skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what this has to do with my comment: my observation was only that memory corruption was a well understood vulnerability domain in 1996, not that there was a particularly wide variety of alternatives to C or C++.
That depends how much it's used, I suppose. Ever-increasing, it looks like. At some point it might be worth investing in more training to reduce operating expense. Pretty standard CAPEX vs OPEX calculation.

On the other hand, we're not counting energy saved by people using it.. What if some scientist uses it and ends up solving fusion power? Or, say, making copywriters and programmers redundant (who I assume would go on to become subsistence farmers) - many energy savings to be had!
indeed the CUDA software is the moat for Nvidia, though its hardware is still great.
People hating on Sundar completely overlooking the fact that he pivoted Google to an AI first company 6 years ago, way before AI was hyped up. https://venturebeat.com/ai/ai-weekly-google-shifts-from-mobi...

He funded the Brain team that came up with major research breakthroughs like Transformers that power ChatGPT.

AI is embedded behind the scenes in pretty much every Google product, you just don't know it because it's not packaged into a fancy chat interface. They didn't push Bard because they know LLMs have problems with getting facts straight, and they still are rolling it out in response to ChatGPT very cautiously.
Pichai needs to go, and I've been calling it here for over three years.

It's been so obvious Pichai isn't the one to lead Google. Here's a mountain of evidence where you can see him failing to adapt to a risky situation and changing market:

2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25549445

2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27588571

2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21819608

2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25986216

2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34484142

Pichai has a history of not being bold, not responding to threats, not innovating, not fixing broken culture, not seeing the 20 year view of the market. He's lost some of the biggest advantages Google once held. He needs to be done. And he needs to be done three years ago.

Now when he's tasked with reversing the sinking ship? Totally fumbling.

Show him out and get a Nadella.
Raising barriers to access works. Kids generally do not drink alcohol, drive, vote or smoke. There are exceptions but it makes it a lot harder and does reduce access. And when they do drink and smoke it is generally when they are close in age to the end of the ban.

To say that some will get around it doesn’t mean we should not do what is best for that group as a whole.

Unlimited and early extensive use of social media and hardcore porn is not healthy for kids. It will screw up their worldview. We should ban and limit them smartly if we want to support healthy kids.
Yeah, this is why it was "impossible" to give railroad workers sick leave. It would be incompatible with PSR, and scrapping PSR would mean gasp lower short-term profits for shareholders!
When I was a kid I used to walk my dog around this nearby area that wasn't developed at all and every year some coomer would leave a giant pile of porn mag subscriptions from like a long time back, he'd be cycling out stuff from like 10 years ago and just leaving it on top of these rocks. I guess he was thinking someone might find them and take them away like some kind of treasure or something when really they'd just blow all over the place and cover the area in porn until it rained and sunbleached away while us kids would just laugh at it and try to keep the dog from sniffing it.
On a side note, I absolutely love how your username itself is a dunder identifier, well played!
The concerning concept is that dragging an axle is going to cause a significant additional load on the engine given it was not on a slope (no load shift) that should have made the engineer to stop and ask what is being dragged regardless of other technical aids rather than "let's try to drag it for a few more miles and see if it gets knocked loose to make rate".
I think you deeply underestimate how many derailments happen each year in the US

https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/how-often-do-trains-dera...
"People are upset because it's another case of the government completely failing to do their jobs of keeping regular people safe, "

Even though this is a private company you only blamed the government?
Why must the journalist use the word "metaverse" here?

>...some of that work can be done more effectively in the metaverse.

Wouldn't "simulation" be a more appropriate word? Buzzwords seem to devolve into meaninglessness.
> What makes that sane, if it's absolutely false, a waste of resources, creates panic in the public, and increases the risk of escalation?

Because it will not lead to an escalation, retaliation or public panic in this case. Do you realize how many times per day the DEFCON level is raised on various bases within US soil? The public does not know, therefore will not panic. Do you also believe there is not an aircraft carrier within close proximity of China currently? Would this not lead to an escalation? That's SOP, put a ship off the coast of any country doing questionable things to the mainland. Would that not lead to an escalation?

> China doesn't have nearly the resources to attack the continental US.

You say this but then you contradict yourself. If they don't have the resources to attack, then right now is the perfect time to show we mean business.

> If they had the resources, an attack would require a massive buildup and positioning of those resources; it could not be missed.

This is ignorant. North Korea hides an entire nuclear testing facility inside a mountain and you don't believe China has the resources to hide their national security interests?

> Major wars don't start by surprise. Look at the buildup required by Russia to attack Ukraine, a much smaller country right on its border.

Nobody has said such a thing. A precursor to an attack does not mean an attack is imminent. It means instead they are checking current defenses to keep up to date for a future attack.

