skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are thinking of the typical design of a BASIC system in the 80's. Keywords were stored as "tokens" (numbers) but expressions were usually stored as space-stripped strings. There would be an edit-time syntax check (combined with the tokenization) to check if the expressions were syntactical and only in places where they were allowed). Some designs did use tokens for the expressions too.

There was almost no syntax involved and essentially zero compilation work.

Java compilers do a lot more than that. They actually compile to a real (abstract) machine and they do real compiler things (proper parsing, maintenance of namespaces, type checks). They usually don't do any optimization because that will happen at run-time anyway -- but that doesn't make them "not compilers".
Specifically:

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Restoring

which mentions

https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader

and also this tip:

> This is undocumented, but if you retrieve a page with id_ after the datecode, you will get the unmodified original document without all the Wayback scripts, header stuff, and link rewriting. This is useful when restoring one page at a time or when writing a tool to retrieve a site:

> http://web.archive.org/web/20051001001126id_/http://www.arch...

From the downloader's issues, you may or may not need to use this forked version if you encounter some errors:

https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader/issue...

https://github.com/ShiftaDeband/wayback-machine-downloader
There should not be an expectation of privacy from the authorities when operating a motor vehicles on public roads on which you need a license to drive
Indeed, owner.

Look, either actually read the link and refute the points within, or don't. But there's no use discussing anything if you're unwilling to even understand and seriously refute a single point being made here, other than repeating "mine, mine, mine".
Does anybody use it? There was a lot of hype on Twitter when it first came out and I haven't heard a single thing since then. Who wants to install that on a VPS and be responsible when it goes down when they could just use a Discord server or Slack?
There should really be some repercussion against clickbait titles.

There is nothing newly "uncovered" here. The actual scientific paper title is "Making sense of eastern Asian Late Quaternary hominin variability". [1] It may be a very important rethinking of early hominid families, but it has not "uncovered" anything.

In the end of the day clickbait is like spam. Degrades our communication channels, wastes time and energy. We should create mechanisms where the polluter pays, so they have to think twice before they do so.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53918-7
It's a bit buried, but there's a link further down that takes you to an interface similar to ChatGPT. However, I have not been able to get any output from it; it seems to just think forever. I must be giving it the wrong prompts...
Shouldn't it be better described as a GRUB trojan. Unlike true bootkits, which persist through OS reinstalls by exploiting firmware.

This can be easily removed by reinstalling GRUB or the OS, making it less persistent and not a genuine bootkit.
Keep in mind that POTS is specifically heart rate and not blood pressure. Blood pressure drop is orthostatic hypotension. They can both exists or one or the other, but are not the same thing and POTS is a specific term not an umbrella one.
Securely sending DHT22 sensor data from an ESP32 board to PostgreSQL
What are the advantages this provides that specifically apply to working with visual end results?

There is one kind of iterative work I can see nodes/graphical coding have a great advantage: when you don’t know what you really want to do. You want to compose and reorder a bunch of operations or compositions thereof speculatively and just see what happens.

Moving code around and reorganizing it by trial and error is definitely something I can see visual programming excel at.
Or this point, I'm sure there is more than enough publically and feely usable content to "learn how language works". There is no need to hoover up private or license-unclear content if that is your goal.
This worked fine for me for a little while, until I needed to do things that the manufacturer's example script didn't do, such as place certain globals into specific sections of memory. I had to piece the syntax of the linker file together myself, which wasn't too difficult, but a straightforward introduction to the file format would have been appreciated.
Derek is great, he's had a very interesting life and accomplished quite a bit. But if this is supposed to be advice for aspiring songwriters and musicians, I think you have to at least consider that he was not an especially successful musician. This is great advice for someone who wants to quit music and run a record label.
Custom Soundscapes to Focus, Relax and Sleep
Then leave the US.
Sometimes I read the headlines and then click on the story and the headline here doesn't match the story. Maybe it's Google translate losing the thought? But in this case they match exactly! Nice!
Having been on this site for 16 years[0] now, I do know this. In particular, in the guidelines page[1] it says:

Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

In this case the title is misleading concerning the reason I was submitting it. It's not about bridging, it's about BlueSky actively making it easy for third parties to use the content, and actively ignoring DNT.

So in this case I believe the original title to be sufficiently misleading, and the version I used instead to be a better guide for this community.

[0] Originally with a different handle

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Great detail. Do you have an idea of overall installation progress? I read[0] 3 million done with 7 million to go.

[0] https://www.ntia.gov/blog/2024/every-state-and-territory-rea...
I don't think it's hate, exactly. Derek is a well-loved guy around here for good reason. I just think people are tired of hearing that the key to success is to work themselves to death.
I very much consider RATFOR a compiler.
No one’s smuggling any quantity of autosears that you can buy on Aliexpress or Wish or print yourself on any 3d printer in 30 minutes.
Because the world shouldn't be run primarily by economically minded politicians??

