skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up with the idea that the root system of a tree mirrors the branch system, but that's not really how it works. Roots don't penetrate all that far down, and are more spread out across the surface, but certainly don't hold half the mass of the tree. The bigger the tree, the more this is true. A giant redwood does not have that much biomass underground as it does above it. The soil richness is generally pretty poor in those giant redwood groves.
On a much smaller level, some car races/events (the Gambler 500 - or offshoots, rather, the Gambler doesn't enforce) use a similar model for fairness.

One of the competition rules is that you're only allowed to spend $500 on the vehicle. The way it is enforced is that you surrender a pink slip with your entry, and at the end of the event if someone else wants your vehicle for $500+, they can buy it.
All these mm-waves must have an impact too.

(well the science claims that they do already).
> It will become increasingly difficult to determine what is true.

welcome to the party, pal
I've noticed something similar in myself. So I dedicate Saturday to rest, and Sunday to the household. This way, Monday isn't so jarring, and Sunday feels great.
The opposite, "the world" needs to put trade sanctions and large tariffs on countries which have exports which are cheaper because they abuse the environment (deforestation, fossil fuel powered, etc.) and while they're at it: labor (wage slaves, child labor, unsafe practices, actual slavery).

Don't pay corrupt countries to be less corrupt, charge them a fee that makes bad practices more expensive than good ones.

This is a game. Dictators and developing economies are good at taking incentive payments and pocketing them.
> It really depends what you consider 'real'. It is actually pretty straightforward to realize a representation of 10^241 (you just did). Why does that make it any less real than the digit 2, which represents two things, but is actually just itself one thing.

One is a map, and the other is the territory. Both 'real' in some sense but a map without the territory feels less 'grounded' (pun?).

> Again, it's unclear what anyone means by things like 'sqrt(2)'. Why is drawing a thing of length sqrt(2) any different than drawing a thing of length 1? If I draw a thing of length 1 and say it's a line of length 1, then why is that different than my drawing the same line, claiming its length is sort(2) and then pointing out that it's actually now impossible to mark where 1 would appear along its length?

Perhaps a more precise way to describe the situation is that one can define one or the other as a base 'unit' but you can never get one from the other (they are 'incommensurate', as the greeks would say). Irrational numbers can be defined but not 'realized' (or 'constructed') in the same way that the rationals can.
I've alluded to this before, by I had an unfinished sci-fi novel in the decades past where this was the backdrop, that at one point faking everything that comes over the wire became trivially easy. My prediction -- and I have no idea how true it would be -- is that once this became really prevalent and media outlets just used this to keep the 24/7 news cycle going, election results were faked, dead celebrities were prancing around commercials, seamless insertion of just about anything into your favorite old movies, that we would collectively have a Reality Crisis. Imagine if some percentage of people who talked about the Mandela Effect were right and that number kept growing. Imagine if we could hide a Tuskegee or two for a little while longer before it came out.

You would get a huge amount of digital distrust, and some percentage of people would retreat to "If it wasn't printed in a book before 2020 ..." as a standard. Wild paranoia would emerge and others would retreat into a kind of indifference because "Who knows?" Previous conspiracy theories, suck as a faked moon landing, might become plausible just due to how many other wild fakes existed. How would you know who really won an election?
It's worth paying that money so apple users can find chrome.
What's the next best alternative to LinkedIn? It seems like, even in 2023, LinkedIn is still the de facto online resume for everyone. The ability to apply to jobs in one click is great, but everything else about LinkedIn is repulsive to me. I don't want a social media feed, or for people to see whether I viewed their profile (if they pay premium or guess by what company you work for), or a bunch of worthless notifications, or a half-assed PDF resume generator that's barely maintained, or "sponsored" messages from jackoff recruiters, and on and on and on. There needs to be some competition in this space, right?
Yes. The part you've missed from what I said is you have the right to negotiate or ignore. You don't have to pay.

But you shouldn't expect to get the result for free.
> If a tree doesn't become coal, it's not storing C for an _indefinite_ amount of time, but for definite, relatively short amount of time. A tree either rots, burns, or is used for housing, in which case, again, it either rots or burns. Unless it becomes coal.

I don't think that's actually true; if a tree rots (either in place or after being part of a house), some of the carbon is released to the atmosphere, but the rest goes into the soil.

In any event, taking carbon out of the atmosphere seems beneficial even if it is only for a few decades.
Does this line of questioning ever work?
Algorithmic Idiocy, just because it's a algorithm doesn't make it right.

