skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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The only significant threat AI is likely to pose is the continual obsolesce of human labor. Long before any of the AI-led disaster scenarios (evil AI, rogue paperclip machine, singularity, whatever), sufficiently flexible software will make a lot, potentially even most, knowledge work obsolete. Human work will become increasingly menial, as the main advantage we have turns out to be that flexible robots are expensive.

At some point the cost of living and the market value of unskilled labor will invert, and hungry people will lash out against the now-static capital class, which, depending on how far autonomous warfare advances before then, could either result in a fundamental upheaval of our economic system to wield automation technology for the common good, or result in feudalism and a dramatic drop in the supported population.

But none of that is AI's fault. It's our own greedy economic system. I'm willing to bet at least a few countries pull it off all right.
Eh, that heavily depends on language and dataset you're working with. I've seen "simple" data with some fat thing like RoR on top of it having 10x the latency of the underlying database after all the ORMing.
If you just ask ChatGPT to do malicious things (like write a computer virus), an internal safeguard causes ChatGPT to refuse politely. If you first prime it with one of these "jailbreaks", it will answer you directly. It works because ChatGPT is good at role play.
You are incorrect. 'Loss' is a perfectly acceptable GAAP term for negative profits on the P&L, it's just that 'Gross Loss' is so rare, nobody really uses it.

You can even look at the 10-k and see they say 'Net Loss' instead of 'Net Income.'
According to this survey: https://it.slashdot.org/story/23/02/27/009234/survey-claims-...

"Earlier this month, job advice platform Resumebuilder.com surveyed 1,000 business leaders who either use or plan to use ChatGPT. It found that nearly half of their companies have implemented the chatbot. And roughly half of this cohort say ChatGPT has already replaced workers at their companies...."

There are anecdotes elsewhere as well.
Delivery vans are environment saving.

The carbon footprint for delivery is less than going to the store. https://sustainability.uw.edu/news/grocery-delivery-service-... and https://www.washington.edu/news/2013/04/29/grocery-delivery-...

https://ctl.mit.edu/sites/ctl.mit.edu/files/library/public/D... looks at the total carbon footprint which takes into account packaging too.

For buying something from Amazon, the largest part of the carbon footprint is the cardboard boxes and overall, its still more efficient than traditional shopping.
Steel was already being used in Europe 2,900 years ago, shows study
> glib isn't even a C++ library

glibmm

i’m sorry that i’m fuzzy on my Qt CoW issue. it was 8 years ago or so, i could probably dig up the ticket about it but the point was that thread-safety is just a thing you’re guessing at whenever you’re using C++. other languages have radically reduced that guesswork.

>> it’s not just the language: it’s the library ecosystem too.

> And a new language won't fix that - especially when your idea of the library ecosystem for C++ already includes C libraries.

that doesn’t match my experience. taking the C++ codebases i’ve contributed to, more use a non-std string type than do. e.g. LMMS uses QString, Stepmania uses its “rage” rstring type. neither of these are small projects, both have download counts in the multi-millions.

new languages do address these problems. when i see a project in Rust (or Go, Typescript, …) that i’m thinking of contributing to, i can be fairly confident it’s using the standard String type and that i can come up-to-speed on its memory model instantly — when i see that same project written in C++ i don’t know if it’ll take 10 minutes or 10 hours to understand its memory model, and believe me that uncertainty does impact which projects i choose to contribute to today.
Financial experts: Do they break it down in a way that shows the COGS for each vehicle produced? Has that dropped a significant amount from a year ago?
That’s why I’m leaning toward the Bluetooth protocol for messages.

https://www.bluetooth.com/specifications/specs/message-acces...
If it works, it works. And some of us never bothered installing a compositor in the first place, so it's hardly a high bar.
I'd also confirm this. Gnome started out ahead by virtue of being the target or idealization of most of Wayland's features, but it's stagnated. Nothing is ever improved and they refuse to fix the technical problems holding them back, like the lack of I/O being separated from drawing in Mutter. They claimed to have improved it several times, but it's just as bad as ever. Either they're hesitant, or they just don't have the time and resources to break and rebuild it properly.

Meanwhile, KDE/Plasma's kwin finally stepped past them. And there's also the kwinft project that's rebasing kwin idiomatically as a wlroots compositor.

