skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
U.S. Capitol rioter 'the QAnon Shaman' is released early from federal prison
That is a limit. It’s a different one but it tacitly accepts that some check is needed.
true for pilots but not true for your other examples: "officials, accountants, lawyers"
The big-money world of Augusta rentals during Masters week
maybe look into Unitarian Universal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism
> Prior to 2014 when Putin started the war

I'm curious to hear your thoughts on the timing of Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014. What precipitated that, what exactly was going on in the Ukraine at the time? Or was it just a random decision one day to invade?

Also, is it true that Crimeans didn't fight back and in fact voted to be annexed into Russia afterwards? On the surface that seems like a strange way to handle a foreign invasion, curious as to your thoughts on this.
I wonder what guides the editorial decisions to variously refer to Jan 6 as an "insurrection" vs a "riot" from article to article.
Congrats! Very happy to see an ex-BCGer launch an amazing product. Will try it out.
(paywalled)

That's about as good as a quantum computer can do using Shor's algorithm.

I guess we will soon see 1000s of articles about how DNA computers are just on the horizon and all your security bases are belong to... Not to forgot all the counter-programming articles about post-DNA cryptography and how your browser already implements it, so stop worrying.

Yay.
Not exactly. One chiplet has more L3 cache, but the other one can run at higher clock speeds, so which one to prefer depends on the application. Which makes it a horrible mess from a software/OS perspective.
There's no raw data on ubi in an largely automated economy.

It's too radical of a change to know how well it would work. Communism, in theory, worked as well too but in practice there were unanticipated side effects.
I wasn’t talking about worldcoin but generally. In the future there will have to be changes because everyone would be able to fake a video. Submission has nothing to do with it I was talking about the deepfaked video itself.
That's just not true. If you want a recent example go look at the protracted battle to elect a Speaker of the House.
I’m not so sure. What is management doing that is so special?

We’ve see a gaming company install a bot as a CEO and its stock has gone up.

I imagine management LLMs will be a layer in development.
With half a moment's reflection you'll realize that photos and video having been showing untrue things since the beginning (before anyone alive was born, in fact) and people have somehow been coping.

In fact, people have always been able to lie, deceive, trick, hide, bullshit, distract and beguile though all of human existence. The technology hasn't changing anything. (Vice seems like the source of the dumbest stuff that gets on to the front page HN.)
E3 2023 has been cancelled
We will look back on this time as the point we realized we're already cybernetic and have been for a while.

For instance, many of us are already offloading memories onto our phones, Johnny Mnemonic-style, wirelessly. Just because it doesn't look the way it does in science-fiction doesn't mean it isn't happening.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/08/05/1022041...
I am really curious if there is an important reason why not trying this performance improvement with Cython first. Can someone comfortable with Cython explain what are the pros and cons doing this optimization with Cython?
> Some individuals may not like the law, but that’s true of any law.

Tell that (for example) to Iranian- or Afghan- or Saudi women who must cover themselves in public, can't drive, and possibly can't leave the house without a male relative.

Or tell it to women in Texas, Idaho, etc., who are compelled to carry unwanted pregnancies to term — and then are largely left to fend for themselves after their forced births — because power-seeking radicals have democratically imposed "Christian" values about when an abortion is supposedly "murder."

To be sure, living in a society involves duties, not just rights. But some purported "duties" go too far.
That would certainly be an important lesson.
Why will we need to sell things to people if people have zero economic input/value?
Wars starts from power struggles which often are money/economic related.
Let me ask you why you wouldn’t do more now that your developers are more productive? I think the game changes here where dev teams get super charged and do more in the same time.

In fact if you downsize to keep doing what you’re doing and your competitor keeps their team size, wouldn’t they overwhelm you?

