skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When people talk about reducing meat for environmental reasons they are usually implicitly referring to red meat. Chickens are great, they consume food waste and produce eggs.

Yes there are some people who think that the best way to save the planet is to drink as much almond milk as possible. But that is not the strongest form of the argument.
Might be the exception to the rule, but bill gates, extremely technically proficient and an amazing leader. I've read multiple accounts of staff who worked with him saying it was astonishing the level of detail he knew about their projects.
That's the problem. Now your carrier is a single point of failure, and the typical person has zero leverage over the carrier.
Perhaps related to "kombinować" in Polish, which somewhat bad connotations.
The top 1% of the USA which you linked about is over 1.3million people. As opposed to fewer than a few thousand? And bitcoins can't don't inflate, so... those 2000 addresses (probably only 50 to 100 people, at most) own most of the bitcoins, forever. I don't think you realize how big of a deal that is.
> Microsoft is able to do the same thing with Windows Defender without using the App Store model at all.

But not for a lack of trying. Windows has tried to retrofit their App Store, just less successfully. One good example is the code signing racket, where it’s pay to play to avoid useless warnings that scare off people who don’t know better.

Look, you can somewhat reasonably prove the origin of a piece of software, but a domain name x509 cert would be better (only difference is validity needs to handle longer time ranges). The issue is all the “trusted” yadda yadda. Doesn’t matter if it’s an App Store, a holy enterprise certificate trafficker or the pope himself doing the blessing, it just doesn’t hold up. Maybe they could have a herd-protection like VSCode extensions: “50M+ users” so when I see an executable called “Facebook” with “35 users” I can stop and make my own judgment that it looks fishy. But that’s about UX for checking the vendor matches who you think it is, not blessing it.

> Similarly, if OSes don't implement real security that's independent of the App Store model, users will continue to be exploited in this way.

Spot on! Here’s the thing: sandboxing software on any of the big operating systems wasn’t there from the beginning, and that’s the billion dollar mistake. Sandboxing is the only real game changer in end-user security with iPhone/android over desktop, not the monopolistic app stores. Tbf, Apple at least has tried really hard to bring sandboxing to desktop but even they are not there yet. These mega corps should imo have seen it coming a decade earlier, when the web became vastly popular platform, much thanks to sandboxing.
http://isabevigodadead.com/
Looks like Abe is safe.
Any stateful function can be made stateless by turning the state into an argument to the function and the updated state into an additional return value: y := f(x) becomes y, z' := f(x, z). The usual implementation for LLMs are stateless in exactly this way. The actual operation is autoregressive - ie, stateful and developing over time, where the state is the set of intermediate activations of the network - but it's often expressed as a stateless function to play nice with accelerators. So, on this basic point I think you're confused about how these operate.

Intelligence and self-awareness are distinct concepts.

LLMs work with text - text /is/ their sensorium. New multimodal models process both text and images, and more broadly multimodal models are on their way. But even for text-only LLMs, we can define the text as sensory input, which is combined and cross referenced with state.

And, really, there's two kinds of state: the intermediate model activations and the model weights themselves. Together, these are something like short term and long term memory.

The rest of your arguments are very anthropocentric. Why should continuous time matter for intelligence? That seems entirely arbitrary.

How often do humans apply reasoning to make a decision? Are humans not intelligent when not employing reasoning? Does reasoning require language? And are humans without language intelligent? What about animals? Any definition of intelligence really should spend some time grappling with the facts of animal intelligence...

Is a dead human intelligent? If not, the important part of intelligence would seem to be the process, not the thing/body.
The existence of that system makes the use of some other more baroque system hard to defend.
Elon wrote: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1649523985837686784

> 3 months ago, we started building a massive water-cooled, steel plate to go under the launch mount.

> Wasn’t ready in time & we wrongly thought, based on static fire data, that Fondag would make it through 1 launch.

