skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All I can say is that being a data-inspired creative is going to make you exponentially better at your job while being a data-driven logistician may just make you a little bit better.

> The only problem? Middle management is stressful, grinding, usually thankless work. People speak derisively about middle managers because their outputs are hard to define and monitor—they are viewed, sometimes unfairly, as a mere link in the chain.

Middle management is absolutely screwed though. Good ones will go back to some IC/lead work and bad ones will probably be squeezed out/kept around for political yes-manning.
> Apple has the financial and technical depth to create their own private GPT.

I work in this industry & no they do not. They are among the last on my list of the major tech corporations to be able to do this.
>Either we stop emitting CO2 soon or the climate is fucked beyond recognition.

Most would agree with this. Even school kids tell us that we should do this.
The question to be answered is the 'How' ?

Please do enlighten me, how do you propose to stop using fossil fuel without giving up on energy needs of billions and derivative products like plastics and other things which are essential to humanity ?

Since last 4-5 comments you are saying that we should stop using Fossil Fuels.
Great. Please explain the path forward.
Yes, Samsung killed Dex for Linux with the update to the next major Android version. I think they decided that the sales it added to their bottom line were not worth the maintenance cost. Too bad, because a local and almost real Linux environment is great.
Here is the report in question. Page 23 https://static.rusi.org/403-SR-Russian-Tactics-web-final.pdf
> - Amol from BBC interviewed Bob Woodward[^1^].

And Bernstein; rumours of his death are much exaggerated. The pair were in London for the Ivor Novello awards.

There was a "report" by ChatGPT, followed by a vague question about the impact of AI text-generators on reporting. ChatGPT didn't ask questions.

The interviewer was evidently in awe of these two men; his sycophantic remarks punctuated the interview, and left the interviewees with not much to say. They also took away momentum from the interview.

I didn't detect it; I would have guessed that it was from a Wikipedia article. WP articles about living people are generally non-critical and uncontroversial. The interviewer said (after reading it out) that it was ChatGPT. The author detected it presumably because he prompted ChatGPT to produce the report himself.

I'm sorry that my comment confused you so much! But if you were convinced that Bernstein was dead, I'm not surprised that you were confused.
I didn't make this dandelion mead, but I did follow some of his other wine and mead recipes and they were good. You need a lot of dandelions by the looks of it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-C9uJ90eLc
Nice! There is probably a whole space of applications that help users effectively prompt engineer a workflow with a UI
> Our new engine is based on intercepting SQLite's disk writes and doing clever stuff with them. It was so easy because the file format is not just well designed but amazingly well-documented.

Quite the hobby project for a lot of people too! Other folks doing this:

Rqlite https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Rqlite&sort=byDate ,
Dqlite https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dqlite&sort=byDate ,
Litestream https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Litestream&sort=byDate / LiteFS https://hn.algolia.com/?query=LiteFS&sort=byDate, marmot, mvsqlite https://hn.algolia.com/?query=mvsqlite&sort=byDate
Just checked - seems it no longer exists.

I created a separate account just to talk on Off the Wall. It became a crazy, harsh place, though it was fun to see the "swings" from left leaning to right leaning and back.

That separate account got banned. I have no idea why - I didn't bother emailing the moderators - I figured I had wasted enough time there already.
I thought this was the idea all along... the announcements were all using as new sticker prices +r&d for the first manufacturing run on 20 year old hardware, it was a feature not a bug.

Cynically this "accounting error" is either an excuse to send more hardware to achive the same absolute $$ cost, or a method of communicating that the "cost" to the taxpayer was much (much much) lower than it really was.
I wanted to figure out the cost to all users.

BSD is sometimes used in some iot-like devices, of which there are 3 billion. If I randomly assume 0.5% of those are running a fork of FreeBSD, that's 15 million devices. I'm also going to randomly assume that devices reboot once a month on average.

That all comes out to 4.2 days/year saved! Wow!

