skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome stuff! If anyone is interested in a hosted and managed version of this, let us know! We can do this on top of any set of information already (not just .mdx) and have it exposed either as an API or through production ready Slack and Discord bots :)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npV4Kix7Td0

If this was a startup, they would be dead in the water. Nothing of substance, awful sound, 9:45 mins in they don't have a key piece of live demo equipment (the phone)/

As someone else said, it's like they asked a couple of interns to rush something out in 24 hours.

No wonder the stock price is tanking. Awful display from Google.
Compiler optimization.
The implication was that laptop-class hardware and "gaming computer" are at odds with each other. Sure ultrabooks can play games, but they are not referred to as "gaming computers".
> Human history is filled with examples of us thinking we are special or at the center of the universe, etc

That behavior pattern is new, and it goes back to semitic religions. Otherwise before those the general religious format was that humans were part of a larger world in which everything was connected and never everything else was 'for the humans'. (Semitic religions explicitly say that).
Ah the good ol' deity sprint names use case every team has!
Why college beats side hustles and other alternatives
For instance i still use 10y old Dell 14r laptop. When it became slow to run windows i switched to u Ubuntu and added SSD (not china made).

I might have purchased less than 10 made in china products in the past 3 years

Something is better than nothing
Eventually the risk/reward to trying to make it with your side project gets in favor of taking the risk.
Whenever I hear about Google and AI, it's always because some HR issue has spilled out of the company into the public. That doesn't inspire confidence that they're taking AI seriously rather than having an AI group around to mark some checkboxes.
Yes, and simply logging does nothing to prove your age. Nothing stops a teenager from creating an account with a fake age. So then the next step "to protect the children" will be requiring logging in with an account verified by a government issued photo ID so they can track you much more effectively. That seems like where we're heading with this crap.
Your natural gas price (if correct) is much lower than the national average, and even much lower than your regional average. Average natural gas prices in the US for Dec 22 were $1.67/therm while average electric prices were $.17/kWh. Here's a great chart, with regional values also: https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/data/averageenergyprices....

I think you are right though that much of the "hype" is based on avoidance of fossil fuels rather than straight economic advantage. The hope is that eventually the electric grid might be all renewable energy, while the efficiency of burning gas doesn't have much room to go up.
you may wish to give some indication of what Amplication might be?
Sure:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/glyphosate-the-new-bogeyman...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-science-behind-the-roun...
> Sure, decimal would be slower.

Would it? I thought dealing with integers - a value, in binary - would be faster than floats - a value in binary, a decimal places value, whatever odd logic there is required to hide the leaky abstraction.

Edit: nevermind. Since the conversation was 'decimal versus float' I thought 'decimal' meant integers without floating points.

If decimals means a decimal point, I think a better suggestion would be to use integers.
What language you write a program in is not a feature, definitely not a headline one.
Ground source is losing the war.

Too expensive to install, and if something goes wrong, start digging.

Air source is getting better and better all the time.
And it probably wont be open to the public to see the ledgers.
Important to note that both companies don’t have a public demo yet. Microsoft’s “demo” only answers select questions which is… not an actual demo.

That said this is a hilarious mess up because Microsoft actually had a presentation.
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The ability to turn raw materials into resources and to generate energy is certainly unique so far, but it may turn out to be basically the norm going forward.
First and foremost, a complete redo of how the project is run. But if you want to take that on, you know where to find Mozilla's issue tracker.
Other than the headline of "Rust kernel module mainlined" I don't know what this entails. Do you need the entire rustc/cargo toolchain to compile this portion of the kernel? Or have they implemented some Rust compiler in gcc that it uses?
Yeah, that's a big part of it! It also reduces the amount of work/BS you have to deal with each week as well, so you don't get as exhausted both mentally and physically. Going from 5/2 to 4/3 really changes the balance in work/rest to almost even in comparison. My wife noticed she never really felt like she had to take vacation days or was dying for time off the way she was before, you can actually get enough time to recharge that it's not like you are crawling to that distant finish line.
Yes, this is the best way to explain it. Your number literals are “snapping to a grid” that is not base-10 and then we choose the shortest base-10 decimal that snaps to the appropriate grid point when we stringify the number.

The other thing that I would mention is that I see some really gnarly workarounds to try to get around this... Just bump up to integers for a second! People have this mistaken idea that the best way to understand these rounding “errors” is that floating point is just unpredictably noisy for everything, and that's not true.

