skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use an AI noise canceling/transcription service to help with my extensive meeting agenda.

I've lived in the US nearly 20 years, coming from Australia. Whether it's my accent or something else, most transcripts for me need probably in the order of 20% meeting duration for me to tidy and edit to be free of, in some cases, quite asinine, transcription errors.

Unless your customers are doing that, I have a hard time, using the principle of garbage in garbage out, of believing "zero hallucinations" (and even then), but even then, the prompts would be something along the lines of "transcribe this, but just ... do better".
Sorry, but neovim or doom Emacs or any other nerd editor configuration that doesn't have table stakes features out of the box is a complete non starter.

As far as I'm concerned, running 100,000 lines of Lua or elisp written by literallywho is no better than downloading random vscode extensions.
I wonder if the author was thinking of 1899 as "the end of the last century." It can happen to people who lived much of their lives in the 20th century.
That is the modern (well, DnD 3E and later, so this century?) style of RPG campaign, with pre-packaged bundles of adventures to play in series, designed to last some specific time and then it ends. The traditional oldschool form of RPG campaign, still the way many groups play, and definitely the most common form last century (even if there were a few pre-packaged campaign modules for AD&D as well) is to create a group of characters and just keep playing adventure after adventure, more or less connected, replacing characters as they died off or players got bored with their current characters, but not really having a well-defined end, probably just fizzling out in the end as players drop off or the group decide to start a new campaign.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/20/us/dungeons-and-dragons-l...

(A bit extreme maybe, but I heard of shorter campaigns, but still lasting for at least a decade of regular play.)

And I think you underestimate how dedicated some people can be to playing games like CNA. It is a big game, but it is not absurdly long compared to other big board wargames.

Here is a BGG thread from 2010 (well before CNA became a mainstream meme?):
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/580214/

Note how the thread starts out "25 years after playing my last game of CNA".

So called "monster wargames" was a trend around 1980, toward the sudden end of the era of board wargames being almost-mainstream. I do not know if CNA was the biggest of all, but I think not. It was part of starting the trend, but later games were probably bigger and longer.

https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/42904/the-biggest-of-the-...
Quantum Beam Science Research (2014) [pdf]
> Planning and reasoning are the two greatest areas of research in AI right now

Yes, but it's not something LLMs do. At all.

Each day I get more certain that AGI will surprise everybody and come from a nearly moneyless garage. And it will break every AI strategy people make.

> I can get a summarization of a several-hour-long-call with better recall than I could have had myself

The problem is, it works most of the time, when it doesn't it's dangerous. That "most of the time" part isn't large enough for people to ignore the failures.

But this is one of the things where LLMs can shine. Your example looks more like it's solving a really bad problem that shouldn't exist, but it's possible that this adds lots of value somewhere.
The truth is, too many managers have never read the ISO document, and follow the CYA methodology, and ask for everything to be certified. The ISO just says (bare with me with this stupid simplification) “do whatever you want, but make sure p(disaster)<1e-20.
You have to be able to justify decisions, but will not helt having certified frameworks, os, and tools, if you did a bad FMEDA
Thanks, looks good. Only Chrome?
If the complexity of an algorithm is 3↑↑64*n^0.999, the algorithm is o(n) but can safely be said to be galactic.

* Ps, if memory serves me correct, 3↑↑64 is Graham's number.
OK, but they wrote "At the end of the last century", which implies towards 2000 not 1900.
Is easy to identify them as that, but Arachnids and antennas are incompatible and Chelicerata (like horseshoe crabs) is the only group bearing chelicera. Crustaceans have two pairs of antennas and different shaped legs. Insects are (almost) non marine (a few notorious exceptions). Millipedes were never found on the sea and the head appendix were placed in different segments.

But the new info about the mouth parts is extraordinary and could still lead to big discoveries and earthquakes in taxonomy. The problem with this animals is that all the mouth pieces that fossilized were from different types or in different positions compared with all arthropods alive or extinct that were not trilobites.
"Coal remains the cheapest energy source in the north."