To me, it sounds like people that would have been considered experts (and probably still are) made assessments than turned out to be incorrect.
The prediction of the future is tough. Basically no-one predicted the AI iphone moment, everyone was suprised, the landscape changed forever in a very quick way.

I usually look at the authors, because if a partner at a VC had great tech insights, they would found a startup themselves, and what I see from my coachees, most VCs just follow the herd ;-) (yes, some few have) One of the authors was a CTO though.
You can see this video.

https://youtu.be/v-n8L-DiPL4

Update: Thx for going through it! You got the idea.
Despite the huge AUM, I'd think being CEO of Norwegian Pension Fund has much less degrees of freedom (and therefore actual success/failure responsibilities) than being CEO of Google.
I am looking forward! I tried side loading the YouTube with sponsorblock and adblock, which worked but renewing the apps weekly is too much effort.
The Starship is basically a modernized clone of the Soviet N1 rocket. (Rocketry is established and legacy tech by now.)

The Soviets abandoned that project because they couldn't get their 30 engines to synchronize.

Maybe this time AI (c) will help solve the problem. We will watch and see.
That's right.

What them made Lisp Machines was a mix of things:

* the command interface is based on the Lisp REPL (read eval print loop)

* the operating system itself is written in Lisp

* the instruction set of the CPU is optimized for Lisp (for example via microcode)

* the CPU itself might have hardware support for Lisp (for example for efficient GC)

* the hardware itself (console, keyboard, system bus, extension cards, memory, ...) is used directly from Lisp and might be optimized for it (like special keyboards, special memory cards, special fronted computers, ...)

What's OTOH rarely is the case, that they run Lisp directly in Hardware -> which would mean that the CPU itself is a Lisp interpreter.
“Even these ex-Soviet Union countries do not have effective status, as we say, under international law because there’s no international accord to concretize their status as a sovereign country,” Mr. Lu said.

This sounds like China should be cool with Taiwan if there were an international accord to recognize its sovereignty.
Where is your evidence for "they were hoping to get away with simply blowing up the launchpad"?

"Aspiring to have no flame diverter in Boca, but this could turn out to be a mistake" -Musk
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1313952039869788173
I eat anything, but even I can recognize the cruelty of milk production. A cow won't produce milk unless it has had a calf, so cows need to be kept in near-perpetual state of pregnancy in order to keep producing milk.
Also on the Fish + Fisher + Tide train. I've been using fish for some years now, always been a fan of the autocomplete and highlighting, but Tide feels like a step up. Really like the way it shows my node version on the right is a relevant project.
This project from UCSD might inspire you: https://creativity.ucsd.edu/ai
It is not indicative of that.

Lunar Starship is the second stage, this was the first that did the damage. Even that is different from the one launched in the recent test; it’s a variant that will do the final landing on different engines high up on the rocket. Per Wikipedia:

> Within 100 meters of the lunar surface, the variant will utilize high‑thrust RCS thrusters located mid‑body to avoid plume impingement problems with the lunar regolith.

Landing is also very different than takeoff; the F9 takes off with nine, lands with one. Likewise, Super Heavy launches with 33, but Starship lands with 3-6, and three of those are the vacuum variant, with much less focused plumes.
How will you experience Climate Change, based on your age and location
YouTube Premium is a pretty good deal and actually pays the creators when you watch their videos.
I have no dog in this fight, but will point out that asking for scientific backup and then using a word like "healthy" is kind of hypocritical. "Healthy" at best means nothing, and at worst is just a word to use to frame your agenda.
Michelin Has Tested Its Uptis Airless Tires at 130 MPH, and Results Are Positive
Isn’t it a bit like the movies and music? Those who will steal will steal and those who will pay will pay anyway.

There are great pirate movie websites where you can watch all the movies at about the same user experience or even better but Netflix etc are doing just fine.

Piracy isn’t what it used to be but I do enjoy these sites.

