skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That image to text feature is great. I have someone who is almost blind in my immediate family and the increase of text screenshots is a really big problem for people who rely on screen readers. As a side-note this seems to be fueled by short-form platforms like Twitter that impose character limits, really not a good thing.
> How many people need to understand how a compiler works to sling some code for a paycheck or just for fun.

I think it's pretty important. I use my very basic knowledge of how compilers work occasionally in my mostly-interpreted code world to diagnose and debug performance issues.

I also used a low-level debugger and taint/trace method recently to diagnose Windows DLL issues that happened after X seconds of starting up a program that interfaced with specialty hardware. A couple young early-career technicians/engineers watched me do it and were incredibly flabbergasted and figured me for some sort of genius when in reality I kinda only know how it works and was just reading the stack/heap as I was paging through; knowledge I acquired from booting SoftICE a few times as a kid.

There's a real lack of simply knowing how a computer and/or a network works, which is to be expected since layers and layers of abstraction have made it very easy to teach computer literacy and even computer programming on many levels. The issue is that when things go wrong and Stack Overflow doesn't have the answers, almost all young engineers I work with have no experience at low-level analysis and debugging, very little knowledge of first principles, and don't know where to Google to start acquiring it.

This isn't me shaking my fist at the kids or anything. They're more productive than I was at their age/experience level with code, and that's due to better knowledge and integration using IDEs which I never had, plus likely better high-level understanding of what's going on. But I fear a generation of developers and technicians who largely have little understanding of how computers work is problematic.
> "Is this an early glimpse of a future where the affluent get in-person service and the working classes are required to perform free work to get their food and clothing?"

This quote is kind of ironic when you realize the entire concept of doing your own shopping is a relatively modern invention of convenience. We gave up long ago on the concept of handing a shopping list to a store clerk for them to round up all of our purchases - this isn't that much more of a stretch.
I expect this is a very expensively choreographed combination of PR and legal advice.
> social security number is closer to an alternate name

`s/is/should be/`

If I have your social security card I can pretend to be you quite effectively as many people will accept it as an ID. They don’t care that you don’t think it is one. The ones that don’t will frequently take an alternative (read: derived) that I can get with just it.

> It doesn't contain evidence that can feasibly be used to prove…

Yes. We agree, it’s a bad ID.
I think the real objective is to make an AI model that identifies a text as containing novel content not yet known to the model. That would also form the basis of a search engine that identifies and surfaces novel thought among the content deluge.
I have the password for my main e-mail written down in an envelope in a safe which I hope my kids will be able to use to notify everyone on various online forums of my demise, and one of them to take over my digital assets (over a thousand books in the Kindle store, hundreds of MP3s on Amazon Music).
> The number of cyclists would explode. There would likely also be lots of deaths due to weakness in the supply chain.

In the short term, yes.

In the medium and long term, if you Americans would put all that money you spend on cars & car infrastructure into equivalent walking and cycling infrastructure and public transport, you'd probably leave even the Dutch behind...
What choice? You are supposing that such a thing exists.
There's a vocal minority who earnestly believe that because the internet obscures wrongdoing, it absolves all wrongdoing. Those people cheat, steal, lie, and then say "it's online, what's the big deal" to skulk away from the consequences. I think they identify with Hans Niemann, Dredd Pirate Roberts and other internet celebrities of ill repute because there's not much else for them to hide behind.
This is a problem with Hetzner yes. Last time they wanted a copy of my ID. I blacked out my social security number as this is considered private for Dutch citizens (even the police advises people to black this part out) and it took some arguing for them to accept it. I sent them the police advisory and that helped.

