skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This type of thing happens in most countries. In the USA they actually have to hire bored archeologists to check things out as part of any contract from the federal government (and a lot of state governments) on anything that might have a hint of Native American relics.
Inline asm has to go through the compiler to get wired up by the register allocator.
Yep, an incredibly bad plague inc strategy, best to have it dormant and spread like wildfire.
For what it's worth, TFA does mention that the site is:

> "hidden in plain site", the archaeologists say, as it is just 15 minutes hike from a major road
Any former civilization that is any sizable fraction of ours with same level of tech would have been spotted long ago. Well unless Atlantis is real somehow sunk 3 miles down
顿悟之前砍柴挑水，顿悟之后砍柴挑水。——吴力。

老僧三十年前未参禅时、见山是山、见水是水、及至后夹亲见知识、有箇入处、见山不是山、见水不是水、而今得箇体歇处、依然见山秪是山、见水秪是水。——青原行思

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcMM5-zBCEc

Pride can be the greatest of all of the obstacles to knowledge. For you mountains are not yet mountains again.
> Also, it's not objectively easier to make a mistake when you type one command, than when you type three.

It is; because you can pause between doing those three commands. Adding a review step objectively lowers the error rate in activities. That's why we do PRs.

> I would say my error rate goes up as I type more, so I feel it's objectively easier to make a mistake with your method.

The word you're looking for is 'subjectively', not 'objectively'.

> Also, you still haven't discussed that your method does the (in my opinion) clearly wrong thing of building whatever the current state of the master branch is, rather than a release.

Use `git clone -b`... or, use a a proper package manager with support for features like parallel binary dependencies and prebuilt binaries.
Gah, wrong comment responded to.
Reading this comment is like listening to Tesla in 2014 tell me about how their cars will be driving themselves. Give it 10 years.
What zoom (if any) do you typically run at? For instance, a 200% zoom would give you an effective resolution of 4K, but with much sharper and smoother text and rendered graphics.
Yeah, that’s fair
Was about to say so many of these "you've never heard of" lists are books within the past decade but there are just so many older ones. Asimov alone wrote many book outside of the robot and foundation series.

One that only the older set may know is Cities in Flight by James Blish (technically a trilogy but primarily sold as the single combined novel).
Yeah. If you hate the tor network an easier thing to do is just to overwhelm it with traffic and degrade the service. Running some bittorrent downloads might be enough.
Thank you for that site. As an atheist who is frequently extremely annoyed at other atheists for being hypocritically intellectually lazy when it paints faith negatively (i.e. "Christians just believe what they're told without any critical thought" and "somebody told me Christmas was pagan, which would be embarrassing for the Christmas, so I immediately believed and repeated it" from the same person), reading many of these articles is extremely satisfying and cathartic.

It reminds me of many of the negative but obviously false stories that were flying around about Trump before he was elected. I strongly dislike Trump, but I really hate bullshit. It's a shame that so many people who consider themselves to be critical thinkers and above the impressionable are just as susceptible to lazy confirmation bias as the rest.
Madagascar has closed its ports.
Yep! It was added in v0.10.0 - which was released a month or two after I made this.

This is using v0.9.1
the dairy worker experienced mild symptoms and fully recovered
Ok thanks for letting me know. I haven't encountered this before, but I appreciate you telling me about it. Thank you so much!!!
Your vscode and rider integrations are fantastic, love the different ways to add context to the chat
Drug repurposing and CROs are not boring
Risk appetite.
Yes, it's very weird. When I write JavaScript, I expect it to run reasonably fast because of the JIT - and it does. I've never felt the need to use FFI, and libraries that use it generally do so because they want to interact with pre-existing C or C++ code, not because it's the only way to get decent performance.
This is a great idea, I think I'll try that out and let you know. Good idea!!
You mean like the Aztecs (and other civs) before them? Humans gonna human. I think we have to always look at the whole story and not just what’s currently popular to demonize.
That would be a thing Jony Ive would do.
Design first.
This is true and I'm sad to see the hacker news crowd blindly repeating falsehoods.
If it’s communicable, that means they probably infected many others.

Several million similar infections can easily mutate into something worse.

What is bad is its novelty to our immune system, not necessarily its initial mortality rate.
I love one Raindrop’s feature where it lets you bookmark all the tabs in a window
In the exact same manner that leakage capacitance limits the field strength of permanent magnets--only more so by orders of magnitude.

This is, fundamentally, why electrostatic motors have not seen "power" applications. It's far easier to manufacture a high-tolerance lattice in metals than non-metals. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1038668
> "What’s the evidence that this only takes place in individuals with arterial wall injury or without the ability to repair damage?"

