skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Multiple companies have toyed with the idea of using AI to generate stories, all of whom have been widely panned for the decision. G/O Media (which operates Gizmodo and Kotaku) attempted it earlier this year, the result of which was error-riddled pieces and widespread pushback from its staff. The company plans to move forward with AI authors despite this. Gannett, which operates USA Today, also attempted it but pulled back after it resulted in “botched” coverage of high school sports. More recently, Sports Illustrated was accused of the practice, a decision that resulted in widespread derision and the firing of its CEO.

all that matters is attracting $USER to $PLATFORM at a rate which minimizes $COST_OF_CONTENT_PRODUCTION to a point where it is below $INCOME_PER_USER. none of these "news outlets" have any integrity, they might back off of AI but they've already demonstrated that they'll publish anything that drives viewership. This also calls into question the legitimacy of human-written content published by these "news outlets" because whatever ideals journalism may have aspired to in the past no longer exist (if they ever even existed in the past).
I dunno. I think I can get behind the ideas here, but a lot of it seems a little too informed by app requirements and not the bits (hardware abstraction) that are the actual job of an operating system.

Discussing better ways to spawn a process is great, and "everything is a file descriptor" is a fine metaphor. But if there's no thought given to mapping memory, handling virtualized machines, driver interaction (ioctls, sysfs, et. al.), async signaling and IPC, etc... I don't know that this really gets very far.

You could write these APIs on top of the Linux kernel today, but you'd never be able to do anything but toy code without then wrapping a vast quantity of system interfaces in this "fd's everywhere" model.
They don't need native 32 bit ARM Windows support. That's essentially dead and never really took off to begin with, it's a handful of ancient apps in the Windows Store from the Surface RT days. Microsoft has already said they're removing it from the next version of Windows. x86 support will still be kicking around on Windows on ARM64 which is by far the bulk of 32 bit Windows programs.

Microsoft's compatibility layers are pretty competitive. You get about 60% of the performance whereas Rosetta 2 is closer to 70%, which is impressive when you consider MS has no hardware bits to do that unlike Apple.

What has been more of an issue is the slow CPUs themselves. The upcoming Orion chips should perform similarly to M1 on x86 programs.
I'm not a lawyer, but I have several patents and get involved as an internal technical expert in investigating IP issues with my employer. None of this is actual advice:

There are multiple levels of engagement. The simplest is simply to ignore the patent and take the risk.

You can get an independent lawyer to write a finding that the patent is invalid for reasons X, Y, and Z. What this does is to insulate you from treble damages.

There is a formal process for requesting invalidation, but it requires starting with the confidence that the patent is invalid (or a lot of money to waste, or both), and those things are usually enough to justify either of the two above options.

Situations where it makes sense to request formal invalidation seem to be rare.

You can wait until you get sued, and counter with an invalidation action.

I don't think you can DIY any of this. Especially, the rules for what is "obvious" and what actually counts as prior art, are complicated and it's easy to be wrong.
2010 here. I’ve even posted one or two love letters to HN on here. What a great community!
Sometimes I hope HN would have a forum, a real old forum, about life itself, not only tech.

It would be amazing to have such a high quality community able to contribute to everlasting threads. About life, decisions, and of course, curiosity.

P.S: Merry Christmas!
Might be true for October, but for the entire year of 2013 it was the third best selling car, behind two petrol cars.

https://bilmagasinet.no/bilaret-2013-ble-historisk-godt/

The Leafs were small and had a very short range. They were no replacement for petrol or diesel cars for families. Unlike Tesla S and X.
Strategies for developers to manage the cost of generative AI APIs
Focus on Users Over Personal Preferences: Prioritize validating your idea and catering to user needs over personal ego or preferences.

User Traction Before Investor Attention: Concentrate on acquiring users first; investors will follow if your user base is strong.

Hiring Philosophy: Hire proactive, multifunctional team members (like full-stack developers) who align with your company culture and avoid hiring managers or people you don't connect with until reaching Product-Market Fit (PMF).