You're about ten years behind on that claim.

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

Note the charts showing solar and on-land wind dropped past coal ten years ago and kept dropping while coal has flatlined.

Also note that nuclear is getting to be four times the cost of solar. And solar is still dropping.

And before you screech about "wHaT aBOut WHen tHe SUn gOES dOWn!1!", google "cost of battery storage trends"

Hint: it's dropped to one fifth the cost it was ten years ago. It dropped 15% this year, and that's with an increase in demand of 50%. Economies of scale and competitive pressures are causing battery prices to fall like a rock.

Think about that for a second: when Tesla Powerwall was introduced (2015) the batteries in them cost 5x what they do today.
Also FrontPage Express, which was basically a UI for MSIE's built-in HTML editor.
There is a crucial difference. With macOS, if Apple does some change to it, you just… live with it. If you’re not comfortable with the direction the author is taking macOS, you probably are not trusting that author in general, and hence probably should abstain from using it. With Linux, it is created by a myriad of creators, and you can freely mix and match. Don’t like what Ubuntu is changing? Use Debian! Don’t like what Gnome is doing? Use KDE! You can completely avoid whatever entity is doing what you consider questionable things, if you so choose. But with macOS, you have macOS from Apple, period. You can’t differentiate between departments or individual authors within Apple; it’s all a monolithic entity. Therefore, if you disagree with a single bit of macOS, like SIP, you can’t remove SIP (and its authors) from your macOS. It’s all macOS from Apple, and you can’t portion out and choose your trust.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Brigade You know, the ones with the funny tattoos. I’m sure your ancestors would have recognized those.

>Soviet

Equating modern Russia and the SU is a widely deployed sleight of hand at the moment. Same with pre-Soviet Russia. No matter how little sense it actually makes. “Show me on this map where the Tsar/Stalin hurt you.”

But there is a common thread: Russia was, is, and will remain for a long while the predominant regional power. Pays to have a friendly relationship with them. Ami will go home. Sooner or later.
> For the record: Ukraine has no defense agreement with any of these western nations that are currently supporting them (...)

Why do you feel this is relevant?

> (...) and there is 0 chance that - if roles were reversed and another European nation had been attacked - that they'd have supported this theoretical victim.

I'm also not sure what leads you to believe this is relevant at all.

Ukraine is surrounded by NATO members. If NATO is not enough to counter a threat, things would be far bleaker for Ukraine as well.

What point do you think you're making?
Have you ever tried to daily drive them? They're simply not polished enough for serious work.

Text editors seem to fall into this open source software trap where everyone has to have a pet project so you end up with 700 different text editors that are all like 70-80% done in terms of features.
To preempt the complaints about this being a 100MB+ Electron app, AVIDemux is a native app which does much the same thing if that works better for you.
Sure, but if you are using the library is there is no way to disclose vulnerabilities within libraries you have no idea if you need to implement mitigations or not.

There is no good solution here but not allowing CVEs to be assigned to libraries is by far the worst one.
> Coffee fixes all of those.

The thing is, it only does for a few days. At least for me. Then the coffee isn't helping at all -- it's just keeping you at the same baseline you previously were at with coffee.

I used to drink coffee all the time at just a constant level. Then I just got tired of feeling "dependent" on something and weaned off over a couple of weeks. Which was fine when you don't do it cold turkey -- just a little less energy each day but easily manageable.

Now I still drink coffee sometimes but I use it as a temporary performance tool. I'll "start up again" on any particular day where I have a ton of meetings, where I didn't get enough sleep, where I have to do a lot of physical stuff, etc. Often this might be several days in a row, where I increase my coffee each day a little more relative to the previous day for the same effect.

But then as soon as the demands stop, I immediately taper off to zero again, usually taking 2-5 days to do so. Not really because I "don't want to be dependent", but because I want to make sure I can get the full effect of coffee again the next time I need it, whether that's in a week or a month or three months.

