skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This answer by the developer of Rufus clears up this common misconception amongst Linux users; copying an .iso file to a USB drive with dd is the correct way to create a bootable drive and has the same result as burning the .iso to a physical disk.

TL:DR; This works with basically all Linux Distros, but only because of a hack/software called isohybrid.
This is not a correct assumption with Postgres. Its statistics collection process has fundamental flaws when tables become large such that the statistics it uses for optimization are in no way representative of the actual data, leading to the situation this thread is about.

Statistics collection is a weak spot in Postgres and query optimization relies on that information to do its job.
> They also identify two types of bullshitting— persuasive and evasive. “Persuasive” uses misleading exaggerations and embellishments to impress, persuade, or fit in with others, while ‘evasive’ involves giving irrelevant, evasive responses in situations where frankness might result in hurt feelings or reputational harm.

> the researchers examined the relations between participants’ self-reported engagement in both types of BSing and their ratings of how profound, truthful, or accurate they found pseudo-profound and pseudo-scientific statements and fake news headlines.

By their own definition, it seems like the people most inclined to impress and mislead in situations where frankness might result in reputational harm(in other words a real BSer) wouldn't admit to engaging in BS behavior at a rate above a non-bullshitter.
Lambda on hard mode: serverless HTTP in Rust
> How can this be reconciled?

I think one obvious solution is to stop grouping all drugs together. No one is robbing a place to feed their DMT addiction and no one is shooting up psilocybin outside our homes. The criminalization of these types of drugs does far more harm than the drugs themselves. The issue with opioids and speed is more complicated, but I think the options and solutions for the most addictive and harmful drugs will become more clear once we stop muddying the waters by grouping them with party drugs and psychedelics.
If I had to really try and pinpoint where my discomfort for this latest hypecycle is coming from, it's probably that I have this sense that the dynamic behind Gell-Mann Amnesia is being cynically exploited by the interests overselling these new products.

Kind of in the same vein as the strategies around gamification, where some identified frailty of the human psyche is being leaned on for cash.

It's not quite a con because the technology is useful and certainly worth something, but it's not non-exploitive either.
I'm not sure that assertion by the US Commerce Secretary is holding up a months later. Apparently "Huawei has seen a resurgence in its premium smartphone sales since it released its Mate 60 series" (the phone model in question): https://www.reuters.com/technology/apples-china-iphone-sales...
It's brutal.

She did start exercising some years ago, and it did improve. But then real-life issues triggers her anxiety and it's back to square one.

She's tried therapy for a long time with little result. She's very smart, but most likely has ADHD, so for example mindfulness and similar doesn't seem to work well (either "boring" so she loses focus, or too "obvious" without actionable content).

Though we recently found a therapist which she really resonated with. It's slow work but I think it's been helping.
I don't think anyone would really complain if such an act assumed "libraries" == "public libraries", a very well defined term that's already enshrined in federal legislation.
Right. The "will this or won't this allocate" analysis also needs to take into account all values being used by the code because they might be using allocators internally.

I haven't written zig code in a few years so I don't know if people have developed a convention for it. That said, there is a reason types like `ArrayListUnmanaged` exist. If you have some complex type with a bunch of different collections as fields, you probably want to use the same allocator for all of those collections, so there's no reason to have the collections themselves store redundant copies of the allocator. Instead you can have the allocator held by the top-level type and use the `Unmanaged` collections as fields. This also means that you do end up needing to reference `self.allocator` explicitly when calling `.append()` etc, satisfying the original claim of TFA.
the thing with social media is that you don't have to take everyone's word as equal, or believe everything you read on it. Usually people who use it intelligently have discovered a handful of people who report relevant news on social media who they have found to be somewhat trustworthy.

I don't trust the wall street journal or the new york times. They are mouthpieces.
I’ve had my account here since 2012 and I only know about YC because of HN. That also seemed to be in YC’s golden years as well as far as I can tell. At this point YC is a bit of a nothing burger best I can tell so HN is, I would imagine, far and away the bigger brand.
Then use descriptive product names, not cute single words that are being used by 47 other products.
I use ChatGPT4 daily for powershell scripts. The only time it seems to hallucinate is when I'm forcing it to use 4.0 rather than 5.1 or 7.
I'm the latter.
Docker can resolve dependencies in a very similar manner to nix, via multi-stage builds. Each FROM makes one dependency available. However, you can only have direct access to the content from one of the dependencies resolved this way. The other ones, you have to COPY over the relevant content --from at build time.
Dreamworks Animation to Significantly Cut Staff in Coming Months
Has AI not already been adopted by the masses?
Unfortunately the people on HackerNews tend to be hostile towards Bitcoin so you probably shouldn't expect a very constructive set of comments here.

