skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, so on the generative model modality landscape I'm now aware of:

- speech

- images

- audio samples

- text

- code

- 3d models

I've seen basic attempts at music and video, and based on everything else we've seen getting good results there seems to be mostly a matter of scaling.

What content generation modalities are left? Will all corporate generation of these fall to progressively larger models, leaving a (relatively) niche "Made by humans!" industry in it's wake?
I think in London people would prefer you actually mugged them rather than try and engage them in a conversation.
The best research does not say this. The best research is completely unclear since nutritional epidemiology is plagued with bad data, bad science and political agendas one way or the other.
Our neighborhood is hosting a no-rules Pinewood Derby for all kids and adults tonight. I made 3 cars with my kids.

We learned a lot of Pinewood Derby science from this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RjJtO51ykY
The Future Fund’s AI Worldview Prize
Are there any studies on the phenomenon? I like reading peoples stories but at the same time I’d be interested in seeing the data
Yes, I meant that META-II was the Original Gangster of self-compiling compiler compilers.
Productive developers don't necessarily make good managers. Been doing this stuff for a long time and never came across the acronym IC, what is it?
China controls the use of CNY to buy non-domestic things, particularly foreign exchange. Domestic companies and savers‘ “movement” of the currency is tightly controlled, and the government has immediately tightened the screws on everyone before.

USD is not controlled in this manner, which makes it pretty easy to obtain. One of the important features of a reserve currency is easy obtainability and convertibility, but this runs counter to China’s internal stability goals.
My bikes run c++ (both arduino and segger-flavored) and a funny language called monkey-C in the subset of the code I know. And presumably mostly c++ in the parts that I don't know (much larger parts). Some people I ride with also have java in the mix and it doesn't seem to bother them at all.
Management positions replaced by a supervising AI
Out of interest, why is PayPal not an option for a US-based person, but BTC is?
Not to go down this annoying rabbit hole, but if you and others didn’t eat it, wouldn’t it not exist in the first place due to lack of market demand? Is a short life with a quick end worse than no life at all. Would it be acceptable if they were sufficiently happy or cared for? Is this a form of slavery and therefore bad? Where do we draw the line? How much freedom and life is a worthy trade off vs no life at all?

It seems to me that this argument isn’t sufficiently strong. The global warming argument seems strong.
On the flip side, nonreciprocal following can be a way to advertise prowess for some, while a genuine lack of interest for others.

It's in the former category that we find "that sort of behavior" — i.e., cheating.
So maybe this is (similar enough to) the original plant, or maybe it's a different one. But either way, they said it was delicious. So I hope they manage to cultivate it!
Hi, I am the author :) no affiliation with the french government, I just thought this particular API would be a cool example to use (IMHO this API is well done).
Note: In this context, DRM stands for "Direct Rendering Manager" [driver].

It threw me for a loop at first, "What on earth does the Linux Kernel and Rust have to do with Digital Rights Management / copy protection!?"
> Meat processing is one of the single worst industries for climate change

Wild claim!

Despite all the media coverage on farming/meat industry, coal-powered power plants remain the single most polluting industry in terms of GHG.

Followed by all the hydrocarbon fuel based Transportation and (by a large step margin) the steel industry.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2020/09/Emissions-by-sect...
Animation, at least the ‘background one’.
I can never remember if it is Impossible or Beyond but one of the two has reached "close facsimile" for my tastes when I have them at local spots. Burgers, meatball subs, that sort of thing.

Personally I don't care about the health aspect, and as long as they're somewhat close in cost that's fine by me. I like that it is cutting down on the ecological impact, or at least that's the claim. At the same time I don't care about that impact so much that I'm going to cut meat out of my diet. This provides a nice middle ground for me.
r744
I don’t get this at all. If you don’t want to be reached just leave your phone at home. Or turn it off. Or switch it to airplane mode. It’s not like owning a phone forces you to actually use it 24/7.
No, don't you understand? It can't possibly be they're fault, there must be something to blame.
> And you can always add supplemental later.

