skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has been actively developing its own custom artificial intelligence (AI) processors to enhance its AI capabilities and reduce reliance on third-party hardware like Nvidia GPUs.
I find https://www.dwservice.net/en/home.html serves my needs very well.
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Not sure why you'd assume the US is responsible for blocking sites for you in Europe. All three sites work fine here.

https://libgen.li/

https://sci-hub.se/

https://monoskop.org/Monoskop
Nobody said "infinite".

The upper asymptote of an S-curve is often called its "carrying capacity". We expect an inflection point about halfway toward this point. What do you think the maximum capacity of global solar energy is? The total amount of solar energy hitting Earth is about 4.4 * 10^16 watts -- 44,000 Terawatts. If we covered 1% of the Earth in solar panels at a meager 10% efficiency, that's 44 Terawatts -- this is a reasonable low estimate for the "carrying capacity" from total solar irradiance. We're at about 1 Terawatt right now. A high estimate (remember, this is the absolute maximum) might be 10% of the Earth at 20% efficiency -- 880 Terawatts. Of course, if we run out of space on Earth, there's always more space in ... well, space.

Another "carrying capacity" could be the materials needed for production. As TFA illustrates, we have enough different ways of producing solar panels that we are not anywhere near maxing this out either.

So I think there's pretty good justification to think we're still at the very early part of this S-curve.
I'm afraid the scientific evidence is so strong, that I personally lump the "SAT scores don't predict anything!" crowd in the same bucket as the "Covid isn't real!" and "AIDS is caused by gay!" crowds.

As Harvard said in the article: yes, the tests may have some bias, but every other measure suggested so far to replace them --- especially "personal statements" --- has an even higher bias.
Well no, we need billions of human-level AIs who are experiencing a world as rich and various as the world that the billions of humans inhabit.
But what is a GPT? Visual intro to transformers [video]
I haven't yet tried incorporating tree-sitter as Aider does to load in all definitions in the repo. In Plandex, the idea is more to load in just the files are relevant to what you're building before giving a prompt. You can also load directory layouts (with file names only) with `plandex load some-dir --tree`.

I like the idea of something like `plandex load some-dir --defs` to load definitions with tree-sitter. I don't think I'd load the whole repo's defs by default like Aider does (I believe?), because that could potentially use a lot of tokens in a large repo and include a lot of irrelevant definitions. One of Plandex's goals is to give the user granular control over what's in context.

But for now if you wanted to do something where definitions across the whole repo would be helpful (vs. loading in specific files or directories) then Aider is better at that.
As it happens quite often, you're mistaken about the apostasy part, don't know about the adultery one.

Apostasy itself isn't punishable; it's when someone "deflects" to the enemy side and colludes with them. At that point it's the 'treason' aspect that carries the punishment, not because someone says they don't believe in something anymore.
Rust fatigue?

Just guessing.
Are any of the tools mentioned in these comments better suited to searching SQL code, both DML and DDL?

We maintain a tree of files with each object in a separate "CREATE TABLE|VIEW|PROCEDURE|FUNCTION" script. This supports code search with grep, but something that could find references to an object when the name qualifications are not uniform would be very useful:

INSERT INTO table
INSERT INTO schema.table
INSERT INTO database.schema.table

Can all be done with regex, but search is not so easy for programmers new to expressions.
My math teacher was teaching us Trigonometry without ever showing the unit circle, and the class was completely befuddling to me and other students. This was pre-internet, and I stumbled across the unit circle in a book and the meaning of sine, cosine, etc. on it - and was like a huge revelation to me and others.

I've enjoyed trig since, and one of the few math topics I continue to use to this day.
And the Sun just somehow emerged from a cloud of hydrogen gas.

