skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a couple of years I've been expecting that ML models would be able to 'accelerate' bio-molecular simulations, using physics-based simulations as ground truth. But this seems to be a step beyond that.
This turns it into a tool that deserves to be dethroned by another group, frankly. What a strange choice.
It makes plenty of difference for employees, just not for overall company output. If anything if your union increases employee happiness and retention that's probably better for business in the long run.
Our metaphors and intuitions were crumbling already and stagnating. See quantum physics: sometimes a particle, sometimes a wave, and what constitute a measurement anyway?

I’ll take prediction over understanding if that’s the best our brains can do. We’ve evolved to deal with a few orders of magnitude around a meter and a second. Maybe dealing with light-years and femtometer/seconds is too much to ask.
> Why spend expensive silicon real estate on hardware virtualization rather than AI with Neural Engine?

Security is one good reason. Virtualisation allows near-complete sandboxing of applications or application sets for mixed personal/corporate use.

> Why make a Macbook-aesthetic Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro?

Because people use iPads for writing e-mails sometimes.

> Why was iOS implemented as a subsystem of macOS?

Because it'd be easier to develop a single core for two different user interfaces.

> Fortunately for healthy competition, Microsoft/HP/Dell/Lenovo don't have that constraint for their new Arm devices, based on M3-competitive Qualcomm SoC from former Apple Silicon talent.

I'll not hold my breath waiting for Qualcomm (or anyone else, for that matter) to catch up. At least for now, Apple has blocked a lot of production capacity at leading process nodes.
Never create a weapon you wouldn’t want turned loose on your family.
That pretty much broke down the moment the internet was created and the answers to the questions were the first thing put online.
https://youtu.be/c77oOkvCFjo
There's a general election coming up in the UK, probably later this year. No date announced yet but they're starting to get TOUGH ON CRIME and other things in preparation.
It feels a bit off to me. Even just small things like "trillion electron volt" as an expansion of "TeV" instead of "tera-electronvolt". No one in the field says the words in full anyway, it's always just "TeV".
I just made CLIPSockets public, which is a culmination of learning I've taken from trying to make web applications using primarily CLIPS. Thought I'd bump it here:

CLIPSockets: Clips low-level socket implementation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40300303
It's not about restricting access to porn. That's just the easiest way to get their foot in the door. It's a group funded by a tech mogul lobbying the government to legislate the use of age verification technology. I would bet my life savings the people behind the lobbying group(s) stand to benefit financially.

I guarantee you the goal is to collect as much identity information as possible and that's going to include getting parents to "enrol" their kids in the system. The carrot will be lower friction to access online services and the average person won't understand that someone lobbied to create the friction so they could sell the solution back to us.

Ultimately the goal is probably to create government authorized identity providers, maybe even just one, and they'll make tons of money from it. It might end up being "free" for people, but only because it'll be funded by taxes. If they succeed, we'll likely end up with a private company doing identity verification for government service just like the USA and id.me.

And we also get to pay the price of making the internet more dangerous for kids. The thing these lawmakers don't realize is the insane value children place on their online accounts. Once you limit them to a single account, because it's tied to a real world identity, they'll be terrified of getting banned and losing their account.

That might sound like a good idea in the context of fostering healthy online participation in games, etc., but the reality is that kids are gullible and it'll open them up to exploitation by bad actors. Kids will be getting phishing notifications telling them their account has been flagged for illegal activity and they need to pay a fine to unlock it. They'll go to some shady website and type in their VISA debit card number, which is enabled by default on most kids' bank accounts, and get their bank account cleaned out.

Remember, if you lose your account, you can't get another one, so you better pay the fine, right? And what kids are going to go ask their parents for help if they're being accused of bad behavior? None of them.

The core of the problem is that by tying online accounts to real world identities you make those accounts so valuable that people will act irrationally when threatened with the loss of an account. It's not just kids either, but kids will be the most vulnerable to exploitation.

Our politicians are a bunch of low IQ suckers that are getting played by rich tech bros that don't care if they make everything worse as long as they making money.
Hello, I'm the founder of Devv. Thank you for your feedback; however, I'm not acquainted with Zag, so I can't identify the incorrect syntax.

I utilized Agent Mode to rephrase the query, and here are the results: https://devv.ai/search?threadId=dl3rtxmcsruo

P.S. Agent Mode is a superior option to Fast Mode. It meticulously examines your questions and assigns an appropriate agent to provide answers, leveraging GPT-4 technology in its operations.

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> The syntax came from a language proposal in a github issue from 8 years ago, so I guess it's not fully hallucinated. But still not the best choice of what source to use.

