skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems hard for people to take a nuanced approach that GPT-4 level models have in the present the potential to improve many people's lives and corporations' bottom lines while still being cautiously pessimists on the next generation of models.

GPT-4, Claude 3 & Co. are simply too useful for certain coding tasks or to review a contract. Obviously, you need to understand you're dealing with a probabilistic being, and for many tasks it isn't the correct tool, but I use ChatGPT ~5 a day and the $20 are super well spent. Now, there's an ocean apart of me liking to use ChatGPT and the promises from Silicon Valley and Microsoft.
I think it is also the decoupling from real people doing real job. The farther you go from ground level work, the easier it is to theorize what they could do - whether it is asking drone operators to bomb some place, or set a policy without setting foot in the store on a daily basis, or do a leveraged buyout based primarily on a spreadsheet driven model, the farther you go away from people whose lives are being impacted, the easier it is for you to make decisions that do not think about them.
This is ultimately what they want: their owned walled garden, where they get to be the decider, hold the power, track the user's as first party data, etc. It makes perfect sense. They want this to be the next Android OS (with Play Store equivalent of course).

This is really the only move that gets them back in (perhaps only somewhat) with the dwindling ads market.

Much as I don't like it, it is a legitimate tactic. I just don't see it being effective in the current market, even with Apple as a player.
Why can't you play BeatSaber without mods?
> software development was super close to the metal. Not so much anymore.

From your perspective, what feels lackluster about software development being further from the metal. I maybe also have a misunderstanding of what you mean by that. Are you saying that software is typically deployed a few abstraction layers deep away from the metal, or are you saying you get fewer opportunities to interact directly with the hardware you run your software on now? Perhaps both?
It does not develop the exploit from a description of the vulnerability. It extracts public exploit code from the web. https://struct.github.io/auto_agents_1_day.html
> Why even have surveys if the point is just to collect 100%s and not actually find things to change without taking money out of people's pockets?

"So if I implement this system then either I get confirmation that everything I'm responsible for is perfect or I get an excuse to save money on labor?" - management approximately 8 seconds before implementing the surveys.
It feels like a competition to own a comparatively narrow market (if we're talking about VR). And, within that context, it may indeed be a good idea. But I just cannot see VR headsets being anything approaching common, primarily because people do not like tech accessories they cannot put away unless they have a high fashion value or effectively look like something else. VR headsets, today, check none of these boxes. AR might end up being a different story.
Not sure if this is a good use for it given the need this article is talking about, but discarded aluminum can apparently also be used as an energy source: https://www.found.energy/faq
Did they consider the UK market when naming this?

Horizon is synonymous with a computing scandal involving buggy IT code.
Thank you. Answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40114774
Let’s make a trip back to the early and mid 1990s when C++ was a young language and Java was under development (it was released in 1995). At the time the most popular object-oriented language was Smalltalk, Common Lisp was at its peak of commercial popularity (largely in symbolic AI niches), and there were other niche OO languages that were heavily influenced by Smalltalk and Common Lisp (Objective-C in the NeXT world, Apple’s Dylan under development).

However, if I know my history correctly, Smalltalk and Common Lisp implementations were generally not cheap. Objective-C was largely tied to NeXT, which required buying into a niche ecosystem. Dylan was a casualty of Apple’s mid-1990s business struggles.

C++ benefitted from inexpensive implementations from vendors such as Borland and Microsoft, and it also benefitted from its close relationship with C, which already gained a foothold in the 1980s.

Java benefitted not only from Sun’s marketing machine, but also from its free compiler and runtime from Sun. Java overtook Smalltalk, despite the fact that Java lacks Smalltalk’s dynamics.

I think had there been solid cheap or free Smalltalk and Common Lisp implementations around 1992, Java wouldn’t have gained a foothold, though C++ would have still been very appealing to C developers, though perhaps if Objective-C were more broadly available to non-NeXT developers, it would’ve been a formidable competitor to C++ in terms of providing a “C with objects” environment.
My understanding was this would terminate the record unless enclosed by “encapsulators”, whereupon indeed it would be interpreted as literal text.

Though defined as CRLF in the RFC, presumably for interoperability, you are typically free to define alternative record separators, as well as field separators and encapsulators, and most modern implementations would be smart enough to work with this.
If it meant that my code wouldn't make other people sick...
CVS/Walgreens
One option would be to start from what you already know–there are many opportunities to apply CS to life/physical sciences problems. I like rosalind.info, you can start with code and then read independently to fill in any gaps in your knowledge that you come across.
It's a classically-done puzzle with a classic hint. One of the colors is correct, so if you just put in all the shapes that are in front of each console, one core starts spinning. That triggers you to understand that you're part-way there but are missing something.

