skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm having a hard time mentally come up with a way a larger L1$ could be faster.

It’s faster because you’re comparing a two completely different physical implementations. SRAM does not use capacitors. DRAM does. You trade speed for density.
Why do you think it was delayed until this year, an election year? One reason this is something I’m filing under scummy politicians trying to get votes rather than someone trying to right a horrible decades old wrong.
Every company that promises "end-to-end encryption" is just pinky-swearing to you also. Like Telegram or WhatsApp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_humid_period

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara_pump_theory
> Not everywhere is the bay area where they can scale up by just piping it out a few miles into the ocean and call it good.

At least in the San Jose area, the sewage treatment was largely built 50 years ago, when it was doing a lot of agriculture, and flows are way lower with people than they were with food processing and other industrial processing. The new plant that's in progress needs and has way less capacity, even though the standards are much much much tighter.

At the one house per acre level though, you can likely manage with septic, which is incremental sewage treatment capacity, and not a huge municipal undertaking (there is record keeping and regulation and what not, so it's not nothing)
Definitely a factor in my not voting for Biden again. He campaigned as a moderate and governed (within the constraints of Congress) as a liberal.
My concerns tend to be the cost in terms of land and intermittency that are harder to evaluate. Nevertheless, I believe we should not let the perfect (nuclear) be the enemy of the good (renewables), so your comments are welcome. We should neither fuss over the aesthetics of a solution nor obsess over the exact time at which it is strictly preferable to status quo on a very specific metric.
Will definitely add that.
"Now that there's a technology threatening the continued existence of developers"

LOL...keep dreaming...I'll be long retired before that happens...

I'm excited to see where the tech goes, but right now - I put it right up there with cold fusion and self-driving cars.

might be worth taking another look at it in 5 years.
I think he might have a lot more incentive to hype up AI than most of us do.
It’s a bug. I’ll fix it soon.
I never understood why Hertz did this. I'm a huge fan of our own Teslas (yes, we bought a second one), but when we go on trips I never want to rent one. I had the option and considered it for a second, but I just want my vacation to be as close to zero issues as possible. We don't necessarily know where we will end up driving and I don't want to have to worry about finding a charging station. There is slim chance my hotel has a charger, and when they do, they only have a few.

At home it makes tons of sense to have a Tesla. I have a charger in my garage and I know my regular commute and where super chargers are.

It just doesn't make sense to me to rent an EV right now. Not until chargers are ubiquitous. Maybe for short business trips where you know you'll be in an area that has lots of chargers?
Do you think we'll return to human-curated directories?
Why on earth jump to the most outrageous conspiracy? That's an absurd leap.
There's nothing about regexes that makes them any better or worse at matching characters rather than bytes (or digits or any other fixed alphabet).
Until the LLM has more to go on than the column name, all these analytics AI tools are doomed to failure for anything nontrivial.
the only thing I remember about keybase was when they did this crypto ‘air drop’ thing, and then a while later (months? years?) I realised I had this coin in my account and I sold it for like 70 Euros on some sketchy crypto marketplace.
Can’t complain to be honest, no other startup so far has just handed me 70 Euros without asking to at least harvest my eye data..
Isn’t Salesforce’s primary value proposition trust?
Interesting! I wonder if this will be the way we open the door to microtransactions on the web!
> Identifying a substring is valid in every human language I know of, as long as the substring itself is semantically meaningful

Nope. Searching a UTF-8 string for a byte sequence, even one that is semantically meaningful, is not a semantically meaningful operation in most human languages. E.g. searching for the byte sequence 63 61 66 C3 A9 will not find the semantically equivalent byte sequence 63 61 66 65 CC 81, and so your program will have very annoying bugs.
You could already do that if you don’t need google sheets
It starts to feel like a trend where OpenAI is integrating features that were previously implemented by GPT-wrapper startups into ChatGPT. While these startups have added value by enhancing user experience, the trajectory is leading towards an ecosystem where these functionalities seamlessly integrate. The future will be challenging for those startups.
Beyond Public Key Encryption
While its true that there is severe ossification at those layers, changing them would have about zero impact on HTTP.
I don’t know, I doubt I would want a URL this long on my wall.
The calculation considers potential financial damage from having a cloud based security issue and most will find that the financial damage * risk < efficiency gains from just using cloud where everything is handled for you and you can just focus on your work.
> it will definitely require more time

