skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you haven’t already look up ‘if constexpr’ in cpp17 and newer. It lets you have compile time branches in a single function.
Because it is mostly hogwash.

Lots of ai researchers have shown that you can both give credit and discredit "open models" when you are given a dataset and training steps.

Many lauded papers fell into reddit Ml or twitter ire when people couldnt reproduce the model or results.

If you are given the training set, the weights, the steps required, and enough compute, you can do it.

Having enough compute and people releasing the steps is the main impediment.

For my research I always release all of my code, and the order of execution steps, and of course the training set. I also give confidence intervals based on my runs so people can reproduce and see if we get similar intervals.
"Offer" - for tens of thousands of dollars.
Yeah, but you're locking the whole file and if you try to open it while it's locked, sleep-polling for it to be unlocked. It's safe, but it's a minimum viable product - as they say, sqlite is a replacement for fopen, not for a fully featured database. Client/server systems have better locking.
Ah that was my pet project to create an engine that runs a game similar to Ultima 1-3. I even used the Ultima 4 sprite sheet. Never completed it though.
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I don't use any of these out of ignorance first, laziness second, and incompetence third.

I didn't know about them, and I had spent a lot of time with the documentation and code of everything I touched (language, dependencies, etc). Looking things up reinforces this. The value of a feature such as autocomplete is marginal to me as a function of the effort I have to make to learn how to use it properly, the frustration of using it improperly, and the added steps to fix a blunder, so I just don't bother with it.

I also have a habit of having the documentation/book/code of a dependency open nearby and doing my look-ups there.

A lot of time is spent refining existing code, debugging, optimizing, refactoring, etc...
It's a great understatement to say that the end of the Eastern Bloc could have been handled a whole lot better, especially from the perspective of people who would have been established or even happy with their lives under Communism: age 40+, educated, successful career at the Trabbi factory, just got to the top of the waiting list for an apartment, etc.

* This comment is not an endorsement of totalitarian governments
> Even if you are running it all on the same machine, a separate worker queue process and a web server process cannot share an SQLite database file.

Excuse me? The only way you would be able to come to this conclusion is if you did no reading whatsoever and never tried it.

This “confidently wrong” attitude really needs to stop.
Before sports gambling was legal on apps (in some states) I witnessed the same thing.

That was the poor point I was trying to make about prohibition. Similar to the war on drugs I suppose.
No argument here, just relaying what the article is claiming for folks who just read the headline.
I’d rather have the pdf than a custom tool. Especially considering the tool will be unique to the practice or emr. And likely expensive to maintain.

PDFs suck in many ways but are durable and portable. If I work with two oncologists, I use the same pdf.

The author means well but his solution will likely be worse because only he will understand it. And there’s a million edge cases.
HN’s stupid/arrogant automatic title rewriter strikes again
If I was in charge of a big corporation that still made displays, I would not want to preserve CRTs because it could hurt the narrative that modern technology is strictly superior to old technology. If people thought about CRTs in a positive light they might realize that no modern display can match them in latency and motion quality when it comes to displaying 60fps content (as found in console and arcade games). I'd prefer that all CRTs were destroyed and forgotten.
>but many artists seem to have only a limited amount of inspiration in them. Some have just one song, some an album or two, and some just never seem to run out.

Some artists change their style over time, and the alignment between their style and your appreciation of certain styles only holds up for one or two albums. This has been the case with me for several bands.
> The link at the bottom doesn’t work.

Can you clarify which link is broken and how? What browser and OS?

> In my experience, LLMs are terrible at clues.

That hasn't been my experience. Without good prompting they give you clues that are too bland and literal, but it is quite possible to get them to give you clues with interesting and creative wordplay. I wish it was easier to get clues like that more consistently, but it's certainly doable. I still believe within a year it'll be easy.
Interesting. Didn't know about it. Now let me grab the earliest version and see if I can read the code...thank you!
Depends on where you live, in Europe if you get the generic branded (not "the" Weck brand) ones they are $2 for small and $3-4 for bigger ones.
>Would you pay $19 for a macOS menubar app that pulls real-time revenue from Stripe, Paddle, Gumroad, Lemon Squeezy, and Polar. It shows your earnings at a glance without needing to open dashboards or log in.

No.
Turnout is also a problem, but one needs to ensure that knowledge of non-participation doesn't become proxy votes cast by people In The Know.

Rest assured: any workable angle you can think of an many you have not have already been employed to cheat elections.

This is not a partisan dig; rather, simple reality.
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lol, you scoundrel
Thanks for saving me time in dismissing this paper lol. Any time somebody wants to get rid of dark energy, i run into some garbage. Reminds me of the mond nuts

Just reading the rest of the comment section is enough to help me verify that.

