skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say it's about priorities (i.e. very much related to cost, but with slight differences). That's why I mentioned the lack of people who cares. If you as a manager care, or if a dev with enough decision power cares, it will just be included as part of the time it costs to get the website done.

A worker putting a helmet and appropriate clothes is losing time that could be beter spent producing value. Or if we talk about social policies and minorities, for example, even if as the word says, it's a "minority" of people so it might seem that it's a slice not large enough to improve for. A bit extreme examples, but you get the idea.

Also a 0.2% of all world population is still a huge amount of people. It's just that people who can take decisions, just don't care. But some people do care, like those in charge of co.uk websites, and then we all see how well things can be done and how poorly we've been doing in comparison.
Exactly how inept do you have to be before the shareholders can successfully sue you for blowing up a company? Musk isn't a slope-browed incompetent; why is he acting this way? I knew when he bought it his stated intentions were probably going to cost the company money long-term but it's like he's intentionally trying to burn it to the ground.
Concept of Pen plotters is more useful in 2D manufacturing and things like laser cutters.
This is called "the paranoid style", political scientists talk about it as a unique feature of American politics.

It's hard to interact with because falsifying it requires invoking it yourself.

ex. here, we'd have to say "I bet you'd be right here complaining if it was fixed that Google was allowing arbitrary remote loads in not provably secure context." It requires a whole lot of supposition and negativity.
I've found the algorithm adjusts quickly -- I'd argue too quickly sometimes. I watched one video analyzing the USWNT game against Vietnam and I felt like I was bombarded with women's soccer videos. And I like women's soccer -- but not that much.
YCombinator needs to rebrand as Y to compete in this new world.
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/install-update-intel-microcode...
Anyone else remember this game? It was hilarious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Don%27t_Know_Jack_(franchi...
Postel’s Law is bad and has been the cause of countless bugs, including many security vulnerabilities. Some discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9824638
I had a look at your referenced source (https://ia-petabox.archive.org/details/the-best-software-wri...), but I didn't find statements as strong as the summary you give in your paper or blog post. Here are some quotes to convey the tone:

"If your unit tests provide good code coverage, don't feel too paranoid about giving up compile-time type checking." (pp 69)

"The only guarantee of correctness [...] is whether it passes all tests which define the correctness of your program." (pp 75)

"To claim that static type checking constraints in C++, Java, or C# will prevent you from writing broken programs is clearly an illusion" (pp 76)

The closest I could find to your quote was at the end: "a dynamically typed language could be much more productive but create programs that are just as robust as those written in statically typed languages." (pp 77) In the context of the article (see previous quote), this is presumably referring to the goal of "defining the correctness of your program", and the article in fact makes the point which I made reference to, which is that incorrect inputs and API usage could well be out of scope for this goal (and perhaps were in the programs you tested). Or, to put it another way, it doesn't make sense to talk about robustness unless you also give a context.

The worst I could say about the article is that it is kind of tautological, because it's easy to no-true-Scotsman the concept of "sufficiently good" unit tests. But to be honest this also happens with type systems.

I realise there's a lot of ... let's say "enthusiasm" in this particular area, but I found the article quite a bit more measured than what was implied by the blog post.
These engineers won't be having fun, because these engineers will be working for Elon Musk. Also, it's a rebrand. He fired the vast majority of the engineers he had.

Everyone is hating on "X" because the people who possess the ability to think critically, i.e. engineers, are rightfully perplexed by every single move that this moron makes. It taps into the uncanny valley response for smart people, and it is amplified because Elon Musk has branded himself a genius.

