skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here in europe that is exactly what I see, a store will show me tracking number and if I click on it carrier website says - "Label printed" so you know it is not picked up yet.
DPD carrier does it like that.
> - Framerate - Response time - Adaptive sync - (how prone to burn-in is OLED? Monitors often have way more static images to TVs)

The much more complicated electronics plus Supply & Demand. Demand for TVs should be way higher then for high end monitors.
Hacker's Delight (2nd Edition)
Yes and it's been considered by many a Java developer before: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11359187/why-not-use-jav...

It's an old and tired API, inefficient, slow... you can do better by using the newer System.Logger which fixes those issues, mostly: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base...
I would dispute that driving leads to a higher quality of life than walking/biking/skiing due to the health problems from lack of exercise. Driving certainly helps with long commutes, but are long commute times increasing the quality of life?
It kinda does, a bit. "5%" by itself is a little vague thanks to the rocket equation relating delta-v and payload fraction with an exponential.
It would be nice if there was a way to tell which users have mobile app installed and which users don't and charge us only for those users that will actually use the feature we are paying for.
Unsub Me Already: Todoist gets a fail
While it's good to have core technology as part of OS, it also makes it non-updateable separately from the OS itself, which slows the spread of developments.

That's my main gripe with apple's approach to swift and swiftui. Yes, tech is getting better every day, but unless you target latest OS version, you can't use new fresh stuff until it's on enough devices around you. And that pretty much guarantees that no matter what apple adds, you still have to wait a year or two until you can safely start using it.

In modern android, kotlin(and compose) also part of the system, yet all the apps do not rely on the system libs, but rather inject the latest available runtime with each of the apps. It takes more space, but instead allows developers to target latest available stack, no matter what core os this app is being run on.
Comment on HN are often very negative about AMD / ROCm and the slow release of an offer competitive with Nvidia.

But I'm very hopeful. They're slowly chipping away at Nvidia massive lead on the software front. And now everything is starting to align through the efforts of AMD but also the work from the Pytorch team to make it easier to build new backends.

We all benefit in the end if they manage to get toe to toe with Nvidia.
No you posted an anecdote that is tangential at best...

Boys and girls learn to read, write, count, etc in the same way.

The original poster expected girls/women to be uneducated/under-educated. This is an aspect that may hold true in countries like Afghanistan or some Africa countries but not in North Korea, which has a totally different culture and level of development.
I've always wondered if it's a good trick for horizontal scaling as well. Like, if you have one server serving 1,000,000 clients, using a CRDT you could trivially split that up into 10 servers serving 100,000 clients each, and then have the ten servers be peers to each other.
Google's Duet AI Launches GenAI Across Full SDLC in the Cloud
I literally can't think of anyone whose taste in music would be more suspect
I still get paid for project involving Oracle 9i running on Itanium HPUX and Delphi application running on Windows XP. This project is not going anywhere in the next 5 years. And there are numerous other projects which will not go anywhere either. I just don't believe that programming landscape will change much. May be in California startup world. My world moves slower.

I don't think anything significantly changed in my approach to the code since 2013. We will see how 2033 goes, but I don't expect nothing big either. ChatGPT is just Google replacement, Copilot is just smart autocomplete. I can use Google instead of ChatGPT and I could use Google 10 years ago. I can use vim macros instead of Copilot. This AI stuff helps me to save few hours a months, I guess, so it worth few bucks of subscription, but nothing groundbreaking so far.
If you want to see more housing created, instituting economic policies/conditions that support and reward that creation is probably going to work out better than policies that do the opposite.

I can’t see any way that passing down non-market rate rent does that.

Passing a property to my kids requires me to have bought it previously (rewarding the creator of it, either directly or indirectly via a chain of transactions).
Well, they are open for business, so...
One has to wonder how much of Github's subpar experience for it is down to mac market share not making it worth improving, and Apple's own strangehold on the hardware and "odd" licencing (I know that with AWS due to Apple, you are stuck with a minimum 24 hour allocation, compared to being able to spin up half a dozen Intel/AMD/ARM instances for a few minutes then terminate them and only get build by the second.)
Angry software devs who likely believe any taxation is unjust. Today a startup can go from 0 to a 5bn IPO in 10 years without ever having made an accounting profit, and they get R&D credits they can deduct from payroll taxes along the way.
> Automatically or programmatically extract data or Output (defined below).

What does that mean? Isn’t that just the definition of API use?
> In the historical context of the time, the objects were legitimate acquisitions.

Nonsense.

