skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe what Braben was referring to is the IRQ the APU sends when it's done playing an audio sample. This can be used as a hardware timer by playing a silent sample (all zeroes) and varying the sample length and pitch to adjust the amount of time before the IRQ happens. There's a Twitter thread (https://togetter.com/li/753345) from the programmer of Guardian Legend (a game that uses the APU IRQ for measuring when to switch from displaying the main gameplay to displaying the HUD) that mentions something similar to Braben's story. After the game came out, he started getting reports that it wasn't working correctly on a small number of consoles. It turned out out that Guardian Legend was the first game to use the APU IRQ and Nintendo had never tested that feature at manufacture. After this, Nintendo started instructing developers to not use the APU IRQ.
It's actually the reverse. The product direction is dictated by the goal (OKR). Our objective is to increase engagement from management which we know we are accomplishing by hitting the key result of admin users increasing average usage from y to x. From there a product team can generate ideas or prioritize ideas that fit the mold.
Brave layoffs
Often companies do not actually spend any effort on training employees to become better interviewers.

> Ask random questions off the top of their head instead of planning ahead?

Often times you just get randomly put into an interview to evaluate a candidate. But you still have to hit all the deadlines of your normal work. You have the incentive to hit your deadline but if you do not plan the interview it will not get noticed as much.

You have to put serious effort to improve your interviewing skills and you do not really get the opportunity that often if your company does not hire on a regular basis.
Claims of her sadism are wildly overstated and misrepresented
I think all three of those games are already passé for children. The people who grew up on Minecraft and Roblox are now in their twenties. No idea what actual children are playing these days; probably gacha games on their phones or something?
> And why American gun control laws have never matured despite all the evidence that proves the status quo isn’t viable.

Tbh I don't think this has anything to do with marketing. Guns are just a part of our culture regardless of whether we want them to be or not. If we were capable of changing this we'd be capable of doing a hell of a lot of other things, too, instead of sitting on our hands and loudly babbling about individual freedoms as a form of politics.
> Apple's restrictions exist to protect their 30% cut of all software revenue.

They don't need the App Store to do that. Xbox and Playstation have retail stores selling their software and they get a cut all the same because if they refuse to sign your game executable ... it won't run on end user machines.
At dinner last night my son in law went on verbal rampage about LLM “hallucinations” and tangentially on a fear of real AGI.

My point to him was that my own use of ChatGPT, Anthropic, and Hugging Face models always involves my providing text to work with, be that my own ideas that I want feedback or more extended ideation on and CoPilot auto completions in my Emacs buffers. Hallucinations are much less a problem in this mode of using LLMs.

I found this article to be reasonable, BTW.
The problem I'm now seeing is that creators have to make videos in which they either reference the sponsor a lot throughout or the whole video is centered around the sponsored content
Amazing, this is the tool I have been looking for a long time. I can create a plot, but I struggle to portray it. This helps me.

ChatGPT vs Jarvis : https://create.shortbread.ai/viewer/9a646605-124d-4dfe-8dca-...
Both you and the parent can be correct here - assuming your ‘recently’ is this century.
The quickstart and such have links to https://www.dotbigbang.com which is showing me a SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP on Firefox 117.
the archive website didnt write that article nor do they fund it. Their business model might be ridiculous, but they pay their reporters using that.
Controlling for academic experience probably raises the average accuracy of labelling, but by how much? Clearly having a degree will not make you omniscient in your major, let alone other subjects.
"Our moat is first mover advantage on destroying all of humanity"
Sounds interesting, what is the URL?
I have no special interest in the discussion except that I would like to leave a reasonable world to my children and I am generally pro-ecology.

With this said, I am also happy to have a car and to use it from time to time to drive. It requires fuel and fuel is made by oil companies (directly or indirectly).

I am not sure this is "supporting" them, but I sure do not want them to close overnight (we have in France from time to time the apocalyptic version of fuel not being distributed - thanks to our unions who prepare us for Mad Max style futur if oil was to suddenly vanish :))
Ethics/privacy aside ...

