skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just FYI I just thought as well, if you did do an EE degree and wanted to get straight into Power Systems, you would be starting out right at the bottom of the rung in an EE job when you graduate - something to consider. It’s not a horizontal shift if you’re going into Power Systems, you will be staying almost a brand new career from scratch. Just food for thought, but you actually have a lot of options so don’t let that put you off!

If you instead tried to get into embedded programming (C, C++) your programming knowledge can help, but you’d still need to know circuits and electronics etc. But that’s probably your best move if you are deadset on EE. You can maybe even get in without a full degree (maybe).

I have ~4YOE in Software. I’m not worried at all about my future career, because even though I don’t have a CS degree, I study and program almost every day. AI doesn’t worry me (I use LLMs every day, I think they are overhyped imo). I know a lot of people do worry though.

My job is frontend, I’m Intermediate/Senior doing typical frontend, but I’ve been diving deep into C programming for graphics programming (and eventually electronics) in my spare time and pick up free courses all the time to not just be a “web developer”.

Also EE I had 1 ~EE job when I graduated and it was harder than the current stuff I do. TBH I don’t see EE as a fallback option because I’m so out of practice I’ve forgotten a lot of my studies :0

Can you tell me what your main worry is? If it’s AI, that’s great news - I’d love to help you think more about it so you don’t worry :) if it’s that you don’t have a degree, can discuss that too :)
> go to a boot camp and get hazed by a bunch of jocks

Marine Corps recruit training and Air Force BMT are world’s apart.
Ah, this is a subthread about HTTP specifically - didn't notice. Explains why you focused on the IETF too. Nevertheless, my points I believe still all stand.

As for HTTP or any other protocols' definitions go, I'd rather not join in on that back and forth. I'd imagine it's well defined what's expected. Skim reading RFC-2616 now certainly suggests so.
They used to have an official YouTube channel where the launches were broadcast. Now it's on Twitter.
Creating an open registry would be nice, or even for developers to be able to host their own repos for others to install plugins from (à la Linux package managers), to avoid such centralisation.

Ideally, those repos would be hosted by each party, and then hosting providers would be able to host their own mirrors containing many packages for all the installs, giving a similar experience to what is now offered by Mr. Mullenweg's WP.org.
> They aren't giving money to Anduril because Anduril can fire people. They are giving money to Anduril because [...] Anduril is more competent than the people they can afford to hire.

Note that this is logically impossible; if they can afford to pay Anduril to hire those people, they can more easily afford to hire the same people themselves.
Interesting, i am in the opposite situation. Using the deutsche bahn for long distances is often horrible so I never thought I would miss it but omg I really didn't have a good experience with Uk trains. The ticketing is complicated and the trains were often so unbelievably dirty and run down. Never had this experience in an ICE. Okay there are sometimes issues like the toilet boing out of order or the restaurant closed but the train is usually clean and fairly nice. And while the delay wasn't massive I still had delays. It's also sooo slow, there's no high-speed train. Last time I took the train from southampton to edinburgh and it really took forever and I was soo slow.

Even Edinburgh-London is slow! It's a similar distance than munich-berlin, a train I often take. In germany these are sleek, clean trains that take just over 3 hours, with only one or two stops with the sprinter. The train in the UK takes around 5 hours, significantly longer. I can do 3 hours on a friday evening work and arrive not too late to then meet friends for drinks, you can't do that with 5 hours.

And not only ICE, it's the same experience with regional trains. I used to live in Baden-Württemberg and took a lot of regional trains. I didn't think I would miss it with the delays from the new central station that they've been building for what feels like forever but now I do.

There are many things that the UK does better than Germany but trains they manage to do even worse (or maybe its not that bad?)
Oh no, apologies if that was the impression I gave!! I actually perform CFD simulations in HPC clusters, and in fact I'm an admin of the small cluster at my research institute =)

These are indeed heavy computations. What I meant is that VoF is one additional equation to be solved besides the N-S equations (either filtered as in LES or Reynolds-averaged as in RANS), the energy equation, your turbulence model equations, and so on. Certainly, not instantaneous at all, but simply an additional "simple" model that we can hook into our current way of doing CFD.

So, my point was, sloshing is a problem that we know how to simulate, although certainly you need HPC resources. Though, looking at those 100k NVIDIA H100 Elon has, I guess they have them! :P
It doesn't rely too much on further AI progress. Sure, you'd need a really big training cluster, and an inference cluster, and a supercomputer to put the results together and shuffle the large transformer model I/O, and a good team, and a huge budget...
The Greatest Checkmate Ever Given
> I'm not sure it's still that useful

Until you need to boot an old x86 system for some reason
I did one meal in between. I just make sure to eat a balanced meal (fruit and vegetables, proteins, some healthy carbs, healthy fats).

