skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds very similar to the complexity increase described in The Mythical Man Month.

The author describes how the complexity increases as a system expands in a greater than linear, and expected, fashion. So, a simple script might cost one. Adding configuration costs 3. A framework for solving similar problems might cost 9, and a platform for frameworks probably costs an unexpected large amount, like 27.

I've mostly seen this pop-up along with Xeno's paradox. A rewrite of a legacy system is undertaken and the planners completely discount all the blood, sweat, and tears that went into the original. Every problem is considered "solved" and using newer tech is seen as a silver bullet. The cost is severely underestimated and the effort is way beyond initial estimates.
I have settled for Thunderclient vscode extension. Realy nice...
Epic lays off about 900 people
I am dreadfully curious what use cases you're envisioning where a fast, bad/wrong answer is better for anything than a correct, slower answer.

Almost anything related to software development. Any answer I get online, whether from Wikipedia or a Github search or a Stack Overflow question or anywhere else, will require careful study and adaptation before I can use it. There will inevitably be things about any given solution that don't apply to whatever I'm doing, or that will be out-and-out wrong. But does that mean I'd be better off without doing a search at all? Of course not.

Same with AI. It can point me in the right direction and save me a lot of trouble, but it can't (yet) do my job for me.

When it gets 10x better -- and I'm sure it will -- then that last part can be expected to change. Which is awesome.

Meanwhile, Stack Overflow and Wikipedia and Github aren't going to get 10x better, ever. Not without cross-pollinating with AI.
It's a shame you didn't learn about the teleological fallacy in your philosophy classes when you attended university.
The paper got published in Physical Review Letters in 2020:

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...

It advances scientific knowledge by providing a testable prediction. The prediction can be used to collect data and determine whether there indeed is a black hole orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune.
Fortran has .and. and .or. for logical operators, which is pretty easy to remember.

& seems pretty obvious, of course they couldn’t have known at the time that logical operations should probably be given priority over bitwise ones.

| is an odd symbol. They don’t really justify it in the stack overflow answer, just mention where it came from.

Unix pipe, conditional probability, and or. I guess a vertical line is naturally going to be very popular though.
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To be frank, a large portion of the US West is utterly devoid of population. The largest city in SD is ~300k in MSA, and the largest city in WY is ~100k. Trying to make a route to Sioux Falls, SD pretty much means skipping both Minneapolis (3.7M) and Des Moines (700k), while going to Cheyenne, WY means skipping Denver (~3M).

The largest cities not served by Amtrak are Phoenix (although it is indirectly served via Maricopa), San Francisco (though indirectly served via Oakland), Las Vegas, Columbus, Tulsa, Honolulu, and oh look we're out of 1M+ MSAs.
What OP likely intended is that our Western axioms, such as considering human life as the most important value, may be arbitrary because there are other cultures where it holds a lower position in the hierarchy of values.

In Western cultures, the belief in the intrinsic value and sanctity of human life is often considered a foundational and self-evident moral principle. It underlies many ethical and legal frameworks, including principles related to human rights, the value of individual lives, and the importance of protecting life.

An axiom, in this context, is a fundamental and self-evident belief or principle that serves as a basis for other beliefs and actions within a particular culture or belief system.
I don't know how you figure that. Up until the last 10 years, when someone said "I literally (did $thing)" it was a statement that they actually did whatever it was, regardless of how unlikely it might seem. That is the polar opposite of how people (especially the kids, who should get off my lawn) use it today. It is a misuse of language, plain and simple.
I would have used it in its current state, even if it was worse if they did not resort to shitty business decisions. They directly stole titles away from me that I was playing on linux through steam. They can crash and burn for all I care now.
I had access to this a few months back due to an insecure API endpoint by the name of “rainbow”. It was extremely useful until they noticed and shut it down. This was before GPT-4 itself was released to the public.
I'm fine with it, but that also clearly violates net neutrality, so it doesn't seem to be the law here.
Checked bags, carry-on bags, and meals used to be free, and they are all now not free.

