skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We agreed on a definition of artificial intelligence--the Turing test--for 50 years. The goalpost was clearly established, widely agreed upon, and promptly abandoned when chatbots blew past it.

I'm convinced that when the dust has settled and historians look back to decide on THE point in time at which we achieved AI or even AGI, that time will not be in the future, but in the past.
> I don't think it's going to change, either. No one has structured HTML creation that's as easy as string templates.

This... isn't true. JSX is structured HTML creation. Lisp too obviously but that's not as popular in modern web dev. JSX is surely the most popular HTML creation method in modern web dev?

> I don't have any particular answers to why string templating has been enduringly popular so far

I was disappointed to read to the end and see this, as the article title wording - "is telling us something" - seemed to hint that the central topic would be trying to pose answers to what that "something" is.

> (although I can come up with theories, including that string templating is naturally reusable to other contexts, such as plain text).

This is something I think JSX is really close on, but not quite there - it might be nice to see a fully HTML/XML-compatible syntax that works exactly like JSX does. I know JSX started out with that idea, and the incompatibilities introduced were well considered and made sense, but I'd still be curious to try.

Overall, while I think the author makes a good point (fighting user tendencies head on is mostly futile) the benefits of structural generation are clear, while strings have no real benefits beyond UX/DX - acknowledging that the fight is futile is ok but I think it's still worthwhile to continue the fight in a more compromising/self-aware/middleground type approach. JSX fits this really well.

Would be nice to see the concept spread further outside of the React ecosystem, maybe even to other languages in some form.
Forgetful Fish
Will UTC still be functioning?
One of my late life dreams is to be an old man with a beard, pipe and cat living in a lighthouse and staring at the sea. I live in Rhode Island, and seriously want to figure out how to get one of these…
> has anyone tried blasting them with sound

That's likely why they're attacking boats in the first place.
Ok but genuine question why? Does in other countries payslip has any other more sensitive information than name, company and salary? Any more sensitive information than CV you attaching to recruiter?
If you have a lisp program that generates HTML, now your 'HTML person' can no longer easily work on it with familiar tools.
Slim to none? Even US citizens get deported by mistake, forget legal immigrants.

https://immigrationimpact.com/2021/07/30/ice-deport-us-citiz...

https://www.google.com/search?q=us+citizen+deported+mistake
> Each time they issue noncommittally apologies, if you can call them that, but it keeps on happening.

An apology needs three parts: admission that you did wrong, expressing regret for your wrongdoing, and a change in your behavior so that you don't do it again.

Mozilla's tendency to just do the first two and skip the third means that, in my view, those weren't real apologies.
YOU AND ME BOTH BUDDY!!!! And for the love of god (heh!) dont forget Joe Satriani...I grew up listening to The Extremist on repeat for months
I remember visiting Lincoln Cathedral and realising that when it was built in 1311 it was the first new tallest building for 3900 years... (160m as opposed to the 147m of the great pyramid) though the spire collapsed 238 years later.
"Roll with it" probably means that we should expect people to use strings for templating, so we should design other downstream mechanisms to handle or prevent potential damage.
The linked page also describes how this problem is solved by using "su -P" or the "use_pty" option with sudo, but says that is disabled by default. Any idea why the security fix isn't enabled by default?
You seem to be talking past me. The thing they did implement, they implemented extremely well (x64 translation on ARM). In fact they even went so far as to implement changes to the physical silicon to improve emulation performance (implementing a runtime toggle to enable total store ordering).

They knocked it out of the park. In some cases emulated Intel apps on Apple Silicon run faster than they did natively on Intel Apple hardware. You are criticizing them for not doing what you wanted which was 32-bit emulation. This is not the same thing as recognizing them for the incredibly good 64-bit emulation they achieved.

> Deprecating 32-bit support means that macOS is never going to be a serious gaming platform again.

I don't think it's been a 'serious gaming platform' since, er, ever.

