skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never did that kind of analysis, but the point is largely moot. They are going to get the monies bar some kind of event that completely changes the rules of the game.

That said, at certain point, even US government won't be able to bail out everyone and everyone is holding out their hands lately.
I work in Hollywood. Like USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, the UCLA Center for Scholars & Storytellers is just another example of a political advocacy group using a university as cover for ideological messaging, under the auspices of “research.”

Note that both Annenberg and S&S rarely, if ever, publish the raw data used to draw these suspiciously blunt conclusions about media representation (in this case, about supposedly “dated and unrelatable romantic tropes”); they merely crank out glossy press releases designed to be regurgitated by overworked trade-magazine bloggers. Underneath these are lousy “self-reporting” surveys with data carefully massaged to fulfill an intended purpose.

There’s a lot of snake oil peddled in town, but this stuff irritates me the most, as it is often reported uncritically and discussed without any reflection on why these “studies” are conducted, or who funds them.
Maybe if they really like math? I think there’s probably some correlation to being able to easily reason about these things and enjoyment.

So while you could teach anyone, with enough effort, they would not actually enjoy the experience.
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I agree it's 99% ridiculous, but to play the devil's advocate: modifications could require re-certifying the transmitter due to regulations, which might make them not financially worth it after the remaining correct tubes die. Especially since regulations governing something so boutique and relatively obscure haven't probably been updated much to make stuff like this easier. (I confess high ignorance to UK law.)
I would agree that the behavior would not have been illegal before Google had a search monopoly that they could use as a weapon against competitors in other markets.
OP is demonstrating that the product follows prompts from the pages it visits, not just from it's owner in the UI that controls it.

To be fair, this is a beta product and is likely ridden with bugs. I think OP is trying to make a point that LLM powered applications can be potentially tricked into behaving in ways that are unintended, and the "bug fixes" may be a constant catch up game for developers fighting an infinite pool of edge cases.
No it absolutely doesn't "scream spam" at all. You're just seeing it through 2020s eyes where you assume any site claiming to do price comparisons of broad categories of product couldn't possibly be accurate, impartial, human-curated/checked, not be gamed, swayed by fake/paid reviews, compensated under-the-table or biased by affiliate commissions etc.

You're forgetting very quickly that back in 2006, ~88% of search results were organic and only 12% paid. Things have changed quite quickly.
Not working with too many people better than me has been terrible for my learning, but amazing for my self-confidence.
Experience and wisdom make you less sure about things. You can see this in older people: the truly wise ones are often uncertain, while the bigots remain as sure about everything as they were when they didn’t know better.

The paradox is that being blindly sure about things is often a requirement to succeed, which is a reason many investors tend to bet on younger/cocky types versus more experienced founders, so commonly you see extremely successful men with zero wisdom since they got wind behind their backs and didn’t fail (often by chance)
Do you honestly think this wouldn’t be taken into account? I’m sure even without reading the article this is exactly the sort of thing that will be accounted for in any serious proposal.

It’s not as if our species doesn’t have millennia of experience with sailing ships to compare to when evaluating how to manage navigating to a specific point using either a powered or sailing vessel, or decades of experience maneuvering spacecraft at high velocities with high precision using both thrusters and gravitational slingshots within the solar system.
I think they are right. Advanced ML requires both IQ and career dedication. Doing say the intro YT series building yoyr own LLM and understanding and sucessfully using PyTorch data strucutres in 3 even 4 dimensional (as in an array of array of array of arrays) doing matrix algebra...

I would say this gets possible at 120 and only easy at 140 at a guess.

Edit: i am serious
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Nginx access log to standard output is not as easy as using /dev/stdout
There's is sort of a natural efficiency in forgetting some things.

Sort of a sieve of things that weren't worth doing anyways.
IIRC, America's weird relationship with sex is rooted in our Puritan history.

Idk about our comfort with depictions of violence. We definitely have a history of "cowboy & indian" films, so it could come from the glorification of our genocidal past (or the genocidal past itself). The Vietnam War on the TV every night for a couple decades is another good option.
it's much much faster than the other alternatives tho. and staying with JPEG isn't really ideal with it's low quality and limited options going forward.
I would agree that bytecode is different from machine code, but "efficient execution by a software interpreter" seems like a bad delineation considering that some virtual machines treat bytecode as simply an intermediate representation for JIT. WASM bytecode is very similar to machine code and meant to be translated to machine code rather than interpreted.

I would define bytecode as:

- Closer to machine operations than something like an AST, which is where I think the "efficient execution" part of the wikipedia definition came from

- Not directly executable on any physical CPU, or at least not typically. There are some CPUs that can execute Java/Python bytecode (sort of) but they're in the minority.