There are budget airlines outside the US that are charging for water (which I think is unethical IMO, since people avoiding drinking water could lead to an increase in medical emergencies).
Most companies are this. If you look into detail at the vast majority of successful companies, there is a single product or service that makes the vast majority of their money and it was a combination of hard work, right timing, luck, 6 other things and it's not repeatable.

Frank Slootman (CEO of several public companies, now Snowflake) talks about this in his book. He basically says "don't try to build new products, you aren't going to catch lightning in a bottle twice". There are a few great counter examples, (amazon with AWS being the most obvious) but not many.
Newbies probably value it as it’s a feature newbies use. Newbies are people too. (Disclaimer: I’m a EDA newbie myself, so I value it)
Crypto remains utter gibberish. There are no fundamentals. Supply and demand are both pure imagination. It exists in a market of pure herd mentality. It was created as currency and never as an investment asset. Any gains or losses in value are purely coincidental.
There has been a lot of debate in the aviation maintenance community regarding the legality of attaching gopros etc. to aircraft with suction cups. Someone eventually wrote to the FAA chief counsel and asked.

"Another consideration, in the case of this type of equipment, is the applicability of the term "alteration". FAA Order 8110.3 7E, defines an alteration as "a modification of an aircraft from one sound state to another sound state". The use of suction cups, or other temporary methods of attachment (not including permanent mechanical attachments to the aircraft), would not be considered a modification to the aircraft."

https://mypilotpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/FAA-Camera...

But still, the aircraft is the the airline's property, not yours. If they tell you not do something to it, you don't get a choice in the matter.
Even gnostics have problems they have to solve in their day to day lives, and the only way to solve them is by creating knowledge.

Appeals to the supernatural or dogma are bad explanations, and they should be criticised and improved upon. They are bad explanations because they are not hard to vary, and can be easily modified or replaced by any other supernatural or dogmatic entity or force without affecting the phenomenon they are supposed to explain. They are essentially arbitrary and unfalsifiable assertions that do not increase our understanding of reality.

Also note, you never get rid of problems, there are always more. New knowledge creates new and better problems. Running out of problems would itself be a problem.
That's an inadequate description
Red Dead Redemption 2 (5 years old at this point) has natural hair growth, barber shops, hygiene, body shapes that change based on diet, plus a host of other time-oriented realistic simulation. [1][2]

It's just a matter of time before this stuff is incorporated into what we're seeing here.

[1] https://screenrant.com/rdr2-hair-growth-length-time-tonic-sp...

[2] https://www.watchmojo.com/articles/10-most-realistic-feature...
Ask HN: What is the best place to find cofounders for a startup?
I've been looking for a new contract/client for the past three months, to no avail. The market seems to have really dried up compared to the last several years.

I'd love to co-found a startup, but have had trouble in the past finding a co-founder. I don't have any previous co-workers who want to start one right now, so I'm looking for other options (i.e. a website / etc).

I'm also open to offering my services (backend mostly, Ruby on Rails) to a startup for mostly stock + a small stipend of $1,000 a month until further rounds of funding have been raised. Not sure if that's a viable idea or not.
A tipping point seems to have been reached in Antartica, with Antartica Sea Ice Cover :

https://earth.gsfc.nasa.gov/cryo/data/current-state-sea-ice-...

Some skeptics says it's maybe an outlier and we need at least 2 years to confirm the start of a new trend...
I must not be getting it.

"how does a person acquire his or her culture? You don’t get it by taking a pill. You acquire your culture by observing a rather limited number of behaviors and actions, and from those, constructing, somehow, in your mind, the set of attitudes and beliefs that constitutes culture."

If you grew up in a different culture, you would have different attitudes and beliefs.