I'm sure China gets competitive advantages from their use of indentured and slave-like labor forces, and mass reeducation programs in camps. Should the US allow these things to happen? What about if a private business starts?

But remember, they're just trying to compete with China on a fair playing field, so everything is permitted right?
OpenSUSE is very much "the KDE distro".
Internet dependency is something we've learned, not the natural state of things.

So, try to go about your existence without Internet of any sort and please report back at any difficulties it may cause for you.
The 'revenge' theory of politics has a number of benefits to those who claim it. It removes any need for evidence (you can claim no would admit out loud), it allows to bypass any debate about the core issues (because the revenge claim means its isn't even about the issues), and it allows you to vilify the other side (because only a villainous and evil party would use government policy for such an goal as revenge). Really a perfect mix of unprovable, issue/reason bypassing, and maximizing of emotional response.
Isn't that the whole point of the Department of Government Efficiency? Enrich private parties with kickbacks going to Trump.
Plenty of assembly files do not use the C preprocessor. It turns out that assemblers have their own macro system.
I am personally in favor of strong, short copyrights (and patents). 90+ year copyrights are just absurd. Most movies make almost all their money in the first 10 years anyway, and a strong 10- or 20-year copyright would keep the economics of movie and music production largely the same.
There is a good reason why this would be selected against by evolution: being awake increases metabolic rate--how many calories you use every day. Humans have only had abundant food availability for a short time, not long enough for evolution to adapt.
Reinsurance is a beast. I spent a good time cracking layers and trying to implement the logic with a team.
If modern EVs are anything to go by, the battery weight will be substantially more than the weight of an ICE engine plus gearbox etc. But yes, it'd be for the hobbyist to figure out the details and whether it is safe enough to drive.
I doubt it’s automation, it’s just the differences in HN audience as the day wakes up. Differences in sensibilities in different parts of the world.
Using snake_case everywhere when you should be using camelCase should have been one or two comments at most. It's toxic to go through every use and comment
I do the same at restaurants; ask to see the manager then tell them that my server has been extraordinary (when they have been). I try not to do this when it's obviously busy, etc. I also don't try to fool them with a stern "see your manager" demand then trick them.
There are several ways to implement it in NumPy, often resulting in 20% variance. I've added a reference implementation to my mirror of the blogpost and the Modular team will soon update the original posting as well: https://ashvardanian.com/posts/understanding-simd-complexity...
Hm, interesting! Then probably lots of "bandwidth conscious" folks pounced on on their fancy new PoP.

Whatever the reason, rather strange to do this without even a few days of notice.
I agree it’s more about networking. Practice is important but plateaus are only passed if you get advice in the right way or exposed to the right thing. Being loose is important too.

In my musical world, when someone comes along who studied at Berkelee you almost know they will be bad and not get the vibe: playing over people, rigid timing, no feeling.

Frankly the article is terrible advice for everyone.
Ask HN: How do I search the web in the age of enshittified search engines?
Like most internet users I used to use Google to search for information but now the quality of the results is abysmal and I no longer find it useful most of the time.

I've tried other search engines (Bing, Yandex) and the results are a bit better but still nowhere near the old Google. Kagi is a thing but I'm not sure if the quality justifies $120/year, especially since I don't earn my salary in USD.

Putting "site:reddit.com" helps a bit but there's plenty of stuff that simply isn't there, so it's not a solution either.

LLMs are a bit better with the quality of the searches but hallucinations are a thing so I need to verify the information myself so I am back to square one.

Is there anything else I can do to find information easier or to improve the quality of the searches?
As you’ve illustrated, it depends on the definition you choose for a given term.

That may also depend on who you ask and in what context.
> Why is it not a survival advantage?

“All organisms occupy a niche, and the better adapted to that niche, the more ‘fit’ and the more likely that organism will reproduce, passing on the characteristics that fit that particular niche. While we may simplistically think of each organism occupying a single niche, realistically nearly all occupy at least two. Daytime and nighttime are different and distinct niches, creating an evolutionary push and pull that would make a perfect ‘fit’ impossible. Evolutionarily, being forced to evolve into two separate niches at the same time forces an organism to develop structures and functions that fit neither fully” [1].

We didn’t evolve for a world with artificial lighting.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7120898/
What can we learn from the Andrew Tate data breach?
Why do you think you should not have an expectation of privacy when driving?

