skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the core problem is that when writing code like this you need experience be sure that it won’t have a conditional branch. How many operations past the conditional cause a branch? Which operations can the compiler elide to bring the total below this count? I’m all for writing direct code and relying on smart compilers but it’s often hard to know if and where I’m going to get bitten. Do I always have to inspect the assembly? Do I need a performance testing suit to check for accidental regressions? I find it much easier if I can give the compiler a hint on what I expect it to do, this would be similar to a @tailcall annotation. That way I can explore the design space without worry that I’ll accidentally overstep a some hard to reason about boundary that will tank the performance.
Did you just copy and paste this from ChatGPT? You think I haven't tried this before... I literally just wrote that in my OP.
I wonder if something like this might make a comeback for workers that are blocked from using wsl/hyperv on their corporate laptops. For me I've been using msys2 as an "alternative" since I'm unable to use wsl. It's not the same but it's all I got.
When fermenting foods, use water from good source (e.g. bottled water), you must boil water with salt (,sugar, spices ) first, let it cool, and then add it to cleaned, well washed vegetables or fruit. Use clean glass container. Fermenting procedure varies for different veggies / fruit.
Maybe first try to buy readily available fermented foods to see if it works for you.
It seems like the money would be there though, right?

A functioning space elevator would immediately make you the richest person in history, I would think.
Exactly. The actual solution to the puzzle in question has a GCD not divisible by 9.
Putting pixels on the screen isn't difficult. Putting them on a screen across hardware in a performant manner is the difficult part because it is difficult.
It's probably enough to leave a comment on the page if the author is active on itch
A nazi feeling empowered enough to open up and state his ideas is in itself a call to violence.

Or you didn't experience, or don't know what they are, what they think and what they want ; neither the aftermath.
Obsidian.nvim (https://github.com/epwalsh/obsidian.nvim) has been working really well for me. I use Obsidian mobile app (it’s not the best in this space, but still very good). And on my laptop, I’ve got neovim - getting to the daily note is one key combo. It’s also super fast and syncs using Obisidan Sync (or you can do your own).
Thanks. What do you buy nowadays? I mostly use them to backup family photos and videos. Frequent ingestion but few actual reads. And I hope they can last at least 10 years so I'll rotate another in 5-8 years.
Google: "Gemini didn't make a mistake. It simply plagiarized a factually-incorrect article. Word for word."

Gee, thank you Google for convincing me you have a product that I find useful and that I can trust. I look forward to you trying to cram this down my throat, against my will, at every opportunity you see fit. :-/
https://xcancel.com/MrChallinger/status/1888546351572726230
The travel and tourism industry is growing at around 4% YoY. So there is still a need (a growing need!) for "experiences" and "moments".

The "online bullshit" combined with no simple way towards ownership for younger generations are among the highest growth factors here in my opinion.

Still agreeing with your points, just wanted to add this context as there's likely a difference mentally between "social media" and "real world" authentic.
I think a hallucinated sentence embedded in a paragraph of truth fits the definition: stupid and nonsense. A bullshitter can be right sometimes or even most of the time. They are still a bullshitter.
Part of what I take Whitehead to be saying is that the act of truly thinking is difficult to the point of being psychologically painful. And I believe that fear of this pain is at the root of procrastination in the realm of academic work.

The American Buddhist Cory Muscara has written: Procrastination is the refusal or inability to be with difficult emotions.
Stay in the far right lane unless passing. Don't tailgate. Those 2 rules would solve a lot of problems if they were enforced. Instead, there is heavy enforcement of the speed limit, which in and of itself isn't a safety concern.
That explains very well why rust (to me) feels like C++ommitte-designed, thanks for that!
The fundamental problem here is lack of context - a human at your company reading that text would immediately know that Gorilla was not an insider term, and it’d stick out like a sore thumb.

But imagine a new employee eager to please - you could easily imagine them OK’ing the document and making the same assumption the LLM did - “why would you randomly throw in that word if it wasn’t relevant”. Maybe they would ask about it though…

Google search has the same problem as LLMs - some meanings of a search text cannot be de-ambiguified with just the context in the search itself, but the algo has to best-guess anyway.

The cheaper input context for LLMs get, and the larger the context window, the more context you can throw in the prompt, and the more often these ambiguities can be resolved.

