skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Memory is a good guess but it's not really actionable advice for performance analysis, you really need to pull out some proper tools to understand why you're getting that number.

I don't really understand and by extension agree with this point. If you're doing performance analysis on a regular basis, having more readily available tools that give you a solid guess at where you want to look next is useful. It's a lot easier for me to get pcm up and running on any random system than it is to dig in with vtune, for example, and if I can get a fairly accurate determination that pcm and pcm-memory are all I will need to run to conclusively know that it is in fact memory, then I've saved time out of my day.

While the absolute number of possible reasons to have a <1 IPC might be large, the handful of most common ones make up the vast majority of situations in my experience.
No its not, Google kills projects before they even mature. META kills them when they are already dead.
I encourage you to apply! In our experience most students don't have the time to make a part-time role at 20 hours/week really work, but students near graduation have a better shot. If you're interested in what we're doing, I suggest contacting us anyway so we can stay in touch.
The supreme court could do something, in fact it can do anything it wants without any accountability at all. That's the system.

For example, it could say that because the constitution didn't explicitly state that Hazard could allow legacy admissions, then it isn't constitutional. If you think that's a stretch, read up about how the supreme court defines how 'qualified immunity' works.
We had a Windows CE dev license back in the Cambrian Era which included visibility of the source tree, but God help you if you tried to change it and make your own build.
I much prefer the UX of Nebula. I want a variety of content on the homepage, not fifty variations of the last ten videos I watched.

Technologically they are ten years and ten billion dollars behind, of course, but they can catch up with enough customers.
Many of the women involved are too intoxicated to consent, or so drug addicted they feel they dont have another choice. Furthermore, much of the content on these sites is revenge porn and posted without consent.
Was FTX a Ponzi scheme from the beginning?
As a non-native reader, I`m not sure that I understand. Could you explain why 100 Kelvin, but 100 degrees Celsius and 100 degrees Fahrenheit? Is there some special meaning in a word "degrees" there?
More advice for a kid contemplating engineering:

An EE only needs to know that you don't stick your finger in a socket. A mechanical engineer only needs to know that you can't push a rope. And a civil enginer only needs to know that sh*t rolls downhill.
If a webserver requires additional tools for the user to avoid all these pitfalls, maybe just maybe it should re-evaluate its defaults.
Thing is, flat earthers are a minority. And if the systems of government succeed in representing the relatively quiet majority instead of the loud minorities then transport policy won’t stop working for at least that reason. (Still could for other reasons…”cutting off your nose to spite your face” as an example.) It’s an example of a “bad idea”: an idea which displaces better understanding and further attempts at understanding. Precisely because of that, bad ideas are ends and are like the false fronts on buildings in the old west. They seem larger and more profound from only the front side, but take a little walk behind the main argument and the shallowness reveals itself and its fundamental futility.
I am mystified.

The page is not long, the text is not complex. The message is obvious and it is contained in the title as shown here on HN.

The first pic and its caption make it plain.

The next group of 4 pics and their SINGLE SENTENCE caption spell it out clearly.

As for "almost the whole article" -- it is short! It took about 90sec to read the whole page, top to bottom.

"AI" chat bots can't count. This is well known. It is the stuff of memes.

https://osu.ppy.sh/community/forums/topics/1770930?n=1
Lifehack: you can't select 400 degrees on the clock itself, but https://degreeswhat.com/?400 works perfectly ;)
Have you tried this with AI with a topic you are well versed in? I am very optimistic AIs will help people feel they have some sort of understanding but far less optimistic they’ll actually help build it.

They’ll try to coerce any of your (or the model’s) mistakes into the correct answer out of politeness, and when you make a mistake it has zero model of the model you used to produce such a mistake, so it has no idea where to intervene in your knowledge except at which words hit the keyboard.

