skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but a big part of this is suppressed interest rates, which are a downstream effect of suppressed bond rates. These two effects hold hands: State largess fuels private sector largess.
Top five US executives hoard $9B tax-free for retirement as workers face limits
Thanks for pointing that out. I refined the text and added a bookmark to make the citation stand out.
Didn't the UK basically have that with DeepMind until Google bought them out? I'd suspect DeepMind would be a fantastic competitor to OpenAi today had they not sold.
Greene's take on education is very odd. Should I be considered not to have a CS degree because I did not need to learn anything to pass the classes? I would often leave myself a gap of 1 hour between project deadlines and when I would start on them, because I knew I needed 30 minutes to 45 minutes to complete them.

I'd spend the remaining 15 minutes before class correcting the errors in the assignment and submitting those to the instructor as proposed revisions.

I had a high school professor that just gave us the university's Chemistry introduction series (200 level, if that matters) as our high school curriculum. I didn't learn much in those classes at university, mostly because I had already completed the work.
Honestly don't know. I suspect it entirely hinges on whether we're talking about slaves or not.
Sound the Siyrn: AmpereOne 192-Core CPU
In Seattle, my girlfriend made $65k last year cutting hair for dogs. She has a college degree, but no PhD, but doesn't use the college degree.

I made $350k. I have a college degree in computer science, but no PhD.

Why would any top talent take a job at 50k?
no way. Earth orbital speed is 20,000 m/s. Meteroites are about the same speed. Earth mass is 10^25, total meteorite mass / day is 44t, or about 4x10^4.

Generously assuming all meteorites hit from the same direction, given the mass of the meteorite swarm is 1e-21 smaller, the total delta v is 10 to the minus 16. Double integrate that, and you get x^2/20000000000000000

Set equal to your desired difference, say one meter. You get over 100,000,000 days. That's 273,973 years to affect a 1 meter difference in position in the worst case.

Caveat: I am probably wrong.
T-Mobile 5G Home Internet is $50/month. They’re using spare 5G capacity because they overbuilt their network. You’ll see congestion during peak usage times, but it’s fine otherwise.
LLMs are not the most important breakthrough in AI ever, in the same way the NFTs are not the most important breakthrough in digital commerce ever. It's just a load of hype to generate big funding rounds. At least there's no cartoon apes this time around.
Several of these sound like anti-features. Others are OS issues and have no bearing on the shell (i.e. ownership hot-swap). The ones that are useful have already been solved by other programs (screen, gdb, et al). What is the advantage of having it all packed inside the same executable?
The wooden carvings no longer exist. David Bull makes actual wood block print copies, see further up the thread for details.
My spouse will sometimes mention in conversation with others that I invented the cookie. This always puts me on the spot, and I have to enter into a long explanation of the what and the why of cookies least they believe that I some sort of evil software hacker. (Now for a short explanation so that HN readers don’t think that I’m an evil hacker: I invented them, with the help of a colleague, while at IBM where we were designing a distributed file system. This was before the advent of the World Wide Web.)
My greatest accomplishments on GitHub are my projects that I actively use myself, and which other people are using as well.

The prime example of this is my Pgen project.

https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen

Pgen is a passphrase generator that uses the EFF wordlists for random passphrases.

A typical passphrase generated with Pgen looks like:

oxford antelope veteran thorn dastardly gem tripod upfront avocado femur moisture sacrifice

Pgen is written in Rust.

Browse my GitHub profile to see some other projects as well, including my “repotools” project which is very small but super useful and I invoke the repotools commands many times every day.

I also have my zshrc on GitHub, the main selling-point of which is the way I have set up my PS1 prompt. It uses different emojis for different machines and adds some extra white space. The emojis are useful because for a long time I sometimes found it difficult to quickly identify which terminal is logged into which host when I have many terminals open some of which are connected to ssh. Having the hostname in the prompt is nice and all but when you have a handful of terminals or more it’s not very distinct. Coloured emojis take small space and make each host distinct. Vertical spacing between each command invocation makes it more comfortable to read scroll back and more quick to scan.
In the context of the joke, the punchline is "Multiple timers!? Apple, hire this man!" This line implies that the speaker is impressed by the fact that Android devices have the ability to set multiple timers simultaneously, while Apple devices do not have this feature or may have limited timer functionality.
Apple could choose not to innovate, but where would that leave them?
> I think once the account recovery problems, aka "oh no, dropped my phone in a pond, now I can't login", are resolved, it'll take off.

The same recovery methods used for passwords also work for passkeys, e.g. as sending a link in an email or text message to create a new passkey.

