skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like you see it from the point of view of a disto maintainer and never thought about how awful the experience is for software developers. I want to just depend on some specific, latest version of a library. I don’t want to have to go look at which version of that library exists in 18 different Linux distributions. I don’t want to deal with bug reports because Debian patched one of my dependencies or replaced the version I depend on with something newer or older.

I’m happy for someone to update the version of my dependency if it has security patches. But the rest? A total nightmare. I’ll take cargo / npm / swift / etc style versioning every day.
Rust still lets you create your own algorithmic data types so that you can overload traits like Add, Mul, Div and Sub to implement your own e.g. Vector3 class (although I still feel this is too restrictive, but understand why rust chooses not to do that). What Rust blocks in your example there is implicit type conversion/coercion/promotion, and I'm actually okay with that and forcing being much more explicit about type casting.

Go is the language that makes your vector classes required to have syntax like v1.VecMult(v2) and v1.ScalarMult(s) because there's no operator overloading at all (even though there's a largely useless baked-in complex number class).
Someone does not understand how learning works. Facts are the basic building block of a person's understanding of the world. Children are taught to recognize letters and basic shapes. From there, we start chunking them together into words, then sentence. Proficiency eventually make this effortlessly.

This is true of pretty much of almost anything. Programmers started with syntax and basic concept, and once they sufficiently gain enough skill, the syntax essentially become invisible.
I tried one before the one that just came with the Oculus 2 and thought the same. I guess there is a lot of variation in silicon foam covers, but the standard one that comes with the headset works for me. I sweat a lot when I do VR, so without a cover, the foam head piece is going to get soaked and smelly.
Yeah I guess it has FTL but its not really FTL in the same way I think GP meant. It could just as easily be simulation or something else. Its not warp or hyperdrive and it doesnt really violate the internal consistency of the world building since its totally alien clarketech
Google ngrams reveals his claim to be flagrant horse shit. The term wasn't popular until several decades after standard oil ceased to exist.
You have taken that out of context, they say exactly the opposite of what you're claiming very clearly if you read further.
Boeing Starliner Stuck on Space Station as More Leaks Discovered
The best business/data outcome I have experienced in my career was with: PMs who knew SQL, a simple extract/scheduling tool, and reasonable data models maintained by a data engineering team with input (or table designs) from BI developers.
>T1 ⊕ T2 = ((U10 ⨂ H3) ⊕ (U11 ⨂ H2) ⊕ (U12 ⨂ H) ⊕ Ek(y0)) ⊕ ((U20 ⨂ H3) ⊕ (U21 ⨂ H2) ⊕ (U22 ⨂ H) ⊕ Ek(y0))
= ((U10 ⊕ U20) ⨂ H4) ⊕ ((U11 ⊕ U21) ⨂ H2) ⊕ ((U12 ⊕ U22) ⨂ H).

Shouldn't the result be ((U10 ⊕ U20) ⨂ H3) ⊕ ((U11 ⊕ U21) ⨂ H2) ⊕ ((U12 ⊕ U22) ⨂ H) ?
But it never panned out with actual results, and mental powers faded from hard sci-fi stories.

.. and yet here I am reading everyone's thoughts about how telepathy isn't possible.

Just because it doesn't look like us holding our fingers to our temples, doesn't change the effect.

With neuralink it'll look even more like what you imagine.. wild to see the dismissal when its closer than ever.
I, for one, would love to see the rise of AI as the killer of rote memorization education and the enabler of general and critical learning. But I doubt we'll be that lucky - the current industry, methods and expectations are too engrained.

Would love to be proven wrong.
> outsourcing the creation of a bedtime story for your child is just bad parenting.

Yup anyone who reads a pre-written bedtime story to their kids is a bad parent /s

Even before ChatGPT, I was using davinci in the OpenAI playground to have a lot of silly fun with my daughter. Totally dumb stuff like asking it to create a menu for an alien restaurant with farts as an ingredient, but it had us rolling.

