skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i appreciate the explanation! thanks!
> "I would have needed a machine-translation tool to be able to communicate with [my mother]" [a CS researcher] said. Now he is beginning to understand her without machine assistance

If you need machine assistance to communicate with your own mother in her native tongue, then that language was already on its way out. Young generations less and less adopting the language of their parent generations is the age-old story of how languages die, since long before we had computers. This example, and the article in general, seems to contradict its premise.
Poptop: A modern top command that charts system metrics
But we still don't have such a display tech or do we? I've never heard something like that.
Probably someone can invent such tech within a decade. But seeing it in a consumer product takes time. So it's safe to assume that it won't happened within a decade if we don't even have such tech today. Especially in this context of investment.
Do you speak obliquely because directly expressing yourself would be too funny?
It's absurd that we're so hesitant to weaponize regulation against abusive business practices (because money). This should have been fixed decades ago, as it has been in some other countries.
Computers, Internet, GPS, weather satellites, Tor, I wonder where all that came from.
Good point.

I was thinking of a lot of cases where RC is being used as a general solution for lifetime management with automatic refcounting; but most objects have a well-known lifetime with their refcount being 1 95% of the time. And another 4% have their refcount bump up to 2 briefly when they're temporarily shared, or transferred to a new owner (think returning a shared_ptr<>).

But, yeah, the "genuinely shared" case - either the 1% in the scenario above, or when RC is only being used for objects with complex lifetimes - is definitely a significant use-case I overlooked.
> the only people who think architecture/model choice makes a huge difference are n00bs and academics.

Are you referring to the current state of our best existing models or the potential future of ML? I find it incredibly hard to see how an LLM could implement the best “physically allowable” approximation to Solomonoff induction.

Then again, I thought it was extremely unlikely neural networks would have the abilities they currently exhibit, so who knows.
why do you care what order the attributes are in that you feel not being able to reorder them is a negative?
Do people really consider reading fiction a waste of time? I’d love to meet someone who says reading Mark Twain or Toni Morrison or Vladimir Nabokov is a waste of time. Actually … I don’t think I’d like to meet that person.

There are definitely some forms of fiction that are less enlightening than others, but even the “lowest” forms are generally time better spent than scrolling the internet or watching random TV channels.
I don't like bullshit and this is a bullshit generator.
Just links to a login/signup form. A "Show HN" IMO should be usable or at least viewable.
Hey jdenquin, author/Oso cofounder here.

I'm obviously biased, but IMO the benefits of using a language over SQL is:

* Ability to write reusable logic (rules)

* Support for inline policy tests

* Abstracted from the data model, so easier for collaboration and distributing across multiple applications
It is going to get even a bit more interesting when you consider power gaters and virtual power supplies. Now the real power will be on the back side and the virtual power will be on the front side. Fun time for power analysis.
Personally I don't think that the problem is that JS makes the web a more colourful and dynamic experience, but that the vast majority of that colourfulness and dynamism is just not good.

Hijacking the user's scroll, rendering the entire website content on JS at client-side (although the emergence of SSR has made this less of an issue. Who knew that not rendering all the things on the client device makes things better, I'm shocked…) and SPAs more generally (GitHub for example is so jank and annoyingly slow nowadays, it's just irritating), doing things like buttons and links with a `<div>` with an `onClick` instead of using the appropriate markup, et cetera.

Of course, many of these things are exactly opposite to the actual best web development practices. But why, then, is this shite so prevalent‽ It's also bad for things like accessibility, with screen-reader users and such sometimes struggling majorly because of myriads of badly developed web applications. Meanwhile a standard HTML document, with some CSS and maybe some JS for progressive enhancement just works. Of course, I know that many use cases require far more interactivity and dynamism than that, but is it such a big burden to not make the user experience worse with bollocks like reinventing browser scrolling?
"or maybe a way to browse original inputs" - You can see a timeline of the sources if you tap/click on any of the items in the feed. Guess that isn't obvious enough.

