skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just a poster being presented at a niche AHA sub-division meeting from some researchers in China trolling the US based NHANES data

It's presenting to present, just part of the game of academics, and it does not represent an opinion of the conference sponsor (AHA) at all

edit: here is the link to the abstract for anyone interested https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/20343/presentation/37...
You meant your CEO or business investor? Just fake phish them and shame them like fools
> hundred comments parroting how dangerous this is

And every time a similar post or question is made the same responses are parroted again.

I’ve read so much Reddit in college that I would play a game where id try to guess what the top voted comments would say. After a while it becomes tiring to read the same things over and over again.
Well, I believe they are serious about privacy, despite constant insinuations that they are not.

I believe that Cook is totally serious, because he's a gay man who supports his community of shared interest. If there's one community that has some serious "skin in the game," when it comes to privacy, it's gay folks. There's places in the world, where it's worth your life, to be outed.

But he's just one man, and no spring chicken. His successor may not be as vigilant. Also, Peter Thiel runs Palantir, so there's that.
I don't even know you and I'm jealous :)
What is this monstrosity. This is the first time I see software that runs in docker-compose but has to be installed with a setup.sh run as root. What the hell is wrong with those people? Whatever setup steps are required, put them in the container!
I've never noticed this Terminal.app behavior (copy without C-c) outside of tmux. Interesting.
Do you really believe the US doesn’t lead in any area?
…or called Carbon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_(programming_language)
I did - this doesn't match my experience at all.
It's always funny to see a joke repeatedly go woosh over the supposedly intelligent HN userbase. Thank you for the laugh!
They're against the building code around here.
This system would also need to account for special relativity. Is that possible if using discreet time? Maybe it is if you can eventually reconcile all frames of reference… But I’m not sure how you’d compute all frames of reference at once since they… Well, kind of happen on different timelines, so to speak. Though I could be misunderstanding how special relativity works in relation to some kind of universal state tracking system which uses discreet time units as its timeline.
This is always disheartening to hear.

I’m a principal engineer at a FAANG-like company and was told a similar: promotions unlikely if you’re remote.

Granted the next level up is hard to get even if I’m in office.

I’m remote for health reasons but at the same time no competing company has more interesting work for me while also being remote.

So I find myself wanting to coast more because what’s the point of exceeding?
Roughly 30k cycles is typical.
You can certainly design a spring to have infinite life. But it requires reducing average deflection, aka more spring with less deflection per turn.
I guess the first AGI will not be connected to anything thus it will be shut down right away if it wants to kill us?

I think...
I don't know, but if you asked about 5 years ago, people would have told you that the plant-based meat "arena" is growing exponentially and you MUST invest in the early adopters (Beyond Meat, Impossible). Same with cannabis (Tilray, Med Men).
I'm sure a lot of people are already doing that.

I doubt this response will ever become dominant, in part because the tool is already really useful despite its limitations.

I'm not sure how it's going to shake out, given the tools are not likely to be static.
lots of snide comments about how expensive splunk is, can anyone provide illustrative numbers vs alternatives, for the uninitiated?
I'll admit that I'm impressed it was able to one-shot create a solution to such a complex search problem.
But maritime and air traffic is not personal, it's factual professional traffic. You're invading no one's privacy by listening to it, and if you're allowed to monitor ADS-B and AIS why not the voice version which conveys similar information?

And even messages to other traffic isn't officially allowed? That doesn't make sense. In fact pilots are always encouraged to monitor all radio traffic even the messages not meant for them as it builds a valuable picture of the traffic around them and its intentions. This saves lives on a regular basis.

Besides it being unenforceable it also would seem a bad idea to discourage it.
Life's dangerous.
> I don't know, but that's how I understood the discussion - I tried to explain why the Postgres optimizer makes this choice, and why planning this type of queries (LIMIT + WHERE) is a hard problem in principle.

That may be a hard problem. If it is, then a harder problem still is limit + order by. That's why I almost always tell people that limit is not what you want and probably never should be used outside of ad-hoc data exploration.
In a big corporation, 100% yes. In a smaller, nimbler company, you’ll do more of what you love.
Unmaintainability? You should see the stuff some of my colleagues write. I'm fairly certain GPT could outperform them in the readability/maintainability department at this point.
I'd like to play around with something like this, but from my understanding my machine (Macbook, 2021 M1) isn't nearly powerful enough (right?). Are there remote/cloud environments where I can run models like this?
No its what happens when the government is involved in any way.

Power will be seized by the powerful. Take the power away from the government.

Think about all the meddling the government has done in the economy for the last few decades and where all the money has gone.
It's like you've never played an early access game
I think you missed the context of what I was responding to, which was about whether databases could even have micro-benchmarks.

