skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WTF are you going on about? Adding external drives has nothing to do with "performance of a 'normal' computer".

Many people genuinely don't need more than 250GB in their computer; many more will never need more than 1TB. If you're having trouble believing that such users exist, you need a serious reality check about how normal people use their computers. Most people who buy a pre-built computer with 1TB or less of storage are not being meaningfully constrained in their ability to do useful work with that computer.

And regardless of how much storage is in your computer, you need storage that's not in the computer to hold backups. Are you basing your expectations for how much storage a computer should come equipped with on the needs for primary storage and backup/archival storage done in defiance of all common sense and recommendations about where and how to store backups?
How can they look ugly when they just use the system look by default and can be themed to look like anything at all?

Have you ever used any of them?
The big problem is the high, flat front rather than weight, visibility, etc. (which are problems too, just not as critical when striking a pedestrian or bicyclist). Electric SUVs don't fix that.
> But at the same time, there's public outcry over the absurd pricing, so the airport has to mollify lawmakers by insisting it'll come up with a policy where they won't charge more than 10% for what would be comparable in Midtown.

My related take in this is that airports are expensive to maintain because you waste a ton of space on vendors and seating areas. If airports were just shacks next to a runway, they’d be much cheaper to run.

So you can’t really charge people for sitting/waiting (though the private clubs sort of do just that). Then you charge people for the other purpose (rent on vendors) and that pays for everything.

But you can’t tell your customers “it’s actually really expensive to build these giant buildings to just hold CIBOs and Dufry” since they won’t believe you (or worse call for smaller more efficient airports to be built with fewer services).

So you just sort of play this very bizarre merchandising game.
The average lifespan of a smartphone is about 2.5 years, there are 20 year old cars driven daily. I hope you understand the problem here.
It absolutely amazes me how many people spent good money on a 128 GB NVMe boot drive that speeds up their initial OS loading a tiny bit... which represents probably a fraction of a percent of the total time spent waiting for disk operations in total, and then spend the entire time working from a slow HDD instead. Like congrats for spending all your budget on your garage door instead of your car.
> While cars tend to vault cyclists over, SUVs with large front ends run them down, resulting in more head injuries

This is the perfect excuse for pro-car people to shout "But was he wearing a helmet?" in response to any incident where a car crashes into a cyclist.
Yes, I know but it is just annoying to have to do that :(
Heavier and quieter. Recipe for disaster.
Do EVs really have to be so tall though? If they need capacity can't they be made wider or longer?
Also it’s always sad to see Meta (Facebook) to success

- They are making $40/year avg. off a user by selling users data

- They announced massive stock buybacks

Not sure if this is the best capital allocation for society - would love to see less parasitic platforms to success.
Do you also meet chefs complain about how mcdonald takes work away?
idk man, elucidate is pretty common if you spend a lot of time reading scientific papers (I'm assuming oop does).
It’s a monopoly in there or an ogligopoly. You are stuck inside and hungry, they will happily fleece you worse than most places on earth
I guess it doesn't feel like magic because it feels human?
That if you jailed these 327 people, crime would fall dramatically, and particularly in the neighborhoods progressives claim to care about.

That shopkeeper in the Bronx is not exactly Jamie Dimon. Society should try to protect him, and we _choose not to_.
I think another point is that thanks to TSA measures it will pretty much always be unpleasant, so you can make money squeezing people with layovers who don't want to, or don't have time to, go through security an extra time.

If you have a layover in a train station, e.g. with Amtrak, you can just leave the train station and go to a nearby shop if you need something.
>> The connectivists left the 'AI' folks and established the ML field in the 90s.

The way I know the story is that modern machine learning started as an effort to overcome the "knowledge acquisition bottleneck" in expert systems, in the '80s. The "knowledge acquisition bottleneck" was simply the fact that it is very difficult to encode the knowledge of experts in a set of production rules for an expert system's knowledge-base.

So people started looking for ways to acquire knowledge automatically. Since the use case was to automatically create a rule-base for an expert system, the models they built were symbolic models, at least at first. For example, if you read the machine learning literature from that era (again, we're at the late '80s and early '90s) you'll find it dominated by the work of Ryszard Michalski [1], which was all entirely symbolic as far as I can tell. Staple representations used in machine learning models of the era included decision lists, and decision trees, and that's where decision tree learners, like ID4, C45, Random Forests, Gradient Boosted Trees, and so on, come; which btw are all symbolic models (they are and-or trees, propositional logic formulae).

A standard textbook from that era of machine learning is Tom Mitchell's "Machine Learning" [2] where you can find entire chapters about rule learning, decision tree learning, and other symbolic machine learning subjects, as well as one on neural network learning.

