skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not worse. It's just only slightly better. The most damning thing you can say about Go is not that it doesn't improve upon C, it's that it improves only on C (and only in the ways cared about). The authors of Go really didn't examine other languages very closely. So starting with the authors' goals (light on the page, bounds checked, concurrency with message passing, easy to pick up, fast to compile) and a fairly deep knowledge of C (but little else) you pretty much get Go (especially early Go).
Right - here's the summary of the changes: https://www.michigan.gov/mdard/-/media/Project/Websites/mdar...

And the specific section of the law defining 'cage free' for Michigan:

https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=MCL-287-7...

There may be some flexibility in consumers' understanding of the terms, but of course the legislature has actual rules.
Why does no one mention that you must login with a Google account, with all of the record keeping, cross correlations and 3rd party access implied there..
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What is happening is the US is reaping what it sowed 45 years ago with Reagan-era privatization and short-term thinking. It is structurally incapable of executing plans which take more than 2-4 years. So any adversary can outmaneuver the US by simply planning on longer timelines.

Oh look, China has 5 year plans.

Of course the efficiency of a one party state comes at the cost of stability: there are no internal checks on corruption. A two party state is more stable (the US has lasted 240 years) but not infinitely stable.
> And no one knows why there never was a 3.5 Opus.

If you read between the lines it's been pretty clear. The top labs are keeping the top models in house and use them to train the next generation (either SotA or faster/cheaper etc).
IMO the first argument is invalid, however, the second one is a completely valid argument.
Related:

America desperately needs more air traffic controllers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42933840
I agree. In my 40s and at work most people my age do have fb instagram and TikTok but everyone’s super understanding when I say I like my privacy
I started with compiling from source, moved to redhat , slackware , lfs , Gentoo.
Ubuntu was great as hardware got good enough not to need custom kernels.
The last few years quality has suffered. Upgrading used to be a no-brainer. The last few upgrades hosed my systems each time. Moved to Arch over such losses. Snap and flatpak are giant issues, so is docker crap. Docker is the best of the bunch, but I like to have a choice. If I'm installing a server that does one thing. I don't need docker. Kinda silly
The standard was Pascal for the Macintosh, people still preferred to write in C.
C has been the standard system language almost since the time of its creation. Teaching that standard is valuable even if we’re in the midst of a change.

As for why, a system designed to be pedantic will necessarily be different from one intending to be production ready.

Why i386 and BIOS? It is simple enough for the purpose of teaching. Inundating a student with modern x86-64, UEFI (where most implementations do not meet standards), and such is not a great idea. People just get overwhelmed and shut down. It may be worthwhile to start with something simpler honestly, like DOS and 8088, or even CP/M and 8080. Working one up through time exposes the individual to simpler things and then progressively more complex things. It is useful.

As a side benefit, teaching people about these older things instructs them on how and why things came to be the way they are which may help create better entrepreneurs.
it works REALLY well. I have used it to dump many references codes and then help me write a new modules etc. I have gone up to 200k tokens I think with no problems in recall.
I think you do point to a real issue. The "falsehoods programmers believe about X" genre can be either a) actual things a common programmer is likely to believe b) things a common programmer might not be be knowledgeable enough to believe.

This article is closer to category b. But the category a ones are most useful, because they dispel myths one is likely to encounter in real, practical settings. Good examples of category a articles are those about names, times, and addresses.

The distinction is between false knowledge and unknown unknowns, to put it somewhat crudely.
You don’t want to airplay from an iPhone or Mac? That’s what I do, using Finamp. I guess it’s a client and not a music server.
don’t forget the burning paper bag of shit that is Paramount+ on PS5. There is no shame anymore.
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My favorite steam reviews are: "This game sucks, would not recommend." - playtime 800h
Oh stop. Literally none of my taxes go to any of these things. It's divided it up into these budgets, but less than 1% of the actual cash turns into something real. Instead its siphoned off by a million little straws each taking a dip.
There’s also a fascinating proposal I read somewhere where you create a training set with a knowledge cutoff of 1900 or 1930 and see if the resulting AI could predict the future or independently discover later scientific breakthroughs.
I agree. If you gzip a NYT article and print it out, very few people would be able to read the article. But it can still be decoded ("prompt engineering" as OpenAI calls it).
I would say there are three major factors:

1. We have a diverse set of upstream sources. It would require all of them to be "compromised" for our results to completely tank.

