skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EV benefits to the climate are always congingent on getting rid of fossils.

If we don't ramp down fossils by regulation, all this EV business is worse than useless anyway (we'll just end up with the emissions from battery production in addition to burning up all the oil we can pump - maybe sold abroad if domestically there's a lot of renewables available, but still burned).
It’s clear that coherent shared RAM has no chance of working in such a setting, but how plausible would it be to do some sort of explicitly networked grid interconnect like on the Epiphany or GreenArrays chips?

(My layman’s feeling always was that the GA model of a large network of small and stupid CPUs was underappreciated and hampered by GA’s merciless pricing as a possible FPGA replacement, given how painfully bad the latter are at utilizing the capabilities of modern IC technology—single layer, really?—but I’m not sure how true that is either.)
The monopoles and cosmic strings kinda ruin this. But there totally might be life in the star cores made of plasma magnetohydrodynamic interactions, in fact I'd be surprised if it weren't common. And the lifeforms would be completely isolated from outside universe, by the turbulent nature of outer star layers, by the enormous gravity well and the comparatively absolute cold and vacuum of empty universe. None of the linked sci-fi stories have such life as subject (at best The Truth but that one has a creature that can exist on Earth long enough to be perceived instead of violently dissolving into loose cooling gas in microseconds), probably because it's very hard to make it interact with human characters, but it's the simplest form I can think of.
Intel Max Series Brings On-Package HBM2e Memory to HPC and AI CPUs and GPUs
Parental cargo culting, probably. "It makes you smarter" (tenuous, as hinted in article), "all the other parents are doing it to their children"/"I want my child to be better than theirs" (this can be very cultural), "it looks good on your college applications" (this becomes a reason later on, and is also very tenuous), etc.
ADHD used to be only a tiny amount of outliers and is growing, thanks to the lifestyle we lead.

Obesity is similar. This feeling of hunger is thrown out of whack often not by genetic but by lifestyle. I’m lucky enough that I haven’t felt it all my life, but I have felt it during multiple phases of my life; i know exactly how eating the wrong kinds of food can teach your body to eat more than it needs and to adapt to that new number.

Our environment sucks ass.
It's a mixed blessing for sure.
Conversation history using OpenAI API
I was messing around with the Open AI Api today, embedding the conversation history in the request to OpenAI, so that text-davinci-003 can be aware of conversation context like chatGPT.

Something like:
request_open_ai = "Previously we have said: #{@old_history_joined}. #{@prompt}"
Ha. I run a shortcut on my phone to send the url to metube on my server.
You concluded a biblical text was fantastical, due to it's literal reading being physically impossible?
I made a 3D videogame with text-to algorithms
Check it out on heroo.ai
"Moving to AWS, Amazon is still the largest and undisputed leader in the IaaS market with a stunning 34% in market share. Its products are more accessible than those of Microsoft and Google when it comes to commercial services. AWS is available in more regions and zones and has significantly more services and features. However, AWS clients are mainly small enterprises that have no profit or that are just barely profitable. Enterprises usually side with Azure as Microsoft signs a record number of more than $100 million and more than $1 billion in Azure contracts. Thus, AWS is more vulnerable to the economic slowdown.

Research boutique Apps Run the World found over the summer that companies employing fewer than 100 staffers compose more than one-third of AWS' corporate roster, compared to zero for rival Microsoft Azure"

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4566233-wake-up-sell-amazon...
Indeed, I suspect a large portion of those few billion people would in fact be surprised to learn that, for instance, the New Testament books called Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were not written by those people (if they even existed) and the texts do not even make any claims about their own authorship.
I suspect it's similar to why we don't use Lua, Python, or whatever language is considered easy and quick to learn and write as a shell language. There are specialized cases where it's much, much faster to write commands in a custom language (even if it has to be a "proper" (e.g., Turing complete) language and not just some tags like markdown). From my limited use of AHKv1 a decade ago, I would suspect that AHK is such a case. You can get a long way with operator overloading, but having seen students who had decent C++ knowledge use CPLEX, I'm not sure it makes things any less confusing.
Ireland fines Meta $414M for using personal data without asking
People on my team are talking about it, I'd say this incident is the end of our trust in Circle CI going forwards.

On the other hand, I'm becoming increasingly weary of putting all my eggs in the Microsoft basket if move our source code, build system, dev environments (codespaces) to GitHib, is it just me ?
Unfortunately, Python (and YAML, though it wasn't YAML this time) specifies spaces as the syntactically critical element.
It's nice you can do that, it doesn't work for large distributed teams.
Courts in general require consideration for a contract to be valid, but there is no requirement for that consideration to be proportionate. The company can offer you any new perk, like a free pen, and it counts.
What's not to like?