So, "What Do We Want Computers to Do?" - no matter what your answer, AI makes that question a lot more interesting and raises the ceiling of possibilities. I just wish the author (and others like them) would stop moralizing.
HM is worst-case exponential, but it just happens to have good performance in practice.
The AI didn't leak anything, it's hallucinating and connecting dots that don't exist, like the the US exit of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. It's putting it up there right next to the founding of SpaceX and writing as they were connected, but that's just completely ridiculous.
And the suggestion that "his Mars colony will have it"(nuclear missile defense) is not supported by the article referenced at all. The only thing it's saying is that if there were a nuclear war, Mars would be safer than the moon as the flight time makes it much easier to react to.
It must be an exceptionally difficult time to teach when kids are being influenced to believe in an imminent AI takeover of their intellectual world. And that is just one of many, many, threats to the US Education system.
Check this concept: https://www.inverse.com/tech/apple-vision-pro-f1-mixed-reali...
In theory. In practice people are very happy with what happens when you

import pandas

in Python, more so than competitors. I have been hoping though that with the planned Java transition to FFI, you can make Jython pass Python FFI through Java API to get numpy and all that working.
In related news today:

"Russia, hit by new US sanctions, halts dollar and euro trade on main bourse"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40662013

Tangentially:

"G7 Leaders Agree To Unblock $50 Bn For Ukraine By End Of 2024: France"

https://www.barrons.com/news/g7-leaders-agree-to-unblock-50-...
wouldn't the tinfoil hat act as an antenna? clever play by the CIA, delegitimize the tinfoil hat and thus convincing the people most likely to be effected their brainular wave manipulation to don one.
Have been saying this for a while now, mostly as a result of 'post truth'.

"The primary goal of early education was to enable sound thinking, not aggregation of facts, because there just weren’t that many facts to be known."

In lieu of reliable facts, being able to suss out facts becomes more important. In our house, we've been focused on Trivium and Quadrivium à la https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education and our favorite book is https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Trivium-Christian-Homeschool... (don't sweat the Christian bit, just focus on the education)
That's really cool and it would actually make a good conversation starter.

On the other hand, perhaps random discovery is more fun than targeted socialising. It's a bit like I love to come to Hacker News not for programming stuff, but to hear random new things from like-minded people.

I feel the same about meeting strangers in general. It's more fun when you are not primed with their entire comment history.
Those are not BLM, BLM is the support of the idea that there should be racial equity in policing. What you are describing is vandalism which is not what the person I'm replying to said
Could you talk a bit about those reasons, I am genuinely curious. There's too much noise and very little meaningful discussion on the topic.
Ask HN: What was your best interview experience?
As an interviewee, regardless of whether you got the job or not.
Smart Paste for context-aware adjustments to pasted code
For a while they were pretty much giving away the little Alexa dots. Buy some soap, get a free Alexa. I remember being unable to give them away and I think we ended up just trashing about half a dozen of them (vs the five active Alexa unites my ex-wife has. I personally have none in my home and plan to keep it that way).
using zalando's patroni operator in k8s at scale for years (mainly OCP but pure k8s as well).
Features like in place major version upgrade are no match for any of the alternatives checked.
Close to it is CNPG (cloudnative-pg) which is 2nd best and in 1yr might take the crown.
(for companies, best part is that cnpg has enterprise support for it (named pg4k, a fork of cnpg).

But, above all, I would warmly recommed anyone to first do their best to use cockroachDB (or yugadb if you like more) instead.
The benefits of distributed/horiz scaled DB usually overcome the effort of moving to it (which should not be big as it's using same pg client/protocol). And it's free if you don't need enterprise features like partitions, etc.
It kind of makes me mad that the very simple RS algorithm (divide and conquer) isn't more widely known given that it's so easy to implement and that it's actually parallelizable unlike Fisher-Yates. I think it's also better pedagogically since you can easily do it with a deck of cards and a coin or some dice while Fisher-Yates is pretty unwieldy for anything beyond very small lists.
The biggest problem with LLMs are that they are simply regressions of writings of millions of humans on the internet. It's very much a machine that is trained to mimic how humans write, nothing more.

