skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As 160+Hz monitors are finally becoming commonplace

The Steam hardware survey suggests otherwise to my eyes; it's often easy to forget working in tech that a lot of Steam customers have relatively shit hardware:

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

While they don't track monitor peak supported refresh, just looking at the rest of the results suggests to me high-refresh gaming (over 60FPS) is going to be relatively niche at best. Lots of PC gaming specs I take for-granted on my own builds or consider "average" are actually not that common.

I absolutely agree 60fps should be considered the floor for most modern PC games running on "reasonable" hardware though, 30fps belongs to the past.
That’s not necessarily a joke. Nobody outside of OpenAI knows how advanced the bleeding edge systems actually are. And nobody inside of OpenAI is talking about it. And obviously how advanced their future AI has become is going to be one of the most closely guarded trade secrets in the world if it hasn’t already.

So while it might’ve been intended as social commentary or humor, it is a valid concern. Be great fodder for their form, but I’m sure someone had already submitted this one — it’s possible that is even where the clever, clever comment originated.

Impersonating the creators of the AI technologies is an obvious entry point for compromise. Mr. Beast has a special offer just for you…

Remember that most arguments against AI are built on commentary and ideas of the current publicly available systems, and those systems will always be very, very far away from the cutting edge. By the time John Q. Public sees it it’s been properly sanitized, reviewed by QA, cleared for release, and permanently rule bound to stay in brand and away from inflammatory scenarios or any instability that could damage the company — so very much of what is happening with AI will for these reasons never see the light of day. And yet, everyone is an expert because of the systems that see the light of day as if they were keeping up with the cutting edge.

They are not. They are experts in what has been chosen to be shown.

It is fiction and we fool ourselves into thinking we know what is actually going on as outside parties, but many business incentives and the military industrial complexes of every large country on the planet are aligned differently.

And I’m sure there are compartments for information management inside of a company working on this kind of thing. Companies can pretend to be omnipotent and ignore the realities of globalized geopolitics and even pretend to have no interest, but geopolitics is very interested in keeping up with them.
It feels the article was light on details and data, but the gist I got from it was that it is now harder to secure a very high paying job if you are at an early stage in your career?

In Australia the number of job ads seem to be as high as ever, but advertised salaries (when they do advertise them) are perhaps a fraction lower.

What is it like for people in other regions?
Edit: the following is wrong, sorry about that.

Interestingly, the C++ standard doesn't specify a cost for this, or an implementation. So there could be some C++ implementation out there somewhere that just copies the whole string on each append.

This is in contrast to std::vector, where the cost of adding one element to the end _is_ specified to be amortized O(1).
Violating Rick Bennett's 1985 Soulcatcher license delivered you into the hands of a smoking, blood-drenched apparition with fangs (SBDAWF)

https://web.archive.org/web/20231026223905/https://ns1.spudd...
Much obliged for your help. Logo has the advantage of being immediately applicable to much younger learners (~7) than BJC (~16). There's a big mass of teaching resources (microworlds, etc) that are immediately usable at the beginning, with the possibility of progressing into more complex concepts (e.g., turtle geometry). Maybe, for small children, it'd be a matter of buckling down to port Logo examples to Snap!'s turtle graphics... I may try that.
Never using btrfs no matter how default it comes. Only filesystem I've had data loss with, 2 district occasions.
Do modern AAA games support dual (or multiple) GPUs?
In my days we had SLI and Crossfire, but I don’t think there’s something like it nowadays.

For sure better coded games with proper software driver support will be needed, but I think this trend of having bigger and more power hungry GPUs needs to de-escalate.

I was reading this article about multi GPU gaming, and perhaps this is the way to go:
https://www.xda-developers.com/what-happened-multi-gpu-gamin...
> Ironically this looks like the realization of Richard Stallman's dream where users can help each other if something doesn't work.

that's only true if you think that "users" means "people who operate cloud computers", which is about as far from understanding what Stallman is talking about as is possible. Someone who makes SaaS and runs it on an Oxide computer is no less of a rentier capitalist than someone who makes SaaS and runs it on AWS.
I think you are right on the nose.
> AIs could be completely incomprehensible or even imperceptible yet have strong influence on our lives.

To an extent both of those are already true for current systems.

That said, many people are at least trying to make them more comprehensible, and I guess that being sufficiently inspired by human cognition will lead to human-like misbehaviour.
What's the interface point by which I can utilise this "cloud" - is it providing an AWS like API, is it something standard I can tap into so I'm not "locked" into this just as much as I am my cloud vendor? Or is it all in on Kubernetes and I have to use that?
> forcing you to access them from iPads and other such locked down devices, or not at all

Why does HN have to turn literally everything into an opportunity to bash Apple?

