skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other thing I haven't seen in this thread yet is that kids today are really focused on is: lifestyle -- they want to work hard at school so they can get great jobs to make a lot of money so they can afford to own a home and live healthy lives. With the cost of living, and everything else, they're going to have to make a lot of money to life the kind of life that they're used to as kids.

My kids are not on social media. They eat like pro athletes. They ask me why I'm eating things with higher amounts of sugar or ultra-processed foods. They do an hour of gym class at school every weekday and then they want to do sports every night of the week and on the weekend. They do their homework and get straight As. They are concerned about bullying and suicide -- they talk to each other, even siblings, in a healthy and caring way.

My oldest couldn't understand why people drink alcohol if it's bad for you. I explained that some people like the way it makes them feel, "So what? It's bad for you. Why would anyone do that to their body?" They couldn't understand why I bought a gas guzzling luxury sports car instead of an electric car given the state of the environment (I've wanted one my whole life and I could finally afford one, yes it's selfish and they are more ethical than I am).

There are definitely a bunch of things going on with Gen Z and Alpha that have made (some of) them this way. But one of the results is that they're not interested in a lot of unhealthy things simply because they know they're unhealthy. They can't understand why we do things that we know are bad for us, the environment, etc. and they're probably right.

They're not perfect, but I do have faith in the next generation and we're going to see some amazing leaders come out of this group.
Agreed on acquihire as most likely purchase reason.
Open as in 3d print files, rpi etc.? If so this is the project I am looking for!
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The problem is the subjunctive here.

It's not where the _would_ rank ... it's where they currently _do_ rank.

In my test, the AI Overview produced accurate information ("Google does not offer phone support for account recovery") but none of the other hits on the first page say anything like "Phone support calls are always fraud. Google will not call you."
Dupe (357 points, 2 days ago, 317 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42453660
Huh. I knew this command existed but never looked into it. I assumed it was like cat, just appending files together.
And yet you'll suffer from their policies. Just avoid getting pregnant and have complications, for one example.
[0] needs to breakout what proportion of the homeowners received help from parents, either via free rent or cash.
In that case I am obviously joking
See a 6-minute example here, "Talk to a Cloudflare Worker from Claude Desktop using the Model Context Protocol": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbeOWKANtj8
But it's not in C's standard library. So the exercise isn't merely to auto-translate one language's standard library to another language's standard library (say, replacing C++ std::list with Rust LinkedList) — which would already be very hard. The exercise here is to auto-identify-and-refactor idioms open-coded in one language, into idioms suited for the other language's already-written standard library.

Imagine refactoring your average C program to use GLib for all (all!) of its data structures. Now imagine doing that, but also translating it into Rust at the same time.
I feel that crypto offers a different risk profile than say the gold ETF. There certainly is significant risk and expense to storing and securing the physical gold backing the ETF. I think it also needed to be audited as matching expected reserves occasionally?

But crypto has similar it and physical security costs at a minimum, though physical storage will be cheaper. Auditing maybe similar costs, I’m not quite sure how you confirm ownership of an address or pile of BTC without transactions?

The big risk is that these big holding companies of bitcoin become targets of state-scale cybercrime hacking armies. Can you imagine an adversary deploying constant attack on every facet of you IT infrastructure, from accessing the private keys presumably stored in hot wallets to support active trading to the interface where they may try interfere with client functions to all sorts of ends from theft to market manipulation.
So cool! For some reason navigating to Github/Discord by clicking the links is slow on my phone (old galaxy s20fe). The click highlight of the button is normal, just going to the sites is slow.
You’d think doomerism would lead to MORE drug use.
Children aren’t cool.
How is it disingenuous? The only other option for affording that ER visit is the 16% who say they could cut $1000 in discretionary spending to cover it.

Taking out an unsecured loan isn’t it.
Is that payback time with a battery?

It’s about 7 years without and 10-12 with here in New Zealand.

I get some installed next month.
They’re refusing to hire people because they’re not making as much money as they planned to. Covering it up with claims of AI is lame, but I don’t think it’s a terminal offense.
Yeah, I have several bank accounts, all over $8k. It's a terrible metric.
It's a tool. You learn to master it or not. I have greybeard coworkers that dissed the technology as a fad 3 years ago. Now they are scrambling to catch up. They have to do this while sustaining a family with pets and kids and mortgages and full time senior jobs.

You're in a position to invest substantial amounts of time compared to your seniors. Leverage that opportunity to your advantage.

We all have access to these tools for the most part, so the distinguishing factor is how much time you invest and how much more ambitious you become once you begin to master the tool.

This time its no different. Many Mechanical and Sales students in the past never got jobs in those fields either. Decades before AI. There were other circumstances and forces at play and a degree is not a guaranteed career in anything.

