skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in academia that is divided into quantitative vs qualitative. While most of my earlier few decades of my live have being focused on quantitative part, more and more as I age do I begin to value the qualitative part more and more. Often performances of company, organizations and individuals are not measurable in quantitative ways.
Mostly focused on AWS, part 2: https://cloudweekly.io/p/devops-concepts-5-networking-part
What's so bad about it?

It used to be dog slow and horribly buggy but recently it's been quite fine. More and more games run native as well.
Nautilus continues to serve images with the wrong extension, for whatever reason.

The hero image is a HEIF with a PNG extension. Chrome doesn't care, but Safari does.
The problem is that history shows there is no such thing as humans banding together and taking things back. As a group. The group has new “benevolent leaders” emerge, then they take everything and stop being benevolent very quickly, if not instantly. Animal Farm anyone? Animal Farm. Still relevant.
So does this require new physics to solve? What should the layman take away from this?

>distant galaxies have been speeding up in their recession, and the expansion rate, though still dropping, is not headed toward zero.

If the expansion rate is dropping, surely it is headed towards zero? Or are they using expansion rate to mean acceleration and the zero refers to the recession. Or am I misunderstanding something?
I was there last year, and to be fair, the road isn't metalled, it's mostly large white stones like gravel but about 5-10cm big. Even a single car kicks up a lot more dust than it would on a "normal" asphalt road. Not that I'm diminishing these peoples' problems, just adding context.
I think the salient point is the horror. If you find the means so horrific, why do you consider this ideology justifiable. Just because someone can exhibit this behavior doesn't mean they should. To your original point in all of this, does this being a morally consistent example of where consequentialism leads not make you question the basis of it being right?
Seeing that picture of a star absorbing another, I got a dumb question:

Stars are balls of glowing plasma. If you were to vacuum it, as another star or black hole too close for comfort would, what would this plasma look like? I reckon it would not be visible, a bit like trying to vacuum fire. All you get is hot, invisible gas.

So effectively, the image at the top of the article is completely unrealistic. Any transfer of matter from a star would be basically invisible to the naked eye. You'd see two stars close by, and one getting imperceptibly smaller than the other that slowly grows.

Is that correct?
Doing a chargeback on a $2000 functional laptop seems like a bold move.
It would work well with wind and solar as energy storage, or even tidal or geothermal. Making it great for storing power from variable power systems. Propane is extremely easy to distribute.
Dissecting a V2 rocket steam pot [video]
That's is indeed where the US system fails. Overall though I think the risk reward ratio favors the US for young healthy engineers. Save up enough to retire at 45 and then get yourself to a country with good nationalized healthcare.
Its not just tech, there is a shortage in the trades and skilled labor
Featurevisor is a Git-based feature management tool covering feature flags, a/b testing, and remote configuration with custom targeting conditions for rollout rules. It now comes with a React SDK that can be used in both React and React Native.

GitHub: https://github.com/fahad19/featurevisor
>Do we have a labor shortage, or do we have a shortage at the wages companies are prepared to pay?

There are a ton of services that I'd be happy to have people perform for me, but there's some upper limit to what I'm willing/able to pay. This applies directly or through some (capitalist) intermediary. If it's going to cost me $1,000 for you to cut my lawn, I'll either do it myself or just let it grow.
> This essentially involves measuring lengths of wires from memory controller to individual DRAM chips. The idea there is that it is impossible to make them well-enough matched for the frequencies involved, so the deliberate difference is compensated for in logic and software (also it saves space on PCB of both motherboard and the DIMMs themselves).

https://www.systemverilog.io/design/ddr4-initialization-and-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U3-hST9YBg
Metascience Since 2012: A Personal History
> I'd be worried about the US, China, Russia, Israel, North Korea. They all possess the ability to hack Brazilian elections.