2. We have a "crawler-lite" that solely collects info on page quality - number of ads/trackers detected, page speed, etc. - and we take that into account when ranking the results, generally nudging them down the page if "cleaner" ones can be found.

3. Our sole source of income is our users, and we actively respond to impacts in search quality that our users submit to us on our feedback form. If they are not happy with the results quality, then we are out of business.

Put simply: Our technology and business model is completely aligned to resist "enshittification". We have no reason to bias results or "sell out" to anyone.

With the momentum we've gathered, we are also taking first steps to building our own full scale index[1], both as a valuable contribution to the ecosystem of search and a contingency to reduce our reliance on 3rd parties.

[1]: Help us build it! https://help.kagi.com/kagi/company/hiring-kagi.html
>Unfortunately Gemini really seems to struggle on this, and no matter how we tried prompting it, it would generate wildly inaccurate bounding boxes

This is what I have found as well. From what I've read, LLMS do not work well with images for specific details due to image encoders which are too lossy. (No idea if this is actually correct.) For now I guess you can use regular OCR to get bounding boxes.
You assume that people have the bare requisite knowledge to even accept a simplified explanation of complex things. For example, I said something like, "I can't believe they're shutting down USAID" to someone the other day and their response was, "what's USAID?"

This was an American. This caused me to think back to my schooling and you know what? I don't think I ever did take a class that went over all the divisions and (larger) programs of the US government. It was like you suggest, a simplified explanation (three branches and that's about it).

Clearly, that wasn't enough. Even something as simple as, "USAID provides humanitarian aid to foreign countries in order to give the US a strong influence in those places" would've been better than nothing.

Right now we have a critical US foreign influence apparatus in a non-working state and most Americans don't even know what it does and by extension, don't care.
Shrews are cute but MEAN.

A few years ago we had a couple of feet of snow in a day. As I was snow blowing the driveway, I noticed all these little tunnels on the edge that was cut off by the side of the blower.

Then I saw a tiny little animal. I thought he was a mole. So I took my glove off and picked him up, as a good hillbilly would do.

That thing bit me like fifteen times up my thumb before I could react to yeet him across the yard.

Lesson learned.
> let’s not forget Oracle was the one to completely open source OpenJdk under the GPL

Technically true, but isn't that a bit misleading? The open-sourcing started years before Oracle's acquisition of Sun, and by the time Oracle got their hands on it the process was essentially finished - except for a single optional library.

Oracle wasn't the driving force behind the open-sourcing, and I doubt they would have even been able to stop the process - let alone reverse it - if they wanted to.
I think spreadsheets were sort of an earlier version of this. You wanted to track some information, or make a plan, or just lay out some things, and this canvas of cells allowed you to put whatever structure _you_ needed in on the fly, adjust as you realized you needed something else.

It gave you the freedom and reduced the friction of iteration to figure out how you needed to organize things to discover what you wanted.

But it brought many limitations that surprisingly (to me at least) still persist today. I think AI has the ability to give you the same kind of freedom and friction reduction to allow you to build what you need.
Everyone reacts differently to psychiatric medication. There's a reason there are so many medications rather than one magic pill.

You can ask us why the Linux kernel is inferior to the NT kernel, or why $TLSA is beyond the moon with a bunch of drunken traders, but medical advice this is not the place for.
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Enough to not be treated like I was. Sorry that's vague.
Nice idea!

Here is mine: https://www.solitairle.com/
I think the fact alone that distillation and quantization are techniques that can produce substantial improvements is a strong sign that we still have no real comprehensive understanding how the models work.

If we had, there would be no reason to train a model with more parameters than are strictly necessary to represent the space's semantic structure. But then it should be impossible for distilled models with less parameters to come close to the performance of the original model.

Yet this is what happens - the distilled or quantized models often come very close to the original model.

So I think there are still many low-hanging fruits to pick.
I'm trying to parse the idea of "a collective agreement" but can't fully wrap my head around how that would work.

It seems to me more like the lack of a "Walmart Law" is a result of e.g. lack of economies of scale and other economic structure, rather than some collective agreement. (If it was profitable to break out of that agreement and start a "Walmart Law", it seems we'd see that happen pretty quickly?)

But if you know more about this and I'm off the mark I'd love to learn
I tried blocking all social media and news sites and instead subscribing to the print version of The Week. Honestly, it was great. But eventually the siren song of internet-fueled dopamine eventually lured me back...
+1 for this unattended installation, I have been using for while, no issues.

