skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're being harsh. The article was worthwhile, if a bit breathless with the therapist comparisons. I find learning about failure modes, especially in an industry I know near nothing about, to be always interesting
5 days ago [0](41 points, 7 comments), [1](76 points, 64 comments), [2](76 points, 19 comments), 4 days ago [3](120 points, 103 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39527379
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39535528
[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39547976
The current presidential candidate and his party said that at their get together. I don’t think there’s even a far left equivalent when it comes to candidates or parties.
> evil as something a person does

Proverbs 22:9 The generous will themselves be blessed, for they share their food with the poor.

People have the choice to share their blessings: Choosing to not share food is evil, Choosing to not share food and your home with a child with no parents is evil, Choosing to not protect children (by banning guns) is evil.
False positive and negatives are unlikely to be improved by AI significantly. They are mostly based on a trade off between catching more, and making sure those you catch are accurate, and a limitation of the test itself. Sure, AI might marginally make some tests better by interpreting more variables more reliably, but it’s going to be marginal rather than solved.
For example, for PSA a blood test for prostate cancer, it doesn’t matter how much AI you through at it, it’s just not a great test. It’s elevated outside cancer commonly, and is normal in a significant percentage of prostate cancers. Just have to deal with its limitations.
So, we first need to find the highest motion frequency a sensor might experience in the experiment, and then make sure the sampling rate it at least twice that to avoid aliasing?

Meaning, if an IMU sensor is mounted on a very slow moving, such as 2cm/s, RC vehicle then the sampling rate can be very slow. But if the sensor is on a fast moving drone, we need to estimate the highest frequency of the motion and make sure our sampling rate is at least double that?
Now drinking is healing. Oh, brother.
You can add some code into CSS that will tell you if someone printed your webpage (or at least print-previewed). Make a tracking background image that only loads in the print version of the css.
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Yeah I’m Australian-born too, going back to Australia at the end of high school after doing most my schooling in Europe was mind blowing, like going back in time. Obviously some schools/unis were more advanced but almost everyone I met had never even used a computer in Australia, and at most had some email access for work/uni and that was it. The country itself was advanced tech-wise in companies/government but as far as education went it was really behind, and was basically left as “if you need computers for your job then they’ll train you”.
By this point "Asia" as the entire continent is obsolete colloquially and also not useful. There's almost nothing uniting the entire region. People nowadays use "Asia" only to refer to East Asia, and I think they have a point.
I don't know many people who read the dictionary definition of things. I think the wikipedia definition feels much more likely. See my other comment for why I don't think it's "reasonable to assume" what he meant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_quarter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics)
I'll plug https://darkreader.org/ as the extension I use.
And you can do that with a cheaper watch also. That makes in a Veblen, but a more expensive lawn is not a better lawn. So a lawn is not a Veblen.
Hey chat-gpt, create open-source Nvidia drivers
I agree. The otherwise decent writing and interesting topic for the rest of the article was ruined by the breathless journalism hypewords at the beginning, and the insistent negative intonation throughout. I especially didn't like how the author lambasted Sebastian for wanting to expand his business past a regional boutique seller ("Rather than trying to blow the company up into another Krave-size winner, Sebastiani could have just … stopped.")
> there is no truly accurate depiction of reality

A bit of a nirvana fallacy there. This isn't about limitations in technology, nor (directly) about artistic choices to set a mood.

What I'm annoyed at is the combination of (A) things which are not technological limitations that are deliberately simulated and (B) how I've seen them tie into factually false beliefs about "realism" among the audience.

Consider: "Oh, I got one of those new e-books, and it's about Romeo and Juliet. Some of the text contains ink that is blotted or runny, which makes their relationship extra-realistic."
> doesn't make it any less of a luxury good

That's not what Veblen is. A Veblen is better the higher the price, and that is not correct for lawns. A lawn doesn't get better if the cost of the lawn is higher.

A lawn is better simply for existing, which makes it a standard good.
The reason their company is worth 2 trillion dollar is because of the programmers who wrote cuda.
https://chat.openai.com/share/c424f444-c7ac-476f-bd10-02234e...

I picked a random GitHub issue that was some issue with ./configure. Seems like it helps to me.
> the many thorny ethical knots this involves

On the one hand, we have tiny, artifical lumps of vat-grown neurons, that lack any self-awareness, emotions or even basic pain reception (because, you know, you kinda need a whole sensory apparatus for this).

On the other hand, we have living, breathing, feeling beings with complex social and emotional lives, capable of experiencing joy, sadness, horror, panic, friendship and attachment. Oh, and they absolutely can feel pain. Also known as pigs, cows, chickens and other vertebrate farm animals.

