skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can predict with difficult if sunspots are going to produce flares, we can detect flares, and we can predict which direction they are going. We couldn't do any that decades ago.

For thunderstorms on the horizon, we have tornado warnings. We also know if the thunderstorms belong to a hurricane since we can track them and somewhat predict their track.
100% of the ~20 people I personally know who were happily doing their entire job just fine from home in 2020 and 2021 were in the 40-90 income percentile range. The ones who’ve totally lost that benefit are mostly on the lower end of that.
This article says it's inflation.

After some 5 paragraphs strongly implying but never claiming that it's due to WFH. And before other 4 paragraphs strongly implying but never claiming that it's due to WFH. But it does clearly say "well, we do know it's because of inflation, but..." in half a line on its only strong claim.
They didn’t lend out money to the crypto industry last time
You still need to be basically literate to understand what you're doing, otherwise you're adding zero value. Making AI tools solve problems for you means you're not learning how to solve those problems. It's especially problematic when you don't have a clue about what you're doing and you just take the AI at its word.
It situations like this, Off Heap Collections or an Array of primitive values can reduce GC churn and pressure.
You're talking about conventional current, and it's nothing more than a polite fiction. We model circuits as current moving from positive to negative, but with the implicit understanding that the real charge moves the opposite direction.

Positive charge carriers do not actually exist[0]. There's only electrons and holes they can go into. We can talk about the movement of holes, but that's a virtual charge carrier at best.

Conventional current is just a convention. It's what we started with (because Franklin was wrong) and it's too much effort to change now. In practice, the distinction almost never matters. Sometimes it does, but not enough that it's worth overhauling the entire field of electronics.

[0] of course positrons and protons exist, but they aren't relevant to electronic circuits
I think I know what "human-generated" means, but I don't know what "human-verified" means.
The breeding for all dog species is very poor. It is rare to find a breeder that even knows what they're doing let alone one who actually is trying to build a strong breeding stock for the future.

Wolves in the wild are lucky to make it to 7 years. A 12 year old wild wolf is exceptionally rare.
We're going in circles; why are they different? I understand that the movie studio would like them to be different, they put a sticker on the side of the DVD saying so, but I don't care about their opinion on the matter and even after four responses it's not clear why you think I ought to.

I get why you're taking this position - If I agree to not do X and then do X, you can call me unethical even if X is harmless. So, if you can show that pirates somehow agreed not to pirate, you can declare that those pirates are unethical without having to show that piracy itself is unethical. The problem with this position is that it uses semantics to contradict reality. You're asking us to imagine someone who picks up a DVD in a store and reads the sticker on the side and loudly declares, "What nonsense, I'm going to go pirate this movie right now!", and claiming that ethically he is somehow agreeing to the license, and that when he goes home and uploads it, that he is somehow breaking a promise not to pirate it despite having explicitly promised do exactly that. That's an obviously contorted position.

If piracy is bad, it's because of the ramifications of the actual act of piracy, not because a corporation fooled me into pinky-swearing not to do it. Companies try to tell us what to do all the time, you can just ignore them; boilerplate legalese has no moral or ethical valence. However, I will also say that I appreciate the time and patience you've put into this thread, you've been nothing but civil and in good faith, so thanks for that.
The parent is getting down-voted but just wanted to point out (the obvious) that there so many rescue dogs available looking for a good home.

We picked up our mostly black lab rescue (plus other 'stuff') as a puppy and mostly likely doesn't have some of the health problems that breeds can have.

I'm glad that I never went with my initial idea of getting a British bulldog. I see them wheezing and it just makes me sad.
Thwarting-in-progress. They need take our privacy for an indefinite amount of time until the problem is solved, you see.
Thread builds on the same physical layer as Zigbee, IEEE 802.15.4; the big difference is unlike Zigbee it also incorporates IPv6.
The physical layer is important for low power mesh networks, like the sensors and switches here- and WiFi is way, way more power hungry.
That said, Matter supports WiFi too.
PIA VPN, Protonmail, Ngrok.
I still have muscle memory to sign up for certain services through Google Play or App Store given how easy it is to cancel them with a single click.
This is a fun sign of the times lol.

Reminds me of the early arguments around automation in racing and whether humans should still be required to shift the car manually once the automatically actuated gearbox became faster and better than a human operator.

In all of these things, humans are transitioning from a place of needing to do work to get the task done, to a place of doing things because they want to do them, because it’s fun, or they learn or it benefits them.

Will people still write code by hand once the machine is clearly superior at it?
Compliant with what?
An excellent point! It reminds me of how drafting was thoroughly disrupted by AutoCAD:

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/life-before-autocad-1950-19...

