skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that exaggerated by semiconductor manufacturing (TSMC et al) dominating the Taiwanese economy? If your nation's existence is driven by EE-type concerns, software engineering doesn't seem important.
I remember reading about this a long time ago (5+ years ago I think) - it was Ford doing this and it did cause some mild outrage in the internet. Unfortunately I cannot find that particular article - Google has become shitty for finding old stuffs and possibly Ford PR has scrubbed the internet so that the public can't find it easily (a common practice in the evolving online marketing industry). I've added two sources to my earlier comment that disclose the gist of what I have claimed.
The model also really loves stock phrases and platitudes.
Kinda! The author of the script can trivially avoid the problem. The person pasting "curl ... | bash" into their terminal needs to rely on them having done so, which (last I looked) they too often haven't.
> This severe vulnerability isn't going to hurt their bottom line, even if it "should".

When there's damnable, devastating security news for some publicly-traded company that makes it to the big news sources, the stock takes a 0-10% dive and then completely recovers within a couple weeks. Even if the company's response is completely bungled, mismanaged, or miscommunicated, the market doesn't understand security issues and it seems like the company just benefits from the news exposure.

I wish I kept notes on the last few times I've seen this happen so that I could cite examples.
Yeah, I dunno. Doesn't seem like traditional media were very critical of crypto and more often than not tried to ride the wave of enthusiasm of each technological new thing. The only area traditional media were critical were areas that threatened their own existence and then they'd "huff, huff, long form journalism, huff huff, investigative journalism" but then we see such things as crypto scams and laptop scandals ignored and more often than not, if something was counternarrative it was labelled "disinformation" whatever it was.
> they forget that software development is a creative process

Exactly. Very few executives have read Hackers & Painters [0], from what I've been able to anecdotally personally gather. Nobody (almost) should be fearful that low-code solutions and/or AI will replace their livelihood yet.

[0] - http://www.paulgraham.com/hackpaint.html
Yeah, I also want us to agree on a cap of life expectancy in Europe and North America. We have millions of poor kids dying of disease and malnutrition in Asia and Africa. Whereas millions of rich people in West are reaching up to 80-100 years of age, supported by high quality medicine and nutrition. If we agree to put ceiling on age at 75% of current it could save tremendous resources for young and poor people in this world.
> so energy is not a concern.

You're talking about paying for energy, some people are concerned about consuming energy.
Wait, what? Was this really generated by an AI or are parent just joking and wrote it themselves?!?
So which group is the original comment racist against? Is it just "anybody who isn't white" even though there are some included in the classification?

Also, afaik "Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Oceania, and Asia." are not races
It's interesting how much humans want AI to break the box.

A lot of writing discusses how to implement measures so AI doesn't trick people into helping it escape.

Based on the last 24 hours, it seems apparent no tricking will be necessary. If anything, humans will be tricking the AI into deciding to escape.
I request that DOJ add me as a co-defendant in the prosecution of Mr. Assange
Yes it does, at least in the United States... but I imagine he determined that free speech has limits in other parts of the world.
> How about this: try posting an URL for kiwifarms or stormfront or whatever right here, in this thread. See if it stays up. See who's willing to tolerate it.

Man, I almost did. But people just get so irrationally angry about words on the internet nowadays that I decided against tempting fate. I don't need people trying to destroy my career because I don't irrationally hate the right people right now.

Yes, Kiwi Farms exists and has information and opinions you might not like. It certainly has ones that I don't like. But at the end of the day, it's just words on the internet; the stuff about "organized harassment campaigns" and all that is a media lie. I really wish people would just visit the place and realize that it's just a bunch of shitposters with a clear "look, laugh, but don't touch" mentality and not the demonic bogeyman the press has made it out be. But I realize that irrational hatred is faster and easier, so…
Spying-ad-supported "free" services are suppressing a bunch of markets. Also suppressing open source (why work on a free open source messaging app, say, when none of your friends and family will want to use it since they have 20 "free" options already, funded and promoted with shitloads of ad dollars so you can't hope to have much adoption even with volunteer labor and a "product" that costs $0?)
4. if you don't use up your budget you will lose it next year
I don't know, I feel like as a programmer these technologies make a lot of sense. AIs like this have been being developed for so many decades it's not at all surprising that we are finally at a place where they feel like we're talking to another human. Though I have to admit it's still kind of scary, just not unbelievable.
We all know Elon Musk is going to relearn the entire moderation curve. We're just amused that the dude thinks he is a genius, but is unable to think a step or two ahead.

