skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. There's very little need to have a tool automatically changing complex kernel settings on the fly unless your infrastructure is undergoing dramatic changes in load and behavior on a daily basis, which seems unlikely for a modern server.
I've heard it said that, we could do quantum computational operations with analog electronic components except for the variance in component quality.

How do these fuzzy logic electronic components overcome the same challenges as analog electronic quantum computing?

The article describes performance on a visual CNN Convolutional Neural Network ML task.

Is quantum logic the only sufficient logic to describe systems with phase?

What is most production cost and operating cost efficient at this or similar ML tasks?

For reference, from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41322088 re: "A carbon-nanotube-based tensor processing unit" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-024-01211-2 :

> The TPU is constructed with a systolic array architecture that allows parallel 2 bit integer multiply–accumulate operations. A five-layer convolutional neural network based on the TPU can perform MNIST image recognition with an accuracy of up to 88% for a power consumption of 295 µW. We use an optimized nanotube fabrication process [...] 1 TOPS/W/s
There's a plutocratic incentive to blame plutocratic problems on demographics. It fits neatly into their divide and conquer strategy.

That's why mass media is so keen to blame everything on your mom ("boomers"), along with immigrants, robots, woke mind viruses, etc.
It depends on the password manager you use. If you’re using Google or Apple’s password manager, you’re probably okay if you lose a device, but the one risk you can’t fix without having another password manager is if they cancel your account.

If you use both of them, though, that covers it.

Passkey syncing across password managers isn’t implemented yet, so it means manually adding an account in both places if you go that route. Hopefully that will be fixed by a new standard.
Ah, that famous programming language where 1/0==0, right?
Nobody made this silly assertion.
This is just a straw man fallacy.
It is a wealth transfer from people who currently have cash and earn cash (workers, since increases in pay lag the rate at which currency loses purchasing power) to people who have assets and COLA adjusted annuities (wealthy people and old people).
Only 1% of GDP is agriculture, yet 100% of society relies on agriculture for survival. Because we don't have food shortages right now, GDP is heavily slanted towards things that don't really matter. You can't take that sort of monopoly money and try to influence the real world, if it were that easy then governments would be changing gas prices to win elections a lot more effectively.

Not disagreeing that there should be a lot more funding of climate change reducing endeavors, I just don't think that GDP should/could be an anchor to base that on.
It wouldn't work linearly, but it still works. If you print 10% of your GDP in a year, you'll be sitting on only 1/11th of the GDP in cash at the end of the process.
i use stayfocusd, but I would definitely switch to this. I noticed you use Anthropic's api to analyze the webpage data, and I think the privacy part is a bit iffy for me since there is a lot of sensitive data that I view often. Having it blocked on some websites makes it better, and good on you for addressing this, but seems like its not a viable long term solution. Have you tried making this work with local llms to avoid these privacy issues?
That's trivially falsifiable.

https://bsky.app/search?q=%22there+are+two+genders%22
> Nobody is tracking 48 bits out of 128 bits and tying that to a specific user.

Erm... Whut? Nobody is tracking it right now because privacy extensions make it useless. You can bet that advertisers would have used it otherwise. Imagine being able to track where people move simply by using the freaking IP address.

> Not to mention that you know MAC addresses aren’t unique right.

For intents and purposes of advertisers they are unique. Duplicate MACs are probably not even a 0.0001% of all MACs.
Coaching exists. I've had it and done it. I've worked with folks with disabilities too and been able to help them grow.

The problem is that companies often promote folks with excellent technical skills into people centric roles like an EM. Sometimes you get lucky and they are naturally good at the stuff. But more often than not, they really struggle. It's a conundrum. If you hire someone who nails it on the people stuff but is weaker on the technical side then they aren't able to make informed decisions.

I've been head of eng before. It's a hard job and I ultimately switched jobs to go back to IC work. I took the coaching aspect seriously when I was in the role though. I think ultimately you need to understand what your report wants and give them projects, feedback, and resources to achieve those goals. The big caveat being that sometimes the role that person is looking for isn't available. You can't have an entire team of principle engineers for example. So another aspect is to be clear about what is and isn't possible in terms of career path at your co. and try to find other incentives like pay etc to keep them happy. YMMV of course.
Look at Covid fiscal response causing permanent 30% inflation in the last 4 years. The climate+demographic response money printing operation will be way bigger than that.
I dunno....I am happy to give him a go. If 60% of NASA rockets were blowing up on launch for decades, arguing for continuing the status quo is not rational. People are tired of "respectable mediocrity" where leaders make all the right speeches, express all the right concerns but nothing changes, nothing improves, ever.

