skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
modern jets need computer-aided control of flight control surfaces to keep the aircraft stable

Small nitpick, commercial jets are designed to be aerodynamically stable. If controls froze briefly, the plane would continue to be stable, flying as it was when the controls froze. You'd need to add in the turbulence or some external force for it to be a problem. That said, the 787 is 100% dependent on electronic controls, so anything more than brief loss of controls would lead to a crash.
Byte-Sized Swift: Building Tiny Games for the Playdate
Associated discussion on the swift forum: https://forums.swift.org/t/byte-sized-swift-building-tiny-ga...
Is this really surprising?

Let's just look at US demographics right now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...

Looking at the chart, I'd expect to have seen a drop in enrollments among those younger than early to mid 20's over the last few years. 6% easily seems en par with the demographics shift.

If that reasoning is correct, we'll see a slight recovery or stabilization peaking in about 5 years or so and then steady declines until who knows when.

Colleges all over the nation will be competing for students for the at least the next 2 decades.

Prices will drop, and offerings will probably be more tailored to offer better value, and that may improve/stabilize enrollment rates somewhat, but the overall trend will be down.
okay, nice, but what about software delivery forecasts?
float8 got a mention! x2 more FLOPs! Also xformers has 2:4 sparsity support now so another x2? Is Llama3 gonna use like float8 + 2:4 sparsity for the MLP, so 4x H100 float16 FLOPs? Pytorch has fp8 experimental support, whilst attention is still complex to do in float8 due to precision issues, so maybe attention is in float16, and RoPE / layernorms in float16 / float32, whilst everything else is float8?
> What is "non-profit related activity"? What is "non-profit related activity"? IANAL but the only justification needed for non-profit designation is not being for-profit.

Good thing you are NAL, because this is flat out wrong. "Non-profit" is a term used to refer to specific tax-exempt institutions under US tax law 501(c), and has nothing to do with investing profits "back into the business" (otherwise, you could have called Amazon or Uber "non-profits").

OpenAI[1] is specifically a 501(c)(3)[2] which explicitly requires the organization's purpose be one of the following "exempt" purposes:

>charitable, religious, educational, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, fostering national or international amateur sports competition, and preventing cruelty to children or animals. [3]

If it does not continue to fill one of those purposes, it can lose its tax-exempt nonprofit status.

[1] https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/810...

[2] https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organiz...

[3] https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organiz...
> although there should be more of an industry effort to make sure that all tokens are identifiable

There is, BTW: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8959

Getting people to use the standard is another matter.
Bing leaks cached version of the GPT-4.5 announcement
Carry that skepticism forward when reading anti-Israel headlines.
The speed of light, or C, is the max speed information can move through our 3d space.

Having objects moving away from us at a speed greater than C, isn't weird. The observable universe is a 3d subspace of a higher dimensional object. A good analogy is a balloon, where there's a 2d subspace on a 3d object that's being inflated. Even if you can only move at a certain velocity, the balloon can inflate such that the 2d surface expands faster than the max velocity we prescribe for it, and would grow faster at the beginning even if we pumped a constant amount of air into said balloon.

Great analogy for gravity too! because you could create dimples in the balloon (gravity wells) which would curve a straight trajectory, while being unnoticed to an observer on the 2d subspace.
Sure but UBI would never afford a garden.

It would be bare minimum to survive, if that. We'd need a complete restructuring of society to even approach dignity via UBI.
Surely in such unusual circumstances any limits must be set as part of a cost benefit analysis from the point of view of the person concerned. One person might be rationally willing to risk higher exposure in the pursuit of knowledge.
The most humorous part to me is when it says it's currently raining or snowing and it's clear and sunny. How can a system be so wrong that it can't tell the current state of the weather?
I moved my game away from Bevy to WGPU too because I needed tighter, more efficient control of the data than ECS could provide. Though being able to query data with types is amazing and really demonstrates how powerful Rust's type system is, it's not a solution for everything, and feels more geared towards one-off arcade style video game design.
> According to the Education Data Initiative, college enrollment statistics indicate that more Americans are forgoing higher education; “some may be putting off college attendance to build savings.”

Less demand should reduce the price to attend, right?
An area has to be extremely densly trafficked before high frequency 5G is deployed. And even then, the whole point is to minimize broadcast range to avoid interference.

Further, it's only the upper range of high frequency spectrum that's being used (not sure who owns it) so it's not even every carrier that could interfere.

Finally, the most powerful radars are transmitting in the kilowatts range of output. It's hard for me to imagine that the microwatt output of cellphones are often the cause of radar interference.
> openly carrying a firearm increases someone’s likelihood of committing suicide

I didn't read that in the article.

I read that states with open carry have a higher firearms suicide rate. That makes sense - states where firearms are more common, they're more more available and more people are interested in advocating for carry.

