skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would show this to all prospective PhD students, and then again on their first day if they were selected.
Right, but are we talking closer to 5% or 50%?
Nice memories. I had a version on the Amstrad called Animal Vegetable Mineral. It definitely kicked off a few neurons for me.
If you’re an Ivy League college professor, it is extremely risky to say that Palestine has a legitimate grievance against Israel. If you’re a small town high school coach, it would be smart to be careful about advocating for trans girls to be able to play on the girls team. You can be punished for opinions on various sides of the political spectrum.
Does a research journal on aliens prove aliens exist?
man, people are so stupid, loads and loads of people are saying that EMFs at close distance are kinda harmful, yet you get downvoted, precautionary principle is your best ally to avoid harm or worse, these technologies are new, and medicine/research moves slowly especially if lobbies by the biggest/wealthiest corps in the world are involved.
Crucial size difference between an article and a book.

Size difference meaning that people often share complete copies of articles to get around pay walls — including here. As I understand it, this is already copyright infringement.

I suspect that those copies are how and why it's possible in cases such as NYT.
I’m not sure why you keep invoking "recency bias." When forecasting the near future, as Ehrlich was doing, it’s entirely reasonable to use recent trends as a baseline. Are you suggesting progress might slow to the levels seen in prehistory, antiquity, or the medieval period? That seems highly implausible, barring a catastrophic event that disrupts modern civilization.

If anything, you might be underestimating the ongoing momentum of technological progress, which is not just sustaining its pace but accelerating across many fields. Some experts predict AGI is right on the corner - a development that could drastically amplify innovation and potentially eliminate the challenge of food scarcity.

Additionally, birth control will only keep becoming increasingly accessible worldwide, enabling more effective regulation of fertility rates in response to resource constraints.
VS Code support for Common Lisp is lacking. Alive extension is relatively recent and is a solo effort and thus has significant bugs and is not as feature packed as Vim/Emacs alternatives. For example, it doesn't provide structural editing. It's interaction with sbcl cache seemingly broke my project a few times.
> Welcome to the era of generative AI, where a mountain can have multiple heights, but also only one height, and the balance of my bank account gets to determine which one that is. All invisible to the end user and then rationalised away as a coincidence.

I've always found the idea of untraceable, unfixable, unpredictable bugs in software... Offensive. Dirty. Unprofessional.

So the last couple years have been been disconcerting, as a non-trivial portion of people who I thought felt similarly started to overlook it in LLMs, while also integrating those LLMs into flows where the bad-output can't even be detected.
No, but it's one of three places on Earth that have dark skies this good.

The fact you don't know Paranal host many more than "one telescope" doesn't surprise me, as your are obviously very ignorant of modern astronomy.
Also Turbo OutRun Reimagined

https://sk1ds.itch.io/outrun-clone
For most (nowadays), the journey is about becoming a competent researcher.
I think this is an unneccesary absolute take. Panic is rarely used for error handling and nobody is advocating for its use in practice. I wouldn't use os.Exit() in deeper layers of code myself, it's better to have OS level startup / shutdown in a single / central location so that the other layers of a nontrivial application don't need to be aware of it. Having a recover block somewhere allows for graceful shutdown and logging, whereas using os.Exit() in random places would require you to write a utility function or repeat the shutdown / logging procedure.
Ah, it's this time of the year when we get to fantasize about cool platforms and languages before succumbing back to python, typescript or feeding the relentless AI monster in a major cloud provider.
What exactly would that do? Just select any video input, attach your preferred input device and never touch the TV remote again.
Public health: Businesses seek to cut sick pay in Germany
Yup.

If simplicity syntax is the only goal, we can take one step further.

I present you with, EP - easy properties: Any UTF8 encoded file is valid configuration file. You’re the boss, not the language. You can concatenate two files, you can add comments in format you want, you can choose any syntax you want!

