skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean there's a difference between scrutinizing the emergency response and spreading the notion that the fire was intentional and deliberate. This is a rather large part of the information being spread.

I mean, I have no skin in The game, am not an American, have no idea what are Newsoms politics or capabilities and most of the things I see being told online are crazy weird speculations.

I was mainly exposed to:
1. Fire marshal is bad because is a lesbian
2. Fires are deliberate to advance 'smart cities'
3. Fires were spread in order to get rid of evidence pertaining to a pedophile ring.

So take it from a bystander, this doesn't look like a healthy democratic discourse.
I look out my window and see the fires and the smoke and the homes lost forever. I look at Google News and half the stories are about cryptocurrency. The end of human civilization is much, much easier to imagine than the end of capitalism.
It blows my mind that stands like this one as well as keyboards are designed with an incline requiring constant tension in the wrists.

The natural position of the fingers when typing is below the wrist not above it.
Michel de Montaigne and the Art of the Personal Essay (2022)
Again; made no comment about what people do day to day. Specifically commenting on the authors praise of the LLM doing "novel" work.
> Star Wars is a beloved movie, with a huge honest fan base. Thus, it was remade with love and attention to detail.

Agreed. Star Wars Uncut exists because devotees wanted to set the record straight regarding controversial changes in later versions, and their efforts were laudable. Still, the image and sound quality cannot match the latest, greatest studio versions, so watching Uncut versions on the newest home theatre gear means accepting the warts and all.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's remaster was also a labour of love but with a different purpose (image clarity and upscaling):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19453745
the US Military Debates Possible Deployment on US Soil
> If you want to modify anything else in the 16-bit address space, you first need to write a 16-bit pointer to the Zero Page containing the location you want, then use an instruction which references that pointer.

This is so completely wrong I question the person's ability to understand what's happening in the emulator.

Also, that LDA instruction reads the 2-byte pointer from the memory location, adds Y, and loads the accumulator from the resulting memory position. IIRC, the address + Y can't cross a page - Y is added to the least significant byte without a carry to the MSB.

> and the program is stored as some sort of bytecode

We call it "tokenized". Most BASIC interpreters did that to save space and to speed parsing the code (it makes zero sense to store the bytes of P, R, I, N, and T when you can store a single token for "PRINT".
I love this, but I feel sad that there's minimal presence of women or girls anywhere - it's almost entirely male.

Are women not expected to explore, discover the world, enjoy adventures, solve mysteries?

(I don't want to complain; it's just an observation.)
What's even worse is that some won't even let you take a damn screenshot. "Disabled by your administrator." If that doesn't scream the fact that my device is in fact owned by someone else, I don't know what is.
> AI is already being used across the UK. It is being used in hospitals up and down the country to deliver better, faster, and smarter care: spotting pain levels for people who can’t speak, diagnosing breast cancer quicker, and getting people discharged quicker. This is already helping deliver the government’s mission to build an NHS fit for the future.

I find this really hard to believe. My brother, who is a practising ward doctor by trade with almost zero software experience, recently did a sabbatical related to cleaning patient notes data for use in training. He said it was a hopeless mess and they had absolutely nothing. The work he did went nowhere. I appreciate the hospital trusts are different and isolated in some respects, but the idea they're doing anything with AI is a joke when they can't even do the basics (as anyone who's used NHS digital services will testify to).

Does anyone have any experience that actually agrees with this press release?
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> the LLM academic community is still 2 years behind the open source community

Huh, isn't it the other way around? Thanks to the academic (and open) research about LLMs, we have any open source community around LLMs in the first place.
> The order of presentation of a program is dictated by the needs of a single-pass compiler

That never really made sense to me. All those "if"s, and "while"s, and "break"s, and "return"s jump to the not-yet-generated places in code just fine; a similar technique could be used for delaying the resolution of function/procedure calls as well.

Now, generating initialized data/rodata sections is something that single-pass compilers do struggle with (that's why Pascal didn't have array literals), and it's understandable: the Modula compiler, which got them (or was it Modula-2?), had to hold all of that initialized data section in memory and then dump it to the disk only after the code-generation (and patching the offsets) was done. But dealing with not-yet-defined code labels? That's something you have to do anyhow.
I often have this thought.

I'm a 40-year-old man, and started dating my wife when we were 14. As a result, I've never so much as installed a dating app. All of my (very limited) experience with them is a result of sitting with friends while they went through their feed.
The Metabolic Costs of Cognition
I imagine if I was an ugly man, I'd probably think really hard about the hassle of finding and dating a woman on my level versus just staying home and watching porn of super hot babes. Why spend the time and energy finding and going on dates when the sex is less rewarding than a fantasy that takes zero effort?

