skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that writing a good book is vastly more difficult than writing a mediocre book. The distance between incoherent babble and a mediocre book is smaller than the distance between a mediocre book and a great book. Most people can write professional looking text just by putting in a little bit of effort.
I mean, Nvidia ended up buying 3dfx and using some of their SLI tech for a while. But then it turns out DLSS and frame generation were much better ways at increasing FPS and quality.

PC gaming was always a niche market relative to the consoles, and it will probably remain so. But also, it's never looked better, had such a great selection (especially indie games), or been this affordable (between Gamepass, GeForce Now, and various publisher subs). For like $30/mo you can play many of the latest amazing games on max graphics without owning a GPU at all.

I hope, like servers, more and more of this moves to the cloud. It doesn't make sense to run much of this workload locally when they can be more efficiently managed and shared in data centers anyway, with better power and cooling management than most home PCs could have.
Nope. A Kodi box is really the best option here.
>Their workstation cards with 48GB are also reasonably priced... with 3-4k pricing.

That's twice the price of a 4090. You can't tell me the extra RAM costs that much.
Like Microsoft GitHub?
No, it is already confirmed that Wero will (also) replace iDEAL in 2025. Currently, iDEAL is also the base for payment requests (payments between friends). But iDEAL is also definitely an alternative to Paypal for buying stuff from online stores.

While Wero will not replace Stripe or Adyen, as these companies provide payment services, it does give companies better negotiation power. If an internal team of a big corp can build a payment integration themselves, they can negiogate a cheaper price at these. Before Wero, you would need to implement iDEAL, Bancontact, Trustly Sofort, Giropay, Przelewy24, Multiblanco, Paylib, and many many others. After Wero, its just one service targeting entire EU.
FYI you can use a universal infrared remote with Apple TV, which might have larger buttons or a more familiar interface. I have mixed feelings myself about the "touchpad" in the apple remote.
The point I was trying to make was that keeping the technological manufacturing expertise alive is valuable in itself, even besides the geopolitical advantage of having the system itself in place. By retaining the ability to get payloads into space and use as well as operate an independent positioning system, even if a political conflict with former partners arises, the EU can make its foreign policy decisions without fear of retaliation through technology dependencies—or phrased differently, we avoid being vulnerable to extortion.

The key to this ability really is to keep the knowledge alive and the related industries strong, to be able to tap into it when it's necessary. And that involves having a broad range of companies actively involved into creating critical components.
Launching an online store to sell open science hardware
"Race realism" is pseudoscientific racism. Racism in a cheap suit.

I bet if you sat down and thought about it, you could come up with some valid arguments against both of those things.
There's no LLM for which that is true or we'd all be fired.
Not that long ago I was tasked with cleaning up a Git repo, created on a case-sensitive Mac, that had multiple files with names that collided when checked out on a case-insensitive Mac. That ordeal made me want to hang up my keyboard, move to the country, and spend the rest of my days fixing power lawn equipment.
Design is the new startup moat
I live in Dublin where a lot of the tech developement centres for many online bookmaker and casinos are based. I have been approached by recruiters for some of them and even though they offer VERY generous packages I refuse to work for them on moral grounds.

The thing that bothers me the most is that they know a lot of poitential employees have issues with the whole sector, so they try to give it a false veneer of acceptability. A good example of that was that both Paddy Power and Boyle Sports referred to themselves as suppliers of "risk-based entertainment" in their recruitment literature, something I found to be very sleazy.

I also know people who work for some of these companies and they tell me that all their talk about caring for problem gamblers is complete nonsense and that they actively seek ways to lure back problem gamblers who were able to quit.

It's also very weird that as governments around the world are cracking down on alcohol poromotion at the same time they seem to be encouraging the promotion of gambling. I would say gambling can do as much harm to a family as alcohol addiction can. I'm frankly shocked at the amount of gambling adverts there are these days. And so many of them carry the subtle sub-text that if you don't bet on your team then you aren't a true fan.

The problem is that people will gamble no matter what, so providing a safe way to do so is better than banning it. I agree with you that it's all about to what degree you allow gambling. At the very least I would ban advertising as it's effectively normalising something that most definitely should not be normalised.
The context you are missing is that the person who had discovered this vulnerability has mad it up to be basically on the line of a easily doable RCE in every server you have (and every desktop Linux). Something which if you work in a position related to system administration can easily mean a bunch of unplanned overtime. Which is very very different to the IRL situation of "oh we are most most likely not affected but to be sure just disable printer discovery temporary".

The post isn't meant to be dismissive of there being a vulnerability, it's dismissive of it being "so bad you can pawn all Linux systems ever", especially in context of servers. And if I had to guess it partially exist so that if people (as in people doing sysadmin stuff) consult here she can point them to the blog post instead of repeating herself over and over.

