skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm old enough to remember people saying that about go.

I pitched the idea of an AI directly generating art sometime around 2008, only to have the idea curtly dismissed.

Deep Fakes (by a different name) were a plot point in an episode of Sliders, and the audio version a throwaway line in an episode of Babylon 5, at the time I thought each were completely impossible.

My bet would be androids doing plumbing around ten years after cars lose their steering wheels; but even then, that's just anchoring on Moore and the available power envelope for a car vs. a bipedal robot.
I got a used LEAF a few months ago, it’s got a new battery. Perfect fit for my urban driving. FWIW I’ve been using it only with 120V at home, and the occasional level 2 charge at work without issue.
How do single-threaded programs benefit from a lack of GIL?
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Airbnb has a PE of 22 and is a money printing machine. Airbnb makes 10x the profit of Hyatt, which has a PE of 75.

Use case of hotels might be bigger, but it is a highly contended market. Airbnb has a huge chunk of a smaller market.

Also, the margins are much better on hosting a website than building hotels and paying thousands of service employees.
It's either a troll, or a nutjob.

Calling a clerk who faked results a "priest of science" is amazingly insane.
I believe this link is communicating within the family of thought from which this blog post also comes:

https://knowm.org/thermodynamic-computing/

It's a random, unassuming 7-year-old blog post from a DARPA-funded and defense-involved inventor. They happen to work in neuromorphic computing. Their other posts talk about some of that work. A cynical take is that it can seem like just hand-wavey garbage, but then again, it's been quietly getting tons of defense contractor money.

I came across it years ago, and it has greatly accelerated my worldview, and has made me feel ahead of the curve in understanding what is going on in the universe. It's informed my community organizing. It's informed how I understand AI and consciousness and language, and the intersection of all these things.

I'm inclined to believe that the people in this area are clued into something very substantial about how the universe works.

EDIT: oops, shared the wrong link. This one is about thermodynamic evolution
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List me AI models that I can run with my hw?
Tired of seeing AI model names with 300m of parameters.

Actually I want to see the ones compatible to run locally in my current laptop (I'm NOT going to spend money to run a model).

Is there a website where I can enter my laptop specs and list me AI models?
Focus on both, this hire for the vibes non-sense doesn't get the best product build, I will hire someone who has less social skills, than I am likely to hire someone with low technical skills but a good attitude fore most technical positions.
I used to feel the same way, but over the past few months have started experiencing it quite a bit. I think it started in more touristy areas I didn't tend to go to, and now is spreading all over the platform.

It's a terrible experience. last 2 trips I've gone on I've ended up in hotels because all of the airbnb's had cleaning fees close to the nightly rate and an actual chore list for check out.

no thanks.
> The purpose of this topic was to discuss skills that aren't likely to be replaced by AI tools in the near future.

Right, and managers are extremely unsafe with the tools we already have. LLMs are more charismatic writers than most managers, and we know from Uber that we can automate away the management layer easily as long as we can have other signals to govern workers. With remote jobs being popular today face to face communication isn't needed, you just need to write well, so that isn't a problem either.

Managers doesn't need as much subject matter expertise as workers, so managers will get automated away easier than workers.

> Speculating about superhuman AI androids that are more charismatic than humans is entirely beyond the point and nothing more than a sci-fi fantasy right now.

I didn't say android, I say an avatar, I meant on a screen. And no you don't need a superhuman AI to express emotions better than humans, we already have AI that are better than humans at expressing emotions, both in text as LLMs or in images from the image generators.
MY first thought was a pretty morbid one: hit them over the head with a big enough stone hard enough, and they won't be infecting anyone with rabies anymore. A radical "cure", but would have (since rabies in humans is almost certainly deadly once symptoms appear) ultimately worked better than what the article describes...
It is not very expensive compared to other things we do on a planetary scale.
Maybe I've configured something wrong, then. I'll do some tests.
Tesla has also substantially improved its costs, as it manufactures it's own chargers. Circa 2017, it cost them ~$250k per station from UBS' report [1], although it turns out UBS was wildly wrong about what the total cost would be for Tesla to reach the desired network density.

[1] https://neo.ubs.com/shared/d1N4RjMdUf/
Trump doesn't say things because they are true. Parsing his words is pointless.

The only reason he says this is because https://about.fb.com/news/2021/06/facebook-response-to-overs...

FB hurt him so now he slanders them. That's it
What if I just want to stay 3 days and I’m willing to pay the fixed fee anyway?

