skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve had a Honda cbr and I’ve been into modified tuner cars my whole life. I have much more experience going fast in cars than on bikes. Everything becomes much bigger at higher speeds. You learn pretty quickly that when you’re doing 150 you don’t make jerky movements with the steering wheel. Tiny, tiny, fluid movements are amplified to become more. You need to anticipate understeer and be able to feel when the ass end is getting squirrelly or is breaking loose. You learn to use the engine compression as a brake assist when trying to slow that mass by 80mph in a 100 foot span. I’m guilty of doing obnoxious and deadly things on the highway in my various drift cars over the years and that’s more than enough for me. I had my bike up to 120 when I owned it and decides squiding out wasn’t something I wanted to risk. The shit I do in cars is more than enough to get the devil looking my way.

Interestingly enough I passed a cop on the highway doing 150 once. He was merging on from the on ramp. I stayed in it thinking I was fucked anyway but to my surprise he took the very next exit and got right back off the highway. There’s no way he didn’t notice me blow past him. The only thing I can think of is he got a priority call or he saw my speed and said fuck this my shift is about over and noped on out of running me down.
Still beats passwords in ever meaningful way.
I had a customer that was getting DDoSed by competitors, the competitors likely didn't know they were doing a DDoS, as they were aggressively scraping product listings but just doing so without any delay/rate limiting and it effectively DDoSed them. They weren't trying to make the target site slower, but were trying to get data at a rate that made the target's servers uneconomical to their actual paying customers.

This kind of attack is nothing like the actual DDoS attacks, but it's a lot more common in my experience, but also relatively easy to mitigate with something like Cloudflare or Akamai (which is what I'd recommend to my customers).
Very clear mental image there. Thanks for phrasing it that way.
All this energy and waste so I can talk to my computer and get it to write me an essay. Pointless. Expend the energy automating away sweatshop jobs.
Christmas lights also use as much electricity as entire countries.[1] If the energy usage is what these people actually care about... where's all the moral outrage about Christmas lights?

Obviously something used by millions of people will use a proportionate amount of energy. Not sure why that's so surprising to people.

[1]: https://phys.org/news/2015-12-christmas-energy-entire-countr...
Personally, as a website visitor and occasional author, I don’t want the performance to be good enough to ‘do the job’. I want it to be as fast as possible. I want it to be instant. For that we need unbloated websites and better protocols. It’s not a competition.

After all, you don’t need bloat to suffer from head-of-line blocking. You just need a few images.

(Though, personally I’m a much bigger fan of HTTP/3 than HTTP/2. With a more principled solution to head-of-line blocking and proper 0-RTT, HTTP/3 makes a stronger case for why we need a new protocol than HTTP/2 did. I don’t know why HTTP/2 had to exist at all, really, when QUIC already existed by the time HTTP/2 was being standardized. Oh well.)
This is such a strange metric. When light bulbs were first invented, they also used more electricity than entire countries. So what? All that means is countries have very different levels of energy consumption.

According to Wikipedia, China uses 118,000 times more energy than, say, Nauru. Okay, and?

Is A.I. doing useful work in exchange? Absolutely, especially when compared to crypto. On a per output basis it's probably also more energy efficient than human writers and artists who wastefully metabolize cow products.

I don't know that we should be measuring productivity on an output per watt-hour basis to begin with, but if we did, we should at least put it in context.

Training an AI costs 40 home-years worth of energy... that's it?! How is that even newsworthy? The value AI gives us, now and in the future, is way way greater than a random selection of 40 households. Energy well spent.

If we truly cared about energy efficiency, human metabolism is incredibly inefficient. Do we really want to go down the path of comparing algorithms versus biological power usage? It's not going to look pretty for us.

Put another way, if ChatGpt uses 500 MWh a day, that's about a quarter tank of single 747's fuel. It's not even a rounding error.

Is it worth it? Probably. Is it significant? I'd say no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_pri...
> It’s worth remembering when doing inflation calculations just how poor people used to be.