Apparently most of HN is not aware that multiple Android manufacturers implemented hardware destruction features when a device detects it has been rooted? That Google sold devices which were nearly impossible to root, jailbreak, or install another OS on, to protect the interests of a carrier (Verizon)?
It seems as though Google Batch does not have a native Terraform resource. The document in [1] seems like a workaround that leverages the Cloud Scheduler Terraform resource, but submit a job using the JSON configuration. The various fields that can be used in the JSON are within [2]. Regarding using GCS there is an example in [3]. I found more samples in [4]

[2] https://cloud.google.com/batch/docs/reference/rest/v1/projec...
[3] https://cloud.google.com/batch/docs/create-run-job-storage#u...
[4] https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/batch-samples/tree/ma...
everytime i used to play a game and the made by unity logo popped up i would let out a big sigh...
Also, the speed of the simulation should not be bound to the rendering speed.
Impressive to try and moralize this, but as someone born in "the large part of the world" you're aggrandizing for the typical project made in Next... I assure you that shipping a basic non-React project will be infinitely more appreciated than what RSC is enabling when combined with the style of frontend React encourages even if you do just render it down to a string.

> Real human beings benefit with you ship less code.

Real humans beings benefit from reliable and well-made applications more.

The difference between an good engineer and a truly excellent engineer is understanding how "worse" technical choices can result in a better user experience.

Junior engineers obsess over low level metrics like how many lines of code they right, but for some reason people graduate to obsessing over how many bytes of JS they shipped and don't think for a second:

- "how much of a surface area did I just open up for bugs in my chase?"

- "how much productivity spent catching up on this new paradigm would have been better spent making what my users want and need rather than tinkering with implementation details?"

- "how is adding this convoluted multifaceted multistep approach with an unstable technology going to affect the stability of my application?"

- "how much harder did I just make it to solve the bugs I do know about due to indirection?"

You're shipping less code down the pipe but you're dragging in insane amounts more code at every step of the way from compilation to the server runtime to enable it: the net result is a buggier, more complicated, less reliable application.

Of course, when you make money off people not thinking about this stuff, you don't encourage discussion of it.
Do ISPs worry about relaying TLS traffic because if the encryption is ever broken, it will be revealed that they were relaying CSAM? There isn't any difference to an i2p node relaying encrypted data and and ISP doing it.
Cities Skylines 1 performed remarkably well on midrange computers, particularly for just how good the simulation is and how busy the viewport can get.
Something that will complicate technological solutions going forward is the need to have no negative environmental impacts across the entire lifecycle of any new contraptions, under a scenario where they are produced, used and recycled at planetary scale and for... a long time.

These types of constraints did not exist in the earlier technological innovation eras but are sort-of self-evident now: There is not much point to do embark on expensive retooling of the entire energy system if it simply results in a sort of "footprint-shift", reduce GHG emissions but increase environmental impacts elsewhere.

The article (and links therein) don't provide an immediate view on these aspects of different approaches to battery construction. Maybe it is too early in the cycle. But I think these issues will have to be explored thoroughly for any solution that is deemed technically and economically viable.
I would certainly keep myself engaged and busy with my hobbies. But that is unlikely to produce anything of real value for anyone else.
For-profits have to spend money to keep bringing it in, too. Every company has an Accounts Receivable person, even if it's a one-person business you spend a lot of time bringing in business and bringing in payments. Everyone's quick to buy, few are quick to pay.
Does any transmission method where the message is even partially concealed from the messenger not spark the same concern? E.g. Postal services.

I am pretty sure not blaming the messenger for the message is a legal notion that predates Hammurabi's code.
I think what they mean is: if you see a line like `import git.example.com/foo/bar/baz`, that could be package `baz` inside module `git.example.com/foo/bar`, or it could be package `bar/baz` inside module `git.example.com/foo`.

Also, even if you know it's the latter, package namespacing isn't strictly related to directory structure, so `bar/baz` has no specific meaning outside of the context of a go import. They could have used any other separator for package components - `git.example.com/foo:bar:baz` - but instead they chose the slash, making the scheme both technically ambiguous and easy to confuse for an HTTP URL.
Combinatorial Exploration, Part 1
Is ReFS real? Like does anyone really use it outside of Microsoft's labs?
I don't know what to believe any more because that article says kale is a low oxalate food, but https://blog.swedish.org/swedish-blog/kale-causes-kidney-sto... says the opposite (and was on the list I got at discharge)
Didn't Sun Microsystems used to do this? Sell servers in shipping crates?

