skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A person, or a whole species, can care about the suffering of others without having the ability to do anything about it,

if they could care in a meaningful way they could change at least their individual behavior, form their own pack, under different rules.

it never happened.

but the most important point is: if we are not great of a species because we don't care about fellow humans and other living beings suffering, every other species is worse than us on that matter, hence we might be not great, but are still the best of the bunch.

we are still the only species that does it in a way that has an actual impact and produces a change over time.
Machine Learning is when and where I first used Math. It made me feel really well.

While I really like Machine Learning, it has made me fall in love with Mathematics much more.
free speech for people that should be absolute leaders, like himself. totally makes sense. /s
As someone here came up with, as punishment instead of fines the government should be granted X percentage non-dilutable ownership of the company. Mess up once, you now have to deal with the government owning 5% or more. This punishes the shareholders/owners in a real way that fines don't. If the business continues to mess up the government would acquires more ownership until it becomes majority owner and can completely clean house. The Government can sell their ownership after X years or if once in majority control replaces X people in management. Funds from sales could not be used for general budget purposes (to prevent the government from instituting taking as policy) but instead social goods projects (provide waterworks improvement grants, provide scholarships, etc).
> who have come to use English for one reason or another

Pretty sure that singular reason was colonialism.
The New Way Things Work, not a textbook per se. It's an encyclopaedia. But it taught so many things.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/13/23722574/welcome-to-hell

The previous regime at Twitter actually stood up to Erdogan.
I think Devereaux mentioned on Twitter that this is the longest single post he's written; he usually breaks his more detailed writing into series.
Power is a beast in itself. Not supporting these leaders but there are plenty of examples were power reshape people. Obviously, it can be say that few people is ready to receive a lot of power and have an ethics for good.
Laravel? Unsure exactly what you're meaning by #2, but Laravel's Eloquent is an Active Record-style ORM, and can act as a layer on top of most db tables I've used it on.
Lots of old people refuse to learn. Actually, a lot of experienced employees refuse to learn because they mistake their experience with knowledge.
Do people still buy HP inkjets? They've been doing this kind of thing for a decade, I'd have thought they should have seen their customerbase wither away by now.
That sounds like pure horror to me. I haven't heard of this before. Can you provide a source to back this claim?
The trained model, it takes your input and runs it through some complex math (tuned by the weights) and gives an output. Not much mystery to it.
What they've managed to achieve with this is that I'll never buy an HP printer ever again.
Even if your whole family switched, it won't matter.
Really enjoyed Noah Smith’s argument against doomerism: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/dont-be-a-doomer
How do you know this???

Is there an app for displaying the exact signals your phone's GNSS receiver is getting? I've played with cgps and am familiar with it on the desktop side but never on mobile.
And once you finish opening up the service kill it very quickly because it doesn't make as much money as search and start working on the next thing.
We are ideological allies. I agree with the sentiment. I agree that sometimes conflicts an only be resolved with force and that it is better to have the force than have force used against you.

Philosophically, I have some dissonance.

My first piece of dissonance is that if we model the world under the game of prisoners dilemma, having too much relative power creates a situation where our optimum strategy is to defect, because even when someone else defects, we can still win through superior force. This is the mathematical model behind "absolute power corrupts absolutely." So if we generate an arsenal of democracy, which is at it's core power, what prevents us from arbitrarily using it? What prevents an arsenal of democracy from becoming an arsenal of totalitarianism through democratic decay and fascist seizing of power?

My second piece of dissonance is that on one hand I believe in the 2nd amendment, but on the other hand, if we bring the idea of the 2nd amendment to the world stage, using the same logic, every country should be well armed and have nukes so that they can fight the oppressors of their state. Every country should be able to practice MAD. Why not? Who shouldn't get nukes (and using that same rule, who shouldn't get guns?)?

The third piece of dissonance is mostly pedantry: A democracy could choose to oppress or enslave others. The US was founded as a democracy, yet we had slaves. If our founding fathers had an "arsenal of democracy," what prevents them from using that arsenal to go to Africa, load people into boats, and make them labor with the threat of force here? The 3/5ths compromise is a product of flawed democracy, so "democracy" seems like a philosophically flawed idea to reference. What is good in America is rule of law (prevention of arbitrary uses of power) and human rights protected by that law. Democracy allows for a tyranny of the majority. "Equal rights under law" is the idea that gives us freedom.

My core critique of your post, while still agreeing with it and still considering myself your ideological ally, is that we have an unhanded fascism problem at home and it is very much a larger problem than a genocidal China. Without dealing with our problem at home this "arsenal of democracy" seems too easily turned into the "aresenal of oppression." Furthermore, if we dealt with this problem at home, those same power structures we have to deal with are the one's that result in Chinese and Russians being slaves to their governments.

