skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you are representing the original fairly, they said

"often ... because they're at the expense of everything else,"

Which seems plausible although "often" may be harsh. Too high a proportion of your budget on art is rarely going to end up somewhere good, unless the art is the main point. There does seem to be a bit of a AAA arms race here, which isn't necessarily a net gain.
Strong coders are usually pressed into technical leadership roles where they don’t have much time to code. It’s true that if you shirk your non-coding duties you’ll get managed out.
Can't believe prices are so high...goes to Five Guys which is at least 3x any other burger chain.

I still can't believe how cheap the UK is. Big Mac meal near me is £6, cheeseburger is £1, 1kg of potatoes was 20p the other week, two-portion microwavable rice 20p, even a nice matured ribeye steak is only £5, it is genuinely incredible.

In particular, the price of stuff that comes from farmers is really too low in the UK (there has been massive competition in food retail, great...prices are extremely low but cost isn't an issue for 99% of the population...if you go into Tesco, it is staggering how limited their range of products is, the reason why is that they have driven prices so low that food production is often quite unprofitable...the recent trade deal with Morocco was also a real game-changer for food prices, UK farmers can't compete).

And the top rate of tax in the UK is 45%. When people say they pay more it is because they are paying for student loans (which aren't really on economic terms, are often forgiven totally, etc...the reason why we have this system is because wealthy students were getting heavy subsidies from free university education). But what people ignore is that you get substantial amounts of welfare and benefits.

For example, the govt recently introduced free childcare for a certain number of hours. Where do you think the taper would be? Probably median income? £28k? Maybe where child benefits stop £50k? Nope, £100k. You can earn £99k/year in the UK, and still receive benefits from the state. That is why taxes are "so high" (they aren't, taxes in the UK are amazingly low given the size of the state...we have wage subsidy programs worth tens of billions every year, housing subsidie worth tens of billions, on and on it goes, everyone on welfare).
I still recall coming across the "Sams Teach Yourself Tcl/Tk in 24 Hours" book at my office. I had been doing Linux Samba administration at that time and some of the tooling was written in tcl. So I brought the book home. It was the first time I had ever doing any GUI stuff that wasn't Delphi/VB/FoxPro! I loved it! I quickly realized I had nothing interesting I needed to build at that moment... so I put it back down. But just realizing that GUI programming was in reach without all the heavy Win32/GDI or Winforms, was so cool.
How's its response time? Any ghosting?
> labor saving in and of itself should not be a cause of fear

True, but the prospect of widespread loss of the ability of people to earn a living absolutely should be -- even if you're not one who will lose that ability.

The problem isn't labor savings as such, it's the speed of the change. Losing too many jobs too quickly is a recipe for disaster.
I really like how it has the open ai whisper speech-to-text model built in so you can use your voice to talk to the model.
Is this device specific? I have the RT-AX82U (great router by the way) and haven’t had any issues.
Yes, you'll be able to purchase the commercial+business use license yourself. It won't be limited to companies.

Subject to change before launch, but initial plans are $8/user/mo: https://twitter.com/OrbStack/status/1656326409995055104
Didn't they bring it to iOS with https://chat.openai.com ?

Normalize people using the web. And FirefoxAndroid... don't refresh an idle tab unless I tell you to!
What industry did you work in before?
why is it amazing? they take pride in their work and seemingly intend to continue doing a good job for another fifty years. more companies should copy that rather than "oh yeah marketing blitz".
The world’s top chemical-weapons detectives just opened a brand-new lab
> Name some very abstract variables

Curious what you mean by this?
Poe offers fewer GPT4 messages than OpenAI for the same price. Just wanted to add that context.
Looking at the original issue, scipy maintainers don't want to use LGPL code (why?!?) but they use code that appears in Numerical Recipes (which has super onerous licensing)?!?
Not for iPad :(
I believe the argument here by the GP is that tracking cookies shouldn't be used at all until the user logs in.

