skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The USN didn't need an air-superiority fighter when they were working on the F-111B, they needed a fleet defense fighter capable of lifting a huge radar and missile set. When the terrible engines in the B model gave them an out, they took it and moved forward with the Tomcat (which used the same engines and weapons set). Little did they realize the TF-30 would remain a terrible engine for so long, and replacing it with F110s would take almost two decades.

I'm not sure that the F-22 would have ever worked for the USN either. I think that its stealth coating are just too fragile for a marine environment. And the USMC could never afford the AH-64.
Nix probably?
You’re wrong. All accounts have been unfrozen. They were frozen for less than 2 weeks. Stop spreading misinformative nonsense for you political agenda. This is not the platform for it.
There are screenshots for IRIX 6.5 too: http://toastytech.com/guis/irix.html
In my humble opinion, it's best to have both state-regulated money and non-state-regulated money compete. The market for money itself should be a capitalist free-market competition, survival of the fittest. This is the first time in history where that scenario may come to fruition in a big way.

People have always been stuck with one or the other. Now, state-backed monies are forced to compete and maybe it will finally breed some innovation (of note, CBDCs).

If non-state currencies fail, so be it. If state currencies fail, so be it. But the competition is important imo.
HN served this webpage to me using `content-encoding: gzip`, which is using LZ77 (combined with huffman coding) if you look far enough under the hood.
Oh and what Im getting at is that things like food don’t necessarily have to be cheap because “ai” produces goods. Ecological collapse can make essentials expensive regardless of who produces the goods.
To reiterate:

> Why do progressives always resort to oblique arguments like this?

None of this has anything to do with whether Elon is supposedly making alt-right OpenAI, or whether Elon is himself alt-right. The only thing you've accomplished is to reveal that you don't know what "alt-right" means.
If I tell you "men are stronger than women", do you think that showing me a strong woman will invalidate my claim?
Not all libertarians. Any libertarian is of course free to decide for themself if it's a win or not. Some may, and some may not.
The doom began on 8:30 pm November 2, 1988. The middle years of the internet were the worst. Since then it's been in a bit of a decline.

(A H2G2 reference, if that makes no sense).
The sucky reality is that employees at big tech companies have little interest in running a sustainable and resilient business. We want constant team growth, never-ending promotions, ever-growing salaries. If another company is growing more aggressively and paying even less sustainable salaries, we tend to jump ship. It's not necessarily wrong, but we really shouldn't act surprised when that backfires every now and then.

Tech leadership bears blame for nourishing that "there's no tomorrow" / "growth will continue forever" culture, but it's such an unhelpful take to portray this as some sort of a class struggle with shareholders. Especially since for a good number of big tech companies, shareholders don't actually have much say and founders hold controlling interests.
I agree. Been developing since the mid 90’s. Gone are the days of forgetting to compile a nic driver and having to redo something with an install… I love linux. Heck .. love all OSs. They’re amazing.

Working in the current times on my MBP seems like I finally have my linux install “set up just right.”

Yeah, I tend still to toss around a dotfiles repo, stay in vi often, but stuff like vscode, obsidian, ios file sync, etc… just works.

Upgrades don’t brick shit.

I dunno. I am grateful I don’t have to use wsl/wsl2/cygwin anymore to get tools I need.
this reminds me of the Morris Worm when a guy was experimenting with code copying itself across the early internet and accidentally caused a mass netwide DDOS because the thing wound up like the Broomsticks in Fantasia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm

edit - just realized Morris cofounded this lovely company whose website we are all commenting inside of.
What Holds Us Back
To be clear: the essay “The Awful German Language” is indeed by Mark Twain, while the short note “A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling” is not.
To me setting the bar so high makes that definition of "understanding" meaningless.

If AI's outputs were literally indistinguishable from something that truly understands these concepts, then there's no practical difference if it really "understands". This reduces the concept of understanding to some abstract inconsequential property.
Crypto is not an equity, but it trades like one (specifically like a tech meme stock) as of late. It peeked in Nov 2021 just like tech stocks, and has come down roughly a similar amount.
Doom posting.

The reason crypto never took off is because the government effectively backs a lot of the currency transactions indirectly, which makes engaging in such transactions a lot less risky for everyone involved. If such trust in the government wasn't there, everyone would have jumped on crypto ten-fold.

Yes, government has control over aspects of life, and humanity collectively organized governments specifically to have that power, because humanity early on realized that humans are emotion-prone individuals that cannot be trusted. All the anti-state rhetoric that you ever read completely ignores that fact.

