skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The layoffs from mixed reality aren't all that surprising since lots of tech companies thought VR/AR was going to be the next hot thing and then AI popped up instead. Azure is a bit surprising, but that division has grown so rapidly that they likely did hire some poor performers, and this is their opportunity to get rid of them under the cover of AI instead of admitting they staffed up poorly.
Seconding this. This is my second year using compost, and this year I tried to only use the composted soil from last year, made from grass clipping and mostly-mulched leaves that over-wintered in the pile.

There is crap sprouting up everywhere because my pile did not get hot enough to kill the seeds. Tomato plants are sprouting up in every single place I've put down the compost.

Last year, it was pumpkins - I left some compost on a tarp to dry out, and forgot all about it, and when I came back, mystery plants sprouted up - so I replanted them in the front yard, and was rewarded by pumpkin plants that completely took over. And I do mean rewarded - it looked great, passers-by would comment on our pumpkin patch, and we got something like a dozen pumpkins out of the deal for halloween.
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While I wouldn't describe it as late-stage capitalism, the situation OP is describing definitely isn't sustainable, we're all becoming more like Korea or China, high stratified and overstressed societies that may well be dead ends given their declining birthrates.

I recall the controversy about Amy Chua's Tiger Mom a decade ago, the funny thing is that Amy Chua today believes that her methods would be insufficient for the competition today. When we have parents fighting for top kindergartens and extracurriculars for 5 year-olds, you know this is getting out of hand. And the worst part is, for all the rise of "overachievers" going into these jobs, services and products in society just seem to be getting worse and worse.
McMurdo and South Pole both use the same fuel, AN8, for pretty much everything.
It is not unlike like hiring a personal trainer, you are still the one who needs to do the work.
I never managed to finish my degree mainly due to dyslexia, and started working as a self-taught programmer, but I can only second this opinion. My CV doesn't get past most first screenings and even then people sort of treat you like a second class citizen.

Maybe I should start lying about my lack of a degree like a real con man.
And these policies come into place all by themselves?
I think it’s the opposite now that the weight of the glacier is gone?
Ask HN: What are your favorite YouTube channels?
Title explains it all. Please list your favorite channels. Could be educational, informative, entertaining, etc. I'll start.

SEA,
History of the Universe,
Anton Petrov,
Pursuit of Wonder,
Fireship,
Louiss Rossman,
Basically Homeless,
TechLinked,
SomeOrdinaryGamers,
ExplainingComputers
Especially considering that the US began arming the "Khmer Rouge" in 1979, and then began heavily arming them a few years later.
Since you could reasonably add (1750 B.C.) to the headline, you should. What's the oldest year reference record for a successful story? I once tried "Epic of Gilgamesh (2100 B.C.)" but it got no votes.
I disagree. We still cannot combine the key theories of the quantum and relativistic world. We don't understand whatvwe currently call dark matter and dark energy.

However, it's not clear how to make progress in these areas.
Eventually maybe but the Capitol investment is high and only a few firms are in the market place who are capable of playing. If they enter they expand they will decrease their own margins and that’s generally not desirable. Why take risks if you don’t have to and you can live out your tenure as ceo collect big bucks and Retire without any. Everyone wants to run their business slowly into the ground US steel and K-mart style
Eventually, we'll need something more secure than effectively `sudo curl INSTALLER | sh` as a way to install stuff. I can see why package managers aren't always the answer, but still.

piku itself is neat and I like it.
Yes that was a bit snarky and rude. I wasn't able to edit, so I reposted without snark/rudeness.
> Passwords are obsolete in 2024, and using them is very nearly universally bad.

The first claim is obviously nowhere near being true, and the second seems very subjective.

As the other user is saying, strong passwords with proper security have minimal risk. More than certs or keys yes, but they offer sufficient security and the balance with convenience is currently unbeatable.

Besides, even if someone gets access to your server they should be limited and unable to do any real damage anyway. Defense in depth and all that.
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How Will El Capitan Run? Software and Storage Solutions
It's a shame that TeX the great typesetting system comes with TeX the ungodly complex language. There's literally no chance to create good tooling for TeX because of this. There's very little chance to optimize rendering of large documents because of it (e.g., by automatic parallelization). Finally, there's never going to be a readable error message from TeX.

TeX the language is the prime example of gatekeeping.