No idea what that would do to any business value Airbnb gets from tracking, but the idea is that the lost analytics data is outweighed by the benefit of removing new user friction.
When talking about resistance and materials, it's also important to note that silicon has relatively low optimal operating temperatures compared to some of the other semiconductors available. This limits the amount of voltage you can pump into it (because the resistance mean higher V leads to heat), and voltage correlates with clock frequency. GaN has already seen success in chargers, and silicon carbide is another promising material. We can't achieve the low level of defects needed for small process nodes yet, though.

Disclaimer: I'm not a material scientist, so this is probably only partly correct.
thank kind stranger
Yeah, something tells me that a former DOOM developer is used to this sort of backlash.
It’s time for us to talk about creating AI-free spaces
Unfortunately not, but modern virtualization doesn't have to be slow or heavy!
> do you primarily watch HD video over this wireless connection

No, I'm just saying it's been possible ever since 3G rolled out, and tech has only gotten better since then. The person I responded to said that mobile data can't be used as a replacement for a landline, but in practice, 99% of us use the airwaves for this already. We call it Wi-Fi. A lot of mobile towers also first beam their traffic to another tower before your packets meet a fiber.

Of course (as a general rule), the sooner your signal gets to a fiber, the better it is for your connection speed and reliability, but mobile data (with good signal strength) is clearly fine for most purposes. I am waiting for the day where people realise this and mobile data scales up and gets too cheap to meter in the same way as today's landline connections don't charge per gigabyte (I'm ignoring the existence of Belgium here; pardon me, belgians!). For now, having a landline dug to your home and work plus paying for mobile connectivity is cheaper than going mobile-only and getting a practically unlimited data bundle. A lot of rooms are also sandwiched in a way that outside signals aren't as reliable as a local WiFi. I'd be surprised if the former is still the case in 15 years, and the latter in 25 (thinking of something like a femtocell here).
> preservation demands they must be rested for 3+ years between viewings

Does the act of resting help the ink last longer or are they simply rate limiting the amount of light that the print receives?
> Will it be possible from them to find another job without significant training/education?

Or at all. If a large percentage of jobs go away, there's a very real chance that there won't be enough new jobs at any training/education level to make up for it.
Some telecoms allow hotspots from phones to Pcs, and data plans are a afforable, considering most people rarely need more than 50-100 gb/month of mobile data. Personally in Italy i only use phone with hotspot, i pay 10$ for 200 gb data/month and i can "restart" the plan if i use all the data for 10$.
> "Everything is a string" kinda puts people off.

I can't speak for "people", but i think this might be a bit of misunderstanding combined w an implementation detail.

I think most Tcl people these days would say "everything is representable as a string", which is to say types can be marshalled back/forth through a string representation. This (with other features) allows Tcl to be homoiconic[0] (it can evaluated the symbols it emits itself). Pre-8[1] (1997/1998(?)) Tcl internals did also indeed use char* strings to do its own work parsing/evaluating, but Tcl8 brought in so called Tcl_Obj structures w "dual ported" values that keep the iconic string representation available, as well as a native value (ie: integer when using the value as an integer, so you wouldnt need to do something like atoi() on a string rep when you wanted to do math).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity

[1] https://tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.0.html
The top marginal rate of 45% in the UK starts at £125,140. Compare that to the US, where the top marginal rate of 37% starts at $578,125.

- Edited to correct incorrect US top rate.
In the book Snow Crash, one of the plot points was people living in storage units.
From what I understand while these two do contribute a lot to power usage, they don't really contribute that much to heating by themselves? Leakage should happen all the same in a processor that's completely idle and those typically don't heat up much. For higher clock speeds specifically I still don't see how lower resistance isn't key.
I think GP‘s point is that right now they can read the same text even if they can’t understand it spoken. Moving to a phonetic script would mean they can no longer read the same text, ergo worse
I still haven't seen or heard anything that would lead me to believe there's anyone choosing to be soft on crime, I know there's tons of back and forth on this but it just rings as people idly speculating to me. Only useful info I've found is people on both sides of the divide decrying police won't take reports for car breakins/thefts[^1^], and response times are high

