skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is even funnier when you swap dillo for dildo in the comments
Sure, it's "up to", but how low can you assume things will go? 5% would still destroy someone.
Ah - this brings back memories.

Back in 2015 I was tech lead for a modern (web based) SaaS library management system and getting it to work with RFID tags with a wrapper application was all sorts of fun and games.

We got RFID library tags working on Android, but with iOS locking down NFC access it turned out to be impossible and we had to get libraries to buy bluetooth connected RFID scanners.
Probably because we see stuff like this every decade. Ten years ago no one was ever going to drive again because self-driving cars were imminent. Turns out a lot of problems can be partially solved very quickly, but as anyone with experience knows, solving the last 10% takes at least as much time as solving the first 90.
Not really. Free Press is only pretending to be journalism. In an article defending JK Rowling, they describe people who are upset with her views on transgender rights as "maniacs, who are then flattered by cowards". It's a partisan rag.
It looks Sora is actually the worst performer in the benchmarks, with Kling being the best and others not far behind.

Anyways, I strongly suspect that the funny meme content that seems to be the practical uses case of these video generators won't be possible on either Veo or Sora, because of copyright, PC, containing famous people, or other 'safety' related reasons.
Palm not having anything to do with PalmOS6 is entirely a problem with Palm.
LLMs are not really there except for juniors though

the quality of the code is as bad as it was two years ago, the mistakes are always there somewhere and take a long time to spot, to the point where it's somewhat of a useless party trick to actually use a LLM for software development

and for more senior stuff the code is not what matters anyway, it's reassuring other stakeholders, budgeting, estimation, documentation, evangelization, etc.
Yeah that's true. Fortunately we have one 15 mins of drive away.
You haven't demonstrated anything here. One would think in four paragraphs you'd be motivated to give > 0 details or reasoning. And no, political propaganda doesn't count.
It's indeed crazy how expensive McDo meals had become. When I was a student I used to eat 2/3 hamburgers 1€ each, and something the 2€ local thing too. Now those doubled or tripled. A maxi best of is at least 12€. Sorry but at this price I'll eat anywhere else. The only thing I'm eating these days is the 5€ menu with 4 items in it, the happy meal at 4€ when there's Pokémon cards as toy and the Mac First when it is at 6€ (spoiler: it's often closer to 7€ in most place now).

That being said even kebabs are a luxury now. What used to be 3€ or 5€ with fries and drink is now 7/8€ alone, or 12€ in combo with fries or drink. Well, one more think I'll eat way less than before.
UK fines are proportionate. So no. No UK judge will fine a small website 18m
Oh yeah, Gateway one of those sci-fi books that reads like literature.
The components are the most complete set I've come across and cover a really broad famit of use cases. Docs are really good. Great toolset for building fast (though AI now may bias towards Tailwind and just generate whatever you need).
Since Disney classics often riffed off public domain works, the school conceivably might have gone straight to the source.
Yeah man, almost perfect, and they have desserts too! Sadly no coffee...well just packaged ones.
Depends on how fast your BIOS/UEFI is at loading sectors off the disk; some are really slow and it can be faster to load and boot a small kernel and then load all the modules.
A New Way to Fly Hypersonic: Rocket+Ramjet – Andrew Duggleby, Venus Aerospace [video]
Yeah, somebody knew the new power connectors were going to be sus, so halving the power was at least somewhat safe thing to do
> These communities are the flowers growing between the cracks of the cement parking lot: a reminder that life survives, and often thrives, in the harshest environments, such as the modern world

Lovely writing here. I am fascinated by the idea that the porousness of any system is its lifeline or even possibly its great enabler.

There's a legend that during the Chinese revolution, extremely rural and difficult to travel to villages simply lied about their yearly rice yield, and thus were taxed less and avoided what would have sent them into the same starvation cycle as other areas, and this enabled the Maoist system to survive much longer than it would have otherwise. Similar stories from Stalist Russia, but the idea isn't limited to totalitarianism; as the story notes it applies to our paved-over modern American life as well.

Contrary to the article, I somewhat feel that our current world is far too porous: we lack virtually any structure; we feel adrift rather than locked up. A coffee meetup in a McDonalds is an attempt to build a community in a cultural ghost-town, not a rebellion against perfect order.
> I also couldn't wrap my head around why they didn't just pay whatever they thought it was worth and let me cover the rest.

Because nothing is forcing them to do so. If you don’t like it, what are you going to do about it? Shoot their CEO or something? They have all the leverage.
Well, I'm still waiting for something to beat the MSWLogo which defined my childhood between 8 and 12 years old. By now I've tried quite a few things with my kids and most of them IMO display a complete lack of understanding of what can be good for a 8-10 year old child. E.g. typing "player.move_forward()" instead of "fw" (hi, codingforkids) is complete insanity: kids typically do not master touch typing by that age. Furthermore, with kids using tablets instead of PCs nowadays I doubt most of them will master touch typing at all. Nor do they care about the syntax of ".member" and "func()" for that matter, that's beyond the point when you're just trying to figure out what a procedural program even is.