We need an outsider to come in and shake things up. Even if RFK crashes and burns he will still at least have reset the agenda on health in a way not seen for a very long time. And its impossible for anyone (even a trained chimpanzee) to do worse than the current leadership in this area.
Has it ever been revealed what Amazon is using to back Glacier. I had heard a lot of speculation including some sort of custom optical disk. Anyone know?
And I remember the "crazies" saying the world will come to an end due to that alignment. That belief was reported in the main stream media.

When it did not happen, I think they moved on to 2012 :)
(insert name of any corporation ... listed on any stock market) just really doesn't care about you, and as a developer, you're just a sucker to extract money from.
If I recall correctly, there is a proof or conjecture suggesting that it’s impossible to build an “LLM firewall” capable of protecting against all possible prompts—though I may be misremembering, just search for resources like this [1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03198
Unfortunately, the design of passkeys push them to password managers instead of physical tokens. Physical passkeys are dangerous because you can lose them. The solution would be to add multiple keys, but that is hard to do. It would be nice to be able to add multiple keys at once. Or add a key that isn't present to have off-site backup.

The result is that need a password manager to store the passkeys. Then passkeys turn into better, more annoying, non-phishable passwords.
If you were really interested in answers you could look at the experiments of John Tyndall in 1859 that demonstrated what gases most absorb and retain radiant energy. He identified CO2 as one of the most important ones.
It’ll take a couple of mass casualty wet bulb events to shift the discourse from ‘it’s too expensive, just drill more’ to ‘oh shit whatever it takes’
The last IPCC report estimates that to limit warming to 2C, humans can only emit at most 1150 GtCO2 (at 67% likelihood) [1].

There are 8.2 billion humans, so about 140tCO2/person left on average. If we assume that we get to net zero by 2050, that means the average person can emit about 5.4tCO2/person/year from today to 2050 (hitting 0tCO2/person/year in 2050). This is what emissions look like currently [2]

Top 5 countries > 10m population
Saudi Arabia 22.1t
United Arab Emirates 21.6t
Australia 14.5t
United States 14.3t
Canada 14.0t
Some others
China 8.4t
Europe 6.7t
World average 4.7t
Lower-middle-income countries of 1.6t
Low-income countries 0.3t

Guess what's going to happen and who is going to suffer, despite not doing anything.

[1] Page 82 https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-metrics
Were engineers 50 years ago just much smarter than we are now? It’s pretty unbelievable that these things still work. Or is there something systemic about how they were able to achieve so much so long ago with basically no computers to help.
We Fell for the Oldest Lie on the Internet [video]
Depends on context. for example 1C for all water on earth is still on 1C+ but one would need a lot of energy for that.

from open ai:
The power required to raise the temperature of all the Earth's water by 1°C in one second would be 5.57 × 10¹⁸ megawatts.
Those things are not not even comparable in the quality output and if you see them as equals this seriously harm your credibility in this topic. This won't change in next decade+. For some use cases thats good enough quality, till you have any actual issues your smart code tools can't handle. Till people start suing you because your half-baked app caused them a real, serious financial loss and they have a true vengeance in their eyes (smaller companies or individuals often take such harm from outside very personally).

Any serious company paying serious bucks won't accept this, in 2024 they know darn well how bad software can bite massively back, some of them like banks or whole Silicon valley run whole business on software. But its true that there is a massive space outside such cases where this cca works, I've never worked there so can't judge.
1Password supports passkeys + sync on all supported platforms (macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android).

(I'm still using Apple's implementation, because I trust them more to get the security right.)

Edit: I realize now you perhaps mean exporting to other apps.
So it's always changing
The war started because Putin wanted it to start. There’s no other hidden reason.
This has been the common/best practice for so long I don't understand why TFA is proposing something different.
Sounds like minute long ads are inevitable and unskippable while the system fetches the video file.
Or even better, do that in CI.
The longer the half life, the lower the power output, no free lunches. But by putting the same suitable radioactive lump in a stirling engine you can extract 4 times as much electricity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_radioisotope_generato...

So yes maybe with Americium-241 we could have something which lasts 4 times a much _and_ gives us the same amount of power thanks to a SRG.
You are essentially forced borrowing from the cash holders of the printed currency. So yeah it would work. Wouldn’t necessarily be fair or popular; but it would work. Just have to account for the new money also being worth less because of the increase in the denominator of this equation.
thanks! I'm currently using anthropic's api and running it on claude sonnet. I also tested it with gpt-4o, but felt that claude was better at handling edge cases with certain focus contexts. Moving forward, I'd likely switch out to something else due to costs, but for now this works for this phase.
Everytime I see the content dissappear from being flagged and moderated away, I feel poorer and wonder what it was that I can no longer be allowed to read. How aggressively should messages be moderated on HN? After I had myself been unreasonably sensored in other discussions, this very active moderation is giving me serious concerns about HN. Robot spam should be moderated, or illegal things, but do we really need edgy comments hidden from view? I've seen a lot of magnanimous, wise and empathic responses on some otherwise cutting comments, a lot of goodwill here on HN. Do we really need the heavy hand of censors to protect us from offensive speech???
I put separate entries on my CV. It was easy to justify given how much the role and day to day changed.