Many of the historic aquisitions by "collectors" were as sketchy AF in the context of the times.

The Elgin marbles, for example, were removed from Greece by an English lord and an Italian painter while Greece was under Ottoman rule ..

The legality of this was questionable at best and a House of Commons Select Committee held public hearings on whether Elgin had acted within the law - many considered he had not. Given this hearing ocuurred well after the fact, the damage was done, and the booty was now in England being sold for a song it was all rather swept under the carpet.

A thief is a thief ... unless they are a Lord.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_Marbles#Acquisition

The Benin Bronzes and other related artifacts were straight up targeted theft as a by product of war - if might makes right then they were legitimate, otherwise they're on the same footing as objects stolen by armed invaders that kill half your family and set your house on fire.

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/travel/2022/09/benin-br...
> and take responsibility for it, since machines cannot take
responsibility for things.

That's an interesting thought; people "taking responsibility" as a
form of labour, for machines that stole their lunch. Probably be
around zero applicants for that job.

Responsibility is a complex quality needing capacity and competence.
Right now even the manufacturers of "AI" are unable to assert much
about behaviour.

Where "responsibility" exists around robotics and ML it will more
likely be a blunt legal instrument tied to ownership, like owning a
dangerous animal.
You’re assuming petrol won’t be more expensive. It might be, it might not.
thank you for that link - it is detectable but in my eyes neglegible for website use. What about saturation?

I have to ask, what could be the reason this gives me pale blue (other colors are okeyish) jpg > webp:

cwebp -pass 10 -m 6 -nostrong -sharp_yuv -quiet -q 60 -sharpness 2 $1 -o
It was priceless when filling my naturalisation application, which required me to write the exact dates of every international trip I did in the past 5 years.

Also, it's great for trying to fit loose memories in dates and locations.
Show HN: Soundboard of Laughs
An attempt to make a website featuring audio clips while adhering to WCAG and GDPR.

My goals with that website were:

- provide people with merriment
- no ads
- no barriers to use or download any of the content provided
- freedom for visitors to play the content provided at their own discretion
- no tracking or fingerprinting
- ask friends, family, and strangers to record themselves laughing to serve as a digital archive of their voices
It really whipped the llama's ass after all.
obviously the cameraman was asking for it /s
The only case I could potentially see software not being hardware implementable is when it is self-mutating, but even in this case ... FPGAs?

I can't follow the train of thought.
AI can be used to support that activity too. Models can just as well used to explain existing code, possibly cranked out by another AI. I bet many companies are thinking about fine-tuning or LoRA-ing language models on their moldy codebases and outdated pile of documentation to make onboarding, refactoring, and routine extensions easier.

To interpret what AI models themselves are actually doing, researchers employ AI models as well.
An often repeated claim, but untrue. We have a pretty good understanding of large parts of junk DNA, how it got there and what it is, and know that most of it really is junk.

That being said, only around 2% of the human genome is coding, with perhaps another one or two percent having known no coding function. And estimates of functional DNA is somewhere around 8% of the genome. So, most functional DNA is still unknown.
wouldnt your passport have that information as opposed to relying on third party information? so....... how would the government in this case "verify" your exact dates?
The Daily Heil, as it’s often referred to, was and still is frequently on the wrong side of history.

Pushed for closer relations with Hitler, encouraged people to vote for UKIP, pushed for Brexit, frequently writes literally-proved-in-court lies and slander, the list is long.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail
I think you're missing the point - the reasons to return stuff like these are not practical but symbolic
Sunk cost doesn't necessarily mean good management.

It actually means the opposite. Instead of management identifying a boondoggle ahead of time they got the company into a mess.
I mean, how is someone else able to diagnose any mental condition? Why do you ask this as if it can't be done?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8186241/
They produced the processor equivalent of a segfault. Obviously this is a denial of service but it could also mask a more problematic bug lurking behind the scenes.
I can see it in the second link setting webp to small in the orange reflections above the rightmost outside needle tree htms. ... oh, you cant drag it? ...
Show HN: Benchmarking language models by playing text adventures
GPT 4 does not produce code that I'm ready to accept. The time it takes to convince it to produce code that I'll accept significantly larger than the time it takes to write that code myself.

