skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For fun, I tried summarizing the article with copy.ai's explain like I am five and did some hand tuning. I removed the sections on personal information, paying list price, product led growth, the salesforce automation / data collection, and a few others.

https://fire.posthaven.com/hhQ0kYwTXbwhUFxjAqQu8IlT

Let me if I should do more of these publicly.
Rustbelt Renaissance: Pittsburgh becomes an FDI standout
https://archive.ph/0eQby
Yeah I very much doubt that. Until last year, the energy policy of Germany, one of the richest countries in the world, depended on cheap gas from Russia. It took Russia's invasion of Ukraine to force them to reassess their policy.

And their short-term solution? Buy gas from other countries.
Unfortunately they only tested Logitechs unifying system, that's known to be broken (mentioned in the paper).

That's one of the reasons Logitech is moving to Logi Bolt, which is supposed to be very similar to BLE (but with a separate receiver). I'd be really interested to know if it's also as secure as BLE.
> We don't know the revenue Nintendo derives from virtual console sales, but you can be assured that virtually none of it is making it to the creators which is who copyright is designed to protect.

I too have many gripples with copyright but this is simply wrong. Copyright is designed to protect the rightsholder. Whether it is a person or a company is irrelevant. This isn't a conspiracy or cynical-type explanation, this is by design
My first time using Rust “for real” (Rust vs C++)
Quantity of users is social proof (more accurately, social evidence) of quality. The claim "we have high quality" is cheap: anyone can make it, and it's subjective enough that it can't be disproven in any absolute sense. But if you lie about having billions of users, you can be called out on that pretty easily; and if you say it honestly, it implies that billions of people like the quality of your product or service enough to use it. Billions of people can be wrong, but saying you have billions of users is still much better evidence of quality than saying you have quality.
Or, ironically, the podcast of the guy he responded to, adamgordonbell: https://corecursive.com/

It's a podcast I've really been enjoying for a few years now. It used to be a little more technical (as the name, corecursive, kinda implies), but found a niche in interviewing people more about the people than the tech they're knowledgeable about, which is also very pleasant. Anyway, I encourage you to listen to both an early and a recent episode to find out if you like it.
We don't know if it's surprising, the author never tells us their hypothesis. They don't state any particular reason for the prompt they used, they don't explore the contents or qualities of the prompt compared to other AI-generated art, and they don't run multiple trials. Because of that, we can't conclude anything useful from this article. There's no frame of reference or scientific inquiry involved. If you find it entertaining, that's fine. As a scientific comparison, this verges on parody.
I think it’s a stupid decision by Lufthansa, but to be fair, these keys will only transmit when prompted by a radio signal from a specific car, whereas an AirTag will transmit when prompted by any iPhone. There are, surprisingly, more iPhones inside the typical airplane than cars.
Which is ironic because often times companies refuse to give budget numbers unless I sit through a damn demo first....

At this point I strongly disfavor companies that do not publish their retail prices. everyone from Microsoft to SpaceX can do it, there is ZERO excuse for companies not doing it today
Stack buffers are allocated in the heap (by the "default" rr.c implementation of usched::s_alloc()). Allocating them on the stack, as you seem to be proposing, is a really clever idea: you can do something like rr_thread_init(&startfunc, arg, alloca(BUFFERSIZE)). The buffer is freed when the coroutine is terminated (rr_done()).
PayPal: The company can take $2,500 from your account for sharing misinformation
There was a thread yesterday on M-DISCs and the longevity of DVDs etc (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33117813). It's sad - and perhaps strange? - that we don't have good write-and-forget storage solutions, it would certainly reduce my stress around backuping and curation
PayPal user agreement fining users $2,500 for 'misinformation' was error
Very few humble bundle products are financially successful. It's easy to think otherwise because of the standout few.
Over the internet, though? I use 10 gig inside my network for storage too, but not over the 'net. Doing big offsite backups is the only thing that really comes to mind for me, but even then apart from an initial push 1 gig is more than enough for routine incremental backups for my uses.

