skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if it's a misunderstanding, or if usage is just very mixed and inconsistent. Both Wikipedia articles provide both definitions, and both claim that usage is sometimes contradictory and not at all rigorous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_science_fiction

> The complementary term soft science fiction, formed by analogy to the popular distinction between the "hard" (natural) and "soft" (social) sciences,[6] first appeared in the late 1970s. Though there are examples generally considered as "hard" science fiction such as Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, built on mathematical sociology,[7] science fiction critic Gary Westfahl argues that while neither term is part of a rigorous taxonomy, they are approximate ways of characterizing stories that reviewers and commentators have found useful.[8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_science_fiction

> The term soft science fiction was formed as the complement of the earlier term hard science fiction.

> The earliest known citation for the term is in "1975: The Year in Science Fiction" by Peter Nicholls, in Nebula Award Stories 11 (1976). He wrote "The same list reveals that an already established shift from hard sf (chemistry, physics, astronomy, technology) to soft sf (psychology, biology, anthropology, sociology, and even [...] linguistics) is continuing more strongly than ever."
If self-driving vehicles are tested on public streets, all data generated should be public. Companies should be cooperating, not competing, on "don't hit telephone poles" and "don't run over children".
Simple Logic Question Stumps Even the Most Advanced AI
Keep in mind that the UK is much smaller and has a colder climate in general. If you look at a state like Colorado, the energy usage is vastly different than Florida or Texas with lots of heat and humidity.

I would bet that the southern states skew the results quite a bit for the entire USA.
No AI training in newly distrusted Terms of Service, Adobe says
The biggest conspiracy theory I would be accused of holding at the moment is that the politicians in power and the main media are sleepwalking us into nuclear war. There's zero awareness, protest or discussion atm. Arguably we are closer to the brink than in the sixties with no diplomatic way out, just escalation.
> I don’t think anyone’s against the concept of fracking

There are many people absolutely against the concept of fracking.

There are people against the extraction of oil & gas entirely and would argue we should stop, today.
I mean, you're not entitled to a fun job, and moreover I think people will find other fun jobs. It sucks if you loved painting, and you're risking getting replaced by a robot, but a) I think Stable Diffusion will still need to be human assisted for quite awhile to get results that don't suck, and the pictures will almost certainly need to be touched up by people to be useful in a commercial context, and b) There's really no limit on "potentially fun work".

I agree that making scams easier is a real threat though, and I have absolutely no idea how the hell we're going to properly address that. Even if the main service providers block scam-like language, there's nothing stopping anyone from using an open model and running Llamas or something.
I think that's the problem. "Recall" to most people means "I need to take my car to the dealership, and they will fix something dangerous with the car and give it back to me".

Whereas, may recalls these days are just "Your car performed an over the air update while you were sleeping".

Maybe we need the concept of "physical recall" and "software recall".
Yeah, price is quite big
Most languages are forced to choose between tooling speed and runtime speed, but Python has historically dealt with this apparent dichotomy by opting for neither. (⌐▨_▨)
We should go back to the days of cutting off thieves' hands, but only for bike theft.

Scum of the earth, all of 'em.
I don't think the economics will work (for quite some time). They have ~670 cars in total, and still have seriously negative cash flow.
First protest of Iraq was in 1991, but a decades long dictator ofc. has severe military superiority.

A lot of Iraqi's were a big fan of toppling Saddam.

Note : not saying it was a good idea with what we know now.

And about Serbia. The bombing from "NATO" with a focus on military targets made it possible for it's population to overthrow Milosevic by the citizens a year later.

The boots on the ground in this case were the Serbs themselves. From my POV, NATO only provided air-support for them.
it probably varies widely by use-case and customer
DetaMetrics – TensorBoard Alternative for Kaggle and Cloud Notebooks
Go-style "alongside" testing in C#
That's not a “gotcha”, but an interrogation on whether what I experienced in bioinformatics (i.e. working on tools, especially already existing ones, is a carreer trap) also applied to maths.
100%. If only oracle db was as good as its sales team. same is true for basically all SAP products.
The Walrus Operator – The Best Python Feature You Don't Know
There are a bunch of other chokepoints, but type inference is a big part of it: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/docs/CompilerPerfor...

Another thing I would add to swift as a flag is to make imports based on specific files vs. an abstract "module", there is a lot of repeated work that happens because of that last time I looked.
I wonder how they can swing that being that it is owned by a charity
Asimov actually invented the Black Swan Event half a century before Taleb.

