skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To entertain this, though, is there anyone that thinks that if every NATO member spent 2% (or 4%, or 10%) the US military budget would be smaller? Does anyone think this for a second?

What's important is that countries promised to do so—and didn't. And this isn't a sudden thing: the agreement was reached in the NATO summit in Latvia in 2006.

(Speaking as a Canadian.)
Unionizing is always a good idea, but unions can be a complicit joke.

A "no strike" clause is a big red flag that its not gonna do anything .

And organizing is a good way to get fired. Employers don't care - they won't get caught or prosecuted and if fined it will be after the critical organizers are long gone.

It takes some next level leadership to make it work that is mostly missing
> QWERTY was invented to make input slower on mechanical devices and prevent the mechanical equivalent of a buffer overflow.

This is sort of like saying a c compiler is there to stop you from dereferencing null pointers
Perhaps another reason to unionize is to claim more of the political power being wielded by our industry. Unions can play a role in shifting where lobbying money goes, how industry advises politicians, etc. At least I think that’s how things used to work. Not sure how anything works anymore…
Should the most profitable companies on the planet be free to lay off good performers in a country where healthcare is tied to employment?

You can invent strawmen like poor performers and failing companies all day long but the facts differ quite a lot from your perception.
Sounds like you’re describing a situation where every user must have a secure account in order avoid a problem. In that case, it’s not just the technically-minded folks here who need to have secure passwords. The site itself should enforce password security, not individuals.
Sure. Another fallout of unfettered capitalism. Just with an indeterminate delay between cause and effect.
This is scary!
The Binder Clip: An Appreciation
>No, they generally do not compete on accuracy benchmarks afaik.

"Get Answers" is literally at the top of ChatGPTs landing page. You think the average person interprets that to mean "Get inaccurate answers"?

Google "AI benchmark" and almost every result is an assessment of the accuracy of various models. What do you think they compete on? How do you think they measure the improvement of one model to the next?

Here's OpenAI's "Optimizing LLM Accuracy" https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/optimizing-llm-accur...

Pop this in Google and see the pages of results about accuracy: site:openai.com "accuracy". To claim that they don't optimize for accuracy confirms to me that you are not discussing this in good faith. Perhaps you are just trying to be contrarian or something, I don't know.

>and also what led you to earlier claim that anyone typing in the complainant's name saw the same hallucination.

Well, it says right in the article that different people received the same result.

Why are the goalposts moving? Actually, nevermind, I don't care to continue the conversation.
I'd love to have a discussion with you about it but you seem convinced I have an agenda.
The main problem with those is the memory controller starts to degrade a lot when you use all 128 of those cores.

We were doing some testing and > 96 cores at 100% caused a massive degradation in performance. We ended up going with dual 32C/64T Epycs (which cost twice as much) as a result. If they fix it in the Altra One chips they will be back on the table though because they were very good power wise for our workload and quite price competitive in a supermicro chassis.
The author of the article, apparently.
You could make exactly the same complaint about python packaging. We've gone from setuptools, to pip, to poetry and now uv.
Recent changes to Tesla’s stock price suggest otherwise.
True, the barrier to becoming a tech influencer are very low now and yet it's harder than ever. This suggests that dumb luck plays an increasing role.

Current tech influencers are generally smart and qualified but they aren't experts in anything specific and they aren't innovative in any way. They are chosen by algorithms out of a large pool of possible candidates.
> GUI wasn't designed to make computing harder by forcing people to find cryptic little symbols

That was absolutely the result of moving to a 2d-ui: icon spam and little discoverability. I can't say I've ever wanted an icon toolbar when I have a menu right there that's activated by common keystrokes without clogging my screen.

Of course, some people only know "save" as a floppy-disk icon. Good luck raising them the remaining way.
okay, sure, ASLR can be defeated by hardware leaks. The first rowhammer papers were over ten years ago, it's very old news. It's totally irrelevant to this thread. The fact that there exist designs that have hardware flaws which make them incapable of hosting a secure PRNG does not have any relevance to a discussion about the merits or lack thereof of a PRNG-based security measures. The systems you're referring to don't have secure PRNGs.

