skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that but the statement 70 TWh is enough storage capacity to satisfy the world electricity demand makes no sense. Electricity demand is a power not an energy.
Fun factoid: Chips need to have patterns, even where there is nothing to print! This is because you want the acid etchant to be consumed the same way everywhere. So you choose a random repeating pattern that has the same density as your other signals density; it will serves no purpose other than consuming nitric acid. But you have freedom in choosing the exact shape.

Source: a friend of mine working at a chip company 20 years ago. They considered disparaging the competition billions of time in tiny 250nm letters. It occurred right after a patent dispute where it was highly likely they had reverse-engineered part of their design. A disdainful message only their competitor would read, to the tune of "we know you're cheating, and fart in your general direction". It was mostly a joke though, they did not go through with it.

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AMD's one is only in one corner of the chip, so I don't think it applies here.

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EDIT: this was a long time ago. Seems like filling has evolved quite a lot [1]. Timing, signal integrity, and probably capacitance too are so constrained nowadays you can no longer write a personalized message to your competitors.

[1] https://semiengineering.com/knowledge_centers/materials/fill...
I'm already starting to feel a big "who cares?" When it comes to the federal government in general. Everything's so calcified it feels like they're barely keeping the lights on. How many debt ceiling "crises" have completely paralyzed Congress for weeks, just in the last few years? The media barely even bothers to report on them anymore. And the rest of their time seems to be occupied by infighting or attempts at pointless symbolic dunks on the other side.

For all the talk of the "deep state" it generally feels like the career bureaucrats are the only ones doing any actual governing anymore. Eventually the whole thing's just going to get too brittle to hang together.

Anyway I know this is almost totally fact-free, but that's just where I'm at now. Who the hell cares who's president?
I think the prize for the most confusing naming is a tie between USB and WiFi standards.
Improve Java Startup Time: JEP Draft: (Draft) Method Profiles in CDs Archives
> I tend to use media ... for 4-8h a day...I never miss them when I have better things to do

Would it be reasonable to restate this as - media is the ~best thing available to you, 4-8h/day?

And by 'Available' I mean like 'readily reachable' and not like 'available if you reorder your life'. No wrong answer; just me wondering.
> Between February 2023 and July 1, 2022, that did not happen in three investigations, the CTIVD said. The supervisory body did not say which communities were involved but did explain that by “community,” it means a population group “based, for example, on ethnicity, religious belief, or occupational group.” So, theoretically, the police intelligence services may have been spying on visitors to a certain mosque or protesting farmers.

We really have a problem with targeted surveillance of specific communities like visitors of a specific mosque? Or a pub frequented by known nazis? I don't get it. The article doesn't have enough details to form an opinion!
Agree, also sqlite might turn out faster than a filesystem even for much more practical cases: https://sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html

However it still tickles my curiosity and exercises an interesting pathological case. As a kid I've had this idea, what if I could store the data bytes in the file names of empty files, did I just create space out of nowhere? It's always beautiful whenever you rediscover that computers are not magic.
Bob Iger?
G products tend to be inferior. So it doesn’t really matter.

Exception is maybe Gmail or Search. Latter is up for debate.
You can’t use virtualbox’s kernel module and kvm at the same time. This basically means that you can’t use virtualbox and qemu at the same time.

If you use virtualbox with this new backend, you can use it concurrently with qemu (and a few other virtualisation tools).

KVM is also part of Linux itself, so there’s a lot less haste with setting it up.
At least as devs/tech people go, the fixation on phones seems a bit off the mark as we're always on our machines. I use my phone for menial phone-stuff in addition to reminders/lists, but on my machine I can fall into a bad habit of too much reddit or HN (I never use fb or twitter).

I guess the phone issue makes sense for those who have dedicated work machines that aren't used for any personal use whatsoever.
The official Arch repositories are enormous. And all packages are unaltered from upstream, with default configuration and few backported patches.

And for many people I think rolling release is just preferred. Your software will always be at the newest version. This is especially relevant for people who play games or software developers.

Arch has the biggest rolling release repositories with fast updates and good tooling.

Arch also has the AUR which holds package build recipes creates by regular users. You can manually build/install nearly any software from the AUR. Though as a Manjaro users there's no guarantee AUR packages work.

