skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kim also subtly represents a flavor of (classical) liberal populism that is at odds with the neoliberal empire-making much of the ultra-rich engage in. Both make the bulk of their money by exploiting resources that they have a dubious claim to (from a humanistic perspective), but the people that the latter tend to exploit were instead the beneficiaries of his exploitation. Anyone who flips the script like that is going to find themselves in the crosshairs, because it seeds dangerous ideas about what the average person deserves in the way of dignity and material/cultural goods.

He's also not old money or especially supportive of old money; he's just some script kiddy who scammed his way to the top on the back of the kind of confidence that tends to only come when you're built like an NFL lineman but can also read documentation. The seethe is easy to understand.
I read you're comment with interest, but ultimately I can't understand the point being made because I don't know what kind of mirror you're referring to (optical?), I don't know what 'l' or 'L' represent (lateral spacing of mirrors?, vacuum energy desnities?), and the last sentence I think maybe the word 'how' should be deleted?
Signing HTTP
It’s a partnership. Ultimately the line of people involved in any particular job is extremely short.

Unlike in a tech company where the whole company is building a product, consulting companies are thousands of teams doing projects in a small isolated bubble.
You are right, it is a bit dated. The website works with Firefox. I will update Vivaldi later and see if it works. I will get back to you if it does not work with the latest version of Vivaldi, which is Chromium-based.
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I'm pretty sure there's a Herb Sutter C++ talk which explicitly associates newer CPUs having instructions well suited to the Acquire/Release model with that C++ 11 memory model. I have a lot of Herb's talks in my Youtube history so figuring out which one I meant will be tricky. Maybe one of the versions of "Atomic Weapons" ? This idea is out there more generally though.

I don't think I agree that this doesn't mean the memory model infects the CPU design. Actually I don't think I agree more generally either. For example I would say that the Rust strings are fast despite the fact that modern CPUs have gone out of their way to privilege the C-style zero terminated string. There are often several opcodes explicitly for doing stuff you'd never want except that C-style strings exist. They would love to be faster but it's just not a very fast type, so there's not much to be done.

Contrast this with say, bit count, which is a good idea despite the fact it's tricky to express in C or a C-like language. In a language like C++ or Rust you provide this as an intrinsic, but long before that happened the CPU vendor included the instruction because this is fundamentally a good idea - you should do this, it's cheap for the CPU and it's useful for the programmer, the C language is in the way here. "Idiom recognition" was used in compilers to detect OK, this function named "count_pop" is actually the bit count instruction, so, just use that instruction if our target architecture has it. More fragile than intrinsics (because it's a compiler optimisation) but effective.

At an even higher level, from the point of view of a CPU designer, it would be great to do away with cache coherence. You can go real fast with less transistors if only the stupid end users can accept that there's no good reason why cache A over here, near CPU core #0 should be consistent with cache D, way over on another physical CPU, near CPU core #127. Alas, turns out that writing software for a non-coherent system hurts people's brains too much so we've been resolutely not doing that. But that's exactly a model choice - we reject the model where the cache might not be coherent. Products which lack cache coherence struggle to sell.
> It is not mundane, and it is also not right, at least for entropy in Physics and Thermodynamics.

Articles about MaxEnt thermodynamics by E.T. Jaynes where he talks about the “anthropomorphic” nature of entropy date back to 1960s. How is that not right in physics?
As I understand it, the reason for this is it would be much harder to get funding for a years-long mission up front.

Ingenuity funding was not actually included in the original Mars 2020 program and there was huge internal opposition to it, due to potentially infringing on the science goals of the mission.
I'm citing the neolithic data one row below it, since 13,000 years is near the end of the paleolithic era.
Egyptian Fractions (2023)
For all the discussion about it, this is the simple answer. It's not an engineering or scientific prediction, it's a line from a pitch deck.
It takes a long time to go from lab bench and physics papers to practical use to mass produced and generally available practical use.

Graphene has incredible properties as a structural material too but so far producing it at that scale and making it behave properly in things like composites has been very hard. But the physics says once we get it to work we have composites many times stronger than steel or materials like Kevlar.
Why bother engaging outside reviewers at all?
And the right wing also platforms, defends, and worships George Zimmerman, who murdered Trayvon Martin in cold blood, paints confederate battle flags, and told the manager who intervened in a violent bar incident he started that "I didn't know you were a n*gger lover".
It is a widely used plugin. By me as well. And usually allmost all sites work.

So technically the developer of dark reader is the place to go. But if I would use svader - then I would have to be prepared to loose all that audience. (or at least use a sign to warn)

So giving that feedback is still valuable.

