skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine an impossible study of 1000 pedophiles: half get access to AI-generated CP, the other half don't. If the first half was found more likely to engage in sex crimes with minors, that would be a good reason for this to be illegal IMO.

Of course we can't run that study, so it comes down to a judgement call. I am perhaps more conservative in nature and feel that a government which allows AI-generated CP is sending a disturbing message. However, I recognize the difficulty in assessing which policy would actually have the best (or rather least bad) outcome, so I don't hold this view strongly.
Yes, but we should expect that, the answers are in its training data.

The problem is passing tests are an okay proxy for competence in humans, but if you think of LLMs as a giant library search engine, the thing it is competent at is identifying and regurgitating compiled phrases from its records.

Which is awesome. It can't be a doctor.
I agree only because I don't want to learn JavaScript.
Modeling transformational policy pathways on low and negative growth scenarios
Consider this - you may just have had the Rust kool-aid and you don't even realize certain fallacies. Also, you say wasm is extremely powerful - but is it as useful as it is powerful? Is it the future? I doubt that as well.
Isnt it also related to utilities? I mean if you have laid water/sewage/power/gas/telco infra for a one family home, and someone builds a structure for 5 families how does upgrading all that infra work?
I don't know why this was dead, interesting list.
>https://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/02/21/there-is-no-steady-sta...

That article is so riddled with issues it's hard to take it seriously even if you believe the underlying conclusion.

>But overall, there is no evidence that fossil fuel use, or even oil use, can be divorced from economic growth. If there is a big decline in fossil fuel use, it will translate to a decline in economic growth.

Yes there is: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions#many-countries-have...

>The need for economic growth in order to pay back debt even applies to our money supply itself. Money is loaned into existence. This happens when a commercial bank makes a loan and deposit at the same time. The problem is that when the money is created, not enough money is loaned into existence to pay back the interest as well. So economic growth is needed to create the additional money so that the debt can be paid back with interest.

This ignores the existence of a central bank, which can print money at will.

>The problem with going to a system without fossil fuels and with much less debt than we have today is the fact that the world supported fewer than one billion people in 1750. There are now nearly 7 billion people in the world.

The world supported less than 1 billion people in 1750 because the industrial revolution and the green revolution wasn't a thing yet. Both vastly increased productivity and thereby the amount of people the world could support.

>If governments were to take away fossil fuels, or even reduce their use significantly, it would likely cause a crash of the financial system

"In a recent poll of climate economists conducted by Reuters, most agreed that getting to net zero would cost only 2% to 3% of annual global GDP. Other estimates put the cost of decarbonizing the economy a bit lower or a bit higher, but they are all in the low single digits of annual global GDP."

https://time.com/6132395/two-percent-climate-solution/
Nope - your chart only shows up to 2021. Wildfires are actually much much worse than the 90s.

“This year’s fires have now burned more than double the previous record of 7.1 million hectares torched in 1995”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/23/mapping-the-scale-o...
Are you trying to tell me that "starbucks lovers" was intentional?
Yah these are all well understood, however, you don't get to nuclear reactors without inventing some new math supporting subatomic physics.

Saying that audio has "different set of constraints from other types of workloads" and giving up on fundamental algorithm research is just defeatist, throwing in the towel, and frankly really insulting to human advancement.

Come on, we need some new algorithms and just saying "whelp it can't be done" is kind of ... not the hacker spirit.

It could be that we need quantum algorithms for parallel processing what previously was thought to be serial. Just from reading your well reasoned paragraph, I can see we desperately need fundamental algorithm research in sound processing.

An imaginary scenario might to to invent an algorithm to convert/transform sound/pressure wave information into another domain, one that is not dependent on serial time, and then do the operations, and then re-convert it back to the time domain that we usually associate with sound processing. Where, within this alternative domain, parallel processing is possible.

We do stuff like this all the time in other disciplines. Even stuff like the FFT was an attempt to transform and make certain "unsolvable" problem solvable in another form.

That's the kind of math research that I'm referring to.
The opposite of true. InnoDB updates the memory view and writes a journal; then it writes the disk view; it maintains a highwater mark for the journal somehow, not sure I care. MyISAM just writes the disk view; no journal is written.

So what happens with InnoDB as writes increase is that eventually you get freezes while the disk view catches up, which frees up journal space so it can go on another writing spree. If you try to shut down the database during one of these freezes it hangs. If you force it to restart anyway, it immediately freezes again on restart... until it frees up some journal space. Paradoxically in this case you have to decide how long of a freeze you can tolerate and reduce the size of the journal(s) accordingly.

MyISAM doesn't write the journal, so it doesn't have journal writes. "Half as many writes" is the best case, in practice there are additional writes pertaining to indexes. (You can be even more clever and disable updating indexes or even drop all indexes and re-create them after all table writes are completed. You can even write to some temp table, build the indexes on it, then rename it to the actual table; or fail over to a new node with the refreshed tables.)