It's kind of weird that I'm always fully aware of exactly how much I'm "dosing" myself with coffee. I'm almost always either "tapering up", "tapering down", or just off of it completely.

But it's very effective as a tool that way. Way more effective than when I just drank the same amount every day, which I discovered was no different from not drinking any at all (after tapering off).
No. Lithuania. Here drinking culture reached bottom of the barrel during Soviet era. It’s getting somewhat better as the old generation heads for greener pastures. But it’s still pretty bad with full-on alcoholism being tolerated.

I envy some parts of German drinking culture. E.g. seemingly preferring light beer over heavy drinks. But having visited many music festivals in Germany… You guys got some issues too :D
Yes, and later on when the EPA made CO2 a pollutant (WEST VIRGINIA v the EPA) the supreme court ruled "Actuaally... JK, ignore that last ruling because you can't do this". [1]

As in, they literally ignored their ruling made just a few years prior because when the EPA called their bluff it would result in an outcome they didn't like.

Heads you lose, tails we win.

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-1530_n758.pdf
Cowardly?

Maybe my english was bad.

To be clear:

I want burning coal gone as soon as possible.

Betting that it isn't going away would give me incentive to activly work against the banning of coal. Why should I do that?

edit: but reading more carefully, yeah, that is what you mean. "Winning some money took off all the sting"
Well, that is cowardly I think. Betting on both outcomes. I rather invest what I have in the desired outcome, where my consciousness is. Otherwise my motivation would be less. Because I personally would win this way, my reptilian brain likes immediate payout.
My home town has a pedibus, which is the same concept but you walk the kids to school, picking them up at various "stops".
It's pretty neat, IMHO.
I would like to be able to use commodity hosted compute and storage and then build all the fancy stuff on top using open-source components. The generic providers like Linode are commodity at this point so this seems like the best of both worlds.

I have no confidence in my ability to configure Postgres on K8s with backups, however.
Instead of writing out frames at a fixed FPS (ie, 60 fps), the driver would send out updates to individual pixels at precise moments in time, and the unaddressed pixels would remain unchanged. I'm not sure whether or where this kind of technology is used in practice.
All content is not suitable for all people of all ages, especially kids.
Please make your substantive points thoughtfully and without personal attacks. "The fuck you are talking about" is much too aggressive for this site, as you'll see if you'll review the guidelines.

Even "I'm sorry but" is the sort of flamebait we're trying to avoid here.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Edit: you've unfortunately been doing this a lot lately:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40819104

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40818298

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40817238

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40810372

We have to ban accounts that post like that, so if you'd please fix this, that would be good.
Travelling with the Ancients by Dr. Shailendra Bhandare : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grtom6O4jv8
just curious, what is the use case for this ?
Linux was a corporate-level operating system as far back as the mid-90s. It was the late 90s when it started getting enterprise software for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Database released Oracle 8 was released for Linux in 1997.
E.g. this godbolt: https://godbolt.org/z/eMYWzv8P8

There is unconditional use of a pointer b, which is UB if b is null. However, there is an earlier branch that checks if b is null. If we expected the UB to "backpropagate", the compiler would eliminate that branch, but both gcc and clang at O3 keep the branch.

However, both gcc and clang have rearranged the side effects of that branch to become visible at the end of the function. I.e. if b is null, it's as if that initial branch never ran. You could observe the difference if you trapped SIGSEGV. So even though the compiler didn't attempt to "time-travel" the UB, in combination with other allowed optimizations (reordering memory accesses), it ended up with the same effect.
10 minutes of rowing is an excellent replacement for coffee for me, having quit coffee due to hypertension.
Ed(1) Semantics
This missed off "Failure to meet ..." which kind of flips the meaning of the headline.
Having your name on a severe CVE is the new having your name on a patent.
The incentives are set up not to improve security, but to generate reports.
Companies will pay bounties to their employees for finding CVEs, even if they aren't the owners of the code.
Result: thousands of meaningless CVEs that drown out real security issue in the noise.
While it has lot of functionality you could use to write articles and stuff, it seems more similar to Markdown than Latex/Typst due to any functionality having to be hardcoded in the compiler.
I'm curious - you believe wood fireplace use is an acceptable risk?

