skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI can probably do pretty well at 95% of the questions, if you insist you probably still can get an operator, but that's like maybe 1/100 calls, or 1/1000... and one person could handle 1000 jobs, people still get their issues solved (maybe a little slower), but for the company they probably see that as worth it.
Sustainable development, and sustainable living, are the only long term possibilities for survival.
I didn't even notice. My brain went directly for the correct meaning.
> the US explicitly restricts investment in Chinese AI companies now

Congress seeks to curb it but doesn't in practice. That may change. In any case, I was discounting access to American capital market for Chinese AI start-ups: they can tap both China and Europe.
Do you think they have the self awareness to solve the problem before the situation potentially devolves into violence? I certainly hope so, but could go either way. The more people who have nothing to lose, the more inherent system volatility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution
I'll come back in a week with something clever to say
Magic.dev: $117M investment for AI startup by two Viennese founders
The `allow` attribute on iframes is a relatively recent API addition from 2017

https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/3287
Technically he was not refunded (because he never paid), what they did was reduce the bills multiple times and then finally waived the bill (“manually”) when it blew up on Reddit/HN. So it is absolutely not “misinformation” that they could bill you 100’000+ kUSD for traffic on a “free static site”, the misinformation is rather that they might cancel your bill (because it’s “their unwritten policy” and that means nothing more than a 7 year old’s pinky swear).
I presume it just has some override rules to make it woke.
We don't presently have webhooks, but do have a GitHub action for this (https://github.com/marketplace/actions/pgs-action). The goal was to make it easy to deploy using off the shelf tools and not require anything to be installed for usage. I could see us thinking about making this a feature/addon down the road.
Biden orders crackdown on selling Americans' personal data abroad
What do you think about schematic generation tools?
As a hardware engineer should I be worried about my job? (/s)
A new vibrant blue pottery pigment with less cobalt
Currently wearing my Hamilton Khaki Field during work hours, and wear the Pilot Day Date Auto after hours.

There is beauty in the engineering of a mechanical watch. It is, to me, functional jewelry. Though it's nice to see smartwatches get better regarding battery life and low refresh displays.

Once a non-apple watch does truly reliable and useful health tracking, I may switch over for it. For notifications and time, I'm good for now.
SymPy was instrumental to my PhD implementation, mainly for simplifying math expressions. Nothing was even close at the time

https://github.com/verdverm/pypge
But it is incorrect. Positive or negative number divided by zero is either +infinity or -infinity. For a positive dividend it would be +infinity only if the divisor got there from a positive number towards absolute 0, but at the time of doing the division we only have absolute 0 as the divisor.

The usual floating point behavior of having signed zero (+0 and -0) is not enough for this to be correct. You would also need a normal proper unsigned absolute 0 as well. Then you could give +inf for division with +0 and -inf for division with -0 and error or nan with division by the absolute (unsigned) 0. As far as I understand there is no unsigned 0 in IEEE 754, 0 is +0, so in reality it is always signed.
ActernityUI Components
I think this is a nice contrast to the usual articles about OSS funding which are often along the lines of, "but I donate thousands of hours of my time to open source that ends up in big commercial products and cloud platforms, why won't anyone pay me for it?"

I believe Daniel Stenberg (of curl fame) had a nice blog article on how he was able to transition to working on his open source projects full-time, but I'm unable to find it now.
Depends on what you're building. If the code you're running is not resource intensive and relatively short-running, developer time is more expensive.

However, if your program is long running and requires high performance (number crunching, simulations, HPC in general), %1 difference in tight loops affect your total runtime by hours, if not days. Then, user-time is much more expensive, hence you need more speed. Also, in this case you're maxing out ~100 servers in terms of power and TDP, so a shorter runtime has a bigger impact on your energy bill, and global warming.

If I can run more users' code for the same power and time budget, and conclude more research, developer time to be damned. They can spend as much as time they like.

