skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have stated facts, not opinions. Facts can be falsified, opinions cannot. If you list a single statement I've stated that is an opinion, or a false fact please do point it out. In any case, we're in a old thread buried deep, this chat is between just you, I, and bots. And once again I don't think you believe what you are saying. A simple example would be looping back to the original discussion - Trump. These were Trump's final Tweets (which were oddly enough censored, though can now be viewed plainly since Musk restored his account):

---

- "I am asking everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the party of Law & Order - respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!"

- "Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!"

- During his speech prior to the riots he also said, "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard today."

---

So is Trump now very firmly a believer in peaceful protest? Or is it now somehow different because it's somebody you have a negative view of saying such things, and not somebody you have a positive view of saying such things?
His prediction is wrong. He buttonholed it to a few specific days, and missed that window.

As for prior predictions, I went back 6 months. None of his predictions panned out.

Although, admittedly, it's a bit difficult for me to figure out what actually constitutes a prediction since most of them tend to be the kind of vague generality that's hard to grade: "The Mars-Mercury-Jupiter conjunction on 22 September can result in a strong shake later on 23 or 24 September."--what's a "strong shake"? "Stronger seismic activity is likely to occur in the coming days"? These are the kinds of predictions that are worded vaguely enough to be dismissed if they don't come true, and can be highlighted as a miracle of prediction if something does happen.

(I haven't even attempted to grade location because I can't even tell what's supposed to be suggested as possible locations. As noted elsewhere, even guessing that a M6+ earthquake is likely in the next few days isn't a difficult guess, because they'll occur more or less weekly: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/browse/m6-world.php?...).
> (like a high-trust environment like Sweden)

You maybe don't know that Sweden is consistently near the top of shoplifting statistics in Europe.
You mean a 64bit architecture literally cannot handle an 8bit instruction as its smallest register is 16bit without swapping modes?

This is an architectural problem not an OS constraint.

And they're completely correct to abandon this software in my honest opinion as the developers already have.

If you need this run a 32bit VM under the 64bit OS so the virtualised CPUs can handle the 16bit application.
That has almost never been true for me. Every time I take something off paint chips
Creating code is the lowest level of programming.

Deleting code is much more refined.

Preventing code is sublime.
Are you suggesting that the difference in skill level between a burger flipper and an accountant is purely subjective?
I didn’t want to pipe up right when it happened with my non-expertise but seriously, that Odysseus lander seemed liked a pretty dumb design. Of course it tipped over. Come on
As others mention; cloud is a big problem; anything you depend on in the cloud will probably not exist in 10 years in the way you are using it now. It will be switched off, changed (pivoted they call it) or out priced so you cannot use it anymore.
I can do that manually with existing tools in half an hour. Endpoints change very rarely, once you setup your "view" of that endpoint you are mostly done for a long time, with some smaller changes over time.

Also if I wanted to go AI route, I can ask Cloude Opus or GPT4 : "Here is an endpoint that returns this type of data <paste data type here>, make me a React component that fetches this data and presents it in searchable table using shadcn"

It will get me 80-90% there, it would need just a little manual tweaking to conform to the current project code standards.
That doesn't work at all in California.
Shell is evil mainly because it's so old. It's largely unchanged since 1978 and had to run on incredibly resource limited machines. What it could achieve on those machines was amazing. Tradeoffs would be different today, e.g. PowerShell.
> and most content creators get paid a pittance compared to what they did in the old world.

fairly per the effort I'd say. previously content required a camera crew and helicopters. now a smartphone among the limitless content creators
Yes, but the Group Policy editor has superceded it in many ways.
It is ok for others to fail, don't put pressure on them. It isn't ok for you yourself to fail, put pressure on yourself, at least if you want to outdo others.
You won't have it anyway. An rfid tag tag placed on any conductor (apples are conductors because of their water content) 'detunes' the tag and makes it impossible to read
Large appliances can also be monitored via energy use back at the panel with a device like Sense: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/sense/

This can detect an inductive load like an AC/fridge/freezer compressor or washing machine motor. Something small and purely resistive like a rice cooker might be more challenging, but certainly a Sense does get you a long way.
> I think bans are a pretty terrible idea. It implies that the alternatives aren't good enough.

That could be true but we can't say for certain because the market is already so incredibly distorted by oil and gas subsidies.

Automobiles in general are insanely subsidized in the form of state funded road infrastructure.

