skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something I'd love to find is a multi-port (say 10+) PD power supply. My use case is synths and pedals that randomly take 5/9/12 and a smattering of other voltages, replacing a bunch of DC adapters with USB-C cables and a decoy module would be ideal (or one of the options above where the device already has USB Micro ports).
Almost none of that is something road warriors from the parent comment need or ask for. Do they want to edit spreadsheets in a lower resolution, headache causing, uncomfortable headset without even seeing their hands or the keyboard properly? My guess would be no.

The unlimited monitor argument is only relevant if the resolution, battery, ergonomics, pass-through, etc vastly improve. So at this stage it's still a fantasy.

> Potentially much better collaboration, since you can be “in the room” with your team, see their facial expressions, etc.

Seems like you are talking about some theoretical future AR or MR headset. As of today MQP can not do any of that.
As I said in other comments, don't underestimate video calls in AR. This could be an instant killer app that will change the industry.

How many people can afford at least 2 AR headsets? Not many, but also not too few. Engineers who flock to the Bay Area and leave their parents/families in other countries can afford that, and will - if AR calls will offer an immersive experience.
I think that's why it's so handy to start with epsilon delta limits, or even better sequence limits. Once you can screen off "infinitely" to "arbitrarily" and see when and where the substitution works, you're golden. Of course there are other things in math which might rightfully be called "infinity" but they don't come up in high school calculus
Do this streams have any notion of back pressure? I can't find info on that.

For real world distributed systems back pressure is very important. Otherwise you could DoS yourself by some cascading overload.
But if you hire that musician, you can create more products you can license. The worker generates more revenue streams for you. This is why streaming companies are leasing soundstage space, to create more stuff to license themselves.
Right. When I'm walking 5 hours a day on my treadmill I can eat whatever the hell I want and not gain weight.
To speak as a proponent, it's not about the er... "relative relevance" so much as the utility.

there are things about a chat model that you can't say about humans, like, it's not really ethical to keep a human stuffed in your pocket to be your personal assistant at your whim.

I think one of the things folks struggle with in grokking the value of these models is that we're really used to tools being like you say; they're reliable and do a thing. As though there are two states of work - perfect and useless. There are other patterns to interact with information, and this puts what we used to need humans for in a place that we can do other things with it. stuff like:

- brainstorming
- rubber duck debugging
- casually discussing a topic
- exploring ideas / knowledge
- study groups (as in, having other semi-knowledge entities around to bounce ideas off of, ask questions, etc)

when it comes to self driving cars, well, that's a bit of a different story and really is more a discussion about ethics and law and those standards. I, and others like you speak of are held of the opinion that the expectation for autonomous vehicles is a bit high given the rates of human failure, but there's plenty of arguments to be made that automating and scaling a thing means you should hold it to a higher standard anyway. I don't think there's a correct answer on this one - it's complex enough to be a battery if opinion. You mention the potential for harm, and certainly that applies here.

I'm less worried about chatgpt being wrong. Much less likely to flatten me at an intersection.
I'm not sold on the concept of AI-hard or AI-complete problems.

For example, the Wikipedia article on AI-completeness mentions Bongard problems and Autonomous driving as examples of problems that might be AI-complete.

OK, so if I have an AI drives autonomously, is there some known querying strategy that I can use to make it solve Bongard problems? Can a Bongard problem-solving AI be made, by some known procedure to drive a car?

Without such reductions, at least the analogy to NP-hardness is incomplete. I believe these reductions are precisely what makes NP-hardness such a useful concept; even though we still haven't proven that any of these problems are objectively "hard," we are still able to show that if one of them is hard, then the others are as well!
https://archive.ph/Grsat
Interesting. I wonder if the translation is much different in content than the English versions. It's a wild read.
Which says his medical records remain private so it's impossible to say what led to his decision to delay medical intervention 9 months. It does say for his form of cancer the classical medical approaches have slim scientific study literature.

But it also says CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) has even slimmer: next to none in their language.
Seems like a better solution would have been to shift that labor to more productive uses that can generate revenue, than to throw some of the oars off your boat to go faster.
I support anyone experimenting with their diet to see what works for them, but I wouldn't be so confident about extreme diets like carnivore working for everyone.

Nothing from a plant is healthy? That sort of absolute statement flies in the face of history and common sense and I can't imagine it's true for all humanity.
During a recent conference I attended, a keynote speaker discussed their idea of having CPUs with at least 10,000 RISC-V cores and servers with one million RISC-V cores [1].

The idea is appealing, but how feasible is it and how does RISC make this possible or useful? I'm just curious what people think about this.

[1]: https://www.microarch.org/micro55/media/keynote_ditzel.pdf
Honestly, yeah?