Can you beat them on price? Maybe but software prices are not affected by labor costs really so that’s not a differentiator.
That sounds straight out of Russia or China.
> spicy foods here are a) not spicy

Ha. Can confirm. Lived there 2 years and while I love the food, as far as I can tell there is no food available anywhere in Japan, at all, that the average south east asian would recognise as even mildly spicy. And outside the home islands I have observed Japanese people reacting hilariously to the actually spicy local food. My favourite was a co-worker who literally collapsed to the floor in the foetal position moaning after eating a mala hotpot which was, at best, medium heat.

Love the people, love the country, but Golden Curry's bright warning red "EXTRA HOT" is not bloody hot at all.
I saw someone using ChatGPT to scan and suggest fixes for open source libraries. Maybe the same can detect and remediate WP plugins?
That's an interesting link, it leads to a this 1991 Liskov paper, which might seem out-of-date, but apparently was very foundational to the whole concept. A little searching turned up this modern discussion of it:

https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2022/11/practical-uses-of-...

Seems the bottom line is: "Since clock synchronization can fail occasionally, it is most desirable for algorithms to depend on synchronization for performance but not for correctness."
Before, only people with resources and skills could afford to create fake content. Now everybody can. How is this not an advancement, taking into account you can't take away the ability to create fakes from people with resources?
Thanks! In Gujarati we call it "meettho limdo" or sweet neem. It is dark green but not black (except when left in the 'frig for a few days or on the plant when it is sick!).
On one hand: yes.

On the other hand: in order to be able to use current LLMs effectively, you have to understand their output well enough to debug it, even if you are using the LLM to write the fix to its own bug.

I’ve done something along the lines of “write me a python script which converts midi files into this JSON format I’m giving you as an example: …” — a few runtime crashes it was able to fix just from pasting in the command line output, but fixing “all pitches and durations are zero” required me to get my hands dirty and decompose the problem into a chunk small enough for chatGPT to fix.

I don’t know how far we are from any AI, LLM or otherwise, not needing or benefiting from human oversight, except in the specific domains like chess where it has already happened. I don’t believe in saying “never” to stuff like this, as that’s a common error with many technologies from flight to superconductors not just AI, but I also notice my personal guesses err on the side of being too near in our future.
Right. Edited to be less precise and more correct. The US Surgeon General said "masks don't work" and the head of the NIAID said you shouldn't wear a mask. Later that latter person admitted that the reason was to ensure healthcare personnel would get preferential access to them.
That's Home Atmos. What happens if you take the 128 channel Atmos Cinema inputs and just blindly make stereo out of them?

Perhaps suddenly the very quiet speech the sound engineer carefully made space for in location and frequency is suddenly muddied?
> if any country doesn’t allow AIs to do such jobs because of legal or liability reasons, then some other country will

Some other country _might_.

Let's look at the past. Which country has allowed fully autonomous vehicles without the driver being responsible in case of accidents?
Yeah but, is there any argument that’s more tiresome than Rust people pointing and laughing at C++?
http://ann-benchmarks.com

hnswlib implementation of hnsw is faster than faiss's implementation. Faiss has other index methods that are faster in some cases, but more complex as well.
April Cools Club
Wine's 16-bit shim, winevdm, can even be run on 64-bit Windows to make it capable of running 16-bit apps.
Aw man, this got me good.
FYI the general technique Cockroach is using is commonly called Hybrid Logical Clocks, though Cloudera call their very similar idea Virtual Time as I recall.

Anyhow, here's a nice summary: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2014/07/hybrid-logical-cloc...
And that's fine, but it isn't about biosciences or chemical reactions. It's just a fluff journalistic piece with a bunch of he said, she said.

No links to any reports containing any factual studies, any reports, any discussion on the chemical components (beyond listing what they are).

So I just don't think it deserves to be on HN, but that's fine. It's got 441 votes so obviously at least that many think it does.
Lyft manages or is the owner of companies that manage bikes/ebikes/scooters in multiple cities around the world.
> As I see it, jobs fall on two axes:

This is an embedding of jobs into a 2-dimensional latent space, which always produces something, like those political compass memes. It's not an actual description of job requirements though because it loses a lot on the way.