The obvious flaw in this line of thinking (as related to AGI) is that we/humans can create/engineer the same or similar without any real understanding of the underlying mechanisms involved.
Minuteman D-17B: The Desktop Computer Was Born in an ICBM [video]
If they don't respect robots.txt then block them using a firewall or other server config. All of these companies are parasites.
A powerful CLI for creating and managing PrivateBin pastes with ease
That's not really true. You know about the Elgin marbles precisely because they're vigorously contested - unlike 90% of artefacts that left Greece, Egypt, Italy, etc in perfectly legal circumstances.

It's true that colonial powers (chiefly Britain and France) have a particularly bad record, but not "all museums" contain looted stuff.
Some US states would hand down a mandatory lifetime sentence to someone robbing three families, but no jail time for someone robbing 42,000.
"IT unemployment trailed national averages all year in 2023, signaling a small pool of available workers in technology in relation to the amount of open jobs across industries."
Imaginary lengths may be unintuitive but negative is pretty simple.

The idea of negative measurements (meaning "opposite direction along a line") as is well understood before children study geometry. Kindergarteners learn "left" vs "right" and "forward" vs "backward".

I agree with other poster about the value of showing negative and positive lengths visually in the same diagram.
Whisper Turbo: speech recognition in the browser using WebGPU
Everything has tradeoffs, and everything depends on use case.

The FEEP thrusters I've seen had a hefty power penalty to keep it on standby, and a long warmup time. Cold gas uses more propellant mass per unit impulse, but it can still come out ahead in total size/weight/power.
The catalyst, yes, but the reagent it acted on included an anti-standardized-test sentiment that is very strong among some factions in the academy.
You are /s'ing, but the fact that it didn't spread out of Munich until 2020 is a success in itself: the failure got confined to a very small part of Europe, instead of getting deployed in the whole Bavaria, Germany or even Europe. Damages were limited, they had nearby neighbors to compare, they did the partial rollback (losing "only" 90 million instead of 900), analyzed the failures and fixed a lot of them just by going LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice.

The second attempt they had better outcome, and the German government agrees. Now they have the know-how from Munich, and can have a degree of confidence that things will be fine. You don't need an overwhelming success, just be on par with the Microsoft Office solution using free software, and you are already ahead. It's Microsoft who needs to be clearly ahead to justify the cost.

Still, it's better to have it limited to Germany while others watch for a year or two if it works as intended.
SaaS ready to use and start a business?
I am considering purchasing a SaaS product from Altumcode and I was wondering if there are other similar alternatives where they sell you the complete SaaS script as well as them?

I want to explore SaaS ideas to buy and grow.
USA still has the death penalty?
I think you need to be logged in to X.
Sounds like the sort of thing that if you had invented it, it would be silly to part with it for a simple wage.
You phrase this as a disagreement, but in my mind this is complementary.

The point of the post is that you should define things in terms of what you care about, and then prove stuff about it. The sum:

Sum from n=0 to infinity of (-1)^n / (2n+1)! * x^(2n+1)

isn't something you should start with, it should be the punchline. Instead, you should start with angles (the thing you care about), then prove that they behave the same as that sum (what an incredible claim!).

The post proposed "angles of the acute corners of right triangles" as the starting point. You've argued very well that "angles in the unit circle relative to (1, 0)" is a better starting point. Pedagogically, I think it's a wonderful starting point:

"Let's talk about angles. Just angles, nothing else. When you look at angles of actual objects, the side lengths are all different, which complicates matters. Since all we care about is the angle itself, not the side lengths, let's make all side lengths equal to 1. Etc. etc."
Sorry about wasting your time. This is not for you.
Unfortunately, we can't easily offer direct IMAP access, because no external email client offers support for everything we need and use in OpenPGP (such as for automatic forwarding, which is currently just a draft [1], but we hope will become an RFC in the future).