Obviously actual relationships are valuable, but dating apps tend to cater to hook up culture, and for people with friends sex is usually more urgently missing in their life than some degree of companionship. A lot of incels are actually more tilted by the feeling of being worthless/unattractive/unvalidated than the lack of companionship.
It's still years, and likely - decades for quantum computers to be used in practice.

There's hype in finance, too - but realistically, with proper developer tools, organisations can achieve over and above the required speeds using the traditional CPUs/GPUs - and without breaking the bank (no pun intended).

Even if one achieves ground-breaking results using an ultra-expensive chip, in no way it means that an average developer will achieve anything like that, even if provided access to cutting-edge quantum computers.

I think there's a lot hiding in the human-computer interface, and the true power of the existing CPU/GPUs is not fully utilised due to the inherent complexities of the programming languages. Needless to say that relatively simple hardware advancements such as vectorisation and multithreading, are rarely used to full extent in popular languages such as C++ or Python.

My bet is that the ROI of any Quantum Development will be negative for decades. So, unless one's planning horison is 10+ years, or you simply don't care for ROI, I'd choose something more mainstream such as CPU/GPU/TPU...
AI unveils chip designs, while discovering new functionalities
True but I believe o1 gets it everytime. Can’t prove it though.
Bisection is also useful when debugging css.

When you don't know what is breaking that specific scroll or layout somewhere in the page, you can just remove half the DOM in the dev tools and check if the problem is still there.

Rinse and repeat, it's a basic binary search.

I am often surprised that leetcode black belts are absolutely unable to apply what they learn in the real world, neither in code nor debugging which always reminds me of what a useless metric to hire engineers it is.
#1 thing that drives me bonkers with the Sonos app is that when you search for an artist, you have to scan through dozens of singles and EPs to find their actual full length studio albums. For bigger bands there can be 40+ albums to find the one you want. Apple Music and Spotify group these and it is such a simple UI improvement.
My rule for a long time has been anytime I add a print or log, except for the first time I am writing some new cide with tricky logic, which I try not to do, never delete it. Lower it to the lowest possible debug or trace level but if it was useful once it will be useful again, even if only to document the flow thru the code on full debug.

The nicest log package I had would always count the number of times a log msg was hit even if the debug level meant nothing happened. The C preprocessor made this easy, haven't been able to get a short way to do this counting efficiently in other languages.
It takes time to develop a skill. It takes even more time to excel in that skill. It takes still more time to master that skill. Part of what we admire in art, whether it be music, literature, dance, paining or whatever, is the mastery of the craft.

We're social animals. We like to show-off our skills to one another. We're not as impressed with things that are easy to master. We don't produce art simply for the sake of the artefact created.
> While cloaked in the guise of an “anti-China” measure, these rules would do nothing to enhance U.S. security.

That's a pretty bold statement for a corporation to make. it's unquestionalble that an army with the best AI will dominate, so it's clear that some restrictions would be necessary. Nvidia did not provide any alternative proposals for restrictions in their statement, so their whole thing comes across as foolish and misguided. Dumb.
It's hard to justify $30+ for a sheet of paper, especially considering the fact that condensation from a nearby water bottle will kill this product.
Define "worth it", but I've written a blog post about some printer driver issue two years ago and it now happened twice that someone (Older person, not very technical) reached out over email and asked for some further help and I could walk them step by step through using a Terminal, booting into macOS recovery mode and fixing the issue.

The Apple store and Epson told them to do a clean install so they were very grateful and it made me happy that I could help them. Worth it for me!
The tone of this sounds like it was written by non-bureaucrats trying to score political points. I get that it's a press release, but it sounds like a stump speech.

"Today’s plan mainlines AI into the veins of this enterprising nation – revolutionising our public services and putting more money in people’s back pockets."

Is a heroin analogy really what they are going for, and then straight into some imaginary cost savings?

I know it is fashionable to wonder if something was written by AI. I don't think this is, but some human went to great lengths to sound borderline unhinged.
GitHub: https://github.com/matlogica/AADC-Python/tree/main/benchmark...
More from the WSJ:

"Consider the state’s response to crime and homelessness, which may have contributed to the fires. Last year’s Park Fire—the fourth largest in state history—was allegedly ignited by a man with two prior felony convictions who was on parole for a DUI. The Los Angeles Times reported in early 2021 that 24 fires on average were breaking out each day in the city’s homeless encampments. A fire in an encampment shut down an L.A. freeway last November, the second time that had happened in a little over a year.