> Some jobs require neither a huge amount of training nor inherent ability. These are paradoxically often hard to automate, because they typically require a lot of rote physical movements that are difficult for machines (e.g. fast food cook).

This is only paradoxical because you've defined your terms inappropriately. Fine motor control is an "inherent ability"; "inherent ability" is not a single number you can put on a graph.

As Wittgenstein said, all philosophical problems are made up.
We use Discord as a Slack alternative, and have for a couple years. It's perfect for a remote company, especially if you also run chat/messaging for customers and users.
I think it instead that is a fascinating example of how complex humans and societies are. You could write dozens of books on the subject and still not fully explain one weird thing we do
Most of the capital invested in incandescent technology was related to the Phoebus cartel. The pressure to make incandescent efficient was just never there until very recently. LED has severe problems, some solvable, some not. The article mentions flicker, but really should have specified. Nearly all LED drivers employ PWM. There are constant current LED drivers, and they are more efficient than PWM drivers, but PWM drivers are cheaper to design and manufacture. While many will claim PWM doesn't bother them because they can't detect it, they're not only exhibiting callousness for those that are bothered and harmed by PWM, they're falling into a fallacious trap, i.e. what they don't know and can't detect can't harm them, which is patently false, and one counter example is carbon monoxide. PWM LED drivers are now ubiquitous, and it's effects range from annoying to painful, as anyone that has experienced migraine can attest. Regarding the actual light LED produces, nearly all LED available are weighted towards the blue spectrum, and this light has been shown to massively mess with wildlife and shorten human lifespans by years by messing with circadian rhythms, which strangely can lead to diabetes and heart disease. LED proponents are obsessed with brightness, but this is also a trap, because brightness is not as important as what can be seen. Consensus among lighting and eye experts is that more can be seen with a dimmer light that reproduces color perfectly than with a much brighter light that does not. As we mitigate these issues with LED, the drivers become more expensive and the LEDs become less efficient. And as the article mentions, the phosphors of better color-producing LEDs will fade rather quickly and over time no longer reproduce colors accurately. And best LED can ever achieve is to perfectly match what incan does with little to no development, What it looks like, if the trend can be detected, is that as we fully mitigate the problems with LED, the more expensive it becomes until its cost and durability nearly reaches parity with what we already had with incandescent. It's becoming a wash.
I guess in 2017 the technology wasn't there yet. It was just predicted to be coming. Now we have some technology, available right at this moment, that I suppose can be used to automate away jobs, but no one's put the pieces together yet. For example, I can imagine Whisper + ChatGPT being used to automate away a lot of call centre work. But it's not clear to me whether that means there will be more demand for the work that only human call centre operatives can do, or less.
Or:

4. Learn how to use the power setting of the microwave to ensure even heating.
For alternate long distance French routes, check out Chemin St Jacques.

I note this trail passes through St Jean Pied de Port, and thus could be used as a natural connector to walk across France and Spain.
One time someone left a comment on one of my videos that was like "I don't like the sound you make when you drink water." And now whenever I look back at that video, I remember that comment, every time. It's wild how the mind works.
~/Development   master ±  find . | wc
1029821 1237285 118990227

~/Development contains 3 projects I worked on this past week. Only 3 because this is a new laptop. I'd hate to think what this looks like on my old laptop. But I'll run it later.
But a C64 already fits that criteria and costs a lot less than $500. The FPGA that runs the video, the SD card controller, and probably a few other things are more powerful than the entire rest of the device and certainly not understandable the way a C64 was. The philosophy behind it feels incoherent. He talks about some future version being as little as $50, but my understanding from other videos is that that version will lack features and probably all be running on FPGA or something anyway.

Why not just emulate the entire thing on an FPGA from the start and pretend it is simple? Or skip the FPGA and use whatever computer the user already has?

