skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$20k in 2027 might as well not exist. Hopefully they can achieve that, but their id4 sure doesn’t seem like it’d make the right decisions to hit low price targets…
That would mean 95% of problems are already solved.

I don’t agree with this - the space of problems to solve is as big as that of solutions (both are programs in the end).

I don’t think suggestion about lack of experience deserves any response.
> But your brain is disconnected from your body during dreams, to keep you from flailing around

Tell that to sleepwalkers!
>There’s even a solid case to be made that completely autonomous vehicles (AVs) will never take over everyday travel.

Have these researchers seen Tesla's latest FSD version 12.3, which uses neural nets instead of hard-coded instructions? For example this video: https://twitter.com/WholeMarsBlog/status/1768714246521827643 "Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta 12.3 Drives 85 Minutes from Palo Alto to San Francisco during Rush Hour with Zero Interventions". I was also a skeptic until recently.
It was a formal Show HN <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39316019> from a while back, so I think that's within bounds but I also agree that it should be one top-level comment and let it go, not replying every time with the same text
Some of these comments were originally made in response to this spammy submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39726156
> I also feel like this generation of senior/staff SWEs (the senior pre-AI engineer) is in a very unique position for the following reason

Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how that changes things.

I think even pre-AI there's already a big difference in old-school programmers and the current generations of graduates.

People like myself who grew up programming in the 8-bit era are used to having to design things from scratch, out of necessity, whether that's custom algorithms or data structures, or something like a parser or editor, or whatever. It seems that current generations are more used to assembling things out of lego blocks - more system integration than what I would consider as programming. I guess this is fine when it works - when you can find the pieces you need, but if that's the only skill you have then there is nothing to fall back on if you need to create something complex truly from scratch.
Causes every thread in the block to wait until they have reached this point. Worth reading a cuda primer for more details on blocks/warps.

Since the threads are relying on each other to fill the SRAM with all needed data if you didn’t wait then values would be missing.
Design Made Easy with Inkscape
(the following is speculation)

text like hands belong to class of imagery satisfying two characteristics:
1) They are intricately structured, having many subcomponents which have precise spatial interrelationships over a range of scales; there are a lot of ways to make things that are like text/hands except wrong
2) The average person is intimately familiar with said structures, having spent thousands of hours engaging looking at them while performing complex tasks involving a visiospatial feedback loop.

image generation models tend to have trouble with (1), but people only tend to notice it when paired with (2).

(1) can be improved by scale and more balanced training data; consider that for a person, their own hands are very frequently in their own field of view, but the photos they take only rarely feature hands as the focus. this creates a differential bias.

as for (2), image models tend to generate all kinds of implausibilities that the average person doesn't notice. try generating a complex landscape and ask a geologist how it formed.
> ChatGPT can eloquently generate words but it is completely unable to generate or understand pictures. Ask ChatGPT to generate some ASCII-art.)

Ok. I did both things.

I took a photo of my feet up on a stool in my living room, and told CharGPT to describe it.

It was reasonably (and rather surprisingly) successful.

I also told it to generate an ASCII image of a car. It did that, too.
I experienced AR for the first time with the Vision Pro, and I came away with the same impressions; it’s not quite ready for mainstream but “magical” really is apt. I was a big skeptic on AR/VR in general before, but the demo for Vision Pro convinced me. I wrote about it here.[1]

[1] https://candrewlee14.github.io/blog/2024-03-07_apple-vision-...
I think there are more than enough higher income people who would pay 5k just for a thing to watch a movie in private, with much better immersion than any alternative, on a plane.
LEO mega constellations are the future of space militarization. NRO + Space Development Agency is relentlessly moving ahead here with Starshield, next gen recon programs and missile tracking layers.
Anyone who isn’t aggressively building production facilities to churn out tens of thousands of LEO satellites and the rockets necessary to launch them (ideally reusable rockets), and developing civilian commercial use cases from telecommunications to ADAS to spread some of the costs, might as well by living in the 2010s still.
What people want is limited by their ability level.

