skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great article, has much wisdom. If you're contributing to a large code base, you need to be knee deep. It's against your developer instinct, but it's constant pruning and polishing. It is the only way.
> Restaurants bulk out their dishes with carbs and they make things taste good by adding salt and fats.

Anthony Bourdain wrote in Kitchen Confidential: “If you eat at any good restaurant, assume you've eaten a stick of butter.”
I would like to add the following conditions to further illustrate how fraught that sentiment is.
- from the people currently in power
- from the laws as they currently stand
- given my understanding of all the laws that exist
- from a wacko down the street with a short fuse and weaponry

Any else that I've missed?
When will we fix the tools that run the world?
NVIDIA has a robotics department where I could see this tech fitting pretty nicely.

Also I consider this a dev board. Soon this tech will be everywhere, in our phones, computers...

You could already plug that to your home assistant and have your own Star Trek computer you can ask questions from. And NVIDIA seems to know this is the future and they were the first in the market.
> the electoral college is not a necessary feature of a democracy.

You offered two traits of "democracy"

1. 5 low IQ voters outvote 4 high IQ votes

2. 1 voter in geography X can outvote 2 voters in geography Y

Trait 1 is a necessary feature of a democracy.

Trait 2 is not a necessary feature of a democracy.

You placing the two together in a list to describe "Democracy" is a category error.

Trait 2 is an idiosyncratic design feature of exactly one democracy, and it is not necessary to either this democracy in particular or to democracies in general.
I don't see the issue here. The education system has always favored memorization over actual intelligence. I used to plagiarize and use calculators all the time and I turned out great. Plus, she's learning valuable research skills. In the "real world", it's all about knowing where to find the answer, not knowing the answer itself.
All of those revolutions have largely exacerbated wealth inequality and were driven by _gradual_ transitions with build out of capital. The shift away from subsistence farming was a huge deal. But AGI would be way harder. It’s immediately deployable for very little investment and can replace basically any white collar job.

Capital has been an economic multiplier of human labor. AGI is more like flooding the market with infinite labor. There will be blood in the streets, at best.
I'd take the other side of that bet.

https://imgur.com/a/4b0O4AW

Prior to early 2000s when sugar consumption started going down, it was probably a reasonble guess as one of the drivers of increasing disease. But since then sugar consumption has tailed off while disease rates have continued to rise, so I don't think it's plausible anymore.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7666899/

My bet to flatten the chronic disease curve would be reducing n6 fat consumption, especially from foods fried in vegetable oil.

Provactively, the steep upturn in diabetes rates around 1990 conincides with a broad movement in the fast-food industry to replace animal fats like tallow with vegetable oils.

https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19900724/1083993/ch...
> The thermal design power of a laptop CPU-dGPU combo is normally much higher than 120 W

Normally? Much higher than 120W? Those are some pretty abnormal (and dare I say niche?) laptops you're talking about there. Remember, that's not peak power - thermal design power is what the laptop should be able to power and cool pretty much continuously.

At those power levels, they're usually called DTR: desktop replacement. You certainly can't call it "just a laptop" anymore once we're in needs-two-power-supplies territory.
It can't be the same as my password manager if email password reset flows disappear. If I lose access to my password manager but not my email, then I can go through and systematically reset all of the accounts that I remember exist. What you're describing with passkeys, though, would not allow me to do that.

> But at the end of the day I would suggest that it should be straight up illegal for a company to freeze your account without letting you export your data.

This would be great but it only addresses the least likely failure mode out of the ones that I brought up.

And note that in many cases we're currently better off under the existing system if Gmail does ban you than we would be in your proposed world: only services that send OTPs on every login would be immediately inaccessibile, so you'll have time for most services to log in and switch to a new email address.
As someone who works adjacent to rail operations, it's somewhat common to see used in a completely straight-faced and serious way.

Plant failing to be properly retarded is a somewhat regular cause of near-miss safety incidents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retarder_(railroad)
Man who exploded Cybertruck in Las Vegas used ChatGPT in planning, police say
> bikepacking movement was always more parallel to touring, rather than a superset.

I might have mixed up the subset/superset terms. Bikepacking is a subset of touring. All bikepacking is also touring.
3 can be fixed to some degree with the right political will and sold as data privacy. Might not make the economists happy but one shouldn’t have to do public sector or adjacent work to avoid the bugbear of offshoring.
Shadow maps are a good example, if the final rendered image is 4k you don't want to be rendering shadow maps for each light source which are only 1080p else your shadows will be chunkier.
Hehe, the non answer you got is spot on what I expected.

Here's the deal: AI tattoo generator, what could possibly go wrong? Liability. That is also why people want to pay, even if the dev cannot or tries not to be held accountable and even if it is for some Electron frontend for a customized prompt. Paying gives them [the (potential) customer] the feeling they get a worthy result. A lot of services work like this, btw, and it helps if the service is actually not cheap. Because why spend very little money on a tattoo design. You're worth it, right?