No, it won’t. Occlusive ablation and spinning make more sense, though that comes with other trade-offs.
Haskell works like this: if you can manage to make it compile, it'll work the first time. Might leak gigs of space too, but it'll work.
This is a very interesting topic to me for some reason. I'd enjoy a website full of such explanations for a huge list of countries (I see that this website has some similar things.).

Also, I have found myself passively curious before about how far back you could go and find an outlet that you could plug a modern device into and have it work as expected.
Nah, it’ll totally work. For one thing, you won’t be able to precisely track the spot at which energy is focused. For another, most rocket shaped targets can be made to spin (and some already do spin and rely on rotation to scan for targets), thus defeating your “directed energy” entirely. It’s a boondoggle and a waste of taxpayer money, easily defeated from a couple of miles away with a 50bmg rifle or a salvo of cheap unguided mines.
We can fight back by not posting anything useful or accurate to the internet until there are protections in place and each person gets to decide how their data is used and whether they are compensated for it.
Definitely and that’s what ASCII-8BIT is for. You’ll get out exactly what you put in. :)

Also, the “life is good” was somewhat sarcastic.
> the idea that nonhuman entities from other realms kickstarted human culture

I'm not attacking him I'm just posting some quotes. In addition to his ideas about lost prehistoric societies influencing ancient Egyptians, he in turn believes that those prehistoric societies were influenced by aliens. I don't think this is an attack and I don't think he would disagree with this summary of his beliefs.
It's a thought-provoking article. I have mixed feelings about the idea: on one hand, visiting a friend's Weimar-era home in the DDR side of Berlin really impressed me. It was slightly different from those depicted in the article (it was part of a longer row of connected buildings), but the green space afforded by the courtyard was wonderful and the opportunities for community building palpable.

Yet, on the other hand, the safety doctrine unnerves me:

> American approaches aim to make combustible light wood-frame buildings easier to escape by providing multiple paths of egress; European codes, by contrast, require fire-resistant materials and compartmentation to prevent fires from spreading in the first place.

Why can't we have both multiple staircases and fire-retardant construction? The Grenfell Tower disaster was horrific, and although the subsequent building regulations that limit height were clearly reactionary in nature, I can't see people being comfortable with the 'stay in your room' safety advice after this kind of event. People are going to follow their instincts and head for the stairs, and things are not going to be pleasant if there's A: only one and B: it's blocked.

One idea that comes to mind is building entirely fire-resistant steel and glass bridges between medium high-rise buildings. If you're too high up to use the emergency out-door stairs, but the (single) interior staircase is blocked, you could move sideways to your neighbours. Security and privacy concerns about having easy access to neighbouring properties could be mitigated by having safety-glass dividing doors with emergency hammers next to the lock. The lock could itself be opened by mutual agreement of both sides in non-emergencies.
Every website that is publicly accessible is the "open web". Yes the servers are owned by Reddit, but so is every other server that makes up the internet, and any of them can be changed or taken down at any time.
Delayed? They have been working on this declassification for years now. It wasn't a secret. All the work to drag the bureaucratic sledge had to be done.

Nvm...you are just trolling for another conspiracy until they finally nail Hunter.
The internet is only as important as what we make it, but abstraction layers don't directly provide shelter or food, and while real human connection can be found online, most of still really like a hug sometimes.

