skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I enjoy the public service Cory is performing here. If more people want to spend time doing so and contributing back to the Wiki Commons, I think that’s an objectively good thing. A rising tide and all that. Might even be able to automate the workflow using TinEye (to fingerprint stock photos and then find the public domain source for optimization and upload).

With regards to stock photos in general, it looks like Deep Learning like Stable Diffusion (and the resulting public domains images [1]) are the future.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35191206
Until recently we still had a concrete-made children slide [1] here in Romania, built in pure brutalist style back in the '60s. There was also one built in my home-town, and I guess in other towns throughout Eastern Europe.

There's no way anything like that could ever get built again, and yet, we managed to don't kill ourselves as kids when we were sliding on them.

[1] https://www.cotidianul.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/19/tobo...
I noticed some odd results when switching from "today" view to "this week" view. Maybe they take into account some hidden parameters like diversity of the audience, time distribution, reputation, or maybe they have an odd definition of "week" like last 7 days vs Sun to Sat. If a project doesn't show up maybe the underlying ranking suspects foul play.
Interesting - I also used Jaccard similarity to classify clusters of malicious ad traffic schemes. The idea worked well. It was unclear if the similarity was due to mimicry or authorship, but that did not matter for our use.
Will japan fish less? If not, useless.
It's worth wondering though how long it will before ChatGPT could give you complete instructions for building a machine/robot capable of doing any of those things...or better still, building a factory that can churn out millions of such machines...
The Compiler Explorer aka Godbolt also would be a good example: https://c.godbolt.org Source: https://github.com/compiler-explorer/compiler-explorer
Local pins can’t be brute-forced on the majority of my machines. The exception is a decade+ old intel desktop, and, even then, I think it has a wonky tpm slot (or I could buy a yubikey. They support locking pins after too many retries, right?)
> Sure, but that was not my question. 100% equivalent means that there cannot be any observable change in the behaviour of the whole program/application (except for performance).

In a vacuum (i.e. via spawn/1 or spawn/3) there is no observable change in behaviour throughout the whole system.

If they're linked via spawn_link then a child process crashing means the parent process dies with it unless handled in some way.

So ultimately, no there isn't observable changes. My logging process doesn't care or even know that my WebSocket process crashed.

> Or in other words: is the sole purpose of the existance of `Thread.async` (or spawn, pick whichever you want) to change performance characteristics? If not, what is the purpose of its existence then?

As stated before Task.async/3 is just a convenience wrapper around low-level BEAM primitives, there isn't anything special about Task.async/3 that you couldn't do via spawn.

The reason being that the BEAM VM schedulers prioritizes overall latency of the system over throughput by enforcing reduction calls (parlance for a function call, but specifically for tracking looping in the BEAM) at around 4000 calls, then it moves the current process back into the queue; repeat ad infinitum.

So you don't get massive speedups just spawning a new BEAM process but your independent units of execution still enjoy the same overall latency as before. If you want performance increases in the BEAM you would need to jump to dirty schedulers and NIFs which carry their own dangers.
Little tidbit, Chamath fittingly sounds pretty much how the Swiss would pronounce "Checkmate".
You are looking at it from the perspective of what features it makes sense to provide to account holders. Instead, after the SVB fiasco we should be looking at it from the perspective that all bank accounts create liability for the FDIC based on public expectations. As such all bank accounts should ultimately be "FDIC insured" - not because we want to help out large account holders with decreased risk, but rather because when something does happen, those nominally "uninsured" account holders are going to be begging for a bailout regardless while spreading panic to get their way.

The insurance premiums on larger accounts should be larger (superlinear) to handle the increased variance of larger amounts. If someone wants to store large amounts of money without (indirectly) paying the FDIC insurance fees, then they choose something else besides a bank account - perhaps a brokerage account and/or buying treasuries directly.