In summary: "leading by example" is probably going to have better outcomes when our example is fighting fascism at home and having the highest quality of life rather than if our example is "build the most amazing tools of destruction so that when there is a conflict about freedom, we get to be the arbiter."
Why are the parens important in this example?
By the nature of it, to substantial degree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
Curious, which part of that Objective C code doesn't make sense to you? What its doing is:

* Creating a header and implementation for each object

* Using a private category to keep a variable private

* Implementing multiple constructors because you can't have default variables.

Can you suggest a more concise way to accomplish any of the above?
If the Indian Army, in the midst of secret movements, is accessing social networks through their phones, everybody knows where they are and they are incompetent. Please don't pretend the problems of a military force playing on social networks are in any way related to normal people's problems. Ban TikTok from nuclear submarines, too, but I don't know why you would allow any other social network service on there either. I could be running it myself and sending all of your information to the Chinese government.
Looking back at the promises made at I/O 2022, most of the products were released timely (for instance, Docs auto-summary, an AI feature, came out in March for Workspace), although some could be in a better spot:

- Immersive mode in Maps (also AI, using NeRF) has only recently added just 5 cities,

- The screenshot-then-Multisearch Near Me is technically shipped, but it seems super-rough; I screenshot my keyboard and it suggested a specific brand of pasta across nearby supermarkets,

- I am still waitlisted for access to LaMDA through the AI test kitchen (and given this year’s I/O, things seem to take a different direction).

There is no question that ChatGPT’s release in particular went by a more successful playbook comparatively.
From your Java trap link:

“Since this article was first published, Sun (now part of Oracle) has relicensed most of its Java platform reference implementation under the GNU General Public License, and there is now a free development environment for Java. Thus, the Java language as such is no longer a trap.
You must be careful, however, because not every Java platform is free. Sun continues distributing an executable Java platform which is nonfree, and other companies do so too”

Also, Stallman is quite an “extremist” and he is often himself the enemy of open-source by his gatekeeping, so there is that.

Re the GUIs: I think it says a bit also about the state of GUIs on linux, then the reverse - and I say that as someone who has been using linux on every computer I own since forever.

You made some great points, but I think the real reason is even simpler, old graybeard linux users are very conservative in their technology takes. The overabundance of C software (and the unavoidable memory vulnerabilities that come with that) even at places where it makes zero sense is clear sign of that, but so are the “systems/pulse/wayland hater fangroups”.
Apologies if this is brought up in other replies.

Something that may help is that these AIs are trained on fictional content as well as factual content. To me it then makes a lot of sense how a text-predictor could predict characters and roles without causing existential dilemmas.
I find it hard to believe disk was snappy compared to modern devices, since original comment mentioned IO. Cpu/memory are down to program behavior in addition to hw. Disk, more size and hw. And HW improvements have dwarfed size increases (rather, facilitating them to some degree).
Then we need to fork these languages. Maybe there are people out there who truly need a combination of zero safety and the ability to link binaries written 20 years ago. But there are also people who need the linux kernel to not be riddled with bugs.

A solution to both would be nice.
Both Palantir and Donovan are looking to use LLMs in the military: https://www.palantir.com/platforms/aip/, https://scale.com/donovan

This might be technically correct, in the sense that I think these companies have their own LLMs they're pushing? They're not literally using OpenAI's GPT model. But all LLMs are vulnerable to this, so it doesn't practically matter if they're using specifically GPT vs something in-house, the threat model is the same.
I think the parent was trying to say LLVM implements pointer provenance semantics in some form, as "these" semantics doesn't really make sense. As to what form LLVM implements... a weird mishmash of many semantics, with some optimizations that are contradictory with each other and some that don't make sense.

PNVI-ae-udi looks to be the one that compiler developers and the committee agree on, but we'll see if these efforts gain any more traction.
This is like trying to keep the training manual for your company's employees secret: sure, it sounds great, and maybe it's worth not publishing it for everyone directly to Amazon Kindle ;P, but you won't succeed in preventing people from learning this information in the long term if the employee has to know it in any way; and, frankly, your company should NOT rely on your customers not finding this stuff out...

https://gizmodo.com/how-to-be-a-genius-this-is-apples-secret...

> How To Be a Genius: This Is Apple's Secret Employee Training Manual

> It's a penetrating look inside Apple: psychological mastery, banned words, roleplaying—you've never seen anything like it.