Do you not consider reasonable to have an expectation of innocence when going about your business?
Berklee is a music school. There are some fields where being average at a decent school can still result in being pretty successful. By and large, music is not one of them. Being an average music school graduate probably means not getting to work in your field (or doing something auxiliary in it, like doing e.g. booking at a club or something). Like, if you get a degree in computer science from a top school, it's almost certain that you can find work as a computer programmer if you want to. That's not true if you get a degree in jazz guitar performance.
Are those voluntary DDOS sites still up that popped up at the beginning of the Ukraine invasion?
We can start to put them in order. The first one will be the cost of the presidential transition. The last transition cost $7m and had zero security incidents. We can look at its efficiency in two ways:

- this transition should cost less. Unfortunately, it’s not transparent like the last ones.

- and if they want the same excellent security as last time, they’ll hire those folks. We’ll see if the efficiency experts plan to skimp on security.
> "Natural Selection" was given an ecological niche and optimized from scratch the being for that niche

I think you are conflating natural selection the process with organisms that are a result of natural selection.

Natural selection isn’t a process that is intentionally made by anyone, but a way we describe a simplified model slew of complex processes.

Also conflated is what you are optimizing for. The only thing natural selection optimizes for is survival. That’s it. Nothing else matters expect which individuals survive long enough to pass their genes to the next generation. As a result niches develop and as each generation survives compared to their peers their survival strategies are optimized.

Optimization perfectly describes what is happening to the survivability and reproduction of certain genes.

You appear to be working backwards. That there was a niche and evolution somehow crafted an organism to fit that niche. That is misleading. Genes replicate, and in a certain context some genes survived and replicated better than in some other context. So genes evolved in that new context creating a niche.
I love older cars and drove an early 80s Volvo until 2010 or so, but I also love side impact airbags, antilock brakes, and a car that mostly just “works”.
The logical endgame of all this isn’t “stopping LLMs,” it’s Disney happening to own a critical mass of IP to be able to more or less exclusively legally train and run LLMs that make movies, firing all their employees, and no smaller company ever having a chance in hell with competing with a literal century’s worth of IP powering a generative model. This turns the already egregiously generous backwards facing monopoly into a forward facing monopoly.

None of this was ever the point of copyright. The best part about all this is that Disney initially took off by… making use of public domain works. Copyright used to last 14 years. You’d be able to create derivative works of most the art in your life at some point. Disney is ironically the proof of how constructive a system that regularly turns works over to the public domain can be. But thanks to lobbying by Disney, now you’re never allowed to create a derivative work of the art in your life.

Copyright is only possible because we the public fund the infrastructure necessary to maintain it. “IP” isn’t self manifesting like physical items. Me having a cup necessarily means you don’t have it. That’s not how ideas and pictures work. You can infinitely perfectly duplicate them. Thus we set up laws and courts and police to create a complicated simulation of physical properties for IP. Your tax dollars pay for that. The original deal was that in exchange, those works would enter the public domain to give back to society. We’ve gotten so far from that that people now argue about OpenAI “stealing” from authors, when the authors most of the time don’t even own the works — their employers do! What a sad comedy where we’ve forgotten we have a stake in this too and instead argue over which corporation should “own” the exclusive ability to cheaply and blazingly fast create future works while everyone else has to do it the hard way.
True (AFAIK). Though Stalin likely had geopolitical reasons for his lever-pulling in the Spanish Communist Party. And America's ruling classes would be far more motivated to keep their own necks out of revolutionary guillotines than to look deeply into Stalin's motives for backing it.
Tesla is apparently talking about full teleoperation, with someone using a remote steering wheel while wearing a VR headset. Phantom Automotive tried that.[1] Baidu does that.[2] Apparently Tesla is hiring people to do that.

Waymo doesn't do that. The support center can only give hints to the vehicle software.
If the situation is so bad that won't work, they dispatch someone to go to the car and drive it manually.
The sensor suite, with all those LIDARs and RADARs, isn't well matched to VR-type driving by a human.

Tesla is trying to get away with Fake Self Driving, which they've been trying to do since 2016.

Now we see why Musk wants federal pre-emption of state regulation.[3]
California's "restrictive rules"[4] require SAE 4 or SAE 5 autonomy for autonomous vehicles.
Worse, DMV can (and did, with Cruise) revoke a company's license to drive autonomously. They apply about the same standards they do for human drivers.
Musk probably wants Federal rules where Tesla can cover up, litigate, and stall after accidents, since that's what Tesla has done in the past after major accidents. DMV can suspend a license immediately.

[1] https://www.statesman.com/story/money/2024/11/18/tesla-feder...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/simracing/comments/1f0avac/baidus_s...

[3] https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/heres-where-federal-automated-...

[4] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/av_second15day_notice_exp...
“A person is fundamentally different from an LLM” does not need a legal argument and is implied by the fact that LLMs do not have human rights, or even anything comparable to animal rights.

