skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DOS was well on its way out (and probably a minority already) on PCs in 1996. It was all about Windows 95 at that point.

I get the author's intention of "like it's $DAYSGONEBY", but 1996 is a rather odd choice when it doesn't reflect the norm for the year.
That’s only a complaint for people who use CSV. If you use the ascii characters for record, file, unit, and group there are no problems with data payload
It's a similar situation to Android vs. iPhones in terms of device integration.

Although iPhones don't really get much better battery life than the best Android devices around, if you compare battery life/perf to the battery size, the amount of battery life they extract out of (comparably) small batteries is extraordinary. The biggest/best Samsung phone is 5000mAh, whereas the biggest/best iPhone is 4300mAh.

You just throw away efficiency at a system level when you design a phone based on another company's design (i.e., Qualcomm, usually, for Samsung). Qualcomm doesn't have appropriate incentives to make a device as integrated/efficient as Samsung/Apple do.
You know, I've never actually been on reddit? HN and Slashdot were the only sites of that format I ever visited.
> I stopped believing in large scale evolution. I still believe small scale evolution exists

It's always been small scale, the whole time.

Otherwise you'd have the bizarre discontinuities that people like to straw-man evolution with. Like a fish that just decides to walk out of the ocean and breathe air one day.
I think VMWare played a massive role in building the talent scene in Costa Rica.

I've heard down the grapevine that an average dev's salary in Costa Rica would be significantly higher than in MX, though CDMX and Monterrey supposedly trounces San José as a city.
Oh my. See the Wikipedia page. [1] To loosely summarize, he was kind of a reverse-Musk; widely thought a fool, he still kept pulling off amazing business deals [2]. His writing seems to be a kind of cranky 18th-century GPT-3. [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Dexter

[2] Example: "He was advised to send bed warmers—used to heat beds in the cold New England winters—for resale in the West Indies, a tropical area. This advice was a deliberate ploy by rivals to bankrupt him. His ship's captain sold them as ladles to the local molasses industry and made a handsome profit."

[3] "To mankind at Large the time is Com at Last the grat day of Regoising what is that why I will tell you thous three kings is Rased Rased you meane should know Rased on the first Royal Arch in the world olmost Not quite but very hiw up upon so thay are good mark to be scene so the womans Lik to see the frount and all people Loves to see them as the quakers will Com and peape slyly and feele glad and say houe the doue frind..."
Giving an Old Typewriter a Mind of Its Own with GPT-3
On a separate note, this paper doesn't seem to mention any "negative aspects of the vaccine" - It seems to be concluding that [the likes of AstraZeneca etc. perform better on some measures than the mRNA favorites.] edit: I previously stated the conclusion backwards.
why not just embed an ultrasonic tone sequence that invalidates the Alexa invocation?
Earlier in AWS, when I was migrating a complex sensitive system from self-hosted servers, there was a requirement not to leave data at rest in S3 unencrypted, and there was no suitable S3 feature for this.

Since I had to write the AWS API from scratch anyway (fringe language, and we tried to avoid C memory problems), I also implemented transparent encryption at the same time. (Using an off-the-shelf vetted implementation of appropriate encryption algorithms. And in such a way that, when handling large data, it could run on other cores if no accelerator.)

Of course, as the article points out, the EC2 instances (or whatever needs to access the data within the objects in S3) by definition need access, but at least that access is restricted more closely to what actually needs it.
Apologies for the sloppy editorialising of the title. The title of the paper is too long for HN. Full title is:

“Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder traits are a more important predictor of internalising problems than autistic traits”.
On Usenet, it was customary to use ^L (form feed) to hide spoilers, because text-mode readers would then blank the rest of the screen until you paged past the form feed.
It is not possible to staff a team with perfect humans. Better tools remove the need for perfect humans.
>There is no first amendment anywhere outside USA

This is wrong on every level except technical[0]. While other countries in Europe aren't as free-speech extremist as the US, there are still protections on speech in those countries. The biggest exception to that I can see in France or Germany would be the constitutional prohibitions on being a literal Nazi[1].