> The Genius Training Student Workbook we received is the company's most up to date, we're told, and runs a bizarre gamut of Apple Dos and Don'ts, down to specific words you're not allowed to use, and lessons on how to identify and capitalize on human emotions. The manual could easily serve as the Humanity 101 textbook for a robot university, but at Apple, it's an exhaustive manual to understanding customers and making them happy.
Not when you optimize for:

1. Paying less than what a worker is worth

2. Owning a serf rather than establishing an engagement with a professional

On #1, older, more experienced workers are not going to accept bottom-of-the-barrel compensation for the outsized impact they make relative to. Generally, this is just "free market economics" looking to maximize returns compared to costs. The easiest way to get costs down is to keep payroll down (in service-based businesses, as many tech and tech-reliant firms are, payroll is going to be your highest cost). It's low hanging fruit; and by the far the easiest way to increase the bottom-line (see: startups).

On #2, this is mostly more relevant in large, established companies. The main goal on everyone's mind is no longer to make money, but to climb the ladder. Yes, costs and profits are important, but only in times of "bad vibes." In better times, everyone is trying to justify why they're a part of the gravy train, and to get a bigger portion. Usually, this is achieved through utilizing "human resources" to work on "big projects" (that usually do not materialize anything of note -- but generate impact, i.e. intrigue ). In other cases, a newly-minted lord will not be given sufficient bodies or budget to expand his realm, so he'll need to squeeze as much as he can out of what he has in order to make do. Older workers are less tolerant of bullshit and being squeezed for no material reward to themselves.

Generally this means that older workers will not be the first-pick for startups (cost-conscious, "scrappy," i.e. #1) or well-established bigcos (reliant on transmuting human souls for the enrichment of the faux-nobility, as in #2). In either case, neither type of company is looking for great technical talent, but just a body to achieve an end. Any schmuck can fill either role -- because competence isn't necessary for the success of whoever controls the purse strings. Unfortunately, these two types of companies are the prevailing sort; thereby "ageism" can be seen in tech, the same way educational box-ticking has become en vogue: it is politically more advantageous.

Companies with sane leadership, and bodacious-yet-grounded vision, that are looking to actually offer something of substance will value competence over anything else (look at old SV startups for an example). But once again, they're an unfortunate minority, and they most likely will not be doing cold recruiting (as it is insane).
Prompt engineers taking notes.
This feels analogous to Gödel 's conjecture: you cannot write a prompt injection defence that knows for any prompt the right way to handle it.
There is no fiduciary duty to maximising shareholder value.
On Android you can read the raw NMEA sentences. Or just use an app that parses it out and tells you which constellations/augmentation sources are being used
Here's how OpenAI could show they're minimally competent at AI security:

Before beginning training on GPT-5, submit a version of ChatGPT that’s immune to prompt injection.

If no one can successfully jailbreak it within 1 week, go ahead. If someone does, they're banned from training larger models.

Fair?
+1 for DPV. It is on another league when it comes to algo textbooks.

It is so compact, crisp, and enjoyable to read despite containing a lot of Math.

I was surprised when I was reading this book, it was so great to read.
My understanding was that TypeScript would be more parellisable than Flow, which itself is plenty parallelisable: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.08021.pdf
Sometimes you have to lead them by the neck. Wipe out the company and lock up those responsible for a few decades of real labor.
There may be such a source already, but it would help if the powerful BEAM features had a guide showing what good use cases were (for each of the features it provides). Bonus would be examples.
I wonder how many people will send this link by accident now
> When it comes to the CCP is it even a "backdoor"?

In the US we would refer to it as a responsibility, or a duty to protect.
For a great many, yes, but not for all. Some because of much much worse things (Slavery), some because of trade.
Does school NOT consist largely of memorising facts?

Do schools not consist of this more and more due to increasing reliance on metrics based on standardised testing, where the best way to juke the stats is to teach the test which means teaching kids to memorise facts? Ones which explicitly limit access to the internet or LLMs during test explicitly to make the only route to passing rote memorization of a great deal of facts?

Does GPT and LLMs, which can easily crush any test based on fact memorisation, not present an opportunity to offload the task of mere fact memorisation to the machine and allow one to learn how to do things which would have previously been unviable without first memorising a great deal of facts?

I don't consider knowing WHAT to ask to be all that much of an obstacle either, you just ask it about something you don't know very much about, but that you want to do. If anything I see LLMs as presenting an existential threat towards models of measuring merit through memorisation, as it's exposing said memorisation of being testing for testings sake, disconnected from real world utility or the ability to meaningfully measure merit.
One could, of course, ask memebers of one of the following groups of what they think about Western moral superiority:
Afghans, Pakistanis living in the border region to Afghnistan, Iraqis, the Shiit minority living in Southern Iraq, Palestinians, people Lebanon and Lybia... The list of wars the West (TM), as in NATO and various allies, have started over the last decades is way too long to claim any moral superiority when it comes to foreign policy. And the way we, especially in Europe, treat refugees from various countries differently certainly doesn't help. One group is allowed to drown in the Mediteranean, while certain other grouos get easy entry and extended stay visas.

Nothing againstvthe latter, thaz was quite necessary, bit entities as rich as the EU could offer the same thing to all people in need, right?
Still trying to wrap my head around what is Julia exactly.

Sidenote - MIT's Introduction to Computational Thinking is a pretty decent course.
There is likely some sort of feedback loop between the brain and consciousness. Our conscious experience does have some unknown effect on the brain that alters our behavior and thinking, otherwise we wouldn't be able to speak of our conscious experience or practice introspection. However, I feel like you're implying this leads to some sort of paradox, but I see no reason to assume that it's paradoxical. In mathematics, self-references or infinites don't always result in contradictions.
I honestly can’t even follow this. So you agree democracy works but it’s bad for… reasons? Can you be more specific? You have “experience” but you can’t articulate it. Sounds like you’re just jaded. That’s not democracy’s fault.
Mistreatment happens in a variety of ways, some of them, yes, financial. These can be, but are not limited to:

- Layoffs
- Demotion
- Canceling of raises
- Canceling of promotions
- Reduction in perks and other business benefits
- etc
10/10 Awesome!!! When I was a child, I dreamed of having one like this !! I love Electronics.
When faced with undeniable criticism: I believe China/CCP learned this "defense" tactic from the Soviet Union, who if, not inventing it, at the very least brought it to new standardized levels.
https://archive.is/QI8b0
And .sh (shell script or Saint Helena), and .rs (Rust source file or Republic of Serbia). The latter in particular is quite popular for Rust-related websites.
Better they openly do that than this constant covert hysterical press releasing to whip up public support for it.
I mean, what's the surprise here?
don't worry, smartest people I know are working on this problem.
> Or even worse, they have some hardcoded list of known email providers...

I still remember humblebundle rejecting my mailbox.org email as invalid, I'm guessing because of that. They fixed it at some point, fortunately.
Columbia is also in New York, so for Feynman it was one of the major universities closest to him.
Yes, one of the reasons I like using mypy for python and typescript for frontend is that it forces me to recognise opportunities for abstractions. If some input/return type is getting really complicated or reappears in many places in the code then likely it’s a good candidate for an abstraction.
Most hookup/dating apps have the same reviews from frustrated users. They all promote their subscription as a way to get more dates but that rarely (if ever) works.

My friend worked for Tinder and told me about the insane angry emails that they get, it’s almost comical.
Great cover, as always for Byte of that era.
What relationship could banning TikTok possibly have to the average citizen's welfare?
That is pretty bad, it sounds like a criminal investigation should start immediately.
It took me a while to learn that I should set a one-shot alarm before I put my phone on the charger.

This feature was not very discoverable, so I also wonder how much unnecessary wear and tear I put on my phone from having rapid charges at bed time before I discovered how to summon the adaptive charge cycle.
because the media clearly wants him to loose so they can put a pro nato guy at the head of turkey. erdogan is a loose end, too much a nationalist, not globalized enough like a macron or a sunak.

we re talking about the head of a state that resisted the US, lived through a coup d’etat where the main suspect lives in USA. btw this Gulen guy (who’s ten times the fanatic that erdogan is) is clearly typical america playbook (just like ben laden was a cia asset, hussein as well)

Im not even backing the guy but it is neither black or white. he did move things and developed turkey to an extent few leaders could have dreamt of
Can you give an example of a time when a CEO or board of directors lost a suit for taking the morally upright option instead of trying to maximize share value? I often hear people talking about this, but it's always generalities rather than specific occurrences.
I'm glad they are still asking for permission to upgrade the firmware. I was successful at declining that for a year or so already.
If I understood the semver spec correctly, you're allowed to do just that.

As long as you only increase ever number, and not go down, you're good.
Pretty much. Yesterday I wanted to grab some Fanta for in the park.

A 0.33L can would’ve been too little, but a 1L bottle too much, and a 1.5L bottle far too much. 0.50L was the perfect size.

The pricing?

0.33L - €0.66 (€2.00 per L)

0.50L - €1.48 (€2.96 per L)

1.00L - €1.93 (€1.93 per L)

1.50L - €2.09 (€1.39 per L)

Initially this made me angry, as it is very clear they figured out that the 0.5L bottle is the most convenient size, and put a huge premium on that, as people that need that size (for say, in a backpack) will pay it for lack of alternative. In other words, the price the market will bear.

But then I reminded myself, modern companies will always try to give you the least amount of value for the highest price the market will bear.

This is also why you should never feel bad if you can get one over on a company. Pricing error that gets you expensive shoes for €1? Screw ‘em. Contractual obligation that effectively gives you lifetime for €1? Screw ‘em. They’ll do the same to you whenever they can.

I wish businesses believed in being synergistic with their customers and nurturing loyalty, but alas. Not the times we live in.