skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In sum, we propose that consciousness is the result of the continued presence of homeostatic feelings.
She was quitting because she was going to be a stay at home mother.

We hired the replacement and they worked side by side for ~ 10 months. It was amazing.
Qt Quick is catching up with QWidgets. While still some way to go, I agree with the OP that it will align incentives for them to improve edge cases of features that exist in QWidgets but lacking in Qt Quick.
Morley cigarettes?
not a lot of companies seem to recognize this pattern and encourage it.

benefit from it, sure.
People who write with their left hand existing.
ahhahh

a container, gone, at the airport (!)

Security probably too busy checking bags for drinking water :(
The America First Party was most definitely NOT a fictional brand - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Party_(1943)
Ah so you don't actually need a lifted turbodiesel for a work truck?
It will be faster than you think, mostly because gas stations will be closing and so the inconvenience of fueling you car will cut that tail of - except for niches where EVs are particularly bad.
The difference is the answer to "can we use it with blockchain" was: "uhhh, maybe? somehow?", whereas for LLMs it's "yeah sure, I can think of these 10 use cases, half of which we can probably implement today if we use an API".
I'm not sure whether you are confused or intentionally trying to be confusing but that doesn't make sense in the context of the discussed issue.

The signing key would of course be unique per ECU/keyfob that needs to sign stuff so dumping another ECU doesn't help you crack it.
We have been steadily escalating the conflict with Russia. We're training Ukrainian forces, providing the intelligence for them, and supplying them with our best weapons. How can we even pretend it's Ukraine at war and not us at this point? How is there not more debate about backing a country with enough nukes to destroy life on earth into a corner?
Agreed. I entered the workforce as a developer in 2012; it felt like the tail-end of the tech boom but intelligence was still valued. Nowadays, most people don't even recognize intelligence, let alone value it.
I’m not a huge fan of the death penalty myself but I don’t see a meaningful difference between the death penalty and life imprisonment. I’m quite confident that there are far more frequent errors in incarceration with life imprisonment than with the death penalty. Just seems like bikeshedding to focus on a thing that can have at max 18 errors a year.
> User: How do you expect to be in all those places at once?
> Assistant: I can expect to be at all the places I want to be at once.

..Dr. Manhattan?
JavaScript was created in a rush because a web browser in the 90s needed to do some basic form handling and user interaction.

It's Java but with silly names, stupid scoping, a unique prototype system nobody seems to get down, a strong influence from the worst years of Microsoft, and a legacy that forces it to make some pretty stupid choices moving forward.

It's incredible what browsers have been able to make Javascript do, but it's not exactly a well-designed language.

As for being business practical, WASM is already widely employed by web apps. The front end ecosystem is in its early stages so it's quite messy, but it's developing faster than I expected. It may end up being a real competitor for frameworks like Blazor and ASP.NET if it the tooling continues to improve like this.
> they are years behind Google in that effort. Google still has the advantage in both research and hardware, they just fumbled the execution but it's still very early in the game

Where do we think Apple is in regards to this? If anyone has the upper-hand here with hardware, I would think it'd be Apple. But there's been zero indication that Apple has been working on any sort of generative AI.
While I think parent confused dopamine and serotonin, I'd echo this sentiment. In the rave community terms like "blue Monday" or the grimmer "suicide Tuesday" are there for a reason. Many people have a week or even more of 'depression', which thankfully seems transitory for most (although we all know depression can lead to negative feedback loops).

And while caution is definitely needed, the research is mind-blowing. Veterans who have seen and done horrible things find relief in MDMA therapy (in a proper clinic) when nothing else has worked. Powerful stuff, not just a party drug.
No love for Let's Potato Chips?
It is literally insane how much oil there is. Planes use i think less than 10% of world oil consumption.
We have always been trying to sort pepples into "correct" heaps.[0]

[0] https://youtu.be/cLXQnnVWJGo
What if the output schema were something like instruction code? Just get rid of the need for programming languages altogether.
Some philosophers think similar:

"In contrast, pre-reflective self-consciousness is pre-reflective in the sense that (1) it is an awareness we have before we do any reflecting on our experience; (2) it is an implicit and first-order awareness rather than an explicit or higher-order form of self-consciousness"

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/self-consciousness-phenom...