Words have meaning, god damn it! ASLR is not security through obscurity.

Edit: I was operating under the assumption that “AnC” was some new hotness, but no, this is the same stuff that’s always been around, timing attacks on the caches. And there’s still the same solution as there was back then: you wipe the caches out so your adversaries have no opportunity to measure the latencies. It’s what they always should have done on consumer devices running untrusted code.
There are plenty of longer bridges, but those are multi-span bridges. The Straits of Messina are extremely deep and the area is tectonicly active. So it isn't feasible to build supports in the middle of the strait. If it were feasible then it would have been done a long time ago.

The design calls for the longest single span suspension bridge in the world. By a lot. It also needs to hold up to powerful storms.

The other alternative would be a pontoon bridge. The one in Seattle crossing lake Washington is 2km long, so that would work (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacey_V._Murrow_Memorial_Bridg...). However, The Straits of Messina are one of the most active shipping lanes and the maritime traffic is more valuable than the road traffic. The pontoon bridge works in Seattle because the main port is in the Puget Sound and there isn't any major shipping in Lake Washington.
Wasn't glue on steel notoriously hard to get right? So much can go wrong with adhesives, you need tight control over your processes.

I would have suggested rivets. Big, forged rivets, through a steel band around the edge. That would have looked so much cooler.
Customers that have funds available to purchase the services you offer and who are willing to actually spend that money are a hard requirement to maintain any business. If white collar and service industries are significantly disrupted by AI this necessarily reduces the number of potential customers. Thing is you don't have to lay off that many people to bankrupt half of the contractors in the country, a decent 3-5 year recession is all it takes. Folks stop spending on renovations and maintenance work when they're worried about their next paycheck.
https://archive.is/4bG87
my youngest daughter just pointed out that car doors only close by being slammed
Simplifying it: longer lifespans mean you'll live long enough to develop it to the point where it's noticeable.
>I think we're heading into a world where a lot of the remaining normal healthy social behavior gets subsumed by LLMs pretending to be your friend or romantic interest.

This is already happening.

https://x.com/zymillyyy/status/1902181493553733941
Because you can code, gold should flow copiously into your coffers and the masses should genuflect to our awesomeness.

Or, it can be like everything other job, and not so much.

Ad tech has given developers the illusion they are extremely valuable.

They are, but not that much. Not by a long shot. Google et al massively distorted the software development market by at least 4x, if not more.

What we are seeing now is a massive correction back to some level of sanity for tech worker comp.
I expect that AI good enough to automate jobs will also be dangerously good at criminal activities.

Governments will want to ban them, but there's just too much $$$ to be made from replacing employees, so things will get complicated fast.
a service that allows you expose and host your data in a private manner getting a cut from whatever token your endpoints have generated.
How Jeff Bezos Made Peace with Donald Trump
It loses heat overnight, or you use all the hot water contents overnight?
He said kids toys are a bad example because wood toys are meaningfully distinct from non-wood toys, and then explained how they are in fact not meaningfully distinct beyond a superficial level, which I brought back around to the differences between organic/non-organic food (e.g. feel good and possibly environmentalism).

All that said, my initial reply was wrong because I ignored the "certification movements" part of the phrase I quoted (I honestly didn't notice that) and beyond fear mongering amongst parents (which is pretty easy to do from a marketing standpoint), I also cannot think of any other examples!
> AI training is no different from any other training.

Yes, it is. One is done by a computer program, and one is done by a human.

I believe in the rights and liberties of human beings. I have no reason to believe in rights for silicon. You, and every other AI apologist, are never able to produce anything to back up what is largely seen as an outrageous world view.