Floating point has an exact representation of all integers up to 2^53 – 1. If you are dealing with dollars and cents that clients are getting billed or whatever, okay, the best thing to do is to have a decimal library. But if you don't have a decimal library and it's just some in-game currency that you don't want to get these gnarly decimals on, 3/10 will always give 0.3. 4/100 will always give 0.04. Just use the fact that the integer arithmetic is exact: multiply by the base, round to nearest integer, do your math, and then divide out the base in the end: and you'll be good.
They lost 100 Billion in value, because of a bad demo. OMG
You should realize that Twitter had become a critical source of information about people in collapsed buildings. Their friends, family and relatives were writing detailed address information in order to help rescue efforts and reach these people faster.

All sorts of resource requests were also part of these tweets, so it is also part of understanding priorities for each affected area.

There are already software projects collecting this information, organizing them to a structured form and carrying them over to rescue authorities.
Yea, I was playing Wolfenstein New Order on it and was shocked at how well it ran. Easily made 60fps with battery life projected at well over 3hrs.

Setting the refresh rate to 40hz helps a lot too.
This sounds really cool. I had never heard of this device before.
Other than being a professional programmer, which I keep pretty compartmentalized from the rest of my life, I think I'm a pretty average computer and web user.

I certainly know other browsers exist and I have even used them. I still don't care I just use what comes installed on the machine because like I said I don't care.
Just use your smartphone as a hotspot. It's trivial with Android.
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democracy is pretty hard in Turkey: just a small example: Bedia Özgökçe Ertan was elected as mayor of Van, then sentenced to 30 years of prison just for what she said.
Russia has already demonstrated that McDonald's theory doesn't work.
What are some better image search sites?
Our bodies are able to compensate for extreme cold a lot better than extreme heat, so it's important to recognize that we are going to increasingly need effienct heat management systems that prioritize removing heat in an efficient and scalable way rather than focusing on adding heat. As you say, we can make up the difference ourselves usually by just adding insulating layers to retain core heat.
I believe the point they were making is that they could use their own domain and infrastructure for the same kind of testing. Something like "<random-chars>.nxdetect.firefox.com" would keep the responsibility for the feature on Firefox's name servers. The same could be done for Chromium rather than contributing to a tragedy of the commons situation.

There is an obvious flaw which is that this behavior is detectable and avoidable by ISPs that become aware of what that domain is being used for... But that argument applies to the current detection method as well (as this post demonstrates).
I wouldn't say it's a character flaw. If you're happy being alone then you should feel free to pursue what makes you happy. But if other people can rouse doubt in you about it, then maybe it's worth investigating further.

I love being alone and I have a rich inner life. Relationships are messy, awkward, and sometimes painful but so is life. It's in relationship with others that I get to know myself better. I see it as two sides of the same coin, and for me, when those two sides aren't balanced, I suffer for it.
Nonconvertibility is a forseeable next step. I imagine first there would be a fee for converting to cash (eg. if you "withdraw" 100 digital pounds, you get 90 paper ones). Then the decreasing popularity of paper pounds would be used as a basis for eliminating them entirely: going forward, paper pounds could be deposited for digital, but not withdrawn.

Next, the bank starts applying negative interest rates when they need to "stimulate" asset prices and keep the stock market from crashing. No longer worried that people will pull cash out of their account to stuff under a mattress, your bank account starts dropping by 5% or 10% per year...
It literally is a gaming computer. Its design prioritizes gaming applications at every turn, from the form factor to the unusually low-resolution display to the gaming-oriented features of the (default) operating system. It's optimized to provide the best portable PC gaming experience at its price point, and due to the fundamental power/heat constraints of the "deck" form factor it's pretty close to the point of diminishing returns regardless of how much you want to spend.

Ultralight laptops can match or exceed it in [burst] performance, but that's table stakes. They aren't designed for gaming, and if you try to play games on one you will understand that very quickly.
There are previous incidents of governments trying to shoot down errant weather balloons, including one where jets fired thousands of rounds into it, only to fail to bring it down. Bear in mind also that anything they shoot at it will fall to the ground as well, kilometers away. Nobody wants random bullets falling from the sky into their skulls.

Fighter jets are not built for firing at slow-moving airborne targets. Even hitting it with a missile was actually quite a difficult feat.
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> pernicious and devious sockpuppetry cough persona management disinfo campaigns

Yeah I've gotten super weird responses when I discuss them on forums where randos are like verbatim repeating their PR talking points, and with a bizarre level of passion.