This is a shitty rebrand from Twitter to something that is impossible to search for on Google, and nothing more. It is the X-shaped shadow of a fiery ball of mediocrity that is hurtling towards San Francisco pavement as we speak.
Brain and DeepMind were separate orgs until very very recently. Google's GenAI stuff was mostly out of Brain and its RL stuff was mostly out of DeepMind.
White House announces A.I. safety deal [video]
This is one that concerns me. My family members typically live into their 100s and are still very independent and mentally healthy up until a week or so before dying. I am incredibly healthy and don’t expect anything different, barring accident. I plan on waiting as long as possible to start collecting social security, but I’m wondering what else I need to consider when anticipating 30-40 years of retirement.
The US doesn't use TETRA but a US-specific standard called Project 25, which also has a history of poor crypto choices. There is something about telco standards committees that keep reinventing the crypto square wheel, same with cellular standards and also WiFi.

What's remarkable (not in a good way) about P25 is that the mandated a voice codec is the intellectual property of a MIT spin-off and they never negotiated a standard license fee so that company can essentially charge as much as it wants for a government-mandated standard. San Francisco paid over $120M to equip 11,000 buses, so over $10,000 per radio (TETRA radios are also expensive due to no economies of scale, but they cost a more reasonable $4,000 each).
There was also NHSX, which got merged into NHS Digital, which then got merged into NHS England.
This seems to be the most obvious point to me: at my alma mater, you could literally rent a classroom at the university for $90/4 hours[0], or $7200 for 16 weeks at 20 hours/week. Then we have assistant/associate professors in the college of engineering who have been working at the university for 10+ years making $45k or less[1] for a full time position. One of them could rent a room, charge 10 students $6.7k each, and come away with $60k. They'd make significantly more than they are now, the students would receive better/more direct instruction, and the students would be paying ~half list price ($6700 vs $13200 for in-state students)[2]. Even with merit scholarships, if you had a 3.7 high school GPA, that saves you $5000[3], so you're on the hook for $8k, and 10 kids renting a room with an assistant professor would still be cheaper. The numbers are even more absurd for out-of-state students.

Clearly, the value proposition for a university is not the education it provides. Even if you wanted the atmosphere of being on campus all day, the rent-a-room strategy would give you that for far less with smaller classes. Obviously it would be hard to be taken seriously if you did this, so the issue is that you must pass through the university system to receive credentials, and for many fields these credentials are non-optional.

Even spending $100k/yr on a PhD evaluating students full-time, and spending an entire 1 week per student to rigorously personally evaluate them 1:1, you could charge $2000 total to attempt an evaluation for credentials, allowing non-traditional students to self-study for free. If we want to make education and accreditation more attainable for everyone, we need to separate granting of credentials from studying. Study requirements are redundant with a rigorous exam, and particularly for fields where exams are already in place for credentials (law, accounting, capital-E Engineering, etc.), study requirements should be barred.

[0] https://registrar.arizona.edu/support-services/classroom-ser...

[1] https://www.azcentral.com/pages/interactives/news/local/ariz...

[2] https://www.arizona.edu/admissions/first-year/cost

[3] https://financialaid.arizona.edu/types-of-aid/scholarships/i...
In all this nonsense with the so called Metaverse, the reddit shitshow and now with twitter, keep in mind: Brands are made up and even if a few platform commit suicide, the internet will continue. New things will fill the gaps left. Humans want to communicate and will find ways to do so. The fediverse is already one potential way out and more will surely pop up.
Sure, here it is. It's extremely rough but it works as a starting point: https://gist.github.com/burke/6d035758f7492612e2ad86bb7de2d5...
You are partly right. What is the preface to unknown questions or the ones it doesn't want to answer, but a short circuit. Having said that, I don't know if it would get bored of repeating itself when asked such questions in a long succession.
> Elon Musk founded X.com before it bought one of its competitors and changed its name to PayPal.

Elon's company merged with Confinity. Confinity was already well underway with PayPal (owned trademarks, patents, and the domain name) at the time of the merger, and notably, had a working MVP.

I say "notably" because when Elon was initially selected as CEO, he spent his tenure trying to throw away this working MVP because it was written in Java on Solaris, which he didn't know, so he wanted it rewritten in Classic ASP so he could better understand the codebase.

