skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You write in one language

Not quite. Web assembly isn't a source language, it's a compiler target. So you should be able to write in C, Rust, Fortran, or Lua and compile any of those to WebAssembly.

Except that WebAssembly is a cross-platform assembly language/machine code which is very similar to the native machine code of many/most contemporary CPUs. This means a WebAssembly interpreter can be very straightforward, and could often translate one WebAssembly instruction to one native CPU instruction. Or rather, it can compile a stream of WebAssembly instructions almost one-to-one to native CPU instructions, which it can then execute directly.
Probably, but that's really only helpful if you need that piece of information regularly. In the way that I work, it's not necessary. If a particular problem domain pops up frequently enough that I'd need to drill on it, the act of working the problem provides the repetition.

In general, I don't find techniques like this helpful. My brain is just really good at holding the overall concept of what I read. Once I've digested the information, the abstract is logged in the database forever. But that's just the autistic nature of my brain, I think.
I've been seeing cookie banners on European websites long before GDPR was a twinkle in some Brussels bureaucrat's eye.
USAID was created by an executive order, but then established by Congress in the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998. Simple impoundment of funds violates the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. So Trump does not have the authority to just shut down USAID.

But here's the thing. He doesn't care. He has complete immunity for it. He isn't running for re-election. He believes that it is a political advantage for his legacy. He is effectively immune from impeachment until the midterm elections. If the court orders it re-funded, he re-hydrates it under his control, and is still politically ahead. And this informs most of his executive actions.
>It has helped me learn stuff incredibly faster. Especially I find them useful for filling the gaps of knowledge and exploring new topics in my own way and language

and then you verify every single fact it tells you via traditional methods by confirming them in human-written documents, right?

Otherwise, how do you use the LLM for learning? If you don't know the answer to what you're asking, you can't tell if it's lying. It also can't tell if it's lying, so you can't ask it.

If you have to look up every fact it outputs after it does, using traditional methods, why not skip to just looking things up the old fashioned way and save time?

Occasionally an LLM helps me surface unknown keywords that make traditional searches easier, but they can't teach anything because they don't know anything. They can imagine things you might be able to learn from a real authority, but that's it. That can be useful! But it's not useful for learning alone.

And if you're not verifying literally everything an LLM tells you.. are you sure you're learning anything real?
> I'm not willing to leave the company because its stock 6x'ed last year.

> I don't want my career and life to evolve by happenstance.

Liar, liar, pants on fire!
> dont know how much more transparent I can get

A lot more by mentioning on the actual page that the main content is AI generated considering that the neither the GitHub repo nor the Twitter thread nor this thread are mentioned on the page which is meant for public consumption.

There is a disclaimer for this on the desktop page. But when rendered on mobile it isn't there.

:)
and then he teaches you about safety around a thousand times more effectively afterward <3
I wouldn't discount the issue of intellectual capital. There are just a handful of universities in the UK that produce world class level work in CS. While there are dozens of such universities in the US. Numbers like that make a big difference.

And if I remember correctly, PhDs in the UK are kind of weird compared to the US. Your thesis has to be research that you haven't published yet.
Bill Gates revisits rivalry with Steve Jobs
This is what thread contention means in any language and runtime. Threads "contend" for mutexes by waiting.
> Trump has indeed declared a national emergency at the border. But there is nothing "extraordinary" or "unusual" about either illegal migration or cross-border fentanyl smuggling

Really?

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db522.htm

The #1 cause of death of working age adults during the pandemic was not covid. It was opiods.

https://web.archive.org/web/20211221184714/https://secureser...
Then they just lie on the customs sheet lmao. They did it from China when I lived in NZ and they do it from China now I live in UK. None of the things I get from aliexpress etc are valuable enough to be insured so it's never been an issue per se, but it really is an issue.

I don't agree with these new thoughtless tariffs at all, but I do agree that some countries skirt the rules and certainly some more than others. Just ironic that country only got slammed with 10% when they're the worst offender.
Is there a source on this? This is the second of two conspiracy theories I've heard, the other being that Reagan is somehow responsible for getting rid of the communal dumpsters that are claimed to have once existed.
From my experience, the embedded solution becomes a distributed orchestrator and, thus, is no longer simpler.
> It does not matter how long you choose to sit around staring at them, they're doing their steady-state thing in the background, forever.

This is simply not true. Very few power plants work like that, and Ivanpah is definitely an exception. (This is why the capacity factor isn’t 100%.)

> > capacity factor

> Fair enough, I inserted Wikipedia's value for planned/rated level of operation, rather than the much-reduced level it was actually operating under for various reasons.

No, and you might consider reading the article on capacity factor (and don’t stop at the first paragraph - read the section on renewables). If you put 1kW of solar panels on your roof, you are not getting 1kW times 1 year of energy every year — not even close.