A true clean Windows installation.
Copyright maximalism in the 21st century can be summed up as: When an individual makes a single copy of a song and gives it to a friend, that's piracy. When a corporation makes subtlety different copies of thousands of works and sells them to customers, that's just fair use
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Cunningham's Law (the guy from the original Wiki): I had to look it up on Google:

> The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.
So you think the US government should appoint someone to make our food healthier?
I recently read another great post by the same author about the connection between optimisation with constraints and backpropagation algorithm https://archives.argmin.net/2016/05/18/mates-of-costate/ Apparently based on older LeCun's paper.
I love to hear it! I didn't realize they were so cold tolerant, but I'm glad they can still enjoy the outdoors even when the winters are as cold as this one.

I'd love to get some chickens one of these days. Four eggs a day would be enough for us to regularly give away dozens while supplying all of our own egg needs.
Debian has also been a nice alternative. Lots of open options and compatible in most ways.
That's a great way to value a company that is going bankrupt.

But, I'm not going to value an operating construction company based on how many shovels or excavators they own. I'm going to want to see them putting those assets to productive use.
From the headline, I had expected to see a vehicle coming to an abrupt stop while partially submerged, perhaps with its rear wheels in the air! This must have been a slow news day.
due diligence of this sort?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer
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Haven't tried it out yet, but the release notes look very promising esp relating to Arrow interactions

- Push dynamically generated join filters through UNION, UNNEST and AGGREGATE

- Fix arrow table filters

- [Arrow] Fix scan of an object providing the PyCapsuleInterface when projection pushdown is possible.

- DuckDB Arrow Non Canonical Extensions to use arrow.opaque

- Arrow Extension Type to be registered in DuckDB Extensions

- [Python] Use an ArrowQueryResult in FetchArrowTable when possible.

https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/releases/tag/v1.2.0
>> Everyone reacts differently to psychiatric medication

That's exactly why I asked it here, wanted to know in average how ppl felt and how they dealt with it

>> There's a reason there are so many medications rather than one magic pill.

I know right?

>> but medical advice this is not the place for.

I already saw ppl talking about these kind of drugs here, I already saw doctors here as well, psychiatrists, etc. can't understand the censorship with the subject
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Discontinuing Paxil gives brain-zaps. Please talk to your doctor and taper it slowly.
> I'd strongly recommend trying a framework other than React for your next project.

This gave me a good chuckle (if you read it as next.js)
I think Berkshire Hathaway is the most commonly cited example of a minimalist site.

https://berkshirehathaway.com/
Servo was on a multi-year development hiatus, which is the reason this is news (see the graph in the article). In addition the original priority of Servo was not to broadly implement web standards, it was as a proving ground for Rust components to be uplifted into Firefox (I'm unclear whether or not those components, which have surely been continually developed since then, have been backported into Servo).
Yup.

I sometimes wish magically there could be a social network of:

1. Real people / real validated names and faces.

2. Paid for by the users...

3. Competent professional moderation.

Don't get me wrong I like my slices of anonymity, and free services, but my positive impressions of such products is waning fast. Over time I want more real...
My ideal solution would be to public domain anything NYT has written in the past, turn it over to archive.org, and dismantle NYT so it’s no longer an issue in the future.
Investment banking and HFT certainly eat into the surgeon talent pool but I’ve never heard anyone say we should pay investment bankers less as a result.
Yes, and I think it goes beyond "healthy", depending on one's definition.

Part of it is also that "cheap" tends to lead to monocultures and other patterns that are more easily disrupted.

An example being the Cavendish banana, which for most of the western world is the only thing they know of when the word "banana" is mentioned. And now the banana supply of a large part of the world is in danger of going extinct [1]

And there's also ecological health. "Cheap" tends to promote mass production in certain areas and shipping everywhere. "Cheap" tends to promote less sustainable farming practices. That sort of thing.

[1] https://www.foodandwine.com/banana-extinction-8715118
Really love his “let’s build” series - I end up picking up cool Python tricks along the process, even in addition to the higher level content.
Almost all of the really high quality open source projects got that way because companies paid devs good money to work on them.
> Like when the BLS overstated payrolls by 818k!!

So one Meta SRE? Is this supposed to be a lot?
This is a Bjarne issue. For personal reasons he uses proportional fonts in his code blocks (in his texts) instead of monospaced and the code snippets always look bad. I guess he is stuck in his ways, just have to work around this ugly look.
> I'm fairly certain this was an example of overfitting and Freedman's Paradox, not deliberate cheating.

