skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> After >40 years, gold has only just gotten back to its 1980s inflation-adjusted price

If you look at the absolute peak of its price for the last 100 years, it took 40 years to get back to it. Yeah, so? Absolute peaks are like that.

If you don't cherry-pick the year, the gold price right now is looking good compared to the past. (Though an honest reading of that chart would lead one to suspect that we might be near another peak right now...)

Gold will always retain some value. It may not retain 100% of its current value (based on that chart, you could lose 80%). But it still might do better than, say, the Zimbabwe dollar, the Continental, or even the ruble over the past decade.
yes, it's true, the current state of social media is too toxic to interact with people. I don't want to interact with people who actively or encouraging the hates and spam contents.
The reason why this is so disruptive is because it will effect hundreds of fields simultaneously.

Previously workers in a field disrupted by automation would retrain to a different part of the economy.

If AI pans out to the point that there are mass layoffs in hundreds of sectors of the economy at once, then i’m not sure the process we have haphazardly set up now will work. People will have no idea where to go beyond manual labor. (But this will be difficult due to the obesity crisis - but maybe it will save lives in a weird way).
How many declarations did it have in C++ in total? Technically those were all unsafe, just implicitly so.
Apparently they can't, right now, as you admit. Anyway this is turning into a stupid semantic argument, have a nice day.
How I made my first SaaS
To use async await you have to execute the code in a run loop.
No it doesn't. You need to scroll to "Durchschnittliche Strompreise", which is what we are talking about.

Just below that graph it says "Die Preisdynamik bei Strom ist stark. Innerhalb von 15 Jahren hat sich der durchschnittliche kWh-Preis fast verdoppelt. "

So the price of electricity has nearly doubled in the last 15 years, which is roughly the timeframe of the Atomausstieg.

The EEG tax subsidy is not getting "less and less". The government always predicts it will be less next year, really really really!, and then act super surprised when it is much more than they predicted.

"Die staatliche Förderung für Erneuerbare Energien erreicht in diesem Jahr laut den Wirtschaftsforschern vom RWI mit 23 Milliarden Euro einen neuen Höchstwert. Dieser liegt deutlich über den Prognosen der Bundesregierung."

https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/energie/erneuerbare-ene...

https://www.bundestag.de/presse/hib/kurzmeldungen-1014724

It turns out that the current amount was pretty much the amount that the government split up over, because they couldn't agree on the budget. So per definition not trivial.
Will AGI be built on top of LLMs? Well beyond the simple "nobody knows", my intuition says no because LLMs don't have great ability to modify their knowledge real time. I can think of a few ways around this, but they all avoid modifying the model as it runs. The cost in hardware, power, and data are all incompatible with AGI. The first two can be solved with more advanced tech (well maybe, computation hitting physical limits and all that aside), but the latter seems an issue with the design itself and I think an AGI would learn more akin to a human, needing far fewer examples.

That said, I think LLMs are a definite stepping stone and they will better empower humans to be more productive, which will be of use for eventually reaching AGI. This is not to say we are optimizing our use of that productivity increase and this is also ignoring any chance of worst case scenarios that stop humanity's advancement.
Realistically, there's no way every company that has high performance microarchitectures available for licensing is lying, and that the clients it already licensed the IP to are covering for them.

It is also unreasonable to think that each and every industry veteran who has designed successful, competitive high performance microarchitectures in the past and is now working on RISC-V IP is for some reason suddenly unable to deliver.

Waiting will give you confirmation, in the form of seeing your competitor's successful products in the market, but at the cost of missing your own chance.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Humans can autocomplete sentences too because we understand what's going on. Prediction is a necessary criterion for intelligence, not an irrelevant one.
I meant deep neural networks with transformer architecture, and self-attention so they can be trained using GPUs. Doesn't have to be specifically "large language" models necessarily, if that's your hangup.
Living ceramics utilize bacteria for gas sensing and carbon capture
Is this the plugin?

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9568-go
These browser extensions/add-ons with shady monetization tactics have been around since the 90s. The fact that honey in particular has been around for so long and promoted by popular influencers just proves that there are behind the scenes negotiations taking place that is preventing them from being criminally prosecuted much less immediately banned from these affiliate programs.
Original: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-20/france-po...

News from lemonde.fr discussed at:

"France's most powerful nuclear reactor connected to grid after 17-year build"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42490850
My aging eyes just pronounced it "sooooo"
I guess the person is asking how much a slowdown did the whole query receive.
> This is factually wrong.

What's factually wrong about it? OP said "you must compute something that is impossible to do with a traditional computer" which is true, regardless of the output produced. Verifying an output is very different from verifying the proper execution of a program. The difference between testing a program and seeing its code.

