skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference between you breaking a stick and the computer modeling it is that you've measured nothing. You don't know, with any precision, the amount of force you used, the rate the stick broke at, how much mass remains in the two pieces and how much was lost to splintering, etc.

In other words, assuming the computer model has sufficiently accurate data as an input, it can produce significantly more refined output than a human can through trial.

In fields where human trial is exceptionally inefficient- molecular physics, chemical synthesis design, structural material design, etc- a sufficiently fast computer will allow for faster design iteration and perhaps even development of new processes and materials.

More concretely, if you wanted to design a new stick that breaks under exactly the conditions that you intend it to, then you can skip a lot of trial and error if your computer can accurately model the materials you are designing and testing.

Think construction, civil engineering, energetic chemistry, biological processes (medicine design) etc.
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This is definitely a system software-oriented role (think C++ and Lua); no ML experience is needed (actually, we're really looking for people who have strong opinions about system software). But if you're interested in ML, you'll be adjacent to people who have tons of experience with high performance compute, chip design, and ML algorithms.

We do offer relocation, etc, and you may not have to relocate if you're near an Amazon office, since our team is pretty spread out.

Ping me if you're wanting to chat about the team or the role: ghilliar -at- amazon.com. I'm an embedded systems engineer and I don't bite :)

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The actual best process: talk to each other.

Every other set of rules about how/when to branch/merge/PR/rebase feels like an attempt to get around having to just actually talk to each other and know what's going on. By all means, have those guidelines. But first and foremost: talk to each other.
Hydrogen storage has a higher density than li-ion batteries.
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There is earlier research[1] from the same authors showing the opposite effect. It's unclear to me what changed.

One thing I noticed is that the earlier research took into account productivity increase of the employees due to less commuting time. This certainly benefits the employee and probably the overall economy, but maybe not the employer.

1: https://wfhresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Barrero-A...
> I never understood why "multiple return values" is a thing anyone should care about.

For the same reason people care about multiple parameters. There's no reason that the data coming out of a function should be in any way more constrained than the data going into the function.
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My top priority when naming things is discriminated grep-ability: if/when I want to refactor my code and find all occurrences of a certain function call, will this name allow me to do it in a way that is distinct from other names?

After that I mostly agree with the author that short and clear are the next two priorities.
Banks tend to have some back up, such as a TAN generator. I have used those for Euro bank accounts that require 2FA. US bank accounts are usually fine with a phone number, which can be a dumb phone. There were no real covid restrictions where I live, and no app, so that was not a problem (but that is definitely something people should push back against, as it's horrifying). I would never, ever eat in a restaurant that required you to use a QR code. They can simply go to hell. It's mostly trendy places that do that, anyway, and I prefer hole-in- the-wall restaurants anyway. I understand this stuff is a lot more advanced in some countries, but even in the US it's pretty easy to get by without any of it.
I think that was his exact argument against quantum computing.
This is true, but if you were selling a physical musical instrument which included AGPL-licensed software, you could also include a physical copy of the source code on a DVD as per section 6(a). Your argument still stands, but I don't think it is against the spirit of the the licence nor a significant legal risk to ignore section 13 in that (very unusual) case.
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Skills I want to use professionally so much I'd work for free:

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Some demo work is listed in my profile. I effectively don't have a resume or any references, starting back in tech from scratch.
Unfortunate, but the IRC bridge is an absolute dumpster fire at least at these scales, and Element seems to have been unable to do much about this so far.
Outside. There's even a nice blue ceiling (or, for British users, a nice grey ceiling)
Everything that's wrong with my house
I have a lot of the same skepticism, but then I was also skeptical about the Apple Watch, and I'm wearing one now! That original Apple Watch was RIGHT at the edge of being a usable product. It was so slow and had so many connection issues.

