skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead of a Wordpress Blog or something I'd go for something static. There is a couple of software solutions out there from everything to blogs to website. This has the benefit that you can be a lot more independent. As long as you have some copy somewhere you are fine. You can back it up easily and so on. If you use WP (and MySQL) a lot more things can go wrong. If the MySQL server, your wordpress can get hacked for some silly plugin you thought you needed, the hoster of it or whatever are unavailable you might lose it, you might lose your domain which can break stuff, you might forget to pay, etc.

The idea here is something that allows you quick recreation and copying. You can just copy over static files. You can put it on your Dropbox, Google Drive, etc. and even on your external hard disk or whatever backup solution you use.

Usually the main dynamic thing for writers is actually creating posts. So if that is some offline software that just spits out static files it becomes incredibly resilient.

One might think static site generators, like Hugo, but there is also GUI applications that essentially equal what the admin of a blog or CMS see.
it’s not just the far right, but that is a hallmark of the far right. conservatives want to conserve the idealized snapshot of the present or a gilded past.
This, and also "The blog is about literate programming, and the content of the blog is the code that produce the blog"
The issue here is that the "LLMs have intelligence" side of the argument can lay out a simple mainstream conception of intelligence (general problem solving) and explain directly how LLMs meet this definition. The other side of the argument, at least here in this thread, seems to be an empty insult or two and... Nothing else?

Again, just say what you think intelligence is and why you think LLMs don't have it. If you can't do that then you have no business expressing an opinion on the subject. You really aren't expressing an opinion at all.
> ...preventing me from buying sub-freezing temperature windshield wiper fluid

Actually you can buy and use that stuff in California, you just can't buy it in the valleys (which are warmer BTW) because the emissions cause smog. But in the sierras, where it's a safety issue and the topographic features are different, its available in every service station and car parts store. It's in in my gf's car right now.

The same sensible attitude works in reverse: some states ban studded winter tires because they rip up the roads. California allows them from November-April (longer in very snowy years) because they are safer in snow (and annoying as hell, especially in dry conditions, so you never encounter them at low altitude).
Win32: "I have slain many a challenger; you won't be the last."
So this website says 14 years is the minimum age. Honest question, how is a 14-year-old safer in Parisian traffic on an e-bike than a scooter? You can easily go on sidewalks with bikes, too, if you are so inclined, and falling off into the traffic or hitting someone doesn't seem any less problematic?
Hyperbolic Tree
Yes, knowing your hardware always helped. Subroutines used frequently and placed early in the code helped reduce memory use and improve speed.
Back in the early 1980's "80 Microcomputing" magazine ran an annual competition for BASIC one line programs. Some entries proved just how clever some coders could be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80_Micro
Ekg – a simple but opinionated note taking application, for Emacs
> The economics of renewables are hard to beat until night falls and the wind stops blowing, at which point the cost jumps to $infinity/MWh

I can understand why you might think that. But there is one place on the planet that's done the renewable transition now. And it proves you wrong.

Let me introduce the state of South Australia. It's an advanced OECD economy, situated at the base end of Australia so far from anywhere it has only 1 transmission line connecting to a neighbouring state, and it's renowned for going down. Unusually for Australia, South Australia also has no coal or gas, and is famous for wild storms taking down kilometres of it's 100kv power lines.

It's currently running at 80% renewables:

https://reneweconomy.com.au/south-australia-hits-stunning-ne...

No, the power does no go off at night.

The transition was expensive. SA already had the most expensive electricity in Australia, and during the transition prices did go up for years. But at 80% the transition is almost over (although they need to build more storage), and the price of electricity in SA has been dropping. In fact it's dropped below the pre-transition price, so it's often below the rest of Australia's coal fired generation:

https://www.aemc.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-11/sa_fact_...