Some people live a long time with high(er) fat diets and no heart disease; Cardiologist Dr William Davis[1] selling his heart-scan plan using non-invasive CT scan / calcium measuring as a proxy for atherosclerotic plaque buildup claims that cholesterol is "virtually worthless" for predicting heart disease, and that taking statins or cutting the fat in your diet measurably "does nothing" to affect that measure of plaque buildup. Your suggestion is that cutting fat should do something. He claims his plan of removing wheat, grains, using fish oil, fixing inflammation and insulin resistance, various vitamins and minerals, can measurably stop plaque developing and it can reduce. That seems like it should be a very testable claim.

I haven't read his books, don't know the details of his plan, but if calcium is a solid proxy for plaque buildup, and a CT scan can measure it stay the same in people who switch to low-fat diets, and measure it drop in some people who don't but instead remove grains, that suggests plaque buildup from LDL only takes place in some individuals who eat fat, not all. Arterial wall injury or inability to repair damage are they possible reasons? Or the inflammation and insulin resistance he mentions?

[1] https://drdavisinfinitehealth.com/2019/03/why-you-should-get...
Ironically, your comment brightened my day.
Well, I don't know, I think there might be her intentions on that last sentence (on how to deal with Chat Control etc)
Cause that's probably just a TB of logs per short unit of time.
Ask HN: Combine URL shortener and service to compress text and store it in URL?
I use the following two services but the workflow is not so good as I have to deal with seperate sites and must be very careful with the second site in particular since it does not always update the URL - my work around is to paste in the text - then the URL will be correct for use with 0x.co) - but I wish I could get the same results with less effort:

https://0x.co/ (URL shortener)

-- combined with --

https://nicd.gitlab.io/t/ (stores compressed text in the URL)

If anyone owns a very short URL this could become a business for you. https://a.co/ is taken (just so you know)

An added feature I would use is client side code execution for supported programming languages and a way to add new programming languages - an easy hack would allow one to create very long programs by transparently keeping many "0x" codes collected under a master "0x" code.

Used with password protection and a default "temporary" post lifetime which can then be switched to "final" this becomes a very powerful environment for programmers.

I have pointed my domain http://0by.co/ to https://nicd.gitlab.io/t/ if anyone wants to try this.

I really hope some people do!

Point your browser to 0by.co or to https://nicd.gitlab.io/t/, paste in your text, copy the URL, point your browser to 0x.co, paste in the URL and choose to make it a "link" type code.
They knew about LLMs in 2022. They've been shipping NPUs since transformers hit the scene in 2017.
What's that line about accounting for lines of code on the wrong side of the balance sheet?
Can't get telemetry if the user turns the computer off.
Like many things it’ll depend on your use case. Carvera Air is 200W vs Milo 1.5kW which could make a big difference.
It's a bit of a shame that Plague Inc does not support re-infection. Once someone had the disease, they are immune for life.

And the only goal the game really supports is killing everyone, instead of eg going for the largest sustainable population of your organism. (Think more like one of the bugs that cause the common cold, and less like the black death.)
I can't believe you're not mentioning the super high power draw of 8k monitors. It's so bad that i'm not even considering getting one.
Looks like the button is probably accessible without picking the machine up thanks to the outer edges being raised enough to fit a finger underneath. If that's the case, I don't really see an issue, and if anything it's preferable since the old position was easy to accidentally press when plugging things in.

Most people probably leave their macs running all the time anyway, making the button infrequently used.
I think it just shows how much noise there is in coding. Code gets reviewed anyways (although review quality was going down rapidly the more PMs where added to the team)

Most of the code must be what could be snippets (opening files and handling errors with absl::, and moving data from proto to proto).
One thing that doesn't help here, is that when writing for many engineers on different teams to read, spelling out simple code instead of depending on too many abstractions seems to be preferred by most teams.

I guess that LLMs do provide smarter snippets that I don't need to fill out in detail, and when it understands types and whether things compile it gets quite good and "smart" when it comes to write down boilerplate.
I don't think we can blame only one generation for this:

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/student-loans/average-student...
> But the idea of letting an LLM write/move large swaths of code seems so incredibly irresponsible.

I think this is where the bimodality comes from. When someone says "I used AI to refactor 3000 loc" some take it to mean they used AI in small steps as an accellerator, and others take it to mean a direct copy/paste, fix compile errors and move on.