"chose different feeds" - If you click the filter button you can choose multiple categories like tech, business, social media etc. This feature needs to be more obvious too. Or were you thinking of something different?

I like the idea of bigger cards when they have more sources. Don't think it would work well on mobile but certainly a tablet or larger.

Thank you again for taking the time to respond!
I mean, if you can't verify the integrity of the application you're already running then it's already game over. You're talking about downloading another executable and running it to life patch which is the exact opposite of what I'd suggest.

The currently running (trusted) executable downloads and verifies the signature of the binary. Then after verification you execute it. If your trusted binary is validating invalid data then you've already messed up somewhere.
I did not notice any implication of Americans being incapable of innovation. It is wrong and, frankly racist, to imply immigrants are used to suppress wages.
I find and listen to plenty of new music, for some reason I find it hard to listen to the teenage stuff. Even though I love it, its too fraught.

But, its not like I love any of the new music I find. I can like it, but I'm never going to blast it on repeat for weeks on end like 15 year old me could. Its hard to make an emotional connection like that as an adult.

As a result, I care less about music discovery. I know I'm not going to find a revolution in my own tastes. I know I'm not going to convince a whole group of friends to do the same, like you might in highschool. Its just a little more colorless now.
If it’s a serious business idea you might want to address the elephant in the room… who actually wants to spend their time reading a book written entirely by AI? … which will end up having factual inaccuracies and a very bland writing style.

Or more to the point, what use cases would there be for such a tool that don’t involve tricking users into reading a book they didn’t know was AI generated?
[dupe]

More discussion on official post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40117599
Private prisons account for < 10% of incarcerated individuals nationally, but it must be noted that many states do not have private prisons, and some states, such as Montana, have 49% of incarcerated individuals in private prisons.

https://www.sentencingproject.org/reports/private-prisons-in...
I’m typically a ”tough on crime“ person, but this is absurd. Charging people for a resource that they didn’t use, which is intended to be reusable seems like pure exploitation. If they want a 30 or even 90 day early release fee, to cover having to refill the cell — I don’t like it, but I’d get it. But charging someone for 7 years?!?
I spent a past life in a world where it was deemed necessary to perform this kind of interactive database surgery, and I used two techniques to try to mitigate the risk: I had my psql client set to disable autocommit (some people fear this because of leaving locks around, but you pick your poison), and my default user didn't have write access. Neither are perfect, but I ended up not being the person who accidentally deleted a whole table because, as they had explained to me with an annoying "I'm so macho" attitude, they always typed the semicolon first.
It should be fairly straightforward to measure the cadence in the way you describe, but you would still need a way to measure input speed. Startona uses a physics simulation to calculate the player's speed based on the power input since this gives the most accurate results. In case power is not available, the game uses speed as a fallback. Although, it would be fun to add a way to connect an Arduino-based solution via USB so people can homebrew their own speed measuring systems (with hall sensors or similar). I am open to adding that option if enough people ask for it.

You could try to use a Bluetooth speed sensor like the "Wahoo RPM Speed Sensor" if your home trainer somehow allows you to fasten it to it's flywheel - if not, you would still have the option to put your bike on a cheap roller. That way the game would work, but you would only get a limited experience since only the high-end rollers support erg mode. At that point, you have come full circle and it may be cheaper to opt for an entry-level hub trainer like an Elite Suito.
Intel has a 1.4nm process in the pipeline for ~2027. They just took delivery on their first high NA EUV machine in order to start working on it.

Their gamble however is that they need to figure out DSA, a long storied technology that uses self-forming polymers to allow less light to sharply etch smaller features.

