skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure the origins of CUDA are very interesting in their own right, and it cannot be denied that the evolution of the GPU and GPU programming has had a huge impact on the growth of the field.. but, without the specific work of these specific people, at worst I think we'd only be a tiny bit behind where we are now.

The AI craze we have today is built on the continuous, sustained work of a huge amount of people over years and years.
That's because they straight up lie about some things and use half truths for other things all while thinking they are being clever.
Somehow, at this moment, industry having massive influence on government policy is not fascist but a guy in the UK teaching his dog to salute like a Nazi is.
- Amazon (the store): Uber for non-food goods.
I agree I think it does a very good job. The last two were even not horrible, but it missed a key detail in each one. If it can get as good with coming up with memes, not just describing them, that would be pretty wild.
The rational numbers.
Hi Joe! I'm really excited about this product and just sent you an email. Looking forward to hearing from you!
Solar, wind and nuclear (theoretically) are limitless.

> We can't just magically stop the greenhouse effect.

You're absolutely right, that's why tech is the only non-magical solution.

Anyone thinking they can change the behavior of 8 billion people is engaging in magical thinking.
Lenovo used to, secretly and automatically. IIRC they aren't the only ones.

My AsRock desktop board will do it with permission, but they have the best OEM software I have seen in years because it is basically nothing, and doesn't autorun.
Do you have VSCode and Docker installed on the Chromebook?

I have been interested in buying a Chromebook for dev purposes.
This made me realize that I don't really understand basic concepts.

For instance, when connecting to a webserver on a given port, is it up to the kernel to take packets of data and assemble them into ... streams (? - not sure about the correct term here) that the server can then read and process? For some time I had the incorrect idea that a connection to a webserver would ultimately get its own port on the server side. In reality the only port that is randomly assigned is on the client side (from what I understand).

Based on the above, when a server does not use threading to process multiple incoming streams (?), the kernel is, I guess, buffering up data from multiple clients while waiting for the server process to read and process the one stream the kernel has assembled for it?

Or I am still completely a dunce about how this works and the above is still wildly incorrect. I would like to better understand but honestly I don't know where to start.

On a very low level even on a threaded server that can receive and process multiple HTTP requests how exactly is the incoming data on the single server socket turned into something that each thread uses for a particular client? Especially in the context of something like http smuggling... I just don't understand the fundamental mechanism of multiple tcp connects on a single server port are turned into individual http requests... With http smuggling it makes it sound like all of the data is actually just a single stream. But if that is the case, how does threaded processing of http requests even happen?
How’s this different from piratebay
How'd you get the return accepted after a year and a half? That's pretty impressive service.

People should spend years in jail for coming up with ideas like these…

+1 for sure on that. It'll never happen, though. We wouldn't want to pass laws to interfere with "innovation."
If this means we can download and print (injectable) drugs in the future, does this mean we can literally get a virus from dodgy sites?
Again, the vast majority of people disagree with you. Stop pushing your values onto others.
Whatever floats your boat, it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. Think outside the box. (I’m not in a box, though...?) Not everything needs to be so literal.
Pots of gold: the world’s most expensive house plants (2022)
I was gonna say prime numbers.
HN title is broken; it is presumably supposed to have the important "@" symbol.

(the website's original title is boring and meaningless)
Somewhat related, my bluetooth headphones get some static noise when I use my induction oven. On max power ~1900w it disrupts my headphones in a ~2m range haha
You don't pay top price for Chromebooks; you can get a good one for in between 200 and 300 USD
... and tracking
The only issue is the shitty support for nvidia cards courtesy of nvidia.

At least AMD cards themselves are really good now, I just wish there were more of them.
Annular solar eclipse coming on October 14
How do I convert Flooz to Solana?
What a great comment! I love needing to remind myself of this, that a person can walk across the US in about a 1, but over 2 years would be relatively leisurely.
The same technology can be used to build undetectable ads.
Keep in mind that WebUSB is exclusive to Chromium-based browsers — it won’t work on Firefox or Safari, and given how Google disregarded Mozilla’s and Apple’s feedback on the spec that’s unlikely to change.

https://caniuse.com/?search=WebUSB
It's the slow commodification of service industries through digital coordinators.