And also, how much of the wealth created by the employees ended up in their pockets vs. the pockets of the owners, and how the standards of living were. Basically, back then with such a job you could afford a place to live, to have kids, a wife to take care of housework and, post 1930-ish, a car. Today? Most of my generation struggles to make rent because we're being bled dry.
Presumably also related, or so I thought when I saw the two items side-by-side on the homepage:

The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37836889 (though that was due to Marc Brunel, Isambard's father).
That sounds fascinatingly different from how most teams I know of operate. If you don't mind talking about it a bit more, what application domain do you work in? Do you know how this work style arose in your team?
> This extreme scenario is unlikely to happen in the short term because of the high costs associated with additional AI servers and bottlenecks in the AI server supply chain, de Vries says.

If we suddenly start ignoring the costs, it could get very expensive, indeed.
The usefulness of AI is borderline zero too.
Sometimes patent holder enter into initial deals with manufacturers and then can't lower the royalty price for other manufacturers. Even if they'd make more from higher volume, the initial manufacture might be serving high-end customers and doesn't want other manufactures entering the market at a lower price. So they refuse to agree to a lower patent royalty even though it would save them money. It's counterintuitive, but rationale under certain circumstances. This is pure conjecture for the e-ink patent on my part, but I've seen it first hand for other products.
Does Nintendo or PlayStation support Vulkan or OpenGL?
That did happen. Some of the circuitous routes of railways are due to the objections of large landowners.
So do you have one password memorized or hundreds?
REI-ification of things in 2s 3s 4s .. 7s. Humans and Crows (from the research) appear to like categorising things and have pretty clear affinities for sets which are bounded in the low digits.

4 goes to squares, 3 triangles, 2 halves is the false dichotomy. Few things are unitary.

We don't often do fives, or sixes but we do have the ISO 7 layer model.
Great question! That’s correct, for the moment we’re focusing on everything that happens in the backend. That said, the system will accept anything in the pprof format so I’d love to see something like “1% of users get profiled and data sent” from the frontend, that’d be awesome!

We’ll think about building something like this but if there is someone with a use case I’d love to chat and figure out how we can make it work together!
> So I guess there's my answer: they'll keep the Win XP boxes around as long as they need to.

Anything that can be virtualized should be virtualized.
IMO the reason the compiler doesn't add special cases for the simplest version is that it doesn't know which of its _many_ special cases to use. If you actually use the unoptimised version of the code like

void withSwitch(vector<int>& Values, bool v) {
if (v) {
multiply1(Values, 2.0);
} else {
multiply1(Values, 3.0);
}
}

Then it actually inlines the code and optimises each one correctly, as it has context about which special cases are available. (Doesn't even need the `inline` keyword for this at `-O2`)

You can see the code here: https://godbolt.org/z/5beeYe77a
Metformin seems like the wonder drug. Reduces long covid chance, protects muscles, used in every anti-agers supplement stack, and now can help with gums.

Seems like something non-diabetics may want to consider?

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-metformin-a-wonder-dr...

https://healthcare.utah.edu/press-releases/2023/07/common-di...
> This is such a strange metric.

This metric has been used for years by dstractors of cryptocurrency for years without anyone batting an eye.
They make it superficially closed but it's pretty simple to get around it with a USB drive. Really all you have to do is ignore their subscription system and size your images to match the screen.
No fan of what's happened with X, but I quite dislike the legal starting place of making folks prove their innocence.

Anyone have a link to Thierry Breton's letter, in text not picture form? https://twitter.com/ThierryBreton/status/1711808891757944866

The Musk quote from a year ago on the DSA efforts is fantastic. https://www.politico.eu/article/musk-reached-out-to-breton-o...
Pro tip for any spouses out there on that first night in the hospital:

Tell the nurses to screw off if baby and mom are doing fine.

