skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing worse than these soldered-in batteries are those motherboards with the Dallas DS1287 RTC “brick” ICs. They had a coin cell buried inside the chip[1] with no way to provide external power should it drain.

[1]: http://www.mcamafia.de/mcapage0/dsrework.htm
It removes the possibility of fear mongering. I'm not aware of any modern research where smoking anything is claimed to be healthy, nor anything about lead in gasoline being too insignificant to pose a health risk.

I prefer fact over fear based science.
> If it's critical I get it right, I go to the wiki sources referenced

the problem with this is that humans will likely use it for low key stuff, see that it works (or that the errors don't affect them too badly) and start using it for more serious stuff. It will all be good until someone uses it in something more serious and some time later it ends badly.

Human basic thinking is fairly primitive. If yesterday was sunny, the assumption is that today should too. The more this happens the higher your confidence. The problem is that this confidence emboldens people to gamble on that and when it is not sunny anymore, terrible things happen. A lot of hype driven behaviour is like that. Crypto was like that. The economic crisis of the late 00s was like that. And LLMs look set to be like that too.

It is going to take a big event involving big critical damage or a high profile series of deaths via misuse of an LLM to give policymakers and business leaders around the world a reality check and get them looking at LLMs in a more critical way. An AI autumn if you wish. It is going to happen at some point. Maybe not in 2025 or 2026 but it will definitely happen.

You may argue that it is the fault of the human using the LLM/crypto/giving out loans but it really doesn't matter when those decisions affect others.
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The "Back to Basics" videos from cppcon are pretty good, IMO.

For lambdas:
Back to Basics: Lambdas - Nicolai Josuttis - CppCon 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgNUBw3vcO4

Back To Basics: Lambda Expressions - Barbara Geller & Ansel Sermersheim - CppCon 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIPNFcw6V9o

For auto, this one is short and summarizes some of the gotachs:

C++ Weekly - Ep 287 - Understanding `auto`

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn69TCMdYbQ
If you think of human neurons they seem to basically take inputs from bunch of other neurons, possibly modified by chemical levels and send out a signal when they get enough. It seems like something that could be functionally simulated in software by some fairly basic adding up inputs type stuff rather than needing the details of all the chemistry.
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I've had the exact same experience, but opposite. Tons of things that are trivial in C# take a ton of code in C++ to me. Maybe it's just going from being an expert in one language to a newer language?
We know that some plastics mimic hormones (eg estrogens), which can cause problems (eg estrogenic cancers).
Alone != lonely.
> To your point, I have wondered whatever became of that massive initiative from Google to scan books, and whether that might be looked at as a potential training source, giving that Google has run into legal limitations on other forms of usage.

Still around, doing fine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Books and https://books.google.com/intl/en/googlebooks/about/index.htm...

Given the timing, I suspect it was started as simple indexing, in keeping with the mission statement "Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful".

There was also reCAPTCHA v1 (books) and v2 (street view), which each improved OCR AI until the state of the art AI were able to defeat them in the role of CAPTCHA systems.
it does have authorization with the `allow` and `deny` commands for granular control of who can can see what. Currently very simple, only for email but maybe other fields in the future
I said underlying, not apparent.
or in other words, it’s incorrect until you say it’s correct, or “close enough, I’ll take over from here”.
That seems to be more like a courtesy that Google could stop extending at any point than a requirement grounded in law or legal precedent.
Quantum Correlations Could Solve the Black Hole Information Paradox
It would be nice if Ruby had a syntax for memoizing a method that would handle the nil/false case and update the shape at init time.
Agreed. If someone believes the world is purely mechanistic, then it follows that a sufficiently large computing machine can model the world---like Leibniz's Ratiocinator. The intoxication may stem from the potential for predictability and control.

The irony is: why would someone want control if they don't have true choice? Unfortunately, such a question rarely pierces the intoxicated mind when this mind is preoccupied with pass the class, get an A, get a job, buy a house, raise funds, sell the product, win clients, gain status, eat right, exercise, check insta, watch the game, binge the show, post on Reddit, etc.
The linter used at my work insists on not using it....
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The amount of high performance, production grade, massively tested libraries written in C++ is unbeatable. I will be honest here, it's easier to improve C++ security by implementing a compiler that produces safer C++ (like Typescript to Javascript) than rewriting everything in any other language (Rust, Zig, Odin, whatever).