I know I'll get downvoted to hell for this but I could have absolutely nailed a quiz of "who is going to get really fat after high school." Nobody that I would have defined as a "hard worker" has gotten fat.
That link says the opposite of what you claimed. Of course, I don't agree with it anymore; I hadn't seen the email when I wrote it. You've refuted your own argument, but that's not interesting, since it was refuted one comment previously already. You've also misrepresented your argument (which was not "you held this position for a long time"), just like you did in the thread I linked to upthread; of course, like the Alexander email, your bogus argument is right there for everybody to read.
“The RISC Journey from One to a Million Processors” (2022) [pdf]
Not even a month, only 14 days between your linked post (Dec 7) and when secrets might have been leaked ("starting from December 21, 2022 through today, January 4, 2023")
You certain can ignore their claim. It's an unfalsifable claim, so it should be ignored in a context of formal logic. But you can't assert it's negative. That's just as unfalsifable, and that claim should also be ignored in a context of formal logic.

Of course, we don't always work in a system of formal logic, and it doesn't much matter to me if you choose to assume/believe works are inspired or not.
It was not my intent to say that it's not possible to lose weight when you have a thyroid issue. Rather, my point was that your weight loss/gain is not determined solely by the amount of food and activity in your life. You can maintain the same amount of each and suddenly start gaining/losing weight because of a thyroid issue; or some other reason. But yes, the fact that there _are_ other factors doesn't mean you can't do things to combat/mitigate them. You're right, there.
Wait, why would he need to wait for the load to go down before making a change? What am I missing, was it normal back then?
> I get a little upset when the rest of you get to have insurance pay ridiculous sums of money for a medication

If this was well and truly about the money you'd support it, because it's going to be cheaper than paying for long-term medical costs of obesity.
Responding just to the title and opening sentences, I'd say that "on-demand learning" is clearly better for experienced tech workers and less good for newcomers (though it can forge them into experienced workers). A very experienced tech worker should be able to quickly learn new things as needed without conceptual cognitive overload when the new thing fits in reasonably well with their past experience. For newcomers, a stressful on-demand learning exercise can create the skills needed to manage the conceptual cognitive load in the future.
This argument does not make much sense to me.

If you pick only "the best" people by hand you could create a team with only excellent members of any size.

All the statistical arguments become mot in such a scenario!

You would get a team of only excellent people with a guarantied probability of 1, at any sample size.
github just removed git: urls from their web ui so it no longer tells you how to make a clone you can push from using standard git

it's been replaced with instructions for using their own gh cli tool (which, however, is also free software)

for example on any github project page, https://github.com/username/projectname, click on the "code ↓" button in the top right; the "local" tab on the left has a "clone" tab with 'https' and 'github cli' subtabs. the git@github.com: url you can use with standard git has been removed

i think this is a change within the last month

embrace, extend, and extinguish is alive and well
The thing sold in grocery stores is usually CaNO3 though and not KNO3.
They did an entirely reasonable linear optimisation on the cost benefit, and it didn't work out.

It's not a forever decision. They can review in the light of changes in power budget and recharge times, battery swap and fuel cost.

I have read elsewhere that PepsiCo who committed to the Tesla truck are sticking to their shorthaul routes as a problem solution at first. Also entirely reasonable, and also probably a well studied cost benefit decision.
Everyone said Twitter would have crashed and burned by now.. seems like nothing really happened and everyone forgot.
And then what happened next:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/sun-microsoft-settle...
I don't think they got it wrong, I just think layoffs are foolish because staff generate the profits for your business. Does Amazon really need to cut costs? For 2022, revenue was up 15% year over year. The only thing bad going on with Amazon in this economy currently is their stock price, not their profitability or how much cash they have or how many workers they are able to afford.
I really don't understand why you use someones else's computer to compile and test your stuff.

When their computers are compromised, by internal or external crooks, the crooks have full access to your code, and - in some cases - your data. If they wanted, they could inject their own shit into your binaries, totally ruining your reputation.

As a bonus, you get to pay a premium!

I still compile and test my code on my own machines, in my own network. It's much faster than CircleCI, cheaper, and it's ∞ safer.
Some parts will work. Some parts won't.

AHK lets you run arbitrary code in response to global hotkeys. There is no wayland protocol for applications to register global hotkeys for themselves. Compositors can choose to provide their own hotkey configurations, and what you can do in response to those hotkeys being pressed depends on the compositor. For example in Sway you can register hotkeys to run arbitrary executables. Alternatively, XDP apparently has a portal API for applications to register global hotkeys, but of course it's up to the individual compositors' portal implementations if they implement the API. For example xdpw, used for all wlroots-based compositors like sway, does not.

