skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't that simple. Yes, Mathematica has emphasized symbolic computation since day 1, but it has also had numerical capabilities like NIntegrate since day 1 too. There's no good reason why the symbolic capabilities of Mathematica should necessarily hurt its numerical performance. In particular, Mathematica and Matlab often use the exact same libraries for many numerical operations, e.g. Intel's MKL for many matrix operations or SuiteSparse for sparse matrices. Any inefficiencies in calling out to those libraries between Matlab and/or Mathematica are usually down to a few tweaks.

In the vast majority (90% or more) of cases the performance between Matlab and Mathematica is identical or within the margin of error. And where performance does differ substantially, Matlab isn't always coming out on top. So the question then becomes whether or not your work depends on those particular use cases. In my eyes, the Wolfram Language is fundamentally superior to Matlab. And even if Mathematica/WL lags behind Matlab is some numerical aspects, Wolfram Research will have a far easier time fix or improving that deficiency than MathWorks will have improving the poverty of symbolic computation in Matlab.

Of course, the factors in practical use cases are quite a bit more complex than what I've said above. If you're working at an engineering firm that's already knee-deep in Simulink and various Matlab Toolboxes, then the choice has been already been made for you. And sometimes it's not a question of performance but one of feature parity, e.g. Compile in the Wolfram Language vs Matlab Compiler/Runtime. Also, the complexity of the Wolfram Language is not a benefit for users looking to simply write code and get a result ASAP.
The things we require in society doesn't need people to work 40h a week until they're 70 years old. The reason most people can't take two years off is not because society can't go without the fruits of their labor.
GPS constellation as a way to image the ionosphere (2011)
Challenge: Can you view my source? [VERSION 3]
A few years ago, I posted my nosource.cole.ws challenge on here and recieved lots of positive feedback and wishes for a v3. Here it is! Can you find all of the flags?

EDIT: Looks like there were some ratelimiting issues that were just fixed, sorry about that.
It was last updated on September 13th, 2024.
It’s already pretty easy to ground mount some panels with something like: https://integrarack.com/ir-45-ballasted-racking
Nagai's work seems to have been an inspiration for the late 1980's/early 90's Sega aesthetic (OutRun, Sonic, etc.)
Yeah I don't know what they're talking about either. I believe they probably just aren't aware that the browser has settings you can configure to your liking
My favorite feature is the ability to decorate the recipe name with the OS and then write relevant code for each recipe that does the same in each OS.
Good lessons!
Which parts of the world? What kind of lifestyle? What kind of living situation? What kind of opportunities?
Edit: WRT TFA; I sure hope I’m not ever considered a national security risk.
The numeric capabilities of Mathematica are far, far closer to Matlab's than the symbolic capabilities of Matlab are to Mathematica's.
most people just put simple tasks into toml (like `npm run test` or something), for anything complex, file tasks are much better: https://mise.jdx.dev/tasks/file-tasks.html

file tasks are basically just a directory of bash (or whatever shebang) scripts, but special comments give them extra functionality like dependencies or defining flags/options.
> While "Uncle Bob" certainly hasn't uncovered any silver bullets

Which is compatible with Brooks, who famously had to point out that there are no Silver Bullets.

Anyone who is reading these kinds of things and expecting to find that the authors uncovered a Silver Bullet will be regularly disappointed. But that doesn't, as you point out, negate the value of the learned experience that they are trying to communicate. Even if there are no Silver Bullets, that doesn't mean that there are processes and methodologies that can make things more predictable, robust, reliable, and enjoyable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet
I don't disagree, but I just prefer compact cars. If I had to buy a new vehicle and there were no compacts available, I'd go for a crossover, but I won't like it.
You've somehow overgeneralized it. This is of course fructose, but with much better properties. :)

Just facts [0]:

- honey contains antioxidants, amino acids (the building blocks of proteins) and vitamins and minerals, such as Thiamin, riboflavin, pyridoxin, vitamin A, niacin, panthothenic acid, phyllochinon, vitamin E, and vitamin C

- honey also has been successfully used for wound and burn healing. (If you grab a frying pan or burn your hand/skin, apply honey, there will be no blisters or peeling skin.)

- honey consumption reduces risk factors of cardiovascular diseases

[0] https://sugarscience.ucsf.edu/the-sweet-science-behind-honey...
Uh, isn't this just Make? I'd rather people run `make this` and `make that` than install a new tool to do the same damned thing. Sometimes software is just "done" and doesn't need to be reinvented.
Not sure if related, but there hasn't been much technological innovation since the 1970s:

> The book describes the 100 years following 1870 as the "Special Century", a time of exceptional growth and prosperity, which it claims has been flatlining since 1970, marked by growing inequality and insecure working conditions. Gordon considers that the apparent increasing economic growth since 1970 is just a faint echo of a great wave of economic growth between 1920 and 1970. The first half of the book discusses the change in the American standard of living pre-WW2, with the second half dedicated to the remainder of the 'special century' and the years post-1970.[3][4]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_American_...

