skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> While I am still curious to know why this is

No marketing budget.

> it seems like "advertisement" is still the greater predictor of software usage than anything else

It is not. It's only a blocker if an app doesn't have any presence at all.

> FOSS apps get better the more people use them

Not true. Only users who report bugs bring value.
Elon should not walk into any Saudi embassies or consulates. Anywhere. Any time.
Great! Good luck to her.

The negativity here is weird.
> The Public Defender's priorities are much more focused; (1) provide criminal defense services for those in need, mainly the indigent, (2) influence criminal justice policy through by identifying judiciable appellate matters; and, (3) working with private defense attorneys to challenge prosecutorial policy on a broader level.

I would call this broad. How is the prosecutor's mission more multifaceted?
The mistake is in believing that LLM's output should be deterministic to be useful.

Human output is not deterministic.

Fields with text-heavy output are already being upended by this. Being able to summarize long legal briefs, identify contract problems, do classification of discovery documents, or even write first drafts of common legal forms is already upending the legal discipline.

Chat-based customer support agents are seeing 25% productivity improvements based on two-year-old models for new employees, according to a study published in NBER.

Things like BabyAGI and other sequential "do anything" tools appear to be close to useless now, and unfortunately that is what is catching a lot of hype on Twitter. But actual industry applications are much quieter (often NDA) and much more impactful.
Am I rich because I've funded a 529 plan for my kids? This story is way overblown.
> How large % of the ADHD population could be fixed environmentally, e.g. by just going to the damn gym? How much can be attributed to our modern lifestyles?

Structural differences in brain chemistry don't get fixed by going to the gym.

People with untreated ADHD are 3x more likely to be in a car accident. Going to the gym won't fix that.

50% of people with untreated ADHD have issues with substance abuse. 50%. Going to the gym won't help with that.

Divorce rates for people with ADHD are up to 2x population averages, a few hours a week lifting weights won't help with that.

> How much can be attributed to our modern lifestyles?

Risk factors for developing ADHD are heavily linked to exposure to the industrial pollutants that are a result from modern society. It isn't the largest factor, but it is a contributing one.

That is going to be the only "modern lifestyle" link you find.

People with ADHD don't just have problems sitting in a chair (that tends to go away as people age anyway), ADHD impacts emotional regulation, the ability to perceive time, and basically all other aspects of executive function.

ADHD isn't just "can't focus", that is just the most obvious symptom. ADHD is, aside from being horribly misnamed, a disorder of the executing functioning part of the brain that is responsible for controlling large swaths of higher order brain functions.

To tl;dr it, having ADHD fucks with everything.
The funny thing about it is that, even if the emerald mine had been real, it would explain maybe 1/10000 of Musk's wealth. If those who talk about the "emerald mine" had managed to multiply the wealth of their family by 10000 they would consider it an incredible success.
Perhaps it's Uber drivers buying them with financing after being forced to drive a sufficiently recent model of vehicle.
As a follow up for the salaries question
https://www.indeed.com/career/senior-designer/salaries
Senior designer salary in United States $92,324
I think what they are asking is if chiplets have a durable advantage, or a transitory one.
Absolutely, the demand for 7 to 9 figure a year jobs that are contingent upon building a functional auditing and compliance org and not openly breaking law would completely evaporate.

I mean we have no lawyer or doctors for the same reason.
DaisyUI looks great. Thanks for the rec!
That’s definitely a big part, but the other major reasons are:
1. Companies are focusing on selling higher profit margin vehicles (more expensive models vs high volume budget models)
2. Companies are focusing on SUVs and trucks since bigger cars are in demand.
3. To a small extent, the focus on inherently more expensive EV models
look i get it, you’d prefer if people unionized so that the less fortunate benefit. a noble goal. But the parent is very confused if they think working conditions are amazing in europe. I agree PTO is fantastic for legal reasons. That aside…please realize that average pay in an expensive city like berlin is right around the $70k salary that they make fun of.

see for yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27916453

that’s for a SENIOR btw. Housing in Berlin is not cheap.
Who needs help with team retrospectives?
The biggest difference between high performing and average teams is the amount of introspection they do as a group.

If your team isn't doing this or isn't getting value from it, I want to help. This is my passion and expertise.
> Many of them won't make the ev transition.

What exactly makes u come to this conclusion?
Some vehicular services require location data.

>This incident exposed the information of customers who used the company's T-Connect G-Link, G-Link Lite, or G-BOOK services between January 2, 2012, and April 17, 2023.

>T-Connect is Toyota's in-car smart service for voice assistance, customer service support, car status and management, and on-road emergency help.
I’m sympathetic to these arguments, but AGI to me is Data from Star Trek. I think most people would agree.

He has curiosity. The current gen of AIs don’t. They don’t even ask questions, let alone remember anything.

