skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would probably find it useful but if and only if it's completely open source so I can see what it's doing, and it runs completely locally and under my management. Definitely not implemented like recall, built and managed by big tech.
ooh, I missed this, thanks for the link!
Think I found a good solution to this - there's now an immediate error message / red line when connecting incorrectly to a starting ship square: https://lukerissacher.com/battleships
I'd also recommend the free online book Crafting Interpreters by the lead designer of the Dart language at Google.
A little up the thread somebody linked a discord server that seems aimed at that kind of idea.
In my final high school years, my parents gifted me a 1980 Corolla, and it became my experimental electronics lab for a while.

I installed a pull-out stereo, a separate amplifier, various permanent and movable speakers, etc. I mostly had the pros installed them, but I was always tweaking things at the wire-harness level. I enjoyed my music EXTRA LOUD, with minimal distortion.

And I had one of those basic aftermarket alarm systems. And there I was, constantly tripping the alarm for various reasons, and we lived in a safe neighborhood, so it was mostly an additional annoyance when I set it off, or armed it, or disarmed it: I was being super ostentatious.

So my proudest DIY mod was to install a shiny toggle switch in the dashboard. The toggle switch had the sole function of disabling the alarm by cutting its power. So I basically handed it to the crooks who came along in a few weeks to steal all my cassettes. But honestly, I doubt that anyone on that block was sorry to see me separated from my music at that point.
> There's (imo) plenty of evidence that smartphones are hurting kids, and therefore it's a parent's job to crack down on it even if it costs them in their social life.

From personal experience, being isolated as a kid can also be profoundly psychologically damaging and stunt development of normal life skills. Sure, see if the kid can get by without a smartphone for as long as possible, but if they do wind up completely excluded it's time to reevaluate the cost-benefit analysis and potential ways to mitigate smartphone overuse, not just think that the isolation is "okay" cause you're protecting them from phones.
Not sure what you mean. Job growth is continually rising, and unemployment continues to remain at historic lows (where it has been since 2021-ish). [0]

The job market is doing just fine, unless you’re in very specific areas such as the automotive industry or certain types of manufacturing.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2024/10/04/nx-s1-5140039/labor-market-jo...
I had one today that with one email went from "I want this whole new report over our main entity type with 3 user specified parameters" to "actually, just add this one existing (in the db) column to this one existing report and that totally solves my actual problem". My time going from something like 2 days to 15 minutes + 10 minutes to write the email.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=door+bolt+not+c...

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=path+of+exile+2...

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ramen+restauran...

When I search these three things the first 5 results are exactly what I want.

What exactly are you searching of the time that it's "completely useless"? Genuine question.
Since that instruction's easy to miss - I added an immediate error message / red dot if two ships are placed diagonally from each other: https://lukerissacher.com/battleships
Love the game, and it inspired me to get a small FPGA dev board and make my own instruction set and soft-CPU for it. Not very practical, but a fun exercise.

I got an iCE40 board[1] as the open-source story was decent and price was low. There might be better options now.

[1]: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/lattice-semicondu...
I use https://wiby.org for old websites
Strange Bedfellows: Native American Tribes and Big Pharma (2019)
Econ 101 is wrong about tariffs
It's probably this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41946571
Deploying AI in Agriculture Applications to Enhance Efficiency
Semi-related, the Old English word for cemetery was "licburg": corpse-town. The lic- in that is the source of "lich".
Checking Linearizability in Go
Another way to put it is simply that ChatGPT search is built on top of existing search engines. The best case scenario is that it cherry picks the best from all available search engines. It can’t totally supersede all search engines.
According to the Oregonian, Intel and Oregon were hoping to land this center.

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2024/10/biden-admi...
ProtonVPN blocks ads and trackers, it's my solution and reasonably affordable.
It depends on what you're searching for. If I'm looking for programming info, Google still seems to be much better, but for more non-technical stuff, DDG's Bing default seems better.
It’s getting worse not better. We are creating an entire society that is wall to wall addiction that starts at birth.

I think a big problem with it is that people don’t realize how addictive this stuff can be or how manipulative and insidious it is. They’re not prepared for it and they get blindsided when it takes over their lives or their kids lives. Infinite scroll alone is incredibly addictive. Add other tactics and our stupid ape dopamine system is no match.

It might get better once we culturally assimilate this knowledge and realize that this stuff is more psychologically manipulative than we think it ought to be. We need to look at apps that use addiction patterns the way we look at drugs.

We think: It’s just a screen! It’s not like opioids or meth or something. How can a screen take over someone’s life?

