skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's like telling a guitarist that AI will empower them because now the computer will play music for them.

I don't need AI for that - we've had drum machines for ages and now VSTs that can emulate pretty much any instrument. They do empower me because now I can create music that isn't limited to the instruments I own and can play without needing to hire an orchestra.
Welcome to AI in general.

Billions wasted on a pointless endeavor.

10 years from now folks are going to be laughing at how billions of dollars and productivity was flushed down the drain to support Microsoft Word 2.0.

AI is a bubble. Do yourself a favor and short (or buy put options) the companies that only have "AI" for a business model.

Also short Intel, because Intel.
PIDs: Creating Stable Control in Games
No particular order but how they came to mind:

Data structures, algorithms, algorithm analysis, various discrete math topics (set theory and number theory, a bit of graph theory, are usually included in a typical CS undergrad curriculum), models of concurrency, models of computing (lambda calculus, Turing machines), complexity classes, Chomsky hierarchy, type theory (some might consider this more advanced, varies by school and its lean towards practical or theoretical CS), systems of logic.
The playback relevant parts are not that complex, a good motor,and speed control, capstan/ flywheel the pinch roller and a rigid enough chassis to maintain geometry. You hear people complaining that things like that are not made anymore but if they were they wouldn’t buy them anyway.
It was billed as a stimulus but it was really an environmental program to get people to exchange for more fuel efficient vehicles. See point 1. :)
Creator here, teah it get's submitted almost yearly when people are on the job hunt.

I will have some new project news in a few months, better to wait for a resubmission then.
And which of those is a marketable IBM product that 'normal' people have heard of? Red Hat was an acquisition.
You forgot the exclamationistas, related to the commakazis, who just pour them!!! everywhere!!! whether!!! it makes sense!! or not!!!!
As a software developer with some tutoring/TA experience, I'm concerned about whether the next generation of devs will actually be able to code, if all they had to do was use a Copilot to complete their assignments, especially at the freshman/sophomore level. They'd be automating themselves out of usefulness at that point.

Then again, we've had similar conversations about "iPad kids." As an iPad (along with everything else) user, I find it's not a bad approximation of a laptop -- you do have a filesystem, for example, and apps continue to be more fully-featured (in an Apple-approved way, of course).

I use copilot myself, but mostly as a smart autocomplete for setting variables or other minor things that consume time better spent contextualizing through problem solving and interacting with teammates. It's not a substitute for being an engineer.
Experts in what? They are only expert in getting elected. Few of them have any expertise relevant to the position they are elected to.

A lot of decisions are also subjective - not how best to achieve an objective, but what what your objectives are.
Will it predict the Irish unification of 2024, too?

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/2024/01/07/star-treks-pre...
True that you learn as you go. Also true that motives change - the world in 2024 looks very different to the world in 2020. Founders adapt, bring on new investors, find new ways to create value.

In regards to intent, I am not suggesting that he founded the company to do this. I am suggesting that the motives for their recent actions are driven by something other than finding product market fit.
this is a really great attitude, and as someone who's lived in Germany, it can be a really hard thing to do. In the end we are who we are. You can go crazy trying to fit in or try to let it go and stop caring about the stares and disapproving looks.
You didn't answer my question. Can they be fired or not? And if yes, what makes it different from emails?
Early stage is sort of a long string of Hail Marys. Critical problems that create new critical problems not far down the road.

I’m guessing that Eric knew that he had days before Apple patched whatever exploit he found. I’m guessing he was hoping to find another move he could make before that happened.

Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn’t. Big risk for big reward — imagine what a big deal it would’ve been if Beeper Mini actually found a sustainable way to make iMessage work outside of Apple?
It's supposed to be, but GPT-4 was released almost a full year ago now.
It didn't solve it -- instead it simply created groups in the exact order you provided.
You would only need to build it once and not resurface and pave it every 5-10 years. So yes we'd still need people to pay for roads.