(learning to ignore these people was the most financially rewarding thing I've done in my life)
They have driving data from all around the country which is collected from anyone driving a Tesla. Waymo is much more limited to specific cities.
Explain like I'm five here, was JWST supposed to be able to see further back than Hubble to the origins of the universe? Has this happened? What are the findings?
"0 mention of Bitcoin" might have sparked a discussion, but: as a Millenial I feel your mention of "Boomer" is unwarranted, and as a dev in fintech I very much understand blockchain tech, but "the future of the monetary system" and Bitcoin? Payments maybe, but "the monetary system"? Please.
That’s not how most apps work. They tend to allocate memory for specific purposes and free it when done. Only more heavy apps will retain large buffer pools, like databases but they are usually tunable.
And apps themselves don’t page to disk, usually. The OS does that. Before we had MMUs apps like photoshop used to manage the page file manually. But again an app doing that is doing that for a specific purpose, not just to be greedy.

Is there some specific software you are referring to?
To what degree is it more efficient? For example could you halve your sleep requirement? That would already be huge.
Americans Will Do Anything to Avoid Gray Hair
Is there a FOSS offline DialogFlow equivalent?

Art is hard to separate from context and background, and knowing it's just a GPT as opposed to a human written dialogue seems a bit disappointing.
I have thought of a similar design, but little solenoids inject themselves into the cold path bridging the gap, the TEC would chill a huge thermal mass and then the individual rods could be chilled and heated rather rapidly.
https://archive.ph/OhlGg
New research suggests that our universe has no dark matter
Even if every dev in the world adopted an LLM copilot, that’s a teeny tiny sliver of “the masses”.
When you add prefetching (that is, compare against the middle element and fetch both the middle of the left half and the middle of the right half ahead of time) you are essentially doing radix-4 search, just with fewer actual comparisons.

(You can prefetch k layers ahead for radix-2^k search, but searching in small arrays will become more expensive this way.)

I didn't benchmark it, but I guess on mid-to-large arrays it would actually work somewhat slower than prefetching because it is more instruction-heavy, and, more importantly, prefetches are "cancelable": if the memory bus is too busy with actual requests, they will be skipped, while in explicit radix-k search you would have to wait for all (k-1) elements even if the middle element happened to be already cached and you already know which elements you need next.

That said, it could probably work with small arrays where caching is not a concern and especially if you optimize for latency and not throughput. You can also try to do the comparisons with SIMD (Wojciech Mula tried something similar and got a small boost: http://0x80.pl/articles/simd-search.html).
Gold is not a currency. I’m not sure what point you think you are making but you aren’t refuting the point about currency.
> These are all your words, not theirs. They didn't suggest this at all.

I'm failing to understand how you could have read what I wrote and come to the conclusion I didn't suggest that, given that I literally said it was not realistic.
Terminal Latency
I'd argue that the innovation with these models is making smaller. Just throwing compute resources to make a model with more parameters is easy and doesn't really expand our knowledge. IMO, larger and larger LLM's aren't that impressive. Being able to shrink that model down, retain its accuracy (to a degree) and be able to run it on smaller hardware is impressive and will more likely lead to AI/ML being intertwined within people's day-to-day
I theorise that dreams are more garbled than we realise, filled with pseudo-language and incoherent vague impressions, and ambiguous images, and that memories of dreams are actually post-hoc reconstructions formed at the point of waking, and are not to be trusted. So maybe in the dream there was a sense of a presence and a nearby blob with appendages that could be a hand, but with uncountable fingers, and it could also be an octopus, and it moves restlessly around: on waking, this resolves into a much more sensible memory of a person waving a hand.

The similarity of things observed in dreams to AI is then because both procedures involve constructing coherence out of noise. "Gradient descent" or something, I wouldn't really know about that. Pareidolia.
She should try ketamine. Sounds like it’s exactly what you say, past trauma, that’s holding her back from a good nights sleep. Ketamine has done wonders for someone I love and I would wholeheartedly recommend it. The person in my life who benefited greatly from it only needed one weekend (2 relatively low to medium dose sessions of ketamine) and she was cured of her ptsd.

Also strongly recommend weighted blankets, especially for someone like your SO.

All the best eh
No, not "zero interventions. The human driver puts their hands on the wheel at 08:36.[1]

At 12:56, the vehicle drives through a crosswalk with pedestrians present, but misses them.[2]
A similar situation appears near the very end.
This system drives through crosswalks rather aggressively.

There are no hard cases. No heavy traffic. No construction. No emergency vehicles. No double-parked cars. Almost always, either there's plenty of open space ahead or another car to follow. When heavy traffic is encountered, the human driver changes the route. This looks like a cherry-picked try from many trial runs. It's way below Waymo level performance.

Tesla has a history of fake self-driving videos [3], so this has to be looked at suspiciously.