OTOH, no one has ever succeeded in creating and popularizing a context-free language that compiles to TeX.
Group with the same team until the magic runs out in 3 games then everyone quits lol
I had a highly intelligent and good looking roommate with ED and it was devastating that at such a young age he couldnt’t maintian an erection even with viagra, cialis. I urged him to see a doctor and it turns out the ‘baloon’ down there that gets filled with blood also has a valve to keep the blood in. He had a misfunctioning valve and blood was leaking out and erection was soft. Sad story, as it seems to have had psychological effects on this person. Not sure it was much they could do at the time other than a manual pump fix. He did have a girlfriend though and they found other ways around it, though I heard she was cheating on him in search for a normal experience.
These deep philosophical discussions are about absolute "truth" in general, but in logic, the truthness of formula in specific mathematical structure is well-defined through structural induction over the formula, although with non-finite, non-computable steps. Yes, from strict-finitistic point of view even the concept of truth in the standard model of arithmetic could be problematic.
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> Why do we tolerate this world where the bar is so high and getting higher all the time?

There isn’t a single “bar”. The company the parent commenter was talking about was a single company at a single point in the job market using a single heuristic.

These anecdotes are anecdotes, not representative of the entire industry.

The pointy end of the job market has always been selective. There have been companies that select from specific universities for decades, if not longer. It’s not a new phenomenon, nor is it a universal practice.

The pointy end of the job market has always been exclusive.
Dispute the charge with your bank - you did not get what you paid for, and it's not on you to chase them down and waste your time. If/when enough people do this, they'll get their shit together.
This is why I advocate all PII data be encrypted at rest at the field level.

Worked on EMRs (during the aughts). Had yearly HIPAA and other security theater training. Not optional for any one in the field.

Of course we had root access. I forget the precise language, but HIPAA exempts "intermediaries" such as ourselves. How else could we build and verify the system(s). And that's why HIPAA is a joke.

Yes, our systems had consent and permissions and audit logs cooked in. So theoretically peeking at PII could be caught. Alas, it was just CYA. None of our customers reviewed their access logs.

--

I worked very hard to figure out how to protect patient (and voter) privacy. Eventually conceded that deanon always beats anon, because of Big Data.

I eventually found the book Translucent Databases. Shows how to design schemas to protect PII for common use cases. Its One Weird Trick is applying proper protection of passwords (salt + hash) to all other PII. Super clever. And obvious once you're clued in.

That's just 1/2 of the solution.

The other 1/2 is policy (non technical). All data about a person is owned by that person. Applying property law to PII transmutes 3rd party retention of PII from an asset to a liability. And once legal, finance, and accounting people get involved, orgs won't hoard PII unless it's absolutely necessary.

(The legal term "privacy" means something like "sovereignty over oneself", not just the folk understanding of "keeping my secrets private.)
There isn't any crossroad here. Education and religion should always be completely separate (unless religion itself is a subject of study).
> The point is that the open source stack means that there's no point where you can force any of these fingerprinting things

Promising jail is that point.

Remember, open source is besides the point, whether what you do is against the law is what it's all about;)

> training on an image

Talking about training on a single image like it's enough means you probably don't get the point of ML m8
That would also be true with analog film when you start reaching the film grain size.
Could someone explain why the parent comment is down voted?

I don't notice anything off about it.
Sapir-Whorf is nonsense.
>the professor was there to set the curriculum and force you to study (things that otherwise you didn't know were important or didn't want to pick on your own

That's what it means to NOT be self-taught.

That you got an organized overview of a subject in a systematic manner.

What was the expectation otherwise? That somehow another person instilled all your knowledge directly into your brain?
This could be a great device for those struggling to limit time spent on hyper distracting apps. However, this is pretty concerning:

"What happens if I lose my Brick? -

We know that accidents happen (you might lose your Brick or forget to leave an important app unblocked before leaving the house), so you get a handful of Emergency Unbricks that will automatically unblock everything. Once these are gone, the only way to unbrick without the device will be deleting the app - meaning all of your data (customized settings and usage history) will be permanently deleted. Note, though, that if Strict Mode is enabled you will not be able to delete the app when Bricked.

We'd love to hear your thoughts / suggestions on what would be a good solution for lost Bricks and Emergency Unbricking - drop a comment in our feedback forum."

I hope they find a less invasive way of unbricking without removing the device's effectiveness.
>Oh come on. All these devices are based on the Cypress reference design.

And MacOS is based on the original BSD and Android is based on Linux. Doesn't mean you can't take something already existing then improve and polish it till you can monetize it. People are willing to pay for increased UX and polish.

>Should also add that I don't live in CA, and don't drink coffee :)

You weren't the point of this, but people who scoff at a few bucks for hardware when they spend a lot more than that on daily frivolities. You know there's plenty of them out there, even here.
That's lovely. Last time I checked the 240 was completely broken.
You mean the job of a translator is by definition impossible?

Edit: Yes, for sure there will be a delay of a few words or even one or two short sentences. Just like human translators. Not a problem I think.