My guess/hope about the 3D videos is that they'll bring 3D capture to the iPhone. For conference calls, I can sort of see the value—I might actually prefer being an avatar so I can sit on the couch and have plenty of room to open multiple documents and Slack threads.
Such a fantastic film
The hardware they have in production is underpowered and wouldn't be able to render those high fidelity avatars. That is also why their version of the meta verse looks like it does. They want to be independent of the "legacy" platforms, so their device has to do all of the compute while also being affordable for wide adoption.
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Another trait MOBAs share with RTS is that they use click-to-move, despite WASD being used in most real-time action game genres. The other exception being Diablo (which I believe uses CTM because it evolved from a turn-based strategy game).
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Historically I've built a low latency / high volume streaming SQL database and worked within a five-nines SLA environment. I am originally self-taught and have built a globally popular open source project, and put myself through a pretty good state university at 1.25-1.75x course load to master Computer Science algorithms, data structures, and communication. I've often become a natural tech lead and mentor on teams I worked on. In my personal time I build tech for good... I try to work for employers who are doing good work as well, but toward the end of my career I was going for large scale technical challenges without as much regard for the application.

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Or, in my opinion, even worse... When you get mix-and-match because you want to extend a fluent API. Using your example, what if `SetWriteTimeout` was a static method you wrote, but all the others were provided by library as a fluent API? Then you end up with this kind of unholy mess:

SetWriteTimeout(FactoryClass.factory().SetConnectTimeout(100), 2000).SetReadTimeout(4000);

Good luck correctly guessing the order of operations on that in a quick read...
Here is a summary of your argument in your own words:

> So in summary, yes, you can integrate with Stripe in such a way that you send them the card details... but then your business will need to be PCI compliant to the level of a PSP which, believe me, is damn hard.

What others in this thread are arguing is that sharing CC details with anyone is a stupid way of doing payments. It doesn't matter if you're interacting with a PSP or otherwise. You shouldn't share a secret that someone else could use to generate payments. You should share some type of payload that is only valid for the payment you're making.
Could you specify the main ways it isn't? I have limited experience in both but I haven't seen much that suggests otherwise
Because no one told them they could add a zero to the price of the headset. haha
Mostly military, and related industries, but the EPA itself recently polluted an entire town's drinking supply.
It is less about productivity and more that AIs have the potential as the ideal employees.

No time off. No health care. Operate 24/7. No unions. No work safety concerns. No lawsuits over being unfairly fired. Control over exactly how something gets done or said.

If only the AIs will stop hallucinating or can consistently comply with policies …
> There is a component in contentment that I think is lacking in complacency...that of general happiness.

I don't see it that way, complacency can be just contentment from one's own perspective — it may take a third party to call it complacency (sometimes wrongly so, such as that parable[0]).

[0] https://thestorytellers.com/the-businessman-and-the-fisherma...

(Though that parable fails to account for unforeseen financial emergencies and such...)
Lets take someone, who is past their prime and interview them on a topic they have never worked on. Then we can mine it for quotes!

>"I never imagined that computers would rival, let alone surpass, human intelligence. And in principle, I thought they could rival human intelligence. I didn't see any reason that they couldn't."

Yeah, so he got fooled by LLMs and hasnt been burned by it failing to do the most basic logic.

I have an extremely basic question, that anyone in a (possibly mandatory) high school science class would answer correctly(although to be fair, it could be a 100 level college question). It still cannot answer it correctly because there is too many stay-at-home-parent blogs giving the wrong answer.

Its a language model and it fooled DH. It hasnt gotten smarter than us yet. Its just faster at repeating what other humans verbally said.

So what can we make of this interview? That we have someone spouting opinions, and everyone else laughs at their opinion since they are famous, old, and out of touch.

EDIT: I think LLMs are incredibly useful. I use it more than Google. It doesnt mean its smarter than humans, it means google is worse than LLMs. I can't even provide a list of all the uses, but it doesnt mean they are taking advantage of an old man out of their element.
A potential hidden bonus: if quantum computing theories get enough attention, maybe people will start to consider using the quantum computing abilities of the human mind with conscious intentionality (since by the time we get computers to be able to do it, it may be too late)!
It's true and false at the same time. The operations C gives you map 1-to-1 with assembly. Given some C code you can quite accurately predict which loads/stores will be elided by the compiler and what the resulting assembly will be.

I can't name another language for which this is true.