The average TikTok user spends three hours on the app per day. Average. That means half spend more. That’s insane. Not to single out TikTok. It’s just one example.
At home Pihole, on mobile Firefox + uBlock Origin
What an insulting and futile approach. You'd think a trained psychologist would know better than to think kids wouldn't a) find this laughable b) develop a severe and justified resentment and c) find a way around their comparatively less-tech-minded parents' arbitrary restrictions. I don't know his background, but it reeks of a person who "studies" kids instead of actually working with them.
it's not just what to do with their rights, but the creative effort to create a work that deserves copyright. Trees don't make choices and engage in that type of creativity, nor does the forest floor or canopy.
There are many jobs where people prefer other people to fill those roles, irrespective of the ability of machines. Most people don't want to watch computers play chess, or spend money on computer-generated art, or go to a robot therapist.

Ah, you say: But such jobs don't employ many people! Most people do things that nobody cares if they're automated away. Surely we can't all be chess players or artists?

To which I say: The job market will adapt, and people will move into those jobs where customers prefer to have a human. We have no real idea what those jobs are today, but some of them might be the things you wish you had more of, but are too expensive for most of us to hire someone for. (Interior decorator? Personal chef? ...)
Is there a blog post about what specifically she found to be inscrutable? The C++ doesn't look all that terse at a syntactic level, and has plenty of comments. Are the problems at the domain level?
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To test things out I searched for a neck brace. A few days ago I was trying, unsuccessfully, to find one that met certain criteria. Google didn't do a very good job, and not even as a result of countless ads-- there were surprisingly few. But results still weren't helpful, so I went to images to sort through countless photos for ones that looked promising and still didn find something that quite met what I was looking for.

I just did the same search with chatGPT and it gave 6 bullet-point options with a reasonable description, though that was likely based off marketing copy. Half were white-label rebrands of the same option but that's not really ChatGPT's fault, and even then it was the one that best met what I've been looking for.
TFA made me realize that in "TOSLINK" the "TO" comes from Tokyo.

> Toshiba is a contraction of Tōkyō Shibaura Denki

And TOSLINK is "TOShiba LINK".

Mind blown.
> In truth ( so far ) .. you can opt out (not easily) and here Microsoft is guilty of poor engineering rather than active hostility (although hard to seperate).

I find that a bit hard to believe given how aggressive Microsoft is putting copilot in the market. Copilot buttons on keyboards, in edge, in the windows toolbar, all without being asked for it.

I think it's more of a combo of both elements. I'm sure the marketing people don't like it being too easily removable. And the "not easy" opt out process is something I already call user hostile for such an invasive feature.

Sure it's only on copilot+ hardware but soon that'll be the only thing one can buy. And there's more reasons to want local AI without having a big brother spyware integrated.
Ug… a person is watching and clicking for her when she does that?
abs is really a quite weird choice as a cooking spatula material?

Its glass transition temperature is approximately 105 °C (221 °F).[4] ABS is amorphous and therefore has no true melting point.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylonitrile_butadiene_styr...
Azure and AWS?
> for reasons that go way over my head

In fairness to you I think a lot of the stuff involving hardware goes over everyone's heads :D

I've seen comments in a number of articles (and I think a few comments in this thread) saying that there are a few features in Vulcan/opengl/direct3d that were standardized ("standardized" in the D3D case?)/required that turned out to be really expensive to implement, hard to implement fast in hardware anyway, and not necessarily actually useful in practice. I think geometry shaders may have been one of those cases but I can't recall for sure.
> it would need to make more money

Really? Why?

Can it? If so why hasn't it done that already?
Think this is fixed now - in dark mode, the numbers didn't gray out properly like in light mode. On some browsers the strikethru lines up with the 4, but the additional graying out hopefully communicates the same thing.
AI Generated Game: Oasis
Ranking the results is a prerequisite for any search engine, and that's interpretation, isn't it?
If there is a repeated work for long time, I do small tools for me and sometimes it's little complicated to develop.
My kid is cool wearing a cellular smart watch. He’s not allowed to wear it during school, but can keep it in his backpack.
React Router Brand Update
The main (and possibly only) benefit of networking is that hiring manager will look at your resume. Without networking, your resume may never even been seen by the hiring manager. But beyond that networking does not matter for the candidate. In fact, FAANG companies go out of their way to make sure that the person who referred the candidate is excluded from having any involvement in the interview process. The days where you get to skip rounds just because you know someone are gone.
Pfizer acquired Seagen for $43 billion. Seagen has some very promising ADC’s in the queue.