At this point (I'm in my 40s, grew up with computers starting with the Commodore 64) I'd be okay switching/progressing to the internet not being so prominent. As a parent of a child with disabilities, the internet has made communication around medical needs easier, both with doctors and with other people in similar situations. On a global scale, beyond my family though? This speed at scale may be doing more harm than good to life on earth.

We're already planning to move back to a city (mainly for our child's benefit), and we'd never have left if the internet didn't exist.

"Definite future state" - hah, not even gonna bother with that one.

As for the rest? Passing fads, but also reflective of human social nature; we will always find ways to entertain ourselves. A more interesting question to me is what life on earth might look like in ten thousand years, and what role we now can play in shaping it in such a way that a person then, having grown up with stories about "pocket monoliths" that contained all the stories in the world, might with their rich imagination dream up this thread and chuckle as they go about picking berries (but not all the berries), weaving baskets, catching fish (but not all the fish), and all the other healthy* lifeways that have served us well for so long.

*Yes, I'm including violence in there, too (we're territorial animals at heart), just not the mechanized, industrialized violence that took off in the early 1900s
We Help Move Time Through the Air [pdf]
Maybe time will tell (im betting yes on AI powered phone as noted above and via chatGPT/Microsoft) and there's two camps currently .... like myself i sing the praises of Meta RayBan's smartglasses ... i can take pics/videos way easier then pulling out my phone. Yet if i pull out my phone one isnt going to know 100% if they are being video(ed) or photographed unless it's very obvious (they are following the subject with their phone held up). Meta's Smartglasses makes it less obvious and i guess those in the camp against meta's glasses would argue it erodes privacy. Yet legally in public spaces we have zero privacy! I guess it's a control thing.
Anybody else experience mobile Safari crashing on this github repo?

“A problem repeatedly occurred…”
Polished metal will not work at these power levels. It would need to be a dielectric mirror, which can only be tuned to be extremely reflective for a narrow range of wavelengths. The mirrors would cost more than the drone in many cases. Furthermore, the US has developed "white" lasers that don't have a specific wavelength to optimize for, they emit photons with a wide range of wavelengths specifically to defeat dielectric mirrors.
At some point of transition the CO2 emissions drop to zero because all the energy at every stage comes from renewables. Solar can pay it's emissions cost back in 6 months but every solar panel company powers their factories with their own solar panels so in practice the practical emissions are reduced a lot and as mining adopts the new electric vehicles most things will tend towards almost nothing. The more renewables are adopted the shorter this emissions payback becomes. Manufacturing in the EU for example is about 55% renewables already.
Discovered via https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/time-di...
Or maybe they're just not praying hard enough.

I'm a through-and-through atheist, but I recognize the civilizing effect of order.

'Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short’ (but epistemologically pure!) isn't a great sort of life.
Odd Lots had a great podcast last year that covered a lot of this stuff, highly recommend: <https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-we-dont-build-more...>
> Posts made using AI are supposed to be tagged as such so users can opt-out of seeing them

While this is the official line I'm fairly certain the real reason for stuff like this is to prevent AI models consuming their own output.
Not to be glib, but this why we built Tonic Textual (www.tonic.ai/textual). It’s both very challenging and very important to protect data in training workflows. We designed Textual to make it easy to both redact sensitive data and replace it with contextually relevant synthetic data.
> “Although the carbon offset depends on the exact older technology the wind turbines are replacing, we would expect a similar offset internationally. In New Zealand it is gas turbines, but many countries will be displacing fossil fuel generators.

Aren’t gas turbines a type of fossil fuel generator?
If target is metal coated with gold, silver or aluminium layer [1], then the reflectivity is good from UV up to far IR.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflectance
> Automakers in the United States and their supporters welcomed President Biden’s tariffs, saying they would protect domestic manufacturing and jobs from cheap Chinese vehicles.

