skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This only looks at wages, not total compensation. Benefits increases have made up much of the difference.

When you look at productivity vs total compensation, there may have been a small decoupling but its far less.
Drone-Assisted Road Gaussian Splatting with Cross-View Uncertainty
Having worked with clients who apparently have little clue about technical details of what’s supposed to be their core tech, I’ll attribute to laziness or stupidity unless there’s ample evidence suggesting otherwise.
For PC displays on geizhals.eu, out of 3327 products:

157 (4.7%) have 2 DP inputs
2446 (74%) have 1 DP input
724 (22%) have no DP input

Including USB-C ports,

949 (29%) have ≥2 DP inputs
1806 (54%) have 1 DP input
572 (17%) have no DP input

Compare HDMI:

1350 (41%) have ≥2 HDMI inputs
1791 (54%) have 1 HDMI input
186 (5.6%) have no HDMI input

I agree it could be better but I don't think it's as bad as you make it out to be. Looking through the devices that have no DP input at all, 488 of the 572 have VGA inputs, which I'd say indicates an older generation of devices.

"Consumer" electronics (i.e. TVs) is a problem though, I'll agree.
From an evolutionary standpoint, animals cycle from obese to slim year round. Obesity is normal in autumn. Being slim is normal in spring/early summer. Food state wise we are in a eternal autumn.
5th grade in the US is CM2 in France. No way that our pupils in CM2 can answer all these questions.

Some are obvious, some are 3 or 4 years ahead of our curriculum or not present (I am not sure that the composition of a string quartet is taught at all).

Is this really an image of the US curriculum?
LLMs are excellent at text transformation. It's their core strength and I don't see it being used enough.
Exactly. See Sidney Dekker's Field Guide to Understanding Human Error. The posters do (almost) nothing -- other than covering the backside of those who put them up, and doing safety theatre. Looks good, does nothing for safety.

The same author, Sidney Dekker, has a very good book about how to deal with someone like this whistleblower. It's called "Just Culture". Well worth a read. Spolier: It's not to silence them, not this way. You can silence the person by, you know, actually doing something useful. But that requires actual change, and more importantly, a change in attitude. And you need to convince the crowds that you are doing better by NOT putting up posters. You'll be surprised how many people really think the posters help.
Please let this one have knock-on effects on reverse engineering.
In the comments here I read a lot about if this is whistleblowing or not, or if disciplinary measures are warranted for an employee "badmouthing" an employer's client while not having an official mandate to speak in public, while mostly ignoring the threats made by a government official.

This is exactly the problem why the world sucks so hard.

The engineer, certainly knowledgeable in this field, made a measured public remark, which could have saved lives. He has done nothing wrong, because he didn't claim to speak on behalf of his employer, and has the right to speak his mind as a person. In public, and with a lot of reach.

The government official, however, applied unconstitutional pressure to get the engineer fired and threatened his employer to lose business. Humanly very low and damaging to future public rail infrastructure, if a capable company is not allowed to provide services anymore and therefore most likely to increase prices through diminished competition.

If anyone should lose their job over this matter, it clearly should be the UK rail minister.
Amiga with Xcopy-pro is a friggin machine for copying some protected disks from other platforms (eg Atari ST)
I can imagine that finetuning a model for this task could be very successful. Time for another AI startup.
Free will doesn’t make sense in any case. Either your will is causally determined, or there is a truly random component, which however doesn’t bring you any closer to influencing your own will.
Kotlin isn't the first language offering any of these features, not even remotely.

Even if you look only at the JVM: Scala is much older.
Try out SQLite FROM before SELECT in SQLite
> Anyone working on decompiler LLMs?

Here is an LLM for x86 to C decompilation: https://github.com/albertan017/LLM4Decompile
LLMs are good at modeling and transforming text, news at 11. AI proponent hypes AI. I could go on, but I shouldn't have been this sarcastic to start with
Nah, careful consideration is generally the enemy of homicidal rage.
> especially once mistakes are limited so you don't need an Engineer to come fix it

The main issue here is "are there mistakes, in the first place?".

Maybe people will become tolerant to machine mistakes. Engineers make mistakes, but it's expected. And the kinds of mistakes engineers make are human.

Machines make mistakes that look silly. The kind of mistake "an engineer wouldn't make".

