skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That wouldn't have been all that different from WGSL though, the most important thing is that whatever WebGPU uses for its shaders can be translated to and from SPRIV (e.g. via https://dawn.googlesource.com/tint and https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga).
Yep. I precision about intelligence versus sentience is keeping the waters muddy.
There is no lead in Jet A1, as used on private jets, airliners, military aircraft, etc.

Lead is only still part of AvGas, used on piston-engined general aviation aircraft. It’s finally being phased out now.
The second thing is a very recent invention, which most people even now understand vaguely if at all.

If we made a ChatGPT that has some “senses” it can use to verify its perceptions, and it does as well with this as humans generally do, I’m sure we’ll get interesting results but I’m not sure we’ll be any closer to solving the problem.
It is beyond me why people still use Medium.
It's the first frame, I read the comments and still I don't understand. The game is too stressful for me, I give up haha
Of all the silly outcomes from recent AI development I was predicting, human rights organizations using fake AI generated images of injustice to manufacture emotionally driven support for them wasn't on the list. Excited to watch the next riots in the US be sparked from an AI generated video of _Racism_.
I never realized how much I hate ties until I spent 3+ years working essentially in t-shirts and jeans. Never again, outside of interviews or formal events (weddings, funerals, et al).
> I may be wrong, but audio types are standardized, while geo or map ones are not.

Regardless, it seems strange that other applications can show you a list of navigation apps when clicking on an address while Apple cannot. You're saying it's too technically difficult for Apple to achieve what others can?

Somehow, by some magic, Telegram asks you if you want to open the navigation to an address in Apple Maps, Google Maps or Waze (for me, possibly different for others). I'm not sure I'm buying it's too difficult for Apple to do the same, if they wanted to.
> no one outside of IBM really knows what those special firmware modules do or their API

This is a thing that always gets me thinking. How is it possible that the firmware has never been dumped? It's not like there wouldn't be some market for a machine that could emulate an IBM i in jurisdictions where requiring IBM hardware to run the OS is illegal.
I think the author is far too pessimistic about the capabilities of ML. I think we're already beyond the "it might not live up to the hype" stage and well into - "holy moley this is actually really well (for certain things) already - now let's figure out how to use and iterate upon it" stage.

However - the level of Silicon Valley Bro VC funded hype is totally out of this world.

Many of the claims of 'science' being used in marketing of many services seem to be misleading a lot of people as to how it all works. Some might even jest that they're far closer to magic than science as far as our understanding goes.

Coupled with the very serious risks (not that we can 'fix' that now - the cat is out of the bag), how slow governments are when it comes to technology (not to mention the seriously lacking amount of regulation in the American tech sector), politicians with little-to-no technical understanding in general let alone of ML when combined with the corporations that already have market dominance in many areas - makes for an interesting time for certain.

Marketing departments and now the general public using the term AI instead of ML is just the tip of the iceberg.
It seems like that would only be viable if supply remains constrained. If they kept building for new hires plus a spare percentage, then holding tons of empty un-rentable properties seems like a bad return. It is a complicated question for sure.
Anders Puck Nielsen: How is the war going?
I actually think it's clever marketing but I can understand how it can be disappointing for some ... I was just trying to understand why that person said what they said
An Interview with the Woman Who Drilled a Hole in Her Head to Open Up Her Mind
from a folk-music, rag-tag spiritual wanderer point of view, the Harmonium is deeply loved for its basic qualities, availability of low-cost, hardy instruments, and portability for hiking and camping.
Announcing the Framework Laptop 13 Powered by AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Processors
> You can't block fingerprinting completely without breaking a ton of useful features.

Many of those features are not so useful and their main use is fingerprinting, for example:

- WebGL is mostly used for fingerprinting

- enumerating installed fonts is mostly used for fingerprinting

They should be put behind a permission popup, so that only those sites that really need them (e.g. graphic editors, text editors) can use them. So nothing gets broken.
In Ada/Pascal/Modula-2/Modula-3/.... it would be something like,

type
Subrange = 56..100;
Colors = (Red, Green, Blue);
Pixel = array [Colors] of byte;

With the plus that it is a compiler error if an invalid value is assigned, and can be validated at compile time (or it will be a range runtime error otherwise).
At least for the Google account, it looks like you can add multiple passkeys.
Benjamin Pierce was my go to guy: https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/index.html

And when that is digested: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/main.html

And I think the learning should be fun. It is much more like taking an adventure into these areas. Especially when it is not a part of a course. So learn everything at ones and write about it (this is an area that is serious in need of some good written blog articles) - Maybe that will also create some serendipitous moments :)
France’s Rating Cut to AA- from AA by Fitch on Deficits, Debt
One place I worked at had a guy who proudly wore a "Vulkan - Industry Forged" T-Shirt every day. I'll just assume he had 5-7 identical ones.
That’s right.