But for the current roads we already paid for, the average car is apparently around 4100 lbs whereas the average bicycle weight is 30 lbs, so 30^4/4100^4 means that a bicyclist should be paying around 1/350,000,000 of the cost comparable to the average car driver... so litterally a rounding error down to zero.

If you look at Chernobyl (search "Chernobyl parking lot" https://www.vecteezy.com/photo/3732091-pripyat-ukraine-2021-... ) you'll see even 40 years later with no care paving is actually completely usable.
I don't know what you two read, but the current version is perfectly clear.

> a generator is a cool way to brainstorm, but not end up with a final product... any generator or formula will leave you with something lackluster
Harvard does this too. I see a surprising number of people who put Harvard on their resume or LinkedIn only to find they did like a two week executive meetup there or something and were granted a credential of some sort from the institution.
Hotbot was amazing back in the day. Google scored me post high school schoolin', however, so I won't complain...Shoot Google helped me make the local news back in the day!
There's a management strategy to always interview even if they don't actually need anyone.

The idea is that if someone spectacular comes on the market they can either replace an existing dev, or create a new role for that person.
Nit: This is not a mesh. With only 3 nodes, it's not even a ring but just a direct connection between servers.

A "real" ring is formed when you have more than 3 nodes and so some destinations require more than one hop. A mesh implies a network formed by somewhat arbitrary point-to-point connections with multiple possible routes between two points.
The day we solve death is the day we doom ourselves.
The money to acquire Red Hat came from somewhere, which is also beyond many startups accomplishments.

Money in the bank doesn't care if it comes from stuff 'normal' people is aware of, or something else.

Just like despite all issues, many here won't be aware Bell Labs and UNIX legacy now belong to Nokia.

Or how many Linux projects depend on Oracle and Microsoft money, as per contributors on their salaries.
But the government ends up babysitting them either way... Either operationally, or in imprisoning them...

So if your goal is to not have governmental babysitting, are you advocating the death penalty for corporate crimes?
Not a Verizon customer, but any regular consumer is only going to be getting $20 or $30, max. If they are guilty, then letting them buy their way out of it without admitting it is BS; if they're not, then letting them be shaken down without being at fault is BS. Reducing everything to expected value and probabilistic calculations means that an ever-increasing volume of commercial and legal decision-making is based on bluff rather than principle.
Yeah, we built a similar system a generation ago using FireWire on x86 and Linux.

FireWire at 800Mbps beat Gigabit Ethernet in terms of latency for a rather hard real-time system.
https://archive.ph/2000/https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/15/us/an...
So that project's plan is to distribute malware then?
Yes, Google isn't so good nowadays, or my problems have become sufficiently advanced to not be a quick search away.

What might save us from ChatGPT enshittification are the freely available LLM's. Probably won't be long before we can have a code companion running locally. It's probably already here
Two Finish people are sitting at a bar and drinking beer.

First Fin says "Skoll!" (Cheers)

Second Fin asks "Are we here to drink or to talk?"
I was seeing 1-1.5ms latency using linux bridges for the mesh. Not a huge issue for ceph replication but significantly more than switched lan. It may be possible to get it lower with routed instead of bridged but my understanding is thunderbolt_net on Linux is not perfect in that regard.
Haiku looked amazing and beautiful in 2009 when I first learned about it. Today it looks dated like Windows 95.
I don't fully buy the points being made, I agree that emotions are cultured, but as someone from a different culture, I've felt that Americans are more "genuine".

My own culture is all about distrusting others and being very selective about what you reveal about yourself and paying close attention to material balance in social interactions so someone else isn't getting more out of the relationship than you. A point that came up last time I was visiting my home country was that my habit of thanking the cashier after finishing my transaction was a glaring giveaway that I was an outsider, and that I should be careful about it to avoid being taken advantage of.

In comparison, American culture has been very freeing, I can typically trust people to not be trying to stab me in the back, I don't have to worry as much about taking advantage of by friends, I can ask people to be honest about me and they will be, and so on.

