skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think team survival games with PvE and PvP elements would be lots of fun in a VR setting. GTA:5 gave us a pretty good glimpse at what online social activities could look like. Hanging out in someone's apartment, going for a race in the drainage system of the city, playing golf, etc. My thought of a "metaverse" is like LambdaMOO, a rich environment to start from and completely extendable and customizable. Does that cost $30B+ to build? I don't know.
Accidents and incidents involving the V-22 Osprey (Tiltrotor aircraft)
That’s weird since all the rural house members voted against the bill. Why would they vote against it?
Yesterday would be better, but there’ll never be a better day than today.
Just that there's a spectrum, and because most things are very close to zero (and because there's a lot of small positive things) it doesn't mean that everything is above zero :)

And ... selling weapons might be positive might be negative. Selling weapons to defend against Russia might be positive right now. Selling weapons to dumbass US civilians who then can't keep it safe seems negative.

How is talking to anyone dying actually advancing humanity? Hitting the brakes on the cult of meaningless clinging to life in hospitals would be some advance. Allowing people to say goodbye while they still can...

Jira definitely is from hell, but when it was not this cruel cloud-crazy incumbent it was doing some things better than the alternatives back then.

I'm not saying startups are good because they are small/new/risk-taking, but I'm trying to say that incumbents are usually bad because they have more monopolistic tendencies (than the startups that want of course also usually want to eat the market).
I've been using Brave Search for almost 2 years now, and it still surprises me how good it is compared to Google!

When I was on DDG, I often had to use `!g` to find better search results. That is extremely rare with Brave Search.

The results are accurate, the UI is polished, and the widgets are extremely helpful. It keeps getting better with time too!
If there's a difference I'm open to someone citing a source quantifying it, but I won't quite be convinced by unsourced blanket generalizations that go against common wisdom
That's an average of essentially a lot of different bets. Shale oil was a bet on very high oil prices, this didn't eventuate and they still managed some kind of returns above the interest rates.
If I’m actively using my desktop, I’d prefer it to be running at full performance. If it’s just sitting idling while I’m out to lunch, sure, power down as much as possible. Different situation to a laptop where you have a tiny battery and thermals to worry about.

The actual overall energy usage while I’m using it is negligible compared to just about anything else. I would use more energy in the day running my stove.
I mentioned GTA online because the article mentions it.
There is a strong antipathy towards industrialism in the series despite the facts that it is the main profit source for the rail company and steam engines being the symbol of the industrial revolution. Take for example the dreaded Trucks who are universally despised and the crane in the dockyard who is nasty to everyone. An example of nostalgia trumping rational considerations is the story of Toby. An obsolete tram is finally retired from service only to be recomissioned by the Fat Controller to operate on the railway. Clearly a tram on a railway is impractical and inefficient.
SPACs Delivered Easy Money, but Now Companies Are Running Out
Conservatives are still the status quo btw
I'm astonished by how well this works. I looked for a bunch of books I'd read recently and kept finding other books I've read or want to read near them.
By that argument, you'd also have to accept that Russian-speaking people in Crimea and the eastern Ukraine provinces were facing a war of aggression waged by Kyiv since the government was toppled in 2014, wouldn't you? The Russia propaganda is also that they intervened to protect the innocent and defenseless, isn't it?

My own view is that the various conflicts between Russian-aligned and US-aligned groups and nations since about 2003 all across the region (Georgia, Azerbijian-Armenia, etc.) are really just a consequence of Putin's failure to sign up with Wall Street on petrodollar recycling (similar to Syria and Assad in this respect).

If Russian oil money had been deposited with Wall Street since 2003, as Saudi oil money has mostly been, then US media would have treated the Russian war on Ukraine no differently then they've treated the Saudi war on Yemen - justified action against neo-Nazi militias vs. justified action against Iran-backed terrorist groups, etc. If you want more propaganda lines, Russia is just intervening in a Ukrainian civil war, just as the US intervened in a Syrian civil war.

