skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting. Why would a judge have an issue with accounts that contributed to the storming of government buildings in the capitol?

It is very suspicious as to why he would not want Elon Musk to personally intervene on behalf of these accounts. This smacks of wealthism (discrimination against high net worth individuals), as who is this judge to judge?
NASA issues a warning about smartphones and the solar eclipse
I upvoted you, but would say - Only if you assume markets are perfectly efficient. It seems there is often some money to be made.
The online demo seems to be PG 14.5. Output from "SELECT version()" is:

"version": "PostgreSQL 14.5 on i686-buildroot-linux-musl, compiled by i686-buildroot-linux-musl-gcc.br_real (Buildroot 2022.08) 12.1.0, 32-bit"
Because you can cross reference these with the Israeli controlled population registry and make sure e.g. the same person isn’t listed twice under a different name, that they are actually dead, that they are actually from Gaza, etc.
I have lived/worked/banked in four countries (UK, US, ES, DE).

Germany is not at the cutting edge, but it is far from the worse. The interactions I have had with bureaucratic systems in Thüringen have all been entirely fine. Friendly people, clear process, done quickly. Obviously that is only an n=1. It is a rural area that is not overloaded as Berlin is.

Which country would you consider "modern"? My experiences:

In the UK the way you prove who you are is literally a physical copy of your water bill.

Spain, some things work well enough, others are insane.

US, massive variability from state to state and government department.
That’s interesting, I checked out around the rib story.
Take notice if you're a motorcycle rider. If you see a swarm, pull over and drive at minimum speed because crushed bugs en masse can absolutely de-bike you.
That's just... most people.
> I sometimes delete WM_NORMAL_HINTS if a window has size hints set where I can't resize it the way I want.

With kwin it's easy to manually override an application/window to ignore geometry constraints or whatever. I do this for xterm to avoid having a few pixels of background showing at the edge when maximized.

I also used to do this a lot to get the much-nicer "soft fullscreen" in SDL1 applications.
> An external loop really isn't any different to "think step by step" - you're giving the model a chance to see it's own prior output and carry on from that.

It is very different, because you control the context fed in at the start of each cycle. Put another way, it's fairly easy to get most LLMs to follow instructions one step. With a loop, that makes it fairly easy to get them to follow however many steps you like. But getting them to follow multiple steps by asking them to "think step by step" tends to fall apart after quite few steps because suddenly your instructions are a small, distant part of the context.

Test it. The difference is dramatic.
This one [0]? Legend, flipping through the records there was a dream come true for some years. But Vinyl shops world-wide had to close, but only this.

[0] https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.stuttgart-album-zu...
Whether we can or cannot do something about is a wholly different question from whether it’s an issue at all.

I see so many people basically say “there’s nothing we can do about it therefore there’s no problem at all”. I don’t think this is a coincidence. This is a very deliberate effort by those in the tech space who want to capture and privatize all the benefits for themselves to make it seem like there are no alternatives to the current trajectory of a handful of companies hoarding all the benefits of AI.

Once you accept that there are possible problems one can do stuff to address those problems, such as maybe democratizing AI so it benefits anybody and not just a handful of people who happened to be at the right place at the right time.

Heck, even if you accept that there isn’t a problem you can still recognizing that the current trajectory may not be a good one.
"Right but truck drivers aren't constantly dealing with people who are lying to get themselves out of trouble."

What do you think the dash cams are for?
Back when I worked in an actual electronics laboratory in the early 90s, manual solder suckers ruled the day (and that's what I still use, with some solder wick from time to time). Does anyone know when these more advanced rework stations become common?
Like EC2 Classic? 2000s-era?
I'm also curious about the power draw of continuously executing FFTs on a rpi.

Seems like the kind of task where one could easily burn 10 watts, if the wrong FFT Implementation is chosen. You'd absolutely want to do this in DSP hardware.
Well, try it before making bold claims :)
What benefits have we gained from generative AI (really ML) that currently outweigh the cost of researching developing, and running them? Or do we stick with an expected value based on what generative AI may be able to do and the next step technologies that come after it?

