skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully none of the "extensibility" is tied to gtk3. AIUI gimp and inkscape extensibility is what kept them using python2 for so long.
The hypothesis here is that bungee jumping -> stress -> slowed perception of time -> increased ocular frame rate -> increased ability to perceive short frames. It's either difficult or impossible to properly test for stress, perception, and ocular frame rate (whatever that's called), so you use the ends of the chain.

If you get a positive result with your wacky experiment, then you go back and control for confounding variables. If you get a negative result, you can't really conclude anything other than you need more grant money to do some other click bait.

This is just how the business of science works. It's sort of like the economy. You try a bunch of random things as quickly as possible and follow up on what looks promising. Or, like in this case, you just try to do click bait and you skip even really bothering with delivering value at all. It's stupid and I don't like it either.
Just a quick clarification: while Brendan was certainly an active DTrace user and evangelist, he wasn't involved in the development of DTrace itself -- or its rollout. (Brendan came to Sun in 2006; DTrace was released in 2003.) As for eBPF with respect to DTrace, I would say that they are different systems with different goals and approaches rather than one eclipsing the other. (There are certainly many things that DTrace can do that eBPF/BCC cannot, some of the details of which we elaborated on in our 20th anniversary of DTrace's initial integration.[0])

Edit: We actually went into much more specific detail on eBPF/BCC in contrast to DTrace a few weeks after the 20th anniversary podcast.[1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeUFzBBRilM

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqvVmYhclAg#t=12m7s
> I put this as equivalent to investing in Sun Microsystems and Netscape in the late 90s.

Cisco too.
I was working on an x86 clone back in the 90s (sadly never saw the light of day), one of the things I did early on was to write code to emulate various potential microarchitectural designs by capturing long streams of real world instructions - our real bugbear was one of the C++ compilers (used to compile a popular web browser from memory) that did virtual method dispatch by pushing an address onto the stack and returning to it - broke return predictors every time
No we're not. What's happening is, Labour(left wing) has invested a chunk of change in renewables, and the Liberals(right wing)(Owned by mining & gas & fossil fuel companies) wants to keep their owners fossil fuel gravy train rolling.

So the liberals have proposed "nuclear" as "renewable" while trash-talking solar & wind, then provided a very poorly thought out plan for how to get to nuclear.(I'm not joking, for example, their plan for a power plant in Adelaide is to put it where an old coal power plant was. However, it's been shut down, decommissioned, and the land re-zoned. Also, Adelaide meets about 100% of their energy use with cheaper renewables already and is too far from anywhere else to sell the surplus. Also South Australia has said they don't want any nuclear plants.)

The purpose of the nuclear plan is the small print "We'll defund solar & wind as nuclear is our preferred renewable energy, and then we'll invest 'tens of billions of dollars' into oil and gas and coal until nuclear is ready." It'll never be ready. They'll let every interest group & nimby have their say, and just keep funneling money to oil & gas & coal all the while.
> it's not like rocket ships actually reach the escape velocity of Earth

Not sure what definition you’re using for ‘rocket ships’ - but obviously rockets that operate in earth and cislunar orbits don’t need to reach earth escape velocity. But interplanetary probes surely have to exceed the escape velocity, right?

Edit: ohhhh I think I see what you mean: you don’t have exceed escape velocity at earth’s surface. Sure. You can go to a higher altitude where escape velocity is lower and just exceed that.
Nice work! An enjoyable read. Edit: And the newer post!

I do love Trackmania. I'd like to play 2020 but alas I do not have a compatible computer. I mostly play the Wii version.
Good point. There’s no sign at all in our culture of a complete breakdown of the concept of “experts” whereby everyone with a claim of academic or positional authority uses it in service of partisan wars.

Imagine how disillusioned the general public would be if something like that were to happen.
Fascism is like a hot stove. People touched it, then there was a very visceral "nobody is doing that again!" reaction. The fascist states flamed out - often violently - and were absorbed into more successful ideologies. Ironically the outcomes have been, relatively speaking, pretty reasonable for the descendants of the fascists.

