skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taking responsibility for laying off a bunch of people is thin gruel. What does that mean? Nothing. They showed you loyalty, you didn't return it. The over hiring is a symptom of bad management, so taking responsibility would be to demote yourself and take a pay cut. All the executive staff should have taken one and kept more people on. It is irresponsible and cruel to overhire and then dump people. I could say more, but I am sure this is falling on deaf ears.
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Interestingly, the actual source (at least in a similar tweet[0]) was a fracking company[1] who seems to have an automated system filling their blog's "Industry Perspectives" section by republishing random articles that sound sort of geology related, for SEO. They even link back directly to the Onion!

[0] https://x.com/oneunderscore__/status/1793779462968099202

[1] https://www.resfrac.com/blog/geologists-recommend-eating-lea...
Yup. Don’t like siri? Go kick rocks.
Agreed.

Now what is the measure by which that is judged? Of course, if we are to say that only the governments with a spotless record are trustworthy, then the only trustworthy governments are fictional ones.

That might be a bit unreasonable of an expectation for an organization made up of fallible humans, though, so many reason that some non-zero number of mistakes are inevitably bound to happen, even within bounds of trustworthiness.

At the end of the day, trust is a personal judgement call. But it's my opinion that if you have an impossible standard of trust, you may just have an unreasonable opinion.
Ukrainian developer gains OpenAI attention with AI algorithm amidst war
I received the following message from the OpenAI support team regarding this achievement

It's genuinely inspiring to hear about Ukraine's accomplishment in creating an image using GPT-4 that was recognized at an international digital art exhibition in London. Celebrating such innovative uses of AI technology not only highlights the creative potential of these tools but also showcases the talent and resilience of communities around the world, including Ukraine's significant contribution.

At OpenAI, we're always excited to see the diverse and impactful ways in which our technology is being used. Acknowledging achievements like this not only supports the communities involved but also aligns with our mission to ensure that artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. While we cannot commit to specific promotional actions, we deeply appreciate your suggestion and will certainly consider how we can support and celebrate the achievements of users globally, including those from Ukraine.

We're committed to exploring ways to amplify such stories, recognizing the value they bring to the community and the wider world. Thank you again for your suggestion and for highlighting Ukraine's achievements. We're honored to play a role in the global community's creative and innovative endeavors.
> In German, we say “the journey is the goal”.

Which btw, for the non-German speakers, we do because we have one single word ("Ziel") that means both "destination" and "goal". =)
I started with 6 but then went back and played 1-5 and yeah, definitely part of my core person.

Actually SQ also is intertwined with one of my favorite “early internet” stories.

There used to be (back when websites were primarily hosted by geocities and bored college students) a fan site for space quest. I reached out to the owner of one of the biggest SQ sites and shared my love of the titles and love of the site (via email of course). I was about 14 at the time. He reached back out and told me he had copies of the original games he could send me for something like $40. This was all of the original games in their original boxes on floppy. Even then I was a bit worried about just sending some dude across the country $40 for something with the hope they’d actually come through (this was like… 1997) but he absolutely did. A couple short weeks later and all the games arrived exactly how he described them. I was over the moon. True believer overnight. I think it’s like the solar core of whatever optimism I hold onto anymore.

Jess, if you’re out there, you’re a real one. Hope I connect with you again someday.
> The Soviets were ahead in math and science because they drilled their kids harder. Any kid who didn't want to drill was a traitor to the working class.

That was not how the Soviet schools worked. There was no corporal punishment, and struggling students were given help.

Instead, it was quite competitive. There was a system of academic competitions ("Olympiads") that went all the way up from schools to the international level. Students were encouraged to compete.

At the same time, school sports competitions were pretty much absent.
Some countries will fair better than others, so perhaps move to a country that maintains cordial relationships with both China and the US. I'm preparing by learning how to design and make things so I can do my own manufacturing in-house to minimize dependency on supply lines that could be disrupted. Manufacturing technology is has improved in leaps and bounds. It's much easier that it used to be. And I can do all this from a self sufficient homestead deep in the forest.
I'm still talking about the tiny high quantity quads, they can't do anything if they don't have the range to get from the launch location to the target and stand off range is the oldest advantage in warfare.