Mind control was such an event that psychohistory could not account for. Sometimes things just happen and spoil our plans.
Paraquat ban stays alive, advances in California
I can’t offer much in the way of reasoning or explanation, but having written plenty of both Swift and Kotlin (the latter of which being a lot like a more verbose/explicit Swift in terms of syntax), I have to say that in the day to day I prefer the Swift way. Not that it’s a terrible imposition to have to type out full enum names and such, but it feels notably more clunky and less pleasant to write.

So maybe the decision comes down to not wanting to trade off that smooth, “natural” feel when writing it.
Cars hit "objects" all the time without issue. Bits of paper flying through the air, bags, cups, steam clouds, and other small objects are very common sources of "motion planning collision" in urban environments.
Cruise withheld details (lied by omission) about the person they ran over...
This water is probably worse than fracking water. In addition to being contaminated with oil, etc, according to the article it's 5-8 times saltier than sea water. These wells are literally salting the earth around them.
I work in my Vision Pro through most of the day. The avatars are passable for joining pair- and mob programming sessions. For more personal meetings I use the camera on my laptop. It’s so very useful to have a large screen in the right place that feels comfortable.

The weight doesn’t bother me at all the way I thought it would. Turns out the most uncomfortable part of using the Quest 3 to me was the heat! The Vision Pro stays consistently vented through hours of use.

I have removed all my screens and wires from the kitchen, replaced them with a plant. Can’t imagine going back.
That’s the point. It’s invalid swift syntax, but it takes >40 seconds to tell you that.
New Obesity Drugs Come with a Side Effect of Shaming
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> the owners suddenly went from being doctors with a side hustle to private investors.

Did the owners sell the company or get some sort of payout? I'd imagine if they were making decent money they'd have kept the business alive, right? Would you be okay sharing the name of the place?
This was really cool to see, I imagine it was a lot of hard work to develop
Losing weight is hard. Here are five things to keep in mind
Right, certainly I don't want to single C++ out for this - I mentioned it because (a) the article we're talking about is describing a mistake the author found in some C++ code, and (b) I wanted to head off the inevitable call to blame C, yes, C++ does it because C does it (and that's probably why Java and C# do it too) but that's a choice and it's a bad choice.

Implicit conversion is always a mistake. The price in terms of reduced clarity and extra mistakes is too high for the marginal convenience of less typing.

I feel the same for boolean coercion even, which I know is more controversial than some of the really stupid C promotions, I do not believe in "truthiness". There's only one false, it's the constant false, it's not 0 or "" or 0.0 or an empty array or a null pointer or a billion other things, it's just itself and nothing else.
Just the native video player, you can make it extremely large lol
> and flaming vaccine scepticism

Not exactly.

> Biden, who leads the president in national opinion polls, has questioned whether Trump is pressuring agencies like the FDA to sign off on a vaccine to boost his re-election prospects. At the same time, Biden has been careful to say he wants to see a safe vaccine as soon as possible.

> "There has to be total transparency, so scientists outside the government know what is being approved," Biden said. "I’m saying, trust the scientist."

"Trust the scientist" != "flaming vaccine skepticism"
If you can be “in a mode, but only temporarily” – like the shift key puts you in capital letter mode “only temporarily”, as opposed to how CapsLock does it “permanently” (until you press it again) – what does that prove?

AFAICS only that there is a mode.

Glue some little mechanical contraption onto the Cat's keyboard to hold down the Search key until you nudge the thingymabob again to release it, and it's just as (semi-)“permanent” as CapsLock. (AFAIK, that's exactly how CapsLock worked on mechanical typewriters.) The fact that they didn't build that into the Cat's keyboard in the first place is just an implementation detail... That seems very much like a feint to avoid admitting that there's no “quasi” about it; a mode is a mode is a mode.
I'm not deep in Swift, but this would make it seem a reimplementation of Foundation is open source: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/tree/main
what happens if the founders subsequently run the company into the ground, having personally enriched themselves off their employees work, who they then destroyed the upside for?

should the employees have a legal claim against the money that was taken in the secondary transaction?
Cheaper and faster gpt4 is enough to change the industry for the next 10 years
I know that historically, we were taught that NP-complete problems are unsolvable for interesting problem sizes, but that was already a bit of lie in when I went to university. (TSP was presented as a warning example, but even back then, very efficient approximations existed.)

