skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? You think people who write for a living might be biased towards confirming that the thing already replacing many people who write for a living is a fad that's going to blow over soon?

My favorite part with crap predicting doom is the sheer unawareness of the rate of change of the rate of change.

If you had asked me 18 months ago how long after GPT-3 until something existed with the capabilities of GPT-4, I'd probably have guessed about 5 years.

If you asked me 5 years ago how long until an AI could explain why a joke was funny, I'd have maybe guessed at least a decade or two, if it was even possible.

If you asked me 10 years ago if I'd see AI replacing artists or copywriters in my lifetime, I'd have guessed maybe when I was in a retirement home (I'm still a fair ways away from that).

No one thought what exists today was even possible within our lifetimes a decade back.

I'm reminded of the Louis C.K. routine about everything being amazing and no one is happy.

Unthinkable AI has already become so normalized that people are predicting its doom based on shortcomings that are less than two years old because AI doing fucking IMPOSSIBLE things (or so everyone thought) is only that old.

The rate is outrageous, and while I do think there's currently a significant setback with obsolete alignment approaches being carried forward to models that probably need new techniques, that's going to be a temporary step back in parallel to significant strides forward in the underlying technology from hardware to model design to improved knowledge in how to squeeze the most water from the rock.

I just hope when all these folks turn out to have been dead wrong that we don't collectively forget. Futurists should live and die by their record, but too many have goldfish memory and continue to listen to false futurists well after they've shown their own snake oil hand.
I meant physical static. How are my overlays supposed to stick?
It very much seems like it should fall foul of cruel and unusual punishment protections.

But I guess that the problem with wording it that way is that maybe bankrupting an individual for life isn't considered cruel and unusual anymore.
For me this convoluted method for circumventing FT paywall works (currently):

1) delete ft.com cookies

2) search for the link in twitter search

3) click on FT link from a found tweet
Interactive Fiction IDE (Inform)
GS:go aside, the 1070 is said to do 6.5 TFlops to the 4090's 1,321 TFlops,
for a 203x improvement in 6 years. Not bad!
Indeed it might. It's been more than decade since I last used them.
So true. Sorry you're downvoted.

Even investigative reporting and historical scholarship suffer. Anyone investigating or studying anything needs to pick and choose which sources they're going to rely on, and therefore introducing intrinsic biases and only as reliable as the sources they rely on.
It’s not physically realizable but the spring-loaded inverted pendulum is arguably the “simplest” walking model. It’s just a mass on a spring.
How do you build that in a way that you can rely on the results?

The safest approach currently is to use GPT-4 and tell it something like:

"I will give you a block of text and a question. Please answer the question using only the information in the provided text. Don't make any guesses and admit if you are not sure about your answer. If you don't know the answer, say you don't know the answer.

Question: X

Text: Y"

Trouble is that you cannot put the entire books of law into Y because the context is limited. So currently you need to do something else to sieve through the law material and find only the passages most relevant to the question through embeddings or full text search or some other method. It's not very reliable.
At low frame rates, the GPU is (usuallly) the bottleneck most of them time. At very high frame rates, there are other more significant bottlenecks.

A much better benchmark would be to take a game designed for 120 or fewer FPS on a 4090 and try it on a 1070.
Well, I do see people, I do go places. In fact, I do it probably more willingly as I know I won't get covid, or flu, or anything that will ruin my time. Yes, I know, people love eating together - that's primitive like wolves or lions devouring an animal they've killed. People can socialize in so many ways and eating is probably the worst kind.
Simple--because user authentication and management sucks ass.

So, everyone is willing to put up with a wildly incorrect feature set simply to have someone else deal with lost passwords, spam, fraud, etc.
This post is hysterical. Where and why did you pay a doctor 5k (I assume USD/EUR)? Any one from a highly advanced democracy is laughing to themself about paying so much for medical care. I can only assume US or expat in undeveloped country.
Mobile TPUs/NPUs:

Pixel 6+ phones have TPUs (in addition to CPUs and an iGPU/dGPU).

