skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but if you measure 30 years, let’s say starting at 20 for a young adult - that all the way until they are 50 they will have to deal with this. We as a society are basically saying at least one generation of people are a lost generation.

Like all the people that slaved during Industrialization without workers protection or quality of life fixes, or all the millions that died in WW1/2 because we couldn’t understand what a world war actually was.

There will be a lost generation to Ai, we simply can’t see it because right now it makes digital art from funny text prompts.
I'm personally amazed that we see so few security issues with all the dependency chains that we build on.
It's useful to have a separate type since things like exception messages can get optimized out for size in some cases.
I mostly agree with you, though the natural rate-limiting cycle time of edit-to-observe is much longer in human developmental genetics than in software or semiconductors.
It's an interesting idea. I suspect such a large population of these objects would generate enough x-rays from interactions with dust and gas that we'd be able to detect their presence. We'd also probably see micro-lensing of various observable phenomena if they were that populous. Just guesses though.
> No, that's the vapid marketing pitch. The Linux kernel randomly kills processes when it starts exhausting memory. It's garbage.

You sound like someone who wants some sort of magical fantasy abstraction level where errors never happen and you can just write code without ever caring about said errors or really anything that happens at a lower level or outside of your code. Sorry, but that doesn't exist and never will. Code runs on computers, it doesn't run in a "void".
The Future of Rural New England (1897)
GlobalData observes over 500% surge in discussions around Ebola on social media
Ebola virus disease (EVD) has spread over several key countries in the African continent such as Uganda and Congo in the last couple of months. Uganda has imposed overnight curfew and travel lockdown in two Ebola-hit districts to stop the spread of the contagious disease. Considering the fatality rates linked with the virus, experts are concerned about the possible spread of the virus to other countries. In this context, the discussions around ‘Ebola’ on social media have spiked more than 500% over last 30 days (19 Sep – 19 Oct 2022), reveals the Social Media Analytics Platform of GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
> I took the view that bartenders would be the last occupation to be replaced by robots because if the goal was to minimize the cost to consume alcohol people wouldn't be coming to bars in the first place.

And the elephant in the room, people want human contact

The "AI revolution" is a business owner dream, not a worker's dream, nor a citizen's dream
> I cook a lot and use a watch app called MultiTimer every day for virtually everything I cook. Got detailed overlapping timers configured for all my recipes. That's pure utility, no status signalling involved.

I mean, you could just do the exact same thing with your computer, or your phone? That's what I do when I cook

Where's the pure utility? Not having to walk over to your computer or phone?

> You seem to have made up your mind that it's a fixed-function non-programmable computer and got angry about that, but I don't see how that's my problem.

It isn't your problem. I never said it was. My problem is that the "utility" from wearables is complete and utter BS, and that what little value they add comes nowhere close to justifying the cost or invasion of privacy

But I guess if the niche uses are appealing enough to you, then by all means indulge ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thanks, now I know what it is, why don't you put this piece on top of the repo so everyone visiting know what it is and doesn't waste time with the marketing babble
>Rotate the camera a bit

Not that easy if "the camera" is JWST.
In some sense, that is lower management. Middle management sits between the people who connect with the work floor, and the people who actually make decisions. These positions do seem ripe for AI replacement.
I think you've never done psych research. First of all, statisticians and methodologists are frequently included, also in the design phase, if it's not a simple adaptation of an existing study. Nonetheless, many papers contain design errors.

Second, sociology and anthropology are among the least empirical of academic disciplines. What reason would you have to involve them?

Third, many studies are of the type "my theory predicts X and my experiment shows p < 0.05". That's almost wrong by definition. Bayesian theory explains why.

Fourth, many studies have conclusions/claims that cannot be inferred from the actual finding.

> When nearly every policy can be backed by "some papers published in <some journal>", stuff like this becomes important.

It is important, but as long as academia is a "turn out papers for tenure" industry, it won't be fixed. Don't take the conclusions of a paper for true. They're meant for other academics.
Ask HN: Do Free Account Closures Signal Recession?
I noticed that I have received several emails over the last month about unused free accounts for services such as Heroku, Asana etc shutting down. It may just be a coincidence, but it occurred to me that if a business was looking to cut costs in anticipation of a recession, shutting down dormant free accounts may be an easy way to cut some unnecessary fat if these free accounts required the company to pay for extra servers. Am I seeing something that isn’t there or is this a legitimate soft signal?
Why devoid of AI? Not being combative here, genuinely curious

Perhaps devoid of machine learning, given the year, but even that seems unlikely if the anecdote is true.

If predicting and planning outcomes and with previous data is not some form of AI, what is?

Agreed on the valuable ERP thing, though. There’s a reason SAP is as expensive as it is.
‘Oh No ’ How a 60s Girl Group Anthem Took over TikTok
> Fortunately, .NET 7 adds a new type to help us out here: UnreachableException.

