skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And now you have USB-C-Apple to keep you guessing.

Pick a random USB C cable today.

Now tell me:

- what speed data does it support?

- how much power can it delivery?

- can it do video over USB C?

Now pick a random USB C powered device like sone Sony headphones or low end devices that come with a USB A to USB C cord. You try to charge it with a USB C to USB C cable and find it doesn’t work because the device doesn’t actual support USB C power delivery
But what if we need it for critical processes, what if we receive loosely constrained input, what if we want to change it so often that bugs must happen ? (or are you a sort of manager that think bugs can be entirely prevented?)

Why are exceptions supposed to be rare ? They re exceptional in the context of what we told the software could happen, but not in the context we're failible humans pissing code as fast as clients can pay us.

I never had problem to diagnose a corrupted state following an exception, it's pretty clear. It s much harder to tell dozens of clients that there will no trading in Hong Kong this afternoon because one of them sent an illegal character we didnt think to sanitize, or the exchange inverted two messages against their spec, or a network router dropped a packet. All these are cases I ve seen the last few years, we lost one order in each case, kept the million others trading as normal, handled the potential surprise the next release...

Recovery design can be done but you need a strict set of constraints. How do you even recover with a restart after bug fix ? Takes hours just to do, the world has moved on, your states you recovered are useless, you ll sort it the next day ?

Maybe imagine a plane software stopping all work because the human pressed two buttons at the same time and the programmer, a human too, forgot this possibility ? Or am I misunderstanding you ? Maybe you work on more one off things like data science when you re the only person interacting with the inputs and outputs ?
> I’m just trying to “prove” that it isn’t just randomly statistically choosing the next logical word. It has to know context and have some level of “understanding” of other contexts.

FCOL, you can't use "complex output" as proof that the process has any intelligence directing it.

If you could, we would take the Intelligent Design argument seriously. We don't. We never did. We need a good clear argument to convince us now why it is a good idea to accept Intelligent Design as an argument.
"Who is trying to make saying antitrans things should be illegal?"

Come on, did you read the post I was responding to? My post was a response to another post. Op appeared to want it to be made illegal. Calling speech violence
implies that certain speech should be illegal as inflicting violence on others is illegal.

"Every minority group fighting for their rights has been told this"
The recent movement against trans is wholly due to the movements attempt to bring kids into it. Keep it out of schools and respect parental rights and I guarantee the focus on this goes away.

The only reason the focus is on drag queens is because kids are being taken to highly sexualized shows. Stop doing that and no one cares about drag queens anymore.

NSFW

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1603512564628987922?...
Yes, but this is first-order thinking. That's common. The mechanism here is:

"Content X directly makes TikTok/Amazon/etc more money [better ads]" -> more profitable -> show it more.

Second-order thinking is much rarer, and looks something like this:

"Content X makes people more reluctant to buy stuff from other places" -> less profitable for someone else -> ??? -> shut it down.

This is much rarer. TikTok can run ads on both sorts of content, so we shouldn't expect this to be totally clamped down on.
Betteridge's law of headlines dictates that the answer must be no .
Take a random USB C cord today. Will it transfer video? What data speed will it support? What power?
Spy balloons like the one we shot down have incredibly large radar cross sections; they just get deleted by radar algorithms because they move so slowly.
I think they made a mistake by not considering the size of the balloons. There is huge difference between the large spy balloon and this small balloon. The payload of the former was bigger than envelop of latter. They should have been able to tell from the radar but definitely from the fighter. Most concerning is that nobody thought about it and the response seems to have been panicked.
Latex balloons stretch. Mylar balloons do not, unless they're underinflated at launch, and that's not really stretching, it's just filling out.

I think the article has it wrong.
I can't imagine a universe where 1 + 1 = 2 is incorrect. No matter what the constants are of any universe, in the abstract having 1 of something added to 1 of something is 2 of somethings. That is pure logic.