Recently I signed up for something else from Hetzner (needed temporary storage) and they didn't request anything even though I had closed my account before so I created a new one. So perhaps they have mended their ways.
I thought there was a story of Richard Feynman going round Oak Ridge and realizing that they were getting close to a critical mass of stuff stored in adjacent rooms.
> as we switch to other resources or other sources of them

Russia is a major producer of cobalt, nickel, copper, molybdenum, bauxite and uranium [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_industry_of_Russia
Yes! I’ve used them dozens and dozens of times. Not the cheapest if you want quick turnaround, but I did use to cut down cost by walking over to their Oakland warehouse for pickup. Was a nice small operation, smelled like burnt acrylic from a block away though haha
Wow, so interaction with the real world makes an AI into what we think of when we think AI.

And because our strongest AIs are based on text, the terminal is the way to wake up such an AI.

This is brilliant and the first actually dangerous use of AI.
We haven't figured out what conscience is, so it's going to be fun to deal with near perfect imitations of human behaviour, and the societal consequences...
And delights other customers. When you have just a basket's worth of items, you want to scan and go.

That being said stores should have both options. We should not force people who did not grow up using tech or not able to use it, to only have self checkout. This is for a variety of reasons.
Well, I mean this version can write a Python program to calculate and then call up a real Python interpreter on a real CPU to do it.
+1. Continuous profiling should help figuring out the root cause of such issues. I have only used an in-house tool for Java for this so far, so I don't have a recommendation for a specific one. But the linked one looks reasonable, and there might be other tools too.

It might not even require continuous profiling. One alternative approach is to capture some minutes of profiling data after startup (when CPU usage looks good), and some minutes after the CPU spikes occur. Then compare those two and check for major differences.
The tradeoff to that being the lack of UI consistency between applications.
That's the one ID a Canadian citizen isn't able to get.
> And if they are having a mental health crisis, they should be able to plea insanity.

"Not guilty by way of insanity" is an incredibly high bar to meet, and it happens very rarely.

What usually happens (in England!!) is that the person is tried, convicted, and sentenced, and then given a hospital order. At that point they stop being a prisoner serving a sentence, they become a patient getting treatment at a low secure, medium secure, or high secure specialist commissioned hospital. I've spoken to patients in low and medium secure units, and they often say they'd prefer to be in prison doing time rather than being in hospital getting treatment.

I have some poorly formed thoughts about the need to set a high bar on criminal convictions, especially when people have made major errors, perhaps driven by mental poor health, rather than criminal intent. Mens rea and actus reus are a pretty important combination. And it's not a binary prosecute vs do nothing, there are a range of community restoration measures and protections that can be put in place leaving criminal prosecution for unrepentant criminals.
> Russia today doesn't have anything near the level of internal dissent

Today's Maxim Katz video argues that "the war party" exists only in Kremlin, and with fall of Putin and his closest allies, everybody else in Russia won't be interested in war, which is good.
3D Snake Game for iOS
Edward Teller, the inventor of the hydrogen bomb and longtime head of Los Alamos National Laboratory, believed it was possible and even a good idea to place 1 gigaton yield warheads on orbital platforms for asteroid defense.

It might seem outlandish to us, but then again, so would a hydrogen bomb.
It's slow and tedious to dial numbers with many high digits in them. And there's no quick dial function for commonly used numbers. Both of these things directly impact UX.
I'm really saying that the only people who get the ticket are minorities or homeless, and its used as a tool to blame them if there's any accidents.

https://crosscut.com/news/2020/12/nearly-half-seattles-helme...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/18/us/seattle-bicycle-helmet...
how can this happen?

(I read that 'politico.eu' directly reflects EU thinking ... so apparently the EU is waking up on the subject)
That's because you really are blind. There is no way to see through or around the huge pillars on modern cars. Also with more modern cars being crossovers or SUVs, your height is also an impedance to rearward visibility.

Drive a car from the 80s and 90s with a big greenhouse. The vehicle brochures back then had visibility as a feature of the car. Car reviewers who cover retro cars talk about this a lot. They are always amazed at how much you can see out of older cars.
keyword "today". This stuff will not be detectable in a few years.
I don't get the hostility. It was a genuine question because my assumption is any sufficiently large corporation is aware of the legal implications, and are a bigger target for litigation.