We had a similar issue in that they would come around every hour and do 45 minutes of testing. Let mom and baby sleep and eat for a while, they've both been through a lot.

Also, for the first timer's out there: Your normal rhythm of doing something hard and then going to relax and recoup is not how babies work. Like, you go climb a mountain, take a test, have a hard day at work. Then you go home and relax and recharge, right?

That's not how a newborn works. The labor and delivery are the start of the 8-12 week long process of getting the newborn used to a day-night cycle and a feeding cycle. You really don't have any recouping or recharging time for the next 2-3 months. You don't have it after the 2-3 months either, but things get a bit calmer and you'll likely be sleeping more by then though.

I don't want to scare you off parenthood, but let you know that the normal way of things is not how your life is going to go now.
Fixed! Thanks for the feedback. My bad.
Because crypto produced nothing of value. AI does.
What are you talking about? Mazda had hydrogen concept car in 1991, Toyota started selling hydrogen cars in 1996 before EV, Honda in 1999.
Thanks to both of you for the amazing descriptions. And continued good luck.
So I guess the world of apps has come full circle --- from direct download to app store extortion back to direct download.
It would be great if these economists and other non-practioners would consult any legitimate domain expert before writing these dumb columns. David Patterson has been writing and presenting on this topic a lot in the last 2-3 years because some widely-cited paper overestimates the cost of training and inference by between 50x and 1000000x depending on how you look at it. His deck is pretty interesting: https://chips-compilers-mlsys-22.github.io/assets/slides/10%...
Steam and Battle.net are so annoying here. Three years on and what are essentially web browsers still haven't be compiled for Apple Silicon. Bnet keeps getting worse and I don't even run Steam anymore, there's no point.
You think your are anonymous? Please.
I prefer Zoompast, also free (as yet), developed as a student project a Imperial College, London:
https://zoompast.com/about
I'm not sure what you're talking about, but DOM rendering systems aren't really part of the web components suite of standards right now. That's left to userland and there are a few web components libraries that do use VDOM for rendering.

Now, as a Lit maintainer I do think that VDOM is a lot of unnecessary overhead, and the benchmarks show that, but rendering libraries and web components are orthogonal things.
no, that's your knowledge that is only nil. millions use it already. at very basic level it helps sci-hub funded, but u can't even comprehend that. It also help millions access to digital usd.
This isn’t an optimization you should consider without insight into your actual bottlenecks, but compilers can be even more aggressive with code that’s strictly local to one translation unit (i.e. inside an anonymous namespace in a cpp file) than they typically would be when seeing an inline hint elsewhere.

It’s not quite the same.

Plus, another benefit of duplication is that you can more freely hand-tune your implementation once you’ve decided its private. Memory alignment, pointer aliasing hints, clever loop structures, SSE stuff, etc can all be used more freely when you know nothing else needs to use this version.

The article is a good teaser around how unintuitive optimization can be, but it only scratches the surface.
I think the spine is far more complex than the average person is aware of. From what I have read it has some basic reaction/thinking capabilities which may be beyond what can be made by humans.
"Correction: The key points of this article have been updated to reflect that 3 trillion won is equivalent to $2.2 billion."

from TFA
My EV gets a huge chunk back and it has amazing torque on climbs… not sure how this compares for as large a vehicle as a fully loaded truck though.
haha yes, me too!!! curl is useful, and so popular these day. Always use curl install for tools which I contribute to [1].

[1] https://github.com/docsion/rfsh#install
> I see a future where teaching jobs are extinct and everybody learns with some AI/LLM that can tailor a unique learning experience to each student based on their current knowledge level and learning style instead of having to constantly cater to the lowest common denominator in classrooms. Imagine every child anywhere in the world whether its some poor malnourished African kid, or Elon Musks
50th child, they will all have access to the same high-quality education. Wont matter how wealthy you are or where you are located, everybody will have the same opportunities to educate themselves.

