skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how has Tesla got away with this fraud for so many years?

they have never had a thing called "FSD" that existed, but they keep taking money from customers and also people keep dying, for years and years.
But 100% compute != 100% efficiency? 'Pegging' cores to their maximum for the sake of utilisation seems wasteful where (for example) a simple bash script would have sufficed.

Once the compute heavy pathways have established, I'd wager the next round of automation can utilise these established paths to lock-in on an answer rather than throwing more cycles at the problem.
Same here! Haven't smashed mine yet thankfully and it's still great in 2024. Except that everyone is making their software slower because that's how it goes.
Why good developers should profile their apps.
I know all the options, and also believe that's a personal decision.

But I was literally asking --and curious to the answer to-- what "you" (would) pick.
A tax on unrealized capital gains makes no sense
you want sidetone. what's your use case? video conferencing from your laptop/desktop?
Ask an Astrophysicist
(Eddington's is rather an astonishing paper, science aside, just for the remarkable breadth of perspective written down in one place 100 years ago. Within eight pages, he is contemplating all of:

- The perspective that all of the matter life is made of may have been forged in the "crucibles" of stars;

- The perspective that the timeline of the planet Earth should be expanded from ~20 million years, to multiple billions (and the specific implications for biological evolution);

- The perspective that hydrogen fusion could be the energy source of future civilization—or a source of weapons that end it

All of this, purely speculative theorizing, in 1920!
Wait, isn't that bridge in that one horror game? I could swear I saw it before.
Exactly that; for critical operations like e.g. a database, if a write fails you've got corrupted data and you have a Major Issue.

That said, I'm not sure how they would handle a file close failure, wouldn't the file be corrupted anyway because some of the bits may have been written? Then again, at least you can raise the alarms if Close fails, because silent failures are worse than failures.
Then there is also golang
Is the filesystem the correct abstraction? For most applications, a database-like API is more appropriate, hence SQLite.
This is also why, in Rust, relying on drop to close a file (which ironically is the poster child for RAII) is a bad pattern. Closing a file can raise errors but you can't reasonably treat errors on drop.

What we really need is a way to handle effects in drop; one way to achieve that is to have the option to return Result in a drop, and if you do this then you need to handle errors at every point you drop such a variable, or the code won't compile. (This also solves the async drop issue: you would be forced to await the drop handling, or the code wouldn't compile)
In the stdlib Go code for file.Close, it doesn't actually do the syscall after the first call to Close, so there's your language guarantee.

That is a scary sounding error though.
>It’s great that the solution works, but I’m still curious about the reason behind it.

Which the rest of the article doesn't even attempt to examine.
We're really at the cusp of gen AI and we've barely scratched the surface.

Two Reddit threads really highlight this.

- ~10 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/y9zxj1/you...

- Today: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1f0b45f/fl...

The upgrade in throughput from GPT-4 to GPT-4o and GPT-4o Mini actually unlocked use cases for the startup I'm at.

People that think demand for GPU compute capacity is going to decrease are probably wrong in the same way that people who thought the demand for faster processors and more RAM would wane were wrong. We are just barely at the start of finding the use cases and how to eat those GPU cycles.

> The need for specialist hardware, he observed, is a sign of the "brute force" phase of AI, in which programming techniques are yet to be refined and powerful hardware is needed. "If you cannot find the elegant way of programming … it [the AI application] dies," he added.

The thing is that even if there is an elegant and efficient programmatic/algorithmic solution, having more and faster hardware only makes it better and pushes the limits even more.
//bin/env gcc $0 -g -o ${0%.} && ./${0%.} ; exit

thats the one i've been using. feel free to adopt and change.
Than give them a VCR :P
Hmm, you clearly know what you’re talking about and this contradicts the available info, so thanks for sharing! I’m a little confused though. To bring it back to simple terms: you’re saying that the project was simply to start bidding more on ad space…? How exactly does that help (/“bailout”) their customers, and why would that be its own project? “Determining how much to bid for ad space” is already the job of half of Bayview campus, so I’m confused by this benign explanation.

