skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Austria was mostly about mathematics, engineering and human sciences. There was an Austro-Hungarian Navy, and Josef Ressel gave the Royal Navy the world's most powerful navy with his invention of the propeller. :D
> My hunch is that any algorithm that analyzes chords in isolation (and not in the context of other chords in the song)

You can at least get much further by naming a key (what a key is, is not etched in stone either, but there are some useful enough definitions for most cases). That would be a bare minimum for a useful algorithm though.
Especially if your input is just a set of notes.
Microsoft's guidance to help mitigate Kerberoasting
How did they catch the gophers after a day?
Getting PR for your business by building a newsbot
Lovely story, and I think that is true for a lot of animals. I grew up around horses and saw very similar traits.
The easier it is to fire or retrench someone, the easier it is to hire them.

And if it's easy for me to hire... then it's easier for the next entrepreneur to hire... paradoxically driving wages up and forcing businesses to keep hiring high so as to keep their competitive edge.

The only people suffering under such a system are freeloaders - who get hired and then proceed to lean on labour laws to stick around for a long time after their welcome has worn out.
The author mentioned at the beginning of this post that they were inspired by SquareOff board demonstrations.
> We are terribly preoccupied with tool use and physical artefacts as a defining factor of intelligence

In the context of civilisation, intelligence isn’t enough. Nomadic tribes are sapient, intelligent and have rich cultures, but they aren’t strictly civilisations.

The urban distinction is important because of economies of scale: pastoral societies are energy constrained. That doesn’t make them less interesting, again strictly speaking, personally it sort of does, but it does make them less powerful.

Within the Silurian context, the urban distinction is almost demanding: if humans stopped at Neolithic pastoralism, there is a good chance all evidence of our tool use would have disappeared within a few millennia, let alone millions of years.
Oxide Cuts Data Center Power Consumption in Half
Are AI Assistants Making Us Worse Programmers?
Shouldn't that be mentioned in the guidelines as well that all moderators are based in California and you will only receive a response on the email between these hours? I don't think it is too much to ask.

I also appreciate the vouch.
Those of us with the slightest understanding (and I don’t know a lot) know that they don’t think, reason, or understand logic. They’re statistical word generators only. That’s why I don’t use them for math. I suspect most others here have similar reasons.
And my PhD and dayjob is doing research on this.

If a student told me they had this view of what ML is, I would tell them that we've failed to educate them.

The thought that physics doesn't care about performance or approximation is silly. Just look at AlphaFold. Heck, I talk to climatologists and material scientists that want the equivalent all the time.

Prediction is the heart of all science. Whether we're talking neroscience, linguistics, physics, etc.

You think people who run things on supercomputers want to do so for some idealistic notion of what science is? No. They have to do so because they don't have good approximations. Just like with protein folding. Places like DESRES used to build supercomputers for that. This is over now.

ML models learn representations of data which can then be reused for many tasks. There's a whole field where we try to understand those representations. Those are explanations of what's going on given that they're such good predictions. The embeddings you get from an LLM are better models of language than anything linguistics ever accomplished. Their goal should be to explain them and probe their limits instead of complaining. If linguists has come up with gpt they would have been celebrating, the method by which you do science is irrelevant as long as it works.

I'll close by quoting Dawkins. "Science. It works, bitches". That's the value of science. Can we predict which molecule will cure cancer? Everything else is ideology and silly thoughts from before the paradigm shift.
> "So Kaufman and her colleagues started to record the showering on video over the course of a year, testing how Mary reacted to changes in the setup."

Just leave her alone.
IIRC it's the Calculator. :(
Check out Asendia. They are doing consolidated shipments which might work out nicely with this.

Works basically like this:
You collect couple of shipments to one bigger package.
Then you send that bigger package to Asendia logistics centre and they will send those individual packages to users.
haven't read the paper, but how does "They conclude that no ruins of ancient football stadiums, highways or housing projects would survive geological time" square with the existence of fossils?
This is the worst example you could give. Just add filesystem dll or whatnot from the .net framework as a reference to your project and you can use File.exists from VB.
Any sources that discuss this viewpoint wrt the determinant? Seems I'm still at the "seemingly-arbitrary number" stage.
Making AR Possible at Magic Leap [video]
Prompt Golf
So many ways and no-one mentioned threads..?