I'm open to recommendations of programming languages and programming-related games for kids between 4 and 12 years old, for Android and PC. This is what I've tried so far:

* Scratch is interesting but simple programs like "add two numbers" require crazy levels of dedication of drawing sprites for every digit and programming a character for every decimal place (unless I got it wrong, open for advice). I think it will come handy later to teach about eventloops, signals and threads, but not as a first language.

* codingforkids.io -- "papa, but this sucks, you do it all day?" was hard to argue with that

* Human Resource Machine -- incredible game and does drill some good concepts but is too remote from programming (I still recommend it though)

* Mindustry -- also a good game but is even further away from what programming is compared to HRM

* Any other recommendations?
Thanks, The article did not make this clear.
Yeah, and if you're using Nvidia, you're using CUDA.
Yeah that sucks. It really depends on the time.
it literally cannot though, unless it becomes some other form of life that doesn't need oxygen, that's the whole thing with this analogy, it's ironically suited to the discourse
I also find it more useful to teach something real, not a toy.

Even PASCAL was never a toy, though it was designed motivated by teaching purpose, it became professional because it was capable of that.

When I told some friends I was going to teach 11-year-olds to program, and that I was considering some BASIC versus Python, they suggested Scratch. But 11-year-olds aren't babies. They can understand a lot, and they should be enabled to talk about their code (which textual representations enable, but not Scratch-style visual programs).

So I picked Python (with pyturtle for easy turtle graphics), and it worked well.
This is spot on.

It's essentially like saying "What I do in particular, is much too difficult for an AI to ever replicate." It is always in part, humble bragging.

I think some developers like to pretend that they are exclusively solving problems that have never been solved before. Which sure, the LLM architecture in particular might never be better than a person for the novel class of problem.

But the reality is, an extremely high percentage of all problems (and by reduction, the lines of code that build that solution) are not novel. I would guesstimate that less than 1 out of 10,000 developers are solving truly novel problems with any regularity. And those folks tend to work at places like Google Brain.

That's relevant because LLM's can likely scale forever in terms of solving the already solved.
State of JavaScript 2024
As I recall, the biggest problem from the last go-around was the models and implementation were two different sets of artifacts and therefore were guaranteed to diverge. If we move to a modern incarnation where the AI is generating the implementation from the models and humans are no longer doing that task, then it may work as the models will now be the only existing set of artifacts.

But I was definitely in camp #2 - the in-house business applications. I'd love to hear the experiences from those in camp #1. To your point, once IBM got involved it all went south. There was a place I was working for in the early 90s that really turned me off against anything "enterprise" from IBM. I had yet to learn that would apply to pretty much every vendor! :)
Code is a liability, not an asset. It is a necessary evil to create functional software.

Senior devs know this, and factor code down to the minimum necessary.

Junior devs and LLMs think that writing code is the point and will generate lots of it without worrying about things like leverage, levels of abstraction, future extensibility, etc.
You are false.

It's certainly not ATF, ICE or Secret Service who police corruption. It is and always has been FBI.
I've seen people claim we that nuclear waste is somehow solved... I'll believe it when Hanford [0] isn't leaking anymore and/or we've solved the Not Near My Highways problem of transporting it to a better location.

[0] https://spectrum.ieee.org/hanford-nuclear-site
Making a hobby etching thing that isn’t anywhere close to the state of the art is cool, but not exactly anywhere close to what is needed to look at a modern chip.

You’re trivializing the challenge of modifying something that is on the order of 50nm wide and specifically designed to not be able to be tampered with.
I remember when absinthe became legal to purchase in the US again and it seemed like it might become a cool drink to get drunk and maybe a little high from. I feel like it mostly got passed over though. The high from it seems like it was over-reported; I mean alternative ways to get high and drunk are pretty common these days, I don't think absinthe could really ever compete with edibles or whatever. The taste is fairly specific and I've only had a handful of cocktails that feature it well, gin/vodka/rum/whiskey are just better bases. In fact most cocktails I've seen it in usually have something else featured with absinthe meant to spruce up the taste and color a bit.
I haven't really used agentic AI yet and I am already completely sick of it.

40 questions to Saturday just sounds ridiculous.

I feel like on this trajectory my broker is soon going to be pretending my trailing stop is an AI agent monitoring when to get out of the trade "in the background".
Specious reasoning.
30 Years, from Compilation Student to Decompilation Pioneer – Cristina Cifuentes [video]
Subway is a good reminder that location matters too. While they have a lot of locations, they are not nearly as selective in where they go.
Too see the flare from the side bothers me the most. There's so much energy traveling away from us that it's lighting up space enough for the flare, again not pointing at us, to outshine the galaxy.
This is terrible. Taxis don't require fingerprints.

