skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tweet that made the layoff news go viral: https://twitter.com/Rahll/status/1744234385891594380
So if it wasn't for jobs added in December it would've been negative. On the bright side, given the large number of tech jobs added in December, maybe things are starting to picking up again?

(seems a bit odd as usually there's not much hiring going on around the holidays, yet in 2023 December had the highest hiring numbers according to that data)
Love it, thought of making something similar once just to travel downtown Toronto using the streetcar tracks, especially late at night with infrequent service.
I cancelled my subscription last year because the quality had gone down, and the UI changes kept getting worse.
Whatever new thing is distracting me.
Zerg rushes are maybe effective at overwhelming an enemy position. It can be considered to be acceptable for a tactically successful operation. Eating missiles without good outcome is usually not part of a tactically successful operation.
DC to BOS should be a 90 minute flight...?
This is SOP in manufacturing to indicate that a bolt has been torqued to whatever torque specified in the assembly drawing; as an added bonus, if the mark is applied properly, you can also tell at a glance whether the bolt has worked itself loose.
The company reset after the failed company reset, anyways.
'I can't find the wiki link" was a good clue. I'll have to remember that line next time I'm kidding someone!
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Very interesting, especially the huge jump forward in the first figure and a possible majority of AI researchers giving >10% to the Human Extinction outcome.

To AI skeptics bristling at these numbers, I’ve got a potentially controversial question: what’s the difference between this and the scientific consensus on Climate Change? Why heed the latter and not the former?
Curious questions, but don't many good relationships started at the work place? How many of those actually majorly affected the company?
They had really nice APIs but they had not enough protection from spammers. But APIs were really sweet...
True enough - but they've carried out multiple strikes with the SU-22s in their possession and can presumably restock / refit those with Iranian support -- they also have several dozen older MIGs. There's no doubt that they'd be annihilated if they tried to use those for continued offensive missions outside of the Yemeni borders but they could likely pull off a single fast attack on Cairo or Suez if they were so inspired.
Yeah I worded that incorrectly. I want a modern phone and capabilities but I don't want the "smart" phone.
Those prices are extreme, I regularly travel 1st class by train from Göteborg/Sweden to Amsterdam/the Netherlands at about €85 for a single with ICE/EC/IC, a ~15 hour trip.
Unlike on a rollercoaster, these bolts are hidden within the fuselage behind the cabin panelling so a regular visual inspection to see if they've been loosening wouldn't be practical. During assembly the bolts should have been torqued and then checked and the bolts would only be reinspected when the panelling is removed after 3 years or so.
Mozilla also has such a service although I believe they're deprecating it. You can still query it today, but as a privacy measure you need to include the MAC of 3+ SSIDs to get location info, since otherwise you could check the SSIDs from probe scans of passerby to locate their homes.
It entirely depends on workload. This blog has a diligent mixed-model comparison of the M3 laptops lined up against the Titan RTX (2019) and Tesla V100 (2017): https://www.mrdbourke.com/apple-m3-machine-learning-test/
> Wi-Fi 7 certification is now underway for new routers and devices

I'm waiting for WiFi8. I am sure that it will be better. /s

When will people stop playing stupid games and do a thing right ? (see 5G, Wifi 6 etc.) (i.e. You can call it WiFi25, if it is not always better than its predecesor (hello 4G, 5G), it is still crap).
> If science continues undisrupted, the chance of unaided machines outperforming humans in every possible task was estimated at 10% by 2027, and 50% by 2047.

Maybe I'm overly optimistic (or pessimistic depending on your point of view, I suppose), but 50% by 2047 seems low to me. That just feels like an eternity of development, and even if we maintain the current pace (let alone see it accelerate as AI contributes more to its own development), it's difficult for me to imagine what humans will still be better able to do than AI in over a decade.

I do wonder if the question is ambiguously phrased and some people interpreted it as pure AI (i.e. just bits) while others answered it with the assumption that you'd also have to have the sort of bipedal robot enabled with AI that would allow it to take on all the manual tasks humans do.
Aging being preprogrammed is only one hypothesis. The other hypothesis is that the evolution only selected for what work and reproduced.

Note what work and reproduced is only a minimum bar.
Wow, so the layoff notice to contractors was "Thank you for working at Duolingo, here's an exit survey"?

That's cold.
this was beautiful

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On March 26th, 2008, 'iamtankist' of LiveJournal had his question answered on Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan's LiveJournal,

In Russian,

iamtankist: Господин Президент, не подскажете как пропатчить KDE под BSD?

serzhsargsyan: Мне знающие люди посоветовали не заморачиваться с патчами, а ставить из портов.

In English,

iamtankist: Mr. President, how does one patch KDE under the BSD?

serzhsargsyan: I know people are advised not to bother with the patch and use ports instead.
> I thought the Houthis were no longer receiving funding from Iran with the SA-Iran deal of 2023. Did that change?