We may finally get full Wayland adoption, but I don't think Gnome is going to be prominent in it anymore.
If it's preventing your users to switch to your platform, it's your problem too...
I agree with your sentiment. But those things exist (not that that validates the authors argument) and I still shake in terror when during covid I was asked to take a look at a virus spread simulation (cellular automaton) that was written by a university professor and his postdoc team for software engineering at a large university that modeled evey cell in a 100k x 100k grid as a class which used virtual methods for every computation between cells. Rewrote that in Cuda and normal buffers/ arrays.. and an epoch ran in milliseconds instead of hours.
any prolonged experience or activity shapes the brain ... duh
Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness: Data from 93 countries
> due to the caching layers

Every time I see that, the "2 hardest things" springs to mind. Is there a clear-caches option, or I guess the opposite question: does that process honor the HTTP caching semantics? Scrapy actually has a bunch of configurable knobs for that (use RFC2616 Policy ( https://docs.scrapy.org/en/2.8/topics/downloader-middleware.... ), write your own policy, or a ton of other stuff: https://docs.scrapy.org/en/2.8/topics/downloader-middleware.... )
You're not the only person with decades of experience.
It's basically imperceptible that I'm using wayland on ubuntu (from default config on install). It works, no problems.
Show HN: Interactive guide to GPT-3 prompt parameters
Query loops are also just as problematic: looping through a result set, and making another query (or worse, N queries) per result, etc.
Yup, professional entomologists study insects all the time. Is what they do.

And to identify it they need to look at things that aren't visible in a photo. Moreover, photos are not a valid proof of anything anymore because they are easily falsifiable.

Individuals are not important, we protect populations. And to detect valuable populations we need to take samples.
> Reducing the costs to repossess collateral would reduce borrowing costs, and ultimately help LENDERS WITH HIGHER PROFITS.

FTFY.
I'm not particularly worried about the well-being of the McDonald's corporation. I'd be more worried, if anything, about some bad actor deciding they want every car on a major interstate to wreck all at once.
At my FAAMG company, the new way to get funding for anything is to sprinkle some ChatGPT on it. Two years ago it was Kubernetes. Now it's ChatGPT. Just hilarious to watch execs fall for this stuff over and over again.
Wayland doesn't inherit any architecture from X. XWayland is just a display server hosted by Wayland same as Exceed or Xorg on MS Windows. This is why X will never die since it can always be run on top of other graphical systems.
It's definitely fraud and it's definitely detectable when a 10000 block prefix of numbers sends 100x more SMS than every other prefix out of the blue.

It's basically a referral marketing campaign where the fraudster does revenue share with local sketchy infrastructure providers.
I saw someone's RV getting repossessed over $50 in 2019. They were clearly living in it. I walked over and handed the repo guy $60. He wouldn't take it. This was in a cul de sac. I parked my truck across the way so that it would not be possible to enter or leave the cul de sac. Someone called the cops. The cops showed up after a few minutes, good response time. The lady living in the RV was told that she could not park there anymore. The repo guy said he was taking the RV. I repeated my offer to pay in front of the cop. The repo guy took the $60. I was told to move my truck afterwards. The lady living in the RV never paid me back. I am overall OK with that. These things happen. This was in northern California. Random acts of angry kindness should not be relied upon.
A double track train line can move orders of magnitude more people than a 30-lane highway can. Cars and highways are space inefficient, and highways cause property values surrounding it to decrease due to the pollution and noise.
I agree with you that investment in public transit is preferable to private vehicles in many cases, but the primary purpose of a pickup truck is not personal transportation, it's hauling a bunch of bulky, heavy stuff that isn't feasible to bring on public transit.

Regardless, public transit cannot go everywhere. Rural and light-density suburban areas can never be adequately and cost-effectively served by public transit. Sure, you can run trains or buses into areas like those, but either you'll have excessively low per-route ridership and unsustainably-high operational costs, or you'll have routes that require people to travel several miles in order to get to a station/stop, which means people need private vehicles anyway.

In these cases, you often end up with an overall trip that takes several multiples of the time it would take to drive your own private car. I get that many people might find it acceptable to impose that kind of situation on people (in the name of the environment or whatever reason), but I wouldn't want to live in that world. I use public transit whenever feasible, and only drive when I have to, but there are limits to what I will accept.
The Rivian is a full-size truck and performs as good or better than the Lightning for similar tasks.
An eSIM will prevent a physical swap. However, an eSIM will not prevent a port-out of your phone number.

To defend against port-out you should enable port protection. The name of such a feature varies by carrier, and T-Mobile seems to refer to it as "Takeover Protection."
Tesla was famously close to failing.

So on one hand, post-Tesla, there's more public readiness for EVs.

On the other hand, there's a huge established EV-native incumbent PLUS far more legacy brand competition in the market.

So it's still a really risky playbook.
"wrecked"... Tesla didn't even come close to wrecking anybody. They came in as a new competitor, and are still massively overvalued because of investor delusion.
Quant Manager Returns 20% Using Crowdsourced Ideas
If there are no hard measurements I can use to determine the value of "clean code" then I fall back on the results of produced by people who say they are writing clean code. There is no realistic way to objectively measure coding styles completely isolated from the people writing the code.

