skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google generally is poor for hiking trails etc. Use Open Street Maps in that case. (Which isn't perfect but is at least better given there's no money for Google in better hiking trail maps.)
It looks like a small black spec a few hundred feet off the ground to me. Drone seems pretty likely. Perhaps it's junk that fell off another aircraft, it could be a satellite falling to Earth for all I know, but drone seems like the first hypothesis to rule out. Or that the footage is inauthentic I suppose.
> agnostic atheists

P ~= 0.3

> and agnostic theists

P ~= 0.7
I cannot wait for the true downfall of Google. Many friends I have had began working there and fell into a blackhole of arrogance. Meanwhile, nothing from a technical perspective, aside from BERT, has been contributed by them in quite a while. Their technical open source (Tensorflow, Angular, Kubernetes) has all followed the same pattern of overly complex garbage. Facebook opensource (Pytorch, React) blows the doors off Google open source.

And exactly, where are the models? Where is the AI? Bert came out what 5 years ago?

Its certainly not in Search given how unusable the results are. They are busy using models to structure everyones content so they can display it on the Search page and capture value from content they didn't create

Not one mind blowing AI product from them. The results of OpenAI are exposing FAANGs as has beens
I don't have 100% control of my coworkers or library writers. Knowing whether a library or a coworker can hand me back an optional value seems like a pretty basic thing for a language to tell you
Hi! I'm one of the contributors to the project and this was an idea that bounced around during development. Can you create an issue in the repo and add any details you have in mind for how this would work?

https://github.com/authzed/zanzibar-annotated/issues
What you're saying is that Microsoft will not have to compete on creating a good game subscription service for other publishers and developers because they can just buy up everyone. That is, by definition, anticompetitive. Removing competition from the market.
As I said, it’s debatable if the guy’s reach needed to be limited, the point you are arguing.

What’s not debatable is that the breathless outrage-bait under discussion misrepresented the case for limiting the Dr’s reach with a straw-man argument, and so did you.
This keeps coming up in early reports for civilian air crashes, but so far has not been true. The community is paranoid about it as a possibility.
It's like saying "I'm looking for new challenges" when asked why you're leaving your previous company.
I support a research environment for biostatisticians and other researchers and we have Python and R offerings, and R is the overwhelming favorite, or so product tells me. As someone who isn’t a modeler, it’s interesting how this varies by industry.
davinci-003 isn't the same as the ChatGPT web portal. The web interface is a multi-model system.

I've found the davinci outputs to vary significantly compared to the web interface.
> war planes should not be as affected by strikes.

There is nothing special about a war plane that makes it less affected by strikes of any kind, be from birds or drones alike.
The Alt-Enter key combination has has persisted over the years in some video games in order to switch between fullscreen and windowed mode. Someone out there still remembers this and includes it in their games.
It is, depending on how long you've been using the platform.

For instance if you've been on iOS for a few years and bought a healthy amount of music, those are virtually gone after moving to android. You can mitigate that by either

- forever keep paying Apple through an Apple Music subscription

- somewhat extract the tracks and DRM free them (tracks were DRM free when bought from the Mac, but not when bought on iOS last time I tinkered with it). Of course Apple will make as hard as they can to block this route.

Same for movies and books, and for games/apps as well if they don't have a multi OS pricing scheme.

Switching cost is not just time spent to get used to, more often than not it"s a non significant amount of money lost in the process.

Same deal the other way round of course: Google is more diligent on exposing their content on iOS, but there will stil be paid games and apps to be lost in the process.
I still think it's useful to separate out the working middle/upper class from the true "aristocracy" (for lack of a better word). A professional in the middle class can save up and buy property until they can live off passive income to become upper class but that's a different class from the people who can fund their life styles through financial arbitrage by the sheer size of their wealth.
This is a good time for them to do it. They have the tech and the users but breaking focus from their other projects could be detrimental to their well being. It would be a lot of work for a product that has had a history of losing money. It's not worth the resources.
> The AirJet datasheets report a power dissipation of 5.25 W and 10.5 W using the AirJet Mini and Pro, respectively.

Ah, beans. Was hoping for something more applicable to desktop processors. Neat idea though.

Edit: I missed the callout about laptops and tablets as I was skimming.
The more interesting question is how long it will be until we have open, freely available models that are competitive with closed models. It's now clear that everything is going to be disrupted by generative AI - we haven't even begun to think through the consequences. I would much rather have a world where everyone has unfettered access to these capabilities, even if the risks of societal disruption are extreme, than have them controlled by the tech princelings of Silicon Valley.

We urgently need to fund efforts to create the technology to train and publish open models in a distributed way.
Definitely restricted airspace around an airshow.
Definitely an in group vocabulary. This article is actually quite light on the lingo, but a couple other big ones are “a priori” and “update your priors”.