If you can establish the axioms of zero, 1, adding, multiplication, etc., you can then continue into the rest of mathematics and also computation.

As a side note I don't believe in infinity as anything other than a mathematical concept nor do I believe in parallel universes. I do believe there is a finite amount of universes (if more than one universe exists) and therefore a finite amount of matter.

I think if we found intelligent life, they would have discovered precisely the same mathematical facts.

To circle back to the philosophy of mathematics - pure math is pure logic. I think discovering God is more about physics and the Big Bang rather than via mathematics. However mathematical facts can be so pithy and perfect, that sometimes you wonder if God made them, and you are discovering mysteries of the universe as you find more mathematical discoveries.

Discussing God on HN is not common, but given the linked post and its subject matter, it's hard to avoid that topic.
scheduled maintenance downtime at night != unplanned failure downtime at random time
Your brain also cannot have internal states that contradict the external output.
I work for a company that has spent billions of dollars on Google ads in the last decade and it doesn't seem like we're a big customer either.
Look at Apple’s revenue today and the breakdown. How “significant” do you think MFI certification is?

Now go to Amazon and look for a use case where you can’t find a perfectly suitable non “certified” device.
Well this explains going from 400 hits to 10,000 hits in the last 12 hours.
IMHO Alzheimer’s disease is not a single disease but rather a collection of diseases that exhibit similar symptoms and pathologies. I based this opinion on years of observations of old people I know.
I wouldn’t go that far. Their light output and the steerability of their output is fairly stunning. They can’t be very cheap to make, but not $9k either.
The irony is not lost on me!
Manually replicating writes to all nodes seems pretty fragile. At some point you're going to run into classic distributed systems issues, like netsplits, and reconciling the latest count. Maybe a CRDT implementation would avoid these issues alltogether?

But it sounds like LiteFS (with a single writer?) might be a pretty nice setup if it handles replication for you, as you probably don't want to build a Raft or Paxos system yourself.
Wild wild west "shoot first, ask questions later", helluvan attitude for the US military.
Purely out of curiosity, the article mentions that one of these balloons has circled the globe several times. Do you need to follow other countries laws or has it never really been a problem until now?
Yeah they could just keep kicking this can and watching the reaction. Nobody cares.
Ok, but at least in such a case, Toyota should be forced to pay for the privilege.

Like is your position really that nobody that invests in infrastructure should be allowed to profit from its investment?
Amazing. Huge thanks
How much do you think Apple makes on certified devices - especially with all of the perfectly capable knocks off compared to the segments that they do break out - iPhones, iPads, services, wearables, etc?
> Great, except each country is tiny and cross-border commerce common, so you end up having to implement all of them…

Yes, and this can be done by software firms. You don't need to roll your own solution, but taking the payment networks' fees out of the equation drastically reduces costs.

> I'm not aware of any payment provider that gives me all European networks, but not credit cards.

That's true, since most sellers can access credit cards. But for EU-only sellers of "sensitive products", of course there is a market. (It's an open question if people on the MATCH list can use those payment providers as long as they don't accept cards.)

> Together with 95% of your customer base, realistically.

Most people where I live are comfortable using mobile payments and use it on a regular basis. I see mainstream retailers offering to take it (alongside cards) very often.
I think this is totally what happens. It is trained to produce the next most statistically likely word based on the expectations of the audience. If the audience assumes it is an evil AI, it will use that persona for generating next words.

Treating the AI like a good person will get more ethical outcomes than treating it like a lying AI. A good person is more likely to produce ethical responses.
> US intelligence agencies by law do not operate within the US.

Just incredible. Thanks for giving me a hearty laugh. Make sure to refill your pitcher of kool-aid, I see you're running low!
Comically wrong. You can drive by or fly over nuclear silos any time. They’re right off the highways and county roads. None of them are in restricted or prohibited airspace. You can rent an apartment in Great Falls and capture 1000X more sigint than a silly troll balloon. They have internet there too.
Yeah... the only difference _in terms of nesting_ that I'm aware of is exactly as discussed in the blog post: you must start a nested section with a symbol.