And you are replying to my objection to:

> ~65 kilowatts provided per dead bird.

If Ivanpah could kill a bird, once, to produce 65 kW forever, that would be an unbelievably good tradeoff. But, of course, that’s not what Ivanpah does, and saying that years somehow enter the mix later on doesn’t make this statement any more coherent.
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Is that your way of acknowledging you don't know anything about this?

Because trust me, this is not simple at all, and since you think it is, it just means you don't know anything about it.

This is understandable, a lot of people don't. But you should avoid posting about it, there are some VERY motivated people who post about this in every thread, and downvote, and flag. Don't be one of them, they are motivated by hate, and that's not a good place to be.
I would definitely bring all this up to the new director after they start, but don't frame it as "I got pulled off my other team and I'd rather be there." Instead just frame it as part of the standard 1:1 getting-to-know-the-new-guy stuff. Explain your interests, explain what you did in the past on that other team/domain, explain how you think that can help with the new team and how you can be available for the other team.
Wacky question, but have taken time to mourn? I know that mourn is a strong word that we normally associate with grief from profound loss. But when a door closes, you do lose a part of yourself.

Work can be weird. This change may give you a chance to demonstrate incredible leadership while you turn the project around, or the project may not be in a position where it can be turned around. You’re unlikely to know which of those you’ll suffer until you’re already suffering.

But you can control how you are when you start. And taking a bit of time to mourn is a good way to set yourself up for a fresh start.
The public would kill people.
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Just use DAC with S/PDIF output, and another one with S/PDIF input. Well, either way it's hard enough to block casual users, so... it works
That said, cheap housing/warehouse space often leads to an explosion of art and music in sufficiently populated cities.
They had plenty of room for on street restaurant expansions in many parts of the city.
I've always complained that engineering relies on a lot of stolen valor from its adjacency to science. There is nothing scientific about treating everything in life as an optimization problem. And yet engineers often act like they are noble pursuers of truth in the same vein as scientists.

For example, take the Tesla vs. Edison dichotomy that became popular on the internet in the mid 2000s. The narrative was that Edison was an idea stealing hack, while Tesla was a brilliant visionary scientist and engineer.

The reality was that Edison was a brilliant inventor and a shrewd businessman, while Tesla was only the former and he made brilliant inventions that made other men like George Westinghouse very rich. But a scientist? Tesla was a crank who doubted the existence of electrons and distrusted Albert Einstein.

Tesla makes a good patron saint of modern engineers, but not of engineering's self image. He had a victim complex, he constantly commented on topics outside his area of expertise, and his lack of business acumen was seen as proof that he was a true outsider genius whose ideas were actually too good.
That's been the opinion of every intellectual giant who said that the republicans wouldn't steal the supreme court, that abortion wasn't on the table, that trump would never be elected, that he wasn't a threat (then he pulled a treason), that he would never be elected again.

Continue to pish posh while they continue dismantling the republic.
Zuck's lobbyists pay better than China's.
Intervals.icu is great, and totally worth paying to support. Really fun to see progress over time, and the ability to customize charts is neat.
Great, but afaict, it's not a jit. It is using llvm to aot-compile Python code. Decorators are called when their respective functions are compiled, not when they are called.
Sometimes you do need to throw the baby with the bath water.. when you have sufficient evidence that the baby is dead lol. The amyloid hypothesis sucks ass, we have spent decades and hundreds of billions trying to make it work but we need to stop making Fetch work!
I think you'd enjoy Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
you dont control your destiny in orgs. you can only be passionate about engineering. you are a hero one day, a zero the next. here today, gone tomorrow.

focus on engineering excellence, you seem to be too focused on your place/status in the org hierarchy.
I didn't know about Lazygit and this blog post offers no context nor link to a presentation of the project.

For those like me: Lazygit is a "simple terminal UI for git commands" and is located at https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit
It absolutely is a problem to be dealt with. I understand what you are implying but it actually is a problem
recently I have deleted my account. format is not for me, too much fuss in my honest opinion
I already do tho lmao, anything that comes from the US or is shipped with UPS even outside the US is just ridiculous.

6£ ultra pro card deck box from their European website...they try to force people to use UPS shipping for that at 90£ shipping, Belgium warehouse to UK. Ended up not buying because that's just plain ridiculous.
Growing up in an area with big ant hills, I just can't wrap my head around the fact that there are more ants by weight than all other mammals combined. Because I can imagine a small forest with multiple of these ant hills which undoubtedly have millions of ants, but at the same time an apartment building with a few humans in it would surely outweigh all of those ants. So where are all the ants hiding?
EU Draws a Red Line for AI with Unacceptable Risk
Ask HN: Best practice for deploying LLM API with streaming
In LLM applications, a common pattern is: the browser sends a request to the application's backend API, the backend code requests the LLM (like OpenAI)'s API, and streams the response back to the browser.

