skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might want to specify that you're talking about generative AI specifically, as opposed to LLMs in general. I abhor stuff like what's in the OP, but don't really have a problem with using it as, for instance, a research tool, with human experts actually confirming its output: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2411374-ai-comes-up-wit...
At my last job, my manager was being flown in every week. He was in the office for three days a week and stayed at a hotel. His kids were apparently furious. The company was really committed to being in the office, but kept hiring people from different cities. It felt very destructive.
They are? See: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/05/metas-infrastructure-for-a...
They also make other hardware like the Quest and the Meta Raybans.
The server and workstation I use at home are from 2013-2014. C602 chipset: the X79 of the server room.

They draw more power than I'd like, but they perform very well on the workloads I throw at them.

I'd save a good amount of money by purchasing newer energy-efficient hardware, but even when presented with the numbers I can't rationalize away the sticker-shock.
The debate is dramatically simplified when you take into account the gargantuan environmental impact of maintaining massive 24/7 climate-controlled office spaces that are vacant other than 40 hours a week (vacant for 75% of the week) and having people commute 15 minutes to 1.5 hours a day to and from these office spaces in motor vehicles, versus simply not leaving your house and re-purposing these sky-scrapers for societal goods like cheap/free high quality public housing, etc.

You can't justify the environmental destruction of working in an office just because you like the aesthetic or it makes you feel better. These are not apples and oranges that can be compared like two sides of an equally unproblematic coin, and it makes me sick that people equivocate and make it seem otherwise.
Sure - but good luck untangling the various factors because urban environments are almost always Democrat (blue) and rural environments are almost always Republican (red).

By large margins.

Maybe folks have to move to rural areas after a divorce because they’re broke, for instance. Or older people tend to stay in conservative areas, and younger ones move to the cities, and older folks are more likely to be divorced?

And since populations are mobile, maybe they got married in the blue (or red state) then moved and got divorced.

But if someone says ‘Conservatives have fewer divorces’, that really seems implausible considering the data.
Well... SpaceX did it with rockets :V
These results are both interesting and unsurprising at the same time. Firstly unsurprising as the COG proteins are already well known to be important in animals, linked to a whole family of diseases, the congenital disorders of glycosylation.

However, this is interesting because it points to the protein(s) we need to consider to understand the aging process in plants (probably some N-glycosylated protein). I would bet this is some misfolding accumulation defect that takes some time to kill the cells.
I understand the logic of what you're saying but doesn't it tend towards thinking that are no trustworthy sources of information other then those that postulate things you already believe in or at least those that agree with conventional wisdom?

Not that I have a better idea - generally chasing down methodological errors if not ought right falsehood is more trouble then it's worth (liars can lie faster then the truth can move) but it makes me edgy when I say it out loud.

This could all be because in this particular case I don't particularly disagree with the premise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity
It's described explicitly in section 1 where they first reduce to a linear relationship and then recognize that a portion of the formula can be captured in a state variable, and rewrite as a recurrence relation.

By persisting the state variable across subsequent computations they transform the quadratic formula for computing output into a linear formula computing output and next state from current state.

It's kind of like memoization, but since it's a number it's constant space too.
Why did you leave off my next sentence from the quote? Can you please link to the definition you are using?
I carry around ziplock bags of unflavored protein powder pretty much everywhere I go, as well as creatine powder. Both of these can look very similar to large amounts of cocaine, heroin, MDMA, 2C-B, MDA, or methamphetamine...especially the bags of creatine crystals.
Depends on how complex your game tries to be, I honestly would try some JavaScript in the browser just because it is so easily accessible and almost immediately nets results. Three.js for rendering and the logic you would need to implement yourself.

I only dabbled in game development and have no experience with engines like Unity. I do 3d modelling thoughg and know a bit about asset pipelines. There is quite a lot to learn, even with supposed ready engines like unity.

There are some example games, here is something made for Google:

https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_us/interland

I am sure there are tutorials for similar games.
You and GP might find the Dark Triad interesting:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad

(Therapy and counseling won't change such personality traits)
That was true when most software was desktop software. Most software now are Web Apps so the local speed of the development computer means less. 30 years ago there was a big difference between the performance of a current computer and a 3 year old computer. These days there isn't a huge difference and a well maintained older computer can still perform well as compared to a current computer.
If the comedian starts using that ability to make people think the politician said something they didn't say, then the comedian is guilty of fraud.

Also, "humans can do it" is not a reason to allow AI to do the same thing. GenAI systems can do things at high speed 24 hours a day forever and the fraud potential is much much much higher.
I enjoy my commute as well but no amount of justifiying it changes the fact I’d be much better off with either a shorter commute or none whatsoever by going fully remote. I’d even be okay with hybrid. Wasted time on commute ads up to a minilifetime that could be used in different ways
Escaping surveillance capitalism, at scale
Apples and oranges. Total cost of living is very different between EU and the US.

