skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you start with Swift or Objective-C?

I started with Objective-C and loved it but I imagine that wouldn’t have been the case if I started with Swift.
https://wren.io/

Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language

Think Smalltalk in a Lua-sized package with a dash of Erlang and wrapped up in a familiar, modern syntax.
> Many news outlets - including Reuters - will happily publish your press release verbatim on their domain, with only a subtle disclaimer to distinguish that paid content from news

This is entirely bullshit about Reuters. There is plenty of free media, e.g. Forbes, who do this. But you're echoing the sort of conspiracy mindedness the study warns about.
The science writer Philip Ball wrote an interesting biography of Paracelsus and his world view "The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science" that is worth a read if you are interested.
Why doesn't social media just ban conspiracy theories already? Are they stupid?
That's a different schism chef. It's all schisms all the way down. They were unhinged from the beginning you may say.
Microsoft cafeterias manage it by just contracting out most of the stations to local restaurants. They provide the trained staff and get a consistent revenue stream in return. They’ve even got a local celebrity chef branded restaurant in the executive building (34) with a 3 course fixed price menu. It’s not a single kitchen per se, but the equivalent is commercial kitchens that are all over the place with multiple clients sharing the space simultaneously. This just adds online ordering and centralized management.
> While teens don’t believe every conspiracy theory they see, 81% who see such content online said they believe one or more.

Its really hard to make a judgement on this without concretely knowing what they actually believe. "one or more"? Who knows? maybe these kids are just really well read on the Gulf of Tonkin or something.
>I wouldn't buy (or recommend) any machine for dev work with less than 64GB in 2024.

Honestly, I think it depends on what kind of languages/frameworks/tools you use. Go is very lightweight, and you can safely run hundreds of Go services under 16 GB no problem (and with a crappy CPU, too). Python/Java/PHP etc. on the other hand, are much more wasteful. Our Go shop only now is considering maybe buying 32GB dev machines...
years of your life back? bro how long were you spending on there before?
“The Feeling of Power” is excellent and should be mandatory reading in English classes from here on out.
There's something wild about news organizations demanding payment from someone providing them free advertising.

You'd expect it to be the other way around.

Perhaps Twitter should start demanding payments from French news organizations to offset these royalties and ban links to those who refuse.
Great writeup, thanks! That Kadinsky quote is what set off alarm bells for me, as it seems like a quintessential failure case for laypeople understanding LLMs -- they take some basic, vague insights produced by a chatbot as profound discoveries. It seems the reviewers may have agreed, to some extent; note that it was received by Machine Learning 24-03-26, but only accepted (after revisions) on 24-08-21.

I wrote more below with a quote, but re: "who's the intended audience?" I think the answer is the same kind of people Gary Marcus writes for: other academic leaders, private investors, and general technologists. Definitely not engineers looking to apply their work immediately, nor the vast majority of scientists that are doing the long, boring legwork of establishing facts.

In that context, I would defend the paper as evocative and creative, even though your criticisms all ring true. Like, take a look at their (his?) HuggingFace repo: https://huggingface.co/lamm-mit It seems clear that they're doing serious work with real LLMs, even if it's scattershot.

Honestly, if I was a prestigious department head with millions at my disposal in an engineering field, I'm not sure I would act any differently!

ETA: Plus, I'll defend him purely on the basis of having a gorgeous, well-documented Git repo for the project: https://github.com/lamm-mit/GraphReasoning?tab=readme-ov-fil... Does this constitute scientific value on its own? Not really. Does it immediately bias me in his favor? Absolutely!
Learn OpenMP in Y Minutes
How would you design it to support mentioned use cases?
> If ChatGPT suddenly is able to put a project like that together, then I'll ask for even more.