Basically an attempt at applying statistical reasoning to reasoning in everyday life. I don’t have a problem with the vocabulary as much as the way this group speaks: upspeak, overuse of “kind of” when they don’t mean “kind of” and a peculiar sort of thinking stutter when formulating a statement. It’s amazing how prevalent it is.
Yeah and a bunch more showing up. I think on a netwhole it will balance out.

If you’re a multigenerational Native and have some form of lockin that offsets the crazy housing price pressures, leaving becomes suboptimal. It’s not exactly fair but it would be foolish not to take what advantages you can get.
What stood out to me even more was the "machine learning" buzzword - even though it doesn't seem like there's any guarantee that training a neural network would actually improve the modeling (and it's just another tool that the modeler should be able to decide on their own to use or not).

Specifically, my advisor just suggested that I ignore this bit, and send in my resumé to those job offers anyway (this being something that we should be able to learn on the fly at our level anyway I guess...)
They might have had a drone there with approval to cover the event too.
there's absolutely nothing monopolistic about this deal. How can you say that with a straight face?
Sh4d0wup – Signing-key abuse and update exploitation framework
Interestingly it doesn't do it reliably when you give it an actual word.

To smert "consequence," please see below:

The first letter is "c".
The second letter is "o".
The third letter is "n".
The fourth letter is "s".
The fifth letter is "e".
The sixth letter is "q".
The seventh letter is "u".
The eighth letter is "e".
The ninth letter is "n".
The tenth letter is "c".
The eleventh letter is "e".
Lastly, the twelfth letter is "s".
Einstein not only "did fine" but was extremely precocious. From the wiki entry:

- - -

Einstein excelled at math and physics from a young age, reaching a mathematical level years ahead of his peers. The 12-year-old Einstein taught himself algebra and Euclidean geometry over a single summer.[28] Einstein also independently discovered his own original proof of the Pythagorean theorem aged 12.[29] A family tutor Max Talmud says that after he had given the 12-year-old Einstein a geometry textbook, after a short time "[Einstein] had worked through the whole book. He thereupon devoted himself to higher mathematics... Soon the flight of his mathematical genius was so high I could not follow."[30] His passion for geometry and algebra led the 12-year-old to become convinced that nature could be understood as a "mathematical structure".[30] Einstein started teaching himself calculus at 12, and as a 14-year-old he says he had "mastered integral and differential calculus".[31]

- - -

At age 16, he tried to skip the last two years of gymnasium and directly go to University -- to what is now known as ETH, a fantastically rigorous and selective research university -- but failed the entrance examination. He excelled at the math and physics portions, but of course did not pass in the humanities questions covering material he never studied. This is what caused many myths about him getting kicked out of school, or failing to graduate, etc. In reality, this just means he needed to attend a gymnasium to get the required secondary education in the humanities that he tried to skip.

Starting with university, he did focus on physics, so compared to many theoretical physicists who had the equivalent of a dual math/physics PhD, Einstein's PhD was more physics focused, and for this reason he is not considered as strong of a mathematician as he is a physicist, but this doesn't mean he wasn't good at math, or that he received failing grades, or that he dropped out, etc.
I write Rust and enjoy spending less time on memory bugs. I am not blind to the benefits.

But I’d struggle to match your claim along the lines of, “games and DAW developers would be more productive with a memory-safe language because they wouldn’t have to debug memory safety bugs”.

Memory safety in Rust might be “zero-cost” but it isn’t free.

Languages like Zig accept that developers spend time on things outside of memory bugs, seek to improve their productivity and quality of life in those areas, and trust that devs will pick tools that reduce their largest pain points, be that Zig or Rust or Odin.

The best response we as an industry can have to this is to say, “wow, I’m glad so many hard-working people feel motivated to bring some of those bars down on the Ways Software Sucks Chart, let’s give them our money and our support!”

To me that’s healthier than assuming that everyone’s Suck Chart looks the same, tapping the memory safety bar over on the right and saying, “sheesh, anyone using a language that doesn’t fix this bar just doesn’t realise how productive they could be!”.

It also detracts from celebrating the engineering achievement here. Two people deleted their creaking C++ compiler by writing a custom interpreter in two weeks so their language can be bootstrapped using only system-installed tools. It is uncharitable to insinuate that they needn’t have bothered because if you really care about productivity you wouldn’t use languages like their one anyway.
Oh don't get me wrong I've loved all the ES games so far, but they do show a trend of stripping out exactly that fun experimental part. In Morrowind the game even eggs you on to do the silly Jump + Levitate/Feather Fall hijinks by dropping that dude from the sky while you're walking. And in general the magic and alchemy system is bonkers in the good way. The game encourages you to break it. Not to mention the "fast travel system" of the various utility spells which I found quite immersive.

Oblivion has some of that stuff too but it's definitely simplified.