My take is simple. If you want a tattoo and CBA to do your own research (via a search engine, a professional tattoo artist, some kind of curated database, or gasp CAD it yourself like you'd do your 3D print) then ML-based search could be a viable, modern alternative but I would not want to get burned by '6 fingers' in hindsight. AI output needs to be qualified by a qualified human being, and you [random person who wants tattoo] are probably not said qualified human being. But could it aid a qualified human being? Absolutely, just a smaller customer base. So if you want to go for volume, you pretend to serve a customer base you cannot reasonably serve well.
USB 3 bumped non-negotiated current up to 900 mA. You should be getting that on any standard compliant USB-C port with SuperSpeed implemented.
Unfortunately we are putting all our efforts into making the app great right now but we would love to get a web app going eventually! Hopefully you change your mind about downloading!
After reading the other replies, this seems like one of the more effective approaches. Thanks!
I remember a demo at my Commodore 64 users group one day...a guy loaded a bunch of stuff from a disk and output (with sound quality not that much worse than a car's crappy AM radio speaker) the first 10 or 15 seconds of "Kung Foo Fighting." Of course, the C64 had the VIC chip, but it was still freaking impressive.
I think it was very clearly sarcasm.
Original Source:

https://apnews.com/article/tesla-cybertruck-explosion-trump-...
Well... actually not, turns out that what I wrote above was just hearsay, I couldn't find any hard evidence to back it up. It doesn't have to be legally prohibited however - Germans also have other regulations, e.g. you can't call your Döner Kebab a Döner Kebab if it contains more then 60% mincemeat (the rest has to be sliced meat).
The Economist article with a better looking version of the plot of everything: https://www.economist.com/interactive/christmas-specials/202...
Sometimes, it's not that hard to draw the rest of the owl.
Loading times from floppies wasn't even remotely quick.
When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth from 1250 to 1870 [pdf]
Effective altruism says otherwise
My point was that the breathless hyperbole about "gender affirming" surgery is actually in direct opposition to "traditional male stereotype" of the same group--thus invalidating that the concern is a genuine issue rather than political rhetoric.

As to whether teenage boys should be getting that surgery? That's .. more complicated. Should one that lost 100+ pounds to be healthier be able to get that surgery? Probably. How big should the growth be before it becomes "medical"? Don't know.

This is why stuff like this should be left to doctors who actually understand the circumstances of the patient.
If an AGI isn’t way smarter than the smartest person I’ve ever met, it’s definitely not a super intelligence. The very nature of a super intelligence is one that far exceeds human intelligence, including the the ability to rapidly design smarter AI.
Show HN: Chrome extension filters AI spam by enforcing pre-2023 Google results
Technical details:

Client-side only: Injects date parameters into Google search queries
Zero user data collection, no external servers

Works with all Google search operators

Near-zero performance impact (modifies query pre-load)

I built this after noticing how AI-generated content was overwhelming Google results for programming queries. Instead of complex AI detection, it uses a simple heuristic: most AI spam appeared after 2023, so filtering by date effectively surfaces established technical content.

Example: "React component patterns" normally returns recent AI-generated tutorials. With pre-2023 filtering, you get original resources from React's early developers and community.

Currently closed source (considering business options) but feedback welcome.
We used this algorithm in the RTS Outpost 2 in 1997. I think the original Command and Conquer did something similar.

Given the hardware of the time and the (relatively) large maps, we couldn't just use A.

Fun fact: There was a building called the "Robot Command Center." If you had one, path finding was upgraded by first running this method, and then running A constrained to some distance from the initial path. The result was a more efficient path that removed silly bits of backtracking and so forth. I've not seen another RTS where there was an upgrade that affected path finding.
I similarly share your pessimism. Ironically, I think a lot of the propaganda that is effective on HN's demographic works because it frames itself in a way that makes it appear logical and intellectually robust. Us devs love thinking we're the smartest person in the room and strong, logical thinkers who can't be fooled, but that's exactly why those kinds of propaganda and talking points can work so well. (I'm certainly guilty of it myself at times, fwiw.)
Quite possibly! I learn new things every day.
And once Nobby says he likes Tramway, everyone realizes Vetinari was right all along XD

(I'm just glad someone got the reference)
> New tech is usually not everything it's hyped up to be, but also usually not completely useless or bad for society.

Except for cryptocurrencies (at least their ratio of investments to output) :-p
Going the other direction.. most of the time I've seen feedback given to a candidate, they freaked out about it and got defensive. Not worth the risk.
> But I think you're missing the wider point of my complain: it's been from Maxwell that Nvidia hasn't produced major updates on the power consumption side of their architecture.