In many ways, AGI and AI are opposites. We don’t actually “train” humans. We present them information. And a human can choose to ingest that information or - just as importantly - choose not to.

A 3yo learns English not through being force fed, but through their own curiosity and motivation to learn.

GPT and the like are proving to be amazing tools. The compute model of probabilistic algorithms (“plain” AI) is going to transform industries.

But the more sophisticated these tools get, the further from AGI they will become.

When we create AGI, it will begin with a blank slate, not the whole of human knowledge. It will study some topics deeply and be uninterested in others. It might draw its own conclusions instead of just taking the conclusions presented to it. Or it may decide not to study at all, preferring to instead become a hermit.

David Deutsch is the most compelling on this topic: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5nGOkhcJ7VszXm2WVgxKyC?si=8...
It matches exactly the on-disk format for deno.json / import_map.json.

Based on my limited experience with it, I was super-stoked to see it be basically: “oh, what I was messing around with last night when trying out deno!”
> Datamoshing is one effect that I don't think I'll ever process as an effect instead of an error

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS7QvOX8LVk what about this
Because they presumably don’t want someone impersonating them?
In retrospect there is no particular reason why the "two-language" approach of Python to numerically intensive computations should not have been primarily in Fortran rather than C/C++.

A Python/Fortran combination would have made the development of high-performing HPC type applications more accessible to scientists, more fun, and would have given Fortran a more secure future.

The decisions or non-decisions, the culture and approach to community etc of key stakeholders of language ecosystems do have implications.
A Vitamix will improve your life, I agree.
Ask HN: Are there any companies friendly to developers seeking part time work?
I asked this once here before and had some positive responses, it's now been 7 years so I hope it's ok to ask once again as things have changed a lot since then.

I'm a developer and also a writer. I'm trying to consistently carve out more time in my weeks for writing (which unfortunately is not very high revenue!) by looking for part time development work. Are there any companies openly friendly to part time development work? Specifically I'm looking for 80-100ish hours a month as a fullstack or frontend developer but welcome any topical replies so that this can be a useful resource to others as well.
Put WebGL, enumerating installed fonts, web audio, etc. behind a permission. In rare cases when they are really needed not for fingerprinting, the user will grant a permission and nothing gets broken.
The Sony PS1 Is an Audiophile Holy Grail?
Through their various acquisitions over the years they are basically now a "Big 4" consulting Co with a name we typically don't associate with that industry
>There is a kind of intellectual fraud that is being normalized sacrificing truth in the altar of tech hype.

The smell test I use to sniff those out involve asking two questions: Who is this tech for? And what are its limitations? If the answer is a hyped "everyone, no limits!" then it's almost certainly tech woo-woo.
More like it’ll do all the thinking for us so we can go back to sleep. Coffee itself is obsolete.
I hate this, I hate every part of this.

The attempt to get rid of passwords has been the biggest assault on the free internet in recent history, and people are asleep at the wheel as it's happening.

They want to tie you to an external service, so they can tie you to your phone, which they also manage with another external service.

All of these schemes are braindead with obtuse, user-unfriendly backup/transfer/restore options. They fail at even making things "simple" for regular users.
Then they should have presented the case that way, instead of showing C like code and assuming there is no way to do that in C++.
Ask HN: What is stressing you out, what do you do to stay sane?
We’re living during a time of some pretty significant stressors — what is stressing you out and what do you do to stay sane and keep yourself going?

Share, please :) it is mental health awareness month after all!
This is the right answer. Almost always in manual translation processes, there are questions about intent, either ambiguities in the original source (is this a big or do we keep it?) or clarifications in project planning (this code is unused... should we leave it out?).

How does an AI know to surface those concerns?
How is this more secure? They say "with a fingerprint, a face scan or a screen lock PIN", but basically all phones let you fall back to PINs if you dont want to do face or fingerprints. Pins are flat out not secure - typically just 4 digits.

Yeah its probably better than 80% of people having "password123", but it seems strictly worse than a password + password manager? Or at least just having proper 2FA.
Thinking CEOs do little is rather naive. On average they work same number of hours but the amount of stress they’re under is much higher than average.
OpenPM – OpenAPI Package Manager
> Roblox/Fortnite sized

every 10 year old in N. America is on those and/or minecraft. no way the metaverse has that kind of reach anytime soon.
>AI research is poor. Many of their claims will be proven wrong.

This is true of every field of science. As Dara Ó Brian memorably said, "Science knows it doesn't know everything. If it did, it would stop".
It looks like a good change for the average user, a secret stored on the device is likely a whole lot safer than just having a password. Having it as the only factor seems less secure than password + good extra factor like TOTP on device though.

