skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://webgpufundamentals.org/ is the best learning material I've found. I've been learning Rust's WGPU and I appreciate that the tutorial uses a different language and a slightly different API[0], it keeps me thinking instead of just copy/pasting.

I never learned OpenGL, but think I will have to eventually refer to some OpenGL material, because there's no WebGPU material except the spec and like 3 incomplete tutorials.

[0]: WebGPU is a JavaScript API, so Rust cannot implement it exactly, but it's very close.
When people say we're living in the information age it's not just some hokey platitude. The (amount, speed, distance) of information travel is something that's been thrust upon us and how we as a society deal with whatever happens as a consequence is something that's still in its infancy.

The phrase "sticks and stones" was coined in 1844 when by all reasonable account words has a real tangible limit on how much they could follow and hurt you.
TBH I don't trust google on security one bit after one of my namesakes attached her phone to my google account a few months ago without any warning or prompting by google to me.
You can call it a FAANG salary if it makes you feel better, but if you can't afford your own place, you are not in the middle class, you are living in poverty.

> moving to some other place with possible salary reduction

Well, we just proved that pretty much everybody in tech can work remote, with no effect on the profitability of the companies, so why should there be a reduction in salary working some place else?
> I'm not a Elon fan but the autopilot in a plane does basically the same (if we are saying that planes and cars do the same thing, which is transport people) that Tesla's or many more manufacturers "autopilot" does on highways.

Even if true, when you talk about consumer marketing, none of that matters.

I don't have name for it, but there's a whole class of bad-faith, deliberately misleading statements that exploit the difference between common and technical understandings (e.g. say something you know most people will inaccurately interpret as X, then fall back to the much narrower Y when challenged).
> They wanted to know which coding question they’d only gotten partial credit on during the screening phase, and why.

You gave them results / feedback on the screening phase? That is probably more rare than their email!
The problem is the "intelligence" word causes more harm than value. It makes the whole world afraid of what is in fact just matrix multiplications.

We don't know what "intelligence" means, but we know it isn't matrix multiplication, or brute force algorithms, otherwise gears could be called intelligent.

I understand the importance of selling. But selling shouldn't be confused with deceiving consumers. It's hard to accept our work is used to create general panic for the sake of money.
No, it's truth in labeling.

> I’ve been told that a product was “driven by AI” only to find out it was driven by “if-then” statements.

At best, a system like that is an "expert system." It's not artificially-intelligent in any way.

This, BTW, is why many developed countries have strict labelling laws for food and trademarks. Otherwise, people will call something whatever they can get away with in order to sell it, even if it's not what they claim they're selling.
I work in a veterinary school, and it's remarkable to see how worn down veterinarians are compared to my colleagues in "people medicine" (and my comparison group are infectious disease folks - they're not exactly a cheerful group).

To be honest, at this point, between how hard it is to get into vet school, the debt load, and how you're signing up for crushing compassion fatigue your whole life, and a career of hoping someone will pay for a procedure to save their pet's life while being braced for "I guess we should put them down..." every day, I wouldn't tell someone I cared for to become a vet.
"(irony)" means irony and means sarcasm.
A Key to Birkenstock's Billion Dollar Success? Its Frumpiest Shoe
If such a person is "frustrated" then it sounds like they don't actually have the power they claim to have, or, they would just file that "big lawsuit". And, if this is really his job, and he has the power to litigate this, then certainly this is what he should be "wasting" his time on, should it not?
People are happier in a walkable neighborhood: the US community that banned cars
History tidbit: before the Haber process was discovered, most commercial fertilizer was calcium cyanamide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_cyanamide) as a downstream product from calcium carbide – one of the first industrial chemistry processes.

In the late 1800s - early 1900s this was done along many riverside cities in Eastern US and Canada, because of cheap hydro power generated by dams.
https://archive.ph/6fnSY
Sadly this is interviews now. Someone realised that if they just don't give feedback for interviews then they can't say something incriminating that could prove they violated labor laws, then everyone started doing it and now it's just the thing that's done.

Same for references. The best you can realistically hope for now is written confirmation of dates you worked somewhere, your job title, and at a push (maybe) your salary, although I've never once found it's in the prospective employee's best interest to disclose previous salaries.

(Depending on where you are in the world your new employer may just be able to get this info from the government anyway or ask for your last payslip).
I'd like something like that for French. I've extreme difficulty to differentiate between "deux", "de" and "des" among other very similar phonemes that are so common in the French language.
That is one plausible scenario, but another is that Breton, by all accounts, an arrogant, petty autocrat, is simply attempting to impose his will, not just on Musk, but everyone else. The words he has chosen to use suggests the latter may be closer to the truth.
A recruiter is a third party and has a monetary reason to work with you to get you placed elsewhere.