That's why Proton Bridge exists: to be able to decrypt all emails, including internally forwarded ones, and present them to the email client unencrypted - and vice versa when sending. Obviously this involves some muching of the emails, for better or worse.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-wussler-openpgp-...
Thanks for the link - I used to be peripherally involved in this field and last I heard MIT (Baldo et al.) had resorted to some hafnium oxynitride layer, which is really not gonna drive costs down at all.
More glitch token discussion over at Computerphile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO2X3oZEJOA
Doesn't say which 92 nations tho.
>They all present societies which have solved social and material problems through progress, or which are still solving them, critiquing an image of the Western world in the 20th century. None of them nab at any kind of biting truth relevant to young readers today.

What are some examples of scifi you're referring to there? Because the noteworthy scifi stories I can think of, ones which drew enough attention to be televised at least, are stories like the hunger games (dystopian), divergent (dystopian), the new star trek series (which I haven't seen but I understand shoehorned scarcity back into the startrekverse), Foundation (fall of a golden age), The Expanse (dystopian) etc. I think the only optimistic scifi I've read in the last twenty years or so was Anathem, and there's no way that's getting a miniseries.

Maybe it's a function of the authors I follow, but I just don't see this optimistic contemporary scifi you speak of, naive or otherwise.
And I'd guess it took a couple of years for them to realise that the candidates they took in in 2020 and onwards were underperforming compared to previous years, and that this was the cause, as opposed to any of the other things that have changed since 2020.
The kind where people are compelled to work for someone else's benefit under threat of force.
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> i working as a consultant in a corporate

> im also not very good

How did you get the job at all? You're taking up a spot for someone who actually wants it.
Two main points:

- If you don't hit some level of Math score, that's sort of a red flag that you'll struggle with at least calculus and physics right off the bat.

- If you have strong SATs, that's also a flag that you may be worth a deeper look even if you don't have other things on your resume that jump out, possibly for socioeconomic reasons.
Afaik none of the ISPs in the US just have their own lists of blocked websites. Not even talking about “they dont have the lists available,” I am saying that they dont just block websites.

With the only exception being when they are ordered to do so by law, in which case it would apply to all ISPs at once (thus making the idea of putting those on the label used for comparing ISP services kinda pointless). As of now, I believe there are exactly 3 websites that are blocked by every single ISP in the US due to a court order[0]. Which is kind of their legal obligation.

0. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/05/judge-rules-ever...
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Ask HN: What AI coding tools are you using in your daily work?
>the sensible default would be to send email unencrypted

Why even use Proton then? What is the point?
Without this intending to be a comment on whether it is just or not, there's an interesting caveat to the law that might be of interest.

De jure, here's an amount that the guilty party can repay to avoid the death penalty. I recall it being 3/4 of the amount stolen.
If it's not something urgent or someting that will not blow up on my face, I try to delegate. And delegation does work fine for many cases. I also do like to help, especially in form of pair programming or similar hands-on. There are some that don't seem to like this kind of help though.

A major problem I encounter is that people I delegate to don't say when they don't understand something or don't reach out early enough when they get stuck. I always say that come to ask if you get stuck on something for more than a half a day or so. Unfortunately most people don't even when I ask them to.

I do understand that they may think that they don't want to bother by asking. But in reality when they ask soon, it's usually very easy for me to answer but when they don't, they either don't progress at all, so I may have to do it anyway to stay in schedule, or they get into a mess that's a lot harder to fix.

And it's not really to blame them. I notice myself acting similarly when I do stuff I'm not experienced with. What I do try to consciously do is to tell when I don't understand something, although I probably fail at this too quite regularly.
>In fact, in general, in any non one-on-one conversation the answer "I don't know" is not useful because if you don't know in a group, your silence indicates that.

This isn't true. There are many contexts where it is true but it doesn't actually generalize they way you say it does.

There are plenty of cases where experts in a non-one-on-one context will express a lack of knowledge. Sometimes this will be as part of making point about the broader epistemic state of the group, sometimes it will be simply to clarify the epistemic state of the speaker.
It would be nice if DHCP (or maybe wifi?) could provide the location as well, so that you could relay the airplane's geo position to the connected clients.
Has anyone had success making an auto-gpt with any models? Besides toy use cases
> This reads to me like those key people have no incentive to stay after applying their knowledge to the org.