It's nice when puzzle creators take the time to scaffold their puzzles.
ESL is essentially a second staff on top of the normal staff. It’s not the only kind of support staff though; US schools mainline special needs children in regular schools because it leads to better educational outcomes and societal integration in the long run, whereas Japan usually separates most of these children into separate schools.

A lot of countries have significantly newer schools, because a lot of the physical building were destroyed like everything else during the wars, or most people moved into newly developed suburbs and new towns. NYC notably doesn’t includes its suburbs so its share of old buildings is a problem that suburban districts do not have.
You can make gpt be an imaginary friend for children if you want to.

The technology is the technology, the application of it is the magic.
Elon Musk's robotaxi dreams plunge Tesla into chaos
> In Europe, some airports just directly offer a paid priority security option, which sometimes is actually quite inexpensive. But it seems this may not be allowed by the TSA, and the alternative is the fiction of Clear supposedly offering some identity verification benefit.

The question is why a non governmental entity is inserted into the middle of transportation security, with a profit incentive.

There already existed an entire apparatus for airport transportation security. There already existed an entire apparatus for fingerprint and other biometric verification to expedite the security screening process (precheck and global entry).

So then why did the government give Clear the right to bypass the official process? Why not just have a precheck plus or whatever system? Why not just have everyone do their biometrics when they do them every 5 years for precheck as it is?
Tesla Cuts Marketing Team in Reversal of Musk's Ad Strategy
> while leaving the spec open to further expansions with faster memory as technology progressed

They only set the current standard, but allowed to, if technology progresses, that other speeds/timings would also be jedec compatible, rather than being some kind of XMP. Motherboard manufacturers do not need to upgrade their previous models if the hardware doesn't meet the required SN ratios, or whatever. But they _could_ if they believe they had the hardware to support it.
Oh yes, like he shipped the Metaverse.
It seems like the argument against TikTok is one of potential abuse, not that a specific illegal action had been taken by ByteDance.

So, for the same reason that you can't find someone guilty of a crime that you believe they will commit in the future, the DOJ and FTC don't really have any standing here to press charges or levy fines.
Have you heard of Eve Online? It used to be a meme, but now it integrates with Excel, officially.

https://support.eveonline.com/hc/en-us/articles/816520777052...
I wonder how 1. works. Won't any developer tell you that platforms are traps, to be avoided unless necessary (or unless you're prepared in advance to jump off it at any time)? I feel platforms are only interesting to business folks, particularly those selling access to them.
These are not complex or dazzling terms. Artificial intelligence is software that seems intelligent. Virtual reality is a simulated environment that you can immerse yourself in through small screens and head tracking. Mixed reality is virtual reality overlayed on your real environment. See also "augmented reality". The metaverse is the web, but replace websites with 3d environments and add some sort of personal avatar, perhaps with some persistent identity.
The joke misses the mark because Lisp code usually coalesces all the parentheses in the same line at the end of the block. It does make sense for Ruby, though.
So, I think that personal e-bikes are basically a small percentage of e-bikes in the city. Most of the e-bike users are food delivery drivers / couriers. As they talk to each other, I'm sure they all have the most cost effective option. (NYC has had e-bikes forever. They were illegal until 2020, but they have been a mainstay since the early 2010s.)

The problem these delivery drivers face is that the battery doesn't last for an entire shift. As a result, they've almost all switched to mopeds. (A moped, as far as I can tell, is the world's loudest lawnmower engine attached to a drivetrain.) I thought it was over-regulating e-bikes that led to this trend, but I think it's actually an energy density concern.

The TL;DR is if you see e-bike fires going down, it's because everyone ditched their e-bikes for fossil fuels. Very sad.
That's one way of looking at it. But it's not just about alumni of UCSD. This is about privileging kids whose parents didn't go to college over kids whose parents went to any college.

More important is the impact. The GPA cutoff is very low, just 3.0. Who gets into UCSD with less than a 3.0? And the vast majority (75%) [1] of UCSD students are in-state. So the only factors that actually matter are Pell and first-gen college. So CS and other majors will be enriched with students who check these boxes. Will they succeed? Some will. But based on existing research we know that students who are admitted with lesser credentials transfer out of STEM majors at a higher rate. This applies to both AA admits and legacy admits. It likely also applies to Pell/first-gen students, whom the UC system prizes and privileges.

I see two possibilities. Either students will wash out in years 2 and 3, or so much of the majors will be made up of these students that there will be pressure to dumb down the courses so that students can pass. Either way, it's a bad outcome for these kids. And it's a bad outcome for the kids who were rejected from the major and who can't shift into it after slots open up later.

