skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw some people mentioning that since mail-away PCB houses are so cheap and competent, they'll draft stuff like mounting brackets in KiCAD and have them cut out of FR-4 or aluminized PCB stock.

I'll admit to having done it with keyboard mounting plates-- they ended up significantly cheaper the price of traditional laser/water jet sheet aluminium, but you had to buy five units.
operator mono has always been my goto since i first went into a deep dive on this topic, and i LOVE it. in the interest of full disclosure, i... torrented it... many, many years ago, but now that i'm thinking about it i will go buy a copy-- i definitely owe them at this point. highly, highly recommend operator mono-- i just feel like if you are optimizing for pure aesthetics it wins out. the italic version is definitely a big part of that.
To be honest, I'm pretty against telemetry in Go, but it's not about the compiled code itself. They want to telemetrize the go command and compiler itself to collect data about which language features used (I assume), and how the go command is used.

Again, I'm pretty against it. My red-line is opt-in telemetry, and even that's a place I don't want to arrive.
It's defamation if Joe Bloggs wants to sue. He can certainly try, but first he has to prove that Bing was actively defaming him. Alright, let's see:

- Was this content published or promoted to other people? (No)

- Was it served in accordance with US law and the license agreement (Yes)

Proving either of those wrong would take a village. Assuming you get past that, you then have to prove that it was done with malicious or defamatory itent. How do you intend on doing that? You could subpeona OpenAI for their training data, but that only works if the training data was manipulated with dishonest intent.

Sure, there are AI-specific unknowns in the legal world. Entertaining this is no more relevant than suing Microsoft for a Swastika you saw on an online Minecraft world though - you knew what you were getting into when you signed up.
Clojure evolves slowly and deliberately -- it gets about one release a year (with various prereleases) so "2 months" between commits isn't a big deal. I consider it a "feature" because it means Clojure is extremely stable -- which is great for us at work given that we've used it in production for a dozen years at this point and have been able to run alpha builds in production safely during nearly all of that time.
Please understand how frustrating this obvious, on a mobile PC, prior-art-invalidateable patent is:

def on_voice_input(audio):
text = speech_to_text(audio)
tasks = parse_text(text) #
for task in tasks:
exec(task) # run locally, or
exec("ssh user@remote_host -- $task") # run remotely

Isn't that what Hal does in "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968)?

Pretty sure there were voice command apps for Palm, Symbian, Blackberry, WinMo, etc; years before the date on the cited patents.

(And furthermore, such has certainly been possible on desktop computers (PCs) for many years prior to 2017.) E.g. Dragon Naturally Speaking (now Nuance) has been able run to custom commands `on_voice_input()` on a PC since the early 2000s at least IIRC)

Given voice commands prior art,
to then run a remote command - over SSH, for example - is an obvious next step and thus not a patentable invention to this reasonable person.
“Meta did not immediately to Engadget’s comment request.”

I don’t really see much value to the numerous hurried regurgitations of the original story (from the Financial Times), though I guess this link is a form of that.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.
All models are false, some are useful. Five whys strikes a useful balance between the overly simplistic single cause model and the incomprehensible detail of full reality.
I was not trying to be pedantic. I was sincerely intrigued. I imagined you had night vision goggles on and such. It turned out much less interesting.
Wait until you hear about the fossile fuel industry!
Similar to this I look at it through Meadow's leverage points. Does the solution improve information flows in the system? Does it change the time scale of feedback loops? Does it improve material flows?

A solution that improves information flow solves problems you don't even know existed, yet! This is one way to deal with unknown unknowns. (Or black swans, depending on whose terminology you prefer.)
Nineteen-fucking-forty release year. About a year earlier (mind, production leads release by quite a bit) we had, infamously, turned away almost a thousand Jews on the St Louis seeking asylum—of whom, about a quarter would ultimately die in the holocaust, after re-settling in countries that Nazi Germany eventually conquered.

It's hard not to see the relevance of Communism to the speech, too, that being the one of a couple things that loomed (much) larger in the average German mind than the "Jewish question", in the rise of Nazism. No accident that Chaplin would find himself on the wrong side of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), I guess.

It's maybe the great pre-war (from the American perspective, of course—'39 was the start for Europe, and earlier still for China and other places like Ethiopia) WWII movie.
Interestingly enough, it immediately got "Hated for ill" (presumably because there are source texts that discuss that very anagram). But it took about 10 goes to finally a correct anagram for "Indebted sniper", though the best it could do was "pride-bent snide". I then asked it which world leader's title this might also be anagram of and it some how decided "Prime Minister" was a valid anagram of the same letters.
Well yes, we stopped long time ago from plowing the earth with our own arms to give pass to animals and then machines, and no one sees an issue there. If I want a picture of X, now I can ask MidJourney to generate it to me for virtually free, something that before I had to either pay an artist or be content without. I (and we) should be happy that robots are capable of doing more work for us so that we have more free time in life.

