skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would say the opposite: AI are very good at searching through information spaces, much better than we are.

We are likely talking past each other here. By "searching" I don't mean how inference is currently carried out by efficiently analyzing the context window using weights trained on large data sets fine tuned on specific goals.

I mean the process by which novel information is discovered, which is why many proponents of AI will concede that it's not currently capable of "doing science" or making novel discoveries.

> we don't know what that is, it's just what we do.

Not sure I understand, we have a pretty good understanding of what qualia actually is, even if it can be difficult or awkward to talk about conceptually. The gap between having a subjective experience and not having one is a large one, just ask anyone who's alive but under general anaesthesia that induces loss of consciousness. Qualia is simply what arises from the quality and character of having a subjective experience.
I'm not sure I get your point -- it looks like you're starting from the conclusion that people do have free will, which of course does not create problems I mentioned.

What I was trying to say is that if one believes determinism is incompatible with the concept of free will, then they cannot think the law is fair because nothing has free will. And I'm hypothesizing that people who think that way might be a bit queasy about determinism etc.

FWIW, I personally believe free will exists for reasons outside the scope of this discussion, and I doubt it's necessary to conclude first whether it exists or not to get my original point across...
How to Load a Dishwasher (2020)
God, my daughter says she “just wants to be normal.” Hard for me to understand. Can’t tell if it’s TikTok, living in the Netherlands or the happily weird father figure.
This is what we get for replacing education with googling... Are you suggesting replacing interviews with some other metrics?
I learned relatively recently that trig functions on the GPU are free if you don’t use too many of them; there’s a separate hardware pipe so they can execute in parallel with floats adds and muls. There’s still extra latency, but it’ll hide if there’s enough other stuff in the vicinity.
Oops, missed that. Too late to delete.
Does the extension keep a local copy of the requirements per domain or does it query your site when a person visits a website?
That justification doesn't work here - I provide vendored tarballs, so the source code availability argument is moot.
I think it's just the lack of consistency in app designs
Everyone has a right to speech, even those you disagree with politically.
Funny, given it was made by two Australians.
I believe he demonstrated awareness of the difference between lazy use and effortful use; he appeared to me to acknowledge the latter as art:

"""The film director Bennett Miller has used dall-e 2 to generate some very striking images that have been exhibited at the Gagosian gallery; to create them, he crafted detailed text prompts and then instructed dall-e to revise and manipulate the generated images again and again. He generated more than a hundred thousand images to arrive at the twenty images in the exhibit."""
Not sure what you’re trying to say here. By the time Rome became an empire, Carthage had already been wiped out of existence for over 100 years.

Who knows what Europe would have looked like under a Carthaginian empire, but I’m rather confident it would be quite different. Especially given how a lot of Europes history post-Roman Empire revolved around attempts to reestablish and re-bust-up the Roman Empire.
If you ever wonder why everything made with Stable Diffusion looks the same, it's because it can't generate images that are too dark or too bright. The denoising process involves recognizing shapes and shapes naturally have bright spots and dark spots. If you try to render "sea at night" you'll get some huge, bright moon for example.

The "AI artists" using this tool lack the technical and artistic competency to realize this. They didn't write the algorithm, draw the dataset, or train the model. They prompted. They have the smallest amount of creative input into this whole pipeline.

I do believe AI can be used in the process to create art as it's just an image generator like fractal art, but the problem is most people are going to use AI not as a means to create art, but as an end. You could fix the problem above by simply importing the image into GIMP and changing the brightness, but nobody does that because they aren't interesting into creating an art piece with a set goal in mind, they're just being entertained by generating dozens or hundreds of images with this technology.

Amusingly, you could also just type text in GIMP. Instead there is now something called "flux" that can do text literals.

While I see the point in making a prompt interpreter capable of generating text literally, if I were creating something, I wouldn't let an AI randomly pick a font, color, weight, serifs/slabs, etc. for me. These are creative choices in design that make all the difference. Prompting gives the illusion of (creative) choice. You get something that looks good, but "getting something that looks good" is the default state. Anyone can do that. It's the AI art equivalent of drawing a stickman. The prompters just don't realize it because they're comparing themselves to to artists of other media, not comparing themselves to other AI artists.

When everything is AI, and anyone can generate an image with a prompt, the whole market will be so saturated with this (perhaps it already is at the rate these are generated) that all the novelty will be gone.