I think its more “Iran lied and has used less overt channels” than “that changed”.
>Statistically speaking it's not worth worrying about.

Those statistics don't really work out at all. They take number of miles and deaths, and nothing else. Let's say flown miles and driven miles are exactly the same for arguments sake. If the number of miles flown on planes were traveled by 4 million people, whereas the number of miles traveled by car were from 4 billion people, your likelihood of dying in a plane crash is FAR higher than by car if you're one of the 4 million who fly on a plane.

Miles and deaths alone are pretty poor metrics. There's also the part where I may only drive once or twice a week vs. the average which takes into account people who commute daily. So my odds of dying in a car crash are still lower. The frequency of travel seems just as pertinent as the miles traveled.
Because they need the ocean, even if they don't need any individual drop within it.

Relative to the rest of the data, NYT's is not meaningfully impactful. But they need the aggregate amount of data, which is why they need training to be fair use and to be opt out rather than opt in.
> Solvers can also fail for really tiny problems.

What that tells me is that the current metric we use for problem complexity (e.g. big-o) is woefully inadequate at measuring the actual complexity of problems.
Duolingo is actually a great usecase for AI. It doesn't teach you a language in any meaningful sense, but is a fun side activity to practice. AI is great for apps like these.
The machine generated content was already bad. I don't know if this AI transition will make it better or worse but I swear Duolingo was among the worst of apps I tried. People say it's ok to use supplementary when you have a 10 or 15 minute break but I think sentence mining or watching YouTube videos with subtitles is a better use of those minutes. I avoid telling giving this advice to people in real life because it seems dismissive of the time they are spending.
Check out this video showing how the plug is supposed to be installed: https://youtu.be/maLBGFYl9_o?t=540

Some of the bolts that would be loosened when the plug is opened during maintenance have a pin to prevent them from turning. That pin is present in this photo: https://x.com/byerussell/status/1744460136855294106?s=46&t=s...

However, the same photo shows other critical bolts that hold the whole hinge on the door are loose, and there’s not meant to be a pin on those.

I’m curious how the decision is made whether to include that pin in the design. Did they idiot-proof the maintenance of the plug, but not the initial installation?
It's mentioned on the README.md's Troubleshooting section: https://github.com/poetaman/arttime#troubleshooting. Having seen fellow humans, I opine that not many will reach there.

Package managers should agree to remove software from a platform if the developer thinks it's not fruitful for them to keep publishing there, or it's detrimental to the user's experience.
There was an article by Microsoft back in November about their scream tests - https://www.microsoft.com/insidetrack/blog/microsoft-uses-a-...
Having used pgBackRest in production, I find it to be painful to setup and manage.

If you have a centralized backup repo, you have to install pgbackrest both on DB server and the backup repository.

The package version has to be exactly the same minor version between the DB and the repo, else backup fails. If you install a new DB, and the PG common repo no longer has the old version (and no one kept a copy of the rpm locally), you then have to update backrest on all the existing servers.
I don't think there were any modern cases of airliner windows just being removed like that. They're fairly strong and consist of multiple layers of acrylic that are sandwiched between other components, so the entire window assembly would need to get torn out. Even then, it doesn't seem realistic that the difference in pressure would be big enough to instantly rip a properly-attached door clean off. Of course, only the experts can tell for sure, but my money's on a failure of the whole structure.
I love the concept behind htmx & started reading the book today. But every time I think about using it, I remember that I'll eventually have to support native mobile apps as well and I'll be completely re-writing not only my frontend but much of my backend to do it. I know about hyperview.org but a react-native app won't really cut it for the use cases I'm interested in.
At this point there's a pretty clear implication that if some Boeing people had gone to jail that time maybe this wouldn't have happened at all.
It's funny to me that a 140 char limit to a post drove the wide use of URL shortening services to the point people just accept them as normal.
> Why wouldn't a species evolve a mechanism to survive longer and longer till it completely dominates?

Because evolution happens faster with sexually reproducing generations that die out to leave room for the fitter youth.
> during critical phases of flight
Genocide has a very specific meaning and you don't have to kill a single person to be committing it. Whether that applies to Israel in Gaza I couldn't say as IANAL. I would hazard no. However, it might be yes - they are levelling the city and leaving the people alive and that could count as destroying the culture.
As I argue above pilots already have an excellent safety record.

Have you considered what the extra stress of considering ones every word during a long and stressful day can do to someones concentration?

I mean many, the thoughts about what they said earlier this morning is bad enough even if it wasn't recorded.