There's nothing free market about transportation, especially in North America.
Thanks for moderating it, I figured it was too good to be true that none were horrifying/"ear rape" without manual moderation. Out of complete curiosity, what type of things are you finding the need to filter out/remove the most?
Another way to look at it is that using this object will result in undefined behavior up to and including making demon's fly out of your nose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undefined_behavior
Actually, this is a good thing for auto manufacturers. We all know that fossil fuel powered vehicles aren't the future. Setting a cut off date gives certainty to the market, enables them to plan more effectively, and for third party suppliers to also plan accordingly.
Echoes of Haskell's `accursedUnutterablePerformIO` https://hackage.haskell.org/package/bytestring-0.10.8.1/docs... :

This \"function\" has a superficial similarity to 'unsafePerformIO' but
it is in fact a malevolent agent of chaos. It unpicks the seams of reality
(and the 'IO' monad) so that the normal rules no longer apply. It lulls you
into thinking it is reasonable, but when you are not looking it stabs you
in the back and aliases all of your mutable buffers. The carcass of many a
seasoned Haskell programmer lie strewn at its feet.
Do not talk about \"safe\"! You do not know what is safe!
Yield not to its blasphemous call! Flee traveller! Flee or you will be
corrupted and devoured!
Good channel, I just get most of what he says.
Alcohol prohibition worked perfectly in the US, except that hard liquor usage skyrocketed for some reason, but I bet that had nothing to do with the prohibition itself.
So, which LLMs are the best for building a AI chatbot?
Why did they lose the bishops rather than knights? Seems like if you were simplifying the game for early computers to learn, that's the move (remove the one piece that moves weird.)
Octopus v2: On-device language model for super agent
Or the worst is "here is a custom build of clang which ignores all private variables so you don't have to worry about it".
As technically literate people we forget just how little regular people understand about computers.

For most people devices are literal black boxes beyond the UI. If an app doesn't load, I can imagine a dozen reasons why that might be happening, and what I could do to fix it.

You can teach a regular person to click "clear cache", few will understand what it means.

I have always understood that incognito mode doesn't stop websites from tracking me. It said so on the incognito new tab page. But expecting regular people to comprehend that text is stupid. They don't understand the mechanisms of local cache and cookies and trackers. It is not unreasonable for them to expect "private mode" to... be private.

Most users are not "computer people": https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/wo5jfq/reminder_t...
It is almost here. Computer vision combined with some secret sauce that is cheaper than RFID that Walmart is asking supplier to implement.

https://kioskindustry.org/walmart-self-checkout/
Tough and righteous is fair and just when you are in the middle class with the resources to make choices benefiting the environment vs your family
I forgot to add that rfid tags placed on conductors are hard to read so food is a specially hard product to work with
great piece, cites some important work
Oh. I assumed the whole point of the post was that it was written by AI and medium.com should be trusted less.

Now I'm not sure
you identified it - Windows & Office.

These two products dominate every non-technical industry. I think MSFT makes mediocre software. But as long as those two gravy trains exist, they'll never lose.
Working in software and fraud, I believe it is better to make it easier for good people to do good things than for bad people to not do bad things. think of Netflix with password sharing and how successful they have been while allowing it
I agree, but with Firewire only and no Windows support, it was not a big seller.
Maybe that "storm" is consequences of unchecked ML, make the rich richer and the powerful more powerful, push the poor out of jobs. I disagree that fair pay is impossible though.
FWIW most of OTel is pretty easy to use and set up too. OTel Operator over K8s that installs autoinstrumentation agents for 5 languages --> pretty easy onboarding.
Skip the PAL step and just go right into SetupRuntime with the arguments. Non-gfx devs don’t know about these things and adding extra steps in your API is unnecessary. Since PAL isn’t used anywhere else. Other than that, I would highly recommend getting on the WebGPU train using wgpu-native or dawn. (IPal should be a member of IRuntime and is ripe for removal for WebGPU context).

Keep it up! Bookmarked.
NPM-confirm: never rewrite commands for pnpm/yarn/etc. ever again
A far in the future ban (2035 in this case) is just an incentive for manufacturers to invest in EVs. Moreover, it will add a little bit of encouragement today for people to buy EVs. The increased demand of EVs will further make EVs more profitable vs ICVs.

Also we literally ban all sorts of technologies whenever they have negative consequences. For DDT to asbestos, to chemical-dumping in rivers, to low quality fuels, etc. This is nothing new.
I think it means that consciousness isn't anything terrifically special and that human level consciousness is just something along the same spectrum with a more complicated model.
Amazon Abandons Just Walk Out
I agree, provided the software isn't network reliant / accessible.

If the software were to explicitly depend on <vulnerable library> and moving to <patched library> broke it that would be the nail in the coffin for me / make me question whether I want to spend the effort maintaining the project.
How is it random if the 3 body problems are chosen to have overlapping ellipses that look beautiful
Search by floppy disk over time. Google trends.

About as expected...

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US&tz=420&dat...
I am listening to some of my minidiscs at this very moment
> This article says some plugin hybrids qualify as 0-emission vehicles, but it’s not clear to me if that’s in all states.