Can you explain how you expect those countries to be able to achieve that, and why the experts in Brazil would be unable to counter those mechanisms?
That sounds to me like you're repeating dogma, but even if it's true, that's fine by me. I'd rather my union steward was getting rich (for some low value of 'rich') than my CEO. Only one of them is on my side.
Mapping the Mind: Worm's Brain Activity Fully Decoded
Anti-Piracy Lessons Enter the School Curriculum: Are You a Thief?
Indeed - they appear to be great engineers and terrible business-people.

They have collected very little profit from their market-dominating IP.
Some years ago I was looking for a change, I was burnt out/tired of my job at that moment and I started looking for new opportunities. At some point, a HR agency contacted me for a role with a startup and it seemed a match for my skills/what they were looking for. It was a 10-20 people company. I passed all the technical challenged and I got to talk with the CEO.

I remember he asked me if I was married and/or if I had kids. According to him, they needed people who are "committed" with the company and people without responsibilities are more likely to leave the company if they don't like it there.

This question caught me off guard and I just answered. By that time I was young and single, but I somehow managed to defend that I was committed and so on... Later, when the interview finished I noticed I should have stopped the process immediately, I wasn't desperate or anything like that I don't know why I continued. I guess they needed people who have no choice but to keep working due to the shit show the company was and I decided to ignore the offer. They tried to call me twice but I didn't answered. I bet I dodged a bullet.
If you haven’t done the reading, I can’t explain it to you in a HN comment. I’m not trying to be snarky about it, but I genuinely don’t know what else to tell you. This is a pretty foundational ideal in the philosophy of science.

What’s wrong with the speculation is that it’s a positivistic argument that is needlessly reductive. It’s reductive because it assumes that appearing human-like is equivalent to being human.

The fact that we can understand how “AI” works as a parlor trick yet appears human-like in no way implies that human beings are nothing more than the same parlor trick processes. To argue that it does is to make a positivistic argument that doesn't take in account a whole host of other things. As noted in the Criticism section of the article (which is hardly 5,000 words) there are many issues with this approach.
The question is can we make it cheaply enough at the required scale. Lots of things area off the shelf today that were not in the past. Other things used to be common and are not made anymore.
A crashing wave where the crest leads the trough would be like when you're surfing inside of a barrel wave. The crashing part is going over your head and landing in the trough.

In the case of this star simulation they are saying that the wave is crashing, but the crashing part is falling back on the back side of the wave instead of going forward over your head.
I believe Discord's streaming limits itself based on the connection to your viewers as well as their decoding capabilites, because Discord itself doesn't do any transcoding.

For example with AV1, if someone joins without an AV1 decoder, it fallbacks to h264: https://twitter.com/gerdelgado/status/1618285964308402180
Yes, west.

(Well, technically not the very very west, but pretty close given the scale of that country).
Anything involving people can only be done safely if people can be trusted. While in Australia there is such trust in the local people involved, in Brazil that's just not the same story.
It's easy to capture at places that produce lots of CO2. Say fossil fuel electricity plants, and apparently also the production of Cement.
Long term, these sources will hopefully dissapear. But short term, concentrated sources of CO2 are sadly still quite abundant.

It would be cool if, long term, the CO2 released by burning this in home furnaces for heating can mostly be re-captured.
From my pov I see that in Germany even if radicals try something funny, someone will be outspoken, denunciate the lame move, right?

They will need to do something different, like either gaining public momentum like what's happening right now, or trying something much more dramatic.

Or making the system rotten in a span of time that is measured in decades, not in days/months.

Wdyt?
Maybe--but probably not to the degree that everything else is almost too cheap to meter. I think the IRS rate is something like $0.67 per mile these days which is, while arguably high as a marginal cost, probably a pretty good place to serve as a baseline for self-driving costs (assuming the cost of the vehicle isn't significantly higher).
Nordic walking seems to be popular among people of late middle age in Germany too.
You're so edgy!! I almost got cut with that comment! 2edgy4me!

You want to change your OS and leave m1 processors because random people on the internet think that OSX has better applications than linux. Hilarious. Like we sit with you at the coffee shop with our lit up Apple logos embarrassing you or something.