Tech people tend to say developers are expensive and hardware is cheap. No it's not, if you're using it at its max capacity.
And a current blog post announcing the Open-sourcing: https://blog.cloudflare.com/pingora-open-source
Wiki page for the star system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_110067
Come on now, you were never told in your career, not once, "we use Microsoft Teams for communication here"? Ever?

Most crappy software exists because of inertia and corporate policies. If people truly had a choice stuff like MS Teams could be phased out by the end of the next quarter.
I've seen an interviewer react negatively to a CISO candidate who wanted to actually think about our question.

Nobody paid attention to that interviewer, but they're probably not the only one in the panel to have that (wrong, in my opinion) reaction -- just the one to voice it.
> history taught us to not take some things for granted

Huge difference between not taking someone for granted and being antagonistic towards them.
I think fish was just an example that does it by default; if you want bash to do the same, just set

set completion-ignore-case on

in your .inputrc
That’s the one I saw. A huge plume of smoke in the middle of the day. He’s suspected of other arson activity over the years. Lots of organized crime, criminal business leaders and collusion with politicians here in Canada. But sure it’s democracy.
Averaging prices over expected volumes is inefficient though: you're essentially screwing some people over to recoup it from others.

Why not true price if you have the ability?

Previously, it wasn't possible because of printed menu costs. Now it is.

And I feel like food prices can absolutely be elastic, with a notification method like app pushes.

If the local Wendy's says they're selling burgers at $2 because they're slow today, more people might decide to go.

And critically (and what this is probably really about) they can reprice in real-time in relation to their neighboring alternatives.

I.e. McDonald's across the street discounts their cheeseburger, Wendy's can mimic

That's what this stuff is really used for when retail adopted it.
Thanks for the feedback! This should definitely be supported so we'll get on fixing that!
Afraid not. I write under a pen name because I don't want my books linked with my real name just yet. It's not a huge deal if someone finds out, but they're still a little too cringe for me to put out there, plus I'd rather keep my fiction and programming separate for now. Maybe when I'm a better fiction writer!
Anyone know why they don't seem to have looked at Tesla at all? Weird to omit the largest EV seller in America by far.
The Mountain Goats: Training Montage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxU1tKph7WQ
I have been involved in the IEEE 754 committee on and off, so I will say that exceptions in the current standard are purposely sort of ambiguous in order to allow parallel and hardware implementations to also be standards-compliant (rather than just serial CPUs), and the exception-handling discussion has already been raised again for 754-2029. Exceptions as defined in the standard are the general form of error handling for IEEE 754.

Signaling NaNs (sNaN) are the only form of "signaling" that I am aware of, and sNaNs are just set up to trigger an "invalid operation" exception. I believe the idea is that an operation raises an sNaN when it creates a NaN, and a subsequent operation can catch it and issue the exception so you can figure out exactly where the calculation went wrong. If you ignore that exception, the sNaN becomes a quiet NaN (qNaN) and propagates.

The idea of traps have been written out of the standard in favor of exceptions. Traps had a defined behavior, which is what you would expect as an "exception" in most programming languages. A sibling comment indicated how to enable the FP exceptions as CPU interrupts, which become OS traps, and then become exceptions in Python/Java/C++ (any language with exceptions). Totally not confusing terminology at all.

I don't know off the top of my head of any architecture that treats all the exceptions in this way by default. One of the other exceptions is "inexact" which comes up on many calculations. I don't think you would want that to generally cause a CPU interrupt. Most implementations dump the exceptions as flags into a status register and let you see what happened if you care.
On the other hand a reentering ICBM warhead (test) looks like from the ground as if the gods are angry with you and your general vicinity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a1acYZ93yc
It's a fair point but I'd caution that making the "smallest possible good decision" really needs emphasis on good and not smallest or this results in just delaying. And there's a ton of people that cause delays. Especially in the corporate world.
Even if he wasn't approached by undercover agents, why is using a drone to recover deer illegal...? Is it even...?