While not strictly required, bytecode tends to have opcodes meant to be used with a virtual machine, such as dealing with objects instead of linear memory.

This is all to say, the proper terminology for RISC-V is an ISA, but the distinction is more about how it's being used than how it's designed.
RSS readers that use titles from HTML?
If there's any substance to a survey like this, it'll be reflected in their viewing habits and choices going forward.
Oh yes there is. The soviets launched two 6 kilowatt fission nuclear reactors in space.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-A
> The science behind this stuff has always been weak and subjective or due to placebo effects. Give someone a sugar pill and tell them it's psychedelic , and some may actually feel something.

(Replying to the comment that you made before completely rewriting it.)

You're completely wrong about the sugar pill (or at least whether or not it matters) - it's one of the issues with psychedelic medicines: there's no viable placebo at higher doses, and it's the higher doses that seem to have the deepest and longest lasting impact on depression.
Maybe I have something like thus but admin tasks are a real challenge. Monday morning my heart wants to code and be in flow... but I know I need to plan future initatives, communicate stuff and worst of all make phone calls for personal stuff.
US still has AMD and Nvidia.
> Further to your point the Scots and Irish aren't even Anglo-Saxon.

Both are a mixture of Anglo-Saxon and Celtic influences.

In Scotland, the Celtic ancestry is stronger among Highlanders, the Anglo-Saxon stronger among Lowlanders – but neither are purely descended from one as opposed to the other.

The English conquered Ireland in the 12th century, which was followed by successive waves of Anglo immigration down the centuries. Many of the earlier waves of Anglo settlers ended up assimilating into a Celtic identity (summarised by the famous quip that they became "more Irish than the Irish themselves"), some of the more recent waves less so (which is one of the causes of the still only partially resolved conflict in Northern Ireland).

> You could make the argument for calling them Anglo-Celtic now but not so much at the time of the settlement of the US.

I find it interesting (as an Australian) that in Australia the term "Anglo-Celtic" is preferred much more than in the US. I think that's because, while both countries have been significantly influenced by Irish Catholics, proportionately the influence was more significant in Australia's case.
I have to constantly fight the struggle OP is describing, and one thing I’ve never tried is being upfront and honest about my shortcomings… I just get upset with myself and start writing post it notes about doing better, actions to take, and sticking them all over the place. I can’t even imagine the world where I share this about myself and it’s well received by people who, at the core, just want me to deliver a very steady stream of work they can plan for.
You are certainly entitled to an opinion.

But it would be wiser to base it on empathy and understanding than ego.
I think because - or to speak for myself, the reason I've never bought/played it, despite being interested - it's similar and yet not productive.

Versus say Call of Duty or whatever that you might lose yourself in, which is also not productive, but bears no resemblance to work.

Pilot communities probably say similar things about flight sims (or flight components of games) that aren't good enough to be useful practice?
Probably apocryphal, but I'm sure there were similar conversations. Though from what I've read, many in the Japanese High Command were fully aware of the disparity in war-making potential between the U.S. and Japan. That Japan decided to go to war anyways despite knowing this is still discussed.

There's a page over on combinedfleet.com (great resource and discussion) that goes into the numbers, and it's truly astonishing. U.S. output could be described as terrifying. http://www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm
> Thanks for your simple concrete examples and explanations!

I'm glad someone liked it :-)

> I love his description of Forth as "a weird backwards lisp with no parentheses"

I've been interested in that duality between Forth and Lisp before, but my progression always seems to following this path:

- Since Forth is just Lisp done backwards and without parens, and since it's not hard to write an sexpr parser, I might as well do Lisp to check the arity on function calls.

- But in addition to arity errors, I'd really like the compiler to catch my type errors too.

- And since I've never seen an attractive syntax for Lisp with types, I might as well have a real grammar...

And then I've talked myself out of Forth and Lisp! Oh well.
Supply-chain attacks are big problem for the JavaScript ecosystem. In this short post I will outline a straightforward security measure that can be implemented by all JavaScript runtimes, both in-browser and off-browser. This will prevent most of the supply-chain attacks that are plaguing the JavaScript ecosystem today.
Apple has blessed some external kexts so they aren't outright banned, just very restricted.
It’s not in any way similar to coding, though - it’s a puzzle-solving game. It’s not made to simulate any engineering discipline, nor user to train engineers (like flight sims are)
Sure. Right now I'm trying to port a just-started project from a pure-Deno back-end to Supabase. I'm building a back end for a mobile application.

