skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to consider myself a visual person, so this is something I'm very interested in, and have posted about a fair bit here (and elsewhere), so my apologies to folks seeing my thoughts below again.

Well, haven't folks been writing/dreaming about this since Herman Hesse's _The Glass Bead Game_? (originally published as Magister Ludi)

The big problem is that there doesn't seem to be an agreed-upon answer for the question:

>What does an algorithm look like?

and the tools which explore this tend to get bounded complexity-wise by screen size and attempts at escaping that complexity either lose expressiveness (presumably we are trying to escape from a "wall of text" but calling modules/functions as text even if it's wrapped up in a pretty box/connected with lines doesn't really do that and if one sticks to one's guns and just connects things in a node editor, well, there are sites for collecting such (but I'll spare you the link).

If folks have other tools in this space to suggest, I'd be glad to try them.
I have bunch of code/programs that have been running live on prod for years that are super stable with no errors that have been reported but what do I know?
Well. If you study quantum physics and the folks who found it like Max Planck, they believed in "a conscious and intelligent non-visible living energy force .. . the matrix mind of all matter".

I don't know much about multiverse, but we need something external to explain the magic we uncover.

Energy and quantum mechanics are really cool but dense to get into. Like Planck, I suspect there's a link between consciousness and matter. I also think our energy doesn't cease to exist when our human carcass expires.
"Non-technical EM" is an oxymoron and should have never existed. The role itself was meant to replace non-technical project managers with people who had a better grasp of the engineering challenges.
> Anything that looks like that font with letters is a dated attempt to look futuristic.

Or a modern attempt to look retro-futuristic.

Though obviously not in this case.
And there it is.

Just because corporate media is supported by big business doesn't translate to the actual politicians being pro-corporations.

Especially when ironically enough big donors towards democrats are almost all ultra-progressive socialist types.
Dbg-rb: Minimal, Rust-inspired, puts debugging helper for Ruby
Disagree with that. The fact that we reasonably accept a well-proven theory (ie the observed universe exists) that has some unexplained parts (we don't currently have a reasonable explanation for where does that universe comes from) doesn't mean that we should therefore accept any unproven theory, especially a unfalsifiable one.
the real unfairness is they didn't have Netflix and dairy queen -- just brioche
There's more and more good fonts being made available under the SIL licence - think MIT/BSD licence for fonts (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/). The selection on google fonts should be good enough for anyone who doesn't want to go as far as hiring a design agency.

It's like the choice between some DRM-based "only works on our brand of device and only when connected to the internet" form of music, or legally acquired MP3s.
Any one murder can be, or almost any one. It's generalising that effort to all murders that's hard.
"...admin through a brittle straw." :D
That's exactly what it feels like.
What ID?

The hostel had none. They never copied it.

They never wrote ID numbers either.

They checked the name and that was it.

Unless it changed in the last year or so.
Not in themselves. But they can apparently be used as a delivery mechanism in cancer related gene therapy.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9697857/
Not every MD gets to work on interesting cases, furthering the field, and all while it being low stakes and purely theoretical.

For the vast majority, it is facing the medical colleagues who don't care, and will bury you from envy if you do, and get any better than them for it. It's facing patients who don't take care of themselves, or who just take your time, want favors from you outside of your working hours, but most importantly, the burden of having many people die despite you trying your very best.

Do you choose these, or getting chill treatment in society with freedom, where after 10 YoE you can say fu to any boss and open your own consultancy, and economically be forever in the 0.1%?

And honestly, outside the US, many of the positive sides of being an MD disappear completely (like crazy compensations, having too many options, ease of opening your own business)

I understand the point that you're trying to make, but being an MD is hell of a job, and honestly, as a unit, I don't wish it on anyone who does not specifically want to be there. And even then, your good motivation to do it might be your undoing.

It's really not all that it's cracked up to be, and the only reason I wouldn't recommend to be a software engineer is that the future of it is fairly uncertain.
Thanks for the feedback! Tree Calculus is a calculus/logic, see Specification page or the book by Barry Jay (linked on that page) for way way better and detailed verbose explanations. It only defines what I chose to call "t" on the website, Barry uses "Δ" in his book and papers.

So without anything else, we'd have to talk about programs in terms of "(t t) t ..." or binary trees, which gets unwieldy quickly. The first natural step, for practical purposes, is to allow definitions "foo = ...", then some syntactic sugar for lists, functions, etc. Ooops and now we have a "language". If you open the "Playground" page there's a summary of what exactly is TC and what is syntactic sugar (and really nothing more!) on top of it.

I like to think that the line is so blurry precisely because TC needs nothing but a bit of syntactic sugar to feel like a usable PL haha.
> Programming is crazy cool, but the profession of Software Engineering is not always that cool.