So these apps will probably tackle an unserved demand (things not valuable to justify an engineer). Anything else I predict will continue to use engineers - more productive with AI support.
> Just up the RAM and CPU up to TB levels

not sure what CPU at TB levels means but hope your wallet scales better vertically
As a general thought, would it be possible to put out a "call for tech writers" post or similar on the front of the qemu website, or even a prominent blog post in the blog section?
There is no constitution here, your existence and rights as a British citizen is at the convenience of the state.
For uncolored (and generally simpler) ASCII art, see the older libaa
Here's an example snippet you can try out in the fiddle:

WITH x AS (
SELECT 1 AS foo
UNION ALL
SELECT 2 AS foo
)

FROM x
SELECT *
WHERE foo > 1
I had no idea Kotlin could do this. I never thought to check. I guess with Kotlin being a JVM language, I simply assumed it wasn't possible.

Thank you for providing an example because I was a little confused by a couple other comments mentioning yield...
This occurred before Labour took office - Hendy was the chair of Network Rail at the time. However as Starmer appointed him Transport Minister it'll be interesting to see what he does. I think it'll just be swept aside and ignored because they're too focussed on Austerity 2.0
I was just about to say. With mpv, you can play videos as ASCII art just by doing mpv --vo=caca <file>. Just make sure your mpv is actually built with caca support (mpv --vo=help; Arch Linux's mpv is not, Fedora's is).
One in 40,000. Being completely blind is VASTLY more common.
I've never seen a law forbidding decompiling programs.
But, some programs forbid to decompile applications by the license agreement. Further, you still don't have any right on this source code. It depends on the license...
Should the title say ChatGPT or gpt-4 (the model) instead of OpenAI (the company)?
I am a reasonably educated adult (at least I believe so) and I did not know what the constitution of a string quartet is.
> Seems like we could render all code open source

Unfortunately not really. Having the source is a first step, but you also need the rights to use it (read, modify, execute, redistribute the modifications), and only the authors of the code can grant these rights.
Everyone is talking about Google breaking something, but what if this is something Firefox has to fix? If it works in Chrome and not Firefox, it should be a browser bug, not website bug.
Maybe they got some free credits? Site does not give off the right vibes either tho.
Interesting, "the Office of Rail and Road ... issued Network Rail with an improvement notice"

For the benefit of readers not versed with UK regulation, an improvement notice is a formal instrument under the powers of the Health and Safety Executive. Whilst short of a prosecution notice, it definitely indicates that the powers that be are Officially Not Happy with, in this case, Network Rail.
Show HN: KTransformers–236B Model and 1M Context LLM Inference on Local Machines
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Heh, good point, USB 2.0 would absolutely suffice. You'd hardly need more than a standard audio profile either. Some TVs even support this already - recent Samsung models at least.

A specialized port could theoretically have a lower BOM cost through simpler silicon or port design, but USB 2.0 is free at this point so why bother.

> Personally I use regular TOSLINK to a stereo amplifier and accept having another remote.

The problem with TOSLINK is not only the remote scenario (which I do think is absolutely a necessary feature for any kind of adoption), but also lack of bandwidth for uncompressed surround sound.

Large surround setups at home are uncommon these days, but soundbars with virtual surround is common, and some of us still manage to squeeze in a simple 5.1 setup.
It was removed in 2011.
I feel like the only thing HDMI has going for itself is ARC.

DisplayPort is superior in every other way imaginable. Except for the fact that almost no TV supports it.

Low-end monitors also don't usually have them, but as far as computer monitors go, I'm not interested in the low-end ones.

As for TVs - just give me a dumb screen with ports. I'm going to attach Apple TV to it anyway.
LLMS are trained to predict next text. But examples like these look like they have also 'learned patterns'. If rot13 is applied on this minified code, will LLM still find meaning in it? if it still could, its more than just next tokens. Need to try it.

edit: chatgpt found out that its rot13 and couldn't explain the code directly without deobfuscating it first.
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When you have laws that effectively incentivize corruption, you get corruption.

The laws here are a maze of obstacles to development. While ostensibly for more or less benign purposes, the effect is "you will bribe the gatekeepers or they won't let you build."
LLMs are very good at text reading. LLMs read tokenized text, while human use eyes to view words. Another scenario is that ChatGPT is good at analyzing cpp template error messages, which are usually long and hard to understand for human.
Pavel Durov is released under 5M euro bail
It does not solve the measurement problem, but it does explain why you don't see quantum phenomena such as superposition or tunneling at the classical limit.
So if you were just able to walk into the dish room and start washing dishes, why dress up like a poor person?

Just walk up to the church and say you're the guy who volunteered to wash dishes that day. Of course the people who volunteer get something out of it, something you should have noticed when you were volunteering!
> Does a browser have free will?