[^1^] the latest set piece I saw with this was fascinating, two people victim of same crime, drawing two opposite conclusions from lack of interest in taking a report, both only from injecting ideology
Thanks...I'm think I'm too sensitive about it since this comes up every f'ing time.
Penguin Huddling: A Continuum Model
well put. it really is fascinating to see how common that is on HN, where I imagine most of the posters imagine themselves to be worldly and open-minded, see for example every iphone thread.
Mobile web works. I don't know if their signups block non-US phone numbers (they require a phone number for surveillance, er, security purposes).
Good to know, thanks. From looking around, current options are all tied to some proprietary tools, so not something interesting on Linux I suppose. Keepassxc implementing it would be nice.
Highlight of the article:

“I had a really difficult customer who was quite rude and arrogant, never paid on time and always gave me a hard time,” he said. “And then he just stopped responding at all.”

After a couple of months not paying rent Prince cut the customer’s lock off and found the unit empty. The customer had removed all his possessions, but “in the middle of the room was a 4ft inflatable penis”.

“I think I knew what he was saying to me,” said Prince
> we have to make it easier for people to go to a train station or to hop onto their bicycle and/or have to make it more difficult to hop into their car.

The former is fine, since it's an improvement to society. The latter is not fine, since it's a worsening of society.
They don't have common interests with each other either.

Stacey Abrams, Peter Thiel, Anne Applebaum, and Demis Hassabis have very little in common.

"Common man" has no singular interest either.
It sounds like a nice entry-level job - we don't expect revolutionary changes in the MIPS ISA for the near future, so it'll make that person familiar with the tooling, but with not much pressure - as MIPS is used mostly in embedded spaces and embedded is that space where running the latest and greatest version of anything is not as important as anywhere else (especially if the device has no connection to the internet and/or needs expensive recertification).
Many non-technical users look for apps in the App Store.

That said, it's possible to package progressive web apps (PWAs) for listing in app stores: PWABuilder[0].

Disclaimer: I've worked on PWABuilder.

[0]: https://www.pwabuilder.com
Of course, because that's not what it means. Trolls gaslight with hurtful nonsense to incite reactions from people that don't know better. Anyway, my point here was preserved despite your censorship. Now aren't you and your friend late for some kind of cross burning?
It's not too bad. Notice how there's no section for "Data used to track you", only "Data linked to you"? They're not actively tracking users.
Not available in Italy lol
I think most of the OpenAI's target audience must be technical enough to know they can access websites on a smartphone and bookmark them in some way.

They probably just want to fight abuse/spam/fraud/scams that are on the App Store/Play store so that it would stop devaluing their brand. "ChatGPT charged my card $299 without permission, I am going to the press!" is a disaster waiting to happen with these scammy apps.
Absolutely. Aging is a reality, but I won’t stand for anyone romanticizing it. It is almost entirely a destructive force.

The best we can say is that the limits it brings provides meaning to life. But even that does not ring true to what I’ve seen. Watch children who are still too young to know about death. Do they feel that life is meaningless? No, they jump up out of bed more full of life and drive and (what seems to me) meaning than any adult aware of life’s limits.
"What if," "never," "doom." This is catastrophizing. Flag it as an anxiety thought and move on. Ask "what can we do today" instead.
ChatGPT Official Mobile App
> I still don't understand why China would possibly want to try and invade Taiwan?

China has no access to the open ocean. The US has bases and strong allies (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Singapore) surrounding it.
Same experience. JS is shitshow and dumpster fire. I’m picking up Vue 3 and every time I have a new question I need to ignore Vue 2 documentation written 1-2 years ago because the paradigm has shifted away from the “option” API to “composition”. The same jarring change experienced in the React community when it shifted to hooks. It is no wonder I can find a cascade of defects in just about every modern website made written within the last 3 years.