People don't care who is to blame. They care if it is working or not. (maybe there is something simple the dev of svader can do)
Except in this case, the main group of doctors (the AMA) convinced congress to cap the number of residencies available to med school graduates explicitly to prevent the “over supply of physicians”.
> Nobody would say “Performant intracontinental public transport routing in C++”

Turns out people do, actually: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Obviously it's rarer with C++ than with Rust, but it happens in the same proportion with pretty much every language when its on a popularity boom (we've seen that with JavaScript a decade ago, then Go and python, now Rust).
I think this is the first time I've seen the process of delivering right-wing talking points fail. Right wing media is talking about how bad it is to kill someone, but right wing followers are pushing back and saying they have no sympathy.
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What do u think about this?
It doesn't feel too surprising to me. The core developer tooling for Python was (/is) about on par with some of the other top languages (C, C++, Java), but lacking when compared to some of the others (Rust, Go, JS/TS). There have also been previous attempts (Pipenv/Poetry) that did prove demand but fell flat in some regards. So it feels like there wasn't any magic, trickery or "take over", but they just filled a void.

Control over uv and ruff (and now also python-build-standalone) doesn't really give Astral significant leverage over Python as a language. They are also quite involved in standardizing many parts of uv via PEPs, which I'm sure the PSF could shoot down if they were overly favoring uv's goals.

Compared to other languages Python leadership also always made the impression to me that they'd rather focus on the language itself and have a looser grip on the ecosystem surrounding it even if that comes with a more fragmented ecosystem (which has already been the status quo for most of Python's existence). I think that makes it very hard to compare to e.g. when Yarn entered the Node.js package manager scene.

It also doesn't feel too surprising that there is little resistance against commercial involvement. Commercially-led programming languages were quite the norm in the past and also seem to be having a comeback (or trying to). In some languages where your median developer has more years of experience and they likely grew up with languages which are more "grassroots" the resistance would be higher. And while I would assume that the people at the PSF also fit that profile, in a high-influx language such as Python, the majority of the Python developers do not.
Basically every single large organization inevitably becomes paralyzed by the inability to do anything different from the status quo. When you hear the common complaint that “consultants just tell leadership to do what I was telling them to do for decades” that’s often accurate; because consultants listen to you and have the executive mandate to actually get things done. If you’ve been saying something for ten years and it hasn’t happened, you _need_ a different tool to effect change. Consultants, for better or for worse, are a decent tool for making that happen.
It can work, but you have more tokens / weaker performance.

People tested it and it was worse.
What's singular is putting 100k H100s in a single machine. Which, yay, cool supercomputer, but the distributed supercomputer with 5 times the machines runs just as fast anyways.

Huang is still a CEO trying to prop up his product. He'd tell you putting an RTX4090 in your bathroom to drive an LED screen mirror is unprecedented if it meant it got him more sales and more clout.
I've always been unclear on this. Various careers are famed for extremely long hours, but I don't know just what it is they do for all that time. Consultants, financeers, etc.

I know that I have only so much brain power to spend a day. I can work longer, but at best you're going to get more grind, not quality.

I keep wondering if these consultants could accomplish as much in fewer hours if they weren't so intent on being the one who puts in so many hours.

I know almost nothing about what they do so I'm just guessing. But I find it hard to square so much effort with results that don't seem to merit it.
(Author Here)

Not sure what you mean by implicit? If you mean just treat bytes as tokens, one issue you run into is your sequence lengths get quite long, so compared to a regular token LLM, you can’t pack as many bytes in a batch, which means you’re pretty FLOP inefficient so scale worse. You could make the model smaller to compensate, but then the model isn’t as good.
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This Wednesday, I was in NYC for the (3 hour!) Anthropic Model Context Protocol hackathon.

I and worked together with my partner (Zia) to build a server for finding tables for your food choice with availability and then launch a video player to show you what it looks like based upon public videos.

It was a blur trying to get this together in 3 hours, and it was mostly broken when we presented, but happy to answer any questions. Future advice: Don't try use Python and Kivy to try and display videos! Just use the Apple native tooling (Swift in this case)
/u/recursivedoubts correcting /u/recursive has to be some of kind of joke you guys prepared in advance, right?
How good are the developer tools in Epiphany browser?

(I would try but I killed my laptop recently!)
It’s okay. Next year we will defeat and reverse aging with one simple trick so you can wait longer, at least according to the latest health science click bait.
Please improve the documentation!
This project is so inspiring. I just spent about a half hour+ oogling over the details. Great documentation and I learned about so many things.
I don’t think it is easier for the average person today to achieve the standard of living of the average person 10, 20, 30 years ago.

Housing is the biggest culprit. It has gone up something like 5x in the last 20 years, while salaries have increased maybe 20%.
Readium is fantastic, and Storyteller uses it basically whenever possible. But Readium is exclusively for reading EPUB contents, and doesn’t have any support for modifying or creating them, which is the primary purpose of this library!
I worked in Cory Deans lab when he did a brief professorship at City College. He is the most sharply intelligent person I have ever worked with, a savage experimentalist always devising new ways to experiment in nanofabrication and his theoretical curiosity is boundless. Additionally, he’s a really nice Canadian when he goes to the pub!