You also missed the word "Obsolete" splattered all over the website you sent me, and the text that TPC-B was "Obsolete as of 6/6/95".
We've transitioned from "most people were farmers" to "most people make stuff" to "most people are in services". Both transitions eliminated the majority of jobs. By corralary I'd be willing to bet that robots increase employment rather than decrease it.

But i wouldn't give very great odds.
I'm sure that there's a bunch of CEOs, drooling over the thought of firing all their engineers, and doing everything with AI.

That may actually work.

For a year or two.

Then, the engineers that learn to leverage AI, and add their own skills, will knock those folks into the skip.

Personally, I'm having a difficult time, integrating AI stuff into my work; but that's more because the stuff I do, and the platforms I use, are currently not a particularly rich AI substrate. I suspect that will rapidly change, and I'm looking forward to seeing what I can do.
TLDR; If you get a concussion, don't do nothing and rest, but rather continue doing your daily routine. It'll help you recover faster
Efficient Parallel Download for Car Music MP3 Playlist
I found a new way to massive download music from YouTube. On command search and downloads thousands of mp3 files for use in your car. It works only with Linux so far.
It may start out that way, if we assume the best of people, but if it does a decent enough job, they will be less and less review as time goes on.

Most people can't even be bothered to read a function they copy off StackOverflow to understand what it does, it's not a stretch to believe they aren't going to bother reading a whole paper.

>Not exactly the same, but instead of my co-workers just pasting “LGTM” on everything, I’d probably prefer an LLM review.

You could do your own LLM review before sending it to your co-workers, if you'd like that kind of review. It may catch basic syntax stuff or suggest ways to write something differently, but it won't catch bigger issues of logic or "is this a good idea". I'll admit to a lot of LGTM reviews going around in my team, but last week I saw someone make something extreme dangerous and the review stopped it from rolling out to prod. I am almost 100% certain an LLM would have said LGTM, as it was written fine and did exactly what it said it would do... it was just a horrible idea to do that thing.
I would pay extra for a robot that runs on a local hardware — there would be a market for that, for sure. People need privacy.

An expensive/bulky GPU doesn't have to be built in the robot body itself — it could be a box mounted somewhere in the house with the wireless connection to the robot body.

I am sure at some point there will be hardware that would protect model vendors from extracting/copying the model weights, like on-chip encryption when doing inference or something.

Or maybe there will be GPUs with homomorphic encryption¹, so everything will be end-to-end encrypted, and it will be safe to compute in the cloud without compromising user privacy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
> humanoid or otherwise

I think that's the key. I like my Roomba, and I didn't have to take out a loan to get it. Humanoid robots will always be more expensive than a Roomba. Short of heavy subsidies, no amount of scale will change that.
> AI is trained on the past.

Yes, unless models are being live fine-tuned, but generally yes.

>What we call AI today does not use reason

I don’t think this is correct- I think it’s more accurate to say it reasons on its priors rather than from first principles.

For the most part, I agree with the rest of your post.
It’s not just the lack of safety. It is all the insane gaggle of features, from the multipage errors from template errors to “diamond inheritance” to experts yelling at each other over temporary lifetimes.

The language has always been a dumpster fire. The best thing I can say about it is that is spurred development of many other languages to get away from it.
Yeah, I’m still debating whether I go with a Mac Studio with the RAM maxed out (approx $7500 for 192 GB) or a PC with a 4090. Is there a better value path with the Nvidia A series or something else? (I’m not sure about tibygrad)
> Got a call demanding immediate payment of a past-due PG&E bill? It could be a scam

Anything that wants you to act now is almost certainly a scam; it's a common psychological trick.

Anything that adds garbage to my copy-and-paste buffer, though, deserves the same level of vitriol.
Alternatively they want to know who to ban when the RIAA inevitably starts suing the shit out of music generators.
Yeah, I get it. I'm not making an argument about banning the stuff in new construction.
In Boston they peaked at selling for well over 500k. Your math assume drivers purchase them, but most drivers here would lease them.
I need to and will learn about this domain.
Splunk was obscenely expensive when we got a quote a number of years ago. I was expecting very high but if I recall correctly, it was an order of magnitude greater than that.

Unfortunately, Graylog seems to be taking their post-OSS playbook from Splunk as well.

Also interested in non-insane competition.
It is, and quite well. And it is effective. But to make the really deep investment cost effective, it needs to be in the ninety percentile effective, and where we're sitting, right now, in the EW and sensor environment we're currently in, it's likely to be less than that, as low as a 40%. You can see this in the mobilizations we've seen to date. We try to keep them away from China close EW coverage, for good reason. You'll note Israel hasn't mobed the F-35I variant against anyone besides Gaza[0]. Again, for good reason.