I'm thinking of moving to OMAD (one meal a day). I love eating big meals, and I find it helps my focus to not be thinking about eating during the day. Only challenge is not eating post workout
What is increasingly making sense to me is the description of current AI as an alien intelligence—something potentially powerful but fundamentally different from ours. Viewed that way, LeCun's use of humans—or cats—as the baseline seems misguided. Yes, there are things biological intelligence can do that artificial intelligence cannot, but there are also things AI can do better than us. And the danger might be that, because of their speed, replicability, networkability, and other capabilities that exceed those of biology, AI systems can be intelligent in ways that we have trouble imagining.
> Imagine where we could've been

Where?
Wait, and the IRS is happy with all that? With an individual using company resources for what would appear to be "personal" activity outside the company? Same with the foundation?
You need cause to fire a federal employee, and that requires documentation. You often need to put them on a PIP first, giving them a chance to correct and avoid being fired. If they do something that can cause them to lose their clearance you can fast track this a bit, because the ability to maintain a clearance is part of their job requirements.

But this also requires supervisors willing to actually supervise. Often these folks just get shuffled around, they know no one wants them, but they know no one will go through the trouble of firing them either. Shameless, worthless people will happily suffer that indignity for years if they're also getting a low six-figure salary and know they'd get $0 outside of government because private companies would fire them with cause and they'd stop getting any salary.
"Mountain out of a molehill" is better than lots of other possible approach angles. The core behaviour is grappling with the problem and looking for solutions.
You can do a lot with basic physics if you understand it well
I think I partially fit into the counterculture and have had similar ideas for a persistent Forth OS. I'd love to see your work!
We will have these robots in 2 years /s
They contribute in both plugins, core developers, and conference sponsorships. “Don’t contribute anything” is pure lies from Matt conveniently excluding anything he doesn’t want to count.
Another one

"Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable" (chrome.com)

514 points by freedomben 2 days ago | 441 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41809698
> You can change the teacher:student ratio and still improve the number of educated. If you think this is false, then anything beyond 1:1 tutors is bad.

Anything beyond it isn't bad, per se, but it is less optional.
95% is way too high a target! I sometimes want to get supplies at the special Asian food store - there won't be one in my 95% neighborhood - nearly everybody has enough of their own special hobby/interests that they cannot live 95% in their neighborhood. Note that I only counted for me - in the real world most people are in a marriage like relationship, each of the pair has their own interests and different jobs.

What we should aim for is everybody is in walking distance of 5 restaurants, 1 grocery store, 1 general goods store, 1 library, 1 elementary school (but not higher level - after about 6th grade students benefit from larger schools where they can take classes different from their neighbors), 2 parks, 3 churches. Then put them in close walking distance of good public transit so they can do other things that they do in life all the time (Note in particular going to work every day is not in the above list for most!). You should of course debate exactly what should be on the list and exact numbers, but the above is a good starting point.
Why isn't SpaceX doing that then? Why isn't any airline doing that then? Oh look, it's cheaper to use refined natural gas from a well. That's why. In the absence of either properly priced externalities, the market will always choose the cheapest option—Sabatier-generated Methane is not remotely comparable in price to fossil nat gas.

Mentioning theoretical solutions doesn't help if they will never be used practically.
No, because there are pay caps for federal employees. Often private companies can hire at a pay equivalent to 1-3 grades higher (or more) than the billets the government has for their equivalent people.

GS-12/13 is a common working level for these jobs. Even on the cyber side which gets a 25% or so incentive pay on top, it's not competitive with what industry would pay. And only a handful of truly critical programs might, might, be able to get GS-14/15 billets for their technical staff, that'll still only be for SMEs with years of experience or certain key skillsets. Above GS you start requiring congressional appointments as well, and they aren't going to setup hearings so they can pay people over $200k, it's easier to get a contractor willing to pay that much.
> To bacteria, individual humans are "too big to fail" in the same way geography is.

...which is why diseases rapidly evolve away from lethality?
Agreed. Even if it takes a long time for us to be riding rocket ships to visit our grandparents, we'll be benefiting from this technology way faster than that
Why send the landing mechanism to space when it isn't needed there? Whatever kit you put on a rocket has to be brutally miniaturized to limit how much you eat into the payload mass. Also has to be rugged enough to withstand tremendous vibrations and thermal stresses. That adds cost and more points of failure. You want to move as much of the complexity off the rocket as possible. Then doesn't matter if the catching mechanism on the launch tower is big and heavy.
> You just visit another server and it downloads and sets up all of the server's mods.

That's how mods work in Minecraft bedrock
Wow, when you put it like that I realised there must be a market for this kind of thing, given that cost and speed of operation are incremental changes that will plausibly improve over the midterm.

