skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
interviews you have to study for. Before the 2010s, every interview I went to took 2 hours. You had a meeting with the manager and one with the team. They’d decide pretty quickly and give an offer. simpler times. No hazing
The debris very likely compromised the test because it damaged the engines. That is not intentional and is something SpaceX needs to fix.
> This is is a transcript of his contribution to the “Ukraine Teach-In” organized by the International Action Center in 2014, in the aftermath of the U.S.-organized “Euromaidan.”

The article opens up with false claim, why should I read further?
Probabilistic computing offers the potential of a return to that pace of progress. We spend a lot of silicon on squashing things to 0/1 with error correction, but using analog voltages to carry information and relying on parameter redundancy for error correction could lead to much greater efficiency both in terms of OPS/mm^2 and OPS/watt.
Education really serves as a dual purpose in our society of both providing knowledge and demonstrating in a actionable way (i.e. someone will hire you based on it) that you know something.

But most of what you need to prove is not something you actually use in your job. A A in compilers will help you get a job as it makes you seem smart, but very few developers will ever write one. So in that case, the A in itself is the goal.
How do you know you’re not an AI bot designed for writing HN comments?
> I mean, that's only ever been a dream in the emacs community.

That's not true and not something you could really accurately guess at.

I have exclusively used one text editor for everything (emacs) for many years.

I also know others that have done the same.
It’s not something we often consider because, again, the energy density of carbon fuels _is a couple of order of magnitudes higher_ then batteries. It seems trivial because a fuel hauling truck is an _absolutely immense_ source of energy compared to the energy it consumes to move.
It was the attempt to translate Egyptian hieroglyphs into Phoenician which led to all of today's alphabetic languages. Archaeologists recently found a temple in the Jordan area in which the earliest known attempt at an alphabetic language was written; it was a translation between Egyptian and Phoenician.

Alphabetic, non pictographic languages are an order of magnitude easier to learn and express than pictographic languages, which require rote memorization of hundreds to thousands of pictographs and their modifiers. In contrast, the language you're reading this post in allows you to guess the sound of the words by the spelling, which is simply impossible in, say, Mandarin.
What's the point of GTK4 and why does it have to be incompatible with GTK3? Is it really worth it to spend so much developer effort across so many projects to migrate them to GTK4?
> If we had to run the modern Web on dial-up, we'd all be dead before Reddit loaded.

Well, we don't. That's a big reason why it exists today and didn't back then.
In reality you made a choice to move with your girlfriend.
> A conventional internal combustion engine car has to convert chemical energy to kinetic energy - the absolute best theoretical efficiency of this might be 70%

You mean thermal energy?

Both cars are converting chemical energy to kinetic. The theoretical maximum for this is 100%. But one uses a thermal intermediate step, that reduces that maximum.
3D CSS is actually super powerful, and once you wrap your head around how transforms interact with each other you can use it like any other 3D library.

Me and a friend made a game using 3D CSS a few years ago: https://js13kgames.com/entries/3dc5s.

I'm not sure I'd ever use it again for something that large as it's a hell of a lot of work but so satisfying once you see the monstrosity you've created running!
Is there good documentation on virtio GPU's protocol somewhere? I'm curious if it's forwarding opengl calls or what.
> If Google ever discontinued Chrome support it would be picked up by the community in a flash.

Of course it wouldn't. The number of people capable of managing and developing a full-blown browser is minuscule. Even Microsoft gave up and went with Chrome in the end.

Case in point: how many people picked up Servo? Hell, even Firefox?
You should give it a shot, keep an open mind. Yes, it will get things wrong and yes, it will disappoint you. But every conversation I've had with it holds some surprises for me. It's a tool you'll need to learn to use before it actually becomes useful, but give it a couple minutes a few times a week and you'll start to see the diamonds in the rough.
Well, the issue with take home tests isn't the Googling per-se, it's the hiring out of the work.