This is such a common and controversial topic of discussion I wonder why you're trying to derail a Zig thread with such offtopic bait.
> Just a few months ago, I ran into the same problem, although it wasn't caused by `collect()`. It was caused by "normal" `Vec` usage

If it wasn't caused by `collect()`, then I suppose it's a related problem, but not the same problem. Your problem was caused by, as your commit message says, "ignorance [original: ignorant] of the broader effects of this strategy [double-when-full] in aggregate"

The OP's problem, otoh, is more about reusing memory that has been allocated when you "convert" (in Rust term: into_iter()) a Vec to another Vec. What's more, the reuse also happens even when the new Vec has a different type from the original Vec's type. This behavior is more surprising than the double-when-full strategy, which is more widely known by programmers (even if sometimes they "forget" about the implications).
More relevant, you stand on stage in front of a crowd and tell they have to fight, and in the same speech tell them to march on the capital where violence then breaks out and leads to physical harm is what?
Well, yes, here I agree. I think that in the earlier days Google could remain insulated from that because the returns it was getting were so high, and Capital didn't know what to do with it, and didn't want to do anything to stop the goose from laying golden eggs.

I think now we're seeing a concerted effort across the tech industry to instill labour discipline, and break the relative power that our profession has had. Started with Twitter, then MS, then Google, and it's not going to stop until they get our salaries down, and get these businesses operating like more traditional exploitative organizations where we are disposable "resources".

The threat of "AI" is one tool among many to make that happen, along with layoffs, etc.
Maybe adblockers could take the role of microdonation platforms.

I'd pay $100/yr to have ads removed from every site I visit, and have my $100 distributed among the websites that I visit most.
On a positive note, I am seeing more sites offering Passkeys, which integrate natively with browsers and provide vastly superior security compared with passwords.

We won’t ever eliminate the human error that leads to password theft. At least Passkey offers a way for your computer to securely authenticate a web site and for them to authenticate you in a way that cannot be stolen by a third party, because the credential doesn’t exist in a part of your computer that can be read by local programs.
Can I sell a physical item at any store and advertise at the same store that you can buy directly and save money?
Buybacks are demonstrative proof in this example that HP was not in a “cannot afford” situation, but was instead making a voluntary choice to layoff workers in exchange for some other perceived benefit stemming from stock buybacks.

Whether that benefit is profit or control or some other causes, given the evidence presented their decision to layoff workers was voluntary – not compulsory.

If there is some evidence that HP was facing collapse or legal issues or some other impending doom, which outsourcing IT prevented, then that’s interesting and worth discussing, focusing on the core question I’m raising in this thread:

Is this layoff voluntary or compulsory?

If it’s perceived as compulsory, then that needs to be considered and discussed – which defends against the tendency of misleading framing by corporate PR that presents voluntary layoffs as though they were compulsory.
Homemade soup:
Buy table from IKEA.
Put can on table.
Open with can opener.
Heat in microwave.
Eat back on DIY table.
Ever buy a doughnut, or work with drywall? https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/16/558147669...
And where will these models run?
And who exactly will create the content?
Your personal AI will just consume a shitload of content that the powers with most compute generates. Reality is gone, it won't even be accessible via the shadows on the cave wall.
When I was a teenager, I would carry around small baggies of baking powder, just in case I got arrested for something. I enjoyed trouble a bit too much, although never enough to actually get arrested.
We are all better off for Zig existing, even if we don’t directly use it. That is why I donate. The information density being in the Goldilocks Zone is a masterful quality of the Zig society.

I am going to both increase my donation and figure out how to hookup my corporate matching, didn’t know that was possible.

Base for everyone!
What is your opinion of code coverage requirements now? I have been in a "phase" of seeing them as "code quality theatre". Considering that a function which takes a single 8-bit integer as an argument already has 256 unique inputs, and may bug only on 1-2 values, 100% statement coverage can be very misleading. A typical function has billions or trillions of unique inputs and 100% statement coverage could be very nearly 0% state space coverage. I'm 5y into my career (but 15y into programming) and aware that my opinions will change and develop as I progress. This one has been stable for a while though.
IMHO their main problems were: they delivered too early, and failed in what they offered. When they started, there was no donation-economy like we have today on Twitch, Ko-fi, and others, nor was there an established support-hivemind like we have with Patreon, Github and others. So people did not know what they should do with it. And on the other side was Flattr a bit annoying to use in the beginning, and had percentage-based donations, instead of fixed values IIRC. People are selfish, but also willing to share, if you give them enough reason.