The hours, work expectations and imposition on daily life can be pretty grim for a medical doctor, presumably with a strong correlation on speciality and role. I’m very much not-a-doctor.
Sounds like a case of being in the right is not enough. The law in theory prevents this kind of stuff, but it might not have done enough of a job here.

Since my wife is Russian and we have lots of Russian friends we're not blind to these checks, but in all cases they were resolved by submitting residence documents. Success rate was 100%.

Of folks that were not residents however or that did not manage to prove their residence, very few got their accounts re-instantiated. We also had a case of someone who was not able to keep their account until they stopped receiving a Russian salary.
i wouldn't be sharing stuff like that unless you know for sure
Great. The stories are really good and fast generation. Look forward to seeing the version with pictures.
How did you get a job like that? Sounds pretty good
> The effort required to keep the chart looking tidy quickly outweighs the effort writing a normal pure-code form.

In 2007 I've been learning Java and Python concurrently, and made the following observation: some languages just absolutely suck without proper tooling, while others are pleasant to use even if all you have is MS Notepad. I'm not sure if there's a significant correlation to productivity, but the barrier to entry can definitely be much higher if your IDE can't hold your hand.
Politicians are supported by big business. Any altruism from those businesses is a facade.
Just because she is a YouTuber doesn't diminish her other credentials, just as she is incetivised to do clickbait, so are actual scientific communication outlets such as nature, and the more clicky they are the more downloads and citation they will acquire. Incentives change content but don't directly detract from someone's expertise. See: the fact that most universities now publish some lectures on YouTube, it doesn't make the content any less true.
I'm skeptical only because they have AI in the name.
Allgedely!

https://x.com/SyeClops/status/1866353712148685002/photo/4
Your first statement certainly attracted some downvotes, but I can't disagree.

Engineering Management is supposed to be a support role, working from the sidelines on enabling engineers to deliver, manage career progression, and sometimes help untangle actual technical problems - but not act as a tech lead. My experience echoes yours: EMs serving multiple teams can do that most effectively without the role getting muddled.

It was meant to replace non-technical project management, and gives space for product to become a non-management role. If the EMs stop being technical, what's the point?
Another one of his notable—and slightly more accessible for the uninitiated—pieces is the composition Symphonie pour un homme seul (with Pierre Henry):
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MOYNFu45khQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphonie_pour_un_homme_seul
I look forward to my not-techie heirs learning the difference between 301 and 302 redirects.
Even if the airport example is not real, there were whole-word ones at pretty much every train station in Switzerland in the past:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Split-flap_displ...

Some big stations had per-letter ones.

For the standard design for smaller stations, even terms like "5 minute delay", "10 minute delay" etc. all got their own flap rather than having a separate box for the numbers. This one shows a 6 minute delay on a single flap (pair): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basel_SBB_EC2_Anzeig...
Mastering Ruby debugging: From puts to professional tools
Last time I was there they wouldn't even record NJ.

They recorded name on reservation and maybe DOB.

The place had cameras everywhere apart from inside rooms and bathrooms.

I can't believe that was the only time they got him on camera.
I did try to explain the logic already, in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42338166

Letwin says what killed OS/2 was that it could run Windows apps.

This is not true.

That only applied to OS/2 2; OS/2 1 could not run Windows apps.

It didn't matter; there weren't any.

Windows apps followed Windows 3.0. Windows 3.0 followed the failure of OS/2 1.x.

This is his bias: he was one of the project leads and was passionate about OS/2, which blinds him to the fact that it was OS/2 1.x that flopped and there was nothing OS/2 2.x could do to usefully come back from that.

His assertion is that 32-bit OS/2 flopped, because it lacked native apps, because it could run Windows apps. This is not true.

It flopped because Windows 3 was out, and Windows 3 was a hit because it did what 16-bit OS/2 failed to do: it ran DOS apps _well_ and it could do that because it took advantage of the 386 chip.

His bias means he fails to identify the true cause although he named it.

Secondarily, I think we can point to a 2nd, non-technical, personal reason: Letwin was not involved in Windows 3, which was essentially a 1-man skunkworks project.

It was done by David Weise:

https://news.microsoft.com/2000/09/10/i-found-a-cool-little-...

Helped by Murray Sargent:

https://www.landley.net/history/mirror/ms/davidweise.html
Jury nullification occurs when a jury returns a Not Guilty verdict even though jurors believe beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant has broken the law. Because the Not Guilty verdict cannot be overturned, and because the jurors cannot be punished for their verdict, the law is said to be nullified in that particular case.
Just because there are 2 possibilities doesn’t mean they’re both equally probable.
Nix-ld – Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS
That's exactly what happens at big companies and a bunch of midsized companies.
A few years ago in Russia, when protesting was still barely legal and possible, prominent opposition leaders were 'fined' for ~1M USD each for damages to businesses what happened due to some protest activity. Banks simply deduced every account balance by -50000000,00 RUB and have a nice day.