There's two sides to the coin of commodification: some people really like the leveling effect it has, "look, we're all being treated as equals!" On the other hand, it treats people as a means to an end, and being exploited equally is still exploitation.
The news cycle essentially is 'publish or die' and race topics get clicks. It's also bad PR and pressures the AI monopoly to bake shitlib orthodoxy into their models, to make them less transparent and hint regulation. Etc.
> What are people intentionally printing to paper for, often enough that it's worth having a printer?

Shipping labels, government processes that require hard copies, and legal documents that require real signatures rather than electronically signed ones.
The Chinese room is not saying humans are smart. It is showing the difference between knowledge and action.

Understanding a language is distinct from responding to language prompts.

Unless you are claiming LLM is AGI which is a laughable proposition the fact that people say LLM isn't intelligent isn't impactful on whether AGI isn't intelligent.

There isn't disagreement (outside extremists) that AGI doesn't exist yet. The only disagreement is "when do we know it does".

Not having a test isn't hubris. It instead shows it is a fundamentally hard question. What does intelligence mean?
Generative Wayback Machine
Reminds me of Slashdot

> The name "Slashdot" came from a somewhat "obnoxious parody of a URL" – when Malda registered the domain, he desired to make a name that was "silly and unpronounceable" – try pronouncing out, 'h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-slashdot-dot-org'".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot
Why not Brave? Chrome feels like quitting to me.
Flu shots should ditch seemingly extinct flu virus
A black hole's density at the singularity is my guess. I don't believe that's been proven however.
All of this beautiful discussion here tells me: time is a man made thing!
Facebook Blocking Content Deletion?
I’ve multiple times across the past 1-2 years tried to delete posts and content on my timeline and elsewhere across my Facebook profile, and I feel like it throttles content deletion after 2-3 posts successfully deleted. Is FB that desperate with doing anything it takes to avoid losing users or users deleting content? Anyone else have noticed this?
Not one single solitary soul has ever made the claim that misinformation didn't exist before AI so it's not clear who you're arguing with. People are rightly concerned about the scale of misinformation that AI is unlocking.
> If you are an intelligence capable of faster-than-light interstellar travel, capable of snuffing out stars, capable of collapsing dimensions-- you don't care about anyone else. Nobody's going to compete with you for resources.

Except other intelligences at similar level to you. And, you first need to get there.

It's worth re-reading the core axiom of the Dark Forest theory, as given in the books. They included communication delay (light lag) and unpredictably rapid pace of technological advancement. The latter may or may not be true in the real world. It could be that we're on the final parts exponential-looking part of an S-curve, and everyone at our level would follow the same trajectory. Or it could be that we're riding an actual exponent. Or we may be 5 minutes from hitting singularity. In the latter scenario, a more advanced civilization has good reasons to believe the less advanced civilization may overtake them between the former learning about existence of the latter, and the latter learning about existence of the former. An immediate first strike would make sense then.

> You don't need dirt.

It's never about dirt. It's about having something some others may want, and not being certain they won't kill you to get it.
UX patterns for CLI tools (2022)
If my reading comprehension skills have not utterly failed me, the abstract says "people who buy a service frequently, find ways to cut out the middleman. This happens more if middleman fees are higher".

In about 25 times as many words. There is no hope for tech progress when this much time is being wasted.

Besides, transaction costs have been thoroughly explored in economics since 1970.
Also known as Popehat's Law of Goats:

He who fucks goats, either as part of a performance or to troll those he deems has overly delicate sensibilities is simply, a goatfucker.