Suffice it to say I just don't get it except as some kind of artistic expression, where even then I think it fails to have coherent vision.
Everything has limits. The limits should be based on hardware limitations, not arbitrary limits. The limits should increase over time.
The pictures are beautiful, but what about the logistics? Ideally, day stages with lodging and/or public transport at the ends, such as German trails often have. Wild camping is not allowed in France, so a mere gpx trail through the middle of nowhere isn't that useful all by itself.
How is this different from the stupid collective scenario?
No it doesn't have any assembly at this point. I have used the solvespace engine for the sketcher, so I think I can use it for assembly also ... someday.
Got me for a minute. Nice.
Yeah. It really depends whether the technology has the capability to replace devs.
Everyone is using llama.cpp because we reject the idea of giving up on system libraries like nix does. That kind of tomfoolery (at least in the desktop context) is only required when you use software projects that use libraries/languages which break forwards compatibility every 3 years.

If you just write straight c++ (without c++xx, or anything like it) you can compile the code on machines from decades ago if you want.
Really nice work! Amazing project that I just figured out. Thankss !
> it will depend if governments actually share the wealth created by productivity gains or if they use these advancements to oppress people at a level never before possible

Gee I wonder what will happen.
i only really learnt Rust 1 year ago. Combined with a awful memory for names, i had no clue who wrote the article.

Now, the thing is, it's entirely believable to me. Having witnessed the Stroustrup paper which honestly had some way less believeable yet honest reactions, i didn't even blink an eye.

I would have gone in with my day believing "well that's just dumb" had something not compelled me to click this post linked in the same mastodon post.

i wonder if the target audience might just be way too small for a post like this.
Not sure about today, but there was a time PCs were sold on overspecced CPUs. The consumer would look at the clock speed and think he is getting a "fast" computer. The vendor would pocket the savings on putting in weaker everything else.
Of course they have limits, but the limits should be based on the design. And cloud should have a phenomenally high level.
One of my favorite Indian dishes is Poori Masala (eaten with Poori obviously), which is mostly potatoes & tomatoes, both of which come from the New World.
This is why I love the old pre-LLM world. Can’t help but imagine that already now many people just get the very same code suggested by Copilot and never even learn about the existence of the original author—whom they wouldn’t be able to credit even if they wanted to.
It records the computer screen. Single Tab, Browser and the whole Window. It is basically a online screen recorder without having to install any software.
You are a killer, that's exactly what I was looking for ! This particular website.
Its funny that the tools that actually allow you to work remotely are pushing their own employees to come back. The leadership sure has some vision right there (vision for more money and nothing else but that's not shocking).
It's impossible that people could have zero economic value. You'll notice that this is the premise of Atlas Shrugged.

That's because it is usually profitable to trade with someone even if you are better at their job than they are.

However even if the AIs only traded with themselves, that just means the people are left to trade with each other - you can't make a mass of people unemployed for long, they will simply employ each other.
Agreed, that would be a great ''Show HN'' topic, vetinari
Ok let's say 300M jobs are affected, and we continue to get millions of new college graduates per year unable to find work. What's going to happen?

Maybe salaries will take a nosedive? Minimum wage for a junior developer, anyone?
Or maybe the people just won't accept it, and boycott companies.
If 300M people don't have jobs the economy will certainly stall.
100%, i'm hoping it can reclaim its former glory
Reducing Ambiguity
Way Too pessimistic. we are not light years away from productivity in AI, it’s already arrived for software. I agree that the writing feels soulless but it’s too new to make claims that it’s not “real tech”
I didn't but somebody answered it anyway just below : https://www.socialcooling.com/
Bivouac is allowed. So as long as you don't make fire and are up and packed before 9, you're good.
I absolutely will criticize Elon for his behavior around the twitter buyout. He's handled layoff/firing decisions extremely poorly. He's alienated a large portion of the ad buyers. These are not unfounded attacks.