Keep going because what we DO know is that trying wont guarantee results, we DO know that giving up definitely won't. Roll the dice in your favor.
So it’s drop-in replacement to MySQL but not production-ready yet?
About 5x faster, is there any benchmark code available?
I would say drawing crowds is the goal. The crowds that hope and maybe pray that wins manifest.
Docker is kinda the opposite of Nix in this respect— Docker is fundamentally parasitic on other tools for dependency management, and Nix handles dependencies itself.

That parasitism is also Docker's strength: bring along whatever knowledge you have of your favorite language ecosystem's toolchain; it'll not only apply but it'll likely be largely sufficient.

Build systems like Buck and Bazel are more like Nix in this respect: they take over the responsibilities of soke tools in your language's toolchain (usually high-level build tools, sometimes also dependency managers) so they can impose a certain discipline and yield certain benefits (crucially fine-grained, incremental compilation).

Anyway, Docker doesn't fetch or resolve the dependencies of Python packages. It leaves that to other tools (Nix, apt-get, whatever) and just does you the favor of freezing the result as a binary artifact. Immensely useful, but solves a different problem than the main one here, even if it eases some of the same burdens.
The unbanked rate is 4.5%. So unless the 45th percentile of bank account balances is $1000, or maybe $3000, I don't know how to reconcile these stats.

https://www.fdic.gov/household-survey
> Electricity consumption will vary during the year

We heat with a wood burner and so have very flat usage over a year. Heating requirements are lower here in Auckland, New Zealand.
Bloomberg article indicates the jury is still out on the question of whether or not Nuvia breached the license. They only agreed that Qualcomm's own ALA covers use of the tech in the event that they happen to possess it.

In other words, Nuvia failing to destroy the designs might or might not have been a breach of contract. At least if I understand all of this correctly. But I feel like I must be missing some key details.
Yes. My benchmarks and their benchmarks means AGI. Their benchmarks only means over-fitted.
I am not sure the reading is entirely unfair. If you cannot pay for the emergency in cash, the alternatives on the table are not great. The breakdown of answers:

44% Pay the cost from your savings
21% Finance with a credit card and pay it off over time
16% Reduce your spending onother things
10% Borrow from family or friends
4% Take out a personal loan
5% Something else
Starbucks in current state is a great example of what happens in a scaling org that hits carrying capacity.

They argue we cant scale up/grow further therefore wages cant grow. But the truth is once you stop growing all the cash devoted to hundreds of new store openings every year has no where to go. It just keeps accumulating. They try all kinds of things and nothing really works cuz they have specialized to fill a niche. All other niches are already occupied by other specialists.

Reading large corp annual reports currently feels like we are in a state where everyone is hitting their carrying capacities. At the same time. They make up all kinds of stories about how they can keep growing but world wide pool of disposable income is hardly growing.

Its time for caterpillers to stop over eating and think about how the cocoon and transformation into butterfly emerge.
Considering how often ARM processors are used to run an application on top of a framework over an interpreted language inside a VM, all to display what amounts to kilobytes of text and megabytes of images, using hundreds of megabytes of RAM and billions of operations per second, I'm surprised anyone even bothers optimizing anything, anymore.
Hey man,

I hear you, I’m not that much older but I graduated in 2011. I also studied industrial design. At that time the big wave was the transition to an app based everything and UX design suddenly became the most in demand design skill. Most of my friends switched gears and careers to digital design for the money. I stuck to what I was interested in though which was sustainability and design and ultimately I’m very happy with where I ended up (circular economy) but it was an awkward ~10 years as I explored learning all kinds of tools and ways applying my skills. It also was very tough to find the right full time job because product design (which has come to really mean digital product design) supplanted industrial design roles and made it hard to find something of value that resonated with me.

One of the things that guided me and still does is thinking about what types of problems need to be solved? From my perspective everything should ladder up to that if you want to have an impact. Even if you don’t keep learning and exploring until you find something that lights you up on the inside. We are not only one thing we can all wear many hats.

Saying that, we’re living through a paradigm shift of tremendous magnitude that’s altering our whole world. There will always be change though. My two cents is to focus on what draws your attention and energy and give yourself permission to say no to everything else.

AI is an incredible tool, learn how to use it and try to grow with the times. Good luck and stay creative :) Hope something in there helps, but having a positive mindset is critical. If you’re curious about the circular economy happy to share what I know - I think it’s the future.
> They will sometimes call you directly, too, for things like "checking in on your retirement goals". If someone called sounding professional, it would not be a tell that it isn't actually fidelity.