The bigger concern is that we don't have the training data required for it to mimic something smarter than a human (assuming that a human is given sufficient time to work on the same problem).

I have no doubt ML will exceed human intelligence, but the current bottleneck is figuring out how to get a model to train itself against its own output without human intervention, instead of doing a regression against the entire world's collective writings. Remember, Ramanujan was, with no formal training and only access to a few math books, able to achieve brilliant discoveries in mathematics. In terms of training data used by ML models, that is basically nothing.
> IANAL but maybe you could argue the public API is a form of sublicensing the data?

Given that the license is explicitly identified as both sublicensable and transferable and includes the right to distribute, I have a very hard time seeing how anyone could argue that the recipient of data that YC explicitly exposes through their "Official HN API" isn't allowed to use it.
I think they used to have a rule about this but then their own apps started to violate it, so they loosened restrictions. What I'd really love to see is notification categories so you can choose which to accept.
it says that they're going to use onboard LPDDR5, which Samsung says has a bandwidth of 6,400 Mbps.

How much will the memory be a bandwidth compared to how many Tops it has?

i know nothing of nothing, so please enlighten.

https://semiconductor.samsung.com/dram/lpddr/lpddr5/
I mean, one way to look at it is that the energy density of this concrete supercapacitor, when fully charged, is about 4 orders of magnitude smaller than the chemical energy density of wood.

So depending on the design, electrical shorts might be something to worry about, but I have a hard time worrying about it as a significant fire hazard when compared to all of the other flammable things you might find in a house.
> high risks high upside but really its extreme risk and almost no upside

Extreme risk? Some startups pay fair salaries.

I don't think startups are that risky (unless you start putting money into them, that is a suckers deal). Or if you work for free, what you naturally should not do. Not everyone can get a FAANG job so it is not very clear alternative.

If you get paid a slightly below market rate and get some worthless equity, what's the big deal? You can always quit any time and change to a corporate career. It is not an end of the world.
A video presentation of the same algorithm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajv46BSqcK4
The asymmetric reward is the _company_ having a liquidity event thereby enriching the founder, NOT a funding round enriching the founder.
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Europe, honestly, just can't afford that, even if they wanted. This is why e.g. Germany still has to buy natural gas from Russia, even while supporting the war effort of Ukraine against Russia.
They can have up to 64 gigs of RAM, but internally apparently they only support up to 1TB hard drive [0], and while you can have "external" hard drives in the expansion modules, you are giving up IO to have it (half the IO slots if you wanted to get all the way to 3 TB)

I don't quite understand why it couldn't accept a larger internal hard drive, but if it could I don't know why "up to 1 TB of NVME storage" would be their marketing copy.

[0]https://frame.work/blog/introducing-the-framework-laptop-chr...
> Ew. ChromeOS was always a beautiful contrast to Android, running mainline kernels instead of Android's hacked up mess.

This is at least partly because the two are distributed very differently, with Chrome OS on a much shorter leash than Android, even with Play services.

With Chrome OS devices Google can push updates to any device whenever they want, whereas with Android it was often up to the manufacturer, or even carrier, which many Googlers (not all) considered to be a mistake.

But this is also the Chrome OS achilles heel because support for esoteric third party hardware blocks is the Android killer feature and now more important than ever.
Haven’t we been surrounded by lithium ion batteries for decades now in phones, laptops etc? I’ve never had anyone I know experience a fire with one.
Android has notification categories, but I think those end up getting abused too.
I think 2020 was the beta. They announced the full feature in 2023, and I see a 2022 article about enabling the beta. Primary device SoT makes sense, but that has its caveats, and yeah it all goes back to the privacy guarantees.

> Are you sure?

Nope, I was wrong. I must've been thinking about how the SMS forwarding will work even without cell service, provided the iPhone is on wifi, which was a new feature at some point and requires carrier support (AT&T was early).