Didn't that still come with the weeks of overhead that compelled people to adopt cloud in the first place?
> you could don’t really get elasticity with a system like this

Of course you do, right up until the point where you’ve used all available capacity. Just like with public clouds (ask anyone using meaningful amounts of {G,T}PUs). Elasticity doesn’t imply infinitely elastic, that would be ridiculous.
Try Firefox with ublock on mobile
The next sentence is more interesting:

> At the same time, Google studied how to pry open Apple’s control of the iPhone by leveraging a new European law intended to help small companies compete with Big Tech.
The problem is that in the end, power, negotiation and social currency often dominate over merit (such as effort, experience etc.) when it comes to compensation.

Even if you actually do measure and agree on metrics, then the measurement can easily become the goal for those who are not intrinsically motivated. Work ethic can't be taught by dangling carrots in front of people, because acquiring the carrot becomes the goal instead of moving the cart. This can be detrimental in a highly collaborative workplace.

Having a flat, generous salary might solve this problem, because you filter out carrot hunters and get cart movers.

> I bet it works great if you have a small team, are extremely picky about hiring, and quickly fire bad hires. Otherwise it will be awful.

Finding the right people to work with is difficult regardless. The same worker can be miserable in one place and flourish in another.
I just checked one of the electronic invoices I had in my email, and for every line (be it a protein bar or a jacket) it includes an "RFID" field with what I guess it's the serial number contained in the tag. I don't have a reader for that frequency so I can't really confirm.

Edit:

An example for some chocolate cereal bars:

Barrita cereales Chocolate x10
Talla única
Ref: 2610768
RFID: 003869592404

That'd be for this product:

https://www.decathlon.es/es/p/barrita-de-cereales-clak-con-c...
Haha yes, definitely a little too obvious. I love your branding by the way, great work!
Ahhh yeah the beer with the ostrich logo :D I have a real soft spot for it.
This had a sad ending, almost all the alpacas they were herding ended up dying of neglect. Those guys really had no idea what they were doing and were basically just larping as farmers.
“Can use advanced Python libraries like numpy, pandas, matplotlib.”

Interestingly in my 15 years of Python I’ve used numpy sparingly for image processing and haven’t used the others ever. I appreciate this isn’t meant to be an exhaustive checklist but it reminds me how two advanced coders could live in two entirely different drawers of the tool chest.
If the bird’s natural speed is 7mph, and the tail wind is 7mph, the bird is still flying at 7mph airspeed, its ground speed just increases to 14mph.

No different than a jet flying with or against the jet stream.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/flight/modern/ai...
> The bird got completely tossed around for hours in extremely high winds and then still navigated back to it's breeding ground.

And I got lost on one of the simplest hiking trails in a neighboring town last week. I tried to go off-path to circumvent a fallen tree. After about 15 minutes of thinking that I was just steps from reaching my destination, I ended up back at my starting point! I'm ashamed.
You end up taking a lot of trains/metros when travelling in Japan, and there isn't a lot of room for luggage.

Sure, if your only travel in Japan is a single trip from the airport to the hotel, you won't need this.
their whole "AWS is bad because THEY are engaging in rentier capitalism, we are good because we sell you the tools to let YOU engage in rentier capitalism" shtick rings empty to me
Unrelated to the article but I used to live in Asheville NC and there were a lot of hippies that would try to become organic permaculture farmers and stuff to get back to the land. Usually they found out that farming is hard. Some stuck it out but many did not.
why not? we know microgravity has a negative effect on people but we haven't tested 1/3rd gravity. unless I missed something we don't know the threshold for negative effects from lowered gravity.
If even Alphabet cannot get a toehold on Apple devices, then other competitions have no chance.

In this case, I strongly favour opening the IPhone. Not because I care about Google, but because I care about completion at large.

25 years ago we said Microsoft was a monopoly just for including IE. They never stopped you from installing anything else. I don't understand why the same rule doesn't apply to Apple.
I have seen several podcasts with Michael Levin now and it is really brilliant work he and his team are doing.

For what it's worth he also comes across as a really nice guy.
it's still closed source software?

previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18571139
"F** this. Let's go do some crimes."
More importantly, why the heck does a city-builder game need motion blur?

It's usually a pretty obnoxious effect even in action games, the first thing to turn off if the option exists...
Eh.

Advanced.9: "Can use Python's built-in functions like map(), filter(), reduce()."

...and knows why you should probably use comprehensions instead.

Experts.4: "Can use Python's C API to extend Python with C/C++ code."

I've written Python professionally for 20+ years. I've extended Python with C for funsies, but have never, not once, needed to do it at work. I'm glad other people have used C (and now Rust) to speed up the Python modules I want to use. I'm equally glad I've been able to use those modules, not have to enhance them with C.

Experts.7: "Understands and uses Python's garbage collection system."

99% of what you need to know is "don't write circular references".

