skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best explanation would seem to be a rebalancing to increase efficiency - the M3 Pro was basically the same performance as the M2 Pro but at much greater energy efficiency. Now the M4 Pro has increased the performance again (I assume at a similar power draw as the M3 Pro)
Haha, it hit me with a tinge of pain that I probably saw the screen (the original one) a lot, thinking "Today is the day I learn VB6!", but I never got proficient with VB6.

Oh well, I still managed to have a career in IT, so...
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Agreed, a fair point - companies are a lot more aware of what is possible beyond a spreadsheet! :)
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> However, who the hell has time to write everything twice?

Nobody. The article even says, "N.B. Obviously, don't write literally everything twice. It's a heuristic. Apply intelligently."
Surely for a phone to receive calls, the provider has to know whether it supports VoLTE? How else would the carrier know how to connect the call?
What is the single best source to keep up with AI news
Two sentences.

It's not close. Israel is committing genocide concludes Wikipedia, ending debate.

First subject 'it' being the debate on genocide or not, second subject Israel.

It could have been written more clearly. Also the word genocide seems to suffering a bit from atrocity inflation a bit like grade inflation where everyone gets As. It used to be for wiping out an ethnic group, it now seems to apply to fighting terrorists with heavy civillian casualties.
That makes me want to learn more. I will read this.

Like most been burned and frustrated by this sort of sharded DB and unperformant queries if you dont or cant use the partition key. Usually you need a second table amirite :) And seen others burned.

Especially when your intro is a Jira ticket learning on the job!
Site doesn't load for me other than the powdered by avalonia message, on Safari.
This is amazing... I am much away from .NET world so can someone elaborate how does it get from C# to browser?

All I see is this main.js[0] and everything is drawn on a canvas! (probably explains why text is not as sharp as I remember back in the day)

[0]. https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/main.js
The reason is: they didn't have a separate person checking it.
Humour often involves saying something that isn't true (why don't ants catch colds? Because of they have anty bodies - great joke but not true on a number of levels). A surprising number of humans don't have the mental cycles available to consider counterfactuals, hypotheticals or entertain ideas that aren't directly rooted in reality. I suspect that means they can't process humour and they just laugh if the crowd is.

It goes beyond humour, you can see it in a lot of scenarios and it ruins politics. There are people who appear literally unable to consider hypothetical scenarios. Not in a nasty way, they're sometimes wonderful people to have on hand. They simply only deal in reality as they see it. You can walk them slowly through a "and what if ... happens?" and they can't do it.
> I would guess, in 2024 Covid killed more than 1.2 million people

Why? Seems extremely speculative.
> to the decreasing, logarithmic performance

In what measure, loss? Loss can't go below 0 plus the inherent entropy in the text (other than that with overfitting it could reach nearer to 0, but not fully if it is next token and there are multiple same prefixes).

With respect to hallucinations 4 got incredibly better over 3
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It would be wonderful my competitors to adopt this method.

Piece-work programming, as managed by an "AI", is downright Dickensian.
Did you watch the entire video? His point that once mass adoption happens, the risk is that you won't be able to easily go without them in many places.

Ever heard of Dallas, Houston, where you literally can't walk 500m from where you are, because you're meant to drive 3km to get there, instead.
https://archive.is/Qkloj
It's an interesting paradigm. I would be very intrigued to see this implemented at scale, with all sorts of cross cutting concerns (logging, persistence, multiplayer and auth, displaying an error message when you try an illegal move or confirming when you win etc). Feels like a lot of COMEFROM-style code if you're not careful. That said, I am fascinated by the idea of append-only codebases - what would it look like if we performed less surgery inside our codebases, and instead merely added to them or overrode bits of them as time passed? I think most people would recoil in horror at the thought, but in a way a lot of long-term architectural decisions are made to support that kind of change in a system. How could we make that more natural? The behavioural programming approach certainly lends itself to more agility via extension rather than rewriting.
New HPE fanless cooling achieves a 90% reduction in cooling power consumption
> If you let the user arrange their icons in the preferred shape, for each screen resolution they use, and save that, the problem is solved.

Users normally place their icons using a given, single resolution, so that would only give you one initial saved icon position. You need some heuristic when the user first changes resolution with that icon present on the desktop.
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It takes a while to load on a slow connection, but then it works fine on my iPhone (IOS 18).

This is an incredibly impressive demo of what Avalonia is capable of.
>...turn a blind eye to Jewish ones.