That's not going to change by enabling emulation of a dead platform.
> It seems obviously wrong to incarcerate citizens on the basis of ethnicity. That said

A new variety of 'I'm not racist, but'.
Sadly this is gameable.
The E4X spec was just bad. There were too many corner cases with very unintuitive behavior or just plain spec bugs. I wish it was E4H focusing on needs of HTML with no xml namespace nonsense. It could have a chance then.
I applied for a job there once a long time ago, they didn't even respond at all. Gave me a poor impression of them.
But I got my pitchfork out and everything!
They're on a website which is telling them that they're getting real exam questions and answers. It's reasonable to expect the questions and answers are not false and make, e.g., flash cards from them.

I'm not so sure I'd agree that failing the course is really appropriate. These people are paying to learn and the teacher provided wrong answers to students who may have legitimately been looking to study. Of course, 2/3 of the students admit it, so it's moot in those cases; at least some of those who claim innocence may have a reasonable claim.
You Aren’t What You Do
No.

Docker and runc are very similar.

Docker run Docker containers. runc runs OCI containers.

And jails operate at a similar level, though without an image format.
I'm about to eat some shelling peas I foraged on the edge of a grass field (yeah, we grow grass seeds as a crop here). The peas were last years crop so not exactly a weed but effectively the same thing.
I know :) I am just hoping it would be true. It should be true dammit.
I would be a perfect time for digg to come back as a barebones reddit, like reddit did with digg
I really enjoyed reading Fermat's Enigma[1] a book about the guy who solved Fermat's Last Theorem.

A memorable quote from the book:

"It’s fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way—even if you don’t solve it at the end of the day."

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Fermats-Enigma-Greatest-Mathematical-...
I'm going to guess that this VM was considered the 'customers' VM as far as security goes... Ie. you couldn't access any other customers data.

Likewise, GCP Dataflow quite trivially allows you to escape onto the worker machines and take the (huge) binaries that implement it. They have some really nice detailed status pages!
even people with hydrocephaly? Neanderthals , although similar to modern homo sapiens, are not the same.
> I hope that Brother doesn't succumb to the same forces that drove HP (and everyone else) to these decisions.

I have bad news for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131
We don't gatekeep tech. Literally anyone can create a PR and submit it to an open repo for consideration.

You can't do the same for biotech. You need a PhD, a reputation, a ton of funding, a bunch of papers, to be even considered for "this person has a clue about this medical issue and might have an answer".

Listening to maintainers talk about their experiences dealing with random weird PRs from random weird submitters, I'm not sure we're doing it right by not gatekeeping it more ;)
This is literally the plot of the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre... no thanks.
Except it's made by the same person
Their elected representatives will arrange for that if the pain level is high enough. Housing is a policy issue, and the policies haven't been adequate for 40 years.
If you're using that as evidence that media over-represented bad science, then I think that's a great example. Even before 1976 Schneider had already apologized and said that his assumptions regarding global cooling were overestimated and heating underestimate. Wikipedia also mentions that the book considers both global warming and cooling, it seems like the review was aiming at a particular popular angle. I don't know if I'd use a book review as an indicator of the actual scientific consensus of the time, but rather the media's understanding of the scientific consensus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Schneider_(scientist)
Ask HN: A bug bounty website for non-security issues?
E.g. fixing memory bugs, etc
I have herpes simplex. Should I get the shingles vaccine?
Have you been taking valacyclovir?
Looks very close to it.
> In this case, it's very likely that someone hurt one of them and they're now trying to make the world safer for themselves. They've figured out a way to deal with the entity they see as a threat and they've spread that knowledge.

They seems to target only sailboats' rudders, which are arguably the most innoffensive of boats out there, but also the easiest prays. What I heard is that it seems like one orca decided it was fun (who actually knows their intent) and then the fashion spread.

