skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is the biggest risk we're facing. Not necessarily ASI deciding to kill us off, but AI weapon proliferation triggering a hot war that goes nuclear.

Or something like an AI weapon-based broad spectrum "digital first strike" intended to disable an adversary's nuclear weapons. Imagine how well that would go down. Digital equivalents of nuclear weapons in the hands of people incompetent enough to fail rescuing hostages from Iran in the 70s.

Ukraine is too close for comfort as it is. Throw AI weapons in there? Man. Not the future I wanted to see.
Or python. So there's a chance the code will still compile in two years.
That's awful. Same grade for memorizing trivia like a bad imitation of a reference book, as for learning and applying the concepts?
> It was a great experience, however as one the persons responsible to optimize Tcl code into C modules, and part of the .NET migration team, I learned to never consider languages without a JIT/AOT compiler for nothing serious beyond OS scripting tasks.

As a slight aside, I once worked on a molecular dynamics simulation program which used Tcl for the basic setup, and then performance critical parts were done in C. A fine enough approach, except that the original authors had decided that the one hammer to get good performance out of C was inlining. And they used this everywhere. Literally everywhere. Everything except for main() and some I/O functions was defined in "static inline" functions in header files.
No, shared values is referring to the moral/emotional stuff, I find it more useful when trying to bridge the gap in a pretty politically charged environment to reconnect on simple things like wanting other people to be happy and healthy.

Are those true things? Good candidates, I like 'leptons exist'. Do you mind if we just gently ignore the math one? Feels like inviting the whole 'is math invented or discovered' thing.

1) carbon atoms in a mol - a mol is a counting number so it seems tautological to declare this one a truth

2) pass :)

3) this seems like a good candidate but it also seems to reduce truth to just the things we measure and only to the extent that we can be accurate (I'm also assuming you meant neutrons, protons are static by specie). Purely hypothetically there could be a whole heap of unusually heavy or light carbon out there that would disprove one or another of our theories. To put it another way; is the average number of apples that a trees grows in a year 'true'? It'll change year after year after all. I'm fine with a definition of truth that implies error bars and best efforts but I feel it falls short of the colloquial definition.

4) I think the pure observation that a thing somewhere exists is probably the closest to true, the rebuttals against that would all be self consuming anyway. The specific claim that leptons exist seems a little more fraught though - we could conceivably come to another conclusion if that better fit the facts.

So, can we call these things true if our concept is potentially incomplete or incorrect?
The gut naturally cleanses itself.
Damn, they released the hypno drones already?
I found some reference to Gatwick using 2.6 billion litres of fuel a year. If I follow the logic above I get circa 8 billion litres. I think most of this is because a Boeing 737 has a 3000nm range fully fueled which they wouldn't be using normally. In fact I suspect it's impossible to take off fully fueled and with a full complement of passengers (it certainly is for lighter aircraft).

Between that and the efficiency difference mentioned elsewhere I think that explains about an order of magnitude. I'm totally willing to accept they'd need a 1GW power station to power Gatwick but 9GW seems high.
That really depends on manufacturer. But in general it is more secure to use 2FA (Wireless link + mechanical token) than using 1FA (Wireless link and a button). Thief needs to jump through more obstacles, increasing the change of his failure.

However even mechanical token can be generalized as this video shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NtDH-8z95M

So I think that in the end it probably does not matter. When somebody wants to steal your car, you have probably no chance to prevent it.
I assume it's just rope and choke same as the other branches.
$1k Chromebooks shouldn't exist – fight me
Is there a problem with a 350lb drone operator? These restrictions make sense for most military enlisted roles but perhaps chunky folks can take on more "sit in your chair all day" type of roles? Not everyone is combat, I mean why would you need even the chaplain to be fit. In the army or navy I get it, you have to actually travel and become a liability but in the airforce, spaceforce and cybercommand there are many roles that never ever require the person be in the field.
Except that world used to exist, back in the stone age, and we're all far better off now because we didn't choose to live in fear of the misuse of powerful tools.
Look it up. There is a list of Google product on Wikipedia. Go ahead and find 1 functioning product that isn’t absolute garbage from after 2009. I dare you :D
Came here to say this. Why are we worried about Kenya when we are cheating ourselves? The society that suffers when American students simultaneously defraud American universities, devalue American degrees, and cheat their own education — is America
Yeah sorry for that - I was using the terms quite colloquially
If you think petty crime is bad in Europe, don’t even think about visiting Americas. US cities are so much worse than almost of Europe it’s pretty shocking.
> It’s funny to see how defensive people are about their body fat

It’s funny to see how society is really busy judging you if you are fat and is also horrified you if you choose surgery to fix the problem. Or cryo. Or any medical intervention at all.

I am not sure if this is puritanjan attitude, or just considered 'cheating'.