The real problem is the subscription fatigue and fragmentation. I won’t subscribe to all the services and Even if I have a subscription it’s easier for me to find the movies in one place.

However apps are different, you are expected to open different apps for different things anyway. In apps, the danger could be something like ChatGPT becoming the main UI and doing everything the user wants from there.
martin casado is an industry legend and, yes, did found nicira :)
I agree with this sentiment. I have also been somewhat unsettled by the detractors here. I am not sure if this is purely an American sentiment, but it seems like more of the general population has started to view advancement in binary terms. In both science and public policy, it seems that an increasing proportion of the population view anything less than 100% success/improvement as an abject failure.
They could have build about ten JWSTs for the price of like three. The insane price is the cost of prototyping (and porkbarrelling).
Random:

Anytime is a good time to learn to count in binary on your fingers. It's a nifty trick, especially handy for computer folks.
If everybody earned the same amount, money would be pointless. Therefore differentiation in income is related to the complexity of economy. Putting artificial caps in place is well... artificial.
The article was too vague for me to really understand, but I think it's suggesting something like Brandur's deeply-integrated idempotency keys design [1] except that the infra is provided by a saas company? Also somehow it supports rollbacks?

Does anyone know of any other more concrete explanation of how these kinds of systems could work?

[1] https://brandur.org/idempotency-keys
There’s a Michel Thomas Madarin one but it isn’t done by him (sadly he’s dead) but I still found it a bit useful.

Problem was it’s very short and I wasn’t sure what to do after and just stopped.
When the first iOS version with sideloading will roll out.
May I suggest that the creator of these audio tracks run them through a audio processing tool like Adobe Audio Enhancer [0] to remove the echo / reverb etc?

[0]. https://podcast.adobe.com/enhance
No. Just eat less meat. We eat far more than is needed even according to the (disputed) literature suggesting meat is necessary for a balanced diet.

This doesn’t have to be a binary decision.
To be fair, though, Straight Talk is absolutely hot garbage. I had a fiasco trying to activate two physical SIMs and port numbers to them back in January. Their provisioning system chokes and dies on phones with both eSIM and physical SIM capability (like the factory-unlocked iPhone SE 3rd gen models I was trying to activate). I spent hours on the phone holding and talking to reps, getting disconnected and calling back to start all over again. It was a nightmare.
> Where have the lovers of certainty and deduction gone? I can't help but think our general laziness and acceptance of "close enough" fast solutions is going to bite us in the end.

They've always been a small group and naturally they congregate in spaces that value certainty and deduction, such as computing.

If we look backward at the history of the sciences, we'll see physics and math figuring prominently. Physics was and still is all about making mathematical models about messy, inconsistent phenomena. Math is certainly "correct" but not deterministic in the same way that computing is and proofs are still largely (but not always anymore) human endeavors of creatively applying theorems, lemmas, and factorings to mathematical objects and relations. The theory and practice of statistics predates computing and is all about reasoning under uncertainty. Underneath all the "1s and 0s" in your computer are very real analog voltages that gates are reacting to to process your logic.

It's pretty much just computing and logics that really value certainty and deduction. So really it's the opposite: the computing craze added value to certainty and deduction when there really wasn't much before.
Yes. The HN crowd is overcomplicating the issue, and Apple has as much a right as an individual to design their platform as they wish. We like to talk about giving businesses the freedom to build the products that they want and keeping regulators out of the picture and instead letting people vote with their money, yet when people actually vote with their money to buy Apple products precisely for how they are built, we want to regulate the crap out of the company. It doesn’t make sense.
Yes, they have certain guidelines to follow - both ethical (can't invest in certain types of governments), and related to responsible management. He obviously can't liquidate the whole portfolio, and say fuck it, let's go all in on crypto.
Yeah I like this too. Pretty much identical method - I’ve recommended this to a few people when Michel doesn’t have a course in that language.
Are you doing something special with the watch? I've gotten several weeks out of all my Garmin models except the first one I bought around 2005. Battery life is one of their main selling points and the only reason I have one over a proper smartwatch. Maybe have a second look at optimising the settings for battery life. There are quite a few recommendations on how to do that.
To the sibling reply to this, how is a physical sim any worse in this regard?
> Source: I have been vegan for 5 years and I still have a healthy 6 minute mile, 25 consecutive pullups, V5-V7 range boulder problem climber, etc.

