skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I thought that since salt water solution was ionic, all solutions in water were ionic. Thanks for teaching me something new.
A rough equivalent: "momentum is 'just' the relativistic correction to energy between masses observed in different relativistic frames of reference". It might be vaguely trueish if we're very generous in interpreting the "just", but it's absolutely the wrong way to think about things.

The electromagnetic field tensor is the real object here. The electric and magnetic fields are artifacts of a particular choice of coordinate system.
With the same skepticism you should treat any technology that has lots of VC investment, sounds cool, has concepts that people initially don't understand, and will attract every sort of vulture that has finished picking off the blockchain/ICO/NFT/defi carcass.
Can you link me to the text of the FTC Act that backs the claims made in the article that the FTC has authority over unfair consumer "algorithms"? They are quite editorialized. I responded in a sibling comment to someone saying the same thing. The only text I can find in the FTC act is related to unfair business practices with respect to competition against other businesses. Not "biased algorithms".
But shouldn’t you also consider the amount of effort it takes to move up that learning curve? MRSK feels like it would take a day or two to master in its current iteration, and provides a feature set that is great for small to medium sized projects. Kubernetes takes many many months (years?) to master, and is great if your business is the size of Google’s, and arguably overkill otherwise. I know which one I’d like to spend my time learning.
I remember sitting in my dad's car with my brother a few times when he went dumpster diving behind banks and offices and government buildings. He always found some papers and a few times we got stuff. I remember vividly getting some cool raised stickers. At the time, I didn't really understand what was going on. Now that I am older I sometimes really wonder what was going on...
My God, we finally found a constructive use for ChatGPT. "Rewrite this government bureaucracy's muddle-by-committee-legalese document into something that sounds like it was written by a human."
They were supposed to be part of C++11, back when it was called C++0x, before getting punted. So more like almost 20 years now (since some time after C++03.)
Only criticism i have is i ended up on a search form and after submitting to it the page reloaded and the results were below the fold. Otherwise yep, very fast and clean.
There's a small but legitimate chance that is the final poison that will spoil the internet we've gotten used to and send many of us back to prioritizing physical, real-world connection with the community physically around us. If automatic generation means noise swamps signal so much that automated curation can't sort them out, the casual internet of strangers looks a lot different.

If so, that's not an apocalypse or the end of global communication or SaaS's or computers -- it would be an adjustment from the last 30 years of forums, blogs, social networks, influencers, and other internet folk content, where we felt like we were connecting with real people all across the world.

But based on how these latter phenomena seem to have affected mental health and physical activity, that might be a good thing. It could be that the Social Media Age was an unsustainable cultural flash and that a different kind of lifestyle experience and internet culture will come up behind.
oh shit, ashley higgins happened!
Any color you want, as long as it's black.
Here's a link for those that refuse to use facebook. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-hidden-bolts-that-...
Nice! Wasn't aware of that at all.
I like the documentation that TypeScript types provide but I'm always running into lots of small quality of life issues that wear me down.

- Rest in any position

- Dedented block strings

- Default to const in for loops

- Lack of -> function shortand

- Everything is an expression

- Implicit returns

- Chained comparisons

- Nested unbraced object literals

- Optional trailing commas in arrays

- Optional trailing commas in objects

- x.map .name function shorthand

Each one is a fairly minor concern but they all add up. I'm sure different people will have a different list of favorite features as well. One of my goals in creating Civet was to fix my top 100 issues with TS syntax while being 99% backward compatible. The ultimate goal being: TS with my top 100 issues fixed will be the best language I have ever used.
That's the wrong direction. What's needed are intelligent converters which convert less-strict languages to more-strict ones.

Non-intelligent converters just make a mess. Here's c2rust.[1]

Classic C++ to modern C++, plus a compiler flag to lock out all the old unsafe stuff, would be an achievement.

[1] https://c2rust.com/
Postgres Triggers with Listen / Notify
Yocto is fine if you are using a SOM and the vendor provides a yocto BSP.

If are building your own board and developing a BSP, Yocto is a nightmare peeling away the onion layers.

I find Buildroot much saner and easier to work with.
That's probably a relief for many tech employees who won't get fired for no particular reason, then :D
For commodity products, profit always trends to zero.
Exactly. I run a large enterprise service in a single datacenter with 5 years of 100% uptime. Our design goal is 99.97% measured monthly.

We have that because we have complete control end to end. We made an engineering decision not to have geo-redundancy because many of the dependent services aren’t available that way either.

Because of the compute requirements, running that service in AWS or GCP would cost about 80% more, inclusive of all costs (equipment, labor, utilities, etc)
> Reminding them he was an evil man and his wife was a wack-a-doo is.. fun.

