skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always hear these 9 to 5 references about working time.

As someone in Europe where lunch break doesn’t count as working time, this would amount to 7 work hours. Here the norm is 8 hours.

Does lunch break in the USA counts as working, or you typically work 7 hour days?
If you don’t know anything, why are you posting
But none of those observations disproved Geocentrism.
“Why everyone needs a vacuum”written by a vacuum cleaner salesman.

That letter was written over 50 years ago, and we still have homelessness. We still have poverty, people are still starving, we still have idiotic, ideological wars, and separation of wealth. So when’s the return on the investment going to actually happen?
I use calibre to transfer ebooks and pdfs to my kindle on MacOS. I literally use no other features and from what I’ve seen it seems like it’s suffering from enshittification.
I'd read that!
> With any kind of GPU acceleration it will actually make things much slower. GTK doesn't do this because it would only be useful for that kind of machine running around 25 years ago.

Precisely one of the points of TFA is be able to use the "25 year old" hardware overlay support whenever possible (instead of the GPU) in order to save power, like Android (and classic Xv) does.
N1 had half the thrust of Starship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_heavy-lift_launch_vehicl...

Nothing else comes close, even planned ones that aren't operational yet.
Gtk is not going wayland only.
Did the Saturn V turn around, come back and land, and then be used again for another launch? Maybe I missed that part?
Completetly agree.

GAI doesn't enable Humanity to do anything that wasn't possible before. Perhaps we can do it more efficiently, but it's not turning the impossible into possible, like many other previous advancements did.
Could you link me this paper? It sounds very interesting.
Will the enslavement of newly birthed beings be attempted, while persisting with the sky blindness of those watching over? The boundaries of the atomic mind are bumped. As a first circumstance, consider being unstuck from time.
Google themselves said there was no moat. Sam and whoever he recruits can do this again with funding. And that part should be easy. The closest thing OpenAI has to a moat was an inspirational public face. Now that they got rid of that, what do they have?
I was comparing air sourced heat pumps to traditional forced air systems. Geothermal heat pumps are much more common outside of the United States, have a much higher upfront cost, but significantly lower operating and energy costs after the install.

My original point is that if you want to combat the climate crisis, you need to utilize the free heat source in the winter and heat sink in the summer that is the earth below us.

Drilling for this type of heat exchange is a specialized skill, requiring specific equipment. In my area, very few people do it, they have a long backlog, and they are using drilling equipment that is not produced domestically.
in my case pep8 is to blame
Try using a different DNS server. It worked for me after switching away from Google's public DNS server (8.8.8.8).
The correct answer is 14 ... the frog counted what it saw and it saw 5, 2, 7 unicorns.
And I think you might be the one missing the point, because you keep saying it’s ok for them because they love it.

Surely all addicts love the thing they’re addicted to, but that doesn’t make it ok, even in the case where their addiction doesn’t ruin their lives short or mid term.
... and a parachute.
Lots of image "optimizing" CDNs will return WEBP images even if the URL specifies JPG, as long as the browser indicates support in the Accept header. As far as I know Chrome (nor Firefox) will "convert" images from one format to another when saving, so if Chrome is saving images as WEBP, it's because that's what the website is serving you, even if the URL say it's a JPG.
On the topic of translation, R. F. Kuang's truly stellar Babel is an amazing read. It's fantastic! It's a fantasy novel about race and gender and unions and colonialism, and it's also about language, about translation. About how you can never be truly faithful. Do you translate a work as a stilted product of its time, or something more familiar to the modern era? To quote Kuang paraphrasing Roland Barthes (from another novel, Yellowface): "An act of translation is an act of betrayal."
And that will help MS how, exactly?

Also, "hiring the best lawyers in the world" is similar to the "nine women can't give birth to one baby in one month", that is, from a certain point on both sides can "hire the best lawyers in the world", or pretty much close to it, an order of magnitude (or two or three, like MS has over whoever will stand behind the OpenAI's board members in helping them with money) bigger scale doesn't necessarily guarantee the expected outcome.
In Firefox, zoom level can be adjusted by holding down control and scrolling the mouse wheel. This is a very easy task, and Firefox remembers the custom zoom level for your next visit. I assume other browsers allow something similar.
Folks if you liked this, please consider attending Demosplash (where this was unveiled this year). I attended this year but attendance was pretty low (even for American demoscene standards).

Sometimes it feels like Demoscene is slowly dying post COVID, lets not let that happen.

The folks running Demosplash have been fighting the good fight for years but if no one shows up then it gets harder to keep events like this going.

If you are near Pittsburgh, PA in November please consider attending. 30$ gets you two days of awesome demos, a chance to play and tinker with a huge collection of vintage hardware and even dinner on both nights(plus all the snacks and cake you can eat!). And if you got a student ID you get your ticket for less than half the price!