Now, humanity kills about 80 billion such farm animals per year. [1]

So how do the "many thorny ethical knots" compare to that if I may ask?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_slaughter
> Smashmallow fired the teams who had been slabbing its product. But when the Tanis machine finally arrived at the Wolfgang facility in August 2019 and Hoj's team spun it up, the marshmallow printer failed to print.

Is this a normal practice in food manufacturing when bringing up a new technology? Why wouldn't they keep the hand production for as long as it took to get Wolfgang up? The company was making 15MM, but maybe the margins were still too slim for them to do both?
I think this has been said pretty much every decade since computers were invented. At one point, for instance, they said that Object Oriented Programming would kill "coding" because people with limited training, or businesspeople, would just link reusable components and voila, here is your airline reservation system.
It's typical not to allow a second share acquire to proceed if we have an exclusive waiter:
t1: share
t2: exclusive so waits
t3: share also waits

Thats how we arrive at the rule that shared acquires in anything, but a trivial system (no exclusive acquires) may not be compatible.
So, contract #1 is typically not satisfied. Of course, this particular case is slightly different and so you might decide to support it.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-ceo-the-metaverse-will...

> the economy of the virtual world will be much, much bigger than the economy of the physical world. You’re going to have more cars built and designed in virtual worlds, you’ll have more buildings, more roads, more houses — more hats, more bags, more jackets.
He understands that if he keeps spouting this stuff the stock keeps going up.
No, I mean in terms of raw computational power: 300Hz * 80 billion cores. Again the architecture does not work well for churning through a giant array of floating point arithmetic since 300Hz is a limiting factor for that specific type of computation. But that's not the kind of problem the human brain was designed to solve.
I submitted this recently; a most fascinating talk about.ensembles of multicellular organoids
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39577133
Let's not forget Idiocracy which also has been called a documentary in recent years.
DoorDash Experimented to Find Product Market Fit
this is why i'm starting https://nightowls.space
Google's morale crisis is about to get worse
https://archive.is/7Qn5O

> While most employees will still be getting an overall increase to their compensation, the majority won’t be getting anywhere near as much of an increase as they have in years prior, according to internal emails and documents shared with managers that I’ve seen. For the “significant impact” rating that the majority of employees are assigned by their managers, there will be no salary increase in most cases.
India reverses AI stance, requires government approval for model launches
This article borders on slander. To call Smashmellow the "Theranos of Marshmallows" is outrageous - even the article says they didn't commit fraud so how would it be even vaguely appropriate to compare them? Absolute garbage journalism
Note that the default graph is 'weighted density', to show you "how dense an area feels for the typical person who lives there." I didn't see where it says how it's calculated.

You can change it to other measurements, including straight density.
I don't know, how good does the genetics have to be? I can't recommend anything with good, internally consistent genetic systems.
Note that the interviewer of Dame Shirley is this same Mar / Marie Hicks. link to the full transcript is http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102738707
Critical sections are unfair also. Could be differences in spin count you are seeing.
I'm very interested in Ente's thoughts on the impact of first class support for self hosting on their revenue
can't wait for his 2026 prediction of insert current bubble here
Ahh, yes the marxist slight of hand to turn compounding on foregone consumption into something evil rather than something that should be applauded and appreciated. Interest/dividends are not claims on societal output. They are voluntary payment for foregoing consumption and allowing that consumption to be used in some enterprise.

The profit cycle is just a dumber way of saying the natural outcome of a free market is monopoly, which leads to rent seeking and above marginal cost pricing. A revolution is the dumbest way to solve a monopoly, we have plenty examples of antitrust being used too effectively pre renquist supreme court and there's no reason we can't get back that direction.
Im not downvoting you, but I disagree that Gmail is a good email address to have.

Our organisation considers Gmail addresses as "suspect" when processing orders.

Gmail itself is hard to deal with as a company address when integrating to internal systems (they keep changing things.)

I personally would strongly caution against using a Gmail address for your company.
Golang has only 25 keywords in the language spec. Each one meticulously selected and designed and documented with intent and purpose.

Meanwhile, in English:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...
SAAB 900i Kombi-Coupe seats. Comfortable for hours. I once drove that car for 20 hours straight, stopping only for food and fuel.

My wife thought the heated seats were the height of luxury. (Well, it was 37 years ago!)
Allowing your colleagues to ridicule you doesn’t make you a competent leader.
Heh. I'm imagining someone sleeping in their metaverse virtual home, while they're really in a cardboard box under a bridge with a VR headset on.
Obviously he has a huge incentive to publicly proclaim that the ceiling of AI is limitless. But does anyone think he actually believes this?
NVIDIA’s CEO (since 1993), who is one of the company’s founder, is pretty technical, so I doubt that. Although he is an EE, not a computer scientist. This isn’t an MBA spouting Markitecture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen_Huang
Even "outright fraud" is pushing it. Smashmallow asked Tanis if they could automate production, Tanis said yes and delivered a sample that was partly automated as a proof of concept. Was it really "fraud" that it didn't come off a fully formed factory line?
As a software developer, the point about distinguishing multi-vectors from operations they may be isomorphic to makes complete sense.

