skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But after seeing how quickly A.I. was improving, he shortened his timelines. Now he believes there is a 50 percent chance that A.G.I. will arrive by 2027

Wow the guy made almost $2M making "predictions" - where do I sign up? :)

But more seriously, it's unfortunate how the NYT and major news outlet always seem to decide what the narrative should be first and then find a few folks that will fill in the blanks. It's lazy and hacky journalism at best. Once you see it you can't unsee it.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_mapping
Chorex: Guaranteeing Deadlock Freedom in Elixir
I’m more put-off by how it’s headed-up by two dudes… making fap-fiction… “for women”; right away that’s tone-deaf first impression (at best) - but if they’re more than just naive then I think we might have material for a Coffeezilla video right here.
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I wrote one once that I tried to also express using bad UML, as a sort of artistic experiment.

It was...not great. I still think the work was a decent expression of my emotional state at the time, even if the UML-ified version sucked.

(but then, _a lot_ of UML sucks, so....)
I mentioned that. There were others but nothing at the scale of what VW did.
Note that you are quoting one of the five mini articles contained, and it’s worth reading the rest, although I generally agree with you here
Firebase Genkit (beta), an open source framework for adding AI features to apps
Reminder that oil is heavily subsidised too.
It's actually amazing that Neuralink can use this badly distorted data.
I imagine that fixing the A/D would improve their results dramatically -- lower latency and higher precision.
Why Neuralink has continued work with such an obvious hardware defect is a serious question. Do they actually analyze the A/D to make sure its working properly?
Okay but now all your values are bunched up next to the far plane, between 990 and 1000? Using this kind of mapping seems inherently flawed no matter what range you pick.
Do you think it will bounce back? or was 2021/2022 the peak of a long and slow decline in tech jobs.
It makes sense to me, if enough people are able to get by without developing their own skills anymore.
China's economy isn't collapsing, but it is contracting, and it is simply smart economic policy to stoke production vs unnecessary consumer demand domestically.

Global light vehicle market is almost 90 million units/pa. Ship every unit you can to every market that will accept those units (Tesla does this today, recalibrating exports as demand and incentives change; China built units are currently being offloaded in Canada due to demand sag). Of course you're going to have less sophisticated economies (who did not prioritize rapid investment in building EV manufacturing capacity up) upset you made prudent supply chain and manufacturing investments while they allowed their domestic concerns focus instead on profits (see: near term historical developed automaker share buyback volumes). If the US and Europe close their markets to Chinese EVs, Chinese EVs will consume any overseas TAM US and Europe automakers had a chance at (Mexico, Central and South America, parts of Asia and Africa, etc).

Global factory to the world being the factory to the world and the unsophisticated are all surprised pikachu. US economy is only ~18M units/pa, Europe ~10.5M units/pa, the rest of the world (~60M units/pa) is for the taking under strong trade protectionism regimes. This ignores the potential global TAM increase due to lower cost EVs inducing previously unaccounted for demand.
I believe Snowflake not only needs an open-source table format but also an open-source data lake query engine. Currently, Snowflake has too little presence in this area, and its stock price is reaching new lows.
Location: Pacific time zone (PST/PDT) - Coeur d'Alene, Idaho / Spokane, Washington

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This is a cool wrapper, but it calls tmux on the command line.

I'm really confused as to why the tmux protocol can't be used directly, and entirely different systems like ht have to be created.
By the time I'm on my third set, math with multiples of 5 is hard; please don't make me use those...
It's such a bad thing but indeed I think in every pre-Olympic they have this practice. And it's a pity.
Most of the article talks about characters, but in my experience, they are the easy part. Unlike Japanese and its 15 ways to pronounce 生, Chinese is "easy" by comparison, with most characters mapping only to one sound.

The death blow is the tones. For the Anglo-centric, not only are you unable to "read out" the characters like you can Latin-based scripts (let alone the "cursive script"), but if the tones are off, you'll accidentally call your mother (妈 mā) a horse (马 mǎ). Japanese is a lot more straightforward in this regard.

On its own, each challenge is surmountable. English has words that are diffcult to pronounce and memorize too (see Ghoti [0] and "read/lead" [1]).

But when the whole language is like that, it becomes a lot harder.

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/221b2t/read...
This is quite an interesting evaluation, thanks for sharing. We are piloting with a large enterprise (100+ SREs). Before us, they started implementing Jupyter Notebooks in a similar direction.

Writing one playbook in Jupyter is easy but creating a framework to enable their 100+ product teams to self-serve and create playbooks has been so intensive for them, they even started working on their internal SDK for it.

It was a lot of code and the lead felt like the Jupyter visual interface was harder to follow for instructions/runbooks.