Whereas communism was just a big, ongoing failure. Countless deaths, brutal atrocities things like the Holodomor or the Chinese landlord butcherings. Nations plunged into poverty for generations. Instability and eventual collapse in the case of the USSR leading to a brutal decade and eventual quasi-dictatorship in Russia.

The priority, by far, is to suppress the communists. If communism takes hold a nation is doomed. Unwinding a communist takeover proved much more challenging than rooting out a Nazi infestation. In hindsight the Germans ended up with better outcomes. It is easy to imagine an impoverished communist Germany today because the communists ended up with half of the country after the war and we saw what happened.

> Please go visit Auschwitz, visit Buchenwald and tell me again how fascism was the better alternative

Those camps killed a few million people. While that is terrible; if that was all the Nazis did, they wouldn't be an especially memorable reigime - it is small biscuits to Mao or Stalin. The Holodomor doesn't get special mention like the Holocaust does, it is just another footnote to the long list of people that the communists starved to death.

> Political repression in the Soviet Union was horrible but even the most intense years do not come close to the industrial scale murder the Nazis did.

I dunno; I suspect that the communist famines came in waves of high- and low- intensity. It wouldn't have been annual famines, it would have been bursts of millions of people dying.

Picking on the Holodomor again because I have the wiki page open, that was ~4 million people in one year. That must be pretty close to the intensity of the Nazi's internal killing machine.
It may be different for Intel, but at least this AMD CPU (actually an APU) is pretty much identical to the equivalent laptop chip, when you restrict power to it (which can be done in UEFI on my older deskmini). And again I'll point out the improved thermals of asrock's deskmini case vs a typical laptop, and now that I have the chance the lower cost!
My method was “look at your fingers”. It’s easy, cause they are familiar and often in sight by default. I remember first time raising my hands and seeing that.
What, in your mind, is the right answer to that question?
> I'm definitely feeling it. Between Jan 31 and today I've had several companies just stop paying. They can't. Lines of credit have been either cut, or reissued at onworkable rates, or both.

If you don't mind, can you give concrete examples for the education of worker bees like me?
From TFA:

In its complaint, Ryan LLC accused the FTC of overstepping its statutory authority in declaring all noncompetes unfair and anticompetitive.

Judge Brown agreed, writing, "The FTC lacks substantive rulemaking authority with respect to unfair methods of competition."

They're certainly not wasting any time; the bloody corpse of The Chevron Doctrine is still warm.

This is the new reality. Every single decision, rule, finding, regulation, fee / fine, and press release will now be litigated by the courts.

The Roberts Court's campaign for judicial primacy has usurped all the power of the (executive branch's) administrative state.

Because of course federal policy is best determined by life time appointees (beholden to their plantation class patrons) and not the anti-corporate democracy loving common citizenry.

Prove me wrong.
It really depends on your expectation of the Product Hunt launch.

If your aim is to secure the #1 rank and attract thousands of users to discover your product-market fit, Product Hunt might not be the best platform for you.

However, if you're looking to find beta users for your MVP, Product Hunt can still be effective, but don't rely on it exclusively—use it as one of several channels.

As a daily active user on Product Hunt, I have seen some products rapidly gaining traction by ranking high, but not all top-ranked products will survive or succeed.

In a word, don't overestimate or underestimate it.
Could you kindly give some resources to read more about this area? Sounds fascinating
> making the actual profit margins from AI-centric companies close to 0

The same thinking stopped many legacy tech companies from becoming a “cloud” company ~20 years ago.

Fast forward to today and the margin for cloud compute is still obscene. And they all wish in hindsight they got into the cloud business way sooner than they ultimately did.
I think that comes down to the kind of people you hang out with.

While I use AI quite often, none of my friends or family does. A few of them will use an image gen once or twice a year. And at work, only a few of my colleagues use AI.