I also wonder how a lost/broken/replaced device is dealth with, especially given Google's less-than-stellar account lockout history.

edit: I guess this is still MFA since you need both the physical device and a fingerprint and phone unlock code
Apple and Google team up to tackle Bluetooth tracker stalking
It is not silly. It feels almost criminal.
And kind of confirms everything is just business now a days...
This is really cool, and I can see myself using it over the long term.

I can't help but wonder that with the rise of tools like this, news agencies might start publishing exploding news to make it seem more important. It'll be interesting to see how the model works with that kind of data and if it's able to figure that out.
I agree and there is an enormous moral hazard to the latter. Just looking at what Hinton has been discussing post G, and you see ideological support for a narrow model, shameless anthropomorphization of LLM behavior, and downplaying of "hallucinations" (which I'd rather simply call what it is, which is lying).

The moral hazard (for sure not new) is that those most equipped to call out the overplaying of the technology's abilities are also those most personally incented (via fame for their creation), or commercially incented (as you mentioned) to drive sales and hype.
I hope we never experience an AI-generated Hollywood creative hellscape. That AI might be directed to merely seek to maximize profits and pump out derivative sequels and capeshit nonsense. That would be awful.
"Why is Google blocking Windows Phone's YouTube app?"

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2474516/why-is-google-...
Apple should remove the screen from the next iphone and force users to buy the headset to be able to see the display. Similar to how they removed the 3.5mm jack.
The article mentions that its surface temperature is around 430 degrees Celsius.

It's that "low" because its star also radiates way less energy than our sun.

But still, "habitable zone" means liquid water, which you might not find there given the pressures/temperatures involved. Maybe sufficiently cold spots could exist in the areas facing away from its star.

So could you say it's in the habitable zone? Depends on your understanding of the term.
I spend all my time writing services and HALs and even when I do need a UI, it's in the browser, that I forget there are people who still code actual GUIs for Windows.
My phone is making me sick and I'm not alone
The movie "Her" has happened, at least the human side of it [1][2].

[1] https://analyticsindiamag.com/her-is-real-the-bizarre-tale-o...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WSKKolgL2U&pp=ygUGc2FyYWh6
I didn't pick .NET, parent did. And regardless if the ecosystem is nice to work in or not, Microsoft tries their true and tested strategy of EEE with that ecosystem as well.
Talking to people who worked in that era, it was a different time with different constraints. There was no internet, and publishing a paper could be a time-intensive and laborious process. Typing, mailing, typesetting, and so forth. So it was common for a lot of stuff to just be published in house as technical reports and so forth, to not involve the overhead of external publishers. If you wanted something, you'd mail or call a colleague and ask them, and they'd mail you a white paper or monograph from their stack of copies in the hallway.

I started doing research long ago enough that I got a bit of exposure to that world, in the sense that that publication process was still briefly in place, and I saw those white papers passed around and used. Some of them were very influential.

The problem in some ways is that as people migrated to the current system with an emphasis on published articles, that stuff that people were actually using kind of dropped out of consciousness, sort of along the lines the article is describing. I can think of unpublished white papers that were cited immensely; people made fun of them never being turned into published papers. Maybe it's hurt the the paper in the current day along the lines of the target piece, but what's sad or funny is it never occurred to people that there was a work that was being cited a lot that never got published, as in to question the value of the publication process itself.

I don't disagree with you but there's a bit of broader historical context that's missing from the piece I think.

The irony is that today we might be seeing a return to the white paper model, in the form of preprints and open access archival papers, but it's just massively distributed. Maybe there's some lessons to be learned from that lost previous era (Google search dropping links, etc.)? Maybe it's just inevitable that as time goes on some things will be lost regardless.
I still hope to see a non-x86 version. The less bloat the better.
Didn't Google intentionally break YouTube on IE to make users move to chrome?
If you like React but also don't want a build step, take a look at Preact (only 3kb gzipped) + HTM, their alternative to JSX that uses tagged template literals, so it works in the browser (but also can be compiled away in a build step)

https://preactjs.com/guide/v10/getting-started#alternatives-...

https://github.com/developit/htm
Nvidia Research Previews the Next Generation of Generative AI Tools for Creators
If the core of your product is trust, to get donations for you doing the right thing, it is mind boggling you would use AI-generated images.
> I think he’s upset because NPR said they basically get no meaningful traffic from Twitter.

Exactly. Musk grossly overrated the amount of traffic publications actually get from Twitter, which is minuscule compared to Facebook, Google, and even newsletters. And now that's sinking in, and it's painful to him when publications say it out loud. I've worked in publishing and have seen this first-hand through analytics and tangentially from talking to colleagues at other publications. I think Musk made a Product Management 101 error (one of dozens) and assumed every person who uses Twitter uses it like him.
I have used FaceID & TouchID passkeys for a few months now for MFA. I love it, it’s the most seamless auth for me thru PingID.
Frontend here refers to the first stage of the three-stage structure of compilers, ie. the functionalities such as parsing and type checking that come before the optimization and target code generation phases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler#Three-stage_compiler_...
Which mathematical concepts would you say that you got to grasp?