Sounds like although they might not be 100% scammer, you can be assured it's marketing and not customer support.
Bad times create strong people.
Most large compute clusters would be buying electricity at wholesale price not at retail price.
But anyway solar and battery prices have just reached the tipping point this year only now the longer power companies keep retail prices high the more people will defect from the grid and install their own solar + batteries.
Creativity is inherently rated because it's codeforces... most 2700 problems have unique, creative solutions.
Surely it also marks the parent process' pages as COW too? If only the child is RO but the parent still has RW mappings to the same physical pages, writes from the parent will be observed in the child, which is wrong for COW. You either have to copy the pages immediately (in which cases there's no COW) or you have to make all mappings to the physical page RO.

The implications of this is that even if you immediately execve in the child, you still have to pay for the cost of setting COW on the entire address space and then later faulting on every single writable page in the parent process. The performance impact might not be massive, but it's not nothing.
Lol what. I'm paying $.10/kWh. https://booneelectric.coop/my-account/rates/
check out the "fast addition and subtraction" benchmark .. a Z80 from 1980 blazes past any human.. more seriously, isn't it obvious that computers are better at certain things immediately? the range of those things is changing..
Open heart surgery? All that's needed to destroy the entire medical profession is one peer reviewed article published in a notable journal comparing the outcomes of human and AI surgeons. If it turns out that AI surgeons offer better outcomes and less complications, not using this technology turns into criminal negligence. In a world where such a fact is known, letting human surgeons operate on people means you are needlessly harming or killing some of them.

You can even calculate the average number of people that can be operated on before harm occurs: number needed to harm (NNH). If NNH(AI) > NNH(humans), it becomes impossible to recommend that patients submit to surgery at the hands of human surgeons. It is that simple.

If we discover that AI surgeons harm one in every 1000 patients while human surgeons harm one in every 100 patients, human surgeons are done.
You’re right that rooftop solar and storage have costs and efficiency limits, but those are improving quickly.

Rooftop solar harnesses energy from the sun, which is powered by nuclear fusion—arguably the most effective nuclear reactor in our solar system.
I would assume (but don't actually know) that compiler authors make extensive use of the (publicly available) ARM as well. But claiming that any associated llvm backends are a derivative work seems absurd to me.

I really feel like I must have misunderstood something here.
Formal verification often requires simplified code in a restrictive style. You might not even be able to use C features or structures that have the performance you want. How theorem provers and brains work are also different enough that making something easy for one often makes it harder for the other.

You can also see this effect in the article on the history of Coverity’s analyzer. Real-world code was horrible to deal with vs the academic examples they started with.

https://cacm.acm.org/research/a-few-billion-lines-of-code-la...
I think that is what I was arguing?

Except the nature of work has ALREADY changed. You don't study for one specific job if you know what's good for you. You study to start building an understanding of a technical field. The grand parent was going for a mix of mechanical engineering and sales (human understanding). If in mechanical engineering, they avoided "learning how to use SolidWorks" and instead went for the general principles of materials and motion systems with a bit of SolidWorks along the way, then they are well on their way with portable, foundation, long term useful stuff they can carry from job to job, and from employer to employer, into self-employment too, from career to next career. The nature of work has already changed in that nobody should study one specific tool anymore and nobody should expect their first employer or even technical field to last more than 2-6 years. It might but probably not.

We do need people who understand how the world works. Tall order. That's for much later and senior in a career. For school purposes we are happy with people who are starting their understanding of how their field works.

Aren't we agreeing?
Agreed that Covid was disillusioning for young people, but uniquely so? The 2008 financial crisis, 9/11, and the GWoT would all like a word.

The only generation I can think of without a similar formative crisis (in the US at least) is Gen X. Does the death of Kurt Cobain count?
https://www.pge.com/content/dam/pge/docs/account/rate-plans/...
No one here is confused about what unsafe means. The point is, they're not implemented by following Rust's ownership model, because Rust's ownership model does in fact forbid that kind of thing.

You can nitpick the meaning of "forbids", but as far as the current context is concerned, if you translate code that implements a doubly linked list (as opposed to using one from a library) into Rust, it's not going to work without unsafe. Or an index-based graph or something.
Meta's WhatsApp wins ruling holding spyware maker NSO liable for hacking
My understanding is that formal verification is a tough goal to achieve and that it usually requires designing the program or the language to be a specific way.

The problem with transpiling C to rust is that unsafe and unverified behavior can be a key property of the behavior resulting program, so there isn’t an obvious way to spit out a sort of rustified (CRustified?) binary that matches the behavior of the C program.
I'm not talking about any imaginary research breakthroughs. I'm talking about today, right now. We have a model unveiled today that seems a large improvement across several benchmarks but hasn't been released yet.