Talk about judgmental.
Simple PowerShell things allowing you to dig a bit deeper than usual
Walmart is also honestly a bit better in provenance of items, too - and returns are simple.

And if you avoid marketplace sellers they have quite a bit of everything, too.

Amazon around here uses UPS but if they stop doing that I will probably lean ever harder on Walmart.
I took it to mean the rate of expansion is approaching a horizontal asymptote e.g. -x/ln(x), x > 1
Seeing Like A State is the most important business book.
Exactly. So what happens when the amount they're willing to pay is much lower than what it costs to live? If the robo lawnmowers will cut grass (and the occasional hand or foot) for $1/hour, what happens to the people who work as landscapers? Maybe you could argue they'll shift higher up the value chain, designing gardens or planting flowers and we'll all have prettier gardens... but I'm not sure the story of the last 50 years has been a race to the top.
It's a fair point, it is sad that we will continue to move around 1tn+ of automobile for one person just to go up and down hills :(
Imagine the expansion rate starts out at 2. Then 1 day later it's 1.5, after 1 more day it's 1.25 and after another day it's 1.125.

Hopefully you can see that if this series continues then the expansion rate is always dropping, but it's headed towards 1, not 0. (And if expansion rate of 1 is too confusing in this context imagine if it starts out at 3 and goes to 2.5, 2.25, 2.125, ..., it still is always decreasing, but it will never be less than 2 which means the universe keeps expanding).
I called almost exclusively local BBSes with my 300 bps modem starting in 1985. There was no local Compuserve dial-in number for me. Between the long distance and the per minute charges, Compuserve was out of reach.

By the way, your 1200 bps modem was actually 600 baud! People often use baud and bps interchangeably but they're different. The most common 1200 bps standard was v.22 which used 600 baud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ITU-T_V-series_recomme...
Ask HN: Is WhatsApp support AI now?
I have never had to interact with WhatsApp support but recently I had to signup for WhatsApp for Business to contact some clients with my work number (I try to avoid mixing personal and work number) and the number instantly got blocked. For almost no reason it seems. So I tried to reach out to support and it has been weeks to no avail.

But what I found most interesting is that it seems like the the entire support flow is just AI now? No human support by WhatsApp? Any from inside can confirm this?
Maybe somewhere but around here I was generally disappointed with the prices at the DG. I could see how more locations could help.
> Your example of the Go AI being programmed to learn is not all that accurate for what has been achieved here.

What do you mean?

AlphaZero was trained entirely on self-play, and is a generic reinforcement learning algorithm. All it starts with are the rules (Chess, Go, Shogi) and a few million games later it beats — so far as I can see from a quick Google — all the humans, and most matches against AlphaGo Zero which learned the same way and which in turn beat AlphaGo Lee in every match, and that (unlike the aforementioned) was trained on examples of human matches in addition to self-play… but still learning from those examples as there's no known useful[0] set of rules that even says if a Go game is over let alone which moves are good.

There are AI which can find and exploit its weaknesses, but I've not seen anyone else suggest humans can defeat it.

> I didn't keep the link for the discussion on the confounding of the Go AI system. What the discussion covered though was that there were simple Go configurations that the GO AI failed abysmally on when playing a human - it didn't learn here.

Do you remember the name of the AI?

A bit of rummaging got me KataGo, but the humans had to use another AI to discover the weaknesses of KataGo rather than figuring it out for themselves.

And yes, KataGo absolutely does learn. The fact you can trivially stop the learning process is a feature not a bug for AI, precisely because it means any safety testing of the sort you're calling for is actually possible (albeit rather different than formal logic).

[0] pathological cases are easy — "board empty == not finished" — but not helpful.
It's an Avi Loeb paper. He has a list of journalists he emails to promote his or his students papers. The papers are designed to elicit clicks -- correct, consequential or not.
it isn’t a double life. it isn’t quiet quitting. this isn’t about sticking it to the man, or getting yours from an unfair system.

