skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are very real dangers of assuming parents know what is right for their children or what their children will go on to value.

I know we live in a very weird era where Operant Conditioning (if you don't know what that is look up B.F. Skinner and I strongly recommend reading his semi-fictional work "Walden 2") and behavioural psychology are being applied by parents upon their children to try to shape the world outside of due process and democracy.

It will be interesting to see if future generations value the things that are being done for their supposed sakes or if they look upon the delusions of recent history with revulsion.
Ah fair enough, sorry if I misunderstood!
I thought X was all about freedom of speech...
https://github.com/philspil66/Super-Star-Trek
They already realized when they had to take the separate queues for non-Schengen residents at EU airports. Saw a Tiktok about it yesterday about envy for people being able to walk straight through the automated controls versus the 30 minute queue next to it
The article got me interested in looking at the game engine.

It isn’t supported by any browser I use so I could not be onboarded.
Wow, this bullying is unreal:

>Ackman enlisted the support of at least a dozen business executives who vowed to never hire students who are members of the groups that supported the statement.
Do you understand what the most ARM systems still doesn't have anything resembling ACPI?

Yes, Wintel figured this out, after the legacy of IBM PC.
Yep - "feels humanized". As could be said of a spring-gun (outlawed in England ~2 centuries ago), or a grenade-and-tripwire booby-trap laid along a trail regularly patrolled by enemy soldiers, or a WWII acoustic homing torpedo, or ...
BTW I was able to consistently repro that link not loading. I made a couple changes and it seems to be loading now. Want to try again? Lmk if it still fails for you
I don't advocate staying on an older version, but that depends on the services you have running. If you don't have any external service, you should be OK.

I tend to minimize internal services as well. I don't use OpenWRT as a general purpose server.

Still, an LTS release from time to time would be good (the effort would be the same, as there would still be only two maintained releases: the current stable and the LTS).
One of the principal challenges listed in the article is that you cannot stick a thermometer into the ground beef.

Apropos of that, I would like to encourage bakers to start using thermometers on their baked goods.

You'll see lots of recipes give all sorts of instructions on how to tell when something is fully baked like "until golden brown" or "until it pulls away from the sides" or "knock on it until it sounds right".

But it turns out you can just stick a thermometer in it.

Most things I bake need to hit around 190F internally before they're ready. This especially works well for things like cinnamon rolls that have a gooey filling that sometimes slows the bake so it looks done from the outside but is still gooey inside; you stick the thermometer in when it looks done and lo, it is only 160F inside, totally under baked.

It was a bit revelatory to learn this trick, for me; previously I only thought of thermometers as a tool for cooking meat and syrup.
Like this, it's pretty common way to use Postgres (with multiple schemas):

CREATE SCHEMA a;

CREATE SCHEMA b;

CREATE TABLE a.foo (id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY);

CREATE TABLE b.foo (id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY);
I don't think anyone has figured out how to implement this kind of LLM system in that way.

If you can crack differentiating between "command" tokens and other input tokens, you've cracked prompt injection!

It's been 13 months since we started discussing this vulnerability and I've not seen any evidence of anyone cracking this yet.
One way driverless cars might help is that they reduce the amount of land that has to be given over to carparks, especially in the US.

Where towns in Europe would build a multi-story carpark to serve a shopping mall, municipalities in North America may simply cover acres upon acres of land around a mall with asphalt (take the Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada, or the Fairlane Town Center in Dearborn, MI), in the process creating an almost lifeless zone.

You wouldn't need that much space for parked cars if everyone arrived in a driverless Uber.

(Apparently, US parking lots cover an area of around 25,000 square miles, about twice the size of Switzerland:)

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/sep/27/cities-elimin...
For one, it's about non high-end PCs. Also, you would wonder how many people hate high dpi screens.
asserts are not disabled in release builds unless you explicitly go out of your way to do so.
The ideal way to prompt would be to say something wrong and have it correct you, works great on the internet.