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...
Remember this option was never planned from the start and only introduced after backlash. This is what I mean by the privacy-first focus at Apple. They don't need to be pressured into doing this.
Strange indeed - Killers of the Flower Moon https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5537002/reference/
That was one reason to delay it, but another more important they said was to implement gpu things like this and other missing features.
I'm sure Copilot will get turned on when it sees my browsing history. I certainly did :)
In general, I found that when I've told people to be careful on that code path (because it has bitten me before) I don't get the sense that it is a welcomed warning.

It's almost as if I'm questioning their skill as a engineer.

I don't know about you but when I'm driving a road and there is black ice around the corner a warning from a fellow driver is welcomed.
Wow, what good news! I totally love Hasura but totally missed a lot of things since graphql. My stand was, that i don't want to use a second product for vectors and i'm totally into postgres and hasura.

My plan was to add: pgai

I came along a blog post from timescale last week, it's worth a read: https://www.timescale.com/blog/vector-databases-are-the-wron...

My question: do the newly added hasura features make it completely obsolete to add pgai as extension to postgres or can they play along nicely.

My first guess is i'll simply combine both. I want to have a stack i can work and get deeply fimilar with and not change it all 3 month, when a new funky vectordb is announced.
Every generation says it's getting worse. They might all be right. I'm certainly not denying a problem. I'm arguing that that solution, to keep trying to create a walled-off fantasy world for kids to keep them safe, has been proven worse than ineffective over a very long period of time.

Drugs are actually a great comparison. We keep pretending that we've "banned" drugs. Yet despite the endless fortunes spent, civil liberties curbed and countless lives ruined by incarceration, drugs remain universally available, increasingly potent and very, very cheap. At a certain point we have to accept that a failed approach has failed and dig deep for the courage to try something different.
I figure everyone would just use local time locally, and unadjusted UTC for everything else.
> absolutely nailed it with their AI approach.

Thankfully, Kagi also have a toggle to completely turn that crap (AI) off so it never appears.

Personally, I have absolutely no use for a product that can randomly generate false information. I'm not even interested until that's solved.

(If/when it ever is though, at that point I'm open to taking a look)

So yeah, Kagi definitely "leads the way" on this. By giving the user a choice to not waste time presenting AI crap. :)
Is voting fraud at stake here or leak info over who voted? Is it possible to infer who voted what from the leak?
I'm sure that they are very, very happy that HN is directing a firehose of traffic at their site on the regular.

In order to subscribe people need to know that LWN exists.
Clickbait is always to sell you something,

Where did you get this idea?

People put something on the internet and they want attention and engagement. Then people use click bait to get people to look at something because they are curious or confused instead of knowing what it is from the title.
As soon as they integrate a good wolfram alpha and allow me solve math and physics problems with accuracy I'll be excited.
Where did you come up with this ? This is just not true, that Pythagoras had little interest in math. He had a love of numbers and thought that math was a way to the divine or at least understanding the divine. His philosophy, not religion , but philosophy was a way of life that entangled mathematics profusely.
Yes but it wasn't secure at all to begin with. Security and privacy are not really focus points there. Just getting it out the door seems to be the priority.
Agreed. Speaking as a user, I much preferred when the industry in general had a slower release cadence. I want to update once every year at most, and usually I want to update less frequently than that. Continuous delivery is a thorn in my side.
I know the internet lately incentivizes low effort comments like this but be better.
As a committed AI skeptic, this demo is very impressive. Bravo
Funding also comes from sponsors, as the article obviously states:

"I would like to thank LWN's travel sponsor, the Linux Foundation, for travel assistance to Montreal for XDC."
This just isn’t true either. There are contemporary sources who talk about him.
It's weird to not give people access to the Network, which so far as I can tell is the core idea here.

It's extremely weird to assume that the specific age matters. This is always a bad idea and where it is necessary for practical reasons (e.g. licensing laws) that causes friction

I assumed this site was about waiting until they are eight and I thought huh, well, that's probably not a big problem for most kids and maybe if you don't think about it too hard that's an OK rule. But now I find it means high school age which is entirely crazy.
Perhaps a higher layer of management had a headcount target they wanted to fill for some reason, but this team didn't actually want or need new people but were forced to go through the process anyway.
> We're not planting more than we're destroying

That is not entirely certain. According to the Global Forest Watch [1]:

> In 2010, the world had 3.92 Gha of tree cover, extending over 30% of its land area. In 2023, it lost 28.3 Mha of tree cover.

A loss of 0.7% in 13 years. That might sound bad, but my feeling is that this is well below the level of measurement accuracy.

[1] https://www.globalforestwatch.org/dashboards/global/?categor...
Isn’t that obvious? They are a misanthrope. People forget corporations act on behalf of their consumers (and democratic governments on behalf of their people). It’s not something to moan and whine about, but seems like HN is a haven for that attitude.
Yep this. Though I was relieved to see the hatred of this feature at our privacy certification team. They're seeing GDPR nightmares already. At least at our place this isn't going to happen any time soon.