Tensor Processing Unit > Products > Google Tensor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_Processing_Unit

TensorFlow lite; tflite: https://www.tensorflow.org/lite

From https://github.com/hollance/neural-engine :

> The Apple Neural Engine (or ANE) is a type of NPU, which stands for Neural Processing Unit.

From
https://github.com/basicmi/AI-Chip :

> A list of ICs and IPs for AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning
I recently found out that there's an amazing term for internet-connected sex toys: Teledildonics
rss is back
Before I stopped using X11 completely, I used evilwm. It gets a mention in the comments.
> Microsoft was paying license fees to Xerox for GUI elements that were similar to those on the Alto (Xerox 8010) just as Apple was.

Really? I've never heard that before.
IMO it might have been better than both of them! But probably too restrictive. It worked wonderfully on Windows Phone but it didn’t feel right at all blown up to desktop size in Windows 8.
What is the motive behind building such an app? Where do you think the revenue would come from? Do you think a multi-cultural, multi-language country like India would welcome such an app?
I am more into steam based interactive novel using say python (ren’py). I guess this is mainly for sharing (eg open source and open)? But seems interesting for further investigation. Anyone has more experience?
Does anyone have a link to the PR?
Even more tragic - Korean disaster mv Sewol where Captain used ship PA to tell school children to stay put, then jumped into safety raft and swam away.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-sinking-of-the-...
it's never too late to start learning, no?
For starters, see the GitHub blog posts. https://github.blog/2021-05-04-how-we-use-web-components-at-... https://github.blog/2022-12-13-creating-an-accessible-search... https://github.blog/2018-09-06-removing-jquery-from-github-f...

> straight JS with no libs or Svelte

Web Components is starting to fit under this.
Doesn't matter. If governments blunder this and try to enforce copyrights in AI, then we are all going to be using Chinese AI in 5 years instead of Google because they don't give a damn about copyright.
For more context, here is the official guide to request removing content from the Archive, which anyone can request for their own social media account.

“… indicate … the time period during which you had control of the site or relevant user account (if applicable)”

https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-request-to-remove-som...
This response to should have all but conclusively ended the silly debate in outlining the semantic drift of the term “Ponzi scheme” to encapsulate the relevant spectrum of linguistic variations, and yet…
Or, I literally asked a factual question of Google (several
times, although similar questions) and didn't get a bard generated response. Strange to read "Google searches aren't doing this for me" as "they are doing it for me and I don't like it"
Business had email before Outlook from the time of Windows 3 for GUI clients. e.g. CC-mail and earlier to console based email.

The standard there was top-posting and I suspect that came from other business email which used terminals.

Some mailing lists I am on say you must use top posting and quote the lot because there is no guarantee that the recipient has received the message you are replying to also reply to the top so people do not have to waste time by scrolling down and down ...

The issue is that most emailers - including emacs don't collapse the quotes..

Also they say don"t break lines - let the tool you are reading with wrap them. Internet RFCs say wrap the lines to 72/80 chars.
Netflix started downmixing differently last year.

https://en-us.sennheiser.com/newsroom/new-audio-experience-n...

“For an up-to-date list of content available in AMBEO Spatial Audio, simply enter “Spatial Audio” in the Netflix search field.”
> Discord has been decent for a while. I suspect enshittification will commence soon

Discord was enshittified years ago. It's just that nothing really changed recently, unlike Twitter/Reddit, so it's not making the news.

You've got a platform that's completely inaccessible without an account. Acquiring an account often requires handing over a mobile number. And Discord can then ban you arbitrarily, despite never posting a single message (the one saving grace is that you can email them about it, and they'll often restore the brand new account, if you don't mind the weeks worth of waiting).