I don't think connectionists ever left, as you say, the "AI" folks. I don't know the history of connectionism as well as that of symbolic machine learning (which I've studied) but from what I understand, connectionist approaches found early application in the field of Pattern Recognition, where the subject of study was primarily machine vision.

In any case, the idea that the connectionists and the symbolists are diametrically opposed camps within AI reserach is a bit of a myth. Many of the luminaries of AI would have found it odd, for example Claude Shannon [3] invented both logic gates and information theory, whereas the original artificial neuron, the Pitts and McCulloch neuron, was a propositional logic circuit that learned its own boolean function. And you wouldn't believe it but Jurgen Schmidhuber's doctoral thesis was a genetic algorithm implemented in ... Prolog [4].

It seems that in recent years people have found it easier to argue that symbolic and connectionist approaches are antithetical and somehow inimical to each other, but I think that's more of an excuse to not have to learn at least a bit about both; which is hard work, no doubt.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard_S._Michalski

[2] It's available as a free download from Tom Mitchell's wesbite:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mitchell/ftp/mlboo...

[3] Shannon was one of the organisers of the Dartmouth Convention where the term "Artificial Intelligence" was coined, alongside John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky.

[4] https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/genetic-programming-1987.ht...
I think the problem is back then, American society was more open, accepting of differences on a larger scale, free to experiment, less segregated on class and generally "nicer" in a genuine and not superficial way. That, along with the post Cold war economic boom and the rise of the internet fostered that kind of openness and optimism you talk about.

Nowadays the internet has reduced that openness, people self-segregate and are much more prone to constructing narratives of grievance and deservedness, which doesn't foster the open, optimistic thinking. It's become a game of rich-get richer and cutthroat exclusionism vs the make things better for everyone approach that was more common back then.
Hey, tried your thing and have a few notes.

In general I think this is a good idea, AI assisted learning for programming is an area where LLM's could really shine.

Specifically to your demo though, on the step where it asks you to "type <p and wait for Codeamigo to suggest something, then press tab to accept Codeamigo's suggestion." I did exactly that, but it suggested the filler text, "> Welcome to codemigo." It didn't suggest closing the tag for me until it added an entire paragraph of boilerplate about what codemigo does. Then after I got to the tag close I noticed next was still greyed out, finally I read that you we're looking for specific text in <p> before continuing. If I was a new student that did not know anything about HTML, this would be incredibly confusing to me. I'm not sure a young person could figure it out at all.

I think this was on purpose too, which the next (and final) slide explains. I feel like this is a mistake. In my experience, the thing that trips people up on learning to program is the rigidity of it. People often get hung up on little syntax errors, then get frustrated and give up. It's like you're using the LLM to simulate those syntax errors and add unnecessary frustration!

I'm not sure how I'd implement it exactly, but to hook people I'd focus more on the high level creative aspect of making an interactive website, and using the LLM to smooth out that process as much as possible. Things like:

- Use the LLM to compare the code you expect the user to write to what they actually wrote, and if it's a close enough match then accept it, instead of requiring them to match you exactly.

- Set a timer for the expected length the user will take on the task, and if they exceed it then have the LLM try to parse the code, and prompt them to ask the LLM a question, or for a hint.

My point is that you should make the AI assistant more of a passive participant in the background, that will just help the learner when they get stuck. It doesn't need to be the star of the show here.

I do think Codeamigo is a good start though! And hell, sorry for the giant mind dump here. I hope my criticism was constructive, and gives you ideas to further pursue. I'm excited to follow the project for a bit to see how it comes along.
Go-WebRTC-Piping: Port tunnel 2 machines behind NAT peer-to-peer or piping
Why is vehicle weight such a big factor? How does it compare to increased risk with vehicle height (knocking people over) and blindspots?

And gas vehicle exhaust isn't exactly safer than EV
I feel like this is missing the point. There is no amount of human effort that can do things like break modern encryption in any reasonable timescale. There is an upper bound on what can be comprehended, and especially in the timescale of decades, by any amount of humans. An ASI would have the ability to comprehend and problem solve on a level thousands of times higher than a human, and if we had the source code for an ASI today, without any previous training, it could likely both train itself on the entire world's body of knowledge and break AES-strength encryption in a matter of seconds.

Encryption is just one example. Its ability across the entirety of math and science would be equally powerful.
Airports are pretty expensive. To run and build. Managing and up keeping massive land area isn't cheap. And the buildings themselves are also big and have quite a lot of staff and specialised stuff going around.
That's kind of a "tu quoque" analysis of what's going on here.