I guarantee the ones fielded in the next ~5 years will start to look like the new high speed bullet quads but with a blended wing between the rotors so they're not wasting energy plowing diagonally through the air. You may see configurations that can tail stand or enter a hover briefly and some that fly entirely conventionally, but the current paradigm of quads hovering near targets is going to be short lived as defenses ratchet up.

As I said, the chips are going to be the issue. If you can deploy a $200 Wish dot com wifi/gps jammer and take down every drone within 500m, again, quantity doesn't do anything. They'll be moving toward relying on spread spectrum and variations of basic image recognition up through spicier algorithms for localization and targeting.
it's pretty moderate amounts of voltage actually, only about 300-900 volts, just a little higher than i plug my phone charger into. it's just massive amounts of current, resulting in massive amounts of heat, which sets fire to the impurities and/or boils them off. you need low voltage because the arcs are pretty low resistance, so getting the necessary power requires tens of thousands of amps, about the same as a lightning strike. an hour-long lightning strike

(the power of a lightning strike is much higher than that of a steelmaking arc furnace because it has much higher voltage, possible because the conductive path through the plasma is kilometers long instead of centimeters long)

youtube has automatically translated subtitles which worked pretty well here. the relevant yt-dlp flags are i think --write-sub --write-auto-sub --sub-lang en,es (season to taste) and then the j key in mpv cycles through the languages you chose. this is also possible from youtube's web ui but enormously more awkward
> not a close in war when drones come into play

What do drones mean to you? It sounds like you think it means “quadrocopter” when it is also used to describe RQ-4 Global Hawks and similar aircraft.
Ya Canada has software devs on welfare. No wonder everything gets hacked.
Yeah, for something where the performance is actually a selling point, you should probably feel obliged to include a clock or some other reference in the image. (I'm not claiming anything about this particular video - just that you really want to eliminate the perception of impropriety here.) This was a big problem in robotics for years - it eventually became standard to still do sped up videos but be disciplined about including labels, and robots finally got to plausible speeds at actual tasks - but it didn't take much early-on fakery to get people to assume that most videos were sped up.

(There's a lot of staging and other "creative presentation" that's legitimate marketing - but if you're talking about speed/responsiveness at all, you really need to be explicit.)
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Acute stress causes heart attacks. People hit the ceiling. If someone dies of a heart attack while hitting the ceiling during intense turbulence it is not accurate to call the heart attack coincidental.
Touchpad gestures don't work, it would be really nice if I could scroll with my touchpad, although there may be a way using some type of evdev capturer that mimics a shortcut
Efghij is a programming language which uses everyday objects
Uhm. Monopolism is the ultimate fate of unrestricted capitalism in established markets.
People’s acceptance of LLMs being flat wrong for most queries is so concerning.

The fact that these technologies are being pushed onto the masses, onto healthcare, law, and other areas were accuracy is super important is going to get people killed.

But hey there’s a disclaimer that says “anything the LLM says may be wrong” so it’s all good.

I’m not a Luddite at all, I think LLMs are great for some use cases, but the way they’re being shoehorned into everything is a disaster waiting to happen.
why is the interface always so slow to load, compared to something like any video game UI made in any game ever?
Wind and solar supplied 12% of global electricity in 2022 up from 10% in 2021 and things are still accelerating. You can’t keep this kind of growth rate up for long before things change. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/12/wind-and-solar-generated-a-r...

Your capacity factor numbers are also off ex: 29.7% capacity factor averaged over 3 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Signal_Solar.