There are a lot of little pleasantries with strangers that took time to become fluent at, but people you actually know seem to be just as honest as what the author describes the Dutch as being, just with a lot of initial padding like "please don't take this the wrong way".

The example given of being asked to dinner and responding bluntly with "I'm busy tomorrow" doesn't seem that rude to me, but to be fair, I am in a physics and engineering environment, neither groups of people being known for their social smoothness :)
Repo link by any chance?
The lag for the people at home could be one full minute and it doesn't matter because they don't have a way to notice.

For the people at track even one second of lag is weird.
In fact here's the original pre-stolen video on Aliaksei's channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbRgH6C5Tkc
I happened across the movie adaptation on Criterion last night and watched it not knowing a thing about it. I was captivated immediately. Afterwards I found the short story. So seems like nothing more than coincidence in this case that you read it last week.

(I was surprised to see the upvotes this morning. I really don't ever have any idea what HN is going to find interesting.)
It's opportunity cost. New Yorkers making $300,000 feel the twinge of lost time much more acutely than, say, the average Minnesotan making $30,000.

Indeed, in most countries, you'll notice the dialect of the capital city of the prominent language contains a lot more clipped and shortened words than the rural dialects tend to. This happens here in Finland - Helsinkians speak a much more abbreviation heavy Finnish than the dairy farmers up in Pohjois-Pohjanmaa, which has sort of the equivalent of Finnish southern drawl.
It's part of the job, but it shouldn't have to be. If software engineers just did things properly, then we wouldn't have to deal with each others' messes.
I run rack servers at home and I 100% call BS on that 1000W number. My older Ivy Bridge Xeon servers only consume 50W on idle, 100W with some load, and <200W with all cores fired running P95 or something. The noise is a concern but it's not an issue if you put it in your basement.
I mean, that's literally in the first sentence describing the product.
The Country Husband is another classic https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1954/11/20/the-country-hu.... I believe it was the Cheever found in the Norton Compendium of Short Fiction last time I checked.
Debug chat logs that tore OpenAI apart
#genuary15
It is very short term thinking, which doesn't seem straightforward to me.
Again you've fallen into fallacy of excluding weathering and construction costs not 4th order to axle weight. Your calc safely discarded.

But wait, it's even worse. Cyclists and drivers are benefactors of 18 wheelers. So the cyclist is the worst of all. He gets same benefit of 18 wheelers bringing him goods while offloading unequal axle damage costs on car drivers taxes. Cyclist is ultimate leech in this equation you present.
The adversarial legal approach is highly overrated.
The kids have never seen 8K and will not for some time. I can see why Tata would argue for the necessity of this upgrade though.
Can't speak for management, but they could've seen it as funding open-ended research. Give a bunch of nerds freedom from shipping dates, deadlines, adoption plans, customer demands, and other such things that they always complain about, then see what they come up with.

It's expected that this kind of strategy will yield nothing most of the time, but eventually you get a positive Black Swan.
Few questions:

How do you get the groceries? Just buy a day or two's worth at a time?

How do you keep from stinking all the time?

I used to ride a motorcycle in the US and other drivers were dangerous as hell. It's even worse for bicyclists. How do you deal with that?

Serious questions, not being sarcastic.
> Android compat would never happen without a vm or container (in which case all the fancy privilege control is useless since all the sensitive data is INSIDE the container that MUST act linux-like and not fancy-priviledge-separation-like).

VM-per-app has very real possibilities. You'd need some new logic for things like keyboard apps, but ...
> Thank you for dinner” felt to me as an act of distancing

Is this really? I am French so we are rather private (in the sense that friendship is something that takes time, and before that there are rather generic interactions). But if my best friend whom I adore and whatnot did a dinner for me I would thank him very much.

I wild be surprised if "thank you" is not used between friends in the Netherlands
Do you have any examples of cars that "regularly" last 300,000 miles (480,000 km)?