People judge their friends and kids for being low energy and call it lazy, but can't even screen for vitamin D defficiency or Long covid that could be causing it.
I've been working on www.revision.ai since 2019

It's a study tool that turns documents/videos into fun flashcards, automatically.

Originally it used more traditional techniques, but from 2019-2021 was highly built into the HuggingFace eco-system, with things like finetuned T5 models. That allowed us to create powerful flashcards for certain subjects, like psychology, more accurately than competitors, especially with specific document analysis tech (think OCR on steroids). ChatGPT really replaced that part though and smaller models for things like identifying acronyms just don't make sense these days.

I have also worked with embeddings to automatically plan lessons. I think there's potential there. The problem is overcoming the human-crafted quality bonus and now, with big players in edtech able to easily integrate ChatGPT to existing content, there is a difficult competitive landscape vs the 6 month to 3 year lead ML gave you in the past. Art, creativity and innovation pales in comparison to distribution.
No Veridian Dynamics either. They even have ads to get a feel for their corporate style from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEEBE7_-aMM
I don't consider these areas to be "Russian ground" since I meant to talk of mainland Russia. I believe Donbass has been shelled by Ukraine (and Russian) for many years before the 2022 invasion: https://politics.stackexchange.com/a/74158
Thanks for that insight. I didn't realize it extended beyond food/water/certain vices.
Empathy for the homeless does nothing. Those people need to be in asylums or jail. Society depends on everyone following the rules.
A "pretty large" number of people does not work in the navy.
The US and NATO has been training the Ukrainian military since the 00s. [0]

They don't fight exactly according to US doctrine, but they don't not either.

[0] https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2022-04-07/ukraine-c...
This seems extreme, but regular families are largely based on eugenic principles.
Not to be coy, my point is that education is one thing, and contests to see who gets the cherry positions in society are another, and when you combine them you get cheating. Which, of course, undermines the "verify knowledge" function of the tests in the first place, eh?

In my domain (computer programming) I know enough and have enough experience that I can gauge the skill and knowledge of my peers (and they mine.) That is how I get jobs. I go in and talk to the other programmers, and I can demonstrate that I'm "the real deal".

In re: "just [letting] doctors go yolo on their patients" I don't want to get into a long thing here, but I will mention that a strong argument could be made that the current system is not very good at getting positive outcomes. What I mean is, doctors and hospitals kill a lot of people. In other words, the existing systems to train and employ doctors are far from perfect.

(Not to put too fine a point on it, the way to find good doctors is to ask other doctors whom they would let doctor them, ya feel me?)

- - - -

edit: I realized I didn't answer your question.

What I propose is that we throw out the whole obviously-broken academic system.

I propose that people go to colleges and schools to learn, at any age, at any time, and they don't get grades or degrees or anything.

You get to be a doctor or architect or whatever by demonstrating to other people who know that you too know, rather than "earning" a proxy (degree or whatever) that can be faked.

If human life were simple enough that it could be covered by a system of tests and grades we wouldn't have these huge brains on the ends of our spines, eh?
Big difference between kid bullies and government bullies. You're almost guaranteed to be a school bully victim when your governor is going after Mini Mouse for wearing a rainbow skirt.
Yep. It's a big reason I stuck with a Fit (can still cram in a decent amount of stuff) instead of a small pickup.

Aside from the fact that there don't seem to be small pickups anymore, the closest ones I've found all seem to have 4 doors and a really short bed. I can count on one hand the number of times I've had more than one passenger in my Fit, but I frequently need to pick up large items at the local home center or haul things to the dump (old home renovation).

But since most smaller trucks seem like large cars with stubby beds, I settle for having my 4x8 plywood sheets ripped at the store or scoring/folding drywall sheets so I can slide them in from the hatch to the passenger seat.
Afsluitdijk
It solves only one of multiple problems new generations of cars (EVs especially) are facing
that seems very unlikely to be honest. Commercial cars are sold first on reliability and operating costs, which is why Americans are shying away from buying cars that have a basic turbo and prefer larger gas engines instead.
Traditionally many sailors couldn't swim, so it almost fits!

In the UK most children are taught to swim, and in many European countries the same. I'm often surprised to learn that Americans swim less frequently, but I guess it's just another one of those culture and facilities differences.
Fat = unhealthy = more stress on the health care system

Fat = lower fertility

Fat = largest contributor in the 3 top leading cause of deaths in the US

&c.

imho it's a symptom of a larger thing, like stress induced over eating in animals. It's a slow suicide, an healthy individual should be able to see it for what it is and act on it, society should be able to see it for what it is and help these individuals, seems like we're doing the complete opposite, mostly for profit
>Pretty much everything is bundled, minimized, and obfuscated now.