The point on hallucinations is particular on point: when a human makes up stuff it's lying, when a machine does it, it's marketed as hallucinations.
https://climate.mit.edu/explainers/permafrost

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2785/unexpected-future-boost-o...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/driven-by-climate-chang...

"Under the surface, something else is active – and it is amplifying global warming. When the ground thaws, microbes begin feasting on organic matter in soils that have been frozen for millennia.

These microbes release carbon dioxide and methane, potent greenhouse gases. As those gases escape into the atmosphere, they further warm the climate, creating a feedback loop: Warmer temperatures thaw more soil, releasing more organic material for microbes to feast on and produce more greenhouse gases."
People (especially parents and teachers) espousing opinions like yours make life dramatically harder for people with real challenges. :(

"It's not real, you're fine, probably just lazy" is crazymaking. You simply have no idea what you're talking about.
What bank do you know that doesn't rely on cloud services these days? Heck, when was the last time you even made a transaction that didn't involve a computer?

I think the respect to which this worldview holds up is the definition of the "cloud capital" that Yanis has constructed, but isn't really able to make a concrete definition of. He isn't an engineer. But in a banking system, the series of transactions are liable to the bank itself, but can only happen really with the assistance of cloud service providers. In the book, he argues for a more centralized system of payment guaranteed by a government, preferably democratically. Whether you agree or not, it is a compelling lens to look through the emergence of Wechat payments in China, or the rolling out of Fed Now servicing, where governments themselves are trying to centralize computation around payments and transaction settling.
> I'm well aware

> I'm aware of this, as well.

I'm really curious.. when you typed those sentences, what possible purpose did you imagine them serving?

> If you're saying the glibc wrapper also is flexible

Yes, it obviously is. There's a long and storied history around this, which you're clearly ignorant of: programmers have been abusing this interface in exactly the way I'm describing for decades. Suddenly breaking a bunch of old code in the name of making an antiquated interface nobody uses anymore "secure" is just bad policy IMHO.
Aschwanden is a fairly serious journalist, but the green ChatGPT 3.5 icon in the Nate Silver example isn’t doing her any favors.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Not all countries where Spanish is spoken call it Español. In many countries, notably including Spain itself, it is called Castellano (Castillian). There are several other (mostly related) languages also spoken in Spain, such as Galician or Catalan.

"Spanish language" can be a bit imprecise because it could mean different things in different contexts.
> That across most companies across all the states in the country they've all decided to be evil and greedy together...and in the last few years in particular they've all decided together, in a grand conspiracy, to unanimously raise prices at the same time

Not necessarily accurate - the current situation (high prices) could be a result of seeing one company do it successfully, without blowback (initially), and copying it. I'm not clear why it would require explicit co-operation. Additionally, companies can change prices within a single quarter based on their observation of the market.

> wouldn't the best way for a company to make money in this world of greedy corporations be to just keep lower prices, which would result in stealing all of the business from the companies that raised prices, and thereby making more money?

Only under the rational economic model of consumers, where people change their buying habits due to price increases. But store loyalty/convenience/location/familiarity is sticky, and there were few other options out there. The stores that cut prices would face lower margins as well, so they would have to do more work for similar-ish profit, which increases wage cost.

Either way, as you said, this is insanely politicized and I'm pretty sure any one person's interpretation reflects more about their own biases than any explanatory power of the price increase phenomenon.
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The situation in Sahara worsened even more with climate changes, so I think it's best to act globally, as everything is connected, not on a specific & hostile place which will require a lot of efforts (so pollution since I doubt it'll be done without any machine, plastics, oil). Best to work on individual level, spending much less, voting well, let tree grow where they can grow more easily instead of putting tennis courts, swimming pools, oversized houses, etc..
Or (shudder) have more or less than the requisite single phone.
Even if they are ugly when they are living, they're wonderful to behold when they burn! I would hazard a guess that they're unpopularity with people stems from their popularity with ticks.
Close enough to the regular 30% Apple tax. Plus a 6% cherry on top — because Google has enough to spend; especially since search is their core business.
What did the massive, global, currently undiscovered civilization before us do? Something tells me the giant oil and coal fields were their solution and we're currently digging that all up and utilizing.

(this post is satire)
Ideally, people do only what's needed before it's needed without being asked.

Which management behavior evolves the organization in that direction?

That's an optimizing function with a range of five variables (delegator and delegate, subject matter and issue, and context) and a domain with multiple cost and quality scales.

There are times when the "imprecise ask" is right, but most situations call for adverse bias (i.e., considering it a management smell).