The article is making pretty clear arguments for costs of generative AI, and raising the author's opinion that it isn't worth it. Just claiming it is in fact worth it without anything to support that isn't super helpful.
Yes, you're correct. I'd personaly feel anxious and fearful about publicly sharing productivity levels
ACA Plans Are Being Switched Without Enrollees' OK
The computer and computer science is, in a sense, the result of the somewhat failed attempt to put mathematics on a solid logical grounds, in a way that resembles a stack like OSI. Gödel's incompleteness theorems and Turing undecidability results showed that it's not that easy. Briefly, the proof for the halting problem was the Turing machine.
It routes values based on linear combinations taken from the attention map.
So now everyone except business people will be lower middle class
Estonia, like stated in the article. As a German founder living in Estonia, I can confirm that the difference in complexity when it comes to founding a company, filing taxes and dealing with bureaucracy isn’t even comparable.
Do you still speak Polish? I've tried and failed a few times trying to learn, have some ancestors from the area.

Now not directed at you, the age ranges in your post did make me do some research. Apparently being a "native speaker" is not so well defined. Learned in childhood yes, but what's the age cutoff? Saw some references to before 5. Any thoughts on this? Seeing as you've lost the German with similar exposure.

Just curious, ignorant single language American here.
Basically the same talking points that have been repeated to ad-infinitum, quotes from article below:

- "generative AI is a mimic of human action, parroting back our words and images"

- "[AI] take[s] computing capacity away from other, potentially more useful activities"

- "[AI] requires an enormous amount of energy", "environmental costs are well-known"

- "AI is underpinned by significant capital investment in computing infrastructure" "This investment could go somewhere else, more useful"

- "AI is also sucking up innovation funding, especially venture capital."

- "it is threatening to overwhelm us with AI spam"

- "AI will necessarily lead to significant social change and associated costs"

TLDR: AI is a stochastic parrot, is not environmentally friendly, is expensive and generates spam
Why some people feel good about their bank accounts but bad about the economy
You could just learn the right estimated number of recursions, also passing 'backtracking'/'state' information at the next nested level. Kind of like how state space models encode extractible information via a basis function representation, you could encode extractible recursion state information into the embedding. See also transformers that can learn to recognize n-deep balanced parentheses (Dyck-n languages)
ahhh I get my visionaries mixed up and fail to double check my citations!
It’s not, but two others have defended it. Reminds me of how people defend graffiti “artists” for “expressing themselves” despite the fact that it’s vandalism.

I believe this train of thought is called “entitled”
They're being fined less than the profit they made.

Surely they should be getting fined more than how much they profited?

Preferably (at a minimum) several times the amount, so they (and others) aren't keen to do it again.
You're entirely missing the point. You could easily say the damage is already done even if Apple eventually gets forced to stop making Google search their default search engine on iOS. The reality is that bundling software matters way more than you realize. Google has paid an estimated tens of billions a year to Apple to maintain the default search engine setting. That's despite their massive market share lead over competitors.

At minimum, this ruling will make future competitors believe it's more feasible to be successful in creating a competitor to Teams. There will be some similarities to the way Firefox and Chrome eventually competed after the Microsoft antitrust case regarding Internet Explorer in the early 2000s.

And finally, when current Microsoft licenses expire or MS sales teams get into talks with future, net new companies, they will not simply be able to say Teams comes for free as part of their other licenses.
No.

Legal concerns about what is generated.
Like for example?
> Signed, a citizen of an EU state where you can create a company by digitally signing one form and paying the equivalent of $300.

You'd be surprised to hear that you can do that in Germany, too.
Costs about 25€ (depends on the municipality) and takes about 30min.

The blog post was referring to a very specific form of incorporation. There's not just the ones mentioned in there.
Wikipedia claims that Von Neumann and Klaus Fuchs also had a preliminary design for a hydrogen bomb that also used the implosion bomb as a first stage, though in a different way than the Teller-Ulam design. Fuchs leaked the Neumann-Fuchs design to the Soviets along with everything else, but just like the US, the Soviets set it aside and independently came up with the Teller-Ulam design instead. So it would seem that, despite Teller and Ulam winning out, Von Neumann was still deeply involved in hydrogen bomb development beyond simply developing the prerequisite plutonium implosion bomb.
Silence is also the answer
In my memory of Plex on my Apple TV device it was off by default and hidden in an advanced menu or something. Not impossible by any means, just annoying.
I used to be similarly lost in the drama of my own life, hanging on to things that I felt made me special. It's an ego trap in my opinion, as there are millions of people around us who have extrodinary lives that we never hear about. The word "sonder" applies:

Sonder is defined as the profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing by on the street, has a life as complex and vivid as your own. They experience hopes, dreams, friendships, routines, worries and an inner life, all of which you'll likely never know about or fully understand.

The term was coined by John Koenig in The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, a compendium of newly invented words for powerful feelings that don't have a descriptive term in the English language.

