skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, even if they hadn’t included ’typically’ to weaken their claim, one counterexample doesn’t make that _entirely_ untrue.

Also, why use ‘pushover’? OpenBSD has strong principles that they’re willing to give up things for, so implying they’re weak is derogatory and unfair.
Zeihan is a smart guy, but he tends to take his limited expertise and expand it into areas where he doesn't have a strong foundation. I think his ideas on demographics are a bit too deterministic. Demographics don't enter a state where they 'can't' recover. Behavior responds to incentives. The reason why birth rates are plummeting in the developed world is that costs to have kids are soaring. If there was real investment in child care (think, what france and sweden have done, but on steroids), and if higher ed and other costs were mostly covered, people would feel able to have more kids.

Now how do we pay for all that? Dunno. That question is above my pay grade, but I think we'd undoubtedly have to cut spending on other priorities and raise taxes. I think that'd probably be worth it to claw out of a demographic decline.
>so hopefully by tomorrow it'll be runnable by 3090/4090 users.

Taking a step back, this is just a wild statement. I know there's some doom and gloom out there, but in certain aspects, it's an awesome time to be alive.
I remember showing Zelda BotW to my nephew. We played it a few hours and even though he had fun with it, he had no interest in playing or buying it for himself. Then one of his favorite streamers picked it up on their channel and now he's running around with Zelda hoodies, spent several hundred hours in-game and is desperately awaiting the new Zelda release.

So yeah, I agree, and I have absolutely no idea how people are still underestimating the influence those streamers have (especially on teenagers).
>culture of success

There is the crux.

Bad cultures exist and we dont need to celebrate them. Bad culture drags everyone down and makes society worse.
A lot of these arguments against this sound like long-term prisoners convinced that they can't make it on the outside.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/insti...
This is false and not how it works on macOS, worse I would consider this fearmongering.
And, especially in European cars, car software modification has been aggressively locked down, mostly for emissions compliance, anti-reversing, and warranty reasons. Just like any other device firmware.

The "I can modify my own car, so why can't I modify my own device firmware" analogy for firmware really falls over here, honestly, because cars are firmware these days and it's locked down and protected the same way as any other firmware.
> In the last ten years I don't think I've seen a single org that still runs Oracle.

Over here in Latvia, I've seen orgs that run Oracle and are still starting new projects in it, because that's what they know best and presumably have the licensing all figured out. Admittedly, their automatic indexing and a few other features in the recent releases are useful.

However, in practice it's easier to work with PostgreSQL and MySQL/MariaDB, because of how easy it is to launch either, be it locally or on a server, thanks to the availability of container images. Even if you can launch Oracle XE or something like it in containers, provided that you get your hands on such containers, there will still be challenges in regards to startup time, resource usage and various other quirks.

But hey, for people that don't need to use that approach, I guess nobody ever got fired for picking IBM, Microsoft or even Oracle. Personally I'd just go for PostgreSQL/MySQL/MariaDB in most cases because of the ease of use.
Not just free market, and not completely free markets (there’s a lot of government regulation, intervention and ownership). More specifically they followed Singapore’s model.
But that is also the case in the UK.

Indeed more so, the UK has nothing as wide ranging as US Fair Use, just a much more narrow list of permitted allowances.
During the Wild West, those 327 people responsible for thousands of crimes in NYC would not have been allowed to continue operating. In the age of Bonnie and Clyde and Dillinger, repeat offenders (especially violent ones) were taken out of circulation one way or another. In the event of a societal collapse, these 327 would represent a predatory threat to other people and would have to be dealt with. I suspect that only in New York City could these 327 people continue as they have been doing. In certain states, they would already be out of circulation.
It's fine with js disabled.
You don't need an inverter if you're just using an rpi. You can get away with a cheap 12v car USB adapter. I do this for my off-grid wifi (rpi and 5g phone plugged into USB).
> think

this,

it's the first step, think clearly without ambiguity, if you can't the compiler should be designed to force you to do this.
I don't get it either but they sure as hell didn't deserve what Nintendo did to them.
It's interesting because I was going to argue with you until I applied the same idea to a subject I couldn't care less about if I tried in school, but now think is deeply fascinating: History.

See, I loved math. So all through Calculus I could easily remember the big picture. Every time I practiced an Integral I imagined curves and calculating the areas under them and the visual problem and the relevance of what the curve represented in real life and the massive amount of applications it could be used for in the real world lit up my neurons like fireworks in the sky.

(Then I went into computer science, and wound up never needing calclus again, based on the type of work I happen to be doing, but alas)

But where I really would have wished a constant reinforcement of the "big picture" is History. Cuz it always seemed so pointless and useless. Why are we studying these old dead people, and everything they did. Who cares? They're old, and they're dead, and nothing they did matters to us anymore.