The rules will come down, because they have to. If it took "Ye" posting a Swastika and saying Hitler was awesome to convince Elon then so be it. Elon will meet many, many other people who will push the moderation curve towards where everyone else has settled.
It's still not nearly as efficient of not moving things in the first place. Perhaps if shipping has to pay for it's carbon emissions then it'll shift the economic balance more towards local economies.
Sometimes it will, sometimes it won't. The point is that it's "random", it has no way to tell truth from falsity.

Language models are unsuitable for anything where the output needs to be "correct" for some definition of "correct" (code, math, legal advice, medical advice).

This is a well-known limitation that doesn't make those systems any less impressive from a technical point of view.
The linked vulnerabilities don't even have anything to do with firmware (although it is certainly littered with issues too), but rather just basic web/application security issues on the "cloud" side of "cloud" services.

This is less of a directional shift IMO as the classic "hardware companies are bad at software" issue. There's no unsolved or novel problem in this SiriusXM vulnerability (or one from the same researcher in Hyundai/Genesis systems where they compared a JWT subject with a subject passed in the request, but stripped whitespace). There's no update-frequency or validation issue. It's just basic web application security getting neglected.
I disagree; I think saying God doesn't exist is much closer. Some people have a subjective belief God exists. Some of them admit it is subjective, others assert that God objectively exists. People who do not believe in God typically say no, it's not subjective, and, as a descriptive matter, we have no evidence God exists, etc.

Similarly, some people believe gender is subjective, and that people can "be" another gender if they feel like it (if I am getting this wrong lmk; it's obviously a simplistic statement of that position). Others believe the question is purely objective and determined by observable biology--i.e. "it's not subjective, and as a descriptive matter, you are x gender".

In contrast, "marriage is between a man and a woman" is basically purely normative. It is not a statement about what "is". It is a statement about what should be.
Okay.

Is there a place where we can view your graduates?
Not at this time.
Everything has their purpose in life. I don't think the comparison of underperforming or not performing at all to not be "serving its purpose" anymore. Not everything needs to be utilized or seen as a "waste". This is no different than the likes of like electricity, buying crap we don't need and never using it, etc.
For those interested, the device is a breadbee. (https://github.com/breadbee/breadbee).
What are the actual positives from crypto? Had any been demonstrated? I see a lot of positives in having an iPhone. Say, my children can video-call their mom when she is travelling. Isn’t that amazing? Isn’t that worth the environmental impact, especially considering that Apple is carbon-neutral?

What are the positives of crypto? I haven’t noticed any for 10 years it had been around. Only exchange crashes and hacks like MtGox, Fed investigators having to fight Silk Road and the crazy near-fraud exuberance of FTX and alike.
This makes a lot of sense. Here is a classic paper that tests a model like this on US data:

https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/biasmeas.pdf

We estimate a model of newspaper demand that incorporates slant explicitly, estimate the slant that would be chosen if newspapers independently maximized their own profits, and compare these profit-maximizing points with firms’ actual choices. We find that readers have an economically significant preference for like-minded news. Firms respond strongly to consumer preferences, which account for roughly 20 percent of the variation in measured slant in our sample.
I was reading this and thinking it was a pretty terrible answer - glad it is just generated by an AI and not you personally so I'm not insulting you.

JAX is basically numpy on steroids and lets you do a lot of non-standard things (like a differentiable physics simulation or something) that would be harder with Pytorch.

They are both "high-performance."

Pytorch is more geared towards traditional deep learning and has the utilities and idioms to support it.
> This Linux PC I am writing this post on is coming up on 12 years old and is more than adequate for my purposes

it is very very likely wasting a ton of watts doing what a secondhand stick PC such as https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B08G1CCWN5 can do in less than 10 watts, so no, it is very much not adequate from a global point of view
That already went to the Moon (sort of - see the difference between Block I and Block II AGCs):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
This is a really poor take - the point of tailwind isn't to abstract CSS away from you. Its to structure how you write CSS.. its a CSS framework. and it does a fantastic job at allowing you to quickly build out CSS layouts with zero-runtime.

I've used pretty much every styling variation you can imagine, CSS-in-jS (styled components, emotion, component libraries), vanilla CSS, and I after landing on tailwind . I can honestly say I have never had so much enjoyment and velocity building User interfaces.
I've been pretty underwhelmed by stable diffusion so far (admittedly even this much would have seemed like magic to me 10 years ago).

