skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone posted and deleted in response to this on how we lose neural plasticity as we age. I tried to comment in response, but it was deleted already. Since I have this written up, I'll share it here.

This is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Yes, you can lean on the skills you have acquired and be successful. Plasticity is no longer required. But look at the many examples of people who have suffered brain damage, and yet, the brain was able to route around it, form new pathways, and reattain functionality in seemingly impossible circumstances.

Why would we expect that people are unable to form new neural pathways on their own, even if most people tend not to? Furthermore, what good does it do to repeat this truism, thereby discouraging the very behaviors that are most needed to engender neural plasticity?
What do you mean by "trashy" and what publications are you referring to? I'm sure it's out there (whatever it is), but thanks to the Internet I have more high-quality journalism to read than would have been conceivable back then. I don't have time for it all.
Why are CEOs still so intent on taking worker attendance?
Keeping them updated isn't free
Duck Duck browser is my go-to. There is no downside at all. Sometimes I specifically use chrome...well, very rare.
It's entirely certain that there are wet-bulb temperatures above which humans cannot survive for long and pretty certain that there are highly populated areas where a few more degrees warming globally means that those temperatures will be reached (or at least apprached, which is still dangerous) much more often. There are a variety of less direct potential tipping points, which may be more or less certain, but we can be quite confident that higher temperatures means more people dying in heat waves.
This is absurd. If you're willing to live somewhere moderately unfashionable, the vast majority of people on HN could easily afford to buy a house. For example, this 4 bed, 2 bath, 1800sf house just sold in Cleveland for $272k: https://www.redfin.com/OH/Cleveland/2548-Cheshire-Rd-44120/h...

That's a much nicer, larger house than almost all of our grandparents grew up in (plus has some great bonuses such as running water). Definitely larger than you need when you're retired, but maybe you want plenty of room for grandkids to visit.
It’s unacceptable even as a “joke”.
https://archive.is/2QTAh
We've got some innovation from having everyone invent their own user interfaces for every app, but it's been a very high cost to pay vs standard OS GUIs.
On Pixel devices, the default launcher is the Pixel launcher, and you can't remove the search bar on the homescreen. But like you said, you can install a different launcher.
Property taxes will skyrocket though
That's not how it would work. If an airline company plans to emit X amount of CO2, they need to buy the right to do so. The cost would only be indirectly paid by consumers through the cost of their ticket. You can think of it like a currency that polluters need to spend (or more accurately, eliminate, since there is no recipient) when they pollute.

Capping and trading is the more simple solution. Instead of putting various restrictions and limits on a ad hoc basis (often influenced by lobbyists and special interest groups) for dozens and dozens of activities, you have just one unified system.
>- move to the woods

Does that count as retiring? Presumably you'd still need money for stuff like electricity and manufactured goods that you can't make/forge yourself. Not to mention all the forging/hunting/crafting you'd have to do to sustain yourself.
https://archive.is/hbDz2
It looks like https://github.com/tencentmusic/supersonic is a component. I'm trying to figure out what they are doing too.
These are the numbers that matter, although there are wildcards like someone inventing a "Robot & Frank"-style affordable robot that can look after the elderly.
Except extreme chemical addiction, made worse by the fact that the other side effects aren't there to warn your body?

Isn't GABA downregulation the main reason for extreme withdrawal with alcohol?
If only there was a small-talk LLM that could operate over a brain interface.
Right, I'm not sure what these exoterrorists are smoking. It's been fine and it's gonna be fine forever. It'll keep getting better in fact.

All that threat modelling, ecosystem analysis, and understanding the consequences of current biochemical developments are just a bunch of alarmism, stressing us out for no reason...

No need to understand what their data, methodology and conclusions are at all.
How in the world do you see a relation between China banning Japanese fish and the Japanese space agency continuing to do space exploration?
Interesting, but what is the use case for tracking which CPUs your programs are using?
From what I've seen there is little consensus; they seem somewhere between nearly a non-issue and apocalyptic. But James Hansen, who has been eerily prescient about everything so far published a paper last year much more on the apocalyptic end.
> This is also why it requires NVIDIA’s bespoke Tensor cores to function.