At the very least it sounds like they were using their position as auctioneer to fine-tune their bidding strategies, which seems like a textbook example of monopolistic behavior. But even that would be a step up from what I/the article above accuse them of.
Tried the demo — _very_ snappy!

I was surprised to hear there was no database needed! How does that work? I guess you can cache most of the requests to stripe? What kind of data can you store on stripe?
Makes sense, cheers. Might give it a go
People live under the delusion that OS X was "100% new" when in fact it was warmed-over NeXTSTEP from 1989. Most of them probably have never seen or heard of a NeXT workstation.

To reinforce how much people hate "100% new" how long has Microsoft been working on ReFS? 20 years? The safest most boring job in the world must be NTFS developer.
Unfortunately not. There are dozens of companies reselling "old" Libre 2 sensors for "fitness and health" applications. BG has joined HRV and other semi-bogus metrics as one of the numbers that drive a whole subculture of health data.

To correct this, though. You can buy all those in the US as well. Holter and FirstBeat are selling clinically validated and FDA approved mutli-lead ECG, Derxcom is selling an over the counter CGM, as is Abbott with the Libre 2, and a Chinese company has recently joined there, too.

Low calorie meal replacements are all over the store, too.

If you're a member of this orthorexia/orthovivia crowd, you have the same access to tools as you do in the EU, often more so.
The series 9 is best in class for sleep accuracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr4p66vSmLY (18:20 mark)

We're now four generations of Apple Watch beyond yours.
What does it say about the practical usefulness of this Windows facility that MS has, it seems, never maintained one of these 'personalities' long-term?
They’re still not comparable products, you just use them the same, limited way.
Yeah, but I have my old iPhone X for that which is good enough for a backup.
The premise of this whole article is that once general purpose computing can do what the GPUs can then demand for GPUs will drop. That is a fundamentally flawed assumption. The ability to parallelize operations using a GPU will always be available and GPU development will continue. Hardware tech (process nodes, etc) that improves CPUs will also improve GPUs. Maybe we will reach a peak demand, but not until individual GPUs and CPUs are in millisecond token inference range. And that won't happen for a long time. The author is erroneously conflating GPU and ASIC development.

To be clear, I agree that LLMs are not anywhere close to AGI and I don't think they ever will be (just a component). But that doesn't mean they aren't useful enough to chew up a lot of compute for the foreseeable future.
Yes, and an office PC and a gamer PC are both PCs. Pick and choose another example, using eg. car models.
The problem is there is no way to donate to Firefox development. Mozilla’s operating expenses are in the hundreds of millions a year. They might be putting a fraction of that into Firefox, after CEO pay and whatever the hell else they are doing.
Interesting, I'm not sure what you have in mind. There are 4000+ dependencies, using yarn workspaces, many are patched by `yarn`, extensive code security checks, PRs from forks introduce additionally complexity for reviewers, and probably a host of other "problems".

To be clear, the issue isn't npm/yarn, it's the sheer number of external dependencies that I loathe.
Forget Liberté: 17th C Indigenous Knew More About Freedom Than French Colonisers
Thanks! For me, that simplicity gives me security. The browser is extremely insecure in 2024. And most of the things I want from a browser are just content, not sophisticated SPAs. I'm in me minority in that, I know. So this protocol is excellent for that.

Also, no tracking, no upvotes, no marketing, no status-hogging people, no BS. This is refreshing. People there talk about what they really want to talk about. You are not being sold as a product, or sold at, at all.
Megavitamin-B6 syndrome daily upper limit: EU 12mg, US 100mg
Sqlite is much better than raw files to keep data intact on power failures, and be sure to study the options carefully

If you truly need to use files you can take other steps such as mv the old file to .bck before mv the new file, but I really think you want sqlite
The fastest and the easiest way to cook eggs is in a closed glass vessel in a microwave oven.

