skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or that business simply gives small preferred publishing deals to the Dean's professors. Often these professors have their own books that are required for the class (and nobody else uses these books).

You end up with books that sell < 100 copies a year that would never be published from a market demand perspective but provide extra $ for the professor (which matters to the Dean for retention and salary).

I graduated from a large state university engineering school 20 years ago and this was the case so I'm sure it's only become more "enshittified".
This is true of lots of places in the world. US citizens have been indoctrinated to believe the opportunity to abuse is attractive enough that more complex protections, for younger adults, is a political danger zone. God forbid you change something and some abuse appears on the news. Pointing at tradition and saying "I didn't change anything, it must be another bad guy" is the go-to tool for maintaining the status quo in politics. The US position is self-sustaining and oversimplified, like many subjects across the world.
The tweet is literally just this.
It’s not the core that’s leaking, it’s the underfloor heating…
It is likely we can do better than 1:1 human input to GPT output on current tech; but the human in the loop is doing a lot of work very easily that the LLM is very bad at, just like the LLM is doing a lot of work very easily that is otherwise laborious for the human. We can't just take the things that the LLM is bad at and humans do easily and expect to fix it with more LLM.

Right now we have:

Step 1: Human reasoning, tool use, input.

Step 2: LLM output.

Step 3: Human reasoning, tool use, input.

Step 4: LLM output.

&etc.

The observation that the input and output are both just text makes it possible to make "agents". But the "agent" movement trying to totally close the whole loop right away is way too early.

It's fine to lay the groundwork though, and the frameworks for it, like AutoGPT, can be used to just do a couple extra steps rather than close the whole loop.

Plugins and browsing can be seen as merging some of step 2 and 3. But then you still need the &etc iteration with the human closely in the loop.

Chain of thought prompting techniques are similarly an attempt to merge a little bit of the human's process of vetting the output by trying to get better output in individual iterations. Sometimes I make the LLM output multiple options and pick the best one with its reasoning; this is really just compressing multiple runs of the LLM and having it pick one, rather than me retrying if I get a bad output.

Anyway I think this is the right way to look at it; these are good tools for trying to compress iterations of human-in-the-loop. For some things maybe we'll eventually remove the human, but we shouldn't expect it right now. The twitter demonstrations of "it did the whole thing" are a trick; good for influences, but not realistic right now.
I really like the "when" keyword, actually.
> It incentivizes the right people with the power and market participation to optimize for the right thing.

But it doesn't. What incentivizes people in power right now is the AirBnB and TicketMaster fee schedules. That's why we have those things.

You can describe a better solution, one you could enact if you got into power, but you might never be allowed to get into power because you have that idea as a solution. The policy makes the power structure less than the power structure determines policy.

I would argue to you that piracy is the power structure answer to poor incentive structures in academia.

Do you think we would have experienced streaming as it is today without the piracy of old?
It is clear that many aren't reading the article. This is not about kids working at McDonald's for a summer job:

"In February, the Labor Department announced that it had found more than a hundred children between the ages of thirteen and seventeen working in meatpacking plants and slaughterhouses, in eight states, for Packers Sanitation Services, one of the nation’s largest food-sanitation companies. The facilities themselves are owned by major corporations, including Tyson Foods and JBS. (All three companies denied that they had engaged in any wrongdoing.) The children worked overnight shifts at such jobs as cleaning bone saws and head splitters with hazardous chemicals. At least three were injured."
That depends on if it's before or after tax. If after: 46k DKK out monthly is top of the line given our own crushing taxes. If before, yeah not good.
Yes, when is the way to do loops in this language. From the hidden examples page

functi fibonacci (n) => {
const var sum = 1!
const var i = 0!
when (i < n) {
sum += sum + previous sum!
i++!
}
}

when (i < 10) {
fibonacci(i)?
i++!
}
All true and don't forget that even death you're not safe (the funeral industry is one of the worst offenders).
There aren’t any straw men here. I’m explaining the mindset of the community I grew up in.

The core of the belief is market forces are the only control necessary in a society. Regulations get in the way. Ultimately, every person being personally responsible for not being “exploited”, whatever “exploited” means.
Some of those Android TV boxes actually had pirated apps of various kinds - and SoCs that were gimped to the extent where you really needed the source to rebuild that particular version of Android.
That already exists in the form you describe.
"The state doesn't care to help."

Um, the state was iirc picking up the treatment bill (not doing the whole Typhoid Mary thing of saying you cannot have a job, but you aren't getting any support either).

She chose not to get treatment, and it was made very clear that was an option, but she was required to isolate from everyone in that case. Instead she used public transit, casinos, she went to the hospital without telling any of the doctors she had an incredibly contagious disease.