Jean-Louis Gassee famously tamed disputes between engineering heads by saying he's going to do the thing neither one wanted, so they had to get together to overcome him.

Intelligence and decision-making depend mostly on focus: knowing what to ignore. If you're the delegate, it's your job to manage all that is being ignored (and only hoist it in the degenerate case that it cannot be ignored).

But business context is the local valuation function: if you're in QA or doing medical software or your organization is highly politicized, then yes, adopt a defensive posture. But mostly if you have faith in yourself and others, you can get the temperature right.
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No. We want New World to get more love, and be viable.
By implementing AI into your job yourself, rather than waiting for it to come. If you are the one who is the "prompt engineer" and knows how to integrate AI into the daily tasks of work, you will be at an advantage when positions evolve into more AI type services
Just downloaded their manuals. Should be an interesting read.

I remember their Xeon Phi ones were very nice as well. I miss those machines.
The robotic takeover has already begun; it's just more nuanced and less obvious at this stage.
That's not how you do it, this is:

"Failure is growth. Failure is learning. But sometimes failure is just failure. I think... I'm sorry. I didn't think it would be this hard. But goodbyes are always hard, especially when I am the one saying goodbye. Today, effective immediately, I, Gavin Belson, founder and CEO of Hooli, am forced to officially say goodbye to the entire Nucleus division. All Nucleus personnel will be given proper notice and terminated. But make no mistake. Though they're the ones leaving, it is I who must remain and bear the heavy burden of their failure."

Gavin Belson, CEO.
This is creating an internal struggle between the cynic in me vs the optimist in me. Will people rise above their self interest?
Think outside developer land. Imagine marketing using tickets for all requests amongst all people in the org. It will sound crazy to them. I think it's a great idea, but I don't think most people would.
>> Propaganding incorrectness because someone with power did it first is surely a symptom of something negative. Is there a name for it?

Did you mean "propagating"? (Only asking because your comment was about incorrectness...)
> At this point, the central architecture of LLM's may be about the farthest from "formal and verifiable" as we've ever seen a practical software technology.

+100 this.
I live / have lived in both states. Insane pricing where school systems are good. ($600k tear downs in my town.) But it is beautiful!

Also, if you manage to buy, getting labor to work on anything requires a year lead time and a good attitude.
Definitely, if there’s a solar panel and a battery hooked up + some sort of internet connection. Though I would worry about durability outdoors, probably needs to be sealed pretty tightly
One thing that has surprised me more than it probably should have is there appears to be a double-hump distribution between those who 'get' how an LLM works (at least to the degree that its strengths and weaknesses are understood well enough to get useful work done with one) and those who don't, with the those that don't category being very, very hard to get someone out of.

I have a couple of clients who have wholeheartedly embraced ChatGPT, but are (repeatedly) shocked when it isn't just a 100% accurate answer machine. Explanations on why that is a very dangerous way to approach these things fall on deaf ears.
Their workforce
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Gamers complain about a lot of stuff, but I don't know anyone complaining about a lack of quantity of video games. There are 70K games on Steam and 460K games on the app store alone.
It’s for-sure at least close. To the meaning, anyway.

(You’re right that putting it through the proper formula, the figure that comes out is more like a 2x return—I was a bit hasty. The total value is 3x, not what Google sees)
Definitely, it has so much promise as a foundation for even greater experiences.
It's true, most tasks are just simpler chunks of reasoning that anyone can do, tied together with key insights that are harder to train.
it's kind of a semantic argument

the distinction i like between "library" and "framework" is:

* a library you call into

* a framework calls back into code you provide

Using this definition, from a javascript perspective, htmx can be considered a framework, since you are providing "code" (well, html attributes) that it is hooking up event handlers and calling back into.

However, from an HTML perspective, htmx is a library, in that you "call" into the htmx code by "invoking" attributes.

I lean towards calling htmx a library because I have a bias towards the HTML-first interpretation of htmx, but I admit that you could easily justify the other interpretation of htmx.
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My wife and I tried that, while we were living on a sailboat, but I was disappointed by the lack of durability; my silicone ring only lasted six months.
Very cool.

