skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's early. And companies and governments achieving some sort of competitive advantage would be playing these applications close to their chest to keep their advantage.

QC has led to significant prevention of loss-of-life, loss-of-equipment, and territory gains in battlefield applications. Encrypt/ Decrpyt was already mentioned as a use case. None of these dual-use practical applications are public.

QC is good at "analog" computing: applications where you are more interested in potentials than in 0s and 1s. That lends itself to material design problems. There are applications in battery design and catalytic converter. F1 teams have some interesting fluid dynamics and laminar flow problems where QC was instrumental to test hunches fast. It's not so much about exact compute of solutions, but how to verify a first guess fast to then use traditional software. One could argue this is a niche application, but not if you consider marketing and streaming rights and advertisement impact. A similar approach is used for drug discovery.

None of these "practical" applications are talked about - they are a competitive advantage of commercial enterprises. But if you care for a proxy you could look at any significant hires 1-2 years ago with PhDs, compute, math experience in relevant QC fields. And you would be surprised to see some companies hiring more than 20-30 people in that field (and not just Google or Amazon etc.). That's an FTE expense that could just be hedging of a large company; but could also be product design; and is definitely more than a test balloon or R&D pet project. Some of these companies are known for industrial adhesives, specialty cement, or "green" base oils for lubrication and cooling and cutting. so not all tech companies or big pharma.
The news on a website is paid for by someone, else they would not be in business. And I only have one screen, I don't share it. The difference is physical vs. digital copies. A physical copy costs $.10 a digital copy costs $.0000001 (made up numbers), the business can take a loss of numerous digital copies before hitting the cost of one copy of the physical paper.

The problem is really that their business model sucks. They are working with fewer and fewer advertisers and much more competition and expecting business like they had before. And so we have a business that is attempting to fix itself with paywalls which don't work 100% of the time, but good enough to get the found newspaper analogy.
Sure, I do too, but that's more a lay of the land thing for me. When I'm going to a specific place and I don't really care much about what's between me and it, I'll go "relative directions". I know ahead of time the ~direction I'm going, and the GPS is to tell me what's coming up, so I want it "ahead".

I guess the apps could be tweaked to do both; show cardinal direction, but put "here" near the edge of the screen that maximizes the distance forward. I suspect it's not because "here" is always on the same spot on your screen the way it is, which is a UX consideration as well.
They mean 900 streams vs 100 streams, whether the tracks are different or not is not important for the payout.
Obviously wrong ideas are a sign of a healthy discipline
> DO NOT EVACUATE WITH LUGGAGE.

Simple rule IMHO: keep your ID/password and a credit card on your person during take-off / landing. (Probably your phone, in a pocket, as well.)

Practically speaking as long as you can ID yourself and buy things (pay-off later), there's no property that's worth your life (or the life of other passengers).
The Curious Case of Debian 12 and the SSH Failure
Does your company have any considerations for feeding chatGPT source code? Would it not be safer to use a local LLM?
But the money literally isn't there, and the FDIC insurance that secures up to a limit is itself poorly funded and incapable of covering the failure of a moderately sized bank.

Saying the money appears to be there is very different from the reality of it, and in the context of whether customers consent to how the system works its also feels disingenuous IMO.

Can people spend the money as though it were there? Sure. Is the money they deposited there or are they aware that 90-100% of the money was immediately allocated to something else? Almost certainly no.
GPT, and probably any LLM, can be hooked up to an encoder to produce a lossless data compressor. Patrice Bellard has done this, HN discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23618465
> which is evidence that democracy is far from the worst system.

I agree. I don't disagree with that, at all. I am, however, expressing that there ought to be limits to "democracy". Just as we have a lower bound, there need to be limits to ensure that younger people are not left to clean up the mess of a system they couldn't even participate in.
Thank you, the smooth animation was only possible thanks to the DeckGL framework. In the past I tried using only MapBox, which resulted in laggy animations. I do enjoy seeing the city "pulsing" with the day/night cycle.
This strategy just seems ripe for improvement through LLMs. You input a stock resume + additional skills and have the resume aligned more for each job you're applying to. The hard part would be stopping hallucinations for skills you don't have. In theory however, this should substantially raise your interview rate. If the companies are using Ai to auto filter people, why can't we fight back?
> I don't know what the answer is.

my answer was to stop letting media own me

i enjoy what i watch as art, and I look forward to enjoying new things as they come out (people will always be creating new things)

but I have to consciously try my best not to let marketers try to influence my emotions to purchase branded merchandise
London? Pretty common in all banks for front office staff.
There were many alternatives prior to the adoption of the music notation system we currently use. There have been many alternatives developed after the adoption of the music notation system we currently use. All these alternatives have one thing in common: they didn't work as well, let alone better, than the music notation system we currently use. It's not as though a lot of people haven't put a lot of effort into this for a very long time. What we have is simply the best system we've been able to devise.
Can I recommend an additional option? I would enjoy being able to enable a “confirm required” mode which presents the patch that will be applied, and offers me the chance to accept/reject it, possibly with a comment explaining the rejection.
As I understand it, the underlying problem here is inflation. The idea that you can address inflation by "giving people money" seems dubious.