Yes, but there is a strain of software minimalism that eschews the front-end build entirely. This is relatively recently possible because of excellent implementations of relatively good standards starting with HTML5, CSS3, ES6, and SVG2.

https://www.jslint.com/ is an example of what's possible with ES6 and built-in modules.
I am a Kenyan living in Kenya, and I can confidently estimate that it's less than 2% of the entire population
For those that are genuinely curious,

& "C:\Program Files\Vendor\AwesomeVendorProgram.exe"

(yes - PS is definitely chock full of idiosyncrasies)
Actual air crew personnel are a small, single digit percentage of Air Force personnel.
Rollovers are also extremely bad, and vehicles like the Tahoe have a ~25% rollover risk as assessed by the NHTSA. It's simple physics!

More than anything, you need to just not be in the accident in the first place. Buying a vehicle with dogshit braking and handling characteristics so you can "win" in a crash you could have just avoided is dumb, especially when you consider that you carry that increased rollover tendency every single second you're driving that vehicle.
You should assume everything posted on the internet has an ulterior motive. Relying on disclosures simply allows actual bad actors to avoid scrutiny.

(And no one cares that you used to work at Microsoft or whatever).
> Tough shit. China will just have to grow up.

Turns out that they grew up and they don't really care about the same values that we do.

Tough shit, indeed.
Deploy GraphQL back ends using just the CLI
Do you think that the customs of China's tribe and island are the laws of nature?

For that matter, in the era of nearlight communication around the planet, how important even are things like "island" anymore, and how is "tribe" defined?
That’s what I meant, how do audit reserves when it’s most likely a digit in the bank account database? You’d have to audit their accounts at all banks including central banks. If only banks used crypto :))
... But they make a very good light source. /s
"c:\program files\my user name\foo bar baz.exe"

???

tab completion generally works on space-filled path/names too, at least in the last 10 years or so, when working in windows worlds.
Is the US headed towards a race war or civil war?

I think the media would want us to believe so. There are certainly some dense failing cities and some states that are failing economically that have elevated levels of frustration, rage, angst, rioting. People will devolve into mobs and direct that rage to the easiest targets, even if the targets are incorrect and/or highly irrational. A mob tantrum so to speak. Adding to this social media algorithms that help direct peoples rage against one another for cheap clicks rather than giving them the opportunity to think and realize what is actually having a negative impact on their lives. Some might even call it a very effective psychological warfare campaign having a powerful effect of taking attention of root cause problems.

Prior to anything resembling a civil war breaks out, I would expect military to be called in and the aforementioned cities would become mini-police-states until things are under control. The mandatory lock-downs and curfews would further enrage many people. I don't know what happens after that. If this were a a proper dystopian movie, the internet or at least media and social platforms would be sabotaged and people would start thinking for themselves and they would rise above it. Being this is not a movie I have no idea what really happens next.

[Edit] Question for the proper historians. In the past when the media would get people spun-up, divided and amplify their frustrations, what usually happened next? Any major events?
>> Availability of Gtk on a Mac has 0 impact on how many Linux app will decide to use it.

I sometimes consider using GTK as a cross-platform GUI vs what we do today (a small wrapper over Windows, macOS, and GTK) so we can have some nice things - like resizable text and SVG icons. Not supporting macOS would mean not using GTK for that. At the moment, no static linking means no GTK for that too because we ship a single binary for Windows and I don't want to deal with an installer.
The Christian tradition calls it "fasting, prayer and almsgiving".
First we're talking about open versus closed societies, not tribes. The repression of spirit closed societies impose on their members is a humanitarian concern, imperils the soul, eats away at becoming ourselves. Open society all the way. Society has to be allowed to consider itself.

Second, this isn't laws of the land. It's the internet, the unplace where different places can meet & connect. Your suggestion proposes that it's the pro-speech folk forcing themselves upon the world. Not so. What's actually happening in this story is the small authoritarian lowest-common-denominators of the world are imposing their views on all interconnectivity, on everyone else. They are constraining everyone else.

And tech bosses keep letting it happen, keep letting ourselves be bullied. And the governments of open societies are not stepping up to illuminate & push these issues as the threats to open society that they are.