He has a capacity to get bored. He tries out guitar just because he wants to. He paints. He’s frustrated when the details aren’t right.

A lot of these traits are human. But that’s the whole point — we’re trying to make a wo/man in a machine.

I’ve never understood the hype, and I’m a researcher. It seems to me that there is a vast gulf between what AIs are capable of and anything that makes being human, human.

I believe they’ll get progressively better at intellectual tasks, though. That will be really disruptive.
people who like elon musk feel better using musk's twitter, so their experience is probably objectively better since he took over.

people who dislike elon musk feel worse using musk's twitter, so their experience is probably objectively worse since he took over.

i really don't think it's much more deep than that.
I live in that state, and the actual numbers compared with the actual people living in that state unfortunately trivializes the events. More people die in car accidents so it's not like it's a huge tragedy that's on everyone's' minds. It may be if you are affected or close to people who are, but in general it's not top of mind.

It won't go there for the judge, it's too hypothetical. Likely gross negligence at worst without specifying details of a fire. The fire is just a hypothetical for discussion here.
That's an illusion. It's ok in neither case, and two wrongs don't make a right.

Obviously you can't call for "violently if necessary" "removing" people on HN. That's nowhere near a borderline call.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
safe bet people are working real hard on it; it’s just like, cell cultures are fussy and biology doesn’t care about you, so it’s very much an uphill fight.
You're forgetting the corporate funding and that their editorial line parrots the state department.

Also, SpaceX deployed Starlink to provide guidance to (US provided) Ukrainian weapons. Field commanders said without it they wouldn't be in the fight. That sounds aligned with US foreign policy and statecraft to me.

They backpedaled after the use of the technology became so aggressive it would be reputationally damaging for starlink.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64579267
Traditional Machine Learning with Scholar
Tldr for above comment: I hate Elon so much
Google wants you to forget the 10 blue links
> If fertility rates get stuck at 1 or below

There's no reason to believe they would be "stuck" into perpetuity.

Right now, young people comparatively want fewer kids than the previous generation. That's owing to both life stresses (as they say it) and cultural shift, neither of which are written in stone. The fertility rate has stagnated with prosperity, but the U.S. was also quite developed by the end of the world wars, and we then had the boomers.

> they require a lot of societal wealth

Scandinavian countries aren't particularly wealthy compared to the U.S., Germany, France, Japan and others.
Here's why:

The sponsor, DigitalBits, hasn't paid their bills.

You're welcome.
> Many of them won't make the ev transition.

It's still not clear when (and if) the ev transition will happen. There are many unknowns.
386 got trapping privileged accesses wrong, not fixed in 486. Problem is Protected Mode programs (CPL 3) executing CLI and expecting POPF to restore interrupt flag - its ignored AND doesnt trap. Afaik no x86 CPU ever fixed it completely.

Microsoft had some hacks trying to detect and patch known common problem patterns:

Getting MS-DOS games to run on Windows 95: The interrupt flag https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160411-00/?p=93...

Virtualbox switches to software tricks: https://docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/virtualbox/6.0/adm...

"In particular, the recompiler is used when guest code disables interrupts and Oracle VM VirtualBox cannot figure out when they will be switched back on. In these situations, Oracle VM VirtualBox actually analyzes the guest code using its own disassembler."

ReactOS didnt even try. "ReactOS' NTVDM on the other hand, is a software emulator just like DOSBox": https://web.archive.org/web/20170723164052/http://community.... https://web.archive.org/web/20151216085857/http://community....

https://xem.github.io/minix86/manual/intel-x86-and-64-manual...

"When the PVI flag is set to 1, the CPL is 3, and the IOPL is less than 3, the STI and CLI instructions set and clear
the VIF flag in the EFLAGS register, leaving IF unaffected. In this mode of operation, an application running in
protected mode and at a CPL of 3 can inhibit interrupts in the same manner as is described in Section 20.3.2, “Class
2—Maskable Hardware Interrupt Handling in Virtual-8086 Mode Using the Virtual Interrupt Mechanism”, for a
virtual-8086 mode task. When the application executes the CLI instruction, the processor clears the VIF flag. If the
processor receives a maskable hardware interrupt, the processor invokes the protected-mode interrupt handler.
This handler checks the state of the VIF flag in the EFLAGS register. If the VIF flag is clear (indicating that the active
task does not want to have interrupts handled now), the handler sets the VIP flag in the EFLAGS image on the stack
and returns to the privilege-level 3 application, which continues program execution. When the application executes
a STI instruction to set the VIF flag, the processor automatically invokes the general-protection exception handler,
which can then handle the pending interrupt. After handing the pending interrupt, the handler typically sets the VIF
flag and clears the VIP flag in the EFLAGS image on the stack and executes a return to the application program. The
next time the processor receives a maskable hardware interrupt, the processor will handle it in the normal manner
for interrupts received while the processor is operating at a CPL of 3."