GPT 4 is fine for absolutely foreign tasks to me, like write a power shell script, because I know almost nothing about power shell. However those tasks are rare and I generally competent about things I need to do.
Flutter uses its own graphics (skia?) for all the platforms IIRC.
Solar Evolution Models with a Central Black Hole
I've also heard that most of the people who continued pressing the button believed the shocks to be fake. The actual number of people who believed they were electrocuting someone and yet continued doing it was very small.
This is not about land ownership, but historical artifacts. Acts of good will can go a long way towards strengthening the friendly relationships between two peoples.
There are set-top boxes/TVs running android/linux that might have the same use-case for remotes/controllers and macOS/iOS share a lot of code with tvOS which has the same use-case. Macs ship with wireless keyboards that automatically pairs, apple even highlight this on their product page: "It pairs automatically with your Mac, so you can get to work right away." https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMMR3LL/A/magic-keyboard-...
Many countries don't stamp your passport anymore, many that do don't put a date, and even if I relied on that information stamps are messy, out of order, and fading.

The government probably has a list of international flights I've taken somewhere. I honestly don't think they will use it they probably don't deny citizenships because I missed a couple of trips (unlike, say, not reporting frequent trips to North Korea).

It's still nice to do the right thing and fill up that data to the best of my knowledge.
> Trading the lives and senses of anyone to watch numbers go up in a spreadsheet is despicable.

Yet this is what we all do every day, from traffic to food safety, to public spending on health care, etc.

These sort of trade-offs exist everywhere. Every single time you take a flight or step in a car you are literally contributing to the death of people. None of this is hugely controversial, except ... in the case of COVID.

And it's not about "numbers", during great economic recessions quality of life does decline, sometimes greatly so. IMHO "destroy the economy", "destroy the lives of children", etc. is hugely overstating matters, but it did have a negative impact on many aspects.

Were lockdowns a good or bad trade-off? You can reasonably disagree on that. But to deny the trade-off exists in the first place is unhelpful.
Putting aside whether he is toxic or not, does anyone else not quite understand his example?

> A sales rep was at a "mixer" that he was not told to go and managed to get two prospects.

Not knowing the exact terms of the reps employment, but almost all of the sales reps I've dealt with work with commission. So in this particular case, they were told to go out and sell. So really they weren't going "above and beyond", they were doing their job to get paid.

Unlike engineering, they may not have worked during the day time, so doing this in the evening is just them shifting their schedule, and doing their job with a good attitude. Basically C's to use his scale.
From that repo:

> At LinkedIn, we are focusing our efforts on advanced automation to enable a seamless, LinkedIn-wide migration from Rest.li to gRPC. gRPC will offer better performance, support for more programming languages, streaming, and a robust open source community. There is no active development at LinkedIn on new features for Rest.li. The repository will also be deprecated soon once we have migrated services to use gRPC. Refer to this blog for more details on why we are moving to gRPC.
The point is that people won't get paid anymore to do it. It has happened before: many activities that have been replaced by technology have been almost forgotten (for example the newspaper reader in the factory) or are practiced as art or niche crafts only. Careers built on these are either wildly successful or have highly unsteady income since they are literally reliant on the whims, not on the needs, of people.
https://windmill.dev is a self-hostable OSS alternative to pipedream

(disclaimer: I'm founder)
CI for Mac and iOS is a disaster. We manage builds and deploys for multiple languages, platforms and cloud providers in our CI system, the _last_ thing we want is another platform to check for Mac builds.
"We do not consider this to be a security issue since the real customer accounts do not have access to any website.”

Whomever took the lead on this correspondence is very much out of touch with their own product functionality. Further, they didn't seem to understand the vulnerability. Yet, this didn't stop them from responding.

I get the impression from this that Writer is a low-quality product that was quickly created by consultants and then maintained by non-technical founders.
The entire company has no Q.A team.

The amount of bugs I troubleshot in that tech stack was staggering just for basic day-to-day stuff.

promotion based engineering means an engineer shits something out that looks cool in a demo then bails to the next cool demo project while the rest of us are stuck with the reality of the turd.
Does power corrupt or does power attract the corrupt? I do think power is unhealthy, but its corruption works more slowly and subtly than these experiments can possibly test.

Not to mention that these guards didn't have real power; they weren't the ones running the experiment. They had a very limited pretend power. If you want to know whether power corrupts, it's better to look at Zimbardo himself.
They had a warrant. It seems less like a 4th issue and more like a 5th issue.
Should ISIS not give back all the historical Christian artifacts that they looted?
Let me try to wrap my head around this:

Say there is a completely static, black planet. All sunlight that hits it is turned into heat which is dissipated into the universe. Nothing moves on that planet.

The static black inhabitants of the planet are very thankful for the sun that it makes their planet nicely warm and cozy.

Now one day, one of them is allowed to travel to planet earth and read Hacker News. He reads this very thread.

