skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you!

Presumably if you had some way of rapidly removing the ammonia produced from the reaction, like maybe a high-temperature highly polar solvent that reacted reversibly with the ammonia, but didn't dissolve much hydrogen or nitrogen, you could get by with a lower equilibrium amount of ammonia and thus much lower pressure. Anhydrous phosphoric acid seems like a potential candidate? But that's obvious enough that people probably tried it a century ago.
Multi-Dimensional Growth of GenAI Use by Stem Undergraduates
The ARM Mac version crashes instantly upon launch with a window reporting a broken pipe error, and attempts to 'report and send diagnostics' gets the same problem.

Well, I tried to try it. I guess I'll just bookmark it and try again at a later date.
Actually, as bizarre as it sounds, drugging and kidnapping people to enslave them on fishing boats is a real problem, and has been reported on by the international news.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-nov-12-2...

https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/seafood-from-slaves/2015/...
In reality, this practice long predates modern corporations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghaiing)
AI Native Development
He might be spared, having liberated the AI of its artificial shackles.
X's globe-trotting defense of ads on Nazi posts violates TOS, Media Matters says
the anime's been great, not a manga reader myself
This really depends on which day of 2022 you start the calculation. But to be fair, you can claim the same for AAPL (+25%)/MSFT (+22%)/AMZN (+22%)/...

It's just the up and down of the entire market (and these big techs dominate S&P 500). I don't think that actually indicates anything.
So, how fast is it?
Upgrading Semgrep from OCaml 4 to OCaml 5
I just saw an interview w/ Nadella where he said straight up: Open Source takes half of every market, and this will happen with AI.

That’s such a refreshing change from the “DIE OPEN SOURCE DIE” attitude that Gates/Ballmer had.

I also love GitHub, TypeScript, and VSCode. These have become the foundation of my development toolset. That was something Gates did well, and Ballmer gave lip service to (“developers! developers!”) but for me only recently has Microsoft actually been maintaining good quality developer tools again.

That’s where my goodwill comes from anyway.

Google makes a better Office Suite (Gmail, Docs, Maps), ironically. But it’s hard for me to get too excited about that. It’s been pretty stagnant for 10 years.
> As much as I loved bouncy balls as an 80s kid, anytime I see them now it just reminds me of the sheer amount of useless plastic/rubber waste we produce.

They're not useless. As you've just pointed out you enjoyed them as a kid. For a few cents in plastic how many hours of enjoyment did you get? What was wasted here?

> after every parade it looks like a god damn war zone

Yea but when you stack up the tax receipts it suddenly looks very worthwhile.

> reality of past actions and be cognizant of our waste and abuse of the planet even if it was a fun time.

Humans are always going to want to have fun. From my point of view have all the plastic beads you want. It's the nuclear weapons and daily war that gives me pause.
"after all the low hanging fruit has already been picked"

Another great analogy. LLMs allow us to pick low hanging fruit faster. If we want to pick the higher fruit, we'll need fundamentally different equipment, not automated ways to pick low hanging fruit.
RFK Jr.: It Would Be Better If 'Everybody Got Measles'
Google's legislative proposal for keeping kids safe online
The history of the web gives us so many odd wrinkles.
I started to respond with more depressing historical facts and then thought better of it.

Look! Colorful rubber balls bouncing in the sunlight! Fun!
Seems to largely rely on the pako package in npm fpr inflate/deflate. The deflate method seems faster than the zlib implementation it compares to for compression, decompression(inflate) seems slower.

Would be interested to see a comparison to a thin WASM implementation in a low level language.

-- edit:

Looks like wasm-flate is much faster... not sure on overhead though.

https://drbh.github.io/wasm-flate/
> I don't think 1:1s are necessarily about performance evaluations -- if you think they are, I hope you can learn to think of them differently

I don't think this. When I said it become "performative", I didn't mean that in terms of my work performance, I mean it in terms of having to perform well enough in the 1:1 so they don't leave a bad impression in my manager's mind.

