skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Sure, it's possible to write a Java allocator/GC that will yield similar performance to the C++ code,

Didnt you just agree with me that it is dependent on the impl/end product?

Because what would be the reasons in isa world to make it not desirable

>The syntax of the language has constrained the implementation so that Java will practically always be slower.

The most interesting question is: by how much?

1% 3%? 30?
I found this (from Dr. Duvarsula) with a bit of googling: https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/nar...
They alluded in their past comment that human teachers make errors too which students can identify. So perhaps if students don't implicitly trust human tutors, then so too can they corroborate ChatGPT against reality and solidify their understanding.
> I mean, you can always just not rely on the internet for news and narratives and such.

it's not me I worry about

it's all the facebook users, who can also vote
I have a similar frustration with the lack of tooling around all this stuff.

Like, you had the time to train a bajillion parameter model with a ton of attendant code, but an installation script was a bridge too far. I get that python dependency management sucks, but you had to do it at least once for yourself.

Of course, here I am reinstalling CUdnn for the umpteenth time because this software is provided free of charge and it sprinkles magical fairy dust on my GPU so perhaps I shouldn't whine about it.
Check out Volkswagen that have been built between 2019 and 2021 (MY for Canada, US and EU might be a bit different). They usually come with Android Auto already (worth it for traffic and music - you can use OsmAnd or alternatives as well if you want zero tracking), BUT all the climate and radio and steering wheel controls are still physical buttons. And at least for Canada there are is no cellphone module in the car. There actually was for US market, but apparently since it supports max. 3G and the network has been shut down US wide end of 2022 they are truly offline as well now.
But is it wrong?
Isn't r/worldnews the one that Ghislaine Maxwell moderated for a long time? That makes me wonder where a lot of the "groupthink" really originates.
That's a good suggestion, thank you. Would it be possible to post some code? I've found GCP's APIs/documentation to be a bit abstruse.
No - employers are required to pay out paychecks as soon as employment is terminated and if they fail to honor that, they are heavy fines. Days worked is money earned.
> add a warning system in the case of dual input

The trouble is that those warnings should not be necessary.

It is drummed into the skulls of all pilots that there is only ever one person at the controls.

When you are a student pilot with an instructor in the other seat, the "I have control", "You have control" mantra is drummed into you.

When you progress onto professional multi-crew operations, this is further re-enforced through operational "Pilot Flying", "Pilot Not Flying" roles introduced during your MCC (Multi Crew Cooperation) training.

Also, from a purely practical perspective Boeing are yoke-based aircraft, not Airbus joysticks. So it should be pretty bloody obvious if dual control is going on.
Instead of doing search yourself, you ask bing chat to tell you the answer.

It searches the web and writes you a cited essay based on the content of the search results. I read the essay it provides to determine which links to follow instead of scrolling a page of links. I’ve found it really useful.

Good for investigating generalities more than specifics, and there is a slight learning curve. It likes short direct questions.

e. Punctuation
Idk how you're promoting, but hallucinations are rare for me, even at graduate-level material.

There's a reason GPT-4 scores so highly on advanced exams like the USMLE.
> If you lost your job and couldn’t find another one, you’d land on a couch somewhere. Most of us would.

Another way of saying this is that your safety net is the excess capacity of your social network. If your network is composed of people with stable jobs and guest rooms, it's practically guaranteed that someone will accommodate you for as long as you need. After taking all the time you need to get back on your feet, you will probably pay it forward to others in your social network.

If your social network is composed of people with low income, lots of dependents, and unstable housing, it's less likely. Sometimes because your peers have no capacity to help, but mostly because the network is already saturated - you're not the only one of your friends who needs a couch and a ride to work.

A term to describe this phenomenon is "class", which is a concept so thoroughly erased from American culture that we have to rediscover it through thought exercises like this.
> We know today how performance will be affected by this.

We know that a small subset of Unsafe-using code will have to continue using internals to keep performance and won't be able to use the supported APIs. There is absolutely no indication about this having any impact of significance on the performance in the ecosystem at large.

> There is no reason to make this change besides misguided ideology. There is zero benefit.

Elimination of undefined behaviour by default (and so fewer crashes) and better security come to mind. Also, better compiler optimisations. This is explained in: https://openjdk.org/jeps/8305968

The fact that you think this is of new benefit to you doesn't make this empty ideology. We have a couple of decades of vulnerability reports, customer support tickets, and challenges of introducing compiler optimisations that have sufficiently convinced us of the benefit. Not every Java user has to be convinced by every change to the JDK. In fact, we rarely make any JDK change that everyone is convinced we should do.
I’ve seen team managers blame design work being poor or unproductive on having remote workers when most of the team isn’t. And then when everyone is flown in they claim a great victory when the output is the same or worse. I think many managers with poor performing teams are using the opportunity to blame poor performance on remote with zero data to back that up. It’s simply a useful group to blame for all your problems often due to hiring a team of less experienced people so you can pay them less.
Also depends on how flat the terrain is
Couldn't this obfuscate OOM type problems by not triggering actual memory issues until much later than the allocation?
Game modding, especially Minecraft, would spark his curiosity and it would feel so rewarding to see something he created in a game he knows.