And that doesn't cover the five minute rigamarole of logging in (enter user/pass, fill in captcha, get told that this is an unrecognised IP/device, wait for email to arrive, open Discord email, click on link*, click Authorize, fill in user/pass again, solve captcha) - why do I have to do this just to view content?

* Bonus: the link has like a ~5 minute expiry, so you can't just go and do something else during the process, or you'll have to start over from the beginning
And yet, the new generation is (mis)using it for collaboration purposes, without realizing everything they're losing in the process.
Depends on the version. Newer models double that range, but either way 30000ft is only about 10 km, so if you control Rosaviatsiya you can just instruct ATC to send the aircraft over a particular area where you've pre-positioned your asset.

Anyways I'm not saying it wasn't an S-300 but Pantsirs are easy to deploy. It's a single truck.

We'll probably never know the truth.
Tell HN: I-9 Debacle Nationwide
So apparently, the DHS enacted special emegency concessions during the COVID-19 pandemic, which allowed employers to virtually/remotely verify identification documents and complete the I-9 form (verification of eligibility to work in the US).

Unfortunately the DHS has revoked these temporary policies and is apparently requiring every employer to re-verify documentation that might have been virtually "verified" previously (so they're saying that it was never verified at all and the virtual attempts don't count.) https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-related-news/temporary-policies-related-to-covid-19

There are other alternative methods that may be used, actually, to virtually re-verify over a live video session: https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-related-news/new-e-verify-employers-may-use-alternative-procedure-for-form-i-9-documents-examined-remotely-during

If this is widespread as it seems to be, it could place thousands of jobs in jeopardy. I don't understand why this is going down, and I'm dismayed by the way it's being handled.
Thanks. Let us know if we can help out in any way. We just set up a Discord server you can join as well https://discord.gg/A59Uxyy2k9
None of that means anything. Classical != right/accurate/useful. That mindset just gives authority to age, which does not correlate.
As Andrew mentions in the post, even having a Twitter account was a source of stress. It's about more than just promoting his content.

It's a feeling I can sympathize with. In 2009 I deleted my Facebook account (or "deactivated" it, the only option at the time), and even though I wasn't using it much by then, it felt like a needless weight was suddenly lifted.
I think it should depend on the attack surface - is the software on a server that is exposed to the public? If it's relegated to private servers then it is easier to secure that.
My belief is that blockchain-based solutions are typically inferior to centralized ones except when the goal is to evade regulation. (Crypto is good for dealing in contraband, dodging currency controls, and collecting ransomware; but it's always less efficient than centralized solutions with a trusted authority. And the only time you can't find a trusted authority is when you're trying to dodge regulation.)

In this instance, I don't see how this offers any advantage over the usual registrar-based DNS: at the end of the day I'm just using the ENS rootnode keyholders as my registrar, and I don't see how the blockchain is solving any problem that couldn't be more efficiently solved with a traditional database.
I lot of legitimate businesses fall into that category.

Also illegitimate businesss. Theranos was definitely illegitimate (and had the characteristic of little fish investors trying to sell to bigger fish), but it would be a pretty severe category error to call it a ponzi scheme.
Thats nuts i had to get a simple beam retrofit signed off by an engineer. In the states it must vary greatly by location
PR link: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/pull/8337
If there was a $50 option with the only perk being access to their articles (doesn’t even need to unlimited either) I would have easily subscribed.
"There are tens, hundreds of thousands of others like you on the internet"

I've never mentioned this matter on the internet previously. And I do treat women equally both as colleagues at work and elsewhere and have always done so. The difference comes when someone is aggressive towards me. With a male I'll stand ground and argue back (but not physically), with a female I'll walk away. It's the prudent thing to do.
This channel rules. Thanks for the rec.
That sounds like you're not using backblaze backup - you might be using backblaze b2 storage? (s3 compatible object storage).

If so, how much (in your currency) does it cost you to backup say 3TB with daily (x7), weekly (x4), monthly (x12) snapshots available for a year?

