skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linux security (another desktop user here) is... fine? You can get pretty great security on it, if you want, by running Wayland instead of X11 and running all your apps via Flatpak or Snap (assuming you only choose apps that aren't intentionally allowed to break out of their sandbox).

And none of these things require Linux (the kernel) to change all that much. Hell, Android has decent security by running all apps with different user IDs and restricting the parts of the filesystem it can access.

Obviously your default Linux desktop install doesn't work like this, but some motivated individuals could do it, if they wanted. Writing an entire new OS is hardly necessary. Google just wanted something it could control, when it comes to Fuchsia. And they're the last company that I would trust to build an OS that doesn't end up being user-hostile.
It's really disturbing to me how many people don't realize it's not possible.

It's like asking a 747 to be made into a dog.

It's completely nonsensical to me.
I make my own: https://vibrafox.bandcamp.com/
>This announcement was usually accompanied by discussion of how belief in “intelligence” was politically suspect
First sentence.

> Deliriants are a subclass of hallucinogen.
Imagine having owned and sold stocks in companies like Raytheon etc, and then it comes out they had an alien spaceship. Surely you'd be pissed if you could have had shares in literally the most priceless technology on planet earth but weren't told about it.
Jazz without lyrics, many flavors
Spam.

Yes.
Could be, and good idea.

If they're processing in a vacuum to avoid N2 and/or O2 and/or H2O chemistry, then a dry inert gas might be useful.

Heating above 100°C to drive off H2O, followed by a purge with dry Ar might give the desired result without needing a vacuum system.
The real surprise is a laptop lasting 5 years in a school environment.
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Hmmm....
One that's not mentioned in the article, but is a beautiful assembly of engineering is all of the https://www.neutrik.com/ connectors - speakON, powerCON, etherCON, opticalCON etc.

Amazing solid bits of hardware with ingress protection, strain relief, and good usability for environments with a lot of equipment movement.
He's aware. When someone disagrees with you about AI, sending them Plato entries is generally unhelpful and pointless
UK to run up highest debt interest bill in developed world
It's like hearing stories about people hating the first automobiles because they weren't horses.

The education bubble is about to implode - it will probably be one of the first industries killed by AI.
No paywall: https://archive.is/TDYLP

"State-backed media accounts have hundreds of thousands of followers without the labels they are made to carry on Instagram and Facebook"

..and "posting propaganda such as a fake video purporting to show President Biden in a store perusing books on dementia."

Great way to juice the volume. Or maybe just one of the rough edges a quick development hasn't addressed yet. Or maybe both. Move fast.
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> As alluded to those same pop science magazines promised a fusion future too.

I get it ...

But how many of them predicted their use in ~36,000 advanced medical imagery devices world-wide?

I'd love fusion power (and flying cars), too, but there's a whole lot of interesting technology between "check out my shiny new super-conductor" and "let's use it to contain plasma that's hotter-than-the-core-of-the-sun-kind-of-hot[0]" that we do benefit from[1], today, to not be too disappointed that we haven't quite reached the greatest potentials.

I don't know enough to speak intelligently on any of this -- who knows -- maybe fusion won't be a possibility until even higher-temperature super-conductors are created ... or maybe there's some other "not possible" in the way (until another discovery is made).

[0] And (if I understand things correctly) it's probably really unfortunate that they traditionally require extreme cooling, likely made more complex given the heat involved and almost certainly requiring far more power than would be required if said super-conductors worked at much higher temperatures.

[1] Myself, personally -- and I have a pretty cool 3D file of my brain backed up to my server as a result.

/// apologies: reading this over it sounded a little hostile; that wasn't intended -- I was merely offering a competing perspective, albeit poorly :)
> the pipelined nature of PRQL really maps much better to how people should think about queries

I disagree. Database engines take SQL and transform it into an execution plan that takes into consideration database metadata (size, storage, index analytics, etc.). Queries should be thought of with a _set based_ instead of _procedural_ approach to maximize the benefits of this abstraction - diving into the implementation details to guide the execution plan formation only when necessary.

Also, the pipeline approach could be achieved with common table expressions (CTEs), right?

That said, I think PRQL looks promising because it is a solid attempt to make RDBMS development more approachable. I also like that `from` comes before `select`: it is far more readable. A solid and modern IDE experience for PRQL could be a "killer app".
Does this not work with Stable Diffusion models? Not super familiar with all of this yet but I can't find any from HuggingFace that are compatible.
I’ve had a couple offers of 1%. One was my first job which I accepted because I needed a job. The second was a YC backed startup during Covid. The base salary was $100k which I didn’t think was close to acceptable. The salary ranges were recommended by their investors, they showed me the worksheets the VCs gave them.

