skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the person wins their first bet they are very likely to let their winnings ride until it is lost.

If the person loses their first bet, and it's against another player, then not only have they potentially hooked in a new player but they also rewarded an active user.

If the person loses their first bet and it's against the house then they just attracted a potential new player while paying $0.
I didn’t say macro scale, I said Los Angeles that’s the problem.

Pretty much everything required to build housing, wood, labor, pre-approved land is in a massive shortage that we can’t spend money to fix.

So more money to simple pump demand for all those things will have a massive inflationary impact.
Hopefully some teachers are actively looking for which approach students need, like you are.

I always found the focus on say audio vs visual learning styles to be strange because for me, abstract vs concrete is much more important.

Showing a collection of examples to illustrate an abstraction is fundamentally kind of bizarre to me, especially when the abstraction is short and easy to state. Because really, the concrete examples might have many things in common and I won’t be sure which ones the teacher wishes to indicate.

This problem is more obvious with math/code maybe, but I see the same issues with teaching / learning things like philosophy and history. Examples very often just obscure the lesson for me, especially when they come first. Just hit me with the abstraction and generalities first so I can orient, then I can understand which part of the concrete examples I’m supposed to consider.
Ah. I see where you’re coming from but don’t really agree - I think you’re (understandably!) bringing in that assumption yourself from general climate worries. Countries have boundaries that you can come back from after crossing, as do people. I mean, they’re kinda describing the framework directly.

How else would you phrase it? “About to cross a line indicating serious danger”? Maybe “approaching a scientific benchmark tied to catastrophic risk”?
If you think TabNine was doing years ago what LLMs are doing today, then I can't convince you.

We'll talk in a year or so.
At least they don't take people's jobs away or threaten / replace them. Unlike AI, which also burns GPUs, emits CO2 and the money is all evaporated into inference and training costs with little to no efficient alternatives to reduce it and also wasting tons of water.

Cryptocurrencies at least have alternative efficient methods of consensus, such as proof-of-stake making it possible to reduce the said resources as much as 95%.

AI (Deep Learning) still does not have practical efficient and viable greener alternatives to neither inference or training in production.
This is floorplanning the blocks, not every feature. We are talking dozens to hundreds of blocks, not billions-trillions of gates and wires.

I assume that the human benchmark is a human using existing EDA tools, not a guy with a pocket protector and a roll of tape.
You’re acting as if computing power isn’t going to get better. With time training the models will get faster.

Let me use CG rendering as an example. Back in the day only the big companies could afford to do photoreal 3D rendering because only they had access to the compute and even then it would take days to render a frame.

Eventually people could do these renders at home with consumer hardware but it still took forever to render.

Now we can render photoreal with path tracing at near realtime speeds.

If you could go back twenty years and show CG artists the Unreal Engine 5 and show them it’s all realtime they would lose their minds.

I see the same for A.I., now it’s only the big companies that can do it, then we will be able to do it at home but it will be slow and finally we will be able to train it at home for quick and cheap.
I wonder what kind of hardware debugging could be used to find the source of the leak. Could they spacewalk to the exterior of the tunnel and then emit some kind of detectible but inert gas from the interior to see where it appears outside? I suppose even if you found the leak there would still be some challenges in sealing it, especially if it's a growing leak like the data suggests. Would be a good experience for future space station maintenance though.
The modern era of humans roughly coincides with Earth's coldest period over the last 485M years: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk3705

Even some of the worst predictions for where temperatures are headed before we get close to Net Zero emissions don't put us above historical averages.

To be clear, if the worst predictions come to light, that will be bad for people. But the planet will be fine.

I doubt some extra solar radiation will turn the Earth into Venus or Mars.
Clojure not developed in the same way - it's really conservative about backwards compatibility and puts a lot of thought in existing users. Electric is still making backwards incompatible changes, in contrast.

You're probably thinking about the open source community developed project vs "it's not a democracy" aspect where Clojure is definitely in the latter camp.
This is true. This is also rare in modern code, and impossible with standard library. Other libraries too are expected to adhere to nullability, which is a default whenever you create a new project, and many use the same WarningsAsErrors: nullable option on top of Nullable: enable set everywhere.

At the end of the day, scenarios like a library spawning a Goroutine which tries to dereference a null where it doesn't expect and experiencing an unhandled panic, crashing the application, are practically impossible in .NET. It is not necessarily watertight, especially around JSON serialization, but it certainly evokes a "can't believe you guys still struggle with nulls/nils" kind of reaction.
Im tired of people throwing chatgpt everywhere they can just to say they use AI. Even if it's a useless feature
Ahh. Good point.

Around here people are often very well armed but only military and politice are allowed to use firearms.
I almost forgot about these! The common triangular shape didn't make it easy to make it work, but they managed anyway. Pretty cool.