Yes, there are going to be some negatives associated with this transfer of power that are going to happen, no complex systems like that are perfect. You probably would want someones account frozen if they were directly donating large sums of money to a terrorist group that was planning attacks on US. There are good cases for use of power, and bad ones. The fact that we aren't living in totalitarian regimes and still have plenty of individual of freedoms means that the system is working pretty well.
Let’s be clear: the Internet was available in phones of that era, but they were not well integrated into the experience. I recall having a Blackberry that required two minutes to “log in” to the Internet when you wanted to actually use it.
> Virtually all software developers are building minor variations on thing that have been built hundreds if time before.

Speak for yourself. I build distributed systems and unique solutions that you can't find anywhere open source, which makes estimating very difficult.
3) Flown by some of the best combat pilots in the world (at the time).
If it was true, would it be weird to mention it?
I'm just here waiting for the "LLM retard guide" to come out, as it happened for stable diffusion last August.
What you're referring to is called "treasury management". Roku is not a VC backed startup (it's a public traded company) and they held nearly $500M in cash in SVB (idiots).[0]

HN'rs love to criticize financial analysts, but this is precisely the thing that they would typically look at (whether they actually did on Roku is another question) when analyzing the overall value of a business. Meaning, they don't just look at the company's financials, but also the management team, their performance, their controls, processes, etc. (and arguably their treasury management). We also love to criticize MBAs and finance people, but this is exactly the type of thing that is optimized with experienced business/finance professionals.

You might be thinking "how on earth does X big company operate this way?". The same way a company like Equifax who literally provides all of its FICO scoring via computers, was running outdated Java components that led to a serious ransomware hack.

[0] - https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/10/business/roku-svb-cash/index....
This isn't even the fastest arduino, in 2014 there was the edison version that had a dual core 400mhz x86.
Look upon ouid's works, ye mighty, and despair.
Pick a few hundred people at random and pay them 2x their current salary/wage, no strings attached. See how many stay at their current job.
I'm sorry, you are actually committing crimes because you are (not woke enough || too woke) based on the Online Responsibility Act of 2025 after the _________ party won the presidency, house, and senate.

And I mean, I mostly agree with you, crypto seems to be a hive of scum and villainy, at the same time having every moment of our lives tracked to be judged by the whims of the future is a very risky proposition.
Reminds me now of "The Tough Coughs as he Ploughs the Dough", collected works by Dr. Seuss.
Amid a torrent of AI-generated content, cryptographic signatures in cameras strike me as a useful application of blockchain technology. There will always be a market for authenticity because photojournalism has strategic value.
I can’t think of any other technology besides nuclear weapons where the downsides were so obviously bad to so many people, right after it was developed, and the upsides were so paltry in comparison.
How Microsoft Edge Updates
It does work "pretty well" after you discover all of the quirks thorugh trial and error and then work around them :)
I don't really understand the author's point. It seems like the author is making a judgment based on the "number of benefits" provided, without considering the magnitude of the benefits.

There is perhaps no simpler way to compose programs than with function composition (except maybe with relations). This leads to great clarity of thought and writing, and is not to the exclusion of architecture.

Avoid taking inspiration from mathematics at your own peril.
Or Kansas (can-zuhs) vs. Arkansas (ar-kin-saw).
Koch's Law
To be fair, cryptocurrencies are not the only category of tools in the financial sector that add nothing useful to society.
Fair enough. Guess I should admit you squarely got me.
Ramadan 1444 / 26 March 2023 – Koudeiland News
Today marks the fourth day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan which is celebrated by over 1.2 billion Muslims worldwide making up more than a seventh of the Earth's population. Here in the Islamic Republic of the Koudeiland Islands, there are over 60,000 people and 56% of us are Muslims. Ramadhan Mubarak!

President Ahmad Visser opens up new school to teach kids Dutch and to let people learn about Dutch culture and the lone Dutch man who originally discovered Koudeiland in the late 1800s before people from the Muslim world, Russia, Norway, and Greenland poured in during mass immigration in the 1900s.

Vice President Fazlallah Koudeilandi met the first American visitor coming to Koudeiland in months, a man picking up a supply of Gülbå Fruit for his restaurant in Miami, who was delighted to learn about Islam and the difference between the peaceful religion and the extremists who are a minority within it and the different cultural practices of different peoples in Muslim lands. "In America, we thought Muslims were all terrorists who hate women and smelled funny," said the man. Fazlallah Koudeilandi was happy to educate and the man was gifted a Quran and a book about Koudeilandic history and a golden necklace with a diamond orca on it.