For some reason, hackernews always gets kooky when it comes to this stuff.
I suspect the upstream concern was dealing with services that themselves like to spawn process groups. There's no hierarchy of process groups, once you call setpgid() you've escaped the sandbox and the API can't help your parents manage you anymore. The use case in question is a build system that by its nature needs to deal with foreign software.

Also FWIW, you could freeze a cgroup atomically in the very earliest versions and deconstruct it at leisure. You just didn't do it by sending signals.
This describes my C++ experience precisely. Initially I was a C# programmer learning C for embedded projects and it went exactly like this.

C++ has a lot of really neat features that sure look powerful if your application aligns precisely. It seems like every time I try a new feature, what I want to do is always an edge case that doesn't work in my situation. I try for a few hours/days before I give up and just write it in C.
Appreciate the detailed response!
Wait, why is Roblox creepy?
i believe the bags are made from a mix of cellulose and plastic
Its on the promise of dominating the markets currently owned by uber/lyft/doordash/grubhub/bolt/didi. Not the car market.
Are you kidding? The follow-through on attribution links, where present, is nearly zero. There’s no gains to be had here, only losses.
Black hole in the early universe spotted taking a 'nap' after overeating
> how can it be anything but natural selection doing it's thing?

Does it affect their reproductive chances? If not, then natural selection has nothing to do with it.
Wow, it's like an Apple store but it opened six years after JCP fired the CEO they headhunted from Apple retail. And the CEO mentioned in the article has already been replaced.
Lobsters is trying to do the same thing as Hacker News - avoid the Eternal September effect at all costs. It just has more direct and overt methods of maintaining and enforcing its culture than here, and that starts with barring the door against the rabble.
The ads and whatnot are why the site exists! That’s the point, with the content being the hook. If people aren’t looking at the ads, it’s a loss.
In a free democracy, I think Progressives see the ruling class as those in a position to influence democratic rule with an outsized influence compared to 1 person, 1 vote. And that are those with money, or with too much centralized media power or popularity.

The employees of the government and those elected are not seen as the ruling class by progressives, but just normal people that have the qualifications and are employed to manage the government on behalf of the people.

It's important therefore that those elected and put in charge of the government are in a position where they don't have the power to benefit themselves or their friends/family, but are in a position where they can wield power to benefit the people who hired them for the job (their constituents), and that if they fail to do so, they can get replaced.
> C++ became great to work with once C++11 was rolled out.

Have Yossi Kreinin's objections (https://yosefk.com/c++fqa/defective.html) been addressed yet? In particular, can I reuse source code from another file without a text preprocessor yet? Can I change a class' private members without recompilation, or am I still stuck with indirecting that behind a "pImpl" pointer in the class declaration in the header file? (Being able to use a smart pointer for that is not addressing the problem.) Are compiler error messages resulting from type mismatches reasonably short (without third-party tools like STLFilt) yet (never mind whether they're informative or pleasant to decipher)?

I know that "some parts of the FQA are not up to date with C++11 [and onward]", but I haven't heard of these problems being fixed.
That's well and good until the table has one too many and invades Poland.
I guess it just comes down to aesthetic preference then.

If there's motion blur on something I'm tracking in smooth pursuit, it doesn't seem particularly objectionable. (I guess I also wonder how accurate the eye's smooth pursuit is -- especially with fast objects in video games, surely it's only approximate and therefore always somewhat blurry anyways? And even if you're tracking an object's movement perfectly, it can be still be blurry as the video game character's arms move, its legs shift, its torso rotates, etc.)

Whereas if there's a flicker/strobe effect, that feels far more objectionable to me.

At the end of the day, my eyes are used to motion blur so a little bit extra on an object my eye is tracking doesn't seem like a big deal -- it still feels natural. Whereas strobe/flicker seems like a huge deal -- extremely unnatural, jumpy and jittery.
We have a century's worth of evidence for dark matter and about 20 years worth of evidence for dark energy.

Once an alternative theory stands up to scrutiny, maybe we shouldnt a priori dismiss things we dont understand?
The turbine version going for $2.4m is in fact the plane from the article OP shared. So that's what they are looking to get for their version.

https://www.planecheck.com/?ent=ap&man=antonov&des=an2&type=...
Can someone be so kind to invite me to lobste.rs?
1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived
Hi everyone. Today I finished my latest project which was archving 1584 photos (+2 videos) of LAN parties in Tasmania ranging from 1996 to 2010.
Previously these photos were lost to time until I got in contact with the right people.
Looking through the photos is a great blast of nostalgia, I hope you get some enjoyment from looking through them too!

https://issung.com/posts/lanphotosarchive/
I don't think it's true that you didn't notice because of a huge effort to fix the problem, because I don't think that effort happened. Again: honey bees are invasive in North America. Where there are feral honey bee colonies today, they trace to escapes from husbanded colonies. From the late 1980s until probably the 2010s, there were very few feral honey bees at all (and for some stretch of that, there were none).

