skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think 90% of this forum believes themselves to be smarter than their parents, so maybe pump the brakes.

I hope not. I saw a pretty funny meme on Reddit today that went something like "50 years ago car manuals explained how to adjust the valves in your engine. Now they ask that you don't drink the battery fluid".

I think another big downside of so much technological progress is that people no longer need to understand, and get the benefit of learning, how things work. Yeah, it was a PITA that 35 years ago I had to muck with config.sys and autoexec.bat files, but it helped me have a better understanding of how things worked under the covers. There was some discussion on HN recently about how many Gen Z folks are woefully unprepared digitally for the workforce because they are so used to iPhones/iPads/apps, etc., that you don't know how thing actually work - like people not understanding what the file system is.
If you're interested in topic #1 here I highly recommend the book "Dignity" by Chris Arnade. It's not like this concept was literally new to me but the grace with which he talks about it and the specific stories he encounters made me see things in an entirely different light. x
Another way to tackle this is by asking how much was inflation kept down (if at all by other factors) over the past few decades, esp. in the so-called 'Great Moderation' era of 1980s - 2000s. One interesting theory includes impact of outsourcing production/labor arbitrage with China & others...
The failure was ~11 days ago I think. There was quickly a new expectation (is my point), but I'm just happy to talk about this stuff with anybody else, no need to split hairs. :)

Did you see what J Powell said today on the press conference? No rate cuts for 2023? Do you believe him? Fed Futures Contracts pricing don't seem to.
We don't seem to get a lot of traction unfortunately. Every time I posted our research to HN we were met by people dismissing the threat. It seems that it is one of these problems where anyone can come up with something that sounds like it would work but doesn't hold up to further scrutiny. I truly hope people or the companies responsible get behind this before a lot of folks depend on it, but so far it didn't impact any deployment plans. We actually need working mitigations. Indirect prompt injections raise the threat level significantly.
We will add quantized CodeGen for fast inference on CPUs up on cformers (https://github.com/NolanoOrg/cformers/) by later today.
Ask HN: Why can Google Bard do math?
It can correctly answer questions like "What is (27 * 5.3866 - 73)^1.01 - 1/43.8 + sqrt(pi) ?"

Neither GPT 3.5 nor Bing Chat get this right. Did Google add a special case for this, or did Bard actually learn the rules of arithmetic?
I wish we could have open platforms that competitive players can extend and develop without owning outright and excluding other competitors.

It's the great next step in regulating monopolies, contemporary products no longer exist standalone in the marketplace but must always interoperate with existing infrastructure and platforms. The last decades of tech competition were a repetition of this basic tune, some first mover more or less stumbling into a de-facto standard and then fighting like hell to maintain its dominance and undeserved rent extraction.

The situation is complicated by the nature of international trade vs local regulations, it might not be good for your national consumers to be fleeced by a platform monopoly, but you more than make up for it if your national tech champions achieve world-dominance.
Indeed, but the speed of it has accelerated massively in the last two decades, particularly with "smart farming" and big agriculture investors buying up entire areas and consolidating the fields, and by the aforementioned globalization allowing the devastation of mining and heavy industry as it was now possible to shift all of that to China and other places with lax environmental regulations.
Wikipedia is referring to superdense coding, which is not superluminal and still needs you to physically send a particle from place to place to transfer the information.

"an entangled state (e.g. a Bell state) is prepared using a Bell circuit or gate by Charlie, a third person. Charlie then sends one of these qubits (in the Bell state) to Alice and the other to Bob. Once Alice obtains her qubit in the entangled state, she applies a certain quantum gate to her qubit depending on which two-bit message (00, 01, 10 or 11) she wants to send to Bob. Her entangled qubit is then sent to Bob who, after applying the appropriate quantum gate and making a measurement, can retrieve the classical two-bit message." (emphasis mine)

Alice physically transmits her qubit to Bob, so it's not superluminal and doesn't break the no-communication theorem.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdense_coding
Congratulations Zapier team!

I've been an active Zapier user for the past 6 or so years, and my teams have adopted it for various simple integration projects.

I'm excited to see what more we can do with Zapier's new Natural Language Actions.
The industrial revolution's consequences have finally caught up with Moore's Law – explosive storage capacity in a compact package.
Such a terrible idea, let's build something that everyone else has a solution for, we're on our own with our custom solutions that no one else know or use.

We'll see how many years it will take them to come back to Kubernetes or equivalent.

And the argument k8s is too complicated so build our own looks really bad from an engineering perspective.

