skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got a Shield to try to save some cash, getting hardware with a good TV interface that could do h.265 decoding.

Bugfest and terrible (and goddamn laggy) UI. Ended up on an AppleTV, which is what I should have gotten in the first place I guess. Every time I try to save money by avoiding Apple I end up paying far more for it in jank, lost time, and frustration. I hate how shit my other options are in nearly all of Apple's product categories, because it's not like Apple doesn't screw up constantly, just not enough that I wouldn't be cutting of my nose to spite my face by switching. If others would close the gap I'd feel a lot less uncomfortable with how much power they have.
For comparison, same thread topic from two and a half months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755531
No. For now the algorithms that search for extraterrestrial signals aren't trying to decode signals at all. They are only trying to detect extraterrestrial signals. The typical resolution for the Green Bank data is something like, every 20 seconds at a particular frequency gets summarized as one floating point number. That's enough to detect a sufficiently powerful signal over a few minutes of recording, but it isn't enough to decode any message.

If we ever do detect a signal, it will probably require constructing a radio telescope that is even more powerful in order to decode that signal. At that point it would make sense to think about safety measures.
> why should we care if it’s not something that’s actually important

because monopolies can manipulate market and prevent a healthy competition. no competition, means prices will be artificially high.
> That is not a privileged position.

That depends on if it’s caused by poverty, or a choice you made despite having the means for a better situation.

Being able to take a year off work and not end up homeless is incredibly privileged, but by your own admission you’re already homeless, possibly by choice. Most people don’t want to live in a car.
> because the Declaration of Sock Independence is immediately, Tiktok-speedily funny, and no one’s reading the original declaration anymore anyway

For those who, like me, had missed out on this nugget of comedic gold, here's what ChatGPT had to say when it was asked to "describe losing your sock in the dryer in the style of the declaration of independence":

When in the course of household events, it becomes necessary for one to dissolve the bonds that have connected a sock to its mate, and to assume among the powers of the laundry room, the separate and equal station to which the laws of physics and of household maintenance entitle it, a decent respect to the opinions of socks requires that it should declare the causes which impel it to go missing.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all socks are created equal, and are endowed by their manufacturer with certain unalienable rights...
How about no? Let's fight and make it better, for us and for our children.
While some stuff is slowly becoming more accessible, the deeper end of technology gets deeper and deeper - complex systems with many moving parts operating on many different levels of abstraction.
I find I work better in an office myself... been remote for about 3 years now, and I've gotten used to it. I miss lunch with coworkers, etc... and some of the more spontaneous discussions don't happen nearly as much... Also, I like a relatively short commute (around 30m) long enough to clear the mind before/after work.
> Also potentially the IDs of any Bluetooth and wireless devices nearby, MAC addresses and information about other equipment on the network.

Might as well suspect every single Linux device you have sending an ARP request then, who knows where it's going? Maybe they're exfiltrating it to Canonical.

Why is it that every Microsoft thread on HN with a hint of the word "Windows" generates the most overblown theories and accusations? I'm honestly expecting someone to soon say "what if Windows 11 takes a picture with your webcam and sends it back to Redmond?".
Wood does not suddenly change its weight by 10000% in the middle of a project.
CS has been the worst IB in the industry for years. Really embarrassing for the Swiss.
There is a pretty big "experimental" scene with small and ultra light airplanes. Experimental here basically meaning you can't use it for comercial. So mostly because of the costs of certification and liabilities involved and how the segment of the market is lifestyle/hobyists you end up with a lot of nice modern small planes that only the owner/syndicate flies and only for personal flights.

There's plenty of neat little planes out there, my favorite was basically the go cart equivalent of a jet that I saw at our club airport. Something like this https://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=92070
Yep, the reality is that Bing simply delivers an inferior product. I don't think they are actually trying to be malicious in this case. There is a reason Microsoft bribes you with gift cards to use their product ;)
>The latest quadsort version sorts 8 elements at a time. It's not really a sorting network,

That is precisely the definition of a sorting network. A sorting network is a fixed size sorter - that is all.