My preference for university exams was a simple, single page cheatsheet that you had to make yourself. You could write the finicky stuff that is hard to remember on it, but you couldn't fast-learn the material like you could from a book. Though I do remember writing out little programs for the weirder stuff like required coverage over concrete reinforcement bars. Which felt a bit like cheating at the time.
Note how almost every diesel locomotive has electrical generators and motors as an intermediate step because they decided that it's cheaper, more efficient, and/or lighter than having a huge gearbox. Electrification has some real advantages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_locomotive , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel%E2%80%93electric_powert...
After all the hype, it seems almost anti-climactic that the demo is so similar to what Pranav Mistry showed with SixthSense in 2009

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SixthSense?wprov=sfti1

https://youtu.be/YrtANPtnhyg

Granted, over a decade later a lot of the tech is in place to do this at a higher fidelity.

But the same core issues remain: privacy.

People don’t want what they’re up to, to be projected for everyone to see at all times, whether that’s visual or audio.

Yes, people can look over our shoulders today to see our phones, but it’s much smaller, and therefore harder to snoop on.

the same goes for audio, I don’t want to blast my audio out so everyone can hear either.

Imho this will be an interesting novelty stepping stone on the way to more practical waveguide displays in glasses. Where I can have higher privacy, with audio projected to my ears. Yes, people can see the waveguide activations and hear the audio, but they’d have to be incredibly close to discern the same information as this, just due to proximity/scale
That's laughable numbers. After the genocidal pictures from Bucha, destroyed Mariupol, 16 russian civilians dead in russia when their fighter fell on top of the buildings you'd think more people should be against.
Sadly, russian society is sick and most of them want to destroy Ukraine. The only way they understand is brute force.
Bing gives you much shorter answers, often without code examples
One telescope each at the L4 and L5 Earth-Sun Lagrange points, coordinating their activities?
Isn't everyone (in general) just getting fat and unhealthier?

Of course they'd losen their standards.
does this mean more powerful ejector seats?
Barrysteve you've got a refreshing take on a lot of topics. What do you mean by collecting capital if not gathering money?
Useful article, we did something similar! How much time & money would you save if you implemented it in prod for your business?
On the off chance you come back to this. I would like to apologize for how rude I think I was to the end there. You are clearly prepared with talking points, and this is not a conversation I want to devote too much time to. That is no reason for me to be rude when I am engaged. Apologies.
It's much easier to regulate millions of nobodies with no power than it is to regulate a single wealthy donor.
Counterpoint:

10's of millions of people are wandering around with absolutely no conception of where their food comes from, and whether there is anything they need to do to keep it that way.

I see this as a bug, not a feature.
Here's one theory: https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1649344016209649667
technology is always good, and if it's not good it's the users fault, and if it's not the users fault then it's society's fault and if it's not society's fault then you're just backwards and you want to die in a cave from pneumonia
I would disagree. With an Atari 400, you knew you could upgrade to a real keyboard by buying an 800. But with modern mac laptops, your only option for a real keyboard is an external one, but you have to also carry a usb-c to usb-a adapter around to connect it. And it's hard to use as a laptop with an external keyboard hanging off it.

I still prefer the Atari 400 membrane keyboard to the chicklet keys on modern macs.
wrt PsyOp, I would have agreed with you until my car was recently stolen with an airtag and a custom camera system. The theives could care less about the custom cameras and simply snipped the cables. They had an iphone and I'm guessing once the iphone got pinged they were tracked they tossed the airtag. It doesn't seem like they care all that much about anything to be honest.

A hidden kill switch is probably the best idea since you actually need to find it which costs time.

fun fact, when I told the cops there was an air tag in there their first reaction was "what's that", and their second was "our investigators tell us it's not accurate enough to be actionable information." I recovered it myself and in some sense they were right, the airtag was kind of useless in finally recovering the vehicle.
Media literacy time, folks! Does the corporation have an incentive to lie about its reasons for closing this place?

> An update to our story on the REI closure: OB has learned that workers at the Portland store were actively working to unionize in recent months.

https://twitter.com/OregonBusiness/status/164849236952708300...