That's...moral relativism, as far as I understand it. What am I missing?
Look for trends, take with a grain of salt. In my experience if you see a clear trend of similar red flags in negative reviews then it's probably at least somewhat accurate.
Ask HN: What Is a [Delayed] Comment?
I came across this comment that showed as [delayed] and I was wondering if anyone is familiar with this HN feature/behavior ?

https://i.imgur.com/0hM12K3.jpg
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That's an important point that obmacare is too expensive for non-wealthy people and we should change that. For the reasonably well off programmer types like a lot of us, I saw it as a thing i could afford in the transition time before 65. Several people in my family worked until 63.5 and then had cobra. If I retire a few years before that I see obamacare as the main reasonable solution. My state has a healthcare plan separate from that, wonder how I could make a decision. I'm fortunate but there must be tens of millions of people in their 50s and 60s looking for a job and health care.
This is standard for economic conditions. When there's a lot of easy to come by money (loans) there's a lot of disposable income and excessive employment. As soon as the money supply tightens (or in this case year on year the money in the economy goes negative), businesses trim the fat and get conservative about only keeping people creating value/profits. Which is why unemployment figures lag in a collapsing economy.
Thought I was going a little crazy there. I can see it started just over an hour ago.
Ask HN: Why AA Inflight WiFi network stuck into my phone forever?
So, a few years ago I took an American Airlines flight. I used their Wifi service connecting their plane wifi network called “AA Inflight”. All good.

But something weird keep happening since then, all these years later.

Every single time I have to connect to a new wifi network that requires password, after I select the name of the new network in my phone and before I enter the password, the selected network has sneakily changed to “AA Inflight”.

A few additional info:

- I did the action to “forget” AA inflight network several times.

- The AA network does not even show up in the list of available networks when I am selecting.

- It only happens with new networks that I never connected to before.

- After the sneak change to AA, if I cancel the password entering and go back to reselect the network that I wanted to, it works fine. I stay in the correct network.

- I only used the AA network once in my life.

- My phone is an iPhone SE 2nd generation.

So, any ideas why AA inflight network infected my phone as a malware?
Definitely not GPT-style, but there are quite a few examples of ML/AI integration with EDA. For example:

Startup looking at a post-layout DFM check workflow:
https://cadstrom.io/

Cadence is probably the biggest EDA company talking about ML/AI in the PCB space (that I've noticed) with their recently announced "Allegro X" stuff. The videos are mostly marketing fluff, but they seem to be on track with what I'd expect for "AI assisted PCB design".
https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/tools/pcb-design-and-anal...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlWfSQq0NkA

They also have a neat machine-learning optimization tool for their electronics simulations:
https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/tools/system-analysis/opt...

On the chip-design side of EDA, both Cadence and Synopsys have a bunch of AI-assisted tools that supposedly are being used right now. I'm not as familiar with that stuff so I prefer to read the humorous Deep Chip summaries:
http://www.deepchip.com/items/0593-08.html

And lastly, there's some recently published and soon-to-be-published work showing that there's potential to speed up electromagnetic simulations with neural nets. It's all just proof-of-concept for now, but I'm hoping this proves that ML/AI can be can be integrated in a useful manner in commercial electromagnetic solvers :)
https://shielddigitaldesign.com/posts/2022/ml-replace-field-...
https://shielddigitaldesign.com/posts/2023/s-param-from-via/
Are they going to keep running free though? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/business/ftx-sam-bankman-...
> Is there a source for that narrative?

Rust's types evolved over many years. Rust used to have "typestate" for example. I had discussions with Graydon Hoare around 2011-ish about session types (which are linear). It struck me that Hoare knew exactly what I meant with the term. More generally, linear typing was just "in the air" in the early 2000s: you could not been serious in programming language design without being aware of linearity. Linearity was all over the research literature. Hoare was clearly very knowledgable in programming language research.
I'm the reporter of these (and other) issues and the author of the vuln repository this article links to.