Edit: by threads I mean creating a new thread to wait for the process, and then kill the process after a certain timeout if the process hasn't terminated. I guess I'm spoiled by Go...
Windows 11 Security Book [pdf]
> We now have people "designing" stuff in Figma and then handing over for implementation to some developer team that essentially then recreates the whole thing pretty much from scratch. There's something deeply stupid/wasteful about needing to do that.

I'm not sure how wasteful it is really. There is some overlap, but not loads in my experience. Most of the time spent on frontend is the stuff behind the components: behaviour; device interaction; security; API calls.
You can use any pulumi provider so you can kinda use it with google cloud but it wont be as nice as the AWS and cloudflare support they have.

They dont pay any attention at all to GCP, which i get but its a shame because Cloud Run is the best container platform there is and def a better experience in many ways (cost, dx, etc) than running a freaking ECS cluster
Taiwan is the biggest ASML client. I am not sure they will follow.
I suspect it’s not a smarter developer thing, but a stupider code thing.

Programming for a client is making their processes easier, ideally as few clicks as possible. Programming for a programmer does the same to programming.

The thing with our “industry” is that it doesn’t automate programming at all, so smart people “build” random bs all day that should have been made a part of some generic library decades ago and made available off the shelf by all decent runtimes.

Making a form with validation and data objects and a backend with orm/sql connection and migrations and auth and etc etc. It all was solved millions of times and no one bats an eye why tf they reimplement multiple klocs of it over and over again.

That’s where AI shines. It builds you this damn stupid form that takes two days of work otherwise.

Very nice.

But it’s not programming. If anything, it’s a shame. A spit into the face of programming that somehow got normalized by… not sure whom. We take a bare, raw runtime like node/python/go and a browser and call it “a platform”. What platform? It’s as platform as INT 13h is an RDBMS.

I think AI usefulness division clearly shows us that right now, but most are blind to it by inertia.
What a lovely idea!
Lack of PS5 Pro shortages means some scalpers are re-selling at a loss
Very cool! Sent this to my dad, who is working through jazz piano lessons.
Companies that read more perform better
He does need a better name.

> The purpose of the thought experiment isn't to generate the real solution. It's meant to put a lower bound on the solution. Then you think of a real solution with that lower bound in eyesight, and you'll find it's often better than your original solution.

He does not say to actually implement the quickest hack you can imagine, nor to skip the mundane steps that avoid tech debt. He says spend 10 minutes imagining a quick hack after laying out your initial solution, and incorporate anything you learned into your actual work. To me, it sounds very similar to a startup chipping away at their original idea to get a MVP.

> The purpose here is to break their frame and their anchoring bias. If you've just said something will take a month, doing it in a day must require a radically different solution.
I understand, that is indeed valuable. But not at all clear from the documentation / copy in the linked post. I did not watch the video...
He should simply not be so close to the president.
It's literally the current mainstream theory. I think you need more pickles on your sandwich to claim otherwise.
we'll get there! we want to do everything we just go in order of demand
You just reiterated my point --- and expounded on why it would be more accurately called "DroidPush".
What's nice in here exactly, and please use your own words instead of referring to ChatGPT transcripts.

From the transcript you link that I read, I can see that it replied some generic mumbo:

> Advanced models sometimes produce outputs with identifiable patterns or "fingerprints." If the outputs carry such signatures, experts might trace them back to AlphaFold 3.

Suggesting ChatGPT have no understanding of what AlphaFold is.

Then continues to dream up nonsense scenarios such as

> If AlphaFold 3 requires online access or activation, usage logs could potentially reveal unauthorized activities.

Showing us that it has no understanding of the legalese it was asked to analyze.

How do you think this adds to the discussion?
Because with a small amount of your own energy as input, you unlock vast amounts of potential chemical energy. No other tool used by other animals comes anywhere close in terms of efficiency. And no other animal is anywhere near as "civilized" (loaded term, I know) as humans are.

It is clear there is something different between humans and all other animals. And one obvious difference is mastery of fire.

> Maybe the criterion 'spend a lot of effort to create a tool' is the criterion, since having the time to spend on tool making requires someone else to get food for you etc.

Which would probably never have occurred in humans without mastery of fire. I think that mastery of fire is the common precursor of any trait you could point to as the defining feature of civilization.

Now it's possible we will find unambiguous traits of "civilization" among some other species that hasn't mastered fire (whether here on Earth or elsewhere), but until then I do believe that it is a prerequisite.
Alternative framing: were we already worse programmers, and AI assistants spitting our own collective bugs back at us are helping us by revealing that?
Can recommend watching this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shc9aOdWJ-g
What's your experience been like with Nix?