With that example to follow, the rest of the Australian states are gritting their teeth and following South Australia's lead. Teeth gritting is required because we are predicting a 50% jump in electricity prices, during the transition. It's already starting to bite: https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/power-bills-to-rise-by-... . But that price hike only lasted 5 years in SA, and the light at the end of the tunnel is lower prices than we have now.
Because that virus editing nutjob could be the AI.
It's true that without the physical "body" it's harder to do it but it could already delegate a lot of things to humans through computers, through ordering components and hiring people to do physical things without the individual workers or even the initial "prompter" realizing the end product would be dangerous. Or the prompter can have malicious intent, but the hired people and the world still would not know about the final dangerous product until it's too late.
Moths are more efficient pollinators than bees, shows new research
I think a lot of people have forgotten or don't know how powerful CPUs are. Simple operations should be insanely fast, like easily sub-millisecond if not sub-nanosecond fast.
> (that is actually the worst thing you could possibly do)

Nonsense, there are many worse things you could do. For example, you could allocate nodes with mmap, at 4KB per node. (Which is a thing I've actually done in the context of cursed bootstrap code where malloc isn't available and having more than a handful of (in that case doubly-linked-list) nodes means the environment is deranged anyway.)
I think we need to stop saying we'll optimize later and stop shunning people every time they bring up "microoptimizations" on a forum. Let them do it right the first time. No one is coming back to that code to fix it later.
Would you prefer "LLM Reverse Engineer" then?
> Verbal contracts can be binding.

Yes this is true, although most jurisdictions impose fairly low upper limits on the amount of consideration that a verbal contract can cover. As of 2012 the most common value was $500 or less (and probably is still the same level or close to it in most areas). Anything involving consideration valued at more than $500 USD was not binding unless written.
> Over 400 replies and no way to conveniently filter, sort, or search. Not worth it.

HN has similar issues, although here it's minimalism by design.
XUL is dead! Long live WebComponents!
TLDR: C++ is 115K inserts/sec to 166K inserts/sec

Here is a totally unscientific benchmark in C++. Of course there is "lies, damned lies and benchmarks".

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor

./sqlitetest

For writing to disk:
Inserted 1500000 records in 13 seconds, at a rate of 115385 records per second.

For writing to RAM:
change users.db to :memory:
Inserted 1500000 records in 9 seconds, at a rate of 166667 records per second.

Credit goes not to me but to everyone's favorite AI programmer.

I've made a tiny attempt to optimise - likely much more can be done.

To compile on Linux:

g++ sqlitetest.cpp -lsqlite3 -luuid -o sqlitetest

#include <iostream>
#include <cstring>
#include <ctime>
#include <chrono>
#include <sqlite3.h>
#include <uuid/uuid.h>

struct User {
uuid_t id;
char created_at[25];
char username[6];
};

int main() {
sqlite3 *db;
sqlite3_open(":memory:", &db);

const char *sql = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS users ("
"id BLOB PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,"
"created_at TEXT NOT NULL,"
"username TEXT NOT NULL"
");";
sqlite3_exec(db, sql, nullptr, nullptr, nullptr);

sqlite3_exec(db, "BEGIN", nullptr, nullptr, nullptr);

User user;
char uuid_str[37];
time_t now = time(nullptr);

int count = 0;
auto start = std::chrono::steady_clock::now();

for (int i = 0; i < 1500000; i++) {
uuid_generate(user.id);
uuid_unparse_lower(user.id, uuid_str);
strftime(user.created_at, sizeof(user.created_at), "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", localtime(&now));
strncpy(user.username, "Hello", sizeof(user.username));
sqlite3_stmt *stmt;
sqlite3_prepare_v2(db, "INSERT INTO users (id, created_at, username) VALUES (?, ?, ?);", -1, &stmt, nullptr);
sqlite3_bind_blob(stmt, 1, user.id, sizeof(user.id), SQLITE_STATIC);
sqlite3_bind_text(stmt, 2, user.created_at, -1, SQLITE_STATIC);
sqlite3_bind_text(stmt, 3, user.username, -1, SQLITE_STATIC);
sqlite3_step(stmt);
sqlite3_finalize(stmt);
count++;
}

sqlite3_exec(db, "COMMIT", nullptr, nullptr, nullptr);

