skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my more embarrassing interviews was early in my career, after I'd be developing HFT trading systems. I'd never worked on a web app in my life, and was asked the difference between 4xx and 5xx codes. I had no idea. Something I could have googled in about 10 seconds was the pass/fail criteria for an interview.
Indeed. The rush to replace WWII-era vacuum tubes with solid state silicon was driven by the need to get US bombers and then missiles on target, and stop the Russians doing the same.

For example, Fairchild Semiconductor (Santa Clara) was originally part of a (non-SV: Delaware) optics company that made spy satellite cameras. The semiconductor division's first product in 1957 was a transistor used in the B70 bomber computer and the Minuteman ICBM and it cost over $1600 a unit in today's money.
which programmatically speaking is very interesting, and yet ultimately just another type of database, in my experience so far, with regards it obsoleti g humanity, as long as you can hold a basic train of thought through a few sentences and distractions without changing the subject or repeating verbatim things you literally just said, and don't consume the energy resources of a small planet then you are mostly fine. As a bit of a programmer it's fascinating to be able to write a yes, no, maybe loop where I hand off ambiguities to the llm for its best guess. human in the loop ftw.
Essentially poor loser that has lost the race to space started to waste money just so they can later brainwash their citizens to believe they won... Not that they lost in the first place horribly.
I love this comment. It just cuts through all the pseudo-traditionalist cargo cult BS that surrounds topics like the one being discussed here.

To be clear, I think those demos are cool and contain interesting technology. But the pretense that the cutting edge equipment of a specific time is somehow the measure of art and what came after is "just not that interesting" is difficult to stomach. Pity that attitude is so common on HN, I would enjoy being here much more if it weren't.
Probably because “alias” is a keyword in Ruby.
Well, sure, oranges are cheaper than apples, but that doesn't help me much when I want to make apple pie.
That doesn't make sense. They stopped offering expandable auxillary storage because it sometimes fails? Nobody forced you to put a card in your phone, but there were a lot of benefits.

I'd be willing to bet there's research that shows that phones without expandable storage get replaced more often. I've definitely heard people say a variation on "my phone is full, I need a new one"
> infected several thousand iPhones belonging to people inside diplomatic missions and embassies in Russia

I'm surprised they use iPhone in those contexts. Specifically: I'm surprised that they allow usage of iPhone in such a context. Given how Russian intelligence perceives the US as its enemy, I would have guessed that using Apple devices would be banned entirely.
Need windows version. Windows Terminal is the worst thing in the world.
I have been following Framework from a distance, but latest video of Linus (LTT) interacting with framework ceo really pushed me towards buying framework as my next laptop. Great to see a caring ceo and company

https://youtu.be/iU_iWa9LL_s
Maybe he could have spent a little more time making sure the darn things actually work then.
If the benefit of burning carbon exceeds the costs associated with burning carbon then people will burn CO2 and society will get wealthier.

If the costs exceed the benefits, then society will get wealthier simply from stopping self destructive behaviour.

Amazing right?

Except we don't charge the full cost of the negative externalities so oil companies cause a lot of damage because they are under the mistaken impression that their current extraction rates are useful to society.

The reason why we care about the negative externalities of fossil fuels is that they are most likely permanent but the benefit is temporary. So the cost benefit analysis tells us we are burning too much and this ends up harming us actually and it is just that we haven't experienced most of the harm yet.
I think this proves that LLMs should not be labeled XB
All of these things are pretty much exactly what GitHub Copilot chat does.

You can select code and ask it to explain it to you, or ask it to generate some boilerplate / code and then insert it at your cursor position without adding any comments like you described for prompting the Copilot autocomplete.

It seems okay, but I don't really use vscode that much
To be honest, out of all the FAANG, I think Apple still mostly holds true to it's original promise of trying to make the world better.