I've noticed this brings new challenges to deployment that not many people are talking about: the response time for streaming can sometimes last several minutes (especially when using reasoning models), which is quite different from the traditional API requests that complete in just a few seconds. At the same time, we don't want ongoing requests to be interrupted when deploying a new version.

How did you guys do it?
And the market is the ultimate unaccountability machine. Just pay attention to how people use it as a justification sometimes.
On the street.

Go to Google Maps, zoom in on New York City, then drop a Streetview pin randomly anywhere in the city.

Chances are very, VERY, good that just by panning, not moving, you'll find a trash bag dumped on the sidewalk.
In cases like this, it helps me to think of a simulation - that the book does not talk about - that has a specific framework and set of rules to decide whether to let people out of the portrayed present or not. I had that idea a long while ago and started to apply it to TV shows, books, news, even myself when I had a weird flashback to boring drug-induced times. It works well to kill the depression that can arise out of narratives (except song lyrics, music productions in general and Rick & Morty. once something feels like too many shrooms and too much LSD aka too much harmony in bullshitting oneself and the audience, the whole thing breaks down and I get an Agent Smith vibe, an Agent Smith that didn't age well at all)
sorry but there's no "Cantonese text", both Cantonese and Mandarin are written in Chinese.

It's like Java and Scala both compiles to JVM bytecode.

(yes I am aware hk people chose to write 粤语白字 in a particular way, because the orthography movement failed in the 70s)
I've just googled, and herring gulls are indeed the birds I was referring to here in Norway, good catch.
We have the same, actually, when tourists/guests of the city are easier targets. A few times I had to "defend" (mostly, by hiding) my lunch sandwich or bun as well, if I wanted to eat somewhere with a view over the sea. However, even a few kilometers from the sea, they can still be on a "hunt". Very interesting creatures!
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42916849
> The waiting time could be due to government agencies being overloaded due to shortages of personnel, but hiring more people costs money and people wouldn't like taxes to go up.

"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy"
6) drooling voters - keep voting for the same old circle shape in square hole politicians
I once saw a rat trying to open a wheelie-bin and when it looked up to me, I could see it think: shit, I'm busted; they know we are smart.
Swift has "normal strings", #"raw strings"#, and """ for multiline strings. For interpolation, it uses "The answer is \(1+2)", but in a raw string you need #"The answer is \#(1+2)"#.

So compared to Python, string interpolation is always "on" and doesn't need an f-prefix. Because it uses the string escaping syntax, it doesn't have to take over a regular character like {, which requires {{ escaping.
I'm out of context here as I'm not applying to Anthropic, not surprised at all if I'm missing details of the full process!

If this is just for a written part of the process or something, maybe I get it? But even then, if you expect employees to us LLMs I'd really want to see how well they interview with the LLMs available.
Do language-understanding, thinking, and reasoning need to be coupled with information retrieval and memory? Or are models like humans, where ingrained biases can prevent out of the box thinking?

Even if AI Safety guard rails are ablated, how can we ever trust the information regurgitated by something trained on fact, fiction, and lies with no distinction between them? And so does it not make sense to take from that what’s useful - language understanding, framework of reality, mimicry of human thought - and integrate it with other systems that are more reliable?
I wouldn't say it's good for anyone for these videos to exist
https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/nasa-bennu-asteroid-spa...

> Key to the curation process was the use of so-called “witness plates”—flat plates made of aluminum and sapphire—that were exposed to all the same conditions as the sample from Bennu, creating a detailed record of potential contaminants.

> If a compound found in the Bennu sample wasn’t on the witness plate, scientists could confidently identify it as originating from Bennu. This is critical when dealing with organic compounds, where contamination can make it hard to distinguish what is truly extraterrestrial.
I'm not so convinced it's that dangerous, but part of that is a naive sense that if they keep doing more dumb lawsuits, that just means it's more likely for a handful of defendants to actually fight them (as here) and win, which is the way to establish precedent or in the longer term actually get new laws that make things clearer. In this case, hopefully Costa Rica legal fees aren't so bad. Settlements are kind of bad in that regard though -- I'm reminded of the Youtube / Viacom fight that started in 2007 and eventually settled for an undisclosed amount. But in the meantime some bills were raised in committees about forcing site owners to implement things like what later became Content ID; what we got instead was Youtube doing their own proprietary version on their own accord (it probably did help fend off more lawsuits) and the law and courts being silent on the matter. Is that better or worse? What of the "danger"?