What is being computed is fundamentally different from classical computers, therefore the verification methods of proper adherence to instructions becomes increasingly complex.
What do you mean by "long time"? Why wouldn't it apply just the same to some Python file that defines a Maybe with a bit of unwrap and bind and orElse or whatever?

Instead of things going boom and spewing a stack sometimes they just go Nothing instead, you don't need much more understanding than that. There is a lot of syntax in Haskell that is somewhat hard to understand at first but you don't actually need it to write stuff yourself.

This idea that you need to talk a particular way and be able to teach CS theory at uni and whatnot to build stuff in Haskell is probably not very healthy.
Xerox PARC invented the desktop metaphor, the GUI, and the computer mouse.
I live there and while I know people who used to work there and have friends of friends who do work there it’s not considered a major player in my mind. Toyota leaving would be a much bigger deal and we have a decent number of local tech jobs not to mention remote work from elsewhere.

That’s not to say I don’t care or am happy they got bought but Lexmark has been circling the drain for a solid decade.

Lexington, Kentucky will not be “devastated” by this at all. I doubt Lexmark is even in the top 10 of businesses people would name for being big players in Lexington.
For those not in Canada, you may be interesting in "Lost Winter: Above-freezing days added by climate change" which has an .xlsx file for 123 countries, 901 cities:

> * Analysis of daily minimum temperatures during winter (December, January, February) in 123 countries, using the Climate Shift Index, shows that more than one-third (44) experienced at least one additional week’s worth of days above freezing annually during the past decade (2014-2023) due to human-caused warming.

> * In the United States, 28 states and around 63% (39 out of 62) of cities analyzed experienced at least a week’s worth of lost winter days each year due to climate change.

* https://www.climatecentral.org/report/lost-winter-days-2024
When I'm looking for actual experts, the first thing that comes to my mind is definitely YouTube!!

And least when it's about YouTube specific topics, like where the like button and the subscribe button is.

They will tell me. Every. Single. F*cking. 5. Minute. Clip. Again. And. Again.

Not soooo much for anything actually important or interesting, though.... ;)

PS: Also which of the always same ~5 shady companies their sponsor is, of course.
Can you give an example of expensive binary data parsing?

Having implemented JMAP and IMAP protocols myself, I haven’t encountered a need in either protocol to send binary data to the server for sync/search operations that would require the server to perform expensive parsing.

JMAP offers many improvements, such as a stable messageId for each message and a state mechanism that allows the server to be queried for changes since the last saved state. This avoids the need for numerous IMAP SELECT commands per folder to check the state using CONSTORE/QRESYNC.

If CONSTORE/QRESYNC aren’t supported by the client, it results in very costly chunked queries just to verify if message flags are still the same.

The same applies to SEARCH—if a user has many folders, it requires multiple network hops to SELECT and query each folder. With JMAP, this can be done in a single API call.
A broken clock - he’s right about this.
I sincerely hope nobody is taking advice from linkedIn posts. Software development or otherwise...
Airlines should be a federal service like the post office, not for profit companies cramming the poor like sardines and scamming them over baggage space.
That’s just such a bad argument. Anything can be a slippery slope so no one should do anything.
While many here will note the potential downsides for Lexmark here, the strategic fit statement of "Xerox and Lexmark have complementary sets of operations" likely means that Xerox will keep Lexmark operating as usual in the short term. And in the long term, there is a greater possibility of them growing the Lexmark side with their resources because Lexmark is an established brand, was already an existing partner/supplier for Xerox, as well as focused on certain growth areas (e.g., IoT, WFA) that Xerox did not.

Now, if Broadcom were to acquire Lexmark, they'd likely get rid of 70% of the people and focus on extracting more money from the top 10% of Lexmark users via a subscription model that would make HP look tame by comparison.
Likewise, Borges said (paraphrasing) "if you're not enjoying a book after a while, just put it down - it wasn't written for you".
The lowest set is easier but still incredibly difficult. Top experts are no longer required sure but that's it. You'll still need the best of the best undergrads at the very least to solve it.

>Also, as I mentioned OAI collaborated on creating benchmark, so they could have access to all solutions too.

Open AI didn't have any hand in providing problems, why you assume they have the solutions I have no idea.

>Lol, let me ask again, why you are arguing then? Yes, I have strong reasonable(imo) doubt that those results are valid.

Are you just bring obtuse or what ? I stopped arguing with you a couple responses ago. You have doubts? good for you. They don't make much sense but hey, good for you.