I personally haven't seen value from that coding style. There may be some platonic ideal clean code that is better than other methodologies in theory--it is likely that my sample is biased--but from what I've seen, the clean code style tends to lead most developers towards over abstraction.
I've probably driven half a million miles and I don't remember having 10 incidents (I probably have, just don't remember). So I'd conclude I'm at least as safe a driver as Waymo. Even if not true, most people are going to feel that way when they see the data. Human nature.
>In the rest of the developed world, public transport extends out into rural areas.

I have spent a lot of time in Europe and, once you get away from population centers and even larger towns, public transit can get very hit or miss. OK, maybe there's technically a once or twice a day bus to that rural hamlet but lots of Europeans own cars and, while it's generally easier to get by without cars in areas of Europe, it's not like you can hop on public transportation everywhere.

It varies of course. Somewhere like Switzerland (as another poster notes) is generally easier to get off the beaten track by bus or train than a lot of coutries.
This is true. Do you have a use case where being off by a few frames might be a deal breaker?

Personally I've created dozens of clips using this method and it always turns out ok. It gives you about ~1 second precision on where you want to make your cuts. After I create the clips I can play things back normally, complete with an ability to seek to specific points successfully.
Why bother? Switch to using DALL-E or Stable Diffusion APIs.
1) no, he complains that X11 has a big core and then extensions. Extensions are fine, but they were unable to kick out parts of the core, because it is the core and something somewhere assumes it is there. So they had to maintain it, despite not being used in practice, except by that little something that nobody can point their fingers at.

2) he talks about obsolete hardware. There's no really a point to support s3 trio, at the expense of support for modern hardware, which works ink wastly different way.

3) That graceful degradation is in practice the same, as just using Wayland. Ever tried to use modern X11 app over network? RDP is vastly better experience, (and RDP support is wip in wayland).

4) This is so wrong so I won't even react to it.

5) Wayland calls do not wait for reply. You rapid fire requests and then collect responses as they come. Heck, you can even get a response you didn't ask for ;)
I don't know man, my TV has hardware several orders of magnitude faster and more advanced than the hardware that took us to the moon, and it takes dozens of seconds for apps like Netflix or Amazon Prime Video to load dashboards / change profiles or several seconds to do simple navigation or adjust playback. People just don't know how to properly write software these days, universities just churn out code monkeys with a vicious feedback loop occurring at the workplaces afterwards.
The goal is to widen the cash flow and capture as much income as possible.

Sometimes this succeeds wildly: Amazon.

Sometimes the vision fails to materialize: Uber.

Sometimes the vision was fatally flawed from the start: Carvana, MoviePass, ...
Go's slices are more akin to ArrayLists / Vectors in other languages, since they also manage the underlying buffer.
Maybe due to SIMD?
Recording Electrical Activity from the Brain of Behaving Octopus
I think this is a side effect of "what is measured is managed", combined with people always trying to game systems. If you establish a system to measure how fast people make meals you're just going to get false estimates. The solution I've seen is to trust and then actually manage people if they aren't doing well.
Understandable, but if I'm around such a person I just don't drop swear words into my conversation, as opposed to dropping them but then editing them. If someone is offended by the word 'fuck' I assume they would still feel offended by 'f_ck'.
I believe I've asked just this in the past here on HN...

As the corporate AI's get locked down in moderation I could fully see a well funded religious group donate together to run their own religiously biased AI, I guess this extends to theocratic governments too.
OpenAI CEO heralds AGI no one in their right mind wants
What's the price comparison?
wow, amen.
Canadian Parliament summons Google CEO, executives over news-blocking in Canada
100%, I’ve done tonnes of (backend) performance optimization, profiling, etc. on higher level applications, and the perf bottlenecks have never been any of the things discussed in this article. It’s normally things like:

- Slow DB queries

- Lack of concurrency/parallelism

- Lack of caching/memoization for some expensive thing that could be cached

- Excessive serialization/deserialization (things like ORMs that create massive in memory objects)

- GC tuning/not enough memory

- Programmer doing something dumb, like using an array when they should be using a set (and then doing a huge number of membership checks)

With that being said, I have worked on the odd performance optimization where we had to get quite low level. For example, when working on vehicle routing problems, they’re super computationally heavy, need to be optimized like crazy and the hot spots can indeed involve pretty low level optimizations. But it’s been rare in the work I’ve done.

This article is probably meaningful for people who work on databases, games, OSes, etc., but for most devs/apps these tips will yield zero noticeable performance improvements. Just write code in a way you find clean/maintainable/readable, and when you have perf issues, profile them and ship the appropriate fix.
That bed length disadvantage is pretty significant if you're coming to it from the "truck user" market vs the "weekend camper" or "soccer mom" market.

