skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey guys, this is awesome! I'm definitely gonna give your app a shot. I'm just drowning in information overload, and I've been wanting to streamline it somehow. I really want to take control of the amount of information I consume. I'll be sure to come back with some feedback once I've tried out your app.
> The US has people in government who are worth $100s of millions of dollars off salaries that would be entry level in Silicon Valley.

That's a good argument to pay them more. If we paid politicians nothing the only people that would be politicians would be those wealthy enough to pursue it as a hobby
> but each individual guest kernel doesn't know the full allocation

I was under the impression that at least in some virtual machine types the guest kernel is collaborating with the host kernel through vm drivers to avoid this problem.
In comparison to nuclear, very little in fact. That said the combined nuclear/renewables subsidies pale in comparison to subsidies received by fossil fuels.
Your experience at ETH might vary a lot though. Their PhD programs are extremely heterogeneous between departments and vary from modern, well structured grad schools to the old-fashioned central European style where the student are basically at the mercy of their advisor for five years.
Unfortunate you’re downvoted, the greed and incompetence is basically what made Fukushima happen. Not the Tsunami alone
A lot like evolutionary psychology; it seems like a reasonable explanation or story and is supported by at least some circumstantial evidence, so it must have been the way things were
Are high sped trains worth the extra capital and operating expense?

I love trains.
Is this a good faith request for information?
The reason this is notable is because people keep anthropomorphizing text generators into what they perceive as something a small way from AGI.

Of course they have no understanding. They’re text generators.

This persistent response to LLMs is bigger news, to me, than the fact that LLMs can’t think.
To be clear, this article does not attempt to explain why 70% of stairs were built clockwise, which seems salient. And the strongest arguments against the myth are that fighting on a staircase is bad no matter what (granted), and that certain, specific, famous staircases (like those in the Tower of London) were built counter-clockwise. To me, that's not a slam dunk case against the myth, it could be explained by there not being a centralized Castle Staircase Building Code across all Europe, over the course of 1000 years, which was not a misunderstanding I had anyway. I am unconvinced for now!
> Back to marginal costs - the marginal cost of converting empty RAM to cache is zero in the minute, but only because the full cost has been borne up front when the machine is purchased. It's not zero, just pre-paid. .

Or, in other words, you get to fully use what you paid for.
That seems ... bizarre. Does something like HIPAA not prevent companies from using pharmacy patient data against their regular sales info on the same person? I get It's supposed to be anonymized data, but how can they figure out who's buying Ozempic vs not for this specific comparison?
With all due respect, this idea seems like the preamble for "How to stop all companies from advertising on your platform". Why would any company pay Twitter for this privilege?
I implore you to try Kotlin; it’s a fantastic language and is a wonder to code in
I haven't seen a good argument for why the government should be able to print money without consequences.
I guess the converse is having to educate teens about the internet the same way I, at school, was educated about sex[0] and drugs[1].

[0] entirely heteronormative, Section 28 applied; also mostly Catholic, but rather more secular than you might expect from that description. First I even saw the word chlamydia was after I finished the GCSEs and went to a secular place for my A-levels.

[1] and not rock and roll. The drugs were booze (drink responsibly), cigarettes (expensive cancer sticks), and all other drugs collectively under the banner "will destroy your life and/or kill you" (which turned out to be a whole mass of outright lies, for example "dealers trying to get primary school kids addicted to LSD" and basically everything they told us about the death of Leah Betts).
This system is founded on the idea that the "community" will be a group of honest, well-behaved actors. As the internet at large has proven time and again, this is a hilariously naive idea.
I remember full kernel with modules for hardware compiled in was less than that in 2.2.x kernel times.

All else considered the growth isn't much
California governor signs ban on social media 'aiding or abetting' child abuse
The source mentioned in TFA is much better, with more photos and original content: https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2019/12/18/no-medieval-sta...
Thanks! I used passport and bcrypt and for the confirmation email jsonwebtoken.
It's designed as a loss leader for their other products. Most notably their cloud storage.
Now that's a very good point, at least unless you have some fancy AI system that turns ranting into terrible cod- oh that's ChatGPT.
Will look into this and definitely send you a review!
I've never actually looked at what an EMP does to kill electronics. I've just taken it as bad. Does it really just create an overload that fries the electronics so that a nice surge protector keeps it safe? The thing you describe basically sounds like some sort of shunt for excess to go to ground.
Which is perfectly in spec. Feel free to email the USB Implementers Forum and let them know they are clowns and USB-C was a mistake.

