skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to roll my eyes at opinions like these. Then I had kids, and now very much sympathize.

You don't "just cook some fish for dinner" with toddlers in the apartment. Take fishes out of refrigerator, put in sink, attempt to clean; youngest kid cries; wash hands with soap, comfort kid. Rinse soap from fishes. Start cutting fins and scaling. Kids fight. Wash hands with soap, stop the fight. Rinse soap from fishes. Finish scaling. Dry one fish with paper. Kid need toy from upper shelf. Wash hands with soap, climb on chair, get toy. Wash soap from subset of fishes remaining in sink. Attempt to oil the dried fish; oil bottle is empty. Get another oil bottle from pantry. Kids follow you to open pantry, see cookies, want cookies. "Ok, but only one cookie each". "No, two!" Attempt to season the fish. Salt shaker is empty. Get big salt box from pantry. "No more cookies today!" Kids unhappy, need to be comforted. Et cetera, et cetera, for each seemingly simple step of preparation; and I can easily see how some parents eventually begin to dread the experience of cooking some dinner for the family.
Was a favorite spot of mine. A shame that the NPR coverage burned it.

At least we still have plenty of forest areas to renegade in.
Online dating.

I guarantee that only about one in five male clubbers were truly "only there for the music". Maybe fewer than that.

Women went along with it because, well, what was the alternative, and the contemporary culture encouraged it.

Online dating has its problems, certainly, but the risks people took in the 70s, 80s, 90s were kind of insane by today's standards. And also the amount of unwanted attention women had to put up with. Sure, some of the attention was wanted, but surely not most of it.
I’d also like to see this in music generation. Tools like Suno are cool but I would much rather have something that generates MIDIs and instrument configurations instead.

Sounds like you're looking for something like https://www.aiva.ai
Focus is a muscle. Gotta build it up. Block everything, read books. (And I really should practice what I preach, here).
Think a video manufacturer who wants to release sources for their drivers but legal team says "no" because of this. "Life is too short to care" is the stupid argument that the lawyers will use to avoid spending any time digging on the issue. So they will just say "no it's too much a risk". As a consequence the source code for the drivers of Fancy-Historical-Hardware will never be released.
So true. I mentioned this to a group of friends. The number of people saying this move is good news for speech just shows how people see free speech as being good only when it fills their pockets or aligns with their interests.
That seems suspect to me.

Getting a working qc to reasonable scale is the hard part. Once you have done that most of the hard engineering problems are solved. I doubt doubling its size at that point would be very much of a problem.

If we are making (uninformed) predictions, i bet we wont see QC solving 1024 bit RSA in the next 15 years (at least), but once it does it will only take a year or two more to solve 4096.
Which is then used for future dispatches on that same signature and gives it very good performance. Julia is dynamic, and definitely beats the 10x slower than C barrier jerf mentioned.

For what I was using it for at the time (~3 years ago when I used it seriously) it offered performance close to the compiled orbital analysis code we had (in more conventional languages, Fortran and C) but with the flexibility for developing models of Python and other dynamic/interactive languages. An excellent tradeoff: very small performance cost for better interactivity and flexibility.
Sure, but overlap also exists.

If you live in LA or San Diego, you can live close to the beach and go there all the time. Most people there don't, but if that's important to you, you can achieve it.

If you live in Vancouver, BC or Seattle, you can ski in the winter and hike in mountains outside of cell phone reception in the summer AFTER WORK, never mind every weekend.

I assume most american cities have gun clubs. If the attraction to shooting a gun can be satiated with target practice, that can be a decent compromise. (Of course if the attraction is feeling like a frontiersman by shooting straight off your porch, that's a different thing. I can understand it even if I don't share it)

This is not possible with every city and every hobby, but that ends up kind of becoming the point. The cities that have this overlap become even more in-demand. It's why housing is so expensive in places like YVR and SFO.
fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine
Isn't that just simple glorified workflow automation? Shouldn't "agents" do and decide what to do themselves based on the holy prophecy of VC and AI Startups ?
The Ministry of Empowerment
Yes, no doubt. He was also a true patriot, serving his country on the Manhattan Project and on the Challenger investigation.
among those sick enough to seek treatment

The vaccinations numbers in the study are significantly different than the general population and massively different than the vaccination numbers in the vulnerable population. So it seems that the conclusion is that vaccination helps prevent serious COVID presentation, but long COVID is a side effect of serious COVID presentation, vaccination or no.
I think there's a difference between Stack Overflow and/or Reddit vs. specific community led forums, or even GitHub, where questions also get answered.

Just considering Stack Overflow for a moment, they exist to profit from their product of consolidating questions/answers. When the LLM can answer most questions more efficiently, they've lost much of their value proposition in terms of product... and perhaps their business along with it.