AHK lets you read and set the mouse position. There is currently no wayland protocol, stable or unstable, for programs to read or set the position of a pointer (if the pointer is not over the program's surface).

AHK lets you introspect arbitrary windows to read the text of a focused textbox, etc. There is currently no protocol, stable or unstable, for programs to implicitly grab the content of surfaces under the pointer, let alone read text of textboxes. At best you can use the XDP Screencast protocol but that only gives you images (AHK integrates with the standard Windows graphics UI API so it can detect textboxes etc), and even then it might pop up a permissions dialog for the user to approve like you would expect for a screencasting program.

AHK lets you insert arbitrary keyboard sequences into the focused window. There is no Wayland protocol for this, but you can just use a new input device through the uinput kernel driver instead of anything Wayland-specific. (ydotool does this.)

AHK lets you read and write to the clipboard. There is an (unstable) wayland protocol for clipboard managers that can be used for this.
Infrastructure wise, central Europe + Scandinavia has things "figured out", which is what the topic is about.

Transport infrastructure in dense areas is "solved" by reducing individual means of transport and increasing shared means of transport. This doesn't align with hyper-individualistic people seeing car transport as their right.

A "fat government" helps building out shared infrastructure, America doesn't have that.

Some people like sharing and cooperating, some people like living under the false impression that they're independent of society.

In certain states there are still laws around water rights that cause unnecessary shortages that could be solved by cooperation, but the laws are there and the big consumers upstream lobby to keep them that way.

Not saying the US isn't great, you've been the economic powerhouse of the world for awhile now, you have accomplished many great things (research topping my list). I just think somewhere you forgot to invest back into shared infrastructure, and that "ours" is better (with exceptions both ways).

There's a bit of my reasoning, which if you wildly disagree with makes us both unreasonable to eachother, whoever is right is up to the future to decide independent of us two.
Blink is currently weak in a few areas, like SSE floating point instructions, which aren't JIT'd very well. Blink is also weak at x87 floating point emulation, which gets truncated to double precision. I anticipate issues like these will improve quite rapidly. It was only two months ago, before I started optimizing this project, that Blink went the same speed as Bochs (i.e. 100x slower). Today, Blink is running slow start ephemeral programs such as GCC 2x faster than Qemu, and Blink now has comparable speed at some mathematical benchmarks, such as elliptic curve crypto.
Considering this, it seems like mobile phones would be pretty useful decoys to get the Russians to waste ammunition that they're increasingly hard up for.

Just set up a few remotely activated cellphones in an unoccupied area, have them place a call, and let the shells fall.
Unfortunately, mine didn't work out but the team I led was able to help a well-known brand in India scale one of their ecommerce initiative. I took a 4-member team, and spent about 3 months to help them 3x (I think 4x) their sales powered by the frictionless and sub-minute checkout process, etc.

One of our team wrote few articles about it. Link below which includes a lot of dead links and I need to figure out how to log into Medium and change the details, the redirects etc.

https://medium.com/alaris-prime/e-commerce-case-study-buildi...
Lots of corporate art is already being created via outsourcing platforms that tightly control communication between customer and artist, who in many cases never even speak on the phone, much less face-to-face. That process is not very different from what a well-implemented iterative AI prompt could offer.

I understand that when a company like Coca-Cola is looking to reinvent their brand identity or similar, things are a lot more involved. But 99% of commercial art projects aren't anywhere near as complicated as that.
I legitimately don't understand how the ranking on HN works sometimes. How is it that there are older, less-commented posts ranking higher than this story? @dang?

edit: I sincerely think this should be bumped, given how many folks don't seem to be getting the news here in a timely fashion.
Or maybe they write on an iphone. I had to turn auto capitalization off because it would capitalize emoticons after a full stop: turning xD into Xd
You have to be logged into github for the SSH clone tab to appear-- if they don't know your pubkey you can't connect using the SSH protocol.

Git can push over HTTPS, too.
What made you think that? The fact that he tagged a bunch of reporters that will have articles written by tomorrow of complete speculation and nothing more?
Why is it better to lay people off than to just put that labor on something more profitable? If labor isn't productive that's not a labor issue, thats a management issue from them mismanaging their labor. It's a shame these workers have to suffer from being mismanaged.
> In that respect, I'm not interested in "tradeoffs", which sound to me like a justification or excuse to continue to destroy our one planet for the sake of short-term profit. But if there's some nuance that I'm missing here, then please explain. The only thing you ever mentioned was windmills hurting birds and dams hurting fish, which as you can probably guess, doesn't impress me or justify doing nothing about the environment.

I mentioned those things as examples of tradeoffs where the benefit outweighs the ecological impact. “Doing nothing about the environment” is a complete strawman that you made up for some reason, it certainly has nothing to do with anything I mentioned.