USB-C simply describes a connector. USB-PD is one of many optional power over USB-C specifications you can use, or choose not to use. Heck, USB-PD v1 supports power delivery over USB-A connectors.
Polonius Update
I wouldn't say two years is "quite some time", but yeah that's cool
It tracks with the way LLMs work. From what I understand, during training, the LLMs build a correlation between words, a process after which their weight network may be configured in a way that superficially resemble actual reality. Then for whatever input this LLM takes in, it uses its "reasoning" based on this configuration to spit out a response. A bigger LLM has more parameters to model the world and may have a better performance. But I guess even 1 trillion parameters is still not enough to model the actual reality with enough depth.

So if their internal understanding of the world is inherently flawed, you can't expect them to be able to spot their own faults. To be fair, this is the same for human. I am sure we all have that experience trying to tell someone where they are wrong and had a hard time. But with a human, we can update our internal world model on the fly. An LLM at runtime can't do that. It needs to be retrained.
There we go; now something to falsify against. If the left or right is a defensive choice, we should see the reverse handedness defending attackers going down. Great point.
To add to this, how to we value property? in the state issued currency..
> do you really have to understand language extensions?

You do when your code doesn't compile and you're trying to figure out what the error message means, or when the library you want to use makes heavy use of it for even basic functionality.

> These days one just enables GHC2021

My experience was pre-GHC2021. I basically had to enable at a minimum 5-6 language extensions in every single file.

> Mostly they're just about removing unnecessary restrictions from the older standard.

Yeah, those ones are usually fine. I have zero objection to things like FlexibleInstances or DeriveFoldable.

> Could you give an example?

I believe I was trying to implement Central Authentication Service using Servant. However, that required returning a custom HTTP status code. There has been an open Github issue for this since 2017, but it seems to require basically rewriting the entire framework: https://github.com/haskell-servant/servant/issues/732

Looking back at it now Servant does have "ServerError", but that basically requires giving up all the advantages Servant claims to have and I believe it was not a viable option at the time. Looking at the timeline I was probably also on Servant 0.15, and there seems to have been a rewrite since then.

I vaguely recall running into a similar issue trying to interact with a database, but I can't remember the details of that.
For Rust, the issue is that LLVM is very difficult to compile for wasm, but cranelift can't generate wasm. I'm not sure if codegen-gcc can help here.
iPhone since 12 has not used the Intel modem, and while newer iPhones supports Beidou, it’s not clear which chip supports it and whether it is used outside of China, or even iPhones sold outside of China has support for Beidou. Even if it does, its civilian frequency only has a 10 meter accuracy outside of APAC, so it’s not clear to me it is used globally in the sense that GPS is.

Also, Loongson and OpenATOM lol. Are they industry standards?
They can; therefore they will.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity
We walk on the right side, because of cars.
When you WFH you're not really an employee but a kind of consultant, who is paid by the company ALSO for yours home office...

Probably many companies hate WFH because of this: when people will realize the value of freedom at their home, their work can be seen as mere economical contract without tie, so people will be more precarious but so will be companies and that means we surpass the need of unionization by a kind of new market equilibrium.
Even a horse can do complex math as long as you signal when it should stop.
HDCP.
Oh, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Many parts of on-demand video streaming are largely commoditized at this point. Add in support for linear (live) streaming and ad insertion and things start to get really interesting. :)
Extreme heat harms health – what is the human body's limit?
I think you'd be surprised how much reach a small niche community can have. Homestucks used to basically own an extension that let you doodle on pages. Even other webcomics ended up with homestuck doodles instead of their own. could not have been more than a couple hundred users but I ran across those things everywhere I went.
Ask it, it will explain what's going on (I'm not kidding)
A bunch of companies and people speculating on technology that they cant even reproduce
htop shows this
Someone at Google needed a promotion
It's always difficult for me to not sound like a cranky old man when it comes to social media, because there are good things about social media as a concept, and many good things have been done only because of social media's existence. It's not good for me personally though, so I mostly avoid it.

In execution, I really don't like how much it tries to hotwire our brains to scroll endlessly/seek attention so it can sneak ads in between. I also don't like how so much of it is geared toward instant gratification.

Will we someday feel the same way about social media that we do about tobacco companies? "People willingly addicting themselves to something for the profit of a corporation" sounds dystopian but we've been here for years...
> you have a lot of available credit without ever using it.

I find it funny that the example person with big credit lines, which are unused, should care about a slightly better credit score. The financialization of everything coaxes people to care about numbers that don't greatly matter to their situation - they already have the credit line.
so the example is misleading regarding the current non-preview release, got it.
The LibreOffice CSV import is configurable. The Excel one isn't.

You can do things in PowerQuery, but that is far from obvious and still buggy. Not to mention all the woes after import, like date/time auto-interpretation and autocorrections that cannot be switched off.