auto end = std::chrono::steady_clock::now();
auto elapsed = std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::seconds>(end - start).count();
double rate = static_cast<double>(count) / elapsed;

std::cout << "Inserted " << count << " records in " << elapsed << " seconds, at a rate of " << rate << " records per second." << std::endl;

sqlite3_close(db);

return 0;
}
* Superliminal - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1049410/Superliminal/
It's a puzzle game based on shifting perspective and has a ton of "impossible" situations and heavy use of "world portals"
A bit like cellphones taking a long time to become integral to plots. Now I just tell Alexa to turn on the lights well before I get to where I want to look for something.
I think it's best used in conjunction in with a search engine. For example, you can ask it to recommend a paper to read and then search for the paper.
How to (mostly) gain back control of your data? – Self-Hosting and alternatives
The taxes in country A get paid when person Pa brings their earnings home as income. The taxes in country B get paid when Pb does the same.
It's on in Argentina this summer! You always wanted to visit Buenos Aires, right?
i had exactly the same issue and was planning to build something like this before. glad i have found you. i opened a couple of bounties for my OSS project.https://console.algora.io/org/golang-cafe/bounties. willing to try now although i will only use it for small items, the fee is too high.
> people wouldn't switch to Chrome if they disliked the changes Firefox was making to become more like it

Except they are and they do. Last I checked, Chrome was still gaining, not losing, on Firefox. Or more accurately: Firefox is losing whatever tiny userbase it still has, while Chrome already is the new IE (hell, even the new IE is Chrome).

For nearly a decade now, the only reasons to use Firefox instead of Chrome is, first and foremost, because Firefox is not made by Google, and secondly, because it had some extra technical flexibility that made the overall worse general-audience UX tolerable. The more Firefox loses on that technical flexibility, the less reason there is to use it.
Speaking for myself (an unemployed tinkerer), I bought three Pi Picos instead of one Arduino because Picos were $4 and Arduinos were $24, meaning I could buy three Picos for half the price, and hang onto them for future projects I need a microcontroller for. I cannot justify buying a $24 Arduino to solder together a game controller to USB converter, when I can get a preflashed clone Arduino, plus custom PCB with three controller connectors (then solder them on myself), for $16. (makerfabs.com sells Arduino Nanos for $9 if you can trust them, which I don't since their website spawned a Russian liveinternet.ru popup window likely from a malicious script.)

Later I found out that AliExpress sells clone Arduino Nanos for under $4 (https://github.com/timville85/TripleController#tested-parts), but by this time I had already bought three Picos and was learning to program the USB stack, PIO, and microcontroller gdb using a second Pico (not sure if ESP8266 or ESP32 requires a JTAG to debug, or you can use gdb over serial like https://arduino-esp8266.readthedocs.io/en/latest/gdb.html).
I agree, and to make matters worse, IME managers of managers tend to be very apathetic of their reports and don't have the same kind of scrutiny of the folks under them that they expect those same people to have of their reports. So the people that shouldn't be managing others don't really have a "check" above them to confirm it, especially if they're good at deflecting blame/sacrificing their reports.

I'm a big advocate for no confidence votes from reports to signal to someone that this person needs to go.
From personal experience even police don’t care. Just don’t do anything too dangerous,I guess. In a way it’s better to operate in a legal gray zone because you don’t need to worry about things like licenses and insurance and fines etc.
++
I'd definitely make sure my manager was fully aware of how much time he was burning.
Usually there’s a primary and a secondary. One person handles the actual debugging and the other handles the communication and coordinating. While I agree it’s poor management to ask for an update every few minutes, it’s not because asking for an update is bad, rather because they themselves failed to communicate and train their employees to properly handle communication. Looking back, this was something we did in our team when I was just <2 years out of college. I was the secondary and posted updated to the tickets and emailed the team every 30 minutes. I was also the one calling in people to help when primary needed help. My manager didn’t bother us because he had already clearly laid out how we handle issues of each severity and who does what. It was also clear what the chain of escalation was and who and how to reach out. Incidentally, it was also my job to close the issue by identifying the cause and fixing the issue from recurring - because the secondary was only observing and communicating they get to see the bigger picture and also a welcome break for the person working hard to fix the issue.