Of course I don't have the information to prove/disprove these things and, insofar as I also see it on HN, these accusations are against the rules, so I don't say anything but it's highly suspicious to say the least.
the "Turing Test" as commonly understood differs from the exact one described by Turing. It's still the Turing Test though.
Maybe not for you. But for my RSS filter it definitely is.
Compilers are very cautious about floating point optimization because many real number identities do not hold in FP, so they won't do much unless instructed to do so. Even if they do a constant propagation they will generally calculate in binary, in decimal. (Exception: decimal literals in some languages like Go are untyped and can be exactly calculated before getting rounded at once.)
I want a guild that can drum dunces out and refuse to promote them past apprentice.
Fair enough. 60k would be impossibly cheap for a Class B conversion van -- even a used one -- in the US.
Maybe, but globalization is how China got industrialized so fast in the first place. Help your enemy get rich, and then watch as they push you off your place. Not a smart strategy either.
Trump himself has been cleared, but a number of people around him have been convicted, and just recently an FBI man was indicted: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/06/politics/fbi-indictment-m...

There's a real problem in spy-hunting that the people hunting the spies may themselves be compromised. Was a problem with the Cambridge four https://www.nationalcoldwarexhibition.org/schools-colleges/n...
The alternative is not this. The alternative is you not being able to get data while the companies can.
If your stance on this is "private businesses can decide who they do business with" then that's fine.

But do so in a consistent manner without approving of the legally required carve outs whose sole purpose is to enforce a world view you find acceptable
Big mistake to take learning cursive out of the curriculum. It's a skill right up there with typing that is easy to learn and gives a sense of accomplishment. Just the habit of doing the lessons is good way to acquire the habit of discipline.
Why isn't the floating point version of 0.1 just 0.10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 and something like 0.10000000000000000555111512312578270211815834045410156250000000000000000000000000 ?
Meanwhile, ChatAI tech is coming for Google's bread and butter, but Google can't think of anything else to do but increase its role in creating a corporate authoritarian dystopia. Of course, ChatAI has the potential to be far worse than anything Google has been up to, but that will be little consolation to Google if they dwindle down to being the next Yahoo.
That argument gets longer in the tooth by the day. It presupposes a certain amount of shared values.
I have no idea what a floating point is but I still enjoyed reading the comments. I bet there are many people like me who love HN but choose not to make their presence known so as not to be downvoted (full disclosure: I've never down- or up-voted. But I do know this: on the rare occasions I remark on how funny or clever I found something, that comment usually gets downvoted).
One word: robodiggers.
I'm personally not a fan of gatekeeping. And your example is a false equivalency -- no one is claiming to be a professional engineer here.
That Dell was still certainly made in China. And the SSD, while not manufactured in China, likely had components which were.

It's practically impossible to avoid it.
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> Our measurement based on the micro benchmarks shows that Rust is in general slower than C, but the extent of the slowdown varies across different programs. On average, Rust brings a 1.77x “performance overhead” compared to C. [1]

Of course, for the sake of completeness it should be noted that:

> With the run-time checks disabled and the restrictions loosened, Rust presents a performance indistinguishable from C. [1]

Though I believe my original statement to hold none the less, as disabling these restrictions disables (amongst other things) bound and overflow checking, which is one of if not the major selling point of rust.

As for C++ depends on the features that one uses. If one writes "just what one could do in C" then the machine code produced by the compiler will be exactly (almost) the same. This is due to the fact that many c++ features are only compiler relevant but compile to (almost) the same instructions as code.

However, I would once again raise the question I did above with rust: If we use little to no c++ features then can we distinguish that codebasse from a c codebase in any meaningful way? But assuming we write idomatic code we will have the c++ code behaving somewhat slower due to factors such as:

- automatic collections/object allocation. Datastructures growing "on demand" do in general perform slower than a comparable "none automatic" datastructure increased in larger chunks by hand (using malloc/etc. in C). While this is an implementation detail admittedly, I believe the libstdc++ does not use chunking, though I would not swear on that.
- strings. While no doubt a big upgrade from \0 terminated char sequences idomatic strings in C are less efficient. Especially when it comes to concatenating or manipulation of said strings. In addition it may lead to memory fragmentation, though this should be an afterthought most of the time.

In general the performance difference of C++/C comes down to "hidden" code. While by no means large, assuming software such as the dns root servers which are running essentially 24/7 and will most likely continue doing so for quite a while even small differences in performance will add up.

Admittedly however my original statement of

> Well written C code can easily blow a C++/Rust application out of the water.

May not have been well formulated. It would have been better to split the statement and be more specific about the individual performance differences in regards to rust/c++ instead of bunching them together.

[1]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3551349.3559494
"it trusts you as a user" is really great way of putting it.
That's right- the IARC is the odd one out here and their results are based mainly on discredited experiments on rats that are known to be prone to getting cancer (meaning they aren't a good model for humans in this case).
> I think the bigger problem is how does something like ChatGPT fit into Google's business model for search.