While I appreciate your response, the accuracy of the timeline your provided (Wednesday's email was about documentation), and your comment that "[w]e do want to handle these kinds of reports better", I can't help but point out that even today, Bluesky still hasn't reached out to me about the specifics of these (and other...) vulnerabilities. Bryan Newbold did email me a week after this disclosure to answer a few questions, but it didn't address the vulnerabilities at all; I like Bryan -- the few discussions we've had have been positive -- but he isn't the person that should have emailed me.

Sidenode, https://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3k7frqmvhft2b sure did seem personal. The timing suggests that it was made solely to mock the situation. (To be clear, I like and respect @retr0.id a lot; I've bounced some of my ideas off of him and he's the "second security researcher" I referred to in the vuln respository.)

This whole thing has put an extremely bad taste in my mouth.
> I wouldn't recommend giving your hard earned money to people in an unregulated market.

I'd extend it to regulated as well. As soon as we're deprived of the ability to own usable cash - we'll be left with mere illusion of ownership.

CBDC is the final step to modern slavery.
Sad for those being laid off.

I wonder if the slow down in Fortnite is a reflection of the economy or growing lack of interest in the game.
If this is a tipping point, then the way things charted in the past don't really matter...
>remote work means hardly working

If the only way an employer can tell if their employees are working is by forcing people back to the office, the company has bigger problems that employees not working.
That's really the killer feature for you?

I do have the advantage of one lab back in college where a pro spent 90 minutes instructing a bunch of teenagers how to prepare Gerbers for a class project through Advanced Circuits, but beyond that I've had no problems sending files to OSH Park, JLC, PCBWay, Sunstone, or Advanced Circuits whether they were generated in Eagle, Kicad, or Altium.

Even at the low-margin providers like JLC and PCBway they still have a human look over your gerbers (and most provide web viewers for you to see what you've uploaded in those files) to make sure you're not going to order the inverse of your board, or make all your vias unplated, or swap your copper and silkscreen layers, or anything goofy like that. If you do screw up the design, that's on you and the tools won't help, but prices are dirt cheap and turnaround times are screaming fast these days, so it shouldn't be too bad.

I don't understand why newcomers find plotting to gerbers so intimidating.
LizardByte/Sunshine: Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight
Fun fact, I used to work across from their office for Winklevoss Capital Management in manhattan circa 2016, roughly at floor parity down on 24th, so I'd see a couple Winklevi running around from time to time over there.

Totally not relevant to anything here so I understand if this gets downvoted, but fun anecdote.
A rogue marketer at a former company spent weeks with Zapier "trying to improve analytics". They went way too far to the point of saying, "I almost re-built Segment with Zapier".

Needless to say the Rube Goldberg machine of Zaps was impossible to debug and all the data and metrics ended up being wrong for the whole quarter.

We ripped it all out and had to start fresh.
In an ideal world, of course, symmetric operators would have symmetric symbols, non-symmetric operators asymmetric symbols ... and antisymmetric operators what kinds of symbols?
> However, do keep in mind that even authoritative sources found during your own research may be inaccurate. And for some questions, which answer is "right" or "wrong" may not be black and white.

I mean, sure. But again: that's just my point restated. What is this doing that a standard search engine does not?

Like, I put shit in my phone's calendar and set reminders so that I don't to think about it anymore. That is a cognitive load (remembering my dentist appointment) that I have now offloaded to technology. And that's useful as all hell, which is why my phone's calendar is full to the tits of everything one would put in a calendar. Now I don't need to think about it. I get messages from my phone when events are coming up, and I get a literal calendar on my screen when I want it, showing me all these things with perfect accuracy.

What is BingGPT in this scenario offloading? It's just a search engine but slower. It doesn't understand what good software is, so it can't make value based judgements on which to recommend. It doesn't know what reliable sources are, and can't evaluate for them, so every bit of information you get back must be treated with a grain of salt. It (probably) doesn't even remotely conceive of why you are asking it a thing or what a good answer to that query would look like because it doesn't know you, it just knows a massive, incomprehensible amount of averages about a ton of things that might be what you want.