Yes, if the source contains errors, the response may generate inaccurate information. We are continually refining our re-ranking algorithm within the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system to select the most reliable sources.
Best according to whom and for what reason? Give me some real reasons for why it is "best". That's what Apple's marketing department would say.
This news hits like a ton of bricks.

I can't think of another single person more influential and important to my own musical journey than Steve Albini. Guys like him are supposed to live to a ripe old age telling stories. It's just a horrible loss.
Ask HN: How do infrastructure providers calculate cost to compute?
From the outside of the hosting business, but with a less-than-shallow understanding of computer and networking history, I am befuddled at hosting costs (cheap as they may be even for how they’ve been historically).

Is there a way to find the actual cost to compute a given task in terms of electricity consumption, or has this been a solved problem and hosting companies just add their proprietary sauce and then charge for the end result?

I’m curious in this way, because I’d love to be able to host for clients in my geographical area, but I don’t want to over-charge more than what it is actually worth to run the infrastructure.

At the core of my question is understanding the basic economics of hosting in relation to electrical consumption and hardware wear. I’d guess the outer layer of my question has a bit to do with knowing the true cost of hosting rather than how to make the most off of clients for simple services.

Appreciate any and all input!
Whatever it is if we needed to we could follow each instruction through the black box. It’s never going to be as opaque as something organic.
Even without the AI generated content this is useful. Google seems to not index Github repositories so you can't search for specific variable names.

Feedback: I tried to click one of the links under "source" but it kept jumping down as the LLM-generated content was added.
That is a good callout, but the importance of the author doesn't change the fact that this links to a tweet which shows an image of a letter which claims that the unredacted documents would show such a suggestion.

I'm not commenting on the veracity of it or not... just making sure to call out that a tweet of a letter is not the same thing as the documents themselves. The letter even says as much - that we need the content to be opened to the public.

With the massive misinformation campaigns that are ongoing in our world, is important to be sure people dig all the way down to facts, and don't just accept tweets at face value.
Is there a reason you can't supervise your child's time online and/or use appropriate parental control software?
The idea that "undefined behavior can't happen" is ludicrous, because it happens all the time. The idea that most programmers also believe this nonsense is entirely unsupported.

It is very popular in a small range of very influential companies.
The only really remaining value is an indicator to readers/buyers that this book "might be worth it", as compared to a self-published item which could have any varying quality.

But that's relatively minor in the big scheme of things, because most published books are also unread.
This is the topic of epistemology of the sciences in books such as "New Direction in the Philosophy of Mathematics" [1] and happened before with problems such as the four color theorem [2] where AI was not involved.

Going back to the uninterpretable ML models in the context of AlphaFold 3, I think one method for trying to explain the findings is similar to the experimental methods of physics with reality: you perform experiments with the reality (in this case AlphaFold 3) to came up with sound conclusions. AI/ML is an interesting black-box system.

There are other open discussions on this topic. For example, can our human brain absorbe that knowledge or it is limited somehow with the scientific language that we have now?

[1] https://www.google.com.ar/books/edition/New_Directions_in_th...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem
What I'm missing is a model for building/distributing those C libraries with a java application.

Every ffi example I've found seem to operate on the assumption that you want to invoke syscalls or libc, which (with possibly the exception of like madvise and aioring) Java already mostly has decent facilities to interact with even without native calls.
This is a pretty weak argument IMO. Try applying this argument to any other regulated context:

- Should McDonalds be allowed to put crack in their happy meals or is it the parents responsibility to keep those meals away from their children?

- Should kids clothing be free of asbestos or is it the parents job to avoid buying that?

- Should baby formula be free of lead or is that the parents responsibility to check for?

If a company is deliberately pushing a product that is harmful and (arguably in this case) addictive to children, that is a problem regardless of the parental role.
Discussion [0] (17 points, 19 hours ago, 9 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40292604
You are conflating the whole scientific endeavor to a very specific problem to which this specific approach is effective at producing results that fit with the observable world.
This has nothing to do with science as a whole.
You don't have to do it in a crowded pool.
One of the largest time components can be due to soil compaction. This period can look like no work is being done, but is a vital step. That's not to say that sometimes no work is being done because of scheduling, equipment, funds, or any number of other reasons.