Mainstreaming of computers and the Internet gave a productivity bump in the 1990s, but that had petered out by ~2004.

Beside that aspect there haven't been major improvements in health, education, construction, transportation, etc since ~1960s. We got most of the gains in the early 1900s (water, sanitation, electronics, transportation (ICE, cars, planes), HVAC). Not many 'completely' new inventions since then, mostly refinements.

Just look at the typical kitchen: going from no cold storage, to ice boxes, to refrigerator/freezers occurred from ~1900 to 1960. The last major invention was the microwave, which has mostly had refinements since the 1970s.

Edit:

The book is not arguing that invention has stopped, but rather there have not been major developments that show up in economic productivity or quality of life (e.g., health) metrics. For the last few decades, increases have been 'asymptotic' that they're basically 'crawling' up, as opposed to major rises in the decades pre-1970s.

In general the book is a really interesting read. Worth checking out, if just for the history of 'progress' and how human life has changed post-1870 , even if you don't fully buy into their conclusions.
By fictionalized, I mean to say that certain aspects of the anime are inconsistent with historical record. I don't just mean the thinly-veiled references to Poland or the Catholic Church. For instance, one glaring anachronism is the Pear of Anguish. While the inquisitor in the show refers to his as a "prototype", no such device in any form existed until some two to three centuries later. The Pear in the show is a literary device that gruesomely establishes the stakes faced by the characters. It also operates as a visual metaphor for the Church's desire to silence dissent. But in no way or shape was it an instrument of torture in the 16th century.

Another point is that none of the characters in the show have existed in any capacity. They are not analogues of or stand-ins for the historical contributors to the heliocentric model. The characters' personalities and backgrounds, while consistent with the setting, are the inventions of the mangaka.

Now with all that said, the show excellently conveys the difficulty and threats faced by thinkers across the ages in the course of the Scientific Revolution. The historical circumstances were no less dire than what was depicted in the anime. But as a show, it still has more in common with romanticized depictions of men looking up at the night sky, such as in the Sarah Williams poem, the Old Astronomer, than it does with a thoroughly scrutinized biography of the astronomers of the era.

> As someone living in a country where blasphemy lynching are still a part of life, and professors are made to renounce scientific beliefs[1], it feels disturbingly familiar to me.

It pains me to know the spirit of the Inquisition is still present in the 21st century.
Eich founded Brave, which is doing this.
Do what I did.
Draft a formal complaint covering all of this. Document as well as possible, take it to get notarized, send registered mail to Google's legal arm. Worked for me but you have to prove as well as possible that its you. Good luck.
I’m not really disagreeing with your broader point, but consumer demand has been tracking toward trucks and SUVs for quite a while now. I would imagine there is a bit of a “tail wagging the dog” situation there, and it’s also probably relevant that the average age of a new car buyer has been rising as wealth distribution has skewed further upward.

But that’s great news, if there’s truly a gap in the famously difficult automotive market, maybe a scrappy new player can break through with a simple, small sedan—one that can be made cheaply, and sold affordably—and then their supply chain can be forced into a series of buy outs and hostile takeovers, creating the next generation of wealthy donors to political action groups. It’s the ciiiirrcle of liiiife etc..
I don't think you've got that right. There is an extra level:

Network Rail - the gov owned infrastructure, rails etc.

Rolling Stock - privately owned trains

Operators - lease rolling stock, employ staff, sell tickets

The problem we have is that the operators are barely profitable so always cutting quality/service because there is this other layer of private rolling stock company acting as landlords which are sucking all the profit out.

We have a similar problem with energy. There are the customer facing providers which are basically a brand and a call centre which are selling the power from energy generation companies. When they get trapped in some bad contract as a gamble on the energy market, they go bust.

It feels like a deliberate con that the customer facing providers, the brands the public knows about, keep going bust and earn public ire from their crap services but they are really scapegoats for a less visible layer of private company which are doing the real profiteering as landlords.
It also depends on what comes next. E.g. if you have a long straight coming up, you want to straighten out things as soon as you can, so you can accelerate early and take that speed into the straight. It often makes sense to sacrifice speed in the turn for better speed on the straight.
For me is not needing to chain a lot of commands with && to ensure that it fails with the first command that fails. With just, if one of the commands of the recipe fails, it stops.
> they liked what they were being presented with, and made the final call themselves on who to vote for

This assumes they were presented with accurate information and a proper understanding no?