If they figure out DSA, they will likely be ahead of TSMC. If not, it will just be more very expensive languishing.
There actually is a real meaning to the term, but it isn't fears of coffee being bad but that in the future coffee won't be economically feasible thanks to climate change and most current coffee drinkers will not longer be able to drink it on a regular basis.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/04/coffee-cup-best-bea...
Intel hasn't got a great track record in recent history. Really hoping they can hit their timeline though.
I for one had no idea they were so bad until I had the pleasure to experience flying with them. I now try and warn everyone who will listen to pick any airline but TK.
I didn't write very clearly, my apologies.

I meant that you'd write in a human centric language that would then be translated to JSON. Not editing JSON directly.
But all of those are risks now - what about the current breed of AI systems makes them any more of a threat other than enabling people? The "AIs" we have seem to have little agency?
I love this. Lovely work! I had done something similar a few years ago for an edtech company I was working at. [0] It uses threejs and tries to "bake" the particle animation before trying to play it, but I don't think it ever made a huge difference in performance. I think I'll reach out and mention they could change to your library for a nicer experience!

[0] https://github.com/graypegg/xello-confetti
Even with Tech Salaries, $1550/month is hugely damaging to your finances. I can't imagine trying to pay that on less than $15/hour.
Not understanding chip design - but is it possible to get more computational bang with less transistors - are there some optimizations to be had? Better design that could compensate for bigger nodes?
In your view, does any company that does business with government organizations count as sucking on the government teat?
Signatories to the letter against Anduril sponsorship of NixCon include contributors with thousands of Nixpkgs PRs each, like Infinisil, wegank, and Ma27, plus many other recognizable names with PR counts in the hundreds. Some of those people are also committers who have helped many, many contributors get their code in.

If you can't tell that from a glance at the signatories list, you shouldn't be commenting on 'non-contributing participants'.
How can you tell someone is shadowbanned?
Don't kid yourself, this isn't some widespread issue in the US, this is Florida being Florida.
Harvey Weinstein's conviction is overturned by top New York court
I like how they encourage best practices using a score similar to pub.dev & what npm tried to do years ago. Also the compatibility portion is quite interesting given the evolution of runtimes.

I suppose I don't quite understand the rationale of another registry. But perhaps that is what is needed nowadays with various ecosystems and their chosen defaults. What for example prevents npm from adopting ES modules tomorrow? (Although there are many opinions on CommonJS/ES Modules)
So it will be similar to ChromeOS and Fedora. Full sandboxing, secure boot rooted in hardware, immutable.

Frankly, it’s a good transition (even though it seems snaps aren’t much liked in HN. Looks like they are here to stay).
Luminar starts shipping Lidar for Volvo EX90 while readying its next-gen sensor
I didn't express myself very clearly, my apologies.

I meant that you'd write in a human centric language that would then be translated to JSON. Not editing JSON directly.
AI could kill call centres, says Tata Consultancy Services boss
Train is always more expensive partly because they don't get the tax exemption and cheap fuel airlines get. If airfares were priced the way train is, they'd be a lot more expensive and much less competitive.
This is a horrible thing, but it's not slavery. That's just a rhetorical device.
it's as useful as actual confetti irl, so: 100%
https://archive.ph/IO9Nb
Ahh got it, so not for a real-time consumer use cases then.

Typically when I think of a user using an AI product they're hitting the LLM a lot and expecting results on their screen right then, but I guess there are a lot of back office and data processing use cases.
I've been a C++ dev for more than a decade and every single project I've ever worked on has been confidential and closed source, there is nothing for me to put on GitHub, other than personal stuff but then why would I ever do that? My hobby projects don't reflect my professional standards for coding, if they did they would no longer be hobby projects :P
The author is frustrated that someone is essentially capable of saying: “based on my priors, this doesn't concern me”.

> The best I can say is that sometimes people on my side make similar arguments (the nuclear chain reaction one) which I don’t immediately flag as dumb, and maybe I can follow this thread to figure out why they seem tempting sometimes.

