skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also doesn't help that the lawyers in the case fabricated evidence and covered up the issues with Horizon to secure the convictions. The people doing this need to spend some time in one of the overcrowded prison cells they sent the sub-postmasters to.
Waitrose in the UK is like that. They seem to place trust in the customer which feels nice. I don't know if they have some clever ways of monitoring customers, but it feels good not to be treated with suspicion. I've never had anyone check my bags.

Sainsburys annoys me every time. The slightest delay in putting the scanned item on the scale and it starts nagging you, very loudly. I avoid them as far as possible. M&S is the same - nice place to shop in, but self checkout is unpleasant.
> Poor impulse control periods

> the seasonality of human behavior

Is it really a thing? Does impulse control come in waves?
thanks ! i have been bull**** then. Sorry for the wrong info.
I recommend you to reread the thread. I said that Smalltalk is far closer to Lisp than TCL, not if it more useful or less than either.
There are other axes to consider. Cost, thermal stability, supply chain reliability, toxicity. Any of which might make these “better” than lithium-ion for some applications (such as home or datacenter UPS batteries).
https://archive.vn/xZ0zK
AI safety people seems like influencers to me. Useless anoying humans who pretend to be important.
Sounds relatable. I also think there may be some selection effect going on: if you didn't have a better alternative than a low paying customer facing job you may be already have a little sourness to start with
IMF Tells Us Future of Work Will Hurt
However surely 'riding shotgun' (i.e. being there to help customers when things go wrong) on self checkouts is more interesting than mindlessly scanning items all day? (I don't know, I've done neither)

Furthermore, if there is less work to be done in supermarkets, then people can spend more time doing more interesting/productive work or simply enjoying their leisure. The issue is not that this (or any) automation is destroying people's livelihoods, but that the value added is being predominately captured by the already wealthy.

Portugal does suffer from an excess of 'work is for the workers' mindset, which is part of the reason it is so poor (compared to other Western European countries).
I'm not knowledgeable enough to critique this piece, but I feel it's mostly right from what I know from war in the 16th to 18 century that I know way better.

However I have to critique the author modern horses knowledge. We still breed some horses to be stout, not afraid of collisions and basically be terrors on a field. Maybe because he's from the west, he isn't aware. But our nomad/ex-nomad neighbors still practice kok buru, horseback wrestling, their horses are extremely aggressive to people they don't know, and their horses are everything a battle horse should be.

Also I'm not so sure about the point on horseback archers. They weren't just archers, at least in mongols armies. They were also either light or heavy cavalry, extremely well organized. The battle in Poland (maybe medieval Lithuania, I don't remember) where Christian armies met the Mongols for the first time was a typical example of how nomad horseback archers fought (or should fight). Harass to rile up the enemies, when a part of the army is separated (knights in the case), fix them with heavy cavalery and have the lighter cavalery divisions hit them in the back. If the point is about 'pure' horseback archers, I agree, but it's not how the majority of middle age horseback archers acted.
I haven't made any assumptions about your goals. I simply reminded you that memories kind of have "expiry dates", so that review dates are necessary. The backlog you mentioned is the memories you're about to forget if not "refreshed" in time. If you just want to practice whenever you feel like it, there are tons of apps that use a simple Leitner box, but you may soon find that it becomes a burden to review your cards if you add an important amount of them. Anki already has ways to do what you want, while still working according to your memory patterns, such as using filtered decks and lowering desired retention.
> I am finding that more and more people are looking for extremely specific and narrow experience. Like, if you haven't used <x> technology and worked in <y> domain, they don't want to even speak to you. They'd almost rather higher a new grad who happened to work in <x> than someone with experience in many languages and domains. It's really weird. I've been thinking a lot about how to make my own path, because it's exhausting trying to apply and work for myopic places.

Exactly why I left this industry permanently.
...an intellectual exercise which is an invitation for sensationalist reporting to misquote and for climate denialists/fossil fuel lobbyists to then use as a reason for opposing solar power.
> Yes, but not proportionally so.

Also completely incorrect. See the British Chambers of Commerce from April 2023: https://www.britishchambers.org.uk/news/2023/06/uptick-in-ex...
The RTX 4060Ti is the most affordable nVIDIA card with 16GB VRAM from the current generation, making it a good option for AI experimentation. So that might contribute.
If you're measuring performance and haven't seen this talk by Emery Berger, I highly recommend it.

It's mind blowing, but also terrifying when you realize how many mistakes you've been making up until this point.

https://youtu.be/7g1Acy5eGbE
> I guess this would be much harder to implement in a regular store.