Microsoft HR has no reason to expose themselves to anything that could possibly maybe someday involve a discrimination lawsuit. So why would they allow it?
This guy debuks.
The book had not even been published at the time. Dick wrote it in 1962, it was serialized in 1969 and published in book form in 1972 so it could not have influenced Disney at all.

I would though think that this Star Trek episode must have been informed by Disney's Lincoln

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

even if there is no explict connection drawn (everybody knew about Disney's Lincoln then, it was talked about a lot) It is mentioned specifically in the 1967 film

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_President%27s_Analyst

where the protagonists are being lectured to by an animatronic figure and once character says "He's like Abe Lincoln" so there is some expectation at that time that people would know about him.
I assume the legal risk is too big.

I once got told why over a phone call, and I suspect that's because in California, recording the phone call without consent is not legal. So it would not be allowed as evidence.

Needless to say, I am not a lawyer.
That's where the rest of us come in. I for one would much sooner take a grocery delivery job if it's a critical service for the elderly and disabled rather than midnight pizzas for potheads.

The idea that a car is the only lifeline for people with physical disabilities bespeaks broader social ills.
It will probably make the city quieter and cleaner, but wouldn't make it also exclusive for people that can afford an electric car?
Sadly, a good rule of thumb is that >95% of humans are >95% okay with large corporations doing immoral, illegal, or even horrific things at scale - so long as they see themselves as a beneficiary of that, and the bad stuff is pretty much kept out of their sight and neighborhood.
Yes: "AI" stands for "Artificial Intelligence."

As in a computer mimics human-level intelligence; as opposed to, you know, sitting down and writing a computer program.
Your average graphics developer is not supposed to use Vulkan/Metal/Direct3D directly, but through an engine.

So in a way it doesn't really matter what these low level APIs are like.
“Weak device authentication”? I though all phones had fingerprint scanners or face scanning nowadays?
Ok, and who decides what those very few limited circumstances are, and based on what criteria?
> Question: “I have been told that you should only ground the Ethernet cable at one end. Is this true?”

>

> Answer: “Sometimes yes, but only if you are seeking to avoid a ground loop. You likely don’t have to worry about this. If you are running shielded Ethernet between two structures that have their own separate AC systems or separate grounding rods installed, then YES, you should worry about what is known as a ground loop. A ground loop occurs when you have actual conflicting AC ground systems. Merely bonding your Ethernet cable at multiple points to the same AC grounding system in a single structure does not create ground loops. Think in terms of ground rods. How many ground rods are involved? If you have more than one with more than one structure involved then you are wise to bond to ground at a single end only.”

From https://www.truecable.com/blogs/cable-academy/residential-bo...
Loads of towns in the UK have pedestrianised streets going back to the 80s, it's totally doable, and we're pretty car centric.
Mobility scooters are not only for the morbidly obese.
In Seattle we still allow cars at pike place market. Talk about stupid
Answer --- No one really knows.
Or they use their iDevices, which have plenty of games already.
Interesting take. Pascal is definitely a niche language but most of the community around FPC and Lazarus seems very positive and welcoming.

Would you mind expanding on why you feel this way? What Pascal do you use? Do you use Delphi or FPC/Lazarus? What don’t you like about the language (or your particular vendor implementation)?
Electric scooters (with seats if need be) are good enough. Moving a ton of metal for errands in city is insane.
When I first started with Emacs I went with a ton of packages. Each time I started my config over, I'd learn more about defaults I like and my config become thinner.

I'm a fan of using packages that hook into Emacs defaults. Like providing data for xref for example.
The first Local-first Software London meet up is next week (18th Oct)
Hey everyone,

We are holding a first ever Local-first Software London meet-up on the 18th October, at IDEALondon, near Old Street. The idea is to get together, chat local-first and have a few talks.

We have an awesome lineup of talks:

- "Everything's better with Friends" from Sunil of PartyKit

- "Designing the DDLX - a local-first database rule system" from Paul Harter of ElectricSQL

- "CRDT challenges in the wild" from Russell Brown of Ditto

- and an into to Local-first from myself.

Do register to let us know you're coming.
It’s almost like ‘artificial intelligence’ is the simulation of intelligence using artifice.

Do people just gloss over the ‘artificial’ part of ‘AI’?
9x more value for money than Datadog – SigNoz
Or doesn't get along with humans too well. Which can be a sign of underliyng depression.
Well, you're of course using the best example on the one side and the worst on the other side, so that's not really a fair comparison.

