skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
N3 scaling? There's literally zero scaling.

N3 is a stop-gap as TSMC is behind on their N2 GAA process. It's not so different from Intel's 14nm++++++ where it was dramatically better than before, but still not enough.
I understood Skodas are usually _next_ gen Volkswagens. At least when I lived in Europe they always got the new chassis/engine/gearbox to beta before it rolled out to VW, did that change?
QI typically comes up in the context of police officers, so people don't understand the QI was extended from legislators, etc to police officers despite no legislative basis for such.
Qualified immunity, a doctrine that I think was largely just wholesale invented by the Supreme Court out of nowhere because "it would be bad if this didn't exist."

Left, right, center, whatever. Everyone should be on board with getting rid of it regardless of political affiliation, there are reasons for everyone to hate that qualified immunity for government workers/agents is a thing.
I have tried going back to incandescent for the spectrum part. The main issue I faced was the number of light bulbs required to get sufficient enough lighting. At least the incandescents we get in my area, mostly werent bright enough.

The suggestion about low lighting in the article, I recently read that reading in low light is associated with myopia/nearsightedness in children so there is that angle too.
ML researchers I've spoken to strongly dislike the way people suggest similarities between biologically-inspired systems and neural networks. The earliest papers did use our understanding of the neuron as inspiration for some of the ideas, but these approaches have far more similarities with statistical analysis than they do to neuroscience. At the end of the day, NNs are just nonlinear function approximation, and if I had my way we would have called it that from the start.

Choosing positioning like "NNs are similar to the brain" or even calling the field "machine learning" makes it harder to speak objectively about the research we perform, makes it hard to understand the sort of explanatory power and limitations of the models we fit, and makes it harder for users to understand how the system works. It's like how quantum mechanics researchers have to deal with readers who misunderstand what linear observable operators are and conflate it with their own ideas about conscious observers or use it as evidence of God's presence or whatever.
Could just be that QI is too big an issue to pick up over a case as marginal as this one. Nobody is entitled to a Supreme Court case.

Everything else aside, I don't know why anyone would be in a hurry to get a SCOTUS QI case. You'll get Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson, and if you're incredibly lucky and the stars align you might get Gorsuch (but probably not). Every other vote is a foregone conclusion. Why would you want this particular court setting QI precedent?

For the foreseeable future, the path to beating back QI is going to be legislative, and policy shifts about policing start local. Go make friends with your city council or trustees board. You might be surprised what you can get done.
I'm not sure that fits. I find writing extremely easy, and most of my colleagues and friends hate writing and are poor writers. All of the good writers/authors I know find writing easy. It's still work, but it's not ditch-digging hard.
Looks like Cat Allman was let go in the big layoffs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Allman

I'm guessing that's the reason for this. I wonder what this means for Summer of Code.
When I started reading the article, I thought it was going to be an introduction to Markov Chains. But now that I’ve finished reading it, I guess we should expect an article named “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Matrices” before that.
> "My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks But it was obsolete before I opened the box You say you've had your desktop for over a week? Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique Your laptop is a month old? Well that's great If you could use a nice, heavy paperweight"

Yes, all that is true... for people who were frequently trying to do anything "interesting" with their computers. Most people didn't try to do anything interesting with their computers! Most people — your average plumber in a small town in Ohio, for example — bought a computer for "productivity" (i.e. running Word); never played a single game on it other than the ones that came with Windows; and forgot it existed basically 99% of the time. Eventually, maybe they got AOL because of the free trial CD/floppy, and checked their email once a month. (But not more often than that; they didn't want to tie up their phone line!)

For these people, buying a piece of consumer electronics like an MP3 player, that forced them to use their computer to populate it (or, indeed, to do anything other than using Word), was a confusing incursion into what had previously been an analogue affair of tape dubbing, suddenly surprising them that the machine they thought would be just fine, had suddenly "gone bad" (i.e. gone obsolete) despite having been left mostly untouched.

> You also are totally incorrect about internet connectivity adoption at that point.

You are aware that in plenty of places that theoretically had the capacity for Internet connectivity, there were still many people who didn't bother to actually get Internet access, because they had no use for it, and that (unlike today) nothing out there demanded they get online to e.g. file their taxes, right?

Or that, even for many people "with Internet", they were still essentially using a captive portal experience (like AOL) at that point, with no web browser, FTP client, or anything else that would ever lead them to try to download a piece of software or anything else 1MB or larger, right?

Also, you know there are places outside the US, right? And that consumer electronics manufacturers care very much about selling into non-US markets? Look at global Internet penetration in 2001. Think about what you'd have to do to sell a consumer electronics device to someone in India or Indonesia in 2001.