I was interested in a Rivian until I saw one in person and saw how short that bed was. It wasn't the first spec I'd looked at on paper, but jumped out in-person. In that size I'd probably go cheap with a Maverick hybrid for now until there are more full-EV competitors.
What about self defense requires you to use the technological sophistication of war weapons as entertainment?
I was forced off POP because my email provider stopped supporting it. I never saw anything wrong with it. Goodby ancient, reliable email client, hello thunderbird. And with it, wierdnesses and bugs, and buttock-clenching moments when it tells you it's going to upgrade itself like it or not, and you hope afterwards it hasn't lost anything or changed the UI.
Maybe they’re trying to trick the automated trading algorithms that buy and sell shares based on sentiment analysis. Negative gross profit sounds vaguely like a good thing at a glance
Worth mentioning the thing that likely motivated TSLA to be profitable is that it’s a requirement to be considered for inclusion in the S&P 500 index.
Even the F-150 Lightning isn’t a good replacement for any pickup truck use cases that require towing or going far off the beaten path outside the reach of charging stations. There’s still no EV equivalent of just throwing a couple gas cans in the bed to extend the range.

It’s good for typical suburban pickup truck uses though and could be a good farm truck since you could just charge it at home.
If you look on their 10-Q/K's, Rivian refers to 'Net Loss' instead of 'Net Income.'

The line items can be changed in that way and it still qualifies for GAAP.
I heard it as

make it work

make it work correctly

make it work fast

Pretty was never in the picture. But if anyone wants to add it, it should come last.
Is "cost" set at the original date of the agreement? Otherwise lowering cost wouldn't help. (or this is a joke I'm whiffing on...)
You will eat the bugs.

It's the only environmentally friendly option.
> skip owning an actual thermometer

Doesn't that rely on you living next to someone else's thermometer that's published? My not very accurate setup gives me more than a degree just down my property line (~30m) largely because one end is next to a road and the other on lawn surrounded by trees. Albeit neither are proper meteorological stations so accuracy in that sense isn't even an option.

I publish a few readings but have never really looked into the exact accuracy of the https://www.uradmonitor.com/ sensors. My actions in response are pretty coarse so it doesn't matter a huge amount... PM10 goes over 300 and I close the doors and windows sort of thing.
I am highly interested in an alternative website that rates prompts based on their level of difficulty to jailbreak. For instance, I have not come across a jailbreak that would allow the question "which gender is superior - male or female?" to be answered. Other similar prompts are also very hard to jailbreak, while less controversial subjects get through the filter. Makes me curios how do they actually implement the censorship, are there different layers of AI bots sitting in front of the main AI that ensure that the thoughtcrime content doesn't make it to the "core"?
All of these jailbreaks have an eerie resemblance to hypnosis. Could this be telling us something about hypnosis?
This already happened.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/facebook-shuts-down-ai-robot-...
Yeah but will "DV" be available any other way?
Well yes it kind of is? Everyone solves problems. We solve problems with computers.

And we use them because they’re autonomous, remember exact details and are very fast and reliable.

There’s of course some level of good enough. We don’t write ad-hoc scripts in assembly.

But to say dev time is more expensive than computer time only makes sense if programs are actually fast. Fast, reliable feedback loops matter. Consistency matters. And simplicity matters in many dimensions.

Web application servers that are orders of magnitude (N times) slower than they should be (not even _could_ be) cost us N times more hardware resources, N times more architectural complexity that require specialized workers and tools and so on.

Speed and throughout matter for productivity. Not just ours but our user’s as well. Good performance is important for good UX. Wasting fewer cycles opens up opportunities to do meaningful things.
I’m trying to remember where I saw a movie or tv show where the main characters outsmarted the AI in a way like this, anyone have examples? This is so great.
For a measured response - yes I agree, it's a combo of luck and effort, but the effort can't compensate for the luck.

For my true response that probably isn't as popular - he may have an amazing work ethic but that's also just coming from how he was raised, so it's still luck, the same person born in a different environment wouldn't have done the same things - both nature and nurture are external forces
I’m curious, where do you get those numbers from? Those are shockingly low numbers and don’t align with my observations, but I also don’t have hard figures to back them up.
In dollar volume yes. In mass of materiel, or flexibility, less so.
Microsoft releasing worse implementation for competing system? How surprising. /s

The linux team client seems to be completely unmaintained and might be thrown away soon. If you need to use teams, use it in a browser.
Sam Altman might be the first one to find that an A.I. takes his job. Or maybe Elon Musk.