There was nothing saying that carrying increases likelihood of suicide by firearm at the individual level.

I also didn't see a mention in either the article or the linked study of the overall suicide rate for the population. A change in modality is very different from a change in rate.
15,000 steps a day is decent, if nothing too special. But the post says per week - where are you getting per day from?
Is there anything you own at least one of but fewer than ten thousand of? You should get rid of it immediately.
Thank you for this! I read about the chrome extension[0] and was hoping something like this would come to FF. I have already installed this.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39620060
I could read the whole story and wasn't asked to download an app to do it. This is an MSN page, though, which is incredibly obnoxious and filled with all sorts of weird crap that makes it harder to see the article.
If you read a good experimental paper on GHZ, you will find quite a bit of statistics.
One will never hear me defend GitLab's UI as "good" or "helpful" and for damn sure nowhere near fast, but in their defense the number of things they need to provide an interface for is much, much larger than GitHub's. I could very easily see them making better use of "and the rest of it" to put the 80/20 front and center versus the "cheesecake factory menu" approach they have going now
> Meta’s long-term vision is to build artificial general intelligence (AGI)
> I would find it absurd to say that we should never expect it to be viable.

Well, never say never. Obviously, a manned trip to Mars is just a bunch of technical challenges, and technical challenges can be overcome. The planned Orion spaceship, powered by a stream of H-bombs, the size of a hotel, and built from ordinary steel, has long struck me as the most realistic prospect for long-distance space-travel (they said that if you want, you could bring an ordinary barber's chair or dentist's chair on board).

I can't see a Generation Ship working at all. Space travel requires personal commitment; my children can't be expected to have the same attitudes as me. Politics would destroy a Generation Ship. So I think the outer limit on space-travel is the distance you can travel before you die. That depends on velocity, but once you get into velocities comparable to c, the amounts of energy required are staggering. Getting protons moving at a fraction of c has required a huge international effort. Getting a human moving at those speeds seems simply infeasible.

So I conclude that it's unreasonable to plan on travel beyond the solar system.
So a difference in degree then, not kind
Perhaps there's some combinatorics where every time an ad or post is displayed to the user, it runs through some hundreds/thousands of candidates and computes their relevance.
It can work as long as we're willing to let companies fail. Typically, a huge company shouldn't fail quickly, it should slowly downsize as it loses revenues to a competitor while it has time to react.

The government stepping in to just hand out money will preserve the broken status quo because the failure incentive has been removed.

Potential sudden failures due to outside factors like the collapse of the banking system are certainly different situations though.
Was it saying there was 0% chance of rain or did it just not update to 100% even though you were experiencing rain?

The latter is somewhat common because the models (AFAIK) use probabilistic estimates, where different initial conditions generate potentially distant outcomes. The number of “rainy outcomes” defines the probability of rain, and doesn’t necessarily get updated with real conditions.
> use robots.

Why not use people who are willing to take the risk?
It already paid off. When the world moved from determinisic to probablistic ad modeling. That's why their numbers are so good right now compared to every other advertiser
200+ steps every single waking hour seems like a lot. Especially considering that many people are expected to be glued to a desk for 8 or more hours nearly every day of the week. Schools and offices won't be happy with people getting up every hour to move even for a few minutes. Certainty not companies like Amazon where workers are so micromanaged that they have to piss in water bottles or wear diapers.
In what ways did that meaningfully matter though? I use generated C++ protobuf code, and the API is clean even if the implementation looks like it wasn't hand written? If you think the C++ code is bad, you should see the Python... But again, the APIs are clean and robust so it hasn't affected me.
Basically https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39676881, but also adding a pipe through gzip/gunzip in the middle for data compression.

I think I did something like `nc -l -p 1234 | gunzip | dd status=progress of=/dev/nvme0n1` on the receiving end and `dd if=/dev/nvme0n1 bs=40M status=progress | gzip | nc 10.1.2.3:1234` on the sending end, after plugging an ethernet cable into both devices. In theory I could've probably also used the WiFi cards to set up a point to point network to speed up the transmission, but I couldn't be bothered with looking up how to make nc use mptcp like that.
Totally agree, but the truth is that it is hard to say that the public has lost trust in Boeing when more people than ever are in the air. The peanut gallery is on to something, and Boeing is losing orders, but it doesn't seem to be enough to actually change anything.
Generator of wealth for whom?
On my smartphone I have:

- an app that's used by pharmacies to handle prescriptions from the public health system;

- an app I can legally show a police officer so they can determine that I have a valid driver's license;

- an app I can use to pay my taxes;

- an app I can use to pay parking meters to the local authorities;

- apps used to register consumption (kWh, m3, etc) with the local utilities.

