skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ECH only makes network-level monitoring harder. Monitoring on the endpoint is still just as easy.
The C3 RISC v seems to lead the xtensa architecture.
We do not experience the universe through our consciousness. We cannot comprehend the universe through consciousness. Consciousness is a subset of the universe.
Which countries? Where I live, in the US, if you want to make a callback to a police detective, you have to call 911 and ask to be transfered. It's clearly not an emergency, and the detective will tell you to do it. This police department doesn't have a phone system that allows the public to call a non-emergency number and have their calls routed.

But most places I've lived in the US had a non-emergency police number, and non-emergency 911 calls were very discouraged. If you have a good reason to make them for network or device testing, you'd just need to schedule a time to make a test call, stay on the line and tell the operator, etc.

Device development would be well served by using a tower simulator in a Faraday cage, as a sibling suggested. But a responsible developer would do a few tests on live networks during release acceptance testing.
Infrastructure and devops becomes more abstracted with every new word salad.
I love forests, any sort, but reforestation the right way, as Terra seems to support, takes more time than some are saying we have. The wrong way becomes the right way when it is all you have time for. Iron fertilization of oceans is promising for albedo already, if we can efficiently synthesize these terpenes in the right ratio to seed clouds perhaps that would buy some time.
A judge calls this evidence from DOJ vs. Google an embarrassing exhibit?
My point exactly. Since it's the ODBC Data Source selection dialog, I think the actual users of it would be old enough to work with Win3.x/WinNT 3.x back when it was new, so maybe it counts both as penny-saving and a fan service for the greybeards?

On the other hand, how many kinds of first-party file copy dialogs and file open dialogs do you need? :-)
I have twenty years of programming experience and LLMs give me a significant productivity boost for programming on a daily basis: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Sep/29/llms-podcast/#code-int...
Two years' notice is more of an Apple-like deprecation timeline.
Azure is cheaper than GCP considerably for my usecases
> many phenomena that can’t be inferred from the goings-on at the microscopic level, it is nonetheless a real, emergent feature of the macroscopic world. He offered the physics of gases as a parallel example. At the micro level, one talks of atoms, molecules and forces; at the macro level, one speaks of pressure, volume and temperature. These are two kinds of explanations, depending on the “level” being studied

Putting aside the issue of consciousness for a moment, this is actually a great insight

I wonder if something like this should be applied in physics/astronomy to solve the whole dark matter issue

At a “micro level”, we can talk about planets, stars and gravity, but maybe at a “macro level”, those concepts stop being useful to describe the behavior of the universe, and different models might be needed
LLMs are broadly good at things that average knowledge workers are good at or can be trained to be good at reasonably quickly.
What is your definition of challenging? There are multiple other search engines that make up your admitted <10% share. That sounds like challenging to me. Your definition must be closer to neck-to-neck competing which is unrealistic expectations
If you write that list of countries and the regions they claim, wouldn’t Ukraine(Donbas) change into Russia(Donbas)?

This is just short sighted regardless of that, that agreement in context is unfair to the people of Kosovo.
Speaking of naive and dumb…
Humane reveals first AI device – the AI Pin – at Coperni’s Paris fashion show
I bet early search engines had similar or even better figures under similar conditions.

I suppose this because I recall how much search improved my productivity over flipping through books and I know how for certain tasks ChatGPT is a better source of knowledge on how to do it than search. While often the GPT output isn’t entirely correct, more often than not it suffices to make the correct solution obvious thus saving a lot of time.
It's still highly controversial.

Effects don't last that long (long enough though to get someone out of debilitating depression or mania and time for proper treatment) and need repeated courses to sustain.

There are still issues with memory, where one looses maybe a few days, but also could loose years.
And from my reading and experience, diatomaceous earth is completely effective, unlike many chemicals.
Why not ask them for the war chest money, and decide on your renewables allocation yourself? This whole “we're green now” approach is a very transparent plan of the management to remain in control of the “war chest”.
That's true for many things we as humans can become accustomed to. But what exactly is the (hopefully quantifiable) improvement here? Otherwise, it's just a style option of preference.
More like the right to suppress history.
I bet there's folk tales that parallel it with angry forest spirits, too. Explaining the unknown with anthropomorphization.
> impossible to know anything about a universe that doesn’t include our perception of it

The optimistic take for me is that this is a fundamental feature of the Universe.
> Your "simple solution" misses the point of the article which is to have the compiler automatically generating the serialized string representation of the enum without a human programmer having to manually code the switch case statements or array lookups and also avoid manually keep the enum & array in sync.

I agree, in some cases automatic generation might save you some typing.

It might be also painful to maintain, as changing a string requires to change a corresponding enum everywhere in the code.
But with one crucial difference: it's a junior programmer that can make changes based on your feedback in a few seconds, not a few hours. And it never gets tired or frustrated.