I know that corporations break laws, there's no need to be flippant.
There is a older (commercialized [1]) process called two-photon photo-polymerization, which can also create mind blowing nanoscale 3D parts [2]. Although limited in choose of materials it can print, still pretty cool and sometimes can find applications in photonics.

[1] https://www.nanoscribe.com/en/
[2] https://www.epfl.ch/research/facilities/cmi/wp-content/uploa...
Too late for that! Time to batten down the hatches.
Apologies, I should not have indicated that it "proves" that this is so. Rather, it does paint a convincing picture that something is there. It is akin to a smell test, if you will.

So, yes, lets debate the confounding factors. If you can name some factors, they should guide us in how we would build tests to explore them. I didn't claim it was easily testable, but it is certainly testable.
Note that chat gpt isn't deterministic. You can use the exact same prompt as someone else and get a different result.

Hell, you can ask chat gpt to create a prompt for itself. E.g.:

> create a prompt for summarizing the great gadsby

> Summarize the key events and themes of "The Great Gatsby" in a few sentences. Be sure to include information about the novel's characters and the setting, as well as any major conflicts or themes that are explored in the story.
You two comments (the one I'm replying to and the previous one) fell of the slippery hope, near the deep end.
That would be weak evidence at best.

Even so, there is nothing illegal about shutting down a store because you would rather have no store than work with a union.

The obligation is to
1) not interfere with union votes
2) listen to union demands

You can still fire them all at the end of the day if the union refuses your terms or close the shop down.
They seem to achieve the 'multimaterial' label by soaking different parts of the polymer in exclusive precursors. If you want to create advanced microelectronics using this method, you would probably want to be able to control gel-differentiation process as part of polymerization.
I mean, it's a win-win for all then? I could certainly understand that, if I were hired to be an air marshal, and then re-assigned to border patrol duties, I'd be like "Peace out, this isn't what I signed up for."

But I'm assuming at least some percentage would be OK with it, and the ones who aren't would have to find new jobs. Very similar to when companies downsize one department, but try to find jobs for existing employees by giving them jobs in other departments. Some will take it, some will reject it, but it's a pretty fair outcome for all.
I don’t think my opinion of Adobe could be lower than now and I wonder what the founders 40 years ago would think of the current version of Adobe. Their “subscriptions out the wazoo” model is cancerous. I remember I had an Adobe Photoshop (can’t remember the version) disc and it meant the program was mine to use forever. Our transaction was done when I bought it and it did pretty much everything I needed Photoshop to do.
> should a student be able to turn-in a traced photograph for their homework in a life drawing class?

I did just that. It wasn't a life drawing class, just a drawing class. And it wasn't homework, but the do-it-at-home final. I photocopied my hand. Then I covered a sheet of paper with ground graphite (turning it all nearly black), and then used an eraser and a light-box to trace my photocopied hand. Did I cheat? Perhaps, but I used tools that I had access to. Did Vermeer cheat? [1] Perhaps, he may have used tools he had access to.

Afterwards, I framed that drawing and hung it up at work. It was stolen. Go figure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim's_Vermeer
Black specifically or any solid color? If it's any solid color that makes sense, why should they implement a color picker and image generator themselves instead of just letting you use whatever picture you want, allowing you to go to any of the hundreds of sites out there that'll let you do that and save the picture.
The standard for malpractice isn't "advice leading to harm" and is a much higher burden to establish.
To my knowledge, there is no panacea for human security on airlines, or anywhere ever. My point is locking the door would have likely stopped all 9/11 hijackings and maybe others where the hijacker took over the cockpit.

I've been especially interested in aviation recently, but I think I will pick up the hijacking dangers portion down the road.
Soldered RAM doesn't really help much with latency; most of the DRAM latency ocurrs within the chip itself. Where soldering RAM does help is with reaching higher clock speeds with lower power (in phones and laptops), or with reaching clock speeds that are impossible to shove through a DIMM connector (GPUs).