I write all documentation and similar using Org Mode. I get all the power of Emacs text editing with easy tables, footnotes, hyperlinks, etc., and I can then export directly to PDF, HTML and so on.
I have no clue what this is. Anyone care to explain?
Are developers the driving force for innovation in tech?
This comment sounds like when electricity was just discovered and people would discuss how it could improve the speed of windmills.

We have to think broader and get out of the confines of how things work now and just think that technology only makes what we have now better. Some technology just completely changes the landscape.

LLMs will make education as we know it obsolete. There won't be need for tutoring if LLM is good enough to do anything. Anyone can ask anything on the fly. There won't be need to study anything except for fun.
Are they? Or are they simply implementing the innovation of others?
I haven't seen any good things brought by Kubernetes.
> This is a major issue in other states. In fact Jackson Mississippi ran out of water last year yet this hasn't happened in CA "

California gets preferential use of the Colorado river. https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/08/colorado-river-wa...
As others have mentioned, the double-split experiment is interesting in that when you leave a quantum system alone and let it travel through the double slit experiment, the interference pattern occurs. If you "force" an entangled system into a particular slit, then you don't have a quantum entangled system by definition; the entanglement comes from the quantum interaction of the system and how we can only describe it via an entangled wave function.

I think in terms of practical use cases, generally for entanglement, it allows for high amounts of encoding since the particular basis used to describe each individual constituent becomes coupled with one another e.g. (|PsiA, PsiB> = (|A1> + |A2> + ... + |An>) * (|B1> + B2> + ... + |Bn>)) allow for a high number of configurations of a problem space to be encoded. I suppose there could be some interesting optical phenomena used for optical experiments/pulsed lasers but you'd probably need to discuss this with an optics expert :-)
Being infected with malware is, hopefully, a rare event. I think it's reasonable to alert the user they've got it, even a non techy user knows roughly what those are. If they know about it they may have an idea of how they got it (they may have let someone else use their laptop or maybe received an email from someone new), which can be useful so they don't get more malware.

If you really want an innovative way of doing it is trying to give the user a good track record so they know exactly where that came from.
Under naturalism there can never be a supernatural phenomena that would prove supernatural things exist. Because once the phenomena reaches a state where it can be measured it ceases to be supernatural and becomes a thing of scientific investigation. And while its not in a state that could be measured there is nothing to investigate. Or put it another way - naturalism is a world view that would kill any supernatural interpretation even if/when its real. And as such it cannot be used to prove nor disprove supernaturalism.
> Maybe people will start to care about the by products of solar panel and battery construction (acres upon acres of toxic slag heap) or the new mines that will have to opened on indigenous and treaty lands to satisfy copper and other demands.

Yeah, it's not as if these are bought up constantly and exaggerated in every single discussion on the subject, and every single report on the subject lies about it by using 10 year old data to make it seem worse than it is and to minimise the efforts being taken to reduce those impacts.

And it's not as if those issues are being completely minimized or ignored for other generation technologies.

And there is definitely no PV recycling legislation like the WEEE, or legislation enacting traceability and lifecycle impact labelling requirements.

Things can definitely get better (and they should), but pretending that everything a concern troll or media scare campaign or fossil fuel lobbyist can possibly draw the faintest shred of a connection to reality with hasn't already been weaponised is ridiculous.
jscript was JavaScript engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JScript

J++ was a 'clone' of Java https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B . Sun sued Microsoft, https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/sun-microsoft-settle...

and that's how .Net was born ( with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J_Sharp to ensure transition)
I asked chatGPT how come it's so good at programming tasks. It told me it does not in fact understand programs, nor is it able to write programs. For the rest of the thread, it refused to perform any programming tasks: "As I told you, I'm unable to [...]". Don't mind me, I'm just a language model.

These types of responses are, I believe, part of a separately trained safety system, that should kick in when people are asking things that openAI thinks chatGPT cannot/should not do. It has a lot of false positives as well as false negatives.

Long story short: I don't trust what chatGPT has to say on its own abilities.
> I've heard people say that the solution is to eat (healthy food) when you're hungry, and stop when you're full. The thing is, I'm never full.

I’ve had a weirdly similar experience due to wildly different histories.

When I was a kid I was on medication that f’ed with my appetite so I literally never learned what hunger was as a kid. As an adult and long off the medication, I just eat and don’t understand the signals my body produces.

When I was younger, I had a healthy and active body and didn’t notice my diet was bad until first I graduated and took a desk job then it accelerated with Covid when I became sedentary and snacks were constantly available. I put on weight very quickly.
> I can sight read tab to a pretty high level

I don't think you can sight-read tabs, AFAIK sight-reading means being able to play something without seeing or hearing it before, and tabs don't have rhythm information.

> Honestly at this point I wish I'd started with standard notation, or at least learnt both at the same time.