Even something like changing a texture is already magical when you never experienced programming.
The quiet death of Ello's big dreams
This is a cynical take on what I think is a meaningful benefit that the above commenter is talking about. If you use ChatGPT to learn concepts and approach it with the caveat that you should make sure you understand what you are trying to learn (something that helps to verify that what is being presented to you by the system is "accurate"), it's a fantastic resource. That isn't to say it's true for learning all things, but I'm generally impressed and optimistic for ChatGPT to be as valuable a teaching/learning resource as any other I might find on the web.
How does a government meaningfully and objectively determine what is transfer pricing vs profit shifting in practice? Are they even capable of distinguishing the difference in a case like Twitch:Amazon?

Furthermore... isn't this the crux of Hollywood accounting..?
Me and 3 other Principal/Staff levels have now worked at 3 companies in a row together over the last 12-15 years. One of us will move elsewhere and slowly bring on the rest of us as we leave if we hear great things about the place. If not we go elsewhere. We actually have a group chat of about 8 people we've all worked at various places together and love to bring others on board because we know their style and that we can work well with them.

They are amazing engineers and we've all grown together over the last decade and we know what each of us is great and at where they'd be fantastic in a company. They're SWEs and I'm an SRE so we actually aren't on the same team or anything but they know they can bring me on as a Staff/Princ SRE and we'll get things done well cross-team far beyond what most companies of disparate eng/teams gets done.

These are people super passionate about the technology. We give presentations/talks on various projects, etc. I know their skills are up to date and growing constantly. Finding someone passionate is difficult. Maybe not at google but in normal-not-faang world it is.
That has been "coming soon" for years now.
May as well ban all acting while they are at it. Wouldn't want someone to confuse an actor in a biopic for the real thing, would we?
I’m happy to see this idea continues to develop. I was worried its failure was foregone when Google shuttered their moonshot Makani in 2020. It seems like this iteration is simpler.
For them! Due to the way the economy works, destroying money is actually a donation to everyone else who has money (deflation).
Trailing edge control lines, pretty standard. You let them out and the kite will no longer be able to catch the wind and will float down. Keeping some tension on those lines and wenching it in will keep the kite controllable.
Not to be a HN naysayer, but wasn't this tried already with Makani Power?[1] They even made a documentary about it[2]

Compared to traditional wind turbines, this solution trades an enormous amount of complexity, maintenance, etc for small reductions in material cost. We should be churning out traditional wind turbines for cheap instead.

[1]https://x.company/projects/makani/

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd_hEja6bzE
I don't think the WFH crowd minds others going into the office. The pro onsite crowd on the other hand wants others forced into the office because their choice is unsupportable if people are given a free choice.

>98% of workers want to work remote at least some of the time 65% report wanting to work remote all of the time.

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/remote-work-statisti...

If 1/3 of your workforce meets 2 days a week your average utilization is about 14%. The logical conclusion is a ghost town that goes away as soon as your employer cuts the building off like a diseased hand.
> We spent 92% of our money in 2023 on paying contributors for their time.

That's really cool. Sometimes I think about donating to the PSF, but I don't really care about PyCon.
Five Fertility Fails
Since your son enjoys drawing, something like Pixicade[1] can help teach him basic concepts of game development without any programming.

[1] https://www.pixicade.com/
I think you’re discussing the logical extension of our current AI efforts, and I’m discussing the fully realized science fiction reality that could take decades to perfect or that would be driven by breakthroughs beyond the forecast of existing systems.

That’s the difference between seeing it as a technology vs a larger directional shift in human development. Put more directly we have been experiencing the age of miniaturization, and now we are entering the age of digital intelligences.

Very often early technology looks toy-like and lacks substantive real world application (despite the hype). It’s only later that deliver substantive applications and real-world change. This generation of AI is following the Gartner hype cycle perfectly thus far:

https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/what-s-new-in-artificial...

That said Gartner tends to be part of the hype cycle these days, but the pattern of new technology holds true.

So in short I would expect anything like a digital twin to emerge from post trough applications not the current generation, and I don't mean to imply that the current technology will create such a system but just that science fiction and futurists generally forecast or even predict this technology will generate a digital twin (in the form of an AGI) from this civilization-level line of technology exploration.