The way Arch maintaines that many packages, is that most packages are maintained by Package Maintainers (formerly Trusted Users). They are responsible for keeping their dedicated packages up-to-date and working.

You can view the build recipes at https://gitlab.archlinux.org.
Waymo really needs to do an A/B test to demonstrate the safety of their cars: When you order a ridesharing car you randomly get assigned one of their driverless cars or an Uber with a human driver.

After a year see which group has the safest record. Simple.
I think an argument is it's better to be completely different than close but not close enough. As in uncanny valley.

If it can't actually be a perfect human arm, it's better to have a clearly not-even-trying robot arm.

It probably has several different roots.

Two at least are:

One is the uncanny valley, which has to do with fitness for reproduction and avoiding disease etc. I'm talking at the animal brain level. Any animal will avoid a deformed version of itself. A human will be revolted by another human who's appearance is barely any different from their own, seen from an outside perspective like an alien, but they will love a dog to pieces, even though the dog looks infinitely more different than the human with a slightly too big forehead or something.

Another element I think is probably based on deception. If you can do a perfect fake, then ok, but if it's only close, then at both subconscious and conscious levels you don't like being deceived, because that is manipulation, someone else taking control that you didn't voluntarily give them. A steel pipe arm does not deceive, or more importantly does not attempt to deceive anyone. It ends up being as emotionlly neutral as the same person holding any other tool. Instead of holding a hammer with their hand, they are holding an arm with their shoulder.
oh, it wasn't that pricey when i did it (plus my company at the time payed it)

how about this (its free)? - https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2024/
I built https://github.com/anacrolix/squirrel for just this purpose. However you might find that batch inserting empty files might only be 10x faster or so than creating empty files directly on the filesystem if we are to believe the 10k/s the OP achieved.
Jack Dorsey's Plan to Get Elon Musk to Save Twitter Went South
Jet nuclear fusion reactor sets new world record for energy output
Would also love to see that!
I still have an original copy of this from when it came out in 1984. The same author, Leo Brodie wrote an earlier book "Starting Forth" that I still have as well.

Both excellent, well written books
I’m a human and i dont know the answer to that quesiton
https://archive.ph/EVFRp
It's answering with "cherries", though "cherries" were never mentioned anywhere in the question since the task was to choose between "apples" and "pears" this time,

and not "cherries" and "pears" like the example found on the internet.
Ollama v0.1.24: OpenAI API Compatibility
It's not really comparative to GPT-4. It's comparable to Google Search.
What is the training data and have you thought about how to build a causal model that would be robust to interventions (e.g. by changing or adding a gene)?
Dude found a girlfriend--now spends way less time online.

Isn't that kind of ... normal?

Most guys I've known generally cut down their "find a girlfriend" activities dramatically once they actually find one.
The first rule of intelligence services is that law is flexible, anyone that belives otherwise is in for a surprise.
> It's useful because if you have both and they are far apart you know there's a lot of variance

ummm. I would refrain from using nonparametric skew to make a comment about the magnitude of variance.

Essentially, the gap between mean and median will always be bounded by 1 sigma. The ratio abs(mean-median)/sigma is nonparametric skew. It is atmost 1, for any distribution( hence nonparametric, no distributional assumption required).

For unimodal distributions, especially symmetric unimodals, this ratio is 0. As the gap between the mean and median grows, the data gets more spread out, and the ratio captures that spread and consequent nonsymmetry. But you are using the value of this upper bound to make a comment about s^2. Which is very clever, but inaccurate. Say you standardize the rv and you have a nonsymmetric dist. Then mean 0, say median 100. Then stdev can be atmost 100, so variance can be atmost 10000. Which looks like “a lot of variance”. But is it really? Variance has a scaling problem, precisely why we take the square root, so the stdev remains in the scale of the mean. So at best one can say the stdev can be as big as the median. But that’s not very informative- because if the mean is -50 and median is +50, we are left with the same absolute gap of 100, so the same statement applies to the stdev even now.

I guess if I had to compare the variance of some sample X to another sample Y to make some claim that variance of X is much larger than Y, I would use a standard F test. Cooking up a test based on the gap between mean and median in a single sample seems somewhat shaky. It is very creative though, I grant you that.
>Also, their original solution did sensor fusion with LIDAR, but the vendor find out and blew a gasket - because the LIDAR sensors weren't designed for safety-critical operation and to my understanding became a potential liability for the maker if they continued to supply them for incorrect use knowingly.

