skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many advertisers have backed off because laying off a lot of people has led to a worse product.

Many more advertisers who might have otherwise been persuaded to stay by sales reps they had contact with have backed off because those sales reps themselves were let go.

One could genuinely make an argument that most SV tech companies have way more employees than they need. And one could almost trivially prove that to be true (many Tech companies were hiring developers not because they needed them, but to keep them out of the hands of competitors). That does not make Elon’s slash and burn destruction of Twitter sensible by any measure.

Meta is also offloading vast number of employees and it’s managing to do it without making it sound like their company is a dumpster fire.

Elon’s approach to Twitter is highly reminiscent of the Stephen Elop burning platform memo to Nokia, but orders of magnitudes worse.
> A dictator might just have terrible ideas.

If they're all terrible, then the language won't appeal to anyone and will die off naturally.

On the other hand if everyone gets to add their favorite terrible idea, there may still be enough non-terrible parts to appeal to enough people to keep momentum.
Exactly. I don't know why people criticize MS. They should in-fact demand more intrusive/inbuilt ads in Windows to compete well with Google.
Yes, and those are features most Reddit users could care less about and or can be linked easy enough.

The real meat and potatoes is plain old text with Reddit style markup.
It's not much but it's something. There are a few relatively-safe strategies/methods that I employ to invest into stock market (only delivery, not intraday or FnO). It's primarily geared towards Indian stock market but it can applied anywhere with some modifications.
A credible alien threat would give world leaders a super easy excuse to demand emergency powers, impose martial law, and assume total control of all aspects of life, in the name of the war effort. Said world leaders really really want these things, so you can safely assume there isn’t a credible alien threat. You don’t have to trust them, just trust that they’ll act in their own interests and work backwards from there.
I'm perfectly prepared to accept that - they're already lying about tons of other stuff. I'm just gonna need something a little more solid than, this guy claimed a few other guys told him some stuff and showed him some papers about how there are totally aliens. Let's see the papers, let's see some close-up high-quality videos of this stuff. Everybody has a HD video camera with 24x7 net connection in their pocket at all times now, how come we haven't seen anything like this yet?
> Are China and Russia gonna be like, what, UFOS?! Let's waste money studying something we have no evidence for!

Yes. That’s exactly what happens. [1]

“In 1970 United States intelligence sources believed that the Soviet Union was spending 60 million roubles annually on "psychotronic" research. In response to claims that the Soviet program had produced results, the CIA initiated funding for a new program known as SCANATE ("scan by coordinate") in the same year.”

That program was funded until 1995.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project
The image where adding an axiom / base fact causes a previous conclusion to be invalidated shows a key fact that goes unmentioned in the article.
The inference steps the author uses are, mathematically speaking, unsound (or the new axiom causes self-contradiction).

This is not to say the inference steps were mistakes, I believe the author when he claims they were backed up, reasonable, etc. Instead, my point is that 'real world reasoning' is very often unsound by necessity of needing to make a decision. This is a very important fact to acknowledge when doing real world reasoning, confusing this form of reasoning from mathematically sound reasoning is quite seductive, but will often lead to reality punching you in the face.

Based on this, I do object to the author's use of the word 'axiom' it suggests a much more rigorous form of argument than is actually being discussed.
I'm not an American, but Australian.
It depends on what device you have.

On some of the older devices, nouveau actually works very well right now. On these devices the open driver is as stable and performant as the closed driver and has all of the same features with the exception being GPU compute stuff.

I think mostly people misunderstand the limitations of the nouveau drivers and just assume they are bad in general, but it's very much dependent on the device.

One of the big issues right now is that nouveau can't bring the newer GPUs out of "idle mode". Nvidia has explicitly restricted this feature and the chances of the issue being resolved without cooperation from Nvidia is very low. I think a lot of people try nouveau on the effected GPUs and have horrible performance and then assume it's because nouveau is bad.

I have had an interesting experience with nouveau on the GT 710. For a little while there was a bug that would cause sway to crash back to tty, at first it would happen maybe once a day, then it became so bad that it would crash as soon as sway was launched. Now in kernel 6.3.3 it seems to be working flawlessly, which is how it was at some point in the past too.

Right now nouveau is working great for me though, so it is possible for nouveau to compete with the closed drivers in specific cases, but in general, for more modern GPUs it will have very low performance due to the reclocking thing.
Well did Antarctica gain ice or are you simply speculating?
> You are entirely neglecting the requirement that at the end of the days, these leaks need substance: documents, photo, or other actual evidence

There is evidence however, things like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bt6_Potk5Q which are becoming more and more common as time goes on. There does seem to be an increasing willingness to disregard evidence all the while demanding more evidence. Recently the pentagon stated they had hundreds of documents/photographs/videos and what has been released publicly does make this appear legitimate.

