skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the fix is to not have fucking politicians in charge of practical matters.

Yes, I'm serious. TEPCO wanted to dump sea water into the reactors as a last resort so they wouldn't melt down, but the Japanese government at the time didn't allow it because the reactors would be rendered unusable.

Of course, the reactors melted down and became unusable anyway.

Fukushima #1 was a human failure and the only solution to that is a human solution. Any engineering solution will be foiled by a bigger human failure, as the saying goes.
It is a meme.

I'm not sure if any of this is true and you seem to be contradicting yourself. Java is far less verbose than Go, and the compiler is leagues faster than kotlin's, graal's native compiler, probably most other languages, and I'm sure its faster than Babel. Javac doesn't do any optimizations, just emits bytecode. Why is it acceptable for Go to be verbose and kotlinc to be slow?
Some unusual spike in reports related to Google systems in Downdetector Brazil.
The view they are pushing is hardly unique as media source after media source, plus the current administration, is pushing the same thing. But maybe "Let them eat cake" will work out differently this time.
Tangential question : did anyone ever use GPT4-V in production in visual tasks? It's never consistent enough for me to be useful
Not really, no. If the breakpoint for fault tolerance is reached, then in the absence of new physics causing the noise that needs to be corrected to be adversarially coordinated, quantum computers are scaleable.
Would having two robots make a difference? One without sensors for close encounter with the radioactive material and another for with sensors that observes from distance?
Birthplace
It could, but it would be more challenging for them to arrest a downward spiral.

Facebook is not immune to Metcalf's Law. People will log in less when half their friends are not there, meaning fewer ad impressions.

And that's if you assume that falling numbers of people are their only problem, and it's really not that.
>you will end up with different divisions trying to solve the same problems in ways that either confound each other or the customer.

I'm pretty sure you just described most of the 100 largest consumer products companies, and a good fraction of the Fortune 500.

[0]https://consumergoods.com/top-100-consumer-goods-companies-2...
I can always easily burn extra money to spend more for the same thing.

But that doesn't really tell me anything about how to hire competent people who can build things fast for cheap.

What I'm getting at is "just hire extremely competent people" isn't really a way out of the original statement.

Pick 2 (fast, cheap good).
Agreed, also a nuclear strike would serve no purpose to the aggressor, they would want the land to be healthy, not irradiated. Invasions are not ever going to be won through the threat of nuclear war.
Uh, we accidentally shipped it as our fintech startup screen.
I was able to switch to old Mail by uninstalling the "Outlook" and launching Mail repeatedly after.
I didn't aspire to a 211 for nothing :/
Apple's China iPhone Shipments Up 52% as Rebound Gains Steam
Wouldn't you be intimidated/spooked if someone showed you pictures of your spouse walking around? An outright threat in words would be stupid, unsubtle, and reportable; mere suggestions let the thugs get away with things. Although pictures probably already cross the line...

I remember seeing a female friend in a park, she was apparently on a walk-around-town date with some guy from Tinder. I didn't want to interrupt so I didn't approach them. Then I thought it would be a funny prank to follow them around the city and take pictures, and send them to her later. And then I realized, WTF, no, it would be creepy...
Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
if there really is a humanoid-robot-powered labor transition in the next decade or two, your comment will take on strange new prescience
Ehh the dust will fall out of the atmosphere within a few months. Large population centers will be craters proba ly. The 4 year nuclear winter will cause starvation and eating the "long pork" such that up to 90% of the population globally will die.
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several comments up this branch we were talking about middle ground, remember
I briefly considered ROT13-ing it before clicking through!
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USB-A is, in fact, the thing that drove me off of Apple for good.

There is a decent minority of people for whom USB-A eventually stops working and requires a reboot to restore.

The dongle doesn't matter. The dock doesn't matter. The device doesn't matter. Software updates do not fix it. The thread on it is 40+ pages when Apple closes it and then another 40+ page thread on it reappaears.

The problem is an OS problem. I can pinpoint precisely the OS update that caused it. Apple does not care and will not fix it.

Fine, I get it. So I left for Linux and never looked back.
I don't think there's anything new here: https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-running-openais-start...

FTA:

> "Sam didn't inform the board that he owned the OpenAI startup fund, even though he constantly was claiming to be an independent board member with no financial interest in the company," she said.

Previously:

> "Jacob Vespers does not exist to our knowledge," Madhav Dutt, a spokesperson for OpenAI, said. When asked how this individual came to be listed as in control of the company's Startup Fund, Dutt said that the documents filed with the California Secretary of State were faked.