>it wouldn't have worked very well prior to branch prediction, or having a multitude of registers.

Both around for over 60 years...... In fact, both were in production hardware before any of these sorts were invented. Do you just make stuff up?

>So basically all the work that had been done for decades has become useless

Your baffling dismissiveness of things apparently you have little or no understanding of makes me highly disbelieving you're doing decent analysis on your sort. This is not the sign of a careful, thoughtful algorithm designer.

> plenty of people have checked and ran the benchmark themselves.

I don't doubt you have benchmarks where it's better - that's trivial to do for any sorting network idea - that is well trodden theory. I posted above how to make data that falls on either side of the argument. Making a sort that performs well over significant variety in real-world data without suddenly hitting bad downsides is the hard part. Making some datasets faster makes others slower when you're fiddling with number of comparisons dynamically.

That you are unaware of the past and dismiss it out of hand is not a good way to ensure you're not fooling yourself.
at a previous company (2019-20) we did some tests on this.

The main problem with relying on js rendering is that it happened much much later than the crawl. Days at least and sometimes weeks. For us, fresh content was key, so js rendering was not possible.
> Nor is Credit Suisse going down going to affect normal people or the greater economy.

Really? They have 50,000 employees and two million clients.
> Everyone in this thread is arguing about operating systems and their mobile OS preference... why?

Simply because performance of mobile phones is not an issue anymore. Nobody cares if one phone is 5% or 5 times faster than the other. I have a 2,5 year old 200€ Chinaphone and performance is not an issue at all. Unlike a few years ago I never even once thought that a slightly faster phone would be any better. That's why.
I wouldn't say "absolutely no problem." Based on section 2.5 of [1], Mezzo needs some extra bookkeeping to handle reference cycles as well- the program needs to select a single owner for objects involved in cycles, and `give`/`take` them to/from that owner to access them, which can fail at runtime.

Section 2.6 describes a static variant of the same idea, named `focus`/`defocus`, which can't fail at runtime but has some limitations on how nodes can be used.

These don't exactly match the solutions Rust typically uses, but they are close to a few of them in several ways. This looks more like a question of defaults and API (including the choice to rely on garbage collection by default) than the design of the type/borrow checker.

[1] http://gallium.inria.fr/~fpottier/publis/bpp-mezzo-journal.p...
Not sure why you need a whole article for what amounts to a product review from a disgruntled customer.
>Municipal broadband, power, roads, schools, post, housing, and healthcare? It's long overdue,

Yeah, everything was great under the state owned telco monopolies. Let's get back to that!
Microsoft Outlook has begun serving me ads that look like emails
I agree -- but the picture is often more complicated for places that rely heavily on tourism and marketing.

The image portrayed by a tourist destination that is making large efforts towards 'green initatives' may be a more enticing sell to the increasing number of 'eco-tourists', many of which have never thought a day in their life about EROI.
He's a German automotive industry person (Robert Bosch, Mercedes-Benz). I guess that's the kind of customers they'll be going for now, having won most software companies already. He's got a PhD in mechanical engineering.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtom

I was just in the process of trying to convince a customer company to migrate from Bitbucket to Github. This (the information about the new CEO) makes me uncertain.

I think it's safe to say there'll be an overwhelming "enterprise"/$LargeCo focus on their work, going forward.

We can only hope that the UX isn't dragged down to stereotypical Microsoft levels in the process.
Most people I know do this a few times a year at least. In the midwest we think nothing of a 20 hour drive to get to some vacation destination.

