skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'd be nice if we had system-level "lightweight threads." The explanation I've heard before is that "user space knows more about the program." So people write clever runtimes that do kernel-like task scheduling multiplexed over CPUs, in user space.

I can buy that. Think about a system thread. It's pretty much its own process that shares an address space with others. Its interface is syscalls and memory. A user thread (coroutine, goroutine, greenlet, whatever) is... whatever you want it to be. It can be small and special-purpose.
> POSIX won because it was first. Simple inertia keeps it there.

Not true. OS/360 was released years before the first Unix (OS/360 in 1966; Unix development started in 1969). Multics' development also preceded Unix (indeed, the developers of Unix started by working on Multics).

It's easy to whine, but Unix' interfaces also work for a wide variety of situations.

If you think you have a better idea, implement it & try to convince others to use it. That's how things get better.
Yuri Kondratyuk - Soviet engineer and mathematician, who developed the first known lunar orbit rendezvous. In 1927 he built a 13,000 ton wooden grain elevator without a single nail. The lack of nails in the structure was used as evidence that he had planned it to collapse. Convicted of "anti-Soviet activity", Kondratyuk was sentenced to three years in a GULag.

The building stood 60 years before burning down in middle 1990.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Kondratyuk
In my experience it is hit or miss. Seems to crash apps that use Certificate pinning for some reason. Its a pain to have to go back and forth to disable and re-enable it depending on the app you use, hence my dream setup that I talked about.
You still have to store and move the model bits. I/O is gonna be a problem
> It's very accurate even in rural areas and on random tiny back roads in the middle of nowhere.

… which is how we would end up with a semi stuck on our old street a couple times a year, blocking all traffic for everyone. “Oh, Google said to take this road!”
... in response to the headline change from my title, which I think I adequately defended in the post:

You're rather missing the whole "screws with sleep," which we know is a human health hazard in a range of metrics.
>going from 130 to 166 is not a 20% gains more more like multiple orders of magnitudes.

I have always wondered what the truth is about this but I have never seen any real answers. On the "linear" side you have median incomes by IQ percentile. On the "not even quantitatively comparable" side you have the fact that your score on an IQ test will not increase that much if you are allowed much more than the standard time to finish it, indicating that there is a wall (defined by your ability) that you can hit. On the "sublinear" side, there's the fact that a lot of moderately smart people have made major scientific discoveries, which you wouldn't think could ever happen when there are 10,000 people with IQ > 160 in the US today - easily more than enough to take all of the places in the history books written about this decade.

I do not think there is any clear-cut answer.
All the things I listed are where one OS has gone away from posix for high-end server use cases. For some systems I work on, those have actually simplified a lot of stuff - I mean they are complex apis solving hard problems, but it doesn't feel like fighting OS to use them.

The author is writing in context of people who use code very differently than I do - they think about it differently too. Perhaps there are different types of API for their use cases that are less "fighting with the OS" for them, or more likely the tool makers that build the intermediate code/frameworks?
How the hell did you get the GitHub username highlight?
Shocked that an article is required to explain what should be solved in the product.
The expectation is that they are held responsible by their employers.
Corresponding Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/dylanbeattie/status/1628381892855693312
Only it’s not a social network, not even close.

Web standards have advanced to a level that walled gardens are replacing email. Email itself is still stuck on IE6 level standards. And SPF, DMARC and DKIM are a confusing mess to deal with.
In Mexico, how do you know if a person is being paid by the cartels? That’s easy. If the cartels are not trying to assassinate the person then the answer is yes.
> only the first two packets in a VM->LB->VM flow will traverse the LB. Subsequent packets are direct from VM-to-VM and are rewritten in the host NICs to merely appear to go via the LB address

Do you have more details how that's done?
Yes, a photograph of a painting is copyrighted, but it is also a derivative work.

