skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like one of the least efficient energy storage ideas I've heard in a long time, I wonder how this is getting funded? Hmm, let's check to see who is behind this...the founding professor https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/philip-de-goey/ is a fellow/awardee of the Combustion Institute, gets funding from ERC, etc. OK, so I guess all that European taxpayer money won't spend itself, and if you have a hammer blah blah nails...

Meanwhile, stationary class (i.e. relatively poor energy density) iron air batteries are making commercial progress. https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2023/06/12/form-energy-to-deploy...
Or even worse, Cmd + F doesn't work because the page is lazily rendered.
> The depositors, to be clear, NEVER held the assets under question. They deposited money into the bank that let the bank purchase the assets. At that point, the depositors are not assets of the bank, but liabilities.

You're saying two opposing things here. The depositors put money into the bank in return for interest payments. They're liabilities to the bank, not to themselves. They hold bank debt.
Apple's idea of "natural scrolling direction" is insane.
Scrolling with a touchpad and scrolling with with a mouse wheel are simply different things - the natural direction is simply different for both.
That... is mostly not how this has gone down. It is easy to contrive that current pollution regulations prevent controlled burns, but at large that is not accurate. See the rules I posted about how you can do controlled burns in your yard. Look up similar rules in other states, and you'll often find carve outs specifically for "forest health" reasons. (Edit: forgot to say that you will still almost always have rules about the accelerants and extinguishing methods you are allowed to use. Largely for ecological pollution concerns.)
The rapey porn dude in a Romanian prison has millions of devoted followers. he should have zero. It is appalling anyone follows him. But now we know there are millions of worthless followers of worthless men with microphones.
Exactly.

EDIT: I was going to write a snark-ish comment that someone would eventually complain about the post title only to refresh a second later and see that someone changed the title already.

“Major algorithmic goal” was completely fine and says quite a few different things than “new, faster”.

Also, according to HN’s guidelines, the post title shouldn’t have changed in this situation:

“Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.”

The original title was not misleading or linkbait.
>> Virtually the entire world has taken a peek behind the curtain of these extreme sub adventures. Anyone that matters now understands they are extremely risky...

Right. People will be afraid of subs for years. I'm glad we learned so much from this.
I knew they stopped distributing the video server software (forcing a hardware purchase) but I didn't know they required an account now.

It's just impossible for a business not to screw customers, isn't it?
Everything that I know about Thomas Cromwell, I know from Hilary Mantel's excellent book Wolf Hall, and from the sequels.
What happened? Ads, surveillance, virus scanners. And webshit.
Well, the tech stack is insane: Some virtual machine running a web browser process running a virtual machine for a html renderer which consumes a document declaration language incorporating a scripting language to overcome the document limitations trying to build interactive programs.

Actually much worse as Microsoft once did with their COM model, ActiveX based on MFC foundation classes with C++ templates, etc.

And to build those interactive programs somebody is trained to use React, Vue, etc. using their own eco systems of tools. This is operated by a stack of build tools, a stack of distribution tools, kubernetes for hosting and AWS for managing that whole damn thing.

Oh - and do not talk even about Dependency Management, Monitoring, Microservices, Authorization and so on...

But I really wonder - what would be more complex?

Building interactive programs based on HTML or Logo (if anybody does remember)?
If we don't care about any bound on the error, any function can be said to approximate any other function.
Still interesting.

"so there's a species of parasites which doesn't have mitochondria, the only known multicellular animal to not have them, which means we don't know how they get their energy from

/AND/ they might've evolved from jellyfish cancers that became stable enough to be its own species"

- @fawwazanvilen
I strongly suspect you are reading more into the review process than exists. There probably isn't any feedback worth having.

I bet the hiring company got a bunch of "fine" or "ok" project submissions from candidates and then made somewhat arbitrary choices on who they would move forward with.
You don’t try to. You just say are not doing take home in a firm and polite way expecting things to end there and sometimes they think it’s still worth interviewing you.
Windows NT 3.51 min specs: 25MHz CPU, 16MB memory (for the server edition), 90MB disk space

Windows 11 min specs: 1GHz 64-bit CPU, 4 GB RAM, 64GB disk space.

This is a horribly unfair comparison. We were complaining about systems being slow AF back then too. (Insert _turbo button_ meme here)
I never said that it's anywhere near a complete set. My point is that they exist as something that must be a helper because they represent a type of raw computation expected of bpf programs, but incompatible with it's verifier model.

The original parent was talking about removing all helpers,

> They show that various escape hatches can be eliminated or simplified. However they don't have a plan to eliminate all escape hatches

which simply doesn't make sense. The string helpers are a good example one might not have thought of beyond helpers that expose linux specific functionality.

The specific quantity of "quite a few" was left intentionally vague as it's orthogonal to my core point.