I wondered the other day what the result would be if you strapped a microphone on a baby and every utterance that both the baby and mic heard was fed through speech-to-text and went toward training the baby's personal LLM.

By the time the child had grown to an adult I wonder what kind of results their LLM would produce and the degree to which it might compare to what the child (now grown) would answer?

An "LLM" that could take in visuals via a baby-mounted camera is of course a whole other discussion. (Though I'm sure there are people training ANN's with video feeds rather than the static images that feed systems like DALL•E.)
Amazon Kuiper: Jeff Bezos joins satellite internet race
But humans can have a discussion about what is natural and what is not, and decide to mitigate it. The whole argument is based on the idea that the AI (either collectively or individually) can't even understand that, so the examples of cults etc. just do not apply.

It's really the paperclip maximizer argument again. "Superintelligent AI" will supposedly change the world, but will lack enough common sense to understand a simple instruction with ethical constraint. Same here, the crappy AI content will somehow take over the world, despite the fact that most humans can actually mostly recognize original content from a generated one.

The art that humans created doesn't replace nature, just like tons of kitsch don't pose a problem for new artists. In the same way, crappy AI content is not gonna replace good content, just augment it, and any decent AI (which has good enough common sense to be called "intelligent") will be able to tell the difference. Nobody's gonna care about crappy content in a few years, we are all gonna just throw it away, and this process happens continuously.
Are you the dev of diamond dropper? There's people pulling the old civ 5 unready troll by leaving/entering the circle since it begins a new countdown whenever a player enters/leaves the room queue square
Strange that synchnronization is used at all in lazy-seq

The docs do not mention any synchronization:
https://clojure.github.io/clojure/clojure.core-api.html#cloj...
VAT is deductible if the buyer is a VAT registered business. The amount of VAT is still printed on the receipt by law, so you can still know how much you pay.

Companies already manage seperate ads in the EU for language, currency and price discrimination reasons, it's really not a huge bother.
There is no actual AI PC as far as I know. But that does not mean that the choice of marketing hype does not provide a signal about current vendor's mindset.

Notice that it is not a "Blockchain PC" or a "VR/AR PC" they are peddling, to mention some plausible recent hype candidates one could use :-).
Without taking a particular position on how the probabilities shake out, I suggest critically reading “What We Owe the Future” by William MacAskill and:or other long-term writings that use statistical thinking over a wide range of future scenarios.
> How many people have their personal blog behind cloudflare?

I suspect that more people have their blog behind Medium, so that’s even lower hanging fruit.
How Shell Destroyed An Entire Country

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uuW4AP8M4M
My applications run on intranet/VPN behind IIS with Windows Authentication. If not WA, I would always choose Blazor Wasm, it gives you more control over what you do.

When building internal applications, you can make many assumptions - where are your users and how good is their network connection, how many of them do you have - dozens? hundreds? maybe even thousands, but not millions, so scalability is not a problem. Whether the app will be used on a mobile phones or not. Will it be a problem if your application takes 20 seconds to open? :) If the employee will use it half of the day, then probably no.
This is a bad company with a bad purpose for existing, and the people working with / for them should feel bad!
Please note that “hello world” or echo server benchmarks are typically unrealistic and misleading as comparisons between different performance categories.

A PHP, JS etc. runtime is always going to perform worse, the larger the codebase grows, than Go, Java, Rust etc.

A Bun/Node/Deno/Swoole/Workerman server that doesn’t actually run any substantial amount of JS/PHP (as is typical for benchmarks). Doesn’t actually tell you anything useful about the performance category your server can optimize towards.

These runtimes are obviously written in (almost exclusively) Zig, C++, Rust, C etc. which are languages that actually can express fast and lightweight code.