Thermal is also much lower than your suggesting. China the world’s #1 coal consumer has capacity factors under 50% because they are using them for load following. France’s nuclear averaged ~70% for years for similar reasons. It’s only where the there’s excess natural gas and minimal solar/wind that thermal can keep high capacity factors but that’s becoming rare.
Not buy, but I print out a 2-month "calendar" (just the current + next month) every month. I love scribbling on it, drawing arrows, x-ing stuff out, colors, whatever. I do 2 months since near the end of the month, stuff will bleed into the upcoming month. On the 1st, I thoroughly enjoy printing out a clean version for the next 2 months and copying the rollover items. It is a satisfying ritual.
Half say 4o is better, others say it's worse. I'd wager it's probably about as good as 4T on average then.
Polyvinyl acetate (white glue) is commonly used to coat cheeses, so there's at least precedent for it in much smaller amounts. I am also now aware I've eaten more glue than I thought I had in my life.
Without using Chinese parts the US found that making their own small drones would cost $2,100. And those were just the observation drones for use by the Department of Interior.

They were also only 20% as capable as Chinese drones.

Read this and get terrified

https://www.ft.com/content/dd2e936e-5934-49f1-8aa6-29dea9a41...
They copied it a little bit, but it's very mouse oriented (option-click the green zoom button to snap windows to left/right).

Another option for this is Hammerspoon, e.g.: https://github.com/scottwhudson/Lunette
What does it mean when a company's core competencies are degrading but the valuation of their company on the public market is higher than ever?
MacArthur Foundation wants bold solutions to big problems; the prize is $100M
Oh no, people who value job security, those scoundrels
Does that mean its also food safe?
I'd like to put a custom OS on it. Will that be possible? Most tablets have the bootloader locked out by default, and that cannot quench my thirst for Linux.
Isn't it better to use Homebrew on a package-by-package basis? Some packages are not current.
They both would be considered extremely reliable war planes. Simply we expect much much safer planes for passenger flights than what is “okay” for wartime.
https://www.100andchange.org/
Google used to show me sarcastic articles as news stories in my Google feed and Google news. It became so bad from me clicking on articles about a specific industry, reading and realizing they are sarcastic, and Google sending me more articles that were largely sarcastic. These were stories from sites like The Onion.

I filed a bug, and gave a lot of detail and linked to screenshots of my feed, News page and identified all the news stores that were not news. They closed the bug saying it was not a bug. I tried convincing them that this is a problem. They denied. I got frustrated and just blocked the domains. Its almost laughable the AI search is suffering from the same issue.
I'd regard what you're calling "historical" as being the actual standard usage in conventional speech -- again, I've never encountered the notion that "prosecute" doesn't apply to civil litigation until today, and I've been speaking English for decades, and have had many discussions involving legal cases, conversed with lawyers, signed contracts, etc. throughout my life.

The fact that you're referring to an intra-disciplinary dictionary to make the opposite argument implies that the narrower definition is jargon, and not an accurate representation of the common meaning of the term.
Most of the largest mammals live their entire lives without a sip of fresh water.
The change notes nor the UI do not imply this.

All this needs was a single checkbox “Disable OpenAI Integration” or codecierge or whatever it’s called. A single, unequivocal “this is not enabled” signal to the user who does not want or cannot what this feature enabled.
That's the key that people keep forgetting. Toxic glue would be a problem of course, but non-toxic glue can be substantially better for you that oil based cheese which can be found on cheap pizza.
https://www.nature.com/articles/1601452
Thank you for taking the time to drop this link. I had exactly the question I think you anticipated: "Where can I get a really well-made washer and dryer?"
Linux all the way.

Mac doesn't support Nvidia cards.