Well, it would have required the same (or more effort) then, couple of months should hardly make a difference. Good luck!
I use a Spanish keyboard but with US layout on top. I normally let autocorrect deal with special Spanish characters, but just switch layout if I’m writing something longer.
I don’t disagree, but also don’t see in what way this is relevant to the original question or opposing my answer. If anything, two billion people care so deeply about it that they can have arguments about what’s “valid” and what the meaning is.
Let me start by saying that I appreciate the humour here :) However, in actuality...

Python is from 1991. Python 2 (from 2000) was not a breaking change if I'm skimming the "what's new in python 2.0" correctly. Python 2 was supported until 2020 (29 years).

Autohotkey from 2003 (19 years old now).

Unless AHKv1 is still maintained, Python wins by a decade.
I think that many people discover a particular diet that works for them psychologically and expect that to be the case for everyone.

I do wish that more people understood the basic research on satiety, though. I suspect more diets would be successful if people were eating ~2g of lean protein per kg of goal weight along with a lot (I'm not sure if people have studied amounts here) of dietary fiber.
> We wanted to make you aware that we are currently investigating a security incident, and that our investigation is ongoing. We will provide you updates about this incident, and our response, as they become available. At this point, we are confident that there are no unauthorized actors active in our systems; however, out of an abundance of caution, we want to ensure that all customers take certain preventative measures to protect your data as well.

Is anyone else a little annoyed by the messaging here, I read it as, "We think something bad happened to your ultra secret data, but we don't know, so we're asking teams to spend potentially hours or days fixing things while we aren't really able to tell you if your stuff was actually compromised"?

What I find more troubling is, if they don't quite know what happened, or aren't telling us, and we do the work to change everything, how do they know it won't just happen again in the next day or so and people are still accessing our systems, where is the details?

> At this point, we are confident that there are no unauthorized actors active in our systems.

Confident isn't really a good enough word to use here in my opinion. We've just blocked Circle CI from all our systems for now until we hear more, likely start to move to another build system.

I know accidents happen but this is likely the beginning of the end for our teams relationship with Circle CI. Trust has been broken.
White centered, heterosexual centered, male centered opinions held in the last few centuries by the majority of people show that being held by the majority of people doesn't make an opinion right.

Democracy isn't perfect and recognising it is important but at least it allows for change to happen if it's worth it so there is that
A tour of C++, third edition.
This is exactly how non-techies see 'free' programs 'competing' against the big names like Photoshop.

They don't care, and why should they? They're so much used to Photoshop the name has become a verb, and just want to get things done.

It is not the end of the world that GIMP is being compared to as a Photoshop "knockoff". Many would also agree that to get users to even consider or migrate to using GIMP, it would need to look more like Photoshop and be compatible with it.
This. It’s not clear and I see a lot of ways the story could go differently. If the past is a guide, another ai winter is much more likely than agi.

Intuition feels the same when it’s right and when it’s wrong and it’s not a guide to decide what is clear, let alone inevitable.

Show proof/evidence or accept that it’s just an unfounded opinion.
> The normal process involves at least 4-5 years of observation to identify long-term side effects.

If you have for instance an Ebola vaccine, how can you show it works when there's only a few hundred cases a year? You can't just infect people. You have to vaccinate a bunch of test candidates and wait. Sometimes years until you can show a statistical advantage.

With COVID literally everyone had it so they could show it worked by the end of the weekend.

> ... it's not going to make long-term side effects manifest sooner.

They're looking for short-term side effects, they're testing efficacy and they're looking for 'long-term side-effects.' A long-term side-effect here doesn't mean one that's latent for years before presenting, it's one that presents quickly (days, weeks) but causes lasting harm. So yeah they're looking for them but they're not primarily vaccinating people and then following them for 4-5 years to see if something miraculously goes wrong 3 years later. That's what VAERS is for.

> And while the technology has been around for 20 years, it certainly hasn't been trialed on humans until very recently, due to difficulty finding a safe delivery mechanism.

mRNA vaccines and adenoviral vector vaccines have been in development since the 1970s. Vaccines have been around since 1721. We know what kinds of effects to expect, and they're (a) overwhelmingly short term and (b) we know of no mechanism where latent effects might randomly appear 4-5 years later since we know these platforms don't alter DNA.

We know from having extensively characterized the platform over fifty years that if nothing happens within the first few months, nothing's going to happen.

So really the parent post is right. Development went fast because we (a) leveraged a platform we'd extensively characterized and knew a ton about (b) were able to show efficacy very quickly due to prevalence of the disease within the population (c) layered a bunch of steps.

[edit] They didn't exactly YOLO this and I think that's born out by the fact we have like 5 different vaccines developed over comparable timeframes, administered billions of times all with the absolute bare minimum of adverse effects and incredible efficacy. Frankly it beggars belief that lightning struck so many times and we just got lucky a few billion times over. Maybe we were careful, and maybe the system worked.
Hilarious and sad that he couldn't control his own impulsiveness in typing that comment and yet couldn't make the obvious connection to what he thought he was criticizing in others.
He was under 70, any word on cause of death?
Internet Explorer dominated for years. Microsoft killed Netscape not the other way around.