Edit 2: Very curious why my first comment was downvoted?
Really interesting how China changes the output to these questions in different languages.

Shouldn’t model developers disclose their alignment training questions and censorship triggers?

I don’t disagree that there needs to be guardrails on dangerous information to a certain extent.

Companies producing these models often go beyond general safety and regurgitate political points as if they were the same as how-do I-make-nitroglycerin questions.

Hot political topics are most-often bucketed into a single ideology.

Disclosure would go a long way towards understanding the motivations and goals of these models.
There's a very simple reason why it does very little to substantiate its core claim:
The claim is simply wrong and therefore can't be substantiated
Dunkin's are a franchise, but they're using Dunkin's hardware, software, etc. It's absolutely within their ability to track (and force franchisees to track) inventory. It's also within Dunkin Corp's ability to give stores the capability to provide refunds from the retail locations.
sorbs sarved me well for many, many years. RIP :/
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My solution to this was to switch to Firefox and download the LeechBlock extension. Had to disable Chrome but this has worked great for me so far
This is like telling an alcoholic to not drink as much, or, more aptly, like telling a heroin addict to try _not_ doing heroin. These apps are designed from the bottom-up to be extremely addictive to many people.
Agents "work" because (in a well-designed agentic system) their context isn't polluted by tokens that aren't meaningful to the work they're doing. Their attention mechanisms are less likely to drift around with each new token if the subject matter largely stays the same.
Reason why we still don't have AGI is such long excuse for writing slow code.

Author argue that right tool for right thing, simple app don't need fast algorithm.

So people will just write 1000 small classes and function and since they are small, they affort to be slow. And then all grouped together as a big app by OOP mindset. Now we have the slowest app world champion.

Author: and then we optimize hot spot.

Yep. Every little function is a hot spot.

Author: or get the optimized version written by other people later.

Why externalize the responsibility of your own code.
“Honest-to-god image” isn’t. All perception is subjective.
The YTV set is all lame now though
Ultrasonic investigations in shopping centres
As a child who went through this, I could not put a child of my own through that system; I couldn’t do the pointless teacher-pleasing busy-work and it took a piece of my soul and childhood away. On the other hand, I totally understand the necessity of it. Squaring the circle on those two contradictory feelings was quite simple for me - simply don’t have children. I thought I was a bit unusual for that, buy it seems that this is more common than I thought; fertility is falling throughout the developed world and I think super intensive parenting expectations have to be at least a part of that.
Given the 6502 limitations, performance with good comments is much more relevant.

Otherwise, kudos for the effort.
I use Focus modes to the same effect. It gives me all of the notifications while I'm at work but basically none otherwise.
> Finally, there's never going to be a readable error message from LaTeX.

FTFY. If you learn TeX from Knuth’s TeX book, along with the typographical concepts it works with, the error messages generated by documents written in raw TeX are understandable.

LaTeX on the other hand is what the metaprogramming-heavy Boost/STL libraries are to C or C++. Abandon all hope.
The difference is that some folks require having a instructor/coach/mentor motivating and guiding their study more than other folks. Of course it is a continuum and can vary based on the topic.
The term "agents" is often a distraction in my opinion. It's usually a fancy way of saying a prompt with function calls - but since the definition is vague it leads to different people holding different mental models from each other.

As far as I can tell, this team took descriptions of vulnerabilities in the form of CVEs and fed those into a system consisting of various GPT-4 Turbo prompts-with -functions configured for things like executing Playwright commands or running code in a terminal.

They arranged this such that there was a "planner" prompt which could then delegate to prompts specializing in XSS or SQLi. These were the "agents".

I imagine they won't be sharing their code, which is a shame because it would be interesting to see the details of how they got this to work.
> What was the expectation otherwise? That somehow another person instilled all your knowledge directly into your brain?

Perhaps close instruction and observation and correction? More like an apprenticeship, or the way your parents may have taught you how to ride a bike or use utensils etc etc, which differs markedly from a professor speaking to a large group and leaving the struggle and attempt to master a subject to the independent study of the pupil.
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It's not referenced in the title, but perhaps "The Instructions of Šuruppak" (2600 BC)?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33013548
It's easy to say to "start adapting [ not the least by ] not buy property in [ negatively impacted ] areas".

If only there weren't gazillions worth of property, and billions of people, in such areas. The Pliocene had a distinct advantage there, I believe.

While there might well be (personal) value in "prepping", as a solution that doesn't "scale" to all of humanity, unfortunately.
You’re confusing things, there is only the remote, the local machine doesn’t need anything. We do have a simple CLI you can run locally, but all it does is ssh remote <command> to scale up/down workers, change settings, etc.
I try not to be dismissive, but this is first-rate clickbait and doesn't belong on HN.