Many of the community forums, however, tend to not be businesses per se. Sure they'll see less traffic, but that might not matter to them. In fact, it might even be better to an extent because they often aren't monetizing their services and so LLMs carrying some weight can help reduce costs. Under those circumstances, LLMs may not be nearly so bad and they, themselves, will still have sources of training data.

For example, I read the Elixir Forums for language announcements, feature discussions, occasionally to ask questions that I can't resolve with research, and even to answer some questions. I've also got LLMs fairly well integrated into my workflow. I don't see that pattern changing: neither less Elixir Forum or less reliance on the LLM. What has changed is I don't use search as much as I use to, nor do I use Stack Overflow as much.

So I do expect the big aggregators to go away, those not tied to monetizing their knowledge transfer I expect to see less overall traffic, but not less meaningful and substantive interactions.
I'm in NorCal near Oakland.
The text is also quite small and low-contrast (which matters a lot for accessibility!)

Also, more subjectively, the snippets don't really match the aesthetics of the rest of the site. The pseudo-macOS rendering inside the black borders is strange, as is the choice to use different monospace fonts for filenames and code snippets.
While I would much rather have a nice downtown condo in a major city over a ranch house in the sticks. I would rather have the ranch house in the sticks than a condo in the same location as that ranch house.

Some dream of living in a condo in the city, some of a rural ranch house. I don't think anybody dreams of a rural condo.
> all functions statically allocate enough space for their locals.

Would you still have distinct activation records per call or forfeit the ability to have reentrant functions and recursion?

That's one of the main reasons to move to dynamic (as in a call stack) allocation of your activation records versus a single static allocation per function.
There seems to be less artificial restrictions. You can ask for example "who is Bryan Lunduke".

This important especially in non-english world. As forbidden words have different significance in other cultures.
That's why following HN from a RSS feed is invaluable. You get to see everything, even the things groupthink filters out.
none of it is "brute force", GNFS is a process that rapidly excludes numbers from the search space that cannot be the answer, in principle similar to the way they broke enigma.

numberphile has a great video on that one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4V2bpZlqx8

Also, taking the OP as a "worse case", afaik:

512bit = $8

so

1024 = 8^2 = $64

2048 = 8^2^2 = $4,096

4096 = 8^2^2 = $16,777,216

noting $8 for 512 seems very expensive to me.
Cause he can say he used AI and get a promotion and the company can put AI on the website and make stock price go up.
Well unless they want to target PowerPC and make interested parties buy a Raptor Talos workstation what else is open enough for you? (Actually I would support this) Are there RISCV systems that are blobless?
It's both a curse and a blessing. Women have a degree of control over reproduction that men can never have.
Sure, that's one of the reasons I don't like them. But AFAIK that's not an impediment to running a custom OS, so I think for a lot of projects the tradeoff is good.
If he survives this, then everyone is drinking the cool aid.
Well, no. Anti-cheat exists to keep cheaters from ruining the game. If I paid to enjoy a multiplayer game, and cheaters keep me from enjoying it, then anti-cheat is a requirement to enjoying the game I paid for. It's fine if you don't think it's worth the trade-off, but it does serve a real purpose to make gaming better for players.
no they dont so I'm outta here
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I’m genuinely interested in why you think this particular post is ‘AI slop’.
There are two Japanese idioms I really like:

1. Kawara wa migaite mo tama ni naranu, no matter how much you polish a roof tile it won't become a gemstone.

2. Kawara mo migakeba nara tama to naru, if you polish it enough even a roof tile will become a gemstone.

I just like having those two contradictions.
> I wonder if my approach could be improved.

Yes. When you use N batches by the number of cores the total time is defined by the slowest batch. At the end it will be just one job running. If you make batches smaller, like 1000/n_cores/k then you may get better CPU utilization and start-to-end total time. Making k too big will add overhead. Assuming n_cores==10 then k==5 may be a good compromise. Depends on start/stop time per job.
Bytescope monitors hundreds of tech, eng and science publications for changes, using either traditional page comparison or vision capable LLMs. It uses llm (experimenting with fine-tuned llama3.2 8/70b) to verify if new content matches tech/engineering/science criteria.
I built this because keeping up with tech was eating hours of my day. I tried brutalist.report but needed keyword filtering and a wider range of monitored blogs.

I've been using it for a few days now and it seems to work ok. A bit slow but currently it all runs on a single server.

Any feedback is appreciated.

Edit: Forgot to mention, in case it's not clear - leave the input blank or use * for all updates (max 500 shown).
Thank you for this post! I get too pessimistic sometimes but this helped me see things from a different perspective today. Kudos.
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This can work in a lot of industries - I am skeptical fast food is one of them. Switching costs are low, alternates are plentiful, and collecting information (reviewing deals/prices across companies) is relatively easy.