All that said, I don’t think many of us technologists were thinking we would be anywhere near this level of AI technology in 2018. In five or six years we have gone what people thought would take 10-20. So, as always, linear extension predictive and mental models of technology advancement once again fails to predict the true course of technology progress, which seems to be much more dynamic than people generally consider when talking about the future.
it's already known tardigrades can survive on the surface of space ships, but with an important caveat: they need to already be in the "tun" state, which is a dessicated husk that is metabolically inactive.
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Ex...
although I guess the lichen results predate the tardigrade results.
> I want to believe redemption is possible, especially given how eloquent he is, but his demonstration of calculation over emotion in her murder makes me strongly question his change.

I think it would be ridiculous for me to presume that I can possibly have any view into whether or not someone has sincerely changed, but why should the fact that someone was calculating once affect whether they have changed? I could see doubting the apparent demonstration of change, because they might have calculated the appropriate words to say, but I don't see any reason that a calculating person is less able sincerely to change than any other.
When? Recently or back in it's heyday?

My cousin worked there from like 1999-2016 or so as an accountant. I've never seen someone so overworked.
It sounds like you want a computer to craft the most comfortable echo chamber possible for you to live in. I find that terribly depressing.
Well summarized in Yes Minister:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSXIetP5iak
He was far less of a mastermind than he fancied himself at the time.

If I recall, he bought a book on murder investigations and a socket set after his wife's disappearance (which was easily tracked back to him), removed car seats (blood) from his car, and willingly testified in court that it was his manly dream to sleep in the car, or something along these lines.

He could have likely gotten away with it if he kept his mouth shut. Luckily he had the arrogance of believing he had actually come up with a convincing story.
I don't know about where you're from but in my country to teach requires several years of qualifications, assessment and continuing observation by an independent regulator

and there are consequences if you're caught teaching rubbish

not to say they are perfect, but there is some level of quality control

meanwhile ChatGPT just bullshits endlessly with no possible way to punish OpenAI for it
Bug bounty programs are the next iteration for these companies to avoid hard and expensive research.
"Ending another human's life" covers a wide range of cases. My recollection of this event, which is now long in the past, is that he was cold, calculating, did not value human life, and was quite comfortable with his kids moving on without their mother. He didn't just do something to her. He permanently damaged his kids, her family, and all of her friends. He made his decision knowing all of this.

Redemption? Possible I suppose, but don't make the mistake of looking at this from your perspective, because he's not like the rest of us.
I think about Hans Reiser pretty often, incidentally, because there is a quote from him I read as a teenager that stuck with me.

"The utility of an operating system is proportional to the number of connections possible between its components, than it is to the number of those components."

— Hans Reiser (from http://web.archive.org/web/20040126210110/http://unununium.o...)

It's hard to reconcile good things a person might have said and done, with the bad. That sentence is a guiding principle of software design that I cannot often quote, without entering into a huge discussion on the pain Reiser has caused. This is the only time I feel I am able to share that quote, on a thread that hopefully tries to look past the right and wrong of his actions.

Just as no one is truly good, no one is truly evil either. It is good for one's soul and humanity to acknowledge that a bad person might have done something good in their life.

ReiserFS was pretty cool as well, sad to see it go, but no one uses it anymore. I hope they'll find redemption and peace.
"The ability of firms to "price gouge" is evidence of monetary inflation"

Where do you get that? It's far more likely evidence of monopoly/oligopoly power.
Sure, can you give examples of companies whose executives own the holding company their business leases real estate from?
Developer Experience for the 99%
Drunk driving is a stupid thing people do. Murder is an act of evil.
My read was L and S were spaced out because the issues googlers kept ranting about were so outside the scope of issues the company was facing.

Workers became increasingly obsessed with political and social issues while the company was dealing with an ultra hostile administration.
I am not denying that there are major problems with the tools used by police and that juries fail to understand their limits, however, I take issue with 30k bogus arrests as indicative of a bad test without further context. For example, how many tests were given? What is the false positive rate, false negative rate, etc. i.e. the ROC characteristics.

The tests may be quite accurate, we do not know from just that number.

The question of whether the tests should favor reducing false positives of false negatives is a policy decision that must take into account public safety risk (false negative) vs harm to the individual (false positive and arrest) vs lasting harm from the false arrest (imprisonment). A moderate false positive rate might be good for public safety if used as an initial screener, but once arrested, further tests should be used that emphasize reduction of false positives. Then the harm would be limited to the disruption of an evening, not a life.
> There's a reason GPT-4 scores so highly on advanced exams like the USMLE.

yes, it's called overfitting
Ask HN: Is anyone using the DJI RoboMaster S1?
Hey! We are a team of students hoping to work with the RoboMaster through Python. Is anyone else in robotics making use of it? If so, have you encountered any challenges?

https://www.dji.com/es/robomaster-s1
I think I disagree with your underlying assumption that as long as you, personally, are critically evaluating sources and are 'safe', it doesn't matter whether other people end up in the misinformation spiral.