I find treating it like an intern is amazing productive: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Sep/29/llms-podcast/#code-int...
The region has been unstable for centuries. Instability in the Balkans sparked World War I! NATO bombings may not have helped matters, but you make it sound like everything would have been calm and happy there if NATO had just stayed out of it.
I know that here on HN we're supposed to just upvote things instead of writing comments like "this is amazing" but this is so amazing it deserves more than just an upvote.

So cool - can't wait to start using this!
It's a fair point and I won't argue it uses a lot of energy.

In fairness, by some accounts (I can't personally attest to their accuracy) more than 50% of that is already from renewables, eg. https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/renewable-energy-sources-tha...

I do know from experience there are mining outfits that have located themselves where the energy was going to waste anyway.

But it doesn't excuse the huge use of power, and I wouldn't be surprised if over the long term a more efficient algorithm like proof-of-stake displaces proof-of-work. It's basic physics once you can do the same thing for less energy, and technologies more efficient than their predecessors tend to win out.

If by that time there's a popular proof-of-whatever coin with a similar focus, lean feature set and works-as-expected usability as Bitcoin I would definitely consider switching to it!

Edit: To be clear I share your admiration for Ethereum migrating to proof-of-work, my concerns and contrasts in the earlier post are more around protocol bloat and client software user-experience.
I don’t think “prefers” is the right framing, insofar as I don’t know of anyone who prefers writing in an esoteric language for everyday purposes. But it’s an interesting deconstruction of some familiar music.
At least they're not trying to upsell you on MSSQL as a blatant slap in the face, rather they're just pulling the rug out from underneath you. Must be a profit sharing arrangement with Oracle trying to drive people back to MySQL.
It’s insane that people think producing pop music is easy. Competing on the pop music market is a cutthroat business with a lot of competition and the good ones get their price back in gold.

When Scorpions wanted to be resurrected they hired Desmond Child to produce them and he absolutely crushed. These people are very good at what they do and there are very few of them.
Ecosystem fragmentation is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to rapid development through competition. Different L2s are competing against each other to provide the best service and that has lead to a cambrian explosion of solutions. It's also a very effective way to explore the solution space, I'm sure many will disappear, others will get eaten, and at some point there will be consolidation. But all this seems like a good approach early on when tackling complex problems for which the ideal trade-offs are not entirely obvious. Explore as much of the solution space as possible and trim later on.

A perhaps more pernicious problem is liquidity fragmentation. Moving assets between L2s is a tedious friction that leads to fragmentation of liquidity. In that respect, zero-knowledge rollups present a big advantage as you can share liquidity between them as long as they share some zk-circuits that allow to prove statements to both chains. All this is being very actively worked on. And the technology behind it is short of fascinating. The typical HN audience would have a huge hard-on for it, if they didn't have such a strong preconception against crypto-anything.

If anyone is curious to learn more about L2s a good starting point is here: https://l2beat.com/

And if you want to see Ethereum scaling progress you can check it here: https://l2beat.com/scaling/activity

The next major upgrade to the protocol, slated for late this year or early 2024 (date is not finalized yet), will focus on scalability by making L2 activity veeery cheap.
It does seem to grind poor or poor-adjacent people faster and more finely still.
> She isn't "forced not to". Google is forced not to.

> I'm not sure why you can't see the difference here.

Indeed. This is a poor analogy, but it seems kind of like the difference between

1. Aunt Becky is allowed to keep a diary with lies about you

2. Aunt Becky is allowed to show those lies about you to Susan

3. Aunt Becky is allowed to take out a newspaper add sharing those lies about you, in every newspaper in the world, for the rest of time

There's a gap between 1 and 2 where you can make an argument. There's a HUGE gap between 2 and 3.
I haven't used ChatGPT or others, but Bard seems to answer within 1-2s in my experience. Your point remains, but are most LLMs really much slower than Bard?
> Our community has persistent and pervasive problems of a particular sort which we are not allowed to talk about: sexual harassment and assault. Men who assault, harass, and even rape women in our spaces, are protected.

This is completely alien to my personal experience. Does this match anyone else's personal experience? Have I just avoided all the objectionable events by sheer luck?

If this statement is true, I would have expected to have observed at least some harassment or mild assault by now, but I haven't. I can't think of an instance. I mean, one time I saw some guy grab some girl's ass, but it turned out she was his wife.

> I attended a hacker event this year – HiP Berlin – where I discovered that some of the organizers had cooperated to make it possible for multiple known rapists to participate, working together to find a way to circumvent the event’s code of conduct – a document that they were tasked with enforcing.

This is just kind of strange. It's not clear what he means by "circumvent" the code of conduct. Is he saying that they were rapists in the opinions of the organizers? And that if they were rapists in the opinions of the organizers then they should have barred them from the event, but they didn't?