Market Strategy: Aim for the global market from the start and prioritize SEO early on to maximize reach and growth potential.

Feature Development and Feedback: Sell and discuss potential features with current users before development to ensure relevance and demand.

Investment Strategy: Reinvest profits into your startup and trusted networks rather than external investments like cryptocurrencies or stocks.

Online Presence and Networking: Maintain active social media engagement, especially on platforms like Twitter, for networking and traffic.

Avoiding External Distractions: Stay clear of partnerships with corporations and distractions like hype markets, as they often lead to time wastage and misaligned priorities.

Business Focus and Decision Making: Prefer B2B over consumer apps due to higher success rates and easier monetization, and don’t hesitate to abandon non-performing projects within a year.

Project Management and Outsourcing: Avoid methodologies like Scrum if they don't fit your team's style and refrain from outsourcing until achieving PMF to ensure alignment with your vision.

Funding and Time Management: Bootstrap your startup if possible, avoiding the time-consuming process of raising funds, and recognize that tech conferences may not always provide value.
is it notify-send, or libnotify, or notify-desktop? (I'm on NixOS and only see the latter 2 options...)
> I'm making an effort to embrace the diversity of what music can mean to different individuals...

I'm a trained musician myself (see e.g. http://rochus-keller.ch/?p=1221) and I have also been exploring algorithmic composition for many years. There is no issue with diversity of what music can mean.

The issue is from my point of view, that a lot of effort is spent with different algorithmic concepts, but in the end, any area of the generated number range is arbitrarily mapped to MIDI notes. You can e.g. see that with the output of cellular automata (which are also used in the referenced book), where any random strip of the overall image is interpreted as notes. You could just as well have used a quasi-random generator. The use of cellular automata therefore brought no added value.

> is this emerging field of Quantum Computer Music solely focused on generating random numbers?

Whenever a new idea or technology became popular, a few resourceful people started making music with it. Now it's quantum computers. Over the years, many dissertations have been written that have not really brought any progress. I give transformer DNN a good chance, but good results are likely to be a few years away.
I don't think the TÜV in Germany cares about panel gaps.
Unless you’re going to magic into existence millions of workers who died or left the labor force during and after Covid (10k boomers retire per day, a health economy creates 100k-200k jobs per month, 1.8M people over 55 die every year, about half of which are in labor force participation), this call is already made. The labor market is tight because of structural demographics, which this administration lucked into. Right place right time.

“Demographics are destiny.”

https://recruitonomics.com/demography-is-destiny/
The article is dated Jan 2 2024
Mindful of German report on automotive.
Right, but I was asking about Bash, where this worked unchanged on my Mac...

I do actually have something installed in my env, I think, that might trigger those functions automatically if they exist, now that I think about it...

bash> v PROMPT_COMMAND
PROMPT_COMMAND is an indexed array variable
declare -a PROMPT_COMMAND=([0]=$'__bp_precmd_invoke_cmd\nmcfly_prompt_command;_direnv_hook\n:' [1]="__bp_interactive_mode")

(pretty sure that this broke when I tried to force it to be a pure array instead of a 2 element array with the first as a concatenation of functions... unfortunately)

("v" is a "view/show" function I wrote that allows me to see the definition of anything; https://github.com/pmarreck/dotfiles/blob/80a392470f8eddd70e... )
What makes it good even for self-hosters? I have a lot of respect for Neocities but haven't used it since I have a VPS.
Flowmodoro – The app that helps you spend time on things that matter most
Very cool project. Thank you for sharing your work.

> Also... useful to regulate flow, any extra flow in either direction hurts efficiency.