At least the author is self aware. The problem is not that people can’t make rhetorically sound arguments, it’s that they’re not in a context where anybody cares about being rhetorically sound. Or, perhaps more realistically, there isn’t a logically correct answer. It’s all just dressed up unsubstantiated opinions on both sides. And half the time people aren’t even arguing about the same issue since a lot gets rolled up into “the danger of AI” topic. Structured debate with moderators needs to make a comeback.
I mean it's not the same month every time, but it seems to be on a pretty stable 2 year cycle?
It sounds like you interview very well.

For public job posts 9 months is reasonable to find the right (or closest to that) job. 5 interviews sounds like you're not really looking. I'm not sure if that's how many you had. But, 45 interviews sounds more reasonable for getting a good selection of jobs to choose from.

The largest fish in the lake isn't likely to be the first one you catch on your first visit. Though, sometimes luck hands you a short journey.

>None of their engineering staff have anything visible on their GitHub accounts

Maybe they aren't seeking attention? Do yourself a favor; if you have some GitHub profile photo that looks like a dating site, take it down. No one cares and most people find that annoying. That's especially true at smaller companies where leadership is easier to achieve, as is higher pay.

I hope you find the right gig. Wish you the best of luck.
> Until relatively recently there was a very high likelihood that you were either a heavy smoker or lived most of your life inhaling a lot of secondhand smoke.

Heavy smoking was definitely a problem, as was air and general environmental pollution. Nutrition, too, has made a huge difference. I think that the role of emotional stress is under-appreciated. The Baby Boomers had happy childhoods. The Vietnam War killed .03% of the U.S. population at the time, and the survival of the U.S. was simply never in doubt. Their parents, OTOH, generally had miserable childhoods during the Great Depression, then WWII killed .3% of the population, and of course there were some concerns about the survival of the U.S.

‘Secondhand smoke’ is not actually a thing which has an effect. It’s a propaganda term which ought to be avoided. Old folks today — i.e., the ones who look so much younger than old folks a generation ago — spent their childhoods and adulthoods absolutely surrounded by cigarette smoke, and smoking bans came in far too late to have an effect this recently. Compare never-smoking Boomer children of heavy smokers today to never-smoking Boomer children of non-smokers: there’s no appreciable difference.
And given the repeated examples of how realpolitik has led to conflict escalation, war, economic collapse, etc., the superiority of modern liberalism should be obvious.

It seems fairly clear to me why this is the case: complex, conflict-prone relationships often involve prisoner's dilemmas, and alignment on fundamental principles is an effective method for avoiding the worst-case outcome of a prisoner's dilemma. Abandoning principles for a purely situational approach to conflict makes the presumptive lose-lose outcome much more likely.
Private prisons are absolutely abhorrent when you consider the core nature of business entities. Also they do appear to be a red herring - they are bad and sound bad - but are not significant percentage wise.
> TPM-backed full-disk encryption (FDE) is introduced as an experimental feature, building on years of experience with Ubuntu Core. On supported platforms, you no longer need to enter passphrases at boot manually. Instead, the TPM securely manages the decryption key, providing enhanced security against physical attacks.

Shameful to see Ubuntu fall into the trap that Microsoft created, where you don't own your computer anymore and it actively prevents you from accessing your own data with DRM.
Hi, I'm Toni (@SolopreneurDev) and I've worked already in a few blockchain projects and wanted to have my own.

Development is in progress, I'm using Vercel for the deployments and working also in detailing tokenomics and economy of the game in the Whitepaper right now.

Any feedback is more than welcome!

Thanks in advance
I’m curious about the rewards/tokens aspect. Is this done using cryptocurrency (you mentioned bitcoin, urg, upthread), or something else?
>> "It will be on her credit history, it will make it difficult for her to get a job, for her to get housing, to buy a car, or do anything else that she needs to do, to be able to return to society," Foster told the I-Team. "They have a lien attached to anything you get in life.”