If you really want to get lost, Heidegger about Kant:

"To the extent that Heidegger tries to show how logic, judgment, and conceptualization all presuppose practice, affect or emotion, and engaged intentional agency, ..."

https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/heidegger-s-interpretation-of-ka...

The french philosopher Lyotard went down this road more recently.
It's always been my hope that my state (Kentucky) would get on board with EV's. A really smart marketer could court the powerful coal interests in the state and start selling EV's on the premise that they are powered by coal here. Eventually the power mix would change to be more sustainable
Not-native Arabic reader here. To my eyes, it pretty clearly has a "baseline" that, if you tilted the text 45° to the right, would run along the "bottom". With this in mind, the similarity of many characters and ligatures to those in Arabic is striking.
The past 3 years showed that Google is not as ahead as people thought they were.
Some do, some don't. As an example the Nissan Qashqai is available as a conventional hybrid, with mechanical transmission, and an "e-power" version, where the engine only drives a generator:

https://www.nissan.co.uk/range/e-power-cars.html
Even the maintainability argument is suspect I think: Static type systems as commonly used are not very powerful compared with schema validation style approaches used in the dynamic languages world (eg malli or spec in Clojure world). Static types lose in expressiveness, flexibility of when & where they are enforced, and ability to pass around the data shape specifications as data.

edit: and tangentially, the building and iterating lifecycle phase is of course usually the make-or-break bottleneck - maintenance phase sw engineering is comparatively a "happy problem".
Hey, I just got some land in N. California and I was wondering about building a robot like yours to work it. It looks like I might not be able to get up there personally for a bit (family obligations) so a tele-operated robot might be the way to go. (Also, I'm a hobbyist robot maker, so... yeah. Robots!)

- - - -

edit to add: I just saw your comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35637541 and yeah we are on the same page. Let's do this thing.

The land I just got is for a mutual-benefit non-profit corp I started (Ariadne Systems) to do pretty much exactly what you describe!

> ...you can ensure that everyone gets fed etc without paying for it by building an economy where everyone is part owner of the productive machinery they depend upon. Then no one is poor. Creating an economy where a preponderance of the firms are cooperatives is a good start. So this can be done in a traditionally libertarian way, without high taxes or strong government intervention.

The corp I started is just such a cooperative firm (well, it will be once I find some people to cooperate with, eh?) to co-own the productive machinery and ecologically-harmoniously agriculturally-productive farm land, and provide goods and services (and eventually homes) to the members.
if the students had something interesting to write about then they couldn't really get a kenyan to write it for them. this model only works because the student's are being asked to do busy work.
I don't think LGPL requires you to release your source code if you link dynamically and not modify the LGPL code itself.
We're actually at an inflection point where this isn't the case anymore.

For a long time, GPU hardware basically became more powerful with each generation, but prices stayed roughly the same plus minus inflation. Last couple of years, this trend has broken. You pay double or even quadruple the price for a relatively tenuous increase in performance.
I think you mean PCI pass-through? That allows you to isolate PCI resources and pass them through directly to the guest VM. The host doesn't need to have a driver or understand what that device is at all. Ideally the host should not even touch the device during boot, e.g. if it is a graphics cards.

Virtio GPU is something different, namely a para-virtualized graphics adapter that uses the VirtIO guest-to-host communication to expose hardware accelerated graphics to the VM.