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2ms+*+3+billion+*+0.5%...
Could dark photon dark matter be directly detected with radio telescopes?
Amazon's Jeff Bezos to Help NASA Return to Moon
Even if no AI generated works are getting through, without access to the ground truth and empirical evidence that the “AI detection” heuristics + manual review are actually rejecting AI exclusively (or at least at a rate *higher than the rate at which AI works are represented among the subset of submissions below publishable quality), what this actually is is an arbitrary addition of lifetime bans for failing to meet arbitary quality standards with a single submission, masquerading as AI detection.

Which is perfectly within Clarke’s rights, before the people making that argument jump in, but lets not pretend its anything other than what it is. Clarkesworld doesn't have a magical generative AI detecting ability that the solutions tested with access to the ground truth (which, yes, still suck pretty badly) lack.
I tried Nreal Air and I finally get AR glasses
If you just have a static webpage (html, css, js), I have found Working Copy + GitHub Pages to work perfectly for updating website copy/markup from iOS.
> though the list doesn't change from boot to boot, or for that matter from system to system; if we hit a worst-case we would notice before the release shipped.

Wait what - why don't you just sort it at build time then? I'm probably misunderstanding what you are saying or maybe just a premature optimization.

e: Nevermind, read further in the thread and saw you answered [0]

[0]: https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1659561673278226432
Ask HN: Is it possible to decrypt 256-bit encrypted radio in the battlefield?
I'm part of a subreddit that reads defence reports and tries to keep up with "credible" news about the War in Ukraine. A newly released report by RUSI (The Royal United Services Institute, the world’s oldest defence and security think tank) says that Russians are now "near real time" decrypting 256-bit Motorola radio communications by Ukrainian forces.
Here is the relevant passage.

Ukrainian officers recalled one incident in which the Russian headquarters gave pre-emptive warning to its units of an artillery strike based on Ukrainian troops calling in a fire mission. The Ukrainian troops were communicating with Motorola radios with 256-bit encryption, but it appeared that the Russians were able to capture and decrypt these transmissions in near real time. The most likely system for such functions is the Torn-MDM. (57)

They cite two interviews with Ukrainian military personnel and their own analysis of the system as a source:

57. Technical assessment of Torn-MDM conducted in Ukraine, June 2022

Some are saying this is impossible, that near real time decryption of 256-bit encryption is not possible.

I'm not an expert, so I'm punting over to the cryptographers here at HN. Could this be? Is it possible/feasible to do battlefield decryption of 256-bit radio encryption?

I don't know the particular model of the Motorola radio they are referring to.

Here is the report in question. Page 23 https://static.rusi.org/403-SR-Russian-Tactics-web-final.pdf
Even in Atlanta, it's like that.

My company has a couple of suites in a small one story building.

I'd say it's only about 30% full now (down from about 90% last summer or so). Even so, they were unwilling to budge on the rent for one of the suites my company leases. Now it's sitting empty too.
Yeah, it was a cheap solution, because I wanted to finish the game early.

Playing the game to completion was not the point. The point was to test GPT-4's ability to create multi-step plans and adjust them based on new information. I fast-tracked to the ending once I believed that goal was achieved.

And yeah, of course I didn't know where the MacGuffin is beforehand. There was no map, I was inventing the whole thing on the fly - but the AI didn't know that. I didn't want to precommit to a puzzle, but rather have some flexibility to throw GPT-4 a curve-ball or two, and see how it adjusts its plan.
As you can see on Distrowatch, it was the hype at the time. If you wanted to be source based, and pseudo-minimalist, there weren't many alternatives. Amongst them, Gentoo had the best documentation, and probably the friendliest forums.
> Many many things they portray as "usual" and "normal" are not normal or popular

Being in the news means it's newsworthy. By definition not normal.

We ~talk~ read news about plane crashes but not car crashes. Why? Because plane crashes stand out.
> It is usually not worth the hassle to build special macros for editor specific navigation.