In the "oh no, dropped my phone in a pond" scenario, my passkeys are already synced across devices via the cloud, so I would not have to create new passkeys.
Exactly, unless you're a heavy gaming household I don't think you'd notice much difference. My mobile internet is more reliable than my fibre wifi.
The party of "small government" just continuing about their usual business...
The tools that people learn on (mac books, IDE and so on) are far more polished today than they used to be, and they don't require or invite learners to "look beneath". Frameworks are even marketed to developers a bit like fashion items with web sites that look like magazine covers.

There isn't much to get people started on the hacker-path - it's presented to them as atmosphere.
Removing admin access from workstations is a precisely wrong intervention if your goal is security.

It's like making the client code responsible for enforcing database permissions.

The only valid argument in favor of doing this is if you have non-technical users and need to manage workstation configuration centrally so that you don't get drowned in technical support work.
Supreme Court rules against reexamining Section 230
At this point I'm not sure progress is due to Moore's Law as stated originally (cheaper compute) than it is due to companies just spending more on compute. Effect is the same for now, but with a clear limit.
It makes sense, kinda. Basically Nreal-style glasses with a headless computer.

But why stop there? If you further separate the keyboard/mouse from the computer, then you not only allow people to choose their own HCI (trackball? tapwithus keyboard?) but they can bring their own input, too.

Imagine all the benefits of the modularity of a desktop, with equal (if not better) portability of a laptop.
We've known about this for a long time. Everyone expected it to happen. There are some key upcoming technologies that have the potential to cause a step in scaling (CFETs, backside power delivery) but it's still not going to be anywhere near Moore's law levels. I think this is part of why GPU power is skyrocketing and why Apple, Qualcomm, and the like are trying to shift towards services.
“ (1) Invasion is very unlikely”

Says some person on the Internet.

“(2)...”

But if that person is wrong, they believe…

Remember when Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons because it thought they would be protected?

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1082124528/ukraine-russia-put...

Ukraine had the third largest nuclear weapons arsenal. Now they are fighting for survival.

What the US, and how much the US, will do, with respect to Taiwan depends on politicians in Washington D.C., public sentiment, etc. and that changes over time.
ADSL is too slow for most modern internet usage.
From the brief time I used it running signoz it used a surprising amount of resources, which requires further investigation, but yes it's a nice stable option.
I think you're misunderstanding the intent of this. It's meant to stop the theft of text authenticators, from breached databases. It shifts from "something you know" to "something you have." The problem with "something you have" to this point is that your average consumer doesn't want to buy and use a Yubikey. It's making PKI (which the DoD still uses for authentication) much more accessible, available, and convenient, for the average user.
While true, the point of a moral crusade is that city planners generally cannot go against their constituents' wishes, so if they are all house and car people, nothing will be done to favor denser housing or a better light rail experience. Changing the minds of people and getting them involved will create a feedback loop of people complaining to their city, attending meetings, and pushing for projects that solve these things. It can't happen in the shadows because the money to do these projects won't get allocated without support.
Interview with Private-Security Specialist Gavin de Becker (2004)
Yeah, that's right
What's the problem exactly?
Rudy Giuliani Law Suit [pdf]
"Cannot" is a strong word. Fires smoulder for a long time and you cannot control the wind. It would be foolish to expect a prescribed burn to have zero chance of causing collateral damage.
>You’ll see congestion during peak usage times

Yeah, that's kind of the issue. That, and latency.
There are millions of people just as smart and smarter as Zuckerberg. He had access to computers when they were expensive and had an affluent life that sent him to Harvard where he was around people who could do stuff like fund new businesses.
I never saw the big deal with the Mona Lisa. Sure it’s a painting I could never do myself but why is this one in particular so special? I don’t get it
2002 backgrounder, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-mar-03-lv-debec...

> Gavin made targeted violence and domestic violence media issues. If he hadn’t helped bring that to the public’s attention, we’d be years behind where we are now. The Department of Justice is giving research grants and we’re making progress because he helped educate people about it and he’s a terrific marketer.”
Can anyone explain the noticable symptoms of interference or radiating, in situations where usb is not filtered?
This assumes that people don't live outside of areas of major population density where cellular coverage is spotty and where there's not much work.

This also assumes that people don't need to transfer significant quantities of data on a regular basis for whatever reason.
Is this the woke==bad part?

> Their top piece of content was “Data as an instrument of coloniality: A panel discussion on digital and data colonialism”. Do any AI specialists think this work is going to push the bleeding edge of AI research in the UK?