The downside is it looks like I job hopped a bunch. 4 jobs in less than a year because I left Big Tech to run a startup, we got acquired soon after, I didn’t stay at the new company, so I went back to teaching.
> To cut emissions, we need to kill materialism, consumption economy

That’s a moral statement not a factual one. To cut emissions, we need to do exactly that. Pricing in externalities (yes it means less beef but that’s not the same thing as an end to the world as we know it) and investing in cleaner means of production is enough. Most of the people pushing for large societal changes are doing it because it was their goal from the start and they are using climate change as a mean to an end.
Pass keys are a solution that will probably win, because it's very attractive to the device developers. They're portable, from one device to another, but only using the developer's private apis.

U2F is better cryptography - the device key never leaves, but this is precisely what makes it hard for users. Losing a U2F key is risky, yet you have to carry it around with you. You can do what I do - Have a second U2F device registered everywhere, so that if the travel one is lost,

But I just experienced the second pain- I had a phone die on me. This seriously messed up my life for a week - every provider that used phone verification or text verification was inaccessible.

As developers, I beg you not to go to exclusive Passkey support. Keep UN/PW/U2F support around, and support multiple second factors.

Really, the problem is as simple as this: there's way too many bad actors, they have knowledge of tech, and little risk.
Those situations are not really comparable. Nobody has conversations with dolphins or whales in human languages, whereas "talking" with a chatbot is fairly trivial to do and becoming a fair universal experience, at least in the global north.
ah the ever popular call to inaction as though inaction isn't a very dangerous course of action

what is this reasoning? an invading army is coming, i won't try to stop it, let's just lie down and die. this focus on personal convenience combined with a lack of a will to live isn't just deadly, it's pathetic.

even if you fail, resisting against the darkness is one big part of what dignifies humanity.
Nobody said that the market is some organization, it's a way of organizing people, and it happens naturally. It's not something you invent, create and maintain, it's something you discover and observe - and try to control, often in vain or with unintended consequences, like weather. There was a market long before anybody thought of the word - and it was one of the first words. The oldest known written text is not some religious fluff or descriptions of market-less utopia, it's a "warranty claim" about a shipment of copper.
TLDW: The total length of all the blood vessels in the human body is not 60,000 miles or 100,000 km as widely reported, but only 9,000 - 19,000 km. An excellent discussion by Kurzgesagt of how misinformation spreads on the internet.
Composabilty and abstraction. I can bang out a react form in our app in minutes just by defining the shape of the fields. All the loading states are handled automatically. Mutations and refreshing data works out of the box. Navigating between pages is instant. Data is cached even when navigating between pages. Some pages that require many user inputs utilize optimistic updates to afford very low latency feedback.

React makes all of that easy to compose. I tell it how to render my state, and I write code that updates state.
There was much less overall complexity (and capability). These engineers interacted directly with capacitors and circuits to accomplish their tasks. Integrated circuits enable a lot of modern society, but it also segregates engineering between fabrication time and everything afterwards.
>> The problem is that you must understand that 95% in order to complete the last 5%.

What stops you from using AI to explain the code base?
The noise of a room full of soundbars ;)
Here’s my response to all the questions you asked:

1.I’m not just relying on an intuition of mine. I initially created this project to solve a personal need because I genuinely needed it. Once I did that, I started receiving feedback from other users of these platforms (especially Vinted) and friends who use them, and I realized it could be helpful to share it with everyone.

2- I'm not choosing between studying and pursuing my project , the choice I had was to accept the job so obviously in my free time I would have to devote time to study and not to my personal projects, so I chose to devote time to study and my projects, assuming that during the summer and weekends I do some simple work as the bartender or some more demanding work as freelance projects, so I can have enough money to eat and do the simple things of life (obviously without getting rich or creating a savings fund).

3.If the idea doesn’t work as expected, I don’t see the time spent building it as wasted. Instead, I see it as an excellent period during which I’ve learned a lot, making it easier and more effective to develop my next ideas. Moreover, as I mentioned earlier, I’m finishing my university studies, so in the end, I’ll have a degree that could always help me find a regular job, like the one I was previously offered.
I've not seen "roll back a bug by reverting a single commit" be a viable option nearly as much as "roll back by manually changing the buggy part," especially for bugs six days old (or older).