Is having a paid subscription with a company that potentially tracks and records every keystroke a requirement for future courses?
The Quest to Make Unbreakable Glass
treat your employees like you treat your docker containers
True,but more modern mixing equipment has made loops a lot easier so I just tend to make my own intros in the mix
Wow. Reddit comments contains a company name. First step felt familiar so i just found an email from them in my inbox. Looks like i dodged a bullet 2 months ago. In the first step they wanted me to turn on a camera and do some live programming while being recorded. All without any human contact, all automated emails. It rubbed me the wrong way and ignored them. After reading what the next steps are I'm glad i trusted my intuition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law
No they won't. It takes 10 min to be "effective" with an "AI", it takes 10 years to be effective with TAOCP.
With hindsight, mercury (which was a major component of his "cures") was an unfortunate choice, but as you said, the prevailing belief at the time in the "four humors" (where you were thought to have too much or too little blood, bile, or what not if you were ill) wasn't really much better.
The correct answer, and you'd see it if folks paid attention to the constant linkedin "AI researcher/ML Engineer job postings are up 10% week over week" banners, is to aggressively reorient education in society to education about how to use AI systems.

This rustles a TON of feathers to even broach as a topic, but it's the only correct one. The AI engineer will eat everything, including your educational system, in 5-10 years. You can either swim against the current and be ate by the sharks or swim with it and survive longer. I'll make sure my kids are learning about AI related concepts from the very beginning.

This was also the correct way to handle it circa the calculator era. We should have made most people get very good at using calculators, and doing "computational math" since that's the vast majority of real world math that most people have to do. Imagine a world where Statistics was primarily taught with Excel/R instead of with paper. It'd be better, I promise you!

But instead, we have to live in a world of luddites and authoritarians, who invent wonderful miracle tools and then tell you not to use them because you must struggle. The tyrant in their mind must be inflicted upon those under them!

It is far better to spend one class period, teaching the rote long multiplication technique, and then focus on word problems and applications of using it (via calculator), than to literally steal the time of children and make them hate math by forcing them to do times tables, again and again. Luddites are time thieves.
Ross Ulbricht getting out of prison
> the edges on your DAG need to carry metadata about how long the action can/must/should be delayed (no active work), and the nodes (tasks) must carry metadata on how long the task takes.

Yes, those are all constraints that need to be stored there. Some of them are fixed, others can be computed when optimizing the plan.

It's also information you should have specified on the recipe. Most of it usually isn't, as it's either obvious[0] or the recipe author doesn't even realize it's a parameter.

--

[0] - Some obvious to anyone, some obvious to someone very experienced at cooking. Confusing them makes things really difficult for beginners.
You seem to have forgotten the link. Is it perchance this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oDXbFcHliM
My specific example is just Bruen with the serial numbers filed off.

Factual errors are downright common (a Google will turn up many efforts at fact-checking the "facts" in Supreme Court opinions) and aren't a new problem, dating back basically forever.

One key problem is that they simply don't have the resources to check all their facts. Their sources of facts are often amicus briefs from interest groups and specialized court-lobbyists, drawn from large piles and quickly skimmed for relevance by overworked early-20s law clerks. It would be surprising if they didn't get things wrong all the time. They do—luckily, a lot of times, it barely matters, but sometimes they get facts wrong that were central to their opinion.

The point is, don't believe a "fact" you read in a court opinion without double-checking. Even if it's about legal history.

[EDIT] As my sibling commenter points out, it's also the case that sometimes they just lie on purpose. But even absent that, the circumstances under which opinions are written would generate factual errors by accident, with some frequency.
Is this one of those actions that the Biden administration is trying to rush through before they leave office? To me as a taxpayer this feels like a waste of our resources. Why spend any effort on this instead of any number of other things, crimes with actual victims.
I specified the use case so why "meaningless"? Here's the code:

Raku
for 'logs1.txt'.IO.lines -> $_ { .say if $_ ~~ /<<\w ** 15>>/; }

Python
from re import search
with open('logs1.txt', 'r') as fh:
for line in fh:
if search(r'\b\w{15}\b', line): print(line, end='')
I was thinking about the same thing, also as an accessibility feature for your phone or software for your PC (I imagine this last one already exists).
So what did the West promise to Ukraine and when, in this regard?
> "Let me be clear: UAP are real," he writes. "Advanced technologies not made by our Government — or any other government — are monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe

That's very specific: not made by any government.