Idk, I am extremely extremely unimpressed any time I try to quiz it on topics I know. Except for coding, which makes sense since that’s the exercise of pushing as much semantic information into syntactic information as possible.
If you have a local hackerspace you can turn up for open evening or post on their mailing list/forum.
Harvard does not have a monopoly on education. This may be a surprise to Harvard graduates, but there are other universities.
Hmm, I think there is a breathless misunderstanding of both natural selection and evolution presented here. Simply, natural selection does not have any preference for traits or characteristics--what matters is luck (that a mutation exists in the first place) and the means for the propagation of that mutation (again, that depends on several factors, including luck). Evolution is the emergence of characteristics in a population over time. Forget about humans for a minute. We've been inheriting the traits and characteristics of mammals, and mammalian evolution has billions of years of pressure-driven training, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_human_evolution.

Altruism seems to be inherently a mammalian trait, though birds and fish also exhibit it perhaps (more research is being done on this). Regardless, if it was true that selfishness was favored by evolutionary pressure, then enough time has passed (billions of years of evo.) that it would be evident by what exists today. Humans, as much as we like to rag on them, are by and large and on average not selfish. In fact, the most selfish and non-altruistic amongst us are safe and sound precisely because of the throngs and throngs and throngs of ironically selfless others--the establishment of and adherence to social and societal norms is predicated on some degree of selflessness. If anything, looking at the history of animal evolution, it's unclear to me how anything intelligent does not favor selflessness. It seems that selflessness is a necessity of group dynamics, and apparently evolutionary pressure favored the emergence of such group dynamics.

As far as AI is concerned, I think we are really just worried about the behavior of the most selfish humans amongst us. I think previous generations had similar issues, which is how a lot of financial regulations came about. Anyways, it seems shortsighted to me to conclude anything about the selective pressures humans may face due to the existince of AI in its current form.

Any intelligent and self-propagating being seems to favor cooperation. I guess it would be interesting to see if this is correct! However, in its current form I don't think we have anything that resembles a self-propagating, autonomous and sentient being. If we do get to that point, we shouldn't call it "AI", it would just be another existence of life.
When I visit a company site and it uses google analytics I know they are either: lazy, ignorant or hostile towards their (potential) clients.

This set of possibilities spans all cases and none is actually a positive signal.

Companies (and any entity that has an online presence for that matter) are entitled to know what people are doing in their platform and use any appropriate tool for that purpose. They are not entitled to share that with anyone without the explicit warning and approval of their users.

The Web as a digital predation ground where the amoral fleece the ignorami must stop.

While (commercial) life is not exactly an ethical showcase, the digital version as it has come to evolve is particularly out of kilt with common norms.
Why is it that USers don't prefer $1 coins to $1 bills? When I visited the US, the $1 bills were quite the annoyance for me.

PS - In Israel, the highest-value coin is 10 NIS, which are about $3, and the lowest-valued note is 20 NIS, about $6.
It’s unlikely the photos would align exactly: the eyes would shift, the creases would twitch, etc. I’d say there’s a high probability that those are all the same photo.
Microsoft has enough compute via DirectX.

Any viable alternative to CUDA itself, must be at the same level in tooling, libraries and polyglot capabilities.
How would I do the reverse? That is, turn smart speakers into regular speakers. I have a Sonos Move but it can't play audio from my desktop PC with no bluetooth. I could buy a bluetooth dongle, but honestly I find wired connections easier to manage than pairing bluetooth devices, especially when you need to switch paired devices. I was hoping this OtterCast would have both bluetooth and line-in so I could do this (connect the bluetooth to the Sonos and the line-in to a desktop or other device).
Weird.

I use pass as my password manager on all my Linux boxes (with a yubikey to store GPG keys and Password Store + OpenKeychain on android).

I basically refuse to use any password manager with an implementation I can't see or audit.

I can't imagine trusting any company to handle my passwords correctly.

The only proprietary component is the yubikey which is basically incapable of misbehaving in a way which would cause me to lose control over my passwords unless I lose control over the yubikey itself.
Then they will learn an important lesson.
> I guess the point I'm trying to make here is that the problem with passwords is password hygiene, not with the method itself.