With a little bit of scripting on top of a server/runtime, this consideration doesn’t matter much. But any substantial amount of code is going to diverge very quickly if it’s not written in a compiled language.
I wonder how many site operators are aware of the underlying issue with leasing your site to CF, how much false positives and false negatives Cloudflare has, and if there are any alternatives.
To bring it up to code, is a very different situation than make it livable, especially when compared to living in a tent on the street.

If you gave me a floor of a commerical building that was mine, that I was allowed to build in and improve how I saw fit, I'd take that in a heartbeat. If there's an Kafkaesque set of red tape, then forget it.
> This was almost 20 years ago. I'd love to find out how small network attackers try to "monetize" their victims today

Crypto mining, installing software to sell access to the host as a “residential proxy”, good ole theft of data, using the host for DDoS, click fraud, etc
If you are really afraid of backdoors at the processor level, then the idea of an FPGA onboard should make you run like hell, if anything.
You can make something that is closed source and still allow people to download and run it for free.

Good luck.
I remember going to Disney World sometime in like 2003 or so. My dad decided he wa Ted to go to the Epcot center for some reason and their big feature presentation was on dinosaurs but really it was thinly veiled propaganda for the oil industry. It included a whole lot of repetition of the sentiment of “don’t worry. While we keep using more and more oil, we are always finding more.” It was pretty gross and in your face.

The kicker at the end of the presentation: Sponsored by Exxon Mobile.
Would it be immoral with a community effort to track and publicize the movements of the executives and enablers of such enterprises? Similar to ElonJet.
Ask HN: What's the difference between a cache and a buffer?
Is it a physical hardware difference? Is it just a convention? I haven't read 'What every programmer should know about memory' yet, but I've read K&R and Stroustrup's principles, and while that lifted the curtain on a lot of things for me, this one is still elusive.
Zig makes me think of the people that reject C++ and stick to C, with some shitty Go thrown in.

No one will ever take it seriously.
It applies if they work with PII of EU citizens. It might be to difficult to enforce the rules, but that is a different matter.
Which can be the case. Saving 15ms a few times a week/day/hour(?) vs hours of developer maintenance time over the life if the thing can still be an issue.
I suspect too.

It comes 1 week after ARM IPO.
I thought about this too. People say that LLM models are only saying the most common tokens that come after the previous token. And that this makes them incomparable to human intelligence.

But Humans are basically long running LLMs that are retrained in real-time. We are the product of our environment.
I really can't understand why an organisation would choose wordpress.

What are the benefits over an enterprise CMS like Drupal 10?
The sample size of up-votes on the comments of a 20 minute old post is not representative of anything.
Tiny Language Models Thrive with GPT-4 as a Teacher
I’ve noticed HN users in general enjoy being contrarian and argumentative. It’s a “I must be doing something smart if I’m going against the grain” attitude.
Raspberry Pi releases RP1 peripheral controller datasheet and block diagram
Thankfully we have the oil activists contributing on the topic by typing on their wood made electronics.
Portable Solar Chargers
I have a M1 Max and a AMD Ryzen Pro 5750GE (35W) - they are competitive, in fact on most things the 5750GE is slightly faster.
Try now to create your rap song using AI.
I can’t go into specifics for obvious reasons, but I can tell you they’re a smart, capable crew, with lots of resources, and time is on their side. If I had to place bets on which lab will invent agi, they’d be near the top, precisely because they’re exploring ideas that others don’t seem to be focusing on. It’s the early stages, so it’ll take a few years to get to results. But they’re laser-focused.

There are a bunch of things I thought were cool. John has a worklog going back four years or so, with entries practically every day. He’s nothing if not thorough.

Everyone tends to focus on John, but the other members are just as professional and dedicated. They’re a delight to work with. Also the investors are worth mentioning — Nat in particular has built a super cluster of H100s for startups to use, and has done a bunch of other work to support AI.
If only there was a body of democratically elected leaders who could help enact policies and laws for this sort of thing. In the interest of the majority of the citizen class
Is that beneficial or not? I'm still too much of a novice to know.
Yeah, I was a bit confused, they sort of addressed it in the opening sub paragraph but then called it a trope.