You can be confident all you want but until the model has been given the chance to not have the effect you think it won't then it's just an assertion that may or may not be entirely wrong.

If you say "this model passed this benchmark I thought would indicate AGI but didn't do this or that so I won't acknowledge it" then I can understand that. I may not agree on what the holdups are but I understand that.

If however you're "this model passed this benchmark I thought would indicate AGI but I don't think it's going to be able to do this or that so it's not AGI" then I'm sorry but that's just nonsense.

My thoughts or bets are irrelevant here.

A few days ago I saw someone seriously comparing a site with nearly 4B visits a month in under 2 years to Bitcoin and VR. People are so up in their bubbles and so assured in their way of thinking they can't see what's right in front of them, nevermind predict future usefulness. I'm just not interested in engaging "I think It won't" arguments when I can just wait and see.

I'm not saying you are one of such people. I just have no interest in such arguments.

My bet ? There's no way i would make a bet like that without playing with the model first. Why would I ? Why Would you ?
Ok so what if we get different results for our own personal benchmarks/use cases.

(See why objective benchmarks exist?)
Wouldn't one then built the analog of the lisp computer to hyper optimize just this.
Like it might be super expensive for regular gpus but for super specialized architecture one could shave the 3500$/hour quite a bit no?
Yes, that's what said. Fork doesn't copy the data but it does copy the address space. For a large process (say, a database with multiple GB of data) that's a lot of paging tables -- many MB of them if you're using 4 kB pages.
interesting point about language. but i wonder if people misattribute the reason why language is pivotal to human development. your points are valid.
i see human behavior with regard to learning as 90% mimicry and 10% autonomous learning. most of what humans believe in is taken on faith and passed on from the tribe to the individual. rarely is it verified even partially let alone fully. humans simple dont have the time or processing power to do that. learning a thing without outside aid is vastly slower and more energy or brain intensive process than copy learning or learning through social institutions by dissemination.
the stunted development from lack of language might come more from the less ability to access the collective learning process that language enables and or greatly enhances.
i think a lot of learning even when combined with reasoning, deduction, etc really is at the mercy of brute force exploration to find a solution, which individuals are bad at but a society that collects random experienced “ah hah!” occurrences and passes them along is actually okay at.

i wonder if llms and language dont as so much allow us to process these complex environments but instead preload our brains to get a head start in processing those complex environments once we arrive in them. i think llms store compressed relationships of the world which obviously has information loss from a neural mapping of the world that isnt just language based. but that compressed relationships ie knowledge doesnt exactly backwardly map onto the world without it having a reverse key. like artificially learning about real world stuff in school abstractly and then going into the real world, it takes time for that abstraction to snap fit upon the real world.

could you further elaborate on what you mean by limits, because im happy to play contrarian on what i think i interpret you to be saying there.

also to your main point: what intelligence is. yeah you sort of hit up my thoughts on intelligence. its a combination of problem solving abilities in different domains. its like an amalgam of cognitive processes that achieve an amalgam of capabilities. while we can label alllllll that with a singular word, doesnt mean its all a singular process. seems like its a composite. moreover i think a big chunk of intelligence (but not all) is just brute forcing finding associations and then encoding those by some reflexive search/retrieval. a different part of intelligence of course is adaptibility and pattern finding.
It should be written like "available as a f-droid repo"
Turtles are carnivores, no? They are bitey as hell. All of them. You catch them on cut bait, worms, minnows when fishing. Even the ones without very sharp mouths, like softshell turtles.
Crime, as with most things, follows a power law distribution. Almost all crime is from extremely predictable repeat offenders. You could eliminate over 80% of crime just by enforcing a 3-strikes policy. https://inquisitivebird.xyz/p/when-few-do-great-harm
Well, I suppose the magic is in crossing your t's and dotting your i's when drafting legal contracts pertaining to said IP. Arm failed to do that.
Technical debt is a former technical asset without its owner.
I was surprised to see how low electricity usage is.

The fairer measurement is probably gas and electric, and your source says ‘ According to Ofgem, the average British household has 2.4 people living in it and uses 2,700 kWh of electricity and 11,500 kWh of gas. This works out at 242 kWh of electricity and 1,000 kWh of gas per month.’

We don’t have gas at home and use about 10,000kW/h here in New Zealand.
That's a classic example of an argument that looks really good from the 30,000 foot view, but when you're actually on the ground... no, basically none of that beautiful idea can actually be manifested into reality.
Side note: Why do I keep seeing disses to mechanical engineering here? How is that possibly a less valuable degree than web dev or a standard CRUD backend job?

Especially with AI provably getting extremely smart now, surely engineering disciplines would be having a boon as people want these things in their homes for cheaper for various applications.