skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Demonetization induced usage reduced once cash was back in circulation. It was COVID era fear of touching cash and compulsion of lockdowns that really made digital payments hit the stratosphere.
Presumably everything is sent to or generated by GPT-4, I don't see how it would work otherwise.
The topic of decoupling has only become mainstream/noticed by normies in the last 1-2 years.

In reality, there has been an active economic decoupling going on since 2012-13. The primary manufacturers for intermediate parts (the main portion of the supply chain that Chinese industry is competitive in) are Japanese, South Korean, and Taiwanese conglomerates like SK Hynix, Samsung, LG, Toshiba, Panasonic, NEC, Mitsubishi, Foxconn, etc. All these companies began leaving for ASEAN in the 2012-17 period when political crises between PRC-Japan (Senkakou/Diayou Islands), Taiwan, and South Korea (THAAD) lead all 3 countries to move FDI to Vietnam or reopen factories in Thailand and Malaysia that moved to PRC in the 2000s. And this isn't just in Hardware. Even in Software, American VC investment in PRC peaked in 2015 before crashing after that.

Basically, what I'm trying to say is those of us who have worked in or work adjacent to the policy space know that we are in a period of elevated tensions between the PRC and the US, but it's not at the "we're going to start a shooting war" level yet. The kind of hyper-hawkish and paranoid rhetoric among "normies" is ridiculous and I say that as a China Hawk. But then again, if you have intimate knowledge of how those specific agencies and governments operate, it starts looking less scary.
It has long been noted that the oldest people in the world are clustered in countries that didn't keep paper birth records.
Binder is great! Here is an example of it in action, with a notebook in a github repo that solves fizbuzz 50 different ways. It is super easy on both the dev and user side. For the dev, just create a public git* repo, upload the ipynb, any data, and dependencies (requirements.txt, environment.yml, or Dockerfile). To use, no login or special permissions required, you can run it on anyone's public repo.

https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/quasiben/fiftyfizzbuzzes/master?f...
Amazon owns it so who knows how much longer that stays around.
If we were to follow that mindset, then no country has ever truly lost a war. They simply lacked the will to win.

They could do it anytime. They just chose not to.

You truly believe this? Remarkable.
I know many will want this covered by Nintendo out of principle, but it is a very easy fix to perform yourself for the average hacker. The parts and tools are inexpensive as well. I have replaced 5 joycon sticks now and I find it rather satisfying.
A very stoic approach to life. But it's also comforting.
I live by the principle where I just won't say anything incriminating or extremely embarrassing if there is a mic or phone that could possibly be active. Little embarrassing stuff is fine, but for everything else, I assume the mic is hot even if I just muted it and I can see the mute indicator.

In addition to protecting against technical failures like you describe, I also don't get in the habit of saying stuff that one day I could accidentally say on a blatantly hot mic or in front of someone else.

The only mute button I really trust is the one inside my head.
Nobody goes into world war thinking they are getting into a world war which is why they become world wars.
That’s not the only difference. “Tweet” had a preexisting definition that’s pleasant: a bird’s chirping.

“Toot” is slang for a fart.
They've been doing that for years and always end up yielding to the web standard. Happened with webapps, happened with web push notifications (finally being released).

Hopefully they are not thinking the same for WebXR, if so, we'd be years away from getting it.

But I kinda suspect they are releasing WebXR along with their AR glasses
Choosing and picking parts that you like and building chimera out of it is literally ghoulish. You don’t evolve something this way, you are willy-nilly feeding on something.
hi, author here :) happy to answer any questions! it was extremely fun to write a little browser, highly recommend it
Happy customer here! Great job with the platform! :)
> Nothing about C requires Unix (or any other OS).

That is not quite true, the C specification defines the standard headers, and there are many facilities thereof which don't make much sense outside of an OS (environment, filesystem, dynamic memory allocation, threads, ...)