This drives up the cost of providing a service for a population that doesn't have much money to begin with. It is ostensibly safer, but that value has not been quantified. On the margin, it will encourage kids to take less safe forms of transit (e.g. drunk friend) due to higher costs and reduced availability.
Counter view: there should be no such thing as an educational programming language. Some set of regular production languages that are sufficiently easy to learn that they can be used in education should exist. If not then collectively we're doing something wrong with language design.

Random data point: I "taught" a middle school coding class for a couple years using JS. Turned out ok.
One vote for image inputs here.
I would love a fine-tuned qwen-2-vl-72b on demand, but most of the solutions are "talk to us" level expensive.
I'm assuming you beat the price or convenience of a replicate / modal solution?
1. Why do you have a limited number of models publicly? Do you have to configure each one manually?

2. I don't see the 50% cheaper option. According to your pricing page, 16B+ models will cost $0.90, which is the same price for Together.ai and fireworks.ai
McDonald's stock is up 20% since Oct 7, 2023

Sales growth slowed a bit, but the boycott effort was a temporary scare to the business that didn't have significant impact on sales long term.
If it is anything like GDPR enforcement in the UK, the 'what if' situation is Ofcom writing to you asking you to comply.
There are investors lined up around the block to hand over $$$$$ for SFHs on the market while people delay family making because they cannot afford housing or end up on the streets.

So, is the market really absurd?

Just because some billionaires are desperate for growth to grow their hundred billions into trillions outbidding each other does not mean that 90% of humanity cannot make use of ML running locally on cheaper GPUs.
One of the lead SETI researchers wrote about this and how biological life might just be a transitory phase.
From the article:

>The downside of having a biology that renders mirror bacteria ‘invisible’ to natural enemies is that they would not be able to consume many of the chiral nutrients found in nature. However, several nutrients, such as glycerol, are achiral (they do not have mirrored forms), and thus could be consumed by mirror bacteria. Well-intentioned scientists could also engineer mirror bacteria that can consume naturally occurring chiral molecules such as sugars and amino acids.
I legitimately believe that classifying this as robbery is a lot closer to the truth than classifying it as censorship.

Not that I’d fully agree with that vis a vis how international relations between China and the USA work, but it’s definitely a more accurate description
Haven't used the M8, but I just set up an AGM M9 on Mint Mobile two days ago.

That said, that's kinda cheating since Mint is a T-Mobile MVNO and I haven't tried it outside my usual T-Mobile service area.
If NVIDIA had real competition they would do this naturally to gain market share. The GP saying they 'should' do x isn't something we can expect companies to do out of the goodness of their hearts, it's what the market should force them to do.
So Nvidia's moat is mainly hardware and not software?
If he can't count, how does he know where he is in a measure?
Sure, let's remove 70kg. That'll get the ship moving...not.
I think fundamentally if all you do is glue together popular OSS libraries in well understood way, then yes. You may be replaced. But really you probably could be replaced by a Wordpress plugin at that point.

The moment you have some weird library that 4 people in the world know (which happens more than you’d expect) or hell even something without a lot of OSS code what exactly is an LLM going to do? How is it supposed to predict code that’s not derived from its training set?

My experience thus far is that it starts hallucinating and it’s not really gotten any better at it.

I’ll continue using it to generate sed and awk commands, but I’ve yet to find a way to make my life easier with the “hard bits” I want help with.
Well, do you have my normal opinion or do you have a dissenting opinion that is political and shouldn’t be allowed on this forum?

It’s important to under before taking action
Yes, but an e-fuse would not be the only way to lock the feature if Nvidia were to want to unlock it later.
I agree with this completely.

A small but important suggested addition: if it's someone who's funeral you would go to, tell that person now what they mean to you. Then they can hear it while they are still alive.

It is not a given that you will have enough time to tell them later.
I read the entire thing and who it was written by does not change how I feel about it or the dailymail
I'm surprised the author doesn't mention LISP, despite recognizing at some point that programming also IS language design (without explicitly calling it meta-linguistic abstraction, unlike SICP).

LISP is the language/notation most easily/flexibly extended, and this is one of the reasons why it may never disappear as long as we still have programming languages around.
Is this investment advice?

> "Investment adviser" means any person who, for compensation, engages in the business of advising others, either directly or through publications or writings, as to the value of securities or as to the advisability of investing in, purchasing, or selling securities, or who, for compensation and as part of a regular business, issues or promulgates analyses or reports concerning securities...

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-1878/pdf/COMPS-187...
Relations are cool, but SQL DBs either prohibit or make it hard to present relations inside relations, which is one of the most common ways of structuring data in everyday programming life. You can see people suggesting writing SQL functions that convert rows to json or using ORM simply to query a one-to-many relationship, that's crazy: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54601529/efficiently-map...
> Magit (for me) has so much value _because_ it is part of Emacs , where I edit all my code.