Some of these are published by the government itself, others by public companies. A smartphone is not a Playstation or an Xbox. We have Androids and iPhones, that's it. And significant portions of our lives are tied to having Androids and iPhones.

PS: I also remember having an app that used an API purportedly developed with amazing good will to help public health systems trace COVID exposure. Remember that one? How everyone having a smartphone was going to help get us back to the subway safely?
Zero evidence? Can I skip the hour+ video and someone just explain here how the evidence didn't make it into court (I'm most curious about the Mt. Gox and Liberty Reserve accounts records)? Was it not even submitted, thrown out, what?

I don't really want to waste my time if it's just a crypto youtuber Surprise Pikachu facing that circumstantial evidence doesn't follow the same rules as the "I'm not touching you" game.
But there has to be a line where if an exploit is so easy that all it takes walk in an open door and grab what you like, you should be able to use it all you want.
Yes, there is such an implicit caveat on all of science.

Science at its core runs on a repeated process of collect some data, explain it, collect some more data, explain it as well, and keep repeating forever. The scientific model you are likely more familiar with refines this a bit where you use the current model and data to direct where you spend your time/funding collecting more data, but that is mostly a heuristic. Sometimes a person going off on their own will find something amazing to bring back, but we have to remember that many others spend their entire lives and end up finding nothing new or noteworthy.

One problem with science literacy is that too many people treat the existing models as true, even when they aren't. In some cases we know they aren't correct because there are discrepancies in experiments that shouldn't exist, but no model better fits the data and resolves the discrepancies.

At no point can science say "this model is how reality must work". But that is somewhat scary. It is scary to think the truth is unknowable and at best we will have an ever better approximation, so people find it simpler to treat that approximation as truth.
Note that chart is from 2015, here is a more recent one[1]. There is no drop in current college age students, in fact the birth rate saw slight growth in the decade leading up to today's 18 year olds. There has since been a significant decrease in birth rate, but it shouldn't have affected college enrollment yet.

Edit: Enginerrrd posted data[2] with more fidelity than the 5-year bins both of our charts were using, and it indeed shows a cliff for this year.

[1]https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/stories/20...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39682145
Maybe don't use a system centred around a public ledger if you want privacy? There's plenty of discrete banking options out there.
There's no such thing as post-scarcity. The observable universe is finite.
> you can then read in stuff with something like input.split("\t").map(unescape)

What about input lines like 'asdf\\thjkl\tzxcvb'? That should be two fields, one the string ‘asdf\thjkl’ and the other the string ‘zxcvb.’

I think that your way is a bit like trying to match context-free grammars with a regular expression. The right way is to parse the input character by character.
As a practitioner in the field, I can assure you this is not a boondoggle.

Those GPUs are going to subsume the entire music, film, and gaming industries. And that's just to start.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39681537 seemed to refer to evidence.

Thanks for the video though. It's over an hour, but I'll watch it.

Edit: So you're asserting that there's zero evidence by taking his own defence lawyers at their word? Saying their client is innocent is literally their jobs.

And they do acknowledge evidence (so not nothing) but they (his lawyers) are unconvinced.

This defence sounds more baseless than the Free Kevin campaign, where once all the dust settled and he could write a book about it, yeah he did do most of that shit.
But he’s not engaging with the issue of memory safety here.

> Since at least 2014, Bjarne Stroustrup has advocated addressing safety in C++ via a “subset of a superset”:

> As of C++20, I believe we have achieved the “superset,” notably by standardizing span, string_view, concepts, and bounds-aware ranges. We may still want a handful more features, such as a null-terminated zstring_view, but the major additions already exist.

Sounds like Herb too believes that C++ is making good progress and that it’s a library issue. This is problematic when the default `[]` API that everyone uses has no bounds check. So then you change the compiler to have an option to always emit a bounds check. But then you don’t have an escape hatch when performance is important.

Herb is always defending against switching away from C++ and that C++ will solve the problems in a back compat way. They’ve been disrupted and they’ve taken a classical defensive approach instead of actually trying to compete which would require a massive restructuring of how C++ is managed as a language (e.g. coalescing the entire ecosystem onto a single front-end so that new language features only need to be implemented once). They need to be more radical in their strategy but that doesn’t gel with design by committee.
This reminds me of a similar story with YouTube [1] where improving the page weight decreased the metrics because more people with lower end connections could access the page.

Metrics interpretation is as important as the metrics themselves!

[1]: https://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters
Don’t do the cleaning and leave a medium review that politely says you were not informed of cleaning policy beforehand. Host has no way to penalize you (outside of a bad review) and you can respond to their review (if they criticize you) saying you were not informed at booking. Keep your review and response cordial and any future host evaluating you will assume that the past host was weird. There’s no way anyone can verify the claim by the other host that they articulated the cleaning policies.
> we have successfully used both RoCE and InfiniBand clusters for large, GenAI workloads (including our ongoing training of Llama 3 on our RoCE cluster) without any network bottlenecks.