There was an UnreachableException before .NET 7 as well.

Look:

public class UnreachableException : Exception {}
Your argument only works if you consider eugenics to be inherently unethical, which isn't necessarily true.

Previous attempts such as exterminating anyone with flawed genes was certainly unethical, but that was just an example of people drunk on power exercising it.

The benefits from ethical eugenic research would be to the whole society. You'd get less genetic illnesses, improved metabolisms, better eyesight etc. In theory it's basically just improving the odds of rolling good genetics for everyone.

It's certainly not going to be easy however, and to be frank: I doubt any of us will be alive by the time the research would bear fruits.
Your example has nothing to do with geometry, it's incomputable because of encoding you use for real numbers. There isn't anything special about diagonal line that makes it incomputable.

I only skimmed the linked article very quickly, it seems to actually construct special shapes which that make it incomputable, not the encoding they chose.

Your example is fun, I'm not against it. What I'm trying to say is that there's different ways to be geometric for an incomputable problem.
Impervious.ai Releases the Highly Anticipated Impervious Browser
Why Do Americans Own More Guns per Capita Than Anyone Else?
The math of diffusion models – Fast.ai [video]
This game?

http://gallery.guetech.org/suspended/suspended.html

If so, we have different definitions of "very similar". I'd call that a vague resemblance.
Yay. Maybe I can add a filter so I can skip specific episodes and clean up my new release page.
That's multiple comparisons. A common error, for sure, but not the only problem, by far.
That was my favorite part :)
Putin's terrorist attacks against civilian infrastructure make no military sense. The only thing I can think of as to why he's doing it is that he's a dictator on thin ice and has to demonstrate something in order to hold on to power.

And we can also thank the Iranian mullahs and IRGC for making this possible. This is the world the IRGC has been pushing for for decades.

EDIT: in case you're interested, a link to what is going on:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraine-situation-repo...
As a developer I have an adversarial relationship with the Cloud even though I use it all the time. The reason for that is money / billing.

As soon as a credit card is in the relationship exploration and experimentation is over for me.

My local Linux machine may go on fire but it will never send me an invoice no matter what I do.
They both seem to have “Code of Conduct”s which can be used to ban contributors who have the wrong opinion on gender politics. They’ll interpret the belief that transgender men aren’t real women as “violence”. No thanks! I rather not use a distros that would kick out a capable talented developer for their personal beliefs.
With all the research coming out that says exercise is the best way to combat the deterioration of aging, joint health does seem like one of those momentum eroding pitfalls. I know Beff Jezos has his anti-aging startup, but the topic has me wondering what kind of research there is presently into joint health longevity.
I use cascaded windows. It doesn't need a window manager and it's more useful & productive for me than tiled layouts. It looks like this:

+--+--+--+--------------------+
| | | | |
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| | | | |
| | | | |
+--| | | |
+--| | |
+--| |
+--------------------+

I generally put terminals and my note taking app towards the left (smaller windows), my IDEs in the middle (enough for split pane editing when needed), and my browsers on the right, where they are in square / portrait aspect ratio more suited to reading.
Kerosene is about the most energy-dense chemical fuel we have, and long-distance flying is... impractical, without it. What alternative do you imagine to the jet engine?
You do realize that database queries were an essential part of what made the foundation for the Nazi genocide [1]?

Genocides always begin with data.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/04/hitlers...
Can’t this just be mirrored?
Nintendo or Japanese companies generally don’t do that. There is a huge market (doujinshi) of selling fan-made manga for decades and it is generally seen as a tradition.
Is YouTube hiding certain comments?
> If predicting and planning outcomes and with previous data is not some form of AI, what is?

Algorithmic forecasting.

If you squint really hard, the entirety of computer science falls under "AI". But practically speaking, today AI refers to ML.

It's quite possible a savvy programmer integrated the weather forecast to the ERP, with specific products tagged as relevant to a sunny (or wet) outlook. That's not AI, that's just an algo.

It's also possible there was ML at play, but that's not clear, and not necessarily the case.
Access Denied is an HTTP status code, not a page that you serve. 100Tb per month of status codes suggests something like 30 trillion requests per month. Is that possible?
A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

- IBM
Raspberry 4 has 2Gflops/W on 28nm where M1 has 2.5 on 5!!!

There wont be a next paradigm shift.

DRR3 > DDR4 > DDR 5 > DDR6 in latency.

Multicore is leveraged fully, it's the end of electric transistors.

Memory has been slower than the CPU for 30 years! L1, L2, L3 only works around the problem, it does not solve the problem!

You don't understand that SSDs peaked in 2011 when it comes to longevity at 60nm with 100.000 writes per bit.

