skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My dad ran a similar analysis a decade ago and agrees that China is heavily subsidizing their production. As to why, we can only guess. My bet is China sees it as a way to become the global manufacturing monopoly and gut their adversaries’s ability to compete when it comes to wartime ramp up.
This doesn't quite address what I wrote about specifically.
Isn't that just most people though?
That’s a clear abuse of presidential power.
I don’t understand how “Crick’s attempt to break the central dogma” … “relied upon the fact that the genetic code is redundant.”

The article doesn’t seem to present any explanation of how his argument supposedly relied on that.
Star Citizen is playable now.

The community overwhelmingly voted for the scope screep. Myself included.

They could freeze the features now, fix the bugs, and finish the content and it'd be the best space game ever.

But the vision is bigger than that for better or for worse.

I really do have a lot of fun with it right now when it's not bugging out. Which changes like the seasons.
Feds: Tether has become a money laundering tool for Mexican drug trafficker
It depends on the scale - If you expect to scale to at least a few hundred GBs a (to multiple TBs), ClickHouse would be a safe and proven option. The Postgres + ClickHouse duo is a common pattern adopted by production-grade customers as their default data stack to solve transactional (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) use cases.

ClickHouse also recently released Postgres CDC connector in ClickPipes for a seamless integration of Postgres. Now you can stream Postgres data into ClickHouse within a few minutes. https://clickhouse.com/cloud/clickpipes/postgres-cdc-connect... This was a result of the acquisition of PeerDB, an open-source Postgres CDC product - https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-welcomes-peerdb-addin...

Disclaimer: This is Sai from ClickHouse/PeerDB here. However, the answer above is based on multiple years of customer experiences. :)
It's IMO the right setting to talk about logic. That's one of the reasons it unifies ideas in math.

Computer science is mostly an application of logic which is why category theory has become a useful tool in theoretical computer science.
The one I use (one of the biggest) only takes crypto, either directly or by paying with your card through Moonpay.
Unsurprising really. Just shows how the whole lot of them are corrupt.
> I think that the real potential in this domain is having them act as a sort of “compiler” layer that bridges the gap between natural language - which is imprecise - and formal languages (sql, prolog, python, lean, etc) that are more suited for solving these types of problems. And then maybe synthesizing the results / outputs of the formal language layer. Basically “agents”.

Well, if you do all that, would you say that the system has a whole has 'reasoned'? (I think ChatGPT can already call out to Python.)
In addition to that, I feel like pointing out that destructors generally compile down to nothing. I have mostly only seen issues with "heavy destructors" in old-school C++ code where you have lots of small allocations and complicated trees of object ownership--which is a model Rust discourages!

I think the anti-Rust people would be better off arguing that they just don't like RAII because it's "magic" (ie. too implicit about cleanup). It's harder to argue against because it's subjective, whereas these arguments against RAII are specious at best.
The main factor was the extremely low pay. Weird schedule too. (I worked in a conversational school, so not really even a teacher). Unless you work in international schools, you won't be making much more than minimum wage. It's a lot of fun though. I'd happily do it for possibly my whole life if the pay was better or I had another source of passive income.
Previous discussion: "Rapid colonization of a space-returned Ryugu sample by terrestrial microorganism" <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.14288>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42238603>

3 days ago, 59 comments.

It's not clear to me that the phys.org restatement of that article (which is what it's discussing) adds anything new to the story, which would be HN's criterion for non-dupe status.
Single issue /donors/
I read the title and thought, “What does a story-writer’s height have to do with sustainability?” English is fun.
I have a Moka pot, a manual coffee grinder, and an electric milk frother. I grind coffee beans every morning, place them in the Moka pot to brew, and finally add heated milk.
Some people would say that the fortunate authors have already benefitted society, and that the potential of winning this lottery ticket was part of their incentive to do so. We could equally ask "does it benefit society to enrich tech founders with billion-dollar acquisitions?"

That said, I believe the security of UBI to be a stronger enabler for creativity than gambling you'll write the next great American novel in-between shifts at the fish cannery.
DCS has the same model, and I think it's a fair price considering how much work goes into these assets.
As primarily an engineer doing maths, with code on the side, I feel the exact same.

It’s been way more of use to me in pulling together parts of topology, linear algebra, geometric algebra, homology et al than discovering furtive programming abstractions.
Otto Rank and Ernest Becker, Art, Artist, and Creativity (2022)
Show HN: AI agents that work in data factory
Image-TO-Video animation without attention or stable diffusion.
Pixel based models fails to capture physics present in video dataset, we are building ai agents capable of performing complex tasks in videos.
Muscles also have more than one nucleus per cell, if you have strength trained. You can fast and diet and waste away all the protein and shrink them down, but the nuclei remain. Go in to a surge of calories, protein, (and optional androgenic hormone signaling) and the nuclei effectively parallel process transcription of mRNA in the ribosomes for regeneration of the proteins from amino acids and re-bulking up of the cells and your strength.