These days, when you have a SAT-like problem, you're often done because you can throw a SAT solver at it, and it will give you an answer in a reasonable time. Particularly for such small problems like this one here. We routinely solve much larger and less structured SAT instances, e.g. when running package managers.
Yes. They should not have if they were to optimize taxes.
there are now systems of engagement that help author / manage salesforce

- https://www.swantide.com/

- https://www.sweep.io/

pretty cool but obviously an automation native platform would be cooler and I think Attio is the contender for this

- https://attio.com/templates

- https://attio.com/blog/introducing-attio-objects
In Japan one of my favorite cocktails to order is soju with barley tea. I forget the name but I agree, a strong flavored tea is an excellent mixer.
> "Shopping with your voice" never took off despite many attempts.

We're seeing this more and more in tech: Company comes out with a feature that few people want. It doesn't gain adoption. They make many attempts to cajole and nudge users to use the feature. Users don't use the feature. They make more buttons and flows trigger the feature. Users ignore them. They start tricking users into using the feature, with dark patterns and misleading buttons. Users deliberately learn and avoid these. Exasperated, they declare "Why, oh why, won't users just use this feature!? They're just uninformed or don't know what's good for them!"

Whatever happened to starting with what the user actually wants and then working backwards from that to the actual feature? More and more, companies are more interested in serving their own metrics than serving their users.
Haize: To rigorously test AI to preemptively discover all failure modes
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This happens semi-regularly with links posted on HN. I always read it only as US websites who don't give a crap about the only domain where the EU is leading: countless regulation.

They just don't want to bother with the PITA that the GDPR is and just give that failing continent that my EU is the middle finger.

I think it's totally justified.
FreeBSD 14.1 vs. FreeBSD 14.0 Benchmarks on AMD Ryzen Threadripper
The author mentioned zig. And zig would get this right you can just write `setThreatLevel(.midnight)`

But where zig breaks down is on any more complicated inference. It's common to end up needing code like `@as(f32, 0)` because zig just can't work it out.

In awkward cases you can have chains of several @ statements just to keep the compiler in the loop of what type to use in a statement

I like zig, but it has its own costs too
The designers of the language didn't intend for it to end up this way, it just worked out like it did. GP is pointing out that their parent assumed it was intentionally choosing pretty syntax over speed, when it was more likely for them to start with the syntax without considering speed.
Stable Diffusion 3 mangles human bodies due to nudity filters
It’s not for nothing that Europe and China have been outpacing the U.S. in terms of renewables deployment. The only country that sees military intervention as the fix is us.
> But consider something like crypto, libssl ... which is linked to almost everything, or libxz, zlib, etc.

AFAIK, the reason most Linux distributions have an allergic reaction to static linking is because of zlib. There was a vulnerability in zlib some time ago, and it required the distributions to find every single program which had its own copy of zlib (vendoring zlib used to be common back then), update these copies with the security fix (not necessarily trivial, since the vendored copy might be a customized variant of an older zlib release), and rebuild all these packages (which is a lot of "fun" when some of the packages are in a "failed to build from source" aka FTBFS state). The distributions learned their lesson back then.
Evolving Brex's Co-CEO Model
>$5M is $5M even if you have $45M

The whole concept of diminishing marginal utility is that this isn’t true. The first $5M is worth far more to a given individual than the last $5M.
> and only backpedaled afterwards

It's not clear if you're accusing the tribe or the reporter of backpedaling but neither happened. The reporter made a statement in the original article and repeated it verbatim in this article. It is closer to an opposite of backpedaling.
In what circumstances would that be a huge boon, and how much risk / uncertainty is involved?
Really low quality article.
I really like mine, but recommend the larger one - as a clock, you really need to be too close to the smaller one
Good one. I think it's generally considered a Western in a sci-fi setting. They did try to stick to self-consistent rules and a realistic "feel" with the technology, physics, special effects and so on (no sound in space, etc) which would put it on the harder side of the spectrum perhaps. But since the sci-fi elements barely interact with the story, and so there's no deeply-considered exploration of how those sci-fi elements are consequential to the story / characters / society of that world, it could also be considered soft.
Ask HN: Are Kids Getting a Phone Too Early On?
Hey everyone,

I'm writing this on behalf of my sister, who has a 4-year-old and isn't on HN. She's worried about her kid getting too much screen time too early. She’s wondering if there’s a cool, kid-friendly gadget out there that makes learning fun by turning life into a game.

Basically, she’s looking for something that makes the kid the main character in a real-life video game. This gadget would encourage the kid to explore the world and use AI to "level up" their skills based on what they learn.