Furthermore, the hazard of bank management gambling the money away should be discouraged through larger capital requirements, and even criminal penalties for blowing through that capital buffer and into customer deposits due to not employing proper hedging or insurance.
If farmers feel their lifestyle isn't good enough in proportion to the work they do, they should raise the prices of the food they sell, not get paid by the backdoor through subsidies.
It is in the text. It's not the same shape, location, or order because GPT followed a complex pattern to "generate" the continuation. None of the tokens are new.

> Sometimes it's mining connections that the authors didn't even realize were there.

Exactly. GPT is not limited to modeling patterns that align to language. It models every pattern it can find.

Text contains so much more than language: it contains powerful implicit patterns of behavior; and GPT proves that by modeling them.
The Dec 17 flights noted as successful were 120, 175, 200, and 852 feet in 1903 I don't see any other attempts noted. Some of their earlier flights were probably shorter but didn't really get off the ground successfully enough to really be called flights or even really get noted most places. The rest from 1903 seem to have been gliding attempts that wouldn't fit the records here.
I was daydreaming recently after revamping and dialing in my home media server really well (Plex plus all of the *Arr services plus torrents automatically downloading shows and hosting a large movie library)…

Shouldn’t it be possible to create a “virtual media library” that is actually BitTorrent under the hood, powered by people either contributing storage space or content or both, where no one ever hosts any in-tact media and it’s all encrypted enough where each storage provider is basically hosting useless shards of content, and then some client side software can put it all together on demand and serve it up to apps like Plex in a way Plex doesn’t even know it’s not a local file? Assuming everyone has decent bandwidth and there’s enough contributed storage for redundancy to power the torrent network, you could basically have an unlimited and resilient media library…

There’s probably a way to craft an incentive scheme in there for both content submitters and storage providers, probably a decent use case for crypto honestly so it’s all decentralized.

At this point, it seems like content capture and uploading to the torrent world is basically “solved”, and now it’s all about ensuring the network and storage health is there to preserve everything in perpetuity. There’s so many redundant torrents out there, should be possible to merge it all in a giant media library mesh network right?
990 Pro have the rapid degradation issue -> firmware update halts but doesn't reverse

980 Pro has risk of bricking -> firmware fixes if you catch it before it bricks. No degradation.
This is not any usual definition of memory-unsafety; the contents may be useless to your task at hand but it's well-defined.
> What was the hack, scraping LinkedIn? I feel like we need some different language or a color-coded system for the severity of information in hacks.

No, we just need to read the article.
They had access to a visitor management system, which may turn out to be fairly interesting. Not the crown jewels, but who is visiting, and how often can be sensitive.
I don't think it is correct to vandalize a vehicle with a bullbar parked in an urban area. You don't know if they are just visiting from out of town.

How about I vandalize your house because I don't like your ring doorcam. Or vandalize your dog because it barked at me? If I caught someone vandalizing my pride and joy I'd vandalize their face.

Excusing vandalism of private property should always be opposed because you don't know what someone will excuse to vandalize your property. It's a very short sighted opinion.
Could you explain how this relates to this discussion? I understand The Tragedy of the Commons and I don't see how that concept is relevant here.
I used to think that way about WeChat but I don’t anymore. The reason stores use credit payment networks in the West is because it’s better. We have cash transferring apps but we don’t use them for a reason. Meanwhile, China does not have the same type of payment networks.
Future of Antennas and RF Lenses using Radix 3D printable material
I am appalled that we’re at a point where 4 rich spoiled males bantering is considered A) entertainment B) source of actual information. I shiver.
Wonder if slate/astra will ever become required reading for schools. Shorter than shakespeare.
Why not use C instead of Better C? Is that what you're asking?
Does an obligation to preserve electronic communication also mean that all communication has to be done electronically? Having sensitive conversations in person or on the phone – specifically so that they aren't preserved or leaked – is how most businesses (and governments and other institutions) operate. This is seen as conventional wisdom, not some nefarious plot.
Currently ChatGPT isn't, at least via public access, hooked up to a compiler or interpreter that it can use to feed the code it generates into and determine whether it executes as expected. That wouldn't even seem particularly difficult to do, and once it is, ChatGPT would literally be able to train itself how to get the desired result.
It's actually "Wake for network access" setting, see here: https://youtu.be/OHKKcd3sx2c?t=349
Or, roughly 5x the amount of energy it takes to send a Delorian through time
> I get that, from "idea people," on a regular basis. They have nothing but contempt for us "Make It Happen" folks.