This video/article does a good basic job explaining why it can take so long: https://practical.engineering/blog/2020/6/1/why-does-road-co...

edit: I think someone linked this down below too.
> I think music is the closest thing to where we have "solved" this problem '

Music has "solved" the problem of updating the first sale doctrine in so far as it's pushing to remove the option of ownership altogether.
I randomly bumped into him in a bar last year and the guy had an aura that distinguished him from everyone else in the place. Sad.
Oh, yes I am working on that. Usually LSTM, exploring encoder-decoders and generative models, but also some simpler models based on periodic averages (which are surprisingly useful in some use cases). But I don’t have per-core metrics.
Was he not actually an industrial engineer? Or maybe he didn't have a PE license? Just curious why this was funny.

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/industr...
Bun (YC S19) Is Hiring Systems Engineers in San Francisco
Ah, you mean these: https://manta5.com

Yeah, it exists.
how do you see a Chrome extension working?
MBition Becomes a KDE Patron
I'm not a native English speaker. Is there some kind of double entendre here? Or does it just mean "with beard" and "without beard"?
Invoking native code has always been necessary in Java. In the past it was done via JNI which has many issues. These new APIs solve the issues and simplify the API. The use case is interacting with anything that isn't written in Java.
Money is a measure of value, and value is conferred, not intrinsic. Therefore, money is what we believe it is, and all things considered, it looks like we think it's worth something.
If an EVs batteries aren't mostly full, the limitation is in the amount of power that can be pumped into them. There isn't really a reason to charge capacitors directly or in any special way.

Even for high discharge I'm skeptical, lithium titanate batteries are probably much better, their durability and extreme charging and discharge rates make them half way to capacitors already.
How does it compare to Greptile? Can I use it to ask questions about my own codebase?
> The future envisioned by DRM is an attempt to deal with the problem of copying through structural rather than legal means. Would an update to the law restrict DRM by putting transferability requirements in place (that is, any DRM scheme needs to have the option to irreversibly transfer the content)? Would it put further DMCA-style restrictions on attempts to circumvent DRM?

Sounds fine to me. I don’t think that publishers should be allowed to interfere with transferability by technical or legal means.
As semi-automated worker owner, I have a 2 day work week.

My productivity would be zero if I had more work, since I'd burn out.

But of course my goal is to improve my automation until I can support myself on near zero labor.
Quite likely that most AI is better suited to English and all the big tech companies are heavily into AI with their algos.
I think you're just missing it, or not enough media attention.

Youtube is full of weirdass kid content. The ones I've seen are mostly weird / scary, on the border.

It's all garbage, but youtube algorithm recommends it more and more the kids I've seen because it notice the longer screen time.

I wouldn't say it's downright illegal content, but definitely not tasteful.
Many local drone companies, 100s at this point. They are in full war mode and more than capable.

Some notable examples are

- the boats wrecking Russia's Black Sea Fleet

- the long range drones hitting Russian oil refineries

- the gun on tracks (like the dog in OP, but with treads)

They have dozens of FPV style drone companies, and 1000s of individuals assembling FPV drones from parts. A super cool one I saw the other day is a FPV built with eco materials with sunflower seeds embedded: https://twitter.com/frontlinekit/status/1787904371977765177

Also rolling their own anti-drone systems like

- https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/05/01/ukraine-rolls-out-dom...

- https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-using-mobile-phones-6ft-1...
I don't think the intent is to use the capacitor as a substitute for battery energy storage, but as a complement. I don't think these would be a good fit for EVs, but for supercharger stations maybe? Charge/discharge efficiency and cycle lifetime will probably be higher than a battery, and in stationary applications, cost matters more than weight or volume. Of course cost depends on production volume, which isn't something you can measure in the lab, so who knows.

It might also pair well with battery chemistries that are good for energy density but poor on power density, like lithium-sulfur or LFP.
Same use case as to why .NET has low/zero-cost FFI.

This is similar, except more boilerplate and much, much slower.
1) Linking to Tweets still exists, and doesn't require that you're logged in to view them.

2) According to their own released numbers (which you may or may not trust), the usage of the platform is at a record high.

3) They've unbanned many accounts that were previously banned and seem to display a wider tolerance for free speech on the platform. The innovative community notes feature is sometimes helpful to point out misinformation, but misinformation thrives on the platform.

4) They've pushed back on various foriegn governments requesting data on users and requesting users or posts be banned (see the ongoing dispute with Brazil.)

It seems more free, not less free.
Echoing the same sentiments in the thread, hard to overstate his influence on the music I've enjoyed. Rest in peace.
the R&D of all major pharma is currently using AlphaFold predictions when they don't have experimentally determined structures. I cannot share further details but the results suggest that we will see future pharmaceuticals based on AF predictions.