The tariffs need to be time limited, to say five years, or this is just penalizing American households. Get with the program, US auto makers.
That is most likely part of the reason why US multi-story buildings are less safe than European ones. I know that Europeans find the idea of wood frame buildings to be a little scary. Like wny do you do that?
I'm interested by the first pull quote:

> "...analyzing customer data, which has become too large and complex for Excel. It helps me sift through massive datasets..."

The emphasis here is on the size of the data, but I think that's a red herring. Excel can certainly handle way more data than you're going to want to repeatedly pipe through an LLM. I'm betting it's the diversity of---or even lack of---schemas. Big piles of tables and unstructured data you'd normally have to normalize and join.

I spent years doing data analysis slowly with Python (pandas), and it took me a long time to accept that getting better at Excel was just more efficient. Hard to accept that code isn't always a task's best interface. Automating some Excel work sounds even better.
I daily drive mint and Linux distros for 25 years now.

I'm avoiding Wayland and whatever rewrite of gnome/kde is underway. Not to mention snaps are noxious and counterintuitive to user applications. At least flatpaks are easily jail broken / repermissioned with flat seal easily.

Upgrading breaks way too often. At least the 32/64 bit migration has occurred. About 80% of the time I've simply needed to reinstall the OS on major upgrades.

The killer app of Linux desktop migration, WINE, is still a crap shoot, although I use it for a lot of retro gaming, but even WinRAR or other common utils are hit and miss.

Hardware support (amd integrated graphics especially) drags.

Portables still are worse at powermgmt last I checked.

A lot of this is only marginally better (or for the rewrites, actually worse, and snaps are worse) over the last decade as ms shot itself in the foot.
Major Tom was the one with the most impressive artwork to me.

https://skins.webamp.org/skin/dd9931b75c11c570ff8ceabee499e7...
The thing I would be worried about is noise in otherwise serene areas. But I'm yet to see a wind farm in an area and think "bah, what a waste!" I'm usually pretty pleased by the sight of them. And if I'm going to be totally fair, I hate the noise from freeways, but I also don't like living that far away from them.
As I understand it defenses depend greatly on pulse duration.

Rotation dramatically increases effective armor thickness if energy is delivered over a long time frame etc. But drop to the nanosecond range and a cloud of plasma which used to be the armor is going to between the laser and what’s left of the armor. That said, you don’t need to drill through a target, a jet of ablated material means an equal and opposite force is going in the other direction.

Really though the biggest limitation of a laser defense system is pure kinetic kill weapons. Big thing moving Mach 2+ is deadly even without pinpoint accuracy or being filled with high explosives.
I don't think the reason that ads are allowed is because people prefer them.

The reason is that whoever puts an ad does so on their own property. You don't put an ad on someone else's wall against their will.

Graffiti, on the other hand, is usually done without authorization from the owner of the wall or facade being graffitied.
I mean, if you're going to doom these tools to failure you should probably pick a higher bar than 'can look at more than column name' since that's not going to take very long at all to happen at this rate of progress.
What if mounted on an airframe a la pave-low ?
What will the world look like after the "Great HW speedup Plateau".
Will we have top level optimizers rewriting code to get software only speed ups.
The “sleepy” emoji - bubble coming out of nose - is from the original Japanese set, IIRC. I do wonder what it was luck to spring that emoji on the rest of the world without warning, and how we got to “sickness” instead of “sleepiness”.
Yes and no, apart from the UI for it it really depends on how they've implemented the transformations. For example, if it's writing and running python behind the scenes which I suspect is what is happening here as that's what the old ChatGPT data analysis did that would not work very well without having to read the code which defeats the point of it being no-code...