A few months (four, IIRC) of stubbornness about that, and the board had had enough, and removed him as the CEO.
I got my information from only one data point (a friend at MSR, who went to university close to after reunification), so I'm sure experiences would differ. The point was, that students were left mostly on their own to consume the material provided by the professor and prepare for the single high stakes exam. Some professors were better than others, and I guess there were higher end university experiences available (e.g. German top universities). American students are much more coddled in comparison, they are given a ton of resources, many of which are used and provided inefficiently.
"Just use C++ libraries" is good enough for "simple" operations on "simple" types that have been implemented in C++. If you want C-like performance for generic types without relying on someone having already implemented that in C++, use Julia.
Only if your printer also slightly embosses (they don't anymore really .. dot-matrix and daisy wheel certainly can but then you get resolution problems), can take any ink you can run through a pen (they can't.. or at least they don't.. maybe old ribbon based printers could...). There is a quality to a pen plot that is not reproduced with current 'printer' technologies.
It's a good question. I mean, it's not entirely out of the question that the UO folks independently developed the same term without being aware of the SHARD research. But OTOH, it's entirely possible they were aware. Without talking to somebody that was there, I doubt we'll ever know for sure.
Wait, what? If they refunded the purchases you don't have to ship any product. Stripe are no longer your business partner, they have no more say in what you do.
Proving to others that you can act like an 8th grader while pissing away $44 Billion (actually, closer to $33 Billion, maybe $24 Billion if we ignore the outside $9 Billion investors) on an asinine project and still living the life of private jets, and party yachts is the point.

Flaunting your wealth attracts supporters in this day and age. People *like* rich assholes. Its fashionable, or at least it was in the 2010s. The pendulum of society is finally swinging back and demonizing this outrageous display of wealth but we're still in an age where people literally worship wealth. Not the "figuratively literally", I mean literally literally worship as per the prosperity gospel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology).

Its not just Elon Musk, but also Arkk's Cathie Wood and Bill Hwang.

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The outrageous displays of wealth is proof that you've achieved God's good graces. Its basically Mandate of Heaven (Chinese concept) except the American version of it.
Everything a modern CPU runs is microcode. There are a few x86 instructions that translate to a single microcode instruction, but most are translated to several.
For the non-electric, it’s pretty much a matter of aesthetics. They are manually turned on and off. I say the less plastic, the more durable.

A handheld bidet requires less butt-shimmey to clean more surface area.
PostgreSQL: The Importance of Max_wal_size
Here is the thread we should continually reëxamine: https://x.com/mattschnuck/status/1590732559029194752
He could also assume that he is above average and aim to be in the top 0.1%. Would it change how (1) the results he is seeking will be achieved and (2) the effect his story has on others? My answers are: for (1), no, and for (2), yes.

As for (1), there is the added nuance of not wanting to hurt their ego: "if I'm not successful, it's because I started from a below-average level." But there are few things I dislike more than this very human and very popular form of cowardice. And it also works, which makes my dislike moral and not utilitarian.

Recently, I was listening to an interview with Jon Jones (the very famous and very talented MMA athlete), in which he related that he used to do something crazy a few days after his fights, maybe spend a night out partying and drinking, so that he would have the excuse card (for himself, not for others) ready if he happened to lose his next fight. It worked for him—-he is probably the greatest MMA fighter of all time--but I still found his approach a bit cowardly, weak, defensive.

I spent many years practicing jiu jitsu and got my black belt a few years ago. Now, it is common for fresh and not-so-fresh black belts to say that when you are a black belt is when you realize you know nothing about jiu jitsu. Like any social meme, it is hard to distinguish "true thinking" from "going with the flow"--everybody says that, why should I do otherwise--but I certainly know a lot more about jiu jitsu than I did when I was a white, blue, purple, and brown belt. This is not to say that there is much to learn and that I may be below average among practitioners 10 years younger than me and above average among those 20 years older. But why not be honest with ourselves and others, without thinking about ego bruises or the sympathy we may receive?
going out of your way and spending 5k$ to try make fun of him publicly is not how you make the attention stop.