Did they? I can remember switching from IE to netscape about 2 years before it died, and then going into whatever the precursor to FF was called.
If you ask, there's a good chance ChatGPT can create that function for you. Just tell it: "That function `xyz()` doesn't exist in the library, can you write it for me?"
Besides the point that it is 1996 and probably talking about applets, wouldn't spring boot backends fall into the modern interpretation of "mak[ing] cool web pages"? Sure, java is used for more, but the number of job ads led me to believe it is quite a substantial part of java development.
> Which is actually a great analogy for Ruby vs Python!

I know. :^)

Both are shit compared to better cars, though.
I'd really like to see more info on the desktop G APU's. I'm not even sure if they're making a Dragon Range desktop APU, but it's what I personally am most interested in (I get that the 7000 series have fairly meager integrated graphics as is).

I realise it's a relatively unimportant market segment for them, but some info either way would be nice regardless.
Some people have a family, or otherwise time consuming personal lives, which does limit the ability to learn new things outside of work. I wouldn’t really blame them for not ”bettering themselves” if they don’t get to do that on paid company time.
"conquer weight stigma"? No, it should be stigmatized.
The 5us was the setup time in order to be able to enter the sandbox. A system call is around 1us, but rarely used. So, in general the overhead of using the sandbox is around 5us, as everything else is pure workload.
I wonder if this is to do with major vs minor breakthrough.

Take physics. As I read it, modern fundamental physics is mostly some combination of general relativity and quantum mechanics, which are both early 20th century inventions.

They weren't necessarily genius in particular in-depth analysis, rather they were genius new concepts that created a whole new blank canvas to fill in.

What did the field look like just before them? I always forget the details, but was it lord Kelvin who said, physics just needs to figure out the ultraviolet catastrophe and it's done? I wonder if it looked similarly uninnovative. The canvas they had was full, and they needed a new canvas for true innovation.

Now the thing is, I think true disruption, like GR and quantum physics, is not limited by the number of postdocs, but by truly genius insights. Einstein wasn't even working as an academic when he came up with Special Relativity. So the number of papers written isn't a proxy for pace of revolution.

Not to mention, since number of published papers has become a target, it has become useless as a measure of progress.
Agree. I really dislike this terminology because like many analogies it tempts you into thinking it means more than it really does and thereby reasoning from it to things which are entirely unsupported by anything sound.

NP-Hardness and NP-Completeness are rigorously-defined concepts. By proving a problem NP hard you establish some extremely important properties about its nature and its relationship with other problems.

AGI-Hard sounds like the same sort of thing but really isn't. It's fundamentally just pure speculation. Of the three letters "AGI" it's arguable that we don't have a hard definition of what constitutes any of them. Then further to that we don't have any kind of idea what being in the set of AGI-Hard problems might mean other than you're in the set. Do these hypothetical AGI-Hard problems have some relationship with each other? Whereas we know P is in NP, do we have an equivalent class to P and what would that mean other than "The class of problems solvable by AGI"?

You can see this weakness when you look at the proposed examples of what is purportedly AGI-hard. What do they have in common? Mostly just that they are weakly-defined themselves. For example. How would you judge if an AGI derived from first principles something that isn't calculus but is equivalently important/innovative? Well you'd first need to define what that equivalence would mean.
OP trying to stoke them class divisions between the almost middle class and the sort of middle class. Damn them for almost making enough to afford somewhat desirable real-estate.

The policy failures of the "free market" (and the corrupt tax and political systems) are the ~2k billionaires vs. the declining real purchasing power of those at the midpoint and below over the past 70-80 years.

Employees who make $400k+/yr have insane time and performance expectation demands. There are many employees who will not take the next IC level because they have families (time constraints) and/or don't want the stress.

I work at megacorp MAANG where not everyone can afford baller real estate despite being Sr. SWE/SRE/PE/etc. I currently cannot. The past year, the buyers in the local real estate market were throwing ~20-40% over list because there was virtually no supply.
Ask HN: Why Does Streaming Services Have Started Rent Options?
It doesn't make sense to me.

What sort of audience are they catering to? Why would someone rent movies on top of a paid subscription?
> <rant>poetry doesn’t understand that when I ` poetry add foo` I don’t want the latest version, I want the latest version that is compatible with the rest of my declared dependencies, especially my declared Python version</rant>

IIRC, the command was

$ poetry add foo most recent \
which fits this crowd most decent
> A lot of people geolocate stuff on /r/combatfootage for fun because they like following the progress of the war. It's a personal challenge.

Or because they like gore and /r/watchpeopledie got got.