Why not? Wouldn't macros be more useful to customize your editing experience now that you use speech recognition, given that it's pretty unusual? In general, I'd expect customizations to have more value for people who use tools/languages in an abnormal way, not less.
> but if a customer redesigns a product around a competing SBC due to Pi supply issues, that customer is likely lost forever - for rational and emotional reasons.

I'm inclined to say that that's true, and even that it might make sense in terms of money for the RPi folks to prioritize businesses for that reason, but it's worth remembering that it cuts both ways: Individuals also remember which vendor screwed them over.
I find it depressingly ironic that the jobs AI will destroy first were the exact jobs that for years we were told wouldn't be affected by ai. Creative jobs, high paid white collar work (lawyers, accountants, and soon programmers) and the like are the most exposed.
Whereas the difficult blue collar and menial jobs are the ones that are most protected simply because robotics and mobile power solutions are still too junior to replace fleshy meatsacks.
What are we going to do when 70% of a work forde gets made redundant and the remaining 30% becomes a thousand times more productive?
It already happened with graphic artists in China.
The future is not bright.
https://archive.ph/MUi6k
How to safely deploy breaking changes in production using Rolling Deployment
Rolling deployment techniques such as Canary Release allow you to gradually deploy new features in production in parallel of the older version.
It allows you to easily monitor the good behavior of its release and to quickly rollback the new features if any issue arise, or on the other hand it allows you to gradually increase the percentage of traffic redirected to the new version if everything is going great.
Or the cost of running 100 Libraries of Congress for one year. Or the GDP of two Rhode Islands.
Not ok. Show me evidence that the AI panic is driven by such accepted and sophisticated models.
Wonderful news. If how the US Internet is regulated - how it functions at its core as a result of liability - is going to change, it should be done through actions by Congress.

If social media companies were guilty, then so is every newspaper that spreads news of terrorist events, supposedly providing a platform for terrorism (which would also be the argument in cases of eg mass shooters that seek attention, copying prior mass shootings that are heavily publicized by the press/media/news). It's an excellent outcome that they're not guilty in this case. I'm glad to see the justices so relatively united.
Israel and Egypt. Gaza has border with both.
> ongoing software support

Part of the problem here is that SoC drivers are hacked on top of the kernel (and are not merged in-tree). So SoC vendors have this pile of legacy and hacked-on code they need to cherry-pick every time the Kernel changes an interface they used (which is a lot) [0]. The code is also, let's be honest here, low quality and full of workarounds for implementation details (some radio-modem talking over I2C to transmit voice to the SoC???) so there's no way it would get merged into the kernel.

Of course, that costs and fortune and hampers the sales of newer chipsets so it’s not in the SoC vendor’s interest to do so.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_binary_interface
IMHO, it would be much better if linux implement SIGINFO. It has been present in BSD's since forever and there is a good linux implementation: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/6/5/174
Yes, but: for a profitable organization a loss-leader is expected to enable profit-making elsewhere in the org, so a total sum ought to be positive.

For example, console hardware is loss leader for console makers because they make up for it for every game sold. Google Chrome and Android are loss leaders for Google, but are strategic assets protecting its revenue business.

In both cases, these companies can continue to do that indefinitely (as long as it makes business sense).

Venture-backed companies that are burning cash, on the other hand, are pursuing an unsustainable strategy of predatory pricing to kill off competitors and grab the most of the market.