I have an old VW Passat TDI with 300,000 that I am working to restore, but it definitely didn't "last" that long. Our Jetta TDI "lasted" 240,000 miles, but it's definitely on its absolute last legs and not regular. The difference between them is stark: the early 90s Passat is bolted together; the newer Jetta is (was) glued. The Passat has electrical plugs and components can be replaced; the Jetta wiring is largely routed through the unibody (which has been welded shut). Cracked wires (of which there are many) cannot be easily replaced or repaired. It's got bean counters' fingerprints all over it.

If anything, I would expect to see the same thing happen in cars as which happened everywhere else in consumer appliances: manufacturing processes are cheapened to the absolute limit of acceptable warranty repairs.
I remember the "good ol days" when I would always opt for a FireWire audio interface for music production and live performance over USB for exactly this reason. I'd get way better latency and stability.
> layoffs has less to do with "AI replacing workers" (as the article suggests)

The article is pretty clear that it isn't just talking about AI directly replacing workers. From the second sentence of the article: "...not all the recent layoffs in the tech industry are directly linked to AI tools simply replacing workers" and goes on to explain from there that they are talking about companies changing what they are spending money on.
Thank you very much!

Yes, this was all in Python. This simulator was a bit unique in that there was no live user interaction, and therefore no realtime required. Overall, performance wasn't too much of a concern.

More particularly, I built this on top of strongarm, a Mach-O analysis library I had already written in Python. My employer encouraged us to write things in Python so that there was lower cognitive overhead for people to see each other's projects. This was more of an off-time passion project, but I still took the advice.
Let's open WhatsApp… It's recommending that I follow channels. Do I want to follow Man City, Real Madrid, or FC Barcelona? I watch zero sports and want nothing to do with any of this. I've used the app a handful of times over the years, yet I have three threads/groups from December that are cryptocurrency, investment, and market insight scams. To me, the interface also looks bad—and it's a Facebook product.

Signal is great for certain times and places, but as a daily app it's still a bit clunky and not widely adopted.

99% of the time, iMessage just does what it says and at a high quality. No bullshit, barely any spam, and OS-level integration with my other devices.
> What do you think a mechanic does ALL DAY?

Are you implying that they are fixing their tools rather than cars? I don't know any mechanic that would put up with that and would replace their tools with tools that actually work.
btw. I got this error after installing windows 10pro 22h2. So it’s extremely stupid
Loved BeOS, and love HaikuOS. But a "daily driver" it is most certainly not. Don't be fooled.
> I am really not cut out for running an OpenBSD desktop

I've looked at OpenBSD on the desktop and felt the same, but I'm also thinking about how many times I've bumped up against what feel like arbitrary app armor blocks or such (not always desktop) and wonder both "am I cut out for any of this," and "maybe this would be easier if there was higher-level, consistent handling of this." Reading the article, it seems maybe excessive to need a sysctl flag to allow audio recording, but at least you know where to go to get that permission, and seemingly without much additional overhead.
Nice trick but you are playing with fire due to the AWS' terms.
> "Table sugar" and HFCS are, chemically, the same thing.

in theory, but in practice there can be impurities from the production process, e.g. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00216-012-5817-x
This article about Russian's habit of yelling is interesting: https://classical-russian-literature.blogspot.com/2020/07/th...

I haven't been to Russia but some of it reminds me of encounters I've had in Greece.
I guess? This is extremely common in the arts (superhero movies, 007, Star Wars, cover bands, and theater productions) where the original actor does not do every performance.

Seems like an odd thing from the voice actor to be upset about.
Because HN fails with moderation, it's not only on HN there are tons of boards that post jobs and aren't looking for engineers. Some will even interview you but they aren't looking for an engineer. The more generic the name of the company the more likely it's BS.