Using their own calculator and assuming in a year you have a total of 10TB stored (3TB of "active" data and the rest point-in time) they estimate B2 to cost a whopping $1110AUD/yr.
You can just unfollow people that engage in extreme language on Twitter, you won’t run out of people
I’ve yet to find anything that fills the void of running containers, VMs, and whatever else you want to add a “driver” for, in such a simple distribution. You can run nomad on one slow host or 30 monsters. Works great for teams who can’t use the cloud.
Just think of how shitty it would be to be #1. There is a lot to be gained by being house #10 or 100 in terms of design cleanup. Achitecture houses that are one off will always have weird quirks because its the first of iteration or cost a ton to address those issues .
> This "both sides" idea is a myth

It's like a thief calling everybody else a thief. A liar calling everybody else a liar, to take away the focus from their own lying.

The both sides -argument can be diluted by noting that of course anyone who is lying, will tell you they are not.

Anyone who commits a crime will tell you they are not. Then they tell that everybody else is lying, so them lying is a non-thing, because everybody else is doing it.

The real strike through the heart of both-sides-argument is that there is no evidence that "everybody is lying".

The only way to objectively discu8ss it is through numbers like 30,573 , like this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-fa...
When you want your friends to try your app but you end up with a whole support system inside discord, that’s how it happens. You’re hanging with your friends playing games, you show them that side project you’ve been working on, they all love it and it grows into a shit show of channels, rules, bots, response emoji’s to indicate intent, merging with other servers, with a whole new set of rules, channels, bots, mods.

It’s unprofessional.
AI tools that rely on Discord as their delivery, unprofessional. Possibly even down right illegal. Not the act of using a bot, but what service they offer through that bot.
Bun is an executable as far as I understand. Would it be possible to call Bun directly from another language with bindings?

For example Erlang (and Elixir) has Native Implemented Functions[0] (NIF) where you can call native code directly from Erlang. Elixir has the zigler[1] project where you can call Zig code directly from Elixir.

Maybe you can see where I'm going with this, but it would be super cool to have the ability to call Javascript code from within Elixir. Especially when it comes to code that should be called on the server and client. I'm the developer of LiveSvelte[2] where we use Node to do SSR but it's quite slow atm, and would be very cool to use Bun for something like this.

In any case Bun is super impressive, keep it up!

[0] https://www.erlang.org/doc/tutorial/nif.html

[1] https://github.com/E-xyza/zigler

[2] https://github.com/woutdp/live_svelte
Other than basic politeness (that's a rude and dismissive opening on your post) my point was it's easy to know what "optimal performance" means when racing, or generating a profit. Software requires optimizing some aspects at the cost of other aspects, which is a business decision.

Like the best race car races the race the fastest, the best company makes the most money over the time period you care about. The best software could be optimized to load for new users fastest to reduce new customer bounce rates or to work best for returning loyal users to reduce churn or several other metrics. It's a legitimate question of what you want to optimize for
If you can use HVF it would be near-native speed. Just like KVM, but quite a bit simpler.
I didn’t actually get to the point of applying but I also remember seriously considering that nuclear engineer offer back in college! It seemed like a sweet deal at the time.
Since recency and scale of difference are the two most important factors, why not use a combination of date and marketing" major/minor version instead of opting into either one of the other?
Luke Kanies – Do I Hate Investors?
One thing that is surprising is just how vast is the chasm on Google/Bing Search quality for developer resources(and probably many engineering field with vast user documentation) and how good ChatGPT-4 has become on it.

As a developer ChatGPT and OpenAI API tools are essential and useful. Though if the gap is that big it probably means that other players can chip away at it.
I get that you can watch a sports match an hour or so behind, but it's not the same. For a pre-made TV show it's fine.
Because he stated it and used a citation to support it.

I’m entirely agnostic to what the claim is, what ideology it supports, or even whether or not it’s true.