Good Samaritans on Thursday detained a homeless man who they said used a flamethrower to incinerate Christmas trees and garbage cans, around the same time as a major fire erupted. Police arrested the vagrant on a felony probation violation—meaning he had been on parole for another felony—because they said they lacked probable cause to charge him with arson. The suspect reportedly claimed he was using a blowtorch to smoke marijuana."
The Tech Job Market Is Dead [video]
Holy hell dude, you don’t need to write a novel for every reply. It’s not a lockfile because it’s a snapshot of what you have installed. End of.

It doesn’t handle environment markers nor is it reproducible. Given any non-trivial set of dependencies and/or more than 1 platform, it will lead to confusing issues.

Those confusing issues are the reason for lock files to exist, and the reason they are not just “the output of pip freeze”.

But you know this, given your two years of extensive expert study. Which I see very little evidence of.
I'm curious, which personal blogs do you read and aspire to emulate?

There's a significant difference between 'personal' blogs, which are free and genuinely personal, and the 'creator community' of individuals aiming to launch revenue-generating paid newsletters.

It's important not to confuse these two groups, as I see many more people now in the latter category than the former.
I'm not claiming this is true, only that it's how I think about it. All forms of public performance, including blogging, youtubing, singing, dancing, etc. are dominated by the Pareto principle (roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes) and Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crap). Any success you see anyone having is solely due to survivorship bias. Unless you are already an amateur success, it's very unlikely you have the ability let alone the dedication to pay the price to be anything remotely close to a real success. It's always been this way. It's never been worth it to have a blog. That is, unless it's worth it to you. In that case go for it!
My master narrative is that most of our ancestors were doing subsistence agriculture just a few lifetimes ago.

For instance my father-in-law was in fascist (no kidding!) Italy which got attacked by fascist (Nazis!) Germany and had their farm ruined, their wine barrels spilled. Many members of his family wound up in Binghamton NY where their social networks channeled them into certain occupations. (Splits pretty well based on unionized/self-employed and across gender: construction, Italian restaurants, K12 education, hairdressers; my French Canadian and Polish relatives in New England seem to all be in law enforcement or some other kind of "first response", even the girls, except for the pro hockey player who now coaches college hockey and lives with his husband; if any of them tried to break into teaching at college, newspaper reporting, or things that other ethnic groups specialize in, they'd discover the same baffling barriers that black people would encounter)

A friend of my son has mental health problems I can't DX (e.g. "pathological narcissism" is a sign, i see "body dysmorphia" is a symptom even if it is a DX in the DSM) but his mom who grew up in rural China (educated, got a medical certificate which doesn't let her practice here, thinks it was a mistake because she knows many people who got really rich thanks to economic expansion back home and is seriously committed to an evangelical church that should teach her better) believes the DX is "possessed by demons" which was a culturally universal and common DX almost everywhere throughout almost all of human history and prehistory.

I worked for a startup where there were two Indians (a Reddy and a Juggernaut, Hindus will get a clear understanding of their social position based on that) who grew up in a village about 30 miles from Bangalore, got educated in that city, got more education here, and wound up working together where they stuck up for each other like blood brothers. Like many Indians I've met working in the industry, the younger struggled in the US, not least with the immigration authorities, and I tried really hard to communicate my sympathy, admiration and respect but failed as so I often have with Indians in his position.

Various "BiPOC" histories are equally valid yet basically the same story (farm to city via severe trauma) if you separate them from the label which erases the reality: e.g. still on the farm in Africa, got torn away against their will, deliberate destruction of their culture in the past, present (and future so long as the idea that "the holocaust should never happen again" displaces the reality that genocide happens over and over again,) etc which is general but can't really be understood without the personal specifics.

"Cargo cult", "BiPOC" and many other terms ought to get phased out and replaced by better and more detailed stories.
You are free to evaluate tooling by your own standards.

But it commonly comes across that people think it can't be written in Python if it's to have XYZ features, and by and large they're wrong, and I'm trying to point that out. In particular, people commonly seem to think that e.g. Pip needs to be in the same environment to work, and that's just not true. There's a system in place that defaults to copying Pip into every environment so that you can `python -m pip`, but this is wasteful and unnecessary. (Pip is designed to run under the install environment's Python, but this is a hacky implementation detail. It really just needs to know the destination paths and the target Python version.)

It also happens that I care about disk footprint quite a bit more than most people. Maybe because I still remember the computers I grew up with.
This is failed design, your wrists will hate you after using this.
I just really appreciate separating things like access credentials from things like web browsers without running multiple accounts. I do all my most and least secure activities on Qubes and use other computers for a lot of the other stuff in between.
Good point about the interest rates. However, in the UK landlords adjusted their rents accordingly when the Govt introduced Housing Benefits (years before interest rates began to rise). A lot of govt MPs are landlords.