When did Tesla have LIDAR?
This is all assuming the paper was read to begin with.

Mindset 3) Skip the article, go straight to the comments
This one UI might survive for a while as Microsoft doesn't have anything else to fill that role, and with conversation AI becomming a thing, this can of UI have their use.
>Managing to break cross-platform compatibility is no small feat

Neither GUI, nor application paths and standards are built in to rust.

I’m as critical of the rust fanboyism as anyone. I don’t see a specific purpose for this app that, as far as I can tell, already exists and is built in to MacOS, indicating that it’s an example being “upvoted for rust” (not saying “don’t build things”. Practice and fun are perfectly valid reasons to build something that exists). But you could at least bring valid points.
As some of the sibling comments have said, owning a home can be great if it's over a certain period of time and you know what you want, kind of like capacity planning. If you don't know what you need or you're not sure you're going to use it long term, renting can make sense (like the situation where AWS is a valuable use case).

If I know I'm going to be living in a city for two years, buying a home would likely be a bad idea. Sure we could talk about scenarios of renting it out and yada yada, but we're getting into corner cases in a comment section of a thread about AWS pricing :)
Not even close to ChatGPT :/ Bard essentially ignores a good chunk of the prompt which is the most important (generating the anki formatted card that you can directly copy and paste).

"create an anki deck of the top 5 brazilian portuguese verbs and the top 5 tenses. The format should be like the one below (but adding one line for the 5th verb tense). An explanation of the tense and an example sentence should be included. Create the output so that I'm able to copy and paste it into a text file and import to anki

Ser - Presente do Indicativo Eu {{c1::sou}} Ele/Ela {{c1::é}} Nós {{c1::somos}} Eles/Elas {{c1::são}};explanation of tense and example sentence here;
Ser - Pretérito Imperfeito do Indicativo Eu {{c1::era}} Ele/Ela {{c1::era}} Nós {{c1::éramos}} Eles/Elas {{c1::eram}};explanation of tense and example sentence here;
Ser - Pretérito Perfeito do Indicativo Eu {{c1::fui}} Ele/Ela {{c1::foi}} Nós {{c1::fomos}} Eles/Elas {{c1::foram}};explanation of tense and example sentence here;
Ser - Futuro do Indicativo Eu {{c1::serei}} Ele/Ela {{c1::será}} Nós {{c1::seremos}} Eles/Elas {{c1::serão}};explanation of tense and example sentence here;"

GPT 4 (abbreviated)
Ser - Presente do Indicativo Eu {{c1::sou}} Ele/Ela {{c1::é}} Nós {{c1::somos}} Eles/Elas {{c1::são}};Used to express a current state. Example: "Eu sou estudante." (I am a student.);
Ser - Pretérito Imperfeito do Indicativo Eu {{c1::era}} Ele/Ela {{c1::era}} Nós {{c1::éramos}} Eles/Elas {{c1::eram}};Used for ongoing or habitual actions in the past. Example: "Ele era professor." (He used to be a teacher.);
Ser - Pretérito Perfeito do Indicativo Eu {{c1::fui}} Ele/Ela {{c1::foi}} Nós {{c1::fomos}} Eles/Elas {{c1::foram}};Used for actions completed in the past. Example: "Nós fomos amigos." (We were friends.);
Ser - Futuro do Indicativo Eu {{c1::serei}} Ele/Ela {{c1::será}} Nós {{c1::seremos}} Eles/Elas {{c1::serão}};Expresses a future action or state. Example: "Ela será médica." (She will be a doctor.);
Ser - Presente do Subjuntivo Que eu {{c1::seja}} Que ele/ela {{c1::seja}} Que nós {{c1::sejamos}} Que eles/elas {{c1::sejam}};Used for wishes, doubts, or hypotheticals. Example: "Espero que você seja feliz." (I hope you are happy.);

Bard (abbreviated)

Ser

Presente do Indicativo
Eu sou
Ele/Ela é
Nós somos
Eles/Elas são
Explanation: The present tense is used to describe actions or states that are happening now.
Example sentence: Eu sou estudante. (I am a student.)
Anybody really surprised at this point? G has had DeepMind in their pockets since ‘12-‘14 and made little advancements. OpenAI changed the game in half the time.