We know it's not aliens. It's never aliens. So, it's some sort of private party, probably a company.
> their models don't get Habsburg'd.

You mean develop a magnificent jawline, or continue to influence Austrian politics?
GitHub needs to step up its security game in general. 2FA should be made mandatory. GitHub "Actions" are a catastrophe waiting to happen - very few people pin Actions to a specific commit, they use a tag of the Action that can be moved at will. A malicious author could instantaneously compromise thousands of pipelines with a single commit. Also, PR diffs often hide entire files by default - why!?!

Maybe accounts should even require ID verification. We can't afford to fuck around anymore, a significant share of the world's software supply chain lives on GitHub. It's time to take things seriously.
Someone's defensive about a statement of the American populace.
JEP 498: Warn upon Use of Memory-Access Methods in sun.misc.Unsafe
As an Information Tech Instructor I have my students use ChatGPT all the time - but it never occurred to me to make them share the link. Will do it now.
There was a game called “SILENT THUNDER: A-10 TANK KILLER II” my father had in his collection that I’d ruffle through as a kid.

While the gameplay (brutal flight sim) wasn’t that compelling to child me, it had a full soundtrack made of multiple genres that lives in my brain to this day, especially “Monk’s revenge”. In fact, I think it was setup so that you could put the disk in a CD player and have it play as an audio disk. No idea if any of it counts as “jungle”, but it’s very much 90’s electronic game music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9c6PPlkvBE&list=PLc3TVNLOqs...
Looking up stuff, with any efficiency, requires a significant amount of prior knowledge to ask the right question.
A lot of them are from Russia/Europe/China, at least the most successful implementers. My guess is that at least Russia/China will continue with the traditional education while watching with glee that the West is dumbing itself down even further.
Fediverse seems to have grown into a solid niche as well.

It's smaller than what you might be used to... but large enough to have a real sense of community now. It's a bit of a bubble but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

That's Lemmy.world, Mastodon.world, and various other Lemmy/Mastodon instances that have popped up.
Can you blame them really? American regime change is real and Koreans have a... complicated past with China.

Besides nukes are cheap compared to fielding 20 tank divisions as the Europeans did for 50 years in West Germany.
> Here I was thinking in the opposite direction. That it kind of skipped step 0. Why should we want to socialize, why should we care to? Wasn't the work day enough interaction with other humans for one day and why should we feel a need to seek more? I'm not very social lol

What you do at work (in offices mainly) is also socializing and for those who have a hard time doing it these bullet points could help somewhat. Nobody can force you to socialize but you basically stop existing for other people if you don't play that game at least from time to time. I am introverted by default but do force myself to socialize at work because it does pay off to some extent. I do find it taxing and depleting on my energy so I limit it socializing to smaller settings. In large settings I simply cannot function for more than 30 minutes unless I poison myself with alcohol. I've had more isolated stretches in my past and socializing had become very hard so the silver lining is that the more you do it the easier it becomes, you may even enjoy it in limited amounts. Also breaking the comfort zone is not pleasant but does open you up for other things.
Just because he is a rich programmer, doesn't make breaking the law ok.
The government is likely trying to accuse Polymarket of market manipulation and rigging its polls in favor of Trump, the source said.

That is ridiculous, like saying a betting website can rig a football game. I guess it's possible but an election? This feels like Lawfare.
Consumers are voters.
No. It means Emacs, the morally superior one, has a mode that makes it evil - by definition morally inferior. :D
Use Curl and Jq to Send Webmentions from Hacker News
An interesting viewpoint. And from it, a good example of how failure can be positive -- even when it hurts.
Antique means stable.