What you're saying is we should not criminalize drunk driving, because then people will hide that they're drunk driving.
Neither is Paypal or Venmo.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/02/investing/payment-apps-safety...
The filesystem means zero configuration.

I found almost all message queues to be horribly complex to configure, debug and run. Even database queues require a lot of config, relative to using the file system.

I did actually write a file system based message queue in Rust and it instantly maxed out the disk at about 30,000 messages a second. It did about 7 million messages a second when run as a purely RAM message queue but that didn’t use file system at all.

It depends what you’re doing of course… running a bank on a file system queue wouldn’t make sense.

A fast message queue should be a tiny executable that you run and you’re in business in seconds, no faffing around with even a minute of config.

I just hate configuration in general.
I'm confused, what do you mean there's not going to be a future for them? No doubt there's going to be some challenges, but I thought all that carbon was in the atmosphere and oceans before it was sequestered by plants and alagae.

I thought the major issue was the speed of change, but we really don't know what life is thing to do in response.

According to this article, during the Cambrian, the earth was 10C hotter than it is today.

https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2022/09/20/you-asked-dinos...

We're going to need to adapt, and things will be harder, but I believe it's totally doable.
We were lucky nuclear war didn't happen, and it still might.

I think the risk of nuclear war is higher now, with more nations having more weapons, fewer treaties preventing profession, and an increasingly multipolar power dynamic in international affairs.
Yes. I never tried the MSI one. The add-in cards are an opportunity for some chronic underperformer from a 3rd-tier BIOS developer team to put bad code between you and an Intel thunderbolt chip. Just say no.
> But wasn't that always the case?

Nope and it isn't the case now. End of the world cults are a common feature of human societies, pretty much all of them have/had them. My personal guess is that egos are so big that people can't imagine a world after them so it's easier to say the world is going to end.
When someone who has a highly contagious and potentially fatal disease (with significant sequelae if you happen to catch it and survive) refuses treatment or an order detaining them at their home, it is in the interest of the common good to either isolate them, or if that is not socially feasible, forcibly treat them.
> Inflation has been hovering around 8-10% a month

Actually, about 1/12th of that. You meant 8-10% a year. [0]

[0]: https://tradingeconomics.com/iceland/inflation-cpi
China doesn't care one bit about climate change. China is building six times more new coal plants than other countries, report finds:
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160441919/china-is-building-...
> In only a few years we are going to have close to this level of hardware on all laptops/desktops and maybe even mobiles

I'm surprised they have been holding back on improving their GPUs if this is true. Was there any technical achievement in the recent years to enable this leap?
Also a big fan of SandPond :)
No I mean without unreproducible steps.
It's interesting all the responses below here go full ad hominem.
OP, there’s a lot in this post (too much).

You have a real nugget of an opportunity with this article. You might get another post to land with more traction by writing another article summarizing this one.

* Drop most of the pre-amble

* Explain your methodology, but drop most of the detail on each test.

* maybe a table summarizing the result

* consider focusing on the 2 or 3 most capable. Right now, it’s really hard to figure this out.

* Consider keeping some verbosity for the top models
My last name is Daga and I hated that 2 letter .ga weren’t allowed. Would’ve snapped up da.ga
You're right that it's about a space, or a field, which is in the name, but you're wrong in contradicting the other poster. The near field is determined by the radiating surface, the front baffle of the speaker. Room height line arrays for example have a large near field. Near field speakers are those with tuning designed to be flattest when listened to inside the near field. The link you posted is confused and misleading, which is unfortunate since they dressed it up as some kind of "myth busting".
OK, so this is fine? (No, I do not believe that)
Is there something new here? I scanned through it briefly and couldn't see anything
Back in the day when I was thinking about this I kind of thought of myself as pre-visual. I'm sure I have multiple modes of thought though, and I'm also sure this is true of pretty much everyone.

I've had way too many instances of not being able to find a word to express an idea, or not remembering the specific words people expressed but just what I think was the gist of what they said (whether or not I interpreted them correctly) to think of myself as a verbal thinker. When it comes to word production sometimes they just come, at other times it takes me time, and I can go into a state where they just flow, but in that state my conscious is checked out of the process. It has the experience of an autonomic process almost.

I do have an inner monologue though (frequently caught up with OCD counting, or at the moment Taylor Swift's Anti-Hero song as well as speaking the words I am writing as I am writing them).