Apart from that:
The phones generally try to substitute the tiny sensors through highly complex software algorithms, creating something that sometimes only has a broad similarity with the original scene.
The cameras, on the opposite, usually have crappy software and rely on their great sensors (and other hardware).
So in an ideal world, you'd have a proper camera with good software.
That software then doesn't have to do all the (good or bad) stuff which is only there to try to make the best out of less than ideal image input, but instead it can provide more user friendly features which allow making quick and easy photos without having to study tutorials for a week (yes, now I am exaggerating a little on purpose :)).

This software doesn't have to do all the crap that in any way reduces the image quality in the end.

Please don't just think in the extremes, but look for the healthy middle way that would provide the best out of both worlds.

It is not Android that does the image processing itself btw., but special software that the phone manufacturers add on top of Android.
So this part would be the responsibility of the camera's manufacturer again, but this time they could focus more on their central use case (help making good pictures) instead of writing everything (like the user interface) themselves. And they could even provide their users with more options to extend their software for even better photos.
This is a misleading whataboutism.

EVs use primarily regen for braking, so they contribute almost no brake wear. And that isn't even a problem.

It matters what is emitted. Tire wear particles are relatively large, and don't stay in the air.

Anti-EV disinformation uses the trick of counting pollution by weight, which completely discounts gaseous emissions, which is the real pollution that people breathe in.
Vulkan is positioned to replace OpenGL, but possibly OpenCL/CUDA, vaapi/video acceleration libraries, and probably more. So honestly, it's sort of understandable why things get confusing here. It's quite abstract as well as sprawling in scope.
Ah, way much better than it used to be.
That makes more sense, RTFA.
I hope this isn't hosted on Pascal. Got a 502.
Have you done any comparisons that you can point to? The iPhone 15 hasn't even been out all that long. The video in the sibling comment notes that the iPhone does surprisingly well in terms of dynamic range, for example (7:12).
I think I've come across Duff's device in Go internals for zero-ing memory.
This is actually pretty useful. I can see myself using this type of feature to remove videos or content I really am tired of seeing despite constantly & actively telling the algorithm not to send me these type of content anymore.
Yeah Vulkans great if you are in the business of making Game Engines / or 3d tools.

You are not going to want work in it developing your own game... unless you really want to, it shouldn't be necessary.
It would be nice to have a specific set of prompts that are good to evaluate speech.
For example, I am a native Portuguese speaker so I might struggle with Th's and R's.

Also the random phrase generator always generate the same phrase.
What about nginx? I'm not too familiar but I was under the impression that it was the safe choice
This is what toll roads do, kind of.
The curse of decades-long popular software:

- For the long-tail of software you can just ship it without worrying about the defaults or future backwards compatibility concerns because it won't hurt that many

- For popular software though the early defaults that work great for that era (and maybe a hundred people) will annoy all the tens of thousands of future users
It's using solar energy as input, where's the fossil fuels?

This development is exciting and hopefully spreads everywhere. Farmers being able to make their own fertilizer (at least on the nitrogen side), is a huge win.
Also not an aviation expert, but it looks like airplane autopilots can do everything except taxiing and taking off (they can do landings now I guess, in fact, just looking on Wikipedia it sounds like they are preferred in low visibility situations for some airports, because they have more sensors and the airports have maps/beacons to help them out).

Apparently it also must be engaged above 28000 ft. Imagine if autonomous vehicles were so good that they were required to be used while going at speed on the highway.
WebGPU is different because it's an abstraction of Vulkan, Metal or DX. Yes, the fragmenting is bad and annoying, WebGPU is the only graphics API that Apple agreed on and that would be truly natively cross-platform, but it's still new, lacking some features, and evolving.
half the ordinary people I talk to are spooked by "AI" combine with general deterioration of services by big tech, invasive agreements and slow, growing awareness of what surveillance might look like
I agree that the Haskell approach is not easily portable to other languages. At least according to the article, the Ruby community is struggling to find a solution. I don't think parentheses (or their absence) is a decided factor: for example, I don't find the hypothetical Ruby syntax ["hello","goodbye"].map(&reverse) to be offensive or wildly inconsistent. Note that the map function itself doesn't need partial application, only its function parameter.

For the same reason, I disagree that performance in dynamic scripting languages would suffer unduly.
Well no of course not. Not only are they still only predicting the next best word ("best" now working better thanks to attention), but anybody who's role played with an LLM learns many caveats of the architecture.

I think especially regarding spatial awareness/object permanence etc LLMs lack any ability to work with these concepts when it comes to predicting the next token.

I feel like we need to add more specialised heads (which I think some training regimen for LLMs already courages) for things like these concepts.

It's easy for them to lose track of where an item is and you have to catch its errors early and correct it, otherwise it'll take the error and run with it.
Its an anagram of Limed Eking which is a type of perennial herbaceous flowering plant that you can use the leaves of to treat small mammal bites.
Are humans able to hibernate to travel deeper into space?
Yes, I wonder which vested interests pushed the whole "range anxiety" and now they benefit from the cars being heavy in that they can point out the pollution.