1: https://ir.ucsd.edu/stats/publications/21_22_StudentProfiles...
> When it comes time to pass it along to juniors, they either can't or won't...

Some are that way I suppose but as I was learning, many far more experienced, late-career gurus went out of their way to teach me. It does require asking good questions and showing some genuine interest and engagement in learning though. It's also important to be able to show at least some aptitude which helps convince someone to invest the time in you.

Over several decades and lots of hands-on experience, I eventually advanced to proven veteran status myself and I was pretty much constantly trying to teach the newer recruits the deeper work of not just how to do it but why and how to think about the overall process. I think I managed to do some good since several of the newbies I informally mentored have now become senior vets themselves. However, several times I was actually told by the division head to spend less time explaining to my staff and just do the work myself as quickly as possible.

Even though I'm now happily retired, I regularly volunteer as a guest lecturer at several university programs. Like many fields, full-time professors don't really have the breadth of practical experience or real-world skills themselves. The good ones realize this and rely on people like me who've successfully done it over decades to fill in the gaps.
To me, the only way to really do it is Clear+Pre. Clear "bypasses" the ID verification step, and then you get inserted into a Pre line, which at most airports, under normal circumstances means: shoes stay on, remove any metal and jacket and just walk through an X-ray. Laptops, iPads, etc., stay in bags and go through X-ray too.
The out of the box track selection is quite weak. The game depends on community made tracks to make it playable in the long term.
Dont be fooled by the marketing language.

All they are doing is allowing some companies to pay them billions of dollars to put meta onto their own headsets. Similar to how Valve allowed a few companies to put SteamOS onto their own hardware to create 'Steam Machines'.

I cant think of a single time in history when this tactic has worked. and made a product or brand more successful. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Yet we do not apply the same standard to alcohol.

The way the law and testing works now, you cannot have had any weed of any kind in the last three months.
https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf/issues/290
"SpaceX evaporates the moment the juicy billion dollar public contracts dry up."

So, not in the foreseeable future, given the new Space Race with China.

Ofc the government is an important customer for any launch provider (not just SpaceX), given that a lot of current space activity is military in nature. That just comes with the territory.

Edgar Rice Borroughs died before the first man-made rocket reached the orbit. Writing about Mars isn't the same as building a ship that can reach it.

I am not a native speaker of English, so I am not sure how much deprecation does the term "pipe dream" contain. But I don't think that manned flight to Mars is wild and unattainable fantasy. I would say that it is on the same level as manned flight to the orbit by 1945 - not yet here, but technically and economically feasible in a decade or two.
> but ultimately if more jobs are created than are lost

For people who believe more jobs are created, it seems like they rely in chaos theory or something. They can't see how or where these new jobs will be created or how automation leads to it. We automated physical labour so we increased intellectual labour. Now are automating intellectual labour too so what's being increased now?
I think "mixed reality" is the marketing term for augmented reality. Easier to understand for some people.
Not even that; this just sets standard speed/latency values for memory modules without XMP. You can already exceed these numbers with XMP.

PRAC would need handling in the memory controller, so that would require a CPU update if I understand correctly.
You can - it's just far less fun than BeatSaber with mods. The biggest improvement is from being able to select from the community list of songs that are available that may better suit your taste than the songs that come built in. It's a rhythm game so using a rhythm you like makes it much more fun.
I don't think anyone can say what will 'very likely' happen, but NASA often hires many contractors and also does much work internally (e.g., at JPL) for a major project. Also, there may be other national space programs partnering in the mission.
Ok but I think this is still just bad.

If person A manages 6 things and thinks it is too much, he should instead manage 3 things and have a new person B manage the other 3. Not elevate himself to manage person B and C who each have 3 things.

You say your job is to emulate what they would do, but also that there’s a game of telephone going on. That implies your boss is still very much in the loop of those actively communicating, and what’s probably happening is you’re bubbling up lower and lower fidelity information up the chain for them to make decisions.

You should never have the role of trying to emulate what your boss would do. If you’re going to manage managers, then those managers below you should have some sort of functional/technical expertise that warrants them being independent managers or they should have enough autonomy that your relationship is only about allocating higher level resources to them.
Moving on from Mocha, Chai and NYC
Donald Knuth offshores there.
The key is language and teaching, aka cultural resistance to plagues, war and starvation via distributed knowledge. Prior to that you can stumble upon knowledge again and again.
Is Zoneminder your main interface? I've been using it for several years with a few Reolink 5MP cameras, and maybe it comes down to choices I've made which I should revisit, but it's painfully slow (say, 30 seconds) to start playing, or seek within, an event video. I record only events.