> only an idea pops up in my head without any specific image and I have to try really hard and describe the horse with words to make some kind of misty parts of the horse

Is this idea the words which describe the horse, or a pre-visual/pre-verbal idea of a horse?
Wow...tiktok is blocked for me at work...is that fixed rate or ARM financing?
USB is 27 years old and 99% of USB devices I've seen used one of just three different ports, two of which are still in wide use. I'd say the fact I can plug a 15 years old harddrive into a brand new PC and it'll just work without any adapter is amazing. Bewildering diversity? Where?
Related: I just dropped a mega DB archive dump for everything I have with regard to RARBG. My hope is others will find this useful.

https://github.com/sleaze/rarbg-db-dumps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36187767
With normal darts you kinda need to try to intentionally harm someone. Not that kids won't do that. But still the sector of risk is smaller. Big much less controllable darts on other hand might land in general area near someone.
The two DisplayPorts on the card are inputs, you run a loopback cable (or two) from the GPU to the USB4 card and it muxes the video into one (or both) of the USB4 outputs.

Loopback cables are a bit clunky, but it does mean there's no pressure on the PCI-E bus from moving the pixels from the GPU to the USB4 card.
It would, but then you're talking about a launch of a thing that wasn't there before. So you need to go through all the reviews needed for that, which might be way too much work for a volunteer trying to salvage something that just lost the team.
I had the California State Board of Equalization empty one of my bank accounts without warning because they thought I owned them back taxes. I had moved out of the country and wasn't filing California taxes, which was a mistake. You still have to file a 0 tax.

I still haven't gotten my money back.
Yeah. If a 16 year old gets an internship at a soulless tech/advertising company, HN will cheer and celebrate. But if a 16 year old frames a house, it's [flagged] [dead].
I’ve been using BirdNET for a few years now. Looks like it is the same university that makes Merlin.
I did not debate that, but russia has also a history of not really caring about pollution.
I agree, having broader agreement on how tackle these issues is key. We don't do that well right now and I suspect that strongly correlates to rivaling political parties in an age of divisiveness that cannot work together to formulate a cohesive plan.

I'll say this again, as I stated in another comment, there are different reasons for homelessness. Some people are just in a bad rut and need a stable place to go while they sort their lives out. This is the minimum order of difficulty; build damn shelters, and resource centers, and these folks will get help first.

The larger component of homelessness has mental health or drug issues and far more overlap with gang activity root causes. It's worth trying to solve those together and taking an approach that instead of demonizing them for their choices/mistakes seeks to help them set their lives on a more stable path.

Mental health related homelessness requires access to healthcare that can fund whatever they need to be on and courts that can recognize this is the case.
So it all boils down to how https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/optimum-interpolation-sst is created.

The NOAA 1/4° Daily Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature (OISST) is a long term Climate Data Record that incorporates observations from different platforms (satellites, ships, buoys and Argo floats) into a regular global grid. The dataset is interpolated to fill gaps on the grid and create a spatially complete map of sea surface temperature. Satellite and ship observations are referenced to buoys to compensate for platform differences and sensor biases.
No need to apologize, it was a very interesting article, I just couldn't understand the title at all
Nope. I see it the same way. Perhaps we are both weird then.
There isn't any evidence that there is actually 10x more bandwidth cost on average across all mil-gov terminals vs average across all retail users (who are pretty likely to be streaming Netflix/Youtube as well). 10x increase is a lot. More importantly, if you don't increase capacity all you are doing is charging an arbitrary price to implement priority. Starlink knows which are the military terminals so it can do that at no cost. I haven't seen reports of them increasing capacity and I don't think it costs anywhere near $100 million to do so.

But if this is so easy to justify why aren't they making the per-unit/per-unit-service cost public? Or the total cost. I don't think most other cost of arms to Ukraine are hidden.
Western Union built a store-and-forward message switching system in pretty much exactly the way you describe (but with paper tape rather than magnetic): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_55-A
Maybe it is a worrying symptom that you associate free speech advocacy with the 'alt right'?
I donate monthly to this: https://www.wren.co
When there's proper public transport in place, cars aren't needed. Trains for medium/long distances, busses for medium/short distances, bikes for short distances and a pair of feet for everything else.

Beyond a certain network-density of other modes of transport, there are simply better alternatives to cars (in most cases).

Cars by themselves are the most inefficient (cost, space, fuel, economically) and polluting mode of land-based transport we have.

I know, it's a completely different thing in the US, which is full of car centric infrastructure and other modes of transport are either absent (passenger trains) or often impossible or outright dangerous due to the sheer danger caused by a lack of proper infrastructure for pedestrians/cyclists, public education/general behavior (road rage, drivers' education, ...) or even impossible to cover by bike due to the distances caused by urban sprawl/a lack of density due to zoning laws.
Exactly. Not only that, but according to a recently filed lawsuit they’re providing preferential access to YC batch companies first and then everyone else.
2Ws require a specific fabrication process that will take a while longer to ramp up (due to the RAM-in-chip)
And if you don't want your code to loop back by accident you can just use lifetimes! Truly an elegant language
I thought that death risk was 100 percent, no matter what
> but young folks are easier to exploit.

