skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was trying to make the point that no, it's not that at all. But I guess it's a very hard point to make and even though I am convinced that I'm right and this has nothing to do with familiarity, I can't find any serious research showing either way.

I know a dozen languages well. Everyone here thinking it's just ignorance, but that's not the case. There's just no way that, for me, Haskell and similar languages are readable in any sense just because they're more concise. If that was the case Haskell still wouldn't be close to the most readable, but something like APL or Forth would.
I've tried for more than 10 years to be like you guys and read a bunch of function compositions without any variable names to be seen, a few monadic operators and think "wow so easy to read"... but no, it's still completely unreadable to me. I guess I am much more a Go person than a Haskell person, and I am happy about that.
Let's just hope we're not on his "People to Haunt" list.
> Am I missing something here?

This is a graphics card.
LOL, "we're not married, your husband died in the transporter".

"Ah can I have his laptop? He's got some saved games he wanted me to have"
I turned on the radio for kicks a few weeks ago, just to see what it was like nowadays.

Ads. It's all ads. Like 10 minute blocks of ads interleaved with radio hosts reading promo weather and promo traffic, followed by ads, then maybe a song. Then more ads.
I love https://frame.work/ though
Yes, we do. In this case the issue was very much inside some internal logic of sidekiq around managing the jobs, not any of our own code.
I strongly dislike Kissinger and his legacy, but apparently the full quote [1] doesn't imply being America's friend is fatal:

"Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."

Here Kissinger is advising Nixon not to let South Vietnam's dictator Thieu suffer the same fate as Diem (who was deposed and killed with the US support, or at least, the US turning a blind eye).

[1] https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/56471/30861
Wasn't a new government elected but never allowed to take power due to Macron refusing to confirm them just a few months ago? Will that change now?
Of course you can just add more RAM. Double the capacity of every chip and you get twice the RAM without ever asking an engineer.

People did it with the RTX3070. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/3070-16gb-mod
None of that was obvious on mobile web.
I wonder if he called in requests Howard Hughes style - https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/howard-hughes-bought-tv-st...
Ah nice didn't know it had a PDF backend - that sounds perfect for this use case.
It may be, but to be fair, I either stream music via Pandora or listen to Podcasts. Sometimes, I'll play specific music I have on my phone. Basically, my phone has replaced every function the car stereo had.

And for long trips, streaming beats terrestrial radio. After an hour or two, you'll have to search for new stations as you leave the range or the previous tower. Then you'd better hope there would be a station you could tolerate in some places.

Podcasts are superior to talk radio. As they're curated by you.

Etc, etc.

The major thing we've lost is the specific curation done by some stations. Top 40 radio is what it is, but some stations existed to play things outside the charts.
Developers are tough, because we aren't lumberjacks or auto workers. We don't exist at a real physical bottleneck for employment that can force negotiations like a union can, and as white collar professionals we can generally be replaced by any cheaper agency that offers the same talent.

I'm afraid it's just not a very solvable problem. Developers are thought workers, our capital faculty is knowledge of software. You can't effectively stop other people from learning how software works, so you can always be undermined at a lower price. Another aspect of the problem is supply and demand - programmers have been vastly overvalued for the past few decades and there are now more of them than ever. With America facing a minor recession it doesn't feel likely that tech businesses will accept wage negotiations.
The plain TeX editor and Azure themes Golang
You say they "get away with it," but it makes more sense to conclude that UI design has a lot lower ROI than we assume it does as users.
There might be a better way to implement noblesse oblige than provide 30,000 people a 39th option for hearing rock n roll music.
Having tested this extensively against historical market movements, I'm quite confident in its analysis accuracy. After running it against countless filings and tracking post-filing price movements, the system's risk assessments and change detection have proven remarkably reliable - especially for catching subtle shifts in risk factors and management tone that often precede larger market moves.