Experts.10: "Have a good understanding of Python's internals, such as bytecode, the Python interpreter's execution model, and how Python's data types are implemented at the C level."

See Experts.4. I've had a nice career writing code in Python, but haven't had to hack on the CPython codebase. I bet there are lots of people who are experts in C who've never written a line in the GCC or Clang codebases.
very charming. out of spite, because I'm sure the author would hate it, i spent some time trying to convince chatgpt to recursively create a tree of perversed historical facts
What level of “rich” triggers the law?

What level of “harm” triggers the law?

Am I harming you if I make an online store and you browse it too much? How do I know what too much is? How much browsing of a social network is too much?

I don’t understand how you think this is all crystal clear :)
Does it involve turning the rest of the country into California via Gavin Newsom?
Turn French Laundry into a national chain for elites flouting the rules.
What about the middle ground want of a heroin addict who loves heroin but wants pure, unadulterated, properly-dosed, controlled, trustworthy heroin from reputable, consistent vendors, accessed sanely and easily, taken quietly and unobtrusively, so they can float around and have a good time when it fits into their life?

Isn't that the dream of good technology and good internet?

People want the "next fix" internet because that's all they know. People would likely prefer a different internet if they ever had the chance to experience it.
> Of course they aren't.

...because the economics of it don't work out in favor of actually effectively tracing parts through the secondary-market supply chain, rendering the stated goal of "supply chain transparency" unreachable, and so the system-as-designed pointless to participate in. Are you implying something different?

> There you go! I'm glad we can mutually acknowledge that this is more of an Apple problem than it is an end-user one.

There are more participants in this ecosystem than "the end-user" and "Apple."

Specifically, the actor being harmed here is legitimate third-party repair shops. These small businesses suddenly have a problem... in that these same organized criminal gangs that were previously stealing whole phones, would suddenly have a large incentive to instead break into their repair shops to steal their stocks of "unlocked" parts! And, unlike Apple, who can just post armed guards around their factories and shipping trucks, independent repair shops are small and usually low-margin businesses — so there's very little they can afford to do about that kind of high-grade theft!

For an analogy: narcotic drugs. Drug thieves have a choice: they can try to steal drugs from a pharmaceutical supplier (far out of the way, and well-guarded + built like a fortress with barbed-wire fences and so forth) or a hospital pharmacy (deep within hospitals, also well-guarded, and likely open 24 hours) Or they can try to steal drugs from a small neighbourhood drug store (not well guarded, empty at night.) Which do you think they choose?

But ignoring that, this "releasing of parts" still harms the end-user — because it gives the grey-market buyers of repair parts — the same ones buying from chop-shops — a channel by which to acquire a stock of the critical missing parts (logic boards!) required to build full new phones out of mostly-otherwise-stolen parts.

Previously, these grey-market buyers could only operate as repair shops, repairing existing phones (i.e. building a phone up around a customer's working logic board.) But now, by buying 90% chop-shop parts and 10% legitimate released-to-secondary-market logic boards, they can construct full phones for sale, that are cheaper than the cheapest legitimate secondary-market phones! And guess what direction this takes the demand for chop-shop parts, and therefore the demand for stolen phones?
I think it would be unwise to assume that an AI that is smarter than us would be unable to gain skilled human accomplices in large numbers, considering that humans do so relatively regularly despite serious attempts at suppression. These people wouldn't even necessarily need to know that they're working for an AI, particularly with current technology around deepfakes etc. How many people conducted attacks for Osama bin Laden without ever having met him? How many people work for the CDS without ever having met Ismael Zambada Garcia? Not to mention the possibility of an AI like that compromising various intelligence agencies one way or another. I also don't see a particular reason it only has to try for one: if it is smarter than us, it may have a greater working memory, ability to compartmentalise and multitask, or the ability to think and act faster in general. I would expect it to try and compromise as many groups of people capable of putting USBs or bullets where they need to be as is possible.

And this is not even considering the possibility of recruiting people that understand what it is and are willing to carry out its orders. I don't see why an AI couldn't do things that a cult leader or guerrilla leader could do. Anecdotally, I've seen some people who really believe the world would be better if run by an AI, and may be able to be radicalised into lawbreaking for those beliefs if convinced by an AI that was significantly more intelligent than them.
Life Without Language (2010)
> Shipping products is hard

And shipping full cabs is harder!
Isn't size and speed the issue?

For a 50m radius don't you need about 10 RPM (rotation once every 6 seconds!)? That's actually right at the maximum dimension of the ISS, no?

And you're going to feel the gravity differential if you aren't exactly on the rim.

We'd have to get significantly better at building much bigger space structures before rotating them will be even remotely feasible.
Didn't Robert O Becker also explored this space?
Who is Elmo?