It seems more likely to me that some kids are having a good time messing with sailboats, than some sort of revenge or something.
Nushell is amazing. I tried using it instead of fish for my projects' scripts, and I really like the language. I still prefer fish for interactive usage (mature ecosystem), but Nushell is an excellent scripting language.

My favourite feature is the "free" argument parsing with long and short options, runtime type checking and great error reporting. Adding options to scripts is painless, and it led me to Typer[0], a Python library that does something similar.

However, I did not stick with it and returned to fish. I don't have a problem with POSIX compatibility, obviously. I'll use whatever I think is comfortable, and my users can install fish along with the other tools necessary to hack on the project.

The "problem" is that Nushell is being developed frantically: semantics and syntax are often changed, and the documentation is not ideal. Because of this, a script I wrote today might not work if someone tried to run it in a month or two.

That being said, it is a great language already. I appreciate the vision, and I'm looking forward to when it becomes more stable.

[0]: typer.tiangolo.com
I was on the biochem track in undergrad. I was particularly interested in disease metabolics and cloning.

I switched to tech and entrepreneurship because it scratched more itches, provided substantially more money, didn't come with the stresses of academia, and could conceivably put me on a path to returning to biochem with loads of resources and full research independence.

I see biochem companies getting venture funding now, but that wasn't always the case. And they're still unfavorable relative to tech ventures.

I still don't think the grad school + academia path is comfortable enough for those that take it. It's a real labor of love, and I admire those that stick with it.
I hope you sold your Nvidia and locked in those profits.
There is a probably a good reason why they didn't elaborate on this:

"Our research began when we identified a gap in GCP’s security layer that was created for SQL Server."

It would have been interesting to see how they identified that security gap.
First-in-Human Trial of Oral Drug to Remove Radioactive Contamination Begins
Hacker News Premii
While there's a fatality (NHK in Japanese: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20230526/k10014079771000.ht...), these events are pretty much "huh, that happened". It wasn't even the headliner on NHK's NewsWeb (https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/), sharing a slot with a relatively faraway Typhoon No. 2 (internationally known as Mawar).

(The last relatively-significant earthquake was on 5th May where an elderly person died but it was pretty much "that happened").
If it can correct itself when promoted to do so, there should just be a loop made that automatically does that. You can't get all of GPT's abilities from a single passthrough. Humans are also not very capable without iterative reflective processing.
How is their fab build in AZ going?
a doctor working on a cure and vaccine for HSV1/2

Can you share more information on this? Who is this doctor you're referring to?
Second hand Teslas represent a challenge as someone pointed out. You also can't necessarily modify or inspect the car without Tesla getting their panties in a twist (I dare you to connect to the network inside your car and try to get access to the onboard computers and then try to have the discussion with Tesla about who's car it really is).

The there are the massive privacy issues and the fact that you can't do anything about that: your car is spying on you. (I know consumers don't care enough about this in the US to elect politicians that take privacy seriously, but in Europe we do. Which is why Tesla is under scrutiny for not only collecting massive amounts of invasive data, but also for not being able to adequately safeguard the data they collect).
The hosting OS is all but certain to be virtualized. It's no different from customers creating a GCE VM in the first place.
I saw a VW id Buzz in the road the other day
Show HN: Automate your day-to-day tasks with ChatGPT 4 and Nekton.ai
If you are doing the same things over and over every day, you can try automating it with Nekton. Just describe what needs to be done in plain English, step by step. Nekton will then convert your steps into executable code using GPT 4, and run them in the cloud.

Here is a sample workflow that shows service features - https://nekton.ai/start/162-Xcz3PZOkB8OhIeFlOeBTVA

You can automate many different things. Here are some things you can try:

* Find top Reddit posts about AI and send them to my Discord channel.

* Get Reddit posts that mention my project and create a tweet for them.

* Assign my latest GitHub pull request to a person with the fewest open PRs in the project.

* Automate technical support - https://nekton.ai/start/143-HpJtyXEzfRv7UKvqOHySkw

Features:

* Create reusable automated workflows.