What I do see is some booking automation that will dynamically set minimum stay lengths to avoid filling, say, a 3 day gap with a 1 or 2 day booking if it’s far enough out and set minimum stays to the duration of the gap.
Strong competition from Lattice? I might be missing something, but AFAIK Lattice certuspro-nx FPGA's are more expesive and so is the synthesis software.
Pockets of ‘dead’ air are like the rogue waves of the aviation world. Rare but still happens once every few years.
There no contradiction there. The whole point is that the US made a mistake by not producing enough ammunition for artillery.
We were told one limb, period. I can get you more info if you need, email me direct at:
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What do you mean by no E2EE in personal chats?
fund my new simulated annealing accelerator startup where we etch your model onto an aluminum flake and then hit it with a blowtorch
Although this is nice, the problems with the GIL are often blown out of proportion: people stating that you couldn't do efficient (compute-bounded) multi-processing, which was never the case as the `multiprocessing` module works just fine.
By your definition plans can only be determined to be actionable post hoc after they are completed?
this is incredible !
At the time Oxcart was developed in the early 60s, civilian photo coverage was minimal.

Now? If you're running a secret program, eventually it turns up.

See almost certain RQ-180 photos: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2021/09/07/americas-ne... https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/p...

The idea that there's a physics-breakthrough craft / technology out there, in active use, just isn't plausible.

... unless it's invisible?

But the UFO crowd (surprisingly?) doesn't seem too eager to accuse the government of having invisible craft.
Yes, but > 99% of Tesla owners do not use a Tesla without the app.
The fee is obviously much more than they're paying the person who actually does the cleaning.
Extra links for the no gil work for anyone else curious about this [0], [1].

[0] Multithreaded Python without the GIL
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18CXhDb1ygxg-YXNBJNzfzZsD...

[1] Github repo
https://github.com/colesbury/nogil
It could remove the locking/unlocking operations.
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Hopefully at some point actual click latency will be fixed in general after some dark decades.

Still incredible that a gameboy or an 80's computer with a CRT feels more responsive than most devices these days.

Bring back tactility. I'm convinced the choppiness and weird waits are actually psychologically stressing us out. That's why good keyboards + old low latency OS'es or typewriters are so soothing to use.
Is it really Bitcoin that's high, or USD that's low?

ROW seems to work towards getting rid of the USD, perhaps that's why you can spend 70k for a digital coin, money becoming worthless
I get ~3.5mi/kWh in my EV with how I drive. I pay ~$0.11/kWh for electricity including delivery.

The average US driver drives ~13,000mi/yr. We'll make the math easier and just say you drive ~1,000mi/mo.

1000 mi / 3.5 mi/kWh = 285.7kWh per month. At $0.11/kWh, that's ~$31.43 added to the bill.

Gas around me has been around $3/gal for a while. Average US car fuel economy is like 25mpg, which is a bit better than the car my EV replaced. 1000 mi / 25mpg = 40 gallons of gas, * $3/gal gives ~$120 per month. If I had a 40mpg car, it would cost ~$75/mo in gas. I'd need close to 100mpg in an ICE car to get to the same fuel cost.
Morons .... need to hire some IT staff that know what they're doing.
Or on aliexpress, on items you’d usually buy multiples of, set the shipping to $cents for the first item, then it jumps to $$$ once you add a second to your cart.

Sometimes I’ve just bought individual items from several sellers as a workaround.
Absolutely, there's a lot more risk in renting a single unit vs a hotel. The fees should be higher. The check-in/check-out timing should be stricter and with more time in between. Etc.
This is fantastic! Speedometer 1.0 was a breath of fresh air, and 2.0 was a much-needed refresh, but it's really been showing its age in recent years. 3.0 looks like a solid upgrade with many new kinds of sub-tests, contemporary frameworks, etc.

I'm looking forward to sucking at this, and then slowly and systematically improving. :^)
Maybe carp or bone-lisp?
For what it’s worth, it turns out a most of our humidity is from corn fields, not our lakes. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/07/22/feeling-sweaty-minn...

It’d be nice if they could genetically modify corn to pump out less water, though I don’t know if that’s feasible.
You're not limited to calculating a formula based on a role, each individual row can have its own formula (say each employee can negotiate their own salary/compensation package). You would need a union of an infinite number views to equal the number of formulae possible with an expression column type. So it's definitely more expressive and powerful.
The complexity is a self-inflicted problem. This is a rake that many computer security people refuse to stop stepping on. If it's not usable then it doesn't work.

FWIW it does look like Gentoo stepped up and filled in the gaps since I last looked. Their Wiki has good docs starting from https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SELinux.
> Too many of us are attached to our intelligence

I think Alzheimer's is scary because it's not just about intelligence. If it was just that you become dumb(er), I wouldn't mind it that much. I must be an exception, but beyond a certain threshold (I wouldn't want to be drooling idiot) I'm not that attached to my intelligence. I'm painfully aware that I'm average and that I had the luck of having an education and a stable home that other, more intelligent but less fortunate people than me, didn't.

