skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's exactly what I do, and argparse (I believe the motivation for argbash) helps a lot
> Climate activists have been declaring impending doom for years.

What are those "declarations of doom" specifically? What are you actually talking about?

From my point of view, climate development went pretty much as predicted >40 years ago-- there is absolutely ZERO reason to assume that the greenhouse effect is somehow a collective hallucination or much weaker than we think.

Consider e.g. Hansen et al in Science (1981): https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1981/1981_Hansen_ha04600x.pd...

And compare e.g. with https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/global-left-...

If you look at their predictions, made >40 years ago, then these match the actual development pretty well, and these first papers also said basically the very same stuff that climate scientist are saying right now (but with less detail).

So again, what are these goalposts that have been moved?

> Bottom line, do the activities of humans have some effect on the environment? Yes, of course, but it's minuscule compared with the impact that natural forces have on it (volcanoes, solar activity, etc).

So your point is that both greenhouse effect and human CO2 emissions happen as described, but ALL of mainstream science is completely wrong about the effect size? What gives you ANY confidence in this?

IF your theory is "climate change is a collective hallucination, all data supporting it is fudged" then this would give some easily falsifiable predictions:

- There should be no change in longer term median temperatures: This is simply not the case-- the trend is in most places ALREADY obvious enough that you can see it by simply taking an arbitrary city and looking at the annual mean temperature.

- All currently observable effects from temperature change should have occured similarly in the recent past (sea level/glaciers). This is even more obviously not the case (see e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-03805-8 for a random source on this)

Your link is pretty much complaining that adjustments to historical temperature data are somewhat intransparent and hard to reproduce-- but that does not even come close to support the theory of "climate change not real".

> Used to Wikipedia actually had an article for "Global Warming". Where did it go? Ah yes, now moved to "Climate Change".

How does this support your argument?
It does, when multiplied by 1000000. Similar to the people saying my vote doesn't matter.
You seem to have missed "Note: That last paragraph is firmly tongue in cheek /s"

Firmly tongue in cheek sarcasm, as in, this is obviously wrong.
Ah the old having their cake and eating it too.
There must be a way to trick it into turning against Xi...

The censorship machine kept up w/ social media but will it with AI?
I don’t just see this behavior in OOP style courses.

Most algos classes would probably benefit from streams, and there are many of them being taught in Java for reasons unrelated to OOP. Universities often stick to one language for much of the programming curriculum.
So what does that make a meta post twice over?
But generated nonsense is already possible and already exists. If all that crap becomes higher quality crap... Isn't that... It's not bad?
Show HN: Open-Source ChatGPT Quick Access Widget
Read the GPT papers in order. It's interesting how they got here from there, but there's also a lot of related work that sort of hinted at it.
> Results decidedly not guaranteed

You've replied in the spirit intended. :-)
Yeah, there's ANGLE which implements OpenGL ES on top of Metal, and then there's MoltenVK which implements Vulkan on top of Metal, so you can get a program which uses the cross-platform APIs to run on macOS.

Maybe that's the whole strategy? To provide an API which exposes what's easy to do in a well-performing way on their hardware, and let the community worry about getting the standards to work? It certainly seems to be working, and it probably means they need to spend less resources on driver development than if they tried to stay current on OpenGL and Vulkan.
2008 showed us what happens when idiocy and fraud become commonplace and without consequence.

Better a few lose their shirts, such that others maintain a healthy dose of fear to motivate due diligence.
Not the greatest term I agree. But how do we call what happened ?

Shareholders still got some money (~3B$). If it wasn't for government intervention, the bank would be dead very soon.

The thing with banking and finance is that incentives are very bad - you play with other's people money, on thin margins - you're de facto encouraged to take risks. If they pay off, you get big bonuses, if they don't - you just change the bank you work for.
The trend is just to have you use an iPad or iPhone with local video and games available from the plane's Wifi. This pretty normal on US shorthaul US flights now, since those things are way better than anything built into the headrest.
there are genuine concerns related to AI developments but they have nothing to do with "alignment"

My reference has very little to do with alignment. It is mostly about all of the societal implications, biases and how AI will actually be utilized.

Nonetheless, the doomer viewpoint derives from AI researchers themselves.
Yes, it's exactly the same setup.
I think OpenTelemetry gives a whole world of possibilities you can build on top which are much more than just observability.
You keep saying that, but you have yet to provide any evidence. What essential drivers were reverse engineered, exactly. As far as I can tell, everything required to boot to a working graphical desktop is well documented.

I'm not giving credit to Lenovo, I'm saying that the platform is mostly open because it is based on mostly open components. In contrast to Apple's devices, where the platform is closed because it is based on undocumented components. You could say the same about pretty much any standard PC, Lenovo is just one of many vendors, I have no idea why they got singled out here.