We already record a couple of hours or so. If you want to record more, it is up to you to come up with data for how many more air traffic accidents we can solve and also to explain how we can know that it won't make air traffic more dangerous.
Since this is HN, we also need to mention [Rustic](https://github.com/rustic-rs/rustic) which is better since it's in Rust.
Spent some time over the holidays reflecting on the many things I learned during my years building "classical" ML products that no longer hold true in the new world of generative AI. Led me to write this piece about product strategies to adapt or discard from the old world - responses welcome!
The fact that the PS5 and Xbox Series X have a great GPU, despite being an APU, merely because they can package the RAM along with the chip and not rely on slot-in DDR5? Look up the benchmarks and compare to dGPUs.
Of note, is that organisms that have a more balanced, symbiotic relationship to their surrounding environment - with shared benefits, live a lot longer. Take thousand year old trees, and millenniums older mycelium networks.

However, this doesnt explain tortoise (or 500 year old sharks)

The amount of energy required to sustain Human growth and Civilization just grows and grows. If we had a scalable balanced, fully renewable resource in everything, we likely would live longer.
I think they've already made that clear: sell off the underperforming data & applications units.

But my feeling is they really just want to strip the company for parts and/or sell it to private equity.
The funniest thing to all of this is just who is complaining... guess what, many shipping companies are now finding out that "flags of convenience" also have a downside. When a ship bearing an US flag gets attacked, well, the US government will answer, or at least it can be expected to. But why should the US government intervene for a ship that's flying the flag of Panama or Liberia?

(Obviously it's still in the US' best interest to intervene nevertheless because no country on this rock is as dependent on free, worldwide flow of goods than the US, but still, they don't have to)
__lack__ evidence sounds like you have already made up you mind but is just searching for confirmation.

I'd say a better expression would be "we don't know yet whether ...", e.g.: "we don't know yet whether Covid is airborne".
This feels like such a cynical take.

I built Sit. for the reasons mentioned in the article. The consulting page was published almost 1 year after I published the app (the source is available on my GH).

I took a break from work because of mental health issues, and after a year I decided to work on something useful, and ideally help others. I've never charged anyone who called me asking for advice via Say Hi, be it students, ex-CTOs/FAANG engineers or founders, never (and people have offered money, believe me). I've burned through half of my personal savings so will need to find a job to support a sustainable business I want to grow, something very much against the techbro culture you bring up here. Hence the link to a consulting page posted several months later.

There's nothing spiritual about Sit., I even call it a dumb alarm clock/glorified gong in my other articles.

I don't want to change your opinion, but I'm happy I hadn't read this +1 year ago, when I was feeling shittier. Now things are much easier, in large part because comments like this are an exception and people, generally, are kind.
No failure in the upper stage. It is the payload.
> So it isn't that only 700 jobs were created, it's that despite the massive layoffs everyone is reporting on and focusing on, there was actually a small net positive in job growth.

Were it not for December hiring (which is usually pretty low in most years, but was the highest for any month last year according to the data) it would've been negative. That could mean that things are improving in the tech job market - have to see if the trend continues into January, February this year.
Such a large part of making lifelong connections in this world are from hiring people who you need to make something work. I made some wonderful connections in my previous jobs that I never would have otherwise if they could do everything themselves with AI or if I could do everything myself without them.

The fact is, automation can make life better but beyond a certain point, if hardly anyone needs anyone else, then all those wonderful connections of working together vanish. We can stil make those connections theoretically, but the lack of needing someone else removes the actuality and genuineness of the process.

I wish that everyone who created AI and who welcomes it would think about this longer-time societal impact before becoming blinded with its immediate appeal.

Sorry to say but I think making AI in general is one of the biggest mistakes we ever made.
Or the remaining 5% are really important.
* 15 years

Still impressive.
> but the title is a bit misleading

the title is "The Mystery of the Coin That Shouldn't Exist" given that it is counterfeit I would say its fair to say it is a "coin that should not exist"
Very poorly as the GPU is weak and bandwidth is low.
I digress.
> What I learned from using a Raspberry Pi 5 as my main computer for two weeks

Let me guess: it is too expensive.
Unity plans to layoff 1800 – 25%
So, you propose to do what? Let those people drown? Or actively shooting them? Or maybe proactively let the starve? Either way, it would be genocide.
I would side with their grain of salt until they have actually completed their promise to implement a crossword puzzle solver using integer programming.
Imagine if someone wanted to play music in an orchestra, but couldn't read music because it was "too confusing", but they'd never even tried to learn. They would be laughed out the door.

I'm not sure why so many laymen devs you mention (who, incidentally, tend to have an affinity for learning music and other "esoteric" skills) seem to apply that same logic. Like, why not learn and try the basics before throwing your hands up and saying it's too hard. It isn't... although it is very, very different.
Thanks for sharing, interesting parable that applies more and more due to the polarization from algorithms.
Well yeah, keep making things that break or cause issues and people will have to scrutinise more and more.
I am learning Polish, and find that ChatGPT provides a much better tutor than any human. Ie. I would rather use ChatGPT than a human tutor, indifferent to the price.