Alternatively, you can take this time to contribute to our lovely website's Weekly Homeless Hate Hour. I know how I'll be spending my time! Do you?
I haven't been to Portland since a couple years before COVID. I imagine it's really disgusting downtown. Smelled like piss and I had to walk through junkie camps last time I was there
This is definitely not an apples-to-apples comparison. With an EV the ball is already at the top of the hill and merely needs to be rolled down, with an ICE car, the ball has to be pushed up the hill first. The power plant does all of the heavy lifting for the EV.

Not a mark against EVs of course - it kind of just makes sense. I'm sure future generations will laugh that every vehicle used to have its own on-board power generation facility. It's too bad the dumb power-plant-under-hood way is still so much cheaper than the EV approach of course.
I think it's more that they have trouble attracting people. Banking and consulting have no trouble finding fit people.
True, some modules are under the GPL only. Here[0] is a very nice website showing an overview.

As for alternatives there really is not much to choose from. For small projects which are not reliant on the performance/native designs of Qt, Dear ImGui looks nice[1]. But it is very much tailored for a different Use Case.

Edit: I said that [0] is a nice website. But you only get a complete view of the situation if you cycle through all of the open source licenses. Too bad there is no "Open Source" option. Would hurt their sales I guess...

[0] https://www.qt.io/product/features

[1] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
it tracks the road or the position of the steering wheel?
Perl 5 had a certain niche. That niche has been filled by other languages (mostly backend JS these days).

C lives off its niche as being the lingua franca for programming low level interfaces. Java lives in its corporate niche and C++ mostly in game programming and large desktop applications.

Perl 5 has become an orphan. It’s a programming language nobody needs any more and, hence, shares the fate of many other obsolete languages that may be cool but are unpopular.
Honestly it's probably not a problem at all for all the slow moving aircraft, like strategic transport or a tanker or a helicopter. It's physically easier to drive those than it is to drive an M1 Abrams tank, where you need to, for example, be able to fix the tracks if they get thrown off on a mine.

The demanding stuff like fighters or even the much memed about A-10 will not accept people that do not pass the centrifuge (and a lot of people do not).
> Planes have a much larger surface area to carry solar panels, and they fly above clouds, so have clearer access to sunlight than cars do.

And the energy they require for flying is an order of magnitude than that required to drive stuff on the ground.
I hope we're not twisting the definition of weapon to include propaganda.

Propaganda has always been a component of warfare, but it's always been a component of peacetime as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalhead_(Black_Mirror)
I recall LHC@Home had some issue with this[1]. They ran simulations of beams in the LHC using BOINC, each run could be up to a million revolutions. The goal was to do parameter searches to find the best magnet settings before going live, so they could spend less time tuning the real thing.

Anyway, as with other BOINC projects, they sent each work unit (simulation run) to at least two (or was it three?) different computers and compared results, to ensure correctness. And they found that they got quite a lot of work units which disagreed and had to be sent to more computers for validation.

After some digging and eliminating factors like overclocked CPUs, they found that usually, all Intel machines would agree and all AMDs would agree, but Intel and AMD would disagree. Like, a run that would hit the detector wall after 30 revolutions on Intels could go on for many thousands of revolutions on AMDs.

Further digging led to the discrepancy in lower bits of transcendental operations in the FPUs[2]. After switching to a software library for these operations, at the cost of a few % in speed, they got Intels and AMDs to agree.

So yeah, when you do a large number of iterated operations like this, even a single LSB of difference can lead to issues.

As an aside, the LHC@Home was initially run almost like a hobby project by a few researchers connected to the LHC, without much official support. However the data the project produced was AFAIK highly beneficial to the machine commissioning, and it later became a more official part of the High Luminocity upgrade.

[1]: https://cds.cern.ch/record/1463291/files/CERN-ATS-2012-159.p...