For instance, on the guest side, you could have Mesa3D implementing OpenGL userspace and internally using its "Virgl" driver (or "Venus", for Vulkan) that serializes a command stream, sends that through a guest side kernel driver that passes it on through the VirtIO device to Qemu on the host side, that then uses existing OpenGL userspace graphics APIs to do the actual accelerated rendering.
I think the documentary was Les Caids des Cites (?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gajW7PNOJKw
We are using this and we have been very happy so far.
If we find that at some point we're missing out on something great with Rust/WASM then we'll hire Rust engineers and not just assume that our javascript developers can do it. That was the point.
Relative efficiencies also explain why city/highway efficiency is inverted between EV & ICE.

Gasoline is rather energy dense, but the ICE is rather wasteful.
There is a certain base load of energy being generated by an ICE engine, regardless of if you are moving or how slow you go. This is why carmakers experimented with things like rapid stop/start engines, regen batteries&motors, etc.

ICE becomes more efficient as you reach highway speeds, which is why highway mpg is better than city mpg.

Batteries by contrast are not very energy dense, while EV motors are extremely efficient.
The only energy being consumed is that which is needed to move the car, plus fight rolling & wind resistance, and power AC/heat. Wind resistance increases with the square of speed.

EVs as a result are most efficient at low speed, and at highway speeds become noticeably less efficient as you go from 55->65->75mph. This is also why running AC/heat has a noticeable impact on range in EVs.
Makes sense, as in my experience Strava defaults to 0°N 0°E when for whichever reason it cannot get location and it has no recent cached info.
This is a strong point: context matters.

I signaled I was on the way out for quite a while ahead of putting in two weeks, and it was abundantly clear they'd take me back quite readily.

But that situation doesn't generalize.
Why I let go of my U.S. citizenship
In terms of production pipeline, sure. But since there’s an established model architecture, the hardware doesn’t need to be super generic. Google had to build TPUs in a world where everything was still rapidly changing - deciding on things like precision, memory bandwidth, SRAM size etc. Microsoft could theoretically stamp out some GPT ASICS and call it a day.
>The average modern blog is a masterpiece of readability, usability, and frontend/backend engineering, compared to almost anything seen on the web during its "golden age".

Eh, maybe. There's a lot more scrolling, sure. And whizzy CSS tricks to make things rotate and gradients and whatever. And you can download a coolio new font so the site looks like it was typed on a 1932 Royal typewriter with a crooked arm on the "G" key.

But then I go to something like the OpenBSD site, and I remember how much I liked the simplicity of Ye Olden Tymes.

Back in the bad old times, there was no problem getting something centered when using tables. CSS only got that working reliably 17 minutes ago. And while making your page look like a brochure with invisible GIFs and table layouts was kinda heavy, we've replaced it with 100MB of Javascript and an embedded WASM running Emacs.

If we had to run the modern Web on dial-up, we'd all be dead before Reddit loaded.
How do you escalate from a full blown invasion which flattens cities with artillery and targets civilians with impunity? I suggest that the only alternative to this "escalation" is to lie down and die and take the consequences.
Yes, but that strategy works due to how entrenched they were in the enterprise already. It won't work for a brand new vendor. Almost every big company uses some enterprise Windows product (Windows,Office,AD, SQLServer).

Once people already are buying 20 products from you and have a good sales relationship of decades, selling them some cloud services is easy and might even lead to better deals on something else (Windows/Office)
This won't be the first or last of proxy wars. The notable thing is that it is being fought in Europe, right on the boundary between NATO and Russia, so the stakes (and the risks) are way higher
in practice, I get 400Wh/mi. So, 50%?
I really feel sad about my friends in both Ukraine and Russia. Both countries bleed because of someone's misguided fantasies. And there's no way out. Putin knows he can not give up. Ukrainians will never give up. And even if someone managed to kill Putin now, there is no any guarantee his successor won't want to continue the war. It's sad to watch all this and feel completely hopeless.
Close enough. E10 is enough to see most of the issues you will see with pure Ethanol. Most engines just need to run is different fuel maps. ideally you would make other changes (increase the compression ratio), but they are expensive.
Glad to see another fan of that book here :) That book is a “definite keep” for me, although chunks are coming out of the binding. The parts that retain the most significance to me are the amount of thought and design he put into web communities. I think this was because he was operating in an era (and coming from an era) where putting a community online in a “scalable” way was expensive and time consuming, so he thought through his goals and the potential ways to achieve them and the corner cases very thoroughly before coding. It also came from a time when, due to the newness of the medium and a shortage of expertise, there was an ethos of democratic education — the idea that anyone can learn this stuff. Even the ways he thought of web communities tended to involve peer education instead of just publishing for clicks.
Caption-Anything: Combines Segment Anything and ChatGPT
If he's mainly using it for one-liners, how version dependent can it be? (I suppose it may depend on how long a line he's willing to type...)
Too late, too little.
> Such fixation with ip theft. Why?