Great point.

Investments are made based on expected returns on investment, and we're free to postpone them until they make sense.

Spending money hoping to bank on the occurrence of unexpected outcomes simply can't be justified.
When professional certifications are required to write car software, you won’t have top tier people writing it. Instead, you’ll get mediocrities who will jump on the certification as a way to secure a sinecure at a company requiring it.

Consider existing professional certifications, like, for example, Cisco certification. How many top tier people have it? Some do, but in my experience, not many. Instead, they are overwhelmingly held by low-to-mid skill people, who see it as a ticket to a better job. Top tier people can easily get top tier job, and have no need to waste time on some certifications.
Can you describe what you mean here? I don't understand this feature re: Ada.
As someone who would want to be a vegan but struggles not to eat meat, I've been very interested in Impossible since it started. The idea that you might make synthetic meat that tastes as good as real meat while being cheaper is very alluring -- seemingly, you could eliminate most meat consumption globally.

At the same time, over the past few years, I've explored more of the world's cuisines and generally become a better cook. What I've learned (which surely is obvious to many but was not obvious to me) is that the typical US diet is unnecessarily meat centric, and that being a vegetarian is much easier, healthier, and tastier when one basically stops eating typical American meals. Being a vegetarian is much easier when eating Indian food for instance, and it's laughably easy when eating Ethiopian.

I'm still rooting heavily for Impossible, because factory farming is a global atrocity. And, it would be really cool if one day, I could eat an Impossible burger that was cheaper and healthier than a regular burger. But for now, and for the foreseeable future, I think that my attempts to be vegetarian will revolve around learning to better cook food from non-American cuisines, foods that are better suited to not having meat.
Discussed extensively 12 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32808808
We sold to China only to hurt Russian oil sales, but it didn't work. China still bought large amounts of oil from Russia and then resold it to Europe.
> People who can manage and code (architect, etc.) are truly rare.

I disagree with this. I think there are a lot of people who don't like being a leader for lots of reasons... but every time I've promoted a reluctant leader it's been magical for that person and for their team. A lot of times the people that self-promote and like to be in charge should never, ever be given athority.

> I am very skeptical of new technologies

I used to think that way until I realized that in a lot of cases, we've been re-inventing the same concepts in computing since the 1960s. I think a lot of the re-invention is really being driven by hardware capabilities, languages and fashion. We're seeing it with Rust right now - let's rewrite all the things in Rust! Underneath it all, though, the payoff for using new, less capable tech, is that eventually it will pass up the old in a very meaningful way - and when it does, systems build on the old are washed away.
Zoo and grocery shopping with my kids
Having owned a Tesla for 4 years, and watching other "self driving" American competitors perform like this, I wonder if the Germans will slowly but surely get there first.

Tesla & others are trying a SV "disrupt" type approach that also requires the car to basically work for every use case. City driving is horribly difficult. I would argue that handling city driving without intervention is not far off AGI. The amount of situations you can encounter in city driving are essentially infinite. And you need a self driving car to be able to handle things the first time they see it, not just once that particular type of scenario has been tagged in training set.

Germans (BMW, MB specifically) are following a more methodical, legalistic approach to driver assistance towards autonomous driving. Adaptive cruise & lane keeping, emergency braking. Then automated lane changing. Then hands-free below 35mph. Then handles on/off ramps. Etc etc, step by step. But at each step, the system actually works will for the well-define feature set they have sold you, and doesn't regress month to month with bad releases.

For many people if your car could handle the highways entirely and you just hand to get yourself to/from the highway, they'd be really happy. And this is a far more achievable goal than essentially solving AGI.
That is because of other weaknesses of bzip2, not because BWT is worse. BWT generally beats LZ-based algorithms. I would also dispute that LZMA is simpler, at least in compression. Good LZ parsing is not easy.
60k/yr (USD) - you can find this type of remote positions easily in Europe. Germany/Poland/Switzerland. Currently, this is typical average for contractors for these regions. But real experienced developers (by skill not years of service) currently can make a 100k+ USD on the European market.
‘I'm Dropping My Covid Hubris,’ Vows a Top Immunologist
6 hours later:

It's quite telling what instead of Ubuntu/RHEL we got Lubuntu, openSUSE on KDE (from which year?) and OpenBSD.