I met a pair of such idea guys once, they ran their own idea company. Their specialty was brand consulting and online marketing, but if that involved something as menial as web development they'd help with that too. The thing that made me bristle was whenever they talked about the feasibility of software solutions for their ideas, they said "Oh, we'll run that through the machine." You know, as if their software team was just a big machine that ingested ideas and spit out code.

Their idea company is no longer around. One of them decided that he'd rather design hiking boots than anything computer related; the other is a head of UI design at Apple.
> In 1920, New York Edison built a brand new power generation facility that could generate 770,000 kilowatt-hours. For reference, the city of New York City now uses about 100,000 kilowatt-hours per minute.

There must be some units confusion here. Surely they didn't quote the lifetime energy output of Edison's power plant? Maybe they mean that could generate at a power of 770,000 kilowatts? But then they say NYC consumes a power of 6,000,000 kilowatts, and it seems unlike Edison's power plant was already running at more than 10% of today's NYC needs. Maybe they meant 770,000 kilowatt-hours per day (i.e. 32,000 kilowatts)?
Yes I agree it's unorthodox. Something big must have happened. Possibly CS became undercapitalised or was about to, in a way which would have taken out shareholders and forced bondholders to take a haircut, which is why the central bank have to indemnify UBS against future losses? but I don't know. The details will come out.
I think the 2015 electric consumption was 10000x of what the 600kW edison plant could generate?

This is a great example of how things get simpler if we drop the over time part of the units and simplify it to just the average power draw.

So in 2015 NYC consumed 52836 GWh. So the average power draw is 52836 GWh / 365 days = 6031510 kW . As in, at any given moment in 2015 NYC was on average pulling 6031510 kW or 6.03 GW.

The edison Pearl Street station could output 600kW. (and that's the theoretical peak of all 6x dynamos, probably less output in practice)

6031510 kW / 600 kW = 10052.5 so I think our current consumption is about 10000x higher not 7x-10x higher than the Pearl St station's output!
Based on organisations like the infamous NED [1].

[1] https://www.ned.org/region/asia/hong-kong-china-2021/
I have no idea about the subject, so can somebody explain to me why can two people at a company talk to each other without turning on any recording device but can't do that legally using text? That is if my understanding is correct.
I completely disagree and I feel as though you are just trying to bend reality to appeal to your presupposed ideological positions.
This is interesting, much like firms that try and extract alpha signal from r/wallstreetbets. There must be a set of second-order metrics that contain alpha, that groups like this are plugged into without realizing it (perhaps)
Are you citing the Chinese government as the best source on supposed Chinese government atrocities?
I really like the way 1Password and MacOS work together for security [0].

Even if my laptop is unlocked, each 1Password interaction needs my fingerprint. That unlocks a secret stored in the Secure Enclave, which I trust. (Security is hard and flaws are possible, but Apple has done a reasonably good job here from what I can tell.) I only have to mess around with typing a long string of nonsense in when I'm registering a new device, rather than every time I want to use my SSH or GPG key (or trusting an agent to hold it in memory, which... I'll do it, but I won't like it).

I wish I could rely on similar things from Linux, but the user experience just isn't there on the desktop. A previous employer issued laptops that had both a fingerprint reader and some kind of HSM, so the hardware was there, but I remember both of them missing drivers at the time, and even with drivers the userland software support would've been very hacky.