This is the trump situation all over again. They hate him but they write articles about him every day and make sure we all know what he's up to even when we are actively trying to avoid him and twitter.
I think they are saying they'd rather it stay outdated and broken so people are disincentivized to make complex emails. Dunno I agree, but they seem aware its already in use and just dislike it.
Would you agree that an alien civilization completely separate from humans but equally intelligent would also be likely to discover Pythagoras theorem (with a different name and different symbolics)? To me that would imply that its truth is independent of human perception.
The env I helped set up was online only, no batch jobs. JCL is essentially a declarative shell language, so it's not that hard to map to Bourne shell et. al.
Is this the Alphabet X or the Elon X ?
Oops, this is a dupe. Lots of discussion from 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36790196
"To think humans will never get tired of algorithms predicting what they want is laughably naive."

You think the algorithms would not take this into account? It is precisely what AI is built to do. It will understand this and adapt accordingly.
Not even an xor? Harsh.
Current chips largely implement what we retroactively call RVA20: RV64GC. This was ratified in 2019 and unmodified since 2017.

The next batch we are aware of (Ventana Veyron, Tenstorrent Ascalon, SiFive P470/P670/U84, XuanTie C908) implement RVA22+V. The extensions included were largely ratified in December 2021.
Animation cels redux
Just playing around with it and the UI is really intuitive and snappy. Nice job!
Yes! Then we could call it "kotlin" :)
I can't speak to the other two, but it's laughable to suggest in 2023 Waymo has "landed" - where is the contribution to Google's bottom line? Where can I buy or use Waymo tech outside of some very restricted demo neighborhoods? What is the likelihood this changes in the next few years?

I'd be far more prepared to argue Waymo is presently another poster child for a failing Google x project.
Ironically the only reason the lake still exists is the runoff that's poisoning it. As agricultural practices tighten up, the lake will dry/concentrate even more.
I think its less a race/ethnicity thing, but more of two other things:

1. Age. It's just really jarring to many older people.

2. How cultured you fancy yourself to be. If you're someone who values reading 100 pages of a novel to just get into the story, then you will find TikTok to be vacuous. And honestly, that's probably a fair assessment. When I watch TikTok videos I give them about 5 -- maybe 10 seconds. I don't apply this same bar to other media, but I can imagine this is really off=putting for some.
I'm sorry but your idea of why drugs are illegal is completely devoid of historical context and medical fact. Two of the most harmful psychoactive drugs we know of are the legal ones: alcohol and tobacco. Some of the least harmful psychoactive drugs we know of are illegal(psychedelics).

Drugs being banned had nothing to do with supposed harmfulness. It had everything to do with suppressing counterculture, racism, and doubling down on failed policy decisions.

And to say there are no good reasons to use drugs is again hopelessly misguided. It's exactly the kind of simplistic, moralistic bullshit that is so obviously false it drives teenagers to ignore any public advice outright. It's just not as black and white as that. Hell, most recreational drugs happen to have legitimate medical uses: opioids, benzodiazepines, cannabis, psychedelics, amphetamine, even meth!

To help guide people away from addiction and into reasonable use we need to acknowledge the good and the bad, not pretend there's only bad. We've been doing that for decades and the jury's in. It doesn't work.
> you will never know if draw.io will be around in a few years' time.

https://github.com/jgraph/drawio#readme (Apache 2, at least for now)
Show HN: MinutesGenerator – my first indiehacker project
MinutesGenerator is designed to be a simple, no frills solution for generating meeting minutes from a recording of a meeting.

I'm going to try and get some traction from doing organic "marketing" via HN, reddit, product hunt, and affiliate links.