Why do you feel the need to do this? Does it provide you some personal validation that lets you sleep better at night? That you "bested" your parents?

I think your issue is deeper than politics. Militant atheists get the same kicks "besting" Christians. It's not a healthy way to go about living.
Nobody finds this story fantastical?

"Poisoned with LSD?"

Howard E. Hunt (the source of this) was a CIA officer with quite a checkered past including leading the failed Bay of Pigs invasion and involvement in Watergate.

I'm not sure I'd take these stories at face value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt
> The first section is a decent summary.

I read the first section and it doesn't seem to support your claim. In particular, it claims they have a mandate to protect consumers and links to another wiki entry on that topic. Within that wiki entry protection against misleading statements is mentioned as an aspect of protection of consumers. This seems to refute your claim of overreach, because in the blog post related to guidance to companies the tone which is consistently struck again and again is that companies should not make misleading statements about AI capabilities. This is complete alignment with their mandate according to the link which you claimed was a decent summary. It also in alignment with the rest of the wiki, which covers topics like false advertising.

> Blog posts making casual threats about AI claims is a long way from appropriate. There are places for formality, and the law is one of them.

The use of sequences of characters in digital spaces for the purposes of communication is not inherently inappropriate. This sequence of characters is on guidance for companies and requests they do not lie or make false claims about capabilities. This relates to their mandate, because they have a mandate to protect consumers from misleading statements. For example, lies about capabilities or false statements about capabilities made unknowingly under the presumption that models were more effective than they are.

> There are serious people quitting the FTC over current leadership, claiming they engaged in behavior that is wildly overstepping their legal authority.

Can you link to one of these people who are so serious they have quit making the claim that the FTC shouldn't provide guidance to companies via their government website at a URL under https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance for the purpose of discouraging companies from misleading consumers regarding the capabilities of their AI models?
Do we know the process through which dreams and memory visualization works?
Firecracker internals: Inside the technology powering AWS Lambda (2021)
Isn't he (Marsalek) hiding in Russia now?
I've tried to use Hugo a few times, but quickly gave up after failing to figure out how to do the simplest things. Too bad, it seems very popular.
We trust people to make their own mistakes :)
Aren't they really only saying you have to disclose it in your claims about the product?
This seems like a molehill made into a mountain. Just make a collection in your Steam library, dump them all in there, and keep it hidden.
That's awesome to hear! There's still a lot of improvements we want to add to the LSP so it's only going to get better from here.
For most of our models we return more information.
Especially if you look at it from a vendor/customer perspective I believe this to be quite important.
This reads much better than the actual piece XD
I just don't believe people will do that. How do you to justify investment in "cleaning up" a huge legacy codebase that noone fully understands anymore, written in a patchwork of programing languages that almost noone really understands anymore, by gradually converting it into a new experimental dialect of said languages that might die a few years down the line?

Javascript -> Typescript is just a different domain, one where things move fast, break and are suddenly replaced or thrown away. This C/C++ stuff is slow. The industry is too big, backwards and fragmented to do anything other than start over with a completely new language where possible, and where it's not possible and just keep cleaning the dust from the antiques and hope.

There's huge C++ projects that should be in e.g. Java if started now (I really dislike Java). On the other hand, there's an ongoing effort (been there for decades!) by a cult-like group of C++ programmers, convincing themselves that they can write memory safe code, and trying to convert embedded C programers and convince them to stop dereferencing volatile hex addresses copied from decades old pdf manuals (e.g. because that's UB). These people still don't use compiler optimizations because who knows what that might do. I've used "modern" embedded C++ and mostly gotten reactions along the lines of "C is better, this new stuff is no good, abstractions obscure stuff, how are we supposed to debug which of those hex adresses don't match the pdf?" What do you do with that? It's not unreasonable: the old way worked well enough, changing things are costly and dangerous.

I believe this mess is not a technology problem that can be solved by adding more language features or dialects to C++.
Not if you "keep your claims in check" and have proper oversight of the output your AI generates. Then you will be ready at all times to step in, should something go south. Yes, maybe it does not scale up unlimited with proper oversight in place, but this is exactly what Google and co are missing these days and the reason they extract cash to no end. Proper oversight is completely missing.
A Proof-of-Concept 5G Mobile Gateway with eBPF
Haha yes, if you are at the top level! If you are just a normal employee getting paid 2-3x more than what you would get if you were working in most other companies, probably it's less fun to get bullied, then fired, and then to get a more decent salary for your work.
How is this different / better than live-build?
> That seems super expensive, propellant-wise.

It would be ludicrously expensive. If "different orbits" means different orbital inclinations, you would be better off launching another satellite for each one. It's that expensive (there's at least one case of a satellite operator sending the satellite to the Moon and back, as it was cheaper).