And is the UK really a "starving population"? Come on.
Marketer here. I’ll add how my company does it (10m+ list size)

1) we limit promotional notifications to one per user per day. All campaigns that target a given user are ranked based on expected monetization or engagement. This involves a large batch scoring job that runs overnight

2) we also limit promotional messages to one every x days, where x is personalized to the user. The more you open/click, the more you get and vice versa. employees sometimes complain about the amount of email they receive - it’s because they are naturally power users, opening everything.

On top of that, we’ve built levers to temporarily boost revenue by targeting a given opt out rate. Say our baseline is 1%, we may be ok with temporarily having a 1.2% rate to get $x more revenue. This involves an opt out prediction model as well.
Ah, super cool! Looking forward to reading the future edition!
That's an empirical question: do small independent artists make more or less via the streaming model than they do via "buy CDs in shops" model?

I don't know the answer, but I'm a bit skeptical of the idea that small artists were making a better living via local CD shops (with limited inventory and zero economic incentive to push smaller, unknown artists).
This is a gross oversimplification.

Yes, in this case, you do need to update everything at once. At least for a given aiport. All it takes is one plane, helicopter, fire truck, or baggage transport vehicle to screw with the assumptions of the system and jeopardize safety.

No, computers aren't necessarily faster, assuming we want to achieve autonomy on the ground. Note that the average human reaction time to visual stimulus is about 250ms. Achieving this on a plane would require a great deal of cameras and sensors that would not only need to stay clean, but capable of withstanding pressure changes, high velocity winds, the occasional unfortunate airborne debris, etc. Then there is the processing power to both process each input in real-time (per plane) and train it on real-world data to recognize a variety of scenarios to act upon (per model and perhaps configuration; AA alone has about 11 active aircraft types across 953 planes). Contrast this with Tesla's investment for approximately 6 models. [1]

Achievable? Sure. Cost-effective and sustainable with current tech? Doubtful.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/21/tesla_dojo_spending/#....
Rust hides operations like register-register vpshufb behind unsafe despite this instruction having no implications for memory safety and crashing on CPUs that don't support it (just like auto-vectorized "safe" code built for a different set of extensions than the CPU it's running on).

Zig formerly exposed a subset of SIMD operations via LLVM intrinsics, but this was a bug and was fixed, so we now must use inline assembly to recreate immintrin.h and arm_neon.h.
I'd say study deep learning (nice mix of maths and CS) or do software but learn to use the AI tools in the process.

If you're looking at a 5-10 year timeline then even pure or applied mathematics may well heavily use AI models.

We're always going to need architects that build the scaffolding together with LLMs. Programmers + LLMs will be able to outcompete programmers without. If one programmer can do more it just means projects will become more ambitious not less programming needed.

I've never worked for a company that had too little work for their software engineers. Rather many projects are on long timelines because there are only so many hours available per month.

Another analogy: with a high level programming language you can do what previously needed 10x the lines of code in assembly. I don't think they caused job losses for software engineers.
> …checking and savings accounts are only IOUs…

That are guaranteed by the US Government up to $250,000. While the average person may not know the details, the average person’s faith in the banking system is well founded. That’s why these “alt-banks”, which avoid FDIC or NCUA coverages, are so problematic.
There might be options in your country. But in the Netherlands there is very little choice for ECC DDR5. Only a couple model are available of 32GB 5200+ sticks; it's slow, expensive and barely in stock.
I always enjoy reading stories of yak-shaving adventures whenever they come up, so when I ran into my own back in November, I thought it might be fun to write up as a post.

This adventure starts with a small email problem, balloons into a Debian upgrade, and then it all goes sideways. Let me know what you think!
Don't get me wrong, I agree, but aren't all solutions to problems situated in reality conterfactual to some degree. To the extent of my knowledge, isn't it all deterministic. To enact a stategy is to presume a free agent, individual or collective, acts according to that strategy. The act of communicating that strategy is in essence to convince those interests align with the outcome to act accordingly. We deal with imperfect information, it could be possible that someone, or a small group can unilaterally disseminate a strategy that drives wider cooperation, but those are probably unknown unknowns far too complicated to decipher by any cooperating party.

Of course this isn't it. Warp drives and luxury space communism seem to be something we could only stumble into.
What? Is this an AI fail?

China is authoritarian. Fact

China is facing demographic shift / collapse. Fact.