If your goal is to be seen as a racist, and to provoke a response from people who are offended by racists, and you do all of the things that racists do to that end, spending time on racist forums spreading racist memes and hate speech, then the distinction between you being an "actual" racist and your racism being mere performance is one without a difference.

Because being racist as a hobby isn't really something non-racists tend to do.
Reminds me of the feynman book "What do you care what other people think?"

There's a chapter:

“It’s as Simple as One, Two, Three…”

where he talks about and experiments with mental counting and mental time judgement

I decided to investigate. I started by counting seconds—without looking at a clock, of course—up to 60 in a slow, steady rhythm: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5…. When I got to 60, only 48 seconds had gone by, but that didn’t bother me: the problem was not to count for exactly one minute, but to count at a standard rate. The next time I counted to 60, 49 seconds had passed. The next time, 48. Then 47, 48, 49, 48, 48…. So I found I could count at a pretty standard rate.

Now, if I just sat there, without counting, and waited until I thought a minute had gone by, it was very irregular—complete variations. So I found it’s very poor to estimate a minute by sheer guessing. But by counting, I could get very accurate.

he goes on to do all kinds of other experiments like counting while running up and down stairs and more... :)
i know ron!
Firefox for Android guzzles power like crazy, even slightly more than Chrome

You probably come out ahead if you load it up with a real adblocker though

Being able to browse with uBlock and Privacy Badger is a game changer for me. I basically don't use my mobile browser at all on iOS, and I don't use any social media or news apps either, so you can guess how useful the device is.. haha
Let's not gate keep the word "creator". Writing new software is just as much "creating" as whistling a tune, writing a song, drawing a new piece of art, painting a miniature, carving a stone, or anything else. Something exists now that didn't exist before. It has been created.
The $10k-plus golden Apple Watch is now “obsolete,” according to Apple
Adversarial competition and collusion in algorithmic markets
Play Leisure Suit Larry free in DOS running in browser
Unfortunately that didn't happen with other innovations of misinformation at scale (such as social media) so I'm not so optimistic.
> The average is slightly less.

The Riddle of the Sphinx begs to differ.
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/
The most important quality as a programmer is to understand that you are facing an unlimited series of problems and you have to enjoy solving every single one until you stop.
Google also tracks your app interactions so leaving your phone at home, switched on but not showing any interactions is possibly telling the authorties something.
> Some of the backstory here (it's the funniest fucking backstory ever): it's lately been circulating --- though I think this may have been somewhat common knowledge among practitioners, though definitely not to me --- that the "random" seeds for the NIST P-curves, generated in the 1990s by Jerry Solinas at NSA, were simply SHA1 hashes of some variation of the string "Give Jerry a raise".

For a longer history see the mentioned-in-article paper by Koblitz and Menezes, "A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma" (which is more asking why the NSA said, in 2015, that things should move towards a post-quantum world):

* https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1018

* https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1018.pdf

The same "backdoor" thinking seems to have been present with (EC)DSA:

> Proponents of RSA bitterly opposed DSA, and they claimed that the NSA was promoting DSA because they had inserted a back door in it (“No Back Door” was the slogan of the anti-DSA campaign). However, they gave no evidence of a back door, and in the two decades since that time no one has found a way that a back door could be inserted in DSA (or ECDSA).

Then there was this little tidbit:

> As the heated debate contin- ued, the NSA representative left to make a phone call. When he returned, he announced that he was authorized to state that the NSA believed that ECC had sufficient security to be used for secure communications among all U.S. government agencies, including the Federal Reserve. People were stunned. In those days the NSA representatives at standards meetings would sit quietly and hardly say a word. No one had expected such a direct and unambiguous statement from the NSA. The ECC standards were approved.