Otherwise it's just manipulation? So wouldn't you want to have safeguards in place to make sure as a voter, you are not deceived?
Do you have the same reasoning for SQL/XXS injection? Should developers not write code that is resistant to SQL/XXS injection and instead rely on something like a WAF?

These protections (WAF for SQL/XSS, branch names for this) will never be enough. The code/logic must be secure, any additional layer is not enough since the actual target must be secured.

Developers will do it if its necessary, and it is. These situations are just proving it is necessary.
Just FYI, "TheTrumpet" article linked to and used as corroborating evidence is a religious site.

The post links to a article that ends with this summary:

> God created the family to excel by taking advantage of specialization of labor
between husband and wife.

> The Trumpet explains the real meaning behind world events. We are a news organization that connects world events with biblical prophecies.

Just because household labor is not taxed, does not mean it does not happen.
That table says that 122kwh is only 4 gallons of gasoline. Most ICE cars that compare to an ev with a 122 kWh battery size hold 20 gallons of more.
So still 5x energy density in the ICE vehicle
Or am missing something?
Dismissing suspicions just because they are suspicions is itself irrational. When the circumstances are suspicious and the event is already highly probable, those suspicions hold weight.
Sorry you got voted down, it's not right.
I unironically like the YAML format. It's very readable, imho, and most people (at least in the web space) already know it. It's better than the way just does attributes and descriptions.

On the other hand, what irks me is how parameters are fiddly to pass along. You have to define environment variables, instead of jusst passing them directly in the call.
Wow! You've driven on a freeway? So blessed to be in your presence. What's that like? that's such a rare experience, you must feel so privileged to have had that experience. How often do you do that? multiple times a year? More than once per day even? just wowwww...

...

C'mon man, freeway driving isn't that hard. Millions of people do it every day. A worse driver in the same situations you've been in would have gotten into a crash. the best drivers in the world, in formula 1, still get into crashes sometimes. crashes happen. humans don't have this magical ability that prevents them from ever happening. If a computer controlled car gets into an accident you do the same thing as when a human controlled car gets into an accident, with the bonus that there's video of the entire incident for insurance adjusters to review for who's at fault.

It's really not that hard to stay in a lane and not hit the car in front of you. BlueCruise solves for that but does currently falls back to the human driver as needed. Waymo doesn't currently put their cars on the freeway, but braking unexpectedly and changing lanes isn't beyond the abilities of the software that's currently driving on streets. I had a Waymo agressively merge into my lane in a way that I've seen human drivers be unable to do, just today.

I'm not forcing you to use a technology that isn't available to the public yet. but semi-autonomous freeway driving is already happening, fully autonomous isn't too far behind. when it does, it'll be better than the worst human drivers, and we currently let them drive. that doesn't mean it won't ever get into a crash, but if it means incompetent drivers now won't be driving because a computer will do it for them, there will be fewer crashes, which is what we're really after. Unintentional injury, which includes car crashes is the 4th leading cause of death in the US, according to the CDC. Not driving isn't an option for everyone people so the way to bring that down is to develop software so computers handle it for people that shouldn't be driving but currently do anyway.
You don't need AI for that, just look it up on Reddit
Thanks for this. Seems really useful since I'm building using Yjs + Postgres myself. Might save the day one of these days!
Having tried that, no no they are not. Sadly. Also they don't really pack well compared to another 1/2 laptop shaped thing nestled with your laptop and needing just a usb cable to work.
To your point I’m reminded of the meat packing factories in The Jungle which were based on real conditions at that time and place.
Yeah so like I said, I get the in-context optimization bit…which is nice, but pretty limited.

I have had precisely zero success with the LLM-prompt-writer elements. I would love to be wrong, but DSpy makes huge promises and falls painfully short on basically all of them.

I do not see any reason to use it.
The tone is part of the message. In this article he describes the kind of strawman engineers he is disagreeing with as egotistical fools who believe “stupid” things. Elsewhere he’s writing oaths for programmers that say you should only build software according to his principles. It’s all very high and mighty.
Can't trust LLMs at this point. Too much garbage training, too many hallucinations.

Since all of the "AI" companies currently operate with significant losses, it stands to reason they will have to either charge a lot more eventually, or find huge efficiency gains and ways to drastically reduce power consumption. Even if AI worked reliably enough to delegate anything meaningful to I wouldn't commit to a resource that will likely cost a lot more before too long.