It was cool when AI was able to generate video, just like it was able to generate text. But in my opinion, those are feats of the technology, not artistic feats. The piece itself isn't interesting. It could be any video. Just the fact that the tech can do this is impressive. But it's just the tech that is impressive, not its output. Once the tech can do it once, it can do it every time, so the second time AI generates video is never going to be as impressive as the first time. By the thousandth time it will be as impressive as my ability to send this message to the other side of the world at the speed of light.
It's written right under the lead image, it is bronze.
.NET deserves a good, separate non-ASP.NET Core+Kestrel web server.

The reason for this is the first-party solution has to be both fast and support a lot of different features, and be compatible with all the ways to process request input/output, parameter bindings, rich telemetry (particularly OTLP) integration and so on and so forth.

Which is why a lightweight UTF-8-based zero-copy pipeline (via span/memory) that tries to reduce call stack depth and context switching, and that moves as much of the feature composition to compilation time as possible could be indispensable.

Such server could be built on top of either raw `Socket` and `SslStream` (of which a toy attempt, really, can be thrown together in under an hour) and its async engine or via a custom one - we have all the tools to build an io-uring network stack with async integration.

.NET's compiler is way better than any other GC-based platform except OpenJDK/Graal but JVM has few features to optimize this further and bridge the gap with C++ and Rust based applications, unlike .NET.

There is a lot of raw runtime performance left on the table and an alternate implementation that gets back to the top of the chart on Techempower would be a welcome change :)

After all, this already has been proven to be possible by Garnet: https://microsoft.github.io/garnet/docs
Facebook was (and is) predatory but that is not what is meant by "suck". When Facebook came out, it satisfied a huge demand, and was exactly what people wanted, regardless of how you feel about it ethically.
Induction cooking – but what about woks? [video]
My read is that whatever subset of the ecosystem bcachefs-tools just hasn’t stabilized. Presumably it will, but once everything is functionally at 1.x even if they don’t reach it officially this will be become a non-issue.

That said, having dabled in rust there’s a temptation to name breaking changes to improve ergonomics because the type system is so expressive. I almost wonder if this is an argument for simpler type systems to reduce churn.
He is not submitting changes for stable. He is submitting non-regression fixes after the merge window. It's clear he understands the rules and the reasons for them but feels like his own internal development process is equivalent at reducing the chance of major regressions introduced in such a PR such that he can simply persuade Linus to let things go through anyway.

Whether this internal process gives him a pass for getting his non-regression fixes in after the merge window is at the end of the day for Linus to decide. And Linus is finally erring on the side of "Please just do what everyone else is doing" rather than "Okay, fine Kent, just this once".

I would say it's ironic to start a comment saying: "It's very clear from that thread that he doesn't understand the purpose of the stable branch" when it's "very clear" from your opening paragraph that you don't understand the thread.
> The Roman empire pretty much always contained Carthage territory.

I suspect this is being downvoted because the Punic Wars took place hundreds of years before Rome became "The Roman Empire", both in the sense of having a literal emperor and also in the sense of being associated with the huge swathes of the Mediterranean that we tend to think of when we think of the empire's boundaries. It's just a different period of history. Not only did Rome not control any bits of Africa at this point, it didn't even control Sicily, which is what the First Punic War was about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Punic_War
> Most interviewers won't be ready to shit talk their employer with this question and will say "nothing."

I don't think that's true. During times I've been an interviewer, I've been open about the bad parts of the job.

And if everyone tells you nothing, then that in itself is valuable information - that they're all fucking lying to you.
I am curious where you perceive the slowness.

I always had flagship Androids before my switch to a 12 mini. Overall I am happy. There are plenty of things that annoy me lots but I never really noticed slowness.

Where do you notice it? Do you play games or use compute intensive apps?
> There's also the issue that having multiple versions means maintaining multiple versions (applying security fixes and so on).

This is the most important part. Debian LTS maintains packages for 5 years. Canonical takes Debian sources, and offers to maintain their LTS for 10 years. Red Hat also promises 10 years of support. They don't want anything in the core part of their stable branches that they can't promise to maintain for the next 5-10 years, when they have no assurance that upstream will even exist that long.

If you want to move fast and break things, that's also fine. Just build and distribute your own .deb or .rpm. No need to bother distro maintainers who are already doing so much thankless work.
> When I try to copy something I select, it copies some random stuff

A special place in hell exists for such code. No surprise the coder responsible is not keen to visit it.
In such a scenario, it makes sense to design a sane, stable driver api and move drivers to it.

Such drivers would require little maintenance and would thus be much more valuable than Linux drivers.