I personally rely on it for my own decisions, but like any tool, it's most effective when used as part of a broader analysis process. The system is great at rapidly surfacing the most significant changes in these massive documents and contextualizing them against historical patterns. That's incredibly valuable for making timely decisions, especially since the market often takes days or weeks to fully price in the implications of complex filing changes.

That said, the analysis code has built in multiple validation layers and error handling because filings are just one piece of the market puzzle. The code is designed to be conservative - it'll fail closed rather than make questionable assertions. But for what it's designed to do - deep analysis of filing changes and their implications - it's proven to be a reliable tool for actual decision-making.
Body roundness: a new geometrical model
If all the theory is correct, yes you are still you. Maybe damaged you, but you nonetheless.

Imagine the ship of theseus thought experiment, but instead of replacing part by part you store it on a dry dock (lost its function), some time after you put it in the sea again (recover the function), for all effects this still is the ship of Theseus
Really cool and useful, how long have you worked on this?
I don’t think it’s seen as the end game, it’s that if you want 120 fps (or 144, 165, or 240) without turning down your graphics settings you’re talking $1000+ GPUs plus a huge case and a couple hundreds watts higher on your power supply.

1440p hits a popular balance where it’s more pixels than 1080p but not so absurdly expensive or power hungry.

Eventually 4K might be reasonably affordable, but we’ll settle at 1440p for a while in the meantime like we did at 1080p (which is still plenty popular too).
It's a 192 bit interface, so 6 16gbit chips.
Previously posted here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42155026

My comment on that thread:

> We propose that people rate AI poems more highly across all metrics in part because they find AI poems more straightforward. AI-generated poems in our study are generally more accessible than the human-authored poems in our study. In our discrimination study, participants use variations of the phrase “doesn’t make sense” for human-authored poems more often than they do for AI-generated poems
I think this says more about the state of (English based) poetry over the past 150 years than it does about the ability of AI to generate competent poems. With the advent of Modernism, the poetry-industrial complex's ideas about what constituted a Good (English) Poem diverged significantly from what the general (English speaking) population expected a poem to be, how it was constructed, presented, etc. Teaching these new forms of poetry schools left generations of people confused and disinterested. Yet people need poetry in their lives; they found that poetry in popular music and Hallmark card verses.

Of course, popular poetry isn't dead. Poetry book sales in recent years (in the UK) has "boomed"[1][2]. I'll not argue the merits of the poetry being generated by the latest crop of Poet Superstars; at the end of the day their work sells because people find comfort and joy in it - and that is a positive outcome in my view!

> Given people’s difficulties identifying machine-written texts, and their apparent trust that AI will not generate imitations of human experience, it may be worthwhile for governments to pursue regulations regarding transparency in the use of AI systems.

I think AI does threaten the careers of current Poetry Superstars. Building a website to pair an AI generated outline image with some cozy AI generated verses about a given situation/emotion/discovery should be an easy project to build. Allowing users to personalise the output so they can use the results as a gift for loved ones etc might be a viable product?

But I don't see much value in forcing anyone using AI to produce creative assets to label the output as such. For one thing, there's no guarantee that anyone using those assets will maintain the labelling. A much better approach would be for poets who don't use AI to help them craft poems to label their work as "100% Human" - in the years to come it might even become a positive selling point!

[1] - https://www.thebookseller.com/spotlight/poetry-on-course-for...

[2] - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/dec/24/poetry-sales-b...
> Bit of an aside but I wonder how far tube technology might have advanced, without semiconductors intervening.

There were Compactrons. There were subminiature vacuum tubes.[1]

A one piece printed circuit board of glass, with multiple tubes, might be possible.
A glass plate made with lots of recesses, electrodes and wiring created by photo-etching like printed circuit boards, a glass plate on top, pumped down to vacuum and sealed. A low-density integrated tube.

That's what a plasma panel display is. It's an integrated array of neon lamps. In a vacuum fluorescent display, each illuminated element is a triode vacuum tube. So it's quite possible to fabricate a big array of tubes.