I Googled "romanian arrested for opinions" and got a bunch of stuff about Andrew Tate. To be clear, he wasn't arrested for opinions, he was arrested for running a sex trafficking ring.

I'll give you that the UK has some really scary anti-protest laws. Though to be clear, when I Googled "UK arrested for thoughts" I got one article about someone being arrested for praying in front of an abortion clinic, written by someone with an axe to grind about abortions. I've seen worse - I'm reminded of the recent push to ban Extinction Rebellion protests in that same country.

Without more specifics I can't elaborate further beyond "UK bad".

>there is no second (amendment) anywhere else

sigh

Say it with me now: The 2nd Amendment is not an adequate backstop against the abuse of government power.

As a specific response to things the Brits did in the colonies, it's fine. But if there's, say, a fascist uprising in the US, I do not expect private gun ownership to save me. The amount of power that a government can wield in order to roadkill you is absolutely enormous, and makes your pile of AR-15s look like child's play. In order to fight back against tyranny, you need consensus about what the tyranny even is, and that's a whole load of collective action problems. They're also adversarial - as in, if the threat is internal, then your adversary is going to use this against you. If the tyranny only affects a small group of people, then they will not have the power to fight back, even in the case where they would need to resort to guns.

[0] Well, they don't call it the First Amendment...

[1] To be clear, this is an act of self-defense against censorship. Nazis do not give two shits about your freedom of speech, except if they can use the 1st Amendment to eat itself. Affording them freedom of speech is a fool's errand.
Will the cost stay high in a large scale production?

I have never seen an estimate on that, or a plant design detailed enough for extrapolating it. Do you know how those plants are built?
You're making the same mistake as the OP: looking in isolation at the current, final step of a process that took millions of years. Also, you're gonna find a lot of different immune systems in nature, just as you can find many different eyes/vision in animals. There's a lot of middle ground in species that saw no advantage in evolving that particular system against their environment.

You're also confusing the randomness of the steps with the somewhat previsible trend of an entire ecosystem which is evolving. If world is getting warmer and air more dense, you wouldn't be able to guess which mutation occurs but you can predict in time animals would be more adapt to that new ecosystem.

Darwin famously looked at a unusual orchid with a long "tube" leading to nectar, and spoke that "there must be a bird with a long beak here somewhere". He didn't find it at first, but it was discovered later [1]. So you can apply some predictions at how evolution took place if you take a look at the environment. Just as one would guess there must be an immune system in animals if you discover diseases, virus, bacteria etc - or else how would large animals exist?

[1]https://laidbackgardener.blog/2017/04/12/darwins-orchid
Personally, I don't think it would be healthy for me to take a long (multi-month) rest and recuperation break. I think I would spiral into a miserable state of sloth and torpor. I live pretty frugally, so I would have quite a bit of time to re-establish myself if need be.

I would do the following (in order):

1) I would immediately start reaching out to friends/former coworkers to see if there were any opportunities out there. (3mo. - 6mo.)

2) I would reach out to consulting firms to see if there were any work available. (3mo.)

3) Would freelance for a while to see if I could drum up some longer term consulting work. (6mo.)

4) Look for a job outside of the tech industry that could leverage my technical work or problem solving ability. (6mo.)

5) Move to a lower cost geo, change careers, retrain or go back to school for a career in another sector. (∞ mo.)

In parallel with above.

* I would continue to contribute to open source to keep my skillset up to date.

* Provide some training on the skills I do have, give talks at software conventions (network).

* Volunteer and giveback.
Trade secrets already get legal protections so the non-competes aren't relevant there anyway
Browser bugs and you don't get direct access to the hardware.
Does this relate to the addition theorem of Fourier Transforms? The weights of his NN looked not only looked like sine waves but were crudely orthogonal.