If you ever wonder why these products using graphene aren’t commercially viable, it is insanely difficult to work with and prepare. Imagine trying to make a sandwich that’s 5x5 microns in area and about 2-3nm thick. Graphene is essentially atomic tissue paper subject to all sorts of contamination and small scale effects.
Looking to a Wall That Limited the Devastation at the World Trade Center (2013)
"Upper echelon", "the rich and powerful", all some thin-veiled euphemisms for jews, among the antisemitic circles.

The US just needs to accept that it has it's own nobility again, money aristocracy.
Thanks! Looking forward to your feedback!
Persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire
Boston tea party and all that.
We are still many clicks from physical limits for computation, so it depends on how much money we want to spend.
“Regulation” always means “Corruption”
> But ‘very close’ is different from ‘close’.

What's the difference?
So people are not willing to wait for a robotaxi, but they are willing to wait for buses and trains?
Hours in Venice
Generally they’ve been distilled from much larger models, but also, code is a much smaller domain than the law.
>why I do I continue to use CSS & HTML?

Because you don't know how to write GLSL/WGSL, that things like font rendering end up requiring you to learn at best texture atlases, at worst SDF font rendering, and because you're quadrupling the time it takes you to do _anything_ because you're pixel bashing.

Oh and it's not accessible, which means you're going to get clapped by any audit, which means you're already eliminated from most places. Shaders have their place, for interactive, high speed components that you _explicitly_ don't want to make accessible by default.
We use Box to store and share virtually everything, not because it is incriminating, but because sending email attachments is not a secure way to send sensitive data.
"Painting bullseyes around bullet holes" is the unofficial consultant motto.
Yes, I think the tool should highlight usages to double check, not blindly apply changes and submit.
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-message-s...
Predictions predicated on technological advancement are tricky: there's a reason breakthroughs are called breakthroughs.
How does that logic work? Doesn't it imply that you'd prefer the paleolithic row for a date 11,000 years ago?

Has anyone revisited the question since 1969?
(Author Here)

In editing we couldn’t find a good place for this so cut it in the current version, but at one point had discussed a parallel with information density of speech as described by one paper. Essentially the paper found that in languages that were less information dense per syllable, speakers spoke faster to achieve similar information density as languages with higher density per syllable. You could see patching by entropy paralleling this if you consider that low entropy bytes in terms of Shannon entropy are less information dense.
Yes, you are. First, you insinuated that these people died for a lack of fulfilling lives that was somehow withheld from them. Who are you to say none of them were fulfilled, or that there is some magic cure for mortality and the uncertainties of life? Now you’re doubling down by suggest this is some ulterior motive by the government to kill disabled people. If that’s not a huge jump to a conclusion then I don’t know what is.

You’ll get no argument from me that “the system”–whether it’s private or public–has put expediency over the dignified lives of its denizens. After all, I live in the US with dwindling few social nets and a for-profit healthcare system that quite purposely and openly prioritizes profitability over health and wellbeing, and uses our suffering as profit streams. But I will not make the mistake of conflating this with the idea that assisted dying is purposeful state-sanctioned murder. In fact, that detestable point of view is one that wishes to deprive me of perhaps one of the few choices I might have when the time comes, that wants to force me to endure suffering, all because some other person doesn’t feel the same way as a result of personal, religious, or whatever other reasons.

I’ll stand with you if the state wants to kill anyone that wants to live, but against you if you wish to deprive me or any independent individual their autonomy.
Interesting, a good point. I didn't see it that way, thinking it more a revolt against foreign oppression, but I don't know how Americans see it.
What are these job postings[1] then? Are they going to fill it up before 31 Dec, or will it expire by then?

Also, you should correct the title to "Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers"

And if anyone is interested in this clickbait of a soundbite, skip to 12:15 mark.

[1] https://careers.salesforce.com/en/jobs/?search=engineer&coun...
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https://rxjourney.com.ng
Look into concrete vs abstract dependencies:

https://martin-thoma.com/python-requirements/
Math Learning Shouldn't Be Left to Luck
I'd love an API for this.
Which LLM did you perform that test with?
You need to go back to Twitter with low-quality posts like this.
Resignation at the Royal Society
I can't help but feeling very envious (in a nice way) of your situation with coworkers. It seems like when you had an issue, you had someone 10 steps ahead of you willing to help out, give advice, lend a part etc.

This project seemed to go as well as my side projects, but when I run into a hiccup, I wait a month for a part on AliExpress, or wander around at Home Depot looking for something that I don't know what it is yet.