I'm not sure if 1) there is a difference (or should be) between hunting and recovery or 2) if it matters if it's night or 3) if it matters if it's electronically aided or not or 4) if it matters whether it's a spotlight used for mesmerization or a drone with minimal lights (or maybe IR)...

Even the judge in this case seemed to believe the laws were confusing and ambiguous and wanted the legislature to clean them up. In that case, I wish they'd just let the man go (and stop enforcing these laws until they're cleaned up and rewritten).

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Maybe there is some unspoken implication here that Mr. Wingenroth clearly knew this was an illegal act, offered his services deceptively somehow (i.e. maybe drone recovery is legal but drone hunting isn't?), but then why would he advertise such services online, and then why would they nail him for recovery instead of hunting?

It just doesn't really make sense. What am I missing?
> Sure, lots of people will lose their jobs, but it has to happen

Nothing "has" to happen. It's not inevitable; it's a choice that we're making as a society.
Scenario A. 10 million people lose jobs in a year.
Scenario B. 20 million people lose jobs over 10 years.

Which of these do you think congress is going to act on... which one of these will get bigger headlines.. the gradual burn, or the fast 10mill?

That's the world we live in, if they can shove it down the road to the next generation they will!
Unless those principles are merely the solution to problems that don't exist anymore like /usr separation ?
My Only Pans
My essential 25 kitchen tools and equipment to make simple and delicious meals every time.
> EU generally doesn't act on the market like that

It absolutely does. The problem is it must then partition the work across the entire continent. America has this problem, too, e.g. the F-35, but the consensus model of EU politics makes it particularly insidious.
Anyone with only mildly better tech than we have now, can see your ecosystem changing over the course of the seasons before you invented fire, let alone built a Dyson swarm. We're just starting to have this capacity already in special cases, though we've not found any sign of an ecosystem, just "boring" diamond rain etc.

A Dyson swarm will keep you safe from any threat smaller than another Dyson swarm — and while you may not be able to "pack it up", you can use one to run to other galaxies… in fact, almost all of them… at close enough to the same time that light cones matter… and get the settlers moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light… and have a lot of redundancy.
But I can't read the ASCII encoding. It's gibberish. It tells me nothing about which site the article is from. It's unintelligible. You might as well not show anything at all.

I can't understand why you think the underlying ASCII encoding should be used, instead of the Unicode domain that actually gets rendered in the browser's address bar.

That makes as much sense as saying non-ASCII characters in the comments section should be displayed as raw ASCII bytes instead of correctly interpreted as UTF-8 characters. Or that domains shouldn't even be displayed as letters but just as sequences of numbers that are the code points.

The whole point of a domain name is to be semantically meaningful. Otherwise we'd just use IP addresses.
> Pichai called the issues “problematic” and said they “have offended our users and shown bias.”

Didn't he clear out and/or move all the AI ethics folks?

https://www.wired.com/story/google-splits-up-responsible-inn...
Thank you, February, for giving me some lessons about the working world
Lesson 1:
In certain companies, loyalty is more important than performance. So, it's okay to perform poorly as long as you're loyal.

Lesson 2:
The definition of loyalty varies from company to company. For some, it means being willing to work overtime every day without pay and doing things outside of your job description.

Lesson 3:
Loyalty also needs to be visible. If you do things outside of your job description but your boss doesn't know, it's pointless.

Lesson 4:
Being too vocal in criticizing your boss is not good. It's better to just say "yes, sir! yes, sir!".

Lesson 5:
Don't be too naive in the workplace; almost everyone there is two-faced.
You can read the 20 lines of JS that they use. It's for drawing the parallax lines in the background and for the fade-in effect, which can't be accomplished with plain CSS. There's no detriment to SEO or to accessibility, unless the specific disability you have is that you're allergic to JavaScript.
What was the blunder?