And there's no reason to ever be bullish on liberal (classical) society's capacity for intentional change.

Human agency doesn't mean shit.
The implication is we don't live in a peaceful society. Violent coercion is just disguised as men in suits writing contracts that are economically infeasible to challenge backed up by skewed access to the State's means of physical violence.

In many ways, one could make the argument, a world where everyone is on an equal footing to do violence is preferable to one in which it is restricted to only a few.
But ChatGPT is a product, not a model. Might there be an augmenting OCR process feeding it the image's text?
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I still love going to the movies, but I stay with my 40-seat local. Grab some popcorn, a cold can of beer or glass of wine and settle in. Always showing great, old classics too. Best cinema experience I’ve ever had.
Bad gut health screwed up my sleep, after working on it it got better.
But if im not careful with what I eat, my sleep quality is screwed again
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36998643
Yet, you could easily say you are ok with abortion in cases of rape or in cases of life threats to the the morther, with I do agree, are exceptions that everyone should make.

But still try to voice as bodily autonomy... whith lets be honest here, is easy to dismiss for someone who considers a fetus is a humna that needs to be protected.

You just making the argument to yourself .
The characterization of "mediocre" is fair, but we're transiting a household to Siri from Alexa (because Alexa doesn't work locally, and because of Amazon's track record on privacy), and it's not noticeably worse.
I guess in the ideal world, everyone just does what they want, since everything will be so cheap. Enjoy chess? Study it and play against other humans. AI will of course crush you in any game. Enjoy accounting, radiology or programming? Same thing.
Yeah, but then it's a tooling / organisational issue at your workplace and not a JS issue.
I remember switching to cjb.net because you could get free wildcard email accounts for your domain.
Ah! Makes sense now, thank you.
If your business model depends on a continuous growth curve where your profitability point is more than two years away... you may be planning for an exit in 18 months.

The only reliable long term growth curves so far are world population and global average temperature.
A Few Words on Testing
Buy a new car to avoid a violent confrontation with the police! /s
Is there a streaming app that doesn't block screenshots?
I think the same, this is disadvantageous long run, but I'm not in power and the people in power appear to be complete morons with little understanding of history or nuance.

I'm pretty sure we're rapidly heading into a West vs China military conflict. I think part of the reason we've held rates higher for longer is that it hurts China more than the West as a way to undermine the Chinese economy. Coupled with the sanctions the West is getting ready for a 'timing attack'. But if the West is wrong and loses that war then we're effed. I would prefer a graceful stepping down from world hegemon and taking our seat at a multipolar world where we can focus on getting our own house in order. But obviously those in charge have other incentives.
I think this is a phenomenon with a lot of variance. I'm able to read in my dreams and look at clocks. I don't recall whether or not I've ever looked at my hands in my dreams, but I also don't recall seeing sixteen fingers on my hand. What I can't ever seem to do is turn lights on or off, which is apparently a common thing.

I don't know that it's necessarily the case that there's a strong relationship between the way these models work and the way human brains, particularly dreaming, work.
Buying in bulk as always been a way to “defeat the odds”.

MIT student purchased tickets in bulk until they weren’t allowed to
Did you purposefully omit a license?

I really do wish GitHub would prompt its repo owners "did you forget a license?", but I also wish it would prompt them for adding "topics" to enhance discovery and I guess I'll just continue to hold my breath on those
It had 2.4 billion unique WiFi networks, and 64 million unique cell networks:

https://location.services.mozilla.com/stats
Monomorphization can be manually addressed in Rust by writing generic function impls as delegating to a single function where the generic pameters are partily or fully omitted - a kind of "polymorphization". This is a pretty common pattern, e.g. in the Rust std library. In more recent versions of Rust this can be expanded via the use of const generics, e.g. to express the size and alignment of a generic type parameter, where the implementation only depends on these. So this kind of "polymorphization" can be applied more broadly.
So what if China has 7nm chips now, there's no Huawei it can make them 'at scale' https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/19/huaweis_advanced_chip...
Art of deception is pretty good. He did a few "art of " books (intrusion, invisibility).
the question is incorrect. they -can- spell. sometimes very long phrases. five letter words should have no issue. have you tried using ideogram? or even just dalle3 prompted well? https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1765091085943218571

in other words.. what have you actually tried? be specific.
sf is the most heavily mapped & learned area by tech companies in the whole world
Because they can only generate something that looks LIKE the thing.

