skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
would you go up to a Russian coworker and get in their face about Ukraine?

people have a right to feel at ease in the workplace. if you think that your politics come before that, you aren't mature enough to work in a professional environment
Qt Creator makes working with Qt a heck of a lot easier in a way that working with Visual Studio or vim does not. It comes with an integrated Qt form designer, Quick Designer for QML, supports Qt's moc syntax out of the box, integrated support for Qt Test Integration, native support for Qt Assistant and documentation and integration with Qt's internationalization tools.

The idea that "QtCreator" is some totally independent IDE that just coincidentally happens to have the letters Qt at the beginning in the same way that Java and JavaScript are independent of one another, but otherwise has no relationship to Qt the library is just patently absurd HN pedantry.
Post News, the A16Z-funded Twitter alternative, is shutting down
I'm not seeing any evidence that Google is supporting any genocides.
or just use discord
> their entire industries have gone online, or in many cases, been destroyed by the tech industry itself

Interesting point. It makes me think of what happened to typesetters (including my mother) when desktop publishing came along. It was a bloodbath. Everyone was suddenly creating their own reports and newsletters, usually doing a terrible job, instead of paying professionals to do it right. Which is fine, actually, but it did lead to a lot of those skilled professionals losing their livelihoods. A few figured out ways to make it, either as a boutique business catering to those who still wanted work done to traditional standards or by teaching others how to do it themselves better, but most ended up leaving the profession.

This is what's happening to a lot of artists, musicians, essayists, and others right now - even more so with "AI" everywhere. Lots of people unable to make a living with their hard-won skills, and insult added to injury as they have to watch others do those same things poorly. And programmers, just you wait until your livelihood consists of rescuing projects that went south because someone insisted on having ChatGPT write it instead of a professional human. For a fraction of what you used to make. I'm sure each and every one of you thinks you'll be one of the winners, still getting paid top dollar to do innovative work, but most of you are wrong. You'll probably get left high and dry just like most of your colleagues, and - unlike the typesetting example - it will mostly be our own collective fault.

"Enshittification" already means something else, so we need a new term for when technology both drives people out of work and heralds a massive decline in median work-product quality. (So it's not just "disruption" which has become a word used mostly by tools anyway). Amateurization? Tyrofication?
Startup founders spend a lot of time on their project and it can be hard to do, but I don’t think I’d label the effort “work” for the same reasons I don’t think of home improvements as a duty or chore.
From the point of view of any observer, a photon has a definite lifetime, between the moments of its emission and its absorption.

The Lorentz transformations are defined only between reference systems where the relative speed between them is less than the speed of light.

It is not possible to attach a reference system to a photon or to any other particle that moves with the speed of light, because there are no conversion rules between the coordinates in such a system and those in a normal reference system.

Therefore it is not correct to say that the lifetime of a photon in a reference system attached to it is zero or infinite or it has any other value.

This lifetime is just undefined, while the lifetimes in any other reference systems are well defined.

The photon does not decay in the absence of interactions with other particles because that would violate several conservation laws. However, when the photons have energies that are high enough, the interaction between themselves can generate other particles, in particle-antiparticle pairs, in order to satisfy all conservation laws.
From a photons perspective, emition and absorption are simultaneous.

While from our perspective it is a form of causal connection, that is mearly due to the frame of reference.

While we can infer the connection between each, it is possibly better to consider the speed of light as the speed of causality.

But as there are no privileged reference frames under GR the choice is yours.

But from the photons perspective, it doesn't experience time at all so it can't be a barrier.

But don't confuse the map for the territory. GR is a model, not the system itself.

The fact that almost every test we can figure out has only confirmed it doesn't change that.

Under the 'all models are wrong but some are useful' idea, in GR photons not experiencing time is important to that model.
This is surprising to me too because I saw 3 different Cybertrucks on the road yesterday. I guess I live in a hot zone.
NSW is home to the largest number of gambling machines anywhere outside of Nevada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_in_Australia#New_Sout...
Yeah I mean tabloids have been fooling people with doctored photos for decades.

Potentially we'll need slightly tighter regulations on formal press (so that people that care for accurate information have a place they can get it) and definitely we'll want to steer the culture back towards holding them accountable for misinformation, but credulous people have always had easy access to bad information.

I'm much more worried at the potential abuse cases that involve ordinary people that aren't public figures, and have much less ability to defend themselves. Heck, even celebrities are a more vulnerable targets than politicians.
> Imagine Google saying this during peak BLM.

Were there BLM protests inside Google's offices?
I think you'll find that North Korea is generally considered to be a country in Asia, too.
okay... that's a very general and super strong claim. what data is this based on?
Yeah that's what I mean. The 'secret' is not really in the composition but more in the know-how on how to make millions of litres of it consistently. And the brand like you say.