But if you're not building another Web SPA, it's as if you don't exist for a lot of these frameworks. And doing simple stuff like deploying your own certificates is undocumented. Also they have a users table whose columns are undocumented and behave in unexpected ways. For example, they have columns to record whether and when a user has been validated (confirmed via E-mail), and for some reason these are set upon new-user creation... when they certainly have not been validated. Why? Who knows.

Another example: I was tasked with defining a REST-style API for a line of products. After learning about OpenAPI, I thought great, I'll design it in an OpenAPI tool and that'll be the source of truth for both front- and back-end code generation.

Fat chance. The OpenAPI ecosystem turned out to be a dysfunctional shitshow. First, the current version (as of years ago) is 3.1. But to this day, almost no tools support it. Version 3.0 was profoundly flawed in several ways. And even tolerating that, the 3.0 code-gen tools just straight-up don't work. Plus, the design tool I was using (Stoplight Studio) has been pulled off the market, and nothing has emerged to replace it. The whole thing was a huge time-suck. I talked to some developers about it after the fact and they said yeah, the whole thing is so bad that even mentioning you were using it is a professional liability.

Defect example: iOS 18 broke trusted certificates (still not fixed in 18.1), so currently you can't develop a network-dependent app on iOS on your own system. When I tried to work around that by targeting my Mac and using HTTP to localhost, another Apple bug caused the app to crash on launch before even getting to my code. So... dead halt to development for a week, despite my opening a paid support incident with Apple. They did finally get back to me and gave me a workaround to the crash-on-launch bug (no charge because confirmed bug), but damn.

More days lost. I had stretches like this before, and then the logjam breaks and I really start making headway. But this shit has been a slog for months.
I can see how that works for you, but I still find optimizing for stupid depressing.
Hate to be glib, but this "if it were possible, someone would've done it" thinking is exactly why we're stuck. Your reasons sound smart. Well-reasoned. Totally rational. And they're missing something fundamental.

Know what 4% annual growth looked like from the 40s to the 70s? We doubled Americans' quality of life every 18 years - by building impossible things. The Hoover Dam? "Too big, too expensive." The Interstate Highway System? "Economically unfeasible." California's entire water system? "The requirements are insane!" They all got built anyway.

You're missing that there could be three hundred million more people working on this. That's a lot of clever Americans who could be solving water engineering and energy problems instead of writing HN comments about why it's too hard.

Don't be another NIMBY sad sack who's been rationalizing American decline since 1969. We used to build impossible things that transformed how people lived. Now we write elegant essays about why new infrastructure can't work, citing books about how hard the old infrastructure was to build - infrastructure we somehow built anyway.

Want that back? Stop listing why it's impossible and start asking how we do it anyway.
Tech's stock crash and the Forgetting Trick
JPEG XL is three different codecs in one.

There is a lossless ultra-packer for existing JPEG files. It's completely reversible, you can get byte-for-byte identical JPEGs back.

Then there is "VarDCT" mode, which acts like JPEG, lossy Webp, or video codecs.

Then there is "Modular Mode", a completely different kind of codec that has different kinds of compression artifacts than JPEG-like codecs. The compression artifacts you see tend to be more like sections becoming more pixelated, or slight color differences. Strong edges don't have ringing artifacts. Modular mode mainly is used for lossless compression, but also allows lossy compression.
> If you are big and improve you get fined

Well, no... You get fined if you make improvements AND use your already big position to bury competition that may compete with your improvement.

Google could've just marketed their option along the competitors but no, they had to get rid of the competitors results in search too, and that's the issue
I was temporarily very interested in trying out Anthropic's "computer use" when they announced it a few days ago, but after thinking about it a bit and especially after reading this article, my interest has vanished. There's no way I'm going to run that on a computer that contains any of my personal information.

That said, I played some with the new version of Claude 3.5 last night, and it did feel smarter. I asked it to write a self-contained webpage for a space invaders game to my specs, and its code worked the first time. When asked to make some adjustments to the play experience, it pulled that off flawlessly, too. I'm not a gamer or a programmer, but it got me thinking about what kinds of original games I might be able to think up and then have Claude write for me.
I think it is core — the premise is that ADHD in some presentations makes basic administrative/maintenance activity difficult or impossible.

With machine learning, the concept or layman level explanation to support the application of the tech is definitely doable for the average person. But the average person won’t be able to get the math.

Folks I know with ADHD generally adapt well, with systems or coaching that they get from professionals or folks supporting them. Everyone is different, of course, and folks struggle with different things.