I.e. just because two data structures have the same values, and are related, doesn't make them the same thing.

A great deal of clarity is had by not treating all two-field structures of real/float x and y, as if they were all points and offsets and vectors, etc. Each of those things is a different type, with different expectations on how it will be legally used, and combined with the others.

The fact that two numbers over two dimensions allows for isomorphic relations between them, does not make them the same thing.

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This is very similar to how pointers/addresses (1-dimensional objects) are represented by an integer, and so are offsets/sizes. But they are different. Adding two addresses makes no sense. De-referencing an offset makes no sense.

There is an isomorphism, between offsets from the zero address and the same numerical addresses, but the distinction between whether you have an offset or address is important if you want your type system to guarantee proper/safe behavior.

Conceptually, an address consists of a RAM origin, and an offset. Where as an offset is just an offset.

You can add and subtract offsets. You can add and subtract offsets to addresses (i.e. to their offsets). And you can subtract addresses (the RAM origins cancel, leaving an offset).

But you can't add two addresses, because adding two origins makes no sense.

(Generalizing from adding two values, to multiple additions = multiplication of by indices: multiplying offsets by indices makes sense. Multiplying addresses by offsets or indices does not. Adding and subtracting indices makes sense. Multiplying indices makes sense, but not as an offset (although there is an isomorphism from the number of elements n of an i x j array of objects, it objects have a size of 1.))
I think people would still feel pretty positive about a new way to make particle board, it's the surveillance and psychological manipulation that makes everybody hate tech. If we somehow got rid of them, computers would be exciting to the public again.
I don't know if there is any amenity at the office that would make me want to commute (and it is like 20 minutes for me to get to work). Like, I already have a private office. Nobody I work with wants to be interrupted with random conversation. So what would going into the office achieve; we'd each spend 40 minutes a day packed into a subway car, while still not actually talking to each other.

If you want employees to be happier about work, assign fewer tasks. "Welp I'm done with everything this sprint, guess I'll not come in for 3 days."

As an aside, I propose a new Olympic sport called "software engineering". We take the world's best 100m dash runners, and have them run 421.6 100m dashes one after another! If you're a sprinter, why can't you also be a distance runner!
It's true. Nobody writes (assembly) code anymore; machines do all that work now.

(For that matter, having spent a lot of my career working on compilers, it's notable that nobody really writes code generators anymore, either! It's all been done already.)

When I started coding, memory management was all basically manual, but machines do all that work now.

Yes, coding is a dying profession - but it always has been, and a new profession of coding is perpetually being born atop the old abstractions, as the work continues; because the work is not really about the details of the machines, except incidentally, but about understanding the problems and the needs well enough to express them in whatever the current language of the machines happens to be.
> I'm not saying zero Christians adopt, but adoption is a small minority [0] (5% adopt) and in decline [1].

> [0] - https://adoption.org/who-adopts-the-most

The article you linked says that "5 percent of practicing Christians in the United States have adopted, which is more than twice the number of all adults who have adopted."

So Christians are more than twice as likely to adopt as anyone else, is that correct? I'm not even Christian but the data does not appear to align with the sentiment you're presenting.

The fact the religious adopt at such a comparatively high rate is actually admirable; that requires a much more significant sacrifice compared to just aborting the baby.
+1 if you want to reach a real engineer they are going to be spending their free time on sites like X and not on sites like some community feedback and bug reporting form
Cargo culting the stock market
It's a total tangent but I find people's willingness to both put computers in their bodies (even non-neural medical implants) and their bodies in computers (e.g. cars or home security systems) incredibly shocking given how user-hostile and secretive companies are with their computers. I personally won't accept either unless the thing's open-source and I've got root on it. But no matter how baffling I find this the overwhelming majority of people seem to range from indifferent to excited about these developments
It's called home.
Yeah I already addressed that. Newsom's trying to walk back his pay to play bullshit by claiming Panera doesn't produce bread on site. If you believe that, well, I've a bridge in Brooklyn for sale. If California tries to enforce their strict definition of produce, you can bet Newsom's buddy will litigate (and that nobody will like the outcome). More likely California will look the other way when Panera refuses to up their wages.