But they do sell boxes explicitly qualified and supported to run Linux, and they do contribute to the Linux kernel development process.

The fact remains that claiming any of Apple's hardware platforms are remotely open is laughable.
Just announced the bay area meetup -> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nixos-20th-bay-area-meet-ticket...

Hope to see you all soon :)
But also bank failures are disinflationary so is the bailout negating the rate hikes or just negating the new regime of tighter lending standards by banks? I dont think anyone has a solid answer to that question
Good starting points is Beethoven and Bach. Yo-Yo Ma's Bach Cello suites are pretty amazing. I'm not a huge listener, but I can appreciate it as an amateur.

If you really want something different, check out bluegrass.
If my agency were hit with this, I'd plan switching ASAP.
U.S. Studies Ways to Guarantee All Bank Deposits If Crisis Expands
How is it a continuation of the 2008 crisis?
No clue. I remember that on Leopard and Snow Leopard it used to be top left corner but I stopped paying attention and now it shows up in the center of a primary screen.
So, Google still grew, and I’m not convinced the performance of Facebook says anything except that people are tieing of Facebook (and techbros like Zuckerberg)
The world is capable of burning itself just fine without such assistance.

It would be much neater to turn it all into paperclips instead.
Higher quality sounding, and higher quality, are two different things, since generative AIs don’t really care about truth.

Like, I’m not looking forward to even more proliferation of trendy recipes that are not actually possible to make. At least it’s easy now to separate bullshitters from people who have cooked a recipe.
No lol, where did you get that idea?
Our Brains Weren’t Designed for This Kind of Food
> even GPT4 in its current form has me questioning how many comments I read are real or not

We are about to enter a very disturbing era of unverifiable truth and reality. It is an untenable situation for societal order and stability.
At its core, the "shipping stuff" loop is pretty simple - understand your users problems and ship a feature they love.

You can imagine the fastest implementation of the loop is a single dev who knows their customers inside out and talks to them every day, has a flair for product design and works on a youthful and well architected code-base in a language they know extremely well.

In real life speed and quality of the loop are slowed down by:

1. The complexity of your organisations. Even in small companies once the engineer is out of earshot of the customer you rely on "Chinese Whispers" in the form of management, sales, product management, UI/UX, design guys etc. Its not due to incompetence, its just a very hard organisational problem whose solution depends on your company & market.

2. The existing complexity of your product. Products & underlying systems can be architected badly. This can make even trivial things difficult. It could be because of a lack of design knowledge (symptom: too many unused features), lack of systems knowledge (symptom: changing the colour on a website takes a day) or just a complex domain (eg tax accounting, financial services, crms etc)

I think you can trace back most other things (picking the wrong frameworks/languages, badly designed features, poor reliability, time taken with overhead like scrum & needless documentation etc) from the above two.
Wouldn't you normally go to an old distro .iso and take the gnupg binary from there? What OS & version are you working with?

example, gnupg1-1.4.23-7: https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/...
For some reason you keep replying to this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35222791 with links that claim physical exercise is important. In the future I suggest reading your links before posting them instead of assuming other people won't read them.
Time reflections created using capacitors
It just repeated a bunch of palindromes contained in palindrome lists on the internet. Every line comes up in lists of palindromes.
It seems pop/rock music hasn't really changed much in the last 10-20 years, but I'm an old fuddy duddy so maybe it has. If it's the same manufactured stuff as it's been for a while, maybe it's pushback on that.
What is the actual question here?
Meta Is Creating a Decentralized Twitter Alternative Reportedly Codenamed ‘P92’
Yes, I'd like to hear about where this is as well as a backend dev looking for work.
Depends on which race. They seem to be on par or ahead of OpenAI in the research space: they're currently testing embodied knowledge in LLMs. [0]

However, it's doubtful if they were into the consumer AI space, since OpenAI more or less invented it by productizing their GPT.

[0] https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/03/palm-e-embodied-multimodal...
I know I've started listening to classical more lately. I feel like my brain needs the calm and the order of classical. The world is crazy right now. It may also have something to do with my age(47).
businesses feeling pinched and cut down on ad spending.
HPC isn't exactly special, and neither to some extent is Spack. Spack's gotten some attention in talks at, e.g., CppCon.