Maybe something like a ball grid array would work for external connections.

Probably could have been done if necessary. Density probably would have maxed out around the density of elements on on the most dense vacuum fluorescent displays. Maybe devices at 1mm scale, or 1,000,000 nm. Good enough for mainframes and minicomputers, but not microprocessors.

[1] https://archive.org/details/The_MIT_Museum_The_Subminiature_...
This sounds like the live-streaming we already have but with extra steps.
Did you need an account to tune in?

I haven't listened to the radio in years because they closed down my stations! WBRU and WBCN!
You and the other commenter bring up good points. Developmental neurotoxicity (with lesser or no effects in older children and young adults) is, I speculate, probably due to differential gene expression during early development versus later when genes related to development are suppressed and genes related to maintenance are more abundantly expressed. The developmental neurotoxicity probably works through different mechanisms than what is termed "postoperative cognitive dysfunction" in the elderly after general anesthesia dysfunction [1][2], which, all I know is that it is a thing. If I were to speculate it would be that in the elderly there are fewer redundant cognitive resources, and so detrimental effects to cognition are magnified. I know that it used to be thought that post-operative dysfunction is temporary, but it seems likely to me (again speculation) that there is both recovery and permanent dysfunction, but the dysfunction becomes a little more difficult to detect. Going back to my paper, where we used a method to disentangle two types of memory processes i.e. recollection (explicit recollection of experiential details) and familiarity (a general feeling of familiarity with things you've seen previously) which contribute to memory performance but tend to be differentially affected by neurodegeneration (recollection is more affected, and generally more hippocampal), so that sometimes, when not accounting for these processes, a memory test will fail to find differences because patients rely on familiarity to answer memory questions.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2020&q=postoperati...
[2] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo...
You are the maintainer of A-Frame? That's awesome.

We used GodotEngine in the past when it was still called VRWorkout but had to switch to Unity due to business reasons.

The environment creator uses several off the shelf models under the hood with custom loras and blender at the end to create the exportable meshes.

Users usually need to workout in the game to achieve coins to generate environments because we have no actual monetization behind it, so we can't have people generate endless amounts of environments, but if you want to try it out send me a message at michael -at- xrworkout.io and I'll set you up so you can try it.
At this point it seems pretty likely tbh. Putin signed a new mutual pact with Kim earlier this year. There are videos of North Korean men receiving Russian military uniforms and signing forms in Sergeyevka. The US, Ukraine, NATO, and South Korea are all reporting incidences of North Koreans fighting and dying in the Kursk region. Putin has given wishy washy statements like "how we utilise the mutual pact is our business".
The clean, dense, non-intermittent power provided by nuclear reactors is extremely valuable.

Unless you are located near a hydroelectric dam, there is really no substitute.

Here is a quote from Yann LeCun (Vice-President, Chief AI Scientist at Meta):

AI datacenters will be built next to energy production sites that can produce
gigawatt-scale, low-cost, low-emission electricity continuously.

Basically, next to nuclear power plants.

The advantage is that there is no need for expensive and wasteful
long-distance distribution infrastructure.

Note: Yes, solar and wind are nice and all, but they require lots of land
and massive-scale energy storage systems for when there is too little sun
and/or wind. Neither simple nor cheap.

https://x.com/ylecun/status/1837875035270263014
You’re essentially building a quality control layer for ticket submissions, and that could save a lot of time down the road. Definitely worth exploring, especially if your team spends a significant amount of time on follow-ups. Would love to hear updates if you decide to move forward!
How does this connect to Gelsinger's retirement, announced yesterday? The comments on that news were all doom and gloom, so I had expected more negative news today. Not a product launch. But I'm just some guy on HN, what do I know?
FM radio is dead and has been for years. I haven't seriously listened to FM radio since I got a portable CD player and that was in the late 90s. I can't imagine anybody trying to get into it now.