Is it an alien spaceship? Probably not. Is it an object flying across a warzone that could potentially be a threat of some kind? Quite possibly.

> One crank making headlines every few years

The interesting part of this news is that this person is not "one crank", he's an actual expert in the field employed by organisations to research this exact phenomena. Recently we have had several such experts come along and make these claims. To dismiss that off-hand doesn't seem particularly reasonable these days.
> The inside looks very different, however. The spherical volume formula that you learned in grade school doesn’t apply. The problem is that spatial volume is defined at one moment in time. To calculate it, you have to slice up the space-time continuum into “space” and “time,” and inside a black hole there is no unique way to do that.

Susskind argued that the most natural choice is a slicing process that maximizes the spatial volume at every moment; by the logic of relativity, it amounts to the shortest distance across the hole. “It’s a natural volume analogue of the shortest-line rule,” said Adam Brown, a physicist at Stanford. And because the interior space-time is so warped, the volume by this measure grows with time forever. “The slice on which I measure this volume gets deformed more and more,” said Luca Iliesiu, a physicist also at Stanford."
Someone had to write about this properly but blaming Bing is shortsighted. This is what LLM based searches are bound to turn into: full page undisclosed ads disguised as helpful summaries. Bing, Bard, and likely others will do the same.
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> The gains in wealth from automation over the last 50 years have almost _exclusively_ gone to the owners of the means of production

Possibly because it is measured in some economic dollar-figure that removes all quality-of-life figures as part of the measure.

If you were offered to live in the same house you live in, with twice the income BUT you could only buy goods and services at 1970s equivalent prices and 1970s quality and functionality, I wonder how many people would think that was a good bargain? (Ignoring retro-fiends).

I remember a 1970s dishwasher, a 1970s car (certainly not two), 1970s TV, 1970s medical care, 1970s stereo, 1970s occasional takeaway highlight was KFC (I was young), etcetera. A tinny transistor radio that ran out of batteries was the equivalent of EarPods.

You don’t even get a Sony Walkman 50 years ago (plus sound was shit with tape hiss and poor dynamics, and crappy headphones).

What price would a newly produced VW beetle fetch (at 70s features and quality), assuming they had to sell 200000 cars in a year (how many would be bought for scrap)? How many Ford Maverick’s could you sell for $1000?

We all have immense quality gains from automation, we are just blind to the slow improvements in quality of life (and some decreases too).

The past at the same price (adjusted) is a lot lot worse than many modern people think.

What is the consumer surplus of a modern laptop? You couldn’t buy an Apple ][ 50 years ago. Automation has given us a lot, but those gains are not usually measured because we can’t compare because there was no equivalent to most modern technology.
The interaction paradigm you describe (where it's literally impossible to look at one window while actively using another) makes so little sense that we can almost certainly rule it out. Certainly no press members who demo'd the unit are describing the interface that way.

That's not "defending Apple", that's just... gosh, I can't think of any word besides common sense.

From all of the presentations and press accounts, it seems clear that eye tracking is something of a direct replacement for the mouse/trackpad cursor -- in fact it seems you can use a trackpad or presumably a mouse as well. Looking at an app or "window" seems equivalent to mousing over it, not equivalent to clicking to activate that window.
Sure, but there is ample evidence of human made flying aircraft, and those being shot down, and really none of the other.
Maybe they are teenagers, trying to entertain themselves for summer while school is out.

If there is one other intelligent species out there, it's highly likely there are even more. Why would they care about us in that case?
I wouldn't say it definitely owns that niche, yet, until there is empirical evidence of how using Rust correlates to safer software. Until then, I think it's a hope founded on a substantive argument (ie. the borrow checker) that is still at risk of not achieving its goals.
that site is not really suitable for mass consumption, iirc it used to even have a caveat that said it really only existed to make certain leaf nodes sharable. it's basically a personal zettelkasten, but this update was also sent to his patreons as well, where the writing just ended up being whatever your email client made of it.
...and that's BEFORE you throw systemd into the mix!

I agree. Though to be fair software is doing more these days. Or at least it feels that way!
If a system supports Unicode, then wchar_t must be at least 21 bits, according to the C and C++ standards. Of course the 900lb gorilla has a 16-bit wchar_t, but the standards committees prefer to stick their fingers in their ears rather than deprecate it.
How to get an invite? I am unable to sign up.
A1: Man, that Jekins is so gullible, he'll believe anything. Wanna help wind him up some for the lols?

A2: Lol yeah, you're right. I'm in, that sounds like fun.

A1: Okay so I told him that we've got some alien spacecraft in the broom closet under a project named meatball. I'm pretty sure he believes me, but if you tell him the same thing, I bet he'll really go nuts!