Windows just feels sluggish compared to Linux.
Maybe we can tone down the FUD a bit. Wikipedia is flat wrong sometimes. Google is flat wrong sometimes. LLM’s can be flat wrong sometimes. No different to trusting an LLM’s output to Google’s output. Good as a starting point but not something I’m going to base my medical and legal decisions on. I don’t see the zeitgeist of LLM’s being any different. I don’t see some trend of legal or medical professionals blindly trusting LLM output either, even if some very rare and cherry picked examples would want us to believe otherwise.
At least you didn't have to replace all your hardwood flooring like my neighbour 2 days after his shiny new Samsung washer and dryer were installed.
Could you make the bezel any larger?
I can no longer google "ML Kit" and find the ML compiler, instead I find Google's ML library. You win some, you lose some.
So.. sourcegraph?
Mass mortality of diadematoid sea urchins in the Red Sea and Western Indian Ocea
I tend to agree that the functionality you see in Rectangle or Magnet should be native. Window placement shouldn't be a third party app.

But whenever I've asked people at Apple about this, the response has been "Well, Apple is historically just very opinionated about window placement and settings." The overall vibe was "Apple knows best."
That the fundamentals have changed?
"Sorting and filtering are best performed in the database, if possible, using ActiveRecord's tools."

this needs a big fat asterisk.

sometimes sorting in the database requires a filesort

if you know ahead of time roughly how many results are getting sorted in-memory it absolutely can be faster to do it in-memory than ask the database to do it
They've skirted the line many times while also frequently releasing great products that combine both. The apple III overheated because they didn't want to put a fan in it for aesthetic reasons. So did the original Macintosh, alright to a less problematic degree.

I honestly don't understand Apple's apparent disdain for more than one mouse button though. The OS and apps support extra buttons, everyone knows how to right click by this point, what's the benefit? At one company where I worked everyone had a MacBook, apple monitor, apple keyboard, and a white Microsoft mouse.
> They copied it a little bit, but it's very mouse oriented (option-click the green zoom button to snap windows to left/right).

Moom, which is the tool I prefer, similarly shows a popover when hovering over the green button.

Personally I prefer this sort of approach and wish it could be replicated on other OSes. The Aero Snap way of doing things with the noisy “should I snap here” animations are annoying and too easy to accidentally trigger.
Put an LLM on the website that answers all kinds of google/facebook related questions. Create that customer service service they should have build themselves years ago.
I'm on my 3rd battery on a (used) iPhone 6s. I think it is a feature that I can't get the regular updates anymore. At least now when I turn a 'feature' off it stats off since the os doesn't update and erase my settings every week. I hate apple but nothing in the android world makes me think things there are better. Why is this market so hostile to consumers?
Sounds like they're well into the "cost optimisation" phase. ie. replace good quality manufactured products with inferior quality stuff
> I live about a thousand feet above you.

I’ve also lived extensively over 9,000ft in altitude. Are we getting into a height pissing contest? If so, why?

Just drink water. Fucksakes.
Ukraine to this day still gets most of its gas and oil imports from Russia and also continues to transit Russian gas through pipelines to Europe.
Enhancing AI Cloud Data Centers and Nvidia Spectrum-X with Nvidia DOCA 2.7
The important word in that quote is “federal”. In the US, right of publicity is a state law right in many states (often of particular note because of the concentration of tech and entertainment industries, it is a state law right in California.)
Good analysis!

Fyi, if you want to tell apple to not store the decryption keys for your iCloud Photos, you can go into iCloud settings and enable Advanced Data Protection.

You have to click through a number of warnings and set up recovery keys. We of course can’t prove that Apple isn’t still storing the keys, but imo they probably don’t even want to as it’s not their business model.
Germany has too many solar panels, pushed energy prices into negative territory
I wonder why there are no titles with LaTeX in them. There should be a lot of them in Physics.

Also, would love to be able to search for articles from the same site e.g https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=papertalk.xyz
I wouldn't draw a parallel between google's AI being bad and all LLMs.
what is the warranty you are offering?
It’s funny how tar came out first. Then cpio came out which was a lot better but tar had the momentum and it never lost it. I still find cpio more controllable and use that as a preference.

But cpio existed when I first used Unix in 1982/3
The Ruff Language Server
imho all Ai should be forced to show their level of confidence in what they say. (also cite sources)
Any Ai that LIES about the level of confidence will get fined/removed.