If it meant different orbits as different altitudes, that would still be expensive if we wanted to allow anyone to request a different one and the 90 minutes figure would change.

By exclusion, they probably mean 16 tracks indeed.
Is there an issue with automation costs on a small farm or is it that margins are too low? Not sure if that’s a good opportunity for companies or startups to target.
Ask HN: Can dynamic equity model work for service or product bases startups?
If we can work on open source projects, or do free contribution, can a dynamic equity model not work?

* We can have points and based on those points equity can be calculated

* Point can have a multiplying factor which can decrease with time. Like fist six months its 4, then next six months it becomes 3, etc.

* There can be a multiplying factor to favour active members.

Can this type of model not work?
And, well, most of the Coalitions were almost exclusively funded by generous British subsidies. To Austria, Prussia, Sweden, Russia, and a couple dozen of minor powers. Industry made Britain able to afford that.

"In terms of soldiers the French numerical advantage was offset by British subsidies that paid for a large proportion of the Austrian and Russian soldiers, peaking at about 450,000 in 1813."

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_in_the_Napole...
For now GPT is creating the filler content that moves the Web in 2023.
But, given the results I have seen from our PoC's, it can do more and will do more in the future.
Can’t you just right click and hide it
You missed the second half of 15 USC § 45.a.1:

(1) Unfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce, are hereby declared unlawful.

Now, IANAL, but it seems to me that the example the FTC gave about racially biased 'AI' would fall well under the second clause.
It’s a declarative language and it’s compiled into an execution "plan", and parameterised queries (bind variables, prepared statements, whatever you want to call them) are passed at runtime.
When you dynamically build queries by concatenation you bypass this compilation phase (parse, compute plan, etc.), and spend unnecessary time on near identical queries.

If you want many more gory details, this is a good watch: https://youtu.be/eurwtUhY5fk
Yes, he probably still is. A while ago he was allegedly observed by german intelligence living in a villa in Russia. But it seems like Russia doesn’t want to extradite him, similar to Ed Snowden.
Isn’t a lack of snapshot files a downside? How do you review snapshot differences tied to a merge request? Being able to review code changes right along side the test changes and snapshot differences is a big plus for normal snapshot files in my book.
Stopped reading @ Ukraine
I'm not directly involved with detsys or this project, but I went ahead and reported this upstream. Crosslinking in case you want to subscribe to that thread: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer/issues/2...

I know the primary dev on this project does use wsl, so hopefully this'll make sense to them.
It's using Craft CMS as the CMS, though that doesn't imply a specific set of front-end technologies or build processes (Craft can use the Twig templating language, or be headless and power a static site generator).
> The "Upstream" surveillance program at issue collects "communications 'to, from, or about'" a foreign target designated under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, according the NSA.

The courts are very reticent to interfere in how the US deals with foreign affairs in general deferring heavily to the executive and legislative branches.
The first point was just pointing to a summary of their purpose, because the comment above had asked about their purpose. It wasn't in support of any claim - to be abundantly clear, the FTC is supposed to be regulating deceptive practice in business.

The second was a statement that an informal blog post threatening citizens is inappropriate, and that the FTC has been accused by by insiders of engaging in inappropriate behavior on several fronts. Two FTC commissioners resigned recently (one making strong claims of illegal and inappropriate behavior in a WSJ oped), and the FTC's recent case against Meta was seen as an overstep by the relevant court.
Did anyone find this article racist?

What percent of HN readers are not sure whether it's okay to be a nurse practitioner?
One thing worth noting here is the general simplicity and orthogonality of the addressing. x86 gets a lot of CISC hate for having complicated addressing modes, but if you accept that you're going to have the concept, this is actually pretty clean. You have a clean set of 8 registers in both 8 and 16 bit modes[1], your "pointer" register for a memory operation can be one of the "base" or "index" registers, or a sum of one from each category, and you can have an immediate added.

Writing assembly for the 8086 was actually quite pleasant, the space of stuff you could do was broad and the expression was clean.

[1] Though not the same registers. The list of registers is populated differently for 8 bit and 16 bit instructions. The 386 then played the same trick AGAIN, but placed the selector bit in the code segment descriptor and did a weird dance with how to encode the ESP register (to flag a new "SIB" byte for extended modes), and made a giant hash of things that no one could understand. Writing assembly for the 80386 was definitely not pleasant, though it was actually an easier target for compilers.
The FTC unilaterally deciding and punishing for 'bias' is far more terrifying than a biased AI model.
> Deterministic if/then statements

This was the pinnacle of AI in the 80's. They called them "expert systems".
I just came back from Planet Fitness, which has three benches for doing bench presses. All of them are always occupied.