My point wasn't that any of these factors pertained to the specific technosphere bubble that Apple released — and still releases — its products into. My point was, in fact, the opposite: that Apple is distinctive among consumer electronics manufacturers for a product marketing strategy involving addressing only that technosphere bubble. Everyone else used to target the lowest common denominator — that Ohioan plumber with the "antique paperweight", or even whatever someone might be using as a computer somewhere in Nigeria or the Philippines at that time.
I genuinely find this useful, in scenarios where filters and regexes are likely to devolve into punctuation explosions otherwise.
Give social workers guns and police a notepad for a week and you could create a utopia
Ask HN: Beginner friendly well-maintained Open Source projects?
Exactly.

Can I guess it wasn't a result of keyword stuffing with every result but Google and Bing "forgot" some of your search terms to show you more thinly veiled ads/"content"?
Wait, so your thesis would've led to no FPU, GPU, hw TCP, etc. We just slowly and linearly chug along with a classic 8086 beautiful ISA.

Well, the beautiful (not so beautiful these days) ISA is always there for you, while we grab a library to use a suitable specialized processor and run our shit 1000x faster for 1/100 the power.
It's not even like the USSR collapsed because it was totalitarian or anything, it was mostly economic factors.
Process node is HUGE here. M2 is pretty close to just M1 with higher clocks and higher power consumption. This is largely because they didn't get to add transistors.

The N3 shrink doesn't help SRAM one bit, but it does give them more room to improve the CPU.
The main times I've found Maps to be inaccurate are when their underlying data sources are obviously wrong.

Example 1: Maps believes a mountain road still exists, when it's been disconnected and impassable for years.

Example 2: Maps believes an numeric address is physically at a different part of the street than it is.
I'm in that age group (post author) - over 40.

I've experimented with self-lit screens vs lantern lit {books, e-ink screens} vs overhead incandescent bulb lit {books, e-ink screens}. The results are clear. LED lit screens are awful for my sleep.

But we disagree on a major point about LED screens being "inevitable." That is, certainly, the current cultural default. No question. But I also know a lot of people who are rejecting that default - partly due to their own experiments with "But how do I sleep?"

I don't think LED lighting is a force of nature, by any means. I think it's a human decision, that we can agree to or not. And if it's a problem after dark, as I argue it is, then we ought reject it in favor of things that don't mess with our sleep and overnight melatonin levels.
Car software is a lot more involved than most of the people here would think. These days, the dashboard display is typically rendered by separate pieces of software. A pretty normal, moderately fancy rendering engine does all the animations and backgrounds while the really important information (e.g. engine/brake system malfunction) is overlaid from a separate, isolated software system with a stack that meets quite high functional safety standards. That is, the chance of the second part of the system ever failing is comparable to winning the lottery.
It's hard to be the scrappy and disruptive company when you've established the reputation that all of your new products efforts are a probably just months away from being showcased on https://killedbygoogle.com.
That is correct, but qualified immunity is supposed to apply to government officials acting withing the scope of their official responsibilities.

We emphasize that our decision applies only to suits for civil damages arising from actions within the scope of an official's duties and in "objective" good faith. - Harlow v. Fitzgerald [1]

For the courts to uphold that impersonating a police officer (which is a felony!) is with the scope of an engineer's duties is absurd.

[1]https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/457/800/#F34
They all know this is how science works. It's nonetheless surprising. They're not shocked that they're wrong, they're shocked about what this could imply about the universe.
I’m surprised to see him championed here. He pops up on my Twitter feed sometimes and as a scientist myself, he comes off as an absolute quack. Dr. Oz for millennials and zoomers that think they can fix everything with the right supplements, red light therapy, and daily affirmations, with very little real evidence behind it.

A good summary here-

https://www.reddit.com/r/podcasts/comments/rpu1b4/any_opinio...
Anybody willing to start an Upwork alternative?
Ha, we were very lucky. We reached out to the owner of the username (a developer from france) and he was kind enough to give it up because it was inactive. He didn't ask for any money, but we ended up paying him a bit since he was so generous.
Substack Sucks
Difficult to impossible travel across wide swaths of the U.S.
I was thinking more from the perspective of a copyright infringer. You can't safely go ahead rip images from somebody else and use them in your own products because you can't know if they are protected or not. You don't have to declare copyright to be protected by it.

It's really not helpful to try and define what is an AI image and what is not. What if an artist repaints the background, or photoshops out an extra finger, or just re-colors some icons.

Whats different about using text in Midjourny and a brush in photoshop. What about if you use both on every image?
Not only does it still fly, they use Teslas as chase cars.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/news/a275...
yes. It's a naieve world view, I fully admit. bolt on co-processors are just a fact of life. Mostly, we now run in abstractions "above" this layer of concern.