How do you feel about devenv vs stock Nix? How are you getting devenv to work, as I don't see a devenv.nix file. I'm still a Nix beginner and would like to find ways of integrating it more into my development and improving my current techniques.[0]

[0] https://mtlynch.io/notes/nix-dev-environment/
My first bit of paid programming work was a VB6 project in 2001. Such happy times!
> how does "They conclude that no ruins of ancient football stadiums, highways or housing projects would survive geological time" square with the existence of fossils?

Broadly speaking, fossils are rare and we site our cities on river deltas and such which have bad conditions for them.
A new era. America's tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power
Right, but extension methods are a hack to cover up problems with OOP
Memileo's results and your own are both incredible. Wow.

How baked in is the light position? I'd imagine it's possible to rotate the light in editor but not change it's height (without some work in Blender).
I wonder if there is a difference in this regard between Asian elephants and African elephants.
I hadn't thought about it like this, but you're right. React has decent browser plug-in tools, but it is still painful to get things back to the IDE.
>I think IMG_ is pretty unique to Apple

You'd be thinking wrong. Canon cameras also use the IMG_ format. It's been a while since I've dealt with GoPros, but I'm pretty sure they are IMG_ as well.

While it's nice to hold onto what you know from experience, extrapolating that to end-all-be-all knowledge is just not a good stance. Especially in the light of information from people with wider breadth of information.
The military isn't known for training less lethal methods and crowd control. They're trained to "kill people and break things" as Limbaugh put it. Bad idea.
More than culture, language is a statement of values.

There's reflexivity and path dependency but the culture is downstream of the values for the most part.
>Just add filesystem dll or whatnot from the .net framework as a reference to your project

To clarify, "Visual Basic 6" in this thread's title that everybody in this discussion has abbreviated to "VB6" is the "classic VB" from 1998.

There was no publicly released .NET in 1998. That came 4 years later in 2002. Maybe you're thinking of the newer VB.NET.
> Still, haven't found anything as powerful as VB6's RAD

We could easily do this now if companies would accept standard UI component styles instead of everyone inventing their own.
See also the very recent "Symptom Of Life" by Willow Smith, a cluster chord bonanza.
DuckDuckGo's search page now offers "Anonymous access to popular AI models, including GPT-4o mini, Claude 3, and open-source Llama 3.1 and Mixtral."
GP was talking about firing and you were talking about the usual termination of an employment contract with a notice period.

You don't need a reason to terminate an employment contract with a notice period, correct, but that doesn't mean it wasn't socially discriminating in origin - that depends on the social situation (eg. older employees can sue for discrimination on age) and the Arbeiterkammer will fight for it.
What in particular do you find difficult about DI?

My experience is that it's "fire and forget"; never give it much of a thought at all and isn't much different from:

// some-module.ts
export const someModule = () => {

}

// other-module.ts
import { someModule } from "some-module"

Except that DI allows "importing" at different levels.
$50K/month as a solo dev
This reminds me of Bindows framework. Seeing Windows interface in browser is hard to forget.
Episode 2: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x98z0b2
octopodes
Very cool! It'd be fun to use the webcam to create live reflections.
> > dudes in women's spaces

> Never heard of anyone supporting this.

One example of many: SB 132 in California. It has enabled men to successfully transfer into women's prisons, with terrible consequences for incarcerated women.
Ikos: Static analyzer for C/C++ based on the theory of Abstract Interpretation
I'm waiting for it to become octopies.
GDC 2008 – Stylization with a Purpose: The Illustrative World of Team Fortress 2
Secureslate
I'm fairly sure I get at least an extra hour on average.
What I really want is a form designer that would let me create a UI for any language instead of every language reinventing it.
Thanks! That was very kind of you to say. Whenever I write stuff like that, I wonder, "Does anyone find this useful?" It helps to hear every once in a while that the answer is sometimes yes.
In Western Europe a lot of the media isn't ad-sponsored.
The website is out of date. The firefighting contracts used to be owned by Lockheed Martin, then PAE group, and now Amentum.