That is the purpose. People don't like to talk about how class-based US society remains. People, voters, actively want a hierarchy of citizens. Everyone is grouped into neat permanent boxes. There are the "illegals" who live in constant fear of arrest. There are "felons" who can only work certain jobs. There are "sex offenders" who can only live in certain places. Even for free, law-abiding, people there exists a hierarchy of citizenship ranging from "US national" to "citizen", with "native-born citizen" being at the top. Imposing lifetime financial burdens on criminals just creates another underclass of perpetually indigent persons. That is the goal of the policy and reflects the desire of a great many powerful people. Lack of social mobility makes powerful people feel safe. For a while.
It's only meaningful to consider that our world is a simulation if it is an imperfect one, otherwise you're just using "simulation" as an awkward synonym for "reality".

Click the "snow" button enough (https://catdad.github.io/canvas-confetti/) and you'll get a horizontal line separating the pre-slowdown flakes from the post-slowdown flakes. I suppose that's the kind of simulation imperfection that we might look for.

Personally, I don't think we're hacking our way out of this one any time soon, so I'm happy to just call it reality.
Show HN: I developed a platform regrouping CVS from people at Top Companies
Hey,

I am Sami, during my final year of study I struggled so much to find a job that would suit me! I realised that a huge part of the rejection I was getting was due to my CV not being good and personalised enough to the role or to the company!

This is why I have decided to track down people that got in and ask for the CV they used! As a developer I then created an online platform (with 3D effects because why not) to register all those CVs!

I really hope this platform will be able to help people and students that like me struggled finding a job!

Best, Sami
From the demo page:

> If you happened to get curious and changed the particle count to 400 or so, you saw something disappointing. An even "flattened cone" look to the confetti, making it look way too perfect and ruining the illusion.

I love it! This kind of attention to detail is rare in this world, and I cherish it wherever I find it - whether it's in statistical visualization, movie props, or website confetti.

(As a solution, I'd probably go for changing the random distribution directly. I'd check of course, but I'm guessing the real-life distribution approximates a gaussian.)
There's another market with more options where "ban will be rendered unenforceable by courts" is leading: https://manifold.markets/MichaelBlume/tiktok-endgame-which-w...
There are definitely thresholds you reach that make it difficult to generalize. large cluster setups can differ significantly and actual usability of the clusters makes a big difference too.

However I guess there are some differences like these even in real commodities like oil based on the blend/refinement/producer/geography.
You can do all of this with Postgres.
Nobody is trying to stop them from using Nix or contributing code. The only objection is to their use of Nix community events for advertising through sponsorship of those events.
The three operating system models of government
> not wanting to support the US "defense" sector.

Better stop using computers and the internet then.
I'm having to touch Spring occasionally nowadays and wow it is a hodgepodge. It really is the backend equivalent of jQuery.
I think it's useful to draw a distinction between instructions that are somewhat complex versus overall design choices that make decoding (and scheduling) hard. Like, does it really matter if you have a reciprocal square root instruction? Or is it more important to have fixed length instructions with an easy decode path? And a way to avoid a lot of implicit dependencies on, e.g., status flags? RISC got many of these things right, but it wasn't really by avoiding complex instructions.

(The fact that arm has a reciprocal square root instruction gives away my opinion a little bit...)

Dark silicon and power limits changed the equation a lot, as you observe.
I had a Treo 650 before I had an iPhone and always thought of the iPhone as an evolution, not a revolution. The reason that I switched was that I was mainly using Mac OS X on the desktop at that time, so using iPhone OS (as it was called then) as a companion was kind of a no-brainer.

However, in hindsight, even more than Palm OS I actually miss Pocket PC.
The article feels like the fallacy fallacy. It overindexes on one particular poor argument being dumb as evidence that it’s thesis is incorrect.
Sort of, gpulist.ai as well
The Rhythm of Your Screen
They're using drones as killbots against individual infantrymen, actively chasing them down rather than taking a lucky grenade drop. That changes everything about force deployment on the ground.
wow memories of playing this on a green screen TRS-80 maybe. Flashback!