skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah you're quite right (I was expecting that the queries would be POST-like, not GET-like).

This distinction doesn't matter too much though, because having the browser be responsible for this fails in at least two ways:

1. The browser shouldn't need knowlege of how to parse every query language of every webapp you use.

2. The browser can't actually give you the results of those queries. If I search for "tps reports", the browser knows I entered that query string, but it doesn't know what the 15 results were, and so can't, for example take my prior search into account when I search for "12/17/2022" to uprank the TPS report for that date, as opposed to some other report. Nor can it even do the weaker bit and assume that since I searched TPS yesterday, when I search "reports" today, it should consider upranking tps reports.
Availability risk? Sure, but that's 99.9% my own doing (constant experiments, etc)

Security risk? Not in the slightest. I'm running an up to date proxmox which is just KVM+QEMU with some scripting and a website on top, basically. I know how to setup IOMMU groups and such. If it's good enough for the big cloud providers, it's good enough for me.
The Gollum (CGI) on LOTR was really a peace of art. It can be done well if someone really wants.
I agree with most of the comments I've read in this thread. Writing code to solve a well defined narrowly scoped problem isn't that hard or valuable. It's determining what the problem actually is and how software could be used to solve it that is challenging and valuable.

I would really like to see more effort in the AI/ML code generation space being put into things like code review, and system observation. It seems significantly more useful to use these tools to augment human software engineers rather than trying to tackle the daunting and improbable task of completely replacing them.

*Note: as a human software engineer I am biased
>Most issues appears when designers (like GNOME ones) want to impose a brand or vision.

Gnome is by far my favorite DE on linux because its the only one I feel that actually cares about the best out of box experience. I can install any linux distro and pick gnome and it all just works. And it just works really well. While everything else seems to take a significant amount of tweaking to create a nice experience. So I think Gnome is the perfect example of why stripping back configuration works. I like the choice available to pick my DE and OS, but after that I want it to just work.

Another issue I have noticed is the more settings a piece of software has, the less stable and consistent it is. You get issues which only occur when particular settings are set because the devs just haven't used that setting in so long they didn't see the issue. I had some where just setting up volume change keys required configuring keyboard shortcuts to fire bash commands to adjust volume..

I prefer to use software where the designers and developers are bold and put forward their vision on what the right way is. If they are right, I use the software, if they are wrong, I find an alternative that is right. I think LibreOffice is the biggest example of devs held hostage by the community unable to do anything. They have like 4 different UIs available which you can pick from in the settings. Their modern redesign isn't even the default setting. So I prefer something like Google Docs where they have one UI and feel empowered to change it to fit the best possible design.
Vice is literal garbage. This article case and point.
It's amazon - so expect it to behave like that by design.
"Dead cat bounce": risky, but it can often work. You just have to stick to the plan and not hold it. Let it bounce, sell. Called such because if you drop it from a sufficient height, even a dead cat will bounce once. Would I buy? If it weren't the tech equivalent of Exxon-Mobil I would probably take a small position for the lulz, put a tight stop on it, and see what happens in the next day or two.
i like my company where you work 5 10hr days then two days off then another 5 10hr days and two days off and so on. ;)
Woman says she was ‘virtually gang-raped’ in Facebook's metaverse
Not a fresh start necessarily. What they need is (a) changing how they're run and what their goals are (which apparently hasn't happened) and (b) sending honest signals [1] thay they have done so.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory
I wonder if the 4x performance boost of 128-bit SIMD over 32-bit would drop to 2x if WebAssembly added 64-bit registers/instructions.
FBI says Pegasus spyware was tested, not used in any investigation
> realistic hope to make the victims whole without the cooperation of the people responsible for the exploits?

This is exactly the problem that hundreds of independent groups of humans had faced throughout tens of thousands of years of history and to which all came up with the same solution: central authority.
There are too many video games
thanks for reminding us: Carmack was a MACHINE in those years. and churning out one impressive/hit game after another
There is one corner of math that does have a replication crisis. Just as we compare programming languages by how "ergonomic" they are to learn and use, mathematicians do come up with novel notation systems to try to improve the ergonomic state of their field, and since "ergonomics" is another way to say "esthetics", and is proved or disproved by user testing, that is where replication gets hard.

The inventor of category theory's wiring diagrams, for example, has claimed that he could get middle schoolers to understand them. I suspect that success has not been replicated.
Perhaps pedantic, but also genuine curiosity, thinking about it:

> how to stop on ice without ABS

My understanding is that ABS won't do anything to help you stopping on ice, anyway. On ice, braking is hampered by lack of traction on tires, whereas ABS is trying to avoid the challenges of tires locking up, so you can maintain (some semblance of) directionality.
BMW is hated for a reason, and most car manufacturers (not just Tesla) would compare favorably to it.