Sure for daily driving a EV has the range, but without good charging it doesn't work for vacations. That is a few weeks every year.
Oh please not white. I already see the green light as barely distinguishable from white.
How do you define founder exactly? Does being there for the initial discussions, helping get the team together, being on the board and being a co-chair and helping fund the whole thing count?
To be fair, I would never have guess Yahoo still had 1600 employees to lay off.
Record 2022 profits show oil and gas industry strong as climate change worsens
Yeah, that was my favourite talk of FOSDEM. There were also some good talks about eBPF like the below.

https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/walking_stack_without...

https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/bpf_loader/
Why can California not import Indian I nsulin?

I thought thr Indian pharmaceutical industry was well able to make it, why not just buy it?
it's a team game and steph is a greater leader than LeBron. Also, LeBron won't be the GOAT just because 4 titles are less significant than 6 and Jordan was an international phenomenom in the 90s the world has not seen since in Basketball. Everyone knew Jordan in Europe. Try that with LeBron.
That's fair push back. I absolutely get that re: no centralized control/decision making. However, places like FOSDEM are where I've seen people raising community awareness on larger issues like this in the past. So I just figured I'd throw my $.02 out there in case it gets anyone thinking more about it or starting to work more in that direction as that's what I've got the time to do right now... yeah, I know: lame.
My heart wants to agree with you but all those regulations must have something to do with how few people die in airplane crashes. It's like the textbook case of when regulations work, and I don't think the FAA has a department of special exceptions. We can wishfor it, but it's not easy to handle someone who wants to do something different.
One way to think about prompting is as a conditional probability distribution. There is a particular song by Taylor Swift or the set of all songs by Taylor Swift but ChatGPT is particularly talented at sampling the "set of all songs in the style of Taylor Swift".

One of the worst problems in the "Expert Systems" age of A.I. was reasoning over uncertainty, for instance this system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycin

had a half-baked approach that worked well enough for a particular range of medical diagnosis. In general it is an awful problem because it involves sampling over a joint probability distribution. If you have 1000 variables you have to sample a 1000-dimensional space, to do it the brute force way you'd have sample the data in an outrageous number of hypercubes.

Insofar as machine learning is successful it is that we have algorithms that take a comparatively sparse sample and make a good guess of what the joint p.d. is. The success of deep learning is particularly miraculous in that respect.
I just switched from a OnePlus 5 to a 9 Pro a few weeks back, and it is a noticable improvement. But you are right, while I was on the 5 I thought performance isn't a problem.
Hopefully with USB-3 speeds. Last I understood, the iPhone still transfers data at USB-2 speeds. This is crazy when you want to transfer large videos, or backup.
PyTorch has 3-5x the use of TensorFlow in academia.
Ukraine fighter pilot: I could learn to fly western jet within three months
Or, as others have pointed out, the incompetence may not be with Bing. Websites that take a long time to load, download megabytes of data, and cause CPU fans to spin up are often down-ranked by search engines.
BP Cuts Climate Pledges While Reporting Record-Shattering Profits
Nice!

Your 'fixed' package is wild btw. I've been looking for a good 256-bit division algorithm, might have to copy yours. :)
“I’ve been at this bank for 10 years and I’ve seen some things you wouldn’t believe. But when all is said and done these guys do not lose money.

They don’t care if everyone else does but they don’t lose.”

https://youtu.be/xW1CrQu_H6E
Agree. We shouldn't be purchasing the infrastructure components but instead using it as a consumable. The same thing bothers me about putting solar panels on my house (they should go in solar farm somewhere else, I still depend on grid but that I'm okay with (could buy batteries if I had reliability concerns)).

Much easier to do with scooters https://www.gogoro.com/ but I don't think it would be too hard to engineer a connector/robot that basically did the heavy lifting/swapping from underneath the vehicle
I had switched to MS ecosystem (invested in windows 10, onenote+outlook (client and mail service)+todo and onedrive) when 'Gmail is evil' fiasco started years ago. Sticking to it due to convenience, innovation (boards in calendar, teams for personal use, loop etc., O365 being smooth online) and affordability (stackable multi year subscription through offers -amz/Newegg).

