skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are absolutely correct about where we are but don't underestimate what 100s of billions of $ can build as well. There are already credible teams working on "math AI" and "truth AI" which will likely end up combing bullshit generating LLMs with traditional but automated relational db retrievals and produce output that is both believable and correct.

IMO it will be done vertical by vertical, with no standard interface coming for a while.
> If I had a dime for every time someone complains they can't make a living volunteering,

What do you mean there? That I cannot choose my tasks, my hours, my responsibilities, my involvement... and my salary as well?

The world must be coming to an end!
Yes. Reminder: "I chatted with LLM and it seemed like a human to me" is not sufficient for passing the Turing test.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
What are you talking about? Someone can't play videogames and go camping?
That's the thing though, we're already there. Every new consumer ARM and x86 ASIC is shipping with some kind of NPU, the time for tentatively testing the waters with FPGAs was a few years ago before this stuff came to market.
Is it for large projects too? Go has surprisingly fewer type gimmicks and no traits, templates or any nonsense.
I legitimately get their names mixed up, and have had a hard time in occasion wondering why open ai would be controlled by someone who seems to really like doing fraud.
Does it say anywhere what GPUs they have available?

I really need NVIDIA RTX 4000, 5000, A4000, or A6000 GPUs for their ray tracing capabilities.

Sadly I've been very limited in the cloud providers I can find that support them.
IMO, Paxos has a lot less edge cases than Raft, mostly because of the complexity of the implementation covers them/forces you to think about how to handle them.
Ukraine's new infantry conscripts 'freeze' in face of Russian onslaught
Playgrounds. To instill an early desire for engineers. They went electric.
Main character syndrome Why romanticizing your life is philosophically dubious
Haven't you already made a decision by saying "if the research finds X is true, we have a moral duty to ban gambling"? It's the is-ought problem.
I'm only a single data point, but I always wanted to teach at a university. I just didn't for the first 50 years of my life because the pay outside was so much better.

But then I finally made the scary decision to quit the track I'd been on my whole life and started teaching at a university full time. And I've never been happier. What a great, fulfilling job, to see my students run off and start careers in high spirits.

I'm not rich, but I have enough money for my modest lifestyle, and you'd have to pay me a VERY large salary (say $2 million per year) to trade my remaining life for some lousy product du jour.
If their name was "Wordpress Engine", I think you'd have a point. But I don't think the use of "WP" has the same implication. Why would Wordpress proper abbreviate their own name like that?
Thats pretty cool, expensive but nice features and so expandable. Looks like a large community too.
You're exaggerating of course, but as a matter of principle, if X is a crime, then obscuring the evidence of having done X must surely also be a separate crime in its own right? Otherwise someone would do X, then destroy the evidence and be in the clear, since original X is now impossible to prove.
>published 11 June 2024
> One regulation would be banning gambling advertising, for the same reason why smoking ads are (I think?) banned.

Generally, a law that made it illegal to advertise age-restricted activities to audiences where a significant portion of the audience would be under-age should be a workable solution. Let the courts decide what that gray area of "significant portion" is on a case by case basis.
Will my 8 year old be exposed to sports gambling commercials?
For me an onigiri with soggy and chewy seaweed is disgusting, but one of those where the seaweed stays dry and crispy until unwrapping is really tasty.

My favourite is wasabi tuna in a tube shape.
> I just cannot see trading away these to maintain software.

That's fine. Not everyone has to do OSS. It's similar to volunteering for charity (weak analogy).
If six billion dollars is all it takes to build a competitor, OpenAI doesn't deserve a 100 billion+ valuation.
I admit that my own feelings about this are heavily biased, because I _truly_ care about coding as a craft; not just a means to an end. For me, the inclusion of LLMs or AI into the process robs it of so much creativity and essence. No one would argue that a craftsman produces furniture more quickly than Wayfair, but all people would agree that the final product would be better.

It does seem inevitable that some large change will happen to our profession in the years to come. I find it challenging to predict exactly how things will play out.
Some people seems to be willing to spend significantly more if it means no one else makes a profit from it.

On a national level I understand the interest to keep investments within country borders.

For a random person or company I don't get it (except for very specific cases like voting with our wallets against dictatorships like China).
> The proper response would be a suit to enforce a trademark

Which I believe was their legal response. The problem is it should have stopped there.

I'm sure Matt's lawyers aren't very happy with him at the moment. Legally, it's usually not advantageous to retaliate so strongly and publicly. It greatly muddies the legal waters.
How shall we as a society decide who is to be denied agency in this way, because someone else determines they are to be infantilized, deemed incapable of exercising full responsibility for their own -- entirely voluntary -- actions?

