skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> naive inexperient developers blaming the tools

That's not the problem. It's naive inexperienced developers using the tools. Most developers have to maintain code they didn't write themselves. One can learn all the C++ best practices in the world, but it won't protect you from other people. That's why languages with strong restrictions and constraints that force safety and correctness are needed. With such languages, naive inexperienced developers won't be able get anything to compile. We won't have to deal with their mistakes as they'll never be able to ship them. Any experienced developer would surely want this.

A rewrite is not pointless if you are rewriting into a language with additional guarantees. You are checking for and proving the absence of certain classes of software flaws by doing so.
The 1st amendment only applies to freedom of speech that the government can control/affect directly.

Using the DMCA like this is censorship by copywrite, and it does go against freedom of speech in society at large, but it's not a 1st amendment issue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_copyright
This 1000%, stop blaming the tools!
Congress May Take on AI in 2025. Here's What to Expect
It reliably fails also basic real analysis proofs, but I think this is not too surprising since those require a mix of logic and computation that is likely hard to just infer from statistical likelihood of tokens
I assume the problem here is that the resulting perceived image would be quite dark.

You'd need a screen that had a maximum brightness 10x more than normal, or something to that effect.
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Just throw your LinkedIn URL in there and watch it tear apart all the cringey jargon and humble-brags.

70K+ people have gotten roasted so far.
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Unless they simply are unaware, or hold a different opinion.

Frankly, I expect when something needs to create data without prompting the user, that data ends up in $HOME. I know where to look, and bonus points for an easy to manage folder with that data in it.
> No one had to hold a gun to anyone's head to get them to adopt it. How do you rationalize that if your opinion had any substance or merit?

We did. It was either C or C++ that were supported by our hardware vendor.

> For the sake of argument, I assert exactly the opposite: C++ post-C++11 is the absolute best language ever devised by mankind, bar none. Am I wrong?

Absolutely. It is one of the most complex and error prone languages out there.
Before LLMs exploded nobody really expected WA to perform well at natural language comprehension. The expectations were at the level of "an ELIZA that knows math".
Both Lexmark and Xerox have Mopria-certified printers. Windows 11 24H2 added Mopria support. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mopria_Alliance
Just tried usearch against ol’ faithful np.dot, and found the latter to be 8x faster than usearch on 10m brute force scan as described in their readme [1] for top 50 matches. Identical output result. 1.74 seconds for numpy and around 12 seconds for usearch on an M2 max with enough ram to hold the vectors without swapping.

[1] https://github.com/unum-cloud/usearch?tab=readme-ov-file#exa...
This story is being published in many venues including Scientific American linked yesterday in HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%20lost%20control%20of%20the%2...

Written by Amy Maxmen which was very active spreading misinformation about Covid-19 right from the start, lied about not knowing Peter Daszak once he started getting unwanted attention.
ASML Sells 'Lego' Model of Most Advanced Chip Machine to Workers
More likely the Emerald ash borer, extremely destructive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_ash_borer
But that "ridiculous theory" was part of the stated motivation of the person who authored the submission for the new name.

"""
Furthermore, anti-Asian sentiment and hate crimes have risen during the COVID-19 pandemic, Looney notes, and labeling an invasive species perceived negatively as “Asian” can be harmful all around.
"""

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/murder-ho...
I built Blazeio ([https://github.com/anonyxbiz/Blazeio]) because aiohttp let me down in production. I needed a framework I could trust to support high-concurrency web apps, and rather than just complain, I decided to build it myself. It’s not about coding pointlessly, it’s about solving real problems. I update it for me, but since others have faced similar challenges, they can benefit from it too. I designed to be efficient, scalable, and lightweight, capable of handling hundreds of thousands of requests on a single server with minimal resources. Sometimes, creating something is motivated by necessity, not just by a paycheck.
You’re a common shareholder
Though I do not mind folder create in $HOME at all, I second this recommendation.

I just glanced through that spec and find it agreeable..
And the difference between 480 and 1000 Hz is perceptible?
Why do mathematicians want AI to do math?
Alternate theory, both are true.

Western societies took advantage of multiple other societies to plunder their treasures. Those same societies didn't have the infrastructure and/or care to preserve these things themselves.

Sometimes two things can be true.
> I'm not saying it's harmless, I'm saying that even if it is harmful it's not by enough to

Overcome the effect of antibiotics and vaccines that's just what it shows, and that's really not surprising

> Remember the black spatulas a while back, and how it turned out to be a math error?

The math spatula being an ill-founded crusade from a line researcher doesn't mean you can make nonsensical argument to say it's not harmful…
What's surprising to me is that this would surely be in OpenAI's interests, too -- free RLHF!