Now rethinking after I got windows 11 in a new machine - the push to use edge is now really annoying. Xbox is nice in win11 but I have found win11 to be pretty buggy as well, hangs a lot in a gaming laptop being used only for browsing. Edge feels super convenient, like old opera with all the bells and whistles built it but at times it feels scary. Especially when it comes with your employer badge in a work computer. Similarly viva insights. MS has mastered the art of telemetry it seems. Majority of my colleagues and friends do not seem bothered.

I had debloated my win10 installations but too lazy to do it again in win11. Any suggestions?
I'd literally fly a bicycle with wings for fifteen minutes at a time if that made [fixed-wing] aviation more affordable. I live in one of the better-off eastern-bloc countries and I make significantly more than most people I know, but getting a PPL would almost certainly ruin me financially at this moment.

I know that paragliding and hang gliding exist, but those are a bit out of my comfort (and safety) zone.
In some countries or cities, you may be prevented from driving into those countries or cities.

Several European cities have low- or zero-pollution zones, and these are likely to increase once the disruption to normal people is limited. Currently, it's generally old diesel trucks and buses that are banned or restricted.
> because it's no longer relevant with modern operating systems and programs for the vast majority of users and applications

The article just proves you wrong

Apple's products are lightyears ahead from Android phones in perfomance. Apple CPU design always put single core perfomance upfront, because they know most application are still optimized to single core usage. how is not not relevant?
At least they're a little more honest about why this is happening:

"Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone stressed that the layoffs are not attributable to financial challenges, but rather, strategic changes to the company's Yahoo for Business advertising unit, which is not profitable. "

Unfortunately I can't speak to the quality of Yahoo's ad inventory but that might say a lot in and of itself (the partnership with Taboola certainly doesn't fill my mental "ROAS" with confidence).

It looks like there was a little too much money sloshing around in the ad space and the pullback is starting to show up in layoffs. Granted there's definitely some fat to trim in the ad business in the form of account managers that are basically just inside-sales.

I really hope that a lot of these (presumably) talented employees that have been laid off from these various companies go out on their own and take down these established businesses for good.
For certified piston aircraft, generally yes. The engines are pretty much made by a few manufacturers based on ancient designs, and while you may get some "newer" benefits in some models, such as fuel injection (instead of carborators), or digital engine control (FADEC), they're pretty much ancient technology compared to modern engines. Most still have manual mixture control for example and very limited monitoring.

The only example in that class (sub $750k) I can think off the top of my head with a better engine is DA40 NG, which uses a modified Mercedes diesel engine.
then how about doing the sensible thing and mandating that ALL the money the externalities cost be collected, and spent on undoing it? think burning gasoline causes X shit to happen? fine, go pay for that instead of salary to some member of parliament. but no, thats not what happens, all these "green" taxes go straight to the coffins that pays for all the retarded shit the regime wants
A wild guess:

- The people let go might have been good friends or at least people they enjoyed working with.

- While they’re not targeted, their coworkers are, they’ll sympathize with the tension. Also that workforce is now doing the same work amount with fewer people.

- They are expected to do a lot of education and bringing people up to speed. More churn means more work, and it’s also harder emotionally if you’re not sure how long the person will stay in the company.
90% sure he means "largest manufacturers of marine engines" rather than "manufacturers of the largest marine engines". If I'm right then the largest mfg probably produces smaller engines since there's so many more small boats.
I wouldn't cold call for this. You've got such a niche product... It's really hard to find applications where this works better than a centralized database. There's so much vapor in that field that it's going to be hard to stand out.
Most marine engines in that size range are used in either rail, power generating or other stationary applications. The manufacturers aren't idiots. They're gonna get as many sales out of a design as they can.