Is this true or is it just that the default configuration draws a crazy amount of power? I wouldn't imagine running a 5090 downvolted to 75W is useful, but also I would like to see someone test it against an actual 75W card. I've definitely read that you can get 70% of the performance for 50% of the power if you downvolt cards, and it would be interesting to see an analysis of what the sweet spot is for different cards.
Bing is a lot better than google for adult content. Bing actually has pretty neat image search tools
Philosophically I don't want to see any barriers to voting, so I would disagree with them.
Trying to explain to users of an unrelated site how to use a password manager sounds like a support nightmare.
I don't have specific recommendations, I mostly use libraries to draw quantum computing circuits, but they're not great for tensor networks even though they share some features. Man, we think alike. Btw, I've seen you work with Patrick, we used to share an office at the IQC (we were both postdocs there), tell him I said hi! :)
Wildfires and agricultural worker movement
Strong link/weak link (Nuclear Weapon)
Liberal as in classical liberalism, or as in progressivism (which is becoming increasingly authoritarian)?
Arch, Nix, Debian, Fedora and Windows. Just switch between them from the terminal new tab menu.

If one container breaks, just dump the list of installed packages and start over. The base system is rock solid.
I’d argue most attempts aren’t actually attempts to do good — they’re justifications for doing wrong.

Eg, DIE as a justification for systemic antisemitism in employment and education.
No that’s just talking heads carping on cable tv.

The problem is that we have lost any ability to make a positive case for California outside of niche political interests and very specific career paths.
Parametricity is a neat trick for mathematicians, it's not really worth it in a low-level language (not least because the type system is badly unsound anyway).
For me, a similar approach is actually the exact opposite. It's always a struggle to fit a good summary of your professional life on a single page and being able to put some short stuff in multiple columns can help you save space. For example I usually have certifications, trainings, etc in two columns since they're often fairly short entries.
Been saying this for a bit now. OTP/magic links have some upsides but the second your SMS or email provider doesn't deliver said thing your users are in trouble.
A way to quantify this doesn't immediately come to my mind. Maybe reasonable metrics would be:

1. What % misleading/false posts are flagged

2. What % of those flagged are given meaningful context/corrections that are accurate.

It seems there's circular logic of first determining truth with 1, and then maybe something to do with a "trust"/quality poll with 2. I suspect a good measurement would be very similar to the actual community notes implementation, since both of those are the goal of the system [1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.15723
How is it generated the 3d objects? using CV on the stat-elite data?
Ask HN: Bug Reports to Test Case Tools?
Are there any tools out there that can help you create a test case from a bug report? Anyone tried anything like this? How was it?
Believe it or not, it's possible to be interested in both machine learning and videogames. That's ignoring the notion that it's somehow how screwing over gamers. Buy a fucking AMD card. They're great at gaming and you don't need CUDA anyways. Enjoy the long-term acceleration of GPU performance increases you're getting by the way. All that stuff comes from innovations made for workstation/DL setups.
Ask HN: Is anyone building their own AR glasses?
I would love to connect with other hackers building their own Frankensteins.

I'm working on making Nreal glasses standalone. It's a sandwich of an RPI Zero 2W alternative, a custom companion PCB, a battery, and a camera. You attach it to the glasses and plug them into it. Since it has a camera you can design any user interface and vision-based applications directly on it.

I'm also requesting a Lumus Z-Lens devkit as it seems to be a game changer.
Have they tried using Python 3.12? The regex engine is much more efficient now and could probably handle these certificate checks better. This also wouldn't be an issue if they just switched to Rust (memory safety solves these types of problems).
That is a very good point! You'd have to be careful to craft the messaging so that it doesn't imply you can help troubleshoot the password manager.

But something simple could work. Already you usually have a note under a password field, "Must contain at least 8 characters and at least one special character" or something to that effect. It could also have some note about "We suggest a randomly generated password from your password manager."

I'm not building this out so I don't need every hole poked in the idea, just seems like it could work.
> You don't think the scientific literature has anything to say about sugar surplus or junk food surplus?

No, I know it does, but it doesn't properly communicate the relationship with correct words, where other related subjects do. Instead it dances about with a disconnection, I would guess because of the sugar and health industry lobby.

The medical definition of poisoning is generally defined as injury or death due to swallowing, inhaling, touching or injecting of various substances.

Disease can be considered as an injury when it refers to a condition that develops gradually over time due to repeated exposure or stressors.

> Carbohydrate poisoning sounds nonsensical though

Carbohydrates are in the potatoes, but are not the potatoes.

There are contextual limits when you associate specific things into a unique word definition, potatoes (unless green, or unsafely handled), would not be poisonous because they have a finite amount of components that our bodies can handle, and it would be quite hard if not impossible to eat sufficient amounts given biological limits and rates inherent in structure.