The big differentiator is really the degree to which people want to tune and customize their builds in HPC vs. other communities, and the diversity of hardware that needs to be supported. Things that stand out to me:

- different applications' needs to customize the builds of their dependencies
- e.g., one app might need HDF5 with MPI support, another might want it
built without. Those are two different, incompatible HDF5 builds.
- need for specific microarchitecture builds to take advantage of vectorization
- need for GPU support (for NVIDIA, AMD, *and* Intel GPUs)
- need to use sometimes vendor-specific tuned system libraries like MPI, cray-libsci, mol
- need for specific *versions* of dependencies (solvers, mesh libs, etc.) for
numerical reproducibility
- need to integrate across languages, e.g. C, C++, Fortran, Python, Lua, perl, R,
and dare I even say Yorick.

Most of these requirements are not so dissimilar from peoples' dev environments in, say, the AI community, where people really want their special version of PyTorch. Where monorepos are common in industry, they really haven't taken off in the distributed, worldwide scientific community, so you get things like Spack that let you keep rebuilding the world -- and all the microcosms in it.

So I'd say Spack is not so much a special package manager as a much more general one. You can use it for combinatorial deployments at HPC centers, dev workflows for people dealing with multi-physics and other complex codes, and as sort of a distributed poly repo with lock files.

The intent was never to be specific to HPC, and I would love to see broader adoption outside this community.
> way too many people trying to stick a hand in my pocket for entertainment

What does that refer to?
I believe that's exactly what's going on here. I recall first hearing about this story a few weeks ago
MYbe it’s time for them to realize there is a point where you have all of the customers, and it’s ok to be boring and just pay a dividend instead of constant growthgrowthgrowthgrowth.
It’s a tense thing. The processes is flooding, if it’s already happened then it flooded.

Ie: The Bering Strait land bridge flooded 10,000+ years a gap and it’s still under water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beringia

Ultimately sea level rise is a temporary thing. Given enough time the oceans will boil as the sun ages unless something drastic changes.
I don't know if they've fixed this, but it used to be that the pointer target was inside the black border, not at the actual tip of the pointer. That's not really a problem if the pointer is at the default tiny size, but when you make it bigger suddenly everything you point at is offset by the thickness of the border, which makes it borderline unusable.
Families are already struggling when only the father is working.
Work is hard for the father, and raising kids is even harder for the mother.

Now both father and mother must have a job - and that's just to barely survive.

And the government expect us to have kids?
Fucking idiotic pricks.

Unless the government start doing something to ensure that all of those shiny GDPs are trickling down, instead of ever continuously pooled up, the situation will only get worse.
Yup, this is basically it.

My team at work hasn't created any meaningful value in a year. We've shipped nonstop but the things were tasked to work on just don't work out or even if they are well received simply don't add up to our salaries.
I'm currently looking for a backend role.
The most interesting aspect of this research is that Google published it. They have a huge competitor in this area, it would make sense to stop publishing unless they think that OpenAI already does this.
If you get banned from eBay your SSN/phone number/email/browser fingerprint/address/etc are prevented from coming back. What system would enforce that for computation nodes?
> I don't think adding a nice controller and cool games to play would be prohibitedly expensive.

Yeah, but it would be more expensive than dirt cheap.

I see it all the time; you wouldn't think a huge company would have a problem spending money on something. But, at the end of the day, it's all about that department's budgets and priorities.
That's not a great take in practice. The main example in the article is Rust and while they concentrate on the memory safety, modern languages which provide it also provide other great features. If we stick with Rust, we also get fewer concurrency issues (language enforced), logic issues (algebraic data types help), encoding issues (richer APIs help), etc.

Try to find a specific vulnerability class which actually has a chance of getting more likely if you move from C to Rust.
You mean they aren’t flooded with meal kit and mattress ads like every other form of media?
Increased housing prices definitely and directly cause inflation. Housing is in the neigborhood of 40% of the CPI basket, and even more of core CPI.
> hop back and forth between GH and the blog post trying a bunch of examples

The hopping back and forth was intended (and suboptimal) but you were never supposed to try the examples to get the answers.
Nasty dark pattern from what I assume are wildly inexperienced developers at MailChimp. Just more reason not to use them.
Likely making this up.
> I guess the relation I'm failing to see in this argument is why skew or no skew is supposed to be a determining factor in whether or not the metric is to be applicable outside of Meta in the first place.

And I guess what I'm saying is that it ain't a determining factor in and of itself, but it's rather a tool to discern whether it is indeed applicable outside (or, for that matter, inside) Meta. If a metric does skew toward a specific form of "athleticism" or "productivity" at the expense of others, then it's worth asking whether there's a particular reason for using it v. it being arbitrarily selected.
> Most of light pollution and noise in the cities comes from cars and car infrastructure.

While I love cities, I think that's not really the story. Cities would light up their streets with or without cars. Could you imagine if New York, somehow sans cars, with pitch black streets at night? The crime fear is way overdone - cities are very safe these says. But I think I still prefer streetlights.
"No events for [your time that doesn't have a corresponding event]"
>I don't think adding a nice controller and cool games to play would be prohibitedly expensive.

