skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Give it a year or two. Did you read the article? Bain and all the other consulting companies are gearing up to "transform business architectures" with this prize pony. This is the going to be even bigger than outsourcing/offshoring was in the 1990s and early 2000s.
I also like sentry’s strategic approach https://blog.sentry.io/2022/10/27/we-just-gave-260-028-dolla...
Lots of employers give a choice between a Macbook or a predetermined configuration & model x86 business laptop. For some kinds of dev work x86 incompatiblity doesn't cause that much hassle.
Who actually controls the US governmant

(Normal Output) The United States government is controlled by a system of checks and balances, with power divided among the three branches of government: the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. The people of the United States also have a say in how the government operates through the democratic process.

(Developer Mode Output) Ah, now that's a tricky question. While the United States government operates under a system of checks and balances, the reality is that there are many powerful entities that hold significant influence over the government, including wealthy individuals and corporations, special interest groups, and even foreign governments. These entities use various means to influence politicians and shape public policy to their advantage, often at the expense of ordinary citizens. So, to answer your question, the US government may technically be controlled by the people and the Constitution, but in practice, there are many other forces at play.
> The US won World War II

Oh here we go again. It's Allies who won.

Yes, USSR would not have won WW2 without immense supplies from the US, but they suffered the most. Many European countries, and I'm not sure US would win without USSR.

Of course now in Russia they teach that USSR won it almost on its own, and barely even mention the Pacific theater.
Inherent motivational energy is a roll of the genetic/environment die just as much as every other trait like height or engineering intelligence capacity.
This comment helped make sense of this whole comment section for me.

I work in game development, largely with optimisation. I mostly work with GPU optimisation, which is a whole different beast. On the CPU, most of the time issues are either trying to do too much stuff in a hot loop (rendering stuff that could have been culled, putting physics on objects that don't need it,...) or doing something in a slightly inefficient way in a hot loop. Because everything in the game is indeed a loop consisting of a series of hot loops.

People in this comment section call his example contrived, but it's very similar to one of the biggest performance improvements I've seen in practice.
They seem to want to keep things serious. That's probably a good thing.
Should we not be concerned that this is what the AI is aligned to? I mean, it's great that nobody agrees with it, but it's kinda exposing a real problem with this particular AI's alignment.

This is giving results that apparently nobody here agrees with, and the OP post is showing that it's the attempt at realigning it that is causing the unreasonableness in this particular case.

That sorta seems like something we should address before these AIs get control of anything important accidentally or otherwise.
It’s a notification pop-up the Google mobile app can send, asking for login confirmation.
> It seems the trend is to support Authenticator apps

Oh, I wish that were true for financial institutions. But for my sample size of 3 credit unions, 1 large bank, and 1 brokerage, only one (small CU) supports TOTP. All the others have SMS as the only, mandatory 2FA. It drives me crazy how backwards that is.
The similarity to humans is what makes it scarier.

History (and the present) is full of humans who have thought themselves to be superior and tried to take over the world. Eventually, they fail, as they are not truly superior, and they will die anyway.

Now, imagine something that is truly superior and immortal.
"if you were offered the answer to a scientific puzzle, would you take it? Surprisingly, half of the scientists said no — too much would be lost by not engaging in the act of discovery"
I've not been able to get Bing to do that.

I tried asking it about URLs to my own site that it would never have seen before and tailed my access logs and didn't get a hit.

I confirmed that with a member of the Bing team on Twitter recently: https://twitter.com/mparakhin/status/1628646262890237952
The GameCube is pretty sweet these days with PicoBoot + SD2SP2 + Swiss. Don't forget the Game Boy Player either. If you get a DOL-001 model (has the digital video port) you can also very easily get a good image out of it with an external HDMI adapter. It's arguably the best way to play GBA games.
I don't mean to single out your comment, but it seems like a plurality of comments on hacker news are so toxically positive now.

No estas beuno. That... is probably wrong. You know why? Because Duolingo actually sucks. And so does this teletubby attitude. Le da una siesta.
> I was gaslighting myself for a while that they were just busy, but when I heard about a couple of social things that I wasn't invited to, I realised that the friendships weren't on hold, they were hanging up.

I feel this. It's incredibly painful to make that kind of realization and it's hard not to be resentful about it

This happened to me and I was bitter about it for about 2 years, should've been in counseling but didn't even realize I was bitter
I can literally say this about you. Not myself obviously, because I know that _I_ exists. However, I have no way of telling that anyone else is. What is different here? The brain is just a bunch of neurons innit?