Because I think that speaks directly to his point and has nothing to do with woke wars.
So, a Commodore but with AR?
How is the latency for these 5G home internet services?
This one annoys me. Yes technically you're out of contract when they raise the price, but usually they only give you 30 days to move which isn't always enough to organise an alternative to avoid loss of service. They imply that the price is assured but it isn't at all and often they jack it up just months after taking out the so-called "contract". And the contract terms have been getting ever longer. The regulator needs to force advertised contract prices to be fixed for term.
I think the problem is actually worse than the article implies, because there are two things being leveraged here: compute and data.

Short-term improvements made by domain-specific AI result in better outputs than more general AIs, ceteris paribus. But these better outputs can then later be fed back into more powerful general purpose AIs, and consuming the data*compute product from the domain-specific models is a very effective way to train domain-specific behavior.

Today, we see this in reverse – people are training smaller models based on outputs from GPT-4. However, I expect that we'll start to see more and more training going the opposite direction in the future: Domain-specific generative models will be used to build scenarios for large general-purpose AIs to train against.

Here's a concrete example – image diffusion models are really bad at physics, so you can't tell one to draw a person upside down, because it's not well-represented in the dataset, and if you force it to with something like controlnet you typically get a disfigured and horrific image. So obviously diffusion models are not the best long-term solution for image generation. But how do you get this concept of "upside down" into an AI model? Well, maybe you add some kind of neat segmentation technique that involves using several diffusion models and rotating and stitching together their outputs. Great, you made an upside-down generator.

Now, you generate 100,000 images of "upside down" people, and the next advance in image generation AI can come along and learn that concept with ease thanks to the larger data set that it has.

So it's not just that "more compute wins", it's more like: not only does more compute wins, it wins even more because short-term improvements feed directly into the data pipeline that enables it to win.
The multiplayer was not the best though.

My favorite part of the ocean temple was a simple trick on one of the early floors. You have to get a key out of a closed room, by sneaking around some guards and solving a puzzle. OR you have a boomerang that you can throw around the room, and it will go through the walls on it's way back to you but still pickup the key. You bypass the entire floor.
I've heard that nowadays subword/token embeddings are learned during the training phase, and that they are useful for reconstructing the embeddings of words that contain them, and in fact allow the model to handle typos like "aple" (instead of "apple").
> If you really wanted to do it that much you could just modify the real parts

It seems like the phone would alert for any swapped part, no matter genuine or not. Maybe this is why. Makes sense to me now.
Not sure if you meant to be sarcastic, but parties, gym, pool, snowboarding trips, are available for a lot less than 100K.
https://imgur.com/S0dPEZn
I also have an m1 under linux and I regret choosing it.
I used to run OPNsense but I switched to Debian because of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34839161 . I wouldn't recommend OPNsense any more for anyone who cares about security.
I emphatically disagree. If you live in a city, it's quite sufficient for IPTV, a bit of youtube, spotify, etc.
With the way Windows has always laid things out and designed its buttons, its ordering is, I think, objectively at least mildly superior, following reading order and with no major stylistic difference between the buttons. Platforms that have switched to doing things other ways have normally (and more recently I think it’s consistently) been laying things out differently and/or designing their buttons differently. On mobile devices especially with their right-hander bias, limited maximum width and screen-based navigation, primary action to the right is objectively superior, for tactile and UI flow reasons.
> the variety of shapes and layouts makes it easier to recognize a feature you’ve used before.

It has the exact opposite effect for me. It makes the whole thing harder to navigate and even more difficult to find the exact thing you're looking for. It increases the cognitive load required to do anything except the most common actions significantly.
I'd guess there is still more interest in moving to London proper than space for additional housing within the city though.
In fairness, it's not really a brick. You can reboot it and use the internet for tens of minutes at a time, and during that time, you can log into the web UI and click "install upgrade" to permanently fix the issue.

My last router was an Asus. It was the best one I'd ever had, not counting an old 25MHz 386 that booted Linux off a floppy disk. The new one (PC Engines + OpenBSD) is better, though, starting two days ago, something keeps kicking my Mac off my unifi wifi networks (full WiFi signal, no connection, all other devices work, and the mac can talk to the starlink WiFi).
Numpy is most importantly BLAS and LAPACK, which can be implemented in any language. The best CPU version is probably still MKL, which is a mix of Fortran, C, and assembly. C is used for these kinds of projects because it is easy to sprinkle assembly into C.

Fortran solves a particular problem: produce a pretty good binary from readable code that a normal PHD student or engineer can write. This is not really the problem that a tuned BLAS/LAPACK library has to face, vendors throw very experienced folks at these libraries to chase after those last 5% performance boosts that Fortran leaves on the table.
BT works just fine. Have used it for at least 8 years without any fuss. I don't even know that I've connected to it unless I checked, it just does it. As such, I use very little cellular data.
Right -- the RTO debate is also partially about perceived norms and "Everybody knows this". But only partially; let's say about 30 percent.