Pentium got Protected Mode Virtual Interrupts to half ass mitigate some of the symptoms, but doesnt fix the problem. https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/popf:popfd:popfq

"The protected-mode virtual-interrupt feature — enabled by setting CR4.PVI — affects the CLI and STI instructions in the same manner as the virtual-8086 mode extensions. POPF, however, is not affected by CR4.PVI"
We'll see. I honestly hope that happens just so I can read all the hate comments.
At this point, I doubt there will ever be any proposal as easy to adopt and as radically-improved as Symmetry454 [1].

One day, I hope to live in a world where I get to use this calendar and the average response isn't for people to look at me funny…

For anyone looking for a tl;dr, Symmetry454…

- is perpetual; one printed calendar will work, more or less, indefinitely

- preserves the 7-day sabbatical week cycle (no intercalary days like IFC)

- simplifies the leap rule to a formula which should work for a very long time (at least a few millenia from now)

- preserves 3 months in a quarter, and 4 equal quarters making up a year

- results in every week, month, quarter, year, etc. beginning on a Monday and ending on a Sunday; this also means knowing just the day number tells you exactly what day-of-week it is

- ensures all months now consist of a predictable, whole-number of weeks

… it's just… so much better…

All the best,

[1]: http://individual.utoronto.ca/kalendis/symmetry.htm
Thank you for being part of normalizing consumer freedom while being responsible enough to support the people who worked on the thing.

Part of what makes the discussion of emulators or alternative means of playing games so difficult, is that the loudest voices are those who make it clear that they have no intention of actually buying the product to begin with.

It makes it hard for any conversation around the publisher’s pushback to “protect their IP” to move beyond their need to protect their income stream, and into the legitimate reasons a consumer would want to have more control over how they play the publisher’s game.
If Elon Musk (or one of his companies) cured cancer tomorrow a significant part of the population would find a way to hate him for it.
Wholeheartedly agree, my knock isn't on the servers and staff it's on these "small business owners" who require public charity to run their business and pay their employees.
FYI just in case you didn't know, it's "quote unquote", signifying the starting and ending quotation marks.
Note the Cuis-Smalltalk Daily Workflow:

https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/Daily-Workflow....
The appeal of twitter is the fame. They may look down upon traditional media, but it's those that give twitter users their megaphone. If you've got 1000 followers that may or may not glance upon your tweets, that nice. But to see your opinion broadcasted as the voice of the people, that's attractive.
EVs are the way to go right now. Between the "fleet" loophole for federal credits, state credits, free charging for 2-3 years in some cases, discounted charging at night, manufacturers trying to get rid of the EVs that didn't succeed, no sales tax in some states. It's probably 50% cheaper than an ICE car
That's just a flipped mapping of the default, which used the c-pad (just another d-pad, really, but with discrete buttons) for strafe, right? I wouldn't think that's an improvement, since A and B are on the c-pad side.

[EDIT] I mean, I was just nostalgia-playing a little Goldeneye on the Switch like last week for the first time in years, and checked the mappings because my god is the default bad, and if you know one that can put look + turn on the stick, and forward/back/strafe on the c-pad... that'd be great. It didn't look to me like any did that, so I just stuck with the default.
I'd love KDE to implement a server dependent version with both a subscription and a self-hosted version. If I understand push notifications properly they could be used to keep it sleeping until it's "notification time", connect and do it's thing. Since there's always a push connection active with your phone it wouldn't increase battery consumption
I think the way to take this comment is "He didn't pull himself up by his own bootstraps. And people need to stop pretending like any of his history means that he did."
My best guess is he's just an idiot and doesn't really think things through, just saying/doing whatever dumb idea pops into his head at the moment
I thought that when news title ends with question mark the answer is no.
I seriously cannot tell if this comment is supposed to be taken as sarcasm.
U.S. wants to turn middle-American cities into tech hubs with $500M investment
While I love testing-library, and have contributed to the sister libraries, one thing that always irked me is there was no empirical proof on why it was just better outside of handy wavy "because I said so."
oh, historical time is an absolute mess. i have yet to find a library that handles BC dates except maybe astropy — and they have different priorities!
Because he said it himself? Why else would anyone come up with such specific source of income? Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20140413112637/https://www.askme...

