skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Broadcom/Apple takeover of Intel sounds much more reasonable.

Out of curiosity, what would make Intel interesting to Apple? Apple already acquired Intel's modem business and they have their own CPU and GPU.
Prop drilling refers to depth, not width - you had to add the props to every intermediate component between where the state is stored and where it's used. Some of us tried to come up with nested usage patterns so at least the intermediate components didn't need to know about the structure and it wouldn't be a pain when moving things around, but it still wasn't very good.
In my experience;

- Learn other frameworks and/or programming languages. It gives you a wider and unique perspective on other "correct" ways of doing software. Through finding commonalities one can arrive at things that are good practices regardless of the tool being used. Through finding differences, one can better understand what might be dogmatic to a specific language/library/etc.

- Dig deep. If something isn't working, as much as possible, make it your goal not to fix it, but to fix it and understand why it was broken in the first place. Trying things until something works is a tried and tested way of fixing things, but digging through the abstraction layers and confirming why that suggestion one found online is very valuable. I think a lot of knowledge from senior developers boils down to having experience at lower levels of abstraction.
Interested in your opinion, since TSMC has fabs in the US now, are Intel still relevant even in the context of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan?
TCL is exactly "strongly homoiconic" in the OP's sense; one does metaprogramming by creating and evaluating strings in some desired context. It's an advanced technique, but works quite well in practice. Many years ago I wrote a complete object system for TCL, SNIT, that executes a type definition script (using TCL syntax); this produces a new TCL script that actually implements the type; and then executes this new script. It's been used in commercial products.

TCL is not "bicameral" in the OP's sense, but that doesn't seem to stop anyone from doing metaprogramming.
I agree.

Architecture != Engineering

It's easy for the common person to see and appreciate a beautiful city/building/room so a market for "beauty" is possible.

I don't think computer software will be ubiquitous enough to achieve that; beauty is possible, just not pursued.
First off, I think you can actually learn _better_ from others, the odds you have a world class[1] Senior in your company, or even will work with on in your career, is pretty low.

Here's what I recommend:

1. Build a corpus of materials: Conferences (in person, and you can youtube them), books, courses. Cross product these concepts with tools/techs - DBs, coding tools like IDE and source control, programming languages, programming paradigms, software craftsmanship, network stack / protocols, debuggers, Observability and Ops, Peopleware / wetware.
2. Think of attending conferences as seed materials for future research, write down every term, subject, and technology you're curious about, never heard of, are scared of, think is out of your league/level.
3. Spend an hour a day on weekdays, and 2-4 on a sixth day, sharpening the saw[2] (learning)
4. Close loops on subjects by taking action. Eg: If you finish a chapter on a certain DB, install it, insert some data, learn to bulk insert, try some complex queries. If it's a language try to write a breakable toy[3]. If it's a paradigm, try a code kata and write the same one in multiple paradigms.
5. Remember: you read a text book a month in Uni, try to finish a text book (or equivalent effort) per quarter/half for the remainder of your career.

[1] - These are definitionally top .1 or even 0.01% engineers (amongst the engineering population, not the general population)

[2] - Sharpen the saw - https://www.franklincovey.com/the-7-habits/habit-7/

[3] - https://ilango.hashnode.dev/learning-by-building-breakable-t...
Fish have a brain microbiome – could humans have one too?
Falcon 9 reaches a flight rate 30 times higher than shuttle at 1/100th the cost
The elephant in the room is it's a silicon organic organism. So during parasitic stage it grows basically ex nihilo, and then hunts and eats carbon life forms for no reason. It's hollywood zoology.
Most local roasters really are garbage, though. Telling people to do this will make sure that people miss out on a lot of what "coffee can be" and will end up with something that is probably better than the worst of the worst coffee, but still tastes pretty awful in comparison to a great coffee roasted adequately.