Imagine in your gorilla in the step example, if the LLM was given the steps, but you also included the full text of slack/notion and confluence as a reference in the prompt. It might succeed. I do think this is a weak point in LLMs though - they seem to really, really not like correcting you unless you display a high degree of skepticism, and then they go to the opposite end of the extreme and they will make up problems just to please you. I’m not sure how the labs are planning to solve this…
coLinux was my go-to option back in the day, somewhere between my use of virtual machines. While not exactly the same, WSL eventually replaced it with a similar use case when I wanted to avoid VMs again.
he asked chatgpt to confirm if a common fictious scam, where people always fall for in those fictional works, was legit. and obviously it said it was legit. this part is too funny.
would https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42990888 be avian?
Sorry, but your response seems to be about consistency, or "purity" at some level.

While what Go has may be inconsistent, what functional impact does that have?

I can't see a need for 'de-structuring' as such, absent tuples. Even if it had real first class tuple types, like Alef did, what would one do with them? As I indicated, I'd not want to store them (other than holding in locals), prior to use.

As I recall, Alef did support de-structuring with tuples, as well as re-structuring. One could assign either way between an unnamed tuple, and an 'aggr' (it's name for a struct).

So at most I'd want to break them apart, which the return value thing gives.

Hence if I was creating Go 2.0, I can't see why I'd want to add first class tuples, but could see a use for adding tagged unions.
Hacker News tries to discourage rapid back-and-forth angry posting by making it impossible to reply to messages deep in the thread for a little while after they are created. If you wait a bit, you'll see options to reply to even deeply threaded messages.
A clump == blocking the passing lane. They are definitionally the same.
Silver and gold could be a lot more useful to society if they weren't so expensive. Plenty of asteroids out there to mine.
You may have meant that sarcastically, but i just did that for 2 csv files that i needed to do a bunch of cleanups and joins to analyze. With llm help the whole adventure was easy.
The same scheme is very common on the market for "new" laptop batteries sold by Chinese retailers on for example eBay. The batteries will come with a reprogrammed charge cycle count of 0, an unlikely serial number of all-zeroes/ones/nines or 123456789 etc., and with about 50% of its marketed capacity.

As soon as you bring up a refund/warranty errand with the retailer they will offer a 50% discount for the battery in return for you not giving them a 1-star rating. Now you've still paid them for a bad battery, and you've helped keeping the systemic economic crime alive by not warning other customers.
Ask HN: Do you think browser/device agents will take off?
There have been recent launches like Anthropic Computer Use, OpenAI Operator, and Perplexity’s Android Agent and others, and I wonder if you think they are actually useful or just a gimmick.
Advanced Magnet Manufacturing Begins in the United States
Did that thanks! The game's page doesn't allow comments but the one with the list of games does.

edit: I also found a discussion forum: https://itch.io/board/2744567/feedback
Unlike classical grape wines, the fruit ones are quite "wet". And sweet alcohol for reasons unknown causes the worst of the hangovers.
On the flip side, practically everything else about rural areas is subsidized. Most crops have price floors. Dairy is massively subsidized. Rural school districts siphon funding from cities.

Much / all of this is arguably necessary for national security viz. food production, but I dislike when people in red states (not saying you’ve done this, just making a tangential point) make comments like, “let’s see how long the city lasts if we stop exporting food.” Uhhh how long do you think you’d last without practically every aspect of your life being subsidized?

We need both groups in the country, and we need to support each other as each needs, but part of that dynamic being healthy means acknowledging that we’re receiving help.
we know... someone put a huge dataset of games all fully labeled and the documentation of it was lost. like it end up being all the other times
It keeps the stock price artificially high (vs fundamentals), which keeps Musk artificially wealthy. Capital market confidence game to project power, powered by speculation.
There are 10 types of people in this work. Those who can extrapolate from missing data, and
> Why should they care?

Look, I get that HN is startup-focused, but many companies DO drown themselves in tech debt of the sake of the business case.

Then a few years pass and they are unable to deliver features quickly enough - they can't keep Sr. engineers because their stack is a soul-sucking, career-killing tarpit. The Jr. engineers don't know how to fix the code and don't even see anything wrong with it because it's all they've known.

It's totally fine if you're a megacorp - Salesforce and so on can hire JUST ENOUGH high-level folks to keep the system manageable. It's also fine if you're so small that all your work is greenfield.