Generating a cat that looks LIKE a cat is fine because there are differences between cats.

The problem is that you can't make something that looks LIKE a letter K, it needs to satisfy the rules of K and can't just look LIKE a K and not some made up character.

They're LIKE generators and have trouble with the bits that need to be exact.
Steal These Surface Duo Ideas
Sure. Let the auto manufacturers also leak your biometrics along with all the shit they collect on you.
https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/data-structures/s-tree/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RIPMQQRBWk
Which is why it's a political question of how much control two large American companies should have in daily Swedish life.

For example, I want the courts to be able to step in in case of a disagreement between me and Apple or Google, while the ToS says the company is free to decide.

I want the law to prohibit the collection of user information other than what is needed for basic functionality. The Google Play ToS specifically says they will develop an advertising profile for my phone even if logged out, and I disagree with it.

I also want the ToS for basic use for daily life to not change unless the government has agreed with the changes, similar to how my bank, power, and phone providers are regulated.

I think I could agree to the ToS with those changes. I do not think it is beyond the pale to consider restrictions which are already applied to other services essential to daily life.
I believe there are two "obvious" theories on how sleepwalking may occur:

- Sleep paralysis doesn't properly activate, and someone accidentally transfers the motion of walking into real life. proprioception may pass through to the dream, they might perceive a dream environment that allows them to navigate the real one. (i.e. righting themself from bed, staying upright while walking)

- They aren't fully asleep, but they aren't awake/aware either. I've had my fair share of people telling me that I said or did things after waking up and before immediately going back to sleep, and those are things I don't remember doing at all, probably because they weren't properly recorded in memory because my brain was not fully awake. (Some of these cases could have been DID though.)
I personally have been looking for "explain it like I'm a CS PhD with lots of experience and the ability to look stuff up". But I suspect your summary would be pretty handy as well.
The brilliant pebbles were supposed to be stationed in orbit. What I'm talking about is simply an upgrade of the current ground based missile defense. The immense capacity of the Starship makes this possible. It also completely reverses the old cost calculus of offsense-defense in the ICBM space: in the past you could simply counteract an attempt at a comprehensive missile defense system by building one thousand more ICBMs, and if that was not enough, two thousand or ten thousand. It was cheaper to add one more ICBM than to add the capability to stop it.

In the near future that will stop being the case. The ICBM has to have, after all, a nuke, and a nuke will never be very cheap. The kill vehicle is simply a block of steel, or some other metal. A maneuverable one, but still, a much cheaper piece of equipment than a nuclear warhead. By the way, the fancy term for the nuclear warhead is "reentry vehicle", and, as the name implies, it has to be build to withstand the tremendous shocks of reentering the atmosphere. Not so with a kill vehicle: if it needs to reenter the atmosphere it means it failed to do its job and it's not needed anymore.

Of course, Russia and China have seen the writing on the wall, and that's why they started looking for alternate ways of delivering nukes. I'm talking here about hypersonic, nuclear capable, weapons.

Regardless, my point is that in the near future, SpaceX will get some eye-popping contracts from the Pentagon, and specifically for missile defense reasons.
Without using a AI, I can say with certainty there is a text where “delicately” is applied to a “cotton ball” related to the “handling” concept. I’ve just asked ChatGPT about a child’s day in an african village and the result is something taken from a fairy tale with an african spin. Leaving an LLM in charge of that aspect in a game, would probably lead to the hand problem we have with image generators.
Looks intriguing, have to check it out.
This isn't true. The majority of countries are much younger than this. The thousand year old ones are the exceptions.