Not addressing the increasing common usage of the term IN THE ART WORLD to refer to cultural appropriation is just odd.
This is very interesting to me.

I'd love it if I could also use my mobile devices to bring up paper docs instantly (mobile phone, tablet, kindle).
Yes, you always should be available for work outside your current company. Staying in one bubble for long periods of time leads to brainwashing.
I've just logged in to check - there is 300k people online playing across different modes. That's bananas for any game. Of course it's extremely relevant, because yes, kids you know might have stopped playing it already but there are always new kids who are trying it for the first time - and then people like me who still play it every week with friends even though we are 30+.
Those async status updates really hit home as an example. This was a good, quick one and something I'm going to put some attention towards in the future.
Pretty impressive results on the new version of vqsort.
Life Lessons College Won't Teach You
Entirely personal opinion and controversial but for example:

I think for "Can I kick it?" Tribe Called Quest were pretty tasteful
with such a very audacious lift of Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side
bassline [0] and the Ian Dury lick, whereas, as a bad example, M.A.R.R.S
really kludged everything from Eric B And Rakim into "Pump Up The
Volume" that really didn't work for me.

It's really just the slide and stop of course - besides there's quite
a story behind the original bassline by Herbie Flowers the session
musician who played on Transformer anyway!
Regulation is the answer here since the mitigation methods are known
Target says it's closing stores due to theft. The data tells a different story
Ask HN: Do you believe that Apple and Google should have helped Mike Crawford?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19488164

They should have helped him out financially.

We have created a society where Bezos and Musk have it all while the rest are left with nothing
Excellent work. I have just learned about the performance of other LLMs. Based on my prompt, Jurassic is the fastest, and Claude is the smartest.
I personally find let, also, and friends to be a clarity nightmare. For me, they make reading code harder.
Which probably describes how a lot of the people who hop from job to job every couple of years operate. That's never been me admittedly. And basically every job I've had since grad school has involved contacting someone I knew and ending up with an offer. I've done fine but arguably haven't maximized compensation though that really hasn't been my goal.

Obviously I'm not the target for something like this given that I've applied to three jobs in the past 25 years and none of those were through a regular application system.
>My dream is to make everything visualizable at runtime.

Check out demos of the old Lisp Machines, [1] is a brief overview demo, [2] links to a timestamp with a view of some simple diagramming, but I’ve seen TI-Symbolics beasts routinely display complex relationships in Lisp code on their massive (for the time) bitmapped screens. The limitation was the end user managing the visualization complexity.

With open source llvm, clang and similar making available abstract syntax trees and even semantic analysis and type checking results, LLM’s assisting with decompiling binary blobs, and modern hardware (goggles, graphics cards, and so on), I sometimes wonder how close we can come to reproducing that aspect of the Lisp Machine experience on open source operating systems.

[1] https://youtu.be/o4-YnLpLgtk

[2] https://youtu.be/jACcgLfyiyM?t=43m52s
Easily possible. Paperless-ngx works great on mobile as well. I have WireGuard on my phone and connect that way, then simply use a mobile browser, no app needed.
Disagree that the Rocm libraries are poor. Their integration with everything else is poor because everything else is so highly Nvidia centric, and AMD can't just write to the same API because it's copyright Nvidia (see Oracle's Java case).

The adoption of CUDA has been such a coop for Nvidia, it's going to take some time to dismantle it.
The United States is now the largest producer of oil in the world, if that helps.
Yes, this narrative should be stopped. Nothing is getting destroyed.
It's the shared link of the post, but to share again here -- https://teig.pro
It’s like the best homemade doorbell ever!
Absolutely agree. Fail2ban, sooner or later, bans you from your services becasue something in the configuration went wrong.

It does not protect against anything serious: you must have proper credentials/MFA or certificates and therefore bots can check as much as they want.

There is no protection against DoS either.

