skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess "not being assholes" has been given all the consideration it deserved and been rejected after a vivid internal debate.
Productivity improvements (such as automation) increase employment.

The decreased employment case is when your competitors get the productivity and you don't, because you go out of business.
> Why is it surprising that a backend returns HTML when it receives an HTTP request? That is the web

We did that for a long time with Perl/PHP/ASP/JSP

I wonder why we stopped doing that? I'll just wait a few decades of your FE with this until you figure it out scnr
Hopefully it does, because the drivers that don't stop are just driving blind and won't see the waymo.
One would assume there are some low-hanging fruits that make up the bulk of the speed-ups, but maybe it’s really a huge pile of small incremental improvements?
Would make no sense. They already own the most popular service, owning the second one may bring monopoly scrutiny.
just got my friend on this lmao gg https://chat.opanei.com/chat/3a9afde7-b48d-4815-b4a8-794fdd4...
> Can't you assign every conversation to a single authoritative server for handling?

The whole point of Matrix is to be decentralised. In particular people should be able to keep talking when on different sides of a netsplit, by design.

> Also, how large of a time skew are you imagining would exist between different servers? That stuff ought to be accurate to at least milliseconds if not micro...

The question isn't how much time skew there can be between server A and server B, it's how long they can be cut off from each other over the network, which could be hours at least. (And even when things are working well, a normal ping is a few hundred ms, which is enough to change the order of messages)
Foundations of Biological Evolution: More Results
Anthem just walked that back. Probably not out of the goodness of their hearts, but because their execs saw the public sharpening their guillotines and got cold feet.
It did not digest https://github.com/torvalds/linux ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
For sure. If I were in charge of AI for the US, I'd prioritize having a known good and best-in-class LLM available not least for national security reasons; OAI put someone on gov rel about a year ago, beltway insider type, and they have been selling aggressively. Feels like most of the federal procurement is going to want to go to using primes for this stuff, or if OpenAI and Anthropic can sell successfully, fine.

Grok winning the Federal bid is an interesting possible outcome though. I think that, slightly de-Elon-ed, the messaging that it's been trained to be more politically neutral (I realize that this is a large step from how it's messaged) might be a real factor in the next few years in the US. Should be interesting!

Fudged71 - you want to predict openai value and importance in 2029? We'll still both be on HN I'm sure. I'm going to predict it's a dominant player, and I'll go contra-Gwern, and say that it will still be known as best-in-class product delivered AI, whether or not an Anthropic or other company has best-in-class LLM tech. Basically, I think they'll make it and sustain.
Another article https://www.rferl.org/a/romania-russia-election-interference...
I'll wait to jump ship until I see who buys them. It could end up being a huge positive for a gitlab. I have been very disappointed in their strategy the past few years and I think they squandered an enormous opportunity and amount of Goodwill with developers. If they got bought by somebody good, then I think it could end up being a massive positive.
Author chose to take a jab at "walled gardens" which made absolutely no sense. They basically implied that because both iPhones and iPads were accessed in this way, Apple's ecosystem is worthless. Or something. Clearly had an agenda.
As an academic PI I would not feel the slightest inclination or pressure to produce results favorable to a company just because I got a research grant from their foundation. Most such places use volunteer external reviewers to avoid a conflict of interest in who gets funded- and I have also served in that role for private foundations before.
I'm not sure if Jetbrains is bigger than I expected or Gitlab smaller, but it feels to me that Jetbrains wouldn't be able to afford Gitlab.
> When IRC federation breaks, everyone can see it, except for the rare people who aren't in a shared channel with anyone on the other side of the break.

Well sure, you could see that something was going on, if you were paying attention. But how does that solve the problem? Does your IRC client stop you from sending messages if it detects a netsplit?
This is so cool! I especially applaud you for managing to implement USB drivers from scratch! By the way, I broke it by typing "cat doom1.wad" :)
> I would like to remark it's not entirely clear-cut

Are you saying this as an epidimeologist? (I'm not an epidimeologist. I've only studied the math.)

> looking at genetic similarity alone

Epidimeology is the study of disease in a population. You can't look at the virus alone.

The dividing line between emerging and novel is brighter than between emerging and existing. It has to do with whether the population has pre-existing immunity. SARS-CoV infection conferred no immunity to SARS-CoV-2. Getting infected with the Alpha variant, on the other hand, conferred immunity to Omega.

> I'd say the pathogen itself doesn't necessarily need to do the changing in the context of emerging diseases. I'd take it to mean they have potential to become more prevalent or have a more significant impact, but that could easily also be due to changes in conditions, including human behavior

Literally in the Wikipedia. "EIDs may also result from spread of an existing disease to a new population in a different geographic region, as occurs with West Nile fever outbreaks."
But is it better than Claude?
You would not write this code for a very simple reason: all `setState` calls queue up a new render. Since you're setting the state every time the component is rendered, it will loop infinitely.