(Somebody will need to parse it eventually though)
crucify
/ˈkruːsɪfʌɪ/
verb
past tense: crucified; past participle: crucified

1.
put (someone) to death by nailing or binding them to a cross, especially as an ancient punishment.
"two thieves were crucified with Jesus"

2.
INFORMAL
criticize (someone) severely and unrelentingly.
"our fans would crucify us if we lost"
food for thought and feel free to chime-in: https://gist.github.com/vindarel/15f4021baad4d22d334cb5ce2be... Common Lisp VS Julia
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I don’t think the public o1 can search the internet yet, unlike 4o. In principle it could know that something is more commonly cited based on its training data. But it could also just be hallucinating.
I haven't read Eddison. I meant "modern" in a wide sense that even includes Tolkien's prose to some degree. He doesn't sound very modern, but he still sounds to me more modern than Grimm's tales, even in the Silmarillion, which is the opposite of verbose. Tolkien is more "realistic". He goes more in the direction of pseudo history, he mentions family trees and specific years. I don't think the Edda does that to a similar extent either, though I haven't read it. It's possible that Eddison is again different.
> You can also saturate the environment so that business cannot be done. Jamming the medium

I can't help but wonder if your huge, conspiracy laden comment is intended to do exactly this.
That's obviously wrong. If one resource gets scarce but retains its use, it will get more expensive compared to other resources that remain plentiful.

All commodities together feed into inflation. So either some will become less expensive or some will outpace inflation.

What we're seeing here is that resource extraction can get better, so resources aren't really scarce. But there are certainly some commodities, not reflected here, that became much cheaper. E.g., corn or meat, so these metals might have become more expensive in relative terms.
Are earworms infringement? No, they stay inside your head, so they exist entirely outside the scope of copyright law.

If you ask me the lyrics, fair use acknowledges that there's a copyright in effect, and carves out an exemption. It's a matter-of-degree argument, is this a casual conversation or a written interview to be published in print, did you ask me to play an acoustic cover of the song and post it on YouTube?

Either way, we acknowledge that the copyright is there, but whether or not money needs to change hands in some direction or other is a function of what happens next.
Asking rents skyrocket as LA fires destroy homes
You want a real conspiracy theory? How about this: some rich Thirty Meters Telescope patron saw the peril the project has been in and set out to sabotage the ELT!

Of course, the ELT is proper funded, so the best he can do is making it useless by ruining it's sky for a decade with construction dust and light.
Online communities? Primarily X and Github. Sometimes Reddit for my Finnish language learning resources.

Offline? I'm mostly fine with my current friends and family.
> Since their deaths (Wilhelm in 1859, Jacob in 1863), so many legends have accrued about their lives and works that they almost seem fairy-tale figures themselves, quaint Hobbit-like creatures trawling the peasantry for stories. Nothing could be further from the truth, which is why Ann Schmiesing’s brief, eloquent and moving biography, The Brothers Grimm, is bound to prove enlightening to English-language readers.

Huh, that is actually true: of course I knew they were real people, even when very young, but on an "emotional" level I've never thought of them as such. They were always mythical characters themselves, as if I couldn't separate them from their stories. Something that they share with Homer and… actually, that's it, really.

What a strange thing to realize, I wonder how that happened?
The Netherlands managed to dramatically raise crop yields after WWII by intensive farming methods like building a massive amount of greenhouses. The crop yield per hectare is insane as a result. It was as a response to WWII that this system of farming was adopted.

So if we reach a point of mass starvation many counties will adopt similar strategies and drastically raise crop yields.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33763087
Just look at the Option type and all the methods on it, the whole concept of optionals should be built into the language, not stdlib:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/option/enum.Option.html

Same with Result, Box, Rc, Arc, Cell, RefCell, (plus even more *Cells), Iter, ... the resulting 'bread crumbs syntax' is IMHO the main reason why typical Rust code is so hard to read. This philosophy to push what should be language features into the stdlib is the same as in C++ (and IMHO one of the main problems of C++), it's probably also a reason why both languages are so slow to compile.
Thanks, I missed this story. According to https://old.reddit.com/r/ipv6/comments/17yuqvp/til_capital_o..., the largest allocations by RIRs other than ARIN do not exceed /19, and those are for national telecom providers. Who are these ARIN people and how can they be held accountable for their idiotic management of public resources, which appear to be consistently terrible for decades?
I looked up bortle and Portugal, and Google gave my a light pollution map. I still don’t know what bortle means…

https://www.lightpollutionmap.info
I used to think like this, but then I discovered generating (prj_root)/types.d.ts. It doesn’t do anything technical because types are in src/**/*, but I do that to generate a quick overview for a project I’m returning to after a month.