EDIT: had to follow a link and read halfway down to find:

> When asked for a “historically accurate depiction of a medieval British king,” the model generated another racially diverse set of images, including one of a woman ruler, screenshots show. Users reported similar outcomes when they asked for images of the U.S. founding fathers, an 18th-century king of France, a German couple in the 1800s and more. The model showed an image of Asian men in response to a query about Google’s own founders, users reported.
It's only entrapment if you would haven't have done it otherwise. This guy had a business doing it so...

(that said clearly the conduct itself shouldn't actually be illegal, viz. the laws being passed to make it explicitly legal)
Sorry - what sites. Stand outs for me are

Samuel Pepys Diary - now over a year into it. Feed aligned with weekday and approx date.

Ian Visits - great serendipitous resource for Londoners.

https://www.pepysdiary.com/

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/
See my other comment, but it's still compliant. You are allowed to handle exceptions in a lot of different ways.
Imagine there are no aliens intelligent in the way humans are, and nature doesn't care about us any more than it cares about a species of gnat, and that knowledge and discovery is not the purpose of life.
Related:

Can confirm a current Broadcom VMware customer went from $8M renewal to $100M

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39509506
The short answer is no. Not even from Alpha Centauri 4ly away. A lot of people have misconceptions that we would immediately detect these signals - we would not. MAYBE from Alpha Centauri with a LOT of additional funding and effort, but not as is. Details here:

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/22617/can-we-commu...
Disregard them cadet, you have my go ahead.
I used it for this during my PhD: https://github.com/rpep/fmmgen
and found it very powerful.

I have in the past used Mathematica, which I did think was more powerful for symbolic math to be honest, but it had the downside of not being free...!
They publicly claimed to unban her so they could convince people it was a mistake, and then they shadow banned her.
> constructing pretty much anything will be done in 5 years tops..

I’d be willing to wager my left leg against this claim.
That's why it would require alien technology to keep it perfect.

Why they'd do this, though, would be a mystery.
Oh no. A while ago I stumbled on this guy's page about mechanical clocks - a subject I was never interested in - and was forced to spend the rest of the day studying clocks.
> Oh look, it's my least favorite HN trope...

You don't need to copy/paste this to all your comments. Some people may disagree with you and dismissing them like that will only lead to resentment.

> Can we at least acknowledge that most of the side projects did lead to improvements in the browser and web ecosystem?

Indeed, a lot of the stuff you mentioned _indirectly_ improved some things in Firefox-the-web-browser. Now image how much better it could have been be if all that resources had been invested in the browser quality directly.
No, that's a good point. And no, I was not going to cite ASML.

My point is that maybe the US isn't better for causing wildly successful ideas to be rewarded by the market.

The US probably is better for starting tech companies. More rolls of the dice, more chances for success.

But it's not like Nvidia's founders were shopping around for a country to start Nvidia in either. If the Wikipedia history is to be believed, they were already accomplished engineers working at established computing companies in the US, so why would they found Nvidia anywhere else? The web of causality is deeply tangled here. Was the US in the 90s onward actually better for tech startups, or was it a momentum effect carried forward from the US already being a tech and computing leader in the 80s? Maybe a little of both.
> What they found was dramatic — especially in “hard” water, or water with large concentrations of minerals like calcium and magnesium. At high enough temperatures, calcium carbonate (which is commonly found in tap water) will become solid, effectively encapsulating or “encrusting” the plastic particles, and making them easy to remove through a simple filter, such as a coffee filter.

Boil it then filter it. There I saved you a click.
IEEE 754 has infinity, it has signed zeros, but it doesn't have the absolute zero. For the math to be entirely correct it is not enough. I wonder why it was done like this.
Rafael has been demoing SPICE (Smart, Precise Impact, Cost-Effective) bombs since 2019^1

> The newly-unveiled ATR feature is a technological breakthrough, enabling SPICE-250 to effectively learn the specific target characteristics ahead of the strike, using advanced AI and deep-learning technologies.

