skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like the multiplexed SSH channels are in a single QUIC stream, so it doesn't help with head-of-line blocking? Honestly not sure what it does from reading the README.
You’re probably not using GPT-4, the internet is being flooded with takes about GPT-3.5’s quality like this simply because the author doesn’t know there is a meaningful difference with the new model.
Giving the fact that US spies and tries to blackmail all its allies, it's hard to blame anyone for spying on US, is it?
That is incredibly exciting! Glad to hear it.
My grandmother used it for about half a decade before she passed 5 years ago. I set it up for her, and she just used the browser and email on it.
Can you spot the AI generated catfish?
I agree, the whole section on the date felt really weird to me. Like the author was putting in significant effort to emulate some form of artistic writing style for effect, but badly missing the mark.

The later sections look like they are trying to be an argument about why dating services (and other changes) are a problem. Unfortunately, rather than any attempt to use fact, it is an argument from emotion, and not of any of the forms of emotion based arguments that seem to actually work, but more of an excuse to "wax poetic".

> Avoiding opportunities to develop courage is a terrible idea. Bravery is more important than other qualities of body and mind because it is the cornerstone of a well-lived life. ...

Um... what? that is a hell of a claim, and the author treats it as completely self-evident.

He then goes on to talk about romance in a similar fashion. This time, there there is a point there.
"Dating" apps tend to devolve quickly into into hookup apps. Which of course are not romantic. But then again, neither is going out to the bar/club/etc looking for a one night stand. Furthermore, none of those apps were optimizing for romance anyway. The entire design of Tinder for example is shallow. Photos front and center, rest of the profile hidden below the fold. Encourages being completely shallow and swiping primarily based on appearance.
So much contempt..

> So all technology ends up being designed for careless and irresponsible people because it's generally profitable to do this

So all of technology ends up getting designed for life, which generally will throw obstacles in your way. And therefore people will build escape hatches.
Yes, it was launched at the beginning of April (I signed up). Also, they offer a subscription plan for $3 per month.
You and Your Research, Richard Hamming (1986)
Harris and Raskin [1, via 2] note the following risks:

Reality collapse
Fake everything
Trust collapse
Automated loopholes in law / fake religions / cyberweapons / lobbying
Automated fake religions
Exponential blackmail / scams
A-Z testing of everything
Synthetic relationships
AlphaPersuade

They also note potential privacy risks (ai-augmented ambient wifi to see through walls, ai-enabled fmri-based brain reading) as well as the potential risk of assisting criminals and terrorists (e.g. AI approaches research-level chemistry, tells users how to make a nerve agent from materials they buy at home depot.)

A more subtle risk they point out is theory of mind, which is that with an adequate theory of mind the AI system may act in highly manipulative ways. We may be seeing this already with synthetic relationships.

They also point out that AI-fueled malware creation is already a thing.

Another worrisome scenario is that models seem to be able to be optimized and shrunk. The emergent behavior from millions of them is unclear.

And they note that AI (unlike nukes) can improve itself. This may lead to surprising step functions in emergent capabilities at an increasing rate, with unpredictable and likely unintended consequences.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVJKj8lcNQ (video)
https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/the-ai-dilemma (podcast and transcript)

[2] https://mleverything.substack.com/p/thought-on-ai-dilemma-pa...
"There's a funny hn thread where people aren't good at arguing or experimentation" is an insult.
Shaders Case Study: Pokémon Battle Transitions
That's certainly not how it sells and markets itself.

The first feature on benefits (and the only reason I've ever heard Datomic brought up and/or considered it myself for production workflows) is using that stuff in application workflows: https://docs.datomic.com/pro/time/filters.html#history

Could be you're saying it in fact doesn't work well performance-wise, that'd (surprise me but) certainly explain why it's not more popular -- but I think it's clear it wants you to use this as an application feature.
Back in the day, NetApp did something similar. It's sad it's not more common, it really helps folks apply for jobs if they don't have a pile of laptops at home.