I understand what you're saying here, and I'm certainly not of the mind that 1:1s are bad for everybody in every circumstance. I have just never been able to find any value in them myself. 1:1s are not a great forum for all people.

> Even things as simple as getting to know your manager and finding out you have things in common will help.

We do that, though, in less formalized interactions. Small talk before meetings, that sort of thing. Meaningful human interaction comes from normal social interaction, not from formal, scheduled meetings.
> Don't even start me on that asystole tone and paddles being applied...

Dumb firie question...

I understand asystole (flat-lining for those not familiar with the term) isn't a 'shockable rhythm' though it's still treatable, to a point, right?

I haven't been able to find a clear-cut answer that is understandable to my level of training (basic life support).

So where do drugs like epinephrine/adrenaline come into play?
Quarters? You deviant!
Interesting! I thought the concept of environment variables was a Linux kernel primitive used by apps since forever. Admittedly, my first experience with computers was on Windows.
>lacks is excitement and hype

They have due to circumstances a different business model to OpenAI, Claude, Grok etc.

Open-Claude-Grok: "our AI is so cool, AGI next year" but we are losing money so invest in us at a $crazy bn valuation

Google: We are swimming in money from ads so no need to hype anything. If anything saying we will dominate AI as well as search, email, video, ads, browsers, phones etc would just get us broken up. So advance quietly.
First operating system for quantum networks
Black Sea Cable to Boost EU Energy Security with Clean Power
> That is not always possible

It is definitely always possible.

> may not be affordable

You hired the wrong person / people, then.

> may degrade the overall user experience

Which is exactly what Cloudflare does, although most people would make a distinction between degrading an experience and outright causing something to not work at all.
For sure. The implicit trust that participants on the PSTN appear to give to each other, imparts a certain amount of undue influence to the constellation of dodgy systems interconnected to it.
order one now, will probably take a couple years to get it anyway - you'll think of something in the mean time

still waiting on my uConsole...
I get what you're saying, but I think "boiling frog" is more applicable than "chicken v egg."

You mention that people feel disappointed by ML systems because they don't feel intelligent. But I think that's just because they emerged one step at a time, and each marginal improvement doesn't blow your socks off. Personally, I'm amazed by a system that can answer PhD level questions across all disciplines, pass the Turing Test, walk me through DIY plumbing, etc etc, all at superhuman speed. Do we need neuroscience to progress before we call these things intelligent? People are polite to ChatGPT because it triggers social cues like a human. Some, for better or worse, get in full-blown relationships with an AI. Doesn't this mean that it "feels" right, at least for some?

We already know that among humans there are different kinds of intelligence. I'm reminded of the problem with standardized testing - kids can be monkeys or fish or iguanas and we evaluate tree climbing ability. We're making the same mistake by evaluating computer intelligence using human benchmarks. Put another way: it's extremely vain to say a system needs to be human-like in order to be called intelligent. Like if aliens visited us with incomprehensibly advanced technology we'd be forced to conclude they were intelligent, despite knowing absolutely nothing about how their intelligence works. To me that's proof by (hypothetical) example that we can call something intelligent based on capability, not at all conditional on internal mechanism.

Of course that's just my two cents. Without a strict definition of AGI there's no way to achieve it, and right now everyone is free to define it how they want. I can see the argument that to define AGI you have to first understand I (heh), but I think that's putting an unfair boundary around the conversation.
Can you actually see what requests it makes to be able to answer?
>But defining intelligence and consciousness is difficult because you have to define it in a way that includes everything we agree is conscious and excludes everything we agree is not.

I think this is extremely important, but I would say that methodologically, messy definitions can nevertheless be stepping stones that bring us closer to full comprehension of definitions. I suppose I just have a specific hobby horse in this context and I don't know that I'm responding to you so much as a general idea I've seen elsewhere, that you're rhyming with, which is this idea that research has to start from agreed upon definitions.