Its true under the “Advanced Clean Cars II” as adopted in CA, which a number of other states have adopted directly (including some states that have modified it by only adopting the timeline through 2032, stopping just short of a total phase-out of non-ZEVs, probably specifically to avoid the headline of “banning sales of gas-powered cars”.)

https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/documents/cars-and-light-tr...

What is a zero-emission vehicle?

Zero-emission vehicles (ZEV), in the context of the Zero-emission Vehicle regulation, include battery electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and fuel cell electric vehicles.
Ask HN: Recommend Book on Molecular Computing?
Hi guys,

Do you have any good book recommendations on molecular computing?

I know nothing about the field and would like to know about what's going on.

Not Introductory texts and comprehensive texts are welcome thanks in advance.

More on the subject — https://www.encyclopedia.com/computing/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/molecular-computing
> there are no real good reasons why cannabis should be prohibited.

Is there any good reason why alcohol should be prohibited?

Regulating the quality of the cannabis on the market is a large win for public health among users of cannabis. In a black market, you can't be really sure what you're buying and people are incentivized to buy a stronger product even if they don't actually need the stronger variant.
The ban is just going to stop you registering a gas/diesel vehicle newer than x.

So if the ban comes into effect in 2030, it will be impossible to register a gas/diesel vehicle that is a 2030 or newer in said state.

Sure, you could register a vehicle in a state or country you don't live in, but that's already illegal.
If AI generated pull requests become a popular thing we'll see the end of public bug trackers.

(not because bugs will be gone - because the cost of reviewing the PR vs the benefit gained to the project will be a substantial net loss)
Company-Building During the AI Wave
People complain either way so just be honest and outright ban it.
Thank you for these excellent links, the added context to that design process is deeply satisfying.
Great suggestion, appreciate it. wgpu is coming!
It's a good thing that's its against the law to use a fake name on the internet.

-Albert Einstein
> It implies that the alternatives aren't good enough.

That's only true in the absence of any market failure, but in this case we have mispriced negative externalities.

EDIT: Changed "unpriced" to "mispriced", since gas taxes exist as pointed out below.
To add to your point, a lot of apartment complexes still don't have the infrastructure to charge electric vehicles.
> JUCE is pretty much the de-facto solution there,

Is it though? iPlug nee wdl-ol nee iPlug2 seems pretty good too. JUCE stuff has a pretty distinct and slightly obnoxious look and feel that takes a fair bit of effort to strip out
This is the exact thing I've personally tried several times and it doesn't work well. But it works with a prompt in our app right now.

Some reasons listed below:

1. Gpt hallucinates shadcn's big data table implementation more often than not. Also, you don't have props for everything by default (page size, filtering, sticky columns etc)

2. We have certain rules we ask our AI to stick to, such as always putting a table in a card and consistent padding. So there's lesser cognitive effort in you thinking about how to style your tools.

3. Current LLMs are shaky with next14 right now, especially on where to use server and client components.
It helps that they also do not read very well and have a very short attention span. It is easier to convince the modern human with very short text ‘prompting’ in video form than writing something. Most people reading this comment will never read this last sentence.
This exists in most UNIQLOs it's the same mechanism through which the alarm goes off when someone attempts to steal things with the magnetic RFID attached.

It's borderline ancient tech. So why is it not applied everywhere? Because stores would rather have you line up and buy stuff from the "impulse aisle" and tip or donate at their PoS (higher rates with an employee glaring at your selection)
AI systems are "trained" using what is scraped from the internet. So if the application domain is well documented then there is a chance that AI might produce working code. But you still need competent programmers to assess whether that code is correct. Writing prompts and tests is likely to remain critical.

My prediction is that specialized domain knowledge plus SWE (with smart use of AI) skills are increasingly going to be the better way to gain employment.
ctrl-f'd for vance and wolfe. was shocked they didn't make it.
Never said it wasn't. Amazon's antics especially are well known. The point here is that data labelling itself isn't fundamentally exploitative, even when leveraging developing countries.
Why does it take so long to get changes to your LLM merged? This is ridiculous. Please appoint Havoc as a maintainer already.
Yes and no. Windows and macOS are still around. But not really in the form I'd like them to be (and they once were).
Really? On a regular disk? I thought the upper limit was ~2.7M
It‘s fun to imagine that Event Horizon is actually in the same universe as Warhammer 40k.

Not only does the plot fit perfectly with the ship going through the warp, the Gothic design matches the aesthetic as well.

Even if not intended, it just works so well.
Would this work for watching video via an Apple TV? Apparently it’s possible to configure the ATV to use SOCKS, but the wireproxy implementation notes mention lack of UDP at the moment. So that would preclude video streaming, correct?
This ban would last exactly one political cycle and everyone knows it.

That’s why it’s suggested for 2035…politicians get to look noble and visionary while bearing none of the actual consequences of the policy actually doing anything.

