skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure the are...

1. LoB apps need to be run not just on a computer that only shows a screen, but in other contexts, there is no reason to develop a whole new app just for that purpose.

2. Developers who are only used to working with Win API's like WPF, DotNet, etc. or other frameworks that are windows only Why would we want to employ whole new dev team just to maintain that app separate from the apps that run on our Laptops and normal computers

3. Management Tools. If my entire fleet of computers is managed by ConfigMgr and controlled by Group Policy and Compliance Setting why would I want to spin up a completely separate management system like Ansible or something just to control these machines when I could have them integrated into my existing tool set of which my helpdesk and everyone else is trained to use?

I can probably come up with 5 or 10 more reasons
name a single reason why a pause is not an option. dont say why it would be hard or unlikely or inconvenient or whatever, to exclude it as a possibility means it has to be physically impossible.

of course it isnt physically impossible. AI requires large compute, large resources. you cant advance the state of the art inconspicuously. the only reason you say it isnt an option is because you dont consider AI an existential threat, really, and therefore extreme measures arent justified. but they actually are.
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> Box art no doubt misled me countless times.

Funny you should mention this, the latest video from Red Letter Media discusses this exact thing, but the newest incarnation of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeMadjM0ZZI

Basically, films have taken to building titles with non-copyrightable words, in an attempt to trick you into thinking it's another film in that series.
A profile of the sainted Elizabeth Bik who featured heavily in yesterday's Marc Tessier-Lavigne resignation story. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36790301
I imagine that in the future, when climate change gets so bad, those types of petro-chemical facilities will become easy target, and seen how complex and dangerous they are, it will be very difficult to keep them safe and functioning.
I love the landing page! Great job!
Well... A large wind turbine is... a very large thing. I was very surprised the first time I saw one up close - I thought they looked small from the distance, but they kept getting bigger and bigger while I was still quite far.
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why does it matter what you sell? the backend of a big online retailer is extremely complex. i agree that 500 sounds large, but (1) i'm not sure that's real and (2) we don't know if this doesn't cover other related businesses. the part about selling clothes baffles me.
Notice how they carefully omitted the word "fracking" and went with "injecting rocks with chemicals to create fractures".
> earliest human-made hybrid animal

Earliest that is known, that is.

Hybrid animals occur in nature pretty often (e.g. most humans are human + neanderthal), and sometimes produce new species, like the wisent (aurochs + steppe bison): https://theconversation.com/how-we-discovered-the-higgs-biso...
But it IS all willpower. The other take is baffling to me - the notion that "we"(the smart people/ the regulators/ the ones above the masses) need to protect weak people because they are too weak to do something about it.

It's a ridiculous proposition in my opinion. First, it's intractable - Zynga closes the woman's account, she'll find other ways to blow her money away.
But the biggest problem is not even that - the proposed solution of regulation, which nowadays is a universal hammer for absolutely every problem, takes freedom away from me and you in order to protect her. Even though as I've said it doesn't really protect her.

Regulation is a terrible solution to any problem, almost all of the time.
Sentience without consciousness is just cartesian dualism again: society without people; forests without trees; etc.

Sentience is a power of consciousness which is a power of the body which is a power of the cells of the body.

There is no dualism other than in the imagination: one could imagine some fuzzy distant "forest" without thereby imagining trees -- so much for the imagination.
Yes, I also think logging calls/meetings will become a thing of the past with LLMs and good integrations.
In fiction

(unmentioned in wikipedia article) There's a golden age of science fiction story whose author I don't recall that had a story hinging on surviving the crushing pressure of Jupiter's atmosphere.

While putting it forward that no material could withstand a differential pressure of

(Jupiter pressure XX atmosphere) | (Human necc. 1 atmosphere)

a (fictional) solution was proposed of staggered shells, each reducing the pressure by 1 atmosphere (the amount required for a vacuum airship).

I'll throw it out there for anyone to chase up or recall the story name + author.

This reduction in stages notion is mentioned in the above article and it does prompt the question of whether a modern honeycomb material could be fabricated as a thick walled shell about a ballon shape with interior vacum and pressue reduction staggered through the honeycomb.
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Any competition without an effective referee (from the Tour to Academics to presidential races) will devolve to the lowest level. People always seem surprised by this...
If anyone has any good pointers/references/benchmarks on how to evaluate such systems that would be really helpful
So it's really just a refinement of Wikipedia, but with custom answers to more explicit questions.
I have a thousand github tabs open, that I'm not sure how to file. I use sideberry and other extensions to manage tabs and close them when I need to. Sideberry is the only somewhat efficient(fast) way to quickly search and close tabs. I'm been waiting for the v5 release for a long time. There was something I needed from it, but I don't remember right now.