G is inferior and losing the race.
This viewpoint seems short-sighted. In the 1940s and 1950s, if somebody were skeptic of lead, you could've replied "Do you paint your home? Get your water from pipes in your house? What about having gas in your car?"
China Sinks Deeper into Deflation
Alan Kay: What made APL programming so revolutionary? (2019)
I managed to make my phone boring in the past few months and it’s delightful.

I removed all apps that need my engagement to make money.

It took time for me to realise why I was picking my phone up and then wondering why.

My brain was reflexively reaching for my phone as it was bored (or anticipating becoming bored?) but then when I concisely looked at my phone I thought “well there’s nothing to do here why did I pick it up?”

It’s taken a couple of months but now I rarely find my phone in my hand without a conscious reason to have it there.
You'd have to quantify what you mean by "best". Lowest storage overhead? Being able to deal with the most files without needing tuning (e.g. not running out of inodes)? Access Latency? For metadata or do you want the actual file? Iterating the directory or accessing random file names? And if you care about speed, are the files in a single folder or in a reasonable directory structure? Do you need the files to be able to change or is readonly enough?

For readonly there are a couple good options, though arguably they are then archives. Many use sqlite because it's widely available and deals with this well. But most average file systems are pretty bad at at least one of those factors.

It's probably easier to identify which file systems are bad for which reasons. For example on NTFS you can't store a file in less than 1kb, and large directories can be an issue because a directory entry contains a sequential list of files. In contrast ext3 introduced a hash table to quickly look up file metadata in huge directories. On the other hand, if your files are e.g. about 800B and spread into directories of reasonable file count NTFS might suddenly outperform ext4 on some metrics, because NTFS can store the first ~900 bytes of the file together with the metadata, ext4 only the first 60. Or if your huge number of tiny files contains lots of identical files a zfs with live deduplication might become interesting.
> that made Ukraine a soviet

It wasn’t really Stalin, that’s just how the Soviet union worked pretty much from the beginning (self determination and all that stuff). Stalin gave Ukraine additional territories which might be what you’re actually referring to.
Or it's an Indian trope "look how stupid the British are" ?
If we want to test these beasts in logic, we should probably start using actual formalized logic, rather than English. In just one test, Gemini flopped hard, while GPT-4-Turbo nailed it. Here is my prompt:

Below is a well-typed CoC function:

foo
: ∀(P: Nat -> *)
∀(s: ∀{n} -> ∀(x: (P n)) -> (P (n + 1)))
∀(z: (P 0))
(P 3)
= λP λs λz
(s (s (s z)))

Below is an incomplete CoC function:

foo
: ∀(P: Nat -> *)
∀(f: ∀{n} -> ∀(x: (P n)) -> (P (n * 3)))
∀(g: ∀{n} -> ∀(x: (P n)) -> (P (n * 2)))
∀(h: ∀{n} -> ∀(x: (P n)) -> (P (n + 5)))
∀(z: (P 1))
(P 17)
= λP λf λg λh λz
{{FILL_HERE}}

Complete it with the correct replacement for {{FILL_HERE}}.
Your answer must contain only the correct answer, and nothing else.

- *GPT-4-Turbo answer:* `(f (g (h (g z))))` (correct)

- *Gemini Advanced answer:* `h (h (g (f z)))` (wrong)

Also, Gemini couldn't follow the "answer only with the solution" instruction and provided a bunch of hallucinated justifications. I think we have a winner... (screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/GotG0yF)
This fake story is propagated in anticipation of significant changes
coming into effect in Europe this year wrt the E.U. "Cybersecurity
Act" and "Cyber Resilience Act" which specifically targets IoT device
security. In the US you will have "Cybersecurity Improvement Act" with
serious consequences for non-compliant devices under EO 14028. Expect
more "March of the Killer Toothbrushes" stories soon.
Write a powershell script to download all images from a web page and crawl the site.
Latin and Greek are both successors to the Phoenician alphabet. The Phoenicians settled parts of modern day Europe and brought their alphabet and other technologies that they inherited from Mesopotamian civs. The Greeks would have been nowhere without Babylonian maths and astrology.