This, (along with neural adaption) is what we are taking about when we reference “muscle memory”. It’s a steep hill to
train the first time and multiply the nuclei, but once you have them, you have them for life, and subsequent re-strengthening efforts will be far easier.

I’ve gone through this myself and it’s pretty shocking. It took me X years to achieve Y kilograms barbell whatever movement. A diet or lack of training for a year and I can only do Y/2. But if I eat a ton, I can be back to Y or higher in a few months.
I disagree, they'd make way more money releasing the game to a wider audience and continuing the strategy with a larger pool of customers.

Though the incentive to release is definitely weaker due to them making so much money prior to official release.
2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar
Who in the US/EU is certified to work on it? Or is this for hobbyists?
You are going to block/wait yourself when availableToPoll() (now changed to availableToFetch() for clarity) returns 0. When that happens you can block/wait by busy spinning or by using a wait strategy. The blocking term means that the producer has to block/wait when the ring is full and the consumer has to block/wait when the ring is empty.

For the non-blocking ring, the producer never blocks on a full ring. It overwrites the circular ring. The consumer can still block on an empty ring.

So to make it clear:

Blocking ring => producer and consumer can block/wait

Non-Blocking ring => producer never blocks and consumer can still block on an empty ring. Consumer can also fall behind too much and disconnect.
speaking of submodules, anyone here have experience with git subrepo ?
I'm quite sympathetic to social effects of technical choices in general!

You said:

> The author's line of thought seems to be concerned with the social aspect of RAII in my reading though. Like how you can write memory-safe C if you're a "good C programmer" (meaning most people evidently won't), these considerations for RAII might be subtle enough that it justifies banning its use altogether (like using memory unsafe constructions is in safe Rust).

In response I gave you a link which (if you follow it) says:

* The "goto error" pattern is notorious for introducing subtle resource
* leaks. It is tedious and error prone to add new resource acquisition
* constraints into code paths that already have several unwind
* conditions. The "cleanup" helpers enable the compiler to help with
* this tedium and can aid in maintaining LIFO (last in first out)
* unwind ordering to avoid unintentional leaks.

So clearly this is about understanding that goto-based error handling doesn't really scale and adding RAII-like behavior to make it work better.
They dismissed it as being from earth based on "Population statistics", not determining them to be known earth microbes.
It is not inherently, but people are very effective at using it to produce foul, unpleasant output, which is a temporary problem. Like almost all things, people will not actually care how they're made if the final product is good.
My personal challenge last year was to solve everything on my mobile phone, using LLMs (mostly ChatGPT4 with code interpreter; I didn't paste in the problems, but rather described the code I wanted.)

This year I'm declaring "Advent of Claude"!

Challenge: Write a Claude custom style to solve Advent of Code puzzles within Claude's UI.

Score: # adventofcode.com stars earned in 2 daily conversation turns.

Fine print: web app artifacts are allowed, including paste of your custom input into the artifact UI; one click only.

Per https://adventofcode.com/2024/about, wait until the daily http://adventofcode.com leaderboard is full before submitting LLM-generated solutions!

Of course, feel free to use ChatGPT custom instructions, static prompts, etc.

Day 1: two stars, https://claude.site/artifacts/d16e6bdb-f697-45fe-930c-7f58b2...
This server seems to be active, although they are all unofficial servers from enthusiasts.

https://discord.gg/wYmyYsf
There's countless "jealous cat" videos that suggest otherwise.

This raises the question: Do cats learn jealousy from humans?
This argument from the article meshes with my own thinking:

The reason there have not been new forms of life originating on Earth, evolving alongside our microbial cousins, could be that there is simply no room for a newcomer. In a system where every niche is filled with more advanced life looking for a next meal, even if a new form of life got started, it would not last long.

There are a number of related issues regarding life, including LUCA and the emergence of mitochondria in eukaryotic cells, which suggest to me less that a single ancestor existed at that time than that that ancestor's descendents out-competed (or out-lucked) all other comers, and that once established other contenders for life simply couldn't find an available niche.

Oh, and bad news for the fans of LGM / panspermia, at least in the "absence of evidence" sense:

Population statistics indicate that the microorganisms originated from terrestrial contamination during the sample preparation stage rather than being indigenous to the asteroid.
Population statistics indicate that the microorganisms originated from terrestrial contamination during the sample preparation stage rather than being indigenous to the asteroid.

From TFA.
I think he's saying here that intuition is sufficient for high school math, but not sufficient for college. That's not to say that it isn't necessary, only that it isn't sufficient.
>The only way humanity survives is as small pockets of preindustrial, agrarian societies, and in far fewer numbers than exist today.