I stand by what I said. Excel imports are a huge mess.
We can't do it until literally everyone is willing to maintain multiple platforms. There's always people who don't and you end up on a situation where either that person is Isolated or what usually happens, people bend to them because it's just easier. Facebook won the moment elders got there because grandma uses Facebook and it's just easier to interact with her there instead of trying to convince her to do something different. As long as these kind of anchors exist centralization is basically predestined
What's your definition of "real understanding", and how would one definitively know when it's present?

Various humans will display the same type of pathological behavior within various reasoning tasks, do all humans lack "real understanding" as well?
Technically speaking, ardour.org charges for a build service.

You can get the source code for free from us (either as a tarball or via git). You can get the source code or the binary from somebody else.

But if you want to get the binary from us, we ask you pay at least US$1.
It's hard to define consciousness itself. It may be something wholly apart from sentience and sapience.

So it's kinda already setup to be something arbitrary. It may very well be a case of "it's conscious if it's sufficiently indistinguishable" from human consciousness.

Anywhere something is arbitrary, it's just going to be endless arguments from every "side".
I can write code, and if I'm told my code doesn't work, I can fix it.
I agree, there is a real challenging disconnect between messaging for PMs/Leaders vs individual contributors and it boils down to organization size. Small companies and startups tent to be a lot more democratic about their choice of tools where as large organizations tend to be more pm/leadership driven with input from ICs.

Right now we are targeting the smaller companies that don't have a lot of PM experience or resources available. The dream being the slack story of IC driven product adoption :D
Also an EE. I struggle to see how this might be technically feasible even with space magic technology. EMPs travel at the speed of light through air. Any detection and counter pulse will lag behind by some amount. Maybe that delay could be sufficiently small and there could be enough transceivers in enough locations to be "good enough", but this seems very unlikely.

I don't really get why there is a market for this in the first place. A cheap and unpatentable solution for EMP shielding already exists: Faraday cages.
The funny thing is you can do this exact thing when it gives you the right answer, and it will often happily switch to an incorrect answer.

This is one of the most damning things about LLMs to me - and it doesn't seem to have gotten much better with GPT-4
We tried to make it a bit clearer recently with the section on "Compatibility". "Works great with Phoenix, Ecto and all the other first rate tools in the Elixir ecosystem."But you aren't the first person to say this. It's complex because we do build your APIs for you, and it's not a requirement to use Phoenix to make this work. But Ash also can (and usually does) act as something you use alongside Phoenix. It makes it difficult to message :(
This article is not very good, notably, it is almost all guessing, no evidence.

An explanation that I would have found plausible: building stairs clockwise is cheaper somehow.
If you compare "thinking" to "text generators", don't you need to understand what "thinking" actually is, before you can conclude that these are unequal?
This seems like a strange way to decide homes aren't being sold.

This comment is so HN. If you were expecting me to publish a full report with links to MLS data, you'll be sorely disappointed. It's just one dude running around the neighborhoods in his fancy underwear, making a mental note of the short little "home for sale->this way" signs at the corners over the course of a year. All I can tell you is, a year ago those signs disappeared in a few weeks. Now they take over a month or more to disappear. Full analysis will not be forthcoming.

Make of it what you will, or make nothing of it at all and enjoy the rest of your day.
Actually more dangerous traveling downward on the inside, where a small misstep will have you miss 2-3 treads, as opposed to the outside where the same misstep won’t have you miss any.
If you examine a military you will find volumes of plans for incredibly unlikely situations. Once you have addressed all the likely and significant threats, you don't just stop planning--at least not any good military.

Saying that castle sieges didn't tend to involve stairway fights doesn't imply that stairways wouldn't have had defensive measures built in. That is post-hoc rationalization.
At my day job we run > 50 million messages per day through ZeroMQ, and have been quite pleased with its performance and stability (https://github.com/nyfix/OZ/tree/master#who-uses-it).

But the truth is that ZeroMQ has a steep learning curve, and some rather sharp edges that can leave nasty cuts if one is not careful.

If you're interested in becoming familiar with ZeroMQ, you might want to check out our implementation: <https://github.com/nyfix/OZ/>.
They abandoned Material Design with Android 13, but for some reason decided to call the brand new and completely different design system Material Design too - and it's even worse than the original, at least when it comes to wasted space and gross animations.
It is. Windows does the same thing, but it's a non-issue because task manager makes it look like cached memory is free memory.
I wasn't aware that this was a bad thing. I have a couple of "business" credit cards that I use to segregate purchases for some sole proprietorships that I run. (as well as for the rewards, of course) There are occasionally months where I need to spend beyond the credit limit, and I pay the card early in order to do so. I had no inkling that this could be considered a problem.
Still seems fishy. Does the pharmacy section not require HIPAA and siloing off from the regular consumer data?
Germany is one of those more likely to check. A few years ago, our first few units delivered to Germany were stopped at customs and sent back for no CE mark (how they got sent that way is another matter). So we Made SureTM all units for EU had it.