Do I think they're perfect, absolutely not, not even close. But compared to Google, Amazon and Facebook (which IMO just seem like total and utter nightmare fuel freak shows), they just seem sane, trustworthy and purposeful to me.

Netflix, I'm fairly neutral about, I just think their products and their shows are absolutely shit so I plan to cancel my subscription soon, I don't feel strongly about it.
Looking too closely at that abyss leads to some disturbing implications, for people who like to sit on their ass and collect dividends while other people work.
Think we’re about 3-5 years from public completely losing trust in anything online.

Political party propaganda cells are already using AI tools to distribute fake images. Once the tech gets a little better, we’ll likely get videos and audio too.

The Indian elections in 2024 will likely be the testing grounds for large scale AI generated propaganda. Just a few days ago, the ruling party’s IT cell was circulating morphed images of protestors that were impossible to tell from the real thing. I suspect this will ramp up to a massive scale within the next 12 months.

I don’t know what happens once no one trusts anything online. Maybe we’ll finally give up our black mirror prisons.
I strongly advise against putting fissible materials in your apple pie.
"Being done", I'm not sure anything is happening here other than a happy user pointing out that Apple have some advances in this area, but .. your point is that this has been there all along.

Alas, if only there were the hardware at scale which supported Apples' Mach implementation, at favourable economies.

One way this is favourable to this dev is if Apple finally give me a machine which I can use to Build All the Things™, including iOS and MacOS and Windows and Linux and Android, oh my!, virtually and/or with x86/ARM cores onboard, oh yeah!, without having to resort to the typically draconian bollocks on other platforms, or rent someone elses hardware, or whatever.

A new Mac Pro that can be loaded to the gills and host several competing OS's at once, for the purpose of software development? Sign me up, because I'm tired of build-box'ing rigs and fighting that darn license ..
Meanwhile I’ve been trying to get them to close my account for over a year after they allowed fraud to occur and still tried to make me pay up even though my credit card deemed it fraud as well.
It's a great place but when you need to cash out you need fresh linux system with fresh wallet software connected to the internet only when you make the transaction. Not an app for your phone. Everybody will have malicious keylogger on their phone eventually if they install apps and sometimes even if they don't.
I suppose this is something else than the Hypervisor framework (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor) - its successor or a convenient complement? Does anyone know if there's a convenient command line utility for wrangling VMs built on this framework?
If they wanted to make the world better, they'd build what people want and need, not what they will buy.
Google doesn't benefit from sharing. Humanity does. It was a beacon for mankind and will continue to be.
As for how it can survive on this and how long it can survive on this... well, I guess that's largely depending on how bad sundar drives the company
I disagree, 'everything will evaporate' assumes a model of one-time ever-expanding universe.
co-author here: lol I assure you we have no wish to continue on this AI path. OTOH, we both got new patrons all of a sudden. And there's a similar article to write about quantum computing grift, with massive misselling of systems that might one day be able to factor numbers as high as 35.
This is one of the biggest tax loopholes for the ultra rich IMO. Ripe for abuse - shut it down!
Gamers would be interested in a nude code for any attractive female main character of any well-known video game whatsoever. Just like men would like to see even a politician like AOC (like any reasonably attractive celebrity woman) in Playboy. But that doesn't make AOC a sex symbol.

Lara Croft is more like a mixture of Indiana Jones and Duke Nukem: Hot body, badass (two guns at once), and cool sunglasses.

https://64.media.tumblr.com/b3ac6a261a46a4be130b8a908f1f5e8e...

Yes, her figure is one property that makes her stand out, but the others were equally important. In fact, sexy video game woman are nothing new, there have been many before Lara, and with far more revealing outfits. An example is the character from the Brandish series:

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Brandish_Cover...

https://cdn.mobygames.com/covers/3676084-brandish-2-the-plan...