The type of company that I'm describing is generally Series D/E and probably worth a few 100M dollars.
Great point! I've just updated it. Thanks for the feedback.
Not much meat in the article unfortunately. Far too short to contain anything substantial
What is the impact on Software Architects ?
AI Architecture guidance can be very ivory tower in regards to transformer model internals and ML pipelines, but when it comes to CodeGenAI refinement, you really need to touch the grass.
On the plus side, system design skills means knowing what questions to ask, and good mermaidJs markdown designs are solid agent inputs.
I guess the role will shift to researching and enabling the devs to best leverage CodeGenAI infra for full SDLC velocity with quality
you forgot the F part of FSD which can mean you know “Full” or the other F word :)
If there's no punishment, the law is just a polite suggestion.
I don't think WSL1 development stalled in as much as Microsoft made the determination that it wasn't a viable path forward. I/O was piss slow and chasing syscalls <-> NT API calls probably wasn't very fun.

Microsoft already knew Hyper-V quite well so a VM made sense, they just had to put some automagic management around it.
We've long passed the point where I can tell a good AI comment from a real one at a quick read through of a comments section. It's only the blatantly bad ones (blocks of listicles we delve into) which stick out like a sore thumb. That said, I think that says more about how good AI has become than it hints all the long established accounts in this thread using one just because they could.
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Organic produce isn’t a good example because it’s a dodgy poorly defined concept and it’s not clear that it’s either better for you or better tasting.

The thing about art is this: art is a message from a human to another human.

If I want art I want it to be that. I don’t want a numerical average of all past messages, which is what LLMs and diffusion models create. I also don’t want randomness or gimmickry, which is why I dislike a lot of pretentious modern art.
You need to understand the object lifetime distribution.
> that should presumably mean an API surface that's native to the language.

It reads pretty naturally to me as referring to the implementation of the driver.
Saying this as a fan of the article who agreed with the whole thing...

> and especially if they live in socially unsafe places like US, where if you lose your position it's not clear where you may finally end

This is very unlikely to be motivating the comments you see here. The devs here are fine and don't worry about this kind of thing, by and large. But you're not all wrong, because what is probably happening is that they feel their identity, which is tied up with those insane tools and ecosystems, is being attacked.
While KNative does have these things it still does not have a standard library or ecosystem. Without another runtime KNative is practically useless.
It sounds like Seagate has nothing to do with this. It sounds like someone is scamming retailers and distributors.

None of the drives in this article were shipped by Seagate, only some by authorized resellers.

EG, Amazon, newegg are authorized resellers.
Certain yeasts used in beer brewing produce an ester that is banana-like, especially when brewed at higher temps. It's often considered an off-flavor.
I don’t understand what you’re trying to say, could you elaborate?
“A lot” is relative—I seem to remember a discussion long ago mentioning that Haskell/Scala-style programs were a problem for the JVM because the JVM is not designed for so many objects dying so quickly.
ChatGPT has enough dimensions in its latent space to represent and distinguish between the various meanings of porridge and is able to be informed by the Goldilocks story without switching to it mid-sentence.

It's actually a good example of what I have in mind by saying human text isn't random. The Goldilocks story may not be scientific, but it's still highly correlated with scientific truth about matters like food, bears, or the daily lives of people. Put yourself in the shoes of an alien trying to make heads or tails of that story, you'll see just how many things in it are not arbitrary.
Looks like the cause that this does not work for me is extensions.autoDisableScopes defaulting to 11

Well, great. This is at least something :)
Alternatively the "reader view" feature in Firefox can be used as the entire article is loaded in memory (as opposed to other websites where they'd load a preview till you agree to cookies / pay for a subscription)
I feel you, and LLMs are no doubt a boon in tooling to help in this kind of scenario. I'm not poo-pooing LLMs in general; they are very cool! I wish they were allowed to just be very cool while we incorporate them into our tooling and workflows, rather than over-hyped.
Coming soon: Quantum blockchain technology with built-in Antimony laundering capabilities.

Jokes apart, the thought of error propagation and correction of quantum states never really occurred to me, as a layperson observer. Being accustomed to the idea of binary (and analog) error-correction had put this in the "solved problems" category. But of course, now one realises, given the reality of the observer effect, it is bound to be a nasty problem.

/me goes off into rabbit hole of qbit flippin'
> Unless you’re writing an essay on why you’re right…

He's writing an essay on why they are wrong.

"But here's the problem - when seeing code like this, somebody somewhere will invariably propose the following "optimization", which replaces what they believe (erroneously) are "conditional branches" by arithmetical operations."

Hence his branchless codegen samples are sufficient.