And yes, string ops are difficult if not impossible to write in verified bpf; that's almost a restatement of what I've been saying this whole thread.
' will search in URLs, skipping plain text.
It's tiring to read almost everyday on HN: “the amount of work required to make this circle into a square is ridiculous”.

Some of us enjoy circles. Use whatever you like, but complaining A is not B is annoying.
RHEL specifically is now fenced off. Supporting it's barely any different than supporting macOS or Windows—do it if you are targeting it in particular or personally use it, sure, then you get benefits, but otherwise, why give them free labor?

Contribute to projects Red Hat uses on which they contribute back, sure, by why straight-up work for them for free? That's what supporting RHEL on a volunteer basis is, now (again, unless you personally use it or care about specifically supporting some users who do).
It's late, but there are a few test mules going around so "it's a reality".

IMO it would be best to NOT be a reality because it's really a dumb fashion statement and marketing move. But I'm not the target customer and I have little problem with these dumb things as long as Tesla and Elon remain honest and deliver what they told people would get, which.. has not been happening much.
I know it’s probably asking too much but I wonder what the world would look like if academic papers were actually fun to read.

Brian Greene is probably considered a pariah around here but I really enjoyed reading his book The Elegant Universe.
Ok. That's a fair point. I agree more evidence is required. But a hypothesis, such as that there was a big bang, can be proposed regardless of evidence.
If it doesn't explicitly say: we do not use private repos data to train our AI models, I wouldn't even consider assuming any other way than that's exactly what they are doing. They know this is a question everyone wants to know the answer to. Why would they leave any ambiguity? Let me help you answer that: because that's exactly what they are doing.
Not the OP, but for one thing, natural scrolling is just an awful idea for mouse users, it was designed for touch screens, and translates pretty well to trackpads (Although it broke with over a decade of user experience), but it's completely unnatural on a mouse. Unfortunately, if you're a user who switches between a mouse and the trackpad, Mac OS only let's you pick one.
Firefox allows you to use / to start a conventional search.

As a bonus, in Firefox if you hit the ' key (apostrophe) you get a search that looks only within hyperlinks and ignores all the un-clickable plain text. Give it a try, sometimes it can be very useful
Presuming syntax for “unsafe” that gracefully degrades in non-aware compilers, why couldn’t a particular compiler start doing it right now, starting with a very trivial safety checker than can be iteratively improved upon once the framework is in place?
Billion dollar accounts don't pay anything towards FDIC insurance for they are not insured by the FDIC. Someone who has $20 in their bank account is obviously paying more.
regarding the font issue -- it is very disorienting: https://imgur.com/a/MCG3VZl
> The “hey guys” thing is always some friend-of-a-friend who says it happened. I’m sure there are receipts for it happening somewhere, but it sounds like it’s uncommon.

I’ve encountered it directly multiple times, so I’m feeling slightly gaslighted.

> but nobody’s getting ejected from the community for refusing to use the terms.

How do you know this? And which communities are you referring to? Surely you can’t be suggesting that no company has ever reprimanded an employee for refusing to stop using certain kinds of language? There are ramifications other than direct ejection, so this issue isn’t quite as black and white as you seem to be portraying. At least anecdotally, I can tell you that it was a problem when a former colleague refused to stop saying “that’s what she said.” It’s not a fireable offence per se, but it does move the needle with management sentiment on whether or not the professional relationship ought to continue.
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With that logic all us programmer's careers should be ended due to the bugs we introduce because "they are equivalent of a surgeon thinking...".

It's not equivalent to that. Nobody lost their leg over this.
I've gotten them to be creative in ways that were unexpected, like outputting tokens that have absolutely no (obvious) relation to the current conversation

While trying to iterate on a name for a product, I had it output an internal monologue alongside outputting name ideas.

With each iteration of naming I'd ask it to probe its understanding in of human creativity and list how the usefulness/realism of the internal monologue.

After a few loops the internal monologue started modeling fleeting memories about things like "that time at camp where X happened".

Eventually it was modeling fleeting thoughts like "the warmth of the cup of coffee on the desk" as a source of inspiration, and random observations like "it looks like traffic is picking up outside, getting to yoga will take a while" in the middle of a name generation task

—

I made a website predicated on a similar idea after that: https://notionsmith.ai

Technically it's a hallucination generator, but I think you described why I made it (creativity and hallucinations really are similar for both LLMs and humans)
I would suspect this is more likely than not (at least in the US) due to the problem of legal liability and shielding the company from lawsuits alleging unfair hiring practices if detailed feedback to the interviewee were given.
8. Maybe out of topic but animations delaying the display of the window (can be disabled but is not on the video)
From country where medschool is done by entrance exams the whole "premed" always sounded extremely weird and wasteful. They already have longest training time and then more is added on top?
> Some of that bloat is useful

Well, all of that type of bloat is presumably useful to someone or it wouldn't have been written. That doesn't change the fact that there's a cost for including it.