I seem to see about twenty stories about Israeli atrocities daily. Maybe they are not regarded as being as heinous as the KKK because if you read the details they actually not as heinous?
VB6 fans looking for a modern approach should try twinBasic which after many years is about to release v1.0
https://twinbasic.com/
It's the "large"/high-DPI version of the font, intended for larger displays and resolutions like 1024x768 and up. The size and style of the system font in Windows 3 is not fixed, but depends on your display driver and what mode it's in. There would often be different choices like "1024x768 (small fonts)" and "1024x768 (large fonts)"
Good points, all of them! "Safe space" is two-edged. Academia can be a very friendly environment compared to most workplaces available for youths. It can also be something alike a Maoist struggle session if you end up in the wrong university with the wrong professors.

> Opportunity to demonstrate excellence.

This is the best point, and probably the top reason why young people who are excellent workers find themselves quitting after some years and going back to school.
Octoverse: AI leads Python to top language as number of global developers surges
"The Hatpin Peril" Terrorized Men Who Couldn't Handle the 20th-Century Woman
I am from south India where a lot of wild elephants roam the villages and towns. When elephants come to roam the streets most people lock themselves in their homes and alert the forest division authorities. Someone I know once rescued a baby elephant from a trap set for boars. Every year, a herd of elephants stop by his gate and leave presents - mostly bananas and coconuts. They wait for him to come out, make a friendly gesture - folding their trunks in a specific way, and leave peacefully. Our elders tell us that elephants have memory and show gratitude and they can hold a grudge so be respectful all the time.
There's a ton of visual programming tools out there, they just don't call it visual programming but low code.
>The employment law is exemplary good.

Taht's not true at all. Employers can lay off workers for no reason at all at any time without paying any severance (unless you have a unio that can negotiate a better deal). Just hand them the notice and you're done.
Apple: M4 Mac mini power button is on the bottom because people 'hardly use it'
Unreal engine has certainly had its licensing issues.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/5/23905082/epic-unreal-engi...
my Msc thesis in 2004 was about this: a probabilistic model for last-recently used queues, based on poisson processes, for network packets flows. The model worked OK on a couple of datasets I could get at that time. I tried to publish the work but got rejected a couple of times, then I gave up. If anyone wants to read it (even try to publish) I am happy to share it.
GPT 3 released in 2020 though, 2.5 years before GPT 4, so 2.5 years to GPT 5 could be still same rate minus the RLHF breakthrough but maybe adding inference time additional reasoning of o1-preview plus more multimodal of 4o.

So, chatgpt 3.5 potentially was to 3 as 4o and o1-preview are to 4, with 5 still to come, but it definitely could hit a data wall and maybe they lost some of the pirated book and scientific paper and textbook sources after scrubbing for the lawsuits, but they also have a lot more user interaction data and mass amounts of uploaded data from users that may not exist on the web.

They are now ranked in the top 10 websites in the world or close and are popular especially among knowledge workers leaking all kinds of data to them.
You mean all this advertising?

(Am I becoming overly cynical?)
Association between alcohol consumption and incidence of dementia in drinkers
I once used an angle grinder in a reckless way, without proper protection. It went bad and they had to stitch me back together in the emergency room. I didn't have to pay anything, Techniker Krankenkasse covered everything.

How would you feel if i would have continued my reckless use of the device? I would surely end up in the hospital again. The wages for the medical staff have to come from somewhere.

This whole mechanism indirectly makes other TK insured people pay for my own recklessness.
Thank you for the recommendation! I've added it to the list of resources.
"The M4 Mac Mini starts at just $599, putting many Windows machines to shame in terms of performance and pricing."

Would be interesting if Apple supported installing and running Windows for ARM64 and the Mac mini became one of the most popular platforms for it.
> Quite ironic to call AVs "pie-in-the-sky," then propose a gargantuan fixed infrastructure overhaul (which has been consistently mired in inaction for decades) instead.

Action happens, but it's hard to spot:

https://youtu.be/XOpjDSUmPtU?si=VC50ougKXQJp4nSz

https://youtu.be/PUnRr69GHJg?si=nopp1t0Sagj_YnXi

Many places are adding roundabouts, bike lanes, etc.

It's just slow and in some places they still don't get it (the South, Texas and Florida in particular).
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> WiFi is internal to the ESP32 and works "out of the box", but wired Ethernet takes a bit of configuration for the WT32-ETH01.

I recently discovered the ESP32 and my only complaint so far is that Ethernet (and with it PoE) is not a first class citizen of the platform.
Seems cool, would love to see a couple more videos of gameplay, but otherwise looks really cool. I would definitely consider playing
Besides the sociological problems listed, we must always be conscious of how counterintuitive and difficult statistical inference itself can be. Good things to search for are statistical fallacies, probabilistic paradoxes and books like Counterexamples in Probability.

And it is not sufficient to read about them once or twice; researchers who use statistical inference regularly must revisit these caveats at least as regularly.