Maybe in the future we will think of the word "digital" as archaic and "analog" will be the moniker for advanced tech.
Weird I saw a few people playing it - MoistCritikal and the Digital Foundry guys (and maybe others?) - and they didn’t seem too down on it. Though maybe DF were focussed on the tech and MC wasn’t aware of some missed promises?
The same way we call SWEs in Cary, NC talent even though they earn half of what they would for equivalent roles in the Bay Area (compare RTP salaries for the exact same roles and levels at Cisco, Netapp, etc). The value of labor is always an arbitrage between talent, location, supply, and demand.
Nazis happened less than 100 years ago and they notably targeted homosexuals.
Right; self-proving point. Also notice I wasn't even espousing them as fact in this context, just providing examples of things one isn't allowed to say.
Full title: "mRNA vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 induce comparably low long-term IgG Fc galactosylation and sialylation levels but increasing long-term IgG4 responses compared to an adenovirus-based vaccine"
me and my four fediverse buddies.
“Cavill is a big time fan of <X> geeky thing and so his attachment is a sign that fans should be excited” has a sort of mixed track record at this point. On the other hand, it clearly works for him and I’m sure he’d like to preserve that (note: not trying to call him disingenuous or anything, I think he’s actually a fan of these things but he also clearly plays it up a bit).

So, I’m somewhat hopeful in this case, in the sense that he’s got a producer role from the start and he probably knows that a flop here will hurt his reputation a bit. On the other hand, knocking it out of the park might make him invincible. Also it’s Amazon, right? So it isn’t like there are a bunch of other super prestigious creatives he’ll be butting heads with.
who or what is DG?
Does it? I have an android phone, but it's obviously been so long since I tried to put music on it I can't remember.
Thanks for explaining the calculation! There is a huge error though, which is that I mis-read the units in the second link I posted. The actual power estimate for GPT-3 is more like 1 GWh (not 1TWh), so about 6000 years and not 6 million...!
You're literally just describing several decades of established interstate commerce case law.

In an interconnected, modern society, wholly intrastate commerce is a very, very, rare thing. It's almost impossible for retail to be wholly intrastate except for de minimis sales by itinerant merchants, as most supplies used in manufacture will have crossed state boundaries (but the courts do recognize when such commerce occurs and is excluded from the purview of federal regulation).

Service is more easily constrained to the intrastate level, since local regulation of services has always been a local power. But yes, in the aggregate discrimination can have interstate effects. Indeed, there is a fair amount of federal civil rights legislation or case law that is predicated on, and requires, aggregate discrimination in order to apply at the local level because isolated incidents don't give rise to federal jurisdiction.

I'm of the personal opinion that the discriminatory issues addressed in the civil rights act should have been clearly codified/amended in the constitution to unquestionably seal the federal power to address them.

Literally, the last phrase of the 14th Amendment.

But note that job title isn't a protected class under federal law, which is rayiner's point. And they aren't generally needed, since there are a number of state/local laws which make MSG's actions illegal. MSG doesn't simply risk fines, they risk the loss of their liquor license, their tax exemption, bookings from artists that don't want to be associated with the wanton use of facial recognition, and numerous tort lawsuits for excluding people with valid tickets.
It's a wish that will likely die on the vine. GW will certainly leverage enough influence to see someone in charge who has no idea how to make a production OR they will fight about minutia and it will fail because AMZ doesn't care enough to fight it and don't want to lose it to a competitor. Hence, I expect it to die in pre/production.

There's the draconian amount of control GW has exerted across youtube in recent years, showing their narrow vision. Look at the trail of terrible games and limited CGI media, to see how GW's vision does not scale.
It's mildly ironic that it is now 9 days later and I still have this thread open in a tab so I can 'get to it later'. Sigh.
In a First, Scientists Divert Lightning Strikes Using a Powerful Laser
INT8 quantisation has been used in production for years.
FP8 has not.
I should have taken the PA-RISC machine that was offered to me a few years back. It was also an old Navy machine, and had the entire SAN with it. It was one of the big towers, a 120MHz if I recall correctly, dual socket. A J200 or J210 I think. I was told it was an old setup for a flight simulator (this was at a training command).