I think this factor is what ultimately tips the balance in favor of a centralized "smart" auto-calibrating unit[0] (using simple and reliable pressure sensors) over distributed ductless. However centralized units do have other advantages.[1][2]

I wouldn't get too discouraged just because you had difficulty selling an early unit. Marketing and sales is hard. Reaching the right people and then effectively communicating a product's value is both an art and a science.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGB83pSLMiI

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38743885

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TChYcSSNXrI
Oh definitely! I just meant that they don't have to use PHP or MySQL of they felt those were too old fashioned or whatever.
Prokosch's book is still available

https://a.co/d/0u4S28Y
I also had in mind features like cpu affinity, and may be the next thing that this app which compiled a decade ago didn’t know about.

I don’t like current forking for sure, just that I’m not against inheritance…
If you compare pure Ruby without Rails to fast language like Rust, Go and Java. It is probably closer to 10-20x.

The 100x to 200x mainly comes from Rails.
Isn't that average for any C++ software development?
Zigbee and Thread are not the same thing. They use the same 802.15.4 radio. Zigbee does its own wireless mesh protocol, and then adds profiles on top. With home automation being most common. Thread uses 6LoWPAN to run IPv6 on 802.15.4. Thread adds a mesh network. Matter is the home automation protocol on top of that.
It is reliable and dependable compared to weather dependent renewable energy sources. As about reliability of e.g. wind, Siemens Gamesa has e.g. some stories to tell.
Correct.

Its steel body panels alone qualify as both disruptive market and technical innovation. There's exactly nothing else like it.

Did you see Munro's walking tour of the steel fab? The welding of the interiors to their respective body panels is awesome. Just one of dozens of process and technical innovation. Terrific stuff.

Acknowledging caveats about Musk, leadership, working conditions, FSD, yadda yadda aside:

Other manufacturers certainly have noted Cybertruck's reduced part count (BOM) and labor hours. They've gotta be concerned.

Like Apple with the iPhone, Tesla will continue to be more profitable than its competitors. Cheaper cost of capital, pour those profits back into R&D, fly wheel effect, etc.
Actually 32F without wind is no big deal if you have a decent sleeping bag. Plus it gets warmer as you do more stuff inside (e.g., cooking). Igloos have the same design and can get pretty warm. [0] The real problem in my experience is that it's quite humid. Since you are insulating with snow it evaporates and raises the humidity up to the dew point.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igloo
Looks fun ... and neat.

But the mere fact that the primary ascribed goal is "fun" suggests it is not be taken seriously for actual work projects.
So I'm going to be fined for streaming a hollywood movie or posting an "offensive" meme?
The answer is probably related to why a paid premium tier negates the value of an ad-supported free tier. A person who can't (or won't) afford the paid tier is probably not going to pay an advertised product, and thus the consumers of the free tier are less interesting (e.g. valuable) to advertisers.

For value to exist in the free tier, it must reach the entire audience. Think about how radio or newspaper advertising worked. If one segment figures out how to avoid the advertisements, it reduces the value of the remaining audience more than proportionally.
Oh I dont know the history, but I think I could throw a baseball from the 7 and hit west virginia, and if you are on the country roads trying to get around the traffic headed up bluemount you could probably find yourself in west virginia pretty easy.
How do you define consumate politician ?
> This design is called the Teller-Ulam design, and it is extremely likely that it was discovered only once (by Ulam and Teller), all other thermonuclear bombs are just the result of successful spying and secret sharing.

Hans Bethe believed that the Soviets and the British got it by analyzing the fallout from fusion bomb tests. Apparently the high number of heavy elements suggested high rates of compression
Sorry I offended Alabamans with facts about differential trade volume…
> some of it’s kind of like how quantum math has been used to model (if I remember correctly) seismology or weather, and some of it’s about sonifying the entire quantum state, including superpositions

Well, the field of quantum computing is definitely important and very promising, but it has as little to do with music like the proportions in the movements of celestial bodies.
You can still plug in your car and charge up this fluid at home just as you would with a lithium battery. And the stations where you change fluid can charge it too and put it back into circulation for the next customer. And if demand is larger than that station can charge then a tanker truck can pull up and replenish the underground tanks.

If you find yourself stranded on the side of the road, you simply drain some depleted fluid into a red gas can, hike down the road to the nearest station and exchange it for a gallon of energized fluid.

