pick.
Additionally, semaglutide was developed as a drug for diabetes. It took a decade or so for NN to realize they walked backward into a giant money pit with the weight and addiction component and they are doing their damnedest to get every last cent they can before the patent expires. As is their prerogative, technically, but at this point I think this drug promises a real significant public health benefit that we haven't seen in our lifetime, especially around addiction and other impulse disorders.

Millions of peoples lives could be made better within months if this stuff was made freely available tomorrow. It would cause all manner of downstream benefits for society, in particular I think it would have a real impact on reducing some load on a healthcare industry that is buckling at the weight of our collective unhealthiness.

I honestly think the FDA should find a way to put the screws to NN such that they reduce the cost of this drug and license it at an affordable cost to the compounders.
Definitely try Claude 3.5 Sonnet and o1-preview. They have succeeded for me where other models have failed. Also, use Cursor IDE.
> If not, can somebody recommend resources related to learning how to accomplish non-trivial code generation?

Learn how to think ontologically and break down your requests first by what you're TRULY looking for, and then understand what parts would need to be defined in order to build that system -- that "whole". Here's some guides:

1.) https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/prompt-engineering
2.) https://www.promptingguide.ai/
I just tried the following prompt:

> please write a rust library implementing a variant of simple8b integer compression augmented to use run-length encoding whenever it's beneficial to do so.

Initially I was sort of impressed, it quickly generated a program which looked like rust code, and provided an explanation that, while not as technically detailed as I'd hoped, seemed to be at least related to the topic.

Then I tried to compile the program. Turns out the bot didn't quite actually write rust, it had written something closely resembling rust though, and the compiler errors helped me fix it.

Then I tried to run the tests--yes! the bot even wrote tests, although it did so in a totally bone-headed way by writing multiple distinct tests in one test function--not good. Panic on integer overflow trying to left shift a value. There were also multiple pages of compiler warnings complaining about dead code, unused functions, enum variants, etc. I always fail on warnings.

This is not a lot of code. 190 lines including tests. At this point, given that I already have concerns about its correctness, I don't think there's anything I can really use here. I'm worried the deeper I dig the worse it'll get, so better to cut my losses now, sit down and read the simple8b paper, and implement this from first principles.

Every time I try to use one of these things it's the same story. I cannot understand the hype. I'm genuinely trying but I just can't understand it.
> everybody thought we’d have self driving on the road within a decade.

This is just not true. My reaction to the second challenge race (not the first) in 2005 was, it was a 0-to-1 kind of moment and robocars were now coming, but the timescale was not at all clear. Yes you could find hype and blithe overoptimism, and it's convenient to round that off to "everybody" when that's the picture you want to paint.

> 20 years later that’s still not the case

Also false. Waymo in public operation and expanding.
Sending spam?
> Then why is he doing it in the Bay Area, then?

Probably so he can blame in on politics when it fails spectacularly.
That's rather assuming of you, they're there no less than they would be for a human's programming - and VERY likely no more.
Rust in enterprise kernels
Some optimization suggestions:

- cache the prompting somehow, unless you are doing dynamic stuff with the prompts, the language embeddings generated should be static (this depends on the architecture of the model that you are using, it's only possible with certain setups where the language processing is a separate part in the pipeline)

- consider fine-tuning an img to img model with your current outputs instead of using a language-coupled model. My intuition is that this is currently significantly over-engineered on the ML side.

- Play around with local hardware acceleration instead of sending everything to the cloud, you also probably don't need particularly high resolution for the images either.
Absolutely there are bad actors, and consumers getting taken advantage of.

However as you point out - credit cards essentially make money from the less financially savvy by design. It's not entirely a bad thing, in a sense.. some people just run out of money between paychecks and need some liquidity.

Credit access vs predatory debt are sometimes in the eye of the beholder and a very fine line.

It also reminds me of some of the "I've been paying my student debt for 10 years and the balance went up!" like.. yeah, but it means you paid less than the interest. Would you have been happier paying more for the last 10 years? Like what outcome were you expecting and what college education did you go into debt for that didn't prepare you to have reviewed your monthly statements even once in 10 years to realize this?
http://www.canva.com
Have a similar service locally to me. I like to scout out wireless pops, so I started hunting their sites down. As they are an NFP I determined it might be cheap to colocate with them. One of their primary relay sites in my city had been completely abandoned. Power cut, comms box trashed and looted. And the tower looked nearly unclimbable. Sad really because it was pretty deep in the bush and likely prime location for their service.
Ah okay, it's mostly that your getting started guide specifically requires a Segment account for some reason.
It's too bad the webmaster of elonmusk.today[1] hasn't kept it up to date with all of his BS promises. I guess it was too much content to keep track of, even for him!