I would assume that the most likely situation is that something happened which Drew thinks means the people in question are "known rapists" but the event organizers did not. And not knowing the facts, we can't really say which of them is right.

I mean, unless I'm supposed to just believe that Drew is right because he's speaking up about a difficult topic or something like that. At the risk of potentially silencing marginalized people with extraordinary standards of evidence: no, I won't just believe him.
"Lead" in what way? Is a single-core 160MHz C3 (RISC-V) actually faster than the dual core 240MHz ESP-S3 (Xtensa)?

I like the idea of using a more standard architecture, which should have better toolchain support. The C3 “leads” in that aspect. So, I would probably choose the C3 in most cases... but depending on the specific application, the Xtensa cores still seem to have advantages for now.
It really depends. Some people would consider it “outdated and inaccurate” to report they were arrested for some crime - even if that’s true. Should such articles be scrubbed from Google if they are causing harm? Removed from newspaper archives too?
What's missing is that they've exhibited monopolistic behavior toward their "supply" side (advertisers) as well. "Tear the economics textbook in half" is a weird way to say "follow exactly what the book says regarding monopolies".
Yeah, apparently stimulants for adhd also make some permanent changes to personality, generally in the direction desired by those choosing to take them. The question brought up is if now as then, the pressures of society bias that choice to coerce confirmity.
Chock that up as a win for the “trust and safety” people!
This is definitely going to be used in ways legislators haven't(?) intended.
"Short-termism seems to be an unavoidable condition when markets demand higher efficiencies."

That's not a market failure, but poorly chosen bonus / reward structure (from society's point of view).

What if the bulk of CEO / board members' salaries & bonusses where structured as company share value, cashable no earlier than say, 20y from now? 'Pocket money' now for living expenses, a rich pension later if company does well long term.

That would surely change the incentives. As opposed to "add short-term share value, cash cheque, jump ship" as seems usual for CEOs these days.

Also it depends on whether Shell defines itself as oil company, or energy company. "Oil company"? Ok. No need to expect much from them concerning the energy transition. 1.5% of overall expenditure didn't match with "Shell continues its path as a leader in the energy transition" anyway.

Personally I think oil companies have a shrinking time window in which they'll continue to be profitable. After which market conditions & politics have changed, assets will be restructured, and (mostly small) shareholders + society at large will be left holding the bag. If you happen to be one of them: get out before the big boys do! Your funds are better used elsewhere.
Take a look at Tom Campbell's current iteration of the double slit. (I am loosely/poorly summarizing). He's predicting that you'll get wave like behavior with an observer at the slit if the recorder for the observer is turned off. The observer is still turned on. Fascinating implications.

Should have results in the coming year. Preliminary reports are encouraging.

He's crowd funded this setup and its ongoing:
https://youtu.be/72qVppAoCc8?feature=shared

More in depth:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OZUqtxdT0QY&pp=ygUYVG9tIENhbXB...

He's got an update from this August but it's just about waiting on labs and universities to complete it.
Remixes and sampling
When did they scrape the 'don't be evil' motto off the wall?
Bitcoin is not wasting anything. The proof of work you mention is what's securing the network. The amount of computing power is directly proportional to how much Bitcoin users are willing to pay for that computing power (in fees) and temporarily by a small and exponentially decreasing amount of inflation supported by Bitcoin holders.

Fossil fuels have nothing to do with Bitcoin, but rather how countries manage their electricity production. Bitcoin works just as well with electricity produced by renewable energy. And all other uses of electricity (of which Bitcoin is an insignificant percentage), or even worse, uses of energy in general, are also backed by fossil fuels (even more than electricity alone).

So if you're not happy with how your government manages electricity production (or how they're not taxing emissions enough), go ahead and complain to your elected politicians instead of shifting the blame to those who legitimately want to use electricity for their own purposes, which they have a right to, like anybody else who uses electricity.
Not sure if it's still a fully free thing but I also remember having a go at https://flexboxzombies.com/ in the past.
To think that they are prioritizing support for TikTok or whatever and thinking of 911 as an afterthought is horrendous and disgusting.
It's like magic.

When you don't understand it, it seems inscrutable and anyone who does seems like a genius.

When you understand it, it becomes boring and often trivial.

I can assure you that Vitalik isn't some kind of Uber genius who is 50 years ahead of everyone. Not even Einstein was, and he was much farther away than Vitalik is.

You can enjoy it as some sort of entertainment, but don't extrapolate it too far.
Well, neither is GTA to be honest, at least not by default.
The claim above was that Kfor merely watches it happen - does your link support that claim?