"need to drink it fresh" is a red flag about the roast, usually, unless you really do prefer something fairly dark. Light roasted coffee should be let to gas off for at least a few weeks.
Love that series.
Interesting, but silk use in the bronze age is not a new discovery.
We're all left with the tab, that tab being the enormous amount of greenhouse gases it takes to lift even a gram of matter into space. Maybe there will be one day in the far future when we've reversed climate change and reached an equilibrium, we can safely bury people on the moon, but let's not start it now.
> Understand everything in every article, do not accept not understanding everything.

I’d be careful with that. It’s a great way to get lost down the rabbit hole and works against being focused. Eventually you have to get to a point where you say to yourself that it’s someone else’s problem beyond here and double back.
You could try, but it would quickly devolve into non-euclidean nonsense without global knowledge of the areas it's already generated.
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I don’t know much about Paul Grogan but I know he was specifically brought on for the ISS Vanguard rule book and, man, what a piece of fucking trash that thing is. The book dedicates a considerable amount of pages running you through a walkthrough game. Every time I open it I’m reminded that a large portion of the rule book is, in fact, not rules.

My favorite rulebook is Stationfall. There is a dedicated rulebook for fun lore and general tips; a set thing for walking through a game, and two copies of the dry legalese.
Apple is your savior if you are looking at it as a CPU/GPU/NPU package for consumer/hobbyists.

I decided that I have to start looking at Apple's AI docs
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> Wouldn’t the shadowy all powerful cabal simply have ChatGPT respond with an answer about any of the other 3 David Mayer’s?

Based on the assumption that the network produces something untrue/compromising about David Mayer: Re-training an LLM is exceptionally computationally heavy, not to mention time consuming, even if they could find the data that caused it to train this way. There is no guarantee it would unlearn this either. What they likely mostly do is build upon already trained models.

If the threat to chatGPT is great enough (legal, financial, etc), it is far easier to filter the output. It would look a lot like this. Even when you try to trick the model, when the output tokens match it cuts off.

> But I guess anti-semitism is too much fun to not engage in.

This has nothing to do with anti-semitism. We're talking about a family with more wealth than most nation states. I'm not commenting on why or how, but it is simply a factual statement.
If you bothered to look at the actual data behind "mass shootings", you'd already know they're mostly gang related, and avoid making such an abhorrent post.

Australia had literal internment camps during COVID, and Australians had to video chat to "check in" with police to prove they really were where they were. Fuck that. I'd rather have the 2nd Amendment.

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I think you may be romanticizing the past a bit here. I got a Nintendo when it came out too and I never did any of the things you've done. You may have just imagined everyone was behaving in the same way you were, when it's probably just as likely they behaved more like me.
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky is also very good imo.
> One of the key reasons why Rosetta 2 provides such a high level of translation efficiency is the support of x86-64 memory ordering in the Apple M1 SOC.

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Chinese burn paper items, such as paper money, when paying respects to their ancestors. We believe it will go to the other world.

It is actually common in other cultures as well.
And there's an adage updated with modern understanding "Perfect practice makes perfect" . It's not just repetitions but ensuring you train the patterns you wish to do automatically next time.

Excellent code is slow to write, the first 10 times, but eventually it's just as fast as junky code.
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I loved Murderbot series and I have HN to thank for it. So many wonderful book recommendations come from HN comments!
And quickstart video tutorials please.
No, it looks quite similar but Queen Anne’s lace doesn’t cause burns. It’s kind of tricky to tell the difference.
They don't want features added to it, they want to see new revolutionary products similar to it. I remember the magic of early Google, delivering products and features that actually solved problems. Gmail offered 1GB storage while Yahoo acted like giving you 15MB was generous.

Ironically I think the dearth of innovation is related to consumers having been rendered too passive since 2010.

Nobody has "needs" for Google to address anymore; now we are told what we should want (clear indication that advertising execs now run the show), usually under protest as they forcibly reshape industry standards and kill beloved products.