I feel like a browser is lacking some other prerequisites that disqualifies it from being a good example in this case. At least my browser doesn't claim to be conscious.
JS minification is fairly mechanical and comparably simple, so the inversion should be relatively easy. It would be of course tedious enough to be manually done in general, but transformations themselves are fairly limited so it is possible to read them only with some notes to track mangled identifiers.

A more general unminification or unobfuscation still seems to be an open problem. I wrote handful of programs that are intentionally obfuscated in the past and ChatGPT couldn't understand them even at the surface level in my experience. For example, a gist for my 160-byte-long Brainfuck interpreter in C had some comment trying to use GPT-4 to explain the code [1], but the "clarified version" bore zero similarity with the original code...

[1] https://gist.github.com/lifthrasiir/596667#gistcomment-47512...
You can even buy the little robots. They're pretty affordable if you don't want to do it yourself.

https://eu.switch-bot.com/products/switchbot-bot
Just like QAnon. /s
Depends on what you mean by impact. Those other figures were quite influential on European (and thus global) politics during and after WW1. One could argue that the harsh policies toward Germany had a big impact on setting the stage for WW2, the largest war in history. So I wouldn’t be too dismissive of their impact on world history.

Of course in the grand scheme of things Einstein was probably more influential, but I was more commenting on the fact that Einstein has become a kind of memetic symbol in himself, a bit like Ché, whereas the others haven’t. (Most people probably can’t even name more than a handful of people from WW1.) Maybe that only happened because his work was so impactful, but does the average person really know much about relativity? I was trying to find a paper that traced how Einstein became synonymous with genius but couldn’t come up with anything.
It's a lot easier to design a good DSL when it doesn't have to be compatible with anything
Yeah maybe that's what's bothering me, what is the high temperature limit if not the classical limit?
Particularly those that are basically linear, that don’t involve major changes in the order of things or a deep consideration of relationships between things.

They can’t sort a list but they can translate languages, for instance, given that a list sorted almost right is wrong but that we will often settle for an almost right translation.
There's nothing wrong with this scenario per se, but there's a 100% chance this is not the reason for their decision
"Odeo up for sale"

Became (or spun out) Twitter, by the way.

https://dailyfly.com/on-this-day-in-2006-twitter-launches/
I think it should not say the name of the company, but either ChatGPT or GPT-x.
Edit: I see you work for Skip, which I think you should state upfront. But I do understand your bias or blinders in assessing the tool.

I get the benefit of being able to share business logic. That's not the issue at stake here. If it was, this wouldn't be a company in the first place as there's multiple frameworks that enable this and do this better - at zero cost.

I don't believe performance issues is a relevant metric anymore, having dealt with them on RN, KMP, Flutter. Non-native UI, is also quite irrelevant these days. Perhaps if we were having this conversation 2-3 years ago I would agree with you. But with how RN/Flutter UI's are now, and the native aspect of KMP it's a non-issue.

> Skip solves all of these problems, and because it uses your code as-is on iOS and generates native code on Android, you can trivially and directly mix in platform-specific code wherever you need to, without any bridging.

I will believe it when I see it. You say "Skip solves all of these problems", when Kotlin multi-platform was essentially doing the same thing in reverse, but with far larger backing and it took years before it was production ready. It is not trivial to keep up with ever changing Android ecosystem, multiple API levels that need to be catered for, differing UX interactions, different native API's e.g databases, push notifications, permissions etc. Again you say trivial, not sure what is trivial about this.

I feel like you've either never tried cross platform work on a (large) production project? This is solving an aspect of mobile development that personally I don't see a need for. But if it's for you go for it, in my experience across languages and platforms, I would recommend against this option unless you solely only have iOS Engineers, no ability to cater for a native Android experience and hadn't thought of having an Android app before starting development. Then sure, use it. Any project I plan would be both platforms and wouldn't require this level of abstraction.
Geopolitical risk needs to be factored into any cloud service. This will either be 'national champions' or better yet, company self hosted.
I like to journal when traveling and in the late 90s or early 2000s I sometimes went to local Internet Cafés and send travel report of the past few days to myself via email.

One time in Turkey on a computer with a filthy monitor and a very worn out keyboard I was close to despair because my emails were undeliverable.

It took me quite a while to realize that the key where every other keyboard layout has the letter i had an i without a dot. The regular dotted i was some key combo.
People are always looking for better, cheaper, easier to use $PRODUCT.