Those who earn a living off Intellectual Property have already decided they will stop 100 poor students from reading a textbook so that they get the income from 1 rich student buying it. They do not seem to care about educating poor children nor do they seem to care about increasing GPD.

They only want money. What is the opposite of altruism?

If a new technology can change the way humanity lives forever, but it costs them money, they are against it.

This is why I support making artificial scarcity illegal.
the libertarian approach: it's not perfect, therefore it shouldn't exist
Yup. The results look beautiful.

My first question here was how do we know the results are not 'hallucinated' or infilled by the ML system?

The fact that it was fed simulated data makes this really circular. If the goal is to get hard real-world data to validate the simulations, then training the machine that generates an "improved" data set on the simulation data itself would greatly increase the likelihood that the results will match the inputs, but not because that is what is actually out in reality.

Obviously, the people doing this are vastly more expert than I am, but it'd be good to see an explanation of how they are avoiding this fundamental issue.
Why is that ridiculous? Cloud services gives companies "coupons" and free usage for X hours for a bunch of other companies, why wouldn't they do that for a company they invested heavily in?
This story is going to blowup even though bombs are dropping everyday in ukraine and sudan. No one cares.
I completely agree with you. I think about what I want and R code comes out of my fingers. By comparison, pandas requires more thought to do intermediate-to-advanced things.
The predecessor to this, the Atari 800, is the computer I wanted when I was 12. A TI-99/4A is the computer I got. It was still a wonderful gift that set me up for the rest of my life.
I disagree, those 10MB of JS easily become 40MB of WASM. Picking a language that's compiled to Javascript for frontend code is the only good choice IMO.

WASM is not unlike the JARs and SWFs we got shoved down our throat ten years ago when HTML and JS were lacking any useful web capabilities. Huge files with separate runtime that implement their own renderer and operating environment. Google Docs already does this, using a canvas element to render to rather than using HTML and CSS to lay out text.
Eeehhh? Im not sure truth* exists, but there are things that we accept as true and things that are so fundamental that it doesn't occur to us to question them - these things are inherently political. Just to be clear - not using that word to refer to the specific species of polarized discourse that we got in the states, talking about the nature of power and the human condition.

Curious what you consider to be true though? I'm coming at it from the perspective that even in physics where we can isolate so nicely we still aren't divining any truths, just making models with increasing explanatory powers.

Personally, I've been reaching more towards 'shared values' than 'truth', this is likely the pedant in me but truth doesn't feel tractable whereas shared values feels like it has less baggage?

*pretty sure lies exist though
I agree. there is rarely (if ever) a shortage of talent. there is (almost) always a shortage of desire to acquire said talent.

like most things, it's a money problem.
Ever used creepjs? It's literally impossible to escape fingerprinting that actually works now. Also if you use not-Windows, no browser currently properly spoofs its javascript OS value, especially if queried within a WebWorker, so that alone makes you stand out way more just by not using Windows, at least until browsers make a way to spoof that too.

And the people that say "just disable CSS/JS"... guess what? Almost nobody does that, which makes you stand out even more!
Honestly, depends. Some teams at FAAMNG are really stressful and if you work on a Tier 1 service even with loads of SRE support you have to be working a fair bit. That being said, the pay is for design decisions at the higher IC level (senior or staff) and most people at that level are very smart. I’m not saying this salary is for 10x engineers or anything.

