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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Email provider that doesn't lock you out and has good support?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: How many of you started a company/product/service in 2022?

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www.aaronsw.com 4y ago

Html2text.py by Aaron Swartz

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Open-source with great code setup and contribution documentation?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: What is the latest mainstream parser?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Best Books about NLG (Natural Language Generation)?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Best paid email provider with great support?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Is there a universally accepted reference for mathematics terminology?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: What is the maximum number of items you have ever had to sort?

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github.com 4y ago

Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: What are the best publicly available FAMANG code repos?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Which static site generator has the best themes?

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www.wsj.com 5y ago

23andMe to Go Public with Richard Branson-Backed SPAC

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newspaper.com 6y ago

Newspaper.com

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stuff.mit.edu 8y ago

Strobe (1995)

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: How do you find good doctors?

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Want These? LispDeveloper.com, MobileProgrammer.org, LispTutorial.org

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siberiantimes.com 11y ago

America populated in a single wave of migration from Siberia 23,000 years ago

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www.dw.de 11y ago

Why Netherlands is becoming the skinniest EU country

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en.wikipedia.org 11y ago

Katagelasticism

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en.wikipedia.org 11y ago

Kim Peek

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www.amazon.com 11y ago

Hello Ruby: Adventures in Coding by Linda Liukas ($14.38)

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www.google.com 12y ago

Google – Compare Credit Cards

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en.wikipedia.org 12y ago

Mike the Headless Chicken

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www.npr.org 12y ago

Last Of The Navajo 'Code Talkers' Dies At 93

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google-styleguide.googlecode.com 12y ago

Google Style Guides for Angular.js, Lisp, etc

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www.folklore.org 12y ago

Switcher (1984)

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en.wikipedia.org 12y ago

The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: What are some good web development related IRC channels?

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: List of books published by Google employees?

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It is a feature in Rust, not a bug :-) (I know you didn't say it is a bug.)

The error-tagged union is PgResult<bool> - which means it contains bool as the result if things go well. (The other part in the union is of course the error.)

In the original function also, it is returning a boolean: "bool has_subclass".

So anyway you have to check for the boolean as part of the logic. That is what it is doing.

I am writing this for you as well as those who are likely to read this later as well.

From the quoted snippet from the original article, purportedly AI-generated:

Not a tutorial. Not an ORM. Actual SQL

From my comment:

Not stock options. Do not gamble, your life is passing you by.

Not titles, unless you have a clear plan to leverage your title into a better paying job.

Not "job safety" - it is never safe. You being in an in-demand area is your job safety.

I watched this last week.

The part about veering constantly to navigate the maze of internal politics is fascinating. The compromises he had to make, like not being able to put in on Github initially. The easy victories, like making TypeScript open source.

The long road to success. The obligatory advice for people writing new programming languages (Hint: Mostly, don't.). His opinion about creating a new language for AI (I agree with his insight, but still think it is possible).

Overall, well worth watching.

Merry Christmas to everyone.

Being a non-Christian and it being Christmas time, I am sharing one verse from the New Testament that is, in my opinion, useful - or at the very least, insightful - to anyone, regardless of religion.

Luke 16:10: He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much.

GPT Image 1.5 7 months ago

What confused me was this: "Now remove the two men, just keep the dog, and put them in an OpenAI livestream that looks like the attached image.".

The word "them" implied plural. I was looking for the dog and something else. Thanks.

GPT Image 1.5 7 months ago

Now remove the two men, just keep the dog, and put them in an OpenAI livestream that looks like the attached image.

Where is the image given along with the prompt? If I didn't miss it: Would have been nice to show the attached image.

I use version managers for Python, Node, Ruby, and others. But for Java, none. I have all the recent versions of Java on my Linux and Windows devices. I download the zip and extract it to a common directory "Java". Setting the path within IDEs is easy, and is mostly unavoidable (regardless of a version manager). Running standalone programs is not that complicated too.

Observations and personal opinions, after glancing through the slides:

* The entertainment industry will be transformed drastically. Music and movies will be transformed by AI to such an extent that the next generation will find it hard to believe how the industry operated.

* The moonshot will be biological research and research in general. When a breakthrough happens, it will transform our health for the better in astonishing ways.

* In terms of direct adoption, the urban-rural divide is vast.

* Less democratic countries will have an advantage over the democratic countries in terms of fast execution, unless the latter manage to integrate private-public operations effectively.

* I've liked Mary Meeker's reports since the heydays of TechCrunch. This report has a lot of details that I did not know. Nevertheless, I didn't see a single point that stood out.

So, to summarize:

Used "dictionary learning"

Found abstract features

Found similar/close features using distance

Tried amplifying and suppressing features

Not trying to be snary, but sounds mundane in the ML/LLM world. Then again, significant advances have come from simple concepts. Would love to hear from someone who has been able to try this out.

As far as I understand it, they used 25 human and 12 squirrel samples. Comparison was done among medieval red squirrel strains, medieval human strains, and modern red squirrel strains.

Finding: medieval red squirrel strains were closer to medieval human strains than to modern red squirrel strains.

Inference: In medieval England, leprosy spread between red squirrels and people.

Problem with the inference: If they used modern human strains too and then compared them all, it would have been a complete study.

Are modern red squirrel strains closer to modern human strains than to medieval red squirrel strains? What kind of differences are there? Is it that they evolved independently from medieval times to modern times and thus appear different? Lots of questions are unanswered.

Just want to point out that this is a free book. Direct link: [1]. Also, the real content is only a little over 200 pages. The rest is notes, references, and other resources.

With the recent advancements in AI and space technology, space militarization may become the top existential threat we as human beings face, probably topping both climate change and the depletion of essential resources.

[1] https://direct.mit.edu/books/book-pdf/2369358/book_978026237...

I cannot edit this anymore. Yes, meant that the control Aptiv had over Motional will now be with Hyundai, practically.

The point I was trying to make was that this was titled in Aptiv's Q1 presentation [1] as "APTIV EQUITY INTEREST TO BE REDUCED FROM 50% TO 15%". That is, they will offload most of the control to Hyundai. Immediately, Aptiv shares rose. So for some reason, this is seen as a good thing by Aptiv shareholders.

My point was and is: Considering the above aspect, it will be interesting to see how Hyundai will make use of it.

[1] https://s22.q4cdn.com/336558720/files/doc_presentations/2024...

The story starts with Genghis Khan's plunder of Merv and the mass murder that was ordered by him. It mentions the artisans who were kept alive. Then it swerves to the plunder of Merv by the Oghuz, continues in the next paragraph, and then returns to Genghis Khan by announcing his death.

Again, it returns to the artisans,but mid-paragraph (as is typical in that article), switches to battles again, and returns yet again to silk and artisans. At last, it connects the battles and the silk together.

This is probably why it appears very hard to read. Especially, the mid-paragraph context switches continuing to the subsequent paragraph.

Nevertheless , a fascinating read.

Anything which has clear paths to decision making, does not need AI.

Anything which requires only massive data processing, does not need AI.

Regarding the adoption: The crux is mentioned in the article well. You are building on top of faulty systems. However great the AI model is, you are given faulty data to process. It will not end well.

Excellent course. The only caveat I want to add is, the estimated hours to complete (23 hours) can vary extremely, depending on your 'pre-mastery' of the subject (or lack of it). Prepare and pace yourself considering that.

Go to Kuwait, partner with one of the ruling family members, and set up a BTC mining company to mine bitcoins - since it still seems to be legal, as of now. Kuwait is one of the cheapest places to do this. Once you have made enough, sell the company to the ruling family and leave forever.