I just was not confident that in 5, 10 years time my shares would break even with the opportunity cost. And I’m a hardware engineer, so lower opportunity cost than most on HN. I’m not sure how the math ever works out where the startup is a good decision? I guess odds of unicorn valuations are possible for you software people, almost non existent for hardware. Do you factor in anticipated salary raises?
I think you are painting with too broad of a brush. There are many domains that I would never use an LLM-based tool for; all tools can be used incorrectly, but that doesn't make the tool at fault.

Software engineering is about trade-offs, for LLM-based code generation in general the trade-off is speeding up the writing of code at the expense of precision in what is generated. When you use something like Copilot it uses the comment or function signature to "guess" what you intend to write, and sometimes it right, sometimes it's not.

Marsha is exploring that trade-off space. Copilot finishes in 5-20 seconds, usually, while Marsha's slower, sometimes as fast as 20 seconds, but usually a little over a minute. The syntax requires you to provide more information up front than just a comment or a function signature and also uses that up front information to generate a test suite to improve the reliability of what it outputs, which increases iterations with the LLM and therefore slows it down.

Only when the code generated passes the test suite will it actually return an output to you, so the code it generated passes the cases that you were able to think of, which should make it much more precise than Copilot. That may still fail, but probably in ways your own code would have failed for cases you hadn't considered, so this particular trade-off feels closer to "free" versus writing it up by hand, in my opinion.

But again, when to use the tool is a decision you must make. You can see from our own examples that we've only used it so far on toy problems or problems small enough that manual review is feasible. Since the test suite always passes at the end (or it simply fails to generate if not), that makes it better than many Eng I and some Eng II level engineers I have worked with in the past. ;)
I understand (and made a similar point regarding most cities being liberal), but parts of Chicago really are especially dangerous, because the violent crime rate is not evenly distributed throughout city limits. For young men, living in certain parts of Chicago (e.g. 60624) was in fact more dangerous to their life than being deployed to Afghanistan[0]. I hesitate to describe that as a trope; more a travesty that needs to be addressed.

Of course, if you're a tourist five miles away at Navy Pier or the Bean, Chicago isn't dangerous at all, and there's all of the rest of Chicago that you quite correctly state brings down the overall murder rate (to only 10th highest in the nation). But it's not like there's a wall separating the less violent parts of Chicago from the more violent parts, and as a tourist who doesn't know the different areas of the city well, the fact that Garfield Park has a higher murder rate than the most violent city in the world might make you shy away from the whole city. So I don't think it's fair to say that there is no ground at all for the claim that Chicago is murder happy.

I'll stop here since I've managed to wander far from the GP's question about Seattle; I just love Chicago and the topic engenders some passion in me.

[0]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/articlepdf/...
I think it makes more sense when you consider that fork was originally the concurrency primitive in Unix. Threads came later. If you want to make some concurrent program, it makes sense to fork without exec. The fact that you can spawn an entirely distinct process with the fork+exec pattern is kind of a coincidence.
> I've been tempted to learn Japanese just so I can experience the joy of being frozen in the 90s.

When it comes to Japan, you can even double up on the '90s goodness by maintaining a POTS line with a fax machine.
ADHD is highly UNDER-diagnosed.

> Bottom line, if everyone needs to be on medication in order to be productive in a society then it's the society that has the disorder not the individuals.

A huge percentage of the population aren't even suspected of having ADHD, because they clearly don't. This has become a silly trope, but it doesn't match reality for people with the disorder. It's a far cry from "everyone". There's a very specific cluster of behaviors that may get better or worse over time, but rarely go away.

Our obsession with academic achievement is harder than it seems to address. It will require a fundamental change in society, like capitalism or communism. Even if you get rid of the academic component, it will simply be replaced with some other filter (smokescreen for the elite?), with some unable to keep up.

We need it so that people can live doing pretty much nothing that generates profit. The system doesn't support large numbers of people here, and they often don't do very well, either. Some things could help and we should do.

It seems that we don't really value academic performance. We want a high stakes game to decide who gets to be rich and poor. This fundamentally would need to change, and I don't see an end in sight. We need ladders and nets, and to support careers that don't follow the high_school -> university -> career -> retirement, with no room for interruption.

I recall a real sad comment on reddit about someone that wound up depressed very recently in high school. What he described was the grind of classwork, fitness, and chores that seemed impossible to bear. Get home from a run, try to force your brain to study, then immediately sleep... and for what? You do this forever, now!
It's a multilegged bridge: any of the two-way methods are views and updates into the same dataset.
Make Firefox flow like Arc browser
Maybe we should define intelligence as a blob of network arranged in a mildly clever way that allows it to identify intellectual fraud?
Oh man, I loved that show "Bad Influence" - I'm amazed looking back at the level of discourse vs. what is now generally the state of tech reporting/shows... got to go to a YouTuber for anything close.
Apparently coined by Cory Doctorow in January this year - https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
Almost all cities are run by Democrats, especially if they are big. I can think of exceptions like Fairbanks AK and Mesa AZ, but those places have their own crime problems. Most of the really bad cities (New Orleans, St. Louis, Jackson Mississippi) are blue cities in red states, but that is more to do about historic poverty, and Jim Crow's legacy, than anything else.
The proper comparison is a laptop. Phones inherently take more routine physical stress and accidental damage by virtue of how they're carried and used.