I would say 50% the work is harder and consuming and then 50% they can just afford to pay you more and lock up talent because of the wild margins on their products.
Much like Afghanistan in the 80s. Vietnam in the 70s. Various other proxy wars.
Didn't LinkedIn pull similar sort of shenagigans some years ago, telling people that a particular contact (e.g. because that contact uploaded their contact list with email addresses) wanted to connect, although that contact didn't actively do so?
Don't generalize, I've never used it and never seen any reason to use it.
Writing is like a muscle, one has to practice. That's not busywork
Amazon has a terrible reputation for internal infrastructure issues, with "on call" being a truly shitty experience for employees. aka burn out over a year is common

Note that there's likely to be some variation per team, but Amazon is famously bad, so ... ;)
hey now, I can cut out tumors, I can't cut out endocrine disruptions
> and how awful the developer experience is.

Can you put breakpoints in WASM and debug frontend code?
Putting someone in an experimental rocket is quite different from being essentially a safety driver required to pay attention and take over at any time. If you have an accident on FSD is is probably (though not always) your fault for not paying attention.
> if the students had something interesting to write about then they couldn't really get a kenyan to write it for them.

Can you elaborate?
"Let Pudding take whatever he wants, maybe it will calm him down".
If all my mind was doing was reproducing statistically meanigful patterns I feel like I would think a whole lot more about dishwashing and not so much about that girl from long ago that got away. And yet here we are..
Lots of these seemed to be people who worked for themselves. Much of HN, I would think, are wage slaves working for the man. I suspect it’s far less interesting or desirable to keep debugging somebody else’s problem. Perhaps we’ll see a rise in FOSS work when the young cohorts cross 60? There just aren’t that many hackers there yet.
There are many competing nations. If one can outlaw artificial scarcity, they will grow so much faster than the others that eventually they will take over.

I predict we will either have a world without Intellectual Property or we will have a global government that enforces Intellectual Property laws.
In the Cold War days, we had numerous proxy wars. Korea and Vietnam are examples. Same with Afghanistan I (boy, that chicken came home to roost).

Chile and Iran were egregious examples of the US sticking our oar in.

It’s been over a generation of peace, so people have forgotten them.
Same here! Hadley is incredible. He can think, code, and write amazingly well. Lots of people can do two of the three. It's rare to find someone who does all three.
> 10% here and there is very small compared to the literal orders magnitude improvements during the reign of Moore's Law.

Missing the point, despite being internally correct: 10% of $700k/day is still $25M/y.

If you'd instead looked at my point about energy cost per operation, there's room for something like 46,000 improvement just to human level, and 5.3e9 to the Landauer limit.
Before long, we could end up with left-leaning and right-leaning AIs autonomously fighting the 'culture war' over social media, much more advanced than simple bots spamming copy+paste comments.

Combined with ever-improving ways to fake video and voices, things could get even uglier than they've been over the last few years.
The mismatch of code fluidity and the rigidity of the RDBMS is why we created https://schemafreesql.com . We ofcourse looked at NOSQL but our fondness of SQL kept us from considering.
At a certain point when do governments stop caring about similar names like this?

{something}mate is like {something}ly is like {something}r is like {something}io.

They're all just words with a little flourish at the end, who's to say you "own" a word with a flourish? Just seems dumb.
>How is there not more debate about backing a country with enough nukes to destroy life on earth into a corner?

That's exactly what Russia was counting on. Should we (by we, I mean the rest of the world) just let them annex whatever land they want, with no consequences or resistance?
Java's type system is anemic compared to modern languages, please don't use it as the point of comparison in typed vs untyped debates.
User: What's the difference between USA and USB?

Assistant: The USA is the same as USB, but is a type of universal serial bus. The USB is a class-less, low-cost type of bus, available in virtually any computer, platform, and OS.