Is "I'm athletic right now" really a legitimate argument to "veganism at a large scale could have unintended health consequences"?
Haven’t you always been able to resell and destroy the Apple products that you buy?
Is he the Steve Ballmer of Google?
My China iPhones don't even have any eSIM support. Instead we get a dual nano SIM card slot.

https://support.apple.com/en-hk/HT209086

Personally I'd love for eSIM to be there in ADDITION but not replacing the nano SIMs.
It's so hard to read this VC babble as anything other than lukewarm also-ran puff.

The massive disclaimer at the end includes a write-off that the whole thing "may not be reliable" and "we haven't actually checked any of this", and "this might just be an advert" and if anything is wrong with it, well it's not a16z's views, it's just one of our ICs, we stand by none of it.

All presented as authoritative "industry" commentary. Only to be revealed as diluted waffle, regurgitating some investment thesis as a thinly veiled advert.

Thanks for the 2c a16z.
60fps for me. Is it an older Mac?
Sometimes our choices lead us to results that no one wanted. For a classical example, check out "tragedy of the commons". In those cases, you do want someone to enforce cooperation from outside, and this is what's happening to Apple now.

> what Apple is doing is perfectly legal

Not in the EU starting this summer!

Although I agree with the second point: game consoles being general purpose computers should be treated the same.
Reloading Secure Scuttlebutt (whitepaper)
Isn't this so much easier with LLMs now ?
Why would the mafia use a garbage truck to murder someone?
Having lived in LA all my life including westwood and outside of westwood I know it's true. LA is a huge suburbia. You are biased if all you've lived in is westwood.

If you lived in westwood that means you likely went to UCLA and the neighborhood there is uniquely apartments because its for students. The majority of LA with the exception of downtown, ktown, westwood and some other neighborhoods is mostly suburban sprawl with apartments sprinkled in little pockets everywhere.

Did you have a car? you can't really completely understand the city of LA without owning a car and exploring everything. If you lived in westwood without a car as many students do then you don't really have a good perspective of the entire city.

Heck go a little south of wilshire and you'll see the apartments turn into little plots of single family houses. Go north past sunset and it's single family mansions. The westwood area is just this microcosm of transient students.

Most of california is like this because it developed after car culture. If you go to the east coast which began developing before the automobile you will see that the cities there are much more dense and much better suited for public transportation.
The eagle file is probably rattling around somewhere on my hard drive. It was back in 2005 or so, though. I had very little idea what I was doing back then. I just followed the reference schematic from the switching IC's datasheet. It had the IC, an inductor, and some size 1206 resistors and capacitors.
You are correct. It’s crashing down now though.
Meat production also produces fertilizer.
Except a lot of it isn’t theirs to publish.
> I have also been somewhat unsettled by the detractors here.

I wouldn't worry about it. The news papers always view it in a sorta pessimistic way. I used to joke about this with spacex's booster landings. When they couldn't stick a landing even though the mission itself was successful, the news sites always made headlines that sounded like "welp, spacex screwed up again" lol :D

The news sites will always pick the headline that raises the most eyebrows.

