skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Shayan Ali, an alleged kabootar scammer from Mian Channu, told Rest of World that he himself had once been scammed in the process of orchestrating a scam. In November 2022, he hired a virtual assistant to operate one of his Amazon accounts. “I paid him 50,000 Pakistani rupees [$221], he said he would help me with creating fake tracking IDs, and then he disappeared,” Shayan Ali said. He was livid, and posted his scammer’s name and location all over an Amazon drop-shipping Facebook group, with cautionary comments.

> One user pointed out the irony of what had happened. “Now that you aren’t able to orchestrate drop-shipping scams, you are being scammed yourself,” the person wrote. “Shame on the people of Pakistan who are now scamming each other.”
Like in "your uncle died, LOL" ?
Guess you'd have to train the ML model on cries instead of laugh, simply.
We should make this and ghosting by HR illegal. Seems like such a simple fix to a problem that brings out misery in people.
Is this the same tech used in James Webb telescope?
And then are ion pumps. They have no moving parts at all.

An ion pump (also referred to as a sputter ion pump) is a type of vacuum pump which operates by sputtering a metal getter. Under ideal conditions, ion pumps are capable of reaching pressures as low as 10−11 mbar.[1] An ion pump first ionizes gas within the vessel it is attached to and employs a strong electrical potential, typically 3–7 kV, which accelerates the ions into a solid electrode. Small bits of the electrode are sputtered into the chamber. Gasses are trapped by a combination of chemical reactions with the surface of the highly-reactive sputtered material, and being physically trapped underneath that material.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_pump_(physics)
> Issuing a SEND syscall every 50 bytes is also horrendously CPU-inefficient

io_uring is supposed to help with that
Perhaps better to randomly select 10% of meetings, inform the participants it will be cancelled next week & that they should discuss whether it's necessary at this week's meeting, and then axe it. If they put it back on the calendar, let them. Then put out a poll asking if this was a useful exercise. Rinse and repeat until people start reporting it's not useful or you've cycled through all the meetings.

The reason I speculate this may be better is that it respects the agency of employees more, isn't such a shock to the system, and allows a buffer time to correct serious issues such as those mentioned in the top level comment.
> EDIT: And what editor do you use? I'm wondering if a lot of these differences come down to IDEs haha

Yes java developers can't do anything without their IDE. It helps them mask the 30000 nested directories they've created to "organize" the code.
This read almost like a paid hit against Meta, ordered by a competitor. With just a quick jab at Magic Leap for plausible deniability…
In his pyjamas.

And still wins easily
> There is no killer, must have game for VR.

This is the main issue with it right now, and part of the problem has been that to get AAA quality games on it you need to teather because none of the existing headsets have anything close to the power needed to run a decent game, not to mention they get very uncomfortable, very quickly.

I mentioned elsewhere about Apples apparent headset thats possibly coming out this year. This _could_ be where Apple can shine. Whilst they've not exactly got a great rep as a gaming power house, if their headset does indeed end up using their M2 architecture it means its going to be extremely power efficient and very light weight - solving two of the biggest issues. But it also means its got graphics capabilities for most modern AAA titles.

Obviously they'd need to work with a few studios to incentivise them to develop for their OS, but given their history of entering and significantly disrupting markets I'm sure they'd have no problem bringing along a few decent studios and getting them to work with their headset.

Combine that with their existing App Store and Arcade+ services and you've got thousdands of developers itching to get their games released on the platform.

If they can successfully replicate the popularity of their iOS developer ecosystem it would completely destroy Meta and their quite frankly crap little selection of apps.

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For what it's worth I found initially I felt pretty awful using it, it does take time to adjust and you're best using it in short bursts for the first few weeks.