The Gülbå Fruit harvest is unusually big this year and a surplus of excess Gülbå Fruits is causing some farmers to plan to ship Gülbå Fruit to USA and Argentina where nobody has the rare vine-grown fruit with the orange melon-like rind and citrusy-tasting blue core full of dark seeds. The Gülbå Fruit is currently selling for $60.99 Antarctic Dollars in Argentina. This Autumn has been unseasonably warm and allowed an extended period of pollination for our beloved Gülbå Fruit fields.
> There are too many unknowns to provide any sort of estimate - let me give you a few examples. What I can do is come back to you after amount of time with a list of the unknowns and an explanation of the work required to evaluate them, so that we have enough information to estimate

Sometimes we don't know what we don't know. If we don't know what we don't know now and if we don't know what we'll find we don't know later, then we don't know how long we will need until we'll know.

Uff. Sorry. If I had more time, I would have written a better comment.
Wonder what would happen if you revved outside his house? I suspect a non zero chance of getting shot.
Because once you are no longer a productive member of society you become irrelevant.

Also as the burden of UBI on the “productive” members of society which at that point might be only the large corporations increases it would inevitably lead to either universal basic services or a two tiered monetary system.
I just say that to my boss: "this would involve using a library/tool I've not yet used, so I cannot give a good estimate until I've spent some time digging into it. Right now I don't know if it will be easy or very difficult."

If he really needs an estimate he'll tell me to start digging into it right away, and I'll let him know after a bit of time how it's going. If there are still large uncertainties and my boss still wants this completed by some specific date, we might try to explore alternative solutions.
What is the result with turning it off, even if classified by some as alive?
Blue Check Marks Were Always Shameless
The Transformer Explained (2019)
The fact that you can compile the same c code and run it on all of those is exactly the difference.

It doesn't matter that the ISA's are merely different, if the compiler automatically abstracts 99% of the difference. In the end, the developer of a random app doesn't have to do much of anything or care much what cpu the user is on. I have such code myself and it doesn't care.

The same is not true for gpus.
I’m pretty good at computers but had no real guidance. I now hire young people with a genuine interest, then gift them equipment and guidance that will last them their entire lifetime (Even if they get a career in something else).

There’s such thing as pushing too hard, but nobody got buff without being pushed by those around them
the information leaflets for medication are written here (Germany) in case numbers and not in percentages, following a "1 in X" scheme (1 in 100, 1 in 1000, 1 in 10000) which I think kind of makes sense for inclusiveness, on the other side I do think this way is almost as if providing values on a logarithmic scale, due to the X in "1 in X" being given in base-10 magnitudes.

I wonder if it would actually be more intuitive to use dice for comparison. Like 1/36 would be the probability to roll doubles of 6, 1/216 would be the probability to roll triples of 6, etc. Rolling 6 dices to 6 would be 1/46656 and 7 dices to 6 would be 1/279936, ...

At least my generation has played enough Yatzeeh to have a feel for dice-throwing :-)
I have had a $250 FlexiSpot desk (the EN1 or whatever) for a couple years now. It's as good as the day I bought it. It goes up and down a lot.
They would still be incorrect about the cause, in your example.
I feel like this article is a bit backwards - solving quadratic equations is only easy if you have access to the square root function, which by definition is a solver of quadratic expressions. Without it, one needs to resort to iterative root-finding, which works for polynomials of any order.
That's still physical presence. And TBH, if you have enough robots to make illicit entry scale, you no longer need to bother with such a mundane activity.
You believe US motivation “doesn’t matter” here - why? Because it has no influence over the situation? In that case, idk what we’re even arguing about. If however the world’s dominant imperial superpower *does* have some influence, then its motivation and goals *do* matter. Right?
If you don't want the AI to use these words, why bother training it? Just mask those logits before sampling.
I'm convinced that with the efforts you speak of we're seeing history repeat itself (as it often does).

In the late 90s/early 2000s when the internet/web was really picking up steam powerful and entrenched players like Microsoft were throwing their weight around and trying to dominate the space like they did personal computers. Ditto Sun, etc.

Then the open source community got together and ate their lunch. Who remembers Netcraft statistics for Windows + IIS vs Linux + Apache?