As for my liking of spacex but my great distaste for the jackass known as Elon, well, that's nothing new. I was saying that 10 years ago lol. You can still cheer on the accomplishments all of the engineers are spacex are making. That's fine.
One funny thing about it in German speaking countries is this reference in the page:

> Examples for those are Trick 17 [de] in German, Trick 77 in Swiss German

It seems that something got lost in translation or Chinese-Whispered between Germany and Switzerland
Still surprising to me that AWS has firecracker and iOS still runs things like Javascript along side every other app on the system.
> I'm guessing the authors are making an internal pitch that a16z should invest in upstash

thats not how it works, they already made their bets long before writing something like this (+ validated by talking to a ton of pple than can fit into this post... i know bc i've spent time with the authors haha)

> What I have seen a lot is people building transaction guarantees into their stack using something like event sourcing and cqrs. You pay some complexity but what you get in return is a transaction guarantee when events are processed which guarantees consistency when you need it (eg financial transactions etc), and the view part is eventually consistent but is always accurate as of a point in time.

correct. what's happening here is the rise of well tested frameworks that hopefully reduce the cost of implementation while preserving/extending the benefits (which can be very large if you go as far as temporal have done)
I didn't assume that at all - that's why I specified a never-before-seen vulnerability.
Simak included dogs in his stories so often (and especially in that anthology you mentioned) that any time someone mentions a sci fi story with a dog, my first thought is that it has to be a Simak story. :)
Large language model for smart contract auditing
If the workshops are professional workshops, the American response seems more natural and appropriate.

Honestly, I would be weirded out if people start rambling about their kids and hobbies at a tech conference.
Duolingo is a bad app. It makes you think that you're doing progress with satisfying rewards, while actually you don't do a lot with it. Forget about this and do it the traditional way: get Anki, learn grammar, practice, and you'll get better results. "Gamification" and other ways that try to not frustrate people in general, sugarcoating everything as if it was possible to go through life without any hardship, are really the worst thing of our decade IMO.
> you ask your carrier for a new eSIM.

When your phone breaks, that's not a easy task.
The reason people aren’t outraged about these scams is because most players are playing with house money.

I say that as someone who has been “rugged” a few times. The pain isn’t all that much because it was all money made from crypto.
I don't think those alternatives are the right ones.

You can sell your iphone without any issue, there are plenty of stores around me offering to buy used models to resell. I'm actually contemplating buying a used model. Can't do that with steam games.

I'm also pretty confident that if apple and their services disappeared tomorrow, my iphone would keep on working just like it does today. Sure, no more updates, no more new apps, it would be frozen in the state it's in.

Therefore, I think the question is whether an iphone is a "general computing device", or "an appliance". I can see the arguments for both, even though I tend to treat mine as the latter.
“ChatGPT couldn’t solve world hunger, nor could it come up with a peaceful solution to Israel and Palestine when I asked it! See, I told you it’s useless and not really intelligent.” — hyperbole but not even that far from some comments I’ve seen.
Good point, I can add this to my bi-hourly disk cache flushing + cache algorithm rotation routine since I'm already on the terminal.
I agree. Anyone should be allowed to repair, tinker with and modify anything they own - at their own risk.

When it comes to software, that's only possible to do with open source. With closed source you're only ever buying a perpetual usage license. (Unless you are a company buying out another company or it's assets, that is).

It's complicated, because software and digital data is inherently different from physical goods - and all those concepts of "selling" a "copy" are just rather ramshackle attempts at making digital goods compatible with laws designed for physical goods.
I love Douglas Crockford.

>Douglas: Some of the people who were doing JavaScript, were doing it badly and didn’t want to be told that they were doing it badly. There is this notion among second rate programmers that the most important thing they do is express themselves. It’s not making programs that work well and are free of error. That’s way down on the list. What’s much more important is expressing themselves, that, I’m an artist and I express my arts by leaving out semicolons. It’s that kind of thing. So what I was saying did not resonate with that at all. So that audience was not happy to hear it, and JavaScript was just not being used.
i attempted to do so in my high level Temporal explainer: https://www.swyx.io/why-temporal

and more recently they also did one at Strange Loop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_5WeVmyhzg
I am not bisexual, but tried to be. The choice wasn't available.

Have you felt strong attraction for both sexes? If not, have you tried to?