It is not only bad for the developer, but for the users, too. The overall confusion and frustrations are abundant.
Optimizing the Optimizer: The Time-Series Benchmark Suite
I'm trying to work out which logical fallacy you're employing here. No True Scotsman? Personal Incredulity?

In any case, assuming that infidelity or anything else sinful/haram doesn't occur in "conservative" populations strikes me as frightfully naïve.

The data is in. Arabs get herpes too.
China HSR isn't that impressive. They mostly built outside of city centers then added new developments around the train station, immensly diminishing the costs and construction time for the HSR, at the cost of convenience for already established citizen (and probably feeding their housng bubble too).

Agree however that some of their subway systems are their most impressive engineering feat and prove that they could have done a better job with their HSR.
You’re right: it is no secret that the elite will collude to preserve and increase their power.

They do it out in the open, brazenly, and no longer need secret meetings or shadowy clubs to get away with it.
Median household incomes $84k Cali vs $42k UK.

They're post-tax and don't factor major expenses like healthcare, household bills in general are almost double in California, but yeah, the average Californian is probably wealthier.
> You have to arrive at least 1hr early before your scheduled boarding time.

You don't have to. It's a recommendation. The only true "have to" is that you have to be at the gate before the scheduled end of boarding, which is usually 15 minutes before takeoff.
AI Shouldn't Decide What's True
No consent is required to store cookies required for the site to function. Login cookies, shopping carts etc are fine. The only reason websites display these banners is because they want to track you, and they rely upon misunderstandings like you are propagating to whitewash the request.
It’s a business strategy that works to have exclusives on a hardware. It sells the hardware and it keeps them in their ecosystem. There are a few percent that won’t buy but they are not going to go after you just to blow up their entire business model
I thought leakage current would be the "DC" loss that is independent of frequency, like we had in old bipolar logic. Isn't it fair to characterize the cmos/fet switching losses as resistance to moving the charges around?

I understand leakage will go up if we increase voltages to support higher switching speeds, but aren't there still a lot of losses that happen with logic transitions and reduce when the states are stable, even if voltages are held constant?

I realize it we can't move charges around for free, but in some fantasy superconducting-fet logic circuit, wouldn't the power consumption be reduced? I.e. much of the waste is resistive losses while charging and discharging those gates.
They are rolling out software at breathtaking pace!
Isuzu sold a small truck called the Hombre. I saw one this week here in the US, and thought it was some joke sticker or something. Nope, turns out Isuzu took an S-10 and called it "guy" or "man". The Isuzu man truck.
A brand-new project in Xcode doesn't require iOS 16. You actually have to make use of OS features only available in 16+ to get your app limited like this. And beside, 5-year old iPhones support iOS 16; it's not too unreasonable to make use of these features.
BOTW has the same attachment rate as Windwaker and Ocarina of Time, which nullifies the argument that Zelda has sold poorly until BOTW. Attachment rates are important, better than pure sales, because it tells you how many potential buyers bought the game.

BOTW and TOTK are still huge successes, but it's not really about great design (unfortunately). If it was, every one of Nintendo's games would be record smashing sellers, but they aren't. They have plenty of games that don't make a dent despite their insane attention to detail. We saw this with Mario Maker 1 & 2, not even cracking 10m copies to this day, and one can't even blame lack of name recognition, it's literally Mario!

Where great design does have impact is on long term word of mouth sales. Which we saw with BOTW and are likely to see here again.
Statistics being the backbone of Data science
For some cookies, basic session management for instance, you don't need a banner anyway. Many sites want people to believe it is needed for necessary cookies, but that is either because they want the public to be against all the warnings (so they can go back to silently tracking everything) or because they have a very skewed idea of what necessary means in this context.

In most cases sites could just use necessary tracking without permission but seek explicit opt-in for the rest. They won't do it that way of course because most people won't op-in unless nagged or conned into doing so.

(the other reason for consent questions where they are not really needed is people playing safe lest they have to defend the lack of a consent form in legal court or the court of public outrage)
Tell HN: Story about Sam Altman attending the 2023 Bilderberg meeting was killed
Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35990103

The story and headline were from CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/18/bilderberg-openai-microsoft-...