Excerpt from conversation I had with someone
The problem for the attacker is they then run into resource limits on the TCP connections. The resets are essential to get the consumption not counting.
Checkout the movie The Creator for a dystopian (or at least disturbing) use of that technology
A sorted list, with promotional results marked at the top? Seems familiar...
It is if you're not being pedantic and you can acknowledge that the fraction of that land mass that is habitable is still huge and connected to infrastructure that would facilitate further expansion.
A small country to power something that you can run on a Raspberry Pi using sqlite is another level ;-). All because there is no one you can trust.
To be precise, the FAA makes no such assumptions, instead they directly quote the results of an independant Aerospace Corporation Technical Report (included as an annexure to the FAA submission)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aerospace_Corporation

https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/Report_to_Congress_R...

These are based on 1970s VAST studies on reentry debris survivability which are applied to the the SpaceX satellite tonnages and upper stages of launch vehicles.

The FAA explicitly qualifies this with:

If SpaceX is correct in reporting zero surviving debris, as SpaceX reports in FCC filings, and Starlink is a fully-demisable spacecraft, the rise in reentry risk is minimal over the current risk.

The question the FAA poses is "IF ... as SpaceX reports ..." and they suggest that is a area worth careful scrutiny.
What country is this? I've never seen this in the US.
Project success? Thanks to workers, they deserve a reward! Project failed? Due to managers, they should be replaced!

Or vice versa, depending on what side of the fence you are on. Acknowledging incompetence seems to be taboo everywhere, managers don't want to acknowledge that managers are often incompetent, and neither do workers want to acknowledge workers are often incompetent.
"After running your proposed project through the HM Treasury Green Book*, I'm afraid we can't justify funding it."

* The Green Book is how the government appraises public projects. It has often been accused of having a miserly view on the benefits of infrastructure, leading to regional disparities in spending.
Honestly this doesn't seem very weird at all. Central banks commonly warn when they see uncertainty in areas where large amounts of money are being invested because it also threatens their own stability. Or did you forget when the 2008 (US) housing crisis spread world wide?
Their Art Store promotion is annoying persistent but not actually required if you put images onto a USB and have it slurp them up; all you need to do is ignore their requests for subscription when setting it up. All that's required is to resize them to full screen with your own matte, or you can just crop the images to the right aspect ratio. Depending upon your desire for fidelity, you could also use ML image extension to get the right aspect ratio.

This doesn't get around all the other annoying bugs in the firmware of course.
You need to use a compiler specific "always inline" directive if you want macro-like functionality of actually inlining code.

On its own, the C++ "inline" keyword does not cause inlining to happen, although compilers may treat it like a hint depending on optimization level. GCC does not inline an "inline" function on O0.

"Inline" in the C++ standard means "multiple definitions permitted" so the same entity can exist in multiple translation units without upsetting the linker. This is why C++17 added "inline" variables, which can be initialized in a header that's included in multiple places, even though the inlining concept has no applicability to a variable. The keyword was adopted for this purpose because of the primary association with affecting linkage behavior.
It's not about proving innocence, it's about proving compliance. Many regulations require proof of compliance.
There are existing cryptographically secured systems which have scaled to many users, like Bitcoin wallets and Keybase accounts, and do have a recovery fallback. It's usually called a "seed phrase" or "paper key"... which is really just a password! :D
What kinds of services would benefit from this level of security? I could see it being useful in corporate contexts (like locking down which machines are allowed to remotely control other machines), but not as much from a general consumer point of view.
It’s not just the headline. The first paragraph of the article is substantively wrong. The trial court granted FB’s motion to dismiss, finding that the plaintiff didn’t state a cognizable claim under California law. The appellate court reversed, ruling that—as a legal matter—the allegations could make out a claim for a violation of law. The court didn’t “find” it violates the law, it sent the case back to the trial court to make that determination.
It doesn’t teed changing

The constitution doesn’t insist that patents exist, just that congress is the one who regulates them if they do
You can get a very competent gaming machine for 1k, especially usd. That gets you apple's bottom end laptop, if that.