Alternatively, how does ChatGPT fit into the usage model for search? I know it's taken on faith in this forum that somehow Google[1] search is bad or failing or about to be killed or whatever.

But... it's actually just fine? It does what the market wants, more or less perfectly. Everyone uses it to find the 99% of stuff that everyone searches for (commercial products, news, sites-you-forgot-the-name-of, etc...). What exactly is AI going to do better when all I want to know is where the Steam page for Skyrim is, or how much a pour-over coffee filter goes for?

The truth as I see it is that "search" simply isn't a market that's disruptable in the way posters here want it to be disrupted. Find 10 people on the street and ask them whether they can find stuff on the internet and they'll say "yes, duh?". This is like asking how AI is going to disrupt freight rail or high intensity agriculture. Those too are stable, already-optimized industries without a lot of room for genuine improvement except on cost (and recognize that training and running models of this scale is still significantly more expensive than crawling the web!).

Now, none of that is to say that there isn't an application for a generalized text model that can answer questions in the market somewhere. I think there probably is. I just don't see how it has anything to do with "search". Having a personal butler to do your research doesn't get you to the Skyrim forums any faster.

[1] Disclosure: I work there, but on firmware and nowhere near search. Opinions entirely my own.
I’ve done consulting at Google and know many Xooglers and I can confidently say Google considers users as nothing more than cattle to be shuffled into products where they can be milked for profit. They have no more empathy for a user than they would have for an animal destined to the slaughterhouse. Remember that next time you use a google product.
It's simple and easy to play, well done!
Not to mention it's one of the few modern platforms that allows modding up to code injection, memory manipulation, and mod managers that'll gleefully pull code from the four corners of the internet. You know, the things that every other platform heavily locks down over the fears hackers will steal grandma's cookie recipe and not because it allows the selling of 14 different microtransactions for something your average modder could put together in a day.
I want to, but it's tough. How have you been filtering things?
> A group, "Hamilton 68", was a central source on all of the "Russian trolls" narrative.

That is not backed up by even the overly breathless Twitter Files coverage.

Post #3: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1619029780179075073

"Unlike #ReleaseTheMemo, this one is primarily being driven by data from Hamilton68."

The Wikipedia article covers substantially more involvement than Twitter bots.
Exactly how is taking and/or sharing images of illegal immigrants entering the UK aiding them? If anything, might make identifying them easier.

Not to mention seemingly bizarre reasoning given UK only has jurisdiction over content viewed in the UK, which means anyone viewing the content would already be in the UK. If they are suggesting it’s a tool to recruit those in UK to aid illegal immigrants in entering the country, find it hard to believe children are being recruited to help.

Using similar reasoning, is anyone donating to an organization to change UK laws to be more immigration friendly is also committing a crime?
As an update to this, what about more institutional websites like [1]
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google fu is not about + or -, it's about knowing what terms to include and what terms to omit, including sometimes not including the actual thing itself.
And then you get “why isn’t 3 × ⅓ equal to 1?” and similar questions. “Use rationals” would only postpone the issue to “Why isn’t (√2)² equal to 2?” and similar questions.

I would think that, nowadays, every child would learn that calculators do not always produce exact answers almost in kindergarten.

Also (nitpick), it’s not “float vs decimal”. “Floating vs fixed point” and “binary vs decimal” are orthogonal issues.
yes, Freedom, Personal autonomy, Privacy, and Innocence until proven guilty are all the "entirely the wrong outlook " and people holding that "wrong outlook" clearly can not be anywhere near "safety-critical areas"

that is just absurd, Safety Theater is basically what you are advocating for

Let me ask you this, do you think forcing me to remove my shoes is a "critical safety" process before boarding a plan, and that allowing someone to pay $100 to bypass that means it is secure?
Might want to check the deductible on your renters insurance. For me it'd be a total loss. Basically only worth it if someone drives up with a moving truck and just steals half the house or if someone gets hurt and sues me for medical bills.
I'm very well aware of that.

Whenever I've been on the receiving end of a name change like that, I (and everyone I knew) found it obnoxious.

However, cultures differ. Turkey has a long history with name changes, and has been rather aggressive about them. When it became "Turkey," the post office wouldn't deliver mail unless the new name was used. Likewise, the capital has gone through two names since "Byzantium."

I was genuinely curious about local reaction. I have no idea, from the other end of the world, whether this was imposed by Erdogan as a crazy policy to everyone's annoyance, or whether it is wildly popular. I assume somewhere in between.