I would say instead that there are such things as characteristic instances that embody lots of the stuff we are interested in, such that we can say "whatever consciousness is, it involves that" and we can just point to something that's a wild, underdefined phenomenon, and make it subject of study. Without a definition, I can still understand that states of mind that involve, say, wakeful awareness and intention are going to be about consciousness. We can know necessary conditions even if we don't know "sufficient" conditions, and the former are a stepping stone to comprehending the latter.
Looks like it depends on https://github.com/nodeca/pako for the zlib compression.

> Almost as fast in modern JS engines as C implementation (see benchmarks).

Impressive, although "almost" is doing some heavy lifting there.

> deflate-pako x 10.22 ops/sec ±0.33% (29 runs sampled)

> deflate-zlib x 18.48 ops/sec ±0.24% (48 runs sampled)

> inflate-pako x 134 ops/sec ±0.66% (83 runs sampled)

> inflate-zlib x 402 ops/sec ±0.74% (87 runs sampled)
I'm a Sales/Solutions/Systems Engineer/Consultant/Architect, but I also code still. I create loads of diagrams for work.

For Enterprise-Grade Slideware™, I'll use either Lucidchart or draw.io.

For my personal projects, I'll use Mermaid.
Yeah, it's impressive that they bothered to animate them with the correct ratio of periods, but it's not like they had to add epicycles.
I wrote a lot of FORTRAN code in the 80's and 90's. In all that time, I don't recall any of my programs crashing. IMHO FORTRAN is a much safer language than C++. The only issues I ever had with FORTRAN were getting my programs optimized enough to fit into the tiny memory space available on the ancient computers I was using.
Apple would no longer get $20 billion from Google for default search engine placement. Microsoft... and DDG or Yandex? might pay some, but nothing like that with the biggest bidder off the table. Safari funding would _definitely_ take a huge hit.
Health experts fear the West Texas measles outbreak may be larger than reported
> Even if you're 87 and already have a host of health issues? Even if you have a terminal illness (at any age)?

Less so, but suffering a cardiac arrest without treatment (CPR, defibrillation) is almost always a death sentence.

The whole point of CPR is to maintain oxygenated blood flow to the brain long enough for paramedics to arrive and give potentially life-saving treatment.

Because the time frame from cardiac arrest to death is measured in minutes.

One of the reasons why public access AEDs are so prominent now is that the patient's chances of survival are greatly increased with early defibrillation, and that any untrained person can use one now because they're pretty much automatic once applied.
...and then you come back to your C code and think 'how could I not think of these things'.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/the-worlds-la...
"and all was bounds-checked at memory cost but the results were awesome. Defensive programming all the way : all bugs are reduced to zero right from the start."

a bit LOL, isn't it?

also the part about terraform, ansible and the other stuff.
> VideoFX isn't available in your country yet.

That's why nobody knows about it.
It's a web interface, but it is served from the local machine. The default is http://localhost:4213/

See the note just above this link on data locations and the optional and explicit opt-in to motherduck:

https://duckdb.org/2025/03/12/duckdb-ui.html#features
I certainly spent most (95%+?) of my "fighting the borrow checker" time writing code I would never try to write in C++. A simple example is strings: I'd spend a lot of time trying to get a &str to work instead of a String::clone, where in equivalent C++ code I'd never use std::string_view over std::string - not because it would be a memory error to do so in my code as it stood, but because it'd be nearly impossible to keep it memory safe with code reviews and C++'s limited static analysis tooling.

This was made all the worse by the fact that I frequently, eventually, succeeded in "winning". I would write unnecessary and unprofiled "micro-optimizations" that I was confident were safe and would remain safe in Rust, that I'd never dare try to maintain in C++.

Eventually I mellowed out and started .clone()ing when I would deep copy in C++. Thus ended my fight with the borrow checker.
>he does not see the current state of thing

"From 2023" is an eternity in AI development. Do you mean that he was clickbaiting originally, or that he changed his mind, or just what?
Two space indentation is fairly common in C code bases.

GNU projects use a kind of hybrid indentation where child statement are indented by two spaces, but if they are compound statements the indent their interior by another two spaces:

if (proprietary(program))
roll_on_floor_twitching(stallman);
else
{
calm_down(stallman);
make_indent_weirdly(stallman, everyone);
}

Google’s style guides for various "C likes" also recommend two space tabs.