I think you're thinking I'm calling back to the "colony collapse" scare of roughly ten years ago; I'm not. Here's a paper:

https://www.wellesu.com/https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/24.6.1473

Also worth noting: that paper establishes a history of honey bee introduction into America, and they have not in fact been here for 400 years (at least, according to that paper; I don't have a dog in this hunt, it wouldn't matter to me if they'd been here for longer).

Here's a fun paper from back in the day where they found honey bees in the Channel Islands off California, and immediately set to work eradicating them:

https://sbbotanicgarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Wenne...
The US isn’t even their largest market FYI. China is.

https://canalys-prod-public.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/cosi/...
Volkswagen to cut 35K jobs by 2030, German output to drop by 734K units
It's so much worse than you could possibly imagine. I worked for a healthcare startup working on patient enrollment for clinical oncology trials. The challenges are amazing. Quite frankly it wouldn't matter if the data were in plaintext. The diagnostic codes vary between providers, the semantic understanding of the diagnostic information has different meanings between providers, electronic health records are a mess, things are written entirely in natural language rather than some kind of data structure. Anyone who's worked in healthcare software can tell you way more horror stories.

I do hope that LLMs can help straighten some of it out but anyone whos done healthcare software, the problems are not technical, they are quite human.

That being said one bright spot is we've (my colleagues, not me) made a huge step forward using category theory and Prolog to discover the provably optimal 3+3 clinical oncology dose escalation trial protocol[1]. David gave a great presentation on it at the Scryer Prolog meetup[2] in Vienna.

It's kind of amazing how in the dark ages we are with medicine. Even though this is the first EXECUTABLE/PROGRAMMABLE SPEC for a 3+3 cancer trial, he is still fighting to convince his medical colleagues and hospital administrators that this is the optimal trial because -- surprise -- they don't speak software (or statistics).

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08334

[2]: https://www.digitalaustria.gv.at/eng/insights/Digital-Austri...
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Netflix documentary series "The G Word", produced by Barack Obama and featuring Adam Conover as host, does an outstanding job of highlighting these thankless civil servant positions.

Memorably, they interviewed NOAA scientists and pilots who fly into hurricanes to make critical measurements for meteorological predictions. I had no idea we did that!
Is this site the best starting point for all brands?

The brands I looked at, this site has on the order of 1% (or less) of manuals that existed. And the manual I tried to open was just a placeholder entry, saying that there is no known copy online.

For some niches (like for particular brands, or for a category like terminals), there are much more manuals already collected in a single place online.
Interesting. I'm in a similar situation, but my first foreign language was French. I believe the source of English education makes a difference. In my case, it was Rambo movies :))
I can't see how, not unless it is a 'AAA' always online game or if the quests are cached.

I think the most amazing use of AI in games (specifically RPGs) will be with statistical models to crunch "planning" and "cause and effect" to draw players into plots, schemes and storylines and then to demonstrate the impacts of success or failure of the player's quest. Think economic simulations of a city due to the player's actions or sabotage where the player has crippled a port leading to the NPCs barking about hunger, prices and disease.
I changed the color as a quick tell for when I'm logged in.
"Oh stewardess, I speak jive." --- Barbara Billingsley
Some snippets:

> Leverages concentration of measure phenomena

> Uses anisotropic vector quantization to optimize inner product accuracy by penalizing errors in directions that impact high inner products, achieving superior recall and speed.

I only skimmed the article, but the 2 words I emphasized seems to imply they apply a quadratic metric for distance, i.e. they assume the data coordinates are with respect to non-orthogonal basis vectors, resulting in off-diagonal distance metric terms.
I can’t emphasize that enough - we’re so far away from AGI that we don’t even really know the distance or if it will ever be covered.

UBI as utopian and silly as it is - way more realistic and tangible than AGI.
Not a genetic adaptation like OP is considering, but if you're a big westerner and spend a lot of time in a tropical country you're likely to lose weight.

Edit: tried to find some peer reviewed evidence to back up my anecdote but came away empty handed. Still i stand by my claim. :)
Decision trees work for making decisions...

But they don't work as well as other decisionmaking techniques... Random forests, linear models, neural nets, etc. are all decision making techniques at their core.

And decision trees perform poorly for complex systems where lots of data exists - ie. human health.

So why are we using a known-inferior technique simply because it's easier to write down in a PDF file, reason about in a meeting, or explain to someone?