If McDonald's enshittifies its deals while continuing to raise prices, it's way too easy for loyal customers to go elsewhere. I'm saying this as a huge fan and extremely loyal customer of McDonald's for decades... they are at serious risk of losing people like me. As I stated, I've gone from 15-20 visits to 1 since last June/July, whenever they made the big change.
I agree about relational languages. It's absurd when I think that SQL and Datalog came from the same foundations of relational calculus. It's just so much lost expressive power.

I really like what PRQL [1] did, at least it makes table operations easily chainable. Another one that comes to mind is Datomic [2].

[1]: https://prql-lang.org/

[2]: https://docs.datomic.com/peer-tutorial/query-the-data.html
That, with an unfortunate side of not getting past this. Take a look at the overuse of back surgery, despite decades of evidence that it is almost always the wrong approach for back problems.

Why does it persist? Three reasons. 1) Back surgery is very profitable. 2) Back surgeons are emotionally inclined to believe that they've done good rather than harm. 3) Professionals are generally unable to learn from long-term outcomes.

The last is true to a shocking extent, and was revealed over again in Daniel Kahneman's research.
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What's to stop the bad actors from just printing the logo on their gear anyways? Like they do with UL and N95?
Very good yes. Such is my experience, not only with Latin. Received language instruction may have it exactly backwards.
https://www.rutgers.edu/news/hidden-reason-children-born-c-s...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090629081443.h...

https://health.howstuffworks.com/pregnancy-and-parenting/pre...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2019/09/18/gut-bacteria-...

Hundreds of papers on this topic.
I like a lot of these ideas.

"Semi-dynamic" is one of the most common architectures there is for large & complex systems. AAA games are usually written in a combination of C++ and a scripting language. GNU Emacs is a Lisp application with a custom interpreter that is optimized for writing a text editor. Python + C is a popular choice as well as Java + Groovy or Clojure, I've even worked with a Lua + FORTRAN system.

I also think "parsers suck". It should be a few hundred lines at most, including the POM file, to add an "unless" statement to the Java compiler. You need to (1) generate a grammar which references the base grammar and adds a single production, (2) create a class in the AST that represents the "unless" statement and (3) add an transformation that rewrites

unless(X) {...} -> if(!X) {...}

You should be able to mash up a SQL grammar and the Java grammar so you can write

var statement = <<<SELECT * FROM page where id=:pageId>>>;

this system should be able to export a grammar to your IDE. Most parser generators are terribly unergonomic (cue the event-driven interface of yacc) and not accessible to people who don't have a CS education (if you need a bunch of classes to represent your AST shouldn't these get generated from your grammar?) When you generate a parser you should get an unparser. Concrete syntax trees are an obscure data structure but were used in obscure RAD tools in the 1990s that would let you modify code visually and make the kind of patch that a professional programmer would write.

The counter to this you hear is that compile time is paramount and there's a great case for that in large code bases. (I had a system with a 40 minute build) Yet there's also a case that people do a lot of scripty programming and trading compile time for a ergonomics can be a win (see Perl and REBOL)

I think one goal in programming languages is to bury Lisp the way Marc Anthony buried Caesar. Metaprogramming would be a lot more mainstream if it was combined with Chomksy-based grammars, supported static typing, worked with your IDE and all that. Graham's On Lisp is a brilliant book (read it!) that left me disappointed in the end because he avoids anything involving deep tree transformations or compiler theory: people do much more advanced transformations to Java bytecodes. It might be easier to write those kind of transformations if you had an AST comprised of Java objects instead of the anarchy of nameless tuples.+
If there is no formal system of races (only stereotypes based on the whims of the stereotyper), then there is no race to estimate.

If there is no race to estimate, why do you think you can?
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Digging for more details, but a lot of the technical requirements (e.g. encryption, password handling, etc.) are still unclear.

https://www.fcc.gov/CyberTrustMark
Is it irony, or merely a counterpoint, that I read this comment on a laptop powered by this exact SoC, running Firefox on Debian?
Image persistence was one of the cool ideas of Smalltalk. And in practice, one of the biggest drawbacks. Cruft and old values accumulated steadily, with very little way to find and eliminate them. Transient execution has some cons. But on the pro side, every run starts from a "clean slate."
i know it's confusing but in English "patron" means paying customer
I just don't get it. A legitimate typo I can see, sure, but so many of the things I get looks like someone said "email address? I guess I can just pick one!"
Probably overlaps with the EU RED Cybersecurity requirements for IoT devices that are supposed to go into effect this year: https://www.ul.com/services/ul-solutions-cybersecurity-advis...
This whole thing makes me think of that short story "The Machine Stops".