Whoever thinks that 'but that was bad, evil Putin's government and our nice, good government would never do such a thing' should think again. The government should not have such power at all, neither directly, nor via bank proxy that would 'independently' refuse you service.

When you happily cheer that in EU you can't pay with 500 EUR bill (because tax evasion, crime, etc!!!), you are basically helping the government create means to financially strangle anyone the government doesn't like. One day it might strangle you.
"Here" depends on where you live. Not available in the UK.
that sounds like a true nightmare. i'm sorry that happened.
unexpected exponent
> Two minutes before loading HN, I was thinking about how sad I am that my mother gets her "news" from Fox.

If it's any consolation, if you can get them to switch stations they can be 'deprogrammed':

* https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/730725

* https://osf.io/preprints/osf/jrw26 (PDF available)

* https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004727272...

Interview with study co-author:

* https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2024/04/16/media-changing-vi...
> Not every developer gets to work on Sora, Quantum AI chip, or CUDA source code.

Not every developer wants to work on those. Many developers even find at least one of those to be unethical. It is possible to find rewarding challenging jobs as a developer without having to go work for the big names.
Yes, of course to load a character I use LD.T

Uhmm..actually the OUT instruction ends immediately after its normal cycle. the character is sent to the mainboard that reads it and puts it in a buffer and passes from a buffer. (it's more complex, if you want we can discuss)

The external BUS is 24 trit. the motherboard converts it by encoding it into binary and the data is stored on 48bit RAM. We don't have native ternary RAM yet unfortunately, but it was the only way to have some memory and use the processor.

I don't quite understand what idea I describe in the OP you're referring to.
And I don't understand what ternary operations might be useful for neural networks (we've had contact with Korean researchers asking about this processor for neural networks).

The specifications obviously exist, but I don't think it's a good idea to put them here on a generic site! I think the marketing phase will take a while longer and as you may have read on the site, we're still fixing things here and there and we need a marketing apparatus.
In case anyone was curious, Wikipedia calls the California Forestry Association a "timber industry lobbying group".
Recirculating aquaculture systems on land might be a solution. But it's expensive and error prone, and the volumes are still very low.
Now I want everyone to print out all the code they have worked on for the last month and bring it to my office for review.
A lot of people feel that he as the CEO of the health insurance with the highest rate of denied claims is indirectly responsible for the death of a large number of people. Thus killing him is justified as vigilante justice. And vigilante justice is frequently seen in a positive light when the justice system is unable or unwilling to act.
Beyonce and Swift are outliers who do own most of their own catalog, probably why they are billionaires, labels are merely given publishing rights
Those 4Ds are so abstract and tautological to the point of being useless. As a practicing line EM I spent most of my time hiring, project management, people management, networking, resolving conflicts, mentorship, to name a few things of the top of my head.

But all of this was built on a solid foundation of the system my team owned. And that was only possible if I understood things at the code level how various product flows worked. And I personally can’t understand code unless I fiddled around with it.
some people believe the CEO's death is justice. engels called what insurance companies do "social murder" where these institutions and the state commits violence against individuals or kills them through policy or profit motives. and it's perfectly legal. it's only when an individual uses self defense against this social violence that it is considered wrong.
It would be interesting to see what "standard benchmark computation" was used and what its implementation would like in a traditional computer language.

Does anyone know?
> When legal tender cannot be used for legal transactions, there is a problem

Why? Something being legal for you doesn't make it compulsory for others. With limited exceptions, nobody is required to do business with you.

Also, I must stress again that Japan is a real country with real people. It is not anime, and it's even more risible to point to famous historical porn and say it's analogous to modern porn.

That's like gay slurs are deeply central to American culture because the Roman poet Catallus lost his cool once at some critics.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_16
Finally, an accurate take on FE! Well said!
It would be very interesting to see someone study music fandoms and where their dollars go / what they do.
This method is promising, especially with flat and untextured surfaces.
Secondly, this method has far better detailed results in the background. (compared to 3d Gaussian Splatting)
To expand on this, the scifi fonts that originate in this, start with
the Westminster typeface:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_(typeface)
An early competitor was called "Data 70". Countless variants emerged later, but Westminster is the earliest variant I know of.

In my childhood, these typefaces were more or less synonymous with scifi, future and computer stuff. If you DIDN'T use this typeface, you had to come up with an explanation for why you didn't..
The owners of Clever Hans thought he could really do math, too.
Studios don't have that many artists already - most of the "heavy lifting" is outsourced to asset production companies in China. I can see a future where these are replaced by AI and the main job of the in-house artists is to fix problems with the generated output.
you're comparing global decline of insects to removing birds and nests from those olive groves. It is like comparing global wealth growth to your failure to pay rent when you get laid off.
> If Fox News moves to the center, will its audience move along with it? Or will they just migrate to competing outlets such as Newsmax?