I am also developing my own app to learn languages, and I can get to Duolingo levels in roughly a weekend worth of side project.

I project that a certain category of apps will die off really fast.
Sorry, I missed that in your earlier post. In terms of experiences that work today outside gaming, I guess we mostly just have 360 videos and virtual workspaces/screens. The former is a novelty and the latter has been held back by display capabilities. The Vision Pro might actually be good enough for that latter use-case though.
A climate forcing has a physical effect on the Earth system that you can model with primitive equations. It is not a social or economic problem (although removing the forcing is).

You might as well roll a ball down an incline and then ask me whether Keynes was right.
> I think you end up needing something like trusted compute for biometric verification (eg FaceID) so the authority can delegate real-time validation.

That doesn't work because a) not all devices have cameras or trusted whatever and b) there are legitimate reasons to be able to use your ID without being there.

Suppose I want my search engine to be able to index the content on adult sites so it can return those results to adult users. I have a valid ID so I give it to my web crawler, that doesn't mean I'm willing to sit there all day and have it scan my face every 50ms when it moves on to the next website.

> And perhaps you do randomized (risk-based) audits where you actually have to call the government to check in

So then Bob calls in and says "Hi, this is Bob, yes this is a valid ID" and then carries on using it to supply age verification to anyone who wants it.

Unless you mean you're going to actually look into what Bob is using his ID to do, but now we're back to invasion of privacy, aren't we?

> - but in general, physical ID also has the same high-level problem of some baseline of forgeries, and the name of the game is just making it expensive, not making it impossible.

The difference is that physical forgeries are per-individual and generally require the acquirer to meet with the seller in person and risk criminal penalties, whereas digital things can be provided anonymously over the internet with no unit cost.

> One example of “make it expensive” would be to require unique device IDs to be registered, eg you bring in your iPhone (or Yubikey or whatever) and the DMV verified it’s not actually a non-certified device. This rests on keys being expensive to extract from the Secure Enclave.

Bob plugs his certified Yubikey or whatever into his server and has it age verify whatever anybody asks it to over the internet. The key never leaves the device.

Also, even if that wasn't the case, you would only need one person to extract a key from one device. This is the same reason DRM has failed to prevent Hollywood movies from appearing on piracy websites even if the median pirate doesn't know how to extract AACS keys or decrypt Netflix streams. (The reason they persist with the charade is that it prevents third parties from presenting a unified interface across media types and streaming services without their approval, not because it has ever been useful against copyright infringement. How many devices can recommend Netflix shows or YouTube videos based on what you watched on Disney+?)

The problem in this case is even worse because the "vulnerability" is actually an intrinsically mandatory feature. If you have a system that can't allow Bob to age verify whatever he wants to without revealing to the site who he is or the government what he's doing, your system is unacceptable. If you have a system that can do that and then Bob wants to age verify everything for everybody, your system is pointless.
We don't need a chipset at all: we have the APU USB and NVMe disk. RAM slots, PCIE slots, M.2 slots and a bunch of usb-c connectors, power connectors, an UEFI bios, and we are good to go.

But for the normal users, yeah, an audio chip and a Gbits network chip would be appropriate (probably routed directly to some APU PCIE pins).
One major difference I recall back when working in the industry is that Airbus didn't rely on contract manufacturing like Boeing adopted after the McDonnell Douglas merger. Spirit was just Boeing Wichita until they divested the operation only to immediately contract work with the new owner at a discount.
Extracting Copyrighted Text from GPT
If Duolingo wanted to invent a new word it is probable IMO that they would be able to introduce and popularize it, in spite of no one else having ever thought of that word.

For example, if Duolingo wanted to invent “schmibbidibbi” as a word, they could give it a definition and start using it in their material. Pretty soon people would start using the word IRL.

I wonder if there will ever be any words invented by AI that Duolingo accidentally teaches the world, which did initially not exist outside of the Duolingo app.
Hyundais do not perform as well as Toyotas in colder climatic conditions.
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Press F to doubt(c)

It says that highest SKU has Radeon 780M (12 CU) inside. That's exactly the same GPU as in 7940HS/7840HS and it scores slightly below 1060-3Gb cards in 3dmark.

The only difference between 7840HG and newer APUs is addition of the (useless?) NPU unit which functions are unclear to me. Train neural networks on a 35W APU?

I've entertained an idea of buying 7840HG SBC as a mini travel PC for 1080P. Still thinking :)
Absolutely. There's a bunch of key words you can still say to talk to engineering if you want to - but they will hang up when they know you are full of shit.