As we keep burrowing deeper and deeper into an overly complex system that allows people to get into parts of it without understanding the whole, we are edging closer to a situation where no one is left who can actually reason about the system and it starts to deteriorate beyond repair until it suddenly collapses.
As far as I know, flags come from the community, not the mods. Hacker News is designed so that it doesn't even take many flags to affect a thread.

You can complain to the mods all you like but there's nothing you can do about the zeitgeist. The mods also won't change their own policies.
The few devs I know in that space prefer the various Beaglebone SBCs
That's actually kind of a "cool" idea. Likely reduce bills significantly with some kind of external HVAC connection, like your dryer, that pulls in cold air from a shaded overhang on the side away from solar input (or maybe underground).

This paper [1] has some discussion of testing differences between 16 C, 25 C, and 31 C ambient exhaust conditions. It's actually a fairly significant difference under testing. ~(0.35, 0.70, 1.05) kWh / 24h for (16 degC, 25 degC, 31 degC). Refrigerators in experiments were kept at ~ 5 degC (approx 600 tests).

[1] https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/82169783/j.ijrefrig.20...
Yes. Now tell me how I can determine the stir/shaken attestation level of a given incoming call to my iPhone before I answer it.

(The answer in my experience is: you can’t, and next, nobody knows what the different attestation levels mean, and many legit calls still come in without any attestation)

It’s like if browsers only told you that https was enabled after you POSTed your credit card number to the remote site.
The vendor is supposed to check I think. Not that that makes sense in a comingling inventory world.
The Zero Terminal has a pretty difficult disadvantage in that it does not exist.
I have thought about that for a while and I wonder if it has to do with how memory becomes bigger more than it becomes faster. For example, compared to 30 years ago, PCs have about 1000x times more RAM, but it is only about 100x faster with about 10x less latency. It is a general trend for all sorts of devices and types of storage.

It means that for instance, storing an entire frame of video is nothing today, but in the analog times, it was hard, it means you simply didn't have enough storage for high latency. Now, you can comfortably save several frames of video, which is nice since more data means better compression, better error correction, etc... at the cost of more latency. Had memory be expensive and speed plentiful, a more direct pathway would have been cheaper, and latency naturally lower.
Sounds like a poorly thought out requirement. If you are tasked with speeding up the generation of quotes and find that AI can do the job well, that is perfectly reasonable. But if you are told what tool to use to make it happen, whomever tasked you with it doesn't understand that AI is a tool, not a goal. (I say that often enough, I may need to put it on t-shirts.)
> and television (Which enabled entertainment as a passive indirect consumption)

Absolutely. There were periods of time in history when there was significant opposition to television. Hence the coining of terms like "boob tube", "idiot box", "idiot's lantern", "cultural wasteland", etc. You can see a bit more of some of that (although not with a primarily historical focus) here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_aspects_of_television#N...

EDIT:

For yet more on this topic:

https://behavioralscientist.org/history-panic-entertainment-...

https://20thcenturyhistorysongbook.com/song-book/the-fifties...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Arguments_for_the_Elimina...
Lenovo shill here. I found my self equally wary of this laptop and of the author's unflinching adoration for it.

A high-top & thin-bottom make it seem ideal for getting knocked onto it's back.

Did we finally transit into the era where bendy screens last? If so, cool.

The opening shot - are those screen ripples at the center left?

It's only 2 ports are thunderbolt and the article doesn't mention how it charges.

On the plus side it's a square screen. I mean, it's a plus side for document people.
Also login over a VPN unless you want your IP leaked to everyone else
And yet there is a wide variety of operating systems available for the RPi, so it doesn't seem to be too much of a hurdle in practice.
Swing dance is down overall compared to ten+ years ago in NA. There are way less events. The events don't go as late either. It used to be that almost every event would go to 5am. The crowd at these events is much older now too. It used to be primarily under 30 and now it's well over 30.
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Ha, at least ! Thank you for the comment.

If there is some mail from my addr, with a valid DKIM signature, it proves nothing:
- perhaps the mail was sent by somebody else on the same plateform, but in my name (identity usurpation of the user part of the mail)
- perhaps somebody got illegal access to my email account, without me knowing
- .. ?

In no case it proves that I, as a human, sent this email.

But of course, justice is a fiction that cannot exist: there is no justice, only probabilities (and feelings :( ).
excellent! nobody wants answers that a LLM can answer on SO.

to be honest, nobody wanted questions that were spelled out on all the manuals either. so maybe LLM will handle all of those and let only the interesting ones.
Is it supposed to have a off by one error? I'm left with an extra fish. Maybe I clicked too fast or managed to get a twofer.