If you want to read more about, it I recommend Legal Handbook for Photographers ( https://www.amazon.com/Legal-Handbook-Photographers-Rights-L... ) and note that this isn't just a random person writing a book...

> Bert P. Krages, Esq., is an attorney who specializes in intellectual property. He is the author of "Handbook for Photographers" and "Heavenly Bodies "and Photography: The Art of Composition"

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Registering works is "pay to register" and has been for some time. Though you can do it in bulk.

https://www.copyright.gov/registration/visual-arts/

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My takes on your examples:

Img2img : The AI created art is a derivative work of the source image. By itself it is not copyrightable as there is no human creativity at work.

Txt2img : The text prompt is copyrightable, though that's rather boring. The AI art generated by it is a derivative work of the text prompt and is not copyrightable.

Post processing : Just as DuChamp's L.H.O.O.Q. was copyrightable in its day and the source material for it was not (the work of an old master), so to the human modified image that was original AI (and uncopyrightable) is now a work that can be copyrighted.

Note that these are my interpretation of current copyright law and (to me) seem rather reasonable. See https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/chap300/ch300-copyrightable-... sections 306, and 313.2. Changing this is a change in the law (e.g. need congress to do it) rather than a change in how the copyright office interprets the law.

Copyright office funding : https://www.copyright.gov/about/budget/2022/house-budget-tes... aside from managing the capital request to implement the CASE act, they are already pretty much self funded from royalties and fees.

Consider also the painting "Edmond de Belamy" and the surrounding debate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_de_Belamy . While this isn't the final say, you can be sure that lawyers have looked at it - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edmond_de_Belamy.png and note the licensing section and its link to the UK copyright office - https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/artificial-intel... ... and that copyright in the UK is based on sweat of the brow (which was rejected with Feist v. Rural Telephone Service in 1991 in the US to instead apply original works of authorship)
Does the court honestly believe this expectation?
Hoard Books
Just going by the article, it really doesn't seem like the nature of what was going on is being articulated here.

- The ISIS video was not recommended by random chance, it was recommended because the "algorithm" thought it was engaging. Its a deliberate profit driven choice that Google failed to clamp, not some innocent software bug.

- Calling the Google's recommendation engine an "algorithm" is kinda like calling the Apollo program a research project. Its far from some nebulous side feature like they are describing it.

- They are also trivializing YouTube's UI design which, again, is a finely tuned engagement machine.

Maybe the justices are right about tech not being their area of expertise. But business ethics in relation to that "good faith" clause is precisely their thing... if the lawyers can boil things down to that.
I’d agree partway, and I appreciate the counterpoint, in that the delay coordinate is simple. But Doppler for a rotating, irregular asteroid is not simple. See Fig. 1 of the paper I linked for an example. It really is many-to-one.

Delay-Doppler for planar surfaces, like a remote sensing radar zipping along Earth’s surface, is pretty straightforward, as you note…and we get to set up the system parameters, like beam width, pulse rate and ground speed, so it works out nicely.
So Don Juan tell us how you court the American woman.
https://polysleep.org/wiki/Dark_period
People driving a "coup" are also a red flag. So I guess it's red-flagged people meeting one another.
I wish it were more colorblind friendly. ~8% of males are colorblind. I’m one of them. The colors in the middle of the scale are hard to make out.
Exactly like Tesla.
How far away would one need to be in order to never come into contact with such a border growing at 1/2c?
They are only consensual in that, "If you don't want to be searched, you don't get to do the thing that you wanted to do."

But no, the criterion really is reasonableness, and not consent. If you're arrested, your person WILL be searched. They WILL NOT need a warrant. And nobody will care whether or not you consented to this. Because it is reasonable to search a prisoner for weapons, lockpicks, and other ways that the prisoner might try to contest imprisonment.
Some universities teach this way. In Europe, there are a few institutions that shifted to problem and project-based learning during the reforms of the 1960s.

A few notable cases are cited here: https://www.pblfuture.aau.dk/about. As far as I know, some American institutions use the same approach, e.g. Olin College.