Guys, no. Ubuntu/RHEL, not your favourite lightweight distro.
Good video, I am a little suspicious of the neutrality of a channel called "plant chompers" with other videos about how plant protein is as good as meat protein etc. but it has some good points.
Wow. Just turned 52. Love coding. Love building useful/meaningful things.

Your three paragraphs read like someone climbed inside the library of my head and just started reading all the thoughts there at once. I struggle or have struggled with all 3 of those. Especially the latter 2.
This is indeed the dominant view so the observation is true, but the history here baffles me; web feeds aren’t required to include the full content. Ad-funded publishers could easily just include links and descriptions—the same as they’re content to do for Open Graph previews—and continue to benefit from web feeds instead of apparently writing off the technology entirely.
I love the modern meat alternatives, but they are comparatively carb-heavy and are replacing one of the few foods I eat regularly that are not carb heavy. That's just not compatible with how I need to eat to feel good and maintain my body weight, so I almost never go for them.
What's up with all these "X uses Rust!" articles recently? Is it that surprising that a memory-safe, low level language with a large community is actually getting used in production?
>HDD may be slower than SSD, but it's not that much slower.

It's at least something around 100~200x slower to do tons of random reads and writes on an HDD than an SSD. Updates and other background tasks that have been delayed and now going all at once are going to hammer the system drive in a random manner, so this difference in speed will have a massive effect.
Loved those in the scouts growing up
Honeslty I'd rather they just did as minimal programming as possible. Slap an open api on all cars and let carplay/android auto/any other piece of software have access to said api to do as they please.

The longevity of in car software is utterly attrocious. Taking a very basic car like a Toyota Aygo as an example, in 2015 they released their mid-range models with a large touchscreen in the center console, boasting support for connecting your phone and such. In reality it didn't work from day 1. They used Mirrorlink which had already become out of date tech and wasn't supported by any of the handsets anymore.

Now, they could've released a software update to fix this. Except they didnt. They kept selling that car for several years, advertising phone integration that didn't work.

Car manufacturers give absolutely no care at all to their software and never have.
Our coop here is notoriously expensive. Even obviously cheap stuff like bulk grains are crazy spendy. I don't know why.

Are healthy foods just that much more expensive?

Their clientele is lots of wealthy retired hippies. Maybe they're just exploiting that niche. I dunno.
I work for a large company, and I can say that context switching is also a problem here. I guess it comes down to the organization, or maybe the individual team. But yeah, there isn't a week that goes by where a development task isn't interrupted by something.
Sort of.

I encounter many miserable looking poorly equipped people constantly asking me to take selfies of them posing with a fake smile. I was stopped 7 times on a 50km hike recently.

People want to be seen to do it. They don’t appear to be enjoying it though.

Edit: ironically considering the article I tend to wear AirPods now because people don’t ask me to do it.
can't get a svelte job, there aren't that many
Enabled email bounces for non-existing accounts on newsletterss.com. Server costs are increasing each month at rate higher than new users.

Around noon, once it gets a bit warmer, I'll go with the family on a hike to see the fall foliage.
If you’ve ever been to NYC you will see human drivers block emergency vehicles all the time on purpose, even when they are blaring sirens. I have way more confidence in one of these driverless cars to gtfo out of the way of a firetruck than your average Uber driver who’s hustling for a few extra bucks.
I really wish airships were actually viable, but it’s just never going to happen.

They seemed like a really nice way to travel, slow and sedate like an ocean liner, but you could take them over land.
Ask HN: How can I get good job at good SF-based software company?
Hello HN.