Though, as the price of computers have come down, it's less common for folks to not have a computer at home - it's still a wonderful gesture that's very low cost.
Indeed, what i meant is that i agree with imgur and dont think it will follow tumblr.
For some, but most people aren't going to change away from the OS that their machines come configured with.
> The biological understanding of sex, as Dawkins points out, is that it is a binary of female and male.

It's taken as binary because the biological difference doesn't result in a meaningful physiological difference. That doesn't mean it's "anti-science" to have an alternative take. Consider that "The biological understanding of sex" as used in your comment should logically be understood as "A common interpretation of the biological understanding of sex". It might suddenly become clear that "it is a binary of male and female" as used in your comment is actually an opinion.

Anyway, I'm not deluding myself that this particular legal definition in Australia was not made in response to recent gender politics. It's more likely there for trans people than for a person who is biologically XXY and physiologically male. However, to say that it's "anti-science" to claim there are more than 2 sexes is mistaken. It is, as I said, an opinionated interpretation of a certain understanding of biology. You disagree with this opinion and you are mistaken when you say it is factually incorrect.
Same difference, I saw your deleted comment where you said "yes" as well, and your sentiment is the same. Accountability has to start somewhere. For clarity they edited that line after I quoted it.
Did you know that there are many activities that you can do on the Earth that, without appropriate technical equipment, are fatal? From diving to mountaineering or living in deserts, mankind has overcome many challenging environments.
Microsoft clearly has no vision for Windows. One team gets a push to add more ads. Some team somehow wants to touch Notepad. It is all random and not coordinated.
The Next Chapter in TIME’s Digital Transformation
There is an effect called dispersion, which causes different frequencies of electromagnetic radiation to travel through a medium at different speeds (lower frequencies => slower).

It's strong enough to be noticeable in the case of pulsars (but probably insignificant inside the solar system).
Most people do not have computers or running water so next to no impact.
This, children, is known as moving the goalposts.

The question of "what fuel do I want for power tools after a natural disaster" is entirely distinct from "what mix of sources should we use to power the grid?" Babelthuap is deliberately muddying the water here.

And, yeah, Babel, I live in Houston, and except for college have spent all of my 53 years within an hour or so drive of the gulf coast. I know about hurricanes, even big ones. That's a dumb objection to including renewable energy in a grid plan.
This seems like a great way to get an app running in production. Seems like Vercel and Supabase combine to make a pretty solid modern heroku replacement.
Sadly I think this is a significant part of it. It is so very hard to convince anyone in CS to fund unsexy projects. I think the majority of innovation on the unsexy things happens internally at the large tech companies.
IMO the real problem with Clubhouse was it was for the intelligentsia and their hangers-on. That's not a profitable market.

Advertising dollars chase the masses, and what the masses want is, well, celebrities, the good looking, the attractive, and the funny. The public is chasing dopamine hits, and advertisers chase the public.
While I'm not an expert - the article does mention that the cement dust has an impact on soil, and I can imagine that the rocket itself was filled with multiple dangerous and toxic chemicals which were scattered to the wind.

It's probably not Exxon Valdez, but I doubt it's a small deal.
It's a shame this isn't a top level comment, it's the best response in the thread.
If it was valuable, you would be selling it or making trades or business decisions with it, not giving it away for free.
It's the same reason the Voyagers launched in the late 70s - the Grand Tour configuration of the planets [0]. The outer planets align in a way that lets you chain together several gravity assists to achieve high enough speeds to escape the solar system. The trick is that configuration only occurs every 175 years. I don't think we have any space vehicles right now that could produce that same kind of delta-v with their own chemical/electrical/nuclear power.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Tour_program
Looking into a bit more, the only cats that would be likely candidates that I can find would be a margay (likely too small) or an ocelot. If either were the case, I would think it would be a bigger story considering how few live in Texas.
Disclaimer: I think that we should not use blockchain (here we disagree), and I am not a big fan of generative AI (I think we kind of agree here).