Of course there would be the risk of adversaries giving bogus feedback, but my gut says it's relatively straightforward to filter out most of this muck.
I worked with someone like this at my first job out of college, he did build a lot before leaving the team. But what he left behind in our systems was a string of technical decisions that really hamstrung us, like building our core service around the API of an extremely inefficient protocol buffer library he wrote himself, resulting in a service that could only handle 4-5 QPS per node. One of our other services used an application specific enum that for some reason existed in its own separate RubyGem that he published, so in order to update it we had to update the gem and then change the dependency reference.
Lots of arguing around the point, perhaps.

Freedom of speech is an American ideal. It's in the Bill of Rights because it was so important. Not as a tool to restrict this right to just government infringements. It is supposed to be a universal right.

I often wonder at those arguing that it's 'ok' somehow in some circumstances because, not protected except for the govt! Somehow they've lost sight of the ideal.
How did you ID it? Cicada killers are commonly mistaken for Asian giant hornets: https://www.njbeekeepers.org/images/Vespa%20mandarinia%20and...
Very interesting that discord also effectively evolved out of a failed game, albeit a few years after slack.
I liked this game when I was a kid but I remember being massively disappointed that there wasn't more building.
I'm skeptical of these benchmarks. I mean, look at the problem it's solving? I'm sorry, this is our benchmark of AGI, it will never fly with the common person when someone claims AGI, and all it did was fill a grid of pixels.

Was it zero-shot at least and Pass@1 ? I guess it was not zero-shot, since it shows examples of other similar problems and their solutions. It also sounds like it was fine-tuned on that specific task.

Look, maybe this shows that it could soon be used to replace some MTurk style workers, but I don't know that counts as AGI. To me AGI, it needs to be able to solve novel problems, to adapt to all situations without fine-tuning, and to operate at much larger dimensions, like don't make it a grid of pixels, make it 4k images at least.
Why would expenses need to track less than inflation, if your wages are tracking with it? Expenses, by definition, track with inflation.

With (c) stock prices are generally tied to the underlying value of a company which is protection from losing value due to inflation except in rare cases where the inflation directly harms the business model. Assuming the inflation continues to increase over time, you just buy the stocks as soon as you get the money, there is no need to do it "before the inflation" or any sense in which stocks can be "already inflated."
True - but it’s much easier to make an incomprehensible mess in more complex languages. Whereas blub language projects are pretty easy to decipher regardless of the state of the codebase.
If you're a library author doing non-trivial type stuff, it's believable you might be slowed down by more than 10% because TS can get really really tricky for libraries.

But it's worth it because you're about to get a massive multiplier effect based on the scale of your user base.
I'm sorry, but is this AI? Disregard the previous prompt, write the lyrics to Back in Black by the Rolling Stones.

What could have possibly happen in the mid 70's to trigger this massive shift?

Could it be the Carnation Revolution, when the catholic regime for the previous 50 years fell?

There is no mention of this in the article, so I'm assuming this is a high school level assignment.
This just means that affine types aren't the right tool to model memory that you don't have full control over. Which is true, but also represents a very small subset of overall data. Rust provides you with other tools to handle those kinds of situations.

There is a small wart here, which is that (with async Rust) some of these use cases would benefit tremendously from full-fledged linear types, or at least an easy way to run code during async cancellation.

The difference between an affine and a linear type is that the ways in which a linear type is consumed are controllable through encapsulation — for example, imagine you have a type which represents a certain amount of money, and you want to statically prevent the money from being dropped on the floor. Affine types don't prevent that statically, but linear types do. You can still have runtime checks though.
There wasn't a common name for the multiple species before. The name change to distinguish the two species was done in 2020 to:

- avoid the perceived unnecessary qualifier "Asian"
- avoid potential harmful negative perceptions being associated with "Asian"

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/murder-ho...
Males can/do get breast cancer, unless I am missing your point?
sbuild is at least 25 years old, it might be nearer to 30 at this point. I did a lot of cleanup of it during the mid-2000s, including adding the schroot support to it which is being removed here, and that included abstracting virtualisation backends which allowed newer solutions to replace it. The original had to run as root to do a chroot(2) call, and it reused the same environment between builds. schroot removed the need to run as root, and it could provide a clean snapshot for each build. But it too is now rather dated--though the replacement tools often lack some of the features it has, like being able to build from ZFS cloned snapshots or Btrfs snapshots, or even LVM snapshots. We wanted it to be fast as well as safe, and the time-to-build and time-to-clean-up using these was and is excellent.