I know onigiri from a Japan trip but usually don't buy them in Germany because they are expensive here. Supermarket sushi (sounds strange, but there is actually good supermarket sushi made in a little store-in-store) doesn't cost much more.
Here in Brazil, I've seen some people starting to suspect on web influencers for money laundering. Pick your niece/nephew, start a social media account, buy followers/likes then start laundering the money on fake ads and partnerships.
There is no such thing as "quality time" together, there is only time together.

Bigs things happen in the little moments, and you have to have those little moments for them to happen.
Dual-layer LCD is best thought of as a separate technology from tandem OLED, due to being transmissive rather than emissive. In many respects, it surpasses OLED, which is why mastering monitors used in Hollywood still employ this technology. Unfortunately, the poor efficiency and excessive energy consumption/heat output have hindered its adoption in the consumer market.
I like the idea of reclaiming the word "buy" to only be the traditional type of ownership transfer (first sale doctrine or whatever if it's a copyrighted thing). Mandate the use of the word "license" or "rent" if it's something else
The following appears to be true:

If one spends a lot of years reading a lot of stuff, they come to this conclusion, that most of it cannot be trusted. But it takes lots of years and lots of material to see it.

If they don't, they don't.
Humanity needs to stop flying all the time.
I'll be your friend and enable you to spend all of your money for 1% of any earnings you make.
Planet Earth will be fine. It survived much worse than some little human emissions. The meteor and winter that followed that killed off the dinosaurs was much worse than some elevated CO2. Whether humanity survives this is another question. My bet is we will, since we are like roaches. But many will die for the sins of the few. Interestingly, these few who will survive are probably the ones who created this mess and can afford to. The many that will die are probably for the better anyway. The future of humanity is not yet decided, but it will take a great leap of tech to overcome this. One thing is for sure: we cant save the Planet by trying to "save the planet", meaning downsize, recycle, emit less etc. Exactly like one cannot become a millionaire by saving. We need to invest in our future and find efficient ways to extract CO2 from the atmosphere and convert it to power. Optimize and cheapen stuff like E-Diesel made from atmospheric CO2 and hydrogen from desalinated seawater using solar and wind. And stop giving space and time to idiots from Extinction Rebellion and The Last Generation. I hope not all here are brainwashed and understand what I'm saying.
SWE in security here. Why the heck would I "whistleblow" in a scenario where a vulnerability was internally found, unused, reported to legal, and fixed? That is part of any healthy SDLC.

The EU is implying that it is illegal to accidentally write vulnerable code. Pure insanity, nearly every software company would go out of business overnight if this was a stance they actually enforced.
Ah yes, the myriad aspects of quality of life that has degraded over decades.

https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty-in-brief

https://www.wsj.com/articles/climate-activists-disasters-fir...
That sounds incredibly cool - have you written up anything about it? I would love to learn more about it.
Sorry about the interruption! We migrated away from Ghost and not sure how you ended up with that URL but we're adding a redirect. Have a good catch up :-)
This is absurd. If there was a screen on the infotainment system where you could allow (temporarily!) the local service center of your choice to access your car remotely, fine. Otherwise, no thanks.
Remote code doesn’t load correctly sometimes, just a fact of life in a distributed system. Maybe loading it locally reduces that to almost zero, but I’d still be more comfortable risking my life with a desktop app.
I must be old because first thing I thought reading AlphaChip was why is deepmind talking about chips in DEC Alpha :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha.
This kind of stuff I like reading on HN!
This highlights the problem very well. Robots, and AI, to an extent, are highly efficient in a single problem domain, but fail rapidly when confronted with a combination of them. An encapsulated factory is one thing, laying bricks, outdoor, while it’s raining, at low temperatures, with a hungover human coworker operating next to you—that’s not remotely comparable.
There's no such thing. If there was, market participants would start selling.
>It supposedly had deep black that OLED brings

How does stacking displays let you get pixel level light emission of OLED or better blacks in general? The issue with LCD is that there is a display wide backlight so you have to actively block out the the backlight to make black. Even if there was some tech to stack something that added more blocking (I guess, adding another liquid crystal layer? Another polarizer? I admit to not really understanding the tech beyond a surface level, just trying to understand.), it doesn't seem to be the same tech as stacking OLEDs which is to get more brightness/less burnout. And if you mean stacking more light emission as in the case of OLED, that also wouldn't seem to contribute to better blacks.
If it's so easy... surely you've figured out how to become fabulously wealthy? I'm curious which tricks you use.