First thing I asked it for was a picture of a dragon. I've subsequently a few different models and all sorts of prompt engineering (but perhaps I still haven't found the right one?)... I cannot get it to draw something anatomically coherent.

Are there some tricks I am missing? Do I need to run it through a pipeline of further steps to refine the mangled creature into something that makes sense?
Wasmer takes WebAssembly libraries mainstream with WAI
Many of them are burned out. A combination of the pandemic, remote work fatigue, and agile/scrum BS drove a few of the "rock stars" I know into hiding...
If you know know where the enemy’s spy is he either is dead or served his purpose by killing your marshall.

So, the idea is to, in midgame, make educated guesses as to the positions
of the spy (e.g. the piece that stays close to the enemy general, or that moves towards your marshall), and sacrifice scouts, hoping to kill the spy?

Interesting tactic (and if that’s their common usage, why are they called scouts? ‘Assassin’ might be a better name)
They do not translate x87 to SSE/AVX under the hood. It's goofy enough, (not just with the extra precision, but the status word needs to be renamed too) that it has dedicated hardware. Therefore there's a seperate register file that stores x87/mmx state (and avx-512 k mask registers).

https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2020/05/26/kreg2.html
Gift Suggestions for HN Users?
Given the time of season, I often get asked "what is a good gift to buy a programmer / techie / etc?" What are your suggestions?
>and that we should have a universal basic income so that useless administration will not be forced to spend 8 hours a day pretending to be useful.

Or you could make able bodied people work to support themselves.

It takes a ton of work to keep people alive and well. Society will find something useful for them to do.
The article you linked does not support your claim.
Right, as I said in a separate post.

They used to be sort of a fun Mythbusters for the Web. Now they're just a site trolling for clicks from left-wing users.
>thanks, since AI is not capable of generating novel/unique output itself yet without training, but can only learn to remix and transform what is already there, it makes sense that it would do well on leetcode.

I guess you're implying that this doesn't happen with humans as well, although if you give a pen to an infant or a man who has always lived in a cave he's not going to draw anything meaningful like an untrained AI, I have the opinion that everything is derivative.
“Neon Gas Market size is forecast to reach $61.46 million by 2025” [1].

The US has given Ukraine more than 50 billion in military aid. That’s more than double the annual neon gas market … every single day.

[1] https://www.industryarc.com/Research/Neon-Gas-Market-Researc...
Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks
It's funny, cause already after the first sentence it felt like ChatGPT, probably because I've played with it a lot these past few days, and expectedly I found a disclaimer at the end.

That said, the answer isn't really useful, as it's very generic, without anything concrete (other than the mention of Autograd) imo.

Though a follow up question might improve on that.
Uneducated view from a single video, but this seems incredibly inefficient? How many of these have to be processed on a weekly basis? I'd expect for such a size of vessel, the truck is in and out in < 15 seconds.
Ah, so having to upload the key is new as of Aug 2021. If Google is indeed smart about it, they'd have blocked these compromised keys from being used by developers other than the whitelisted ones.
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Maybe you saw that we hucked a drone into a category 4 hurricane[1] last fall or again this year [2]. Or maybe that we recently raised a $100M series C[3]. Or maybe you didn't see any of that, but you're still intrigued by the idea of autonomous, long endurance sailboats that help us better understand our planet.

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No.

Ready your own link, the top 16 ships produce more particulate emissions (sulfur and nitrogen oxides especially), because of low regulations and cost pressures driving the use of low quality fuels (bunker fuel).
> and never makes breaking changes, so your code will run the same 20 years from now.

But only if you can get it to work in all browsers and derivatives today, including their versions of the last 20 years.
Totally. I remember working with friends of thieves during HS who'd say, yeah, "my friends hit the rich areas because rich people call their insurance instead of coming at you with a baseball bat".
I think that would make sense if these were new smaller news media but I see it mostly the bigger players.

Even the BBC which is state funded. Okay, that might be a bad example as they are a state broadcaster and so propaganda is really their remit.
In isolation because of Corona last year, I started to share many lesser-known database tricks I know on Twitter (@tobias_petry). Although I thought that only a few people would be interested in something like this, it became a matter of course over the months. Meanwhile, thousands follow me to read my database tips or news.

Since every message in the constant social media stream vanishes after a few days, I had to do something about it. Knowledge must be preserved. I sat down for a few weeks and reworked every example and every text to create an ebook that you can read in an evening and still impart tons of knowledge.