They would be free from the insanity that is Linux's lack of internal structure.
You know the answer to your previous questions, then why ask it in the first place.
Upvoted, but that's a bad reason to stop reading. This isn't a how-to guide. This is an explanation to the rest of us of about how our tax laws are so full of holes and that the very rich can create schemes for multigenerational transfer of wealth without ever paying tax. The people with the money to do this already know it's possible, and know how to hire the people to do it. This article is to help the rest of us understand what's going on.
Thank you for this. It has inspired me to delete my Reddit account and create an HN account. This gives me hope that the web can survive the social media era.
Rust solves the problem of incomplete Kernel Linux API docs
27 tons of iron oxide have a volume of 5m^3 and can be stored in pretty much a hole in the ground.

2.7 tons of hydrogen have a volume of almost exactly 30000 m^3, requiring storing it under high pressure in specialized containers. Hydrogen is famous for being hard to store without losses.

For long-term storage storage and losses are a problem.

> But the round-trip efficiency of the tank is virtually 100%. The efficiency of the iron-based storage is only 50%

Maybe I'm missing something, but why? As you mentioned it takes 29kj to restore 3 moles of H2 out of (3 moles of H20 + 1 mole of Fe2O3). Where does 50% comes from?
I feel like this falls into an uncanny valley between requiring the skill to cognitively model forms in your mind as text, which is fairly close to coding and using a form builder UI.
so, that's in the terminal REPL. Thanks for the report.

Meanwhile, you can use CIEL in your editor (as a library or with the core image), where you'll have a normal REPL and this will work.
"you need to develop a level of automaticity on your foundational skills."

This makes sense. So in this regard there is an analogy with sports where you need to perform foundational skills without thinking.
That problem isn't limited to "radios." Have you ever used a smart thermostat? A touchscreen fridge? A smart TV? Horrible, horrible UX.
Do those without amnesia do so?
I thought stable means "doesn't change"?
> estimates from the Environmental Working Group suggest these harmful chemicals could be polluting nearly 20 million acres of cropland, more than 20% of all U.S. farmland.

At least in Maine, they are siting solar on contaminated farmland in order to eek some use out of contaminated land that cannot be used for agriculture within the next 30 years.

https://www.ecos.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/PFAS-in-Bios... ("PFAS in Biosolids: A Review of State Efforts & Opportunities for Action")
It looks interesting. Do you not have a free plan or even a trial?
The Tesla Files Unveil More Accounting Fraud Than Imagined
I was preparing my usual Tesla Weekly until Aaron Greenspan dropped his explosive filing on Wednesday against Musk and Tesla, which highlighted loads of details from the “Tesla Files” on their egregious accounting frauds.

Lots of topics to cover this week aside from the headline story, but here is the breakdown for today’s Tesla Weekly:

Bombshell Complaint Filed Against Musk & Tesla—The Main Story Of This Report: An amended complaint in the Greenspan v. Musk et al trial was filed on Wednesday with damning internal data from Tesla highlighting a vast array of accounting fraud. It’s an explosive report, which is why it is the focus of today’s Tesla Weekly.

Trading Thoughts: Tesla is down 6.4% on the week through yesterday on lower-than-average volumes. Break outs to the upside were swiftly sold down, but there was an effort to keep the stock above $203, its 200-day moving average.

China Weekly Sales Suddenly Dropped Last Week: Despite 0% loans from Tesla and $2,800 incentives from the PRC, Tesla’s sales last week dropped by 17% YoY. This is odd given the low hurdle from Q3 2023.
This is awesome. Thank you for making this.
The grammar might be confusing, but the comment you're replying to clearly considers rust a (new) proper systems language, and nicer in many ways (memory management and overall ergonomics) than C, but with worse (from the perspective of systems programming) tooling.
When have they supported an addon like that officially?

They are making their own solution for vertical tabs.

You are free to install addons.

What is the issue?

Don't just make these snipe driveby comments.
> Carthage was much more powerful than Rome was

No it wasn't. The roman republic won the 1st punic war. The carthaginian empire was older for sure but not much more powerful.

> and Rome really had no business thinking it could have won either of those wars.

Rome was the rising and expanding power. Carthage was an old has-been. Rome had every right to think it would prevail. Hence why Rome started the first punic wars.

> and only survived by outright refusing to give up, and then somehow pulling it out of the bag at a key moment.

It's like you gleaned your information from sensationalizing documentaries or a kid's book.

> Rome could have very easily failed and become a Carthaginian vassal state.

The odds of carthage invading and holding rome is 0.