[1] https://youtu.be/PXy90bAPwn8?t=516

[2] https://youtu.be/PXy90bAPwn8?t=776

[3] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-autopilot-staged-engineer...
Obviously with no context but what I hear

Is the website illegal? Or maybe the police need to deal with spam calls more sensibly. Presumably they can trace where the calls are coming from in real life
If the problem is psychological trauma, wouldn’t therapy be the obvious solution?
Have a look at OpenCores.org, or some of the smaller RISC-V cores out there (most of which should be Linux capable).

x86 hasn't been "simple" since around the 286 days. IC fabs even less.

Plz. define "build in my garage"? Fabricate IC's? Build cpu from heaps of discrete transistors? Implement on programmable logic eg. FPGA?

Is "Linux capable" a requirement? Again: kinda conflicts with "simple" - especially considering other things needed to make a working system (screen or serial console, keyboard etc). A small RTOS may be more up your alley.

If custom IC: a rough estimate of transistor budget would help. And what peripherals or memory you'd want integrated (if any).
Hasn't the monetary system historically reverted to commodity money whenever there was a shakeup in the major powers?

I have doubts about the "bitcoin is better commodity money" idea myself, but they have more to do with the fact that Bitcoin is probably quite easy to kill at superpower scale and less to do with the idea that we will never see commodity money ever again.
Gold is not a currency, it's a commodity. It has been used for 1000's of years for adornment, because of its mailability and luster. Recently it also has application in industry at an unprecedented scale.

Bitcoin is a token that represents an amount of wasted electricity. It has no value other than the intrinsic ones people place on it, like a currency. We can decide that bitcoin is worthless tomorrow and it would be. If you do the same for dollars, you have the US military to answer to...
Half of the nitrogen in our bodies comes from industrially produced fertilizer.

Do we really have the freedom to stop that process now?

Same with electricity. Do we have the freedom to stop it, in developed countries?

On a population level, we stopped being free a long time ago.
People are doing cost/benefits analyses. It’s just that defining costs and benefits are subjective and you disagree with their decisions
>Did you know that HN has an API? Technically all your HN posts could be downloaded and used for AI training as well.

It already has been used by LLMs
Tying my shoes in a dream is damn near impossible. I just woke up in frustration.
I've been working with my first client who, I've come to recognize, is _very_ susceptible to believing exaggerated claims. This is someone who would enthusiastically dive into a cult if the right person told him it's nicer there, but instead he's tech entrepreneurship, so AI is always three weeks away from allowing him to replace all his employees.

In the meantime, everyone in the design team keeps sending back content that he's requested from ChatGPT instead of an actual copywriter. Because everyone here, like everyone on HN, can easily tell the difference, but he can't/won't.

What seems to be very difficult with someone like this is, they participate in hype cycles because not doing so leaves them feeling like _everyone knows something_ and they don't. They don't want to be the idiot left behind when something good happens, so they dive into every enthusiastic movement or belief that comes in range. They don't have the ability or will to suss out that each wave is made up of people exactly like them.

TLDR: High energy, low critical thinking.
Yes. The article also says:

>Having a large standard library doesn't mean that the programmer shouldn't be able to swap out implementations easily as needed. But all that is required is for the standard library to define an interface along with the standard library implementation.

But "Just have the standard library provide an interface" also fails when the interface itself is not guaranteed to be correct. In Rust for example, the original definition of the Future trait in the futures 0.1 crate was incompatibly different from what it eventually became in the futures 0.3 crate, and the futures 0.3 version is what was imported into libstd as `std::future::Future`. If the 0.1 version had been defined in libstd it would not have worked with async-await, so either it would've stifled async-await development, or it would have to be deprecated but still kept around for backward-compatibility alongside the newer trait.
I was taking a friend home from the big medical complex in Boston home up 93. I haven't driven much in the city of Boston for ages and mostly not that route. I wish I had video. I had really forgotten just how horrifying driving in Boston can be at a busy time of day. Constant merges that you sort of need to know about. Often aggressive drivers. Apple Maps tried hard but I was glad I had my passenger telling me when to get left, when to get right, follow that car, etc.

SF isn't easy but Boston is next level. And it snows there. And can get heavy rain.
Ways to Spaceflight (1929)
Well yeah cause its bad at all the things you want it to solve.
Then maybe you should broaden your knowledge beyond dev and software? This part of future of crypto as a new asset class. It's real deal. Yes it takes years but seriously few years ago everyone was not even taking things serious enough.
Bitcoin can't handle more than 10 transactions per second. That's absolutely useless for anything beyond a toy currency.