There are several fairly large bootstrappers in this space, go for it.
https://medium.com/@haydenbanz/mastering-reddit-osint-the-ul...
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There's no "normal" obesity or time when obesity is normal. The disease is characterized by an abnormal weight by definition.

An animal who has a normal weight for one of its species at some time of year is not obese.
I use LLMs to assist with reverse engineering all the time right now. From minified, to binary, alongside Ghidra, its very helpful.
Show HN: Platform to set balanced goals using the wheel of life
Everyone has a system to set and achieve their goals. My system is Codlixe, a platform to set, tract, and visualized balanced goals using the wheel of life and AI suggestions. It also allows me to journal using AI journaling prompts so that I have no friction in developing my journaling habit.
EPA Rejects Plastics Industry's Fuzzy Math That Misleads Customers
Your example is governed by an arbitrary rule of your choosing. Pi is not.
Perhaps a person may even consider refraining from violence even after having carefully investigated the situation, regardless of the outcome of said investigation.
Is this a Tarpit IDEA?
Isn't this already their main use case for business? We use them primarily for extracting structured data from other forms.
Juicero feels like a manager or growth hacker or hype person driven thing. I find it hard to imagine juicero being an engineering team.
punkpeye could also have asked the LLM to replace the cryptic function and variable names with nice ones. I'm hopeful it would have done a good job.
In short you could not accept the counterfiet with a 'nist cert' that doesn't trace to nist. Fine choice, but not the subject here.
Report says fluoride at twice the recommended limit linked to lower IQ in kids
In theory the more difficult to replace you are, the more you are paid.
Does this necessarily go through a third party server, or can it all be run locally?
Platforms != distinct rail lines. Now, if only there were plans to run a new national, let's say high speed, rail link from the North of England into Euston which would improve this capacity ...
Who does this appeal to and why? I use Rectangle on OSX to give me the layout options I need which basically amounts to switching between full screen and two apps split vertically, then I use the in-built OSX shortcuts for moving apps between screens.

What kind of workflows suit something as advanced as Window Maker? Where does the line sit between this and something like Gnome? I'm struggling to get my head around the nuances.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070222055143/http://blog.obvio...
Open with Cursor for Windows Context Menu (Open Source)
I actually have a degree in Physics but I am not sure it is what I want (I don't remember much :D). But I will take a look. Thanks a lot for both recommendations!
I have something slightly different

1 is RS422 B

2 is RS422 A

3 & 5 - GND

4 & 6 - VCC

Not sure what 7 and 8 do.
> Source?

Source of what? That nuclear doesn't drop to 5%? It never happened so I can't get any source...

> I referenced proofs showing this is insufficient.

Well, it works in reality so the proof is in the pudding, it works.

> Nope. Source?

The Germans even have a word for that, Daunkelflaute

https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/65b3e159d25a6097b6ca5815/...

> Batteries already are ( https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/07/climate/batte...

Well no they aren't, they are used for very low scale grid management, such as stated in your link.

> What do you mean? Electricity cannot be stored?!

No it can't in large scale, those battery needs to make a x100 here to be used for that. The only large scale tech to store electricity are dams.

> Brennilis (1981, 1981, 1996), Dirinon (1981), Gennevilliers (1991), Vaires-sur-Marne (2008, 2009), DK6 (2005)...

The only exisitng gas plant stil used before 2010 is DK6 and it's not even connected to the gas pipeline but reusing factory gas.

https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_centrales_thermiqu...

All the other existing gas plants in France were built post 2010 for renewables.

> We are far from this as France is notoriously way behind, partly because it wastes money on nuclear late-and-overbudget projects (EPR...).

France spent more than a hundred billions on new renewables alone (roughly half of the total cost of the nuclear grid). It's true that the results look even worse than the EPR though. And it's not counting these new gas plants and external costs on the nuclear grid in the total.

The renewable investments look so bad that there's people like you who think they haven't been done but they have.

There's multille reasons France is bring the nuclear program back from the dead and one of them is that the renewable investments underdelivered.

> In France RTE is in charge of the grid (less the "last kilometer") and is a subsidiary of EDF (electricity producer, head of the nuclear sector.

RTE benefits from grid investments for renewables so yeah it's not a surprise they are all for it. They are especially afraid of a merge to go back to the previous statu quo.

Remember that big hole in the production on the graph before? That's exactly the time where the president of RTE made a public speech for building renewables, when they produced closed to nothing.
No more dead links, instead Chrome will instead hallucinate what that website should have looked like.