Any idea why this needs bespoke cores? GPU's were already used for AI and crypto mining before this, without bespoke cores for 1 specific application

> The “Deep Learning SuperSampling” is right in the title

With that name, it could have been based off of a single pre-training on many games, to work on games in general
Ah okay, then we mean the same thing :)
It's all unrealized however until you sell it and downsize/move to a lower CoL area.
> Perhaps athlete salaries will come back down to Earth as well.

Athlete salaries were historically artificially low in the NFL and MLB because free agency did not exist until the mid seventies or early eighties. Top-tier athlete salaries in those two leagues will not decline so long as free agency is still in place.
Elevenlabs is a lot closer to compelling audiobook narration (needs a better way to deal with multiple characters in a story without manual use of multiple voices): https://pub-a24da573c61f4b2d905bdebb2d0ecf88.r2.dev/ElevenLa... (an H.G.Wells example I just asked it to read).
I mapped out YouTube's Recycle Bin [video]
The main bottleneck to any parallel process is aggregation.
You can’t seriously consider an actual human being following you around to be the same as advertising tracking. Those aren’t the same and Google isn’t doing it to “prove a point”. The fantasy was clearly about intimidation in the real world of a real person.

You should really re-read the article. It does not support the change to Chrome or the tracking that Google does.
Isn't listening to people tell stories fundamental to what we are? Wouldn't you rather be a part of a culture that cares about the difference between listening to a person's voice vs. a bot?

Edit: My concern is audio files ending up in places where they aren't clearly labelled as AI-generated.
SASL came out as a generalization of the IMAP AUTHENTICATE mechanism. CMU wanted Kerberos to work and it had been done as something of a one-off in telnet, and initially in IMAP. There were a couple companion protocols proposed for IMAP (stuff like contacts) that the same group was working on, and they wanted to leverage the same mechanism. From there, might as well do the same thing for POP and SMTP, etc. So they started working on a library (which Cyrus IMAP didn’t use for at least a while, sorry my fault).

Kind of funny that SASL is the most durable piece of the effort.

(I doubt this is entirely accurate. I wasn’t there for a lot of it.)
But it should probably become that.

Just do an aptitude test when you join. Send the genius's to the R&D team. Send the good leaders to the officer training program. Send the good drivers to be tank drivers. etc.
tl;dr (and two pages down): Lithuania.
Fundamentally you cannot make each generation provide for itself. Most food cannot be stored for 20 years, so we need to have current day farmers. Even if you say automation, we still need someone to maintain those machines when they break. That means if you retire it must be on some store of value that the future generations want and will trade for food.

I used food above, but lots of other things likewise need current work. You cannot retire and sit on a log watching birds, you need to get lots of things from society.
https://archive.is/jf2YZ
I think McNamara is the poster child for what damage unconstrained technocracy can do. This project is one of the less horrible ones he spearheaded, but it too had results that were completely predictable to anyone on the ground (who actually had to check their notions against reality).
I imagine there should be some OS-agnostic libraries somewhere that handle it and provide the developer a unified interface.
I'm pretty sure PA's entire legal system exists to fund institutions.
72 now..

lesson learnt.. clickbait titles is a real thing
I use DDG's browser too, especially when I need to access site and don't care about cookies or saving history of that site (the private address generating feature is nice too).

On my Pixel, I use FF mainly, but also have DDG and Chrome (for Google-specific sites only).
I would really like to see (and work for) a company that is building novel understanding of actual data and schemas with LLMs. Characterizing data and a limited number of transforms for an LLM should produce much more reliable tools than just piping direct text to a non enhanced LLM. Has anyone seen companies where they are doing this?
> They are not only simpler and faster, but look better too

I disagree. It's not even close how much better DLSS looks than traditional upscaling. I've run into very few noticeable artifacts from DLSS that are distracting, and this seems to be the general consensus among most consumers.