You cannot simply jump the gun and compare AI training to human training like it's a foregone conclusion. No, it doesn't work that way. Explain why AI should have rights. Explain if AI should be considered persons. Explain what I, personally, will gain from extending rights to AI. And explain what we, collectively, will gain from it.
No FT subscription link: https://archive.is/vTS4I
In the sense that the point of “age” is supposed to indicate some kind of progress by which cohorts can be compared and classified into discrete groups.

But increasingly, there is no correlation between age and specific developmental stages. It is merely a number that indicates how long something has been around but not what its current status may be.
I think 'For all paid users in the United States' is clearer. I live in America, but not in what the United States considers 'America', so I do not get to use this new feature yet.
No but you don’t understand, I’m the fastest rower in the group, so I shouldn’t need to work together because that’d just make me slower!!!
Who are you talking about because no one mentioned any names here?
Four-Wheel Spinner Suitcases Are Terrible on Uneven Surfaces
Transcribing Twilio's dual-channel recordings using OpenAI's speech-to-text while preserving channel identification.
> Would you rather have layoffs at your company or have your company go out of business due to excessive labor costs?

I invite you to read earnings reports from any of the FAANG companies in the last 5 years. Go ahead, I'll wait.
I mean, there is at the very least a theory that at very small levels, the quantum effects take over and we’re actually looking at a cyclic bang/crunch model. It’s literally discussed in A Brief History of Time. But this is more of a refinement.
Cell2fate infers RNA velocity modules to improve cell fate prediction
To be fair, being in the cultural zeitgeist is a huge part of their current moat. To people in the street OpenAI is the company making LLMs. Sam has to make sure it stays that way
> you're going to personally be better off changing companies

Job mobility for tech workers is a fluke of current economic conditions. If interest rates spike, or a recession happens, or a bubble bursts, this benefit would go away and you'd be stuck at that exploitative company or unemployed.

Unionization and labor laws can make workers less disposable without substantially affecting growth (see: European tech hubs).
Gotta add the time factor. “Billions of years ago”
Looking back I don't know what I was thinking ignore me.
App is unavailable in the US :(
An awful lot of unions exist in spaces where "compare the widget to the template" is an impossibility. Some examples:

SAE standardizes the labor cost for a given task, although an individual mechanic may go faster and slower than the proscribed hours. The same mechanaic will have different times for multiple instances of the same task based on details of the job.

Police unions effectively require arbitration on an employee by employee basis, since police work is so highly situationally dependent.

Creative unions like SAG and screewriters guild often don't have the notion of measuring quality of output. They exist to ensure various workplace rules (safety, breaks, sane environment, etc) and minimum compensation standards are followed.

The union is not a template of how to be an assembly line worker - its a way to equalize the power between an employer and employees. The specifics of how one union negotiates its collective bargain don't dictate what a union for an entirely different group of people will negotiate.
The upgrade is more electricity outlets for charging electronic devices.
pokerpatio.com: simple and fun play-money poker with public and private lobbies
You can build a gun in your garage but that does not mean it doesn't matter if they suddenly show up at your local web outlet for anyone to buy. That said the combination of a drone and a mobile phone with the right software already makes for a pretty effective weapons platform - just add weapons of course - so this was to be expected.
> If ChatGPT is giving my website a ratio of 100 bot accesses (or more) compared to 1 actual user sent to my site

are you trying to collect ad revenue from the actual users? otherwise a chatbot reading your page because it found it by searching google and then relaying the info, with a link, to the user who asked for it seems reasonable
EUV has always been about achieving high enough power to be economically viable. It was never about making chips at any cost.

I remember reading the tinfoil hat theory about three-letter agencies making low-quantity high-cost chips at incredible process sizes in order to break encryption. I doubt that's still as viable today as it was before leakage currents started dominating, but it was an impressively plausible theory.
Get out of my head, demon!
European NATO members already outspend Russia and have hardware superiority in air, sea and land. Russia is no match.

The only thing missing is moving them where they are needed under unified command. Main Battle Tanks in Netherlands, Belgium, Germany make no sense. They should be in Poland, Baltics, or Finland permanently.