Pretty much every major manufacturer makes safety features standard on the base models across their lineup today.
Technically one of them hasn't had the chance yet to show off.
The SC receives an enormous number of cases most of which it declines to hear. It has a lot of authority over what is brought before it.
A lone wolf with $250m and no legal recourse is an attractive target for all kinds of folk
The Grogu costed 5 millions[1]. I think it really is good one.

[1]: https://nerdist.com/article/mandalorian-baby-yoda-puppet-cos...
There is portaitAI that converts you into a painting https://portraitai.app/
For TeX typesetting Utopia (and derivatives like Fourier and Erewhon) is also good if you want something that was designed for book (not journal or newspaper) body text but has a less mediaeval feel (and more Cyrillic, sigh).
> I know little about finance but I don't understand why it is smarter to back a stable with cash rather than with bonds and loans for instance.

It’s probably not a bad idea if done in good faith.

I probably should have said “sketchy bonds/loans”.

What bitfinex has been doing is extremely sketchy and (imho) probably won’t survive a run (if a run ever happens).
When checked US main causes of death, diabetes rates are very high. At least twice than in other countries. It points to generally bad health condition. Violent death rate is very high (even as 10x higher than in other countries), it points to bad social trust, traffic deaths are at least 2 times as in Germany despite Germans driving with very high speed. It points to much worse safety issues.
Google is down on FB earnings. The market has strong correlations.
I read that and looked at the screenshots, but I still don't get it.

I'd guess the censoring didn't materially impact the story, so while an excellent enhancement, it doesn't feel important enough to make it so high on HN.
John Koss, headphones pioneer, has died (2021)
From the making of I can see online it seems most of it is actually filmed in studio, especially when actors are involved up close.

It is noticable that it’s not filmed in a hot place because the actors are never sweating, they move too fast, their skin doesn’t have the color and texture of a strong tan, they don’t seem affected by transitioning from hot to cold, they touch sand with naked hands, etc. Compare with western movies that are actually filmed on location, they somehow feel like they’re filmed on a hotter planet than arakis

EDIT: seems that most of the scenes in the desert filmed in situ were also in relatively cold deserts as the filming crew is wearing down jackets
45 years old here.
I usually go to the theater for a proper appreciation of the movies (big screen, no solicitations).
Last movie I saw was Charlie Chaplin's City lights.
Downloaded it for my kids (the exact kind of public for this film). They stayed in front of the TV set for 15 minutes before wanting to play yet another game of Hearthstone.
Shame...
There is some character making appearance on the show. Let's say, deepfakes are getting real.
Two possible reasons.

1. First, though I am not sure of this (i.e. this should be verified), I heard that the team working on AlphaStar initially tried to create a Starcraft AI entirely through "self-play," but this was not successful. (Intuitively, in a real-time game, there are too many bad options too early on that even with a LOT of time to learn, if your approach is too "random" you will quickly enter an unwinnable position and not learn anything useful.) As a result, they replaced this approach with an approach which incorporated learning from human games.

2. "including a not widely reported showmatch against Serral when he was BlizzCon champ." is a mischaracterization. It was not a "showmatch," rather there was a setup at Blizzcon where anyone could sit down and play against AlphaStar, and Serral at some point sat down to play AlphaStar there. He went 0-4 vs AlphaStar's protoss and zerg, and 1-0 vs its Terran. However, not only was he not using his own keyboard and mouse, but he could not use any custom hotkeys. If you do not play Starcraft it may not be obvious just how large of a difference this could make. BTW, when Serral played (perhaps an earlier iteration of) AlphaStar's terran on the SC2 ladder, he demolished it.

I remember when seeing the final report, I was a bit disappointed. It seemed like they cut the project off at a strange point, before AlphaStar was clearly better than humans. I feel that if they had continued they could have gotten to that point, but now we will never know.
"Cranks up" the global carbon footprint -- relative to what? "Wastes" resources better left in the ground -- according to whom? You think someone needs to be _granted_ the *right* to research and develop a great feat of human engineering?

What it sounds like you're describing is communism, and it's an incredibly destructive and brutal philosophy to try to control people like this.

I have no issue with Bezos paying the full share of the net externalities of the project. I suspect a proper accounting would show significant net positive externalities to society, but if the scales were net negative then by all means tax it. I suspect that amount of taxes Bezos will pay all said and done as a result of this project are fairly astronomical.

To say that a person has no business or no right or no reason to build something incredible like this is beyond sad, it's a line of thinking that free democracies have gone to war against to protect themselves from.

To say this creation should not allowed to be built in any case, is IMO a violation of basic human rights and decency and crushing to the human spirit.
heresy!

cough

Castle Wolfenstein, by Silas Warner for MUSE

kids: get off my lawn
The other problem is that each thing your decide should definitely be "this way and no other" is probably shaving off a different 1% of the population.