Through in general I agree that there are parts of the Linux community which do not handle security concerns well at all.

But also there is a trend of people which do not understand what they are talking about and refuse to learn or people which just want a ton of attention blowing up security issues out of proportion again and again. And that is bad kinda like the story of the child who yelling wolf except it's like 50 adults yelling wolf. It also can lead to all kind of other personal annoyances like you having to unnecessarily doing overtime and wasting time with having people to tell again and again "yes we are fine, this doesn't affect us, actually this doesn't affect most server setups. Yes they said otherwise, yes they knowingly misrepresented facts when they announced that there will be a vulnerability beforehand, no they never had a good reputation but we have to take them serious anyway, etc. etc.". So I have quite a bit of understanding for some people in the field being sometimes quite annoyed (not for all of them tho).

(Also to I think you might be reading a bit too much into here blog post and my comments above where meant to be "in general" not specific to the blog post.)
Clitorides? Come on, your pulling our legs.
Open tools for open science: open-source scientific instruments
The problem is that publishers, being the middleman, take over authors the same way the supermarket network takes over the food producers. Publishers own the shelf and a price label, and being less numerous and more organized, they can effectively own the audience's attention. They can help, they can also shut author down. They're not ultimately interested in maximizing availability, because they profit directly from the gap.
That's why they need restrictions and ways around them.
Valve does a lot of hacks in Proton to make particular games run better. I think swapping a static library might also be possible if you target a particular game.
I've found myself stuck out of the office in minus fifteen degrees because the keylock app had stopped working due to a backend upgrade gone subtly bad.

Fortunately this was in an urban area and I could find a cafe that was open within the walking distance. I don't know if they allowed pets to thaw in there. It took about an hour for maintenance to open the doors (with a damned key) and let people in.
This is how i use hn. Comments first.
I have a neighbor who has this problem with bootleg audio cassettes. Concert recordings mostly. I keep begging him to back them up to digital and even gave him a little usb interface he could do it with.

He talks about this collection with such pride, it’s hard for me to imagine not future proofing at least your favorite ones, but there’s no convincing some people.
You've misconstrued my point entirely
I think the old adage, "don't let perfect be the enemy of good" applies here. Some battles are fought one excruciating step at a time
I was listening to an interview few months ago (forgot the name). He is a prolific reader/writer and has a huge following. He mentioned that he only reads books that are at least 50 years old, so pre 70s. That sounds like a good idea now.

Even ignoring the AI, if you look at the movies and books that come out these days, their quality is significantly lower than 30-40 years ago (on an average). Maybe people's attention spans and taste is to blame, or maybe people just don't have the money/time/patience to consume quality work... I do not know.

One thing I know for sure - there is enough high quality material written before AI, before article spinners, before MFA sites etc. We would need multiple lifetimes to even scratch the surface of that body of work. We can ignore mostly everything that is published these days and we won't be missing much
I'm tired of technology.

I don't think there has ever been a single tech news that brought me joy in all my life. First I learned how to use computers, and then it has been downhill ever since.

Right now my greatest joy is in finding things that STILL exist rather than new things, because the things that still exist are generally better than anything new.
Claude is actually surprisingly good at fixing bugs as well. Feed it a code snippet and either the error message or a brief description of the problem and it will in many cases generate new code that works.
When you spend this much money on clothes and shoes it’s not for functional reasons.

Also, you keep it in your wardrobe. Do you not have a wardrobe?
New Chinese nuclear attack submarine sank, U.S. officials says
Why not learn to enjoy life knowing you get a second chance instead ?:

https://github.com/rushsteve1/trash-d
I agree about auto-complete, but already the editor Brief for MS-DOS, at least some 35 years ago, allowed you to define arbitrary templates for auto-completion.

For example, when writing a C program you could choose to have "f<TAB>" expanded to "for (=; <=; ++) {<LF><TAB>;<LF>}<LF>" or whatever indentation you preferred.

There are many modern programming editors that allow a similar customization, though unfortunately for many of them this requires a more complicated procedure than in the far past.

For any programming language with a verbose syntax, I consider necessary to take your time and define in your editor templates that would allow the fast writing of any program structure with a minimum number of key presses.
What is the harmless dose? One join per year? Per month? Per week? Per day? Several per day, as I often saw in my youth? My father was addicted to cannabis, I can tell you that it reduces a lot ones' life outcomes and has consequences on your family.
> dies a forever painful death involving a car covered in hammers that explodes more than a few times and hammers go flying everywhere

Full quote. This is ridiculous, and to me looks more than a little tongue in cheek.