Imagine what the US military would be if is everything was based on the National Guard and every state would have their own procurement process.
I've been using MDN for a decade, and this is a TIL!
I can't remember now, but I want to say less than 5 dollars. I do remember that one of my customers with a fairly large lawn paid 2 dollars an hour, which I was very happy with.
> What I'd really like for next gen CI is a system that can get deep hooks into local-first tools.

But how do you get that sweet, sweet vendor-lock that way? /s
> This is by design in the regulatory infrastructure

I don't see how this can be true. I installed my own ground mount array, and the costs directly attributable to regulatory infrastructure were about US$35 (for the permit). It would have been no higher if I had added batteries. The material costs were completely comparable with AU, CAN and UK pricing.

Perhaps you're arguing that the certification and licensing regulations for paid installers drives the installation cost up (i.e. that labor costs for US solar installs are too expensive) ?
Trump and Elon's entire plan is to make government more inefficient to convince people that giving large chunks of public funding to private business to run government is a good idea.
It may not be very long before the big majority of web searches are via AI. If that happens, blocking AI will mean blocking most people too.

You’d already be blocking me as I’d guess I now search via AI >90% of the time between perplexity, chatgpt, deep research, and google search AI.
I dunno. I've been waiting for that to happen since the 90s, when the D and R halves of the uniparty fully teamed up to make Wall Street and corporate profits their #1 priority and encouraged the exporting or outsourcing of every job possible. We've had 30+ years to do something about it, but we were always too independent and anti-social for that.
Gotcha, that makes sense.

If there’s liquid cooling for the conductors you can pump a lot more amps through them than you can at 75C. If you can keep the ambient temp to
0-10C, you multiply the ampacity in the 75C column by 1.36, I bet you can go way lower if it’s liquid cooled.
Has anyone used argo on kubernetes to automate their CI pipeline?
Oxygen is everywhere.

Hydrogen is everywhere.

The possibilities are interesting.
What makes it so he has to wait? He’ll make illegal orders, they’ll be carried out, the courts will say no, he’ll ignore them, repeat.
"sustainable" was incorrectly translated from the Swedish "miljövänliga" which instead means "environmentally-friendly" ("sustainable" is "hållbar" in Swedish)
Big tech is not imploding.
Court Imposes over $1.6B in Penalties on a Toyota Subsidiary for Emissions Fraud
They would suggest that only if the primary reason behind valuation changes is company performance and not political sentiment.
Show HN: Tower defense 2D web game v0.2
An F-104 with modern avionics and engineering is an undefined, non-existent airplane.

Historically, there are few aircraft that fit that niche. (Mig-25, Mig-31, F-104 as you said etc). It would be cool to have a modern interceptor like that (F-15Ex with the pods, CFTs, and pylons removed??), but there's no existing solution that fits what you seek.
Intentional – Block distracting parts of YouTube
There’s at least a 3rd option, closer collaboration with the UK and an extension of the UK’s nuclear deterrent to Canada.

I’ve heard a lot of talk of CANZUK again recently and it makes a lot of sense to me.
People don't call Android a "real linux" because you, as a user, aren't in actual control of the system: you can't root, you cant choose which system apps run on your system nor can you disable them, you can't change the underlying linux kernel.

You effectively are locked in by the OEM, who is the one that has higher privilege than the user. A real linux would allow the user to have actual control over their own system.
What you think the US is all the way on the down-side of the app? hell no. We're the center of the universe babee.
Maybe, but then you still have the secondary effects. Terrifying lockdown drills and shooter training. Transparent/kevlar backpacks. Armed teachers and/or security everywhere. What a fucked up environment to grow up in.
With figures like this it's important to keep in context that this percentage change is off of very historically depressed levels. Inventories are still not "high" by any stretch: https://x.com/LoganMohtashami/status/1902390398166982973?t=k...
> do you believe openai as the publishers should face arrest?