Anyway. People who use AI editing tools are at least starting with a photograph, or a collection of photographs, presumably. It is now impossible to tell, by simple visual inspection, if something is a photograph or was created from image generation tools. That's historic.
GPT for Bash Pipelines
Don't EVs have to have an ambient running sound to help alert vision impaired pedestrians?
Common multi-day rhythms in smartphone behavior
There's no yikes, you install the extension from source and can use a different chrome profile
doesn't surprise me much, boot/resume are part of context switching and it's psychologically very important; you often want the cost of getting in and out as cheap as possible
Well, this is coming from the people who brought you the old Edge; the first browser with a input queue, so that the stop button waits until the browser engine is ready to stop it; and then all of your many other button presses play out after that.

Edge as a Chrome reskin is better than that at least. But then again, so was IE.
The weight difference between an ICE SUV and an electric SUV doesn’t make any meaningful difference. It doesn’t matter whether you get run over by two tons of steel or three tons.

The primary factor for the increased injury rate is the high front that impacts the body and pulls the cyclist under the car, inflicting body trauma instead of breaking legs as other cars would. Statistics for accidents with pedestrians look equally bleak.

And given the reported issues that automated driving and collision avoidance systems have with cyclists, I’m not particularly hopeful.
Also: Why don't browsers encourage programming? Browsers have amazing dev tools, but you're never going to discover them unless you know what to look for. And if you do, you won't know how to get started. Why not integrate a tutorial?
Do you have any recommended reading for these three categories?
I am using the Tusky Android client for Mastodon and can search by post, account or hash tag. Is there more to it?
Nice statistical observation but most people think better than average means better than most.

Reminds me of the old joke "Bill Gates walks into a bar. On average everyone was a millionaire."
So what. It's literally just a game. Not important enough to sacrifice our freedoms and control for.
Because programming on phones is awkward and miserable.

We need something that utilizes touch screens to implement logic.

Something like Scratch but that would let you import libraries. Although I don’t think that’s imaginative enough to surpass traditional keyboard programming.

The problem with visual languages thus far is that they don’t really accomplish anything beyond text languages. I find them to be more difficult to understand than say python or JS.

The future of business logic app programming is going to be describing the details and having some AI implement it.
Building a future world where every child has access to humanity's best information makes me jump out of bed in the morning.

I agree it's an absolute daunting task, convincing people this is the way. This new freedom will not be given to people by the powers that be, they must demand it.

But I do believe that a small group of people can change the world. It's just about getting that initial group going, and sparking a flame.
This was also the name of a now-defunct NYC startup. Did scheduling.

Anyone know about them?
Is not only 6 (i never say "only"), but is not rare 6 years.

X years in prison in Brazil is bullshit. At 1/3 of x or 1/2 or .., the prisoner is free.
Suzane von Richthofen cruelly killed her father and mother. She is 39 years old. After 20 years on prison, she is already free.
Not directly relevant but interesting...

https://github.com/google/santa

This is a product developed by Google that has at least been utilized internally to some extent. It's not perfect, but my previous company used it and it does prevent unexpected unknown code from running in the background.

What it does not do is prevent someone from intentionally downloading and executing a library unless the upvoter actually comes to some demand that you do so. I found that it quickly became a bit of a "alert fatigue" where you approve things your coworkers send you so they can get back to work without properly vetting.
We could do that and name it softball!
I’ve had plenty of conversations like this with friends over a beer or coffee, incredulously diving into some bizarre aspect of their work or life!
Hi there, lead developer of KeePassXC here (and writer of a lot of code). The TOTP and SSH Agent are generally not a security issue. TOTP has no external interfaces and SSH Agent only writes to the known interface standards of those programs. There is actually not much to those code areas.

Auto-Type is similarly rather simple at the interface level (except for X11 because its X11). We call native OS functions to emulate typing.

Similarly the internal reporting features are rather benign. HIBP checks requires explicit approval by the user before anything happens.

The browser code and FDO Secrets code definitely needs auditing. The browser extension is separate from the browser code within KeePassXC proper.

KeeShare is going to be entirely rewritten for our 2.8.0 release.
translation is the job of a mastering engineer, not the mixer.
An unhackable quantum internet is being built in New York City
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. I believe even the NHTSA has made statements about the dangers the added weight and acceleration pose both to pedestrians and other vehicle occupants (and previously, their neat silent operation).
I experience something similar, but it seems to have more to do with *how familiar* I am with the song. If it's something I've never heard before, it's much more distracting- even if it doesn't have words. On the other hand, if I've listened to it a lot, it seems to have the opposite effect, and helps me concentrate.

I get this when trying to fall asleep, too: I can't fall asleep while watching something new! But give me an episode of Futurama I've watched about six hundred and thirty-two times, and I'll be out like a light. :)

That being said, this site is interesting because the speech is somewhat less distinct and has the odd cadence of aviation radio. I'll give it a listen for awhile and see if I get the same effect as you.
> Why do I as a Mac user care about cross platform apps?

Because there aren't enough macs in the world for people to make apps just for you, it seems.

> why make it my daily driver instead of running it in a VM or with something like WSL2?