I'm not against the idea of a fully-digital currency, even a crypto-currency, but Bitcoin is never going to be viable.
Since there are a plethora of dagger projects, lazyweb: https://github.com/dagger/dagger#readme

They also recently released their "github actions" replacement <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39550431> but holy hell their documentation is just aggressively bad
I think of that as a win. Heavy software stacks create a demand for faster hardware and the market provides. Those of us with use cases that represent a tiny marketshare, but actually need the performance can do so with light software stacks.

So the question is, how can we make the overweight software stacks even slower?
No one is saying you can't make money off of crypto in the same way you would on Gamestop-esq meme stocks. That does not mean a mechanism to gamble (which is what speculative investments are) will end up as a way of commerce (monetary systems).
I first read this piece some time ago, hidden in the back of one of his collected works volumes (VI: Games, Astrophysics, Hydrodynamics and... Meteorology) where I didn't quite expect to find an essay summarizing the predicament of humanity. It always amazes me how prescient and profound it is.

It seems to me the title was a rhetorical question, von Neumann does not think that we will make it. Even if the precise topics he covered are colored by the tensions of the day (global nuclear war) his argument was more universal:

"the effects that we are now beginning to produce are of the same order of magnitude as that of the great globe itself". Essentially what we now call the "Anthropocene".

He casually points out (remember, it is 1955!) "The carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by industry's burning of coal and oil-more than half of it during the last generation, may have changed the at atmosphere's composition sufficiently to account for a general warming of the world by about one degree Fahrenheit".

He argues effectively that against the altered biophysical reality unleashed by technological "progress" we don't really have sufficiently powerful feedback and control mechanisms and he doesn't think it is possible.

"All experience shows that even smaller technological changes than those now in the cards (the 1955 cards!) profoundly transform political and social relationships. Experience also shows that these transformations are not a-priori predictable and that most contemporary "first guesses" concerning them are wrong.

His pessimistic attitude is, I believe, hidden in the final paragraph: "The most hopeful answer is that the human species has been subjected to similar tests before and seems to have a congenital ability to come through, after varying amounts of trouble".

Did he really think that our past will always be a good predictor of our future? Technology changes the possible states of the world. Some of them may be terminal. Will the "amount of trouble" always be manageable?
Are you saying that there will be a large number of Starships on duty for immediate launch to deploy kill vehicles over an arbitrary area in space over and around the US? I'm no expert but this sounds pretty different form what Starship is designed to do. And not cheap at all.
Philips has a headband product called DeepSleep. They claim it increases your deep sleep by playing some sort of sound during your sleep that induces more deep sleep. For some odd reason, despite being a Dutch company, the product was only sold in the US. I spent a lot of money having it imported to Netherlands.

Unfortunately I can't tell whether it works. I rely on headphones and earplugs to block out sounds during the night. Sounds such as cars and airplanes outside, or other people in the house going to the toilet, tend to wake me up unless I block out those sounds. And the handband is not compatible with headphones or ear plugs.

I wish there is a better solution.
“But GenAI is just a fad like blockchain, real use cases are far from being ready for anything real.” /s
I think PCB based designs will have a better Design for Mass Manufacturability.

See the work of Carl Bugeja.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa6sP-joAr8

Either motors, or solenoids, electromechanical brakes, compliant mechanisms.
tldr the station does this by usingusing more efficient codecs like HEVC instead of the common MPEG2
You should I had some Rider and IntelliJ crashes. The crash does not happen often tough, but if your in the middle of writing code it can get you out of the flow.
Well, that's your opinion. I believe I highlighted the main issues with your suggestion, and added exactly the same helpfulness to the discussion as an assertion that artists should rely on patrons to send them cryptocurrency to support themselves.
Oh, thank you! I didn't know we'd been moved.
I'm in the latter camp. I'm largely uninterested in startup culture etc., but HN is one of the better sources of "interesting tech and associated discussion". Given that, I'm not sure why I clicked on this article...
The reasons are literally spelled out in the following paragraphs.
I absolutely loved the JIT series, but fair enough!
I'm definitely in the latter bucket, though I've been here a long time now. I found HN as technical subreddits started to no longer satisfy my curiosity about tech, and fell in love. I originally learned about the startup ecosystem from lurking around here.
Not a bunch of pro Russia mafia
I've been working on a phone that didn't have well-integrated AGNSS and used MLS for WiFi and cellular-based location when it didn't have GNSS fix. I'm perfectly aware that what you're saying is technically true, but try to explain that to the users :P

From the user perspective, it's not going to be a good experience if you rely on cold GNSS only on a mobile device (unless the user is already well aware of what to expect and how to behave).
I think the above commenter's point is that "countries" doesn't just mean the formal nation state, but the cultural group. The nation of China was created on 1949. China is much older than 75 years. Likewise, Germanic tribes existed as far back as the Ancient World.
So skyhook lays claim to an aggregate of wifi and gps, both technologies of which they have no chance developing.. Patents involving other advanced technologies should have much stricter requitements