I am currently Final Year Undergraduate (Computer Science Bachelor degree) studying in India. Since past few years,I have observed that interesting startups,ideas,big companies related to Technology are located in California. This has piqued my interest to work in Silicon Valley companies or startups(most preferably non-remote ones because it leads to the more exposure of Tech scene). I am skilled in few aspects and willing to learn new technologies. It's one of my desire to work in such environment.

How do I achieve this? Any shortcomings(visa?) ? Any suggestions? Please help HN...
Programming contests select for people who like programming contests.

To the degree that venns with what a company hopes for, then programming contests are useful.
Programming fun because you find SOLUTIONS all the time. You find better ways of doing things. That is the nature of it because there is no need to write the same code twice.
Not sure where I heard the story, but I’m a longtime Turbo Brick fan and actually had a Bosch ECU custom programmed in Sweden by an employee who did it quietly on the side. Went from 222hp to 285hp - would’ve been more but the AW small auto transmission would eat itself.

After Ford bought Volvo, they expected compliance and sent instructions and materials for the next infotainment system to be used in Volvo cars. A Ford product. Equipment, interface, code platform all sent from corporate out to Gothenburg and that was that. So Ford thought.

When they visited Sweden to check on the progress of the new model. When they saw the infotainment system it was nothing like what Ford had sent with the mandate to use it. Of course they questioned Volvo and I believe the response is true because I’ve known a few born and raised Scandinavians…

“Oh, that system was not good. We decided not to use it and built our own.”

By then it was already working and done to the point Ford just shook its head and let them proceed.

Needless to say, the relationship was not to be long-term, who could’ve seen that coming?! /s
Göteborg is below 10°C November to March, five months

https://weatherspark.com/y/71566/Average-Weather-in-G%C3%B6t...

in contrast sunshine duration and angle in Winter is frickin low.

sure that guy wasn't trying to sell sth?
I tried in the thread to give clear definitions of intelligence and AGI in order to make an argument for.

I didn’t give references for the definitions, but for intelligence, I think Legg and Hutter (2007) & Russell and Norvig (2010) work. And Wikipedia has some tests for AGI.

I asked GPT3 “if you were going to go into a person’s house and make a cup of coffee, detail what steps you’d take.” GPT3 responded with text that is indistinguishable from what I’d expect from a high school graduate, at least.

1. Knock on the door or ring the doorbell.

2. Wait for the person to answer the door.

3. If the person invites you in, step into the house.

4. Find the kitchen and locate the coffee pot and coffee beans.

5. Measure out the desired amount of coffee beans and grind them.

6. Place the ground coffee in the coffee pot.

7. Fill the coffee pot with water and turn it on.

8. Wait for the coffee to finish brewing.

9. Pour the coffee into a mug and enjoy.
> meat that tastes as good as real meat while being cheaper is very alluring

Interestingly, it seems that every time I see an Impossible burger on a menu, it's not cheaper. Often it's more expensive, but usually roughly the same price. I'm not sure why this is, but it seems like it's probably holding folks back from eating it regularly.
I had the same experience. I have tried both the impossible and beyond meat burgers and ended up not being able to finish them as I really didn't like the taste.

I had high hopes because I had watched these TV segments where they were eating them and saying how it tastes like a burger. But not for me.
Like electric cars, America could choose to subsidize the more ecological friendly choice until it scales.
I've been playing around a lot with Stable Diffusion lately.
On building the next Figma, my first reaction was that Figma should probably have been a compiled GUI application in a ideal world.

Figma is a work tool where a designers are supposed to spend a decent amount of time, and when working on a specific project there is little navigation or moving to other pages. It being in the browser is a technical artifact to help the business model, but inherently there would be nothing lost if it was a local application synching data and changes with a central server.

If time had to be spent making react closer to desktop apps, can’t that time be spent instead on making desktop apps as sandboxed, OS compatible, easy to download and execute as web pages ?