When you look at the issues: https://github.com/mrsked/mrsk/issues/44
you can some see trivial shortcoming that has been solved for years by other solutions.
That's because people are still not shedding the mentality of hoping to get top dollar. The market is going back in the buyer's direction. You need to be looking at recent comparable sales and pricing at or below surrounding current inventory if you want to move it quick. The mania did a number on people's perception of how the housing market should work. It will pick back up just as soon as the Fed officially backs off on rate increases, or even makes a slight cut, likely soon here.
There's U+1F517 LINK SYMBOL, which sometimes gets used for this purpose.
Empirical studies on large-scale projects employing informal code review (the study I'm talking about monitored the Qt project repositories) suggest that humans have a very low impact on error rates. Reviewing more than ~200LOC every couple of hours makes the effect disappear.

So you're not alone. You can even point to the plethora of "find the undefined behaviour," tests: humans are really bad at finding errors in code.
Making Lego Car Climb Obstacles [video]
Ultrafast structural changes direct the first molecular events of vision
I hate these blurry image thumbnails, much prefer some sort of hole, and just wait for a better thumbnail (look at youtube for this, or basically any site). I'd much rather see engineers spending more time making the thumbnails load faster (improving their backend throughput, precache thumbnails, better compression, etc). The blurry thumbnails have 2 issues 1) trick person into thinking they're loaded, especially if there's a flicker before the blurry thumbnails are displayed!!! so then the brain has to double back and look at the new image. 2) have a meaning that content is blocked from viewing
So many are saying this is a rip-off of Notion. what is Notion? If Notion as a powerful Wiki+DB combo, then this is not a copy at all. If Notion as a slick block-based wiki, then this is so general a category I do not consider copying it a "copy". It is just being in the "wiki category".

I'm more interested in how two innovations are going to address the 2 main problems with wikis in business :

- The first is updating content. With the loop "components" you don't have to remind yourself to be on the wiki anymore. You edit in chats (teams), mails, or documents, and the wiki is updated. How cool is that?

- The second is finding content. The "Business Chat" co-pilot is even a step ahead of “classic” semantic search. This is gonna make finding what you need in large loop wikis a lot easier.
> I mean... we did put nearly all the horses out of a job. Ditto oxen and other beasts of burden.

Don't forget farmers. Most americans were farmers in the early 1900s. Today it's about 1%.

Sure, jobs were eventually created for the unemployed farmers but "robots taking all the jobs" was a cataclysmic event in the early 1900s. You could argue it was the driving force for much of the 20th century. WW1 was primarily a result of european and american societies having excess population to "thin out". The excess population was also a reason for the anti-immigration movement that dominated the first half of the 1900s.

"Robots taking our jobs" isn't the end of the world. But it can be very painful.
At least on my phone, WhatsApp essentially just uses my phone contacts, I wasn't aware that it had any system of contacts of its own. As to storing encrypted data on WhatsApp servers, I assume that's an expense that's not needed if they let Google and Apple handle that. It would be nice if there was more flexibility when it comes to choosing where to store data, but I imagine there's not a lot of commercial value in that.

The reason why I'm talking about UX and technical limitations at the same time is because they're often linked, and particularly so in this case. The technical limitations of a tool will partially define how that tool can be used, and the desired usage of a tool should often help define the technical functionality of that tool. UX is not simply a layer you can slap on at the end.
pytest-repeat for flaky tests!
I would love to see screenshots of the first iteration of dark sky- for old times sake.

Apple has well & truly forsaken us.
Tesla Model 3 used prices are down more than $11,000
Sure, but that's an argument against abstraction/specialization that is also somewhat hard to really buy into.

How do you smelt bronze? How do you grow crops? How do you build a lean-to?

Knowing how to do all those things does give you a very intrinsic understanding of a lot of things, but it's probably not wise to force everyone to learn those things.

EDIT: Apparently you don't smelt bronze, you smelt pure metals out of ores. lol.
Given that the suns movements are pretty predictable, it seems suboptimal to define counter to something that happens almost every day.
Isn't wide BVH how embree works, 1 ray vs SIMD width boxes.. maybe Nvidia is simply doing the same thing but with the wider GPU SIMD(32 I believe).
But do you really think we'll see the same number of truck driver attendants as truck drivers? Heck, one of the things that already exists is autonomous truck caravans, where one driver can "drive" a fleet, of say, 5-10 cars.
Was anyone ever laughing though? This isn't comeuppance. This is the other half of the Titanic sinking.
Housing is an asset not inflation.

If inflation was running hot persistently at like 6% then long term interest rates would be higher and housing prices would fall in nominal terms compared to wages.

The low-inflation, low-interest rate environment has produced high asset valuations due to the cheapness of borrowing money.

There is an important distinction on the spectrum between consumable things bought with wages and investments bought with borrowed money, and the rise in prices in those categories are different.