It's usually too hard, regardless of what your commits look like individually, to revert "just one buggy small bit" without breaking the rest of the new feature that was supported by that change, or re-introducing an old bug, or having other inconsistent resulting behavior. And "turn off the whole feature" is rarely desirable unless the bug is producing truly catastrophic behavior.

A roll-forward "just fix that bug" is the ideal case. A more complex "roll forward and make a kinda involved fix" is common too. But neither of those regress things from a user or consumer POV.
For PHP/Laravel, there is an excellent wiki tool that I have used:

https://www.bookstackapp.com/
Amazon reportedly working on Echo Frames for delivery drivers
The Common CPU Interpreter Loop Revisited (2008)
Steve Ballmer's USAFacts has a bunch of info on US Govt, including DoD budgets. It's a good start on data analysis of the US economy:
https://usafacts.org/
We probably do not need to wait for ideal planets position to outrun Voyagers. We have ion thruster now with much higher specific impulse!

Voyager-2 gained about 10 km/s at Jupiter, about 5 km/s at Saturn, about 2 km/s at Uranus, and lost about 2 km/s at Neptune. [1]

Dawn spacecraft gained 11.5 km/s from ion thrusters.

So just gravity assist maneuver just around Jupiter alone + massive tank for ion thrusters gas might give 20+ km/s

Though I agree that value of such a mission would be low.

[1] https://www.planetary.org/articles/20130926-gravity-assist
+1, have 2 implementations that each have an independent branch point? if you combine them you have a function with 2 bool parameters, and 4 possible states to test, 2 of which you might never need
There may be a net benefit from some class of patents, but that's very far from clear.

Drugs and chemical processes are the most obvious candidates. And there's some heavy empirical evidence against the later.
I understand that a group of motivated individuals, even without significant financial resources, could attempt to tackle these challenges, much like the way free and open-source software (FOSS) is developed. The key ingredients would be motivation and intelligence, as well as a shared passion for advancing mathematics and solving foundational problems.
I looked a bit into the JavaScript loaded when going to GitHub and my best guess as to what it’s using react for is the copilot chat.

It’s still using turbo rails and doing full ssr reloads. Something very at odds with react router which it’s also loading.

It’s still loading catalyst (their homebrew web component lib) which from what I understand doesn’t seem to offer react bindings. It even loads lit (another web component lib), which I couldn’t find the react bindings for.

If it’s just for the copilot chat I’d still say GitHub is mainly rails based though would love to hear if anyone has any more / better insight.
Even if you're a "10x engineer" the ability to describe how you would fix or replace things using just small changes is extremely valuable. And the inability to put together a moderately-detailed plan for that is a big smell.

If you don't actually understand the full set of changes that will be required in order to get to your desired new end state, how can you evaluate whether "just write the whole thing" is a one month, six month, or longer project? There are going to be nasty edge cases and forgotten requirements buried in that old code, and if you discover them for the first time halfway into your big rewrite... you might suddenly find you're only 10% into your big rewrite.

(Especially if you're a "10x engineer" you should understand what makes big rewrites hard and often fail or go way over schedule/budget. You should've seen it all before.)
They had lot less resources and knowledge to estimate the right amount of resilience for achieving the mission goals and erred on the side of cautions.

You can see something similar happening in bridges, weight per meter load has come down considerably since the 60s because material understanding is much more advanced and they meed less margin for the same safety factor.
I don’t like that we’re even talking about money in this context. Money is almost fake, it’s right there in the ‘fiat’ name, yet that’s all most people care about.
The monstrosities with dozens of flags do not happen because of the first wonky parameter. Inlining a function or refactoring it when the third use case comes around and invalidates assumptions isn't hard.
I don't know. It just feels nice to fly, for once.
I focused primarily on guesswho's "in ways I am unaware of".

Your issue appears to be true for any system change. Although, risk will of course vary.
No, we have caused AT LEAST 1.5°C long-term global warming.
Doesn't seem like there is any foreseeable future where climate change can be addressed. It's not just the leadership of the u.s, but the citizens themselves reject climate change as a real issue. Hopefully I'm just being pessemsitic.
That is not how money and "work" functions. There is no way to "spend money" without spending energy and emitting CO2.

Assuming there is validity to the numbers (and no new source of energy), it means you need to reduce GDP by 2-5% yearly until 2050. But GDP and money is a "sliding" scale so it might mean something different by next year.
> It depends on the password manager you use. If you’re using Google or Apple’s password manager,

Are those even really password managers? I used to use 1Password, but got tired of only being able to sync through iCloud. About a year in, I switched to Enpass since it did webdav. Biggest gripe is that there is no native Xbox app with it, make it a pain to track some of the kid's game passwords.
Imagine if that statement applied to every non-digital thing as well.
Wasn't it just a week ago we discovered that widely used models were significantly underestimating CO2 absorption by plants?