Why run a fast OS when I can run the same fast OS within a slow VM and a bunch of other limitations?
If you're not even willing to make a bet for a single signed dollar, that doesn't speak highly to your confidence in your work.

It's fine to not be confident, but when professional security teams at large companies are afraid to express confidence that their systems are non-trivial for a random engineer to hack in their free time, that seems at odds with the claim that it's "obvious" that permission escalation is hard
The classic US area codes (those with a 0 or 1 as the second digit) are a snapshot of 1940s demographics. The most important cities at the time got the smallest numbers.

https://www.lincmad.com/map1947.html
This I'm guessing: https://torrentfreak.com/pirates-spend-much-more-money-on-mu...

There's certainly truth in that for some pirates. Some folks are just supper passionate about things, and it's natural that they'd be hitting up the internet for early releases, versions only released overseas, demos, etc while also grabbing as much as they can available to them through retail channels.

Speaking personally, in the early days of napster I found so much amazing music I'd never been exposed to from bands I'd never heard of or had given a chance to, that I found myself spending far more money on music than I ever had before. I wasn't obsessive about it like some fans, I just had so much more I wanted than I ever did previously. I had stacks of binders full of CDs, CDs slotted into tall plastic towers, and CDs stacked on bookshelves.

Since then they've all been ripped into FLAC and MP3 and given to friends or stored away somewhere, or lost in moves and the RIAA became so deplorable to me that I vowed to never buy another CD from an RIAA affiliated label ever again and that was the last they ever saw a dime from me from retail sales, although I have imported a few CDs from Australia and Japan which I'm sure had their equivalents to the RIAA. Still, my first steps into music piracy (I don't count the MOD or MIDI files) coincided with the peak of my spending on music.
Thanks.

A funny version of this is Manuka honey. It's not easy to define and it's slowly turned into an NZ versus Australia thing. There have been examples where bees that only gave Manuka to feed on are making honey that doesn't meet the standard, and bees that weren't thought to be feeding on Manuka have been making Manuka honey.

I have seen recipes for making non compliant honey into compliant honey (to be clear, the input honey is Manuka, but the lab test wasn't being being passed). It's about blending various types of honey.

It's a bit dumb in my view and needs a better test. As you say, it's meeting the test, not the objective of the test.
I fall entirely in the unqualified category, but I will add that there are people as equally or more credentialed than you that disagree. I don't say this to be snotty, but just to add context for other people reading that there is a wide spectrum of beliefs among people qualified to make such statements

> My take on this is that basically everything made possible in the last 20 years is because of GPUs and better tooling.

I feel like part of the optimism on the part of people like Sam Altman is that it's true the recent advances are made possible due to computing power available, but the tools that we will now be able to create to develop AI systems better and faster is what will enable us to maintain the acceleration we're seeing right now. As a simple example, we've massively reduced the time and cost of training in only a couple-few years.
It's also interesting to look at the trend over time for what capacity the price crossover point is at. Right now, it's around 1TB, but it's been moving steadily upward ever since small SSDs first started to reach "cheap" prices. Hard drive spindle motors, actuators, and clean-room assembly aren't getting cheaper, but every time flash gets denser the capacity of a cheap SSD consisting of a controller and two or four NAND dies gets bigger.

When you analyze that trend in light of how many consumer use cases show little or no growth in capacity requirements over time (due to factors like cloud storage and video streaming), it's hard to see any long-term future for hard drives in consumer PCs.
The (checks notes) thing is such a poor rhetorical device.
Neat. I wish someone wrote this down in the language of differential forms.
Alot of countries have something to that extent since vehicle weight causes exponentially more road wear.
What if I read a good book about chess?
Thanks, I'm gonna read about this. I didn't try microdosing aspirin, even though it's well known, because i'm too weak on biochemistry to avoid bleeding.

Really, thanks a lot, it's a damn burden when your cardiovascular system is feeble, you're constantly on the edge of a problem and have to monitor every effort (almost requiring a car for groceries because i'm not sure I can walk with a backpack multiple times a week).

ps: I've recently learned about the blood viscosity aspect and also red blood cell renewal through "blood donation", you red blood cells being more elastic, it's supposed to ensure better flow in microvasculature.
I'm looking forward to the battery tech that is currently in testing. It's supposed to be 4x better than today, at around 1kWh/1kg. As long as it pans out, that could mean 2x the distance with 1/2x the battery weight.
It's pretty obvious why the one in the picture at the top is $14.99. It's from the kosher stand that has a small selection and higher prices because kosher meat is generally pretty expensive in America. Mind you, I wouldn't normally buy that sandwich for $15, but the last time I traveled through Newark, I gladly payed that much for something kosher to eat. It's about the same as I'd pay outside the airport for something similar if freshly made. I can't say much about the other products listed, as I'm not the target demographic.