Sadly it doesn't seem to be smart enough to be at that level yet, it is too hard for it so when you do that it will hallucinate a lot as it corrects you, or miss your error completely.
Yeah, I think it's spectacular - GPT4-V is so much better then I expected it to be.
It’s an inevitable outcome of a culture so focused on age. I watch twitch streamers in their 20’s talking about how they’re old already. Narcissism isn’t just a social phenomenon spread online, I think it actively contributes to many public health concerns we’re seeing today.
>Not everything is a scientific paper.

I didn't say it was. I said that writing is about expressing transferring ideas.

>Good writing can also be art.

True. And good art is about... expressing and transferring ideas.
It means we don’t understand the mapping between the model and the prompt-level semantics. It also means we can’t cleanly separate (1) controlling the conversational behavior of the model from (2) having a conversation with the model. It means we have a black box that we can experiment on, but we can’t plan or predict how to control and customize it, nor can we reliably predict and control its behavior, because we can’t accurately reason about it.
The only difference between these prompts and user questions is that the user questions come after. Its like telling the root prompt in a Linux shell to behave then handing it over to a user with the # prompt.
Yeah, I wonder how much of the same could be achieved by just adding a few keywords.

Like in Ultima Online, where people could either do "Dear Sir, may I buy your wares?" which would be equivalent to "buy wares".
> Because the vast majority of people doesn't understand anything about it. And most don't want to because they've already made up their mind. You just have to look at any thread about crypto and it's full of misinformation and idiotic takes from people who obviously have no idea what they're talking about. E.g. threads on some kind of centralized exchange scam that has with comments like "I thought crypto was decentralized"

Ok but I do understand it, I also understand how cool the concept of the blockchain is _but_ real application of the blockchain outside of crypto is practically non-existent or could be better served by not using a blockchain.

As for snarky comments about “I thought crypto was decentralized”. Yes it’s snarky but it’s a totally valid criticism. You don’t get to extol the virtues of something if 99% of people don’t make use of it because it’s entirely too difficult to do for the layman. “If you don’t own your keys, you don’t own your coins”, cool but if it takes a career in CS to protect and backup your keys it’s not going to catch on.

Why do people put their (fiat) money in a bank instead of schlepping around all their cash or storing it themselves? Convenience, and crypto didn’t really address or fix any of that. In fact, in a number of ways, crypto is worse in things like transaction times. And don’t talk to me about lightning or similar concepts which require some level of centralization or trust outside of the base crypto guarantees. Centralized crypto was inevitable and people arguing differently don’t live in reality. That fight was lost decades ago when it comes to tech and nothing indicates that the tide is turning there.
It is just ironic that the Wired article is behind paywalls while the WEC is available for anyone for free.
The article uses video games as the example of physical media that suffers if digital is the only option. I'd like to add books to that list.

When the first Kindle came out in 2006, the marketing indicated that e-books would be cheaper than paperbacks, for the same reason a 12-track album on iTunes was $12 instead of $18.99 for the CD. So you would put up the DRM and Amazon's remote deletion features for potentially lower prices.

Almost 20 years later, this has not borne out as planned. Ebooks are almost the same price as paperbacks! In some cases, a new paperback is cheaper $12 than the Kindle version ($14.99), such as the Theranos expose book Bad Blood:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=bad+blood+book&crid=3J4CU652CO2WM...
Agree with all.

> entirely democratic process

Yup. Language change theory. Via emergent consensus, the most democratic process.
This explains why the random text that appears in the images often says things like “ethnically ambiguous”
My guess is that the snark comes from unhappiness, which strongly correlates with percentage of time spent online, which strongly correlates with probability one posts.
Higher dpi looks pretty but isn't easier to read.
I spent many happy hours playing vtrek on my cousin's 3B2:

https://svn.so-much-stuff.com/svn/trunk/cvs/trunk/games.d/vt...