Skyrim has no spell crafting at all, which means combat becomes "mash mouse button" or "sneaky arrow". Lycanthropy is pretty fun though, but also wears out. Mods definitely saved the game since they add all the crazy shit that is missing.

The trend is quite obvious though. Don't get me wrong, I'll still definitely play the shit out of ES6, I just don't feel it will reach the glory of Morrowind.

> Ultima underworld Arx fatalis Two worlds series Deus ex series

Sadly I've already played all of these. Never did finish Arx Fatalis though, might go back to it..
Is this information new (as of #27)? Doesn't every social media platform augment reach for troublemakers? For example, here is Elon's new policy[0]:

>New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.

>Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter.

>You won’t find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from rest of Internet.

None of this info seems to warrant such a spectacle.

[0]: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593673339826212864
I find it amusing that, at present, ChatGPT seems to be lousy at mathematical-type reasoning while being very good at natural language use. That is the opposite of what many people, including me, have come to expect of computers.

I have worked for many years in translation, lexicography, and language education, and I am flabbergasted at how well ChatGPT handles natural language. It can produce example sentences of polysemous words as well as or better than an experienced dictionary editor (i.e., me) [1], and it can correctly guess the meanings of unknown words from very limited context [2].

Teaching an adult human to use a second language without making grammatical mistakes is nearly impossible, and native speakers often make mistakes as well. In a week of testing, I have yet to see ChatGPT make any grammatical mistakes in either English or Japanese. Like many native speakers, however, it is often not able to explain its grammatical instincts correctly [3].

[1] https://www.gally.net/temp/202212chatgpt/dictionarydefinitio...

[2] https://www.gally.net/temp/202212chatgpt/unknownwords.html

[3] https://www.gally.net/temp/202212chatgpt/explaininggrammar.h...
Sure, but crypto allows these because it's not as easily controlled by the governments as other things.

Same with cash. Which governments increasingly constrain, for this reason.

Yet there are not as many people commenting enthusiastically about wanting cash to disappear / fail, or suggesting similar measures against it. (KYC, AML...)

Why is cash okay, but _digital equivalent_ is not? When physical transactions are less and less relevant? Why make the decision to basically leave these advantages in the past?

I don't think preventing ransomware attacks or financing terrorism is worth losing the capability to transact freely online. Potential totalitarianism is way more scary than 9/11.

Quote from a book, "Manna":

> With the arrival of robots, tens of millions of people lost their minimum wage jobs and the wealth concentrated so quickly. The rich controlled America’s bureaucracy, military, businesses and natural resources, and the unemployed masses lived in terrafoam, cut off from any opportunity to change their situation. There was the facade of “free elections,” but only candidates supported by the rich could ever get on the ballot. The government was completely controlled by the rich, as were the robotic security forces, the military and the intelligence organizations. American democracy had morphed into a third world dictatorship ruled by the wealthy elite.

> Ultimately, you would expect that there would be riots across America. But the people could not riot. The terrorist scares at the beginning of the century had caused a number of important changes. Eventually, there were video security cameras and microphones covering and recording nearly every square inch of public space in America. There were taps on all phone conversations and Internet messages sniffing for terrorist clues. If anyone thought about starting a protest rally or a riot, or discussed any form of civil disobedience with anyone else, he was branded a terrorist and preemptively put in jail. Combine that with robotic security forces, and riots are impossible.
> I can't get it how Steam can make an app store for Windows that works unlike Microsoft.

The usual cause for something like this is that management is incentivizing for something that isn't quality. Velocity is the normal one that gets people, but there are a few others that occasionally get people (number of open tickets/lack of outrage on social media/etc).

It is, of course, possible that the team is incompetent, but that's usually an easier problem to fix, and if the team has had normal turnover, the odds of them having consistently incompetent ICs for years on end is pretty low.
Weird take. This wasn't gone to avoid supporting cross-compilation—Zig can already cross-compile, even without the LLVM backend. This was to avoid having to provide a binary for every individual OS and Architecture combination that Zig supports.

Using a VM that is agnostic to the OS or architecture it's running on means that you only need to provide a single binary, and in this case WASM+WASI was chosen.
> How would Activision bill Microsoft for N users playing M games?

Isn't this Microsoft's job in building a valid product out of game subscription/streaming? What's the goal here - Microsoft owns every game developer to have on their subscription service?

It's like saying Spotify must buy all the big labels because how else could they run a streaming business?
I can easily name about 10 high profile competitors to Microsoft in the gaming space off the top of my head. What are you on about?
I remember that key combination from the Windows 95 days. It felt like magic!