When you've been using the same thing for 20 years changing defaults to be trendy isn't a plus.

You'll understand in 20 years when you're on your 4th IDE which will change the world^tm.
I know what services my friends use and make sure to send them the appropriate link whenever I suggest music
Restaurants are by definition food commodification.
Michael Levin's work is fascinating. Seems there's no field he can't help contribute to from a biological perspective.
>>we would need to use all the energy coming from fossil fuels to undo burning them

This would true if we need to re-create the original molecule with it's stored energy (plus losses of course).

However, it seems this is a misapprehension of the task. Instead of trying to recover the entire hydrocarbon molecule, we're "just" trying to extract or recombine the CO2 reactant.

Without doing the chemistry or the math, it seems likely that a variety of methods of either preferentially attracting CO2, or combining it into simpler lower-energy-dense molecules to be collected, would require less energy as was in the original hydrocarbon, often substantially less.

Seems it should be an inequality, not an equality. Or am I missing something?
And doesn't come from the reuter's article either.

Reuter's comment about "In 2020, 16% of the company's packaging was reusable. That year, 90% of its refillable glass and plastic containers were collected, it said." is lifted straight from the press release.
I was excited to see the heading "How to defend against visual prompt injections"... and then disappointed that the answer was:

> "Here, at Lakera, we've got some great news for our pro and enterprise users—we are currently busy building a visual prompt injection detector, and we can't wait to share it with you!"
In addition:

First article is claiming that Coca Cola is going to have a target of 25%.

Second article is claiming also that (in a sense verifying that) and making an additional claim that Coca Cola is criticized.

So if the first statement was false, then both articles were false.

If first statement is correct, then left is correct, but right has a chance to be wrong because it is making other statements in addition.

Logically left one given the information is always more credible.

Not to mention left is the literal source, while right is claiming that the source stated something.

In any case left should be considered more reliable.

If it was a statement on some achievements and not setting goals it would be different.
This seems to make the mistake of identifying a vector with a stream.
We do not have infinite resources. People wagering on answers to interesting questions is free speech as far as I’m concerned.
considering the stories you hear from tor exit node maintainers it takes quite some courage to participate in such a technology.
Tons of marketing/advertising. The free GrubHub+ subscription through prime probably burned through a lot of cash. I doubt Amazon was paying them very much (if anything) to Grubhub. Then you have all of the corporate staff (around 3k based on google search) who are highly paid.
Most people don't get meaningful breaks.
Cruising for Classical Music in LA
https://archive.is/TnRBw
It's dangerous to go alone! Take this.
Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work from Home
Sure, good luck!
I have a single GitHub repo that contains all the compose files for my main server. Each application gets a folder with the compose file and any version-controllable configuration (which gets bound to volumes in the docker containers).

I periodically run Renovate [0], which submits PRs against the infrastructure repo on my local Forgejo to update all my applications. I have a script in the repo which pulls the git changes onto the server and pulls and restarts the updated apps.

Data is all stored in volumes that are mapped to subfolders in a ~/data directory. Each application has a Borgmatic [1] config that tells Borgmatic which folder to back up for that app and tells it to stop the compose file before backup and resume it afterwards. They all go to the same BorgBase repository, but I give each app its own config (with its own retention/consistency prefix) because I don't want to have network-wide downtime during backups.

At the moment the backup command is run by me by hand, with BorgBase configured to send me emails if I forget to do it for a week. Eventually that will be a cron job, but for now it takes less time to just do it myself, and I don't change my data often enough for a week of lost work to hurt much.

All the applications bind to ports which are firewalled, with Caddy and Pihole being the only applications that run on exposed ports (53, 80, 443). Caddy has a wildcard DNS cert from LetsEncrypt for HTTPS and directs traffic from a bunch of local domain names to the correct applications. I just use Pihole to define my local DNS names (custom.list, which is where Pihole keeps the local DNS definitions, is a volume that's committed to the repo).