It seems to be factual. Some people seem to object to others finding reasons to be suspicious about the meeting. No reason to kill the story (nor a good way to quell conspiracy suspicions, probably).
This feels like building codes in the US, you can read the law but the law points to expensive to acquire materials required to comply. This should be illegal and people should be pissed. I don’t care if lawmakers contract private industry to write standards (within reason, there are some perverse incentives at play, but I digress), however, laws and all supporting materials need to be free to read and open to all for a free and fair society. We spend so much effort regulating and gatekeeping under the guise of safety and security but we are achieving neither. Information is power and anytime we as humans have had significant information asymmetry, there exists an out-group that does not have access and due to this restriction, have diminished power.

I’ve likened closed building codes to the way the Catholic Church ran in the Middle Ages. Only the clergy could read Latin and found they could spew all sorts of nonsense culminating in “if you want a guaranteed trip to Heaven, pay us.” Which sounds a lot like, “if you want to pass building inspection, pay us.”

Organizations (and lawmakers who enable them) that engage in this sort of sanctioned rent-seeking should be dismantled and we should not tolerate them in our society.
User-Driven UI*
> I think this is part of why GPU power is skyrocketing and why Apple, Qualcomm, and the like are trying to shift towards services.

IMHO it's only a very small part of why GPU power consumption is going up. The main reason is the completely unnecessary chase for the performance crown.

From personal testing: my GPU manages to get 95% of its peak performance while being power limited to 80%. So the in order to squeeze the last 5% of performance out of the device, 20% more power is pushed through it. It stays above 99% peak performance while being power limited to ~87%.

But even just looking at the raw numbers paints a different picture. About 12 years ago, a high-end GPU (e.g. GTX 480) had a power draw of 250W at a theoretical peak FP32 performance of 1,345 GFLOPS. This year's RTX 4070 has a theoretical peak performance of 29.15 TFOPS at 200W, so we went from 5.38 GFLOPS/W to 145.75 GFLOPS/W in 12 years - a 27x improvement in efficiency and a ~22x improvement in raw performance.

Now let's compare that to the numbers from a decade ago: a GTX 580 from 2010 had a power rating of 244W at 49.41 GTexel/s. A Geforce2 Ultra from 2000 used about 10W at 2.0 GTexel/s. So we went from 0.2 GTexel/s/W to - you've guessed it - 0.2 GTexel/s/W, so same efficiency with a ~27x increase in performance over a decade, though the efficiency is only a guess, since neither GFLOPS nor official power draw figures are readily available for 2000-era hardware.

Fast forward a few years so we can get reliable power draw numbers and comparable performance in GFLOPS, we have the high end GeForce 8800 GTX at 155W for 345.6 GFLOPS in 2006. Ten years later, the comparable model would have been the GTX 1080 from 2016 with 180W at 8.873 TFLOPS. So 2.2 GFLOPS/W versus 49.3 GFLOPS/W or a 22x increase in efficiency and a ~26x increase in performance over the course of a decade.

So during the past 23 years, power efficiency steadily improved, while raw performance increase also showed no signs of slow down in the GPU space. This is given the same generous time frames, to account for the occasional generational leap.
> Not all searches will spark an AI answer — the AI only appears when Google’s algorithms think it’s more useful than standard results,

This is the right way to handle LLM output at this stage - only offer it where it makes sense for the type of query. It shouldn't use the LLM to answer common queries, like weather reports, directions, etc that LLMs are currently either horrible at or add no additional quality but at greater computational cost and confusing UX.
Hey there,

WebAuthn is an open standard that anyone can use to implement support for passkeys. That said, there is significant complexity around building a solution that can handle edge cases (devices that don't support passkeys), account recovery, etc. Not to mention the need to build out UI elements and back-end infrastructure.

Passage is a solution that handles all of this for developers, so they can implement with just a few lines of code instead of building from scratch.
The in-app purchase to upgrade to plus is very smooth…