Can you propose a universally acceptable formula or philosophy? Shall we just consult you on a case by case basis to determine when and where a putative power differential exists, and exactly when such a differnetial becomes large enough to verge into "unfair"?
I legitimately want to live in a world where fundamental physics is the only limiting factor to our work. That sounds like the future.
I mean, classism is about as real as racism but I don't know why one would ask about classism vs race. Class is about as not real as race; they're both things that people made up to justify their disrespectful behavior towards others.
You're mistaken. I'm not cowering in fear or fright as you imagine. I am merely pragmatic considering I have waited two years for the vehicle to be delivered and I know that if it's stolen the insurance company will not payout for a replacement vehicle. It will payout what I paid but a slightly used replacement will cost more than what I am about pay due to the constrained market for these vehicles. As for your circumstance, I'm glad you have come to a reasoning that is suitable to you.
https://archive.md/WKqxz
Sure, it isn't really the whole product, but I interpreted it as an exaggeration, meaning that easy onboarding would be very essential part of the product and which is the first thing users experience.
Anyone interested in CRPG design should really check out Tim Cain's youtube channel. He is the creator of Fallout. His channel is treasure trove of information and industry experience you won't find anywhere else.

https://www.youtube.com/@CainOnGames/videos
I run without anything on my feet.

I tried everything else before arriving at this, and it's worked for 10+ years and two marathons.

Running form: think unicycle, not pogo stick.
Many publications have long relied on outside contributors with various degrees of transparency and conflicts of interest. When blogging was the hotness, as an analyst, I contributed to CNET (unpaid; they paid some bloggers but I didn't want that conflict of interest). After CBS bought them and the whole blog climate changed (and I moved to a vendor), I stopped doing that. But a ton of that sort of thing went on in the tech trade press--some good and some almost certainly not so good.
DoubleClick slowly killed Google search because the best way to make money in display ads is to run clickbait.

In the one hand, Google paid good quality websites more money for trash content and engagement bait than quality content. So they adapted to that new market reality.

Meanwhile, the real money maker - Search - gradually got filled up with lower quality content and now it’s imploding.

Google buying DoubleClick has a lot of parallels to what happened with Boeing.
Sure, but this scales rather poorly. How many robots do you expect, and don't you expect some resistance from the public, for privacy reasons at the least?
100%. I find a good bit of his wisdom is broadly useful, at least in software development, and not just game dev.
This is why we need regular government inspections that will make such disclosures inevitable. It's kind of insane that we don't already have an EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) of citizen data management.
Thanks for the feedback! I appreciate it.
(1) Academics could make an FPGA but not an ASIC, (2) FPGA is a first step to make an ASIC
...And they aren't unreasonable when these things have been rendered non-rivalrous goods.

Tell me, what price should your parents have charged you for teaching you to tie your shoes? To cook? To clean? Get back to me when the cost of digital reproduction requires factories, and trucking fleets, and paper mills. Oh wait... It doesn't. It requires transliteration to the written word, document layout, and maybe a little marketing so the world knows it's there.

If the paper book can be delivered for $8.99, there is no excuse for the ebook to be $8.99 per reader en perpetuity. Even Thomas Jefferson bloody understood that concept 200 years ago. One who lights their own candle off of another's leaves the one who was lit off of none the worse. So to with knowledge. The owners of industrial printing presses are just terrified of the possibility of the dawn of their own irrelevance. So they dump what money they get in creating artificial information asymmetries to exploit tor profit. And therein lay the root of all evil.
It's going to be very funny in the next few years when Accenture et al charge the government billions for a simple Java crud website thing that's entirely GPT-generated, and it'll still take 3 years and not be functional. Ironically, it'll be of better quality then they'd deliver otherwise.

This is probably already happening.
Heating and AC. We use them way more than Europeans.
But the NPU might be poorly designed for your model or workload or just poorly designed.
Didn't one-byte man do a good review on this product?
Season 4 released in Sept 2024! https://www.tomsguide.com/news/apple-tv-plus-free-trials
I'm with you on this. My learning style is to read the reference manual cover to cover (metaphorically now). I can recall numerous instances of wanting to get into a new thing and finding the vast majority of recommended introductions to be the polar opposite of what I was looking for.

I'm going through this now as I decided to spend some time today learning the Drizzle ORM. The first things I found were all "here are half a dozen examples of queries", and I started getting frustrated: why are you using that syntax and not something else? What are the other options? I closed those and I'm much happier doing it my way: reading every page of the documentation before doing anything else.
4 times as efficient as on the SoC's low end arm cores, soo many times less efficient than on modern GPUs I guess?

Not that I was expecting GPU like efficiency from a fairly small scale FPGA project. Nvidia engineers spent thousands of man-years making sure that stuff works well on GPUs.
Why is that the standard? We're in the real world not magic libertarian logic automaton world. We have the ability to judge social harm and weigh it against the benefits and make nuanced decisions

edit: like how we've managed to do with literally every single other law?
I have to say showing you content from blocked channels is the most user hostile thing I encounter on a daily basis.