You'd want deterministic steps, like it would need to have a limited list of functions to choose from that do specific things eg "group_by()" "filter()" etc so that the code it runs is always the same for it.
"My heart is in the work": Organs required for your CMU education
You should hand in your license.
Highly recommend the movies by the 1UP crew to get a feel for why this is actually great art.
From their white paper linked in the same comment

> Provisioning
To minimize the risk of data exposure, Slack adheres to the principles of least privilege and role-based permissions when provisioning access—workers are only authorized to access data that they reasonably must handle in order to fulfill their current job responsibilities. All production access is reviewed at
least quarterly.

so... seems like they very clearly can.
Except, the Egyptian society was quite stable for 3,000 years. Can you imagine the USA existing for 3,000 years? Will there ever be another human civilization that lasts as long as the ancient Egyptian civilization?
They might not be in a position to relicense all of it, or might not be sure of exactly how to do so appropriately.

Large, living companies like Microsoft can work with their lawyers to confidently understand what they're releasing when opening up old code and indemnify theythemselves appropriately, but a troubled company on its last legs can't nexessarily budget for all that.

Commercial software of that vintage was not built from dependencies that were all open source themselves, nor were there necessarily contributor/contractor agreements that kept copyright in a suitable place for open source relicencing. They might have been prepared for explicit rights transfer to another party, and maybe disclosure as they're suggesting here, but relicensing is a different thing.
This is a beautiful answer. You're right to point out the need for social connection, entertainment, play, etc. and how these are all critical aspects of human life. "We'll always find ways to entertain ourselves."

Your child is very lucky to have a thoughtful parent like you. Good luck with the move.
Uhh, I guess yes? There's a reason that pretty much the entire internet goes down every time AWS has an outage lol.
Metal coating (Al, Ag, Au) is reflective in very wide range of wavelengths - from far IR to EUV [1].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflectance
in toronto it's embraced to the extent that in areas where it's common, there's funding by businesses and even residences or local gov commission it or permit it and nice work by local artists is less likely to get tagged or covered. there's at least some upside to cooperating when there's a culture to it (to some extent)
Assuming they allow server use-cases without booting you off, I could see it being a boon for indie web services. Even fairly old (5-10 years) computers are already mind-bogglingly powerful (I've been playing with a toy myspace clone that can do ~15k profile pages rendered per second including db queries on an 8 year old computer with an i5. Throw caching nginx in front and it saturates my 1 Gbit adapter so I'm not sure what it can do), so if you had uncapped data transfer, you could e.g. try to start up a reddit competitor out of your home (legal risks of user-submitted content aside), and at least on the infrastructure side, could probably scale to 1-10M users on 10 Gbit/s. At least in the US, uplink capacity and legal risks seem like the biggest blockers for techies to be able to bootstrap services from home at more-or-less $0 operational cost and few thousand upfront cost.
https://archive.is/4LI2v
I picture every AI founder instantly shivering in cold sweat when OpenAI news break. Deer Hunter, Hayes Valley style.
Thank you. I too remember reading about this years ago. I even checked the date of the paper to see if it was from years ago.
Probably, either way they are doing a piss poor job of enforcing the rule so everyone loses. The people who don't want to see AI posts see them anyway and the AI models will end up Habsburging themselves.
Claude is same level as GPT-4.

Anthropic have just hired a Chief Product Officer (Mike Krieger - co-founder of Instagram), so you may see more layered on top of the core AI if that is what you are referring to, although they seem to have a different focus (more corporate) to OpenAI, so don't hold your breath for an Anthropic AI girlfriend.

OpenAI seem to be trying a shotgun strategy of productizing GPT any way they can, but I'm not sure that's the best long-term strategy. Maybe better to build an ecosystem - build the OS/APIs, and let 3rd party's build the applications on top of that.
Devs leave in 18 months because their market value increases faster than their pay at their current company.

You can give devs a vested interest in their work by making sure compensation tracks/exceeds what they can get outside, because it would give them a vested interest in remaining employed with the company.
The Double-Headed Model of Obesity
From https://www.linkedin.com/robots.txt it says to contact whitelist-crawl@linkedin.com
Most enterprises still have their core systems either on-premise on in private clouds.

And the trend has been towards standardising on Kubernetes to allow for the hybrid model to work.