Same. I'll never ever understand people saying "I use Emacs but only because of org-mode" or "I use Emacs but only because of Magit".

I use for Emacs for many things, hence org-mode and Magit have a lot of value to me. But they're not that amazing in themselves as to put up with Emacs only for one of these two.

Emacs is quite something: I don't think it's reasonable to use if only for either org-mode or Magit. You risk feeling bitter about it like GP.
Depends on the ticket.

If it's "Get us to the moon", it's gonna take me years to write that ticket.

If it was "Make the CTA on the homepage red", it is up for debate whether I needed a ticket at all.
I was a TA and instructor for several programming classes, usually in Java, with which I was moderately experienced but not an expert.

My students would frequently ask how to accomplish something, how syntax or keywords worked on q deeper level, whether there was a stl class for a purpose, or what caused an error, etc, that I didn't know about already. I didn't hide my ignorance even a little bit, but Idid help them find an answer. In lecture settings, if it wasn't too much of a digression, I'd demonstrate finding the answer. In one on one help, or one on group help, I'd lead them through finding the answer themselves. My students had a lot of respect for me as an authority on the language and still listened to my advice and came to me with questions frequently.

This is kinda important across all fields, but especially in programming, you don't need to know the right answer by rote so much as you need to be able to seek and identify the right answer with some independence using existing resources.
To quote a made up quote about a famous made up general:

The 95% inefficient army crushes the 97% inefficient army.

The market isn't about being efficient, it's about being an epsilon more efficient than your competitors.

Or to quote a friend who works at big tech:

If only I could get my team of three hundred to be as productive as my first team of three.
I agree. The cartoons felt literally like the comics brought to life.
I'm not sure if everything turning into a commodity and no companies having any surpluses would be ideal either. That would probably significantly slow down innovation in some ways.
Apart from being text format, I'm not sure how well JSON-RPC handles doubles vs long integers and other types, where protobuf can be directed to handle them appropriately. That is a problem in JSON itself, so you may neeed to encode some numbers using... "string"
Amazon Teamsters in NYC have voted to authorize a strike
sometimes, not going to the funeral is the message to be said and saying it to them "now" is considered rude. clearly, the message of not attending is being said to others not to the person, but you get the gist
Both of the mentioned movies probably wouldn't have had any problem releasing while the copyright to the characters remained in-tact under fair use. If someone is trying to make a movie with existing well-known characters, people aren't too interested in non-transformative work, and distributors probably wouldn't distribute something due to the general lack of audience interest.

The main benefit that public domain brings to a work is that you can make small edits or changes to a work without violating its copyright. Imagine if you wanted to go through all the episodes of Spongebob, change the colors to make it clearer to watch for colorblind viewers[a], and then sell those edits as a box set or otherwise sell access to them via some accessibility-focused streaming service. Under copyright this would probably not be seen as transformative, and something non-transformative then has an incredibly high bar to clear for fair use to apply to it.

I also think that making new episodes that aren't super transformative would probably not have met the burden for Fair use: for example, making a new episode of Popeye that otherwise follows the same script beats as existing episodes would probably be seen as copyright infringement by the courts. However, once you get into the territory of making a sequel/prequel movie where you really flesh out his character, it starts getting into the realm of qualifying for transformative under fair use (depending on how the judge sees it).

But the mentioned movies really seem like they're so different from the source material. For Pooh Blood and Honey, it doesn't affecting the market for the original, given the works are so different in what they do (and there is likely 0.1% or less overlap between the audience of the slasher genre and the children's programming genre cohort), it did not use almost any of the original copyrighted works to tell its story, just its characters, and the content is transformative enough to where it's not like it's just another episode of Winnie The Pooh.

This popeye film seems to use the same approach as Blood and Honey: it's just Popeye killing people with stuff like "look, it's the Spinach from the original episodes!".

a: not sure if this would actually be beneficial, but it's the best example I can think of for a barely-transformative work other than putting sunglasses on the characters' faces or putting Subway Surfers next to it.
This! Posting so that they might read it and reconsider that choice :)
Yes, the age limit is the most common (universal?) restriction on universal suffrage.

I don't understand what the difference between restricting the vote based on age and race or gender. Universal suffrage must be universal, right? It's not clear what growing out of anything has to do with the concept.

Otherwise it seems to just be "universal amongst the groups I think should have it".
To clarify, I'm not interested in this, because it doesn't answer the question at all. I don't want a Googled answer, I want personal experience.

For instance, I know of a company that flouted GDPR and got multiple letters off the ICO trying to help them with compliance before finally, months later, they ended up in court and got a very small fine.

Edit: it is not cool to edit your post after I replied to make it look more reasonable