> China has shown zero interest in attacking the US.

They've only threatened to march on the US with the largest standing army the world has ever seen. Additionally why check US defenses? What's the point of a country checking the defenses of another if they have no intent on attacking ever? You don't probe an attacking countries mainland defenses when planning to defend.

> Maybe odd to you, but not to most people, nor to anyone who knows what they are talking about. But if you say I'm odd, you're the expert!

You claim I'm not the expert, does this mean you believe you are? We both know that anybody actually involved in the planning and discussion of these events that will have any effect on its outcome would not be on HN discussing it. So you're not an expert either. What I am, however, is ex-military. They certainly do train military on such things. What are your credentials?

Have you polled people to determine their position on these events? How did you come up with the non-number "most people"?

> This violates HN's guidelines. Calling people names demonstrates that you have nothing better to say.

Hardly, point to the rule where asking someone's ethnicity is against the rules. The fact is there are Chinese operatives all over American social media and forums attempting to sway public interest, and you sound exactly like one. So again, are you Chinese?
To be fair, we go with "clown car" about 40% of the time too
OpenAI seems to have been the forcing function. Investors tried out GPT-3/ChatGPT and saw dollar signs.
Compiler optimizations are best-effort. -O3 gets you 90% of the optimization for 10% of the work of writing hand-rolled assembly. Individual optimizations are not guaranteed, and sometimes even regress in newer compiler versions, but everyone uses them because overall programs run much faster with optimizations than without. I don't see how TCO is any different. Would you say all optimizations are worthless because they're not guaranteed?
Can someone explain to me the value of this? Like, is there value in the "pseudo" that you don't get from a "real" one?

Like, I'm thinking of e.g. the Cloudflare lava lamp thing, and like, isn't that better in every way?
Except it's not irrational this time. Porn has gotten much more extreme and way easier to access than before. When I was a kid - I could only access porn magazines that were relatively tame.

Porn industry is not doing anything to prevent children from watching it.

If self-regulation is non-existent then the government has to step in.
The silicon did get slower due to a few mitigations, and in 2018, Intel was thinking about forcing a lot more of them on us in silicon (eg the equivalent of retpolines, but in silicon). The HFT industry and some HPC folks (and I assume some people from gaming) were involved in convincing Intel to keep those mitigations in software.

EDIT: One fun fact here is that AMD never did the unsafe performance optimizations that Intel had to remove from their silicon. Spectre and Meltdown mitigations were instrumental in closing the gap between Intel and AMD.
I'm always interested in hearing about less-than-mainstream uses of DOIs.
You're right, calling for his departure for this is premature.

But calling for his departure for an abject lack of corporate strategy (unless you consider "partially bankroll moonshots across Google etc. with ad revenue" a strategy, which it isn't) is fairly overdue.

What's Google's north star, their vision for 2035? Have you heard it?

I haven't, not from Google. But given Microsoft's trajectory with cloud and AI investments, I know theirs well.
Anyone remember Dilbert’s Booze Muhkidney?
This is the crux of it. Maybe individualsamd organizations should be capped on the number of single family residences they can own in a city. Real estate is a unique property and we should all have a place to live.
The thing is, there is always a crisis. So if you operate that way, you never take vacation. Even a successful quarterly report could be met by analyst derision. At that point you behold yourself to the press which is no way to live.

Layoffs are business as usual.
This whole fuss around UFO and all other acronyms is a self perpetuating clusterfuck that feeds off the unknown and resulting to unhelpful labels. Including the headline of this article.

Stuff is flying in our airspace and we need to focus on identifying those objects. Of course the likelihood of alien technology is rather low. That’s not the point. The point is we need to stop labeling and jumping to conclusions so we can open up to actual discussions that may lead to proper scientific examination of evidence.
So, you're telling me there are laws and enforcement in place for alcohol etc. but people are illegally skirting those laws. What happens to these people when they get caught? What happens to the store that sold the underage person alcohol? I shouldn't have to tell you they're fined and/or their license gets pulled.

How does this support your stance on unrestricted porn access again? Requiring an ID for porn would be equivalent to requiring an ID for alcohol would it not?

Let's look at firearms as well since you seem to really think you've proven something with your statements. What state can I click a website check box saying I'm 18 and have as may firearms as I want show up in my house?

The idea that some people get around laws is never a justification to just do away with laws or not have them in the first place. This is even more true when it comes to children, our society is ENTIRELY built on the agreement that under 18 is not an adult and they do not have full rights or access to whatever they want. There is a good scientific reason for this.
Not the giant Chinese balloon. There is no disagreement about that. The other 3.
Excellent and very productive language. Personally, I did 15 years of straight Java (before that C and C++), then 5 years of Clojure. For me, the most telling dynamic is when I recently returned to a Java project and realized how much better Clojure is - even for large projects ;)

The lack of static typing, which is so often used as an argument against Clojure, is actually what makes Clojure better. The Java projects become a morass of types scattered into a myriad of packages; no matter how experienced you are with Java. Clojure's dynamic underpinnings and its paradigm of hundreds of functions for a few data structures allows for very lean designs that are easier to wrap your head around and keep in your mental models.