And like, that's fine, search engines have had these limitations for my entire life. That's why I'm saying, I don't understand why this is better. It's the same thing as Bing, but slower, and in a chat box.
There are Cirrus Runners which is a service of managed GitHub Actions Runners powered by M2 chips. But there is no free option for OSS yet. https://tart.run/integrations/github-actions
>How many times have you asked a co-worker about something and they gave you a convincing answer that was totally wrong?

Never actually. My coworkers have never told me something with confidence that they just made up. If they don't know an answer, they may provide hints and directions, but it will be clear they don't know.
You can sleep and read a book during these 17 hours, though.
Those max tokens seem pretty low
#1 lesson is "don't be distracted by cool figures." The actual important stats are just numbers, or a list of strings, or an iso timestamp, etc.

I regularly tell customers "Open up this JSON, hit control f and search for the stats that you need." And they're like "Thank you, you just saved me 50000 hour of work."
If anything, crypto has shown us just how important regulation actually is.
Zuckerberg said that he wished that it will be a 3 to 5 minute process to scan your face.

When they achieve that, it will be quick and simple to update your scan.

The people that keep an old scan at that point are the same people that also keep an old photo as their profile picture anyways, and it’s often not due to the technology.

Some are too lazy to update profile pictures no matter how simple it is. Some people don’t know how to do it no matter how simple, but that’s more rare. And some people purposely choose to keep an old photo because they want to be seen the way that they once were rather than the way that they are now.

Me for one, I will keep my 3d scan up to date every now and then. Say, every few months or so. Just like how I currently update my profile picture every few months on platforms that I actively use. (For example, I’ve been at my current company for about a year now, and in that time I’ve changed my Slack and company GitLab profile pics one time – from the picture I chose when I joined, to a new up to date photo).

Anyway. I am sure that if people stick to old scans, the Metaverse companies will eventually counter that by virtually “aging” the scanned models that people use. So that even if you don’t change your scanned model, the Metaverses will add grey hairs, wrinkles, etc to it over time.
maybe one day you'll realize thats also why you "don't trust crypto people"

in the late 90s most broad media references to "computers" were about the viruses and things that went wrong, those newly introduced problems didn't go away and only have increased in frequency and amplitude, we just choose not to make international headlines about them anymore and talk more about what's being developed and working as intended
A product that has been listed for 1 or 2 years, that's highly ranked in sales, with a ton of reviews all over the spectrum, is genuinely and legitimately popular. End of story.

I don't care if they got 100 fake reviews via 100 fake purchases at first. If you're a human with a reasonably functioning BS detector, you can figure it out. It's not exactly rocket science.
Don't you always pull out before a grift dies? That's just smart not-business.

How is this news?
Google Jamboard Getting Deprecated
They also made the same joke in the interview itself
It's been a long while since I've designed PCB, but doesn't auto-routing provide a good starting point that the designer can refine? I remember it reducing a lot of grunt work.
because of the display and low power use, I'd pay somewhere between 75 and $100 for one of them in a plastic case with some easy power supply/connection like maybe a usb plug-in port?

It's such a cool display and keyboard. Another cool thing (that I'd pay for!) is to attach that to a rasberry pi.
Lex Fridman has also done original research on robotics and computer vision detection of facial expressions. Here is one of his papers; there are several others on related areas.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8751968/
It's not a range test demo. It's a real conversation with real people who aren't prone to melodrama.

As mentioned in the video by Lex, it's the subtleties that make all the difference. I'm astonished with the accuracy of the blinking, mouth movements, subtle cheek variations, etc. It seems more accurate than the realtime feed from my webcam. The only thing I wouldn't like about it is having to wear a headset in order to experience it.