I guess the point I'm trying to make here is that the problem with obesity is just amount of food consumed, not the food itself.
> I'm calling it now, this is going to hollow out twitter in extremely rapid fashion.

No matter how hard I try to keep my Twitter timeline clean of politics, the algorithm fills my timeline.

If Threads doesn't do that, I'm in.

Except it won't, because two decades of social media have taught those companies that 'engagement' is key, so they'll shovel the same *.

> I'm calling it now, this is going to hollow out twitter in extremely rapid fashion.

Good, but I expect the first movers are going to be the anti-Musk types that tried to go to Mastodon, which means half that "political discourse" will move to a different app. So there will be two echo chambers.
The 6th note row from the bottom isn't working for me, for some reason! Otherwise, very cool.
Depends on the SPA, plenty of them fire enough requests to the server for server side logs to be useful.
Advertisers are persuaded by underpriced attention.

In the beginning, every social network tends to offer that. (Some call it attention arbitrage.)

To drive a critical mass of users, social networks offer incentives to content creators so they flock to them and start producing content there.

The main incentive is the aggressive free distribution of organic content.

Once the social network matures, it reduces the proportion of free content in favor of paid content. And the attention arbitrage goes away.
I was doing this but missed the travel convenience/searchability/instant purchase from Kindle.

I ended up buying a Supernote A5X and it has proven to be one of the best purchases I’ve ever made. The Digest feature is fantastic for the workflow you’re describing. Ripping the DRM from Kindle books is trivial and you can export them with Calibre to include oversized margins if you’d like more space.
Not an American, but I will bite.

Neither education nor media seem to me an obvious public good, unlike, say, clean air. Private actors should definitely be allowed to teach or publish news.

And Harvard et al. aren't really a monopoly in any sense. There is a shitton of other universities across the US. The Ivies are prestigious, yes, but logically, you can't have a shitton of prestigious institutions.
It's using lots of workers and SIMD. What is your OS/browser?
Your version rescinds freedom 4 upon using an updated version. Red Hat's EULA doesn't do that.
> That said; we also have "Cloud Engineer" as a job title, so I'm not sure we will learn this lesson.

Comparing something as vast and broadly reaching as "Cloud" is a disengenous comparison to something as specific as a tool like Google Analytics, kind of a wierd comparison IMO. The entire pattern of tech is towards the "cloud" - even if you refuse to use the big ones like Amazon, Microsoft, or Google, it's still technically "cloud" if it's managed servers (wherever they may be).

To be honest I never got into the hype behind Google Analytics and I'm glad that I never spent more than 5 minutes at a time dropping the occasional tag on sites I built. (I've also never worked for anyone big enough where the analytics ultimately proved useful or valuable anyway). These tags are now easy to remove by deleting a few lines of code. I really wonder if the larger orgs really should have spent the extra few hours / weeks of development to develop an in house solution all along...
yes, good point. I am sure this has been discussed internally and not adopted to date for a good reason, but I will think on it more
i'm using documents in free mode for some time, might be worth it if it can really transparently make webdav available to other apps.
I recently got a pair of yubikeys… they have been around about ten years already and support industry standards. Guess how many services I use support them? A smaller fraction than I’d like.
>> There's massive pent-up demand for an alternative

> I'm not quite convinced by this;

Agreed, only the very political types want this. No one else cares.
Mostly because apparently they are doing something good with Data Parallel C++, and related tooling.
Technology Changes the Battlefield
I’m quite weary of how watered down the world monopoly gets thrown around for everything. It’s counterproductive. Mono is an extremely common prefix that is easy to understand.
I was going to ask if someone had written a clone. As in "if QNX is so tiny and elegant, surely it must be easy to clone!" - I'm sure it was harder than it seems.