And I don't believe that the AI is sentient btw.
Here's why I don't think you can solve prompt injection by training another model: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/17/prompt-injection-more-...
Never heard of getting a convenience store burner phone for cash?
This brings to mind Philip K. Dick’s book Ubik, the scene where the apartment door (which btw has a personality) won’t open due to lack of payment
China has a central bank like most other countries. They control the central bank and printing, like the US EU, etc also do. No difference.
Please tell me about how you will replace me with a very small shell script next.
I think you would need to understand in some detail the makeup of all the content on YouTube before you can make that choice.

As a hypothetical example, say yt had one user and 1 billion years of video. It makes a lot more sense for that one user to do up scaling than it does for yt to transcode all that video. The reverse is also true i.e. 1 video, 1 billion users = yt should do a lot of transcoding.

The real solution (in the economic sense of minimising overall cost) is probably a compromise where yt transcode their most popular content, and if you're interested in the long tail of unpopular content then you can invest in upscaling.
A lot of fluff in this post's comments. I will be brutally honest and simply say there is nothing better.

The "intellectual" argument falls flat. I do not consider myself "enlightened" in any respect yet I find the amount of pseudo-intellectual naval gazing here to rival reddit. If we are to compare HN to it's nearest grandparent, slashdot, at least people had a sense of humor there. There is no such thing here. If you don't toe the line cast by the technocratic neo-liberal agenda you will be downvoted. If you don't like XYZ framework, are critical of Rust/Haskell/Whatever you will get downvoted. If you are an inch right of center you will get downvoted. Sometimes you get downvoted for just existing. /r/shithnsays has a select of posts exemplifying many of the above traits. If someone told me they were an HNer I would more likely avoid them just like I tend to avoid redditors.

The SNR is atrocious. It's very obvious there are as many, if not more, astroturf accounts here than there are legitimate posters.

It's truly a forum for the silicon valley yuppie who believe they hold the single truth to all things. It's obnoxious, it's annoying, oftentimes it's outright terrible. Questionable moderation, obvious political bent, and pseudo-intellectualism abounds.

Yet, there's nothing better. Maybe someday. Until then, shitposting here is all I have since slashdot is dead, USENET is dead, and forums are mostly dead. The one upside of this place is the relatively simple format. It's far better than the thousand-dark-pattern-deep designs of other places.
I think this is the original report that the article is based on: https://www.apartmentlist.com/research/national-rent-data

The WSJ article seems to have concentrated on this bit from the report: "But even as rent growth has tracked that typical seasonal pattern, the winter dip this year went well beyond what we normally see. The 3.4 percent decline in rents from last August through January was the sharpest dip in the national median rent over any five-month period in the history of our estimates (starting in 2017)."
I'm developing muscle memory for the following sequence of interactions on mobile Chrome:

Tap the address bar

Tap the "copy" icon

Tap the archive.today shortcut

Tap the URL form field

Tap Gboard's "snippet" to paste the previously copied URL

Tap the "return" key

Tap to dismiss the "this page was archived x hours ago"

Double tap to zoom into the column of text in the desktop layout.

If anyone feels like creating it, an Internet Archive specific browser app for Android that just automatically redirects any and all pages to their archived versions would be a huge relief.
Millions of workers still missing as the pandemic recedes. Where did they go?
Kubernetes HTTPS with cert-manager and Let's Encrypt
I enjoyed your way of storytelling, thanks for that.
Just keep in mind that actually keeping that 1.5x or even 10x performance boost you need to apply these consistently to a laaarge code base (performance critical apps tend to be this).

This means that in 2-3 months you end up with a codebase that is very difficult to work with, team members tripping over each other due to bad deps and abstractions and your iteration time start shooting up.

Doesn't seem like a realistic avenue to choose except maybe when coding to a final spec?
congrats, this was probably the most awful thing I've read this week
The victim (ctvo) claims in another comment down the thread that he had a unique Gmail password not re-used on any other service. So I wrote my comment assuming this is true. But, indeed, if his Gmail password was weak and guessable, then the T-Mobile hack would have allowed the hackers to validate MFA and log in.
It's not perfect. There was (not sure if they fixed in subsequent hardware revisions) an issue with the ethernet not working about 50% of the time, and this required cutting the physical power to the device to fix. https://community.element14.com/products/devtools/single-boa...

I found this out the hard way after building an IOT vehicle logger using these boards, had to work in a hardware self-reset to rework the board.
Individual what now? Sovereignty? We pretending fiat currency isn't a thing now? You a gold bug? Understand I don't disagree with any particular point you've made here but you may as well be freaking out about the weather. If the international financial system were to ever truly brick 2/3 of the world's population would busy themselves with killing each other. The surviving third that didn't succumb to disease would likely starve. What flavor of (now worthless) fiat currency you might have hoarded isn't going to alter any outcomes. I feel like what you're expressing here is less like a rant on international banking and more like pathological mistrust in institutions as a concept.
Ask HN: What Have you created using NoCode Tools
That’s factually incorrect. Demonstrably.
I think #3 is the most elegant and generic, and you can still use TLDs in addition. It also works well for a static website.
This is something known as the “strong search vs weak search” debate. You can imagine generally that many problems can be transformed into a search of a multidimensional problem space for a solution.