I mean, could you estimate the cost ($ and time) it would take to rewrite the best audio framework in any other language? (https://juce.com/).
no agenda? no outcome? i'm not going!
Honestly, his book, The Checklist Manifesto, could have been a long-ish article like this one. I still love the book as one of the best to get things done. And I re-read the book quite often.[1] I love checklists, either written down or in my mind for most events, either at work or in life.

One of my most abused pieces of advice to professionals and teams is to make checklists. This has even spilled into my family. I get my daughters, The Anxious Generation, to create checklists.

1. https://brajeshwar.com/2024/the-checklist-manifesto/
C++20 has modules, which replace header files completely (unless you use old libraries which aren't available as modules yet). Compiler support is there, but unfortunately IDEs are lagging. If you use modules with Visual Studio, say goodbye to IntelliSense. Maybe they'll iron out the bugs in a couple years...
I'm curious if anyone has run the numbers and looked at what the interest payments of this bond over the past 400 years would have amounted to had they been invested in some theoretical basket of typical assets that were available at the time.

It sounds like a pittance now but 400 years of a compounding pittance could be a lot of money.

Edit: with an annual contribution of €13.61 and a real rate of return of 3%, 400 years of annual compounding would be over €7 million. With a rate of 4% it would be €280 million.
So at the time of construction I imagine the techniques used to make a building look like some kind of classical architecture while actually being a facade on top of a steel skeleton must have been fairly new and experimental.

Was the maintenance story perhaps just not well thought through at design time?

It seems almost impossible to simultaneously design a building with recently developed construction techniques, to achieve such an impressive looking result, and to also nail any reasonable maintenance strategy as part of the design.
I wasn't attributing the increase to plastic, I was noting the lack of sudden decrease.
Now I want to know why you left education for tech! :)
lol, I do mean a sniff with a nose. The technology I'm referring to can work by taking air sample. This technology exist, the prediction is that cheap version will be available. My assumption is robots will want a digital nose, for example nanny bots will want to smell smoke and react. An example I read for this technology is that grocery store robot will want to detect spoiled food. It will be mass produced and gets cheaper. But we don't have a robot industry yet, so my confidence level on this prediction is low. The AI part of this is just data analysis of spectral lines.
Aws lambdas and sqs are not
Disease can change body odor, and dogs have been trained to "sniff out disease" [0][1] (i.e. detect via smell) for years. Various researchers have been working on robot noses that would be able to do the same.[2] Presumably a widespread and/or less expensive version of this "robot nose" is what doku means by "AI nose sniffs out many common diseases".

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01629-8

[1] https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/how-do-dogs-sn...

[2] https://bigthink.com/the-future/robotic-nose-smartphone-dete...
Worked for me. Came within one year. Tried a younger friend's name and that was within one year, too. Who said math isn't fun?
Agree. Sure there are problems here and there but I think that overall modern C++ is likely the most versatile tool in the "compiled to native, can do anything" family
Not surprising. I’ve always assumed this was the case.
Good luck meeting that expectation with people doing their weekly grocwries.

Dreamy looks in the distance while difficult questions are being answered, precise estimations based on looks and tons of furious googling happening among the isles for each of the 113 items bought that day. And then realizing 109 of those are somehow interacting with plastics anyway, and there is nothing better in the shop.

People have too much on their plate to grind their lives to halt for 1 out of too many worries just for groceries.
PSA: If you configure your default search engine to be "https:/ /www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=" (space added to disable link detection) you can get rid of the AI.

It also turns off some nice things like the calculator, but the absence of AI garbage is worth it
Judges can be elected officials, political appointees, or career civil servants. America prefers the first two options, but the third option with less political judges is also worth considering.
> if adding memoization is yielding significant gains, there's likely much more potential for optimization

Most often when I see memoization in Ruby code it is when fetching data from either a db or external service. Memory isn't the concern is these cases.

> Almost none of the gems I used 10 years ago still exist today -- taking a small penalty for hand-rolling initially will usually save days or more later -- the author even says a similar earlier Gem he built is long gone

With a clean DSL changing the gem or removing it for your own solution should not be problem.
One of the things that has made C++ more tolerable over time is that it became easy to seamlessly replace most of it with an implementation that works the way you think it should and with most behaviors being fully defined -- the core data types, standard library, etc. Particularly with C++20 and later, alternative foundations feel quite native and expressive.

Most new C++ projects I see lean into this quite heavily. The ease with which you can build a systems-level DSL for your application is a strength of C++.
We’ve barely seen the first wave of companies being built of their APIs too. The billions being put in thousands of startups will take around 5yrs to hit full scale.
No worries, I AM a native speaker and I can't figure out the stars OR the specific parsing of that comment
If you're willing to believe the narrative that there's some sort of existential "race to AGI" going on at the moment (I'm ambivalent myself, but my opinion doesn't really matter; if enough people believe it to be true, it becomes true), I don't think that'll realistically stop anyone.