The infantilization of AI and the subsequent hilarity of Gemini blackwashing white historical figures says all it needs to about the culture shift.

Search is also censored to an embarrassing degree. Queer theory is treated as irrefutable fact and you'll find infinite dubious content promoting it, while conspiracy theory and anything critical of Israel is downranked or delisted altogether.

Early Google gave us lightsabers [for "free"]. Now they sell lefthanded safety scissors and insist nothing has changed. All stars burn out eventually.
On a 3,2 GHz 6-Core i7 Mac Mini with Safari it also feels very laggy and unpleasant to use.
Maybe so, but Russia is still winning in Ukraine.

It's pushing toward a stalement, far short of its initial invasion goals and at vastly heavier cost than intended.

No need for cockiness on either side.
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> "A good way of seeing how a subject works is to examine the proof of a major result and see what previous results were used in it. Then trace these results back to earlier results used to prove them. Eventually you will work your way back to definitions"

I find the parallels between proofs and programs to be fascinating. We could write an analogous thing for programming:

"A good way of seeing how a sort of program works is to examine one of the popular programs/libraries and see what functions were used in it. Then look inside of those functions and see what functions are used inside of those. Eventually you will work your way back to the lower level primitives."
Letting 1/0 = 0 it's fine. but it is an isolated formula (from other field formulas). Mathematics is not about isolated facts.
Well, that's what I said? If you're "reducing" anything other than a compiler bug (what C-Reduce is made for), you most likely have to execute code.
Root’s is… ok until it isn’t with all the expansions and then you don’t know which book to grab.
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> Of course these days more and more of that is moving the the cloud and all IT needs to a web browser that works. Thus making their job easier.

This was the point I was going to make. While not completely dead, the days of desktop applications are quickly coming to a close. Almost everything is SAAS now or just electron apps which are highly portable.

Even if it's not saas or electron, the only two languages I'd do a desktop app in now-a-days is C# or Java. Both of which are fairly portable.
> Did they mess up when they did not pre-train or they followed the "steps" described in the original repo and tried to get a fair reproduction?

The Circuit Training repo was just going through an example. It is common for an open-source repo to describe simple examples for testing / validating your setup --- that does not mean this is how you should get optimal results in general. The confusion may stem from their statement that, in this example, they produced results that were comparable with the pre-trained results in the paper. This is clearly not a general repudiation of pre-training.

If Cheng et al. genuinely felt this was ambiguous, they should have reached out to the corresponding authors. If they ran into some part of the repo they felt they had to "reverse-engineer", they should have asked about that, too.
I was thinking the same. On HF, I see 4bit gguf of this 2:4 model, and I'm like...that works?
There's nothing about selection, natural or artificial, that implies killing. Orange cats spread around the world because the coat color was considered pretty and a novelty. I've read that ancient Egyptians already prized orange cats and likely intentionally bred more of them (which may or may not have involved culling).
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Humans are highly averse to making sure their actions are logically sound

yes, but the illogical decisions of humans can be intuited or made to be understood, and thus also somewhat predicted. for example, a human deciding over someones social security benefits can be expected make a somewhat rational even if illogical decision, and in particular, past performance of a human can predict future performance, whereas for an AI this is completely unpredictable and therefore has a much higher risk of going wrong unexpectedly. also, humans can be reasoned with, again with a somewhat predictable outcome.
so let's stop unnecessary cars and unnecessary phones
Her newer novel "Witch King" is also pretty good! Nominated for (but didn't win) the 2024 Hugo. Just finished it last week.
This is neat I guess. Maybe I'm just blase with seeing yet another AI demo where I'm supposed to fill in the blanks in coming up with ways to make the tech actually useful.

The "Step into Paintings" section cracked me up. As soon as you pan away from the source material, the craziness of the model is on full display. So sure, I can experience iconic pieces of art in a new way, it's just not a good experience.
Interesting to see spreadsheet in some answers.