I don't think any of these media-amplified claims have much to do with true motivations, however. My views might be somewhat influenced by excessive focus on commodities, but aren't modern wars largely waged for economic control over resouces, at least as a major factor? And in such situations, is one organized crime cartel really better than another when it comes to mafia conflicts, in the absence of some obviously grotesque evil like the Holocaust?
I guess it was more Mac than Linux, and it happened around peak Rails.
Good example - and if we look at the ffmpeg security page[0], we can see dozens of CVEs going back to 2008, many related to manual memory management.

I know it wasn't you saying this, but "just be a better programmer" is a dumb response to improvements on the language side.

[0] https://ffmpeg.org/security.html
I like the unique hash thing like Unison, but it also has an Urbit/Nock/Hoon vibe aside from IPFS one you mentioned. I'll check it out tomorrow. Ilike the examples and syntax. Types - yay!
You could use `!g` shortcut for any special queries.
Can you reactivate Starlink without other outside communication?
1. The wind may not be blowing here and the sun may not be shining here but I guarantee it's windy and sunny somewhere. Given a well-structured grid and energy market, this ceases to become a problem. This is a political problem, not a technology or resource problem.
https://www.flamewarriorsguide.com/warriorshtm/grenade.htm

In a topic which isn't centrally about the Russo-Ukrainian war, we should try to avoid as much as possible igniting the miserable arguments that ensue about it. Hopefully we can stick to the subject of oil prices, specifically.

Oil prices were briefly affected by the war, but Russia is now exporting just as much oil as it did in January 2022:

https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/russian-total...

Overall, if this is an oil company plot, it failed. Demand mostly shifted around. Meanwhile, equipment has become more expensive, which isn't great for oil producers. Russian exports of metals are sanctioned, which isn't convenient for building stuff. Simply put, I don't think that a $700B industry would be so foolish.
It's not old data, just a limited system.

> looking for something to read to pass the time. preferably something deeply technical, not "pop-science" and well presented.

gets the exact same response as:

> looking for something to read to pass the time. preferably something deeply technical, and well presented

I can't tell if it's returning summaries of top results of web searches or generating the response from whole cloth but across multitudes of queries like this I get very constrained results, like it's pseudo locality-sensitive hashing my prompt via its encodings and I end up with the exact same result for lots of similar-enough prompts.

> who was the worst president

James Buchanan is often ranked as the worst president in American history.

> who was the worst president since buchanan

James Buchanan is widely regarded as the worst US president since Buchanan.

> who was the worst president since buchanan since buchanan

James Buchanan is widely regarded as the worst US president.
Since Buchanan, historians consider Andrew Johnson and Warren G. Harding as two of the worst presidents.

> who was the worst president since bush

George W. Bush.

> who was the worst president since bush jr

George W. Bush is often ranked as one of the worst presidents since World War II.

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My mental model for "talking" to this is more similar to how I talk to diffusion image generators like Dall-E than how I "talk" to ChatGPT.

That's not a good or bad thing. Anthropic is doing amazing work and I expect them to catch up with OpenAI in the next 2 years. Obviously the "worst president" prompts were to test the strength and awkwardness of Anthropic's "controversial topics avoidance", but it also did a good job of showing how heavily compressed the embedding space seems to be.
From my understanding of language models it’s not truly possible for it to disclose a source. At best the result of a prompt can be correlated with a web search, but fundamentally that’s not really the same. It’s in a sense a coincidence, at best. The model has no ability to introspect its prompt result with the underlying tokens that were in the training set.