What incentive could you possible offer them? If a FAANG wants your 20-man company's trade secrets, all they have to do is offer a key person $500k/year salary.

If a FAANG wants your 20-man company's patent, they are going to pay you for it.

And, as someone who's actually been in court more than a few times, no, they won't kill you via legal bills in a long protracted court case (say, by violating the IP) to get the IP - that happens so rarely you may as well hope for significant winnings at a casino.

And even if they pursue a protracted legal battle hoping to kill the company to acquire the IP, then they have to bid on the open market for it, against other FAANGs!

And even if they do kill the company, then they still have to deal with whoever gets the IP (which is why that strategy is almost never viable), because that IP doesn't become public domain simply because the company died, it will go to someone, somewhere.
> I guess I need requests to the NTP server to go over WAN directly. ... My eternal gratitude to anyone who shoves me in the right direction...

Do you have something on the LAN side that could run an NTP server? I'm thinking you could add your laptop to your Pi's list of NTP servers, then just start that service up temporarily as-needed to give the Pi a time that's good enough, then it can get actual correct time sync from somewhere else once Wireguard is working.
There’s a reddit thread by somebody who got one of these:

https://old.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/1c10jai/i_have_rece...

The interesting thing IMO is they claim to just be some random college student. Which seems believable because if they were a real secret squirrel I guess they wouldn’t ask reddit about it, haha.

I wonder if the hackers are targeting people based on phone numbers or something. (I could imagine a college student recently getting a new number and ending up with one that’d been associated with a target—I guess? Although you’d hope there’d be a way to retire numbers that are known to be targets).
MIT has a limited number of seats to receive possibly the best education in the world. The idea that anything but merit and quantitative assessment of such should be used to fill those seats is self destructive to a society. Next they should remove all collection of race information, just as it is illegal in France to ask your race or ethnicity for anything. If it means 75% of the seats are Asian-Americans so be it. The overall cost to society of not educating the most skilled for the future far outweighs any so called diversity virtues. Sorry to be blunt. I’m expecting the downvotes and perhaps even ban/block/retaliation for my “incorrect” views. I don’t care anymore if you are offended by opinions that don’t agree with your belief systems.
> "Build LLMs from scratch" and that's exactly what you can do with it

Can you pls explain what you just said as if I were a 5-year-old?
Not anyone important.
that seems like the most plausible explanation, because it would at least prevent FOUC
>Not sure why you'd assume the US is responsible for blocking sites for you in Europe

I never said that. I said that ISPs in my country (Europe) are blocking these sites, and I (wrongly) thought that ISPs in the US would be doing the same, generally.
Minesweeper: Advanced Tactics
I was worried about getting fired at these sort of places until I saw how they behaved when I quit a few of them.
Portland outdoor shelter brings uncertainty for people seeking permanent housing
Per the dictionary, mock is defined as "not authentic or real, but without the intention to deceive."

As that applies to software, a mock is a fully-fledged implementation of an interface, but not the implementation you use under normal use. For example, a mock might be an in-memory database where you normally use a persisted database. Not the real implementation, but does not try to deceive – it is equally functional.

Mockery appears to be an assertion library that, bizarrely, moves the assertions into interface implementation. What purpose does it serve? You are going to end up testing implementation details by using that, which is a horrible road to go down.
Mind the Cache (2015) [pdf]
Yes, it does.

But criminal justice in the US is mostly dispensed at the state level of government, and many of the 50 states do not ever impose the death penalty:

https://dpic-cdn.org/production/images/StatesWithWithoutDP-M...
At least you can return their freedom and try to compensate them for the time unjustly spent in prison.
Amazon should just pay a bunch of people to write down a working implementation of the patent using a pencil and paper. It'd be a LOT of paper but it would meet the, "if it can be done with a pen and paper" criteria outlined in CLS Bank. It wouldn't even be complicated or difficult... Just tedious.
The "formula" was capitalism, introduced by Deng Xiaoping, which lifted hundreds of millions of Chinese out of poverty.