For example, if the kid asks the AI about electronics, they'll level up their "engineering" skills.

Is there something like this out there? If it exists, do you think it’s good for kids? Would it actually work?

My sis says thanks in advance!
Huh, this a a solved problem. You can walk on coals because both the ashy coals and your skin are poor conductors of heat, your feet are only in contact with the coals briefly, and your blood flow carries the heat away from the contact points. The only trick is to walk gently yet quickly on them.
I'm from Europe and never think of GDPR helping anything much, just annoyance. I can understand why other countries won't bother.

What happens btw if an American company just ignores GDPR but still welcomes European visitors? Why would they care about EU law?
That can change in a day. So that’s not a thing.
I wonder how easy it is to mod the firmware.

I have my own idea for an e-ink clockface, and something like this could save me some hardware prototyping (at a steep price!) Realistically I'm probably better off repurposing a kindle.
If only Germany didn't start shutting off all of their nuclear reactors right before making this deal with the devil.

This is a self-inflicted wound and I cannot feel sorry for Germany. Their choice has been fueling the Russian war machine until recently. Fuck 'em.
The UK national election will be July 4 2024 and the French two-round snap national election will be June 30 (first round) and July 7 (run-off). And the Trump sentencing is July 11.

Expect a ton more of this garbage, some with image/meme/video/audio. At least we'll get an idea what to beware of for the upcoming US election.
They did just release DuckDB version 1.0, so it should be getting much more reliable and stable.
Kandula's laptop was seized by the police and the script used to carry out the deletions was found on it.

full disk encryption is a thing. it's amazing how people who are otherwise technically competent leave such obvious incrementing evidence on computer
Having just battled the job market, many offers for remote work take your CoL into account; they aren’t paying Seattle salaries to people who live in MN.

I went from a fully remote role to a hybrid role when I switched. I was successfully able to negotiate upwards because if they are going to require me to commute, then I will need more cash to cover that expense. It was the easiest negotiation I have ever done.

(So now I commute into a mostly empty office to join the same webexes, but if that’s how they want to spend their money, that’s their business. My workday still ends at the same time)
Almost certainly. You’ll know by November. As early as August.
A pan doesn't need to be well-seasoned prior to cooking eggs in it. People cook eggs in stainless pans, for example. Likely, that flaxseed oil flaked down the drain when you washed your pan or onto your eggs the first time you cooked with it and you've been able to give your pan proper seasoning with the fat you normally cook with over the past several years.
There's also the smaller companies that maybe can't afford to pay what a big corp can, but they can offer WFH or other schedule flexiblity to stay competitive.
Russia, hit by new US sanctions, halts dollar and euro trade on main bourse
How often does it need to be charged?

I made something like that about fifteen years ago. It displayed "A little after two", "A quarter past three", and such. It wasn't an e-ink device; the display was vacuum-fluorescent. So it needed a power cable to a wall wart. I wanted to build one that would run for a year on a battery, like an ordinary clock, but e-ink displays were too costly back then.

The idea is from an old New Yorker cartoon, where someone is looking in the window of a clock store, and sees a long, narrow clock displaying "A little after three".

Today, of course, it has to be "cloud enabled".
Indeed, modern technology surpassed some of the capabilities that telepathy in science fiction was imagined to achieve. But still something is unattainable.
The food is pretty damn good too.
Economy of Nazi Germany
2-4-6-8: The History of "Two, Four, Six, Eight, Who Do We Appreciate?" (2018)
> I mean, you're not entitled to a fun job

Who said anything about entitled? It’s about better and worse.

“We automated all the things people wished they could do if they didn’t need money—but basically none of the stuff you all actually wished we’d automate” is pretty clearly bleak as fuck.
Wasn't there this woman with purple uniform, who's mother had a crush on Piccard, who could read peoples emotions from a great distance and speak in their heads?

I don't think I liked her character or episodes built around her. But I don't really remember why.
Makes sense. We have joiners once every 6 months and we tend to work on greenfield projects, so the docs get out of date pretty quick. I could try to emphasize more to the joiners to keep them up to date; unfortunately I'm not their line manager. Thanks!
The combinatorial explosion is intractable but since it only seems to come up in really obscure corner cases, I wonder if the typical inference scenarios can be solved by having the compiler cache the AST across invocations so that inference only needs to be performed on invalidated parts of the AST as it’s being typed instead of waiting for the user to invoke the compiler.