1: https://elonmusk.today
how much does this end up costing to run?
That’s pretty slick.
For the majority of these, a simple google search would have lead to an existing program/website that does the same thing.

We're past the POC stage. LLMs can generate code for simple programs. It's when you try to tweak the requirements and point how a program introduces a bug that you eventually realize they still fail to take you through the last mile just as they did year and a half ago.
The US hasn't won a war ever since WW2,

The 1990-1991 Gulf War, and the US-backed campaign against the Soviets in Afghanistan were major armed conflicts that the US unequivocally won.

The conflict against ISIL ("AK-47s and Toyota pickups") was essentially won (the Daesh still exist, but the ISIL no longer exists as a territorial state). There've been several smaller lesser-known conflicts post-WW2 that Wikipedia considers to be US victories ("operational successes"), as well.
Is the realtime audio API now open to everyone?
Only sharing my experiences and observation in the upcoming trajectory of these tools; you're free to have your own.

I will tell you this, the second most-used language in my day-to-day (TypeScript) is one that I've seldom sat down and learned, rely on AI for me to create and streamline, and has not given me any issues for 16 months running (since the project has started).

AI won't replace jobs; but someone who knows how to use it better will.
I am mildly to moderately critical of generative AI and how it's being marketed, but the root issue here seems to be existing suicidal ideation. The bot didn't initiate talk of suicide and told him not to do it when he brought it up directly. It seems it wasn't capable of detecting euphemistic references to suicide and therefore responded as if roleplaying about meeting in person.

That said, I think this should throw a bucket of cold water on anyone recommending using generative AI as a therapist/counsellor/companion or creating and advertising "therapist" chatbots, because it simply isn't reasonable to expect them to respond appropriately to things like suicidal ideation. That isn't the purpose or design of the technology, and they can be pushed into agreeing with the user's statements fairly easily.
Just providing this so you know why I’ve downvoted/flagged:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> AltRightTaxi

Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.

> Two Muskito brigades downvotes in less than 40 seconds.

Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
Context: Hubris is an OS written in Rust for embedded systems https://hubris.oxide.computer/
> The [Preliminary Injunction Motion] is hereby set for hearing on November 26, 2024.

Still a month away, which is ample time for the situation to evolve dramatically in the meantime.
Technically I guess that's "zero trust" in the sense of meeting the requirement of not trusting internal connections more than external ones, but in practice I guess "zero trust" also typically entails making every connection go through the same user-based authentication system, which uploading specific keys to specific servers manually definitely doesn't achieve.
Zero or Sign Extend
Depends heavily on context. I spent my whole trading career not more then 4 feet from the person to my left, right and front and not more than 7 feet from the guy behind me and it was awesome because we were a highly real time commodities trading team amd needed to hear everything everyone was saying. It has been less good doing it stuff in the later part of my career, as real time communication is nearly irrelevant.
These LLMs create significantly useful code and they are getting better. Those professionals who deride their utility are putting themselves at risk of not strategizing well for their future.
> There are a lot of things that can affect mouse behavior, including possibly pheromones/smell of the experimenter. I am guessing that behavior patterns such as anxiety behavior can be socially reinforced as well, which could affect results. I can could come up with another dozen factors if I had to. Were mice tested one at a time? How many mice were tested? Time of day? Gut microbiota? If the effect isn't reproducible without the sun and moon lining up, then it could just a 'weak' effect that can be masked or enhanced by other factors. That doesn't mean it's not real, but that the underlying mechanism is unclear.

I think it does mean the claimed causal link is not real, or at least not proven. Certainly if the error bars from two "reproductions" of the same experiment do not overlap, you can't and mustn't really say that the experiment found anything.
Well, simple there is no need to reconcile it ? One can be successfull in one area and fail in another.

Tesla is not a bad company. As an EV maker, it's as good as it gets (although it's still bad as a business). But if it was just that, it would be valued at 10% of what it is today, at best.