[0]: https://support.1password.com/touch-id-apple-watch-security-...
As we've seen since 2014, Russian "peace" overtures are "give us everything and you get nothing". They've also repeatedly proven that they won't honor agreements. They unilaterally broke the Minsk accords just last year with their invasion of Ukraine.

There's no utility in "peace" talks with a dishonest party. All it does is provide the dishonest party with ammunition for propaganda. When the other side balls at their ridiculous demands they run to the press with "look how unreasonable the other side is being!"
"Aircraft design is has come a long way since the 40's."

You could do this in 1940s aircraft as well. Biplanes can also do short-field takeoffs with impressively short distances.
Why are you asking me? I don't give a crap about that.

You made a statement on this being a new term, I gave references showing it was factually incorrect. The proper response is "thank you, I was wrong", not whatever this thing you responded with is.
Yea, no, I challenge the narrative pushed in the video as flawed at best.
Per capita doesn't matter in this context, because the earth isn't infinitely expanding resource wise, it's the net removed at any given time that matters.
No that's not it. The issue is actually pretty involved, there is a LTT video on it, this is the bit I'm remembering: https://youtu.be/OHKKcd3sx2c?t=475
How do we even know it was belatedly?

Something a lot of engineers fail to realize is that a successful product is not just about technology, it is about timing, cost, ecosystem, market.

Who's to say Jobs didn't think the iPhone was not a good idea, but shouldn't be done earlier? The iPhone 10-15 years before the iPhone was the Newton.
> Update: Readline (as of v 7) and thus Bash (as of v4.4) now have support for bracketed paste mode too! You can enable it by adding set enable-bracketed-paste on to your ~/.inputrc.

And as of Readline 8.1 it is enabled by default. That broke the Python REPL on at least Arch Linux, Fedora, and on Mac with Homebrew, and assorted other things that didn't know about bracketed paste mode and so didn't turn it off [1].

[1] https://bugs.python.org/issue42819
Well, you could just do permaculture with native species.
> and it seemed inevitable that China would absorb Taiwan.

No, it's unrealistic to think the the ROC would ever effectively surrender to the PRC however HK's reintegration was managed.
I mean the truckers got what they wanted in the end, so I’m not sure what you’re saying. And I’m not sure the state and media should be crushing protests.
Im curious as well because everyone is an individual and no one is a society. So who exactly are we sacrificing individuality for?
Academia is fraught with fraud... Once the establishment has settled on a narrative regarding some subject, professors will be falling over themselves to present studies based on Cherry picked data that will support the establishment narrative.. very few studies are actually reproducible..
I can't recall any specific details, but the general gist would be akin to someone telling you that they are working on a deal with XYZ for a multi-year program and they would have told you on Thursday but their flight was delayed in Houston due to a freak snow storm.

I think this tactic works because gullible people are distracted by the idea of a freak snow storm in Houston, and more critically minded people focus their bullshit detector on the 'snow storm in Houston' story instead of the 'multi-year program' story.
The issue is that neither you, nor Bob, are government entities, morals/ethics work differently for them (for the governments, that is).
Hmm

Once you're airborne you're part of the airmass and moving with the airmass. Your ground speed becomes irrelevant for purpose of lift, as you've amply demonstrated.

"Wind died" implies that wind speed relative to the ground would change.

But whatever caused the massive airmass to alter velocity would impact you as well, right?

So my intuitive assumption is that while sudden air motions might disrupt you and flail you around, I'm not sure you would actually stall and fall down from loss of lift strictly because "Wind died down". (though you might be slammed into ground).

Any thought from anybody with more flight hours and aerodynamics theory than me? :->
Calling something "world class" reminds me of "military grade". They've invested millions (billions?) at it and are probably better then most organizations outside maybe intelligence agencies (intelligence agencies sometimes being an oxy-moron in their own right) - overall I hate that facebooks internal data policies are referenced as a laurel that can be slept on.
I just checked, and yes you're right. But it uses 1.2 MB of RAM, and no CPU.
zsh is very nice like this

With bash when I pasted something with line breaks it would execute it right away

With zsh pasted contents is highlighted and you have to press enter to run it, even if there are line breaks in the pasted text

Not sure if that’s the same mechanism at play as described in the OP. But I love this about zsh
You are absolutely correct that during this time, they (accurately) predicted that targeted advertising would give them a tremendous advantage and become lucrative.