And I agree about moving the port - I only see a tiny activity in my logs coming from bots when my ssh port moved away. Obviously 443 is there to stay (this is a public service) so I will get whatever comes.
They could have stayed with Drupal. V9 and 10 are much improved
I’m not talking about human behavior so much as about market structure. You go with the best offer that you get. If 3/4 is the best offer because your employer has driven labor-market competition out of town or because there wasn’t much competition in town to begin with (think Walmart or Amazon warehouses), then you need to take 3/4 or else be unemployed.

Savings help you for a while but if you’re like most workers, eventually you’ll need a job again.

But I think you’re also right in that inflation helps employers lower wages without being upfront about it.
Hey Jiriro, if you're serious please come and enjoy/support some of
our cybershow.uk shenanigans, its all hacker related.
> In the next few decades, a whole bunch of humans will be financially devastated, physically relocated, and made dangerously jealous, defensive, and angry by climate change.

Yes, or dead.
Also, since .NET 8 (which will be released next month), there is a new way of using Blazor which combines "normal" SSR (same you'd get with ASP.NET MVC or Razor Pages), Server/WASM functionality and stream rendering. Meaning you'll be able to get the best of all worlds (SSR speed and SEO, and Server/WASM interactivity), all at in one place.
It’s not free/oss, and it’s on the Apple ecosystem, but DEVONTHINK does a fantastic job of this, and supports storing all of your documents in a webdav store which you can host yourself. It uses Aabbyy fine reader for ocr which I have found to provide better results than tensorflow based ocr.
"Cultural appropriation" is not part of the mainstream discourse. It is only used by extremist groups and nothing more than thinly-veiled racism against mostly white/European people.

It is indeed sad that the term had to be mentioned here.

Now, copying others and foreign cultures has been a thing since as long has human beings have had a culture. It is a positive thing when others like what you do and want to copy it.
No idea, but after 27 years of web developments (yes I started around 1996) I would choose Wordpress every day and twice on Sundays. I have used Drupal, Joomla and Codeigniter extensively, and yet my answer today is, Wordpress.
This isn’t directly about creativity, but I suspect a lot of training will happen in simulated environments. A sandboxed Python interpreter is a good example. There are plenty of programming questions to train on.
They do not care about outbound attacks. They care about anything that goes against the approved narrative. The only way I've managed to get them to care was to have a coworker translate my email into Chinese characters and give CIDR blocks to their government and say they are spreading democracy and those networks go silent. The ISP's will just ignore complaints otherwise.
Also known as Dash in Debian (it's satandard POSIX shell) and sh in Busybox that sadly tainted the original BSD source file with GPL2.

https://github.com/mirror/busybox/blob/master/shell/ash.c
One thing that I’ve done that makes my paper handling process much easier is have my printer/scanner point to a write only samba share. Most HP printers support this. I wrote a short script that looks for new files in there (with inotify), runs OCR on them with OCRMyPDF and moves them to a different file share. It means that my non-technical family members can just stick the paper in the document feeder, and 20 seconds later, an OCRed copy ends up on the family file share. You don’t get the fancy tagging and search that this provides, but file shares integrate natively into all OSs, which is a huge perk.
Berry is a ultra-lightweight dynamically typed embedded scripting language
Witnesses to FBI hunt for Civil War gold describe loaded armored truck,night dig
Can anyone explain why Cloudflare thinks it's their job to force CAPTCHAs or "Turnstile" on users? Why is bot traffic so bad for them? And in case it's about preventing DDoS attacks, can't they wait for an actual attack until they activate the check for a site?
Exactly. Many places I've seen pick wordpress only to realise it isn't working. they go to another agency who recommends them a new website in.. wordpress.
And there is Blazor Hybrid. Which is basically a electron shell / Cordova approach where a web view hosts the UI and the rest is in the regular .NET process on windows, Android, Mac and iOS. Maybe Linux not sure. It is currently a minimum of 4-5 different modes. Blazor is a beast.