Neckties however -- are 100 percent in that category.
The entity is Apple/Google. But an end user using ticktok constitutes a violation for which Apple/Google is liable.
And thus we who transitioned to Julia from R and know a bit about martingales and less about programming have long been trying to degrade the core of the language and its principles by making `mean` a Base function.
OpenAI's Sam Altman attends secretive annual meeting with the world’s elite
Who's to say what the prevailing hypothesis will be in another four or five decades?
For people interested in learning more about network security & wifi, we have also been releasing self hosted CTF challenges at

https://turtles.supernetworks.org/ & https://www.supernetworks.org/wifiturtles.html
Tl'dr; really long winded, overblown post about some community drama.
AI Invents New Bowling Techniques [video]
Which contributes to the impression that it’s a backdoor tariff.
So can apple turn off all iphones in Montana in retaliation. Bet it would be easier/cheaper to cut off those customers than implement any changes. Android phone makes could follow suit
Yeah, maybe it's news, but the profession that decides policy isn't called "economist".
> But a few staff developers cannot physically handle the volume of work required to replace that many developers.

You're assuming "volume of work" is a constant. I'm saying: 90% of "volume of work" is something that a handful of good developers would make the compiler do instead of humans. It's actually more than 90% over time, because there's a fundamental difference in the "capability growth curve" -- this curve is super-linear with good developers and sub-linear with poor developers, so the ratio between them grows greater over time.

> They are not good at writing 10x more LOC than other developers.

Right, it's quite the opposite: they will write 10x less code than the other developers.
I think the future is going to be fake social media websites that tailor make all the content to your preferences. Aka LLM generated content.

You know how in Minecraft (and other games) how they have infinite maps? You just keep on exploring and the game generates new lands for you to explore? That is what the future of social networks will be.
Hackers hack on all levels of abstraction. Defining "hacker" around the level of programming languages seems silly. Hardware hackers could have said the same thing about the author.
I've never need an event-based data flow that doesn't require correct sequencing. Blindly merging is quite a delicate assumption.
From https://www.ti.com/sc/docs/apps/msp/intrface/usb/emitest.pdf :

> If a single ferrite bead is used it is not usually necessary to also have the separate beads as shown in Figure 8

Yup, it's probably cheaper to put a few small ferrite beads on the board than to put a big one on the cable.

Being a differential signal, I never understood why USB cables would _need_ them, but seeing it on a premium cable inspires the feeling that you bought a better product? I also think reduced 900MHz interference from cordless phones (remember those?) made homes quiet enough that the bead became more of a value-add for most applications. Just guessing...
I'm the author of https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/ and have spent years since introducing people to Transformers and thinking of how best to communicate those concepts. I've found that different people need different kinds of introductions, and the thread here includes some often cited resources including:

https://peterbloem.nl/blog/transformers

https://e2eml.school/transformers.html

I would also add Luis Serrano's article here: https://txt.cohere.com/what-are-transformer-models/ (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35576918).

Looking back at The Illustrated Transformer, when I introduce people to the topic now, I find I can hide some complexity by omitting the encoder-decoder architecture and focusing only on one. Decoders are great because now a lot of people come to Transformers having heard of GPT models (which are decoder only). So for me, my canonical intro to Transformers now only touches on a decoder model. You can see this narrative here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQnJZuBGmSQ
At least now people will start to focus on how bloated and slow software has become in the meantime. And stop referring to it as “tech”.
The US has the grasp and reach to punish me based on things about my privately generated data. The CCP has the grasp but not the reach. They are entirely different threat models. Neither one is excusable, but the US spying on me is a lot more immediately applicable.

Also I find it funny to the point of parody that China is the country under an unaccountable regime when they are signatories to the Hague System. The United States and Russian Federation are not, and the US goes so far as to have an affectionately nicknamed "Hague invasion clause".

In my lifetime the US has invaded several countries and replaced their democracies with friendlier governments. I'm not sure how we get to stand on any moral high horse about "liberal values". I'm not sure how leaving Libya with open-air slave markets is reconciled under said values.

I hope one day people can look at their own governments more critically than foreign ones, not least because our own government is at least on paper allowed to exist via consent of the governed.
Yeah and Pixar doesn't make horror movies. It's not really a weakness.
That depends on concurrent traffic.
The great thing about menus and similar “universal” components is that the user only needs to learn one (or a very few) ways for how to discover things. One problem with modern UIs is that each app looks different and/or is laid out differently, and that there are a multitude of different-looking navigation elements and popup-menu buttons and/or sliding gestures. And of course that it’s often not clear what is just a label or graphic indication vs. a clickable button.