(edit: As proof, here's Amentum's listing for a McMurdo firefighter: https://www.amentumcareers.com/jobs/firefighter-mcmurdo-stat...)
There’s an octoplethora of octoplurals!
You're completely right, however the market for business desktop apps is over; not just because of the web, which is still inferior to VB in many respects, but because companies restrictions of what can be installed in a corporate desktop. It is much easier to use a web service than having permission to install a desktop app in a corporate computer. The huge Windows vulnerabilities destroyed the desktop as a viable business software platform.
I use Edge as my browser, but I think Chrome is the same: The scrollbar is hidden while I'm not scrolling. There's an option to always show the scrollbar, but it's still this tiny little sliver that doesn't match the system scrollbar.

Someone at Google, and someone else at Microsoft, probably think this is good UX. I beg to differ.
I haven't read the paper either but billions upon billions of organisms constantly have some tiny chance of ending up in the conditions where they fossilize and could later be found. A few thousand or million exposed structures over the few-thousand-year lifetime of a civilization is, in comparison, a microscopically smaller chance of preservation. Nature, in contrast, gets effectively infinite shots at this, the fossils record still has gaps that dwarf the lifespan of human civilization as it is.
When to Use Cosmos DB
> AVs are the only realistic path to that world.

Do you prefer the world dominated by EVs that is portrayed towards the end of the video or Utrecht? As can be seen in the video, Utrecht used to be car-dominated up until the 80s, but later chose to reject the influences from car companies and rather focus on enabling more mixed forms of transportation.
I’ve always wondered about ocean mammals. Those poor dolphins and whales have never had a drink of fresh water. When I ask marine biologists, I get: their mouths are really good at sealing - related, but not quite on point, and 2 they get their fresh water from food - to which my reaction is, if I’m really thirty, no amount of salty shrimp are going to satisfy.
It's a numbers game. The stadiums, highways, etc. are very few and are being built during a blink of history, compared to fossils which typically come from animals that were around for tens or even hundreds of millions of years. The sheer number of creatures that lived and died means we've had a few lucky pieces preserved.

Earth's surface isn't very static. On a geological timescale it is constantly moving and churning.
not forward thinking, backward looking, SkyNet is still looking for John Conner
Hmm. There is no voice which says the ego is diluted. The volume of the talk is lowered. Previously it was at 100. It lowered down to 4 or 5. Previously I used to listen to the voice and memories to make decisions.

Since both got lowered in intensity , I now have to rely on Intuition to make decisions. And not recollection of what I did previously. Which makes things new. And sometimes give an almost child like curiosity. Even doing something as simple as going for a walk is amazing. Since the mind is not constantly trying to predict what is next and characterising things as I have seen this or not. You notice things you have never noticed before. The awareness is heightened.
> The biggest discovery to me was that a typical video has 0-1 views, nearly always <10. I bet most people don't realize this is how YouTube actually looks like.

This is also interesting when thinking about how to optimize a video platform. You can see how the vast majority of videos could be evicted to cold / slow storage.
It's not any particular technical development that separates humans from other animals, but the human relationship to technology as such. Humans only live by way of inserting external objects between themselves and nature, and they do this in an open-ended way. One could also talk about human self-domestication, and agriculture as a self-expanding ecosystem... Fire doesn't really capture the way humans actively modify their own conditions of life.
Side-Channel Attack on the Yubikey 5 Series [pdf]
And none of them more correct than the others.
Not sure why it's necessary to mention you weren't around in 1981. I wasn't around when lots of things happened, but I don't feel it necessary to mention it every time something before I existed is brought up.
Also fire will be a great help in figuring out other chemistry.

There's a hypothetical alternate path where you build the "head end" of civilization using advanced biotechnology, synthetic organism, fermentation, 3-d printing and such. It's an attractive path for human space colonists but how would you figure out the genetic code without metal, glass, computers and such?
Author here. So I started working at Pulumi and I’ve been trying to wrap my head around Azure’s Cosmos DB.

Azure markets Cosmos DB as this magical database that can do everything, but it’s more like a pricier and faster DynamoDB.

Anyone on here using Azure and have used or experimented with it?
Observability from Scratch
I mentioned this in another thread, but the website is out of date. The contracts for McMurdo firefighting are currently held with Amentum: https://www.amentumcareers.com/jobs/firefighter-mcmurdo-stat...
> People have a natural predilection to gamble, but gambling has a bad wrap and so many gambling games have been declared illegal.

Gambling has a bad rep for a reason. It's one vice/outlet for entertainment that can very quickly spiral out of control. Much like hard drugs, it exploits weaknesses in our nature.

> What will you build on top of blockchains? Memecoins. Memecoins are the fundamental financial unit of crypto.

Isn't this kind of reductive?