skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People are really freaking out about AI aren’t they?

AI touches the domain of software development the most (since we have put a lot of data about it on the Internet). It touches other things too like writing, and design. It doesn't touch things like food delivery, construction, or a farmer.

Currently, they happen to be at the lower tier of society. For some reason. Despite the fact that you can't go two days at a row without food. AI can flip this. There is no need for this army of developers, designers, marketers and bureaucrats. Some people are afraid.

Tl;dr: The people who are freaked out about AI are the people who are bound to lose the most by it.
Back in my day, before all the newfangled shiny sensors you would get an accurate fuel tank reading every time - except if you were going around corners, accelerating or breaking, or had done any of those in the past few minutes and the spring returning the float was feeling slow that day.

Otherwise it was, like all things back in the good old days, incredibly precise +/- 10%
Obviously its alot more than that. Its about having the ability to control public discourse in its favor. A path that could have drastic consequences to those that the chinese government has already decided should be put under subjugation. For starters there are the Tibetans, the Christians, the Uyghurs, Hong Kong's activists, Falun Gong practitions, journalists, etc. Australia already had issues around that when chinese officials were sent after Australian protesters of chinese decent to shut them down. As if they were criminals engaging in criminal acts in a location subject to its jurisdiction. Its not just about Taiwan. Its about who the party deems undesirable. US citizens potentially pose one of the largest obstacles to its foreign policies. Instead of sending armed troops to dissuade them through military intimidation however, they can just put on a demonstration of force and pit us against each other. The abilities that TikTok provides the government are not limited to dissuading the US from defending Taiwan but things like sowing division in democratic countries, curating data to enact targetted propoganda campaigns, curating data to go after political opponents, tracking and hunting of dissident journalists, etc. "Knowledge is power" is the common expression but more accurately, applied knowledge is power and this gives them knowledge that they are applying. This in and of itself is not too different from what the snowden revalations revealed about the US other than perhaps the extent to which compliance is mandatory. However the biggest point of contention is arguably more in how the knowledge is being applied. Should we empower a government that has a track record of kidnapping falun gong practitioners and harvests thier organs or silencing critics that they deem difficult to manipulate or the government that has a track record of racist policing and military intervention over false pretext? If we can agree that the Taiwan issue is not a false pretext and that the average US citizen is better informed about our previously hidden activities abroad and about the social plights of their fellow americans of different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds would that be an improvement? I think so and in my opinion a future with that type of US righting its wrongs and setting the example would be preferable to one where they give the reigns to the ccp . even better would be where the reigns were given to the international community as a whole but the details of that are a whole seperate diacussion. i do agree however that the worst possible outcome would be one in which we go to war and somebody pushes the nuclear button out of preassure, insecurity, spite, miscalculation, technological distortions, equipment failure, hacking, manipulations, subversion, extremism, terrorism or any other one of the million things that could go wrong and lead to everyones untimely demise.
I agree with you. His 'Line Goes Up' and 'In Search of a Flat Earth' video essays have a lot more meat on the bone than this one.
Well that’s exactly it. For the homeowner 30 year fixed is great. You know that your mortgage payment is never going to go up, regardless of what happens with the interest rate. On the flip side, if interest rates fall since we have no prepayment penalties you can just refinance and pay less.

It’s great for the borrower, which means it’s bad for the lender. There’s some spread of interest over treasuries that might make it worth it for them anyway—like if it was the 30 year bond rate plus 10% or something, but the spreads are narrow.

That’s why I said I don’t think it would exist accept for extensive government intervention, because it’s such a good deal.

As for why the government decided to get so involved, it goes way back to before my time. Now they’d have a hard time extracting themselves without making a lot of homeowners very mad.
100% agree. And I have said before, doing genealogy will cure people of their love of cursive.

Every once in a while I find a census where the census taker printed, and I weep with joy. Bad print is so much easier to read than bad cursive.
"The open letter from the Future of Life Institute has received more than 1,100 signatories including Elon Musk, Turing Award-winner Yoshua Bengio, and Steve Wozniak.

"It calls for an “immediate pause” on the “training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4" for at least six months."

Completely unrealistic to expect this to happen and living in a dreamland if they think orgs are going to even remotely slow down on this generative AI hype train.
Credit Suisse whistleblowers say bank has been helping Americans dodge taxes
it has held up very well , that's for sure
Carl Braun on communicating like a grown-up (2016)
> The main thing that kills penmanship is a lack of practice, like playing guitar.

Truer words have never been spoken.
> Semi's are doing a job

Not in any way relevant either. Semis could “do a job” and be properly accounted for in infrastructure damage still.
I'm not a designer by trade, but twenty years ago I went to art school, and I've kept up art as a hobby.

When I come up with color palettes, it's intuitive and guided by a sense of play and feeling it out. I wouldn't use this.

Do professional designers use tools like this now? Or does this target non-artists? I'm curious.
The emergency-interest-rates-for-10-years regulator? The ones who just set the big interest leaver from "free money for idiots" to "drive the economy into the ground" to trigger all the excitement this year? Or is it a different regulator for banks?

These regulators are the ones driving the market to take these stupid risks, they slowly push out anyone who tries to make sane decisions by giving handouts to people who insist on setting their own money on fire. They're systemically removing the major incentives for people to think before acting.

There is an easy, sustainable path to a robust system here that creates wealth - stop making prudent investors pay for the reckless risk takers. That means we don't just pay out people who give no thought at all to what their money is funding.
> Maybe it's much better with the 9370.

In general, it's usually not a good idea to chase the latest models for Linux support. This is common advice with thinkpads, intel chipsets, but is also true for Dell in my experience, I have an older xps 13 9370, The wifi driver for Linux was super flaky for the first 6 months, it takes a while for the community to catch up and iron out issues with the hardware - no matter what their "Linux Support" advertising may say... I prefer buying new machines because I will use them into the ground, I guess the only way around this is to buy with overlap, knowing that it might be a bit of a brick initially, but if it's a well adopted model in the Linux community you have comfort in knowing it will reliably improve.
Additionally, different jurisdictions take different views on browsewrap and clickwrap agreements. Usually terms of service regulate acceptable use of the website, don’t spam, don’t harass other users, don’t use bots, things that the website has a legitimate interest in.

Attempting to control what users do in their own time with public domain information from your website may be a step too far for a click or browse wrap ToS.
What he demonstrated first of all is that you simply can't ride a bike that prevents the steer from turning in one direction. A bike continously falls to one side or the other, which gets corrected by steering in that direction to put the contact area back under the center of mass. This happens not necessarily through the rider's (conscious) action, even a bike with no rider does it to some extent, but in all cases it requires the ability to turn the wheel assembly freely around the steering axis.

IMO that means the bike in the video demonstrates failure to keep basic balance even before it gets a chance to demonstrate failure to turn properly.
I agree tbh, a modern focus is one of conservation; what better way to guarantee the ongoing proliferation of various species other than being able to control the environment they live in.

Controlling the climate (and by that of course we mean very carefully holding it at what it should be) benefits all life on the planet.
Sadly, India's "body shop" tech sub-sector (aka WITCH [0]) has an outsize effect on the perception of India's professional sector as a whole. Working for (and with) these companies is truly a miserable experience. It's a shame that people make hasty generalization about entire countries and blame workers for the behavior of these companies.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27571707
> A company that loses half its value in five months is not, in most cases, a company on a path to success.

I'd venture that it's probably lost a lot more than half of its brand value as well.
I also saw the later models were having issues, which was part of my decision to go with Lenovo.

Now, back to square one: not sure who will make my next laptop, but it will have Linux, and I'll probably curse about that a lot.
Building tall with timber “does not make sense” say experts
No fan of crypto, but big exchanges are always getting large inflows and outflows. That is how an exchange works: money enters and exits. Otherwise, it would not be an exchange. The important question is, is this outflow abnormally large? Is it negated by a huge inflow?
Would you mind expanding more on your experience? Which type of projects do you work on? What do you do during your time off? How are you doing financially?

I work a regular 9to5 and want to switch to a similar schedule (basically work during the winter and then take every summer off). Sounds nice in theory but I wonder what it actually feels like.
Show HN: The Paradoxical Quest – A Branching Story Generated by GPT4
> data races are undefined at the hardware level

Um, what? To have a data race you need a formal model that doesn't exist for the hardware.

> poking at random memory mapped hardware registers can produce such forms of UB that C++ can only dream to.

When they say "Undefined" they really meant it, C++ UB is allowed to do MMIO, or whatever else.
I mean the bigger issue is that cars and trucks aren't going away and EVs are clearly important, but the much more important problem is investing in public transit, especially in the United States. We don't need everyone to "transition" to EVs -- we need everyone to transition to trains.
> Oh, is that why I felt like drivers in France are the best I've encountered?

I want to hug you, how much has the world hurt you for you to think that? French drivers are terrible. Not the worst (they’re not italians, to say nothing of americans, or south-east asians) but they’re still really rather bad.
Sorry if you feel my response was a _request to you personally_. Just a friendly question in an open forum. As such, you can choose how to respond—with opinion, anecdotes, rumor, or, insults—doesn’t hurt my feelings one way or other.
A wireless AP is now IoT?
Coming from bootstrap, I would say if you are not using tailwind, you are missing out. It is just breathe of fresh air.

But, but, but, seems like almost all the project that use tailwind ends up looking like linear. Not that I blame tailwind for that, there was an era when almost all bootstrap projects looked similar, I think it is the same thing.
An agile coach I worked with recently lead us through an excellent process relating to this.