There is a somewhat restricted subset of C called "freestanding", which is not required to accept every "strictly conforming program", specifically the standard only requires a small subset of the standard headers to be implemented: <float.h>, <iso646.h>, <limits.h>, <stdalign.h>, <stdarg.h>, <stdbool.h>, <stddef.h>, <stdint.h>, and <stdnoreturn.h>. Everything else is optional, and may be implementation-defined rather than standard-conforming.
They sound exactly like the stuff the people from step 14 write, while doing the exact opposite.
There's a separate 387-page report for that.
> If you were not randomly allocated the right genes, your chance of winning the Olympics is 0% no matter how hard you work

Tonya Harding would like a word with you.

More seriously, luck beyond can help beyond genetics. Such as having local access to a world-class trainer. Or changes to the rules of a competition (I have heard that Simone Biles' 10s are partly possible because of changes in scoring which value her skillset more than they did previously).
I completely understand this, but for me this would be very difficult. I use mfa with 3 tokens (one I keep on my person, one by my home computer, and one in a safe place). If one were ever to be lost or damaged it would be a nightmare to have to go through every online account to replace it with a new token.
I don't think the problem is mechanics though, it's compute. A portable AI engine should constantly process a vast amount of data from different sources. Even if you wirelessly connect it to a supercomputer, network latency is going to make it useless.

Remember Google Stadia?

Basically you need a mobile supercomputer that is powered through air.

And at that point, it's better to be able to defend itself because this shit is expensive.
Oh and there's now a native Emacs port for Android, with touchscreen support.

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsOnAndroid

https://sourceforge.net/projects/android-ports-for-gnu-emacs...
> I'm more curious on how do Intel CPUs compare to space heaters? (I mean in comparison to the regular electric resistance heaters.)

The 'heat' produced by a CPU in operation is resistive heating. The heat results from the current flowing through the parasitic resistances of the silicon die. So it would be equally efficient as a space heater (as in, 100% of electrical wattage in becomes heat out). The difference is a space heater produces only heat, while a CPU might be performing some other function, while also producing heat.
Show HN: A Git client for MicroPython microcontrollers (like the $6 ESP32)
A tiny (yocto) git client for MicroPython microcontrollers / other memory-constrained environments (<100k) like the $6 ESP32. It speaks to git HTTP/HTTPS servers using the ubiquitous git "smart client" protocol.

It supports branches/tags, shallow clones and sparse checkouts (ie: only checking out a sub-directory of a larger project).

I wrote it to remotely deploy/update code over low-bandwidth connections.
I think langchain lets you do this.
Just create a big email provider with that kind of money. You might even get a legimate business out of this ;)
Thanks (and thanks especially for responding to what should have been a Stack Overflow question). I do see potential for certain ECS systems that span instruments, like DCA, effects wet/dry, routing, and mute. That makes sense. Your suggestion for component/system per instrument was what I felt ECS was asking me to do, but the libraries I investigated seemed to contemplate dozens but not hundreds of components, and that's where I began to think I was putting the cart before the horse.

I had an epiphany a while ago that a modern interactive DAW is a video game, except parts of it run at 44,100 fps. And even the "except" part is misleading, because games have sound as well. That opened up my mind to game development as another domain to steal designs from.
The irony of this is if you google "JPMorgan indictment" you will find lots of criminals, getting away with it all the time.
My maternal grandparents are in their mid 90s, my paternal grandfather passed away a week before her 97th birthday.

A lot can happen within a century and there's usually hardly anyone alive to confirm some facts. My paternal grandmother's birth certificate was gone before the end of WW2 and when asked she would give an age six years younger - initially it was to prevent a scandal because not only was my grandfather of lower status (Pah! "Just" a doctor! Scandalous, I daresay!), he was younger.

As for my maternal grandparents their age is confirmed by their marriage certificate(would be harder to obtain one with this date as a younger person), children in their late 60s and living siblings of my grandpa, of whom there are seven.
> You don't actually write code with e2b. You write technical specs and then collaborate with an AI agent.