Are you telling him that they are wasting half of the benefits they could get from the sun? They could have a nice warm planet AND drive around in electric cars all day? For free? Everything else would stay the same?

If so, doesn't that make driving a car "free" in that it not even increased the amount of entropy? Since the sunlight would have turned into high entropy heat anyhow?
Explain why you downvoted this? Self hosting scheme compilers on WASM is not new. HN a compliance Ghetto?
That's not good management though.

Recognizing you fucked up and only cost the company tens of millions instead of hundreds of millions is "Not Terrible" management.
> Do we know what data was used? And what the constraints were around it?

The fact that the question/accusation has been raised a great many times and they have not stated "we know we haven't used information without licence because we had procedures to check licensing for all the data used to train our models", would certainly imply that they scraped data for training without reference to licensing, which makes it very likely that the models are based significantly on copyrighted and copyleft covered information.

> Do we know it was used without permission

No, we don't know for sure. But the balance of probabilities is massively skewed in that direction.

There are enough examples of image producing AIs regurgitating obvious parts of unlicensed inputs, as an indication of the common practise of just scraping everything without a care for permission. So asking for those with other models to state how they checked for permission for the input data is reasonable.
In user-mode programs where simple mutual exclusion is needed, trivial spinlocks shall never be used, but only operating system functions like FUTEX_WAIT on Linux or WaitOnAddress on Windows.

In privileged code or in sophisticated user-mode applications, e.g. where the OS scheduler is bypassed and the threads are pinned on cores, trivial spin locks shall never be used, but only deterministic, efficient and fair spin locks.

So in my opinion there does not exist any use case when trivial spin locks can be recommended.

The spin lock acquiring methods of the first class that I have mentioned, even if they require the least storage, i.e. of only one cache line, they are not even deterministic, i.e. they do not guarantee forward progress for the thread that attempts to acquire the lock.

The second and the third class always guarantee forward progress. In the simplest case they ensure FIFO behavior for the lock, but they can be modified to implement a priority queue for the threads waiting to acquire the lock.

A ticket lock requires only 2 cache lines instead of 1 cache line, while the third class of methods require one cache line per thread, besides one cache line known globally.

This extra space is almost always negligible.
Aimed at hipsters then
You should see a real hoot, decimal time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
I know a house, privately owned, that's been vacant for six years or more. Nice place, good neighborhood. The current owner lives far away, is well off, so well off that they don't care that they're paying money for maintenance (including heating) and getting no return.
That's like saying that chewing is a component of food for humans (and everything else).

Chewing is an important way to increase the amount of nutrition you get from a fixed amount of food. It isn't itself food.
> A former librarian said many boxes of artifacts are stored — but uncatalogued — in the basement, meaning it is difficult to know if items have been removed. [0]

Well, if the donor isn't going to inventory the goods, then expectations should be low. Did his nephew not have a clue?

This is like never checking the data backup. Either it's not that valuable, or you're negligent.

[0] https://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/2011/06/report_ernie_harw...
Do you think the answers here will be any better than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_formula ?
Also, should protestant countries return "stolen" goods back to the Catholic church? Art, churches, monasteries, land, cathedrals, relics, ...
Don't rely on logic in matters involving patents.
Blocking competitors, cooperating with Germany's worst news paper, MS has a seat on OpenAI's board.

Altman's return is really working out
who will probably eventually replace us.

no one is going to be using AI and then just have it 'replace them', they're going to use it to augment their abilities and avoid replacement.
Which tools were you using for ETL? Or were they completely custom?
Wotsit.org File Formats
That’d provide some protection, but the LLM could be prompted to socially engineer users.

For example, it could be promoted to only make malicious HTTP requests via an image when the user genuinely requests an external image be created. This would achieve consent from users who thought they were asking for a safe external source.

Similar for fonts, external searches [1], social items etc

[1] e.g putting a reverse proxy in front of a search engine and adding in extra malicious params
Or just watch users :-)

It is the only way to close the loop. You need empirical approach somewhere as users come with a big bag of biases from other UIs.
I feel a single "deaths" number is not that useful of a metric, and something like "life years lost" would be better. A healthy 20 year old would lose ~60 years; a diabetic obese 60-year old much less. Of course we should take reasonable efforts to protect those more vulnerable to disease, but with more nuanced data like this you can better decide what "reasonable" is.
Isn't that "waste" heat still warming the planet? Isn't turning a cold planet into a warm planet a good thing and therefore the "waste" heat is still "used" for something useful?