He’s right with the other stuff too imo. People who deliver get grace from non-core failures.
I'll make sure to remember some prime numbers for when I croak.
Compared to other companies that are developing their own chips? Hardly moot at all. The CHIPS act is the only thing keeping Intel afloat lately.
Anecdotally, as part of my job, I've taught ML concepts to a lot of people. I don't know if I've ever worked with anyone who was simply too "unintelligent" to grasp things. The bottleneck, as for most things in my experience, is time and motivation. In any niche of ML, there's just a lot of things to learn, particularly if you aren't starting with a particularly math-y background.
If you felt satisfied with your productivity, why would you seek help? So there's definitely a selection bias there. Likewise for those whose "locus of control"[1] is biased toward external factors--i.e. you ascribe lack of success to factors outside yourself.

Similarly, AFAIU, time and energy spent in self-reflection also tends to positively correlate with neuroticism--e.g. feelings of guilt and inadequacy. If you're not high on self-reflection (there's a negative correlation with extroversion), you're less likely to experience negative self-esteem, at least in a conscious way.

I know ADHD correlates more strongly with some personality types than others, but by and large I believe people with ADHD (like everybody else) are spread across the spectrum along all these various axes, and it's only at some ends of certain axes that they're likely to seek assistance for themselves.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_of_control
You can't.

FAANGs don't understand the concept of consent, let alone informed consent.
You don't find coding similar to solving puzzles in any way?
This is why shorting is so risky. Companies that are hemorrhaging money and stage surprise pivots or latch onto a new trend.
I heard this concern many times. But with so many desalination plants already built, there must have been some environmental impact studies. I googled around and found one for the Carlsbad desalination plant in San Diego [1]. On page 66 you find this:

> Concerns over marine life are also associated with increased salinity levels and exposure to high-saline water (brine). The proposed CDP modifications have been designed through an extensive process to minimize the impacts of mortality of fish species and larvae as part of the submittal to and requirements of the RWQCB.

On page 85 you find that the average salinity prior to dilution is between 64 and 67 ppt (parts per thousand). Once it's diluted, it becomes 42 ppt and discharged in the sea. The average salinity of the sea in that region is 33.5 ppt with a natural variability of 4 ppt.

On page 150 you find out that the salinity of the discharge drops from the 42 ppt to withint 2ppt of the ambient within a circle of 200 meters radius from the discharge point. That zone is called the Brine Mixing Zone, and it has area of 15.5 acres.

[1] https://www.sdcwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Final-SEIR-...
It loads fast for me in Firefox, MS Edge, and Chrome. It's a 2 megabyte transfer and runs quickly.

If you're using Safari it's true that Safari's WebAssembly implementation is behind the other browsers. But that's a Safari problem more than a WebAssembly problem.
Many people are quoted in the article claiming it is in fact useful for training/educating software engineers.
When you proudly use personal attacks, claim something is “known to be false”, and share no sources, it doesn’t help advance the discussion.
Are you sure you are responding to the correct argument? Relevance of presentation has no bearing on what I presented in the post you responded to.

Can I assume intended to respond to my initial post where I compared that unknown lecture to dancing at defcon?

If you are, then allow me to retort simply by stating the following about your argument:

<< One of the topics of the lecture might well have been how to retain that institution's integrity after the election of a President who absolutely wants to undermine it

Your entire argument hinges on 'might have been'. It would have helped if you had something more concrete than what you want it to be. I could offer some "might have beens" as well and they will be just as relevant.

It does not change anything, because that is not what the core issue is.
Maybe this is why index funds are good advice for most. As dumb as they are they tend to do the things humans can't stand doing and invest more in winners after the fact.

Do you buy NVIDIA after it has gone up and you missed the boat? Hard to do with an ego, but an index fund will do it with your monthly allocation.

Although index funds rely on other players in the market that actually think. They get the edge but following them a few hours later probably ain't bad.

I have a rule. Any pension-invested money has to stay in index funds.
> It kind of saddens me that it feels like it's now only IBM-Corpo

I think about this whenever I see a new open source library hosted on its own domain with a polished and slick promo material. I really don't mean to throw shade at designers for making nice designs, but it just feels weird and corporate-y to me that the polish is a priority.

There are, of course, open source projects that serve as a hook for selling SaaS products, which is corporate by nature and thus doesn't trigger the same feeling in me.
Life is way too short to be boring.
If your use case is so inconsequential as to not have any sort of negative impacts from outages, you don't need round robin dns. You just have one IP address and you're done. That is truly the simplest solution here.

If you get to the point of needing what you think RRD is providing you, then you might as well do it using a solution that doesn't have the negative side effects of RRD.

If you are going as far as using a cloud dns system with "automatic pullout", then you might as well just use a cloud dns, like CF, that solves the round robin dns known issues for you.