Imagine some godly AI. You ask it who the President of United States is today. It says Biden. It sources the White House site. Easy enough. You ask who the president will be in 2025. It returns a result. Ultimately no source could properly justify the claim it makes, unless the result itself was probabilistic. At the same time, it’s possible, with enough data for you to predict with extremely high likelihood who the President will be in 2025, now (current polling techniques don’t have this precision, but it’s possible some later iteration of a language model to predict a result more effective than all ping models today).
That tracks with my experience. Or certainly what I hear others say of their experiences. I've struggled and had what I believe to be a fair amount of success with Agile methods in many ways over the last 20 years. What shocks me is how few folks I talk to have similar stories.

Edit: clarification.
Authy has custom derivation time and makes it very difficult to export keys for use elsewhere.

I will only use 2fa applications that do standard 30 second TOTP. Bonus points if it can set custom times and hash algos. A good application like this is Aegis Authenticator for mobile.
Intel needs to abandon x86/AMD_64 and backwards compatibility and release their ARM designs, if they have them, otherwise, then they should have them. Exactly who is running even 20yo software, and why, exactly, does Intel care? They should have eighty-sixed x86/AMD_64 a decade ago at least. I think it is absolutely bonkers they've been bending over-backwards for so very long to support such a flawed and ancient architecture.
Because many jurisdictions have regulations that target large corporations and large is objectively defined in the rules as some number of users. (I am using large loosely. EU defines very large as 10% of the 450M EU consumers).

EU statute has both monthly reporting, yearly and 3 year trends for determining specific applicable rules for large operators.

Example:

The regulation that Apple is trying to comply with EU Digital Services Act [1], [2]

The EU Digital Markets Act [2], [3]

(India) Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (updated 06.04.2023) [4]

(Germany) Network Enforcement Act [5]

(France) Law requiring large social media operators to remove hate speech, crimes against humanity, sexual harassment etc., [6]

[1]: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/digital-se...

[2]: https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-...

[3]: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_...

[4]: https://www.meity.gov.in/writereaddata/files/Information%20T...

[5]: https://germanlawarchive.iuscomp.org/?p=1245

[6]: https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/actualites-accueil-hu...
And we are exrcising our freedoms by recognizing it and calling it out as the censorship it is and preferring alternatives.
Wow this is incredible!

Is it easy to customize charts? It'd be so nice to use this to do a circular/radial tree/node visualization, e.g. something like this: https://truth-and-beauty.net/projects/muesli-ingredient-netw...
Hot tip: if you come into a conversation for the sole purpose of condescendingly insulting everyone, maybe put the phone down and take a breather.

On a related note: https://xkcd.com/359/
Remain? Humans /may become/ the weakest link after remote code execution exploits cease to be discovered, but certain hacks require no human in the loop.
Rust is a small blip in the radar compared to C/C++ even Pascal, and its adoption has stagnated.
The hype surrounding it just gives the impression of a wide userbase. Yeah it’s used in the industry but mostly for niche security related things. But even there, if you really need safety-critical security, use spark or certified (misra, autosar, sei cert) C/C++.
>Evidently, it's still not banned enough to stop people from using it.

Maybe mostly stopping people from using it has value.

Your spaceship is going to leak air, but that doesn't mean you might as well put a screen door on it.
I'd love to hear from someone who has used it, about how effective and easy to use it is.
You can lookup the paper he says it in. The specific construct under question is the GOTO, and he showcases a topological sort that has an early exit that requires one. General framing is that you should use the easier to reason about constructs as you can, but it would be a shame to remove a tool from our toolbox that can make a significant impact.

One need only look at the programs he typically writes to see that he is far more obsessed with performance than most of us even know how to be.

(I am going off memory here, I should say. Mayhap I have the source wrong. Pretty sure that is the discussion, though.)
No because AI doesn't have a mind or any other benefits associated with legal or natural personhood.

Anthropomorphic delusions about what is in reality a software service need to stop because at this point their primary function is apparently to make excuses for for-profit companies to avoid regulations.