I don't even know her name. It was never a well-known character. It seems gamers don't care a lot about mere "sex symbols".
Won't investors just sell stock when it's high and then move their money onto the next platform?
The period from 1973-1983 was known as the "Malaise Era" for US Automakers:

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

The issue wasn't mainly labor costs, it was a combination of new emissions regulations and rising gas prices along with US Automakers refusal to adopt fuel injection instead doggedly clinging to ever more complicated iterations of the carburetor (the computer controlled carburetors of the early 1980s with their rats nest of wires and vacuum hoses reached peak Rube Goldberg status). Meanwhile, Bosch introduced fuel injection in 1973 and within a couple of years FI was standard on most European and Japanese cars; US automakers waited a decade to adopt it en masse.
You need to target some specific location in the brain for that, if that is even possible in humans.

Ultrasound is not very conductive by air [1]. The frequency used in the research process is 3.2MHz, and we can safely conclude it will be absorbed much (looks like thousands times) faster than sound in human voice range.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Attenuation-of-sound-in-...

The power needed to control the crowd with this technique will be prohibitively big. You can just use boat sirens with 1/100 of the power and get same crowd-dissipation results.
That bit about farming is perhaps less relevant. Fewer than 2% of us farm. That part of the car equation is small.

Oh, and we could live in villages. Like we did before cities grew into such megaliths. That might work too.
I think the point he's obliquely trying to make is that the monetization of attention is not a thing that can actually be done right, at all.

We should have solved the problem of bandwidth costs another way - taxes or paying individually for each thing. People keep saying the internet failed. No, the internet has been working perfectly while a bunch of bridge trolls came in and setup shop.
Lying does not require intention
Isn't this gem cross-platform?
I'd go so far as to say, that recalcitrant unions are more of a symptom of protectionism than a separate thing.
Bad writing,.combining two independent and unrelated things and not knowing what and how LLM and a lot more works.

Funny this peace could have been written by chatgpt with the same or better quality.

Only good thing is that crypto VC is now starting to invest in something worthy
I haven't followed Monero in the last years, I had thought it was one of the very few coins harder to track. What would be the optimal way to take the cash out then?
In my thankfully short time at a company that operated this way, there was no upside either.

No decent engineer would stay there because there was nothing to build and management would always just contract out everything. Management, which was promoted internally from bad engineers, couldn't shop a good SaaS product or consulting firm and instead were consistently convinced into buying shitty Oracle products.

In-house products were badly done, which led to contracting out engineering, which led to no engineers, which led to getting screwed in the contracting.

Fixing that company would probably involve firing the whole tech department.
>>Call a cloud API using a simple cross-platform HTTP call. This will reliably work. While at it, you may gain useful data on your customers.

>In the not too distant future, I expect most applications to be replaced by LLM assistants. So the above scenario won't really happen.

Regardless we have the question of how to deploy the local LLM. If the frontend will be the OS, than we can be reliably sure that Microsoft and Google will have motivation to use their cloud hosted AI and you may have to fight the OS to get it to install your model. We may need regulation to ensure local LLMs are possible.
No concern for sure.
So you are saying oil companies are an arm of the government?

I don't know why but a lot of "blind capitalism" reeks of socialism with double standards. After all, if we followed this idea to its conclusion then the US should nationalize the oil industry. Except that isn't capitalism.
Sure, and it means exactly what you expect it to mean in ruby (though tinged with 'bad idea', in the case of aliasing variable names), so that's even more reason to use it (find a way to mesh with irb or whatever they're using as 'backend'). It's 'ruby shell' after all.
co-author here: I'm a sysadmin by day, haven't worked anywhere near AI.

But our main applicable experience is as finance journalists writing up crypto grifters. And it's not only the same grift, but literally a lot of the same grifters.

It's never about the technology, it's always about the money.
Manufacturing is always going to chase places with the cheapest wages and the laxest of regulations.

US didn't squander anything. They just made a choice that the health and wellbeing of workers are important.

Just like China has been making which is why many types of manufacturing are moving to South East Asia and India.
> When this happens with big bank, you could try going to the court.