Not sure how exactly the Library of Congress is structured, but the equivalent in several countries can request a free copy of everything published.

Extending that to the web (if it's not already legally, if not practically, the case) and then allowing US companies to crawl the resulting dataset as a matter of national security, seems like a step I could see within the next few years.
This is the wrong analogy because the article states that there's only theoretical harm. It could mean that one has to drink from 100 tea bags a day to get any adverse effects.

I'd wait for more research before freaking out.
updated UI (better look now :) )
> common household tools nearly at the legal toxin limit is surprising

Personally, I would expect a lot of products to be near a lot of limits for various toxins. Especially around food, my expectation is for limits to be safe with a nice-sized buffer, sometimes too big of a buffer. The point of having limits is that products inside them are fine.
We know it's very possible is a very wishywashy comment though.

Best I can say is that there are theories, but we don't know if they are true or not yet. Some people think they are, some people disagree. That's why they are not facts.
I already feel like Copilot in VScode can read my mind. It’s kind of creepy when it does it multiple times a day.

ChatGPT also seems to also be building a history of my queries and my prompts are getting shorter and shorter because it already knows my frameworks, databases, operating system, and common problems I’m solving
Every time I try to use Rust instead of C++, I'm left asking "bruh, do you even functor?"
I doubt Cranelift will ever match the only project that has beaten the contribution level of Linux kernel.
> "Microsteel" is just elemental iron which is a necessary nutrient.

Steel also contains carbon and if it is stainless steel it also has chromium and probably other metals.
Where did I mentioned the article?
Microsoft had a service in the mid-late 1990s which provided datacast services like traffic, weather and news blurbs to an ActiveX plugin on the Windows desktop on using this as a bearer. It required the right kind of PCI FM tuner card on your desktop PC. I think most people have given up on this now that everyone is expected to have Internet access on their phone. It's too bad, these kind of experiments were neat.
Those C89 hardliners have a different point of view.

Also there is the whole point Objective-C and C++ are much better than those improvements will ever be.
Why should the average consumer be concerned about plastic? Plastic food packaging has been the norm my whole life.

You're asking a consumer to do what a regulatory institution should do.
The universal approximation theorem is set in a precise mathematical context; I encourage you to limit its applicability to that context despite the marketing label "universal" (which it isn't). Consider your concession about empiricism. There's no empirical way to prove (i.e. there's no experiment that can demonstrate beyond doubt) that all brain or other organic processes are deterministic and can be represented completely as functions.
Tesla is profitable and they have a big technological moat. OpenAI is in a very competitive industry and they burn ~5B a year.
Is that, is that true? A dishwasher? Was this a regular occurrence? Did they have to turn down the water heater before hand? Did they take the keys off or leave them on and how did they dry if so?
cool case, i'll go for opt 2 as they have Threadripper.
chatgpt or copilot helps a lot with that. I usually copy the text and let it decipher the thing for me.
Nope. You can order them right now and I will ship them to you today: https://sweetclay.net/

You can also pre-order the varieties that I don't currently have on hand but will in a few weeks. Just like any e-commerce business.
It doesn't mean unsafe either.
Using c++ after learning rust feels like picking through moldy bread
We used to have some of these. Back when rents were much lower.

eg The Last Exit on Brooklyn (near Univ of Wash campus). Just show up. Very diverse clientele. All tables were open (no bogarting open seats). Cribbage, go, chess, boardgames, whatever. Mostly with strangers. There was also regular poetry slams, open-mic, music, whatever.

I've long wondered how to recreate such venues.

Places like Mox are great. https://www.moxboardinghouse.com/seattle/ I've been many times along with my son's crew (gamers, artists, slackers).

But the qwan is just a bit off.

Why?

Is it because we banned indoor smoking? People used to just hang out and smoke, taking in the vibe. (Gods, as a non-smoker, I loved cigs and espresso and cribbage and talking shit. Not that I'd ever want to allow indoor smoking again...)

Is it because places like Mox require merch sales to remain viable? Alcohol sales are way down, so venues need something.

Any way. As an old, if my local public library served espresso, I'd never leave. Our book club has tried to meet at libraries a few times, but it always sucks. Our libraries are definitely not "third places".