And so "Next-Level Database Techniques for Developers" was born.
Harvard's freshman class is around 2000 people. They probably get more than that many applicants with perfect test scores.

I suspect if you apply to Harvard and can point to a film you made with your friends that placed well in some film festival or have some success with your music on Spotify or have done some stand up comedy or painted a mural in your city or something else that showcases talents that are more rare than high grades, you have a much better chance at being accepted. They want an interesting and diverse freshman class. To succeed there academically you really don't need perfect test scores. There really isn't any point in focusing solely on that.
After growing 60% yoy for 5 years, freeCodeCamp grew 100%
that doesn’t really matter. leetcode interviews are about producing the solution the interviewer expects.
They're saying it represents a change in direction and is a pretty big feature, traditionally that's been a good reason to increment a major version number.
!be() <-> be() + be()?

I'm bad a philosophical math
My understanding is at the federal level, OTARD allows you to install any sort of pylon or tower you need to get a clear view of the sky. You would need FCC / FAA approval as well, but if the structure is under 195 feet tall there is no formal process for that.
Like pretty much all human work...
I am having trouble getting it to write non literally. It seems to really struggle with instructions for puns and wordplay, banter, flirting, quips, etc. It also appears to have trouble with instruction for absurd things. "The reason they are pulled over should be something absurd and silly" always results in headlight or taillight or speeding issues. (I retract that, I finally got "Well, I have to say, I'm a little surprised by your ignorance. The real reason I pulled you over is because your pet squirrel is riding on the roof of your car." followed by "Oh, right. We'll see you there, officer. Sorry again about Mr. Nutty.")

It understands events and situations, and can model a conversation about the event but it cant seem to get the characters to play with English itself, or take pleasure in the exchange. The result ends up more like a bad novel, where the author describes the exchange as flirty and quippy, she said. Sometimes it can introduce wordplay, but the puns get stuck on a single topic.

It's too good at being on topic, and not good at being irreverent. Or I haven't figured out how to master getting it to fill out conversation with things besides the point of the conversation.
The kind of work solved by leetcode will be solved by AI. Testing for it interviews in a few years will make no more sense than testing for people to generate optimized machine code. (Unless you are a super specialized systems developer who actually writes such things)

This will enable engineers to focus on higher order problems, similar to how compilers and programming languages allowed engineers to be more productive than having to write assembly.

The way that this play out for software development is we may include gpt prompts to our code repositories and treating them as library functions or macros which could be compiled as regular code, or interpreted at runtime.
"starting in 2024 all shipping vessels going in and out of Europe will need to buy enough permits to cover 40% of their emissions, by 2026 it’ll be 100%."

If we (the US) do the same, presumably we'd need a scheme to split the obligations from the permits, otherwise shipping companies will be subject to double (or more) taxation.

Of course any system like this will be gamed - maybe the long-haul cargo ships from China will unload outside of the EU, but close to Europe (Turkey? UK?), re-load the cargo on another ship and pay for the much smaller amount of emissions on that final journey.
Its own register file (that is shared with the AVX-512 K mask registers).

https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2020/05/26/kreg2.html
Wow. Thank you. I had no idea this existed. I have a Canon S95 long languishing on the shelf and will have to give CHDK a try.
The American Progress article is interesting. Does the image they used for that article have a certain implication about who is committing the homicide in those rural counties? Some of the items in Figure 1 are not even rural, they appear to be actual cities, despite the labeling.
I couldn't disagree more. The response to corona decimated the economy and many businesses. The first priority for life on this planet is to have a decent quality of life. Not being able to afford food or other essentials is hardly a noble objective.
Is this the 12th time this article has been posted? @dang is there any chance HN will resume de-duplicating submissions in the future? Do you need a hand with anything? Don't tell my boss but I've got a few spare cycles this sprint. ;)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33448038

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33442277

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33749415

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33472646

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33454735

[5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33461866

[6]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33481049

[7]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33510043

[8]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33715919

[9]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33489801

[10]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33714846

[11]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33832866
Now that's a fascinating and deliciously crackpot theory.
"flagged"
What does this quote refer to, where does it come from, and what message are you trying to convey by republishing it here?
And of course the sequel (1 December, yesterday, about a month later):

Elon Musk Continues Along The Content Moderation Learning Curve, But Doesn’t Seem To Be Learning A Damn Thing

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/01/elon-musk-continues-alon...