I think Alzheimer's is scary because your whole personality goes. Cognitive functions. Memory. You stop being independent. You cannot do the simplest things by yourself. Things become scary and you're not sure why. You are alone, surrounded by strangers.

If there was a progressive illness where you got less intelligent, but still able to function and tell who your loved ones are, remember things, and at least understand where you are and your new place in the world, to me it wouldn't be half as scary as Alzheimer's.
What were you doing that prompted so much throttling? I have a sizablr array of microservices and databases I work on day to day, and it's such brief little

Personally I think the tradeoff is awesome for almost everyone. If you are a high powered user, a laptop fan pad is cheap and will prevent the 33% speed loss of throttling.

There's people who mod these laptops by bridging the heatsink to the case. It improves speed significantly. But it also makes the case uncomfortably hot under heavy use. I think this is a fine tradeoff Apple picked, to not optimize for speed. This is an Air. It should be very performant for most, just not under enduring load. I certainly would not call this an overheating issue.
If the choice is between your own people getting kidnapped and killed by Hamas periodically, and total war, most countries will choose total war. Gaza will simply never be able to survive if its goal is the eradication of Israel, because Israel will simply not roll over and take that. Which country would?
The Model Y is the best selling car in the world in 2023. Those of us who were buying in 2019 are still up quite a bit even though the stock was higher at one point. RIVN, Ford, GM all are losing a lot of money on every EV they sell. We were right to bet on TSLA being a major winner.

I actually put 40% of my TSLA into NVDA last year, because the demand for AI hardware is going to keep going up. I'm not saying the stock will never go down, I'm sure it will be volatile, but don't confuse short term volatility with long term technologic transformations.
Don't apologize for using a theme for your landing page. And don't apologize to a competitor who is throwing shade and linking to their competing product.
My understanding is that the goal of these approaches are to avoid those bottlenecks.
Do companies really gamble on their supply chain that hard?
its also worth noting, on balance, that apple quickly made it a relatively hardened platform.
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When LCD monitors/TVs came out they were a huge step backwards in terms of quality. They were relentlessly pushed on consumers because they were cheaper to make, cheaper to ship, and took up less space in stockrooms and on store shelves. I doubt the CRT will make a comeback. Even today's TVs are inferior to CRTs in some ways and so we're still compromising, but at least current LCD screens are so much better now than they were when they were replacing CRTs.
That assumes your database cells aren't themselves revision-controlled (e.g. Dolt: https://www.dolthub.com/)

But also, this is the same argument people generally give against using DB stored procedures. And, despite using sprocs often myself, I generally agree with them — the tooling around sprocs really sucks. Sprocs are "DB objects as state" (like rows in a table are state); but they could be a lot more than that.

My secret dream, as an infrastructure engineer and DBA, is that, on boot, each version of each application that uses an RDBMS could "register" or "zero-install" a client schema with said RDBMS — i.e. a namespace of persistent virtual DB objects, unique to that build of that application — but where the underlying physical DB objects are not necessarily unique, instead being shared as needed between builds and even between applications. (Think: what would happen if you put the Plan9 designers in charge of the evolution of the SQL standard.)

Such a "client schema" would specify, among other things, the full source code of any sprocs the application expects to be able to call. These would be able to be internally deduplicated — e.g. registered by content-hash into an sproc store on the DB (compare/contrast: Redis EVALSHA), and then "symbolically linked" to a particular name in the client schema.

Ideally, in applications that use client schemas, every SQL query that's a static literal at app build time, would be compiled into a boot-time registration of, and runtime call to, such a registered virtual sproc definition. Think SQL "prepared statements" — but "prepared" at compile time on the client and ensure-bound to RDBMS-side equivalents at app boot time.

(Why? Well, think about what RDBMSes could do to dynamically compile / optimize / JIT queries — and dynamically create/optimize indices to serve queries — if they could know the bounded set of in-use queries at any given time, and do long-term statistics collection on the behavior of those queries. No existing RDBMS is designed to do this, despite sprocs existing, only because they're so little used. Instead, almost all "app queries" to RDBMSes are just regular DML statements — which read to an RDBMS as one-offs needing to be freshly compiled and planned. RDBMSes could do so much better — if apps simply had the language to communicate their needs clearly!)
So it’s either your fault because you’re incompetent or your fault because they need someone cheaper?

It’s funny that any way it turns out it’s anti-worker.