I'm not against the idea of UBI, I just see the landlords eating it up like they do with peoples wages.
They're definitely not "standard Linux permissions." Yes Android does use many of those (such as standard user IDs, file system permissions, and now SELinux) to implement some of its permissions, but it adds a ton of permissions on top that are not part of Linux.
Show HN: TikTok Fave Save ( Mass downloader for your exported profile data)
Created this app as alternate way to mass download your favorited/liked TikTok videos (before the U.S. ban goes into effect.) Under the hood, it's Python and yt_dlp, created apps with PyInstaller and a few rounds of AI-assisted paired programming.
There is no more waitlist for GitHub Copilot Workspace–agentic editor
Sometimes that's also by design and can also signal that you're not the customer. For example, CIOs may hear of a product and are very willing to get on a call to learn more about a product rather than necessarily reading a landing page at all. This provides the opportunity for the company to teach a potential customer about how exactly it fits their specific use case rather than a more generic landing page (and some companies do have a solutions page with more pages for various specific industries precisely to combat this too), and also, well, to make the buyer interested enough to buy. People who want to learn more by themselves on the landing page are typically not buyers because CIO and VP level executives do absolutely want to learn even the basics from a human and be able to ask specific questions relating to their use case.
The stock management portion of the game adds a lot of depth. Strategy-wise, RTII is pretty simple still - a simple line between two reasonably sized cities will be profitable, so long as you keep the number of lines between the two low enough. But they can be more profitable if you're smart about which cities are connected.

But trying to acquire the entire company is actually pretty difficult. You can buy stock on margin, but the rates are oppressively high, so it only makes sense to do so in short burst between expansion phases. But there's still risk, the economy can go south or the expansion may not be as profitable as expected, and if that happens, there's the risk of loans being called and your stock being liquidated.

I'd say most of my enjoyment of the game stems from the effort to amass a personal fortune. Eventually, you do learn how to execute various securities frauds, which is pretty entertaining itself.
No, they have auto-scaling as well. Not sure what GP was talking about: https://fly.io/docs/reference/autoscaling/

However, it's understandable that some people wouldn't necessarily want to pay for high amounts of max machines.

Apparently it doesn't auto-scale automatically either, you have to opt into it.
Anybody who formalizes their "homebrew KVM platform" into a marketable hypervisor product is going to make a lot of money I suspect. Every IT department I know is scrambling to replace their VMWare stack ASAP, including very large ones.
> but if you _have_ to get something

You don’t have to get it shipped, most of the time. Whenever you next go to town, go into any hardware shop and buy whatever they have.

Heck, hop on freecycle and you’re bound to see someone giving away one of these that you can pick up for free, in person.

Or buy one second hand.

Or use a large book.

Or, or, or…
This pervasive corporate fiction tires me out so much. Everyone says they hire the best candidate, they are leaders in their area, etc. It feels very much like dystopian literature, where everyone knows the thing to be false, but is compelled to say it is true nevertheless.
I think you are confusing capitalism and democracy.

But my point stands: being against a law because it wouldn't make sense without capitalism is a silly reason to oppose something when we live under capitalism for the foreseeable future
Cloudflare deprecating DWeb (distributed web) Resolver
Partially, LLMs cover a lot more cases.

Sometimes I have multiple variables, like:

var firstJob;
var lastJob;
var totalJobs;

And then, if I want to rename Job -> Task, with LLMs, I just edit first variable, and then it auto-detects my intention and suggests all those changes with a single Tab press:

var firstTask;
var lastTask;
var totalTasks;

With the IDE you can only F2 to rename individual variables, or replace all occurences, which might overwrite other variable names too (also maintaining casing is tricky sometimes).

LLMs are also good at predicting what you're going to type, especially with adding comments or hard-coded content.

Like, when you write

var firstTask;
var l...

Now you will get autocomplete for lastTask; in one tab, faster than typing it.

Also amazing for conversion, let's say you have a YAML file and you want it converted to JSON, you just select it and ask "convert to JSON", done.
I would argue that such intentional changes to language isn't "evolution" at all. Sure, language evolves, but not by some kind of edict.
Definitely agree with you on the fact that there are tests which are complicated to write and will take effort.

But I think all other things considered my impression still holds, and that I should maybe rather say they're easier to write in a way, though not necessarily easy.
The catch is that if your car is damaged by a pothole you have a chance to claim damages from the council only if you can prove that the council knew about the pothole. So even if most reports do not result in an action, they still have some values and are an incentive for the council to fix the road.
You forgot the part where the bees then sit around and do nothing after getting all their honey back. It's basically a diatribe against universal basic income, since without the incentive to slave away for the rest of their lives, their lives become meaningless.
That's a great explanation for signing bonuses.

Doesn't do much to explain severance packages though?

Unless the board wants to give a signing bonus, but the amount is so egregious the shareholders would riot, so they need to do it by stealth.