Kudos to you for surrounding yourself with great people. Thanks for the write up.
Preferring throwaway code over design docs
> create lock files

That's where pip-tools comes in.
The 1955 Le Mans disaster changed motorsport
Kilo editor ported to Forth for RISC-V
KILO - the text editor implemented in under 1000 lines of C (hence the name) has been ported to Riscyforth, a Forth for RISC-V SBCs and similar running Linux.
The Forth port comes in at 1377 lines, perhaps reflecting C's greater expressiveness (things you never expected to type!).
Is anyone out there using Forth for serious projects still, or is it strictly for vintage enthusiasts only?
It's the current industry buzzword for action-oriented LLMs.

Instead of generating text, tightening/formalizing the loop around planning, executing, analyzing results, and replanning.

As far as buzzwords go, it's far from the worst, as it captures the essentials -- creating semi-autonomous agents.
And it has to be peer-reviewed.
Anyone know of a tool like zizmor for GitLab CI/CD? Pretty confident my setup is unsafe after reading through this.

Honestly safety in CI/CD seems near impossible anyways.
https://archive.ph/vGH8O
That’s the next step. Today I just wanted to get it out in the public.

Will add an architectural diagram to the readme and in-line comments to the code.
I am a McKinsey consultant, and I tend to think the people putting in those insane hours are shooting themselves in the foot.

It is easier to work longer hours when a hotel takes care of everything for you, but if you’re bragging about how little sleep you get you’re just teetering on the edge of burnout and American Psycho neuroticism.
Direct link to the site: https://trends.withgoogle.com/year-in-search/2024/

You can also see previous years on there. Quite interesting
I built a tool to make news less terrifying
Was reading the comments to see if anyone experienced just that. Youtube sometimes becomes absolutely unusable with Firefox. Google Flights too. Would hate to switch back to Chrome but I keep having to switch back and forth.
You mean, do they see the CEOs as being like themselves? Or do the see them as like the king in his castle?
The "folk hero" angle is fascinating.
That sounds similar to issues I've been having recently with my Firefox uMatrix setup, which only seems to resolve when I blanket-allow everything (which kinda defeats the whole point of having it)
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Thank you for articulating what was bothering me about this.

I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but you're right. They are confusing defining the system with defining the entropy of a system and then saying it's the entropy that is subjective. That isn't the case at all. Entropy is just a measurement.
Ah, that's interesting. Would that be a valuable lead list for you?
> How did the app […] identify people in them without my explicit permission?

I would guess you tagged them in the Photos app and gave them a name, and possibly coupled to them to a contact in Contacts.app.
AWS re:Invent 2024 Security Talks
(Author Here)

There is at least some work on character based modeling, but it hasn’t scaled well before. The challenge I think with something more adhoc for exceptional tokens is that it’s hard to see gains since they are by definition, infrequent. If the text is rare enough, BPE should produce many single byte tokens, so current models actually expend more compute on these rare sequences.

BLT scales well because it expends less compute (by patching) on more predictable (low entropy) byte sequences. Current models only to some degree get this benefit, if it’s a larger BPE token, but that only goes so far.

So it’s really two related, but different motivations.
U.S. Air Force Confirms Drone Sightings over Ramstein Air Base in Germany
I've never used Maple for work, only for survival. We had a Calculus for Engineers textbook that was so riddled with errors I had to use a combination of the non-Engineering textbook and Maple to figure out wtf was going on. Bad textbook, bad prof, bad TAs and six other classes. What a mess. Those poor undergrads...
iTerm2 Configuration
Yeah, but I don't think you need proof of work for this. Something more akin to git with commit signing should work. The thing with cryptocurrencies is that there isn't anything of real value in the Blockchain. If you view git as Blockchain there is something of real value in it: the code. And here the encrypted data.

Although I don't know how you could make any kind of Blockchain containing data to be released at some condition and no way to release it before? If it's all public in the Blockchain it's all already public. You need atrusted authority that has a secret key to unlock the data. And if you have that all that Blockchain stuff is utterly redundant anyway.
I get a lot of this with spotlight/mdfind and it's realtime. Trying to understand if I'm missing a value add.
You have that relationship reversed.

If you work for the FBI you can quit at any time and work for a different companies with different rules. You can’t work for a company that gets to ignore minimum wage laws.
How can a smart contract “keep a secret” in a trustless way?

Isn’t effectively all the trust still in the party releasing it at the right time, or not releasing it otherwise? If so, is the blockchain aspect anything other than decentralization theater?

I guess one thing you can do with a blockchain is keeping that trusted party honest and accountable for not releasing at the desired date and in the absence of a liveness signal, but I’m not sure that’s the biggest trust issue here (for me, them taking a look without my permission would be the bigger one).