Interesting dig on IB. RoCE is the right solution since it is open standards and more importantly, available without a 52+ week lead time.
What does video not be in the future mean? In social media tiktok and reels are everywhere?
We implicitly train for minimizing of the distance in that style of metric - by using functions continuous and differentiable on classic manifolds (where continuity and differentiability is defined using the classic local maps into Euclidian space). I think if we were training using functions continuous and differentiable in say p-adic metric space (which looks extremely jagged/fractallian/non-continuos when embedded into Euclidian) then we'd have something like p-adic version of cosine (or other L-something metric) for similarity
> 30% to 50% of Rust crates use unsafe code

This is particularly misleading for two reasons:

1) There are a lot of `-sys` crates which link to C libraries, so the "unsafe" code in these crates comes from the binding to C rather than some limitation of Rust. Often there are 100% safe Rust alternatives to these C libraries as well.

2) Of the remaining crates which use "unsafe", the unsafe code is often contained to a tiny percentage of the code, so if we're looking at the overall amount of unsafe code, you're going from 100%, to a fraction of a percent.
I've found that I only become distracted and unable to focus, ironically, if I'm not sufficiently busy.

If I don't have enough real, important things to do on any given day, white noise begins to creep into my psyche and I end up shaving yaks.

So anecdotally load yourself up with even more stuff to do!
I don’t know, I think it’s still a good deal, I’d rather have cheap tuition and low taxes than high taxes and no tuition
I'm guessing rage inducing engagement stories are how Reddit is ramping up just before the IPO?
The EU literally had meetings with the affected companies to explain things.

Apple just appears to be hard of hearing, perhaps purposely.
The problem with fixes on things this low-level is that they carry the potential to break lots of code. Since broken code has to be fixed, you then get into the "why not just rewrite it in <insert new hotness here>?" argument, which is headed off by just not fixing it.

C/C++ maintainers knew this and didn't want to see their lives' work made less significant. Now the issue's been forced by (among other things) one of the world's most influential software customers, the US Federal Government, implying that contract tenders for software written in languages like Rust will have an advantage over those written in languages that don't take memory safety as seriously.
document.title += " in Rust using ChatGPT"
Wrong, your original comment is still viewable with showdead on. Dang is not trying to mislead you here, it seems you just legitimately aren't very familiar with this site.
Tell your mind it's an appliance/console.* Still baffled? Because nobody seems baffled they can't run arbitrary software on their Amazon Echo Show, AppleTV, Xbox, Playstation, or Switch.

* If your mind is struggling with this, you might need a bicycle for the mind to help. ;-) But seriously, Apple's brand and value prop since original Mac has been to toasterize compute and make it friendly approachable and non-fiddly for normals. If you're bent about this, it's a values alignment issue. And Apple should have a right to have a brand proposition that sets them apart from the majority of PDAs, STBs, and PCs.
Looks neat. Bebop is licensed under Apache 2.0, not GPL and doesn’t require a commercial license to use for profit.

And I can tell the C# code it generates is going to be plagued by vtable lookups. Some decent ideas though.
As someone who drives much of the summer with no top on his Jeep, Dark Sky was a revelation. I also managed to find a route between two bands of heavy thunderstorms (with a tornado watch to boot) one night far from home with no top and no doors using the radar.

Modern technology is amazing.
I just think the article is a bit confused.

If it only urged the reader to "regularly create something" it would be spot-on. I don't think any comparison to consumption is necessary at all. It seems like the target audience is someone who doesn't make a practice of creating for their own sake, in which case, yes they will feel/think/create better by practicing creation.
So what is this article saying !!??
Failing to meet investors hype would be the biggest reason in my book.

Also it seems like training and running these systems is incredibly costly and the prices AI companies charge for their products are being subsidized by investor money, which won't last forever.
Politicians are not campaigning on this at all. This is a niche topic that only impacts software developers. Nor is this setting out milestones for switching. It’s just advice saying “hey guys, consider other alternatives to C/C++”. It’s a social pressure - there’s no force of law behind this yet. And at most the government can only compel what their own vendors do.
How much are they paying for H100's? If they are paying $10k:
350,000 NVIDIA H100 x $10k = $3.5b
Why NASA wants human guinea pigs to test out Martian living
SJSU and SDSU engineering as well.

Cal Poly SLO, SJSU Engineering, and SDSU Engineering have similar admission statistics to upper mid tier UCs like UCI and UCSB.

I'm still a bit salty that I got into an Ivy Tier but got rejected from UCD and SLO.

SLO and SJSU are honestly amazing programs and along with UTD, UW Bothell, and UIC should be a model for high quality affordable education.