Let's say you instead did the `setFoo` and `setBar` in a click handler. In that case, when you click the button it would tell React "Hey, in the next render set `foo = 10` and `bar = 2` (since `foo = 1)`. Then React goes ahead and runs your function again, and `foo` and `bar` will both be updated.

The value of `foo` does not change within a render cycle, you literally don't have to worry about state.
He's going to find out that being a Staples is harder than it looooks.
We have to invent domain-specific language when there is no existing term for an important concept. Each of the terms you mention except ascii (which is an acronym) is imbued with contextual meaning: thread of execution, kernel as in essential core, float as in floating point, register is in that which records and reflects. I’m willing to bet I will find similar pre-computer uses if I go looking.

Which is to say they represent a different approach than simply making up a word devoid of meaning.
Mainstream news today is written for an 8th grade reading ability. Many adults would lose interest otherwise, and the generation that grew up reading little more than social media posts will be even worse.

AI can handle that sort of writing just fine, readers won't care about the formulaic writing style.
> 95%! Isn't that too bitter? One square of 72% works best for me, 85% is pushing it.

Agreed. But I like embedded almonds too
Litdb – type safe SQL for JavaScript/TS
Sorry, but it's a correctness bug most of the time[], as the correct information is known or known to not exist.

If ask a math question and you get a random incorrect equation, it's not unfit for purpose, just incorrect.

FFP would be returning misinformation from the model, which is not a hallucination per se.
Or the model misunderstanding the question and returning a correct answer to a related question.

[] Except for art generators.
Adding: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674299344

and: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674979796

to my christmas list. I don't think the law or war are appropriate tools for establishing international morality, but maybe the right ones are somewhere in these.
Middle managers who read some books and proceed to 'manage' are selling you a fantasy.

You can't fix one fantasy with another fantasy.
The Underground University
They hired an axe man, people are getting hurt.
That is correct the path chosen by the Bootstrappable Builds project indeed:

https://bootstrappable.org/
https://lwn.net/Articles/983340/
Rigged? Or just convinced enough idiots with propaganda?
I was thinking about that as well, given that it seems it would fit in well with the red hat portfolio. They don't as far as I know. Have a good answer for a gitforge, and the phenomenal CI CD offering that gitlab has would be very marketable to Red hat customers.

I would be excited if IBM acquired them and put them under the red hat umbrella, because as history has shown, it may mean that gitlab ends up becoming much more open. They may open up the entire product instead of doing the open core model.
You don't happen to work at Minio do you?

Because apparently Minio is for AI these days: https://min.io/
Succinctly:

lim_(n→∞) bits_needed(3ⁿ) / n
= lim_(n→∞) ⌈log2(3ⁿ)⌉ / n
= lim_(n→∞) ⌈n log2(3)⌉ / n
= log2(3)
= log(3) / log(2)

where bits_needed(m) is the minimum number of bits needed to encode m distinct values.
Thank you very much. I found this last night when looking into some of the keywords you mentioned. Looks like some of the same authors you referenced. Exciting!

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15927
> first time getting keyboard input, USB mouse input, running DOOM, reading from disks, networking, and getting a compiler working

One of these is really a lot more impressive (and indicates a far more mature and finished product) than the rest. I love how it's just listed in there next to the basics. Nice job.
These folks say that you do need that in 2024 (commented machine code actually):

https://bootstrappable.org/ https://lwn.net/Articles/983340/
It's changed in fairly predictable ways - the number of people grows fairly stably and the price goes in roughly four year waves, up something like 5x or more then down 85%. So there's emotion and speculation but in a kind of consistent way in practice.
Please read my other comment in this thread, I can't edit my comment :(
I think it's worthwhile. The last several updates of basically anything but particularly ios and os have been remarkably enshittified - there countless surreal anecdotes of bizarre glitch after glitch after glitch inexplicable if basic ux, trouble shooting, debuggging etc was done.

Apple support forums are now an entire sub-genre of enraged or upset people begging Apple for help -"since the x update, I cannot see the cursor or cut and paste, I have an essay to write' etc etc and without any response. AND yes - this is why it's worthwhile, every utterance from Apple is about how they're integrating A.I. etc and how revolutionary extraordinary etc it is. The cognitive dissonance is crazy and I can't think of any company that was that great and had such devoted customers which has turned into an 'it just sucks' brand - not for everyone of course.