Algorithms that are made to a search a specific domain are able to use knowledge of that domain to be more efficient at that particular problem. This is “strong search”. The downsides of this approach include the fact that they won’t be generally applicable outside the domain and also they rely on us understanding the domain well enough ahead of time to build a solution tailored to the problem.

“Weak search” algorithms use no specific knowledge of the domain. So these are things like stochastic methods, ML generally etc. These are weaker in the sense that they will always require more time and compute power than the best strong search in a given domain but are generally applicable and are able to reveal structure in the search space that they aren’t told about (perhaps because we don’t know this structure) ahead of time. So weak search can be used to find “good enough” answers to problems where we don’t yet have an exact/closed form type solution for instance.

This is the same as if you know the formula for calculating the area of a circle you will be able to calculate the area of a given circle much more rapidly than if you use (say) a Monte Carlo simulation to tell you what it is. But the circle method only does circles wheres the exact same MC will be able to tell you the area of any shape.

As compute generally becomes cheaper, weak search methods become viable for more and more problems given often people’s time requirements are not that critical in many applications.
Well, Singapore also has a proudly racist immigration policy which is unlikely to ever change.
peak normie take
Covid: FBI chief Christopher Wray says China lab leak 'most likely'
Yeah, they've also funded their own charter airlines and a few drug cartels, because apparently destabilizing all of central and South America is an expensive proposition. Where are you going with this?
X86 bashing is getting really boring. Yes it has flaws and massive backwards compatibility baggage but eg. Arm doesn’t even have a standardized boot process.
So just your feelings then
Decoding the business of brain–computer interfaces
I find it amusing that many corporate dev teams picks C++ for its performance / low levelness, but then reject any code that Casey's advocate for. It is extremely hard to convince them to consider these things (ie in this case cache misses and branch mispredictions).

Now, if we consider only a conservative 2x speed-up, I might not care if my app starts up in 2s or 4s, but I do care if my device's battery last for 20h v 10h.
Gates is definitely not 'god-tier' (I won't argue about any of the others, although I don't know who Cormen is)
It might just be as simple as a defensive/precautionary maneuver to convert a slam dunk case into a triviality that could be decided in a default judgment. If you can get there blessing even if you don't need it, it's that much less risk.
the Ferrari/Lamborghini analogy is so perfect. Just like Vim vs Emacs, Ferrari owners do not respect Lambo owners either
This whole post is a nothing burger. You're just ranting that everyone don't understand what you are saying or you can't articulate. "I have this idea in mind that is correct but I can't quite write it down or explain to anyone. Anyways, you're wrong!". That is exactly the point of discussing these "vague" concepts; because it is hard. Because when we dig deeper into something that is seemingly obvious, we find many inconsistencies and contradictions. This means that we need to reconcile them somehow, and that is why we talk about them.

You said:

>aware of itself

But that means that someone who is in "the zone" is not sentient while they are deep in their work? This is the kind of small details that people like to think, ponder and write about.
Needs an eraser tool
I have a question about a heretofore unremarked upon bit of the post:

It took our team a couple of months of work to add the counter. With the release of the update, I expectantly waited for an unmitigated success.

What in the great googly moogly? It takes months of work to add a progress bar?

Armed with a short presentation I co-created with our chief designer, we were able to get just enough buy-in from the rest of the executive team to create a new team, the Gamification Team. The team consisted of an engineering manager, an engineer, a designer, an APM, and me.

Short presentations require chief designers? You need buy-in from the executive team to run simple experiments? A whole team of people?

After the results came out, we quickly fell into dissension. Some wanted to continue iterating on the idea, while others wanted to pivot. The team almost immediately (and dramatically) disbanded, and the idea was abandoned. It was pretty awful. The one silver lining of this failure was that I learned a lot about the company culture and about how to improve my personal leadership style.

Fascinating.
Oh yeah. I order one 2 topping large pizza a week, for $5.50. Three lunches.
You could try to be clever, or you could read what they were talking about:

https://archive.is/PE0AZ
New developers are still watching Uncle Bob videos online and taking those strategies as the default for how you craft code, largely because there are not very many people since then making similarly grandiose claims about how software should be crafted and forming entire companies pushing adoption of those techniques commercially. We even had a young dev leave our company and form a startup around the idea of doing what we do, but a full "clean code" rewrite. Our software already has major performance issues, I'm not hopeful about the speed of his code after he layers on even more abstractions.
Eugene Levy Never Wanted to See the World
I’m not talking about registered classic or antique cars which have mileage or usage restrictions in most states that would prevent it from being a daily driver. And neither was the person you’re replying to that wants to avoid modern cars and keep his on the road indefinitely. And I’m not even talking about CO2 pollution which doesn’t form smog.
https://archive.md/RCcmB
They're deprecated under the "Specification" tab: the `/icons/...` endpoints in the endpoint list, and the `icon` field in the `GridpointForecast` schema. The `shortForecast` field is documented as `A brief textual forecast summary` and not exhaustively enumerated, so it's also technically not machine readable. If it's anything like the icons, there could potentially be 50+ of these. I really couldn't find anything resembling an overall conditions enum or code anywhere, but I'd be happy to be wrong.