A2: Ahahaha awesome. Okay I'll take him aside next Tuesday. This is gonna be great! I haven't had this much fun at work since the time Brett got his had stuck in the vending machine.
Its 2023 and the Swift compiler continues to be the only compiler I’ve ever used that times out (The compiler is unable to type-check this expression in reasonable time).

Some breaking changes need to happen to the type system.
Of course that all depends on your belief that the cop didn't give you an earlier answer that you ignored.

It acts like a security, smells like a security, trades like a security, but it's NOT A SECURITY, so give me new laws for this thing I won't define!
You've already lost the argument. There is nothing the US can do to prevent Russia and DPRK from securely communicating. There is something the US can do to prevent them from stealing money from Americans using cryptocurrencies.
It looks good. Will sign up and try.

Thanks for sharing :)

Update: The site won't allow me to sign up with Simplelogin aliases or Firefox Relay. It asks for a "real" email address which I personally won't provide. Also, clicking the premium option asks you to download their app. No thanks.
Has Microsoft ever had any shame? You asked for convenience and you got it, except for this mild inconvenience. Why should we care?
Grusch also brought these people in front of Congressional oversight committees to testify. There should be more info from Grusch dropping soon on NewsNation or the Need to Know podcast. They did a 7 hour interview with him, as they talk about in this behind-the-scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQjbFZT9_EM
I think a person can relax on the couch with the headset. Cuddling is an issue. I would much rather use the headset than a TV. For one, I can resize the screen as I see fit. One problem in my house is that my oled TV doesn’t do well in sunlight. I can watch a movie while seeming to be at any location I desire. I hate the idea of the electronics waste that comes with 70 inch TVs when the time comes to replace it. I don’t like the hdmi cables and plugs. I’d rather have less clutter. I like the idea of an all purpose, high quality media and internet consumption device that is small that will replace a lot of products that I currently have.
I have a 3090 with HP Reverb G2 and very high tolerance for motion sickness. I’ve noticed in Elite Dangerous that lower framerates cause less motion sickness. The stuttering between frames makes my eyes/brain not treat the visual motion as “real”.

So I crank up the details to super high and enjoy the awesome rendering detail and save myself from motion sickness.

Elite Dangerous is the only VR app that gives me any motion sickness at all and is also my favorite app in VR so far.
Since it does the signal processing in the Fourier domain, does this suffer from audio artefacts e.g. hissing in the output? Torch's inverse STFT uses Griffin-Lim which is probabilistic and if you don't train it sufficiently, you may sometimes get noise in the output.

https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/generated/torch.istft.html#t...

An alternative would be to use a vocoder network (or just target a neural speech codec like SoundStream).
Realistically, that's probably the best we are getting for a while. VR gaming has had a difficult time. The physical space requirements are immense and the gameplay types have been limited.

A lot of value could be had playing flat screen games this way. Imagine sitting on a plane with a controller in your lap, but it feels like you are sitting in a private loungeroom or some zen environment playing a game on a large TV.
In addition to others' comments, I see no reason why "vs. a prediction of a 20k Gt loss" should be a good summary, when (I assume) the number was lifted from:

> whereas the steady-state approach would estimate ice loss of −20 028.1 Gt over the same period

I'm not a climatologist, but for all I know this could mean something like "If we draw a straight line between point A and B it will intersect a point that is 20,000 Gt below the observed value, which is clearly silly, and that's why we should not do that." I see no claim about which research group actually made a prediction of 20k Gt loss, but obviously I didn't read the whole article, so I'll wait for the OP to chime in and explain where in the paper it cites a previous work that made such a prediction.

I'm not holding my breath, though.
Toolkit deprecated in 3 years after Apple assembles a large enough game library :)
Indeed! Well Played.
Satellite beams solar power down to Earth, in first-of-a-kind demonstration
That's why Open Source LLMs are critical. Any commercial LLM you use is going to have advertisements baked in, preferences for particular products, perhaps political biases. Corporations will pay through the nose to have a trusted assistant push their products.
> Grusch said the US government and defense contractors had been recovering fragments of non-human craft, and in some cases entire craft, for decades.

This makes it sound like the US govt is recovering material that has been found lying around, maybe due to a crash, or debris from an accident, or a piece of a UFO that broke off, etc.

Simple question. Why is it that only the US govt is recovering this? Presumably if these are pieces of matter that aliens are leaving behind unintentionally, they would have left them behind distributed across the world. So why aren’t other, less allegedly secretive governments with spy agencies that are less capable or protect data better, not also recovering such material? Why, in hundreds of years of UFOs visiting the earth, and leaving debris behind, are random goat farmers not finding this debris lying around?