It's really old and I never got it working on more modern operating systems. One of these days...
In the humidity vs thermostat question the literature you are probably looking for is ASHRAE Standard 55.(1) The short answer is that you can feel comfortable at lower humidity and higher temperature.

I found a tool to let you play with the parameters.(2) For example the air speed from a fan causes some cooling sensation so the temperature can be higher for the same comfort.

The energy use to get there would need to be modeled by measure of the change in cooling degree days vs energy consumption and that is not universal answer across all scenarios because of climate, construction, and ventilation.

(1)https://www.ashrae.org/technical-resources/bookstore/standar...

(2) https://comfort.cbe.berkeley.edu/
We have no choice but to have and use our brains, not so with LLMs. We don’t have to start building core technologies off of fundamentally flawed models.
Fifteen Word Processor Commandments (1984)
How Seed Oils Were Demonized
"The difference between the right word and almost right word is like the difference between lightning and the lightning bug." -- Mark Twain
The last part is a valid point, but it’s also part of what I don’t like about crypto.

You have this very technical protocol that lets you do banking without banks and theoretically without central banks. I always thought that was cool. But then you release it. A few aficionados use it, but most people can’t because it’s as you say highly technical and opinionated.

So along come people who try to do the usual tech thing of bringing it to the masses. They don’t care one bit about the libertarian political stuff. They don’t truly care how the technology really works. They’re looking to build a product.

So they do, and they release it, and it eventually finds product market fit: gambling and scamming. Note that this is also what most non-finance peolle do with direct access to stock markets and fiat currency markets too. It’s not something inherent to crypto. People love to gamble and scam.

Unfortunately this application and the number of people and amount of money involved in it totally swamps and dwarfs the original idealistic libertarian types. Crypto becomes about scams and gambling. This is how you get to 99% of all projects being scams or casinos.

It’s similar to how all of social media became about surveillance and propaganda supercharged by interfaces designed for addiction.

Now people hate crypto for the same reason they hate social media.

It’s tempting to wring your hands and just blame the unwashed masses for corrupting the fire you brought down the mountain, and that’s not entirely wrong. Yet I for one am not content with just doing that and being a curmudgeon.

Instead I like to think about how technologies can be designed from the ground up to incentivize positive uses.

Crypto has a lot of characteristics for example that incentivize or at least make it very attractive for stupid and destructive uses. The irreversible transactions are great for scams, and the highly deflationary economics are great for speculative casinos.
Single-player games that work without a central server of some kind appear to be going extinct. I used to be a big gamer in the 2000s but then local-multiplayer started to disappear, and pretty soon many games were becoming online-only.
He is, but majority leans more to restrict it all.
This is definitely false.

The effective approach for DDOS mitigation is to anycast the attacked subnet to diffuse the attack and intercept it with firewall nodes at the edge which use ASIC/FPGA offload to filter the attack at line rate then forward the filtered stream back to its usual edge.

eBPF direct compilation to NPU instructions is already supported on Linux by some devices, which is one reason eBPF approaches have a lot of potential in this space.
What a joke. Is he trying to pull off a Tumblr and drive off the last users he still has?
In the training data, it's likely more common to see:

"Please [do something]"

Then it is to see:

"You must [do something]"

"Please" makes it clear that what comes next is a command to do something.
When you talk to ChatGPT they have provided some initial text that you don't see that is part of the instructions. So chatgpt really sees:

- their instructions

- your instructions

But you only see your instructions.
I think it’s massively easier to read as dpi increases, at least into the 150-200 dpi range. (I won’t claim that 1200 dpi is easier than 600, but 200dpi is definitely better than 100dpi.)
You may be interested in programming in INTERCAL then! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL
Never understood how Valve's VAC bans are even legal. You pay for a game, Valve decides they don't like your computer and they take away your ability to play that and other games that you paid for without refunding you. Worse, they slander you on your Steam profile page so other gamers know what Valve thinks of you.