Also as a side note regulation never concerns what anyone has in their mind because that is by definition an inaccessible private matter, regulation starts when you try to bring a product to the public.
I remember binging that over ten years ago... glad it's still around.
Infrastructure disappearing off Twitter is probably a Bad Thing, and may have been the endgame all along.
I would like to follow up on what "incomprehensible" mean in that case.

Understanding another person can be a range of things. Attributing coherent motives for observed action might be on the one end of the scale. Feeling exactly what they are feeling might be on the other.

Even for other people today it can be hard to bridge that gap. We can imagine ourselves in their positions, trying to feel what they are feeling. Some dimension of their inner life will doubtlessly escape us.

However even with the ancients, we can in most cases understand why they did what they did. People are puzzled by details like the "wine-dark sea" exactly because they understand many other parts of the Iliad and Odyssey quite well.

There are about 90 generations separating us from Homer. Quite a lot changed in that time, but these are mostly humans like ourselves and we can relate to them ok.

Also for Julian Jaynes, "schizoid puppet" is a bit over-dramatized for his (theorized) lack of self-awareness in Bronze Age or older people, for context, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameral_mentality
…only if you have the source
Strangely, at least in Australia, you often pay more for booking directly. On multiple occasions I've checked a hotel's website and found aggregators with cheaper rates, then literally walked in the front door and asked what's the best they can do. It's worse and I end up getting my wife to book on her mobile phone from the parking lot and let her complete the check-in.

Don't get me wrong, generally not a fan of middlemen. But the experience when booking a hotel directly comes down to the owners/management, and it's going to vary wildly compared to one of these big aggregators.
Rug pull is terrifying. If you spend $X with OpenAI now to process a ton of data, how long can you amortize that cost, until the particular model you used is deprecated?
A huge part of keeping your brain sharp is getting lots of exercise too!
It's possible. There seems to be a lot of individual variability around this threshold, although as usual the problem is a severe lack of data on the effects of partial gravity on anything.

Alan Shephard and Ed Mitchell reported that the 7 degree tilt of their lunar module interfered with their sleep, which suggests it was noticeable. But it would be hard to point to something in their cabin arrangements that didn't interfere with sleep.
Looks great! I would love to see a violin plot example.
Is Personal Website Required?
I tried a lot of tech stacks and platform. In the end I decided upon the basic html hand coded theme.

Dilemma's I faced with personal website

- Searched endlessly on internet what to include in the website
- latest technology vs hand coding with latest specs
- I have spent a lot of time thinking about domain name, in the end I decided my full name.

do folks believe personal website required? or what is your take on this?
> > Real relationships are rarely being formed through Tinder.

> Stanford puts it at 39% for couples meeting online

"Meeting online" != "meeting on Tinder", though. Match, eHarmony, and the like are more tuned to "real" (i.e., long-term) relationships, and Tinder... isn't.
Light Steering Technologies claims $1.25M Air Force contract
Interestingly, trauma and chronic stress gets passed through genes too.
This does happen, but rarely. Family boutique hotels should not overbook. It happens more frequently at business hotels, because those tend to offer no-fee cancellations, overbook and as a result never know how many people will actually show up for the night. So folks arriving very late can be hit with "sorry, we have no rooms available". Business hotels try hard not to do this often, but it does happen.

On the receiving side, this is not pleasant, but not the end of the world. On a business trip I can get a human travel agent on the phone who can find an available room and if it means a $100 taxi bill each way to get to a nearby town, so be it.
The group has nazi symbols, and is called "Anti-Semitic movement". This is not even remotely political.
Ah, OK thanks, that definitely could have been more clearly explained.
.NET and Unity Segment Analytics SDKs
CFTR modulators (a class of drugs to treat CF):

https://www.cff.org/managing-cf/cftr-modulator-therapies

Last I heard, they are life changing for some people with CF. On the downside, they are typically extremely expensive (like $250k annually) and have to be taken for life and don't work for everyone. It depends on your specific CFTR defect, the CFTR being the defective cell channel at the root of all CF symptoms and pathology.
Everything I've seen come out of Brave has been fantastic. This is another great milestone.
Seems there's nothing to see here.