So my impression is that current gen AI is too hard to use correctly, has too many rough edges and is not useful enough for most people.

Progress also seems to have stalled around the GPT-4 quality. Everything after GPT-4 (GPT-4 Turbo, GPT-4o, Claude 3 Opus, Claude 3.5 Sonnet) seems to be pretty much producing the same quality output, I have been using Open WebUI to bounce around between the different models and I can't really tell a difference in the quality of them, they are all roughly the same for my use case (programming/sysadmin stuff).

So the question of if a plateau has been hit or if scale can still improve quality is real to me.
I'd say that the overall demand is too low. Plus, aside from self published books, I'm not sure how many publishing houses (of any size) use/support Markdown as a format for their authors.
IMHO we already have good evidence about the harm to corporations we can expect to see by banning non-competes. California banned them in 1941 and everybody can see how no big business, especially tech businesses, want to be in California.
It's a nice idea. I've had to manually transcribe error messages many times. Also if I never see a screenshot of a console again it will be too soon.
I have my Dad's history as well as mine, and a mapping app into which I can load both. Where the the two tracks coincide, I'm prompted to remember the occasion.
I am very pleased to live in a time when a post about sci-fi starship dimensions annoys me because I was expecting dimension of the real starships that are coming off the assembly line in South Texas.
I don’t like noncompetes but I don’t like unelected officials making economy-wide decisions even more.

Congress can do their job and pass laws. I’m tired of law making delegated to faceless bureaucrats.
Antenna design is wildly complicated, but once you start coiling you get more problems as it becomes more inductive and you get weird phasing. I think the short answer is no, but this is out of my element (unintentional antenna pun)
In my experience the worst are the recurring call-outs which could have been easily solved had the management been willing to invest in whatever is necessary to fix the root-cause.

The second worst experience is management breathing down your neck, demanding status updates every 5 minutes when the fix takes hours and with their interruptions even longer.

My preference would be to replace 90% of management with AI that we program to meet our expectations.
I expected this to be boring but I almost choked on my coffee here

> ....enabling its competitors to poach valuable employees, whose knowledge and training would go out the door.

Thats the funniest thing I read all week.
Yeah, I already see limitations, the last one was yesterday when I installed earlier Ubuntu versions to see how far back this can go - and even Ubuntu 22.04 didn't work out of the box, ended up with some BCC/kernel header mismatch issue [1] although the kernel itself supported it. A workaround was to download & compile the latest BCC yourself, but I don't want to go there as the customers/systems I work on wouldn't go there anyway.

But libbpf with CO-RE will solve these issues as I understand, so as long as the kernel supports what you need, the CO-RE binary will work.

This raises another issue for me though, it's not easy, but easier, for enterprises to download and run a single python + single C source file (with <500 code lines to review) than a compiled CO-RE binary, but my long term plan/hope is that I (we) get the RedHats and AWSes of this world to just provide the eventual mature release as a standard package.

[1] https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/issues/3993
An engineer accepts the given conditions and finds a way to work within those boundaries. They don’t pine over things outside their control.
I was served an Ad that featured an AI Photo of myself on Snapchat
Naval boats cost a fortune. The telemetry from the onboard engines/machines/computers needs to be in sync, and they don't always have compatible timekeeping systems, so sometimes it needs to be translated into a common format and recorded in our db's.

If something goes wrong, a lot of parties both internal and external are interested in reviewing the (extremely detailed) logs for the purposes of insurance, or court-martial, or whatever.
That's what I was thinking, math has 0 atoms, physics works with ones of atoms, chemistry tens, polymer physics, tens of thousands, biology trillions, psychology 10^25, etc. :)
I'm running Sonoma on mine with OpenCore Legacy Patcher.

https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/

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Anything that hits the discrete nVidia GPU causes it to instantly pop up to 95 degrees C and the fans sound like a hair dryer. It's probably cooked the thermal interface compound on the GPU; I should just fix that but haven't bothered yet.