They claim to never make mistakes, but that's obviously bullshit since they make mistakes time and time again.
Yeah. I played a version of it on some sort of HP time sharing system using an old school mechanical TTY when I was in high school, and I graduated in 1975.
wifi/celluar have insane jitter than make them completely unusable for competitive gaming

if I ping my router on wifi it ranges from 2-10ms

40-100ms on celluar

(whereas ethernet is consistently about 100us)
> there was no functioning policy enforcement at State

I agree, the laws were not enforced in this case.
You can literally check if something has attached itself to your executable or replaced a DLL. No need to check for timings or anything particularly elaborate.
I agree UK politics are a mess but the new Step project seems quite interesting.

>Engineers are hopeful that Step will generate 1.6GW of power – about half as much as Hinkley Point C – which equates to a net output of up to 200 MWe. https://archive.ph/NQ7Wg

They don't actually have a design yet but the idea is there.
Isn't that standard? I only use the API (it's usually cheaper), so I don't know. Chatbox for example lets you configure different personas to talk to.
Merging Low-Code and Python RPA for Optimal Automation in 2024
My favorite is

/etc/cron.monthly/
/etc/cron.daily/
/etc/cron.hourly/
/etc/cron.weekly/

Super simple to use - no remembering the order of numbers.
Only one job runs at a time (so you don't need to pick times that don't overlap)
Of course, it doesn't handle every case.
I don't know if all Linux's have it.
Yeah, if we wanted to flap wings to fly, we would have never got the airplane.
I agree, most of my YouTube creator's are there. I'm basically missing only Tom Scott, Kurzgesagt and Technology Connections.

UX is pretty meh (although the "Nebula Enhancer" browser plugin at least fixes the missing queue), but that doesn't work in the app obviously
Going off the headline I was under the impression I'd be seeing pixellated images carved into wood blocks.
Many of these stores have completely eliminated human cashiers and gone 100% self checkout. Which, as others have noted, is really difficult with large items or very full shopping carts. On other forums people have told stories of abandoning full shopping carts when confronted with 30-45 minute waits to check out. Turns out that those human cashiers were pretty fast.

So some of this anger is directed at the store not being able to staff cashiers, but having plenty of staff around to confront customers over inaccurate checkouts.
Q3 Firefox Linux Update
I agree, but it shows you the headspace that Israelis are in right now. It's a natural human response, but the psychological state that they're in and resulting dehumanization are extremely worrying for what's to come.
> Ok but I do understand it, I also understand how cool the concept of the blockchain is _but_ real application of the blockchain outside of crypto is practically non-existent or could be better served by not using a blockchain.

I don't disagree with you here, I think the by far biggest use case is money/currency. I'm just commenting on how people here hate on anything related to crypto without any understanding.

> As for snarky comments about “I thought crypto was decentralized”. Yes it’s snarky but it’s a totally valid criticism.

I disagree here. It's like saying "SMTP sucks because I got scammed by an email from a Nigerian prince" - The criticism that wallets are hard to use is valid, but people on HN commenting on these threads don't even understand that. They just hate crypto for whatever reason without any understanding.
Venus gets roughly double the sunlight that earth does, also:

“Conditions possibly favourable for life on Venus have been identified at its cloud layers, with recent research having found indicative, but not convincing, evidence of life on the planet.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus
Rust Compile Times and Code Graphs
Ok, thanks for the reply!
> I was really surprised to see this work: I had assumed OpenAI would block Markdown images like this from loading content from external servers.

Everyone always is because why on earth wouldn't this be blocked?

That wuzzie has contacted OpenAI about this multiple times and gotten companies like Microsoft to say, "you know what, 3rd-party images are things that nobody allows in most contexts and it shouldn't be enabled in places like Bing chat" and OpenAI in particular seems to have consistently decided that it's a core part of the chat capabilities for some reason -- it's on of the reasons why I say that OpenAI does not take security seriously.