You use a citation to increase the credibility of you claim or argument. If the citation doesn’t actually say what you said that is a problem.

If I said aliens are real here is proof and cite a lasagna recipe that’s a problem
All news is biased and has been. Even if not deliberately, the journalists are not experts on what they report on so don't alwys spot errors or biases in their sources.

You have always had to read or listen to several sources.

Some sources are less biased than others. E>g. in the UK the print media is biased and readers do know which way e.g. Daily Telegraph is right wing and Guardian is left wing. The broadcast media is less biased as there is legislation to form some form of control. Most of the broadcast media get complaints from both left and right wing - although GB News seems to be firmly right wing.
Unbiased is the wrong premise.

Bias will always exist, so identifying it and consuming the spectrum is the way to see it. Seeing bias is better than avoiding it, as it helps you understand others perspectives (as they consume biased news.)

allsides.com is good. Modo News is good.
From the prompt context:

DO NOT make any DML statements (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, DROP etc.) to the database.

I've found that spelling out exactly what I don't want an LLM to do dramatically increases the probability that it will do exactly that.
I think everyone got caught up in the mania. I've been coding for 15 years and I was a full stack dev throughout. TBH I thought Google's PolymerJS (which was closer to Web Components) would take the crown but React came out of nowhere and everyone jumped on that bandwagon en masse and the complexity of all front end frameworks just kept increasing year after year.

In the meantime, browsers were forging ahead with a lot of nice features that had been planned for a long time and which would make the frameworks redundant and now that these features are available, the frameworks have gained a lot of inertia and it's hard to people to accept that you don't need them anymore due to large scale sunk cost fallacy... Not to mention all the vested interests (platform providers) who built on top of React.
Thank you…this seems to actually support the point that’s all I really care about
Plenty of kids I know use the blockchain, for their fake ids I think it is the backing financial infrastructure (crypto knowledgeable friend purchases ids and redistributes), for drug purchases
Yes, it can be that hot; I cuddled nude with a TLAM in the Carribbean to stay cool. I think UK boats were built for colder waters; the ventilation couldn't keep up on the deck in the shallow, warm waters.

Things are certainly not made for comfort. In cool waters my blanket wasn't wide enough to protect me from accidentally touching the weapon in my sleep. They're a great heat sink and suck the heat out of you, whether you want it or not.
Tromp-Taylor ruleset?
Can there be appeal? Judge abd court make mistakes …
Doomscrolling hits some sort of dopamine receptor for some sort of evolutionary reason. But I know now, in 2023, that whatever components in my brain that are being manipulated, the reason has nothing to do with my survival. And for me really it's that feeling of manipulation I resent most. Often the manipulation is indirect which is arguably the more insidious aspect. The people we follow may not be trying to consciously manipulate us but some content they saw was -- and probably for a reason completely misaligned with whatever we like to think our values are.
Okta, Keycloak, Auth0, Kinde, FusionAuth, Firebase, Cognito, Clerk - User auth does suck ass and it’s been solved time and time and time again. Don’t be lazy.
Yes it would be possible, though it'd be easier to start in Bun and then call out to your executable from JavaScript via napi or bun:ffi
They never went away. (I'm pretty qualified to say)
Ionizing radiation attracts soil fungi
I found this incredibly surprising. More to read:

Some types of fungi, called radiotrophic fungi, appear to be able to use melanin as a photosynthetic pigment that enables them to capture gamma rays and harness this energy for growth. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanin

And another: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiosynthesis_(metabolism)
I worked at a defense contractor in my twenties and felt like a sucker cause all the managers in in their forties had full pensions.
I am shocked that nobody has yet brought up the 2019 Macedonian film, Honeyland! https://m.imdb.com/title/tt8991268/

An excellent must-watch film if you are interested in natural beekeeping!

Review from the same publication as OP: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/honeyland-re... / (no paywall: https://archive.is/qspek)
Never short a ponzi, even if you win your counterparty won’t pay