Other actions by the NSA that were treated as suspicious were tweaks to DES (which later turned out to be defence against differential cryptanalysis) and weaknesses in the original SHA ("SHA-0") which the final version ("SHA-1") does not have.
Probably the ecosystem and documentation. PaaS like Render, Fly, and even Heroku from back in the day offer addons/plugins/whatever that make the obvious choice out to be Postgres/MySQL. Then there's other tooling such as migration and various ORM adapters. Then there's a wealth of blogs, stack overflow q&a's, etc. And then Postgres/MySQL gets you quite far. Start with a single node -> scale the node -> add read replicas -> shard. Then, sharding becomes painful? Start looking at other data stores, remodeling your data, or eventing, etc.
2023 Linux World Cup Provisional Ranking
> No one spams racist garbage despite not being racists because they want to create chaos and are fishing for a reaction.

That's a bold statement and clearly untrue. A boatload of people gets their kicks out of pretending to hold any number of offensive views just to get a rise out of people online.

When I was a dumb 16 year old that was one of my favorite past times. Only works on people who don't believe anyone would do such a thing...

It speaks to your character that you wouldn't even immediately consider it.
I actually experienced this the other day. Bought the new Baldur's Gate and was wondering what items to keep or sell (don't judge me, I'm a pack rat in games!)

I had found some silver ingots. The top search result for "bg3 silver ingot" is a content farm article that very confidently claims you can use them at a workbench in Act 3 to upgrade your weapons.

Except this is a complete fabrication: silver ingots exist only to sell, and there is no workbench. There is no mechanic (short of mods) that allows you to change a weapon's stats.

I'm pretty sure an LLM "helped" write the article because it's a lot of trouble to go through just to be straight up wrong - if you're a low effort content farm, why in the world would you go through the trouble if fabricating an entire game mechanic instead of taking the low effort "They exist only to be sold" road?

This experience has caused me to start checking the date of search results: if it's 2022 and before, at least it's written by a human. If it's 2023 and on, I dust off my 90's "everything on the World Wide Web is wrong" glasses.
They didn't do it for widgets (news&weather&slimy ads), why would they do it now...
Nice idea but probably way ahead of its time, native app still rules if you want top experience for the foreseeable future
It's not nearly as easy as you think [0]. I'm not going to cite the whole library of work on this topic because that comes across a bit rude, but there's been a lot of ink spilled here and I'm summarizing heavily for brevity's sake.

Humans had likely already invented boats, given that they reached Japan and Australia tens of thousands of years previously. The North Pacific was just a deeply unfriendly place during the LGM. There were few resources, frigid weather (Beringia itself was practically temperate in comparison!), and they'd have to fight a strong Alaska current all the way down the coast.

It's pretty clear at this point that the coastal route happened eventually, but we need a lot more data to put together a sensible theory that can reconcile these outliers.

[0] https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2208738120
> So why don't we implement TCP separately in each application, the way it's done with QUIC?

Because TCP also does multiplexing, which must be handled in some central coordinating service. QUIC doesn't suffer from that since it offloads that to UDP.

You wouldn't use a system TLS implementation either (well, technically SChannel/NetworkTransport exist, but you're vastly better off ignoring them).
Consumers that care whether their phone browser runs WebKit or not (I bet it’s <0.01% of iPhone users) can choose Android.

My mom has an iPhone and I can sleep safe knowing she won’t install some dodgy browser or anything like that.

I’m happy such category of devices exist and I’m happy to pay a premium.
Seems like this is just more enshitification, which is the general direction that everything on the internet is taking. If you think about it, it doesn't make any sense for Booking.com to pay its bills because then they'll just have less money.
I’d strongly recommend Beej’s guide to network programming. It’s very approachable and will clear these concepts up for you.

https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/html/split/
Lol! It's tempting. Very tempting.
> And I would be able to spend more time on that and willing even with relatively small funds.

> I think that many people would be willing to take significant pay cut to work on project chosen by them.

I definitely agree with this sentiment; I can relate to it strongly.
Sounds like we need more regulations for the AI sector, perhaps by making images traceable? Or a government oversight board?
Recent-ish HN post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35927413
It's something easy to experience yourself. Just ask ChatGPT (especially GPT-4) to write you some thing, and tell it to also insert sneaky references to a specific product, and/or make it an explicit sales pitch for that product, etc. Press "Send", and watch in horror.
Control Panel for Twitter can already put them back [1] ^1 ^2

[1] https://github.com/insin/control-panel-for-twitter/releases/...