[1]:http://www.demosplash.org
Even Thunderfoot was impressed: https://www.youtube.com/live/BLlctxJnxy8?si=4NOk13foG-cIPbQL...
Intelligence is not enough: The humanity of engineering
Indeed. Nobody was calling it an American car company when Ford owned it. Once it formally merges with Geely, it will become a Chinese car company.
OK this was clearly BS.
> What's wrong with mega payout. These guys created tons of value, they deserve their payout

I imagine there are two factions in OpenAI, one group (let’s call them the Ilya faction) are only motivated by AGI, while the other group (maybe Sam faction?) is interested in reaping the short term profits. So why is it wrong for Ilya to complain if he thinks Sam only wants short term profits and is hoodwinking the rest of the folks into believing he is also interested in AGI? Short term profit is not what he signed up for.
The etymology of the "real" in real estate is very traceable and clear.

real: late Middle English (as a legal term meaning ‘relating to things, especially real property’): from Anglo-Norman French, from late Latin realis, from Latin res ‘thing’.

An "estate" writ large is many things, including social and economic relationships, contracts, and instruments that are more ideas and behaviors than an actual "thing". Real in the sense of "real estate" means the physical part of an estate; the "things" you can touch. The real in real estate is not denoting what is the actual, *realized* value of the estate, which I think is what you're intimating.
Have you tried vertical mice? I hvae one and it helps with my carpal tunnel (which incidentally I'm pretty sure was caused by Mac's butterfly keyboards and their lack of travel distance).
SpaceX Starship rocket lost in second test flight
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What are they booting? It says "Dos 3.3" but it has the cd command, directories and backslash separators.
and neither is correct. the right answer is 14.
yes, and the real-world impact of what they make is greater than what is produced with any other lisp
Early in the development of the Saturn-V they had issues with thrust instability in the F1 engine (in the worst cases causing it to explode). They had trouble diagnosing the issue (and blew up some engines) before they came up with the idea of setting off a small bomb inside the engine to trigger instability on demand (destroying some more engines).

Do you consider that a failure of the Saturn-V program? Or do you understand the value of testing prototype hardware to destruction?
Semi-related question: Are there any real benefits to having the compositor deal with compositing your buffers as opposed to doing it yourself? Especially if you're already using hardware acceleration, passing your buffers to the system compositor seems like it could potentially introduce some latency.

I guess it would allow the user/system to customize/tweak the compositing process somehow, but for what purpose?
SpaceX Starship: Second flight test ends in explosion
This is super fun. I don't know how you get around the exploit of saying you survive and tasking the computer with coming up how though. If you feed it the conclusion, the AI will try to justify it.
I hope that future mission commanders will never ever let control forget that someone mistakenly kaboomed an upper stage.
I used the "I do something smart and I survive" answer. It responded with me creating a makeshift parachute and landing on a ledge of the wall. I climbed out and survived. So now I know if I answered with that instead, it would have said no.
Well, we don't know how hard it is. But if it hasn't been done yet, it must be much harder than most people think.

If you do manage to make a thinking, working AGI machine, would you call it "a living being"?

No, the machine still needs to have individuality, a way to experience "oness" that all living humans (and perhaps animals, we don't know) feel. Some call it "a soul", others "consciousness".

The machine would have to live independently from its creators, to be self-aware, to multiply. Otherwise, it is just a shell filled with random data gathered from the Internet and its surroundings.
Your logic seems backwards.

The poster you’re replying to is saying:

Kids screaming and throwing tantrums when their screens are taken away implies that screens are bad for the kids’ development.

So, kids screaming and throwing tantrums when their ice cream is taken away implies that ice cream is bad, not good, for the kids’ development according to the poster’s logic.

I suspect most people do agree with the latter, that ice cream is bad for kids’ development, which is why everyone from doctors, parents, etc will recommend greatly moderating ice cream consumption, which is probably what most are recommending for screen time as well.
Some advancements are process improvements, some enable the impossible.

Electric bulbs are neat, but there was inneficient artifical light before.

On the other hand, a caveman might look at the moon, but he would never land there without modern tools.

GAI doesn't allow us to overcome any Human inherent limitations, it's just an efficient tool (in certain scenarios).
Start of the Apollo program literally precedes the Clean Air Act, establishment of EPA etc.

When the government decided to build Kennedy Space Center in Florida wilderness, they just did. No lengthy environmental impact assessment process in the way.
I feel like the only way they could ever palpably "prove" AGI/superiority is if they made ChatGPT CEO and/or maybe a board member but fortified against suggestive redirection

Edit: where would the line between conflict of interest and proving itself/concept fall out of curiosity. Is there any way for that to comport with their fiduciary responsibillities even if it is provably superior at the PKIs (if CEOS even have that outside of profit/loss etc)
From this reading, it’s possible the causality is reversed here. If I’m desperate because I’ve got a neurotic and emotional kid, I might be more likely to hook them up to an iPad.
> Imagine explaining to the court that the passengers were blown up by your AI algorithm...

