skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I want to write BalancedI8

So, you want an integer, but one value sacrificed to denote not-a-number? Is this what "niche" means?

So that with these, you can have Option[integer8, None], an option type that either contains a -127 to +127 8bit integer or contains the empty value, and still consumes only 8 bits of memory? Or are there other uses for this?

And Rust already has this, and with the memory optimization, but for some reason only the version where they sacrificed the value 0.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/num/type.NonZeroI8.html
So are all the humans in this thread.

Except, human mimicry of "reasoning" is usually applied in service of justifying an emotional feeling, arguably even less reliable than the non-feeling machine.
The only page i found AlterNet cited was AlterNet itself, so i would guess no. If only the article provided sources, or at least example, but i guess it's too much to ask

To be honest, it's quite easy, wiki moderators use custom search engines to improve links (especially on heavily discussed or heavily viewed article), here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advanced_source_sear...

if one of the engine return AlterNet or CounterPunch articles on political questions, it's probably "heavily used". If not, the author is a probably a liar, the editor certainly don't check articles and the publication is surely as worthless as AlterNet.
Thanks for point that out, but I then believe it's a combination of the two.

I don't believe that an embedded PC that allegedly has the same power as a PS5 consumes 200/300W idling. Even if it doesn't sleep it should consume in the order of 10s of W, not 100s. For reference, my PC here has a 3070, a ryzen 7 7xxx (I don't remember the exact model) and consumes like 40W at the outlet when idling.

So I am willing to assume that yes, the onboard PC doesn't idle when sentry mode is active, but the 200+ W draw is due to it running terrible software, and not just not entering CPU states that are energy efficient.
I always have both. It is VERY hard for people to understand how the system is actually working if you just include a bunch of diagrams separated by concerns without some kind of atlas/globe level diagram that shows how they fit into the overall puzzle.
The person with an issue should gather data and make a case for the investment. Sounds like they’re at a company where a vibes based case won’t fly, so it needs to be a business level case. These talk of resources saved/gained, ie. $$$ and time.

It’s not too different to a design doc. Design doc proposes a solution and details the investment needed to bring it into existence.

Main difference is the additional need to communicate why there is a problem - but most design docs restate this at the top anyway.

Maybe making a case for a change will show the org some previously untracked info, eg. time wasted. And maybe that was not known previously and surfacing it leads to rapid change. But be wary because maybe making your case will cause you to learn things you didn’t know. You might make your case and learn there are reasons for the frugality that you weren’t privy to and now are. But going through the process will either way better align your priorities to the org’s and vice versa.
As people have pointed out it depends on the details. Maybe SSN is not the primary key and it's something else like name + DOB. It still requires more details to prove that it's being used maliciously but there's no reason to think it's completely b.s.
Details on how DS used GRPO for RL rewards

https://medium.com/@sahin.samia/the-math-behind-deepseek-a-d...
Is this a way to make me feel less bad about gaining a bit too much weight?

Joking apart this is a very valid point, often you can just fall onto something where people have taken the time to put something out there, you documented your thought or your little haven of work, whatever it is, for other to find eventually. It is nice and valuable.

In a day and age where everything needs to have meaning or be productive, it is healthy to make things that serve no other purpose but to be. It will be eventually lost to time and noise, but so is everyone existence on this earth.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06347
Which "religious nuts" support a "multi-regional hypothesis"?
A mono-regional 'Eden' is supported in Abrahamic religions.
that is an excellent metric for their beaver resumes
Paraphrasing from someone who is involved in this - their angle in AI is better targeting of Ads - better classification, clustering, better "recommendations" for the advertiser, including visuals, wording, video etc.

These and others are just side benefits or some form of "greenwashing". Meta's main (and only) business is advertisement. They failed to capitalize on everything else.
Have you ever brought a car through the German TÜV?
"first gen" Model 3s didn't have an emergency rear door release for when the electrical one failed. they've since added that to more recent generations.

but- a car company that doesn't see the need to have emergency rear door releases has systemic issues. someone, anyone involved in approving that design could have said "no. i will not sign off on this", but they didn't.

it makes me wonder what other corners they cut, and whether those cut corners could kill a driver or passenger- because they're not going to cut corners on anything that would be immediately apparent in daily use: it would be detrimental to sales.
This one perhaps? https://www.circusscientist.com/2022/12/18/ubuntu-snap-updat...
I think this makes the picture quite clear. The only criteria for their selection was their ability and willingness to exfil data as fast as possible. In order to facilitate the trump blitz, as much technical action as possible needed to happen in a timeframe constrained by court procedural mechanisms.
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IG Metall is there (at least 10% of total staff) and of course there's a workers council, where they have seats.
Mazda is pretty great actually. I have a CX30 (3 years), where the screen is not sensitive and everything is controlled with mechanical buttons...