Recently I decided to do something stupid and try out the F1 2022 game on it (via cable plugged into pc), expecting it to make me feel extremely sick. I was pleasently surprised at how amazingly good it felt. I was able to complete a couple of races without feeling sick at all - its definitely an acclimatization process that the manufacturers need to make a lot clearer is needed.
I had a lot of fun with ChatGPT’s wholly fabricated but entirely legitimate-sounding descriptions of different Emacs packages (and their quite detailed elisp configuration options) for integrated cloud storage, none of which exist.

I’m not sure that fabricated nonsense would actually make Bing’s results any worse than they are today.

“It’s okay I don’t mind verifying all these answers myself” is an odd sort of sentiment, and also inevitably going to prove untrue in one sense or another.
> One thing worth pointing out is that, if you ignore the way the assembly is written and instead look at the binary encoding, then x86 is closer to a RISC idea. Essentially, the core of an x86 instruction is opcode + ModR/M byte, which encodes a register and register-or-memory operand.

You could say the same thing about the VAX, which was even more CISC than the x86 is, because of how its opcode encoding worked: Bytes for the opcode, bytes for addressing modes, bytes for register specifications or constant values or memory addresses. Ditto the PDP-10. Which is to say that's not a helpful way of making the RISC/CISC divide because it ignores everything that makes those kinds of processors different.

Somewhat down in this page, written by processor designer John Mashey, is a list of features which RISC processors tend to have that CISC processors don't:

https://userpages.umbc.edu/~vijay/mashey.on.risc.html

Above that list are two points which get to the heart of the RISC project:

> The RISC characteristics:

> a) Are aimed at more performance from current compiler technology (i.e., enough registers).

> OR

> b) Are aimed at fast pipelining

> - in a virtual-memory environment

> - with the ability to still survive exceptions

> - without inextricably increasing the number of gate delays (notice that I say gate delays, NOT just how many gates).

The point b is where RISC chips really pulled away from CISC in terms of architectural design, especially chips like the MIPS, which Mashey worked on: The MIPS had a number of points where it exposed the tricks it used to pipeline more aggressively, even at the expense of making compilers somewhat harder to write and/or human assembly-language programmers think a bit harder. However, the lack of complicated addressing modes (post-increment, scale-and-offset, etc.) and the lack of register-memory opcodes with ALU operations, and total lack of memory-memory operations, is still a very common feature of RISC design.

I also want to take on this:

> Furthermore, the ability to put a memory operand on, say, an ADD instruction is close in effect to having a compressed instruction encoding that encodes "LD to a temporary, unnamed register followed by ADD that register to the destination register" in fewer bytes than having both (also avoids clobbering a register, useful given the thin 8 registers 32-bit x86 has).

The difference between having one opcode which does both memory operations and ALU operations and not having those kinds of opcodes is faulting: If the CPU has to take a fault, does it have to back out a lot of ALU state such that opcodes appear to be atomic? CISC chips do, and they pay for it, whereas RISC chips are designed not to have to. This, again, makes pipelining easier. (And the page I linked to goes into this as well.)

CISC/RISC is points on a scale, but that doesn't mean it's helpful to "reinterpret" things to try and make CISC seem equivalent to RISC.
Equal parts meme and reality makes it a reality, it seems to me.
So, if they want to penalize a customer, it's pretty trivial for them to route those excessive requests around their cache and directly to the customer's server. Cloudflare can choose to dump a ddos they're mitigating on their customers whenever they feel like it, so why the hell not throttle or redirect their own throughput when it's in their financial interest or people aren't paying enough for it?
diesels don't have a glow plug. a glow plug has a radiant coil that ignites the fuel, and then the heat of the engine keeps it firing, which is different from diesel fuel.a diesel engine depends on heating the fuel via compression with the energy being provided by the human flicking it. there is no battery input to a model aero diesel engine. a car diesel engine uses a starter motor to provide the initial compression.
Well keep in mind this is Japan where many people where suits and go to smoky Izakayas in those suits. The business probably got hit hard by covid though.
Nobody seems to be bringing up the questions inherent to a big company moving on this that will have to follow the "rules":

- Why would I ever let bing crawl my site if they aren't going to send any visitors to me?