A little class consciousness would go a long way.
I always thought it would be neat if there were some dangerous or lethal jobs that people like this could sign up for and go out in a blaze of glory. I know I'd sign up! Like Spock fixing that warp core :-)
You need to have reddit admins that are paid employees of the company which meta-moderate. And you need to build out systems to give them information on the users so that they can make moderation decisions.

You need to build out anti-bot infrastructure. Arguably whatever infrastructure they have isn't keeping up at all with new challenges, but that infrastructure is probably miles more complicated than you think, even though it doesn't do its job well enough.

And your attacker is groups of humans, some of them probably funded, all of them able to organize on other sites like 4chan and 8chan. Reddit has largely managed to deal with shit like the old nazi babytalk subreddits that used to proliferate everywhere (shit like r/FrenWorld and its "six million nosefrens who love baking" lightly coded nazi shit). That takes effort to keep it from spreading all over your platform.

And that's on the front end dealing with the users. You still have to run a company that sells ads to its actual customers and you need to support all that infrastructure as well. And the corollary to that is that you have to deal with the nazi babytalk subreddits and stamp them out because nobody wants to see that spread all over your platform and advertisers will utterly lose their shit over it -- being a "free speech absolutionist" is going to be incredibly damaging to revenue.

Everyone here also hates the redesign, but it has been wildly successful at driving numbers. Everyone here hates the way that flood of users maximizes the Eternal September of reddit even harder, but that keeps all their numbers going up and to the right. Everyone hates the shitty issues with the redesign. But that effort probably long since paid for itself. Even image and video serving is doing well enough to keep users stuck to the site better and not going to competition and not seeing more ads. Even if it sucks, that probably helped revenue.

To do that all technically better, you're probably going to have to higher more expensive developers and take even bigger hits to the bottom line rather than firing half the company and even further dropping the balls that are being juggled.

They could of course kill all the attempts at shitcoin integration and probably fire half of middle management who keeps coming up with those kinds of ideas, but that's just US management disease.

HN loves to think that any one of us could rewrite reddit in a weekend, but only if you're looking at the easy part of the job which is building a web forum. Not if you're looking at the actual requirements of building out the most popular web forum in the world (or at least western world I guess, IDK what China has internally)
I'm not sure - we don't do color correction on our PDFs because we don't have photos in them and color rendering is not mission critical - but paged.js is focused on the concern of layout for print media. I would imagine color rendering can be solved orthogonally to what paged.js does for you, as long as you specify the color data in CSS. I'm pretty sure paged.js will pass it through without messing with it, so you're good if the browser that Playwright/puppeteer is driving supports the correct color profile when emitting the PDF. I honestly don't know if browsers have sufficient support for that when emitting a PDF, though.

Overall you're right that color correction is another area where you could probably command a premium.
I am surprised nothing about sociality shows up in your list.
I can hardly wait until mainstream hardware catches up to Solaris SPARC in 2015, or previous memory tagged architectures, to finally tame all those memory corruption issues, only written by bad skilled developers.
I guess there's also a chance that a banking app will initially work but then fail after a forced update at a very inconvenient time. Is there a possibility that some use of "integrity signals" (in SafetyNet Attestation API and Play Integrity API) will be banned in the EU out of antitrust concerns? https://developer.android.com/privacy-and-security/safetynet...
Doesn't removing the GIL imply adding back new, more granular locks?
Would have been a great learning experience for her and been great to put on a resume and discuss during an interview. Because you made this for your wife, who's a developer, even if only a junior developer, it has a whiff of mansplaining to it, too.
This brings its own set of challenges. Headers and footers are strictly limited in terms of features, you cannot add footnotes, the notion of page spreads is harder to implement. Then you need to combine that with having a Chrome instance at hand + exposing the needed assets for URL resolution. Definitely not difficult let alone impossible, but not the easiest way to get started :)
"Mother" on speed dial maybe?
I'm with the other poster on this. I think there are good analogies to stuff like goodhart's law. At times you do need to reground why you are measuring something. That said, most of these lessons were about making the measurement to improve be more holistic.

This is a part of an argument people will often use to talk about why end to end testing is superior to unit testing. It isn't that you don't want the units tested. Nor is it that end to end is easier. Rather, it is harder to focus on an end to end test for the sake of the end to end test. (No panacea, mind.)
Or almost $500 today

The tolerances of the various components was larger back then, allowing weird things like this to work without expensive precision tools.

High tolerances also allowed things like "hot plugging expansion cards" to get past various limitations.
Really, any code? I thought they were adding fine-grained locks to the python objects themselves? Are you saying that if I share a python list between two threads and modify it on one and read it on the other, I can segfault python?
Maybe I replied too hastily. I reread your comment and it seems you lament intertwined societal/technological changes rather than simply wishing to spend more time hanging out with the trees.