Treat AI like a mid level engineer that you are pair programming with, who can type insanely fast. Move in small steps. Read through it's code after each small iteration. Ask it to fix things (or fix them yourself if quick and easy). Brainstorm ideas with it etc etc.
> because without it (or something similar that can be installed on a TV), I'd have to find videos I want to watch on my PC, download them manually with yt-dlp, and then copy them to a USB stick or put them someplace

Where in your scenario are AirPlay and ChromeCast? Or just yt-dl and plex? All of which seem waaaaaay easier than your song and dance
If they try to take you off platform to pay out, I'd bet on scam. If they give you a advance in promise of a future job, and tell you to buy WFH furniture with it, definitely a scam. Be honest with yourself, is the expertise they're asking for that rare? It's entirely possible! How many people in the world are in your area of expertise? And are on Upwork? But if you don't have something extraordinary going on, the saying goes, if it sounds too good to be true.... I'm sure the $5k would be nice, but don't get greedy, that's how scams work to get smart people to ignore red flags.
A browser is a user agent, it's some software that makes requests to a server and renders them in a way I can understand. There's no difference between using a screen reader to vocalize content and using an AI agent to summarize it.
I just hit the "cast" button in the YouTube app, and my TV and stereo receiver switch on by themselves, my Google TV box opens the YouTube app by itself, and the video on my phone starts playing on my TV.

I'd love to have greater control over the software stack on my TV, but what you're describing seems awfully overwrought.
Jaywalking Legalized in New York City
Right. This article is (2015).

3D printing with PLA has improved in the intervening decade. You can usually get a good print on good modern printers. The first generation of those things had poor extruders, and filament formulation has reportedly improved. There's complicated heat transfer going on in those things. You're welding a hot thing to a cold thing, which is inherently troublesome.
I'm told that works better now.

Machining resin molds is straightforward, because you start with a block of something and machine only its top. So there's no work-holding problem. Trying to figure out how to clamp something that needs to be machined on several sides is usually hard.

Not sure what's going on in tiny mills today. I've used Tormachs, the whole range of Shopbots, and some strange one-off machines that TechShop somehow obtained. (Never did use the beautiful little Pocket 5-axis machine. TheShop had one just before they went bankrupt.)
>LLMs are really good at writing SQL

Unfortunately not my experience. Possibly not well promoted, but trying to get vscode copilot to generate anything involving semi-basic joins fall quite flat.
Only time I touch my macbook power button ... is to switch profiles. So a lot, but never as an actual power button.

Used to be back in the day power and reset were very much needed, to the point that I wished they were on my keyboard.

Now, almost never need them.
How about “discovered it for the world at large” I think there have been many cases where the locals knew about a lost city or even took stones for their farms from it for X purposes. Still it lets the government there know about a new lost city they can properly check out (or leave alone)
I think I used it twice this year to turn it back on because of power outages.

But yeah, I just sleep my Mac Mini. I have never needed to turn it off.
I started with Fractal Noise, which was fairly short, it imparted a hunger to know more about that universe. Also, the audiobook, given the subject matter, was presented in an awesome manner IMO.
My first thought was this button would be harder to reach for people with disabilities. It's probably to save space for the IO at the back but they could have gone with a smaller, iPhone-esque power button.

The truly Apple thing to do is if they figured out a way to use the Touch ID button on the Magic Keyboard as a power button when the Mac mini is off.

That being said, the power button can be redirected to the back or front with 3D printed compliant mechanisms.
Smarttube is amazing especially as YouTube ad duration, skipability, and quantity are completely abusive on TV devices. It is completely frustrating experience versus YouTube in a web browser.
> Another characteristic feature of Okamoto’s work is the large, stylised eye, incarnated by his “alien named PAIRA” of 1956, which inspired the eye on the Sheikah slate, the player’s tool for altering the environment and interacting with gameplay elements (Fig. 5).

Little nitpick: it's not exactly right to say the design on the Sheikah slate was inspired by this artwork, the eye symbol has long been established as Sheikah, first appearing in 1998 in Ocarina of Time. Though it didn't always have the bright blue color, the shape is basically unchanged.
Indeed, though in colder climates you do have the problem that peak electricity demand is precisely when you get minimum solar production.

But in sunnier, warmer parts of the world (which notably includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nigeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Mexico, and Brazil, amongst others), over the next few decades it's hard to see anything much competing against solar and batteries for the bulk of energy usage.
I use mine in my (finished) basement, or if cutting tropical hardwoods out on my back deck (I have a machine on a wheeled cart).
Writing more code means more needs to be maintained and they are cleverly hiding that fact. Software is a lot more like complex plumbing than people want to admit:

More lines == more shit to maintain. Complex lines == the shit is unmanageable.

But wall street investors love simplistic narratives such as More X == More revenue. So here we are. Pretty clever marketing imo.
Just have the AI use the browser.
Yes, but this theory requires more and more epicycles.

There's probably some small-ish 'dark budget'. But think about it: the official budget is in the order of single digit percentage points of US GDP. That represents and enormous amount of resources. Any appreciable fraction of that in a 'dark budget' would also leave traces all over the place.
You can always train more and faster, and run more experiments.
This may be a bit late in the discussion, but one of the biggest deal with allowing DNA to be put into databases which the police can trawl is that the risk of false positives increases as the database size increases. DNA profiling is a probability game with an underlying assumption that people in the DNA database are of higher risk of being guilty than those not in it. Most conviction on DNA evidence also use partial DNA, meaning they accept an even higher risk of false positive. The current methods in DNA forensic is also to use AI to combine multiple partial DNA to create a single profiles, and the false positives of those are not very well understood by judges and juries.