It doesn't seem to. In fact, that source says "Due to vandalization, the need arose for the armed force of the UN to protect locations containing Serbian religious heritage in Kosovo."
Does Canada not have laws against defamation? In the UK and US you could make a website and write that someone is a child predator but you probably get charged with libel.
You should read the extended phenotype by Richard Dawkins if you haven't already
What's wrong with filtering in your phone? It's a much simpler solution, and has the advantage that your contact list doesn't need to be stored in a central location where it is freely available to employees, law enforcement, and hackers.

What would the UI to the PBXes look like? Back in the 80s, what limited programming we could do was done by pressing numbers and the asterisk/pound key. Sometimes "flashing" the hook. If we're lucky, voice prompts. It was crap.

So you want to add some sort of digital protocol between phones and PBXes (of countless different types) so that our contact lists and rules (like "don't ring for these numbers between 10pm and 8am") can be maintained by an insecure central authority?

I think the technology branch we're on is better. It's certainly more personally empowering.
Canada gets removed from Google Maps.
What I meant is that whatever we experience of the universe (thinking in dualistic terms as us being a separate thing from “the rest of the universe”), then that experience is happening through, or in, our consciousness

And sure, we are technically not separate from the universe, we are very much immersed in, and inseparable from it
You can enjoy song covers just as much as the original song, the same way having drumless songs isn't a statement against the original "drumful" release.

Others said it already, it serves well for other artists to easily sample and remix the songs.
Does this increased efficiency mean my SOW estimates are going to start coming down?????

Oh right, it's not that type of efficiency :)
For a start, your cron jobs will be scheduled at UTC, what will induce people into many mistakes.
This is incredibly close to the most useless AI product I have seen all year
Tbh it sounds like a whalescript to me. Often it's not the database's fault the performance is bad ;)
Most research is kind of irrelevant outside of research which is why one can get away with dishonesty as no-one places big financial bets on the findings being correct.
So much of it is about information awareness. Like it or not, these consultants and analysts talk to hundreds of C-levels all the time. They become excellent information sources about what is working, what is not working, and about business risks that a particular executive may not be aware of. Yes, there is the potential for group-think, and the bad ones shill for a particular technology or process without any basis in success. But the good ones provide guidance to the executives that might be working in information-free areas, making them aware of concepts, technologies, and processes that either present risks to their businesses or represent good practices they really should adopt. It's easy to be cynical about this, but there are many good business leaders who are not analytical, and are in need of this kind of guidance.
Very well put.

I've seen this in myself and others: There's a certain rush to creating a system so complex that you can barely master it yourself.

But in a real system (one being actually used by people other than its designers, that have interests other than working on it and admiring the beautiful machinery), there is an infinite supply of complexity in the form of external constraints and internal one-way architectural decisions, and you'll be grateful for every single bit of complexity you can still chip off while keeping the system running.

It takes good engineering to solve a problem, but it takes great engineering to solve a problem without creating three others elsewhere.
hasMotionSensors: 1 or 0. Add 20 more bits of info and you have a pretty decent fingerprint.
My experience is that it's night and day... in favor of Microsoft. Caveat is that I'm on the data side, but AWS is a hodge podge of open source projects that they "integrated" (poorly). There's issues with data type mismatches between glue catalog and Athena/Presto, you can throw your data into Redshift but that's behind its own security curtain in postgres. You can move your data via glue, emr, MWAA, etc. but they all feel bolted on and integration is always more painful than it needs to be.

Microsoft, meanwhile, is moving towards synapse and fabric which is just everything you need in one spot, (more) easily integrated. I'm not saying it's perfect, but the vast, majority of companies I've worked with don't have the expertise or desire to put together some bespoke architecture taking into consideration the 5 options they have every single step along the way. They want something they can use out of the box.
Engineer develops sponge cleaning teeth 10x faster and better than toothbrushes
Thank you grumbel and yrro, I get it. I'm used to write things like [&userId]() and was ignorant of "implicit" capture.

Is there a benefit to the explicit version or is this purely a stylistic matter?
> What makes you think the crowd here and yourself are above that universal and highly ubiquitous human emotion?

Probably the same magical fairy power that allows you to deterministically read emotions without any context.

> Now, did you fix that Jira?

I don’t know, did you finish your schoolwork kid?
> pre-product-market-fit

Is that a euphemism for wandering around aimlessly? committing random code to see what works? That's also not good engineering....

Not saying it won't end in the outcome you want people gamble all the time, I'm just saying it's bad engineering.
The article gives one case where it had the desired outcome. Indeed it is just one, but given how it was administered willy-nilly for all kinds of ailments, it does make one wonder if the other violent suicidal cases had improvements.
What? You don’t have to quote column names in MySQL unless you use reserved words or names with spaces or special characters. Postgres has the same requirement.

Using an ORM or not is a different question, nothing to do with either MySQL or Postgres.
Do not under any circumstances allow them access to that!
There's a lot to be morally repulsed by in this article, but shockingly little scientific discussion of the actual procedure. Kind of feels like a "wow, just wow" article.