That higher frequency helps phones save on pin count by using a narrow memory bus, and allows laptops to have lots of memory bandwidth to feed the integrated graphics when using typical laptop/desktop bus widths.
Well, I'm not disappointed that they actually did something. If it wasn't clear, I thought not checking was poor procedure, and I guess it makes sense it they have automated procedures. Still doesn't seem right to not have a human validate when it takes no extra time to do so.
> Can you provide the source for this, please?

Sure[1]. If you google you will find the direct quote in this paragraph in many places.

> The present crisis has its roots in a long-brewing contest over Ukraine’s geopolitical alignment. After the Soviet Union collapsed, Ukraine became independent but for decades joined neither with Russia nor with the West. The United States, for its part, expanded its NATO alliance but initially sidestepped Ukraine. It recognized that Russia, sharing deep ties and a 1,426-mile land border with Ukraine, might oppose such a move by force. “Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest of all redlines for the Russian elite (not just Putin),” William J. Burns, then U.S. ambassador to Russia and current CIA director, cabled from Moscow in 2008. “I have yet to find anyone who views Ukraine in NATO as anything other than a direct challenge to Russian interests.”

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/12/23/ukraine-ta...
I work in surgical simulation training tech. IMO biggest blind spots today are no longer in the medical knowledge or treatment technique itself, but in information and human resource training and organization.

We spend millions on sophisticated surgical robots, we have the worlds most advanced medicines, crazy tools, but patients still get hurt as simple mistakes occur when one person doesn’t succeed in conveying some critical piece of information to another person.

I am baffled as to how it is possible that the software developers in our office can handle Jira level complexity with the code base, while surgeons continue to use pen and paper to organize their bizarre schedules.
Although I share your skepticism of this person's statements, I wouldn't describe a cure as 'unimaginable on any timeline'. One plausible approach to 'curing cancer' would involve detecting very small populations of malignant cells and eliminiating them before clinically significant disease develops. This would be a form of 'active prevention' or 'interception' as the nascent field likes to call it. It isn't in the same category as inventing time travel or making people immortal - the rough elements to achieve interception are already available in the form of cellular therapies, albeit still very crude. Maybe it won't work well enough, or be too expensive, but I think it is at least imaginable.

On the other hand, curing everyone after they present with clinically evident cancer is likely to remain out of reach.
How do we juxtapose this with countless South American, Asian, Middle East, African coups with seen over the decades from the US?

Seems in the play book, overthrow of unfriendly regime by any means.
I think everyone supports key industries striking, until they figure out how many other industries depend on them.

And rail is pretty unique in terms of transport cost : weight. There is no substitute.

On the one hand, I'm not in favor of any industry being required to work. On the other, I do recognize critical industries have responsibilities as well as rights.

A 14% raise w/ back pay + 24% raises (in total over 5 years) + no copay or deductible increases (or changes to healthcare for 5 years) isn't nothing.

In general, they face the same issue airlines do: their primary cost and schedule (aka revenue) limiter is skilled labor. So they try to limit that by maximizing utilization of a minimal number of employees.

It looks like in the US Congress controls railroad labor rules directly via Hours of Service laws [0], so could hypothetically create better scheduling for life events by altering the requirements (e.g. larger blocks of time, at home, in-between shifts) without railroad companies' involvement.

[0] https://railroads.dot.gov/legislation-regulations/current-in...
How long until we find an army of ChatGPT agents commenting on HN?
I mean eventually AI will be writing most of the content.
They are in fact trying very hard to prevent this. If you try to ChatGPT anything like this it will give a bullshit response saying it can't. The dev had to think of some very clever strings to get it to ignore those filters and give a legit response.
> > I fall off my bike and hit my helmet on pavement once every couple of years or so.