“devon” didn’t want to work long hours at a startup, so he collects money from goog and spends the hours paid for on his startup. hard work is fine, as long as “devon” takes as much as possible and gives as little as possible.

“devon” probably wonders why the world is so shit.
I haven’t used AHK in years since moving to Mac, but I used to have that same issue. I may have spent more time finding just the right key chord than I did actually using AHK. It’s hard to find something ergonomic and easy to remember that isn’t already used by any of my regular programs.

It would be nice if keyboards had an equivalent of 127.0.0.0/8 where you know nobody else is listening for a key combination in that range.
Fully agree.
Also, jq exists, a simple example how open and simple interfaces (text streams) allow for extensibility. There is a reason why so much is built on top of "simple terminals".
They come as part of the tent or what? Tell me more I'm intrigued.
Yes it can be, with the viewport meta tag. I've also seen some web apps, mostly maps, whose CSS or JS tries to resist browser zoom in ways that break the layout or make them unusable.

Plus, overriding the zoom gestures makes it really hard in mobile browsers to access the actual browser zoom, although I blame that on browsers.
Article seems to be based on 'Crowded No More: The Accuracy of the Hubble Constant Tested with High Resolution Observations of Cepheids by JWST' [1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15806
> But the Nvidia + ARM combo made sense from a technical and strategic standpoint though.

Made sense for Nvidia. Not for other Arm customers.
That’s indeed one of many ways people are driven out a job market that seemingly is hungry for jobs.

Posting unrealistic job offers can be a way to cover legal requirements or excuse yourself for automating everything. Or it can be business owners legitimately searching the space if humans can provide better value than machines, and increasingly finding that… no.

I wonder what would happen if people kept posting jobs for human calculators up to 2023.

“Must work without sleep, perform all calculations up to at least 9 digits, make no mistakes and provide instant answers. Management occasionally may curse and be violent towards the calculator, when the numbers are bad for business (must keep quiet and take it). Salary: $12 (per year)”.
I remember the old days when I could automate woodcutting in runescape

Sadly a lot of games nowadays have (shitty) anti cheat systems that just ban you if you have the process running or have the program installed
This is going to be regarded as alchemy someday - or best case scenario philosophy. It's definitely not "science".
You literally proved my point. It’s not generally auditable.

Even if you ignore the fact that the audit window is restricted and that the software is developed behind closed doors, just the first step in the process is absurd if you want this to be practical for anyone to audit:

> A Justiça Eleitoral prepara uma sala segura para deixar os sistemas a serem utilizados na eleição vindoura à disposição das entidades fiscalizadoras interessadas. As entidades podem utilizar ferramentas automatizadas e solicitar os esclarecimentos que julgarem necessários. Caso encontrem alguma inconformidade, deverão apresentá-la ao TSE, que deverá corrigi-la e apresentar o ajuste realizado. É importante destacar que todas as alterações realizadas nos sistemas são rastreáveis e ficam disponíveis para verificação das entidades fiscalizadoras.
Oh, the memories. There was a guy in my RuneScape clan who was known for doing exactly that. Walked me through setting up a vHost and bouncer on a shell account at one time so that I could be 1337 like him, or get us logins for obscure adult sites and say "use a SOCKS proxy, the other ones aren't any good".

He was like the cool older brother we never had. Hope he's alright now. Probably a major factor behind me choosing this career.
> The most prominent index on NASDAQ is the QQQ, the top 100 stocks,market cap weighted.

QQQ is an index fund:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invesco_QQQ

That follows the Nasdaq-100 index:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasdaq-100

There are other funds that track it too from companies other than Invesco.
Indeed. You can see in some of the comments here the American mentality simply could not have made ARM successful because they would have been too busy competing with their own customers. For ARM to take off and be trusted they had to knowingly leave valuable profit margins around for their customers to be able to take advantage of.