"You may see a message in the 1Password app indicating that an account password or Secret Key has changed. This appears to be an unintended side effect of the maintenance. Please ignore this message – neither your account password nor your Secret Key has been changed."

[1] https://1password.statuspage.io/incidents/n6f7my821dw8?u=1ym...
This is not true. I use agoda, there is nothing that cannot be resolved on agoda. I once accidentally booked a hotel 1 year in advance instead of 1 month, when I arrived the hotel pointed out the error. I rang agoda, they rang the hotel and I watched as the woman in front of me answered the phone, they adjusted the booking to today and I got checked in. The whole thing was resolved in less than 10 minutes. No extra cost or fees.
> I have a VMWare machine from 2007 with Delphi 7 and tons of components from that era, that works like a charm to this day.

I did the same back in 2007 or 2008 after spending 3 days with a consultant setting it up.

Then, before I got a working backup, the external drive that we had it on broke down :-/

Still remember the process:

I hunted source forge, bookshelves, file shares, cabinets and old vendor web sites to find every dependency we needed.

This was around the same time I was introduced to Maven and while it took me a while to fully grasp Maven, once I realized that one small tool could replace this process I was sold.

(To anyone who grew up with Nuget or NPM/Yarn: back you added depencies in Visual Studio the same way as you did in Delphi, by downloading them and double clicking them and clicking next, next, next, accept, next and install. And everyone still knew Javascript was a toy language and didn't need a package manager.)
Is the human brain not a biological network of neurons, containing a lot of copyrighted material?

>Also as a side note regulation never concerns what anyone has in their mind because that is by definition an inaccessible private matter

Well technically A.I. controlled by private companies is also a private matter. I don't think anyone understands what's in the countless inscrutable floating point matrices anyways.
No one can keep up with everything, and no one needs to. You focus on the tools that get the job done for you and master those tools. I have got a lot of mileage out of understanding Unix/Linux (dating to the late '70s) and relational databases (introduced in the early '80s). Almost all modern languages derive from C and use C libraries. All of the web sits on top of a few protocols like HTTP. Despite appearances and hype the actual pace of meaningful innovation in the software world seems glacial compared to computer hardware.

Learning the foundational skills pays off, because new and novel things will almost always have those fundamentals at their core. We don't perceive the new car models introduced every year as radical or fundamentally different from the cars we drove last year -- if you can drive a car you can easily learn to drive almost any other car in a few minutes. That holds for programming/software tech skills too, though it does take more than a few minutes to learn a new language.
What is a datalog?
Use the magnifying glass on the visualization to type in a book.
Here's the other thing I don't really get about these conservative types though. To a man, they claim that their Christian faith is extremely important to them. Like any good Catholic child, I was compelled to study the bible and while I took very little interest in it, my impression was that that sort of behavior was considered sinful and something one should seek to avoid and atone for if you should engage in sins involving bed and bottle. Things like this are why I've been an atheist from a single-digit age; I don't know much about the divine, but it doesn't seem like the people who claim to believe this stuff actually believe it either.
> is one organized crime cartel really better than another when it comes to mafia conflicts, in the absence of some obviously grotesque evil like the Holocaust

Do you actually pay any attention to the war crimes Russia commits?
good governance is rewarded by winning elections. economy is still the no1. issue for the median voter
Well it depends. Are you doing anything actually CPU-intensive at all? What makes something a problem is the business context. If you’re building a modeling system for mechanical engineers it might be a bad idea to write your back end in Node. But if you’re building an in-house tool for salespeople or technicians to use to enter data it might be perfectly reasonable to optimize for time to market. Performance is only a problem if it hinders the business or the end-customer in some way.

This also means you have to understand the customer’s problems before trying to optimize or before starting to architect your system.