All the benefits of conventional EVs without the downsides.
Series “Mind your language” is one big example (along with cheesy ‘70s humour).
Not the author but I recommend: "What UNIX cost us" by Benno Rice: https://youtu.be/9-IWMbJXoLM?si=3c0YkPtfAJHWB_Q-

In fact, this video argues that file descriptors are not as good as the author claims in their opening paragraph. They are another runaway idiosyncrasy borne out of the "everything is a file (but not really)" philosophy that underpins Linux.
The debt clock [0] shows each citizen is owed $100,000 (each tax payer $260,000), so a few years of work owed. The treasury [1] confirms this and is not where we want to be.

Still, the economy is not dead and an average US citizen works 42 years, so a few years of wages lost is not the end of the world. Also, most of the debt is held within the US borders, so foreign debt is big but only 30% [2]

[0] https://www.usdebtclock.org/

[1] https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/natio...

[2] https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2023/05/the-federal-government-has...
everybody deserves a room of ones own. [1]

ads are just a parasite pretending to provide it, manufacturing demand for overproduced commodities that are mostly harmful for humanity and our environment.

so long as the public library remains upheld as a public institution, with free access to information for all, ads remains merely a parasite slowly eating away at our perception of the public good. and it's no surprise in our rent-seeking, enshittifying economy that the library is crumbling.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Room_of_One%27s_Own
> DOOM, which came out in 1996

1993.
No, it also needs to support:

ICMPv6 (type 133) Router Solicitation (RS)

ICMPv6 (type 134) Routing Advertisement (RA)

Which my xfinity provided router does not. I spent weeks with support emails between xfinity and eve trying to get it sorted out before eve declared it an unsupported router and refunded me the purchase.
A bookmark manager is pretty generic tool, that can be tailored for a variety of use-cases. You must first state your use-case, before asking for a recommendation
Only 535 days away from being fined $100 for each of my offensive memes
It's super easy, an example could be found here https://technoclub.bearblog.dev/creating-a-simple-ai-chat-wi...
Change a basic thing in a header of a core library, or even add a flag to the compiler, and you need to recompile everything.
People do:

https://pharo.org/success/BoeingBoletos.html
Humans tried to fly for thousands of years before the Wright Brothers. Things get better over time. Humans are improvement machines. So yes, I think it will be different.
Much in the same way that the “Wright brothers flight has nothing to do with transportation”
> Rewriting large swathes of the OS is not in scope

Is this impossible for AI to do the majority of the work, then let specialists make it work?
Sound localize fireworks for New Year's Eve
With New Year’s Eve approaching you still have time to get your recorders ready for some geek fun localizing all the explosions. With three or more recorders you are good to go. So long as you can hear the explosion on all recorders, with this setup you can localize where it was set off to within a single car park easy from more than 3 km distance.
Yeah that is a footgun too. Enough that Rust defines argument evaluation order.

It is a much smaller footgun though and I don't recall ever being bitten by it. I have definitely been bitten by member initialisation order though multiple times. Generally because of questionable designs where one member is passed as a parameter of another member and it hasn't actually been initialised yet.

Really I think the answer is to initialise in the order that initialisation is written (this is what Rust does) rather than declaration order. But that would be a breaking change so I guess they opted for the conservative choice.
> If there there are a zillion EVs, which cleverly charge up when the spot electrical price gets low, then those free-or-negative prices for electricity - which really seem to push people's buttons - will not actually happen.

That's desirable, isn't it? You're trying to get to a point where the demand curve matches the supply curve. You want there to an expectation that supply-peak energy is going to be worth something at some point in the future, even if it isn't right now. (Assuming we're doing this in the private sector, of course).

> I am not aware of either the electrical grid, or most current EV's & their charging hardware, being built to actually do this.

I think it's called bidirectional charging.
Oh no good god, Neat is definitely beta. This language has one user at the moment. Do not use it for actual work projects.