> "The document itself is not legitimate," Dutt told Business Insider. "It's completely fabricated." Dutt declined to elaborate on how exactly fabricated documents came to be filed with the state of California, he would only say repeatedly that the documents were "illegitimate."
I hate to agree but they are right. Endpoint-spoofing and relaying between two spoofed endpoinbts is just one of the possible forms of mitm attack that just happens to be required if you happen need to open and re-pack encryption in order to evesdrop, or if you need to modify the data.

Spoofing the two endpoints to decrypt and re-encrypt, just so that you can evesdrop without modifying the data (other than the encryption) is certainly still "mitm". Yet all the man in the middle did was evesdrop. Becoming two endpoints in the middle was only an implimentetion detail required because of the encryption.

If you are admin of one of the mail servers along the way between sender and recipient and and can read all the plain smtp messages that pass through your hands like postcards without having to decrypt or spoof endpoints, that is still mitm.

So listening to wifi is no less. There is nothing substantive that makes it any different.

For endpoint-spoofing to be required for mitm, you would have to say that mitm only applies to modifying the data, which I don't think is so. Several purely evesdropping applications are still called mitm.
Part of me hopes this reignites a new era of scareware. The other part says wow this would be really cool for a SSH banner
I kind of miss Windows 7 visually. Even if it was just a polished version of Vista.
I understand the point you were making, now. Thanks for explaining.
Everybody's seen these arguments ... and knows exactly how true they are. I mean you put one absurdity after another and treat it as fact. I'm not even going to bother.
Is it a metaphor for AD&D type alignment?

Lawful Evil, Chaotic Neutral, etc?
Can you give some specific example of a claim that "cannot possibly be true" and explain why? And please do not just post links to an article by someone else, because I'm interested what claim you have found incorrect and what was your string of checks and arguments to that belief.
There's work on replacing multiplication. Here's four examples:

https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPR_2020/papers/Chen_...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03458

https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2021W/MAI/papers/E...

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.10860
> Crypto is tied to.. nothing.

It's being tied to US state law, via the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC Article 12 for Digital Assets), https://www.clearygottlieb.com//news-and-insights/publicatio...

Article 12 – dealing directly with the acquisition and disposition of interests (including security interests) in “controllable electronic records,” which would include Bitcoin, Ether, and a variety of other digital assets ... Control under Article 12 is designed to be a technology-neutral functional equivalent of “possession.” It generally encompasses circumstances when a party has the “private key”
How academic publishers profit from the publish-or-perish culture
The options aren’t just this or nothing. Just about anything can beat T-Mobile doing nothing.

So in terms of what benefits you get vs what it costs as the company’s merge you are IMO getting hosed on this deal.
SFO has some appropriately Silicon Valley-themed waypoints: the SSTIK5 departure procedure has "CISKO", "EBAYE" and "UTOOB". SFO also has the SNTNA2 departure which has "KYNNG", "KRLOS and "SNTNA" (in that order).

LAS has the GAMES2 arrival which has "FUULL", "HOUZZ" and "BYNGO".

My personal favourites, however, are at Philadelphia (PHL), where there are there two arrivals named after cheesesteak restaurants: JIIMS4 and PAATS4.
https://archive.ph/5vnPT
What is valuable life? What a philosophical question on HN! I think many will say "sentience". Many religious will say "if my religious leader said they are God's children". What is your definition?
I think the canonical way would be to ship this in some sort of hard-to-uninstall snap or flatpack package.
> make their code correct with respect to the standard,

The point I'm making is about the standard. Somehow, instead of "undefined behaviour" (using your definition) generating a compile time error, we drifted into letting it mean compile time non-determinism. By compile time non-determinism, I mean we let the compiler generates machine instructions that don't reflect the code.

I've spent a good chunk of my life battling problems introduced by non-determinism. Giving compilers a licence to generate more of it strikes me as pure insanity.

And now you come along, and say the problem isn't the standard, it's the programmers not being language lawyers. It's their fault for not memorising a standard so complex it literally gives compilers permission to base their decision on whether it can generate non-deterministic code on a undecidable puzzle - the halting problem. ffs.

To anchor the conversation back to the original point about C not being assembler, I want all languages I use to be glorified assemblers. Which is to say I want the way the code is translated to the next level down to be clear and transparent. Granted, clever optimisers it something clever and faster, but that those clever and faster instructions should perfectly emulate what the clear and transparent translation would have done.

To the compiler writers throwing their hands up, protesting that limits them too much: this is literally what the hardware does now. It takes a stream of instructions and mangles it by compiling to micro ops, reordering them, executing them in parallel, makes guesses about branch directions and speculatively executing code, hell it sometimes even executes both the if and else sides of a conditional. It manages to extract amazing speed out of the serial instruction stream, sometimes executing 10 in parallel, and yet it manages to preserve the exact meaning of all the original instructions, even those defined 40 years ago by the 8086.