> (also please be consciousness about where you smoke, other people might not share your enjoyment)

Totally understood. I don't smoke much (less than once a week)... but when I do, it's almost always at home.
Heresy!

Kind of a little surprised that they’re coming right out and saying it at this point; I didn’t think we were at that point in the hype cycle just yet.
Stable Diffusion with a suitably trained LoRA? The trick is in finding a tech which gives rapis LoRA fine tuning. I'm sure they exist, but I can't come up with one right now.

Once you get that post right, using something like Krita with AI Diffusion should give you a nice fast process flow.
Lispy
https://www.qnx.com/developers/articles/rel_7063_0.html#what...
> they all do it

Not really. See the chart at https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/06/supreme-court-justices-milli... - Thomas gets more than the rest combined. The other standouts are Scalia and Alito - Thomas's closest ideological allies.

> if the DOJ thought it was an actual crime

It would be, at the very least, a major ethics violation for any non-SCOTUS judge. It probably should be a crime.
Those aren't "difficult to replace" at all.

Instead replacing the systems in dozens or hundreds of homes, you're replacing just a few. And because those plants usually use multiple boilers for redundancy and load scaling, you can replace them without interrupting service. Also, banks understand and finance that sort of stuff more easily than they will Joe Homeowner.

The Coefficient of Performance for a fossil-fuel heating plant is about .8. The COP for a large building / campus sized heat pump is nearly ten times that.

They're well understood, too, as millions of office and apartment buildings and campuses use them. All that it takes to turn a cooling system into a heating system is switching where water is routed...
It doesn't even have to be a researcher running some tools, it might just be the CNA itself assigning bullshit CVEs.

In the end it's quite clear that more verification and a trusted mediator is needed in this system.
Decaffeinated coffee’s main problem isn’t that it tastes bad, it’s that it goes stale incredibly quickly.

You’ll have to consume a steady amount of coffee each day if you want to finish your supply on time. Or purchase only small amounts.
Asymptotic speedup and data structure interpolation
I love that we're seeing a lot of projects apply the KISS principal and leverage (or take inspiration) from SQLite, like this, PocketBase and even DuckDB. An entire generation of developers (including myself) were tricked into thinking you had to build for scale from day one, or worse, took the path of least resistance right to the most expensive place for cloud services: the middle. I'm hopeful the next generation will have their introduction to building apps with simple, easy to manage & deploy stacks. The more I learn about SQLite, the more I love it.
this is so bizarre? I use GraphQL with Remix in my loader. It's a great combination. 7ms response from SQL. I can't understand the article. Sorry this person doesn't understand GraphQL nor Remix. might be AI generated
> There will never be, and can never be, "artificial intelligence".

And machines can't learn.
Oh Canada!

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Canadian_province_and_ter...
Only in that the growth of cloud migrations might slow. The cloud is a great option for a lot of workloads and companies. Cloud native applications and services can be cost effective. Lift and shift is the most expensive way to go and can end up costing more than on-premise.
It's worth remembering Putin's been quite happy to conduct this war through 'meat assaults', frittering away the lives of hundreds of thousands of his citizens, though Russia already faced a serious demographic crisis. It seems unlikely he'd place the same value on human life as a decent person like you.
I’ll… well, I’ll believe the magic robots replacing security people when I see it. That seems a _particularly_ implausible one, really.

As you imply yourself, robotaxis did not deliver on the grandiose promises of a decade ago. What makes you so sure that the generative stuff will be any different?
The whole idea here is superlative.

+1 for k8s, kubernetes, cloud native, self-hosted, edge-enabled at low cost, no cost.

I ran rq and minio for years on k8s, but been watching sqlite as a drop-in-replacement since most of my work has been early stage at or near the edge.

Private cloud matters. This is an enabler. We've done too much already in public cloud where many things don't belong.