(obviously, it's not either-or, you can easily name examples from long standing companies or startups doing either)
As a recent lawn owner/steward of a small strip of ground, this is my approach as well. My view is if you want a more or less monoculture of grass, you should have to physically work for it (no fuel-powered tools either). In this sense, I treat the grass portion of my yard as a garden and do end up spending some time every week troweling out a few dandelions and other unwanted plants. I _do_ make sure I compost all the "weeds" I pull. Overall this seems environmentally friendly, and I do get a good chuckle every time someone asks me which herbicide I spray.
Very soon fossil fuel won't be a problem. Investment levels are at historical laws, and without new drilling, the output will inexorably decrease over the next years.
This is essentially how Carvana has decimated the private used car market in my area. Only instead of low product prices, they offer well-above market value for used cars to private sellers so that Carvana becomes the only source for a car that fits your criteria.
I assume this is showing up in part because it was discussed recently in Matt Levine's Money Stuff [0]; it's an amusing (if short) discussion.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-05-18/tether...
Serbians surrendered more than 15,000 weapons, more than 2,500 explosive devices
Do think that it is a valid point. But I have the feeling Apple is aiming at productivity rather than gaming since it is running rxOS with M2’s and doesn’t seem to include controllers of any kind (does have hand-eye control) which some games require for immersion (I.m.o.), but I may be reading your comment wrong.

May be far fetched but, it could be a monitor replacement for offices; got supplied with a mbp and 4 monitors, 2 for at home and on desk on location, some coworkers 6 in total; that monitors alone add up from € 2-3 K fairly quick (fairly nice 27” 4K displays). I’d gladly take the headset over the monitors if it’s not to heavy; The ‘AR’ mode could mean I would be able to see my laptop screen and keyboard and display the other screens using the overlay and switch between them (& other operations) using hand gestures/ moving my head/ looking somewhere. Would also save me a ton of space.

Edit: rxOS instead of iOS, the marketing material seems to mention day to day usage mostly
The same could be true of Apple. But they aren’t „forced“ to release it. Apple wouldn’t release a competitor on the Web, they would build it into macOS/iOS/whateverOS. We will know when the WWDC starts.
Oh, I've been informed that DuckDB uses SQLite under the hood, so maybe compiling DuckDB to Wasm and running it on top of this will be possible, we'll see.
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Just tacking it onto an existing standard is not how you get everyone to "incorporate it in a compatible, correct way".

If anything, you'll get exactly the opposite, where laymen that try to shove Turtle 1.2 (which they just know as "Turtle") files, into an incompatible Turtle 1.1 parser which claims to be able to parse "Turtle" (which was a true statement until the release of Turtle 1.2), and things explode and headaches ensue.
Gitlab is down for many users
The single axis could have been used to tilt toward the sun, instead of always year-round being tilted away from the sun (straight overhead). Got to be a bigger benefit than catching some oblique early morning or late evening rays. Missing out on the core of the power-generating day (11 to 1) by being pointed in the wrong direction is gotta be suicide to efficiency.
Actually it's only a 2060 12GB, not even a Ti.
I understand our healthcare system is funded. Feel free to read my post again and replace 'free' with 'socialised' if it helps.
Once upon a time I visited the MIT campus in the summer, I could hear someone blasting music through a window dorm room that I really liked. At the time I couldn't figure out what kind of music it was, I couldn't even describe it. It was a mix between techno, sci-fi, hip hop, punk, and just sounded very chill. I went through a lot of online radio stations at the time trying to find something similar but never could. This reminded me of that summer, thanks for sharing!
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Where do you have an external monitor but not a keyboard?
That’s a bit of an exaggeration right? Facebook sold their headsets at a loss and seem to be doing fine, Uber and doordash entered into markets without charging fees and look to doing fine, OpenAI is currently doing that with ChatGPT and we will see how it goes for them.

Surely, selling at a loss is a risky endeavor, but we see it time and time again that companies selling at a loss get more funding due to their inflated numbers from selling at a loss. Or, it’s only those companies that make headlines and we don’t hear about all the companies going bankrupt selling their services at a loss.
The post itself has a pretty decent, high-level walkthrough.
But, what is this?

Check website, no real text, just a video.

Ok, fine.

Video opens with an explanation of LLMs.

Close video after a bit. Still don't know what this is or what it brings to the table. I'm not going to sit through a long video to figure it out.
I am getting annoyed by scaremongering.