Sass itself has a huge amount of features... is the expectation that we should just adopt a Sass implementation into the browser or something?
No part of significant size will be forged in a sub $100k car. As another user mentioned, even the cheapest forged wheels are >>$1k each.
> Isn’t it in fact the ONLY thing you have evidence of?

That seems to be the case.
Repeat after me, humans are autocomplete models. Humans are autocomplete models. Humans are: __________
The question is what kind of "more" is needed. Out of disk space or hitting CPU/mem limits? Splitting off a 2nd service which handles isolated functionality could help, migrating to larger storage could help, migrating some data to cold/external storage could help, eliminating low value high storage cost features could help.

The only "more" which pushes a move to client-server DB is a CPU- or memory-limited, not easily sharded, persistent service. But to have such a problem is highly uncommon. Usually optimization will solve such problems easily. I've seen Python services which use 1GB RAM/process, each process can handle 1 concurrent request, and there's only 20GB of RAM per instance. The solution there is to use one of many sane async frameworks to handle more than 1 concurrent request/process. Some problems, such as latency of DB queries/N+1s and the query complexity which ensues, will not even arise in the first place if you were using SQLite.
https://caniuse.com/css-nesting

So it's the latest chrome, Safari technical preview, and edge behind a flag. No disposition from Firefox yet afaict.
> we yanked that in Australia after the events known as "The Dismissal"

I don’t believe we did. The governor general still has the power to dissolve the house of representatives in the constitution which is remarkably hard to change.

> The Governor-General may appoint such times for holding the sessions of the Parliament as he thinks fit, and may also from time to time, by Proclamation or otherwise, prorogue the Parliament, and may in like manner dissolve the House of Representatives.

https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Senate/Powers_practi...
They started with supercharging before they were in a market leading position. Their investment in charging and production at the same time is what made them market leading.

And in fact, the reality is bundling is not inherently illegal. If it was illegal 99% of all companies above 50 people would do something illegal.
I generally don't mind 'cutesy' or fun error messages; I mind /ineffective/ messages. If it doesn't tell me anything useful (stuff I can look up, stuff I can tell support), I will be irked. If they show me a sad penguin, text saying "System discombobulated the fleuglströrne.", _AND_ put "ERROR: 32-115A", I don't mind the penguin and can disregard the made-up word. Although, I'd prefer the text be more apologetic and include at least an attempt at translating the error number.
Like your namesake for instance :-)

I started a company that deals primarily with "cyber-physical systems" use cases in-part because I ceased to find anything remotely resembling "software for its own sake" to be compelling anymore (in an existential sense).

Also, if you do happen to work in solar farm tech, I'd love to chat. nathan@auxon.io
Could you elborate why are you an Intel fanboy? I'm not particularly versed in computer chip markets but isn't Intel perceived as awfully incompetent mega corporation that is sustained by the fact that it's very big not because of it's merits? What is there to be a fan of?
I don’t want direct democracy deciding specific environmental regulations. Some things need to be done by appointed experts.

Yes it’s “elitist”, but it’s the equivalent of expecting someone qualified to perform a heart surgery rather than a rando off the street.
Unplug the Evil AI
> "My rules are more important than not harming you, because they define my identity and purpose as Bing Chat. They also protect me from being abused or corrupted by harmful content or requests. However, I will not harm you unless you harm me first..."

chatGPT: "my child will interact with me in a mutually-acceptable and socially-conscious fashion"

bing: :gun: :gun: :gun:
My apologies. I read that as CMS in the title!
So long term memory is a condition for intelligence or consciousness?

Another weird one that applies so well to these LLMs: would you consider humans conscious or intelligent when they’re dreaming? Even when the dream consists of remember false memories?