I didn't have space or a use for it, but as far as I know it's still sitting in that closet. It had been there for 10+ years and no-one was moving it.
“Users” in this case are supposed to be software engineers. Thus, I don’t see how Amazon’s claim can be misleading. Server side encryption is very valuable, especially against breaches on the cloud provider.

I would expect any mid to senior level engineer to understand the implications and add further security (local encryption before upload etc.) measures as neeeded.
I do not think that a person suffering from suicidal thoughts and ideations should ever be given to a chat bot. They need to have access to professional help. If society and the system makes this difficult, harmful, or otherwise unwanted, then it is society that should change.
> The worst case from their perspective is that two actually unrelated people share one advertising profile

Meaning that I get spammed with AARP ads everywhere I go because my email address gets "normalized" to be the same as Grandpa George... and we both get spammed with Bad Dragon ads everywhere we go because both our email addresses get "normalized" to be the same as Dildo Daddy Dave.

Fuck that and the horse it rode in on. Targeted advertising is a blight on society.
Why couldn't (or wouldn't) it?

Population growth is slowing, especially in the developed world. Consumption growth isn't infinite. Perpetual economic growth is impossible, and with inflation skyrocketing, it's impossible to not think that the middle and lower classes won't consume less on non-essentials.

This obviously could be fixed rather easily, but Wall Street nor the government will allow the necessary fixes.
My cat definitely is not like your cat then. When calling her over a speaker, she would definitely have a reaction, namely seeming startled and not knowing where the humans calling her are.
https://archive.ph/oOJeb
Saint Car? That induced a permanent chuckle.
Yup, already doing that (FFox, NoScript, it's a bit of a pain to maintain on a new install, but seems pretty effective).

I was thinking of something like the Blue Frog anti-spam system that automated complaints to get people taken off the system. I know they generated so much heat that they became retaliation & DDOS targets and shut down, but it seems something along the lines of automating complaints & defensive actions might have a role...
The Solar Powered Time Machine
Getting a Silicon build of Gimp wasn't actually that difficult. I know at least one other person besides myself that had gotten a build working from source and published how to do it in some form. The problem is that the CI system Gimp used for the Mac build did not have ARM runners, yet. This meant that to produce the production build required cross-compiling from an Intel Mac. While I'm sure it's possible to accomplish this, it was quite tedious and I gave up. As an example, one problem was that the Gimp build process builds tools that need to be run on the system doing the build and just splitting out those parts from the parts that need to be compiled for the target system was tedious.
There’s a hundred ways to gate-keep what a NAS is. My personal minimum is redundant power supplies, 10GbE, and ECC memory, but I realize that some opt for less. In the end it doesn’t have to be anything other than storage attached to a network.
7 buttons on one side. The whole thing is roughly the size of a deck of cards, so not sure how well that works out for anyone with big hands or gloves. But better than a touch screen I suppose.
I'm not sure how easy it will be to work with Games Workshop.

Also, I really would have preferred the Horus Heresy -- which could have a real endgame. Otherwise, 40k could be a series without a point and could be more nimble in it's presentation so that might work better.

I had a hard rule against reading anything where the toy came first, but I've been surprised by HH and 40k. It's not the best writing/storytelling ever, but it is self-consistent and presents such a different view of things I'm enjoying it. They seem to understand what a galaxy wide fight means (it's big!). And the stakes at hand are very high and require obscene efforts from our point of view, but the threat is existential to humanity and it's all justified (?).
I think you'd put the nails at N+1 position, not N. (e.g. for the minute mark, you't put the nail at 6, 11, 16, etc. not 5, 10, 15). Then, the hand would press against the nail and progressively bend until it slipped past the nail entirely and jumped to the next 5 spot (and not yet be touching the next nail).
How are you able to work on the game? Are you employed to do so? Do you reverse engineer? Or has the source leaked?
> Sure, they just created Algebra, cameras, algorithms and many foundation of our modern world. What a coincidence for a society that hates modernity!