The legal system and the evidence value of DNA profile could adapt to a world where every persons DNA is accessible, but it is a slow process and I doubt it will be done in my life time.
Yep, sure. And that's great.
Not if it’s already stable and has been running for years. Legacy doesn’t necessarily mean “need replacement because of technical debt”. I’ve seen lots of people want to replace code that has been running basically bug free for years because “there are better coding styles and practices now”
Read up on the 2000 watts society
Depends on what you know. I've managed to get $500 - $2000 per hour, although that was driven by knowing a lot about certain very high value topics.
hey, i asked you on the other thread as well (the imac one) but this was my question

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Hey, I have a similar setup (https://kayg.org/uses) where I use a LG C148 as my primary TV and monitor. I do all work on it, however I am unable to use tiling window managers as you recommend because I always struggle to see windows / text that is placed above my eye-level.
For that reason, I prefer to use manual window management solutions instead.
I am curious how do you deal with that problem, one big TV user to another? or do you not have that problem at all?
thanks!
No! These aren't comparable problems. MTA-STS is designed to defeat SSL-stripping. It works whether specific users know about it or not. That is not the case for DNSSEC. This is why MTA-STS is overwhelmingly deployed across email users, and DNSSEC has less than 5% deployment (and falling). Thanks for the opportunity to clarify.

If you're wondering why DNSSEC never took off, these kinds of exchanges are illustrative!
> Whenever I sit down to write some code, be it a large implementation or a small function, I think about what other people (or future versions of myself) will struggle with when interacting with the code. Is it clear and concise? Is it too clever? Is it too easy to write a subtle bug when making changes? Have I made it totally clear that X is relying on Y dangerous behavior by adding a comment or intentionally making it visible in some other way?

> It goes the other way too. If I know someone well (or their style) then it makes evaluating their code easier. The more time I spend in a codebase the better idea I have of what the writer was trying to do.

What I believe you are describing is a general definition of "understanding", which I am sure you are aware. And given your 20+ year experience, your summary of:

> So the thought of opening up a codebase that was cobbled together by an AI is just scary to me. Subtle bugs and errors would be equally distributed across the whole thing instead of where the writer was less competent (as is often the case).

Is not only entirely understandable (pardon the pun), but to be expected as algorithms employed lack the crucial bit which you identify - understanding.

> The whole thing just sounds like a gargantuan mess.

As it does to most whom envision having to live with artifacts produced by a statistical predictive text algorithm.

> Change my mind.

One cannot because understanding, as people know it, is intrinsic to each person by definition. It exists as a concept within the person whom possesses it and is defined entirely by said person.
Oxidants, antioxidants and the current incurability of metastatic cancers (2013)
Hype cycles ride on real progress that’s first blown out of proportion, then under-appreciated. LLMs are still magic AF. We are just so tired of hearing about them and how they’re going to change everything.
It sounds like a boastful lie for stock reasons, but if not, the AI overlords may decide to write algorithms creating effectively a social credit service and not tell any humans.
Discussion (232 points, 5 days ago, 206 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41937666
It's for when you have an upcoming funeral, the calendar it's just trying to dress appropriately.
pgai: Develop RAG, semantic search, and other AI apps with PostgreSQL
How would it know which edge cases are being useful and which ones aren't?

I understand more code as being more edge cases
"Microsoft made a giant table[0] (very little imagination beyond the Jeff Han demo[1])"

This is a wild take. Both the original Surface 1.0 table and the second SUR40 had some really amazing, highly-imaginative multi-user compute paradigms (a multi-user interface with no concept of “up”? Come on now.).

Commercially successful? No. But calling them "very little imagination" is a real head-scratcher.

What’s also interesting about this comment is that, in this very same Ballmer era, Microsoft later acquired Jeff Han’s Perceptive Pixel to create the Surface Hub product.
Show HN: Combining LLMs and Voice Models – Part 1
This is a guide that I wrote to showcase a new batch inference feature for an OSS framework that I author (nitric.io).

I know things like Podcast generation via NotebookLM and also NotebookLlama exist, but wanted to demonstrate a case where an API could be built, and subsequently orchestrated in the cloud.

This is just the first part for producing audio using suno/bark via an API. I'm currently working on a part 2 that will introduce an LLM to make scripts from short prompt, which will be piped to the code introduced in Part 1.

Looking for feedback on improving this, there are a few things I'd like to clean up but overall am pretty happy with the outputs it produces so far.

Thanks in advance for any feedback given.