Everything I know about tuning InnoDB I learned tuning DEC RDB (based on the KODA engine, Oracle bought RDB to get the KODA engine for its distributed locking implementation), not much has changed in 30+ years.
No it’s not good for everyone when the government has more power. It’s usually bad and the government regulators always seem to want to regulate content that the party in power disagrees with.

The government rarely understands technology and pays no thought to unintended consequences
https://www.youtube.com/live/qw_tta3W7Rk

Authors are discussing this anecdotal paper here.
The warning system seems insufficient to say the least? Usually there's a hardware fix.
I looked at the skateboards, the onewheel, scooters. I discounted the skateboards and the scooters because i know that small diameter wheels suck. A little gravel and you could be fucked. The onewheel was still interesting, I hit up the subreddit, tons of people talking about how they got hurt mixed with people telling them how dumb they were.. That was enough for me, I bought an ebike instead.
In Python, it would be:

user_id = 12345
user = fetch_from_cache(user_id) or fetch_from_server(user_id)
age_next = user and (user.age + 1)
if age_next:
print(f"Next year, {age_next} years old")
else
exit("Failed to determine next age")
Well, Valve is probably adding it to better support games that expect a case-insensitive filesystem. However, case-insensitive filesystems are beneficial for the average business software user. I'm just hoping that they accidentally make this work for ext4 also, and some distro maintainer sees the potential there.
In any other field, engineers would be held responsible and after so many "mistakes" they would lose their license.

Software engineers will fight tooth and nails to keep their privilege is being called engineers whilst having none of the responsibility when it comes to the harm they're causing.
A hundred years ago y'all would be against the loom or whatever factory machinery was new.

Sad.
It's always great to see a study made by real experts on the topic.
Show HN: A Game Engines Database Website
Hey HN!
Given the recent GameDev events (the Unity kerfuffle), I decided to finish a project of mine that was long due: a website that catalogs different Game Engines, so gamedevs can find new techs that better fit their needs, alternatives, or even just small engines to test and have fun.

Website is still very early in development, but I'm already getting some really needed feedback and suggestions.
You seem very intent on labelling legal obligations as being forced to do something. That, at least to me, is a clear mischaracterization of the issue at hand.
You absolutely can and should control your thoughts. It's not futile. It's not societies job to control anyone's thoughts (neither am I arguing that society should try--that sounds like pure evil), however it is each individuals job to do so.
Funny, for years (apart from pandemic years) we've been going to Manhattan once or twice a year for museums and shows; we've never had problems with bedbugs or "filth."
> I’d absolutely love to go back 300 years

It'd be fun if you could time travel and do it for a few days. I really doubt you'd want to live in that time forever.
Guess I'll pray-to-dial 911 now!
17.577 million hectares have burned so far this year. If 2023 were on that graph it would be a skyscraper towering over every big fire year in the 80s and 90s.

This year is unprecedented. And it isn't even over yet and the fires are still burning.
"The EU" is people I have voted for.
Instead of "some people" why not offer a real world example of this assertion.
DAW = Digital Audio Workstation.

I expect the future of the DAW is a Xeon-powered machine from Dell or HP with Adobe Creative Cloud (CC.)
I hear you. But I will also tell you that until you have children of your own, it is difficult to appreciate the value they bring.

They are work and require sacrifice but it can be an investment that pays huge dividends for the rest of your life.

You’re not a bad person if you don’t want children. I think most people with children trying to convince you to have some are well-meaning and just don’t want childless people to miss out.

My advice would be: if even a small part of you thinks you want children, just do it. You will grow to take on the new responsibility. But do it no later than age 40.
Can you please make your substantive points without snark or (to use the wording from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) sneering at the community?

It's human nature to make ourselves feel superior by putting down others, but it skews discussion in a way that goes against what we're trying to optimize for here (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

Edit: it looks like you've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines in a lot of what you've been posting here. Can you please review them and stick to them? I don't want to ban you but we end up not having much choice if an account keeps posting in this low-quality way.
Are there other alternatives to One wheel that work? I also like the thick single wheel modality
> 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.

Pretty interesting concept actually! Much like stock as a golden cage retainer for tech workers. Who would have to be lobbied for that to go ahead?
I doubt it’s common - almost certainly most users don’t think of it or even know what an engine is.

I just notice it - if I see something is unity I’m less likely to give it a try vs. something unreal. Usually I’m just scrolling Xbox gamepass options that look appealing.