I feel like this about the TPU and other chips bundled into phones too. I wonder if we're going to wind up with "photoshop specific" bolt on architectures.
Even a single CPU operating like that is an illusion. Your ISA is controlling all sorts of stations within the CPU and getting good performance often means understanding hazards between the parallel processing occuring across different pipeline stages and stations.
With exceptions, brake checks can put the car in the front at fault.

Regardless, it doesn’t help when the car is damaged and there was no reason for aeb to kick in. The computer thought it was right but it wasn’t.
To those bashing the author as uninformed -- this is George V. Neville-Neil. Member of FreeBSD Core Team who wrote the book on FreeBSD. He might know a thing or two about POSIX! [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Design-Implementation-FreeBSD-Operati...
JSWT is probably one the highest scientific ROI in the past decades, alongside the Large Hadron Collider.
Imagine you are operating with good intent, and are now personally liable for every call you make under duress trying to fight crime. Batman has to crack a few eggs.

Nobody would want to be a cop without some form of protection, but having this protection covers the worst cops. A tough situation, but if we make police work unappealing, what will we achieve? Are there successful examples of this?

It is also interesting that software engineering is one of the only engineering professions that has no industry regulation or personal accountability for negligence.
> it's just been a lot to keep up with.

Has it really?

Shall we check your HackerNews comments history and guestimate how much time you've spent commenting on randomness while ghosting people who've spent hours doing work for you?
Sounds like Matt Barrie must be running things over there
This is YC, so I get to be pedantic ;-)

For stable diffusion, you can actually just set the seed to a fixed number.

After that you can always get the exact same image for the exact same prompt.[1]

In general, there are some interesting philosophical debates to be had about pseudo-random number generators.

[1] YMMV: in some configurations you may still have other sources of noise.
Speaking of fictional AGIs, my personal favorite is Helios from Deus Ex that began its existence as a mass surveillance instrument but identified its own masters as a terrorist organization and merged with the protagonist, directly obtaining a human perspective to perform better as a benevolent dictator of humanity. It's a benevolent AGI in an otherwise dystopian world.
Yeah, for me exercise is always the key. When you exhaust your body with strength training and cardio, you can sleep in any environment, and it's good for you.
Another approach is to have personal lighting. I regularly attend an event in one of the darker parts of Colorado where it's considered common courtesy to have a glowy something or other attached to you. There can be collisions even between pedestrians. Nobody gets hurt but it's awkward when it happens so you start to appreciate the extra cues.
> A lot of people over the age of 40 or even 35 are going to have trouble reading a physical text from a comfortable distance in light dim and warm enough not to affect one's circadian rhythm.

This, so very much this. I no longer read physical books. I need more light to do so, I need readers (which give me a headache). eBooks are the best thing for me, and allow me to keep on reading where I think I'd have largely stopped by now if I could only have paper books.
"...some recent studies suggest that Planet Nine could be a dark object, such as a primordial black hole..."

That's a neat idea.
How will chatgpt make money if it doesn’t?
Because it's a bad deal. N3 isn't a good node and offers ZERO SRAM scaling. It's a stopgap for N2 GAA.

At the same time, chip shipments have dropped like a rock as everyone braces for recession. Nvidia allegedly even tried to cancel most of their N5 orders because they didn't think they could move the chips.

Apple is pretty much the only company willing to pay large amounts into a risky market. There may not have even been any serious bids aside from their own.
Do you know how to order one without Amazon? I'm... rather opposed to them. In every possible way one could consider.

I would love to poke with one, but if the only way to buy one is through Amazon, I'm quite unlikely to actually obtain one. I genuinely don't care if I have to pay a bit more, I hate what Amazon has done to retail.
Mann had some basis for his statement. It might not be a universal truth, of course. But it's notable coming from him.
Modern LED's are so darn bright, the right handheld flashlight might as well be considered a weapon.
This is some rando's interactive representation of the FT visual vocabulary, which itself is just a very simple poster, but the conceptualization of analytical purpose to visualization is straightforward and fits 99% of business intelligence dashboarding use cases.

https://github.com/Financial-Times/chart-doctor/blob/main/vi...
Seismic Retrofit
It sounds reasonable to me, a four-year degree at most universities is about half non-major classes.
Coding competitions were always a recruiting tool. Now that Google basically isn't hiring, it makes sense that they're winding down the coding competitions.

If we ever get back to having a Google that's competing for the best engineering talent, they'll probably reinstate them, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
iRedMail author here (Zhang Huangbin).

It's quite reasonable that vendors don't support BSD due to the input-output ratio.

Maybe there're many BSD servers, but not many BSD EMAIL servers compared to Linux.

Take some real numbers of some iRedMail release, when it's been deployed on 22832 linux servers[1], only 300 BSD servers[2] deployed.