The only legit worry I see is that when factories took jobs 100-150 years ago, people fought to get much better work conditions, while now it seems most work improvements go to the company profit and little to your everyday person (though, still a lot ends up for your everyday person, as I said with the painting). I believe there might (or might not) have been some regression in the USA in the last 10-20 years in some areas, but in most of Europe quality of life is still climbing dramatically in most areas, and of course most of the world as a whole is way better off than 20 years ago.
unifont
http://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html
My problem with WSL is the performance. A real Linux is a lot faster, even a Linux in VirtualBox works a lot better. Maybe only happens to me.
Selling doesn’t transfer the “issue” to someone else. It houses someone in need.
Sure, just use the word “meticulous” instead of slow.
I've never had finer furniture than that made from the Amish community near where I grew up. The craftsmanship and attention to detail is unreal. Also, this particular community made some of the best cheese I've ever tasted.

There's something to be admired about their way of life.
It's up to them to define "near", but I'd consider https://spiralwiki.com/ (Samir Menon and Prof. David Wu at UT Austin) "nearly" usable compared to regular wikipedia.
> It suggests a unique and amusing approach to hiring management: executives should find people who truly value the goals of the executive, hire them as managers, and (perhaps via intentional lack of oversight!) give them leeway to let their subconscious values impact their work, thus making their minds legible to mind-reading employees.

"Hire people who share your values/goals and let them get on with things" is hardly a novel insight. The trouble is that aligning them is hard.
Sure, you could spend the money to build renewables and electrify some developing nation. But it would be a hard political sale to ask two million Californians to spend a couple thousand dollars to help people in Africa or wherever.
Let me look into my crystal ball...
Tangentially related, but Hard Fork is my new favorite podcast. The flow, the humor, the interviews, and the tidbits of information the two hosts share and discuss make for such a great listening experience. These guys (Kevin Roose and Casey Newton) are pros, and it shows.
Humans have always had the ability to mess up a one car funeral. The kingdom building manager has always been the problem where I work. He will hire those below him who are woefully inept, so he can insulate himself from his own errors. Those of us not in management, who actually know to job, are ignored. This causes an incredible amount of waste and time. And yes, if you try to go above his head, you will be scapegoated out of your job. One can imagine what this does for morale.
Shortage of financially successful men?
Ugly as sin but works on everything everywhere. Truly a font built for a war zone.
Secretive Network Rescues Russia’s Antiwar Dissidents in Nick of Time
The WSL2 kernel already has Ext4 support.
Keep their heads ringing.. "if you can't earn money with it, screw it" my grandpa said, and I should learn later how much truth it beholds.
The balanced take on autonomous vehicles is that there are degrees of merit in most of the major approaches, but you'll almost never hear that opinion because this topic has somehow become akin to a religious debate.
The product has cryptography and cryptocurrency built in. Which part do you distrust?
Well I guess I’m getting at the fact that an AGI is trained mostly on things that ISNT its current task. Is there any reason why I couldn’t train another ML model only on the scope I care about and get better results? No conscious required. Doesn’t even remotely resemble a human being because all it does it control the combine, which is the only thing making me money.
I wonder if you've ever had the pleasure of working for a small company full of the owner's incompetent friends and family. Loyalty is nice within reason, but it can be pathological.
I don't think it's just imports, though. I remember doing a double take after seeing this:

https://archive.fo/XVGA8

Granted, there are certainly tankie students in US colleges - but they don't usually run official Twitter accounts of student societies endorsed by the college. It reminded me more of the kind of stuff Orwell was writing about the UK intelligentsia in 1945:

"The ordinary people in the street – partly, perhaps, because they are not sufficiently interested in ideas to be intolerant about them – still vaguely hold that ‘I suppose everyone’s got a right to their own opinion.’ It is only, or at any rate it is chiefly, the literary and scientific intelligentsia, the very people who ought to be the guardians of liberty, who are beginning to despise it, in theory as well as in practice. One of the peculiar phenomena of our time is the renegade Liberal. Over and above the familiar Marxist claim that ‘bourgeois liberty’ is an illusion, there is now a widespread tendency to argue that one can only defend democracy by totalitarian methods. If one loves democracy, the argument runs, one must crush its enemies by no matter what means. And who are its enemies? It always appears that they are not only those who attack it openly and consciously, but those who ‘objectively’ endanger it by spreading mistaken doctrines. In other words, defending democracy involves destroying all independence of thought."