"To automatically forward SMS/MMS messages to one or more of your other devices, the other device must be signed in with the same Apple ID as your iPhone, and your iPhone must be connected to a Wi-Fi or cellular network."
> A radical version of this may see public education transitioning more to the tutoring system still used at Oxford today – students pick up and reference the knowledge needed for learning prior to meeting in small groups with their teachers in academically rigorous conversation.

1,000% no.

This is, and will continue to be, the model of many expensive elite prep schools.

Public schools? They already have a staffing crisis due to a couple decades of stagnating wages while both inflation and Baumol’s cost disease ran rampant, with Covid as an acute stressor that made things even worse very fast.

Are they looking to fix that? Not really, no. They’re coping by reducing the school week to four days and looking to replace as many teachers as possible with computer programs and cheap teaching assistants (why have foreign language classes when you can stick kids on DuoLingo? Real example).

The next step, which they’re already talking about, is how to start using AI to take pressure off staffing for core classes. This means fewer teachers per student, not more.

This is happening in lower-paying rural schools first, for obvious reasons, but it’s the future for the whole system.

> There are less radical options that we can also begin to employ now without re-hauling our entire education system; the ‘flipped classroom’ is a simple modification where students watch videos (or, perhaps use an AI) to get the basics of a concept down, and participate in hands-on projects in class.

Yep, this is what public school kids are going to get, though the “hands on” part with a real teacher isn’t making it as a major feature of the system.

Is it as good or better than what we had before? Doesn’t matter, we can’t afford that anymore, this is what we’re getting.

Fancy private school kids will continue to get the thing we already know works well, but is expensive.
> Chrome OS was better in one sense only: security.

Don't you think this is a pretty major feature?
Not everything is about resources. Are you one of those people who thinks Taiwan is about chips? That conflict predates the chips, it's about face, prestige and reputation, but I often read people on HN saying it's all about chips.

When all you have to explain the world is a hammer every problem will look like a nail. It's a form of cognitive bias.
I don't want to deal with maintaining a pure Linux laptop, and I don't want to be limited by OSX/Windows (for different reasons). Chromebook, by far, is the easiest to get good amount of linux for development without much issues ... with some limitations. It also works with docker/podman for the cases I care, so was simply looking for upgrade of my great (and still used to this day) Chromebook Eve (16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) - I really only wish it was bit faster, bit more memory, and I can still live really with 512GB SSD if I have to.

Maybe Vulkan support through Linux (only HW accelerated OpenGL GLES works right now for me)
> Intel says hi.

Intel helped make this move possible, but it doesn’t manufacture laptops. Apple took the heat for “donglegate”.

On the x86 desktop, usb-c is still surprisingly rare. I think my motherboard (that’s less than a year old) only has 2 usb-c ports and 8x usb-a.
Ironically Salesforce is filled with Siebel alumni.
Didn't anybody ever watch Apple's Knowledge Navigator movie? Well now we're basically here. It's neat but the issue we have now is AI literally recommends killing yourself and making pizza with glue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umJsITGzXd0
Truly a golden era for fast-forwarding through videos of dead-eyed men and women rutting on camera. (Thank you – I genuinely learned a lot from your reply.)
I don't think it's a grand conspiracy (and I know you're not saying that) but pushing buttons and pulling levers in a factory for a paycheck was a marked improvement over dirty water and subsistence farming.
Does it? The sophons are capped at light speed though they communicate FTL. The whole curvature propulsion I thought had the ships moving at light speed, not exceeding it. Three Body has plenty of clarketech but most of the drama comes from it being grounded in something kind of like actual the laws of physics.
Wasm2ps: Compile a small subset of WebAssembly to PostScript. (using wasm2wat)
Would be great if chromeos flex would start supporting organisation provided wifi credentials - currently only device generated keys are an option, meaning one has no idea whatsoever if keys generated are actually good enough or are just looking random while generated might be generated predictably. No idea, as it's a black box. Allow organisations to generate keys off device and allow these to be uploaded to the device, and then we can start considering it.