We used Pabbly automations on our Google Sheets to send WhatsApp messages to candidates, fetch candidates confirmation for scheduled interview in Sheets directly, etc.
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A less literal translation like "essentially" or "in essence" is deployed by master Latin translators like Robert Fagles. I've even seen "in a vacuum" which does a better job at communicating the original intent than a string of cryptic prepositions.
> You literally just handed aggregators yet another primary key for data aggregation.

The key phrase is "Yet Another". They already collect so much data about you that one more data point won't shift the needle. The only way to deal with this is to force decentralization, so that aggregators don't get to see your data in the first place. Or at least, you have a fighting chance to keep it from them.

> Nothing about IPv6 even tilts one way or the other on the centralization vs. decentralized axis.

IPv6 allows every single device on earth to have its own unique IP address. This makes it possible for them to talk to each other directly; you don't need a central server to relay between them. IPv4 used to be this way too in the '90s at least, but we've started running out of IPv4 addresses since then. The solutions to fix this (especially NAT) lead to a need for centralized servers to mitigate the downsides.

> In point of fact, your implementation maximizes centralization pretty much by default.

You're saying a government mandate to switch everyone to IPv6 on a short timescale leads to centralization? That seems like a contradiction with your previous sentence: "Nothing about IPv6 even tilts one way or the other on the centralization vs. decentralized axis."

Maybe you were thinking something else?
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I don't think it's offensive, but it may be frustrating advice for people who cannot enjoy math at all.
If they don't buy a Mac, they'll be biased to whatever BestBuy sells them.
"...and one book to rule them all"
I agree with this--if I understand you correctly.

In "Aliens", when Hudson (or was it Hicks?) asks, "is this another bug hunt?" the lieutenant says, (paraphrasing) "there may be a xenomorph involved".

I interpret this to mean that

(a) The marines have previously fought alien creatures of some kind (and they had no problem dealing with them).

(b) They used the term "xenomorph" to mean any alien creature--not specifically the titular alien, which they had never before encountered.

So I agree. Calling it "the Xenomorph" is a misunderstanding. At best it's like calling something "the Beast", or calling all ships of a certain size "dreadnoughts".
Is this a preload / prefetch thing, maybe?
It mostly finishes on page 93. Pages 94-100 are references. The remainder of it is then "Prototype Rulebook: Stardew Valley"
> while in real life it was a us led attack on civilians, prisoners, and non fighting combatants. Google highway of death

What COD did to this scene was reprehensible, but it's also important to understand the context for the real attack. The Highway of Death that happened in real life was a targeted strike on Saddam Hussein's retreating forces, most of whom were legitimate targets of war. At the time, Iraq sponsored the 4th largest military in the world, was being bombed in Baghdad, and most of their allies were starting to turn on them over outstanding debts. This pressure pushed Saddam to invade Kuwait, and Saddam's actions pushed the US to destroy as much Iraqi materiel as they could possibly damage.

The attack did happen on a civilian road, but only after the locals became aware that the highway was being used by Saddam's forces. The controversy mostly stems from attacks on a retreating force and the scale of the destruction, both of which are still up for debate on their effectiveness.
This is such a good idea that people will almost certainly make up reasons why this is impossible for them to do
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Do you have UPNP enabled?
The racialize huckstering is long-term going to have a very serious backlash. People don't like being browbeaten over non-issues and they will rebel over it while totally disregarding whatever the pet issue is. Basic psychology.
Encoding efficiency for a given perceptual quality is very important when you pay for bandwidth or disk space.

Otherwise there would have been no effort to create vp9 and av1, as everyone on that side of the codec wars would've stuck with vp8.
Subject to device maintainer interest.
"...and in the darkness bind them"
I tried to work around bad rule books by building https://www.boardgameonepagers.com/

It’s open source, all the rules have simple markdown formatting that’s easy to glance through on an phone, and they try to be as concise as possible.

But it’s hard work writing rules and I’ve never given it the effort I’d like to.