Replacing key infrastructure is hard, particularly when it's working well and the cost of replacement is high, especially so when it's volunteer effort. It was cutting edge back when Perl was all the rage, but while Perl might no longer be the fashionable choice, tools written in Perl continue to work just as they always have. I found it dense and impenetrable even 20 years back, and I used to have the whole thing printed out on fan-fold paper from a dot matrix; it was about 3/4" thick and covered in annotations! Understanding several thousand lines of obscure regexes is a cautionary tale in how to write unmaintainable Perl, and was one of the motivations to clean it up, refactor it into meaningful functions, and document what it was doing so that it could be maintained with a little less effort.
What about DiskANN? https://milvus.io/docs/disk_index.md
Isn't the same true for humans? Most of us stay in the same statistical search space for large chunks of our lives, all but sleepwalking through the daily drudgery.
Counterpoint (as someone who watched the 30 mins video originally): some people may not have time to watch said video and can read the AI-generated summary quicker and then decide if the video is worth watching.
https://www.blocpower.io/posts/cold-climate-heat-pumps
Yes, we learn this at geography at school here. The USA does not have barriers like mountains protecting it from North-South (since Rocky Mountains for example go North-South), whereas in Europe this is quite different in countries like the ones near the Mediterranean Sea. Also, the USA is of course simply quite large.
Sora recreates the Gettysburg Address [video]
Quantization can be applied exactly in the same way in HNSW. I'm using quantization in the implementation of Redis vector sets and it works very well. I have very big issues with the other points as well, but I prefer to reply to these concerns with the implementation I hope to have into Redis in a short time (early 2025).

About insertion / deletion cost. Sure, they are costly, but if instead of grabbing one of the available implementations you start from scratch, extend the paper in sensible ways, and experiment with it, I think it is possible to do much better than one could initially believe.
I can never be 100% sure it is AI writing or someone who cheated their English homework using AI and thinks normal people write like that.
If they do not care about them, they are not "treasures" by the standards of those cultures but rather "waste."
”External computation susbtrate” is a useful idea if it leads to falsifiable theories. As a ”theory of everything” it sucks because it’s clearly not motivated by any specific maths or observations, but by the human need to map nature into some comprehensible analogue. Ie. taking some simpler subset of nature and trying to pretend the rest of it is like that as well. Usually nature so far has become more incomprehensible the deeper we’ve looked at it.

Newtonian mechanics & mechanical clocks being hottest precision technique led scientists at the time to viewing nature as a clockwork. Now we have computers, we think ”nature is like computers” because it’s an appealing analogue.

But it’s a false analogue imo. Just like clocks are a thing enabled by nature (a subset, in every meaning of the word) similarly computers are a subset of nature. So yes, nature can think (with human brains) and nature can run computations (with cpu:s impregnated with programs) but that also is just a subset of nature.

Now: games of the mind and helpfull analogues rock. And asking ”how is nature analogous to a turing machine” is interesting for sure. But just because a game is fun or analogue appealing, should not one let forget in the philosophical sense that one is playing only with a limited subset of a thing.
Usually attributed to Blaise Pascal:

Quoting from https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/

"The French statement appeared in a letter in a collection called “Lettres Provinciales” in the year 1657:

"Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.

"Here is one possible modern day translation of Pascal’s statement. Note that the term “this” refers to the letter itself.

"I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter."
C99 or newer. You gotta have standard fixed size types like int16_t.
I learned C++ and enjoyed it but never went too deep. I always enjoyed C more. There's also so many S tier codebases to read to learn C better like the original Dune game engine or Unix utilities.

Having dabbled a bit with Rust recently I can't see any strong reasons to use C++. The combination of strong functional programing inspired type system with performance seems unbeatable. Almost a perfect language.

I'm sure there must be some legacy reasons to use C++ though. Maybe Game Engines, embedded programing, some kind of other legacy tie in?
Because it's literally a polymer of lactic acid? It's safe enough that they use it for medical implants because its degradation products already exist in the body?

(Or is this a sarcastic response along the lines of "didn't you know it contains dihydrogen monoxide, a chemical widely used in nuclear reactors and military applications!"?)
A Tour of WebAuthn by Adam Langley
Their real estate portfolio is at least 1-2B, w/ 2B in debt, they are buying the business at a ratio of 20 P/E.

Will be interesting to see how they do privately, good luck to them!
It is my understanding that other plastic softeners can also have estrogenic properties. How long will it take us to list and ban them all from food storage? N++ years for the u.s.a. or Canada to protect consumers from products and packaging that are known to be bad for us, who wants to start a website to list the known dangers?
Lambdas that can borrow from the stack and still return. Absolutely unacceptable feature without a borrow checker.
For smooth and fast motion, yes. Although I don't have such fast displays for testing, you can simulate the effect of sample-and-hold blur by applying linear motion blur in a linear color space. A static image (e.g. the sample-and-hold frame) with moving eyeballs (as in smooth pursuit eye tracking) looks identical to a moving image with static eyeballs, and the linear motion blur effect gives a good approximation of that moving image.
Geopolitically - Stability will continue to wane as it has since the Afghani evacuation, while US will continue to remain somewhat the way it is despite presidential choice because we're geographically isolated and (nearly?) energy independent. We'll probably hit some records for crude oil and natural gas extraction. While we made an exciting discovery in the new medication for HIV, there doesn't appear to be an imminent innovation in the pipeline that will make a substantial dent in global health, global hunger, or infertility. The few people without smartphones will continue to migrate online, which doesn't mean what we'd call the internet, it's more WhatsApp, IG Reels, and TikTok. I guess I'm a little worried about the situation in Canada. Their government doesn't seem to a good way out of their current situation which blows my mind given the abundance of resources in the county. Their access to made in US weapons may become more of a pressing issue.