IMHO, when done well, i.e. having an equally strong focus on theory, this leads to excellent learning outcomes.

However, at undergrad level, schools are reluctant to teach this way because it requires a lot of supervision.
Android and My Grandma
I sympathize, having suffered from bouts of insomnia for decades. I'm with you, in that none of the oft-cited 'cures' ever worked for me.

My most recent 'solution', which has been working better than most attempts, is reading. On my phone, because my eyes are old. Doesn't matter that it's a screen, lit by LEDs. All that matters is that it's not real life (no news, or anything along those lines). Fantasy fiction mostly for me. Gets my mind to quit spinning about real life issues, and after a little bit I can feel myself getting sleepy so I drop the phone.

I wish you nothing but the best of luck finding something that works for you. Few things are more irritating than routinely spending hours in the middle of the night staring up at a dark ceiling.
If you're willing, it would also be interesting to hear how the Bedtime Bulb from a past Show HN fares: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18011075
How is Microsoft connected to Google

When Google falters, Microsoft will be there to scavenge. I'm worried that Microsoft again will become the dominant software company.
Nothing beats a blood sample, but interstitial fluid (which is invasive kind of) is good enough for insulin dosing. Most CGMs (Dexcom, Freestyle, etc) work this way. They don't sample blood, they sample the fluid between cells.
This is very optimistic. I watch people fail to learn things all the time without noticing, especially if they do not have the tools to be honest with themselves, which is a thing that is almost exclusively learned through formal training. Sure, not everyone arrives at that state, but they are much more likely to with guidance.
This sounds naive perhaps but would velcro straps or other gentle arm restraints prevent movement and allow you to sleep better?
Nothing. Dehumanization is the goal for the entire employee lifecycle.
Ambient: The Multiplayer Game Engine
It's not particularly good within the US outside of a few of the big cities.

Dallas has a lot of parallel highways/roads, and Apple Maps seems to get really confused and have to recalculate the route every few minutes when I'm down there. Google seems to understand it perfectly and simply doesn't do that.
There was a time not so long ago that people thought the Sun's heat came from burning a vast amout of coal and did not understand the concept of nuclear energy... today we know better. So by exploring the unknown we may unravel a mystery or discover something that improves the lives of mankind.
Which never happens unless it gets lots of attention. Good apples get punished if they speak up so the bad apples do what whatever they want.
PoWx.org or something else?
Ypu know one thing that is more depressing?

That the reasok why we are are with this debate is probably the very hamfisted approach that was taken early on with banning even medical doctors from mentioning it.

There has been a some times over the years were some seemingly miracle cure was announced for something but as new facts came in, everyone moved on.

This could easily have been the case here too. But by banning talk about a very safe over-the-counter medication social media reinforced the feeling that someone was hiding something and here we are f
today.
Startup genetically engineers houseplant with 30x higher air purification power
Thanks! These challenges aren't part of our hiring process. We do an at-home code challenge and then we do a short "workday" on our Slack instead. We wrote up some details about the process a while back: https://fly.io/docs/hiring/hiring/

Our workday is very much conversational -- it's hard to have whiteboards in Slack! We're fully distributed so Slack workdays are a good way to gauge how comfortable people are in that form of collaboration.
Indeed it’s easier to destroy than to build.
I bet they could ask the same amount for 80% of the capacity and Apple would agree.
> And if they’re not great then they’re not great

You see no problem with flooding every market with junk products that cost nothing to produce so that non-junk products are crowded out and impossible to find? This is exactly the thing that everyone now hates Amazon for and why trying to find honest reviews of anything online is so horribly frustrating.

Some barrier to entry is always better than no barrier to entry.
Again, all the tech layoffs ammount to a drop in the bucket in terms of overall jobs.

Rapacious capitalists acting in the interest of their class to their own detriment is certainly a take.
Why do you believe that qualified immunity only applies to police officers?