The best of both worlds...
> Because you are forced to communicate clearly, cut the jargon and not dump your stream of consciousness. Instead you pay attention to whether what you're saying is of any value to another person.

Why is that good, though, if you're the only reader?
I have SOS Inoperative in car. Contacted the dealer, it seems like it can be software issue - where update will fix it… But I have to pay for it. Pay for a software bug!

For me it's just another stupid notification to close after getting in car, just after "no seat belts fastened in rear" - yeah, 'coz nobody here!

Giving me notification about unnecessary things, but when one module failed and got car in limp mode - nothing showed, I was just shocked when car couldn't accelerate as expected… during overtake. Yeah, safety.
Presumably tribal religions
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As I understood that part, in RL for LLMs you take questions for which the model already sometimes emits correct answers, and then repeatedly infer while reinforcing the activations the model made during correct responses, which lets it evolve its own ways of more reliably reaching the right answer.

(Hence the analogy to training AlphaGo, wherein you take a model that sometimes wins games, and then play a bunch of games while reinforcing the cases where it won, so that it evolves its own ways of winning more often.)
If you were already pricing in mils to be competitive, your customers will not accept an increase of 5c "because the country got rid of the penny."

It's basically impossible that your customer was paying you in cash at that point anyways.
Same in US: your car has externalities on others. Even if it was a one seater you'd up everyone else's liability insurance without the chime.
Food:

- Ray Kroc – Turned McDonald's into a global fast-food empire.

- Howard Schultz – Scaled Starbucks into an international giant.

- Michele Ferrero – Created Nutella, Kinder, and Ferrero Rocher, making his family billionaires.

Water:

- François-Henri Pinault – Controlled Evian via Danone.

- Antoine Riboud – Expanded Danone into a bottled water empire (Evian, Volvic).

- Peter Brabeck-Letmathe – Former Nestlé CEO; Nestlé owns Perrier, Pure Life, Poland Spring, etc.

Electricity:

- Warren Buffett – Berkshire Hathaway Energy owns multiple utilities.

- Li Ka-shing – Built major energy holdings through CK Infrastructure.

- David Tepper – Invested heavily in power utilities via Appaloosa Management.
I wish people opened their router UI more often to cure nostalgia.
Hello HN!
I'm a solo founder and before that, I built 2 startups in 5 months.

After spending months building products that nobody wanted, I founded Nexidea to help startups answer critical questions early on:

Who needs this solution, Who am I competing with, What technology stacks can I scale my app with?

No unnecessary information - just actionable reports and infrastructure plans.

I would love your feedback and your worst 'I did it but nobody came' stories.
Hardware products like sensor and control devices. I also use it for desktop tooling whenever a script wants a for loop. Unfortunately I use Flutter for GUI stuff because I hate js and because it has Android/IOS plugins that I would have to write if using Gnoga.
It's something I've been thinking about for a while.

Most logic and language is worst case. You go all in or not on a concept.

Purity culture probably arose from this (not just sexual, but in so many areas of life, we view the binary not as "bad vs good", but "at least once bad, e.g. polluted" versus "always good").

I mean I'm sure we heard a bunch of conflicting messages in our lives in many different areas, and we have rationalizations for why that is (oh, those guys belong to a different political group, different viewpoints, etc.), often to just save on computation power because how tf are you gonna answer these grand philosophical questions in an afternoon, much less your lifetime - it's very halting problem-esque. Nevertheless, we still make heuristics, live in the muddy waters, and live.
The classic food industry defense against nutrition labels/regulations: In a way, everything is poison, so it would be unfair if we had to label ours.
Where I live it's a common hobby to tune and style cars, so I'm hoping these people will have figured out how to make future cars tolerable when I'm forced to move off the old school machines. Maybe it'll be possible to switch out the ICE for another powertrain, without at least some of the annoying christmas lights.
Somewhere I read an opinion that, with the exception of Neuroticism, Big 5 maps pretty directly to Myers-Briggs and back. It's an understandable exception, because the MB axes are such that everyone seems to be pretty proud of their own weightings; if we were to reconcile the two systems we'd probably need to come up with a rebranding of neuroticism.
What an impressive advertisement.

I'm wondering if this is just what rich people are being sold instead of coffee and a good night's sleep now, or is the experience separate from that? Anyone have first hand experience?
They do not have the right to do the things they are doing, in the way it is being done. You are normalizing the abnormal.
This one's ruining the planet though. Most advertisements serve to make people buy stuff they don't need.
If you disagree with me, explain why. Egregious personal attacks are against site guidelines. Knock it off.
Mine is the "grab your steering wheel" alert when the lane-keep assist does too good of a job staying in the lane and it doesn't receive any steering input from me for too long of a period.