Hoping for people's death isn't good, but this isn't a threat. It's an expression of frustration, and people think these things, and sometimes say them out loud. And there's a huge power imbalance here.
California prop 65
That is all nonsense.
This 100%. When I still built PCs, I'd usually throttle the heck out of the GPU and CPU fan curves and keep them off or just barely on but inaudible. Usually that'd mean going down to medium settings or so, but games still look good enough (and run at a high FPS) it doesn't really matter. And that made the in-room experience a lot nicer.

I wonder how DLSS and frame gen affects power usage. Presumably they save power vs drawing real frames, but I haven't tested it...?
People who pay up for a nice pair of selvedge jeans, such as the Levi's reproductions of early-mid 1900s denim, tend to wear the same pair every day, wear them into the shower if they're too dirty, and keep wearing them as they dry. That way, the fit conforms to your body over time, and the fabric develops a patina and becomes more comfortable with time. Modern mass-produced denim does not have this property. I own a drier that I don't use, and I am consistently amazed at how few people make the connection that the stuff in their lint trap at the end of the cycle is their clothes.
It looks like the binary is $5 but it’s an open source electron app, so pretty easy to just clone the repo and build it yourself
About the first item on your wishlist: If by "brackets" you mean {} (in C-like languages), there are IDEs that can be configured to create pairs of them every time you hit return after an expression that can take them. The downside (if you care) is that, if you wanted to write an if, while, or for with only one line, and therefore no scope delimiters, it will force you to create the scope anyway. You may not care.

If by "brackets", you mean [], to access an element of an array or vector or map or whatever, yes, it could do that as soon as you gave it the name of an array or vector or map or whatever. But then if you wanted to deal with the array or vector or map as a whole (which you want to do sometimes), the brackets have to go. I would estimate that 30% of the time I want to deal with the array as a whole, so such a feature would be annoying and in my way 1/3 of the time.

Terminators are a win more of the time. But when they're not, I meant to be continuing one line of code across two lines of file. If it auto-added a terminator (semicolon, say) at the end of the first line as it opened the second, I might not even notice until compile time. That would be highly annoying.

Public and private I don't want determined by a tool auto-determining the "most efficient" set. I want them determined by my sense of what the class is, and therefore what the public interface should be. Some of the things that are private are less efficient, but are private because they're implementation details and I don't want callers able to fiddle with them.

So, that's my whiny personal take on some things on your list. Maybe I've adapted myself to the existing tools. But I personally think that many of your items, if you implement them, you will find that you don't really like how they work out.
Microsoft punts plan for new AI 365 bundles
To be fair, hard drives are not necessarily more future-proof than audio cassettes. A hard drive typically lasts, what, 10 years, whereas a cassette tape is probably good for 50 years. You need to back up the digital copy onto different devices.
PostCSS – a tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript
Yes, but it is not currently the "vast majority of human history".

The main issue I think though with discussing things like this on an Internet site is that the world is not homogeneous. In order to have a reasonable discussion we have to exclude obvious edge cases like how there is luck involved in not being born in North Korea.
I really believe that the front-end part can be mostly automated (the html/CSS at least), copilot is close imho (microsoft+github, I used both), but really they're useless to do anything else complex without making to much calls, proposing bad data structures, using bad /old code design.
It's only as good as its training data.

Step outside of building basic web/CRUD apps and its accuracy drops off substantially.

Also almost every library it uses is old and insecure.
Sadly, I'm getting Terry Davis vibes from this particular developer. I hope they seek help.
I think this is what the kids call "copium". To be honest, when people think like this it makes me smile. I'd rather compete against people programming on punchcards.
I would argue that they are the same thing.
Which still doesn't mean exposing everything publicly, but that is a different discussion.

In general I agree, most people affected probably didn't choose to expose the port it just "somehow accidentally happened".
>Nvidia ended up buying 3dfx and using some of their SLI tech for a while

The SLI Nvidia used had nothing to do with the tech from 3df besides the initials and the general idea of the concept, especially since the way the Nvidia GPUs worked at the time Nvidia dropped SLI was totally different than the way 3dfx's 3d accelerators worked.
I agree with you they're not the same, but to build on that, I would add that they're not entirely orthogonal either, they influence each other a lot. Generally morallity that a society agrees on gets enforced as laws.
I don't think that applies to the arts
Agreed, but when will the exponential bend over. Moore's law went on for a long time, industrial revolution, population growth. Very hard to know in advance.
When I was interviewing at my last company, during the raising bar interview, the interviewer said that he looked at my personal website, liked it, and was really impressed by it. Then we spent one hour chatting about our experiences. So, I can say that it definitely helped me get hired.
https://andlukyane.com/blog/
I didn't say stupid but sometimes people asking in a way which might not feel legimate / honest.
It describes bad startups.
If all you bring to the table is the ability to reimplement simple web apps to spec, then sooner or later you probably will be fired.
Right -- this is much like alcohol, something which is roughly as dangerous as gambling -- but also as enjoyable to people who can do it responsibly.