Great. So not only I lost my money but now I'm getting an assignment as well. Which will last many years and at best will result in recovering a fraction of what I lost and the most likely outcome us not getting anything back and possibly paying more.
I'm not surprised at all. A few months back it was revealed that the Army's information warfare unit was involved in monitoring lockdown critics.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/29/armys-informatio...

https://archive.is/WkAqc
"homeless people need houses"

Vs.

Every one of us needs a roof over their heads.
What are you looking for? Something where you trade time for money with high certainty, or something more speculative, where you try to sell something online and market it?
Browser doesn’t really have limitations in that regard. Thus it offers nothing unique in that sense that’s not already in normal windows/whatever desktop platform demos.

If some frontend developer would make a demo without using webgl or webgpu that would actually get interesting.
That's the cost of having something actually valuable on you actual device.
From what I've heard, EVs are about as noisy as regular cars at speeds relevant to the noise pollution issue.

Check out: https://youtu.be/CTV-wwszGw8?t=815
WebGL is a very high level API because OpenGL itself is a very high level API in this context. People have been coding directly on top of OpenGL since it was first created, including 4k demos. A demoscene demo will itself implement whatever custom "graphics engine" is needed (for a 4k, essentially nothing is needed). Demos don’t commonly use third-party dependencies because the entire idea is to show off your (group’s) programming and art savvy.
https://news.ti.com/industrys-first-ultrasonic-lens-cleaning...

https://e2e.ti.com/blogs_/b/analogwire/posts/ultrasonic-lens...

You could emulate the properties of blinking using piezoelectric transducers.
This is higher-level than the Hypervisor framework; this Virtualization framework providers an entire VM with virtio peripherals including a display.

https://github.com/lima-vm/lima can use Virtualization framework for creating VMs, there is also https://github.com/gyf304/vmcli as a very simple CLI utility for running VMs, though it's not very actively maintained.
I run telnet every day. Over IPsec.
What do people want and need?

Personally, I don't own an Apple product I don't constantly get value out of. Whether it's a 10+ year old Macbook Pro, iPhone or an Apple Watch.

I'd never trust anything but iCloud with anything I'd like to keep private. Meta? lol not a freaking chance in hell.
It's best not to be there. They will prey upon your (and others) instinct to be sympathetic.

If you have to be there, start looking around for a different situation.

In the meantime, work on building up allies with others and document all of your observations.

By documentation, I mean do something like send yourself an email in the companies email system every time you have an interaction or observe something or hear something. This is an ongoing record you can point to if you need to.

Any time this person has a work related interaction involving you, but it is not written down, write it down. In an email, in a ticket, on a wiki/confluence page. "Today Bob, Sandra and I talked about X and decided to do Y". State who was involved in the discussion, what was decided, who said what. This is good practice for capturing any of these ad-hoc interactions at work, so make a habit of it.

If this person attempts to gaslight you (likely) you can refer back to what you wrote down.
Yes. I'm against both fringes.

Climate denialism is a problem, but so is the idea that you can just turn off the oil pumps/transport networks and not expect millions/billions to die, or at best face a life of extreme impoverishment.
The undo button varies:

“unvote” vs “undown”
co-author here: I warn you, I've got a paperclip and I'm not afraid to use it.
It's an app on a phone. It's only as self custodied as your front porch is. With entirety of the internet as your neighborhood.
>negative impact is greatly outweighed by the positives.

You can't know that yet because it hasn't happened and climate change predictions tell us the opposite.
AT&T was a monopoly; many consumers didn't realistically have a choice. When it comes to social media, FB isn't a monopoly. Twitter, SnapChat, and TikTok compete very successfully in the same market. You could include iMessage and YouTube in that segment too depending on your definition of social media.

I could argue the same for Apple; other companies compete successfully in the manufacture of phones, personal computers, and tech accessories.