I won't pretend to be an expert---today being the first day I've read about it---but, the very first Wikipedia article I read about the topic discusses qualified immunity w.r.t. "government officials", not "officers", which is a much bigger category of people. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity
And now they want to do actual placements! It's a shame because I've also found just incredible talent on Upwork and I don't want to not be able to find great people from around the world (for everything from development to jewelry design)

https://www.fastcompany.com/90847879/exclusive-upwork-is-rev...
As Haidt points out, the problem isn’t social media per se but how social media amplifies toxic culture that already exists: https://www.thecoddling.com/

You can’t realistically ban phones, but you can control the culture they’re exposed to by where you live and send your kids to school.
Why tech's favorite color is making us all miserable
The bright blue light of flat, rectangular touch screens, fans, and displays may be appealing from an aesthetic perspective, but there is a deeper story behind the scenes.
Very skeptical about this. I'm working with heart rate monitors and different physiological signals. The wrist-based smart watches are still sometimes way off compared to an ECG baseline, depending on skin type and how they are worn.

Even step counting with them is not accurate at all.
Can't imagine that Blood Glucose tracking will work anytime soon for a large population.
Why Ant-Man: Quantumania looks the way it does: 'I Equate It to Human Greed'
While a valid, this one has, I feel, less chance of getting through the political machine and ever happening. It’s too easy to oppose it in bad faith with arguments like “they want murderers to go free because we can’t prove they <insert a derisive related minor charge here, like stealing, or jaywalking>

It’s harder to argue against “not bringing bullshit charges” even though in practice the outcome of your version would simply be the lawyers/prosecutors don’t bring bullshit, it’s the political downside that, I suspect, would doom it.
It reminds me a lot of the hype around self-driving cars. Technology that's impressive, and has made a huge leap forward, but where people all kind of assumed everything was about to fall into place to change everything and were so breathlessly excited about how driving was about to change forever and then it just... didn't.

There's tons of stuff to be excited about with ML, but I've literally never seen this kind of wild level of industry buzz before in my life about a product that frankly... doesn't work particularly well for a lot of the things it's being used for?

"Prompt generation is here to stay"

Is it? There are some real downsides to having every single interaction with a computer happen in natural language form. I thought that voice assistants were here to stay and only I found them kind of annoying to use. Fast forward, that whole interface change turned out to be a lot smaller and a lot less universal than people thought it would be too.

I don't know how to talk about the genuinely exciting things happening with ML right now when it's all drowned out by this extreme level of hype. I've never seen anything like it before, and it really just does not seem deserved. People are glossing over the fact that pretty much every single implementation of a conversational model on the market has had serious downsides that limit its effectiveness for tasks like code generation, answers, search, etc...

I'm seriously thinking about taking a break from tech news for a while because I feel like I'm drowning in people speculating about AI and how it's going to change literally everything, but a lot of it is just speculation and not much else.

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Here's the thing: the author wants to talk about dark mode, then fine. It would take maybe a week to build an extension that did what the author is theorizing. Take the page source, feed it into GPT-3, tell it to output a stylesheet that will turn on dark mode, and then insert it into the page. If it works so reliably, stop talking about it and build it. And then we can compare the results and see if it's revolutionary. I'm surrounded by AI tech demos that ask me to think about the possibilities, but all I can see are tech demos. People keep on telling me "okay, but imagine once it's refined." Okay, refine it.

Again, there's exciting stuff happening, it's just being drowned by people saying "finally I can do X". Okay, go do it if you're so confident that X is going to work. The level of hype to actual substance is so wildly unbalanced right now. It's really exhausting, I feel like I need to go live in a cabin for half a year until everybody calms down and starts focusing in on what this technology will actually be good for.
Not nearly as bad as a candle, so long as the flame is burning blue.
I believe that logs should have the rule of three applied to them. The third time you use the logs to identify an issue, that should be converted to a stat.