I don’t think I’m making a particularly nuanced point either, but you’re still not really grasping it or coherently responding to it, so I have no reason to think you’re willing and capable of engaging with anything more nuanced.
> But at a population level, we know definitively that "grind it out with exercise, nutrition, and therapy" is not an effective public health strategy.

I'm pretty sure most people skip the therapy. Maybe that's the problem. Changing your relationship with your lifestyle and your food involves a commitment to changing yourself.

Were I in that position, I'd be more inclined to try psychedelics to change how I think than I would new drugs that mess with metabolism.

Another tack we could take is to change the available food options and tax the hell out of problematic foods and heavily subsidize healthier foods. That's a population-level policy that will almost certainly have long term population level effects.

> If these drugs continue to prove safe

That's just it, long-term effects aren't known.
That is fascinating and deserves its own HN thread.
> That's not even close to what OP stated.

Exactly, but that goes to show how conditioned/indoctrinated some people can be and its not their fault.

Its not like defenses against indoctrination or subversion are taught in K-12 (school), its more the other way around.

People see one thing and act like you say something else, when you didn't. Its an irrational state often found in demoralization which is a goal of subversive propaganda.

Its often referred to as trigger associations, and quite a lot of people have these thanks to no regulation of subversive content over the years.

Those people are being irrational, and you can't argue with someone or something that doesn't reason.

Honestly if they were intelligent, they'd strive to identify and remove those triggers through systematic desensitization. The fact that you can't rationally communicate on a subject you disagree with is a pretty good test for those associations. Most people don't have the self-awareness to do this though largely because if they did, they wouldn't be in that state to begin with, at least some would argue that.

Its important to read what was said, and then react rationally, and respond to what was actually said.

If you can't talk, then you can't think. Its a necessary requirement for intelligence and critical thought. Just because you talk to someone doens't mean you have to agree with them, not even in the slightest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoralization_(warfare).
People are acting like workers are belly fat, I see them as bone and muscle and organs. A business cannot generate a profit without its workers performing profitable work. If the workers aren't doing something profitable, look at your managers dictating that work, not the labor that is along for the ride.
It might invalidate a bunch of caches and increase load even more.
How do you know they got it through being "genetically blessed" and not just...putting the fork down? In my experience a lot of skinny people don't outwardly signal that they're "dieting" because they're literally always dieting.
> A person with litigious history carries a kind of scarlet letter around their neck. No one wants to risk

You are advocating the mindset of a medieval serf, how dare little people stand up for themselves and defy the baron?
A toy implementation of Landin's ISWIM language. (2018)
Was rewatching a Strangeloop video from 2015 by Philip Wadler (well worth the watch) and that the only 'discovered' (vs invented) language I did know know is ISWIM[0].

Seems a very interesting language which is trivial to implement, like Lisp (well, some basic version of it). Not as trivial as Forth, but then again, Forth is not in the same category of languages besides that it's also old.

There is something more recent [1], however I didn't try it yet and it says 'help writing interpreters' so i'm not sure if it actually works / does anything.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISWIM
[1] https://github.com/jeapostrophe/iswim
> This is more like "you drove through a red light but luckily no one T-boned you;"

Huh? The malware getting removed is not evidence that no harm occurred. Perhaps the malware stole something of importance. If that something was just power and network (e.g., for a DDoS farm), then it's of little importance, but if that something was keystrokes, then it could be a major importance. The user not knowing is a real problem.
So then the solution is to not fire people, but manage them better on something more profitable. What makes you more money in this pet example you've set up: having 1 widget factory, or two factories producing different widgets that are both in demand? The latter, obviously, or else amazon would still be entirely in the business of selling books today.
Thanks, I should of read it more thoroughly. Skimmed it instead, did a second pass and noticed a paragraph regarding vehicle charge longevity and the lack of charging stations.
As an aside, I've been pleasantly surprised by Firefox's latest privacy additions. Earlier today, while clicking around looking monitors on various sites, I kept running into what looked like a malware alert, suggesting I was being redirected to a possibly malicious website. Turns out that was true, but it wasn't the traditional reason that you'd see in older version of windows, and in rare cases on macOS, where some download would hijack your browser configuration and redirect you to god knows where. Nope, it was just regular ad tracking bs, even on seemingly non-malicious links, such as those that link to Dell's product page from Macrumors. Inspect the link, and it seems to link directly to where the hover effect would have you believe. Right-click and click "copy link" however, and you'd paste into the address bar the obscured redirect url. Since I'd been using a blocker for some time on my other computer, I didn't even realize it had got this bad. Thanks Firefox for enabling this by default, and revealing standard Google search ads to be the malicious crap they are.
Amara's Law: "We overestimate the impact of a technology in the short term. We under estimate its impact in the long term."