How much of (our, as in, programmers') work is the "writing code" part, vs. all of the other stuff? Build consensus, gather feedback, communicate ideas, resolve ambiguities, make non-zero progress in the absence of clear direction, etc.
Having worked (very) closely on GPU firmwares and drivers, I always find it funny that it is still something so closely guarded and protected. Honestly there isn't much to it. That's fairly regular code, not like futuristic algorithms. You won't find any novel rasterizing code or ways to order your commands or whatever, 99% of the interesting work is done by the GPU. You'll find basic or vaguely clever code to order lists and optimize the order of the commands, but that's it.

I'm 95% sure that if AMD released their firmware and/or their drivers source code, NVidia wouldn't learn anything of value, they wrote the same stuff anyway. That's just sad \o/
The next breakthrough will be the UX to create 3d scenes in front of a model like this, in VR. This would basically let you _generate_ a permanent, arbitrary 3D environment, for any environment for which we have training data.

Diffusion models could be used to generate textures.

Mark is right and so so early.
Meditron: A suite of open-source medical Large Language Models
What you have to understand is that these methods are very sensitive to what is in distribution and out of distribution. If you just plug in user data, it will likely not work.
How would you verify that? Any digital means is out, and nothing else will be able to scale.
Sure, here's a quick, small, real example where I reach for mindmup before anything else:

https://ibb.co/m53P9r7

So I built a prototype CLI in Go that wrapped up a few different technologies and before I wrote any code I popped into MM and "sketched" the command hierarchy and dependencies. It pretty snappy for tossing out linked concepts with the keyboard navigation.

And in a different direction I also use it to organize / reorganize information by visualizing the structure and color coding by particular attributes

https://ibb.co/xHqZdsq

In both cases it is a big help to me to spatially organize my thoughts and look at the relationships either while noodling or while organizing existing information.

Just like this cmap project the management of notes on nodes is still a big clunky / involved (and overall mindmup is not a "slick" product, especially compared to Ink&Switch's Muse).
Exactly. Our government was inefficient from the start. That's by design.
Sure, but bad jobs exist in any industry. My claim is that good ones exist in service, which is contrary to what the narrative taught in public schools would have you believe.
California adopted the rule that unsubscribe has to be the same process as subscribe a few years ago, then recently it was adopted nationally.

For a while some sites only let you unsubscribe online if your address was in California, so people would change their address and then unsubscribe online.
RAG Pipelines from Scratch with Haystack 2.0
You should also prepare for System Design interviews.
Hanging punctuation looks sloppy. It's not worth it.
I couldn't find a consistent definition for it so I used the past five years. That's another factor that would weigh against fast-growing tech companies.

Maybe the best portfolio would be one part proven, stable value investments picked using measures like PE and PEG, and one part tech companies that are chosen for future profit potential, which you can't really measure or forecast so much as make an educated guess.
If you pay attention to leetcode contests, most of them are unique enough that AI can't pass them, and there is a penalty for submitting a wrong solution, so a potential AI can't just brute force the problem (and if you've used GPT 4 you'll know it requires multiple attempts to get the right code)
Yes, you're articulating the bizarre dance of people trying to have a say in each others internal state. The victim wants the offender to feel contrite and the offender wants to the victim to feel less hurt.

Since nobody seems to have complete control over these seemingly internal states, and no reliable way to measure them in each other, you end up with this unresolvable performative dance where each party tries to control the other's subjective experience. And what shakes out of that is people inevitably calling each other insincere, insensitive, passive agressive, out-of-control, etc
Juicero was a totally fine product except for everything, but media of course hated on it. The owners were very socially-oriented people and imagined homeless people could now have one juice per day at only 10$ a pop at a bar near their favorite sheltering spot, but no, media hated it. They even thought about maintaining brand image and value so they chose to go for 100% vendor lock-in. You can't have more than 100% right but the media, of course, hated on this fine product. The sad but at this point predictable failure of this business is only the down to the media. /s
I'm not sure the current cybertruck can pass the EU safety laws :/
>Related, Panasonic's rechargable eneloop have worked very well for me

Just a heads up: IKEA's brand of rechargables are likely rebadged eneloops at about half the price, also made in japan. Though for the AAA's they only have eneloop regular equivalents not eneloop pros.
Top tip: IKEA rechargeable batteries are probably rebadged Eneloop Pros.
We are overdue for something to nuke the amount of boilerplate code we have to deal with, especially with anything that touches the web.
Odyssey Plans sound interesting.
Check this out: https://worldcoin.org/world-id, another project from Sam Altman:
I made the leaderboard once, when I had to get up real early to get to work and had everything prepped to do it on my commute. Now I just do it for myself, last year I did notice copilot suggesting big pieces of code that where not always correct but at least came close (probably trained by people that did use copilot and did it earlier in the day).