I guess another part of me not seeing much danger is because in the extreme, technology has for decades made this a non-problem when it comes to possibility and existence -- my old ROMs aren't going anywhere regardless of what Nintendo does or doesn't do, or what the law does or doesn't become. There's the matter of possibly lessened access and less widespread historical knowledge, which as a gamer I think is a shame, but the archives will survive and devs will continue making emulators for fun, anonymously if they have to. So long as things are available to those who seek them out, that's what I care most about, and that victory has already been won for non-service games.

I don't follow news that closely but I'm also not so sure these are all that new and unprecedented -- Nintendo's always been kind of a dick when it comes to lawfare and fan activities and work. Maybe you can point me to a piece that's looked at the frequency and types of legal activity over the years to compare? Is there anything concrete to suggest I should actually be worried at all about the future availability and development of Dolphin or bsnes or snes9x? I'm somewhat aware of them getting more aggressive with streamers, but the difference there is mainly that streaming and "content creation" are so much bigger now (it's come a long way since Zot the Avenger), so there's a lot more of it and consequently more legal related affairs. To me almost all of it falls under fair use, so whatever, but clearly Nintendo disagrees and Japan itself doesn't have the concept despite having a culture of doujin... (Sega, Capcom, Sony, and other Japanese companies all get my ire as much as Nintendo when it comes to this sort of thing at least.)
This is great, i'm always so turned off by how disgusting NYC is and struggle to get past it to enjoy the other parts
I like const because I can look at a function signature and know that nothing downstream is mutating a parameter. I can also write a function that returns a const reference to a member and know that nobody in the future will ever break my invariants.

This isn't about "oops, I didn't mean to mutate that." This is about rapidly being able to reason about the correctness of some code that is leveraging const-qualified code.
Nowhere as far as anything innovative or ground breaking (the same for Macs). Because of the enterprise lock in, Microsoft can’t make drastic changes to Windows.

If anything, they are still trying to get away from their x86 dependence and move people to ARM. But on the other hand, from what I heard about the latest surface laptops running x86, they get great battery life and are only slightly worse in performance than ARM equivalence.

As far as software, only vertical markets where software has to be done offline or performance is critical will we see any Windows native software.

Windows isn’t even Microsoft’s core concern anymore. It’s Office. Server products and Azure.
I felt the same way about Hyperion by Dan Simmons. Went in not knowing or caring when it was written and some themes felt played out, but realizing it was 1989 cast it in a totally different light for me. Weird how that works.
So sick of these bullshit "cuts" not being called what they are: layoffs.
But will we leave “the world's most famous piece of puke ever”?
A JIT should be able to translate most arithmetic and binary instructions to single-opcodes, however anything involving memory and functions calls needs safety checks that becomes multi-instruction. branches could mostly be direct _unless_ the runtime has any kind of metering (it should) to stop eternal loops (if it also wants to be crash-safe even if it's exploit safe).
The Donald is almost as old as Biden and likely has early onset dementia.

What he wants changes by the minute, and multiple people have confirmed he only really repeats what the last person he spoke to said.

So it's really the agenda of the people around him, who are a mix of Project 2025'ers, Billionaire Oligarchs who want to solidify control, and foreign money, esp. Russian & Chinese money, who want to fracture NATO and the global order.

Tank the US economy so stocks fall, the economy stumbles, and the BRICS have a chance at the world order. In exchange, the wealthy get to own the US.

Specifically, running a trade war for a couple months will tank stocks and make it easy for Capital to buy up everything. Now they own the gov'mnt and all the business. Same basic play as with Brexit -- tank the economy, burn international bridges, exactly follow the Russian playbook, and in exchange we'll let a handful of you rule like Tsars.
Hehe I’m sure you could manage if you had any valid theory critique or any actual answer to the fact that the outcomes of human evolution disprove your claim about body mass. I see why it’s convenient to drop here, so I understand.
Increasing hurricane risk yes, but also a dysfunctional insurance market. There's a business model where roofing companies will approach homeowners telling them they have hurricane damage and are eligible to receive a free roof. The hurricane might passed through years before, but any damage that was overlooked is still the responsibility of the insurance company. The homeowners are surprised to learn that their roof has damage, since they haven't noticed anything wrong (and there is in fact no damage), but free is free, so they sign the contract. The roofing company files a claim, the insurance company denies it, the roofing company sues, and since a lawsuit costs more than a roof, the insurance company backs down. Then after this has happened repeatedly, the insurance company raises their rates or leaves the state.
Programming Parallel Computers Lecture Notes
> actually quite readable, although some of the language can be a bit intimidating if you're not used to reading programming language papers

You're more generous than me, I think it's rubbish.

Would have been easier to read if they had written it more like an ISA manual.
What's next for Flathub build infrastructure
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