His dad invested $200k at 10% at a later stage. I'm pretty sure it qualifies as rich daddy.
Source: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1211064937004589056

Btw Musk had little to do with the success of X. The revenue of PayPal was merely $61 million at the time Musk was fired as CEO of X.com(later PayPal).
Motorola sold an MMU that was paired with the 68020 - the 68851, but the likes of Sun kept using their own (which were simple to implement, a few fast SRAMs and a little TTL). The 68010 was the earliest family member that supported clean instruction restart on a page fault and had its own, infrequently used MMU - the 68451. Again most system vendors preferred to do their own. If you wanted "real" virtual memory on a 68000, you had to do kludges like running 2 68ks in parallel, switching on every page fault.
> Elon’s big start came from the success of X and Paypal

To which Elon contributed, AFAICT, money (both directly and in his ability to scare up capital), not management.

He was forced out as CEO of X when they had no product success, X bought the company that owned PayPal and briefly brought him back as CEO then forced him out against six months later, after which X renamed itself after its one successful product, which it had acquired.
This may not be the worst thing honestly, from an environmental perspective. The cars themselves have much longer usable lives now so it's for the best that cars move down to new users instead of needing to build more and more.

The downsides, however, is that while the car part of the car is more durable and long-lasting than ever, the software/computer parts of the car are hamstrung by terrible decisions that are sure to age very poorly. This will only get worse when GM decides they want to turn the infotainment screen into a data-harvesting cash cow.

Also, this will slow down the transition to EVs. And it ends up saturating the used car market with cars designed with the tastes of show-boating new-car buyers in mind. This screws over people who just want a humble, reliable, practical vehicle instead of an overspecced, oversized, brodozer.
There are at least two big points for people to care about.

The money did come from something unethical--his family was enriched by segregation; racism; apartheid. That emerald money is dirty and is likely a key reason why Elon would deny its existence.

This brings us to the second thing: Elon lying about this. He has demonstrated that he is willing to lie about something this significant, which should do real damage to his credibility and trustworthiness if we are being logical and objective. What else is he willing to lie about?
I funded a 529 plan with $40,000 19 years ago. It lost money.

529s are a fucking scam.
> Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into X, the everything app.

I wish this notion of the "everything app" would die in the West. Yes, China has a highly successful everything app, but it exists because the government wants a centralized place to control digital activity. Such a model makes no sense in the west. We already have an everything app, it's called "App Store."

So many apps try to this strategy. For instance, Snapchat added games to the app. Why would I want to play a game in Snapchat when I have a nearly unlimited selection of games in the app store?
My plan is to get it via a hospital which accepts public funds. This requires them (by law) to offer a payment plan that works for my income level.

I'm fine with """paying $1M dollars""" via a monthly bill of $50 or whatever until I die and the rest of the debt evaporates.
What their disclaimer ought to say is "Bard is not available in countries that actually have consumer protections against blind data slurping."
Average EV price in 2020 was $55,000 and average ICE price was $39,000. Average EV price today is $55,000 and average ICE price is $48,000.

Both ICE & EV went up about $10K, but the EV price has dropped back and the ICE hasn't.
Language models like GPT-3 could herald a new type of search engine (2021)
First major adopter of the new Sandbox API?

Some very good tech comments happening in the last thread on Kuasar. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35649189

It was a bit surprising to me that the model is a forking model, that each VM is it's own process. Got a great reply on that:

> It is very insightful to point out that forking a wasm runtime may not be the best choice, actually this is because we chose the WasmEdge as our first supported wasm runtime, and it do not support redirecting the standard io fds, so we can only fork a new process and redefine the stdin/stdout/stderr to the named pipe. we already submit an issue to WasmEdge community, we may change the fork way to starting directly. For Wasmtime (we will support it later), there is no such constraint, and we will start runtime directly.

Other good discussion on how much people appreciate getting away from the much higher overhead per-container Shim v2 model!

It strikes me that this could be an excellent starting place for a CloudFlare workerd js/wasm provider too. That's been a pet desire of mine, and this could drastically slash the effort required to experiment. https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd

It's awesome to see thr container model maturing. Much better runtime behavior here. And the ability to nicely go beyond mini-Linux-containers into new frontiers is hella exciting.
> the marketing for the iPhone made it compelling.

That's part of my point. There was a tremendous amount of hype for something that was incredibly limited and objectively bad. However eventually it became very good and took over the world.
The Sun-1 MMU was a base/bounds swapping MMU, not a VM paging MMU. The Sun-2 and Sun-3 had the full monty VM MMUs.
> But red teams for AI are humanities departments

This is both not true and also a weird take.

It's not true in the sense that every red team I'm aware of has been:

(1) run by technical people, usually with CS degrees, usually with CS PhDs, usually with lots of industry experience, and

(2) primarily staffed by international labor / contractors who mostly don't have university degrees (and when they do, those degrees aren't from western universities).

It's a weird take in the sense that humanities people aren't mutually exclusive from engineers/scientists. Case in point: Roya is an engineer. And not a front end dev with a bootcamp certificate or CS major who couldn't pass diffeq but calls themselves an engineer. An actual engineer who has a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering.