skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What math will Joe Plumber use? What he does might just as well be called "Spreadsheet Skills" instead of math.

The closest thing I can think of to doing math is he might divide hours by number of fittings to see how long it took him to do one joint, then multiply that to find how long he thinks it will take now to do N.

I'd still call that spreadsheet and calculator skills rather than anything that actually requires being able to do math, because someone with zero algebra training can figure out those steps and do them.

Whatever the reason is to learn math, it's gotta be something more than just doing what we can already do with free software and $100 used laptops, unless we expect to have to do without tech.

But in that case, there are probably way more important skills one would need if they expect to survive in a tech free world, and I don't know enough to even start commenting on that.
I have had feet in both worlds. I started as an EE, and have since moved to pure software.

One of the cool things about writing drivers and firmware, is you can do real-world damage. I’ve blown up $40,000 RF scanners (in 1980s dollars), because I accidentally reversed the position of a switch.

Also, if you think hardware systems are simpler than software, I invite you to open up a modern DSLR (not mirrorless) camera. I worked for a major camera manufacturer for many years, and saw some crazy complex stuff.

But nothing I ever did can hold a candle to the OP.
While I agree that the rate of medical mistakes is unacceptably high and the profession is just ridiculous in terms of how they behave from a risk management standpoint… this appears some wild base rate fallacy here, in a big way. The people going to the doctor’s office because they think something is wrong are by definition the more fragile patents. I say this as someone who was misdiagnosed for some time and has dealt with the inertia and bureaucracy of the system.

I spent most of my adult life flying bush planes around Alaska and working to try to make things safer in that (horrifically unsafe) industry. Trust me when I say 1/100 is unacceptable and absurd in the extreme and humans are terrible at assessing risk objectively. Just your statement: “I don’t drive drunk and I usually miss rush hour” is indicative of misunderstanding how this works. That’s ok! Everyone does that, I did too until I was trained on specific ways to think about risk and risk mitigation strategies.

The risk often doesn’t come down to individual action - it’s links in the chain, or the Swiss cheese model of you prefer and when all the factors line up an accident is more likely.

It’s great that you don’t drink and drive, it is also great that you avoid driving at peak hours. But do you actively do risk mitigation before driving? Probably not, more power to you if you do, but probably not.

i guess this is a long way to say "something you are exposed to every day multiple times" is way different than a (albeit terrible) system you are exposed to when you are old and infirm and already prone to death.

still, everyone thinks the 1/100 won't be them so they feel it isn't a problem… that is a poor way to figure out "what should we do."
No, but it is unscientific to assert such a theory without evidence.
Yeah one doesn’t sound obviously easier than the other to me
yeah i havent tried but it could probably do both sides of a full stack app. the key thing to add is ability to install any dependencies discovered along the way as that dep list will grow with the growth in specs
Do you use your devices in a well lit room?
Ah so it's just marketing? Brex doing a "how do you do, fellow kids" move?
> Is this a reference to Magnus Pym, the main character in A Perfect Spy by John le Carré?

No, probably a reference to
https://groups.google.com/g/eunet.politics/search?q=magnus%2...

I wasted too much time (not that much, but any time on this topic with a "true believer" like Magnus was completely wasted) arguing objectivism with him as an undergrad...
This is a great explanation. Thank you for posting it on HN!
the good news is that vore is open source & self hosting is trivial - and the config is a list of urls - moving them to a new system would be trivial too.
In other words, this will have absolutely no deterrence effect.
Spectre, Meltdown and Rowhammer were all discovered in the same timeframe as the things you listed, and were decidedly more complex than dumb one liners. Yes, those are all have a hardware component (and thus the "fixes" are software workarounds), but the fixes involved way more than one or two lines of work.
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My point is simpler: Twitter gives me the whole universe of content, with knobs to dial in my preferences. There is no alternative platform that allows that. And trump is just one of many word filters I use to prevent ever seeing the bozos. To me, they very literally do not exist.
> I can't think of a single workload where that is usable.

It's not intended to be usable for production workloads. This enables people to experiment with things on the hardware they have without spending more money.

> That said once consumer GPUs are involved it does become usable

You can pick up an RTX 3090 with 24GB of VRAM right now if you want, but it's going to cost you. You can also spin up GPU instances with larger VRAM from any number of providers. This is more about having options for people who want to experiment.
To really understand and deal with it - the incident was a heavy-handed and botched government/police move against some "non-compliant" urban poor people.

Who just happened to be black.
Australia's Aristocrat Leisure to buy software firm NeoGames for $1.2B
From the last parts of Accelerando where a weakly godlike AI and the main character discuss some alien data...

The full story is available from the author's website at https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler... under a CC BY-NC-ND 2.5 license.