BTLE sensors are perfectly happy talking to my Apple Watch directly with enough debugging.

I'd argue the trip through cloud was not a win and should be corrected in the next generation of tools like this, where mobile is already well-primed for SQLite.
> and to get back good debug info because I needed to move data from VRAM to normal RAM. I was trying to learn at the time so efficiency wasn't really a factor

I mean you're literally using the calvinball programming language - it's just a metafunctor in the language of macros, what's the big deal?

literally my (sanitized) code from 10 years ago

```cuda

__global__ void kernel_myKernel(int num_items, myTask_t * task_item,

#if VALIDATION == 1

myDebug1_t * output_debug1_arr, myDebug2_t * output_debug2_arr,

#endif

myOutput_t * output_arr, int current_iteration)

```

those myDebug_t pointers are pointers to host memory, so transferring the data back to host memory is transparently managed by CUDA or Thrust, and you just have an #IF or #IFDEF block in the code that dumps intermediate state to the pointer if validation is enabled in the build. And then you can run whatever test suite, on the actual intermediate data that's happening inside your kernel, so you can test your invariants/assertions. Test-suite lite edition/just the part you need - but you're testing actual kernel invocations, not just theoretical. And you can go to the level of dumping intermediate state of prefix_sums/reductions (or generalized "intermediate work items") every warp/grid iteration if you want - it's debug mode.

but granted this relies on the ability to have data dynamically piped between device and host memory spaces... which was a novel bit of syntactic sugar they added to the CUDA toolkit back in like 2012 (it was big around the Kepler era and it was a big feature on the Jetson TK1 too) so AMD might well have not had it. Or they might have said they had it but it just broke horribly if you used it.

but this is literally like three lines of code, if you had just used NVIDIA instead of AMD, because the feature was there when you needed it. Technically can be accomplished by just allocating extra VRAM for the buffer and copying it back afterwards, but granted, more work there.

What's the price of getting your work done? What's your time worth? That's always been the only moat of relevance that CUDA has had... and it's always been worth the expense.
You seem to think I want to gallop around with you. I'm not accountable to you. I love to derail spammy garbage though.
It's not the GUI per se that people want, but it's the useful default configuration.

If I'm working on a project I want to see the file tree, I want multiple editor tabs for different files, I want to be able to full text search the project I have open, I want a terminal window to execute commands on, and most importantly I want to be able to switch between these elements without needing to learn a new set of opaque keyboard commands.

VSCode/Codium gives you this out of the box with zero friction so it's no wonder that it's consuming market share like nobody's business.

I wish it wasn't electron and I wish it wasn't Microsoft, but until there's a better alternative that's what I'm using most of the time.
Oh yeah, the with statement was the ugliest part of elixir and also required unfortunately
And creates regulatory capture for the rest, e.g. healthcare and big pharma ($4T a year), both of which too charge nontrivial multiples of what the rest of the world pays.
A 'Ulysses' That Squeezes Bloomsday into 2 Hours, 40 Minutes
Magnitsky case: How Switzerland failed to investigate Russian millions
3,400 years later, will it become a sandworm?
That sounds plausible. I've sent them a mail.
"Medically safe" and "acceptable risk" are very different terms with different meanings.

The medical establishment also says there's no safe amount of alcohol use, but that doesn't stop people from (rightly, I believe) enjoying a beer or glass of wine every now and then.

The medical establishment's obsession with harm/risk reduction to the extreme is hazardous to human flourishing, in my opinion. We all have to come to terms with our eventual death to make the most of the life we have. I think the medical establishment is more motivated by insurance policy profits than by a desire to promote human flourishing.

Joy and friendship and enjoyment and gratitude (etc.) are far better for our well-being than minimization of harm.
The bulk has gone to Bill Gates charity for better or worse.
Archived version:

https://archive.is/20240625193257/https://www.nytimes.com/20...
And Elixir LiveView is better than Remix as you don’t have a client at all…
Photo editors get lazy in the heat