skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The big filter in terms of population is our ability to terraform other planets and since terraforming takes thousands of years, staying alive on earth with stagnant birth rates is an important part of it until the terraforming is complete.

I think this is actually very crucial, and something too few people appreciate: We need (or will need, at some point; the carrying capacity of the Earth is actually quite a bit more than 8-10 billion, we just need to be better about distributing resources) to keep population from continuing to grow forever on Earth until we have reliable means of colonizing other planets.

This also means we need to avoid getting too far in life-extension/physical immortality research before then! If we can actually achieve physical immortality, but we're stuck on Earth, at some point we will have three choices: stop having kids, start killing each other off in significant numbers, or start running out of resources.

(That is, of course, entirely separate from the concern that life-extension treatments will only be available to the very rich.)
The UK is an absolute mess in regards to this stuff ... from anti monarchy protestors being arrested, to journalists questioning the Ukraine narrative being arrested (https://thegrayzone.com/2023/05/30/journalist-kit-klarenberg...)
Closed course testing to compare with humans would require about 800,000,000 miles of testing (10x length of average travel between fatalities). And that would just be for one version, every update would require that, and updates are about 100x internal version changes per year depending on how you count additional ML annealing.

That's about 80B test miles per year at about a capital cost of $0.50 per mile.

For a company that, say, spends ~10% on R&D, it would require the company be about a trillion dollars, which only Apple, etc. have reached.
That was the claim, I was replying to : "Difference is that in tech you can retire with 50. Few people who still work at 70 do so by choice.".

Saying you can retire at 50 if you choose too, and working is a choice, is completely bogus. You are not being nuanced, you are being misleading.

Nobody is retiring at 50 that isn't very well off. Even with a small house, remember, there is covering health insurance, taxes, food. It is well beyond a large percentage of people.

Spinning it as lifestyle choice is not what was being alluded too. Yes, I could choose to live in a small apartment and live on rice, and thus 'retire'. Do you really think that is what the original post was implying.

"Nice place in the countryside and continue with the hobbies ".
I just can't believe the levels of disconnection here. It almost comes full circle, I could 'retire' if I would just choose to live on the street, it's totally a lifestyle choice.
The main danger in my experience is that it is harder to hear if the EV is operational when standing still.
the interest in self-driving cars (by anyone except salivating bean-counters and CEOs) has been greatly exaggerated.

Most people seem to prefer driving to being a passenger, particularly the passenger of some broken half-baked tech
(the kind of semi-broken tech all consumer computing systems seem to say is OK to bring to market)
It comes from the wheels passing over the joints in the track segments. Track that isn't continuously welded is made of individual pieces of rail joined at the ends with a fishplate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishplate
Fwiw I've heard many horror stories about Paypal
It might be concerning, but this isn't some great exclusive. The establishment was reported in March 2020.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/09/cross-whitehal...
If the FTC cracks down on anticompetes nationally, Silicon Valley loses one of its big historical reasons for existing.
The expansion gaps.
This is cool, I quickly learned about some companies outside my region that I didn't know existed.

two other things
1. I get slightly > 1 similarity scores for exact matches for my ticker query. EX: AAPL -> 1.0000000000000007

2.It seems like it's matching exactly on ticker name. It would reduce some friction if I could search by company name as well. Then I wouldn't have to lookup the ticker every time I have a query!
> I sometimes find errors in docs and drifts, and would love that community could do a simple PR and fix them.

I would love that amazon maintains its product documentation so we dont have to do it at our own dime.
Please God let them use this to virtualize macOS inside iPadOS. Not as a daily driver but for the occasional use of a full desktop OS (when plugged into a keyboard/mouse). Then I could stop traveling with two devices once and for all.
This would be more credible if BoJo (and many other elites) had not been partying while the government "protected" its citizens.
For the rest it looks good. I have a knack for stack based languages. I enjoy it includes one.
There's not much down below it. It calls into the Hypervisor APIs, which directly touch platform virtualization features.
Why not the browser? Because playing in a browser sandbox just isn't very fun is probably the short version.
Why your smartphone is causing you ‘text neck’ syndrome (2019)
> To prevent this, a big part of railway maintenance involves digging out all the stones, washing them to get rid of sand and soil, and putting them back.

This is called "ballast cleaning" if anyone wants to do a search:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNFUgTJR6jw

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballast_cleaner
Very useful to me. Thank you for sharing. Convert to markdown format, the screenshot can also contain pictures.
ok sure but

>Well known universities have more funds available and will be able to attract the best teachers away from the lesser universities.

if we see that the work 20 years ago at a lesser known university was of the same quality as the work at a well known one, then I don't really get your argument about the money?