This is my first bootstrapped product and I've had a lot of fun building it - most of it was built live on twitch!

Let me know what you think! Product or marketing feedback is, of course, welcome :)
Pointing out more options for people to evaluate is great and all. But at least for me, "offline maps" implies not needing the permission of a surveillance company to use it, and without phoning home to that company when the app regains connectivity. And I'd say that's an appropriate definition in the context of the top level comment about privacy.
If you pin the VM to a different core/CPU, would that do anything to mitigate? Or are the OS affinity guarantees not that strong?
Thanks so much! I use PL for all my own planning too of course, and keeping it around is very much the plan.

Is there a particular direction in which you'd like to see me build from here? The public roadmap is overflowing with ideas at this point, and I'm curious how folks would rack and stack them.
The adjustable mechanisim on the axidraw is nothing but a screw. Essentially there is a right-angled channel you press he pen into and then you tighten a set screw that pushes the pen into the corner.

This design is simple to produce however it causes registration problems if you attempt a multi-pen (multicolor, say) plot, where the pens have different diameters. In the past when faced with this i've 'fattened-up' the narrower pen with tape wraps.
I'd say its hard to argue that Waymo HAS gone anywhere. Can I buy a waymo? Can I rent a waymo taxi to take me to the airport?
without a proper definition, you cant say AI does or does not have emotions.

generally, emotions are one tool in the toolbox that might be labeled “unconscious influence.” other tools include pain, dissociation. these are influences that manifest as neural attenuation or excitement. they are designed to broadly or locally change neural integration in a way that produces behavior that is informed by evolution rather than just what a persons mind is being exposed to in real time.

ultimately, unconscious influence can include hunger, thirst, all pressures and impulses that shape our behavior to be evolutionarily fit. intelligence is a raw resource and unconscious influence, emotions, gives intelligence a direction.

in this way, a prompt might be described as an emotion, defining the purpose of the whole machine. to complete the prompt.
The money/coins/rewards everywhere, the childish avatars, the lies about privacy and "empowering" redditors...

Thanks, I hate everything about it.
Unpopulated PCBs WTF
Zen: Experimental operating system written in Zig
Not with off-the-shelf biological centrifuges, no. I don't know enough about centrifuge design to judge how easy/hard it is to build a 60,000 G centrifuge that can handle liters instead of milliliters of liquid per cavity.

The other even more exotic possibility is to use something like this to enrich ordinary reactor grade plutonium to weapons grade plutonium-239. The amount of mass to process with plutonium is orders of magnitude less because spent fuel plutonium is already more than 50% Pu-239, versus 0.7% U-235 in natural uranium, and a bare sphere critical mass of Pu-239 is only 10 kg vs 52 kg for U-235:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_mass#Critical_mass_of...

The United States considered enriching waste fuel plutonium to weapons grade in the 1980s, when it contemplated another big nuclear weapons buildup against the USSR, but the laser based separation technology to be used was much more complicated than centrifuge separation. The project ended shortly after the USSR dissolved. It was called the Special Isotope Separation Project.

The 1988 environmental impact statement for the project gives some background information:

https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/06/f24/EIS-0136...
These complaints about Chromium and Firefox bugs make me sad. Wasn’t the whole point of open source putting the user in control. That way they did not have to go begging to the vendor to pretty please fix this bug that is affecting them.

What is the difference between these begging, cajoling bug reports and similar bug reports for proprietary closed source software?

Seems the software is just as centralized and the commercial company is just as much in charge versus the user.
What happened to unique company names?
The same can be said about meat brains, they just execute natural programs. There's no reason in principle why a meat brain should be able to experience emotion and silicon brains cannot.
Yes, with a debit card in North America that is certainly true. Because banks are shit here.
You mean why would you ever fly on a commercial airline, for example?
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Sorry, where's the regressive tax policy? If this is being funded by a graduated income tax (like what most states have, or federal income tax), then it's being funded by a progressive tax.