With PlayBooks, we have tried to abstract out the entire execution engine and configuration to a intuitive user experience (our architecture is explained here -- https://slender-resolution-789.notion.site/PlayBooks-Documen... )
I'm here to answer any questions folks might have, we're (the Firebase team) are really working hard to make this the best framework for Node.js and soon Go developers. We'd love your support and hope you give us a chance
People with DID and schizophrenia feel this way.
> in addition to a way to stay connected with friends,

It's been exceptionally terrible at this for a long, long time now. For instance - had a friend I hadn't talked to in a while (as happens as you grow older, sometimes you only talk to people every 1-2 years but remain friendly) died recently. It popped up in my feed, somewhat as a shock to me - he had had cancer for the last year. Now, it's definitely on me for not keeping in contact more frequently, but I was shocked at how many updates about it I saw on his page that never once made it to my feed. Facebook didn't think a guy I'd been friends with on the platform for a decade and had 200+ mutual connections was anything I'd be interested in. It's explicitly anti-social by design.

As for the other things in your list, I've never found any value to any of that but I acknowledge some might. I also don't think you need a platform like FB/IG to do either of those things and the only value they provide is the network effect.
The author considered the proprietary nature of the webarchive format, and determined that it was readable without Apple software, and that it wouldn't be too difficult to create a tool to view or transform webarchive files if Safari were to disappear: https://alexwlchan.net/til/2024/whats-inside-safari-webarchi...

Of course, without a working implementation, there could be hidden obstacles.
Within 2 years, 90% of organizations will suffer a shortage in supply of people willing to to be micro-managed for the price they are willing to pay, in the open office locations they are willing to put forward.
Ask people in 2000 or 2008. Peaks and troughs, peaks and troughs with salaries going up over the long term.
I will say prior to experiencing this myself I felt 100% certain that what you said is the truth. It just makes sense.

Now that I've had these experiences, I'm more like 90% certain that what you said is true. These experiences add a certain humility to the way I experience the world.

So in all likelihood, molecules like dmt will bind to certain serotonin receptors in the brain that cause strong and repeatable distortions in the visual field (even with eyes closed).

The human mind is great at picking out patterns and assigning meaning to them based on our experiences. So that shifting pattern in my visual space kinda looks like a face, I'm going to assign trickster machine elf to that visual pattern.

More likely than not that's what's going on. But there is probably some value in experiencing that.

Having said all that, the subjective experience of living that is very different. This feels incredibly real. As crazy as it sounds, it genuinely feels like blasting into a hyper-dimensional space and encountering a population of sentient entities.

That feeling is so real, that it leaves just the tiniest gap of "hmm, maybe I don't know everything after all. Maybe there's more to this story than I could've previously comprehended".

All to say is that while you're most likely right, I think it could be healthy to acknowledge that you're not definitely right. And leaving some room for uncertainty and exploration could prove beneficial, even for the skeptics among us.
This is like saying that playing the lottery can't be a losing proposition because Joe Smith won the jackpot last week. Life expectancy is a statistical mean - you can't make an argument about the life expectancy of some cohort by pointing to a single counterexample.
> random chip on the motherboard they've been using for a several years to work.

You can easily check if the motherboard has issues, but this idea you should install on random hardware is a mistake.

Linux is not MacOS, but the best time to swap is when you get new hardware. Run into issues and the old Desktop/Laptop still works and there is no need to stress.
Also, their AI/ML side of the house is a mess. :(
There are also just plenty of web pages worth saving that aren't simple documents.
Iceberg is not Snowflake originated, it was built by folks at Netflix - the same folks who built Tabular.

But yes, this is definitely bad for Snowflake, Databricks can position itself as a very strong competitor with this move and moving more towards Iceberg.
andyk here. it's clear our readme is lacking use cases! adding some now. When we introduced ht on twitter I gave a little more context -- https://x.com/andykonwinski/status/1796589953205584234 -- but that should have been in the project readme.

Also a few people comparing to `expect`. I haven't used `expect` before, but it looks very cool. Their docs/readme seem only slightly more fleshed out than ours :-D
Looks like the main way to use expect is via:

spawn ...
expect ...
send ...
expect ...
etc.

so, the expect syntax seems targeted more towards testing where you simultaneously get the output from the underlying binary and then check if it's what you expect (thus the name I guess). I can't see if there is a way to just get the current terminal "view" (aka text screenshot) via an expect command?

ht is more geared towards scripting (or otherwise programmatically accessing) the terminal as a UI (aka Terminal UI). So ht always runs a terminal for you and gives you access to the current terminal state. Need to try out expect myself, but from what I can tell, it doesn't seem to always transparently run a Terminal for you.