A legal argument would be needed to argue the other way. This argument would imply granting LLMs some degree of human rights, which the very industry profiting from these copyright violations will never let happen for obvious reasons.
How much of your income have you spent on ChatGPT vs how much ChatGPT has increased your income?
> At a different scale: the German government paid the Romanian Corporations for all the oil and grains they bought to supply their war effort.

I already mentioned in another comment that Romania wasn't "under German occupation", but this bit I'm quoting here is also false.

Germany theoretically paid Romania but in practice it defaulted in most/all payments, so that Romanians got nothing for their oil. It was a major problem that eroded public support for the Axis and made poverty worse in Romania. Again, not something that helped Romanians regard the Germans "fondly".
I Lost 260 hours and $10k by watching Netflix
There is no such thing as the sufficiently smart developer.
No state has issued awards to ISPs yet. The NTIA has awarded "planning money" to state broadband offices to set up the program and review applications.

Only a few states have completed the application phase shown by the right most column on cost quest's dashboard linked below. Side note - cost quest is another example of government funding making a private company rich.

https://www.costquest.com/ntia-bead-program-dashboard/
Well, that’ll be phase 2. Phase 1 is to grow the Department of Government Efficiency until it’s too big to fail. Phase 2 is the inevitable bailout of the Department of Government Efficiency.
> unmitigated pedantry

Does what it says on the tin.
Stop fooling yourself ffs ... call a spade a spade and think clearly.

This is abosolute horseshit compared to the dream and vision and what was promised for some people who have actually paid hard cash for FSD.
I mean, it didn't have to be this way. But they decided to go with the enshittification route so why would younger people use it if it ain't that good anymore?

Technologies that stay useful keep getting used, generation after generation. We still use spoons for soup. We've had refrigerators in houses since they became available. There are no "Millennials aren't buying refrigerators and don't like spoons" articles in the new york times. Its because these still work and work well for their purpose.

If they just made google work well for search and kept it working well, there would be no shift in use.
An excuse to post NEAT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroevolution_of_augmenting_t... Which has (you guessed it!) a topology that adapts to the situation
This is true, I was neighbours with one of the top mathematicians in my uni and he slept what felt like an excessive amount everyday.

I definitely underperformed academically due to sleep deprivation and I probably benefited greatly during my revision period because I had a very strong sleep routine.

That said, I entered my final exam having only slept probably less than two hours and that was 100% the right call because the extra cramming was necessary and drove the needle significantly.
Can you be PIPed, if you are self-employed?
Well, it's more like graduating from a kid's tricycle to a mountain bike.

Sure the tricycle had streamers on the handlebars and the little basket on the front was cute, but you can get more places with a mountain bike.
The fact that these lawsuits aren't as simple as "is my copywrited work in your training set, yes or no" is boggling.
It's a huge and dishonest leap to jump from
"our programmers are Googlers, not researchers."
to
"Rob Pike admitted anyone who uses Go is stupid and if they were smart they would be using Scheme instead."

That's just not what he said or implied.
I agree with the author that it's annoying that any kind of change to the header length (even trivial stuff like renaming tensors) would require an entire rewrite of the file. Though I think there is an easier way to solve this: Add some padding to the header.

More formally, I'd keep the existing safetensors format exactly as it is (I.e. first header size, then header, then data), but also do the following:

- First research how long the JSON headers are typically in practice (a KB? an MB? larger?).

- Think of some number that would be the "ideal header size", i.e. that is convenient to handle and that 99% of all headers will fall under. Let's say 1024.

- When writing a new file, add the constraint that the header size must always be a multiple of that number - i.e. round up the actual header size to the next multiple and fill the remaining bytes with whitespace.

- That should give you a situation where most of the files have effectively a fixed header size of 1024+8 bytes, a small portion has a header of 2048+8 bytes and a very small number of huge files have a larger header.

When updating a file, you can now distinguish two cases:

- Does the header size change, e.g. from 1024 to 2048? Though luck, you have to rewrite the entire file.

- Does it not change? Then you can update the header in-place or even append new tensors to the end of the file. This should be the common case.

(It would also be useful to keep track of the header information in memory, separate of the data, so you can quickly calculate the size difference and write the new header without that additional pass over the data)

Reading the file is the same as reading standard safetensors files, you just have to make sure, your JSON parser is tolerant of extra whitespace.
No, don't. Sleep is fundamental to everything else and hence messing with it is never advisable. Some resources;

1) Neuroscience of Sleep - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_sleep

2) Sleep Epigenetics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_epigenetics

3) Sleep deprivation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation

4) Familial natural short sleep - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familial_natural_short_sleep
Yes, I smelled a rat when the article said "the new group includes the Denisovans".