Everything like that on an aircraft (nice controller) has to be certified for every specific type, etc. Lots of process, paperwork, testing, etc.
Because we’ve deferred the pain of 2008 for years. The market makes no sense.
The original argument did not involve which trips can be replaced by walking or cycling, merely that per distance driven cars are safer. This makes driving a car much safer than walking, which should give us pause and make us reconsider if it makes sense. It doesn't -- merely having and regularly using a car makes people travel greater distances. Without a car they wouldn't do it, and increased car dependance results in worse traffic safety. If the US had the same per capita death rate as the Netherlands, there would be around 12k deaths. Instead there are over 40k.

The additional kicker is that most of the pedestrians and cyclists killed die after a collision with a car. As it is, roughly two million people in the world die in traffic per year, almost all of it involving cars. So much for safety.
Yep. They just lost 0.000347% of their market cap! Let's start a bank run.
> The problems with car culture were not surfaced until the rise and dominance of the internet.

I'm pretty sure it was discussed long before the Internet.
"No events found for [your time, that doesn't have a corresponding event]"
> None of these actions by me directly result in the loss of livelihood or uprooting of lives of other people.

By getting that shiny Chase sign up bonus, your are directly contributing to the firing of front line customer service workers.

You think higher returns are pulled magically from thin air? Like capital gains on VTI/VOO/SPY?
I just realized the actual letters are meant to be a palindrome, but the text is meant to be read one-way. "2 Dual" = "laud 2" in reverse. I thought this was a "sentence palindrome", or that I could read from left to right and then right to left and have a coherent sentence either way.
Like that: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
I suppose part of the consideration would be seeing how poorly so many public schools fare and how test scores continue to fall. And now, many schools don't even have textbooks because everything is digital. Even though we have studies showing how that has a negative impact on kids learning.

Is it the solution? I dunno, but public schools are getting worse by the year so I understand people trying something different.
And people need to distinguish between "can't describe the boot sequence in detail", or "doesn't know SQL registers" and someone who may very well be a productive employee.
This is highly unlikely in today's environment, if it was even possible before: The jobs that paid 100k to retrained school teachers and shop technicians are gone and not coming back.
>I know where I will point the my company

That's why "use another service" was first on the list of alternatives.
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Barack J. Obama
Show HN: Aoi – Auto-load database schema to ChatGPT and execute SQL
Not the World Wide Web, but Gemini and Gopher has this feel. There are multiple aggregators [1][2] that bubble up new and interesting content from individuals.

1. https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/capco...

2. https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/rawtext.club/~sloum/spacewalk....
When are these e-ink patents expiring? I feel like there are many opportunities for low power devices using screens like this but the price is prohibitive for many applications.
Turing test: check
Tiny overstates it. I think ~30% of the size.
I Decided Not to Do Emrakul, and How We Shipped It Anyway
One recommendation I don't hear often is build something that will stick with you. Keeping with the apprenticeship/tooling idea, I would build something that you will use over time.

You will be forced to keep backwards compatibility in mind, you will see what makes a process have friction, you will see odd bugs from a random edge case you will have to fix or discover. Treat yourself as the customer and build a tool you can use to help yourself out.

It is almost recursive in building tools to help yourself learn, and using those tools to learn.
This is more a statement about how bad technology hype has gotten of late. Having "tangible applications" is a very low bar. If we paused for every technology that has "tangible applications" we'd probably be entering the bronze age any moment now.
Or maybe that office had drier air?
First paragraph of the docs - "Spack is a package management tool designed to support multiple versions and configurations of software on a wide variety of platforms and environments. It was designed for large supercomputing centers, where many users and application teams share common installations of software on clusters with exotic architectures, using libraries that do not have a standard ABI. Spack is non-destructive: installing a new version does not break existing installations, so many configurations can coexist on the same system."
*expensive not explosive

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>I’m not even talking about some world ending thing - even GPT4 in its current form has me questioning how many comments I read are real or not - the thing can beat the Turing test in many cases!

> We are about to enter a very disturbing era of unverifiable truth and reality. It is an untenable situation for societal order and stability.

When did this stop being the case, I was raised to assume everything on the internet is a fricking lie and that every woman was actually a man in their parents basement, every child was an FBI agent, and every piece of advice I was given was for the purpose of getting me to nuke my machine for the lulz.

There were a simple rules

1. Never share any PII on the internet.

2. Never take anything on the internet seriously.

3. Don't believe anything you read on the internet.

It seems almost every major problem we are facing on the internet is because we broke one of those rules, from social media, to misinformation.