So I think there's plenty of blame to go around on both sides of the Atlantic. ~
I went to sign up, but it doesn't work without an email. That's an important part of the HN experience.
That's cleverly worded. HN does not have search, however.
This made me laugh in disbelief. A quick search shows enough posts of a similar nature that if this isn't true it's either a really determined prankster with lots of accounts or playing along with this has become a trend.
ECB should never be used under any circumstances. Library creators would do well to rename their functions along the lines of ECB_NEVER_USE_THIS_IS_NOT_SECURE.
Football and baseball are tricky cases because it takes a lot to get 11 players to work in anything like unison and if someone like the left offensive tackle (for a right-handed quarterback) forgets their job or is incompetent it's quite dangerous.

In baseball, the very basic skill of hitting is just hard to accomplish. It takes a lot of practice hours to get the bare minimum of competency.

But I think these are two very important cultural games and I would be sad if they weren't played in public schools, it would be a real loss.

So once again we face a problem and I really don't know what the solution is.
Apple’s manufacturing shift to India hits stumbling blocks
https://archive.md/4uoZ0
Previous surveys of this kind have suggested that most AI researchers aren't actually thinking about these questions very hard (e.g. rephrasing a question a bit can get you a very different answer). So it doesn't seem at all surprising to me that the majority view is out of sync with what a careful analysis shows.

>Anyway. The problem with AI-driven decisions is moral in nature, not technological. AI is a tool and should be seen as such, not as a moral agent that can be held responsible for its* own actions. Less "the AI did it", more "[Person] did it using an AI".

Essentially a "guns don't kill people, people kill people" argument.

I think this argument breaks down as weapons get more powerful, e.g. if I could walk down to my local car dealership and buy a cheap tank powerful enough to level a city, it seems good to focus more on "ease of tank purchase" than "culpability for tank drivers".

I think the argument also breaks down as AI gets more powerful.
I was just on such a call and the chop in / out is so weird
ArXiV has lot of subsections like materials, condensed matter where you can find lot of interesting applications
Multi-line code blocks are impossible on the Linux client. And Android (just confirmed). I have to use this feature about 10 times a day and triple backticks works about 1% of the time so you know what i do? I copy a multi-line code block from another chat and edit the text. Garbage.

I can add a code snippet but that thing is bloody awful. What's with the huge title over the snippet and truncating the text to a few lines even if it's only 2 lines longer? Gah.

Also, separating "chats" and "teams" into two places in the UI? Why? It's confusing. I occasionally click on the teams section and see a bunch of unread messages they I did't get notifications for.

I think. Because notifications are garbage. I'll be told that there's a message in a chat. Now I have to click on it and pray that it brings me to the right place. With slack the notification used to contain the sender and part of the message. Half the time I could eyeball the notification and get 100% of that i need without context switching.

Edit: my team is insisting on slack. We're ditching teams as a chat tool. Might keep it for video stuff but that depends how slack video conferencing works. (Used to use Zoom and Slack before)
Interesting to see someone actually trying to build up an account with GPT like this. Brings back memories of watching script kiddies running wild in the early 2000s
Consulting doesn't really use the "billable hours" model, not to the client. The client is billed a fixed fee. Hours are accounted for internally, with each person in the consulting firm trying to bill their hours "to the project" -- a case team leader might need to bill $6,000 a day for example, a senior partner $15,000, a junior person $3,000. The juniors don't really have to worry about this, everyone knows they're full-time and powerless to do anything else, so they bill all their hours to the project. The senior partners are in charge and bill however many hours they want to their projects. Usually whatever cash is left over is not enough for the mid-tier people, so they politick and fight over the scraps to show high utilization and survive to bill another day.
MS can't grok functional software (in every sense of the word) so something like Nix is off the table.
Okay.

I mean, people call those desktops a lot of the time in broad conversations about architectures. Did you have a point that affects their actual argument?
Most companies refuse to incorporate GPL code / libraries into their projects. The question is what counts as a "derivative work". Using linux as an OS target is fine, but statically linking GPLed libraries is generally not ok.

Companies seem happy using GPL software (like linux) only so far as they're allowed to ignore all the share-alike clauses of the GPL.
I was amazed with the lcd and the vacuum metal evaporation coat applying thing
People were talking about how pre-AI internet content might one day be valued like low-background steel, as something that's no longer being produced in a pure enough form

Guess we're there already
I missed the action. Could someone tell me what they posted?
> There is no reason to keep Windows installed on a new computer.

You could keep it around as a reminder of how bad things could've been as you ponder your Candy Crush start menu.
What does that have to do with the competence of the civil service?
> But no one owes him anything.