If I want to change 1 character of a generated source file, can I just go do that or will I have to figure out how to prompt the change in natural language?
This old and obscure book foretells the "loss of control" scenario we are experiencing now

https://www.amazon.com/Eco-computer-Intelligence-Geoff-L-Sim...

in explicit opposition to the scenario from

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project

I usually avoid posting links to YouTube because they don't work in all geographies but this trailer is great if you can see it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyOEwiQhzMI
The "genius" who saves the company from the problems he created, is not the apex negative engineer. The time he spends fixing his own mistakes is the time he does not spend creating new ones. Sometimes his creativity will be limited to a single project.

There is also the type of "genius" who creates an overcomplicated framework as a foundation for a new project, and then leaves the implementation details to lesser minds trying to understand his work, while he moves to start another new project. He is always too busy working on a new project, doesn't have time to answer questions about the old ones. (The problem is sometimes solved by gradually removing his code. In extreme case, the library remains included, to avoid a political conflict, but the code is actually never called.)
IMO, this article misses the essence of and principles of MLOps.
The essence of MLOps is that it is about processes (and tooling/platforms) for creating ML assets - features/labels and models. We call them FTI pipelines. Data engineering has data pipelines that produce datasets for consumption.

In MLOps, feature pipelines produce features (from raw data). Training pipelines produce models (from features/labels). Inference pipelines produce predictions (from models + features). There is no such thing as a "ML Pipeline" in a production ML system. There is no ML pipeline that goes from raw data to predictions. We have the above FTI pipelines (feature/training/inference pipelines).

The principles of MLOps are around being able to develop faster (shorten the development lifecyle) through automated testing and versioning. You need to validate data to build features. You need tested features to build models. You need to test models for your ML systems. It's a hierarchy: data->features->models-ML Apps. Versioning is needed for features and models in order to safely upgrade systems and enable them to evolve over time.

I cover a lot of this in a course i developed called 'serverless ml'.
I don't see how the US winning a war over Taiwan prevents China's economic prosperity. It seems more like both sides are perpetuating a stalemate for emotional reasons.
Nobody drinks tea anywhere near 100C; that’s absurd. Ideal tea drinking temperature is between 57 and 65C, anything higher risks throat damage [1]. All but the blackest teas will fail to brew if held at 100C for the duration of steeping.

[1] https://letsdrinktea.com/what-is-the-right-temperature-for-d...
Several pros today use wireless mice. I think your notions of wireless is a bit outdated :)

In CS:GO tournaments basically everyone uses wireless now. Logitech G PRO X Superlight is amazing. Never used a lighter mouse and will never go back to wired.

https://liquipedia.net/counterstrike/List_of_player_mouse_se...
The question is malformed because there is no need for Unix to run C programs. In theory they could have created C without an OS. However, in practice C was written to rewrite Unix in a high level language (previously it was assembly).
> ALL of them were hallucinations

This is a known issue. How about asking it to generate code? I don’t really trust that you won’t just deliberately find an example that doesn’t work and say “see?! It’s so dumb!!!” And further this type of reaction reeks of the sort of insecurity that the parent comment was suggesting.

You _need _ these things to be unintelligent. It threatened your individual skill set, so you prompted it like a human rather than deliberately leaning into its strengths and “assuming good faith” (whatever that means for an LLM).

Fwiw, plugins will likely solve this issue. As well more advanced models.
Hey swyx. Stefan, co-founder and CTO chiming in here. I think our strategy here is pretty simple (although not easy). We have our opinion and our vision on what this product ultimately should look like, we trust that that opinion coupled with our capability to execute and listen to our customers will at the end of the day deliver a product that has enough differentiated value that is carves out it’s own segment. This probably sounds a bit hand-wavy but I really think that is how you need to operate. If you’re too focused on what the competition does the product loses its soul.