There might already be some other existing tool that overlaps with the ht functionality, but we couldn't find it when looked around a bunch before building ht.
How does that single photon theory work with black holes?
Well according to your system, I posted this 13 hours ago, he posted it 10 hours ago. So I can’t quite follow how he posted it first?
Yea, the older I get, the less willing I am to jump through hoops, supplicate and prostrate myself in front of a company I want to work for. At 22 years old, I would have thought nothing of studying 2 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 4 weeks to get a job. Now, no way. And I believe this is a common trait among employees my age.

So if a company designs an interview process that involves all this hoop jumping and whiteboard hazing, they are deliberately adding bias against older, more experienced candidates.
Here’s a radical suggestion: stop calling welfare-for-doctors insurance. If you want insurance, those are known as major-medical policies under which the sniffle visits are still the patient’s responsibility — just like how insured car owners pay for their own oil changes.

With “health” “insurance,” neither side has price sensitivity. Patients ask whether it’s covered and if so, back the truck up to get as much as possible. Physicians see enormous pots of money in tax-favored plans and seek to scoop out as much as they can. The inevitable result of such an awful system — that traces back to workarounds on executive pay limits imposed during the FDR administration — is unbounded price increases. Politicians scream about getting spending under control, and regulators impose rationing. This is a terrible system, but it’s a self-inflicted wound.

In the U.S., at least, we’re seeing cash-only practices become more common. Their fees are affordable because their customers pay out of pocket and because they don’t have to hire entire departments just to deal with “insurance” providers.
I love reading biographies of famous people. I especially liked "My Life and Work: An Autobiography of Henry Ford."
I also enjoy books by Paul Ekman.
Nice and challenging puzzle!
Not sure how it can be implemented, but it would be nice to see a possible solution on timeout, or suggest hints
Ask HN: The word "Surfaces" – when did it enter the lexicon?
I'm hearing this all over the place right now, feels like it means something along the lines of feature, how does everyone else understand it?
in too many organizations, nobody gets their due for fixing a problem that never happened, and the fixer gets the credit.

This incentivizes heroics, quite the opposite from the idea presented.

Also this is a weak-sauce advert masquerading as a blog post.
No - a CUDA program consists of parts that run on the CPU as well as on the GPU, but the CPU (aka host) code is just orchestrating the process - allocating memory, copying data to/from the GPU, and queuing CUDA kernels to run on the GPU. All the work (i.e. running kernels) is done on the GPU.

There are other libraries (e.g. OpenMP, Intel's oneAPI) and languages (e.g. SYCL) that do let the same code be run on either CPU or GPU.
On HN's front page: A complaint and long discussion about leetcode interviews. Why do companies interview for something that is only an infinitessimal fraction of the job they're hiring for?

So if you're suffering "a critical tech skills shortage", maybe consider stopping using leetcode as an interview technique?
Yes but most cultures don’t have a rote-memorization culture like the shruti, which seems very much like the exception
Ah yes, I assumed “general”
You sound a tad biased my friend.
I think the author maybe doesn’t know how to order 1% resistors from Digi-Key??

My intro circuit analysis prof gave these wise words to live by: “If you need more than one significant digit, it isn’t electrical engineering, its physics”
SWIM may or may not have confided to me experiences with a variety of compounds purported to induce a wide range of subjective internal experiences upon their various methods of consumption. At any rate, I've certainly read (and donated to) Erowid.
I think the correct answer really depends upon what you are trying to do. Sometimes where board space and cost are not an issue people use a combination of larger and smaller bypass caps to reduce switching noise. I don't think there is a one size fits all solution because people power many different types of things from USB. It's more just a caution about USB power in general. Most people know the 500mA current limit, but in-rush compliance is something you don't really see in functional testing because typically you can get away with a violation and the board will still work.
Chicago still has a Men's Hotel similar to this, https://newrepublic.com/article/161808/ewing-annex-hotel-hou... though I think it is more focused on transient laborers and semi-homeless men then young people just starting out their professional life.
I just use:

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@@||reddit.com/*$document
Different levels of encryption at rest play different roles in your particular scenario.

If you use a cloud service and they have an encryption at rest feature that you enable, the default is for them to control the key. Or, for Azure, put a "customer controlled" key in Key Vault. But again, that's their service. In this scenario you're only protected against people physically in the data centers not their DevOps folks. But, that feature gives you a checkmark for SOC2 or other regulations...