I would love to hear about a serious government proposal to reduce fuel emissions which starts working before my children graduate from college.
It struck me the other day that post-apocalyptic fiction authors are going to have to really change their game in a while. Imagine rewriting, "The Walking Dead" where half (or more) of the cars were electric.

It does though bring up an interesting question: In the event of natural catastrophe and loss of critical infrastructure due to natural disaster (or brain eating contagions), how does one keep the literal wheels of industry and commerce moving?

Will preppers of the future focus on having gas cars, or having radically self-sufficient sources of electricity for their cars?
> The painful clunkiness of self-checkout was gone.

It could be worse. Imagine a smart gate that refuses to open for wheelchair users, or claims the child in your arms is an unpaid item - something that is getting rolled out in many Australian supermarkets.
the biggest cost is not annotators at the scale you're imagining. it is labor costs.

Amazon bet that the federal govt would raise labor costs to $20/hr and all their competitors (besides themselves with this tech) would get wiped out. They even publicly campaigned and lobbied. That didn't come to fruition as the election promises turned to fluff, and the populists simply chose to empower unions instead.
March 2023, https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/eu-cou...

EU law will require all new cars sold to have zero CO2 emissions from 2035, and 55% lower CO2 emissions from 2030, versus 2021 levels.. The European Commission has pledged, however, to create a legal route for sales of new cars that only run on e-fuels to continue after 2035, after Germany demanded this exemption..

The EU policy had been expected to make it impossible to sell combustion engine cars in the EU from 2035. But the exemption won by Germany offers a potential lifeline to traditional vehicles - although e-fuels are not yet produced at scale.. E-fuels are considered carbon neutral because they are made using captured CO2 emissions - which proponents say balances out the CO2 released when the fuel is combusted in an engine.
Yes, but for desktop software this is usually less of an issue. And at least you could fix it. When people are running ancient closed source software on Windows (Win 95 software apparently runs on Win 11), they don’t even think about the vulnerabilities and if they do, they cannot fix them. If you are so married to a software like the author seems to be, open is your best bet. And the OP is retired (well, at least 2021), so tinker time!
Operating loss doesn't include capex (some of it will come through via depreciation, but those fabs are depreciated over a long time period).

They are burning cash like crazy.
But you can build the code yourself, and verify that your hash is the same as theirs, meaning the binary is the same.
You think the market isn't capable of adapting to changes in the availability resources on its own? That's ridiculous.
Gas taxes are a direct mechanism to price the negative externalities. Yes, gas taxes also cover road infrastructure, but the amount of gas purchased (and therefore taxed) is directly proportional to the negative externality of CO2 emissions.
D'oh. I was searching for "Audrey". I guess it was silly of me to assume they'd use her English name in the article. Thanks.
Chip made here is a matter of national security.

Full stop.

I said I would like a better tax policy (that would address your issue) but that doesn't change the need.

You may not like it, I am not fond of it, but we are now Rome. THE US's military might is the same as Romes, the legion (the navy being the 2nd largest Air Force on the globe says it all). You know what happened when the legion got weak? The barbarians came in and ate Rome. It wasnt fast, and it wasnt pretty.
my doctor is no help, sadly. Just sitting there, no suggestions or anything - I wonder if it's me and I'm too pushy with my own ideas
What I don't understand with these policies is, how the states and countries (I live in EU, which passed the same kind of laws) intend to support the massive electrical demands that will put on the grid.

I live in a city, small by global standards, and I am certain all these vehicles charging over night will create heavy tolls on the grid, not even to mention the last mile delivery, where apartment blocks will have to upgrade cabling as well as local transformer stations. And this will have to be done within the entire country, which already imports 40% of its electricity needs.

So, does the left hand know what the right hand is doing?
What skills are required to drive, walk or bike a delivery to make $30+tips/hr in NYC?

I don't think they literally mean "unskilled" vs "something that can be learned within a month".
It can come the other way, of course, with one or more zeroes added to the end of the price tag. For a couple of million, I don't think ffmpeg would've rejected their offer.

There's something to be said for taking this lump sum and asking for it every time a Microsoft employee files another bug. It'd be like a support contract without the obligations, which includes the freedom to let issues linger on the bottom of the issue tracker. That would create some perverse incentives and probably wouldn't help the project out much, but it may convince Microsoft to go for the cheaper support contract instead.

What I personally don't understand is why Microsoft didn't use any of their programmers to write a patch and submit it. Perhaps the task was daunting enough that their own programmers couldn't do it within their set budget?
Other than process specifics, they could, and that's exactly what happened when the 1980s US Government got worried about a single CPU supplier. The result was (to some extent) modern cheap computing.
Can someone ELI5 what is meant by reference resolution? Sounds like it means identifying entities, given that it talks about “on screen and in the background”.
Hacker News: Analysis