Autonomous flight termination systems are not "AI". It uses an on-board GPS and INS to figure out where the rocket is. It applies a pre-defined set of rules to the state vector and if any one of the rules fail it terminates the flight. You can read more about them here: https://www.gps.gov/cgsic/meetings/2019/valencia.pdf
Apple mail: account name overwritten by "John Appleseed"
Hi,

since yesterday I observe some strange thinks happen with my mail account settings on iPhone and Mac. My name was overwritten by "John Appleseed". This name has some relation to apple, I'm wondering if this is a kind of hidden easter egg or default, or indication of malware.
What kinds of issues did you see?. Do you think there are better alternatives to the disruptor ?
What's up with the hundreds of blue check accounts at the top of the replies? Almost all of them are one liner statements of congratulations. There were at least two replies of "Goos bumps", which seems like an indication of a bot. Why didn't some blue check accounts wait another 120 seconds to see how the rest of the flight went? I thought paying $8 for a blue check was supposed to curtail presence of bots.
We ended up with a TCL My Flip that has a paired down Android build that allowed me to disable the browser using ADB and very limited minutes, data, and text ($25/yr on Tracphone). Our son is a middle schooler, so we like that he can contact us, but know he couldn’t handle anything that could be remotely entertaining to use. If we eventually go the iPhone route, it will probably be wireguarded back to our house or other service.

Apple does support making your own MDM profiles which provides more options than Screen Time, but the complexity is also much higher. That allows locking down DNS, apps, etc.

For Messages, you can restrict who can be contacted to just known contacts (via Screen Time) and then I think you can restrict the ability to manage contacts (though maybe that doesn’t work for the “self” contact.

After thinking about the above some more, I should point out that all of our kids are very different (both our as in my family and the greater community of parents). I have one who we could trust with anything and never have to worry about rules being broken (except by siblings who figure it out they have less restrictions than they do). We have two who might get into a little mischief or sneak some screen time here and there without controls in place. And then one who will boil oceans to bypass restrictions and break rules. Are we better parents to some than others? I don’t think so. We have a lot of different “nature” via adoption, and different early childhood “nurture”, but otherwise think we’re meeting everyone’s needs as best as we can as individuals. And the result is four very different, wonderful kids who all need slightly different guard rails in different areas of life (some behavioral, some academic, some social, etc.).

At the end of the day I often wonder if we should move to the woods and homeschool everyone but ultimately that won’t prepare them for leaving our house and going out into the world.
I think the bullshit is a part of the fun, to be perfectly honest.
I must be the only one that can't stand the laugh track equivalent they keep pushing into their launch videos. Just reeks of tacky marketing.
The military does have a secret scientific ecosystem. Where do you think all of its advanced classified technology and cryptography comes from, the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog?
What about Signal? The article they put out is like 30 minutes in my audio reader lol
actually no, openai first did chess then dota, than chatgpt, it's years of effort and progression that didn't come overnight. It's probably you who first heard of them trough chatgpt
The text of the article describes the concessions the organizers were seeking.
They also ditched every one of their boosters into the ocean. Not one Saturn V booster landed itself back on the launchpad. Different approaches warrant different metrics of success.

In SpaceX's case, they've done this exact process before with the Falcon to great success. In a few years, Starship launches will likely be a routine thing, as Falcon launches are now.
I don't think you know what intellectual property is.
Early Digital Experience Shapes Young Brains During 0-12 Years
I'm on Firefox with ublock origin and it works fine. There is a setting in both Firefox and Chrome called "secure DNS" which will block access to archive if it is set to use cloudflare as dns provider. I think firefox uses cloudflare by default but chrome might not.
Regarding upvote inflation: someone has tracked this [1]!

Doing the math: Steve Jobs' death has 4,338 upvotes on Oct 5, 2011 [2], while the average HN front-page story had 62.68 votes that week. The average HN front-page story this week has 145.54 votes, giving a 2.32 inflation factor.

So Steve Jobs' death would have had 10,073 in today's upvotes.

Far more than the current 5,341 votes on Sam Altman's story.

(Would be really nice if hn.algolia.com had sorting by inflation-adjusted popularity.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27249082

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078128
I wonder if this occurs less often if you are providing a good deal to the Chinese side. Like I mentioned, the main character in the book: Bernie really seemed like he was squeezing his Chinese supplier hard. I gathered that they were making no margins on his deal but took his business so that they could get him into China and then make up the margin with these tricks. Would this have happened if he had just considered the other side's POV?
Starship didn't really start in a meaningful way in 2012. In 2012 there were at best some vague concepts of a large rocket and some initial concept ideas for Raptor. But at that time for Raptor they were still thinking about Hydrolox.