It's not comparable.
I don't know what medically complex means exactly but it sounds like you are being taken advantage of. Can you find a new set of pediatricians and see if they put you through the same ringer? That sounds horrendously expensive.
No, it just makes things farther apart, and more people sit in traffic jams. That's decreased productivity.
That is a blacker mirror than I thought!
Given all of the horror stories (some real, some hypothetical) told in this thread, it seems that one of the major side effects of passkeys — if not the primary purpose — is to keep you locked into whatever you used to create your passkey. Plaintext export would ameliorate that.
Then you have the video of the challenger hellcat outrunning a helicopter...

https://youtu.be/W9eLpH513po?si=e2vfe_ntQSkduewW
If I'm allowed to use a software implementation (like with TOTP) so that my private keys can be stored in for e.g. a KeePassXC database so that I can back it up by having multiple copies, then I'm okay with it. Is it possible for sites to deny certain webauthn providers (ignoring scenarios like attestation forcing you to use a locked down system where you can't run keepassxc)?

Hopefully Tor Browser can turn on security.webauth.webauthn in a safe way before sites force it to be used, too.
This is very... un-American. Freedom is not freedom if it doesn't include the right to do things others might not like.
A backfire is when the exhaust goes back out the air intake. An explosion in the exhaust system is called an afterfire, and is far more common. Most people just say backfire for both, unaware of the other term
It's a good thing we have this thing called the sun, and storage mediums such as batteries and kinetic energy storage systems now widely in place and growing exponentially.
Strange metric indeed. "As much as a small country" is about as useful as saying "as big as a small rock".
I can't stand services that only support a single U2F key (cough AWS cough)
How does one get a prescription for preventive use? Just talk to your doctor?
New Zealand. Seems to be a blanket rule here.
> in which the usefulness is bordering on nil so far

Not at all.
You've got a point because that comment was edited (I know, not just because of the note the OP has used but because I also replied to it prior to the edit). However, you're not going to get far if you put it like that.

My advice, as a former shadowbanned hothead, would be to give dang an email and apologise, and point out calmly that you were responding to a comment that was later edited, and that'll you'll try to be less openly aggressive when posting in future. Dang probably appreciates nice emails like that.

Snark is supposedly discouraged on HN but I guess it's hard to police, you might move on to that ;-)
Seems like it'd be a little annoying to pick different things to type in for each service, maybe we could manage those, but still have a primary 'thing to type in' to the 'thing to type in' manager, which would then handle choosing and typing the various things into the various authentication boxes.
Not if you provide the option to view the password as plainly visible text too. If it's obscured always, then yes.

Don't make me repeat my email, unless you're obscuring that too.
"New algorithms for collaborative text editing" by Martin Kleppmann [video]
Toyota absolutely wants your car to never break. That's their entire business philosophy, and why I drive Toyotas and have for decades.
Yes the real enemy is people who have Macs
So... A month ago it was also the BMW CEO saying the same thing. Then Ford. Now Toyota? Three months ago, Mercedes was about to "destroy" the entire automotive industry. Nine months ago, Ford was going to "destroy" the EV market with... batteries. Oh wait, those are all video titles from the same YT channel.

Next.
Yes, agreed, you are right too.

There is a distinction between reasoning skills learned inductively (generalizing from examples), and reasoning learned deductively (via compact symbols or other structures).

The former is better at recognition of complex patterns, but can incorporate some basic deduction steps.

But explicit deduction, once it has been learned, is a far more efficient method of reasoning, and opens up our minds to vast quantities of indirect information we would never have the time or resources to experience directly.

Given how well models can do at the former, it’s going to be extremely interesting to see how quickly they exceed us at the latter - as algorithms for longer chains of processing, internal “whiteboarding” as a working memory tool for consistent reasoning over many steps and many facts, and long term retention of prompt dialogs, get developed!