The contempt for one’s users is such a defining feature of this era of late-stage tech.
There’s an Onigilly in FiDi but my favorite is the Japanese market in Nob Hill on Polk.
Crime pays?
I'll grant that we could send humans to mars sooner if we really wanted to. My point is that not achieving a bigger dream doesn't make current progress a hype wave followed by a winter.

And "LLM's just make plausible looking but incorrect text" is silly when that text is more correct than the average adult a large percentage of the time.
It's not my first time using LLMs and you're assuming too much.
I suspect a lot of people would be eager to know the names of these banks that let customers operate without KYC for awhile.
> And that doesn't make the software any less FOSS.

Yes it does. It makes for an useless unreachable repository without even a README that nobody knows about. That's not open source/free software. Developing free software successfully means managing all the things around distributing, documentation and community management and it is that what makes people sour as the benefit of it goes to big corps and startup pockets.

Putting your code into www.mywebsitenobodyknows.com isn't open source/free software
> For me the only sane way out was to pass the helm

That's what I did.

The good news is, the folks that took it over, have added so much good stuff, that my original code is almost gone.

I've written software that was still in use, 25 years later. It gets "stepped on," along the way, and that's actually great. It can be ego-deflating, but I've found the cure is to walk away, and work on something new.
it sounds like the author was looking to achieve some level of "success" in the open-source world. finding "success" (depending on your definition) is possible, but i think it's a mistake to go in looking for it. open source is and always will be the holding up the foundations of everything we build. it's our most important shared resource. without open source software, the software industry would not exist. full stop.
Can you show me where the garbage content is? They seem to all have experts that have written in these areas for decades.
> Are they hard to make at home?

Not at all. You need the right type of rice (and a rice cooker helps). There are many options for the filling, some of which don't even require a trip to the Asian grocery store.
I can appreciate that he put the analysis out but you can bet that he didn't do it to help other people. He did it to portray himself in a certain light. As I said there are many reasons why this is not helpful. Those are the thoughts that the blog post provoked in my mind, and I am one to geek out on the arcane sometimes too.

I didn't say I was the keeper of his time or that he's smoking weed and playing games daily, or that he should. I don't smoke weed or play games either. I'm just saying he should put all that energy into something better.
I write this from Firefox running under Debian GNU/Linux. The computer I write is on was purchased out of income I got from (from other things) creating programs in Python, using Django web framework, and deploying them alongside Nginx.

Firefox, Debian, Linux, GNU stack, Python, Django, Nginx ... all are open source (and so are hundreds or thousands of other software parts I use daily).

I, personally, have immensely benefted from open source and free software. So have uncounted millions of other people, including, most likely, you.
It makes cheaper people also more productive and
> Telegram’s encryption and anonymity provide a readymade technological platform for illicit activity, helping people to overcome information barriers and gaps in the circulation of information

That sentence is definitely in the "services like Telegram should not exist" camp. I wouldn't call the entire article a "hit piece" but the author is definitely trying to sway minds in favor of more government crackdowns on apps like Telegram.
First Past the Post: Evaluating Query Optimization in MongoDB
Who is the mythical non-echo-chamber informative challenging news source?
One fascinating aspect is that gambling addicts are basically paying for my podcast listening habit.

So much of advertising is pushing stuff that is exploitative of some hope -- wealth, health, etc. -- the makes people susceptible to things with questionable efficacy.
With enough land and disposable income you could build a 1:1 scale model railroad.
> the entire `cups-browsed` daemon should probably stop existing

It's a legacy component that you don't need with modern printers - cups itself only support IPP Everywhere (printer discovery via mDNS) these days.
A 20 TB HDD is <$400

An 8 TB SSD is >$600

$80/TB vs $20/TB is a four fold increase.

Also a 16 TB drive is $2,000 so more like a 5x increase in a data center setup.
You're so close, but so far.

What happens if the banks don't close it?
Having implemented it twice (for fun/learning, though) I think you're right - yet it's also the easiest, imho. The paper, and resources around implementing it (posts, other implementations) are great. Also, the authors still reply on github when issues are opened, which is great.
They have a youtube channel that isn't bad either: https://www.youtube.com/user/IntlSpyMuseum
Automattic and Matt have been good stewards of WordPress and it's hard for me to fault him for trying to get some money from people who've built their whole business on the back of his team & free software contributors' generosity.

The free software world still has no good answer to the free rider problem. This is the same problem with AWS/ElasticSearch
It's good research but whatever you think about the value of the content on those sites, I think the word "fake" in the headline is misleading clickbait.