Learnt a lot by working with a team that knew how to handle themselves. And we weren’t SRE - just regular devs. This manager - my very first one - has also been the best one I’ve ever had. I wasn’t surprised at all when he quickly scaled the ladder and is doing really well for himself now.
>the shocking part is that natural selection hasn't figured out a way to harvest this free energy, it's usually so good at that!

Natural selection optimizes for "good enough", not "the best".
I actually don’t think that ASI, if/when created by humans, will be very dangerous for humans. Humanity so far is stuck in an unfashionable location, on a tiny planet, on the outskirts of the median sized galaxy. There is very little reason for ASI, if created, to go after using up the atoms of a tiny planet (or a tiny star) on which it had originated. I’d fully expect it to go with the Carl Sagan and try to preserve that bright blue dot, rather than try to build a galactic superhighway through the place.

It’s the intermediate steps that I’m more worried about. Like Ilya or Sam making a few mistakes, because of lack of sleep or some silly peer pressure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Berg
BTW, we had altered Firebug to list XUL stuff as well (activated when using firebug on firebug). It was everywhere. The <input type=“text” was actually a couple of things with padding, etc. inside.
Current price of raspberry pi 4 is killing it as a product.
I've lived in a couple of large cities where scooters and bikes shared the same space. I see little to no advantage over bikes, and scooters are way more dangerous.
I don't actually want to get rid of cars, I was just pointing out how ridiculous your argument sounds.

I want people to have options, and for large cities to promote less environmentally destructive modes of transportation that are also more accessible and take up less space. Yeah, maybe you see people leaving scooters on the sidewalks; I see shared use of public infrastructure that doesn't have to have large amounts of space dedicated for 'parking'
Doctors: at the very least, do not sit in the couch, recline. Sitting is very bad for you!
meh. I say that as someone who doesn't vote conservative.
The voting system is dumb. Most of the votes are just thrown out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryuichi_Sakamoto
I can agree with that too. This is what I've done myself. I guess it comes down to preference.
Lets assume for a moment that I haven't read any papers in those fields, that I don't have any childrens, that I haven't trained any LLMs or worked in "reinforcement learning", or even read any computer science papers in the last 20 years (the answer to 90% of that is yes): I don't have to be an expert in physics to know that pastors can't levitate, regardless of what they claim.

You're mad that I'm calling you out, I get it, but you gotta understand after the 200th time of seeing this unfounded sentiment bandied about I'm not phased.
You had to deal with dynamic loading of code or data when needed rather than preloading everything into RAM all at once.
And if the investments do grow, the governments still get their money, just later (but in greater sums at that time).
'Productivity' is just a term higher management tells lower management to make them believe they can get promoted.

Not unlike organized religions telling folks about heaven.

The best lies are always audacious - people can't help but want to believe them :)

That this results in holy crusades, witch hunts, daily stand ups and open offices - that's just part of being a homo sapiens sapiens.
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> What it does is that it invokes undefined behavior, that's all. [...] it can also be used in debug builds to trigger a crash

How can it be used to trigger a crash (a specific behavior) if the behavior it invokes is undefined? Are you saying it would be defined differently for debug builds so that it doesn't invoke undefined behavior?
More like technician
8/ actually has a germ of an idea; the only way to really get accurate volume when there are multiple volume knobs (tv, soundbar, tv remote,...) is to measure with a microphone.
I'm not sure that's quite correct given the banking sector (Medici) originates in Florence (Tuscany generally) who had considered political power over the pope (Rome), and hence across the kingdoms/country.
I'd say though that the complaint about having TikTok preinstalled, plus the trashy tabloid news, plus the endless begging for you to use Teams does ring true and it is something that Microsoft needs pushback against.
This is very good. Europeans need to be proud of their customs and traditions while also having an eye on the future. We have all been demoralized for years and taught to believe European history is evil and reduced to colonialism (as if Europe was the only colonialist of that time) and very little more.