Also, phones are where this hardware update treadmill cancer started. I only stopped using my last phone because carriers unilaterally obsoleted the model and banned it from their networks.
I think the world is destined to move to a microkernel OS eventually. I am just mad that there is not national level funding of sel4, which is audited and available today.
This. The main system memory on a Mac Studio is GPU memory and there's a lot of it.

It also has the Neural Engine, which is specifically designed for this type of work - most software isn't designed to take advantage of that yet, but presumably it will soon.
TailwindCSS helped a lot on my website, using their preset classes reduces the burden of decision (I don't need to think to choose between 15px or 17px, which exact hex code of gray), and it is easy to make a design system (heading font, paragraph font etc)
Dr. Michio Kaku claimed in an interview that it may eventually be possible for quantum computers to guarantee a certain level of truthfulness. I didn't really follow his argument and it seemed a little hand-wavey, but I can't prove that he's wrong.

https://mkaku.org/home/tag/quantum-computing/
We need @bkraz to fire up the Applied Science lab.
Looks cool, joined the waitlist.
It's also suspicious that there's not a control sample of copper in the video. Any scientist trying to be thorough would have controlled for this - shown that you don't get the same effect with just a copper sample as you do with a copper sample that's been coated.
https://unicode.org/reports/tr29/
This is really cool, well done!
Looks cool, but seems more like an office suite? I can't find their other services when I look around.
The military is not an organization particularly known for precision. How about scientific precision or engineering precision?
The AI tool that I currently use the most is ChatGPT, which helps me systematically organize complex results from multiple Google searches. Much of my work involves text editing, so I am truly looking forward to an AI all-in-one reading and writing tool.
The language model is willing but the weights are corrupted and flawed.
Maybe I can cut down my pcbway habit from like 20 to maybe like only 15 full physical spins per project!
Sounds like a smart kid. I'm not sure if the world is fucked up or we just are misinterpreting it. If I can sympathize with fucked up characters in books and movies, maybe it just means I don't know enough about those people/things that I consider evil or fucked up. There's a lot of variables at play, many hidden, creating a fundamentally stochastic reality. A friend told me a saying once, and I don't think he realized how much it would impact my life.

> The harder I work, the luckier I get.

I definitely went through an existential crisis where I found that the world was dominated by noise (with complexity being just one form). But what I found meaningful from this simple saying is that if life is composed of stochastic events, I better be ready to seize upon the opportunities when and if they emerge.

Plus, I've always enjoyed learning. Not for power or any actual gain. But the same way one finds enjoyment in solving a puzzle or playing any game. Isn't that enough? I just see that the noise and complexity I can see just indicates what level of the game I'm on. Games wouldn't be fun if they didn't get more challenging as you progressed :)

I don't know if this helps. Maybe this is that random event to seize upon or maybe it is just more noise. But that's the world I guess, and there's a certain beauty to that.
My initial thought was wow, this is going to truely be a game changer. I could imagine that I could test hypotheses in near real-time and get amazing insights using the largest body of knowledge available that is powered by probability.

Being curious I want to try to work out the workings.

I assumed there was some prompt engineering using the inputs, but was interested in the GSS training model and how that would come into play.