I imagine the response will be "but hardware has options we don't, we need more flexibility to get the speed". It would be a fair point. But their solution to that dilemma was not so fair: twist the standard by redefining terms like "undefined behaviour" so they could get the flexibility they needed. In doing so they turned the standard maze of hidden "undefined behaviour" foot guns. The standards committee seems to think their primary job is producing something for the compiler writers. It isn't. Their primary job is to define a language programmers used to create complex, reliable computer systems. A standard full of foot guns isn't conducive to that.
This might be true for some APIs but if you're letting the caller control what they fetch, you don't really have that luxury. An extreme example is Graphql-based APIs but even Rest-based APIs might allow some flexibility to decide what they fetch.
For whatever it’s worth, newer Intel wifi/bluetooth chipsets (e.g. AX200 or AX210) have consistently worked very well for me under Linux. If your EliteBook has a socketed wifi/BT card, it might be worth buying an Intel card (they’re dirt cheap) and installing it.

My issue with battery life isn’t getting it to match what it is under Windows, but that x86 ultraportables tend to have disappointing battery life under either OS. Linux doesn’t make it worse but doesn’t fix it either.
How many more hoops do I have to jump through to get my desktop like Windows 98 in this version of Windows?
Can we please start a fund to have Kabosu's remains sent to the moon? It's all she ever wanted.
It’s not about learning. It’s about owning. Exactly the reason OpenAI stopped being open. Having GPT-4-quality LLMs created by anyone with a gaming PC would be pretty radical.
How to measure tyre particulates the size of a human hair
you could use ungoogled-chromium, brave, vivaldi
How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written
House square footage was also lower back then though...

https://www.newser.com/story/225645/average-size-of-us-homes...
Nvidia has a 1000 free credits API for phi3 vision.

You only need an email address.

https://build.nvidia.com/microsoft/phi-3-vision-128k-instruc...
Tzolkinex
I'm not arguing that Mars atmosphere is close to Cusco. I'm responding to the parent comment implying that 1 atmosphere off pressure would be lost very quickly on Mars. Would this be the same for 0.6 or 0.5 atmospheres? If we could create such an atmosphere is a whole different discussion
I am quite surprized how few people are proposing to make art or music. Is this why artists/musicians can't make money, because so few people enjoy it? I always thought it was the digitization and easy access that allowed us to enjoy these things from our homes (instead of going out to clubs), but maybe not.

Anyway, for the record, I would be recording my lifetime backlog songs I've written. And probably re-recording in different styles. And perfecting every one, no more of this 'good-enough' demo stuff. I'd get all the needed gear and software, and have no more excuses. I've actually already started to do this, at the detriment of my actual career...sigh.

EDIT: now that I read the OP's question more closely, I guess the answers are skewed towards practical things that would make the world better...but impractical things like creative music and abstract art also make the world better, so I'm sticking with my plan!
I’m curious what the full ownership proportion looks like in the US. About a quarter? Feels high to me.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwake/2023/03/31/us-has-3rd-...
I thought the whole point of these Zen sayings was that they are silly or nonsensical until you interpret them in some deeper way.

Edit: As akprasad pointed out below, I was thinking of koans.
As opposed to the talking points that paint the protestors as actual nazis? Since when did HN turn into the daily wire, right?
In most places across the world homeownership is a dream.
Housing prices are many times the household income.

Despite calling it a dream, in America, historically home ownership for the middle class was a given.

America has just caught up to the rest of the world.
You are the Boop author!? Awesome!

I use it and it's very handy. Thanks for creating useful no-nonsense tools!
In 1981, the average 30 year fixed rate mortgage carried a rate of ~18%.

https://www.rocketmortgage.com/learn/historical-mortgage-rat....
Maybe it isn't the right time, but it IS the right joke. ;)
My recollection is that glass has drastically higher dialetric constant than air, but more creep (still very little creep, but more than the ~0 of air).

If you're arcing kilvolts, you want that higher dialectric constant, and probably don't care about small amounts of creep. If you're building a supercapacitor, that equation might be different because the voltages can be quite small.

I've been out of EE for a long time though, so maybe I'm misremembering things here.
I’ll chime in on this - my wife and I were just talking about it yesterday.

I’m mid 50’s. I had perfect 20/20 eye sight until about age 50, and now I can’t read almost anything without reading glasses - it came on quickly, but doesn’t seem to be worsening. I’ve always been a perfect speller (for the vocabulary that I use), but I’m finding I misspell 1-3% of what I type now (not typos). I’m also starting to misread headlines which I never did before (inserting words, misreading a single critical word, etc). It does feel like a tiny bit of haze is setting in, and I feel like this is probably normal.
> ...go to the blackjack table put it all on black...