> I really don't understand how the hacker news groupthink can [...] say "there's absolutely nothing there".

Blockchain doesn't solve anything other than cryptocurrencies that was not solved better before. But that leaves this one thing: cryptocurrencies; blockchains does enable cryptocurrencies in a way that was not possible before.

The problem I have with cryptocurrencies is that I don't want them. That's not a technical argument, that's more a preference of what I believe society should do.

So there is not nothing, but web3 is bullshit IMHO.

> You know what bubble I saw excited about them? Not the tech bros, but artists interested in a new way of monetizing their work.

Well, it's hard not to be excited by something that you don't really understand but that may bring you money. Doesn't mean NFTs are desirable. BTW you talk about them in the past, so somehow you do realize that apparently they were not desirable enough to survive, right?

> Meanwhile, LLMs are almost exclusively trained and served by massive corporations

I totally agree with that. I don't want Big Data to steal my data, use it to train models, and sell that back to me. I wish there would be a way to account for copyright and licensing in a decent manner, but I fear that the rich will win (that's capitalism, right?).

Just as much as I believe that Bitcoin made more harm than good, I believe that generative AIs have the potential to make more harm than good. The problem is that companies don't think about whether they should do something - only whether it is profitable. And people typically love to not think about it and just happily try and support all those cool techs.
Interesting. What is the upper limit of side playtime on a vinyl LP?
Surprised to read this quote here!
This means nothing/no one can guarantee you being a psychoanalyst.
Just like either you can code and be good at it or not. That's all this phrase means.
Of course it gets tricky. A programmer can show the result and it either works or it doesn't. An analyst can't show anything, really. Even if the analysand claims his/her life has changed because of an analysis (people also claim Jesus changed them, for example).

About the floating attention thing, that's a very strange generalization ("analysts don't pay attention"). It is about treating all the "material" equally (ie without preconceptions).
They thought it'd blow up on the launchpad. The effort to protect against that kind of explosion isn't worth it
If someone builds a device that sprays paint onto a canvas based on some parameters, and then a person use those parameters, writes a small controller that sprays the paint a specific way, manually adjusts the position of the device over multiple sessions, and does their own touchups to create a piece of art, would they not hold the copyright on the resulting piece?

Yes, there is a deterministic component (although, to my knowledge, the AI tools aren't actually deterministic over their parameters). But the resulting work involves a lot of human creativity and intervention.
And by near future they mean when we'll have nuclear fusion, which will be in near future too. I've been reading about their plans for 30+ years.
If Kavanaugh is telling the truth, and "devil's triangle" is a drinking game his friends invented, who but his friends would know about it?

Of course you're free to believe whatever you want, but if you aren't willing to discuss it, why did you even bring it up here?
what do they censor?
> Who's taking down all the solar farms and wind farms before a hurricane?

Just one more thing for ERCOT to add to their todo list after they shut down the gas power plants.

But on a serious note, this is the most diverse the grid has ever been.
Can I ask what’s so good about YT on Brave? I use the iOS app but could change.

Does it block ads?
GPT4: Can you come up with new more effective language for communication try
I found this quite funny and interesting how chat gpt4 stripped out the language to essentials.
You assume every project is commercial. I just make software to solve my problems and I use Linux. GTK is the nicest option to me.
You are intentionally missing the point. The pedantic definition of family is a strawman, in this case.
they lost me at "altcoin"
It is unfortunately more complicated than that.

First, the density of a city is different than the density of the area over which people live who commute to that city. Even American cities with comparable density are not necessarily as dense on that apples to apples comparison.

Second, you have to look at commute distance. The average American commutes around 40 miles each way. The average European commutes around 9 miles each way. 4x the distance = 16x the area, which means that adding a bus from A to B is likely to be helpful for about 1/16 the people. And that, right there, is going to explain a HUGE difference in ridership on mass transit.
I'd rephrase. Underneath it all is a secret. Classically, passwords were shared secrets with someone. Everything since has come down to a way to not require direct sharing.
Open source much? I guess not.