> Windows indexes files in the background

But here's an example of the tradeoffs. I hate this behavior. It incurs an overhead that provides no benefit that matters to me. So, your useful feature is my useless bloat.

Everything's a tradeoff.
If you're investing a chunk of every paycheck, you'll keep plowing money into the index fund through every dip, which historically makes up for the money you add at peaks. You can spend a few years derisking as you approach retirement, which is similarly not that susceptible to recessions.
> The present situation with fires is mostly driven by leftwing politics.

so still the people who colonized north america? you've turned this entire thing into a left wing vs right wing culture war issue when the article is just providing historical context. nobody is attacking the right wing in this article - not sure why you're perceiving it as one.
Thank you! This brought back memories, I never thought I'd come across that UI again
The Mac touchpad is great, but using an external mouse is awful feeling without this tool
It's asinine how slow service provider's boxes work nowadays. Our Xfinity cable box has a .5-1.0 input lag, (more like 2secs for ff/rw/play) and it's the same even after customer service replaced it with another unit. What a waste of resources...
Yeah, I was going to suggest Hikvision as being a possible/standard good fit for the OP's inquiry (cameras specifically for LAN use "offline" (not connected to public internet). Straight-up Hikvision would be lower cost than US-based rebranders. However, I checked Wikipedia first and saw "In November 2022, the FCC banned sales or import of equipment made by Hikvision".

So, Hikvision seems to not be a great answer in 2023 after all (an apparent 100% shift from just several years ago). I wonder about the current status of the ban, and what the rebranders and their distributors are doing; a cursory look at web material still shows Hikvision-derived products AFAICT (though I haven't checked in much depth).

As for management software; a dedicated NVR appliance is most convenient IMO in terms of hands-off just-works, but if one wanted to put more time and resources into it, Blue Iris looked interesting the last time I looked several years ago; again, I wonder how that landscape may have updated since then.
- BetterTouchTool
- Folder Peek
I'm building my personal website[1] also inspired by FUI design systems. I don't think usability is an issue at all, at least with the design approach I've taken. They're just React components which you could easily feed real data. The visualizations and animations are more difficult to replicate.

[1] https://x7ci.engineer/
I don't think it's a silly question, my first thought about explosion proof would also be able to survive some level of explosion.

Especially for cameras in potentially hazardous or critical areas, being able to capture details of their final moments could be important (obviously great to have cameras which [also] don't cause explosions in the first place).

I can also think of many situations in which you would want motors which are rated to survive for some time through an explosion, for example something which is powering a fire sprinkler or ventilation system to give people time to escape. The military has "battle switches" on lots of equipment for this reason, better to remove safeties and destroy the equipment than have the equipment protect itself and stop working in a critical situation, potentially costing a soldier their life.
I don’t know if I’d agree just yet. In the past, I’ve generally found that the better I got at something, the less time I spent in it. The better that I got at coding, for example, the more time I’d have to spend (proportionally) in ops, design, marketing, etc., all the things that weren’t coding.

I think that the better that AI gets at churning out the dumb stuff, the more that we’ll actually spend time on interesting things. I think the real hazard is that indeed, people will churn out lots of dumb stuff. AI can write lots of code. Can it accurately read lots of its own code? I think the difficulty in managing a large code base is what will keep people writing actual code.
There were three types of kids in Poland in the early 00s, those who had no Internet access, those on dial-up who played Ogame, and those on broadband who played Tibia. Funnily enough, those two games uncannily reflected the reality those kids were born into - both were infamous for constant danger presented by other players and ruthless difficulty where you could lose everything in any given moment.
Useful tool, beautiful (and simple) website, dmg and brew install options, open source. Very nicely done!
That isn’t what serverless does. Serverless tends to run on Linux but can be any OS.
I am happy for my tax dollars to go to efforts like these. The world is cooler when we have people doing rad stuff.
So the key difference is that in law, the state enforces an outcome whether it's logically consistent or not, in medicine death enforces an outcome in all cases, but in computer programming if something is illogical you have to deal with it on its own terms (either fix the world and start collecting vehicle mileage monthly or give up on the report)?
> To do that, they need to itemize the purchases.

It'll be something like:

Paperwork / contract negotiation: $50k

Legal review of paperwork: $20k

Project management: $50k

Activating mothballed production line: $39,400

Trash cans (4): $1200

Mothballing production line: $39,400
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You clearly missed the point of my comment, which is not to say that Windows should be Unix, but that the fact that it is not means that you probably should not be recommending it as a universal cure-all to people who probably use macOS for a reason.