The other features are just gravy: immutability built in, REPL interactivity, Transducers, Protocols etc.

I felt the pain going back to a Java project.
Thank you for that reference. I'd never heard of the secrets of consulting. Went and read a summary, it's very fascinating
There are aliens in the universe and they want nothing to do with us. We're coming off as desperate.
Doesn't it bother you that it sounds just as confident when it's making stuff up as when it's accurately summarizing? Do you just think you can tell when it's wrong?
It is so depressing. There is disgust of war and there is disgust of injustice, everybody is rationalizing.
Cuban's still use cars from the 1950s. An entire ecosystem springs up around it. I don't think it will be a big deal. Eventually they will phase out except for wealthy people and collectors (sort of like horses today) but I have to imagine they will be pretty common for the next 15-20 years after the ban. I expect a lot of people to buy them leading up to the ban as well.
From some of the reporting it sounds like AI was in a bit of a cold war that accidentally turned hot. OpenAI got it into their head that someone else was going to release a chat bot imminently, so they panicked and raced to release their own, which is why it's GPT3 based, doesn't have up to date info and has all sorts of other problems. OpenAI panicked and rushed something out and now Google is doing the same.

All of these companies know the tech isn't ready, but they couldn't afford to be left behind when someone moved. It's funny, because this happens quite often in tech. Remember when Tesla announced self-driving? Suddenly Intel were doing deals with MobilEye and BMW, GM did Cruise etc. etc. and then 5-10 years later nothing has been delivered? They all jumped the gun and couldn't afford ot be left behind.
Unfortunately it hasn't been much of a swing state since the orange man came on the scene. Not to say that Ohio deserved this though.
A Memory Resident Payload for CVE-2022-47966
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_railroad_la...>

"The rise of precision scheduled railroading has resulted in resource and staffing cuts; to compensate railroad companies have enacted strict attendance policies for employees. These policies eliminate any free time which workers have, requiring them to be effectively on-call for weeks at a time. Workers have complained of increased levels of stress and fatigue."

"Unions representing about 17,000 workers threatened to strike over the points system, but BNSF Railway sued and won a restraining order to prevent the unions from striking.
The Railway Labor Act grants Congress the authority to intervene in any railway or airline strike. Under this authority, the National Mediation Board has mediated negotiations between multiple freight railroads and unions starting in June 2021."

"Early on September 15, Biden announced a deal had been reached to prevent a strike, including an immediate 14% wage increase, but only one day of paid leave per year rather than the 15 days of paid sick leave unions wanted." "In late November, after some unions had rejected the agreement, Biden asked Congress to pass the agreement into law."

"Writing for Jacobin, Barry Eidlin, associate professor of sociology at McGill University, said the message sent to the rail workers by the president and Congress was "shut up and get back to work." The Biden administration's intervention in the dispute was condemned by over 500 labor historians in an open letter to Joe Biden and Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh."
People who don't understand that they are exchanging their battery life for few cents. Eventually word will spread out and those programs are going to become mandatory.
Now that AMD supports USB4, I'm hoping Framework has an AMD edition in the future.
Most of the time it’s a rar file that contains screenshots, album art, thumbnails, etc. not just a video file. I’ve been burnt a decade plus ago when I automated some extractions into a media folder on an old windows laptop. By the time I noticed, it was deep in the registry and near impossible to remove. It was something akin to MacKeeper malware on Macs, I don’t recall the old windows malware names.

With my Usenet automation I’ve never had the issue in about 9ish years but it could happen. I pay a usenet provider and indexer a low fee to rid myself of torrents and seeding.
No, what I’m asking is: why does the operating system allow the video player to do anything other than what it needs to do to play videos? If the video player suddenly starts trying to access files on its own (anything not explicitly chosen by the user through system file dialog) or trying to access the internet then the user should be prompted to give permission.

We have this kind of API permission (capability) system on phones. Why can’t we have a really fine-grained one on desktops? It’s like a firewall for APIs.
America is the one superpower that both has the security apparatus that playsibly could hide major things, as well as a cultural environment to feed grand narratives as plausible alternatives, whether it would be religious or more secular in nature.
Some people like writing code. Some people like acquiring power. The latter will tend to consolidate in management positions, the former will tend to wonder why incredibly obvious technical and social problems are being ignored
Another "funny" one: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/10yk8hk/ub_clang_decid...
I don't even think there's such thing as "aliens", and if there is, it's like the most primitive life on Earth (microbes and such). The idea of being visited by anthropomorphic yet foreign beings from another planets is fun, but I'm certain it will never happen.