Do you have a link to your version? How compatible was it?
Bottom Line: Crypto is a fraudster's paradise. Play at your own risk.
There is also the question of inertia. People are used to certain software, and recommend this to others. In many cases I'd rather have a CLI that I know how to use, than a finnicky GUI that I don't.
I once read an article I've wished I could find again online.

It begins with something like "I decided to create the perfect scale for measuring the temperature outside for the weather. Of temperatures taken where people live, I will scale the 95th percentile of high temperatures as 100 and the 95th of cold temperatures as 0."

The goal of which was, if a temperature is <0 it's really cold, and a temperature >100 is really hot.

My memory is that using this method the scale was within 2 degrees of Fahrenheit! Of course, I've never found the story again so who knows the details of their method or if I'm even remembering correctly.
> while metric seems based on arbitrary universal constants like the speed of light

Um, No. Metric is based on the size of the Earth and the density of water.

The original definition of the meter was "one ten-millionth of the distance from the pole to the equator", making the circumference of the Earth 40,000 km or 40 Mm. The kilogram was originally defined as the mass of one litre of water. (1 m³ = 1000 kg). It wasn't arbitrary.
https://archive.is/DlGpI
Show HN: QuickVid – A Video Summarization Tool
Hello, HackerNews community!

I'm thrilled to announce the release of QuickVid - An Open Sourced AI Video Summarization Tool.

This tool empowers you to generate concise summaries of YouTube videos using the power of artificial intelligence.

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/metaloozee/quickvid

Demo: https://quickvid-alpha-69c4256152f9.herokuapp.com/

NOTE: The demo might only work properly if you provide a short video, providing a long video will take more time and eventually heroku will timeout the API requests.

Thanks.
What makes you think it’s legal to use those log files for that purpose? ;)
Oh, sorry, I thought I deleted that phrase. I meant to.

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

Mistake on my part: I thought it was a cancelled Blackberry device, but it wasn't -- it was a cancelled Palm device.

Before the rise of netbooks, it was a netbook-sized terminal to a smartphone that let you use a laptop-style UI to your email and so on, by being tethered to a smartphone.
Yet IP address is the "personal data" they are claiming falls under the law. It's somehow both personal and useless at identification.
If you use an authentication app instead of SMS 2FA (which you should anyway), you don’t need cell service.

You can even have the authentication app on your laptop so you don’t need to switch devices (1Password at least supports this).
Sounds about as legit as carbon offsets genuinely are.
Show HN: Tic tac toe game to play with friends
this is a web based tic tac toe game which you can play turn by turn with others.
players can choose a side x or o and play their turn one by one.
>I'm just curious about the provenance of this mistake

Because of English pronunciation (pronounciation? :-P). English is extremely irregular, there are a thousand of footguns in the language - both spoken and written -, so as non-native speakers we tend to make small mistakes that stick to our brains like glue, and it's very hard to get rid of (rid off? :-P).

For me it kinda makes sense to say "dwelve" because it reminds me of "dwarfs" (dwarves? :-P) that live underground!
Wasn't there the example of the Canadian government freezing people's bank accounts for participating in the trucker protests?

You might (possibly correctly) say that your country is nowhere near Canada on that spectrum, but things can change over time.
Subtitle: "Demanding that everyone embrace the same values will inevitably narrow the pool of applicants who work and get hired in higher education."

Better subtitle: "The academic workforce's skills and values will shift yet further toward ideological argument, posturing and correctness. And willingness to lie about their values."
(Unless you're intentionally going on a tangent --)

The discussion is whether LLMs have "knowledge, understanding, and reasoning ability" like humans do.

Your reply suggests that a bullshitter has the same cognitive abilities as an LLM, which seems to validate that LLMs are on-par with some humans. The claim that "it simply does not know when to stop" is wrong (it does stop, of course, it has a token limit -- human bullshitters don't). The claim that "It has no conceptual model that guides its output." is just an assertion. "It parrots words but does not know things." is just begging the question.