Also I’m an employer and I don’t give a flying flip if my employees pair with ChatGPT. So maybe just maybe you’re I dunno, wrong?
Basically any article you find searching "SpaceX Launch" right now that covers the damage to the pad (not just the very-early reports about the rocket blowing up) contains some or all of the info in that post.

The reporter I heard talking about it (I think yesterday?) said that SpaceX had to file a variety of assessments of expected effects under various launch scenarios, and that the damage done by this successful launch was on par with what they'd estimated for the "fully-fueled rocket explodes on pad" outcome, and that they seem to have based their projections for a "gets off the pad successfully" scenario on results from a half-throttle test-fire and, I dunno, wishful thinking, it seems. I have not personally looked up those records to verify that, though.
Unironically, our city planning and lives would be much better if cars were limited to speeds of ~20 mph.
Agree that Unreal Engine is a powerful force. But it's not FOSS. While the licensing terms are attractive to gaming companies, I'm not sure how well that goes over in other sectors. In particular FAANG seems to prefer Apache/BSD or writing their own.
Your typical non-technical user still has zero interest in paying Apple prices.
I think it's because space isn't a perfect vacuum. The interstellar medium is a mix of gas and dust that slow down and weaken the signal. That effect is known as dispersion.

With that said, it seems like the article might be inaccurate. That discrepancy seems too large to be explained by dispersion. I'm not an expert though.

edit:
I think the author got Voyager 1's distance mixed up with Voyager 2. Voyager 1 is ~22 (21.6) light hours away.
I think it blowing up or otherwise failing was probably the most likely case and they didn't really hide that fact, but I get the sense that they expected that it would make it a little further along, and not destroy the pad, such that the mess would end up in the ocean instead of on land. This is also littering of a sort, but it's also how every rocket stage pre-SpaceX has met its demise anyway, by design (except for the Chinese ones that seem to have a tendency to come down on land, often in populated areas). Dropping rocket parts in the ocean is just an accepted part of doing business, for better or worse.
What's described here is roughly true of any deeply quantitative scientific research that depends on optimization and statistics, although for a number of reasons, it's far worse in ML than other fields.

I worked on a lot of "reproductions" in my career: given a paper, implement the paper and get the same results as the authors. As I got better, I learned techniques on how to be more effective, for example often running optimization many times and seeing how sensitive the optimization was to random seeds. Often times I'm at the point of inspecting individual steps in the data load/augmentation pipeline (buggy 90 degree image rotations are very common, as are swapped axis rectangle crops)

None of this should be surprising when we recognize that the people producing these papers are incentivized to move as quickly as possible, not produce stable systems for people with less ML skill. Any time a paper includes the exact source code, training data, and the shortcut to get training working, it saves me roughly 2-3 weeks at least.

And don't get me started on reproduction attempts that ultimately lead to papers being retracted. It's painfully common to fail to reproduce the author's work, then get access to their source, and find basic bugs that question the results.
> iPhones are not the majority of the market by any stretch