As far as the title goes: If we defined "you can see them from space" as "visible on Google Maps" (as the article does) then nearly anything qualifies and the phrase only signifies that they're storing the cars outdoors.

As for the content: Tesla miscalculated demand in Q1 2024 by about 8%. I'm sure they'll have to adapt, but that's not exactly a catastrophic number.

I'm not a fan of Tesla or Musk, but some of the negative Tesla takes that come on here are just lazy. This is one of those.
I think that we see everywhere that we are reaching the end of a system. Everything has been pushed to its limits.
The IOP (PS1 processor used for I/O), SPU2 (sound processor), IPU (mpeg decoding), EE (main CPU), VU0, VU1, DMA controller and finally the GS (GPU) run asynchronously. It's naive for others to think perfect cycle accuracy for this machine might be possible with any hardware that exists today. PCSX2 is lucky to have VU1 on it's own thread. It still doesn't work perfectly IIRC, VU0 -> VU1 access is a little sketchy with it enabled.
I see a lot of stuff decrease in quality and increase in price. Just this year 2024 bikes in the 2k range now are shipping with garage tier SRAM groups instead of last year where they had Shimannos. If you want to good stuff it’s 2700 now. Paying more for less is a real drag
Correct. Would also mostly stop a lot of scams like identity theft.

A national identity service, like a normal mature economy, would be a massive public policy and public health win.

But it'd slightly decrease profits. So of course is quite impossible to implement.
> Speaking English

Let's standardize that to the Newspeak version of English for clarity and to make hackers happy.
Okay, but all the videos I've seen are unwatchable, in terms of quality. Mostly people from the stands of a sports match recording on their phones... a field in Thailand... a carving of a duck... it's not interesting.
Someone else in the thread is saying it’s 8% brighter.

So who is right?
The comment was about stores not being empowered to cancel orders to the detriment of the customers, not about the reasons why that order was cancelled. The point stands if, say, the store was suddenly closed due to a burst pipe. Corporate is counting on there being enough friction in calling them on the phone to prevent people from doing it altogether.
I think this will definitely fuel the maker movement.

Inevitably, some of those makers will start up a business. Small scale at first, but some might grow. I don't know if it'll grow into a real threat though.

But I do know that most of MBA Termites I know don't give a damn if their current workplace tanks. As long they'll hit their bonus targets for the year, they are good.

https://makercity.com/book/factoids/
>everyone

For some definition of everyone.
Why California Is Swinging Right on Crime
That’s pretty funny. You may want to look a little further field to discover that the machines with Python are far from “all the machines” out there. Particularly production servers, which, if they run responsibly, are hardened with every extraneous bit of software removed.
Understanding the Power of Awk
And cigarettes have benefited the lung cancer research centers. Just because it works doesn’t make it the best course.
Based off what I see when I ride/walk: Loads of Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. Messages/WhatsApp. Games. Sports apps. It's basically a TV in your pocket.
I dunno, it seems in line with most stereotypes being more true than false [1]. “Common sense” is often derided in online spaces like this, but when there hasn’t been a massive media / social effort to convince the population otherwise [2], it’s pretty reliable.

Taking a quick glance at the articles you linked shows the same behavior as those reporting on the economy - defining disingenuous targets so they can claim their headline is true. To tie this back to anecdotes, I think it comes down to trust. When my neighbor says they’re afraid to lose their job due to housing, food, childcare being a lot more expensive I dont see any motivated reasoning behind that statement. On the other end, economists (and all the articles you linked) have many incentives to distort the truth. On average anecdotes are going to come from a more truthful place - both because you trust the source and know their biases.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/insight-therapy/2018...

[2] https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/41556-americans-m...
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It's 2024. Elon Musk Rules X. and the Political World Is Still Addicted
I totally agree with the your frustration over the technological barriers... you should not need a cell phone to survive/thrive in this world. We're designing a world where the concept of "affordance" is replaced by "dependence".

On the other hand,
investing the $93k/year difference in the state/public institutions where your child might have gone seems like a better pathway to a win-win scenario.

(But, does this really make any sense when our learning institutions move at a bureacratic snails pace, and are bogged down by egos and other inefficiencies? Meh.)

Perhaps we should consider running learning-institutions like lean startups where, instead of success being measured by capital wealth, well-being and innovation are the KPIs.
Has there ever been another product that has elicited so much glee from its faults and failures than electric vehicles?
go's defer is braindead because of its scoping.

Zig's defer is block scoped, so you can actually use it much more easily.
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