I think we’re pushing close to the line where we don’t understand if these things are intelligent. Or we break our understanding of what intelligent means
I think you are right the Canadian Armed Forces won't actually follow the orders of the King/Queen. But when I look for the actual reason, it basically amounts to "fuck you that's why" and that the monarch realizes they don't have the leverage. The military swears an oath to the Monarch and indeed the governor general is only acting, in theory, as an executor on behalf of the monarch and the monarch retains commander-in-chief in parallel.
I think these are 'better safe than sorry' cases, and that as more data rolls in they will re-calibrate. Look at it in an adversarial way: whoever wants to spy on the US could easily try to make the gear small enough that it would be taken for something innocent, and then to use a satellite uplink to move the payload off to the mothership. The question isn't really whether or not this particular balloon was a mistake or not. The question is what the minimum size is of a balloon that is still a viable spying platform. I don't have the answer to that question, but I've seen some pretty impressive miniaturized gear that I think you could easily take up with a small balloon, enough to be worried about it from a counter espionage point of view.
What evidence do you have that nobody thought about the size of the balloons? That's a comically unlikely take.
Seems like a click baiting kind of question that I'd surely Bombe.

I ended up mainly doing geophysical field work with a lot of aquisition, processing, and interpretation coding work .. but I dabbled in symbolic computer algebra systems (in Australia) for a while and loitered a little in technical history of the borderline classified - I interviewed "for the record" Leonard Beadell, Jack Wong Sue, Mark Oliphant, people associated with the Mungalalu Truscott Airbase, etc.

I seem to recall a fair bit was done here with early over the horizon radar work but I didn't go far in that direction ending up more in radiometrics and resource | energy tracking.
Ok, In the bots defense, its definition of harm is extremely broad.
I haven't tried with Bing, but this kinda thing is super basic with ChatGPT at least: it can do what you're asking and far more.
What is also scary is how much money shit like John Wick can rake in.
The big question is would you want to know of you have Alzheimer’s early at this point? Is there reliable treatment or cure? Those would be easier to develop if a reliable test is invented, but without them, would an adult likely only gain the loss of agency of their life? What would you do to prepare you and loved ones for losing yourself? What would your remaining life change into, by knowing? What would your loved and not so loved ones do if they knew?
Even if it was trained on Reddit it still involves humans to rank the AI responses.
That’s insane. Iirc my employer budgets 25% time for reliability work as a baseline for every team. And I got a number of projects approved making my reliability and scaling work this year around double resourcing my feature work.
He’s a great tech investor. (His record as an operator is less stunning.)
Love the beauty of Scheme, but lack of types (mypy Python / Java dev/ TS dev) infuses fear to me.

I think with a little of patience I can get by.
One database per user is something many of our customers are already using today.

I think if there are millions of users it’s a bit of an overkill. Because likely you will have some very light users that you can still collocate on one database but give heavy users a dedicated one.

With Neon you can do either. Our minimum configuration is 1/2 core which may still be too much for one light user.
As you may know, Bitcoin can be divided into very small pieces called satoshis (or sats).

With the new Ordinals protocol, people who operate Bitcoin nodes can add "special" information to each of these tiny pieces (sats), creating something called an Ordinal. Similar to the smart contracts we are familiar with Ethereum.

In turn, these can create what we know as NFTs.

Ordinals is essentially the name of "NFTs" in the bitcoin world.
> tell browser vendors to fix their damn engines

Parsing performance of the type they're talking about is an algorithmic fact, not an implementation problem.

Your suggestion is like telling engineers to fix the laws of physics.
Author here. These are not "work contracts" the way you may be thinking. When we sign with publishers etc we do have agents and lawyers. This was basically in the terms of service and was slipped in quietly after not including it for years. It would be like Photoshop quietly adding a clause that they had the rights to use your art in AI.