I the switched copilot to the mode where it only suggests things when I ask for it and that was a lot more fun, figuring it out myself and of I got really stuck I could sometimes get a hint from someone who had a similar approach.
I'd be less mad if they were up-front about that. In my current gig, I need to travel in 4-5 times a year, but they were clear about that at the very beginning. I don't think it's _necessary_, but it keeps them happy.
Ah yess, human verified web, let me just send my government ID in to get internet priviliges. No wait, I could still be running a bot. How about DNA samples? Body parts? Biometrics, like I have to keep my eyes in the eye scanner or finger on the fingerprint pad to keep my connection on? Nahh I'll just hire some people to stay in the machkne watching movies while I operate a swarm of bots off of their connection...
You might want to RTFA. Polygen and other prior art are mentioned. This approach is superior.
It seems incredibly dishonest to not understand why people want to interact with other people.
You may want to take a look at this too:
https://github.com/sargam/digital
Just as having kids.
Unless that group is both (1) caught, and (2) threatened with serious punishment for adding backdoors, I see no convenience.

Any uncaught or beyond-reach-of-the-law group would want to take credit for their own work.
> … "award winning show dogs" can have all sorts of horrible health problems that lead to an early, painful death.

There are a few breeds that have serious health problems, but the vast majority don’t.

I have an award winning show dog, and he’s strong, healthy, and happy. We are responsible in researching the right pairing for matings. We use pedigree research, DNA tests, and inbreeding coefficient calculators to ensure healthy offspring.

Responsible breeders exist, and in fact are a majority.
Turning on RCS in Google Messages Enables Spam in India
In fact when I read a book I do little cards, like slides, with the most important information condensed.
I find a good method.
I find the Sonoff drops off the network more than the others, the humidity sensor is well outside accuracy and drifts over time, and is the first to have run out of battery.

It's the humidity sensor that makes it a "No buy" for me.
>Doesn't need lockers or solid axles?

No, EVs do not require those for the same reason they do not require gas tanks.

>Needs a few software updates to mimic the features of those components.

You have it backwards: ICE trucks will never be able to mimic the instant torque and torque vectoring that EV motors provide. Rivian is a good example of this:

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/rock-crawling-with-a-stoc...

>This video is embarrassing: https://twitter.com/ferio_252/status/1723139057314873543

That's not a Ford F-150 Lightning. The Rivian stock will outperform almost practically every other stock vehicle as shown above.
This makes a lot of sense, and has quite interesting implications.

I guess you don't need that advanced AI before to get an actual attachment.

Reminds me about several things, pets, tamagotchis, monkey experiments with mothers replaced by dolls, and stranded / lonely people creating inanimate friends, paying for a shrink.

I guess it can be both very beautiful, but scary in a commercial context.
Like others, I don't see how we can have a "human-verified" web without bringing in a whole lot of nastiness as a side-effect.

But assuming we could, wouldn't the "human-verified" web just function as a data source to further train LLMs (or whatever)?
I virtually always read a book to learn a new language. My point is that memorizing every language feature as a starting point is not a great way to learn, but almost every C and C++ book/tutorial/course seems to do this. There is a reason why people love K&R's C book.
> society has sent the clear message that even the law system will bend to this victimhood narrative

What examples come to mind that make this a clear message?
Fastmail and Tailscale with Mullvad VPN
Your prediction seems correct to me.
> BambooHR study found similarly that data from "more than 57,000 workers shows job-satisfaction scores have fallen to their lowest point since early 2020, after a 10% drop this year alone."

If you look at the data, tracking only starts in 2020, and people were happiest in April 2020. (when work from home was solid) Also, this eNPS number doesn't change that much anyway.

https://www.bamboohr.com/resources/guides/employee-happiness...
Hah that reminds me of a decade or so ago - there was an entire unofficial node SDK before the official one came out. The unofficial one still supported a bunch of features outside the main one for a while.
I wonder if I could create a game that has two buttons: One is "Play" and all that happens is it increases a number. The other is "Pay" and it increases the number to 1 trillion if you pay $5 then flashes something like "You win!"

Would people actually pay me $5 to see the number go up?
They do. The end of a sentence is not the same as the space after an abbreviation. There is a semantic difference, and it's useful.
Ask HN: What can Google realistically do to fix AI-driven SEO tricks?
This tweet has been making the rounds recently, with most bemoaning how things like this have quickly made search almost useless now:

https://twitter.com/jakezward/status/1728032639402037610

But spammers are going to spam, and as long as there is a strong financial incentive to game the system, it's going to happen more and more. So assuming we are stuck with this kind of behavior, what can Google pragmatically put into place to minimize the impact on organic search ranking?