A company can be large and powerful without being a monopoly.
High speed rail track also don't use expansion joints, the rails are continuously welded, which means that instead of expanding/contracting with seasons, they pack quite some tension or compression, which is basically worn by the strength and friction of these concrete slabs.
I think a good counter example is the pivot of the Ruhr area from a mining and heavy industries hub to an economy centered on tech and services. It happened despite strong union presence in the old sectors. I think one of the deciding factors was a strong social safety net and an active strategy of the state to bring over the employees into the new sectors and don't just leave them stranded with obsolete skills.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhr#Postwar_period

https://www.ruhr-guide.de/freizeit/industriekultur/das-ruhrg...
(Couldn't find a good article in english unfortunately)
But Bernoulli proved the scientific foundation of it well over a century before anyone actually did it.

No one has provided us with an ironclad scientific foundation for AGI. Some people keep declaring very firmly that it must logically be possible, but even if there are no gaps in your logic whatsoever, that's not the same thing as providing equations for how it would work.
>And for those who are partially sighted or blind some sort of warning device + appropriate signal could no doubt have been engineered and legislated.

What do you have in mind? I can’t think of anything as effective as sound—the blind person needs no special hardware to perceive it, and it can be easily spatially localized.
It was in a huge formal garden you need to pay to get into. I am a member. No taxes involved!
9/10 or 99/100 or 999/1000?

The problem is that they get some things right quite often, and other things right occasionally.
> Lying is intentional

That's an interesting issue. When Gwyneth Paltrow is making strange statements about efficiency of certain procedures or aspects of human health, a lot of what she says is untrue. However, by your definition, she is not lying as she (most probably...) believes what she says.

Many people are repeating lies in good faith. The fact they believe them doesn't magically make what they say true.
I got hired at a startup posted here in 2011. I also hired someone from HN a few years later.
One of the strongest arguments for single-payer healthcare/Medicare for All.
I'm confused as to which is more BS, the models or this critic..
If you say something untrue that you believe is true, are you lying?
Hopefully it will be better than how AMD handles their ROCm documentation. https://youtu.be/Zsh6lPqvAcw
I would say the most interesting thoughts I have read on this are from Blaise Aguera y Arcas from Google last summer.

He believes we basically anthropomorphize each other. He made a great point how every child basically anthropomorphizes a doll. Anthropomorphizing is just second nature to us.

I would highly recommend reading his two longish medium essays on the subject.

The part about AI and Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is just utter bullshit. Come on. I am sure you don't really believe that.
Demoscene targets whatever platform can display some graphics and make some sound. People write C64 demos because they want to. It’s a subculture within the greater scene, and approximately zero percent of C64 sceners would want to move to writing browser-based demos. The whole point of the C64 scene is to cycle-shave and torture the hardware into performing tricks its designers would never have thought about.
When Mach was defined it was considered a centralized campus computer that could run all the needed operating systems on top of centralized memory and processing using IPC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_%28kernel%29
Let's see what the objecting neighbors say when the Decepticons alighting from triangle-shaped UAP/UFOs start ripping up their quaint neighborhood, and Barricade, Optimums Prime, and Bumble Bee are banned from the neighborhood!
To show it is yours, and to replace up/down vote (you weren't planning to do either of those I hope).
From the article: “This is not what ought to happen in a free country.”

What do you expect from a country that's been a police state for the last 23 years or so.

With the introduction of the RIP Act in 2000, which compels those with encrypted data to divulge the keys, under penalty of imprisonment. From that, I could tell something had gone very wrong with our government, even back then.

The RIP Act opened the door to government policing of what information we are reading. Because you could no longer encrypt your data to hide it from the state's prying eyes. It was a watershed moment. And that point was where I could say the UK is no longer a free country anymore.
Using the Needs Stack for competitive strategy
Also I said "Now you could argue, well it might mean "something". After all you can reduce our brains to being a big mathematical functions.

Possibly."