All cars need to get smaller again, EVs should have automatic charging when parked and when waiting in traffic jams.

EVs are not the solution but they are a stop gap.
Biggest Nasdaq Companies, by R&D Investment
show-trailing-whitespace is quite annoying in ansi-term. Emacs is actually my tiling wm, because I need tiling only for terminals.
> umami

Since when is umami a new real flavor and not just a marketing term?
Repurposed footage from other wars or video games was called out in the letter, seems like a fast and uncontroversial definition of false.
Why set your Tesla in Drag strip mode for commuting? It makes zero sense not to set it to Chill https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modelx/en_us/GUID-43B58CA...
HN comments' section most likely :)
I'm glad to know that the person behind this post have real expertise, because at first glance the headline is a bit clickbait-like. (The content, though, makes excellent points.)
> how do you know which cases to separate the code into?

It takes practice. For this you really just have to read the assembly, and profile the code. Then try separating it one way and see if it helps, and if not then another. In my experience, it takes many tries to update your perf knowledge, and optimizations sometimes don’t work even when your knowledge is current. All this is why the article noted people should be “Giving the compiler an opportunity to do something is useful, but measure carefully before forcing it.”
Did anyone else get a feeling the author had recently read (or is at least a big fan of) Jonathan Swift's _A Modest Proposal_?
Personally I figured ML was a toolset to maybe eventually achieve some form of AI.
I believe you and I think most last mile deliveries already is done with EV vans in Stockholm so maybe that is less of an issue, my answer was mostly a joke anyway.

I have nothing against EVs, in fact the opposite. But it's not the EVs that is the main issue with Stockholm. It's that you don't feel safe travelling in the public transport anymore and they are doing basically nothing to combat it.
Complexity scales faster than revenue
You can analyze the application with Ghidra or IDA Pro.
Check out this channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@MasterYourFrench

They have lots of videos that go into the different pronunciations of specific phonemes, and will for example teach you when to use the open or closed variation for a word.

As for OP, the site just gives a score? How does one know how to improve with that? I was expecting something like "you pronounced this vowel like this when it should be like that"
I just started a simple service to use Mistral as a replacement for OpenAI. If anyone is interested you can sign up at https://lemonfox.ai
Thanks, the full article is hidden behind a paywall unfortunately.
You failed to quote the critical part of the sentence.

>They also didn't have to worry about the same healthcare costs, as they were healthier in general, and the options were far fewer when sick.

People were less obese, spent less time battling disease, and died younger.

It's somewhat similar to survivorship bias, but it is a real effect.

You can look up population incidence and prevelance rates for diabetes, obesity, alzheimer's, and cancer yourself.
Interesting to see comparison between pricing for different observability tools
> So how is it possible the tires are losing significantly more tread (and as a consequence, polluting more) but also lasting a long time?

Sorry, I probably phrased it in a confusing way, I was comparing the ratio between tire/brake and ICE PM 2.5 emissions for normal cars not saying that EVs are that much worse (the part about weight is just speculation).
The worst case of AI marketing that I have seen recently was an interview where the interviewee was describing ChatGPT 4’s capabilities. He was describing the model as having an IQ of 180 and comparing it to Einstein’s alleged IQ as well as ChatGPT 3, which had a lower IQ.

The subjectivity of IQ combined with the leading premise of being able to quantify a model’s performance with it is extremely disingenuous.

I can’t find a link, but I’ll share one if I do. I believe it was with someone in the C-suite at OpenAI.
I wish I could have this on something like superpowered.me, so

I could log what I say, and give me ongoing feedback on my dictation.

When I read prompts I am being more deliberate about my speech, and my results will be better than they actually should be.

This, combined with a spoken grammar feedback, would be meaningful to help non native speakers to improve their English.
These are almost orthogonal concerns. I may use nepotism to choose people I know who are talented. I may use other systems which attempt to completely level the playing field to do so. This may result in worse outcomes.
Yes, in repl it's convenient. I don't mind single letter block var names if the block spans one line :)
Memory palace works just fine without CLEAR visualization. CLEAR visualization is when you can do what was claimed of Tesla - move around complex systems and actually see them to scale / detail. There is no way in hell most people can take a transmission and put it together in their head and re-arrange it. Working memory doesn't allow for that, unless it's some entirely different system of processing in the brain.
> I don't know exactly where on HN I read it but it was "Artificial Intelligence is an ideology, not a technology."

What is this? https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-ai-is-an-ideology-not-a-...

That's a fantastic observation. I'd even hazard to say that for some Artificial Intelligence is closer to a religion, not just an ideology.