The best pitch I can think of is "if you build it, they will come." We won't see widespread uses for > 1 gig until people have it, I suppose.
Yes. Thanks. The link below has the most up to date comprehensive diagram of typical doses. For the uninitiated: the 'relative biological effectiveness' of photons (X rays, gamma rays) is typically taken to be one; by contrast, for alpha particles it is generally taken to be 20 since they dump much more energy per unit path length than do photons.

https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2018/01/f46/doe-ioni...
You have to start somewhere! Culture affects zoning but zoning also affects culture.
This is what I would do if I worked for Russian psy-ops. Falsely flag content to delay exposure and reduce the incentive for reporting.
On Mind Mapping
You'll see tons of references to NDA-only datasheet in coreboot's commit history.

Isn't that really against the principles of open-source (and possibly the NDA itself)? It's a strange situation and why I'd rather manufacturers release datasheets instead of contributing to OSS. The source is technically "open" in the latter case, but in practice it's not much more informative than what you'd get if you just decompiled the binary.
> in a thread about all of the data on that server being gone

Oh, is that what this thread is about? Who says it is?
And yet I can buy a Microtik router that just has dropdown boxes for selecting options that would get the FCC to bust down my door. I think it is far more likely that they just don't want to expose what would then be obvious security vulnerabilities and/or built-in backdoors.
You're right, I shouldn't have bailed after the first few paragraphs. Sorry about that :p
I’ll cook more if we had less shitty pre made food in stores and less fast food. I could make several other examples but that’s just one I thought of.
American Air opening an exclusive $250M 600-room employee-only hotel in Dallas
I disagree there was far less rigidness to life than today. People broke way more rules back then. Laws weren't taken as seriously. You could break many laws and cops would let you off the hook easily if you were nice. Now days life is very strict and there is zero room for error if you make a mistake. You can screw up once you won't get another chance in today's world. Especially with cancel culture.

Everyday the country is developing new useless laws to control people. Soon there will be only one set way to live and thats it because all laws and rules will be written.
If Norway included carbon exports then it wouldn't be anywhere near 97%.
OT, kinda. My eldest kid is in the final year of UK junior school so finally cut lose to walk to and from school as is culturally acceptable here.. I gave her a phone so she could let us (mum/dad) know she was on her way home from school, deciding to go home to a friends etc.. the school caught wind and apparently it was against school policy so she was disciplined (along with a number of her peers) - the extent of which was limited when I and her mother (and her peers parents) told them we had given them the option irregardless of the school policy.

The school response was to put an air tag on her!... I gave her a phone because they can't take change (money) to school which could be used for a payphone; but they don't exist any more, barely anyway.. fuck air tags, I don't care about property I care about people and air tags are as abusive bit of tech as it gets, how is a kid supposed to grow up knowing they are being tracked 24/7.. my example is nothing compared to what happens to people with abusive partners.. this kinda tech can not be normalised.
https://github.com/gwf/CBofN

Get "The Computational Beauty of Nature.
Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation" too.

In order to compile it under Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install git build-essential xorg-dev