The other problem is that other vendors do not provide chromeos versions of their tools. Looking at you Fortinet and your vpn.
All HN did do was store and show your (public) comments.

What this other company did with that (public) data seems to me to be a separate issue that you should take up with that company, just like the fact that your public comments (which you explicitly gave permission to HN to show) have been indexed by Google, Bing, and probably thousands of other spiders, bots, scrapers, etc.

I'm curious how you expected this to work. Like if you only give HN permission to store and show your comments on the public web, then somehow no other entity out there will be able to do anything with them?
There’s been over a century of discussion as to the merits of rote memorization in educational context. Notably it is regarded as only one component of how people learn, and not necessarily the most important.

https://www.graduateprogram.org/2023/10/is-rote-learning-sti...
This is an interesting take!

I feel like almost none of the value I get out of a piece of media is knowing who/what made it. I think media either stands on its own merit or it doesn't.

It could be made by monkeys on typewriters, AI, whatever. The media itself is what matters to me, or makes me feel emotions, etc. Not the fact that a human made it. It just so happens that I haven't experienced media made by AI (or monkeys on typewriters) that is as good as the stuff made by humans. But I don't think that'll hold forever.

A shitty movie still sucks even if made by someone I am impressed by or relate to. One of my favorite book series as a kid was written by someone I now have zero respect for, yet I can and still do enjoy the books. And I'm sure I'd still enjoy those same books if they were written exactly the same way but by a different author or AI.

However, this is the first time I've really thought much about it, so my opinion might be different after some further introspection.
How do you compare to incumbents like Blumira? What does your mitre coverage look like?
Seems like a stretch... the examples in the video were around 400-500F
Only gripe... the default keyboard shortcuts are "paste un-formatted" in a lot of applications.

Seems like some other combination of keys would be better to use.
This is the third article on here about why hybrid is great today. What the heck is going on?
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Block AI training on a web site
somewhat related, I'm curious what the future of fuchsia is? I would have imagined that transitioning Chromebook to fuchsia would be possible at some point, but going to android makes it seem less likely?
"teahcing in the age of AI." ?
And that doesn't really prevent anything, it just (mildly) slows it down.
> Cons of static linking:

Not listed is that ASLR either doesn't work at all or you get just one object (the PIE's) randomized. For a memory safe language this may not be a con at all.

Also, when many executables can share common objects then there can be a reduction in I/O (reads) needed to load those the next time that one of those executables runs. In 2004 when the Solaris 10 (then a work in progress) unified process model delivered, and all system executables were dynamically linked, boot times went down by a lot.
> it wasn't obvious to me until I started thinking about AI art, but so much of the value I get from a piece of media is knowing that another human made it

I feel the same way.

Increasingly, it seems we're making it possible for AI to create art (movies, novels, paintings, music) and eventually be involved in everything related to art: reviewing said art, commenting about it online, maybe even having heated discussions about it.

But art is about human connection. It's not something we want to automate.

The article tangentially mentions something about art becoming accessible to non-artists, i.e. people who wouldn't be able to "create" otherwise (what the author calls the "illusion", or "faking it"). But maybe art isn't supposed to be "democratic" in this sense; maybe those who cannot directly create in their preferred art form should instead enjoy it, or discuss it -- or better, practice more and get good at it the hard way?
Basic ability to think? What does that even mean? Is there a thinking course 101 that I missed?

The skills that we learn tend to be fairly specific and doesn't always generalize. If you learn chess, you're just good at chess.

There's the meta of learning how to learn, but that is its own skill-set. Most people get by with instructors and classes.
It will be interesting to both make sophisticated education available to any student anywhere, but also diminish the value of a lot of what are now regarded as professions requiring high aptitude.

By "sophisticated" I mean potentially better than private tutoring because an AI tutor will have a superhuman span and depth of knowledge. Some nation-state is going to grasp the potential and create an economy and culture enabled by a super-educated population while many other places will struggle with giving up what seemed to be axioms of how education should work.