- fair use of snippets has relied on them being brief and linking to the source. Lawsuits will be immediate.

I do love these imaginary scenarios where ChatGPT is going to find me the best air fryer, though. Where is that information going to come from, exactly? Barely anyone is making money writing reviews today, most sites are farmed content. What happens when even the ok sites' reviews are quickly scraped and put into the next model iteration? Bing is going to have to come up with some kind of radical revenue sharing too if they want anything written after 2023.
Yes, it was a big dry cell - there's a wire in the cylinder that glows orangey-red when powered (it was easy to unscrew the cylinder head to inspect the 'glowplug'.
I don't think it's a disadvantage at all. Maybe in terms of sheer number of openings, but many of those openings, you probably wouldn't enjoy filling.

If you have any interest in securities trading, you can definitely make top dollar with those skills.
Sad? How is it sad that I don't earn $600k when I put up a video on YouTube of a bird on my balcony?

The 99.9% don't earn as much because their content isn't as highly viewed. That appears completely fair to me.
ML based on "Live, Laugh, Love". Oh, the horrors!
Are You Too Emotionally Invested in Your Job?
I usually avoid things like this because they're usually not this well written. Worth the time.
Is there a way to leverage any of this for a jailbreak?

It would be fun to buy a Prius Prime and play Quake on it with steering and horn as controls.
A lot of fantasy in this thread. No wonder ridiculous stories about "gain of function covid" is so popular on this website. Biology is a lot more complicated than you can ever imagine. A grad student will not make a species ending virus because organisms have been exposed to them since the dawn of time.
> RISC-V is designed with great care taken to weight all decisions as not to hamper any scope of implementation, from the lowest power microcontrollers to the fastest supercomputers, and everything in between.

RISC-V was consistently designed so that the simplest implementations remained as simple as possible. When design tradeoffs meant more complexity for more performant designs, any possible detriment was determined to be unimportant.

Notoriously, this is the whole "big cores can fuse instructions; that's got to be free for them, right?" Though the V extension also has a couple of fun ones with re-using v0 for masking (oh a big core can just keep track of whether it's a mask or not and switch which set of registers it's renaming from) and vsetvl (yeah let's make a big core speculate what effect it'll have on subsequent instructions)

> aarch64's awful code density

All the code density comparisons I've seen have been static. Do you know of any dynamic comparisons? I suspect 10% less dense code than RISC-V C (but still denser than x86-64) isn't the primary reason for having 3x more L1I than I think any RISC-V or x86 design currently has...

And even then, ARM for instance decided it was worth spending 50% of L1I cache area on a MOP cache for various reasons, a key one being that their implementation shaves off a cycle in branch mispredicts. If there's no predecode info stored in cache, I can easily see a predecode stage adding a cycle to the pipeline depth over assuming fixed-length. And if it is stored in SRAM you lose some of the codesize benefits...
What’s the Difference Between Kubernetes and OpenShift?
Wow, didn't know Svelte has been around for 6 years!
ok, boomer.

lol today means "yeah, rigth"
What I don't really understand is why there are usually so many discussions on how Google, Microsoft & Co are killing the web, but here the majority seems to be in favor.

Once search engines work like ChatGPT, the incentive to click through to the source will be extremely low. That destroys any incentive to create content and will kill many blogs and sites with high quality content. The likes of Reddit and Twitter can survive this, most blogs have no chance to exist if ChatGPT uses their content but users don't click through.
We are just waiting for Musk to go full McAfee.
IIRC it’s the syntax for an older assembly (I want to say DEC’s) which the UR-Unix kept using (and extending) as it was ported to new architectures rather than use whatever the platform’s assembly was.
Wifi encryption is the wrong layer anyway. Point to point tls is what you want to depend on. and sometimes I dream of the never realized ad-hoc ipsec connection, the actual correct layer to do encryption on. but ipsec was killed by it's own incompatible complexity, so tls is a good second best.