I maintain that the Ribbon on office is this problem writ large: I'm sure Microsoft did a lot of user studies, and I'm equally sure that by averaging out all those results they managed to prioritise nothing useful to any actual business - hence why the product feels bizarrely unprofessional these days and is now impossible to configure to suit any specific type of writing.
Volvo's plans all in the future, it's just a commitment. today is there in 2025, tomorrow web designer put another beautiful article with 2030.
Gasoline cars is less safe to the same car with the same set of airbags just because of It's physics e.g. lower center of gravity, no engine in the front that can kill you during forward collision, battery at the bottom serve as a protection layer during other type of crashes.

In fact tesla is about to release structural batteries cars, that will use battery as part of the cars body, makes it even more safe. Model Y with structural pack will be out in March 2022.

Volvo at this moment promoting hybrids and ICE that doesn't have this features, because it's bloody business. And money is money.

Just compare real actions of Volvo who claim one of the safest brand and Tesla.
Some measurements are interesting and valuable without being replicable. For example, the number of online devices or the number of websites using wordpress. Take the same measurement at a later point in time and the results are different. Yet I wouldn't call those fields maths-like.
Conclusion: The helmets must be bigger, much bigger.

I don't know their current thickness; maybe 2 cm? If we expand that to a cushioned 10-20cm all the way around their head, the force would be reduced by a factor of five to ten. I'd imagine they could head-butt all day long without damage, and football games would be much more entertaining.
> I highly doubt they give a shit to the US, or the internet or the hacker wars of any kind.

somehow, I don't think that those are the people that are being targeted. it's the "elite" who actually have internet access, and can also eat.

those who make the decisions, and those who are friends of those who make the decisions would be the ones affected by the internet being down, not those who can barely eat and obviously don't have internet access.
>"The Constitution does not and cannot bestow inalienable rights."

The Bill of Rights was never supposed to bestow rights, just protect them, as per the preface:

>"The Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution."
LMAO

I had a different reply lined up, then I read the comment again and did a doubletake
There are multiple studies that claim working longer doesn't increase productivity so why would 9/40 or 410 make any sense over 48?
Maybe the CIA/NSA were all over inside the North Korean networks, thanks to the weak security, monitoring their emails (do they use emails?) or probably even inside their mobile networks monitoring the North Korean elites' texts to each other.

Meanwhile this kid comes in screaming "Leeeeroy Jenkins!" making the North Koreans aware of their shit security.

A parachute attack is different to stealth spy missions...
There are moments a pilot has seconds to react and disengage autopilot.

Example: Traffic Resolution advisories require a 5 second reaction time and 2.5 seconds for any follow-on reactions. This reaction time includes the time to disengage autopilot and also put the aircraft into a climb-or-dive. Studies show that a situationally aware pilot takes at least 2 seconds to start the reaction, and another second to achieve the proper climb/descent. There are other times on e.g. approach, or ground collision warnings with even narrower margins for disengaging autopilot.

Pilots generally know when they need to be hyper-aware with autopilot and so do competent Tesla drivers. If there are issues with the name "autopilot" for Tesla, the same argument needs to be made for aircraft manufacturers.
I think the term for this is power creep and it also applies to games
React Flavored JavaScript
Thanks!

Most use-cases have limitations in bandwidth, so not all data is streamed up to the cloud. Typically, people will run simple motion detectors on the physical camera device itself, and save content in the cloud that they think might be valuable. Our service can then be used to make that content searchable, past simple motion detection.

There are other use-cases where people store tons of data in the cloud already. Media content is an example of this. In this case, companies might want to analyze all the raw data for which we then charge only for intervals of video where there's real action. If the video is static, we won't charge the full per minute pricing.
You could measure something like the bidirectional scattering distribution function [1] including its wavelength dependence. Or something even fancier that accounts for polarization and displacement due to subsurface scattering and what not. The important thing is that you can objectively quantify the color and appearance of the car in great detail mostly limited by your dedication and budget. And with that information you could recreate the color of the car and how the paint looks under some given lighting conditions which can also be quantified. There is really nothing to be debated here, at best maybe the fidelity and sophistication of an realization of this method and whether it is good enough for a given purpose.

And I just say this, there is nothing to be measured in order to determine whether something is up for debate or not. This is a question of logic and philosophy and physics. Being up for debate means that there must be different opinions. This can happen due to a lack of information or knowledge. Or due to unspecified assumptions. And probably more. Whether you should have high or low tax rates is up for debate. This right answer will depend on your goals. On the behavior of people and societies and your knowledge of and assumption about those things. About whom do you care, who is affected how? The better you know how things work and the clearer your goals are, the less room will there be for debate.