Two absurd inconsistencies. Human rights are amazing. The suppression of humanity is dreadful. That's the "tribe" you are defending.
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You will be working mainly with Python development of our calibration and production test systems. The calibration software controls the whole calibration process, including capturing images from the cameras, moving the calibration boards, controlling temperature chambers, and calculating the calibration parameters of the cameras. The production test software checks that the individual components of the camera are working as expected after manufacturing, and also tests the camera as a whole before it is shipped to customers

Tasks will include maintaining and improving the calibration and production test software, such as;
automating more of the process, improving the calibration speed and throughout, developing and implementing new and improved calibration methods, adding support for new hardware components (such as temperature chambers, jigs and motors), adding support for new camera models, extending production test coverage, making the systems more scalable, adding metrics and statistics for monitoring, production quality and throughout, implementing systems for deploying and upgrading production test stations and calibration jigs, configure and setup new test stations/calibration stations, troubleshoot issues

Apply here: https://zivid.bamboohr.com/hiring/jobs/109
Can you do that from another country? Or do you have to be a resident first?
You think that money goes to grunts?
No, i think the customs of chinas tribe and island should reign supreme in china and the customs of my tribe and island in mine
Show HN: Use shoggath-speak to teach GPT new APIs
I was worried that because GPT is only trained on the past, it would be hard to get people to use it to write apps with new APIs. A world with no new libraries or frameworks would be boring.

It turns out to be easy to bring it up to speed, you just need to build up a line of compressed docs #docsline for it. For example, paste this into GPT and it should give you a working app that uses Fireproof (a database I didn't start writing until 2023).

Fireproof/API/Usage: import { Fireproof, Listener, Index } from '@fireproof/core'; const db = Fireproof.storage("app-db-name"); const ok = await db.put({ any: 'fields' }); const doc = await db.get(ok.id); await db.del(doc._id); const all = await db.allDocuments(); all.rows.map(({key, value}) => value); const listener = new Listener(db); listener.on('*', updateReactStateFn); const index = new Index(db, function(doc, map) { map(doc.any, `custom ${doc.any}`); }); const result = await index.query({range : ["a", "z"]}); result.rows.map(({ key }) => key);

And then tell it the app you want, eg:

Create a react app using Fireproof for tracking party invites. It should have a text input that creates a new document with the guest name, and an Index that lists all guests in a <ul>

Thanks @gfodor for the inspiration: https://twitter.com/gfodor/status/1643645894779342849?s=20
i have no idea what any of this means
>> Congress defined the borders of Colorado as a geospherical rectangle, stretching from 37°N to 41°N latitude, and from 25°W to 32°W longitude.

I was confused by these longitudes (which a quick check puts the state somewhere over the Atlantic), but these are using the Washington Meridian. The correct longitude boundaries in usual coordinates are 102°03'W and 109°03'W.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_meridians
No, not the laws of Nature, just Better.

And made better through centuries of hard work and sacrifice. It's what it takes.
Good essay. Particularly with web development, there is complexity around bridging the gap between server and client, and data crosses this chasm through serialization which exacerbates the problem and limits expressiveness of server languages, requiring massive duplication of code simply to serialize and duplicate on client what is present on server if one wants all the power of client interactivity and API's.

This is a big value of recent server-centric frameworks like Phoenix LiveView that provide ability to have code and data co-located and not have to duplicate so much on client and server as with SPA's while attempting to maintain some base level of client interactivity. But seems always a tension between leveraging the full power of client and full power of server.

You might find this article [0][1] informative. It disputes the idea that UI's are "pure functions of the data/model" in a compelling way, and points to this incorrect assumption as having introduced some complexity/pain in how frameworks like React work.

[0] https://blog.metaobject.com/2018/12/uis-are-not-pure-functio...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31979347
Ask HN: How do you track “flow-breakers” in your application?
It's easy to track metrics like registrations and key user actions - but when you want to track the path of a user through your app and/or somehow summarize that data into clear points of difficulty (e.g. "after uploading a file and swiping twice, most users leave"), how do you do that?

Is there any open source tooling?
Latest snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20230421135056/https://wideangle...

Almost all cookie prompts use at least one of these dark patterns on the websites I visit. Interestingly, Hacker News doesn't prompt for cookies at all.
"ars [some adjective]" is a not-uncommon construction for a name — you see other examples around like "ars mathematica".
PS interprets that as a string and echoes it.

PS C:\Users\me> "C:\Program Files\PuTTY\plink.exe"
C:\Program Files\PuTTY\plink.exe
Checked em out, but again...more seats and less bed is not what I need. I just want a car-like light truck for me to drive around the city alone or with a single passenger during the week and pick up sheets of plywood or drywall on the weekends. Don't want a big truck, don't need to carry a family of four.

But Santa Cruz is at least a step in the right direction.
A four-word tweet with no context doesn't seem like the optimal submission.

The Reddit thread seems better: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/12t8tc7/is...

In particular, this appears to be just about the free tier.
Your statement is ambiguous. It implies whose will to do what?

We could argue, for example, that a virus doesn't want to exist, and has no intent, doesn't plan and so on, and we'd be mostly right in this, but in the end, it enters a cell and uses its reproduction facilities to replicate itself. That's... what happens. So arguing about "will" might distract from the end result, it might make us feel better or in control, or both, but it's a pyrrhic victory.
If you ever write code that starts with

#include <windows.h>

then it is a must have.