Admittedly I speak as someone who foolishly updated to 18.1.1 and have just spent several hours undoing all the compulsory "we're connecting you to blah blah blah" features. OS Sonoma is worse. Sorry if this sounds reddittyy but does anyone with inside intel know why/how they've gotten so bad. Eg; Before - maybe in about 2013: 'get new mac -- excitement' - 'updates - usually cool. new features, maybe a bug or two.' Now the excitement has dwindlied and any update requires at least an hour of debugging undoing all the bloat.
Which abstractions are leaky? State is complex. There’s not really a way to get around that.
You can vote in romania with tiktok accounts?!
Sediments including lead tend to accumulate at the bottom of water heaters, so you'd be measuring the accumulated lead and not the locality's with this assumption.
It's an excellent use of words, especially given modern standardisation practices - if Google adds something new into Chrome and publishes an RFC at the same time, are they not marching at the front of the implementers, the standard inviting others to follow in their footsteps?
Wow, this disclaimer on the side of the page was a bit surprising: "If you are in Russia or the Russia-controlled parts of Ukraine and hold a Russian passport or are a stateless person residing permanently in Russia or the Russia-controlled parts of Ukraine, please note that you could face fines or imprisonment for sharing, liking, commenting on, or saving our content, or for contacting us."
Yes. Copyright issues are handled in the way you'd expect. Take down requests outside of copyright are reviewed internally without guarantee of outcome.

https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-request-to-remove-som...
The latter. I guess people are more malleable than we thought.
Corporations of various kinds knowingly cause the death of many people each year, but they have PR departments that put out vague statements of regret whenever there is an overly obvious causal nexus.

Corporations are run by humans, and not all of them are nice people. Some are amoral or outright sociopathic. My understanding is that the victim in this case didn't die instantly, so presumably he had a couple of minutes to realize that he was critically wounded and absolutely helpless. I feel OK about that.
I certainly agree that a horrible outcome would be if atlassian or Oracle buys it, but IBM? If IBM acquires and puts it under the red hat umbrella, they have a history of opening up products that were previously more closed. Considering what they did with ansible, for example, would be amazing for gitlab.
This is actually kind of darkly hilarious. A CEO is gunned down and their solution is... "Let's try to keep secret who our CEO is!" Top minds at work here.
The endpoint for upgrading for the normal web interface was returning 500s for me. Upgrading through the iOS app worked though.
Nobody is above politics but if something is started for political reasons and the people involved are all politically motivated non-experts, you’re only going to get political pieces. If it’s run by people who have subject matter expertise, they can still have political opinions but they’re probably not going to embarrass themselves professionally by taking outrageous positions.

As a concrete example, Republicans made vaccination a highly contentious political litmus test. A lot of doctors are Republicans, but that lead to most of them staying quiet or making very moderate positions – the few exceptions being noteworthy because they represented such a small minority of their peers.
This bar of Whittaker's Dark Almond (https://www.whittakers.co.nz/en_AU/products/dark-almond/bloc...):

Average Quantity

Serving size

Energy 2300kJ

Protein 11.4g

Fat - total 35.3g

Saturated 14.6g

Carbohydrates - total 45.8g

Sugars 32.4g

Sodium 16mg

Yum!
That will likely get you a trademark cease and desist or two.
Americans are learning the hard way that universal morality only works when you are utterly unchallenged in your strength. Once things start going south people who profess to believe whatever moral things won't feel a shred of sadness if hurting you benefits them and their family.
Gutless. That's how it happens in authoritarian regimes. People start obeying in advance.

Do not obey in advance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tocssf3w80&t=149s
Pretty sure the CT is not really a truck in the way an F150 is. Plenty of folks still get trucks to use as cars, but everyone I know who got a CT replaced a large SUV and use it mostly as a car with a big trunk.
i mean yeah? it’s pretty easy to find white supremacy, anti-semitism, overt racism, etc with a little of search from the home page. reddit and other sites have their fair share, but twitter is the only large only that encourages or at least doesn’t push against this sort of content
Sounds like you might be someone interested in the Bootstrappable Builds project:

https://bootstrappable.org/ https://lwn.net/Articles/983340/
You're right that we are in the zone of intense cognitive dissonance right now. COVID is everywhere but no one does anything. People that don't protect themselves by wearing respirators and cleaning the air will likely pay a price.
I don't understand what you are trying to say here. Serving HTML directly from the backend works wonderfully for almost all websites and web apps. The growing popularity of solutions like HTMX, Hotwire, and Phoenix LiveView is proof that React is not the panacea that was promised. Why prepare JSON on the backend, send it over the wire, and have the frontend transform that data into HTML when the backend could just send HTML in the first place?
I remember Far Side calendars, I think that many people knew the comics more from the calendars than from print. I even once compiled a Nature's Way calendar, and thought about sending it off to Gary.
Does Europe not have jury trials?
In my mind it's all multi spectral processing .. combining signal from many bands some quite disimilar, to build a representation that can be ground investigated ( or "truthed" ).

In building exploration targets we'd pull together gravity, radiometrics, magnetics, EM, ERT, past mining records, regional surface geochemistry et al.