However, Deng also introduced China's 1-child policy (decidedly not capitalism), which is now beginning to seriously strain the system. The future is indeed uncertain.
Well the they might be just a college student, but they could have a relationship with the actual target in some way. And if it's part of a complex operation they could be trying some indirect approaches.
> Scraping auth-walled data is different. When you sign up, you have to check "I agree to the terms," and the terms generally say, "You can't scrape us." So, you can't just make a million bot accounts that take an app's data (legally, anyway). Those EULAs are generally legally enforceable in the U.S.

They're legally enforceable in the sense that the scraped services generally reserve the right to terminate the authorizing account at will, or legally enforceable in that allowing someone to scrape you with your credentials (or scraping using someone else's) qualifies as violating the CFAA?
Between the Metaverse, "mercenary spyware", AI war targeting, and death drones, I keep wondering who it is that read Neuromancer and thought; "What a rosy picture! How can we realize this stunning vision of a future-to-be?"
Ask HN: How much do you make in the New York area?
I make 130k (all base) as a front end engineer but I live about 2h outside of nyc and I’m fully remote. I often wonder if I’m underpaid.

How much do you make in the NY area?
- can you break it down (base, bonus, stocks)
- are you remote, hybrid or in the office every day?
That's always been my understanding as well. I recall some cases in the last few years where this resulted in quite a bit of the funds being recovered.

Sadly I cannot remember the specific cases.
Magnitudes are intuitionally directionless (hence why norms and measures are nonnegative reals). Of course, you can extend notions suitably and make it work, but I really don't think that this is terribly intuitive. (Of course, different people will find different things intuitive.)
Good way to get Pegasus devs to blink, but nothing more.
I think standardized tests correlate very highly (perhaps highest of any measure) to performance. I regularly see schools in the US with a 10% math proficiency and 40% literacy proficiency with a 99% graduation rate. What's up with that?

Standardized tests are the most fair and simplest way to evaluate students. Plus gaming the test is what exactly? Hiring a tutor and spending hours studying, much of it alone? And it's not a shock that success on studying and doing well on exams correlates to college where you're evaluated on how well you study and do on exams

It reminds me of that Key and Peele sketch where they're planning a long con bank heist but by the end it's obvious they're just working a job and saving for retirement

https://youtu.be/jgYYOUC10aM?si=uiceINWHRRf3brZ5
I hesitate to reply to people that hide behind throwaway accounts, but sure, I'll bite.

>Even aside from the overwhelming historical evidence soundly disproving your point

That has basically nothing to compare against it. The very few attempts that we had in modern times were ultimately sabotaged by capitalism. Maybe those attempts would not succeed even without the sabotage but regardless, of course it's better than feudalism and its predecessors. The key question for me is: is that the best we can do?

Capitalism did sprout innovation, but that does not mean it's the best way to do so. Ignoring the inherent flaws around the profit motive doesn't help anyone.

>Strawman argument

I don't think so, honestly. The reality is that a lot of research is done with the question of "how can we make money solving this problem?", rather than "how can we solve this problem?". You can't deny that.

Maybe categorizing that as pure/non-pure innovation is not a good way to put it, but the incentives of research do change with profit seeking. It's undeniable.

>corrupt regulators that anti-capitalists would happily put into greater positions of power and give more power to meaningfully decrease the quality of human life.

Regulators that are corrupted in search of capital. It's a circular system.

Many do believe that democratically elect people should have more power than private institutions with zero transparency or checks. Not sure exactly how that "decreases the quality of human life". Where did that come from?
Pegasus and NSO.

(Edit: of course I'm flagged for this. Surprise surprise)