There have been studies that have shown that changing channels cause people to change their views:

* https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/730725

* https://osf.io/preprints/osf/jrw26 (PDF available)

* https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004727272...

Interview with study co-author:

* https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2024/04/16/media-changing-vi...

So if the shift is gradual, then there could be a shift over time on viewers' part.
Nitpicking. You still have people who own the company (technically also shareholders...) and want profit.
I “awareness” is all to often the last excuse for genuinely poor choices.
"it's equally possible"

The word equally possible implies equal chances for me. Otherwise it is equally possible, that the evidence was in fact planted by aliens.
Here are my two cents. I understand that there are coding things which I could do as an EM. And I can find time for it if I want to. But .. at any given time when I want to I have to decide if it is the most important thing I can do with my time. Sadly, the answer usually is “no”.

That did shift over time, I now manage teams maintaining three distinct products - and between managing the people and the products, setting the vision, dealing with customers.. there is just never any time for coding which isn’t taking away from the time I could better spent doing something else.
The only way I could see this being regulated by the incoming admin is if tariffs make the batteries too expensive which would only decrease the scope. The cult claims to want to eliminate all government regulation.
> Which one should one use?

Well, that heavily depends on what you want to do. Python has a number of concerns when it comes to code and package management, some of which are not present in most other languages. Here's an incomplete list, off the top of my head:

1. installation and management of installed packages

2. management of Python versions present in an environment

3. management of virtual environments (Python version + packages installed and ready to use, in an isolated context)

4. building of distribution packages (nowadays pretty much only wheels, with or without native extensions, which depend on the target platform)

5. publishing of distribution packages (to PyPI or a compatible repo)

6. defining repeatable deployment environments (a subset of #1)

Most developers face some combination of above problems, and various tools offer solutions for certain combinations -- with a few covering all of them, to different levels of quality. It is crucial to understand your needs and select the tool(s) that offer the right solutions in the way that fits your usual workflow the best.

This article [0] is a good starting point to understanding the current Python packaging landscape, with a clear overview of which problem is covered by which tool.

[0] https://alpopkes.com/posts/python/packaging_tools/
Yep, and it is preventable. The one thing I can say is NEVER let your parents sign up for a "medicare" advantage plan. There is no advantage. The company my mom was with is one of the largest and profited something like 18 BILLION off medicare last year. How do you think that is possible? Because they overcharge medicare and deny coverage.
OVH also subject to the Digital Services Act...
> Most of the problems I see in production have nothing to do with the wrong type being used

I think this depends on how you use the type system in your code. If you're just passing around strings and numbers, then sure. But if you're making explicit types for all the entities your program processes, and if you're structuring them in a way that means you don't have a bunch of undefined fields in the normal case (e.g. by using tagged unions a lot), then Typescript is absolutely, objectively, transformative compared to Javascript.
Word of mouth.

The point is to realize that almost every non-IT company of certain size (lets say 50-100 employees+) that started before SAP&similiar became popular in your country has large body of custom software and that the guy who built it is probably thinking about retiring.

Minus is of course that most custom software is pretty horrible from code quality standpoint, so you need to have a high tolerance for debuging and that you need to have a little knowledge of everything (specialisation is not possible).
AFAIK there are many variations (I think infinite, even) of "tree calculi". You can build one easily from combinatory logic by using only one universal combinator, which will be implied at the leafs of the tree.

John Tromp in his repo has some research pertaining to short universal lambda expressions (each can be expressed as combinators) of this type: https://github.com/tromp/AIT/blob/master/Bases.lhs
Modern APL dialects have an inverse operator (https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Inverse). For example, in Dyalog APL (https://tryapl.com/):

⍝ Convert Fahrenheit to Celsius
f_to_c ← (÷∘1.8)∘(-∘32)

f_to_c 68
20

(f_to_c ⍣ ¯1) 20
68

Now I'm an APL noob, I don't know how deeply this is implemented. I suspect it's very adhoc.

More interesting are logic languages such as Prolog. If you stick to the core logical features, you get the inverse of a function for free:

?- append([1,2,3], [4,5,6], X).
X = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6].

?- append(X, [4,5,6], [1,2,3,4,5,6]).
X = [1, 2, 3].

?- append(X, Y, [1,2,3,4]).
X = [], Y = [1, 2, 3, 4] ;
X = [1], Y = [2, 3, 4] ;
X = [1, 2], Y = [3, 4] ;
X = [1, 2, 3], Y = [4] ;
X = [1, 2, 3, 4], Y = [].
Even that violence is better when minimized right?

You don't want police to apply excessive force. You won't want innocent bystanders to be shot by the police. You don't want the police to hurt people just because they think they may be guilty, etc. Those things do happen and when they happen people get upset and rightfully so.