---

"I need to make a running copy of you. Then I introduce it to the, uh, alien information, in a sandbox. The sandbox gets destroyed afterward – it emits just one bit of information, a yes or no to the question, can I trust the alien information?"

...

"... If I agreed to rescue the copy if it reached a positive verdict, that would give it an incentive to lie if the truth was that the alien message is untrustworthy, wouldn't it? Also, if I intended to rescue the copy, that would give the message a back channel through which to encode an attack. One bit, Manfred, no more."
I really, really doubt any of these examples.
I was imagining the bird fighting back with your own spear...

But truly, the thing that sticks out to me is that the spear is rather balanced in the bird's neck. I imagine that if it had pierced a bit less, or a bit more, it could have thrown off the bird's center of gravity too much to achieve stable flight.
> You're assuming your family is entitled to keep forever everything that it happens to have received in its economic activities.

That would be ignoring income taxes and VAT. And I'm well aware of the failures of the free market. But they do not make inheritance illegitimate, as this article tries to frame it.

It's that framing that is most offensive, more than a reasonable (i.e. much much less than 25%) inheritance tax: that taxation is not a compromise between property rights and free trade on one hand, and the public good on the other, with both being desirable values that are sometimes in opposition, but that it is a punishment for unearned wealth. With the hate for the wealthy expanded far beyond the 1%, to everyone that bought a house before the housing market explosion.

I'm sure if the target of this hateful rhetoric was some other group, you'd quickly see its danger.
The accelerators aimed squarely at datacenter use rather than gaming are even more ridiculous, Nvidias H100 has 80GB of memory running at 3.35TB/s.
> I believe I've heard this called splitting tails of the distribution

Diverging tails [1], or Berkson's paradox [2]. One of the (imo) most underrated fallacies in statistics.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/09/25/the-tails-coming-apart...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox
Rock that struck New Jersey house confirmed to be 4.6B-year-old meteorite
I hit them all the time while coding or planning newsletter and marketing tasks.
Nuclear energy is hardly the only power source that has made an entire city uninhabitable. The Banqiao dam failure flooded 30 cities and affected over 10 million people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure

Then there's Centralia, PA, which was turned into a virtual ghost town by a coal mine fire. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire

And we're not even considering the effects of global warming here. Sure, nuclear has risks, but our civilization needs energy and nuclear has proven to be one of the least risky ways to produce it.
Seriously? My next-door neighbor lives the other side of the US from his mother in law. We lived about one hundred miles from my mother in law, and my father lived at closest about two hundred miles from my maternal grandfather.

Where do you live that all the married guys live so close to their wives' families?
At least some of the attempts in question had, ahem, interesting ideas for how to combine baseband and AP on one chip.

(x86 has a truly atrocious thing called SMM (“system management mode”). It is not directly exposed to anything except firmware and malware, so it could be changed in backwards-incompatible ways without breaking existing software, but for some reason neither Intel nor AMD seems willing to do so. For desktop and server workloads, this isn’t really a big deal. For something like an iPhone, it would be a major non-selling-point.

Also, x86 interrupt latency is awful, and this is an ISA issue. x86 cannot currently compete in any application where this matters. FRED may improve this if the implementation is good enough.)
Probably in certain countries, given that it is mainly an STD. There are many conservative nations where this won't be an issue hopefully.
Another one to add to the list is Focus Bear: $5/month for cross device distraction blocking (desktop and mobile) and it also has habit stacking features. We've been building it for the last 12 months and it works pretty well.
I've built Focus Bear (focusbear.io) to solve similar problems. It works on Android and on desktop.
Look up “laying the groundwork” for “documentary evidence” and you will find that this fails to show chain of custody unless you can get that “guy saying he is sleeping with her” in the courtroom.
You're basically saying something that isn't free, isn't free.
My grandpa would climb trees to raid bird nests for their eggs. I'm not sure which is worse to modern sensibilities -- that he was predating on song birds like a neighborhood cat, or that he ate the eggs raw.
Or it’s a European writing $615.00
The screen studio video is a bit hard to follow. The zoom in and out is distracting. I would prefer to see a wide show with the zoom in on the critical features.
I don't think prompt engineering shares a whole lot with humanities higher education, but the argument that English is easier seems very non-obvious to me.

I'd expect the relative skill floor for English to be significantly higher because everyone in the anglosphere gets a minimum of 12 years of intensive English education. Moreover, the starting point for additional higher education is usually native fluency/mastery and even then jobs requiring actual English credentials will usually require a graduate degree on top.

Contrast that with programming, where most developers will have learned their first language in college and those 1-3 years of introductory education were enough that they're usually considered hireable by the end of undergrad. Some (few) people can even get to that point with only a 3-6 month intensive bootcamp despite no prior experience.
Yeah I absolutely hate it but yeah. Every time we feel sad & bad about the world, every time the Fear Uncertainty & Doubt is given places in our hearts, it makes us weak & susceptible. That's the premise of The Shock Doctrine & oh how sadly it's true.