Further, regarding.the side-issue "The second wrong thing with the supposedly optimizer [sic] version is that it actually runs much slower", no amount of codegen is going to show lower /speed/.
ok - that is interesting and detailed but.. the author of that piece, psychologically, is guilty in a similar way that many political people are guilty.. of vilifying the "other" who is unacceptable. This single, telling feature of the storytelling speaks volumes. "But they are so awful!" only adds fuel to the fire. That article is informative but unbalanced itself.
Well first of all, I got the city wrong so its really not applicable here.

But also more broadly, your point is basically why Teotihuacan is so interesting to me! Not because of aliens, but because its fun to think about how the Aztec/Mexica people were as displaced from the origins of that particular place as much as we are!

But yes absolutely with you: even more so than attributing it to a particularly American decadence (which is a little too pat/editorial column to pass my sniff test, but ymmv), the whole impulse to Ancient Alienize things seems to me to be a kind of mystification which sustains, ultimately, racist/colonial stereotypes of ancient non-white people. It clearly serves to sustain a certain idea of civilization, rather than overturn or disrupt it.

Either way, its an important point, and happy to be your punching bag so you can make it!
>it will take a few moments to scan the screen, realise the change and adapt in my mind

I'm consistently astonished at how visual so many people are in their usage of a computer. The array of icons I see folks scanning on their phones to pick and app is like that, but so are Apple's window managers. That's fine, but they don't offer any alternative.

I maintain a list of spaces in my mind and have them assigned to numbers. I think this comes from using tmux and screen for so long. I just want my display to instantly teleport me to that space. The idea that they are layed out on a table and have to slide out of view is a weird skeumorphic thing that I wish they would at least allow folks to disable, since it eats keyboard input during the animation.

If any other company had done this, people would deride them for the thoughtless design.
It...self drove into a light post.
Words don't carry meaning. Meaning exists in how words are or are not used together with other words. That is, in their.... statistical relationships to each other!
As a non-admin, you cannot access kernel mode in Windows, which this requires. If WSL/HV isn't appealing, this would be even less so.

https://colinux.fandom.com/wiki/FAQ#Q0._Do_I_need_Administra...?
> And he did. And almost none of the kids did any coding on the laptops.

This strongly implies one thing lead to the other, but WP isn't as committed to that link, providing a list of alternative explanations for poor adoption.

Also, I'm not sure how this constitutes "this line of thinking" comparing a developing nation to an island with no contact.
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> Unlike in other Linux virtualization solutions such as User Mode, special driver software on the host operating system is used to execute the coLinux kernel in a privileged mode

That's unfortunate, is there a version of this that runs unprivileged like user mode Linux?
I agree; this is incredibly short-sighted. And it has the potential to be catastrophic for scientific progress in the United States.

Scientific innovation happens because countries invest in basic and applied research. This research largely happens at research universities, hospitals, and national labs. If research universities can't afford to conduct research, the scientific innovation—along with the training of the next generation of scientists—all grinds to a halt.
Postgres is now top 10 fastest on Clickbench
The fact that you fixated on "conspiracy theory" means you don't know what the term means. It means that a large group of people must be working together to make something happen, yet none of them have said anything.

If the Five Eyes participants worked as you have stated instead of as the leaked agreement documents say they work, you would expect Snowden to leak that first because it is obviously illegal. He did not. Why not reduce the number of people required to keep quiet in the conspiracy by having the US spy directly on its citizens? Every question you might ask about your conspiracy theory makes it sound even more ridiculous if you bother to ask it.
If you only pass a boolean 0 or 1 for the “a” mix parameter, when is using mix better than a ternary? Can you give an example? I’m not sure mix is ever the right tool to choose between two values. It’s a great tool for blending two values, for linear interpolation when “a” is between 0 and 1. But if “a” is only 0 or 1, I don’t think mix will help you, and it could potentially hurt if the two values you mix are expensive function calls.
The summary article makes it sound like it’s somehow surprising that sea turtles can swim. The paper itself clarifies that it’s more a question of whether there are trends in the directionality of their swimming.

> Studies that compared turtle movements to oceanographic drifters suggest that swimming by young sea turtles directs their oceanic dispersal [19,21]. In addition, research in the Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic suggests that young oceanic-stage turtles actively swim and there may be distinct differences among species in orientation, dispersal and swimming behaviour [19,21]. Understanding whether and when juvenile turtles are active swimmers or passive drifters is critical for determining dispersal trajectories, exposure and transition times in areas impacted by anthropogenic activities (e.g. oil spills) and connectivity between populations and habitats [29]. Without basic biological and behavioural data, it is difficult to improve assessments of anthropogenic impacts on protected species, necessitating conservative or precautionary approaches to management using ‘best available data’.
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