After all a Nike shoe isn't really better than a Sketchers but that little tickmark costs you like $100 :)

For this reason I don't really see the need to protect it so closely in this day and age.
Steve Jobs might've been an opinionated dick, but he was right that Microsoft "has no taste in a big way". CLI UX with sane defaults and shorter options wins.
Yeah, I hold Super and drag Right Click to resize
I took both applied math and pure math (+ comp. sci) at uni, and was similarly frustrated at the applied math, which was all triple integrals and partial derivatives etc, and exactly zero examples given of where this stuff would be useful. I just stopped attending the class, since the downside of doing so was minimal. To this day I still don't know where one might apply triple integrals, although no doubt there are uses.

Perhaps a bit oddly I didn't have any problem with the pure math prof. also not offering any use cases, although of course it also does!
Millionaire gives up everything so he can earn his first million all over again
> Because this looks like a very unprofessional error to have made for a company that has done well up until now.

bro their QA has been garbage since day 1. they've gotten better but this isn't really a surprise.
One of the most delicious ironies in life is to ask these people why they think philosophy is poo-poo, and then revel in the fact that their answer is exactly philosophical in nature.
Related:

Booming AI demand threatens global electricity supply

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40068507
Haven't done YC but did Techstars a while back when they were still in the same league, and except on the week before demo day there was pretty much never anyone at the place after 6pm (except for the handful of foreign teams who didn't have anything do to in their life in the US).
I think what he means is that many of the seminal work related to cognitive science were produced back then. For example, Chomsky, Minsky, John Searle, David Chalmers and many more.

Things still move during winter, just not as much.
Do you have any evidence that Google's version is incorrect or incomplete? We are just hearing two sides of the story.
I think this is much closer than the "they're a very good blank slate". There are plenty of exceptionally successful groups of organisms with far less diversity. The point is not how successful beetles are, it's how differentiated they are. Something about their ability to occupy niches that promote isolation and therefore speciation has to be involved.
https://ourworldindata.org/images/published/Battery-cost-dec...

https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline

https://about.bnef.com/blog/lithium-ion-battery-pack-prices-...
I agree there are a few places like this, but they're usually solved when you want an LL parser for as much as possible of the language by either making them part of the tokenization or by "escaping" a small subset of the grammar.

I wish that language designers (looking at you, Ruby - as much as I love using Ruby, the grammar is an abomination) would at least try to stick to LL as much as possible, and consciously, carefully and in a limited fashion "escape" into LR for as small subsets as possible.

Break rules if it actually helps developers, sure, but it'd be nice if people tried to make the weird bits as tiny as possible...

EDIT: Also, in practice this is often what we end up doing when we write recursive descent anyway, only in a less than formal way. It'd be nice if more tooling let us write grammars that default to LL w/checking, but let you insert clearly delineated exceptions.
Really interesting point. But so true
If an AI could ever capture the charm of the original hand drawn animation, then it's over for us
Shouldn’t individuals and companies also have a set of morals?
If it were Manichaean, is there any way to make sure one would be praying to the correct side of the duality? (I'm thinking of Dijkstra, who went to a lot of effort to rediscover, with OR & EQV, the mirror image of what EE's and russian mathematicians had already figured out, with AND & XOR)
"degenerate fuckin gambler" is a common term predating 4chan

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/degenerate#Adjective

>(of a gambler) Addictive or compulsive.
There was even the "Master Gear" which let you play master-system games on the game gear. I played the first Phantasy Star game that way.
If they're killing bacteria, then by virtue, they are now antibiotics. :^)
US Finalizes Critical Rule to Clean PFAS Contamination to Protect Public Health
Also isn’t a recall is a good thing for consumers? It means Tesla is fixing an error, not ignoring it.
We can read some of his thoughts in this very interview. He did not expect Google to fire him for his actions.
I like the fact that its segregated by folks I actually follow and learn from.

Reminds me of a quote "I only take advice from folks who live the life I want to live."

Good work.
Price != density

Super important for things like vehicles (especially airplanes).
It depends what kind of work it is, and what kind of shape you're in. Some people have more endurance than others. If you're not capable of doing some work, you can do other work; that's no reason to say that someone who is capable of it should be deprived of the income.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40076620
Gotta have those "readfile()", "replace_substr()", "split()" etc! I do have a copy paste string util header. ..

I really wish there were more string util functions in Cpp. I mean C had strtok()!
Kagi to start charging sales tax/VAT
Yes it does: CDLA. A big deal, we hope it unlocks lots of new creations.
There are tons of other insect groups that could be very easily described as similarly "minimum viable" that don't have nearly the diversity. Abundance of some group doesn't necessarily correlate with the speciation within that group. Ants are an exceptionally successful type of insect with orders of magnitude fewer described species.
There are CSPRNG constructions based on AES that would probably be appropriate, but they are still a huge performance hit. PCG, Xorshift, Xoshiro, and the like are all about 50x faster than the fastest CSPRNGs in sustained throughput, and also have smaller state and much less spinup time.
I understand trigger warnings now
> Beetles are like the MVP of species (minimum viable, not most valuable).