>inb4 the drake equation
You would have to be living under a rock to not be aware of Google’s launch.
Trains aren’t just cruising around constantly on fire.

If they were, would you know? I wouldn't.
> But I’ve already used GPT to write thank you note and create a blog post, and I’ve used midjourney to create stock photos.

And I played Counterstrike for a first person video game, and I used a Dewalt impact driver to drive in some screws, and I slept on a Purple mattress. How does any of this mean Google is doomed?
Most people don't know how to behave online.
https://archive.is/I8RJh
Also if you get injured playing sports, you could bankrupt your family. Maybe they have enough savings to cover the deductible for the year. Too bad Football is a winter sport and you could just as easily have hospital bills that cross over into the new year.
If you think that more than 95% of the google search results give you an accurate answer, then I’ve got a search result about bridges to sell you…

Edit: and to add more so this response isn’t purely trash talking: plenty of us have already switched over to using ChatGPT/bing for our standard question answerer. It is far more efficient than getting back pages of search results and having to parse through garbage site after garbage site, scrolling through pages of ads and SEO optimized copy to look for the one nugget of info.

The thing is, people will adjust their usage patterns for these bots just like we did for search engines. You don’t just 100% believe what the first webpage says. You look for other contextual information to determine if you believe it or not. That is a learned pattern to how we consume search engines and a similar thing will happen with LLMs.

It’s like, if you were the first person to come into contact with fire, you reached your hand in and got burnt and then declared that fire is useless because it burns you. In either case, for LLMs, search engines, or fire, if you use them incorrectly then they won’t be useful. It’s up to you to use them correctly.
I am French and used to believe anything could be aliens... up until I turned 13 y.o. more or less
I like Helios better.
I don't think it can (yet, anyway) replace current search, but I also think there are a whole lot of niches where it can perform better than regular search and it will take time for people to determine which niches can be served well by current models, and what type of queries they shouldn't even try to answer.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34784255
More Clues into Me/CFS Discovered in Gut Microbiome
World leaders, readers, all -- stop this war. Turn your direction and just stop.
It's the same. The best starcraft player in the world is a neural network and that's not that different than real life drone fighting. If you can get the same visual and radar data human pilots now and give it to the AI, you can definitely make it outperform humans.
Train derailments are the latest conspiracy theory for tinfoil hats right now. I guess food processing plant fires fell out of vogue.

"nO oNe iS rEpOrTiNg aBoUt tHiS" cries the conspiracy theorist reporting about the incident using screencaps from news reports.
Yeah, but their planes are primarily suited for cargo/troop deployment and the balloon was to high for helicopters.
I've been attempting my own strategies for around four years now, after being inspired by a data mining Master's course I was taking. It has been a long and hard road for me, and I have mostly been trying to find correlations up into this year. As a one man show with a wife and kids, my project time starts at 10pm and sometimes goes until 3 to 4am. Then I wake up at 7 and take the kids to school and work my day job. I can usually do this two or three times a week, but lately I've been going to bed early as it's been wearing me out. I've had so many 4am nights that it's probably been a bit detrimental to my health at this point.

I'm not doing any order book or HFT stuff. It's mostly mean reversion < 15 minute trades. I have a considerable amount of options trading experience and that's what my main strategy revolves around. I don't have a killer strategy that some of these algorithmic firms are capable of, but the current one is promising. I also have a fairly rudimentary form of backtesting, which is a Jupyter Notebook crunching data I've collected over the years. I use some ML python libraries as a bonus, but I haven't created any strong enough attributes yet to achieve a high amount of predictive accuracy in that sense. My strategies mostly revolve around simple statistics.

My stack is a Linux VM with MySQL, running a suite of python scripts that collect data in real time and make the automated trades through TD Ameritrade's API.

By the way, I wouldn't consider myself smart or gifted - my strength relies solely on my determination. If you were to ask me if it's worth it, I would say "mostly." At the very least I've come away with a much higher understanding of the equity/option markets, and I know much more about MySQL, Python and data mining. At this point though I'd take a job with an algorithmic firm in a heartbeat.
What will be interesting is when we design a fighter that doesn't have to accommodate a person. Its size can likely shrink and its performance envelope can be completely re-thought.

E.g. Similar to the move from pets to cattle in computing. A jet fighter can very much be considered disposable and swap safety features for additional payloads. The squadron could first coordinate in a pattern far more sophisticated than what humans could achieve, then when the payloads are all deployed fighters revert to a kamikaze mission and crash into nearby infrastructure.

The next war is going to be out of a sci-fi book.