SATA chipsets/drivers offload the IO more than PCI-e which uses the CPU to buffer.

Older is now better than new.

It's over and when you are trying to get a new laptop in a few years (because your M1 broke) and they will cost $10.000 and break in 2 years and you have to pay $100/month to be able to access/develop on it. You'll remember me.
Ask HN: Why so many links on HN are being marked as [dead]?
I've noticed that lots of links are marked as [dead] in the https://news.ycombinator.com/newest. Never seen so many of these before. What's going on?
Are you against the "pro-life" agenda?
Are you sure they are playing the right games (standing/sitting in place, teleport-only, modern headset that isn't a Google Cardboard)? I haven't seen or heard of anybody getting seriously sick after headset went 90Hz and the 6DOF tracking started getting really solid.

Back in Oculus DK1 days that was still a serious problem still (3DOF, 60Hz), but once we got the Rift that pretty much disappeared.

The wrong games will of course still make people sick, but so will a roller coaster in the real world. That's a game design issue at that point, not a hardware limitation.
Companies with a waiting culture get things done on time. You might perceive interrupting as being more efficient but interrupting has its own set of inefficiencies.
> JIRA is constantly improving itself

It surely is. Just look at their new pricing tiers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33244978
From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion Course
Power plants were also a target of American bombers on the opening night of 1991 gulf war.
I wish!!
Russian Attacks on Power Plants Spur Emergency Actions
Needless to say the resistance it can create that a machine dictates you what to do or not.

I think this would raise a lot of doubts as it could be biased and have an excuse to say: oh, this is the next thing to do...

I do not think humans, nowadays, assume as natural that a machine dictates what to do. For information support it is ok. But not for taking decisions.
Several years ago the Touhou wiki left Fandom/Wikia for their own hosting. The Wikia admins responded by seizing control of the old wiki, removing any redirects or references to the new location, and banning the old admins.

The community largely followed to the new domain, leaving the Wikia version in a sort of dormant state filled with spam and weird "original fan-creation" pages.

https://www.reddit.com/r/touhou/comments/44prw7/what_went_wr...

https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Talk:Touhou_Wiki/Archive_3#Wa...
For GitHub scary actions, I will not hesitate to copy and paste the expected repo name on the UI. I can do this so quickly my brain does not process the consequences in time.
The article mentions asset stores / packs as part of the democratization but that is also often the biggest barrier to open sourcing games. Solo or small indie developers often rely on asset stores for at least part of their content and that usually means they can't open source their entire game even if they wanted to as licenses for assets usually do not allow for redistribution in this form.

If you want to open source a game you generally need to plan for it from the start and only use assets that you fully own or that have licenses that allow redistribution.

You can open source just the code but this is limited in what it allows others to do in terms of contributing to or remixing the game. Even learning from the code is limited if you don't have access to the assets such that you can run the code and make changes.
Traff: A universal format for live traffic information
I've come to believe is that the answer to these kinds of questions is "because GPU optimisation is difficult".
But it'll be wrong. 355/113 is only useful up to n digits, not infinitely, and GP is saying that n is as big as the number of digits in "355/113".
Don't forget about the baseline input latency that even local games experience. The best case scenario is PC, which would add in the realm of 10-20ms of input latency to your network latency. TVs (which are the target for this stuff) have hilariously large input latency.

You're teetering on the budget before you even hit the network.
Lenovo Yoga Paper E Ink tablet leaked, Apple TV 4K gets a major spec bump
> As Pascal shows and along with others, there are various options

The number of platforms Pascal is available looks impressive! Can you mention some of the others like that? You say there are various options. What are those?
I’m not too concerned about it. I’m a fairly tough old coot (I’m a reformed troll, myself). I’ve dealt with much worse. As you can tell, more folks seem to value what I have to say, than have issues with it. I make a sincere effort not to bring negativity (and boy, oh boy, is that something I can do).

I’m pretty sure that the ones that have problems with me, consider me to be an arrogant old “OK boomer.” Maybe they’re right. I don’t think so, but, as they say, if your feet are wet, and you see pyramids, you’re in de Nile (or a fountain in Vegas). I don’t attack folks, or try to intimidate them. My worst crime is to be annoying.

This is a professional venue. It may not always seem like it, but people can get and lose careers, by their behavior, hereabouts. I’m done with mine. I don’t really need to impress anyone, but if I fight with someone, it could have severe consequences for them. I know how to draw the worst out in people, and make them show their ass. They may “win” their fight, here, and lose everything else. A pyrric victory.

Even if I don’t like someone, I don’t actually want to cause them damage. I would sincerely like to be a positive influence, if at all possible. As I said, I used to be a rather nasty troll, and one of the reasons I participate here, is as recompense. I believe amends need to be made.