Also very uneconomical. RFID tags have a cost, while printing a barcode on a package that is anyway printed is totally free. Unless there's a clear economical advantage that compensates for the lost revenue, this is a no-go for less expensive items like what you find in a grocery store.
initial commit is 2013
Too obvious and easy to clean up. Depending on how things were when you left, a passive aggressive commit message with whatever work you had left uncommitted is easiest.
I like the idea and hope you are successful. I just feel that most people need to see and play with something to give good feedback, so just getting input too early seems a bit hypothetical. It might be useful for requirements gathering I guess, or collecting known pain points.
I was curious and get vastly different numbers on my machine.

I grabbed this and compiled it with gcc
https://github.com/lemire/Code-used-on-Daniel-Lemire-s-blog/...

g++ -std=gnu++17 -O3 -o bandwidth bandwidth.cpp && ./bandwidth
> 50.0
> ...

50 GB/s, it drops slowly to 45GB/s with 32 threads)

sudo hdparm -T /dev/nvme0n1

> Timing cached reads: 58222 MB in 1.99 seconds = 29230.67 MB/sec

It's a good lower bound though
By far the best self-checkout systems are the ones where you scan your groceries as you go and just pay when you leave. Not only can you pack your stuff into bags directly in your shopping cart as go, but you also get a running tally of how much you everything in your cart will actually cost you. Also if something cannot be scanned or gets scanned at the wrong price you notice instantly and can deal with it right then and there, rather having to deal with it when you are trying to pay and just want to get out of there.
> They are super late to the "twitter replacement" game

They were actually super early but the invite system squandered that opportunity. For months it was just a tiny subset of oldschool twitter users.
It's funny how out of touch you are.

At CES this year even the gaming laptops have moved away from thicker, boxier designs capable of housing elaborate cooling systems and a full array of ports. And instead resemble traditional thin laptops.

The reason is that the majority of people want sleek, thin, usable form factors that isn't out of place in a cafe or library. And it is the priority over all else.
TARS - Tethered Aerostat Radar System
> This has some truly weird implications, e.g. once language model translations switch from subtitles to dubbing it will effectively stop shifts in pronunciation, because the models won't be re-trained with an ear to the street.

This has already happened to a great degree thanks first to radio and the television, as well as the early 20th century movement to “received pronounciation” in many countries. E.g. TV finally killed off thee and thou in the 1960s

It often feels like there are regional accent variations but they are usually quite minimal these days thanks to spread of technology.

The in Europe, explicit suppression or uniformation of language began AFAIK with Louis XIII and his deliberate formation of “France” (as opposed to just a collection of regions controlled by one person). In China I believe the same thing was instigated by the (by coincidence contemporary!) Qing dynasty, but it might have been a lot earlier. In any case it really zoomed throughout the world in the 20th century when communication technologies and practices were adopted by the emerging nationalist movements.

So machine translation will simply continue a longstanding process.
Things to commit just before leaving your job if you don’t intend on working in a position of trust again.
It's about signaling to hiring managers that you are willing to play along with their bullshit.

None of the companies I worked at disclosed to the engineers what features led to what results. So I made shit up and nobody called me out on it.
You're absolutely right, but laughing at the notion is unnecessarily rude.
That may be partly true but are small open source groups going to have the financing to do AI training that can compete with the big techs? I think the most likely scenario is for some other country with a less strict view of copyright (ahem) to continue developing AI without caring for the input data.
Yes, definitely. Link, optimize, compile/code-gen.

Instead of optimize, compile, link.
It depends A LOT on car, battery make, and temperature.

For temperatures above -10C (14F), a car with heat pump will typically have a range drop of 20-30%, where a car without heat pump will have a somewhat higher range drop, but when temperatures go below that, the heat pump becomes increasingly less efficient.

Some cars will back a backup PTC heater, where others, like (recent) Tesla Model 3/Y/S will run a motor to generate "waste" heat.

Some cars will also scavenge waste heat from the battery, while others cannot.

Some personal experiences in -15C (5F) is that Tesla Model Y LR loses about 25% range, where a VW ID.4 Pro loses closer to 40% range, despite having a heat pump. Ranges are measured on the same stretch including city driving and highway driving.
The funniest thing is that when you're stopped in the flow for some weight discrepency in the UK, the attendant will quickly type in their code and null the error without investigating it at all, move on to the next customer who's blocked with the same thing and repeat. Seems to totally void to point of having these anti-trust systems.
I'd say the impact on computer programming languages over the next 10 years will be a useful predictor for the larger impact on human languages.

The decisions about using Python vs JavaScript vs Go vs .NET vs Rust vs Java etc etc are going to quickly become moot when businesses realize they can get value without focusing on any single tech stack. The next logical step after that is reducing the inefficiencies of having so many tech stacks to maintain - I would guess by having more and more programming languages fall to the wayside, probably starting with the ones that aren't popular and ending with the ones that aren't easily ML-usable.
The real startling link is between wealth inequality and high crime.
// In case it's not clear: I am not suggesting you *actually* do this!