It was amazing that VGA games (for the most part) worked, and fun to have multiple DOS text programs running and switching between them.
Devbox 0.1.2 released, now with ability to run devbox scripts inside your shells
I think this is a big part of why I believed 6 in 10 to such a massive number -- I grew up in southern California and then moved to the Bay, and it feels like most people I knew either had parents who immigrated before they were born or they themselves moved to the area for school or work.
I'm not sure what is meant by "beat" but if you're just talking about costs, then this is an irrelevant point. Rather, the effect of trade agreements is so substantial that cost per tonne shipped by no means reflects an equilibrium under free market conditions.
Or when an executive quits to “spend more time with their family.”
Ask HN: What Is Going on with Neo4j?
Neo4j Inc just laid off 10% of its employees.

The negative reviews in GlassDoor are piling up, and seem to share common themes - and it is not pretty.

There are accusations that management tried to lie to early investors about revenue sources.

Does anyone have any idea or insight into what is going on with them?
I like how this comment starts out claiming every language has zealots, then it says Rust disdains zealots, and then proceeds into Rust zealotry.
Publicity stunt.

It’s not like sending a letter cost them anything, but now they are famous.
I'm talking about in general you can implement a 1-bit mutex. Regardless of how you sleep and wake, you make a side structure which contains the contended state of the mutex.

In the kernel of course you could just reuse your wait queue structure for that, which is exactly what bit mutexes do in Linux, but that's an implementation detail to my point.
A “secret blacklist” that’s been known forever, or at least for two years: https://twitter.com/dancow/status/1601017194456186881?s=20&t...
It’s funny that the AI used itself as the NLP that was monopolizing the husband.
They own less than 1%.

I doubt S&L will care.
Also note that genuine RHEL users generally don't want to use EPEL that is out of support.

> The EPEL repository is used by a significant portion of Enterprise Linux users. The data they share are unbiased, and it is reasonable to assume approximately equal proportions of users of each Enterprise Linux distribution use the EPEL repository.

From the article but I disagree.
This is quite the boondoggle, not a lot of change out of billion dollars per aircraft, remember that as you work yourself to death.

"Stealth" has such a limited life span of utility. Even in the 90s Serbian air defence managed to acquire and shoot down "stealth" aircraft. It required humint but that's part of a real theatre of war.
The way I think of it is that in a business you often need to get a certain fixed number of things right before you could even start to make money.

Indeed, 95% of those things are mundane and tractable (maybe you have to be fast and careful), but the remaining 5% are challenges that can only be solved by specialized knowledge or some innovation.

If you hire someone good at solving mundane problems, they can contribute to the 95%. But if 95% of the company is hired like that, the pool of people you can draw on to do the remaining 5% is <5% (maybe more, if the company is lucky). There's a good chance that business is blocked by the remaining 5% because of the high uncertainty in delivery, fundamental to the nature of the problem.

Another approach is to hire, say 50% to do mundane work and 50% to do both mundane work and more special work. This costs more, but if done right it can make the company move faster, and have better chance to survive than any case of the former.

First of all, it's often (but not always) the case that people who can do special work can be trained to do the mundane things better. Second, having many people who can solve one-of-a-kind problems is especially important if for each project the 5% can depend on a different set of things; it's often also the case that solutions to the innovative work is closely related to experience dealing the more mundane parts, so this structure basically recognizes that innovation can come from rank and file rather than a specialized "ideas guy" that just flies by to solve problems. So what happens in certain small but profitable companies is that they try to find people who are happy to do dirty work, have a business mindset, but at the same time show signs of being innovative.

This is not to say I agree leetcoding is a good test. I think Google and Facebook don't test enough whether someone is capable of or interested in identifying technical priorities with a business mind. Although Google has some data to connect leetcode performance to job performance, I'm skeptical of their performance evaluation methods.
So you're using the office as a crutch for your social life. Don't drag us all back into the office just for that.

Plus you're destroying the planet commuting every day.
The only thing worse than this, for me, is when it detects your mouse heading for the back button/address bar and it starts trying to interrupt you.
I think you are mistaking the European way of policing with how cities are constructed. Most of the problems big cities have in the US come from high tolerance of overt crime, drug abuse, homelessness and more. - things that are mostly not tolerated elsewhere, and used to not be tolerated here either.

Half of the names of cities you have lived in are definitely mega-cities, or very close to being a mega-city. Manhattan, Brooklyn, Seattle, Palo Alto - none of these are even remotely similar to typical modern-day suburbs.
I'm not sure how sparse arrays are relevant here?

But in any case, I guess I have to agree that integer indexing arguably counts as key-value pairs? It's definitely not the the first thing that comes to mind for me when describing them.
Then perhaps when ChatGPT is taken offline it'll remain available as a paid model on the API.
Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33915734
I have been involved with graph databases and always thought Neo4J was a joke, it was based on an execution model which is not scalable at all. I heard story after story from people who tried it for projects which were just too big and wanted to ask, “what did you think would happen?”