I am calling bullshit here. There's a popular narrative that we've somehow hacked the code of the human brain and can program people to do anything we want, against their will. Nonsense. The best you can do is move the needle a few percentage points across a statistically large number of humans. This is not something to worry about.
Those signs are largely bs. It's a textual version of charisma.
I'm quite peeved because this article contained almost no new information for me. This is the basic stuff you learn about spies if you have literally any interest in historical spying, plus some trivia about how to make invisible ink. I regret my click.
Ask HN: What systems have you worked on that were snowflakes?
We've all worked on relatively simple systems that eschewed out-of-the-box solutions and build something in-house either for resume padding, because people had big dreams for the project, or lack of awareness of prior art. Some systems are actually snowflakes that need custom solutions. What are systems you've worked on that actually are special?
That's close to how I arrived at the number - I used programmer wages. Reading about best practices around password storage and implementing it is fairly quick and easy, so a fine of that size will still be sufficient incentive.
Floorplanning algorithms and solvers already exist https://limsk.ece.gatech.edu/course/ece6133/slides/floorplan...
don't forget about calm. its a shame that that isn't the default we reach for, and only struggle when we really need stronger latency.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01930
My little brother once got a bicycle for christmas. He played the whole evening with the cardboard box it was in.
Did you use a bowl of lightly salted water to wet your hands while handling the rice balls? It's a trick that works for dough and masa too without the salt, but the added salt helps season the onigiri while you handle it.
> How well do you know about what happens in other countries?

Pretty well.

> To me it sounds like everywhere, once limitations to the flow of global capital are dropped.

Its a matter of degree, hence "maximalism". Just look at investment capital stats. There is a pretty objective way to confirm that money moves faster and in greater volume into new private industries in the U.S. The only foreign investment arms that come close are multinational conglomerates or authoritarian governments.

> The capital vultures did not swoop in to provide full services to women and blacks until the laws changed, even though providing those services was legal.

...how much profit do you think there was to be made off of people who were previously blocked from capital accumulation?
Just one nitpick. The thing about test is that it’s repetitive enough to be automated (in a deterministic way) or abstracted into a framework. You don’t need an AI to generate it.
Sure, Hamas dials the tactic to eleven. Point is hiding merchant raiders [1] and clandestine activities (e.g. the CIA's fake vaccine campaign to verify Bin Laden [2]) operate on the same principle. And when those go wrong, we properly blame the people using civilians for cover.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_raider

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vacc...
But this title is clickbait. It's a lie. It could have been "How real spies were nothing like movie spies."
>Subsidizing via regulations or direct support prolongs the subterfuge we are discussing here. Perhaps, in perpetuity.

>Take away the control and the lobbying is pointless.

This social anarcho-darwinism nonsense doesn't refute my point that you are susceptible to influence and coercion.

You cannot "protect" yourself as the previous poster baselessly asserted.
7/11 in Australia, which is generally terrible but was acquired by the Japanese operator of 7/11 last year, recently rolled out onigiris nationwide after a successful trial in Victoria. So there's hope yet!
You have to keep your hands at least moist to keep the rice from sticking. I make a small bowl of warm salty water handy when making onigiri to season while I shape.
This is correct, All currencies have transaction costs, but compete on having lower transaction cost than the alternative.
The theoretical maximum is zero transaction cost for a transaction. It cant go positive. Components of transaction cost are triangulation, transfer, and trust. Currencies attempt to lower the cost of the transfer and trust components.

Any positive value a currency claims to have as method for settling transactions is just a differential with another method.

There is a cost to going to an ATM and carrying USD cash, but it is lower than carrying around 100lbs of cabbages to barter with.
Beatable games are even worse than unbeatable ones. They hook people who believe they can win. Maybe some can, it doesn't matter - they still ruin lives for no benefit. You just add some skilled gamblers to the group that runs the house directly or indirectly.
I think people are more concerned about the coral reefs than the humans
In my country "tools designed for hacking" (simplifying legalese a bit) are illegal, but I'm not aware of anyone who was sentenced purely because of this. I think it might've been an additional charge during trials of actual cybercriminals.
Echoing other comments in gratitude for this very clear articulation of feelings I share, but have not manifested so well. Just wanted to add two connected opinions that round out this view.

1) This consuming of the host is only possible on the one hand because the host has grown so strong, that is the modern global industrial economy is so efficient. The doing stuff side of the equation is truly amazing and getting better (some real work gets done either by accident or those who have not-succumbed to PR and ad culture), and even this drop of "real work" produces enough material wealth to support (at least a lot of) humanity. We really do live in a post scarcity world from a production perspective, we just have profound distribution and allocation problems.

2) Radical wealth inequality profoundly exacerbates the problem of PR and ad culture. If everyone has some wealth doing things that help many people live more comfortably is a great way to become wealthy. But if very few people have wealth, then doing a venture capital FOMO hustle on the wealthy is anyone's best ROI. Radical wealth inequality eventually breaks all the good aspects of capitalist/market economies.
IMO. You’re brainwashed for thinking technology is going to save us from this tbh.