Aside from the complete practical and moral wrongness of all the nonsense you just said, there's the hypocrisy.

You state the above while using either a desktop device or phone to comment on a site like HN (and presumably interact with many other sites on the web), with all of these and your device being pinnacle product results of a mass industrial modern society. Not to mention your lament that billions don't die to have "far fewer numbers", while obviously keeping yourself alive despite this regret about all those others.
Unless panspermia is much more common than usually imagined.

If much of the thousands of tons of extraterrestrial debris that falls to earth every year was teeming with microbes we might not easily tell the difference.

But I very strongly suspect this is not the case.
It’s a funny artifact because most people today use, and have only used Linux in a “single user” context. The “local system administrator” is me!
> […] disproportionately burdens the less well off due to how their consumption is structured and that they have less to spend in the first place.

Offer credits (tax refunds) for lower incomes:

* https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/child-famil...
> something that has likely already introduced extraterrestrial Earth microbes to the moon and Mars

So, life is possibly already multiplanetary?
> If you think the argument is wrong -say so. Refute it on its own merits. It gets no better or worse from it being said by him.

Thing is, one of their points is that the claims listed are unsupported. Challenging unsupported claims is an asymmetrical effort, and is of ill form - those making the claims should be the one providing evidence, the onus is on them after all.
This is a "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" scenario: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo131797...

In any field, be it engineering or the sciences, accomplished and intelligent practitioners find themselves resisting new technology for reasons that are ultimately inscrutable and personal --- for example, fear of the unknown or fear of new technology devaluing their in the old. Because these practitioners are experienced and intelligent, they're able to construct elaborate plausible-sounding technical arguments against the new technologies. But since they're starting with the opposition and working backwards to a rationale, what these practitioners do when they argue against the new technology isn't so much science as apologetics.

Apologies can be frustrating because, superficially, they resemble earnest argumentation --- but because, in apologetics, the authors starts with a conclusion and works backwards to an argument, an apology contains insidious logical traps that are difficult to detect and disarm, especially when the new technology (as all new technologies do) contain genuine gaps and flaws.

It's because of this dynamic that many fields advance "one retirement at a time". We should all make a conscious effort, when evaluating new technology, to distinguish earnest technical criticisms from justifications for feeling averse to change --- and consciously suppress the latter.
As someone who spends 100 hours a week working in this space, it's so weird seeing such pervasive negative attitudes everywhere I look.

I know the work I'm doing is valuable and that this field is the future. I'm sure it'll click for more folks soon.
A very unfortunate outcome. Something technical people appear to be commonly prone to is not "reading the room" well, and it may be the honest entry point here is that they didn't understand how seriously something was being put, and their laughter was read as more than embarrassment, or casual (mis)understanding of humour.

But there comes a point where being asked to make changes on frankly poor grounds IS an attack on individual integrity. This feels like one of those instances.

I know nothing about the principals. There may be more complex issues around this, other competing aspects.

So taking this as an honest, if not dispassionate take on things, I think the committee made a mistake.

Maybe I misunderstood. How do you get from undefined behaviour to "the final programme" or something? whats the strong anti-semitic quality in "undefined behaviour" as a modern trigger term?
> Most humans are not that good at reasoning themselves [...]

I'd say most humans most of the time. Individual humans can do a lot better (or worse) depending on how much effort they put in, and whether they slept well, had their morning coffee, etc.

> If anything, the current limits of these morels show the limits of human cognition which is spread throughout the internet - because this is literally what they learned from.

I wouldn't go quite so far. Especially because some tasks require smarts, even though there's no smarts in the training data.

The classic example is perhaps programming: the Python interpreter is not intelligent by any stretch of the imagination, but an LLM (or a human) needs smarts to predict what's going to do, especially if you are trying to get it to do something specific.

That example might skirt to close to the MuZero paper that you already mentioned as an exception / extension.

So let's go with a purer example: even the least smart human is a complicated system with a lot of hidden state, parts of that state shine through when that human produces text. Predicting the next token of text just from the previous text is a lot harder and requires a lot more smarts than if you had access to the internal state directly.

It's sort-of like an 'inverse problem'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_problem
> Speaking from your cozy bubble of superiority .. is simply a form of naval gazing arrogance.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Do better.
I can believe that they're doing some form of extrapolation to create novel solutions to posed problems

You can believe it what sort of evidence are you using for this belief?

Edit: Also, the abstract of the Apple paper hardly says "corruption" (implying something tricky), it says that they changed the initial numerical values
JW, why pay for these services? Private trackers are still free and have all the content..
Could anyone suggest a source about incorporation of "caching" into job-shop-like scheduling problem formulation?