The problem protecting against DevOps folks at a cloud is:
1. You are burdened with putting a key somewhere outside of their cloud. If you do something at the filesystem level like enable bitlocker on a VM you're going to experience pain during reboots and it's not possible on a root volume if you're not given a console.
2. You can't do this on a cloud service like RDS. You'd have to do row level encryption with your application doing the decryption/encryption. But, your application has to have the key and now your back to #1. The VM with the key needs the root disk encrypted or the drive where the key is store encrypted. And again, you're not able to use a cloud service like EKS or App Service you're stuck with VMs.

Generally, I tend to just stick with regulation requirements which protect against the physical hard disk.
Might be AI Maximalism approaching Science Fiction but I still thought it was thought provoking.
in some sense yes, and if you are only interested in good predictions this might work out well. What, maybe due to my limited understanding, is, that this is not theory driven and therefore does not really provide understanding of the underlying process.
Who would go with google for anything? No support and the product cancelled when they get distracted with something else.
The default is 50 chips each color for 7 players, each player can have a maximum of 7 of one color
Is there literally any reason to believe that, other than believing Musk is some kind of genius playing 4D chess?
I'm going to "well, actually" here and tell you that plenty of casinos have weird chip denominations. Especially where limit poker might be played.

I've seen $2, $2.50, $3, $10 and $20 chips as well as the normal denominations. This site mentions $8s:

https://wizardofvegas.com/forum/gambling/poker/5999-2-3-and-...
Most resistors don't use wire, but some film of carbon (cheaper, usually the E12 / 5% tolerance parts) or metal (E24, or 1% and tighter tolerances) onto a non-conducting body. Wires mean winding into a coil, which means increased inductance.

I suspect in most cases the tolerances are a direct result from the fabrication process. That is: process X, within such & such parameters, produces parts with Y tolerance. But there could be some trimming involved (like a laser burning off material until component has correct value). Or the parts are measured & then binned / marked accordingly.

Actual wire is used for power resistors, like rated for 5W+ dissipation. Inductance rarely matters for their applications.
Slack has become so central to every on-call investigation, that it was like a dealbreaker for my cofounder, Dipesh, to have a fully functional Slack workflow in our MVP.

I did come across Speedrun a while back and was planning to give it a spin. Thanks for dropping a note, I'll drop you a mail sometime in the near future to discuss more on the topic. :)
I don't know why I expected this to show me the actual sky, like with current clouds/weather and lighting conditions at a point on Earth. Does that exist?
I find it hard to believe that the FBI really did all they could to prevent serious crime that they caught on the phones. Doing so would most likely cause criminals to suspect the phone right away.
Really confused by the HN tagline - the actual site doesn't mention anything that targets a specific reading audience.

A sample of what a complete comic looks like would help. I'm not going to download the app to find out.

Is this targeted more for those who write their own stories but cannot work with an artist to turn it into a visual story? Or, for artists who can't / don't have the time to draw but can provide the necessary inputs to generate assets they need for to build out a comic?
Has anywhere emulated this though?

It is very difficult to fit into existing urban areas. If you narrow streets but the alternative does not work, then you worsen pollution by increasing congestion.

Effort matters too - cycling is more viable somewhere flat.

I live off a main road into a town with a wide cycle path separated from cars. The town has slow moving traffic and seems a reasonable place to cycle. The cycle lane is still lightly used.

I usually walk into town. I only use the car for shopping or longer journeys (I do less than 3k miles/year). For me cycling has a very narrow potential use case - if its too far to walk, and close enough to cycle, and I do not need the luggage space of a car.
But this is not like in the 1600s, when laws took weeks or months to reach to the outskirts of the empire. The memo is literally public and has been in the news, so I don't see how there could be parts of the org that this has not filtered through yet.

Maybe if there's parts of the org that need to get all their mandates through MS Teams, I could see how that introduces unreasonable delays.
sure, you can find data and spin up your own db but you still need a tutorial to a) explain what the data/tables are and b) guide you through some things to build. for most programming languages you can make some sort of little widget or itneractive program that lends itself well to learning via curious exploration. SQL does not lend itself to that because you don't really make something 'fun'. You just make more tables. People aren't going to naturally come up with the kind of boring-but-challenging things that you use SQL for like "come up with a daily aggregate of pageviews, but exclude users that had account status X in the previous 30 days OR if they have a special status set in this other table as of the date of the pageview. And make sure that days with 0 page views show up with 0 pageviews and are not just missing from the table".

Also, it's very easy to make queries that complete and look correct but give wrong or incomplete results. You've not going to notice that from just running queries in self-directed practice.
At the end of the day your enemy has no ethics, and we share the public internet with enemies. If paying to find security flaws means it's more likely people will find your flaws rather than sell them to someone that will use them for nefarious means then it is the better bet.