This is something Apple doesn’t care much about, but react core devs also don’t care about desktop likeness, so it seems a to me to be a suitable alternative solution.
Those tax changes are irrelevant - you can make double for the top of the local market working remote for US companies. Several percent in taxes doesn't make a difference at this point.
It's the same line of argument as "well my dad was a chain smoker and he died at 92 and it wasn't lung cancer!"

It's undisputable that producing meat requires way more land and resources than any plant or vegetable. Sure, nobody cares about the farmer and his five cows he keeps for himself, what's rather the problem is giant animal farms with questionable hygiene, sick animals, bad treatment of them, and the general expectation of more and more parts of the world population to eat meat every day instead of once or twice a week.
I don't find these anti-capitalist arguments very compelling, because the downsides of capitalism aren't nearly as bad as the downsides of other economic systems. However, mobile apps are generally trying to occupy as much of your time as possible in order to increase ad revenue, so it's no surprise that people are so glued to their phones. You can imagine, in capitalism's stead, some hypothetical authoritarian economic system where technology and mobile apps are optimized for "living a spiritually rich and diverse human life".
We use common lisp in production at https://graphmetrix.com and use one of the fastest webservers available (one of many libraries) woo https://github.com/fukamachi/woo
The problem with these approaches is that it's much harder to exclude individual sites that break.
I started installing a reversing camera in my car, but quickly realized I'll have to drill into the car to get the cables through so I've postponed it to another day when I'll start a lot earlier (almost 4:30pm and it'll be dark in a couple hours)
Healthspan is more important than lifespan, why don’t more people know about it?
For fun or looking to do something with it?
It really depends on your starting point.

If you have a perfectly serviceable means of heating that you are happy with, then it's a straightforward cost analysis (cost of consumables for the current heating method vs cost of electricity for the heat pump).

I can only give an example that applies to my situation: previously I burned ~2300l of diesel which cost around 2300EUR for the previous heating season. So the yearly energy consumption is about 24MWh (combustion heat of fuel multiplied by efficiency of the furnace of ~94%).
If I were to install air source heat pump, it would require about 8-9.6MWh (COP =2.5-3) of electricity per year (4000-4800EUR at the current fixed price offering from my electricity supplier of ~500EUR/MWh).

If I were to install a ground source heat pump (COP of 4.5-5.5), expected electricity consumption is between 4.3-5.3 MWh or ~2200-2600EUR/yr.

If I were to power the ground source heat pump using the electricity generated by my solar panels (Latvia currently has 1:1 net billing system, but there is a grid cost of ~50EUR/MWh) the expected yearly heating cost is ~210-260EUR.

At the previous electricity cost of ~100EUR/MWh, air source heat pumps for not-so-well insulated houses might be attractive option- but not at the current prices in Europe.

When I did the calculations this spring, the break even time for heat pump + solar installation was ~8 years (based on fuel and electricity costs at that time).

Right now it's around 4 years (and I might even get ~40% of the investment from a government clean energy incentive programme). However, I have to operate under assumption that a crazy dictator of a neighboring country doesn't decide to invade and wipe my house off the Earth...
I still wonder why neither qemu nor any other (open-source) emulator ever tackled Itanium emulation.

Is the CPU architecture so complicated? Is it so undocumented? I would think that projects like MAME have in the past reverse-engineered and emulated much more complicated and undocumented systems (some of which were even encrypted).

So why don't we have any Itanium emulators yet?
My voodoo 6000 had a Molex connector, I guess to facilitate testing in ordinary pcs.

(I didn’t realise what I had until years after I threw it out! I only picked it up because it was so impressive-looking: comically enormous board, four fans.)
I could earn probably double, maybe even triple my salary and then I read your comment and realized it's true. If my salary now were halved, it'd still be more than the average US income earner. I Googled "US population average salary" and they have a nice graph.

As a side note, get ready for the pitch forks, it started going up as we approached the then potential Trump era in 2016.
What's your opinion on Vercel or Netlify hosting?
The venting was exterior to the house and was heavily influenced by outside temp