Myself, I have taught Probability and Statistics many times, discussed and dispelled many misconceptions by students. Would I be 100% sure I will not be caught up in a fallacy while informally thinking about probability? I wouldn't even be 10% sure; any intuition I conjure up, I would triple check as rigorously as possible.
Discussions about pay and work issues ARE WORK RELATED COMMUNICATIONS. You had to say its work issues on the same sentence. Thats the law as well because it makes sense.
Very cool of you to say so!

I've actually been using the JS version of EM in production for over a year. It's been working flawlessly.

The TS version is a complete rewrite that factors in a BUNCH of lessons learned and is completely--maybe obsessively lol--type-safe. The query builder got a LOT of attention, and the fluent API reduces even complex queries to a super-compact, declarative coding experience.

I'm pushing a big update tonight and will then resume my focus on the demo & docs, basically the companion stuff to this one. Should be ready for use in a couple of weeks.

Thanks for the interest, it really means a lot to me!
For a hobby project seems like good progress.

Polishing the last 20% of functionalities will take him a lifetime. Maybe other chess/robotic enthusiast could join him to accelerate some border cases.
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Regarding Python+Django vs. Go, I have an opposite experience. Concurrency is handled much better in Go but that's about it. ORM, web framework, any library is generally worse. On top of that, I miss my exceptions.
The issue today is that developers would create their own framework, most likely something TypeScript-based running in Node or Deno or some Rust-based thing like Tauri, which all might be OK, but with their own opinionated UI styleguides and features, where then half of the native OS functionality then won't work.

You see a somewhat related degeneration in Redmond, where the new Windows Explorer doesn't have an icon in the address bar which is actually draggable so that a shortcut to the currently open folder can be created on the desktop or anywhere where such a shortcut can be used (think TrueLaunchBar). Now you have to go to the parent folder in order to Alt-Drag the folder to create a shortcut.

It's those little things which where smartly developed during the 80s and 90s, which "modern" developers seem not to have noticed and therefore just ignored while re-implementing applications like the Windows Explorer.
A preemptable kernel does not make Linux a realtime OS. A low-latency kernel does not make Linux a realtime OS. There are great things in their niches but when you need a realtime OS, Linux is still not going to be fit for purpose.
Where can I find your previous version?
You’re burying the lede here: you installed Linux. That’s what people always work real hard to pretend isn’t a problem on here about Linux: that you have to install it.

But the reality is that most everyone, including very experienced users, have never and never will install an OS. It’s not a question of difficulty, they just cannot wrap their heads around it.
>The city somehow managed to find an identity on its own that somehow makes it work.

It's not "somehow" by magic. The explanation is that as a neutral country between NATO and the former Iron Curtain, it was a middle-man for business, politics and trade between the two blocks in the cold war era, profiting from both parties without having to pay obligations to any of them. Basically it won the geopolitical lottery, similar to a Switzerland Light. Today with the Iron Curtain gone and the EU-Schengen borders extended east beyond Austria, it's a lot less relevant than it used to be and therefore a lot less profitable.
This last weekend, I attempted to make an old python ML code base working, and it was very frustrating.

The code is from 2018, and it is maintained, but using python3.8+torch1.4. However, one of its dependency is not maintained anymore and it doesn't work with newer python.

I ran into so many other issues even with conda. Things could get worse if you want to merge two ML models using different torch and python versions into one workflow.

This is broken.
This is the correct take. In the US, workers discussing issues like wages is a protected right (NLRB stuff). Nowhere does that imply a company has to act on that talk. That's up to the company.

However, it is quite clearly stated by the NLRB that the company cannot threaten or retaliate. In my former position, I had this come up twice, much to my surprise. In both cases, I advised the company of the employee's rights, then recommended a discussion to determine why the employee was dissatisfied. In both cases (though one was much more stubborn than the other), we ended up with favorable outcomes for both company and employee.

It can be done, but orgs the size of Apple are more likely to just buy the ability to do whatever they want, anyway. No fine will stop that behavior.
> which means the city would need to pay above the existing wage for those people, since they're _already_ employed and would have no incentive to jump.

What? I'm talking about salaried employees already working for the city.

> and have no incentive to try to save money or find novel efficiencies, since the money spent is not "theirs".

Even if they are not trying to actively save money, they are not trying to actively make a profit so it would still be cheaper.
Like https://sst.dev/docs/ ?

I wouldn't begrudge professional tooling companies trying to use consumer marketing to reach early-stage projects, when most early-stage projects are built by hobbyists, side-project-ists, professionals-who-arent-software-professionals, etc.
You chose a very poor example, since you can most definitely open files in VB, and therefore the "File.Exists()" function would at worse be comprised of a exception handler (on error ...) and a open call, as in many other languages. No need to import OpenFile for sure.
https://www.flutterflow.io/ is an interesting option for cross-platform web-based low-code.