Heavy, doesn't hold much of a charge, but still an Apple calibrated Retina display make for a nice couch computer.
California’s legislature declared that they were contrary to public policy. It wasn’t an executive or judicial decision nor should it be. In the American system the legislature is the policy making body as well it should be on account of being the most democratic.
> activityType": "WALKING",
> "probability": 97.82699942588806

Hundreds of thousands of these per person, stored forever in a data centre somewhere.

Imagine how much carbon could have been saved by just fixing this to 1-2 decimal places.
Thanks for explaining this, it truly is fascinating.

This appears to be an argument that almost every axiomatic theory isn't Σ₁-sound. So I can only ask a few things:

1. How do I even learn about Σ₁-soundness? I've tried for 30 minutes now to search for it.

2. Is my impression correct? Does this argument show that for ex ZFC is not Σ₁-sound? If not, which axiomatic theories exactly fall into this trap?
My experience is that people attack experts incessantly when it conflicts with their politics. (Think: Anti-vaxxers attacking the medical system). In my experience they may raise good points, but those are usually tangential to the matter at hand.

WRT this specific expert group, is there something wrong with them? I haven't heard such but am willing to be educated.

Disillusionment is easy when one accepts sweeping generalities, but much harder when dealing with specifics. Again, only my experience, but "They are all (something)" only lasts until you take a closer look.
Nothing will put lawyers or doctors out of work. They are powerful cartels that can easily protect themselves. Realtors are already irrelevant technologically but they have a huge entrenched social and legal system to make it impractical to compete.
> Can it give effective advice on management?

My friends at McKinsey say that while it can’t fine-tune reports and presentations with quite enough nuance, it does a good job sifting through lots of shit to pick out important parts they should pay more attention to, highlighting data/talking points that contradict a working hypothesis, assisting in writing emails, and other time-consuming or very nit-picky tasks.

That said, no one I know has fed it real customer data, that would be a career-ending event. But self-hosted models like Gemma2 open up the possibility for using LLMs against real customer info.
> Congress can do their job and pass laws.

They did. They wrote a law that established the FTC and tasked it with regulating these things.

> I’m tired of law making delegated to faceless bureaucrats.

They're not faceless, but a group of nine (well, six) unelected bureaucrats are currently making a whole bunch of law.
The Steyn Paradox asks "What is the Question?"

My name is Mark Steyn, and that is the Steyn Paradox.
Software engineers are shockingly dumb when it comes to infra costs and will quickly push the technology arm of a company to jam everything in the cloud because it’s more convenient for them.

It’s not shocking at all that margins are that high when a team pushes to pay AWS $40k a month for a static workload that could run on two racks of servers.
I have no research to back this up, but I think the need to understand everything may result from low self-esteem. Specifically, when not knowing something, people with low self-esteem may feel stupid. To eliminate this feeling, they† focus on learning. It is a good adaptive mechanism, especially compared to maladaptive ones like avoidance behaviors. A potentially better one is learning not to derive self-worth from how much we know or how others perceive us.

† Some of them, not everyone, on average, etc. Also, different people have different motivations. Not everyone who has a curious mind has low self-esteem. People are complex.
Siri and Alexa are good examples - they turned out to be incredibly expensive to develop and had extremely limited productivity benefits for users, while being almost impossible to monetize.
AI Ghostwriting: The Next Step in Content Creation?
Also, let’s be honest, as trust in Google evaporated, the idea of you having all that data on our every move just became kinda creepy.
"Dense" cities are necessary for achieving the efficiencies of density, but "hyperdense" cities are not. You can have a city where all residential buildings are five- to six-stories, with ample green spaces and every street lined with trees; that would be a dense city, despite being less dense than Manhattan.