Absolutely I do, yes. An LLM is not a random number generator. It is a tool built for the sole purpose of generating content.
YOUR view is warped if you think that was a wave and not a nazi sign. Watch it again and do it in a public place exactly as he did (no "I’m giving my heart" bullshit) if you sincerely believe it was just a wave.

This is so fucking unambiguously a nazi sign, it’s infuriating seeing people like you saying it’s just a wave. Damn, people suck
Elevenlabs is an ecosystem play. They have hundreds of different voices, legally licensed from real people who chose to upload their voice. It is a marketplace of voices.

None of the other major players is trying to do that, not sure why.
It's a line that must not be crossed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Just shipped a feature to block Shorts, Comments, Home page or Video Suggestions inside of the Intentional Chrome extension.

Helped me cut down on hours spent on YouTube just mindlessly scrolling.

Try it out, tell me what you think.
This is insane. Guys you think it will someday replace google?
> In some (e.g., medical careers), grind is not optional

Not disagreeing with your post in general, but the grind for medical specialists is only until 30 something. Once you are “consultant” (in Australia), it’s basically huge money with a job for life at whatever hours you want to work; almost anywhere in the world.

Don’t get me wrong, the grind until then is extreme, but it’s a weird comparison to make.

Overall, I agree that we are super privileged in the world of software.
You are confusing academia with science. A lot of science is done in academia, but a lot is also done in the commercial sector.

Obviously the commercial sector won't typically fund things unless there is some probable payback, so they are not so good at doing fundamental research.

You need both to get the best returns.
Yeah I kinda think their hardware is great but everything else from culture to software is not what I want.
> The pontoon bridge works in Seattle because the main port is in the Puget Sound and there isn't any major shipping in Lake Washington.

The old 520 bridge (longer than the I-90 bridge) used to have a drawbridge in the middle because there was a naval station in Sandpoint. The new 520 bridge doesn't have it, and the naval station has long since been closed down. The hood canal floating bridge gets a lot more traffic although mostly Submarines I think.
They still have to pay for H.264 and the cost of it are peanuts.
Or, could it be, just possibly be (gasp), that some of the devs at these "hotshot" AI companies are just ignorant or lazy or pressured enough, so as to not do such normal checks? Wouldn't be surprised if so.
I got one German “w” when using the following prompt, but most of the “w” were still pronounced as liquids rather than labial fricatives.

> Speak with an exaggerated German accent, pronouncing all “w” as “v”
It's really not hard to understand, just look at how US approval ratings of Ukraine have dropped dramatically in the last 3 months. Shifting designations led by powerful people.
Wondering what the recourse is, as my friend has an expensive paperweight now, and we used it a lot. Ideas welcome.
Most people actually don't work at immensely profitable FAANG companies.
I'm really curious to see how this evolves as time goes on. Hashcash was originally conceived to stop e-mail SPAM, and a lot has changed since then, namely, compute has become absolutely dirt cheap. Despite that, PoW-based anti-bot remains somewhat enticing because it doesn't necessarily harm accessibility the way that solutions like Cloudflare or reCAPTCHA can: It should be possible to pass, even on a VPN or Tor, even on less used web browsers like Ladybird or Servo, and even if you're not on a super powerful device (provided you are willing to wait for the PoW challenge to pass, but as long as you don't have all of these conditions at once you should get an "easy" challenge and it should be quick.)

The challenge is definitely figuring out if this solution actually works at scale or not. I've played around with an implementation of Hashcash myself, using WebCrypto, but I worry because even using WebCrypto it is quite a lot slower than cracking hashes in native code. But seeing Anubis seemingly have some success makes me hopeful. If it gains broad adoption, it might just be enough of a pain in the ass for scrapers, while still being possible for automation to pass provided they can pay the compute toll (e.g. hopefully anything that's not terribly abusive.)

On a lighter note, I've found the reception of Anubis, and in particular the anime-style mascot, to be predictably amusing.

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/anime-girl-on-gnome-gitlab/276...

(Note: I'd personally suggest not going and replying here. Don't want to encourage brigading of any sort, just found this mildly amusing.)