OpenAI, Meta, Google, to some extent Nvidia, etc are doing their best to go the closed/commercial/proprietary/gated/costly route (again) - and open source is already hitting back hard against all of these and as has been shown before, starting to catch-up/outpace them at incredible speed.
> Add a small feature to an existing system. This estimate can be anywhere from several months to a day.

That’s extremely untrue in my experience. Sure, hard to interface with systems are a thing and organisational roadblocks happen but an onboarded senior team member can tell you what’s going to take days and what’s going to take months or they have no business being senior in the first place.

I feel like my answers in this discussion have been particularly harsh but I would really like people calling themselves software engineers to start acting like some. I think my view on this subject has been strongly shaped by spending most of my career doing software development for industrial companies: people who claim software is particularly complicated just don’t understand and respect how complex the rest of an industrial project is.
You write: "until the world runs out of Ukranians". This is very offensive, as it erases the process by which some Ukrainians are dying.
Anyways, back to basics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia

Population Growth rate Decrease -0.39 (2020)[2]
Birth rate Decrease 9.8 births/1,000 population (2020)[2]
Death rate Neutral decrease 14.6 deaths/1,000 population (2020)[2]
Life expectancy Decrease 71.54 years (2020)[2]
• male Decrease 66.49 years (2020)[2]
• female Decrease 76.43 years (2020)[2]

It is Russian that are deciding collectively that the world should run out of Russians. This is a sad fact, I wish Russians would get fairness and hope some day.
Google Glass specifically prohibited using the camera for facial recognition —- but let you silently take pictures and video and post them to Google+.

They literally blocked a useful feature (recognizing people you have already met) and promoted a feature nobody wanted (posting pictures of people without consent).
To me it's very weird people compare AI to crypto. Except that there's a lot of hype behind them and they're fundamentally a technology (and tend to be run on a GPU), they don't have anything in common.

I can say a lot of bad things about crypto but I don't want to regurgitate all of it.
But let's just say I don't know anyone who uses it like regular money, but I do know some people who use it as an 'investment' and hedge against fiat. If the thing doesn't have underlying value, it's worthless. Not saying it will never take off, and there are some third world countries that use it, but the state it's in right now is WAY overhyped and 99% of the usecase is ponzi scheme bullshit, scams and FOMO.

AI is fundamentally different, it's a complete game changer. My wife who is not technically inclined uses ChatGPT daily for her work. Yesterday there was an article about artists who have been made redundant, and are now using AI to genereate the 'art' for them. This thing has a CRAZY amount of value.
> https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/the-teen-mental-illness...

I don't necessarily buy the premise that the economy isn't having poor effects on teenagers' mental health just because the GFC is "over". Maybe to financial markets it is, but for people who need to work for a living, things changed since 2008 for the worse.

Teens are more likely to see their parents struggle to pay bills despite working full-time and with two incomes, they're more likely to see their parents face real threats like being unable to afford housing and the consequences that brings, they're going to see how the march of increasing costs of living affects their family in the face of stagnant wages. They also see countless examples of older people who do "everything right", yet are still laid off and can't re-enter the workforce in the same capacity as they had in the past, and are pushed out of their careers entirely.

On top of that, they're being told that they'll be relegated to a life of even worse poverty if they don't get into a good college, but even then, they aren't guaranteed a sustainable job and will have to take out a mortgage-sized loan just to attend. That loan will hang around their necks until they die even if they're only able to find a job that pays $30k a year. And if they want a job that even pays that much, they'll need a degree anyway, because those jobs have degree requirements, too.

I can understand why that would be overwhelming and depressing to teenagers.
Agreed and I’m sure it is
You misquoted me and then hyperfocused on the misquote. The changes from the drug are predictable because they wouldn't just randomly happen to you without the drug.

>Everything alters your mental state.

You are overgeneralizing to the point of absurdity and it does not appear that you are interested in a good-faith discussion. The contents of a hallucination and the experience of having a hallucination are distinct.

Suggesting that the effect of LSD altering my mental state and me walking out my back door altering my mental state are the same because they both alter the state is absurd. You're obtusely ignoring intensity, impact, duration and that the hallucination and euphoria are different effects.
Designing in 2023: 10 Problems to Solve – Jim Keller
Yes, I know. I didn't say SMEE will create EUV, I said China will. I don't think differentiation between various industrial arms of CCP is of importance.

Right now they've made bets on a large scale of different technologies. Many of them failed already. Probably they will focus on a few and succeed in a not very long time scale.