> DLSS is something that needs to be supported by games themselves: why?

It requires motion vectors and depth buffers in addition to the low res aliased images.
In reality isn't this really quite simple - it's the theft of privacy. Data is the concrete thing of course, and therefore potentially useful to then put a legal framework around - but in the end it's really about the right to privacy.

The loss of privacy is done by clever joining of the dots - each individual data point in itself is often not that important. It's the activity - the joining of the dots - back to a person - which is the stalking like behaviour - that's the problem.

Ie the activity you need to regulate is the connecting of the dots back to a real world person.

Let's call it the 'Digital Stalking Act'
https://archive.is/3kMVE
Ask HN: Is Linux From Scratch still a viable learning method?
Howdy!

Is Linux From Scratch still a viable learning method? I’ve dabbled with it before and have a working system.

I’d love to take it beyond and keep learning.

Recommendations appreciated. Looking to create a hobby platform for my own growth but maybe someday more serious use.
Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous for All Involved (2016)
The army of a nation is a self-defence entity, not a jobs programme. If you want a jobs programme for low-IQ people, start with crumbling American infrastructure for one.
Same deal when Chrome opens mailto links in gmail.com in the browser instead of my default mail client. Stuff like this made my switch to Firefox even more of a no-brainer.
> Army is able to absorb people of different races or gays and learned how to deal with gender. That does not imply it is, as an institution, capable to absorb handicapped people.

Right. The former issues do not affect performance, nor is it inhumanity to use them as soldiers. The latter does and is.
Not the parent, but having heating and cooling both solved with one gadget makes this room much more comfortable than before.
As a teenager, on one very cold New Year's eve I drove for about a minute in L (low gear) to get the car warmed up faster.

My Dad didn't believe me that driving in low gear would warm the car up faster and told me I should write to Click and Clack to ask if what I did actually worked.

I laughed at him. (It's obvious that if you rev up the engine for a minute you'll warm up the heating system very fast.)
As far as I know, Tensor cores are a little like Raytracing cores. Precision, unlike for mining or science, is not valued and they are allowed to do sloppy math within a tolerance in exchange for much, much greater speed.

> With that name, it could have been based off of a single pre-training on many games, to work on games in general

Well, I’m not NVIDIA, so I don’t know if you could. I just know AMD tried and the results were almost universally considered inferior.
https://archive.is/Yvx3L
Going forward, hopefully modern software will use the modern approach of AF_UNIX sockets in Windows 10 and above: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/af_unix-comes-to-...

EDIT:
And it would be interesting for someone to reproduce a benchmark like this on Windows to compare TCP loopback and the new(ish) unix socket support.
> Another example is Desantis removing elected prosecutors who oppose the police/fascist agenda.

The desire and laws written to do this sort of thing come from lobbying organizations like ALEC [0][1][2]. This and other similar organizations basically write "model laws" and hand them to legislators to pass. That's why all the "red" states suddenly decided to outlaw trans people at the same time.

They dodge lobbying oversight laws by having legislators become "members" of their club.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_...

1 - https://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed

2 - https://www.commoncause.org/our-work/money-influence/alec/
Asking for support is definitely NOT advertisement.
At least some US services are working in that direction.
A couple of years after this article came out Windows added support for SOCK_STREM Unix sockets.
Odd choice to have such a small example and then redact most it. How am I supposed to know whether this is useful or not?
windows is exactly the reason they didn't prevail imo. Windows named pipes have weird security caveats and are not really supported in high level languages. I think this lead everyone to just using loopback TCP as the portable IPC communication API instead of going with unix sockets.
You can use Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility: https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

The Tweaks section has a checkbox for removing Edge. I removed mine using that.
Someone wrote a raytracer in a MySQL query, so yes: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=83222
The market underestimates the impact of environmental risk on sovereign bonds
We could decouple transformers to stop them from being destroyed. Wiring is easy to repair, it's the transformers that are vulnerable.
..after the success of flexible arrangements during the pandemic, attendance is still entrenched as a core metric.