The web has two horrific fronts right now on this. Google is creating two specs, one to only let Attested devices through, and one to transmit government ID. So only users on devices they can't control, with id by government, can participate at all. This is what fear is bringing us to. People will welcome this hell. The end of the War Against General Purpose Computing will come with applause, from those who have been sold the message to be afraid.

Coproate controlled devices only: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

Government ID required only: https://github.com/WICG/mobile-document-request-api

Or also see the Android Protected Confirmation API, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35942710 https://security.googleblog.com/2023/04/secure-mobile-paymen...
There's definitely a lot of crossover. Not the same app but I built focusbear.io to help with my own ADHD symptoms. It blocks distractions and also helps build habit routines.
I have heard of some problems that are unprovable in some systems but provable in stronger systems (like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris–Harrington_theorem).

I wonder if it is possible for an AI to eventually try to prove currently unprovable theorems by producing it’s own formal system? I don’t know enough about Godels Theorems or ML to know if this is even possible.
Actually. Worse. It’ll encourage mal-behavior as now the punishment is well known and way less than “consultation” fees gained.
You can use focusbear.io to block websites (e.g. hackernews) on desktop and mobile.
The reporter was clearly thinking the wrong way. You can’t do that.
By my way of thinking, the problem derives from what "reality" is. Is it the universe? Or is it something like the atmosphere, that we are "in"? Or, is it something else?

> but I see no reason to assume that it's paradoxical.

To a lot of people, the consequence of this is that "the reality (fact) of the matter" is that it is not(!) paradoxical...but is this actually true?

Disagreements on this may be fairly trivial, just something fun to discuss. But what if the proposition is something that is important to the functioning of the country, and people can't sort out what "reality" "is"?
Acronym/initialism definer here. There are two in your comment that I wasn't familiar with, although I understood them once I saw them spelled out.

SMT is simultaneous multithreading, which may be more familiar under Intel's name of hyper-threading.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_multithreading

PPA is not the Professional Photographers of America, nor the Professional Pickleball Association, nor the Philadelphia Parking Authority, all of which came up at the top of my naïve search.

It's Power-Performance-Area.

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/power-performance-area
I spent several weekends in school trawling through second-hand bookshop backrooms trying to find MIR books in that cloth bound thick paper versions..I still have the I F Sharygin book on plane geometry I found that way.

Ah, good old days!
Irish Times apologises for hoax AI article about women’s use of fake tan
IA uses some custom tools for their pdf OCR and compression, but their pdfs should should be PDF/A compliant. It might have to do with the vulnerabilities behind JBIG2 compression.

https://github.com/internetarchive/archive-pdf-tools
definitely not enough.
Wagner chief offered to give Russian troop locations to Ukraine, leak says
The central nervous system has an extremely delicate chemical environment where routine disturbances like inflammation would induce swelling and destruction of delicate neural pathways. In fact one of the primary roles of the blood-brain barrier is to ensure that any type of “growth” or “organ repair” is extremely retarded - any changes to cells happen very slowly compared to the rest of the body. This is one of the reasons brain damage is so slow to repair, the whole nervous system has a very prescribed way that it grows as a fetus and childhood/youth and then it puts the brakes on everything and only allows very small changes from then on.
> In my experience paying attention to sitting straight made back pain worse

In one’s mind sitting straight can be actually wrong as in sticking the neck out in an unnatural position or something like that. Mirrors help as well but more important is proper ergonomics: keyboard closer to body and within reach so that elbows sit close to the body, then desk height, chair height, position of feet on the ground and so on. In my 20s I suffered a lot and now in my 40s I rarely experience any back pain and don’t require any special chair either anymore. I also do not lean on the back rest 90% of the day.
Missing a key one: very long and connected navigable rivers: so most of the interior is easily connected to the coast.
Asserting and considering are not the same thing.
I bought a Pico H and a Pimoroni Display Pack with the idea of making a custom clock for a gift. I didn't realize that some of Pimoroni's displays already have an RP2040 chip onboard, or in this case an entire Pico W.

I don't really need wireless, but the real-time clock would be handy.
Are there established best practices for "engineering" prompts systematically, rather than through trial-and-error?

Editing prompts is like playing whack-a-mole: once you clear an edge case, a new problem pops up elsewhere. I'd really like to be able to say, "this new prompt performs 20% better across all our test cases".

Because I haven't found a better way, I am building https://github.com/typpo/promptfoo, a CLI that outputs a matrix view for quickly comparing outputs across multiple prompts, variables, and models. Good luck to everyone else out there tuning prompts :)
And in NYC the USS Intrepid is another Essex-class museum.