- as a group, explore the problem space (ask more and more questions, diverge your thinking, embrace the waffle)

- as a group, pick something to focus on (converge)

- individually sketch out a solution or two (diverge again)

- individually, asses each others' sketches, identifying what you like and dislike

- synthesise a solution from all the sketches (we did it by voting on the detail points in the previous step; converge)

- storyboard, as a group, with people taking it in turns to drive

- build

- test on users (diverge)

- review (converge)

The coach told us this was mainly derived from Jake Knapp's "Sprint" book.
> Meta et al were too excited by the idea of the business potential of parallel worlds to notice that in the "what's in it for me" equation, ordinary people came up empty handed.

No, this was Mark's personal Quest for the Next Big Thing. No one else in the company is delusional enough to believe it will go anywhere, they're just getting a fat paycheck.
I don't think Windows is a good comparison, since major upgrades for it tend to be vastly more invasive than major upgrading the average Linux distribution. Debian 6→7, ten years ago, was a really massive infrastructure upgrade, but ever since it's been pretty smooth sailing. Ubuntu is a bit bumpier, but it's still only on the level of Windows' "major feature upgrades (that totally aren't service packs because we don't want to extend your warranty)" updates that Windows 10 and newer get every 6 months.

And Windows 7 is extremely old and only works with new software because, and as long as, developers go the extra mile to make their software work with its old APIs. Valve recently announced that they'll drop support for it next year, and other companies will follow soon. It's not too much different from the situation of, say, Debian Oldstable or Ubuntu LTS: Outdated, but popular enough that people tend to put in the effort anyway.
> Iteration speed and blazing fast automated tests.

Wholeheartedly agreed!

It is also nice to have that additional assurance of being able to self-host things (if ever necessary) and not being locked into a singular implementation. For example, that's why managed database offerings generally aren't that risky to use, given that they're built on already established projects (e.g. compatible with MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL).

> When I discovered minio, I suddenly got much more confident coding against s3.

MinIO is pretty good, but licensing wise could become problematic if you don't work on something open source but ever want to run it in prod. Not really what this discussion is about, but AGPL is worth mentioning: https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/LICENSE

That said, thankfully S3 is so common that we have alternatives even to MinIO available, like Zenko https://www.zenko.io/ which is good for both local development as well as hosting in whatever environments necessary. I was actually about to mention Garage as well which seems better because it's a single executable but they also switched to AGPL, probably not an issue for local testing though: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/
I've got a 7th Gen X1, and the keyboard is honestly a pleasure to use.
The problematic scaling is really a huge pain point. And it is not even recent, since HiDPI screens are on the market for a long time now. Both for desktops and on laptops.

tl;dr: I gave up on a 27" 4k (163dpi) screen because working with 150% scaling, vim in the terminal never was a sharp as on the WQHD (108dpi), and working exhausted me quickly. Sold the 4k, got a 109dpi ultrawide and am happy again.

Long rant:
I've been using multi screen setups for a long time (both privately and professionally). So when one of my home displays finally had to be replaced, I went with a nice, modern LG 4k 27" (163dpi) with a great panel; figuring I'll get a second one of these if I'm happy with the first one.

Since my other screen was still a WQHD 27" (2560x1440, ~108dpi) I had to scale 100% on the old screen and 150% on the new one. This of course worked poorly (both in Windows and Linux), but I didn't expect this to be great anyway. Since the age of my WQHD was way too obvious anyway, I got rid of that and only lived with a single 4k screen for a few months.
While the display itself was amazing, scaling on Linux (KDE on Arch) was a pain. At 150% everything had a nice size, but for the love of god I could get no combination of font face, font size, terminal emulator and scaling that allowed me to happily work with source code in vim for 8h per day, and that did not make the rest of the UI unusable small (and usually I'm the guy who is told "Oh, that's so small! How can you even work with that?"). Eventually I realized that I needed glasses, but while those did slightly improve the situation on the receiving end, it didn't fix the issues with fractional scaling.

In the end, instead of getting another 4k screen, I sold the 4k again and got a 34" UWQHD (3440x1440, ~109dpi) which is 34% wider than my old 27" WQHD (I could continue to rant how I had to order three well-reviewed displays until I got one that was good, but I'll spare you). I'm now happy again.