Until you grow up, and go from your 20s to your 40s, and suddenly realize oh shit we're living THROUGH history. We're creating history NOW. We're making choices, and we're making mistakes just like those old dead people in history. Old dead people that weren't really any less developed or evolved primates than us. Just equally victims of their circumstance like us, and also agents of change like us.

Suddenly history seems much more significant.
Honest question, how long would it take for an EU to militarize to the point where it would be a serious threat to everyone save say the US and China? A decade?

I've heard people say US is the world police / places depend on the US for defense, but that doesn't have to be a forever truth, right? Especially with the situation in Ukraine, it seems like someone must be considering / forecasting this.

The US isn't attaching Europe any time soon, the same holds for China. All the EU really needs is a strong enough force to handle all other players, and with that they are no longer dependent on the US. I get that costs a fair amount of money and the US is providing its services for "free". However, if the EU was motivated enough, this doesn't seem outlandish.

I guess what I'm saying is that the EU doesn't seem dependent on the US, it just doesn't want to spend the money and time. With the right motivation, they might change their minds. This is different than the situation in, for example, Armenia. They could not muster a military force strong enough if they tried, so they dependent on Russia.
It would be deliciously ironic if one hand of the US government forces Apple to allow side-loading while another other forces it to stop distributing apps.

I appreciate it's not just the US in either case, but the irony is still delicious.

(No way I'm allowing side loaded apps on my main phone though; would rather have a secondary phone for them if I'm forced to install them for whatever reason).
Music notation is pretty much the archetypal example of something designed by power users for power users. As someone who has done some orchestra conducting and composing, it's incredibly powerful and expressive, and the fact that you can usefully conduct an orchestra on an unknown piece with nothing but a score (no recordings) is amazing. Music notation hits a very powerful level of abstraction, and is so information-dense that all the information required to recreate a symphony fits in a small book.

When I was a child trying to learn music reading for piano, it was incredibly arcane and difficult, but it was learnable with a lot of practice. The equivalent of "phonics" lasts well into college for composers and conductors, though, who have a lot more to learn to build a mental model of a score.

I should also add that young pianists and organists have the hardest job here - most instruments otherwise require you to read at most 4 notes at a time from one "staff" (a staff is like a line of text). Even professionals on other instruments can have trouble reading piano music, which can involve 10 or more simultaneous notes spread across 2 staves (or 3 for organ music).
It's a simple way to check changes in concentration of a chemical in water when you're not worried about external contaminants (i.e. just water vapor or anticipated chemical reactions).

For home brewers, measuring specific gravity at the start and end of your brew process is the simplest way to know how much alcohol is in your creation. For this you'd use a hydrometer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrometer
here is one, let me know what you think about it:

Someone to rescue in a mountain, rescue team needs to be sync and rescue machines (drones) to be operated in this hostile area.

Just send a drone to run a dedicated 5g network (like a flying wifi AP) and you gain a 5G data link between humans and machines in minutes.

A tactical bubble.
Precisely. You'll find that within HN and consumer electronics communities, the concept is much more polarizing. How many of your friends know what side-loading is? How many would want it if they did know what it was?

If app-store only is ANY more secure than side loading than that's what I'd want my friends and family using, based on their technical chops, and my desire to not be their IT guy.
How much protein? with Stanford's Professor Christopher Gardner [video]
Some things can be sandboxed in software, some things are only socially-enforceable. For example, look at Apple's requirement to list everything an app does with the user's data. It's impossible to enforce that in software and still have functioning apps (trivial example: an app's back-end sells every single request made to it to some third party), but Apple was able to enforce it anyway via App Store rejections
Generating PlantUML Diagrams with ChatGPT
You're confused on hows removing your privacy in this example though. The recent-ish changes to iOS protects your privacy from FB. So, yeah, your choice is use FB or don't. It has always been this way. The app store is not the bad guy in the FB conversation.
>there isn't enough children to keep the country functioning

I wonder if some kind of mandatory civil service will become necessary. I feel in the US that many people are disengaged from the rest of their communities for numerous reasons, and it would be both a direct public service and a benefit to societal cohesion for all people to experience being a servant to their cities via public works.
Power users can already sideload anything on iPhone. It's not even hard.

I guess the whole talk is about making side-loading easier.
I'm honestly not sure why the term unborn child is so triggering to some. That wasn't my intention or on my radar at all.

I don't have a strong opinion on the abortion debate beyond my general view that individuals can make their own decisions. I simply don't know why referring to something like a 7 month old fetus as an unborn child would be so appalling, especially if the fetus is at a level of development that it could potentially survive outside the womb with special care.
Now that they are at school, there is always an emphasis on us as parents taking an active role in reading with them and encouraging them at home.