In other words, i would like to explore a way to approach a problem of statically scheduling (heterogenous) computations and data transfers between multuple tiers of caches (disk, ram, vram) in OR fashion (e.g. formulating MILP).
So it's consumeristic, but all gaming is.
While I do see this as an clear conflict of interest, I do think that this was the correct thing to do. There's no world that Hunter receives a far trial in the midst of the hyper-polarized political world we're in.
I think C++ drags a lot of bad stuff in with the good, and it is reasonable to be skeptical of it.

For example, I think it was bordering on malpractice for lambdas to ship without anything resembling a borrow checker in place. With lambdas that borrow from the stack, introducing memory safety bugs is shockingly trivial.

Even if your codebase bans lambdas in C++, it's quite reasonable to not fully trust the teams which made the decision to ship them.
I mean, him first? I definitely implied this, but admittedly others on this thread have made this more explicit: he doesn't really say anything here; he leans on other canned RAII-bad arguments without addressing Lina's points seriously and in good faith, presuming that she's "completely unaware of the downsides of RAII", that the code she's writing is going to have performance problems, that she - someone who's actually worked on the Linux kernel! - doesn't know about a completely imagined intolerance for RAII in the kernel. And as I mentioned, he was kind of a jerk about it too. I think I gave this post the response it deserved.

I know we want to live in a world where everyone rigorously logically defends every position all the time, but in life - especially now, in the world of the internet where everyone has a soapbox - we have to apply heuristics of credibility to make this manageable. "Some guy with limited experience who's paid to promote a programming language" has vastly less credibility than "Linux kernel developer who reversed engineered the M1 GPU" - he needs to come out with a very robust argument for us to take him seriously; instead he posted FUD.

I certainly don't think great devs are infallible. As a particular example - Hickey's a great dev. But I think Hickey's criticism of type systems in "Simple Made Easy" is a flawed argument. I've spent a long time thinking about why it's flawed. If I were to write a blog post about why it's flawed, though, I'd do my best to engage with it seriously; not just presume he doesn't know what he's talking about, presume his code is going to be riddled with type errors, link to some Haskell 101 and call it a day.
> No one outside of his generation (when he was successful) will ever have a chance to read his books as they're impossible to find now.

Does the family not have rights to those works? A copy of the books? Scan them and release them copyright free if you want the world to see them.
You may have a point with a cult band like Neutral Milk Hotel, but songs like Take On Me and Running Up That Hill were incredibly popular when they were new -- it's just that both got a second wave of popularity decades later when they were used on soundtracks of films/shows.
Access was more popular with a certain crowd, way back.

Then the client-server world dominated the desktop, plus we needed automated backups and source control and tests and scalability and auditing and hosting and security and other really important things that never properly made there way into Access. Presumably Microsoft didn't want to cannabilize SQL Server sales and chose not to invest in those things that would have actually made it an MVP for building home-grown apps.
My limited understanding is most content gets reinvested in creating more content. That is $10.5B that won't be used to create new movies, tv shows, etc.
Not the main argument, The only argument for Rust. The only single one argument for Rust.
Sure? "There are only two genders" will get you banned on BlueSky: https://www.newsweek.com/conservatives-join-bluesky-face-abu...
I see you can infer what I meant.

The war started in 2014, Obama the Picnic planner did nothing knowing full well it was coming. He along with Merkel carried out a quiet arms embargo where Ukraine wasn't even able to buy a bullet from the West while Russia took land in the East.

Trump at least sent Javalins during his term.

Biden took office and also wouldn't support Ukraine. Even after the full-scale invasion of the country in Feb 2024 he didn't want to help. He let Ukrainians sit under 30k shells a day while he pondered if sending them artillery would escalate the situation. They didn't provide anything for 3 months at the start and then they slowly dripped things in keeping Ukraine barely in the game. 6 months for artillery, almost a year for air defense while Russia bombed their civilian population, 1.5 years for tanks, never any F16's but finally ok others after 2.5 years. He was a total failure.
People repeat "generative AI is all evil garbage" because that's what the media (which is very afraid of AI, might I add) has told them.

It's also funny to see AI turn people who normally dislike copyright into die-hard copyright lovers.
Huge fan of building systems on top of Orleans Actors (one of the tools discussed in the article)
Private trackers (at least, the "good ones") take time and effort to get into and stay in... most people just want convenience.
if it was taken down as the article suggests, there's no site to drive traffic to? or was this just a partial raid?
We already have plenty of words for the ancient and generic concept of things-getting-worse, like "ruining".
It actually was, he was almost entirely destitute when he died and the autobiography was his last desperate at providing for his family.
Read an open source one. Here’s a Ruby one called Flipper.

https://github.com/flippercloud/flipper
Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio, Dinesh D'Souza, Bernie Kerik, Michael Flynn, Roger Stone and Paul Manafort.

Given the lawfare that Republican courts have waged against Hunter, this seems like fair play, and very much in line with what Trump does.