I can be as critical as I want, if the people around me who vote, have influence on my environment, etc end up in misinformation, it has a huge impact on my life.
Yes we can, these things don't have to be bundled together.

However, I haven't pursued unbundling them so much:

1. A big use-case is right now cache.nixos.org is too big and the old sponsor for hosting dropped.

2. CA derivations have the potential to greatly reduce new store object churn because they normalize derivation outputs more strongly (two different derivations producing the same result now results in the same store object, not a different one.)

If someone were to say "no, we needs IPFS right away, please help" I would do that, but no one said so yet.

It's good question :)
The value of information gathering in phage–bacteria warfare
Apparently he's been in prison for murdering his wife since 2008
There is an Android(maybe iPhone also) app that can plug into some EV car's computer and display detailed battery info.
Redemption requires that a person change and provide restitution. What Reiser did wasn't a stupid mistake, it was a calculated action that he took. His only mistake was getting caught. He didn't accidentally kill someone, or do so in the heat of a unique moment in his life. He decided that he could make his life easier by killing someone else and did so with no intention of facing the consequences of his actions.

While I won't say redemption is impossible. He is going to have to serve his time and dedicate the rest of his life to helping others to even come close.
In-code TODOs are just documentation of tech debt
Why can’t people in US prisons access the internet?
> The whole matter is debated (understandably in a way) on big numbers and averages.

Is it though? My last employer (a FAANG) did publish (questionable) numbers suggesting WFH being more efficient when the lockdowns started. When RTO started they flatly refused to back it up with any numbers whatsoever.

> At the end of the day the decision C-suite have to make when planning projects is not remote vs non-remote and apply blindly rather in forming teams with people that by their own nature or preferences will thrive in the setup that's decided.

I think at the end of the day the C-suite has no idea whether WFH is better or worse. Middle management will come out and blame any lack of progress/productivity on literally anything that's not directly related to their own performance, so WFH is a natural scapegoat for incompetent management.
CSV and Parquet are open file formats.

They're not good structured table formats, but they are open compared to the binary storage you get with Oracle or Snowflake.
Oh and to be clear I’m less commenting on productivity, more on the soft stuff like sense of belonging to the org, enjoying time at work, and building real relationships. These things are strictly local, no one expects to form relationships with the accounting team in Ireland, and having an explicit process for interacting with them is probably more important than an explicit process for interacting with your manager.

How important is that stuff, I have no idea, but if half the team are friends at work and the rest can only be reached over slack, that doesn’t sound like much of a team
Oh another point this reminded me of: I go by Alex (to the extreme that it's on my bank accounts and credit cards) but all the ads have my full name Alexis. When I google my full name in quotes, all of the results are data brokers.

Full name isn't required, I've received mail to my PO box with my first name only, last name only, initials, etc...

My residential address is used so infrequently that my cousin remembers my PO Box number but had to recently ask for my street number to visit.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39042564
The article poses a different use case, replacing diesel generators for off-grid power, not hooking into the grid to replace turbines.
Good. We will see a lot less dumb patent filings from them. Getting patents was a requirement for career advancement when I worked there, so a lot of people end up “collaborating” on patents that they didn’t really contribute much to.
Oxide also controls their entire software and hardware stack (theirs is open source, at least)... Neither vendor has to worry about modularity or weird configurations.
Yes and no. They jump around the profit-point. They made some profit in 2019 or so, but the pandemia peaked them, not just in views and income, but also costs. The thing is, Twitch's business-model is very frail. A streamer with too many viewers can cost them more money than it brings them money. Similar, are there millions of small streamers who barely make them a dollar. And then are there also too many side-costs, like South-Korea's network-fee recently, or the too many law cases where come cranky person sues them for some nonsical reason.

And we don't know for real how much Amazon is charging them. Rumors are going, Amazon is charging them a hefty amount for servers, while other says AWS is irrelevant for their Service, so nobody knows for real, officially.

But the recent move to a different handling of video-streams is supposed to change this, as it reduce the costs on Twitch's side, and lets the Streamers pay for it themself. By which I mean AV1(?), where the streamer is encoding all streams in all resolutions, and only sends it to Twitch which then acts as a relay. Claim is, Video-Encoding was the biggest cost for them, after employees, which seems kinda strange.. But maybe it will change their game in the next years, we will see.