Now, please let me be clear. If I am in the pilot seat, and I have a forty percent lower chance of being blown into flash-fried gibbets, I will be overjoyed. I will be blissful. The technologies are super cool, and, in spite of what could be called a rocky development path, they came out the other side with what looks like a usable platform, maybe even an excellent one. But, big picture, if I have a platform that costs a hundred times more[1], and it improves my rates from 5:1 to 9.2:1, taken on the whole . . that was not an optimal use of treasure and materiel. If it was flown out in 2009? Yeah, probably 20:1 exchange rates. It's not 2009 . . there's been a LOT of tech movement (hence the importance of Block 4).

The bitch of it is, I'm not even complaining against stealth all that much. I'm mostly bitching about the program management, not measuring spares, not checking if a widget worked yet before signing it off. Cheap stealth can be had, especially nowadays. And when it goes below a much lower cost threshold, it's even worth it - look at the NSM, after all, cheap stealth is incredibly deadly on a cruise missile or anything that needs to get in the enemy's face, that needs to close the range. But I'll be surprised if the cost of the 35 turns out to be worth it, as cool as it might be.

Eh, but who knows? Prominent defense talky talky type people have said that you're a fool for having opinions about the 35. So I'll just sit here being a fool, when it undoubtedly spanks the entire mainland PLAN/AF and we fly back home with geostrategic supremacy balanced on a whole squadron of fifty-foot erections. That would be grand - I would be a fool for any length of time to make that happen.

[0] Maybe Beirut, maybe maybe Iraq, although in the second instance there's a question as to who they were actually shooting at. But Gaza for sure - third parties saw that one. None of those are even in the same continent as a peer competitor air defense.

[1] Yes yes yes I know full rate production assuming 1000 units the flyaway cost per unit F35 is super duper ultra Costco cheap, 35m or whatever they're claiming now, but I'm talking "whole program" costs. Even using the Costco metaphor, buying the forty pound sack of tomatoes might be real cheap per tomato, but I'm only using two of those tomatoes - in the end I spend forty bucks for two tomatoes. I got some opinions about the whole concept of "flyaway cost", but that's another conversation.
I used a Craftsman radial arm saw for a while. One day, I rotated the head 90 degrees to do some ripping.

The saw grabbed the wood, and climbed up on it, and fired it at unbelievable speed at the wall. It punched a neat hole in the wall the exact size of the board, and the board disappeared into the next room.

I got rid of the saw after that, and bought a sweet Makita cutoff saw instead, and a table saw for ripping. I also bought one of those full face shields people use with chain saws. I like these better than the usual shields because they are a wire mesh, and screens don't fog up.
Why is it perfectly reasonable to discriminate against the computer? Would the same apply to someone - with equivalent photographic memory - who listens to a ton of music and is thus inspired?
The elephant in the room is that these "What is Oscar up to? If only I could glance at their monitor… If only I could see their facial expression… If only I could spitball ideas within earshot of him." problems would also be solved with everyone in office. Don't shoot me tho, I'm just a messenger. I love remote work. But the friction is tough.
Hard pass. Happy to leave edible bugs to the globalists, I'll keep my steak, thanks.
> Personally I'm convinced something happened in my body that made everything easier while I was "sick".

There's evidence that shows major life events can lead to it being easier to adopt changes in behavior, like a new habit of healthy eating and regular exercise.

> I've tried all kinds of weight loss strategies but it just seems so much harder than it was back then.

If it's not too forward and you can adhere to it, I would suggest tracking everything you eat. Given some (1-2 weeks) of baseline data collection, make some tweaks to the macronutrient composition (protein/fat/carbs) of your diet. From that play with it until you find what you need to feel "full" in what you eat and in a way that is sustainable.

I may be strange in that I'm happy eating the same thing all the time. I don't think this is a simple or straight forward process, but approaching it with curiosity and rigor seems to have worked well for me.
I loved splunk when I worked somewhere a VC was paying the bill.

For my own project I could never really understand which of their various offerings was the one I needed, let alone could afford.

That said, watching someone really good with splunk use it is like music. It’s beautiful.
Why is lex controversial?
Chrome already uses PGO: https://blog.chromium.org/2020/08/chrome-just-got-faster-wit...
yeah expect this to flip. i am guessing this will go like “https” path. first we will saw green lock for https enabled sites, later we saw insecure for http sites.
Breast self-exams aren't recommended anymore. Here's why.
I can't see human-like robots being the way forward

It seems like a human-like form the best way forward for robots that will assist in the home -- pretty much everything in the home (including humans themselves) is designed around the human form factor.
Even a car-priced robot would be a paradigm shift. No subsidies needed.
ted nelson calls it "cybercrud", blaming the machine as if it has the final say on the matter, "the system won't let me..."
When we first moved into our house the neighbor kid made sure we knew where the nearest Waffle House was. It’s on Peachtree (Industrial).
Are you the GPT here?
In a world without an increasing population (which will happen in ~2050) and indeed in a world where many countries area already in population decline, it is labour that is the scarce resource.