A more practical but still dubious takeaway would be that you can safely `#define private public` and `#define protected public` to work around the visibility and you still get a syntactically correct C++ code. Of course, you are doomed if ABIs start to depend on the visibility...
They might want to change it though, it's already used elsewhere

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shelly-ssh-client/id989642999
They have access to the suspect. If the suspect don't understand whether they did it, it should call for a full-scale investigation of the software so at least somebody understands exactly why they are guilty.

In Denmark the police thoroughly investigates cases also when the accused plead guilty.

In a country that has a rule of law, punishment is not negotiation. I do realize that it is up for interpretation for the Anglo system due to its over-commercialized legal system.
Glorifying vandalism like that feels very very immature. How did this end up here, and why was it upvoted?
One of the reasons I entered an apparently very focused Mastodon instance and left after two months.
I was absolutely not interested in discussing politics, let alone culture wars that are absolutely incomprehensible to me.

It doesn't surprise me that BlueSky goes in the same direction, to be honest.
"Something evil to do to make yourself feel better about having been fired from a job for which you were probably un-qualified."
It's always spectrum from THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” to high-assurance methods used in aerospace and similar safety-critical fields.

The skillfull programmer may accept liability when you give him a verification team with a few PhDs, the ability to withhold signoffs, flexible deadlines etc. etc.
Few are willing or required to pay for that. So they get a mystery box with a 90% chance of crap.
BigDecimal Within WarpScript
Warp 10 3.1.2 comes with BigDecimal support.

The purpose of this article is to introduce BigDecimal to familiarize yourself with this number representation and then to present its use in Warp 10.
This is cool. Do you mind me asking what videos you use it for?
And I'm not using on-the-spot-self-scanning because almost every time it tells me "go to the counter for randomized checks" which I can understand but is actually increasing the hassle for me. So I'll stick to the "normal" checkout where you scan the bunch at the exit, and sometimes even traditional where you can chat the cashier when there's no line.
Easy to say but often quite hard to do.

Measuring, gathering, reporting, understanding what you’re seeing. These are often very complex and time consuming.
Managers are really bad at hearing the right amount of resources.
Sinclair's QL computer outshined Apple's Macintosh against all odds
But there is no dependency on the expressions on either variant, so there is no reason why the first variant is faster than the second in principle (of course python internals will get in the way and make it hard to reason about performance at all).
// This started as a tweet with a joke of "C++ pro-tip: #define private public",
// and then it quickly escalated into more and more evil suggestions.
// I've tried to capture interesting suggestions here.

// In case it's not clear: I am not suggesting you *actually* do this!
If you don't know, hiring managers won't know the number either.

Just make some plausible sounding number up and add it to your resume.

To be clear, I hate this sort of shit, but the game is the game.
In NL, for a long time, you get some money back when you return glass bottles and large plastic ones to the store. A few years ago they added small plastic bottles and after that all drinks in aluminum cans. The goal is to add more packaging. (Disposable plates, cups, forks, spoons and knifes are now banned.)

Checking out is much less dirty than checking the packaging back in.

It isn't unthinkable for all products/packaging to get an RFID tag. On that scale they will be cheaper and perhaps some can be reused. Passive tags cost only 8 cent atm.
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I work in the AI safety field (my team discovered Prompt Injection) and I absolutely advocate the Dune solution. I even have a tattoo on my arm that I got so that people will ask me about this and I can explain the proposal. The tattoo says "The 1948 Initiative" which has two layers of meaning:

(1) It is a proposal for humanity to protect ourselves from being slaughtered by AGI by pre-emptively implementing a total global ban on all integrated circuit fabrication, voluntarily reducing ourselves to a ~1948 level of electronics technology in order to forestall our obliteration.

(2) The year 1948 represents the power of human unity for the purpose of saving our species. The west, the Soviets, and China united together to fight and defeat the Nazi's (perpetrators of the Holocaust) and the Empire of the Rising Sun (perpetrators of the Rape of Nanjing). America, the USSR, Western Europe, and China united to stand against the forces of pure evil, and we won.

A ban on IC's (integrated circuits) still allows spaceflight (compellingly illustrated in the setting of the Star Wars universe if you pretend that droids are powered through magic or by having souls, not IC's) and this 1948 level of electronics tech also still allows sophisticated medical technology including the level of genetic engineering which will be necessary to unlock human immortality.