(Though I will be proper chuffed if you do. I just can not recommend it.)

To be honest, my goal is to have maybe 10 to 50 users right now. That'd be quite enough for this christmas.
variables and constants too
>I got 1~2 hours of additional battery life on Wayland.

Proof needed.
I learned a lot from computer magazines in the 80s. It’s not really been the same since.
How much of the time in a given request is even spent in Ruby code? The majority of web apps that were slow and I got a chance to analyze were spending much of the time in DB queries and slowness was usually due to unoptimized DB queries. Even endpoints that were fast, still spent a large percentage of their time not in Ruby but in DB and service requests
Dave also worked on the initial Azure platform in 2008.
Not quite sure what the reference to parasite refers to unless it is to the thief. The article is about theft of AI technology developed outside of China to further enhance the mining and use of troves of personal data China has stolen over the years on citizens of United States and elsewhere. The theft and data mining is a concern for anyone who values freedom and privacy. By the way the reasonable protection of intellectual property is the engine of modern-day economic growth. China is a good example of failing to stimulate sufficient innovation so its recourse is theft of innovations achieved by countries that do protect intellectual property. And unfortunately their end goals involve social control and imprisonment of those who disagree or embarrass the CCP.
Initialization in C++ is already a mess. Making one of the core behaviours (members are initialized in declaration order) work subtly different for this case would make it even more difficult for the programmer to build a correct mental model.

From what I can tell, the snippet you posted would compile fine in C++20 mode.
I still do backups of my online storage to Blu-ray on occasion. You can get 25GB, 50GB, or 100GB discs, and it’s great insurance in case anything happens to Google Drive or whatnot… like last week…

Flash drives are cool too, but Blu-ray Discs will never have an accidental folder deletion or any temptation to be used as more than an archive…
I used gnuradio to decode a remote control to a device that allowed me to then automate. I now use a Great Scott Gadgets YARD Stick One to transmit along with rfcat and python. A generic RTL-SDR device with gnuradio worked on the decoding part.

I found some good online resources to understand how to do the decoding (e.g. learning the different protocols used). You can dive into more theory (FFT etc.) of course. It was a winter break project. Pretty fun. But be warned SDR generally can be a deep rabbit hole.

One note: gnuradio is a shockingly bloated suite of software, so pick a machine you don't mind getting tons of new packages.
It all boils down to what hides behind that word, "existential". Slavs and Jews definitely considered what happened in WW2 an existential threat for instance, but you seem to be arguing that only threats to the entirety of humanity qualify as existential, a view that many others here don't agree with, probably because it gives off the impression that things like the extinction of entire cultures and millions or billions of people are discounted by using a restrictive definition. It seems however that neither view matches the use of the concept of "existential risks" in contemporary discourse, which are understood to be "risks that threaten the destruction of humanity's long-term potential". That's a much lower bar to clear and by that standard, we're clearly collectively cutting the branch we're sitting on, though probably not indeed jumping off the cliff of an absolute total annihilation of the human race.
“And I was a kid, so I thought love could fix anything,” she said, recalling how she hugged him good-bye once, “and he just shook.”

Wow. I did not expect to cry at this story, but here I am. How profoundly sad this man must have been.
Is this a joke? I'd like to fine-tune an existing model, let's say mistral, on a new dataset using (existing tools),

I've seen that there are a lot of approaches, but none that has gained traction, there isn't a clear consensus...
You only need a hub if you want to control your devices from your LAN. You don’t need one if you only use Zigbee steering devices.
It’s not a scientific document but a political one. By mentioning china and military threat the House can build support for funding defense contractor space spend.
Thanks! We were originally thinking of approaching things more from the educational side, but it’s kind of a hard point to make without experimental evidence, which we don’t have.

As far as playing a quantum circuit through the end, that’s what our python and max implementations do! Should work with any gate; but because it’s simulation-based, there’s a limit to the number of qubits. We’re also working on a follow-up about sonifying arbitrary hamiltonians.