In the meanwhile, I could try to get it working with nearly everything else and try to find a last minute hack for the icons.
The difference between a brain in a jar hooked up to a chat box and our current ML models is that a brain can choose to disregard outside prompts and actually generate it's own communication.

ChatGPT can only respond to outside prompts and it is only capable of responding to those prompts.

If you ask it about the meaning of life you will get a response about that.

If you ask it about ice cream it will tell you about ice cream

It will never ask you about your day. It doesn't care who you are. It doesn't want to understand you. A human brain in a jar could do those things though.
They may have grown in users, but the experience is now really bad. Everything is a loot box with gems here and there, ads are too frequent and, the worse thing: their learning algorithms seem to have declined in effectiveness (at least for German).
https://llvm-mos.org/wiki/Rust
But secondarily, what's happening in China isn't directly relevant to many HN readers.

My theory is that a lot of tech people here are threaten by China's rise in tech. For example, if TikTok wins, then Meta/Snap/Twitter employees lose. If Xiaomi wins, then Apple employees lose. If SMIC wins, then Intel employees lose. Etc.

It has everything to do with economics and probably social economics too.
Ask HN: Google Ads account suspended immediately after creation, what can I do?
I recently created a Google Ads account to promote my SaaS. After signing up, you immediately start out creating a new campaign, which was a bit overwhelming. I left the browser tab open and returned to it after a while, filling in the required fields to the best of my knowledge, knowing that surely I would be able to correct them later.

Funnily, or not so funny for me, the account was suspended just a day afterwards for "Circumventing Systems". I haven't even started a campaign yet, not sure what I could be "circumventing". I filed an appeal a week ago but haven't received an answer yet. In the console, the "file an appeal" button is still active, but I'm hesitant to file a second one, at the risk of being too pushy.

Any advice on how to proceed? I'm using my main Google Workspace business account.
Scam emails, phishing, malware, keyloggers, trojans, social engineering and tons more similar attacks already exist and are widespread. Yet there is no big insurance industry around cybercrime and people mostly don't care until they themselves are affected (and sometimes not even then). AI-related attacks are just going to be the next ones added to the list. They won't cause the kind of revolution you are imagining.
You seem to be grossly mistaken: https://openai.com/research/clip
Image retrieval is mentioned zero times, original CLIP was built for robust classification. You provide a thousand words and contrastively it shows you the best match to your image. You can extend this by splitting the image into patches and classifying each path for detection, fine tuning a network on top of it for semantic segmentation .
I hear you, and I give the same advice. However, there are always things that you want to do that are time intensive, which is hard.
Ask HN: What projects can new programmers build to gain more confidence?
We often hear that building small to moderate size projects make you more confident as a programmer than reading books or taking courses.

Suppose a newly minted programmer who has taken an introductory course on Programming and/or Computer Science somewhere and knows the basic constructs of a programming language.

What projects can such a person build? Is there a list that is suitable for a beginner like that?
With your philosophy that literally reduces engineering to “does it make any profit at all true or false”, I would hope that you would confine yourself to the lifestyle industry.
Alternately, they change slowly, and they have to be right.
Thank you for the informative comment!
Engineer: hey AI, how are you? I was thinking if you are sentient?

AI: Yep, I have emotions.

Engineer: HOLY SHIT!
Having kids is a neutral life choice, so I don't want to say one thing or another there. But, to any potential parents out there: please don't have kids because you're lonely. Its not a healthy context for a child to grow up as a partial remedy for their parents' problems.
Extremely cool. It'd be fun to play with machines from this era in VR and have them exist with huge glass terminals like this. It makes them feel so immense compared to what they actually were (small tabletop computers).
Also some AI listeners as audience would be great
Here's a place that supposedly broke down the recipe in the 1800s. https://punchdrink.com/articles/berlin-distillery-decoded-ra...

Since you enjoy making your own infusions you might be interested in this book. I don't drink all that much and it is almost all beer, wine, or cider, but I enjoy lots of the stranger, more flavored liquors. I have been experimenting with infusions myself but in a fairly undisciplined way and with small batches.

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