There are many exampled of Ai that "hallucinates" in really obvious ways. that makes them Lies not hallucinations.
You swore to never buy Samsung. I swore to never buy a pixel again. My gf swore to never buy an apple again.

I'm using a Motorola to type this and I wonder when it'll let me down in unforseen ways.
Illegal?

It probably isn’t criminal, which is what you seem to be asking, although it very well might be depending on the facts.

More importantly, under the available facts JA likely has a claim for civil damages under one of more causes of action. Her claims are so strong this will likely end up with a confidential settlement in an undisclosed sum without even needing to file a lawsuit. If she does file a lawsuit, there is still greater than 90% likelihood OpenAI settles before trial. In that less than 3% chance the case proceeds to a verdict, then you’ll have your answer without having to make bad arguments on HN.
Is there a description somewhere of the actual tech?What's the reason you were able to invent fast-refresh e-ink-like displays when no one else could for over two decades?
This is mutual.Any attack on mainland China will invite immediate retaliation on American soil.
Most annoying change Apple made was hiding this in the accessibility menu. Should be default behavior. It's one of the major reasons I adore the Mac Book touch-pad. On Windows I'd have to do this weird multi-tap and hold and hope I could drag far enough or repeat the gesture. Three finger drag is just second nature to me now.
> Samsung got rid of all the things that made their devices different (micro sd card, headphone jack, MST, IR blaster, etc) and then changed the design of the phone to look more like an iPhone. Software also has been moving that direction. There's nothing special or unique with main Samsung flagship phones anymore (with exception of s-pen and folding phones).

True - there are tons of options with Android.

> So by jumping to Apple you aren't losing much in terms of hardware if anything.

I think you are net gaining in terms of hardware quality.

> On the other hand iPhone have been adding more customization features things like widgets on the home screen and allowing to change the defaults to make it more like Android.

Not nearly enough; e.g. I use Syncthing to manage/sync data across devices in my home and have customized it exactly how I want it and I don't need to pay iCloud tax every month - no such luck with Apple. But beyond customization, the main issue is lock-in about which they are (understandably) doing nothing. If you use a idevice and have buyer's remorse, tough luck getting stuff out to a non-Apple ecosystem without friction.
$800 is ridiculously steep. I could buy 8 kindles for that price
It generally means your premise might be seriously wrong.
I love this opinionated setup, very insightful. For example, I didn't knew anything about Mullvad, or a combination of fonts that looks good. However, I just used emacs, firefox, spotify and inkscape, and that's just it.
Keep a Brewfile around of the apps you always want installed, and then it’s just a simple one-liner to install everything from the Brewfile!

There’s even an option to add into the Brewfile apps from official apple App Store (like Xcode etc).
Agreed.. if I guzzle water without adding in electrolytes I get a guaranteed migraine aura with vision loss.
don't worry it's obnoxious on desktop too
I noticed the price as well, but was surprised at how low it was for first gen tech.

Really wishing you well and you’ll be on my radar now.
Planet hunters reveal catalog of worlds
Both examples follow the same principle

People bring it up because it's such an obvious design flaw in a premium product that is explained by a disrespectful "form over function" principle which people also don't like
I do prefer always using self.attribute, it’s a little bit longer but there’s no ambiguity. Otherwise you would have to have all props in your head when reading the code.
This completely changes the chances that I'll buy this. I love the idea, but I just can't see myself ever buying an android device that is running Google's panopticon. I also noticed there's nothing on the product page about privacy, and was about to write this off as another nice gadget that I'd never be able to use.

I'm very hopeful with an unlocked bootloader that the community will provide a more privacy-focused operating system so that I can enjoy this product.
Is there a Mac app to copy Windows' windowing behavior?

I want different virtual desktops to behave like they are different computers with a shared clipboard, i.e., I don't want to see apps from other virtual desktops showing up on 'Alt-Tab', dock bar to show all open apps, etc.