>Researchers may be willing to cite work from well known universities over similar work done at lesser universities.

which would really be confirming the argument that similar levels of quality get treated differently given their source.
My RAV4 Prime is much louder than an ICE at low speeds, especially in reverse. It’s so loud it’s sparked a bunch of videos and discussion on how to lower the volume: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q1UqicqdzFE

Some have figured out how to disable it completely (just pulling the noisemaker causes a fault code to trigger) but quieting it down to roughly the volume of an ICE seems more reasonable to me.
> adding noise to an image and solving for the reverse to generate new images of the same kind [should have been discovered 30 years ago]

Diffusion networks sre new, but denoising autoencoders work on the principle you outlined and were invented in the eighties.

The reason neural nets didn't become popular sooner is because achieving the sorts of results they produce nowadays requires a ton of computing power and a ton of data to train from.
Heh.

For any not familiar with The Spectator it's a UK paper that's been a literal UK Conservative Party mouthpiece since its first issue in 1828.

Editors have frequently held significant political positions, eg:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Gilmour,_Baron_Gilmour_of_...

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

ie describing it as being edited by (UK) right wing ideologues is factually true.
Anyone care to explain to me what is mean by "safe place"? Was it not safe before? Are Q&A platforms generally known to be unsafe to post on? Genuinely curious. It's such a peculiar choice of words it certainly has intrigued my senses.
It's from the rock dust itself. Quartz is silica, and silica dust causes silicosis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicosis
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/10002/

^^ For the curious ones :)

More or less it's an abstraction on top of Hypervisor to make VMs much simpler in Swift.

From what I remember, Docker tried to use this but suffered greatly on disk performance.
Theoretically you could have more on rotation at a time. Rather than have a whole bus that’s 25% full, you can have a few vans shuttling along the route. This should allow greater access since people don’t have to wait as long between buses.
For example, the bus on my city are few. If I want to go to the grocery that is only a 8 miles await, the trip would take about 15 minutes by bike because there is no bus route to it. However mini vans on a known route could come get me most of the way.
> Is this satire? Stack Overflow is infamous for how hostile its culture is towards people asking questions.

I don't think any CEO or PR department would willingly admit such things...
Humans have two eyes that move in sync and can measure distance using the auto-focus feature. They can both point at an object and autofocus to figure out how far that object is. I don't see teslas using moving binocular cameras with 10th of a second autorefocusing in order to judge distances. I don't see how it is the same thing. Of course we can play GTA with just vision, but I'd argue the average person crashes in GTA more than they do in a real car.
"You will have noticed that the slope-based lines above "wiggle" more. This is true, and might be considered one of the drawbacks of the algorithm. However, the fact that BRR lines are more temporally stable can also conceivably be useful in some applications."

For nearly all applications, better quality for trivial cost is preferred.

The "instability" of classic lies is almost always a benefit -- it provides a very cheap form of motion blur / time-dimension dithering anti-aliasing that hides the ugly pixel aliasing of stable lines.

BRR is only better when generating extremely complicated demos, where hyperoptimization matters more than control over the image. For most applications, drawing what the developer/user wants is more important than more complex but arbitrary effects.
I have to be honest and say working mostly in Security my pay is good enough and work is easy for me... Mostly I'm annoyed that my employer doesn't get enough projects for me...

I could be paid more, but I wonder would that be worth the extra effort.
Overall, a bad sign for Stack Overflow. When executives write gobbledygook paragraphs such as:

“ Since my last quarterly update, companies across nearly every sector have experienced significant transformation—whether it’s a more aggressive focus on profitability or a shift in product strategy due to the acceleration of generative AI (GenAI). Thematically, however, one thing has remained the same: companies are committed to driving productivity and efficiency throughout their organizations. At Stack Overflow, we continue to help our customers and community deliver both.”

The unclear and muddy writing reveals that their thinking is likewise unclear.

Generalities instead of specifics. Vague platitudes. This is poor writing.

StackExchange is facing an existential threat and there is nothing in this letter that names it, identifies steps they’ll take to address, or how they will thrive in the new future.

It is not unexpected, but a confirmation of what we all might fear.
Yeah, despite all the (valid) concerns about spam and abuse of free domains, I think there's value in a "throwaway" TLD. I was grateful to be able to get free domains to play around with back when I was a broke teenager and couldn't justify a real domain.
Australians used similar traits on these Moai sculptures. Physics, ropes and levers.

So did the Egyptians, but with water and slopes. With a few mms of water on it, big rocks slide up like magic.

Seriously, stop defending lost causes because of my $LOST_COUNTRY. I'm Basque, so I've read lots of similar bullshit from Basque and/or Spanish nationalists, or Rome/Greece supporters stating that only the Graeco-Roman empire was able to build big buildings or sculpture with ease.