If you want to play the semantic game that all rises in any prices are inflation there is a real distinction that you're missing -- in which case we should talk about asset inflation vs. price inflation vs. wage inflation as being different inflations and stop talking about it like its the same thing (which economists would tell you it isn't by arguing that you're talking about assets and not inflation, but now we've just gone in a circle talking past each other because of definitions).
Yep. I also remember a blog post from a few years ago about how fb removed some of the bytes in the JPEG thumbnails, because those bytes would always be the same in the thumbnails they created, so they kept those bytes separate and just added them back in on the client side before rendering the thumbnails
side note: I was 3 when the original GNOME file picker thumbnail issue was created. I'm (hopefully) graduating this term.
Just for context, to justify my above comment, according to [1], 2022 emissions were, as expected, a record high, but grew less than normal, partly due to Ukraine and other energy crises. Of the 37 gigatons of CO2 output, about 0.5 of additional emissions were avoided by having renewables. That's less than 2%. Also worrying is that coal emissions actually started growing again.

[1] https://www.iea.org/reports/co2-emissions-in-2022
USSR style communism was really an authoritarian dictatorship.

In capitalist west, capitalism was also about distribution of goods but literally being nice about it. Working together.

The language is meaningless gibberish. The tone and emotional spin, roleplay are what’s important.

In the US we’re enabling iron fisted oligarchs like the USSR once had. Those who refuse to share without extreme deference and idolatry, not because they’re that important to the well being of billions (they’re not) but because they’re important to the political actors that insulate them from taxation.
Anyone knows how this compares to Tabnine?
AI agrees: AI is a net negative and will come to be known as a major mistake
New Eyes Discovered in Trilobites
Armchair opinion: They should sell the properties to make up if they're having a deficit. Not predicting how this market situation would play out sounds like mismanagement.
Progress on autonomous vehicles appears to have mostly stalled. And even if it can eventually be made to work on some roads, truck drivers do a lot more than just drive the truck.

There is no guarantee that the overall rate of technological progress will continue to increase. The opposite could well happen. Right now we are seeing the effects of multiple S-curves stacked on top of each other but progress is already slowing in many fields because the low-hanging fruit has been picked. For example, civil aviation has only eked out a few percentage points of improvement in efficiency and safety over the past couple decades; the latest airliners are actually slower than their predecessors. Or in medicine we seem to be running out of new small-molecule drugs to find and thus on average with all the failures it now takes more work than ever before to bring a new drug to market.
I don't know why a pocket computer should be less capable... Because it is smaller?
>1. Build a better browser. People browse a lot.

Don't think there is anything with it (now). Chrome just captured all the mindshare by being a lot faster & leaner for a while

Hard to fix a mindshare problem with a technical solution given that they're now about on par (roughly)
This may be a super dumb question but... how is this better than using progressive jpegs?
But there are tricks there aren't there? I'd want to look at home and car purchasing power, education, healthcare. If it's bundling in some tricks around technology as I've seen, it's very misleading IMO. And also the bundling of weird home tricks like nicer technology in the home is another misleading factor. Ultimately I think people are happiest with sq foot and location. From what I've seen a single wage earner in the 50s was far wealthier than even double wage of equivalent prestige jobs today, I don't really think a bigger and brighter TV even begins to touch the happiness achieved by having your family in a bigger house.
> So if Apple products are “user hostile” then why are enough users happily spending twice as much on iPhones and more on Macs

They aren't all "happy" about it, but as I mentioned in the post you replied to, there is not a decent alternative.

> Maybe their decisions are only hostile to geeks who want to run Linux on the Apple Pencil.

Certainly not but one would have to be interested in the fact of the matter to realize it.
Frisson
What type of screening is required to reliably detect this sort of danger? Would all newsrooms have them, or do people loan/borrow them on an as-needed basis?
There are many optimal balances, depending on how you choose to discount long-term outcomes. Also, as Europe has just learned, sudden forced changes to energy infrastructure are less destructive than many people would have predicted.
Nice! This would probably do even better if the color space was linear-- it should reduce how much the highlights (e.g. the sun) are lost.
No one believes it's human extinction. That's fiction which only exists for comments which try to dismiss the problem by an Argument from Incredulity fallacy (using a strawman to support it).
It is after reading pieces like these that I'm reminded of how fortunate I am to have had experience of other "serious" Operating Systems, used at scale, in complex and sometimes unfriendly environments. Namely VAX/VMS. Although some might feel the title was a little clickbaity, I enjoyed the article.
Tell that to the myriad of folks making their money off of peddling it. You'd swear it were the only tool available based on the hype circles (and how many hiring manager strictly look for experience with it).
Numba Supports Python 3.11
The majority of comments I read/hear about openAI are horrible takes. It makes me believe most of the people haven’t taken the time to evaluate the output of these LLMs.

Programmers aren’t going anywhere. ChatGPT doesn’t “understand” things. It optimizes its output for some set of scoring metrics. It sees from it’s training data that tokens score better (on average) in a particular order or that some tokens are associated with some sentiment. It doesn’t see english words.