I don't foresee a future where any city feels the desire to model itself after the Kowloon Walled City in terms of density, because in order for that to happen it would have to imply that physical space itself is the bottleneck for the population, rather than things like the availability of energy/food/water (which was true for the KWC for historical/political reasons).
I've just asked the most important question that has been asked. Obviously.
Who said gpt2 was agi?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36378689 might be useful
I mean, the choice would be nice. Allow people to turn on online sync, keep the data offline, or disable the location recording altogether.
https://archive.is/JdvpR
I recall seeing CD-ROMs that had both Mac and Windows software on it, and depending on which OS it was mounted on, it would show the Windows EXE or the Mac app... I wonder how that's done. I'm guessing there was a clever trick so files on both filesystems share the same data (e.g. if the program/game had a movie, it would only store the bytes of the movie once but its addressable as a file on each filesystem), but that sounds like a nightmare.

I can probably look it up and figure it out myself, ah, the joys of learning about obsolete tech!
The question before the Court in this case was whether the FTC has the power to issue substantive rules related to unfair methods of competition. The Court concludes[0] that the FTC does not have that power, and that Section 6(g) of the FTC Act permits the FTC only to issue "housekeeping" rules related to agency organization, procedure, or practice.

That follows from three main statutory and historical clues:

1) Section 6(g) contains no penalty provision—which indicates a lack of substantive force. Other grants of substantive rulemaking specify what happens if regulated entities don't follow the rule.

2) The location of Section 6(g) is suspect. It's the seventh in a list of twelve almost entirely investigative powers, and starts with a grant of organizational power to "from time to time classify corporations". This is hardly where you would expect to find sweeping substantive rulemaking power if Congress had in fact chosen to grant it.

3) The FTC has not historically seen itself as possessing the power to issue substantive rules on unfair methods of competition. Courts are skeptical of agencies discovering latent powers decades later.

Overall, this is exactly what commentators expected to happen. Banning noncompetes may well be good policy, but it's up to the legislature (whether Congress or in individual states) to enact that policy. In addition, nothing in this decision prevents the FTC from using its adjudicatory powers to go after individual examples of noncompetes which it believes are unfair methods of competition.

[0] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.38...
I think you’re missing that “every” K-12 student is using ChatGPT for all their work right now. Yes, the state of education is in peril (with ChatGPT actually being pretty far down the pareto chart), but the generation coming up after us is absolutely growing up using LLMs the way we used calculators, and using it for everything.

We may not see universal adoption in people who are currently >30 but I think we will in the generations that are <25 now.
If your company grows to 700 million monthly active users, then most probably you can make your own AI department and train your own models. I guess people's aspirations are very high in this space, but let's be realistic.
Backing up secret keys (and getting them back)
I've been slowly working my way through this book for the past couple months. It's been amazingly helpful in learning all of the deep learning terminology, and giving a good overview of the technology.

I was doing all of the examples and exercises for a while, but gave up on that at some point. My main goal, after all, was to learn about how the technology works in order to separate the wheat from the chaff, not become an AI researcher.
Thanks, yes I was more or less aware of that (I'd been using DTrace since Solaris 10 beta in 2004 or 2003?)... By rollout I really meant "getting the word out there"... that's half the battle in my experience (that's why this post here! :-)

What I loved about DTrace was that once it was out, even in beta, it was pretty complete and worked - all the DTrace ports that I've tried, including on Windows (!) a few years ago were very limited or had some showstopper issues. I guess eBPF was like that too some years ago, but by now it's pretty sweet even for more regular consumer who don't keep track of its development.

Edit: Oh, wasn't aware of the timeline, I may have some dates (years) wrong in my memory
> federal policy is best determined by life time appointees

Prove you wrong? For sure. It's best determined by elected officials. Second best is judges. In last place we have bureaucrats never elected by anyone nor even appointed by someone who was.
Shoutout to Arya who imo has written some of the most interesting articles on Hackaday.
Was really interesting to read through!
Live demo of Moshi, audio-to-audio LLM with 160 ms latency