Xi is consolidating power is a fact.
These are vector fields. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_field
I once hacked in an A* implementation into Jedi Knight: Dark Force II. The in built AI in the game was very primitive (as most AI was at the time) but cog language provided me a way to work around it.

I initially used hand placed objects for the path nodes but I was experimenting with having the game rain down falling objects and keeping track of where they hit the ground to create a set of path nodes automatically. At first I was just going to look for negative space with a cog verb and set the nodes just above, but this doesn't catch walkable surfaces that are 3D objects instead of level surfaces. I then had to rain a node down from the stop point to get walkable areas beneath them.

There were still entity specific concerns that were not fully worked out. Entities had different sizes so could fit in different spaces. I had accounted for crouching and set the nodes to be more expensive when that was required as the entity moved slower. I had max jump distance somehow factored in and just had enemies detect a pit dynamically and jump when needed, although this made it easy for me as a player to block their landing site and force them into a pit.

Doors were interesting too, I never really solved that. My idea was to have a second metadata factor beyond node distance that would make paths through doors very expensive when they were closed so the entities would find away around if possible but hang out at the door if they weren't. You'd still need the door to manually communicate with the nodes since some doors are lockable but many just open automatically so are not an obstacle. That required a bunch of manual work for the level designer which I didn't like.

It was a very fun set of problems to work through since the base problem is simple (in that it is solved) but there were lots of interesting edge cases that weren't. And trying to make it work in a dynamic changing environment really changes the whole problem.
so many examples of this type of anti-competitive strategy already being used. why implement something with known deficiencies?
BS, the reason we have sensational opinion pieces goes back before the internet. People are bored with mundane lives and love drama. Drama sells, 90s newsrooms found this out and cable news out competed established real journalism. The rest is a race to the bottom.

The internet simply exacerbated this as anyone could publish news on an equal platform to the big boys. Then we get paid-per-click, and that drives click-bait.

Stealing information absolutely is not responsible for that. People pay for junk, and that's the reason. We don't eat junk food because it's given away.
I agree that it's worth avoiding slice members for this reason if the slices are the only thing that would stop memcpy'd copies of the struct from "just working."
This is great! thank you - it inspires me that I need to do same.

What are your thoughts on HTMX, how would that play when your using the Tailwinds stuff? (sorry, I am not familiar enough to perhaps use precise nomenclature on these two - but just curious on your thought on HTMX as it would relate to your post?
I agree with your point here.

I think that antirez is technically correct in that there is a vast amount of code that will not compile compared to the amount of code that will compile. So saying '99%' sort of makes sense.

But that doesn't capture the fact that of the code that compiles there is a vast amount of code that doesn't do what we want to happen at runtime compared to the code that does do what we want to happen.

And after that there is a vast amount of code that doesn't do what we want to happen 100% of the time at runtime compared to the code that only most of the times does what we want to happen at runtime.

The interesting thought experiment that came to me when thinking about this was that I would be more likely to trust LLM code in C# or Rust than I would be to trust LLM code in assembly or Ruby.

Which makes me wonder ... can LLMs write working Idris or ATS code?
The Plan to Put Pig Genes in Soy Beans for Tastier Fake Meat
RROS – Dual-kernel OS with real-time kernel in Rust
What It's Like to Use Apple's Lockdown Mode
Ask HN: Did macOS Sonoma break your iCloud setup?
I have a pretty delicate setup where I symlink into my iCloud Drive folder to keep documents, .dot-files etc. synced between my devices, using .nosync folder extension to ignore folders such at git projects etc.

I stupidly updated to Sonoma without doing a backup and now, nothing works. I cannot even copy files between folders.

All I get is

The operation can’t be completed because one or more required items can’t be found. (Error code -43)

And the more I've read about this, it seems Sonoma is a nightmare for a lot of people. People loosing years of work just by updating.

Anyone else having these issues?

Some references:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255162138

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255183704

https://eclecticlight.co/2023/10/25/macos-sonoma-has-changed-icloud-drive-radically/
It's largely a solved problem in aviation as well. Serious accidents get a lot of attention specifically because they are so rare and those based on clearance miscommunication or other radio misunderstanding are rarer still. So you'd be introducing a lot of additional system complexity trying to chase after ever decreasing gains. I'm not sure the end result is a net positive for safety.
Pointless Velocity
Have you ever been asked to improve velocity?

Absolute & utter nonsense.
Hi! Let me emphasize:

> with more than 500GB of storage

https://proton.me/support/increase-storage-space suggests for this case

> For example, if you wanted 2 TB of storage, you could sign up for Proton Business with four users (4 x 500 GB = 2 TB).
Last month I tried to use LLMs for things I didn’t know and couldn’t easily find. Every time they were either subtly wrong or outright hallucinated premises which led me to waste time until I realized they were wrong.