Many countries have an 'origin story' which implies that they are the same thing as random countries or regions which had similar names/languages/locations but in the vast majority cases these are something between a loose approximation and a myth.
> I don't think I learned the lesson I was supposed to.

Yeah... I won $1mil with $10k
For some shows like Seinfeld, the widescreen "HD remastered" version show extras standing in for the shows star in some scenes. There is no way to remove this, as the original narrower 4:3 aspect ratio would only show part of their hair.
Until a computer can solve the problem “how to redesign this particular database design (tables/partitioning/indexes/queries) so that it can handle expected load in next 5 years” I can safely assume it does not hold :)
Now that is a name I haven't heard in a long time. I had a Dragon Ball Z website using that domain, feels so long ago.
Many articles/videos available about how Midjourney can spell since version 6.

https://medium.com/community-driven-ai/midjourney-can-spell-...
The journal editor should run a language model to detect if the paper includes some placeholder or instruction for a language model. Unfortunately they did not.
Check notes.... World population? We're in for a rude awakening.
It's interesting seeing it parallels the problems with .tks today-- I remember using cjb.net to make my own LOVE@AOL websites and phish AOL users telling them that a crush liked their account. Easiest money a 12 year old ever made.
If one company has a monopoly on faucets, another has one on pipes, another has one on valves, you're trying to argue that there is plenty of competition for "plumbing supplies" but that doesn't help you if you need a faucet and there's only one supplier.

Notice how your argument, if true, would defeat the point of the monopoly. If there were ten books that were all fungible with one another then each of the suppliers would want to lower prices to increase sales and you'd end up at the marginal cost, which for digital products is zero. And sometimes this even happens -- there is a lot of free-as-in-beer software, free-with-ads news websites etc. But the context of lending libraries is for when that isn't the case. You don't need to get a copy of nginx from the local library because you can get it for free from the authors.
Many of the heuristics given to us by evolutionary psychology optimize not for happiness but for passing genes onto the next generation.
> Guix started as a fork of Nix

This is not actually correct. Guix only ever used a copy of the nix-daemon, because there's no point in reinventing the derivation format or the low-level implementation of functional package management; no other part of nix/nixpkgs has been used to make Guix.
The basic math is also dramatically worse, and much more challenging for entry level participants to grasp. The basic idea of matrix math grows dramatically more complex just in terms of sheer number operations. You might be able to get away with your entire app only needing a couple mults or adds for most interaction in 2D. Basic 3D, closer to 150 mults (usually 3 [4x4] mults at 49 mults per [4x4] pair) for the default.

In 2D apps and games, you can often get away with incredibly simplistic calculations. Rarely much other than a translation. Many times 1D with naively obvious solutions. With 3D, you rapidly need to move to 4D matrices than can handle arbitrary scale, translate, rotate, perspective, clip volumes.

Nearly every 3D app anywhere has to handle the model, to world, to camera, to clip space path, which involves a lot of complex math well beyond most 2D apps. Usually, 3 different matrix mults with 4x4 matrices.

v_world = M⋅v_model
v_camera = V⋅M⋅v_model
v_clip = P⋅V⋅M⋅v_model

v_clip = [[P00,...,P30],[...],[...],[P30,...,P33]] ⋅ [V00...V33] ⋅
[M00...M33] ⋅ [m00...m33]

It's one of the main reasons voxels have been the only real 3D implementation with large scale use. The amount of work necessary to develop, ... really anything that works with 3D is a large step upward in difficulty unless its totally regular and square. Otherwise, huge numbers of optimizations are no longer available. Plus, the compression cliff for normal users of effectively arbitrary 3D shape design and movement is really steep. Most first time users of an industry 3D CAD package (ProE, Solidworks, AutoCAD, Maya, 3DSMax, Blender, ect...) or similar have the "wall of difficulty" moment.