I am now experimenting with the RLN36 NVR instead, and thinking about having enough disks to record continuously instead of events only.

Ideally I want continuous recording, and I want a timeline of events that aren't separate files, but are just shortcuts to alarm times within the continuous recording, with minimal seek delay. Interface must be friendly to small screens (phone size) which the RLN36 web UI isn't particularly. Maybe the zmNinja app.
Shades of Apple licensing the Mac OS to clone hardware vendors in 1995 - 1997. It seems like Meta will be controlling the software experience quite closely, just like Apple did back in the day.

There’s an important difference though: Apple made all their money on Mac hardware margins which the nimble clone vendors could undercut. Whereas for Meta, the Quest hardware has always been sold at breakeven or even as a loss leader (a few years ago they actually raised the price of the Quest 2 to cut further losses).

So there’s no kind of existential danger to Quest here, but it remains to be seen if the hardware licensees can bring anything relevant to the table either.
It's the line that adds uncertainty more than precheck vs normal. I can have my electronics and liquids out, and shoes off, in 30 seconds or so. As I'm frequently travelling internationally, I need to be prepared for the combination of different rules, and so can't rely on precheck to let me pack differently.

Clear does often have a precheck/non-precheck distinction, but when I had precheck (and not clear), I had enough trouble with miscommunications between different TSA agents about a line being one or the other that resulted in delays and secondary bag screening, at least at LAX, that it did not seem particularly useful. I did not appreciate being told by one person not to remove anything from my bag, then shouted at by another person for not having removed anything from my bag.
I don’t understand why things like design are being discussed or debated. All these countries are wasting time on minor things instead of just doing what is needed, which is an outright ban. So far, only India has got this right.

All Chinese linked social media apps should be banned due to risks to user privacy, national security, and lack of reciprocal market access. This ban should also apply to apps headquartered outside of China (like the US or EU) that have leadership with Chinese citizenry (not ethnicity but nationality). In the case of TikTok, divestment is not enough to guarantee anything - after all they allegedly lied under oath about where US data is stored:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/06/21/tikt...

So what will divestment accomplish? What if key leaders or employees can be influenced or blackmailed by the CCP to do unethical things like sharing data or running algorithmic propaganda campaigns or whatever?
Porkbun seems very popular these days. My personal favorite is Dynadot. I hope that neither of them would shut down a domain in the manner that you described.
Ask HN: How much of your thought process while coding is verbal?
Inspired by the “programming is thinking” post. How does your thought process look like ?
Is it verbal or intuitive ?
Many of the same mindsets and people who deride blockchain as “you dont need it if you are not doing anything bad” are also going to do away with end-to-end encryption under the slogan “you don’t need it if you have nothing to hide”.

After all, it can be used to hide ANYTHING, including 2 billion dollar transfers, tax evasion, money laundering and of course supporting terrorism. At least the blockchain is public! The sentiment you express comes on one side of the freedom/security spectrum.

If you’re arguing in good faith, then you’ll have to think deeply why oppose blockchain but others shouldnt oppose end to end encryption for the same reasons of “nothing to hide”. Even I come down on the side of “if you are reduced to sneaking around, then your society is already in bad shape” and consider end-to-end encryption to be a bandaid that makes people complacent. But the war on end-to-end encryption is actually far more prevalent than that around the world, and far bigger than your silly war on blockchains and mere cryptographic signatures (which governments don’t oppose nearly as much):

https://community.qbix.com/t/the-coming-war-on-end-to-end-en...

Read it! And no, the strawman is that I’m talking about shotguns. I’m talking about open software and protocols eating the world if capitalistic for-profit corporations, just as they disrupted the Big Telcos, and then AOL/MSN etc. So will blockchain be the value layer and IPFS/Autonomi be the storage layer etc. And the Web will be increasingly outdated.
Presumably cmp.Or is short enough that it will usually be inlined by the compiler, at which point any side-effect-free calculations can be short circuited. I don't know in what circumstances cgo actually will perform both of those optimizations.
You don't necessarily have to host the comments on your server. But by providing an AP id, you provide a common reference for other people to refer to.
You can insert narrative-citations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR8i-EY_UBk&t=220s
OT: Bought Wasteland from the 80s today for $2.50 on Steam.
The music reminded me of Super Hexagon.
I know, but it’s not “just bytes” as per parent comment. You cannot infer the length of the content without decoding it. “By definition” it is variable width character data. I think it’s fair to be pedantic vs a fairly dramatic oversimplification.