So you'll have upper-middle class people own a robot and whenever they want a task done they order it from basically a call-centre somewhere in the world... reminds me of the etymology of "robot" - from the Slavic for "slave"...

You're right there are ethical issues, but hardly new ones for this context. In response to your question,

> Should employers be able to outsource low-skill physical labor to actual humans abroad to circumvent wage and immigration laws?

This is a very pertinent question ethically, but this already undergirds our current globalized society, where the the clothes most of us are wearing, the coffee we've been drinking, much of the food we've been eating today, and so on, are produced exactly by such labor. This is the way the world works, for the time being. And it's unfair. But these robotic possibilities don't add to the unfairness in my view, although they definitely would give it a new twist. Given current trends I wouldn't bet against increased twistedness..
Companies don't, as a rule, do this in software either. They make projects open source or contribute to open source projects because it's good for them. This is just as true in other industries. This is how every industry standard and protocol or similar works. It is beneficial to the participating companies and does not threaten them.
"Secure Tortious Interference"
I love that proponents of nuclear power conveniently forget that this is a thing. Nuclear waste, nobody wants it and it lasts effectively forever.
Absolutely false.
Trump got 74M votes in last election in 2020. US population was 330 millions.
Today US population is ~340M.
I seriously doubt that more than 170M people support a convicted felon for president.
I bet that he will get less than 170M votes in less than a month.
Do you want to take the other side of the bet to back up your provably wrong assertion?
There is only one (modern) written Tibetan script.
Tens of pages, sure.

But hundreds? Thousands?

Do they not have the concepts of headers? Sections? Chapters?

Both in non-fiction and fiction, there are a lot more means of content separation than just paragraphs.
ASIMO never made it off stage, and Honda never prioritized shipping it. We definitely never saw ASIMO milling around a crowded event and serving drinks and handing out gift bags.

It was never remote controllable by unskilled operators.

It doesn't take a whole lot of imagination to come up with scenarios where even a remote controlled bot would be incredibly useful to society. If Honda never productized it or developed Asimo into something practical, then we can only speculate the reasons why. But that's on Honda for failing to follow through, ultimately.
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Original with typically dry chessbrah humour during the massacre:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=XAlcDWQ6iTM
The ones for other celestial bodies are also planned to return to Earth... Being inside one as it does the belly flop will be quite the experience.
older video but doesn't require downloading and compiling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfvo-Ujb_qk
Also if you are worried, here is a good video talking about it
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gBzDC6yMw9Y?feature=share
A broken clock is correct twice a day. Don't attribute something that you can to intelligence what can be explained by chance.
exactly, gnu/linux: the one you can actually adapt to your needs
They do contribute, that’s a lie.

Also, the wordpress trademark policy _explicitly_ listed what they were saying as OK until it was updated last week when they refused to pay his protection racket.
Just looked at some Reddit links posted and what the account has said over time and it is just _specifically_ this.

Over 4 months old. The same thing posted, over, and over. Even alleging xAI "knows" about Musk's "secrets".
I believe social safety nets and long term savings, in part, shoulder some of the blame. For most of history, there was no state or pension to rely on for medical care, goods, and services in your late age. You had to have children if you wanted to be supported at all and not die in poverty at 65. Now, people think it'll be ok not to have kids, because they'll still have their government health care or retirement funds to sustain them, assuming stability for the next 40 years.
LF only? Huh.

In its original terms for printing terminals, carriage return might be ambiguous. It could means either "just send the print head to column zero" or "print head to 0 and advance the line by one". The latter is what typewriters do for the Return key.

But LF always meant Line Feed, moving the paper but not the print head.

These are of course wildly out of date concepts. But it still strikes me as odd to see a Line Feed as a context reset.
Even Notepad.exe supports LF only text files now.
Where I live , there is a "call out fee". that prevents tradesmen from not being paid for time costs driving to job investigations .... The customer also pays for the needed diagnosis time too. So I do not see a reason why not do small jobs.
Name is awful but game itself looks awesome. Can any speak to how “good” it is, especially server play?
If my math is right, the cost of even 1 limb greatly exceeds 700USD.
IDK if WordPress plugins respect SEMVER, but shouldn't this auto-update thingy update only patch versions, or minor versions at most? Idk, breaking changes like these is definitely not something you want your CMS to do overnight when you won't notice until you receive complaints that your site is broken
I agree space is cool. But why do you think the "space is cool" mantra is more important than ensuring that for the 8 billion humans that call this planet home—we have somewhere sustainable and safe to live?

Your asteroid mining for profit is arguably meaningless if we have no ozone layer.
> I work in finance and I use binary floats.