But thinking about, maybe the lack of a social component and some virtual rewards would have been beneficial. But I guess, after the first fail, nobody cared anymore for it, and they somehow failed to find their market.
We need "The wallet papers"

Lets take a singular target, the W brothers of FB fame.

It was touted that they bout up a % of bitcoin... and profited handsomly.

Is it anyone's business where they directed these funds? What have they done with it?

So - it was that bitcoin was opaque to imperial entanglements, to make more personal freedom from over-arching systems - yet we have seen how clever finance is to protect finance (which you dont understand)

We have illustrated this time and time again;

ART was the original bitcoin money laundering system.

An NFT - that can be valued only because there was a singular producer capable of making that piece, thus - if I value our interaction of a binary transaction of 1 (i have thing) and 0 (you dont have thing) - then I transfer my thing, to you who can physically hold it, then you have 1 and I have 0.

Super simple.

So the W twins, basically did this, correct?
Because Google is still "good enough" for super-duper majority of people doing their searches. Very anecdotal, but sometimes I look at Google Trends / top google searches, and most people just search for very generic things (people, events, big news and etc.), which will return Wikipedia, Google Maps, Youtube, APNews, or some other massive website, and they'll be satisfied when they reach their content.

For every non-satisfactory "recipe" or "review" search, I can see people just forgetting about how they couldn't find what they wanted and since the "wins" of casual searches still overshadows "losses" of specific searches.

I'm not sure if this tracks, but outside of tech industry people, and friends who just Google everything as "my search + reddit", I haven't heard many complaints.
> they very explicitly don't let you upload any data unnecessary to find matches.

Is that supposed to be reassuring in some way? I don't understand how that really makes the practice OK.
I have nothing useful to offer you other than my heartfelt tears and my sorrow. Your writing moved me in a way I cannot explain. God bless you and your family.
The best way to not be sick is to just refuse to get the disease in the first place.

Also known as the republican approach to COVID.
Perhaps it's a filler article picked from a pile: either a pile of prewritten articles or a pile or preselected topics.
So funny reading comments from that era to the articles about this incident. Some say they were lucky because they are using Mt. Gox! Another observation - bitcoin at that time was by many perceived as and had reputation of in-game purchases.
This argument could also be used to dismiss the whole "AI" industry. After all, humans have been able to answer questions and write essays for a long time!

Of course the problem lies exactly in the ability to automate incompetence.
So the demo is actually running on a DE0-CV, with a Cyclone V.

A key thing for running Quake at acceptable speeds is to have a proper FPU, and most hobby softcores tend to exclude those.

I actually expect the CPU to run even faster (same clock, but fewer stalls), once I get around to improving a few things. I am seeing roughly 2 CPI in Quake right now, and I hope that there is potential to get closer to 1 CPI.

BTW, I fake-it-til-I-make-it with timing. I usually blow the timing budget when I go above 70 MHz, but I just run it 100+ MHz anyway (i.e. I'm effectively "overclocking"). As you may tell I'm a beginner myself (this is my first proper FPGA project, except for a master thesis project a couple of decades ago).
The foundamental question is: is making people more productive "making world better"?

For example, ChatGPT has already brought huge benefits to all the non-native speakers who work for/with companies in English speaking countries. Does it count as "making world better"? Or it makes lives of white-collar workers in these countries worse, since it brought more competition in?
> Don't get me started on Pixel phones. I'm still stuck on the eternal question, "Are these just bad phones? Or are they the worst phones?"

Clearly, you've never used the epic piece of shit known as Samsung Galaxy.
There are lots of groundbreaking applications. But I’ll give you one that by itself justifies the technology.

Early research shows that AI is able to detect cancer 4 years earlier than a doctor traditionally would.
I got too much ADHD already on my own, I cannot imagine how it would be to have other people talking between themselves on a second screen while I'm trying to concentrate on work.
I looked at salaries for a new Tesla sales center (recent addition to my city), and it pays their Inventory Manager less than I pay guys to sweep the floor (as electrician apprentices).
c'mon, man, that's not an answer. I'm asking for details!

The value I can see in this post, as relates to what I think merits HN:

- there's a deep dive into researching a supply chain

- the research in question is an outstanding example of OSINT

- great reading over a cup of coffee

- I didn't have to read about freaking NFTs or anybody's politics
I've had a similar idea simmering in my head for over 10 years, I even purchased a fitting domain name for it. It's always been a "one of these days" kind of project. My idea is different enough that it might have a shot where Flattr fell flat, but it's exceptionally hard to gather users, even if you build a superb product.
In my state this mechanism is being used to block expansion of inpatient mental health care services (in particular, we need many more beds for people recovering from TBI because they are drastically underserved). For the past 4 years the two biggest hospitals in the state have blocked all new hospitals simply because they can, and naturally they don't care to give up a slice of their pie.
A sibling commenter mentioned that there is a special word for "age of twenty"
Oh, for sure. If you don't want to live with the decisions from the project whose goal is not letting you make your own decisions, you should use something with a different goal. There is a reason most of those projects grow a bit and then die.