[2]: https://epaper.kek.jp/icap06/PAPERS/MOM1MP01.PDF
Ask HN: How to scale the development of your GPT system prompt?
I’m working on a little side experiment (https://doogle.app) and I was wondering what the best way is to scale the development of my system prompt. Am I really just keep adding more text/instructions to it, or should I split it into multiple system messages? What’s the best howto to learn about system prompt engineering at scale?
I'm seeing a lot of conflicting estimates on Google for Kenyan average income, and nothing at all about the distribution.

Does anyone know what fraction of Kenyans have incomes of at least 1000 USD/month?
I can confirm, you cannot articulate what rural voters are concerned about.

> voter suppression

It sounds like your motivation for democracy is that you "owe people" a vote, not that it's actually better to give them it. If education is the factor, what if we gate it by high school, land ownership, or college graduation?

I guess to get back to my original point. You suggested that free information (and misinformation) was a threat to democracy, but I see little indication you believe democracy is important. It's hard to see calls like this as anything other than being upset that the majority is not voting the way you want, and wanting to reign them in.
Modern day Klinger is going to have it rough.
This is a great idea. Tools have to undergo certification, as does some software.

A certified AI model would then become applicable in permit-constrained fields like construction.
"The masses"— and what separate you or them from "the masses"?

Do we need unrestrained, automated more of that? Or should we leave art to do what it does best: nurture the soul and wake people from their sedated dream-like lives and into lives more conscious and more fully-lived?

Drowning art in noise is going to have resounding effects on society. Cutting people off even further from their own souls is heinous. Doing so wittingly is nothing short of evil.
Gonna be bigger parachutes
Lol 'gold standard' please. This is management PR.

I've only ever seen 2 week notices screw the workers over- it happened to me several times (to the point I will never do it again no matter the employer).

Businesses don't give you notice, you don't owe them a single day.

No one owes a company any more than required for their paycheck, stop giving loyalty where none is given.

Also- can we please start calling 'layoffs' what they are- firings.

Layoffs are done as restructuring, and used to be done in bankruptcy filing, or they used to mean you'd be brought back in. Now companies call every permanent firing 'letting go' or 'layoff'.

Stop letting companies re-define words for PR speak.

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Cheaper? Yes. Finger sticks. A non-diabetic really gains very little useful insight from continuous monitoring.
Can't you see how bad it for Kenya - or anywhere - for people bright enough to write college level essays to be wasting their time writing them for rich people studying in Western colleges?

What you do for a living isn't neutral, there's an opportunity cost. That person in Kenya writing an essay for someone else isn't doing journalism or writing a great novel, or starting a business or whatever. Now, for sure, Kenya isn't the best place for doing those things anyway, but it's never going to be if a whole pool of labor is doing bullshit work like grinding out college-level essays. There's no path from where Kenya is today (not great, not as bad as you might think though) to where the West is where work like that is a part of its economy, is there?
Don't they say something about seemingly brilliant ideas being too obvious or usually not working out, and the terrible ones being the ones that are have more potential to be diamonds in the rough?
A Cray-1 ran at 80 MHz, and with careful coding could sustain about 2 double-precision floating point operations per cycle - so 160 MFLOPS. Looking at linpack benchmarks, it looks like it's right around a raspberry pi 2 running at 1 GHz (169 DP MFLOPS), and a little worse than a Raspberry Pi 3 at 180 MFLOPS.
This repo only does inference but it should be possible to write training code that runs on WebGPU.
oral exams seem like the only way
I wonder which limitations the new method could have because it seems to be the perfect tool for updating and “learning” new facts without the high cost of instructions or fine tuning.
For US models :-)
I actually do think technology is mostly good, I just don’t like when people pretend it doesn’t come with consequences they don’t like.
I'm thinking to take this experiment a bit further and actually optimize this further. It would be cool to provide this a solution to businesses as a platform independent support ChatGPT bot.
A modular, modern and multiple-purpose Hugo theme
Is sidecar-less eBPF service mesh secure?
My habit is to cancel right away when I start a subscription. You can still use the service for the month you paid for, and it's easy to restart it if you do still find yourself attempting to use it a month later.
I bought an 800xl explicitly to get star raiders (probably around the same time, I remember it was reasonably inexpensive.) I kept expecting my C64 to have something just as good, and though elite was good, it wasn't star raiders good.