These sites are officially linked to from the parents (CNN and USA Today in this case), with whom they no doubt have a revenue-sharing agreement. They're very real in all senses of the word. The third party in question (Forbes marketplace) is not trying to fraudulently set up some parallel CNN and USA Today websites without their authorization.
>> Do you think one could find a software that downloads something nonfree in the FSF Free Software Directory? I do not expect that.

> Typically, Firefox with the non-free extensions.

It's not there: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fdirect...

> but I don't believe the fsf-approved distro criteria help a lot, they are so impractical

They are, but it's by design. You are not supposed to follow them as an ordinary user. They were created in order to show the one true freedom as it should exist.
Related, around 2000, knowing which hardware device to buy for any/good Linux compatibility could be difficult.

And even among supported devices, some had better drivers (currently, or imminently), and some hardware itself was buggier than others.

I had access to some kernel developers, but they didn't have time for people's FAQs about current device compatibility.

So what I really did do, at least once, was to narrow down the options on my own, and then (lying) mention, in the enthusiastic manner that people did, that I'd just ordered such-and-such device for Linux.

As you'd guess, but it was still impressive to see happen for real, suddenly there were a number of experts telling me what I should've bought instead.

Question answered. I then admitted my deceit.
Active voice is difficult in technical and scientific writing for sure :)
> Locomotive engine must be disabled per a state grant funding agreement.

What a dumb requirement. It's like the cash-for-clunkers program requiring the engines to be destroyed.

The service life of a locomotive is effectively infinite - even after their useful freight days are done, they usually get refitted and sent to the developing world, or converted into a fixed power generator.
Helmholtz didn't say a brain was like a telegraph; he was talking about the peripheral nervous system. And he was right, signals sent from visual receptors and pain receptors are the same stuff being interpreted differently, just as telegraphing "Blue" and "Ouch" would be. That and the spirit of the gods have no place on this list and strain the argument.

Hydraulics, gear systems, and computers are all Turing complete. If you're not a dualist, you have to believe that each of these would be capable of building a brain.

The history described here is one where humans invent a superior information processor, notice that it and humans both process information, and conclude that they must be the same physically. The last step is obviously flawed, but they were hardly going to conclude that the brain processes information with electricity and neurotransmitters when the height of technology was the gear.

Nowadays, we know the physical substrate that the brain uses. We compare brains to computers even though we know there are no silicon microchips or motherboards with RAM slots involved. We do that because we figured out that it doesn't matter what a machine uses to compute; if it is Turing complete, it can compute exactly as much as any other computer, no more, no less.
The desirable quantity is the result not the mechanics specifically that one can simply open windows on any display and move them between monitors without worrying about scaling. Ideally an element on one ought to be the same number of mm should you pull out a ruler.

This is easily achievable on X11 and its easily done with Wayland.

You mentioned not being able to do scaling per window. Well only with xwayland do you ever need to do so. You need it to be smarter than it is and so scaling on xwayland sucks in a way that isn't a factor in X or Wayland.

Since Wayland is dependant on xwayland for unsupported apps and mixed DPI + xwayland sucks effectively only Wayland sucks at mixed DPI.
There is also no real benefit to storing passwords in plaintext so I don't think your fear is realistic at all. If you are going to fine this at all, then 10k-100k would be an appropriate amount.
My first HN post, in 2017 :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14145252
Ah fascinating. Yes many years of family working at food banks... There's endless healthy food. It's actually costly to get rid of it.
The wrappers where the seaweed is kept separate from the rice until you unwrap it are such a good innovation.
I like this take on modern tech motivations.

The thing that I struggle with is I agree with it, but I also get a lot of value in using AI to make me more productive - to me, it feels like it lets me focus on producing substance and actions, freeing me up from having to some tedious things in some tedious ways. Without getting into the debate about if it's productive overall, there are certain tasks which it feels irrefutably fast and effective at (e.g. writing tests).

I do agree with the missing substance with modern generative AI: everyone notices when it's producing things in that uncanny valley, and if no human is there to edit that, it makes people uncomfortable.

The only way I can reconcile the almost existential discomfort of AI against my actual day-to-day generally-positive experience with AI is to accept that AI in itself isn't the problem. Ultimately, it is an info tool, and human nature makes people spam garbage for clicks with it.

People will do the equivalent of spam garbage for clicks with any new modern thing, unfortunately.

Getting the most out of latest information of a society has probably always been a cat and mouse game of trying to find the areas where the spam-garbage-for-clicks people haven't outnumbered use-AI-to-facilitate-substance people, like here, hopefully.
There's actually numerous small regional freight railways, again. They're hungry for gear and bodging together all sorts of antiques to make stuff run, I gather.

The private collectors of rail stock still exist, but they're getting less common.

The weight is actually easy to deal with: you put the car on a section of rail. This spreads the load over a wide area just as happens when they're in use.