I do have to say that after test-driving a number of different vehicles before buying my Taos last summer, that I appreciate that VW continues to use real buttons for most inputs - although I do understand a number of their other vehicles use capacitive touch buttons.
(2019)

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20577142
Supersonic flight is possible without an audible sonic boom
Yes, the Tlaxcaltecas defeated the Aztecs but they did not succeed in establishing themselves as the dominant power for very long. The Spanish returned with a greater military force and eventually dominated them.

There is admittedly plenty of nuance but my comment was intended to decry the tragedy of conquest, where a conquering party does not recognize the genius of technology implemented by the conquered party and proceeds to destroy that technology, to their own detriment.
SIM swapping is where you spoof a caller identity of a target in order to make a phone call impersonating that individual and then drain his retirement fund into a crypto mixer.

He was never charged for these activities, let alone overcharged.
surveillance is a cancer
I think the list of reasons sounds a lot like just typical facets of 'capitalism'.
Are you implying that kindness and advertising are basically the same? I can't imagine anyone being this reductive but I can't figure out a different way to read it.
I have to confess I am guilty of this — I used to just draw some unstructured circles and arrows on a whiteboard and call it enough.

Lately I've been trying to work my way through lots of different diagram types from https://plantuml.com/, and it does help to wrap my mind around the existing options.
AI is accelerating scientific production, not progress
Do not try to solve legal issues with technology. They're not the same scope.

If the UK wants Apple to introduce a backdoor, the two options are to do it or not to do it. To not do it and invent some excuse leaning on technical details doesn't work. Apple has the keys to sign software for these devices at the end of the day. That includes software that betrays the user's trust. That previously data was incidentally stored unencrypted on servers is not relevant for the fact they're being compelled to make this data available - at least not with my understanding of UK law.
I am fairly certain the hard drive is beyond repair. It has more than likely had water ingress by now.
It's weird. Everybody finds ads obnoxious (at least some of the time), yet it's allowed and not only that, it's proliferated in recent years. You'd think something universally disliked would be legislated away.

I wish more people would realize the root cause of all this spying is advertising. Simply banning advertising would get rid of all this shit more effectively and with less overreach and compliance headaches than the GDPR.
That box sticking out of dashboard is one of the most retarded things I've ever seen in a German car.
>The first one was just poor manufacturing Tesla has been known for forever.

Why did you buy a second one??
I like to think about what I did before I had to work. Young me would never worry about finding things to do and none of those things were economically valuable.
is that an alternative theory? I don't get the connection or is there some implied reference I am not getting?
My time machine runs on technical writing
These guys worked for SpaceX anyway, so it's pretty much guaranteed that they were already cleared even before joining DOGE.

A lot of speculation and guessing on this topic, which is surprising from news outlets which pride themselves on "facts" and "truth"... I'm not even mentioning the fact that revealing the names, handles, identities of employees and clearing saying that they have admin rights on systems X and Y, is in itself a serious breach of cybersecurity...
Predicates are great but most of the good stuff including privacy, proper subtyping and abstract data types came with Ada 83. Rust can't hold a candle even to Ada 83 imo.
Things which most of everybody agrees hurt society, but bump up the GDP tend to be tolerated to an extreme degree. The focus on datums, instead of why we even wanted those values to go up (or down) in the first place, is one of the major failings of modern governance.
We are discussing the government of the wealthiest nation the planet has ever known, not some garage startup. They require different approaches.
I just want to highlight one thing about this whole government takeover debacle. The reason you have the separation of power (legislative, judiciary, executive) is not to be efficient, it is to prevent generational abuse.

Even a well intentioned benign autocrat if given power would not part ways with said power voluntarily. So even if the current administration is "good" there is no reason why this kind of power couldn't be abused by subsequent administrations. Even the most die-hard republican should be thinking "if the democrats take over 1-3 elections from now, what would they do with this power?".

It is really the same reasoning with dictatorships, even if the dictator is good, competent and capable his successor most likely won't. Democracy is the best form of government because there are clean, regulated ways to transfer power. Not a scramble for dominance that once settled is meant to last in perpetuity.
Disney and Nintendo are among this most disgusting companies I can imagine. As an adult, you see ads and know they are ads... (sometimes, astroturfing is different)

But children? They see characters and do not realize they are corporate mascots. By adulthood these are classics and nostalgia inducing.
US news org still struggling to print papers a week after 'cybersecurity event'
You forgot Ada 2022 :) https://learn.adacore.com/courses/whats-new-in-ada-2022/inde...