I had a sponser do me a favor once and tell me "you're a special case of the same old thing." It helped me get over myself.
when you consider morality, do you think your rule only ever applies to one person or categorically?
Yes they can. In fact, until about 15 years ago, it was common practise in Germany to found an LLC in the UK and convert it into a GmbH only after it grew big and profitable enough to warrant the effort.
AV1 Encoding on Linux with Intel Arc
Well sure, a company with ample funding could in theory do anything. It seems sort of like asking why Google didn't beat GitHub on code hosting. They did try, but their focus was elsewhere, so they gave it up. [1] And OpenAI doesn't seem to be doing developer tools at all?

GitHub and Microsoft are more likely candidates. GitHub Copilot is a competing product that could be improved if they chose to do so.

[1] https://code.google.com/archive/
You simply do not understand my argument and perhaps it is my failing for that. In any case, I can’t make it any clearer than I already have so I’ll stop trying.
I’ve been developing software professionally for over 20 years now, and ChatGPT/GH Copilot are the biggest productivity enhancers I’ve seen since code completion.

Earlier today, I used ChatGPT to help me bang out a Ruby script to clone a repository, extract its documentation, and add those docs to another site that will serve as a centralized documentation source for a collection of projects.

I know Ruby and have been using it since 2007, but I still have to look things up with it all the time. By giving ChatGPT a bunch of poorly worded, lazily proofed commands, I was able to cut the time of development probably in half.

It wouldn’t be nearly as good with a language I didn’t know, but saying it’s a waste of time and money feels like it’s really missing the sea change that’s happening.
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/work-hour-training-for-nurses/long...

Sleep deprivation is basically a form of impairment, but it gets a "this is fine" pass from society in most cases¹. I think anyone who has done SRE knows this: I'm an idiot if I'm up at 4a trying to debug something, and the risk of dumb errors is pretty high.

… what kills me is when people schedule stuff to be done … basically, while impaired. I work in healthtech, and (considerably ironically, given the article above also coming from healthcare…) providers will schedule migrations at 1 to 4am in the morning. SWE is difficult enough as it is, but you want me to think about IPSec and CGNAT at 1am?

The bad reason given across the industry is always "we can't do it during the day, because that's when users are using the system!" Your processes are broken, then, if you have so little faith in your ability to deploy new stuff. (And it is possible; my company, in healthtech, used to regularly do mid-day deployments, because we had processed in place such that a failed deployment would usually get caught. The ones that didn't, well, deploying them at 1am wouldn't have made it better. In fact, we had at least one PM from an outage where that it went out after-hours made the outage worse.)

Rimworld (the video game) has an interesting system where pawns have a "consciousness" value; normally is 100%, but things can lower it, e.g., drinking, drugs, brain injuries. A pawn with a lower consciousness value is simply worse at everything. And there are days, and times — e.g., when I'm sleep deprived after a long night of battling prod — that yeah, I am definitely operating at like 60% consciousness. Everything suffers as a result.

> but [where I] was generating a similar amount of tokens,

> I can say, "hey, might be interesting ideas here, but don't train too heavily on this".

… good grief, just no. I for one do not "generate tokens" nor do I "train" on blog posts. Language like that devalues the abilities of a mind.

¹there are a few spots, like truck drivers, where society starts to care.
Boeing 737-800 makes emergency landing after its engine cowling detached
> generative AI is a mimic of human action, parroting back our words and images. It doesn’t think, it guesses – and often quite badly in what is termed AI hallucination.

Human thinking is also guessing to a large extent. It is guessing with many feedback loops until a resolution that is good enough, is found. It indeed mimics human behavior and is quite good at it. What counts is, how well can it guess? Since I use AI quite frequently for things where my output is part of the feedback loop, I must say, AI's guesses are very often spot on.

About parroting: I'm very sure AI does not simply parrot, I'm very often still amazed by how well my questions are understood, it gets what I'm actually asking for. A parrot never will even process my question.
Hah! Americans have to file US tax whether they live in the US or not.
> The two broods may only overlap slightly in a small area of central Illinois, meaning there mostly won’t be a larger-than-normal boom in numbers in any one place

It's too bad that for all the headlines making this sound like a biblical plague the reality will be that this summer won't be much different from normal unless you actually care to get to so up close and personal with these bugs that you'll notice differences in species.

I'm hoping that they'll at least sound different enough that I can appreciate the variety since I almost never see them crawling or flying.
It's just a cowling.
Do you actually need to do it in 2 hours? No, of course not.

And you probably won't do it that fast anyway. But that figure demonstrates the small amount of red tape.
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What are they supposed to do? Not have any automated filtering?