Instead of asking, "what was wrong back then?" we could ask "what's wrong now? why are people so obsessed with their pectorals?"
Referral marketing software can help you automate and streamline the referral process, making it easier for your customers to refer their friends and family and for you to track and reward them.
Isn't MongoDB distributed under SSPL? I don't think there is any requirement unless you offer access to MongoDB directly, which Infiscal doesn't do.

> offering a service the value of which entirely or primarily derives from the value of the Program or modified version, or offering a service that accomplishes for users the primary purpose of the Program or modified version
The article is not quite correct about the FCC. The FCC does limit HOA regulation of antennas but it only applies to certain kinds of antennas (mostly antenna and small satellite dishes for TV). It does not apply to ham radio antennas.
From my initial review of growth since launch in 2014 Phoenix elixir seems to be by far the best web solution of all the contenders

I would say it's a mature platform supported by gcp as well as other major cloud computing providers

This replaces python/ perl / ruby for web development as the sane and sensible default this is a big deal and congratulations on this Jose and Chris
But how is that relevant to this particular project? This project is not offering them as a service
Reminds me of gevulot in the quantum thief
It's true that trust and respect between people who have poured themselves into Nix, NixOS and Nixpkgs was seriously damaged, and that this set the Nix documentation efforts back.

However, the documentation team still exists and meets— there are still people dedicating much effort to improving the official and community documentation in a concerted way.

I feel that those events are more an interpersonal wound internal to the community than they are the death knell for the overall effort to renew the Nix ecosystem's documentation, or a sign that Determinate Systems is not at all invested in the health and integrity of the community and its volunteer organizations. I think turning wholly pessimistic about those things at this point would be a big overcorrection.
I've been in this industry for just over a decade now, been interested in tech/computers just a few years more than that. I'm a few decades more away from being a graybeard but I can say with some confidence that all this hype is mostly fluff. I'm not saying it's meaningless---we're probably not headed to another AI winter when the bubble bursts. After this hype cycle I think we will have some valuable concepts to carry down the line, while the investors will just quietly be looking for the next buzzword.

I make this claim with the following observations:

- As with other aspects of life, the conservative forecasts are often closer to the truth than extreme optimism/pessimism, especially in the long run; there is almost always a regression to the mean, so to speak. The technologists fervently burning with an almost religious zeal for all these AI models are making some egregious claims like "Stable Diffusion/ChatGPT IS (human?) learning", "There is no difference between a human learning from an artist's corpus and a neural net training from said corpus", on which they build extremely shaky forecasts.

- Tech and philosophy aside, there are a lot of other hurdles AI must clear for it to be the disruptive technology that it is portrayed to be. Just my least controversial example: people ask if LLMs will replace search engines anytime soon but, notably, ChatGPT can't fetch you the news, and "conversing" with it is an amusing but cumbersome interface. In the future, I think search engines and LLMs will share utility; based on my own experience using ChatGPT for programming, it is great for greenfield projects but horrible for working with pre-existing code. (Also, by saying "AI is not yet disruptive", I don't mean to imply its economic impact will be negligible---some people will definitely be affected but not the people nor in ways we think of currently. Also, my money is betting that the domain experts will be mostly safe from this impact.)

- I've seen this hype cycle before: a new conceptual/business/technological framework shows an amusing/promising use case which is then exploited to death by a wealth of startups and existing products pivoting, making this a "core" value prop. Remember when Google was a mobile-first company, so everyone prepared to be mobile-first too? When everything was social? That lead to toothbrushes and culinary products having APIs so you can build mobile apps for them. Remember VR? Blockchain? Maybe I'm too jaded but maybe I'm correct. Time will tell.

There's this tongue-in-cheek saying that advanced AI is whatever current AI can't do; in other words, researchers will not ever achieve "advanced AI" because the goal posts will keep moving. As a tech enthusiast who even did undergraduate AI research a decade ago, I really feel bad harboring such negative prognoses on progress that is, hands down, impressive. But how I like to think of it is not that AI progress is failing or underwhelming but that AI progress is helping us understand more of our humanity; when we move the goal posts, it's because we see AI (not) doing something that we consider for granted when dealing with actual humans.
Which ... why do you think we have GDPR? Data privacy to Germans is what the second amendment is to Americans, a defence against tyranny
Not a lawyer either, but take a look at this one's definition of "in or affecting commerce" under the Business Activities, Sometimes section:

http://www.stephenson-law.com/news/“-or-affecting-commerce”-...

> The proper inquiry is not whether a contractual relationship existed between the parties, but rather whether the defendant’s allegedly deceptive acts affected commerce.

I'm really not sure that "gave different demographics of users different responses to optimize product satisfaction" is considered in any way an "unfair or deceptive" practice "in or affecting commerce".