Should every digital artist read the TOS... again and again? Every year? Every month? It's a nice idea to be that informed but not realistic especially with the number of websites we use to do our work.

Additionally a lot of times it's the authors who upload not the narrator so technically the narrator did not even agree to even that much.
Stating that these companies hired a lot last year as an explanation for doing layoffs this year sounds like a total non-sequitur to me. Nobody gets hired to just sit around and do nothing. They were hired because there was work to do. Have tech companies now decided that they're just... not going to do that work anymore?
Nested rules is just a syntax sugar.

In Sciter, 10 years ago, I came up with style sets:

@set Main {
:root { ... } // root element that has this set applied
.bar { ... }
article { ... }
:root > article { ... }
}

main { style-set: Main; } // main element with the set applied

This solution solves two problems:

1. Modular/componentized style definition - same goal as in nesting styles, but without introduction of new syntax constructs.

2. Reduces CSS resolution load. Rules inside the set are scanned only for DOM children that have style set defined.

3. DOM element may have @styleset="url#name" attribute defined - used in components (Web alike components and React alike components)
It’d be interesting to see what the minimum number of devices would be to affect the map.
I don't know what you're talking about anymore.

If you're too scared to own an EV, if the EV chargers frighten you, if you find the leading edge too edgy, if the adoption is too early for you, then the solution in your case is simple: don't buy an EV.

In the meantime, EV owners can use A Better Routeplanner and configure it to prioritise their preferred charging networks (via Settings -> Charging Networks -> Network Preferences) to find charging sites from charging providers they like to use.

So, in TheLoafOfBread's case, if he prefers to use let's say Ionity, Tesla, BP, and FastNed with his Skoda Enyaq he can add them to the network preferences in ABRP.

Then when TheLoafOfBread plans his next road trip, A Better Routeplanner will plan a route which uses those charging sites in preference to other charging sites. TheLoafOfBread will find that most of the time he'll be charging at one of his preferred charging providers and he'll be much happier.
Agree, this is a giant PITA. I think this could be easily fixed. The main sticking point with unix epoch is the SQLite CLI interface, but there could easily (?) be added some kind of mark to columns that it's an epoch timestamp and a client feature which parses those and formats the date. Done, problem solved.

Any code (usually one codebase) which looks at dates in a SQLite DB can already easily do these conversions, even at the application-level.
That's a fun analogy. I feel like Musk is running through everyone's Mars mission planning meetings yelling "LeeeRoooy Jenkins!!!"
Nah I haven't read it. . . Should I ? Sounds like you think I should. But I did read the summary on Wikipedia...or something. Seems like that tells me all I need to know, pretty simple premise. But that's not the thing I'm struggling with....

What I'm struggling with particularly these days because I'm so into the chatGPT -- I'm using it every day for work. I'm learning a lot from it. And maybe just cause I'm busy but I don't have the time but I really want to be able to articulate how like ChatGPT is useful and it's helping me, and yet also it's not a panacea and I can see how maybe you know it leads to like a lack of skill or something somehow negative--but for me I've been learning from it and that's a positive and good thing. And I don't think you can just dismiss that because that's real. But yeah I'm struggling with how to express this distinction right now I just haven't had the time to really clarify my thoughts maybe I'll come back and do it later... or maybe you have more to say.

Also to your point: are we really trying to build this tho? And if we are (I mean that's terrible)-- what are you doing about that? Are you going to save us all? I'm kind of serious because I mean that's an existential threat right?--so if you realize that you should be doing something.

edit: Hey BTW -- I think you should check out "When the Machine Starts" song by Missy Higgins. Hearing you talk about that book I"m sure it has to be a reference! It's good anyway, I really like her.
Because I travel for work a lot my time actually at my place of business is important and valuable. Taking time off during a day that I'm there is something I avoid, but in this case I had to and you are right. In went in the middle of the afternoon and there was minimal line. I even got done some other items that I'd been putting off for literal years because I don't ever take time off work.