One thing I wish sideberry would do is simplify keyboard navitation. I.e. the moment you start typing it should type things in the search and then should should be able to navigate the result without mouse.

Maybe someone here can tell me how I can quickly select tabs if I use container tab groups. The address bar only selects open tabs from the right tab group so it's completely useless to me. For a while I used rofi tab switcher[1] but that magically stopped working so I made a custom rofi script that parses brotab[2] output.

[1] https://github.com/blackhole89/rofi-tab-switcher

[2] https://github.com/balta2ar/brotab
I find this kind of approach so limiting to a business in general. Basically you limit your choice of programming language and with that the ecosystem early on. You got 3 devs only knowing language X? OK cannot use any other language ever, because then they would have to learn something new (oh noes!). This will of course mean that additional developers also cannot apply their additional knowledge and will have to use the same language and ecosystem as the others, because they can't possibly be bothered to learn another language.

Learning a new language should be a frequent thing. I don't know how many languages I have learned, but it has only ever increased my understanding of computer programming, advantages and disadvantages of approaches and it certainly has made me a better engineer. If a business does not want better engineers, sure, stick to the "we can only use what we already know!" approach.

Let it take 2 weeks for people to learn a language! So what? It will pay off in the long run. You will have more experienced engineers, we have a less limited idea about computer programming and how to solve programming problems well, since they have gotten into contact with other concepts from other languages. You also get a more flexible team, that can accept building better and safer services, using the right tool for the job, instead of shoehorning everything into their only one language. You will open up more ecosystems for your whole business.
And they are usually connected to a larger grid. If you cover an area large enough, the numbers will tend to be more constant.
Just note that I last used svelte/sapper 2 years ago. I have no idea if core updates or sveltekit or (hopefully) improved typescript support changes anything.

Some types of errors cause your application to halt (which might feel like a UI freeze). There's no way to catch these errors and show an error page, show an error message, or report the error to an error tracking service like Sentry. I'm subbed to the github issue for this and never saw a fix.

Poor composability of components. Components in svelte are awesome in the general sense, they're just missing this higher-level code organization possibility that react, solidjs, and vuejs users have cozy versions of.

The docs claimed a specific function worked like nuxt's asyncData function. Whoever wrote that has no idea what nuxt's asyncData function does, because that function worked very very very differently.
Unfortunately you can't just ask the system, because browsers don't consistently use the system font, or otherwise make good choices, for system-ui.

Using a system font stack isn't about “a typeface that is a bit Grotesk” and more about trying to integrate with the look of the users OS. Including a @font-face will not achieve that version of “just so” unless you want to mimic one OS for everyone.
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Hi HN! I built a proof of concept 'newspaper' that creates short news articles of today's current events with GPT. This is a very rough proof of concept but I can't help but think this concept is the future. I think we'll all have AI daily newspapers in whatever theme we want, covering any amount of information we want, with the ability to expand or contract article length instantly.

Sharing just to get everyone thinking about this future. Thanks for reading!
yes, the market is asking for this.
I’ve used this approach before, I wonder if there is a name for it ?
One special gifts officer told me that the U had rejected a rather limited number of people whose families had 8 billion dollars.

3 million might get you into Brown, but it isn't going to get you into Harvard.
> Nuclear can typically deliver 90% of its max output.

Even more than 100% rated power, if you allow it to Chernobyl itself.
I'd been wondering if an aerogel sphere with a mylar coating (constructed under vacuum) would be sufficiently low density to float - the aerogel would let it resist the pressure and the mylar would seal it.

I guess the aerogel would be dense enough compared to hydrogen that a conventional balloon would be better in all respects though.

Still curious as to whether it's been done already though.
My problems with all those playgrounds is that I don't know where shortcuts are and when there are shortcuts, it's full of Ctrl combination that may clash with the browser...

Can I has a vim mode please ? I am not returning back to using arrows to move around text
There’s a lesson here- if manipulated research is so game changing that drug companies are trying to reproduce it and it is used to propel a career to a university president then there will be consequences.

Otherwise the estimates of published research being manipulated range from 20 percent to being a majority and it’s difficult to get corrections or retractions.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/05/time-to-assume-that-hea...
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6251/aac4716
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3655010/
http://www.nature.com/nrd/journal/v10/n9/full/nrd3439-c1.htm...
http://www.nature.com/news/1-500-scientists-lift-the-lid-on-...
Intelligence and education are different things. You can't train intelligence - you can teach some tools or frameworks for reasoning and such and that can help but some people will understand them and others won't.

As a simple example just look at how many people think math is useless. Even having spent 10+ years with people trying to bash it into their heads they still can't figure out any of the infinitely many useful things you can do with math.