If tasked with finding old workings and shafts many things spring to mind .. old road and track patterns, strong vegetation zones perhaps indicating catchment from workings and dead vegetation zones perhaps due to leached processing chemicals (cyanide etc.)

But, yes, returning to the filter options there's signal and noise; when looking for the uncommon it's useful to use (say) SVD techniques to solidly lock onto common broad area signal patterns and then remove the commonplace and look for pattern in the residual noise.
Oh so still less than the $123M fine? As for what they did with the money, I get the point that they could have reinvested it and made additional profit but I find it way too speculative to be worth discussion especially when the $85M number doesn't appear to be the marginal value of the bribe and is possibly inflated already.
> I know it's a much harder problem without a central server managing things.

In got example it is easy if the structures relating to the video and text contain some what to identify the source node, or just that they belong to the same lineage (you could have a per-thread-per-source-node value, produced from a salted hash of the real information, if source host Id is considered sensitive) and a timestamp taken at that node.

(Caveat: I know little of the specific protocols that are relevant here, so don't know if they do contain any such datum)

Where message ordering gets difficult to the point of impracticality (if not impossibility) is where you are ordering messages from many different sources that may not have fully synchronised clocks. You can make it easier with "in reply to" and "sent after" priorities (in each case, the value being a message identifier) so any given message can be sorted by its context, but the order of sibling messages may still not have a single possible ordering. And you have to decide, if using a "sent after" value, if you have the last message received at the time of sending, the last message received before this message was stated, the latest opened messages, etc, all of which could give different results.

To a certain extent you have to get to a point where ordering is good enough and you give up on it being exact & unambiguously consistent, or you'll spend so much time working out the ordering and have no time to send you own messages :)
Your Next Two Zeroes
As a now retired guy who grew up loving to question almost everything, it was easy for me to get into electronics when I was able to. (I was a little late, not until my mid thirties.) I especially love reading manuals from the things I purchased.

However, I noticed that a lot of people my age didn't share my interest in this area. I helped as often as they would let me, but to a man, they just weren't willing to take the time to get interested. They just wanted their stuff to work. They also had no idea of all the features their products were capable of performing. (Cellphone anyone?)

I've often wondered if it was the way I was 'wired' or if I just had the urge to know these things. Well done on the project!
Using the Green channel instead of the Red is much more likely to make a good looking grayscale image.
> the old way of doing things is only a few lines more, but is much clearer

A description fit for React itself.
Nothing says desperation like 10xing your subscription model after a massive investment.
Why is high salaries an insane thing?
Heads this works and we make billions and I make 100M; tails it goes bad but I get 10M. That's a high expected return bet you should always make.
Paste the lecture notes in and talk to it
Wow. Almost none of those words would have even been among my third-string choices of words to use to describe gitlab in one short sentence. “The” and “platform” might have made it.
It's nowhere close to pure, in the FP sense. Everything in React is an act around side effects of rendering.

So it's gotta be something else that makes it so popular.
> Since P is a subset of NP, everything in P can be also be turned into an instance of SAT.

This statement is kind of trivial. The same is true for any language (other than the empty language and the language containing all strings). The reduction is (1) hardcode the values of one string, y, that is in the language and another string, z, that is not in the language (2) solve the problem on the given input x in polynomial time poly(x) (3) return y if x is to be accepted and z otherwise.

The total running time is at most poly(x)+O(|y|+|z|) which is still poly(x) since |y| and |z| are hardcoded constant values.
Amazon has an okay but underwhelming developer suite. If they bought Gitlab and did nothing other than say that they should have first class support for AWS deployments it’d be a good move, and that’s before you consider things like pivoting Gitlab’s struggling AI tools to theirs or aligning all of the supply-chain stuff big companies want.
I want to use this so bad, but I can’t justify the price. At $100/mo, I’m sold.
My point is that there is not much else the state can do expect gun control they already have extensive monitoring, police forces with free rein, the worst incarceration rate on par with likes of Saudi Arabia as you point out.

The only major difference between UK and here is gun control (and to an extent media control) I.e first and second amendment rights .

Observing the coverage of this event , more media control doesn’t seem to likely have meaningful returns , so gun control is all that is left.

I am not saying the government will be smart to figure it out and do it, however unless they do it there won’t be meaningful impact on the people’s ability to react this way.

—-

PS: UK unlike Netherlands or like nordic countries is rate limited by capacity of prison system

This is also a problem in US a bit less acute though, so it is hard to say what would be natural rate for UK would it closer to US or not. Capacity influences policy on sentence length, early releases etc
(1989) - maybe explains the weird phrasing?
> how many of those deaths were among healthy people below the age of 50

American 25 to 44 year olds experienced a surge in excess deaths peaking near 50% above baseline in 2020 [1].

> was there any point forcing children and teenagers into confinement for months?

Weeks to months, probably yes. Months to years, almost certainly not.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6942e2.htm?s_cid=mm...