> There would have been no Roman Empire

So western europe could have skipped the dark ages and gotten access to the ancient greek culture ( which is the foundation of european civilization ) sooner?

> and the history of Europe would have been a continent dominated by a North African empire.

Assuming that carthage could have held rome or made any progress against the huns, germanic or slavic tribes up north. If anything, the downfall of rome would have precipitated the rise of northern europe which dominates europe today.
1 instruction per cycle? No, that's only possible with pipelining.

We are talking about instructions which took 8-12 cycles to complete.
Did someone create an archive for this site? It's a treasure trove for future generations to see how it distorted views when needed.
Word Game Bench – evaluating language models on word puzzle games
this paper is not good: it's easy to describe things in a categorical language (which this paper does), but not as easy to draw insights from that framework (which this paper does not do)
The FAQ recommends a minimum of 16 chars. Obviously it depends on your threat model.
If you are a developer you almost always eventually need some dependencies that don’t ship with the os package manager, and once some of your dependencies are upstream source, you very quickly find that some dependencies of the sources you download rely on features from newer versions of libraries. If you have multiple clients, you may also need to support both old and new versions of the same dependencies depending on who the work is for. Package managers for a Linux distribution have incompatible goals to these (except maybe nix)
My statement wasn't complicated, yet somehow you still didn't understand it, or you're purposefully misunderstanding it to try and strawman.
Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]
Show HN: I built a minimalist observability stack for indie projects
Kranz, while an important character in the Apollo saga, wasn’t even an astronaut.

I don’t know what history puts him “ahead” of Neil. Or even ahead of the other greats like Grissom.
IT engineers in Poland willing to work for companies abroad, opened small businesses and applied for an European tax number.

We work as contractors - not employees - so no regional employment laws apply and we're just issuing invoices for services rendered.
But it’s not guaranteed. The Debian way provides a method of allocating responsibility. So if anything does go wrong they can point to a responsible party, the package maintainer. By providing tarball source you’re trying to placate responsibility of some code. You could build those tarballs on a different machine/different OS and any issues wouldn’t technically be your problem because “it’s just deps”.
Samsung puts the TV on notice with premium 4K UST projectors
Radios don't need a touch screen. Old button radios are pretty intuitive. The display/touch aspect is because people want navigation, apps like deezer/itunes/Spotify, etc. Then you have to think about updates/real time data. How does that work? Does the car need its own data plan? Or do we do everything via usb and just do everything offline?

And then people still expect to connect their phones to the car, for calls/reading texts etc, so you still have to support that in some way... and people will expect that to play nice with the audio playback features (calls pause/unpause music, etc)

Since we're already supporting a phone connection, then it just makes life easier to bring your own experience. The auto maker supplies the interface, you bring your own apps, data plan, etc via carplay/android auto.

Personally, I find it's a huge step forward to whatever OEMs make in house which aren't updated/obsolete in a few years.
Sounds like they were shelled
This would be great! I'm actually a bit surprised they've not done this sooner given that it "seems to dumb old me" like a fairly easy thing to add. Full QT support in .NET would be a hit, but I could be wrong since Avalonia and Uno platform have both reached fairly mature levels.
Chrome is a gatekeeper and for that gatekeeper they have another gatekeeping service where they gatekeep what add-ons are allowed and which are removed (as happened with AdNauseam). There are no seperate distribution channels for users. If this is not a gatekeeper, then the App Store can't also be a gatekeeper.
Going sort of the other way, making an X version of a Borland-like ui, a long time ago I liked XWPE for a while. Even built it for SCO.
The point isn't necessarily to get an accurate rendition. It's to see how they answer. What they emphasize. What they don't mention. Most of the questions I ask when being interviewed are like this, ones that give me a sense of what the environment and the people are like.
You're missing the Lepidopterologist level.
It is still a thing, Romania also does the same thing where we give citizenship to Romanians on territories we lost like R. Moldova so would be hypocritical for Romania to complain about Hungary, ,my personal opinion is that is not democratic if someone votes but they or their family are not affected by the vote. It would be like some jerk In UK gifts citizenship to people in ex colonies and then those people as gratitude wll vote for the jerk.
I'd argue that an LLM has a fuller understanding of what we mean when we say "art" than most individual users of the term (Chiang's definition sounds more like the one for "craft" to me). Indeed, asking ChatGPT about the difference between art and craft gives me a more nuanced contemplation on the subject than I found in the article. Maybe these models are closer to the experts than we are willing to give them credit for? At the vet least, they are the best mirror we've ever invented.
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