This is my last response here so have a nice day.
Literally every decision is a slippery slope.
The idea of developing symbiotic living systems is more appealing than the very modern “what can I monetize by this” topic angle. Sure, sensors are cool. Living technologies, even cooler!
Literally go to your local and become a regular… tale as old as time
We need a Menards-like zero-net-tax cost increase, where the short term cost of drinking sugar is increased by an amount that is put in a savings account rebate you get back at the end of the year to offset the health costs of drinking sugar.
How is what aguaviva said in the GP propaganda? You picked an odd comment to make that criticism.
At what point does the pursuit of marginal improvements in AI capabilities outweigh the financial and ethical considerations involved in such projects? Any ideas how to balance innovation and cost?
pass :/
The whole problem is that they are not neutral. They token-complete based on the corpus that was fed into them and the dimensions that were extracted out of those corpuses and the curve-fitting done to those dimensions. Being "completely transparent" means exposing _all_ of that, but that's too large for anyone to reasonably understand without becoming an expert in that particular model.

And then we're right back to "trusting expert human beings" again.
Not only are they still around, they are a Fortune 500 company with over 7 billion dollars in revenue. They offer not only printers and copiers, but they are also a a business services company.
Pavel Durov: Telegram is now profitable
Yep, land-locked Lexington, Kentucky, home of Long John Silvers though we don’t even have one in town anymore. The last one closed a few years ago.

But yes, a Lexmark sale won’t make a large impact even if they shut down the HQ. There are local and remote (obviously) opportunities and the CoL is low here.
Like that quote from Twain: "I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one."

(Edit: perhaps that's the cliché you were hinting at!)
Nearly every slippery slope we were warned about the last decades have turned out, sometimes you’re just extrapolating a linear curve and it turns out to be obvious to predict behavior.
These productivity gains won't be shared with the employees. I think some people underestimate what a violent populus can do to them if they squeeze out even more Yacht money from the people.
Just because you can put something in your mouth and it’s roughly processed by your body doesn’t mean it should be considered food. These companies have created chemical cocktails and labeled them as food.
The trajectory is not a guide, unless you count the recent plateauing.
If there are 'mass layoffs in hundreds of sectors of the economy at once', then the economy immediately goes into Great Depression 2.0 or worse. Consumer spending is two-thirds of the US economy, when everyone loses their jobs and stops having disposable income that's literally what a depression is
Oh it's a totally different issue on the quantum side that leads to the same issue with difficulty verifying. There, the algorithms that Google for example is using today, aren't like prime factorization, they're not easy to directly verify with traditional computers, so as far as I'm aware they kind of check the result for a suitably small run, and then do the performance metrics on a large run that they hope gave a correct answer but aren't able to directly verify.
Fibonacci never stops surprising!
Love your take on it. From a fellow prog languages enthusiast that matured, I can safely say that you are right.

I've coded in so many languages in my life, but the job market pull from Ruby always drags me back, with time, I began to really love and appreciate what Ruby is.

I still find Ruby a bit niche than other mainstream languages like Java and Python, I bet that if I had >5 years of Java, the Java market pull would be higher than Ruby and I'd be doing Java.
Deciding which one to try isn't hard at all: `ureq` is the de-facto small HTTP library that you'd reach for, and you're likely to find people referencing it within 2 minutes of Googling. The only thing `ureq` was missing that's common (ish) was a happy eyeballs implementation, and they've recently handled it.

This just isn't a significant problem at all.
I am really torn on there being restrictions on what food stamps can buy in the first place, as long as it is food and stuff available at a normal grocery store (so not including alcohol).

I understand the idea of what they are going for here with trying to push people to buy healthier items which on paper sounds like a good thing.

At the same time I feel like people should be able to make their own decisions and if you are already having a hard time, why not be able to get a small treat with a soda or something? If they looked at the numbers and decided that they could get it with the money they had.

Not exactly siding with the companies here, since they are only doing this for profits and not any positive goal. But just the core idea of saying food stamps can't be used on something.

Edit:

I really don't care to reply to every comment so just going to add this here.

Regarding Alcohol: TBH I don't have strong feelings on this, I just feel like it is a fairly easy to show a difference between food/drinks and alcohol. Age restrictions licenses, etc. But, at the end of the day if alcohol was the line I don't think we need to die on that hill to justify saying someone having a hard time can't get a treat.

This goes back to judging (and making) other people's health decisions and punishing people that are just trying to get by.
Serpent OS Enters Alpha
I was shocked to learn that working Americans ls lived on food stamps. I thought this was something they kept from WW2 to help their elderly and disabled survive, but it seems it's mandatory for low wage workers in some states to ask for them if they want to eat. Basically subsidising companies who don't pay their workers enough.
> My preferred approach to [thread safety] is to explicitly not think about thread safety, and delegate this concern to the caller.