I can see now how this was taken given the way I wrote it.. I believe the intention was more "Don't pressure your kids and stress yourself trying to get them to read before even starting school". An example of kids being confused was being taught the upper-case alphabet, whereas the school starts in lower-case. But I don't think the advice was meant to be anti-intellectual.
I guess the question is, can you objectively evaluate the ideas of someone you disagree with?
It could be the case that this person is attempting to show a rags-to-riches story of hard work in the 8 years since their experience in higher ed?
Certainly an improvement on the ol' "cat /dev/urandom > /dev/audio"!
In what bizarre reality did the standard for "what you're allowed to publish or engage in public discourse about" become "does not make you money and is preferential to any companies whose products appear in or are discussed in the videos"?
Kagi does take a (responsible?) stand:

https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-ai-search#philosophy
They are both highly opinionated founders who are not afraid to make unconventional choices on how to run a company.
That 73% number sounds fudged. I’m sure they have some justification, but they’re proven liars.
> GPT will not be able to detect contradictions / logical fallacies generated by GPT itself or similar LLMs. If it could spot the mistake, it wouldn't make it in the first place.

That is absolutely NOT true. Try it. Next time it does it, quote it, and ask it to find the logical fallacy and it will.

There isn't another session following the existing session asking it to double check its work. It is running open loop.

Humans exhibit the SAME behavior. They make logical fallacies all the time, but if you ask them to identify the logical fallacy in a passage of their own text they can spot it easily. Attention to Logical Fallacies Is All You Need.

GPT is not Spock, but you could make it Spock by combining LLMs and external tools and fact databases.

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Please spot any potential logical fallacies in this statement

> GPT will not be able to detect contradictions / logical fallacies generated by GPT itself or similar LLMs. If it could spot the mistake, it wouldn't make it in the first place.

This statement contains a few potential logical fallacies:

False dilemma (also known as false dichotomy or either-or fallacy): The statement implies that either GPT can detect all logical fallacies and contradictions, or it cannot detect any of them. In reality, GPT's ability to detect logical fallacies could be imperfect, meaning that it can identify some fallacies but still make others.

Circular reasoning (also known as begging the question): The statement assumes that GPT cannot detect logical fallacies generated by itself or similar LLMs, without providing evidence or reasoning to support this claim.

Hasty generalization: The statement seems to imply that if GPT makes a mistake, it must be unable to detect that mistake in general. However, GPT's performance can be inconsistent, and it might sometimes make mistakes that it can, in fact, detect in other contexts.

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I concur captain.
>For instance, by default, anyone that can reliably man-in-the-middle port 80 on your website can get an acme certificate for your domain from a reputable certificate authority.

You are leaving out a huge caveat here - exactly where the MITM is taking place matters a lot. In 99% cases this isn't possible unless the victim server network is effectively compromised.
What matters is if the right people are there. Same reason why we're on HN even though it's tony compared to Reddit. And many of us are both places.

For me, Mastodon now have more of the right people than Twitter, but I still hold on to my Twitter accounts too because there are others I still want to talk to there.
The AppStore is not there to protect your parents from awful software, it's there to protect Apple's interests. And they sure as hell won't force side-loading on you.
Theoretically MM's can break the buck, there's only been like three cases ever, no one actually lost money, and even then worst case scenario they were only ~3% losses. That's why I mentioned SIPC insurance, the only real threat is the broker going under.
The Joy of Losing Your Phone (2023)
> complain to your representatives who made the system that way to begin with.

I complain with my voice and vote but BigCorps will complain with their dollars, which will buy more than just a handful of votes.

It's not exactly correct to say dollars = votes, but it's about as close to correct as saying we live in a democracy.
Nintendo does not want to encourage modding, as it requires emulating the games and could encourage piracy over legal purchases.
See the benchmarks here:

https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-ai-search#aitest
> If it takes someone to show you how, it is not there yet.

How many average users install Windows by themselves? Most people just take their Windows laptop to a store/service provider for maintenance, buy a new PC because "the old one is slow now" or have their nerdy fam member once a year remove mal/spy/adware and run a reg cleaner. And yes, show them things.

Like OP, I've converted many family members over the years to Linux desktops, and as the resident nerdy family member, the amount of maintenance and assistance I need to provide has gone down very decently vs. supporting family Windows sytems.

My 70+ mother in law has no problems using a Linux desktop to run her book club and other things she needs to do, but is far less likely to accidentally install malware. I used to come back to these systems a year later and find a system tray full of 20 new icons, a stack of 5 new browser toolbars, ad popups and "install new version" popups galore and other horrific stuff that needed hours to clean up or required a wipe and reinstall.