At the end of the day though that thinking obviously needs to translate into a set of features that sets us apart. When comparing to Notion specifically we already have a few of those that make us stick out and that our customers appreciate such as offline first support, instant search, writing suggestions, and most recently our chat integration.

Btw huge fan of your new podcast! :)
I know some experts have poo-poo'ed the theory that Jeanne Calment's daughter impersonated her ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment#Scepticism_rega... ), but I don't find their arguments convincing. I'm not saying it's settled, but I think the evidence strongly points to her not being as old as she says, and I think the "experts" downplay the evidence for the switch theory too strongly, even if it is largely circumstantial:

1. The age gap between Calment and the next oldest person is the strongest evidence. It's very, very hard to ignore this.

2. As outlined in this article, there is a strong economic motive for the swap.

3. I think there is other evidence (e.g. some of the photos) that wouldn't be that strong on their own, but just add to the weight of the other, stronger pieces of evidences that there was a swap.
They generated the wealth that people paid taxes from to fund those things. You think any of that stuff is free?
Hacker News have been through so many fads I've lost count at this point. Here are some I remember clearly:

- Ruby on Rails

- React

- NodeJS

- Bitcoin and much later, cryptocurrencies and blockchain

- Docker

- Golang

- Kubernetes

- Serverless

- "JAMStack" / static websites

- Remote work / Digital nomadism

- no code / low-code platforms (although this was never that intense compared to others like Ruby on Rails or Golang)

I'm sure others can remember more fads that have come and go :)
I don't see how you can ever profitably offer unlimited AI usage for a fixed fee.
Koala: A fine-tuned Llama chatbot for Academic Research
Jeanne Calment was a famous French supercentenarian (died in 1997 at 122), and there were suspicions around her age: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment#Scepticism_rega...
Okay, but now do it for PRs.
Cofounder of Remotion here. Thanks for the mention!

We actually still have the drop-in rooms.

The pivot if you're curious is because very few teams adopted the rooms just for hanging out. Instead people ended up doing work in them, like pair coding. So we decided to keep the rooms, but focus all our feature development and marketing on the collaborative features.
> Traits cannot specify any state, and never access state directly

That's descriptive of 2002 and is a long time ago, as far as I'm concerned.

Traits can modify state with the syntax to modify memory, so this definition is of limited use, imo.
Careful, you'll get called boomer for quoting those phrases.
> Twentieth-century ways of thinking [...]

> The writer is a barrister and [...]

Could someone with more patience for baloney hipsterness advise me whether it's worth reading the article?
It may be a dying art today, but up until around 20 years ago there were still PC games coming out written entirely in assembly.

RollerCoaster Tycoon is probably the most complex one, but also Transport Tycoon and Locomotion, all by Chris Sawyer.

Though fun to play, I think it would be a nightmare to be fixing bugs in such mammoth assembly projects..
After reading this article so much makes sense. I’m currently at the end of my annual trip here seeing family and I have been hearing these things all over the shop.

I didn’t pay much thought to it until now if I am honest. Genius and great to see tech companies do something to actually help people solve real world problems.
These articles/letters seem to just say "this is an important issue and I really hope someone else solves it!" and feel like passing the buck to me. Maybe it's more defensible from a journalist/author, but even that recent prominent letter didn't have any concrete suggestions and just called on other people to solve things.

I know there are people working on AI safety, but that's been going on for a while and it seems like the state of the art is to just think of things that we hope the AI doesn't do and then we tweak it to be unlikely to do it? It seems like we don't even know what to ask for when it comes to AI safety so people just ask for dialog/debate.

So I'm starting to feel cynical about our ability to actually achieve any of the safety that people wish for. This has been a known issue for a while, and despite a lot of awareness we haven't really made much progress on it.