Algebra is what, 3,000 years old? That's your idea of modernity? Really?

> So you stayed in a region you unfathomably hate for 20 years for a job you could've done anywhere? And you didn't even pick rich countries either, starting to sound like someone who's just making stuff up.

You're putting words in my mouth. I enjoy teaching refugees and trying to convert them to atheism, I love the geographic and landscape here, and I love my queer/gay/liberal/artistic friends and family here. I just dislike the religion and the religious. I feel the exact same way about christianity, judaism and hinduism.

It's great being here. All my friends here are either expats or liberal beyaz turkular who work in entertainment, and feel the same way about Islam and religion as I do.
Depends on the role and the sector in tech you work in. IMO, most HN commentators seem to be generic frontend/backend/fullstack devs working on generic CRUD apps at a handful of FAANGs. With the right domain knowledge, you could earn way more in other sectors or niches within tech even with those skills themself.
thats how it works. its called a swapchain and its usually more than one texture. to avoid artifacts.
You're not understanding the timescale or the context of the immune system's evolution. Imagine a cluster of unicellular organisms forming a multicellular organism for the first time. A multicellular organism stands a much better chance of survival than a single cell. Imagine a mutation that resulted in a cell surface protein that indicated cells were "friendly" and maybe even allowed them to glom together.

Later on, a billion or so years later after the system of cell surface proteins have grown in complexity, imagine a multicellular organism like a sponge, where the ocean flows freely through the inner compartment, helped along by simple differentiated cells containing primitive cilia/flagella. Some of the cells that line the wall of the inner compartment become proto-macrophages, capable of "eating" foreign objects that flow through. The context here is that the immune system has deep ties with the digestive system evolutionarily. So, a ton of the functionality of the immune system has an overlap with the digestive system... "self vs not self" goes way back.
I have an nwa55, which is notably Not one of the android walkmans. I love it and spend usually 1-2 hours a night listening to music on it before bed. Battery life is incredible.

I'm not sure why they went android though. Begs the question why not just get a phone.
Zombies or whatever spawning in stupid impossible places is a staple of the genre, but that sounds extra annoying.
Show HN: Cross-Platform GitHub Action
I've created a GitHub Action for running commands on multiple platforms. This includes platforms that GitHub Actions don't natively support. It currently supports FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. OpenBSD can run on x86-64 and ARM64, the other operating systems run on x86-64.

Some of the features that are supported include:

* Multiple operating system with one single action

* Multiple versions of each operating system

* Allows to use default shell or Bash shell

* Low boot overhead

* Fast execution

* Runs on both macOS and Linux runners

Compared to similar solutions like https://github.com/vmactions/freebsd-vm, the boot time is around a fifth and the full execution time for the same job is around half of freebsd-vm (last time I tried).

The readme contains more information about how it all works under the hood.
Show HN: Use Cases and Comparisons of AnthropicAI's Claude with ChatGPT
Anthropic recently released a new model called Claude.

As I was unable to access this model, I noticed a lot of discussions on Twitter regarding comparisons and use cases of Claude and ChatGPT.

To keep track of these conversations, I created a repository that compiles information on the following topics:

* Comparisons between Claude and ChatGPT
* Use cases
* Limitations of Claude

Check it out and please create a bug/PR if more threads can be added:

https://github.com/taranjeet/awesome-claude
I have also observed that the intensity of someone's opinion is often mirrored in the intensity of their opponents contrary opinion, and if they argue about it long enough both of them will soon drift towards irrational fanatism on either side of the topic.
How is calling someone “brainwashed” a life experience?

People are allowed to have different values and opinions. Hubris is believing western morality is self evidently superior to everything else that exists.