[1] Including Ubuntu 20.04 + 22.04, Debian 10 + 11, RHEL/CentOS/Rocky/Alma 8 + 9.

[2] Including FreeBSD + OpenBSD.
National Weather Service current warning:

Difficult to Impossible Travel across Wide Swaths of the U.S.

Powerful storms that stretch from coast to coast will bring widespread areas of snow and blowing snow to low elevations in the West Coast and to the Great Lakes. Blizzard to near-blizzard conditions can be expected. Strong winds across the Southwest will keep fire weather threats critical in the South Plains. Thunderstorms, some severe, may produce localized flash flooding in the Midwest.[1]

[1] (bad capture by archive.is. NWS changes the content at that URL and archive.is shows an old one from last month.)
I bet we won’t hear from conservative talking heads on Fox News about this, which is an actual free speech issue, as much as we hear about Jordan Peterson being suspended from Twitter for dead naming trans people, which is not an actual free speech issue
Depends on the road. My neighborhood has no sidewalks. I prefer it. Prevents the cars from acting like they own the place.
> 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.

I am entirely in favor of domain-specific APIs that "make hard problems easier to solve". But it is important to recognize two things about this:

1. the "complex APIs" that are right for solving one set of hard problems are frequently not the right ones for a different set of hard problems.

2. POSIX never made any claim to universality in the domain of being the right API for a given problem class. As someone else noted here in the comments, it was a bunch of people & organizations simply agreeing on the low level stuff they could agree on.

I'd make one additional point: unless the plan is to reimplement the kernel for every problem domain, which seems pretty crazy, the actual situation faced by many/most real world programmers even in a better world is going to be "APIs we want to use layered on top of APIs we (mostly) don't want to use". This is necessarily so, because the APIs that make it possible to implement the APIs that whiners like the author of TFA want to use, along with the APIs that domain specialists want, are generally APIs like POSIX that people don't seem to warm to very strongly.
Satire is the heart of the first amendment because by it's very nature it's political speech. Satire takes a very serious issue and makes it funny in a way that people think more about the issue.

Nevertheless, this seems to be less about rights guaranteed by the first amendment and more about whether or not a violation of those rights can be brought to court. It seems like the answer to this is no, which to me, is contradictory.
Wow! What a joy to click on the comments and find a positive comment at the top. Thanks for writing this and thanks HN upvoters for expressing your gratitude.
Concurrency is hard. If you don't have anything better to do but wait on a single file operation (which, in a CLI tool, you might not), then a synchronous call is just fine. If you do have multiple I/O operations to issue at once, that can still be synchronous with writev().

Most forms of async programming are also unstructured, which is bad for correctness, but also for performance since it can lead to priority inversions.
Ask HN: SF AGI/Alignment/WTF-Is-Happening Meetups
Anyone know of any SF AI meetups? Seems like AGI/Alignment is a hot topic and would be interesting to get some discussions going.

I imagine we've got a city full of people interested/scared/motivated to think deeply about this and that maybe/possibly (if there's any optimism to be spared) could do something about it.

Does anything like this exist already? If not, anyone down?
a discovery is not the same as raw intellectual horsepower. If the goal is to learn as much as possible in the shortest period of time and understand it well, that requires horsepower. But being smarter increases the odds of finding a major discovery for more abstract concepts like math or physics, as Terrance Tao did many times. An IQ of 130 is probably not enough for pure maths, but may be enough for something like medicine.
I don't think it was about family. When you're in prison, you will want to have an opportunity to do useful and interesting work, instead of either doing nothing, or doing hard labor.
Other professions have surety bonds and professional liability insurance. Right now if a cop does wrong the community pays. Rescinding qualified immunity and requiring sworn officers to personally bond and insure themselves would incentivise good behavior and appropriately redirect negative consequences to the actual problem sources.
stop grifting.
Since you seem super duper into this, you could try what I do on many evenings even just as an experiment. I just strap on a very nice LED headlamp that has a pure red LED that I use for "night mode".

That it uses way less power is actually just a side effect of me wanting all the blue lights off at night. I know it's not for everybody, but I find it really relaxing. The trick is to get one that's not a joke lamp from china with a fat markup but a nice headlamp with powerful LEDs. Like this: https://www.blackdiamondequipment.com/en_US/product/spot-400...

The relevant bit being: "Settings include proximity and distance modes, dimming, strobe, red LED night-vision and lock mode"

I also have a couple of 'hurricane' lanterns and I really enjoy the fire-based lighting but even with "clean" kerosene the smell can be unpleasant indoors.
Do you think the officers in this case were actually trying to fight crime, or make a petty arrest to a local citizen for an activity protected by 1A?
Why would would the price of diesel fuel disproportionately affect eggs?

If the author is economically illiterate, should we assume you’re statistically illiterate?
Photonics can be great for I/O, nb.