This site is Disneyland. Maybe it can’t last, but it has, so far. I like it here. Most folks here have some truly great stuff to share, and I learn something every day. I am truly humbled by some of the participants, here. I make a point of hanging out with people smarter than I am. I’ve done that, all my life. I participate, because I want to be a good citizen, and it’s actually kind of an honor to be here.

If it gets bad, I can always hightail it outta here. I have done that many times, in the past.
I'm happy to see this, and hopeful that more wikis will follow suit. Things like the Minecraft Wiki, Wookiepedia, etc would be much better as self hosted sites rather than Fandom ones, and probably run significantly better too.

But it makes me realise that we really need to support hobbyist/fan run services as much as possible if we wanted self hosting to be rewarded. Is there an extension or something that tries to block sites owned by large companies (whether they be Wikia, Alphabet, Meta, etc)?
Until it is experimentally tested, DM is essentially equivalent to the ether. A useful unexplained tool which to date seems to work.

Until another Michelson-Morley experiment comes (and MOND might have something to say, or at least they seem to be testing DM experimentally), yes: as untestable as string theory is.
Different intention.
I don't know if I have, to be honest. I've seen some very short clips of people supposedly mapping certain exaggerated facial movements to cartoon avatars that look nothing like them. I guess I don't think that Facebook's solution will be a replacement for the real thing. I think we may get there once we have 3d cameras that can saturate a room, and glasses/contact lens/retinal displays.
Oh, and whatabout...

These whataboutisms are tiresome and off topic.
I updated my above comment, after cooling off enough to actually open Wikipedia. Afaiu we see the remnants of the supernova as well, but it was far from the Pillars, and the wave will take some time to travel there—hundreds to a thousand years still. Otoh the part where the wiping-away was hypothesized but disconfirmed with Hubble, seems to be at odds with this account, because it says we should be seeing the disturbance already. It's all rather confusing.
I've personally switched to Spotify. It honestly kind of sucks as a podcast app, but the sync, and also episode search and Echo support are at least there. I've heard Castbox is also supposed to be decent.
Agreed. I think people warning of an esoteric singularity AI will be wrong. It won't even be called an AI perhaps, it will be little agents that try to quantify everything. Data analysts as prostitutes of special interest will set up metrics so that management can nudge workers towards a certain direction. In the vast majority of cases it will be metrics to quantify individual productivity. This then becomes a new religion. People like the idea of being able to reduce complexity of anything down to a number and what they want to believe will become reality to them.

There is no logic to madness, but there certainly is to stupidity. It is rigid and predictable.
This is good. The pre-terminal console was appalling and was behind the times by the time Windows XP launched. Now I just wish I could quit PowerShell with a ^D
This is amazing. I'm already a Plus subscriber and glad to see that I backed the right horse.

I switched to Pocket Casts from Overcast because of playback issues and lack of Chromecast support, and stayed for the very polished experience and cross platform support (there's even a desktop app now!).

Your podcast player of choice is like your gang colors, people get pretty passionate about it. In my case Pocket Casts is the one that works exactly the way I expect and gets out of the way.
So from your writing I can extract: profit is bad and incentives to work are bad, no matter the improvement on the service or if people do it bc they found it an option?

If you consider a job as exploitation, in the free world you can find another job, right? That is what I do: I will not work in what I think it is bad.

But in my case at least that job should be very bad by all measures, bc there is no worst thing for me than getting social benefits just because a job was "too bad", "too exploited" or "too hard".

All in all, I do not think driving taxis has something to do with exploitation.
Haha. And is-odd depends on is-even?
C# needs closed enums
I merely responded to OP who multiple times said that the WFH crowd are anti-social and people hating. Moreover they asked what they're not understanding about the WFH crowd from a socializing perspective and I responded.
Possibly! I think it's more likely that our understanding of these astrophysics matters will improve only ONCE the light reaches us.
Interesting to note that Finland's Foreign ministry has blocked the building of a new icebreaker for Russia:

https://yle.fi/news/3-12648960

Ironic that trade continued through decades of the often very tense cold war.
Redefining how you write and read books
We haven't really attempted to genetically influence intelligence because the most obvious ways of doing so are horrendously evil. This doesn't mean it cannot or should not be studied as the results could prove useful.

E.g. let's say we discover that there's a common defect in a particular gene makes aurul learning harder, then we can raise awareness and get schools to check if struggling students might do better with pictorial learning.

Knowing both that this mutation exists and how prevalent it is (and where!) is important for knowing if its worth expending limited school resources on alternative approaches.
Oral arguments before the Supreme Court are a fairly formalized interrupt culture in which the justices literally interrupt the attorneys to ask questions, and funny enough, the women justices tend to speak more than the men justices. Clarence Thomas famously speaks the least; he actually would prefer to hear out the attorneys making their case to the court.