[0] https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate

[1] https://torsion.org/borgmatic/
Acquisition of Farming Simulator incoming...
The 35,000 MW Dream and the Indonesian Energy Trajectory
286 doesnt want anything, CPU is ram agnostic. Project author didnt want to mess with implementing DRAM controller, not that its difficult. Here a simple 16 bit controller realized with ten 74xx chips https://amigaprj.blogspot.com/2013/05/amiga-fast-ram-expande...
there are a lot of problems with what you said, but to list a few:

- the president doesn't directly control the fbi and i would argue that history shows the fbi is not particularly biased towards the democratic side of the ticket.

- the ny post is bordering on a tabloid - it's not good journalism, and if you look, this story is basically just being carried by crypto news sites and well-known tabloids like the post and the daily mail.

- what do you think is more likely - that they're cracking down on polymarket for "correctly guessing" the outcome of a 50/50 election? or maybe that the guy running a weird political bookmaker is engaged in some shady financial nonsense on the side?

the only source saying that this is related to their "correct guess of the election" is unnamed and says it's their speculation. there's no proof.

this is an occam's razor situation. the timing may be coincidental, but i would be shocked if the biden administration chose to enact its political vengeance on the ceo of a lottery site.
>"Also, everything just feels "backwards" to me if that makes any sense."

Because it is. Obj-C comes from the Smalltalk lineage by way of Alan Kay, using message passing [0] versus method invocation. It's a subtle difference with huge implications to how you design systems. Method invocation won out mostly because of Java and C++, but there was a time it wasn't clear which was the better OO paradigm.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_passing
> that era was so raw and fresh, the future was being invented right there! Very happy days

I've been told by several Gen-Z that they've never been to a "rave", and I feel sorry for them. In my town, we had quite the underground scene, but then times changed and it is so much smaller now. Now, "kids" just call it all EDM instead of the specific genre that we know and love.
My mind also went to lawfare, which there has been so much of from this administration and various states - not just concerning Trump but also Elon.

Why care about this website that very few people have even heard of? Because it was the one place that did not predict a very close election outcome? Nate Silver accused pollsters of herding given all of them were painting every race as a toss up, and this seems like a good alternative source of information.
I love the quake .map format. It is like this glimpse into an weird alternate history. A sort steampunk ascetic to graphics.

The article touches on this, but for them unfamiliar, the quake .map format is the editable text based format. but it does not use the common method of vertices into edges into faces as the base building block. it uses planes, the graphics primitive is is the three points that define a plane, where these planes intersect are the edges.

I never dove into the subject enough to figure out if this plane representation was also internal to the compiled bsp format, but I suspect it is. My guess is that it is the natural conclusion when you need a map interchange format for your highly optimized space partitioned engine.
Reflex (YC W23) Is Hiring Software Engineers (San Francisco)
If a gambling site predicted winners fraudulently, and enouraged you to bet on them... that's fraud. It doesnt matter if you win or lose. Both predicting and taking those bets is begging for that conflict of interest to arise. This guy could go to prison.
Yes, that's what I said. Housing isn't being built due to low supply - and immigrants actually RAISE the supply, not lower it, because they are cheap labor.

Demand has not been the issue nor is it solvable. You can't make people go away, you can only increase housing (supply).

We're not increasing supply enough because domestic Americans are greedy. We've set the incentives up in such a way to maximize the amount of friction to building new houses. Nobody with a house wants more homes built.
I'm confused, isn't this exactly the same as for intel? Intel processors can turbo-boost, and you can manually cap the frequency by setting the package power-limit register (or well, you used to before some firmware update). That obviously doesn't change the % CPU reported either.
Why people did not smile in old photos
Wait until they find out about all the $TRUMP coins
The careless people are probably exactly the ones they want to filter out.