However, folks there also sincerely believed that authentic identities would curb some of the toxicity that was being seen on the anonymous internet. That being exposed to diverse perspectives from friends could be an Avenue for increased tolerances. That giving common people a platform would be a net benefit to the world (Arab Spring was around this time).

In hindsight, much of that was wrong, but that doesn’t change the sincerity of the belief in that moment.
Nuclear plants probably kill less wildlife and people per delivered kWh than lithium extraction does for making batteries.

No one technology is adequate. Even as we ramp lithium production as fast as we can, we’re facing production shortages for the next few years. More shortages of other stuff will hit each technology as it ramps.

This looks like a “spray and pray” sort of situation to me. We should pick the top 5-10 technologies, and throw enough funding at each to get it to be a 33% solution. In five years, fund the top two or three at 100%, but don’t cut funding for the rest.

(I’m counting geologically fixed atmospheric carbon capture and efficiency measures in that top N computation, fwiw)
A vast majority of Vietnamese view China in a worse light than the US, and China and Vietnam have recently had quarrels over the South China Sea. They share a lot of history...and some of that history includes China invading Vietnam several times. I wouldn't count on Vietnam siding with China in a global conflict.
Funny enough, last week I was talking about Copilot with a colleague. Out loud, I wondered if there was a diminishing return from Copilot. That is, Copilot is great at filling in boilerplate / the obvious, and I get to focus on the more intricate parts of the solution. But can my brain operate at the higher level day after day? Week after week? TBH I have my doubts.

Maybe it's going to be AI enables quality more than quantity?
Maybe not in your country but that statement is definitely true in China and developing economies.

Be reminded though Amazon is chock full of the same scammy products as on AliExpress and Taobao done by the same merchants.

Case in point, SSDs / thumb drives with laughable capacity indications.
GPT-X and the Great Sock Dilemma: A Tale of Artificially Impaired Decisions
I was thinking of the PARC demo, where he famously said, "my guys were bugging me to go see this."
Well that's certainly your call but it's not gossip when it's first party at the very least. It's a statement by a luminary in the industry. As for timestamps, I can understand the intent with stripping them, but it might be an outsized measure when there are definitely other cases where including timestamps can help with context. Perhaps most usefully, allowing timestamps ensures the submitted title (which we as readers are voting on) matches the actual content you get when you visit the URL, so that the topic of comments can remain aligned with the submission itself.

Ideally, I think this talk should have been two submissions, one for the OS commentary (which HN mods can choose to moderate or not) and one for the actual talk.
> But these aren't questions for the community,

The answers to the questions are of interest to the community so why not have them see them? :)

> these are questions for the admins that actually run this place, and there's little to no guarantee they'd even see this post, whereas an email to them would get seen by them.

If the admins dig deeply enough through comments inside threads to rate limit me, surely they will see a top-level thread.

And indeed: They saw the thread and replied. (dang is their name)

> If you believe your phone is going to ring all day because you have an email address, I'm not sure anyone here can help you. You may need a refresher on how phones work.

You skipped over the part where I said that nowadays it is impossible to get an email account without telling the provider your phone number.

They all want your phone number nowadays, they demand it during registration.
>I wonder if he was short CS as soon as he learned they were offering the sweetener? Or did he have too many relations with that bank. (He is one of their private clients). Or did he miss the trade entirely?

This article is clickbait that basically boils down to a zero-content ad for some podcast.

Maybe there is wisdom to be gleaned! Who knows? All we know is that we must pay attention to this podcast by finance bros because they may or may not make or have made good trades!