Haven't checked if a person with email nota[particularAnimal]@gmail.com is still posting the same job.
American living in America. I've encountered all types of people. Some are taciturn, some are very direct, some dance around the subject for fear of offending, some are excessively friendly. We're a mix of cultures and I don't think you can say that all or even most Americans have the same social/emotional tendencies.
+1. Looks fantastic!
Evidence linking Epstein-Barr virus and Multiple Sclerosis is getting stronger
It’s “OpenAI” so, yes.
On what information are you basing this serious claim?
With the sea of SEO and AI spam, we aren't living anymore in the age of the old internet. Communities need to adapt.
> You could also run PLIP over the same cable.

I was running that in the nineties. My main desktop, running Linux, and an ultra old, ultra crappy laptop running Linux too. They'd be connected using PLIP and the desktop, more powerful, was running its own X server but also applications for that were running on the laptop's X server.

So my brother and I could both be using Netscape to surf the net (we'd call it that back then) at the same time, over the 33.6 modem connection.

It was really easy to run PLIP and was saving me the trouble to try to get network card running under Linux on my desktop and most importantly saving me the trouble to try to get the PCMCIA crap to work on my laptop.

Fun times...

P.S: and, yup, back then laptops had a full parallel port!
I hope the other poster ignores you from here on out, this is such a shitty way to argue with someone.

It's a false dichotomy dressed up as something else.
Follow up: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/even-more-multiple...
Oh I didnt know that, good to know. Another area where it isn't perfect!
Him and Ed Meese.
Why? Just overheat the water circulating through the district water system when you can. People's thermostats will simply turn off sooner, leaving more heat in the water.

Then later, you underheat the water, and the city's various thermostats turn on a bit longer.

The risk is that you underheat too much, and people compensate by plugging in their own heaters during underheating. And underheating will occur during expensive energy periods, so this will exacerbate periodic energy shortages. But overall this could work to store a ton of energy - there's a huge volume of water in a district heating system's pipes.
What is the point of a grid battery if you don't heat your house electrically, particularly from the point of view of climate change which is meant to be the real reason we're doing this.
I bet if you sign out of iCloud then reinstall the Mac and sign in again it'll work again. This is probably the machine signing key being shot down for using it with an unauthorised client rather than the mac being completely banned itself.
Millions of US citizens suffered from malnutrition during the Great Depression.

More recently, half of Africa and SE Asia had malnutrition issues. Only in India, ~100M people currently suffer from malnutrition.

I'm pretty sure that's not linked to drug abuse.
But as said before, it looks like words were limited to 10 letters. So you could encode/compress a bit, but not a long message into a single 243-letters word...
Perhaps I’m missing something but it all felt sort of underwhelming to me? I won’t claim to have predicted the motion of the thing prior to watching, but watching his demonstration was not very surprising or counter intuitive.

What am I missing exactly? I’ll admit I only made it about halfway through the video…
For this reason open source always lags, but this decade's proprietary cutting edge always* becomes the next decade's open source.

* except in niches
Here's a cultural question I've been wondering since I visited Amsterdam as an American- I was walking along an up hill street in the evening, and I saw a young lady talking to her friends and smoking, with a baby in a stroller. The stroller started to roll down the hill slightly and she didn't seem to notice. It then picked up a little speed, so I moved to intercept it, and rolled it back up to her. When I delivered her child back to her she just looked at me with a slightly blank look, then gave a very quick barking laugh, and turned back to her friends. We didn't exchange any words. I moved on and went about my business, but to this day I have absolutely zero idea what her reaction meant <shrug>.
Don't know where you live, but in many of the places I have lived it would not be stress-free owning a bike considering how often they get stolen and how little the police care.
> Hmm do you know of other cases of this that I could look into?

No clue. What happened was...

i had noticed that a surprising number of people were posting the same things 2-3 times and assumed it was due to some non-obvious error. Then i posted something (must have been /item?id=38989363) and, indeed, got a CloudFlare error. My instinct was to tap Back and Submit again but the number of repeated posts i'd noticed earlier tipped me off not to. Instead i visited /newest and there was my post, despite the CloudFlare error.