Exactly, this is why have laws against the sexual exploitation of minors by adults. It is much easier much easier to talk a minor in to doing something that is not in their favor by their lack of life experience.

Does this mean minors should not work... No. Things like apprenticeships and things that are low risk of injury should be fine. Myself, I grew up on a farm and every damned thing there is looking to remove some part of your body. I knew young people that had limbs removed on their family farm by what would be simple mistakes, but hey have a life long impact.
Except that most of the outsourced jobs aren't going to Barcelona in Denmark: they were going to Poland before it became too expensive then Ukraine before the war and now India.
By way of counter argument, I would point out that in almost any country on earth where free speech is not enshrined as it is in western democracies, minorities fare far worse. I don’t want free speech to help justify oppression, I want free speech so that the oppressed can have a voice.

> even more with the rise of anti-immigrant right-wing parties

If you give the government the power to regulate speech, and one of those right wing parties comes to power, what do you think they’ll use that power for? The only way to guard against this is not not give them that power in the first place.
High risk of autoimmune diseases after Covid-19
I think that just demonstrates the point that maybe scientists put too much emphasis on the science itself when what really matters is influencing people.
Comically absurd Soviet propaganda without actual evidence. As credible as anything published by the North Korean government. The winners of WW2 wrote the history books.
Awesome. I didn't expect my country to appear as an example for such an engineering masterpiece. Thanks for sharing.
Tell HN: The average coding tutorial for beginners don't teach problem solving
There are countless number of coding tutorials for beginners on blogs and on youtube. But the problem with most of them is that they describe a particular language syntax and entirely neglect the thing that should be taught to all beginners i.e. problem solving.

That is why most coming out of bootcamps or such tutorials don't know what to do with the language they learnt. Or when faced with solving a problem they don't know how to start.
China's CO2/kWh is going down reasonably quickly for a growing economy. They could do a lot better of course (couldn't we all?), but they're not just building coal plants; they're also building renewables and nuclear. "China does X Y-times more than other countries" is a headline that can be recycled for almost every topic. There are 1.4 billion people in China.
But see my warning regarding security: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36179850#36186559
Pretty much yes
Technically true is how most science education got screwed up in every field of science. We went from educators like Carl Sagan and Feynman who would take great pains to make sure they don't just tell technically true statements to most researchers today blatantly saying misleading technically true statements for a living to get grant money. Every second grant and paper nowadays literally starts with a disingenuous generalizing statement about whatever thing they're studying (xx gene has implications for cancer or whatever). No one says anything because it's technically true but everyone knows it's practically bs. After doing this for decades they start believing their own koolaid.

And thanks for trying to question my expertise. Please look up the no true Scotsman fallacy and see if that may apply here.
I was scared because I had elderly relatives.

The idea that we should only worry about ourselves feels deeply immoral to me.
There are also the ThinkSmart View devices: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2023/04/22/1330
Here’s the video https://files.catbox.moe/rpp5fp.mp4
DigitalOcean had a nice blog post on this "From 15,000 database connections to under 100: DigitalOcean's tale of tech debt" https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/from-15-000-database-conne... they used MySQL as a message queue and migrated from it.
They're still in education - trade education, but education nonetheless. So not really the same thing as working in a meatpacking plant.
Even a highly mutated cancer will have Less differences than you have from your neighbor so..
I'm not sure what the relevance of your example is regarding your question.

Aside from that, how did you come the to the conclusion that the second project is 'lacking when it comes to good programming'? Just because you didn't get it running?
Yes, but these services need not be “micro”.

If someone twist my arm and off and convinces me to do some consulting, I’ve seen thousands of services started by individual developers, where there is no accounting, so the ops people don’t know what needs to be kept up or what can be shut down.

Definitely separate regulatory differences (marketing vs credit card processing for example). Generally, separate out high velocity code changes from slow velocity code if possible.

I wouldn’t get in the habit of database migrations having anything to do with code pushes. Unless you have no users, I guess. Yikes. So much to say on that topic alone.
Bret Victor: Communal computing for 21st century science
I think they do care (they are also number 1 in rollout of most renewables), but they care more for social stability, that they can only sustain with high economic growth.
I was commenting on "restrictions on speech", of which book banning is a historically symbolic example but less relevant in the modern age.

In the West the left has dominated restricting speech.
99% of all non-smokers die