I build cash registers, and I avoid floats like the plague.

I think the difference is where you need an exact result. Auditors have forced me to go through a years transactions to find an 1 cent error. They were right - at one point we weren't handling the fractional cents correctly. After finding that the bug was fixed. Had we been using floating point our answer would have been "shrug, if it's a problem chose another vendor".

You are working in finance so I suspect a 0.00001% error doesn't matter to you. Usually it doesn't. But occasionally, proofs of correctness are important. The can demonstrate for example one of your programmers isn't ripping you off by rounding (0, 0.5) to zero instead of (0, 0.5] and stealing the resulting cents. People have gone to jail for doing exactly that. Which is why, a good auditor can get very picky finding a 1 cent error. He doesn't care about value of that 1c any more that you do. What he cares about greatly is a machine whose job is to add up numbers reliably apparently can't get basic arithmetic right.

Programmer with battle scars from working in that environment are sick and tired of being told by others how much easier floats are to use 99.9999% of the time. Believe me, they know.
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does this mean you trust complete randoms just as much?

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Personally i trust the consensus, not necessarily one random person.

I have the same problem as the guy above, at this point i assume doctors are almost always wrong if the problem isn't something really common for specific enough
I have tried that, and no luck. I think, for me at least, it's the head cooling that matters most.
Depth-first backtracking is trivial to implement, and it's trivial to blend into the language. Breadth-first backtracking is much harder to implement, and I'm not sure that it's trivial to build into a language (though this may be a lack of imagination).

Icon had both, but depth-first backtracking was the default and trivial to use, while breadth-first backtracking required using "co-expressions" (co-routines), though at least Icon had a trivial syntax for causing procedure argument expressions to be made into co-expressions. But Icon's approach does not make breadth-first backtracking be a first-class language feature like depth-first backtracking, and this is where my imagination gets stuck. To be fair, I've not truly thought much about this problem.
isn't CR without LF how CLI progress bars work?
All of the conversations they are having with real humans? If it's as big as chat gpt why can't it just consume its own information which is at least half from a human?

Seems like the humans using it can be also training and effectively paying for the right to do so? I would guess this could be easily gamified.
There are not that many, less than a 100 with apoapsis inside of the Earth orbit.

Rendering can be adjusted for better visibility, but 4 inner planets swept the interior volume pretty thoroughly during earlier times of Solar System.
Wait until I break the news about 90% of the tools in the Linux world.
It seems the problem with this "debate" is that intelligence is very clearly not a scalar value - where you can look at a number line and put a dot where cats are, where humans are, where AIs are, etc.

So, people just talk past each other, with everyone using a different method on how a complex trait like "intelligence" is to be collapsed down to a scalar for easy comparison.
The main website lists lots of games that are built on Minetest / Luanti. [1] Does anyone have opinions on which of them are the most fun to play?

[1] https://content.minetest.net/packages/?type=game
One answer might be "infrastructure". Infrastructure in space will become big if space becomes big (beyond launching telecom, observation and science - which are small for now, compared to their launch potential.) SpaceX will need infrastructure itself - like refueling, landing stuff in exotic places, cargo delivery to other spacecraft, de-orbiting stuff, spacecraft to spacecraft networking, bringing cargo back to earth, carrying / delivering crew around, spacecraft repair, emergency access, etc.

A bit like Amazon then: if SpaceX needs some capability in their grand plan to Mars or whatever, they could try and package that as a commercial service after using the bare bones version for themselves.
Generally having fewer than four wheels reduces stability while not offering compensating substantial advantages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-wheeler#Configurations). And more than four disjoint wheels means adding further axles and coping with the problem that on a bumpy road a wheel pair may entirely lose contact with the road.

As for headlights, a single central one would still be notably face-like given widely spaced turning indicators. And having two headlights gives redundancy: "one-eyed monsters" at night are preferable to cars lacking any lights.
Can we say that Technical vs. Non-Technical in this space isn't so much about formal credentials, as it is about putting in a lot of time to learn about many relevant things, hands-on and probably exploratory?

The person whose only degree is Art school dropout, but who's logged many hours coding personal projects, running their own Linux or BSD machines, playing with networking, tweaking a game binary, etc., will wipe the floor with more-credentialed others, at a lot of real-world computer technical stuff.

Compared to person with a Engineering degree, or even a Computer Science degree-- but who spent no time outside of classwork, Leetcode memorizing, and a GitHub profile that was motivated only by FAANG-application coaching.

Those people who couldn't create their keypairs probably have fine raw material for becoming the kind of Technical person you need. But they're just having a pile of information shoveled at them in lectures and homework. And maybe they just wanted a job. And nobody told them that, if you want to be good, you have to put in the hours of quality unstructured learning time.