A concentrated chemical solution of simple carbohydrates in reduced liquid form that absorbs more quickly than your pancreas can handle on the other hand would be different.

When you exceed safe operating limits, this can cause injury, and that may show up, or present as symptoms of disease.

I would have responded sooner but apparently when posts get downvoted, it automatically applies a strict QoS filter that won't let the poster respond at all.

Not a very reasonable thing to do for a rational-minded community, for something as tame as what I said.

That system structure almost always trends eventually towards collectivist sock-puppetry opinion with the mob silencing others based solely on individual mass hallucination. Not very scientific, and at the same time eliminates requirements needed for intelligent thoughts.

In order to learn you must be able to risk being offended.
In order to think, you must be able to risk being offensive.
In order to share the benefits of either broadly, you must be able to communicate.

Without these inherent strengths skewing towards survival, its just a matter of time and circumstance before losing the fight against extinction.
I believe Jonathan Bow’s Jai is trying to do a lot of this.
I'm used to the old old school way of doing things, meaning you write shit in a text editor and then run it. There's no parenting system, no hierarchies, no inheritances, no massive trees of various classes/subclasses that you have to manage. Godot goes beyond friction and actively pisses me off because what should just be ten seconds of writing in a new text document turns into up to sometimes two or three minutes of interacting with the GUI because you have to create a new project, save it, make a scene node, create an object node, create a sub-object node, create an action node, create a container node, then you can start editing code, but only once you link whatever it is to that specific object instead of it being a general script you can re-use, because re-using it means making copies of the parent object and-- It's too complicated.

A lot of 2D game engines are near frictionless because they're just "write and save" style simple, and Blender Game Engine was actually great about translating this to a UI, and more importantly a UI dealing with 3D since every object in the viewport could just have it's own little code block attached to it just by clicking it. It was no different in function than saving the .py file in a new folder, really. This method Unity "pioneered" of everything having to be part of a giant tree in the asset manager is such a slog and makes keeping track of anything during iteration a nightmare. I still prototype in BGE sometimes because every other 3D engine sprawls too quickly and has so many unnecessary steps.

If somebody could just write a text-only "write and save" style editor like LOVE2D but for 3D (and support it for longer than two months) that would be amazing.
Node.js in a nutshell for sure
My data point as an edge case: on a certain website, I have a throwaway account registered with a throwaway gmail account. I don't use that gmail account for anything else, and in order not to affect my regular Gmail login, I use incognito window. Now, whenever I need to log in to the website on a new device, I have to also login gmail as well (since the login credentials are never kept between sessions). This has been very annoying, and would not happen with password with 2FA.
> When you use the term "open-source" in this context, what do you mean?

The code for its implementation is literally available on GitHub [0] under the Apache License 2.0.

[0]: https://github.com/twitter/communitynotes
I like simple languages without bells and whistles but for me, Go has some flaws that I cannot look past.

Specifically the map type. Unlike some Map implementations in Java, maps in Go are not ordered and there is no way to order them unless you want to keep a slice representing the order of the keys. Keys in these maps must be comparable, which means that unlike Java, you can't just implement equals() and hashCode() to make your type comparable. Maps and slices are not comparable, so if you use either in a struct, that struct is no longer comparable. Since map keys must be comparable, you'll have to convert your struct to a comparable type like a string if you want to use it as a key to a map.

You can always look for a third party library for more data structures, but the last time I looked those libraries didn't support generics yet.

Sometimes you'll find a standard library function that takes an interface{} and might panic if you give it a value it doesn't like. This is especially the case for library functions that want to operate on slices. Slices can be generic, but you'll still find many functions that accept interface{}, so you're left with library functions and third party libraries that take any as the type of an argument and expect you to read the documentation so that you don't accidentally pass the wrong type.

interface{}s are comparable sometimes, and if you compare two types that aren't actually comparable, you'll get a panic.
Istiktokbanned.org
This is factually incorrect and I don't know where people get this idea from.

Just moving my mouse around, I can tell the difference between 60 and 144 fps when I move my pointer from my main monitor (144 hz) to my second monitor (60 hz).

Watching text scroll is noticeably smoother and with less eye tracking motion blur at 144 hz versus 60.

An object moving across my screen at 144 fps will travel fewer pixels per frame than 60 fps. This gain in motion fluidity is noticeable.
That still references the old Debian-based version of SteamOS. The modern one is based on Arch.
Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness'
That would be true for the 4090, but the 3090 is even more cut down so the 5090 is about 100% faster in rasterization (based on the 4090 being nearly 70% faster than the 3090 and the 5090 being approx 25% faster than the 4090)
With 10Tb/s Internet, then sure!
Yea!! I was looking at some options in Alibaba. Haven’t found anything good. Anyone root meta glasses yet?