Why would I subject myself to obnoxious ads every few minutes and music I don't like when I can just listen to what I want, when I want, ad-free?

AM radio is still going with conspiracy talk and maybe sports radio? I honestly don't know, I've never given AM radio a real listen.

Sometimes I get nostalgic for the radio. I remember calling in to stations and requesting songs, contests, morning zoo hosts, and so on. But it's probably not coming back.
(Retcon dev here)

lazygit is really cool, and is a lot more full-featured than Retcon. But, the core "rewrite with zero friction" feature of Retcon is still unmatched, I think.

For instance: while lazygit does allow you to reorder commits without entering a separate mode, that's only if each move is conflict free. If you have two commits that need to both be moved at once, then in lazygit, you'll have to resort to a regular interactive rebase (so, with the separate planning and execution steps, no undo or preview along the way, etc).

In Retcon, if a commit move results in a conflict, that doesn't matter; you can keep making changes to your history anyway, and then resolve any remaining conflicts when you're ready. It makes the workflow super fluid.

There's probably still a ton Retcon could learn from lazygit/magit/jj, though!
> rising prices of infrastructure

What does this refer to? (It sounds like servers, and those are certainly not getting more expensive.)
WFMU
Arxiv link:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.01623
Yeah, but automated milking robots like that have been in the market for more than a decade now IIRC?

Seems like a lot of CV solutions have seen fairly steady but small incremental advances over the past 10-15 years, quite unrelated to the current AI hype.
That happens when you ask SWE to design.
To fix this, Amazon will need to do extensive UX research and incrementally make changes until the UI doesn't look the same and is more usable. Because users hate sudden change.
Yet anyone can buy a consumer drone and strap homemade explosives on it and do a lot more damage VS a college kid with an engineering background who is into rocketry.
I don't want to live more than 100 years and I don't want to come back from the dead either. Make way for the next generation and their wants.
> I don't see how the authors are dishonest about it, or that the rebuttal refutes any of the actual claims made.

Suppose I prepared a glass of lemonade and purchased a bottle of vintage wine—one held in high regard by connoisseurs. Then I found a set of random bystanders and surveyed them on which drink they preferred, and they generally preferred the lemonade. Do you see how it would be dishonest of me to treat this like a serious evaluation of my skill, either as a lemonade maker or a wine maker?
This is now done, the cabinet met and lifted the martial law (despite the time being about 5 in the morning).
Having built a webhook system for our product, I'd caveat that webhooks are "harder than they seem, but not that hard".

The big components we ran into were:

1. Having retry logic if you don't get a 200 back. And some way of flagging the failed requests. We already had a pretty robust job queue/worker setup on our side, so it was a lot easier to add webhooks with that logic in place.

2. Keeping a webhook log. On our side we had a request history already that kept a log of our LLM requests, so it was pretty easy to reuse.

3. Auth / dev experience. Some way for a developer to put in a url + headers + auth method and click "test".
Indeed. The uses I’ve seen of slop are mostly in regard to media produced by large companies that is unremarkable and derivative, meant to be consumed and quickly forgotten, making way future media that is practically identical. AI generated media is in some sense the apex of slop, it is able to be churned out much more quickly and without any sense of originality.
Isn't it insane to think that rendering triangles for the visuals in games has gotten so demanding that we need an artificially intelligent system embedded in our graphics cards to paint pixels that look like high definition geometry?

What a time to be alive. Our most advanced technology is used to cheat on homework and play video games.
How so?

Ok, sometimes it's nice to begin the day with a friendly voice.
Like a companion, unobtrusive. But you can get that from podcasts.
I've been listening to them on KEXP.org for a decade or more now.

It's a little odd tuning into "the morning show" in the afternoon, but it's good radio, and so much better for discovering music than any of the alternatives here.