The defining question is if the world is better off by having people play that game or the one where everyone tries to takeover everything all the time.
Well, the article is specifically about the kind of large-scale tournaments that "require a float of several million dollars" and "might require 120 judges and other staff members" and have full-time employees, so I doubt the organisers actually have time to play.

You get much better economics if your event is small enough the organisers can fit it in around a full time job, and you can staff it entirely with volunteers. But those sorts of events aren't big enough to need convention centres that charge $750 per trash can.
I wouldn't recommend trying to vacuum fire... But if you were to do it, you would find you ended up with flames going all the way up your vacuum hose and into the dust collector.

So from that perspective, fire is very much vacuumable.
look up a random autohotkey code. you can write it sideways, it will work. you can write it with indentation, it will work. it will work if the whole code is in a single line.

on one hand, it has the least amount of startup for a new programmer because it can teach you to do cool things.
on the other hand, like me, the "habits" get wrong because i never learned to do pretty code.
This seems somewhat ironic:

> [...]

> This is somewhat comparable to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux model, where that product is paid and commercial-only, but the source code is freely available, and that has enabled communities such as CentOS to build alternative products around the same technologies.

https://www.endlessos.org/redistribution-policy (bottom)
They’re not mine; I pulled them directly from the parent comment.
It sounds like a profound wisdom and on a very surface level it does make sense, but think of this: if you can assess that a measure is a bad one, this means that you have your own intrinsic preferences, otherwise you wouldn't be able to tell that!

Therefore, if you are unhappy with a measure, it means solely that it doesn't capture all of your preferences properly. Which is a technical problem rather than a philosophical one.
Propane will turn to liquid before it reaches 200psi at normal temperatures. The exact pressure depends on temperature. This is basic chemistry, though probably a part you forgot about as it is simple and doesn't come up much '
In the last engineering team I managed (by far the most successful one up to date), we discarded most velocity measures in favour of a simple solution: every Friday, each team sends a brief "here's what we delivered this week" email to the whole company. It contains some screenshots and instructions like "agents can now update the foobar rate from their mobile app without having to call in". After a month or two of these going out like clockwork, it gave both management and business stakeholders a level of comfort that no amount of KPI dashboards ever could. KPIs compress away details that stakeholders need to form an understanding. A full blast from the task tracker is overkill. This solution worked for us. But of course, required a solid feature flag practice so that half-built features (story slices) could be released weekly for testing without affecting production. That said, we did maintain a quarter-level sum-of-t-shirt-size based KPI.
I'd like to ask the AHK programmers here if anyone can figure out how to do the macOS's CMD+` and CMD+SHIFT+` to alternate between windows of the same App in Windows while ignoring any minimized window.

I managed to coerce chat GPT to do a working version for the `Last Window`, but it simply cannot do a working forward version.

```

!+`:: ; Last window
WinGet, ActiveProcessName, ProcessName, A
WinGet, windows, List, ahk_exe %ActiveProcessName%
Loop, % windows
{
thisID := windows%A_Index%
WinGet, thisWindowState, MinMax, ahk_id %thisID%
if (thisWindowState = -1)
continue ; Skip if window is minimized
lastWindow := thisID
}
if (lastWindow)
{
WinActivate, ahk_id %lastWindow%
}
return

```
Estimates I found (in one article, I linked it somewhere else) put the energy usage of CO2 capture from ambient air at about 2800kwh per ton of CO2, someone else calculated one ton of CO2 would produce 376kg of propane. Which is about 5254 kwh. So it would be a significant hit to efficiency, changing it from about 90% to 60%. But that doesn't bring the efficiency to stupidly low levels.
I remember an example of some arcane software that was used "internally" by some local German office to just sum up the votes and generate some kind of result sheet for the local area.

It turned out, although it was air-gapped, it was susceptible to an attack against its update mechanism. Some white-hats showed it was possible to inject malicious code and change the results.

You never know. That's the essence of the problem.