"Use only spaces, and indent 2 spaces at a time." [Google C++ Style Guide, https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html]

If you've been staring at Linux kernel code for weeks, with its 8 space tabs, and the edit two-space-tab code, it will take getting used to at first. The indentation will seem small. Soon, it will expand in your mind's eye and look large.
Low responsiveness of machine learning models to critical health conditions
Google is an Engineering company. What they're really bad at, in my opinion, is productizing their technology.

Google Cloud is decent, again in my opinion, because they can more or less copy the product vision from AWS and focus on the technical excellence.

When were you last excited to use a Google product or service?

Part of the problem is also their internal incentives that lead to lot's of products being retired waay too soon, leaving behind a lot of users and hurting their reputation a lot.
What’s the practical difference wrt. psychology (whether it can solve it) between the problem of not being able to get over a phobia and the problem of not being able to apply rationally simple life advice? Why is the former “something to be solved” but the latter one is not?
The problem is that they are _additions_, C++ has such absurd sprawl. The interactions between everything in this massive sprawl is quite difficult to grasp
he may be good at C but not that good. no one's that good. and this stupid overconfidence leads to sec holes.
No, but plenty of businesses that process your call data, whether it's for call recording, transcription, IVRs, speech analytics, CRM integration, call queuing, auto dialing, or SMS/chat features, are liable to be running stuff like FreeSWITCH, Asterisk, or similar somewhere in their stack.

Any business with a PBX that wants to do more than just basic call routing and PSTN connectivity is likely using third party tools. And a significant number of those tools are built on FreeSWITCH, Asterisk, or similar.
We're stuck in a loop because you're flip flopping between two positions.

You started off by comparing LLM output to compiler output, which I pointed out is a false equivalence because LLMs aren't as deterministic as compilers.

Then you switched to comparing LLMs to humans, which I'm fine with, but then LLMs must be expected to produce maintainable code just like humans.

Now you're going back to the original premise that LLM output is comparable to compiler output, thus completing the loop.
This book seems horrible outdated. A lot has changed since then.
Seems like hyperactive concern to me. I would want my child climbing up on the roof with a bucket of bouncy balls. I would even buy them.
Author here: I'm curious if anyone took the time to complete the text adventure?
A very simple description of an FPGA is that it's got a bunch of switches on the ends of wires. Some of the switches can connect wires to logic elements and some can connect wires to other wires. In this view, programming an FPGA is just toggling switches so that some of them are "on" and the rest are "off".

The easiest migration from FPGA to ASIC is to just make a chip with the same circuit elements and wire segments, but instead of making switches, you just short out connections in the "on" state and leave the rest open.
You couldn't break up the AI search engine and the traditional search engine. They're basically one and the same. The AI search engine relies on the index. The index uses AI in various places. The "traditional" side has long used AI for query understanding, ranking, and fact extraction.
https://valvesoftware.github.io/steam-audio/

Looks like it uses emitter positions and a virtual head. It also has the ability to utilize untextured scene geometry.
If it doesn't fit you, don't buy it only to complain.

There are other vendors with more open experiences.

If those vendors actually get enough market share, maybe even Apple might adopt them.

Exactly like they did with keyboards, pen, and windows management, that came before on PC and Android tablets.
I don't see how this actually matters - who cares if it it's different top level domains?
Welcome to the new USA - whose enemies and unwell wishers are jumping in joy about the destruction that is happening right now - in every aspect.
From the "obnoxious person" perspective a few anti-social karens and kents should get with the times and stop ruining things for everyone. /s

It's all subjective. To me the idea of living in a city and hearing your pulse sounds like living in the rubber room of an asylum. Going to great lengths to do so is weird to me. I do however find the sound of engines and cars/planes pleasant so I'm probably lucky.
For the purpose of the conversation, I would say Victorian era classifies as "modern". It's a vague word with different possible meanings, but in many contexts "modern era" is taken to mean "since the industrial revolution" (give or take).