Lots of assertions without back up. Thanks for your opinion, I guess?
Today for a 3,30€ bus fare I handed over 4,40€. Lightening my pocket of coins is simple enough, but for physical transaction efficiency it assumes that both customer and recipient can do simple math in their heads. Your local educational system may or may not provide appropriate guarantees of this.
What amazes me the most is that physicists managed to turn a ferret into a pig[0] and that they did it in 1971.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigging
If Google analytics was banned companies would have no choice but to hire and retrain people.
Low Rung Tech Tribalism
> Twitter is monetized outrage.

I wonder, do you actually use it, or more to the point, did you pre-Musk? That's certainly a belief people have about the site, and it is certainly a facet of Twitter, but Twitter is (or was) only monetized outrage in the same way that Twitter is cat pictures or Twitter is porn or Twitter is celebrities. It was there, but unless you chose to engage with it you likely wouldn't see much of it (as the recommendation stuff started to break down under Musk, many people were surprised to see porn in the algorithmic feed; despite porn on Twitter being a huge deal, many users were surprised it was allowed because The Algorithm(TM) used to be good at hiding it from those who didn't engage with it).

I do think post-Musk that this effective auto-segmentation has become less of a thing, particularly for outrage/political stuff; the algorithmic stuff seems increasingly broken, and the auto-promotion of blueticks shoves all sorts of nonsense in your face. But for most of Twitter's lifespan, unless you were in that world, you didn't really see much of it.
> it seems like a dangerous crutch than a useful technology

Not to sidetrack, but could you expound further? I struggle to reach the blanket conclusion of “not useful”.

I don’t really see how it’s a crutch, more than any other assistance tool like Google, StackOverflow, code-completion or actual docs. Hallucination is a separate problem, which is solved by using fine-tuned models.
Okay, so you are saying you are just nitpicking? This is still the same in pretty much every way:

You can exercise freedom 4, but only if you never use any version of this software released after exercising that freedom.
The more crappy TV documentaries worked like this since forever.
It would mean you wouldn't need an 'only-do-evil' google account to watch YT with a subscription.
Plausible is great, and they just added conversion funnel analytics last week which was the big feature I was missing.
Oooooops. That sounds like New Relic's $400/month per full user...
Hubris goes both ways. It is also hubris to assume our intelligence is special, instead of a boring neural network with sufficient number of neurons that exhibit emergent properties.
I’d estimate We are 5 to 10 years away from somewhat deciding the effective connectome and “algorithms” of the roundworm which just has a few hundred neurons. We know every neuron in it by name and know how they all connect to each other, yet we have very little clue how they all end up creating the behavior we see in the worm. We are quite far away from truly mapping every neurons connection and functional effect in a fruit fly which has tens of thousands of neurons.
I think, the time is right for Zuck's move. He's very determined. This social media space is getting competitive and interesting.
It would have been a great idea in the beginning, yes, absolutely. It's too late now though.
Liberal use of the little [-] minus sign on the right when the current discussion branch veers away from my interest, personally.

Admittedly doing this on the instagram post leaves no content except a link telling me that an additional 520 comments are on the next page.
If you think about it toughening up our elderly could increase their health and cause them to not need care beds as much. After the initial beatings I mean.
Harvard is a private University. In what sense are its education services a public good? Or are you saying you think education should only be offered by the government? Or …?
> I'm old. What's the difference between a pass word and a pass key ?

Password: You have to choose a good one using your brain or a password manager of your choice, and you have to remember it using your brain or a password manager of your choice.

Passkey: Your device generates it for you, whether or not it is sufficiently random, and long enough is not up to you. You don't even have to worry about it. Your device stores it for you. You don't have to remember it in your brain, you don't have a choice if you want to use a password manager or not. The passkey is stored in something which is functionally equivalent to a password manager.

> how exactly is "this button" authenticated ?

What are you asking? How is it authenticated between the server and the client? Or how is it authenticated that the person pressing the button is the right person on the client side?