It really should not be a debate whether or not remote images should be blocked from markdown. Your email client blocks remote images. Most forums either block remote images or proxy them. There is no reason at all for ChatGPT to have that the ability to display them.

Every company makes security mistakes, that's not a problem; it's when a company doubles down on security mistakes that their attitude about security becomes apparent.
Cron that uses RRules would be nice.
Lack of specifics and context and utter absence of links to sources indeed strongly suggests this was a GPT-generated click bait.
Ever try drizzle?
Prisma doesn't do JOINs [0], it just SELECTs everything and joins them in its own engine. It should not be taken seriously.

[0]: https://github.com/prisma/prisma/discussions/12715
Maybe the typical price discovery tactic of increasing prices until sales drop off is not telling the whole story. Maybe when people start stealing more and more, it means that prices are too high.

Alternatively, the COL of skyrocketing and people can't keep up anymore. This infinite growth economic structure is unsustainable.
We need to be careful with that list. If blatherskite saw more use, there would be a commiserate uptick in accidental activations of the gizmoduck suit.
While I do get mildly irritated any time a water spillage triggers the buttons, I mostly love the sensor buttons on my induction hob. I clean the hob far more often now I can just give it a quick wipe down with a cloth and not have to try and get all the crevices on the controls.
I never leave home without mine.
Perhaps not as featured as OP’s but I’ve found https://pgtyped.dev/ useful. Queries are written as SQL files, and pgtyped creates typed functions you call with query parameters.
What if "the internet" is just the same stuff under slightly dufferent dressings, and LLMs are good at seeing through it?
3.5, free version.
This so-called GPU programming model has existed many decades before the appearance of the first GPUs, but at that time the compilers were not so good like the CUDA compilers, so the burden for a programmer was greater.

As another poster has already mentioned, there exists a compiler for CPUs which has been inspired by CUDA and which has been available for many years: ISPC (Implicit SPMD Program Compiler), at https://github.com/ispc/ispc .

NVIDIA has the very annoying habit of using a lot of terms that are different from those that have been previously used in computer science for decades. The worst is that NVIDIA has not invented new words, but they have frequently reused words that have been widely used with other meanings.

SIMT (Single-Instruction Multiple Thread) is not the worst term coined by NVIDIA, but there was no need for yet another acronym. For instance they could have used SPMD (Single Program, Multiple Data Stream), which dates from 1988, two decades before CUDA.

Moreover, SIMT is the same thing that was called "array of processes" by C.A.R. Hoare in August 1978 (in "Communicating Sequential Processes"), or "replicated parallel" by Occam in 1985 or "PARALLEL DO" by "OpenMP Fortran" in 1997-10 or "parallel for" by "OpenMP C and C++" in 1998-10.

Each so-called CUDA kernel is just the body of a "parallel for" (which is multi-dimensional, like in Fortran).

The only (but extremely important) innovation brought by CUDA is that the compiler is smart enough so that the programmer does not need to know the structure of the processor, i.e. how many cores it has and how many SIMD lanes each core has. The CUDA compiler distributes automatically the work over the available SIMD lanes and available cores and in most cases the programmer does not care whether two executions of the function that must be executed for each data item are done on two different cores or on two different SIMD lanes of the same core.

This distribution of the work over SIMD lanes and over cores is simple when the SIMD operations are maskable, like in GPUs or in AVX-512 a.k.a. AVX10 or in ARM SVE. When masking is not available, like in AVX2 or Armv8-A, the implementation of conditional statements and expressions is more complicated.
Wall hacks are also a type of cheating that doesn't require changing your communication to the server
Ask HN: Is CPI a joke? Health insurance costs dropped 37%?
I’m really asking a serious question, though I know it sounds sarcastic.

Is there any reason I should assume the CPI knows what it is talking about and that health insurance has dropped by more than a third in the last year?

Here is an article that mentions it:
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/10/13/deflation-is-the-anti-inflation-heres-the-september-2023-breakdown.html