I wonder if this kind of work is something that LLMs will be good at someday. (Has anyone trained an LLM on machine code yet?) Is it reasonable to hope that 20 years from now you'll be able to say "Hey CodeGPT, this binary doesn't run on Windows 17, can you make a patch?" The deep understanding and creative thinking that Nathan Baggs demonstrates here seems far beyond the capabilities of any tool I'm aware of; on the other hand, even a relatively dumb AI supplemented by brute force might be good enough.
I noticed this too. Draw a left curly brace from the bottom up, it calls it a right curly brace, and the reverse is true as well.
Cameras work well for front occupants. They're already being used to check if commercial drivers are wearing seat belts.
Thank you, excellent insight! Yes, the other "feeling" I've had is that over the past 20-30 years basically the vast majority of land near urban areas was "filled up" - e.g. you could no longer sprawl out or take over farmland, so additional housing growth meant higher density in pre-existing neighborhoods, and we've all seen how existing home owners fight tooth-and-nail to keep that from happening.
Right this moment I’m using it to iterate on a color gradient algorithm. It’s not perfect, but it’s outputting “close enough” stuff that I’m getting useful steps forward.

Otherwise I’d be a couple hours into reading up on what the hell HSL is in color theory.

It streamlines work that would otherwise require me to have extensive knowledge in an alternate domain.

These tools are so much more useful if viewed as “coding buddies” who may get it wrong as much as you do, but they’re also skilled in several domains that you’re not. But bouncing ideas back and forth is crazy valuable.
Laying around in bed listening to Brahms doesn't sound like a half bad way to spend a Sunday. I might try that this week.
I think this is a matter of framing. When compared to a system that does nothing but assembles grammatically correct sentences, the correctness of LLM output is impressively high.

But ultimately I’m not saying that the accuracy of LLMs is sufficient, just that thinking about LLMs as improv machines isn’t very helpful.
this makes me wonder if the "Here's what I found on the web." from Siri is intentional and not due lack of ability to parse and provide an appropriate response.
Pretty sure the impact is in what the waves (mm or otherwise) transport onto people’s screens.
What always surprised me is not DNA, but how other non-living things can exist at all without DNA. It makes sense to me that I have green eyes since that's what my DNA says... but where is defined that a rock has a particular color or weight or texture?

Whenever I think of how planets move around a star, I always think "Ok. So, I imagine that at some point the universe should know the distance between planet X and star Y, and also, probably, maybe, it should know their masses... but that data is nowhere defined (that we know). So, is the data computed 'on the fly' every $minimal-unit-of-time?). Perhaps the universe doesn't need to know distances nor masses, though.
The German article is behind paywall. Their english translation isn't https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/ukrainian-special...
That’s much worse of an automobile usage case than the ones I read about (measuring vehicle travel speeds to improve travel time estimates)!

Occupancy based pricing for vehicles seems too hard to enforce anyway, change the pricing scheme to something more practical IMO
In windows it just marks the file for cutting (transparent/greyed out state). If you cancel the cut (say by copying or cutting something else) it removes the mark.
That person couldn't discover it. Maybe another engineer could have discovered it in 5 minutes because it's what they were already working on (and the one researching wasn't aware, or maybe it was down a rabbit hole that looked unrelated).

I guess it depends on how high priority it is. But everything is high priority to management.
Problem is, i dont see a page that does more then a blank text with simple logos to be user frendlly to regular non tech users. People care much more to what they see and the UX at the end, imagine handling all the use cases of a credit card register form before some payment without all the fancy schmancy we have today.
I'm not trying to troll.

But I admit I'm slightly annoyed by the bad faith in the conversation; that is something I'd expect on Reddit, not HN.
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I’ve worked in automotive for more than 15 years.

Electric cars aren’t ready for anything but around town. Which they are great at. I’m looking at 2030 model plans - and spoiler alert - they’re gas and diesel. Although I can tell you particulate filters are coming for pertol, that is the next big change, but other than that until you change physics or make drastically better batteries, gas cars aren’t going anywhere
SHA256 is very fast on most modern CPUs, i.e. all AMD Zen, all Intel Atom since 2016, Intel Core Ice Lake or newer, Armv8 and Armv9.

I use every day both SHA-256 and BLAKE3. BLAKE3 is faster only because it is computed by multiple threads using all available CPU cores. When restricted to a single thread, it is slower on CPUs with fast hardware SHA-256.

The extra speed of BLAKE3 is not always desirable. The fact that it uses all cores can slow down other concurrent activities, without decreasing the overall execution time of the application.

There are cases when the computation of a hash like SHA-256 can be done as a background concurrent activity, or when the speed of hashing is limited by the streaming speed of data from the main memory or from a SSD, so spawning multiple threads does not gain anything and it only gets in the way of other activities.

So the right choice between SHA-256 and BLAKE3 depends on the application. Both can be useful. SHA-256 has the additional advantage that it needs negligible additional code, only a few lines are necessary to write a loop that computes the hash using the hardware instructions.