* Share workflows with other people - you can send them a link that will start a workflow.

* Collect input with forms before running the automation.

* Run your automation on a schedule. Workflows run in the cloud - no need to keep your browser open.

* Use other services from your workflow. Nekton can securely store access tokens and other credentials needed to access outside services and apps.

* Mix together manual and automated steps in a single workflow.

Since the last post, we made multiple improvements to make it easier to automate things and connect to external services.

I work on this project, and curious to know your thoughts!
Agree on this article and it's why I used to love the magazine and was a subscriber for many years. Unfortunately, it got to the point where this kind of content was increasingly rare and I unsubscribed a few years ago.
It wasn't even the headliner on NHK's NewsWeb (https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/), but a relatively faraway Typhoon No. 2 (internationally known as Mawar) is featured instead. It's a nothing-burger in Japanese terms.

(this was edited to remove an unrelated article that I misread, as it was mentioned in a comment here is the link if you're interested: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20230526/k10014079771000.ht...)
TSMC Details N4X Process for HPC: Extreme Performance at Minimum Leakage
US uses the red brake lights for turn signals. EU has separate amber turn signal lights.
Pinnacle Effects in Spokane, WA did this for an ABC Sports Baseball promo in the late 80s using 60 point-and-shoot film cameras arranged in a 360° ring. Gerry Cook was the director and the guy who came up with the idea and physically created the “ring cam” as he called it. It was used to create a 2 second, 60 frame, scene of a pitch being thrown.

The resulting shot was a little choppy but novel.
Assuming no major aftershocks closer to the cities then hopefully it is a non-event. It was enough to trigger all of their audible alerts for the impending quake and enough for USGS to send me alerts.
My school taught PEMDAS but failed to teach that multiplication and division are equal in priority, nor did they teach that when there is ambiguity working left to right takes priority.
A toy web engine written in Nim
Well, I'm not going to use Chrome, but I guess WebKit is okay... what browser should we be using now?
The creator of this is also the person behind Phyphox, an app that turns your smartphone into tool to conduct physics experiments with and collect data from them, creator of a Game Boy WiFi cartridge and GB Interceptor that allows to record videos of Game Boy games - among other things. Amazing what some people do, isn't it?

https://phyphox.org/

https://github.com/Staacks/wifi-game-boy-cartridge

https://github.com/Staacks/gbinterceptor
As everyone is saying in replies, it's not so far out there compared to what some more mainstream-seeming AI people think. As one example consider https://tinygrad.org/ it's been featured recently at the top of hacker news a few times https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33462337 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36065175 (literally the number one top story on hacker news yesterday) well the hacker who made it has some similar quasi-ironic esoteric beliefs like that ('effective accelerationism' and they are on a hero's journey and analogies to religion and NRx dark enlightenment and palladium https://www.palladiummag.com/) on their blog https://geohot.github.io/blog/
My daddy used to say, there's as many ways of learning guitar technique as there's lost picks in the universe :) Ok I made that up, but the point stands. At the end of the day, whatever works for you is the best solution

Having said that, I've spent the last few years reading up on memory retention, SRS and using Anki a lot for languages and what I've found is that Recall is extremely important for increasing the strength of the memory. With stickers and ribbons, the notes are right there for you. Like training wheels. Never challenging you to recall. Keeping you coming back for more of that ribbon help. ..you get the idea.
Pretty much all boats have autopilots on them, and for a while. Nothing new here.
IMO hes technically right. If you're wrong, people correct you. If you're right but they know they can't really argue the matter, they downvote.
Meta offers to limit use of ad data to address UK competition concerns
>and what happens then?

Most likely, all their prices go up...

I mean, your first instinct is to say, "but how could all their prices so up, they'll steal value from each other", but that's not necessarily true. If AI starts solving useful problems, and especially if it starts requiring multi-modality to do so, I would expect the total GPU processing demand to increase by 10,000-100,000X that we have now.