This is an assumption. The article starts from the premise that WFH is a success. While some companies and their employees may have had success with WFH, others did not find that success. I think a better analysis should be why are some WFH situations working, and others are not?
A lot of people probably underestimate how much a house costs even if you ignore mortgage (or have paid it off). It varies of course but I figure it's a good $1,000/month and that probably understates various infrequent but expensive maintenance items.
> Can you, or anyone else for that matter, explain to me why this is better than commercial interests not following us around at all?

Because people prefer free, ad supported content on the internet.

Once you accept that premise, then it's a matter of balancing privacy, volume of ads, and payments to creators (ad tech companies are going to get theirs). Do you think the majority of people would prefer fewer, better targeted / higher yielding ads as long as it is tracking them anonymously? Or more ads, with worse targeting? Or neither and less payments to creators?
Lol ok so now you finally admit that he was moved into Air Force one and also moved into a bunker as OP stated. You're entire dispute is based on if he was hustled onto the plane and into a bunker, and to refute that, you remind us he read a book for 15 minutes.

Here's a sanity check for your genius self. Is it possible, that BECAUSE he sat there longer not moving, that when he finally got out of the classroom, there actually was a hustle to get him onto the plane at a faster pace than usual? Obviously there would be.

You make me lose faith in this forum.
If people already voluntarily live in Phoenix, climate change will be manageable for most in the US.
I don't understand what you want. If you've already read all that before, what else do you want to know? Why not post it yourself?
Firefox has a homescreen widget with a search bar. My web view browser is also Firefox. My phone isn't Pixel though.
I think you might exaggerate the number of Christians that support Israel because it will hasten the end times. I'm sure they exist, but it is still illogical to think they can hasten or delay something that is inscribed into the stone of destiny. They have in addition in that case cherrypicked quotes from the bible, in particular ignoring the numerous passages where Jesus warns against predicting the end times as he will "come like a thief in the night" i.e. without a heads up.

Fundamentalists should at least stick to the literal scripture, but I'm not sure they will listen.
Wow, you are spinning this as a universal good? "Leveling the playing field." Ridiculous. Nothing to see here folks, move on, Google is protecting you.
I hate the tile, the real process is "carbon sequestration" instead of "carbon dioxide storage". Storing carbon dioxide is extremely hard, but sequestering some carbon as many organic stuff if easy.

Some farming methods like "not plowing" are apparently good for farming (in some cases) and for carbon sequestration (in some cases) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-till_farming It's discussed in the article, but apparently the stored carbon if the farmer go back to traditional farming. I'm not sure how long does it take to undo the storage effect, it may be many years.
Probably not, at least in the US. Life expectancy is falling.
Both ROC and PRC are claiming mainland China and Taiwan as their exclusive territory. You can't acknowledge either claim without essentially dismissing the other in its entirety (which is just a polite way of speaking of war). At the same time, neither party can acknowledge the other side, because of this. Any attempt to resolve this by means of a regress will result in an infinite circle. Hence, everybody is tiptoeing on hot coals…

(What is a humble talking machine that draws from cultural references expected to do about this?)
I stopped using Chrome two years ago. I deleted the Facebook app. I have blockers on my desktop and iPhone. I’m aware everyone’s PI info is already compromised, but I’m not adding fuel.

There are excellent alternatives to Chrome. I encourage everyone to adopt one.
This method fails with aluminum baking sheets and other cookware.
Property taxes are built in to rents and then some.

My property tax is considered “extremely high” at $4500 a year.

Rent for $4500 a year is like a closet, even in a cheap place.
It really depends on game genre I think. For the types of games I play (slower stuff — solo RPGs/exploration, turn-based, etc), extra frames are nice but really don’t add a whole lot and I’d prefer to be able to ramp up resolution or effects instead. For these games as long as I’m hitting a consistent 60FPS I’m good.