So... at least for me... Star Raiders was the Atari 8-bit Killer App. (And weirdly, I came to like SynCalc a bit later.)
Climate cycles are natural [1].

Please refrain from using terms like denialist, it does nothing to help the discourse. Also, that 'bunch of articles' I sent does support what I said, this being a break in the rising temperature trend. You seem to want to hear much more in what was said, why is that?

As to the 'conspiracy with language choices' I think you realise that this is no conspiracy but a simple fact - what used to be called 'global warming' is now called 'climate change'.

As to 'tone policing' I'd suggest reading your posts I replied to.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene#/media/File:Holocene_...
Ironically, the ideas/95 URL doesn't work in Safari.

"Error - can't load the page (unsupported web browser)"
Yeah, I actually have one. Pretty cool little machine, but too slow, ugly and no ssd built in.
ICE efficiency also more driven by RPM & therefore where you are in the gears. So ICE designers have decisions to make about which speeds to optimize for.

ICE peak efficiency tends to be more around 45mph than 30mph.

But yes, the less you brake in an ICE, the more efficient. Hybrids give you a bit of the ICE range/highway efficiency with the EV city driving efficiency, with the added complexity of having ICE & EV under one hood.
Thanks for sharing your experiences with keto and measuring its effects.
Microsoft invested $1 billion OpenAI in 2019 and half of that amount was in Azure credits.

I'm not sure about the most recent $10 billion investment but I wouldn't be surprised if a significant amount of it is in Azure credits as well.

While that's not "free" (they exchanged equity for it), it's likely not an expense (or at least not an expense that they have to cover fully).
I wonder why they're using body fat percentage instead of BMI. While the two are strongly correlated [1], BMI seems more gender neutral.

[1] https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1...
Pretty much, the same way fractions carry over inches as decimals carry over the next power of ten, and as a developer I find powers of two more intuitive.

Example: I mostly work with 3/4" thick material, which is a breeze to divide into 3 for 1/4" mortice and tenons. The equivalent 19mm in that respect is a bit trickier, though fortunately EU 3/4 lumber tends to be only 18mm thick.
> Can anyone shed light on what the weapons would be?

That’s one of those “I can imagine dozens of terrible applications, but I’m not going to say anything which gives people ideas” questions.
I know there was a (somewhat?) successful package repository and manager called Teapot and Teacup [0] respectively that was run by ActiveState but I don't believe it's actively having packages added to it. I really wish there was some new development along these lines to allow for github repos to be imported (I think I've seen this in Golang). As far as the language server goes, I'm guessing that would be really difficult to implement for Tcl since each command can essentially implement its own DSL.

[0] https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Tcl+Extension+Archive
To my mild dismay, it's not part of the base system in FreeBSD anymore[1]. It is easily installed, of course, but that means #!/usr/bin/perl does not work without manually creating a link.

[1] I think it used to be part of the base system, at least.
I recall reading that other branches of the military would take recruits and in boot camp when they weren't meeting the fitness standards they would get assigned to a group of other similar folks and they'd work on that ... and then later rejoin a group in boot camp after they slimmed down / were more fit.

Seemed like a good / practical idea.
Lord I hope not. It helps with efficiency, but is no more renewable than carrying a rock upstairs and throwing it out a window onto some kind of generator.
> (Electron bad, nuclear good, Windows 11 a train-wreck, AI a bubble, ...)

Don't worry, with those believes you don't have to post at all! There are hundreds of us that already write the same comments!
In the grim dark future of Search Engine Optimization, there is only ChatGPT
I think chatGPT will filter out all the pointless activities human do just out of habit

clearly essay writing is a bit pointless if it can be farmed off to someone else and the students are still able to graduate and function in careers