Edited: dumb math error
It's you who doesn't make much sense in this thread.

> released within the last 3–5 years

So, pretty much only the very fresh devices then.

> have L1,L2,L5 GPS chipsets

That's not going to reduce cold TTFF to seconds without online assistance (which, by the way, is not what MLS is about).

> work not only with the "original" GPS but also Galileo, QZSS and others

Same as above. None of the constellations or assistance data help when you can't see the sky.

> then the rapid adoption of Apple's FindMy network (and the equivalent for Google) surely cannot have escaped your attention

How is it relevant and how can it be used by anyone who isn't Apple or Google?

> The reality is there is fast becoming no need for a third-party service such as the one Mozilla provided

The reality is that I'm not aware of any currently existing alternatives to MLS that could be used by Geoclue or microG, which provide non-GNSS location on many phones out there, which is essential to provide anything resembling a good user experience when it comes to location. The opposite of what you said is true - there's a rapidly growing need for this kind of service as more FLOSS starts to be used on mobile phones.
This is a good point. Some orthodox Jewish denominations find
themselves in the same situation.

But I'd actually like to argue against that.

I wrote here [0] that we ought not conflate technology morals with
religion.

It's important to give room to traditional religious beliefs,
reasonable lifestyle choices and secular ethical stances. All are
important.

Saying this as someone who is a practising Christian humanist but was
also once an active secular humanist/rationalist-sceptic.

For most of us it would be best (in the face of all sorts of unknowns
coming down the pipe in the guise of AI etc) to establish the primacy
of secular ethical choice around technology.

I don't boycott Big-Tech because "Jesus told me to". It's because
they're dirty criminals and gangsters who I don't want to give money
to. I don't go without a smartphone because "God forbids it". It's
because I fundamentally object to being under 24/7 surveillance and
having to carry "papers" like in some vicious tinpot dictatorship.

These are just common, secular civic and personal moral choices.

I am surprised that we aren't doing more to stand up for them, and
very surprised that Sweden (and Finland and Estonia) of all places
have such a blind-spot around social rights and respect for different
opinions and lifestyles.

[0] https://techwrongs.org/2023/03/06/microsoft-is-not-a-religio...
"93% of statistics on the internet are just made up." -- Abraham Lincoln
Ah, sorry I misinterpreted you before. Yes, these are std's abstractions to organize your Nix code and gradually 'grow' your solution. Rationale and explainers on these concepts are more spread about in the docs. The 'sales pitch' is another high-level txt than the one you passed on why to use std.

(PS. This cell breakdown reminded me a bit of Atomic Design for front-end UI to make that easier.)
But then who would pay OpenAI to keep building bigg- I mean, smarter models?
Thanks for reading! Now, how is a mandatory security update an organizational issue?
An issue introduced by macOS 14.4, which causes Java process to terminate unexpectedly, is affecting all Java versions from Java 8 to the early access builds of JDK 22

If this affects so many versions of Java and nobody notices, is anyone even using Java on macOS?
Wow, that's a huge design flaw. Such a number should be opaque (the Dutch BSN is), but Sweden's number just puts the date of birth and gender in the number there for all to see.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identity_number_(Swed...
It's not like writing where it grabs a virtual pen and draws the letters one by one, or types the letters one by one. The image is diffused everywhere at once, and if you for example close your eyes and imagine the word "generation" in symbols as an image, it's quite difficult to visualise all the details in the right order in the right detail and so on. The model does it in multiple layers but starts with a slightly defined "hunch" in full image size and just makes the initial hunch more legible with each layer
Don't get your hopes up. Europe, Japan and S Korea are aging quicker and more countries are sympathetic to China than the US.

The time to clip China's wings was the late 90s, but we were too drunk on triumphalism and busy looting Russia.
What does this mean? Downvoting this submission? Why?