I'm guessing you're not very familiar with games of chance.
I don't think the US's strategic goal is to solve homelessness. In that between maintaining world dominance and solving homelessness, homelessness is way less important. Nations choose their sacrifices based on their priorities same as individuals.
This may seem counter-intuitive, but the longer the half-life of a given radioisotope, the less radioactive it actually is. In a given pile of nuclear waste, the scariest stuff is also the first stuff to decay into something stable. It's why waste from power plants only needs to rest in the cooling pool for a few years before it is safe enough to transport to a long term storage facility.
House prices were also much lower back then, but that only proves (what I assume is) your point - we can't view the past with rose tinted glasses.

The American Dream was always aspirational and took grit and effort and was never attainable for 15-30% of the country due to their skin color or ethnic origins until precedent against redlining took hold by the 1980s.

IMO, I'm fine with us keeping high interest rates if it forces a rebalancing of prices long term.

It's not like low interest rates would help affordability anyhow, as it's only us white collar workers in high paying fields like Tech, Finance, etc that have the dry powder to execute on purchases.
Time to delete your Facebook product account (you are the product being sold).
Agreed, I personally believe no amount of jail time pays for the heinous crimes described above. The fact that they now get to enjoy a life heading an organization is infuriating to me compared to the life of trauma inflicted on the victim. She literally will never truly be whole. This isn't a robbery, there is no recourse for what they did. I'd much rather they spent their life repaying their debt by doing work they didn't actually want to do.
I suppose you could count Venezuelans going hungry as "criminals".

But I wouldn't.
I have accounts at 1 Swiss bank, 2 German banks, and 2 UK banks. None of them require an app for any functionality.

You can get a little hardware thing to generate their OTP codes, as an alternative to apps.
LORD
Is this open source? I don't see a link anywhere. Would love to know the graph rendering works.
Maybe you are too young to remember clippy.

Maybe the apocalypse is not Terminator, but a super powerful but naive clippy whose ham handed help drive humanity to destroy technology.
> If someone is in your path they can just fake listen to 80 and intercept, then forward your call to 443.

They can do that whether or not you are listening on port 80 though.
Aww thank you becomevocal! I love the feedback! :)
The existing (M.2) wifi/bluetooth module works just fine. My issue with bluetooth on Linux is that it's never been able to pass this testcase: Use a bluetooth headset as an audio I/O device. Repeatedly over disconnects/reconnects. For the past few years, it works when you first configure it - beautifully, you can choose your codec and so on - but soon stops doing so even if unpaired and re-paired. Maybe "the year of bluetooth" on Linux has arrived and I've just not tried lately.
I'm with you. To quote Todd Rundgren: I don't want to work, I just want to bang on the drum all day
Just want to say a friendly "hello" - great to see Odoo team here!
> “if your objection is honoured, it will be applied going forwards”.

It is absolutely wild being in the "before times" (i.e. before any real legislation is applied to the use of data for AI training) and seeing statements that basically amount to "eh if we feel like it, we'll exempt you".

Not very often you see an "if" in statements like this.
I used to work with a couple of the guys who consulted on the technical aspects of Mr Robot. From what I recall, the general idea was to use realistic hacks, but speed through the boring parts to keep the show interesting.
I will settle for being content...
None of that makes any sense whatsoever.
You're thinking of koans [1], which are a specific kind of Zen speech used to shift the mind out of conceptual thinking. Outside of that context, Zen teachers often just talk in conventional language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koan
It is not at all an inescapable fact, because that's not what heritability is; it's not a measure of genetic determinism.
Because doing it is hard to master, harder to execute, and way harder to be economically succesful at it.
The entire intro is so poor I just stopped reading. If the point of the article is valid and well researched they should just remove the entire intro it's so off putting. If they have created a bad intro just for the sake of self selecting credulous individuals (a common tactic for grifters and the incomprehensible) than they are killing it.

Yeah, the inverted quotes look prima facie worse or just obviously false to me.

And often yes, it is due to what you have pointed out.

I mean the first inversion sounds like the most unhappy thing a person can do:

>>>Their Inversion: Learn not to let go. That is the key to happiness.

Learn not to let go? Ok, thanks infinite compounding intrusive rumination. Also people are loss averse by nature so very few people will have to "learn" to "not let go".

Then there is this one, where the inverted statement is so awful the had to fudge and qualify the whole thing.

>>> Quote:
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

>>> Their Version:
Happiness sometimes is being pained in body and troubled in mind.

>>> The real Inversion:
Happiness is being pained in body or troubled in mind.
In my opinion, having screenshots prominently displayed on the front page, preferably above the fold, is essential. I scrolled all the way to the bottom and still haven't seen any screenshots.
This seems irrelevant to my comment.
Try speaking with some math department grad students about this.