git clone https://github.com/gwf/CBofN

cd CBofN

make

OpenBSD: get git and gmake, you already know what to do then.
If it fails, edit the makefile so it matches the correct x11 libraries and headers: /usr/X11R6/include and /usr/X11R6/lib.
They are mobilising to increase presence and unit rotation along the frontline, without having to decrease their presence along their borders with other countries.
But how do we know if the Fiverr provider is using Stable Diffusion?
Yet, we treasure discoveries of such trivial things of absolute nobodies in thousands-years-old civilizations that are gone. Example: https://www.livescience.com/pompeii-slave-room-uncovered
I see The Atlantic testing/changing headlines constantly because of incognito mode it seems. I would say a rewrite is a crude form of AB testing:)
If your speech can range from -127 to 128 (positive to negative) and you intentionally restrict yourself to a subset thereof, you lose some of the expressive ability.
Do You Ignore Your Partner to Check Your Phone? A Closer Look at Phubbing
Punishing publishers for choosing to release on a competitors platform they don't like would hurt those publishers more than Valve. Nintendo's relationship with third parties is already often strained, doing anything like you suggest would in particular cause indies, which Switch relies on to fill the gaps between Nintendo releases, to flee the platform.
They use it for storing iCloud Photos without E2EE while heavily marketing privacy
It is a bit like music. One could state that all of the popular music is garbage (I might even state that myself some days), but in the end, the music purchasing public have spoken.
Ogham – It’s All in the Symbols
Cheaper than a laptop? You could get a cheaper laptop with better or equal specs if you buy used or get something from a previous year. A lot less hassle than trying to get something on custom hardware to run with no real upside.
What Happened to You, Scott? (Or, Openness vs. Conviction)
Wikipedia is not a good source for politically sensitive or contentious subjects as these tend to be taken over by self-appointed keepers of The Truth™ who only allow their own narrative to stay on the page, removing anything else.

If you want to link to Wikipedia anyway it is best to link to the Talk and Edit history pages as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Joseph_Ladapo

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Ladapo&act...

The edit warring is clear to see with subjects related to SARS2 and ´transgenderism' being the most contentious.
In the same way that nobody torrents linux isos? Just because it's less popular than other uses doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
wtf this is the worse possible use of DALL-E, it's not intended for that at all
Franz Kafka’s Dissenting Bodies
AI Whisperer is totally going to be a job
Evaluating Image Generation Intelligence: Humans vs. Imagen vs. DALL-E
So why is it fine for literally every single passanger to have bluetooth headphones on during the duration of the flight, but somehow trackers are bad?
I wonder if they realize this further undermines their credibility and only plays to some insane base. Maybe that's an effective political strategy but it's really bad for public health outcomes. It's going to mean fewer people will listen to public health when they actually should.
Others have mentioned relativenumber, but for horizontal I just use search. For example:

This is a line of text.

If the cursor is on "is" and you want to delete everything before "text", this is what I do:

d/text<enter>

Any movement works for these actions, even searching to "select" everything between the cursor and the target. Often I'll use visual mode to get a quick confirmation before deleting it:

v/text<enter>h
(check selection is what I want)
d

The visual mode one isn't exactly the same because one additional character, the first "t" in "text", is in the visual selection area, hence the "h" to go back one.
While this is legal, Nintendo is very vocally anti-emulation. Nintendo and Denuvo announced anti-emulation measures for switch games in August 2022. There's a big difference between support and marketing support. Nintendo doesn't care what other companies do internally, but cares a lot about what is shown publicly. I remember when Nintendo took down a bunch of youtube videos showing how to jailbreak the original switch. Nintendo isn't coming to PC anytime soon though, so I can't imagine this having any major impact, but it is bad manners. Video and thumbnail edited out Yuzu.
> It's their right because we've decided as a society that it's often useful for people to have that right.

> These are a completely separate issue

No! The original social contract was we'd all pretend their stuff wasn't easily copyable for a few years so they could turn a profit and then it would enter the public domain.

Not only is it obvious that they have zero intention of keeping up their end of the bargain, they keep stretching out those few years into functional limitlessness. About 5 years is more than enough for these creators to make their money back and then some, but we're all going to be dead before the works we grew up with become part of the public domain.

So why should we recognize copyright as legitimate? It's not. It's just monopolists and rent seekers and there is absolutely no reason for us to accept any of this BS.
I thought raytraced GI was pretty unexceptional these days, Metro Exodus did that already back in 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms7d-3Dprio
And it's a legit criticism. There are three major issues I see here:

1) The prompt uses fairly complex grammar which is incompatible with a token-based parser. In particular, symbolic references like "The third […] starts below the second, and generally follows the second" are going to be lost on it.