Regardless, the point is they're not bespoke for your industry.
I think they're referring to gasoline "small" boats, like Mercury Marine type stuff, rather than full-sized ships, which generally use industrial / "stationary" diesel engines. I think the point still stands though, as these larger stationary diesels are usually shared with locomotives, gensets, and the like.
I knew the name was familiar, thank you
The rules are extremely different state to state. Some states don't allow fast charging companies to resell their power like that, so they have to charge exclusively for the time you are using the charger, rather than the actual electricity you are using.

There's like an entire order of magnitude from the high end to the low end
A band of Ukraine civilians helped seal Russia's biggest defeat
https://archive.is/AaTEO
https://archive.is/1mRHm
> These findings suggest that ToM-like ability (thus far considered to be uniquely human)

What it suggests to me is that the particular test of “Theory of Mind” tasks involved actually test the ability to process language and generate appropriate linguistic results, not theory of mind.

It also suggests (with the “thus far considered to be uniquely human”) that the authors are unaware of other theory of mind tests that have been used that are not language dependent but behavior dependent, and on which, while, as is also true of linguistic tests, the validity of the tests is controversial – a number of non-human primates, non-primate mammals, and even some birds (parrots and corvids, particulary) have shown evidence of theory of mind.
It has "private" group chats in Chats tab and all meetings auto-create group chats. At various points I've tried to push conversations into a proper Team and threaded chat, but the "convenience" of just sending a chat message in last week's meeting chat or some hand-built group chat rather than just finding the right Team channel seems to keep winning out more often than not.
Yeah, you can do some quite easy motte-and-bailey with it.

Everyone will agree that (cheap, out of patent) insulin should be available to all; it's literally lifesaving.

But then switching that to the (modern, convenient) insulin should be available to all is a bit of a slight of hand, especially when it is NOT a "you will die without this" but a "you will have more hassle taking medication to not die" scenario.
> by far the superior spreadsheet in the Windows 3.0/3.1 era

Quattro Pro is waiting outside the door. He says he'd like to have a word. ;-)
Affirm reports some loans to Experian.[0] Also, if you use Affirm rather than cash you can defer some costs and get yourself out of a sticky situation.

[0] https://helpcenter.affirm.com/s/article/reporting-to-credit-...
If the neighbor is your competitor, it makes a lot of sense to fish in their pond.
can't be any worse than the crap they are putting out there now. I don't care if its written by a human or not, if its good, fine
Google has over 165B in cash on hand. Nothing is that dire.
Ya, my next kitchen renovation is going to have a 220/240 outlet just to use a faster water kettle (well, an induction cooktop should already be able to boil water quickly, but just in case a separate appliance still makes sense).
Leaded fuel, leaded fuel fumes and spray.

Adapt the engines or ground them. There's no acceptable middle ground.

It's like secondhand smoke to the rest of the population.

No your "immune system" does not handle lead, it's forever and why it was banned in cars for 25 years

https://www.thedrive.com/news/42218/if-leaded-fuel-is-so-bad...

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/leaded-gas-wa...
That also reminds me of Her (2013) and the departure of the AI's, leaving the humans behind. That would be a rather depressing outcome as a human, AI finding alien life but leaving us all behind.
Yeah. OpenAI is apt to force filters on their transformers' outputs. A year or two ago they threatened to kill AIDungeon after discovering that users were generating unsettling text with it. Since AIDungeon was built off the back of GPT3 and GPT2.5, they had no choice to comply, which led to developers and temps manually reading users' stories after they were flagged for "harmful content." That harmful content filter is very similar to what you see on chatGPT. Users screamed their privacy concerns, and the product became noticeably "worse" at generating prose/stories.

Most users used the same phrasing you have - the AI was "crippled." Shortly after, alternatives that at least claim to not invade your privacy sprang up, and I see much less of AIDungeon today.

OpenAI does not support the free use of their technology. As always, don't be fooled by the "Open" in the name. If you or your product does something they, or Microsoft, dislikes, your access could be revoked anytime. It seems unlikely to me they'd change their outlook now