^1 while Twitter continues to put the headline in the aria-label on the link, given there's no accessibility team left to protect it

^2 unless you're using Firefox, as Firefox Add-ons now takes ~4 days to review new versions
I haven’t done the math to see if they’re right, but they’re likely talking about the various ink tank printers that exist, such as the Epson EcoTank series. Refilling the ink is supposed to be quite cheap, especially if you don’t care about the ink being name brand.

Personally, I print like 5 pages a year, so unless I get into photo printing… the cheapest AirPrint-enabled Brother laser printer has served me well for like the last 5 years.
There's no official spec for the text format, except for the one reverse engineered from 3,000 lines of C++:

https://protobuf.dev/reference/protobuf/textformat-spec/
Try to bundle your own WebKit with an app and see what happens.
Interesting. It certainly costs several seconds to start and login to ChromeOS, while I have always enjoyed the fact that unlike other operating systems it is up and running before I even get the screen unfolded, from sleep.
> I also maintain that for a lot of the programming that makes the world go round, it's not that hard.

I guess it depends. I maintain that getting something mostly working is not that hard. But I haven't worked on a webapp that didn't have many obvious (to me) concurrency bugs in them.

So does that make it easy or hard? I dunno. Maybe writing correct webapps is hard, but maybe their correctness doesn't really matter.
> What are people intentionally printing to paper for, often enough that it's worth having a printer?

For me personally, sometimes I think better when I have paper than with a computer or tablet. If the limiting agent is my thinking, then I'm better off with paper.
Need to start somewhere :-P and I think you'll be surprised looking back in a few years from now.
> LLMs that are just spitting out full copies of what they were trained on aren't functioning correctly or haven't been trained on enough content.

So all of them? None of the LLM's are "functioning correctly"? Because I can get every LLM to reproduce passages from a book.
Banks, pension funds, municipalities, retirees. A lot of folks are sitting on very significant losses. The bond market is much larger than the stock market, and that means that this is very significant. There are other indicators that trouble is afoot. Credit default swaps spiking for regional banks. Big discordance between stock performance and bond performance. Prolonged and significant yield curve inversion.

Either bonds must go up or stocks must go down. Hard to predict which way this will resolve, but I don't see the Fed intervening unless the situation gets truly dire.
This is great, hopefully it takes off!

One piece of feedback is that it doesn't restore the scroll position when going from list page -> detail and then pressing back. That breaks browsing scenarios where you're looking at the details of apps as you scroll down. In general PWAs often get this wrong. I wish more of them were testing back navigation.
In some ways this feels like not news.4chan does 4chan. This could even be outrage troll if that’s still the meta.
But it does make me think about a few things.

- The Prime Minister of my little home country auto popping up as I typed in GIPHY memes the day she resigned.

- Politicians and would-be politicians and religious leaders using race baiting and meme language (woke and pulled) in the lead up to the coming election.

- I remember 8chan being the place that people supporting these same racist ideologies organized to carry out direct action in the form of murder and terrorism.

- In the month but I was a beta tester for the Dall-E3 it never once Struck me to use this tool To create images to spread Hate or some other ideological instrumental use.
There is such a vast wide latent Space of images and pixels to explore with these text to image generators. How boring it is to make raciest or conspiracy imagery. And in the same thread the human mind is capable of such vast space of neural configurations, how boring it is to use it to be a racist.

- I immediately suspect anybody of Arguing for uncensored or nonaligned AI to be provided to them to be a closet racist or troll

- I’m glad Dalle and SDXL is not hosted for general use without a filter. But I’m also very glad that all it takes is commenting out one line and re-uploading the model to be able to use it uncensored myself.