2) The prompt includes details which a generative network is spectacularly unlikely to be able to handle, like asking for text labels with words like "prosecution" which are unlikely to be present in its training material. (Generally speaking, image generation models can only output short words which they've seen many times, like "STOP" or "PIZZA", and even those can be iffy.)

3) Speaking of training material, most of the training material given to image generation models consists of photographs and artwork. Technical diagrams are much less common, and when they do encounter those images, they're unlikely to be paired with the sorts of detailed descriptions that would be required to produce them on demand.
Is it cheaper than a laptop? For $400 you can get a pretty good chromebook that has a full size screen and keyboard.

That said, it would probably work so long as you connected an external keyboard.
Facebook has 14% YoY growth, P/S of 3, P/E of 10.6, with 80.5% gross margins. If those don't sound like strong fundamentals, let me know what companies have better metrics, I'd actually be interested...
I wonder why it seems to be mostly the new stuff that's getting leaked, and not the old out-of-support platforms that are long out of production, since the latter would be of value to BIOS-modders trying to add features and the like.

I agree with the other comment here that this stuff should've been open-source in the first place, but more than that, I wish Intel would just release all the detailed documentation on their products. They used to be far better about that --- I believe you can still find reference schematics and such for Pentium II/III-era chipsets on their site, or in the Internet Archive thereof.

The latter part of the article is more "open source bad" fearmongering, sadly common these days in that part of the software industry.
Mercs that accepted competitive bids would not be hired again by nearly anyone.
> irregardless

Sorry to nitpick, but you can just say regardless.
With hundreds of developers and millions of lines of code - yes Typescript and ORMs will completely eliminate entire classes of bugs, and be a force multiplier when it comes to productivity.

You should never rule out a tool as 'unnecessary' even if you can't think of any possible reason for it. Try to keep an open mind here, you may not know everything.
You use Kakoune instead. It selects before an action, allowing you to preview whatever you're doing. So you can 10W as an estimate and then, say, 2BD.
I don't get your comment. You say they banned them, then immediately explain that they're not banned, you just have to turn them off - just like every single electronic device in checked in luggage. Can you elaborate on this contradiction?
Well they didn't specify whose deaths
Yes, my workflow to find settings in tons of apps is to use Google. I could hunt for the right checkbox, or just as easily ask the question and get a directed answer immediately.

I don't see anything wrong with this either. I mean, tons of times when I need to do something specific in my car, for example, I just google it and get a detailed YouTube video explaining it. Better than hunting in a manual.
No, it seems we're making a little joke: The asterisks don't necessarily have to mean 'a' and 'e', do they? They could be some other letters...
Wonderful article, Jeremy, I have read it multiple times.

Highly recommended.
Americans are becoming less productive, and it's a risk to the economy
Could a webform be used to ask the questions that you ask (based on a very large decision tree, of course), and then either (1) format the results in a way that AI can generate an appropriate image, or (2) have a human look at the results and in 4 minutes use AI to generate an appropriate image?

Do you think that people in your line of work, or adjacent lines of work, will use AI to offload brainstorming or to get inspiration?

My guess (as a complete outsider) is that the skill of drawing will remain important, but that there will emerge a new skill: an AI translator, who serves as a midwife for the creation of AI art.
I am always amazed when people talk about personal things on business calls

I would NEVER do that. Outside of generics like "I went to the beach for vacation" I do not even talk about health or deeply personal things with co-workers I have worked with for over a decade. let alone some random salesperson I just meet.