The important thing to recognize is that protein structures are primarily hypothesis-generation machines and tools to stimulate ideas, rather that direct targets of computational docking. Currently structures rarely capture the salient details required to identify a molecule that has precisely the biological outcome desired, because the biological outcome is an extremely complex function that incorporates a wide array of other details, such as other proteins, metabolism, and more.
I suppose I would flip the question around - why should I have to do that, when content platforms could do it? It's just another administrative burden that gets foisted onto the plebs because large tech companies want to scale, but won't moderate content properly at that scale.
I'm hoping to purchase land and semi-retire over the next four years. My wife has an interest in beekeeping, and this is exactly the sort of thing we'd love to do.
"An entire generation learning to obey big brother for face the consequences sounds like a good thing, the youth need to learn their place. I support this" your unstated counterargument.
> if the problems are equally bad in other countries, especially in non-English speaking countries

Well, Myanmar had a genocide blamed on social-media (at least in-part), so arguably things are worse there, not just equally-bad.
I am going to say blockchain. Or, at least a ledger of some type, would be reasonable.
>> reference counting is not intrusive in CPython (meaning the reference counting structures are outside the PyObject, last I checked)

> That's wrong. That was never the case.

You are right, I was mistaken.

The point stands though, PyObjects are not really an issue for use cases where these tricks are needed.

> I was thinking more about a plain fork, like this

Right well you can recreate a multiprocessing pool of your own with different pros and cons, sure, that's an other approach I guess.
> capping copyright at 20 years would do wonders

You’d probably have to grandfather in copyrights made before the law went into effect. Too much money tied up in the long-tail of prior works.
I think you guys might be talking past each other. Obviously everyone agrees that many Europeans have coexisted within the same political structures for many generations. The difference between historical diversity and the woke kind is that people from other continents, with very non-European cultures and ethnic mindsets, are coming to Europe. Obviously those are two very different kinds of diversity.
> This concludes your exercise in pretending to not waste time while actually avoiding your deadline. Now: get back to work.

I suppose this could serve as the unspoken signature line in most communiques. Thanks MW
ah yes, you are right, i didn't think about that. i have to admit that i can't say how european unions would react here, but i think any negotiation on the issue would be based on the idea that automation is fine as long as it does not cost any jobs, but instead the company makes sure that all employees get reassigned and trained to do alternative work. using automation to increase output instead of producing the same output with less people.

at least in germany unions are also favoring reduction of work hours, which is another way workers can benefit from automation without losing their jobs.
Mandatory comic: http://www.stirlingaudioservices.com/realitycheck.gif

This image, addressing concert PA arrangements, has been floating around for decades, highly influenced by the GD setups.
This type of thing is called an "oracle".

We've had stuff like this for a long time.

Notable examples:

- Temple priestesses

- Tea-leaf reading

- Water scrying

- Palmistry

- Clairvoyance

- Feng shui

- Astrology

The only difference is, the ML model is really quite good at it.
Software Engineering is not yet standardized as a proper role, at least in the US. The boundaries are fuzzy and often overlap a lot with management and business related tasks and responsibilities. In my opinion this is definitely a problem for setting proper expectations and hiring the right people. Companies are definitely bending the role to suit whatever needs are necessary from the business standpoint. For example a decade or two ago there was more a difference between responsibilities of creating software requirements, testing, and measuring the usage, but these have shifted considerably and are mostly done by the feature level engineer.

Engineers have become something like Product Technologists, or a generalist technical person that must also produce and manage a slice of the overall product from idea to launch and analytics. It would be great if the role was formalized and it added guard rails to the industry in order to avoid this never-ending evolving definition of the role.
You can use it after you do the climb to see if there is a more optimal solution.
I don't know if I agree with your cynicism.

One thing that standardized education does is guarantee that the majority of people will be somewhere findable within the middle of the bell curve of the social status quo.

You know the same things that your neighbor knows, within a reasonable margin of error. Therefore, you have social compatibility with them.

You feel that if you took the money out of the equation, you could rub shoulders with Biden and Bezos, Musk, Gates and Powell and not be too far out of your own depth.

That's valuable, right?

To get that, you had to go through the same 12 years of history and bored idiot English teachers telling you about symbolism and metaphor and giving you terrible 5 paragraph essays to fill out with the same dumb rote formula.

If you look at the overall social outcome, for the majority, this is a good thing.

If, however, it turns out that you are special and of a rare breed, then for your own children you should hire private tutors or school them overseas or do something somehow to cultivate their greatness.

If you can show us a better path we'll start to move towards it, but until then accept the fact that there are thousands of minor and major pleasantries provided by standardized education that you get to enjoy every day as a matter of course thanks to the social conditioning it provided.
You've got a perdy writing style