Europe is beautiful and its diversity in such a small area is beautiful. Be a bit chauvinist I say and conserve the things that define you. Don’t be tricked into becoming globalist, homogenized, generic culture.

Embrace beauty and your cultural aesthetic.
I actually liked the one that said: "Make a noise as loud as you want the volume to be". Seems pretty intuitive.
Have you tried telling them "no"?
I wouldnt call it homage, but Glass studied Bach intensely under Nadia Boulanger and it shows through in places, in a very respectful way. I feel there are several places in Akhnaten that are essentially like a Bach Passion aria.

Honestly, if you wanted to create an archetypal American composer, you would soak them in a wide variety of music from childhood, get them studying instruments early, dispatch them to Europe to study under Boulanger, and then dump them in an artistically febrile New York. Which is exactly Glass' story.
the entire point is that it doesn't persist. you don't have to clean it up.

if you want something to persist, you have Hyper-V.
Olivia Rodrigo was launched into the stratosphere by TikTok - yes with label support.

Billie Eilish I think came by way of Soundcloud, no?

Can't imagine radio, being a means of discoverability, as more than a minor factor in this current era of Spotify.
I wasn't prepared for how good that looked. I'm not a big fan of orange, but for some reason it really works on that car. Great job :)
I think that article is misleading, because a simulator has rules. An LLM is better thought of as a storyteller, because at best it's going to follow whatever implicit rules there are very loosely and let you make rule changes of your own, more like Calvinball.

Also, whatever loose rules it has are more literary than mathematical. Plot twists often work.
Tools like Buffer or Hootsuite make it pretty easy to cross-post content across many networks.
overall my rate is technically reduced because I get 300 subsidy but pay 70 more. The quality of service has gone down too because of the removal of perfectly good amenities.
glad you found us too Diego! thank you very much for sharing bounties :)) always happy to get in touch and work something out, we wouldn't want our pricing to prevent you from enjoying the service! ioannis@algora.io welcome to Algora!
What will change from that if they don't publish their designs?

Knockoff producers will figure it out anyway, that's their entire business and they're good at it.

The only people hurt are the actual customers, who probably don't have as much experience reverse-engineering.
I think the equivalence between these is very weakly argued:

The DEI cult is fueled by the genuine issue of social justice
The ESG cult is fueled by the genuine issue of climate change
The trad cult is fueled by the genuine issue of the meaning crisis
The AI safety cult is fueled by the genuine issue of AI regulation

For example, ESG seems to largely exist as a cover for not taking substantive actions to decrease carbon emissions since those would be both unprofitable within specific companies and broadly unpopular in most societies. There isn't the same kind of socially cohesive group of proponents as eg AGI x-risk rationalists.
It's debatable if they are actually a race.
telefono is telephone though?
How to get rid of hum, buzz, and other noises from your audio system (2022)
> '70s social democracy and believes it can still work

and it can. Bear in mind that these were hard fought social structures that Europe sacrificed generations for in the war, which toppled the greatest empires and ravaged our lands, they came at great expense. It might be easy for a modern American to scoff at the concept of "70's style social democracy", but it is our version of "liberty" which we would protect as much as any American might the bits of the constitution that they like.

Remember that the totality of European GDP rivals US GDP (its in the big top 3 with the US and China), we will make social democracy work because to us, its the lowest acceptable bar. While one half of American news reels will continue to peddle the concept that its impossible because its within their vested interest to do so, it remains a stalwart part of European social expectations.

Perhaps when the US suffers a crippling loss on its lands once more and is forced to face the worst outcomes of the human experience, it might consider building a kinder social state too.
Hammer is not dangerous intrinsically. You can build shelter for people in need with it, or kill a human being.

Just like this tool; you can make a auto research bot, or automated spammer.

Even in that worst case: Remember that there were already bad human beings. This is why we created laws, intelligence agencies, militaries and police systems. And security practices for websites, such as bot protection systems.