Just give the user a warning that Facebook sees some likelihood that the site is a phishing site, and let the user decide by himself whether he wants to follow the link or not.
Oh hey there! I've just moved to Germany from the US (not Berlin but hey, easy enough to apply the general knowledge elsewhere) and your site has been fantastic. Obviously I did not move because I valued bureaucracy, but I'm willing to put up with it partly for a fantastic job, and partly to escape the horror that is modern America. Thank you so much!
Categories are the main and most developed tool building around relations that are the building blocks of structure.
Show HN: My GF and I turned our date night questions cards into a free app
it's been an exciting journey bringing this idea to life.

I discovered the need for this product through my own experiences and conversations with friends and family. I wanted to create something that fosters meaningful connections and fun interactions, and I am thrilled to finally share it with you all!

I'm curious, do you have any suggestions or feedback as i continue to develop and improve the app?
Yeah all attempts at reducing complexity from quadratic to linear failed, only Mamba still has a chance, but it's not tested on large models and only provides a speedup at for 2000+ tokens. That was to be expected as small sequences have very small memory requirements for transformers, but recursive architectures use the same hidden size. So when recurrent hidden size > sequence length, the old transformer is faster.
A few billion moderately interesting images, and a collection of slightly weird nearly-free marginal cost interns who studied literally every subject but somehow still only act like freshly minted graduates with no real-world experience.
Yet when it is written you have a prove of an action
I read HN almost daily and comment here often, but I don't like the name. I wish they'd chosen to call it something more like "startup news" instead, as that feels like a more accurate representation of the site and its community and standards.
Sled theoretical performance guide – sled-rs.github.io
Aside from the essay, can somebody please explain to me the appeal of "art works" like the ones that Andrew produces? It's gotta be some kind of joke that I missed the memo on, right!?
TBF corporations don't know what's good for them. When XR was all the rage, it was current (2D) UX designers getting jobs, instead of the 3D artists, sculptors, game designers, animators, and industrial designers who actually had the skills to make compelling spatial interactions, smart objects, and experiences (which there was not a surplus of). Then, the hype collapsed, and they fired everyone who couldn't program, thereby making the issue incalculably worse.
Buggier or not - it's too late to think X11 is the alternative. It's not. Wayland is going to get better for whatever is needed.

X11 is absolutely not the way to go.
I think people confuse prudent with good. I don't think this person would be delusional enough to think their choices were prudent by "polite" society's standards, especially when describing himself as a crust punk-- a subculture that prides itself on eschewing damn near everything that "polite" society values. However, it's also pretty bullshit that someone who makes art that people want and has an opinion interesting enough to have academic cachet needs to essentially bottom feed to stay afloat in the most fundamental ways. Art is important to humanity, but capitalism isn't super great at supporting things with intrinsic cultural value but no mercantile utility.

Especially since the popularization of AI image generators, many folks in the tech crowd-- few of whom could name a single influential work, author, or organization in arts scholarship-- have unwarrantedly strong opinions on the nature of art. They tend to cite the lack of market value in fine art as justification for neither paying artists for their ingested works, nor for the amalgams the produced models spit out. But when confronted with the fact that most artists are not working in fine art, but working commercial artists, they will cite their commercially concerns as evidence that modern art and artists are soulless and not worth protecting to begin with.

Honestly, the longer you work in the arts the more you shrug your shoulders at it. People have spent millennia holding all but the most famous artists and designers in contempt while art in some form, deliberately and thoughtfully made by someone with great skill, imbues nearly every aspect of our cultures. There's always a new cohort of people wanting to extract more out of artists for their own gain-- either in art or income-- while calling artists selfish for wanting a slice and telling them to get a "real job". Such is life.
I remember last time the 17 year brood emerged I was living in Illinois. I remember riding my bike to school and it was impossible to not run over a bunch of cicadas. Also a nearby zoo was paying people to bring in buckets of them which they would use to feed animals there.
It’s not the same, but the various programming subreddits usually have the same big news than HN.
I'm all for free speech. But Brazil is not the US. Brazil is a sovereign nation. We have our own laws and our people must trace its own path.

The old government and its pawns tried a violent coup and failed. Now they must pay for the crimes they committed. There's not much more than that.
> I sent an article to the NYTimes a few months ago and it hasn’t been printed by them yet.

In my reading it is exactly the other way around, no?

You sent something to NYT they published it and now they are not allowed to publish anything from you, and not because what new content is.The ban is because you wrote it.

And if they do publish something you wrote they are criminally negligent.
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