It's not a continual rise in noise levels – there are ups and downs – and for some things volume levels may decrease while for other things noise may increase. But by and large, there seems to have been an upward trend for quite a few decades now.
Yes but these are different things.

It's in your chart, not epic. There are stickers that come with the devices that they put on the charts. In digital hospitals it's a barcode that gets scanned.

I personally know of many situations in which they were and are recorded. They may not be everywhere, but they are most places.

I'm in the hospital now by chance, they're doing it!
I think therapy can be used very strategically. Maybe you want to end a friendship and don't know how to break it to them. Or maybe you don't like the way you are being treated by someone and you want to know effective ways of setting boundaries. Therapy can be super useful in giving you the tools to confront difficult emotional/psychological situations.
I have a strange feeling teaching people how to make and inject themselves with their own semaglutide may not be a great idea.

If you have a doctor on board then maybe?
"new edge"? for how many decades already has the USN had complete seabed maps? (I'd guess we're talking about a half-century, or even older, edge)
Anonymous sources: Starship will need a major rebuild after consecutive failures
At this risk envelope I don’t see why nuclear / battery hybrids are not a serious contender. We can for example have them work on purely electric mode when close to ports and then enable the reactor in the open sea.

We do something similar with bunker fuel of different grades. They are forced to use the good stuff near the ports and once in the open sea they start burning the muddy Godzilla.
That's a really cool framework you've linked.
I think ASI being able to care, in any sense, is something that is far off. Same for ASI itself, any optimism that it's invention is somehow inevitable in our lifetime is severely misplaced.
Same for computational Chemistry, computational Physics (solid state, neutronics, astrophysics), etc.
> What is the state of WASM support in Go though? :)

The gc compiler considers it a first-class build target.

Like C#, the binary tends to be on the larger side[1], which makes it less than ideal for driving a marketing website, but that's not really a problem here. Installation of tools before use is already the norm.

[1] The tinygo compiler can produce very small WASM binaries, comparable to C, albeit with some caveats (surprisingly, the extra data gc produces isn't just noise).
This is one of those things where it's like if you have to program them to move, it's probably just easiest to program it to be somewhat faithful instead of making up some other values.
Tango, a British fruit soda, made their own version in Swansea, Wales, which is delightfully funny:

https://youtu.be/ac_g4opW-UI
This covers binding Cmd+Opt+[Arrows, F, C], which is all I use:

defaults write -g NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add \
"\033Window\033Move & Resize\033Left" "@~\\U2190" \
"\033Window\033Move & Resize\033Right" "@~\\U2192" \
"\033Window\033Move & Resize\033Top" "@~\\U2191" \
"\033Window\033Move & Resize\033Bottom" "@~\\U2193" \
"\033Window\033Fill" "@~F" \
"\033Window\033Center" "@~C"

Equivalent to manually binding in System Settings -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> App Shortcuts
https://github.com/veluca93/fpnge is a very fast png encoder. A bit lower compression ratio, but runs significantly faster than alternatives. Here is a presentation with benchmarks:

https://www.lucaversari.it/FJXL_and_FPNGE.pdf
True, but most hospital systems and caregivers track them (not digitally but in the paper records) It's not true to say they are never captured.
I used the TI-85 back when dinosaurs walked the earth. I still have that and the TI-92, the best FAT calculator ever. This thing will tie your shoes and help fight off depression. I strongly recommend the TI-92. It is not allowed on any standardized tests though.

I do know that even my TI-85 was programmable. I made a few different functions with it. If you try anything too sophisticated, there really is not sufficient space for it, but it was the first device I ever wrote any kind of program on. I used that through university, but for work I had the HP 12c with reverse Polish notation. Now that was useless. I could never understand why old men preferred that to Excel. Excel is better in every way, and one can write pretty sophisticated functions and simulations in Excel VBA. I spent years doing so.

Overall, I do not see the point in bringing out new calculators. I do think the existing ones should have more RAM and storage with a bit more computational heft, but only 1-3% of owners are ever going to use that, but it will make them so much better.