Education is the result, intelligence is potential. Stupid people have less potential for results. Doesn't mean some of them can't pull a Forrest Gump, nor that they aren't valuable members of society. Just means they suck at learning (at least some) things so their time is better spent doing other stuff.
Where is a good gathering place for the AI community? Any publicly open Discord/IRC?
They should call those "volcanothermal" energy. Sounds cooler.
> or some reason, I never liked that all the code playgrounds have separate windows for HTML, CSS and Javascript. It makes it hard to grok what is going on. Does the CSS and JS get injected into the HTML? Is it loaded via injected <script> and <link> tags?

Tbh I also never liked it, for all those reasons you listed.

Ideally it would be a left panel with a treeview list of files with the selected file displayed on the right panel in an editable element.

Output should be a different window which updates on every change.
No specific errors come to mind for me, only in some cases files that are too large according to whatever the subscription is, or maaybe encoding on their end. Jira, Slack, Google chat, not sure about teams.
> I think it's safe to assume that the Portuguese "pão" (bread) was pronounced much closer to "pan" around the time they made contact with Japan

The evolution of nasal vowels in Portuguese out of Latin *n predates contact with Japan by centuries (see Nasal Vowel Evolution in Romance by Rodney Sampson, Oxford University Press, 1999).

It’s not unusual at all that Japanese, a language without nasal vowels, would then replace the Portuguese nasal vowel with the closest equivalent it had.
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Thanks for the kind words!

> Maybe I'm missing something or doing things wrong?

To be fair, I have many annoyances with Qt Quick. I think many of the components don't look and work native out of the box, requiring significant customization that is time-consuming compared to what you get out of the box by using many libraries alongside React. And there are these other annoyances that we already talked about. But in my view, the QML paradigm is extremely consistent, even migrating from Qt5 to Qt6 was quite straightforward. I just updated my website to a new NextJS version and so many things broke in React there were serious paradigm changes if I remember correctly. I also enjoy working with Qt's Model/View, I appreciate the native performance I get from compiled C++ code (Most QML code is compiled to C++)[1], the community is very helpful, etc.

> I'm realizing C++ is a very unsafe language too.

Yes, and I think programming languages like Rust are very cool. I know there are Qt bindings for Rust. But I'm not sure how QML is unsafe. Probably because it compiles to C++? Converting Qt Core itself to Rust is quite an initiative that I'm not sure is necessary. But what is cool is that you can write your UI in QML (compiled to C++ somewhat safely if you trust Qt) and write your app logic in Rust[2]. I hope to see more things like that.

Regarding my React experience, I developed a fully working online marketplace in React + NextJS (but discarded the idea), a React Native app that finds rhymes for words (but didn't publish because chatGPT does it better in a way), and my personal website[3] is in React + NextJS - I love this combo for developing websites, I find it so easy and the integration with Vercel is amazing.

I like React for small projects but as it gets bigger I find it quite cumbersome. Though if we're talking about websites I guess it's one of the best approaches (although Svelte looks good but I never tried it).

React Native is so good because they cracked it with components behaving and looking like native components (well, they are the native components I guess). But I prefer to work with Qt/QML. I thought it would take me a long time to learn it but I bought a good online course from Udemy and in a day I knew all the basics, the next day I had a working prototype for my Kanban.

I tried Tauri as well, it sounds good on paper but when I tried it I didn't really like it. I don't remember why but I remember wrestling too much with things not related to actually writing code.

I keep an eye on Rust GUI frameworks but haven't seen something promising yet. I never heard of Dioxus before so I'll check it out, thanks!

[1] https://www.qt.io/blog/the-new-qtquick-compiler-technology

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HEJFYSxbB8

[3] https://www.rubymamistvalove.com
This is fantastic.
Unfortunately decision makers usually go with what they already know. No one was ever fired for choosing Salesforce.
Hopefully over time more people get exposure to this and increase the adoption.
While on the subject of ACL 2023 tutorials, here are two I went to:

Complex Reasoning in Natural Language
https://wenting-zhao.github.io/complex-reasoning-tutorial/

Generating Text from Language Models
https://rycolab.io/classes/acl-2023-tutorial/

the second one in particular was very well taught. I didn't catch the Retrieval based talk, since it conflicted with the text generation one.
It most definitely is being used for cheating (all current EAC-bypass tools use this driver), the question is if the guy did it in purpose to cheat himself or not. It's debatable to say that he needs a driver to look for cheats, especially when you consider the kind of "cheat detection" going on here, but it's not completely out of question to do it either.