If I could identify tasks that look like AI delegation candidates I would try to eliminate those tasks from the business. If people could send AIs to meetings in their place, or use AI to write work documents, I would eliminate those meetings and documents before delegating the job to AI.
>I’m happy for everyone on this comment section, but this is not the reality for civilians who get buried in the rubble from AI-targeting drones.

Western drone development reduces the chance of you being bombed by belligerent drones far more than it increases the chance of you being bombed by allied drones.

The AI drone bombing is coming to both the West and everyone else, and leftist tech worker objection is not going to prevent that. What we can prevent is Western weapons being inferior to ones developed and deployed by authoritarian and illiberal governments.
Does the AGPL Work?
> Feels like wherever you turn, you’re presented with negative narratives designed to maximize engagement

Fixed that for you.
GrapheneOS on Pixels getting extended Android support
Maybe not for certain but the probabilities for various scenarios go up and down.

I used to feel like that but now feel the odds are about 99% it was a Wuhan lab doing research similar to that proposed by Ralph Baric which is close enough to certain to me. Although more detail would be interesting.
> The problem was never found but would have been prevented if their db was in normal form.

Sorry to be pedantic - if they didn't find the problem, how do we know that was the solution?
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Gordon wood always reminds me of that funny scene from Good Will Hunting
Of course everything is renegotiable. But after reneging on every serious promise you've ever made, I do think it's worthwhile pointing out that this organization is shamelessly Machiavellian. They have mistreated all of their constituencies pretty rapidly!
The developer time required to learn and properly use nix makes it unattractive to most teams.
The benefits don't outweigh the costs of adoption.

Instead of debugging code, the team would have to spend significant time maintaining the build system for the build systems sake.
Don't get me wrong, I want something nix-like in my toolbox.
I want to love nix.
But I wouldn't dare to argue my team to commit to the world of pain that comes with it.

There's a good reason that nix didn't see wide adoption in the industry.
Downvote away.

Chinese companies have no rights in the US. So, take your bag of tricks and spyware and scurry off to Beijing.
That's exactly why pubsubhubbub, now websub, has been created. Around 10 years ago.
I never thought about it but I guess I am a honey snob. It’s strictly local buckwheat honey for me, accept no substitute.
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I had the pleasure to access the framebuffer via the DRM and pull the data with DMA for a vnc server I wrote at work. Learning how to use the api was like half the work, an article like this would‘ve certainly helped!
Honey and sugar syrups have other various constituents, and it's trivially possible to tell them apart via GC/MS at far higher levels than ppb.

https://zenodo.org/records/438103
Surely you are now arguing against your own point? If one holds a wedding at a church, it is typically not open to the public any more than a wedding in a park. "Wedding crashers" aside, you invite people you know and it is typically not expected nor desired for the general public to attend. It's nothing unusual; churches schedule time for weddings all the time, and then go right back to being a public gathering space once the event is over. I should add, since it's part of the core of this debate, that the idea that churches are universally welcoming or truly public is itself debatable: they hold a religious function and while churches are usually open to all attendees, you will struggle to find community there unless you share the religious beliefs of the other attendees. That is to say, the church as a structure is open to all; the church as a community is not.

For what it's worth, my wedding was intentionally kept small, which allowed us to hold a ceremony without a permit and without closing off any public areas.
I assume when you mention `on-site` you mean my house - yep, NAS is at home.
Well, it's early days of AI. But I can already get some help. My oldest child is in high school, and my wife and I can help him with math and coding. But when it comes to biology, or ELA, or history, our help is quite limited. And in these situations AI can be a real help. Of course, you still need to get involved as a parent, otherwise the kid is tempted to just copy/paste the ChatGPT answers.
I think there is a huge and completely rational gap between social valuation and family valuation.

Homemakers provide most of the direct value to the household. Your firefighter, doctor, ect provide their value directly to those outside their household.

My neighbor might be a great cook and parent for their child, but I am much more thankful to plumber, who benifits me directly.
> there hasn't been much technological innovation since the 1970s

What the actual fuck?
In what context is IC every used in any derogatory fashion? In my experience "Manager" or "People Leader" is far far more derogatory.
I see a lot of comments about being present and in the now, but how much does privacy play a role? Some activities like soft but technically illegal drugs or certain fun behaviors may be more self suppressed if cameras are around. Any photo taken at a club could end up being viewed by an interviewer in a few years, etc.
Multiple layers of complex abstractions and sloppy coding account for a lot of it. We write code as if it had no hardware constraints, so we get megabytes-size web pages running a slow interpreted language in a browser built on multiple layers of frameworks and libraries. Over the last several decades inefficient and bulky programming has consumed all of the gains in hardware, to the point that modern applications feel much slower than similar apps from the '80s.

Knuth did not have that in mind when he wrote about premature optimization.