Phoenicians did amazing wonders. So did the Cretan culture, which was almost considered a god-like empire from the Greeks and the surrounding Mediterranean tribes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_culture

Once you get Geometry, Math and basic Physics right and written down, architecture almost develops itself in any empire.

Geometry for sure was born as a method to split terrains to avoid clashes. So did Math, as a method to store goods efficiently. And for trade between tribes, for sure. So any developed empire could get construction things right with very few efforts.
https://archive.is/Ro8rP
this is the comment i was looking for. netcat is the better option for testing network ports.
Am surprised, it’s been a day now and I haven’t seen RIIR alternative wow
Man we really need more parks
"Full" can mean a lot of things. You chose to interpret it as L5, but to me it clearly compares itself to AP and other lesser ADAS systems which has a much smaller ODD. FSD has a nearly full ODD (it doesn't do parking and reversing yet). I understand you might get the impression that Musk means L5, and clearly that is the long term goal, but that doesn't mean FSD has to be L5. Anyway, arguing about a name is pointless. There are literally thousands of videos online where someone who's about to purchase a product for $15,000 can see exactly what they will get. The "fear" that grown adults will purchase something for $15,000 purely based on a vague name without reading any disclaimers or read/watch a single review is disingenuous and purely false concern.
The Netherlands had a similar unit; I’d imagine other countries had as well.

In The Netherlands it’s mostly a secret which people were part of the unit, though a couple have been discovered and perhaps there will be more to come.
The proliferation of these dumb buttons is annoying. At least make them reassignable; I have TVs that have buttons for services that no longer even exist.

It's also often a symptom of the TV UI being so horribly slow that there's no other reasonable way to get to the service.
Why do you want to work for free to make AWS better anyways?
The situation is unclear and no one knows what is going on, so dissent from the government's valid and totally non-hysterical steps will not be tolerated.
Interesting. Of course semantics of natural language is not formally defined.

For me it sounds like lying and telling lies is not necessarily the same thing.
Shitty Facebook is playing double-standards considering they themselves host a large amount of malicious pages for various illegal activities.
I can't read the article because it's paywalled (and I'm unwilling to give the Barclay family any cash) but I'm very sceptical about the accuracy of the article given the Telegraph's history of printing lies and nonsense about the pandemic.

See for example:
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55676037

Does HN have any guidelines about paywalled articles? I assume a large proportion of people commenting here won't have read the article.
In my opinion, SO doesn’t really have much of a choice here. Not only has the quality of questions and answers been on the decline, the entire SO experience is notoriously hostile for new comers. I find that ChatGPT/GitHub Copilot tend to give much better answers for the vast majority of programming related questions. It’s much faster, easier, and less intimidating to ask your tools questions knowing that you’ll most likely get a high quality answer and not get admonished for having asked the question in the first place.
Do you have any sources for that? I basically gave up on Docker for M1 since the qemu performance is terrible.

Last time I checked, Rosetta only worked for one-off binaries, wouldn’t really allow docker to run more x86 code inside.
I've also been using the Apple Virtualization option with Linux VMs in UTM and have had zero issues whatsoever. The biggest benefit to doing so in my opinion isn't necessarily the noticeably better performance, but the RAM usage. I've noticed that Linux VMs in UTM that run using the Apple Virtualization Framework use significantly less RAM compared to otherwise because the framework provides dynamic memory allocation. This makes it very well suited to running Linux VMs on systems that have less memory (e.g., an M1 MacBook with only 8GB of RAM).

The only thing I'd like to see added to the framework is the ability for nested virtualization (which is now available in the M2 chips, but isn't built into M1 chips).
It's really quite amusing to see The Telegraph trying to claim the moral high ground over government interference and disinformation.

For those who don't know, The Telegraph is an extreme right media outlet which regularly publishes absolutely batshit denialist nonsense about Covid, climate change, immigration, and all the usual hits.

It's a Q drop for the UK's upper class.

Not coincidentally it used to employ Boris Johnson, and while PM he allegedly said that it was his real boss.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/boris-johnson-refers-telegraph-re...

So here we are with more than 200,000 dead and more than 2 million with Long Covid.

Good job, Telegraph writers. I hope you're all proud of your "journalism."
Regulation in the U.S. requires it: “After several additional delays, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued its final ruling in February 2018. It requires hybrids and electric vehicles travelling at less than 18.6 mph (30 km/h) to emit warning sounds that pedestrians must be able to hear over background noises. The regulation requires full compliance in September 2020, but 50% of "quiet" vehicles must have the warning sounds by September 2019.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_vehicle_warning_sou...
That's further than I meant to suggest.

There's plenty of land, plenty of places for people that aren't mega-cities. Those of us out here know that. And my commute? Down the hall to my computer.