1. https://www.rafael.co.il/press/elementor-4174/
Did anyone think Apple even had a chance developing a car? That was competitive with Tesla, even if teaming up with an auto manufacturer?
CA53W never did me wrong
The biggest benefit of a smartwatch with a fuller OS is that it can give you more data. On my watch face, I have the weather, the AQI air quality rating, and the UV index. I'm outside a lot, so this is real-time data that I find very helpful to have be glanceable.
Reminds me of Titius–Bode law[1], where simple equation correctly gave orbits of all the known planets, while predicting one more in asteroid belt and correct distance to Uranus. Only was considered disproven when Neptune didn't work.

I would not trust these relations even existing (other than by pure chance). Even less I'd trust any intelligent design behind it

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titius%E2%80%93Bode_law
In the Chinese culture, there is a word for that — gongfu, 功夫, which means mastery accumulated over time. Although it is used these days in English to refer to Chinese martial arts (kungfu), it’s something that can be developed for any skill, and is closer to what people say when they say “10,000 hours of deliberate practice).

There’s a meditation teacher named Adyashanti. He used to be a competitive bike racer. In one of his talks, he had talked about winning races. The audience ate it up and loved the idea, so he said, no, you don’t really want it. He explained that, that feeling of victory and accomplishment from winning a race wasn’t just the race, but all the hardships that went into the training.

And just as the audience’s enthusiasm wound down, he told a story about that woman who was in the crowd for a marathon. She ran out into the street to cross the finish line; people were confused and kinda applauded here. There was a flash of anger from the audience. How dare she cheat? And then Adyashanti put her experience in context of how crossing that finish line came without all the experience of hardship in the training. The feeling of victory, and even being applauded for it was hollow. You can feel the audience shifting from anger to pity …
> On existing hardware, the gains in compute and memory efficiency are significant, without performance degradation (as tested by the authors).

Did they actually show absence of performance degradation?

I think it's conspicuous that Table 1 and Table 2 in the paper, which show perplexity and accuracy results respectively, are only for small model sizes, whereas Figure 2, Figure 3 (latency, memory, energy consumption) and Table 3 (throughput) all show larger model sizes. So it seems like they had every opportunity to show the perplexity/accuracy comparisons at the larger model sizes, but did not include them.
Intel used to be undisputed leaders in chip fabrication. They've always been hit or miss on chip design. Most notably, every time they've tried to develop two CPU microarchitectures in parallel, at least one of them has been a major failure. And most of the times AMD has been able to take the lead, it's been because Intel's chip design failed so hard it squandered their fab advantage and gave AMD an opportunity to catch up.

Since Intel's early designs for a discrete GPU were based off introducing a third x86 microarchitecture, the failure was not really surprising.
Most of the services we've developed at https://pico.sh are more-so geared to "power users". It was difficult to quantify that in a single word so hackers is where we landed. Being users of HN ourselves, it felt like the right term but any pico.sh service is open to anyone!
all of the multiport chargers I've used are power only, I'm not even sure what the point would be in putting any kind of host computer in the charger, since there's no protocols that would benefit from it.
So this is what the article is talking about, that it's not clear about the difference between killing vs recovering, they are both lumped together as hunting.

The reasons that you don't want people to use spotlights for killing the animal are not too hard to come up with. (Actually kids on college campuses do this for zombies-vs-humans, smart zombies will blind humans at night with spotlights to make it hard for them to fire their nerf guns back at the zombies.)

It is considered unsporting/unethical for a couple reasons: first because the animals like to feed nocturnally so it's easier to find them near people's fields, so there's no “tracking it through the forest” step; second the animals will often freeze and stare into the light, making them easier to target; third you can't see behind the animal to ensure that the shot is safe if you miss; for all you know you might be aimed at a neighbor's house in the distance after they've turned out their lights; fourth, getting a spotlight in your windows is a mild nuisance while folks are wandering around near your property; fifth because nighttime hunting is in general discouraged or illegal because that's when the poachers would be out and when you can't see other humans very well.