Think about it critically for a sec without your partisan goggles. We're talking about a hyper specific exemption (60+ locations, sells bread produced on-site as a standalone product since at least 2022 or whenever). If it doesn't apply to Panera, who does it apply to? It won't apply to McDonald's or Subway because bread has never been a standalone item there. It won't apply to the Lee's by my place because there aren't 60 of them. Certainly Newsom and the legislature wouldn't have spent the effort to carve out an exemption that applies to nobody.
Nvidia is grooming the next generation of script kiddies.
>any model that was trained using a quantity of computing power greater than 10^26 integer or floating-point operations, or using primarily biological sequence data and using a quantity of computing power greater than 10^23 integer or floating-point operations."

>using primarily biological sequence data

I was wondering about that bit.

Those who are straying from gods light the fastest are firmly in the shadows.
This time they're right. The next big programming languages are going to be English and Chinese.
There are lots of technical people who don't understand what programming is.
Ah, I assume this was posted because ambient.garden was just on the front page. Re-reading it now, I think it should really have been 2 articles.

I think I still like the first half, it's a reasonable dive into the detail of what motion blur is, or should be in theory. The second half is a slightly crazy, extremely condensed explanation of how the shader works for this particular "torusphere" animation based on motion blur. I find that part mainly useful because otherwise the code would be impenetrable at this point, at least to me. In retrospect the transition between the 2 parts feels a bit like jumping into a frozen lake, sorry about that!
It's Business Insider, what did you expect
This is because of the business model of Windows. Any company that wants to build and sell computers (aka OEM) can license Windows and use that as the OS of their computer. Apple on the other hand is a company that sell computers with their own OS. The OEM approach means that computers companies across the world can cater to the target market in terms of price and availability whereas Apple can never reach that scale across the globe. The end result is more people have access to and can afford computers that run Windows.
> But at trial, a Tanis engineer admitted that the samples Tanis had sent to Smashmallow to prove it could produce the product were actually made, in part, by hand. Apparently Tanis, too, had faked it to make it.

So Smashmallow weren't the ones doing the Theranos-ing — they were the ones getting Theranos-ed.
When I hear these types of statements. It’s usually an MBA dropout that thinks we are playing with legos.
That the author found it fitting to compare this company to Theranos even when it was obviously not comparable spoils the rest of the article for me. Sure, the majority of the text may sound interesting but, given the writer's propensity to make dumb claims in the begining, I have to wonder about what undetected BS is baked into the article.
> Was it really "fraud" that it didn't come off a fully formed factory line?

When your business is selling fully formed factory lines? Yes!
Notice he did not say anything about computer science or the principles. You might not need to type Python or Java, but you still need to understand the architecture, the implications of state management, eventual consistency, etc. etc. etc. So yes typing gets easier, but instead of python, we’ll be typing various prompts, aka prompt engineering. We rarely resort to bytecode these days as well. The abstraction increases, but the principles are still needed.

I wonder if one day we’ll have the Toyota factory level need for manual work to train the next set of senior leaders: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/07/business/gods-e...
I'm sure he understands that at a certain point you just gotta keep saying words to keep they AI hype train going.
"Commercial trucking is a dying profession." -some guy from 10 years ago

Of course today there are more commercial truckers than ever. So many people seem to forget that not only are sigmoid curves [1] a thing, but literally every single neural network advance to date has ended up being on one. That said, I imagine his comment is more about trying to add fuel to the LLM frenzy than a necessarily sincerely held belief - more hype is probably just an effort to try to make NVID go up.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmoid_function
It would absolutely get through FDA approvals. You don't know what you're talking about.

The FDA would require extensive efficacy trials and an inventory of side-effects, the same as other devices. The FDA isn't doing computer engineering, it's measuring outcomes and risks.
Sort of related: the YouTube channel "Tech Ingredients" do some cool things with radiant cooling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNs_kNilSjk
I'd love to see a breakdown of open office space sentiment and which industries people are in.

I see open space hate dominate HN but in gaming open space can be amazing for cross-discipline communication and collaboration, especially on smaller teams.
CD32 was not so much of a big bet as a hail mary while hoping to buy enough time for their other chipsets to be completed. They clearly did see a big future there - up to and including the point where their last chipset (Hombre) was planned to be usable either as a standalone chipset for consoles or set-top boxes or as a chipset for a larger computer (or a high end graphics card).

But the CD32 is little more than a CDTV-like variant of the A1200 with a quick and dirty attempt at mitigating the by then disastrous miscalculation of not having any chunky modes in AGA by adding chunk-to-planar conversion in hardware into Akiko (CD32 specific chip that otherwise served to cost-reduce a bunch of glue logic and controllers for the CD-ROM and game ports), but it was very basic (write 32 8-bit chunky pixels to Akiko registers; read 8 32-bit words for 8-bitplanes worth of 32 pixels back out).
NASA space photo shows odd-looking sky holes near Florida
Dude is just looking out for the shareholders.