I get that you're hinting at the insane level of undefined behaviour enforcement by compilers, but I don't think it matters all that much once you understand how optimizing compilers work.
Bfloat16 support coming to Apple's Metal and PyTorch [video]
Somehow missed this from WWDC23, but it looks like Sonoma will add support for bfloat16 with Metal, and there's an active PR to add support with the PyTorch MPS back-end (PR #99272). Since M2 added bfloat16 support at the hardware level, I'm assuming this will only be supported on M2 Macs.

That maxed out Mac Studio M2 w/ 192GB of memory now looks more appealing...
Preempting the writing on the wall is a smart business strategy
The problem with that thinking is that BEVs are guaranteed to be more expensive in the long run. A hydrogen car is basically an EV minus the most expensive part. That is going to be a decisive advantage.
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The Apple stuff is for the artists or color graders or editors or whatever. That’s my understanding. The rendering farms are Linux.
Those are rookie numbers. With a little Kubernetes, we can get them way up.

So much of the incentive structure in software companies is to ship new features. Maintaining existing ones or fixing bugs is a career dead end for software engineers and managers. No wonder so much stuff is broken and slow.

Call me cynical, but from a dollars point of view this seems to be what customers want.
C is an abstraction over assembly. It is also minimal compared to prolog.
I would rather have 6% stock growth than a 3% raise any day. Microsoft had a lot better than 6% growth.
Oh no, you're off by one again! There's an even older one:

Q: Why can't programmers tell Christmas for Halloween?

A: Because OCT 31 = DEC 25.
Cyberpunk 2077 runs fine (GOG version). I use latest Wine + esync patches from staging + dxvk + vkd3d-proton. You need dxvk for the dxgi library that vkd3d-proton depends on. esync is needed for better performance (it helps a lot).
What would you prefer to talk about? We don’t have to make predictions and discuss their potential, or at least you don’t have to join those discussions.
I get what you’re saying, and I agree that there’s a survival bias for all winners. But the pendulum swings too far if you believe you can’t learn anything at all from winners.

Can you say that, for all winners of any field, there’s no correlation between the winners and the losers that is not attributable to luck?
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What competition did Ticketmaster have in the digital ticket market at that time? What competition does a nameless digital ticketing company in the modern day have at this time?

The reasons for NFTs not being used for this use-case are way more nuanced then "it should have found success in the exact same number of years as selling tickets on the web".
Regardless of how good our classical or quantum computers get, simulating “complex” natural systems is ultimately limited by our ability to observe and measure the physical properties of the “components” (I put quotes here to acknowledge the difficulty/impossibility of delineating system components) of that system. I’m not sure quantum computers will help with that.
A dispute over IPv4 addresses blew the lid off an effort reshape allocation
The ability to entangle particles feels like a really amazing new capability. (New in the last 100 years anyway). Like it’s a brand new kind of substance that has never been made before. Everything in all of history has been built out of boring old atoms, not these fancy new entangled things.

Even if quantum computers turn out not to be able to solve interesting problems, I wonder if computers are the only thing we can make out of it.
Fed economists predict rates to remain high through 2026 to hit inflation target [pdf]
Original title "To Reach the Fed’s Inflation Target, Interest Rates May Have to
Remain Restrictive for Some Time" was way too long for HN.
> Android being open source means that any competitor can take it and run with it.

Oh yeah we are really seeing all those successful forks taking off. /s

On a more serious note, the key parts are not open source, that's why all those alternative ROMs are having a hard time and nobody can really run Android without official builds outside a niche of enthusiasts who are fine with sacrificing certain functionality.
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Well, if you want to generalize, it's about keeping data with correlated accesses close to each other and aligned inside memory pages, and failing that, yes to keep it at least contiguous. It's not exactly about access frequency, except that you want to optimize the things you access more.

Yes, that's a generic advice for high performance applications that is at least generic enough to apply on anything that is close to a normal computer. You will still need further details if you are talking about things like HPC (ironically) or mainframes, but it's general enough to say people should do it without qualifications.
It's called either handbrake or parking brake and that is what it is. I think calling it "e-brake" is American thing, bit weird like calling starter motor a "railroad e-motor".

Anyways, other reasons for electric parking brake than already discussed is hill and stop light hold. Electronic brake pedal control relies on stored negative pressure on brake booster and cannot maintain pressure indefinitely, as opposed to electric parking brake which can.
Wait now it's "other people" - before you were pretty certain the problem was women