Elon does not need you going around personally trying to shut down other people's discussion. That's cult like behavior.
> I’ve never once heard of anyone seeking ‘American tech’, except for some punchline in an anti-Soviet joke or movie.

Really? Why is everyone using MacBooks and iPhones? Actually most Soviet computers were copies of western designs. [0]

> is because of the power it projects via the media. That includes both Hollywood exports, and social media.

The thing is, is takes to to project, someone has to export a product and someone else has to import it. Since people seek it and want to consume it it's easy to export.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soviet_computer_system...
SONiC: Software for Open Networking in the Cloud
The bitcoin rig is specialised - it can only compute SHA hashes. You need more general compute.
I thought a sense of humor and maybe a little bit of a thick skin would be required if you want to partake into April fools bashing. Who's taking oneself seriously now...
Opposite opinion, why should society fund your startup idea and take the risk if you couldn’t convince investors to back your idea or you don’t have enough confidence in your own vision to take the risk with your own savings?

Now I do believe in universal healthcare.
Could you provide some argument as to why you think this is the case?
The hexa prefix at first made me think that the trail went around the entirety of mainland France, commonly known as l'Hexagone [0]. However, from what I see, it "only" goes along 3 of the 6 sides [1] (not that it makes it any less impressive!).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Hexagone

[1] https://en.hexatrek.com/hiking-trail/hexatrek/the-great-fren...
Too time consuming. With the microwave, you can have pizza rolls in 5 minutes. Less, if you don't mind the experience of alternating between still almost frozen and mouth-burning hot.
It was to not have a cup until your natural endorphins from waking up have worn off - say around 10:30am. Whenever I have an earlier cup I seem to do less well.
I like internet April Fools jokes if they are really funny and obviously a joke. It takes a lot of skill to make a really funny joke though.
What is the reason T5 needs a specialized GPU and Llama doesn't?

In the end they are mathematical models, so what would prevent someone from loading T5 into a machine with plenty of RAM (like a server)? Would the codebase truly require that much refactoring? How difficult would it be to rewrite the model arhitecture as a set of mathematical equations (Einstein summation) and reimplement inference for CPU?
The eternal story of “we’re going to acquire you but leave you alone” that turns out to almost never be true.
cause database domain/science are upon the same loc.: US

Put it simple AI outright relies on database domain, data science
Thanks for the link. I know yt-dlp does, but from your link I found another library (https://github.com/n8henrie/pycookiecheat) that can do that and it seems more popular than browser_cookie3. (browser_cookie3 works totally fine last time I tried).
For getting "out of jail", sure. But considering how we're already connecting it to the internet, and I doubt that is going away, it seems like a moot point. For other nefarious plans, I think it can contact human proxies without anyone thinking it was actually an AGI. Perfectly capable of sending emails and signing it as a John.
In the US I would say heading for disaster. In California the social safety net is basically broken and non-existent despite all the tax collected its still the same problem. They want a huge war to "thin the herd". Since Reagan basically you only have any rights if you are profitable to a corporation, if a corporation cannot exploit you, you're dead unless you can fall back on friends and or family. If you default on student loans they take away your social security. The level of cruelty there is unbelievable.
In the US, girls learned how to cook, starting with Easy-Bake™ Ovens. Boys learning to cook? Sissy stuff. Boys learned to heat up pizza rolls and play CoD.
I think you might say that the ag industry allowed 7B people to survive on this rock (along with the fossil fuel industry).
>DEI is a grift, supported only by people who are ok with the idea of racial discrimination.

Let me guess, you 'don't see race'?

Racism and sexism exist. They exist in the workplace. DEI is a remedy towards that.

I'm not sure why you are quoting Kendi? Are you under the impression that Kendi invented DEI or owns it?

Like this whole article was written by someone who is a leader in DEI and doesn't agree with Kendi.

If you want to continue this conversation, thats fine, but if you can't understand the difference between the concept of DEI and an individuals views,there really is no point.
Found the BJP IT cell target audience.