In other words, it only sounds "annoying" because you seem to not understand why people would use a Unix operating system, and why Windows is not a suitable substitute.

(This is assuming they use macOS for its Unixness, but enough people use it for that reason that you probably shouldn't be telling people to just use Windows and "have fun". To your credit, you did also list Linux.)
That's exactly my point. Nearly as immutable as race.
The way around that is to use your own cable modem. It's also way cheaper to buy than pay the monthly rental fee.
Good!

Now if the bureaucrats would only allow the power companies to clear underbrush from beneath transmission lines...
Ha, I'm not surprised. Boeing basically owns everything about the E-3, including the software. I guess technically the 4Pi is an IBM creation, but still, it's mostly a Boeing thing.

Fun fact: An E-3 takes around 3 times as long to get off the ground as a typical modern airliner. It's a bit disconcerting the first time you experience it. The 707 is really, really old. And as I recall, it's somewhat normal for an E-3 to be loaded to over max takeoff weight during normal operation. But my experience is 25 years out of date, so maybe that's changed.

Isn't the USAF just about the only organization still operating 707 in any capacity? KC-135 (sorta), E-3, what else? I think the KC-135 at least got re-engined, that probably helps a bunch.
You think Boeing didn't already have all those processes and shops in place?

If it still costed them tens of thousands to produce a trash can, I'd argue they're doing their job really inefficiently. Not really what you'd call an economy of scale.
I'd expect this to be related to virus scanning. It's hard to use demand paging for that.
I wouldn't say OpenAI is "lazy," but this is still an excellent point about LLMs.

The researchers training the ones we use now are in a massive hurry. They aren't meticulously curating datasets, checking usage rights, hiring a huge field of human curators, or thoroughly field testing them. They are madly working on a new improvement, publishing it in a paper, then moving onto the next thing.

This has been a cultural issue in AI land for years. These experimental models were never meant for the general public, yet here we are.
Sadly ubiquiti seems to be going downhill on multiple fronts.
This is impressive. I wonder if they took any downtime during the migration of HEY (or Basecamp).

I'm surprised this hasn't had more discussion.
Boeing, a global leader for both sales and innovation in an industry that drives the modern world. Oceangate, a rebel "innovator" in a niche market for niche customers

also, the corollary why nobody has died on a voyage to Mars yet
> They lied to a judge, doubled down, showed further incompetence by admitting to not knowing how the legal reference they supposedly quoted was even structured, then lied to a judge again trying to get more time to get their story straight, and all it cost them was $5000?

Well, no, they also have to right letters and attach the sanctions order, and the transcript of the sanctions hearing to:

(1) their client in the case, and

(2) each of the real judges to whom they (on the basis of ChatGPT “research”) falsely attributed a decision.

But, yes, sanctions are fairly light (particularly the absence of a disciplinary referral).

> I can understand how the rubber stamping lawyer signing all the paperwork got off easy; he was just signing documents because the lawyer who supposedly did all the work for the case couldn't operate in the court the case was transfered to.

> The other lawyer, the one who did the AI equivalent from copy pasting from the summary page of Google, should not be deemed fit to practice law.

They both failed their duty in nearly identical ways; passing of someone else’s work to which they did not apply independent professional analysis as their professional work. If anything, the one doing so directly to the court should be more, not less, liable to outside sanction (if the issue was sanctions within the firm, that’s a different story, maybe.)
Laughed out loud at you paying to pretend to be a supply chain analyst.
> Tracing GC is the simplest model for the user, and helps with time management and development velocity, two very important aspects of software engineering.

> Borrow checking is very fast, and helps avoid data races.

One thing many people seem to assume is that not having to care about memory means you can program faster and get to your goal faster. As the author here seems to do. However as it turns out, if your program is more complex than a ~100-1000 lines of code, explaining in a explicit way who owns what and who gets to change state when, is a very useful way to avoid bugs.

Saoirse Shipwreckt aka withoutboats mentioned this a while ago in https://without.boats/hire-me/

> Rust works because it enables users to write in an imperative programming style, which is the mainstream style of programming that most users are familiar with, while avoiding to an impressive degree the kinds of bugs that imperative programming is notorious for. As I said once, pure functional programming is an ingenious trick to show you can code without mutation, but Rust is an even cleverer trick to show you can just have mutation.

and later follows up on this in https://without.boats/blog/revisiting-a-smaller-rust/

> I still think this is Rust’s “secret sauce” and it does mean what I said: the language would have to have ownership and borrowing. But what I’ve realized since is that there’s a very important distinction between the cases in which users want these semantics and the cases where they largely get in the way. This distinction is between types which represent resources and types which represent data.
I hope one day my projects page looks as cool as his. Until then, I'll keep adding one project at a time.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step!