But it's promoted by Musk, and priced by the market, as a revolutionnary one. And if you look at the history of it, you see it's all smoke and mirrors. In the process Musk cashed out > 40 billion USD.
Imagine the possibilities for cyber-crime. Surely you could program it to log in to a financial institution and transfer money. And if you had a list of user names and passwords from some large info breach? You could automate a LOT of transfers in a short amount of time...
Does this software work on betway? I’m from South Africa please.
"if it saves just one illegally caught fish..."
Did you feed it the simple8b paper along with your prompt?
The spaceships work, but they've also taken about twice as long as he's said they would to hit each milestone.

His companies make some great stuff, but he also overhypes everything they do. Both things can be true.
In that case, what would you find acceptable as evidence?
Thats one interpretation... ZT also posits assuming the network is compromised and hostile, that also applies to CF and their cloud/network. It blows my mind that so many solutions claim ZT while mandating TLS to their infra/cloud, you can trust their decryption of your date, and worst IMHO, they will MITM your OICD/SAML key to ensure the endpoint can authenticate and access services... that is a hell of a lot of implicit trust in them, not least of them being served a court order to decrypt your data.

Zero trust done correctly done not have those same drawbacks.
He's just the rich clown atop of the companies putting pressure and maybe unreasonable requests to smart people under him that as you go down the chain are actually closer to being worth their net worth.
IT'S REAL...
> Does that mean they're not trying to deliver higher quality search results?

Clearly that's not a goal they're aiming for, nor have they been aiming for that for years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSGVk2KVokQ
The biggest acceleration is for the mediocre coders like me - the one who knows 90% of the code but will spend 95% of the time (perhaps several hours) trying to get the data structure correct. These systems can the code almost all the way there and I can now spend that couple hours running tests rather than pounding my head against the wall realizing this is faster and easier to understand in a dictionary than the dumb tuple (round peg) I would have spent hours trying to jam through the square hole.
If you drop it down a level and ask for block level code or functions you'll find it works. At this point users still have to organize the output. But I'm getting the sense that latter task is something LLMs are going to get better at.
I'm a pretty new ham, and only doing CW. To practice my CW I try to hunt at least a couple POTA activators a day. I'm (very) slowly starting to feel ready to start activating.

I have my POTA kit ready for when I am. A QMX with an EFHW. I'm not looking forward to throwing it in a tree though, so I'm also looking at verticals. The QMX is awesome. At home I have a G90 and a Ten-Tec Corsair.

Curious to see your activation videos. What's your channel?
Just eat4 grams of inulin gummies and a teaspoon of allulose in the morning amd evening. Costs maybe 30 bucks a months also pounds glp1 just like semaglutide. Mirafiber makes some decent ones in usa market. Restorafiber is sold in two packs at costco for cgep in canada
"For the majority of these, a simple google search would have lead to an existing program/website that does the same thing."

That's what's so wild about this: that's true, and yet in most of those cases it's still faster and more productive for me to ask Claude to build me a brand new tool _from scratch_ than it is for me to try and find an existing one via Google.

The problem with trying to Google for these kinds of things is that you have to evaluate the results that come back and figure out which one of them correctly solves your problem. That's a few extra steps.

It's genuinely faster to prompt something like this instead:

> Build an artifact (no react) where I can paste text into a textarea and it will return that text with all HTML entities - single and double quotes and less than greater than ampersand - correctly escaped. The output should be in a textarea accompanied by a "Copy to clipboard" button which changes text to "Copied!" for 1.5s after you click it. Make it mobile friendly

Done: https://claude.site/artifacts/46897436-e06e-4ccc-b8f4-3df90c...

In this case I knew exactly what I wanted: it had to do less than, greater than, ampersand, double quotes AND single quotes. I know from past experience that many tools like this forget about single quotes, so I'd have to evaluate any tools I found to check that they do that. And I was on my phone so I wanted a "copy to clipboard" button.
...are you familiar with Zed's work in general? This article is tame by comparison.

https://programming-motherfucker.com/
And yet, he's real. Have you never seen a fit, attractive, smart, enthusiastic, person before?
Just got mine now.
As an aside you can avoid the vast majority of unnecessary rebase tedium with proper use of

git rebase —onto