Good call IMO. If I was the author then I’d implement this; it would mostly work for current use cases, would be a pain to maintain and impossible to extend. I learned something today.
I'm only a victim of an un-scalable federal government whose debt burden and resulting tax load would be an obvious resource leak in an information system.

People do not scale in a linear fashion.

Ignore reality at your peril.

Oh, and: "Merry Christmas".
Uh, not as I understand it. Feral honey bees have been functionally extinct in North America since the Varroa Destructor mite wiped them out in the 1980s and 1990s. The honey bees we see today are livestock, not wildlife.

(Extensive husbandry has probably [unfortunately, unintentionally] reestablished feral colonies in some states, but a few years ago it was apparently the case that any honey bee you saw in your yard probably had an owner, which is wild to think about.)

https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/2023/1/19/23552518/honey-b...
The world is cyberpunk. Has been since 1990s.
UUIDs are very wasteful [1]. For most use cases you can replace them with much shorter strings and still have very low chances of collisions [2]

[1] https://henvic.dev/posts/uuid/

[2] https://alex7kom.github.io/nano-nanoid-cc/
The technology is not dystopian but our economic system makes it so.

Up to you to figure out which will hold.
If soda were banned for everybody we'd all be better off. That shit is as bad as cigarettes. There's probably no way to do that legally, but maybe the government should start looking for one.
It's important that the poorest amongst us have the least agency over their health and wellness. I mean, if they were good at making decisions for themselves they wouldn't be poor, right?
I'm bullish on Intel. I think the stateside fabs they are building will eventually be powerhouses.

I'm not sure when, but I've been "long Intel" for a long time.
The antecedent of "the guy" was the CEO killer, not you personally.
Capitalism is a continuously evolving system, as the shift from print to radio to television to the internet shows in a thoroughly obvious manner.

Or you can look at the top X stocks on Wall Street and see how many exist in subsequent decades.

The constants here are human nature and the capitalist/socialist tension.
Painting the printer in Vantablack is also an acceptable answer.
> This project […] contains only the necessary parts for realistic benchmarking

> The test program is a simple […] return string

I understand how this is required to measure the effects of sandboxing in isolation. And the result is impressive.

In what ways would you expect performance to be affected when workloads are more realistic as well?
Helps pay for the thimerosal.
Food stamps are about subsidizing farmers.

I qualified form them after I was out of poverty, but a lot.
I’m not convinced but animal-transmitted diseases causing widespread reduction in meat consumption is a really interesting idea. We didn’t see that with COVID because bats aren’t popular food-wise in most of the world. Maybe go short on Tyson and co if swine/bird flu take hold?
> only ever contributed a small percentage

It was more than 30%

> replaced with about the same amount of renewables.

That turns out not to be the case. You cannot compare electricity produced by intermittent/weather-dependent renewables with electricity produced by dispatchable sources. Different products.

So we replaced cheap, reliable, CO₂-free electricity with expensive, unreliably and also CO₂-free electricity. At a cost of € 400-600 billion.

Pretty bad.

> "the most catastrophic peacetime decision in human history"

That's actually pretty apt description. Since you think it is ridiculous, I am sure you will be able to trivially come up with a at least about ten that were worse. (If it's less than ten, it would still be in the top 10 of most catastrophic decisions).

Sabine Hossenfelder described it as "the dumbest thing the Germans ever did" in one of her videos.

(To the objection that there might be this other thing she replies that that was evil, not dumb)
Like most large countries, the US contains multitudes and you're never too far away from abject poverty that people usually think only exists in third world countries.

Unfortunately, it's not improving.
From the Haskell snippet, f is just "map read" specialized for lists of Integers, so inlining it would read like this :

let list = map read (words contents)

The equivalent Python is basically this:

list = [int(word) for word in contents.split()]

I'm just writing this for the benefit of others here.
Volkswagen managers face 10% pay cut as part of bonus reduction plan
The root issue here is children not coming out to their parents. If we improve that metric, we can begin to improve all other metrics. Ie: the parent can help the child discover appropriate peer groups
You aren't so much arguing here as stomping your feet and saying you're right. I don't care what a Michael Moore documentary says. Here is actual data, and it backs up my argument, not yours:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9154274/

(you don't even have to read that, just look at the charts, which are excellent)

https://www.cms.gov/data-research/statistics-trends-and-repo...

Want more? Here's relative doctor compensation in the G8; notice anything?

https://www.physiciansweekly.com/how-do-us-physician-salarie...

Here's the AMA explaining how Medicare artificially restricts the supply of doctors, driving up costs:

https://www.ama-assn.org/about/leadership/more-medicare-supp...

What they don't explain is how the AMA lobbied for that scarcity in the 1990s, to avoid an "oversupply" of doctors.

I don't know that "a child" could read this and understand what I am saying, but I expect you can.