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(here are some pictures of the tat, in case anyone would like to get similar artwork done)

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y7uy5qyyY80t9DeWWLWUfD-aekz...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JoPSfsAzHfMbQhsl8dPGvs12Fln...

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A jockey needs to know what a horse is and how a horse lives, trains, runs, etc.

A manager that has no technical knowledge is useless, like a jockey who doesn't see a difference between a poney and a horse or distinguish a healthy horse from an injured one.
Typically water coming out of your heating plant is already at max temperature. Any more and it will start boiling.
// In case it's not clear: I am not suggesting you *actually* do this!
They're protecting property owners at every step. Why haven't they condemned large/tall buildings with inadaquate stairwells for fire evacuation (in fact, given the timeline of the fire, Grenfell's single staircase would have been amply adaquate to evacuate the building before people started dying)? Because that would totally hose the people who own such buildings. And why aren't they requiring large buildings to have adaquate staircases? Because that would eat into profitable floorspace. The UK prioritizes property owner profit.
This is the one, and it's great fun to look at: https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
I hear what you're saying; but I think its hopelessly naive and unrealistic to expect the CEOs of large companies (like banks, telcos, insurance companies, etc) to learn enough Python that they can make competent technical decisions.

Of course, if the CEO defunds their infosec teams, they bear the blame when they get data breaches. But I also don't think the engineers on the ground get to avoid blame when their crappy software leaks customer data. "I thought about making it secure but we had a deadline so I didn't" is a lazy excuse. Blaming management for everything is a lazy excuse. We're engineers. Not typists.
Yep. Tech journalists are usually as versed in what they're talking about as people selling tech in retail stores.
> Vitamix blenders are 8-10x the cost of a normal blender

"Normal" isn't a particularly useful label here, and Vitamix aren't 8-10x when you compare like-for-like (in terms of capacity and other features).

The Wirecutter recommendations[1] (which is a pretty decent way of seeing what the market is like) are:

Our Pick: Vitamix 5200, $397

Runner Up ("A more-affordable but less-durable blender"): Oster Versa Pro Series Blender, $280

Also Great: Cleanblend Blender, $165

Budget pick: KitchenAid K150 3 Speed Ice Crushing Blender, $100

This is the typical market dynamic. The high end (Vitamix) is a bit more than twice the mid-range option, and then there is a long tail going way way down.

I agree a $1300 blender (ie, 8 * $165) is a luxury play. But Vitamix seems more just a normal high-end quality play rather than luxury. Their most expensive blender is $729 list price[2] but comes with a bunch of extra features (wireless jug detection?!) to justify the cost. Luxury brands don't try to justify costs: the cost is the feature.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-blender/

[2] https://www.vitamix.com/us/en_us/shop/smart-system-blenders
Upvoted for the honesty, and yikes
it also switches focus window, which is makes things even more confusing
You’re right. Though it is the scenario in my head playing out of someone slaving over an architecture optimization manual while, zoom out, editing Python that was comical, rather than making fun of anyone specifically.
158 comments in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10084570

Only 8 when originally posted just over 10 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6218920
> The portable Wasm app automatically takes advantage of the hardware accelerators

So this should work with AMD cards? And it would need at least 32 GB of RAM, right?
I got an HSK 1 deck on Anki and it has audio and the pinyin has tone marks so I am learning pronunciation. It is also giving me grammar structures in the first week that Duo didn't in months. I truly feel Anki is better and that Duo is the one that only teaches vocab.

If I need an explanation I just paste it into ChatGPT and ask for a breakdown.
Cities: Skylines 2 warns: growing toxicity could force to 'pull back engagement'
Most AI Safety folks do leave the feeling they strongly believe what they are preaching. Whether or not they are right is an entirely different discussion.

However, funding for AI Safety is clearly in some part motivated by either regulatory capture, or protectionism of some sort.

We need some well-meaning doomsayers so their claims can be used to advance whatever other goals (mostly creating barrier to entry on the market for economical or political reasons.)
Think of it as another way to tax the 1% and 0.01%, and give the money to the normal working humans.

The article notes that they're using ice that's already fallen off the glacier, and is floating away in a fjord - so it's not like they're mining Greenland's ice cap. (And even if they were - at cocktail prices, the world's ultra-rich would all be bankrupt long before it'd make a visible-from-space dent in Greenland's ice cap.)
Good point, measuring is hard. Make sure you are actually know what you are measuring, and if the measurements differ form your expectations, make sure you understand why.
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> It very much isn't because they sell premium quality products. They sell luxury products. Luxury branding has very little to do with product quality or performance.

This!! 100% true.

For luxury products the cost is the feature.
First time I've heard of this. It's an eye-opener. It also makes me even more cynical.
Still it is not clear why a silly joke needs to be on the front page of HN!