Having done competitive programming also, I would not say that it made any difference for my mathematical perception.
I don't want to give Google my fingerprint or my face. A password in a password manager + 2FA is fine.
Don't know if serious or not, but I'll bite.

Apple was in deep troubles when IE was all the rage, you needed IE to access your bank's site, your company's intranet, so many site that were strictly IE only. Microsoft gifting them an implementation of IE was a mild grace, but still wasn't enough. Not having a browser compatible with 99% of the web was an issue pushing people away from Macs.

They learned their lesson, and used their advantage in the mobile market to make sure no other browser ever puts them in a similar position.

Google has a slightly different issue, in that for instance a strongly privacy focus/ad blocking browser taking the android world by storm is nothing good for them.
Get away from a screen
The problem with using Wikipedia as a news source is that it focuses on really flashy topics, like murder and armed conflicts. Looking at the headlines of detoxed.news confirms this:

1) Flood in Rwanda kills 109 people 2) Sudan War 3) Australia evacuation from Sudan 4) Seizing of an oil tanker

None of these headlines keep me particularly informed and are actually a more potent version of the 24 hours new cycle
The paper mentions isotopic analysis [1] for authenticity and origin, which fascinates me because of the breadth of applicability - even into criminal investigations of biological material to determine where you have been living.

1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotope_analysis
Companies Microsoft is most likely to try acquiring next (2021)
I believe main use of WebGPU, as well as WebGL will be fingerprinting therefore they should be put behing a permission. It is ridiculous that browser developers do nothing to reduce API surface usable for fingerprinting and instead just extend it.
And if you have your google account banned/disabled for whatever reason, then what?
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-calls-out-google-po...
I don't think an airport being outside of the city limits is that unusual, either.

E.g. the "new" Munich airport, all Paris airports (though you could argue that it's Paris which has unusually small city limits), Glasgow, London Gatwick, Stansted and Luton, San Francisco, …
> Maybe it works but nobody does it right?

> A point is a different size for everyone, but a day is a universal (ok technically global) unit.

I can definitely see that. Pretty much what you said is what I always hear, but the actual theory behind it (and what I'd guess they're testing in those studies) is that people can agree a given case is the same size ("big" or "small"), but the actual time taken to complete it is going to depend on the individual's experience (both in general and with that specific codebase).

It's just that the time mapping in scrum isn't supposed to happen at the individual level, it's something handled by the scrum master / manager / whoever that interacts with the rest of the business, using an average. This way time estimates when the team has different levels of experience get smoothed out into something hopefully more accurate at the sprint level.
Apple doesn't make it easy, but they don't make it impossible either, and at this point it's on the ecosystem to show Apple they want more of this by embracing what they have. So, sure, map links tend to open Apple Maps by default, but they can offer the user the choice to use other mapping apps, which they can check for by seeing if the OS will respond to their open url scheme. Harder? Sure. Impossible? Nope.

And for what it's worth, open a directions link from Google some time - for me, it opens Google Maps, which I do have installed, but don't prefer using. I choose Apple Maps because I'd rather have Watch notifications while I drive, but Google doesn't offer me that choice.
IPFS did browser caching? Are you sure?
Maybe if they stopped trying to become monoliths, people would stop considering them as monoliths?

What purpose could buying GitHub serve if they don't want GitHub to be a part of Microsoft? They are obviously trying to do everything, via a centralized organization which is Microsoft, so by all measures, they are or want to become, a monolith.

Regardless of what other people in the organization is doing, the organization as a whole is represented by everyone working their, no matter if they work on ads, cloud, FOSS or office products. You cannot work in one area and somehow ignore the work of your colleagues,
(This comment sounds like you're defending yourself, but I didn't read ghaff's comment as an "attack.")
> In the case of the Boston cleaner, that seems to indicate the living costs can also drive salary. If nobody applies to work somewhere, the wages either go up or the job goes unfilled.

When one job salary doesn't cover living costs, you are more likely forced to have two or three, not a raise in your current one. It also solves problem of unfilled jobs. Because there are cases when job is only economically feasible if performed in urban area with high population density, so you can't really change your location.
So would I. Funnily enough I thought it might happen at a job in the past so I've thought through the "would you quit if work banned Emacs" question quite a bit.
Sure. But am I still locking my ability to access that account permanently to Google? Can I login via Chrome on an Apple/Windows platform and add a passkey there?

I’m also a bit worried that this permanently entrenches these as the platform vendors because no one is going to port to a new platform unless you’re already a major tech company (maybe).