If not for the unwarranted confidence in incorrect responses, I could say they were at least not much worse than what I could piece together from what I knew. As it stands, they are OK filling in for a rubber duck and as autocomplete.
> we limit promotional notifications to one per user per day

That's insanity. Do you really change your prices so often that you have to get that information to users every day?

Marketing push notifications are absolutely the worst part of spam because you HAVE to interact with them.
I just ask chatgpt to generate text diagrams that i can embed in my markdown.
Buzzkill – IFTTT for Android Notifications
Thomas Cochrane
I've used fail2ban and a nonstandard ssh port before, for like 12 years. Never had any of the issues this article screams at you about, didn't take any time to setup. I spent a lot more time locking down the sshd_config itself and maintaining that over time. I do agree that is more important to do. Fuck me, I guess.
It's not as if 2021 was that long ago.

The answer to the inflation problem is to basically ignore it. The result is that poor people have enough to live, and rich people have less buying power. That's not a bug: it's the entire point. Wealth concentration is the problem.

Here in the US, the wealth owned by half of the population totals up to less than the total wealth of 50 people. Wealth concentration is beyond out of hand. It's destroying every facet of society.
What are you talking about dude?

I don't understand what's happening here. I asked for examples. I get in return two replies that have no examples and barely make sense in context.

Do you have examples of what you said?
But CSS isn't "fun again" if it wasn't fun before. And it certainly was not fun before, it was a horrible nightmare of non-standard implementation and an ill fit for what designers wanted to do.
You might be surprised at the number of large companies who think that "GenAI" can be used to replace programmers due to non-technical executives having got the impression that a competency of LLMs is writing code ...

Of course they do have uses, but more related to discovery of APIs and documentation than actually writing code (esp. where bugs matter) for the most part.

I also have to wonder how long until open source code (e.g. GPL'd) regurgitated by LLMs and incorporated into corporate code bases becomes an issue. The C suite dudes seem concerned about employees using LLMs that may be publicly exposing their own company's code base, but illogically unworried about the reverse happening - maybe just due to not fully understanding the tech.
Android has notifications channels ... mute the spam/ad ones. I only have the payment and delivery status channels on alert, the others are not muted but "silent" (i.e. the show up in the notification tray but doesn't alert me). you do get some deals sometimes.

Android gets a lot of shit for a lot of things but the notification is top-notch ... on iOS it seems like an afterthought (e.g. how long it took for iOS to get web push).
Flow fields are fun but they’re not ideal for movement and collision detection. They’re relatively unstable and expensive to build.
Inline "encourages" moving implementation code into headers instead of only interface declarations, and the inline feature isn't all that useful anymore with LTO anyway.

It's a good thing to only have declarations in headers, it simplifies parsing with 3rd party tools (to generate language bindings), and speeds up compilation (see the C++ stdlib headers for the canonical "why is implementation code in headers a bad idea" example). IMHO mixing interface declarations with implementation details was one of the cardinal sins of C++.

> What would make porting this code to a newer standard difficult in this specific case?

It's pointless busywork, and it's unclear how deep the changes should go (for instance: does it make sense to move C89 variable declaration from the start of scope blocks to their initialization point just because it might potentially be "safer" but touches half of all lines of code?).

The code demonstrably works as C89, and any bugs that matter most likely had already been fixed decades ago, also doing large scale syntax changes is just noise in version control which makes bug fixing harder (because that often involves diving into the change history).
Sorry fixed that. Wrong link
Some video footage from inside the plane and of the impact.

https://x.com/rawsalerts/status/1742127927880216725
1000%

If anything else is so imminently needed to maintain the life of you or your loved ones while traveling, keep it in your/their pockets.

Past this everyone has some excuse of medical, dietary, sentimental, economic, etc reason to grab stuff out of their luggage. This contributes to loss of life.

You have 60-90 seconds to evacuate a burning aircraft. This is 10-20x faster than a normal with-luggage deplaning. If you are fumbling around with luggage, you are a hazard to yourself and others.

If you are evacuating a plane you are seconds to minutes away from a fleet of ambulances ready to whisk you away to a nearby trauma center. No existing medical condition is going to get you before the fire will.
Hundreds of hours of networking? what?

Who does that and why? Are we talking about political jobs? or nepotism?
On top of that, the "average" payout to artists feels less important to me than the "median" artist payout.

In other words, are there now more artists making money than before, even if the big hitters are making less off album sales? That matters a lot
Not any more than feeding source code to Github. (I personally feel "source code" is very rarely the "secret sauce" of a company anyway). But where I work we not only have the blessing of the company, we are encouraged to use it because they've clearly seen the benefits it brings.

A local LLM would be preferrable all things equal, but in my experience for this kind of stuff, GPT-4 is just so much better than anything else available, let alone any local LLMs.