I'm not sure what to do with this -- personally I feel a bit fatalistic that AI will continue unabated and we won't figure out the safety angle. But I just think the conversation should move on from "we really need to talk about this" because people certainly have been talking about it.
The woman widely recognised as the longest-lived human in history may have stolen her identity as part of an elaborate tax evasion scheme, a group of researchers have claimed.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/world-oldest...
You missed whole point that not all people are spiritual or are atheists
Is that a problem though? In this IDE the LLM sees the error message and tries to fix it, possibly while the developer who wrote the prompt is off doing something else.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03344
> Oh, that started well before the internet was open to the public. I pretty much blame it on CNN. CNN proved that news can be a profit center. Before that, news was not expected to make much money, it was considered more of a public service.

The "news" has been a business forever and profit versus journalistic standards has always been a huge point of contention. Pulitzer versus Hearst was such a business battle that standards started to fall apart and distrust in media hit a local maxima. That resulted in a big shift towards less sensationalism.

Television news itself is a huge contributor to lax standards, but that far predated CNN. What CNN brought to the table was news as a constant stream of information and near immediacy.

The web 2.0 days brought a new surge of Gotta Be First journalism that made information so much less reliable.

But we adapt to all of these things as media consumers. What people are generally bad at is not discerning opinion/editorializing versus hard news. That's where we need to become more savvy.
The concerns of AI pessimists are simply not real. They are thought experiments and hypotheticals about a technology that does not exist and is vaguely defined.

There are concerns about every form of technology. Nuclear energy. Plastics. Online advertising. Vaccines. But we generally don't take those things seriously until there is proven harm. This could mean waiting until it's too late and a catastrophe has already happened. But that's the risk we take with thousands of things every day.

If YOU take the issue seriously, I'll listen. but there's only so much to be gained from debating the threat posed by something that is not yet part of reality.
Why would they not make bolts & beer on Mars?

The main point is, getting the initial setup will cost a lot, but Elon's intention for Mars is self-sustainability, which means no dependence on Earth & a separate economy.
So Gartner/McKinsey style crapola it is. Perhaps useful for AI Buzzword bingo.
Of course that's not true. Nations can run out of at least three things required to wage war: resources, people, or will.

And the Soviets were nowhere near running out of resources or people at the end of the Winter War, as shown by their ability to defeat a much more powerful enemy a few years later.
Hi, I didn't answer that point because I worried that it would de-rail the conversation a little bit by focusing on the particular laws of one country and applying that to the wider shared culture of our global HN community.

To answer, though, I'm from Northern Ireland, where breastfeeding in public is legal but not protected. Northern Ireland is actually part of the UK, so what you're saying is incorrect and I'm not sure where you're getting your information from? Over here we have ad-hoc solutions were businesses can mark themselves as friendly to mothers (see: https://www.breastfedbabies.org/) while the presumed norm is that mothers should go elsewhere.

I'd say it could be a good idea to check out this article from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothing_laws_by_country) if you want to balance out your views about what's going on outside of your local area.
Yeah, once states were able to opt-out (due to medical/privacy issues) it basically stopped being a canonical reference. But it's still pretty good for the most part.
Yeah but then it's game over. I used to worry about nukes, especially with all the suicidal people in the world, but then I realized that it's not worth worrying about because there's no way out. Anyone launches a nuke and it's game over, MAD.
A small note, but Tesla is developing a humanoid robot which will require a more generalized intelligence than autopilot.
There's a secret feature called "paste".
The practical impact of the change you call stupid and reckless was that the car stopped slamming its brakes when going under underpasses. So when it comes down to it what you are claiming is that it is stupid and reckless to decide not to slam on the brakes.

Look - I get it. I too thought radar sensor fusion would improve the results. Guess who else thought this? The people you consider stupid and reckless thought this. Do you know why they changed their mind? According to you, because they are stupid and reckless.

I can't stress this enough: you are telling yourself inaccurate stories about what happened. If you just /look/ at the /measured impact/ instead of /wrongly guessing what Karpathy thought/ and /wrongly guessing what Karpathy has said/ and /wrongly guessing what other people were referencing when they talked about what Karpathy said/ then you would realize this.