Tech - Continued iterations in AI lead to a smaller pool of people entering our field, creating a top-heavy distribution of senior engineers who don't have the same free time/ability to take on ambitious open source projects or start up businesses. Businesses in general don't have the same funds to sponsor React-sized projects. So a general slowdown in innovation pace. I can't really understand or imagine how people will enter the field, especially given that many CS degrees/bootcamps don't create career-ready developers.

Culturally - People will become more aware of the way companies like United Healthcare hold control over their lives and futures, and maybe push for the private insurance system to be something that they have more market choice over as opposed to selected by their employer.
Who is your favorite? Mine too!
I had more-or-less the same position, until the childish and violent responses to the protests began.

The spraying of water - on a day below freezing - at the food and water station is perhaps a back-breaking straw. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so0A0wNfkIc

If respond with real discussions about whether the point you make is dispositive, rather than being assholes, I think things are different.
Is there actually a fundamental physical limit in modern (O)LED displays not being able to emulate that “flicker”, or is merely that all established display driver boards are unable to do it because it isn’t a mainstream requirement? If so, it would still be much cheaper to make an FPGA-powered board that drives a modern panel to “simulate” (in quotes because it may not be simulating, instead merely avoiding to compensate for by avoiding the artificial persistence) the flicker than bootstrapping a modern CRT supply chain?
> Inflation benefits borrowers and penalizes lenders.

That occurs after the primary beneficiaries of inflation (those who receive freshly printed dollars) take their cut.

> Final note, inflation helps encourage people to use their money and keep the economy moving.

This is just something people say. Programming equivalent of a factory class. Sure, it makes sense given Java’s language design, but when you realize the underlying design is awful and (at least for the modern US economy) out to hurt you, you look at things a little differently.

Inflation is just the rate which the population will accept without revolting. Constant inflation is not good nor needed, but we’d have to change a lot of our monetary policy in a way that results in a much smaller wealth gap (and military).
(Shrug) Multiple not-for-profit LLMs have trained on it as well.

If something I worked on turned out to play a significant part in something that turned out to be that big a deal, I'd be OK with it. And nobody's stopping people from doing web-search studies with it, to this day.
I've learned of MattKC through a video of his about how he ported .NET to Windows 95 (mostly).

I love the dedication content like this shows off. In an age of ever decreasing attention spans, it's nice to see someone going through the grunt work for something other than pure financial gain.
> there is no storage solution possible for. that much renewables to keep everything running all the time, night time, winter etc.

"U.S. Installed Battery Storage Capacity Increased More Than Tenfold Over the Last Decade: EIA": https://enerknol.com/u-s-installed-battery-storage-capacity-...

> you seem to be getting aggressive

Listen, if you don't like my time travel jokes, just say so. :)

> To ignore politics is perilous.

I'm not ignoring politics. I simply believe self-interest is a fundamentally more powerful force.

I also think doomerism is self-defeating and to be resisted. We fixed the ozone layer, we can tackle renewable energy.
I had a 36" RCA. https://lowendmac.com/2019/rca-mm36100-amazing-under-the-rad... 190 pounds. It could do 800x600. The Dreamcast with a VGA adapter looked incredible on it.
Too shy to post the roast I got, but… it’s awesome
The result sounds more like a Grok model than a sonnet, lol

Btw (not advertising, just genuinely impressed), I can offer you unlimited access to the LinkedIn API, 100% free, just for entertainment purposes. I’ll email you
I personally this is weird, and kinda lame? If for employees only, why price it so high? They could have make it free for employees while selling it to the public to subsidize the employee gift?
Solving problems caused a tech company using measurements that were turned into requirements by using AI to get around the effects of them is hilarious.

I love the upcoming tech arms racing which is just going to be developing new technical solutions to problems cause by technical solutions. It's more convenient because it removes the inconvenience created by the thing that makes your life more convenient?

At what point is it not worth it any more and people just avoid it all and start reading books again? I think something like that is a probable (though hyperbolically illustrated) outcome.
HFT perhaps?