If it was some specific game I wanted to try, unity wouldn’t stop me - but I have a bias against it. Unity games generally feel crappier imo.
I think a directive is actually a better idea. With a composable I basically just accept a ref of the target element and set up the event handlers directly on it (with useEventListener composables).
Poverty is relative.
But I don't understand it; if Google's search engine is superior to the other search engines why are they even paying $9bn each year to Apple to be the default search engine on iOS devices? Wouldn't otherwise, iOS users switch to Google immediately, if they like Google so much. And why Google instead of paying billions of dollars to Apple is not investing that $9bn each year in improving the quality of Google Search?

It seems most likely to me that Google is a house of cards composed of Google Search, Google Chrome and Android and if you would pull one card out, the whole structure would collapse.
Our primary concern is dialer crashing! I don't understand why you're trying to shift the blame away from Google. That's just stupid.
What do you mean by not seeing the "free act" preaching? I believe that the American concept of freedom is precisely that, with free speech being just one, albeit particular, subset of that general freedom. Take the first amendment: all about free exercise of religion, the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the freedom of assembly. And then, the fifth amendment is about being "Innocent Until Proven Guilty". So, free to act, until it's proven to be against the specifically forbidden things.

I know that reality has much more nuance, but still, it's not the point. Freedom is speech is not alone.
Archive links stand a better chance of continuing to work over time.
That's... not entirely true actually.
I love it how grid is used as polyfill:

> My favorite trick of doing this before was using CSS grid. You’d take the text inside the textarea and propagate it to a hidden psuedo element overlaid exactly on top. That stack technique is a classic:

.grid {
display: grid;
grid: stack;
> *, &::after {
grid-area: stack;
}
}

So much for the hope to start clean with flex, grid, and co.

(Btw, there's a typo: psuedo -> pseudo)
True, however there's no guarantee that children will take care of you later, many such cases where it doesn't happen. But still, I get your point about hedonism, the Greeks thought about this often.
Nope, I have not
They're saying these were notes for a speech for a "communcations class" where he was cosplaying Gorden Gecko and not presenting his true beliefs? That so hard to believe. These notes could not more obviously be an internal memo, filled with clear reasoning about balancing the needs and visions of different internal departments, meant to persuade and stimulate conversation about Google's strategy. I don't see how this "it was for a speech and I was being hyperbolic on purpose" thing isn't getting laughed out of the water.
> For one, my village grocer isn’t chatting with my travel agent to correlate my income bracket to then price discriminate more effectively.

If you use credit cards at both the credit card company definitely can correlate your spending patterns and send you relevant offers
Not a revelation at all. If you read the work of Francis Hallé, it is very well explained. Also the communication between trees through released chemicals during fires.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Hall%C3%A9
I actually frequently use the Tailwind docs (https://tailwindcss.com/docs/) to lookup CSS property names and what they do, especially with flexbox and grid, since I mostly learned them through Tailwind. It’s just a nicely organized quick reference with lots of examples.

Not using Tailwind as much these days (more inclined to CSS-in-JS solutions like Stitches, which unfortunately has been abandoned by the developers), but for prototyping it’s still amazing.
I wore my mask on a bike not because I was trying to avoid covid, though having arrived at my destination I knew I hadn't forgotten it. I wore/wear my mask on my bike because it keeps my face warm.
Here in N. California I've seen it: the coastal forests breath out cloudstuff. When the conditions are right they breath out something that immediately condenses a mist which rises and becomes clouds that drift inland. The trees on each ridge are synchronized so the initial mists are ridge-sized but they grow as they rise.

It's cool that this is getting scientific attention, but really weird to me that this was some kind of revelation. It's plain as day if you just watch the forest.
My issue with factorio is that I'll not play it for a few days and then I'll just lose all of a Saturday to it
If what you said was true, we'd see the same poor quality in Samsung or Apple phones. Yet we don't.
It's so tempting to want to label them horizontal and vertical etc, but I have to work with Arabic which is all reversed, and then I'm setting up a test localization in Traditional Mongolian, and you realize why these things are named the way they are:

http://khumuunbichig.montsame.mn/index.php?home
This is the second terrible autism fake science article on the front page today after https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37716167
US Republicans could finally win the argument on immigration
Even without building up a profile on you, the antitrust case is still there. If Google uses illegal means to retain an effective monopoly on search traffic, it still keeps a chokehold on ads and can keep prices artificially high.

Search ads hardly need personalization profile, as the query itself already has a incredibly strong signal for what would be good to sell you, and other query metadata (location, time of day) boosts that a lot.
Is this not because 1. the Philippines is a bunch of islands, mostly tiny ones; where 2. the smaller islands have mostly-agrarian populations who live mostly below the poverty line, and therefore can't maintain reliable working electrical infrastructure, let alone municipal waste + recycling collection infrastructure; and so, in combination, 3. the trash just piles up near homes in these areas, and then gets easily washed out to sea every time it rains, because effectively everywhere on a tiny island is directly upslope of the ocean?