Dude... There are water beetles that live underwater, but do also fly and walk. This is not "mininum viable" in any sense of the term. Just because they have smaller brains and less developed immune systems does not mean that they are millions of years beyond mammals in fantastic specialization!
DNA is one of the few things that are relatively untarnished in the field of forensics which is otherwise a massive shit-show full of pseudo-science.

I am worried that this sort of work will lead to even DNA being used in a hand-wavy manner to implicate people you don't like.

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/nathan-robinson-forens...
Oh wow, awesome! I was somewhat considering this being my first contribution - glad someone already tackled it!
Thank you! Great essay.
I found that LLMs tends to emit training data when you ask it simple questions, such as "connect a MySQL server". In one of my experiments it emitted a StackOverflow example 1:1, including the mistakes that were made there (no/faulty error handling). Regardless if it is legal to use code in such fashion, more experienced coders tend to rewrite the code an LLM emits, so it's less likely to lead to actual problems down the line. I've seen a lot of less experienced people take LLM-generated code and use it as-is, which can lead to problems.

In case of an open source project one of the main problems with LLMs is that if a contributor does contribute infringing material, inadvertently or not, the project will be left holding the bag for it. The contributor may disappear because all that's known about them may just be an alias and an email address. This is especially true if a project doesn't have the backing of a large, well-funded organization that can fight out legal battles on behalf of the contributors. The legal situation on Internet-trained LLM usage isn't clear and I can totally understand a small, underfunded project not wanting to go up against large corporations. I think respecting the project maintainers wishes in this case is the right thing to do.

I've seen several examples where an LLM was used as a tool for accessibility (vision assistance, etc) and I do think that that's going to be one of the areas where it will be most valuable to society as a whole. Unfortunately, the legal system moves slowly and it will be a few more years until this mess gets cleaned up. I also think you are doing the right thing and I wish more people would follow your example. If a particular project deems the risk of using an LLM too high, contributors should follow the wishes of the maintainers and not contribute to that project with the usage of an LLM. Depending on the country, petitioning lawmakers may also help move the needle in the desired direction.
Ok, here's a fact – all these employees were protesting and Google fired them with reason. Are you going to presume that is true?
Modules for solar farms have been getting larger and heavier, but the maximum size/weight has traditionally been limited by what human workers can heft into place. I'm interested in what the optimum size ends up being when those human limits are removed.

What's the most labor intensive part that remains when robots are putting the modules into place on racks? Attaching cables? I would guess that robots still aren't dexterous enough for that.
Air travel is ~6% of global petroleum demand, they will switch to a non fossil liquid fuel. Vehicles are already solved for, as is utility scale energy storage, using existing battery cells and their density. Marine transport will use either ammonia or methanol, both produced through clean energy based processes. ~40% of the tonnage of ships traveling the world’s oceans and rivers is moving energy around [1] [2], which should decline as renewables, transmission, and battery storage scales up globally.

There is no "silver bullet," but many solutions all converging (rapidly and effectively, from a preponderance of all available information) on deprecating fossil fuels for energy.

[1] https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2022/01/12/almost-40-...

[2] https://unctad.org/system/files/official-document/rmt2019_en...
RIP to a legend. If you haven’t heard of him and are interested in the more philosophical side of AI I think he’s at his best in dialogue with others, so I highly recommend skimming this 1993 round table that made me fall in love with him. I can’t find the stamp, but I know at some point he excitedly describes machine learning research to some guffaws from his interlocutors — quite funny and vindicating in hindsight.

https://youtu.be/RVrnn7QW6Jg?si=jenbni0Rg1dX5fd4

At ~01:50:00, he talks very poignantly about death, the soul, and immortality. Obviously this video is 30 years old now, but I doubt he changed much and it seems his philosophy left him with good tools to handle the specter of death. Godspeed Dennett, the world is in your debt...

Some other, perhaps more lighthearted timestamps:

- @ 01:00:00; A Nagel discussion culminating in “I think we’re making tremendous progress on knowing what it’s like to be a bat!” Truly a Silicon Valley optimist before it was cool.

- at 01:12:00; He tells a fun robotics story to back up his belief in the tractability of neurophilosophy.

- @ 01:40:00; he discusses his general philosophy for the mind and why he thinks our brains can be broken down into a recursive hierarchy of agential machines.

- 00:24:00 is the moment that made me love him. Love to hate him, perhaps! Like a more prestigious, less directly-aggressive Gary Marcus.
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Why is the speed of causality beside the point?

lets take two magical particles that have clocks on it. One is a photon and the other is a neutrino. I send these off towards you in a perfect vacuum. When you receive these particles the clock on the photon will be 0. It will be be the exact same photon that left my emitter, it will not have changed in any way as it did not interact with anything along the way. And as long as you are not moving relative to me, you'll perceive the photon as the same color/wavelength I emitted it at.

Meanwhile that neutrino will arrive billions of a second later (well depending on our distance) and will have oscallated at least trillions of times if not far more. The clock on the neutrino will have ticked the difference between the photon arrival to the neutrino arrival.

Don't apply classical behavior to light-like objects. They play be different sets of rules.
Dennett on Closer To Truth (just uploaded) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHvIXe4DOEc
If you cared about Palestinians, you would be fighting for Hamas to issue uniforms, so that civilians and soldiers could be clearly recognized.

What did Ukraine do when Russian invaded? Pulled out civilians and issued uniforms to men.

What did Hamas do? Force civilians to stay in their homes, use those homes as operations points, give guns but no uniforms to men.
Like others here, I found Consciousness Explained to generate a huge perspective shift in my worldview.

My (now) wife and I went to see him speak in June 2012 in King's College Cambridge, on the event of Alan Turing's 100th birthday: https://philevents.org/event/show/2205

I don't remember all the details, but I think he spoke about Turing's ideas about evolution and computers. It might be similar to this article from roughly the same time (though paywalled): https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/06/-a-pe...

The only other talk I remember going to was Simon Singh (author of Fermat's Last Theorem) giving a great presentation on (and demonstration of!) the Enigma machine.
You mean stuff like this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_inflation

People don't spend much time on those theories because they are inherently of little practical consequence. What includes that they are also not clearly testable.
If Google performed morality tests on its customers before selling to them then the company would have exactly $0 in revenue.
I agree that the term has a meaning in the dictionary, and colloquially people attribute a distinct and stronger meaning to it. But I think it becomes meaningless when we try to establish a more serious discussion about it. The origin of the term as war propaganda is what creates this colloquial meaning and it is also why it becomes difficult to distinguish it from other things: the evil enemy brainwashes, we just educate rebellious children and teach them to behave. The evil enemy brainwashes, we just fill the cinema with movies depicting our soldiers as heroes, and our news on TV convince even people against the war that the enemy is a real menace against us and should be attacked. We just have full of marketing companies trying to convince even people that do not want to buy more things to buy more things. All these things can make a person give up previous beliefs and accept contrasting ideas. And are forcible in a way or another.
Do you have something constructive to add related to the content of the article or are we just quoting random bible verses on HN for no reason?
Pre-photography it at least took effort, practice, and time, to draw something convincing. Any skill with that much of a barrier to entry kind of automatically reduces the ability to be anonymous. And we didn't have the ability to instantaneously distribute images world-wide.
> As for what to do with them, consider a retro-controller project

Yeah, problem is i have an arduino and an esp32 plugged into other stuff on my desk right now for work (and a couple Pis with different setups). Because I'm paid to do stuff like that, it's not new and interesting as a hobby.

I'll do look into getting some support chips for the z80s though, thanks.

> These are surprisingly capable CPUs.

I grew up with zx spectrums and some access to cp/m machines :)
>We write code once, but read it many times, so shorter names (incl. namespaces) seems like a poor efficiency choice.

I think it's fascinating how different people can interpret this so differently. I feel like it's precisely because we read code so much more than we write it that we should prefer using names that get to the point, instead of having so much noise and repetitive boilerplate.

Reading a soup of std::this, std::that, std::foo, std::bar is so difficult to parse through. Especially if you're like me and you sound things out in your head, which I recently learned is not how everyone reads.

The only justification for writing all those std::'s is because compilers can't disambiguate names from their context, but you're not going to find a human who comes across a use of vector<Foo>, or sort(...) and throw their hands up in confusion wondering what was meant.

>We write code once, but read it many times, so shorter names (incl. namespaces) seems like a poor efficiency choice.

This to me seems like a cargo cult justification, where you've heard the argument that descriptive names are helpful for readability, so we should name our variables in a way that conveys their intention as opposed to 1 letter names or obfuscated abbreviations, but instead of genuinely understanding the principle behind the rule, you think the rule is simply that it's better to have long names over short names.

Descriptive names that can be used to disambiguate variables from one another on the basis of their purpose... yes, please do that. Writing long names just so that they are long, especially by giving everything a shared prefix like std::... no, that's a misunderstanding of the justification behind the rule.

It's similar to that saying along the lines of when a principle becomes a metric, it ceases to be a useful principle.