The power and time must be selected carefully, to avoid explosions, but once the right combination is determined it will always be perfectly reproducible.

I prefer to separate the egg whites and the yolks before cooking (and mix them with different ingredients, possibly whipping the egg whites first), but making fried eggs or scrambled eggs is as easy.

The eggs can be cooked alone and mixed later with other ingredients, or they can be mixed with other ingredients before putting them in the oven.
This is really cool, it actually reminds me of how people thought the future would be in the past.

"Ah you'll just scan a punch card of course and it will play a movie."

You're the hipster Dad now.
Show HN: My attempt at injecting creativity into a stale genre [video]
I got the idea for this watching a lot of Chernobyl Family. Typing "soviet control room" into google gives a lot of cool pictures, usually with a giant depiction of the core in the center of the room.

The Soviets had to smuggle in Intel and IBM tech during the cold war, so no one had access to good computers, except at work. I imagined a bored engineer at Chernobyl Nuclear power plant with the most powerful computer in Russia behind him, SKALA. He modifies the computer control program so it is more fun to play. He sets off larger and larger chain reactions while still keeping the reactor sub-critical, until one day, meltdown. Years later, he sneaks back into the rubble, steals the control code and publishes it as an internationally popular video game, called Reaktor.
It depends on the nature of the catastrophe. I think different catastrophes have different constraints, so the optimal tech to stockpile would change.

In general, though, I'd assume that electricity would be highly constrained. So I'd focus on very low-power or no-power tech and components.

In terms of information, I'd prefer it in dead-tree form over electronic.
Exactly. Was a great boon for 30 years for Germany as their domestic exports were the only game in town for cheap and whitegoods consumer hardware within the EU - e.g. Miele, Siemens, Bosch, Braun, Grundig, Neff, Whirlpool, Grundig...

The second it advantages another EU country at their expense, however...
> Why can’t I snap a picture of a written WiFi password to connect to WiFi?

You can actually do that, as of last year's iOS release. It's sort of a pain, but it's doable.

You need to be at the point where it's asking you for the WiFi password, tap the text field, choose "AutoFill", choose "scan text", and use the camera interface to pick the text.

This is extremely undiscoverable, no argument, but it is at least a system-wide standard for how to scan in arbitrary text when you have a text input. (They've picked "AutoFill" as the brand-name for all their get-text-from-somewhere-else features, so it also contains standard password-filling from apps.)
> In a time where money can be zipped around the world in seconds, and most transactions are cashless, what exactly is the advantage of 'keeping money in the community'?

Living in a community that isn't poor and decaying?

When money leaves a community, it means that it won't be used to employ people in that community, buy goods in that community, or generate tax revenue for public good in that community. The market's relationship to the community can become much more extractive.
> Vanilla js is unstructured.

Functions, classes, modules... everything is available to organize code. The mess some programmers make can be unstructured, but that's the case with any paradigm and yes, we've seen that with "modern" JS frameworks too. Spaghetti mess, lasagna mess, components mess or whatever pasta mess.

> I mean temporary state

What is the problem here ? It's as temporary as you need it to be.
Are you referencing some particular study, or are there just "many such cases"?
Very interesting that it's NFC is the most bang-for-your buck interface. Feels like a failure of software and hardware (button kit) alternatives.
> The syndrome is notable not only for its impact on peripheral nerve function but also because of its generally, but not always, reversible nature upon cessation of vitamin B6 intake.. [US] set a safe adult upper limit at 100 mg/day in 1998 and has not revised that downward despite several other national agency setting lower ULs, the most recent being the European Food Safety Authority revising its adult UL to 12 mg/day in 2023.
I am genuinely sad this news does not seem to have gained much traction. I think the technology itself is great and that makes the deprecation announcement so surprising.