What you don't do is insist the developer adds the option. Even if you feel like the developer is more approachable than your boss.
Does Diversity and Inclusion have a place in Aviation
That’s an innovative way of doing it! Another, much more prevalent way is: only open appointments for 1 week/month ahead, then reject new bookings when full. Tell your clients “just book fast at Monday X am” knowing full well it’s a damn lottery. Or even worse, don’t tell customers about the release time “to fight bots”.

Then of course, blame bots for taking the appointments, and somehow fool people that bots are the reason for the size of the real queue.

This has come up so many times I’ve lost count. Usually with governments or some service that a corporation provides reluctantly. It does one thing really well: obscure the true size of the queue. Just like in the article, that’s a feature.
Not on the leaderboards mentioned here. That’s my point, you can overfit for specific tasks, you can’t beat them on multi-task leaderboards without training on the test data.
Monowi, Nebraska
What's the class? A class action lawsuit might be possible to bring if the class is everyone affected by a single manufacturer's field drug test, if there aren't many manufacturers. But if the lawyers think that the manufacturer won't end up losing that case, then your class is reduced to the people affected by each individual police department, separately, no? That might not be as enticing for local lawyers if it's say, a class of a thousand people. If the lawyers don't think there's a significant chance of winning (say, because of qualified immunity), a small class action likely won't get taken up, especially if it's a small class action representing poor people and the lawyers foot the bill on their own time.

Really feels like something that should be picked apart by federal prosecutors. But the feds also largely dgaf about poor people, so here we are.

At best I think you might get local legislative changes to eliminate that type of testing, on a piecemeal basis, only in a few cities.
And people continue to buy into these scam professions.

At least she didn't do anything to compound on your problems.

Consider yourself lucky.
Or kitty litter: https://abc13.com/meth-drugs-arrest-houston/1690696/
Yes we are using DuckDB right now. Love it. Works extremely well if you can partition down your data to manageable (few gbs) size.
I have very rarely known anyone who authentically holds conservative values (or liberal ones!) when it’s very inconvenient for them. I’ve known a lot of people who pretend too though, but maybe that’s selection bias.

The whole ‘abortions for me, not for thee’ situation plays out a lot for instance. And the highest porn use areas have always been conservative from what I can tell.

The article is junk. But the data lines up with other sources I found.

It’s just inconvenient for the narrative.
That's a very shallow view and understanding, no?

You don't think weather patterns could shift? It's not black-and-white as "clouds = more rain" - as there's obviously the question of distribution.

Likewise, water vapour in the atmosphere traps more heat - warming the planet; locally of course where there's cloud cover, at least initially, it will be cooler.
I have had a stressful, difficult week. Work is volatile right now, and it's taken a toll on my mental health.

Your story took me entirely out of that state, and your words regarding joy and optimism... reframing unimaginable to unfathomable, in particular... have both lifted me and left me with a feeling of unquenchable desire to help.

Thank you for sharing your story, and for being so deeply authentic throughout.
Classic example of Hyram’s law - adherence to a non-trivial specification is very difficult to check so the real spec is generally “works with that implementation”.
I worked for IBM 15 years. It is so sad seeing what it is today.
I am also using a Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC and a Gigaset GX6 [0], but not as a daily driver. 8 tablets and 3 phones which are currently turned on, and two phones which are turned off (Pixel 3 and Moto G7 Plus). I don't think I lack experience.

[0] https://www.gigaset.com/hq_en/gigaset-gx6/
This was quite the ride and entertaining too.

It’s also a window in what SO could’ve been
Why are you working at all during what was your commuting time? You weren’t getting paid for those 7.5-10 hours before, so you’re in a worse position now unless your pay increased commensurate with the extra hours. That should have translated into more personal hours, not more working hours.
> My last psych laughed at me while I was trying to open up about the trauma

Did he still get payed?

Because I would laugh at his invoice.
i used flattr since it released for some websites i ran. had maybe 100 dollar there, mostly from an adblock filter list i used to maintain.

eventually they just deleted my account due to ”inactivity” in maybe 2017 or so.

this made me stop recommending them

they just kept my money
Do you have any other project besides 2022 example from the htmx website that everyone shares every time?
Water is, mostly, only added to the atmosphere by evaporation. This is mostly solar, but can include indirect solar (wind) and industrial processes.

Rain 'seeding' can be thought of as offering water already in the atmosphere an excuse to form rain and drop out of the atmosphere. It's about controlling where it rains rather than if it rains.