How has every govt that has managed to find this debris managed to keep it a secret?
This is not correct. Someone outside will never see the infaller reach the horizon, but that doesn't mean the infaller never reaches the horizon. It just means the outside observer never sees it happen.
> a nutritionist

In most places, any bozo can claim to be a nutritionist. From what I can tell, a large proportion of them are deranged crackpots.

So, no. Absolutely do not consult a self-described nutritionist.
New GPU based terminal is available to Linux now
Cancer is an exceptionally powerful analogy. The best I've yet to come across.

Tools like AI won't save or improve the world, as it has never been the original goal. If it was, then, as one of the commenters above pointed out, we would've done it with the technologies/systems we already had.

AI's goal to save the world is no more than the cancer cell's goal to save the host organism (it is not in its capacity to think that far, nor has it been in ours so far either). The goal is to maximize local gain, efficiency, power, and control.

AI is yet another tool to make status quo more efficient. The problem is not AI; the problem is status quo. Thus, its cardinal applications will lean exceedingly toward militarization, state control, social engineering, propaganda, corporatism, hyperconsumerism, and further colonization of human and natural communities. AI just makes this so much more efficient. The result is predictable; this is how complex systems collapse. It will be fortunate if the collapse occurs before the technology is powerful enough to sustain the system semi-permanently, rendering any immune resistance ineffective until the host environment is eventually terminated.

I think the future, if we are to have one, is not AI (or any other post-human substitute). The future is human. AI is a good indicator of the greater existential crisis that we are facing. Let's face it, we are fundamentally uncomfortable with being human. So it is a good wake-up kick in the butt for us.

[P.S. I noticed an interesting trend on H.N.: the most poignant and thought-provoking comments are constantly downvoted and flagged. It may be a symptom of the echo chambers that have developed here. I wonder if some API could be developed to save those comments, as, with some exceptions, I find them most interesting and useful.]
There are over 115,000 schools in the United States. In the 23 years since Columbine there have been 380 school shootings (one is too many, of course).

Any loss of life is tragic but school shootings are a lot like plane crashes: shocking, clustered loss of life. It’s the old story about 150 people dying in a plane crash gripping national (and international) media attention for days while 117 people die in car crashes EVERY DAY and they barely make the local newspaper. Oh yeah phones are a large contributor to these too…

Meanwhile, suicide is the third largest leading cause of death for people aged 15-24 (somewhere around 5,000/yr). Accidents (including cars) are by far the leading cause of death. Not to mention drugs…

School shootings are terrible and any loss of life is tragic. However, the actual statistical chances of a young person being harmed or involved in a school shooting are tiny.

I have a friend who is a high school principal and as the article describes, far more young people are harmed (up to and including suicide) by phones than guns. The sexting, constant and relentless bullying, distraction, overall device addiction, etc does far more damage to far more kids than guns (as wild as that might seem).

Thousands of adults at a time, with far more responsibility (many of whom are parents), will surrender their phones in magnetic pouches to see Dave Chapelle (as one example). Tragedy doesn’t strike when they don’t have constant and immediate access to their phones. It’s actually not the difference between life and death.

Meanwhile, asking 14 year olds (many of whom have no responsibilities other than school) to not have their phones in an environment allegedly dedicated to focus and learning for a few hours at a time receives pushback. It’s truly bizarre.

Get phones AND guns out of schools.
It's frankly just embarrassing too, since the data is obvious, the majority of (actual qualified scientists) who understand the subject agree that global warming is in fact happening, but a small minority of loud voices backed by big corporations make it appear that this is in fact a debatable issue.
>to be killed as humanely as possible.

“It’s better for these animals not to be treated in humanely way”, said other humans:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_war_crimes
These kinds of canned green-guilting stories are not the ones I’m talking about.

It’s the stories we never imagine because the journalists are not allowed to do their jobs. Instead they are just paid a salary to sit and read talking points handed to them from unnamed sources and any idea controversial to any monied interest gets killed before it even starts.

History is a meditation on the old saying, “Truth is stranger than fiction.” If our media were functioning, then we would find news and current events to be as dazzlingly perplexing and surprising as history. There was a time when no one watched movies but every adult paid out of his own money for a newspaper subscription. But as it stands, the truly interesting stories are only told after the dust settles, and only to those who read. And the rest are lulled through silence or banality into a dream-like illusion that reality is boring or uninteresting.
Yeah but these are the two biggest bros in the btc universe.
Overall Antarctica in total has steadily lost ice mass since 1990.

See: Figure 8 (Shepherd et al. 2018) reproduced in link below

https://www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and-climate/what-...
Most flights I've been on have USB charging ports. Is it different where you live?
Simple is in the eye of the beholder IMO
Exactly, relative to other sites like reddit and 4chan and wallstreet journal comments.