/ramble
I used to do bench top work too; and was blessed with “the golden hands” in that I could almost always get protocols working. To me this always felt more like intuition than deductive reasoning. And it made me a terrible TA. My advice to students in lab was always something along the lines of “just mess around with it, and see how it works.” Not very helpful for the stressed and struggling student -_-

Digression aside, my point is that I don’t think we know exactly what makes or defines “the golden hands”. And if that is the case, can we optimize for it?

Another point is that scalable fine tuning only works for verifiable stuff. Think a priori knowledge. To me that seems to be at the opposite end of the spectrum from “mess with it and see what happens”.
I found it interesting ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
How is the exchange rate between modern money and "carolus guilders" calculated?

Something like a foreign exchange market cannot help determine this right?

In theory, could the exchange rate for $1 be made equal to 1,200 carolus guilders? (Effectively, making the bonds worthless)
Brain cells in the in the abdomen help form the gut-brain connection
The point isn't to decide whether to like it or not; it's whether to listen to it or not.

You can't listen to even 1% of the music in the world in your lifetime. You need to filter somehow.
Seems to be closed now...

Anyway. www.bhphotovideo.com - the last I checked (which was a while ago admittedly) their website also adhered to Shabbat, not only their staff.
I found a server I used to host in 1996 still online, but I don't know where it is. Looks like it is running a 2010 version of Apache, though, so it was at least updated 14 years ago:

http://resworld.eolith.net/res.html
I was just thinking about this. I already posted a comment here, but I will say that as a mathematician (PhD in number theory), that for me, AI signficantly takes away the beauty of doing mathematics within a realm in which AI is used.

The best part of math (again, just for me) is that it was a journey that was done by hand with only the human intellect that computers didn't understand. The beauty of the subject was precisely that it was a journey of human intellect.

As I said elsewhere, my friends used to ask me why something was true and it was fun to explain it to them, or ask them and have them explain it to me. Now most will just use some AI.

Soulless, in my opinion. Pure mathematics should be about the art of the thing, not producing results on an assembly line like it will be with AI. Of course, the best mathematicians are going into this because it helps their current careers, not because it helps the future of the subject. Math done with AI will be a lot like Olympic running done with performance-enhancing drugs.

Yes, we will get a few more results, faster. But the results will be entirely boring.
> I don't mind having more DLLs if stuff just works.

The counterpart is when a remotely exploitable security issue is found in that DLL, as has happened with zlib in the past and log4j more recently; then you have to chase down and update every single copy of that DLL.
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TIL both Xerox and Lexmark still exist. I haven't heard those names for a couple of decades.
C++, like most technology, works better if you put in the work to learn about it.

(Admittedly there are languages like python and ruby that buck this trend.)
Isn’t that exactly what we’re currently doing? The problem is that doing this few billion times for every token seems to be harder than just powering some actual neurons with sugar.
The information density is large, our perception (i.e. the universe perceiving itself) filters for our particular length and time scale.
For the love of God when will c++ compilers finally be able to output template errors that aren't completely expanded and are written in terms of the user's typedefs? Most of the time I spend parsing template errors with boost is just to figure out what the hell is being complained about.
In the study, they put 300 nylon/plastic bags into 1L of near-boiling water. Many bags are paper derivatives and not plastic. No need to completely stop enjoying tea.
And good criticism should deepen your experience of the art, whether a positive or negative critique.
> I also find it difficult to rationalize third-party dependencies these days, they almost all become disappointments over the long-term. The benefits rarely justify the risks.

I think I understand your sentiment here. For me the risk is that you are not just trusting the original author, you're trusting all future maintainers, especially if you follow your first (and good) suggestion of "aggressively updating tool chains".

The other risk is what you are mitigating by aggressively updating: things break through decay and obsolescence. That can usually be mitigated through updates, but if you introduce a dependency that is eventually abandoned and not given a quality fork then you are suddenly in need of solving this dependency in an entirely new way.
Is there something wrong with the specification that causes poor performance?
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> What does this even mean? You refuse to eat anything that could possibly put out of a fire, or if included within anything else, could slow down the progress of fire when that thing burns?

Brominated flame retardants. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers were called out in the study.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybrominated_diphenyl_ethers
This is amazing, but I find it disappointing that the NYSE (current owner) hasn't collected interest on it since 2004. Given that most of the charm is that this is still an active financial document, I don't understand why they wouldn't keep it going. Otherwise it's just another defunct historical document.
Absolutely nothing beats Vince Guaraldi’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas” for me.
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Nothing but metal and silicone.