If something can be replaced by a better option, it will be. Earlier king/people used to send messenger/pigeon to deliver messages. Later came letters(postal services), then phone, then emails, then SMS, then current gen of IM.

Any one doing/done some proper research ?
Why not using pv?

http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml
There is probably an opsec violation on the part of their target or something wrong with the radio. Che Guevara was using an “unbreakable” one time pad but the US was able to break it because he reused it more than once, so they tracked him down and killed him. The U.S. navy also found it was a problem when they had both a local teletype network with unencrypted messages and a radio teletype with encrypted messages in a ship when electrical signals leaked between the networks.

If you work as a software dev you would be aware that people are able to screw things up in the most incredible ways.
Burdock makes the best chips [fries]: https://japan.recipetineats.com/burdock-chips-gobo-chips/
Thanks, I was looking for the source.

Where are you getting this data from? How would any one site know the revenue numbers of multiple competing apps like that, with any degree of confidence?
To be fair, the average salary for hospital worker is quite different than the average salary for neurosurgeon. Yet both work in healthcare at a hospital.
So they build a synthesizer and a studio between 1955-1959 to primarily include electronic music in their promotional movies!

Sounds more like an R&D project to build synthesizers and then dog-fooding for their promo material to validate the system.
Correct. DuckDB is really interesting technology, but it's not a direct successor to SQLite for transactional workloads. It's also very new: there's a LOT of new code in DuckDB on top of the (heavily fuzzed) SQLite parts.

(I use it personally, but it's not the same thing as what we're building with D1)
Firefox and uBlock Origin are not a problem for me. Maybe noscript?
What if the vector is not the messages but a compromised device or other part in the key chain provenance.
I didn't mean to be rude or anything like that. You are probably right, seeing all these positive opinions, there must be value in there.

I'm just amazed by the reactions on this post. From the HN crowd I was, wongly, expecting very different opinions.

For coding, are you using it like a pairing with a junior developer or more like a search engine for documentation?
The attacks from Gaza towards Israel are targeted at civilian infra.
> iPhone is the most successful consumer product in history,

I'd say it's probably Coca-Cola?
At least where I am (BC) emissions are regulated, so straight piped cars and bikes are already illegal. The issue is that there are no mandatory inspections for non-commercial vehicles, so if you don’t get pulled over you’re never going to get stopped.
We certainly should, after all they did and do for us, unselfishly, and despite challenges.
I think the intention here is just to keep the undesirables from interacting with the general population.

Unfortunately, banning something from the App Store and the Google Play Store is enough to stop most people from using it. Wrongthinkers might move to Telegram, but they still need to use mainstream platforms to get new recruits.
Are there any that are actually successful with this strategy? Uber and Lyft, for one, but they still don't make profit and aren't really that sticky, honestly, given that people will use other services if they're cheaper, like Waymo and some new ride sharing upstarts I've seen around recently.
Theres no difference between what you just described just that one has an umbrella where its funded by revenue elsewhere and the other is on VC dollars on the promise of long term ability for market share and raise prices or someone else buys organization and continues it as a loss leader for its ability to get market share.

Ones higher risk but quite similar.

Not sure what your point is to be honest
>This is the entire premise of loss leaders

I thought "loss leaders" were specific products sold below cost so customers would buy accessories or subscriptions that have nice profit margins. Like selling cheap printers but expensive ink.
I am not a lawyer but the claims here seem pretty damning and asset that Musk flat out doesn't respect contractual agreements (nor building codes apparently) in the least. I can't recall anyone quite so broadly deciding they're above contracts across a variety of topics in the past.
> once we can run lightweight, userspace kernels ("rump kernels").

Er, didn't NetBSD accomplish that... like a decade ago, now? Or is FreeBSD looking into supporting rump kernels?
Seems like we are due for the cyclic interest in microkernels. I wonder what's the latest research on that front.