I strongly disagree. Only because so many people feel that he owes them something.
I saw pictures on reddit and was surprised I haven’t seem more coverage of it in major news outlets
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<3 Gaim.
There are military jets with a 16,000 mile range without refueling (assuming your 8,000 mile estimate is correct, and they need to fly back)? Which ones?

US stealth fighters have a ~500 mile range IIRC. I don't know about the B-2 bomber, but it isn't 16,000 miles!
While I find the idea of perfect debuggability appealing, i.e. that I can trace problems back to upper management or the CEO - I think there is way too much entropy involved to do this in a meaningful way. Remove manager M1 or M2, and things might actually get worse. Why? You’ll have no clue.
I worked in one of those locations being shut down. Suresh’s leadership and direction - or lack thereof - made it pretty clear to me that investment in the US would wane under his rule.

Needless to say, I do not work for Walmart anymore.
Russian weather satellite deployed in geostationary orbit
This is actually where I stopped reading and checked the comments, because it shows that the author skipped a few history lessons.

The Luddites were not intrinsically opposed to the advance of technology. In fact, the whole reason why they were smashing looms was as a protest tactic - not an end goal. England's upper class invented the myth of the technology-hating Luddite as a way to slander and libel what was basically a prototype of a modern labor union. Parliament would then crush them with laws that made machine breaking a hanging offense.

Transposing this to today would give you artists angry that their work was trained on by DALL-E, SD, or Midjourney[0]. In both cases the opposition is not to the technology itself, but to the reallocation of wealth away from labor and to whoever owns the machines. The latter today would be akin to, say, "businessman" hustlebros using ChatGPT and art generators to create labor-free fly-by-night operations[1]. Most art generators are also hosted platforms whose access is sold for profit, creating a second layer of ownership on top of the hustlebros.

Meanwhile the main argument here is more akin to the stereotypical technophobe: AI can't be trusted. Hell, there's a whole chapter (not yet written) arguing that we should just junk neural networks entirely. This isn't Luddism, this is the god damned Butlerian Jihad[2].

[0] If you want a bit of a stretch you probably could see some Luddite in, say, Richard Stallman

[1] I regularly get YouTube recommendations for people trying to tell me how much money I can make by just typing a few prompts into an art generator and posting the result on a print-on-demand site.

[2] In the sci-fi novel Dune, the Butlerian Jihad is an event in which all computers are outlawed and mercilessly destroyed.

Yes, this is why /r/Dune banned AI art.
But again, if you run the WSL2 kernel in a standalone VM then it's just Linux. All the "Extend" goes away.
Polyfills aren’t some dark art, a 2nd year comp sci student could write them quickly as needed.
I've been using RocketChat for a while and I like it, but there definitely room for improvement. So I just spent the last ten minutes looking up Zulip. I didn't find anything to suggest that there's much difference between this and other open source messaging projects. Google searches just turn up the usual blogspam.

What have I missed? Could you share a review or something that goes into the difference?
> As a society, we have to decide how we feel about AI in legal and cultural contexts as we expand our capabilities, but there's time to do that.

How long will it take to learn how to make collective decisions though? There's "democracy" of course, but that has almost nothing to do with making group decisions.
The more I read, the more I feel like this is actually a well written piece on why capitalism is causing an apocalypse. Every time the author references AI - that it’s out of control, that it’s influencing major portions of society, that it’s strengthening itself - I think what he actually means is that the corporations are those things, and AI is a tool in their arsenal. He tries to make the argument that it’s the other way around (for a fictional web search company):

> The institution has its own agency: its own purposes, plans, reasons, and logic, which are more powerful than the humans it employs. Those are subordinate in turn to the AI the company depends on for its survival.

The first sentence is absolutely correct. The second? In no way can I believe that the corporation doesn’t have a good understanding of exactly how it can manipulate the AI systems it leverages to achieve its goals.
>We know how that went.

A large majority of the world's countries have no nuclear weapons.

Big swaths of the globe have been designated as "Nuclear-weapon-free zones": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-weapon-free_zone

And we haven't had a nuclear apocalypse -- in part due to lots of work on things like weapons treaties, monitoring, control systems, etc.

Throwing up our hands and giving up seems very premature. The challenges are big, but I'd say the importance is high enough that it's worth actually reading this book to see if the author has creative solutions for the things you mention.
Have you noticed:

When the price of US equities (SPY, QQQ) goes up, crypto assets like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana also go up.

When US equity prices go down, crypto prices follow.

Is this a coincidence?
Using the same logic as the market’s expectations of the Fed rate hike cycle, does this mean that they will start hiring again sooner?