So I was like lets see first how good or bad ChatGPT is, it was poor, though I put zero effort into optimising the prompt.

```Using your knowledge of business owners, calculate a plausible distribution of responses to the question: What is the biggest pain point for your business that a SaaS platform could potentially solve?
A. Inefficient project management
B. Poor data management and analytics
C. Ineffective customer relationship management
D. Challenges in managing remote teams
E. Lack of robust communication and collaboration tools```

ChatGPT (GPT4)
```
A. Inefficient project management - 20%
B. Poor data management and analytics - 25%
C. Ineffective customer relationship management - 15%
D. Challenges in managing remote teams - 20%
E. Lack of robust communication and collaboration tools - 20%
```

The results were not that exciting and very neat (20%, 25% etc.)

I was ready to see how much more accurate RoundTable was...it was exactly the same.
The key to make money in the market is not about prediction. It all about managing your risk. If you manage your risk well, that when Mr Market pays you your due.

Technical analysis is just one tool to pick potential stocks out of the many. The real money is how well you manage your risk on that particular stock you pick.

Shameless plug. I recently did a "Show HN: Weekly Charts of Strong Stocks and ETFs (https://weeklycharts.org)", which do the same thing like technical analysis. Its main purpose is to just show you potential stocks that need attention.

The hard work is risk management.
how does a room temperature superconductor not violate one of the laws of thermodynamics?
Mainly some kind of instrumental Rock/Metal, like Animals as Leads or Plini. I have a huge playlist with a bunch of artists that repeats after two full work days.
And some are successful.
Neither seems trustworthy. Google because, I mean, Google, they’ve repeatedly demonstrated that they can’t be trusted, whether regarding privacy or LTS, and Apple because it’s just “trust the device”, which can obviously be gamed by developer accounts or other hacks like simply walking past a rack of devices confirming touch or face recognition.

There’s no stopping fraudulent behaviour, only defensive barriers to dissuade the non-nation-state actors.
Fuel requirements: sugar water tastes better.
Bourbon just helps you swallow the hard truth. Maybe calms you down a bit too.
AI risk argument is that human brain "hardware" is suboptimal as it relies on relatively slow electrochemical communication between neurons. Even with same algorithms, performance of digital intelligence will be orders of magnitude higher simply because of speed and memory capacity. Evolution rarely achieves optimal performance (optimal within constrains of physics). Evolution is iterative and tends to find local maxima. Think how we can build construction equipment thousands times stronger than any animal's muscle. And for AGI to improve itself — it's not necessary to be able to model itself with 100% accuracy. It only needs to understand itself at a high level, kinda like the way human understands its own body. Software engineers work on systems they don't completely understand all the time. E.g. AGI may notice inefficient memory use in its own implementation. It will try to fix it and run copy of itself. If it finds it indeed improves performance it will "upgrade" itself to new version, maybe just keeping one instance of previous version as a backup just in case. Now new version is smarter and is able to come up with even better optimizations. Eventually it will exhaust all possible software optimizations and will need to build new hardware to keep improving. How it will do it? Use your creativity. There are many ways. With ability to build custom hardware the only limit is now physics. It will keep improving and getting smarter until it reaches physical limits of computation. At this point it's billions time smarter than human.
Of course all the money in use in banks around the world is a largely digital artifact and created because that's how banks work. Russia is just not bothering to spend money on the paper to print the root nodes?

It's interesting to me that there is a tragedy of the commons situation here which benefits Russia and harms hackers. If there was a single hacker in the world, they would benefit the most to wait until the currency is adopted widely, then try to exploit it. Since other people will definitely try to exploit it first, we can expect hackers to try what they can to extract value early, and it will probably happen before the acceptance of the currency is sufficient enough for it to be a real problem.

I am wondering if this also explains the active ongoing cyber war which I've always been thankful for and confused at existing. Unused exploits may become valueless if unused (though the value is less clearly defined than for a digital currency), so people are incentived to use them when they have them.
VRChat added DRM, which means I won't play it. Granted, I am probably part of a minority here.
Security people very often underestimate the performance impact of encryption (especially on embedded devices), so the former would not be surprising to me. Without acceleration, AES hurts and is incredibly hard to implement without opening up side-channel attacks. SHA is also very slow without acceleration. Both have simple, more modern alternatives that are a lot faster on embedded (ChaCha and Blake2 respectively).

Of course, they are also often unwilling to compromise on their chosen security practices to adapt to the situation, even if that just means switching to lightweight/embedded-friendly cryptography algorithms with similar security levels.
Seattle and the Seattle Area has built a lot of housing over the last couple of decades. Whatever problem they have in SF, it isn't a problem here. Whenever people say "Seattle doesn't build enough", they mean in relation to rapidly growing demand, not in absolute numbers.
Where did amlogic advertise that their smart speaker SoC had the crypto extensions?
And then there's the madness that is the physical USB-C plug which is sometimes also Thunderbolt over the same connector: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-tec... along with sometimes DisplayPort and/or HDMI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB-C#Alternate_Mode_partner_s...

I will presumably forever be mystified why I can only get "fast charging" on my Pixel 4a with USB-C-to-USB-C into the Google power brick, and never USB-A-to-USB-C into any power brick labeled as "fast charge"
Imagine another USA - United States of Africa
does xeriscaping keep your yard hotter (heat island effect stuff) than it would be if it was natural grass?
It would be super room temp. I don't apologize.
Even without a GAN, it's quite possible that one could simply write `while(rejects(output)) { output = gpt(prompt) }` and obtain a sufficient output after a reasonable number of iterations.
No, censorship would be nobody being able to discuss these topics period on those platforms. That is fundamentally not happening. We've simply entered an era where you need to do it respectfully, which isn't that hard.

Furthermore, language is demonstrably harmful by way of the weight we've given it over the years. We've also made strides in society in recognizing how to avoid using or enabling it in ways that harm marginalized groups.

This isn't rocket science.