Once the population isn't growing, the only way to increase the level to which peoples' needs are met is through productivity increases.

Imagine how much labour would be required to meet the needs of every human to the level at which only the mega rich currently enjoy.

Now imagine that, as those needs are met, new needs and desires evolve.

The work is never ending.
For what it's worth, this is already a genre of YouTube video, and I happen to find it absolutely hilarious:

https://youtu.be/3oWFFAVYMec

https://youtu.be/aL1f6w-ziOM
The video looks like the kind of corporate promo video they show in scifi movies before the robots try to destroy humanity.
The old Mac Plus had a screen resolution of 512x342. His screen is 512x384 (4:3), which is why there's that extra blank space at the bottom of 3D Checkers and Mac Paint. I think the Color Classic (1993) was the first compact Mac with a built-in screen to have a normal 4:3 resolution of 512x384.

But I guess I can let that one thing slide considering how incredible the rest of the build is!
Using the electric field was indeed possible when megawatt TV stations were still a thing. You could light a tiny bulb or ccfl tube with it. Though at those frequencies you'd need a seriously long loop to heat water. I've been told farmers next to the TV tower would do it with their perimeter fence.

But these days with DVB the big several megawatt VHF towers covering a whole region have been replaced with smaller base stations running only 10-20kW and usually covering the local city area only.
Cardiovascular and mood responses to an acute bout of cold water immersion
"Making Movies" by Sidney Lumet was really helpful for me in a few different ways. I think it should be required reading for anyone creating with a team.
look how many submissions this person has posted? some kind of bot that posts any article with keywords?
Can confirm above comment. Only thing close we can buy is permethrin impregnated clothes for mosquitoes. No permethrin anything otherwise. I have some, but only because I had my sister ship it from the states. Blows my mind that you can buy up to 36% permethrin by the jug down there
There are at least 5 countries with stated full autonomous, no human intervention weapons, that are presumably active right now. It is widely suspected there are many more.
I agree, the middle one is pretty good. I also love the part of the video where the singer's head appears to be on fire...she's literally smoking! https://youtu.be/mfFV3Cm_Kow?si=R2gU1U4qfkzW04cX&t=48
There is a non-zero probability that this is literally going to murder someone.
Really shows how in aggregate, the HN crowd is really becoming more and more part of the “incumbent” these days. It is both ironic (for a startup-focused community), but also expected (has been 20+ years and the original YC startups are the old mega companies building regulatory capture now).
Steve Jobs once wrote something like this when he was high I believe.

I did not invent English or the alphabet, I didn’t grow my own food, etc.
Thanks. This looks promising!
> 70% sounds a bit high but I can accept it

One meta-source for this is Prossimo[0]. They link to multiple vendor reports that range from 60 - 90%.

> Writing safe code in C is HARD but possible. Especially with good tooling.

I don’t disagree in theory, but I think it is so hard as to be impractical in almost every case. So, other than maintaining a legacy code base, why try at this point when other options are available?

0 - https://www.memorysafety.org/docs/memory-safety/#how-common-...
Gaining kernel code execution on an MTE-enabled Pixel 8
Any links to videos that currently have this status?
Every time I get ants around my desk I notice their strong, unpleasant smell (probably formic acid, but maybe some alkanes?). If I even brush a surface they've walked across, I can smell it. It's quite unpleasant and I can't imagine wanting to use it in cooking.
There's no BBSes now, no. There once were, I often used F6FBB's amazing BBS software though I never ran one full time. But many people did. We had all night chat sessions at a time where phone BBSes cost serious money to use.

These days packet is boring as hell, nobody chats anymore. It's just aprs position messages that nobody bothers to look at :(
There have been some interesting social engineering cases where AI generated coworkers (executives) are used in Zoom calls to approve the transfer of funds

We'd have to extend this with the concept of a multi-sig wallet to unlock processes or transactions
> basic_string_view is new in C++17. It sure beats pointers, but it’s a far cry from the kind of safety that you get in essentially any other language (except C): it is a reference with unknown lifetime, and the toolchain does not help track that lifetime.

I a decade of writing C++ I never experienced dangling pointer bugs _until_ I started using string_view. Using it safely in multi-threaded environments is damn near impossible. I now don't let them escape the enclosing scope, and if I have to then I make a std::string from it.