We were weeks away from announcing a new product based on Atlas Flexible Sync. Now the project's fate is hanging in the balance.
Show HN: Git Pulse – Explore open source projects
I've always been fascinated by the history of how open source projects evolve but reading through commit histories takes a lot of effort to get context. So I had the idea to create the Git Pulse service as my nights-and-weekends project.

I'm using open source LLMs to summarize commits across several popular open source projects and providing them here in one central location. I think there's a lot of value for both developers and non-developers to better understand what's going on in these projects on a daily basis.

So far I'm covering FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Illumos, OpenSSH, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Linux. I'm still working through the historical backlog of Linux and will look into adding more projects going forward.

I'd love your feedback for making it better.
Same. I like instant pressure.
> We're really at the cusp of gen AI and we've barely scratched the surface.

What makes you say that? I don’t really see a trend of AI generated content getting better, just more players in the space.

I think we’re at the peak of AI gen, I doubt we’ll see much improvement in quality (it’s already pretty good and it seems like all the low hanging fruit is gone), just more specialized models. Maybe some better tooling to give artists more control

having seen it grow more and more since 2016 when GANs started making fairly realistic human faces, this seems like the end goal already.
Ask HN: How does your startup manage various software access?
Managing and providing access to employees critical information to make them work properly and efficiently, is taking 30% of my time, as a startup founder.

Is there an efficient way to do this? or something I am missing?
I thought I recognised it from Beetlejuice.
The first sentence in the OP is, "He is asking from an evolutionary perspective why it is that stupid people exist." From the evolutionary perspective, pointing out people that lived within the last 3000 years (after ag had been invented and human culture had 7,000 years to adapt to ag) is not a refutation of my assertion of calorie scarcity in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness (EEA).
Because it's very difficult to accomplish in practice.
Developer here - its a good point that most of the models were not specifically trained on diagnostic imaging, with the exception of Llava-Med. We would love to compare against other models trained on diagnostic imaging if anyone can grant us access!

Comparison against human experts is the gold standard but information on human performance in the FRCR 2B Rapids examination is hard to come by - we've provided a reference (1) which shows comparable (at least numerically) performance of human radiologists.

To your point around people just out of training (keeping in mind that training for the FRCR takes 5 years, while doing practicing medicine in a real clinical setting) taking their first test - the reference shows that after passing the FRCR 2B Rapids the first time, their performance actually declines (at least in the first year), so I'm not sure if experts would do better over time.

1. https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/379/bmj-2022-072826.full.pdf
Is this a fork of https://github.com/intitni/CopilotForXcode? OSS under MIT license, which CoderKit is not.
This feels ripe for a browser extension moreso than code on a page itself.
Not paying their CEO 7mil a year would be a start.
I believe I just added first item to my new "retirement hobby projects" list
local network isn't enough because these things are usually driven by phone apps and google and apple make periodic API breaking changes and kick everything off the platforms that doesn't constantly update. So even if its not server dependent many IOT things will still become unusable rather quickly.
> and GPU performance doubles every 2 years

That’s a big assumption.
Confused why this is displayed as being 9 hours old when I remember seeing it on the front page a couple days ago. Search also seems to confirm this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...
Of course, I meant the design hasn't changed. Linux has had a lot of refactoring, and probably Windows has also.
This looks cool; I might wait for 1.0, but the idea of git underneath and something better on top is appealing.
Right.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5468462
Ziggy – Use your Laravel routes in JavaScript
I believed you missed my point about 'in the short term'. My argument, backed by the linked data, was that for the last 30 years the prices actually look flat when you factor in the lost services like luggage. (is that actually a service?) Combine that with the completely horrific experience and there is a clear argument that the overall value proposition for consumers is tanking, badly. Deregulation happened in 1978. The trends I pointed out are lined back to 1995. the consumer benefit looks like it is lasting less time than the detractors to me so 'in the short term' is, I think, a good discussion point.
When I first read Diamond Age is was 90% science fiction, now it's seemingly far less than that.