I run an open access point and depend on tls or ssh to protect my traffic.
I can't find it now but I could swear there was an hn post about that very thing just in the past few weeks.
The US wasn't bogged down in an active conflict with troops on the ground when that happened for months.

We're past that point since a long time ago.
Wasting time and having to be constantly vigilant is exhausting and a slippery slope that makes it easier to fall for deceptive content and settling for "I don't know, it's probably close enough" instead of insisting on precision and accuracy.

Humans take a lot of shortcuts (such as believing more easily the same facts presented with a confident tone) and the "firehose of bs" exploits it: this was already the case before generative AI, but AI amplifies the industrial-scale imbalance between the time needed to generate partially incorrect data and the amount of time/energy required to validate.
The fun thing to do with the engines was to start them standalone, point them straight up and let go. They'd go shooting up into the sky until torque reaction made them spin fast enough to stop fuel getting to the engine - at which point they'd pop and misfire, and tumble back to earth (sometimes restarting on the way back down.

To this day I have scarred fingers from playing with these model engines.
P2P infrastructure for truly `server-less` apps
Smart move
If not fetishizing "productivity" and relaxing is living a "meaningless, wasted life" by all means I want to be the person living a meaningless, wasted life.
Sounds like a lot of undergraduate parties...
An intercoursing persistent problem.
> Why would I ever let bing crawl my site if they aren't going to send any visitors to me?

I don't think it's up to you, legally speaking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn

I mean, they could be nice and respect your robots.txt, but they certainly don't have to.

> fair use of snippets has relied on them being brief and linking to the source. Lawsuits will be immediate.

It's possible that fair use law will be expanded to cover this case, but as constructed the output of these models is generally fairly derivative of any specific original, and so probably protected under fair use. If it were spitting out exact copies of things it had read, it would probably be pretty easy to train that behavior out of it.

> I do love these imaginary scenarios where ChatGPT is going to find me the best air fryer, though. Where is that information going to come from, exactly? Barely anyone is making money writing reviews today, it's mostly farmed content. What happens when even those sites' reviews are quickly scraped and put into the next model iteration? Bing is going to have to come up with some kind of radical revenue sharing too if they want anything fresh.

I do agree with this, though. The LLMification of search is going to squeeze revenue for content creators of all kinds to literally nothing, at least if that content isn't paywalled. Which probably means that that's exactly where we're headed.
You will need a special mat for that, sold separately.
The change from website oriented search engines to AI driven answering services seems to me to have a lot of parallels to the way highways left regional towns and businesses destitute. I believe this is going to shrink an already shrinking internet.
Just plug a cable in! You get Ethernet and real high-bandwidth video and high-current charging and audio and PCIe (Thunderbolt) and and and.
Architecture overview of (erstwhile) Spotify's P2P streaming setup
Same for German
Author mentioned here that they went from $200/month on AWS to $90/month of Fly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34242923

Pretty tiny cloud costs either way, probably safe to assume they’re a small, early stage startup. But even still, it was likely a bad call to spend significant engineering effort on saving $110/month, which is a rounding error even for small startups. Hard to imagine that time couldn’t have been better spent on things that grow the business, like new features and bug fixes.
You wont get an honest answer from somebody taking money to sell one particular brand of air fryer. That would be like typing "air fryer" into Google Search and buying the first ad result.
> Fun fact is that the JWST cryocooler operates on a similar principle (although the implementation is quite different).

as per u/alexose in this thread.
Of course not, see this thread by former VP of Search at Google: https://archive.is/DbCtf (https://twitter.com/RamaswmySridhar/status/16060315887890882...)

PaLM (540B parameters): https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/04/pathways-language-model-pa...

Med-PaLM: https://archive.is/oC5Gj (https://twitter.com/vivnat/status/1607609299894947841)
Yep. We can go back to a hobbyist internet outside of shopping I guess, yay, but not sure where people think ChatGPT is going to get information after that.
> If you subtract out the effects of immigration

Why would you subtract the effects of immigration. Immigration is how a lot of countries are getting out of the stranglehold in the first place.