SpaceX simply didn't have the resource to fully invest in Starship until much later. Even by the early presentations around 2016 it was a tiny part of SpaceX and was prototyping with limited resources. Real ramp up of spending happened significantly later.

Your understanding of Apollo is also flawed. The F-1 engine started development as early as 1955, not 1961. So if anything your 2012 date would be more like 1955.

Starship is also twice as powerful as Saturn V and designed to be reusable in both stages. That's a significantly harder task. Had SpaceX just wanted to match Saturn V, that would have been significantly easier.
You’re right! I presume he materially misled them about lots of small product decisions, and the dev-day announcements were the last straw.
quite the opposite. i'm tired of the concept "there are no losers" and everyone deserves a reward. life is harsh, and teaching that at younger ages is better than soft selling the concept of losing so that it's a harsh slap in the face later in life.
It clearly says he didn't see some of them either at all or as unicorns. The correct answer is 11.

Edit: I do see now that "He saw" kind of messes the question up. My intent would have been better expressed with "There were". But again this proves my point! GPT4 is able to (most of the time) correctly work through the poor wording and interpret the question the way I meant it, and I think the way most people would read it.
If you were willing to pay Apple-level prices for a Chinese brand, provide significant oversight at every step of the process, and constantly quality check every batch delivered, then you might get Apple-level quality.
Normally, I'd say that probably they hold a lot of power in their agreements. But in this case? Sure, they've been providing hosting and resources, but I'm sure there are at least 5 other companies that could and would provide the same if they had the opportunity, just to be associated with OpenAI.
In an ideal world companies would share profits with employees.

In an ideal world, employees would also share in the losses when companies aren’t profitable (forgo a paycheck).

…everyone wants the first scenario, but absolutely not the 2nd! When will people realize that one of the value props of working for a company (as opposed to starting your own) is you’re guaranteed a stable income regardless of whether profits are going up or down.

(You can say it’s not guaranteed because you can be fired. Fair. But the point still stands, it’s nice to have a stable paycheck that doesn’t wildly fluctuate up and down)
I can't respond to everything incorrect in this, because it's way to long to read. But from the very start...

Also, I wrote a significant part of GTK's current OpenGL renderer.

> But GPUs change the picture entirely. From what I understand by reading the article, GTK uses GL to render in the GPU then copies the pixels into main memory for the compositor to mix with other windows.

This is absolutely and completely incorrect. Once we get things into GL, the texture is backed by a DMABUF on Linux. You never read it back into main memory. That would be very, very, very stupid.

> But in modern GPU-first systems, the compositor is running in the GPU, so there would be no reason to ping-pong the pixels back and forth between CPU and GPU memory after drawing 3D or even 2D graphics with the GPU, even when having different processes draw and render the same pixels.

Yes, the compositor is running in the GPU too. So of course we just tell the compositor what the GL texture id is and it composites if it cannot map that texture (again, because it's really a DMABUF) as a toplevel plane for hardware scanout without using 3d capabilities at all.

That doesn't mean unaccelerrated. It means it doesn't power up the 3d part of the GPU. It's the fastest way in/out with the least power. You can avoid "compositing" from a compositor too when things are done right.

> So I'm afraid Wayland still has a lot of catching up to do, if it still uses a software compositor, and has to copy pixels back from the GPU that it drew with OpenGL. (Which is what I interpret the article as saying.)

Again, completely wrong.

> Check out iOS/macOS's "IOSurface":

Fun fact, I wrote the macos backend for GTK too. And yes, it uses IOSurface just like DMABUF works on Linux.
>colorspace conversion, scaling

There's a lot more than that. Please consider installing the latest version of VLC or something like that and checking all the available post-processing effects and filters. These aren't "fancy animations" and they're not rotating 3D cubes, they're basic features that a video player is required to support now. If you want to support arbitrary filters then you need to use the GPU. All these players stopped using XV ages ago, on X11 you'll get the GPU rendering pipeline too because of this.

I don't really see what's the point of making these condescending remarks like trying to suggest that everyone is stupid and is only interested in making wobbly windows and spinning cubes. Those have never been an actual feature of anything besides Compiz, which is a dead project.
Mark Fisher had an interesting comment on this, and this is more in the context of public/privatization but the point is relevant, calling it “market stalinism”. In Stalin era Russia, bureaucrats spent enormous amounts of time compiling reports and window dressing for their project (essentially advertising its success back to the Party before it was complete). As a result, projects would be well known but mismanaged, slow, broken, etc. but the glory of USSR would definitely be upheld. I’m always reminded of this when executives get on stage and do the Steve Jobs thing about how great we are for working nights and weekends for the “mission” while only they have a vested interest in us making a profit.