My main issue with these is using the the cloud dev tools has a cost, normally usage-based - so if you use Firebase, if you're not careful, you can end up with a large bill.
> why do you think the culture should mould to your needs?

I think a professional work culture should generally be such as to allow the people who are capable of doing the work with the minimum ofaggression aimed at them. Controversial, I know.
The notice period is 6 weeks at minimum by law and often negotiated to be 3 months on unlimited contracts - limited contacts can't be terminated unilateral. And, depending on social situation, you can still sue immediately through the Arbeiterkammer[0] without any costs.

[0]: https://www.arbeiterkammer.at/beratung/arbeitundrecht/beendi...
Then how have any survived?

Observe the human response to dandelions; are they weeds or are they edible?

Do they have lobed leaves? What [neurons,] do mammals have to heuristically generalize according to visual and gustatory-olfactory features, and counterfactually which don't they have?

Or it's entirely learned, and then the coding for the substrate is still relevant
Given their experience in designing custom CPUs it seems like a lost opportunity for Apple to not invest in building its own cloud (like AWS)? Perhaps offer cost effective compute using these designs? Does iCloud running in Apple datacenters or do they use other clouds?
Haha true! Googling Elizabeth’s raw eggs seems absent but probably some people do that. By the way she call it "omelet Molière" but I can’t find that recipe in any French cookbook, I guess it’s her creation. However "œuf (egg) Molière" is a classic, but has nothing in common with an omelet but the egg.
For Ethernet, packets are a physical layer concept. They encapsulate frames which are a data link layer concept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_frame
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If noting unusual ever happened then I might agree with you but unusual events like significant US food aid after disasters are going to significantly affect these numbers even if it’s just for a few meals after an earthquake or political subsidy such as in 1965-1966 where US cheese flooded India. Several other countries had similar events during the early days of the green revolution.

Mad Cow disease is a more recent example where global supply chains shifted and suddenly people were eating a lot more imported products or products from different countries.

Further, from restaurants, ingredients in packaged food, vacations, baby food, pot luck’s, to one off sampling of a MRE many people have done something once which completely changed the supply chain for their normal diet.

PS: I’d agree it’s under 50% globally when including children, but for the HN audience specifically it’s probably over that.
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Thanks for XFCE guys.
Although in this case, the minor difference was that the domain started off correct, but was later re-sold and repurposed.
Kind of sounds like they accidentally had a big dose of shrooms or something like that.
This is not possible in the transformer architecture.
It should be also noted, that you can write your own network stack on Linux with the help of AF_XDP[1].

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.9/networking/af_xdp.html
Do not confuse 'system' and 'data' sizes.

For this 16GB I was thinking the space only for FreeBSD base system and pkg(8) packages. Nothing more.
I just spent a few weeks in the US. I assure you that Australia is fine.
Typically, software developers write 3x the number of lines of code when using static typing compared to duck typing. It's just the nature of the static typing code style. Write 3x the lines, get 3x the bugs.

The programming language that has the least measured bug in practice is Clojure because it is duck typed and because it doesn't use OOP. Both static typing and OOP have a significant measurable negative effect on code correctness.
chrome on a celeron laptop, barely if any lag
VB was the absolute sweet spot when you used Visual C++ to create performant DLLs which you could then use in VB.
10x developers (sweeping generalization here) are often not the ones that are beholden to a manager / product owner telling them what has the highest priority though. Whether that's because they won't be told what to do, are the manager themselves, or have no manager at all is not known to me.

That said, writing your own tools if applicable is useful, however I'd argue that a productive developer writes the least code and instead uses what's off the shelf. To use this article as an example, nobody should be writing their own TCP stack, there are perfectly fine existing implementations.

That said that said, writing your own stuff is probably the best way to get a deep understanding, and a deep understanding of things is a constituent part of the mythical 10x developer. I just wouldn't expect any employer to pay you for it.
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https://archive.ph/XyQOi
Could you elaborate a little bit here?
Agreed, I would love to see a large scale implementation and experience report. I also wonder about combining the Bthreads model with the notion of 'durable execution', as demonstrated by the folks at DBOS: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/what-is-lightweight-durable-execut...
I've seen one downclock to 300MHz after the heatsink fan failed.
> What an unexpectedly spellbinding historical read.

Spellbinding ? More like propaganda. Historical ? "When the first spanish settler".

One can tell the nationality of the author from those.
Yes, and any heuristic is fine, because it's a once-in-a-lifetime* rearrangement. In other words, this situation is not part of the problem.

*lifetime of that computer
I've done a similar thing with the exact same microcontroller! However it was on the "Black pill" board.

It was really fun and surprisingly helped me get ahead in the networking class I'm taking.