Some ideas off the top of my head:

- Specifically look to detect this sort of thing-- a new website popping up out of nowhere with a huge number of never before seen articles. The articles closely mirror the sitemap of another currently high-ranking website. Analysis of the articles suggests high probability of AI generation (this part is tough obviously). All of this directly leads to banishment from the first 100 pages of results at a minimum.

- Give massive preference to pages that have been up continuously for at least 2-3 years.

- If you can't find any organic links to the site on places like HN/Twitter/Reddit (where the comments/posts containing those links have at least a few upvotes), then it's probably not a "real" site.

- Boosting rankings for content that is clearly attributable to a real person whose existence can be verified in various ways (the same way you might look up who the poster of an HN comment is IRL).

I feel like this is absolutely a solvable problem if they take quick, decisive action. At the very least, they could try to minimize the impact. Otherwise search really will become useless and we will lose a very powerful tool.
It’s a bad thing that people engage with empathy and are getting involved in causes to help very real issues?
Since Graviton3 still isn't available in most regions, especially on the RDS side, I'm really not holding my breath.
You're blaming tools that don't support the full featureset of one of your platforms.

VMS's ODS2 filesystem evidently has concept of files that are grouped in records. The ftp program that you use on VMS wasn't designed to support sending that info to a destination filesystem. Probably because the original Unix filesystem only supported the idea of one stream of bytes for a file. You'd need an FTP server on the destination side to support records seamlessly if you wanted full fidelity.

That's why NTFS supports alternate data streams - the MacOS HFS filesystem supported data and resource forks for a file. An NTFS alternate datastream was where the resource fork was placed so the NTFS user would only see one file from the CLI and the GUI and the builtin copy tools would copy all streams. deleting such a file would remove both streams on NTFS.
What startup founders need to know about AI heading into 2024
Still, pointy internal components pushing on the display is a major design-manufacturing oversight that's absent from their more experienced competitors in the industry, Samsung and Apple. It's something that if you don't catch in the CAD-prototyping phase, you should catch in the early industrialization ramp-up phase as you do quality control of early devices comming off the assembly lines. You do quality control, right? Right?

Let's face it, Google just sucks at making quality hardware in general, they just don't care as much about all the nitty gritty details and challenges that product industrialization throws at you, and just seem to just "wing it" on the HW side, with every latest pixel model suffering from various issues all the time.

I miss the days when Google would let proper manufacturing partners like HTC or LG focus on the hardware so they could focus on the software. Anyone remember the budget friendly Nexus 5 and what a good phone that was?

Now when Pixel has flagship prices to match their competitors, such mistakes are less excusable. If you jump in the ring with Ali, you'd better be able to box.
Historians of the future will have been trained in the postmodernist university system of today.

The core tenet of postmodernism is that there is no objective truth, everything we see in the world is a societal/human construct. It's a pants-on-head extremist outloook that allows absolute insanity to parade as intelligence. It's reasonable to assume that there is at least some semblance of objective truth and argue about the degrees.
If fentanyl is the example they're going with, they should shut the program down since it's completely ineffective
CG-Hoi: Contact-Guided 3D Human-Object Interaction Generation
I don’t believe power should be celebrated. And financial success shouldn’t be either
Detect/apply consciousness to objects.
I have no idea about your background when I am commenting here. But these are my two cents.

NO. Details are mostly like icing on top of the cake. Sure, good details make good art but it is not always the case. True and beautiful art requires form + shape. What you are saying is something visually appealing. So, the reason why diffusion models feel so bland is because they are good with details but do not have precise forms and shape. Nowadays they are getting better, however, it still remains an issue.

Form + shape > details is something they teach in Art 101.
> How much of (our, as in, programmers') work is the "writing code" part,

In my experience, For a junior/entry level, 80%+

For a (actual, not just title) Sr. dev? Typically <= 20-25%.
Probably any web app nowadays requires font icons to be loaded this or other way. In this episode, I'm showing the integration of Font Awesome icons in Hanami 2 applications.
Did that $52k include dealer markup? Pretty sure they top out around $40K fully-loaded.
S3 Express Is All You Need
I've also led the process at multiple companies. It's a big enough space that there's definitely room for different experiences, even within the same companies.

That said, I'm surprised you've never encountered issues with people e.g. not understanding how serious UB is vs other types of issues in C-family languages. That's fairly universal even among developers from what I've seen.
VPN, Notion, chatgpt
Everything about Vampire Survivors made sense to me upon learning that it was developed by an Italian guy who used to work on slot machines. It also reinforced that I've been right to avoid casinos my whole life.

I get that the art was a no-effort import, but everything else about that damn game is a good illustration of something that only seems simple because it's exceedingly well done.
An entire breed of online contests is going to have its chess moment soon. It doesn't matter how pointless cheating is in any context, people are still going to do it, and at some point spending the time and effort in building tooling and enforcement for it just isn't worth it.