Now, you're going to say "What's going to pay for this massive influx of GPU power by corporations". And my reply would be "Corporations not having to pay for your health insurance any longer".
That's awesome. Good for them.
Every process in your system either still has an ancestor that is still running and has superuser privileges. Either because that was the real ancestor, or else because that ancestor is PID 1 due to reparenting.

A process cannot use its existing ancestral sessions to gain control of their account.
Ford CEO Jim Farley on New Ford-Tesla EV Partnership (YouTube/CNBC)
Safari can probably be discounted since Apple discontinued the Windows version in 2012. A browser that can only run on 18% of desktops worldwide isn't necessarily the competitor Google is looking for.

Edge is available on Windows, Linux and macOS, so it would probably do. But that would allow one of Google's biggest competitors to drop an under-performing product and lobby for antitrust against Google. Unlikely to happen, but a risk Google might not want to take.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide
With Lisps, you can also make it work with external HTML files (or HTML template files), for that person. In my case, I'm usually more productive doing HTML in my main programming language code, which is why I wrote those particular libraries.
how are you differentiating "promotional easter egg" from "ad"?
Rather than 'lactose' being derived from 'lactuca', I'm pretty sure that both words just have a common root 'lac', the Latin word for 'milk'
Hey, when selling a toolkit/framework, they've gotta spin the data in their favor as much as possible. If I was in charge of Qt marketing, I'd do the same.
I usually get the online version for free from my public library via Overdrive
If you're getting paralysis:
That means that you need to write down how you feel and you need to write down what you know about the problem.

From there:

1. Write down and solve/suggest for what you know on the edges of the problem

2. Extremely pinpoint what the problem is

3. Talk it out with the rubber duck/coworkers

4. Escalate the issue.

5. Design out the solution and leave question marks where you can't solve it.

6. Go out for a walk
I never stated which one I was.
As far as I know Qt is legit a standard for advance UI in automotive and other industrial applications. I think it's fair to say they contributed.
Maybe without a noisy motor it's like a "dead" or "sleeping" ship
The data on the global Electricity Mix provides evidence there is an energy transition - https://ourworldindata.org/electricity-mix
> And an unchained LLM trained on reality is far more capable of finding solutions to that problem than a bunch of squabbling politicians.

Not that I disagree with this statement, I don't, but this is not a silver bullet. Technology is, ultimately, operated by humans and no amount of frontier research and development can overcome collective action problems. At some point, you do have to sit down with these stupid politicians and get everyone on board. The loom was invented hundreds of years before the industrial revolution, in fact it was nearly forgotten and the designed survived due to a few happy accidents. It was only after the English Civil War and the establishment of checks on royal power that widespread adoption was possible.
I recently switched to Brave
Oh, they would draft the zoomers if they could. The fact that it happened to the boomers previously will only deepen their conviction that others should have to deal with it too.
Assume it has a solution. Try that.
Massively decreasing pay, while not solving the asset inflation problem... this ain't going to go well at all.
The real issue is that retailers and such deliver their consumer data to Meta without the consumers' consent.
I prefer digital cow paths.
No idea about the doctor, but Biontech is starting clinical trials [1], and there are a host of other vaccine candidates. Some Russians claim they developed a cure as well [2].

[1] https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-det...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex_research#Vaccin...
I started a mirco agency to fund my SaaS
I'm curious about which would stabilize more quickly, an all new filesystem or the reimplementation of an existing one in a different language? The reimpl has the advantage of having the original to compare and test with, but the fresh design can use a staged approach. Yet more hypothetical Friday-style questions.
The su command is correct for that purpose, as is sudo.

This is kind of a subtle point that the article makes—the problem is that “su” is not good for dropping user privileges in general, but it does work if you are a user trying to spawn an interactive shell as another user.

Keep in mind that you are giving control of your terminal to that less-privileged account, and that this is a potential point of privilege escalation.