But what could you debate about the physical properties of the paint of the car? They are facts of the universe - at least unless or our understanding of the universe is really radically wrong. You can measure them. But opinions you can only have about relating things, not what the color is but how it looks to you. What it reminds you of. How you name or describe it. What it looks to a color blind person. What you think it looks to a color blind person. Whether it was worth the money. Whether it should be changed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidirectional_scattering_distr...
Can you explain how Simpsons paradox applies here?
I compared against native:

#define ITERATIONS 1000

int main()
{
const size_t BUFFER_SIZE = 64ul \* 1024 \* 1024;
__m128i\* data_buffer = (__m128i *)memalign(64, BUFFER_SIZE);

const __m128i all_ones = _mm_set1_epi8(0xFF);

for (size_t i = 0; i < ITERATIONS; i++)
{
__m128i* data = data_buffer;
for (size_t b = 0; b < BUFFER_SIZE;) {
_mm_stream_si128(&data[0], all_ones);
_mm_stream_si128(&data[1], all_ones);
_mm_stream_si128(&data[2], all_ones);
_mm_stream_si128(&data[3], all_ones);
data += 4;
b += 16 * 4;
}
}
}

$ time ./fill_buffer.elf
real 0m1,832s

$ time ./wasmer fill_buffer.wasm -i fillBufferWithSIMD 1000
real 0m4,237s

I had to fixup the WAT because set_local and get_local don't exist anymore. They are called local.get and local.set now.

At higher number of iterations the C version converges on about 1.7 seconds per 1000, while the WASM version seems to remain the same at 4.2 secs per 1000. This leaves native 2.5x faster for this particular operation, on my machine.
I have a car with adaptive cruise control and lane assist, and most of my morning commute (on days when I go into the office) is driven on the highway. Most of the time I don't turn it on because I'm in a self-perceived hurry to get to work, so I forget.

You know what would be really nice? Something that detects when it's safe and reasonable to suggest turning on adaptive cruise control so I use it more. Maybe something like detecting I've driven a few miles at a consistent rate of speed above a certain threshold.

The hard parts are definitely the problem, but there are lots of easy wins left on the table too.
I've been running my own mailserver for the last ten years and I must say that nowadays I'm not even running an antispam filter anymore because I basically don't get spam.

What I do instead (instead of running an antispam server) is checking all stuff that a proper mail admin would do, that is:

- greylisting (postgrey)

- reject hosts not listed in spf records for the sender (spf-policyd)

- verifying dkim signatures, if present (opendkim)

Also f#@k spamhaus and those people, they will mark you as a spam host on pure prejudice.
PageRank worked when humans were creating content across a huge number of sites.

PageRank worked when there was very little tangible value besides vanity in being number one for a particular search term, and when there was little competition between sites. Once SEO became a key strategy to growing a business PageRank had to shift from finding the most relevant results to removing the things that were pretending to be relevant results. That challenge is much harder.

I contend that practically every update to Google Search over the past 15 years has been to try to defeat SEO spam. There doesn't appear to be anything else. And, unfortunately for all of us, it's a battle Google are not winning.
>> To clarify, this is a HUGE leap in AI and computing in general. I don't mean
to play it down.

Sorry, but it's nothing of the sort. The approach is primitive, obsolete, and its
results are very poor.

I've posted this three times already but the arxiv preprint includes an
evaluation against a formal benchmark dataset, APPS. On that more objective
measure of performance, the best performing variant of AlphaCode tested, solved
25% of the easiest tasks ("introductory") and less than 10% of the intermediary
("interview") and advanced ("competition") tasks.

What's more, the approach that AlphaCode takes to program generation is
primitive. It generates millions of candidate programs and then it "filters"
them by running them against input-output examples of the target programs taken
from the problem descriptions. The filtering still leaves thousands of candidate
programs (because there are very few I/O examples and the almost random
generation can generate too many programs that pass the tests, but still don't
solve the problem) so there's an additional step of clustering applied to pare
this down to 10 programs that are finally submitted. Overall, that's a brute-force,
almost random approach that is ignoring entire decades of program synthesis
work.

To make an analogy, it's as if DeepMind had just published an article boasting
of its invention of a new sorting algorithm... bubblesort.
Do you have the option to work 4 or 5 hours on the 2 days part of the schedule as well?
Let's say that people answer with a definitive yes or a definitive no - what would you do differently given that information?
Is the salary also reduced or only the hours? Too bad they don't give a probability distribution of salaries for the position ...
The length scale of a metamaterials' features should be complementary to the length scale the metamaterial is acting on.

Kind of squirrely, and I tried really hard to phrase that so it isn't a tautology. But if you're dealing with radio waves, your metamaterial can have huge (meter-scale) features. If you're dealing with visible light, your feature size is on the hundreds of nanometer scale.

Thin films have a characteristic bending length: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.11..., and this determines the size of features you should pattern to exploit that bending/folding interaction.