Buddy if someone tells you the answers to a multiple choice exam and you use them, then you've deliberately cheated. That's all there is to it.
I'm not sure how a person working a desk job for the government suddenly being told to work long hours in hot fields picking crops is going to work out. And if you hadn't noticed, most people working for the government don't live in the middle of farmlands or anywhere near them. I'm not sure how you can think this could work out at all.

Your comment also tells me that this was never about immigrants taking our jobs.

You seem to be living in a right-wing fantasy world that really doesn't exist. Things are going to get really bad in the country with this administration, the first two weeks have been extremely messy. No, these policies are definitely not going to lower the price of anything - we're on track for wild inflation with these plans. The leopards are going to be well fed though!
People really do underestimate the biological controls in large operations. I'm absolutely not a supporter of that style of farm, but

They're essentially clean rooms with animals living in them. It's kind of amazing. We only see the ones that are bad.

But like I said. No animal deserves to be crated all day every day for its life.
> if you go full functional on the frontend it’s definitely not “Kafkaesque”

This has been my experience too. Elm on the frontend is easy and delightful.
Damn

I was entirely unaware that both Chrome and Safari can trace their roots back to KDE of all projects. I always just assumed big corpos like Google and Apple would just roll their own from scratch.
I always figured the function was named after his haircut
Looks like you've been getting downvoted, but I think you raise perfectly valid points -- and I say this as a proponent of DEI, but not of quotas (or this type of population matching).

I believe that the best solutions occur when we try to address root causes -- sincerely attempt to address them. The problem is that even in doing that, you often have to introduce inequality into the system. For example, mortality rates for black females giving birth are multiples higher than white females. To address this will likely mean spending more money on black female health research. The question is where is the line. Is prenatal spending inequality OK? Is early childhood development inequality of spending OK? What about magnet HS? What about elite colleges? What about entry level jobs? Executive positions? Jail sentencing? Cancer research? Etc...

The other thing we can do is simply say, "This is too much. Lets just assume race doesn't exist." This is almost tempting, except outside of government policy race is such a big factor in how people are treated in life -- it seems like we're just punting on a problem because its hard.

I think when we as humans can say, "Hmm... there is someting impacting this subset of humans that seems like it shouldn't. I'm OK overindexing on it." then we will make progress. But I think while we view things as "this is less good for me personally" it will always be contentious.
NYT is a corporation.

Corporation vs individual is a distraction. It’s some people (wrongly, in my view) prioritising production over consumption. If this were Altman personally producing an AI, the same people would rally to him.

The corporate/individual framing needlessly inflames the debate when it’s really one about power and money.
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You may be interested to know MIT did a project called ["The Billion Prices Project"](https://thebillionpricesproject.com) to scrape the web and calculate CPI.

Sorry to all the tinfoil hats, it closely matched official CPI.
So your argument to not engaging is that my argument isn’t sufficiently updated to the onslaught of news today? RFK passed committee yesterday. Trump planning to use our military for a middle east genocide isn’t something that I should worry about?!? Where were you on 9/11?
Are they actually good and do the work?
Some of the mass deletions are merely a new administration setting up shop. Policies from the previous administration don't belong on the current whitehouse.gov. They wind up here instead https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/

We pay half a billion in tax dollars for the National Archives, and nearly a billion to the Library of Congress to preserve these records. Others are managed as part of Presidential Libraries.

Thousands of employees, dozens of facilities, billions of dollars.

Meanwhile archive.org doesn't have air conditioning and preserves physical material within the blast radius of an oil refinery. They let vagrants sleep on their steps yet seem surprised when they set the utility pole outsides on fire.

I didn't say it didn't need to be done. I said the whole process needs to be rethought with professional supervision. Setting up more volunteer K8 clusters so that more copies of the Google Home Page can be captured with the wrong user agent isn't going to save democracy.
I checked reddit recently for the first time in a while, and I was shocked by how radicalized its become. An echo chamber of hateful people and perhaps GPTs that are agitating the big subreddits. The contrast is stark with all the "no place for hate" in the rules and endless banning of microaggressions.

I saw dozens of death threats. Even an explicit death threat thread with over 40,000 upvotes before reddit stepped in and shut the whole subreddit down.

It reminded me of Ghostbusters 2 with all the aggressively angry people and the ooze pouring out of the sewers, all building upon itself.