Then Germany rejected again because the "CE" was obviously in the wrong style, on a generic sticker (I'd warned, but been told "It'll be /fine/."). And German Customs said our slip directing customers to our site for setup and operating instructions was insufficient. This time, they held our units until we sent satisfactory documentation.

Finally, we were able to send, but with after a warning from Customs that a third error would result in permanent bannage and seizure at the border of anything we sent to Germany.
Rust's integer types are poorly abstracted. The use of specifically sized types for quantities that are not related to hardware is comically ridiculous.

In the C world, only the goofballs do things like use char or int8_t for the number of children in a family, or wheels on a car.

yet that is what Rust code looks like. Almost every Rust code sample I've ever seen sets off my bozon detector just for this reason.
IBM CEO in damage control mode after AI job loss comments
That's exactly what lightning protection modules are. They are just transient voltage suppressors (TVS, just some diodes) tied to ground.
> Meanwhile, modern CPU instructions like AES, Multiply, XOR, ADD and more can effectively operate 3, 4, or even more times per clock tick regardless of circumstances.

I don't think people are making lookup tables to adding or xoring 2 numbers...
Imagine a plane full of people carrying gold nuggets in their pockets.
I don’t really agree about the causes. The big problem is economic. It’s a business problem not a technology problem.

The problem is that good software that ordinary people can easily use is extremely labor intensive to produce. Software is very expensive.

This means you have to have an economic model and there has to be a toll booth somewhere or an indirect way of generating revenue like ads. Centralized services make those parts easy.

Everything else can be built in a decentralized manner. Many times it’s even easier to build that way. But how do you build it if there’s no funding available and nobody pays for anything?

It can’t all be volunteer. People need to be paid. There’s nowhere near enough volunteer open source labor available to build really polished usable systems for everyone.

It’s similar to the dynamic in other areas of media. Media is usually a deflationary race to the bottom. The best media has no funding.
China doesn't have any problem executing suspected spies without trial, does that mean the US should too? The US has a constitution that gives people rights; the government can't just do whatever it wants. Regardless of your personal opinion on TikTok it doesn't change that it's a product used and loved by millions of Americans, and banning it has a meaningful negative impact on them.
I believe loads of auxiliary microservices have been omitted for brevity. Of course, those also don’t require Kubernetes, but maybe they have some standardised deployment system which keeps things manageable. Don’t forget about Observability and whatnot.
I'd imagine they were built in a direction without a ton of thought, and it's not really surprising to me that if you basically flip a coin - 70% of them landed one way.

If the staircase happens to be on one side of the building, it would be better to orient it one way - based on how the windows would work - for example.

If the staircase is against another busy entryway - it might be better to have the stairs go one way or the other, etc
It’s a huge scam. I’ve seen a tear down and the only thing inside the box is ballast and a circuit to drive a LED.
The "objectivity"/"subjectivity" spectrum: having one's cake and eating it too?
The branding problem here isn't going to be fixed by making a 3d robot. The problem is that it's not entirely clear there is such a thing as "Android." Even in this announcement, they refer to it as the world's biggest operating system and as a platform, which do not have to mean the same thing. It's almost like they need to clarify that Android the OS framework is massively successful and open, while the purest implementation of it is Android the OS on Pixel devices (for example). A lot of folks think of Android as adware and bloatware-infested devices that get next to no support after sale, and that's really unfortunate given how good it can be.

Or, shorter, making it too open and not distinguishing between the platform and vendor-specific implementations of it is allowing others to dilute the meaning of "Android" in a way that is detrimental to the brand.
... yes, and?
> voting in New York seems to be more third-world style ethnic warfare

> People vote along ethnic/racial lines (look at the primary voting for Adams versus Yang versus Garcia)

This seems to imply something quite other than a broad cross-racial constituency. It also seems to fit oddly with the fact that progressives of all races voted against Adams. And why mention Garcia if there "wasn't a major Latino candidate"?

Look, I'm clearly not inclined to give you the benefit of the doubt here. You make incendiary trolling claims, and when asked to explain yourself, backpedal into vacuous, but reasonable-sounding, contradictions. And you get leeway because you played the role of a Burkean foil for other popular commenters here. But at this point, it just seems like you're showing contempt for the site, and for its users.
> RSS for anybody.

> The mailing list was open to all.

So what is the difference between "all" and "anybody" ?
Instead of the rule of thumb you’ve seen how about the rule of thumb you’ve tried? Make two simple HTML forms: one with an input that instantaneously accepts input and another with 100 ms delay. You can definitely tell the difference.
Heh. Kind of like Clever Hans. It keeps tapping its foot until you relax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans
Why does the USMC issue bayonets still?