Ultimately if the logs get wordier over time, the ability to spot an issue goes down, and some log messages are very expensive. If it’s not actionable, why are you logging it?
> To me, the fact that no one up to this day felt that the issues in this area was significant enough to warrant a fix or an alternative tells me that it's noise about nothing.

yes, let's just ignore the mountains of people who end up literally reimplementing complete network stacks in userspace to handle events in a modern way
Would you need to flush a TLB on a regular context switch? That seems inefficient as threads are being scheduled per quanta in Linux. TLB entries are only evicted on page faults right?
Yet the majority of diabetics wear insulin pumps with tubing when non-tubing options exist.
Don’t know about GP but this is what I was looking for. Thanks!
I'll add that there's no evidence that brains do backpropagation
> But you make it like it's "white guaranteed fine", "black guaranteed death". That's hardly true.

I doubt the commenter meant this sort of binary logic, Especially since OP says "likely" - aka. more likely to be shot than the other group.
Yes, their terms say they use JAMS under California law, which is not totally unreasonable. Read their terms. There's a dispute resolution procedure. First, they get to sit on your claim for 60 days, and then you get to go to arbitration.
I'm inclined to be very optimistic, because the guy is fifteen years old and the opportunity cost is League of Legends. :-)

But more to the point you're addressing, physics tends to be easier to grade than math because there is a big focus on calculation, and there you can have answers in the back with no subtle questions about things like whether a student's proof skipped a step because they thought it was obvious or because they didn't know it was necessary. That is not to say physics doesn't have those questions, just that a lot of times the answer is clearer-cut. If the whole thing had been about topology it'd be different.
> there needs to be a way to eventually break backwards compatibility and remove the cruft.

Actually, no. There's always a cost/benefit ratio. You can easily create a beautiful, elegant system repateadly forcing backwards incompatibility. In fact, that has been done - see the history of "Plan 9". Even the developers of Unix couldn't just throw away backwards compatibility in the name of elegance at any cost.

I think you do sometimes want to break backwards compatibility, but there'd better be a good reason for it & the pain needs to be minimized for users. If users repeatedly undergo pain from a system, they will stop being users.

One of the most important rules for the Linux kernel is "don't break userspace".
I think TSMC N3 will be underwhelming. It offers a shrink of logic transistors, but ZERO shrink to SRAM meaning one of Apple's biggest advantages (massive caches) isn't going to have much room to improve.
I haven't read this paper yet but I'm familiar with the general work. The aspect that everyone ignores is that, yes linear transformations like matrix operations or fourier transforms are incredibly fast in optics, however the nonlinearity is the sticker. While optical propagation is nonlinear, you need very high intensities. The elephant in the room is that the linear operations rely on parallelism, i.e. they split the optical power up into multiple paths so each path has very low intensity, thus exhibits low nonlinearity. The solution that has been that everyone simply used optical to electrical conversion and did the nonlinearity digitally (or sometimes in analog electronics). That sort of works for one layer, but completely falls apart for multiple layers, it is neither cost not energy efficient to have hundreds or possibly thousands of a/d converters.
The first problem is much simpler framed around Bernoulli sequences, each concluding when one gets another distinct toy. Then, it's just the expectation of the sum of four geometric random variables

If you have zero toys, the probability of getting a new distinct toy is 1. With 1, it's 3/4. With 2, it's 1/2. With 3, it's 1/4.

Then, expected number of meals to get all the toys is 1/1 + 1/(3/4) + 1/(1/2) + 1/(1/4)
Tesla, I think
"Experts Doubt the Sun Is Actually Burning Coal
Originally published in August 1863"

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-doubt-the...
I think its ridiculous to arrest someone over this... does anyone have a link to an achieve or images of the facebook account?
I wonder how it can scale?

Even with the battle royale craze, it seems like nothing has really replicated Planetside 2's black magic netcode (or at least amassed a playerbase big enough to show it off).