But not all companies care about ethics of course.
I never respond to those. Any response is an acknowlefgement they have a person on the other end and that’s to become a target for a deluge of crap. I just mark them as junk and never respond. Im not willing to provide any info to the spammer.
Hyper targeting can grow the advertising pie. Eventually meta can become basically "the ultimate salesman" hand delivering users to 3rd parties that completely fulfill a problem the user has. The amount they could charge to completely take care of all user acquisition(especially if theres an implied threat of "we'll take all your customers to your competitor if you fuck around") is astounding.
Lessons from one too many model spreadsheets
Haha. Well besides that, it’s not really a font generator but an image generator
Well they certainly aren't the biggest but their cloud operation is still pretty large and somewhat nice. Noone is even close to IBM in Quantum cloud offerings.

IBM q2 revenue- 16bb
AWS q2 revenue- 26bb
Azure q2 revenue 24bb

I really don't understand why people say IBM is dying, its literally one of the most successful and revenue producing companies in the world with plenty of room for growth with their investments in Quantum. The just don't provide as many consumer facing products so everyone assume's they're dead.
Is our goal to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor, or to improve the lives of the poor? Because the gap itself is actually irrelevant to poor people's lives. Rich people's improvement outpacing poor people's is not necessarily an issue.

Second, a financial gap does not necessarily translate to a material gap. Someone with 1,000,000x someone else's net worth still buys the same iPhone and drinks the same coca cola. Many important wellbeing factors are not actually blocked by finance, like healthcare and education. Even if you take all the rich people's money and repurpose to education not much will change. Maybe an iPad for every kid, but what good does that do?

Housing is actually a great example. Real estate has a way of sucking up entire GDPs worth of money. As a country you can't pay your way out of housing problems. Look at something like China which has been consistently overbuilding housing for decades now. They still have housing issues.
But in what concentrations? Seems to require paying to access, couldn’t see the raw data. That’s not the only thing to worry about - other chemicals leach over time. Constantly putting olive oil in contact with plastic will just continue to concentrate it.
That's at least 3 product generations and tens of billions in capex away. Uber provides 28 million rides per day. Waymo is somewhere past 100,000 per week and growing fast, but that's still something like 0.05% of Uber's volume.

Waymo is spending billions to expand right now, which shows confidence in the tech and that overhead for remote monitors, charging depots, cleaners, and CSAs is sustainable. If Waymo can scale up 40X That could get them to 2% of Uber, but let's be generous and say Waymo availability can be a fairly aggressive 3X of an Uber driver, so that's 6%. If my math is correct, assuming very little in free cash from from operations, that's plausible with the recent $5B investment announcement.

I also expect pricing will remain a bit above Uber until some tipping point is reached in terms of building the vehicles and sensors scales up. Waymo would go from hundreds, maybe low thousands of vehicles now to tens of thousands.
And yet one of the fancy new features being advertised in recent years (in multiple APIs including Metal) is support for mesh shaders – which seem to have a lot in common with geometry shaders, including the output ordering property that that post blames for geometry shaders’ bad performance. I’m not a graphics programmer myself, but this makes me suspect there’s more to the story.
There's two factors to copyright: economic rights and moral rights. Economic rights are concerned with the author's ability to protect personal monetary gain from the use of their work. Moral rights are concerned with the author's ability to gain reputation via acknowledgement, and prevent loss of reputation via improper framing/usage of the work. Generally, the idea of all this is to allow authors to maximize personal gain and minimize personal loss. IMO, the fundamental benefit to society of this framework is that it encourages people to voluntarily make decisions to produce creative works that will be a net benefit -- without these protections, people would not produce as much creative work because there would be less incentive to direct their effort in that direction.

From that perspective, it doesn't really make much sense for an entity other than a human or group of humans to hold copyright of a work. A non-human entity doesn't have the capacity to choose where to direct their efforts based on future economic/reputation gain, so copyright or lack thereof will not affect their contributions to creative works.

So whether this is good or bad depends on the specifics of how copyright works in the relevant jurisdiction. If a human author has the ability to unilaterally choose whether any non-human entity will hold copyright of a work, or if a human has the ability to unilaterally capture all gain resulting from the work, then I see this as generally good -- it has no major negatives, and allows humans to recognize the important of non-human entities.

However, if a non-human entity automatically holds joint copyright, and a human coauthor cannot make unilateral decisions about the work, then this could be a bad thing. Human would tend to choose to avoid involving a non-human entity in the creation of a work, since they would get less incentive from doing so. That to me feels like the exact situation that that copyright was invented to avoid.