It is crazy.... of course I have no social media presence under my own name, and can not even conceive of posting my life on said social media growing up in the 80's in grained into me that desire for anonymity
What a ridiculous and poorly thought-out experiment. Visual art can be incredibly detailed, complex, and imaginative. None of these qualities are captured by trying to create... plots... Literally anyone can do that using Excel or Google Sheets. You can't call this 'art' and you certainly can't call this science. No attempt has been made to conduct any kind of objective analysis of the results beyond 'lol, not too shabby.' What a half-assed post. I'd love to see someone like Gwern take on such a task.
This is fantastic - would be really exciting to see this level of resolution making its way to global operational weather forecasts (currently at ~10km).
I suppose that means the war isn't going as well as planned anymore, if Alphabet has to demonetize and downrank the reportage.
I keep hearing people talk about how hard Cassandra is to run properly and how many people get it wrong etc. Is there anything to this or is it just FUD and people who genuinely don’t know what they are doing?
This article is a really brief primer on this line of work. A lot of it is working with Python, JavaScript, APIs, and building custom solutions to get different COTS security tools and things like Jira to talk to each other. It may not be for everyone but I really enjoy it.

https://www.cadosecurity.com/the-next-in-demand-job-title-se...
If we aren't slaving away the party will end? This doesn't sound like the best arrangement.
Meta’s text-to-audio AI can create common sounds and generate music
In terms of moneymaking, copyright's long term is more relevant for video games in that it includes the right to make derivative works (i.e.: sequels). Certainly there are franchises that have lived longer than 20 years.

Ports, remasters, official emulation, and subscriptions have given a longer "tail" for at least a handful of classics but even without that it's "the IP" that would be most jealously guarded.
I do see a fundamental reason: The current crop of AI tools are horrible at logic. It's a complete inversion of how we think of computers.

If I want to convey happy emotions in the style of Rembrandt, SD or DALL-E will do brilliantly. If I want an apple BELOW a table, or worse, a geometric shape like a triangle, they'll crash-and-burn.

GPT-3 is also really empathetic, but struggles simple logic (and especially mathematics).

Graphs are like the horror case for these.

I can think of ways to make them better at this, but it's not a weekend of hacking.
Eye tracking reliably is hard.

First you have the quality of optics. Most computers have very small cameras that are low resolution and prone to noise in situations without ideal lighting.

That makes eyes hard to capture as a whole.

Then you need to figure out eye direction. Eyes flit around a lot (saccade) but you could perhaps smooth it out. But pupils are hard to see anyway through glasses. You better hope people wear large glasses with skinny frames and don’t suffer from very poor eyesight or astigmatism, both which lead to high refractions.

There are actually good products for this like tobi (sp?) etc where you can wear prescription lenses and have IR tracking for your eyes.

but even the , even if you get over the technical issues there’s the UX issue. How do you account for something getting your users attention without changing the input focus there? Let’s say they’re listening to music and a track changes, showing a notification.

And even if you figure all of that out, there’s the privacy angle. People don’t like being monitored constantly.
What is it you think could be improved ?
> Quantity of users is social proof (more accurately, social evidence) of quality.

It can also be evidence of founder effects (JavaScript), lock in (Windows), network effects (most social media), etc.
I discovered Forth when building weather stations with an 1802 8-bit cmos processor; there was a tiny assembler language for it for making games which I adopted to a simple stack-based interpreter, and then I discovered Forth by way of a Byte Magazine piece on it. I started attending Forth meetings in the Bay Area where it was clear I knew from nothing about it, even though I had something similar running. So, I got a set of 8080 assembler codes for Forth and transliterated that to 1802 and the rest is history.
From there, I put Forth on an Apple II and found a magazine article which disassembled the graphic and math routines from the Apple Rom; my friend Dan Wood used that to create for us "SciForth" a Forth which did all the math and graphics necessary to analyze data and present it from our weather stations, which, at that time, were being used to locate wind power systems, and for fruit frost prediction in California's central valley.

In the long run, I continued down that path by writing inference engines in Forth. It's a clean and solid ecosystem.
Even today, I think about returning to Forth to see how far I can push it.