There's a lot of Windows users on the fence about Linux that absolutely underestimate how technical they are and how much active and passive maintenance they do on their Windows systems. Are you a tech user who reads The Verge or Ars Technica and knows in advance about that bad new option in the new Win11 update that you will switch of day 0? Do you have your mental laundry list of five settings you change in every new Windows system you acquire? Most Windows users are and do not.

The truth is, a lot of people have a working body of knowledge about how to admin and keep alive a Windows system, and a Linux switch requires re-learning and re-acquiring similar knowledge at times. And it's absolutely fine if you don't have the time to do that. There's value to that existing body of knowledge, and there is a switching cost. Some people have better things to do than installing Linux. But Windows is not magically maintenance/upkeep/difficulty-free.
Why would you consider a result set that contained AI results useful or legitimate? LLM sure looks to be the end stage of the enshitification of the internet.
I'll break it down for you.

Liberals are individualists. It's at the foundation of their worldview and philosophy. This is basic stuff.

DPRK is highly illiberal, un-individualistic. Engaging with DPRK culture in good faith means questioning the universality of the Western, liberal worldview. For most people, this is a non-starter (just look at this thread).
There is plenty of information. Perhaps not super relevant to HN but just not consuming the post is probably a better strategy.
The modern business world is extremely competitive, and for startups, the challenge is even greater. The ability to quickly break through the noise of the competition and effectively promote your product can be the winning difference between your startup’s success or failure.
> not to undermine the national security and national unity

this is a required statement to conform with China’s constitution, or the superseding authoritative social contract there.

think of it like if the Patriot Act was an article of the constitution instead of a random law subservient to the constitution, it would negate other parts of the constitution that we hold near and dear.

this is a useful similarity as both constitutions have assurances of free speech

just one has a fatal heavily leveraged clause that undermines all other parts of that constitution and dictates all facets of life
Love this - I'll happily accept a bit of a quality trade-off for a pure open model. Its a bit like I'm willing to accept trade-offs to ensure my IoT gear is local only even if that means loss of cloud convenience
A commentary on the WSJ post featuring Dara driving and delivering for the first time in his tenure.

This was a common practice during Travis' time but was abandoned with the arrival of a new CEO. Seeing him dogfooding the product is nice, but that shouldn't have taken six years.
Hard disagree.

Outside of the brand name ChatGPT, lay members of the general public are way more likely to call these chatbots (like Bard and Bing) “AIs” than “GPTs”. And although GPT could technically refer to any model that uses a Generative Pre-trained Transformer approach (although it probably wouldn’t be an open-and-shut case), the mark “GPT-4” definitely is associated with OpenAI and their product, and you can’t just use it without their permission.
Betterment is offering 4.2% in their Cash Reserve right now and they are FDIC insured up to $2 million.

https://www.betterment.com/cash-portfolio#:~:text=FDIC%20ins...).
Network effects. Or do we really expect devs to write proper code for 3+ entirely different native mobile platforms?
Kinda the point of a horror film. It's also an older film; they could have looked up content warnings.
And this was what tripped up my team for years as we tried to patent a process we used to control a machine. No matter how we tried to narrow the claims, the examiner was always able to find some obscure prior art somewhere that they could use to reject the application.
Finally, after about 3 years of trying, our IP attorney suggested we drop it.

It was probably this more than anyone else that made me realize that Patent Examiners are really, really good at their jobs and not just rubber stamps, as the software community seems to think.
2 - Why is electron charge negative? How many unnecessary minus signs has this poor choice caused?

Because the person who decided the sign didn't have a way of knowing a priori whether the stuff that was moving from rod to fur and from rod to silk was numerically a particular kind of charge carrier flowing in a particular kind of direction. At the point you're rubbing a piece of silk on a glass rod, you know some transfer is happening to make the silk attract the fur, but you don't know whether you're rubbing something off of the rod or onto the rod.
> It's an embarrassingly shallow model of how how humans behave.

It's a trade off. Viewing rates give back feedback 100% of the time. Asking users for a thumbs up or down gives feedback almost none of the time, and still might not be accurate.
Arrested for Allegedly Operating Illegal Chinese ‘Police Station' in NYC
100 miles is a long way in Europe, 100 years is a long time in America.
No, I mean pirated content made by professional studios. That is far and away the largest driver of traffic and it's not even close. Check the trending videos for other large streaming sites e.g. spankbang that still host pirated content. Much of what falls into the amateur banner is just small-studio content, which has also been pirated.

Users did not complain about the slow-to-react takedown requests at PH, but as was made clear this was an inadequate means to deal with non-consensual content, when videos can be reposted. Short of a more intelligent scanning system, the only way to do so was to nuke it all, which they did. And if they did happen to have a more robust automatic detection for that sort of thing, porn producers would certainly expect that it would be used for their content as well, which makes it completely redundant in the end.

If you don't want a wackamole game with non-consensual content, you can't allow piracy - this is what they realized.