I'm not sure what "censure" would do to address that problem. It seems endemic to the conditions that a large number of Filipinos live in — in a similar way to how India's highly-polluting use of wood and dung for home cooking fires seems endemic to the conditions a large number of Indians live in.
Guys mountain biked the Grand Canyon on mushrooms(Federal Shutdown)
If the human body reacted badly to ingesting indigestible items, we'd have been (rightfully?) extinct a long time ago.
US agency sues Tesla as Black workers report “swastikas, threats, and nooses”
> It takes good engineering to solve a problem, but it takes great engineering to solve a problem without creating three others elsewhere.

Yeah that’s basically what I mean.

There’s essential complexity and incidental complexity. The first is the complexity that comes from the real world. The second is self imposed due to design choices or path dependency effects. Minimizing the latter is good engineering.

I do maintain that every once I a while someone finds a way to radically cut complexity without losing essential capability. That’s genius, and it’s rare.
https://archive.is/LSzn4
We need an exclusion for our actual shit and for animal shit though, as we haven’t really tried solving that and don’t want fines.
Obviously anecdata, but:

1: I’ve been scripting for 5 years using Python. I purchased a subscription to use GPT4 to see if it could assist me.

In the end it took me more time to fix its mistakes than to just apply my knowledge of knowing what to Google and reading docs.

Additionally the largest hurdle
I encountered was when it hallucinated a package that didn’t exist and I spent time trying to find it.

2: I don’t know about most people but I’m terrible at cancelling services that are “cheap”. I used ChatGPT for a few hours that first month and didn’t cancel it for another 5 months.
Can you demonstrate any correlation between funding and education outcomes?
Ahh, BeOS. I used it has a daily driver for about 6 months. It was fairly nice, but my job moved from Mainframe/VMS/Minicomputer work more towards Web related work (it was along time ago for the kids reading along) and I had to put away my toy and start learning more on my Linux boxes when I wasn't working.

Spent a lot of time learning the kernel and support "kits" and porting some of my large baseball related code to it.

Could'a been a nice little operating system despite forcing me to learn C++ better.
Isn't that whataboutism?
> You absolutely can and should control your thoughts.

Don't think about Mickey Mouse.
Current evidence suggests that it is not - as the availability of porn grew, incidence of rape fell [1]. Perhaps child porn is a special case where it works the opposite, but I know of no evidence to suggest this.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-sunny-side-of...
Hmm is this really about “privacy” then? Seems like privacy would mostly be about things that are accurate. We already have laws about libel and defamation.

Who decides what’s inaccurate or outdated? I think the subject of a negative article may often feel it’s inaccurate even if it’s generally correct.
Some 911 operator online once mentioned that most of the calls they get are “butt dials.”

And then when I called months back I got an answering machine and waited what felt like an eternity (was one minute) to be routed to someone who then routed me elsewhere after determining what my needs were.
Casetext's Compose is, IIRC, $400 per head. Niche space though.
Meanwhile, one day some Japanese fisherman on some rust bucket trawler unknowingly passing over the Mariana Trench is unpacking his lunch on deck when a gust of wind comes along and blows it over the side....

The point being that though there's definitely lots of plastic in the oceans, an incident in one place doesn't necessarily make a pattern, and random trash being swept into a place that naturally takes in debris from the surrounding shallower ocean possibly makes for better headline drama than a realistic assessment of anything particular.
Interesting idea! I really like the way you did this. I didn't even know there was this much Rust engines. Prior to this database, I'd only heard of bevy.
This is a great HN thread about BeOS:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22002062 (Jan 9, 2020, 420 comments)

(Found it while writing a comment that was voided by that thread...)
I can't answer that for anyone but myself, but I will say the journey of raising kids changed me significantly, such that the "happiness" I experienced previous to having a family seems so shallow in comparison.
only in cinebench or other dense math workloads afaik (especially ones that don't use vector extensions on ARM).

SPEC benchmarks have M1 Max demolishing x86 in a lot of real-world applications. Similarly, in things like CFD the M2 Ultra absolutely demolishes server processors let alone laptops.

https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph17024/117494.png

https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph17024/117495.png

http://hrtapps.com/blogs/20220427/

cinebench really just tests one thing, arithmetic intensity, and it doesn't represent cache performance, branching, reordering, or anything else in a processor. but those are actually quite important to real workloads.

let's look at perf/w for, let's say gcc (chrome compiles?) or PGBench or something besides cinebench and see how the picture looks then.
Well, it never has in the entire history of humanity, but sure, whatever.
What problems would you expect to find when blindly autorouting? I have to admit, I've only used two auto-routers in my life. Both were in Altium CircuitMaker. The first one was flawless, the second one was unusable. So maybe yours is more on the unusable end?
It was interesting to learn the other day that this class of argument actually has a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes