skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nobody knows how even the current generation of LLMs work (at the plumbing layer, sure, but the high-level behavior is a complete mystery).

i dont think thats fair to say tbh. clearly language has alot of patterns in it. so it should be possible to come up with a network that finds them. if the loss converges to something reasonable and the amount of training data is greater than what the network is able to memorize, then the only possibility is that the network learned whatever general patterns the data happens to have.
This is just manifestly wrong. Past lack-of-progress absolutely is an indicator of future lack of progress. Like any indicator it isn't perfect. The counterexamples, where progress suddenly starts after decades of no progress, are celebrated breakthroughs of the type the author argues is needed here. These are by definition extremely rare.
i was just reminded of another way YouTube and other organizations censor info that is not friendly to the US government/elite -- mark certain videos or channels as 'Mature', like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFKG8S7K0wM

...The message:

Video unavailable

This video is unavailable with Restricted Mode enabled. To view this video, you will need to disable Restricted Mode.
Developer incentives often don't the buyer's. Leaky pipes can be a nightmare to maintain but the developer obviously doesn't care.
While I totally get where you’re coming from, its a bit of an unfair question, “how are you going to do the thing you are attempting to do??” Is hard to answer without just saying “watch and see”, but ill try.

From a technical perspective the architecture is very similar to Twitter or other social networks internally, just pieced apart with some cryptography added to allow different components to not have to fully trust eachother. Thats to say, the components individually scale the same as twitter does (probably better tbh, we’re building this with 2023 tech not 2005 tech). Im happy to dive into that more but I actually dont think the technology is the hard part.

The bulk of the work is culture and community building and maintenance. One of the biggest things we’ve been focused on getting right is moderation, and the federated architecture helps a lot here. Allowing “third party” labeling to be integrated into the experience seamlessly allows communities to choose their own way of curating their experience. Instead of relying on a single company to dictate “the rules” you just pick “the rules” you want and go from there.
There’s obviously a lot more to it, so id encourage you to check out some of our other blog posts: https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog
> Majority of Europeans haven’t left Europe.

That’s not an apples-to-apples comparison. The US is a country, and Europe is a continent containing almost 50 separate countries. And before anyone says “US states are like countries”-the states of the US are no more “like countries” than the states of Germany are

Only 40% of Americans own a passport, compared to 76% of people in the UK - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42586638
Either scenario sounds very dystopian to me.
I have bought (built) a gaming PC. And do fully intend on buying a Switch... still working through my Wii U collection currently though.
If languages were intuitive, it wouldn't take years to learn them.
> There's plenty of non-obese people in the world

yes, over 9000

but more than half people are overweight in developed countries, so this has become the norm
No, just the guide in the readme was all I needed.
Sure, in CA a ban makes sense (though Berkeley law was overturned). But in a polar vortex winter storm, how do you have enough power to keep the building warm if there's no power, and the minimal reserves you may have with battery backup are not enough to run the heat pump?

I think this ban is too bold and will result in political backlash that will end up doing worse than if something less drastic was proposed.

Hochul was 10pts away from losing the last race to a complete RW zealot.
Regulation doesn't have much teeth when banks are too big to fail and all deposits are insured. Fines related to breeching regulation often come years after the infractions started and never amount to the gains banks wanted in the meantime. In the end regulation amounts to a slap on the wrist and the feds just getting a piece of the pie.

We don't necessarily need those regulations of the money isn't insured though. Banks should be deciding how much to keep on hand based on their own risk profile. If they make a bad bet and lose the bank folds, depositors get priority on asset liquidation, and other banks take note.
Even as an iOS user/developer it’s hard for me to imagine people choosing to use messages over one of the alternatives, I don’t get this about the US. Is it really a status thing?
Sudo had a root exploit recently that wasn’t memory safety related, but the rust sun types would have prevented that too. They remove any urge to use sigils (ie negative 1 or 0 mean something special) which you can forget to check. Its easier and nicer to use rust sun types and they don’t let you forget.
I too agree with your comment, I must be missing more context.

> if taxes are increased and the money is distributed directly to the workers

This is unlikely, taxes and laws are always overseen by lobbyists who are funded by the wealthy. I can't imagine a situation where they would vote themselves into a worse situation.

If they ever appear to, know the harm they face would be to their advantage (such as crushing startup competition or preventing litigation).

Perhaps this seems like an overly jaded take, but please reference this Princeton study that found the wishes of the US population have had no real effect on laws for decades.

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...

TL;DR: https://imgur.com/a/tvqQXFc
> Most third world countries don’t allow organized crime

Depending on whether you mean de jure or de facto when you say “allow”, this is either not a difference or not true.
Isn't it the opposite? Traefik is more common in the enterprise as an nginx replacement for k8s, while Caddy is easier to setup and great for self-hosting - I've never seen it used in enterprise environments.
Well structured, informative, easy to read text.
Nor does the Rust compiler.

Rust's build system, Cargo, does however. And many C build systems do as well, e.g. https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/guide/using-dependencies...
> ...the only scenario that really makes sense for Russia...

Dictatorships don't come without an internal power struggle. Your logic depends on a view of Russia as a single self-serving entity.
Quibbling about the "Jack" part, but that's also true.
Hahahahaha.

Now show me a linux distribution where what you are saying is true.
He did it over like, 10 years. It's not nearly as much as it sounds. I think an average purchasing manager racks comparable money over their career.
PHP Addiction (2012)
I'd hardly classify my gas boiler as silent.
Sending Mastodon Bookmarks to Readwise
How does that handle videos longer than the token limit?
Backup generators are not usually large enough to power an electric furnace. But they'll power the fan for the gas heat just fine.

Source: I used a little gas generator many times to power the gas furnace when the electric grid was down.
I'm surprised that from the discussion here it seems like there's no clientless bots in Runescape. Is it one of those games where they change the protocol up every week to prevent that kind of thing? Also if they used plain IP like you said couldn't botters just spoof the source header to whatever the proxy address is instead of their actual address?
At @dayjob, we have a mailing list for root@ mails. We actively use it for recording the output of cronjobs and like that. Several times a year i get sudo fail mails from random people on the terminal servers. A few years ago i actually compiled a list of the most prolific repeat offenders and they got a bag of marshmallows that have the form of coal nuggets right before Christmas vacation.
Carmageddon (and 2) seemed to have a physics engine qualitatively different to the modern norm, seemingly modelling the time of impact and the impulse response to that, rather than correcting everything after intersection has already happened. It also seemed to have different static and sliding friction and modelled air friction and wheel dynamics to the extent that a power-up increasing acceleration and grip could make your car flip up like a hot rod.

It made a huge difference to the feel of the physics and made things far less springy and slippery than box3d, havok and almost every modern game that uses a dynamic physics engine.

This did mean that you could sometimes do things that made the physics take a noticeable amount of time and cause lag, but it also made things feel far more real than any physics engine I've seen since.

Hopefully, someone will be able to reproduce that, now.

Edit: I believe it even incidentally reproduced the intermediate axis theorem [1] on cars spinning through the air, presumably as an emergent phenomenon, which I've not seen any other physics engine do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_racket_theorem
Big Termux fan. From using my phone as a borg backup target (with Wireguard) to ssh access to remote servers, it gives you a full blown Linux environment in your pocket.
Google still catching up for more than a month. Amazon still doesn't have anything comparable, but definitely needs and wants it. So it doesn't looks like it's easy to replicate. Besides, it's not a finished product. It's a service in continuous development. For how long OpenAI will be able to stay ahead of competitors is yet to be seen. They are trying to create a secondary market of resellers. This may keep them in business for long time if they are just "good enough".
I always find it amusing that the least sexy of languages runs on the sexiest systems.

A modern mainframe is a thing to behold.
The Mother of All Pivots
Hey I have a cool idea: let's not let any computer system launch any weapon without a human in the loop
6groups.com:

A fully featured group calendar that I use for myself

A collaborative organigram maker that I use for my kids class

A collaborative family tree maker that my distant and close family alike use to document every detail until (as of today) 1776
Social Media Report Card: Time to ReSkeet the Blooski, Apparently?
It's been out for 10 days at a time in Seattle.
How come nobody has mentioned the endless hazzle in Linux to make multiple displays work as expected?

On most setups, I find myself lucky if _something_ doesn't go wrong when connecting my displays with a mix of USB-C and HDMI. And of course I cannot place my second screen to the right, it has to go to the left (in XFCE).

In Windows this just works, and I believe Mac is better as well.
Re: putter. I don't know where the Bear Blog dev hails from but it's a word used a lot here in the UK.

We putter around. Sometimes (more commonly) we also potter around.

Commonly used to explain how we somehow combine aimlessness and mindfulness in one action to casually, and almost as an accidental by-product, spend time achieving some wistful off-hand goal to varying degrees of satisfaction.
Where was it at the time of the hack?
There's [1], which I think is comprehensive from 2001 up to today.

[1]: https://www.sudo.ws/security/advisories/
There is no legal technicality in which Trump won. He received a huge amount of votes, there's no denying that, but voter fraud on any meaningful scale was never proven after they looked under every rock they could find. Beyond that, the electoral college and Congress finalize election results and they don't appear to have breached any protocols.
> It's not nearly as much as it sounds.

"Just" $1.7M/year?

In e.g. Russia, I could expect something like that to be standard for larger companies. In the west, it would be an extreme exception.

I think you may have to consider that your personal perspective might be warped.

This attitude/expectation is not a great look for your service offering, btw.
Perfect (or absolute) pitch refers to the ability to distinguish a note (correctly) when you hear it played. Singers with perfect pitch can sing a particular note on command.

If you had perfect pitch, I would be able to play notes on a piano and you would be able to distinguish each. There is a continuum of perfect pitch - some may have perfect pitch after they have warmed up, others may retain their perfect pitch for a short time after they stop playing and others (apparently) always have it. In that aspect, it’s a little like memory.

Mozart and Ella Fitzgerald are two famous people you’ve likely heard who had absolute pitch though I have never read or heard anything that suggests either found it terribly useful. Of the musicians I know who have worked to develop it, it’s mostly kind of a party trick.

If you’re interested in perfect pitch, you should likely learn about relative pitch as well. Whereas perfect pitch refers to the ability to correctly distinguish a note cold, relative pitch refers to the ability to distinguish notes in relation to each other.
Pretty crazy? Not sure I follow, if you push anything fancy to the limits shit will happen, and over the limits there are some guarantees you will not like the result.

Its not like its year 10'000 and we polished technology, infrastructure and everything to the max physics allow. For example you can easily break whole internet if significant portion of its users decide to download something relatively big at the same time.
Here's the timeline for China to become carbon neutral https://www.visualcapitalist.com/chinas-energy-transition-in...

China will spend 400 billion to build at least 150 new nuclear plants https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-11-02/china-cli...

China currently has 24 nuclear power plants under active construction, with a combined power output of 26 gigawatts https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202304/27/WS6449c703a310b605...

In addition, one in five solar panels installed worldwide last year were mounted on a Chinese roof, providing locally distributed power that supplements the grid https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-03-27/why-china...

China now dominates the world in solar power production https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-china-is-domi...

This year, China has further widened the gap in renewable usage https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/china-widens-ren...

This is what can be achieved when a country directs its resources towards infrastructure projects instead of imperialism.
The ... ahem, administrators of Fox News and the Conservative media bubble told their flock that 87,000 IRS federal agents were being hired to come to everyone's houses (Conservatives first though) to remove all AR-15s and gas appliances as soon as possible, probably after Kamala Harris orchestrates Biden's removal from office via the 25th amendment so she, famous trans progressive, can implement the true LiberalTM agenda.

Fossil fuel use for energy (in the long term) should be centralized, then replaced. Building gas lines to new buildings should therefore be less preferred than running all-electric. Then of course, there is the reason gas stoves got brought up recently, which is concern with interior air quality and its long term impact on families.

The reality is that eventually, gas appliances will probably be restricted/phased out of use in new installations for several reasons. This shouldn't be surprising, sensational or controversial. The fiction is that they will be forcefully removed from existing installations. See electric vehicles, where my Fox-ian father thinks all gas cars will be banned in 2025 or some shit, when in reality new sales won't even be meaningfully restricted for another 12 years.
The overhead of abstracting away the servers is a luxury in many ways. This extra cost I believe was heavily funded by low-interest rates which flushed the VC world with dough. There’s been a lot less serverless talk since the fed started cranking the rates
A lot of praise for the "little known" (???) Path variable in windows. But dealing with windows path really sucks for one major reason: there's a shockingly low character limit [0]

Also idk if this is a problem for anyone else, but since admin privs are required to add to path, I need to fetch IT every time I need to add to it on my work machine, lol.

[0] https://superuser.com/questions/1385854/how-do-i-bypass-rest...
Is your code in the format of bsky-social-xxxxx? If so, they've been revoked and replaced with longer codes because people reported that their codes getting brute-forced.

Source: https://staging.bsky.app/profile/jay.bsky.team/post/3juhjacx... (the CEO)
most philosophy schools start when someone points out language is about setting meaning more than communication of meaning. from plato to Confucius...

> I'm neither criticizing this article nor science journalism in general

yes, you should be criticizing. specially the work of someone who decided to write for a living.

why people insist on thinking you can be neutral on mass media?

there's a newsroom joke where the editor, on a slow easter sunday, shouts to one of the idle reporters to just write something about christ. to which the reporter automatically replies "for or against?"
> If electric stoves are so much better than gas stoves, why do the gas stoves have to be banned?

Because they’re not
This essay seems like something you'd write for your lit class when you realize it is due in 30 minutes.
In the developing world, where highly processed food is usually too expensive for a normal family to live on, people cook regularly. Like, every day.

How come? They certainly don't work any fewer hours than Westerners do.
Californians actually pay lower overall taxes compared to other states due to low property taxes.

Also, my power in San Francisco has probably been out for no more than 6 hours over the last 10 years. I don't know how many 9s that is, but it's more than 1.
Response from the CEO https://twitter.com/arcalinea/status/1651790592639397890 Not a lot of new information except that an updated ToS is expected soon.
> Your logic depends on a view of Russia as a single self-serving entity.

No, it doesn’t, though if you’d like to elucidate your theories on other scenarios that make sense for Russian state-affiliated factions to have attacked NS1 & NS2 based on analysis of interests of conflicting power centers in the Russian regime, I’d be interested in hearing them.

I’m not at all unaware that there are such conflicting power centers and that a lot of action by Russian state and state-associated entities is explained by their conflict rather than their shared interest, but I don’t see any additional plausible NS1/NS2 attack rationale out of that.
The tortured etymology becomes apparent again when these words are combined in new ways. “Serverless GPU” might be something like “mailbox SSD” in your example. What would that mean? It’s not obvious at first sight. The metaphor loses its power when it’s attached to a physical descriptor which is not a metaphor.
Given that https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bluesky-514d/company... shows him as the only investor, it's reasonable to assume he's by far the controlling (if not only) shareholder. I'm not a lawyer, but it's reasonable IMHO to think that unless/until Bluesky gets additional institutional capital that would frown on this, it could effectively name Jack as a "licensee" or "assign" - the words in the policy - at any time without needing to alert the public, and give him full IP rights to user data.
What podcast has been most influential on your life?
Bringing back a question I asked pre-pandemic — radio shows qualify too.
> (For us, that process cost about 3 years and $10K. They ran a wire 6 feet from an existing transformer to a pole we had to install ourselves).

Must have been a while ago because in 2021 they charged me $0 (not a typo) to go from 100A to 200A. It took just a month or so to arrange.
It’s pretty common for there to be a ‘minimum advertised price’ (MAP) where a brand can cut retailers off if they advertise a price below it - this is why so many stores will have the exact same price on a given product and why you’ll sometimes see the ‘lower price in cart’ message.

It sounds like the issue here is that Walmart managed to get Energizer to have a higher MAP price, but I’m not sure how much more collusion-y that is than MAP prices in general.
Even if electricity is generated with gas, and with the energy lost in the generation and transmission, with a really good heat pump and optimal conditions, it could outperform a gas furnace, because a heat pump can be more than 100% efficient.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_of_performance

>The efficiency of air source heat pumps is measured by the coefficient of performance (COP). A COP of 4 means the heat pump produces 4 units of heat energy for every 1 unit of electricity it consumes. Within temperature ranges of −3 °C (27 °F) to 10 °C (50 °F), the COP for many machines is fairly stable.

>In mild weather with an outside temperature of 10 °C (50 °F), the COP of efficient air source heat pumps ranges from 4 to 6.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_source_heat_pump
See also „Danish Defence Command Confirms Russian Minisub Equipped SS-750 at Site of Nord Stream Blasts 4 Days Prior“ https://oalexanderdk.substack.com/p/danish-defence-command-c...
Maybe update pnews.sh as well to recalibrate the estimate of "hundreds, if not thousands of dollars" per usenet message.
Real interview recordings to help job seekers
I'm exploring an idea for a platform that will allow job interviewees (esp. techies) to share their interview recordings to help others prepare for similar interviews. I believe this will be extremely valuable for job seekers who are looking to improve their interview skills and gain insights into what employers are really looking for.

However, I'm aware that privacy and anonymity is a big concern and I want to make sure that interviewees feel safe and comfortable sharing their recordings. So, I've put a lot of thought into how we can ensure anonymity while still providing valuable insights to job seekers.

Here's what I'm thinking so far:

- All videos will be completely anonymized before being shared on the platform. This includes blurring out faces, changing voices (if requested), and removing any identifying information such as company names and any personal info.

- All videos will be thoroughly reviewed before being published to ensure that they meet strict standards for anonymity and content.

As a means to reward them, interviewees can also choose to receive compensation for their video through a system similar to Buy Me A Coffee where viewers tip them if they found it helpful.

I would really appreciate any feedback on this. Do you think this would be valuable for job seekers? And do you have any concerns or suggestions?

Let me know what y'all think!
People downvote but I went to REI to get a dual purpose propane stove for both camping purposes and emergency purposes. At that moment there was another person in the store that was buying one just for backup. Luckily, haven't had to use it for emergencies yet (and successfully deployed it car camping).
The idea that you cannot attain perfect pitch as an adult has been thoroughly debunked. The University of Chicago’s study is most famous but results have been replicated at many other schools. Adults can develop perfect pitch just fine.

The issue seems to be that most adults find it useless and as artists they’re better off spending their time elsewhere.
This is the definition of cherry picking.

Not to mention misrepresenting his argument.
When I was young I had messed with the computer and it showed an english message with the word "atom" in it. My mom not being a native speaker freaked out as if a nuclear explosion was about to take place.
If you have years of experience programming and ten minutes of experience 'prompt engineering' then programming is probably easier, yes.