Adacore technically retired the Community version a few years ago, so the most up-to-date free version would be GNAT from FSF (which is what Alire brings in automatically with `alr toolchains --select`).
Could be. Back then I didn't have any detailed docs on hand.

It also wasn't the point. There was a number of completely unnecessary annoyances.

Academics writing compilers actually seemed like a good idea to people back then. Still makes me smile thinking of it sometimes.
http://radleyice.com/chairman-mao-and-the-sparrows/
Its happening alongside the (yet unsubstantiated) rumor that Tesla engineers as a group would face a picture of Maye Musk each morning.
Hello to my fellow Saab daily drivers silently nodding their heads ;)
Why is this clickbait on the front page?
Will have a look. Thanks!
This sounds a lot like the old "my uncle works at Nintendo" rope-a-dope.
These are all people running AI labs! They want investment, and what better way to get investment than to tell people you're going to create Terminator? The people leaving OpenAI are joining other labs – their livelihoods depend on AI companies receiving investment: "it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it".

> The models keep getting better at an exponential [sic].

We don't know if this is true. A lot of growth that appears exponential is often quadratic (https://longform.asmartbear.com/exponential-growth/) or follows a logistic function (e.g. Moore's law).

Additionally there's a LOT of benchmark gaming going on, and a lot of the benchmark solving is not down to having a process that actually solves the problems; it just turns out that the problems already kind of lie in the span of text on the internet.
Have you tried finding its path and looking into the file itself? Maybe it's a wrapper or alternative version somewhere in your $PATH you installed and forgot?

And to add some mor efor testing: you can try "find /help", "find /?" and "find -?", in case it's using dos-style parameters.
Not all religions are about kindness. And the kind ones usually aren't about universal kindness.
Totally. "AGI = $100bn of profit" lol
As a gamedev who absolutely need to monetize its game, I think it's a great move from steam.

In-game ads are a cancer, breaking the immersion and the game flow.

That's part of why I don't wanna work on mobile gaming anymore, monetization is parasital to the experience or simply abusive thanks to the worst cognitive manipulations.
https://www.deceptive.design/types

The other reason I don't want to work on mobile is the dependance (read no choice) to apple and google, see what happens to Fortnite.

On PC, you can distribute yourself and still be extremely successful (kudos to Vintage Story team).

Players prooved countless times that they will buy and even fund experiences they enjoy or are promised to enjoy (which can lead to another set of problems but it's not the topic).
So I prefer to rely on gamers buying my game.
More precisely - advertising is a cancer on the internet. It's responsible for killing the early internet. It should have been banned decades ago.

But no, people wanted "free". Except there is no such thing as a free lunch.
Obviously. Anything that's being done without some analysis is downright dumb, RIIR included.

Though to me it seems that a good percentage of those efforts will improve a general area. Still your point stands.
Wonder where will they build a wall now to stop this drug.
Use an LLM to get you started.

Lay out your main topic and your initial thoughts. Let it do the anxiety-inducing part.

You just need a starting ground.

Artists who fear the “blank canvas” use a similar strategy - make large, loose brush strokes and create from chaos.
This has literally zero bearing on the topic being discussed.
I'm not assuming that, but I'd argue that learning theory on the job is much harder than learning interpersonal on the job, as being on the job biases in both of those directions.
Here I was perfectly happy with how things are. Alas, thanks to the advertisement now I've realized all the imperfections of my life that can only be remediated by the advertised products
Congrats on the launch OP.
Both Apple and Microsoft do what the article suggests - they decentralize services in China and partner with a local company to operate in keeping with Chinese law. Google took the option of pulling out of China, because their incentives were different.

Why do you trust random open source developers?
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Well, this "semi-noob" has only been here since 2007. I can see it for what it is. People simply aren't free to speak their minds here any longer due to hivemind bubble. If you think trying to point out a serious issue is "sneering", well, you're just proving my point. People simply can't bare to hear dissenting opinions any longer, and won't due to downvoting anything that impinges on their own sense of cognitive dissonance. This post's topic was "outrage fatigue". I am on topic with my original assertion.
This is not boilerplate, what are you comparing it with? The root commenter and their replies clearly stated that they use AI for things which they know how to do but too tedious to type. General code generation abilities are out of this scope.
Which tribes? Don't the Abrahamic religions stem from the tribes of Israel?
The hallucinatory thoughts of the dying mind
If you want to sound old, say aloud “you’ve never heard of Muhammad Ali?”
you'd only have to test worst/median case scenes, which you could find with a bit of profiling!
I would rather live with ads than with literal bread lines my family stood in decades ago, in a socialist state (that funnily had more govt propaganda than ads).