For more twitchy competitive stuff I can see the need for FPS but that’s just a single corner of gaming.
Buying a house isn't necessary to have a sustainable life. The costs associated with homeownership can be comparable to renting, and you can do just as well by investing in the stock market as you would investing in owning property (you can even invest in real estate on the stock market).
Building Elegant REST APIs
If we just tortured all 354,000, all would have survived.
> high growth world, populations are falling.

Apart from some countries with curious and massive drops in fertility coupled with low or no immigratoin, are there any signs that global population is falling rapidly? If anything it seems it's entering a pretty stagnant phase (for example in the US). Of course stagnation might still mean an aging population, which is a problem in some cases especially when it comes to pension systems, but it doesn't magically make the economy stop growing. GDP growth isn't merely population growth.
I hacked DEFCON – from 2023's winner
I interviewed the winner of 2023's DEFCON about his win, hacking AI and more
see? corporations really are like people.

companies just don’t like feeling that loss of control over “their” employees.

so… like the worst kind of people. but still people!
I think we should recognize that most choices are not between bread and cake.

They are between bread and going hungry.

I am not certain AI voiced audio books are better than nothing, but that's the way I'd bet. YMMV.
Your false dichotomy is disingenuous, a distraction/derailment to the discourse, and does not engage in addressing the issue of a person wanting to pay the developer yet having no privacy-respecting way to do so.
Please revisit site guidelines on "snark".
Refcounting is also just (dumb and slow) garbage collection though.
Typically nukes don't start flying out of nowhere. There's a chain of escalations that leads up to their first strike use.
Maybe they had engineering leadership mandates where creating new feature flags was more paperwork?

I've seen that happen, where 'new' features took a lot of justification, but 'bugfixes' were free.
Due to various restrictions, React TV Player is not intended to work properly on smaller mobile devices. You can use a desktop browser with arrow-keys to simulate the TV experience.
This is my schizo catastrophizing:

No one working, everyone consuming, so we get either high inflation or high debt. If high inflation, old people need a strong welfare state or they die, so we get high debt. Young people need to pay for the debt of their elders, so high taxes. Productivity plummets because taxes are high and tax revenue decreases. Life gets worse for everyone.

One escape is that we have to drastically increase the retirement age. Getting rid of a welfare state wouldn't help, because they would still be consuming without being productive. Another solution is that we kill all old people. Another possibility is that innovation allows us to make investments that drastically increase productivity, but that's not guaranteed either.

As the problem gets worse, I think we will see this play out in formerly wealthy European countries and Asia, as their aging populations are further ahead than the US. Great opportunity for the US and third world countries to seize economic power from these places though.
Anyone know of a dishwasher with serviceable sprayers?
The one I have now the sprayers are single piece and cleaning them out is a real task. One of them I ended up splitting open and have modified with threaded inserts to be able to reassemble it.
Yeah, sorry, I was hastily looking for a tutorial. But I got "c++-ts-mode" working for me now, see my other comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37466899

I am still not a competent C++ programmer but this is how your basic tree sitter C++ mode is supposed too look with "C-h m":

Minor modes enabled in this buffer: Auto-Save Flycheck Flyspell
Font-Lock Yas

The major mode is C++// mode defined in c-ts-mode.el:

Major mode for editing C++, powered by tree-sitter.

This mode is independent from the classic cc-mode.el based
‘c++-mode’, so configuration variables of that mode, like
‘c-basic-offset’, don’t affect this mode.

To use tree-sitter C/C++ modes by default, evaluate

(add-to-list 'major-mode-remap-alist '(c-mode . c-ts-mode))
(add-to-list 'major-mode-remap-alist '(c++-mode . c++-ts-mode))
(add-to-list 'major-mode-remap-alist
'(c-or-c++-mode . c-or-c++-ts-mode))
http://archive.today/fovAn