Maintaining header files is tedious and I often resorted to a kind of “OBHF.h” for common types, if you know what I mean. Otherwise it’s too much cross-tangling and forwards. Even in ts I do type-only src/types.ts for types likely common to everything, mostly because I don’t want pages of picky this-from-there this-from-there imports in every module.

As for public/private and sharing “friends” across implementation modules, we didn’t invent anything good anyway. I just name my public private symbols impl_foo and that tells me and everyone what it is.

That said, I wouldn’t want to make html out of it like these *-doc tools do. Using another program to navigate what is basically code feels like their editor sucks. My position on in-code documentation is that it should be navigatable the same way you write it. External tools and build steps kill “immersion”.
The author says they went about learning CL the wrong way. I wonder if there is a standard "community approved" way of learning the language?
You have this the wrong way around. Associative array is the abstraction you are talking about. Hash maps are a specific implementation of that abstraction. You could also define hash map as an abstraction which has the same interface as associative array but with more strict performance characteristics. But either way it's wrong because bash is neither implemented as a hash map nor has the performance characteristics of a hash map.

For reference the main implementations of associative array are alists/plists (linear time), balanced binary trees, b-trees (logarithmic time) and hash maps (amortised constant time).
A local story about it: https://radio.uchile.cl/2025/01/11/proyecto-inna-la-iniciati...
As this is a semantics debate, their actual existence is irrelevant.

A research journal on extra-terrestrial aliens would prove that the word "aliens" is used to mean "extra-terrestrials" and that the word doesn't just mean "foreigners": https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/chapter-12/subchap...
Alan Kay really liked him in 2016. https://youtu.be/fKcCwa_j8e0 I think Altman is very good at cultivating people. Mind you, it seems that Swartz got around by making dazzling impressions on people, too.
The brown bar in the middle of a tiny column of text is very aggravating to read.
I think that's partly a survivor (the disease surviving, not the patient) bias effect.

Things that could be solved by random discoveries are no longer considered the highest-grade nasties. There were a lot more intractably fatal conditions in 1870 than there are today.

So the likelihood of there being answers that could have been randomly discovered by medics with 1870 or 1920 levels of knowledge is tiny. At the same time, the sum of human knowledge has expanded so rapidly since then, it's not impossible for stuff to get missed.
How could a language model infer that the official information overrules anything else?
Probabilistic ML (2023) [video]
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reminds me of typing of the dead, well done
A number of countries actually offer free domain names to citizens. I agree with the rest though. I don't see what this adds to RSS, which already has most of these things given its served over HTTPS in most cases.
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What’s the best evidence for Swartz’ technical genius?
Can I also recommend Kay Lousberg's work as well: https://kaylousberg.com/

Similar business model and usefulness. A lot of free and you can purchase via itch.

I've used both to prototype many games in Unreal and have bought all their assets.
https://www.handprint.com/ASTRO/bortle.html
No. I'm presuming that you're able to look at the branches in code and write white box tests. Here the relevant two branches are 453 and anything other than 453. For addition of unsigned numbers, the relevant branches are 0 + 0, 0 + 1, 0 + max, 1 + 0 (usually can be skipped), 1 + 1, 1 + max (which overflows), etc.

The number of relevant material states is bounded and knowable. It's neither unbounded (1,2,3,4,5,6 ... ) or unknowable as the algorithm is available.
If you join a gang you get protection from that gang. There are some
gangs you can join where you get to kill people, with total impunity,
if you're into that sort of thing. Corporations are just another kind
of gang. Don't let the legal sugar frosting fool you.
Who, of those here critiquing the English language, isn't part of Western culture? Or of the other possible category of "anglosphere"?
Doctor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhkwh8u30mo
The full study pdf is fascinating (Trends in floating offshore wind platforms: A review 2024)

What your take on offshore floating PV. Setting aside the issue of power transmission (which can be 30% of the capex!) these are passive more forgiving structures? Can they last 10-20 years?
I’m not sure what kind of response you’re looking for, or if this is a rhetorical question or not. But “how could a language model infer…?” can be asked about a whole lot of things that language models have no problem reliably inferring.
It's not only common you can in many instances force your employer to lower your hours and keep you on.
I guess best fix would be to just never propose 2 words starting with the same letter
I remember int/impl sections since the 1990’s turbo pascal, which wasn’t “object” still, iirc. Also, commercial closed-source units (modules) were often distributed in a .tpu/.dcu + .int form, where .int was basically its source code without the implementation section.
Wait until you see IPv4
Looks pretty useful. Good luck and congrats on launching your tool!
Finally after some time of trying I was kind of able to see 2 fingers, but I think I have some sort of condition that means I mostly have monocular vision compared to binocular vision, which most people seem to have. I am still trying to understand how different I see things from most people. But this is something I never realized.