Put small towns on train lines, the car issue is lessened. Make the shopping districts walkable, again lessened.

I do use a car out here - to get to a city center where I walk from then on. A train or bus would have worked too.
That's an inaccurate summary of the Semafor article, and also omits the Fallows Substack, which is authored by a veteran reporter who interviewed a veteran translator and published his comments in full.

Both the Semafor article and the Fallows Substack report on many Chinese translators who found the translations in the ProPublica article incorrect and misleading. The ProPublica editor note engages with none of their criticisms directly, and only states that they found some translators who all declared their translation "plausible", and that some of the translators agreed with or considered acceptable some particular points of their translation. They make some corrections and acknowledgments of ambiguity and missing context, but without any meaningful discussion of the impact of these changes on the article.

Regarding that, I think it is revealing that the biggest revisions in the story, including a full new paragraph pointing out translation ambiguity with a link to the editor's note, are concentrated in the first few paragraphs of the story, where the "bombshell revelations" are typically broken.

Fallows followed up with questions reflecting the inadequacies of ProPublica's response here: https://fallows.substack.com/p/more-questions-for-propublica

Fallows notes that some of the most problematic aspects of the story went entirely unanswered:

> Why did you dismiss the issue of virtually identical language found in a Communist Party document many months before the alleged “lab leak”? Did this issue come up in the editing process? How was it resolved?

All this said, I agree with Fallows that ProPublica is still very much worth reading, and that it's just unfortunate they won't frankly acknowledge some shortcomings in reporting on a topic that Western sources are inevitably going to mess up. Even in this story, ProPublica deserves credit for transparency, disclosing its original sources in a way that allowed outside critics to quickly and easily reassess them.
They sort of promised it wouldn't and I believe them. I would be willing to bet that in 5 years old.reddit.com still exists
Ask HN: A programming language designed to be generated by GPT?
I'm wondering if there is any utility in doing that, or it's best to stick with python etc just because there's more data?
Of course you also need a clean version of linux and all software compiled with a clean compiler.

Thankfully we can be reasonably sure that some compilers at least predate cryptocurrency.
Superficial Intelligence?
>Smyth required the $10,000 from his Apple Card Savings account to do some remodeling work in his basement, only to find he could not complete his transaction

This is funny because it reminds me of other Apple Services.
Musk outlines his workweek, complains of context switching being high cost, and claims to do most of his own scheduling with only "one part time assistant". Doesnt hire anyone else because "(they) dont know whats important"
Exactly! Which is why I try to propose fixing zoning issues and allowing people to live closer to their workplaces, along with the infrastructure changes to go along with it.

And: public transit as a viable alternative. I live ~10 miles from work, but it’s just a short trip from home (by bike or tram) to the train station, which drops me within 0.2 miles of the office. And the trains run every 10-15 mins all day.

I could also walk 15 mins from home for a bus that goes to the block of my office, and has service every 10 minutes until ~midnight, but I’m lazy and prefer the train.

(US citizen living in Europe)
People conflate the ChatGPT demo web app with proper use of Large Language Models. I think proper use is providing your own text and documents as context and then use LLMs for question answering, summarization, etc. It is unsurprising that chat with a LLM without providing lots of context can produce strange results.
Google’s AI-powered search experience is way too slow
The "safe place" stuff is a reference to the recently implemented new Code of Conduct, which bends over backwards to accommodate gender pronouns etc.

https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/10/10/iterating-on-inclusion...

Why SO thinks this is the biggest problem they should be solving, or why it took four years to roll out, is beyond me; for one, I can't ever recall discussing or caring about anybody's genitals or lack thereof when posting coding Q&As.
I believe it's called 'virtue signalling', it's a hot phrase (though perhaps past its peak by a few years) and associating yourself with it is only really a positive thing.

What does it actually mean? Yeah, probably nothing. In fact as others say it might ironically actually not be true (an 'unsafe place', 'hostile to newcomers') in SO's case.
That may be true, but there is usually a limit to how much hypocrisy such posts contain. I'm pretty sure that after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP didn't put out press releases containing quotes that praised the company's stellar environmental record. The above is pretty much the equivalent of that for Stack Overflow.
VirtualBuddy is a great open-source project that takes advantage of this framework: https://github.com/insidegui/VirtualBuddy
The blog post is entirely marketing and tries to obfuscate or ignore the trouble AI-generated content is causing on SO. The company has enacted a deeply unpopular policy this week that essentially makes it impossible to moderate most AI-generated posts on Stack Overflow.

Laying off 10% of the company after putting another 10% of the company on developing AI-anything do look more like panic to me. AI-generated content is threatening one half of their business model, and additionally causing moderation issues as well on the public sites.