If you've served on one of these, you can arrange for a special tour.
Render every single road in any city at once
TFA says 615k. On a personal level of course I wish it was millions...
I don't necessarily agree with this concept but I saw that many who are reading hacker news haven't heard of it before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35942008

Here are some criticisms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_evolutionary_psyc...
what's the issue here? if you buy large headphones from the same company you buy the your phone from, in a future where fairphone no longer exists (which playing the odds, is likely) at some point your also no-longer-supported phone (which functionally becomes slower every year because mobile application hardware requirements appear to double every year) might advance to support new fancy bluetooth things your headphones don't support?

I honestly (not hyperbolicly) don't see how a phone not having a 3.5mm jack is relevant to the headphones _having_ a 3.5mm jack
I’d also add that there were two events relatively close to each other which I think shaped this a lot: California proposition 8 blocking gay rights in 2008 and the 2010 Supreme Court decision in Citizens United to legalize dark money. The cruelty of Prop 8 spurred unusual levels of reputational consequences for backers (on HN, notably Mozilla’s Brendon Eich) and I think that really pushed Silicon Valley Republicans to try to cloud as much of their donation history as possible. They can say our company supports diversity, donate to their company PAC, which donates to another PAC, and when that PAC backs something unpopular there isn’t a direct donation trail making it easy to have “<>.com executive J. Blow backed this candidate” blow up on social media or deter prospective hires.

That trend is only going to strengthen as the Republican Party stakes out positions which are unpopular outside their core supporters.
The most vocal opponents of DEI are working class white people—who are indispensable to any liberal coalition worth the label. They are not trying to repeal the estate tax.
IIRC one problem was that MacOS was not competitive. I recall some benchmarks of applications like MySQL, comparing MacOS Server to Linux on similar or even identical hardware, with results that could only be described as abysmal on MacOS Server.
This might not make any sense to you right now, and that might actually be a great thing

For me, the awareness of presence lies somewhere close to the awareness of something making no sense

It feels sort of like the intersection between pure feeling and thinking

I think that’s why in Zen they use koans, to get us to short-circuit our thoughts and gain awareness of the feeling of paradox
Or, on the contrary, the dismal state of much of US media is causing people to seek out and pay more for higher quality journalism than they otherwise would. That seems to be the substack business model in a nutshell. And thank you for doing good despite the hostile public sentiment.
To be clear it’s not a cap on the CEO specifically it’s any member of the org, cannot make more than a multiple of the lowest.

This isn’t some harebrained idea it’s well studied and everyone except CEOs and Boards like it:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2611289
In addition to what was said about the viability of SMP, the lock prefix is handy for interrupt safe ops without wholesale disabling interrupts.
You mean the slew of electron apps that are well known to be annoying to use and inconsistent with the rest of the software on a Mac? Games not so much because they aren't using any platform toolkit.

But also "developers using cross platform toolkits because it's cheaper" does not undermine my argument "you can't make good apps", I could make the exact same argument about cross platform Java apps.
This was my experience and I have commented it before. The magic/convention approach is the inferred part of Rails/Ruby culture. Where is the class definition? Well, where are you invoking initialization? This question leads to a question which hopefully leads to answer is hard to play by if you’re new or just trying to squash a simple request.

The whole just fire up an interactive session or rails console is probably the last thing I want to do but probably the only way to diagnose or figure out how things are truly working. What monkey patches are in the mix, what libs override methods I set, etc.

For me, Ruby is one of those programming languages that obviously takes a different programming approach and mindset that I don’t have. I don’t think Ruby is bad but I know it isn’t the tool that fits my skill set.
Are there any slabtop’s still being made? All of those that you listed are discontinued.

I do like the idea of having a very small, limited OS. I’ve often thought I’d love an updated Psion 5. With modern batteries and displays, you should be able to get months out of a set of batteries or battery charge.
Yes, a facny chair can give you the false comfort of sitting in a poor posture and making bad habits. I prefer simple non swivel chairs for better posture and better grounding.
Very cool, thanks for making this.
If you're going to be picky, you have to be specific.

Do you mean self-serviceable rather than just serviceable?
I thought you were joking until I clicked on your profile
Which media do you rely on for local news?
> While the country has targeted more solar as part of its climate goals, there has been limited progress due to regulations that don’t allow households to sell power back to the grid, ruling out a way of defraying the cost that has helped people afford solar in other parts of the world.

I little correction here, Indonesia do have a regulation that allow households to sell power back to the grid[1].

[1] https://money.kompas.com/read/2022/01/22/171500226/aturan-ba...
ESR got pretty nutty after 9/11. Or maybe he was always nutty and I wasn't paying attention.