The product need not depend on this exploit. There are common best-practices one may use to secure access to driver calls. He's implemented like 1 of them. I think he's just an asshat who doesn't like being called into question, but there's a very real possibility that he took advantage of his whitelisted driver and is now mad he lost that advantage. I genuinely believe he's not the one DDoSing though, that's more of a cheating forum thing.
The Python code is much, much worse.
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It’s not like Amazon needs to get outside funding to continue operation.

And I wouldn’t call it
“quick”. While I knew nothing about cloud, I literally had over two decades of experience as a developer.
And that feature doesn't work on Android
Looks reminiscent of pidgin English.

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin
Yes cubed! Thank you.
Contacts permission was introduced in iOS 6. Before that, an app could just read and write the contacts data.
It makes more sense if you think that an HTML is a static document, which then gets decorated by CSS, and lightly animated by JS.

That is what the web was built as. We were supposed to browse documents like we browsed magazines. Your React monstrosities were hacked on top of that model, turning the browser into an application runtime - which it wasn't meant to be.
I think everyone loves the concept of a distributed database, just not the added latency and reduced feature set vs a local PostgreSQL instance/cluster.
> if you were alluding to performance

It isn't as much about performance (the small amount of extra network transfer is likely to be brought close to zero if compression is used, the extra CPU load might be measurable on low-spec devices but on top of all the junk already in sites using heavy frameworks this is not going to make/break anything) as maintainability. You have something extra to make sure is set everywhere it needs to be.
Behind Google's Curtain – Auditing Gosumdb
https://archive.is/Ugx9c
Work on Euclid, ESA's dark energy space telescope, as a C dev (Lisbon/remote)
C Senior Software Engineer for ESA's Euclid space telescope survey software (Lisbon/remote)

The Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences in Portugal invites applications for a (C language) software developer position to work on ECTile, the software that defines the Euclid mission's observation strategy. The successful candidate will join a team that develops algorithms for spherical tessellation, sky patching, tile generation, and route optimization, using quaternion algebra and C programming. The candidate will also maintain and improve the existing codebase of 70,000 lines of C.

The minimum requirement is a bachelor degree or higher in software engineering, computer science or related fields. High value will be put on experience in geometrical algorithms and quaternion algebra. A PhD is not mandatory. The position is funded by the Portuguese Space Agency for 1 year, renewable for up to 3 years or more. The candidate can work remotely or in Lisbon.

Euclid is a space telescope that will map the geometry of the dark universe by observing billions of galaxies across cosmic history. It is one of ESA's flagship missions, and successfully launched to space on the 1st of July 2023.

Interested candidates should apply for position #4350 at http://concursos.fciencias-id.pt with a cover letter, CV, bachelor's certificate, and other qualifications or references.

Application deadline: July 25, 2023.

More details at https://ciencias.ulisboa.pt/concursos?id=4350
Was this fake research funded by tax payers? Can they sue this scientist to get some money back ?
Welcome to the Internet. If your comment doesn't propose something that is mathematically proven to be perfect under all circumstances and for all people, past, present, future and hypothetical, then it's junk and you're an idiot for mentioning it.
I don't mean to neg anyone, but will someone pick up the fundamentals, if they can keep leaning on a chatbot?
It’s always interesting to watch the semi-elites & elites of HN discuss and rationalize the merits of class society.
Probably, but you get a ~15% lift improvement over helium, and about half that over hydrogen. The returns are very diminished.
Although I disagree with the conclusion, this looks like a pretty decent article in terms of detailed thinking.

I just think that we not only need to work on all of the more immediate problems but also worry about less immediate problems that are existential risks.

Also people always say "AGI" and they mean different things but I am guessing most now mean something like a digital living human/simulation of human when they say that. Mixed in with some blurry connotation of it automatically becoming godlike in power.

That stuff is very speculative. But we don't need AI to get to that level for it to be very dangerous. Just imagine that we have an open source GPT that is something like 33% smarter than GPT-4 and less brittle. Make the output 50 times faster than human thought and suppose that we can run it very inexpensively, in a "swarm" of agents cooperating.

Then you have a type of superintelligence that does not require any really speculative AI advance -- hyperspeed reasoning -- based on the current technology.

If that is widely deployed for military and industrial decision-making then something like a computer virus could create existential risk.

Also, realize that all these systems really need to emulate some of the core functional aspects of animals, like a self-preservation instinct or desire to control resources, is the right instruction and relaxation of guardrails. So when they can reason a bit better and at hyperspeed with collaboration between them, they don't need to be alive or anything to be dangerous.

Look at the history of increases in computing efficiency. It is easy to imagine 50 or whatever times output speed increase in less than 5 years. And even though they are not human level now, GPT-4 has proven that these types of systems can have strong problem solving ability.
Can you link to one such video?