> That seems extremely unusual. Are you MTBing / using skateparks / etc?

As someone who commutes exclusively by bicycle and who goes on 80+ mile rides on the weekend, I used to hit the pavement about once a year. I now ride with elbow pads in addition to a helmet, and I think I've developed a pretty good instinct for what could go sideways. I don't have control over every factor, and being a normal animal that gets tired or distracted, I expect falls to happen again in the future.

Some of the ways I've hit the ground include hitting a patch of icy road after 3 days of 50+F temps because that spot happened to be covered by shadow no matter where the sun was that time of year, hitting a small wet metal grate at the entrance to my employer's parking garage where the bike cage is, and the driver of a truck passing too close and hitting my hand which was out signaling my intention to turn.

Speaking nothing of the hundreds of times I've identified a hazard and avoided it by adjusting my road position, slowing down, bunny hopping, or sometimes even stopping and dismounting when I'm in the middle of the stroad (once when I found myself in a mess of overlapping streetcar tracks all around me). But even with a 99.9% success rate at responding to hazards correctly in the moment, I can expect to fail once every 1,000 hazards or so. That's why I wear protective gear.
What year is that? $150-160/hr is the cost of a local small business IT consultant.
This is like saying I drive without taking my drivers license with me.
I am both a motorcycle rider and a bicycle rider for decades. While I never-ever got on the motorcycle without a helmet, half of my bicycle rides on the road are without a helmet and the only reason I wear one ever is because it has better venting than a regular cotton cap. I always wear a helmet offroad on the bicycle.

The day the helmet will be mandatory on a bicycle I will sell by bikes, it means cycling is too dangerous to be on a street and the government is incapable of protecting cyclists but by mandating helmets. It's like mandating bulletproof vests in Philadelphia or Baltimore instead of solving the gun violence problem in the cities.
>US and NATO diplomats were crystal clear that after the USSR's fall, the former Soviet states should not be invited into NATO. And later that they should not be invited into the EU.

Do you have a source for this? All I could find was the Warsaw and Budapest pacts. I'm not trying to nitpick. I share the same view but when I explain this to people they alway say these are soviet lies.
I'm confused. A 100 ft asteroid that explodes 2.2 miles in the air seems to result in far more deaths from a 0.6 mile wide fireball compared to a 200ft asteroid that would hit the ground in the same location (Fort Lauderdale, FL).

100ft = 211,172 deaths

Is this correct?
https://imgur.com/a/Elst6Q3
> The vehicle brochures back then had visibility as a feature of the car.

Visibility was a lot better, but little timmy on a tricycle was still hidden behind the rear trunk.

That said, the number of collision avoidance systems needed in modern cars to make up for the giant pillars has gotten out of hand.
I believe that cryptographic signing of content will become an important step in confirming legitimacy of content, however I believe it is up for debate that "web3" is the way to go about doing that. With the rise of AI generated content, deepfakes, etc, being able to track media back to its source in a cryptographically sound way will be key. How exactly we go about doing that remains to be seen.
He’s likely already minimized the penalties to the cost of doing business with all the political donations he’s made.
I've also seen some of these expensive "strategic" documents. And they looked like they were written by a high schooler (not a top of the class student either).
XML is old-school, but it works. Any program that processes the XML schema can validate them using XSD files. Repetition can be avoided using extensions like xpath and xinclude.
Why? Maybe I should add that you need to take into sales and costs
> Even with USSR gone, they were in Russia's sphere of influence, and making those overtures would be provocative.

What is provocative about joining NATO ? It is a purely defensive alliance. They are absolutely no threat to Russia. The only reason to be against anyone joining NATO is if you were planning to invade them. And guess what happened ?
You've rather missed my point, I think: an unfamiliar or aging look over what is a common interface is a huge problem for gaining new users.

Further, I have witnessed people not understand rotary phones. Plunk one down in front of 10 teenagers and I would wager few indeed would intuit it immediately.