Shouldn't we be using the most advanced mathematical models possible with the highest 'cure' probability, even if they're so complex no human can understand them?
Does it? Remember when Walmart sold made in the USA products exclusively? Hint: It was before Sam Walton died.
openai and epochai (frontier math) are startups with a strong incentive to push such narratives. the real test will be in actual adoption in real world use cases.

the management class has a strong incentive to believe in this narrative, since it helps them reduce labor cost. so they are investing in it.

eventually, the emperor will be seen to have no clothes at least in some usecases for which it is being peddled right now.
I moved to the US in 1992, also from the Balkans. America has an entirely different way of life. I have been "best man" at 5 weddings and have christened 11 kids. I hardly see any of them. Everyone is "busy" running around, work work work, then errands etc etc... in most of Europe this would be unheard of, there is higher value placed on social aspects of life. Hence the myriad of studies and stories and... about general loneliness in America (these studies often include people that are married and have children).

Another personal example - my sister is highly educated, has two PhD and I consider her the smartest person I know. Years ago we were discussing something and I mentioned that one of my dear friends is seeing a psychiatrist. My sister scoffed... And I was taken aback to say the least. How can someone that smart and that educated dismiss someone who is basically a Doctor and spent years educating themselves in this field. After talking through it I realized that if you have robust social life, myriad of friends, different friends to talk to about different things (as well as family) you just might not need a psychiatrist to talk to... Just an entirely different kind of life/existence...
I parsed some mind maps that were constructed with a tool and exported as pdfs (original sources were lost a long time ago) and I used python with tesseract for the text and opencv and it worked alright. I am curious why the author went with LLMs, but I guess with the mentioned amount of data it wasn't hard to recheck everything later.
Awesome! I have also dabbled in AI-generated crosswords, but I was more fascinated with the concept of generating the most efficient layout of an X-by-X grid from a given word set. It's a surprisingly difficult optimization problem because the combinatorics are insane. Here's an example output trying to find the most efficient layout of common Linux terminal commands:

W P G
H I S T O R Y
E O
R T Y U M
L E S S P
I O C A T
U S E R A D D
L T R D C

Of course this is a pretty small grid and it gets more difficult with size. I've thought about making a competition from this sort of challenge. Would anyone be interested?
>If your mortgage interest rate is less than inflation, pay as slow as possible and let the inflation eat the principal

I'm not good enough at money math to work out why this makes sense.
In between being laid off and finding a new job I do challenge myself to do the "most advanced project on X" that I can think of. I work on the hardest features first. This keeps me highly motivated and most importantly: sane. Some hacking projects allowed me to grasp new tech that I added to my problem solving tool belt. The risk is getting rabbitholed and forgetting about looking for a job.
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The banks nowadays know very well to index your debt with inflation
These are considered features of lobsters, since to even post there, you have to be invited.
can i see your github?
It's Julia Evans' article, not Julia Evan's.

I don't know if Julia Evan even has an article.
The issue is much worse on Lobsters because of its registration policy which altogether prohibits anonymous registration and thereby a diversity of voices. People are likely to recommend those who think like them (for a new account) rather than ones who think differently.
> The whole set of guidelines for a type of cancer breaks down into a few disjointed directed graphs

Nothing undermines medicine quite so thoroughly as yet another astronaut trying to force it into a data structure.
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Using `/.well-known/llms.txt` was the first thought that came to my mind as well. There's a long list of other special well-known URIs using it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-known_URI#List_of_well-kn...
I predict this is likely to change in 2025, if you explore with them -- unless there are constraints that make using them impractical (security or policy or bureaucracy being the ones that come to mind). I've experimented continuously with LLMs for over a year as a solo developer. For example, I have been using a workflow where I write a design document and often work alongside the LLM to keep the code and document in-sync.

P.S. I used to do a lot of Clojure, and definitely appreciate your work on it!
>Apply for Removal: You can apply to have PMI removed if you get an appraisal showing that your loan balance is less than 80% of your home’s current value.

>I ruled out option #2 because appraisals are expensive. Spending hundreds of dollars for an appraisal, on top of paying for PMI, felt like throwing good money after bad.

Your mileage may vary, but for myself, in August of 2023 in Raleigh, the property valuation cost was $190. Check with your lender, or shop around for a different valuation company that they accept. My numbers were similar to those of the author: my PMI was $113.83 and my time for loan-to-value to reach 80% was about four years.

What I found was doing the property valuation and then investing the lump sum of cash put me ahead of the 10% 1-year return. The author can now take their $115 monthly savings and invest, but it will never yield nearly as much as investing the $32,000 in even the most conservative scenarios.

You can play around with some various scenarios in a spreadsheet or https://www.investor.gov/financial-tools-calculators/calcula...
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