6 Music can be as good, but it never quite got over the "death" of the UK indie music scene and sometimes feels more like a tribute act to it's former self. As I speak the heaviest tracks in rotation are from Bon Iver and Doves, and while both are great acts, they're not new bands. Overall the discoverability is way down, and fairly often I'll find new music, even music from UK+Ireland, via KEXP, rather than from the media here.
While I'd agree monetisation seems to be a challenge in the long term (analogy: spreadsheets are used everywhere, but are so easy to make they're not themselves a revenue stream, only as part of a bigger package)…

> Nvidia had a revenue of $27billion in 2023 - that's about $160 per person per year [0] for every working age person in the USA

As a non-American, I'd like to point out we also earn money.

> as no AI is going to milk a cow or serve you starbucks

Cows have been getting the robots for a while now, here's a recent article: https://modernfarmer.com/2023/05/for-years-farmers-milked-co...

Robots serve coffee as well as the office parts of the coffee business: https://www.techopedia.com/ai-coffee-makers-robot-baristas-a...

Some of the malls around here have food courts where robots bring out the meals. I assume they're no more sophisticated than robot vacuum cleaners, but they get the job done.

Transformer models seem to be generally pretty good at high-level robot control, though IIRC a different architecture is needed down at the level of actuators and stepper motors.
Check out a listener-powered station such as KEXP at 90.3 (Seattle) or 92.7 (SF/Oakland). If you live outside of these regions they stream at KEXP.org or on their mobile app. You can also listen to the last two weeks of shows at https://www.kexp.org/archive/.
I was going to be traveling to some countries with significant issues with rabies. I did end up getting the post-exposure series after a suspected bite, although that may have been an overreaction on my part. Second round was also not memorably painful.
And a tad more risk
Okay, I'll ask - what's a MUD?
> These are $200 low end cards

Hm, i wouldn't consider 200$ low end.
A questionable assumption.

A scientist like Einstein experienced scientific revolutions within his lifetime. That's hardly going to be the norm in the history of science, and also a horrible assumption to think revolutions would endlessly be occurring and reoccurring.

Also, we know when we're on the edge of knowledge, especially in cosmology and physics. We're waiting for revolution there. There's dark energy and dark matter. It doesn't matter if you're old or young, you knew that your theories isn't good enough to explain whatever these are.

Scientific knowledge don't get swept away especially if they're rock solid. Newtonian physics still has a lot of relevance after all. It's just that relativity is even more accurate.
Has anyone found TPM/RPM limits on Nova? Either they aren't limited, or the quotas haven't been published yet: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/bedrock.html#l...
How much of it is something going wrong and how much is user error? If the latter, AI could eliminate a lot of tickets from ever reaching a human.
Heritage project, source of joy and soothing, an opportunity to ply your intellect on radio tech?

Vanity project seems like such a misnomer. When I think of vanity project, I think of Bender building a tomb in his honor a million cubits high with fire eyes saying 'RE MEMBER MEEEEEE'
Double check my thesis. Hint: It was not a judgement on the problematic nature of these laws. We can discuss that elsewhere if you want, but that's fairly orthogonal to the discussion.

Stronger hint: my thesis was focused on which groups the state legislates against, and how it wasn't "white men".
> I'm sure they'd quickly argue it's wire compatibility, but even then it's a slippery slope and wire compatible is left open to however the person wants to interpret it.

I actually think that they'd argue they intend to close the feature gap for full Postgres semantics over time. Indeed their marketing was a bit wishful, but on Bluesky, Marc Brooker (one of the developers on the project) said they reused the parser, planner, and optimizer from Postgres: https://bsky.app/profile/marcbrooker.bsky.social/post/3lcghj...

That means they actually have a very good shot at approaching reasonably full Postgres compatibility (at a SQL semantics level, not just at the wire protocol level) over time.
The 10MiB transaction size limit smells a lot like FoundationDBs transaction size limit
Is coups d'etat all the way down, one by one...

Will not last. When this finish the rebloom of the societies will be massive.