And Japan cant even do immigration. That's the problem. Within at most 2 generations, those European immigrants' descendants will become integrated enough to their European countries - as it happened in countries that started getting immigrants much before others. For Spanish speaking countries, its much better - immigrants just fit into the society immediately - partly because a precedent/format already pre-existing, partly because Latin countries are pretty social and swiftly integrate anyone.

Compared to those, Japan is in an extremely worse position not only due to the lingering presence of the feudal society, but also xenophobia, overwork culture and various other factors
I don’t know why but I actually lol’ed when I reached this comment. True out loud laugh attested here
To me, that sounds like... absolutely amazing?

What made the quality of the web go down the gutter is the hunger for clicks and ad revenue, which brought aggressive SEO, clickbait, meaningless automatically-generated sites, etc.

Removing the incentives so that we are back in 1990s internet, where by the way lots of quality blogs existed without ads? Count me in.

(Unfortunately, I don't think it's really going to be like that, though. ChatGPT will be used a lot, but people will still want to read websites because sometimes we want to read a text -or watch images, videos...-, not necessarily have a conversation).
They should call it The Lazarus Experiment, I'm sure its totally safe.
On the plus side that might give back some of the old web. After all, all of the junk, SEO and various webspam is only there because Google measures it, as soon as you start measuring something you influence it and any metric ever invented to rank web sites eventually made itself useless. So if search engines 'move on' then maybe the value of a link will increase again.
Pierre Bézier worked at Renault where he developed CAD software using piecewise polynomial curves in the 1960s. Paul de Casteljau independently (starting in 1959) worked on the same subject at Citroën, but didn’t publish until later. De Casteljau’s control scheme is actually what we use today, not Bézier’s.

We should probably call these De Castlejau curves or De Castlejau–Bézier curves if we want to give fair attribution. He does get his name on the De Castlejau algorithm (lerp, lerp, lerp, ...) for evaluating such curves.
Most people naturally become more agreeable over the courses of their lives (as well as less neurotic and more conscientious). Beyond that, intentional personality change also seems to be possible. For example, this is a study that used a coaching app to help people change aspects of their personality [1]; apparently, people who wanted to increase agreeableness did see pretty large effect sizes.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2017548118
To add another simple setup, I've been trying out:

- Static front-end hosted on render.com

- Back-end web service on render.com

- Postgres on (you guessed it) render.com

Each is an easy-to-manage item on the dashboard. They can each be scaled up quite a bit through the web UI if needed

Front-end and back-end are subdirectories of a single repo. Deploys are automatic on push

For local development the front-end can be served statically by a filesystem-based HTTP server

Back-end is Deno, so there's basically no configuration or build step or anything; running locally is `deno run`. It doesn't have to be Deno; Go, Rust, and others only need a single compiler/runtime on the system. Just pick one like that with a single system dependency and install it manually, I promise it'll be fine

No local Docker is needed at all

Another thing I love about this setup is that - just like it's trivial to run it locally - it's trivial to move to a VM or another provider because it has bare minimum infrastructure concerns/entanglements
It is a weird scenario because ChatGPT relies on web content, but it also destroys its value at the same time. So it kills what it lives upon.

Does this mean that ChatGPT stops getting better once it goes live because it kills the incentive to create the content that it needs to get better?
Anyone with ADHD tried body doubling to boost productivity?
This article talks about doing tasks together with someone else as a productivity hack for folks with ADHD. Anyone tried it? Would love to hear about your experience.
Bluetooth audio ain't as good.
Here's one explanation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33586476

which cites this PDF:

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/otherports/newp.pdf
Funny thing here is that in a blind test where the subject doesn‘t know where the result comes from, more than half like the Bing results better. So this seems to be mostly expectation …
I use it all the time to make recipes for me based on the ingredients I have. It is amazing in that way.