Honestly, I am not sure if fractional scaling will ever work really well. In the end, it is always fractional. Of course instead of rendering at 1x resolution and then scale up by 1.5x, we could render at 3x resolution and the scale down by 2x, but then every UI framework needs to be adapted, old applications need to be made aware of this, and what about those that are not maintained anymore... and not even considering the extra CPU time (and power draw on laptops) to render four times the pixels.
The issue is largely around available RAM capacity, and sadly RAM price have barely decreased in the last 5-10 years
I dunno about other people, but I'm left-handed, so writing too much hurts. I resented my school teachers when they forced me to write out essays by hand instead of typing them. I replace writing with typing at pretty much every opportunity.
> People are buying EVs because they're better

How are they better? Not obvious at all to me.
Toilet Maximum Performance (Map) Testing
The libcamera project is already a free userspace library supporting the IPU and exposing the relevant bits to applications. I still don't get why people say that there's nothing on the horizon.
Growth and Government (2013)
From what I see it's just a basic, clean, laptop.
Let's say you want a trunk lid for a 1965 something. If you can't get a used part having that made is extremely difficult. You would need plans or precise measurements and a machine shop.

Control modules are just software and you could probably make a generic one that takes different flashes with a variable pin layout, think raspberry pi.

This is done today to an extent with power upgrades. Take a look at a jb4 for a bmw b58. It intercepts data signals for different components, like the turbo, and changes values. It's just basic software.
Glad you realized that, it's the necessary first step towards positive change. /s

See, that's a good example of why simply getting angry at the hypocritical richest will lead nowhere, as long as what they do is still socially acceptable at smaller scales. People who would do the exact same thing at their place won't succeed in fighting them.
I saw this visualisation recently in a taxi. It was constantly changing its mind about things. One second a scooter would appear as a garbage bin, the second it would disappear and then show up as a scooter again. Pedestrians would only be displayed while they moved. I was surprised how inaccurate it was.

And cameras are really bad at noise levels at low light and don't nearly have the dynamic range levels needed for good night vision.
[EU/SEPA Only] If you have signed a B2B SEPA Direct Debit (SDD), it's enough to revoke it on your banking portal as you have mentioned. Your bank is required for a signed Mandate to be able to debit your account. If you have been debited already for a B2B SDD, you only have 3 inter-banking business days to try to Reject the payment (if your bank offers that as a service), afterwards the bank that has issued the SDD is not legally bounded to return the money.

If it's a Core SEPA Direct Debit, there is not the concept of a "signed mandate" but according to the rulebook [1] you have up to 13 months [2] to ask for a Return.

[_sigh_] I've spend so much team reading those rulebooks

[1] https://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/what-we-do/sepa-payme...

[2] "If the request for a Refund concerns an Unauthorised Transaction, a Debtor must present its claim to the Debtor PSP within 13 months of the debit date. [...]"
> Then Fortran and Cobol are probably the most useful languages

There are a lot of critical bits of software written in Fortran. I don't think there is that much Cobol still running around though.

> and maybe Java can be on that list too

Of course java is an useful language!
BrowserGPT: Command the Browser with GPT
I remember in the uk that Babylon 5 was available on VHS around 1994 for about 12 pounds (about 20 dollars) for two episodes...
> Stock buybacks aren't institutionalized insider trading, then?

There are even corporations that announce buyback and then don't do it. For stock it's enough to jump up and then random shareholders that accidentally sell their shares in specific window that allows them to profit from such fake buyback get very rich while people waiting for buyback are left with the bucket. It's completely not pump and dump.
Yeah, I think education is a great use case here. Sure, the knowledge that's built into the model might be inaccurate or wrong but you can feed the model the knowledge you want to learn/processed.

What you get is a teacher that never tires, is infinitely patient, has infinite time, doesn't limit questions, doesn't judge you, really listens and has broad, multidisciplinary knowledge that correct-ish (for when it's needed). I've recently read somewhere that Stanford (?) has almost as many admin workers as they do students. Seems to me that this is a really bad time to be that bloated. Makes you wonder what you really spend your money on, is it worth it (yeah, I know, it's not just education that you get in return) and if you can get the same-ish effect for a lot cheaper and on your timetable.

Not that the models or field, now, are in a state that would produce a good teaching experience. I can however imagine a future not so distant that this would be possible. Recently on a whim I've asked it to produce a options trading curriculum for me. It did a wonderful job. I wouldn't trust it if I didn't know a little bit myself about the subject before but I came off really impressed.
Far OTM puts on BNB would be a good play to bet on binance failure or hedge, sorta like a credit default swap. Of course, not on binance. You could probably lend assets on binance to collect $ while hedging with BNB puts on some other exchange.
Big bang innovation and greenfield tech developments are ZIRP
Of course. But she hadn't considered the effects of the stops before being "forced" by the EV.
Active Onboarding
It's necessary for these things to happen first in the mind (often through literature in the past, and now in the movie age... on the screen) before they can happen in real life. See also Heinlein.
Sure.. but.. 12 YEARS. Of a project that is embarrassingly parallel? Definitely doable.
The strawman sounds compelling on the surface, but that's not what happens in practice: Bug fixes are sent upstream by all relevant distributions, and they regularly cooperate with each other directly, as well as upstream. The "new world" of users of all distributions working together has been reality for the past 20+ years.