West and East is very grey though. I've made a distinction that I'm happy with, and pointed out why I'm not happy with John's.

What do you think?
Unless you’re willing to watch millions of hours video of every Waymo vehicle driving and judge them in aggregate, watching a one-off incident will tell you nothing about their safety. At that point, you might as well trust their aggregate statistics reported to the regulators because they capture everything.

If you’re not an expert, it’s best to let the regulators and insurance adjusters do their job.
Yeah, they sort of had a maximum timeline set by what they could reasonably do with some makeup for the cast and them not being unreasonably old for their roles. But telling the story they wanted probably required an unnatural rate of technology advance over that period of time.
In the first few rows, I see—

* Auditional: Powerful Audition Tracking Made Simple

* piefi: One App to Run Your Money

* Peerlist: The Professional Network You've Been Waiting for

* Arrows: Collaborative Customer Onboarding Plans for Teams Using Hubspot

Some of these could use some work, but they are front and center?
Is Gemini Ultra significantly better than Bard?

Tried Bard a couple of times recently and was not very impressed tbh. Seemed to forget the context of the conversation very often. Like I had to repeat again and again to not show external links with previews and not give explanations to every little thing.
can't even use it in Canada lol

Google says it's because of "regulatory uncertainty", but I can use GPT just fine...Is it because OpenAI doesn't care and thinks they can navigate any "regulatory uncertainty" because they have Microsoft backing them? Wouldn't Google also have the same kind of resources?
Smoking is twice as common in people with ADHD. ADHD specifically affects impulse control which means you’re much more likely to get addicted because bad habits are harder to stop doing.
Just one slight trapdoor I triggered in my travails. I don't know whether PTP does PLL slaving but while NTP is also for wall time, it has an effect on clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) so if you need a local clock without external (network, I mean) influence, CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW is there for you. And luckily, on recent kernel it has been vDSO'd.
Thinking Forth discusses how to name words so you will understand them later.
> This app is not available in your country.

Classic google.
Unlike Apple, which can have all their apps installed by default on their OS, Spotify doesn’t have such luxury. They’re lucky if users take the time to download and install their one app let alone asking them to install multiple apps.

I’m sure if Spotify had the choice they would split things into separate apps. Having separate apps makes it much easier to deploy changes since you don’t need to coordinate (as much) with other teams for every release.
I can only assume this was posted to HN as ragebait. I think a bunch of these pages look great. I wish my brain could intuitively match typefaces, colours and illustrations in the way some of these pages do, but no, engineer brain go bleep bloop.

But let’s be real: they’re way too marketing-y for the HN crowd. Don’t they know we like 10px text and as few margins as possible? Information density, people!
You raise a great point. But that identifies a bigger problem. Why is it so hard to find better things to do?
> I heard a story from a friend in South Africa that their town had legalized the hunting of endangered rhinoceroses. This sounds like a shockingly bad idea. [...]
There are more examples like this. [...] Sex education reduces incidences of teen pregnancy.

After initially being confused, this reminded me that there are still people who consider sex education to be a "shockingly bad idea". And that made me sad...
What is the science behind fear? (2015)
Which... is fine! They're allowed to open source solutions for problems that are unique to their massively scaled architecture! Others can learn from it -- even if others don't have the same problem.

It is worth keeping in mind that very, very, very few people/companies are required to solve the same problems a company like Meta is.
It's arbitrary. We generally refer to "West" as 'West of the Mississippi River'. Mid-West as Ohio-ish to around the Mississippi River (i.e. Midwest (Ohio, Indiana); Upper Midwest (Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois)).

A lot of us still refer to Texas; Iowa; Nebraska; Missouri; etc... as just 'mid-west'. California, Oregon as 'West Coast'; Washington as 'Upper/Northwest Coast'; Arizona/New Mexico as Southwest; and Wyoming/Nevada as West.

Goes back to the days of expansionism in the early to mid-1800's, Texas and the Mississippi River were the "East/West" dividing line. Texas, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma also have the standard 'west' cartoon and movie stereotype (cowboys; saloons; tumbleweed; desert; etc...). In the mid-west it's more field or forest. And freezing cold wind. Lots of freezing cold wind.