Environmental sensing is a little weak in our own devices, but in theory your cell phone could listen to everything you do and (externally) analyze it for things like a bad diet. You'd have to point the camera intentionally at things you're doing for it to capture that information.

Now, no one is going to make a product that shocks people holding it, yet this isn't an impossibility. Failing to login, or having the camera capture the wrong person is using could very easily be designed in to the product. No one is going to do that for fear of lawsuits.
I agree it isn't a bug in the RNG itself, but it a bug in randomness propagation which is part of randomness generation.

For instance consider this bug:

secretKey = Hexadecimal(Crypto.Rand())[0:16]

The person likely intended to generate a secret_key with 16 bytes of entropy. Instead they generated a secretKey which is 16 bytes long, but only contains 8 bytes of entropy. I would call this a RNG bug.
I mean that how machine learning works, right?

Millions or billions of iterations to tune some algorithms to output some data which satisfies a success metric.
Expats aren’t double taxed but you need to file tax returns to offset taxable income that’s already been taxed. There are specific agreements to avoid double taxation but it’s unclear/unlikely the IRS are just going to hand back money Apple already paid (it likely falls outside of what’s required in those international agreements).

Companies, and people, make decisions based on the tax laws of the day eg deciding to work in the UK, Ireland or the US. States shouldn’t be able to simply retroactively change the tax rules and take money already earned and already taxed.

If they can do it to Apple, why not to regular citizens?
"non-managers / not-business-owners" usually do have a better way of using these technologies, unless the former have actually worked in the field or in the frontlines and then advanced to managers.

It might sound condescending, but a lot, and I mean a loooooot of product managers, product heads, product owners, VP's, CEO's and such don't have a clue what they're doing or experience in the real world. One might be "oh but why are they CEO then", but hell, corporate incompetence is a real thing.

I've met dozens, if not hundreds of PMs/POs who were hired based on "oh they have organisational skills and aren't an autist when it comes to talking".

>"Or who exactly are you envisioning as possessing that supposed pinnacle of human creativity"

Creative people.
It's okay to say some people aren't creative. Most ticket-dragging meeting-slacking Jira people aren't it.

I've met devs who had brilliant ideas on AI incorporation, only to be dismissed by the higher ups because they didn't understand it. I've talked to designers who's ideas could save hundreds of man-hours if implemented.

But do you really think an average VP knows that they can use their existing component library to train an MMM to output pseudo-code from screenshot and then translate that into their real, existing components? Or that an LLM could be hooked up to auto-correct the mistakes in the input of tens of thousands workers that they actually have people check, wasting human souls on what is basically input formatting? Or shit, that it could even translate John from Warehouse's data directly into monthly reports without him having to go around asking stuff and wasting everyone's time?

No, these people usually don't have a clue about the real-world process of actual work that goes on so, so of course they have a problem identifying leverage spots in it.
Pay is clearly irrelevant. White/blue collar is not defined by pay. Certain tradesmen are earning as much as SWEs – sometimes even more – but are considered blue collar by most. Again, it is about the environment in which the work is done.

Office environment is key to what you say. That is why you would be considered white collar. The literal white collars may be gone, but what you call "dressing like slobs" is just a modern adaptation of the same white collar idea.

Now, as it pertains to tellers, banks are typically considered to be an office environment, thus why most consider them to be white collar.
Does anything like the Antithesis hypervisor exist as open source?

The closest I've seen is Qemu record/replay, but that's very slow (no KVM acceleration, no multicore), and broken in current Qemu versions (replayed system just gets stuck).
Some people just can't stand that this (supposed) bubble won't pop.
As a concrete application: software development has gotten infinitely easier in recent decades. Better IDEs, fewer performance constraints, better virutalization, less worries about on-prem deployments, autocomplete, easy version control, you name it. Any given engineer should be orders of magnitude more productive - yet demand has (recent slump aside) only grown.
My wife actually liked them so much after buying them for our kids that she bought one to listen to music and podcasts around the house.