Climate already saw a lot of improvements during the 2020 lockdowns.
This was very sweet :’) I wish my dad would have said yes to the train more when I was a kid. Now he’s the one asking me to ride one.
> The older I get the more I hate gambling

> This isn't some "freedom" issue, it's an incredibly huge power asymmetry

ive been fiercely libertarian most of my life but, like you, im starting to realize its just not practical.

libertarianism made sense 100 years ago; you still needed a limited but powerful government to monopoly bust, but the consumer was close enough to the source of all information. smart people could invent products and whole industries from the ground up. you could know whats going on.

this is no longer the case. god help me for the pseudomarxist thing im about to say (and believe), but individual people are helplessly separated from the source; everything is insulated by layers of abstraction. the gift of reduced margin via capitalism and globalisation has cursed us with powerlessness.

how many information wars are you prepared to fight? teflon, ddt, pfoas, bpa, bpb, bps, bpf, bpaf, lead, asbestos, cocaine, heroin, marijuana, psychedelics, birth control, opioids, hormones, climate change, plastic waste, electronic waste, landfilling, recycling, antibiotics, urban planning, housing development, GMO food, monocropping, wastewater, topsoil, algae blooms, overfishing, deforestation, AGI, LLM, ad tech, social media, diet (sugar, cholesterol, fat), msg, processed foods, radiation (cellular, microwave, electromagnetic power lines), conflict minerals, 3rd world labor and global supply chains, slavery (theres 10s of millions of literal slaves in the world, remember?), human trafficking, israel and palestine, north korea, china, Uyghurs, russia and ukraine, ongoing gender apartheid in parts of the middle east, war torn africa, local state and federal politics.

plus the hundreds i didnt think of and the thousands i dont know i need to care about.
My hot take: the market is good at pricing in possibilities, but less so at pricing in certainty (or lack thereof).

When AMD launched the Zen architecture, everyone said they were on the up-and-up, and the market gave them a boost. The company's shares only started to climb much higher later on, when there were irrefutable revenue numbers. There was plenty of time to buy and make money. Someone with the domain knowledge like us can definitely have an edge in the market because we understand the product well enough to formulate better odds, then we can profit off the difference between our odds and the market's odds.
It's probably only a matter of time until the SC extends "papers and effects" to mean "your stuff on other people's hard drives" in some capacity. That will probably trigger a bunch of re-litigation around the financial side of things though I have no idea what the consequences would be.
Similar story for my partner in the USA.
I’m looking forward to installing this and having a play. Looks great
When the food runs out, oligarchs bleed.
> Speaking in Tonga, during a meeting of Pacific Island leaders, Guterres said “This is a crazy situation: rising seas are a crisis entirely of humanity’s making.

Kind of ironic given the flight from the UN headquarters to Tonga generates nearly 1500 kg of CO2 per person.

Loves the drink but curses the bottle.
“The health check will also serve as a “mission-control center” for decision-making, per the statement, by using satellite data, A.I. and multiple scientific disciplines—as well as the wisdom of Indigenous peoples, which is something the researchers hope to incorporate more of in following editions”

Just in case you were considering taking this seriously…
This is precisely the academic theory bubble talk I was referring to.

On balance no one cares that some Chinese peasants had a huge increase in quality of life. Their lives, and the lives of their children were significantly degraded so some executives and owners could get obscenely rich. If you zoom out far enough literally nothing is zero sum given the conservation of energy. But that’s a silly argument.

That it may someday be a net win for humanity (and this is entirely uncertain) is very much immaterial to anyone other than folks so disconnected from reality that they are insulated from the impact these theoretical games have on real people in their own country and communities.
Due to the way LCDs work it’s never useful for a consumer monitor. The backlights needed to punch enough lumens through 2 layers of LCD is prohibitively large/expensive, and the cooling needed to make sure you don’t burn it out leads to a pretty thick and bulky design. Take a look at the professional monitors like this… there’s a reason why they’re so thick, and it’s not because they’re “industrial” or something. Also, power consumption is atrocious.
Cyberthreats to railroads loom as industry and TSA grow an uneasy partnership
If the U.S. ever goes to war with a major adversary, one of the first waves of cyberattacks will likely target infrastructure that rarely comes up in discussions about digital threats: railroads.
Way back in the SimEarth days I got introduced to the Gaia concept, which at the time seemed a little hokey, but as time goes on seems more and more apt. Not trying to sound like Agent Smith, but sure seems like the earth is treating humans like a virus and is warming itself up to get rid of us. We had a long time to see it coming, but it's not politically popular to acknowledge it, and here in the U.S. you can signal your affiliation by dismissing it publicly (Huckabee-Sanders).

But mother nature always wins in the end regardless of your politics, and now mother nature wants you dead.
My state-of-art bubblesort implementation is also superhuman at sorting numbers.