It depends on which market you are looking at. In the US market Apple apparently has a 57% share according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/620805/smartphone-sales-....
I wonder if public benchmarks are now allowed with the binaries.
Your consumption of steak had one good angle - this example you've made of yourself. Step one is self-awareness. Beyond that it's up to each of us to know what we feel comfortable with in response to that. But admitting it's the beginning.
Far better to live in a low tax, failed state with extreme economic inequality. At least we’ve got Apple Watches, am I right?
Progress happens iteratively. We figure out how to get there first, we'll - or future generations will - figure out how to live there comfortably. Dead cats and birds, well, small price to pay for getting us off this rock.
The UIs ChatGPT Won't Replace
There are a few local activists who have been staunchly opposed to spacex expanding into the Boca Chica area. I find it perfectly reasonable that someone would not want a rocket company in their backyard, however if you are going to be launching things into space you are somewhat geographically limited. You want to be as close to the equator as possible to take advantage of the faster rotational speed of the Earth and you want to have an ocean to the east in case there is an accident so that debris doesn't hit anything on land. The area should ideally be relatively remote so that testing doesn't cause too much of a disturbance, but populated enough so that you can get supplies and workers. This leaves you with two options if you want to launch spacecraft in the united states, south Florida and south Texas. There really aren't any other options if you want to be as efficient as possible.
Comment posters on HN are the type of people who would rather spend time commenting on others' ventures than working on solving the actual problems.
What even is the Apple Watch store? Isn’t that just the iOS store?
Not even close, cow’s milk has significantly higher impacts than the plant-based alternatives across all metrics, including processing, transporting, etc.

https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impact-milks
That's maybe the farthest human made object.

Voyager 1 is escaping at 3.6 AU per year. That's 3.6 * 150,000,000 km / 365 / 24 = 61,643 km/h

That manhole started with a speed of 200,000 km/h and several years in advance.
May be factor in the opportunity cost of 1-YR treasury bond rate of 4.783%?
The problem of rocket blast mitigation has been studied for 70 years. It is not a newly discovered thing.

They launched the biggest rocket ever made without any of the blast-mitigation techniques used on similar launches.
The kind of manager I’d happily walk from. Either way, I won’t be doing pointless work that inevitably leads to failure - said manager can enjoy their low quality development team and failed outcomes.

When the managers bosses see the manager failed a project after firing all the people who said it would fail, it won’t look good for them.
There definitely are people like that (e.g. the Xylem stuff is an attempt to make something "perfect") but a) I don't think there's anything wrong with some people doing that, and b) that clearly isn't why we don't have a 1st class Rust GUI yet.

1. There are unprincipled Rust GUIs, e.g. Egui. It works great.

2. Making a GUI framework is just bloody hard and a ton of work. I think only a small handful of languages have native GUI toolkits. Most just wrap C or HTML.

GTK is 25 years old and Qt is 27 years old. I don't think 5 years is long enough to develop a mature GUI toolkit (unless you have an enormous company backing you maybe).
Are you the author of the meta analysis? If so, thanks for your work on that.

But I was not commenting on the quality of the studies. I did not think the author of "The Epistemology of Software Quality" was either.
> People just don't like change... especially corporate IT departments.

Well, all change causes pain. People don't like change when there isn't an obvious benefit to offset the pain it brings. When they do see the benefit, though, they tend to embrace change. I think the mistake that was made with IPv6 was a social one: it's a huge amount of change (pain) for a benefit that is invisible or irrelevant to a whole lot of people.

IT departments, like most departments, dislike expense more than they dislike change.
Trust me, anything from an account called "dangsuckshard" is going to earn some flags.
The probes get their power from the decay of a plutonium isotope. The question is why can't we find applications for this technology on earth, for example to power your house or something?
Wasn't The Expanse popular in the US, though? Deimos was destroyed by UN forces during the Earth-Mars conflict in the sci-fi series.
I've added use of Helgrind's `ANNOTATE_HAPPENS_BEFORE()` and `ANNOTATE_HAPPENS_AFTER()` macros to the functions in `atomics.c` and now this is Helgrind-clean as well as TSAN-clean.

The only bugs found by TSAN (as noted in another reply) were the one you found and two assert()s that didn't use atomics. Those two asserts could be a big problem if one ran a non-NDEBUG build in production.

So now this is TSAN- and Helgrind-clean.

Thanks for prompting me to do this extra work!
If when it lands I wonder how much it would help with video tasks like plex transcoding
Oh this is just going to push all the anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorists' buttons
Yes, but if Earth suffers several unlikely global catastrophes at the same time, it might almost be harder to live here than on Mars!