My brain really prefers to process from only one eye at a time, it seems. I wasn't able to get further than the 2 fingers even after more than a hour of trying. E.g. I wasn't able to duplicate anything on my screen.

Weird that I only now realize this after decades of living. I wonder what impacts has it had on my depth perception etc.
I do not understand how this misconception is so pervasive especially on hacker news. Every time phds are discussed someone says this. If you don’t know anything at all about a topic why say something?
Alternately, say you'll be using AI to replace lots of jobs in order to drive down employee-compensation and make yourself look good to the board... And then let the eventual fallout be someone else's problem.
I‘m an idealist, I think things can be changed for the better.
Same way as we can: learning which sources are more trustworthy.

There's limits to how far you can go with this — not only do humans make mistakes with this, but even in the abstract theoretical it can never be perfect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Münchhausen_trilemma — but it is still the "how".
Ask yourself this, has there been any useful Programming Language that has come out of PL research/ Academia in the last 20 years? The only example I can think of is Julia, and it only seems to be used by other academics.

If you’re looking to be impactful, you are much better off joining a job and working in your free time, than doing a PhD. A PhD is a program to compete for academic prestige. Grad students want to publish papers that get them noticed at conferences, invited to talks at prestigious universities etc, those are the incentives, always has been in academia. The brightest minds join academia because they care more about prestige than money (as they should, anyone can earn money, few can win a Nobel prize). In a healthy academic system, prestige is linked to real world societal impact. That is still somewhat true in fields like Machine Learning, in some fields it seems to be completely dis-aligned from any real world impact whatsoever (which seems to be PL research). Our academic system unfortunately is a rotten carcass.

You could still, advisor willing, do research that interests you and not care at all whether you get noticed by conferences/ journals, your peers etc. But that takes a certain level of anti-social behavior that very few humans possess and so I
say join a job. Plenty of companies are still building programming languages, like Google, Apple etc which are being used by engineers worldwide and if you finagle your way into a job at those teams, you will have a meaningful, impactful job, which is also well paying as a side bonus.
There seem to be some correlation between large population size and higher deployment. Maybe there are too few internet connections to be really worth it.
Lemmy caught traction and feels like the old intrnet sometimes.
Even if no one reads docs up front - having some documentation to point them to is a must.

I cannot imagine making stuff up all the time as you go. Maybe if system is super small. But then even better to build up documentation to have it for later.
Also sometimes for things that cost amounts I could easily expense

I've been going through a purchase order process for a bunch of patch cables and adapters so cheap I could even expense them without a receipt. It's taking months. They're being delivered by air freight. My heart and soul are aching.
As it turns out, correctness very often simply doesn't matter. Or not as much as one would intuitively think.

How many shops are there optimizing "business strategies" with data that's -essentially- garbage?
The MacBook Pro I linked came out in 2006, and allows for 4GB, though there are some limitations to using all of it beyond 3GB.
Their food is absolutely cheaper for the same health value as comparable grocery stores. Walmart was amazing for low income families in small cities and rural areas.
Designing template language in applications without dependencies
True harassment is VERY easy if you can create infinite amount of new accounts and each new account can harass the person and cant be blocked. True harassment is very easy if you are someone with many followers who will target whoever you choose to.

What you suggests is setup designed so that large scale harassment is easy. Alex Jones will love it, psychopaths will love it.
You forget the massive benefit to everyone who shops there. It wrecked small businesses because the prices were lower for the same things.
I was expecting https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=2031
> that language models have no problem reliably inferring

... the article did give me a different impression.
I think that reality check is that in many social groups and in many workplaces, guys who say and do "things like Donald Trump" are rewarded again and again and again.

To claim otherwise is just a lie designed to make it so it stays that way.
Related: for anyone who speaks a bit of German, check out Texas German: https://youtu.be/1_dH403pqRU?si=KuSDR51w-_ZXmTdT

Really lucky that these dialects persisted long enough that we have recordings of them.
Very similar to HN: https://lobste.rs/