It's not a choice between prohibition and selling it in the grocery store. There are many nuances in between.
Ah OK, thanks for the correction!
As Spolsky said a long time ago:

> It’s harder to read code than to write it.
LlamaF: An Efficient Llama2 Architecture Accelerator on Embedded FPGAs
Sorry, but I think the original article is more insightful about the complexity and reality of making chips, which TSMC knows well, compared to moonshots by people who don't fully understand the intricacies of the semiconductors supply chain.
George Zarkadaki: In Our Own Image (2015) describes six metaphors people have used to explain human intelligence in the last two millennia. At first it was the gods infusing us with spirit. After that it's always been engineering: after the first water clocks and the qanat hydraulics seemed a good explanation of everything. The flow of different fluids in the body, the "humors" explained physical and mental function. Later it was mechanical engineering. Some of the greatest thinkers of the 1500s and 1600s -- including Descartes and Hobbes -- assured us it was tiny machines, tiny mechanical motions. In the 1800s Hermann von Helmholtz compared the brain to the telegraph. So of course after the invention of computers came the metaphor of the brain as a computer. This became absolutely pervasive and we have a very hard time describing our thinking without falling back to this metaphor. But, of course, it's just a metaphor and much as our brain is not a tiny machine made out of gear it's also not "prima facie digital" despite that's what John von Neumann claimed in 1958. It is, indeed, quite astonishing how everyone without any shred of evidence just believes this. It's not like John von Neumann gained some sudden insight into the actual workings of the brain. Much as his forefathers he saw semblance in the perceived workings of the brain and the latest in engineering and so he stated immediately that's what it is.

Our everyday lives should make it evident how much the working of our brain doesn't resemble that of our computers. Our experiences change our brains somehow but exactly how we don't have the faintest idea about and we can re-live these experiences somewhat which creates a memory but the mechanism is by no means perfect. There's the Mandela Effect https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36219739/ and of course "tip of my tongue" where we almost remember a word and then perhaps minutes or hours later it just bursts into our consciousness. If it's a computer why is learning so hard? Read something and bam, it's written in your memory, right? Right? Instead, there's something incredibly complex going on, in 2016 an fMRI study was made among the survivors of a plane crash and large swaths of the brain lit up upon recall. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27158567/ Our current best guess is somehow its the connections among neurons which change and some of these connections together form a memory. There are 100 trillion connections in there so we certainly have our task cut.

And so we are here where people believe they can copy human intelligence when they do not even know what they are trying to copy falling for the latest metaphor of the workings of the human brain believing it to be more than a metaphor.
A selfie is meant to tell us, your audience, a story about you and the journey you’re on. Selfies are a great tool for telling stories, in fact. One selfie can say a thousand words, and then some.

But a selfie taken and then modified to lie to the audience about your story or your journey is simply a fiction. People create fictions to either lie to themselves or to lie to others. Sometimes they’re not about lying to the audience but just manipulating them.

People’s viewpoints and perceptions are malleable. It’s easy to trick people into thinking something is true. Couple this with the fact a lot of people are gullible and shallow, and suddenly a selfie becomes a sales tool. A marketing gimmick. Now, finally, take advances in AI to make it easier, faster, and more accessible to make highly believable fictions and yes, as you said, the selfie loses its value.

But that’s always been the case since and even before Photoshop. Since and before the silicon microprocessor.

All AI is going to do for selfies is what Photoshop has done for social media “Influencers” — enable more fiction with the goal to transfer wealth from other people.
Whenever I’m introduce a friend to the JLeague, 90% of the time the first they compliment is the lack of gambling adds. It really is a breath of fresh air. And I believe that if the JLegaue used this point in its international marketing, it would work to get a lot of people tired of gambling ads to want to follow the league.
Why buy stakes and not the whole thing to block your competitors from making deals with them? This is big corp 101 and has happened countless times. It's even more likely if OpenAI is to be a $7T company in the future. Such an acquisition would be approved in a second... if the hype was real.
Sam is basically a marketing person at this point. If you have the chops to be a leading AI dev, then you likely don’t need or want someone like him to skim a big chunk off of top.
Most of north america is still on 10 amp circuits to the breaker.
Wukong's global success sparks government embrace of video games as soft power
There will be a whole industry of people who fix what AI has created. I don't know if it will be faster to build the wrong thing and pay to have it fixed or to build the right thing from the get go, but after having seen some shit, like you, I have a little idea.
Hail Zuckus Maximus Master of the metaverse is finally sorry for being sorry