With code generation the biggest benefit is generating code scaffolding. That’s nice and all, but certainly NOT where the heavy lifting happens during system development. The scaffolding it shits out usually needs to be heavily modified by a human. The amount of capital, compute, memory, and energy it requires is insanely inefficient for generating boilerplate code. Don’t even get me started on the privacy implications…

OpenAI will make programmers more productive by reducing time spent on trivial/mundane tasks. That’s awesome! However, it’s not going to replace the SWE industry.
Maybe you know, why isn't the CRC at the end? Then you could stream the packet instead of needing to construct it and then go back to the header to write the CRC.
Ethical AI art generation? Adobe Firefly may be the answer
I saw that meme too, except the version I saw had the top comment included in the crop, which was something to the effect of "warnings are put on products in response to customer behavior, not as a preventative measure. somebody's parents tried to drink battery acid."
> grocery store, and its self-checkout machines

Which aren’t automation or even new technology. The stores just cleverly moved the work that must be done to unpaid laborers. The self-checkout machines are an inferior tool with an escape hatch (customer service is on the way) to the real tool which must be operated by an employee.
The parent comment says

> control a mechanism and reliably react on a deadline of a few ms

I actually did measure this with an oscilloscope on embedded Linux (not a raspberry pi). A PPS signal was fed into Linux, and in response to the interrupt Linux sent a tune command to a radio. Tuning the radio itself had some unknown latency.

End-to-end, including the unknown latency of tuning the radio, I never observed a latency that would even round to 1 ms. That's unpatched and untuned Linux, no PREEMPT_RT. I didn't dig any further because it met our definition of "reliable" and was well, well within our timing budget.

I'll be the first to admit it wasn't some kind of rigorous test, just a casual characterization. I would not suggest anyone use Linux for a pacemaker, airplane flight controller, etc.

This is making me itch to buy an oscilloscope and run some more thorough tests. I'd like to see how PREEMPT_RT, loading, etc changes things.
Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John Kazycnski
In 2014 I wrote about what's the worst that could happen with a malicious USB stick [1] and the first comment was "if we're going with physical attacks, it might as well just be a bomb." Well!

[1] https://www.jefftk.com/p/malicious-usb-sticks
Nice, going to try all this! Thanks!!

Notifications- currently they show up in a floaty window in the top right of the screen briefly, is this configurable?

re: alsamixer- i used the TUI to change input/output but it required a reboot to take effect, I'm sure there's some way to not have to do that which I simply haven't figured out yet. Would prefer something a little more GUI for this use case though, like the UI in Gnome > Settings > Sound.
Yellen Says Treasury Not Considering Expanding FDIC Insurance Limit
I believe that doesn't actually work in CSGO (possibly it works in local servers against bots, but not in multiplayer where people actually want to play).

Hence people making workarounds such as changing movement keys to both move and to execute the command that hides any already created blood (and bullets):

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=23635...

or

https://wewatch.gg/blog/how-to-remove-blood-in-cs-go-binds-f...
William Gibson himself has said that he finds it odd when at talks and book signings people come up to him to thank him for inspiring them to pursue a career in technology. What about the futures he imagined where there was no middle class and everybody who wasn't super rich were criminals trying to get some of the wealth from the super rich made people think "yes, that's what I want to be a part of"?
this means people are working more but have less money, can buy less things, and have to work more / multiple jobs
ChatGPT bug exposes AI chat histories to other users
10Base-T1L is point to point, 10Base-T1S is multidrop, but very limited in nodes and how long the branches/stubs can be.

We'll see how it actually performs in field.
Microchip seems to be in the T1S boat and TI+AD in T1L.
Climate change is just one aspect of the problem of ecological overshoot. The biodiversity crisis is a bigger deal, but it receives very little attention.

Global industrial civilization is driving the sixth mass extinction on earth. Every species that goes extinct is gone, forever. If you’re a member of one of those species (or depend on them for your survival), it’s an existential problem.
Progressives Need to Embrace Progress
It seems fine to me?
X-rays and/or explosives sniffer devices. I can't imagine many newsrooms at all employ either, except for the biggest operations.
> And even if they did the company has no real way to monetize.

Isn't firefox the only thing making them money? In a very straight forward way: Selling the default search engine configuration. 500M in 2020 according to Wikipedia. Seems even a tiny market share is worth a lot?
This. I really thought light was literally going back in time, not getting rewound like a cassette tape.
Did you figure out a way to recreate the fungal growth video yourselves, or is it the real intro video with the credits edited out somehow?
Yes, agreed. But not in a clean "fluent" style. There's something nice about the fluent style that appeals to me (at least).

And I don't like having to provide one constructor for every optional (default) value, when its omitted. There's just not as nice of a style. The "telescoping" constructor pattern is just really hard to use, read and maintain.